Lecrae, Reconstruction:
This looks weird, what are you building?
Dark twisted fantasies, cast system casualties
Lying lips inside the pulpit, false realities, masoretic textual criticism, cynicism
Homophobic pedophiles, double standards, agendas hidden, blasphemers, bad teachers, cash seekers, trash leaders
Tricked a lot of people out of faith and they detached Jesus, I came back to rescue the people lost in the jungle
Recover the fumble and let ’em see what the Son do, we tore down the walls of the temple, but left the foundation
Mold-infested roof, leaking politics of a proud nation, you think I’m here to flip tables, but I ain’t started yet
Way too many blueprints, but I don’t see many architects, churches hide behind public policy with a face mask
Yeah, I’m talking heavy, I’m in another weight class, anomaly, weighted with ancient, near Eastern prophecy
Scrutinizing Western philosophies and theologies, tifting up the skirt of you Pharisees like a pervert
Hard-hearted, self-righteous distributors of church hurt, they say this is the end ’cause the people are uninspired
The game ain’t over yet, just a couple players retired, reconstruction
Huh, they said we were walking away from the faith?
We wasn’t walking away from faith, we was walking away from fraud
We rebels again, we was handed doctrines dipped in dominance. Reconstruction
While the systems abused the sacred, but that wasn’t truth, that was hypocrisy, so we tore it down
Not because we hate truth, but because we love it too much, reconstruction, we ain’t lost, we architects now
We not destroying, we’re clearing space to rebuild, a faith that can breathe, a gospel that liberates (reconstruction)
A Jesus who still overturns tables and temples, built on control, this ain’t a crisis of belief
It’s a reconstruction for clarity, and when the dust settles (reconstruction), we’ll still be standing on a firm foundation. Reconstruction!
There comes a time, whether it’s in a lifetime, a century, a decade, or even a year. When the people who understand what’s going on must speak out for what is moral and what is right. In our case, as Christians, it is imperative that we do that. Not because it’s the right thing to do, but because Jesus told us that is what we must do.
Matthew 10:34 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword."
It amazes me that the same people who were angered by past Presidents for actions deemed “unconstitutional” are the same ones who relish their newfound captivity. Those who were furious at how we were forced to stay home, or wear a simple mask, are now the same ones who say, “bring on the government, whom we respect totally.” Those same ones who hand over their freedom to a tyrant. The same kind of tyrant whom they rebelled against just a few years ago. Do we not realize that all things are the same? That the same beast prowls? The same beast may come in different forms? With two separate heads?
There’s a thing called the Overton Window. And to explain it, I want you to imagine a Newton’s cradle:
It goes from one side to the other, but remains attached to the same structure, giving the appearance of change, as it moves from one side to the next, but is the same ball on each side. The Overton Window in my example speaks of politics and how easily the public is swayed from one extreme to the next based on their leaders. One leader on one side does wrong, so we then revert and flock to the complete opposite, and this cycle continues. It is a vicious cycle. One that WE CANNOT CHANGE. Once you realize that, you will have peace in the fact that it truly is in God’s hands.
How delusional we are. Mankind and its fascination with comfort from things not from God. How we succumb to the same despotism that we were told our forefathers fought against. Read the letter that our first leaders wrote to King George. It is long, but please trust me when I say that our forefathers would write this again. Not just for our current President but for the America we have lived in for 50 years.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
It sounds eerily similar to the America we live in today and the America we have lived in for the past 50 years. Leaders who are overzealous, selfish, inward looking, who despise the people who elected them, who forget the laws and regulations our forefathers created to save us from tyranny, who embellish themselves through the Office of the Presidency, who shame America and its values, who claim to be for freedom yet strike down anything that provides that same freedom, who are arrogant, loudmouthed, sneaky, secretive, who look at the globe instead of their nation at home, whose peoples struggle daily with bills, food, energy, childcare, safety, jobs, and the list goes on and on. What shall we do?
I thought about that question for a long time. What shall we do? Should we throw off the clutches of tyranny and break free? Should we rebel in the true sense of the word? Not to provoke anger that brings violence. But to provoke anger that brings righteousness. To bring about the fulfillment of God’s commands.
Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
Amos 5:24 "But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
Isaiah 1:17 "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
HOW CAN WE NOT BE OUTRAGED AND GRIEVE OVER THE STATE OF THE WORLD? Everyone I tell tells me that they do not want to hear about such things, yet we are quick to watch a show or movie showing the same things. Why do we not grieve over the real world like we do a cinematic world? Why do we sit on the sidelines while the world decays? I am not saying there is anything we can do about it. God’s plan is already in motion, and there is no stopping it. But at least we could call it out to show ourselves how wrong such things are. At least we could stand up and not be sheep, thinking that our earthly shepherds will lead us to safety and prosperity.
Have we learned nothing? Have we not learned that those we follow, those we elect, those we trust are fallible? That they are human? That they will never bring about peace and comfort? That it only comes from the Father above? What is wrong with us? What is wrong with me? Why did I grow up thinking I could change the world with who I voted for, that this nation was the peace that the world was always looking for? No. The world will always look for peace, but to say that America is that peace is spitting in God’s face. That “making America great again” would be possible. When was it ever great? A nation that claims to be under God, yet its land is full of perversion, pornography, sex, drugs, alcohol, idol worship, and warfare. Plus millions living below the poverty line, which is too low to begin with, 60% of Americans cannot read at a 6th-grade level, the majority of Americans work two or more jobs just to pay the bills, and sky-high debt levels, so when is this America going to become great?
Because it was never great. There was always a dark underbelly to this nation. An idol worship beneath the worship of Elohim. Slavery, discrimination, unequal rights, corruption, greed, sex, music, movies, and the latest technology.
In my opinion, it never has been, at least not in terms of a heavenly “great.” Some will tell me about the freedom of religion. “Christianity in the West was born here.” The same Christianity that allows sin to run free and that engages in such despicable acts as prostitution and pedophilia? In circles that we, as the common man, cannot even fathom.
Revelation 18:4 "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues."
Then I will hear that we are supposed to stand our ground to hold onto this “great” nation, but let me ask you this: Did God tell Daniel to overthrow Babylon and Persia? Or did He tell him to obey the way of the world? To trust HIS PLAN? To live under a regime under Satan and not conform to it, but stand in the gap for His people and principles.
I am sick and tired of the lesser of two evils argument. As I told everyone last year, EITHER evil will lead to the same thing, and now we see that is coming about. And that is not to give myself a pat on the back, it is a somber warning to wake up and realize where we are in time.
I also hate the argument that I should enjoy the times we live in. I do not know about you, but I am not enjoying the times we live in, and how can I? How can I fall asleep at peace, thinking of the world and its faults and the fact that so many are disillusioned by “shiny” things?
Only through Christ can I sleep at peace, knowing that it is in His hands. But that does not mean I will sit idly by and allow the wool to be forced over my eyes as so many that I know do.
It is the same monster, just with two separate heads. Wake up and understand that. I leave you with this:
