"Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in." ~ Isaiah 58:12
The Bible says, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)
Ladies and Gentlemen: The following document is the reason you and I, in America, are free:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, 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 entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.Continue reading →
On April 19th, 1775, seventy-five American farmers faced an overwhelming force of some 600 British professional soldiers. The Americans were out-manned, out-gunned, and out-trained. And when the first shots were fired, nine of the Americans fell dead. Why were they willing to face such overwhelming odds? Were they dreamers? Were they crazy? Were they men of such noble ideas that they were willing to die for them? While they were all these things (except crazy), they had an even greater reason for resisting the King of England. They believed they were obeying the God of the Bible with their resistance. Their Congress had stated:
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian…duty of each individual…Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly…defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”
(Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 1774, in a resolution. George Bancroft, Bancroft’s History of the United States, Vol. X (Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 3rd Edition, 1838), Vol. VII, p. 229 | Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 8.31.)
When our ancestors defended themselves on Lexington Green, and later much more successfully at Concord Bridge, they believed they were walking in a principle of liberty taught in the Bible.
When God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, he told him to “keep it”; that is, to Continue reading →
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 →
