“Working hours had been drastically increased in anticipation of Hate Week. It was more than a month distant, but the enormous, complex preparations that it entailed were throwing extra work on to everybody.”

George Orwell
1984

In Orwell’s 1984 the idea of Hate Week first shows up on page 3 and becomes a mini-theme throughout the book. For Orwell, Hate Week is an operation put on Oceania’s government in order to increase the hatred the population feels. The hatred is directed at the two opposing superstates, Eurasia and Eastasia, as well as at Emmanuel Goldstein, the leader of the mythical “Brotherhood.”

Hate Week was for Oceania what Christmas and Easter is for Christians today. It was a high and holy day anticipated by everybody and celebrated by all. It came each year with a new “Hate song.” Orwell describes the preparations for Hate Week;

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

I note all this to say that art has become life. While we do not yet have official Hate Weeks or the other Orwellian fixture of official daily “two minute hates” we have in our culture embraced the substance of this Orwellian reality.

Today I read in the Washington Post that a substitute teacher was fired somewhere because the sub dared to try and provide background for why Vladimir Putin is doing what he is doing in Ukraine. However, while this firing dynamic may be unique in relation to the whole Russia and Ukraine affair it is not at all a new dynamic in terms of the hate that is required by the FEDS for certain unsanctioned and so unacceptable behavior.

Hate required of the populace by the FEDS? How about the hate that is required for the amorphous and impossible to define thing called “racism?” How about hate required of the populace by the FEDS for those who say “Vaccines can go bugger themselves?,” or, “You can take your mask and shove it up your southern most aperture where it might actually do some good?” How about all the Hate pushed by the FEDS that results in what we now airily refer to as “Cancel Culture.”

Hate Week? Hells bells that would be a vast improvement of epic proportions. We are currently living under a Federal regime that demands Hate Year, year by year. The FEDS push us to hate those who love the historic definition of family, who love the idea that marriage is reserved only for one man and one woman, who love the idea of loving their nation,  etc. etc. etc. The FEDS are even assiduously working on, via Critical Race Theory taught in Government Hate schools, getting the population to hate all white people

Are people so stupid that they can’t learn the lesson that Orwell was teaching in 1984? The State is not our god people and if anything should be hated right now it is the Hate State who is conniving to constantly keep us in a lather.

Now, I know a thing or two about hate, constantly being accused myself of being a “hater.” Why just a couple days ago someone reminded me again of how hateful I am;

“I will pray for the congregation as they are being misled by these posts, your words, your hate.”

And because I am an expert on being a hater I resent the Hate State encroaching upon my bailiwick and so insist that the Hate State quit with their organizing of hate and leave the hatred to us professionals.

3.) Faith adds nothing to the “esse” only to the “bene esse” of justification; it is no part of, nor any ingredient in it; it is a complete act in the eternal mind of God, without the being or consideration of faith, or any foresight of it; a man is as much justified before as after it, in the account of God; and after he does believe, his justification does not depend on his acts of faith; for though “we believe not, yet he abides faithful”; that is, God is faithful to his covenant engagements with his Son, as their Surety, by whose suretyship-righteousness they are justified; but by faith men have a comfortable sense, perception and apprehension of their justification, and enjoy that peace of soul which results from it; it is by that only, under the testimony of the divine Spirit, that they know their interest in it, and can claim it, and so have the comfort of it. 

John Gill 
Baptist Theologian

Faith does not add to the essence (esse) of Justification but only the sense of wellness (bene esse) that arises from being justified. This is what I was reaching for yesterday when I wrote of faith being the instrumental passive cause of subjective justification but not of objective justification.  Objective justification cannot be brought into being by faith since objective justification exists as an eternal and immanent act of God.

Faith is no part of Justification except for the part it plays in the realization that one is Justified apart from works. With this understanding faith cannot become a work which so commonly happens apart from embracing eternal justification.

Now as to Gill’s claim that a man is as justified before it is published to his consciousness as he is after the publication of it to his consciousness, this is just a matter of recognizing a reality. All the elect before they know their justification are pre-self aware justified ones. God does not know them as reprobate but as those who while currently in rebellion against God are those who being justified will soon enough become self-aware of their justification. Nothing will stop them from the appointed time when the Holy Spirit will publish it to their consciousness whereupon they will own it by responding upon regeneration in faith and so be subjectively justified. This is what Gill is getting at when he writes above,

by faith men have a comfortable sense, perception and apprehension of their justification, and enjoy that peace of soul which results from it; it is by that only, under the testimony of the divine Spirit, that they know their interest in it, and can claim it, and so have the comfort of it. 

Even’s God’s revelation of His anger toward the rebellious but justified one is a sign that the rebellious one is justified from eternity since God’s grace in making known his anger against sin only dawns on those who are justified from eternity. Nobody except those who are justified from eternity receive God’s grace to know God’s wrath upon them.

Gill introduces here the idea of Christ as the justified ones Surety. This is an older theological concept that is seldom talked about in the contemporary church. A person who provides suretyship is a person who undertakes a specific responsibility on behalf of another who remains primarily liable. A surety is one who makes himself liable for the default or miscarriage of another, or for the performance of some act on his part (e.g. payment of a debt, appearance in court for trial, etc.). Christ did not become our surety upon an act of faith on our part that made His suretyship our suretyship. Christ was our surety on the Cross and on the Cross the instantiation of our eternal Justification was accomplished.

“Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine.”

Joe Bite-Me
Pervert in Chief

“Our forces are not and will not be engaged in a conflict with Russia in Ukraine.”

Joe Bite-Me
Pervert in Chief

Biden has reasserted several times now he has not intent to have our armed forces fighting in Ukraine. When I first heard the man say that I immediately concluded that it was only a matter of time until American boots would be on the ground in Ukraine. Now, to be sure, I may be wrong about this but I have more than sufficient reason to give Biden’s statement its exact opposite meaning. This kind of thing is an old game in this American “Republic.” We’ve covered this material before on Iron Ink but in order to give justification for my absolute resolve to conclude that Biden’s hair tasting tongue is lying I offer this reminder of previous promises coming from US Presidents on the same issue.

Our first example comes from the perhaps the greatest lying President of them all; the sainted and worshiped Abraham Lincoln who in his first inaugural address lied saying,

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ”

Because Lincoln is genuflected before as a secular saint of the American civil religion most people don’t know that Lincoln started the Civil War by his deceptive work with the “Star of the West.” Lincoln, via Seward, was lying to Southern Representatives about possible peace pursuits all the while arranging for war by preparing the “Star of the West” to take aggressive action against Fort Sumter.

By examining this link one can readily see that it was in Lincoln’s hands that rested the momentous issue of civil war.

Ft. Sumter

The Newspaper the “Jersey City American Standard” said at the time;

“ …this unarmed vessel (Star of the West) is a mere decoy to draw the first fire from the people of the South, which act by the pre-determination of the government is to be the pretext for letting loose the horrors of war.”

Lincoln promised that he would not be the aggressor. He said that the decision of war was in the hands of the South. It was all lies.

Lincoln gives us example #1 of why we should not believe Bite-me’s promises.

Example #2 comes from Woodrow Wilson who in the 1916 made the centerpiece of His presidential campaign, “He kept us out of war.” The man won the White House on the center-piece reminder that “He kept us out of war,” which implied a promise that Wilson was going to continue to keep us out of war. In the election Wilson’s campaign put out campaign buttons saying “Europe at War; America at Peace. God Bless Wilson”

By this slogan the incumbent President eked out a narrow victory over Charles Evans Hughes in November 1916. No sooner was Wilson elected to his second term upon the slogan that “He kept us out of war,” Wilson began to accelerate his plotting and conniving to get us into the damn European war.

Example #3 comes from the lying liar who lied with every breath, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Listen to Roosevelt’s promises regarding potential involvement of the US in a European war under his administration. In 1939, upon the beginning of European hostilities FDR went to Congress asking for the repeal of the embargo on the sales of arms to belligerent powers, which was part of the existing neutrality legislation. FDR based his appeal on the argument that this move would help to keep the United States at peace. His words on the subject were:

Let no group assume the exclusive label of the “peace bloc.” We all belong to it … I give you my deep and unalterable conviction, based on years of experience as a worker in the field of international peace, that by the repeal of the embargo the United States will more probably remain at peace than if the law remains as it stands today … Our acts must be guided by one single, hardheaded thought — keeping America out of the war.

In the 1940 Presidential campaign FDR was everywhere promising Americans that they would not become involved in another damn European war.

October 30: “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

The same thought was expressed in a speech at Brooklyn on November 1: “I am fighting to keep our people out of foreign wars. And I will keep on fighting.”

The President told his audience at Rochester, New York, on November 2: “Your national government … is equally a government of peace — a government that intends to retain peace for the American people.”

On the same day the voters of Buffalo were assured: “Your President says this country is not going to war.”

And he declared at Cleveland on November 3: “The first purpose of our foreign policy is to keep our country out of war.”

And this is only a Whitman’s sampler.

So, when a President tells me like Biden is telling me that no American forces will be sent to fight in Ukraine you will excuse me if my cynicism radar is buried in expectation that we will soon enough have American boots on the ground in Ukraine.

After all… Biden’s ability to lie is no less than Lincoln’s, Wilson’s, and FDR’s.