Nobody was trying to run him over. If she was she had ample opportunity when he was more directly in front of the car. Does every person almost hit by a car have the same right to shoot the driver?
If you watch the video, she is looking to the side at the other ICE officer, when he is directly in front. Then she looks directly at him while that other woman yells "drive " and she hits the gas while he's still in front.
That said, this is my take on the whole situation, compiled over a few days:
Praying in accordance with God's will here.
I had to think and pray about this overnight rather than just post regarding the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis. It's sad all the way around on many levels. Sometimes I can be a John the Baptist, and I've posted the following where Woke anti Christians have been screaming:
"Her "wife." There is no such thing as a woman having a wife. Nor a man having a husband. It is sin, and an abomination.
The wages of sin is death.
Sad those kids lost their mother, but what kind of example to a little child is a woman engaged in a lustful ungodly relationship?
It is hellish! Woe unto those who offend a little child.
God is our Creator, and made the way wherein we should walk, and live. Man chooses to live contrary. You reap what you sow.
Im not saying the shooting was justified. I dont know. Everything happens so quickly. (I've had military training and other kinds of training, and can tell you, things can happen so fast, your reaction time is like 0, and from your perception it may be life or death. I've seen the front view video. The ICE agent was struck by her vehicle, however, in my opinion he shouldn't have placed himself in a vulnerable position so close, but gone wide, and cleared himself from the potential path.)
But living in sin makes you vulnerable to an untimely demise.
"Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time." - Ecclesiastes 7:17
Prayers for all involved.
And praying that people repent, and turn to the LORD Jesus Christ for forgiveness and salvation, confessing your sins, and forsaking all wickedness.
There is no other way to be saved and inherit eternal life.
And if Renee wasnt doing something that warranted the shooting, it just shows how quickly things can happen, and then you are facing the judgment of an Almighty and holy God.
And she certainly wasn't completely innocent! (She was parked across a roadway, did not comply with an order, and argued with officers, placing herself in danger. People need to realize that engaging in any way in a public protest makes you vulnerable to danger, either from the law enforcement, or from fellow protesters)
Turn to Jesus, for today is the day of salvation.
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I'm also going to share this from Hosea 10:10-14, which speaks to such situations:
"It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children."
People plow wickedness, then justify wickedness, believing lies, trusting in themselves, and a tumult arises among the people. People get hurt, and sometimes killed in such situations. It's truly sad, but we live in a fallen world.
I share the following 2 scriptures often, especially regarding war and violence.
"Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. " - Hebrews 12:14
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. " - Matthew 5:9
Pray for those cities, as they were ground zero in 2020 also. Pray for all leaders, and the nation. Pray for the children especially.
"Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven."
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Having learned more about Renee Good, it appears she was a professing Christian, who had gone to youth camps, and even missionary trips to Ireland when she was younger.
Her x husband described her a devoted Christian.
The woman she was in an unlawful union with, who wrongfully uses the title of "her wife" says this:
"Renee lived by the belief that "there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow," Becca wrote, pointing to her late wife's Christian beliefs, which she said taught the "truth" that "we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole."
Sadly, these are progressive Christian beliefs, not Bible. The first part is opposite of what our calling is. There is SIN in the world, and Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost. Jesus said "love thy neighbor as yourself, " implying that YOU bring kindness to others.
While the gospel does call us to love one another, it also teaches the ugliness of sin, and to avoid sinful practices. Same sex intimacy is sinful. No wiggle room. Man and woman are to be married. ANYTHING outside that is sin . And teaching a 6 year old child that's OK by your example, and your words, under the guise of "love " is wicked and offensive.
People like to point out John 8, that Jesus said, "he that is without sin among you, cast the first stone. " But don't stop there, because after Jesus tells the woman caught in adultery, "neither do I condemn you," He then says, "GO, AND SIN NO MORE."
And that's also a situation, where if the woman was caught in the very act (John 8:4), where is the man? They only accused one party in a 2 party sin. The Pharisees obviously knew something they weren't saying, and Jesus was having none of their nonsense.
But at the end of all this, "Go and sin no more."
Now I've wondered and prayed in this situation, and conclude, either Renee Good never really knew Christ, followed another gospel, and another Jesus, was accursed, and went to hell. (Galatians 1:6-9, Matthew 7:21-23). That's a possibility.
But there is also THIS possibility, which I really hope is the case. That she was saved. She was called and chosen. She was in marriages to men, and had children. I don't know the circumstances of her divorce from her first husband, but her last husband died.
Then she went and joined herself with a woman in an unlawful union. I know it was ruled legal by US courts in 2015, but it is unlawful in God's sight. And we ought to obey God rather than man.
So in this scenario God gave her a couple years to repent, but instead she continued in a sinful relationship, and became an agitator in public. God said enough, and took her home.
Acts 5. Ananias & Sapphira died on the spot when they lied. And 1 Corinthians 11:29-32 speaks of believers who were sick, and some who even died, because the took the Lord's Supper unworthily.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."
Finally, 1 Corinthians 3:13-17,
"Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."
