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reflections upon “the Thin Blue Line” refraction

A Blue Light Special  thought  . . . police-the-blue-light-special-photo-635874443578281807-police-lights As we ponder, (amid demonically induced stresses of the morphing beast-like emerging global order), the societal reflections upon “the Thin Blue Line” refraction, let us de-escalate our emotional discharge purposefully, for the allocation of discernment to clarify the way of peace,  which is undoubtedly opposite to the order’s yellow-bricked deceptive road to destruction.
police-white-badge-with-blue-line-imagesUmmm…that said, let’s talk candidly about what some of us are shamefully doing…Recently, a popular discount store’s bakery staff refused to make a cake for a young woman who wanted to honor her dad with a simple cake decorated with “a thin blue line/stripe” across the cake to represent his profession as a policeman. The bakery staff didn’t feel comfortable making the cake because of the stigmatization of racism super-imposed upon the entire USA police force. Whaaat?! Some places of business are refusing to serve cops as customers and some civilians are boycotting stores, schools, etc. because of these establishments’ support of community police and sheriff departments–whaat?!

As if that wasn’t incredible enough, People are actually looting and burning their own cities or neighborhoods because of their need to express frustration against police brutality? Whaaat?!  Seriously?!! Why would citizens destroy what they need?!  Huh?!

Okay,  let’s consider this scenario….suppose we are safely at home, relaxing and unwinding from the stresses of our day and all of a sudden a mob of frustrated people decided to run randomly through our neighborhood kicking in the front doors of our homes, stealing items, destroying stuff, beating us, tearing our clothes from our bodies, while laughing or screaming.  Suppose we didn’t have any sort of weapon to seriously protect ourselves while also being dangerously outnumbered by the mob.  What would we instinctively think to do next? The majority of us would instinctively dial 911 and hope our neighbors were going to do the same thing, right??!!  Yet, some business employees are refusing to serve police as customers??!!  Whaaat?!!

Don’t get me wrong, I realize racism is a serious matter and can lead to horrible abuses of power and violence, however, are civilians really trying to label every single police officer a racist?? Really?! Are people becoming that cold-hearted and unreasonable?! Seriously?! Are Americans becoming that thoughtless and vicious??!! Many of the grieving family members of loved ones shot by the police have constantly called for non-violence and peaceful exchanges and expression between civilians and police officers, but to no avail.

Would any of us want to be lumped together with those who promote criminality and violence just because a large group of people stampede the streets and airwaves and demand to label our entire profession or culture as racist killers, when we know it’s not?? Are we guilty by association??!!

If this is justified, then what would prevent people from incorrectly labeling all areas of law enforcement as racist, such as “all attorneys”, all judges (no matter what the specialty is), how about all court clerks, all bailiffs, all court stenographers, how about all legislators, how about the court house employees and cleaning crews? Hey what about the 911 dispatchers, are all of them racists too? Oh, how about law professors at colleges and universities? What about all of the utility companies that supply their services (for a fee contract) to keep their precincts and court houses running, are they racist too? Should we then boycott all businesses, boycott our entire nation too, and our own family members if they are employed within these professions in some degree?? Sounds absurd, right??

Without proper consideration and careful thought concerning a matter, people can often times do more harm than good, although initially they may have had plausible intentions.

The danger here is the underbelly beast wanting to rear its ugly head–called “lawlessness”.

Could it be that the unsuspecting public doesn’t realize it’s being coaxed into a lawless “dark ages” type society, to usher in a global ideology of forceful submission for a “controlled enforcement of pseudo peace”??

Could it possibly be a “grand experiment” that through a force-fed disdain for righteous law, would then lead to anticipated lawless-chaos, to where a new world emerges enforcing a new order, that sadly might be unrecognizable to citizens of nation states, where the new peace and law is perhaps the banishment of all individual freedoms??

What else ensues where lawlessness abounds?? Chaos, then a dictatorship of Marshall Law.

We are living in very perilous times within this world’s morphing order…thinking thoroughly before we act, is crucially imperative. Any thoughtless emotional reaction that might lead to regret during these times, can bring about severities many of us have not considered.

Let’s consider the face value meaning of the word “protest”…
**the prefix “Pro” can also mean “being for” something…
**the root word “Test” can mean “trial” or “experiment”…
**thus the word “protest” means being “for a test or testing and also “being for experiment”

Therefore, participants in protest, at times can be considered by some levels of global governance as being a willing participant for an experiment!

Sometimes there are bad apples that can be found in a bunch, but if the bad apples are carefully removed in a timely manner, they can’t spoil the whole bunch.

Just because the bath water becomes dirty after washing your baby, it doesn’t mean you should dispose of the baby with the dirty bath water. So, we shouldn’t inconsiderately negatively brand all police officers as abusive racists.

sheriff-blue-line-badge-lapel-pin-6-point-sheriff-s-badge-lapel-pin-tie-tack-1_largeI support all police officers of good conscience of heart that protect and serve their communities with respect in the service of good laws. We should respect these officers, the men and women in blue. We should pray for the safety of cops and military serving who are members of our families, who are family friends, who are our neighbors and who lawfully serve our communities justly as a whole. A nation or state without good cops, good laws, and a honorable military is without accountability, and will be destroyed through lawlessness and externally by its foes.

We call 911 when we are in a life threatening situation…therefore, we should pray for the many good cops who put their lives on the line when they answer our distress calls. As for the minority number of cops who seek to engage in criminal activity against citizens, they should be exposed within the law, by citizens and/or fellow police officers who choose to even hold themselves accountable to the law.

Let’s not help to push the global agenda for “order of darkness out of chaos” because we are intelligent beings (mankind). Let’s not become a part of the grand lab experiment.

May YAH ELAH Our Heavenly Father continue to open our eyes and hearts to The Truth that we may continue to be blessed in His Light to walk within it…and be kept safe in YAHUSHAs Name. Peace.

Columnist, Tonya M Woodbury-Sloan
The Complex Layers Series, Copyright September 2016

Camouflaged “for” war….or….Camouflaged “by” war….is it still “war”?….Why do “boots” decide the answer?

….pondering this as another anniversary of a horrific terrorist attack approaches this month…..the Westgate Mall in Kenya, September 21, 2013..where 67-71 people were brutally murdered……

….I now ask the question contemplated by most Americans….”is the USA at war?…..the political heads of state keep saying…NO….so why does this very important question still seem to invade the american psyche?  Could the reason why their “NO” response is unacceptable to most americans and to some in the military be that it doesn’t agree with the natural perception of war?

I mean, to most people, war fulfills the test of the “senses” as it applies to its definition – war, a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state, its synonyms: conflict, warfare, combat, fighting, (military) action, bloodshed, struggle… [Merriam-Webster].  The senses are fulfilled with observation – through natural vision and captured imagery–sight,  auditory stimuli–hearing, cognitive mental processes–thinking/learning/understanding, and through experience–by encountering, touch, and being faced with the dark evil presence of war….So,

….after many of us have watched the most current live speeches from the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, The Joint Chiefs of Staff – regarding their statements on ISIS/IS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, Syrian Rebels, Syrian Assad Government, Iran, Ukraine, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the heinous beheadings……and after we’ve re-visited the archived remarks made by Former Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (remember she resigned in the fall of 2013) in which she stated the ISIS threat was already well known and discussed within the U.S. counter-terrorism, Intelligence, Defense and Homeland Security apparatuses during her tenure, with briefings on this subject matter in closed door sessions with both the executive branch and the appropriate designated members of the legislative branch,…we say to ourselves….

….huh…really?…..and ummm…..just because there are smaller pockets of american troops strategically placed in and around these regions, while fighter jets and armed drones have been given the order to bomb particular ‘strike zones’ within Syria, just because troops are on the ground ‘under the guise of training’ rebel forces, while blatant lines in the sand are being drawn against Russia, and just because this doesn’t fit the usual Modus Operandi of both WWI and WW2….somehow gives the executive branch and some in congress, and some at the DOD the credibility to “claim it’s not war”?…..how deceptively bizarre is that?..so, again…

….yes, again….I ask……is the USA at war?….you betcha—WW3…..most would agree—it’s the new “face of war”, invoking new strategies….but the same old enemies–without the defined uniform, nor respect of “rules of engagement”–nor the “rule of law” of any nation, not even the laws of the global order’s United Nations–whose soldiers hail from a wide spectrum of world sectors and socioeconomic backgrounds…cleverly camouflaged “by” war amongst its potential target(s).…

….so technically if a particular nation’s troops and overt or covert special ops forces are ordered to forgo wearing the usual camouflaged uniform and ‘military issued combat boots “for” war during engagement….this allows for military operations to be viewed and accepted as “not engaging in warfare” because of the technicality that “boots must be on the ground” and in larger groups for it to be classified as an actual war?…….say whaaaat?!…..seriously?…..is this what they and the media are doing?…..seriously?…..Hmmmm, looking back through history, should we re-consider if the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was actually an act of war against the USA?……After all, they ONLY used fighter pilots and jets…..it was ONLY airstrikes right?…or at least predominantly right?….did they have Japanese combat boots on the ground?……Hmmm, somehow the USA considered it an act of war…..should we wonder why?

….Thus, it is war, isn’t it.

….pondering this……as I pray along with you in YAH and Our Redeemer for all who are suffering warfare and plagues here and around the world, while asking HIM to comfort and strengthen us in HIS TRUTH and LOVE that HE would grant us HIS GRACE to endure to the end of ages, to be saved,

by Tonya Woodbury-Sloan.

The Complex Layers Series

To Whom do ‘they’ refer to as ‘Peons’ and ‘Serfs’?

by Tonya W-Sloan

(Source Reference: 1 Timothy 6:1-21)

There are many wanderers of the streets today, across North America; they are not all vagabonds nor nomads.  They do not wander aimlessly, instead, many wanderers have had their endeavors stripped from them, and/or their destination temporarily interrupted–maliciously, forcibly, without their instigation…terminated from their merited achievements by those who “do as they wilt/will”– the wicked, who rape lives without remorse.

Is the man in the business suit noticed….who by day, appears like any other successful “PEDESTRIAN” traveling to and from the day’s scheduled appointments?  This man, whom after 20 years vested at the firm, ….showers at the local YMCA, where secretly–the shower becomes the laundry, the locker-room becomes the dressing room in which he is thankful to use, until his membership lapses…This man who must sleep in his luxury car, relieved it is fully paid for, as it has now become the roof over his family’s head–having been unjustly ousted from the firm, claiming economic concerns…Their future–seems nebulous. Now-a-days, most of us know a young man, and/or a family man who is either in this predicament, or something similar; maybe it is one of us experiencing this currently.

Our grandfathers, dads, our husbands, uncles, our brothers, male-cousins, our nephews, male-friends, our male-neighbors, former male-co-workers….of those who “DO“, of those who ‘LOVE’, of those who ‘GIVE STRENGTH’, of those who give of their ‘SWEAT’, of those who ‘CARE and PROVIDE’, of those who ‘PROTECT and SERVE’, of those who ‘HONOR’ and ‘ARE HONORABLE’ to their wives–the women in their families–and their children,  of those who ‘RESPECT’, of those who ‘MENTOR’ and ‘ARE GOOD STEWARDS’, of those who are ‘PATIENT and LONG-SUFFERING/FORGIVING’, of those who ‘TRY’, of those who  ‘ENDURE-never give up’, of those who ‘KNOW the TRUE TREASURES/assets OF LIFE’ are loved ones….of those who know man/wo’man ‘HAVE HEAVEN-MADE VALUE’–not as man-made commodities to be owned, bought, sold, traded, nor thrown away…..of those WHOSE CREATOR is AhaYAH Ashar AhaYAH/GOD’ and who sees money as ” a means”, as “a tool”–but not as god…….OUR MEN…of those who ‘EXEMPLIFY STRENGTH’–who MIRROR these characteristics of the likeness of YAHusha (Jesus) with STEADFASTNESS…these men, should the world deem as peons, as serfs?

Let it not be!….and so, it is not!….

These, instead are ‘true men’ possessing the aforementioned blessed traits,…having worked in many areas of society, consisting of:…those who are Farmers–who without–most would have no food on our tables,…of those who are conscientious Gardeners, Grocers, Chefs, Food Service Workers, and Restauranteurs–who without-there would be limited access to quality food sources and choices,…of those who are Landscapers, Architects, Builders/Contractors, Construction Workers, Plumbers, Electricians, Engineers, and Handy-Men/Mr. Fix-its–who without–there would be no homes/shelter, business buildings/facilities/centers, no manicured properties, no repaired essential equipment, and no infrastructure,….of those who are solicitous Educators, Attorneys, Advocates, Law Enforcers, U.S. Military Sentinels–who without–there would be limited or no desire ‘for governments nor people’ to uphold or enforce justice, nor to show fairness-to serve and protect with honor and without prejudice,…of those who are in ‘creditable’ Manufacturing, Textiles, Industry, Material Goods and Services, Economics, Accounting, ‘credible’ Financiers, Brokers, and Insurers– who without–there would be limited access to quality material necessities, savings assurance, nor ‘judicious’ consumer confidence,…of those of the Medical Profession, Child Care, Veterinary Medicine, Mortuary Professions,–who assist with the care of life’s most important moments of joy, woe, and sorrow–what would most do without them?…of the Postal Workers, Truckers, Cargo and Airline Pilots, Taxi-Cab Drivers, Dispatchers, Mass Transit/Transportation workers, Store/Building Managers, Pest Controllers, Street Sweepers, Waste Management/Sanitation Workers, Utility Workers, Parks and Recreation Workers, Housekeeping Services…of those of whatever ‘ethical’ profession–who without, (most of our) lives would be at a partial stand-still, if not completely….and these honorable men, they (the world’s politicians and banking hoarders) would deem as peons, as serfs?

Why is it no matter of concern for them to ‘pluck’ righteous men from their livelihoods on a whim? By what scale, by what unethical judgement? By what unholy alliance?…By what World Ruling thievery and treachery authority? The author of lawlessness, the wicked-one and his cohorts, perhaps?

Are they fearful of true men, even of true women, of the true order of YAHawah/God over mankind?  Could it be because MANKIND inherits the earth–not them, and our home is in AhaYAH’s Heavenly City and Hekal/Dwelling, but theirs is a reservation with death?

Doth thou wonder why such anger exudes from their dark feathers and roughed scaliness? They want to be the CREATOR, but instead remain the created, often attempting to de-sign or re-design morphs, x-men, humanoids, and seedless fruit–growing fruit without seeds–dead fruit–fruit of the dead–unable to reproduce after its kind–born dead–promoting the ingestion of what is dead–strange fruit is what they are, NOT those who hung from poplar trees!  They fell from their first estate, it was futile mutiny against LOVE and EVERLASTING LIFE…and the evil one is wroth with man?  On mankind he places blame…..

Perhaps they are fearful of AhaYAH/I BE-Exist/GOD and His Son YAHusha (Jesus), who created the true order,  of which they fear and seek to bring to demise in futility–a pipe-dream of delusion. They waste life, more than the majority, and yet they are few in number, perched upon their capstone, possessed by wealth/greed/gluttony…

….they fear death, more than the majority, because they are few in number at the very top, nesting with the buzzards at the top of their spire–hoping the majority will never ‘awaken’ from their indoctrination, propaganda, and lusts…

….they plunder, from the “cradle to the grave”, because their existence has been sentenced to the grave of their heart’s intentions, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth…their destined hell…

….they are never satisfied, and will never be, until death and the grave have claimed them to its drifting descending levels of anguish, torment, and discord…

….further cascading into intervals of gnawing cannibalism,…

….as plummeting caustic belches, billow sulfuric smoke, choking to the brink of death…

….as vehement flames of fire await its congregates–relentlessly taunting at varying degrees–desiring to burn flesh again–just as the boil slows its pus…

….falling deeper into the insidious pouncing of the rapist’s appetite–where sexual perversion seeks no rest, nor pardons on the few openings of one’s flesh….

….as the abyss continues to tug at the marionette strings to a level where hunger is met with dried bones and maggots–as human flesh is dressed to digest…

….there, it is said to be cold and frozen asunder, where the evil one awaits preserving flesh, in ice for his carnivorous delight–where man has sinned arrogantly against neighbor/mankind–unrepentant….thus assuming the posture of the dragon’s delicacy…

….all of this–until death and the grave are cast into the vast lake of fire…

So, when we are battered, bruised, pushed to fall by the serpent ‘lying in-wait’ as an ambush in the dust, remember, The ONE, who was was pierced for our transgressions, was bruised for our iniquities; and took the punishment of all of mankind’s wrongs upon HIM–that brought us peace, who by HIS wounds we were, are, and shall be healed, (ref: Isaiah/YeshaYahu 53:5), AND will literally crush the serpent’s head (dragon’s head/satan’s head) (ref: Genesis/Bereshith 3:15).  To crush a serpent’s head is to annihilate him–death!  Be encouraged in the Heavenly Father’s Love, and wait on HIM WHO is faithful to renew your strength (ref: Isaiah/YeshaYahu 30:31), remembering HE is never slow to fulfill HIS PROMISE (2 Peter/Kepha 3:9), HE is faithful to meet your every need (ref: Philippians  4:19), HE will not allow the righteous to go hungry (Proverbs 10:3), but if we seek HIM and HIS Righteousness, we will be in need of nothing (ref: Matthew/Mattiyahu 6:33), always remembering, the temptations in our lives are no different from what others around us and in other nations experience, YAHawah/God is faithful,  He will not allow the temptation to be more than we can stand; when we are tempted, he will show us a way out, so we can endure (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one that shall endure (stands firm, unwavering) to the end, the same shall be saved (Matthew/MattiYahu 24:12-13)…this is HIS PROMISE to us, and one of many promises HE DID, DOES, and WILL ALWAYS KEEP!  For YAH/God is not a man, so HE does not lie; neither is HE the son of man, that HE should change his mind or repent: has he said (spoken), and shall he not do it (and fail to act)? or has HE spoken (promised), and he not make it good (fulfill it)? (ref: Numbers 23:19-20).

When they come to plunder, to take what is not theirs, and cast us as peons and serfs, remember, our homes, our material wealth, are just that–material, and are made of what is found in the earth, and thus all things, everything, belongs to AhaYah/God and His Son; but, because many things formed by man’s hands is formed from fallen tainted earth, and bought or sold using blood money, it will not be spared the renewal of the HEAVENS and the EARTH.  This is why Yahusha/Son of YAHawah/God asked them, when they brought the coin to him, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.  Then YAHusha (Jesus) said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to YAHawah/God what is YAHawah’s/God’s.” And they were amazed at Him. (Mark 12).  YAH has not forgotten us, although many have chosen to forget Him and His Son.  YAH will not reject His people, HE will never forsake His Inheritance (Psalm 94:14).  It is written:  No, YAHawah/God has not rejected HIS own people, whom HE chose from the very beginning….(Romans 11).  HE will never leaves us to be destroyed by the hands of the enemy.

YAH is not ELAH of the dead, but ELAH of the Living!  In Him is Resurrection LIFE rescued/saved from a dead state spiritually and physically.   John 11:25 says, Martha said to Him, “I know that he (Eli-azar/Lazarus) will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” YAHusha ( Jesus) said to her, “I AM the resurrection and the life; he who believes in ME will live even if he dies,  and everyone who lives and believes in ME will never die. Do you believe this?”

Therefore, we should never reject HIM or we will be rejecting, love, BREATHE, living….LIFE EVERLASTING.  Let us be encouraged, and pray for one another…..

To whom does the world refer to as Peons and Serfs?  It is widely known, most often, the wicked falsely accuse the brethren in YAHusha ( mainly, all those who choose to love, to have morals, to do rightly) as being exactly what they are themselves (peons–who decreased/fell/ceased from “the true nature/being”). They (the fallen world) are so angry that we are NOT as they accuse us to be, that they seek to destroy those who will NOT accept the ‘wicked one’s lie’…However, those of us who remain in the ELAH and HIS SON, though some may physically die (our flesh), we are not dead, but resting in YAHawah until His Great Day of Resurrection, thus, those of us who have not died, shall never see death in HIM!…HalaluYAH!!

Let us keep praying for one another, and be encouraged in HIM, and encourage me too…please!  I’m just someone paying attention and praying along with you, during these tumultuous times now, and ahead. May YAHawah (He Be/Exists), the Great AhaYAH Ashar AhaYAH (Aramaic: I Be-Exist that which Exist/Be – Exodus 3:14), the ELAH (Aramaic: Awesome One, Ezra 4:24 thru 7:26) keep us, and His peace and blessings be upon you all.

by Tonya Woodbury Sloan