The Most Dangerous Form of Tyranny Is Weakness

It isn't easy to be a strong leader in an era of progressives hell-bent on societal destruction. Refusing to compromise when faced with the tyranny of so-called "progressive" reform is difficult at a time when so many leaders are allowing their countries to slip into oblivion under the guise of some greater leftist "good."

Following the recent Islamic State terrorist attacks in Belgium that killed at least 35 people and injured more than 300, Belgian police blasted a water cannon at about 200 anti-immigrant protestors gathered near a makeshift memorial in Brussels. The mayor of Brussels, Yvan Mayeur, said he was "appalled ... that such thugs have come to provoke residents at the site of their memorial."

Mayeur apparently has difficulty wrapping his head around the fact that people in Belgium and throughout Europe are fed up with the jihadism that has festered under the watch of diversity-pushing public officials who have overseen the increased fractioning of society. The Brussels protesters are simply the noisy tip of a much deeper iceberg within the general population. How can the more reserved masses express their displeasure democratically when their electoral options are limited to parties that would uphold the status quo of progressive disintegration because anyone else is marginalized as an extremist?

Now consider Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who has been described as dangerous for saying that he'd build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent undocumented immigrants from flooding into America. Trump also released a statement last December calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

The policy position is clear: America under a Trump presidency would know who's coming into the country and would refuse to play Russian roulette with domestic security.

And speaking of "Russian," the Syrian army has just driven the Islamic State out of the city of Palmyra thanks largely to Russian air support and the assistance of Russian special forces. But the world has a funny way of showing gratitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for their efforts to exterminate murderous terrorists, applying the unflattering "strongman" label to both men.

Some are blaming Assad for allowing terrorism to take root in his country -- which might make Assad the only world leader truly being held to account for letting Islamic terrorists into his country. The U.S. and its Persian Gulf allies wanted Assad out of power so they could move in and claim a prime geo-economic chess piece, so they armed and trained so-called "rebels" to fight and disable Assad and his army. But the campaign against Assad allowed the Islamic State to sprout like a field of weeds, since the Syrian leader was preoccupied with his own survival.

So which is it: Is Assad a ruthless dictator or a useless wimp? Neither label is very becoming, no matter that Assad is doing his best to eradicate the Islamic State.

Critics are also now trying to peddle the notion that Putin was stoking war against the Islamic State in Syria in order to drive migrants into Europe. But Putin is hardly responsible for a conflict that had been raging in the region for a few years before Russia showed up late last year with the goal of putting a lid on it. Nor is it Putin's fault that the European Union allowed migrants to flood into member countries in massive numbers. Still, it's easier to blame the "strongman" -- even when he's playing a critical role in trying to defeat the Islamic State -- than to accept responsibility for your own failed leftist policies.

It's easy for leaders to dodge criticism by being weak and controllable. Meanwhile, it's open season on the strong leaders who resist and denounce "progressive" backroom schemes designed to shake up the status quo, regardless of how the citizenry feels about it.

Tyranny doesn't come in the form of a strongman these days. Rather, it can be found in the sort of weakness that guarantees the rapid and undemocratic transformation of a society against the will of the people.

Isaiah 17King James Version (KJV)

17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.

7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

King James Version (KJV)

Take notice...

10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation (Yesha/Yeshu), and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength

which is prophetically speaking to Deut 32 & Psalm 118

Deu 32:15 But Yeshurun (Israel) grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are covered with fat; So he forsook Eloah who made him, And scorned the Rock of his deliverance.

Psa 118:14 Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my deliverance (salvation/Yeshua/Jesus). ... 22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner-stone.

And Paul spoke of this Rock...

Rom 9:33 As it has been written, “See, I lay in Tsiyon (Zion) a Stone of stumbling and a Rock that makes for falling, and everyone who is believing on Him shall not be put to shame.

1Co 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed, and the Rock was Messiah.

And Peter spoke of the Rock...

1Pe 2:7 This preciousness, then, is for you who believe; but to those who are disobedient, The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone, 8 and A stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling, who stumble because they are disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

Christians and Jews have basically no clue as to the prophetic significance of what is happening in Syria right now and how they are part of the problem. Isa 17 is a rebuke of His people living in Damascus and how because of their disobedience to His Word, they have brought destruction upon themselves.

There was a small town in Syria called Berea, remember the Bereans of Acts 17 that were more noble than those in Thessalonia? Acts 17 is not addressing the nations and their religion, it is speaking directly to the believers in the synagogues! The well last known ‘assembly’ of the sect Nazarenes of Yeshua (Jesus) was in Syria in the 4th century AD, this sect of Acts 24 & 28 to this day is the most hated by both Christians and Jews. Why? Because they refuse to bow to the religious doctrines and traditions of men as Messiah because Messiah warned them & taught them by example to beware these man made things that are the leaven that corrupts His body.

Oh, I could go on and on, but one thing is clear, we are witnessing prophesy being fulfilled right before our eyes, the attempts to destroy the “Seed” that is Messiah by destroying His hidden ones. (Ps 83) we are witnessing the setting up of the reign of the anti-Messiah and he is not coming out of Rome, he is coming out of the brethren of the Messiah & His Apostles. (Mt 21, 1John 2)

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