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Dr. Jerry Newcombe is a key
archivist of the D. James Kennedy Legacy Library, a spokesman and cohost of
Kennedy Classics.
It is appointed once for a man to
die, and after that comes the judgment. So declares the Bible. As everyone knows
by now, Fidel Castro's time to die came over the weekend.
The left chooses to idolize the
wrong people, and Castro is no exception. I see people on occasion wearing Che
Guevara shirts, and I think to myself, "What happened? Is your Adolf Hitler
shirt in the wash?"
How many millions of people
experienced pre-mature death and untold misery because of Fidel Castro?
Initially, Cubans had high hopes for Castro because he successfully defeated the
military dictator, Fulgencio Batista. But Castro chose to align with the
Communists in the name of "the people."
I once interviewed Rafael Cruz,
the father of Ted. Rafael had fought against Batista's forces. He was tortured
in jail for it. Like many Cubans, Cruz initially had high hopes for Castro, only
to be sorely disappointed.
Castro's story was told long
before it even took place in George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945). The talking animals in that parable are
so mistreated by the drunken human who runs the farm that they rebel and pull
off a revolution. They even manage to kill the man.
One of their rules is "all
animals are equal." But over time, they modify that rule to "all animals are
equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Pretty soon, the pigs are
running everything and living very well, while day-to-day life for the rest of
the animals is worse than it had been under the cruel farmer.
I remember seeing a TV segment
once on the lifestyle of Fidel Castro and his inner circle. They lived lavishly,
while normal Cubans suffered under the communism Castro has imposed. Imagine.
The Cuban people live in a very degraded and perpetually-depressed economy, even
as the Castros enjoyed luxurious parties. Indeed, some are more equal than
others.
Joseph Farah, founder of
WorldNetDaily, once told me in an interview on socialism that it seems that
"every generation has to relearn this lesson" that socialism fails and ushers in
nothing but death and misery: "We saw Fidel Castro in the 1960s come to power in
Cuba, promising utopia, once again, and it deteriorated very rapidly into a
tyrannical police state; and it's never recovered. And Cuba was a fairly
prosperous country before."
For this piece, I reached out to
Dr. Paul Kengor, a professor of political science and history at Grove City
College. He is a widely syndicated columnist and a best-selling author,
including books on communism, such as The Communist — on Obama's mentor,
Frank Marshall Davis, who was Communist Party USA member #47544. (I learned that
through Paul's research).
Kengor wrote me: "We have just
witnessed the death of the world's longest-running communist menace and
dictator. He was horribly destructive to the people of Cuba and held the
potential to literally kill tens to hundreds of millions of people worldwide if
he had gotten what he wanted in October 1962 — namely, to unleash nuclear
Armageddon. Fidel wanted to fire those nuclear missiles in October 1962.
Thankfully, the Soviets wouldn't let him."
Writing for The American Spectator (11/27/16), Kengor notes: "The
Black Book of Communism, the seminal Harvard University Press work, which
specialized in trying to get accurate data on the enormous volume of deaths
produced by communist tyrants, states that in the 1960s alone, when Fidel and
his brother Raul (Cuba's current leader) established their complete control,
with the help of their murdering buddy Che Guevara, an estimated 30,000 people
were arrested in Cuba for political reasons and 7,000 to 10,000 were believed to
have been executed. Even then, that was merely the start."
Armando Valladares, the famous
Cuban patriot who spent 22 years in one of Fidel Castro's gulags in Cuba and
author of Against All Hope, said of the communist occupation:
"Every night there were firing squads." Note that this was only four years after
the takeover.
Valladares reflects on those he
saw who were killed, many of whom were Christians: "I thought about all of those
men who marched to the firing squads with a smile on their lips; I thought about
the integrity of those martyrs who had died shouting, 'Viva Cuba Libre. Viva
Christ the King. Down with Communism.' And I was ashamed to feel so frightened
... My heart rose up to God, and I fervently prayed for Him to help me stand up
to this brutality, and do what I had to do. I felt that God heard my
prayer."
By 1963, such condemned men were
gagged before they were shot, lest their cries be heard, "Long live Christ the
King" and "Down with Communism."
Well, now the long-awaited time
has come. Castro is dead. Meanwhile, Christ the King reigns for
eternity.
Read more at
http://www.christianpost.com/news/fidel-castro-before-the-judgment-seat-171836/#RDtKgtDU0R0tc2j1.99
PLEASE remember that it is not just evil people who are deposited into hell as a result of nousing up their God-given free will.
It is you and me and that nice little old lady who lives on the corner and who gives so much to her community, as well.
Any sin condemns us to hell - even if you have only committed one tiny one in your entire life.
There are not enough good deeds in twenty lifetimes which can cancel out that one, 'trivial' sin.
You see, either you do it God's way OR NOT AT ALL!
God the Son had no sin. He yielded Himself to take the consequences of every sin ever committed onto His shoulders on a cross at Calvary. He took our punishment upon Himself as full payment.
Those of us 'washed clean by His purifying blood' are the only ones who will make it to heaven.
Being sorry WILL NOT DO IT!
Being remorseful WILL NOT DO IT!
Repentance, deep and meant - sufficient for you 'to desire to say farewell to sin' WILL DO IT!
This does not mean that you will never sin again - far from it - but it is COVERED!
Once you realise what HE has done for you - you will desire to serve HIM not YOURSELF.
