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¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, ¹⁹ the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, ²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, ²¹ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
–Genesis 15:17-22 (ESV)–

Murderer: covered in sangre
Murderer: blood on your shoulders

Karma: how does it feel?
Karma: to take a life?
Wailin’: wailing in vain
Wailin’: you’ll reap what you sow!

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill

Shot!
Robbing your family
Robbing your friends
Robbing your best friends, you
Rapist: you’ll have no redemption
Burn, burn, burn

Its comin’ back around at you
Its comin’ back around
I might just come after you
I just might come after, but you’ll never know
Broke the first commandment

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou…

Face your judgment!

–Soulfly, “First Commandment”–

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Whoever sheds man’s blood,
by man his blood shall be shed;
for in the image of God He made man.
–Genesis 9:6 (NKJV)–

He who strikes a man so that he dies
shall surely be put to death.
–Exodus 21:12 (NKJV)–

The one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
–Romans 13:4 (NIV)–

The agent of the law who puts the criminal to death is not guilty of murder; rather, it is the law itself which puts him to death…those who have waged war at God’s command, or in accordance with His laws, have represented in their persons the public justice or the wisdom of government, and in this capacity have put to death wicked men; such persons have by no means violated the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
–St. Augustine, The City of God 1.21–

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John Grisham, The Innocent Man (Vintage, 2012).

Dr. Shelton Smith, Capital Punishment Revisited (Sword of the Lord, 2000).

No prophecy was ever produced by the will of man,
but men spoke from God
as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
–2 Peter 1:21 (ESV)–

I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
–Psalm 101:3 (NKJV)–

¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. ² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. ³ In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols. ⁴ Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. ⁵ He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.
–2 Chronicles 34:1-5 (NIV)–

Ronald Reagan
(1981–1989)

Massive War on Drugs escalation.

Mandatory minimum sentences.

Crack cocaine penalties.

Strong anti-pornography DOJ enforcement.

Backed religious moral reform movements.

Not that I don’t believe in free speech and freedom of religion, because I do. But I also believe in other important concepts, like mental health and national security. While I believe that gay marriage should be outlawed and homosexuals should be treated by psychiatrists, I don’t believe in genocide like some whack jobs do (whew!). But as an evangelist, I have got to say, God himself doesn’t play nice with homosexuals–he never has and he never will. –J.B.