I once heard a preacher say about the Bible that it does not tell us what happened; it tells us what always happens. That is correct. The Bible teaches us how to live in light of the wisdom offered by the Lord of creation. He shows us in his word how the corrupt will always act if they are not restrained.

I’ve written many articles about how our immigration policy is a form of exploitation.

Both to create a vulnerable workforce (do a bit of reading into slaves in the massage business, for example), but also to suppress Australians’ own wages.

Now a prominent politician is actually saying the truth out loud about big business, governments, and mass immigration,

“Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has accused “big business” of agitating against migration reform “because they like having a vulnerable workforce” on temporary visas.

Labor, the Coalition, and One Nation have all targeted temporary visa holders in proposed reforms to Australia’s migration system.

However, business leaders, including the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, have warned significant cuts to that cohort would hit some sectors hard.

The Coalition has proposed reducing the overall number of temporary visa holders by 650,000 over four years, with certain priorities for aged care, healthcare, and construction workers.

Addressing the pushback, Mr Hastie told the ABC on Friday big businesses were “making noise” because they “like having a vulnerable workforce on temporary visas”.

“There’s a reason why they want that. Because they’re non-unionised. They can pay them less. And they have an element of power,” he said.

“Because, of course, someone on a temporary visa is not going to make a whole bunch of noise.”

A government that is not solely focused on serving its own people, but that has the power to replace its people with others easily, will disrespect both. It is just a fact of human power dynamics.

I came to the conclusion that this is how big business and the corrupt act towards the worker, not through studying social studies, or things like that, though I have studied those things. I came to this conclusion by reading the Old Testament prophets and seeing how the powerful would exploit the weak when they were not restrained. And human nature has not changed.

Of course, you can look at how immigration suppresses wages, drives up rents, puts pressure on social services, and more to see that it does not serve the populations upon which mass immigration is imposed, and see the same problems. But really, it is God’s word that reveals the heart of man and how he will act when he is given too much power over the worker and not enough incentives to act justly. Other research just confirms this.

And now a prominent politician has said this is the case out loud.

Things are changing. Australia is a hard left country. We are on track to become the new Argentina in my lifetime; that is a basket-case economy that was once one of the richest per capita countries in the world. If more leaders start speaking the truth on issues like this, we have a chance to turn this situation around.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced plans to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the Islamist terrorist convicted of murdering 13 people and attempting to murder 32 others at Fort Hood in 2009.

The execution, which is scheduled for December 3, will be carried out by firing squad at the scene of Hasan’s massacre.

But the decision has provoked international condemnation, including from some public Christian voices.

Pope Leo XIV condemned the death penalty, describing it as “inadmissible,” and claiming it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.

Live Action founder Lila Rose argued on X that Hasan admired suicide bombers and wanted to die. She questioned whether publicly executing a suicidal terrorist would deter terrorism rather than serve his desire for martyrdom.

That might be a fair point, but she also went further, describing public executions as “bloodlust,” claiming they will “breed vengeance, violence and dehumanisation.” She added, “Satan loves this.”

But there’s a fundamental problem with the insinuation that public executions are inherently immoral, barbaric, or even satanic.

God Himself prescribed public executions in His Law.

In Leviticus 24:14, God commanded that the congregation participate in carrying out a capital sentence.

“Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.” (Lev. 24:14, ESV)

In Deuteronomy 21:21, he explained that such punishment would purge evil from Israel, and that the people would hear of it and fear it.

“And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.” (Deut. 21:21, ESV)

Public punishment wasn’t some unfortunate barbarism that God reluctantly tolerated for a time. It was part of His revealed system of justice. It was His just answer to particular crimes.

So, when Christians condemn the principle as immoral, outdated, or unloving, the question that must be asked is: By what standard can something God explicitly commanded be declared evil?

Such a moral judgement necessarily appeals to an imagined moral authority that sits higher than God Himself.

Jesus declared that He had not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfil it (Matt. 5:17). Paul affirmed that God’s law is holy, righteous, and good (Rom. 7:12) and that love fulfils the law (Rom. 13:10).

As such, God’s commandments are not contrary to goodness, justice, or love. They reveal what goodness, justice, and love require.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that every judicial procedure must be exactly reproduced by governments today. But Christians can’t condemn a principle God prescribed without implicating the character of the Lawgiver.

Public execution isn’t intended to be a morbid form of entertainment. That is a gross caricature of our ancestors, conjured up by those who despise God’s justice. Instead, it’s intended to communicate the seriousness of evil and the certainty of its consequences.

God knows something modern sentimentalism often overlooks: not every human being considers the consequences of their actions. Some are governed by their own immediate desires, passions, and “animal” impulses. The public administration of justice vividly brings the consequences of wrongdoing into the present.

Like it or not, leaders throughout history have understood that some people only learn when confronted with the consequences of their actions. Public executions were intended to deter wrongdoing, particularly among those who lacked the moral restraint to govern themselves. If their own virtue would not restrain them, fear of punishment might.

And that was precisely God’s stated purpose of public punishment under biblical law: that others would hear, fear, and refrain from evil.

Today, society has largely concealed death from public life. We sanitise it, institutionalise it, and remove it from ordinary view. In the minds of many, death is something that only ever happens to other people. It’s something we only ever witness in movies or on television. It’s as removed from our reality as dragons and caped superheroes.

And yet, death remains the one appointment none of us can escape. We are all, in effect, on death row.

Public executions, however, confront the public with that uncomfortable reality most people would rather ignore. The condemned man faces an immediate sentence. But every spectator is also under a sentence of death.

As Hebrews 9:27 reminds us, it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.

This isn’t an invitation to celebrate another man’s death. It’s a warning to everyone to consider their own.

Indeed, as Ecclesiastes 7:2 teaches, confronting death is profitable precisely because the living take it to heart.

A public execution should therefore produce national sobriety, not bloodlust. It should remind us that sin is serious, justice is necessary, human life is sacred, and death is certain.

Above all, it should remind us that something is fundamentally wrong with this world. We live under the curse of sin and death. The grave awaits us all. And no amount of social progress or sentimental moralising can deliver us from it.

That’s why our greatest need isn’t a society that attempts to soften the blow of death or remove it from public view. Our greatest need is reconciliation with the source of Life, the One True God.

Justice reminds us that sin deserves judgment. The Gospel reveals that Jesus Christ alone can save us from it.