Many leading media outlets have written stories suggesting that democracies routinely prosecute their heads of state, and this is good for the democracy, they say. These stories are no less an attempt to shape America’s public opinion that prosecuting former president Trump is good for the country. America is a Constitutional Republic where the rule of law takes precedence over majority opinion. True democracy is majority rule, not necessarily ruled by laws. The law in the Republic is not supposed to be politically twisted or weaponized against anyone. We are equal under the law.

Trump’s political opponents have raised false accusations and charges against him since his political journey began. None have stuck.

Writers for The Washington Post, Newsweek, New York Times, and Axios all say that America behaving like banana republics is a good thing. Of course, they all work for leftist publications. They list out how the leaders of France, South Korea, Italy, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, Peru, South Africa, Taiwan, Japan, and, yes, Israel have all been prosecuted and many convicted of criminal charges. Axios writes: “The big picture: In reality, leaders who left office since 2000 have been jailed or prosecuted in at least 78 countries–including in democracies like France, Israel, and South Korea. Since 1980, around half of the world’s countries have had at least one such case, and that’s not counting impeachments or coups.”

Not counting impeachments or coups? Coups are the meat and potatoes of tyranny.

In its study of world leader prosecutions, Axios stated, “For obvious reasons, the countries that are least likely to be filled in on our map are monarchies or dictatorships where leaders are long-serving and untouchable.”

Those “obvious reasons” for not including untouchable monarchs or dictators are that it would undermine the authors’ premise that such “prosecutions” are good for democracies. China is a “democracy.” So are Russia and Cuba, for example. In those one-party, one-ballot types of countries, political opposition is eliminated, often by execution, sometimes with show trials designed to rile public opinion against the leader on twisted interpretations of their so-called “laws.”

Starting to sound familiar?

Trump said that America was behaving like a third-world country. Conservative and liberal commentators alike say the indictment is on shaky legal ground. Many believe that this prosecution is a tremendous form of politically-motivated election interference. And the news media is in an all-out effort to convince the American people that this sort of political assassination is a good thing because it happens all the time in other “democracies.”

It will be a good thing until it becomes like Russia, where the leader just has the journalists killed when they don’t agree with him. Always remember that there is a double edge to the sword of tyranny.

In the meantime, as in 2 Timothy 3:13, “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

Unfortunately, many are in the media, and it’s, say it with me… Stupidocrisy.

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As we enter the High Holy Days commemorating the death and resurrection of the Christ that all who believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, it is fitting that we understand exactly what was the “Last Supper.”

The traditional Christian concept of the Last Supper is Christ having dinner with his disciples and instituting communion—the bread and wine sacrament. But it is far deeper and more meaningful than it appears.

Christ, a Jewish Rabbi, was in Jerusalem to partake in the Passover, the first of the spring feasts instituted by God after the exodus from Egypt. God’s people were instructed to observe this holy convocation “forever and throughout the generations” (Leviticus 23).

The “Last Supper” was actually a Passover Seder, the ritual celebration of the retelling of the exodus from Egypt. As recorded in Luke 22:15, Jesus “said unto them, ‘With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.'” The Seder requires four cups of wine, symbolizing various acts of God in relationship with his people—the cups in order are Sanctification; Deliverance; Redemption; and Praise.

Also required is eating Matza, unleavened bread that is pierced with many holes, also referred to as the bread of affliction. Luke and Matthew recall the actual order of the Seder ceremony as administered by Jesus. “And he took bread [Matza], and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, ‘This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me'” (Luke 22:19).

After the Seder dinner, Christ administered the cup of Redemption: “Likewise also the cup after they supped, saying, ‘This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you'” (Luke 22:20).”

Also, in Matthew 26:29, “For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

Christ was crucified and died while the lambs were being sacrificed for the Passover. As is written in 1 Corinthians 5:7, “For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.”

Not a bone was broken in his body as was required of the Passover Lamb in Numbers 9:12 and as recorded in John 19:34, “But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they did not break his legs.”

The Passover Seder emblems of Matza and Wine symbolically represented Christ’s body and blood given for the remission of sins. The Telling of the Passover relates to God’s plan of salvation for mankind as fulfilled by Christ’s death and resurrection. Each part of the Passover Seder points to Christ and his work of salvation—now and at the end of days.

There are so many wonderful aspects of the Passover Seder that bring clearer understanding to Christ’s work of salvation. It is far more than the “Last Supper.” It is the story of God’s salvation plan through Christ, the Passover Lamb of the new Covenant. He is risen that all who believe in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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