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"IN HARMS WAY"

  • Writer: Andy Mendonsa
    Andy Mendonsa
  • Aug 26
  • 7 min read

Updated: Sep 22



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Exodus 22:21-24 “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt. Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.


”Zechariah 7:5-6, “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years (for evangelicals, all the times you attended church for a “worship service” and all of the other things that you believe you are doing unto God), was it really for me? And when you were eating and drinking (for evangelicals, taking communion), were you not feasting for yourselves?” Verses 7:9-14 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’ (“Do not oppress” is actually saying “Do for the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. That we are just as guilty of causing these to be oppressed by doing nothing at all as we are if we intentionally set out to do them harm).


Zech. 7:13-14 God then told them through his prophet, “’When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ So, I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.”


Because they refused to listen they brought judgment down upon themselves, resulting in judgment being brought down on all others, as well, who may, or may not have been guilty.

The word for widow in the Jewish Bible/Old Testament, means desolate. The land itself became like the widow because of their refusal to practice true justice which included caring for the widows, fatherless, foreigners and poor.


In James 1:26-27, James tells us our religion (worship) is worthless if the widow and the fatherless are ignored, forgotten and even caused harm (in other words oppressed). And in the last part of verse 27 James doesn’t mince words when he emphatically states that caring for those such as the widows and the fatherless is what keeps us from living in an adulterous relationship with the world and our own houses from becoming desolate.


It would appear that much of the church has either lost it’s willingness to listen, or has completely lost its ability to hear (and possibly see) based on the degree to which James’ words have been overlooked, ignored or both. James is literally telling us that the harm done to those such as the widows and the fatherless will result in the exact same outcome documented in Zechariah 7:14. It would seem obvious that if this was seen for what James is telling us, believed and acted on, it would be at the forefront and of central importance for every church that claims to be a reflection of Jesus, especially those churches and believers who claim to be evangelical Christians.


We have all been told for decades that it was abortion that would bring God’s judgment down on our nation. According to the passages above, though, what God’s word actually makes plain will cause us, the church, to bring judgment down on, not only ourselves, but everyone else as well, has been completely ignored. God cries out to us every day through his word and we have chosen not to listen and instead to unequally yoke ourselves with the civil and governing authorities in order to right the wrongs that we have been deceived into believing stirs God’s anger. And now that deception has led to the removal of the rule of law and justice for all, harm is instead being done to foreigners, widows and the fatherless as well as the poor.


Evangelicals, you are guilty of this and there is no argument or justification that you can come up with that resembles Jesus in anyway. And instead of repenting you will rely on outward appearing brick and mortar standards for claiming to be signs of God’s blessings as justification, not only for your refusal to do so, but also for shifting the blame onto all of those who do not agree with what you agree with and who do not support what you support, and especially for those who would stand up and speak out against what you have become.


Again, I appeal to all those who identify as evangelical, to recognize the deception that has overtaken much of the church and repent of all the harm that has already been done to those God has clearly stated that we are to do no harm to and to pray and seek ways to undo the future harm that will be done if it is not already too late, which I fear that it already is.


And this is the reason why I fear it is already too late. There are now armed troops in our Nation's capital city. Ordered there by our present leader, who now claims to be Chief Law Enforcement Officer over our country as well, these Federal troops have authority over all local law enforcement. In 2020 when insurrections tried to overthrow the fair election of a president by storming our Nation's Capitol building where the peaceful transfer of power was taking place our present leader refused to call in the National Guard, but instead, like Nero who fiddled while Rome was burning, he watched the assault on TV enraptured in self-glory.


If it had not been for the capitol police and the DC police the insurrectionists would have succeeded. Even when the vice president, Mike Pence, a professing evangelical Christian, pled with the president to call in the National Guard he was ignored. Which means Evangelicals, you have continued to side with a serial liar and convicted felon over a proven to be flawlessly honest evangelical Christian. You neither stood up on his behalf when the taking of his life was one of the main objectives of the insurrectionists, nor have you paid him any heed for the warnings he has continued to give to all of us before the last election. If an evangelical like Mike Pence is not to be believed, then there is, perhaps, no evangelical Christian you are willing believe, either.


No, you prefer a wolf in wolf's clothing. A wolf that couldn’t pretend he wears sheep’s clothing if he tried. Who tells us the crimes he’s going to commit out loud and then commits them with no outcry from Evangelicals. Even when he tries to utter God’s name he can barely utter it, seeming to almost choke, because the only God he seems to believe in and worship is himself. And still, Evangelicals, you do not waver in your support of him and appear as though you are more willing than ever to continue to bend the knee and kiss the ring.


As soon as our present leader, who is close to achieving complete authoritarian rule, was (maybe) sworn into office (his hand wasn’t on the Bible) he pardoned all those who were found guilty of insurrection and set them free so they can come to his aid when and if it is necessary. He has been preparing all of us for the 2026 election. First deploying troops on the west coast in California and then on the east coast in the Capital city.


Has there ever been a successful overthrow of a country without its capital being overtaken first? Our (not his) capital city is now occupied, but the timing of a complete overthrow will probably not take place until the 2026 elections. If these elections take place, and they are fair elections and the house of representative majority is changed and/or the senate is changed, it would mean the potential reversal of all that has taken place to take over this country. It is doubtful, though, that elections will take place, which could be the case if martial law were declared. If elections are allowed to take place, though, would they be fair? Again, even if they are fair, now that DC is under armed Federal troop occupation there is nothing to prevent the overthrow of congress itself. DC police would be required to stand down as would capitol police. And the present majority congress would not protest this move.


With all of the bases being covered, once complete, it will then be possible for a bloodless coup to take place. And whether a bloodless coup or even worse can be averted or not, we should certainly pray that it can be. After all, it was the prayers of evangelicals that have been claimed put this leader in power to begin with. Can’t your prayers stop and even reverse what is going on as well? Or will prayers continue to be offered up unto the complete overthrow of this nation and the arrest and imprisonment or even worse, of all of those who have spoken out and tried to sound the alarm, Christian and non-Christian alike. Of course, to speak out, in all likelihood, would call the legitimacy of one’s faith into question to begin with. Which would, perhaps, then justify their deserving to be punished even more severely as heretics.


To those who claim to be God’s people but who also claim that this wolf in wolf's clothing is somehow God’s chosen servant to rule over us, even though to your eyes your houses appear to be signs of the abundance of God’s blessings they are, in all likelihood, places that house only emptiness and desolation.


Which is, likewise, the very condition of the house that you have helped to establish over our nation, and indirectly, over the rest of the world as well. And there is no amount of shiny, golden objects that can be added as adornments to what was our Nation's house that will cover over or change this reality.


In fact, with every golden object that is added the desolation of our Nation's house only becomes more and more blatantly obvious. And once this golden calf has been made complete "maga" will reign supreme and all of us who remain will be forced to swear allegiance/worship only him/maga, and him/maga alone.

 
 
 

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