If you say that anyone on the FBI’s (or DHS, CIA, CPS, etc) watch list shouldn’t be able to buy guns, are you also prepared to demand that nobody should ever be placed on that list unless they have been found guilty of a crime? What happens when you’re put on “the list” because of an anonymous tip or just because somebody doesn’t like you?
No free person should ever be denied the right to own and carry a weapon equal to what is in common use among the world’s infantries. Anything less makes some people to be “more equal than others.”
Jacob, Esau, Yeshua, Rome, & Judah
I noticed some interesting parallels between the story of Jacob and Esau and the stories of Yeshua and the Jews. Make of them what you will. Comments are welcome.
Torah
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Jacob and Esau
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Parallels
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| Genesis 25:21-23 | Esau was older and stronger, but Jacob would rule over him. | The nations are older and stronger, but Israel will rule over them. |
| Genesis 25:27 | Esau was a hunter, but Jacob was a man of the tents. | Messiah ben David is a conqueror, but Messiah ben Yosef is a teacher and servant. Rome was a conqueror, but Israel was a teacher and bearer of God's promises and laws. |
| Genesis 25:29-30 | Esau was famished and demanded Jacob's "red stuff". | The world needed a savior and demanded the blood of Yeshua. |
| Genesis 25:31 | Jacob demanded Esau's birthright in exchange for the stew. | The world must humble itself, surrender its own birthright, and submit to Israel's king in order to be covered by his blood. |
| Genesis 25:32 | Esau asked what good was a birthright to someone going to die anyway. | What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet loses his soul? |
| Genesis 25:34 | Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew (red stuff). | Israel gave the body and blood of their Messiah to save the whole world. Yeshua told us to remember his sacrifice whenever we eat of the bread and wine of Passover. |
| Genesis 25:34 | Esau rose and went away. | The body and blood of Yeshua enables either our or our condemnation, depending on the state of our hearts. |
| Genesis 25:34 | Esau despised his birthright. | We must despise our false heritage before we can receive a new one. (Just be careful not to despise the heritage of Israel.) |
| Genesis 27:15 | Jacob wore the best garments of Esau. | Yeshua wore the purple robes of a Roman emperor. |
| Genesis 27:16 | Jacob wore the skins of two young goats, reminiscent of Yom Kippur through which the sins of Israel are atoned. | Yeshua is our atoning sacrifice through which the sins of the whole world are atoned. |
| Genesis 27:18 | Isaac expected Esau, but received Jacob whom he didn't recognize. | Israel expected a conqueror, but received a servant whom they didn't recognize. |
| Genesis 27:35-41 | Esau resented Jacob and plotted to kill him. | The Pharisees resented Yeshua and plotted to kill him. Rome resented the Jews and plotted to kill them. |
| Genesis 27:42-43 | Rebekah warned Jacob to flee Esau's vengeance. | Yeshua warned the Jews to flee Rome's vengeance. |
| Genesis 28 | Jacob went into exile from the Promised Land. | The Jews went into exile from the Promised land. |
| Genesis 29-30 | Jacob prospered and grew despite Laban's attempts to cheat and assimilate him. | The Jews prosper and multiply despite the world's attempts to assimilate and destroy them. |
| Genesis 31 | Jacob returns from exile to the Land. | Jews are returning from exile to the Land. |
| Genesis 32 | Jacob fears Esau and wrestles with the Angel. | Jews fear their enemies in the world and wrestle with their role and the identity of Messiah. |
| Genesis 33 | Jacob and Esau reunite in the Promised Land. | Jews and grafted-in, former gentiles unite in the Promised Land. |
| Genesis 33:17 | Jacob lives at Sukkot (tabernacles). | Messiah returns to tabernacle among his people. |
| Genesis 33:20 | Jacob builds an altar called "God, the God of Israel". | Messiah cleanses the Temple and resumes the daily offerings on the altar. |
Only One Answer
We are a nation of prideful sloths, gluttons, liars, thieves, gossipers, & enviers. Our electoral system amplifies our evil inclinations. It even lets us pretend we're actually "doing something" to fix our problems & help the less fortunate, while we actually only make everything worse.
There's only one answer, and it's not Trump, Cruz, Clinton, or Sanders.
There's only one answer, and it's not Trump, Cruz, Clinton, or Sanders.
The Marching Sanders Morons
I just heard the most idiotic thing from an Occupy Wall Street proponent. He suggested that we should have two separate economies: the "easy stuff" economy and a "sports" economy.
The easy stuff economy would provide the basic necessities of life to all people for free. This includes food, shelter, clothing, and basic healthcare. You know. The "easy" stuff that we can do with little to no effort and our eyes closed.
The sports economy would be for the rich and elite to play with entertainment, gadgets, and other non-essential stuff. We can contain all the evil capitalists there so they can't take unfair advantage of the helpless masses.
This is so mind-numbingly idiotic, that I find it difficult to believe that this guy somehow manages to get dressed in the morning.
Who is going to pay for the easy stuff? Who's going to grow the food, harvest it, process it into food-like substances suitable for consumption by Wall Street Occupiers? Who's going to transport it, store it, stock it, serve it? All that stuff just happens magically? Or maybe he thinks we should raid Africa and build a new slave economy.
Who decides what is the easy stuff? What will be grown, where, and how? I'll tell you: Monsanto. The military industrial complex. The evil capitalist cabal that wants to starve all the poor people. That's who. (Sarcasm? Sort of.)
Seriously, it won't be you and me who makes these decisions, and I guarantee you, 100% absolutely, that somebody will be making them. All of this would have to be controlled by a central bureaucracy, which means rich people. Who controls the food-related bureaucracies now? Monsanto & company. Who will control the food-related bureaucracies in OWS Boy's rainbow utopia? Monsanto & company. This means there will be no food on the shelves. There will only be food-like substances, genetically modified, and heavily dosed with subtly toxic chemicals, because that's the "easy" way. At first, you'll be able to buy better food if you really want, but before long, that will become illegal. It's already largely illegal. Just try to buy raw milk from a local farmer. Those companies do not care about you. They do not care about your health, about the environment, or about social justice. They care about profit and control, and that's all they care about.
OWS Boy is typical of Bernie Sanders lemmings. They are easily manipulated pawns with the long-term, critical thinking skills of a mosquito. Promise them free rainbows and they'll gleefully castrate themselves and put bullets in the heads of anyone who uses unapproved language on Facebook.
The easy stuff economy would provide the basic necessities of life to all people for free. This includes food, shelter, clothing, and basic healthcare. You know. The "easy" stuff that we can do with little to no effort and our eyes closed.
The sports economy would be for the rich and elite to play with entertainment, gadgets, and other non-essential stuff. We can contain all the evil capitalists there so they can't take unfair advantage of the helpless masses.
This is so mind-numbingly idiotic, that I find it difficult to believe that this guy somehow manages to get dressed in the morning.
Who is going to pay for the easy stuff? Who's going to grow the food, harvest it, process it into food-like substances suitable for consumption by Wall Street Occupiers? Who's going to transport it, store it, stock it, serve it? All that stuff just happens magically? Or maybe he thinks we should raid Africa and build a new slave economy.
Who decides what is the easy stuff? What will be grown, where, and how? I'll tell you: Monsanto. The military industrial complex. The evil capitalist cabal that wants to starve all the poor people. That's who. (Sarcasm? Sort of.)
Seriously, it won't be you and me who makes these decisions, and I guarantee you, 100% absolutely, that somebody will be making them. All of this would have to be controlled by a central bureaucracy, which means rich people. Who controls the food-related bureaucracies now? Monsanto & company. Who will control the food-related bureaucracies in OWS Boy's rainbow utopia? Monsanto & company. This means there will be no food on the shelves. There will only be food-like substances, genetically modified, and heavily dosed with subtly toxic chemicals, because that's the "easy" way. At first, you'll be able to buy better food if you really want, but before long, that will become illegal. It's already largely illegal. Just try to buy raw milk from a local farmer. Those companies do not care about you. They do not care about your health, about the environment, or about social justice. They care about profit and control, and that's all they care about.
OWS Boy is typical of Bernie Sanders lemmings. They are easily manipulated pawns with the long-term, critical thinking skills of a mosquito. Promise them free rainbows and they'll gleefully castrate themselves and put bullets in the heads of anyone who uses unapproved language on Facebook.
Strength Comes Only through Struggle
Adversity made America great. The ubiquitous grinding stones of wilderness and war, sea and savage once cut a fine edge on the American people, but we have been dulled to uselessness by comfort, permissiveness, and "safe spaces". If we would make America great again, we must abandon the delusion that anyone has a right to feel safe or even to be safe. A boy becomes a man only through conflict, and only by embracing adversity and danger will we as a people become sharp and hard again.
An Abbreviated List of Biblical Sevens
I have not included every instance of a collection of seven. I lumped multiple instances of the same collection together, such as various commands concerning Unleavened Bread or Sukkot. I also ignored historical statements that didn't seem to put any special emphasis on "7", such as "in the seventh year of the reign of so-and-so." Feel free to let me know if I missed any.
- 7 daughters of Jethro
- 7 days of Creation
- 7 clean animals on Noah’s Ark
- 7 congregations of Revelation
- 7 women of Isaiah
- 7 spirits of God
- 7 lamps of the Menorah
- 7 days of Unleavened Bread
- 7 days of Sukkot
- 7 days of Miriam’s shame
- 7 days of uncleanness for women and lepers
- 7 sprinkles from the red heifer
- 7 animals offered at various times
- 7 weeks of Shavuot
- 7th month, 1st day is Yom Teruah
- 7th year release
- 7th day Sabbath
- 7 years of oppression under Midian
- 7 years of rule by Ibzan
- 7 months with the Ark in Philistia
- 7 trumpeters with the Ark
- 7-fold light of the sun (Isa 30:26)
- 7 children of one mother (Jer 15:9)
- 7 years burning weapons (Eze 39:9)
- 7 months burying the dead (Eze 39:12)
- 7 steps and cubits of Ezekiel’s Temple
- 7 weeks of Daniel
- 7 shepherds of Micah (Mic 5:5)
- 7 eyes of God (Zec 4:10)
- 7th day sin offerings (Eze 45:20)
- 7 husbands of the Sadducean widow.
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