What Is Important?

Harvest Haven Herald Issue #12 brought this response from someone on our mailing list, as a post on her blog. This is not the first time someone has told us they appreciate the “eggs,” but the “Chicken” has to go.

Nicole withdrew the posting immediately after receiving Victor's reply, but you can still see her comments at the above link, or here.

Victor’s reply:

I am the owner of Harvest Haven and I now address Nicole Baker’s comments on her web site, as well as the comments made by Deb, the “Christian,” and “Bigmo,” the Muslim. However, I do not write as owner of Harvest Haven but as a bona fide servant and spokesperson of the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of lords, King of kings, very Creator God. In other words, I now address you all in His Almighty Name.

You, Nicole, friends and family have come to us receiving the benefits of our products, saying it is the only major operation in these parts (Southern Alberta) that offers what we offer. I want you to know that if it were not for the fact that Jesus Christ has taken our lives and made them His, and if it was not for the fact that He gave us everything that we have to share with others, you would not have these products available to you.

We have had to pay a price to receive the benefits we now bestow on you. We have paid for them with our lives, losing independence, families, friends, wealth, business associations, vocations, goodwill, reputations, and more.

And it has been all more than worth the cost. We have been delivered of lies, error, ignorance, darkness, and false gods (things we have wittingly or otherwise worshipped, thus shortchanging ourselves of wholesome life). He has delivered us from the crippling bondage of sin (the breaking of His commandments) into a glorious freedom people can’t imagine or even dream about. We have (according to Jesus’ promise, which He faithfully kept) true life, understanding, substance, wholesome acquaintances, health (physical, mental and spiritual), prosperity, direction, purpose, peace and joy; we have Him.

We have sure knowledge of Truth. We know Him Who is Truth. As He said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; no man can come unto the Father but by Me.” (The Muslim does not believe this, notwithstanding his deceptive flatteries – “Islam is peace, Jesus is peace.”)

In making us His, Jesus Christ has revealed the Truth about life to us. He has made known good and evil, right and wrong, truth and error in all aspects of life.

With this knowledge comes responsibility. We are His and not our own. He has the right to do with us as He sees fit, and, for that, we are immensely thankful. Is there a greater honor in existence than to be identified with Him, the Light of the world, in a world steeped in horrid wickedness and darkness? I know of none. Jesus said:

“Be content--pleased, even--when you, My students, My harvest hands, get the same treatment I get. If they call Me, the Master, 'Dungface,' what can the workers expect? Don't be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don't hesitate to go public now. Don't be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There's nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, Who holds your entire life--body and soul--in His hands” (Matthew 10:25-28 MSG).

Jesus said, “What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear, proclaim on the housetops” (Matthew 10:27 MKJV).

We are not here to sell wholesome food for the body above food for the soul. Jesus said:

“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’” (Matthew 4:4 MKJV).

What He has told us, you call “shit.” You, Nicole, call us freaks and idiotic morons. Deb, the “Christian” who “does not believe in condemning what others believe” tacitly approves by saying nothing, and condemns us by saying, “I’d never darken their door again.” And we are the ones spreading intolerance and hatred? Therefore, neither of you will live, even as He said. Indeed, you have darkened our door, haven’t you?

But we obey Him and therefore we live, and we speak because we live, and we live because we speak, though you despise us for it. You are in all contradiction, knowing nothing. You see yourself as opinionated. Little did you know that your opinion would be found to come directly against God. We solemnly inform you that you have opened your mouth against Him.

Deb calls herself a Christian, but her definition of a Christian is as far from God’s definition as dog dung is from wholesome, organic, dark-red, sweet, juicy, flavorful strawberries. She needs to know that.

She says she doesn’t believe in condemning what others believe, but here is what God commanded His servants to do concerning what others believe, if not according to His Law and will:

“Do everything that I command today. Then I will force the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites out of your way. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you're going. This will prove to be a trap to you. But tear down their altars, crush their sacred stones, and cut down their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah. (Never worship any other god, because the LORD is a God Who does not tolerate rivals. In fact, He is known for not tolerating rivals.)” (Exodus 34:11-14 GW)

Is Deb wiser than God? Is Deb a real Christian? Certainly not according to the Bible and not according to Christ, the One after Whom she calls herself. To her do these, His words, apply:

“On the day of judgment many will call Me their Lord. They will say, ‘We preached in Your Name, and in Your Name we forced out demons and worked many miracles.’ But I will tell them, ‘I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of My sight, you evil people!’” (Matthew 7:22-23 CEV)

As for “Bigmo”; he mechanically recites the Koran, not knowing what he does. He reads a book (the Koran) that calls the Bible a pack of lies and Jesus Christ a liar, claiming the Bible is untrustworthy. His authority is the Koran; according to him and all Muslims, we should believe the Koran and not the Bible. We know differently, having proven the Truth of the Scriptures for ourselves, and we are not afraid to say so, notwithstanding the vicious threats against those who do. Little does he know that he comes against the Creator and fights a losing battle.

We will be posting these letters on both our sites at thepathoftruth.com and harvesthaven.com.

Loudly but humbly, in Truth, we say we are Christians,

Victor Hafichuk

Paul’s reply to one of the blog commentators:

Hi Debbie,

Regarding your comment on Nicole’s blog, you may think you are a moral person, but that does not make you a Christian. Far from it. You really have no idea what a Christian is, because being a real Christian means you will, by your very nature, do what you say you would never do, and that is condemn the darkness and lies that others believe. You are mistaken, however, that you, even in your unbelief, would never do that. Everyone in the world lives according to varying amounts of Light from God that compels them to either accept or condemn the beliefs of others. The Bible, something with which you are apparently unfamiliar in content and spirit, though it is the Record of the One you profess to believe, says this:

“For when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by nature the things contained in the Law, these, having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves: Which show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another” (Romans 2:14-15 KJV).

But you say, in ignorance, pride, and darkness:

“I don’t believe in condemning what others believe.”

What do you think you have just done with those who are being examined on this blog? Are you not condemning what we believe? So you can see how believing the lie that you do not judge others compels you to lie about what you are doing.

You have no idea of the fearful price that you, along with so many others, have paid and are paying for conducting yourself as you do, believing lies, and at the same time professing the Name of the Lord. He is the Truth, the Antithesis of lies. You cannot believe in Him and co-exist with lies. He is the Light, and Light dispels darkness. If you were in Christ you could not speak lies in darkness, wherein you contradict yourself and are even proud of it, resisting the Truth. That means your profession of Christ is a vain one, totally empty and without the good effect it would have if you truly believed and were committed to Him.

It brings shame to His Name to misrepresent Him. It is worse than being an ordinary heathen sinner. The non-professing heathen has no pretension and is not nearly as responsible as you are, one who should know better according to the One in Whom you claim to believe.

The Scripture I quoted above establishes that it is not at all necessarily wrong for anyone to condemn what others believe. Common sense establishes this as well. If you are Catholic and your parish priest believes his pedophilia is excusable before God and man, will you then leave your sons alone with him on overnight trips, as many have, and say, “I don’t believe in condemning what others believe”?

Of course you would not. You rightfully condemn many things people believe (evidenced by what they do) all the time. When the things people do lead to unjust harm, injury, degradation and destruction, we cannot with a good conscience approve of those things when we know better. We certainly cannot do them ourselves, and we cannot stand with and support others in their insistence on doing them as though they are right and justified. That is why, for one of many examples, we farm organically and also support others that do. That is also why there are laws, criminal courts, armies, and many things that have been needful in order for people to lead quiet, productive lives in this world.

Jesus Christ says that one is a hypocrite for condemning others when she does the same thing as those she condemns. Furthermore, you condemn and characterize what we are doing as hateful and ignorant. Can you prove these allegations? Are we the haters, or do we condemn those who hate? (Read The Answer to Islam.)

In the matter of spreading ignorance and hate, Islam is a virtual non-stop hate and ignorance propagation machine, based on lies and blasphemy against God, the Lord Jesus Christ. We, in the Name of the Lord, condemn this in no uncertain terms. There really is no choice in the matter. The question is: Why don’t you? Where have you been? Are you wearing a hijab that covers not only your face, but your eyes and ears?

The Koran calls Jesus Christ a liar. You, however, show yourself to be more righteous than, and morally superior to, God by condemning, not the lie, but those who expose it. You are, as with so many, a self-styled “non-judgmental and loving Christian,” preferring to show your love and non-judgmentalism to the sinners in the world, with whom you are one, rather than to God, to Whom you are hostile:

“Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy” (James 4:4 GNB).

What makes you think that defending Islam as a legitimate representative of God, which is what it claims to be (and the only one), is not being judgmental? Do you know what it is that you are approving, and what it mandates for you, as one professing Christ? You should. You are judging something that is unlawful and dangerous as lawful and benign. If your little boy was approached by a rattlesnake would you judge the snake to be a good and safe companion for your son? I don’t think so. You would judge otherwise.

You are judging in favor of Islam, which opposes you, and you are judging against God, Who is for you. How are you judging against Him? He, the Lord Jesus Christ, declares Himself to be the Son of God, and was shown to be so by the resurrection from the dead, which is our only hope of salvation. This, Islam blatantly denies and refutes. Furthermore, Islam uses the supposed superior revelation of Muhammad over Christ as a platform to subjugate, pillage, rape and murder in the name of Allah, a demonic imposter. And you do not condemn this? That makes you confederate with murderers and rapists.

Is Islam peace? Jesus said, “Judge not by the claims but by the results.”

But we condemn no person, not you, not your fellow bloggers, and not any Muslim. We speak the Truth that condemns (judges) the lies that you and these others believe, and we condemn the things each of you does as a result of believing lies, which lead you to destroy yourselves and each other. Choosing lies over Truth, you must, of necessity, be judged by God, Who says there will be an end to the destruction and darkness, by the Word of His Truth spoken to you:

“ And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. He that rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him--the word which I spoke, that word will judge him in the last day” (John 12:47-48 EMTV).

You also judge God inasmuch as you condemn our speaking by Him, saying you would have nothing to do with us. This is according to Jesus Christ, the One Whose Name you proudly, though falsely, use to label yourself:

“The one hearing you hears Me, and she who despises you despises Me; she who rejects you also rejects Him Who sent Me” (Luke 10:16 MKJV).

Paul Cohen
www.thepathoftruth.com

Debbie's response:

First of all, you have no right to judge me--you aren't God. Remember what the Bible says about first removing the plank from your own eye before you tell your neighbor to remove the splinter from his own?

I'll leave it at that--because the God I believe in teaches love and tolerance for all human kind-- and that's what I'll continue to do. I'll admit I'm not perfect, none of us are except Jesus. But I won't apologize for my words on Nicole's blog. Instead I'll pray for peace in the world, and that once again people will learn to love and respect each other.

This will seem extremely rude--but I don't know how you got my email address, but I ask that you not contact me again.

Paul's reply:

Debbie,

If you do not wish to hear from us, then it would be advisable that you and your friends start with the bare minimum of not making irresponsible, unjustified, public or private remarks and judgments about people. We assure you (we know whereof we speak and do not speak in vain), God is finished winking at your careless, wicked, and hypocritical behavior. He has had it with you.

You say, “You have no right to judge me—you aren’t God.” What hypocrisy! This is coming from the one who judges us, refuses to provide any evidence to back up her accusations, and then closes the door behind her as she flees in adamant refusal to take responsibility for her words. Are you not judging us? What kind of god are you serving by your ways?

But we know that the Lord God does not judge people as you do. He does not falsely accuse. He provides evidence and just cause for what He says and does. He identifies the plank in one’s eye. You are obviously not with the true God, and He is not with you in slandering your neighbor, contrary to His Nature and Law:

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16 HNV).

If you were to judge in the manner that God does, you would have answered the following questions that I asked you in my last letter:

“Furthermore, you condemn and characterize what we are doing as hateful and ignorant. Can you prove these allegations? Are we the haters, or do we condemn those who hate?”

If you were with God, and walked as He does, not only could you have answered these questions, you would have been eager to do so. You would have been zealous to search out, to proclaim, and to vindicate the Truth. You would have wanted to help us by correcting us where we are wrong instead of ignoring legitimate questions that seek to establish validity. God always gives the truth to those who ask for His correction. That is the love of God. You talk much about love, but have none of His.

There is, however, another spirit who loves humanity, yet he is known by God to be a liar and murderer, as the deceiver of the whole earth, as the one who appears as an angel of light, speaking of “love and respect” because he has set his affection on the things of men, and not on the things of God. He is also known as the accuser of the brethren of Christ.

That spirit is Satan.

Satan is your god, the one you talk about, serve, and manifest. He is the one that judges after the appearance to preserve people in their pride, not calling them to repentance and public confession of sin, but allowing them to seek and retain the honor and favor of others instead of speaking the truth. Jesus Christ, the One you falsely claim to follow, spoke the following words to you and to all those who follow Satan, the prince of this world:

“You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win praise from the One Who alone is God; how, then, can you believe Me?” (John 5:44 GNB).

How did Satan become the prince of this world, except he is the god of “love and tolerance for all human kind,” to which you so proudly proclaim your allegiance and service? Satan, the god of this world, tolerates all people, the key point being he tolerates them in their sins to keep them there, as they give their allegiance to him rather than to God, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Way, Truth, and Life Who leads men to repentance and reformation.

What does the call of God to repentance mean except that you are not acceptable, respectable, or tolerable to Him in the state that you are?

As Satan’s loyal subject, the only “love and respect” you are interested in is that which is demonstrated towards you by those accepting you in your sins. In this you have chosen to be his willing slave. That is why you accuse us and refuse to justify your accusations. That is why you run away when called into account. You only love those who love you, who accept you in your sins, and do not tolerate those in the Truth, Who exposes the cover of darkness under which you hide. Under that cover are all kinds of unclean things, including Islam, which you can tolerate as an unholy bedfellow, and will defend, rather than embrace the Truth and forsake your ways of darkness.

That is why you say, “I’ll admit I’m not perfect, none of us are except Jesus,” as if His perfection is an excuse for your sinfulness and remaining in darkness. His perfection in the flesh condemns, not justifies, you in your sins. If He did not come and make the way for you to be forgiven, cleansed of your sins, and delivered out of the sin nature altogether, fulfilling His commandment to be perfect before God, then you would have excuse. But now you have none:

“Therefore be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48 MKJV).

You make things worse by confessing His Name while you cling to your sins. While your false humility and platitudes may be pleasing to some that do not see or know better, it is all a massive insult to God, as if you are trying to cover over the smell of your vomit and excrement with a cheap, imitation perfume. You are calling Him a liar to justify yourself. It does not get much more low-down and despicable than that. You are the liar, and you will not be spared, and are not spared as you try to cling to the horns of the altar, as if your religious profession will save you.

“But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8 MKJV).

Paul Cohen

www.thepathoftruth.com