THE DEMOCRATS TWIST SCRIPTURE

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THE DEMOCRATS' SCRIPTURE TWISTING

Exclusive: Joseph Farah challenges pastor on interpretation of Isaiah passage

Maybe I should rejoice that scripture was read at all at the Democratic National Convention.

Unfortunately, it was misread, misunderstood and misrepresented by the Rev. William Barber II of North Carolina on the last night.

He referenced one of my favorite passages – Isaiah 58:1-12.

Read it at your leisure for context. Barber cited it as biblical justification for, among other things, special privileges for homosexuals and transgenders and forcible redistribution of wealth by government.

Where he gets such ideas is hard to see.

Here’s the way the passage begins in verses 1 and 2: “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

“Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.”

That’s what the entire passage is about – make no mistake about it.

It’s about following the laws of God.

Isaiah writes that if His people don’t do that, it will do no good to fast. God will not see you, he will not take notice.

“Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high,” the passage continues. Rev. Barber did not cite this verse, of course.

He began with a strange translation of verses 7 through 12, which I will quote from the King James translation:

“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.

“Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

“And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:

“And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

“And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”

I love that.

But I think I see it a little differently than Rev. Barber.

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His response to the poor is not a personal responsibility, it’s a government responsibility. You will not find a hint of that notion anywhere in the Bible – and, believe me, I’ve searched for it. You won’t find it in Isaiah. You won’t find it in the Old Testament. You won’t find it in the gospels. You won’t find it anywhere in the New Testament.

Neither will you find another assertion made by Rev. Barber – that “Jesus was a brown-skinned Jewish Palestinian.” He may have been brown-skinned. He was certainly Jewish. But He was certainly not a Palestinian. He was an Israeli. There was no such land known as “Palestine” in the time of Jesus.

The word was invented by the Romans decades after the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70 by a Roman emperor Hadrian following the Bar-Kokhba revolt in A.D. 135, so that history would not remember Israel.

Jesus a Palestinian? Don’t think so.

The Bible a handbook for socialism? Not a chance.

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