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No Christian should support BBBEE Affirmative Action Racism
“One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who
dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you
are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. One law and one custom shall
be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.” Numbers 15:15-16
Affirmative Action is Racism
Racial quotas in sports, education, or employment, violate the Laws of
God and are counterproductive.
Equity in Law
“You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the
poor, nor honour the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall
judge your neighbour.” Leviticus 19:15
The Greatest Commandment
“…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind and with all your strength… love your neighbour as
yourself…” Mark 12:30-31. How do we love our neighbour? By obeying the
second tablet of the Law. Do not steal your neighbour’s life. Do not steal
your neighbour’s wife. Do not steal your neighbour’s property. Do not steal
your neighbour’s good name through gossip, slander and false witness. Do
not envy, or be jealous, of your neighbour. Do not covet. Respect for life and
property is absolutely essential for any free and productive society.
Your INIQUITIES Have SEPARATED You From Your GOD
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Despair
Why do evil things happen? Why did God not prevent these things? How could God allow this?
“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your
iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not
hear.” Isaiah 59:1-2
Disaster
After any drought, hurricane, flood, catastrophic fires, crime and violence, or in any time of oppression and suffering,
one can hear people complaining: “Why did God allow this to happen? Why did God not intervene? Why has God not
heard our prayers?”
Depravity Leads to Disaster
The answer is found in Isaiah 59. It is not that God is not able to intervene. He is Almighty. It is not that He
cannot hear our prayers. He is Everywhere-present and All-knowing. “But your iniquities have separated you from
your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.” The problem is your sin. This is
true on an individual level, a family level, a congregational level, a community level, a national level and it is true
internationally. The problem is sin. SIN. The middle letter of sin is “I”. Selfishness is at the heart of the problem. The
heart of the problem is the problem of the human heart.
Bloodshed Defiles the Land
“For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has
muttered perversity.” Isaiah 59:3. God is a holy God. Human beings are sinful and depraved. Total depravity is not merely
a doctrine, it is the reality of human existence. Human hands are indeed defiled with blood: “So you shall not pollute the
land where you are; for blood defiles the land and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on
it, except by the blood of him who shed it.” Numbers 35:33. “Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.” Leviticus
24:17. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.” Genesis 9:6.
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The Golden Rule
“Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for
this is the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 7:12. In the Sermon on
the Mount, our Lord Jesus Christ summarises the heart of the second
tablet of the Law, to love your neighbour as yourself, requiring us to
do to others as we would want them to do to us. Conversely, to not
do to others what we would not want them to do to us. “And just as
you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.” Luke 6:31
Violating God’s Law Hurts the Very People We Claim We Want
to Help
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) and
Affirmative Action violates the Laws of God, erodes the essential
foundations for a free and prosperous society and is completely
counterproductive. It actually destroys the very people it was meant
to help.
A Sense of Victimhood and Entitlement Destroys Character and Work Ethic
There is nothing more destructive to any person than an abundance of bread and idleness of hands. A sense of
entitlement and perpetual victimhood is absolutely devastating to character, integrity and work ethic. Socialist welfare
programmes actually debase the very people they are ostensibly meant to serve and help. Hard work, discipline and
integrity are essential for every individual. Inculcating in any group of people a sense of victimhood, entitlement and
grievance destroys them, body, mind and soul. The tragic results can be seen in the litter-strewn, graffiti vandalised,
pollution-ridden and broken down areas where a large number of recipients of government handouts live. “Treasures
of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers
from death. The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to
famish, but He casts away the desire of the wicked. He
who has a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of
the diligent makes rich.” Proverbs 10:2-4
Stereotypes, Caricatures and Deception
BBBEE violates the Ninth Commandment to not bear
false witness. The justification for BBBEE Affirmative
Action racial quotas are false narratives, lies, stereotypes
and caricatures, which paint one racial group as
helpless victims and the other as malicious exploiters.
“Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a
just weight is His delight.” Proverbs 11:1
Greed, Envy and Covetousness
BBBEE breaks the Tenth Commandment against coveting anything that belongs to one’s neighbour. Greed, envy and
covetousness are the very heart and soul of Affirmative Action. BBBEE is the creed of envy and the politics of failure.
It rots souls, hearts and minds.
Stealing the Fruit of Others’ Hard Work, Ingenuity, Dedication and Sacrifice
BBBEE and Affirmative Action obviously also violate the Eighth Commandment. To punish the productive and to
take from those who, through hard work, ingenuity and dedication, carved productive farms out of thorn bush and
wilderness, is theft. BBBEE has proven to be a cover for corruption and a channel for hate, greed and theft.
Looting the Country
The African Union has calculated that more than 25% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Africa, is stolen through
corruption by governments every
year. Recent news headlines in South
Africa, include: R139 Billion theft
from Eskom (the national electricity
provider) investigated. Government
parastatals, such as South African
Airways, Eskom, Telkom, Transnet,
SABC, state hospitals, schools and so
much more, are bankrupt with many
billions being looted from these
state enterprises by government
employees every year. Hundreds-ofbillions
of Rands of taxpayers’ money
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has to be poured into these bottomless pit black
holes, to try to make up for the Trillions of Rand
that have already been looted by state corruption.
The rolling black out power failures, which are daily
inconveniencing, frustrating and undermining the
lives and work of millions of South Africans are a
further theft of time and productivity.
Fraud, Failure and Farce
BBBEE has proven to be a colossal fraud. Not
actually helping the poor, but making the poor
poorer, by eroding the infrastructure, gutting the
very ministries and services which are meant to
help, leaving the majority of the country in squalor
and darkness with regular, rolling blackout power
failures, which are euphemistically called: “load
shedding!” The vast majority of state schools are
dysfunctional. Classrooms are overcrowded.
Textbooks arrive late, or not at all. Hospitals are
chronically short of medicines, food and reliable
staff. People are literally dying in the country
because of BBBEE greed, corruption and heartless
incompetence.
Malice, Hatred and Murder
BBBEE Affirmative Action violates the Sixth
Commandment that we do not murder. Malice
and hatred are at the heart of Affirmative Action.
Their false narrative is based upon demonizing
the white minority in the country and particularly
channelling murderous hate toward white farmers,
who, against all odds, are trying to feed the country.
Many thousands of white commercial farmers in
South Africa and their family members have been
murdered. Some in the most demonic and sadistic torturous ways.
War Against Farmers
In 1994, when Nelson Mandela became president, South Africa had 70,000 white commercial farmers who were
feeding 100 Million people. This at a time when South Africa’s population was about 28 Million. Today, South Africa
has a population of over 58 Million, yet, despite having more than doubled the population, now has less than half
as many commercial farmers as 25 years ago. Today there are less than 30,000 white commercial farmers who are
managing to feed approximately 40 million people. However, our population is now over 58 Million and therefore,
for the first time in South Africa’s history, we have become a net food importer. We need to import millions of tonnes
of food each year to manage to adequately feed the population. Our farmers are no longer able to feed all of South
Africa.
Increasing the Ranks of the Unemployed
Unemployment has also steadily escalated under ANC misrule. From just over 2 Million unemployed in 1994, we
now have over 30 Million unemployed, or as the ANC government likes to re-categorise some as: “economically
inactive”, or “discouraged work seekers”. That means the ANC has managed to add more than a million unemployed
for every year that they have been in power!
Chasing Away Investors, Job Creators and Employers
How have they managed to do this? Despite no war and no conscription and with massive foreign aid, the ANC
has managed to exponentially increase unemployment in the country by chasing away investors, job creators and
employers. The latest Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) declaration by Cyril Ramaposa, has even further
weakened the impoverished South African Rand and given warning to any investors or employers that property
rights are under threat and South Africa is a bad investment.
Promising Heaven But Delivering Hell
Socialism always promises Heaven and invariably delivers Hell. Every socialist policy undermines the essential
foundations for economic growth, discourages investors, chases away employers, increases costs and guarantees
greater unemployment and further rises in prices. Crime and grime increase. Standards of living plummet. Service
delivery becomes a sick joke. The currency is devalued.
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Overtaxing Fuel
The outrageous cost of fuel in our country is one case in point. The Automobile Association calculates that over
60% of what we are paying at the petrol pump, goes to the ANC government in the form of taxes and levies. Only a
minority of the cost of fuel goes to the petrol company, the oil-producing country and all the middlemen involved.
For this reason, Botswana, which is a land-locked country and must obtain their fuel from South Africa, can sell fuel
at half the price that South Africa does!
Idolatry and Statism
BBBEE not only violates the Golden Rule of Christ and our Lord’s greatest commandment and the prohibitions against
bearing false witness, coveting, stealing and murdering, but it is also violating the First and Second Commandment
by being idolatrous and statist as well.
Blasphemous
BBBEE sometimes even violates the Third Commandment against Blasphemy. The blasphemous and arrogant
statements by ANC leaders, such as that president “Zuma is like Jesus!”, that the ANC “will rule until Jesus comes” and
Julius Malema’s outrageous statements. The hostility evidenced against Christianity in general and against our Lord
Jesus Christ in particular, by the BLF, EFF and ANC leadership makes it clear that this is not just a war against the
Laws of God, but a war against God Himself. The fact is state TV SABC broadcasts blasphemy and the laws of the land
protect blasphemy as “free speech”, but want to criminalise some
people’s opinions in the name of “hate speech” bills! So blasphemy
against God is “constitutionally” protected by the ANC, but free
speech can be construed as “blasphemy” against the state!
Outrageous, Adulterous Paedophilia and Perversion
BBBEE has also proven to frequently violate the Seventh
Commandment against adultery as well. School principals
have shown me letters received from the Ministry of Education
warning teachers to stop “requiring students to provide sexual
favours” as this is “a violation of their position of trust!” The amount
of outrageous, adulterous paedophilia, abuse of authority and
sexual harassment carried out under the cover of Affirmative
Action is criminal.
Removing Incentives to Work and Encouraging Laziness
The Fourth Commandment requires us to work six days and rest
one day in seven. Sabbath desecration laws have been torn up.
Desecration of the Lord’s Day is widespread. But BBBEE goes even
further than that by taking away the incentive to work for many
of the black majority who have been described as “disadvantaged”
and are given SASSA grants and promised land and opportunities
to loot productive white farms when EWC comes through, etc. In
all too many cases, it seems like a return to the National Suicide of
the Xhosa with Nongqawuse’s cattle-killing visions of 1856.
Fostering an Attitude of Disrespect for Parents
BBBEE also violates the Fifth Commandment by encouraging
disrespect for parental authority and elders, slandering founding
fathers of the country and encouraging widespread disrespect for
parents and elders. The enactment of laws forbidding corporal
punishment and discipline by parents has produced an unprecedentedly lawless generation of abusive and lawless
youth who even assault teachers at school.
A Cover for Colossal Corruption
BBBEE has proven to be the greatest threat to South Africa’s economy. A colossal fraud. A cover for colossal
corruption. A channel for widespread hatred, greed, theft and murder. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a
reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34
Malicious National Suicide
BBBEE Affirmative Action is a hateful, thieving, covetous, deceitful, poisonous, murderous, selfish, evil, selfdestructive
and counter-productive idolatrous, statist, blasphemous, adulterous movement of mass destruction. “The
hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be put to forced labour.” Proverbs 12:24
Zimbabwe in Ruins
One would have thought that the catastrophic example of our near neighbour to the North, Zimbabwe, would have
been sufficient warning to anyone and everyone of where such malice and foolishness inevitably leads.
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Distractions
When corrupt politicians are looting a country on the scale that the ANC has been doing for the last 25 years, one
needs massive amounts of distraction and convenient scapegoats to channel the frustration of the defrauded masses
away from those responsible for their plight.
Hypocritical
It turns out that those screaming racism and accusing others of being racist the loudest, are the most racist of all!
Cynically Exploiting Grievances for Political Gain
Booker T. Washington observed: “There is a class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the
wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of
their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy
and partly because it pays! Some of these people do not want the Negro
to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Racial Quotas for Sports Teams
It is interesting that in the 1970s the African National Congress was
calling for boycotts, sanctions and disinvestment of South Africa
for having racial discrimination in sports. South Africa had allblack
teams and all-white teams at the time. Yet, today, the ANC
government is forcing rigid race quotas on companies, sports teams
and for educational institutions.
Racist BBBEE Affirmative Action Led to Nationwide Blackout
Power Failures
In 2015, Eskom was required to shed 1,081 white Engineers and
2,179 white Artisans to comply with strict new government BBBEE
Affirmative Action requirements. By 2019, Eskom was bankrupt,
ruined and in stage 4 rolling blackouts throughout the country. Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan,
reported that only 27,000 megawatts are available for use at present, which is just 56% of South Africa’s installed
capacity of 48,000 megawatts. Bernard Magoro, the
Systems Operator for Eskom, explained that since
November, Eskom has been burning diesel to meet its
demands “We have actually been operating with a lot of
diesel to meet the demand and this is not ideal.” Indeed
it is one of the most expensive and cost inefficient,
wasteful ways of providing electricity. Eskom explained
that the reason for the failure is that the average age of
its power stations is 34 years old. Only 3 power stations
have been built within the last decade. More than half
of the power stations are over 37 years old. “The soul of
a lazy man desires and has nothing, but the soul of the
diligent shall be made rich. Wealth gained by dishonesty
will be diminished, but he who gathers by labour will
increase.” Proverbs 13:4,11
Mismanagement and Corruption Has Sabotaged the Whole Country
Eskom made a management decision to not provide the maintenance required for its stations, but rather to build
new stations. However, as Gordhan and Eskom Chairman, Jabu Mabuza explained, “Eskom is experiencing financial,
maintenance and structural problems due to malfeasance.” While Eskom’s maintenance budget has been shrinking, their
power stations have been growing older. Gordhan added that “while malfeasance was to blame, mismanagement and
corruption also stirred into the mix.” “But let justice run down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Amos 5:24
Rampant Looting at Eskom and the Rape
of the Country
The Sunday Times banner headlined:
“Eskom: R139 Billion Theft Probed –
Rampant looting at new power plants pushes
State Capture costs to R500 Billion” The
other side of the same front page headlines
declared: “Rape claim rocks ANC” “Hate
evil, love good; establish justice in the
gate…” Amos 5:15
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Licence to Loot
Stephan Hofstatter published a new book: “Licence
to Loot – How the Plunder of Eskom and other
parastatals almost sank South Africa.” “Destruction
is in its midst; oppression and deceit do not depart
from its streets.” Psalm 55:11
Supporting What She Recognised as
Unconstitutional and Unethical
It is therefore inexplicable how Cheryllyn Dudley,
MP of the ACDP, could vote to support the BBBEE
Amendment Act 2013. In her statement in the
House, 29 October 2013, on the Employment Equity
Amendment Bill debate, Cheryllyn Dudley MP
declared “The ACDP supports the broad intention
of Employment Equity Legislation… but what is
particularly problematic with this Amendment Bill, is
that the democratic process, from the parliamentary
side, has left business stakeholders feeling that their
views have been totally ignored…. Business Unity
South Africa’s executive director, Vanessa Phala,
says: The trend of the Labour Committee passing
bills without considering the views of business is
very, very worrying; and labour expert, Andrew Levy, called the process of consultation a charade. Miss Phala says
the bill’s removal of the right of companies to appeal against the compliance orders is a violation of the principles of
administrative justice and probably unconstitutional…” Yet after stating numerous reasons why the Bill should not
be supported, ACDP’s Cheryllyn Dudley concluded with: “the ACDP, will, however, be supporting the Bill despite our
reservations…!” Why would a Christian vote for a Bill that is so unconstitutional, unjust and thoroughly unBiblical?
“To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in
them.” Isaiah 8:20
Real Restitution
Restitution was never meant to be a political scam, a cover for corruption, where people who did not do any crime
are forced to pay restitution to people who were not the victims. Biblical restitution is to be made entirely and fully
from the culprit directly to the victim. The restitution that needs to be done in South Africa is from the corrupt ANC
government officials who have looted trillions of Rands from the public treasury through corruption and defrauded
the entire population through excessive taxation, corruption and inflation. “For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate
robbery…” Isaiah 61:8
A Clear Choice
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your
God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and
multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land…” Deuteronomy 30:15-16
Dr. Peter Hammond
You can listen to an audio of this message as presented to the Reformation Society on www.ReformationSA.org, or
view a video of this presentation on: www.ChristianAction.co.za
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Failure to Punish Murderers Invites the Judgement of God
Those who show contempt for lives of others forfeit their own life. Any nation that refuses to avenge the murder of
innocent life must share the guilt of the murderer (Deuteronomy 21:1-9). Only by obeying God’s Law and punishing
murderers with the death penalty can a nation cleanse itself of the guilt of innocent blood. The taking of a murderer’s
life is akin to the amputation of a diseased limb in order to save the rest of the body. All murder is serious and
demands capital punishment. Capital punishment is necessary for justice, for the rule of Law and for the protection
of the innocent.
The Abortion Holocaust
1.6 Million babies have been killed in South Africa through abortion, legally, officially, often with taxpayer’s money,
since Nelson Mandela legalised it on 1 February 1997. How can any nation seriously expect God to bless us when the
nation is defiled with the blood of the innocent?
Deception and Depravity Destroys Democracy
“…your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perversity.” It is not only the politicians who have spoken lies.
The lie has become a pillar of the state. Bearing false witness is standard fare for the mainstream media. SATV, the
BBC – the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation, CNN – the Clinton News Network, Slime Magazine and Newspeak,
Useless News and World Report, the Sunday Crimes, “All the news that’s fit to print” they say. “Without fear or favour”,
they claim. Yet lies and deception are the tools of their trade. They bear false witness, re-writing history, twisting
truths, re-arranging reality, victimising the villains and villainising the victims. Demonising whites, trivialising the
main issues and making mountains out of molehills, exaggerating minor issues and promoting disinformation.
Scapegoating, distracting and distorting seem to be their primary job description. “Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil… Who justify the wicked for a bribe and take away justice from the righteous man!” Isaiah 5:20-23
Degenerate Entertainment Industry Degrades Society
Superficial, sensational and immoral material predominates in the modern entertainment industry and it is
producing an increasingly superficial, selfish, mindless and immoral generation. The Arts have been debased and
depraved, elevating the disgusting and celebrating ugliness. “…their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Romans 1:21. “…those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved…
all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:10,12.
“Your tongue has uttered perversity.” Not satisfied with the deviant being declared normal, they are now determined
to have the normal declared deviant. Not satisfied with toleration, they now demand approval, applause, conformity
and funding for their perversity.
Disinformation and Propaganda Deceive and Distract
State textbooks concentrate on twisting reality and re-writing history. Politically correct myths, anti-white, antiwestern,
anti-missionary, anti-crusades, anti-Reformers, anti-colonial, politically correct myths, legends and
disinformation predominates. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.” Romans 1:28. “He has shown you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8
Why is there So Much Evil and Suffering in the World?
Why do evil things happen? Look around. Open your eyes. Take note of just how vile and violent our society has
become. Just look at what passes for Art, entertainment and music today. How can a holy God bless a nation in
rebellion to Him? How can God answer the prayers of people whose hands are defiled with blood, who make lies and
falsehood pillars of their state? Who delight in perversity?
Injustice, Deceit and Perversity
“No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and
bring forth iniquity.” Isaiah
59:4. Here, in Isaiah 59, we
see the total depravity of
man. “Then, when desire
has conceived, it gives birth
to sin; and sin, when it is
full-grown, brings forth
death.” James 1:15. God’s
Word is truth. Yet, men
tend to prefer to embrace
the lie: Evolution. Atheism.
Secular Humanism. “You
came from nothing. You
are going nowhere. Life is
meaningless.”
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Who Suppress the Truth
“For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown
it to them. For since the Creation of the world His invisible attributes are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although
they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but
became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools.” Romans 1:18-22
Who Exchange the Truth of God for the Lie
“Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts,
to dishonour their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshipped and served
the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions.
For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural
use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in
themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are
whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning,
untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous Judgment of God, that those who practice
such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” Romans 1:24-32
What We Sow is What We Shall Reap
“They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; he who eats of their eggs dies and from that which is crushed a
viper breaks out.” Isaiah 59:5. The fruit of secular humanism, atheism and evolutionism is seen in the situation ethics,
interfaith, multi-culturalism, mixed-marriages, New World Order, illegal aliens, Islamic invasions, abortion holocaust,
pornography plague, pagan invasion, break down of every standard of civilisation and debasing and degrading of
everything good, pure and lovely in this world. It is seen in schools that do not educate, courts that do not uphold
justice, doctors who do not heal, medical professionals who kill babies and euthanize the elderly, teachers who do not
increase knowledge, leaders who fail to lead, police who fail to protect, families that fail to nurture, churches that fail
to make disciples, teaching obedience to all things that the Lord has commanded, congregations that are no longer
houses of prayer for all nations, public servants who loot public resources, governments that steal from their citizens,
laws that no longer restrain the lawless, but which punish the law-abiding and God-fearing. “The wages of sin is death!”
A Web of Deceit
“Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of
iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands.” Isaiah 59:6. The intellectual arguments of secular humanists,
atheists and evolutionists are akin to webs being used for garments – that do not provide clothing, they fail to cover
themselves. Everything has consequences.
Civil Servants are Meant to be Ministers of Justice
The Bible is very clear, God has instituted civil government as “an agent of wrath to bear punishment on the wrongdoer.”
Romans 13:4. The civil government is called to be a minister of God’s justice, “to punish those who do wrong.” 1 Peter
2:14. The primary duties and responsibilities of civil government are the protection of law-abiding citizens and the
punishment of law-breaking criminals. Psalm 101 reminds us that the duty of God honouring rulers is to destroy
the wicked, to root out evil and to protect the law-abiding. “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil…. For
he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s
minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.” Romans 13:3-4. “…Execute judgment in the morning;
and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire and burn so that no one
can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.” Jeremiah 21:12. “When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried
out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.” Ecclesiastes 8:11. Why do people commit crime so readily?
Because criminals are not punished quickly enough.
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Devastation and Destruction
“Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting
and destruction are in their paths.” Isaiah 59:7. What the world calls “a great religion of peace and tolerance” has
proven to be the most violent and intolerant religion in the history of mankind. A religion of hate built upon a lie.
The same could be said of socialism, which promises Heaven but invariably delivers hell. Think of the Christians
who suffered under 70 years of communist oppression in the Soviet Union and those Christian in Eastern Europe
who suffered for over 44 years in what was meant to “the workers paradise” which needed to build an Iron Curtain
to keep its people captive, who needed to shoot their own citizens in the back for attempting to flee to freedom in
the West. Over 160 Million people were killed by socialist governments in the name of atheism, between 1917 and
1991, as documented by The Black Book of Communism and Death by Government. Indeed, waste and destruction
litters their paths.
Deforestation, Drought and Disaster
“How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed, for the wickedness
of those who dwell there…”Jeremiah 12:4. Pollution, deforestation, drought and famine mark the paths of secular
humanist socialists who promise paradise and deliver perdition. The Soviet Union, Red China, Mengistu’s Ethiopia
of the Red Terror, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Castro’s Cuba, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, the list seems
inexhaustible. Every socialist experiment and communist state have bankrupted their economies, laid waste the farms,
destroyed the very foundations of civilisation and left millions of ruined lives and cruelty to animals in their wake.
There is No Justice in their Paths
“The way of peace they have not known and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked
paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace.” Isaiah 59:8. Those who cry “Peace! Peace!” are loathsome false
prophets. The Organisation of African Unity, the World Council of Churches, The United Nations, have proven to
be false prophets, false teachers and false shepherds. Endlessly talking about “peace” and “tolerance” and invariably
delivering war, terrorism, deception, oppression and exploitation, they have made crooked paths indeed. There is no
peace without the Prince of Peace.
Deception, Darkness and Despair
“Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but there is darkness! For
brightness, but we walk in blackness! We grope for the wall like the blind and we grope as if we had no eyes;
we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are as dead men in desolate places.” Isaiah 59:9. Sin is the problem.
Repentance and Faith in Christ is the solution. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. We
need light. This requires justice and righteousness. However, we are in darkness, because of the failure of leadership.
The Word of God is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. We need to return back to the Bible. In the Word of
God we find milk and meat for our souls and spiritual light for our eyes.
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Responding to the Diagnosis of the Problem with Confession of Sin
Isaiah 59:1-8 gives the diagnosis of the problems. From Isaiah 59:9-15, we read the confession of sin.
Repentance Leads to Restoration
In 2 Chronicles 7:14, we read the formula for Repentance and Restoration. “If My people who are called by My Name
will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven
and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” If we want God to heal our land then we need Him to hear our prayers
and forgive our sins. To do this He demands that we humble ourselves, pray, seek His face and turn from our wicked
ways. Humbling ourselves in prayerful confession and heartfelt repentance is foundational.
Grumbling and Complaining
“We all growl like bears and moan sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is
far from us.” Isaiah 59:11. This sounds like a description of our times. Complaining, moaning, talking about justice
when there is none. Far from Salvation. Considering how the Bible has been abandoned in schools and government,
it is no wonder that we grope blindly in the dark.
Acknowledging our Guilt Before God
“For our transgressions are multiplied before You and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us
and as for our iniquities, we know them.” Isaiah 59:12. The prayer that God hears is as our Lord described with the
two men who went up to the Temple to pray: “Lord have mercy on me – a sinner!” We need to humble ourselves and
pray and seek God’s face, turning from our wicked ways. Our sinful selfishness, foolishness and gullibility entrusting
wicked men to be leaders of our country and then being surprised at the catastrophic consequences – all this testifies
against us.
Admitting our Wickedness and Deception
“In transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.” Isaiah 59:13. Removing the Bible and prayer from the opening of
parliament, removing Bible reading, prayer and hymn singing and Bible education from the daily curriculum of our
schools and from the military, is symptomatic of our transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing from
our God. Sabbath desecration, twisting truth, slandering the saints of old, tolerating and encouraging the crime
epidemic, criminalising the victims and an obsession with the rights of criminals, re-writing history, replacing truth
and facts with lies, distortions and blasphemous idolatry.
War Against Truth and Justice
“Justice is turned back and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.”
Isaiah 59:14. Justice has become a sick joke in the ANC-run new South Africa. Truth has indeed fallen in the streets.
When someone tries to bring out a book exposing the criminal corruption, state capture, the gangster state, mobs
of the ANC Youth League stormed the bookshops and damaged private property, tearing up books, mobbing
people who were attempting to purchase these books. In the times of Thabo Mbeki, nine Christian community
radio stations were targeted and closed down by the so-called Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). Today,
ICCASA continues to harass, confuse, overburden and threaten independent Christian community radio stations
and any journalist who dares to question the official narrative with independent research or investigative journalism,
indeed makes himself a prey. Character assassins predominate, including in the church. Those who refuse to partake
in national idolatry and the repeating of the myths and mantras of the new state idolatry are targeted and trashed.
The Problems from Man’s Perspective and the Solution from God’s Perspective
Here we come to the end of the second section in Isaiah 59, the confession. Starting in the middle of Isaiah 59:15,
we begin to see the Salvation of God. In the first half (Isaiah 59:1-15) we see the problems from man’s perspective.
However, now from the second part of Isaiah 59:15, we begin to see what God sees and what God thinks and to hear
what God says.
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Injustice and Inactivity Displeases God
“…Then the Lord saw it and it displeased Him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man and wondered
that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought Salvation for Him; and His own righteousness, it
sustained Him.” Isaiah 59:15-16.
What does God see? Injustice.
What does God think? It displeases Him.
God Seeks Intercessors Who Will Rebuild the Walls
What does God say? “So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap before Me on
behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.” Ezekiel 22:30. The Reformers taught that we get
the governments we deserve. A wicked people find themselves ruled by wicked governments. A corrupt people are
ruled by corrupt governments. A weak people suffer under oppressive governments. Because of the wickedness and
weakness of man – there was no qualified human help.
Sola Gratia!
Here we see the sovereignty of God. Because of the wickedness and weakness of man, because there was no qualified
human help, God initiates Salvation, based upon His own righteousness. Salvation is by the grace of God alone.
Vengeance with Zeal
“For He put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of
vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak.” Isaiah 59:17. This reminds us of the full armour of God in
Ephesians 6. We are involved in a spiritual world war. God is not a pacifist. The first time Jesus came as a Lamb. “The
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!” The next time He will not come as a Lamb, but as a Lion. King of
kings and Lord of lords. Conqueror. God is the Lord of Hosts. The Commander in Chief.
God Judges His Enemies
“According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; the
coastlands He will fully repay.” Isaiah 59:18. God judges His enemies. Those who fight against God have no chance.
There is not a snowballs chance in hell that the enemies of God could ever prevail against the Creator, the Eternal
Judge, the Almighty, All-knowing, Ever-present, Sovereign Lord of the universe. God is a God of Justice.
Persecutors Shall Be Condemned to Perdition
In the catastrophic fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, the death of Angolan dictator, Agostinho
Neto, the dramatic demise of Mozambiquean dictator, cannibal and persecutor of the church, Samora Machel, in
1986, one can see examples of how the Lord repays “fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies.” “The wicked
shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17
The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom
“So shall they fear the Name of the Lord from the West and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy
comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.” Isaiah 59:19. “The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom.” Where sin increased, God’s grace increased much more. The Son of God shall be our Saviour. The
Spirit of God shall be our Sanctifier. Our Lord is our Deliverer, our Strong Fortress, the Rock of our Salvation. When
the enemy comes in like a flood, God will raise up a standard to which the righteous can repair. The Cross of Christ and
the Christian flag serve
as banners to rally
the faithful sons and
daughters, servants and
soldiers of God, to fight
the good fight of Faith.
When the time comes
for us to make a stand,
let us stand up boldly.
When the time comes
for us to step out, let us
step out decisively in
Faith. When the time
comes for us to speak
up, let us speak up and
speak out boldly and
Biblically the Words of
God as recorded in the
Holy Scriptures. When
duty calls or danger, let
us not be wanting there.
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Redemption for the Repentant
“‘The Redeemer will come to Zion and to those who turn from
transgression in Jacob’,” says the Lord.” Isaiah 59:20. Revival begins
with Repentance. Repentance is not merely feeling sorry for our sins.
Repentance involves: Conviction – a change of mind. Contrition – a
change of heart. Conversion – a change of life. “God resists the proud,
but He gives grace to the humble.”
Revival Through Studying the Word of God
“‘As for Me,’ says the Lord, ‘this is My Covenant with them: My Spirit
who is upon you and My Words which I have put in your mouth,
shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your
descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,’
says the Lord, ‘from this time and forevermore’.” Isaiah 59:21. Revivals
are a sovereign work of Almighty God. Here we can see Unconditional
election. Irresistible grace. Limited atonement and Perseverance of
the saints. Revivals grow out of the humble study of the Bible and
obedient application of the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life. We
are called to worship the Lord “in spirit and in truth.” The Word of
God is the Sword of the Spirit. The Belt of Truth is the first part of the
full Armour of God that we have to put on. “You will know the truth
and the truth will set you free.” Our God is a Covenant-keeping God.
He calls us to be faithful in studying, believing, obeying and applying
His Word. We are to make disciples of all nations. We are to teach our
descendants to love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.
We are to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness.
Who is On the Lord’s Side?
In Isaiah 59, we see our problems diagnosed. We read a model confession that we should follow and we are encouraged
and inspired by God’s promise of His plan of Salvation to rescue and redeem us, to destroy His adversaries and defeat
those who make themselves the enemies of God. He calls us to rally to His standard. To stand up for Jesus and fight
the good fight of Faith. Who is on the Lord’s side? Who is for the King of kings?
Stand Up for Jesus
The Day will come when the Lord of lords and King of kings will return to His earth to Judge the living and the dead.
Are you boldly standing on the inerrant Word of Almighty God? Are you teaching the next generation to fear the
Lord, to love Him, to trust and serve Him, to fight the good fight of Faith?
Return to God
In this time of idolatry, deception and apostasy, may God mercifully and graciously grant us a Revival of Repentance.
God has shown us what is good and what He requires of us: To do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our
God.
Our Duty
Why do evil things happen? It is not
for any lack on God’s part, but it is
our iniquities that have separated us
from our God. It is our duty to humble
ourselves and pray, to seek His face and
to turn from our wicked ways. When
we do so, God promises to hear from
Heaven, to forgive our sins and to heal
our land.
We need Revival.
God demands Repentance, humility,
prayer and faithful obedience.
Dr Peter Hammond
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