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Some 600 years before Christ came to earth the nation of Judah was falling apart.  Ministers had stopped teaching Biblical morality for fear they’d lose their income.  Government leaders had approved the murder of the innocent in their nation.  Citizens had oppressed the poor with money loaned by interest, and the bribery of judges.  (Ezekiel 22: 25-29)   Does all this sound familiar?  God warned them that He would judge them and destroy their nation if they didn’t repent.  They didn’t.  Destruction came by the hand of the King of Babylon, whom God called, His “servant”.

We Americans deserve God’s judgment just as much as Judah did.  We have murdered over 55 million of our own children by abortion.  We have accepted homo-sexuality, which the Bible calls perversion.  And we have given away the civil liberty which God entrusted to us for the purpose of getting the Gospel of Christ to our children and the world.  Any one of these is enough to merit judgment on our nation!

And yet, God said to the prophet Ezekiel these amazing words: Continue reading →

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Why did early Americans respect the Bible so much?  Why did our Founding Fathers who wrote our Founding documents reason from Biblical principles?  Why did they insist that their education and governmental systems be the means of communicating the truth to the next generation?

To really understand how they thought we must consider the time in which they were born.  Most all of them were born in the midst of an amazing work which came to be called the “Great Awakening”.  It was a time of revival that brought the Pilgrims’ descendants back to the faith of those original settlers in Plymouth.  It started in 1734 in the little village of western Massachusetts called Northampton.  The Pastor of the church there, Jonathan Edwards, described it in his own words in Continue reading →