Two points: one that is apropos to this morning, because I am sitting in the capital of my nation. It is in the centre of NZ, and I am on certain committees… one of which has an all day face to face meeting today.
God did establish nations and place Peoples in them. It appears, in Europe, that most populations have been in the same place for a long time. There have been mass migrations: we are in one now, the last one was the Victorian British to the old commonwealth and the Zulu tribes into southern Africa.
Moses teaches us that God establishes the nations and sets their boundaries. Nations rise and fall. But they are different. The French are not the English. The English are not New Zealanders. There is not a melding, there are many nations.
And this is good. Babel is a heresy, a disobedience
The second part of this is that the older generation are supposed to remind the next generation of what the LORD has done for them. So that the new generation believe. The old should tell of what they were taught, and add to it their experience. How God has preserved them and saved them.
For with grey hairs should come a wisdom, and a sense that it is now about teaching those to follow. It is never about you.
30Then Moses recited the words of this song, to the very end, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:
1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth. 3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!
4The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he; 5yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation. 6Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you? 7Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you.8When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods; 9the Lord’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.
10He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye. 11As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young; as it spreads its wings, takes them up, and bears them aloft on its pinions, 12the LORD alone guided him; no foreign god was with him. 13He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;14curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat – you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
Luke 19:11-27
11 As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12 So he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. 13 He summoned ten of his slaves, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’ 14 But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’ 15 When he returned, having received royal power, he ordered these slaves, to whom he had given the money, to be summoned so that he might find out what they had gained by trading. 16 The first came forward and said, ‘Lord, your pound has made ten more pounds.’ 17 He said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.’ 18 Then the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’ 19 He said to him, ‘And you, rule over five cities.’ 20 Then the other came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your pound. I wrapped it up in a piece of cloth, 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man; you take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then did you not put my money into the bank? Then when I returned, I could have collected it with interest.’ 24 He said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’ 25 (And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds!’) 26 ‘I tell you, to all those who have, more will be given; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them – bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.'”
We are to be good stewards, yes. But that is being subverted. Our children are being taught by others, and even if they stand with courage they are being shot down. The leaders of the last few generations have been in rebellion against God and all his Peoples, and they demand our submission.
Or that we leave. For my boys, Scouts was not an option, they have embraced the convergence, and the false piety makes my sons react.
With nausea.
This Sunday the scoutmaster of my sons’ Boy Scout Troop arrived unexpectedly and uninvited on the doorstep of my house, while I was at Mass.
He announced that, due to an anonymous complaint that my youngest son had allegedly made an “anti-Muslim remark” in a private conversation, therefore he and his brother were forthwith expelled from the troop.
To be sure, this was not the only reason given. It was merely the cherry on top. This issue is more complex than the thumbnail I give here, but those nuances are nothing to the point of the example.
When he heard the decree, my son sat on the couch with a look on his face as if he had been shot in the guts.
He had been in this troop for as long as his boyhood memory reaches, has reached the rank of Star and is about to reach Life, and is a patrol leader, or was.
This troop was a big part of our lives. Weekly meetings and monthly hikes and campouts, and yearly camporees have been woven into our schedules since Cub Scouts. The grown ups in the family have spent more hours and weekends lending a hand and helping to sell popcorn than I can calculate. My wife is more active by far than I, and has even earned her Woodbadge, which is an advanced, national leadership program that gobbled up an unfortunate amount of her writing and editing time.
The loyalty and longsuffering support of the Wright family for this troop, which has been a part of all our lives for years, suddenly counted for nothing. We dared speak a word that might offend the Prophet of Submission, peace be upon him. The Blasphemy Laws were breached!
The elders and leaders are supposed to point to God. This is the phase of life we are in: we have made our youthful mistakes (and many of them). We have much to repent of. We can say, chapter and verse, what we did wrong. And how God has saved us. May the praise be to God.
But the narrative is that we must accept vices, not discipline ourselves to leave no room for them. We are defined by our weakness, not our strengths. This trains young people in defeat, and not victory.
The enemies of Civilization don’t stop with lying, slandering, and betraying us. No, they go after children with equal cruelty and greater glee.
They are mad dogs…and should be dealt with appropriately.
We now have to make our children battle hardened, for the enemy knows his time is short. And the way to make us despair is to take our children and grandchildren.
Let us pray that our children are protected from evil, and that God holds them up. The leaders of this world want to destroy them. They do not know that they will be held to account.