Marketing Evil

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! (Isaiah:5:20-21 [20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! [21] Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Persuading others to embrace and perpetrate evil is not as difficult as we might think. All it really takes is a good marketing plan and an adept salesperson or, for a larger population, a committed sales force. Selling evil that appears evil can be a hard sell, but if it is repackaged as something that looks good or desirable, well, there are plenty of takers. This is not an altogether new concept. It is as old as the Garden of Eden. A crafty and evil sales rep just “happened” on the happy couple living in paradise. With just a few sneaky questions, he persuaded the unsuspecting woman that she had been cheated – something highly desirable had been withheld from her to her great detriment…he implied that God had deceived the couple, holding back something from them that was extremely desirable and offered great wisdom. Eating it would, after all, make her like God, knowing good from evil! Yes, God had placed them in a beautiful, lush garden, but He certainly didn’t want them to have His knowledge or be His equal. How selfish!

The woman added to God’s prohibition, saying that not only the eating of the fruit would kill them, but even just touching it would be their downfall. God was a deceiver, selfishly keeping them from something wonderful that they rightfully deserved! God was certainly not good and kind after all! Who would not want to have God’s knowledge? She ate it, of course, and fed it to her husband, who also knew God’s prohibition but did not seem to have objected to her offering. But, no, it was the serpent who was the deceiver – not God….Perhaps that is one of the reasons there is so much written in Scripture warning about the dangers of false prophets, false teachers, and deceivers. All that is needed is a good marketing strategy to sweep many down the drain with them. This begs the question – why would false prophets and false teachers want anything to do with lies and/or wish to take anyone down with them? I mean, they are still going down, right? Why not try to save themselves, or at least to warn others away? Perhaps, in most cases, the deceivers are themselves deceived.

We could, and many have, written entire books and treatises on this subject. Even so, few seem to recognize the “problem with the sales pitch” until they have already signed on the dotted line and find themselves marching in lockstep with all of the other newly minted multi-level marketers of evil. We currently see this type of deceptive tactic used in the Progressive movement, Woke movement, Hamas, and so many others…A rather remarkable coalition between Hamas, Progressives, and the Woke publicly surfaced just this past week. How could there be a meeting of the minds between Woke “woman’s rights” and “LGBTQ advocates” and Hamas, a terrorist group that, besides being haters of Israel, subjugates women and kills homosexuals? It is really quite astounding. But you see, they have created for themselves what they imagine is a common enemy.

So just how is all the barbaric killing of innocent Jewish people, including babies and children, justified by Liberal groups – and what is the unifying lie? It’s simple, really. Just label the Nation of Israel “colonizers” along with other nasty epithets, and Voila, hatred of the Jewish people (anti-Semitism) and violence against them is not only approved but encouraged. This is the marketing plan used to justify the evil barbarity of last week and for who knows how long? The “colonizers” deserve it! 

Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

Okay, let’s examine this: Islam came into possession of the land by conquering the occupants. Wait just a minute! Would not that make the Muslims themselves hated “colonizers?” But we digress. Does the land of Israel belong to Hamas? Did it EVER belong to Hamas? The short answer is NO. The simple adoption of the faith and practices of those who had conquered the land centuries earlier provides no ownership rights, much less ownership rights in perpetuity. If we look at the religious claims on the land, it was promised to Abraham and his descendants, Isaac and Jacob, BY GOD centuries before Muhammad was even born. The land has changed hands many times down through the centuries as the Nation of Israel had been taken as slaves or dispersed. However, the biblical promise was that the Nation of Israel would return to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Relative to the express question concerning the perpetuity of Israel as a nation, the promise given to Abraham in Genesis:17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
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There is a great deal of suffering in the world. It can all be traced back to the first gifted marketer of evil in the garden and will continue until the Prince of Peace returns and sets all things right. And He will. But for now, we live in this ugly reality where good is called evil and evil is called good. Those with the newest marketing of evil strategy will always use their wiles to market evil and destroy good, as well as to persecute – and urge their followers to persecute – the people of God. Jesus spoke to this: “...indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you" (John:16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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