January 16 is National Religious Freedom Day. This is a day on which many Christians will celebrate the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, oblivious to the fact that, in doing so, they commit treason against their God and Creator:
And God spake all these words, saying, I am Yahweh1 thy God…. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:1-3)
Yahweh’s moral law begins with recognizing Him as sovereign God and Creator. As such, He retains the exclusive right to man’s reverence and fidelity. He allows no competitors, if only because He has no competitors:
Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. (1 Corinthians 8:5-6)
Only the most radical antinomian2 will deny that the First Commandment is still relevant under the New Covenant. Yet modern Christianity (including both antinomians and pronomians) is replete with Christians who blatantly violate the First Commandment. They do so by promoting the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, which established religious freedom in America.
Christians have been hoodwinked into believing this violation of the First Commandment is somehow Christian:
Although the First Amendment does not allow for establishing one religion over another, by eliminating Christianity as the federal government’s religion of choice (achieved by Article 6’s interdiction against Christian test oaths), Amendment 1 authorized equality for all non-Christian and even antichristian religions. When the Constitution failed to recognize Christian monotheism, it allowed Amendment 1 to fill the void by authorizing pagan polytheism.
Amendment 1 did exactly what the framers proclaimed it could not do: it prohibited the exercise of monotheistic Christianity (except within the confines of its church buildings) and established polytheism in its place. This explains the government’s double standard regarding Christian and non-Christian religions. For example, court participants entering the United States District Court of Appeals for the Middle District of Alabama must walk by a statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of justice. And yet, on November 18, 2002, this very court ruled that Judge Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments Monument violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Despite many Christians’ protests against this hypocrisy, it was in keeping with the inevitable repercussions of the First Amendment.
…Christians hang their religious hat on Amendment 1, as if some great moral principle is carved therein. They have gotten so caught up in the battle over the misuse of the Establishment Clause—the freedom from religion—that they have overlooked the ungodliness intrinsic in the Free Exercise Clause—the freedom of religion.3
Religious Freedom and Christian Liberty are not the same thing. They are, in fact, hostile to each other. The former is born of the First Amendment. The latter is born of the First Commandment. In 1789, the First Commandment and Christian Liberty were formally sacrificed on the altar of the First Amendment and Religious Freedom.
When the 18th-century founders replaced the First Commandment (found intact in some 17th-century Colonial Constitutions) with the First Amendment, America was transformed from a predominantly monotheistic Christian nation (a united nation under one God) into arguably the most polytheistic nation to exist (a divided nation under many gods).
It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods, something impossible to legislate for or against. It’s another matter altogether for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and evangelize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes. It is an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the following First Commandment statute:
[Y]e shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou … go a whoring after their gods…. (Exodus 34:13-15)
Ironically, Religious Freedom Day is promoted by more Christians than non-Christians. Consequently, the First Commandment is more likely to be violated on this day by Christians than by non-Christians. However, with your help in sharing this article, we can awaken some of our brethren and deliver them from this grievous sin.
Rather than celebrating Religious Freedom on January 16 every year, let’s instead celebrate Christian Liberty every day by proclaiming Yahweh as our exclusive sovereign and His moral law as supreme, beginning with the First Commandment.
Related posts:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant
A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government
- YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. It was unlawfully deleted by the English translators. In obedience to the Third Commandment and the many Scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, we have chosen to memorialize His name here in this document and in our lives. For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see “The Third Commandment.”
- The word “antinomian” is derived from a Greek word implying one opposed to Yahweh’s moral law as pertinent under the New Covenant.
- Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Thank you for the article Ted.
the constitution of the USA was really a coup against Almighty God and the American people when the conspirators drew up the Constitution in the 1780s. not only is the first amendment establishment clause an affront to the Most High; the entire constitution is un-biblical and should be thrown out. American is NOT a Christian nation and hasn’t been since the constitution was adopted in the 1780s.
Regarding the First Amendment v. the First Commandment argument, I would comment that people come to Christ by faith, not by force of law. Therefore, it is within Christ’s own purview that a secular state allow freedom of religion, to believe, disbelieve, worship or not as one sees fit within their own conscience. Would you presume to disallow what Christ Himself granted: freedom of conscience? The Ten Commandments were issued to rule a theocracy which devolved into a monarchy. I Samuel 8 is one of my favorite chapters in the Old Testament. Those Ten Commandments are God’s Law for believers, and recognized by scholars as the basis of Western Jurisprudence. But still, we come to Christ by faith, not by force of law. I see no acknowledgement of this in the argument presented. As a Christian, I would like to hear a response to my concern about this!
David, I think you need to go back and carefully re-read my post. I think you missed something especially pertinent:
“…It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods, something impossible to legislate for or against. It’s another matter altogether for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and evangelize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes. It is an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the following First Commandment statute:
‘[Y]e shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou … go a whoring after their gods….’ (Exodus 34:13-15)….”
Furthermore, when and where did Christ ever allow for a secular state?
Additionally, you wrote, “Those Ten Commandments are God’s Law for believers, and recognized by scholars as the basis of Western Jurisprudence.” As the basis for Western Jurisprudence!?! If that is true then why is there hardly an article or Amendment that’s not antithetical, in not seditious, to Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality? http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/blvc-index.html
You also wrote, “But still, we come to Christ by faith, not by force of law.” Where do find anything in this article or anything else I’ve written or preached that suggests the heretical doctrine that we come to Christ by force of law?
The authors of the Constitution did not intend to de-Christianize the nation. Free exercise of religion meant free exercise of Christianity without a Federal establishment of a certain denomination. America was birthed out of England and the founding documents must be understood in the light of English history, especially 1500-1776. The Constitution was not created by Muslims, Hindus, nor Atheists; but by men raised and shaped by a Christian culture.
In like manner, to understand “no religious test” you must look at what happened in England during the period above. It refers especially to “the Great Ejection” and the persecution of Puritans under the Restoration of the Monarchy. The “religious test” then was acceptance of and conformity to the Book of Common Prayer and other things (see Act of Uniformity 1662).
Stephen, thanks for joining the discussion.
I couldn’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve heard these arguments but they’re not based in fact, certainly not from the founders’ own writings. For example:
“…Christian Constitutionalists claim the word “religion” in the Establishment Clause was exclusive to Christian denominations. At best, this is wishful thinking, the result of exploiting the historical record. The framers, while perhaps not rejecting Christianity (and in some instances even seeming to prefer it), rejected a Christian state in favor of a polytheistic one. In reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom, enacted one year before the federal Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
‘Where the preamble [of the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom] declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word [sic] “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read, “A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan, the Hindoo, and the Infidel of every denomination.’20
“Jefferson employed the word “denomination,” not for the various Christian denominations, but for any religion or non-religion….” For more, see Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt11.html.
For more on Article 6’s Christian test ban, see Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt9.html.
For more regarding the late 1700 founders’ religious persuasions, see Dr. Albert Mohler’s interview with Dr. Gregg Frazer at http://www.albertmohler.com/2012/09/10/what-did-americas-founders-really-believe-a-conversation-with-historian-gregg-frazer/.
Dr. Frazer proves from the key founders’ own writings that they were neither Deists in the purest sense of the word, nor were they Christians in the Biblical sense of the word. Instead, they were Theistic Rationalists.
Dr. Mohler is President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Frazer is Professor of History of the Master’s College in California.
> found intact in some 17th-century Colonial Constitutions
They were called CHARTERS and some were written by William Penn. Most of the colony CHARTERS except for a few (GA) stated the colony was being founded for the promotion of Jesus (some said Christ) among the savages.
William Penn’s own will stated if his sons did not promote Christ then their inheritance would be turned over to the people that lived in it. The 1st amendment at it’s foundation was based on money, it was added (supposedly) so Quakers would not have to worship or tithe for things that they opposed that Protestants supported.
To that end, many STATE Constitutions required a person to state they believed in Jesus as a basis for election to public office. Some basically said if a person did not believe in Christ they were too mentally unbalanced to hold public office or to testify in court.
Some even forbade the immigration of Roman Catholics to their state (yes, it use to be a state issue). Most of these limitations were removed by the 1820s. I have not bothered to research it further, but, I would be willing to bet the great depression of the 1830s (1835?) would have started when the last requirement to be Christian for public office was removed from the last state Constitution.
Which at that time because of the bad economy led people to take the lands and property from Indians that had converted to Jesus Christ ! The very people for which most colony CHARTERS stated they were being founded (promotion and conversion of the savages) and which they mocked the king about in the DOI.
If this nation was going to be one nation under God, then this Bible scripture would not be true.
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Matthew 4 (KJV)
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
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As the stenographer, a true messenger from God stated as they dragged her away:
” The greatest deception here, is this is NOT one nation under God.
It never was. Had it been, it would not have been – no – it would not have been.
The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons! ”
If this had been one nation under God, we never would have the Whore of Babylon (aka Statue of Liberty) in NYC harbor.
It other written works of God, God states “my world was lost and my universe was in danger” because of what Satan did. Satan has been allowed to rule this 2nd earth age and has been allowed ” all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;”
That includes the USA until 777.
John, thanks for joining the conversation.
In that the original 18th-century State Charters (not what I was referring to) included Christian tests (not the same as bibilcal qualifications for civil leaders), they were better than the federal Constitution with it’s ban of Christian tests and thereby biblical qualifications, and other inherent problems in nearly every Article Amendment. However, they were nonetheless still only a shadow of the 17th-century Colonial governments of, by, and for God established upon His unchanging moral law:
“…Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835: ‘They [the 17th-century Colonials] exercised the rights of sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance was due only to God. Nothing can be more curious and, at the same time more instructive, than the legislation of that period; it is there that the solution of the great social problem which the United States now presents to the world is to be found [in perfect fulfillment of Deuteronomy 4:5-8, demonstrating the continuing veracity of Yahweh’s law and its accompanying blessings, per Deuteronomy 28:1-14].
‘Amongst these documents we shall notice, as especially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of
Connecticut begin with the penal laws, and … they borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ … copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and
Deuteronomy.…’23
“America was exalted in the eyes of the world because of her applied righteousness, embodied in Yahweh’s perfect law. Since 1788, when the United States of America, as a nation, stopped following Yahweh’s laws and began following the laws of WE THE PEOPLE, our legislation has ceased providing righteous instruction to others. Instead, the rest of the world now holds America in disdain. If America hopes to regain her favored status in the eyes of the world, she must return to her original Constitution….”
For more, see online Chapter 3 “The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH” of “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt3.html.
Then find out how much you REALLY know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. If you haven’t already, take our 10-question Constitution Survey at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/ConstitutionSurvey.html and receive a complimentary copy of a book that EXAMINES the Constitution by the Bible.
Sorry, but there is no justification for goverment “police” in the Bible
Frankly, some of the comments here are depressing.
The evil baalists were an object lesson on what Elijah would say [and do] about blasphemous “freedom of religion.” At Jesus’ transfiguration, Moses symbolized God’s Law and Elijah symbolized God’s righteous prophets.
If a Biblically-based Christian nation could not be founded in the 18th century when the vast majority of the population were European Christians… what are the odds it could happen today with deists, atheists, antichrists, third world infidels, degenerates, perverts and cultural marxists in the majority. Most of the moral Biblically-based European Christians are now in the cemetery awaiting their resurrection. The blaspheming degenerates who have replaced them make what pitiful little is left of Western Christian Civilization look like a scene from Dante’s hell.
I have a nice ink-drawing of Martin Luther protectively holding the Bible. When the evil and perversion of the Babylonian jew/nwo is too much for me to bear… I will look at my drawing of Luther and know he would be spinning in his grave if he knew the antichrist abomination his beloved Germany and all Christendom have become. However Luther believed he would sleep in death blissfully unaware until he awoke in resurrection at Christ’s second coming. Now more than ever I understand what a blessing that is. I look at my drawing of Luther and say, be thankful you don’t know what an antichrist abomination your once Christian European world has become.
Martin Luther may not be sleeping through all of this apostasy. King Herod’s murdering of the children was fulfillment of the prophecy of Rachel weeping for her children. This occurred thousands of years after Rachel’s death. What made Rachel weep-worthy?
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“Rachel weeping for her children” does not mean that Jacob’s wife, Rachel, actually wept. It’s symbolic, it’s descriptive… the historic Rachel weeping for the innocent Israelite babes of Bethlehem… her Israelite descendants… who evil Edomite-jew Herod ordered murdered to try to destroy Israel’s Messiah.
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God is not mocked !
As it says in the beginning of Jeremiah’s prophecy of the fall of Babylon…
Babylon’s idols will be broken. Americans worship the US constitution.
I have seen many Americans claim the totally secular US constitution…
that is contrary to God’s Law… is “divinely inspired.” Because of this
blasphemy… God has used their constitution idol to destroy them.
The “days of Noah” [race-mixing] and “days of Lot” [sodomites]… blasphemy
and abortion… all were legalized via their antichrist constitution idol…
and the blasphemous voice of their idol, the US “Supreme Court.”
Lawless men forsook God to worship their humanistic idols and not only have
America-Babylon’s idols fallen… the idols have fallen on the idol worshipers.
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If one wanted to conquer a Nation what would be the best way? Well the best way would be to flood the country you wanted to invade with immigrants from Nations that are the opposite to the nation you wish to destroy, people with different religions and values, which will destroy their laws and form of government!
Take the United States where the Constitution protects ones right to worship God! One needs to search the Founding fathers papers to find what they meant by freedom of Religion! One will find that these people came from north western Europe where they had two major religions, Catholics and church of England and every one had to obey these two or get put in jail, tortured or killed, but these people were Christians and when they came to America in the early sixteen hundreds they brought the Christian bible with them. Now these Christians who protested against the church of England and the Catholic church, came to America under the Magda charter.
These people were Presentations, Methodist, Quakers, all who wished to worship their God as the Bible taught, and not be forced by the Government or any other Church! It was the Christian Religion that they brought to America with them and that was why they came to America and in the late 1700 hundreds gave us our Constitution! This law does not mean any religion, it means the Christian religion!
Study the articles of confederation from the Magda Carter to the Constitution and
you will find the truth of the matter!
Roger, thanks for responding.
I agree with much of what you’ve written. However, unlike the 17th-century Puritans and Pilgrims, to the 18th-century Enlightenment and Masonic founders (both of which were polytheistic to the core), the word “religion” was all inclusive:
“…Christian Constitutionalists claim the word “religion” in the Establishment Clause was exclusive to Christian denominations. At best, this is wishful thinking, the result of exploiting the historical record. The framers, while perhaps not rejecting Christianity (and in some instances even seeming to prefer it), rejected a Christian state in favor of a polytheistic one. In reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom, enacted one year before the federal Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
‘Where the preamble [of the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom] declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word [sic] “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read, “A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan, the Hindoo, and the Infidel of every denomination.’20
“Jefferson employed the word “denomination,” not for the various Christian denominations, but for any religion or non-religion….”
For more, see Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt11.html.
Also, the inclusion of Article 6’s Christian test ban was influenced by anti-Christ Jews:
“…Article 6 not only eliminated Christian qualifications for office holders, it paved the way for Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and atheists to be presidents, congressmen, and judges. It became the initial means by which America was transformed from a monotheistic Christian nation to a polytheistic one.
“On both the state and federal levels, Jews40 were instrumental in the removal of the Christian test oaths and were the first to reap the rewards of these prohibitions:
‘By the end of the Revolution, Jews had been chosen not only to local posts in some cities, but had also been selected for more responsible positions in many parts of the country. There was no inclination to bar these people from public office and generally the question of the offensive oaths had only to be raised to be resolved. Thus the Jews of Philadelphia [led by Jonas Phillips], in 1783-84, protested as a “stigma upon their nation and religion” the requirement that members of the General Assembly take an oath affirming belief in the New Testament. The revised constitution of Pennsylvania, a few years later, explicitly barred the disqualification on account of religious sentiments of any person “who acknowledges the being of a God and future state of rewards and punishments.”’41
“The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia affirms that “This petition [by the Jews of Philadelphia] later on proved to be instrumental in the revision of the Pennsylvania state constitution in such a manner as to abolish the religious test.”42 On September 7, 1787, Jonas Phillips, a founder of Philadelphia’s Mikveh Israel Synagogue, also petitioned the framers at the federal Constitutional Convention:
‘Sires: … It is well known among all the citizens of the 13 United States that the Jews have been true and faithful Whigs, and during the late contest with England they have been foremost in aiding and assisting the states with their lifes [sic] and fortunes. They have supported the cause, have bravely fought and bled for liberty which they can not [sic] enjoy.
‘Therefore if the honourable convention shall in their wisdom think fit and alter the said oath [as found in the altered Pennsylvania Constitution] and leave out the words to viz.: “and I do acknowledge the Scripture of the New Testament to be given by divine inspiration,” then the Israelites [Jews] will think themselves happy to live under a government where all religious societys [sic] are on an equal footing….
‘Your most devoted obed. Servant, Jonas Phillips Philadelphia, 24th Ellul, 5547, or Sep’r 7th 1787.’43….”
For documentation and for more, see Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt9.html.
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Thomas Jefferson was an antichrist deist who created his own version of the Bible by removing references to the miracles and deity of Jesus Christ.
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2 Corinthians 6:17 KJV — Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
How can we “come out from among them, and be ye separate” when Gov. Law forces us to allow them to worship any good/God’s and religion they choose?
“Be ye separate” means just that and only that. You twist and stretch its meaning when you extract from it the notion that those who keep themselves separate have some kind of implicit duty to burden those from whom they separate with prohibitions against doing that which makes them “separate.” The First Century Christians wisely did not find for themselves any God-mandated duty to bring down the Roman government or to attack and disable pagan religions as a means of assuring the kind of separation you esteem. If your (and Ted’s) version of “Christian Liberty” are to be taken seriously, then you should energetically embrace the commandment of Exodus 34:13-15 and proceed immediately to obliterate the impedimenta and enablements of those religions that fail to carry out the “Christian Liberty” imperative!
John, you’re wrong again.
Romans 13:1-7 has absolutely nothing to do with secular civil government and everything to do with biblical civil government. It, and Romans 12:21, 1 Corinthians 6:1-6, 2 Corinthians 10:3-4, 1 Timothy 1:8-11, are our mandate for biblical dominion on behalf of our King and His unchanging moral law.
Again, Romans 13:1-7 has absolutely nothing to do with secular civil government and everything to do with biblical civil government. the one word “continually” or “devoted” (depending upon your Bible version) in Verse 6 (amplifying Verses4 & 5) alone proves the point. Unless s\you’re prepared to claim the Roman Empire (one of the most notorious for murdering Christians) was a government that *continually* blessed Christians and terrorized/punished the wicked, you best rethink your theology regarding this extremely important passage of Scripture.
For more, see free online book “The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion
Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government” at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/Romans13/Romans13-contents.html.
“Christian Liberty”, you say, was “formally sacrificed on the altar of the First Amendment and Religious Freedom.” The Framers of the Constitution were acutely aware of the structured religious abuse perpetrated by the early settlers of America, who fled religious persecution in Europe and then proceeded to institute their own punitive and intolerant systems of religious persecution within the civil/religious systems of government they devised. The Establishment Clause was the Founders’ carefully-crafted remedy for such evils. History teaches that when one religious system gains a strong majority within a nation, the result often is the escalation of that system to a position of harsh and punitive control over others. THAT happened in Colonial America. It must never happen again, whether under color of some seemingly innocuous rubric as “Christian Liberty” or otherwise.
John, thanks for responding.
However, you’re remarks only go to prove your own rebellion against you God and Creator, His immutable moral law (the First Commandment in particular), and that you’ve elevated the 1787 cadre of theistic rationalists (aka the constitutional framers) over Yahweh.
For evidence validating these statements, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt3.html.
Thank you Ted. Great job. Great exchange in the comments.
Thanks, Joe!
Since you mentioned pagan statues of goddesses adorning public buildings, I wish to point out that there is just such a statue fixed atop the State of Georgia capitol building. It appears to be a version of the goddess Minerva, although it holds a sword instead of a spear.
When “government” communicates unspoken messages such as this in plain sight, it seems reasonable to conclude that it is disowning the one true God and following one or more of those “many gods” referred to by the apostle Paul.
Indeed!
Patrick Henry was correct in saying he smelt a Ratt then…
Never should have adopted the Constitution then. But then again any form of govt. would eventually allow for Majority tyranny as what we have. And the Right uses it as much if not more than the left does.
Not any form, but any form of government of, by, and for the people, in its multifaceted forms.
Majority tyranny is impossible under government of, by, and for God, especially when His exclusive election authority (election by One), per Deuteronomy 17:10, 15, etc.
For more, see blog article “Constitutional Elections: Dining at the ‘Devil’s Table,'” at http://www.constitutionmythbusters.org/constitutional-elections-dining-at-the-devils-table/.
The “Salvation at Election” at http://www.constitutionmythbusters.org/salvation-by-election/
one hope I have in all this is that this is all Prophecy being fulfilled, and hopefully, Jesus returns soon.
But is there any hope of a turn around before then or are we doomed? and Probably being marked by the beast etc…?
@csaaphill Many of us believe that all prophecy was fulfilled by 70 A.D. and that we are now in the age of the reign of Christ as the sole rightful sovereign over all the earth. As the servants of Yahshua, it is incumbent upon us to be in union with our King at all times and to be carrying out His will here upon the earth. I believe such bizarre interpretations as a detached 70th week and the glossing over of the plain words of Christ, whereby He stated that some would be alive to witness His return in the glory of His Father and the holy angels, are doctrinal error intentionally seeded by those who follow the god of this world, in order to render the Church powerless. I encourage you to get into the Word and seek to get into union with the Head of the Church so that you are not found to be a worthless servant when you stand before the judgment seat of Christ. See 2. Corinthians 5:10.
From king David’s reign at Jerusalem over all Israel till the conquering of Jerusalem by the Babylonians on March 16, 597 BC (according to Wiki) was just over 400 years. During that time, Israel, as a nation/kingdom, went from being the apple of God’s eye to a “degenerate vine”… From the glory of nations, to a waste and wicked society, and finally sold back into slavery, their kingdom destroyed… 400 years. Sound familiar?
The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth rock in 1620… for the purpose of establishing a colony “for the advancement of the Christian faith”. The Constitution of the Colony of New Haven in 1639 is instructive as to precisely what sort of society they intended this ‘nation’ to be. Those colonies grew into what became the united states of America. These “heritage Americans” were the real stock and forefathers of our nation, not the Constitutional Framers who usurped it.
The height of the ancient kingdom of Israel was Solomon’s reign, and a reading of his prayer for his nation, then fully established by God, as recorded in 1 Kings 8 is also instructive. Observant readers will take note of the parallels.
Like another here noted, it is disheartening to look around and see what we have become. Like he said, if we couldn’t make it work then when the majority were Christians (and essentially all of us were racial Israelite brethren), how in the world can we expect us to “turn this thing around” today with the godless demographics and government that we have inherited? We will not vote in a ‘savior of the Republic’ as some thought Trump was to be. In fact, I don’t see how we’re getting out of this without the complete fall of America.
‘Christian Constitutionalists’ are deluding themselves. Worse, they are in direct rebellion against the God of Israel—the Christian God they claim to worship. They will be held accountable in the judgement to come. And it’s coming.
The book of Lamentations seems extremely relevant presently. Those who haven’t lately read through Jeremiah and Lamentations, really should take the time to do so now. Also, Ted’s recent radio messages on Hosea seem particularly prescient and are well worth anyone’s time to listen.
Mike, thanks for your input and recommendation.
For anyone interested, Part 1 of my expository series on Hosea can be found at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/tapelist.html#T1126.
I wish to offer some clarification about the often misunderstood terms of “country” and “nation” and how these terms may affect members of the body of Christ.
A country is not a land mass. A country is a group of men united by compact by which the members agree to govern themselves. Here is the definition from Bouvier’s Law Dictionary:
COUNTRY. By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
2. Every man’s country is in general the state in which he happens to have been born, though there are some exceptions. See Domicil; Inhabitant. But a man has the natural right to expatriate himself, i. e. to abandon his country, or his right of citizenship acquired by means of naturalization in any country in which he may have taken up his residence. See Allegiance; Citizen; Expatriation. in another sense, country is the same as pais. (q. v.)
Bouvier’s definition for “Nations” is equivalent to the term “Country.” Both are synonymous with “state.”
NATIONS. Nations or states are independent bodies politic; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength.
2. But every combination of men who govern themselves, independently of all others, will not be considered a nation; a body of pirates, for example, who govern themselves, are not a nation. To constitute a nation another ingredient is required. The body thus formed must respect other nations in general, and each of their members in particular. Such a society has her affairs and her interests; she deliberates and takes resolutions in common; thus becoming a moral person who possesses an understanding and will peculiar to herself, and is susceptible of obligations and rights. Vattel, Prelim. §1, 2; 5 Pet. S. C. R. 52.
3. It belongs to the government to declare whether they will consider a colony which has thrown off the yoke of the mother country as an independent state; and until the government have decided on the question, courts of justice are bound to consider the ancient state of things as remaining unchanged. 1 Johns. Ch. R. 543; 13 John. 141, 561; see 5 Pet. S. C. R. 1; 1 Kent, Com 21; and Body Politic; State.
America is not a country. America is the English language name that identifies a portion of the land comprising North America.
“United States of America” is the name of a country created by a compact of independent nations by the Constitution for the United States of America. It began its existence on March 4, 1789. It ended by operation of law when the United States (the name of the national government in the written compact) intentionally breached its duty to guarantee to each state in the union a republican form of government. The United States used its military to depose the lawfully elected officers of ten member states, replacing them with military appointments. It then disenfranchised both the state citizens and free inhabitants of every state in the union through the adoption of the 14th Amendment, leaving only federal (United States) citizens with the right to vote.
“United States” is a successor entity to United States of America, which ceased to exist by operation of law due to the above-mentioned intentional breach by the United States. It began as a foreign corporation formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, and registered as a Delaware corporation in 1868. It then took over the “new” national government through the District of Columbia Act of 1871. Source: https://johnhenryhill.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/the-united-states-of-america-corproration-listings-laugh-or-weep/
“The United States of America” is a separate compact of independent nations that began on March 1, 1781. Contrary to popular opinion, the compact has never been dissolved. However, the nation states that are a party to it are all in breach of their pledge made in Article IV to their citizens and to the free inhabitants dwelling within their borders.
Birth registration of a child in any state of the United States by one’s father and mother creates a presumption that the child is a member (now called a “resident”) of that state of the United States, and by application of the 14th Amendment, also a citizen of the United States.
All three of the aforementioned political compacts are (or were) countries, and all are foreign to the political compact Jesus Christ said He would build, against which the gates of hell would not prevail. If you’ve been confused up to this point as to what country you belong to, all of the three aforementioned political compacts have expressly stated that you have the natural right to withdraw from them and make your sole allegiance to the ecclesia (the political assembly) formed by Jesus Christ.