If there is anything that makes me special, it is the fact the Almighty God of Creation created me, then He revealed Himself to me, and then He drew me near to Himself. He offered me the Gift of Salvation which is the most precious gift I have ever been offered or accepted. I shudder to think what I would be had I not been born again. Without this truth in my life I would be nothing.
After reading the above paragraph I hope that you will understand that I think less of myself than I think of most others. The realization of my Salvation is wonderful and this gift is available to any and all who are interested in knowing the knowledge of truth. Having said this, I will continue to try and express my opinion about what is happening in America. I have given this subject much thought.
America has been under attack by evil forces since the day she declared her independence. The battle to destroy her from within is becoming more evident as time marches on.
The founding fathers realized that they were dependent upon Providence for their success. The Revolution was hard fought and winning the war against England was a gift from the Hand of God. There have been many more struggles in our brief history. The war of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts, Desert Storm, the war in Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan, not to mention the Cold War, the Industrial Revolution, Prohibition, the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement. Some of these conflicts were justified such as WWII and others, but the vast majority of them were uncalled-for and were an enormous waste of life, blood and resources
All of these conflicts were a direct result of sin. The misbehavior of people have consequences. Being an American and living in America requires that the American people be responsible for their actions as well as the actions of their elected representatives. It seems that we have been led down a primrose path to destruction by the great deceiver Satan himself. It's getting worse and worse especially during the past 100 years.
Our Founders tried to make our government bullet-proof by having three different but equal branches of government, the Executive, the Judicial and the Legislative Branch. Each branch is supposed to have a limited power over the other two. This is what the Constitution is all about. The Constitution does nothing more than to define our Government and to limit its power. From this standpoint it is the Law of the Land.
Do you know or remember where our rights come from? Our RIGHTS are endowed to us by our Creator. That is where our rights come from, not the government, not the church, not the Free Masons, and not any other organization. The Declaration of Independence declares as much. This document also declares that to secure these God given rights, our Government was instituted.
The preamble to the Constitution reads; "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." In a way this preamble declares that "We the People" authored this document, not the Government, not the Church, not the President, not the Congress and not the Supreme Court. We the people!
Of course, there are the Amendments. The first ten Amendments are known as the "Bill of Rights." Not that we need a bill defining our rights, because Almighty God endowed our rights to us, and the Declaration of Independence states as much. Not only that, but the word entitled is mentioned in the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, it states; "and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them," We the People are the "them" mentioned here. We are entitled to choose. We are not entitled to a free house or a free car or a free medical plan.
So, here we are! The worse attack on the American people started almost 100 years ago. The Federal Reserve Act was enacted December 23, 1913. Two other atrocities forced on the American People in the same year were the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments. There is much speculation that neither of these Amendments were lawfully ratified. It seems that the Secretary of State at the time declared them passed when actually they did not have three fourths of the State legislators in agreement on either of these Amendments. Both Amendments were placed in the Constitution in order to remove power and therefore rights from the people. Both Amendments seem contradictory to the intent and the heart of the original Constitutional Document and the Declaration of Independence.
The Sixteenth Amendment seems to say that "we the Government" may tax you the Citizen any way we choose, it reads; "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
The Seventeenth Amendment took power away from the individual State's legislators by allowing US Senators to be elected by popular vote. This is wrongly dividing the Constitution's original intent of the separation of power. Now the Senators are placed in office by the very same people who elect the Representatives. You may have heard the expression, "money talks and BS walks," well this seems to be the very case with both houses of Congress but especially the Senate, now that it is the popular vote that places Senators in office for six long years. They all are rich or are becoming rich at the expense of you and I.
The National debt is said to be in the teens of trillions, but more than likely it is in the hundreds of trillions. The present Executive branch has an arrogant agenda, and the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress are undecided how to proceed. Some of the Democrats are blindly following the President and others want to make a deal. Some of the Republicans are more interested in keeping their job than they are in doing their job. There is defiantly a snake in the woodpile and the vast majority of Congress seem to be afraid to proceed. There are only a few who want to do the right thing just because it is the right thing to do. The rest seem to be terrified. I believe the terrified ones will soon be as embarrassed as a teenaged bed wetter. Much of what we have been led to believe IS JUST NOT TRUE. A child can smell a fake a mile away. Why can't we?
Another serious problem in America and in the World is the Islamist, (radical Muslims). They want to totally destroy our way of life and replace it with a totalitarian form of government. Some Americans believe that Muslims are devoted to their beliefs so much so that they want to influence governmental politics. They are wrong, that is not true! This movement by the Islamist is a political movement and it uses Islam, this so-called religion, to implement and permote its agenda.
I have transcribed a portion of the Book entitled; "The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent" ~by Erwin W. Lutzer.
"AN ASTUTE OBSERVATION When asked about the atrocities that Muslims carry out against Christians in countries like Nigeria, some Muslim representatives will give the excuse that what we’re seeing in such regions of the world is actually a political battle, and not a religious one. When I talked about this recently with a prominent Christian minister who speaks frequently in Muslim countries, he recounted for me a conversation he had with a pastor in Malaysia. The pastor’s church had been vandalized and looted by local Muslims. As the pastor shared about what happened, the Christian minister observed, “Islam is really a political ideology that uses religion to protect and support it. Without the protection of religion it might not even survive.” The Malaysian pastor agreed wholeheartedly."
Islamist are a real threat to our way of life read below where I have transcribed more from this wonderfully informative book.
"In July 2012, a Muslim convert to Christianity was beheaded in Tunisia, and the grisly murder was shown on Egyptian TV. The footage shows a young man being held down by masked men with a knife to his throat. One man chants a number of Muslim prayers in Arabic, mostly condemning Christianity. The man holding the knife to the Christian convert’s throat begins to cut, slowly severing the head amid cries of “Allahu Akbar” (“god is great”)… “The footage of this brutal beheading is the latest alarming indication of the violent threat to religious freedom in the post-Arab Spring order,” said a Barnabas Fund spokesperson. [The Barnabas Fund is a ministry that aids Christians who are persecuted and suffer for their faith.]
Especially tragic in this escalating wave of violence against Christians is the Western media's silence. Why are we not hearing more about this? One possible reason for the reluctance to report such incidents "may be fear of provoking additional violence. Another is most likely the influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC]…and the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] –both of which have shamed the media from coverage that is in anyway perceived as anti-Muslim. And it should come as no surprise to us that the writer of the Newsweek article, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who grew up Muslim and renounced Islam in 2002, had had to live in hiding due to constant threats against her life for her outspoken stance on Sharia, free speech, and women's rights."
These are many atrocities performed by Islamist. The vast majority of Americans don't have a clue about what is going on in Washington, Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world.
I am no prophet, I can't see, nor do I know the future of America. However, the vast majority of Americans have had their backs turned toward God and His Commandments for so long that I doubt that He will continue to bless America as He has for so long. There is only a remnant of believers who try to live their lives in a way that is obedient and pleasing to Him. Israel, God's Chosen People, was conquered and place in bondage many times because of their disobedience. Can we Americans anticipate anything less?
~by Adverse Yaw