An
Eleventh Special Plea
by
Doktor Riktor Von Zhades
Fellow
countrymen, citizens of this nation, brethren; for too long have you
turned from the Lord you God. You have removed Him from all your
places, and have taken His holy words and made them to fit your
transgressions. You have corrupted it to suit your own carnal
desires. Likewise you have usurped His authority, and instead have
placed your own, as if it were the ultimate in wisdom. You have
destroyed justice, and perverted the very meaning of the word mercy.
You argue among yourselves, nay saying all that disagree with verbal
abuse and words of anger and hatred. The words that drip from your
lips do not lift up, but instead debase your own brothers and
sisters, they are like poison to all those that hear them as they
speak from your mouths. Do you not know that what proceeds from your
lips are truly the ideas that rest in your hardened hearts. Not only
have you rejected your Creator, but you reject His wisdom, and
righteousness, but you reject all that He has blessed you with, and
also reject those with whom He had made a covenant. You curse them,
and speak ill of them, and as such you curse and speak ill of your
Creator.
Friends,
the Lord beseeches you, turn from your ways; seek righteousness,
justice, mercy, grace, and the wisdom of the Creator as handed down
to you in His holy words.
Hear
then the words of the Prophet Habakkuk and the Lord’s response as
spoken to the Children of Israel; chapter 1:2-5
“2
How long O HaShem, shall I cry out and You not listen, shall I shout
to You “violence!” and You not save? 3 Why do You make me see
iniquity, why do you look upon a wrong? Raiding and violence are
before me. Strife continues and contention goes on. 4 That is why
decision fails and justice never emerges: For the villain hedges in
the just man. Therefore judgment [among man] emerges deformed. 5
Look among the nations, [says HaShem and] observe well, and be
utterly astounded; for a work is being wrought in your days which you
not believe it [even] if it were told”
Note: brackets indicate where this
editor has placed words to aid in the understanding
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