Jesus indicated that one (of many) signs of the end times or the end of the age grace would be that love for one another would grow cold. Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” This can be interpreted that lawlessness and violence shall abound, including at the civil level.

‘Distress of Nations’ Luke 21:25 Increasing (5) Lawlessness, Violence, Rebellion, Protest or Anarchy, ‘Distress of Nations’; BLM marches through neighborhood demanding white residents surrender their homes. US

By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal Published August 15, 2020 

Gentrification is a touchy sociopolitical subject, particularly in cities where more affluent woke people move into neighborhoods previously occupied by less affluent woke people.

This becomes even touchier when you consider the racial dynamics of the issue.

For the unwoke, of course, the issue is moot. In the free market, neighborhoods evolve and real estate there becomes more or less attractive to prospective tenants and buyers. There are always historical racial dynamics to consider in certain neighborhoods, but the idea that basic laws of economics can be abrogated in order to achieve some sort of beau ideal of social justice is absurd.

Then again, we don’t live in Seattle, where the affluent woke — or at least the white ones — are being told to give up their homes by what one would assume are the more penurious woke.

According to the New York Post, footage from the Wednesday demonstration shows the protesters marching through an unidentified residential neighborhood harassing residents, informing them it’s high time to turn over their leases and/or mortgages to folks more oppressed than they are.

In one clip of the protest posted to Twitter, protesters are chanting “black lives matter” when the chant-leader stops to ask, “How about you give us your homes?” (It’s hard to tell whether she said “give us” or “give up,” though the point is the same.)

One of the other protesters then steps out of the Greek chorus in order to deliver a soliloquy on why white people shouldn’t be living there.

Do you know that you are living in a historically black neighborhood right now?” he screams to some unidentified residents off camera.

“Do you know that before your white a– came here, this was all black people?” he continues. “Do you know people like you came in here and basically bought all the land from the black people for less than what it was worth, kicked them out so you could live here? Do you know that?”

“’Cause if you don’t, now you f—ing do, now do something about it!” WARNING: The following videos contain vulgar language that some viewers will find offensive.

VIDEO: #Blacklivesmatter mob and menacing Biden Harris voters harassing the residents of Seattle suburbs tonight, demanding that white homeowners immediately transfer all their property and money to black people. #blm #antifa #JoeBiden #maga #kamalaharris pic.twitter.com/07MeYmlnnL

— Thought Soup (@ThoughtSoup1) August 13, 2020

Another demonstrator says it’s time for residents to “open their wallet.”

And then the megaphone-possessor goes after white people again, telling them it’s time to give up their houses.

“Give black people back their homes!” she yells. “You’re sitting there comfortably — comfortable as f— as if they didn’t help gentrify this neighborhood! I used to live in this neighborhood … my family was pushed out, and you’re sitting up there having a good time with your other white friends!”

In another video, a protester can be heard saying, “All y’all white motherf—–s get the f— out of our neighborhood so we can go back to our s—.”

Another said, “Pay the fee! Open your purse!”

“Get out of our neighborhood! Pay the fee! Open your purse!” to residents of the neighborhood #Seattle pic.twitter.com/j1QKSh8NFg

— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 13, 2020

And here’s a call for reparations:

Ask not what you can do for your city, but what your city can do for you #Seattle pic.twitter.com/czyNeRVZJI

— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 13, 2020

Earlier in the day, the protest crowd made it clear it was behind “black criminals.” Seriously:

So that wasn’t a mistake yesterday – this is a new chant apparently
“Who do we protect? Black criminals!” #Seattle pic.twitter.com/dOoRzuD0QQ

— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 13, 2020

But the predominant issue was gentrification.

Stolen black land. Sorry they sold their houses I guess? #Seattle pic.twitter.com/VEHTV6Tjz8

— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 13, 2020

There was even the minatory chant, “Fire! Fire! Gentrifier!”:

From last night, another angle of BLM harassing residents at their home #Seattle pic.twitter.com/aoryX3M1au

— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 13, 2020

This, apparently, is one of the new themes of the protests in Seattle. The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reported that on Aug. 6, demonstrators urged a boycott of an, um, cannabis retailer because apparently the chain of Snoop Dogg-friendly shops is gentrifying the neighborhood.

Demonstrators outside the Uncle Ike’s shop in Capitol Hill demanded the owner have a meeting with them to “discuss his role in gentrification and the impact on the black community in Seattle,” stop construction on new outlets and donate 15 percent of monthly profits to what the outlet referred to as “an anti-gentrification land fund.”

These demands by the more radical elements associated with the Black Lives Matter movement aren’t anything new. In 2017, Louisville, Kentucky, Black Lives Matter organizer Chanelle Helm was invited to share her group’s demands with local alternative outlet LEO Weekly in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Number two: “White people, if you’re inheriting property you intend to sell upon acceptance, give it to a black or brown family. You’re bound to make that money in some other white privileged way.”

Number four: “White people, if you can afford to downsize, give up the home you own to a black or brown family. Preferably a family from generational poverty.”

Number five: “White people, if any of the people you intend to leave your property to are racists a——s, change the will, and will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably a family from generational poverty.”

If the affluent woke and penurious woke want to have a conversation about gentrification, or if the woke want to drag the unawoken into the conversation, this isn’t the way to do it.

Stridency feels good in the heat of the moment. When our protester told residents in the neighborhood “that before your white a– came here, this was all black people,” I’m certain he thought he was changing hearts and smashing generational racism.

Watching these videos leaves little doubt these protesters thought what they were doing was effective.

And it was, if you’re a fan of gentrification. The evil gentrifiers no doubt shut their curtains, cranked up the volume on their Bose noise-canceling headphones and settled in for an evening of Ani DiFranco and Instagram browsing. Maybe they felt uncomfortable — but discomfiture isn’t going to make them engage with people who demand their property.

As for the unawoken, they’ll probably have a reaction like this one:

Tell them to go get a mortgage and move right in. Simple.

— Deplorable Steve (@roadatlanta951) August 14, 2020

Nobody will be surrendering their homes. Uncle Ike’s is still going to be there as long as Seattle residents like marijuana, which means Uncle Ike’s will be there for a long time.

Trying to change those bedrock realities is like King Canute trying to command the tide not to come in. It doesn’t matter how loudly you say it or how irksome you make yourself.

All this will do is ensure social distancing among the factional woke will remain in place long after any viral threat has passed.

In His Service,

Night Watchman

Paul Rolland

Night Watchman Ministries

Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:

The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)

A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.

. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).

. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).

B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.

. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).

. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).

. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).

. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).

. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).

. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).

. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).

. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).

. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).

. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).

True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:

 Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.