As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The 9th Commandment is pertinent in this world as we witness in Congressional hearings and accusations, the complete ripping apart of government and society by false charges against leaders and those looking to serve in government, which affects all of us. For what good is a court if witnesses are liars. What good is evidence if it is fake. What good is your name, if some gossip is embellishing things you have done, as a flirt becomes a whore and having political differences has you accused of threatening the life of someone.
Tell the Truth always is the only order of society, but when that rot begins in the neighborhood gossip, it strips the entire community of a foundation of trust. I remember the old women that my grandmother sat with, were always looking at the young girls coming and going, and noting those with the boys "looked flushed" which of course meant they were little whores. No evidence, but what some old busy bodies thought they saw, but those kinds of things suddenly erupt in I was once accused of lying all the time, but the issue was I had stupid cousins who I would tell outlandish things to which everyone knew was a story, but them, but suddenly their mother was upset with me and blew things out of proportions.
In every case like this, the accusers are guilty of far graver sins, as this is the woman who with her cherubs were looting my beloved Uncle's home while he was dying in my company at hospice of brain cancer.
The Ninth Commandment
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
Q. What does this mean?
A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not deceive by
lying, betraying, slandering or ruining our neighbor's reputation,
but will defend him, say good things about him, and see the best
side of everything he does.
The Bible has examples of false witness. David committing adultery with Bathsheba, moved her husband to be murdered on the battlefield, which in turn caused an insurrection against him where he almost lost his head, when Bathsheba's grandfather counseled one of David's sons to revolt.
David felt betrayed, but David should have not been sleeping with married women and when she got pregnant, having him murdered to cover up for it.
Society suffers when false testimony erupts on a national scale, because it breeds dissension, violence and war which touches all communities.
King Ahab wanted some land next to his own to expand his vineyard. The owner said no to him, because it was ancestral land. To this Jezebel, his wife, entrapped the owner in false testimony and had him murdered.
The end result were dogs at Jezebel and Ahab was killed in battle. False testimony never ends well.
I Kings 21
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
The most prominent example of false testimony was Judas Iscariot. Judas was upset in he thought Jesus was going to be an earthly king, and Judas was going to control the finances. When Judas discovered Jesus came to die, Judas took the reward money to betray Jesus for murder.
The end result was that Judas who had satan enter into him, was abandoned by satan and left with his knowing he murdered the most innocent Person in world history. So Judas murdered himself. Once again, lying never ends well for anyone.
Matthew 26
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
It is always in every person's interest to tell the Truth, because lies always are discovered, and they set off an entire community of mistrust. People who have been lied about, are not about to protect a system of laws that were used against them. This means they stop calling 911 when it is the liars home being broken into. It means they stop advocating for the government, in not serving in the military, to paying taxes fairly, because why should they, as this system of lies destroyed them.
It is a vicious circle, and instead we are taught to always champion the Truth, especially in speaking for those who can not speak for themselves.
Proverbs 31
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
A nation's laws are supposed to be upheld by Judges and political officials above reproach, not what the world is inhabited now in police states promoting their own agenda to cheat and destroy innocent people. Liars in court in Biblical Law were not just held in perjury of a few months in prison, but the very crimes they were accusing a person of, was to be the punishment they were to be suffered with.
Deuteronomy 19
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
It is in every person's self interest to tell the Truth. To not make things up about people, because that will be revealed sooner than later that what you says is absolute rubbish. Have that reputation spread, and the police will not believe you when you need them to.
On a national scale, false testimony is the thing of civil war. People wronged do not forget that their lives were destroyed, nor do the people who were backing them politically. Rip a nation apart enough and violence will ensue, and in the struggle factions outside the nation begin meddling in the political and military of your nation for their agenda, and next thing you realize is you are an occupied nation.
When a nation loses it's courts, it is no longer a nation, and is in the process of having taught it's population to betray itself for it's own interests, and those interests are always foreign intrigue, where Judas was promised things which he wanted to retaliate on what he felt cheated over.
A nation must have Honesty and Truth. Without it, Justice ends and that Nation ends.
Zechariah 8:17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
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