These days, God is doing a work on His people. He is judging His people because of our sins. He has turned America over to evil statists who use envy as their motive; and it is our fault. The church has allowed this by being “dogs that cannot bark.”
His watchmen are blind,
They are all ignorant;
They are all dumb dogs,
They cannot bark;
Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber (Isaiah 56:10).
“Therefore it shall come to pass, when the LORD has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, ‘I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks”’ (Isaiah 10:12).
Hebrews 12:22 says the church is the Mt. Zion and the New Jerusalem to which we believers have come. Isaiah was referring to the punishment God was inflicting on His people by using Assyria as the rod of His anger (Isa 10:5). Today, God is inflicting His wrath on His people by raising up another arrogant heart… the heart of a socialist president. We get the leaders we deserve, but Isaiah promised that God would also punish the “glory of his haughty looks.”
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt. For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction” (Isa 10:24-25).
Monday, September 14, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Legal Versus Illegal Revolution
It is absolutely astounding how many educated people do not understand the difference between the French Revolution and the American one. Edmond Burke, British Member of Parliament at the time of the 1776 American Revolution, supported the American cause. He saw it as just and legal. He likened it to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In that year, the leaders in England deposed the tyrant James II and replaced him with William and Mary. It was relatively bloodless and based on the law. The Stuart kings believed in the divine right of kings and violated the laws of Parliament.
Some of Burke’s friends in the Glorious Revolution Club began to support the French Revolution of 1789. Edmond Burke wrote a book explaining the difference and showed how it was a perversion of the Glorious Revolution. He accurately predicted the tyranny that would result from it.
Friends of justice need to make the distinction. “[W]henever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends [life, liberty, and property] it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.” Some would argue that the French mob had a right to rebel, but they should read Edmond Burke. Men duly elected by the various states led the American Revolution. They were mostly prosperous businessmen. The French Revolution was based on class envy. That is lawless.
The French Revolution, as it progressed, resulted in dictatorships starting with Napoleon and progressing to Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, and others all based on class envy.
Some of Burke’s friends in the Glorious Revolution Club began to support the French Revolution of 1789. Edmond Burke wrote a book explaining the difference and showed how it was a perversion of the Glorious Revolution. He accurately predicted the tyranny that would result from it.
Friends of justice need to make the distinction. “[W]henever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends [life, liberty, and property] it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.” Some would argue that the French mob had a right to rebel, but they should read Edmond Burke. Men duly elected by the various states led the American Revolution. They were mostly prosperous businessmen. The French Revolution was based on class envy. That is lawless.
The French Revolution, as it progressed, resulted in dictatorships starting with Napoleon and progressing to Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, and others all based on class envy.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Controlling Health Care Costs
Control Of Health Care Costs
A liberal politician asked on Fox and Friends what we should do to control health care costs. Uh oh! There’s that word: “control;” and that stands for “power;” and that stands for “dictate;” and that stands for “dictator;”and that stands for Big Brother. And that looks like Russia, Cuba, Canada, and Europe.
Let’s face it. Health care costs did not start soaring until after Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Government involvement is the cause; not the cure. The only cure is free enterprise.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
1. that all men are created WHO’S IN CHARGE?
2. that they are created equal HIERARCHY (the consent of the governed)
3. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights: that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — THE LAW PROTECTS THESE RIGHTS
4. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — SANCTIONS SECURE THESE RIGHTS
5. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. SUCCESSION
The current “czars” in power now, are Marxists who prefer the socialist model of Big Brother control. Did you know the word “czar” is Russian for Caesar? Caesar represents the destruction of the Republic. That is why the senators of Rome put 32 daggers in him. They thought they had killed the beast with a mortal wound that would save the Republic. But the whole world wondered when the beast came back to life in the form of Augustus Caesar who said, “There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, but the name Caesar. “Hail Caesar. We have no king but Caesar the Beast. Sieg heil.”
How did Caesar get his power? He got it from the people just like Hitler and Mussolini did. He by-passed the law.
America is not a democracy. It is a republic. The only Name by which we can be saved is the Name above all names and the King of all kings, and He is the Law. “Re” in republic means “the thing.” The “thing” is the “law” of the public and not the public.
How do we control health care costs? We get government out of it.
A liberal politician asked on Fox and Friends what we should do to control health care costs. Uh oh! There’s that word: “control;” and that stands for “power;” and that stands for “dictate;” and that stands for “dictator;”and that stands for Big Brother. And that looks like Russia, Cuba, Canada, and Europe.
Let’s face it. Health care costs did not start soaring until after Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Government involvement is the cause; not the cure. The only cure is free enterprise.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
1. that all men are created WHO’S IN CHARGE?
2. that they are created equal HIERARCHY (the consent of the governed)
3. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights: that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — THE LAW PROTECTS THESE RIGHTS
4. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — SANCTIONS SECURE THESE RIGHTS
5. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. SUCCESSION
The current “czars” in power now, are Marxists who prefer the socialist model of Big Brother control. Did you know the word “czar” is Russian for Caesar? Caesar represents the destruction of the Republic. That is why the senators of Rome put 32 daggers in him. They thought they had killed the beast with a mortal wound that would save the Republic. But the whole world wondered when the beast came back to life in the form of Augustus Caesar who said, “There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, but the name Caesar. “Hail Caesar. We have no king but Caesar the Beast. Sieg heil.”
How did Caesar get his power? He got it from the people just like Hitler and Mussolini did. He by-passed the law.
America is not a democracy. It is a republic. The only Name by which we can be saved is the Name above all names and the King of all kings, and He is the Law. “Re” in republic means “the thing.” The “thing” is the “law” of the public and not the public.
How do we control health care costs? We get government out of it.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT
Jay Leno’s “Jay Walking” interviews on the streets of New York illustrate why America has elected the leaders we have. One man, for example, answered that Australia borders the U.S. Many other unbelievably dumb answers were given to other questions.
The purpose of government is not to save people. Its purpose is to enforce the law. But when it makes up unjust laws that plunder some in order to favor others, this is injustice. Government monopolies (such as national health care) or private ones plunder some in order to favor others. That is lawless.
Nowhere is it written in the Bible or the Constitution that government is to save private businesses. Nowhere is it written that the state is commanded to give to the poor; but individuals are. The sole job of the law is to prohibit plunder. Its function is negative; not positive. It prohibits plunder.
When the state sets out to save people, it becomes a god. This is the major struggle illustrated throughout Scripture. This is why God’s wrath fell on the Tower of Babel, Babylon, Rome, and Jerusalem… statism. Humanists still say, “We have no king but Caesar.”
The three Hebrew children refused to bow to the image of the state, were cast into the fiery furnace, and came out not even smelling like smoke. Let’s follow their example so the fourth Man in the fire will be with us. He will certainly not be with those who bow and adore the mental image of the statist beast.
Then the beast … deceived … those who worshiped his image. These … were cast alive into the lake of fire… (Re 19:20).
The purpose of government is not to save people. Its purpose is to enforce the law. But when it makes up unjust laws that plunder some in order to favor others, this is injustice. Government monopolies (such as national health care) or private ones plunder some in order to favor others. That is lawless.
Nowhere is it written in the Bible or the Constitution that government is to save private businesses. Nowhere is it written that the state is commanded to give to the poor; but individuals are. The sole job of the law is to prohibit plunder. Its function is negative; not positive. It prohibits plunder.
When the state sets out to save people, it becomes a god. This is the major struggle illustrated throughout Scripture. This is why God’s wrath fell on the Tower of Babel, Babylon, Rome, and Jerusalem… statism. Humanists still say, “We have no king but Caesar.”
The three Hebrew children refused to bow to the image of the state, were cast into the fiery furnace, and came out not even smelling like smoke. Let’s follow their example so the fourth Man in the fire will be with us. He will certainly not be with those who bow and adore the mental image of the statist beast.
Then the beast … deceived … those who worshiped his image. These … were cast alive into the lake of fire… (Re 19:20).
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Statism And The Tower Of Babel
Tower
Of Babel
Statism
“…and this is only the beginning of what they will do.”
By Ron Smith
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth." And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech" (Genesis 11:4-7).
Josephus tells us that the people after the flood were afraid that God would send another flood, so they built this tower as insurance in case Noah had prophesied falsely. They waterproofed it with asphalt (bitumen), and built it high to ascend above the flood. There would be no need to keep God’s covenant through Noah; they could save themselves.
This account is given through the prophet from God’s point of view. “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (1 Pet 1:20). Their motive was a distrust of God’s promise through Noah that He would never send another earth destroying flood. This greatly offended God. They sought to displace trust in God with trust in themselves. Instead of a desire to make a name for God, they wanted to make a name for themselves. Instead of obeying God’s command to fill the earth, they joined as one, lest they should “be dispersed over the face of the earth.” They were “one worldists” and they were Statists. By establishing a humanistic State, they could produce a utopia and save themselves. The watchword is “power.” “And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” And “this is only the beginning [the genesis] of what they will do.” What they have done since and what they are doing now is even worse.
This is the human situation; the human condition. This story gives us the pattern of the struggle of history that would follow. It is the City of Man versus the City of God. Every religion except biblical religion ends up looking to the State for security and salvation. Though monarchies are not the only Statist systems, we see it manifested with Israel’s desire for a king. God said to Samuel, “They have not rejected you. They have rejected Me.” They traded their freedom for security. Samuel then goes on to detail how they would have to enslave themselves to the State.
Statism comes in various forms. The extreme right wing wants zero government. They are anarchists. The extreme left-wingers are the Statists like Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators. In the middle are those who look to the original intent of the Constitution and the Law. But Statism is always something the people choose. They chose Hitler; they chose Lenin; they chose Obama. After the liberty brought by the Puritan Oliver Cromwell, they preferred a king. What they got resulted in 28 years of what are called “the killing years” under Charles II and James II. They do this because they believe the State will give them more security than their freedom under God will. But it always ends in the figurative confusion of tongues and a broken tower.
We see Statism manifested in every chapter of the Book of Daniel. In chapter one Daniel makes a decision not to defile himself with the king’s meat. The king’s meat represents the worldly consumption of the humanist/statist idea and worldview. In chapter 2 Daniel interprets the dream of the king about another kingdom that would destroy the kingdoms of this world. Chapter 3 tells of the State command to bow to the image of man that represented the State. Everyone had to conform, just as everyone is expected to conform to today’s political correctness. Notice that the entertainment industry was also involved. It was at the sound of the music that they were to bow. Hollywood is also involved in the support of Statism today.
Chapter four of Daniel tells of the king’s madness and eventual repentance when he acknowledges that God is the real ruler. Only then does his reason and sanity return to him. When “seven times” have come over the rulers of this world, “Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; All nations shall serve Him” (Psalm 72 NKJV). Each of the following chapters of Daniel deal with the struggle between God’s kingdom and the beastly kingdoms of men. God gives the great hope that His King will eventually rule over all kingdoms.
Augustus Caesar said, “There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved, but the name Caesar.” Caesar was the State. In the New Testament we see this struggle illustrated with the statement of the rulers of Jerusalem when they said, “We have no king but Caesar” and “Give us Barabbas.” This is seen in John’s vision of a lamb that has two horns and speaks like a dragon. Its function is to make the whole world worship the mental image of the beast (Caesar). Caesar represented the extreme left wing, and Barabbas represented the extreme right wing anarchists. (Barabbas had killed a man in an insurrection.) But even the extreme right-wingers are Statists. They attempt to build their own tower of power. They end up taking over the state they destroy. Lenin and Castro did this.
In the center are those who subscribe to the law. The “tea party” center is obedient to the Constitution. The king of England had broken his contract with the colonies and the duly elected rulers of the colonies had a legal right to do what they did. “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 entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
On the other hand, the French Revolution was illegal. It instituted a reign of terror that was imitated by Russia, Cambodia, Cuba, etc. It was not founded on the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” Its goal was humanist Statism and Utopia (i.e. change). They each eliminated religion as the opiate of the people. The State became the supreme power (i.e. god). Edmond Burke pointed out that the French revolutionaries could not tell the difference between change and reformation. Change as they practiced it was discontinuity with the past. They even tried a new calendar that dated the French Revolution as year one, and a ten-day week so no one could tell which day was Sabbath. Reformation, on the other hand, builds on the good of the past, is lawful, and reforms what is not lawful.
Statists are humanists who believe in the ability of man to create a Utopia (i.e. a “name for themselves” with a tower of power). The tower builders totally ignored the covenant with Noah. Statists want to separate God and the State because we cannot have two gods. And because the Constitution limits their goals, they reinterpret it. They ignore the original intent of those who wrote it. The Conservatives, on the other hand, seek to conserve the Law.
For the Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve a Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way… His first duty must be to the State – not family, community, and faith, all of which have the potential of threatening the State.
President Barack Obama made this point when lecturing the Wesleyan University graduating class of 2008 during his campaign: “[O]ur individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”.
Because these Utopian Statists believe they can build a one-wordlist tower that reaches to the heavens, “they need to listen to the voices of condemnation from world capitals… The classroom is turned into propaganda mill rather than a place for education.”
The Statists in America call themselves “Progressives.” They realize that their goals can never be reached in America with the aggressive type of Statism. So they have adopted an evolutionary “soft” approach. They believe they are progressing towards Utopia. But in order to do this, they must progressively chip away at the Constitution. They must control the education system, the entertainment industry, and the media. They must tax and spend. They must take advantage of every crisis they create in order to push through laws that give them more control. Because they must see to it that the people believe the State can save them, they make all kinds of promises in their election campaigns. Power is what they seek; a tower of power that reaches to the heavens and provides health care for all.
Mark Levin points out that Statist “Academics claim to challenge authority but, in truth, preach authoritarianism through various justifications for and approaches to deconstructing the civil society.” This answers to the “soft” and gentle looking lamb with two horns representing both Caesar (statism) and Barabbas (anarchy). They are really two functions of the same Statist beast that speaks like a dragon and says, “Crucify Him.”
Churchofthekingmcallen.com
Of Babel
Statism
“…and this is only the beginning of what they will do.”
By Ron Smith
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth." And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech" (Genesis 11:4-7).
Josephus tells us that the people after the flood were afraid that God would send another flood, so they built this tower as insurance in case Noah had prophesied falsely. They waterproofed it with asphalt (bitumen), and built it high to ascend above the flood. There would be no need to keep God’s covenant through Noah; they could save themselves.
This account is given through the prophet from God’s point of view. “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (1 Pet 1:20). Their motive was a distrust of God’s promise through Noah that He would never send another earth destroying flood. This greatly offended God. They sought to displace trust in God with trust in themselves. Instead of a desire to make a name for God, they wanted to make a name for themselves. Instead of obeying God’s command to fill the earth, they joined as one, lest they should “be dispersed over the face of the earth.” They were “one worldists” and they were Statists. By establishing a humanistic State, they could produce a utopia and save themselves. The watchword is “power.” “And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” And “this is only the beginning [the genesis] of what they will do.” What they have done since and what they are doing now is even worse.
This is the human situation; the human condition. This story gives us the pattern of the struggle of history that would follow. It is the City of Man versus the City of God. Every religion except biblical religion ends up looking to the State for security and salvation. Though monarchies are not the only Statist systems, we see it manifested with Israel’s desire for a king. God said to Samuel, “They have not rejected you. They have rejected Me.” They traded their freedom for security. Samuel then goes on to detail how they would have to enslave themselves to the State.
Statism comes in various forms. The extreme right wing wants zero government. They are anarchists. The extreme left-wingers are the Statists like Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators. In the middle are those who look to the original intent of the Constitution and the Law. But Statism is always something the people choose. They chose Hitler; they chose Lenin; they chose Obama. After the liberty brought by the Puritan Oliver Cromwell, they preferred a king. What they got resulted in 28 years of what are called “the killing years” under Charles II and James II. They do this because they believe the State will give them more security than their freedom under God will. But it always ends in the figurative confusion of tongues and a broken tower.
We see Statism manifested in every chapter of the Book of Daniel. In chapter one Daniel makes a decision not to defile himself with the king’s meat. The king’s meat represents the worldly consumption of the humanist/statist idea and worldview. In chapter 2 Daniel interprets the dream of the king about another kingdom that would destroy the kingdoms of this world. Chapter 3 tells of the State command to bow to the image of man that represented the State. Everyone had to conform, just as everyone is expected to conform to today’s political correctness. Notice that the entertainment industry was also involved. It was at the sound of the music that they were to bow. Hollywood is also involved in the support of Statism today.
Chapter four of Daniel tells of the king’s madness and eventual repentance when he acknowledges that God is the real ruler. Only then does his reason and sanity return to him. When “seven times” have come over the rulers of this world, “Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; All nations shall serve Him” (Psalm 72 NKJV). Each of the following chapters of Daniel deal with the struggle between God’s kingdom and the beastly kingdoms of men. God gives the great hope that His King will eventually rule over all kingdoms.
Augustus Caesar said, “There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved, but the name Caesar.” Caesar was the State. In the New Testament we see this struggle illustrated with the statement of the rulers of Jerusalem when they said, “We have no king but Caesar” and “Give us Barabbas.” This is seen in John’s vision of a lamb that has two horns and speaks like a dragon. Its function is to make the whole world worship the mental image of the beast (Caesar). Caesar represented the extreme left wing, and Barabbas represented the extreme right wing anarchists. (Barabbas had killed a man in an insurrection.) But even the extreme right-wingers are Statists. They attempt to build their own tower of power. They end up taking over the state they destroy. Lenin and Castro did this.
In the center are those who subscribe to the law. The “tea party” center is obedient to the Constitution. The king of England had broken his contract with the colonies and the duly elected rulers of the colonies had a legal right to do what they did. “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 entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
On the other hand, the French Revolution was illegal. It instituted a reign of terror that was imitated by Russia, Cambodia, Cuba, etc. It was not founded on the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” Its goal was humanist Statism and Utopia (i.e. change). They each eliminated religion as the opiate of the people. The State became the supreme power (i.e. god). Edmond Burke pointed out that the French revolutionaries could not tell the difference between change and reformation. Change as they practiced it was discontinuity with the past. They even tried a new calendar that dated the French Revolution as year one, and a ten-day week so no one could tell which day was Sabbath. Reformation, on the other hand, builds on the good of the past, is lawful, and reforms what is not lawful.
Statists are humanists who believe in the ability of man to create a Utopia (i.e. a “name for themselves” with a tower of power). The tower builders totally ignored the covenant with Noah. Statists want to separate God and the State because we cannot have two gods. And because the Constitution limits their goals, they reinterpret it. They ignore the original intent of those who wrote it. The Conservatives, on the other hand, seek to conserve the Law.
For the Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve a Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way… His first duty must be to the State – not family, community, and faith, all of which have the potential of threatening the State.
President Barack Obama made this point when lecturing the Wesleyan University graduating class of 2008 during his campaign: “[O]ur individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”.
Because these Utopian Statists believe they can build a one-wordlist tower that reaches to the heavens, “they need to listen to the voices of condemnation from world capitals… The classroom is turned into propaganda mill rather than a place for education.”
The Statists in America call themselves “Progressives.” They realize that their goals can never be reached in America with the aggressive type of Statism. So they have adopted an evolutionary “soft” approach. They believe they are progressing towards Utopia. But in order to do this, they must progressively chip away at the Constitution. They must control the education system, the entertainment industry, and the media. They must tax and spend. They must take advantage of every crisis they create in order to push through laws that give them more control. Because they must see to it that the people believe the State can save them, they make all kinds of promises in their election campaigns. Power is what they seek; a tower of power that reaches to the heavens and provides health care for all.
Mark Levin points out that Statist “Academics claim to challenge authority but, in truth, preach authoritarianism through various justifications for and approaches to deconstructing the civil society.” This answers to the “soft” and gentle looking lamb with two horns representing both Caesar (statism) and Barabbas (anarchy). They are really two functions of the same Statist beast that speaks like a dragon and says, “Crucify Him.”
Churchofthekingmcallen.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Right-Wing Barabbas v. Leftists
Barabbas was a “right-winger” who killed a man in an effort to overthrow Rome. The leaders of Jerusalem, on the other hand, were “left-wingers” who wanted Roman control. These two wings are like two horns on a harmless looking lamb (See Rev 13). Its function is to get everyone to adore the mental image of the “beastly” state. Both Barabbas and the leaders of Jerusalem who each believed that humanist state control was what everyone needs illustrate this. Anarchists like Barabbas want to overthrow the state so they can run it. This is what Castro and Lenin did. Anyone who will not adore the state is ostracized. They are considered “enemies of the state.” (Can’t buy or sell, so to speak.)
The pattern set by America’s founding fathers is different. They did not trust government. Their goal was to limit it with the Constitution. For them, it all boiled down to freedom, individualism, and faith in God. The goal of the progressives is to overthrow the original intent of the Constitution. Does that smack of treason to you?
We “Tea Party” people want to be like the founding fathers. We want to turn America back to the values of the Constitution. We are not right-wing extremists. We are law-abiding, hard working citizens who plan to vote for justice as defined by the founding fathers.
They did not believe in separation of God and state. The First Amendment says that Congress should not prohibit the free exercise of religion. That is why the Ten Commandments are displayed on government buildings, God is on our money, and the Declaration appeals to the Creator. It is time for a Tea Party and back to basics. Men do not naturally evolve; they tend to devolve.
The pattern set by America’s founding fathers is different. They did not trust government. Their goal was to limit it with the Constitution. For them, it all boiled down to freedom, individualism, and faith in God. The goal of the progressives is to overthrow the original intent of the Constitution. Does that smack of treason to you?
We “Tea Party” people want to be like the founding fathers. We want to turn America back to the values of the Constitution. We are not right-wing extremists. We are law-abiding, hard working citizens who plan to vote for justice as defined by the founding fathers.
They did not believe in separation of God and state. The First Amendment says that Congress should not prohibit the free exercise of religion. That is why the Ten Commandments are displayed on government buildings, God is on our money, and the Declaration appeals to the Creator. It is time for a Tea Party and back to basics. Men do not naturally evolve; they tend to devolve.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Pork Food
Pork Food
To have a mentality that feels free to dip into the public dole strikes me as an “entitlement” attitude. It is not noble to live on the sacrifice of others unless it is a last resort. To be anxious to do that reveals, perhaps, well, a tinge of greed? Public money is the hard earned blood and sweat of taxpayers. This money goes to Washington where the handlers first rake off their wasteful percentage. Then it is sent back to the taxpayers via pork and or more wastefulness. Many other non-producers dip into the pot and take more.
This is a wasteful greed game. The prodigal son said, “Give me my share now.” He felt “entitled.” When two of David’s men jeopardized their lives to bring him a drink from the well within the Philistine garrison he refused to drink it. Noble men like David say, “God forbid that I should drink the blood of these men!”
After Hurricane Dolly hit the Rio Grande Valley, a neighbor got an estimate for their damaged roof. FEMA gave them money and they then had it done cheaper and profited by $7,000. That money came out of the pockets of hard working taxpayers. This does not represent the values of noble men. The prodigal son “wasted his substance in riotous living” and ended up sharing the food of porkers.
After I left the mission field at the age of 30 with a wife and four kids, starting a new career was tough. $3.00 an hour and two jobs living in a trailer bought for $3400 with financed money was tough. I saw in the paper government housing and called the realtor. She said if I would quit one of my jobs I would qualify. “You mean it would pay me to quit one of my jobs?” “Yes.” “No thanks. Bye.”
Why take on the “poor me” mantle when I can trust God to supply all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus? It really is better to give than to receive. I determined to give the sweat of my own brow rather than the sweat of the taxpayers. Our policy has always been to tithe first, pay bills second, and feed the belly last. It has paid off to side with God against self and be on the Victor’s side.
To have a mentality that feels free to dip into the public dole strikes me as an “entitlement” attitude. It is not noble to live on the sacrifice of others unless it is a last resort. To be anxious to do that reveals, perhaps, well, a tinge of greed? Public money is the hard earned blood and sweat of taxpayers. This money goes to Washington where the handlers first rake off their wasteful percentage. Then it is sent back to the taxpayers via pork and or more wastefulness. Many other non-producers dip into the pot and take more.
This is a wasteful greed game. The prodigal son said, “Give me my share now.” He felt “entitled.” When two of David’s men jeopardized their lives to bring him a drink from the well within the Philistine garrison he refused to drink it. Noble men like David say, “God forbid that I should drink the blood of these men!”
After Hurricane Dolly hit the Rio Grande Valley, a neighbor got an estimate for their damaged roof. FEMA gave them money and they then had it done cheaper and profited by $7,000. That money came out of the pockets of hard working taxpayers. This does not represent the values of noble men. The prodigal son “wasted his substance in riotous living” and ended up sharing the food of porkers.
After I left the mission field at the age of 30 with a wife and four kids, starting a new career was tough. $3.00 an hour and two jobs living in a trailer bought for $3400 with financed money was tough. I saw in the paper government housing and called the realtor. She said if I would quit one of my jobs I would qualify. “You mean it would pay me to quit one of my jobs?” “Yes.” “No thanks. Bye.”
Why take on the “poor me” mantle when I can trust God to supply all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus? It really is better to give than to receive. I determined to give the sweat of my own brow rather than the sweat of the taxpayers. Our policy has always been to tithe first, pay bills second, and feed the belly last. It has paid off to side with God against self and be on the Victor’s side.
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