The U.S. Supreme Court, April 23, 2021<\/strong>
Seated from left to right: Samuel A. Alito Jr., Clarence Thomas, John G. Roberts, Jr., Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor. Standing from left to right: Brett M. Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett.
CREDIT: Photograph by Fred Schilling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>Justice Sotomayor\u2019s Dissent<\/h2>\n
Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed six of her Court colleagues for \u201crewarding lawlessness\u201d regarding President Donald Trump. In a scathing 19-page dissent, joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson on an immigration case in which the Court overruled an appeals Court and thereby favored the government deporting illegal immigrants to foreign countries other than their own country of origin. The six justices whose majority ruled in the government\u2019s favor did not provide any rationale for their decision, as if maybe there wasn\u2019t any.<\/p>\n
Sotomayor\u2019s Allegation of Lawlessness<\/h2>\n
Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent, \u201cThe government\u2019s assertion that these deportations could be reconciled with the injunction is wholly without merit. Given its conduct in these proceedings, the government\u2019s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report fire fighters for violating a local noise ordinance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sotomayer further denounced the ruling by alleging, \u201cThis is not the first time the court closes its eyes to noncompliance [to law], nor, I fear, will it be the last. Yet each time this court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justice Sotomajor also alleged in her statement, without mentioning the president, though it was obvious she had him in mind, \u201cOnce norms are broken, then you\u2019re shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s Lawlessness Makes Him a Precursor of the Final Antichrist<\/h2>\n
I believe Donald Trump is laying a pathway for lawlessness that eventually will culminate in the future, final Antichrist rising to power, whom the apostle Paul calls twice \u201cthe lawless one\u201d (1 Thessalonians 2.3, 9). Apparently, that was the normal title given to this man whom later Christians also called \u201cthe antichrist\u201d (1 John 2.18).<\/p>\n
Paul was addressing in this letter says a false notion that some Christians had, that Jesus had already returned from heaven to earth in fulfillment of the many biblical prophecies that he will indeed do that someday. But Paul writes, \u201cAs to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, \u2026 that the day of the Lord is already here. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, \u2026 whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming\u201d (1 Thessalonians 2.1-3, 8).<\/p>\n
Paul is not original in this prediction of the final Antichrist. Rather, he alludes to Daniel the prophet\u2019s prophecy, \u201cWhen the transgressions have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance shall arise\u201d (Daniel 8.23). Paul\u2019s \u201crebellion\u201d refers to Daniel\u2019s \u201cthe transgressions,\u201d and Paul\u2019s \u201clawless one\u201d refers to Daniel\u2019s \u201cking of bold countenance.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, what scripture teaches is that a rebellion against law will occur, and it will lay the pathway for the man of lawless, the final Antichrist, when he appears at the end of this age.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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