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Spotted Kissing: Justin Rego and Jessica Spillas!by Free Britney at . Comments
Justin Rego might as well be nicknamed Rated R for Rubbing it in Ali Fedotowsky's face, because that's basically what he's doing kissing his girlfriend in public.
Poor Ali. Fortunately, the existence of Jessica Spillas, Justin Rego's girlfriend back home, reached The Bachelorette in time for her to (presumably) cut him loose.
But not before five episodes full of manipulations and lies.
Rego, a so-called entertainment wrestler, pretended to woo Ali while basking in his newfound fame ... and dating Jessica Spillas back home in Canada.
Here's the creep known as Rated R kissing her recently ...
Ali Fedotowsky got played by Justin Rego, seen here sucking face with girlfriend Jessica Spillas. Fortunately, she gets Revenge on Rated R come Monday night.
With the jig up, Rego didn't even wait for his send-off episode to air next week before publicly embracing Spillas his Canadian hometown. That cheating bastard!
The reality star couldn't keep his hands off Spillas during a shopping trip in Toronto's Queen Street West neighborhood, but he's also reportedly two-timing her.
At least he was, if Kimberly Kerekes, who also claims to be Justin Rego's girlfriend, is to be believed. As if his antics on The Bachelorette weren't shady enough.
Fortunately, we can tell you from The Bachelorette spoilers we've posted that Rego does not make it past next week - his slimy behavior is about to be exposed.
Still, it's sickening that he played Ali like he did, and that ABC let him get away with it if they knew. Follow the jump for more pics of Rated R kissing his girl ...
Jessica Spillas apparently has no problem being the other woman.
I think Justin made the show enjoyable and so what he didn't feel the attraction with Ali...sh&t happens!!! From what I can recall, his whoe time there, he never groped her or cornered her for physcial attention nor did he ever kiss the girl.She called him out infront of all teh guys acting like aig shot menawhile back at the ranch she was dating 25 guys and is now down to the final 5....how does that work?!?!?! Now that Justin si gone teh show is BORING!!
he is trailor park trash
He was the only humor on the show. The whole thing seems a bit scripted.
He never really showed Ali much affection or really seemed to care about her. They talked like buddies and his walk out to her house seemed set up by the producers to create silly drama with the other boys.
Since the show is so boring this season, it was a relief to have someone funny on the show for awhile.
It would be funny to hear the real story, considering it's rumored the producers knew this information. It seems like he was cast for this role.
I don't buy it. I just looked up Jessica on Facebook and there is a picture of her kissing some other dude? Would Rated R really like that on his girlfriend's page? or does she just want to be famous also?


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He remembers the first time he met her
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A Different Easter Celebration– Jesus With A Whip
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This year, prior to Easter, I read the new book "Killing Jesus" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. I was hoping for a fresh perspective on the subject, and this book delivered. It was full of historical facts about all the political and religious forces focusing upon Israel at the time of Jesus, and for the decades leading up to it. Disastrous events in the Roman Empire, decades before Jesus was born, pushed the Roman Empire toward less freedom, less tolerance, and more cruelty. For example, about 70 years before Jesus, seven thousand slaves of Rome, who rebelled and fought the Roman legions under a slave leader named Spartacus, were defeated and were crucified along a 240-mile stretch of road between Rome and Naples. This works out to a roadside corpse rotting on a cross every 180 feet, for 240 miles, if they were evenly spaced…. a ghastly view and stench for travelers on the busy road. These were seven thousand grisly billboards screaming: "this is what happens to you when you make trouble in Rome". For another example, in 45 B.C. the victory of the war criminal Julius Caesar, against the Republican forces of Rome, in a civil war that spanned from Egypt to Spain to Syria, passing through Israel, pushed the Roman Empire into a vicious mode of tyranny for centuries. Caesar himself was murdered in the Senate by sixty senators with daggers, which sparked a new civil war for control of Rome. These trends of Roman tyranny and violence had a huge effect on Israel before, during, and after the life of Jesus.
I have often wished that the true meaning of Easter was more widely known than the Easter Bunny, more than the finding of Easter Eggs by our young children, more than Going To Church for once a year. I have wished that Easter was even more than celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus. Easter is indeed the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, three days after he was horribly crucified by the Jewish and Roman authorities of his time, the evil tyrants of his time. But that is not enough. I have often wished that Easter was the celebration of the victory of Truth, Love, Knowledge, and JUSTICE, against the forces of evil who killed the Son of God that was brought before them, in complete innocence and benevolence, having done nothing wrong, and having done everything right. But JUSTICE is left out of the mix, as it seems to be delayed or deferred in all religions. After the resurrection of Jesus, the stifling oppression of his beloved Israel by the Romans continued, with no relief or justice for the Jewish people, no stopping of their evil Jewish leaders, and no stopping of the heavy Roman oppression. A mere 40 years after Jesus was killed, the Temple was destroyed and over a million Jews killed in the revolt known as the First Jewish-Roman War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War.
Jesus must have had some idea of this coming great tragedy, or of its possibility. Indeed, he predicted the destroying of the great temple specifically to his disciples (Matthew 24:1-2, Mark 13:1-2), but he did not give the timing of the destruction. Part of his mission may have been to avoid the crushing of the Jewish people by Rome, by quelling their rebellious spirit and spreading a philosophy of love and peace. If enough Jews had followed his teachings of love and peace, the rebellion would not have happened. Remember that he told them to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto God what is God's.
Jesus did not prevent the crushing of the Jewish people. But, against all odds, with incredible self-control while bleeding to death on an evil wooden instrument of torture, Jesus did complete his divine mission, to allow himself to be killed by his enemies. He could have kept anyone from hurting him, or he could have escaped, and the temptation was great. Shortly before his arrest, he fervently prayed to be spared, if it could be God's will. But then he allowed himself to be severely flogged, tortured, ridiculed and crucified. This willful sacrifice required more spiritual discipline and power than any other religious figure in history.
Mohammed was a coward by comparison, because Mohammed fled for his life from Mecca to Medina, where he built up enough physical power (followers and weapons) to kill those who disagreed with him. His vengeful wars of Jihad and murders of his perceived enemies (including entire Jewish communities) have poisoned Islam to this day. Mohammed also incorporated the cowardly crimes of kidnapping and ransom into the Muslim religion, giving the present-day Muslim pirates of Somalia a sacred sanction for their cowardly piracy. Mohammed's crimes also give sanction to the Boko Haram jihadists of Nigeria, who kidnapped over 300 girls from schools to condemn the education of girls, and who have exterminated entire villages that do not support them. Mohammed did the same type of thing, and he would be proud of their fierce Jihad, complete with intimidation, theft, murder, kidnapping, torture, extermination of infidels, looting, and selling girls into slavery. Mohammed would be even more proud of ISIS, the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria", the most brutal and barbaric Muslim tyranny since Mohammed himself. They are trying to bring back the religious tyranny of the "caliphate", which was last defeated when the expansion of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey was stopped at the Battle of Vienna in Austria in 1683. Muslim tyrants are a constant threat to freedom on Planet Earth, thanks to the religious terrorist known as Mohammed. He should be no one's hero or prophet. By contrast, Jesus allowed himself to be killed, instead of killing others.
Buddha gave up a royal life of luxury to seek the truth, but he never risked his life to prove the truth of his teachings, so his teachings lack the urgency of a test of life or death. Mohammed failed that test, but Buddha never took it.
By contrast, Jesus passed the test, putting his life on the line, without threatening other lives. Jesus did knowingly and bravely risk his life, just by incarnating from spirit to flesh. He had a metaphysical bulls-eye target painted on his back. Dark forces knew who he was, and wanted to kill him. From the day he was born, Herod's soldiers were looking for him to kill him. His father Joseph was warned of the soldiers in a dream, and he hustled Mary and Jesus out of Bethlehem in the dead of the night, before the soldiers arrived. The soldiers killed every male infant they could find in the town, perhaps 20 or 30 babies. Joseph and Mary took Jesus to Egypt, to escape the evil forces looking for them in Israel. When Jesus grew up, he said things that showed he knew that he was born to die horribly in the prime of his life, and gave up his earthly life for his spiritual identity. He stayed true to his moral principles in an incredibly immoral time of human history, and he was brutally murdered by his evil enemies. Then he thwarted all his enemies, by rising back to life three days later, and appearing to his disciples and friends, before ascending to take his rightful place as our Savior and Lord and Intercessor, in the highest divine courtyards of Light in the temples of God. This was a crucial accomplishment, in God's plan, to prove to us the love and forgiveness and hope that our Creator feels for us, his human creations, even when we ignore him, disobey him, and some of us kill the precious messenger that he sent to us.
By being executed, Jesus became a casualty of tyranny, one of millions of victims brutally killed by Roman tyrants. Jesus told a thief crucified next to him that he would see him in Paradise, but we do not know what really happened to that thief, or the other thief who mocked Jesus on the cross. What happened to the millions of other victims killed?….. we do not know, since they did not get four Gospels written about them. Have they received any justice, or even any comfort?….. we do not know. Sadly, we do know that their killers were not stopped, but were allowed to go on torturing and killing, to their evil heart's content, destroying as many people as they could. Jesus was a special case, a planned victim, sent from God to teach us a new philosophy of love and compassion, and to be killed in the process. But his teachings have not done anything to prevent the constant slaughter of good people on this Earth. If anything, they have increased the slaughter, by teaching people not to fight back, but to turn the other cheek. He told us to leave Justice to God….. which his followers have largely done….. so where is the Justice? When is it coming to your town or mine? When is it coming to the killing fields of Islam? In so many Muslim countries, jihadists are killing Christians and anyone else who resists them, in their own perverted campaign of Islamic justice, which goes against all other concepts of justice. God's timing for justice is a mystery, but NOW would be a good time.
A Plea For Justice….. Which Is Long Overdue
After Jesus rose from the tomb in triumph over death and evil, after he recovered from his devastating spiritual ordeal, and after he took his rightful place at the right hand of God, far above us, he should have given a thought to Justice in the human realm. And I believe that he does. Because when in Jerusalem, he made or obtained a weapon, in the form of a whip, and he purged the Temple of the money-changers and animal-sellers, in a shocking non-pacifist attack. He greatly disrupted the business of the Temple, attracting a crowd, which must have included Jewish Pharisees and Roman soldiers on duty at the Temple. It is amazing that he did not get arrested for this outrageous offense. One of the money-changers challenged Jesus, asking for a sign of his authority. Jesus answered in a mysterious way, saying that if this "temple" was destroyed, he would raise it again in three days. His listeners had no way of knowing Jesus' double meaning of the word "temple". This claim was ridiculed on that day, and it was evidence in the case against him, but it was a true prediction of his own resurrection. He attacked the money-changers perhaps on two different occasions, but this has been poorly reported by his followers. There is a little-known painting by Rembrandt that I have recently discovered, depicting this incident.
I am very grateful to Master Rembrandt for this painting. Obviously, he thought this was a very important incident, that needed to be honored and commemorated. Most Christians focus on Jesus' words of peace and love, and ignore or mis-interpret his words of justice. Here is a link to an excellent article, about the justice of Jesus, about Jesus with a whip: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/jesus_with_a_whip.html This is where I found the Rembrandt painting. It has some very interesting points, so please give it a few minutes of your time.
Imagine yourself as a money-changer seeking to exploit the Jewish pilgrims of the Passover, by providing them with the currency of the Temple, at a nice profit, just as your ancestors have done for centuries before you, only to find the whip of this troublemaker Jesus stinging your back, as he overturns your table, scatters your coins, and drives you out of the Temple.
The seeming impulsiveness of this incident is just as puzzling as its singularity. Prior to this, the actions of Jesus were peaceful and passive, though his words were sometimes inflammatory. Then Jesus directly observed the injustice of the corrupt money-changers and animal-sellers, in his beloved Temple, and he took steps to forcefully end that injustice, at least for that day. But this was petty, paltry injustice. There was much greater injustice occurring in the ranks of the Jewish priests, oppressing and robbing the Jewish people in many ways. There was much greater injustice occurring in the hierarchy of the Roman Empire, oppressing and robbing many conquered countries. Jesus would have been much more effective to take a whip to the back of the High Priest Caiaphas who controlled the corrupt Sanhedrin and Pharisees, or King Herod who killed all the male infants of Bethlehem when Jesus was born and beheaded John the Baptist, or Pontius Pilate who had his Roman soldiers slaughter and crucify many Jews before Jesus, or the Roman Emperor Tiberius who had sex with children then killed them (probably hundreds), murdered thousands at a whim and brutally oppressed millions including the Jews in the remote province of "Palestine". Surely Jesus was aware of their horrific crimes, but he did nothing about them. Instead, curiously, he chose to attack a few money-changers and animal-sellers in the Temple. This made a great teaching point for him, about the sanctity of Jewish temples, which should not be violated. But, surely, as he told his disciples, he knew that this particular Temple, the greatest of all Temples, would soon be violated in the worst possible way by pagan oppressors? Was he ignoring that disastrous event to avoid what the military calls "mission creep"; being distracted from your original mission by a seemingly greater mission that is not appropriate at the time? That is one possibility.
The very Temple that Jesus defended with a whip, that he called "My Father's House", was utterly destroyed a mere 40 years later by Roman legions putting down the Jewish revolt. Even worse, the bodily temples of over a million Jews were killed. Some of these Jewish victims had probably seen and heard the ministry of Jesus, when they were young. Some of them may have been crying out his name when the Roman swords cut them down. Some of them may have been killed on the very spot where Jesus had whipped the money-changers. The same stones that had rung with the clanging of falling coins, were now soaked with innocent Jewish blood. Then those stones were dismantled or crushed by the Romans, to destroy the Temple of these "rebellious" Jews who would not bow to the gods of the Romans.
Contrary to Jesus' answer to the money-changer above, Jesus did not return to rebuild the temple in three days, as he could have. This miracle would have been an appropriate answer to the Romans, and it would have instructed the Romans of their great evil and folly. Can you just imagine an intense and blinding light enveloping the destroyed temple for a period of hours or days, drawing the awed attention of every surviving citizen of Jerusalem, every soldier of the Roman legions who just destroyed that temple and murdered its worshippers? Can you imagine the intense light pulsing and humming with pure notes of sound, almost as if composing music? Can you imagine the intense light then fading away, to leave a restored temple, standing just as tall as it did when it was first completed? Can anyone doubt that this miracle would have converted a large number of Romans to Christianity, would have hastened the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire by three centuries, and would have saved countless Christians murdered in those three centuries? What a shame that Jesus did not return, to do what he told the money-changer he would do. He had "rebuilt" one "temple" in three days, but he did not keep his word concerning the other "temple".
He did not return, and the Romans continued to crush the Jews, and the Christians, under their heels, for centuries. Am I the only one who grieves for the crushing of the Jews, and the crushing of countless other nations by evil tyrants, right up to the present day, which moves me to respectfully ask why the Creator of the universe cannot (or will not) do SOMETHING to prevent or stop such horrific disasters? Jesus with a whip was a good start, but it needs to go far beyond that.
According to Christian doctrine, a crucial and profound divine mission was accomplished by the loving sacrifice of Jesus. His blood paid for our sins and our salvation, if we repent and believe. We get that, and we are grateful for it. Two thousand years later, another crucial mission remains to be accomplished, the mission of Justice, and I wish They would get started with it. Justice is not only long overdue….. it is constantly due, it is constantly needed, like the air that we breathe, and it is wrong to intentionally delay it….. justice is an essential ingredient for goodness and morality. Without it, goodness and morality are distorted almost beyond recognition, or they are destroyed.
The Constant Need and Responsibility for Justice
It could be argued: Justice is constantly due, constantly needed as a component of goodness. Everyone knows the feelings of injustice….. when you are unfairly treated, when you are falsely accused, when you are slighted, cheated, abused or disrespected….. it upsets you, it depresses you, it saddens you, it makes you angry. When you are unjustly violently attacked and injured, those feelings are all the more intense, and terror or fear is added. The longer the injustice lasts, the more it damages you and weakens you, the more it saps the life energy out of you.
Conversely, when you are treated fairly, when you are respected, when you are given positive attention, when others show care and consideration for you, when others sincerely apologize for hurting you….. it is a wonderful and uplifting feeling, and it can regenerate you and re-energize you. These are universal feelings, and I mean that quite literally, as expressed by a universal natural moral principle, that everyone should recognize as true, and no one can honestly argue against:
Every intelligent being in the universe shares a constant need for justice from others, and a constant responsibility for justice to others. Therefore, justice has a constant urgency. Like the constant urgent need of our lungs for air, our souls have a constant urgent need for justice. Therefore , justice cannot be rightfully denied; it cannot be rightfully refused; it cannot be rightfully neglected. Also, It cannot be rightfully delayed. Justice is often thwarted, by various obstacles or weaknesses, but it should not be delayed by willful intention.
So, justice that is intentionally delayed is, in fact, a form of cruel injustice. He who knowingly delays justice against active evil, becomes an enabler and a silent partner to the evil. In the laws of men, this is known as criminal negligence, when we fail to act in a way we should have acted, and could have acted, to prevent harm to others. Is this a universal moral principle that should be honored by man and by God? I believe that it is. Also, the Bible places huge responsibility upon us to help others, and upon God to help us. Next we must consider: is God capable of delivering justice on Earth, for individuals or for society? The Bible and other writings say that God is fully capable, but is delaying justice for various reasons. I think this is a moral impossibility, so it follows that God may not be as capable as advertised, i.e., may not be omnipotent. This notion goes against every major religion in the world (except Buddhism, which is irrelevant here, for the moment).
Humans tend to prefer their Gods to be omnipotent, just like children tend to idolize their fathers at some stage of life, but we need to grow up and face reality. Fathers are not perfect or all-powerful, as we can know from direct observation as children and direct experience as fathers. God cannot be omnipotent, as we can know from logical reasoning and moral intuition, from the study of the history of our own planet. His creative powers are great, and He spreads the energy of Life across the universe. He sets galaxies in motion, but He does not stop an evil man from killing you or me. He can have a great impact wherever He chooses to focus his power, but He allows earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis to slaughter us. He teaches love and compassion through prophets, but allows wars to destroy millions of us. He can radiate Love across the universe. But when it comes to enforcing Justice on this planet, there is a glaring lack of power, a severe limitation of some kind, a disconnect from the moral principles of responsibility that are taught in the many holy books that claim to speak His words.
The words in the holy books concerning justice, and God's responsibility and capability for justice, have no actions in the world today to back them up. Instead, believers grasp at small coincidences in their lives, and call them miracles. Spiritual writers have made the word "synchronicity" popular now, which means a happy coincidence in one's life….. a chance meeting of someone significant, or an unexpected gift, or a near-miss of an accident….. a coincidence that is taken to be evidence of spiritual influence. I have had many happy coincidences and near-misses in my own life, and I am very grateful if there IS any spiritual influence involved, even as weak as it may be. But in the big picture, in the struggle against injustice, synchronicity is very very weak, having no real effect. Synchronicity is praised and celebrated and pointed to as great evidence of God's hand in our lives, while the news is still full of evil people slaughtering good people, who needed something a little stronger than "synchronicity" to protect them from death, or from life-ruining injuries, at the hands of evil people.
Evil has too much power in this world, and God seems to have too little. I am protesting that God should be able to do more for justice. But this may be an illusion of our own making. I fear that God has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, and over-rated by every religion in history. He is powerful in many ways, just not omnipotent, as religions have mis-represented Him. In this and other subjects, religious doctrine is not to be trusted. But whatever potency God may have, is being withheld from the struggle for justice on this Earth every day. It seems to be a self-imposed withholding, and this seems to be a form of negligence, which should be ended. We deserve better, as a species and as individuals. We are not cursed or fallen, as orthodox Christianity has branded us. Christian doctrine places God on a pedestal of perfection, and throws humans in the garbage pit, as damaged goods, who were cursed and thrown out of paradise because of our sinful nature, but that is another discussion. In any case, we have waited 2000 years for the justice and protection that was promised in the New Testament, and that should be long enough. Every day, more Christians are being persecuted, tortured, raped and beheaded for their steadfast faith in Christ.
How many people must an evil man kill, before God or angels are moved to stop him? Sadly, there has never been a limit to the number of bodies, and that needs to change. The planet Earth should not be the devil's playground for torture and death, but that is what our metaphysical superiors have allowed it to be, for thousands of years.
We, who live in the physical world with physical bodies that break and bleed, need a more "hands-on" approach to justice from our metaphysical superiors, who call themselves good. We don't need all our enemies wiped out, as in the days of the Old Testament. We don't need a Great Flood, or other great disaster, for that was extreme overkill. But when an evil man gains such irresistible power that he can slaughter dozens, or hundreds, or thousands, or millions of people, and when he has started on such a career, then he should be stopped, pure and simple, and that is when we need metaphysical intervention. The more power the evil man gains, the higher the pile of dead bodies the evil man produces, and the harder it is for good men to stop him. That is when we most need the help of God, who should know what this man will do if not stopped….. hopefully while the pile of bodies is still quite small, perhaps in the dozens or hundreds, instead of thousands or millions.
Short of that sensible measure, if the most evil men are not stopped, then at least some victims….. the good, the moral, the innocent, the believers, the faithful, the elect….. whatever you want to call them….. could be protected from the evil men. In fact, that has been promised many times, and here is a collection of such promises from the Bible:
Promises, Promises, Promises …..
Here is just one of many promises in the Bible, that indicate the many persecutions of Christians should not be happening: "But the Lord is faithful and will give you strength and will protect you from the Evil One." (2 Thessalonians 3:3) Evil is running rampant today, and for the past 2000 years. So where is the protection? The apostle Paul, who wrote these words, tells us of his persecutions in other writings: "five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one, three times was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones". Finally, Paul was beheaded by the evil Roman Emperor Nero. Where was his protection from that Evil One? Nero may not have been THE "Evil One", but he was definitely major league Evil.
Here is another from Jesus himself: "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily." (Luke 18:7-8) When did this happen? It was so speedy, that somehow we missed it, Lord. Also, the Apostle Paul mentioned above was certainly one of God's own elect, if anyone was, and he was not protected from torture and murder. Yet Paul was personally chosen or "elected" by Jesus to be an apostle, while he was traveling on the road to Damascus. Paul was blinded by Jesus, early in his career, to get him to stop murdering Christians himself. Here is one singular example of God or Jesus using metaphysical power to stop an evil man from murdering Christians, and as a bonus the evil man changed sides and became the greatest apostle of all….. saving lives instead of taking lives!
This once-evil man Paul wrote many books and letters, some of which were incorporated into the Bible, which have helped the moral and spiritual development of countless people for about 2000 years. It would not have happened if Jesus had not reached out with metaphysical power, and blinded Paul on the road to Damascus, en route to murder more Christians. If Jesus had not blinded Paul and spoken to him, if Jesus had allowed Paul to continue his campaign of oppressing and murdering Christians, then Paul would have just been one more evil murderer, and we would never have heard of him. Instead, look at the bounty of goodness that came from the metaphysical stopping of just one evil man. But never mind Paul's prolific writing after his metaphysical encounter. My main point is that an evil man, following an active career of oppressing and murdering people, was stopped and all his future victims were saved.
This is my best evidence, my best argument, given to me by Jesus himself. Here is the model for justice on Earth. It is the model for keeping all these promises we find in the Bible. Here is the best indication that what I pray for can be done, was done, and should be done again.
In The Lord's Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray for God to "deliver us from evil". (Matthew 6:13) But many millions of Christians have been destroyed by evil, not delivered from it, with their prayers for protection ineffective. Why would Jesus have them pray for something that would not be provided? Did he consider a believer being murdered to be a deliverance from evil? If so, it is a cruel play on words, that actually surrenders our physical lives and the entire physical world to evil. I do not think that was his intent.
Here is one from the Old Testament, that should apply to both Jews and Christians: "The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm" (Proverbs 19:23). Here is another one from Proverbs 30:5- "Every word of God is true. He guards those who come to him for safety." But good Jews have been persecuted horribly ever since King Solomon wrote that book of Proverbs, since his death signaled the end of the glory of Israel.
Here is an astonishing pledge from God, of invincibility for believers: "No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord" (Isaiah 54:17). The Christians and Jews being slandered and slaughtered in the Middle East today, and for the last 2000 years, are proof that this pledge is not being kept.
Here is one from Psalms, the book written by King David, Solomon's father: "For he will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in all your ways" (Psalms 91:11). I do believe in guardian angels, but they have allowed millions of good Christians and Jews to be horribly killed. If the angels are guarding, they are doing a terrible job.
Psalms 91 is an entire psalm of protection, with other promises such as: "He (God) will rescue you from every trap and protect your from deadly disease", "His faithful promises are your armor and protection", "Do not dread the disease that stalks in the darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday", "Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you", "If you make the Lord your refuge, if you the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you, no plague will come near your home", "For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go; they will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone", "The Lord says, 'I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation."
Here is another from Psalms 138:7, "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me."
Here is one that is even more specific: "The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." (Deuteronomy 28:7).
Here is one that is more general, for "times of trouble", not just about saving lives or defeating enemies: "God is our protection and our strength. He always helps in times of trouble." (Psalms 46:1). Please note the word 'always', meaning each and every time, for those who qualify for such divine help. Since that time, surely millions have qualified, and millions have died, not receiving said help.
These promises, taken all together, clearly pledge for God and his angels to protect his followers from all evil and all harm, whether from spiritual attackers or human attackers. It is high time for these promises of protection and assurances of faith to be kept and honored by God. Christians and Jews everywhere should raise protests to God and Jesus, to remind them of their promises. Christians and Jews are being murdered in many countries because of their faith, and they are not being protected. Like the Hebrews groaning under slavery in ancient Egypt, Christians should cry out to God to protect their brothers and sisters in Christ, and avenge them speedily, as promised above. It worked for the Hebrews, and they were rescued from Egyptian slavery in the Exodus of the Bible. But it took generations of crying and praying before God heard their "groaning" and "remembered" his covenant with them (Exodus 2:23-25), before God "speedily" avenged them in the Exodus. Perhaps Christians are not "groaning" to God enough, but they should be. Good Christians have been under attack for 2000 years, ever since the birth of Jesus himself. Today, Christianity is under attack in almost every country in the world, including America, although Christians are not being beheaded or crucified or buried alive here, as they are in Iraq….. yet. The attack here is more political and philosophical, but it is just as wrong. Persecution is wrong in any form, whether it produces dead bodies, or merely restricts freedoms. And regardless of our relative security and comfort in America, all Christians and Jews in America should be praying for God's justice to protect the Christians and Jews under vicious attack in the rest of the world.
Most Christians take comfort and encouragement from the promises above. I do not. I see the glaring difference between the promises and the reality. So to me, these promises are troubling, giving me infinite grief and sadness:
A grieving and sadness that is just as infinite as the constant march of injustice in human history; just as infinite as the number of human victims of abuse, crime, war, and tyranny.
These promises, and the breaking of them, drive a wedge between the relationships of human and spirit, just as the continual breaking of promises drives a wedge between humans. I have studied the history of religions, and I have no doubt that many millions of good Christians, and good people of all other religions, deserved this promised protection, but did not receive it. Instead, they died agonizing deaths, either quick or slow, at the hands of evil men. Usually their families were also killed or punished, and their property was taken. This is happening right now, all over the Middle East. Go read all these promises to the surviving victims of ISIS, especially the Christians, and see what their reaction might be. I doubt that they will rejoice. I doubt that they will be comforted, for they have just witnessed the brutal breaking of those promises. They have just witnessed their loved ones being tortured and murdered in horrible ways; they have just lost all their possessions and tools and means of making a living; they have just had their own lives completely ruined; all for their love of Christ.
In James 2:17, we are told: "Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." So if our faith in God is dead or worthless, without works or deeds to demonstrate it, what about God's faith in us? When he fails to protect his followers as he promised, God's faith or love is dead or worthless also. We need the "works" of God's justice to protect us, when we are about to be devoured by the wolves of evil, in the form of criminals, murderers and tyrants.
Mind you, I am not suggesting that we be angry at God (or Jesus) for not keeping his promises. I am not angry at God, but I want to know Him better. We know so little about God, and these promises may be wishful thinking by writers of the Bible. Don't rage against God… don't rage against goodness… for logically God is doing all He can to promote goodness and enforce justice, and logically He has been doing that for billions of years, before the human race even existed. He may have limits to his powers, that we do not understand. I personally think that must be the case. But if He had anything to do with the Biblical promises of protection quoted above, then it might be to our benefit to remind Him and remind us of those promises, and clearly ask that they now be kept. Biblical stories indicate that God can be argued with, bargained with, persuaded. Abraham did it concerning the destruction of Sodom, the enslaved Hebrews in Egypt did it, Moses did it, the early Israelites did it when they insisted that God give them a King to rule them. So let us persuade God now, to give his followers the protection, the justice, that the Bible promises many times.
Jesus With A Whip… We Need Him Again
Even if Jesus with a whip is all that the Creator can give us, we can work with that. But this time, no need for the messy business of physical incarnation, picking out a mother, pregnancy, birth, growing up, etc. We just need to borrow him for a few hours, with his full spiritual power and with his whip, focused on our worst problems here on the Earth. Then he can go back to managing the metaphysical affairs of the universe. No need to announce the Second Coming of Christ, or the vanquishing of Satan, or any such grandiose hoopla. Just kindly ask him to dust off his whip, and pay us a little visit. To disturb the least number of people, but have the greatest effect, I would suggest that he visit at night, and pick his subjects very carefully. We only get to borrow him for a few hours, so there is no time for money-changers, although God knows there are a lot more of those these days. Jesus knows who has been nice and who has been the most naughty, so picking the most effective targets would be no problem for him.
Can you imagine Jesus returning tonight, as darkness rolls across the globe, with a whip in his hand, to make a quick tour of the world? Whose backs would he sting with his whip? Would he visit North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Burma, Israel, Palestine, Russia or America? He should visit all those countries, and many more. Every country would deserve a visit. I can only imagine the news headline and the story:
"MYSTERIOUS MAN APPEARS IN BEDROOMS OF WORLD LEADERS, LASHES THEM WITH A WHIP, THEN DISAPPEARS– A bearded man in a white robe, armed with a whip, claiming to be sent from God, appeared in hundreds of bedrooms last night, uncurled his whip and let it fly. These were not just any bedrooms, but the bedrooms of world leaders, while they were asleep. How this man gained entry to the bedrooms, past formidable security measures and guards, is a baffling mystery. Security chiefs have stated that it is not even possible for one man to travel to all these countries in one night, so it must have been many different men in a coordinated attack, and this is the subject of investigation. A few leaders are speaking out, accusing a conspiracy masterminded by the Christian Freemasons, the Muslim Brotherhood, or the CIA. Some were accusing the Catholic Church, until it was disclosed by the Vatican that the Pope and a senior cardinal were among those attacked. But most of the leaders are not offering any opinion of their attacker, and keeping their comments to a minimum, until further investigation. The sequence of attacks across the globe is being sorted out, and security videos covering entries and hallways are being carefully reviewed. There were security cameras in a few of the bedrooms, but those cameras malfunctioned. So far, with perhaps over a hundred different attackers involved, no suspects have been found."
"But in all reports given by the attacked world leaders, the intruder looked and sounded the same. He wore a pure white robe with a purple sash, simple sandals, and carried a whip woven from a shiny fiber or rope that seemed to glisten. The white robe also seemed to glisten or glow faintly in the dark, as did the man's face. Some leaders thought they glimpsed scars or marks on his hands and feet. The stern words he woke the leaders with were the same each time, in the leader's own language: 'You are a wolf among my sheep, and this is your first warning from God'. If they were not fully awake then, they were jolted awake by the first lash of the whip…… the bearded man delivered seven quick stinging lashes, repeated his words even more sternly, turned and vanished in a blinding flash of light, all this in about 30 seconds….. in some cases, even while being lashed, his victim was able to pull a pistol from the bedside and fire, but the shots had no apparent effect, other than to give the victim severely ringing ears, except in one case the bullets passed through the door and killed a guard trying to get in….. Early reactions varied widely among the leaders, but when it became known that almost ALL heads of state were visited, they were shocked, and some had to retract their accusations of other countries, whose presidents were also attacked. As mentioned above, some have begun to accuse fringe religious groups, but for all nations this is becoming an urgent global security issue….. some leaders are warning that, if they can be whipped in their beds at night, with the best security measures, then no one in the world is safe from these terrorists….. "
So the news story might go. I would be delighted to wake up tomorrow and see this story plastered everywhere, wouldn't you? But those last leaders quoted would be completely missing the point. The "intruder" was no terrorist….. quite the opposite….. the corrupt leader himself is the merchant of terror. Everyone else in the world would be MORE safe, precisely because they, the corrupt leaders, are NO LONGER safe. The leaders might continue to rant and rave about terrorists, but in their hearts they would know that THEY have been tagged as a true terrorist, by the sting of a glistening whip, wielded by a man who was obviously more than just a man, who was obviously their superior in every way.
The corrupt leaders would no longer be free to lawlessly kill, abuse, and oppress millions of victims, with no consequences to themselves. They could no longer act like little gods….. The sting of the whip would tell them they must follow the Laws of the real God, or they will be punished. The much-vaunted "rule of law" would be enforced on world leaders by God, for He is the only one able to enforce it on them, and He would finally be living up to His divine responsibility. The great moral law….. that great power brings great moral responsibility to do goodness and defeat evil….. would finally be restored and enforced on Earth. Those leaders with great power, who abuse that power– who use it to steal, oppress, torture, and destroy– would be stopped and punished. This moral concept is agonizingly simple and universal in its reach. What could be more reasonable, more just? It is the justice a child can recognize, and it is the justice we all yearn for, when we see or hear of such oppression, or when we are its victims.
Jesus' visit to the bedrooms of world leaders would cause quite a stir. Wouldn't it be great fun? Everyone would be laughing at the deflated leaders and their defeated security chiefs, and cheering for the "intruder". The "intruder" would gain a name very quickly, and that name would be Jesus (although the stubborn few might insist that it was Mohammed or "the Twelfth Imam"). If such a thing were to happen, the political landscape of the world would change the very next day, most likely for the better. It would do a lot more good than the whipping of a few corrupt money-changers in the temple 2000 years ago….. with no "free will" violated, and no harm done, except to the egos and thick skins of the world's corrupt leaders. For them, and for the rest of us, it would be the biggest "wake-up call" in history, at a time in history when it is most sorely needed.
I could not find any graphics of Jesus whipping world leaders in their beds in the middle of the night, so these will have to do….. at least some artists are thinking along similar lines….. so you get the idea…..
A wake-up call like this, or like my scenario, would tell all the good people of the world that they truly, without a doubt, do have a metaphysical ally, a powerful spiritual champion, who will help protect them against abuse, oppression, and tyranny…… just as has been promised many times. It would happen at a time when new tyrannies are springing up all over the world, when old tyrannies are emboldened by this, when good leaders are standing by and basically doing nothing. The old saying is again being proven true: "All that is required for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." I would amend that to say "….. for LEADERS of good men to do nothing." We desperately need help, because our leaders are failing us. Conservative leaders have failed us, and liberal leaders have failed us. Religious leaders have failed us, and atheist leaders have failed us. Democratic leaders have failed us, and "benevolent dictators" have failed us. All leaders have failed, and Jesus with a whip, confronting the leaders directly, one-on-one, would be the help that we urgently need. It would be the help that has been promised.
The best time to do this might be Easter night. It would add another chapter to the Easter story of resurrection. Easter might gain a new meaning and a new purpose, with a resurrected Jesus returning to act as a shepherd guarding his flock from the wolves. His triumph against death and evil would be more complete. In addition to celebrating his ascension to heaven 2000 years ago, believers would celebrate his return as our guardian shepherd, even if he never appeared that way again.
And who knows….. if enough people included a request for such a visit in their prayers, it might even be granted. I have planted the seed here, and if you like the idea, help me plant the seed in more fertile ground, by referring this blog to your friends. It has been scientifically proven that the power of prayer works, though this is not accepted by mainstream science. But I ceased to care about "mainstream" long ago….. and I would love to influence people to pray for more justice to be brought into our world, in whatever form God wills.
But I am partial to Jesus with a whip, since that is the method he himself chose, when he walked this Earth. Jesus with a whip could change everything for the better, perhaps saving humanity from its worst oppressors. If any of them needed a second visit as a reminder, I am sure that could be arranged, too. They could then receive forty lashes, as Jesus likely suffered himself, before his crucifixion. Or he could be gracious, giving them only another seven lashes. If any of them needed a third visit, more drastic measures would be in order, such as killing them. Or if that is too drastic for Christian pacifists, how about paralyzing them, or striking them blind, deaf, and dumb. It would be hard to tyrannize or order genocides, if they cannot move, see, hear, or talk. Jesus struck Paul blind in the New Testament, on the road to Damascus, for the paltry abuse of stoning a few Christians, so there is a Christian precedent here. Let's have the same treatment for the evil dictators and tyrants of the world, who deserve it a thousand times more than Paul did. It can be done, it was done, and it should be done again!
The general call for spiritual justice is needed to counteract the false spiritual message "There is nothing you can do wrong". I reported about this outrageous message in my last article about the recent best-seller book "PROOF OF HEAVEN", which article can be found in the list of posts at above and right.
This is a portrait of Jesus, painted by an amazing 8-year-old girl named Akiane Krimarik. Her mother was an atheist, but Akiane had spiritual visions and painted what she saw. Her painting was confirmed by a 4-year-old boy who had a NDE, named Colton Burpo, subject of the current movie, Heaven Is For Real. Colton had commented that Jesus did not look like any of the pictures he saw in church, but when he happened to see this portrait, he said this is exactly what Jesus looked like when Jesus talked to him in his NDE.
To me, this is a face that could shine in love, or in justice. We need both, and the justice is long overdue. I can imagine this face in Rembrandt's painting above, and it fits the scene even better than Rembrandt's face of Jesus. Give this face a stern look, with light flashing from those blue-green eyes, and put a whip in this man's hand again, and let him whip the world into a state of resurrected spiritual justice. That is my wish and my prayer for Easter.
Afterword– The whipping of the world's corrupt leaders would be a noteworthy contribution to Justice, but really, it would be woefully inadequate. Just look at the TV news, about organized criminal gangs, cartels, mafias in virtually every country, the Muslim insurgencies in many countries including Boka Haram in Nigeria and Al Shabaab in Somalia, the beheading of Buddhists by Muslims in Thailand, the military coup by the Army in Thailand, the rise of the monstrous group ISIS or ISIL in Iraq and Syria, the seeking of Muslim Sharia law in democratic countries including America, the corruption of US agencies such as the IRS, the BLM, the Veterans Administration, the State Department, the Justice Department, and the White House itself. Yet Obama proclaims to a Fox journalist that there is "not a smidgeon of corruption" in the recent IRS scandal, and denies any wrongdoing in any of the other scandals of his government. One political criminal conceals and whitewashes the crimes of another political criminal. It is a corrupt network of liberal / radical / progressive political crime, and the liberal media looks the other way, failing to recognize the crimes, because they agree with the proclaimed philosophical ideals of the criminals.
It is kind of like the way Pontius Pilate "washed his hands" of the judgement of Jesus, but deferred to the judgement of the Jewish priests and Pharisees, and allowed his soldiers to flog, torture, and crucify Jesus, after he had "washed his hands" of the entire affair, and retired to his palace, while Jesus was destroyed by his soldiers, with his official Roman permission. The liberal media is roughly the modern-day immoral equivalent of Pontius Pilate (with no soldiers, but armed with cameras and keyboards), the liberal / radical / progressive politicians are the immoral equivalent of the Jewish Pharisees, Obama is the immoral equivalent of High Priest Caiaphas (but with a Muslim flavor instead of Jewish), and traditional moral values (and their spokesmen) are the equivalent of Jesus. The liberal media fail to see liberal crimes and liberal lies against the Jesus-values, just as Pilate failed to see the crimes of the High Priests against Jesus and the Jewish people; they whitewash liberal mistakes and liberal hypocrisy at the highest levels of government. When their gross negligence in reporting is called out, they "wash their hands" of any responsibility, distract us by throwing false accusations back at their accusers, by reporting on every mistake of conservative leaders, and then retire to their condos, while Obama and the liberal politicians continue to destroy the moral values that made this country great. The same thing is happening in many other countries, to a greater or lesser extent. Traditional morality and conservative values are on the hit list of every arrogant liberal / secular / atheist group or government in the world. They are the ones who continue the effort of "Killing Jesus", to borrow the title of the best-selling book.
Look at the secular / atheist attacks on anything in public of a Christian origin, such as prayer is schools, the oath "so help me God" in our courts, any public display of the Ten Commandments or the Cross, the slogan "In God We Trust" on our money, the Christmas displays of the Nativity scene….. even the traditional greeting "Merry Christmas". Look at the vicious liberal attacks on the Boy Scouts, and any other organization that tries to spread religious values and discourage homosexuality. All of these crucial components of our Christian culture and heritage are being attacked and destroyed. In other countries, religious persecution is much worse, especially those with Communist and Muslim governments. Communists are atheist and persecute all religions, while Muslims condemn and attack all other religions. But in America, there is no excuse for attacking home-grown Christian culture and values, while promoting and accommodating foreign religious culture and values brought in by immigrants. This is a uniquely American approach to self-destruction.
The whipping of the world's corrupt leaders would not stop these wrong-headed attacks on the components of Christian culture. As I have speculated above in my fictitious news story, the secular / atheist people of the world would attribute the whippings to terrorists, not to God. The whipping of the world's corrupt leaders would not touch the activities of most of the world's terrorists and criminals, who are outside the sanction of even the corrupt leaders. They would laugh at the whippings of the leaders, but keep on doing what they are doing. They might even rationalize that since they did not get whipped, then whatever evil they are doing is fine. Never mind that this excuse would be completely irrational.
When you add to this the number of murders, rapes, thefts, abuse, deceptions and other common crimes every day, in every society, every neighborhood on Earth, then you must realize that we have no effective help. The only justice we have, is the justice we make and take for ourselves, standing up for our own rights and moral values and freedoms, with little or no help from any metaphysical sources. The Bible makes many promises that God will protect those who believe in Him, but this is mere wishful thinking, because those "promises" have been broken countless times in history. God's believers are constantly singled out for persecution or torture or death, and they are not protected, just as Jesus was not protected. Those who torture and murder God's believers richly deserve to be crucified themselves, to experience the tortuous deaths they routinely deal out to others. Many of the corrupt world leaders deserve this. They are willfully violating many moral laws, with arrogance and contempt….. therefore, perhaps they should be made to experience the torture and pain that they unjustly inflict upon others, to better understand why they should not do that. But we could be merciful and grant them a quick death, to simply end their reign of terror over the innocent, and to pay their debt to justice in this world. Their proper judgement and punishment can be left to the spiritual realm. In this Earthly realm, we simply….. and urgently….. need their horrific crimes to be STOPPED.
So Jesus with a whip, visiting the corrupt leaders of the world, would be a welcome contribution to justice on Earth. It would be awesome, it would be sensational, but it would only be a modest beginning. Evil, vice, corruption, and crime permeate every level of human society, down to every town, every office, every family. Injustice is the normal state of human affairs on all levels, producing untold amounts of constant misery and suffering. We are so used to it, that it is hard to even imagine what life SHOULD be like. That is not acceptable to me, and it should not be acceptable to you. I know what justice should look like, and if you listen to your soul, your soul will remember justice, and you will know too. Let us join in asking God to give our world justice, true justice, here and now, with no more waiting, no more putting it off, no more suffering. How is that to be accomplished?….. I do not know, but God should know. The Creator of the universe should be able to handle such a request, should he not? I would guess that it would involve the limiting of "free will", or the prompt punishment of individuals who severely abuse their "free will" to torture or murder others, or the use of metaphysical power to prevent that abuse. We will all recognize it when we see it, and our souls will rejoice, just as we would recognize and rejoice if Jesus returned with a whip to the Earth tonight. That would be a good start, in giving our world true justice. Maybe he is just waiting for enough people to truly ask for it……
…… but in the meantime, let us continue to work for it and speak for it ourselves, with the guidance God has already given us.
Thanks for reading,
May your steps be long and your path be short up the hill, for the sooner we find the next overlook, the sooner we can see the lay of the land, to correct our path and continue on.