SPECIAL PRÉCIS ON THE STATE OF THE UNION: ‘WE HAVE BEEN WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES AND FOUND WANTING’

SCRIPTURE. “As it is written, ‘None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, no, not one. No one understands [no one intelligently discerns or comprehends]; no one seeks out God. All have turned aside; together they have gone wrong and have become unprofitable and worthless; no one does right, not even one!

Their throat is a yawning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to mislead and to deal treacherously). The venom of asps is beneath their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction [as it dashes them to pieces] and misery mark their ways. And they have no experience of the way of peace [they know nothing about peace, for a peaceful way they do not even recognize]. There is no [reverential] fear of God before their eyes.’” – ROMANS 3:10-18, AMPC

KEY TERM: “POISON.” ‘IOS’ [ἰὸς]: “Likely from a root word referring to: ‘Rust emitted by metals [gone bad].’” Also: “Venom emitted by serpents; used metaphorically for wrath or fury; as with ‘the poison of asps is under their lips, spoken of men given to reviling and calumniating and thereby injuring others.’” NOTE: “In the New Testament, the Greek word ‘ios’ is used metaphorically to describe something that is harmful or corrupting. It can refer to literal poison or venom, as well as the figurative idea of moral or spiritual corruption, akin to rust that eats away at metal.”

QUOTATION. “Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill… It all depends on how, when and where they are used and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It’s a misuse of the tongue!” ― ISRAELMOMRE AYIVOR, The Great Hand Book of Quotes, 2014; edited

COMMENTARY. This expression is taken from Psalm 5:9, literally from the Septuagint. The design of the Psalm is to reprove those who were false, traitorous, slanderous, etc. Psalm 5:6. The Psalmist has the sin of deceit, and falsehood, and slander particularly in his eye. The expressions here are to be interpreted in accordance with that. The sentiment here may be, as the grave is ever open to receive all into it, that is, into destruction, so the mouth or the throat of the slanderer is ever open to swallow up the peace and happiness of all. Or it may mean: ‘As from an Open Sepulchre there proceeds an offensive and pestilential vapor, so from the mouths of slanderous persons there proceed noisome and ruinous words (Moses Stuart).’ I think the connection demands the former interpretation.

‘With their tongues’ – In their conversation, their promises, etc., they have been false, treacherous, and unfaithful. The poison of asps – This is taken literally from the Septuagint of Psalm 140:3. The asp, or adder, is a species of Serpent whose poison is of such active operation that it kills almost the instant that it penetrates, and that without remedy. It is small, and commonly lies concealed, often in the ‘sand’ in a road, and strikes the traveler before he sees it. It is found chiefly in Egypt and Lybia. It is said by ancient writers that the celebrated Cleopatra, rather than be carried a captive to Rome by Augustus, suffered an asp to bite her in the arm, by which she soon died. The precise species of ‘Serpent’ which is here meant by the Psalmist, however, cannot be ascertained. All that is necessary to understand the passage is, that it refers to a Serpent whose bite was deadly, and rapid in its execution.

‘Is under their lips’ – The Poison of the Serpent is contained in a small bag which is concealed at the root of the tooth. When the tooth is struck into the flesh, the poison is pressed out, through a small hole in the tooth, into the wound. Whether the Psalmist was acquainted with that fact, or referred to it, cannot be known: His words do not of necessity imply it. The sentiment is, that as the poison of the asp is rapid, certain, spreading quickly through the system, and producing death; so the words of the slanderer are deadly, pestiferous, quickly destroying the reputation and happiness of man. They are as subtle, as insinuating, and as deadly to the reputation, as the poison of the adder is to the body. Wicked people in the Bible are often compared to serpents; Matthew 23:33; Genesis 49:17.” – ALBERT BARNES, Notes on the Old and New Testament, 1834; edited

DK’S TAKE. During the time I have spent reeducating myself about who God is and what He loves and what He hates, I have come to the conclusion that among his greatest offenses is the SIN OF LYING – most especially when it is found among Hs own people.

“These six things the Lord hates, indeed, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look [the spirit that makes one overestimate himself and underestimate others], a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord among his brethren.” – PROVERBS 6:16-19, AMPC

As we consider the stunning reality that nearly an entire White Church has given itself over to a Pathological Liar among many other venal Lifestyle Practices, we can easily grasp (our should easily grasp) the enormity of the Sins of the American Church. By the very same Toxic Theology that infected the Catholic and Protestant German Churches under ADOLF HITLER with his National Socialism filth, leading to the naked brutality of Fascism and the Holocaust.

PASTORS: You are by your own avaricious choices to preserve your own station, by direct Affirmation or by Silence, in adulterous alliance with this Toxic False Teaching and its False Messiah, DONALD TRUMP. For which you will be held to the most severe account imaginable if you do not soon and fast Return to your Right King.

There is simply not much more than can be possibly said at this Latest of Hours, as the Sands of Time slip rapidly now from their Apex to their Nadir, right before our eyes every single moment. Therefore, do not be found wanting even one more second, lest you taste the Flames of Perdition just over The Horizon.