Words: Right or Wrong?

4/25/2020

WORDS: The Lord Jesus Christ told the Hebrew people in Matthew 12:37, “for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” I wonder, if the Washington, D.C. world knew that verse was in the Bible, would it make any difference to any of them when they speak?, those that make outrageous and unfounded claims against others and the public: would it matter? Dispensationally, we know how to make an application of the truth in the verse. It is a valid principle of “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” for our lives. To the saved, and one who is willing to practice “rightly dividing the word of truth” it will make a difference in making an application of this wisdom to “perfect(ing) holiness in the fear of God.”- 2 Cor.7:1—in other words, be careful what you say. Be careful about those things for which you are using the Scripture as a support document. 

About 1966, I began writing advertising copy for newspaper ads, first in the jewelry business (where stretched truth about products often appeared), then later for carpet and furniture where simple truths about products were a must. That’s where I first learned how much it mattered which words were used and which just wouldn’t do. Later, I wrote copy for radio ads and (a few) tv ads. These media were even more pointedly succinct, no hype or blather when time, like space to a newspaper, was a large factor. Then, in January, 1974, I began to study the Bible where truth is all there is (even in the stories about god-cursing men), the Bible is telling us the truth about them. To see what I mean, look up churlish in a word search—KJB, of course— and read the whole story about the man who was churlish. hint: David rescued his widow. 

Coming around to 2021, the “era of the COVID-19”—where is truth? Can you find authoritative words meant to convince a person, or all persons, of some deep abiding truth about this so-called pandemic? Hardly. Every time the health leaders speak, as soon as questions arise, there is most often a quick side-step of something like “well, we don’t really know, cause we’ve never had anything like this before,” and no definitive answer is forth-coming. No truth. No resulting conclusion. No way to make a hard and fast rule. No end in sight. No (or very limited) success, either. So, dear sovereign friends, why are we placing ourselves in subjection to an authority which cannot become authoritative? Why do we not take our place as the sovereigns that we are and decide for ourselves how to resolve this debacle?

We do not take the strong personal stance because, at least the majority of us, have not been taught how to care for ourselves, for our own and for our neighbors! For the last 50 years, our supposed education system has been the victim of two very prevalent themes: the first being the dumbing down of the classical education processes held dear for the previous 350 years; the second is its replacement ideology of socialism(lesser and/or greater) influences by educators who write books and leave the classrooms to the graduate students to teach. 

Somewhere in the ‘40s (I think), college professors became the unmitigated recipients of tenure. Terrible word, tenure: clearly defined as “guaranteed continual employment.” This manifested itself as a horrible result of its meaning in the mid ‘60s. Without controversy, could you convince anyone this would be a good proffer? That is, hold this out to someone as theirs if they want it? If you would think there were situations where this is good, I’m really worried about you. Yet, each institute of higher learning (another strange and seductive phrase) has several of these positioned professors. Guess which ideology the bulk of these proclaims—well, it isn’t classical education!

Having read and listened to politics, philosophers, and preachers for about 67 of my 77 years, I have noticed the word usages and misuses and by 1965 (that’s 54 years ago, and about 9 years before I began studying the bible), I could see untruths winning over absolute truths. It has been very dis-heartening and constantly worsening, and has reached clear unto this present curse: A pandemic and a world-effecting shutdown for which there is no need. Yes, millions are or will be sick. Most will recover. Hundreds of thousands may die, they always do. There are so many people in the world today, that a tiny percentile sounds horrifically huge when listed by the number. No, I don’t want anyone to die. But, I’ve noticed: they do. People die, something is going to cause our deaths (except the Lord comes.) The activity which shuts down the freedoms of the people of the world is a quieter and more complacent and acquiescent form of hostage-taking. Nothing less. Do the people even notice? Barely, if even at all. Very sad.

WE, (remember my use of this word in the previous blog?) are the government and WE are not doing what we should be doing. Either WE get it back to normal, or we fall prey to those who will enslave us to their professed doctrine—the one which has been being taught since about 1965. Just follow the bouncing ball along the pathway to complacency and you’ll get along fine. Kept. By. An. Oppressive. Governance.

If that’s what you want, ok. As for me, few things make me glad I’m old, but this sort of thing just about fills me up. Perhaps I won’t have to view too many more years of it. (Been thinking about my words if when I reach 100, the reporter asks me what I think of the 21st Century…what about you?)

Thanks for reading these words …the Elder