Acknowledging this is poetry, yet there are things we can learn about light.  Yes, light declares things about God…even at night. 

Day and night, God’s creative work is visible because of light (shining forth from the sun, moon, planets, and stars).  There’s even “Earthshine.”

Outside of Earth, God created all those heavenly bodies to give off light either as a source like the sun and stars, or to reflect it like the moon.

And God’s purposes were at least two-fold:

1. to separate the day from the night
2. and to mark time (Genesis 1:14-19) on the fourth day.

In reading this passage, note how many references there are to sight and knowledge and how light declares these things to creation. 

Psalm 19:1 For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. 4 Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, 5 which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. 6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat. 7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. 10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. 11 By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. 12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. 13 Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression. 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. 

Why would the psalmist, David, have such an abrupt topic break between verses 6 and 7?

Could it be that light declares in visual form what the Bible teaches in word form?  Both make sight possible.

Fun fact of light: The sun produces both light and heat.  The moon produces heat from decay of radioactive material but not enough to produce truly significant heat, unlike the stars.  The moon reflects light because it has no atmosphere and when the sun shines on the moon, the moon can get very hot, but the areas of the moon where the sun has set, the moon is frigid. Technically there is no dark side of the moon unless you’re listening to Pink Floyd.  From Universe Today:

“Every second, the Sun is converting 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium. This reaction lets out a tremendous amount of energy. Most of this energy heads off into space, but some of it falls on the planets and the moons in the Solar System. This is why we can see them at all… When there’s a new moon, however, there’s no light from the Sun falling on the Moon, and yet we can still see the surface of the Moon. Where’s the light coming from? The Earth. Astronomers call this reflected light “Earthshine”, and it helps them calculate how much sunlight is falling on the Earth.

So now you know that the light of the Moon actually comes from the Sun, unless it’s coming from the Earth.”   

For further thought: 

• Is it just pretty poetry to say that the commands of the LORD are radiant and they give light to the eyes?  Or do they tell us something that light declares?  Is there a connection between light and sight, and between the law and its resulting in knowledge and fear the LORD? 
• Is there something significant in the moon not creating its own light at night, but merely reflecting the sun’s light back to earth?  What can Christians do to reflect God’s glory, God’s light declared?  Do we produce it or reflect it? 
• How does Psalm 19 act as a cherry on the top of a Psalm 18 sundae of praise to the Lawgiver, our God?

Thank You, Father, for the many ways You reveal Yourself to us!  Thank You for the beauty of Creation.  May we never take for granted this treasure You have given us.  Help us, LORD, to reflect Your beauty and Your glory to a watching world.  Grant that we would never forget the privilege You have given humanity in Your creating light and mankind with the ability to see.  May we always be grateful and respond to You by reflecting Your glory.  Amen.

About the watchful light of God’s countenance, His face shining upon us, the psalmist turns from lament and plea to trust as he writes Psalm 4:1 Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer. 2 How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? Selah 3 Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD will hear when I call to him. 4 In your anger do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Selah 5 Offer right sacrifices and trust in the LORD. 6 Many are asking, “Who can show us any good?” Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD. 7 You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound. 8 I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

Ever had a nightmare?  As an adult, they can be just as scary as when you were a child. 

It’s why I can’t watch horror movies or even realistic blood and guts movies or TV shows anymore.  How often does the violence depicted as realistic fiction—even in video games—get reenacted for real on the streets?  So I have a rule: No news after 8:30 pm because both reality and fiction follow me into my dreams.

In fact, the more horrific the carnage, the more frightening real life becomes to where it seems like a living nightmare.  A quick look at the headlines of Syria or areas of Chicago can make people afraid to leave their homes and afraid to stay.  They feel trapped like there’s nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.  Fear that is amplified under cover of darkness.

I don’t know about you, but nightmares mean one thing: I want light.  I turn on the light if I’m alone or I get out of bed and go into another room to have the light on so I don’t wake my husband up.  Light somehow makes everything seem better.  Less frightening. There’s just something comforting in being able to see and be seen.

Now, God’s face isn’t like the sun as a great big ball of combustion and sun spots.  But His face and the watchful light of His countenance are profoundly reassuring.  Knowing that He’s watching.  Knowing that He sees.  Knowing that He cares, and then we can sleep peacefully.  He makes us dwell in safety because in His light… and in His hands…well, that’s the safest place around.

Fun fact of light from the Physics Classroom:  Without light, there is no sight.  Imagine being in a dark room…  “If you were to turn off the room lights for a moment and then cover all the windows with black construction paper to prevent any entry of light into the room, then you would notice that nothing in the room would be visible. There would be objects present that were capable of being seen. There would be eyes present that would be capable of detecting light from those objects. There would be a brain present that would be capable of deciphering the information sent to it. But there would be no light! The room and everything in it would look black. The appearance of black is merely a sign of the absence of light. When a room full of objects (or a table, a shirt or a sky) looks black, then the objects are not generating nor reflecting light to your eyes. And without light, there would be no sight.”

For further thought: 

• When God’s watchful light shines on us spiritually, we can see His goodness and His perfect love drives away all fear.  (1 John 4:18)
• If light doesn’t make objects disappear and it’s just a function of light allowing us to see, what might be some reasons light is so comforting?
• What might be some ways to bring ourselves into God’s watchful light?
• In the Sunday School song “This Little Light of Mine” what blows out the light?  How does that match up with what extinguishes our light in real life?

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised. (Psalm 113:3)

You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light. (2 Samuel 22:29)

God isn’t really a lamp.  It’s poetic language to paint a picture of what God does: turning human darkness into light of life in His grace. 

Unlike a created lamp, we can’t turn God off and on.  We can’t control Him.  We can’t place limits on the distance His light can travel.  We can’t extinguish Him and we certainly wouldn’t want to.  The whole universe falls apart without Him (Colossians 1:15-20).  With God as our source, our lamp can always be burning.  No matter what, we can’t use Him up or exhaust Him.  He turns our spiritual darkness into light of life.

Psalm 18 presents a song of David after being delivered from the hand of Saul.  In it, David praises God as a fortress, a shield, a refuge and his protector.  It is no surprise that given God’s actions in David’s life as a deliverer, David would begin the psalm with “I love you, O LORD, my strength” which is missing from the same song also recorded in 2 Samuel 22.  Psalms are like that, evoking strong emotions in poetic language.

Psalm 18:28 You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light. 

Poetic or spiritual (or poetic and spiritual), God gives us sight and keeps us from stumbling in the darkness by keeping our lamps burning.  What’s not to love about that?

Fun fact of light from Live Science: 

The Earth’s surface curves out of sight at a distance of 3.1 miles, or 5 kilometers. But our visual acuity extends far beyond the horizon. If Earth were flat, or if you were standing atop a mountain surveying a larger-than-usual patch of the planet, you could perceive bright lights hundreds of miles distant. On a dark night, you could even see a candle flame flickering up to 30 mi. (48 km) away.

How far the human eye can see depends on how many particles of light, or photons, a distant object emits. The farthest object visible with the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, located an astonishing 2.6 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy’s 1 trillion stars collectively emit enough light for a few thousand photons to hit each square centimeter of Earth every second; on a dark night, that’s plenty to excite our retinas.

For further thought: 

• How is witness like a shining light? 
• 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
• And how does the Church collectively look like stars in the universe?
• Philippians 2: 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16 as you hold out the word of life.

Lord Jesus, help us to shine like stars in the universe, holding out the word of life to a world in darkness.  During this Lenten season as we examine our lives and rediscover what You have done for us, please help Your Church to be the witness You desire her to be, a light for the Gentiles, reflecting the light of Yeshua that cannot be hidden.  Inspire us toward good works that shine forth to all nations and bring praise and glory to You!  Amen.

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Light: There’s Nothing Like It, the Seminary Gal 2017 Lenten Devotional Series began March 1, 2017 and will be archived in the sidebar for you.

If you’re already signed up on my Home Page sidebar to receive posts, you’ll get the 2017 Lent Devotionals automatically.  Or you can “Like” Seminary Gal on Facebook and they’ll be delivered to your Facebook news feed.  If you haven’t signed up, today is a great day to do so.  Advent and Lenten devotionals remain among my most popular offerings.  You don’t want to miss this great way to learn about light to prepare your heart for Easter!

Come join me in the Light. There’s absolutely nothing like it!

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Acknowledging that former years’ devotional series remain popular:

• Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
•  A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God  which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014. 
• Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations.  We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17. 
• And ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.

Light Moves.  That all by itself is quite remarkable.  Unlike much of physical creation, it’s never stationary.  It’s always moving, never sleeping, never stopped unless something extinguishes its source, blocks it from our view, or could absorb it completely.  Not even black bodies as imagined by Gustav Kirchhoff or observable black holes do that.  Some light has traveled 13.7 billion years to reach us.

Now think about what Jesus said in Matthew 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”

Light is meant to be on the move and so are we.  Our good deeds are meant to radiate from our Source (the Holy Spirit) as evidence of God to a watching world.  As the light of the world, we are meant to radiate His light and His love.  After all, He is the Light of the World and God is love!

John 9:4 “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Fun fact of light:  Regarding the movement of light, it radiates within the electro-magnetic field but it’s not electric or magnetic all by itself.

Physicist Matt Calhoun explains,

According to the theory of Electricity and Magnetism, charged particles which are stationary are “electric”, charged particles which move at a constant velocity are “magnetic”, and charged particles which accelerate will emit “electro-magnetic radiation” which travels at the speed of light…In other words, “light” is the transportation of energy from one part of the electromagnetic field to another, and it facilitates the interaction between electric and magnetic objects, but is neither electric nor magnetic itself.

For further thought:

• John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• How does following Christ suggest we should always be on the move?  
• How does following Christ give us the light of life?
• How can spiritual darkness be understood as spiritually dying, leading to spiritual death?
• Do dead things move?  What happens when we display no movement of light?

Our Father in heaven, help us to follow our Lord Jesus and radiate His light and His goodness wherever we go.  His light moves and so may ours.  May we always be about Your work so long as there is Day for us to be sharing the Gospel and bringing Christ’s light to those in darkness so they might have the light of life.  Amen.

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Light: There’s Nothing Like It, the Seminary Gal 2017 Lenten Devotional Series began March 1, 2017 and will be archived in the sidebar for you.

If you’re already signed up on my Home Page sidebar to receive posts, you’ll get the 2017 Lent Devotionals automatically.  Or you can “Like” Seminary Gal on Facebook and they’ll be delivered to your Facebook news feed.  If you haven’t signed up, today is a great day to do so.  Advent and Lenten devotionals remain among my most popular offerings.  You don’t want to miss this great way to learn about light to prepare your heart for Easter!

Come join me in the Light. There’s absolutely nothing like it!

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Acknowledging that former years’ devotional series remain popular:

• Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
•  A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God  which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014. 
• Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations.  We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17. 
• And ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.

One of the interesting things about God’s creating light is His doing it for our benefit.  He did it knowing He would be creating plants and creatures that required light to grow and produce.  And creating people who would have the ability to see.  He didn’t have to create us with sight, but He did!

Since that time, God uses light to produce food for us to eat and to lead us in the way we should go–to light our way!  In Exodus, the Israelites were on the move,  Exodus 13:21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

In the daylight, they could see a pillar of cloud, but at night there was a pillar of fire which gave off light.  In both cases, light was used to light our way.

Fun fact of light: Humans have a “visible spectrum” of light, basically that rainbow of colors that white light separates into when it passes through a prism or raindrops.  But light also includes a spectrum we cannot see, but other animals can.  Bees, for example, can see ultraviolet light which attracts them to flowers which aren’t perhaps the showiest in our visible spectrum.  Reptiles can see infrared light which supplies heat to assist with maintaining body temperature and locating warm-blooded prey.  Fire is predominantly in the infrared range to the warm colors of our visible spectrum which is why it looks red, orange or yellow overall.

For further thought:

• Are there any ways in which God still uses light to lead us or to light our way?
• Why do you think God might have chosen a rainbow in the sky rather than one of those “God-beams” breaking through the clouds to accompany His promise of never again flooding the earth? Genesis 9:8-16
• In Numbers 22:21-40, there’s a very strange story that includes a talking donkey which saw the angel of the Lord standing in the path, but her rider, Balaam, did not. Could our visible spectrum have blinded Balaam to what was spiritually visible to his donkey?  The Bible doesn’t say, but it makes me wonder what other things we might not be seeing. How does spiritual light make things invisible to our naked eye, visible by faith?

Lord Jesus, during this season of Lent, give us spiritual sight so that we might see You for who You are. That we might see our own sinfulness clearly so that we might repent.  That we might recognize our need for Your forgiveness.  Give us Your light and lead us in Your ways for Your glory.  Amen.

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Light: There’s Nothing Like It, the Seminary Gal 2017 Lenten Devotional Series began March 1, 2017 and will be archived in the sidebar for you.

If you’re already signed up on my Home Page sidebar to receive posts, you’ll get the 2017 Lent Devotionals automatically.  Or you can “Like” Seminary Gal on Facebook and they’ll be delivered to your Facebook news feed.  If you haven’t signed up, today is a great day to do so.  Advent and Lenten devotionals remain among my most popular offerings.  You don’t want to miss this great way to learn about light to prepare your heart for Easter!

Come join me in the Light. There’s absolutely nothing like it!

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Acknowledging that former years’ devotional series remain popular:

• Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
•  A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God  which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014. 
• Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations.  We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17. 
• And ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.

Why did God start Creation with saying “Let there be light?” 

Well, I don’t know exactly why He created light first, but I can tell you why not. 

It wasn’t because He couldn’t see in the dark, like Dad needing to turn on the shop light to work in the basement.  It wasn’t because light was needed for everything else to happen in a chain reaction: lights, camera, action!  It wasn’t for His benefit or as materials-and-methods for God or for us to repeat His science experiment. And it wasn’t so we’d argue about old earth, young earth, Big Bang, Creationism, Darwinism, or any other host of things Christians can find to argue about.  It wasn’t even to give scientists something to prove.  Such things evidence a misunderstanding of God, of Genesis, and of God’s act of Creation.

Probably the easiest explanation is that God started Creation with saying “Let there be light ” because He could.  It was an act of His will, His choice, and His sovereignty.  And He did it, not for His benefit, but for ours.

Even among cosmogonies (myths and theories of creation and ordering of the cosmos) from the Ancient Near East, the Bible stands alone in that light doesn’t emanate from God in creation as a divisible part of Himself to create things (divine, quasi-divine or not) or to create other gods (like a sun god, moon god, etc.).  Light was created at His command “Let there be light.”  And light and dark segments were necessary for time to exist as day and night.  To the ancient Hebrews, day and night had far more meaning than any concept of photons in explaining how the universe is ordered.  We do Scripture justice when we understand the ancient mindset even as we enjoy the mysteries of this creation.

Fun Fact of Light: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light.  Physicists have pondered this for centuries.  Summarizing an excellent explanation,

“The faster something travels, the more massive it gets, and the more time slows—until you finally reach the speed of light, at which point time stops altogether.”  This was theorized by Albert Einstein who “came up with a crazy solution: the motion of an object must somehow make time slow down. Time was no longer constant and so relativity was born.”

For further thought:

• In Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day. It has been argued that God didn’t just create photons of light.  He created time.  How do the days of creation (first, second, etc.) get anchored in God’s creation of time through alternating light and dark periods?
• Read Psalm 90.
• In regard to the return of Christ, Peter writes, 2 Peter 3:8 “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” How might God’s creation of light make that possible?  What is God’s relationship to time?

Lord, help us to appreciate you as our Creator.  Help us to make the most of the gift of time.  “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom…Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.” Amen.

What Should I Give Up for Lent?  I actually get that question quite frequently.

Let’s first say what giving something up for Lent doesn’t mean:

• It isn’t a weight loss strategy to get ready for swimsuit season.
• It isn’t something to tell all your friends about so they’ll think you’re spiritual.
• It isn’t about giving up something that you really don’t like anyway.
• It isn’t a competition to see who can give up something more substantial.
• It isn’t earning you a blessed thing.
• It isn’t making you more acceptable to God or more loved by Him.
• It isn’t making up for something bad you did.

When we examine those wrong conceptions of self-denial at Lent, we realize it comes down to our hearts.  Our hearts need to be right with God and that means accepting He is Lord and we are not. 

• We don’t pretend it’s all about God when it’s really all about that bod in a swimsuit.
• We don’t pretend it’s all about sacrifice and self-denial when it’s all about spiritual pride.
• We don’t pretend we’re making a huge sacrifice when it’s all a great big fraud because we never liked it anyway.
• We don’t pretend it’s all about our relationship with God when the truth is it’s about keeping up with the Joneses.
• We don’t pretend it’s about sacrificing for God when it’s about buying Him off to get more blessing for ourselves.
• We don’t pretend it’s about humility when it’s about trying to earn something that we can never buy.
• And it’s not about assuaging our own guilt.

Giving something up for Lent is about getting our hearts right with God because we know He’s God and we’re sinners and without Him, we’re toast.  The prophet Joel says it this way:

Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand– 2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come. 3 Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste– nothing escapes them. 4 They have the appearance of horses; they gallop along like cavalry…. 10 Before them the earth shakes, the sky trembles, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine. 11 The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty are those who obey his command. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it? 12 ‘Even now,’ declares the LORD, ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.’ 13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. 14 Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing– grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God. 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. 16 Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, ‘Spare your people, O LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?” 18 Then the LORD will be jealous for his land and take pity on his people.

In giving something up for Lent, let it be something significant.  A rending of your heart or as The Message paraphrase says,

Change your life, not just your clothes.
    Come back to God, your God.
And here’s why: God is kind and merciful.
    He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot,
This most patient God, extravagant in love,
    always ready to cancel catastrophe.
Who knows? Maybe he’ll do it now,
    maybe he’ll turn around and show pity.
Maybe, when all’s said and done,
    there’ll be blessings full and robust for your God!

It’s not to buy His blessing, but an appeal for His grace upon the change of life and change of heart that Lent can mean for you.  The Day of the Lord will be upon us someday.  The wise man and woman return to God anticipating that Day, for His glory…and not just for our own. 

What should you give up for Lent? 

Start with your heart and your mind and all that is selfish within them. 

You will be blessed and be a blessing to all for it. 

Open borders sound so nice, don’t they?  Just like Open Society Foundations, a grant-making network group founded by a man named George Soros.  Before you assume I’m going post-Christmas fruitcake on you, it’s my goal to be honest and even-handed.  His name is familiar–to varying degrees–to those on the political right and the political left.  Controversy follows him and the truth is particularly hard to find because his organizations fund a wide variety of media outlets and also media accountability groups whose interests rarely have a disclaimer like the one provided by the Organization of News Ombudsmen, “which is an independent group of 60 news ombudsmen in 17 countries” in their acknowledgment of Soros funding of both Ombudsman and NPR (National Public Radio).

Soros is a source of concern for me as a Christian.  Why?  Because the truth shouldn’t be so hard to locate.  Christians are called to be highly discerning and to know who we’re being yoked to.  Soros is not a good yokefellow for any Christian.

But I’m not yoked,” you say. 

Are you sure? Do you know who you’re dealing with?

If you, as an objective Christian, watch the 60 Minutes interview of him there should be a genuine unease in your spirit.  He’s godless and admits it.  But he calls himself a player and betrays the truth that there is a god he loves: money.  He wields it as a weapon against world economies; he uses it not only for personal enrichment but to purchase political power; he controls other organizations with it, and he worships it. 

Player sounds tame until you see how he plays.

Christians, do you really want to partner with this man?  Many already are and just don’t know it.  His “philanthropy” is overwhelmingly to his NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which sound good but link to chaos.

Reports are widespread saying his Open Society Foundations are behind the unrest in many countries and he tries to profit from it while his official spokespeople and those media watchdogs he funds say “Not.”  Who do we believe?

Should the truth be that hard to find? 

It wouldn’t be if he put his own true words out in the light of day.  But where is he?  Open Society Foundations may not be familiar to you.  But other names acting in his stead are.  Ever heard of David Brooks, Media Matters, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, or MoveOn.org?

From a variety of sources, there are reports that the chaos of masked rioters in Ferguson, Black Lives Matter in Baltimore, and Occupy Wall Street was funded by his NGOs to make nations “ungovernable.”  So, kind of like money laundering, he comes out squeaky clean because he’s never front and center with the rioters.  It’s just his money doing the dirty work behind the scenes, even paying to transport a migrant flood which tore down fences in Macedonia and additional influx that terrorizes Paris.

Yes, this same George Soros is often called a Nazi-collaborator because at the age of 14–adulthood for a Jewish male–he betrayed his Jewish brothers and sisters as the Nazis seized property and sent them to the gas chambers in Hitler’s Germany (story begins at the 7 minute mark in that 60 Minutes interview).  Other reports say this same George Soros now funds the Islamic refugees pouring into little German towns. Some of them are planning attacks, plowing trucks into Christmas markets and elsewhere in Europe, raping Swedish women and UK children as permitted in their interpretation of the “religion of peace.”  

What has blinded Christians and opened doors to their accepting such irreconcilable things if the Gospel is truly paramount to them?  It’s disturbing, but frankly, it’s nothing new.  Not even for pastors or priests.

Jeremiah 8:5 “Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return. 6 I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle… 10b From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace. 12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD… 15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror. 16 The snorting of the enemy’s horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.”

Christians should not be blindsided by pretenses of good when the underbelly is as evil as the night seems long. 

After all, the Bible tells us that the devil masquerades as an angel of light and prowls about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 

You?

Perhaps some bit of social good is sprinkled as Soros’ breadcrumbs on the Open Borders/Open Society path of destruction.  Irrespective, true Christians are fools to play with such a player and to align themselves with someone whose truth is cloaked and whose god is apparently money. 

Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 7 Therefore do not be partners with them … 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

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NOTE:  On January 12, 2018, I went back to the original posting to review the 60 Minutes interview, uploaded as I recall BY 60 Minutes.  It was gone from You Tube.  The new link contains the same interview from a different source.  I have linked to this only because the original one from 60 Minutes is gone but the video is still worth watching.

This present series includes:

Innocent as Doves in a Politicized Church

Wick Trimmed and Oil Ready for the End Times

Doves, Refugees, and the Antichrist

Open Borders and the Man of Lawlessness

George Soros and Open Borders