Some Things Never Change

Some Things Never Change!

When John the Baptist and Jesus were ministering throughout Israel and when the Apostles were ministering in Jerusalem the religious leaders hated them and wanted to kill them. Only Herod was able to do that and the Sanhedrin only when they got the people riled up behind them.

Why? They feared the people when the masses were not on their side. Why? Because the people were armed the same as them! The Temple guards had swords and spears and shields and the general populace had rocks, slingshots, swords and farming tools that could be used as weapons.

Study Matthew 14:3-5, 21:23-27, 45-46; Luke 20:1-8; John 9:1-34 (18-22, 12:42), 12:42-43; Acts 5:13-26, 6:8-15, 12:1-4

Here are the dynamics; Herod was able to behead John the Baptist because he had imprisoned John and it was done in secret; the peoples’ fervor about John had waned because Jesus was now teaching and ministering to the people. Yet even after his death the rulers still feared the people would stone them if they just said that John’s baptism was not from GOD. Later Herod killed James by the sword and it pleased the Jews, this word does not mean the general populace but those who adhered to the social and religious teachings of the Sanhedrin and rejected Jesus as the messiah.

The Sanhedrin, the religious and social leaders of Israel feared the masses of people who wanted to believe Jesus was the Messiah. Everything they did was done in secret and they got the crowd to consent to Jesus’ crucifixion because it was mostly made up of their followers who feared being put out of the Synagogue by the Sanhedrin.

So while the people feared social and religious ostracism the rulers feared the ability of the people to instantly rise up against them.

That is why since the advent of powerful weapons of offence and defense governments have tried to control their availability to the general populace. They fear the ability of the populace to instantly rise up against them!

In the revolutions of old like the American, the French, the Texan and our own Civil War the armed populace made up most of the fighting forces who overwhelmed and out fought the government forces to win the victory. This is why today’s totalitarian, communist, socialist and libertarian governments want to disarm the general populace. They know that their arbitrary life controlling rule will be opposed but that an unarmed populace can be controlled.

Look at Venezuela today! Look at China a communist country by government that uses capitalism to finance its goals and repression of the majority of the populace. Some few, the family and friends of the ruling party get the benefit of capitalism but the majority of the populace still works for poverty wages and live in poverty conditions. Look at the Middle East the past and current wars in many of those countries are not by an armed populace because they were not allowed to have arms. The fighting against government forces is done by insurgents and other outside armed groups that are supported by other governments; to see who will rule over the general populace.

If the liberal gun control fanatics in the United States ever get their way and disarm the citizens of their constitutional right to bear arms in defense of themselves, their families and communities then this nation will be no better than China or Venezuela.

The leftist elitist believe they are the only ones that have the right to control the life of every American and their plan is to continue to divide us, to scare us, to bend us to their will until they have total control of every American. So that they can hand America over to the New World Order (the anti-christ) as a prize.