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Napoleon supposedly said that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. This truth applies to great nations as well as great men like Napoleon. The decay of a nation often manifests itself in the trivial and inane, as well as the tragic and existential.
Our current political, cultural, and social dysfunctions have clearly taken that step over the last few decades, and now is putting at risk our country’s successful 247 years of achieving political freedom and equality for all.
Clearly, we Americans are living through attacks on that success no one could have predicted even 20 years ago. And this civilizational failure of nerve and moral exhaustion is leaving us vulnerable to our global enemies. If and when we go, the long great political experiment––freedom and equality and self-rule for all regardless of birth, wealth, or education–– will finally end in failure and despotism.
The bad omens abound. Faith is moribund, banished to the realm of subjective preferences. Love of country and one’s fellow countrymen has been displaced by a specious, “citizen-of-the-world” globalism devoted to power and money. Government, always vulnerable to corruption, is now completely debauched, and justice is sacrificed to political expediency. We are so selfish and short-sighted that we continue to ignore the looming bankruptcy brought on by feckless debt, deficits, and profligate entitlement spending that is morally, as well as fiscally, bankrupting us. And our political factions, especially the “woke,” are conducting our most important policy debates with temper tantrums, violence, censorship, and socio-political “cancellation,” our modern equivalent of Orwell’s “memory hole.”
Indeed, we’ve become so juvenile and surreally silly that even the most obvious facts of science like biological sex are reduced to subjective options, when not promoted as mandatory. More immediately dangerous for many citizens, a “war on cops” as well as “catch and release” prosecutors have turned our largest urban landscapes into dystopian nightmares of violence and squalor.
Most fundamentally, purpose and meaning in our lives come not from faith, country, and family, but from preposterous cults like “transgenderism,” “systemic racism,” and apocalyptic “climate change,” which are preached with myopic hysteria and intolerant fervor.
Central for understanding this current disorder and discontents is the great experiment that began 2500 years ago, and which was most successfully realized in the creation of the United States and its Constitution. The first, earlier step was the development of constitutional government, the politeia of ancient Greece. That is, rule not by a king or tyrant or oligarchy, but by fixed laws that transcend any individual or generation. Even more transformational was the next development: opening participation in government to the citizen “masses,” the non-elites, whatever their birth, education, or wealth.
This political equality was the foundation of liberal-democracy, and the bulwark against tyranny by the one or the privileged few defined by wealth, ancestry, or superior wisdom––what the poet of aristocratic athletic achievement Pindar called the “splendor running in the blood,” an innate capacity for virtue, leadership, and wisdom that made nobles the natural rulers: “the wise man knows many things in his blood,” Pindar claimed, “the vulgar are taught.”
The creation of democracy, then, raised the eternal political question about whether or not the common people had enough experience, practical wisdom, and common sense to be trusted with self-rule. This question dominated the Constitutional debates, and was central to the foundation of the two major political parties, the Federalists and the Republicans, soon called Democratic-Republicans and then simply Democrats, the ancestor of today’s party.
In 1792, James Madison defined the two “divisions” of the citizens based on this question. One, “more partial to the opulent than to the other classes of society,” having “debauched themselves into a persuasion that mankind are incapable of governing themselves, it follows with them, of course, that the government can be carried on only by the pageantry of rank, the influence of money and emoluments, and the terror of military force.”
Our modern equivalent of this political faction can be found among the “woke” progressive technocrats, the managerial, social, and cognitive elite who believe that government agencies staffed by “experts” can manage the state and our lives better than the people. We see this belief in the efforts of public schools, backed by the power of state regulatory agencies, to replace parents as the controllers of their children’s education, and the decision-makers of children’s sexual and “gender” identities, because they are “experts” guided by “science” and facts instead of ignorance, conspiracy theories, or the superstitions of faith. And compliance is enforced by armed police and prosecutors using their powers to compel obedience to partisan political diktats.
Of course, we no longer have a hereditary elite, a threat that worried the Founders. But we do have an elite class whose wealth, education, and especially professional credentials bind them together and define them by zip codes, cultural literacy, policy preference, and most importantly, social mores about sexual identity, feminism, homosexuality, secularism, the economy, foreign policy, and the role of government in managing and improving all aspects of collective life. They have a strong tendency to marry within their class, thus transferring their privilege and identity to the next generation.
Madison then describes the “other division,” which “consists of those who believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves, and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of man, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community, or that is not strictly conformable to the principles, and conducive to the preservation of republican government.”
Today, this cohort comprises what Barack Obama patronized as “bitter clingers,” the economic losers on an increasingly globalized economy which rewards high education and elite connections: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
So too Hillary Clinton, who denigrated Donald Trump’s constituency in similarly arrogant and insulting terms: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic [sic], you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? . . . . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic [sic]—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
These condescending insults of 63 million Americans who voted for Trump illustrate the technocratic, managerial elite’s deep-seated dislike, if not hatred, of ordinary American people and their Christian faith, family values, patriotism, and commitment to freedom, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights––all of which stand in the way of the progressive technocracy of centralized, concentrated powers that are the infrastructure of tyranny.
Today the political experiment that the U.S. turned into a history-making historic success is at its greatest risk since the Civil War. On every front, the foundations of our exceptionalism, power, and freedom are being eroded. Politicized schools and universities, metastasizing unaccountable government agencies, the corruption of our legal system and its promise of equality under law, our corporate hegemons’ submission to a destructive “woke” ideology, the assaults on our unalienable rights like freedom of speech and religion, a military committed not to being prepared to defend the nation, but to fulfilling the “woke” ideological ambitions to “fundamentally transform America”––these are signs and portents of dissolution and looming tyranny.
Whether this degeneration of our freedom continues depends on we the people. If a critical mass of citizens choose their leaders based on their commitment to freedom and the Constitution, we can begin the restoration of our civic vigor and confidence. But if we are swayed by a juvenile, therapeutic dudgeon brought on by issues of decorum and style rather than policy substance and achievement, then we will face a future of growing threats abroad, and economic stagnation, if not disaster, at home.
If that happens, the great experiment of self-rule will end in failure and tyranny.
Image: “The Course of Empire: Destruction” by Thomas Cole
Fall from inside forces-outside forces-or both? Those seem to be the options. Hope Im wrong on all counts.
All,
How’s the Ukraine situation?
You are right in that forces both from inside and out have helped destroy our once-great republic. But an enemy INSIDE the gates is far more dangerous, my friend. Only a Judas could have betrayed the Christ. Only faux patriots, false Christians, and fake conservatives could have sold America out. We wish to blame everything on the Dems and our foreign enemies, but none of this could have happed to her without inside help. There is no military on earth that could conquer us by force. Had someone even TRIED to do the things we are seeing in our schools and churches and businesses, we would have put an end to it. I believe we did this to ourselves, and I am convinced God will hold us responsible for ending this experiment in liberty.
It is ironic that this decline – and perhaps fall – is brought to fruition by the “Democrat Party”
Question: Who got the biggest bargain?
The Dutch, who acquired Manhattan for $24 in baubles?
Bill Gates, who acquired pcdos/msdos for $50,000?, or
The PRC, who procured control of our planet with clandestine [ and not-so-clandestine ] emolumentation of our most trusted and powerful stewards, for a relative pittance?
Trump is one of those tragic actors thrown up by history with a specific role to play; insomuch, he’s a catalyst fated to speed up something that is historically inevitable ; the break up or even collapse of the formerly magnificent USA . The very best scenario is a national divorce and pragmatic partition of the country, something akin to the 3 way partition of India/ West Pakistan/ East Pakistan back in 1947
It’s like the great Mark Steyn often says ”I used to worry there’d be a civil war, but now I worry there wont be ” !
He’s right, insomuch, that red states are shackled to a corpse, a leftist parody of the former Soviet Union, and red states need to try save themselves while they still can or they too will sleepwalk into the same fate as the EU, insomuch, they”ll become a Chinese satellite under the soft tyranny of an all observant nanny state ; not Big Brother but surely Big Mother !
Biden typifies everything that has gone wrong with the formerly great USA, insomuch, he’s an odious, shameless ”DC swamp creature” who is, while not a leftist ideaologue, just a corrupt opportunist trying to enrich himself and his sleazy family . But much more sinister is that he’s a front man for a Leftist takeover of the US government in the rigged 2020 elections , a mere sock puppet for the true rulers calling the shots who are Obama, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett and 1960s radicals like Bill Ayers etc … In reality a de facto DNC politburo !
These creeps have made their historic move in a ”Flu d’eat ”and are now in radical mode ; moreover, they never intend to give up power again except at the point of a gun barrel . This came about due to the ”long march through the institutions ” lasting 50 years , then combined with the liberalisation of the MSM it has turned into a ”soft coup” and a perfect storm..2020 will be seen as a turning point in history, something like 1917 !
The doctrine of Original Sin declares that man is born a depraved sinner, a defective and flawed creature, with an inescapable inclination towards evil. In other words the doctrine of Original Sin agrees with Hillary Clinton, man is by virtue of his birth and nature — a DEPLORABLE.
Think about that carefully, if by a religious or secular definition, man is by his very nature, flawed, defective, depraved, irrational, inclined towards evil, then he can not be trusted with freedom. He must be leashed, controlled, restrained, and forcefully guided, by an elite.
Freedom rests on the conviction that man is essentially a rational being, that his reasoning mind can be trusted to be rational. That man is basically good.
But if the opposite conviction is held, that man is basically irrational, stupid, evil, deplorable, then such a creature can not be trusted with freedom, and tyranny, secular or religious, over this evil creature necessarily follows. Political freedom, i.e., liberty, rests on the foundation of a respect for reason and a respect for man as a rational being.
“The political philosophy of collectivism [whether religious collectivism, i.e., theocracy or secular collectivism, i.e., socialism] is based on a view of man as a congenital incompetent, a helpless, mindless creature who must be fooled and ruled by a special elite with some unspecified claim to superior wisdom and a lust for power.” – Ayn Rand
But you can be trusted with freedom…as long as we think like you do, kiss the Ayn Rand Ring, and basically sit around on our individual lotus flowers discussing basically nothing and accomplishing nothing.
So the essential ingredients are “man is essentially a rational being”, he can be “trusted to be rational” and he is “basically good.” According to the doctrine of THX.
Fortunately for us, the world is not that convenient or simple. In your world not too many people will be granted the levers of power and we would naturally end up in an Objectivist oligarchy, with people like you telling us what to do.
Human nature hasn’t changed in a million years. Why would the yabberings of a long passed on woman suddenly change all of that. Why would the second hand yabberings of a narcissistic follower with a messiah complex, of that long passed on woman, change anything?
You are a fraud, as always.
Although this reply is to you, THX, it is for the sake of others who may be misled by your deeply irrational and, ironically, religious belief. I have spent many hours engaging with you and have reached your religious core, found in your own words above:
“Freedom rests on the conviction that man is essentially a rational being, that his reasoning mind can be trusted to be rational. That man is basically good.”
Neither freedom nor reason can render man good. You are consistently unable to refute the simple fact that reason is a tool, and can be employed in the service of good or evil.
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-evil-rational
https://www.prageru.com/video/if-there-is-no-god-murder-isnt-wrong
What is the alternative to reason? What is the alternative to observing reality, and the facts of reality, and using consistent, non-contradictory logic, to connect the facts of reality in an objective way that corresponds to the facts of reality?
What is the alternative to objective law? Sharia, Christian Law, Mosaic Law, subjective law?
The only alternative to the facts of reality, reason, logic, and objectivity is some form of subjectivism, emotionalism, mysticism, some form of “just knowing”. Would you put yourself under the knife of a brain surgeon that goes by his emotions and “just knowing”? Or a judge that doesn’t go by the facts of a case but by religious commandments, by faith, and revelation?
So how do you know that you are being reasonable? Is there an Objectivist chart? Is there a meter that measures your reasonableness levels.
What if one day the meter measures your level of reason and it finds you wanting.
You are a joke.
You will never get what you are looking for except within your own four walls…..sitting on endlessly on your lotus flower. Normal people just don’t care about you have to say.
Good points, THX. When, for example, you deny the existence of evil and man’s fallen nature,, you must blame external forces (i. e. lack of economic opportunity, climate change) or objects (guns) when people do bad things. When a govt is collectivist in nature, man is a helpless victim who must be provided for (through welfare) and controlled (by spying on him, controlling his access to means of communication, and using propaganda to decide what he thinks). He is definitely
NOT to be trusted to make his own decisions and live his life as he sees fit.
Objectivism does not deny the existence of evil. Man, every man, has free will, he can choose good or evil at any moment in his life. Objectivism rejects the evil doctrine of Original Sin. Two different things.
In fact the doctrine of Original Sin puts man in a position of being a puppet of his innately evil nature which is beyond his control or choice.
“Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a “tendency” to evil. A free will saddled with a tendency is like a game with loaded dice. It forces man to struggle through the effort of playing, to bear responsibility and pay for the game, but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice, he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice, his will is not free.” – Ayn Rand
Please please please, not more Ayn Rand word salad. I think I can say, categorically that you are not free. You are a prisoner in your own special world. It’s almost like a classic Twilight Zone episode. “A World of Difference or The World of Arthur Curtis” comes to mind. Or the one about the aging actress who can’t accept that the world has passed her by. In each episode the solution is to escape into their respective worlds where their personal version of happiness exists.
And of course there is the classic ‘A Stop At Willoughby” where a miserable ad exec finally escapes the world by jumping off a commuter train thinking he has arrived at his final destination. The irony is that he is being shoved into a hearse with the name Willoughby Funeral Home.
If you haven’t seen them you should. Take the hint.
Those who served in our military, those who have gazed out upon the sea of marble grave markers at any national cemetery, those who have family members who gave their “last full measure of devotion” to this experiment in Freedom, are disgusted and indignant with this COORDINATED AND INTERNATIONALLY -funded destruction of our nation.
Marxist/Progressive institutionalized corruption and Union thuggery, (I know, that’s a double redundancy)
It’s too bad that it’s gonna take a civil war to get average Americans to step up to the plate.
I watched a sad video of a WW2 vet weeping as he wondered if putting his life on the line for America had been a huge mistake. Many others feel exactly the same.
What a sin and crime for them to fight for liberty, and if they survive, come back to watch it melting like an icecube on a sidewalk! No WONDER they loved Trump so much. No WONDER they despise the current Resident of the United States!!!
One of “The Judgements” from God on a nation in rebellion is mentioned in Leviticus 26:
“People that hate you will rule you”.
Our Current ruling class surely hates Americans that believe in God, has Christian based values, believes in working for a living, or in other words the values America had not that long ago.
Masculinity, patriotism, parenthood, faith, public standards, biblical morality, rules of any kind are all under attack. Too bad Christians don’t have one-TENTH of the passion the leftists, who want to tear everything down, have!
Evil triumphed over the USA because, with a two-steps forward, one-step back approach, we were stripped of our Christian heritage. Two centuries ago, the admission requirement to Harvard or Yale was to translate the Gospel of John from English into Latin, then from Latin into Greek. Most colleges founded were based on Biblical education. We had the most literate society in the world then because the elites that ran the US believed deeply that everyone should be able to read the scriptures.
How does one go about destroying a Godly nation? Slowly at first, but then at an accelerated pace until bible reading and prayer are forbidden in public schools, until one day even an utterance of a religious nature is attacked as a violation of “separation of church and state”.
Evil succeeded. More and more Americans turned their backs on God. But like the original Israel, the New (world) Israel has come under God’s judgment. As a result, we lost our freedom, our prosperity, and we will lose the world war politicians are so determined to wage against Russia and China. We sat around the national campfire, getting fatter, dumber, and more blissfully ignorant, and let the devious convince us to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage.
The United States has ceased to exist. The final blow will send us back into the 19th Century, and the tens of survivors will die within the first year–whether we are occupied by foreign armies, or not.
POST OF THE DAY. Sums up this tragic situation perfectly.
Freedom and it’s political implementation which is called liberty means that man, every man, is legally protected and defended by the government to think on his own and act upon his thinking. To be left free from compulsion and the force of others to think as they do. So long as he respects the same right in every other man.
Freedom and liberty also mean the right not to be a Christian, or a Jew, or a Muslim, or an atheist. But to be left free from the initiation of force of others, to think on your own, using your own mind, and following the conclusions of your reasoning mind. Freedom means self-reliance and your “self” is your mind.
“Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.
The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships—thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement.” – Ayn Rand
Please please please, not more Ayn Rand word salad. I think I can say, categorically that you are not free.
I can also categorically say you think you have the right to insult every Christian and Jew on this comment board. You proved that during Holy Week with your childish posts.
You have the right not be a Christian. No one is forcing you. You seem to think we are. No one cares what you think. But you seem to think you have the right to insult us on a daily basis.
I wonder where that comes from. Oh yeah. I t comes from an oversized ego and your rampant narcissistic personality disorder. Sympoms include having an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Having a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration. Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it.
So sorry, no one here will massage that Messiah complex of yours.
I wish I could say, “You lie!!” But I cannot. I truly wish with all my heart, that your words could travel the country and awaken Americans with true love for our country. I believe that God has removed His hand of protection as we have stated to His face that we no longer need or want Him in our lives.
Thornton’s points are indeed good, but once again (see last paragraph) readers see that America’s survival depends on Americans taking a stand against the tyranny ( how? by voting harder? protesting? ). Americans are not capable/lack the will to stand up for themselves. Most will point to the J6 show trial and say here’s why Americans won’t stand up, or elections are rigged, so why vote? What will it take for Americans to stand up for their country is the question worth asking and writing about while there is still time.
“If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.”
– William Penn
But how do men reconcile different and even opposed claims about God and God’s will? Christians killed and persecuted each other, waged bloody war with each other, over Christian doctrine and interpretation, for centuries. They burned each other at the stake over heresy and blasphemy. Even now, and here at FPM, you’ll read comments like Catholics are not real Christians, or that Protestant denomination does not practice real Christianity, in other words accusations of heresy and blasphemy abound even today in America. How can Christians prove what real Christianity is? And then you have Judaism which denies the whole of the New Testament and the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, is Judaism correct? How can we prove who is objectively correct and who is not?
“In accordance with the principles of America and of capitalism, I recognize your right to hold any beliefs you choose — and, on the same grounds, you have to recognize my right to hold any convictions I choose. I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion — I am fighting for reason. When faith and reason clash, it is up to the religious people to decide how they choose to reconcile the conflict. As far as I am concerned, I have no terms of communication and no means to deal with people, except through reason.” – Ayn Rand
Well, by denying the possibility of the existence of God, Rand certainly DID limit herself to only means of communication. But that, in itself, argues against her worldview. That perspective is internally-inconsistent and self-defeating.
Wouldn’t it be better for your side’s thinking if you HID her admission from us?
Why don’t you prove the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, A Talking Snake, Original Sin, A Fruit Of Automatic Knowledge, the Parting of the Red Sea, Noah’s Ark, An Immaculate Conception, A Virgin Birth, the Miracle Of The Loaves and Fishes, The Raising Of Lazarus, The Resurrection, The Second Coming, The Rapture, Armageddon, The Apocalypse, and the existence of Heaven and Hell?
Christianity is much more, way more, than a belief in God, much more than mere Deism.
Ah yes, the list of “horribles” from your database. We don’t need to cater to you. We don’t need to prove a thing to you.
Why don’t you prove that objectivism is the way, since it has never been tried before as way of running a country.
Old Testament is the Back of my Hand
New Testament is the Palm of my Hand
A. Rand gets Both through Reason
Of course, the initiation of physical force against the infidel, the unbeliever, that exists in Islam too. It exists in every form of mysticism.
“I have said that faith and force are corollaries, and that mysticism will always lead to the rule of brutality. The cause of it is contained in the very nature of mysticism. Reason is the only objective means of communication and of understanding among men; when men deal with one another by means of reason, reality is their objective standard and frame of reference. But when men claim to possess supernatural means of knowledge, no persuasion, communication or understanding are possible.” – Ayn Rand
That was symbolic. Reason is the Back & Palm of my Hand…can you unde-rand?
Yet more unreadable objectivist pap. Could you be more predictable?
More empty unreadable Objectivist word salad. You win the Kemala Harris award.
Still racking up the downvotes too. Yeah I know. You are unfazed. Perhaps you should be. Perhaps you should take the hint.
It’s just not working for you.
Instead we get to read drivel from you claiming that today’s Christians are not real Christians because they don’t practice Christianity from 1000 years ago.
I read an article (I believe it was at AmericanGreatness) where the author argued that in a lawless nation no longer ruled by God’s standards, we need to ban guns to keep us “from
tearing each other apart”. I read another by a conservative where he wondered outloud if
we should still have freedom of speech. Both really angered me, but I’m beginning to get
their points. I’m starting to wonder if they might be right. Washington knew, from the very
start of our experiment in liberty, that it would not work for an immoral citizenry. I don’t even
pretend to have the answer to our problem, but I DO know the answer to the question posed in the title: Of COURSE THIS WILL END IN FAILURE. How do I know that? Because it already has. America is over. Some just haven’t realized that yet.
its already failed. how much more do you need to see? prepare for the tribal assimilation process to usher in the anarchy. ears and eyes open, mouth shut.
Style is not the problem but it does indicate why there is a problem. And there is a very big problem with the established holding pattern.
When men have no internal restraints (morality), there are not enough soldiers and police on earth to control them. Tragically, we now have a front-row seat to watch that truth play out in real time. Never dreamed I’d live long enough to watch my beloved America slide into the dustbin of history. Sometimes, I wish I hadn’t. America, I hardly knew ye!
Buckle-up, patriots. The next couple of years, as our civilization completely collapses, are going to be one bumpy ride. In the eyes of normal people, the fact that America, as an idea, as an experiment in liberty, has ended in failure. That is a given. To them, the only remaining question is How do I prepare to live, given that fact?
That’s it!! Gotta stop reading comments right here. Not because they are untrue…. but because they ARE true and it breaks my heart. My beloved country is SO quickly becoming unrecognisable.
Pardon my ignorance but what is the title of the painting that heads up this article?
Thanks
Thomas Cole painted it as one in a series called “The Course of Empire.”
He also painted another famous series called “The Voyage of Life.”
If you like him, you might like this:
http://www.explorethomascole.org
Of course it will end in failure.
Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams
The list of factors contributing to the erosion and inevitable downfall of the U.S. could fill pages. The task of prioritizing them is an exorcise in futility. History gives us example after example of the consequences for failing to heed the warnings. It appears we are about to be taught, once again, what happens when diligence is given over to comfort and greed. Lurking in the wings, plotting and conspiring are men who see an opportunity to save us from ourselves by promising the eternal comfort and safety we covet but are to distracted to fight for. They have all the answers and we believe them because it’s easier to hand over the “dirty work” than it is to do it ourselves. By the time we realize what our misplaced trust has gotten us it is too late. We are there now. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Foolish Mistake after mistake from those who don’t know the truth., or care to know the truth. “How dieth the wise man, (Even) as the fool.”
Those who are wise in their own eyes continue to misstep and plummet. Without Christ, you aren’t smart enough to keep from dying, or saving yourself. Insanity…..Doing the same thing over and over and getting the SAME RESULT.
Proverbs 13:13. Whoever SCORNS instruction will pay for it, but whoever RESPECTS a command is rewarded. The teaching of the WISE is a fountain of life turning a person from the snares of death. GOOD JUDGMENT wins favor but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction. All who are prudent act with knowledge , but fools expose their folly.
The Day JUDGMENT is coming for those who rejected the TRUTH and were wise in their own eyes.
JOB 41:10. “None is so fierce that dare stir him (God) up: who then is able to stand before me?” Needless banter of man back and forth,, FROM THOSE WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, is not going to save any of us.
Thanks for warning us about the phishing emails! They are always sending emails to get people to click on them.
I keep trying to figure out how “we the people” take back our country. Didn’t “we the people” speak in 2016? 2020?
In Isaiah 46, God says
““Remember the former things long past,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,”
God’s word is clear for those who are sincerely interested in what He has to say. He has fulfilled His prophetic word many times in the past and will fulfill the rest of it. There will be a totalitarian one-world government, a cashless economy, and unescapable surveillance. Do you not see the stage being set for that every day?
“The issue is not the issue; the issue is always the revolution.” We are constantly confronted with issues that give opportunities to rebel against the truth of God. The issue is not will America be saved, but will you? Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be save. Maranatha.
This experiment in a representative republic which has been the greatest accomplishment
Ever put together by oppressed people seeking endowed freedoms from God is coming to an end through greed and Godlessness. Time to pound your plow shears into swords.