Tag: labor day

  • The Demagogues of Democracy in an Idol-led Empire

    The Demagogues of Democracy in an Idol-led Empire

    Labor Day in 2023 of the Common Era

    What is more common in this Common Era of a 2024 Presidential election than demagogues landing like locusts on our popular propaganda screens like ants at a Labor Day picnic?

    Demagogue: a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power

    Trump is just one of many demagogues of democracy tooting his political horn on TikTok Twitter and other social media

    Of course, ‘the medium spin of the message is better than two candidates in the district.’

    US political HEADLINES IN THE HAND spun by paid pundits of unaccountable billionaires hiding behind action committees buying each vote AGAINST fellow demagogues of their political opposite extreme.

    What better day than Labor Day in the Common Era for commonly corrupt men of money to launch another campaign tirade of fear-mongering urging working stiffs on a rare day off to VOTE AGAINST whatever they should ideologically HATE?

    collage of worldly leaders - ACTS 2:40 "Be saved from this perverse generation.

    Party Platforms of an idolized past

    Or should I say: Political Party Platforms from an idealized ancient past?

    I’m not referring to historical parties from an idolized American past: Federalists, Whigs, Democrat-Republicans, Bull Moose or other independents. The ideals of foundational platforms of every party have always been somewhat overstated.

    Political parties once debated a platform of principles upon which their candidates for office could stand.

    Sometime in the 20th c. C.E. foundational Democratic and Republican party platforms and principles collapsed under the weight of PAC’s with polls of single issue influence destined to divide any great empire into the decay of its extreme excesses.

    A Common Era conclusion

    • WE THE PEOPLE of these UNITED STATES of AMERICA are no longer UNITED in the Common Era of our failed principles.
    • Nor are WE governed by a majority as one might imagine.

    Rather citizens of our once united states have been divided as spoil of partisan political victories as unwilling subjects of political kings appealing to the extremes of our discontent.

    Go ahead and do the math: 
    TOTAL number of citizens 18 or older [think 2020 US Census], 
    convert the % of 'registered' votes of the 'winner' into the actual total # of votes,
    USE the WINNING NUMBER of VOTES and DIVIDE any CANDIDATE TOTAL by the NUMBER of CITIZENS! (Registered, including NO SHOWS & ABSTENTIONS in addition to a LARGE # of US citizens who DO NOT EVEN REGISTER TO VOTE.)
    • A TRUE WINNER of a MAJORITY could claim a NUMBER = to HALF the census 18+ population, plus 1.
    • Does ANY national candidate for political office have such a majority mandate of US citizens? (Go ahead and name one!)
    • Our VOTE is bought and paid for by the politically powerful minority WE THE PEOPLE rarely see lining the pockets of our Representatives, Senators and Presidents.

    WE consequently conclude that NO principles of party will govern any newspeak fed to THE PEOPLE of our divided nation.

    Certainly not on such common occasions as Labor Day 2023 of the Common Era with so many candidates full of HEADLINE DEMAGOGUERY leading up to divisive 2024 elections.


    Historical Reminders

    • DEMOCRACY
      • from ancient Greece

    Alexander was considered ‘the Great’ after crushing democracy as the philosophers debated and ruled much of the world until his death just centuries Before Christ (BCE to you ‘Commoners).

    • REPUBLIC
      • from the Rome Before Christ (or B.C.E. for you evolved pagans)

    JULIUS CAESAR was an elected official of Rome’s idealistic Republic AND a general leading loyal Romans back from victory to claim Rome as its Caesar. (Most know of his demise on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.

    ROME ruled the world through its Caesars worshiped as gods among the gods. The ruthlessness of Rome’s Legions prevailed over the ideals of its Republic.

    7th century B.C.

    From Isaiah, a true Prophet of God after the fall of David & Solomon's Empire
    59:4 No one calls in righteousness, and no one seeks justice in truth.
    
    They trust in confusion and speak worthlessness;
    
    They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.
    
    7 Their feet run to evil,
    
    And they are quick to shed innocent blood;
    
    Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness;
    
    Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
    

    Justice is turned back,

    And righteousness stands far away;

    For truth has stumbled in the street,

    And rightness cannot enter.

    So it is that truth is missing;

    And he who turns aside from evil makes himself plunder.

    Then Yahweh saw,

    And it was evil in His eyes that there was no justice.

    “A Redeemer will come to Zion,

    And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares Yahweh.

    Isaiah 59:14-15,20 LSB

    The Redeemer of Zion of those any who turn from sin — Before Christ and in these last days of our Lord dismissed as the Common Era — is JESUS a prophet, priest and king forever.

    The Ideological Enemy among US

    • COMMUNIST and
    • SOCIALIST

    USSR abbreviation for the UNION of SOCIALIST Soviet REPUBLICS.

    Stalin’s Communism will always cleanse the land of protagonist challengers who stand up to their walled-in autocracy.

    Socialism better describes the governmentaiization of money rather than the internment of the communes controlling the lives of its people.

    The cults of communism choose their own Caesars and the Republics of Religion will anoint their own gods.

    Roger@TalkofJESUS.com
    • Islamic Republics and Hindu Democracies fail in principle and in theory even as they proliferate and invade former strongholds of free but tolerant nations.
    • Capitalist Communists will invest in peace as currency of control in wars of attrition undermining the freedoms of competition.
    • The Atheist Tyrant embraces the religions of authoritarian rule.

    Demagogues of Labor Days in the C.E.

    Let US not deceive ourselves, even as Satan convinced man, ‘you will not die.’

    The righteous will live by faith, but which Labor Day speech of the Common Era will not shout out the unrighteous likes of the unrepentant faithless?

    A Proverb for Labor Day

    A worker’s appetite works for him;

    His mouth urges him on.

    A worthless man plots evil,

    and his speech is like a scorching fire.

    Proverbs 16:26 & 27 CSB

    And a closing consideration of Labor Day in the Common Era

    The demagogues of democracy will dictate what all will be required to do
    while the agendas of anarchy proclaim all of their gods.

    Roger@TalkofJESUS.com + Serving no Caesar in place of Christ our resurrected and living Redeemer and King
  • Labor Day – Harvest is past, Summer is over

    Labor Day

    “Harvest is past, summer is over,

    And we are not saved.”

    Jeremiah 8:20 NASB20

    Scriptures:

    Jeremiah 8:18-22

    Context of the quote above

    Matthew 11:

    Original talkofJesus.com Post

    from September 2, 2013 – Topic: Labor Day
  • Rest for the wicked; hope for the weary

    Rest for the wicked; hope for the weary

    It so happens as the Lord had planned it that the launch of http://talkofJesus.com -+- CHRISTIAN SOCIAL WITNESS coincides with the American holiday: Labor Day.  We will have picnics, parades and some much-needed family time.  No school.  Post offices, banks and many not-so-greedy businesses closed to give their employees a rest from their labor – something all of us need at times.

    A prior post began with this same thought. It is about Sabbath rest – a related, but different reference to the word of God in the Bible.  We’ve likely heard the expression:

    ‘NO rest for the wicked and the good don’t need any.’

    NOT true; NOT Biblical.

    We ALL need rest and we all need work.

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    American’s inherited this Labor Day idea of rest though the long-standing culture of the King James Bibles so much apart of our Christian heritage.  The original call for rest comes from Jesus.

    “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:28

    At one time Americans realized the importance to honor God through our labor and to honor labors as God’s own workers.  Sadly, in a 21st c. America (or Europe, Asia or any other place) we don’t get that, do we?  (Jesus tells us why – which I will reveal in a moment.) The world has two approaches to labor:

    Work hard for your SELF. (More work, more reward: right?) God doesn’t really need that “offering AND tithe” to honor Him — after all, the Government gets plenty of our required monetary support.  Our Country will take care of us.

    OR

    I don’t need to labor because Uncle Sam* takes care of me and will always help me.

    *  ‘Americanized’ personalization of our impersonal ‘representative’ Government.

    God never intended for ANY to have a rest from the work they will NOT do.  (We won’t go there today. That’s a different scripture.)

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    Getting back to talk of Jesus:

    The crowds had flocked to hear Jesus on the hillsides of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.  Jesus traveled from city to city on His northern tour.  Everywhere Jesus traveled, He was expected.

    Matthew 11When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.

    Imagine the excitement of the promised Messiah of God coming to your city.  Jesus was predicted by the Prophets.  Jesus was proclaimed by the greatest prophet their contemporary, John the Baptist.

    John was a ‘hell-fire and damnation’ kind of preacher: popular with the people, but imprisoned by the religious establishment.

    REPENT! And be baptized (changed permanently). Cleanse your sins before you must stand before the HOLY ONE.

    Yet our Lord is also calling the people of the cities to hear Him and obey.

    20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

    Jesus? … Preaching ‘hell-fire and damnation’ like John?

    Read what He said comparing the disobedient to the people of Sodom.

    Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest

    25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will…

    28 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

    What is Jesus saying about our labor?

    Jesus is illustrating a picture of manual labor.  He doesn’t say to just give it all to Him and He will take care of it.  (I’m not saying this about prayer.  We are talking ‘labor’ here.)

    • Take my yoke upon you a picture of the collar of two doing the work of one.
    • learn from me – a direct reference to learning from the example of His life.
    • I am gentle and lowly in heart [Jesus is kind and humble. Have you learned this from His Perfect Example?]

    and [IF you will do this, according to our Lord]

    • you will find rest for your souls. 

    30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

    Jesus didn’t say ‘Take a break and I will do it all for you.”

    Jesus actually called out the people who refuse to repent and listen to Him for their wickedness.

    Our Lord knows how weary we become in this world.

    Do we remember: disobedience was punished in Eden.  Unpleasant work became part of our sinful heritage for having knowledge of good and evil.

    Jesus offers to share in our work in this world.

    Will you work with Him on that?

    Though we are wicked sinners

    Because of the Cross of Jesus 

    Weary laborers have hope.

    Come unto Him.