The violence in this country is out of control. I read the headlines, and I am sickened and dumbfounded — what has this world come to?
I’ve written before about the surge of Anti-Asian hate crimes in NYC and across the country. Which, is sadly still happening. Even after Biden signed the Anti-Asian Hate Crime bill this past week, the attacks are still raging. Just this weekend, a 48 year old Asian man was attacked in my boyfriend’s neighborhood: he was terribly beaten and the tip of his finger was bitten off.
Barbaric. Truly. Barbaric.
But it doesn’t stop there. Now, since the cease-fire in the Middle East, anti-Semitic attacks have spiked in NYC (and LA). Jews are being attacked leaving their synagogues to the battle cries of “Free Palestine – kill the Jews!”, they’re being beaten on the streets, receiving racial slurs shouted from men in trucks with Palestinian flags.
On Thursday, there was a clash of protestors in Time Square that left one 29 year old Jewish man severely beaten and in the hospital.
Also over the weekend, pro-Palestine demonstrators threw fireworks and molotov cocktails at buildings in the Diamond District of Manhattan, a heavily Jewish business district, leaving one man severely burned.
One of my Jewish friends broke down in tears, scared for her fellow Jews. Scared for her life. She’s stopped wearing her Star of David necklace, and many of the men she knows have stopped wearing their kippah/yarmulka in public, for fear for their safety.
Truthfully, it is unthinkable that a person could harbor such hatred in their heart for someone they don’t even know, and then act on it.
It is beyond tragic, and heartbreaking. It is more despicable than words can express.
And beyond pray for our Jewish and Asian brothers and sisters, I feel helpless as to what I can do to help.
I wrote last week about the “woke indoctrination” of our children, after coming across several radical feminist baby books while out shopping: “Feminist Baby” and “Little Feminist,” and I was truly shocked by the number of dissenting comments, expressing backlash against my position: claiming that, Christian indoctrination of children is even more harmful.
People were truly upset that I plan on raising my future children (one day, God-willing) to believe in God and love Jesus. That was harmful indoctrination, these dissenters posited.
And this, friends, is precisely the problem with our country that has led it to become the unrecognizable purgatory it is today, where people are bashing others’ skulls in with baseball bats just because of the color of their skin, the religion they follow, or what their background is:
We have left God behind.
But not just left Him behind…our society is actively repelling Him, His teachings, and ostracizing those who follow Him.
It is now considered harmful to “indoctrinate” your children to believe in God? Oh how backwards that is! That is literally THE. MAIN. JOB. of parenthood! That is literally the most important task one has as a parent: to get their children (and their spouse) to Heaven. Period.
“Cancel” me if that is too outrageous of a notion, but that is the point of life. Of family. Of marriage. Journeying together towards Heaven, and making sure of their salvation.
These Hate Crimes that we’re seeing: those are workings of the enemy. There, I said it.
It is spiritual warfare, absolutely walloping our nation, our world. Why? Because God has been pushed out of the picture, and the enemy and his friends are having an absolute field day.
And sadly this is just one area – everywhere you look in our culture: from the attacks on personhood in the womb, confusion over our identity — especially that geared towards our children, the pornography epidemic, the abortion industry as a whole, women struggling with unattainable body image and beauty standards. There is a common puppeteer behind all of these terrible terrible plights on humanity.
We have passed the time of being a quiet, private Christian. The time has come to be bold for Christ. We must wear our faith out loud: wear a cross necklace, say “God Bless you,” to our taxi drivers when we leave, pray at the dinner table at a restaurant, invite a friend to go to Church with us, or *gasp* TALK about our faith at a group gathering!
Christianity can’t be something that is reserved for Sunday mornings anymore, or just a “fall asleep” ritual as we close our eyes at night.
I’m guilty of that. I think it’s scary. But there is so much darkness in the world right now. SO much darkness. The world needs our light. It needs Christ’s light through us.
Matthew 5: 14-16 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Jesus is talking to you and me. We are that city that cannot be hidden. We need to shine – shine now brighter than ever. Our world depends on it.
Lord, please protect our Jewish and Asian brothers and sisters, and any person who finds themselves in the path of hatred. Protect them, and change the hearts of those who wish them harm. And Lord, embolden us, that we may have the courage to be Your light in this dark and desolate world.
Amen.
“This is what the Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.” Ez 37:5
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Awesome, friend!
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Beauty, this is a good post, really good. In my world of the supernatural, I have come across some great people who see things similar to my point of view. One is Doug Giles (.com) an artist who believes that the church has made sissy’s out of men and that is why men are hesitant to become Christians. It’s all a misinterpretation of Christian men. God’s men who really know God for who he is are “real men.” I can site so many characters and examples in scripture to support my claim. Let me bring it up to speed with men I know. I watched 2 Amish men talk about their adventures in Iraq when Muslim Extremeist were beheading Christians including children. These 2 Amish guys walked right up to these men to witness about Jesus to them. The Muslim warriors were thrown back at the brazen courage of these un-armed men. They said, don’t you know we can cut your heads off right here and now? The Christian men said, “no you can’t unless God allows it!” The Amish brothers proceeded to tell the muslims of the good news and then walked away without any harm.
My own experiences in the supernatural include casting out demons when doing healing. If a demon shows up, I deal with it by casting it out. Not long ago I was at Chicago O’Hare Airport having coffee at Starbucks while waiting for my daughters flight to board. A man came up us to panhandle money. We politely told him no (we have a lot of street ministry experience and we know what ou rmoney supports so we don’t give them any), the man became aggressive withj us and my wife told him to go get a job (she cut threw the layers of self deceit quickly). The man responded and said, “I can blow your ear drums out!” I sat there seriously thinking, did I just here this come out of his mouth? Then I looked him in the eyes sternly and said, COME HOLY SPIRIT! The battle was on for me. He was smart enough to take three steps back and briskly walk away. I don’t mess with demons, i have cast too many out to put up with their garbage.
My training in someway resembles that of the early disciples. Demons confronted them and the disciples simply cast them out. The church today needs to find out who they really are so they can take authority over the street violence using simple words demonstrating that we have authority in the earth, not them. Selah
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Thank you for being bold in your faith and calling out truth. I couldn’t help but think of Romans 1 where it says God reveals Himself to everyone and
Romans 1:21-22
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
Thank you for encouraging us to be bold in our faith. Christ has many promises for those who overcome:
1. We get to eat from the tree of life (Rev 2:7)
2. We will not be hurt by the second death – Rev 2:11
3. We will get a new name written on a stone that no one knows except he who receives it – Rev 2:17
4. We will have authority over the nations and will ave the morning star when Christ returns – Rev 2:26-28
5. We will be clothed in white garments and our name will not be erased from the book of life AND Jesus will confess Him before our father
6. We will become a pillar in the temple of God and Christ will write on us – the name of is God, the name of the city of His God (the new Jerusalem) and His new name. – Rev 3:12
7. We will sit with Him on His throne – Rev 3:21
8. We will inherit all things new that God promises in Rev 21:5
So let’s stand strong NOW. Thanks again for reminding us!!🙌
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Amen.
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The Media rhetoric presents only two sides to the issues in the Middle East, tarring both communities and reducing a complex issue to pro and anti Israel.
Restoring the homeland was a Christian – Zionist response to trying to push God’s restoration prophesies to fulfilment before their time. When governments get things wrong the people suffer. Just as the bible tells us repeatedly.
The answer? Acts 10: 34, 35 God isn’t partial, 2 Peter 3: 9 he wants all to be saved, John 17: 3 it is the knowledge of God and his son the offers the gift of everlasting life
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Amen Amen and Amen. Praying for God to continue to strengthen you with Boldness to proclaim the power of Jesus Christ. Another timely Post… It is the Appointed Time, my friend…
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I heartily agree. It’s hard to reconcile the headlines, the crimes, the actual push from half of DC and growing demonstrations around the country AGAINST Israel. Our present leaders are setting a really dangerous tone and it is emboldening a nasty mean spirited section of our populace I didn’t even know we had here in the good, old USA. Prayer, and speaking up, and more prayer. Lord, help. Amen,
Thank you once again!
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Hi Caralyn,
I heartily agree with you. We are actively rejecting God, and pushing Him out, to our detriment and at our peril.
And you’re right. It’s become wrong and evil to indoctrinate our children to follow God. It’s become evil to do good and good to do evil. But God says specifically in Malachi 2,
“Didn’t the LORD make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are His. And what does He want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.” ~ Malachi 2:15, NLT.
So this whole thing about Christians indoctrinating their children, and how evil that is, is nothing but a crock that’s being put forward by a bunch of God-haters who don’t know what they’re talking about. Plus I would rather follow God and be hated by men than the reverse. The first will get me into Heaven, while the reverse will send me to hell. And I’m DEFINITELY not interested in going to hell!
“Indoctrination” of children is really nothing more than brainwashing them into thinking what you want—if they’re thinking something different that you think needs to be changed. If children are thinking what you want them to think, they don’t need indoctrination. All they need is teaching to reinforce what they already know. However, I don’t agree with this. I’ve discovered the hard way that a life founded on God’s Word is a successful life. As well, the Bible says,
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” ~ Proverbs 22:6, KJV.
That’s not indoctrination or brainwashing. It’s simply teaching children about God, which is a parent’s most important job, as it says in Malachi 2:15.
So you just keep doing what you’re doing, Caralyn, boldly speaking the truth of God’s Word regardless of any opposition you encounter. For what it’s worth you definitely have my support.
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Thank you for your thoughts on this… I don’t understand anymore where all this hate is coming from. It goes beyond just the attacks that are portrayed in the media. It is so ingrained in our society that we can’t allow another person their little place under the sun anymore.
It starts with the smallest things, whether it is the basic differences in us from our skin color to our sex or whether we agree with whatever is being preached from some pulpit (and I am not just referring to religious pulpits).
Thank you for staying strong and not allowing your voice to be quietened. ♥️
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thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this and for your words of encouragement! i agree – we need to break free from this grip of hatred on our world! Hugs and love xox
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Stay safe out there.
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