One rainy morning at Ohio State I was riding my bike to a Journalism Law exam and got hit by a city bus on High Street somewhere in front of the Ohio Union.
I was riding southbound when the COTA bus pulled out of a bus stop and sideswiped me as it gained speed to pass me.
As I've liked to tell people over the years, showing them my scar, "I went flying like Pee-Wee Herman in Pee Wee's Big Adventure."
The thing is I was wearing a heavy rubbery rain slicker and in my backpack on my back was a very large and heavy law-case textbook.
I actually landed on my back and the book kept my head from slamming into the pavement! I was looking up on the sidewalk outside the student union and a small crowd of students immediately gathered, circling me as they looked down at me to see if I was okay.
Amazingly the first thing I uttered in my dazed state was, "Where's my bike?" The bus driver finally stopped further down the street--I don't know if somebody had to tell him he hit a cyclist.
I could see him walking toward me on the sidewalk and eventually he was in the mix with the concerned students, looking down at me without saying anything, which I remember finding irritating.
An ambulance soon arrived and I was taken to University Hospital where I was told I had a shattered left elbow and would need surgery the next morning. They put in a plate.
As a quick aside, the hospital called my parents' home in Loudonville, OH to tell them I was injured in a bus accident and my sister picked up the phone. She went on to call my mom, who was working as the receptionist at my dad's doctor office, and told her all panicky, "Lisa got run over by a bus." As I've written about before, my sister had learning disabilities.
So here's where I have to fill you in on what my life at the time was like. I was a political humor columnist on the editorial page of the Lantern student newspaper and getting HUGE readership as well as many letters-to-the-editor either applauding me or expressing outrage over something I wrote.
I don't have a good memory for what I wrote about and, as I informed my classmates at the reunion to their laughter, a friend (I never did find out who it was) helping me move from one Chicago lakefront apartment to another in 1997 inadvertently threw in the garbage my Hefty lawn bag crammed full of my clips saved starting back in high school.
What I can tell you is a lot of my writings were based on me being a Christian conservative spoofing liberals. I even had a column poking fun at feminist causes that led to me actually being part of a mid-term exam in a Women's Study class.
(to be continued tomorrow and below is a 2024 article entitled "Corruption from the inside" that got very high numbers)
Hosea 4 ends with, [16] For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
[17] Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
[18] Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
[19] The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
This is describing how the rulers are going to rob and pillage and oppress the people. They’re going around trying to get more, saying, "Give me, give me!" That’s the way they were. Always out to get more. They loved their bellies.
[10] The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
[11] Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
That’s not the commandment of God he’s walking after. He’s walking after the commandment to do what verse 10 says, "Remove the boundaries." It’s the commandment the false prophets have given him.
You read some of this stuff in Micah, especially in chapter 6, and my blood runs cold when I watch what goes on in the news around us today. I’m so grateful to know my citizenship is in heaven, not on Planet Earth.
After he’s talked to them about the bogus currency and all the other things that are happening, he says, "For the statutes of Omri."
Omri’s dynasty with Ahab and Jezebel made Baal worship the official religion of Israel. That nation’s in the complete and total grip of the Adversary and God destroys them from that internal destruction. This is this multi-generational problem; it didn’t just come up in one generation.
It’s not one generation; it’s a long-term infection and the only answer for it is to destroy the nation; the corrupt government established by it so they could establish a new government.
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Hosea 5:12: [12] Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
God says, "Because they’re in complete apostasy, I’m going to eat away; I’m going to destroy them."
A moth and rottenness. That’s stuff that corrupts you from inside. It’s not like somebody just comes along with a blowtorch and burns up your clothes. That moth is in your closet and you go to take something out of the closet and what happens? Now it’s all holes.
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, we read that passage in Isaiah 1 about how the whole body is sick from the top of the head down to the bottom of the feet. There’s a spiritual sickness that’s overtaken them and when Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, they wept.
[14] For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
[15] I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
They’re going to look to the Antichrist for help and you know what they’re going to find? There’s no help there. Verse 14 mentions the lion. When Nebuchadnezzar comes against Judah, he’s described in the Book of Jeremiah 50 as a lion. I Peter 5 describes Satan as a ‘roaring lion.’
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