Fallen

Ezekiel 25:17 ESV

“…I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”

Typical. Like most, over the last several days, I have been inundated through news, Facebook, and conversation with tributes and information concerning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Typical because the normal suspects have gathered around to mourn and fear. Typical because the other normal suspects have chosen to step back their words from four years ago to take full advantage of the opportunity given to them. Elections have consequences and that goes for more than the person who occupies the oval office. Senators four years ago hindered a liberal justice from sitting on the supreme court, and Senators will speedily install a new Justice to that court. How you vote on all those boxes (city, county, state, and federal) has consequence on you and on this nation.

Like most, over the last several days, I have been inundated through news, Facebook, and conversation with tributes and information concerning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It is easy to look and see a woman of great skill and ability. It is equally easy to find someone I disagree. Hearing many speak of her one fact persists. She was able to have a loving relationship with a friend of very diverse opinions with her. Her friendship with Justice Scalia was the stuff of legend. Families getting together across religious and ideological lines, to enjoy each other and a meal. Not simply an act of civility, a requirement of social order, but rather a true comradery and care for one’s neighbor. Their banter and hostility are not only the stuff of news print but the stuff of court record to be examined by law students for decades and perhaps centuries to follow.  Even as we look at such a thing let us not forget that someone is wrong. One of these to Justice was wrong and demonically so. Not in their conduct but in their belief and that belief carried into judicial precedent, and farther.

Reading of the Philistines’ rebuke, by God, through Ezekiel led me to remember the words of Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address.

Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'

Looking at the life of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, we see a woman conquering much. We also see a woman deceived by this world and laying the seed for further deception of those that come after her. For two hundred- and fifty-years slavery was allowed in our great nation, the price God chose for us was four years of war, division of families, blood poured out in technological precision, the deadliest war our nation has ever fought as justice due to those who had born the lash. We now sit upon five decades of the slaughter of infants, promising economic prosperity to their mothers, even as slaves promised economic security to their masters, and their country. What price will God ask of us for our inability to stop such a slaughter? I do not know but rest assured, no nation, has ever escaped God’s justice, let us pray that we will end such a plague of sin upon us before we fall like Jerusalem, Egypt, Philistia, and Babylon under the weight of our sin.

Coram Deo