It is now a time of great provoking (14 views) Subscribe   
  From:  David (DavidABrown)     May-14 11:11 am  
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Provocation and provoke!! It is now a time of great provoking.

Provocation is foremost in the news today as there is unrelenting coverage of the prison abuses photos from  the Iraq Abu Ghraib Prison facility and now the very disturbing beheading death of Nicholas Beg and the many mysteries surrounding his last days. 

Currently in these days there is a gross overload of provocation. The Muslims are being provoked by a series of needles pictures, from events that should never of happened. The Israelis are being provoked by a series of needless UN resolutions against them. Our own Military is being provoked by a series of unrelenting news stories and endless deployments and obligations. The average citizen is being provoked by an endless stream of meaningless and hurtful politics derived from deceitful politicians. Meanwhile the Christian Church is continually being provoked by a relentless and unceasing denial of everything and anything that is of value and worth to the Christian faith. 

It should be noted that the timing in the publicizing of the prison abuse photos now in May of 2004 is suspect in that many of the events occurred and where known about and initially investigated in 2003. Clearly one of the intended purposes of these current news events is in influencing the 2004 U.S. Presidential election this fall. It is also unfortunate that the media coverage is promoting the events in such a way as to bring and to build unnecessary world resentment and animosity towards the American , Christian and Israeli way of life. In other words the medias biased blame for these tragedies is to pretend that somehow American, Christian, and Israeli values approve of any of this conduct or worse yet that we had a hand in perpetrating these acts instead of placing the blame where it belongs on an Atheistic - Ungodly, Immoral secular system that brought about and continues these abuses.

Fortunately along with this time of great provoking it is also a time of great Christian opportunity.
Most of  us Christians realize that we in Jesus have something more precious than this world can ever take away or even comprehend and therefore we should be immune to and above the simple provocations that the world is attempting to provoke us with. As the world provokes and challenges our Christian beliefs it is evident that every challenge is an opportunity to be met with the Christian response of confidence, praise to God, and mercy and compassion to man.

It is my hope and prayer that  during these troubling and trying  times that we Christians will continue to grow and mature in our faith and by doing so to be an even grater blessing to both God and to society and that if there is any provocation that it will provoke us and one another to more good deeds and more love for both God and mankind.


Hebrews 10:23-25 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for He (Jesus) is faithful that promised; and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day {second coming of Jesus} approaching.


God Bless you always!!

David Anson Brown
www.BasicChristian.org




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  From:  Christ, our Refuge (amym38)     May-18 7:26 pm  
To:  David (DavidABrown)    (2 of 3)  
 
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good post, David!
 
 
 

 
  
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   From:  David (DavidABrown)     May-19 3:10 pm  
To:  Christ, our Refuge (amym38)    (3 of 3)  
 
  872.3 in reply to 872.2  
 
H Amy,

 

Thanks!!

 

I sent it out in the Newsletter as well and it is getting placed in few Blogs so it is a timely topic.

 

The whole Prison  POW thing is a real rats nest the way it has been intentionally handled since day one.

 

When I was in the Military and deployed to the Panama Canal we had the special classes on how to treat POWs and every word that they said was dont and they constantly reminded us that there is No statue of limitations for war crimes so you can be prosecuted the rest of your life.

 

Prison  POW handling requires a very specialized training.

 

That is why I think it is suspect that instead of using qualified prison guards they stuck this crew of untrained auto mechanics in there, people who probably never had day one of any POW training and in a sense with the civilian prison guard instigators created this current crises.

 

Which means to me that the Government wanted this situation all along as another means to broadcast Government fear and intimidation to a global audience.

 

If this is a war on Terrorism then the Govt. should hang it up because there is no victory when the new governments are more brutal than the previous regimes.

 

~Anyhow~

 

God Bless you,
David

 



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