Letter to Barack Obama

The following is a letter that was sent to Barack Obama via U. S. regular mail on June 30, 2014:

June 29, 2014

Mr. Barack Obama, President
The United State of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. Obama: 

Please recall, you have no power over any other human being.  No man has power over any other human being. 

Consider the rise and fall of civilizations, which are comprised of individual human beings.  Human beings start a society based on principles of right and wrong.  By adhering to right principles, the society grows and prospers.  But in comes a human being perhaps named Pontius Pilate, Rome’s civil authority who wrongfully put to death a human being by the name of Jesus almost two thousand years ago.  Mr. Pilate got his job as the Roman Procurator by “knowing” someone in Rome, family connections I believe.  He was brought to the attention of the Roman emperor and when a job opening became available, he got the job. 

Mr. Pilate, although Roman and proud of his heritage, particularly with regard to Roman law, was a weak and mean man who eventually gave in to the maneuverings and machinations of the Jews in whose country he was stationed.  He vacillated and tried to avoid pronouncing the death sentence on Jesus, but the Jews kept threatening Mr. Pilate, especially with the idea that they were going to Rome to the emperor with their complaints.  And so it was done.  Roman laws were broken and an innocent man was murdered. 

The thing is as a result of Mr. Pilate’s sentence, he lost his wife because he broke a promise he made to her not to have anything to do with Jesus and this Jewish religious problem, and he eventually died penniless, with no wife, no job, no money, no property. 

The thing is that when we are in someone else’s home or state or country, there are usually rules and laws that must be followed.  But because we are in God’s world, and not He in ours, His rules, the Ten Commandments, must be followed.  The same rules which God gave to Moses and which Jesus affirmed while He was here on the earth – and tightened up a bit; for example, adultery.  They are a pretty basic set of rules and cover everything we do here on the earth. 

The thing is if you want to know why you are here on the earth, you must ask your father and your mother, for it is they who worked with God to bring you here.  God did not place you in your present position as President of the United States of America, a country which is comprised of individual human beings.  Individual human beings did.  And God does not see human beings as human beings see each other.  

Are you a human being, Mr. Obama?:  one head, two arms, two legs, and work the same as every other human being?  Then you have a soul.  Every human being has a soul.  That’s the way we work and that’s what it’s all about -- souls. 

Consider the great Ring Cycle:  When God the Father creates a new human being, He gives that human being a soul and it is the soul which gives the human being’s body life and which grows with the human being.  And when the human being’s body dies, it is the soul which goes home to eternity to Jesus for judgment.  And we are judged according to how we have obeyed His Ten Commandments while we were here on the earth.  From Heaven to earth and back to Eternity:  the great Ring Cycle. 

There is so much talk of your lawlessness, your usurpation of power, your use of the wrong guide book* to govern this country.  But no one human being seems to have come up with some way of putting a stop to the lawlessness, the usurpation of power, etc.  

The thing is, death is a given.  Every human being dies and every human being’s soul goes home to eternity.  Where the soul goes in eternity is up to Jesus, for He is the Just Judge and the Gatekeeper to God’s heaven.  The thing is that retribution does not work, not even for God.  Consider Sodom and Gomorrah or Noah and the Flood:  most of the human beings who were involved with these events died in them and the ones who lived through them, were able to tell their stories and the reasons for which these horrors occurred to their children and maybe their grandchildren.  But eventually these survivors died and the stories became memories. 

Please consider this little prayer to St. Michael, the Archangel, whose name means "Who is like God?".  St. Michael, protect us from those who would be like God.  Help us to remember Jesus before Pilate when those who would be like God tell us that they have power over us, and remind us to tell these human beings that they have no power over us, only God, our Father, has power over us. 

St. Michael, please protect those human beings who would be like God, who believe they have power over others. Guide them to Jesus, and guide them safely back to God's ways of holiness. Amen. 

Good luck, Mr. Obama and God bless you. 

Sincerely yours,
/s/ Bernardette Grant
*The "wrong guide book" refers to Rules For Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.
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