“My holy Name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel.  I will not let My holy Name be profaned anymore, and the Gentiles will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.”

Ezekiel 39: 7

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Kanye West Turned to Jesus and the Borking Intensified

The Borking of Kanye West Beings

The Borking of Kanye West started when he saw the truth about President Trump and then told people about it.  From the “liberal progressive” point of view, that was the unpardonable sin.

See “Michael Eric Dyson: Blacks Can Not Stand By Kanye West; This Is ‘White Supremacy By Ventriloquism’”:

Michael Eric Dyson called the President Donald Trump-Kanye West meeting an example of mass ignorance in the face of the downfall of democracy. Dyson also shook his head at the notion that Kanye could have brought Trump and Colin Kaepernick together. He went as far to say that African-Americans cannot stand by his comments and that they must intervene on his behalf.

Dyson also accused West of furthering white supremacy by giving “cover” to Trump and of being a puppet. He called West a ventriloquist dummy for white supremacists.

“This is time for us to say Kanye, we, as African-American people cannot stand idly by while you give cover to a man who is proved to be a white supremacist,” Dyson said. “This is white supremacy by ventriloquism. A black mouth is moving but white racist ideals are flowing from Kanye West’s mouth.”

Vilification

West was vilified by fellow blacks for opening his eyes to the truth. He was accused of “giving ‘cover’ to [President] Trump”, an alleged white supremacist.  In effect, they accused West of being a white supremacist and of being President Trump’s dummy in a vaudeville ventriloquism act.

Kanye West has left the plantation.

President Trump has done more for black Americans than any president in my lifetime.  Despite being half-black, Barack Obama did more to harm black Americans than any president in my lifetime.  Obama’s domestic policies were designed to keep blacks subservient and dependent and on the plantation.

As far as I know, no one has called West an “Uncle Tom” publicly, but that’s exactly what they meant, because he’s not reading from the “liberal progressive” script.  He’s thinking for himself and following the facts and evidence.

If West had stayed on the plantation, he would still be getting accolades from those who are disparaging him.  They did the same thing to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Black people said that Thomas was a nominal black, meaning that he was black in skin color only, because he didn’t parrot the party line.

To “liberal progressive” Democrats and their followers in the black community, true blackness is only marginally about skin color. More than anything else, they think blackness is determined by what you think, do, and say. If you think, do, and say the right things, you are really black. If you don’t think, do, and say the right things, you aren’t black.

Kanye West Turned to Jesus and the Borking Intensified

West broke with “liberal progressive” orthodoxy again when he publicly declared recently that he had become a Christian.  See “Kanye West Confirms He Recently Converted to Christianity”:

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“I want to let you know that I am not here for your entertainment this afternoon,” West told the crowd. “We are here to spread the gospel.”

“Excuse me if I mispronounce anything,” he added. “I am a recent convert. It means I recently got saved within this year.”

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West’s Conversion Brought an Avalanche of Criticism

See “Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Is King’ Is Fake Christianity at Its Finest”:

After weeks of false release dates, teased snippets and ridiculous sound bites, Kanye West finally delivered his curiously-anticipated not-exactly-gospel album, Jesus Is King. The album notably comes on the heels of Kanye’s much-hyped Sunday Service shows: a series of gospel-themed performances that grew from private church sessions at his Calabasas home attended by various Hollywood A-listers to West and Co. literally crashing church services and college campuses around the country to perform tracks from the new album. So what to make of Jesus Is King, now that it’s here? The final product of all the chatter over the past few months is underwhelming as a grand creative statement—and inconsequential as a “gospel” album. 

Of course, pop artists having spiritual awakenings is nothing new. In 1958, Little Richard renounced rock & roll as “the devil’s music” and walked away from his career at its peak to become a minister. The Jewish-raised Bob Dylan became a born-again Christian in the late-‘70s, releasing albums like Saved before returning to more traditional themes. Cat Stevens converted to Islam and changed his stage name to Yusef. In hip-hop, Run-DMC re-emerged in 1993 with the Christianity-referencing “Down With the King,” while MC Hammer released full-fledged gospel songs like “Pray” and “Do Not Pass Me By.” Artists like Goodie Mob and Lauryn Hill kept Christian themes prominent in their music, while former Kanye collaborator Lupe Fiasco’s Muslim faith permeates his music—as does the Christianity of Chance the Rapper, another Kanye protege.

See “Kanye West’s Christian conversion is less about Jesus than it is about Kanye”:

Once upon a time, I used to believe in a certain version of Kanye West — the man who condemned then-President George W. Bush for not caring enough about Black people during Hurricane Katrina, or the straight Black man willing to speak out against homophobia in hip-hop — but no longer. His narcissism, his self-loathing and his politics have been on full display long enough for me to know that I don’t need to attend Sunday Service or subject myself to a “Jesus Is King” listening session. West’s latest shtick is clearly nothing more than him showing us a Black Pat Robertson in a dumb red hat with a beat machine, with pretensions of being gospel star Kirk Franklin.

Franklin, notably, recently earned headlines after boycotting the Christian music Dove Awards, the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the Gospel Music Association “until tangible plans are put in place to protect and champion diversity,” after part of his acceptance speech addressing police brutality was edited out of the broadcast. This Kanye would never.

So I’ll wait for Franklin’s record instead of giving “Jesus Is King” any streams. My Jesus knew slavery wasn’t a choice, but helping false prophets profit off of his name is.

See “How Kanye West’s Controversial “Jesus Is King” Is Dividing the Christian Community”:

On Jesus Is King, Kanye West depicts himself as a lonely martyr barred from the Christian kingdom.

“They’ll be the first one to judge me / Make it feel like nobody love me,” he says of Christians in “Hands On.” In another track, “Selah,” he compares himself to a Biblical patriarch: “Before the flood, people judge / They did the same thing to Noah.”

West has certainly received a fair amount of backlash for his hard turn toward spiritual music. On Twitter, blog posts and published articles, black Christians have frequently accused West of hypocrisy and commodification — especially given his support of Donald Trump and his eyebrow-raising comment that slavery “sounds like a choice.”

But West has also received a groundswell of support— particularly from gospel artists themselves. Many of these musicians believe that no matter what they think about West’s politics, it’s more important that a prominent artist with an enormous reach is relying on gospel traditions to talk fervently about God.

There is Hope

Not everyone saw West’s salvation experience as a cheap trick.  See “Kanye’s wrecking-ball conversion and other commentary”:

For Andrew Walker at National Review, Kanye West’s latest album, ­“Jesus Is King,” is the best showcase of the rapper’s “very public conversion to Christianity.” Each song’s lyrics are “shockingly Christian,” and West is “deeply critical of modernity and cultural progressivism.” In a larger sense, his conversion could be a “wrecking ball” to the “assumed, comfortable and ­unchecked cultural liberalism” in America. ­Indeed, West has become a “cultural reactionary” by today’s standards, railing against “indoctrination” of children and the evil effects of tech. Yet Christians need to resist the temptation to make West a “champion of Christianity.” Saint Paul, notes Walker, warned “about vesting too much hope and confidence in new converts, fearing they would be puffed up with pride,” which is something Kanye “has no problem exuding.”

I’m not Yahweh, so I won’t try to judge Kanye West, but I will say this. When you have a personal encounter with Yahweh, it’s hard to keep quiet about it.  If it’s real, it’s awe-inspiring.  Your life changes and you want to tell people what you know.

What Do Christians Know?

Christians understand that humans are sinners and that Yahweh demands perfection.

No matter how hard we try, we can’t earn our way to Yahweh by being good, because good doesn’t mean the same thing to us that it means to Him.

To Yahweh, good means perfection.

Thankfully, Yahweh provided a Savior to redeem us. To qualify to be our Redeemer/Savior, the Messiah had to be perfect.  Since no one is perfect, Yahweh had to become a Man and pay the price for our sins Himself.  He gladly did it.

Being a Christian simply means that you recognize that Yahweh is your Savior.  If you ask Him to save you and you are sincere, He will do it.

Living a Christian life isn’t about trying to do good or even about being good.  It’s about letting Yahweh take you where He wants you to go. It’s called being obedient.

Being obedient to Yahweh means letting Him take you where He wants you to go. That’s what He calls good.

Faith and obedience explain Christianity in a nutshell: Faith that Yahweh can and will save you and a willingness to trust Him enough to obey Him, i.e., to go where He leads you.

People who have faith and obedience stand out, because they don’t go with the flow.  Kanye West isn’t going with the flow.  Neither is Bob Dylan or Kris Kristofferson.

All of them were criticized for recognizing the truth and not being quiet about it.  All of them lost friends, but they made many more.  Yahweh is the most important Friend they made.  He will never let them down.

The price of our salvation was very high.  It was the blood of Yahweh.

The next time Yahweh comes, it won’t be as the Sacrificial Lamb to be slaughtered for His people’s forgiveness and salvation.  He will return as the Lion of Judah.

When Yahweh returns, His people will rejoice and sing HalleluYah!  Unbelievers will see a side of Yahweh that they don’t want to see.

In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis eloquently explained what that day will be like:

God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else – something it never entered your head to conceive – comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)

See “His Name is Yahweh”.