Drinking in Restaurants is not the issue. Selling wine in supermarkets is not the issue. Being able to sell both wine and beer on Sunday is not the issue. Booze is not the issue. What then is the issue? Some say it is a fairness issue. Some say it is a civil rights issue. Some say it is an issue of hypocrisy. Some even go so far as to say that it is simply an issue of business.
I say this is NOT an 'issue' at all, but rather an INVASION! An invasion upon the pocketbooks of Americans who rather then spending their monies on food, shelter and clothing are forced, through being a Prisoner Of War, to spend their money on the very enemy that has captured them.
How many mothers are on WIC while they or their husbands are prisoners of the war with Booze, Beer and Wine? How many of these started with the Alcohol and have since graduated to the front line of Crack Cocaine or whatever the latest weapon in the arsenal of the enemy is? And who pays for the WIC and the FOOD STAMPS? Who is forced to buy their food while they supply the enemy with more victims? Who will raise their children when they drink themselves into the poor house or the jailhouse or the drug house?
Wine is a Mocker! Strong Drink is raging! Who has woe? Who has Sorrow? Who has Contentions? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without a cause? Who has Redness of Eyes? They that tarry long at the wine and they that seek mixed wine. And Belleview's Invader seeks one more day? At that, at early in the MORNING till late into the darkness of the following morning!
Years ago a compromise was made to allow the invader to come into the city limits. Years after that, a compromise was made to increase the time he had to plunder and a little while later, to invade and conquer territory EVERY day of the week. First with a grocery store and the package store. There were times when bars were on corners of the roads claiming virtue and spreading racism and anarchy. Then a few victories were won and they lost a little ground and now a thriving productive furniture store sits where once nothing but racism and brawling and drunkenness once stood. Across the street, (praise God!) they tore the green monster down! But other, more presentable ones came! At last count, there were almost 30 places in this small town where folks can buy the Social Adder and the invasion continues! Even those who argue for its spread, time and time again, confess it is Evil. They say you can not regulate one evil and not another! Well praise God, at least they admit that what they want for Belleview IS EVIL!
We were told, "YOUR OLD LAWS are STUPID, Antiquated! You need to be consistent!" Ah! Even the Devil can spot a hypocrite a mile away! You need to be fair to all EVIL not just some ! If you will permit one why not the other! If you get rid of ONE or LIMIT one, 'Why not LIMIT both?' We were admonished! AMEN! Even the Wicked shall bring thee praise! The Invader now is using business and politicians who may not even know that they are being used. I pray this is so. However a child in the Jungles with a grenade, running into the camp with the pin pulled, is sometimes more dangerous then one thrown in directly by the enemy himself! The Enemy will use loved ones as human shields against us, he will use friends and neighbors who do not even know they are being used, some however DO!
Some are accomplices in the immorality that the invader wishes to bring. You say we will have it anyway. Offences must come! Jesus said, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! First the sale for consumption at home, then in restaurants and then in pubs and bars and lounges and coffee houses, tea rooms and similar such establishments! From Bars to Cars and Lounges to Limos and pubs to parking lots and parking lots to highways and from Highways to Hospitals and from Hospitals to heaven or hell! OH this infernal Enemy who gives only to get and compromises only to conquer!
How many times must we hear the wining cry "We can not legislate Morality or Right living,†and at the same time they wish us to legislate immorality and damnable living? How many times must the drone of "I don't want your opinions crammed down our throats by those who would permit one of the greatest enemies of marriage, family, home and productivity to have the Blessing of the lawmakers? All law is legislated morality! The question is who's morality?
· The Drunkards?
· The Wife beaters?
· the Rapists?
· the Pedophiles?
· the extortionists?
· Child pornographers?
· The whore or the Drug dealers?
Should the cruelty to Animals be Licensed? Should Incest be Licensed?
Should Whore houses be Licensed? Should those on city commissions call for these to be Licensed with the same logic they seek to surrender more territory to Booze in this war against family and Virtue?
Fairness? Fairness to Evil?
In many areas of the world these vices are permitted , licensed and even encouraged! OH Offences will come..... But Woe unto them by whom they come!
Judas Iscariot betrayed our LORD into the hands of his enemies for thirty pieces of silver, it was prophesied that it would happen! It had to happen and yet Judas Iscariot's name has gone down in history as one of the greatest traitors to all that was Holy and Good! Pontius Pilot once said of Jesus
"Behold your King!" and the people cried
crucify Him Crucify Him! Pilot said what Evil hath He done! I find no fault in Him and yet he delivered him into their hands! What did he do before allowing The Jews to Crucify Christ? He washed his hands saying to all that could hear "I am innocent of the blood of this just person: See ye to it! Yet Pontius Pilot's defense that he was not responsible for the actions of others and that he had no ability to defend the right goes on deaf ears. Pontius Pilot is known not for his military or political abilities, he is simply known as the one who knew to do Good and instead claimed that he was not responsible for the shedding of innocent blood. Commissioners who say that Belleview is Great, those that Say that they love her as she is and yet see this mob Cry against her that she might be delivered into her hands to be Crucified on a Cross of Money and Booze are just as accountable as any Judas or Pilot though not in the same degree for there were others before them that had already laid the seeds of her destruction and had already gotten her primed for the pump so to speak. Jesus was Perfect and without sin! Belleview was already a little leavened and instead of purging out the Old leaven they have turned up the heat a little that she might be soon cooked and served to the victorious invader. One thing more, Jesus on the Cross looked down at those who crucified them and said Father Forgive them for they know not what they do. I just pray that the forces being used to crucify Small towns and lead them to the slaughter are just as ignorant to what they are doing as the actual soldiers who nailed Jesus to the Tree were.
What Belleview needs is Repentance and we need the Revival preaching of His Word that breeds it! Revival that brings a Christian to the Place where he cares about Lost Folks! Where he sees his community as a collection of Souls for whom Christ Died and Rose again! A Place where the Holy Ghost can and will be Welcome to Abide! Christians Filled with the Holy Spirit and Not with Wine. Who know that Evil communications corrupt good manners! Would to God that our town would be a hard place from Which to Go to HELL where the Gospel is preached on every corner and where souls are saved and God's anointing is manifest! Where a bar lounge Pub, or restaurant or store simply can not get enough business to stay open and who's owners, while sitting in their empty establishments on the Lord's Day, stare out their open windows and finding it hard to kick against the pricks, Repent; close their doors one day a week and Come just they are, as all sinners must, Repenting and confessing Jesus Christ as LORD to the Glory of the Father! Oh what a Monday that would be as they reopened their stores with repentant hearts telling the Booze INVADERS that they had no more need of their services!
Revival!
the Preacher
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