Asleep at the switch: An Open Letter to America’s
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"We have arrived at a period in American and world history when being awake is of utmost
importance. Being in a position of leadership and yet asleep to critical issues at such a time will certainly
lead to the ‘disastrous results..."
Asleep at the switch: An Open
Letter to America’s Pastors
Daniel Barrett
Infowars
November 3, 2009
This past Sunday I had an
interesting experience I thought I should share. After attending an average church meeting in the morning and
spending an uncomfortable afternoon reading the news, I eventually ended my day and got to sleep. I was awakened at
4am with some of the news articles in my mind and a phrase predominant in my thoughts.
The phrase was: Asleep at the switch. Although I thought I was aware of the
meaning of the phrase I got up and looked it up.
The Online Dictionary defines ‘asleep at the switch’ as follows: “This term came
from 19th-century American railroading, when it was the trainman’s duty to switch cars from one track to another by
means of manually operated levers. Should he fail to do so, trains could collide. It was later transferred to any
lack of alertness … disastrous results are implied.” (http://www.yourdictionary.com/idioms/asleep-at-the-switch)
This started me thinking. We have arrived at a period in American and world
history when being awake is of utmost importance. Being in a position of leadership and yet asleep to critical
issues at such a time will certainly lead to the ‘disastrous results’ referred to in the closing phrase in the
above definition.
Here in The United States of late we are daily confronted with news of proposed
legislation that would radically change the very underpinnings of our nation. Recently afinal copy of the
proposed health care ‘reform’ was released. Despite lawmaker promises
to the contrary,the bill still contains items like government
funded abortion (Page 110) and end of life counseling (Pages 649-661).
I began to review the happenings of the previous day. Oddly enough, I heard no out
cry in church about any of the provisions in the legislation. Although I expected to hear readings from the
scripture on subjects like, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13), no such sermon was given. Rather, the current
ongoing sermon series was apparently to be continued without interruption.
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Perhaps, I thought, the
pastor might fit in a section about “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15), relating it to the ‘cap and trade’
bill, which will effectively, and
under false pretenses, redistribute (read: steal) the incomes of
Americans, convert them to ‘carbon credits’, and
give them into the hands of some of the same organizations that
caused the current economic crisis. This subject was not presented either.
Or, perhaps, a message about the ‘stealing’ from the American people that occurred
when congress and the federal reserve,against the wishes of 80% of
Americans, gave trillions of taxpayer dollars to bankers last year about
this time, andwants to domore of the same. No, to my surprise, nothing such as
this was included in the message.
"...True, the United States does enjoy the “benefit” of appearing supremely powerful,
but this is only a cruel joke. When the Network is satisfied that all major obstacles to its unelected rule have
been removed, it will be a simple matter to destroy the US dollar, “justifiably” cut off the flow of money and
credit to the United States, and create the political incentive (necessity) for the United States to fully enter
the new global system..."
-- Joe Plummer, Tragedy & Hope 101 Chapter 3 The Network “Recovers”
America--
Or, perhaps, a word or two
aboutproposed gun control legislation and the Biblical
right of self defense, with a reference to Exodus 22:2 which states, “If the thief is caught while breaking in
and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.” Sadly, that was not mentioned
either.
Or, perhaps, a section of the sermon would be about the
newYouth
Corps, orgovernment figures andschools
encouraging children to report on their parents for
‘suspicious behavior’ with a reference to Exodus
20:12, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your
God gives you.“ Maybe, I thought, that section would reference Jesus’ words in Mark 13:12, “Brother will betray
brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to
death.“ Unfortunately, that sermon section was absent as well.
While I was not really surprised, the lack of reference to any current topic did
disturb me. My concern is not ‘political’ per se, but it is a concern for the people these bills are planning to
harm, kill, rob, etc. In pondering the lack of any ‘political’ or current events content in sermons I heard that
day, or have heard in recent years, I began researching the actual text of the government’s tax exempt status for
churches. Although this tax status offers a benefit to the churches in that the member’s donations are exempt from
taxes, it has a darker side to it as well.
While these restrictions are clearly stated by the government, they are
not clearly understood by many church congregations, and their ramifications, which restrict what a pastor can
speak freely about, are even less understood. These issues warrant serious consideration by any church seeking tax
exempt status, as well as reconsideration by any church already organized as a 501(c)(3).
Being an ordained pastor as well as a business owner I understand the difficult
issues involved in leader/congregation relations and can empathize with pastors who are uneasy about approaching
their congregations with the idea of giving up their tax deduction. Fortunately most congregations recognize that
pastors in America have a unique privilege and responsibility to help guide the church of America into the truth,
and are likely to consider seriously what their pastors share with them.
During the American
Revolution pastors had more influence with the common people than the
signers of the Declaration of Independence had. The pastors reach the people where they live. Congregations trust
their pastors to give them ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’. Pastors, on the other hand,
have access to and an impact on a large audience, and have a strong persuasive platform based on the underpinnings
of people’s desire to be right with God. If pastors speak with conviction their congregations will generally
listen.
I realize that there are already pastors in America who do speak out on the issues
facing us, with or without tax exemption. To those pastors I say, “Thank you for your service.” I applaud you for
speaking out about the issues our country faces as they relate to the teachings of the Bible. We live in the freest
nation on earth, and you have squarely taken on the responsibility that comes with that freedom. If we must lose
tax exempt status by speaking out it is a small price to pay. If we face imprisonment for it we will join the
honorable ranks of pastors from China, Iran, and many other nations who have faced persecution for decades simply
for doing and speaking what is contained in the Bible.
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In many cases it is the
congregation who will be the ones who need to make the decision on this issue once they are fully informed. I have
found that most believers who are clearly addressed on this issue, being told the consequences to sermon content
and all that the scriptures say that is applicable, will opt for change.
If the congregation wants the content of their pastor’s messages to remain limited
by the government for the sake of the tax deduction, they can continue as they are. If not, they can make the
necessary changes.
If the majority opts for freedom of speech in their sermons some members may leave
in search of another church that will still offer them a tax deduction. This is unfortunate, but will likely occur.
Meeting attendance and offerings will likely be affected. Personally, I have counted the cost, and believe it to be
worth it in order to allow the unfettered truth to be spoken. God will honor the ‘love of the truth.’
Jesus taught us that we ‘cannot serve both God and money’, so if such a choice
exists it is clear how we must choose. As ministers of the good news about Jesus we must be able to say with Paul,
“I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did not shrink from declaring to you
the whole purpose of God.” (Acts 20:26-27). If a pastor who has studied the details of the tax exempt status finds
themselves in a congregation that chooses to retain tax exemption after knowing the full ramifications, the pastor
is free, if they desire, to step down and move to (or start) a church that desires to hear all that the scripture
has to say on the current state of our country and the world without the 501(c)(3) filter.
I have heard it said that, since the government ‘requires churches not to speak on
political issues’, and Romans 13 requires us to obey the government, the topic of whether or not to use 501(c)(3)
is not an issue. It is true, however, that the same apostle Paul who dictated those words in Romans 13 did not obey
the Roman or Jewish government edicts requiring citizens to give up the locations of believers in hiding, although
he once had crafted such edicts himself. Jesus’ disciples and Jesus himself apparently did not obey the edict that
said, “Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report
it, so that they might seize Him.” (John 11:57). Along these lines it may be helpful to
readthe writings
ofDietrich Bonheoffer.
It is also important to remember that our governmental situation is much different
than the Roman Empire of Paul’s day. We live in a constitutional republic. The persons mentioned in the opening
sections above who are violating the laws of the land are not us, but rather the elected officials attempting to
force through legislation against the will of the constituents who elected them.
I fully understand the quandary American pastors find themselves in. A few years
back when I began researching what appears to be the ‘course planned for our nation’ I eventually became rather
depressed and felt hopeless. I felt like David facing an entire army of Goliaths. With God’s help I eventually had
to shake off this overwhelming intimidation, trust God, and take action. I now have hope for America and all her
pastors and congregations. We need not be found asleep at the switch. If we all set our sails God will supply the
wind!
Thank you;
Daniel Barrett, Maryland, USA
“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the
Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained
royalty for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14
“But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the
people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away 1in his iniquity; but
his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.” Ezekiel 33:6
“The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.” –
Edmund Burke
All quotations are from the New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995.
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WHO: 24.4 Million in Yemen Need Humanitarian Assistance, Jan 18, 2019
"This support to the Saudi-UAE effort to wage this war in Yemen,
though, is not legitimate. It's illegal. It was started by the Obama administration and continued and
emphasized by the Trump administration. It's illegal. It's brutal."
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
Most of Congress "Likes War" and Opposes Ending US Support for Saudi War in Yemen.
TheRealNews, Published on Nov 6, 2017
“A lot of people at least the corporate media,
the western media, the establishment media - whatever you want to call it - tend to tell us that this is a proxy
war between Saudi Arabia and Iran...Is that true?” [Rick Sanchez]
It’s not to the extent that they talk about it at all. MSNBC ignored
this conflict for two years as Fair showed. But, now that they are talking about it; what they need to point out is
that the Houthis have been winning for two reasons: One is that they actually recommandeered billions of dollars of
weapons the US supplied the deposed and dead dictator Saleh. And worked along side the Yemeni army which was
formerly supplied by the US not Iran. Iran is supplying some political and media support but not the weapons that
our government and the Saudis claim. So the
idea of a proxy war is false. The Houthis are an endogenous
nationalistic resistance force that is fighting against a puppet government that poses an existential threat to
them!” [Max Blumenthal]
--Rick Sanchez & Max Blumenthal--
The ABC’s of the War in Yemen with Max Blumenthal. RT, Nov1, 2018
"The UN embargo/blockade against Yemen and the
Yemenis violates Genocide Convention article II (e): Deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." --Prof. Francis A
Boyle-- YEMEN: A Genocidal War Against Children and
Civilians Sanctioned by the UN, US, UK & NATO
"Boyle explained that the Saudis and their allies in the Gulf Arab
Emirates wanted to establish full control over the entire Arabian peninsula and also of the choke point region at
the head of the Persian, or Arabian Gulf through which all oil exports, including those of Iran and Iraq were
shipped by sea. 'They want to control the entire Saudi Peninsula, all its
resources, and the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait through which all the oil and gas to Europe must
pass,' he said."
-- Vanessa Beeley, Journalist -- YEMEN: “Saudis, Emiratis and USA are Inflicting a War of Genocide Against the Houthis"
- Prof. Francis Boyle
Whitney Webb Interview The Ignored Yemen Genocide: "18.4 Million People Are Starving To Death" The Last American Vagabond Published on Nov 1, 2018
How the Media Keeps Americans in the Dark About the
Slaughter in Yemen - link
The War Being Hidden From You: Yemeni Tragedy in Three
Photos - link Trump Ignores Congress’ Yemen Conditions -
link
The Pathetic US Response to the Latest Saudi
Massacre -
link
The US Is Deeply Complicit in Saudi Coalition Crimes in
Yemen - link
The US Is Aiding and Abetting Saudi Atrocities in
Yemen -
link
‘Yemen is this generation’s Vietnam’ – analyst as
US bomb pieces found at site of bus airstrike
RT
Published on Aug 14, 2018
Thousands gathered in Yemen on Monday to mourn and bury dozens of children killed
in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a school bus. The incident caused outrage and was
condemned around the world. READ MORE:https://on.rt.com/9c9k
Dozens of children killed and injured in Saudi
airstrike on bus in Yemen
RT
Published on Aug 9, 2018
A bus carrying children in northern Yemen was attacked on Thursday, hit by an
airstrike fired by the Saudi-led coalition. The attack killed dozens, many of whom were children
under the age of 10, the Red Cross has confirmed. READ
MORE:https://on.rt.com/9c1k
"This horror, and I’m sorry it’s hard
to see, is caused in part by our decision to facilitatea bombing
campaign that is Murdering Children!”
-- Senator Chris Murphy --
"This support to the Saudi-UAE effort
to wage this war in Yemen, though, is not legitimate. It's illegal. It was started by the Obama
administration andcontinued and emphasized by the Trump
administration. It's illegal. It's brutal. "
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
20 Million Starving Yemenis
Fueling
the Saudi-US-NATO War Machine
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Published on Sep 10, 2018
The people of Yemen have found themselves struggling not only for survival, but for a space in
the Western media's war coverage. In the shadow of the conflict in Syria, the men, women and children of Yemen are
being deliberately starved and targeted by strategic airstrikes and an illegal blockade in a war initiated by Saudi
Arabia and aided, massively if not entirely, by the United States.Within days of starting the war, Saudi Arabia
imposed a total land, air and sea blockade, along with targeting vital agriculture and food supply infrastructure
that sustains life for the 29 million Yemenis -- all of which constitute war crimes under international law.
With the United Nations warning that millions of civilians could die
from violence or starvation from the ongoing military siege of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, there is no
other way to describe what is happening except as “genocide”.
The more than three-year war on Yemen waged by a Western-backed Saudi
coalition has been arguably genocidal from the outset, with up to eight
million people facing imminent starvation due to the years-long blockade on the Arabian country, as well as
from indiscriminate air strikes. [Highlight
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But the latest offensive on the Red Sea city of Hodeida threatens to
turn the world’s already worst humanitarian disaster into a mass
extermination.
Hodeida is the entry point for 90 per cent of all food
and medical aid into Yemen. If the city’s port stops functioning from the military offensive – as UN aid
agencies are warning – then an entire country population of more than 20 million will, as a result, be on
the brink of death.
The Saudi coalition which includes Emirati forces and foreign
mercenaries as well as remnants from the previous regime (which the Western media mendaciously refer to as
“government forces”) is fully backed by the US, Britain and France. This coalition says that by taking
Hodeida it will hasten the defeat of Houthi rebels. But to use the cutting off of food and other vital aid to
civilian populations as a weapon is a blatant war crime. It is absolutely
inexcusable.
This past week an emergency session at the UN Security Council made
the lily-livered call for the port city to remain open. But it stopped short of demanding an end to the
offensive being led by Saudi and Emirati forces against Hodeida, which is the second biggest stronghold for
Houthi rebels after the capital Sanaa. The port city’s population of 600,000 is at risk from the heavy
fighting underway, including air strikes and naval bombardment, even before food, water and medicines supply
is halted.
Since the Security Council meeting was a closed-door session, media
reports did not indicate which members of the council voted down the Swedish call for an immediate end to
hostilities. However, given that three permanent members of the council, the US, Britain and France, are
militarily supporting the Saudi-led offensive on Hodeida, one can assume that these states blocked the call
for a cessation.
As the horror of Hodeida unfolds, Western media are reporting with a
strained effort to whitewash the criminal role of the American, British and French governments in supporting
the offensive. Western media confine their focus narrowly on the humanitarian plight of Hodeida’s inhabitants
and the wider Yemeni population. But the media are careful to omit the relevant context, which is that the
offensive on Hodeida would not be possible without the crucial military support of Western governments. If
the Western public were properly informed, the uproar would be an embarrassing problem for Western
governments and their servile news media.
What is notable in the Western media reportage is the ubiquitous
descriptor when referring to the Houthi rebels. Invariably, they are described as “Iran-backed”. That label
is used to implicitly “justify” the Saudi and Emirati siege of Hodeida “because” the operation is said to be
part of a “proxy war against Iran”. The BBC, France 24, CNN, Deutsche Welle, New York Times and Washington
Post are among media outlets habitually practicing this misinformation on
Yemen.
Both Iran and the Houthis have said that there is no military
linkage. Granted, Iran politically and diplomatically supports the Houthis, and the Yemeni population
generally, suffering from the war. The Houthis share a common Shia Muslim faith as Iran, but that is a far
cry from military involvement. There is no evidence of Iran being militarily involved in Yemen. The claim of
a linkage relies heavily on assertion by the Saudis and Emiratis which is peddled uncritically by Western
media. Even the US government has shied away from making forthright accusations against Iran supporting the
Houthis militarily. Washington’s diffidence is a tacit admission that the allegations are threadbare.
Besides, how could a country which is subjected to an illegal Saudi blockade of its land, sea and air routes
conceivably receive weapons supplied from Iran?
By contrast, while the Western media repeatedly refer to the Houthis
as “Iran-backed”, what the same media repeatedly omit is the descriptor of “American-backed” or “British and
French-backed” when referring to the Saudi and Emirati forces that have been pounding Yemen for over three
years. Unlike the breathless claims of Iranian linkage to the Houthis, the Western military connection is
verified by massive weapons exports, and indeed coy admissions by Western governments, when they are put to
it, that they are supplying fuel and logistics to aid and abet the Saudi and Emirati war effort in
Yemen.
Last week, the New York Times affected to
lament the infernal conditions in Yemen as a “complex war”, as if the conflict is an unfathomable, unstoppable
mystery. Why doesn’t the New York Times publish bold editorials bluntly calling for an end to US government
complicity in Yemen? Or perhaps that is too “complex” for the Times’ editorial
board?
The Washington Post also wrung its hands last
week, saying: “The world’s most dire humanitarian crisis may get even worse. Emirati-led [and Saudi]
offensive underway against port city of Hodeida, which is controlled by Iran-backed [sic] Houthi
rebels.”
In its report, the Post did not mention the fact that air strikes by
Saudi and Emirati forces are carried out with American F-15 fighter jets, British Typhoons and French
Dassault warplanes. Incongruously, the Post cites US officials claiming that their forces are not “directly
involved” in the offensive on the port city. How is that credible when air strikes are being conducted day
after day? The Washington Post doesn’t bother to ask further.
In a BBC report last
week also lamenting the “humanitarian crisis” in Hodeida, there was the usual evidence-free casual labelling of
Houthi rebels as “Iran-backed”. But, incredibly, in the entire article (at least in early editions) there was not a
single mention of the verifiable fact that the Saudi and Emirati military are supplied with
billions-of-dollars-worth of British, American and French weapons.
In the final paragraph of its early edition of the report, the BBC
editorializes: “In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and eight other mainly Sunni Muslim Arab states launched a
military campaign to restore [exiled president] Hadi’s government after becoming alarmed by the rise of the
Houthi group which they see as an Iranian Shia Muslim proxy.”
Note the BBC’s lame and unconvincing implication of Iran. This is a
stupendous distortion of the Yemeni conflict by the British state-owned broadcaster which, astoundingly, or
perhaps that should be audaciously, completely airbrushes out any mention of how Western governments have
fueled the genocidal war on Yemen.
At the end of 2014, the American and Saudi puppet self-styled
“president” Mansour Hadi was kicked out by a Yemeni popular revolt led by the Houthis, but not exclusive to
these rebels. The Yemeni uprising involved Shia and Sunni. To portray Iran as sponsoring a Shia proxy is a
vile distortion which the Saudis and their Western backers have used in order to justify attacking Yemen for
the objective of re-installing their puppet, who has been living in exile in the Saudi capital Riyadh. In
short, covering up a criminal war of aggression with lies.
In reality, the Yemen war is about Western powers and their Arab
despot client regimes trying to reverse a successful popular revolt that aspired to bring a considerably more
democratic government to the Arab region’s poorest country, overcoming the decades it languished as a
Western, Saudi client kleptocracy.
For over three years, Saudi and Emirati forces, supported with
Western warplanes, bombs, missiles, attack helicopters, naval power, and air refueling, as well as targeting
logistics, have waged a non-stop bombing campaign on Yemeni civilians. Nothing has been off-limits.
Hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, funerals, wedding halls, family homes, farms, water-treatment plants
and power utilities, all have been mercilessly obliterated. Even graveyards have been
bombed.
Even during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Saudi-led coalition
– the supposed custodian of the two holy mosques of Mecca and Medina – has continued to massacre innocents
from the air.
Elsewhere in the region, Western politicians and media have mounted
hysterical protests against the Syrian government and its Russian ally when they have liberated cities from
Western-backed terrorists, accusing Syria and Russia of “war crimes” and “inhuman sieges”. None of these
hyperbolic Western media campaigns concerning Syria has ever been substantiated. Recall Aleppo? East Ghouta?
The Syrian people have gladly returned to rebuild their lives now in peace under Syrian government protection
after the Western terror proxies were routed. Western media claims about Syria have transpired to be
outrageous lies, which have been hastily buried by the media as if they were never told in the first
place.
Yet in Yemen there is an ongoing, veritable genocidal war fully
supported by Western governments. The latest barbarity is the siege of Hodeida with the callous, murderous
objective of finally starving a whole population into submitting to the Western, Saudi, Emirati writ for
dominating the country. This is Nuremberg-standard capital crimes.
With no exaggeration, Western news media are a Goebbels-like
propaganda ministry – par excellence – whose duty is to whitewash genocide conducted by their governments.
The barefaced lies and sly omissions being told about Yemen is one more reason among many reasons why the
Western media have forfeited any vestige of credibility. They are serving as they usually do – Vietnam, Iraq,
Libya, Syria among others – as accomplices in an epic war crime against Yemen.
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Under the rubric of Zionism, the dispossession of Palestinians and annexation of
their land has for decades been hidden in plain sight, along with Israeli apartheid and ethnic
cleansing. Though tourism flows in steadily to "The Holy Land," masking these egregious past and
present events from scrutiny, has been and is nothing short of Orwellian. The Zionist state of
Israel is a totalitarian state, whose ideologues' sentiments match those advocating world
government. As Rev. Chuck Baldwin exclaims, "For all intents and purposes, the Globalist agenda
(the New World Order, call it what you will) and the Zionist agenda, are one and the same." The
Trump Jones Deception 2, demonstrates this fact, and the way in which both Donald Trump and Alex
Jones are a part of it.
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His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark;
sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are
shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his
quarter. (Isaiah 56:10, 11 KJV)
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Pappe.
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False Flag Attacks Are Coming In Prelude To War With Syria And Iran
Chuck Baldwin - August 30, 2018
While Democrats and Republicans are acting out their ongoing left-right charade
for the distraction of the American people, the real agenda of the gamemakers in charge of both parties in
Washington, D.C., progresses without notice. That agenda, of course, is WAR.
Perpetual war is what drives both
America’s economic and political interests. And Donald Trump has already proven himself to be a fully controlled
toady of the military-industrial complex by carrying out two military attacks on Syria (not to mention ongoing
missile attacks, drone attacks, bombings, etc., all over the Middle East), both of which were clearly predicated on
phony false flag chemical attacks blamed on the Syrian government but were actually launched by U.S./Israel/Saudi
Arabia/Great Britain-backed terrorists, such as ISIS, al-Nusra, White Helmets, etc. Well, the signs are ubiquitous
that more false flag chemical attacks are on the way.
Many foreign news sources have
investigated and reported on the phony evidence justifying America’s constant use of military force, but the
American people are never told any of this by our own national media, as it is nothing more than a propagandist
mouthpiece for the Washington War Machine. Right now, the foreign media is abuzz with the signs of another false
flag chemical attack on the horizon, giving Donald Trump the “justification” in launching new attacks against
Syria.
In a move that was entirely
predictable, the US administration is once again threatening to bomb Syria if there is a “chemical weapons
attack.”
This was entirely predictable
because that chemical attack script has been read out, with salty crocodile tears, fake concern, and mocked
indignation by US talking heads over the years - since 2012, in fact, when former US President Obama himself
drew his red line on Syria.
The latest script-reader to toe the
chemical hoax line is President Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, who on August
22,stated: “...if the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very
strongly and they really ought to think about this a long time.”
Beyond the tattered veil of moral
superiority that is US war propaganda, Bolton's words were clearly a very publiccommand to Al-Qaeda and co-extremists to stage yet another fake chemical attack.
Bolton's statement was preceded by
an August 21 France-UK-US (FUKUS)joint statement, likewise threatening further illegal bombing of Syria if a chemical attack
in Syria occurred (based on evidence the US never has nor needs to reveal).
Recall that the last time they
acted on such a threat, in April 2018, the US and its interventionist alliesdidn't even wait for the Douma lie to be exposed, let alone for any mythical evidence
to materialize, before they illegally bombed Syria with 103 missiles. The bombings occurred before the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had a chance to visit the Douma sites in
question.
It seems that FUKUS' appetite for
destroying Syria wasn't satiated in April 2018, nor in the April 2017 bombings of Syria following
unsubstantiated allegations around Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib.
Bolton's assertions are backed by
the usual suspects of the corporate media, fake human rights groups, “media activists”,
and individuals linked to NATO's Atlantic Council war propaganda think tank.
Chemical weapons accusations are
among the most overused war propaganda tactics during the war on Syria. From late 2012 to April 2018, NATO's
mouthpieces have screamed bloody chlorine or sarin. But time and again, they've been revealed as
intellectually-challenged, supremely-unoriginal liars, to put it politely. Less shrill voices have pointed out
the many occasions where so-called “rebels” had access to sarin, control over a
chlorine factory, and motives for an attack to occur, among other prudent points.
Some of the more loudly blasted
claims were: March 2013, in Khan al-Assal, Aleppo; August 2013, in eastern Ghouta areas; April 2017, in Khan
Sheikhoun, Idlib; and April 2018, in Douma, eastern Ghouta.
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Calm And Courage In A 9/11
World
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THOU SHALT NOT
STEAL ( ( ( ( This Includes Oil ) ) ) ) Neither Donald Trump Nor the US MilitaryAre Above GOD'S LAW! All People of Conscience Must Stand Against This
Blatant War Crime
Audio Excerpt: The Last American Vagabond - Video: Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs
Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions
“In international law, you can’t take civilian goods or seize them. That would amount to a war
crime,” Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh Burke chair in strategy at the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies. “Oil exports were almost the only Iraqi source of money. So you would have to pay for government
salaries, maintain the army, and you have triggered a level of national animosity far worse than we did. It
would be the worst kind of neo-colonialism. Not even Britain did that.” [bold emphasis
added]
Jay Hakes, the author of A Declaration of Energy Independence, about the relationship between US
national security and Middle Eastern oil, was similarly unsparing.“It is hard to overstate the stupidity of this
idea,” he wrote on Real Clear Energy. “Even our allies in the Middle East regard oil in their lands as a gift from
God and the only major source of income to develop their countries. Seizing Iraq’s oil would make our current
allies against Isis our new enemies. We would likely, at the least, have to return to the massive military
expenditures and deployment of American troops at the war’s peak.”
Hakes pointed out that Gen Douglas MacArthur, who Trump professes to admire, did the opposite when
he oversaw the occupation of Japan: MacArthur brought resources in to help fend off starvation of the
population.“By giving up the spoils of war, MacArthur and the United States earned the respect of the Japanese and
the world, helping legitimise America’s status as leader of the free world,” he argued.
While gaining control of key resources for partitioning Syria and destabilizing the government in
Damascus, the U.S.’ main goal in occupying the oil and water rich northeastern Syria is aimed not at Syria but at
Iran.
As U.S.-based intelligence firm Stratfor noted in 2002, taking control of Syria’s northeast would greatly complicate
the land route between Syria and Iran as well as the land route between Iran and Lebanon. In January, Tillerson
made this objective clear. Speaking at Stanford University, Tillerson noted that “diminishing” Iran’s influence in Syria was a key goal for
the U.S. and a major reason for its occupation of the northeast.
By cutting off the route between Tehran and Damascus, the U.S. would greatly destabilize and weaken the region’s
“resistance axis” and the U.S. — along with its regional allies – would be able to greatly increase its regional
influence and control. Given the alliance between Syria and Iran, as well as their mutual defense accord, the
occupation is necessary in order to weaken both nations and a key precursor to
Trump administration plans to isolate and wage war against Iran.
With internal reports warning of the U.S.’ waning position as the “world’s only superpower,” the U.S. has no
intention of leaving Syria, as it is becoming increasingly desperate to maintain its influence in the region and
to maintain as well the influence of the corporations that benefit the most from U.S. empire.
LibertyFellowshipMT - Message by Dr. Chuck Baldwin on Jan. 17, 2021
This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, January 17, 2021, during the service
at Liberty Fellowship.
The Opposite of
Love
"No one has ever seen God; but if we love
one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." I once
asked a class I was teaching, "What would you say was the Christian's number one sin?" to which a
jokester replied, "Apathy, but who cares?" And as the old saying goes, "Many a true word spoken in
jest."
In the book The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis, a devil briefs his demon nephew, Wormwood, in a
series of letters on the subtleties and techniques of tempting people. In his
writings, the devil says that the objective is not to make people wicked but to
make them indifferent.
This higher devil cautions Wormwood that he must keep
the patient comfortable at all costs. If he should start thinking about anything of importance,
encourage him to think about his luncheon plans and not to worry so much because it could cause
indigestion. And then the devil gives this instruction to his nephew: 'I, the devil, will always
see to it that there are bad people. Your job, my dear Wormwood, is to provide me with people who
do not care.'"2
The opposite of love is not hate. It's apathy or indifference that is practiced by people who don't
care enough to care. The fact is that "people don't care what we know until they know how much
we care."http://www.actsweb.org/articles/article.php?i=1122&d=2&c=3
"The price that good people pay for their apathy and
indifference to public affairs is that they are ruled by evil men."
- Author unknown -
Many 501(c)(3) pastors promote
government viewpoints rather than liberty
by Chuck Baldwin | Infowars.com | August 11, 2014
George Barna is the foremost researcher of modern Christianity in the
country.
He recently spoke about a two-year research project studying why modern-day pastors and churches are so silent
regarding political issues. The result of his research only confirms what I have been trying to tell people for
years. But there was one thing his research uncovered that did somewhat surprise me. OneNewsNow.com covered the
story:
“On Thursday, George Barna–research expert and founder of The Barna Group–shared with American Family Radio’s
‘Today’s Issues’ about new information he’s compiling at American Culture and Faith Institute over the last two
years, gauging where theologically conservative pastors are at politically.
“‘What we’re finding is that when we ask them about all the key issues of the day, [90 percent of them are]
telling us, Yes, the Bible speaks to every one of these issues. Then we ask them: Well, are you teaching your
people what the Bible says about those issues?–and the numbers drop…to less than 10 percent of pastors who say they
will speak to it.’
“When researchers ask those pastors what else they are willing to do to get their people active in the political
process, Barna said ‘it’s almost nothing.’
“‘So the thing that struck me has been that when we talk about the separation of church and state, it’s that
churches have separated themselves from the activities of the state–and that’s to the detriment of the state and
its people,’ stated the researcher.”
That 90% of America’s pastors are not addressing any of the salient issues affecting Christian people’s
political or societal lives should surprise no one–especially the readers of this column. It has been decades since
even a sizeable minority of pastors have bothered to educate and inform their congregations as to the Biblical
principles relating to America’s political, cultural, and societal lives. But the part of the research that did
somewhat surprise me was this statement by Barna: “What we’re finding is that when we ask them about all the key
issues of the day, [90 percent of them are] telling us, Yes, the Bible speaks to every one of these issues. Then we
ask them: Well, are you teaching your people what the Bible says about those issues?–and the numbers drop…to less
than 10 percent of pastors who say they will speak to it.”
Did you get that? Ninety-percent of America’s pastors say they KNOW that the Bible speaks to all of these
issues, but they are deliberately determined to NOT teach these Biblical principles. That is an amazing
admission!
It would have been one thing if the pastors had said that these political issues were not relevant to scripture,
and, therefore, they didn’t feel called to address them. But the pastors are admitting that, yes, they KNOW that
the scriptures DO relate to our current political issues, but they are deliberately choosing to NOT teach those
scriptural principles. Holy heads-in-the-sand, Batman!
I confess: this statistic caught me off-guard. So, we can forever dismiss ignorance as justification for pastors
remaining silent.
Now, all of the church members out there who have been forgiving of their ministers for not speaking out on the
issues by saying things like, “He really doesn’t understand what’s going on,” need to reevaluate their leniency–if
they are intellectually honest, that is–and if they truly care about the future of their country.
Church member, admit it: that pastor of yours who refuses to speak out on the issues KNOWS the Bible speaks to
these issues, and he is DELIBERATELY refusing to teach those Biblical principles to you and your family.
So, we are not dealing with IGNORANT pastors; we are dealing with DELIBERATELY DISOBEDIENT pastors. They are
PURPOSELY CHOOSING to remain silent. Will that make any difference to the Christians in the pews who say they want
their pastor to take a stand but are willing to overlook his “ignorance?” Probably not. But, at least, we now know
what the real issue is, don’t we?
The report goes on: “Why the disconnect? According to Barna, the answer is simple. He suggests asking pastors
how someone would know if their church is ‘successful’–which he did.”
“‘There are five factors that the vast majority of pastors turn to [when asked that question],’ he explained.
‘Attendance, giving, number of programs, number of staff, and square footage.’”
There you have it: pastors are more concerned about being “successful” than they are being truthful. They
believe if they tell their congregations the truth, their churches will not be “successful.” And it is so
refreshing to see Barna directly ask pastors what “success” means to them. So, now we know (as if we didn’t know
before; but, at least now there is definitive research to back it up). The vast majority of pastors believe church
success lies in:
*Attendance
*Giving (money)
*Number of programs
*Number of staff
*Square footage (of facilities)
Shazam! Where did pastors come up with this definition of “success?” You know where: from men such as Joel
Osteen, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, et al.
The megachurch phenomenon of the last several decades transformed how pastors think and behave. Pastors read the
“successful church” books and publications; they attend the “successful church” conferences; they watch the
“successful church” videos, etc. They, then, try to mimic the tactics and strategies they have been taught. And if
there is one constant theme promulgated by the likes of Osteen, Warren, and Hybels, it is pastors must avoid
controversy like the plague. Again, one must realize that the goal is NOT being faithful to Biblical principles;
the goal is building a “successful” church as noted above.
It is time for Christians to acknowledge that these ministers are not pastors; they are CEOs. They are not Bible
teachers; they are performers. They are not shepherds; they are hirelings. It is also time for Christians to be
honest with themselves: do they want a pastor who desires to be faithful to the scriptures, or do they want a
pastor who is simply trying to be “successful?” BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF, CHRISTIAN FRIEND.
Barna’s research blows the “ignorance” excuse out of the water. Again, it is not ignorance; it is deliberate
disobedience.
Barna goes on to say, “Now all of those things [the five points of success listed above] are good measures,
except for one tiny fact: Jesus didn’t die for any of them.” Wow! You nailed it, George!
Where do you find anything in the New Testament that measures a pastor’s success by the number of people
attending his church? Or by how large his offerings are? Or by how many programs his church has? Or by how many
staff members he has? Or by how large his facilities are? In fact, the early New Testament church didn’t even own
property or buildings.
When the Apostle Paul listed his ministerial pedigree, here is what it looked like (II Cor. 11):
*Stripes above measure
*In prisons frequently
*In deaths often
*Beaten with rods
*Stoned
*Perils
*Weariness
*Painfulness
*Hunger and thirst
*Cold and nakedness
I don’t see attendance, offerings, programs, staff, or square footage in that list at all, do you?
When Paul wrote his own epitaph, it read, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith.” (II Timothy 4:7). He didn’t say, “I had a large congregation, we had big offerings, we had a lot of
programs, I had a large staff, and we had large facilities.”
In the world of Osteen, Warren, and Hybels (and 90% of America’s pastors), the Apostle Paul’s ministry must have
been a dismal failure. And how many church pulpit committees would even consider the pastoral résumé such as the
Apostle Paul wrote above?
Please understand this: America’s malaise is directly due to the deliberate disobedience of America’s
pastors–and the willingness of the Christians in the pews to tolerate the disobedience of their pastor. Nothing
more! Nothing less!
Oh, and get this: according to the survey conducted by Barna, guess what the number one reason is why pastors
choose to be “successful” and not “controversial?” You guessed it: fear of the IRS 501c3 tax-exempt status. Who
would have thought it? (Yes, that question is deliberately facetious.)
The release of this research by George Barna could not have come at a more opportune time. I announced just last
week that we have officially launched the Liberty Church Project, whereby we will be helping people around the
country to establish non-501c3 churches. I invite folks (pastors or laymen) who are serious about starting new
non-501c3 churches–or helping to resurrect patriot pulpits within existing churches–to fill out our online
application. We already have several groups that we intend to help and are looking for others. If you are someone
who is serious about such an endeavor, and seeks our assistance, please fill out the online application here:
I want to commend George Barna for his research. I suspect that the vast majority of pastors and churches will
ignore it, but, at least now we know the painful truth of the matter: by in large, pastors are deliberately
choosing to not teach Biblical truth to their congregations for the selfish goal of being “successful.” But as we
come to grips with this reality, we must also acknowledge that pastors are simply (and shamelessly) putting their
fingers to the wind and finding that the people in the pews are more interested in their churches being
“successful” than faithful to the teaching of Holy Scripture. As Barna noted, it is the churches, themselves, that
have chosen to separate from the political affairs of their country.
In the end, it always comes down to We the People, doesn’t it? If you want a church where the pastor is willing
to teach the Biblical principles that relate to our everyday lives–including our political lives–you might have to
vote with your feet and go find one. That is, if that kind of thing is truly important to you.
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What is it going to take for pastors and churches to wake up
and realize that America is in the throes of a burgeoning police state? Ladies and gentlemen, the long-standing
veneration for law and order does not include blind submission to governmental abuse of power. Yet, it seems that
very few Christian conservatives are even paying attention to what is happening before their very eyes.
For example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has purchased over 2 billion rounds of hollow-point
ammunition (enough to wage a 30-year war); the DHS has purchased over 7,000 AR-15s. The DHS calls them Personal
Defense Weapons (PDW). These are the same semi-automatic rifles with high capacity magazines that when you and I
buy them are called “assault rifles.” Plus, the DHS has purchased over 2,700 armored vehicles, the same kind that
the US military uses in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Defense (DOD) calls them MRAP (Mine Resistant
Ambush Protected). They carry .50 caliber weapons that fire from inside the vehicle. The vehicle itself is
impervious to mines and small-arms fire. They are the vehicle of choice for our combat troops in the Middle
East.
Pray tell, why does the DHS need that kind of firepower? And who do they anticipate using all of this firepower
on?
If all of that isn’t disconcerting enough, we have now learned that the DHS has spent 2 million dollars on
producing shooting targets of American gun owners. These are called “non-traditional threat” targets. They include
pregnant women, elderly citizens, mothers in playgrounds, and even little children. These targets are produced by a
company called Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. The company calls these targets “No More Hesitation” targets.
What is the DHS planning to do? Turn the entire continental United States into one big giant Waco?
Can one imagine the reaction by the DHS if a company was producing shooting targets depicting law enforcement
officers?
I guess another question I have is who are the people whose faces appear on these targets? Did they know they
were being photographed to be used on a shooting target? Or were their images photoshopped? Whose mother, father,
grandmother, grandfather, daughter, son, and child are being used for these targets? I wonder how many Americans
whose loved ones appear on these targets know that the photographs of their family members are being used as
targets for DHS agents to shoot at. And how would any of you like it if those targets bore the photographs of YOUR
loved ones?
This is bizarre! If this wasn’t so very, very real, one would think that it was one big practical joke. But it
is no joke!
While our own domestic federal police department (a blatantly unconstitutional entity, by the way) is arming
itself to the teeth, our President and Vice President are in a full-court press trying to disarm the American
citizenry of their most effective and efficient self-defense tool: the semi-automatic rifle. Are we supposed to
believe that all of this is mere coincidence? It is true that I was born in the morning, but it was not yesterday
morning!
Adding to our cause for concern is the way our veterans are being treated (or should I say mistreated) by the
federal government. As far back as 2009, returning Iraq and Afghan War veterans have been labeled as potentially
“dangerous extremists” by the DHS (along with people who are pro-life; people who support Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and
yours truly; people who believe the US should get out of the UN; people who are opposed to the “New World Order;”
people who believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; etc.). Today, more and more veterans are being labeled
with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and other such names, and being told that they are not fit to possess a
firearm.
In addition, under President Obama’s recent Executive Order, physicians, both military and civilian, are
quizzing their patients regarding firearms and have the potential authority to write a derogatory diagnosis about a
patient that could be used as an excuse for the government to deny his or her right to keep and bear arms. (If you
have a physician that asks you any questions regarding firearms, my advice is to find another doctor
immediately!)
My friends, our country is being transformed into an Orwellian society right before our eyes! All the while,
most pastors and churches seem to be completely oblivious to it. And, of course, most of the reporters and
journalists in the mainstream media are nothing more than compliant propagandists for anything Big-Government. The
same is true for most educators in our major colleges and universities.
But it is the apathy, indifference, and blindness of our pastors and churches that is the most disconcerting.
The most influential group of leaders in America is still the pastors–the trend away from traditional churches
notwithstanding. There are over 300,000 evangelical churches in the United States. Can one imagine what would
happen in this country if half of these pastors would get up in their pulpits this Sunday and sound the clarion
call to stand up and fight these insidious encroachments against our liberties? What if 25% would? What would
happen if only 10% would rise up and take a stand?
“I
ask you, did you hear anything from your pastor regarding NDAA? Did you hear
anything from your pastor regarding the Patriot Act or the Military Commissions Act? If not, do you
really think you will hear him say anything about the EEA? Again I ask you, are not the fundamental
principles of liberty as valuable and as scriptural as the so-called “family values” we hear pastors
talk so much about? I would argue that without the undergirding foundational principles of liberty
(codified in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights), the so-called “family values” would
become moot very quickly! Before Hitler’s government could begin marching people off to concentration
camps, it had to destroy the foundational elements of liberty in the hearts and minds of the German
people–including German pastors and churches. A government that doesn’t respect your liberty will not
respect your life, your family, your religion, or your morality!"
-- Rev.
Chuck Baldwin --
Dear Christian friend, how can you stay in a church where
the pastor will not take a stand for your liberties? How can you give such a church your tithes and offerings? Do
you not realize that any pastor and church that refuses to fight and protect your liberties is helping to put the
shackles of tyranny and oppression around the necks of your families?
Regardless of how sound you believe your pastor to be doctrinally, or how educated he is, or how much Hebrew and
Greek he knows, or how warm and caring he is, or how much you personally like him, if he is not willing to take a
public stand for your liberties, he is a willing accomplice to the demise of our republic and the rise of
totalitarianism in this land–as surely as the pastors of Germany were accomplices to the rise of Hitler’s Third
Reich!
Christian, please wake up! A police state is being constructed before your very eyes. Your liberties are
being systematically expunged. While you are waving your hands and praising Jesus, the enemies of liberty are
laying the nets and traps around your homes and communities that are going to be used to enslave you. While you are
fixated on your pastor and church staying doctrinally pure, the barbed-wire fences are being built around the camps
in which your children and grandchildren will be incarcerated. While you sit comfortably on the padded pews in your
heated and air conditioned church sanctuary and listen to an inspiring sermon that makes you feel warm and fuzzy
all over, the sacred principles that protect your right to freely worship, and speak, and defend your family are
disappearing.
Beyond that, not only are many thousands of pastors not resisting this emerging police state; they are actively
and enthusiastically joining with the big-government toadies in helping to eviscerate our freedoms. Is your pastor
one of these? If so, you might as well be listening to sermons written by Joseph Goebbels.
Big-Government propagandists love to couch submission to oppression under the guise of patriotic duty to law and
order. But submission to oppression is not patriotic; it is imbecilic! And make no mistake about it: the attempt to
outlaw, ban, and confiscate our firearms, especially our semi-automatic rifles, has nothing to do with law and
order; it has everything to do with overt oppression. To such an egregious encroachment against our liberty there
can be no submission, only determined, resolute resistance.
With would-be tyrants attacking our liberties with such a vengeance, and with such a ubiquitous display of
apathy and indifference by most pastors and churches, my constitutional attorney son and I have written a brand new
book entitled, “To Keep Or Not To Keep: Why Christians Should Not Give Up Their Guns.” This book is sure to be a
blockbuster!
There are numerous books out there which examine the right to keep and bear arms that are written from a
constitutional perspective, but we know of no modern book that takes an in-depth scriptural look at the right to
keep and bear arms. Well, that’s what our new book does. It is a thorough examination of both the Old and New
Testament regarding the right of self-defense. In this book, Tim and I show conclusively that nowhere does the
Bible teach Christians (or anyone else, Christian or not) should surrender their arms. Nowhere does the Bible teach
Christians (or anyone else) are obligated to obey the laws of men that would deny a man his God-given, Natural
right of self-defense. NOWHERE!
The book will be released very soon. We are taking pre-orders now. Orders are coming in very fast. To be assured
of getting your copy, I suggest you pre-order the book now. Go to:
All this talk about submitting to the government NO MATTER WHAT is simply a bunch of propagandist-hooey! And
dear Christian friend, if your pastor is teaching this fallacy, not only is he teaching a serious error, he is an
enemy to freedom! Get out of his church immediately! He has sold his soul to tyrants; and he is leading your family
into tyranny.
Our country is being turned into a police state. What is it going to take for pastors and churches to awaken to
this stark reality? Christian, please wake up!
P.S. To see our list of pastors who are on public record as standing strong for the Second Amendment, go to:
If you don’t see your pastor’s name in the list, you might want to ask him why.
(c) Chuck Baldwin
ASSASSINATION
PROGRAM
My topic for this evening is “now, it’s assassinations”. What
have we allowed ourselves to become? Are we no longer a nation of laws? Have we become instead a nation of men
who make secret arrests? Are secret prisons now simply another tool of the federal government law enforcement?
Is secret rendition of individuals now permitted out of misplaced fear? Have we decided that the writ of habeas
corpus is not worth defending? Is torture now an acceptable tool for making us safe?
Unfortunately, the single answer to all these questions from the
leaders of our country to many of our citizens appears to be yes. And now we are told that assassination of
foreigners as well as American citizens is legitimate and necessary to provide security for our people. It is
my firm opinion that nothing could be further from the truth.
Secret arrests, secret renditions, torture and assassinations are
illegal under both domestic and international law. These activities should be anathema to the citizens of a
constitutional republic. The real threat doesn’t arise from our failure to torture, rather desensitizing our
nation to the willful neglect and sacrifice of our civil liberties fought and died for over the centuries, is
the threat.
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not
recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of
millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I
meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright
disgust."
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the
best forms of government those entrusted with power
have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
-- Thomas Jefferson --
On the heels of the National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” comes another draconian bill designed
to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any
reason it deems necessary. Stephen D. Foster, Jr. has the story.
"Sadder
still is the way so many Christian pastors and churches have become little more than glorified
cheerleaders for Statism and Militarism. While the Trojan Horse of Big Government sits unnoticed in
Town Square, so-called Christians spend most of their time either trying to kill each other because
of differences of opinion over secondary doctrines, or trying to turn their worship services into
miniature versions of Walt Disney World."
-- Rev.
Chuck Baldwin --
“Congress is considering HR 3166 and
S. 1698 also known as the Enemy Expatriation Act, sponsored by Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Charles Dent (R-PA). This
bill would give the US government the power to strip Americans of their citizenship without being convicted of
being ‘hostile’ against the United States. In other words, you can be stripped of your nationality for ‘engaging
in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States.’ Legally, the term
‘hostilities’ means any conflict subject to the laws of war but considering the fact that the War on Terror is a
little ambiguous and encompassing, any action could be labeled as supporting terrorism.”
Foster goes on to say, “I hope I’m wrong, but it sounds to me like this is a loophole for indefinitely
detaining Americans. Once again, you just have to be accused of supporting hostilities which could be defined any
way the government sees fit. Then the government can strip your citizenship and apply the indefinite detention
section of the NDAA without the benefit of a trial.”
Ever since Congress passed the Patriot Act back in 2001, it seems the floodgates have been
opened for more and more intrusions and abridgements of those fundamental liberties expressly protected in the Bill
of Rights. From the Patriot Act, to the Military Commissions Act, to the NDAA (Indefinite Detention Act), and to
now the Enemy Expatriation Act (EEA), these big government toadies in Washington, D.C., are clearly and
unmistakingly declaring war on the American people.
Have we forgotten the MIAC report out of the State of Missouri back in 2009? In that official
State report, supporters of Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin were identified as potential dangerous “militia
members,” and Missouri State law enforcement officials were notified to be on guard. Beyond that, anyone that
identified themselves as being pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, anti-Federal Reserve, Christians who believe in the
return of Christ, and even returning Iraq War veterans were likewise targeted as potentially dangerous to Missouri
State law enforcement personnel. (Article Continued Below.)
A copy of the
MIAC report was sent to us by two Missouri police officers who were concerned by its content.
Perhaps due to the outlandish and shocking nature of the document,
some people are still having difficulty believing it is real. Unfortunately, we have confirmed that it’s 100 per
cent genuine. We spoke with Capt Hull at the Missouri State Highway Patrol who told us that the MIAC Strategic
Report is a part “normal operation for officers” to receive these periodic reports for “safety purposes and to
track trends or changes”. Hull added that the report was for the purposes of training their officers.
Anyone still in doubt as to the veracity of the document can call the
MIAC toll free at 866-362-6422 and confirm it for themselves.
We also spoke to Lt. John Hotz who, along with Capt Hull, declined to
appear on The Alex Jones Show to talk about the document, but had no qualms about admitting that it was genuine
and had been handed out to Missouri police officers. View the document below.
According to
theMIAC website, “MIAC is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated
and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within
the state of Missouri.”
The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential
candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as “militia” influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri
police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with
the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties.
The MIAC report does not concentrate on Muslim terrorists, but rather
on the so-called “militia movement” and conflates it with supporters of Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, the
so-called patriot movement and other political activist organizations opposed to the North American Union and
the New World Order.
Police are educated in the document that people are are
anti-abortion, own gold, display an assortment of U.S. flags, or even those that talk about the film Zeitgeist,
view the police as their “enemy” and conflates them with domestic terrorists like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy
McVeigh, Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph and other domestic militia groups who have been charged with plotting
terrorist attacks.
The demonization of militia groups is something that we have come to
expect, despite the fact that the very same constitution police officers swear an oath to defend outlines the
need for “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State”. George Washington himself
was a member of a militia.
However, the conflation of banal sectors of society such as people
who own gold, fly flags, display bumper stickers or who support mainstream political candidates such as Bob
Barr, and the guilt-by-association smear that they are likely to be dangerous and potential terrorists, is a
staggering alarm bell which indicates police are being trained that ordinary Americans, not radicalized Mexican
race hate groups or Al-Qaeda suicide bomber cells, are the number one domestic threat in the war on
terror.
The MIAC report is similar to one created by the Phoenix Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force during the Clinton administration
(seepage one andpage two of the document). The FBI document explicitly designates “defenders” of the Constitution
as “right-wing extremists.” The MIAC report expands significantly on the earlier document.
Indeed, the MIAC report is just the latest in a series of similar threat
assessment documents that list average American citizens as dangerous extremists and potential
terrorists.
President Bush himself gave speeches about a White House “strategy
paper” that formed “an unclassified version of the strategy we’ve been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001,”
that takes into account, “the changing nature of this enemy.”
The document says that terrorism springs from “subcultures of
conspiracy and misinformation,” and that “terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information
about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive
grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda.”
The Maine Information and
Analysis Center (MIAC), also known as the Fusion Center, is a cooperative
effort between the Maine State Police and the Maine Emergency Management Agency, in partnership with the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security. The MIAC exists to evaluate information and intelligence about potential
terrorist activity in Maine. The MIAC ensures that critical information is shared promptly with all appropriate
agencies.
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After the MIAC report surfaced, Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and I
sent a letter to the governor of Missouri demanding that the report be removed and that the State of Missouri
repudiate the report. After a firestorm of outrage by thousands of Americans all over the country (not just in
Missouri) the State of Missouri did indeed remove and repudiate the report.
Totalitarian regimes throughout history have attempted
to marginalize those people that the state intended to target for persecution. Once a group or groups of people had
been sufficiently marginalized, it wasn’t long before public condemnation and then military retaliation took place.
Legislation such as the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the NDAA, and now the EEA authorize military
power to be used against US citizens, and given the propensity of government propagandists in the National Press
Corps to marginalize groups of people whose ideas are thought to be politically incorrect, it’s only a matter of
time before the executive branch of the federal government begins utilizing the dictatorial powers that have been
granted to it by Congress. And, unfortunately, many State governments seem more than willing to participate in the
Machiavellian machinations put forward by Washington, D.C. The MIAC report in the State of Missouri is a prime
example.
Sadder still is the way so many Christian pastors and churches have become little more than glorified
cheerleaders for Statism and Militarism. While the Trojan Horse of Big Government sits unnoticed in Town Square,
so-called Christians spend most of their time either trying to kill each other because of differences of opinion
over secondary doctrines, or trying to turn their worship services into miniature versions of Walt Disney
World.
I ask you, did you hear anything from your pastor regarding NDAA? Did you hear anything from your pastor
regarding the Patriot Act or the Military Commissions Act? If not, do you really think you will hear him say
anything about the EEA? Again I ask you, are not the fundamental principles of liberty as valuable and as
scriptural as the so-called “family values” we hear pastors talk so much about? I would argue that without the
undergirding foundational principles of liberty (codified in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights),
the so-called “family values” would become moot very quickly! Before Hitler’s government could begin marching
people off to concentration camps, it had to destroy the foundational elements of liberty in the hearts and minds
of the German people–including German pastors and churches. A government that doesn’t respect your liberty will not
respect your life, your family, your religion, or your morality!
At this point, I invite readers to watch my address from last Sunday, January 8, 2012. In this address, I deal
forthrightly with the NDAA and show the scriptural instruction regarding how unlawful and illegitimate government
is the chief source of “tribulation” that the Bible talks so much about. I also give a scriptural outline as to how
Christian people are to relate and respond to government–both good and bad. Watch my Sunday address at:
While we are on the topic of liberty, someone has produced a fascinating clip of Congressman Ron Paul showing
the predictions he made on the floor of the US House of Representatives back in 2002–along with the fulfillment of
those predictions in subsequent news headlines. People who view this brief You Tube video might just begin to
understand why Congressman Paul is the only Presidential candidate who truly understands the causes of this loss of
liberty taking place in our land. See Dr. Paul’s speech on the House floor at:
Given the way congressmen and senators from both major parties are willing to grant dictatorial powers to the
President, it seems likely that the EEA will pass in much the same way as did the NDAA. It seems to me that the
longer we keep expecting Washington, D.C., to solve our problems, the more our problems will increase. Remember the
sagacious words of President Ronald Reagan: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the
problem.” Listen to that quote at:
If we are going to “guard and defend” (Daniel Webster) our liberties, it is going to take states and local
communities to do it, because those miscreants in Washington, D.C., are doing everything they can to dismantle our
liberties, not protect them. We need State governors, lieutenant governors, attorney generals, and sheriffs to
stand in the gap NOW! And in that vein, I invite readers to follow the Fanning-Baldwin Montana gubernatorial
campaign at the following Facebook and Twitter pages:
In the meantime, beware! The Enemy Expatriation Act is coming soon, and with the way things are going, YOU could
be deemed the enemy!
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A former Marine Corps Colonel who was stationed
in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers warns that the Department of Homeland Security is working with law
enforcement to build a “domestic army,” because the federal government is afraid of its own citizens. In this
exclusive in studio interview Ret. Col Martino covers the DHS buildup
and solutions our overreaching corrupt government officials.
“People in general just will NOT,
take their heads out of the sand!”
Psyops, or psychological operations, is a term used to describe the
techniques of psychological manipulation used in warfare. These operations are used to deceive, confuse, disrupt
and demoralize the enemy, with an aim toward weakening enemy resistance or even causing enemy forces to surrender
and enemy populations to capitulate.
How could there be aWar on Terror and actually say that we're having
awar against terrorism, and leave the
borders wide open? If you were the President of the United States, or I were the President of the United
States, and9/11 really happened
the way they want us to believe it happened, the first thing you would do is shut down the borders, so people
couldn't get in the country to harm you. But they left the borders wide open. Becausethe bankers want the borders open, because they
want aone-world government.
They want a North American Union. They don't want borders
here.9/11 was only a
manifestation. It was done to create afear in the American public, so that we
willobey what they want us to
do.
Drug cartels across the border are
just as brutal as ISIS
Horrific violence not isolated to Middle
East
Ellen Weiss, Oct 23, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. officials have argued that
atrocities committed by the militant group ISIS are barbaric and that the group is a threat to the homeland, but it’s worth remembering that the horrific violence
perpetrated just across the U.S. border by Mexican drug cartels is equally barbaric and the cartels also
pose a threat to Americans.
This week brought another bloody reminder of the cartel’s brutality. Mexican activist Maria Del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, a physician and citizen journalist
who had taken a prominent stand against Mexican cartels on social media, died with a bullet in her head. And
her killers, in an obvious effort to terrorize others, tweeted her murder.
Yes, as President Barack Obama noted in his Sept. 24 address to the UN General Assembly, ISIS is leaving a trail of rape, beheadings,
dead children and mass graves. The numbers are terrifying: More than 5,500 people have been killed in Iraq
since June, according to the United Nations.
But here are some numbers – also terrifying – from just across the U.S.-Mexico border: In 2013,
Mexican drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people, andHuman Rights Watch estimates more than 60,000 people were
killed in drug-related violence from 2006 to 2012.
Here’s the part, however, that seems to get overlooked. Mexican drug cartels have
beenspreading out across U.S. cities for years. From Texas, to
Columbus, Ohio, to Raleigh, North Carolina – in 2010, at least 1,000 U.S. cities cited the presence of one
of the four major drug cartels according to aU.S. Justice Department report. According to that
report:
There is no disputing that Mexican cartels are operating in the United States. Drug policy analysts
estimate that about 90 percent of thecocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine on U.S. streets
came here courtesy of the cartels and their distribution networks in Mexico and along the Southwestern
border. DEA officials say they have documentednumerous cases of cartel activity in Houston, Los Angeles,
Chicago and Atlanta.
Cartel violence isn’t restricted to one side of the border. “Spillover violence” has taken thousands of U.S. lives, according to the FBI. In
other words, the cartel threat – while certainly different from the jihadist-style threat of ISIS – is
nevertheless a threat.
A whole stream of disturbing statistics about the Mexican drug cartels was brought to light in an
opinion piece written by Musa al-Gharbia, a research fellow at the Southwest
Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts. This is not a list for the fainthearted:
Beheadings – Mexico is ranked directly below Iraq on the Reporters Without Borders World Press
Freedom Index. On May 13, 2012, Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and
dismembered bodies along a highway in Nuevo Leon state, between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa.
Killing children and
women - As if decapitations and hanging dead bodies from bridges wasn’t enough, the
drug cartels have made a practice of targeting women and children to further terrorize communities or prove they are tougher than the next
gang. Children are shot in cars, in their grandmother’s arms or sitting next to their parents.
Mass graves: Mexican
authorities have discovered several mass graves with hundreds of corpses of victims of the drug gangs
in recent years. Some are filled with victims of the drug wars, others with those
murdered for refusing to join the gangs. Most recently, as part of the search for 43 young Mexicans studying
to become teachers, searchers have found six mass graves but so far none of the bodies has been identified
as any of the missing students. Six mass graves, and they still haven’t found the
right mass grave.
As noted, the comparison between ISIS and the cartels
has its limits. Operation Inherent Resolve (the silly name the administration has given America’s military action against
ISIS) and the “War on Drugs” are about different threats. ISIS wants to vanquish all sorts of infidels,
including Americans. The drug cartels are about business – and anyone who gets in their way – including
Americans – is a target.
It comes down to this: If the U.S. is being spurred into action against ISIS because of indignation and a
threat to Americans, then it is worth remembering that a beheading in Mexico is just as horrifying as one in
Iraq or Syria – and a threat against Americans is still a threat whether it is the result of ideology or
criminal drug traffickers.
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COCAINE AND THE CIA
HOMELAND SECURITY?
YOUR FAMILIES AND CONGREGANTS ARE
BEING HUMILIATED, MOLESTED, AND TREATED AS SLAVES!!
An independent agency of the United States government responsible for
collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national
interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and
National Security Council...There has been considerable criticism of the CIA relating to security
and counterintelligence failures, failures in intelligence analysis, human rights concerns,
external investigations and document releases, influencing public opinion and law enforcement, drug
trafficking, and lying to Congress. In 1987, the former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, John
Stockwell, said the CIA is responsible for tens of thousands of covert actions and destablization
programs since it was created by Congress with the passage of the National Security Act of
1947.At the time, Stockwell estimated that over 6
million people had died in CIA covert actions.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a governmental agency
belonging to the United StatesDepartment of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal
investigative body and an internal intelligence agency (counterintelligence). Also, it is the
government agency responsible for investigating crimes on Indian reservations in the United States
under the Major Crimes Act. The branch has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than
200 categories of federal crime. The agency was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation
(BOI). Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The agency
headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, D.C. The agency has fifty-six
field offices located in major cities throughout the United States, and more than 400 resident
agencies in lesser cities and areas across the nation. More than 50 international offices called
"legal attachés" exist in U.S. embassies and consulates general worldwide.
'Federal Bureau of Investigation organizes almost
all terror plots in the US' ...The report reveals that the FBI regularly infiltrates communities
where they suspect terrorist-minded individuals to be engaging with others. Regardless of their
intentions, agents are sent in to converse within the community, find suspects that could
potentially carry out “lone wolf” attacks and then, more or less, encourage them to do so. By
providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage otherwise-unwilling
participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to bust them before any events fully
materialize.
"Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize that large numbers of
consumer products on our supermarket shelves contain ingredients which have been
cultivatedusing
aborted human fetal cell lines.This information is not hard to
find.But people donot like to talk
about it.There are price lists for
human fetal tissue all over the Internet. You can find one
exampleright
here. So does
it bother you that aborted babies are being chopped up and sold
to researchers all over America?Or
are you perfectly fine with it?"
Sickening:
Major
food corporations use tissue from aborted babies to
manufacture flavor additives in processed foods
IRS office in California ordered
Christian Voices for Life of Fort Bend County, Texas to explain the content of prayers
The Internal Revenue Service allegedly told two pro-life to reveal the content of their
prayers and prayer meetings, according to the Thomas More Society. An IRS office in California ordered Christian
Voices for Life of Fort Bend County, Texas to explain the content of prayers "as if they were engaging in highly
offensive or criminal behavior," the Thomas More Society charged. Agents also ordered Coalition for Life of Iowa to
provide detailed information about the group's prayer meetings.
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) demanded that outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller answer questions about the incidents
during Friday's House Ways and Means Committee hearing. "Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the
Coalition for Life of Iowa: 'Please detail the content of the members of your organization's
prayers.'"
Alex speaks with former presidential nominee of the Constitution Party, co-author of Romans 13:
The True Meaning of Submission and To Keep Or Not To Keep and pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana
Chuck Baldwin.
Armed Pastor Defends Lives with a Gun
"Out of Love"
The term "pastor" means shepherd — one who cares for and guards the sheep. In
Christian churches, the idea of a pastor is based on one who in the words and example of Jesus "lays down his life
for the sheep". That is exactly what Pastor Carl Sanders of Evansville, Indiana, did when he confronted an armed
robber to save "sheep" that had not taken measures to protect themselves. Pastor Sanders had the mindset of a
shepherd and the tool to protect — a handgun.
"T
he most foolish mistake we could
possible 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."
Okay, we all know how awful Hillary Clinton is. We all know that Donald Trump said all the right
things (well, many of the right things) on the campaign trail. We all know—at least believed—that Trump was not an
establishment insider. We all know that Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” dramatically reduce America’s
out-of-control deficit spending, protect the Second Amendment, get America out of its endless foreign wars,
terminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, overturn Roe v Wade and build a wall on our southern border—that
Mexico would pay for—in order to stop the flow of illegal immigration into America.
Now, after two full years of a
Donald Trump administration in which he enjoyed both houses of Congress being held by fellow Republicans, we all
know (and if we don’t, it’s because we don’t WANT to know) that none of the above has happened. Yet, Christians and
conservatives by the millions continue to make excuses for this faker.
First, a brief comment about the
border wall: All of the drama regarding a partial government shutdown and incessant public theater by actors from
both political parties is quite nauseating. Republicans had control of both houses of Congress and the White House
for two years. Why wasn’t money appropriated for the wall then? Why was there no government shutdown over the lack
of funding for the border wall then? Why wait until Democrats take over the House to shut down (partially) the
federal government and threaten to declare a State of National Emergency?
Forgive me, but this stinks to high
heaven. This is nothing but smoke and mirrors. All of the high profile theatrics over the border wall is the
biggest distraction to envelop our country in quite a spell. While everyone is fighting over the wall, some very
serious attacks against our liberties are being waged almost without notice. And all of the hullabaloo over the
wall is completely covering up Trump’s failure to carry out the rest of his campaign promises—and the fact that
Trump himself has often worked in direct opposition to many of his campaign promises.
Secondly, his rhetoric
notwithstanding, President Trump has NOT drawn down America’s involvement in endless foreign wars. Trump’s promise
to bring U.S. forces home from Syria is so much hot air. Trump’s “immediate” withdrawal order is now mired in an
indefinite time schedule. In other words, there is no time schedule. Our troops that are still fighting in Syria
are not only still based in Syria, but they are also still using bases in Iraq as launching pads for military
excursions into Syria. Of course, Trump promised that the U.S. bases in Iraq were not going anywhere—and that’s one
promise he will keep.
Our troops are still fighting
endless wars in Afghanistan andSomalia. In fact, Trump has shoved record military spending through Congress and has done
nothing to reduce America’s global military presence (U.S. troops are stationed in over 160 countries, which equates to 95% of the world’s foreign military bases). America is
as much the global cop as it was when Trump was elected. No, that’s not quite true: We are MUCH MORE the global
cop than when Trump was elected, as Trump has expanded our military presence in Eastern Europe to unprecedented
levels—levels not even seen during the Cold War.
Thirdly, as we have just passed the
46th anniversary of the ignoble Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion-on-demand nationwide,
unborn children continue to be legally murdered—in spite of the fact that Donald Trump was President and
Republicans controlled both houses of Congress during the past two years. All of Trump’s “pro-life” rhetoric hasn’t
saved the life of a single unborn baby. Since Trump was elected, over 2 million unborn children have been
mercilessly murdered in the wombs of their mothers—with the complete approbation of a Republican-led federal
government.
The GOP controlled the entire
federal government for 4.6 years of G.W. Bush's eight years in office—and they controlled the entire federal
government for the past two years of Donald Trump’s presidency. They did NOTHING about Roe v Wade under Bush, and
they have done NOTHING about Roe v Wade under Trump. These phony pro-life GOP congressmen and senators haven't even
defunded America's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
Fifthly, what about Trump’s promise
to “drain the swamp”? This is one of Trump’s biggest lies of all. Trump never intended to drain the swamp. From the
outset of his presidency, he began appointing mostly CFR globalists, neocons, warmongers, Zionists, corporate
elitists and corrupt government insiders to his administration. And he hasn’t stopped.
I am absolutely sick and tired of
hearing my conservative Christian brethren say things like, “Trump is trying his best, but he’s getting no help
from his cabinet and staff.” Well, DUH! Who picked his cabinet and staff? Trump did.
Then they say things like, “Trump doesn’t really understand these issues; he
really wants to do right, but he’s getting bad advice.” BARF! If he didn’t understand the issues, he’s had two
full years as President of the United States to get caught up. But he continues to make the same
unconstitutional, big-government, warmongering decisions over and over again. The excuse that “he wants to do
right, but is getting bad advice” just doesn’t wash anymore. It’s time for Trump’s supporters to wake up and
realize that Donald Trump is a great big boy, not a little kid, and is fully capable of thinking for
himself.
Donald Trump knows exactly what
he’s doing. He’s known exactly what he’s been doing from day number one. He is the consummate con man. He is a
charlatan. He is a double-tongued pretender. He has filled the executive branch of the federal government with the
same crooks as presidents before him.
And now Trump’s selection of
William Barr as America’s next attorney general is the final straw. There can be NO MORE DOUBT.
William Barr is the swamp
creature’s Swamp Creature. He is the personification of all of the evil and wickedness that has gone on in
Washington, D.C., during the past 30 years. Name the act of criminality, cover-up or act of chicanery that has
taken place in Washington D.C., over the last 30 years, and William Barr is probably neck deep in it.
*Barr was a full-time CIA operative, recruited by Langley out of high
school, starting in 1971. Barr’s youth career goal was to head the CIA.
*CIA operative assigned to the
China directorate, where he became close to powerful CIA operative George H.W. Bush, whose accomplishments
already included the CIA/Cuba Bay of Pigs, Asia CIA operations (Vietnam War, Golden Triangle narcotics), Nixon
foreign policy (Henry Kissinger), and the Watergate operation.
*When George H.W. Bush became CIA
Director in 1976, Barr joined the CIA’s “legal office” and Bush’s inner circle, and worked alongside Bush’s
longtime CIA enforcers Theodore “Ted” Shackley, Felix Rodriguez, Thomas Clines, and others, several of whom were
likely involved with the Bay of Pigs/John F. Kennedy assassination, and numerous southeast Asian operations,
from the Phoenix Program to Golden Triangle narco-trafficking.
*Barr stonewalled and destroyed the
Church Committee investigations into CIA abuses.
*Barr stonewalled and stopped
inquiries in the CIA bombing assassination of Chilean opposition leader Orlando Letelier.
*Barr joined George H.W. Bush’s
legal/intelligence team during Bush’s vice presidency (under President Ronald Reagan). Rose from assistant
attorney general to Chief Legal Counsel to attorney general (1991) during the Bush 41 presidency.
*Barr was a key player in the
Iran-Contra operation, if not the most important member of the apparatus, simultaneously managing the operation
while also “fixing” the legal end, ensuring that all of the operatives could do their jobs without fear of
exposure or arrest.
*In his attorney general
confirmation, Barr vowed to “attack criminal organizations,” drug smugglers and money launderers. It was all hot
air: as AG, Barr would preserve, protect, cover up, and nurture the apparatus that he helped create, and use
Justice Department power to escape punishment.
*Barr stonewalled and stopped
investigations into all Bush/Clinton and CIA crimes, including BCCI and BNL CIA drug banking, the theft of
Inslaw/PROMIS software, and all crimes of state committed by Bush.
*Barr provided legal cover for
Bush’s illegal foreign policy and war crimes.
*Barr left Washington, and went
through the “rotating door” to the corporate world, where he took on numerous directorships and counsel
positions for major companies. In 2007 and again from 2017, Barr was counsel for politically connected
international law firmKirkland & Ellis. Among its other notable attorneys and alumni are Kenneth Starr, John
Bolton, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and numerous Trump administration attorneys. K&E’s clients
include sex trafficker/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital.
If all of this isn’t bad enough,
William Bar is a co-conspirator in the murders of Vicki and Sammy Weaver at Ruby Ridge,
Idaho.James Bovard tells the story:
The Senate Judiciary Committee
hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr have focused heavily on Barr’s views on Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr’s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who
killed American citizens.
Barr received a routine
questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee asking him to disclose his past work including pro bono activities
“serving the disadvantaged.” The “disadvantaged” that Barr spent the most time helping was an FBI agent who
slayed an Idaho mother holding her baby in 1992. Barr spent two weeksorganizing former Attorneys General and others to support “an FBI sniper in
defending against criminal charges in connection with the Ruby Ridge incident.” Barr also “assisted in framing
legal arguments advanced… in the district court and the subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit,” he told the
committee.
That charitable work (for an FBI
agent who already had a federally paid law firm defending him) helped tamp down one of the biggest scandals
during Barr’s time as Attorney General from 1991 to early 1993. Barr was responsible for both the U.S. Marshals
Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, two federal agencies whose misconduct at Ruby Ridge
“helped to weaken the bond of trust that must exist between ordinary Americans
and our law enforcement agencies,” according to a 1995 Senate Judiciary Committee report.
After Randy Weaver, an outspoken
white separatist living on a mountaintop in northern Idaho, was entrapped by an undercover federal agent, U.S.
marshals trespassed on Weaver’s land and killed his 14-year-old son, Sammy [by shooting him in the back]. The
following day, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi killed his wife, Vicki, as she was standing in the cabin doorway [holding
her baby in her arms]. Horiuchi had previously shot Randy Weaver in the back after he stepped out of the cabin.
The suspects were never given a warning or a chance to surrender and had taken no action against FBI agents.
Weaver survived.
Barr told
theNew York Times in 1993 that he was not directly involved in the
Ruby Ridge operation. Two years later, the Washington Post revealed that “top officials of the Bush Justice
Department had at least 20 [phone] contacts concerning Ruby Ridge in the 24 hours before Vicki Weaver was shot,”
including two calls involving Barr.
In January 1995, FBI director Louis
Freeh announced wrist slaps for the FBI officials involved, including his friend Larry Potts, who supervised the
operation from headquarters and who approved the shoot-without-provocation orders that “contravened the
constitution of the United States,” according to the Justice Department internal report.
When Attorney General Janet Reno
later nominated Potts for deputy director of the FBI, top newspapers and members of Congress protested, but Barr
told theNew York Times that his friend Potts “was deliberate and careful, and I developed a great deal of confidence in his
judgment… I can’t think of enough good things to say about him.” A few months later, the FBI suspended Potts after suspected perjury regarding Ruby Ridge. (Potts was
not charged and retired two years later.)
The Justice Department paid $3
million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit from the Weaver family. But when Boundary County, Idaho filed
criminal charges against Horiuchi, Barr sprang to action seeking immunity for FBI snipers. He spearheaded
efforts to sway the court to dismiss all charges because holding a sniper liable would “severely undermine, if not cripple, the ability of future attorneys general to rely on such
specialized units in moments of crisis such as hostage taking and terrorist acts.”
When the Justice Department won an
initial appeals court victory in the case in 2000, federal judge Alex Kozinski warned in a dissent of a
newJames Bond “007 standard for the use of deadly force” against American
citizens. The same court reversed that decision the following year. Kozinski, writing for the majority,
declared: “A group of FBI agents formulated rules of engagement that permitted their
colleagues to hide in the bushes and gun down men who posed no immediate threat. Such wartime rules are patently
unconstitutional for a police action.”
Does William Barr still endorse
“wartime rules” and a “007 standard” that absolve federal agents for questionable shootings of Americans?
Does Barr consider “illegal government killings” to be an oxymoron? Best of all, can Barr explain to us
his understanding of the phrase “government under the law”?
In addition, as far as William Barr
is concerned, the Fourth Amendment does not even exist. Senator Rand Paul notes that Barr "has been a big supporter
of the PATRIOT Act, which lowered the standard for spying on Americans, and he even went so far as to say the
PATRIOT Act was pretty good — we should go much further."
Rand also said that Barr is a “big
fan” of seizing people’s property through civil asset forfeiture. Rand continued by saying that “the first things
I’ve learned about him [Barr] being for more surveillance of Americans is very, very troubling.”
Furthermore (yes, there is more),
William Barr told liberal gun grabber Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in his senate confirmation hearing for
becoming America’s next attorney general that he fully intends to push forward with Donald Trump’s Hitlerian “take
the guns first, go through due process second” gun confiscation laws, also known as “red flag” laws. And remember:
It was Donald Trump, not Barack Obama, who gave us more gun control by outlawing “bump stocks.”
Yep! The promise to protect the
Second Amendment is another promise Trump has broken (that’s Number Six).
“Red flag” gun confiscation laws
are the same kind of laws that were used to confiscate the weapons of undesirables (meaning anyone the state
doesn’t like) in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China—and in every despotic nation of the
world.
And here isWilliam Barr’s statement that “red flag” gun confiscation laws are the “single most
important thing” government can do regarding gun control.
Internet blogger and longtime
supporter of Donald Trump, Carl F. Worden, recently wrote this:
Now I can understand how Trump fell
for the wrongful nominations of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
That was early-on in Trump's presidency and Trump had no way of knowing those he trusted for advice were
in fact Deep State maggots intent on destroying his presidency. But this is a solid two years into Trump's
first term, and it is more than obvious that Barr will not be a team player for Trump -- or us! In fact, Barr
has a very troubling record on Second Amendment issues.
At this time, I have no confidence
left in Donald J. Trump. He is either a complete fool, or he knows exactly what he's doing, and either way
he's not fit to represent me anymore.
No more excuses, Mr.
Trump!
Bravo, Carl!
Sadly, a host of Trump’s supporters
continue to be bamboozled by the elaborate psyops misinformation (translated: propaganda) entity known
asQAnon, which keeps reassuring the Trump faithful that he is covertly waging war against the
globalist insiders and that any day now the curtain is going to collapse on the swamp creatures. It’s all a hoax
to give Trump cover—and more time.
If the nomination of William Barr
as America’s next “Top Cop” doesn’t awaken the “Always Trumpers,” there is absolutely no hope for them. Even worse
is the fact that the longer Christians and conservatives continue to make excuses for Trump’s lies and deceptions,
there is less and less hope for America.
Many pastors and Christians are under the devilish delusion that
the Bible promotes pacifism and non-resistance to tyrannical government. They believe and teach
that, if government decides to outlaw firearms, Christians should sheepishly surrender their arms.
These believers do not understand the Natural and Scriptural doctrine of self-defense.
In this message, Pastor Baldwin examines the life of Abraham as
found in Genesis 14. This is an extremely important chapter of the Bible as it establishes several
laws and principles given by God. This chapter introduces us to Melchizedek, the king and priest of
Jerusalem who blessed Abraham after he had returned from "the slaughter of the kings" in defense of
the inhabitants of the city of Sodom. Hebrews 7 retells the story of Genesis 14 and makes it clear
that Melchizedek was either Christ Himself or a great type of Christ.
The timing of Christ's blessing of Abraham, and his establishment
of several monumental doctrines for mankind, occurring following Abraham's armed defense of his
family and community is extremely significant—and almost universally ignored and overlooked in
modern churches.
As the title of the message states, this is "A Biblical Portrait Of
The Righteousness And Requirement of Bearing Arms." Bearing arms for self-defense—which in the
modern world points to AR-15-style rifles—is both RIGHTEOUS and REQUIRED of us by the laws of God.
(Cont Nxt Column)
Unless you are over sixty-years-old, it is very likely that you
have never heard a message like this before--and with the kind of compromising, watered-down
preaching heard in most churches today, if you don't watch this one, you may never hear one like it
in your lifetime.
But the truths of this message are undeniable and sacrosanct. And
with the way that government--and many churches--are promoting the outlawing and surrender of
AR-15-style rifles, this message is absolutely essential to the understanding of God's law on this
subject--not to mention the survival of liberty in our land.
Today the debate over firearms rages, and on the heels of national
tragedy and death, schools and other places have become "gun-free zones"—and killing fields. In
addition, many in government are attempting to pass laws disarming the American people, beginning
with banning AR-15 rifles. And, sadly, a host of pastors and churches are telling their
congregations that Christians are obligated to surrender their firearms should civil government
require them to do so. Such teaching is an egregious violation of the Word of God.
Written by Dr. Chuck Baldwin and his son, Attorney Tim Baldwin, "To
Keep or Not To Keep: Why Christians Should Not Give Up Their Guns" is a CLASSIC defense of the
right to keep and bear arms—not just from a Constitutional perspective—but from a Biblical one. We
don't know of another book like this one on the market today.
Read this book and you will see why NO ONE—Christian or
otherwise—should surrender their arms and why stripping Americans of their right to keep and bear
the AR-15 rifle in particular is to in effect disarm the citizenry.
Pastor Baldwin is so determined to maintain the right to possess
the AR-15 rifle that he has said, "When my AR-15 rifle is outlawed, I will be an outlaw." This bold
statement is spoken not only out of adherence to the Second Amendment but more importantly out of
adherence to God's Natural and Biblical laws. This book brilliantly explains those eternal
laws.
Not since British troops marched on Lexington and Concord,
Massachusetts, during the early morning of April 19, 1775, to seize the weapons of the colonists
has the American people's right to keep and bear arms been under such a direct attack.
Dr. Baldwin has shown in previous messages the Biblical duty of
self-defense. In this message, he uses Nehemiah 4, the Book of Judges, Esther, Romans 15:4, and
Ephesians 6:12 to show that the attacks against armed men are as much spiritual in nature as they
are political and physical.
Pastor Baldwin goes on to show how Christians need to be watchful
and alert to these attacks and be prepared to repel these attacks with both spiritual and Natural
armor.
Humanly speaking, the only thing keeping America's (and the rest of
the free world's) liberties intact (to the degree that they are) is the fact that America is an
ARMED citizenry. Remove the arms from the American people, and the entire world would plunge into a
500-year period of medievalesque Dark Ages.
This message is absolutely vital to the understanding of God's
truth relative to the subject of Christian liberty and the duty of men to protect it.
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Silencing Christians Speechless: Silencing the
Christians
In the United States today, there are very few words that provoke as much outrage as the
name of Jesus. It is being banned from graduation ceremonies, chaplains all over America are being forbidden from
using His name in their prayers, and many school officials all over the nation have become absolutely fanatical
about eliminating every trace of Christian expression from their schools. One elementary school in North Carolina
even ordered a little six-year-old girl to remove the word “God” from a poem that she had written to honor her
grandfathers. Political correctness is spreading like a cancer in this country, and our “freedom of religion” is
rapidly being transformed into a guarantee of “freedom from religion” for those that hate the Christian faith.
Without a doubt, there is a war on the Christian faith in America today. It is being waged in classrooms,
courtrooms and churches all over the nation.
Alex speaks with former presidential nominee of the Constitution Party, co-author of Romans
13: The True Meaning of Submission and To Keep Or Not To Keep and pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell,
Montana Chuck Baldwin.
U.S. Army
admits troops conducting law enforcement is illegal yet it continues to happen across the country on a
routine basis
In the video below, Alex Jones highlights how the
Guardian Centers video is yet another startling indication that authorities in the United States are preparing for
civil unrest as America increasingly begins to resemble a militarized police state.
ithout a doubt, tyrants of all stripes love to exploit this asinine attitude of
these sheepish, slavish preachers who idolize the state! Lutzer quotes Hitler as saying, “The
parsons will dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything
for the sake of their miserable jobs and incomes.” And that is exactly what many pastors,
deacons, elders, and churchmen are doing today: for the sake of their paychecks, insurance
premiums, and retirement benefits, they are betraying the lawful authority of Christ to the
tyrannical authority of the state. And the bastardized teaching of Romans 13 is one of the major
tools by which this is being done."
--
Chuck Baldwin --
Romans 13 The True Meaning of
Submission
Chuck Baldwin - Romans 13 The True Meaning of Submission
"Directing Government to its Duty" (Romans
13:1-4)
URGENT LETTER Pastor James Coates Arrested!
Dear servants of our Lord,
This letter is an urgent call to stand with and pray for Pastor James Coates, who is currently
confined in (a maximum security) prison in Edmonton, Alberta for daring to be faithful to his God ordained duty to
preach and shepherd the flock of Christ which Christ purchased with His own blood.
As you are probably aware, Pastor Coates was arrested on February 16, 2021
and could be held in prison until his court date in early May. The charges pertain to undue local governmental
restrictions regarding exercising our God ordained right to assemble as the body of Christ for worship of our
Lord.
The last sermon Pastor Coates preached, two days before his arrest, reveals the heart of a true
servant of the Lord Jesus Christ who has taken a critical and courageous stance, prompted solely by his love for
the Savior, for his brethren, and for the souls of the lost.
GraceLife Church - Feb 14, 2021 (Romans 13:1-4) "Directing Government to its Duty" Full Sermon
The purpose of this letter is to plead with you to encourage every pastor that you know to
seriously consider this sermon in the light of Scripture, and to fully open the church which God has given him
stewardship over.
The sermon is primarily directed to the government to address their God given duties. The subject
of Pastor Coates’ powerful sermon is the Theology of Government – Romans 13.1. He discusses why we must obey God
rather than men. The following is a brief summary of key points contained in the sermon.
Questions presented in the sermon include the following:
Can you be submissive to government while simultaneously practicing civil disobedience? Can you
practice civil disobedience while maintaining a submissive posture by humbly subjecting ourselves to the
consequences of our civil disobedience?
The answer is “yes”. When our responsibility to Christ leads us into conflicts with the government,
we have to gracefully, humbly and submissively bear up under that consequence.
Government leaders are servants appointed by and accountable to God. They cannot set terms of
worship because this is outside of their jurisdiction.
When is civil disobedience necessary?
- When government forbids what God commands.
- When government commands what God forbids.
- When government commands what is not for them to command. (Examples: terms of worship for the
local church; to this we cannot comply. They have no jurisdiction.)
Other excerpts from Pastor Coates February 14, 2021 sermon:
Government is accountable to God. The church must inform the government of their God ordained role.
It is the role of the church to call them to accountability, and to let them know that they are suppressing the
truth in unrighteousness, and to call them to repentance. Not to do so would be walking in negligence and being
unloving, because they are storing up wrath for the day of judgment. They need to be confronted with their sin in
order to realize that they need to be reconciled to God through the Son Jesus Christ.
It is the government’s role to protect the unalienable rights for men to fulfill their
responsibilities. They must govern in accordance with the word of God which defines good and evil. They should
protect rights.
It is not the government’s responsibility to protect us from a virus. Viruses are ordained by God.
Viruses are inevitable in a fallen world. It is God who determines life and death.
Complying with unbiblical and unjust governmental laws is neither faithful nor loving. Affirming
that the government has an authority that it does not have is also neither faithful or loving.
Of all institutions, the church has the obligation to call government to its God ordained duty. By
meeting, we are openly testifying that the government has no jurisdiction and showing them that they have
over-stepped their authority, and are being disobedient to Christ.
It is obedience to Christ that is driving this. It is also loving our neighbor, and that too, obeys
Christ. It is our theology that is driving this. It is our ecclesiology that is driving this. Our government is out
of step with its God given role. This is our Father’s world.
Jesus Christ is Head over the church. He is the Supreme authority and He governs the church. All of
this is bound up in the word of God. Caesar has no jurisdiction here. I refuse to give the government what is not
theirs.
It is a God given right to be with family when they are dying. It is not the government's
responsibility to protect us from a virus. Attempting to do so actually infringes on God given rights, such as work
and family life.
Government’s responsibility is not to govern the death rate.
It is God who governs and determines the death rate.
It is government’s responsibility to protect our God given, God ordained unalienable rights. Our
government needs to repent and stand up for what is right.
Pastor Coates closed his sermon with a full proclamation of the Gospel.
The Lord of Glory and Grace is also using the testimony of Pastor Coates wife, Erin at this time to
proclaim the gospel to this lost, perishing world.
Wife of Pastor Jailed in Canada Shares Their Story
Please pray for Pastor Coates’ wife Erin, for their children and the local church. Please make
haste to heed this urgent request to come to the aid of this ambassador of Christ, in the sober remembrance of our
King’s words, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto
Me.”
hen I hear Christians saying we ought not get involved in politics but just “preach the Gospel,” I show
them this satellite picture of the Korean peninsula. Here we see a homogenous population of mostly
Koreans separated by a well-fortified border. South Korea is full of freedom, food and
productivity—it’s one of the most Christianized countries in the world. North Korea is a concentration
camp. They
have no freedom, no food, and very little Christianity."
--
Frank Turek --
North
Koreans: The Most Enslaved People On Earth
Weeping for a dictator under threat
of arrest and execution
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, December 19, 2011
This is something the establishment media has completely
failed to explain properly. All the video footage of weeping North Koreans stricken with grief over the death of
the “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is by no means spontaneous or natural.
It’s all part of the fun of living in a Stalinist dictatorship. If citizens do not show the appropriately sullen
facial expressions, if they don’t produce tears, and if they don’t properly grieve for the dead dictator, they face
imprisonment and possible execution.
Sure, some of the grief is genuine, it’s the result of a lifetime of brainwashing and the enforcement of the
cult of personality. But in the most arcane and brutal police state on the planet, not being upset over Kim
Jong-Il’s death could mean you’re reported as an enemy of the state by the local spy and sent to a gulag. Your
entire family could also be targeted for the same treatment.
Identical scenes were witnessed after the death of the previous “dear leader,” Kim Il-sung.
Millions of North Koreans have starved to death over the past 20 years as a result of the regime’s disastrous
economic policies and their refusal to accept food aid. Food is still scarce, so the fact that citizens are also
handed small snacks if they attend these spectacles and put on a fake display of grief is also a massive incentive
for a permanently hungry population.
North Korea is the perfect illustration of what happens when power is concentrated into the hands of the few –
totalitarianism, mass starvation, economic collapse and complete enslavement.
It’s a warning the western world would do well to heed, especially in the aftermath of the passage of a
law which formally opens up the chance of Americans being sent to gulags in the name of state
security.
When I hear Christians saying
we ought not get involved in politics but just “preach the Gospel,” I show them this satellite
picture of the Korean peninsula. Here we see a homogenous population of mostly Koreans separated by a
well-fortified border. South Korea is full of freedom, food and productivity—it’s one of the most
Christianized countries in the world. North Korea is a concentration camp. They
have no freedom, no food, and very little Christianity.
What’s the primary reason for the stark difference between these two countries? Politics. The
South politically allows freedom, while the North does not.
Ironically, Christians who shun politics to supposedly advance the Gospel are actually
allowing others to stop the Gospel. How so? Because politics and law affects one’s
ability to preach the Gospel! If you think otherwise, visit some of the countries I have visited—Iran,
Saudi Arabia and China. You cannot legally “preach the Gospel” in those countries—or practice other aspects of your
religion freely—because politically they’ve ruled it out as they have in North Korea.
In fact, politics affects virtually every area of your life through the laws made by
government. So if you care about your family, business, church, school, children, money, property,
home, security, healthcare, safety, freedom, and your ability to “preach the Gospel,” then you should care about
politics.
Politics affects everything, which is why leaders throughout the Bible—including Joseph,
Moses, Daniel, Nehemiah, Mordecai, Esther, John the Baptist, and Paul— “went political” to influence civil
governments to govern morally. Even Jesus himself got involved in politics when he publically chastised the
Pharisees—the religious and political leaders of Israel—for neglecting “the more important matters
of the law.”
Unfortunately, our lawmakers today are doing the same
thing. They use the force of law tell us what light bulbs to use and what the
school lunch menu should be, but neglect to put any restrictions on the taking of human life by abortion! What
could be more important than life? The right to life is the right to all other rights. If you don’t have life,
you don’t have anything.
But what can Christians do? After all, we can’t legislate morality, can we? News flash:
All laws
legislate morality!Morality is about right and wrong and all laws declare one behavior right and the
opposite behavior wrong. So the question is not whether we can legislate morality, but “Whose morality will we
legislate?”
The answer our Founding Fathers gave was the “self-evident” morality given to us by our
Creator—the same Moral Law that the apostle Paul said that all people have “written on their hearts.” In other
words, not my morality or your morality, but the morality—the one we inherited not
the one we invented. (This doesn’t mean that every moral or political issue has clear right and wrong
answers. It only means that “the more important matters of the law” – life, marriage and religious freedom for
example—do have clear answers that we should heed.)
Notice our Founders did not have to establish a particular denomination or force religious
practice in order to legislate a moral code. Our country justifies moral rights with theism, but does not require
its citizens to acknowledge or practice theism. That’s why Chris Matthews and other liberals are wrong when they
charge that Christians are trying to impose a “theocracy” or violate the “separation of Church and State.” They
fail to distinguish between religion and morality.
Broadly defined, religion involves our duty to God while morality involves our duty to
one another. Our lawmakers are not telling people how, when, or if to go to church—that would be legislating
religion. But lawmakers cannot avoid telling people how they should treat one another— that is legislating
morality, and that is what all laws do.
Opposition to abortion or same-sex marriage, for example, does not entail the
establishment of a “theocracy.” Churches and the Bible also teach that murder, theft, and child abuse are wrong,
but no one says laws prohibiting such acts establish a theocracy or are a violation of the “separation of church
and state.” In fact, if the government could not pass laws consistent with church or biblical teachings, then
all criminal laws would have to be overturned because they are all in some way consistent with at least one of
the Ten Commandments.
Second, there are churches on both sides of these issues. In other words, some liberal
churches, contrary to scripture, actually support abortion and same-sex marriage. So if church-supported
positions could not be put into law, then we could not have laws either way on abortion or same-sex
marriage. Absurd.
Finally, most proponents of same-sex marriage argue as if they have some kind of moral
right to having their relationships endorsed by the state. They claim that they don’t have “equal rights” or that
they are being “discriminated” against. Likewise, abortion advocates claim they have a moral “right”
to choose an abortion. None of these claims are true, as I have explained elsewhere.
Nevertheless, their arguments, while flawed, expose the fact that independent of religion they seek to legislate
their morality rather than the morality.
If you have a problem with the morality, don’t blame me. I didn’t make it up. I
didn’t make up the fact that abortion is wrong, that men are not designed for other men, or that natural
marriage is the foundation of a civilized society. Those unchangeable objective truths about reality are
examples of the “Laws of Nature” from “Nature’s God,” as the Declaration of Independence puts it, and we only
hurt others and ourselves by suppressing those truths and legislating immoral laws.
When we fail to legislate morally, others impose immorality. For example,
totalitarian political correctness is already imposed in states such as Massachusetts where the implications of
same-sex marriage override the religious liberties of businesses, charities and even parents. As documented
here and
illustrated here, same sex marriage prevents you from
running your business, educating your children, or practicing your religion in accord with your Conscience. And
soon, as is the case in Canada, you may not be able to merely speak Biblically about homosexual behavior. That
is because those who say they are fighting for “tolerance” are often the most
intolerant.
Unless Christians begin to influence politics and the culture more significantly, we will
continue to lose the very freedoms that enable us to live according to our beliefs and spread the Gospel
all over the world. That’s why you should not vote for candidates because of their race or religion, but because
they will govern morally on the more important matters of the law—life, marriage and religious freedom. (To see
where all the major candidates stand visit the non-partisan website http://www.ontheissues.org.)
If you are a pastor who is worried about your tax-exempt status: 1) you have more
freedom than you think to speak on political and moral issues from the pulpit; 2) if you do not speak up for truth
now, you will soon lose your freedom to speak for anything, including the Gospel; and 3) you are called to be
salt and light, not tax-exempt.
North Korean Tyrant Kim Jong-Un to
Execute 33 Christians
Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea, has called
for the execution of 33 people for reportedly working as accomplices to South Korean Baptist missionary Kim
Jung-wook and planning to help him create 500 underground churches.
The North Korean tyrant has asserted himself by ruthlessly and brutally murdering all whom he deems a threat to
his power. In August, Kim Jong-un executed by firing squad his ex-girlfriend/singer Hyon. She and eleven others in
her orchestra were executed with machine guns while the families of the victims watched in horror. Also, Kim
Jong-un ordered the execution of his own uncle, Jang Song Thaek, in December for allegedly being a “traitor to the
nation for all ages, and a despicable political careerist and trickster, human scum and worse than a dog.”
Last October, Kim Jung-wook was arrested and placed in jail for his plan to set up underground churches.
Supposedly having received help from South Korea’s intelligence agency, the missionary entered North Korea from
China and was heading for Pyongyang.
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This article was posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 1:17 pm
“Conservatives” Silent on the Genocide
of Christians in
the Middle East Half a million Christians have
fled Mosul.
Any who remain will be slaughtered
by Christopher Manion | Lew Rockwell Blog | July 31, 2014
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the House
floor yesterday to condemn the silence in Washington – in both the White House and Congress — regarding the
massacres of Christians in Iraq (especially) and the rest of the Middle East.
Why is Washington silent, he asks?
Here’s why.
Christian leaders in Iraq have put the blame for these atrocities squarely on George W. Bush and
his invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
Half a million Christians have fled Mosul. Any who remain will be slaughtered.
Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic Church, says that the invasion did what
Moslems couldn’t do in 1500 years: destroy Christianity in Iraq.
Thus, Republicans are afraid. If they acknowledge the genocide, they fear that people will remember
that it was their war that led to it. So they are silent.
Democrats are too busy attacking Christianity in the U.S.
So both parties, corrupt to the core, are silent on this holocaust.
Bush cowers, silent and sullen, behind his compound walls. When questioned about his own
involvement, Cheney snarls like a trapped animal. “Blame Obama!” he sneers.
National Review’s paymasters insist that any comments mentioning the Christian holocaust be
immediately deleted (just try it, here.). Apparently, there’s no money in defending Christians. And this comes
from the once-respected journal that valiantly defended the rights of Christians put behind the Iron Curtain by
FDR.
Pope John Paul II warned Bush before the invasion that it would cause chaos in the Middle East.
Bush blew him off, and a cadre of fawning Catholics cheered — some of them my friends (Michael Novak, George
Weigel, Deal Hudson, among others). William McGurn, a former Bush speechwriter who then went to work for Rupert
Murdoch, actually tried to sell the story that Pope Benedict recognized that Pope John Paul’s opposition was a
mistake (McGurn now edits Murdoch’s New York Post).
As this writer has repeatedly, and sadly, observed on these pages for the last decade and more, the
neocons never admit their mistakes, and they never, **ever** apologize.
----------------------------------------------- ISRAEL - ZIONISM -----------------------------------------------
SOME BACKGROUND
CONTEXT
John Pilger: Palestine Is Still The Issue
- Real Stories -
Real Stories
Published on Nov 21, 2015
In 1977, the award-winning journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger, made a
documentary called Palestine Is Still The Issue. He told how almost a million Palestinians had been
forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. In this in-depth documentary, he has returned to
the West Bank of the Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right of
return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a
terrible limbo -- refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military
occupation in modern times.
America, Israel's
Whore
ScrewSocialism
Published on May 29, 2015
Description: Zionist headquartered in Israel have hijacked the U.S. and treat the
country much as a pimp treats his whores. They use and abuse the United States for selfish and
greedy purposes. They want a Satanic one world government to usher in the anti-Christ who will rule
from the world from Jerusalem.
The Zionist control congress and the President through their lobbies such as AIPAC, Anti-Defamation
League, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. They use their ownership of the six of the largest
media companies to brainwash U.S. citizens with silly entertainments and lies. [Click Video Title
For Full Notes]
Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested
Comment with George Galloway
Published on Aug 21, 2015
Gaza Unrest: At least 17 Palestinians killed, over 1000 injured in
clashes with Israeli soldiers
RT
Published on Mar 31, 2018
At least 17 Palestinians have been killed and over a thousand injured in clashes
with Israeli soldiers at the Gaza border. Earlier, the Israeli army used live bullets, tear gas and
drones against Gaza demonstrators.
Former Marine Visits Palestine "It's Like Iraq, It's Horrifying"
Veterans For Peace
Published on Jan 30, 2018
Force Recon Marine, Mike Hanes, visited Palestine as part of a Veterans For Peace
delegation, this film series shows the harsh reality they witnessed.
Please subscribe to our channel to catch the next video in this film series. From filmmaker
Chris Smiley
WAR CRIMES! Video Proof That Israel Is Murdering Unarmed
Palestinians
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Published on Mar 30, 2018
The intentional killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians by the Israeli Defense
Forces constitutes international war crimes.
Israel attacks Syria,
again! [WARNING: GRAPHIC
CONTENT]
Syriana Analysis
Published on Jul 1, 2019
On the midnight of 01
July 2019, #Israel sent fighter jets into the Lebanese air space, violated the Lebanese sovereignty
and from there fired tens of rockets and missiles on #Syria, killing scores of civilians including
children and infants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
is one of the most corrupt political leaders on the planet. He is also one of the most heavily financed political
leaders on the planet.
In spite of his billionaire friends
and supporters, however, he is facing almost certain political destruction. His many crimes are being intensely
investigated by Israeli authorities. The only reason he hasn't been removed from office already is due to the
immense political and financial support he has from bankers, casino owners, land developers, etc., from
other countries--especially in the United States.
But it is doubtful that Bibi will
be able to tread water much longer. It appears that his political demise is inevitable. And you haven't heard a
word about it from the controlled mainstream media in the U.S., have you? Of course not. The men who own the
mainstream media are among Bibi's largest contributors.
Neither have you heard anything
about it from the so-called conservative publications, periodicals and websites. There is one common denominator
that links the mainstream media with the so-called conservative media: infatuation with the modern State of
Israel.
Without a doubt, Netanyahu’s
plummet in popularity at home is one of the reasons (maybe the MAJOR reason) why he is pressuring Donald Trump to
ratchet up a war against Iran and why he is mobilizing accelerated (illegal) Israeli settlements on private land
owned by Palestinian people. War and military conflict has always been a favored tactic of embattled politicians to
increase their popularity and deflect negativity. Neither does it hurt that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's
son-in-law and presidential adviser, is a MAJOR financial backer of the (illegal) land settlements.
One indicator that Netanyahu will
be removed from office soon is longtime Bibi supporter, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is starting to back away from
the embattled Israeli Prime Minister. That's NOT a good sign for Bibi at all.
The removal of Netanyahu from
office would be a very good thing for the entire world. The problem is the State of Israel is controlled by about
20 mega-rich Zionist families. To think that these power-brokers would replace Bibi with a truly honest man is as
likely as the sun rising in the west tomorrow morning.
Read this honest and objective
analysis of what I am talking about here:
As I often do, I tested this column
by writing a brief post on this subject on my Facebook page. I wasn’t surprised when Christians came out of the
woodwork in a vitriolic attack against me for what I said about Bibi. Many accused me of heresy and vowed to never
read my Facebook page again.
Since my lengthy personal research
and study into the Biblical teaching on Israel, I have come to learn this: the entire faith system of many
professing Christians depends on their allegiance to the modern State of Israel. These Christian Zionists might
recite a pledge of allegiance to the United States of America, but their true allegiance is to the State of
Israel.
It is no hyperbole to say that for many
professing Christians, the modern State of Israel is every bit as important as Jesus Christ Himself and their own
personal salvation. In fact, many of these folks equate their allegiance to the State of Israel with their own
personal salvation. And they are quick to condemn anyone to hell who does not share their allegiance to the State
of Israel. I find this extremely perplexing. I truly wonder if this cultish infatuation with the modern faux Israel
might be the great “falling away” and devilish deception of the last days. But I digress.
Faithful readers of this column and
followers of my ministry know that for most of my adult life I subscribed to dispensational
modern-Israel-is-the-fulfillment-of-Bible-prophecy theology. And while I would debate with people holding
alternative opinions (as I hold now), I never felt that their differences of opinion on this subject somehow
invalidated their Christian faith.
So, why is it that so many
Christians are so dependent upon a commitment to the modern State of Israel to the point that it is part and parcel
to the very core of their Christian faith? For some nineteen centuries there was no modern State of Israel, and
believers were quite cemented and steadfast in the Christian faith. In fact, most Bible scholars who wrote previous
to 1948 had an entirely different perspective on the subject. Try reading some of them, and see for
yourself.
Today, however, anyone who
challenges the scriptural validity of the modern State of Israel is cast off by many professing Christians in the
meanest and most vitriolic terms. Why does the modern State of Israel hold such a strong grip on people’s faith?
It’s as if their faith itself depends on the modern State of Israel, not Christ.
Christians seem oblivious to the
fact that Netanyahu is not only a globalist, crook, and murderer, he is also a Talmudist. Not long ago, he promised
that Talmudism would be official Israeli law. See the report here:
If you think the Koran is bad, try reading
the Talmud. As a point of reference, the Pharisees that hated Jesus were devout disciples of the Mishnah, the oral
traditions which later formed the Talmud. In other words, the Pharisees were Talmudists. And, as you probably know,
Jesus strongly condemned them for their devotion to the Mishnah.
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Consider, too: Tel Aviv is the
international capital of homosexuality. That is no exaggeration. Also, the government of Israel pays for women to
receive an abortion at any stage of the baby’s development. Plus, as seen in Cook’s article linked above, Israel is
known globally as being a safe haven for all kinds of money laundering for international criminal gangs, especially
from Russia. “A leaked U.S. embassy cable in 2009 warned that Israel was in danger of becoming a ‘promised
land’ for organised crime.
“The Haaretz newspaper observed recently that
this underground economy [from the money laundering by international criminal gangs] had become so big – with an
annual turnover reaching as much $39 billion – Israel could find itself on the same list as Iran as ‘one of the
leading state financiers of global terrorism.’”
Furthermore, for all intents and
purposes, many (if not most) Talmudists are practicing atheists. The Lord Jesus Christ (true Israel’s Messiah) is
scorned and hated as much in the modern State of Israel today as He was during the days when the Pharisees
crucified Him. If you think there is religious liberty for Hebrew Christians in Israel today, you couldn’t be more
wrong.
The last time I was in Israel, I
spoke at two Baptist churches. One was in Jerusalem, and the other was in Bethlehem. Take a guess at the
composition of the Christians in those churches. They were 99% Palestinian.
In addition, Zionist bankers,
casino owners, land developers, media magnates, entertainers, movie producers, etc., are among Christianity’s
biggest enemies. That is NOT a racist statement at all. That is a cold, hard fact.
You must understand that Zionism has nothing
to do with race; it is a political philosophy. At its core, Zionism is communistic and atheistic. Accordingly, it
is little wonder that Zionists are found among the liberal/progressive political parties in virtually every Western
country. Zionists are found among all races and creeds. This is NOT a racial issue at all.
Plus, you should know that there
are many Jews in and out of Israel who are just as opposed to Netanyahu, Talmudism, and Zionism as I am.
Of course, the biggest reason for
this unbiblical infatuation with the modern State of Israel is the ubiquitous teaching of pastors and churches that
the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 is intended for the State of Israel born on May 14, 1948. And much of this
teaching comes from seminaries and colleges such as Dallas Theological Seminary, Liberty University, and many other
Christian schools and universities. And much of the teaching of these schools is an outgrowth of the Scofield
Reference Bible and the writings of John Darby, Clarence Larkin, Tim LaHaye, John MacArthur, Hal Lindsey, et al.
Also joining in this “Israel First” indoctrination is the vast majority of charismatic televangelists, such as John
Hagee, Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, Jim Bakker, Kenneth Copeland, et al.
One can barely listen to a
Bible message on the radio, television, or in a local church without being barraged with the “Israel First”
doctrine that Genesis 12:3 is talking about the modern State of Israel. Christians are also bombarded with the
indoctrination that the State of Israel created by the Rothschilds in 1948 is prophetic Israel. I suppose that
belief, by itself, wouldn’t be so bad, except for the hate, vitriol, animus, and bitterness that accompanies
it.
With all of the controversial
positions I have taken over my forty-plus years in the ministry, I have NEVER received the hate-filled opposition I
am receiving right now because of my position that the modern State of Israel is NOT the Israel of the Bible or the
“Israel of God.” (Galatians 6:16) That position is NOT based on racism or prejudice or anything of the kind. It is
based strictly on my study and understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
One would think I had denied the
deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His blood atonement, or His bodily resurrection from the dead. I dare say the
opposition against me would be LESS if I had. I am NOT making it up when I say that Zionist Christians have vowed
to ruin me, thoroughly discredit me, and some have even threatened (more than once) to KILL ME. Can you imagine?
It’s absolutely true. I guess Muslims aren’t the only ones who know how to hate.
I also wrote this related post on
my Facebook page:
For all of the good things Trump
has done thus far, he has wasted no time in beating the war drums against Iran. The rhetoric of Trump and Mattis
and Flynn is eerily similar to the rhetoric of Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld back in 2002 & 3.
Iran is being painted as the next
Big Bad Wolf that the U.S. must attack in order to save the world. But why?
Iran is condemned because
Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked a Saudi warship and Tehran tested a missile. For this, "American lives are at
risk." Really? How so?
The Saudis have been bombing the
Houthi rebels and ravaging their country, Yemen, for TWO YEARS. Saudi Arabia is apparently exempt from retaliation
from wars it starts. But one act of self-defense by the Yemenis and Donald Trump puts Iran "on notice"-- and
generals Mattis and Flynn declare it to be America and the world's greatest threat. Really? Trump has also
foolishly reinstated sanctions against Iran. Both Russia and Iran see this as a violation of the 2015 treaty, which
now allows Iran to withdraw from the agreement altogether.
Where is the evidence that Iran even had a
role in the Houthis’ attack against the Saudi ship? Plus the UN resolution only forbade Iran from testing nuclear
missiles, not conventional ones--which Tehran insists this test was.
Of course, the globalist warmonger
Benjamin Netanyahu is cheering Trump on. Perpetual war in the Middle East is Bibi's best friend. Right now, he’s
counting on it to save his political career.
Furthermore, is it any coincidence
that the Saudi king spoke with Trump on Sunday (1/29) and then suddenly the Trump administration is beating the war
drums against Saudi Arabia's mortal enemy, Iran? The Sunni Muslim government of Saudi Arabia has long salivated
over conquering the Shia Muslim government of Iran.
Trump's public rhetoric and the
reinstatement of sanctions make a collision with Iran almost inevitable. Did Trump learn NOTHING from G.W. Bush and
Barack Obama? An unnecessary and unprovoked war in Iraq; wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen costing trillions of
dollars and thousands of American lives; not to mention a global harvest of hatred against America that launched Al
Qaeda and ISIS. Oh, yes, and there's also the little matter that Iran and Russia are committed allies.
Trump said he wanted a less hostile
relationship with Putin's Russia. Well, going to war with Iran is not the way to do it. As this is being written,
the U.S. Navy is practicing war games fifty miles off the coast of Iran. This is not good, folks.
Perhaps Trump is listening to the
advice of the War Party members that he foolishly appointed to his cabinet. (I tried to warn people about these
appointments when they occurred--but I didn't think the bitter fruit of these appointments would ripen in only two
weeks after his inauguration.) Convincing Trump to go to war with Iran would be a good way to make him a one-term
President.
The American people didn't put
Trump in office for him to take the United States into yet another unnecessary and unprovoked Middle Eastern war.
But it looks like that is exactly what he is planning to do.
Some of the above I borrowed from
Pat Buchanan’s excellent analysis. Read it here:
And what’s at the center of all of
this war fever? An Israel-First foreign policy and an Israel-First “Christian”
theology.
Hate me and
stone me if you want to: Americans should be all about America-First, and Christians should be all about
Christ-First.
In the meantime, unless a U.S.-led
war against Iran can save him, it seems that Netanyahu’s crimes are starting to catch up to him. And if Christians
cared anything about truth, righteousness, and justice, they would be happy to hear it. I seem to recall that God’s
prophets had something to say about Old Testament Israel’s wayward kings. Speaking of which, where are God’s
prophets today?
P.S. Once again, I invite readers
to watch my two-DVD message series explaining my understanding of the scriptural teaching regarding Israel: past,
present, and future. The series is called “The Church And Israel.”
Folks, consider: I had believed,
taught, and preached dispensational, Israel-First theology for over thirty years--why would I take an opposite view
NOW, after all these years? Why would I risk my ministry, my livelihood, and my family’s future? And with the
hateful reaction to my position, that’s exactly what I’ve done.
Continued attacks against me for my
position on websites, radio talk shows, periodicals, and newspapers make columns such as this one obligatory. Like
my positions or not, I have always tried to be true to my conscience and my beliefs. And if I go to the poor house
over this issue, so be it. I will be faithful to the truth as I understand it, regardless.
The Jewish Pharisees were the mortal enemies of Jesus and His disciples. One cannot begin to understand the Gospel
narratives in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John without a thorough understanding of the constant contest between the
Pharisees and Christ. And the volumn of information that is devoted to this contest between Christ and the
Pharisees in the four Gospels is truly staggering. Again, you CANNOT understand the Gospels without understanding
the contest between the Pharisees and Jesus.
This DVD will answer MANY questions that most people have and give them a much better understanding
of the Gospel narratives--and help them see the great significance (and massive amount of attention) the four
gospels give to the life and death contest between Christ and the Pharisees.
The Three messages included on this DVD are:
Elitists Have Always Hated Jesus (A review of John 7)
The Day Jesus Deliberately Disobeyed The Higher Powers (A review of John
9)
The Pharisees Are Still With Us (A review of John 11)
By Israel Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 03, 2019
Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc. 3 March 2013
Introduction
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone
of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the
Israeli military and intelligence establishment. (article first published by Global Research on April 29,
2013).
President Donald Trump has confirmed in no uncertain terms, his support of
Israel’s illegal settlements (including his opposition to UN Security Council Resolution 2334, pertaining to the
illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank). In recent developments, the Trump administration
has expressed its recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is supportive of the “Greater Israel” project. It consists in the
derogation of Palestinian’s “the right of return” by “naturalizing them as citizens of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria,
Iraq, and elsewhere regionally where they reside”.
Bear in mind: The Greater Israel design is not strictly a Zionist Project for the Middle East, it
is an integral part of US foreign policy, its strategic objective is extend US hegemony as well as fracture and
balkanize the Middle East.
Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is intended to trigger political
instability throughout the region.
According to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, “the area of the
Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.” According to Rabbi Fischmann, “The Promised
Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.”
The Church and
Israel This Combo includes the four-message DVD "The Church And Israel - Part One" and the
four-message DVD "The Church And Israel - Part Two."
This is Dr. Baldwin's most popular DVD. This message exposes the fallacy that the modern State of
Israel is "God's Chosen People" and fulfills the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants.
Dr. Baldwin preached the "Israel First" doctrine for most of his life, but the more he taught it,
the more dissatisfied he became with it. Therefore, years ago he began a systematic search of the Bible with an
open mind and discovered that the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 was fulfilled in Jesus Christ and in those
who believe in Him, as clearly explained in Galatians 3:16. Accordingly, the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3
has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the modern State of Israel.
The misapplication of Genesis 12:3 to the modern State of Israel has produced untold death,
carnage, and war. And, sadly it is Christians who are the loudest cheerleaders for all of these global wars. And
the reason for this "spirit of war" is the egregious misinterpretation of Genesis 12:3 that inaccurately applies
the promise to Abraham to the modern State of Israel.
Equating the modern State of Israel created in 1948 to Biblical or prophetic Israel is the devil’s
greatest deception upon the church. As long as the church--and our country--lies buried under this delusion, the
light of Christ and His truth can never shine on this nation.
This message series has helped thousands of people understand the truth regarding "The Church And
Israel." Here is one testimonial from a man who watched this series of messages:
"I have viewed these two DVD’s and followed the messages carefully.
"God bless you, Sir. God establish the work of your hands!
"You spread light and truth of incalculable worth, on a subject of the greatest importance. You
identify clearly and with indisputable scriptural authority a fundamental distortion of the Faith that
threatens the Church and the nation, due to its widespread implications. Your study and instruction have
immeasurably increased understanding and conviction regarding this subject.
"May God prosper your endeavors in and for the Faith," -SC, Fairbanks, Alaska
The four messages on this DVD are:
The Presentation And Rejection Of The King
Taken from Matthew 21, Luke 19, and Matthew 24, this message shows how Christ presented Himself as
Israel's Messiah and King and how the nation wickedly rejected Him, thus bringing Christ's prophecy of divine
judgment against it--which was fulfilled in 70 A.D. when Titus thoroughly destroyed the city of Jerusalem, the
Jewish Temple, and the power and reign of the Pharisees.
"An High Priest For Ever After The Order Of Melchisedec"
Taken From Hebrews 5, 6, and 7, this message proves that Christ introduced a new priesthood that is
distinct from and superior to the Jewish Levitical priesthood.
Jesus: The Seed Of David, The Seed Of Abraham
This messages delves into the books of Romans, Luke, Matthew, John, II Timothy, Revelation, II
Samuel, Hebrews, Genesis, and Galatians to show that Christ fulfills the Davidic and Abrahamic covenants.
Christ's Last Words To Israel
Taken from Matthew 23 and Romans 11, this message shows that God rejected Israel for its rejection
of their Messiah and that the modern State of Israel is a faux-Israel, that there can be no rebirth of the
nation of Israel until their Messiah returns, that infatuation and loyalty to the modern Zionist State of Israel
is to support an antichrist, counterfeit Israel.. It shows that in this Church age, God's Chosen People are
those, Jew and Gentile, who place their faith in Jesus Christ. Purchase DVD here
The Presentation And Rejection Of The King
Published on Dec 16, 2016
An High Priest For Ever After The Order Of Melchisedec
Published on Oct 26, 2014
Jesus: The Seed Of David, The Seed Of Abraham
Published on Mar 1, 2015
Christ's Last Words To Israel
Published on Mar 8, 2015
"The Church And Israel" - Part Two DVD
The four messages on this DVD are essential to understanding the spiritual warfare taking place in
the Church and in our country today.
"Not Of Works"
Taken from Galatians chapters 2-5 and Acts chapter 15 and shows how Judaizers introduced the false
doctrine of works salvation into the Church almost as soon as the Church was formed. And it examines the
correlation between the Judaizing of the Church today and the spreading of this false doctrine. Plus, it
explains how a return to the Jewish form of worship is a return to bondage and rejects the liberty we have in
Christ.
"Is He The God Of The Jews Only"
Taken from Romans chapters 3-4 and shows how Jews and Gentiles are one through faith in Christ.
"The Children Of Promise"
Taken from Romans chapters 9-11 and shows the fallacy of equating the Old Testament promises to
Abraham with the modern State of Israel. It shows how "the children of promise" include all who place their
faith in Christ. And it also shows the spiritual battle between Israel and the Gospel of Christ.
"A Counterfeit Temple; A Counterfeit Israel"
Taken from the New Testament scriptures and shows how the Temple of Israel was destroyed by God,
along with the city of Jerusalem and the nation of Israel. The message proves from the Bible that the only
Temple of God today is the body of believers, that the only Jerusalem that is spiritually significant to the
believer today is the New Jerusalem, and that the modern State of Israel is merely a counterfeit of the true
"Israel of God." (Galatians 6:16) Purchase DVD here
Not Of Works
Published on May 1, 2016
Is He The God Of The Jews Only
Published on May 16, 2016
The Children Of Promise
Published on May 22, 2016
A Counterfeit Temple; A
Counterfeit Israel
Published on Feb 13, 2017
"The First Principles"
- Sermon by Chuck Baldwin on Aug. 28, 2016 -
Jewish Zionists: The Spiritual Descendants Of The Pharisees - DVD - By Dr. Chuck
Baldwin
This DVD is an excerpt from Pastor Baldwin's message "The First Principles."
Modern Jewish Zionists are the spiritual descendants of the Pharisees and Scribes. Their bible is
the Talmud not the Torah. Jewish Zionists often refer to the Torah, but they are referring to the Talmud NOT the
true Torah: the first five books of Moses (Genesis - Deuteronomy). They are as antichrist as were their fathers the
Pharisees. Modern political Zionists are a combination of Jewish and Christian Zionists whose goal is to bring the
United States under the subjection and domination of "Greater Israel." They may believe that
they are preparing the way for Christ, but they are not. They are preparing the way for antichrist.
Purchase the DVD here
Pharisees And Jews: The New Testament
Record
- Bible Study by Chuck Baldwin on Mar. 15, 2017 -
Pharisees And Jews: The New Testament Record - DVD - By Dr. Chuck Baldwin
This Bible study contains the bulk of New Testament verses that speak to Pharisees and Jews. There is very little
exposition in the message. It is almost exclusively the record of New Testament scriptures dealing with this
subject. In other words, this message does not contain opinion or commentary, just the scriptures themselves.
Pastor Baldwin lets the New Testament speak for itself.
THIS IS THE NEW TESTAMENT RECORD ON THE SUBJECT OF THE PHARISEES AND JEWS.
We do not know of another message like this one anywhere. It is safe to say, most Christians will
be stunned to realize exactly what the New Testament says about the Pharisees and Jews.
Since Pastor Baldwin makes almost no personal exegesis or explanation in this Bible study, it is an
excellent way for your Christian friends or loved ones to hear for themselves the quotations of the New Testament,
verse after verse and word for word exactly what the New Testament says about the Pharisees and Jews.
The famed 19th Century revivalist and major
contributor to America’s “Second Great Awakening,” Charles Finney, said the following: “If there is a decay of
conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is
responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses
its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the
pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are
ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.” I believe Finney was absolutely correct.
Notice that Finney believed there was a direct correlation between the kind of legislation passed
in Congress and the kind of preaching taking place in the pulpits of America’s churches. He also believed that the
pulpits of the country were responsible for corruption in government. Again, I agree.
America’s biggest threat does not come from abortionists, gay rights activists, pornographers, or
drug dealers. Neither does our biggest threat come from North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan. America’s
biggest threat comes from our nation’s pulpits.
In all candor, I’m increasingly frustrated with many of my pastor and Christian brethren. Over the
decades, they have made a god out of government–especially the federal government. Their support for US military
interventionism (justified or not) borders on worship. Plus, they have put their absolute trust in the Republican
Party to the point that their support for the GOP has, for all intents and purposes, made the Republican Party more
sacred than their own churches. They would abandon a church, or denomination, or pastor quicker than they would
abandon the GOP–regardless of how much Big Government Republicans promote. When a Republican is in office
(especially the office of President), he or she takes on the image of a god more than a civil magistrate. The
Religious Right was absolutely deaf and dumb to the ubiquitous unconstitutional and unlawful conduct committed
during Bush’s eight years in office. In fact, virtually everything that President Barack Obama is currently doing
to circumvent constitutional government was copied from G.W. Bush’s political playbook.
Then these same pastors and churches turn around and get all righteously indignant about abortion,
gay rights, family decay, etc. The fact is, the government in Washington, D.C., is the chief culprit in America’s
moral and cultural tailspin. DC is a cesspool whose leakage has spilled over into the entire country. And the more
pastors and Christians refuse to resist the ever-burgeoning power and influence of Washington’s unconstitutional
manipulation and intimidation of our states and communities, the deeper the manure gets. Yet, so many pastors and
Christians continue to quote Romans 13 as justification to sit back and do NOTHING to prevent DC’s unlawful control
over what was the FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES of this nation.
Forgive me, but when I hear these pastors and Christian leaders bewail the conditions of America, I
get kind of sick. If they would stop supporting this out-of-control federal leviathan that is swallowing our
liberties, if they would stop preaching their pansy, don’t-make-anybody-mad sermonettes, if they would stop sucking
up to these corrupt politicians, most of the problems they complain about would not exist.
Why do you think your public schools are so liberal and socialistic in their philosophy? Why do
your public school textbooks promote sodomy and other aberrant lifestyles? It started back in 1979 when the United
States Department of Education (DOE) was created by President Jimmy Carter as a payoff to the National Education
Association (NEA) for their political support. Ever since its creation, the DOE has coerced, intimidated,
harangued, and cajoled State and local school districts to adopt its socialistic agenda. That’s why no matter what
local school district one may find themselves living in, the textbooks, philosophies, and instruction of the school
varies nary a bit. They are all under the thumb of the DOE. Get rid of the DOE, and local schools would be able to
teach what the people of the local school districts preferred, which in many school districts would mean
old-fashioned American values. That’s why, for the most part, it doesn’t matter to a tinker’s dam who you elect to
your local school board. The root problem is the DOE in Washington, D.C. But when is the last time you heard any
preacher in America say a word of protest against the DOE?
Why is your county sheriff so reluctant to oppose the Obama/Feinstein gun control bills? Because
his office is receiving millions of federal tax dollars (otherwise known as bribes) from the United States
Department of Justice (DOJ). In addition, the DOJ constantly sends directives, policies, agendas, etc., to your
local sheriff. And, unfortunately, most sheriffs, governors, attorney generals, etc., labor under the delusion that
individual states have no authority, power, or right to resist, and otherwise refuse to comply with, the wishes of
Washington, D.C. That’s why, regardless what county you live in, your local sheriff’s office is not in charge. It
is taking its orders from the DOJ in Washington, D.C. (Thank God not every county sheriff in the country is such a
brain dead puppet of Washington. There are several hundred sheriffs who have unequivocally stated that they will
NOT comply with any law out of Washington, D.C., outlawing semi-automatic rifles. Praise God for them!) Get the DOJ
off the backs of your county sheriff’s office and you will see honest law enforcement return to your county. But
when’s the last time you heard any preacher in America say a word of protest against the DOJ?
The reason you cannot afford to build a new home is because of federal departments such as the
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). The reason you cannot afford to buy property or do much of
anything with the property you own is because of federal departments such as the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA). The reason you cannot get a loan at your “local” bank–or the reason you lost your business, house, or job
during the past five years–is mostly because of the draconian and damnable decisions of the Federal Reserve. But
when is the last time you heard any preacher in America say a word of protest against OSHA, the EPA, or the Federal
Reserve?
Where did abortion-on-demand come from? Did you vote for it? Did your State legislators and
senators vote for it? No! It was forced upon the states by the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Yet, when
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas introduced (several times) the Sanctity of Life Act, which would have, in essence,
overturned Roe vs. Wade and given the states the authority to restrict or outlaw abortion-on-demand, what did
America’s pulpits do to support it? NOTHING! The GOP leadership didn’t support Dr. Paul’s pro-life bill, so neither
did America’s pulpits.
And where are America’s pulpits regarding the current attempt by Washington, D.C., to make
criminals out of God-fearing Americans who believe in the Second Amendment and who own a semi-automatic rifle? They
are AWOL! They are deserters from battle. They are traitors to freedom and the Bill of Rights. They follow
constitutionally-ignorant Christian leaders such as Franklin Graham and Richard Land. (By the way, Land is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, a notorious Big-Government, globalist organization. I just thought you should
know.)
Oh, trust me, I know that there are a handful of courageous preachers (true men of God) around the
country who actively resist the tyrannical tentacles of the Beast in Washington, D.C., but, unfortunately, they are
a small minority of the hundreds of thousands of preachers across America.
Again, what do you hear from the vast majority of our pulpits? “Romans 13.” “Obey the government.”
“Don’t resist the government.” And by “government,” they almost always mean the federal government in Washington,
D.C. So, our pastors and churches actively support the DOE, the DOJ, OSHA, the EPA, the Federal Reserve, etc. By
their complicity with Big Government zealots in Washington, D.C., our pulpits are culpable in the escalation of
virtually every piece of vice and villainy that currently engulfs our country. Every bit of it can be traced back
to the manipulation, coercion, intimidation, regulation, oppression, bastardization, calculation, constriction,
repression, and contamination spewing forth from Washington, D.C.
This is why when I hear these preachers lamenting the deteriorating conditions in America, I get
nauseous!
Give pulpits back to honest and courageous pastors who will preach the Bible without fear of losing
the tax exempt status that Washington, D.C., hangs over their heads, and give America back to the states and to the
people who could enact their own civil laws and cultural norms without interference from Washington, D.C., and
watch the re-birth of freedom take place; watch tens of thousands of communities return to the streets of Mayberry;
watch the crime rates drop like an anvil; watch the demand for abortion drop; watch education test scores
skyrocket; watch people go to work; watch houses being built; and watch prosperity thrive.
Sure, I realize that there would be hundreds of communities (mostly large, metropolitan areas and
socialist-dominated states controlled by large, metropolitan areas) that would continue to promote the same
Big-Government programs and policies that we see now. So be it. If people want to live in those pig pens, let them.
But give people an opportunity to choose for themselves communities that respect old-fashioned decency, honesty,
integrity, limited government, true republicanism, etc., and see how many people would flee to these refreshing,
modern-day Cities of Refuge. Instead of gun free zones, America needs “Washington, D.C., Free Zones.” After all,
that’s what America was intended to be; that was the purpose of the Tenth Amendment, and rest of the Bill of
Rights.
By refusing to resist the Big-Government machinations of Washington, D.C.; by hiding behind an
erroneous, passive, and compliant interpretation of Romans 13; by fearing the IRS more than they fear God; by
worshipping the state more than they worship God; by refusing to teach their congregations the Biblical and Natural
Law principles of liberty, America’s pulpits are the ones that are the most culpable in the deterioration and
destruction of our blessed country. Instead of blaming the abortionists, gay rights activists, pornographers, and
drug dealers, they need to be looking in the mirror.
Charles Finney was right: “If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible
for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the
pulpit is responsible for it.”
P.S. Now that 14 people have been injured in a multiple-stabbing attack at a college in Texas, will
Barack Obama and Dianne Feinstein call for a ban on “assault knives”? And will Franklin Graham and Richard Land
call for national registration and universal background checks for all knife buyers? And if not, why not? I guess
we had better watch out for those “assault rocks” and “assault baseball bats” next, huh?
(c) Chuck Baldwin
Satanic books handed to US kids after religious freedom
ruling
Published on Oct 5, 2014
Teaching Satanism in schools sounds like the stuff of horror movies. But a US court
ruling on religious freedoms, has enabled devil worshippers in Florida to hand out educational material about
their beliefs
- to kids at state schools. Marina Portnaya reports.
John Dewey (1859-1952) was the father of the modern American public school system, a
leading progressive who promoted the philosophy of pragmatism and an activist for secular humanism in American
society. Dewey was also an original signatory of the “Humanist
Manifesto” and ridiculed moral absolutes and traditional
religion, especially Christianity in favor of an evolution/atheist
worldview.
Sex Taught to Kindergarteners?!! WARNING: This editorial includes
discussion of topics that are sexually graphic.
It should be blatantly obvious to Christians where this is
going...
“Domestically, they’re pulling together all the data about
virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have
relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you’re doing. So the government is
accumulating that kind of information about
every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.”
Who You Are – Collected information includes names, addresses, biometrics,
social media accounts .
What You Do – Travel history, communications, financial transactions and
movement of physical assets.
Who You Know – Relational information including family, friends, associates
and organizations.
Context – Contextual data such as demographics, politics, cultural norms
and religion.
Acloser look at the upcoming
Jade Helm military exercise, specifically its “master the human domain” motto, reveals a larger agenda in regards
to domestic policy.
...“They’re building an infrastructure of tyranny,” stated Infowars David Knight.
“There’s a legal infrastructure with things like the NDAA, there’s a technical
infrastructure with things like the capability to do dragnet surveillance, and then of course there is going to be
a military and law enforcement infrastructure, and those are merging.”
Let
me begin by saying, I’ve been an evangelical Christian since I was a child.
I’ve been in the Gospel ministry all of my adult life. I attended two
evangelical Christian colleges, received honorary degrees from two others,
and taught and preached in several others. I’ve attended many of the largest
evangelical pastors’ gatherings and have been privileged to speak at
Christian gatherings–large and small–all over America. I have been part of
the inner workings of evangelical ministry for nearly 40 years. I think I
learned a thing or two about evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity in
America. With that said, I’m here to tell you: I don’t like what I see
happening these days.
Historically, Christians have always attempted to
be–and have always publicly taught the importance of being–peacemakers. Have not
Christians preached–and tried to practice–love and brotherhood? The early church
was born in a baptism of love and unity. Oh sure, there were always individual
misunderstandings and differences, but, on the whole, the church was a loving,
caring, compassionate ecclesia.
Mind you, Christians historically were not afraid
or ashamed to defend themselves, their families, and their country. The Lord Jesus,
Himself (the Prince of Peace), allowed His disciples to carry personal defense
weapons (see Luke 22:36, 38). While some Christian sects were conscientious
pacifists, these were the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of Christian
believers understood the Biblical, Natural Law principle of self-defense. But
believing in the right of lawful, God-ordained self-defense was never to be
confused with warmongering.
So, what has happened to turn the most
peace-loving institution the world has ever known (the New Testament church) into
the biggest cheerleaders for war? I’m talking about unprovoked, illegal,
unconstitutional, unbiblical–even secret–wars of aggression. The biggest
cheerleaders for the unprovoked, unconstitutional, pre-emptive attack and invasion
of Iraq were evangelical Christians. Ditto for the war in Afghanistan, the bombing
of Libya, the attacks in Yemen, drone attacks in Pakistan, etc. Who is calling for
the bombing of Iran? Evangelical Christians. Who cheers for sending more and more
troops all over the world to maim and kill more and more people (including
innocents)? Evangelical Christians. Most evangelical Christians didn’t even bat an
eye when the federal government sent military and police personnel to murder
American citizens, including elderly men, women, and children–Christian elderly
men, women, and children, no less–outside Waco, Texas. Neither have the vast
majority of them piped a peep of protest against the federal government’s murder of
Vicki and Sammy Weaver.
And where are today’s evangelical Christians
giving a second thought regarding their fellow Christian brothers and sisters in
many of these Middle Eastern countries that are being persecuted, imprisoned,
tortured, and killed by the puppet regimes being put in power by the US
government–at US taxpayer (including Christian taxpayer) expense? I hate to be the
bearer of bad news, but more Christians have been persecuted under the US-imposed
regime in Iraq than were ever persecuted when Saddam Hussein was in power. Oh! And
don’t forget that it was the US government that was responsible for putting Saddam
Hussein in power to begin with. The US government set up Osama bin Laden, too. But
I digress.
In addition to the “white” wars (the ones everyone
knows about), the US government authorizes some 70 black ops commando raids in some
120 countries EVERY DAY. In fact, the secret, black ops military of the US is so
large today it now totals more personnel than the ENTIRE MILITARY OF
CANADA!
A recent report noted, “In 120 countries across
the globe, troops from Special Operations Command carry out their secret war of
high-profile assassinations, low-level targeted killings, capture/kidnap
operations, kick-down-the-door night raids, joint operations with foreign forces,
and training missions with indigenous partners as part of a shadowy conflict
unknown to most Americans. Once ‘special’ for being small, lean, outsider outfits,
today they are special for their power, access, influence, and aura.”
To see the complete report of America’s secret
wars, go to:
Yet, how much of this knowledge would even faze
the average evangelical Christian today? All we seem to hear from today’s
“churches” is “bomb,” “attack,” “wipe them out,” etc. Then, at the same time, they
get all emotional about sending missionaries to the same countries that they had
just cheered-on the US military in raining down missiles of death and destruction
upon (to bring salvation to the lucky ones that weren’t killed, I
suppose).
And who were the ones that belittled and impugned
Ron Paul? Evangelical Christians. Why? Because he dared to tell the truth about
America’s foreign policy being responsible for much of the hatred and bitterness
erupting in foreign countries against us.
The disciples of our Lord were called “Christians”
first by the Gentiles of Antioch, because of the manner in which the disciples
reminded them of Christ’s nature and teachings. I never thought I would hear myself
say what I’m about to say, but the truth is, the term “Christian” today signifies
anything but Christ-like. To many people today, “Christian” refers to some
warmongering, mean-spirited, throw-anyone-to-the-wolves-who-crosses-them person,
who then has the audacity to look down their nose in contempt against anyone who
disagrees with them for even the smallest reason. And the word “church” has the
stigma of being simply an enclave of warmongers to many people today. And that, my
friends, is one reason so many people are turned off with today’s Christianity. And
I can’t say that I blame them. I’m turned off too!
Am I a pacifist? Absolutely not! Do I believe an
individual, a family, a community, or a nation has the right to lawful
self-defense? I absolutely do! But this blind support for illegal, immoral,
unconstitutional war is anything but Christian. Not only is it turning people
against our country among people abroad, it is turning our own countrymen against
the Christ we Christians claim to love right here at home.
I dare say that the modern Warfare State would
grind to a screeching halt tomorrow if evangelical Christians would simply stop
supporting it! And the thing that most evangelical Christians fail to realize is
that the Warfare State is one of the primary tools being used to usher in a
devilish New World Order that even babes in Christ know to be of Satan. Hence,
Christians are helping to promote the very thing that Satan, himself, is using to
enslave them.
And I realize that right now the vast majority of
evangelicals eat, breathe, and sleep only one mantra: “Get rid of Obama!” They
would vote for anybody to beat Obama. Well, anybody except Ron Paul, that is.
Evangelicals might hate Ron Paul more than they do Barack Obama. And after Mitt
Romney is elected on November 6, these same “Christians” will go into a state of
extended hibernation, ignoring every unconstitutional big-government decision that
Romney makes. Not only that, buckle your seat belts boys and girls, because Romney
is going to expand America’s foreign wars (and the emerging police state at home)
like nobody’s business. And when he does, guess what? Evangelicals will be the ones
who clap and cheer the most.
Let me ask my Christian brethren some questions:
does God give governmental leaders a pass on obeying His moral laws? If God will
hold you and me accountable to His command to not murder, for example, will He not
hold our civil magistrates accountable to His command to not murder? Or do you
really believe that murder is justified on the word of a king? If so, had you been
alive in Hitler’s Germany, you would have supported his atrocities, too, right? And
is that whom you think occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: a king? Is murder
justified simply because a magistrate orders it? And if that’s true, is it then
justified that government forces pillage, plunder, and rape? If not, why not? After
all, if it’s lawful for men to murder on the command of a magistrate, why can they
not pillage, plunder, and rape? What’s the difference?
Accordingly, I personally believe that
evangelicals owe Bill Clinton an apology. They excoriated him when it came to light
that he had committed adultery. They then turned around and supported G.W. Bush’s
unconstitutional, unprovoked, preemptive wars of aggression, which resulted in the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents. Pray tell, if a President is exempt
from the moral law against shedding innocent blood (Genesis 9:6; Proverbs 6:17) why
should he not be exempt from the moral law against adultery?
Believe it or not, a local pastor here in the
Flathead Valley of Montana recently preached a message to his congregation on
Romans 13 with the typical erroneous “obey-the-government-no-matter-what” claptrap.
When a member of his congregation later asked him personally to explain himself, he
told the parishioner, “If government agents or troops came to my house and laid my
wife on the kitchen table and raped her, Romans 13 tells me I cannot resist.”
That’s what he said, folks. I’m not making it up.
Well, if you believe that Presidents are above the
moral law of God regarding shedding innocent blood, why should they be held to any
other moral law of God? And if Presidents are exempt, what about governors, mayors,
sheriffs, etc.? I truly wonder how many evangelical Christians deep in their heart
share the opinion of the above-mentioned pastor. Scary thought, isn’t
it?
And, by the way, that President Obama continues to
escalate America’s wars in the Middle East is the one thing that evangelicals LIKE
about him. In fact, it was Ron Paul’s opposition to the wars of aggression in the
Middle East that was the chief reason why evangelicals rejected him. Yes, between a
war-mongering socialist such as Barack Obama, and a peace-loving freedomist such as
Ron Paul, the average evangelical would choose the warmonger.
Have evangelicals forgotten I John 3:14, 15? It
says, “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the
brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his
brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in
him.” (KJV)
And folks, need I remind you that there are
hundreds of thousands of our Christian brothers and sisters scattered throughout
the Muslim world? In fact, Christianity is growing fastest within the Muslim world
today. I have been to the Middle East. I have met hundreds of Palestinian and Arab
Christians. And I can tell you unequivocally that they do NOT hate America; they
are NOT our enemies; and they love the Lord and try to live for Him as much as any
of us here in the United States do. And every day many of these innocent brothers
and sisters of ours are being maimed and killed by the relentless missile attacks
and countless wars being perpetrated by the US government. So, pray tell, how can
we claim to be Christians on the one hand and be so callused to the suffering and
death of our Christian brothers and sisters on the other hand? (And that is not to
minimize the deaths of the tens of thousands of non-Christian innocents who are
killed in these attacks, but to simply appeal to my fellow Christians with the
Biblical “love the brethren” message.) How can we justify this carnage? Oh, it’s
just “collateral damage,” right?
No man is exempt from the moral laws of God. No
man! Not even the President of the United States. And how much guilt do those of us
in America who laud and support the Warfare State share when atrocities are
committed by our leaders in our name and with our approval? And if none, then what
were those trials in Nuremberg all about?
Yes, I’ve been an evangelical Christian for most
of my life and an evangelical pastor for most of my adult life. And if we
Christians do not quickly repent of this bloodlust that seems to dominate
evangelical Christianity today (spiritually and militarily), the word that was
first used by un-churched Gentiles to describe Christ’s followers will be used as a
curse-word to describe those who facilitated the ruination of our country, because
“whatsoever a [nation] soweth, that shall [it] also reap.”
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Laurence M. Vance discusses his book
"Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State" at the Ludwig von Mises Institute's 2008 Austrian
Scholars Conference, the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, held annually at the
Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. http://mises.org
War and Christian Militarism
Book Review Written by John Larabell
Are you a “Christian warmonger,” a “Red-state Fascist,” a “Reich-Wing nationalist,” an “Imperial
Christian,” a “Christian killer,” a “pro-life murderer,” a “double-minded warmonger,” a
“God-and-country Christian bumpkin,” or a “warvangelical Christian”? According to Laurence M.
Vance, Ph.D., you may be if you support current U.S. foreign policy and the current actions of the
U.S. military. Do you get your news from the “Fox War Channel” and the “War Street
Journal”? If so, you need to read Vance’s books War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian
Militarism and War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign
Policy.
War, Christianity, and the State is a collection of 76 of Vance’s essays written
between 2003 and 2013, all of which appeared on LewRockwell.com. Vance accurately summarizes the
contents of the chapters:
In chapter 1, “Christianity and War,” Christian enthusiasm for war
and the military is shown to be an affront to the Saviour, contrary to Scripture, and a
demonstration of the profound ignorance many Christians have of history. In chapter 2,
“Christianity and the Military,” the idea that Christians should have anything to do with the
military is asserted to be illogical, immoral, and unscriptural. In chapter 3, “Christianity and
the Warfare State,” I argue that Christians who condone the warfare state, its senseless wars, its
war on a tactic (terrorism), its nebulous crusades against “evil,” its aggressive militarism, its
interventions into the affairs of other countries, and its expanding empire have been duped. In
chapter 4, “Christianity and Torture,” I contend that it is reprehensible for Christians to support
torture for any reason.
Vance writes as a conservative, evangelical, fundamentalist Christian, holding degrees in
history, theology, accounting, and economics. His main message in War, Christianity, and the
State is that
If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war,
torture, militarism, and the warfare state with its suppression of civil liberties, imperial
presidency, government propaganda, and interventionist foreign policy it is Christians, and
especially conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians who claim to strictly follow
the dictates of Scripture and worship the Prince of Peace.
Vance sharply rebukes supporters of the warfare state, particularly Christians, and illustrates
the follies and horrors of war. He points out the hypocrisy of Christians who support U.S.
militarism, the warfare state, the neoconservative-dominated Republican Party, and those who
believe almost everything coming from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and
Glenn Beck. Many such Christians claim to worship the Prince of Peace yet wholeheartedly endorse
acts of violence against other people in the form of war. He dubs such Christians “Christian
killers” to illustrate this contradiction.
While some Christians may in fact be opposed to the numerous wars of aggression entered into by
the United States, they almost to a person still “support the troops,” because the troops are “just
following orders” and are thus justified in their killing of those who have not actually attacked
the U.S. homeland. While Vance admits that killing in genuine defense of one’s life or family is
justified, he also argues that killing other human beings, Christian or not, merely because the
government labels them as “the enemy” is not justifiable and is therefore murder. In light of this,
Vance believes that Christians should not serve in today’s military, and if they are already in the
military, they should refuse to kill people in wars of aggression, no matter the consequences.
Vance elaborates:
Most people say the troops are not responsible because they’re just
following orders.... Many evangelical Christians agree, and join in this chorus of statolatry with
their “obey the powers that be” mantra....
First of all, the last time I looked in my Bible, I got the strong
impression that it was only God who should be obeyed 100 percent of the time without question....
If the U.S. government told someone to kill his mother, any American would be outraged if he under
any circumstances went and did it. But if the government tells someone to put on a uniform and go
kill some Iraqi’s mother, the typical American puts a yellow ribbon on his car and says we should
support the troops.... Being told to clean or paint a piece of equipment is one thing; being told
to bomb or shoot a person is another.
War, Empire, and the Military is a collection of 127 of Vance’s essays written
between 2004 and 2014, with the bulk of them appearing on LewRockwell.com. Vance notes of the seven
chapters:
In chapter 1, “War and Peace,” the evils of war and warmongers and
the benefits of peace are examined. In chapter 2, “The Military,” the evils of standing armies and
militarism are discussed, including a critical look at U.S. military. In chapter 3, “The War in
Iraq,” the wickedness of the Iraq War is exposed. In chapter 4, “World War II,” the “good war” is
shown to be not so good after all. In chapter 5, “Other Wars,” the evils of war and the warfare
state are chronicled in specific wars: the Crimean War (1854-1856), the Russo-Japanese War
(1904-1905), World War I (1914-1918), the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), and the war in Afghanistan
(2001-). In chapter 6, “The U.S. Global Empire,” the beginnings, growth, extent, nature, and
consequences of the U.S. empire of bases and troops are revealed and critiqued. In chapter 7, “U.S.
Foreign Policy,” the belligerence, recklessness, and follies of U.S. foreign policy are laid
bare.
According to Vance, the underlying theme in this collection of essays is
opposition to the warfare state that robs us of our liberty, our
money, and in some cases our life. Conservatives who decry the welfare state while supporting the
warfare state are terribly inconsistent. The two are inseparable. Libertarians who are opposed to
war on principle, but support the state’s bogus “war on terrorism,” even as they remain silent
about the U.S. global empire, are likewise contradictory.
War, Empire, and the Military is a great study of history and a must-read for
anyone who supports current U.S. foreign policy. Vance begins the book by explaining the views of
classical Western thinkers and the views of the Founding Fathers regarding war, empire, and the
military, telling how (and why) the early Americans were very much opposed to the modern warfare
state with its foreign entanglements, foreign wars, and massive military budget. After all, the
U.S. military, Vance says throughout both books, is now used for everything but its original
purpose: the defense of the United States and the securing of her national borders.
In addition to giving detailed accounts of why many of the wars of the past two centuries were
actually fought (often not the reasons given in American public-school history classes), Vance
includes a number of essays depicting the horrors of war from the perspective of soldiers on the
battlefield. After reading many of these accounts, only the most calloused individuals would still
be eager to see America involved in another war.
War, Christianity, and the State is no doubt the more controversial of the two
books. Many conservative Christians will vehemently disagree with Vance’s views on the current
evils of the U.S. military and war in general. In fact, Vance mentions the criticism he receives
from many Christians (most of whom are not in the military) for his opposition to U.S. foreign
policy and the warfare state. He admits that he has been called “liberal,” “communist,” “anti-war
weenie,” “traitor,” “coward,” “America-hater,” and other vulgarities that will not be printed here.
But Vance argues his points well, and provides a great deal of historical background on Christian
opposition to war and the views of the Founding Fathers on war and standing armies to make his
case. Additionally, Vance includes a number of essays featuring letters he has received from
military personnel who agree with him. An open-minded reader who is a genuine Christian would find
it difficult to disagree with Vance’s primary theses in both books.
A few small criticisms are in order. There is a great deal of overlap among the various essays,
which is to be expected, and which Vance admits to in the beginning of both books. Additionally,
there are a number of minor spelling and grammar errors, and, as the essays were primarily online
postings, there are many spots that were obvious hyperlinks that do not show up in the books, which
can be a bit awkward for the reader. This, also, Vance admits to.
But as mentioned above, both books — War, Christianity, and the State and War, Empire, and the Military — are must-reads for conservative
Christians, many of whom have supported the military and the American warfare state. Although
Vance has a literary wit and offers sharp criticism of those he disagrees with in order to
provoke a thoughtful response, open-minded readers will no doubt come to agree with many of his
views.
Ever since its inception there have been those who have
warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, far from offering a simple "collective security" pact to ensure
the integrity of its member nations' borders, would in fact be used as an offensive tool of imperial adventurism
and conquest. Since the NATO-led Kosovo bombing campaign of 1999 at the very least, those fears have appeared more
and more justified.
Since that time, NATO has continued to take a lead role in more and more overtly
offensive campaigns of aggression in theatre after theatre. By now it is commonly understood to be an extension of
the Pentagon itself, a convenient international military instrument for Washington to wield whenever the pretense
of an international consensus cannot be achieved at the UN Security Council.
-- James Corbett
NATO is the first attempt in history to establish an aggressive
global military formation, one which currently includes a third of the nations of the world either as members or
partners, has members and partners on five continents and has conducted active operations on four, with the
potential to expand its reach into the remaining two where it has not yet officially intruded
itself...As NATO continues to expand across the globe through a series of
partnerships, initiatives and dialogues, what was once a collective security agreement is increasingly
becoming a global military strike force capable of bombarding, invading and occupying countries anywhere
in the world.
Preachers and Christians in America talk a lot about loving Jesus. They sing
songs to Him; wave their hands in the air; pray to Him; and talk about His teachings. And at Christmas time, they
retell the story of Christ’s virgin birth, and boys and girls sing songs and put on plays—complete with shepherds
and Wise Men. But in reality, a huge number of preachers and Christians today behave more like King Herod than they
do the Christmas shepherds and Magi.
What was Herod’s conduct at the
time of Christ’s birth? He ordered the deaths of all of the children in Bethlehem, males and females, two years old
and younger. Herod used his authority as a governmental head of state to murder innocent children. So, how does
this relate to today’s pastors and Christians? I’ll tell you.
Last week, the U.S. House and
Senate voted on resolutions to discontinue U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's three-year war against Yemen. As many
as80,000 men, women and children have been slaughtered in this ongoing bloodbath, and
85,000 Yemeni children have starved to death. And the United States, under Presidents Obama
and Trump, has supported Saudi Arabia’s barbarism with financial and military aid. In fact, without America’s
aid, Saudi Arabia would not have been able to perpetuate this genocidal war. So, this is as much America’s war
as it is Saudi Arabia’s.
The brutal, torturous assassination
of permanent U.S. resident, journalist Jamal Khashoggi, by Saudi assassins (under orders from the Saudi crown
prince) somehow jolted the dead conscience of the U.S. Congress, and both legislative branches voted on resolutions
to discontinue America's participation in the brutal Saudi war against Yemen.
Of course, Donald Trump and his
ranking cabinet members lobbied Congress hard to NOT cut off funding for this illegal war. (Tell me again how Trump
is so much different than Obama.) The House voted to CONTINUE participating in the war, but the Senate voted to
DISCONTINUE participating in the war.
And here's the rub: The vast
majority of congressmen and senators who voted to continue America's participation in the Saudi barbarism against
Yemen were Republicans.
In the House, 201 Republicans voted
for the war and only 18 Republicans voted against it. In the Senate, only 7 Republicans voted against the war and
all 41 senators who voted for the war were Republicans.
The 7 brave Republican senators who
voted to stop America's involvement in Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen were:
Collins (Maine); Daines (Montana);
Flake (Arizona); Lee (Utah); Moran (Kansas); Paul (Kentucky); and Young (Indiana).
Enthusiastic kudos to these
senators!
This is another example of how the
"left-right," "liberal-conservative" and Democrat-Republican paradigm is so phony and misleading. Whatever praise
one wants to heap on the GOP, when it comes to expanding America's never-ending "war on terror,” its limitless wars
of aggression overseas and the overall Warfare State, Republicans are almost always the first ones to shout their
enthusiastic support. These votes in the House and Senate reflect that reality.
It also further proves that Donald
Trump is just another warmonger, no better than Barack Obama or G.W. Bush. These presidents (and the members of
Congress who support their wars) have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent victims dripping from their
hands. I'll say it straight out: Donald Trump is a murderer! Forget King Cyrus; King Herod is the one that Trump
more resembles.
Again, only 18 Republicans in the
House of Representatives voted against the illegal, brutal war in Yemen, and only 7 Republicans in the Senate voted
against it. Thankfully, those 7 Republican votes in the Senate were enough to help carry the vote against the war;
but in the House, the 18 Republican votes fell 2 votes short.
Here are the 18 House Republicans
who bravely voted against America's participation in Saudi Arabia's brutal war in Yemen:
Amash (Michigan); Biggs (Arizona);
Blum (Iowa); Brat (Virginia); Cloud (Texas); Gaetz (Florida); Garrett (Virginia); Gohmert (Texas); Gosar (Arizona);
Graves (Louisiana); Jordan (Ohio); Labrador (Idaho); Massie (Kentucky); Meadows (North Carolina); Perry
(Pennsylvania); Posey (Florida); Sanford (South Carolina); and Schweikert (Arizona).
I don't expect that this will have
any impact on the millions of Christians and conservatives who are caught up in blind (almost idolizing) support
for Donald Trump and in the phony left-right paradigm. But in case you are interested in truth, there it
is.
Here is the down and dirty little
secret: Christians and conservatives are the ones promoting and sustaining America's Warfare State and perpetual
war doctrine. The absence of outrage from Christians and conservatives at the Republicans in the U.S. House and
Senate and at President Trump for supporting and voting to continue providing financial and military assistance for
Saudi Arabia's barbaric war against Yemen is an eternal indictment against these right-wing warmongers.
God hates murder and wars of aggression. But today's evangelical pulpits are filled
with warmongers; today’s churches are filled with warmongers; today’s Christian colleges and universities are
filled with warmongers; and today’s GOP is filled with warmongers.
Satan is the author of murder, and
nothing or no one commits murder on the scale or magnitude of government. Therefore, government is Satan's most
effective tool at fulfilling his highest priority: murder. And, disgustingly, millions of evangelical pastors and
Christians are among the most enthusiastic supporters of the wicked, wretched warmongers (many if not most of
them Republicans) in Washington, D.C.
Next year, the new U.S. House could
take another vote on withdrawing support from the Yemen war, but if it passed (and it probably would under
Democratic control), Trump will surely veto it, and pastors, Christians and conservatives everywhere will
enthusiastically support Trump's veto—and these illegal and immoral wars will keep going on and on.
The fact that Republicans are right
on some issues (and they are) does NOT give them the right to commit murder in the name of the American people. Nor
should conservatives—and especially Christians—support them when they do.
Bottom line: If America's pastors,
Christians and conservatives would stop supporting America's perpetual war machinations, most of these immoral wars
would cease forthwith.
So, as you are watching and
listening to your pastor homilize about the miraculous birth of the Lord Jesus Christ this Sunday, and as you enjoy
the boys and girls in their costumes singing Christmas hymns about “peace, good will toward men,” pause for a
moment to see the cadaverous, starving bodies of tens of thousands of little Yemeni children, see the charred
bodies of innocent grandfathers and grandmothers who have been burned to death from the fires caused by U.S.-made
missiles and bombs, see the arms and legs flying through the air from the dismembered bodies of Yemeni sons and
daughters from U.S.-made jet bombers and attack helicopters that have been raining down death and destruction upon
a hapless, helpless civilian population via the brutal, bloodthirsty regime of America’s “great ally” (Trump’s
words), Saudi Arabia, for three long years.
And as you are watching all of this
death and destruction in your mind, remember that it is a majority of evangelical pastors and churches (maybe even
the pastor and church where you attend) who are among the biggest cheerleaders for these murderous, immoral, unjust
and unconstitutional wars of aggression all over the world. In other words, they are behaving more like Herod than
they are the Christmas Wise Men and shepherds.
Remember all of this as you hear
the sermonizing and songs about the birth of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, in your church this Sunday.
P.S. I have two DVD messages that
speak directly to the subject of war—just and unjust. These messages present the true Biblical teaching on the
subject of war. America’s colonial pastors and Founding Fathers well understood the Biblical Natural Law principles
of Just War. Sadly, these principles are all but forgotten by today’s pastors, Christian teachers and elected civil
magistrates.
And we have put both of these DVD
messages in a 2-DVD package entitled War: Just And Unjust. A Biblical/Natural Law Analysis. If you
purchase both of these messages together, there is a 33% discount. The 2-DVD package costs $20, and there is no
cost for domestic shipping. (International rates vary.)
In this message, Pastor Baldwin explains the Biblical
and Natural Law principles of both just and unjust war. Several Biblical passages are used to
demonstrate the principles of Just War, including examples from the lives of Abram, Gideon, Barak,
Samson, Jephthah, and David. Unjust wars of the Bible are also referenced and discussed.
Pastor Baldwin also cites important principles of
Natural Law as written in Emer de Vattel's monumental work "The Law Of Nations" (published in
1758). This book along with John Locke's "Two Treatises Of Government" (published in 1689) were the
two works that most influenced the writing of America's Declaration of Independence and federal
constitution.
Nations that recklessly ignore God's immutable laws
regarding Just War are destined to incur the judgment of God. America will NOT be the exception to
this rule. America's evolution into a global empire since the end of World War II has only
augmented the propensity of America to entangle itself more and more frequently and more and more
deeply into the political affairs of foreign countries--which leads America to fight more and more
unjust wars in the name of protecting its global empire. (Cont. Nxt Column)
(Cont.) Sadder still is the way that a majority of America's pastors and preachers seem to
have no cognizance of God's Natural and Scriptural laws regarding Just War and, therefore, are
often the country's biggest cheerleaders for unjust wars.
This message has to be among the rarest messages in
21st century America. But, without a doubt, it is one of the most important messages that
Christians--and the civil magistrates they elect to public office--should hear.
The Crime Of Aggression: Condemned By The Law Of Nature And Nature’s
God
The Crime of Aggression is the most serious crime a
nation can commit. The condemnation of this crime is rooted in both Natural and Biblical Law. The
preparation for committing this crime almost cost David his kingdom. In judgment upon David for
planning this crime, God destroyed seventy thousand men, and had David not repented, the nation of
Israel itself would have been destroyed.
Sadly, almost no preacher even deals with this subject, and almost no
Christian has ever heard it explained. Yet it is one of the most important laws dealing with
nations in the entire Bible. From the murderous act of aggression via government-sanctioned
abortion to murderous acts of aggression via government-sanctioned perpetual, preemptive war, the
U.S. continues to violate this greatest-of-all national sins. God will NOT withhold His judgment on
such a nation forever.
In this DVD, Dr. Baldwin explains this almost
forgotten and extremely important Biblical and Natural Law doctrine. This is a message you will
likely hear nowhere else.
Calm And Courage In A 9/11 World
LibertyFellowshipMT
Published on Sep 10, 2018
“In the real executive power
structure, the president serves the military industrial complex, itself owned by the international
bankers...”
-- Alex Jones...before he soldout --
How Trump Filled The Swamp
corbettreport
Published on Feb 3, 2017 SHOW
NOTES AND MP3
With promises to "drain the swamp!" still ringing in our ears, we have watched
Trump appoint nothing but Goldman banksters,
Soros stooges, neocon war hawks and police state zealots to head his
cabinet. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine the
swamp-dwellers with which Trump has filled his swamp.
Phoenix as the Model for Homeland Security and the War On Terror
- Douglas Valentine -
CIA Pacification Programs, Secret Interrogation Centers, Counter Terror Teams, Propaganda Teams
and military and civilian tribunals in all 44 provinces of South Vietnam; 1965 US military sent
in; National Liberation Front; secret 1967 CIA General Staff For Pacification combining all
CIA, military, and South Vietnamese programs to became The Phoenix Program; Phoenix based on
systems analysis theory combining 20-30 programs to pacify South Vietnamese civilians to
support the government; Phoenix instituted to more perfectly coordinate CIA and military
operations; streamlined and bureaucratized a system of political repression in South Vietnam;
media cover-up; CIA Foreign Intelligence including the Hamlet Information Program, the Province
Interrogation Center program and Agent Penetrations; CIA Covert Action Program; reliance on
corruption; Pacific Architects and Engineers oversaw design and construction of interrogation
centers in South Vietnam which became the model for the black sites.
Originally Aired: January 11, 2017
Trump Fills the Swamp With Steven
Mnuchin
corbettreport
Published on Dec 7, 2016 SHOW
NOTES AND MP3
Trump has named Steven Mnuchin as his Treasury Secretary. So who is Mnuchin, and
what does his background tell us about his ideology and what kind of administration Trump is
assembling? Today we talk to Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg.com about Mnuchin's career, his
Goldman Sachs and Soros ties, and his shady business practices, as well as the other people being
appointed to helm the Trump White House.
Economic progress under Trump is illusion, crash coming - Ron Paul
-
RT
Published on Jan 3, 2018
With his first year in office drawing to a close, the US president has been talking up his
economic record in typical Trump style. But one man who does not share Trump's optimism is former
congressman Ron Paul. He told RT the growth is not even for all people.
The Fed Is Safe Under Trump
RonPaulLibertyReport
Nov 3 2017
President Trump is great at stirring up controversies and throwing red meat to the
media. He's great at keeping the left in a permanent state of hyperventilation. He's great at
rallying his supporters. But when it comes to actual policies, the
status quo has been maintained across the board. The warfare is safe. The welfare is safe. Even the
Federal Reserve is safe under Trump.
As The Corbett Report reported last year, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater,
has slithered out from his hiding place and re-emerged as a figure on the political stage. He is
now
advocating for a rebirth of the US' infamous "Phoenix Program" to target the ISIS terrorists the
US created, and he is advising Trump from the shadows. Today Douglas Valentine, author of
The Phoenix Program and The CIA As Organized Crime joins us to discuss what The Phoenix Program
is and why its resurrection is so ominous.
The Incredible Trump Deception - F.
William Engdahl -
Originally Aired: December 28, 2016
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We examine some of the early political appointments of the new Trump
administration and the geopolitical shift in American foreign policy that it represents. The powers
behind the Trump presidency - the Netanyahu Likud connected think-tank, The Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies, including General Mike Flynn, Walid Phares; James Woolsey, and Michael
Ledeen, among others; an attack on the nuclear deal with Iran; the failed strategy of using radical
political Islam to destabilize and destroy countries; a strengthened alliance between Russia, China
and Iran; the failed CIA coup in Turkey of July 2016; a strong dollar policy and a weakened
European Union; rising interest rates and concomitant flight capital to a Wall Street safe-haven;
making America great again by re-building Americas defense industry infrastructure. #356
- TRUMP, JONES, THE COMPLEX, AND
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Does the Government Control Our
Churches?
- Peter Kershaw 2004 -
Author of "Hushmoney", speaks out against IRS controlled
501(c)(3) churches, will share how the churches have been allowing Caesar to control them and how you can help your
church become free of Government control!
When a body of believers organizes as a
corporation, even a non-profit tax-exempt religious corporation, such as a corporation sole or a 501(c)(3), it is a
fiction, becomes a servant of government and ceases to be governed by Yahweh. It is no longer part of the body over
which Christ is the head, it becomes a corporation according to government codes, statutes, rules and regulations,
and its head becomes the State, its creator.
By incorporating, the "church" cedes authority to the State. But by this act of submission, it
bestows upon the State authority over all areas of "church" operation. The "church" organization can no longer be
accountable solely to Christ's commands, which are superseded by any command the State may choose to place upon
it.
Here are the Ten Commandments handed down by the 501(c)(3) church's new lord, the State:
I. Thou shalt not attempt to influence legislation either directly or
indirectly.
II. Thou shalt not talk to legislators about legislation
III. Thou shalt not engage in activities related to non legislative decisions, such as
opposing or supporting the issuance of regulations
IV. Thou shalt not make available the results of nonpartisan studies
V. Thou shalt not respond to requests to testify before legislative committees
VI. Thou shalt not support or oppose political candidates
VII. Thou shalt not engage in partisan political campaign activities
VIII. Thou shalt not distribute partisan "voter education" information
IX. Thou shalt not attempt to persuade the public one way or the other on candidates or
issues
X. Thou shalt not allow groups or individuals to use your facilities and equipment to
campaign for candidates
The State's "Ten Commandments" conform the
church into the image of the State to carry out its will, purpose and intent. This "church" can no longer obey the
Great Commission; the 501(c)(3) must grovel before its new lord as it carries out the "contrition commission".
In the eyes of the law ordained of men it has become a fiction, an organization; it is no longer a
living organism with Christ as its head. The corporation's master doesn't care about religious issues, all
corporations are under their jurisdiction, and they are the sole authority over all corporations.
Church In Chains - Booklet -
Written By Barbara Ketay and Edited By Pastor Chuck Baldwin -
Barbara Ketay graduated from the University of Cincinnati (BS/BA, 1979) and also attended Chase Law
School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Blackstone School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. She was an Adjunct Teacher at
Brevard (Florida) Community College in the Criminal Justice and Music programs. Barbara served as the President of
the United States Bar Association, a Legal Associate with the Biblical Law Center and a Legal Consultant with the
Liberty Church Project. Barbara was one of the founders of the North American Patriot Union and was also the
Co-Founder of the North American Law Center.
As stated, Barbara was a legal consultant with Pastor Baldwin's Liberty Church Project (LCP) until
her untimely (to us) death in 2016. She participated in Pastor Baldwin’s LCP conferences and would speak to the
attendees on the evils of the 501(c)(3) church. Over her amazing career, she helped over 2,000 pastors and churches
extricate themselves from the devilish stranglehold of the 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation status.
Since Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson succeeded in bringing America's churches under the authority of
the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), section 501(c)(3), in 1954, the vast majority of our churches have become chained
to the government's yoke via the control and intimidation of the IRS. For this reason--maybe more than any
other--our churches have been rendered impotent as independent bastions of courage, truth and power. The fear of
losing their "granted" IRS tax exemption has turned most pastors and churches into sheepish slaves of the
state.
This book contains the material that Barbara would use in teaching pastors and Christian laymen
about the "down and dirty" (her words) details of the 501(c)(3) church. This is the ONE BOOK you should purchase to
learn the truth about how churches are held in bondage to the 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation status. It is the
ONE BOOK to give to any pastor, church leader or church member who seeks to truly understand this important
issue.
This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, August 14, 2016 during the service
at Liberty Fellowship. To purchase a copy of this sermon or to support the fellowship please visit
LibertyFellowshipMT.com
In the latter half of the 20th century, eugenics merely changed its face to become known
as "population control". This was crystallized in National Security Study Memorandum 200, a 1974 geopolitical
strategy document prepared by Rockefeller's intimate friend and fellow Bilderberg member Henry Kissinger, which targeted thirteen countries for massive population reduction by means of
creating food scarcity, sterilization andWAR.
Depleted Uranium
Wastelands Birth defects in Iraq Surpass Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail discusses how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy
of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military’s extensive use of depleted uranium
and white phosphorus. Noting the birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Jamail says: "They’re extremely
hard to bear witness to. But it’s something that we all need to pay attention to ... What this has generated is,
from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has
surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped
on at the end of World War II."
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Nuclear Scientist J.W. Petermann of FukushimaUpdateReport.com evaluates the hazards of
EMF radiation vs ionizing radiation, and the risks of the nuclear industry as a whole.
Alex Jones discusses the Bilderberg Group's agenda as he reflects on the transhumanist art
which populates the grounds of the Grove Hotel. For the latest updates on Bilderberg 2013 visit: http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg or http://www.infowars.com/b
"No one will enter the New World
Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a
Luciferian Initiation."
--- David
Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations ---
Christ Alone is a beautifully 3D animated full feature documentary film. It
features expert guests Dr. Alan Keyes, Dr. Chuck Baldwin, Dr. Katherine Albrecht, Don McAlvany, George W. Hunt, Tim
Baldwin, J.D., and Ty Bollinger who all brilliantly construct the Biblical and Natural Law model of good
government, and then show how each key institution in our society is being corrupted and used as mass vehicles of
control. All of which is pushing humanity towards a global empire ruled by a technocratic elitist system.
Topics Include: Eugenics, Transhumanism, Population Control, Agenda 21, RFID, The New World
Order, 2nd Amendment/Self-Defense, Federal Reserve/Central Banks,Dangers of Institutionalized Churches, Natural
Law, Biblically defined roles of Man, Family, Church, Society & Government
Written and Directed by Jason Paul Charles
Please consider purchasing this DVD at http://ChristAloneMovie.com to help fund future films and initiatives
What Every Christian Should Know About
The New World Order
- Sermon by Chuck Baldwin
-
This message was preached by Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, February 1, 2009, during the service at
Crossroad church.
How To Resist The Conspiracy
- Sermon by Chuck Baldwin -
A LOOK INTO IT ORIGINAL SHORT FILM
Memorial Day is remembering those patriots who fought and paid the ultimate
price for justice and freedom. Meanwhile, ironically, many patriotic men and women today are being demonized
and persecuted for defending the constitution of our nation. In Liberty On The Big Screen, watch how this mix
of valor and hypocrisy come to a head between two brothers - one military veteran, the other, an assistant
pastor.
HOW WILL YOU BE REMEMBERED DURING THESE TREACHEROUS TIMES? ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE?...THINK ABOUT
IT, CAN YOU CALL YOURSELF A PATRIOT?
REIGN OF THE MONARCH
Biblical
Philosophy of Government
Political Activism in the
Early Church
Articles by Robin and Esther Phillips
It is
commonly assumed that prior to Constantine in the fourth century,
Christians had as little to do with politics as possible.
This is far from true.
In the
1st century itself, Christianity and politics were inextricably combined. In order
to appreciate the significance of this, we need some background information about
the religious and political climate of ancient Rome.
Mystery Cults
In ancient Rome there was an array of different
mystery cults. These mystery cults were brought to Rome from all over the empire, many from the East. These cults
functioned as personal devotional hobbies, offering their votaries privileged access to various divinities. They
gave worshipers a subjective sense of belonging since one could have a personal relationship with a god or demigod.
The mystery cults did not affect someone’s life in the public world, but were directed towards one’s
interior spirituality. With an esoteric flair, they offered spiritual excitement, without making demands on public
life. As Lesslie Newbigin puts it,
Roman law was in general tolerant of religious diversity. As long as religion confined itself to
matters of personal salvation, the state did not interfere. There were many forms of religious teaching
and practice, mostly coming from the East, which offered to their adherents the promise of salvation. These
'private cults' were not in general interfered with.
Imperial Religion
Now the religion of Rome, on the other hand, was
just the opposite of this. It was a political religion that dictated the whole of one’s life in the public world.
It structured how people were expected to live as good citizens in the Roman world.
Many of the Roman emperors claimed to be sons of a god, and some even went so far as to claim divinity.
Emperor worship thus became a feature of the Roman religion. However, even in the provinces where the
Julio-Claudian emperors were not actually heralded as divine, we may still speak of the Roman state as being
‘religious’ in the sense that it sought to structure all public life, thought and allegiance. The Roman state
offered a vision of the good life; the Roman state offered peace; the Roman state brought together previously
warring pluralities; the Roman state offered a sense of eschatological progress; the Roman state provided a
framework of meaning to answer the question ‘how should we then live?’
If you lived in the way good Roman citizens were expected to live – that is, if all your public life
acknowledged Rome as the supreme power – then the state could not care less if you engaged in various mystery
religions. This is because the private cults did not seek to structure one’s life publicly.
Stephen Perks contrasts the mystery cults with the religion of Rome:
"Religion…structures life. It structures the life of the individual and of society. This is precisely what
a cult does not do. A cult is a personal worship hobby. It does not structure one’s life nor does it structure
society. The Eastern cults that were popular in ancient Rome, such as the cults of Mithras and Isis, did not
structure the life of their adherents, at least not if they were good Roman citizens. What structured the lives of
the Romans was the religion of Rome which was a political religion." (From lecture ‘Christianity as a Cult’,
downloaded from the Kuyper Foundation audio archives)
There is evidence that some of the families of the Roman emperors worshipped at various mystery cults.
They could do that because the mystery cults were not in competition with the religion of Rome.
To sum, the mystery cults were directed towards the private, the personal, the devotional, the internal
spirituality of an individual, while the religion of Rome was directed towards the public, the external, the
corporate, and political society as a whole. The one did not affect the other.
The Christian Challenge
Understanding this distinction is crucial if we are
to appreciate the impact early Christianity had in the 1st century.
Christianity offered a direct challenge to the political religion of Rome. Christianity was not one more
among thousands of mystery cults.
The Roman state would certainly never have persecuted Christians if the worship of Jesus was simply one
more private cult to choose from. On the contrary, Christians were seen as subversive precisely because their
religion was in competition with the political religion of Rome. Christianity offered a vision for how society as a
whole should look, as well as showing how individuals within that society should behave. The gospel had as much to
say about politics – how nations should be governed – as it did about our own personal lives. As Stephen Perks has
again pointed out,
"As long as Roman citizens practiced the religion of Rome, they were free to practice whatever cult they
wished, the cult of Jesus Christ included. It was the early Church’s refusal to limit the Christian faith to the
status of a cult that brought Christians in conflict with Rome. The practice of Christianity as a religion and not
a cult brought the church into direct conflict with the religion of Rome. This was a clash of religions not cults."
(Ibid)
Frances Legge makes the same point in his book Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity:
"The Officials of the Roman Empire in time of persecution sought to force the Christians to sacrifice, not
to any of the heathen gods, but to the Genius of the Emperor and the Fortune of the city of Rome; and at all times
the Christians' refusal was looked upon…as a political offence." (Kessinger Publishing, 2003)
This dispels the common myth, which we find time and time again, that Christianity was apolitical prior to
Constantine in the fourth century. Even if all we had was the New Testament, without the massive corpus of other
historical evidence, we would still know that Christianity challenged Rome as a competing political system. Let’s
look at some of the New Testament evidence.
JESUS IS
LORD
The very proclamation ‘Jesus is Lord’ (Acts 2:36; 10:36; Rom
8:39; 1 Cor. 1:2; 1:9; 8:5-6; Phil. 2:10-11; 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:20) would have been seen as a direct challenge to the
political religion of Rome. The underlying subtext was ‘Jesus is Lord, therefore, Caesar is not.’ This did not mean
that Christians denied that Caesar had genuine authority. They acknowledged Caesar’s authority, but even this
acknowledgement contained an implicit challenge. As our Saviour put it, ‘Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ (Mark 12:17) We know from Psalm 24 that all the earth belongs to
the Lord. This means that Caesar only has the authority God chooses to give him. As Jesus said to Pilate, “You
could have no power at all against Me unless it has been given you from above.” (Jn. 19:11)
God’s authority over all things was the basis of Paul’s argument to the Romans for why they needed to
submit to civil authorities. Paul said, ‘Yes, Caesar has authority, but only because it has been given to him by
the higher authority of God,’ to paraphrase Romans 13:1-2. Paul’s teaching that Caesar’s authority was derivative
rather than ultimate would have been perceived as nothing less than fighting talk, a direct challenge to imperial
pretensions. Because Caesar’s authority was given to Him by the higher authority of Jesus Christ, Paul could claim
in Romans 13:3-4 that rulers were responsible before God to do good and to be a terror to evil works. Christianity
thus held even the emperor accountable to a higher standard.
In light of this backdrop, it is not surprising to find Roman emperors later making such a point of trying
to force Christians to say, ‘Caesar is Lord.’ They rightly recognised that Christianity was a challenge to the
emperor’s pretentious claims and the ideology on which the state was based. Christianity challenged the state, not
by advocating anarchy and civil disobedience, but by showing that our citizenship rests first and foremost with a
higher empire (Eph. 2:19-20; Heb. 11:15-16). This higher empire is ruled by a King who demands that even Caesar bow
the knee and repent (Acts 17:30).
If the gospel had been merely the good news that there is a way to go to heaven when you die, or
if Christianity had been promoted as merely a way to have a personal relationship with God, it would have been lost
amidst an array of numerous other mystery cults and private devotional hobbies. The religion of
Christ was so subversive precisely because it proclaimed that Jesus reigns on the earth now. Jesus’ Kingdom claimed
to be the final say, not merely on private devotional matters, but on public, social and political
affairs.
The Political Religion of Jesus
Christianity was a political religion right from the
very start, even before Paul. We find this same emphasis in Jesus Himself. In Matthew 28, Jesus claimed total
authority over everything and he used this as the basis for commanding his disciples convert, not just individuals,
but entire nations.
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.’ (Mt. 28:18-19)
If all authority has been given to Jesus on heaven and on earth, then this includes everywhere. There is
nowhere on the earth or in heaven that does not come under Jesus’ demand for complete allegiance (Col.
1:15-18).
If the early Christians had not challenged every area of life and society with the doctrine of
Christ, then they would have been giving the implicit message that there are some areas where Christ has not been
exalted Lord. They would have been implying that there are some places in the world and culture that Christ did not
die to redeem.
It is customary to hear, in retort, that Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world. A careful look at
the original Greek reveals that Jesus did not actually say that. The RSV translates John 18:36 closest to the
original: ‘My kingdom is not from this world.’ Christ’s kingdom is certainly of and for this world, but it does not
arise out of or (from) this earth. It comes from heaven to the earth. That is why Jesus taught us to pray, ‘thy
kingdom come on earth…as it is in heaven’ (Mat. 6:10). The phrase ‘kingdom of heaven’ in the gospels rests on this
same nexus, referring to the rule of heaven (that is, of God), being brought to bear in the present space-time
world. This draws on the theological backdrop of passages like Daniel 7: 26-27 and is the same crowning vision we
find in Rev. 11:15, where we are told that “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and His
Christ…”
The Church’s Vocation
If you look out in the world today, it is sometimes
hard to see much evidence of Jesus’ authority. But that is where the church comes in. In the present period -
between the inauguration and consummation of Christ’s kingdom - the church has the vocation of bringing His
authority to bear on every area of society. The people of God are to turn the kingdoms of this world into the
kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.
This means that piece by piece, institution by institution, nation by nation, person by person, all things
need to now be reconciled to Christ. That is the mission of all Christians, who are called to be ministers of
reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-19) in the task of bringing all things back into subjection to the Lord (2 Cor. 10:5).
Like the Psalmist, we are to “say among the nations, ‘The Lord reigns’” (Ps. 96:10). Naturally, this includes all
the institutions, organisations and cultures that make up those nations. We are to bring the Lordship of Christ to
bear on all the arts, the sciences, the economies, the music, the philosophy, the educational systems, and of
course the political systems of this world.
In these and every other area, we are to proclaim that Jesus reigns by showing the implications of that
reign in practice. Our message to the powers of this world is that their time is up - Jesus is in charge now.
Because Jesus is now the boss of every store, every restaurant, every university and every institution, we should
be able to go into shops and say, ‘You’re not allowed to sell that video because Jesus owns this shop.’ We should
be able to go to theatres and say, ‘You’re not allowed to stage this play because Jesus owns this
theatre.’
The Gospel Challenge
The very term ‘the gospel’ would have also
functioned as a political challenge to the religion of Rome. Throughout the Roman world of the 1st century,
euangelion (‘gospel’ or ‘glad tidings’) was regularly used to refer to the birth, announcement, accession or
victory of a great emperor. There is an inscription in Priene on the Asia Minor coast from 9 BC which refers to the
birthday of Augustus. The inscription talks about this day as “the beginning for the world of the glad tidings that
have come to men through him…” In this context, glad tidings were associated with the creation of a new world, an
era of peace and justice made possible by the new emperor. Thus, the inscription refers to Augustus as “a saviour
for us and those who come after us, to make war to cease, to create order everywhere…”
The striking thing is that this is the exact kind of language that early Christians used to talk, not
about the emperor, but about another leader: namely Jesus. The ‘gospel of Jesus Christ’ also announces the
beginning for the world of the glad tidings that have come to men through Him (Lk. 2:10-11). It also announces a
Saviour who comes to (eventually) make wars to cease, to create order everywhere and to bring peace (Isa. 9:6-7;
Lk. 1:79). From the Roman perspective, Christianity must have seemed like the great parody of the Roman state,
while the early Christians would have seen Rome as the great parody for which Christ’s kingdom was the reality.
Both Christianity and Caesar believed they alone held the answer for bringing justice, order and peace to the world
(Zech. 6:13; Jn. 14: 27), both offered a sense of community (Eph. 2:19-22; 1 Pet. 2:9), both had brought unity out
of previously warring pluralities (Gal. 3:28; Col. 3:11; Rev. 5:9) and both were intent on achieving worldwide
dominion (Isa. 9:7; Col. 1:19-20; Rev. 11:15).
Although Christianity and the Roman state may have had similar goals, they went about achieving those
goals in radically different ways (Jn. 18:36). No wonder the early Christians were persecuted. The glad tidings of
Jesus was bad news for Caesar because it proclaimed there was another way to bring peace and justice to the world
that was superior to Caesar’s way. It proclaimed that God had called out a people whose vocation was to work for
peace and justice on Jesus’ terms instead of Caesar’s terms.
We have explored Christianity’s challenge to Caesar, but we might equally have explored the way the gospel
confronted first century paganism. If Paul’s gospel had been merely an approximation for a personal,
individualistic experience that has little or no bearing on public life (one more mystery cult), then the makers of
idols in Ephesus would never have found him to be a threat to their livelihood (Acts 19).
Similarly, if we preach the gospel in all its original power, the makers of idols today will find us a
threat to their livelihoods. In our world, no less than the first century, the power of the gospel depends on it
functioning as a subversive challenge to the false gods that abound (1 Cor. 8:5-6). The New Testament writers could
make this challenge boldly because they had confidence that Jesus had already won the victory (Col. 1:19-20; Heb.
1:1-4). Christ’s resurrection is the guarantee of the success and worldwide dominion of His kingdom (1 Cor.
15:20-28). What is left is simply the implementation of that victory.
The Christian Mystery Cult Today
In contemporary evangelical parlance, the term ‘the
gospel’ has been reduced to a shorthand for the salvation message, or an approximation for the doctrine of
justification by faith. It is seen as applying to one’s personal spiritual interiority. In other words,
Christianity is reduced to the level of a first century mystery cult. But if that was all the early Christians
meant by the gospel then Caesar couldn’t have cared less. Who cares if there is one more wacky cult out there of
people exploring their own spirituality? This is ‘another gospel’, with the person, rather than Jesus Christ, at
the centre of control.
This is not to say that the personal and the private are unimportant to the Lord. Jesus is Lord over these
areas just as He is Lord over everything else. One of the saddest features of contemporary Christianity is the way
people have turned it into a mystery cult. The faith is presented as being, first and foremost, about having a
personal relationship with Jesus. You’ve probably heard the statement before that ‘Christianity is not a religion
it is a relationship.’
That is mystery cult language and there is precious little in the New Testament with that kind of
sentimental gush. We are told to love the Lord, and that love is demonstrated in tangible word and deed, not in a
subjective friendship between me and the Creator.
What happens when the personal relationship template becomes the centre of one’s faith – as opposed to the
‘Jesus is Lord’ template - is that everything else becomes redrawn in subjective categories. The emphasis between
the two paradigms is the same difference between the imperial religion and the mystery cults. One model emphasises
the personal, the private, the subjective and the individual, while the other emphasises the public, the corporate
and the objective. The former removes the nerve from Christianity, neutralising the challenge of the gospel. Caesar
would have loved that. Caesar would have loved it if the early Christians went around telling people to have a
personal relationship with Jesus rather than going around with the proclamation that Jesus is Lord.
Christians today should learn from the example of Paul and the early church. We need to reject
formulations of the faith that make no demand on the political sphere. We need to ask the Lord to put the nerve
back into the gospel – the gospel that troubled Herod when he heard of Jesus’ birth; the gospel that made the
idolaters at Ephesus riot; the gospel that made Caesar quake in his boots.
Temptations for Politically
Conscious Christians
Like many people, I used to believe that the transition from
Old Testament to New Testament corresponded with a move from religion being a physical, political reality to being
a private and invisible reality. For about three years now I have been critical of that view for I have come to
realise that Christ's Lordship applies to every area of public and private life. As Carl F. H. Henry put it, "If
while evangelizing we abandon the socio-political realm to its own devices, we shall fortify the misimpression that
the public order falls wholly outside the command and will of God, that Christianity deals with private concerns
only; and we shall conceal the fact that government exists by God's will as His servant for the sake of justice and
order."
This shift in understanding has led me to write a number of articles trying to articulate the basis
for a truly Biblical political theology (for example, see my article HERE on political Christianity in the early
church). My job as a researcher for Christian Voice also reflects a strong political emphasis. However, recently I
have come to be aware of some significant dangers to which politically conscious Christians seem prone.
Politically active Christians have the tendency to adopt the secular mindset which says that the
world's problems can be fixed through politics. You know the mentality: just elect enough Christians, just pass
enough Christian laws, etc., and then the problems of society will rectified. This really is a dangerous heresy
since all totalitarian movements are also based on the idea of salvation through the state. The first principle of
Christian political activism should be to attack this idea of the state, yet so many Christians collude to it.
The Biblical paradigm recognises that the church, not the ungodly political structures, is God's
answer to the world (see my Bible Overview where I argue for this point). This is also the position of the
reconstructionist movement (see this compilation of quotations), however they have been caricatured. Popular
right-wing political activism, on the other hand, works on a different paradigm, with disastrous results. Because
they see the state as God's instrument for transforming society, Christians who could be focusing their attention
on building strong families and strong communities, with the consequence of building strong churches, neglect all
this to campaign for watered-down legislation and compromised conservatism.
"The entire medieval and Protestant tradition," writes Doug Jones in Angels in the Architecture,
"is anti-Statist, and that includes, as Augustine taught us, the view that the State is the least important
institution among Church, State, and Family. Yet, the great irony of the Christian Right is that though their
families are often messes and their churches splintering, they think they have the wisdom to wield the sword. In
search of 'real change,' they charge out to conquer the institution that is most impotent in actually bringing it
about. We haven't changed much from our ancient Israelite brothers. We want a king or a sword just like everybody
else. We don't understand how God has structured the world, how real change occurs.... Why should we want to wield
any political party club or rule any council at this stage of life? The State is a superficial, testy institution
that is merely a shifting symptom of deeper realities. And so a reformation of the State should be like healing a
sore throat. Nurture the rest of the body with good things first, and the throat will follow along in time."
Later on in the same book, Doug Wilson writes, "The rWestoration of the nations is not, in any
important sense, a political process. Rather, the process is one of baptism and catechism. The means given for the
conversion of the heathen were the waters of baptism and the words of instruction. When the lessons have been
learned, there will of course be some political consequences. But they will be minimal for the simple reason that
the state itself, in a nation that has come to repentance, will also be minimal....Our problems are spiritual, and
the solutions are the Word and sacraments. The charge was not 'go ye, and elect right-of-center congresspersons.'
Now certainly the gospel has an effect on all of culture, as it should. But results are not causes; apples are not
roots." (Also listen to Doug Wilson's talk 'Cultural Change & Worship')
Sadly, most Christian campaigners have not read Angels in the Architecture, and hence they continue
to mistake the result for the cause in the way described by the two Dougs. A practical result of this is that the
gospel is compromised. Consider how so many Christian activists are content to simply have a place at the table, on
a par with any other lobbyist for any other organization or special interest group. This is a functional denial of
the fact that Jesus claims total authority over the whole system. Our goal should not be to have a place at the
table but to have the whole system down on its knees before Jesus.
Equally worrying is the fact that Christian activists begin using the world's methods, such as
'louder is better.' Organizing protests that are larger than their opponents becomes more important than
constructing rational and coherent arguments. More energy is devoted to huge letter writing campaigns than engaging
in thoughtful public debates. We seek to amplify our message with quantity rather than quality because we notice
that is how the homosexual and Muslim lobby get their voices heard. The corollary to this is that the world begins
to perceive us as just another pressure group, unable to listen or engage thoughtfully with any other position.
The answer to these problems is not to react and say that Christians shouldn't be involved in
politics at all. That would only perpetuate the Gnostic concept that religion is a personal and private affair,
detached from the public world ("Jesus is the Lord of my heart but the devil is Lord of the world", etc). On the
contrary, we must seek to evangelize politics just as we must seek to evangelize music, poetry, philosophy,
economics, technology, sociology, sports, and so on. The key question is how? It is time we realized that, as
Christians, we are involved in politics every time we gather to worship; we are involved in politics every time we
read to our children; we are involved in politics every time we produce artifacts that reflect the standards of
goodness, truth and beauty; we are involved in politics every time we put into practice what it means to live in
the kingdom of God. The reason these things are political is because it will be through all these pedestrian
Kingdom-of-God-acts that the world (and therefore politics) will eventually be transformed. Let's not put the horse
before the cart.
Biblical Philosophy of Government
(An Expansion of Article: Political Activism in the Early Church)
A while back I did some research on what the Bible has
to say about government. A Biblical philosophy of government is necessary because of what Paul wrote to the
Corinthians.
In 2 Corinthians 10 Paul wrote: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and
every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ…”
This passage is a mandate for developing a Christian (Christ-centred) worldview over every area of life. If we
are to follow the apostle’s injunction to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, this should
include thoughts about everything: art, science, recreation, food, literature, television, and anything you could
possibly name. And of course it involves political issues. Government falls under Christ’s Lordship just as much as
any other area. That is why a Christian philosophy of government is necessary.
Another reason why a Christian philosophy of government is necessary is because Christianity has always been a
political religion. This is something that emerges very clearly from a study of the early church. In the 1st
century Christianity and politics were inextricably combined. You couldn’t separate the two.
In order to appreciate the significance of this, we need some background information about the religious and
political climate of ancient Rome.
Mystery Cults in the 1st Century
In ancient Rome during the 1st century, there was an array
of different mystery cults. These mystery cults were brought to Rome from all over the empire, many from the East.
These cults functioned as personal devotional hobbies, offering their votaries privileged access to various
divinities. They gave worshipers a subjective sense of belonging since one could have a personal relationship with
a god or demigod. The mystery cults did not affect someone’s life in the public world, but were directed towards
one’s interior spirituality. With an esoteric flair, they offered spiritual excitement, without making demands on
public life.
Imperial Religion in the 1st Century
Now the religion of Rome, on the other hand, was just the opposite of this. It was a political religion that
dictated the whole of one’s life in the public world. It structured how people were expected to live as good
citizens of the Roman state.
Many of the Roman emperors claimed to be sons of a god, and some even went so far as to claim divinity. Emperor
worship thus became a feature of the Roman religion. However, even in the provinces where the Julio-Claudian
emperors were not actually heralded as divine, we may still speak of the Roman state as being ‘religious’ in the
sense that the state sought to structure all public life, thought and allegiance. Like all religions, the Roman
state offered a vision of the good life; the Roman state offered peace; the Roman state brought together previously
warring pluralities; the Roman state offered a sense of eschatological progress; the Roman state provided a
framework of meaning to answer the question ‘how should we live?’
If you lived in the way good Roman citizens were expected to live – that is, if all your public life
acknowledged Rome as the supreme power – then the state couldn’t care less if you engaged in various mystery cults.
As Stephen Perks points out, contrasting the mystery cults with the religion of Rome:
Religion…structures life. It structures the life of the individual and of society. This is precisely what a cult
does not do. A cult is a personal worship hobby. It does not structure one’s life nor does it structure society.
The Eastern cults that were popular in ancient Rome, such as the cults of Mithras and Isis, did not structure the
life of their adherents, at least not if they were good Roman citizens. What structured the lives of the Romans was
the religion of Rome which was a political religion. (From lecture ‘Christianity’ as a Cult’, published by the
Kuyper Foundation)
There is evidence that some of the families of the Roman emperors worshipped at various mystery cults. They
could do that because the mystery cults were not in competition with the religion of Rome. The reason they were not
in competition was because the mystery cults were directed towards the private, the personal, the devotional, the
internal spirituality of an individual, while the religion of Rome was directed towards the public, the external,
the corporate and political society as a whole. The one did not affect the other.
Christians Challenge Rome
Understanding this distinction is crucial if we are to
appreciate the impact early Christianity had in the first century.
Christianity offered a direct challenge to the political religion of Rome. Christianity was not one more among
thousands of mystery cults.
The Roman state would certainly never have persecuted Christians if the worship of Jesus was simply one more
private cult to choose from among. On the contrary, Christians were seen as subversive precisely because their
religion was in competition with the political religion of Rome. Christianity, like Rome, offered a vision for how
society as a whole should look, as well as showing how individuals within that society should behave.
Quoting again from Stephen Perks:
"As long as Roman citizens practiced the religion of Rome, they were free to practice whatever cult they wished,
the cult of Jesus Christ included. It was the early Church’s refusal to limit the Christian faith to the status of
a cult that brought Christians in conflict with Rome. The practice of Christianity as a religion and not a cult
brought the church into direct conflict with the religion of Rome. This was a clash of religions not cults."
(Ibid)
Francis Legge makes the same point in his book Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity:
"The Officials of the Roman Empire in time of persecution sought to force the Christians to sacrifice, not to
any of the heathen gods, but to the Genius of the Emperor and the Fortune of the city of Rome; and at all times the
Christians' refusal was looked upon…as a political offence." (Kessinger Publishing, 2003)
The gospel was seen as a political offence. This is because the gospel had as much to say about politics – how
nations should be governed – as it did about our own personal lives.
This dispels the common myth, which we find time and time again, that Christianity was apolitical prior to
Constantine in the fourth century. Even if all we had was the New Testament, without the massive corpus of other
historical evidence, we would still know that Christianity challenged Rome as a competing political system.
Gary DeMar makes this point in Volume 3 of his God and Government series:
“The Roman empire presents a classic example of the Messianic man-centered State, of the denial of God’s Law,
and of the implementation of humanistic law. Caesar declared himself god and his decrees were to be acknowledged as
the laws of the gods. The Roman rulers understood that their claim to divine rule was threatened by God’s unlimited
and universal reign. Peter declared confidently “that there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name
under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The gospel of Jesus Christ,
with its claim of divine prescriptions, threatened the very nature of the Roman State. Rome had to submit itself to
the position of ‘minister’ under God or be crushed by the power of God. Rome did not submit”
JESUS IS LORD
The very proclamation ‘Jesus is Lord’ (Acts 2:36; 10:36; Rom 8:39;
1 Cor. 1:2; 1:9; 8:5-6; Phil. 2:10-11; 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:20) was seen as a direct challenge to the political religion
of Rome. (N. T. Wright’s book Paul: Fresh Perspectives, SPCK 2005 and his essay ‘Paul’s Gospel and Ceasar’s Empire’
athttp://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/wright.htm) The underlying subtext was ‘Jesus is Lord, therefore, Caesar is not.’ This did not mean that Christians
denied that Caesar had genuine authority. He had temporal authority only because God had given it to him, but he
was not the supreme Lord. The early Christians acknowledged Caesar’s authority, but even this acknowledgement
contained an implicit challenge since it was based on the fact that God was the higher authority. As Jesus said to
Pilate, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it has been given you from above.” (Jn.
19:11)
God’s authority over all things was the basis of Paul’s argument to the Romans for why they needed to submit to
civil authorities. Paul said, ‘Yes, Caesar has authority, but only because it has been given to him by the higher
authority of God,’ to paraphrase Romans 13:1-2. Paul’s teaching that Caesar’s authority was derivative rather than
ultimate would have been perceived as nothing less than fighting talk, a direct challenge to imperial pretensions.
Because Caesar’s authority was given to Him by the higher authority of Jesus Christ, Paul could claim in Romans
13:3-4 that rulers were responsible before God to do good and to be a terror to evil works. Christianity thus held
even the emperor accountable to a higher standard.
In light of this backdrop, it is not surprising to find Roman emperors later making such a point of trying to
force Christians to say, ‘Caesar is Lord.’ They rightly recognized that Christianity was a challenge to the
emperor’s pretentious claims and the ideology on which the state was based. Christianity challenged the state, not
by advocating anarchy and civil disobedience, but by showing that our citizenship rests first and foremost with a
higher empire (Eph. 2:19-20; Heb. 11:15-16). This higher empire is ruled by a King who demands that even Caesar bow
the knee and repent (Acts 17:30).
If the gospel had been merely the good news that there is a way to go to heaven when you die, or if
Christianity had been promoted as merely a method for having a personal relationship with God, it would have been
lost amidst an array of numerous other mystery cults and private devotional hobbies. The religion of Christ was
subversive precisely because it proclaimed that Jesus reigns on the earth now. Jesus’ Kingdom claimed to be the
final say, not merely on private devotional matters, but on public, social and political affairs.
This comes across clearly in Matthew 28, where Jesus claimed total authority over everything and he used this as
the basis for commanding disciples to convert, not just individuals, but entire nations.
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.’ (Mt. 28:18-19)
If all authority has been given to Jesus on heaven and on earth, then this includes everywhere. There is nowhere
on the earth or in heaven that does not come under Jesus’ demand for complete allegiance (Col. 1:15-18).
If the early Christians had not challenged every area of life and society with the doctrine of Christ, then they
would have been giving the implicit message that there are some areas where Jesus has not been exalted Lord. They
would have been implying that there are some places in the world and culture that Christ did not die to redeem.
‘Not of This World’
It is customary to hear, in retort, that Jesus said His
kingdom is not of this world. A careful look at the original Greek reveals that Jesus did not actually say that.
The RSV translates John 18:36 closest to the original: ‘My kingdom is not from this world.’ Christ’s kingdom is
certainly of and for this world, but it does not arise out of or (from) this earth. It comes from heaven to the
earth. That is why Jesus taught us to pray, ‘thy kingdom come on earth…as it is in heaven’ (Mat. 6:10). The phrase
kingdom of heaven’ in the gospels has this same underpinning, referring to the rule of heaven (that is, of God),
being brought to bear in the present space-time world. This draws on the theological backdrop of passages like
Daniel 7: 26-27 and is the same crowning vision we find in Rev. 11:15, where we are told that “The kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ…”
Jesus shows in many statements that His kingdom definitely is of this world. “God was in Christ reconciling the
world to Himself” (2 Cor. 5:19); Jesus is “the light of the world” (John 8:12), “the Savior of the world” (4:42),
and “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!” (1:29).
The Gospel in the 1st Century
The very term ‘the gospel’ would have functioned as a
political challenge to the religion of Rome. Throughout the Roman world of the 1st century, euangelion (‘gospel’ or
‘glad tidings’) was regularly used to refer to the birth, announcement, accession or victory of a great emperor.
There is an inscription in Priene on the Asia Minor coast from 9 BC which refers to the birthday of Augustus. The
inscription talks about this day as ‘the beginning for the world of the glad tidings that have come to men through
him…’ In this context, glad tidings were associated with the creation of a new world, an era of peace and justice
made possible by the new emperor. Thus, the inscription refers to Augustus as ‘a saviour for us and those who come
after us, to make war to cease, to create order everywhere…’
The striking thing is that this is the exact kind of language that early Christians used to talk, not about the
emperor, but about another leader: namely Jesus. The ‘gospel of Jesus Christ’ also announces the beginning for the
world of the glad tidings that have come to men through Him (Lk. 2:10-11). It also announces a Saviour who comes to
make wars to cease, to create order everywhere and to bring peace (Isa. 9:6-7; Lk. 1:79). From the Roman
perspective, Christianity must have seemed like the great parody of the Roman state, while the early Christians
would have seen Rome as the great parody for which Christ’s kingdom was the reality. Both Christianity and Caesar
believed they alone held the answer for bringing justice, order and peace to the world (Zech. 6:13; Jn. 14: 27),
both offered a sense of community (Eph. 2:19-22; 1 Pet. 2:9), both had brought unity out of previously warring
pluralities (Gal. 3:28; Col. 3:11; Rev. 5:9) and both were intent on achieving worldwide dominion (Isa. 9:7; Col.
1:19-20; Rev. 11:15).
Although Christianity and the Roman state may have had similar goals, they went about achieving those goals in
radically different ways (Jn. 18:36). The glad tidings of Jesus was bad news for Caesar because it proclaimed there
was another way to bring peace and justice to the world that was superior to Caesar’s way. It proclaimed that God
had called out a people whose vocation was to work for peace and justice on Jesus’ terms instead of Caesar’s
terms.
In the book of Acts Peter said that there is no other name given under heaven by which we will be saved – that
expression was found on a coin referring to Caesar Augustus.
The ascension of Jesus pointed to this same reality. When a Roman emperor died, there was often a process of
deification that followed. They would get someone to say they had seen the emperor ascend into heaven and that
would prove that he had been divine. Christians proclaimed that Jesus had ascended into heaven and that was a
powerful political statement. It meant He was God and the ruler of the world.
We have explored Christianity’s challenge to Caesar, but we might equally have explored the way the gospel
confronted first century paganism. If Paul’s gospel had been merely an approximation for a personal,
individualistic experience that has little or no bearing on public life (one more mystery cult), then the makers of
idols in Ephesus would never have found him to be a threat to their livelihood (Acts 19). Similarly, if we preach
the gospel in all its original power, the makers of idols today will find us a threat to their livelihoods. In our
world, no less than the first century, the power of the gospel depends on it functioning as a subversive challenge
to the false gods that abound (1 Cor. 8:5-6). The New Testament writers could make this challenge boldly because
they had confidence that Jesus had already won the victory (Col. 1:19-20; Heb. 1:1-4). Christ’s resurrection and
ascension are the proof of this.
Christians today should learn from the example of Paul and the early church. We need to reject formulations of
the faith that make no demand on the political sphere. We need to allow the Lord to put the nerve back into the
gospel – the gospel that troubled Herod when he heard of Jesus’ birth; the gospel that made the idolaters at
Ephesus riot; the gospel that made Caesar quake in his boots.
Worship of State Today
The early Christians opposed the ultimacy of the Roman
government, as embodied in Caesar, by asserting the ultimacy of Christ. This is the same battle that we, as
Christians, must fight today. In our own era, the nation state is deified in practice.
The German philosopher Hegel (1770 – 1831) taught explicitly that the nation state was divine:
“The Universal is to be found in the State…. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth….We must
therefore worship the State as the manifestation of the Divine on earth… the State is the march of god through the
world… [Hegel, from a collection of quotations compiled by Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), vol. 2, p. 31]
Although we do not find people using this kind of language today, people still treat the nation state as if it
were divine. This is because people are constantly looking to the state as the savior to the world’s problems.
We have to be clear about what this doesn’t mean, because there is a lot of confusion about this. Many
Christians deny the Lordship of Jesus over politics because they think that acknowledging His Lordship would lead
to certain disastrous consequences.
First, to acknowledge that Jesus’ Lordship extends over political matters, does not mean that we should seek to
turn America into a Christian theocracy along the lines of Old Testament Israel. The New Testament teaches that
many things changed at the coming of Jesus and one of the things that changed was the way God deals with peoples
and nations. Since the Bible does not teach that we should just transfer the entire legal code of the Old Testament
into modern day, to do so would not be applying Christ’s Lordship responsibly.
Secondly, acknowledging Christ’s Lordship over all the governments of this world does not mean that the church
should run government. There is a lot of confusion about the separation of church and state, and we will be
discussing this principle in relation to the American constitution later on. For the moment, however, we need to
clarify what this doctrine of separation means and what it doesn’t mean. To do that I’d like to begin by telling a
story.
Ambrose and Theodosius
The church father Ambrose of Milan lived from 339-397
AD.
Ambrose became bishop of Milan in 374. As bishop, Ambrose attained fame as a magnificent preacher, a resolute
enemy of Arianism, and a pioneer hymn-writer. When the emperor Theodosius the Great made Milan his Western capital,
Ambrose became his close friend and advisor; but Ambrose was quite clear that the emperor was not to behave as a
ruler in the Church. Ambrose wrote: "The Church belongs to God, therefore it cannot be assigned to Caesar. The
emperor is within the Church, not above it."
Ambrose’s view led to a famous confrontation between bishop and emperor in 390. That year, in the city of
Thessalonica, a rioting mob murdered Botherich, the virtuous governor of the province of Illyria, along with
several of his officials. The results were explosive. Theodosius was normally a wise, generous, far-seeing ruler,
admired for his Christian integrity of character, but he had one fatal weakness – he was prone to outbursts of wild
fury, which so terrified everyone that even his wife and children would hide from him. When Theodosius heard about
the murder of Botherich, he lost all self-control, and in a fit of wrath he sent an order to his soldiers to
massacre the Thessalonians as a punishment. Almost immediately Theodosius recoiled from what he had done, and sent
another order cancelling his savage decree.
But it was too late. The Thessalonian troops, eager to avenge the murder of their beloved governor, had already
butchered some 7,000 people.
When Ambrose heard of this outrage, he boldly excommunicated the emperor and exhorted him to deep, meaningful
repentance. (The above is taken from Needham’s book 2000 Years of Christ’s Power)
Ambrose wrote to the Emperor the following:
“I cannot deny that you are zealous for the faith and that you fear God. But you have a naturally passionate
spirit; and while you easily yield to love when that spirit is subdued, yet when it is stirred up you become a
raging beast. I would gladly have left you to the workings of your own heart, but I dare not remain silent or gloss
over your sin. No-one in all human history has ever before heard of such a bloody scene as the one at Thessalonica!
I warned you against it, I pleaded with you; you yourself realised its horror and tried to cancel your decree. And
now I call you to repent. Remember how king David repented of his crime. Will you be ashamed to do what David did?
You can wash away your sin only by tears, by repentance, by humbling your soul before God. You are a man; you have
sinned as a man; you must repent as a man. No angel, no archangel can forgive you. God alone can forgive you; and
He forgives those who repent. How I grieve that you – you who were so outstanding for your spirituality, so
unwilling that even one innocent person should suffer –how I grieve that you should not repent of the slaughter of
so many innocent people! You are brave in battle, and praiseworthy in every other way, but goodness was the crown
of your character. The evil spirit envied you these purest of your blessings. Conquer him while you can! I love
you; I honour your from my heart; I pray for you. If you believe this, accept what I say. But if you do not believe
it, forgive me for preferring God to you.”
Notwithstanding Ambrose’ letter, on the following Sunday the emperor turned up for church as usual as if nothing
had happened. But Theodosius found Ambrose barring his way, refusing to let him enter. The emperor claimed that he
had repented, but Ambrose informed him that words were not enough – his repentance must be as public as his sin had
been. Theodosius submitted and walked through the streets of Milan doing public penance. He was banned from
attending worship for eight months. When Ambrose finally allowed him to enter church again, the emperor had to
kneel and beg God’s forgiveness before the whole congregation, which he did with passionate sorrow, tears streaming
from his eyes.
This was not the only time that the Bishop and the emperor had clashed. Just before the Thessalonian massacre,
in 388 the Christians of Callinicum on the Euphrates burnt down a Jewish synagogue. Theodosius ordered the local
bishop to rebuild the synagogue from church funds. Ambrose intervened, declaring that it was wrong for a Christian
bishop to be forced to use his church’s money to build a place for non-Christian worship. Ambrose preached a sermon
against Theodosius when the emperor was actually sitting in the congregation, and refused to let Theodosius take
part in communion unless he gave up his plan to make the Christians of Callinicum rebuild the synagogue. Theodosius
surrendered to Ambrose and the synagogue was not rebuilt. (Ibid)
Separation of Church and State
This story shows the principle of church and state
separation as it operated in the early church. Both the church and the government had authority but in different
spheres. The ministers and apparatus of church government were separate from the institution of civil
government.
Ambrose had authority over one sphere and Theodosius had authority over another sphere. This sphere sovereignty
was undermined – or at least Ambrose thought it was - when the emperor crossed over and started meddling in the
affairs of the church by telling them how to use their money. So Ambrose had to excommunicate him. Likewise when
the king murdered the Thessalonians, Ambrose had authority to withhold the Lord’s supper from him even though
Ambrose had no civil authority.
Because the emperor had authority over the state but not the church, he came under Ambrose’s authority in
matters relating to the church, just as Ambrose had to submit to the emperor in matters of state. For example, if
Ambrose had committed a murder or a theft, it would be liable to civil punishment. Each had legitimate,
God-ordained authority, but over different spheres.
We also see from this story that the distinction between church government and statecraft or between the sacred
and the secular spheres of authority, does not mean that one area is outside Christ’s Lordship. Theodosius was
expected to be a good emperor under the authority of Christ, and that is why he could be blamed for his action
against the Thessalonians.
In the secular world, separation of church and state is usually synonymous with separation of religion and
state. But the Biblical separation of church and state acknowledges that both spheres are under the Lordship of
Christ and derive their authority ultimately from God.
Government is not autonomous or religiously neutral. Emperors, presidents and governors are required to serve
Christ in the decisions they make in secular governments, just as bishops, elders and pastors are required to serve
Christ in the decisions they make in ecclesiastical government. God has given them authority over different areas,
but they are both under His authority and that is why they can both be blamed when their decisions do not conform
to God’s laws. We have already seen that this was a point that the early Christians emphasised strongly – that even
Caesar is under the authority of Christ and, as such, is subject to the same ethical standards as believers. Caesar
will be judged for not submitting to Christ’s laws.
We understand sphere sovereignty when it comes to families. I am head of my family but I am not head of the
family next door. Each family has a different government, yet each are expected to submit to the Lordship of
Christ.
Many people think that in the Old Testament the church and the state were equivalent. But even in the Old
Testament theocracy, the Lord insisted on preserving the separation of church and state. We read in 2 Chronicles
about king Uzziah of Judah. King Uzziah became proud and decided to go into the temple and burn incense to the
Lord. But that job had been given to the priests. As king, Uzziah no more had authority to burn incense in the
temple then the priests had authority to govern the land. (2 Chronicles 26:16-21)
Throughout history, church and government have rarely managed to achieve Biblical sphere sovereignty.
During the medieval era, the doctrine of papal supremacy meant that the church had authority over all
governments. The Pontiff was the supreme earthly governor over civil authorities.
During the Reformation this was flipped and in many countries the church became subservient to the state. This
is known as Erastianism. In England, this is still the case because it is the monarch who is the supreme head of
the English church. It is the Queen who appoints the Archbishop. Because the head of state in England is the one
who controls the church in England, the state thinks it has the right to meddle in what the church does. This is
creating real problems for English Christians. Earlier in the year the Queen allowed Parliament to pass laws which
could affect what Christians are and are not allowed to do in the privacy of their own churches. A number of
Christian organisations are being forced to shut down because they don’t subscribe to politically correct theology.
The state has authority over the church.
In America, although the constitution preserves sphere sovereignty, there are many who are trying to make
America more like England, where the state has authority over the church.
“God’s system of political power is decentralized. No single institution has been established by God to bring
about social order. Freedom and order are realized when men throughout a society strive to follow the blueprint God
has given for the restoration and maintenance of all family, ecclesiastical, social and political institutions. For
example, Genesis 10 is a list of many families that represent a decentralized social order. The builders of Babel
wanted to eliminate the many governments and consolidate family, ecclesiastical, and political power in the one
State. God would have none of it. He “scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they
stopped building the city” (Gen. 11:8). [Gary DeMar, Liberty at Risk: Exposing the Politics of Plunder, p. 40]
The Different Functions of Government & Church
Why is it good to separate church and state? Because God
has given church and state different jobs to do. This is crucial. I believe that most of the political problems the
Western world is facing today is because people don’t understand that the church and the state have different
vocations.
Romans 13 tells us what the job of the state is. It is to retrain evil. It is to wield the sword by punishing
evil-doers. This enables the state to avoid anarchy. If the government is doing its job properly, there can be
social order. If somebody comes to take away my private property or to stop me buying and selling, then the
government kicks in and punishes that person. If another country tries to invade us and takes away our land, then
the government defends us. The government is there to stop evil-doers so that citizens can get on with their lives.
We pay the government taxes so that they have the resources to protect our families and our property. We vote so
that lawmakers are accountable to us to do their job. That job is to maintain law and order. C.S. Lewis puts it
like this in Mere Christianity:
“It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not.
But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary
happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game
of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is
there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments,
armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”
That is the function of government according to the Bible. But notice that government’s function is entirely
negative: it is there purely to stop bad things from happening so that daily life can continue on uninterrupted.
Government is there to stop the bad guys from stealing my things, to stop the rich and powerful from helping
themselves to my property, to punish evil-doers and to wield the sword. The state is not there to actually try to
change the world for the better but to maintain what already exists. The government is there to cancel out what is
negative so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity” (1 Tim. 2:2)
The function of the church is just the opposite.
God hasn’t given the church authority to stop evil by
wielding the sword, but He has given the church authority to promote social good, to be His instrument of light,
well-being and common grace to the world. The church is to be the city on a hill, a light to the nations, God’s
instrument of redemption in the world, implementing the victory achieved through the death and resurrection of
Christ. The Church is to pray the Lord’s pray: “Thy kingdom come…on earth as it is in heaven.”
So the function of the church and the state are exactly opposite. One is to stop evil, and one is to promote
good. The church is responsible to change the world for good, which it does through evangelism, while government is
responsible to simply stop things getting worse.
Now, of course, these are complimentary ends and should work together like two blades in a pair of scissors:
when the state punishes evil it encourages good to flourish, and when the church promotes social good it
discourages evil from flourishing.
The problem today is that both the church and the government have lost sight of their God-given goals. Because
the rulers in government are not acknowledging the Lordship of Christ, they do not view government as merely a
mechanism for punishing evil like the Bible says. Instead they think that it is their job, as lawmakers, to
transform the world for good. Lenin said that the struggle of the proletariat is “to set up heaven on earth.”
[Cited in J. L. Talmon, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (New York; Praeger, 1960), p.9f] It is salvation
through statecraft. This leads to the administrative view of government, which grew out of the utilitarianism of
the Enlightenment and the view of the innate goodness and perfectibility of man. The administrative view of
government view sees the state as an engine to promote social good; to creatively use government’s resources to
advance the best interests of its citizens. Government is there to ‘deliver the goods’, to manage and administer
things effectively for the people. In short, government tries to become church.
It is very dangerous when government tries to do the job of the church because it leads to totalitarianism.
Totalitarianism is essentially the state trying to usher in its secular parody of the kingdom of God and its own
secular parody of redemption. The church has been given the job of announcing spiritual redemption to men by
evangelism through the power of God. The state that tries to do this will announce secular redemption to men
through the power of statecraft. Government becomes messianic. So it says, ‘this is what men should be like - you
should all be tolerant, well-education, non-discriminating, modernised, people - so let’s use legislation to get
you there.” That is the state trying to use secular means to do the church’s job. The church says, ‘this is what
men should be like – you should have love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness and eternal salvation –
now let’s use evangelism and the worship of the Triune God to get you there.’ That is the church using spiritual
means to accomplish its God-given goals. (By spiritual I do not mean non-physical. That leads to the idea of a
personal and private faith cut off from life in the public, physical world. By spiritual I mean doing things
according to God’s way.)
Now the church is often tempted to abandon its spiritual weapons and take up carnal weapons. Thus, instead of
promoting redemption in the world through the spiritual resources Christ has given us, many Christians have the
tendency to adopt the secular mindset which says that the world’s problems can be fixed through policies. You can
transform the world by correcting its systems. You know the mentality: just elect enough Christians, just pass
enough Christian laws, etc., and then the problems of society will rectified. There is an implicit salvation
through statecraft ideology behind this thinking. Jesus had to continually confront this ideology during His
ministry. Many in Jesus’ day saw the kingdom of God in externals only, visualising the kingdom of God as coming,
not through regeneration, but through social revolution. Like the Israelites during the time of Gideon, the Jews of
Jesus’ day believed that God was going to fix the earth by first fixing the world’s systems.
But the church cannot fix the world through the power of politics. The church has been given tools for bringing
change into the world: evangelism, worship of the Triune God, faithfulness to God’s word, applying the Lordship of
Christ to every area. Now government must be evangelized just as every other area, but the best a Christianized
government can do is to fulfill its God-appointed goal of retraining evil. The rest is left up to the church.
This explains one of the reasons why it is important to have a separation of church from state. Without that
separation, it would be easy for government to begin using its resources to do what it is the church’s
responsibility to do, and visa versa.
Although the state is not subservient to the church, Rom 13 and Jn. 19:1 make clear that the state, no less than
the church, is under the authority of God.
As Christians we should certainly vote and involve ourselves in the political process, because through doing so
we can influence the government to maintain law and order. Christian lawmakers, who understand the principle of
sphere sovereignty, need to run for office and be a positive voice. But we should avoid thinking that simply by
electing enough Christians to office that the government and the nation are going to be Christianized. The
government and our nation will only be Christianized when the whole system, from the very top to the very bottom,
submits to the Lordship of Jesus.
Morality and Government
To affirm the separation of church and state does not mean
that we can separate God from state, morality from state or religious values from state. Not only is it not a good
idea to try to separate these things, but it is impossible.
Have you ever heard someone say that government can’t legislate morality?
Morality is about the only thing government can legislate. When government makes laws against stealing, against
kidnapping, against murder, they are legislating morality. They are using coercion to impose a system of ethics.
And that is inescapable unless you have no government (anarchy).
By adopting a legal system at all a nation is, by definition, imposing some kind of morality on the populace.
Legislation, by definition, is the codification in law of some particular moral concern, normally so that the
immorality of a few is not forcibly inflicted on the rest of us. To say, “I don’t want to impose my morality on
anyone” is simply an advertisement to be robbed. As soon as a lawmaker says ‘thou shalt not steal’, he has imposed
his moral beliefs on others. And that’s what everybody wants, despite everyone saying that lawmakers shouldn’t try
to impose their moral beliefs on others. No one wants a President who says, “I don’t want my decisions to be driven
by any moral considerations.” People want a government that is going to protect them, which means using coercion to
impose morality.
Charles Colson recently lamented the times throughout history when Christians have tried to impose their values,
resulting in “bloody crusades and inquisitions.” But during those times in history where Christians have been
guilty of outrages, it is because they weren't imposing their values, not because they were.
The question is not whether government will try to impose values or morality, but which morality they will try
to impose? And what standard are they using? Are they deciding what is moral based on their own personal whims, or
is there an objective standard that they are using? That is where questions of religion kick in and become
inescapable? Are we going to base morality on the religion of secularism, Christianity, Darwinism, humanism or some
other system?
It remains unclear what people really mean or want when they say lawmakers shouldn’t try to impose morality on
citizens.
Religion and Government
Just as it is impossible to have a state without
legislating morality, so it is also impossible to separate religion and government.
People are inescapably religious because of how they were made. A person’s religion may be Christianity, or it
may be secular humanism, or it may be utilitarianism, or it may be the worship of self, or it may be a combination,
but every person has a religion in the broad sense in which I am using the term.
A religion answers the following questions: What is the source of my values? What standard do I appeal to on
moral questions? What are my gods? What determines which things in life are important and which things are not?
Just as all legal systems necessarily try to impose morality, so all legal systems are necessarily religious in
this broad sense. Every state has its gods that it tries to protect.
The way you can tell what the gods of a state are is by seeing who the final authority is. When you get to the
point past which there is no appeal, then you have identified the god of that system. Because man is inescapably
religious, all societies are theocracies somehow. There will always be a point of ultimate justification - if you
don't have a Supreme Being, you will wind up with a Supreme Court, and they will be treated as God.
If the people are the final authority, then the people are being treated as god. If the monarch is the final
authority, then the monarch is being treated as god. Christians affirm that Jesus Christ is the final authority
since the authority of a ruler is delegated by God (Rom 13 & Jn. 19:11). Whether we are talking about a
democracy, a monarchy, a republic or a dictatorship, Christians recognise God as the highest authority.
Religion and politics cannot be separated. Politics is grounded in ethics and ethics is always religious,
whether explicitly or implicitly. Herbert Schlossberg makes the point this way:
"Laws are always theologically based, whether or not they are so acknowledged. In the societies of the ancient
Near East, laws were always associated with deity. The famous Hammurabi stele, for example, shows the sun god
Shemash giving the Babylonian laws to the king. The laws had to have ultimacy, or they could not work as intended.
When law loses what only the conviction of ultimacy can bestow, it degenerates into pragmatism, and that means that
breakdown is near. Right and wrong become questions of risk versus reward, and morality then is purely a matter of
calculation." [Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 47]
Josef Stalin tried to produce a society in which religion and politics were kept strictly separate (although he
was very religious in his atheism). Stalin said: “We guarantee the right of every citizen to combat by argument,
propaganda and agitation, any and all religion. The Communist Party cannot be neutral toward religion. It stands
for science, and all religion is opposed to science.” (Stalin, ‘Declaration to American Labor Delegation,’ Moscow,
September 7, 1927) The scary thing is that many liberals today are arguing for the same thing.
The alternative to Hitler, Stalin and the French revolution is not democracy. “Idolizing democratic government
as the antithesis to a Hitler or a Stalin ignores the fact that a tiny handful of people cannot rule without the
tacit agreement of the masses.” [Schlossberg, p. 49] The alternative to Hitler, Stalin and the French revolution is
for government to acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Arleigh Burke chair in strategy at the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies. “Oil exports were almost the only Iraqi source of money. So you would have to pay for government
salaries, maintain the army, and you have triggered a level of national animosity far worse than we did. It
would be the worst kind of neo-colonialism. Not even Britain did that.” 
This higher devil cautions Wormwood that he must keep
the patient comfortable at all costs. If he should start thinking about anything of importance,
encourage him to think about his luncheon plans and not to worry so much because it could cause
indigestion. And then the devil gives this instruction to his nephew: 'I, the devil, will always
see to it that there are bad people. Your job, my dear Wormwood, is to provide me with people who
do not care.'"2
Then they say things like, “Trump doesn’t really understand these issues; he
really wants to do right, but he’s getting bad advice.” BARF! If he didn’t understand the issues, he’s had two
full years as President of the United States to get caught up. But he continues to make the same
unconstitutional, big-government, warmongering decisions over and over again. The excuse that “he wants to do
right, but is getting bad advice” just doesn’t wash anymore. It’s time for Trump’s supporters to wake up and
realize that Donald Trump is a great big boy, not a little kid, and is fully capable of thinking for
himself.
*Barr was a full-time CIA operative, recruited by Langley out of high
school, starting in 1971. Barr’s youth career goal was to head the CIA.
As you are probably aware, Pastor Coates was arrested on February 16, 2021
and could be held in prison until his court date in early May. The charges pertain to undue local governmental
restrictions regarding exercising our God ordained right to assemble as the body of Christ for worship of our
Lord.
