In between the letter of Jude and Revelation we read one chapter of Proverbs and the book of Jonah.
December 7: Proverbs 29, Jonah (click on the chapter to begin reading).
Proverbs 29, more proverbs of Solomon; and yes, they still deal with the superiority of wisdom and righteousness over folly and wickedness.
Jonah. The short but great story of Jonah, the famous solar eclipse of 763 B.C. the great solar eclipse of 2017, the coming eclipse of 2024 and the tearing down of statues.
As the Taliban, ISIS are doers.
NAACP are hem-and-hoers.
“Destroy history! Blast!”
“And forget our past,”
and repeat it as doomsdaying wooers.
The pictures tell the stories.:
Top: Taliban destroys ancient Buddha carvings.
Next: ISIS destroys the Muslim Tomb of Jonah, not
the Jewish tomb of Jonah.
Next: MLK day in Columbia, South Carolina 2011.
Prominent at that location is a large bronze statue of George Washington. That year, the NAACP constructed a “box” to conceal the Father of His Country from view so that participants would not be offended by his presence.
Bottom picture: NAACP proposes to sand blast the carvings of President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from Stone Mountain.
What is the difference? The means and ideology are different,
but the thought process the same.
Will we ever learn?
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