As recorded in scripture, the Prophet Micah
warned the leaders of Israel:
. . . "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of
the house of Israel. Should you not know justice, you who hate good and love
evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones; who eat
my people's flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who
chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?" Then they
will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will
hide his face from them because of the evil they have done. This is what the
LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, if one feeds
them, they proclaim 'peace'; if he does not, they prepare to wage war against
him. Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without
divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for
them. The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover
their faces because there is no answer from God." (Micah 3:1-7 NIV)
Micah’s prophetic warning to the leaders of
Israel is equally applicable to the leaders of the United States of America
which was founded on the same Judeo-Christian values. Our founding fathers espoused
high standards of behavior, morality and integrity. While not always living up
to all of those standards, at least they strove to do so.
When devising our Constitution as a new
nation state, they recognized the disvalue of allowing tyrants and the
resulting tyrannical government to rule over it.
Concepts embodied in the Bill of Rights
appended to the Constitution served to limit the extent to which the federal
government could oppress and intimidate its citizens:
- Recognizing that speech must be freely allowed in a free country.
- Providing for self-defense and the defense of the country through a non-government-controlled and armed civilian militia.
- Quartering of soldiers in private homes prohibited without consent of the owner.
- Right to a speedy trial and favorable witnesses.
- Unreasonable search and seizure prohibited. Liberty was ensured through prevention of government intrusion into the private lives of the people without due process of law.
- Rights of non-self-incrimination.
- Right to a jury trial in civil cases.
- Prevention of cruel and unusual punishments.
- People’s rights not denied or disparaged when not enumerated in Constitution.
- States right protected as rights of the people.
- Prohibition of slavery or involuntary servitude.
Yet our national leaders tend to ignore those
clear founding ideas and assert the rule of law set down in the Constitution is
outdated. Clearly, when leaders are honored, they presume to declare certain
rightness to their actions, but when castigated for inappropriate behavior such
as proffering liberal or progressive initiatives opposed to the consensus of
the citizenry, leaders mock, label with unkind labels, and belittle those opposed
to them.
When leaders such as those in
Washington D.C. openly lie to the citizens of this nation they demonstrate to
us that they consider it right to do so and thus mentor those with patterns of
uncritical thinking to emulate them. Deception is endemic at this time in
history!
When one branch of government adopts a stance of if you oppose me I will use
Executive Orders to go around you, that branch usurps the boundaries designed
by the founding fathers and creates a culture of tyranny. When the Judicial
branch makes law instead of performing its role of assessing law in light of constitutional
provisions, tyranny is further encouraged. When the legislative branch fails to
keep in check the two other branches, tyranny is authorized.
Unrighteous liberal and progressive leaders
wage war against their opponents. Epithets such as “Racist” or “Bigot” or “Ultra-Conservative”
are applied to the persons opposing the immoral behavior or speech or liberal and
progressive agenda leadership.
Micah referred to leaders who lead God’s
people astray. Leaders who dissimulate or obfuscate ideas and intentions with
the goal of subverting the population to adopt, tolerate, and accept unrighteous
results are positioning themselves to be ashamed and disgraced; maybe not
immediately, but certainly in the final judgment at God’s docket.
Such leaders are warned that the day will come
that sees the sun set on their initiatives and darkness descend like night.
Be not deceived America! God has placed a
choice before us — to obey His commandments or to die spiritually because of
our disobedience. Lee Greenwood, singer,
songwriter, and American patriot in his new book, Does God Still Bless the USA? asks the title question.
His answer may surprise you. Greenwood says
that God doesn't bless countries as much as the people in those countries where
they set and live out their values as the Lord designed them.
Making the choice to abort children has taken
us below what population experts have identified as the optimal level of
reproduction for a thriving nation.
Accepting and tolerating sexual sins has put
us in the position of becoming recipients of God’s judgment.
America! It is time to cast out and remove
from power by impeachment those abusing the power granted them!
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