What? US Repent? US, Citizens of the World's Greatest Nation?
By Al Cronkrite The Covenant News ~ January 29, 2010
“The universe is a moral realm, and every atom in all creation is God-created. Men can never sidestep the religious and moral issues of life; they can blind themselves to them, and regularly do, but this is comparable to a blind man walking on high cliffs without even a cane in hand.” Dr. R. J. Rushdoony, “Sovereignty”.
Losers are not popular. Winners write glowing descriptions of victories while the detail of dissent is often lost. Patriotism has surrounded our founding documents and given them a sacrosanctity that defies reality. Used as an occasional political verity our Constitution is regularly ignored by our government but revered by many Christians and patriots. Elected officials take an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend” it, it is quoted, reprinted, and often referred to. The Federalist papers, written in support of the Constitution by promoters of strong centralized government, receive wide publicity while anti-Federalist writings are overlooked.
There are many similarities between the process of yoking the original thirteen colonies under a Federal government and the current process of yoking the nations of the world under world government. Subterfuge birthed both projects: The Philadelphia Convention was convened for the purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation; the new Constitution was a bait and switch tactic. New York delegates Robert Yates and John Lansing left the convention and wrote the Governor of New York as follows: “Our powers were explicit, and confined to the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting such alterations and provisions therein as should render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.” Instead of a single bait and switch tactic world government advocates are burglarizing the sovereignty of individual nations. Powerful minority business and government interests promoted both procedures; initially in secret and finally in public. A least two high level meetings took place before the Philadelphia Convention: One at George Washington’s home at Mt. Vernon and another at Annapolis. World government meetings at the Club of Rome, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergs, are much larger but equally conspiratorial.
Though they feared tyrannical government individual freedom was far from the minds of the leaders of the Philadelphia Convention. Their concerns were for business and the prestige of cohesive nationhood. The new world order has similar concerns. Many of today’s threats to freedom were anticipated by anti-Federalists but the power structure supported the Constitution just as today’s power structure supports world government.
Congressman Ron Paul is the best thing that has happened in United States politics for a long time. His lonely confrontational stance was a breath of fresh air in the political debates of 2007 and many of his successive stands have been commendable. In 2009, a scant two years following massive press resistance to his agenda, he has become a sort of political pop-icon. He is enjoying a renaissance. Accurate economic predictions have gained him the attention of political pundits and he has been interviewed and taken seriously on a broad spectrum of public radio and television programs.
Ironically, Congressman Paul, a Libertarian and small government advocate, is an ardent supporter of the Constitution which was crafted and successfully ratified by big government Federalists. Contemporary Tea Party members provide another irony: They, too, are ardent Constitutionalists even though a significant supporter of the original Boston Tea Party, Samuel Adams, was an anti-Federalist, who signed for ratification with great misgivings.
Discernment, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, has been noticeably missing in Christians. Though they believe that God is still on His throne they are reluctant to grant Him complete sovereignty and are often confused on the exact definition of sin. Some like to define sin as “separation from God”. Very few Christians believe that sin is disobedience to God’s Commandments. Some would contend that disobedience to the Ten Commandments is sin but they reject God’s civil law as anachronistic. This theological confusion has resulted in the untenable predicament of supporting and accepting a secular government that uses its power to create laws that defy the written Word of God. Christians cannot please God by supporting a wicked, pagan government. A government that encodes laws that defy God’s standards is Satanic and Christians who support it, even as the lesser of two evils, are in partnership with the Devil. Our nation is under the judgment of Almighty God because we have failed to ally ourselves with the God of the Bible choosing instead to misapply our faith by supporting evil politicians.
While Congressman Paul’s call for obedience to the Constitution would be better than our present anarchy it would not remove God’s judgment.
Congressman Paul has some serious flaws that should be of concern to every Christian. First, his solution to our dilemma is entirely humanistic. He claims he would adhere to the Constitution and shrink the size of government. Even if he were elected to the Presidency it would be a major hassle to get his miscreant colleagues in the congress to support any of his plans. Second, He, like our Constitution, never mentions God’s dominion over His creation. He maintains membership in the evil Republican Party and even supports their wicked candidates in his home state of Texas.
Christians who conciliate with evil to gain a desired end are pragmatists. In humanism the end justifies the means; in God’s kingdom the means must justify the end. Pragmatic disobedience has been accepted by people who claim the name of Christ and is a substantial reason for His judgment.
Now, gentle reader, I understand that calls for repentance are unpopular in a nation that is full of patriot people. Humanists will continue to seek a political solution but at this point Christians should begin to understand that politics instead of being a solution to God’s anger is one of the causes. There are no human solutions to the degradation we have created. We are a wicked people living in a wicked nation and we are still puffed up with unwarranted, arrogant patriotism.
While it is true that leaders bear a larger responsibility, Christians who lend their support to ministries that fail to subordinate their church and their congregation to the sovereignty of God by teaching and preaching humility, obedience, confession, and repentance are equally responsible for the Judgment we are under. If we expect to avoid the fate God promised Nineveh we must react as Nineveh and its leaders reacted!
Now, if you doubt the forgoing assessment please take a few minutes and read this comparison between Russia and America written in broken English by a Russian writer. Ironic, isn’t it?
Al Cronkrite is a free-lance writer from Florida. He can be reached at fmsinfla@hotmail.com