Psalm 2 ~ ask of Me

Psalm 2

English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio

1 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”

7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Osama bin Laden is dead. Men have died and worms have eaten them - not for love. Law and power. Nations manipulated for self-interest.

Why would a man whose parents divorced when he was a baby, raised by a step-father in a tribal society (inheriting wealth from his natural father) be so interested in the Wahhabism branch of Islam? Ibn Abd-Al-Wahhab denounces the practice of blind adherence to the interpretations of scholars, and tribal practices of Islam. Wahhab argues individual Muslims are responsible to learn and obey the divine commands as they were revealed in the Koran. Self-interpretation...

What would Osama bin Laden have prayed for? Jihad. Why?

What did these sets of laws represent to Osama bin Laden? An organized way of life, creating power of organization, power of religious law and a strict place for women within those laws. Power of mens' sexuality, with rights favoring men. Osama bin Laden seems to care very little his mother was divorced right after his birth, so his father's 22 wives would now fit neatly back in the 4 wives always recommended by the Koran. Nor did he mind, at age 18, marrying his 14 year old first cousin. It was in 1500 A.D. people realized women should not marry before the age of 15, due to the high rate of death in pregnancy.

The men involved with Al-Qaeda believe Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban is "the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. Their ideology believes civilians, including women and children, are legitimate targets of jihad - the destruction of Israel and all that is Semitic.

Growing Up bin Laden was written by Osama bin Laden's first wife Najwa Ghanem, with her son Omar bin Laden and Jean Sasson. After years of living with an increasingly violent and taciturn Osama, Omar bin Laden knew he had to leave the day their father invited all of his sons to become suicide bombers at a speech given by Osama in a mosque by referring them to look at a brochure Osama had made for martyrdom for Islam. Omar asked his father how he could ask this of his sons and Osama replied his sons meant nothing more to him than anyone else living in Afghanistan. The original pleasant life they had led had become just a memory, living in barbaric conditions without basic necessities or medicines. An increasingly angry Osama bin Laden tried chemical experiments of death on his own son's dog's puppies.

Intelligence reports say Osama bin Laden trained other men to become martyrs for Allah, putting his energies into becoming a cold-blooded killer from comfortable housing; after gathering men to him, he did not live as the warriors he trained. From 2001, bin Laden has not been seen in fighting or living in guerrilla warfare housing, when bin Laden was thought to be wounded. Since 2004, none of the hierarchy of the Al Qaeda have been found living in the environment of the extreme militant martyrs they train. We have captured and killed Al Qaeda leaders, but never an Al Qaeda leader volunteering for martyrdom. This is what Jesus referred to as a religious lawyer.

Luke 11:46
And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

According to the book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11", written by Lawrence Wright. The Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood have no plan. They simply want to destroy things and "take over." An economic plan? None. The only goal of the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, is the hijab head-covering for women. Other than belief Sharia law will set things right in the Muslim world, the Al-Qaeda has no plan or goal for society. "It is like an empty vessel." Bin Ladin has no plan other than wanting the U.S. out of Saudi Arabia, and blind destruction of things western.

Bin Laden created a myth of enlarging his own role in the Afghan war against the Soviets. He was disappointed when their Kenyan and Tanzanian attacks on the US Embassies and the attack on the USS Cole did not bring greater war during the Clinton Administration. According to Wright, Bin Laden was driven to madness by US presence in the sacred lands of Islam. Saudi Arabia did not want all of the Afghanistan Islamic militia after the war in Kuwait. Saudi Arabia chose American troops. As long as he was able, he was going to attempt greater and greater attacks on the USA.

Father God, protect us from power without mercy. Protect us from rhetoric preaching retaliation and revenge leaning into mob mentality and fear of reprisal. Clear out the spirit of revenge and violence. We ask for Your Light in Jesus Christ to give justice with mercy, walking humbly with the Lord. We ask for right thinking about blood-violence, revenge, anger, and the rights of a woman in marriage. We ask for purity in marriage forsaking all others to love and to cherish, to death us do part. We ask that Nikah Mut'ah, a fixed-time arrangement between a man and a woman that dissolves once the duration expires, for prostitution - another aspect of Sharia law making make clear the injustice and impurity of Sharia law towards women and their rights in marriage of their spouse.

Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways

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