'Change' Like We Have Never Seen Before
By Rev. Paul Michael Raymond The Covenant News ~ January 26, 2009
The promise of “Change” from the Obama administration is certainly off to a running start. To begin with, we will see a ‘change’ as a result of the administration’s several radical and extreme executive orders. Within the first week of Obama’s presidency he has made possible the lifting of the ban on the funding of foreign abortions with taxpayer money, the restructuring of military policy promoting the gay agenda which also signals the signing off, without exception, every demand of the extremist homosexual and transsexual lobbyists, the expansion of the federal hate crimes statutes to include extra punishment for crimes that are deemed to be motivated by bias against one's sexual orientation or gender identity, the dreaded support for homosexual civil unions, and the expanded adoption rights for homosexuals.
Yet, the Obama Executive branch is only part of the problem. This nation must also contend with the “demonic minions” of this new administration, who sit in the seat of the legislative branch and who feast at the idolatrous table of the “Oboma-nationalites”. Statist tyranny is not unique to the Presidency. It is also found in the legislature to the tune of the proposed gun restriction bill H.R. 45, the "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009" sponsored by U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill (a former Black Panther). Here we have a direct and shameless assault against lawful firearm owners, whereby, if passed, every Lawful transaction will be registered with fingerprinting and licensing fees. The bill will be masked as a ‘protection measure against criminals’, but is really a total gun grab, so that lawful citizens would never have any recourse against a tyrannical government.
The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution was never intended to protect Law- abiding citizens against criminals per se, but rather against tyrannical governments. Furthermore, the 2nd amendment is not a Constitutional right at its roots, but rather a Divine Right given to us in the Old Testament case study of Jehoiada against the tyrannical usurping queen Athaliah. (2 Chron 23) The U.S. amendment has its roots in God’s Word, making it Divinely inalienable, conferred upon men by God, and not a ‘right’ licensed by the state.
Let me remind the reader that it was Benjamin Franklyn that quipped, “A citizen is a man with a gun; a subject is a man without one.” This H.R. 45 is nothing less than a declaration of war upon all lawful gun owners and anyone who opposes a Godless and tyrannical government. Let the people beware, that the registering of firearms is only the beginning of despotism and abject slavery. History certifies that it was the Nazi, Adolph Hitler, who confiscated from the German people the only tools for tyrannical resistance, after he mandated the registration of their firearms. This of course came after Mein Kampf was substituted for the Bible in the registered Christian churches, and the education system was re-tooled to the support of socialism.
On April 11th, 1942 Adolf Hitler stated without shame or hesitation, "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country."
Interestingly, in 1941, one year before Hitler’s bold faced statement, U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson called on Congress to enact national registration of all firearms. In light of the atrocious events in Europe against defenseless citizens, Congress recoiled at such a proposal. Legislation was then immediately introduced to protect the Second Amendment. Rep. Edwin Arthur Hall explained: "Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took power from the German and Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka."
We shall indeed see much “Change” in the coming months, and years, to the tune of economic disaster, the nationalization of banks, a national police force, trillions of fiat money bailout packages, and possible food shortages across the U.S.. Even before the inauguration the writing was upon the wall. A peek into what type of “Change” America would experience was evident in the Opening Inaugural Event Prayer of January 18th, which was given by a homosexual minister without any mention of Christianity or the True God of Scripture, and where the January 20th actual inaugural prayer blatantly depicted racism, seeking to ignite further racial division. We have already witnessed political corruption with clear ties to the new administration, political wrangling, jealously guarded secrets, the resistance to government transparency, the protection of Muslim radicals by demanding they be given Constitutional Miranda rights, as well as a host of other little ditties that I am sure will rapidly unfold to our shame. Our beloved America will indeed see “Change” like it has never seen before.
Yet, the one, most destructive and alarming “Change” is that of ideology. With the new administration, American will see a shift from Republican Pseudo-Socialism to blatant and aggressive Democratic Marxism. To be perfectly clear, neither party politics nor racism is at issue in these observations by any means. It is rather the issue of Theology. When the Christian church can turn out in droves in favor of a candidate who clearly desires a socialistic agenda, it is proof that America as a whole has left off any remnant of Christian ideology, to adopt a polytheistic political pluralism. One wonders whether those Christians, including so many Christian pastors, who voted Democratic, have ever read a word of twentieth century history. It wasn’t the ideology of capitalism that enslaved and slaughtered millions upon millions in the concentration camps of Hitler and Stalin, it was the ideology of socialism. When did capitalism ever lead the way to the enslavement and misery of entire nations? On the other hand, when did socialism ever accomplish anything remotely Christian or encourage Christianity in any way? When did socialism promote human dignity, the brotherhood of man, or the sanctity of life?
The ideology behind Hitler’s Third Reich and Stalin’s Soviet Russia was not capitalism, it was socialism. As my dear and trusted friend Stephen Perks, of Britain’s Kuyper Institute, once remarked, “Can someone tell me, please, which mass murdering political regimes of the twentieth century (or any other century for that matter) were motivated by the ideology of capitalism? The Christian concept of intellectual honesty and integrity, indeed the very concept of truth, seems to be entirely foreign to the prophets of socialism, “Christian” or otherwise. And we should not expect anything else.”
What our Christian brethren fail to understand is that the Truth of Christianity will be the first victim of socialism’s propaganda and politics. Socialism has always shown itself hostile to the Christ of God and His people. And yet, the obsession with socialism by Christians is overwhelming, to the point of absurdity. Perks comments further, “True, many socialist politicians claim to be Christian. But Christ taught us that it is by the fruit that they bear—i.e. by their works—that we shall know who are His, not by their mere profession. Politicians who proclaim themselves Christians, yet who stand against Christian values and deny the ethics of God’s Word should not to be accepted as believers. Rather they should be seen for what they are; social revolutionaries who are in rebellion against God and his kingdom.”
The problem with the 2008 election is that there was little to choose from. In fact, there really wasn’t a reasonable choice for the orthodox man or women of faith, at least not in the two major parties. But, when a candidate stands before a nation of seemingly intelligent citizens, many who are Bible-believing Christians, and tells them that he is going to re-distribute their wealth, (which by definition is a violation of the 8th commandment, and therefore bold faced theft) and the people cheer and reel in approving wonder, streaming to the polls in a dramatic even historic show of support, one can only conclude that they too are either thieves, or they simply do not understand what is being proposed.
This redistribution doctrine is typical of socialists. Since governments have no money of their own but what they extract in taxation, the money they have is OPM; Other People’s Money. The taxes they extract come from other people’s property, their labor, their purchases, various licenses, and a host of other incidentals that add up to out and out thievery. This wicked action, identified by the famous French economist Frederic Bastiat as “legalized plunder” blatantly violates Leviticus 25:23, Exodus 20:15, Numbers 36:7, Ezekiel 46:18, 1 Kings 21:1-19, not to mention a myriad of other Biblical precepts.
To be sure, Socialism is actually a Religious world view, diametrically opposed to Christianity in its view of God, ethics, law and public policy. It is more than a simple economic ideology. It is a religion of tyranny and social abuse, cloaked in the propaganda of “Change and Good Will”. History continually bears record of this fact.
Christians must see this agenda for what it is. It is a revolution against God and His will for mankind. The political order of America must be based upon the Prophetic Word of God, and His Law-code of Righteousness, Ethics and Equity. It is the Church’s duty to call its people back to the God of the Bible, forsaking all other gods, including the god of political tyranny, which comes in the form of “Socialist Change”.