He that Pisseth against the wall

NOTE: this is a serious post about a serious problem. If you don't read the whole thing and are put off by the King James English you miss the point.

When I was growing up in North Dakota we had flying ants. They were called Piss Ants. Everyone called them that. It was not vulgar. It was the name of an insect.

It was a word we used in common everyday language. We didn't talk about being Pissed. That's a recent thing. That would be wrong, even vulgar. How could one BE Pissed?

The King James Bible talked in straightforward terminology about defecation, urination, and lots of other bodily language. If you translate the words from the ancient Greek and Hebrew be prepared to be surprised by the bluntness of the text regarding what people did. But, today we live in a vanilla politically Correct Feminized world and church. Somehow we have diluted our capacity to talk clearly the way the King James Bible does without shame and without giving offense. I think we have lost something. I am not one of those King James Bible Purists. I like it, but my main translation is New American Standard.

Some years ago a beloved Pastor Friend of Mine, Dan Rothwell preached at First Assembly on the topic, HE WHO PISSETH AGAINST THE WALL. It shocked some people. But there was a solemn point to be made.

There are several times that phrase is used in the word of God:

1 Samuel 25:22

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

1 Samuel 25:34

For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

1 Kings 14:10

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, [and] him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

1 Kings 16:11

And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

1 Kings 21:21

Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

2 Kings 9:8

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:

The importance and meaning of these passages is that it is a terrible curse to threaten or to carry out the threat that every male who carries your bloodline who can still piss against the wall will be destroyed, killed. Particularly when God himself makes the threat or carries it out which he did six times.

That cuts off posterity. That shuts off the flow of the gene pool. That stops the line. If that happened to the Redlin clan there are no more Redlins.

So to threaten to do this meant that it was worse than killing you, it was terminating once and for all all of whoever you might ever be in posterity thru your children and grandchildren. Most modern translations insist in translating the "he that pisseth against the wall" as all male children, or all male relatives . Other weaker translations talk about "all blood relatives". It's true at one level but doesn't have the power and effect of the idea that your sons will be eliminated and your name will die here and now. Posterity stops with you. It's a type of castration that men understand.

The devil makes that threat today. He wants to terminate your gene pool. He wants to see to it your Children, particularly your Male Children who would carry your name are lost forever and the heritage you have tried to impart to them is lost.

That is what has happened in the black community and is part of the reason why there is so much dysfunction. Black men many times don't know who they are. Worse fathers have fathered children they have never seen. Particularly male children. Even if they "pisseth against the wall" they do so without an understanding of who they are and more important who's they are.

Last Sunday at the Lutheran Church Pastor Phil showed a slide show about Children coming to visit their fathers in prison at Angola. I cried like a baby. I am touched when I see fathers and sons particularly. I believe it's a sign of the last days that I long for when Malachi 4:6 says:

King James Bible
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse

Don Martens a good friend of mine works in prisons a great deal. Fatherlessness is the core issue with many of the young men who live there. They don't know who they are and worse, the father who's genes they carry no longer know who they are. The curse has happened without killing the children physically, but spiritually.

He that pisseth against the wall is already lost. It's not profane, it might be archaic but it certainly has meaning for our world today.

We are under attack once again. Our male children are under attack. Even the idea that some might be offended by the language that a generation ago was normative has shown how an effort to effeminate our young men has tried to neutralize those who pisseth against the wall.

Stand up young men, resume.