Yes as I was sitting contemplating my writings, what people have said to me about my writing and what I write about, I pondered the age we live in and came to realize that all that is transpiring before me is what I have been writing to all along and I was wondering why, why this zeal tow rite about these topics, And then the Word came.
Yes and I remembered when I came across the "Bovine" statement and view of a very well know elitist economics intellectual, which translated means Cattle or Oxen, beasts of burden, that I have been writing to recently in many of my articles and I suddenly wondered why this reading now? I wondered was this in preparation for this article? Yes, that statement or philosophy came out of the Eastern Liberal Elite Education establishment that many of our leaders passed through and come from. Yes and I found it interesting that what I read in the Word alluded to that, cattle.
So as I said, as I perused through the Word looking for some guidance as to what I should write to I came across Malachi Chapter 3 verses 18 through 20 and it just came alive for me. You see we do live in wicked times, fact. Sure there have always been wicked times but none, no none, where all the prophesy has come together, be it religious or pagan. Yes in my opinion greed, exploitation, lust, covetousness and all the evil that man can devise is alive and well in this generation.
Yes, the question of why the things take place, are allowed, happen, when they literally cry out as wrong, is before us all. Why are they allowed, approved, condoned even by those who profess? Yet we recognize that it is all who must chose individually. As I have always said, the choice is between you and God and no one else. It is literally all about YOU. So as you read through Malachi reflect on some of the things I have written to and see if you get the connection?
So Malachi 18 through 20 says [New American Bible]
18: Then again you will see the distinction between the just and the evil; between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.
19: For Lo the day is coming, blazing like an oven. When all proud and all evil doers will be stubble. And the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of Hosts.
20: But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays; and you will gambol likes calves out of the stall and tread down the wicked;
Now what caught my eye was my writing about suffering. The suffering of people at the hands of the wicked. Yes the wicked who care not what is written in the Word. Who make their own rules, laws, guidelines and reject morality, decency, values, morality and supplant them with their own definitions. Who talk of love but do it not.
Yes also and most significant was the use of the term "calves". What are "calves", yes, young cattle. In effect it was symbolic to me of being born new, born again, like little children, innocent and they would be, yes they would be, the ones to thread down the wicked. The innocent calves.
Call it what you will I claim nothing more then being a believer. Yet there is Gods prophet thousands of years ago using Gods Word to bring to life what I believe is today and what will transpire soon. For our world is full of the cattle for the exploitive and greedy.
So for those looking for positives, learn this as the only real positive, Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ,. Believe in Him and claim Him as your Lord and no harm will ever befall you. Fear not who takes your life but who steals your soul. Yet it is not wrong to bring light to the dark for the dark must flee before it and good. It is what we as believers and professors are required to do for the sake of sinners and all of us.
So I will continue to write for the sake of many about the injustices I see. Not as negatives but reality of what is all about. Yes, we must do all we can as believers to do all that we profess in thought, word and deed for the Glory of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and because we profess we follow Him and in doing so demonstrate Love of neighbor. In our works, in what we do and what we fail to do we are judged. May we always do what is pleasing, just and right before God. may all our actions be for Love of neighbor and for the common good of all.
Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright ©2008 Robert Melaccio
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