Los Angeles on Fires
President Trump and his allies have spent the weekend painting Los Angeles as a city consumed by violent protest and even “insurrection” over immigration raids.
“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” Amos 3:6
On Saturday evening, Trump insisted the unrest — scattered clashes across the county — was out of control. He bypassed Gov. Gavin Newsom and called in the National Guard. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested US Marines from Camp Pendleton might need to be deployed to the streets next.
For a governor whose state was portrayed as being in the grips of uncontrolled rebellion, Newsom responded in an unusual way: He began issuing Californians a series of increasingly sophisticated and urgent pieces of political advice about how not to play into the president’s hands.
“The President is attempting to inflame passions and provoke a response,” Newsom wrote in an email Sunday morning. “They want the violence. They think it is good for them politically.”
He all but begged: “To the people of Los Angeles and across the country who are protesting these immigration raids: Don’t give them the spectacle that they want.”
“And Esau harbored hatred in his heart against Jacob, his brother, because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him.
“And Esau said in his heart, ‘I will not do as Cain did, who killed Abel during their father’s lifetime and then their father had another son, Seth.
“Rather, I will wait until the days of mourning for my father have passed, and then I will kill Jacob my brother, and I will be the sole heir.’” Genesis 27:42 Jonathan
Joel
A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob 