Condemned Articles & Craft

(Photo Above entitled: African elephants. The young ones are playful.)


NOTE: The above photograph, inclusive of the “caption” was copied from the OXFORD AMERICAN CHILDREN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA, copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press, Inc., taken from volume 3, page 16. This is a most inappropriate photograph geared toward children and is not a single incident. Photos in encyclopedias are desirable and pleasant until they cross the barrier of moral decency or become an adult vessel for the uses of Steganography- being linked to espionage and treason through non-verbal broadcasting. It becomes the moral duty of all to report the findings of such offense to lawful authorities.


ISAIAH 2:12-22 “…(the wrath of Jehovah is) against all the ships of Tarshish [regarded as the caravans that bore the merchandise of the mistress of the sea]; and against all the desirable craft [evilly embellished with wicked or treacherously deceitful ornamentation].”

Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentary.- Tarshish was a Phoenician colony. “Ships of Tarshish” became a phrase for richly-laden and far-voyaging vessels.

“ When God acts in judgment, it is often to upset human values so that everything can be seen from the divine perspective. Much of the imagery of this passage could be viewed as Phoenician. It was in the hinterland of Tyre and Sidon [hypothetically viewed as a Transportation System for the Liberal Arts] that the cedars grew; it was there too that the highest mountains were found, and the grand designs of stone-masons and shipwrights were to be seen in its ports. “Every trading ship” is a free translation of “ships of Tarshish” and these were based in Phoenicia. It was from this quarter that religious syncretism (combination of philosophical or religious belief) had come and its features could still stand for alien religion. The main point, of course, is that God’s act of judgment would humble every manifestation of human pride.”

Henry Commentary.- When God is bringing ruin upon a people He can sink all the branches of their revenue. The day of the Lord shall be upon all pleasant pictures, (against) the curious pieces of painting they brought home in their ships from other countries, perhaps from Greece, which afterwards was famous for painters.

Clarke Commentary.- “Ships of Tarshish.” This term is in Scripture frequently used by a metonymy (figure of speech) for ships in general, especially such as are employed in carrying on traffic between distant countries, as Tarshish was the most celebrated mart of those times, frequented of old by the Phoenicians, and the principal source of wealth to the neighboring countries.

(Continuing Isaiah 2:12-22) Verse 17 “And will be humbled man’s pride, and will be abased men’s loftiness; and [pristine holiness of] Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day. And the idols [the self-deification of man- in anyway symbolical of Jehovah] will completely vanish. And they shall go into the caves of the rocks [recesses of corruption], and into the holes of the dust [the secluded sites of refuge of the earth] from before the fear of Jehovah and from His majesty’s glory; when He arises to make tremble the earth.”

Oswalt Commentary (Expounded).- All that is great and impressive is knocked down. So it will be with human pride on the day when the Lord acts. As surely as the wind uproots the trees and knocks down the ship, as surely as the earthquake moves the mountains and cracks the walls, so will the terror of the Lord remove all human pomp and pretension.

The idols, exemplified in the Sun god “Ra”, the true means of which they [Anti-Christ and his following] sought to deify themselves will be cast aside and their precious idols of silver and gold, symbolizing their refined words of doctrine as a standard of measure of the highest form of moral purity, will be left to the bats and the moles, the unclean to the unclean.