EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Psalm 11:3 is an oft-quoted verse as one of despair: "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Then, upon quoting, it's left hanging with no context, as if you're supposed to answer, "Nothing."

Looking at the current milieu, we may not realize that what's going on is by deliberate, pre-planned, and in-your-face-design. David Horowitz was a one-time 1960's radical now turned one of the good guys at age 80. Speaking of his former days at UC Berkeley, he lets the cat out of the bag: the goal of the radical revolutionary can be stated in one sentence: "Everything must go!" The radical's definition of "everything" is simple: "everything." For the revolutionists to bring in their envisioned utopia, the old must go, i. e. everything must go. "Everything must go" explains what we're seeing today.

For example, we've seen that the Founding Fathers must go, statues in their honor must go, schools and streets which bear their names must find new ones. Athletic teams must adopt new mascots and names. Gender must go. Biology must go. Men's and women's, boys' and girls' restrooms and locker room facilities must go. 

Male and female sporting competitions must go. The pronouns, he and she, must go (Ze and Zir are the new ones). Shakespeare must go. (At the University of Pennsylvania in December 2016, English students, with the approval of the head of the English department, replaced a hallway portrait of William Shakespeare with a photograph of poet/activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992). (Hardly a household name.) A sample of her "poetry" is:

"I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds
and a dead child dragging his shattered black
face off the edge of my sleep
blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders
is the only liquid for miles . . ." (It's longer, but you get the idea)

To continue: the Pledge of Allegiance must go. The Boy Scouts must be destroyed. History courses in Western Civilization must be eliminated for graduation. (No wonder, because Western Civilization was founded on Christianity.) In short, everything must be called into question, even marriage, Christmas trees, and carols, the Salvation Army, polite and civil language replaced crude vulgarities and at this time of the year, school plays about and the story of the Pilgrims must go--everything must go.

These are foundational beliefs, so "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" is the question that's asked in the psalm then we abandon Psalm 11 as if the author were holding a sign that says, "The foundation's gone. There's nothing you can do." 

But the reader needs to read the rest of the story where David answers the question:

"The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,
And the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup. For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face."

David says that the answer is to have his viewpoint, the divine viewpoint which is reality: "The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven." David's focus is on God whose "eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked." --God was aware of what was going on in Israel. He was testing both the believer and the unbeliever, leading to his punishing the wicked and rewarding the believer.

David is saying that the believer should remember that God is in control and He'll take care of those who are living for Him, no matter what the culture is doing. When the foundations are destroyed, it's beyond us, but not beyond Him. What can the righteous do? Pray, for one thing, and when God shakes things up, we put and keep our focus on building up the church, not building up one political party or another.That would be putting our hope in man, which is always and forever forbidden for the believer.