America Was A Christian Nation
Preface
The original Hebrew Israelite nation, formed at Mount Siani, was the first Monotheistic Republican governmental system. The second was the United States of America with its "Theocratic Constitutional Republic." The Hebrew system of government began with one man as the personal and direct administrator of the Divine God himself making all decisions concerning civil law and religious practices.
"And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: When they have a matter they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws." (Exodus 18:14‑16)
This power was later delegated to the heads of the families, heads of the various tribes, and a parliament of 70 elders with all unresolvable problems decided upon by Moses himself as the direct administrator of God.
"How can I [Moses] myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes [elect Senators and Representatives], and I will make them rulers over you... So I [Moses] took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons to judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do." (Deuteronomy 1:12‑18)
The Christian concept derived directly from the Hebrew Holy Writ was the next ingredient added to the monotheistic governing process and this is where the Theocratic Constitutional Republic form of limited government of the people, by the people, and for the people originated from, Creating the United States of America.
Israelite System of Government Typical of Christianity. The entire Israelite system is a typical one. It is chronologically divided into seven periods, beginning with the fathers, the Judges, the Kings and back to a Republic to eventually culminate with our King of Kings and Lord of Lords taking His rightful place as the King of Israel, over regathered Israel.
The United States of America. As a system of types, it possesses a double application.
First: it represents the whole history of the world from Noah's times to the establishment of the final Kingdom, the United States of America.
Second: it represents the full history of Christianity from the first advent to the second, inclusive.
The first period is that of the fathers, embracing Isaac as a type of Christ; the second is that of the patriarchs, in which Judah was a type of Christ; the third is that of the descent into Egypt, and union of the Israelite family with the throne, in which Joseph was a type of Christ; the fourth is the bondage of Israel, in which the infant Moses was a type of the infant Jesus; the fifth is the exodus and organization of a church and state in the wilderness, in which the lawgiver Moses was a type of the lawgiver Christ; the sixth is the conquest and settlement of Canaan, in which Joshua was a type of Christ; and the seventh is the period of royalty, in which David was a type of Christ.
1). To this picture, the seven periods of the world's history sublimely correspond, or will correspond when the cycle of its woes and triumphs is complete.
The three fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, coincide with Shem, Ham, and Japhet; the twelve patriarchs correspond with the twelve sons of Shem and Japhet, who were the heirs of the world; the descent into Egypt, and the regal association of the Israelites, conform to the first great apostasy in the present earth, and the union of church and state in Babel under Nimrod, or the descent into spiritual Egypt and Sodom; the Israelite bondage coincides with the universal bondage of the world under paganism, and its evils of political and usury bondage.
The exodus and giving of the law, and organization of the Levitical church under Moses, coincide with Jesus Christ, the call of the lost tribes of Israel to the liberty of the gospel, the gospel laws, and the organization of the church of True Israel, or Christianity. The conquest and republic in Canaan typified the conquest of absolutism, and the millennial republic in Europe and America, and its ascendency over the world.
The completion of the conquest under the three kings, together with the royalty itself, coincide with the predicted conquest of the entire world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God in the regenerated heavens and earth. This is not to say that there will not be unbelievers in the future world with Christ as King, because the scriptures clearly relate that there will be. "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it [New Jerusalem] shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." (Revelation 21:24‑27); "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." (Revelation 22:14‑15)
2). The three fathers typified the Holy Trinity, taught so plainly by the gospel; and the twelve patriarchs typified the twelve apostles.
The descent into Egypt and union with the Egyptian throne, coincide with the descent of spiritual Israel into spiritual Egypt, of the union of the church of Christ's Israel with the throne of the Roman empire. The Israelite bondage consequent upon the descent into Egypt coincides with the civil and spiritual bondage suffered by spiritual Israel, after the union of church and state.
The exodus from typical Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, the overthrow of Pharaoh's host, the general thanksgiving, the organization of a republican confederacy of thirteen tribes, composed of three millions of people; the adoption of a written constitution by the tribes; the separation of the church and state departments, their freedom from control of one by the other; their laws of servitude and naturalization, and their full organization and deliverance under a noble leader, in a wilderness, have all a complete correspondence in the United States of America.
The conquest of Canaan, the overthrow of its monarchies in two great battles under Joshua, and the firm establishment of republicanism on both sides of Jordan, represent the conquest of Absolutism in Europe in two great battles, and the establishment of the millennial republic on both sides of the Atlantic, in the land promised to Abraham. The choice of a royalty by the Israelites, and the full conquest of the land of promise, "from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates," coincide with that period predicted by Daniel, in which the saints shall take the kingdom, and give the kingdom and dominion to one like unto the Son of Man, who shall come to "the people of the saints" in the clouds of heaven. These expositions will doubtless be new to every one, for few have attempted to explain the Israelite types as a system, and but few of the parts of the system have ever been interpreted and applied.
The field before us, like others we have ventured to explore, is a trail with few footsteps, and our views should therefore be neither received nor rejected without reason; and study, they may be new, yet antiquity of opinions does not prove their truth, nor is novelty always proof of error. Our expositions here harmonize with our expositions of the prophets and doctrines of the Bible, which would be impossible unless they were correct in all points, for error can not be harmoniously systematized. We are now honor bound to show some fair reasons for these views, and we hope shall be as satisfactory to reasonable minds as the nature of the case will admit.
In order to prove our points, we must possess some rule for testing a type, or of distinguishing it from an accidental resemblance. A type is an example, pattern, or general similitude to a person, event, or thing which is to come. The term type is sometimes synonymous with that of symbol. It then is an abstract or compendium, a sign or representation of something moral by the figures or properties of natural things. Among theological writers we find no complete rule laid down by which to identify types. some things have been written upon them, but nothing satisfactory to a thorough inquirer. Having, therefore, no rule given us by others by which to be guided, we offer the following as truthful and sufficient:
1). Those things, persons, or events in the ages prior to Christianity which were expressly arranged by immediate divine interference, either by remarkable providences or by miracle, may be regarded as types or symbols.
2). It is, and has been universally conceded in all the ages of Christianity, that the whole Israelite dispensation, together with the preceding dispensations to Noah and Adam, were typical dispensations, rather than realizing ones.
3). Those events, persons, and things in the dispensations prior to Christianity, and which have had their exact counterparts in the Christian dispensation, must be regarded as types. No accidental resemblances can ever be considered as types, for our principles require that the events or persons or things in the Christian age to be regarded as antitypes, must have resemblance not only in character but in the order of sequence. The typical dispensation being a system stretching over ages, its several types follow each other in regular order, and in the realizing age, the counter-parts of the several types must follow each other in the same regular order.
4). Whatever the scriptures affirm to be a type, must be esteemed such.
The three fathers were expressly arranged as a trinity by the miraculous power of Almighty God. Abraham was divinely called to enter Canaan; Isaac was born by miraculous interposition; and Jacob/Israel was born in answer to the prayer of Isaac. (Genesis 25:21) Isaac, as the second person of this trinity of fathers, was offered as the only begotten son of his father on Mt. Moriah, and thus clearly typified the offering of the only begotten Son of God by his father. As Abraham received Isaac as from the dead, and thus occurred a type of the resurrection of Christ and of the dead in general, so God received Jesus from the dead, and He became the first fruits of them that slept.
The limiting of the fathers to the number three, shows that it was an intentional limitation, and being in a typical dispensation, plainly confirms the number as typical. Of course we are to look in the plan of redemption for the counterpart trinity of heads of a race. This counterpart or antitype is found only in the trinity of the three heads of the human race and in the divine trinity. The coincidence being perfect in each case, the type is realized in each.
The humiliation of Ham, of Isaac, and of Christ is a triennial coincidence and wonderfully correct. The twelve patriarchs being a number clearly ordered by God, was unquestionably typical, and as every one subscribes to this truth, we need not argue the question. We therefore look into the plan of redemption to find its antitype, which must coincide in the number of persons and in exact order of sequence after the three heads of a race.
The sons of Shem, Ham and Japhet were the natural inheritors of the promises to the three fathers, but as the sons of Ham were given to Japhet and Shem, as servants, the heirship of the world fell to the twelve sons of Shem and Japhet [Which explains the remarkable success the Jew have had in their total control of the Communist Nations of the world]. The heirs of the three typical fathers in the above twelve heirs of the world find a striking coincidence.
The twelve apostles chosen as the especial heirs of the kingdom of the Divine Trinity also plainly coincide with the twelve patriarchs. Christ said to the twelve apostles, that when his kingdom was fully established they should eat and drink at His table in His kingdom, and sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The term judging here used, has the sense of ruling or administering government; and the term Israel, means all the seed of Abraham "redeemed" by Christ, or all of the redeemed of the world.
The descent into Egypt of the seventy souls of the patriarchs and families, finds its coincidence in order and character of events, in the submission of the true people of God to the sway of Nimrod, and of the union of church and state under Constantine and Justinian.
The union, of Jacob/Israel's family with Pharaoh's in the throne of Egypt was divinely arranged, and it was really the union of the Hebrew Church with the Egyptian State: in this union the church was inferior to the Pharaoh in the throne. The particulars of the coincidence between this union of church and state are not so clearly marked under the monarchy of Nimrod in history, but the fact of the subjection of God's people to him in the throne is as clear; and had we a full history of the matter, we might find the coincidence minutely perfect.
The Empire of Rome, John says, is "spiritually called Sodom and Egypt," (Revelation 11:8) and the descent of the Christians into union with Rome is therefore a clear counterpart or antitype of the union of the Hebrew Church with Egyptian royalty. For the likeness is perfect as to events, and the chronological order of the events is relatively the same. The bondage of the Israelites in Egypt finds also a double coincidence in time and character in the world's great history and in the history of Christianity.
From the days of the subjection to Nimrod, the people of the world have been in general bondage to regal or totalitarian governments and to Satan's spiritual power; and while one race of men have been bondmen, all have been servants of sin and Satan, as subjects of political and spiritual despotisms. The task‑masters of the Israelite heirs of the promise, find their correspondence in kings, and princes of the earth.
In the union of church and state, true religion was soon to decrease, and all the true seed of Abraham were grievously persecuted or destroyed. The destruction of the Israelite infants was comparative kindness to the extensive butchery brought upon them by the Jews of recent times.
The deliverance from bondage, the constitutional law, and the journey or probation under the law in the wilderness, find a double and sublime counterpart:
1). In the appearance of Christ as a second Moses, the new constitutional law He promulgated, and the long wilderness‑like probation of His people in past ages.
2). In the passage of the sea by Christ's people, to the land of enlargement promised by God to Abraham, the establishment of the Christian constitution of the United States, and the testing of the ability of the people to uphold it and be happy under it.
One should not fail to note that the coincidence of the history of Israel with the world's general history, is seen principally in the larger features of the Israelite system, and that in the narrower diameter of the Christian era the coincidence between Israelite and Christian history is seen in an ever greater number of points.
That Moses and Christ coincide, the scriptures affirm; and that the plan of the redemption of Israel taught by Christ, began an exodus from spiritual and political bondage, which will end in the release of the world, as Israel was released from Egypt, every one admits. The probation in the wilderness was needed to accustom the people to new laws based upon republican principles, and the republican principles of Christianity needed to be tried by Israel a long season, in order to be appreciated, and ultimately adhered to with tenacity. Hence we read:
"...the woman fled into the wilderness from the face of the dragon for a time times and half a time."
The ceremonial law, given in connection with the moral and political law or constitution, is affirmed by scripture to have been typically illustrative of the Christian system. The book of Hebrews gives the philosophy of the ceremonial law, and teaches that the whole Israelite economy was "a shadow of good things go come," "a figure for the time then present." As the bondage was followed by the scheme of Israel's redemption, so the universal bondage of the world was followed by the scheme of the world's ultimate redemption.
When Israel sighed by reason of oppression, and was willing to change its condition, and call to mind the promises, then a deliverer came; and when our Israel people of the United States sigh for relief, and is willing to hear of a change, then the world will sigh for relief, and will be willing to hear of a change, then a calm will fill the earth, and angels will herald the "desire of all nations," and the star of the east will once again hang over Bethlehem.
Secondly; the exodus from Egyptian bondage, the organization of a republican confederacy, and the probation under it till the conquest of Canaan, were typical of the exodus of the Christians from Europe, spiritual Egypt, to America, their organization of the republican confederacy of the United States, and their probation under a Republic up to the time of the conquest of absolutism.
The coincidences between these two great periods are more numerous than between any other typical and anti‑typical period whatever, excepting that of the same typical period and the epoch of Christianity. We may premise here, that it should be specially recollected that like things always typify their like: thus, a person used as a type typifies a person; an event typifies an event; a thing typifies a thing:
A country typifies a country; a period typifies a period; a church typifies a church; a state typifies a state; a bondage typifies a bondage; a deliverance typifies a deliverance; a probation typifies a probation; a war typifies a war; a priest typifies a priest, and a king typifies a king. One should now notice, more at large, the points of correspondence between the Israelite period of deliverance and the Christian period.
1). The children of "the free woman," or Israelites were freed by the exodus from the servitude of Egypt; and so the children of the free woman or Christians were, by the great exodus to America, freed from the bondage of "spiritual Egypt and Sodom," Europe. Let it ever be fixed in the mind, that almost all Christians are the seed of Abraham; they are the White Anglo‑ Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic peoples of the Christian Nations of the world, or the free woman, and full heirs of the promises.
2). The Israelites were pursued by the oppressor, and he was vanquished; and so the Christians were pursued by the oppressor, and he was vanquished.
3). The Israelites crossed a sea to get away from bondage, and so did the Christians in coming to America.
4). The Israelites sought the land promised to their paternal head, and so the Christians, in their exodus to America, come to the land promised to Abraham, their paternal head.
5). At the destruction of the Egyptian tyrant's forces, Israel decreed a general thanksgiving to God, and so when the modern Pharaoh was defeated, a general thanksgiving was decreed by the American Congress. Songs and shouts; and all the demonstrations of exultation, joined with Miriam to celebrate God's name, and so songs and shouts, bonfires, illuminations, ringing of bells, tears of rapture, devout worship, and lofty thanksgiving celebrated the same God's praise through all our land. The Israelite exodus was a short period, but the American one extends from 1607 to 1996 and perhaps beyond.
6). According to Dr. Adam Clarke, and others, the number of the Israelites that escaped from bondage was estimated to be about three million; and the number of people in the revolutionary colonies, in 1776, was about three million.
7). The sea was frozen when the Israelites reached the safe side, and the Pilgrim Fathers found a frozen sea, and a snow covered shore, when they landed in America. This may or may not have been an accidental, and not a providential correspondence.
8). The Israelites were organized as a confederacy of thirteen tribes, and so there were thirteen colonies providentially organized into a Christian confederacy. Israel's tribes were called twelve, but out of Joseph there sprung two tribes who received an inheritance, thus making thirteen. It is also remarkable, that William Penn was proprietor of two colonies, Pennsylvania and Delaware. As Joseph was imprisoned, and yet had a double and birthright portion on account of his virtue, so William Penn suffered imprisonment for his virtue, and yet had a double portion.
9). The Israelite exodus was into a wilderness which was to be inherited as a part of the promised land; and so the exodus of the Christians was to a wilderness, which was a noble portion of Abraham's promised inheritance.
10). The Israelite confederacy was organized into a "more perfect union" after the exodus, by adopting a written constitution: and so the confederate colonies, after the war of independence, "in order to for a more perfect union," (Hebrews 9:11) adopted a written representative Republican federation constitution. The Israelite constitution was submitted to the tribes for acceptance and ratification (Exodus 19:8); and so was the American constitution. It is not a little remarkable, that the Israel and American constitutions are the only two written ones ever known to have been adopted at the birth of any nation, prior to 1776!
11). The Israelite nationality grew of the Hebrew church, or the seed of Abraham; and so the American nationality grew out of the Christian church, and the seed of Abraham. All of the Americans were not Christians at the framing of the constitution, and so were not all of the Israelites pious; as their culpable unbelief shows. Yet the unbelieving Israelites enjoyed the same political benefits as did the faithful, and so it was with the Americans. About one hundred and forty‑four thousand Christians were in America at the time of the Revolution, yet the prevalence of Christian maxims and principles was universal, and the virtuous political principles avowed by the Christians were adopted by all classes.
12). Church and state were disunited by the Israelite constitution and placed in the relation of associates. The church was debarred, as a church, from exercising direct control in civil affairs, and so it was in the American constitution.
Many have either ignorantly or willfully mistaken the relations which the Israelite church and state held to each other. Some mistakes may have occurred on account of the fact, that, as some laws were alike political and spiritual, it was supposed consequently that all laws were so. The Sabbath, the Sabbatic and jubilee years, and the rite of circumcision, were regulations of both a spiritual and secular nature. But with us the Sabbath illustrates the case of these laws, for we regard it as both a sacred and a secular institution: as a secular institution, its observance is compelled as a day of repose to wearied nature, and to prevent oppressors from grinding the poor to death by ceaseless toil; and also to give vigor to the general operations of society by the universal refreshment it bestows.
The civil arm has, with us, no right to compel its observance as a spiritual institution, and should have none. Precisely so was it in the Israelite law. The civil power was not the head of the Israelite church, as the monarchs of Rome, Russia, and England have been of the Roman, Greek and English churches. Neither the Judges nor kings of Israel could appoint a high priest of the church; nor could the priesthood compel the paying of tithes, or the offering of sacrifices, nor require the secular arm to do it. In spiritual matters the Israelite was responsible only to God and to the ecclesias-tical law of God, and was in no way responsible to civil authority for his spiritual conduct.
The United States Constitution puts religion in just exactly the same relation to civil authority that God ordered, in the days of Moses. However, evil men in government, are today trying to control the churches through man made laws and statutes. The disunion of church and states is the great prophetic epoch of liberty and progress according to both Daniel and John. It is the beginning of the end of despotism, and when it fully prevails the "time of the end" will close, and despotism will forever cease on earth. The two separate departments of religion and politics in the Israel confederacy exactly coincide with these two departments in our country. At least it did in the beginning.
13). The political offices of the Hebrews were elective, and not hereditary, and so it is in our government.
14). Their government was not originally an aristocratic republic; the people decided in general assembly all questions of war, treaties, and peace, and Moses always appealed to the whole, and not to the few aristocrats, to accept or reject his propositions.
Josephus says it was an aristocratic republic, but it is plain that he must speak of the executive department of the government and not of the legislative. We might in a similar manner call our government an aristocratic republic. The term aristocratic meant, anciently, the best; it now signifies, in an odious sense, the worst!
15). The people of Israel chose God as their only king, and renounced allegiance to all other monarchs by acclamation, and so did the people of the United States.
16). The Israelite constitution recognized the institution of bondage, and so does/did the American constitution.
17). The Israelite constitution forbade foreigners ever becoming supreme magistrates, and so does the American.
18). The Israelite constitution provided for the naturalization of foreigners, and so does the American, but not so strictly.
These coincidences between the exodus of Israel and that of the Christians, are of the most extraordinary nature if we take them singly, but when taken together they are nothing less than miraculous.
The sixth period of Israelite history, which includes the conquest of Canaan and establishment of the republic, coincides with the sixth period of the world, and the sixth of Christianity. The great points in this period particularly noticeable are these: first, the conquest of Canaan was completed by two great battles; secondly, the conquest of Canaan under Joshua and the Judges did not embrace all of the promised land.
The promise extended from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates, and was not realized until the days of Solomon. The prophets assure us, the monarchies of the Japhetic race shall be broken in two great battles at the conquest by Liberty, and hence the war for possession of Canaan by republican Israel, coincides with the predicted war of the Christian republicans for possession of the territories of Japhet. And the two great battles and victories of Joshua coincide with the two predicted battles in the war for liberty. These two battles are pointed out by John in Ezekiel 38 and 39 and in the 14th chapter of Revelation, and in other places. The first is indicated by; "I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company" and "I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee."
Then "One like unto the Son of Man" on a white cloud who "thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped;" and the second by the reaping of the vine of the earth, and its being cast into the wine‑press without the city, and the blood coming out of it "even unto the horse bridles, by the space of sixteen hundred furlongs."
And again John says, that three agencies went forth to gather all the kings of the earth to the battle of the great day of God Almighty, and that they assembled at a place called Armageddon. He then, after a short episode, describes the United States and the attack of the confederate kings upon it, and states that the beast or Russian power was taken, and that Europe or the False Prophet was taken at the same time.
The reaping of the earth signifies the destruction of European monarchy, and the reaping of the vine indicated the dreadful flow of blood at the fall of all the European thrones. As all thrones in Canaan fell before carnal Israel to make room for the republic, so all thrones must fall before Christian Israel to make room for the great republic.
Let sceptics smile at our simplicity in writing the doom of European thrones: yet let them be serious as they hear Daniel the prophet saying, "I beheld till the thrones were cast down," and "became lie the chaff of the summer threshing‑floor, and the wind carried them away, and there was no place found for them." (Daniel 2:35; 7:9)
The world was promised to Abraham as truly as was Canaan, and Canaan was but typical of the world. A country typifies a country, and a people typifies a people; and so the conquest of a large part of Canaan was, therefore, typical of the conquest of a large portion of the earth; and as a republic typified a republic, the commonwealth established in a great part of Canaan, typifies a common-wealth erected over a great part of the earth.
The Millennium so often and lovingly spoken of in the pulpits of America is clearly a state of the world in which a portion of it only is embraced under the blessings of civil and religious republicanism, or Christianity. The seventh period of Israelite history coincides with the seventh of the world and of Christianity.
This period is that in which the republic was changed to a monarchy by the universal voice of the people. During the reign of a trinity of monarchs, the promised land was taken from the foe, a capital of the kingdom was selected, and a temple of transcendent glory was raised, and the Israelites attained the zenith of splendor. As like typifies its like, this royalty typified a royalty, and the full conquest, under it, of all the typically promised land, typified the full conquest of the world under the final royalty of Christ.
Now, prophecy declares that the people shall at last give up the government of the world to the Son of Man, who shall come in the clouds of heaven, and that He shall destroy all the wicked, shall renew the world, and reign for ever among men. It further says that the capital of the redeemed world shall descend out of heaven to the earth; and it will hold the same relation to all the world that old Jerusalem did to Canaan. We have now briefly pointed out the great coincidences between the seven periods of the world from Noah to the final redemption, and the seven periods of Christianity.
We have by no means descended to notice the minute resemblances between Christianity and Hebrewism as religious type and anti‑type, which fully accord with our expositions; we have refrained from touching them for want of space, and because they have been largely set forth by others.
We will, later go further, pointing out the coincidence of the Israelite history with Christianity. One more point and we shall close this introduction. It may be inquired why we have a right to give seven periods to Israelite history rather than any other number. To this query we reply, first, that the periods we have given are plainly great ones, and are marked out as such by nature of providence.
Secondly, each of these periods is also marked by a clear type of Messiah. Thus in the first period, that of the fathers, Isaac was clearly a type of Christ. In the second, or that of the patriarchs, Judah was a type of Christ. The septer was not to depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver, until Shiloah came, and he was to be the "Lion of the tribe of Judah."
In the third period, Joseph is called "the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel," (Genesis 49:24) and is allowed by all to prefigure Christ most graphically. In the fourth period, the infant Moses prefigures the infant Jesus. As Pharaoh decreed the destruction of the Israelite infants, so did Herod, the Jew; and as Moses was providentially preserved, so was Christ; and as Moses came unto his own and they received him not, so did Christ. In the fifth period, Moses, as a prophet, declares that he was a type of our Lord; and in the sixth period, Joshua prefigured Jesus according to Paul, and in the seventh period, David was certainly the type of his Son Jesus.
Biblical Basis For The Frame Work Of The United States
The Kingdom of God on Earth
The very foundations of the United States of America, was taken directly from the Laws of God as stated in the Holy Scriptures. The claims of the Anti-Christs notwithstanding. Even though liberation theology appears bent on under-mining the Christian faith from within, in an effort to destroy its uniqueness and the freedom it has enjoyed for generations.
The attempt of modern Christianity to evangelize the world has erased the color line in the Church, greatly accelerated interracial marriage, and brought the Church of Jesus Christ to a day of real peril. Universalism in salvation history is not found in the Bible.
It is the vain imagination of man running wild before God and in disobedience to His Word. Is it not about time that we were content to leave the non‑Israelites of the world to follow their gods and their religions and rest content in the knowledge that God has ordained the Bible and the salvation history contained therein for His people Israel?
Why do we want to rewrite the Bible in the image of fallen man? Why do we seek to make the Bible something that God did not intend? Let the non‑Israelites of the world follow their gods, build their temples, and read their religious books. Bring back the Israelite missionaries that are running to the far corners of the earth with a program God did not ordain. Is it not about time that we believed God and Scripture and be content to hear the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 15:14: "...I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
As for Israel, let them follow Jesus Christ, be faithful to His Commandments, and evangelize their own kind. What God hath ordained let no man seek to change. Whenever the Anglo-Saxon people allow the Book to be closed, through neglect or a refusal to heed its warnings or listen to its message, the ensuing spiritual decadence brings retribution in sorrow, trouble and national calamities. The forces of evil were unable to close the open Book at the time of the Spanish Armada, but now they have succeeded in bringing about the closing of the Book in the evil doctrine of modernism. The teachings of this sugarcoated Judeo-Christian atheism have literally closed the Book to the understanding of multitudes of our people.
Our people, today, face a crisis of such magnitude as has never before been experienced by our nation or people. It was a day of evil for our land when modernism entered our seminaries and graduated into the pulpits of our churches - and it was brought in through traitors to Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and by their enemies; who falsely claimed to be Christian.
With the advent of this Judeo-Christian modernism the Book began to close and people turned away from its truths until today millions never look into its pages nor read its message. A state of spiritual decadence is afflicting our land with unbelief, from the men who stand in our pulpits to those who sit in the pews and the multitudes that crowd the streets of our cities. Let us once again open the Book before it is too late, that there may be a revival of interest, bringing such a spiritual awakening that it will enable God to save us.
Let those who are in authority seek for Divine guidance as they pilot the Ship of State through troubled waters. They must yet open the Book and follow the instructions of God contained in this Book of books; there is no other solution for the crisis ahead, nor can we expect victory over our enemies until there is compliance with these requirements. Of Israel the Lord said:
"Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off." (Exodus 23:20-23)
Today that Mighty Angel has "in his hand a little book opened." Let us obey His voice and follow the instruction of the opened Book that our enemies may become God's enemies and our adversaries His adversaries. If we continue to provoke Him by refusing to believe, to read, to study and to be guided by the instruction of the open Book, there will be no one but ourselves to blame for the troubles and national calamities that will come upon us. May the figurehead, the man with the open Book, so markedly portraying the reason for America's greatness, be a symbol of a soon awakening throughout our land to the need of opening our Bibles that God's Will may be done and our country and people saved from all their enemies. The original charters, compacts, contracts, and constitutions, all had their origin in the Bible. All the laws, rules, and regulations concerning civil, religious, and hygiene were taken from the Bible and patterned after the Christian Faith. All of the Common Law of the United States of America came directly out of the Old Testament books of the Holy Bible, namely, the original source of our Common Law was the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
We will present a brief rendition of the contents contained herein so you will be able to see and understand what is being presented much better.
1). Decentralization of Government: Deuteronomy 1; Exodus 18, show that the Ancient Hebrew Republic was decentralized.
1 Samuel 8 shows God was against the Children of Israel in attempting to centralize power by asking for a king. However, Yahweh had told Moses several hundred years prior to that time, that the Children of Israel would, in deed, demand a king; that they would refuse to have Him rule over them. (Deuteronomy 17:14-15) That the result of their rejecting Yahweh would result in tyranny. 1 Chronicles 11:3; Deuteronomy 1:13-17 demonstrate our Israelite people were to have only local self-government - government by consent of the people. Deuteronomy 17:6-7 shows the people were to enforce the law, not the government. In order to keep the government as close to the people as possible, strong local and regional governments should be established with a limited national or central government. Such a division of power is a safeguard against the tyranny of the centralization of power which the pagans prefer.
History has shown that centralization of governmental power destroys the liberty and rights of man. The way to have good and safe government is to divide the power among the people and the localities, instead of entrusting it to one central body. Civil government in a country should be subdivided into many levels; local, regional, national. The power of each level should be clearly defined and sovereign in those defined areas. No level of government should be able to usurp the jurisdiction of another. A great majority of the power should rest on the local level.
The power of the national government, on the other hand, should be limited to matters like defence, foreign policy, regulation of inter-regional and foreign commerce, citizenship laws, coining money, patents and copyrights. Those chosen to represent the people must be forced to face the same people frequently in order to be re-elected. This establishes accountability. Half of the national legislature of the Ancient Hebrew Republic was composed of an elected house of officers called 'judges' which were selected on the basis of population, not regional or tribal representation. (Deuteronomy 1:13-17; Exodus 18:12-26)
Another house of their legislature was composed of two appointed 'elders' and two scribes/lawyers representing each geographic region (tribe) plus the 24 priests totalling 70 men. This unelected body was known as the Sanhedrin. The elected representatives of the people were chosen on the basis of population: 10s, 50s, 100s and 1000s. Moses would swear them in or 'appoint' them only after they were selected by the people. (Deuteronomy 1:13)
A multi-party system and the right of any citizen to form a party are essential. In addition, the vote must be secret so that no pressure or fear of reprisal can influence the outcome and the vote must be available to all citizens equally, regardless of race, color, social status, religion or gender.
2). Constitutionalism: Deuteronomy 5, 6, 8; Romans 13:1-2 gives us the Rule of Law. Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; Deuteronomy, Exodus 20; list the Ten Commandments, God's Laws and Statutes. 2 Corinthians 3:17; John 19:11 show the Creator endowed our rights, and that they were not government-granted rights or privileges.
The concept of constitutionalism began when Moses presented the Book of the Covenant to the people at Mount Sinai. (Exodus 19:5-8; 20:2-17) This initiated the concept of a national covenant or constitution which must be agreed upon by the people before the government has legitimacy.
In a decentralized government a constitution, and a so-called ruling party or parties, is supreme. A government of liberty will be a government of laws, not of rulers or of the majority. In a pure democracy, a simple majority (just over 50%) of the people rule. The rights of the minority could, and most likely, would be in jeopardy under such a government. Therefore, the best form of democracy will be a constitutional democracy. Here, the law is supreme, and both the people and the rulers are subject to the law. This is essential for the protecting of the individual's rights to life, liberty, and property. Since the law is supreme and not the rulers, the people will be protected from the ruler's tyranny.
Many contrast a constitutional republic with a parliamentary form of government in which parliament, rather than a fixed written constitution, is the supreme source of law. However, a Parliament tends to favor whatever groups gain the majority coalition and potentially may oppress the rights of minorities and individuals as it pleases.
3). Separation of Powers: The Ancient Hebrew Republic had separation of power. Isaiah 33:22 reveals the three functions carried out in all governments; legislative, executive, judicial. Since man is fallen and sinful, he must be limited in power, as a prohibitive measure to protect our God- given rights from the tyranny of unjust rulers, which was why there were to be a separation of powers. Every government exercises power through three different branches - the legislative, which makes the laws, the executive which enforces and carries out the laws and the judicial which interprets the laws. The Bible recognizes these three functions in Isaiah 33:22 when it says that the Lord is our King, our Lawgiver and also our Judge. Because God is perfect and all-wise, He can exercise all these functions simultaneously and righteously. Sinful, finite man cannot. Thus one of the ways of limiting government power is to decentralize by ensuring that different people run these different branches of government. Tyranny will result when these three branches are in the same hands. An example of checks and balances is the executive having the right to veto laws passed by the legislative, and the legislative being able to override the veto with a larger percentage vote by their members.
Judicial Tyranny:
Empowered by The People
The United States Supreme Court has run amok. It has dis-emboweled most of the ten Amendments of our Constitution's Bill of Rights; pervert the 11th Amendment (which affects judicial powers); threatened the 12th (presidential election procedures) with computer rigging; allowed "involuntary servitude" (in the form of excessive taxation) once prohibited by the 13th Amendment; paid only lip service to the 14th (regarding citizenship and due process); and abused the 16th (never properly or legally ratified).
In recent years, they've started dismantling our 1st Amendments rights to freedom of speech, press, and petition for redress of grievances. And then on December 1, 1991, they essentially terminated our constitutional right to trial by jury. The destruction of our constitutional rights is based on Judiciary Law 28 USC 2072 which grants the Supreme Court the power to make procedural rules provided that "such rules shall not abridge, enlarge or modify any substantive right." Sounds reasonable enough, but the statute includes the following "repealer:" "All views in conflict with such rules shall be of no further force or effect after such rules have taken effect."
In other words, once these rules are passed, even by default, any previous rules or laws to the contrary are automatically repealed. This repealer renders the statute unconstitutional "on its face" and subject to challenge since the statute permits the supreme court to non‑judicially repeal laws previously passed by the legislature. Nevertheless, the statute and the court's unconstitutional power continue unpublicized and unchallenged. The judiciary's rule making assault on the Constitution started after the Great Depression, when Congress began to shift some of its legislative function to the Supreme Court. Instead of maintaining its constitutional responsibility to legislate the procedural rules of federal courts. Congress ceded that power to the Supreme Court.
At first, the Supreme Court made the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (and also the Federal Rules of Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Appellate Procedure). Later several of the Supreme Court Justices requested that the Supreme court be relieved of the rule making power in order to avoid the "embarrassment of having to sit in judgment on the constitutionality of rules which we have approved and which as applied in given situation might have to be declared invalid." So to insulate the Supreme Court from political repercussions, the rule making the power was shifted to another agency of the judiciary called the "Judicial Conference." (The Judicial Conference includes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of each of the twelve U.S. Circuit Courts, the Chief Judge of the Court of International Trade, and one district court judge from each of the Circuits. The diversity of judges sounds somewhat like a legislature that serves only lawyers, doesn't it?).
Early each year, the Judicial Conference proposes whatever new procedural rules they want. In the Spring, the Supreme Court rubber stamps the Judicial Conference's proposed rules, and sends them to Congress for approval. In Congress, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are responsible for examining the proposed rules and rejecting those that are constitutionally repugnant. (This is a curious reversal of constitutional roles; the judiciary makes the rules, a legislative function, while the congressional committees determine the rules' constitutionality, the legitimate role of the judiciary).
Although Congress can theoretically vote against the proposed rules, they almost never do. Worse, Congress is not even obligated to approve the proposed rules for the rules to pass. Each year, if Congress simply does nothing, the rules pass by "default" and become Law. And that's what typically happens: The Judiciary writes the rules it wants. Congress does nothing, and the rules become Law by default. Worse, any existing law or rule which contradicts the new rules, is automatically repealed without a direct Legislative or Judicial act. Congress has essentially surrendered its obligation to make laws to the Judiciary in an obvious violation of the Constitution and the doctrine of separation of powers.
As proof consider a July, 1991 article in Shepard's Litigation Reporter entitled "Recent Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure." The law industry/lobby is so complacent about this rule‑making process the article noted that these proposed rule amendments "are to take effect on December 1, 1991," but neglected to include the proviso "if Congress doesn't object." Why? Because everyone knows that so long as the people are silent on the issue, Congress won't object in the least, even though this year's rules seek to deny the last vestige of people power: the jury trial. (These rules are currently buried in the House Sub‑Committee on Judicial Administration. When I recently called that committee to protest the proposed new rules, I was told I was the only citizen in the entire United States to have even commented on the rules, let alone protested)
We Were Warned
But none of this is news. We were warned. From 1937 to 1963, the liberal Supreme Court Justices Brandeis, Black, Frankfurter, and Douglas frequently opposed the judiciary's submission of proposed rule amendments to Congress. Excerpts from their objections:
"While some of the Rules of Civil Procedure are simply housekeeping details, many determine matters so substantially affecting the rights of litigants in law suits that in practical effect they are the equivalent of new legislation which...the Constitution requires to be initiated in and enacted by the Congress and approved by the President. The Constitution... provides that all laws shall be enacted by the House, the Senate, and the President, not by the mere failure of Congress to reject proposals of an outside agency. Our chief objection to the rules relate essentially to fact that many of their provisions do 'abridge, enlarge, or modify' substantive rights and do not 'preserve the right to trial by jury' but actually encroach upon it." (Opposition of Justices Black and Douglas to 'January 21, 1963 order of Supreme Court of the United States adopting & amending Rules (368 U.S. 1012));
"...Judges have whittled away or denied the right of trial by jury, through the devices of direct verdicts and judgments notwithstanding verdicts. Although the amendment here is not itself a momentous one, it gives formal sanction to the process by which the courts have been wresting from juries the power to render verdicts. Since we do not approve of this sapping of the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial, we cannot join even this technical coup de grace." (Galloway v. United States, 401‑407, 63 S.Ct. 1077.87 L.Ed. 1458; dissent);
"Such devices are used to impair or wholly take away the power of a jury to render a general verdict. One of the ancient, fundamental reasons for having general jury verdicts was to preserve the right of trial by jury as an indispensable part of a free government...Rule 49 is but another means utilized by the courts to weaken the constitutional power of juries and to vest judges with more power to decide cases according to their own judgments. A scrutiny of the special verdict and written interrogatory cases in appellate courts will show the confusion that necessarily results from the employment of these devices and the ease with which judges can use them to take away the right to trial by jury."
Opposition of Justices Black and Douglas to 'January 21, 1963 order of Supreme Court of the United States adopting & amending Rules (368 U.S. 1012)
Although the liberal Supreme Court Justices sometimes object to proposed rules as being unconstitutional, their warnings were unheard by the public, ignored by the Congress, and outvoted by the balance of the Supreme Court. As a consequence, the Supreme Court and Judicial Conference have caused a constant erosion of our rights by making unconstitutional procedural Laws in small, sneaky steps. But, the Judicial Conference's assault on our constitutional rights is so bold as to be frightening. This year's proposed Rule amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are presently before Congress. On December 1, 1991, these rules were to become Law over the Constitution and statutes, if We, The People, did not intercede. If passed, four of these rules, in particular, will effectively repeal our right to trial by jury. Although these four rules will not prohibit trials by jury, they will end our absolute, constitutional right to trial by jury in federal courts. We will no longer receive a trial by jury as an automatic, undeniable, constitutional right, but only as a privilege to be selectively granted or refused according to the whims of federal judges.
For example, proposed Rule 16(c)(15) will give federal judges the unconstitutional sua sponte power (the ability to act on their own initiative, without even responding to a litigant's motion) to enter summary judgments "to avoid unnecessary costs of trial" at a pretrial conference. If the judge thinks you don't have a case, he can simply decide in favor of your adversary, in the relative secrecy of a pretrial conference. He can deny your right to trial by jury based on nothing more than his personal evaluation of your case's prospects.
Of course, the judge can also deny your right to trial by jury because of your race, your gender, your political affiliation, whether you're pro se, whether your adversary's lawyer is a personal friend of the judge, whether the other side's bribed the judge, or whether your case represents a constitutional issue the courts would rather not consider in public. Federal judges will be able to do all that and more, provided they don't admit it publicly, and justify their actions as per Rule 16(c)(15) as avoiding "unnecessary costs of trial."
Both the current and proposed rule 41(b) permit the involuntary dismissal of cases for failure to comply with other procedural rules or any court order. This Rule violates the right to equal protection under the law because it applies only to plaintiffs, not defendants. Since only plaintiffs are vulnerable, the courts can effectively restrict some kinds of cases or litigants from even initiating a lawsuit (petitioning for redress of grievance), let alone being heard in court.
For example, if you were trying to sue a judge or lawyer, a federal judge could theoretically dismiss your case based ostensibly on the technicality of failing to observe one of the myriad of other procedural rules. This reliance on technicalities may constitute a de facto denial of our right to due process of law. The potential for judicial abuse is obvious. Proposed Rule 50 will give federal judges total tyrannical power to abort a case before giving it to the jury. The "Motion for judgment as a matter of law" will authorize judges to enter judgments at any time during the trial whenever a party has been fully heard with respect to only a single issue (not the whole case) and the judge decides it's apparent that the party is unable to carry the burden of proof essential to his case. Again, there is an enormous potential for abuse.
Proposed Rule 52 (judgment on partial findings) will give judges the same power as in Rule 50, except in non‑jury trials. You can even prepare for trial, start your evidence, and bingo, if the judge becomes bored, your case can be dismissed!
PUBLIC APATHY? OR PUBLIC POWER?
The liberal Justices Brandeis, Frankfurter, Black, and Douglas could not overcome the unconstitutional rule‑making by the Supreme Court and Judicial Conference. And though Congress is obligated to overturn unconstitutional court decisions or decisions which misinterpret the Constitution, they normally ignore their duty, unless they are lobbied. Almost everyone has a lobby; NRA, NAACP, IPAC, Pro‑Choice, Animal Rights, the Environment, etc.
Even judges have a lobby which they use to petition Congress for judicial immunities! With the rise of special interests, PACS, and unbridled political campaign contributions, the people's original lobby, the Congress, has abandoned us. Now, only We, The People, have no lobby, so our government ignores us. It should be painfully clear that if We, the People, do not object, no one else will. We have the power. That power is in the vote and in organizations supporting legal reform. But by failing to use those powers, especially in an organized way, we are surrendering our rights. If we are to stop the judiciary's usurpation of power and our loss of rights, we must stop blaming our legislators as being totally responsible and accept some of the blame ourselves.
Call your Congressman or Senator and demand that Congress overturn any judicial rule making which violate the Constitution. Ask them specifically what the status of
"Proposed Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; 16 (c)(15), 41(b), 50, and 52 ‑ which will give federal judges the unconstitutional power to deny trial by jury, due process of law, and equal protection of the laws. These rules are currently buried in the House Sub‑Committee on Judicial Administration."
4). Trial by Jury: Deuteronomy 16:18-20; Exodus 18:15-16 shows were to receive a fair trial under the law. Exodus 18:15-16 demonstrates the Right of Habeas Corpus. Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:5; Numbers 35:30; Matthew 18:15-16; Hebrews 10:28; 1 Timothy 5:19; 2 Corinthians 13:1 states there must be two or three witnesses against a person.
Another check on sinful men abusing their governmental power is having a court system with judges independent of the executive or legislative branch, and by having trials by jury. The courts are the ones who are to keep an eye on the legislative and executive branches of government and determine their faithfulness to constitutional standards.
The Ancient Hebrew Republic emphasized an independent and impartial judiciary. (2 Chronicles 19:5-10; Exodus 23:1-3; Deuteronomy 17:6; Leviticus 20) It is also asserted in passages such as Deuteronomy 19:15-19 that,
a). One is innocent until proven guilty;
b). The right to due process of law;
c). One cannot be forced to testify against oneself;
d). Accusers must personally confront you so they may be cross-examined, and
e). The right to appeal to a higher court. (Deuteronomy 1:19) Wrongdoers must be punished by judges who, as well as knowing the law, must be honest, refuse bribes and not show favoritism.
However, in order to protect individual liberty and guarantee a fair trial, the judicial system needs a jury made up of unelected individuals who will not be swayed by political pressures and who are drawn at random from the same social level as the defendant. The jury system was foreshadowed in the Ancient Hebrew Republic (Deuteronomy 19:15-21) and in the teaching of Jesus concerning taking cases to the people. (Matthew 18:15-17)
5). Civilian Control of Police and Military Forces: In ancient Israel the people were armed and formed the military. Their leaders were selected or consented to by the people: Even the kings governed by consent (1 Chronicles 11:3. Luke 22:26; Romans 13:1-4; Peter 2:13-14) demonstrates that the people were to have freedom and peace through strength; that they were to bear arms for self-defence. That civil government bears the sword and the rulers were to govern by the people's consent.
Another crucial curb on the power of sinful men in government is a civilian-dominated and controlled police and militia. The Ancient Hebrew Republic clearly separated the leadership of the army from the Executive branch: Moses was the Executive and Joshua was the Commander of the military; David was the King and Joab was the Commander of the military. The members of the militia, or civilian army, supplied their own weapons which presupposed the right to bear arms. (1 Samuel 25:13; Numbers 31:3; 32:20) Any attempt to prohibit the right of an individual to own arms was unbiblical and is a pagan attempt to centralize power. (Judges 5:8; 1 Samuel)
The officers of the armies should not be appointed by the head-of-state, but by elected representatives from their own geographical area. The majority of a nation's army should simply be working citizens who have their own weapons and can be called together quickly. The police force should be locally and regionally controlled and completely separate from military power and from federal control. The head of the police forces should be elected and governed by local government. The rest of the police should be hired by the government as normal employment.
6). Free Market Economy: Genesis 1:26-28; Psalm 115:16; Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 19:14; Ecclesastes 5:19 relate we were to have Private property rights; freedom of individual enterprise.
Ancient Israel ensured that none of the areas under the jurisdiction of the individual, the family and the church were controlled by the State. The only legislation the government could pass in these areas was to protect equal opportunity, liberty and the property of individuals. However separation of church and state did not mean religious individuals were prohibited from influencing politics. A free market economy (within the confines of the United States - not international) is especially important because its components are essential for any country that desires to secure individual liberty and economic productivity. Its components include private property rights, individual enterprise and a free market. Private property includes all things that belong to an individual through his own labors or which has been freely given to him.
This includes land, homes, personal possessions, inventions, wages, his religious beliefs, his opinions, his freedom of speech and his writings. The basic idea of individual enterprise is that when people are free to acquire and own property, produce what they want choose their occupation, live and work where they wish, acquire whatever goods and services they desire, and have access to free markets they will prosper, and, consequently, cause their nation to prosper. In a free market (within the confines of the various states in the United States) people offer quality goods or services that are produced by their special talents and that they feel will be a benefit to the community.
Each person is free to sell or not to sell at whatever price they want to offer, but they cannot force anyone to buy. The price of goods and services will be determined by 'supply and demand.' The government must not interfere in the free market by setting prices and wages, but must protect the free market by punishing theft and fraud. All men are equal in their right to life, liberty, their equal status before the law and their right to acquire property. However, they are not equal in their talents and abilities and therefore in their ability to generate wealth. Each person is created by God and is unique and distinct. He is responsible for his own choices and actions and must also bear the consequences of his decisions. A government which has a false idea of equality says men have an equal right to material possessions and tries to redistribute wealth accordingly. By so doing it stifles initiative and individuality and weakens the country economically.
COMMERCE
One of the most detrimental acts; an act which is clearly evident to those who will only look, which is helping to destroy our beloved America, is international commerce! Yet, our people have been led to believe by traitorous leaders that commerce is good and wonderful. Instead of the tool of destruction Satan is using in his never ending efforts to destroy God's people, the Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred peoples of the word.
Yes the so‑called Christian Nations of the Western World, of whom the United States, the New Jerusalem spoken of in the scriptures; the home of the Kingdom of God when Christ comes to take over His rightful place as the ruler of the earth, are being destroyed by international commerce and because of the culpability of the media, our people cannot see what is happening.
Michaleis in his Commentary on Laws of Moses, Article 39, pointed out the extreme indifference of Moses toward foreign or maritime commerce. To some of the politicians of our day, this will seem little short of remarkable. Yet there is obvious some erroneous ideas lies at the bottom of their amazement. For when they observe the wealth acquired, in recent years, by Japan and Germany, through foreign trade; which is so striking, many are apt to think commerce alone is the true source of national prosperity, and that it is the greatest benefit which a legislator can confer upon his constitutes. The mere mention of the name "commerce" fascinates their imagination and seems to make them incapable of sound and sober reflection and comparison.
In the stupor and delirium of their dreams of vast wealth and power they are totally oblivious to the fact that commerce is proving to be the ruin of both public and private prosperity; the approaching destruction of our beloved country, as too many superfluous commodities are imported, and America is plunged into the mire of foreign indebtedness. The main cause of this over valuation of commerce, as compared to agriculture is; those of agriculture are reserved and modest; seldom coming to the public notice [unless something stops the food from getting to their grocery shelves], whereas those of commerce lie upon the surface and are more open to general observation. Japan appears to be the most commercial nation on earth today. Her trade with the United States is enormous; yet the entire annual movement of this commerce both ways would pale in insignificance to that of agriculture were in not for the action of those in government to destroy America's power.
Commercial pursuits are unstable and are drastically effected to changes, in the international markets; whereas agricultural are solid and much less effected by international whelms. The prizes in commerce are few; when one individual or company rises hundreds sink into oblivion and ruin. The physical and moral influences of commerce and agriculture is almost indescribable. Where agriculture is both mother and father of health, industry, temperance, cheerfulness, friendliness, and frugality; of simple manners, pure and strong morals; of patriotism and domestic virtues and above all that sturdy independence, without which a man is not a man; but becomes feminine and is the slave or servant [Is not America becoming a servant nation?] the plaything of the anti‑Christs and heathens. Agriculture produces and cherishes a spirit of equality and sympathy. Buying and selling are the chief business of cities, where the giving and receiving of wages an hourly or daily transaction. It produces a collision of interests and feelings, which of necessity checks the feeling of sympathy. International commerce creates immorality, indifference, apathy, crime, drug abuse; in other words everything that is evil and anti‑God, anti‑Christ, anti‑Christian and anti‑American. The goals of Satan.
Agriculture strengthens love of country, racial pride. The heart of the former and rancher is tied to the fields and pastures, where he bestows his love and labor, which responds in turn to his work by clothing itself in beauty and riches beyond measure. More especially when possessions have come down through a long line of honored ancestors, which strengthens even more the attachment he feels to his home and country. Agriculture produces the highest degree of conservation in its nature and every action. It is a great antagonist of that Satanic spirit of liberalism, radicalism and revolutionary innovations, which is the greatest enemy of Christian institutions which was observed long ago by Aristotle, who stated:
"Husbandry is the best stuff of a commonwealth, such a one being the most devoted to liberty, and the least subject to innovation or turbulence."
It is in the occupation of the rural life, that ones mind is the most tranquil, sober and unclouded by media hype. It is in such an atmosphere, one can most clearly discern the relations of things; to look beyond the spur of the moment, the events of a day. It is from the country, from the land free nations have drawn many of their greatest leaders and patriots.
An Israelite farmer was summoned from the quiet of farm life on the distant plains of Midian, to become the lawgiver and founder of a mighty republic. It was an American farmer who led the first American army to victory, and secured for his grateful and admiring countrymen [with God's help], the blessings of liberty, independent self‑government: A REPUBLICAN CHRISTIAN NATION! Our American government and American people should follow Moses and give no encouragement to international or maritime commerce because:
1). International Commerce tends to counteract the first and highest principles of Christianity, morality and honesty.
2). International Commerce entices too many of our citizens and industry to leave America and settle in foreign lands. It weakens patriotism and causes them to eventually betray the trust and best interests of the United States. It causes them to become, in a sense, a citizen of the world with no love or affection for the country of their birth.
3). International Commerce introduces luxurious tastes and habits, such as drug addiction and perversion. The bad effects of commerce far outweighing the good.
4). International Commerce makes enemies between nations with common ancestors. Such as the wars between England and France; England and Spain; France and Spain; United States and Germany and etc.
5). It drains off a nations wealth; just as it has the United States. Once the richest nation ever known in the history of the world.
Now, since its leaders have betrayed their trust and have led America down the International Maritime Commerce path to destruction. Except God and Christ intervenes.
6). International Commerce is condemned in the scriptures, Chapter 18 of the Book of Revelation is a ringing indictment against it. In verse four God's people are admonished to not participate; to come out of her.
However, we should point out, there is one form of commerce which is beneficial to America and its people: That is internal commerce. Which made America rich and powerful in the first place!
7). Election of Representatives: Deuteronomy 1:13-17; Exodus 18:21-27.
THE ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT
1). Self-government: 1 Timothy 3:5; Proverbs 16:31.
2). Union: The Bible is full of examples of covenants. 1 Corinthians 1:10; Psalms 133:1; Ephesians 4:1-3.
3). Individuality: Genesis 1. God's creation reveals the principle of individuality. (John 1:3) God created all things, He is reflected in His creation. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11) Each member of the Church has unique callings and gifts.
4). Property: Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 43:7; Ephesians 2:10; Revelation 4:11. God created the earth and all things on it, including man. Therefore, we belong to Him. We are not our own. We were created for His glory and His purpose. We are to be good stewards of that which is first our own person, and includes our conscience, which is the most sacred of all property. Acts 24:16 We should strive to maintain a blameless conscience.
5). Education: Deuteronomy 10:12-14; 6:4-9; Matthew 13; Mark 4; Luke 8. These chapters reveal the importance of the seed principle. Education operates like a seed.
6). Morality: Romans 8:19; John 15; Acts 24:16; Matthew 7:15-29; Galatians 5:22-23. The fruit of the Spirit.
7). Faith: Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 28; Luke 10:27. Our faith in God and adherence to His truth is the foundation for blessing and success in all walks of life. This is one major theme of the Bible. The Christian system of government as established in the United States of America had its origin predominantly as follows:
1). The Old Testament of the Bible,
2). The New Testament of the Bible,
3). Magna Carta of 1215,
4). Petition of Rights of 1628,
5). Habeas Corpus of 1679,
6). Bill of Rights of 1689,
7). Articles of Confederation of 1643‑1684,
8). Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776,
9). Articles of Confederation of 1781,
10). Constitution of the United States 1789,
11). Bill of Rights 1791.
Sir William Blackstone (1723‑1780), the famous English authority on jurisprudence, gives the following definition of Divine Law as it applies to human or man‑made laws:
"Disobedience to any one of the Divine Commandments throws the whole structure of national life out of harmony with universal law." He also said: "On account of the blindness and imperfection of human reasoning, God has given a Divine and direct revelation of His natural laws...to be found in the Scriptures THESE LAWS ARE SUPERIOR IN OBLIGATION and NO HUMAN LAWS HAVE ANY VALIDITY IF CONTRARY TO GOD'S LAWS."
Let's take a look at part of the original grants and charters, more of which will be presented later:
1). To Christopher Columbus, 1492:
"Ferdinand and Isabelle, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, King and Queen of Castile, of Arragon, of Scily...For as much as you, Christopher Columbus, are going by our command, with some of our vessels and men, to discover and subdue some Islands, and Continent in the ocean, and it is hoped that by GOD'S ASSISTANCE, some of the said Islands and Continent in the ocean will be discovered and conquered by your means and conduct..."
2). To Sir Humphry Gylberte, June 11, 1578:
"Elizabeth BY THE GRACE OF GOD, Queen of England.. do give and grant to our trusted and well‑beloved servant Sir Humphrey Gilbert of Compton, in our castle of Devonshire Knight, and to his heirs and assignes FOR EVER, free liberty and license from time to time, and at all times forever hereafter, to discover, find, search out, and view such remote, heathen and barbarous lands, countries, and territories NOT ACTUALLY POSSESSED OF ANY CHRISTIAN PRINCE OR PEOPLE...and forasmuch, as upon the finding out, discovering, and inhabiting of such remote lands, counties, and territories, as aforesaid, it will be necessary for the safety of all men that shall adventure themselves in those journeys or voyages, TO DETERMINE TO LIVE TOGETHER IN CHRISTIAN PEACE AND CIVIL QUIETNESS EACH WITH THE OTHER...according to such statutes, laws and ordinances, as shall by him, the said Sir Humphrey, his heirs and assignes, or ever, or any of them, devised or established for the better government of the said people as aforesaid: so always that the said statutes, laws, and ordinances may be as near as conveniently may, agreeable to the form of the laws and policy of England; and also, THAT THEY BE NOT AGAINST THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FAITH OR RELIGION NOW PROFESSED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND."
3). First Charter of Virginia, April 10, 1606:
"I, James, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, King of England... We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the PROVIDENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in the PROPAGATING OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION."
4). Sir Robert Heath by Charles 1st, Oct. 30, 1629:
"Whereas our beloved and faithful subject and servant, Sir Robert Heath Knight our Attorney General, kindled with a certain laudable and pious desire as well of ENLARGING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION..."
5). Orders of Connecticut, January 14, 1639:
"Forasmuch as it hath pleased the ALMIGHTY GOD by the wise disposition of His Divine Providence so to order and dispose of things that we, the Inhabitants and residents of Winsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and the Lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together THE WORD OF GOD REQUIRES that to maintain the peace and union of such a people THERE SHOULD BE AN ORDERLY AND DECENT GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED ACCORDING TO GOD, to order and dispose of the affaires of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do, for our selves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter enter into Combination and Confederation together, TO MAINTAIN AND PRESERVE THE LIBERTY AND PURITY OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS WHICH WE NOW PROFESS as also the discipline of the churches, which according to the truth of the said gospel is now practiced amongst us..."
6). Articles of Confederation, 1643‑1684:
"Whereas we all come into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, NAMELY, TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST and TO ENJOY THE LIBERTIES OF THE GOSPEL in purity with peace...that, AS IN NATION AND RELIGION, SO IN OTHER RESPECTS, WE BE AND CONTINUE ONE according to the tenor and true meaning of the ensuing articles...The said United Colonies for themselves and their posterities do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity for offence and defence, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions BOTH FOR PRESERVING AND PROPAGATING THE TRUTH AND LIBERTIES OF THE GOSPEL and for their own mutual safety and welfare."
There is no doubt, and it is clearly apparent the colonist knew they were to establish a theocratic form of government which was to conform to the Word of God, that they were, in actuality reestablishing the Kingdom of God on Earth, over which our Lord Jesus Christ will reign when He returns to claim His rightful place over His Israel People: The Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred peoples of the earth. Common Law rights were protected by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This is a Key Document establishing our right to Common Law Judicial proceedings.
This Ordinance was passed by the Congress of the United States. Article 5 provided for the creating of a maximum of five states which later became; Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The last words of the introduction or preamble to the Articles of the Ordinance, are as follows:
"It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following article shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States in said territory AND FOREVER REMAIN UNALTERABLE, UNLESS BY COMMON CONSENT, TO WIT."
These articles HAVE NEVER BEEN ALTERED BY COMMON CONSENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER AND PRESENTLY REMAIN THE LAW OF THE LAND. They may be found in the original forty‑eight states Compiled Laws if you were to check. Some points concerning the validity of the ordinance that should be considered is:
a). It is a Federal Statute. The preamble reads forever unalterable. It is in the Compiled Laws of many States. and it is protected by Article 4, Section 2, Part 1 of the Constitution of the United States and reads as follows:
"The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges of citizens in the several states."
Article 1, states:
"No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory."
Article 2, states:
"The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury...and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the Common Law..."
We should remind you that the Old Testament is the original source of Common Law and is found in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The definitions of Noah Websters original finalized dictionary in 1828 were adopted by Congress and by the courts. His definitions were Common Law definitions and established a unity of language for the United States of America
The Republican form of limited government, just as established by our ancient Israelite ancestors, while encamped by Mount Siani, was established upon the premise: That each and every individual is the creation of the Almighty God, that each and every one has a separate and equal station to which the Laws of God entitle them. All men are created equal [in the sight of God] and endowed by their Creator with certain Inalienable Rights that are not to be encroached or infringed upon by another group, individual, or government. Among those rights are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness [the ownership of land].
Governments are formed for the express purpose of protecting those rights, maintaining the peace, and keeping law and order. The Government formed derives its just Powers from the Consent of the Governed themselves. When the Governing faction becomes abusive and destructive of these Ends delegated to them by the citizens it is the responsibility, right and duty of the people to disolve, alter, or abolish it and institute New government which will provide safe guards for their future security.
"For rulers [government leaders] are not a terror to good works, but to the evil...For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." (Romans 13:3‑4)
This simply means the Government was formed by the People through a written contact, Compact, or Constitution within which the people delegate to the elected or appointed representation presiding over the Government for the People the Laws, Rules, and Regulations of power and authority they may exercise. The various governing bodies such as the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial of the Federal, State, county and local Municipalities must restrict their operations to within the boundaries of authority delegated them by the People unless changed by the People themselves.
This is the principle describe in detail within the Declaration, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordnance, the Constitution of the United States of America and the first ten amendments known as The Bill of Rights. The Constitution of the United States being the Supreme Law of the Land, until Christ returns, as is the added Ten Amendments both have a Preamble that illustrates its personal Spirit and Intent.
"WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
This emphases the fact that Government is established by the People, having only powers and authority delegated to it by the People by Contact and it is to be contained within those boundaries. The Preamble to the Ten Amendments known as The Bill of Rights is as follows:
"The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire, IN ORDER TO PREVENT MISCONSTRUCTION or ABUSE OF ITS POWER, that FURTHER DECLARATORY AND RESTRICTIVE CLAUSES SHOULD BE ADDED: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution..."
This preamble explains the Bill of Rights as being
"Further Declaratory and Restrictive clauses" for the purpose of preventing "Misconstruction or Abuse of Constitutional power. Our forefathers knew that Constitutional power can be misconstructed or abused by those who are in the seat of governing authority, even though placed there by the people who pay the bills, elect, appoint, or hire them. These are Public Servants to be tried by the People themselves when found to be destroying, subverting, or changing the delegated authority by Constitutional Contract. The Laws of God intended that in each and every case the position of central authority for earthly government should be vested within the people, and no one else.
PRINCIPLES
We lay down the following as our principles of interpreting symbolic prophecy.
First: Perfect coincidence of events with prophecy, is infallible proof of the fulfillment of prophecy. It was in accordance with this principle, that Jesus proved himself to be the Messiah.
Second: The definition of prophetic symbols is to be found in scripture, or to be determined by fulfillment. Where a symbol has more than one scriptural sense, which is rarely the case, its intended meaning must be determined either by its context or by fulfillment, or by both.
Third: All interpretations must coincide with the literal and evangelical doctrines of the Bible.
Fourth: All the symbolic days, months, and times, are interpretable on the same principles as are the seventy weeks, and have a double, or twice doubled interpretation and fulfillment.
Fifth: All symbolic prophecy of great events is given in twice doubled forms, or is interpreted by symbols, or literally.
Sixth: The people of God are symbolized, always, in a dual character, coinciding with the spiritual and civil departments of government, growing out of the spiritual and social nature of man and the dual nature of the great law of love to God and love to man.
Seventh: The globe and mankind are to be freed from the curse, and the globe is not to be annihilated, but renewed with all the splendors in the gift of Deity, and be the tabernacle of God, the Holy of Holies forever and ever.
For our work, we ask the calm and charitable attention of the reader. We present it as a theory, a true theory, of the dealings of God with the nations of the world; but we would by no means compel anyone to adopt our conclusions against His will; we would rather let the demonstrations be examined, and persuade by invincible and logical argument. Our deductions are not the result of fugitive thoughts, but of unceasing attention by day and by night, without intermission, for more than twenty years. Our labors have been of unceasing attention, by day and by night, without intermission, for more than twenty years. In addition to this, it may not be improper to remark, we sought God for wisdom to understand the mystery which He said should be unsealed.
Through the pity of some, the derision of others, the rebukes of many, and with the good wishes of but few, we have steadily pursued our course in quiet to the goal of our wishes; and we now return with gratitude to God for our success. We commit the work we have written to Him who hears the prayer of the humble, and doubt not but that it will do some good to our country, our Israel brethren, and the world.
Should we be found somewhat in error in some small points relating to the future, it is no more than would be naturally anticipated; but we feel assured that we are not, and can not be. So far as the past is concerned, we feel assured that we are presenting to the public some of the most extraordinary proofs of the inspiration of [the government of the United States of America] in the scriptures that have ever been compiled in one place.
Being sustained, triumphantly, by the facts of the past, and judging the future by principles deduced from certain knowledge, we feel that our judgment, in most cases, will be found coincident with plain common‑sense views of things. That ill fed and wounded vanity may instigate the hostility to our work of small envy and jealousy, of pride of sect and self‑inflated opinion, and the hatred of the antichrists, of pride of sect and self‑inflated opinion, is what we expect to a small extent, and we rather court than shun such prejudiced enmity.
In every instance where we differ from others on the subject, we do so because they do not strictly conform to past facts, and by consequence must err, proportionally, with reference to the future.
In some cases; very exalted human authorities will be consulted against us; but we appeal, for support, to inspiration and to history and refuse to yield to any sanctified human opinion that is not punctilious in accordance with known truth. We claim to have discovered, that most old presentations are either erroneous in whole or in part.
Unknown to fame or to the famous, we appeal to common sense people, to read and decide our correctness, for on account of such we have written; we crave not the attention of chiefs and princes, but seek an humble place of consideration among the great Christian republican people of regathered Israel, The United States of America.
The New Jerusalem and New Zion as spoken of in the scriptures. Misfortune is the fate of discoverers and inventors generally, and we expect no exception will be made in our favor; yet, from a better sphere than this, we hope in triumph to descend at the appearing of the victory of God, and advent of that kingdom for which from infancy, each Christian child is daily taught to pray. If, then, some humble place be ours among the glorified, we shall be more than recompensed for our toil.
ISRAEL
To properly understand why America was founded as a Christian Nation, we must first present you with the information of where our people came from. When speaking of our people, we are of course talking of the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-Israel; the people known to the world today as the Anglo‑ Saxon, Germanic, Celtic, Scandinavian, and kindred peoples of the earth.
In our studies we have come to realize: That the White Anglo‑ Saxons, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and Kindred people are True Israel [Which means by inference that THE JEWS ARE IMPOSTERS: THEY ARE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING]. And since this is so completely alien to what you have always been taught by the Clergy of Organized Religion; whom I believe to be, for the most part, nothing more than Baal Priests. That most have prostituted themselves to the enemies of Christ because they had rather receive the gold, silver and praise of man; more than the praise of God and of a promise of Eternal Life. Therefore this presentation is an attempt to show you, from both secular and Bible sources, that what we say about the Anglo‑Saxons and etc., is true.
YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
Some will say at this point: "What difference does it make, if we are Israel?" We must respond that it makes a lot of difference. If a person were to knock at your door, and inform you that on the basis of legal documents, charters, covenants, and the last will and testament of a testator, you were heir to a GREAT INHERITANCE, you would be truly overjoyed, no doubt. By the same reasoning, this presentation will attempt to demonstrate that if you are a natural born child of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob‑Israel, you are heir to an inheritance in Jesus Christ.
If you believe that you have been called to be a Christian, and you are of White Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic or Kindred people descent; then you MUST be indeed, a natural born child of Abraham, and are, therefore, heir to the promises of the Holy Bible. It can be demonstrated that there is a people upon the face of the earth today, who by legal documents, charters, covenants, and a last will and testament recorded in a Book called the Bible, are the heirs to the Grace of Jesus Christ and are thereby called to inherit Eternal Life.
This presentation is knocking at your door, so to speak, today. You may be heir to the promises of the Holy Bible. If you are called to be a Christian, and believe that the Holy Spirit is guiding you into truth, then you should carefully study this presentation. Because this could be the most important day in your life! Please do not shut the door to your mind. Open that door and let the truth of Jesus Christ come into your life. Remember, Jesus said:
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)
THE COVENANT
"...if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:19)
To ALL Christians, and to those Anglo‑Saxons, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and Kindred people who are not YET Christians; who are searching to understand the Holy Scriptures, Genesis to Revelation. The purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate from the Holy Scriptures that those people who are called, and who believe, and become Christians, do so, because they are the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob‑Israel.
"God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." (Romans 11:2)
The promises made to the physical seed of Israel in the Old Testament, beginning with Abraham, confirmed in Isaac and established in the thirteen tribes descended from Jacob‑Israel have been faithfully kept by Jesus Christ.
"Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers." (Romans 15:8)
The basic ground upon which this discussion is established is to be found in Romans 9:4‑5.
"Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."
In these Scriptures Paul very clearly establishes:
1). The adoption,
2). The Glory,
3). The Covenant,
4). The giving of the Law,
5). The Service of God,
6). The promises, and
7). The fathers through whom Christ came in the flesh all belong to Israel.
Americans have in their homes a book, called simply, "The Bible." This book is the religious book of 95% of all the churches in the English‑speaking nations such as our own.
Is the Bible a closed book to you? Or do you understand portions of it, while the rest remains a mystery? You do want to increase your understanding of the Bible, do you not? The Bible story begins in Genesis 1:1:
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
In the rest of Chapter 1 we are told of the creation of the animals and all living creatures on the earth and under the sea. Chapter 2 is the forming of Adam, placing him in the garden of Eden, of Eve, their disobedience, and removal from the Garden. In a few more pages we read of the flood, the saving of Noah and his household, and the spreading of their descendants across the land.
We learn of the building of the tower of Babel, its destruction, God's confounding of the people's language, and their dispersion across the earth. In only a few pages, God covers many centuries, including awesome and terrifying calamities. Then God speaks to one man, a man named Abraham, and from that point on the Bible is about Abraham and his descendants. In Genesis 12, God says to this man:
"...Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12:1‑3)
Then follows a number of meetings between God and Abraham. God later meets with Abraham's son, Isaac, and later with Jacob, the son of Isaac, and repeats the promises (Covenants) made with Abraham. All of these promises and covenants have to do with the future of Jacob's children. The rest of the Bible deals almost exclusively with these heirs of the covenants and the promises, called in the Bible "The children of Israel."
The Law, the doctrines, the warnings, and admonishments, are addressed to Israel. All of the Prophets are Israelites. All of the writers of both the Old Testament and the New are Israelites. It is imperative that the ground and foundation for this Bible Study be established upon the truth that the Bible is a Book written to, for, and about Israel beginning with Genesis 12:1 and continuing through the remainder of the Bible.
It will be important to hold to a constant thread of divine truth as we establish that all those who are called, Chosen, and quickened to believe and accept Christ, becoming Christian do so because they are the physical seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel. True Christians do not become children unto Abraham because they believe, they believe because they are the children of Abraham. Herein lies the foundation for understanding the Bible message of Salvation. To depart from this basic premise is to forfeit the basic presuppositions upon which the Holy Scripture is written. To clearly establish the Old Testament foundation for this discussion, let us turn to Genesis 12:3 wherein God Almighty had declared to His servant Abraham:
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
The families spoken of are those nations, or families of people who were to come forth from the loins of Abraham and who were to be counted as children of the promise. Confirmation of this may be found in Jeremiah 2:4 where the Prophet declares:
"Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel."
Again in Jeremiah 31:1 we read:
"At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."
Finally, we read in Amos 3:2:
"YOU [Israel] ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH..."
We conclude that the promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 is that all of the families (nations) of the Israelite people would be blessed through faithful father Abraham. To read anything else into Scripture is to distort the Word of God. Jesus Christ Himself declared in Matthew 15:24:
"...I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Turning once again to Genesis 17:7 Almighty God had declared to Abraham:
"And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee."
This Covenant of Promise, made to Father Abraham, was made to him and his seed after him, throughout their generations, to be an everlasting covenant. This Covenant of Promise made to faithful Abraham was an unconditional covenant made to Abraham and his seed after him. This Covenant of Promise was made to bring about the eternal purposes established in the Covenant of Grace, which was the Master Covenant established by God in Christ before the foundation of the world for His people Israel.
Before this Covenant of Grace would be fulfilled in the sacrifical death of Jesus Christ upon the cross, the Israelites would be given the conditional Covenant of Law which would mirror their sin, causing them to know that their salvation was not through the works of the Law, but rather through the Covenant of Grace wrought by the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world. (1 Peter 1:19‑20) The Promise of Salvation was made then to Abraham and his seed after him for an everlasting covenant. This Covenant was not established in Ishmael, nor in the children of Abraham born to Keturah; rather it was confirmed in the Seed of Isaac, in Genesis 17:21 where we read:
"But my covenant will I establish with Isaac..."
Again in Genesis 17:19 we read:
"And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him."
In Genesis 21:12; Romans 9:7 and Hebrews 11:18 we read that in Isaac was the seed to be called. This is absolute confirmation that the Promises made to Abraham would be fulfilled in the seed of Isaac. Again in Genesis 17:5 God Almighty promised Abraham that he would be a father of many nations. Although Abraham was to become the father of nations through Ishmael and through the sons born to Keturah, it was to that family of nations descended through Isaac that the Covenant of Promise would be fulfilled. Again we recall Genesis 21:12 which declared that in Isaac would the seed of Abraham be called. This company of nations that would descend from Isaac would be the recipients of the promise God almighty made to Abraham in Genesis 22:18:
"And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth (Amos 3:2) be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."
We can gather the importance of the Israelite people who descended from Abraham, through Isaac by reading Deuteronomy 32:8‑9:
"When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."
Israel was to be God Almighty's measuring line. Israel was to be the Elect of God. (Isaiah 45:4) In Isaiah 41:8‑9 we read of the exhalted station to which Israel was chosen.
"But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I HAVE CHOSEN, the seed of Abraham my friend. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called three from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant, I HAVE CHOSEN THEE, AND NOT CAST THEE AWAY."
The Promise made to Abraham was fulfilled in Israel, the people who descended from Isaac. In Psalm 135:4 we read:
"FOR THE LORD HATH CHOSEN JACOB UNTO HIMSELF, AND ISRAEL FOR HIS PECULIAR TREASURE."
Since the unconditional Covenant of Grace, made from the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4‑5) was made to Israel, the unconditional Covenant of Promise made to Abraham was necessary to make the Covenant of Grace effectual. Before Israel could receive this Grace, it became necessary to place them under the Covenant of Law, to expose their sin nature, and to confirm that their salvation was through Grace and the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and not the works of the law. The Covenant of Law, however, in keeping with the truth that Salvation was to be for Israel, was given only to Israel.
ONLY THE ISRAELITES WERE PLACED UNDER THE LAW!
"He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord." (Psalm 147:19‑20)
This is confirmed in Psalm 105:6‑10:
"O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob HIS CHOSEN...He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant."
The Old Testament Scripture, beginning with Genesis 12:1 through the remainder of the Old Testament Scripture, is written to, for, and about the Israelites. It affects the other races and people of the earth, only as they come into contact with Israel. After the twelve sons born to Jacob/Israel had multiplied into twelve tribes, this great family of people went down into Egypt, where Jacob/Israel adopted the sons of Joseph; thus making them thirteen tribes, which centuries later were lead out of Egypt by Moses, and into the promise land by Joshua. There in the land of Canaan all of the thirteen tribes were confederated together in a theocratic government during the reign of Judges which lasted more than three hundred years.
It was during the lifetime of the Prophet Samuel, Israel elected to be ruled by earthly Kings and was ruled over successively by Saul, David and Solomon. At the death of Solomon in 975 B.C. the House of Israel was divided into two separate and distinct kingdoms of people with the Northern Kingdom being occupied by ten of the tribes and approximately one‑half of the tribe of Levi; the Southern Kingdom being occupied primarily by Judah, Benjamin, and the remainder of the tribe of Levi. From 975 B.C. forward through the remainder of the Old Testament Scripture, Israel and Judah remained divided from each other with the promise that they would ultimately be united together and restored under a Theocratic Government. The Northern Kingdom of Israel, consisted of about 10 million Israelites, was carried into captivity by the Assyrian Kings between 741 and 721 B.C., and DID NOT RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND IN SAMARIA.
The Southern Kingdom was invaded by the Assyrian Kings in 713 B.C. and a large number of Judah and Benjamin were carried into the Assyrian captivity to join the other ten tribed Israelites. The remainder of the Southern Kingdom was carried away into Babylon in about 588 B.C. and remained there during the seventy year Babylonian Captivity; at which time about 50,000 returned to rebuild the temple in about 536 B.C.
When the Old Testament Canon comes to a close in 397 B.C. with Malachi, both Israel and Judah still remained divided into two distinct and separate Kingdoms. A careful examination of the Books of the Law and the Prophets, together with the Psalms, will reveal that the promise throughout the Old Testament is that Israel would be redeemed and restored back under the Covenant. The Scripture in the Old Testament is replete with tremendous amount of evidence to prove that even though Israel of the Northern Kingdom had been divorced and carried away into captivity, God had promised to bring them again under the bond of His Covenant. Listen to the beautiful promise made to Israel and Judah by Jeremiah the Prophet about 606 B.C. when both Israel and Judah were two distinct and separate peoples within the House of Israel.
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah...But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."
Here is the promise of our God that He would make a New Covenant with His people Israel, both Israel and Judah. The Law was to be written into their inward parts and was to be inscribed within their hearts. This is further confirmed in Isaiah 51:7. Here is a profound presupposition in the Holy Scripture of truth. THE NEW COVENANT WAS TO BE MADE WITH ISRAEL AND JUDAH!
The Blood of Jesus Christ was to be shed for Israel, THE CHOSEN AND ELECT PEOPLE OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. When we arrive at the New Testament Scriptures of the Bible, the typical reader of the Bible, without a solid foundation of study in the Old Testament, is at a loss to understand what he reads in the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament. Without a valid knowledge of the Old Testament he cannot understand that the New Testament is the written confirmation of all the promises which were fulfilled at the first coming of Jesus Christ and others which will be confirmed at His Second Coming.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELITES
For an answer to that question, we will call upon Mr. E. Raymand Capt, a Bible student and Biblical archaeologist from California. Mr. Capt has traveled and studied extensively in Europe and the Mideast. He lectures on the Dead Sea Scrolls, on the pyramids of Egypt and on other archaeological subjects. Mr. Capt is the author of "The Great Pyramid Decoded," "The Glory of the Stars," "Stonehenge and Druidism," "King Solomon's Temple," "Jacob's Ladder" and the "Abrahamic Covenant." He relates the following concerning the tracing of Israel.
"During the last hundred years a number of archaeological teams have been working in the Middle East. They have unearthed and published the original contemporary accounts of the Assyrians, who took the Israelites captive. It is from these records that vital clues have come to light. In fact, these records are found in the form of cuneiform tablets. These tablets were found at Nineveh in 1900 and published in 1930. However, their relevance to Israel was overlooked then, because they were found in complete disorder and amongst about 1,400 other texts. The tablets were Assyrian frontier post reports, dated about 707 B.C. They describe the activities of the people called 'Gimira,' who lived in the land of 'Gamir.' The descriptions of Gamir described the area in which the Israelites had been placed just a few years earlier. One tablet stated that when the king of Urartu came into the land of Gamir, his army was routed, as the Gamira counter‑ attacked, entered the land of Urartu, and killed their commanders...
“The first archaeological evidence to establish a chronological link in the contacts between Assyria and Israel are found on inscriptions on the side of a limestone stele found at Nimrud, known as the 'Black Obelisk.' The stone was inscribed with the records of Shalmaneser III and an illustration of the Israelite king Jehu bringing tribute to the Assyrian king. An inscription above the illustration says: 'This is Jehu (Iaua), the son of Khumri (Omri).'
“Omri in Hebrew, begins with the consonant, 'Agin,' formerly called 'Gayin' which was pronounced with a gutteral 'H,' that is 'Gh' or 'Kh.' The Israelites would have naturally pronounced Omri as 'Ghomri' which became 'Khumri' in Assyrian.
“As this inscription was executed nearly a century before the captivity of Israel, we know now the reason secular historians found no mention of the exiled Israelites in ancient records. IT WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE ASSYRIANS WHO TOOK THE ISRAELITES CAPTIVE DID NOT CALL THEM BY THAT NAME. Historians are now aware of the fact that the Gamira were the same people, who, about 30 years later, during the reign of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, again were called Gimira. [Notice the slight changes in spelling]..."
About 600 B.C. the Lydians drove the Gamira, or Cimmerians, out of Asia Minor, where they settled in the Carpathian regions west of the Black Sea. We find them called in the second book of Esdras, the people of Ar‑Sareth.
"...as for your seeing him gather about himself another multitude that was peaceable, these are the ten tribes that in the days of King Hoshea were carried away from their own land into captivity, whom Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, made captives, and carried beyond the river; they were carried off to another country. But they formed this plan among themselves, to leave the heathen population, and go to where the human race had never lived, so that there perhaps they might keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own country. And THEY WENT IN BY THE NARROW PASSAGES OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER. For the Most High then did wonders for them, for he held back the sources of the river until they had passed over." (2 Esdras 13:39‑44 Smith * Goodspeed Translation)
Archeology has solved two of the greatest archaeological problems: First, what happened to the hundreds of thousands of Israelites who disappeared south of the Caucasus; and Second, what was the origin of the "Cimmerians" and the mysterious nomadic tribes, known as Scythians, who suddenly appeared north of the Caucasus both at the same time in history. They were one and the same people. THEY WERE ISRAELITES. Now may I point out what the Bible has to say concerning these same people:
"For, behold, I am about to give command, And I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, Just as one shakes the sieve, But not a kernel shall fall to the ground." (Amos 9:9 Smith * Goodspeed Translation)
THE SO‑CALLED "LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL" REALLY WERE NEVER LOST. THEY ONLY LOST THEIR IDENTITY AS THEY MIGRATED WESTWARD OVER THE CENTURIES FROM THE LAND OF THEIR CAPTIVITY. And there you have it, an answer to our question:
"What happened to the millions of Israelites who were dispersed out of old Canaanland seven centuries before Christ, and who never returned?"
With the answer of this question about Israel's disappearance we have been provided with the key to several other mysteries of world history. Mr. Capt has revealed to us why it was these people of Europe who became the great nations, and who were blessed by God above all other nations, not only with fertile land and abundance from the seas, but with arts, science, literature, inventions, and discovery.
God has bestowed upon that one race, the White Race, almost every invention and discovery that has improved man's condition and lot upon the earth. Certainly, God made these offspring of Abraham a blessing to all the families of the earth. Mr. Capt has answered yet another question which is often asked of ministers, but seldom answered:
"Why, of all the people of the earth, has it been only this White Caucasian Race, these so‑called 'Gentiles,' who have claimed Jesus Christ as their God, and who have taken the Bible as the foundation of their religion?"
The answer: The truth which is avoided and even denied by the Clergy of Organized Religion, is simple. THESE PEOPLE, THE WHITE ANGLO‑SAXONS, GERMANIC, SCANDINAVIAN, CELTIC AND KINDRED PEOPLE ARE THE ISRAELITES, THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM, GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE! And that explains why every true Gospel Preacher and missionary for Jesus Christ for over 1,900 years has been of this one race. They are dispersed Israel, fulfilling Bible prophecy even while blindness in part is upon them, blindness of their own identity as the Chosen of God.
BIBLICAL PROMISES HAVE BECOME HISTORICAL FACTS
In the Old Testament God had promised to regather divorced Israel unto Himself:
"My flock wandered over all the mountains, and over every high hill; my flock was scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to seek or search for them...For thus says the Lord God: Behold, here am I, and I will seek and search for my flock." (Ezekiel 34:6‑11 Smith * Goodspeed)
Jesus made it plain He was the instrument of Israel's return to God, in the following verses:
"For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost [Israel] and to save it." (Luke 19:10)
And:
"I [Christ] AM SENT ONLY TO THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL'S HOUSE." (Matthew 15:24 Smith * Goodspeed)
The word "lost" appears 13 times in the New Testament in relation to Israel. The Greek word means "put away and punished." So Jesus was saying in Matthew 15:24,
"I am not sent but unto the put away and punished house of Israel."
In Matthew 10:6, Jesus instructed His disciples to go to:
"...the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
In Luke 1, Zacharias the priest, who was John the Baptist's father, said that Jesus CAME TO REDEEM HIS PEOPLE and:
"To perform the mercy PROMISED to our [Israel's] fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham." (Luke 1:72‑73)
When moving from the Old Testament to the New Testament you dare not lose Physical Israel.
"God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew..." (Romans 11:2)
If you lose physical Israel, the seed of Isaac, then you will be unable to find a confirmation of the promises made to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob/Israel. Remember that according to Romans 15:8 Jesus Christ came to confirm the promises made to the fathers. If you lose physical Israel, then you will end up without the people that the Eternal God promised to make the New Covenant with. (Jeremiah 31:31‑34) If you lose Israel, you will deny the very veracity of God and turn the Bible into a shambles. If you fail to understand that the Israelites in dispersion were to be called by another name. (Isaiah 62:2 and 65:15)
And if you fail to understand all of the Old Testament promises of these Israelites returning to the knowledge of their God and His Truth, you will not be able to read the New Testament with any understanding whatever. You cannot lose Physical Israel when turning to the New Testament. In Matthew 1:21 we find that Jesus was to save His people from their sins. Israel was that people that was to be ransomed from the bondage of sin and death. In Matthew 10:5‑6 Jesus Christ commanded His disciples to go only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
In Matthew 10:23 Jesus Christ declared that His disciples would not have gone over the cities of Israel until the Son of Man be come. He was speaking of His Second Coming and meant that the Gospel was to be preached only among the Israelites, for they were the children of the Promise made to Abraham. In Matthew 15:24 Jesus Christ declared:
"I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
In Matthew 28:19 Jesus Christ commanded His disciples to go and teach all nations, Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. These nations that were to be Baptized consisted of the family of Israelite nations that were promised to come from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel. The New Testament is confirmation that our God kept His promise to physical Israel of the Old Testament.
In Acts 26:7 Paul confirms the existence of all twelve tribes of Israel in 62 A.D.
"Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come..."
In Acts 28:20 Paul confirms that:
"...for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
The Apostle Peter addresses his epistle to the Israelites in dispersion. (1 Peter 1:1‑2):
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”
James the servant of God, addresses his epistle to Israel saying:
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting." (James 1:1)
Also remember that the entire Book of Revelation is posited on God fulfilling His promises to Israel. The Lamb's Wife is identified as Israel in Revelation 21:1‑10. The entire account of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles, the General Epistles, and the Book of Revelation is directed to the Israel of God and to some of the great promises made to them in the Old Testament Scriptures.
When we turn to the New Testament it is imperative that we remember the greater portion of the House of Israel, now in dispersion, has peopled all of the areas of the world called Asia Minor, the Greek speaking world, all of central Europe, Scandinavia and the British Isles. The Churches of the New Testament were made of both Israelites from the House of Judah [Judah‑Benjamin and Levi] and of Israelites from the Northern Kingdom which were in dispersion.
The Israelites of the Southern Kingdom of Judah have been given the name of "Jews" in error. However, the "Jews" were NOT Israelites which the following Scriptures attest to:
"Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM HAVE SAID, GET YOU FAR FROM THE LORD [in this case it means Baal ‑‑ #1167 Strong's Concordance]: UNTO US IS THIS LAND GIVEN IN POSSESSION." (Ezekiel 11:15)
Ezekiel gives a second testimony:
"Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains [nations] of Israel, and say, Ye mountains [nations] of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God; BECAUSE THE ENEMY HATH SAID AGAINST YOU, AHA, EVEN THE ANCIENT HIGH PLACES ARE OUR'S IN POSSESSION." (Ezekiel 36:1‑2)
John relates the same thing concerning the "sheep" of the Lord Jesus Christ ‑‑ for all Israelites are called sheep throughout the Old and New Testaments. So we MUST remember, whenever we see the word "sheep" in the Scriptures ‑‑ It ALWAYS means Israelites. Jesus, while talking to the "Jews" He said:
"But ye [Jews] believe not, because ye [Jews] ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP [here Jesus is giving testimony that the Jews ARE NOT ISRAELITES ‑‑ but are impostors], as I said unto you [Jews]." (John 10:26)
Epistles are directed to Israelite Congregations made up from Israelites ‑‑ the Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Celtic, Scandinavian and Kindred peoples of the earth; in their state of Dispersion. With this background in mind, let us now return to our primary objective and reason from the Holy Scriptures.
As we have previously stated: The purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate from the Holy Scriptures that those people who are chosen and called and who believe and become Christian, do so BECAUSE THEY ARE THE PHYSICAL DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB/ISRAEL. [Now people of other races CAN be Saved if they accept the Lord Jesus Christ. But that is only on very rare occasions.
Any so‑called conversion of a Jew is for the purpose of subverting, with treasonable intentions, the Christian Doctrines as presented in the Scriptures!]. However, for the most part; Only Natural born Israelites can be saved: Only natural born Israelites were lost; Only Natural born Israelites were under the Law. Therefore Only Natural Born Israelites can be redeemed.
When people believe and become Christian it is because they are the Children of Abraham, the Children of Isaac, and heirs of the promises of God. Now let us examine some controversial Scriptures to demonstrate that people become Christian because they are the Children of Abraham. They do not become the Children of Abraham because they believe. God hath not cast away His people which he foreknew. (Romans 11:2)
IN JOHN 10:26 JESUS TOLD THE JEWS
"But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you."
Question: Were the Jews not sheep because they did not believe OR did the Jews not believe because they were NOT sheep.
Answer: THE JEWS DID NOT BELIEVE BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT THE SHEEP!
IN JOHN 10:27 JESUS TOLD THE JEWS
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."
Question: Did these sheep become Christians because they heard His voice OR did they hear His voice because they were His sheep?
Answer: They heard His voice BECAUSE they were His Sheep.
IN ROMANS 2:14‑15 PAUL TOLD THE GENTILES
"For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS, their CONSCIENCE also bearing witness, and their THOUGHTS the mean while accusing or else excusing one another."
Question: Did these Gentiles [Israelites] have the law written into their hearts because they believed and became Christians? OR did they become Christian because they had the Law written into their hearts.
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin more."
Answer: The Gentiles of the New Testament, became Christian because they, being of the physical seed of Abraham, had the Law written into their heart and conscience; their inward parts and in their heart.
"Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings." (Isaiah 51:7)
IN ROMANS 4:16 PAUL TOLD THE GENTILE CHURCH AT ROME
"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; WHO IS THE FATHER OF US ALL."
Question: Did they which are of the "faith of Abraham" become the Seed of Abraham because they had the "faith" of Abraham OR did they have the Faith of Abraham because they were the Children of Abraham.
Answer: They had the "faith of Abraham" because they were the physical children of Abraham.
PAUL TOLD THE GALATIAN GENTILES
IN 3:7‑9
"Know ye therefore that THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH, THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall ALL NATIONS BE BLESSED. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham."
Question: Were the Galatians Children of Abraham because they had faith in Christ OR did they have faith because they were the children of Abraham.
Answer: They had faith because they were the Children of Abraham and therefore accepted the Grace of Jesus Christ. THE GALATIANS HAD FAITH BECAUSE THEY WERE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM. They did not become the Children of Abraham because they had faith as so many would have you believe.
PAUL TOLD THE GALATIAN GENTILES
IN 3:26‑29
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew [should have been translated Judean ‑‑ Jew] nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
Question: Were these people in the Churches of Galatia Abraham's children because they were Christ's OR were they Christ's because they were the children of Abraham.
Answer: They were Christ's because they were Abraham's Children and have been chosen by the Father, Redeemed by the Son, and sanctified and set apart by the effectual power of God the Holy Spirit. We belong to Jesus Christ because we are the Children of Abraham, rather than saying we are Abraham's children because we belong to Christ.
PAUL TOLD THE GALATIAN GENTILES
IN 4:4‑7
"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, (See Isaiah 44:1‑2) but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
Question: Do we become redeemed Israel and the Sons of God because we believe OR do we believe and become sons of God because we are physical Israel and are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ?
Answer: We become the Sons of God because we are the physical Children of Abraham, and are, therefore, Redeemed by the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and called to be Christian. You do not become Redeemed Israel and a Son of God because you BELIEVE, but rather you BELIEVE and are made a Son of God because you are the Children of Abraham and have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb.
PAUL TOLD THE EPHESIAN GENTILES
IN 2:12‑14
"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us."
Question: Were these Ephesian "Gentiles" that were "far off" and without God in the world made members of the commonwealth of Israel because they believed and became Christian OR did they become Christian, believe and come back into the commonwealth of Israel because they were the physical Children of Abraham.
Answer: These Israelites who were "far off" and divorced from the covenants of promise and without hope were reconciled back into the commonwealth of Israel through the Blood of Jesus Christ because they were the physical offspring of Abraham. These verses in Ephesians Chapter Two deal with both the House of Judah [Them that were nigh as in Ephesians 2:17] and them which were afar off [Israel in Dispersion as in Ephesians 2:17], and the middle wall of partition, that is the division between the two houses of Israel, Judah and Israel, was broken down by the Blood of Jesus Christ as we read in Ephesians 2:13‑19.
PAUL TOLD THE ROMAN GENTILES
IN ROMANS IN 9:23‑26
"And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews [Judeans] only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee [Hosea], I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."
Question: Were these Gentiles made vessels of mercy and thereby Christian because they believed OR did they believe and become Christian because they were the physical children of Abraham an were thereby vessels of mercy from the foundation of the world.
Answer: These Gentiles who were brought to the knowledge of Jesus Christ became Christian because they were Israelites in dispersion, called Gentiles, and when they heard the Word of God preached, having the Word of God inscribed upon their hearts and inward parts (Jeremiah 31:31‑34) they believed.
The word Jews in Romans 9:24 has reference to the House of Judah and could have included Israelites from any of the tribes making up the Southern Kingdom, that is Judah, Benjamin or Levi. Moreover, if you will carefully examine the direct quotations from Hosea 1:10 you will find that this Prophet had reference to Israelites of the Northern Kingdom and would one day be called the Children of the living God.
This confirms beyond all question that the Gentiles Paul is speaking to were the physical descendants of the Israelites who had been put away in Divorce and then went into dispersion throughout Asia, Europe and eventually the entire world, with emphasis upon the Western World. Then to America where all thirteen tribes were regathered as promised in the Scriptures.
PAUL SPEAKING TO THE GENTILES
IN ROMANS 11:13‑18
"For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation THEM WHICH ARE MY FLESH, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the first‑fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee."
Question: Were these Gentiles of the "wild olive tree" made Christian and thereby partakers with the "natural olive tree" because they believed in Christ OR did they believe and become Christian because being of "the wild olive tree" they were the Children of Abraham.
Answer: These Gentiles of the "wild olive tree" became Christian and were grafted back into the natural root stock of Israel because they were the physical Children of Abraham that having been divorced and separated from God were reconciled and grafted back into the natural tree through the Grace of Jesus Christ upon the cross.
It is important to remember that the Olive Tree was one of several symbols used to identify Israel in Scripture. The Gentiles were called the "wild branches of the olive tree" because having been divorced and sent into dispersion, they were outside the commonwealth of Israel and were considered as uncircumcised and unclean by the members of the House of Judah [called the natural branches of the Olive Tree]. Also note that from the Olive Berries we have a precious Oil that is extracted. This oil represents the "light of the world" and the Israelite nations have been the light of the world. The Caucasian Israelite nations of the Western World have produced all of the Christian Missionaries, printed all the Bibles, built all of the Churches, enacted all of the Christian Laws, advanced Christian morality and elevated the light of Jesus Christ wherever they have lived. In return our God has abundantly prospered them and given them the highest standard of living in the world. God hath not cast away His people which he foreknew. (Romans 11:2)
PETER TO THE ELECT IN CHRIST
1 PETER 2:9‑10
"But ye are a CHOSEN GENERATION [Race], a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were NOT A PEOPLE, but ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."
Question: Were the people a CHOSEN RACE because they believed Christ and were thereby made spiritual Israelites OR did they become Christian because they, being descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel, WERE A CHOSEN RACE.
Answer: These elect Israelites who were scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia were portions of the House of Israel in dispersion and through Faith in Jesus Christ were being grafted back into the natural Olive tree. Peter's Epistle was addressed to these Israelites in Dispersion.
For confirmation of the fact that the subject people (1 Peter 2:9) were of the Tribes of Israel in dispersion, please carefully read 1 Peter 2:10 where the quotation from Hosea 1:10; 2:23 refer to the Israelites who were being put away in divorce and dispersion.
PETER TOLD THE ELECT IN CHRIST IN
2 PETER 2:21‑22
"For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have know it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
Question: Did the Dog return to his vomit because he quit believing, OR did he turn from the truth because he was a dog?
Answer: The dog returned to his vomit because he did not really believe. You cannot turn a dog into a sheep! You cannot make an Israelite out of a non‑Israelite.
Question: Did the sow return to her wallow because she ceased to believe OR did the sow return to her wallow because she was a sow?
Answer: The sow returned to her wallow because she never really believed. You cannot turn a sow into a sheep. You cannot turn a non‑Israelite into an Israelite.
As Christians we dare not lose physical Israel when reading the New Testament portion of the Bible. God hath not cast away His people which He foreknew. (Romans 11:2) God has not lost His people Israel. The Unconditional Covenant of Grace is effectual. The Unconditional Covenant of Promise made to faithful Abraham is being made sure to all the seed. The Covenant of Law has exposed the sin nature of the Israelites and demonstrated that not by the works of the Law, but by the righteousness of Jesus Christ, we must be saved.
ISRAEL IS ALIVE AND WELL ON THIS EARTH! The denominational churches of the Western World are full of these Israelites, and are often called "Gentiles," who are searching and seeking the truth of Jesus Christ. These millions of Gentile‑Israelite Christians who flock to the Churches every Sunday Morning are there because they are the Physical Children of Abraham and are searching for the voice of Their Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ! The Holy Bible is indeed a glorious Book of Divine Truth and Revelation.
LOST ISRAEL HAS BEEN FOUND! They are filling the Churches of our land! These precious people need to know who they are! They need to know that they are the Elect and Chosen of God, the Redeemed of Christ, and that they are Heirs of The Promise made to their Father Abraham. Praise Jesus Christ! Lost Israel has been found. These so‑ called "Gentile" Christians that now fill our churches do not become spiritual Israelites when they believe and become Christian. They believe and become Christian because they are the physical Children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob‑Israel. The faithfulness and integrity of God Almighty has been preserved. He has redeemed His people. The physical Children of Abraham is seeking to be spiritually reborn through the effectual power of the Holy spirit. THE WHITE CAUCASIAN GENTILES now seeking the truth of Christianity in the denominational Church World are doing so now because they are the children and offspring of Abraham. They are Heirs to the Promises of God. Because they are The Children of Abraham, they are Christ's and are Heirs to the Promises made to Abraham.
If you are descended from the Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic or Kindred people. Then you are descendants of the people we have traced in the Bible and in history and are Israelites, heirs according to the promise, and the Bible is about you and your race. Do not take what you have read lightly. True to His promise to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel has redeemed us with His own blood. He has kept His Word to our fathers. He will most certainly keep His promise with us, their children, of THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST UPON THIS EARTH! We believe the time has come when God is casting down all lies, exposing the false prophets, and revealing the Truth to His Israel people. The key to understanding the Bible is the truth that we are Israelites, redeemed by Jesus Christ, heirs of the promise, Abraham's children.
ACCESSION
Today the great Israel nation of America is surrounded and invaded by the Red communist anti‑Christ forces of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38 and 39) as God gathers the nations of the earth for the battle of Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16) The wicked of the earth, who are the enemies of Jesus Christ, have grown strong and arrogant in our land. They have infiltrated our schools, the news media, even the churches and government in their attempt to keep you in ignorance of your identity as Israelites. They are attempting to steal your heritage that they may conquer America and take rule over the whole earth.
WHY IS JUDGMENT BEING POURED OUT
UPON AMERICA ‑‑ THE LAND OF REGATHERED ISRAEL?
The judgment upon America ‑‑ just as it was on Ancient Israel is and was a result of their national sins and their turning from Almighty God and His Laws. America, like ancient Israel has broken covenant with God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ; they have rejected His Laws, and have worshipped other gods. The sin debt is piled high in America, the judgment of the living God is upon this land. Consider the parallels between the sins of Ancient Israel and America, the Modern Day Israel.
SINS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL/AMERICA
After God established Jeremiah as the Prophet ordained to root out and pull down, to build and to plant, God takes command of Jeremiah's lips and begins to catalogue the sins of the nation of His Israel People. The sins articulated by Jeremiah reads like a current commentary on the transgressions of America and every other Israelite people in Abraham's family of nations.
Our priests and pastors have failed to teach the Laws of God. (Jeremiah 2:8) The purity of our Israelite people is threatened by race mixing. (Jeremiah 2:21‑22) The blood of innocents, including aborted babies, is a part of America's national shame. (Jeremiah 2:34) The people are adulterous and practice prostitution. (Jeremiah 5:7‑8) Our people worship false gods and are guilty of idolatry. (Jeremiah 5:19) Our people are guilty of possessing a rebellious heart. (Jeremiah 5:23) Our whole nation is wallowing in covetousness. (Jeremiah 5:23) Our nation has refused the Word of God and have rejected His Laws. (Jeremiah 6:19) Our leaders have oppressed the fatherless and the widow and shed the blood of the innocent. (Jeremiah 7:7) Our people have turned the House of God into a den of robbers and are guilty of stealing, murder, adultery, false swearing, and the worship of Baal. (Jeremiah 7:8‑10) Our nation has rejected correction, truth has all but perished, and the Temple of God is a polluted house. (Jeremiah 7:28‑30) Our preachers and pastors preach smooth things and refuse to preach against sin, they can not even blush. (Jeremiah 8:12) God's sheep are scattered and the pastors do not seek God's people. (Jeremiah 8:21) Our people follow the customs of the heathen and decorate trees in their homes. (Jeremiah 10:1‑4)
Our Israelite people have broken covenant with God, and a conspiracy of evil men rule the nation. (Jeremiah 11:1‑10) The sin of usury is condoned in the land. (Jeremiah 15:10) Our nation has profaned the Holy Sabbath by buying and selling on this holy day. (Jeremiah 17:19‑27) Profanity and swear words fill the land. (Jeremiah 23:10) False prophets have turned our people from the worship of God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ to the worship of the Jews ‑‑ who are the enemies of Jesus Christ the Son of God, preaching lies, false doctrines and Jewish Fables. (Jeremiah 23:16‑37) And in spite of the treachery of these false prophets and lying priests, our people are content. (Jeremiah 7:31) The sin debt has been piled high in America, and our people have refused to turn to God and Christ in repentance. All of these sins and more are presently being committed in the United States of America, thus, the judgment of God Almighty is being poured out upon America. Unless our people turn back to God and repent; then the following is sure to happen:
ALIEN INVASION OF AMERICA
The present invasion of this country by uncontrolled numbers of aliens pouring in from the third world and every continent on earth will continue unabated. The starving wretched poor of the world are packing their suitcases and heading for America. Our borders are out of control and it will become increasingly worse. Asians, Mexicans and Blacks will soon dominate the political scene of America. Our coastal areas, ALREADY filling up fast, mean that the alien flood tide will soon spill into the interior of America. Ultimately, the third world aliens will be everywhere, from the jungles of Los Angeles and New York to the quiet countryside of the Midwest.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA IS BECOMING ACUTE
With the arrival of hundreds of thousands of aliens annually, the job market in America is more than saturated. Jobs, ALREADY scarce, will become impossible to find. Non‑whites will receive FIRST CHOICE, and the whites will find it increasingly more difficult to find a good job. The planned deindustrialization of America, high wages and labor union subversion has produced a loss of the work ethic and has put millions of people out of a job. Foreign imports, mass merchandising of consumer goods by factories in Korea, Japan, Asia and elsewhere, with our alien controlled government assistance will force millions more of our Israel people from the work place in America. We will soon become a nation of unemployed people.
PREPARE FOR A PLUNGING
STANDARD OF LIVING
The deindustrialization of America, the alien flood tide, deficit budgets at every level of government, massive unemployment, and foreign imports will cause, and indeed, has caused the living standards of most American to plunge. In some areas of rural America, men are fighting over minimum wage jobs. The high costs of food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and utilities will make it increasingly more difficult for families to make ends meet. We can expect an even more drastic and radical change in the living standards of the middle and lower class of people in America.
FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL DEFICITS, INFLATION, USURY
Will bring a total collapse of the American economic system. The multi‑trillion dollar national debt is now increasing geometrically, and the interest on this debt will soon be the greatest single outlay of the Federal Budget. America is ALREADY bankrupt and our people are fast approaching national bankruptcy. Both the public and private debt structure are reaching astronomical levels. The banking system, because of the actions of the Federal Reserve System, is teetering on the brink of an economic earthquake. All the power, finesse, and expertise of government economists, bankers, and politicians are necessary to keep the economic system glued together on a month‑by‑month basis. The voracious financial appetite of the Federal Government, State Governments, City and County Governments cannot be SATISFIED. The debt structure of this nation is taking our people into an economic abyss. The only question that remains unanswered is how much longer the system can operate with a Federal economic train racing down the mountain side with no brakes, and no visible means of a desire to break the Richter scale will one day take place in America.
BEWARE OF THE LONG TERM INSTABILITY OF SOCIAL SECURITY
AND ALL PENSION FUNDS
The American public must surely know that the Social Security Fund is always about an economic eyelash from insolvency, their comments to the contrary notwithstanding. The financial demands being made on Social Security will very shortly greatly exceed all potential of those paying into it.
Moreover, remember that the ever proliferating numbers of people who can qualify grow ever larger [This includes many aliens], while the number of people paying in diminishes. All pension funds in this country are tied to the stability of the economy in general. And all too many of them have their funds tied up in the bandit state, Israeli Bonds, at 3 to 6 percent interest [And the payment of these bonds has been delayed for up to 30 years ‑‑ which will give the Israeli Lobby time to have the loans dismissed, thus American's pensions have been given to A PEOPLE WHO HATE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! THE JEWS!]. Any major economic problem could spell disaster for all types of pension funds in this country. You cannot count on long term Social Security and pension funds to carry you through a major economic collapse. They will all go down the economic tubes along with the rest of Mystery Babylon the Great.
PREPARE FOR A NATIONAL PANDEMIC PLAGUE OF AIDS AND OTHER DISEASES
The plunging moral standards of America has brought about the curses and plagues of an Eternal God upon the United States. Because America now tolerates every form of immoral behavior, and perversion, including sodomy [Queers], incest, adultery, fornication, promiscuity, and sexual perversion of every form known to man, a legion of terrible diseases are proliferating in this nation and will continue to do so until millions perish.
The anti‑Christian sexual morals of the American people could result in the liquidation of literally millions of people in the next few years. More than twenty venereal diseases are running rampant throughout the sexually promiscuous population of this nation. Leprosy has been diagnosed in California. The plague is breaking out upon us, and millions will perish! One hundred and Eighty Million or more as related by Ezekiel 38 and 39.
THERE IS A CULTURAL AND MORAL DECLINE THAT IS DESTROYING AMERICA
Our country is now in the death phase of the Organic Culture Curve ‑‑ brought about by the manipulations of the International Jewish Conspirators. Our language, music, art, literature, drama, and dress habits are reflecting subculture standards of the Black Race. Profanity and gutter language are now commonly heard in polite society and are accepted behavior in the college and University Classrooms of America. Our schools have degenerated into cess pools as a result of mixing the blacks, who, for the most part have no morals or ability to succeed in an open society.
Our music has taken on the sounds of the Jungle Bunny's of Africa. Our art and literature are reflections of the Jewish humanism and anti‑Christian teachings of the Godless Talmud. Drunkenness is becoming a way of life for young people before they even graduate from high school.
Smoking and chewing tobacco are standard for elementary school children in many areas of the country. More than two million unwed teenage girls are pregnant in America. Venereal Disease is rampant among teenagers. Drug infestation of our population is reaching astronomical levels. A growing love of many Americans, in every walk of life, is getting high on drugs. marijuana is not a leading cash crop in much of America. The drug traffic is now the single largest business in America.
DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY IS ALL BUT COMPLETE IN AMERICA
The breakup of the family is reaching completion in America. One out of every two marriage will end in divorce. Working mothers, peer group pressure in the public school, television, drugs, profanity, decline of religion, and immorality have rent asunder the Christian Family in America. More than two million couples live together outside the sacrament of Marriage. Single parent homes account for about one third of all children in America. More people are lined up on a given day in America seeking a divorce than are going to the altar to be married.
Juvenile delinquents are proliferating by the millions. No fault divorces, throw away marriage vows, live‑in relationships, adultery, and wife swapping are now common place among those who travel the fast lane of America. Satan and his minions, THE JEWS, are attacking the Christian Family on every hand. When the family goes, the ground and foundation for the future of America is gone. No nation can survive the dissolution and breakup of the family. No greater calamity can befall America than to lose the institution of the family.
DECLINE AND END OF THE FAMILY‑OWNED FARMS
IS NOW IN PROGRESS THROUGHOUT AMERICA
For the past five decades our farm population has been declining in America, the family farm is now an endangered species. We are currently losing about 200,000 family sized farms per year in America. Thousands of farmers are being driven from the land in bankruptcy, farm foreclosures, depressed farm prices, usury, and skyrocketing production costs. The farm land of America is being swallowed up by giant corporations, insurance companies, and banks; foreigners, under various covers, are purchasing millions of acres of land.
The government, through various programs have caused millions of acres to be taken out of production ‑‑ making America ever more dependent upon imported foods. There is now an exodus from the family farm to the metropolitan centers of America; The backbone of America is being crippled and destroyed by the loss of the family farm: Because people are more easily controlled if they live in the cities and do not have the capability to produce their own food and resources.
LOSS OF BIBLE KNOWLEDGE
AMONG WHITE AMERICANS IS APPALLING
The United States of America was founded by Bible‑believing Christians. The first 125 years of American history were written in the Christian teachings of the Holy Bible. Such is not the case today. We have discarded the Bible from our national life. The American public is no longer familiar with the bible. The teachings of this great book of Divine Truth has been lost and we are now without the truth of God's Word. Apathy and indifference toward the Bible are manifested everywhere in this country. The Bible is no longer revered as the Word of God. The knowledge of this great Book has been lost by this generation because of the false doctrines and Jewish Fables brought into the pulpits of America. We are rapidly becoming a nation of atheists and infidels, lost and without the hope of the Saving Knowledge of the Word of God.
AMERICA IS NOW SUFFERING
THE LOSS OF HER GENETIC HERITAGE
The American Nation was discovered, explored, and settled by Anglo‑Saxon and Kindred peoples from Caucasian Europe. A pure racial stream of Anglo‑Saxon peoples poured into this country beginning in 1620 with the arrival of the Pilgrims and continuing to the middle of the 19th century or about 1850. This vast pool of genetic racial seed is now being lost in America. The alien tidal wave from third world nations, together with the integration, amalgamation, and fusion of the races now taking place wholesale in every city, hamlet, and village of America is about to deplete the genetic heritage of the United States of America. Integration, amalgamation, fusion, and miscegenation of the races in the public schools, colleges, and universities are bringing about the systematic death to a pure white Anglo‑Saxon racial population.
THE DECLINE OF HISTORIC CHRISTIANITY
IS ALMOST COMPLETE IN AMERICA
The Faith once delivered to the Saints is almost lost in the mainline Churches of America. The pulpits of our Churches no longer resound with the soul stirring doctrines and creedal teachings of the Apostolic Church Fathers. The Knowledge of God's Laws is no longer taught from the pulpits. We no longer see the Seven Holy Sacraments of the Living God administered from a sanctified altar. We are losing the faith of our Christian Fathers, and our land is becoming barren of the great soul stirring Christianity of the first generations who came to this country.
The Modern Church is inflicted with humanism, lies, worship of Baal and of the Jews. The religion of humanism is preached from the pulpits and comes from the anti‑Christ Jewish Talmud. The great hymns of the faith have been discarded for the syncopated beat of the jungle bunny niggers, and Jesus Christ is no longer taught as THE WAY, the Truth, and the Life. Our churches have lost the touch of God. They are void of the Holy Spirit. They teach Jewish fables and the doctrines of Baal. Many of the most popular denominations in the Christian world are little more than houses of Baal where the false prophets of Baal preach for hire before a brainwashed congregation. But God Almighty has decreed the destruction of those who hate Jesus Christ and His True Israel People. IN A LAST BATTLE THEY SHALL BE DEFEATED.
"And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau [The Jews] for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be ANY remaining of the house of Esau [The Jews]; for the Lord hath spoken it." (Obadiah 18)
We shall be delivered, and the earth will be prepared for the return of Jesus Christ and the great Kingdom Age. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S VISION
The first President of the United States was George Washington; who during the war for independence had a vision, he later called "America's Three Great Perils." This vision was related to Mr. Bradshaw, reporter for the National Tribune and was published in Vol. 4, No. 12, December 1880. It was told to him by a Mr. Anthony Sherman on the Fourth of July 1859 in Independence Square. Mr. Sherman was at that time 99 years of age, his eyes dimming but were rekindled as he gazed upon Independence Hall, which he had come to visit once more. Where he related to Mr. Sherman:
"I want to tell you an incident in Washington's life ‑‑ one which no one alive knows of but myself; and, you will before long see it verified."
He paused and then went on to say:
"From the opening of the Revolution, we experienced all phases of fortune, good and ill. The darkest period we ever had, I think, was when Washington after several reverses, retreated to Valley Forge where he resolved to pass the winter of 1777. Oh! I have often seen the tears coursing down our dear commander's careworn cheeks, as he would be conversing with a confidential officer about the condition of his soldiers. You have doubtless heard the story of Washington's going to the thicket to pray. Well, he also used to pray to God in secret for aid and comfort. One day, I remember well, the chilly winds whistled through the leafless trees, though the sky was cloudless and the sun shone brightly, he remained in his quarters nearly all the afternoon alone. When he came out I noticed that his face was a shade paler than usual and there seemed to be something on his mind of more than ordinary importance. Returning just after dusk, he dispatched an orderly to the quarters of the officer I mentioned, and was presently in attendance. After a preliminary conversation of about half an hour, Washington gazing upon his companion with that strange look of dignity which he alone could command, said to the latter: 'I do not know whether it is owing to the anxiety of my mind, or what, but this afternoon, while preparing a dispatch, something seemed to disturb me.
“Looking up, I beheld, standing opposite me, a singularly beautiful being. So astonished was I, for I had given strict orders not to be disturbed that it was some moments before I found language to inquire the cause of the visit. A second, a third, and even a fourth time did I repeat my question, but received no answer from my mysterious visitor, except a slight raising of the eyes. By this time I felt strange sensations through me, and I would have risen, but the riveted gaze of the being before me rendered volition impossible. I assayed once more to speak, but my tongue had become useless, as though it had become paralyzed.
“A new influence, mysterious, potent, irresistible, took possession. All I could do was gaze steadily, vacantly at my unknown visitor. Gradually the surrounding atmosphere seemed as though it was becoming filled with sensations, and grew luminous. Everything about me seemed to rarefy, including the mysterious visitor. I began to feel as one dying, or rather to experience the sensations which I have sometimes imagined accompany dissolution. I did not think, I did not reason, I did not move; all were alike impossible. I was only conscious of gazing fixedly, vacantly at my companion. Presently I heard a voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn,' while at the same time my visitor extended an arm eastwardly. I then beheld a heavy vapor at some distance rising fold upon fold. This gradually dissipated, and I looked out upon a strange scene. Before me lay spread out in one vast plain all the countries of the world; Europe, Asia, Africa and America. I saw rolling and tossing between Europe and America the billows of the Atlantic; and between Asia and America lay the Pacific.
“'Son of the Republic,' said the same mysterious voice as before, 'look and learn.' At that moment I beheld a dark shadowy being as an angel standing, or rather floating in mid‑air, between Europe and America. Dipping water out of the ocean in the hallow of his hand, he cast some on Europe. Immediately a cloud arose from these countries, and joined in mid‑ocean. For awhile it remained stationary, and then moved slowly westward until it enveloped America in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of lightning gleamed through it at intervals, and I heard smothered groans and cries of the American people. A second time the angel dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it out as before. The dark cloud was then drawn back to the ocean in whose billows it sank from view.
“A third time I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn,' and I cast my eyes upon America and beheld villages and towns and cities spring up one after another until the whole land from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dotted with them. Again I heard the mysterious voice say, 'Son of the Republic, the end of the century cometh, look and learn.'
“This time the dark shadowy angel turned his face southward, and from Africa I saw an ill‑omened spectre approach our land. It flitted slowly over every town and city of the latter. The inhabitants presently set themselves in battle against each other. As I continued looking, I saw a bright angel on whose brow rested a crown of light, on which was traced the word, 'Union,' bearing the American Flag which he placed between the divided nation, and said, 'Remember, ye are brethren.' Instantly the inhabitants, casting down their weapons, become friends once more, and united around the National Standard.
“Again I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn.' At this the dark shadowy angel placed a trumpet to his lips and blew three distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, he sprinkled it on Europe, Asia and Africa.
“Then my eyes beheld a fearful scene; from each of these countries arose thick black clouds that were soon joined into one. And throughout this mass there gleamed a dark red light by which I was seeing hordes of armed men, who, moving with the cloud, marched by land an sailed by sea to America, which was enveloped in the volume of cloud. And I dimly saw these vast armies devastate the whole country and burn villages, towns and cities that I beheld springing up. As my ears listened to the thundering of the cannon, slashing swords, and the shouts and cries of millions in mortal combat, I again heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn.' When the voice had ceased, the dark angel placed his trumpet once more to his mouth and blew a long and fearful blast. Instantly a light as of a thousand suns shown down from above me, and pierced and broke into fragments the dark cloud which had enveloped America. At the same moment the angel upon whose head still shown the word 'Union' and who bore our national flag in one hand a sword in the other, descended from the heavens attended by legions of white spirits. These immediately joined the inhabitants of America, whom I perceived were well nigh overcome, but who, immediately taking courage again, closed up their broken ranks and renewed the battle. Again, amid the fearful noise of the conflict I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn.' As the voice ceased, the shadowy angel for the last time dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it upon America. Instantly the dark cloud rolled back, together with the armies it had brought, leaving the inhabitants of the land victorious.
“Then once more I beheld the villages, towns and cities springing up where I'd seen them before while the bright angel, planting the azure standard he had brought in the midst of them, cried with a loud voice: 'While the stars remain, and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Union last.' And taking from his brow the crown on which blazoned the word 'Union' he placed it upon the standard while the people, kneeling down, said 'Amen.'
“The scene instantly began to fade and dissolve, and I, at last, saw nothing but the rising, curling vapor I at first beheld. This also disappeared, and I found myself once more gazing upon the mysterious visitor who, in the same voice I had heard before said, 'Son of the Republic, what you have seen is thus interpreted. Three great perils will come upon the Republic. The more fearful is the third (the comment on his word 'third' is: 'The help against the third peril comes in the form of Divine Assistance') passing which the whole world united shall not prevail against her. Let every child of the Republic learn to live for his God, his land and Union.' With these words the vision vanished, and I started from my seat and felt that I had seen a vision wherein had been shown me, the birth, the progress and the destiny of the United States.'
“Such my friends, were the words I heard from Washington's own lips, and America would do well to profit by them."
AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION
"The more thoroughly a nation deals with its history, the more decidedly will it recognize and own an over‑ruling Providence therein, and the more religious a nation will it become; while the more superficially it deals with its history, seeing only secondary causes and human agencies, the more irreligious will it be." (Rev. A.W. Foljambe, January 5, 1876)
All nations are arbitrary collections of men under a common government, they are political mechanisms which have a purpose only in the sense that it can be attributed to mechanism such as a train or an automobile. When one speaks of a national purpose because every government reflects the personality of those in control of the vehicle or government in this case. Under a dictatorship the national purpose is clearly discernable as that of the dominant group or individual. Under a representative government, like that of the United States, the national purpose will tend to reflect that of the people as a whole. However, in recent years the United States has been subjected to increasingly serious challenge, and by no means its only enemy is Communism. Its enemies are legion and are seemingly without number.
In spite of what the enemies of Christ and the United States would have you believe: AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION!
"The Christian religion is the established religion by our form of government and all denominations are placed on an equal footing and equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty." (Runkel vs. Winemiller, et al, 4 H & McH. (1799));
"As Men we have God for our King, and are under the Law of Reason: as Christians, we have Jesus the Messiah for our King, and are under the Law revealed by Him in the Gospel." (John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695))
Prior to 1776 the Colonies which later became known as the United States of America, were under the Common Law of England, sovereign in their own right, as were the people, under the Articles of Confederation. Christianity being dominant in the land. At the birth of America the "People" "Ordained" and "Established" a Christian Nation, by adopting the Christian Common Law as the Supreme Law of the Land. The system of law and jurisprudence which they adopted was the Common Law of England, but only in so far as it was in agreement with the Law of the Bible. The Founding Fathers, like their English and German ancestors, had a profound respect for the Holy Bible and the principles of liberty stated therein. THEY ALSO HAD A PROFOUND HATRED OF "DEMOCRACY!"
DEMOCRACY
Democracy: A political system in which government is directly exercised or controlled by the people Collectively.
Republic: A state where the sovereignty resides in the people and the administration is lodged in officers ELECTED BY and REPRESENTING the people: as in the REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
It is important to review the distinction between a republic and a democracy by examining a U.S. Army Training Manual (TM 2000-25) issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30, 1928; to clearly see the degeneration that has occurred in our once Christian Nation. This publication, used to educate American soldiers on the distinction between a republic and a democracy, was withdrawn from circulation and publication by the U.S. Government long ago. However, it contains excellent information for those seeking to understand what good Citizenship is all about.
The following information was taken from the 156 page book officially compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30, 1928, setting forth exact and truthful definitions of a democracy and a republic and explaining the differences between the two. These definitions issued by authority of the U.S. Government should be acceptable as authentic in any court in America.
Citizenship: Training Manual 2000-25, Sect. 118-121 on Democracy: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Citizenship: Training Manual 2000-25, Sects. 118-121 on Republic: Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress. It is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.
A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of;
1). an executive and;
2). a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create;
3). a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize;
4). certain inherent individual rights. Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into democracy. (Atwood).
Citizenship: Training Manual 2000-25, Sect. 121: Superior to all others. Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered. Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.
Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They,
"made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy...and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic." (A.G. 014.33 (4-28-28))
It is important to point out that a republic, as good as it may be, is not the very best type of government, the best being a theocracy under which Yahweh rules by virtue of His Law. The Commandments, Statutes, and Judgments of the Living God as contained in the Holy Bible constitute the Law for a theocratic nation. Under this there is no need for a legislative body to enact thousands of unjust laws, since Almighty God, the only Lawgiver, has already legislated His Law government.
For a "century and a quarter" no American President failed to publicly affirm that he considered himself as President of a Republic. President Wilson was the first one to introduce this change and, the first ten words of his inaugural address should be remembered by every student of American Government, they were.
"My fellow citizens: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT."
A 'DEMOCRACY' CAN SIGN ITS OWN DEATH WARRANT! Our original Republic could not. The mere fact that representative government is based on delegated authority requires that the limitations on such authority be defined. It is the relationship of principal and agent. The Constitution is a contract between the principal (the citizen or voter) and the agent (the legislator, administrative or judicial officer). Democratic action, after the revolution made possible Communism in Russia. The abandonment of our Constitution or a failure to abide by it is rapidly bringing about Communist-Socialism in the United States.
In America, under Roosevelt, it was known as the 'New Deal.' In Germany, under Hitler, it was called 'Nazism.' In England, it is known as 'Socialism.' Under President Bush, it is called 'A New World Order.' But whatever name one cares to give it, it is totalitarianism or Communism! The adoption of Democracy as a form of government, upon close examination has always been fatal to good government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, to Christianity and must eventually produce a state of chaos from which a tyranny will arise. A "New World Order" if you will!
There is no better way to destroy our government than to champion legislation under the guise of democracy, which piece by piece undermines the checks and balances of our Republic. Hence at all costs, the difference between a republic and a democracy must be made clear to the American people. For the advocates of Communism, Socialism, New Dealism, Fascism, Nazism, Great Societies, Judeo‑Christianity, New Liberalism and neo‑Conseritivities are constantly obscuring vital issues by juggling with the favorable connotation the word democracy possess in the minds of Americans. 'Isms' are sometimes supported by a misled majority. In Russia, however, the totalitarian regime was established by a minority. But in Germany, the regime was established by an enraged majority who were successful in thwarting the plans of a minority. In that particular case, the minority was responsible for the so‑called 'direct action' reforms that were later to make them fugitives from their own land. Everybody lost, the majority, in their effective suppression of the minority by the placing of unlimited power in the hands of a dictator found themselves subjected by the same collectivist governmental machine.
Those who drew up our Constitution in the 18th century foresaw 20th century developments. THEY WERE GUARDING AGAINST A MINORITY. In order to see this, we must read what was written in "The Federalist" No. X, by Madison:
"If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the forms of the Constitution. When a majority is included in a faction the form of popular government, they enable it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good, and private rights. From this point of view of the subject, it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of party. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of govern-ment itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
“Theoretic politicians who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions and their passions. A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for that which we are seeking. That is why the American system has enabled us to advance faster and further than any people in the entire world's history.
“One can follow the trail of the attempts to break down ordered government while hiding under the popular connotations of the term 'democracy.' The effects beginning with Russia. Next came Hungary, whose collapse a year later enabled Karolyi to establish a so‑called 'democracy' under which Hungary was thrown into chaos, and the ensuing disorder made it possible for Bela Kuhn, Trotzkite Internationalist, to take over. 'Democracy' came to Germany with the abdication of the Kaiser; and led to Hitler. Calles brought 'democracy' to Mexico and it has turned into Communism. The centralization of power that was made possible by removing the checks and balances that stood in the way of a people granting rights to a dictator under waves of emotional hysteria or under soothing promises of a demagogue. It is happening in these United States ‑‑ where it is called a 'New World Order.' By one who has crossed the Rubicon. Even if it means a civil war, which is what happened when Caesar crossed his Rubicon. '... The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty...' The Rights of the Colonists as Christians'...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver...which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." (Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists (1772))
NOT ONE PASTOR IN 100,000 WILL TEACH OR PREACH THESE VERSES BECAUSE OF THEIR COWARDICE!
In 1789, America recognized only male members of the White Race as being able to establish a righteous criteria for voting, as citizens of the State wherein they resided. Women did not vote because they still obeyed the Word of God and were under the Biblical covers of their fathers and husbands.
"...that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety: not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (1 Timothy 2:9‑14)
It was the view of the Founding Fathers, that the political realm was regarded as a mere reflection or extension of the Law or Word of Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, ALL LAW is a direct reflection of the prevailing religion upon which a state is founded.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SECULAR STATE; for "religion" is the great state‑building principle. The American colonists created a new state, because they were already a church, A "CHRISTIAN" CHURCH, and that church was the very soul of the created state. Our Fore Fathers held as Divine Doctrine, that governments were made for the benefit of the governed and not for that of the governors, who were to regard themselves as THE SERVANTS OF GOD; appointed for the benefit of His Israel People, the Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and Kindred People of the United States and the rest of the so‑called Christian Nations of the World.
"For rulers are NOT A TERROR TO GOOD WORKS, BUT TO THE EVIL...For he [Government Agent] is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid..." (Romans 13:3‑4)
THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)
That government is ordained of God is a Biblical precept beyond reasonable controversy. (Romans 13) The Biblical reasons for government are as follows:
1). To punish murderers and violent offenders against mankind in order to protect the innocent and maintain order. (Genesis 9:3‑6; Romans 1; 1 Timothy 2:1‑2)
2). To establish courts for the settlement of civil strife or disputes (Judges).
3). To maintain a sufficient military force in reserve to protect the citizenry against unwarranted domestic and foreign aggression. (1‑2 Kings)
The preceding three reasons for the establishment of government are to allow man to exercise three rights granted by the Creator: Life, Liberty, and Property ("Pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence was substituted for "property"). The most profound thesis on government ever written was by a Frenchman, Frederic Bastiat (1801‑1850), titled "The Law." Bastiat wrote:
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
God ordained government TO PROTECT THESE RIGHTS, and government is simply the centralized will of men whose consciences dictate that such precious gifts from the Creator be guarded from usurpation by ungodly men. Or, as Bastiat explained:
"If every person has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly." (So join your local militia and prepare to defend our country and people against its enemies)
The Biblical concept of government is always presented in the negative, rather than the positive. The government cannot promise the citizenry anything other than protection. While it can promise protection from injustice, it cannot offer administration of justice, food, housing, or even equality, without planting the seeds for its own destruction. Bastiat explained the downfall of government through the ungodly usurpation of the rights of the individual thusly:
"It can be further stated that, thanks to the non‑intervention of the state in private affairs, our wants and their satisfactions would develop themselves in a logical manner. We would not see poor families seeking literary instructions before they have bread. We would not see cities populated at the expense of rural districts, nor rural districts at the expense of cities. We would not see the great displacements of capital, labor, and populations that are caused by legislative decisions...The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: it has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense...The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: greed and false philanthropy."
It is a natural instinct to want to help others, and this is an inherent faculty imparted in the truth that man was made in the image of God. But in government, philanthropy, in due course, is used by evil men ruled by greed to promote their own powers, ambitions, and agendas. One example that Bastiat gave of the perversion of government through false philanthropy was education, which produces a pseudo‑intellectual, educational "paradise" where God is left out.
Subsequently, moral decline sets in and men merely become clever devils. In spite of all the billions poured into education and college student support programs in the U.S., it can be argued without contradiction that the citizenry as a whole is actually worse off than it was fifty years ago. Due to the unnatural intervention of government into education and the social order, employment figures in many metropolitan areas favor 70 percent for women to 30 percent for men, further contributing to the increase in crime and the moral degeneracy fomented by the breakup of the family unit.
Entitlement is another matter that infuses greed and plunder into the governmental quagmire. According to the 1994 World Almanac, over $16 billion a year is required just to pay veteran's pensions. Add to this the billions paid each year to the millions of retired government employees (hidden in budget figures) and the cost to working taxpayers is staggering.
In the 1992 fiscal year $257 billion was spent (again at taxpayer expense) on government philanthropic programs (*health and human services), and another $281 billion for social security benefits. It should be pointed out, however, that Social Security is the only true government entitlement program, in that workers have paid their retirement benefits into the insurance fund. Every legislator in Congress has their own particular pet pork barrel project; every lobbyist walking the halls of Congress is after their sponsor's share of the tax dollar. With only nineteen exceptions, every member of the House and Senate, plus all past members still living (whether retired or defeated for office), are eligible (based on the average life span) for $100,000 to $500,000 a year for the rest of their lives in pensions and benefits. Bastiat observed:
"Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into making the laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it. Woe to the nation when the latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws."
Did the results of the November elections indicate a class struggle where the taxpayers were simply attempting to put in power those who would reduce their tax burden? Did the results indicate a national revulsion against the immorality and corruption in the present administration (a national poll indicated that among 70 percent of the voters morality was a consideration), or did the vote indicate that the voters want government to stay out of their lives and not be a usurper of the individual God‑given rights of the people?
The Republican party attained, through the November elections, a majority of the seats in both the House and the Senate as well as in state governorships. If there are no changes, or only cosmetic ones in the federal and state governments, then in 1996 the Republicans will be voted out and the Democrats voted back in. The political circus will continue as long as the legislators can collect enough tax money to keep enough of the philanthropic recipients of government dole voting them back into office. Bastiat wrote of those who are beneficiaries of political plunder:
"Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property...Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain, and since labor is pain in itself, it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it become more painful and more dangerous than labor."
There are a greater percentage of criminals and welfare recipients in the population of the United States than any other country in the world, but it should be quickly noted that criminals and welfare recipients do not fall in the same social category. The prisons of America are glutted with murderers, dope peddlers, robbers, thieves, rapists, you name it, they're there. But, due to a federal law, when a prison exceeds its inmate quota the excess must be turned loose again on society.
Often, even the most violent and dangerous criminals spend only a few days in jail, and then are allowed back out on the streets to kill, rob, and rape. (But a youngster that has done no more than smoke a few joints of Murrina, or a tax protester, will have to spend their full sentence in jail) Congress passed a $30 billion plus crime bill to hire more policemen and build more jails.
Will it help? NO! Some new members in Congress say they plan to strengthen the bill, but even shoring it up will not help. What will help is to execute every criminal on death row within 90 days, and then begin shipping the rest to a secured island with enough lumber to build dwellings, plows to till the ground, and seeds to plant. The penalty for plunder will then become more painful than working for an honest living.
In the meantime, Americans are spending trillions of dollars for jails, police salaries and bureaucracies, insurance, and the court systems. It does great harm to pass legislation to deter crime when murderers and rapists are not executed, and liberal judges and juries excuse the criminal and ignore the rights of the victim.
The O.J. and Nicole Simpson case was an excellent example of what's wrong with America: divorce, dependent children, too much money, too little responsibility, fornication, adultery, miscegenation, drugs, idolization of false gods of sports, lies, abuse, racial conflicts, murder, abortion, too many lawyers, and a judicial system that leaves a brainwashed and oversexed generation crying for more sensational news media titillation. Indeed, O.J. and Nicole Simpson epitomize the present American generation. Only a continuing united voter demand for the strict enforcement of the capital punishment laws, linked with the abolishing of socialistic programs that only create criminal and crime environments, will make a change in the crime statistics in this country.
President Lyndon Johnson, through federal subsidization of his "Great Society" program, was going to eliminate poverty. Thirty years later, after plundering the working class of trillions of dollars for welfare, there are ten times as many on the welfare rolls now than there were at the beginning. When you subsidize welfare, accepting government aid becomes less painful than working, and women bearing illegitimate children will continue to do what to them comes natural. Statistics showing that the percentage rate of illegitimacy has increased over five times in recent years have been published again and again. Social weepers will moan and groan before TV cameras how these poor women struggle just to make their welfare checks stretch far enough to obtain the bare necessities of life.
It is true that some mothers on welfare have been abused, and that husbands have left them with several children to care for. However, as we read in the Bible, the rain falls on the just as it does on the unjust, and unless welfare is stopped altogether the bumper crop of welfare bums will continue to be harvested. Churches and local aid programs can be marshalled to help those deserving of financial assistance.
Only by eliminating welfare will the foundation of every social order, the family, be restored in the nation. Boys and girls will be more careful about selecting a mate; a husband and wife will try more earnestly to make their marriage work before getting a divorce; and single women will be more careful about engaging in sex before marriage.
Termination of federal welfare programs will also result in lowering the crime rate. The majority of criminals today come from single‑parent or broken homes where no moral or spiritual guidance is provided. They have grown up without respect for the work ethic, law, property, or their fellow man. But! Stop welfare and there could be a near revolution in our nation. Not only will welfare recipients riot, pillage, and burn when welfare checks stop, the liberal news media will stir up millions of sobbing social apologists to join the cause of "decency."
Senator Phil Gramm, on the NBC program "Meet The Press," revealed that welfare spending last year (1994) totaled $310 billion. Several congressmen and senators are now proposing legislation to either stop or overhaul the federal welfare dole program. Bastiat observed:
"While society is struggling, men who put themselves at its head are filled with the spirit of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They think only of subjecting mankind to the philanthropic tyranny of their own social inventions. Like Rosseau, they desire to force mankind docilely to bear this yoke of the public welfare that they have dreamed up in their own imaginations."
Bastiat, citing welfare entrenched programs that go back in history to the times of the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, concluded that the only way such federally endowed systems have ever been stopped or reversed was through an absolute dictatorship. Therefore, with the authority of history, it is likely that some legislators will orate and propound brave words about emptying the public trough, but the majority in Congress will shout them down as cruel and heartless Scrooges. Ultimately, little will be done other than an obscure reshuffling of the public dole which will signify nothing. The taxpayers will, as Bastiat said, continue to meekly submit to tyrannical philanthropy because no one wants to be accused of allowing widows and children to go hungry.
According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, by using the income tax, meaning a tax on income, there was collected in 1992 $476 billion from individual citizens and $100 billion from corporations, with another $413 billion from employees and employers in Social Security "contributions." Total revenue from all sources for the federal government in 1992 was $1.1 trillion.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution became the law of the land in 1913. This law made legal the confiscation of certain percentages of income to both individuals and businesses. The income tax law did not limit or qualify the way in which the tax receipts were to be used. Therefore, the "law" not only set historical precedents as an instrument for plunder, but it gave to the federal government great powers over all those bound under it. When Nelson Mandela, the new president of South Africa, was asked how he would redistribute the wealth, he replied without hesitation or apology, "Through taxation." Whether we agree or disagree with the need or application of the income tax law, it is used in many ways as a vehicle of socialism; taking from the "haves" and giving to the "have‑nots." A Reuters news story, dateline Washington, November 14, 1994, stated in part:
"Congressional leaders Sunday distanced themselves from proposals by some leading Republicans to scrap the income tax and impose a national sales tax instead."
This news report continued to reflect the views of some of the leading members of Congress. Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich said it should be considered, but that there are more important matters like cutting the budget that needs their attention first. Congressman Gephardt from Missouri said that he was against terminating the income tax law and believed that such a thing would never happen because the poor would have to bear a disproportionate percentage of the tax burden.
However, let us consider that a citizen who makes $20,000 a year would spend $10,000 on taxable merchandise and services, while another citizen making $1 million would spend $500,000 on taxable items. If the sales tax for the federal budget was 5 percent, then the lower income person would pay $1,000 a year, and the higher income person would pay $25,000, or twenty‑five times as much.
These Americans in the lower income tax bracket must pay the social security tax out of their wages, and they also must pay for their public utilities like everyone else, so why not let them bear some of the federal expense even though it may be only a small part. There are some high ranking members of Congress like Dick Armey and Bill Archer of Texas, and Pete Domenici of New Mexico who plan to introduce a bill in January 1995 to do away with the income tax law.
Whether such a bill will ever pass Congress is questionable. If it should pass, President Clinton would likely veto it. The federal bureaucracy in both the executive and legislative branches of government will fight to the death rather than relinquish this power‑control weapon over the population, a law that presumes tax payers guilty until proven innocent. Referencing Bastiat once again:
"Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder...Now, legal plunder can be committed in an indefinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs (taxes), benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on. All these plans as a whole, with their common aim of legal plunder, constitute socialism. Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task."
One hundred and fifty years ago Bastiat advised that if we attempt to attack socialistic legal plunder on the grounds of the ultimate recipients like widows, farmers, orphans, police enforcement, etc., we will lose and legal plunder will only become worse. Socialism, and its ultimate weapon, the income tax, must be opposed on a basis of doctrine that considers the restraint on production, the unfairness to the working class, and the moral damage to both the nation and the recipients as well. However, even if as a result of the 1994 elections the income tax law is rescinded (which is not likely), new safeguards would have to be written into the new tax system or the same bureaucratic‑socialistic evils would just continue in another form.
During the early years of America, each family was considered in itself to be a unit of government, with only adult males casting the votes. The de jure government established in 1789, was basically Christian; it was established on Bible Law ‑‑ A Republican Representative form of Government: One which honored the Lord Jesus Christ and the Christian Faith! The prosperity and happiness of the American People was seen by the other nations of the world, and the founding fathers, to be a direct outcome of its Christian Religion and that ruin was inevitably seen to be the outcome following vice and sin. And it was their view that the first duty of a government was to support, teach and practice the Christian Religion of the Nation, by public recognition and honor paid to it in the outward forms of its worship, and by using it as the groundwork of the education of the people; and by putting a social stigma upon all deviation from it.
It was widely believed, failure to adhere to these principles would inevitably lead to the destruction of the United States.
"The dread and redoubtable sovereign, when traced to his ultimate and genuine source, has been found, as he ought to have been found, in the free and independent man...This truth, so simple and natural, and yet so neglected or despised, may be appreciated as the first and fundamental principle in the science of government." (James Wilson, Study of Law in the United States (1790‑91))
This, then, was the prevailing view of history, law and religion at the time the American Republic was founded and subsequently for the first one hundred years of its existence. The organic law completely embodied those Christian principles because it was wholly based upon the same authority that taught them ‑‑ THE CHRISTIAN HOLY BIBLE.
"Next to the power of religion, a strict administration of justice is the best security of morals. Foreign influence will not greatly prevail, as long as morals remain uncorrupted. The British common law is, therefore, one of the bulwarks against that corruption of manners, which will invite foreign influence, in spite of all the frothy harangues that will ascribe it to the wrong causes. A people thoroughly licentious and corrupt [And democracy will make them such], will be betrayed, and foreign states will reward demagogues for managing their passions to mislead them. It is by practicing on their hopes and fears, that such men gain an influence over the people, and after they have gained, they have it for sale." (Works of Fisher Ames, W.B. Allen; Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1983 (1854), pp. 297‑298, Vol. I)
The Common Law of England, in its purest and earliest form, was Germanic and Celtic in origin. Beyond that its roots go back into the mists of history, to ancient Israel. It appears over and over again in the records and traditions of all the Aryan nations. In the ancient records it is always described and couched in the context of a fundamental law of divine origin associated with the governance of all nature.
"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
The founding fathers of the American Republic referred to it as "the law of nature and nature's God." This phrase was lifted directly from the "Lex Salica," the common law of the German tribes that over ran Europe as well as Scandinavia and eventually settled in large portions of what was then Britain, later to become England. Both Franklin and Jefferson stated that the substantive principles of representatives government upon which the American Constitution was founded were taken from two sources.
The First: Was the system of Constitutional Government was practiced by Ancient Israel, under the leadership of first Moses and later Joshua.
"Liberty...is the essential condition and guardian of religion; and it is in the history of the Chosen People, accordingly, that the first illustrations of my subject are obtained. The government of the Israelites was a Federation, held together by no political authority, but by the unity of race and faith, and founded, not on physical force, but on a voluntary covenant. The principle of self‑ government was carried out not only in each tribe, but in every group of at least 120 families; and there was neither privilege of rank nor inequality before the law. Monarchy was so alien to the primitive spirit of the community that it was resisted by Samuel in that kingdoms of Asia and many of the kingdoms of Europe have unceasingly confirmed." (Selected Writings of Lord Action, J. Rufus Pears; Liberty Classics, (1985), p. 7, Vol. 1)
The Second: Source was the institutes of government of the Anglo‑Saxons which were almost identical to those of the Ancient Israelites. America being a third.
"The heroic age of Greece confirms it, and it is still more conspicuously true of Teutonic Europe. Wherever we can trace the earlier life of the Aryan nations we discover germs which favoring circumstance and assiduous culture might have developed into free societies. They exhibit some sense of Common interest in common concerns, little reverence for external authority, and an imperfect sense of the function and supremacy of the state." (Selected Writings of Lord Action, J. Rufus Pears; Liberty Classics, (1985), p. 9, Vol. 1)
Jefferson's historical studies brought him to the conclusion that ancient Israel was the first nation in history to have a representative government; he also discovered that 1500 years later the Anglo‑Saxons were living under a system which was almost identical. Was there a connection? Were these two peoples so separated by time and geography related?
"...And Reason, which is that Law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions..." (John Locke, Of Civil‑Government (1689))
Franklin and Jefferson both proposed a national seal for our new nation which portrayed on one side the Children of Israel in the wilderness led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. And on the other side of the proposed seal was portrayed:
"Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs, from whom we claim the honor of being descended and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed." (Richard S. Patterson and Richardson Dougal, The Eagle and the Shield: A History of the Great Seal of the United States, Washington; U.S. Department of State, 1976, p. 16)
The motto which Jefferson and Franklin proposed to go on the national seal was,
"REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD."
Jefferson wrote extensively at the time about the need for a renaissance of Anglo‑Saxon primitive institutions on the new continent. He considered the American Rebelion as nothing but the declaration of the Anglo‑Saxon birthright of which the colonists had been deprived by "a long train of abuses." On August 13, 1776, Jefferson wrote to Edmund Pendleton to convince him that Virginia must abolish the remnants of feudalism and return to the "ancient principles:"
"Are we not better for what we have hitherto abolished of the feudal system? Has not every restitution of the ancient Saxon laws had happy effects? Is it not better now that we return at once into that happy system of our ancestors, the wisest and most perfect ever yet devised by the wit of man, as it stood before the eighth century?" (Julian P. Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Vols. Princeton University Press, 1950, Vol. 1, p. 492)
Jefferson even studied the language of the Anglo‑Saxons so that he might read their laws in the original tongue. In a letter to his old tutor, George Wythe, dated November 1, 1778, Jefferson wrote that:
"...the extracts from the Anglo‑Saxon law, the sources of the Common Law, I wrote in the original for my own satisfaction; but I have added Latin or liberal English translations." (Julian P. Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Vols. Princeton University Press, 1950, Vol. 2, p. 504)
Jefferson also stated in 1803:
"I am a Christian, in the only sense in which He {Christ} wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines, in preference to all others."
Also said the following about centralized government:
"...I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people.";
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single {Central} government, it will be one of the most extensive in corruption.";
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants, at such a distance and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder, and waste...
“What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building, and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government. The true theory of our Constitution {strict construction} is surely the wisest and best - that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage themselves. And our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization and a very inexpensive one: a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants."
BIBLICAL CONNECTION
The Anglo‑Saxons originated in the area of the Black Sea in the centuries before Christ and from there spread all across Northern Europe. This was the same area to which the Northern Ten Tribes of Ancient Israel had been transported by their Assyrian conquerors some 100 years earlier. THE OBVIOUS IMPLICATION OF THESE HISTORICAL FACTS IS THAT THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES AND THE LATTER DAY ANGLO‑SAXONS ARE ONE AND THE SAME PEOPLE.
The two peoples share many of the same cultural practices and preserved the same unique institutes of government. The Anglo‑Saxons organized themselves into units identical to those of the ancient Israelites described in the Old Testament. As called for by Biblical Law, their society was organized upon the foundation of the family and the tribal concept of clan, sept, kith and kin.
"Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self‑government, without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies, great or small; in short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system..." (Samuel Adams, Boston, October 4, 1790)
Like the ancient Israelites, the Anglo‑Saxons considered themselves a commonwealth of freemen with certain inalienable rights and duties intended for the preservation of blood and soil. All laws, as well as the election of leaders, had to be by the common consent of the people. Authority granted to a chieftain in time of war was extremely limited and was taken away from him as soon as the emergency passed.
Again, as in the Bible, THEIR SYSTEM OF JUSTICE WAS BASED UPON THE PRINCIPLE OF PAYMENT OF DAMAGES [restitution] TO THE VICTIM RATHER THAN CALLING IT A CRIME AGAINST THE WHOLE PEOPLE. They recognized all the capital crimes designated in the Bible and their punishments were the same. For documentation as to the foregoing see:
1). Colin Rhys Lovel, English Constitutional and Legal History, Oxford University Press, 1962; and
2). Sharon Turner, The History of the Anglo‑Saxons, London: Longman, etc., 1836, pp. 221‑225).
From the foregoing historical authorities, it is evident that the common law and the law of God are synonymous, the former having originated in the latter. It is also evident that these things were all part of our ancestral birthright long before the advent of the Roman Church of Europe and the Isles. In fact, these cultural, historical and genetic associations can be traced directly back to the time of the classical civilization of ancient Israel and beyond.
"...'in almost all cases, the common law was grounded on the law of God, which it is said was causa causans,' and the court cited the 27th chapter of Numbers, to show that their judgment on a common law principle in regard to the law of inheritance, was founded in God's revelation of that law to Moses." (The State vs. Chandler, 2 Del 553, @ 555, 556 (1837));
"...The eternal principles of natural religion are part of the common law; the essential principles of revealed religion are part of the common law; so that any person reviling, subverting, or ridiculing them, may be prosecuted at common law..." (The State vs. Chandler, 2 Del 553, @ 555, 556)
Thus, as originally adopted in England from both the Celtic and Germanic influences, THIS COMMON LAW EMBRACED ALL THE FUNDAMENTAL TENETS OF BIBLICAL LAW as to property and the rights of the individual.
"By the Common Law and by the Bible, which is the foundation of the Common Law..." (Wylly vs. Collins, 9 Ga 223, @ 237 (1851))
A CHRISTIAN IDEA OF MAN
This nation was begun as The last word in human political institutions ‑‑ A Republican form of Government!
"The vast region which the flag of the United States protects was, two centuries and a half ago, the roaming ground of tribes of Indians...It was virtually a wast awaiting, in the order of Providence, the magic influence of an incoming race, imbued with the spirit of a new civilization. The period referred to was an epoch in which there had been a providential preparation for great events in the Old World. It was an era of wonderful discovery in the heavens and the earth. It was also the period of the Reformation.
“This, in its essence, was the assertion of the principle of individuality, or of true spiritual freedom; and in the beginning, not by Protestants alone, of whom Luther was the great exponent... Though first occupied with subjects not connected with political speculation, yet it was natural and inevitable, that inquiry should widen out from the realm of the Church into that of the State.
“Then a fresh impetus was given to that transformation of society, which began when Christianity ‑ the basis of the good, permanent, and progressive in modern civilization first appeared in the world. At that time, social order rested on the assumed natural inequality of men. The individual was regarded as of value only as he formed a part of the political fabric, and was able to contribute to its uses, as though it were the end of his being to aggrandize the State. This was the pagan idea of man.
“The wisest philosophers of antiquity could not rise above it. Its influence imbued the pagan world. The State regarded as of paramount importance, not the man, but the citizen whose physical and intellectual forces it absorbed.
“If this tended to foster lofty civic virtues and splendid individual culture in the classes whom the State selected as the recipients of its favors, it bore hard on those whom the State virtually ignored, on laboring men, mechanics, the poor, captives in war, slaves, and woman. This low view of man was exerting its full influence when Rome was at the height of its power and glory.
“Christianity then appeared with its central doctrine, that man was created in the Divine image, and destined for immortality; pronouncing, that, in the eye of God, all men are equal. This asserted for the individual an independent value. It occasioned the great inference, that man is superior to the State, which ought to be fashioned for his use. This was the advent of a new spirit and a new power in the world. The struggle between the pagan and Christian elements was severe.
“In four centuries, civil society was transformed from the pagan basis to that of Christianity. But, long after Rome had crumbled, the influence of Paganism, under various forms, continued to operate; and especially the idea, that man was made for the State, the office of which, or of a divine right vested in one, or in a privileged few, was to fashion the thought and control the action of the many.
“Its embodiment in arbitrary power, both in ecclesiastical and political affairs, continued to oppress and benumb the intellect, until the Reformation roused a spirit of activity in the bosom of the Church.
“The new life thus started in the domain of religion soon communicated itself to other provinces...There then rose, above the low level of a corrupt political world, a class of thinkers who grasped the idea that the State ought to exist for man; that justice, protection, and the common good, ought to be the aim of government...Among them were John Milton, imbued with the very spirit of the Reformation, who defended the noble thesis, that freedom is the native right of man, and gave the world a mighty and still unsurpassed plea for liberty of utterance; John Locke...was so successful in catching and expressing the liberal spirit of his age, in his work on Civil Government, that it became the platform of a great political party, and gradually widened out into an influence that operated far beyond the thought or the theory of its adherents; so that, Hallam says, 'while silently spreading its fibers from its roots over Europe and America, it prepared the way for theories hardly bolder in their announcement, but expressed with more passionate ardor, from which the last and present age have sprung.' This historical judgment is applicable to a line of illustrious characters, who grasped the Christian idea of man; and, because of the brilliancy of their service in behalf of human rights, they deserve a place among the morning stars of the American constellation." (The Rise of the Republic of the United States, by Richard Frothingham (1890))
LIBERTY
"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Liberty is a word often uttered, but seldom understood. It is the theme of ardent elocution, but of little sober considera-tion. Poets and orators have eulogized the attributes of Liberty; demagogues shout the word from the roof‑tops, for political advancement; enemies of our Israel people have used the word as a battle cry to start wars in their efforts to destroy them; yet few, investigate or comprehend its true nature. Civil liberty, the liberty of a community, is a severe and restrained thing.
The fundamental idea of it is that of protection in the enjoyment of our own rights, up to the point where we begin to entrench upon the rights of others. It is natural liberty, so far restrained, and only so far, as may be necessary for the public good. Every law, which abridges personal freedom, without a corresponding general advantage, is an infringement of civil liberty.
But it is no infringement of liberty to restrain the freedom of subjection, and obedience. Motesquieu has well defined it, when he says, that it
"consists in the power of doing what we wish to do, and in not being constrained to do what we ought to not to do." (Spirit of Laws)
Liberty is a right of doing what the laws permit. For if one citizen does what the law forbids, all might do it, which would eventually result in anarchy. In such a state True liberty would expire.
"In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes...In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes." (Judges 17:6; 21:25)
JEWISH SUBVERSION
However, as early as the fifteenth century various Jewish practices with regard to debt, usury, taxation of the land, inheritance of the land and mortgages [The death gate] had begun to creep into the common law of England via the influence of Jewish money lenders attached to the throne. These principles of Jewish law had their origins in the Babylonian Talmud and not the Bible. These practices were correctly perceived by the American colonists as alien and contrary to Biblical law and all the principles of liberty championed therein. For this reason the common law of England was considered by the colonists as defiled and corrupted everywhere the Talmudic influence had touched it.
The American Founding Fathers utterly rejected and scorned these influences. They were well aware that the practices of the Jews came not from the Old Testament, but rather from the Talmud and other spurious rabbinical sources. They knew that Christ had referred to the Babylonian teachings of the Jews as "the traditions of the elders" and had condemned these practices as being not only contrary to the Law of God but of actually making God's Law of no effect. Our forefathers knew that Judaism and Christianity were total opposites, which is much more than the Judeo-Christian preachers of today know.
"The current expression 'Judeo-Christian' is an error which has altered the course of universal history by the confusion it has sown in men's mind, if by it one is meant to understand the Jewish origin of Christianity; for by abolishing the fundamental distinctions between Jewish and Christian messianism, IT SEEKS TO BRING TOGETHER TWO IDEAS THAT ARE RADICALLY IN OPPOSITION. By laying the accent exclusively on the 'Christian' idea to the detriment of the 'Judean' it conjures away monotheistic messianism - a valuable discipline at all levels of thought, and reduces it to a purely confessional messianism, preoccupied like Christian messianism with the salvation of the individual soul. If the term 'Judeo-Christian' does point to a common origin, there is no doubt that it is a most dangerous idea.
It is based on a 'contrdictio in adjecto' which has set the path of history on the wrong track. It links in one breath two ideas which are completely irreconcilable, it seeks to demonstrate that there is no difference between day and night or hot and cold or black and white, and thus introduces a fatal element of confusion to a basis on which some, nevertheless, are endeavoring to construct a civilization. Christianity offers to the world a limited messianism which it wishes to impose as the only valid one...Even Spinoza, who was further than any other thinker from the historic messianism of Israel, wrote: 'As for what certain churches say, that God assumed human nature, I must confess that this seems to me as absurd as saying that a circle assumed the shape of a square ...' The dogmatic exclusiveness professed by Christianity must finally end...It is the obstinate Christian claim to be the sole heir to Israel which propagates-anti-Semitism. This scandal must terminate sooner or later; the sooner it goes, the sooner the world will be rid of the issue of lies in which anti-Semitism shrouds itself." (Joshua Jehouda, l'Antisemitisme Miroir du Monde, pp. 135-136; Judaism and the Vatican, Vicomte Leon de Poncins, pp. 30-31)
The Talmud was considered to be the complete antithesis of Biblical Law and when adopting the common law for the new Republic the Founding Fathers specifically rejected anything and everything that had the slightest odor or stench of Jewish influence.
STANDARD OF JUSTICE
They removed everything that was contrary to the Christian understanding of God's Law as set forth in both the Old and New Testaments and it was their stated intention that the justice embraced by the Constitution would be defined in terms of Christian Morality and none other. They fully adopted and implemented the Law of God not only as the judicial standard for measuring and determining justice, but also for the very organization of the government itself. "The people of this state, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice..." (The People vs. Ruggles, 8 Johnsons NY Common Law Reports 290, @ 294, 295)
As a matter of law, Christianity was to be the foundational influence in all the social, political and economic aspects of the social compact and government formed; Christianity was to completely define and determine the very organization and structure of the government.
"Christianity, general Christianity, is and always has been a part of the common law of Pennsylvania..." (Updegraph vs. The Commonwealth, 11 Sergeant & Rawles Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports 400);
"The distinguished commentator on the laws of England informs us, that upon the foundations of the law of nature and the law of revelation, all human law depends. (1 Bl.Com.42) The municipal law looks to something more than merely the protection of lives, the liberty, and the property of our people. REGARDING CHRISTIANITY AS PART OF THE LAW OF THE LAND, it respects and protects its institutions; and assumes likewise the regulate the public morals and decency of the community." (Bell vs. The State, 1 Swan (Tenn) 42, @ 44 (1851))
The moral, ethical and spiritual force of Christianity was so interwoven into the fabric of the Republic that one could not be separated from the other without destroying both. Thus, the ancient common law adopted as the foundation of the American Republic, being fully predicated upon the Christian revelation of the Scriptures and the Divine Commandments therein, was rightfully referred to as "Christian Common Law."
"Every system of law known to civilized society generated from or had as its component one of three well known systems of ethics, pagan, stoic, or Christian concept of right and wrong or right and justice motivates every rule of equity. It is the guide by which we dissolve domestic frictions AND THE RULE BY WHICH ALL LEGAL CONTROVERSIES ARE SETTLED." (Strauss vs. Strauss 3 So 2d 727, @ 728 (1941))
REPUBLIC AND THE FAITH
Thus, the colonists "Established" their state constitutions within the principles of the common law [as measured against the Bible] to assure that THE NATION [The United States] WOULD BE A CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC.
"The Christian religion is the established religion by our form of government and all denominations are placed on an equal footing and equally entitled to protection in their religious Liberty." (Runkel vs. Winemiller, et. al., 4 Hc. Mch)
What does Justice Chase mean?
"The Christian Religion is the established religion by OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT?"
Isn't it true that Christians believe that our Father is composed of three co‑equal parts in one whole: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost? Isn't this a major tenet of the Christian Faith? The Constitution of Delaware (1776) clearly points out that this is a part of the Christian faith embraced by our forefathers. It requires that the following declaration be made before taking a seat in the legislature, entering upon the execution of an office, or occupying a place of trust in the Delaware government, to wit:
"I, A B, do profess faith in God the Father, and Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration." (Article 22, Delaware Constitution (1776))
Thus, the oath requires three fundamental declarations:
a). A belief in the divinity of Jesus the Christ;
b). A belief in the divine origins of both the Old and New Testaments; and,
c). A belief in the triune nature of our God; the principle of three in one.
Upon these three points the founding fathers defined what was and was not "Christian" and organized our government.
The government in a Christian Nation must be fashioned after its head, i.e. the one true God declared in the Delaware Constitution and in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Thus, we find the source of three co‑equal branches of government in a Christian Republic. Now you understand why Mr. Justice Chase said that
"the Christian Religion is the established religion by our form of government" [A Christian Republic].
Obviously, if Christianity is the established religion, then it is also the protected religion. Consider that the nature of the sovereignty determines the nature of the government both as to structure as well as function. This is so because the form of government must follow the form and practice of the religion that created it and gave it birth. And don't you doubt for one minute that absolutely ALL governments are founded upon and find their origins in religion! Even that of the Soviet Union! It follows then that a system of government and law founded upon the principles of Christianity is fundamentally duty bound to protect and nurture Christianity. Otherwise it has no reason to justify its continued existence.
A government which acts contrary to its own founding principles and pollutes the wellsprings of its own creation must decline into chaos, anarchy and destruction. It is impossible for such a government to bring about order and harmony in anything. It is an abomination! And the people of the land shall know the same end as the government they tolerated and supported. The law of nature and divine justice will not be defied! We SHALL REAP ALL THAT WE HAVE SOWN.
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." (Galatians 6:7)
In Leviticus 26:22, the penalties for flouting the commands of the Everliving God are clearly set out:
"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate."
DEMOCRACY HAS NO FAITH
As a means of contrast, let's review the constitution of the Soviet Union. There we find that only one branch of government holds the governing power. The USSR, being officially un‑Christian or an anti‑Christ nation, does not depend upon the design embodied in Christian doctrine for the establishment of their nation and government.
"The highest organ of state power in the USSR is the Supreme Soviet of the USSR." (Ch. III, art. 30, (1939));
"In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the USSR is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of anti‑religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens." (U.S.S.R. Const., Ch. X, art. 124, (1939)
Apparently there must be more than one type of republic. The U.S.S.R. is called a "republic." The United States of America is a "republic." But, by their respective forms of government, they are clearly differentiated as two contrasting types thereof. We're told that the U.S.S.R. is becoming more like the U.S.A. THIS IS LIE; just the opposite is true. The truth is that AMERICA, today IS, by the process of legislative fiat, BEING TRANSFORMED FROM A CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC INTO A SOCIALIST ANTI‑CHRIST DEMOCRACY, both in law and in fact.
Why do you think that in America today "May Day" is celebrated as "Law Day?" The answer is because what was done in Russia through wholesale murder is being accomplished here through the process of statutory legislation. They are both revolutionary processes; one is just quieter than the other and has the advantage of stealth. How is this being accomplished? First, the socialists in this nation had to convert the constitutions of the several states from their common law [Christian] form to the socialist [anti‑ Christ] form of republic:
1). By removing the indivisible "nation" principle; that is, the recognition of free whites as a citizenry, thereby destroying the principle of one race indivisible and unmixed; and,
2). By removing the common law jurisdiction from the courts which:
a). gave particular recognition to and enforced the rights of that citizenry; and
b). recognized Christian doctrine as the standard whereby justice was to be measured and decreed; and
3). Neutralize the common law jurisdiction of the counties and cities/towns; and
4). Remove all State militias; and,
5). By bringing state government under the full power of one branch and making it the "highest organ of state power."
The Socialists/Communists, if they believe in any thing at all, believe in Satan's form of government; one master with sole control. Satan's government demands total centralization of all power, authority and responsibility. But that isn't all. It also demands wholesale miscegenation; mixing of the races. Satan's government always demands the destruction of that which God has created and separated and it is always based upon the egalitarian principles of internationalism; especially where the White Race is concerned. Satan loves confusion. Our Father loves order. Our Father says that miscegenation is confusion and an abomination. Miscegenation is confusion and is forbidden by God.
"Neither shalt thou lie with any beast [dark races] to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you" (Leviticus 18:23‑24)
For a second witness: "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." (Deuteronomy 32:8‑9)
It is appalling to examine the limits that Bible teachers will go to in their efforts to make a place in Scripture of interracial marriage. Every Scripture in the Bible is carefully scrutinized to make room for race mixing. These false apostles of Satan's kingdom will do anything to make it appear that the Word of God commends race mixing.
If you believe what the modern clergy preach, you will believe that Adam and Eve might have been black and white. You would believe that Asenath, wife of Joseph, Zipporah, wife of Moses, Rachab, wife of Salmon, and other leading women of Scripture were black or some other color. The American clergy appears to derive some special pleasure out of turning the Holy Bible into a racial polyglot of twisted and confusing bloodlines that end up merging all races into one fully integrated and mingled people. These preachers of mix and mate, love and amalgamate go to any end to promote interracial dating, marriage and social relationships. IN FACT, IF THIS WERE TRUE, THERE WOULD BE NO WHITE RACE, NO BLACK RACE AND NO ORENTIAL RACE!
The miscegenation mania in the pulpit, in the pew, throughout America, and now appearingthe the remnant pulpit is cause for grave concern. Blood pollution is forever; it's irreversible. We can rebuild the foundations of a collapsed economy. The rotting political infrastructure of America can be restored amid fasting, prayer, and Bible reconstruction. A resolution for our social problems can, in time, be found. But if we pollute our blood amid the sin of miscegenation and reduce the purity of our White Race and every race to bland gray, America will be finished forever. Every base nation on earth today results fromthe fusion of the primary builder race, the White Race, with the help of the other races not through race mixing. The browning of Egypt, Greece, North Africa, India, Peru, and other nations resulted from race mixing. Those who fail to live by the Biblical Law of racial purity will be judged in the eternal loss of the genetic foundations upon which nations are built.
Never realizing that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by Almighty God because of sodomy and race mixing.
"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh [having sex and marrying those of other races], are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Judges 1:7);
"Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." (Deuteronomy 7:3);
"...I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people." (Leviticus 20:24);
"...so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." (Exodus 33:16)
Satan's form of government will not and cannot tolerate individual responsibility and liberty, nor will it tolerate their mandatory corollaries: purity, cleanliness and obedience to God. A citizen in Satan's government has no responsibility and no liberty; only the duties of a slave under compelled performance. By way of contrast, our Father's form of government is founded upon the principle of total decentralization with complete individual responsibility and self‑government; that is, unfettered liberty with corresponding responsibilities and duties, but no compelled performance except by contract. Our Father's government demands complete separation of the races. Satan's government demands mixing of the races. Satan's government also allows, encourages and finances the destruction of your children and would‑be grand children through abortion. Think about the contrasts in that. Satan is the destroyer and he persuades you to exercise your own free will and destroy yourself by going after "strange flesh" and "evil practices." What is abortion if it isn't ritual murder and child sacrifice?
The principles of the Father's word demand separation in all things as a prerequisite to achieving order and harmony. Satan demands the mixing of all things as a prerequisite to achieving confusion and ultimately your destruction. One of Satan's ancient names is "the chaos monster."
The name perfectly describes his nature and purpose. But the choice is always yours and it is always couched in terms of whether you will or will not obey the Father's Law. In other words, your free will is still intact and the test of it is the willingness of your heart to adhere to and obey the Father's law as the focal point and guide for your life. For it is our own disobedience to the Father's Life Law that has allowed the Socialists Communists to dismantle our Christian Republic. The Socialists/Communists are accomplishing the implementation of Satan's form of government and all the necessary steps thereto [listed above] through their understanding and manipulation of Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution for the United States of America.
"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive [when the Legislature cannot be convened] against domestic Violence." (Article IV, Section 4, Constitution for the United States of America (1787))
Notice that our constitution does not say what kind of "republic" Congress must guarantee. Obviously that was left to the several states to establish. But our constitution did organize and establish the government upon the principle of three co‑equal branches thereby indicating that our republics were to be Christian in both form and function.
"Indeed, in a republic, there would seem to be a peculiar propriety in viewing the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for its support and permanence, if it be, what it has ever been deemed by its truest friends to be, THE RELIGION OF LIBERTY. Montesquieu has remarked, THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS A STRANGER TO MERE DESPOTIC POWER..." (Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Joseph Story, Vol. III, De Capo Press Reprints (1970) @ 724, 725);
"America stands as a model which other nations will carefully copy, in due time, as they can adapt themselves and change their institutions. There may be no literal copy or close formal imitation; but there is little doubt that the spirit and true sense of our Declaration of Independence will finally mould the structure and control the workings of all governments...
“Our people are busy using their liberties and energies, each for his individual benefit, as is quite right and proper; since the welfare of individuals makes the prosperity of the community. But a government left to take care of itself {as ours has been} is prone to do that work only too well. We have done well and wisely in important crises; but a more intelligent and constant watchfulness over the ordinary course of public affairs would have been still better.
“Knowledge is power, when wisely applied; and a more accurate acquaintance with their government and its history will enable American Citizens to mould it more wisely still, to correct all defects of administration, and to speedily reach that minimum of governmental interference with the efforts and interests of the citizens which shall give them the fullest liberty consistent with security and surrender the whole round of human life, as completely as possible to the beneficent action of natural law...
“Thus we find the spirit of progress traversing the whole course of human history, constantly advancing through all the confusion of rising and falling states, of battle, siege and slaughter, of victory and defeat; through the varying fortunes and ultimate extinction of monarchy, republic, and empire; through barbaric irruption and desolation, feudal isolation, spiritual supremacy, the heroic rush and conflict of the Cross and the Crescent; amid the busy hum of industry, through the marts of trade and behind the gliding keels of commerce; through the bloody conflicts of commons, nobles, kings and kaisers to New and Free America. The Englishman, the German, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Scandinavian, the Asiatic, and the African all meet as equals. There they are free to speak, to think and to act. They bring the common contributions of character, energy and activity to the support and enlargement of a common country, and the spread of its influence and enlightenment through all the lands of their origin." (The Footprints of Time, Charles Bancroft (1979))
The Christian foundations of our Republican form of government are further attested to by the fact that [according to Justice Story and numerous other authorities] the First Amendment only protects Christianity.
"The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; BUT TO EXCLUDE ALL RIVALRY AMONG CHRISTIAN SECTS, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the EXCLUSIVE patronage of the national government." (Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Joseph Story, Vol. 1, De Capo Press Reprints (1970) @ 443, 444);
"Nor are we bound by any expressions in the constitution, as some have strangely supposed, either not to punish at all, or to punish indiscriminately the like attacks upon the religion of Mahomet or of the Grand Lama, a for this plain reason, that the case assumes that we are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines of worship of those imposters." (The People vs. Ruggles, 8 Johnsons NY Common Law Reports 290, @ 294, 295)
And to that list of "imposters" you can add the Jews and all their Talmudic filth and mayhem. Thus, we come to two points. Firstly, in order to claim the protection of the Amendment, the sect in question had to be Christian. The Amendment extended no protection whatsoever to any other religion.
Secondly, in order to substantiate the claim to being "Christian," the beliefs of the sect had to be founded upon acceptance of the divinity of Jesus the Christ, had to be grounded in both the Old and New Testaments, and had to adhere to the principle of "three in one." The logical implications of the latter fully presupposed the first two. Therefore, a professed belief in the Christian principle of A TRIUNE GOD was the basic test as to religious conviction and the right to hold office. What of the numerous denominations within Christianity with so many varied tenets and beliefs? How do we take their measure and ascertain whether or not they may be cloaked with the protective mantle of the constitution? Let's look at the definition of the word "denomination:"
"A class, society or collection of individuals called by the same name; as in a denomination of Christians..." (American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster (1828))
Here is the point: as a matter of constitutional law, the word "Christian" can only refer to those denominations that hold and adhere to the basic doctrine of one God in three persons and find the authority for their faith in the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible. Thus, if a sect calls itself "Christian" but does not hold to the doctrine of the Trinity, then it does not qualify for protection and can claim no guarantees under the First Article of the Bill of Rights.
IN OTHER WORDS, WITHOUT THE DOCTRINE OF THREE IN ONE, SUCH A SECT IS NOT A CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION WITHIN THE EYES OF THE LAW BECAUSE THEIR TENETS ARE CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROFESSED DOCTRINES OF FAITH WHICH ESTABLISHED OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND GAVE IT LIFE! Of course interpretations of the Bible might vary from denomination to denomination but they must, in order to be accepted as Christian in terms of constitutional law, hold to that one fundamental belief and all the implications that logically flow from it.
Go back and look again at the confession of faith required by Article 22 of the original Delaware Constitution. Read carefully these words:
"...in God the Father, and Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, One God, blessed for evermore..."
This is the testimony of our forefathers as to the path they followed. The evidence of their faith and discipline is all about us. We need but open our eyes and look.
"It [Christianity] was part of the common law 'so far that any person reviling, subverting or ridiculing it might be prosecuted at common law,' as Lord Mansfield has declared; because, in the judgment of our English ancestors and their judicial tribunals, HE WHO REVILED, SUBVERTED OR RIDICULED CHRISTIANITY, DID AN ACT WHICH STRUCK AT THE FOUNDATION OF THEIR CIVIL SOCIETY, and tended by its necessary consequences as they believed, to disturb that common peace of the land of which...the common law was the preserver...To sustain the soundness of their opinion, their descendants point us to the tears and blood of revolutionary France during the reign of terror, when infidelity triumphed and the abrogation of the Christian faith was succeeded by the worship of the goddess of reason, and they aver that WITHOUT THIS RELIGION NO NATION HAS EVER YET CONTINUED FREE. THEY INSIST TOO, THAT ALL HISTORY DEMONSTRATES THAT NO NATION WITHOUT THE LIGHT OF THEIR COMMON LAW, HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO PRESERVE ANY SYSTEM OF RATIONAL AND WELL REGULATED LIBERTY." (The State vs. Chandler, 2 Del 553, @ 557, 558)
"It is remarkable how men of comprehensive views, and free from sectarian bias, have agreed with regard to The Republicanism of Christianity. 'Christianity,' says Montesquieu, 'is a stranger to despotic power.' 'The religion,' says De Tocqueville, '...which declares that all are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eyes of the law. Religion is the companion of liberty in all its battles and all its conflicts; the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims.' 'The friends of liberty in France are accustomed to speaking in enthusiastic commendation of the Republicanism of the Scriptures.' The Abbe' de la Mennais, acknowledge as one of the most powerful minds in Europe, little as he regards Christianity as a revelation from God, familiarly speaks of its Author as 'The Great Republican.' Our own De Witt Clinton said, 'Christianity, in its essence, its doctrines, and its forms, is republican.'...
“The tendency of the True Gospel principles is to bring the most absolute despotism under the limits of law; to imbue limited monarchies more and more with the spirit of popular institutions; to prepare the people to govern themselves; and finally to establish everywhere the spirit and the reality, if not the very forms of a republic.
“Let us turn once more to the republican features of the churches organized by the Apostles. These churches had officers, which were to be regarded and observed, in their proper sphere, as much as the officers of any other republic. But the manner of their ruling was not to be as 'Lords over God's heritage;' 'Whosoever will be chief among you,' said the Savior, 'let him be your servant.'
“The Apostles themselves gave several striking illustrations of their regard for popular rights. The first public act of the Church, after our Lord's Ascension, was the choice of an Apostle in the place of Judas {The Traitor ‑‑ The only 'Jew' among them}. Peter stands up in the midst of the disciples ‑ the number of names together was about one hundred and twenty ‑ and proposes the matter. The election is made by the body of the Church...
“The accurate historian Mosheim thus states the conclusions to which his own mind came after a most thorough investigation. 'In these primitive times... the highest authority was in the people, or the whole body of Christians; for even the Apostles themselves inculcated by their example, that nothing of moment was to be done or determined but with the knowledge and consent of the brotherhood...The people did everything that is proper for those in whom the supreme power of the community is vested.'
“Neander, the most distinguished ecclesiastical historian of the present day, says, 'Each individual Church which had a Bishop or Presbyter of its own, assumed to itself the form and rights of a little distinct republic or commonwealth; and with regard to its internal concerns, was wholly regulated by a code of laws, that, if they did not originate with, had at least received the sanction of the people constituting such Church.'" (The Puritans and Their Principles (1846))
The Constitution for the United States of America was intended to be read and interpreted so that it would harmonize with itself. One provision was not to overturn or conflict with another. Something like "...a house divided cannot stand" seems to be appropriate to define the principle. The deceiver began to distort the meaning of Article IV, Section 4, by telling our People that they could establish republics in the states that were not Christian in form, e.g., governments where the legislature is the "highest organ of state power." [Note: some of today's state constitutions even allow the legislature to amend the constitution without a vote of the people].
The key to dispelling the lie about Article IV, Section 4, is to show that historically, when petitioning for admission to the Union, each state submitted constitutions establishing the three co‑equal branch form of government as a prerequisite to admission. That is to say, to become a state in the Union, the People thereof submitted constitutions that by design made each branch equivalent in power, while exercising different functions.
"The mischievous doctrines of Rousseau had found few readers and fewer admirers among the Americans. The Principles upon which their Revolution was conducted were those of Sidney and Locke." (John Fiske);
"Locke, in particular, was the authority to whom the Patriots paid greatest deference. He was the most famous of seventeenth century democratic theorists, and his ideas had their due weight with the colonists. Almost every writer seems to have been influenced by him, many quoted his words, and the argument of others shows the unmistakable imprint of his philosophy.
“The first great speech of Otis was wholly based upon Locke's ideas; Samuel Adams, on the 'Rights of the Colonists as Men and as British Subjects,' followed the same model. Many of the phrases of the Declaration of Independence may be found in Locke's Treatise; there is hardly any important writer of this time who does not openly refer to Locke, or tacitly follow the lead he had taken. The argument in regard to the limitations upon Parliament was taken from Locke's reflections on the 'supreme legislature' and the necessary restrictions upon its authority.
“No one stated more strongly than did he the basis for the doctrine that 'taxation without representation is tyranny.' No better epitome of the Revolutionary theory could be found than in John Locke on civil government." (A History of American Political Theories, (1903))
LIMITED SOVEREIGNTY
At the adoption of the United States Constitution, the States and the people vested a very limited portion of their sovereignty in the newly born United States Government. The Constitution of the United States was proposed adopted and ratified by "We the People," which were composed of only free White persons, for our mutual defense, as a nation [Race]. The assent to the Constitution was necessarily made by those deemed sovereign, that is to say, by the sovereign body. (See Dread Scott vs. Sandford 19 How. 393 (1857); Preamble U.S. Const. Declaration of Independence)
"We the People of the United States, in order to...insure... and secure...to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." (Preamble U.S. Constitution);
"When...it becomes necessary for one People...to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..." (Declaration of Independence);
"The words 'people of the United States' and 'citizens' are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing. They both describe the political body who, according to our Republican institutions, form the sovereignty, and who hold the power and conduct the Government through their representatives. They are what we familiarly call the 'sovereign people,' and every citizen is one of this people and a constituent member of this sovereignty." (Dred Scott vs. Sandford 19 How. 393 @ 404);
"...at that time [it] was perfectly understood to be confined to the White Race; and that they alone constituted the sovereignty of the Government." (Dread Scott vs. Sandford 19 How. 393 @ 420);
"The period, countrymen, is already come ...This day we are called upon to give a glorious example of what the wisest and best of men were rejoiced to view, only in speculation...Immortal spirits of {Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel and all the prophets} Hampden, Locke and Sidney! Will it not add to your benevolent joys to behold your posterity rising to the dignity of men, and evincing to the world the reality and expedience of your systems..." (Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776);
"... without liberty and equality, there cannot exist that tranquility of mind which results form the assurance of every citizen that his own personal safety and rights are secure. This, I think is a sentiment of the celebrated Montesquieu, and it is the end and design of all free and lawful governments." (Samuel Adams, Address to the Massachusetts Legislature (1794))
THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN, FOR THE PREAMBLE PEOPLE AND "THEIR POSTERITY" WHO WERE 99.9% PURE WHITE ANGLO‑SAXON, GERMANIC, SCANDINAVIAN, CELTIC AND KINDRED PEOPLE. THE ORIGINAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AFTER THE BIBLE ‑ THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE! FOR EVERYTHING IN AMERICA IN 1789.
The Preamble people enumerated in the introduction to the Federal Constitution of the Christian White households living within the various Sovereign States, though it will be denied by many, more especially the Children of Satan ‑‑ who are the Enemies of both Christ and the United States:
"It is certainly very material that the true doctrines of liberty, as exemplified in our political systems, should
be inculcated on those who are to sustain and may administer it ...Sidney and Locke are admirably calculated to impress on young minds the right of nations to establish their own governments, and to inspire a love of free ones..." (James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (1825))
Our political, educational and spiritual institutions were established by the moral‑legal standards of the Great Book of Divine Truth. In 1789, the Lord Jesus Christ was considered the King of America; the people, for the most part, were Christians; the civil and Eccleiastical leaders were Christian Men who feared God and revered the Bible.
Most of the governments of the world have preached, but never practiced some of the Ten Commandments. All have enforced against their citizens laws against theft and murder. But they have not themselves abided by these ethical principles. All of the ancient and modern dictatorships; All tyrannical and oppressive governments, even the Communist ones ‑‑ have been based upon a vicious double standard of ethics.
The un‑Christian principle that the citizen shall respect the life and license of the governing despots, but that the governing despots shall not be bound to respect the life and liberty of its citizens. For a citizen to cheat the government is everywhere a crime against the state: but where, except under the American Constitution, is it illegal for the government to confiscate the property or life of the citizen at the will of the governing elite.
Where except in America do we find the Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not steal" recognized and revered as a Higher Law, issuing from a Divine Lawgiver, with which our human lawmakers may not tamper with or transgress? Even in England or Canada, man‑ made law is supreme. Parliament's power is, absolute, even against common rights and reason.
"In every government there are three sorts of power:
1). The legislative;
2). The executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and
3). The executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
“By virtue of the first, the prince of magistrate enacts temporary or perpetual laws, and amends or abrogates those that have already been enacted. By the second, he makes peace or war, sends or receives embassies, establishes the public security, and provides against invasions. By the third, he punishes criminals, or determines the disputes that arise between individuals. The latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the state. The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or n the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
“Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
“There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, that of executing the public resolution, and of trying the causes of individuals..." (The Spirit of Laws, by Montesquieu (1900))
THE SENATE
When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt it is obvious that they had tribal leaders. Which were, basically, the equivalent to our present day Senate. Although the powers they had and the functions they performed are somewhat obscure, Their qualifications are laid out in Exodus 18:18‑22:
"Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Godward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetous-ness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee."
By studying 1 Kings 4:21 we can see that every tribe and every city had its senate of princes or elders, as well as a more popular assembly, which was the equivalent of our house of representatives. This it would appear, is essential to every well‑balanced free government. That ancient Israel had a government with its elders [senate] and representatives [captains or officers] is proven by a study of the following scriptures, Numbers 11:16; 24‑25 and Exodus 24:1, 9.
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee...And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.";
"And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off...Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel."
These leaders are necessary to check the rashness and undue haste in the actions of the people. In a study of history, it is found that every free government has always had a senate of some kind [though such an assembly has been called by many names]; to balance the power of the people; to attend to matters of public business and to propose measures of state for action by the more popular branch of government. There is no doubt the ancient Republic of Israel had such councils of this sort, is made certain by the frequent references in the scriptures making reference to the princes, officers, captains and elders of Israel; and the clear distinction between those men and the congregation ‑‑ the general public.
There is very little doubt, this form of leadership was instigated during their stay in Egypt. Because during the exodus from Egypt, it is apparent there were chiefs of tribes and heads of the various clans which formed a council of state ‑‑ a kind of provisional senate. They were regarded and addressed as men of authority, and is evident from a statement made to Moses by a brother Israelite:
"who made thee a prince and a judge over us?" (Exodus 11:14)
It is, also apparent that these men of authority formed an organized body since Moses addressed them, not as princes of particular tribes, but as elders of Israel. (Exodus 12:21, 28)
With careful study, we see that when the Israelites left Egypt, they did so in organized hosts or armies.
"And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt...And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies." (Exodus 12:41, 51)
Thus, it is evident they did not leave as a confused and disorderly rabble, but marched in battalions, each under its own officers and its own standards or ensigns [flags]. But, we also, must keep in mind that the Israelites left Egypt in a great haste, and it would have been impossible for them to go in hosts, or armies; had there not been men previously known, respected and recognized as their leaders: chosen from among themselves. Otherwise the Israelites would not have known under what standard they were to march, nor which particular officers or leaders they were to follow. Obviously, it would not have been practicable to organize an army of more than two and one‑half million people at the time of departure.
Therefore, it is very clear, as we previously pointed out, the Israelites were yet in Egypt, the princes of the tribes were acknowledged as leaders of the tribes; the chiefs of families as sub‑ordinate officers. commanding their respective clans. In all likelihood, it was the same men, who, at the giving of the law, were summoned to go up with Moses and Aaron, unto the Lord. (Exodus 24:1) What places it out of all doubt, that these officers were an organized body and acted as a council of state or senate, is a law related in Numbers 10:1‑4.
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee."
When both of them were blown, the entire congregation [all of the people] were to assemble; but when only one of them was blown, the princes and heads of Israel (Exodus 24:1, 9; Numbers 11:16, 24‑25) were to come together for the dispatch of public business. A detailed account of the organization of the Israelite government is given in Numbers Chapter Eleven. It is from there we can see where the age limit for men who hold public office came from. The candidate for senatorial office must be of the people; he must be an elder of the people and he must have been previously elected or appointed by the people to some public trust. (Numbers 11:16‑17; 24‑26)
"No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years..." (Constitution Article 1, Section 3, Clause 3)
The seventy men of the elders [senate] of the people and officers were to be brought to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they might stand there with Moses.
In other words they were to be solemnly inaugurated and consecrated to this service, that they might be a permanent council, to assist Moses in governing the people. Yet these men were not chosen by God alone. That the people concurred in the election of these men is evident from the scriptures given above. It is further evident Moses was not charged with appointing the senate, but only with assembling it. It must, also, be borne in mind, that the senate was not the government itself; it was only a part of the nation, the legislative part, of the general population. With that information we can also see that the people themselves were considered the actual government. And elected representatives [senate and representatives] to take care of day to day business, just as the people of America do today. For in all important questions, its decisions were to be submitted to the congregation, who, by its approbation, enacted them into laws. That this is true, we have a clear proof related in the Twentieth Chapter of Judges, where the ancient Israelites are recorded to have called upon the general assembly of the people to deliberate upon the matter and make their decision.
Even when they demanded a king, they did not wish to change this portion of the laws, so the king's authority was not to be allowed to be despotic nor arbitrary. The senate, was composed of the most distinguished members of all the tribes, and served the king as a council. Much the same as the senate today serves the president.
The king took their advice in all important affairs; and if anything occurred which was of interest to the entire nation the congregation, that is to say, an assembly of the general public was called. The senate proposed, the congregation decided, and the king executed. This is where the authority of our president to be the chief executive officer and the head of the justice department originated.
REPRESENTATIVES
It is an undisputed fact, that there was a popular branch in the ancient Israeli government, a house of representatives, if you will. This body has been called by many different titles: the congregation; the congregation of Israel; all the assembly; all the children of Israel or the whole congregation of the Lord. As previously stated Moses was directed to make two silver trumpets and to blow them one or both for different purposes. (Numbers 10:2‑4)
In the opinion of Michaleis, the Israelites did not vote as the American people do: But by known representatives. His presentation in support of his views seem to be conclusive:
"From various passages in the Pentateuch, we find that Moses, at making known any laws, had to convene the whole congregation of Israel; and in like manner, in the book of Joshua, we see, that when diets were held, the whole congregation were assembled. If, on such occasions, every individual had had to give his vote, everything would certainly have been democratic in the highest degree; but it is scarcely conceivable how, without very particular regulations made for the purpose, order could not have been preserved in an assembly of six hundred thousand men, their votes accurately numbered, and acts of violence prevented.
“If, however, we consider that, while Moses is said to have spoken to the whole congregation, he could not possible be heard by six hundred thousand people (Actually when ALL the people were assembled, it would have numbered more than two and one‑half million people, and what human voice could be sufficiently strong enough to be heard over such a distance and the natural noise which would be generated by such numbers of people?) all our fears and difficulties will vanish; for this circumstance alone must convince any one, that Moses could only have addressed himself to a certain number of persons, deputed to represent the rest of the Israelites, Accordingly, in Numbers 1:16, we find mention of such men.
“In contradistinction to the common Israelites, they are there nominated 'those wont to be called to the convention.' In the 16th chapter of the same book, verse 2, they are styled 'princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown.' I [call your] notice [to] this passage particularly, because it appears, that two hundred and fifty persons of this description, who rose up against Moses, and become to him objects of extreme terror; which they could not have been, if their voices had not been, at the same time, the voices of their families and tribes. Still more explicit, and to the point, is the passage, Deuteronomy 29:10, where Moses, in a speech to the whole people, says, 'Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God, your captains of your tribes [chief men of the tribes] your elders and your officers, with all the men of Israel.
“Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water.' Now as Moses could not possible speak loud enough to be heard by two and one‑half million people it must be evident, that the first‑named men represented the people, to whom they again repeated the words of Moses. Whether these representatives were on occasion obliged to collect and declare the sentiments of their constituents, or whether, like the members of the Congress, they acted in the scope of their own power for the general good, without taking instructions from their constituents, I find no where expressly determined; but, methinks, from a perusal of the Bible, I can scarcely doubt, that the latter was the case. Who these representatives were, may, in some measure, be understood from Joshua 23:2 and 24:1. They would seem to have been of two sorts. To some, their office as judges gave them a right to appear in the assembly; and these were not necessarily of the same family in which they exercised that office. Others again, had a seat and a voice in the diet, as the heads of families."
The particular construction of the representatives of the Israelite government, as to the men who comprised it, is really not important. The important part is what function and power that body of men exercised. These were of a grave and important kind, which was to show the sovereignty of the people under their form of government. An instance of the power these representatives had is evident in the story of Saul and Jonathan in 1 Samuel 14:24‑25.
It is of interest to note that the people did not rescue Jonathan by force or violence; the rescue was effected by petition. It was the voice of authority, clear and strong in an expression of undenied right. Neither was the expression, "there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground," an act of mutiny or rebellion, it was simply a statement of authority. Authority that even the king appears not to wish to oppose. Therefore, we are left with the conclusion, it was an exercise of rightful authority, whereby the unconscious offender was pardoned, and the sentence of death was reversed by the representatives of the tribes of Israel. That it was, indeed, the representatives of the people is seen by the statement: "Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people."
PRESIDENT AND JUDICIARY
Because the president is the chief executive officer, responsible for the enforcement of the laws passed by the legislative, and to conserve space we are combining these two functions together. Also, in the early days before Israel had kings the judges were, in effect, the president of the Israel Republic. Moses did not issue an express law which unalterably determined what sort of civil officer the executive authority of the Israelitish state should be lodged with. On the contrary, he provided before hand for a change in the form of government and the title or prerogatives or exclusive rights or privileges of its head [President ‑ King] in a manner which would prevent the horror of a civil war.
Which proved to be the case several hundred years later when the Israelites changed their form of government, from a Republican form to a regal form; without bloodshed or commotion. An event unparalled by any other state or country in history. Still, we must face the fact, Moses was far from being indifferent in regards to the name and powers of the civil head of the state. His [Moses'] chief magistrate was a republican president, who had the title of judge, or rather, as Jahn says, governor, who was elected by the people. Moses also knew Israel would ask for a king.
"When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother...neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel." (Deuteronomy 17:13-20)
During the course of this presentation, you will notice we use the words "president" and "magistrate" interchangeably. The New World Dictionary states:
"Magistrate: a civil officer empowered to administer the law: the President of the United States is sometimes called the chief magistrate."
It would appear that Moses knew how difficult it is to control power once handed or entrusted to the hands of an individual. Moses wanted to develop an executive who would respond to, and answer to the people, without exercising a despotic power. However, many writers such as Harrington (Commonwealth of Israel); Fleury (Manners of the Ancient Israelites); Lewish (Antiquities of the Hebrew Republic); Michaelis (Comment on the Laws of Moses); Smith (Hebrew People) and Dupin (History of the Canon), believed the judges of Israel were all extraordinary magistrates, not unlike the dictators of ancient Rome.
Joshua 1:12‑15 and 16‑18 are the passages that spell out most clearly the power the children allowed the chief judges to have. In ancient Israel the powers of president and supreme court justice was combined in one office. And a review of the first two and most powerful judges over Israel; Moses and Joshua, reveals some interesting facts.
A). Just as our present day federal judges, the judges held their office for life.
B). The office was not hereditary. Which seems to have been what Moses intended, because he took no steps to perpetuate the office or have the office handed down to his descendants [and neither are present day judgeships hereditary]. Nor yet to hand the office down to those within his own tribe. It appears he was only interested in the qualifications of his successor; that he was fit for the office. That the man be upright, patriotic, believe and trust in God, zealous and an able chief magistrate. Joshua, the immediate successor of Moses who was of the tribe of Levi, of Ephraim; Othniel was of Judah; Ehud of Benjamin; Deborah of Naphtali; Gideon of Manasseh; and Samuel of Levi. The other judges were of several different tribes and when all died, their children remained among the common people; and no more is related about them.
C). However, unlike the federal judges of today, which have through the efforts of the anti‑Christs, degenerated into political appointments, the judges of that day were elected. The approval of God was sought along with the high priest and all the congregation. This is distinctly recorded to have occurred in respect to Joshua in Numbers 28:19, 22. Jephthah was chosen by popular vote in Judges 11:4‑11. Samuel was elected to office in an assembly of the congregation of Israel in 1 Samuel 7:5‑8. Thus we can safely assume the other judges were chosen for office in the same manor.
D). In ancient Israel the judges exercised the same powers, in regard to the military as our president, in that they were regarded as the commander‑in‑chief. There can be no doubt that Moses and Joshua exercised this authority. God instructed Moses to put some of his honor upon him, (Numbers 27:20) so that the congregation of the children of Israel would obey him. That the people accepted Joshua is made clear in Joshua 1:12‑15; 16‑18.
When studying the lives of the judges it is discovered that most were the head of an army and delivered their country and people from foreign oppression and were elevated to their office as a reward for their military exploits. However, some were clearly not military leaders; Samuel and Eli were two of these. Deborah as a judge held court under a palm tree (Judges 4:5) prior to planning the war against Jabin. It is unclear if Jair, Ibzan, Elon or Abdon ever held any military command during their tenure in office. The judges are also mentioned in connection with the high priests, as arbitrators of civil controversies such as in Deuteronomy 17:9, 12.
E). A resistance to the lawful authority and orders of the judges was considered treason; punishable by death. (Deuteronomy 17:12 and Joshua 1:18)
This was consonant to reason and justice because the chief authority, in both military and civil affairs were vested in him; as a result he represented the entire congregation of the children of Israel. So rebellion against him was considered as rebellion against the nation itself. Which has been considered, by all governments, as an act of mutiny punishable by death. But at the same time, their power was not absolute or unlimited. Their power was restrained by God Himself. This is clearly evident in the appointment of Joshua as a judge over Israel. In Numbers 27:21, he is told to stand before Eleazar the priest, who was to ask counsel of him, after the judgment of Urim before the Lord. Clearly they were to follow the counsel of a True man of God.
Another limitation to their authority was the law itself. Their power could not, with impunity, be stretched beyond its legal bounds. This is demonstrated by the address of the people to Joshua, upon his accession to the position as the judge over Israel. When they said, in effect, they would be obedient to him, provided he would obey the Law of God. (Joshua 1:17)
This was the arrangement of Israel's government as provided by Almighty God through Moses. For God's hand is clearly shown in a message given by Moses and recorded in Deuteronomy 17:14‑20. Which shows that God had told him Israel would someday demand an earthly king. Thus rejecting God as their king. So Israel was at liberty, whenever it so desired, to go from a republican form of government to a regal one. The king was to be chosen by the voice [vote] of the congregation; but they were to seek the counsel of God through the high priest. The king was to be a native Israelite; he was forbidden the multiplication of horses; he was forbidden to have many wives; he was not to lead the people out of their land; he was not to enrich himself.
He was also to write down a copy of the Laws of God in a book from the laws as kept before the priests and the Levites and he was to study those laws every day of his life, so that he would learn to fear the Lord. The Law of God was to be the rule of government and upon following those conditions the throne was to be hereditary in his family.
The qualifications for Present of the United States is found in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 4; the keeping of records in a book so‑to‑speak, is found in Article 1, Section 7. In an effort to limit the President's ability to enrich himself; the heaping to himself of much silver and gold is provided for in Article 1, Section 7. And the limitations of Presidential [governmental] powers are spelled out in the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights.
The king was to be gracious and condescending towards his subjects. He was to look upon his people, not only as equals, but also as brethren. We find, through a study of history, the best kings and president cherishing these sentiments, and acting upon them. When David addressed his people, he rose before them, and used this affection form of address:
"Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people..." (1 Chronicles 28:2)
President George Washington replied to Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Congress, who had been appointed by Congress to carry to Washington the official information of his unanimous election to the office of President:
"I have been accustomed to pay so much respect to the opinion of my fellow‑citizens that the knowledge of their having given their unanimous suffrages in my favor scarcely leaves me the alternative for an option. I can not, I believe, give a greater evidence of my sensibility of the honor which they have done me than by accepting the appointment." (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, p. 47)
Then in his very first Inaugural Address, Washington stated:
"Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice [the peoples' voice] I can never hear but with veneration and love...Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that ALMIGHTY BEING WHO RULES OVER THE UNIVERSE, WHO PRESIDES IN THE COUNCILS OF NATIONS, AND WHOSE PROVIDENTIAL AIDS CAN SUPPLY EVERY HUMAN DEFECT, THAT HIS BENEDICTION MAY CONSECRATE TO THE LIBERTIES AND HAPPINESS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to His charge. In tendering this homage to THE GREAT AUTHOR OF EVERY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOOD, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow‑citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore THE INVISIBLE HAND WHICH CONDUCTS THE AFFAIRS OF MEN MORE THAN THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES.
“Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential Agency ...since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious SMILES OF HEAVEN can ever be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which HEAVEN ITSELF HAS ORDAINED [Washington acknowledges his and America's subservience to God's Laws] and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are just considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people...I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to THE BENIGN PARENT OF THE HUMAN RACE IN HUMBLE SUPPLICATION THAT, SINCE HE HAS BEEN PLEASED TO FAVOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR DELIBERATING IN PERFECT TRANQUILLITY, AND DISPOSITIONS FOR DECIDING WITH UNPARALLELED UNANIMITY ON A FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE SECURITY OF THEIR UNION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEIR HAPPINESS [ownership of land], SO HIS DIVINE BLESSING MAY BE EQUALLY CONSPICUOUS IN THE ENLARGED VIEWS, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend." (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, President George Washington's First Inaugural Address, City of New York, April 30, 1789, pp. 51‑54)
We could go on for hundreds of pages, pointing out different laws or statutes and sections of the founding documents described and laid out in the scriptures. The efforts of the anti‑God, anti‑Christs, anti‑Christians, and anti‑Americans to conceal this information by writing one so‑called translation of the scriptures after another notwithstanding.
FOUNDATION GROUNDED
IN CHRISTIANITY
"In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty‑eight, Montesquieu, wisest in his age of the reflecting statesmen of France, apprized the cultivated world, that a free, prosperous and great people was forming in the forests of America, which England had sent forth her sons to inhabit...The age could have learned, from the school of Voltaire, to scoff at its past; but the studious and observing Montesquieu discovered 'the title deeds of humanity,' as they lay buried under the rubbish of privileges, conventional charters, and statutes. His was a generous nature that disdained the impotence of epicureanism, and found no resting‑place in doubt. He saw that society, notwithstanding all its revolu-tions, must repose on principles that do not change; that Christianity, which seems to aim only at the happiness of another life, also constitutes man's blessedness in this. He questioned the laws of every nation to unfold to him the truth that questioned the laws of every nation to unfold to him the truth that had inspired them; and behind the confused masses of positive rules, he recognized the anterior existence and reality of justice." (History of the United States, by George Bancroft (1850));
"Law as the order of the universe... when the Supreme Being formed the universe, and created matter out of nothing, He impressed certain principles upon that matter, from which it can never depart, and without which it would cease to be. When He put the matter into motion, He established certain laws of motion, to which all movable bodies must conform. And, to descend from the greatest operations to the smallest...he establishes at his own pleasure certain arbitrary laws for its direction...If we further advance, from mere inactive matter to vegetable and animal life, we shall find them still governed by laws; more numerous indeed, but equally fixed and invariable. The whole progress of plants, from the seed to the root, and from thence to the seed again; the method of animal nutrition, digestion, secretion and all other branches of vital economy; are not left to chance, or the will of the creature itself, but are performed in a wondrous involuntary manner, and guided by unerring rules laid down by the Great Creator." (Commentaries, by William Blackstone (1765));
"The concessions of Magna Carta were wrung from the King as guaranties against the oppressions and usurpations of his prerogative. It did not enter into the minds of the barons to provide security against their own body...by limiting the power of Parliament ...In this country [America] written constitutions were deemed essential to protect the rights and liberties of the people against the encroachments of power delegated to their govern-ment...Hence, our people have never been plagued with 'bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, laws declaring forfeitures of estates, and other arbitrary acts of legislation which occur so frequently in English history." (Hurtado vs. California)
But under the American Constitution, man‑made laws may not cross the Commandments against theft and murder; NO ACT OF CONGRESS OR STATE LEGISLATURE MAY DEPRIVE UNJUSTLY ANY MAN OR GROUP OF MEN OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW!
"Law as a rule of human action. This, then, is the general signification of law, a rule of action dictated by some superior being; and, in those creatures that have neither the power to think, nor to will, such laws must be invariably obeyed, so long as the creature itself subsists, for its existence depends on the obedience. But laws, in their more confined sense, and in which it is our present business to consider them, denote the rules, not of action in general, but of human action or conduct: that is, the precepts by which man, the noblest of all sublunary beings, a creature endowed with both reason and free will, is commanded to make use of those faculties in the general regulation of his behavior.
“Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator for he is entirely a dependent being. A being independent of any other, has no rule to pursue, but such as he prescribes to himself; but a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct; not indeed in every particular, but in all those points wherein his dependence consists. This principle, therefore, has more or less extent and effect, in proportion as the superiority of the one and the dependence of the other is greater or less, absolute or limited. And consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.
“This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. For as God, when He created matter, and endowed it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the perpetual direction of that motion; so, when He created man, and endowed him with free will to conduct himself in all parts of life, He laid down certain immutable laws of human nature, whereby that free will is in some degree regulated and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws." (Commentaries, by William Blackstone.)
When the government for the government for the United States of America was formed and given power by the Constitution, it [U.S. Gov.] was limited strictly by the grant of power in the Constitution. And, because the People and the States seriously distrusted the new government, fearing it might try to centralize all power and sovereignty in its own hands, provision was made in Article V of the Constitution to make the Bill of Rights a part of the Constitution, as an additional statement of restrictions on the United States Government.
"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficial ends of its institution." (Preamble to the bill of Rights, United States Constitution);
"Our popular government lay in embryo on board the Mayflower, all‑environed with its only possible preservatives, popular intelligence and popular virtue. The idea born there, and embodied in a civil constitution...grew with the growth of the colonies, gradually expelling from the thoughts and affections of the people all other theories of civil government, until finally it enthroned itself in the national mind, and then embodied itself in our national government. (Policy of the Pilgrim Church, by Wellman (1856)); From the very first the Founding Fathers asserted this distinctly Christian American principle, and immortalized in the Constitution, that governing legislative bodies MUST respect and ABIDE by the DIVINE MORAL LAW. During a discussion of this James Wilson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and who was the foremost lawyer at the Constitutional Convention, later appointed Justice of the Supreme Court by President Washington in 1789 maintained: 'Parliament may, unquestionably, be controlled by natural or revealed law, proceeding from divine authority.'"
In this respect, the Colonial courts consistently denied the absolute supremacy of Parliament or any legislative body:
"That the fundamental law which God and nature have given to the people cannot be infringed."
William Harper, one of South Carolina's most distinguished Senators, said:
"The Constitution has laid down the fundamental and immutable laws of justice for our Government."
Because if any Act of Government violates these "fundamental and immutable laws of justice" then the Constitution provides that it shall be set aside. It is also a wholly and exclusively Christian application of Christ's teachings, that men should not yield unto Caesar [Government] the things which are God's. There is a Divine Basis for the Constitutional provision denying to the government itself supremacy over the souls of men. And it was on this ground that the Colonists premised their struggle for a government of "Limited Powers." In a famous decision, Justices Roane, Henry and Tyler said:
"The supposed omnipotence of parliament...is an abominable insult upon the honor and good sense of our country, as nothing is omnipotent as it relates to us, either religious or political, BUT THE GOD OF HEAVEN..."
James Otis believed that God Himself ordained limits beyond which Caesar, the powers of government, should not go; Parliament had no right to go beyond these limits set by Divine Authority:
"These are bounds, which by God and nature are fixed, hitherto have they a right to come, and no further...These are the first principles of law and justice..."
PRIMARILY, the Constitution was indended to prevent governmental powers from violating the principles of eternal justice; from stealing away the God-Given Rights of the people; from seizing upon the things which belong to God and to God's People! As Harper said:
"The Constitution is made to control the government; it has no other purpose."
The most important Articles of the Bill of Rights, considering the words of the Preamble, are IX and X, which ensure that the rights and sovereignty remain in the States and the People in their respective spheres. Furthermore these Articles [IX and X] by their very wording could only be used, for protection, by the citizens designated and defined in the Preamble.
BILL OF RIGHTS
When Saul was chosen to be the King of Israel, a writing limiting the kings power, was prepared by Samuel and deposited in the sanctuary where a reference could be made in the event of royal usurpation. (1 Samuel 10:25) A similar writing, A Bill of Rights, was drafted for his successors. (2 Samuel 5:3 and 1 Kings 12:4, 17) Yet, even with these protections, Solomon during the latter years of his life, reigned as a despot. Which shows that he ignored the writings; and by the fact of doing so he must have had the consent of the Israel Congress. Much the same as our last few presidents have ignored the Constitution and Bill of Rights, with the approval of our Congress. And just as our people are becoming unhappy with these actions, our ancestors became rebellious against his son Rohoboam (1 Kings 11:43) when he mounted the throne, Benjamin, Judah and half of the tribe of Levi were the only tribes to eventually acknowledge him.
The others offered to submit to his authority if he would accept and abide by certain terms and condition, which were not accepted by him. Then when the king rejected their terms and conditions, they rejected him and chose Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:20) as their king, which established a separate kingdom. These actions show, that even though they submitted to an earthly kingdom, the people held their rulers to a stern responsibility for the manner in which they discharged their public trust. All this was the action of the republican spirit of the nation. A spirit, inspired, cherished and sanctioned by their constitution; the written documents which had been deposited in the sanctuary. A Bill of Rights.
From the very beginning, the central government began to struggle with the States and the People to centralize power in its own hands. (See the Life of John Marshal by Albert J. Beveridge, (1919)) So, the fears which brought the Bill of Rights into being were almost immediately realized and proven to be well founded. By these limitations, the United States Government was prohibited from making legislation in areas which interfered with the sovereignty of the States or the persons and sovereignty of the citizens of the States. Again, these citizens were White Persons. (See The Naturalization Acts dated prior to 1860)
The Congress of the United States had no power then to interfere with, or change the face of the sovereignty vested in the States and their citizens. (Dred Scott vs. Sandford, supra) As a result the United States Government had no success in centralizing absolute power in its own hands for the first 90 years of its existence. Any attempt to do so was thwarted, because the States merely upheld the Bill of Rights against the United States, in the State courts, whenever the United States without recourse, since the courts of the United States could not overturn rulings made in accord with the bill of Rights in the State Courts.
And, if the courts of the United States misconstrued the United States Constitution, the States could use Article V to clarify the Constitution by Amendment, and destroy the misconstruction. When the Constitution was framed, it was premised on the principle; that not only does the Constitution recognize and established the Higher Law which no Congress or legislature can transgress, but it clearly provided that the citizen owes his next highest allegiance to the Constitution [His first allegiance is to Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ], and when government officials violate the Constitution the citizen is bound to uphold the Constitution against the officials.
For the Constitution places even the President and Congress under the Moral Principles which it sets forth; and if they violate these principles, then the Constitutional right and duty of the citizen is to obey the Divine Law in preference to the man‑made enactment which transgresses it.
As Dr. Frederic Jesup Stimson states:
"...if the President of the United States interferes with your liberty unlawfully, you may resist by force, in proper cases, and always by suit in the courts; if a soldier or magistrate arrests you without cause, or a commission seizes your property, or a board forbids your right to trade, you can disobey him or them without danger, and bring suit as if he were a private trespasser."
This fundamental principle of the American Constitution that the citizen has all the rights of the policeman, the soldier, the President, or the Congress itself; this great principle that rulers, even as citizens must do justly and respect the laws of God and the rights of their fellowmen; this great principle is one of the most important applications of the Ten Commandments. The American Constitution says, in effect, to the rulers of the people, to the President, the Congress, the army, the police:
"You, too, are responsible to your Creator; to obey His laws, and to respect the rights of His other creatures. If you oppress the people and provoke them to resistance of your authority, you cannot use the strong arm of the law to seal them up in dungeons; no, for they can go into the courts, which recognize the Higher Law embedded in the Constitution, and they can have your oppressive and unjust laws set aside and rendered void."
Justice Holmes said:
"At the foundation of our civil liberty lies the principle which denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen."
This central principle of the American Constitution; that no one is above the law, nor beneath the law; that all citizens are "equal before equal law;" is derived DIRECTLY FROM THE BIBLE.
"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty..." (Leviticus 19:15)
Our Founding Fathers were the first group of men in the history of the world to write into its foundation, the Constitution, of their nation a confirmation and enforcement of this Divine Commandment. No other nation, other than Ancient Israel, has ever dared to refuse to grant that the mightiest government officials, the President [King] and Congress [Princes] themselves, were above the law.
Even today, no other nation in the world has a written guarantee in its Charter Documents [Constitution] which insures to every citizen the "equal protection of the laws," which, as Chief Justice Taft said in the case of Truax vs. Corrigan, means safeguards "an equality of treatment of all persons." The Divent principle, "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment," was given its highest human expression in our American Constitution's provision for a "government of laws and not of men." This right of every citizen to law and justice on the same terms and in the same courts as any other man is the greatest affirma-tion of the Christian principles since Christ lived and preached it. Christ foretold that on the Day of Final Judgment each man would receive equal and exact justice, many of the last would be first and the first last, and would be dealt justice on the same terms.
"...without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work." (1 Peter 1:17)
Thus the Constitution of the United States provided for a system of earthly justice in which there was to be no respect of persons, in which justice was to be dealt evenly to all men "irrespective of rank, office, or station." The very first Article of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States is a striking affirmation and application of the first Commandment. The Founding Fathers were Christians and their first concern was that the power of government should NEVER be used to force them to pay tribute, or to "bow down" themselves to serve, any politico‑ecclesiastic organization. They believed in Christianity, the only religion sustained and sanctioned by the voluntary observance and devotion of the regenerated hearts of free men.
So they provided in our Constitution that no coercive ecclesias-tical system, no religion based upon compulsion, upon the sword, and riveted upon the souls of men by the brutal power of irresponsible government; no such religious system shall ever supplant the One vitalized by the voluntary obedience and observance of the free consciences of free men, the One breathing the Spirit of Christ. The Founding Fathers were determined to have no other gods, no religions based on coercion, suppression, and governmental violence and tyranny, forced upon them; and they guaranteed to the best of their ability that no such religious system should ever be imposed upon their posterity.
"...the whole purpose and policy of the [Constitutional] law assume that we are a nation of Christians, and while toleration is the principle in religious matters, the laws are to recognize the existence of that system of faith, and our institutions are to be based on that assumption." (H.C. Black ‑ American Constitutional Law)
As Christians the framers of the Constitution believed in that great principle of religious tolerance which is the finest fruit of the life and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ: the principle that every man shall be permitted to worship God, to seek righteousness, to pursue salvation according to the dictates of his conscience. They so profoundly believed in religion founded on freedom that they forever forbade the establishment on American soil of any of the anti‑Christian systems which are based on government‑directed regimentation of men's consciences.
They added to the Constitutional commandment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," then they added the clause, "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." They were well aware that for seventeen centuries, men had bled and died to vindicate Christ's teachings that men should be free to seek the kingdom of God according to their own inner lights; for seventeen centuries men had given their lives in vain to erect enduring safeguards about Christ's inspired religion founded on freedom.
All too many of the Colonists had themselves suffered cruel persecutions for their religious beliefs. And out of their sufferings, some had become so embittered that they were tempted to resort to the anti‑Christian practice of trying to force their beliefs on others. That had been the history of religion for hundreds of years.
One group would be cruelly persecuted by another for "heresy," for exercising freedom of conscience; but when this group, these "heretics," would gain power, out of the bitterness of their sufferings, they would resort to un‑Christian persecution of their persecutors and punishment of "heresy" as relentless as that of their predecessors.
The Colonists had bought liberty at a dear price, and when they wrote into our Constitution the provision that they would at all times and under all conditions share with their every single fellow American their dearly purchased freedom, their freedom of life and worship, they gave a new application to the Golden Rule! Therefore, Christ's statement:
"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
Is recognized and enforced by the first provision of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. The things of the spirit, the "things that are God's," are placed by the Constitution beyond the power of the government to seize, suppress, control, or tamper with. They are sacred and secure from Caesar; the government has no power "to act upon" them in any manner whatsoever, as the great Justice Story stated in the second volume of his noted work on the Constitution:
"It was under the solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects, thus exemplified in our domestic as well as in foreign annals, that it was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject (of religion and the 'things that are God's)."
The Supreme Court emphatically ruled that the Constitution follows Christ's teaching in denying to the government all power to infringe upon the things belonging to God. Speaking through Chief Justice Waite, the Court quoted and endorsed the reply of Thomas Jefferson to an address to him by a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions ‑‑ I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' THUS BUILDING A WALL OF SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE.'" (Reynolds vs. United States)
Therefore, it is obvious that the Supreme Court's decision stated that this declaration of Jefferson's "may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect" of the first article of the Bill of Rights.
Christ taught that if men were to be free, in this world and in the next, they must "know the truth." And without freedom of speech and of the press; without access to the knowledge and experience of other men both living and dead, few of us could ever "know the truth." Denial of freedom of speech and press; of the right of every man to have access to the ethical and religious experience of other men and of earlier ages, is a denial to the soul of man of its sacred right to pursue happiness [salvation].
Freedom to speak and communicate with other men to know their opinions, discoveries and experiences; is the very basis of any search for knowledge which has even the potentiality of arriving at the Truth. Hence, it is clear that freedom of communication is a sacred principle implied and inherent in Christ's teachings. This is doubly indelible when we reflect all systematic attempts, ancient and modern; in Soviet Russia today as well as in the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Catholic Church for the past two thousand years ‑‑ all pagan and atheistic attempts to crush Christianity have always been based upon a STRINGENT SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS.
When anti‑Christian governments set out to dethrone Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ from the hearts of men they first deny to those men the right to speak His Name; the right to tell the un‑regenerate of His Power; the right to spread His Word. Likewise, when the Christian founders of the American Government established and formed a Constitution which insured to men the right to follow Christ; to be secure in their observance of religion based on freedom, to be forever safe from the soul‑oppression of religion based on government‑prosecuted coercion such as they had experienced in Europe under the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore when the Founding Fathers embodied religious liberty in the Constitution they embodied freedom of speech and press in the very same article. The First Amendment, the first article of the Bill of Rights, reads:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
In the very same sentence the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and press on the same basis as it does freedom of religious observance and belief. It recognizes that free speech and press are implied and inherent in Christ's teachings of religious freedom.
Christ said that those who experienced salvation, who came to know Him, were under obligation to Him to go forth into all the world, spreading the glad tidings and preaching the gospel. And the Constitution guarantees the right of all believers to discharge this Christian duty within the territorial boundaries of its jurisdiction. Freedom to communicate one's beliefs is as sacred as freedom to form one's beliefs in accordance with one's own conscience. They derive their sanctity from the same Source, and are fittingly protected on an equal footing in the Constitution!
Now let us turn to the "due process of law" clause of the Constitution.
"No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."
The "due process of law" clause has truly been called one of the most important in the whole Constitution: for it looks beyond the ideas of justice of modern lawmakers and recognizes, in the words of the Supreme Court, "those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions." Among these foundation pillars of "all our institutions" none are so securely safeguarded by the "due process of law" clause of the Constitution as the Divine Principles that theft and murder are wrong, even when committed by the government.
The Supreme Court declared that one of the prime purposes of the "due process" clause was;
"...to protect the rights of individuals and minorities, as well against the power of numbers as against the violence of public agents transcending the limits of lawful authority, even when acting in the name and wielding the force of the government." (Hurtado vs. California)
Chief Justice Hughes, in his book, "The Supreme Court of the United States," states that the "due process of law" provision,
"...makes a required minimum of protection of every one's right to life, liberty and property, which the CONGRESS OR THE LEGISLATURE MAY NOT WITHHOLD."
Plainly, then, this Constitutional provision looks to a Higher Law than that made by Congress or the State Legislatures. In the case of Hurtado vs. California, the Supreme Court reaffirmed an earlier decision (Murray's Lesse vs. Hoboken Land & Improvement Company) delivered by Justice Curtis, stating:
"...due process of law must mean something more than the actual existing law of the land, for otherwise it would be no restraint upon legislative power."
The Court held further:
"It is not every act, legislative in form, that is law. Law is something more than mere will exerted as an act of power... Arbitrary power, enforcing its edicts to the injury of the persons and property of its objects, is not law, whether manifested as the decree of a personal monarch or of an impersonal multitude."
Under the Constitution, an enactment of Congress or an edict of the Executive which violates the Divine Law against theft and murder is NOT LAW, it is NOT LEGAL, and it is NOT VALID. The Court, in the previously cited case, quoted and endorsed the statement [In his famous argument in the Dartmouth College case] of Daniel Webster "acts of confiscation," even though passed by Congress "under the form of an enactment," are not and cannot be "the law of the land." The Court emphatically declared that "acts of confiscation" and all "special, partial, and arbitrary exertions of power under the forms of legislation" are "not due process of law." The Constitution also recognizes that it is possible to kill a man in other ways than by causing his heart to stop beating. His life may be effectively taken from him by depriving him of liberty. Without liberty, a human being is half dead. Life is more than being alive; it is also living.
Thomas Jefferson said;
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."
The framers of the Constitution believed, neither men nor governments had the right unjustly to take away what God had given. In the case of Smith against the State of Texas, the Supreme Court held that deprivation of liberty tended to "extinguish" the value of life. The Court said:
"Life, liberty, property, and the equal protection of the laws, grouped together in the Constitution, are so closely related that the deprivation of anyone of these separate and independent rights may lessen or extinguish the value of the other three. In so far as a man is deprived of the right to labor, his liberty is restricted, his capacity to earn wages and acquire property is lessened, and he is denied the protection which the law affords to those who are permitted to work. Liberty means more than freedom from servitude; and the Constitutional guaranty is an assurance that the citizen shall be protected in the right to use his powers of mind and body in any lawful calling."
Liberty is essential to the preservation of the full right to, and value, of life and property. To deprive a man of liberty is, in effect, to deprive him of valuable elements of life and property. To strike at liberty is, therefore, to strike at the Ten Commandments; to diminish one's liberty is to "extinguish" his very life. It is under Divine sanctions that life and property may not wrongfully be taken from the individual that the Constitution guards and protects. The sanctity of human life involves the sanctity and inviolability of all the faculties of the human being. A man is deprived of his right to live if he is deprived of his right legitimately to use his faculties and to direct his own destiny. The Court has ruled that liberty as guaranteed in the Constitution means the right of a person;
"...to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways; to live and work where he will; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling; to pursue any livelihood or vocation; and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to his carrying out to a successful conclusion the purposes above mentioned." (Allgeyer vs. Louisiana)
The Constitution of the United States safeguards the right of human beings to life not only in this world, but it also safeguards their right so to live that they may have life in the next. The individual liberty guaranteed in the Constitution includes the right to seek all legitimate material, mental, and spiritual advancement.
In the case of Meyer vs. Nebraska, speaking through Justice McReynolds the Supreme Court declared that the guaranty of liberty embraced the right of the individual;
"...to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, to establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."
To direct his destiny, either here or in the world to come, man must be free to follow his own calling. This freedom is insured to every American by the Constitution.
"The theory upon which our political institutions rest is, that all men have certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and that in the pursuit of happiness all avocations, all honors, all positions, are alike open to every one, and that in the protection of these rights all are equal before the law." (Cummings vs. State of Missouri)
The soul of man is safe, sacred, and inviolate under the Original Constitution. It is free to "captain its own fate" so to speak and to pursue its own salvation in whatever direction it wishes. And neither the State, nor any group within the State, has any more right to crush, imprison, or strangle the souls of men than it has to mar and mutilate their bodies. The Constitutional protection of human life is as broad and as pervasive in its scope and sphere as the Commandment to which it gives expression. Under the Constitution, no soul‑stifling government can experiment with plans to force men to live by bread alone. The soul of the citizen is as safe as his body, his liberty as secure as his life. He is free to live spiritually and mentally as well as physically.
One of the central teachings of Christ was the principle that the Moral Laws, as given to Moses and the Prophets and affirmed by Himself, was a statement of Eternal Truth, as everlasting and unchanging as Almighty God. The Founding Fathers believed that liberty is of the essence of the Eternal; They believed that God Himself was the "Author of Liberty." James Otis expressed their sentiments when he said,
"Liberty is the gift of God and cannot be annihilated."
John Adams reflected their attitude when he said that liberty is a moral right;
"...derived from the Legislator of the Universe."
Then at a later period, Abraham Lincoln echoed this conviction with the declaration:
"Liberty is right because Christ said so, and Christ is God."
Liberty, as the gift of God, is for all men, at all time, under all circumstances. And one of the prime purposes of the Constitution was to "secure" its blessings to every living American and to its "posterity." The Constitution follows faithfully the Divine Command,
"...proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."
The men who framed the Constitution believed the Moral Law affirmed by Christ was good for all time. They believed a Constitution based on it and breathed its spirit was, and should be, "indestructible" and "perpetual." They provided for amendment to the Constitution to give wider scope and application to these Eternal Moral Principles. But they did not contemplate, in their wildest imaginations, any amendment at any time which would violate or invalidate these principals would be brought forward, well alone passed. They did not contemplate any amendment aimed at LEGALIZING a government‑sponsored violation of the Ten Commandments.
Indeed, the foremost Constitutional authorities agree that an amendment which would violate the Basic Moral Truths expressed in the Constitution would be itself unconstitutional; invalid under the spirit of the Constitution, even though technically permissible under the letter. Yet, this is the very type of amendment most widely advocated today. Many of our leading "critics" of the Constitution are condemning not only the Constitution itself, but also the UNDERLYING MORAL PRINCIPLES WHICH SUSTAIN IT. They are condemning the fundamental proposition that liberty is for all men at all times, that "Liberty is right because Christ said so," and that because it is contained in His Word it shall not pass away, even though the earth and civilization do.
They are condemning the fundamental principle that the majority, the government itself, must obey and follow the Ten Commandments. They are denying that Divine Law is binding on "the majority." They are assailing the basic belief expressed in the Constitution that Moral Truth does not change, that it is the same in one age as in another. And in so doing they are reaching beyond the Constitution and striking at the central principles of Christ, which are endorsed and upheld by the Constitution.
While it was under the "Original" United States Constitution, America was blessed by Almighty God; and prospered as no other nation has in all the history of the world. In 1789, about 2.5 million White Christian people established themselves as the COVENANT PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE; God's New Israel [The Great nation promised to Abraham]; and elected Jesus Christ as their King.
In 1789, and for the next 124 years, we were a Covenant People, living in faithful obedience to the COVENANT LAW OF THE BIBLE and in a right relationship with Jesus Christ. For decades, now, so‑called smart young professors have been teaching their students that morals are just "the fashions of the people," that what is right in one age is wrong in the next. For decades, they have been teaching;
"all morals are man‑made and as men change, their morals must change with them."
For decades, they have been teaching that the moral principles of Jesus Christ may have been good enough for our fathers but they are not good enough for us. A cancer spot of such vicious teachings has for years festered and putrefied in Columbia University; another in Harvard.
Is it any wonder, then, that out of these same cesspools of Communism should emerge the doctrine that, like the morals and religion, the Constitutional system of government of our fathers is not good enough for us!
Now, almost two hundred years later, the Christian Republic established in 1789, is gone! Barely a trace of that White Christian Republic remains standing. A new defacto democratic [Which is nothing less than an Atheistic‑Zionist‑ Communist] government, which is, ANTI‑CHRISTIAN IN EVERY RESPECT; has become the established government of America. We are no longer the citizens of a Sovereign State! We are now citizens of the United States; a new form of government, alien to God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible and the political beliefs of our founding fathers. Most public officials, as well as most American citizens, do not realize Supreme Court Justice Brewer [Before the Supreme Court became the seat of anti‑Christ baby murderers], who served from 1890 to 1910, wrote a lengthy opinion, which presented and established the legal logic: AMERICA IS A CHRISTIAN NATION ‑‑ which I will presently present ‑‑ as God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ has ALWAYS led and protected America; reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
"Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel [America] dwelleth safely, SHALT THOU NOT KNOW IT?" (Ezekiel 38:14)
THE MOST AMAZING NEW
LAW IN 70 YEARS
Public Law 97‑280 was passed by the U.S. Congress in October of 1982. It acknowledged, among other things, that the Bible is "the Word of God" and "our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures." This statement is in Congress's resolution that asks the President to declare 1983 as "the year of the Bible."
YEAR of the BIBLE, 1983
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive Nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land.
These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies ‑‑ a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades. The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery. Many of our greatest national leaders among them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Wilson ‑‑ have recognized the influence of the Bible on our country's development. The plain‑spoken Andrew Jackson referred to the Bible as no less than "the rock on which our Republic rests."
Today our beloved America and, indeed, the world, is facing a decade of enormous challenge. As a people we may well be tested as we have seldom, if ever, been tested before. We will need resources of spirit even more than resources of technology, education, and armaments. There could be no more fitting moment than now to reflect with gratitude, humility, and urgency upon the wisdom revealed to us in the writing that Abraham Lincoln called
"the best gift God has ever given to man...But for it we could not know right from wrong."
The Congress of the United States in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized, and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the "Year of the Bible."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the contributions and influence of the Bible on our Republic and our people, do hereby proclaim 1983 as the Year of the Bible in the United States. I encourage all citizens, each in his or her own way, to re‑examine and rediscover its priceless and timeless message.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty‑three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventh. Ronald Reagan
PUBLIC LAW 97‑280
OCT. 4, 1982 96 STAT. 1211
Public Law 97‑280 97th Congress
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing and requesting the President to proclaim 1983 as the "Year of the Bible." ‑‑ Oct, 4, 1982 [S.J. Res 165]
WHEREAS the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people;
WHEREAS deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation;
WHEREAS Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States;
WHEREAS many of our great national leaders ‑‑ among them Presidents Washing, Jackson, Lincoln and Wilson ‑‑ paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the Bible in our country's development, as in the words of President Jackson that the Bible is "the rock on which our Republic rests";
WHEREAS the history of our nation clearly illustrates the value of voluntarily applying the teachings of the Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families, and societies;
WHEREAS this Nation now faces great challenges that will test this Nation as it has never been tested before; and
WHEREAS that renewing our knowledge of and faith in God through Holy Scripture can strengthen us as a nation and a people: Now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized and requested to designate 1983 as a national "Year of the Bible" in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our Nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures.
Many Liberals, Anti-Christs and Humanists objected to this law, PL 97‑280. The news media gave it almost no coverage whatsoever. Did you read about this law and the "Year of the Bible" in your local newspaper; magazines; or hear about it on the radio; television; or even your church? Probably not. Following are a few other almost unknown or unmentioned historical events. On May 17, 1776, Congress appointed a day of fasting and prayer for the Colonies so they might,
"by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease God's righteous displeasure, and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain His pardon and forgiveness."
On September 11, 1777, because the domestic supply of Bibles was short, the Continental Congress wrote,
"directing the Committee of Commerce to import (from Europe) 20,000 copies of the Bible, the great political text book of the patriots..."
The Congress also authorized chaplains in the Continental Army and General Washington moved to have chaplains appointed in each regiment.
On September 10, 1782, in consequence of the difficulty of importing Bibles, Congress approved and recommended to the people the edition of the Bible printed by Robert Aiken of Philadelphia. Congress described it as a "neat edition of the Holy Scriptures for use in schools."
"WHEREUPON, RESOLVED THAT the United States in Congress assembled...recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States, and hereby authorize him to publish this recommendation in the manner he (Robert Aiken) shall think proper."
Like it or not; Love it or hate it; curse it or praise it; THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED BY CHRISTIANS AS A CHRISTIAN NATION, and the vast majority of its citizens were Christian. Our national motto is, "IN GOD WE TRUST"; our national hymn is, "GOD OF OUR FATHERS." The fathers being Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of the Bible. We pledge allegiance to the United States of America as "ONE NATION UNDER GOD."
Our Constitution begins with, "We the people of the United States..." Article Seven mentions, "the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty seven..." Ask yourself, who is "our Lord" which is mentioned by "we the people?" Few people know, and it is no longer taught in our public schools, that eleven of the thirteen original colonies gave religious tests for public office. They required faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible as a basic qualification for holding public office.
MASSACHUSETTS: Required a declaration that:
"I believe in the Christian religion and have a firm persuasion of its truth."
NEW JERSEY: Declared:
"...that no Protestant inhabitant of this colony shall be denied any civil right merely on account of his religious principles, but that all persons professing a belief in the faith of any Protestant sect, who shall demean them-selves peacefully under the government as hereby established, shall be capable of being elected into any office of profit or trust, or being a member of either branch of the legislature."
VERMONT'S: Constitution required every member of the House of Representatives to take this oath:
"I do believe in One God, the creator and governor of the universe, the rewarder of the good, and the punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration..."
2VIRGINIA: Denied public office to anyone who denied the,
"Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine authority."
The Colonial documents written up in the home country of the colonists who came to North America and was usually issued by the king of that country. The Charter granted to the Colonists:
1). Certain lands in the New World;
2). Established the general rules and laws by which the colony would be guided; and
3). Stated the purpose or purposes for which the colony was being founded.
The first of these Charters was granted by James I of England on April 10, 1606, for the settlement and possession of Virginia. Now, keep in mind that this is a government document. This document speaks of the colonists who first erected government institutions in America as having;
"...desires for the furtherance of so noble a work which may by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of His divine Majesty, in the propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages, living in those parts, to human civility, and to a settled and quiet government."
The Charter of Plymouth council granted by James I on November 2, 1620, begins,
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are under-written...having undertaken, for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith...combine ourselves into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid."
The March 4, 1644, Charter, issued by Charles I for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay mentioned the orderly conduct of the colonists;
"...to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God, and the Savior of mankind, and the Christian faith."
The Rhode Island Charter directs the civil administration so that the people might:
"...be in the better capacity to defend themselves in their rights and liberties against all enemies of the Christian faith."
In the Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, it was written on April 3, 1644,
"It was ordered that the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered to Moses...be a rule to all the courts in this jurisdiction in their proceedings against offenders..."
There are literally thousands of other documents that could be quoted, but they are almost never mentioned in our modern anti‑Christ classrooms or pulpits. However, the question is: Was America founded upon Jesus Christ and Christianity, or are the atheists and agnostics correct in saying America is a pluralist society, not a Christian one? The evidence is overwhelming that the thoughts about America by both king and commoner were bound up with a vision of the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. We do not refer to church or missionary documents but to civil documents signed by the king or another authorized people in the government. These are political or governmental documents whose main purpose, like our Constitution, was to put in writing the order of government and the purposes of that government. These documents are foundation stones, not of American churches, not of religious movements, but the foundation stones of the American government, foundation stones of the United States of America.
The left‑wingers and the anti‑Christs are not afraid to let you find out that Christians founded churches or missions; That is why the left‑wingers, anti‑Christs and humanists defame and ridicule the early Christian inhabitants of this American/Israel [Not Jewish] Nation. That is why they call those Christians "bigots," "straight‑laced," "blue‑noses," "puritanicals" and etc.
BUT THEY ARE DESPERATELY AFRAID THAT YOU MIGHT FIND OUT THAT CHRISTIANS ORGANIZED OUR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THAT CHRISTIANS ORGANIZED THAT GOVERNMENT UPON JESUS CHRIST, THE BIBLE AND BIBLE LAWS!!!
They are trying desperately to prevent our American‑Israel people from finding out that it was those real Christians, not like the false Judeo‑Christians ones of today, who founded America and its original government. Even America's first schools were founded to give the young a Christian education so that all who might come to a position of leadership would be firmly grounded in Christianity. Remember, Congress authorized the Robert Aiken edition of the Bible "for use in schools."
Kings College, which is now Columbia University, advertised,
"The chief thing that is aimed at in this college is to teach and engage the children to know God in Jesus Christ, and to live and serve Him, in all sobriety, Godliness, and Righteousness of life with a perfect heart, and a willing mind."
Amherst, Dartmouth and Yale were established for training in the Christian faith. For the first century 40 percent of Yales's graduates became ministers of the Gospel. Mr. Harvard, in founding Harvard University said,
"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life, and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning."
How times have changed. Today, many of our states prohibit reading the Bible in our Public Schools; which were originally established to teach the reading and the study of the Bible. Today, the anti‑Christ government schools, teach our children, a most horrendous LIE,
"Oh, yes, there were some Christians who came over here, and they may have made some Christian statements, and they formed churches, but most came to America for gold or for land and therefore the government had nothing to do with Christianity."
Don't let them fool you, my fellow White American Countrymen, for their intentions in deceiving you are as base as their methods for doing so. They have forced upon us all kinds of non‑Christian and anti‑ Christian laws and practices. Because they wanted a non‑Christian and anti‑Christ government here in America. And they knew it never would have been possible to install such government if America's Christians had really understood that our original form of government, both local and national; that all of our original laws came from God's Word, the Bible. In addition to the foregoing, perhaps we should point out at least one of the many in the body of the Constitution itself. Such as Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5:
"[Money, weights and measure. ‑‑ 5.] To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and FIX THE STANDARD OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES."
This is based upon the Biblical standards as set out in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
"Just balances, just weights...shall ye have..." (Leviticus 19:36);
"Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have." (Deuteronomy 25:13‑15);
"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight." (Proverbs 11:1);
"A just weight and balance are the Lord's." (Proverbs 16:11);
"Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord." (Proverbs 20:10)
About the coinage of money:
"Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath...And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh." (Ezekiel 45:10‑12)
To demonstrate how difficult it would have been for them to sweep aside our Christian laws, if our people had known they were really Christian laws, we will consider a few of the things they are doing to us today. For example, our nations leaders are making treaties with non‑Christian, or anti‑Christian nations; thus they are, in fact, committing a trespass against God's Laws concerning covenants or treaties with His People's enemies:
"...thou shalt make no covenant with them..." (Deuteronomy 7:2)
Not only that but they are committing treason by giving them aid and comfort and helping them in their anti‑ Christ activities. Would we, as Christians, accept that and sit by so silently if we realized such things are in opposition to both God's Law and the principles of the Christian beliefs of our Founding Fathers.
What about abortion? Have you noticed how the pro‑ abortionists use the phrase, "We don't believe you should force your religion upon others?" Notice "they" identify the opposition to abortions by the term "religion," and of course the opposition to abortion is the Christian religion. Yet these immoral hypocrites freely try to impose their murderous standards upon us.
INFANTICIDE:
INCORRECTLY CALLED ABORTION
According to Webster's Dictionary the definition of infanticide is the murder of an infant. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with premeditated malice [the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause of excuses]. The definition of abortion is,
"The expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, particularly at any time before it is viable [capable of living on its own]; miscarriage."
Today, infanticidists [ONE WHO MURDERS AN INFANT, per Webster's Dictionary], using a method called Dilation and Curettage, cutting the squirming and resisting baby's body and placenta into pieces with a loop‑shaped steel knife and suck them into a jar. Because it is struggling and trying to escape it is apparent that even the baby knows that it is a human being and is trying to protect its' life. From the jar the baby's body pieces are reassembled on a table to verify that all the parts have been removed. This is a far cry from a miscarriage whereby the human body naturally expels the unborn infant.
We are presenting an argument that infanticide [incorrectly called abortion] is actually the murder of an unborn infant and is NOT a right of privacy due to the mother. It will also set forth the argument that the changing of the meanings of the words describing the positions taken by so‑called Pro‑Lifers and Pro‑Deathers are actually distorting what the issues really are.
We will only address situations where there has not been a pregnancy caused by rape or incest, or situations where the mother's life would be in danger if the baby's life is not terminated. Approximately 95% to 98% of all unborn infanticide is for conveniences' sake. Why is a fetus a person in the sense in which a baby is? Since no sane person would say that it is lawful to kill a baby, if it is shown that a fetus is in fact a baby, then killing a fetus would be tantamount to murder! Biblically it can be shown that fetuses in the womb struggled against each other as evidenced by Genesis 25:22. Here we read (NASB)
"But the children struggled together within her; and she [Rebecca] said, If it is so, why then am I this way? so she went to inquire of the Lord."
Verse 23,
"And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples shall be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger."
Obviously in order for one of the fetuses to struggle with the other he had to be conscious of the fact that the other fetus was also a human being. Why have strife with a nonentity? It would accomplish nothing. In Psalm 139:13 David states (KJV),
"For Thou has possessed my reins: thou hast COVERED me in my mother's womb."
The word covered in Strong's is #5526. The word is "sakak" and means "prop. to entwine as a screen; by impl. to fence in, cover over, (fig.) protect." It is the same word used in Exodus 33:22 which states "and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you [Moses] in the cleft of the rock and COVER you with My hand until I have passed by." Therefore, it can be seen from this verse that protection IN THE WOMB is essential.
In Ecclesiastes 11:5 Solomon writes (NASB),
"Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones formed in the WOMB of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things."
The New English Bible adds the words,
"and living spirit in the WOMB" in this verse also.
Luke 1:15 states:
"For he [John] will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine or liquor; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, while yet in his mother's WOMB."
Ecclesiastes 12:7 states (KJV),
"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
When is the spirit given to man ‑ at birth or at conception? Without the "breath of life" man cannot exist. Inside or outside the womb.
Justice Harry Blackmun, speaking for the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, stated in the Roe vs. Wade (1973) decision that the pregnancy may be terminated within the first three months at the mother's discretion [convenience]. If the mother's health has to be protected, then in the second three months the states may restrict, but NOT prohibit termination of the pregnancy. In the last three months a state MAY restrict or even prohibit infanticide to protect the life of the fetus, except when the mother's life is in danger.
In effect the seven U.S. Supreme Court justices decided to play God by making it lawful to commit murder. By doing this and in the name of "trying to protect a woman's right to privacy" they violated the very U.S. Constitution they had sworn to uphold. In fact, the Jewish Justice Blackmun could not point to a specific constitutional guarantee to justify the court's ruling.
Instead, he rationalized the decision on the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment's [an Amendment which came straight from Satan's throne] Due Process clause; and on the medical ethics and standards of another Jew, Dr. Edelstein. It will be shown further on in this report the fallacy of this kind of thinking because one's right to privacy can extend only to the point of infringement on someone else's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Abortion has become an overt means of child sacrifice which the Jews have instituted under their de facto laws. Which is simply a covert means of child sacrifice which has been part of their infamous "ritual murders, which Jews have been accused through the ages." In this practice, the Jewish abortion doctors and nurses take;
"the blood of the sacrificed Christian (child) is mixed with flour to make the unleavened bread (known as Haman Ears, Haman Cakes and etc., in remembrance of the slaughter of thousands of White Israelites as recorded in the book of Esther in the Bible. The only book in the Bible the name of Yahweh never appears. The only Jewish book in all of the Bible, the claims of the Jews and their lackeys notwithstanding) eaten at (the Jewish) Passover." (The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization, Ed. Martin Gilbert, MacMillan Pub. Co., 1990, p. 125)
Thus, we can clearly see that the practice of abortion, which conforms very well with the Jewish ritual of child sacrifice to idols such as Molech, which is condemned by Almighty God in the Scriptures as an abomination. However, the Jewish Babylonian Talmud recognizes such sacrifice as normal: "giving one's seed to Molech is not idolatry." (Sanhedrin 64a) Molech was a god of the Canaanites and Babylonians, and Babylon is the bedrock of the Jewish Talmud and Jewish tradition. This deity was the center of child sacrifice. Plus the fact that THE JEWISH TALMUD TEACHES THAT THE EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANS IS A NECESSARY SACRIFICE TO GOD. (Zohar II, 43a)
Proof of the above came most unexpectedly in March 1990, when an unprecedented display of Jewish contrition and humility was witnessed in York, England. There were four days of religious occasions, including some in York Minster, IN MEMORY OF CHRISTIAN CHILDREN WHO WERE CRUCIFIED, TORTURED AND BLED TO DEATH ALL OVER EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL TIMES TO SATISFY JEWISH RELIGIOUS RITUALS!
Justices White and Rehnquist, the two dissenting voters, probably stated it best when they said
"the majority's judgement was directed by its' own dislikes, not by any constitutional compass. In the absence of guiding principles, they asserted, the majority justices simply substituted their views for the view of the state legislatures whose abortion regulations they invalidated."
These state legislators were elected by a majority in each state to present their constituents' view of anti‑death.
The Declaration of Independence states;
"That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ..."
When are the men that are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence created? The day the human being leaves the womb or the day of conception? Obviously the human life begins at conception, because if you do not have conception you will never have the human being. If the human life begins at conception, then the human life has certain unalienable rights. These are rights that are incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred whether or not the individual can speak for himself. Speaking in general terms the right of one individual's privacy ends where the actual life of another individual starts. For example, if one's next door neighbor is strangling his three year old son in his house do we reason to ourselves "that is none of my business; it is his son; and he has the 'right of privacy' to do whatever he pleases to his son" or do we take action to prevent the potential murder from occurring, because the "right to life" is a higher right than the dad's "right to privacy."
DISTORTING WORD MEANINGS
In the abortion [infanticide ‑ the right to Murder a baby] conflict we have two groups each "for" their particular issue. One is called "Pro‑Life" and the other is called "Pro‑Choice." Neither group, as named, is directly opposed to the other. Defining these two groups in general terms "Pro‑Life" is not the opposite of "Pro‑Choice." However, in fact the "Pro‑Choice" groups are actually Pro‑Death [Pro‑Murder], since they maintain that murder is a "choice." By calling the Pro‑Death group "Pro‑Choice" one could get a distorted view of what the "Pro‑Choice" group really represents. WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER THERE ARE NO‑CHOICES. A choice to do wring to another human being is no choice at all! If you are for something, you are against its opposite. If you are pro‑life, then you are against someone having the "choice" to murder an infant. Since the death is the opposite of life, the reverse would also be true. If you are pro‑death, you would be anti‑life [not "Pro‑Choice"].
Speaking in general terms we are all "pro‑choice," which is the opposite of compulsion. Everyone believes that each individual has the right or freedom to do what they want. However, the freedom of each individual to do what they want extends only to the point of infringing on someone else's "life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness [property]." Thus, we see that individuals that are pro‑life [opposed to murder] are also actually pro‑choice [opposed to compulsion] to the extent those actions do not infringe on someone else's "life liberty, or pursuit of happiness [property]."
However, pro‑life proponents believe that a choice to do wrong [murder an unborn infant] is not a choice at all. Infant murder outside the womb or inside the womb is wrong. Pro‑Death proponents are "Pro‑Life" when it comes to their life, but cannot respect the life of others. And they will take your life if you oppose them, and they get the chance. Make no mistake about it. The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the development and life of an infant in the womb when they allowed the states the freedom to regulate or prohibit infanticide in the last six months of pregnancy. Why regulate or prohibit infanticide in the womb if the infant is not a human being?
Since they have allowed the states to regulate or prohibit infanticide in certain cases we find that the real question the seven U.S. Supreme Court Justices raised is "WHEN does the infant become a human being in the womb?" and NOT "IS the infant a human being in the womb?" If they wanted to ask the question "IS the infant a human being in the womb?" then they would NOT have regulated the state on the last two trimesters. So we must conclude that the learned justices recognized the fact that the fetus IS A HUMAN BEING: therefore, they knew abortion [infanticide] was/is murder but they gave women the right to do so for a limited period of time if they so desired! Thus the Justices have been guilty of being an accomplish to the murder of literally millions of babies since 1973!
Another proposed dilemma in this issue is the question of freedom vs. order. Does the freedom of a woman to "do what she wants with her body" take priority over "the killing of unborn babies" [order]? Missing from the dilemma is the issue of "the freedom of the baby." Most Pro‑Death advocates seem to forget that the woman had the choice of abstaining from sex or using birth control methods to prevent conception.
These women lost their freedom of having the abortion at the time of conception. As a result of the seven Supreme Court justices determination that "freedom of the woman" takes priority over "freedom and life of the baby," we have had, since 1973, over 26‑million innocent unborn babies murdered. This is equivalent to the sum population of more than 12 U.S. states or approximately 1/10th of the current U.S. population.
IRRATIONALITY OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
John Ankerberg and John Weldon in their book "When Does Life Begin?" pointed out the irrationality of the Supreme Court's decision. They stated
"Animals are now guaranteed more legal rights and protections than unborn children...The very same Supreme Court which made possible the slaughter of tens of millions of unborn human babies stopped the construction of the $116‑million Tellico Dam in Tennessee merely because it might cause a three‑inch fish known as the "snail darter" to become extinct! We can do horrible things to the pre‑born that we are legally prohibited from doing to dogs or even hamsters! Of course the Queers do not want any harm to come to the hamster, they like to cram them up each others ass for an exotic thrill! How sick can one get?
“Doctors were charged to both save life and to destroy it. All laws attempting to prohibit abortion after viability have been declared unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court does all 'that two doctors be present when viable [babies able to live outside the womb] infants are aborted; one TO KILL THE BABY THROUGH ABORTION [infanticide] and one to care for the infant should the first doctor FAIL TO MURDER THE BABY!' Further, if during an abortion procedure the child is killed while in the womb, no law is broken, but if that same child is removed from the womb and Murdered outside the woman, the physician is liable to a charge of murder!"
RIGHT TO LIVE DENIED
The other legal rights of the unborn were maintained; only their right to live was denied. In property and inheritance law Anglo‑American jurisprudence has scrupulously maintained the rights of the unborn, accepting that human lie begins at conception. All of us are familiar with "wrongful death" lawsuits against persons who accidentally injure unborn children to the point of their death.
"To this day, the law recognizes unborn children as persons entitled to all these rights."
In fact, criminals who have assaulted pregnant women have been successfully prosecuted for murder when the unborn child has been killed. Nevertheless, the law regards the unborn as a non‑person when a mother is willing to destroy it.
In conclusion, we see that regardless of the terminology used by either side the living being has its life abruptly ended in infanticide. No matter how much it may fight to stay alive in the womb it is certainly fighting a hopeless battle. Probably not one of the seven Supreme Court Justices that voted "Pro‑Death" realized that if their mother had made a Pro‑Death choice when she was pregnant with them, then they would have never enjoyed the life they had/have. The same holds true for the doctors, nurses and mothers who go through the process of infanticide. Someone was gracious enough to give them the opportunity to live, SO WHY CAN'T THEY ALLOW THE SAME OPPORTUNITY FOR THE UNBORN? Who has opposed abortion, the murder of the unborn, in America since our beginning as a few colonies? Who arrested the abortionist [Murderers] and either executed them or put them in prison? If you would only bother to study history a little you would find that the vast majority of the abortionists are Jews, of whom Jesus said:
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets...and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets...Ye serpents, ye generation (Race) of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matthew 23:29‑33)
We have presented colonial governmental documents of 200 to 350 years ago, yet we need not go back that far, we need go back only two generations to find our government enforcing Christian Laws. What a change! Why do you think the anti‑Christs continually cry out the phrase, "separation of church and state" until its meaning is completely distorted. It has become a catch‑all phrase, by the enemies of Jesus Christ and America, in an attempt to eliminate all Christian influence upon anything involving state or civil affairs. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!" BECAUSE ALL LAWS ARE BASED UPON SOMEONE'S MORALITY! THEY ARE EITHER CHRISTIAN OR THEY ARE ANTI‑CHRISTIAN ‑ THERE ARE NO OTHERS!
CONSTITUTIONS
Very few Christians know that several State Constitutions specifically mention;
(1) Religion;
(2) Christianity, and/or
(3) The Bible
For example:
OHIO: Bill of Rights, Section 7:
"Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceful enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction."
The Ohio Constitution was adopted in 1802. Twenty‑three years later, in 1825, a tax levy was passed to set up and support a public school system. Therefore, the schools mentioned in the Ohio Constitution are private and church schools. Of the first 108 schools, 106 were founded by Christian Churches. As written, the Ohio Constitution required the State to protect and encourage private church schools.
MASSACHUSETTSES: Declaration of Rights, Article 2:
"And every denomination of Christians...shall be equal under the protection of the law." (The law was designed to protect Christians).
VERMONT: Declaration of Rights, Article 3:
"(our) opinion shall be regulated by the Word of God (The Bible)...Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of Christians ought to observe the Sabbath or Lord's day, and keep up some sort of religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed Word of God."
VIRGINIA: Section 18:
"...the rights hereby secured shall not be construed to...exclude or remove the Holy Bible from use in any public school of this state."
Our government consists of three separate branches: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. Each branch is "separate" meaning that each is independent from the other. Even if the words "separation of church and state" were in the Constitution, would it therefore follow it meant that one is "cut off and cast away" or would it mean that the Church is independent from the State? Of course it would mean the church was to be independent from the state!!!
In the Scriptures we never find an instant where a God‑ anointed priest or prophet took to himself the function of a civil administrator, nor do we find a case where a man anointed to serve in civil administration took unto himself the ministry of priest or prophet without coming under the judgment of God. (See 1 Samuel 13:5‑14 and 2 Chronicles 26:16‑20) The Supreme Court has declared that the United States of America is a Christian Nation. (Holy Trinity Church vs. United States 143 U.S. 457 (1892); McGowen vs. Maryland 366 U.S. 420 at 561 (1961))
In addition, a State Court is on record saying,
"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations are placed on the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty." (Runkel vs. Winemiller, 4 Harris & McHenry (MD) 429, 1 AD 411, 417)
On the other hand, the Constitution of Soviet Russia reads,
"...the state shall be separate from the church, and the church separate from the school,"
The ninth doctrine listed in the Humanist Manifesto II reads,
"The separation of church and state...are imperatives."
The following is a presentation of selected portions of the Holy Trinity Church vs. United States 143 U.S. 457 (1892):
"But beyond all these matters no purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people...
“Even the Constitution of the United States, which is supposed to touch very little upon the private life of the individual, contains in the First Amendment a declaration common to the Constitutions of all the states, as follows, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'...And also provides in Article 7, a provision common to many Constitutions, that the executive shall have ten days (Sundays excepted) within which to determine whether he will approve or veto a bill...There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation.
“These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are the organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people. While because of the general recognition of this truth the question has seldom been presented to the courts, yet we find that in Updegraph vs. The Commonwealth, 11S. & R. 394, 400, it was declared that, 'Christianity, general Christianity, is and always has been, a part of the common law of Pennsylvania;...not Christianity with an established church and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity with a liberty of conscience to all men.' And in the People vs. Ruggles, 8 Johns. 290, 294, Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said,
'The people of this state, in common with the people in this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as a rule of their faith and practice; and to scandalize the author of these doctrines is not only in a religious point of view extremely impious but even in respect to the obligations to society, a gross violation of decency and good order...The free, equal and undisturbed enjoyment of religious opinion, whatever it may be, and free and decent discussions on any religious subject, is granted and secured; but to revile, with malicious and blasphemous contempt, the religion professed by the whole community, is an abuse of that right...Nor are we bound, by any expressions in the Constitution as some have strangely supposed, either not to punish at all, or to punish indiscriminately, the like attacks on the religion of Mohammed or of the Grand Lama; and for this plain reason, that the case assumes that we are a Christian people, and that the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of these imposters."
In Runkel vs. Winemiller, 4 Harris & McHenry (MD) 429, we find:
"...The Christian religion is the established religion by our form of government and all denominations are placed on an equal footing and equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty...
“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. The principles of the Christian religion cannot be diffused, and its doctrines generally propagated, without places of public worship, and teachers and ministers, to explain the Scriptures to the people, and to enforce an observance of the precepts of religion by their preaching and living. And the pastors teachers and ministers, of every denomination of Christians, are equally entitled to the protection of the law and to the enjoyment of their religious and temporal rights."
In a speech delivered at Harvard College in 1905, Associate Justice of the United States David J. Brewer said, in part:
"We classify nations in various ways, as, for instance, by their form of government. One is a kingdom, another an empire, and still another a republic. Also by race. Great Britain is an Anglo‑Saxon Nation, France a Gaelic, Germany a Teutonic, Russia a Slav. And still again by religion. One is a Mohammedan nation, others are heathen, and still others are Christian Nations...
“This Republic is classified among the Christian Nations of the world. It was so formally declared by the Supreme Court of the United States. In the case of Holy Trinity Church vs. United States, 143 U.S. 471, that Court, after mentioning various circumstances, added, 'there are many other matters, which might be noticed, and a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian Nation.'
“But in what sense can it be called a Christian Nation? Not in the sense that Christianity is the established religion or that the people are in any manner compelled to support it. On the Contrary, the Constitution specifically provides that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'
“Neither is it Christian in the sense that all its citizens are either in fact or name Christians. On the contrary, all religions have free scope within our borders. Numbers of our people profess other religions, and many reject all. Nor is it Christian in the sense that a profession of Christianity is a condition of holding office or otherwise engaging in the public service, or essential to recognition either politically or socially. In fact the government as a legal organization is independent of all religions. Nevertheless, we constantly speak of this republic as a Christian Nation ‑‑ in fact, as the leading Christian Nation of the world. This popular use of the term certainly has significance. It is not a mere creation of the imagination. It is not a term of derision but has a substantial basis ‑‑ one which justifies its use. Let us analyze a little and see what is the basis.
“Its use has had from the early settlements on our shores and still has an official foundation. It is only about three centuries since the beginnings of civilized life within the limits of these United States. And those beginnings were in a marked and marvelous degree identified with Christianity. The commission from Ferdinand and Isabella to Columbus recites that 'it is hoped that by God's assistance some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered.'
“The first colonial grant, that made to Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1584, authorized him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony, provided that 'they be not against the true Christian faith now professed in the Church of England.' The first charter of Virginia, granted by King James I, in 1606, after reciting the application of certain parties for a charter, commenced the grant in these words: 'We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their desires for the furtherance of so noble a work, which may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating the Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.' And language of similar import is found in subsequent charters of the same colony, from the same king, in 1609 and 1611.
“The celebrated compact made by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, in 1620, recites: 'Having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and the honor of our king and country a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia.'
“The charter of New England, granted by James I, in 1620, after referring to a petition, declares: 'We, according to our princely inclination, favoring much their worthy disposition, in hope thereby to advance the enlargement of [the] Christian religion, to the glory of God Almighty.'
The charter of Massachusetts Bay, granted in 1629 by Charles I, after several provisions, recites: 'Whereby our said people, inhabitants there, may be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed as their good life and orderly conversation may win and incite the natives of the country to their knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention and the adventurers free profession, is the principal end of this plantation,' which declaration was substantially repeated in the charter of Massachusetts Bay granted by William and Mary in 1691.
The fundamental orders of Connecticut, under which a provisional government was instituted in 1638‑1639, provided: 'Forasmuch as it has pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of His divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we, the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, are now cohabitating and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and the lands thereto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one public state or commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter enter into combination and confederation together to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also the discipline of the churches, which according to the truth of the said gospel, is now practices amongst us.'
“In the preamble of the Constitution of 1776 it was declared, 'the free fruition of such liberties and privileges of humanity, civility and Christianity call for, as is due to every man in his place and proportion, without impeachment and infringement, hath ever been, and will be the tranquility and stability of churches and commonwealths; and the denial thereof, the disturbance, if not the ruin of both.'
In 1638 the first settlers in Rhode Island organized a local government by signing the following agreement: 'We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
“And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." (Exodus 24:3‑4);
"Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam." (2 Chronicels 11:3‑4);
"And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people; between the king also and the people." (2 Kings 11:17)
The charter granted to Rhode Island, in 1663, naming the petitioners, speaks of them as 'pursuing, with peaceable and loyal minds, their sober, serious and religious intentions, of godly edifying themselves and one another in the holy Christian faith and worship as they were persuaded; together with the gaining over and conversion of the poor, ignorant Indian natives, in these parts of America, to the sincere profession and obedience of the same faith and worship.'
The charter of Carolina, granted in 1663 by Charles II, recites that the petitioners, 'being excited with a laudable and pious zeal for the propagation of the Christian faith.'
In the preface of the frame of government prepared in 1682 by William Penn, for Pennsylvania, it is said: 'They weakly err, that think there is no other use of government than correction, which is the coarsest part of it; daily experience tells us that the care and regulation of many other affairs, more soft, and daily necessary, make up much of the greatest part of government; and which must have followed the peopling of the world, had Adam never fell, and will continue among men, on earth, under the highest attainments they may arrive at, by the coming of the blessed second Adam, the Lord from heaven.'
“And with the laws prepared to go with the frame of government, it was further provided 'that according to the good example of the primitive Christians, and the ease of the creation, every first day of the week, called the Lord's Day, people shall abstain from their common daily labor that they may the better dispose themselves to worship God according to their understandings.' In the charter of privileges granted, in 1701, by William Penn to the province of Pennsylvania and territories thereunto belonging (such territories afterwards constituting the State of Delaware), it is recited: 'Because no people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyment of civil liberties, if abridged of the freedom of their consciences as to their religious profession and worship; and Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits, and the author as well as object of all divine knowledge, faith and worship, who only doth enlighten the minds and persuade and convince the understandings of the people, I do hereby grant and declare.'
“The Constitution of Vermont, of 1777, granting the free exercise of religious worship, added, 'Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of people ought to observe the Sabbath, or the Lord's Day, and keep up and support some sort of religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God.' And this was repeated in the Constitution of 1786.
“In the Constitution of South Carolina, of 1778, it was declared that 'the Christian Protestant religion shall be deemed and is hereby constituted and declared to be the established religion of this State.' And further, that no agreement or union of en upon pretense of religion should be entitled to become incorporated and regarded as a church of the established religion of the State, without agreeing and subscribing to a book of five articles, the third and fourth of which were 'that the Christian religion is the true religion; that the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of divine inspiration, and are the rule of faith and practice.'
“Passing beyond these declarations which are found in the organic instruments of the colonies, the following are well known historical facts: Lord Baltimore secured the charter for a Maryland colony in order that he and his associates might continue their Catholic worship free from Protestant persecution. Roger Williams, exiled from Massachusetts because of his religious views, established an independent colony in Rhode Island.
“The Huguenots, driven from France by the Edict of Nantes, sought in the more southern colonies a place where they could live in the enjoyment of their Huguenot faith. It is not exaggeration to say that Christianity in some of its creeds was the principal cause of the settlement of many of the colonies, and cooperated with business hopes and purposes in the settlement of the others. Beginning in this way and under these influences it is not strange that the colonial life had an emphatic Christian tone. From the very first efforts were made, largely it must be conceded by Catholics, to bring the Indians under the influence of Christianity.
“Who can read without emotion the story of Marquette, and others like him, enduring all perils and dangers and toiling through the forests of the west in their efforts to tell the story of Jesus to the savages of North America? Within less than one hundred years from the landing at Jamestown three colleges were established in the colonies; Harvard in Massachusetts, William and Mary in Virginia and Yale in Connecticut. The first seal used by Harvard College had as a motto, 'In Christi Gloriam,' and the charter granted by Massachusetts Bay contained this recital: 'Whereas, through the good hand of God many well devoted persons have been and daily are moved and stirred up to give and bestow sundry gifts ...that may conduce to the education of the English and Indian youth of this country, in knowledge and Godliness.'
“The charter of William and Mary, reciting that the proposal was 'to the end that the Church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of ministers of the gospel, and that the youth may be piously educated in good letters and manners, and that the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the western Indians, to the glory of Almighty god' made the grant 'for propagating the pure gospel of Christ, our only Mediator, to the praise and honor of Almighty God.'
“The charter of Yale declared as its purpose to fit 'young men for public employment both in church and civil state,' and it provided that the trustees should be Congregational ministers living in the colony. In some of the colonies, particularly in New England, the support of the church was a matter of public charge, even as the common schools are today. Thus the Constitution of Massachusetts, of 1780, Part I, Article 3, provided that 'the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic or religious societies to make suitable provision at their own expense for the institution of the public worship of God and for the support and maintenance of Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.' Article 6 of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of New Hampshire, of 1784, repeated in the Constitution of 1792, empowered 'the legislature to authorize from time to time, the several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies within this State, to make adequate provision at their own expense for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality.'
“In the fundamental Constitutions of 1769, prepared for the Carolinas, by the celebrated John Locke, Article 96 reads: 'As the country comes to be sufficiently planted and distributed into fit divisions, it shall belong to the parliament to take care for the building of churches, and the public maintenance of divines to be employed in the exercise of religion according to the Church of England, which being the only true and orthodox and the national religion of all the king's dominations, is so also of Carolina, and, therefore, it alone shall be allowed to receive public maintenance by grant of parliament.'
“In Maryland, by the Constitution of 1776, it was provided that 'the legislature may, in their discretion, lay a general and equal tax, for the support of the Christian religion.' In several colonies and states a profession of the Christian faith was made an indispensable condition to holding office. In the frame of government for Pennsylvania, prepared by William Penn, in 1683, it was provided that 'all treasurers, judges...and other officers...and all members elected to serve in provincial council and general assembly, and all that have right to elect such members, shall be such as profess faith in Jesus Christ.' And in the charter of privileges for that colony, given in 1701 by William Penn and approved by the colonial assembly it was provided 'that all persons who also profess to believe in Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World, shall capable...to serve this government in any capacity, both legislatively and executively.'
“In Delaware, by the Constitution of 1776, every officeholder was required to make and subscribe the following declaration: 'I, A.B., do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His Only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed forevermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.'
“New Hampshire, in the Constitutions of 1784 and 1792, required that senators and representatives should be of the 'Protestant religion,' and this provision remained in force until 1877. The fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas declared: 'No man shall be permitted to be a freeman of Carolina, or to have any estate or habitation within it that doth not acknowledge a God, and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshiped.'
“The Constitution of North Carolina, of 1776, provided: 'That no person who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.' And this remained in force until 1835, when it was amended by changing the word 'Protestant' to 'Christian,' and as so amended remained in force until the Constitution of 1868. And in that Constitution among the persons disqualified for office were 'all persons who shall deny the being of Almighty God.'
“New Jersey, by the Constitution of 1776, declared 'that no Protestant inhabitant of this colony shall be denied the enjoyment of any civil right merely on account of his religious principles, but that all persons professing a belief in the faith of any Protestant sect, who shall demean themselves peaceably under the government as hereby established, shall be capable of being elected into any office of profit or trust, or being a member of ether branch of the legislature.' The Constitution of South Carolina, of 1776, provided that no person should be eligible to the Senate or House of Representatives 'unless he be of the Protestant religion.'
“Massachusetts, in its Constitution of 1780, required from governor, lieutenant‑governor, counselor, senator and representative before proceeding to execute the duties of his place or office a declaration that 'I believe the Christian religion, and have a firm persuasion of its truth.'
“By the fundamental orders of Connecticut the governor was directed to take an oath to 'further the execution of justice according to the rule of God's word; so help me God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.'
“The Vermont Constitution of 1777 required of every member of the house of Representatives that he takes this oath: 'I do believe in one God, the creator and governor of the universe, the rewarder of the good and punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration, and own and profess the Protestant religion.' A similar requirement was provided by the Constitution of 1786.
“In Maryland, by the Constitution of 1776, every person appointed to any office of profit or trust was not only to take an official oath of allegiance to the State, but also to 'subscribe a declaration of his belief in the Christian religion.' In the same State, in the Constitution of 1851, it was declared that no other test or qualification for admission to any office of trust or profit shall be required than the official oath 'and a declaration of belief in the Christian religion; and if the party shall profess to be a Jew the declaration shall be of his belief in a future state of rewards and punishments.' As late as 1864 the same State in its Constitution had a similar provision, the change being one merely of phraseology, the provision reading, 'a declaration of belief in the Christian religion, or of the existence of God, and in a future state of rewards and punishments.'
“Mississippi, by the Constitution of 1817, provided that 'no person who denies the being of God or a future state of rewards and punishments shall hold any office in the civil department of the State.'
“Another significant matter is the recognition of Sunday. That day is the Christian Sabbath, a day peculiar to that faith, and known to no other. It would be impossible within the limits of a lecture to point out all the ways in which that day is recognized. The following illustrations must suffice: By the United States Constitution the President is required to approved all bills passed by Congress. If he disapproves he returns it with his veto. And then specifically it is provided that if not returned by him within ten days, 'Sundays excepted,' Louisiana is one of the nine States in whose present [1905] Constitution the expression, 'Sundays excepted,' is not found. Four earlier Constitutions of that State (those of 1812, 1845, 1852 and 1864) contained [it], while the three latter ones, 1868, 1879 and 1881 omit those words.
“In State ex rel. vs. Secretary of State, a case arising under the last Constitution, decided by the Supreme Court of Louisiana (52 La. An. 936), the question was presented as to the effect of a governor's veto which was returned within time if a Sunday intervening between the day of presentation of the bill and the return of the veto was excluded, and too late if it was included; the burden of the contention on the one side being that the change in the phraseology of the later Constitutions in omitting the words 'Sundays excepted' indicated a change in the meaning of the constitutional provision in respect to the time of a veto. The court unanimously held that the Sunday was to be excluded.
“In the course of its opinion it said (p. 944): 'In law Sundays are generally excluded as days upon which the performance of any act demanded by the law is not required. They are held to be dies non juridici. And in the Christian world Sunday is regarded as the 'Lord's Day,' and a holiday ‑‑ a day of cessation from labor. By statute, enacted as far back as 1838, this day is made in Louisiana one of 'public rest.' Rev. Stat., Sec. 522; Code of Practice, 207, 763. This is the policy of the State of long standing and the framers of the Constitution are to be considered as intending to conform to the same.' By express command of Congress studies are not pursued at the military or naval academies, and distilleries are prohibited from operation on Sundays, while chaplains are required to hold religious services once at least on that day.
“By the English statute of 29 Charles II no tradesman, artificer, workman, laborer, or other person was permitted to do or exercise any worldly labor, business or work of ordinary calling upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, works of necessity or charity only excepted. That statute, with some variations, has been adopted by most if not all the States of the Union. In Massachusetts it was held that one injured while traveling in the cars on Sunday, except in case of necessity or charity, was guilty of contributory negligence and could recover nothing from the railroad company for the injury he sustained. And this decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. A statute of the State of Georgia, making the running of freight trains on Sunday a misdemeanor, was also upheld by that court.
“By decisions in many States a contract made on Sunday is invalid and cannot be enforced. By the general course of decision no judicial proceedings can be held on Sunday. All legislative bodies, whether municipal, state or national, abstain from work on that day. Indeed, the vast volume of official action, legislative and judicial, recognizes Sunday as a day separate and apart from the others, a day devoted not to the ordinary pursuits of life. It is true in many of the decisions of this separation of the day is said to be authorized by the police power of the State and exercised for purposes of health. At the same time, through a large majority of them, there runs the thought of its being a religious day, consecrated by the Commandment, 'Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.'
“While the word 'God' is not infrequently used both in the singular and plural to denote any supreme being or beings, yet when used alone and in the singular number it generally refers to that Supreme Being spoken of in the Old and New Testaments and worshiped by the Christian. In that sense the word is used in constitution, statute and instrument.
“In many State Constitutions we find in the preamble a declaration like this: 'Grateful to Almighty God.' In whom he who denied the being of God was disqualified from holding office. It is again and again declared in constitution and statute that official oaths shall close with an appeal, 'So help me, God.' When, upon inauguration, the President‑elect each four years consecrates himself to the great responsibilities of Chief Executive of the republic, his vow of consecration in the presence of the vast throng filling the Capitol grounds will end with the solemn words, 'So help me, God.' In all our courts witnesses in like manner vouch for the truthfulness of their testimony. The common commencement of wills is 'In the name of God, Amen.' Every foreigner attests his renunciation of allegiance to his former sovereign and his acceptance of citizenship in this republic by an appeal to God. These various declarations in charters, constitutions and statutes indicate the general thought and purpose.
“If it be said that similar declarations are not found in all the charters or in all the constitutions, it will be borne in mind that the omission oftentimes was because they were deemed unnecessary, as shown by the quotation just made from the opinion of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, as well as those hereafter taken from the opinions of other courts. And further, it is of still more significance that there are no contrary declarations. In no charter or constitution is there anything to even suggest that any other than the Christian is the religion of his country. In none of them is Mohammed or Confucius or Buddha in any manner noticed. In none of them is Judaism recognized other than by way of toleration of its special creed.
“While the separation of church and state is often affirmed, there is nowhere a repudiation of Christianity as one of the institutions as well as benedictions of society. In short, there is no charter or constitution that is either infidel, agnostic or anti‑Christian. Wherever there is a declaration in favor of any religion it is of the Christian. In view of the multitude of expressions in its favor, the avowed separation between church and states is a most satisfactory testimonial that it is the religion of this country, for a peculiar thought of Christianity is of a personal relation between man and his Maker, uncontrolled by and independent of human government. Notice also the matter of chaplains.
“These are appointed for the army and navy, named as officials of legislative assemblies, and universally they belong to one or other of the Christian denominations. [You see no so‑called Jewish chaplains were allowed in he military of the United States until after 1905 ‑ thus the cries of the ministers of Baal from the pulpits of America about America being a Judeo‑Christian nation is nothing more than a lie fostered upon the American people by the antichrist Jews]. Their whole range of service, whether in prayer or preaching, is an official recognition of Christianity. If it be not so, why do we have chaplains?
“If we consult the decisions of the courts, although the formal question has seldom been presented because of a general recognition of its truth, yet in The People vs. Ruggles, 8 John, 290, 294, 295, Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said: 'The people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice.' And in the famous case of Vidal vs. Girard's Executors, 2 How. 127, 198, the Supreme Court of the United States, while sustaining the will of Mr. Girard, with its provision for the creation of a college into which no minister should be permitted to enter, observed: 'It is also said, and truly that the Christian religion is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania.'
“The New York Supreme Court, in Lindenmuller vs. The People, 33 Barbour, 561 held that: 'Christianity is not the legal religion of the State, as established by law. If it were, it would be a civil or political institution, which it is not; but this is not inconsistent with the idea that it is in fact, and ever has been, the religion of the people. This fact is everywhere prominent in all our civil and political history, and has been, from the first, recognized and acted upon by the people, as well as by constitutional conventions, by legislatures and by courts of justice.'
“The South Carolina Supreme Court, in State vs. Chandler, 2 Harrington, 555, citing many cases, said: 'It appears to have been long perfectly settled by the common law that blasphemy against the Deity in general, or a malicious and wanton attack against the Christian religion individually, for the purpose of exposing its doctrines to contempt and ridicule, is indictable and punishable as a temporal offense.' And again, in City Council vs. Benjamin, 2 Strobhart, 521: 'On that day we rest, and to us it is the Sabbath of the Lord ‑‑ its decent observance in a Christian community is that which ought to be expected. it is not perhaps necessary for the purposes of this case to rule and hold that the Christian religion is part of the common law of South Carolina. Still it may be useful to show that it lies at the foundation of even the article of the Constitution under consideration, and that upon it rest many of the principles and usages, constantly acknowledged and enforced, in the courts of justice.'
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in Updegraph vs. The Commonwealth, 11 Sergeant and Rawle, 400, made this declaration.: 'Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a great part of the common law of Pennsylvania; Christianity, without the spiritual artillery of European countries; of this Christianity was one of the considerations of the royal charter, and the very basis of its great founder, William Penn; not Christianity founded on any particular religious tenets; not Christianity with an established church, and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.'
“And subsequently, in Johnson vs. The Commonwealth, 10 Harris, III. 'It is not our business to discuss the obligations of Sunday any further than they enter into and are recognized by the law of the land. The common law adopted it, along with Christianity, of which it is one of the bulwarks.'
“In Arkansas, Shover vs. The State, 10 English, 263, the Supreme Court said: 'Sunday or the Sabbath is properly and emphatically called the Lord's Day, and is one amongst the first and most sacred institutions of the Christian religion. This system of religion is recognized as constituting a part and parcel of the common law, and as such all of the institutions growing out of it, or, in any way, connected with it, in case they shall not be found to interfere with the rights of conscience, are entitled to the most profound respect, and can rightfully claim the protection of the law‑making power of the State.'
“The Supreme Court of Maryland, in Judefind vs. The State, 78 Maryland, 514, declared: 'The Sabbath is emphatically the day of rest, and the day of rest here is the Lord's Day or Christian's Sunday. Ours is a Christian community, and a day set apart as the day of rest is the day consecrated by the resurrection of our Saviour, and embraces the twenty‑four hours next ensuing the midnight of Sunday...But it would scarcely be asked of a court, in what professes to be a Christian land, to declare a law unconstitutional because it requires rest from bodily labor on Sunday (except works of necessity and charity) and thereby promotes the cause of Christianity.'
“If now we pass from the domain of official action and recognition to that of individual acceptance we enter a field of boundless extent, and I can only point out a few of the prominent facts: Notice our educational institutions. I have already called your attention to the provisions of the charters of the first three colleges. Think of the vast number of academies, colleges and universities scattered through the land. Some of them, it is true, are under secular control, but there is yet to be established in this country one of those institutions founded on the religions of Confucius, Buddha or Mohammed, while an over-whelming majority are under the special direction and control of Christian teachers. Notice also the avowed and pronounced Christian forces of the country, and here I must refer to the census of 1890, for the statistics of the census of 1900 in these matters have not been compiled: The population was 62,622,000.
“There were 165,000 Christian church organizations, owning 142,000 buildings, in which were sittings for 40,625,000 people. The communicants in these churches numbered 20,476,000, and the value of the church property amounted to $669,876,000. In other words, about one‑third of the entire population were directly connected with Christian organizations. Nearly two‑thirds would find seats in our churches. If to the members we add the children and others in their families more or less connected with them, it is obvious that a large majority were attached to the various church organizations. I am aware that the relationship between many members and their churches is formal, and that church relations do not constitute active and paramount forces in their lives, and yet it is clear that there is an identification of the great mass of American citizens with the Christian church.
“It is undoubtedly true that there is no little complain of the falling off in church attendance, and of a lukewarmness on the part of many, and on the other hand there is a diversion of religious force along the lines of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Christian Endeavor Society and the Epworth League.
“All these, of course, are matters to be noticed, but they do not avoid the fact of a formal adhesion of the great majority of our people to the Christian faith; and while creeds and dogmas and denominations are in a certain sense losing their power, and certainly their antagonisms, yet as a vital force in the land, Christianity is still the mighty factor. Connection with the denominations are large missionary bodies constantly busy in extending [the] Christian faith through this nation and through the world. No other religious organization has anything of a foothold or is engaged in active work unless it be upon so small a scale as scarcely to be noticed in the great volume of American life.
“Again, the Bible is the Christian's book. No other book has so wide a circulation, or is so universally found in the households of the land. During their century of existence the English and American Bible Societies have published and circulated two hundred and fifty million copies, and this represents but a fraction of its circulation. And then think of the multitude of volumes published in exposition, explanation and illustration of that book, or some portion of it. You will have noticed that I have presented no doubtful facts. Nothing has been stated which is debatable. The quotations from charters are in the archives of the several States; the laws are on the statute books; judicial opinions are taken from the census publications. In short, no evidence has been presented which is open to question.
“I could easily enter upon another line of examination. I could point out the general trend of public opinion, the disclosures of purposes and beliefs to be found in letters, papers, books and unofficial declarations.
“I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ: how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals; how the Christian doctrines are accepted as the great comfort in times of sorrow and affliction, and fill with the light of hope the services of the dead. On every hilltop towers the steeple of some Christian church, while from the marble witnesses in God's acre comes the universal but silent testimony to the common faith in the Christian doctrine of the resurrection and the life hereafter.
“But I must not weary you. I could go on indefinitely, point out further illustrations both official and non‑official, public and private; such as the annual Thanksgiving proclamations, with their following days of worship and feasting; announcements of days of fasting and prayer; the universal celebration of Christmas; the gathering of millions of our children in Sunday Schools, and the countless volumes of Christian literature, both prose and poetry.
“But I have said enough to show that Christianity came to this country with the first colonists; has been powerfully identified with its rapid development, colonial and national, and today exists as a might factor in the life of the republic. This is a Christian Nation, and we can all rejoice as truthfully we repeat the words of Leonard Bacon:
"'O God, beneath thy guiding hand
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea,
And when they trod the wintry strand,
With prayer and psalm they worshiped Thee.
Thou heardst, well pleased, the song, the prayer
Thy blessing came; and still its power
Shall onward through all ages bear
The memory of that holy hour.
Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
Came with those exiles o'er the waves,
And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
The God they trusted guards their graves.
And here Thy name, O God of love,
Their children's children shall adore,
Till these eternal hills remove,
And spring adorns the earth no more.'"
Justice Brewer, the next day speaking of his speech the night before stated:
"I considered last night the proposition that the Unites States of America is a Christian nation. I pointed out that Christianity was a primary cause of the first settlement on our shores; that the organic instruments, charters and constitutions of the colonies were filled with abundant recognitions of it as a controlling factor in the life of the people; that in one at least of them it was in terms declared the established religion, while in several the furthering of Christianity was stated to be one of the purposes of the government; in many faith in it was a condition of holding office; in some, authority was given to the legislature to make its support a public charge; in nearly all the constitutions there has been an express recognition of the sanctity of the Christian Sunday; the God of the Bible is appealed to again and again.
“Sunday laws have been enacted and enforced in most of the colonies and States. About one‑third of the population are avowedly Christian and communicants in some Christian organization; there are sitting accommodations in the churches for nearly two‑thirds; educational institutions are largely under the control of Christian denominations, and even in those which, in obedience to the rule of separation between church and state, are secular in their organization, the principles of Christianity are uniformly recognized. By these and other evidences I claim to have shown that the calling of this Republic a Christian Nation is not a mere pretence but a recognition of an historical, legal and social truth. I came this evening to consider the consequences of this fact and the duties it imposes upon all our citizens.
“And first let it be noticed that there is no incompatibility between Christianity and Patriotism. The declaration of the Master, 'Render therefore unto Caesar, the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's,' is not a declaration of antagonism between the two, but an affirmation of duty to each. Indeed, devotion to one generally goes hand in hand with loyalty to the other...
“But we need not go elsewhere. In our own land, from the very first, Christianity and patriotism have worked together. When the Pilgrim Fathers touched New England's shores their first service was one of thanksgiving and praise to that Infinite One who had, as they believed, guided them to their new home. In the long struggles of the early colonists with their Indian foes, the building on the hill was both church and fort. They fell on their knees and then on the aborigines, was the old satire, to which now is added, they fall on the Chinese. In the convention that framed the Constitution, when doubt and uncertainty hovered over the result, at Franklin's instance prayer was offered for the success of their efforts.
“In the dark days at Valley Forge the great leader sought strength and inspiration in prayer. When the nation stood aghast at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (By John Wilks Booth, a Jew who, as most of those of his religious belief, spurned the nation and people who had given him and his people sanctuary), the clarion voice of Garfield rang out above the darkness and the tumult, 'God reigns, and the government at Washington still lives.'
“And so I might go on with illustration after illustration showing how the faith of the Christian has stood in times of trial and trouble as the rock [Jesus Christ] upon which the nation has rested. Again, Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often men hold religion as they do property, in their wives' names. Nor is Christianity beyond the reach of criticism and opposition. It is not lifted up as something too sacred to be spoken of save in terms and tones of reverence. This an iconoclastic and scientific age. We are destroying many beliefs and traditions. William Tell is a myth.
“The long hairs of Pocahontas never dropped in protecting folds over the body of John Smith. The Arabs never destroyed the great library at Alexandria, though if some wandering Arabs would destroy all the law books in the land they would bless the courts and help the cause of justice. We challenge the truthfulness of every assertion of fact, every demand upon our faith and confidence; and Christianity must stand like all other institutions, to be challenged, criticized, weighed and its merits and demerits determined. The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear. But while conceding all this I insist that Christianity has been so wrought into the history of this republic, so identified with its growth and prosperity, has been and is so dear to the hearts of the great body of our citizens, that it ought not to be spoken of contemptuously or treated with ridicule. Religion of any form is a sacred matter.
“It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly. And we who are citizens of this republic ‑‑ recognizing the identification of Christianity with its life, the general belief that Christianity is the best of all religions, that it passed into the lives of our father and is taken into the lives of our brethren as something of sacred power ‑‑ ought, even if not agreeing with all that is claimed for it, to at least accord to respect.
“I once listened to a conversation which illustrates my thought. It was between two young men returning after the close of a summer's vacation to the college at which both were students. The principal talker was, as I discovered in the course of the afternoon, an only son. On his upper lip was the first dark shadow of a coming mustache. He possessed that peculiar wisdom which belongs in this world to only the college sophomore. He was expressing to his companion his views on the Bible and religion. [And] said he knew too much to believe in either; admitted that his mother believed in both and read her Bible every day; said that that might do for women and children, but not for any scientific knowledge.
“You would have thought that Darwin and Huxle and Lord Kelvin had studied at his feet and that he was the Gamaliel of the present day. It is impossible to reproduce in language the self‑sufficient sneering tone in which he spoke of the Bible, classing it with nursery rhymes, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and the like, and the complacement pity with which he referred to those who were foolish enough to regard it as a sacred book. (It is very obvious that this young man was either a Jew or he had been talking to one. Because the Jewish Talmud teaches that The Bible is considered to be a collection of simple tales fit only for fools, women and children ‑‑ Book of Nedarim) It is to be hoped that the budding sophomore lived long enough to learn that no gentleman speaks sneeringly of that which has been the life‑long faith and comfort of his mother.
AMERICAN FLAG
“From the standpoint of citizenship the treatment of Christianity may be regarded as in some respects similar to that which is accorded and is due to the national flag. Who looks upon that as a mere piece of cloth costing but a trifle, something to be derided or trampled upon at will? A particular banner may not have cost much. It may be cheap to him who sees only the material and work which have passed into it, but to every patriot it is the symbol of patriotism. Its history is a record of glory. A century ago the Barbary pirates, who had defied the flags of Europe, saw it waving over Decatur's vessels and bowed in submission.
“Commodore Perry sailed beneath it into the unknown harbors of Japan, opened that nation to the nineteenth century, and today her civilization and power command universal respect and admiration [How we have fallen as a nation and a people in just 85 years]. The oppressed Cuban appealed to it for deliverance, and in response thereto Manila and Santiago de Cuba introduced a new sister into the family of nations:
'Wherever man has dared to go,
His brightness on unbroken snow,
'Mid tropic heat or polar snow,
Where icy pillars tower to heaven
On sandy plain or lofty crag,
Pale sentinels to nature given,
Has waved our country's starry flag.
To watch the only spot she can
In that far North where ceaseless cold
Withhold from grasping hand of man,
Has built its alabaster hold,
There Kane unfurled this banner bright,
And where the sun disdains to show
Resplendent with auroral light.'
Today it waves at the masthead of American vessels in every water of the globe, and commands the world's respect [That was in 1905, when America still held to God's Laws, today the American flag is spat upon and despised in every nation in the world. Thanks to the antichrists in our midst]! An insult to it every citizen feels is an insult to himself, and all insist that it shall be accorded due respect. We remember how, in the early days of our great civil struggle, the loyal heart was stirred with the thrilling words of Secretary Dix, 'IF ANY MAN ATTEMPTS TO HAUL DOWN THE AMERICAN FLAG, SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT.' We honor Stonewall Jackson, who, seeing Barbara Frietchie waving this banner from the window of her home in Frederick, and the threatening guns of his soldiers, called out:
'Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog. March on;' he said.'
We rejoice that now it floats in peace and triumph over all our fair land. We love to watch its fold swing out to the breeze on every patriotic day, to see it decorate the walls where gather our great conventions. We glory in every tribute that is paid to it in any part of the globe. It tells the story of conflicts, of defeats and victories. It has waved over many a field of battle, the blood of our noblest and best has been shed in its defense. It is eloquent of all the sufferings and trials of days gone by, of all the great achievements of the American people, and as we swing it to the breeze we do so with undoubting faith that it will wave over grander things in the future of this Republic.
Christianity has entered into and become part of the life of this Republic; it came with its beginnings and prompted them; has been identified with its toils and trials, shared in its victories, cheered in the hour of darkness and gloom, and stand today prophetic of untold blessings in the future. And shall it be said that it alone of all our benedictions has forfeited a claim to receive from every American citizen the tribute of respect?
“Respect for Christianity implies respectful treatment of its institutions and ordinances. This does not require that every one must conform his life to those institutions and ordinances. That is something which each one has a right to settle for himself. Take, for instance, the matter of church services. No one is in duty bound as a citizen to attend a particular church service, or indeed any church service. The freedom of conscience, the liberty of the individual, gives to every individual the right to attend or stay away. At the same time there is an obligation not to unnecessarily interfere with or disturb those services. This is something more than the duty which rests upon one attending those services to avoid the ungentlemanly and unseemly act of disturbing the exercises.
“That is only a part of the common courtesy of all going into a gathering assembled for any lawful purpose. They who call the meeting and who are engaged in service of any legitimate character have a right to be free from annoyance and interference.
“But beyond that the citizen who does not attend, does not even share in the belief of those who do, ought ever to bear in mind the noble part Christianity has taken in the history of the republic, the great share it has had in her wonderful development and its contribution to her present glory, and by reason thereof take pains to secure to those who do believe in it and do attend its services freedom from all disturbance of their peaceful gathering. The American Christian is entitled to his quiet hour.
THE LORD'S DAY
“Take another illustration, ‑‑ Sunday. Its separation from the other days as a day of rest is enforced by the legislation of nearly all if not all the States of the Union. Beyond that it is to the Christian a sacred day. It does not follow that it is the duty of every individual to observe the Sabbath as Christians do. Indeed, there is no unanimity of view among the latter as to the manner in which it should be observed. We have gone far away from the Puritan Sabbath and the austere, severe observance of it which prevailed in the early days of [the] New England colonies, and which made the day a terror to children as well as burdensome to adults. I believe it is conceded that notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may without impropriety kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly if he have a chance some other sweet‑ faced woman.
“That old‑time terror has been superseded by gentler and kindlier modes of observance, which tend to make the day welcome to all, both young and old, one in which is not merely rest from the ordinary toils of the week, but one in which the companionship of friends the sweet influences of nature, and lessons from the higher forms of music and other arts are recognized as among its benedictions. While the latter modes, though very likely more helpful, more really Christian, are a great departure from the former, yet it still remains true that it is a day consecrated of old, a day separated by law and religion as well as by the custom of the church for ages, and ought not to be turned into a day of public frivolity and gayety. While it may be true that all are not under obligations to conform to the higher and better uses of the day, yet at least they owe that respect to Christianity to pursue their frivolities and gaieties in such a way as not to offend those who believe in its sacredness. I recognize the fact that it is not always easy t draw the line and that freedom implies not merely the freedom of those who would keep the day sacred, but also the freedom of those who do not so regard it.
“Again it deserve the attention and study of every citizen. You are all patriots, you love your country, are proud of its past and mean to so live and act that you can help it to the best possible future. Now, as I have pointed out, Christianity was a principal cause of the settlements on these western shores. It has been identified with the growth and development of those settlements into the United States of America, has so largely shaped and molded it that today of all the nations in the world it is most justly called a Christian nation. In order to determine what we ought to do for the future of the republic we must review its history, inquire into the causes which have made its growth and influenced its life, ascertained which have been the most controlling and which have helped on the better side of its development, and why they have been so influential. I have shown that Christianity has been a great factor, and the student of our history will find that it has been a helpful and uplifting factor. Making full allowance for all the imperfections and mistakes which have attended it, as they attend all human institution, I am sure that the student will be convinced that its general influence upon our national life has been for the better.
“It has always stood for purity of the home, and who doubts that our homes have been the centers of the holiest living. It is Judaism, Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil. All through our history, colonial and national, the hope and ambition of every young man and woman have been for a home of their own, into which one husband and one wife shall enter, 'that they twain shall be one flesh.'
“One of the sad features of city life today is the crowding into apartments, where the janitor is master of the house and the independence of the home life is only partially secured. The barracks around our great manufacturing establishments are freighted with equally sad significance. While admitting the temporary departure we rejoice that this has been pre‑eminently a land of homes, whether in the city, or village, or country. And the power which has ever stood in the land for the purity of home life has been a crown of glory to the republic.
“It has stood for business honesty and integrity. Its proclamation has been the golden rule. Do unto others as you would they should do unto you, is a summons to honesty and fair dealing in all business as well as other relations in life. The Master never suggested that ability to keep outside the penitentiary was a sufficient test of honesty.
“It has stood for liberty and the rights of man. In the great revolutionary struggle the trusted counselors of the people were the preachers. While they may not be known in history as the leaders, were not the lawyers to draft the statutes and the constitution, nor the military heroes to command the armies, yet the local centers of influence were the Christian churches, and the Christian preachers were the men who kept the mass of the people loyal to the leadership of Washington and his associates. And in the later struggle for human liberty Christianity was always on the advance line. Those of us who remember the ante‑Bellum days recalled the bitter flings that were made against preachers in politics. That was significant of the recognized truth that they were leading the great mass of the loyal people on in that most wonderful civil war of all the ages. That struggle, as every one knows commenced on the plains of Kansas, and the New England emigrant crossed those plains, singing the song of Whittier:
'We go to plant our common schools
Upbearing like the ark of old,
On distant prairie swells,
The Bible in our van,
And give the Sabbaths of the wild
We go to test the truth of God
The music of her bells.
Against the fraud of man.'
“And all during the terrible days of the great war, from every Union camp and company rolled up the majestic music of the battle hymn of the republic:
'In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.'
EDUCATION
“It has stood for education. I have already called your attention to this matter in proof of the Christian character of the nation. It may be added that outside of the institutions with direct State support nearly every academy, college and university was founded by and is under the control of some one of the several Christian denominations. Indeed, a frequent criticism of many is that they are too much under such control. Certain is it that they would never have come into being but for the denominations back of them. Up to a recent date the rule was that the presidents and an exceedingly large majority of the faculty of all these institutions be ministers.
“It was a national surprise when first a layman was elected a college president. In the common schools the Bible has been as much a text‑book as the New England primer. It is only within very late years that any objection has been raised to its daily use, and that objection has sprung as much from differences between the Catholic and Protestant denominations concerning the version to be used as from opposition to the book itself. It has stood for the great charities and benevolences of the land. What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Christian Church? What one through hospital and asylum, more for the sick and afflicted? If you were to select a single face and form as the typical expression of the great thought of charity and kindness, whose would you select other than the face and form of a sister of Charity? In times when epidemics rage, when death seems to haunt every city home, who are the devoted ones to risk their lives in caring for the sick and paying the last offices to the dead?
Surely as the vision of this rises in your mind you see the presence and form of those whose faith is in the Man of Galilee.
It has stood for peace. I need not content myself by referring to that Christian denomination, one of whose distinguishing tenets is unqualified opposition to all wars. I can with safety point to the great body of those who in days gone by have been the champions of the cause of peace; to the memorials which have been presented to the two Houses of Congress in favor of arbitration; to those who are at the head of the various peace societies, and who are always found upon the platforms at their gatherings, and whose voices are most constant and potent in its behalf. Indeed, strike from the history of this country all that the Christian Church has done in the interest and to further the cause of peace and there is not as much life left as was found in the barren fig tree.
“It has stood for temperance. Not that it has stood alone, but it has been a leader. The foremost advocates of the cause have been pronounced Christians. Frances Willard was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, not of the Woman's Mohammedan Temperance Union, and the White Ribboners are not disciples of Confucius or Buddha. The churches have been the palaces of the great gatherings of the friends of temperance. Indeed, when you survey the efforts made to further that cause you will find that running through them all Christianity has been distinctively present.
“In short, it has sought to write into the history of this nation the glowing words of the apostle: 'Love, joy, peace, long‑suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.'
“It has stood for all these things because they represent its thought and purpose. So he who studies the history of the country, finding this to be the lesson of its influence upon our history, can but be led to the conclusion not merely that it has been a potent factor in the life of the nation, but also that it has been a healthful and helpful factor. When one who loves his country realizes this fact, does there not open before him a clear vision of his duty to further its influence.
“If in the past it has done so much and so well for the country is there any reason to doubt that strengthened and extended it will continue the same healthful and helpful influence? It has been often said that Christian Nations are either civilized nations, and as often that the most thoroughly Christian are the most highly civilized. Is this a mere coincidence? Study well the history of Christianity in its relation to the nation and it will be found that it is something more than a mere coincidence, that there is between the two relation of cause and effect, and that the more thoroughly the principles of Christianity reach into and influence the life of the nation the more certainly will that nation advance in civilization.
“It is the duty of every patriot, finding that it has been such a factor in our life, to inquire whether it does stand to its civilization in the relation of cause and effect, and it would be in the highest degree unphilosophical to assume that there has been only a coincidence, and therefore that its presence in the nation is a matter of indifference. If found that it has been both a potent and helpful factor in the development of our civilization, then it is a patriot's duty to uphold it and extend its influence. This is in line with the general obligation which rests upon all to help everything which tends to the bettering of the life of the republic..."
The Christian concept derived directly from the Hebrew Holy Writ was the next ingredient added to the monotheistic governing process and this is where the Theocratic Constitutional Republic form of limited government of the people, by the people, and for the people originated from., Creating the United States of America.
The original charters, compacts, contracts, and constitutions, all had their origin in the Bible. All the laws, rules, and regulations concerning civil, religious, and hygiene were taken from the Bible and patterned after the Christian Faith. All of the Common Law of the United States of America came directly out of the Old Testament books of the Holy Bible, namely, the original source of our Common Law was the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The Christian system of government as established in the United States of America had its origin predominantly as follows:
MAGNA CHARTA OF 1215 A.D.
John, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justiciaries, Foresters...and his faithful subjects, greeting. Know ye, that we, in the presence of God, and for the salvation of our soul, and the souls of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of Holy Church, and amendment of our Realm...have, in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present Charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever:
"That the Church of England shall be free, and have her whole rights, and her liberties...We also have granted to all the freemen of our kingdom for us and our heirs for ever, all the underwritten liberties to be hand and holden by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs for ever...No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom, unless by the general council of our kingdom; except for ransoming our person, making our eldest son a knight, and once for marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall be paid no more than a reasonable aid. In like manner it shall be concerning the aids of the City of London.
“And the City of London shall have its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water: furthermore, we will and grant that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
“And for holding the general council of the kingdom concerning the assessment of aids, except in the three cases aforesaid, and for the assessing of scutages we shall cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters. And furthermore, we shall cause to be summoned generally, by our sheriffs and bailiffs, all others who hold us in chief, for a certain day. That is to say, forty days before their meeting at least, and to a certain place; and in all letters of such summons we will declare the cause of such summons. And summons being thus made, the business shall proceed on the day appointed, according to the advice of such as shall be present, although all that were summoned came not...
“A freeman shall not be amerced for a small offence, but only according to the degree of the offence; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contentment; and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise. And a villain shall be amerced after the same manner, saving to him his wainage, if he falls under our mercy; and none of the aforesaid americaments shall be assessed but by the oath of honest men in the neighborhood.
“Earls and barons shall not be amerced but by their peers, after the degree of the offence...
“No constable or bailiff of ours shall take corn or other chattels of any man unless he presently give him money for it, or hath respite of payment by the good-will of the seller.
“No constable shall distrain any knight to give money for castle-guard, if he himself will do it in his person, or by another able man, in case he cannot do it through any reasonable cause...No sheriff or bailiff of ours, or any other, shall take horses or carts of any freeman for carriage, without the assent of the said freeman.
“Neither shall we nor our bailiffs take any man's timber for our castles or other uses, unless by the consent of the owner of the timber...
“If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, die before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir is under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt falls into our hands, we will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond.
“And if any one die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing of that debt; and if any children of the deceased are left under age, necessaries shall be provided for them in keeping with holding of the deceased; and out of the residue the debt shall be paid, reserving, however, service due to feudal lords; in like manner let it be done touching debts due to others than Jews.
“Nothing from henceforth shall be given or taken for a writ of inquisition of life or limb, but it shall be grated freely, and not denied...No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
“We will sell to no man, we will not deny to any man, either justice or right...
“If any one has been dispossessed or deprived by us, without the lawful judgment of his peers, of his lands, castles, liberties, or right, we will forthwith restore them to him; and if any dispute arise upon his head, let the matter be decided by the five-and-twenty barons hereafter mentioned, for the preservation of the peace...All unjust and illegal fines made by us, and all americaments imposed unjustly and contrary to the law of the land, shall be entirely given up, or else be left to the decision of the five-and-twenty barons hereafter mentioned for the preservation of the peace, or of the major part of the, together with the aforesaid Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and others whom we shall think fit to invite...All the aforesaid customes and liberties, which we have grated to be holden in our kingdom, as much as it belongs to us, all people in our kingdom, as well clergy as laity, shall observe, as far as they are concerned, towards their dependents.
“And whereas, for the honor of God and the amendment of our kingdom, and for the better quieting the discord that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these things aforesaid; willing to render them firm and lasting, we do give and grant our subjects the underwritten security, namely that the barons may choose five-and-twenty barons of the kingdom whom they think convenient, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted them, and by this our present Charter confirmed in this manner...Given under our hand, in the presence of the witnesses above named, and many others, in the meadow called Riningmede, between Windsor and Staines, the 15th day of June, in the 17th year of our reign.
“In the New England area, artifacts such as grave headstones have been found, all with Ogam script in Gaelic script. To this date no one has found the remains of the bodies because of the acid soil which destroys all remains within 100 years or less. Additionally, our early American settlers removed the headstones from the burial sites and placed them in hedgerows along the sides of the fields and so the headstones are not now located near the actual graves.
“The Celts with the Gaelic dialect came from the highlands of Scotland. According to the Scottish Declaration of Independence written by Robert Bruce and his noblemen, the Scotland people came from ancient Israel through the Rhineland area of France and Germany and then through Iberia or Spain."
THE SCOTTISH DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
"To the Most Holy Father in Christ and Lord, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Macolm, Earl of Lennos, William Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Stewart of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, Guardian of the Earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St. Clair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernathy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.
“Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. THEY JOURNEYED FROM GREATER SCYTHIA BY WAY OF THE TYRRHENIAN SEA AND THE PILLARS OF HERCULES, AND DWELT FOR A LONG COURSE OF TIME IN SPAIN AMONG THE MOST SAVAGE TRIBES, BUT NOWHERE COULD THEY BE SUBDUED BY ANY RACE, HOWEVER BARBAROUS. THENCE THEY CAME, TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL CROSSED THE RED SEA, TO THEIR HOME IN THE WEST WHERE THEY STILL LIVE TODAY. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.
“THE HIGH QUALITIES AND DESERTS OF THESE PEOPLE, WERE THEY NOT OTHERWISE MANIFEST, GAIN GLORY ENOUGH FROM THIS: THAT THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AFTER HIS PASSION AND RESURRECTION, CALLED THEM, EVEN THOUGH SETTLED IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH, ALMOST THE FIRST TO HIS MOST HOLY FAITH.
“Nor would He have them confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles by calling ‑ through second or third in rank ‑ the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter's brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron for ever.
“The Most Holy Fathers your predecessors gave careful heed to these things and bestowed many favors and numerous privileges on this same kingdom and people, as being the special charge of the Blessed Peter's brother. Thus our nation under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harbored no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in the guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes.
“But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Maccabaeus or Joshua, and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to our laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but for freedom ‑ for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. Therefore it is, Reverend Father and Lord, that we beseech your Holiness with our most earnest prayers and suppliant hearts, inasmuch as you will in your sincerity and goodness consider all this, that, since with Him Whose vice‑regent on earth you are there is neither weighing nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman, you will look with the eyes of a father on the troubles and privations brought by the English upon us and upon the Church of God.
“May it please you to admonish and exhort the King of the English, who ought be satisfied with what belongs to him since England used once to be enough for seven kings or more, to leave us Scots in peace, who live in this poor little Scotland, beyond which there is no dwelling‑place at all, and covet nothing but our own. We are sincerely willing to do anything for him, having regard to our condition, that we can, to win peace for ourselves.
“This truly concerns you, Holy Father, since you see the savagery of the heathen raging the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom being pressed inward every day; and how much it will tarnish your holiness's memory if (which god forbid) the Church suffers eclipse or scandal in any branch of it during your time, you must perceive. Then rouse the Christian princes who for false reasons pretend that they cannot go to the help of the Holy Land because of wars they have on hand with their neighbors. The real reason that prevents them is that in making war on their smaller neighbors they find quicker profit and weaker resistance. But how cheerfully our Lord the King and we too would go there if the King of the English would leave us in peace. He from Whom nothing is hidden well knows; and we profess and declare it to you as the Vicar of Christ and to all Christendom. But if your Holiness puts too much faith in the tales the English tell and will not give sincere belief to all this, nor refrain from favoring them to our prejudice, then the slaughter of bodies, the perdition of souls, and all the other misfortunes that will follow, inflicted by them on us and by us on them, will, we believe, be surely laid by the most High to your charge.
“To conclude, we are and shall ever be, as far as duty calls us, ready to do your will in all things, as obedient sons to you as His Vicar; and to Him as the Supreme King and Judge, we commit the maintenance of our cause, casting our cares upon Him and firmly trusting that He will inspire us with courage and bring our enemies to nought. May the Most High preserve you to His Holy Church in holiness and health and grant you length of days. Given at the monastery of Arbroath in Scotland on the sixth day of the month of April in the year of grace thirteen hundred and twenty and the fifteenth year of the reign of our King aforesaid."
THE PETITION OF RIGHT OF 1628
"On June 5, 1628, the House of Commons presented the most extraordinary spectacle, perhaps in all of history. The famous Petition of Right had been passed by both Houses, and the royal answer had just been received. Its tone was that of gracious assent, but it omitted the necessary legal formalities, and the Commons well knew what that meant. They were to be tricked with sweet words, and the petition was not to acquire the force of a statute. How was it possible to deal with such a slippery creature? There was but one way of saving the dignity of the throne without sacrificing the liberty of the people, and that was to hold the king's ministers responsible to Parliament, in anticipation of modern methods. It was accordingly proposed to impeach the Duke of Buckingham before the House of Lords. The Speaker now 'brought an imperious message from the king...warning them that he would not tolerate any aspersion upon his ministers.' Nothing daunted by this, Sir John Eliot arose to lead the debate, when the Speaker called him to order in view of the king's message. 'Amid a deadly stillness' Eliot sat down and burst into tears. For a moment the House was overcome with despair.
“Deprived of all constitutional methods of redress, they suddenly saw yawning before them the direful alternative - slavery or civil war. Since the day of Bosworth a hundred and fifty years had passed without fighting worthy of mention on English soil, such an era of peace as had hardly ever before been seen on the earth; now half the Nation was to be pitied against the other half, families were to be divided against themselves, as in the dreadful days of the Roses, and with what consequences no one could foresee. 'Let us sit in silence,' quoth Sir Dudley Digges, 'we are miserable, we know not what to do!' Nay, cried Sir Nathaniel Rich, 'we must now speak, or forever hold our peace.' Then did grim Mr. Prynne and Sir Edward Coke mingle their words with sobs, while there were few dry eyes in the House. Presently they found their voices, and used them in a way that rung from the startled king his formal assent to the Petition of Right. (The Beginnings of New England, John Fiske, 1889)
“Humbly show unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, that whereas it is declared and enacted by a statute made in the time of the reign of King Edward the First, commonly called Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the King of his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knight, Burgesses, and other freemen of the commonalty of this realm: and by authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that from thenceforth no person shall be compelled to make any loans to the King against his will, because such loans were against reason and the franchise of the land; and by other laws of this realm it is provided, that none should be charged by any charge or imposition, called a Benevolence, nor by such like charge: by which, the statutes before-mentioned, and other the good laws and statutes of this realm, your subjects have inherited this freedom, that they should not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge, not set by common consent in Parliament ...'The Great Charter of the Liberties of England,' it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
“And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign or King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by authority of Parliament, that no man or what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his lands or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law...And whereas of large great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers countries of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of this realm, and to the great grievance and vexation of the people.
“And whereas also by authority of Parliament, in the 25th year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that no man shall be forejudged or life or limb against the form of the Great Charter, and the law of the land; and by the said Great Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm or by Acts of Parliament...They do therefore humbly pray your Most Excellent Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament; and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same, or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before-mentioned, be imprisoned or detained; and that your Majesty will be pleased to remove the said soldiers and mariners, and that your people may not be so burdened in time to come; and that the aforesaid commissions for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever, to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death, contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
“All which they most humbly pray of your Most Excellent Majesty, as their rights and liberties according to the laws and statutes of this realm: and that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, that the awards, doings, and proceedings to the prejudice of your people, in any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example: and that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased, for the further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will and pleasure, that in the things aforesaid all your officers and ministers shall serve you, according to the laws and statutes of this realm, as they tender the honour of your Majesty, and the prosperity of this kingdom."
BILL OF RIGHTS OF 1689
"Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal and commons assembled at Westminster lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, present unto Their Majesties, then called and known by the names and style of William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, being present in their proper persons, a certain declaration in writing made by the said lords and commons in the words following: 'Whereas the late king James the Second by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
“By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, without consent of parliament. By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power.
“By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court, called the court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes. By levying money for and to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by parliament.
“By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace, without consent of parliament, and quartering of soldiers contrary to law. By causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed, contrary to law.
“By violating the freedom of election of members to serve in parliament.
“By prosecutions in the court of King's bench for matters and causes cognizable only in parliament, and by divers other arbitrary and illegal courses. And whereas of late years partial, corrupt and unqualified persons have been returned and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders.
“And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.
“And excessive fines have been imposed.
“And illegal and cruel punishments have been inflicted.
“And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied.
“All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm...
“And thereupon the said lords spiritual and temporal and commons pursuant to their respective letters and elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare:
“That the pretended power of suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of parliament is illegal.
“That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority as it hath been assumed and exercised of late is illegal.
“That the commission for erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes and all other commissions and courts of like nature are illegal and pernicious.
“That the levying money for or to the use of the crown by pretence of prerogative without grant of parliament for a longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted is illegal.
“That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace unless it be with consent of parliament is against law.
“That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.
“That election of members of parliament ought to be free.
“That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
“That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
“That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void. And that for redress of all grievances and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws parliaments ought to be held frequently. And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example."
Sir William Blackstone (1723‑1780), the famous English authority on jurisprudence, gives the following definition of Divine Law as it applies to human or man‑ made laws:
"Disobedience to any one of the Divine Commandments throws the whole structure of national life out of harmony with universal law."
He also said:
"On account of the blindness and imperfection of human reasoning, God has given a Divine and direct revelation of His natural laws...to be found in the Scriptures THESE LAWS ARE SUPERIOR IN OBLIGATION and NO HUMAN LAWS HAVE ANY VALIDITY IF CONTRARY TO GOD'S LAWS."
One thing students of history seem to overlook is that American Law is the product of American origin, which in turn was based upon the Laws of God as handed down in the Holy Scriptures. Some American common law was, without a doubt, adapted from the common law of England, but most of the common law was developed in the United States where the custom of the Anglo‑ Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred peoples through their customs handed down through the centuries, established by their citizen juries which adhering to the Christian Bible for their guide, for both Federal and State Governments.
"The distinguished commentator on the laws of England informs us, that upon the foundations of the law of nature and the law of revelation, all human law depends, 1 Blackstone Commentaries 42. The municipal law looks to something more than merely the protection of lives, the liberty, and the property of our people. Regarding Christianity as part of the law of the land, it respects and protects its institutions; and assumes likewise to regulate the public morals and decency of the community." (Bell vs. The State, 1 Swan (Tenn) 42, p. 44 (1851))
America, in the very beginning, as we have previously shown, established its national character under the various formation documents, as listed before, upon Christian principles and became known as a CHRISTIAN NATION!
"It is conceded that this inhibition apples exclusively to the state. But that term presents a complex idea. A state is a sort of trinity; it exists, acts, and speaks in three capacities: legislative, executive, and judicial. What is forbidden to it in each and all. It may not infringe this article by legislation, but it may equally do so by its courts or its executive authorities." (Ex parte Reynolds et. al, Federal Case No. 11,720)
And the court system of the United States were obliged to follow the Christian doctrine in all of its courts' decisions.
"No position can be more clear than that all the federal judges are bound by the solemn obligation of religion to regulate their decisions agreeably to the Constitution of the United States, and that it is the standard of their determination in all cases that come before them." (U.S. vs. Callender, 25 Fed. Cas. No. 14,709)
The Constitution of the United States of America followed, almost exactly, the republican form of government handed down from the mount to Moses at Mt. Siani when God took Israel for his wife. Hence the name "Israel" which means ruling with God.
"The Constitution emanated from the people, and was not the act of sovereign and independent states. The convention which framed the Constitution was indeed elected by the state legislatures. But the instrument, when it came from their hands, was a mere proposal, without obligation, or pretensions to it. It was reported to the then existing Congress of the United States, with a request that it might 'be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.'
“This mode of the proceeding was adopted; and by the convention, by Congress, and by the state legislatures, the instrument was submitted to the people. (See Exodus 19:7‑8) They acted upon it in the only manner in which they can act safely, effectively, and wisely, on such a subject, by assembling in convention. From these conventions the Constitution derives its whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people; is 'ordained and established' in the name of the people; and is declared to be ordained, 'in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessing of liberty to themselves and to their posterity.' The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people [Just as Moses did in Exodus 19]. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmation of, and could not be negatived by, the state governments [a shadow of which the elders of Israel represented]. The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties." (McCulloch vs. Maryland, (1819) 4 Wheat. 403)
One other point we would like to make is that the states, when they joined the union, they were no longer considered separate nations in their own right. Some of their power was, by the mandate of the people, transferred to the Federal Government in order that a single government could come into being.
"The Constitution of the United States was ordained and established not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but emphatically, as the preamble of the Constitution declares, by 'the people of the United States.'
“There can be no doubt that it was competent to the people to invest the general government with all the powers which they might deem proper and necessary; to extend or restrain these powers according to their own good pleasure, and to give them a paramount and supreme authority.
“As little doubt can there be that the people had a right to prohibit to the states the exercise of any powers which were, in their judgment, incompatible with the objects of the general compact; to make the powers of the state governments, in given cases, subordinate to those of the nation, or to reserve to themselves those sovereign authorities which they might not choose to delegate to either. The Constitution was not, therefore, necessarily carved out of existing state sovereignties, nor a surrender of powers already existing in state institutions, for the powers of the states depend on their own constitutions; and the people of every state had the right to modify and restrain them, according to their own views of policy or principle. On the other hand, it is perfectly clear that the sovereign powers vested in the state governments, by their respective constitutions, remained unaltered and unimpaired, except so far as they were granted to the government of the United States." (Martin vs. Hunger, (1816) 1 Wheat. 324)
"Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country; and in the language of sovereignty, establishing a onstitution by which it was their will that the state governments should be bound, and to which the state constitutions should be made to conform. Every state constitution is a compact made by and between the citizens of a state to govern themselves in a certain manner; and the Constitution of the United States is likewise a compact made by the people of the United States to govern themselves as to general objects, in a certain manner." (Chisholm vs. Georgia (1793) 2 Dall. 471)
CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS
Christianity can be seen in the holidays the American people celebrate.
PALM SUNDAY: It is observed the Sunday before Easter to commemorate the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: Commonly known as the First Day of Passover which commemorates the deliverance of our Israel People [The Anglo‑Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and Kindred people] from Egyptian bondage.
PASSOVER: One of the most sacred events to be observed by the ancient Israelites and today's Christians.
GOOD FRIDAY: It is observed as the day of Crucifixion [Which actually was on Wednesday] of the Lord Jesus Christ.
EASTER SUNDAY: It is observed in all Christian Churches and is celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon which occurs on or next after March 2 and is therefore celebrated between March 22 and April 25 inclusive.
ASCENSION DAY: Observed on May 15, as the day Jesus Ascended into heaven in the presence of His Apostles 40 days after the Resurrection of Christ.
PENTECOST: This day is celebrated as the day the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles 50 days after the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
THANKSGIVING: Observed nationally on the fourth Thursday in November by Act of Congress. Most Americans believe that the holiday dates back to the day of thanks ordered by Governor Bradford of Plymouth Colony in New England in 1621, but scholars point out that the day of thanks stem from ancient Israel and is the day of First Fruits.
CHRISTMAS: Observed as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
"Separation of church and state" is a non‑constitutional battle‑cry in the war against Christianity. It is used to frighten Godly Americans out of the polls, out of government, and back to the pews. The cry of "Separation of church and state" is a blatant distortion of the intent of the framers of the First Amendment.
Are the wicked afraid Christianity and government are somehow going to unite in the future? NO! They are fearful that the American People will become aware, Christianity and government are ALREADY united here in America. And it is THAT CONNECTION between Christianity and government that must be destroyed if the enemies of Christ, Christianity and America are to take absolute control over America and its Israel People [And I don't mean the Jews: WHOM CHRIST CALLED HIS ENEMIES]!
To sever the connection between Christianity and government, they have to separate us from the knowledge of our Christian history and heritage. They must keep us ignorant of the truth that the American Government was Christian from its very beginning. Most patriots realize the Communist left‑wing and the Jewish anti‑Christs wish to destroy Christianity. Marx, Lenin, Stalin and all the other Communist leaders have made that very plain in a thousand different ways.
Well, if it is Christianity they are against, then why don't they just try to change our religion? The answer is obvious; they do, but they also realize the Christian religion could not be destroy until the American Government can be stopped from upholding and protecting it. It is not an accident that an Alexander the Great or a Napoleon has never gone forth from our shores in wars of aggression to fasten the chains of military despotism upon the people of other lands. Because the Constitution protects the liberties of our own people against all ambitious rulers; and no dictator can terrorize other peoples until he had first tyrannized over his own people.
All wars against the liberty of others are fought by men who have lost their own liberty. That is a law of nature, a law of compensation. And in providing that our own people should forever be free, the Constitution went a long way toward insuring the freedom of other peoples from the encroachment at the hands of American Presidents. Liberty comes from God and was incorporated into the Constitution in affirmation of Leviticus 25:10:
"...and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof..."
The Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution a philosophy of peace and international relations which few American people have come to understand because of the rewriting of the history books. They were, in truth, at least 500 years ahead of their time. They enunciated the great American principle, which we are just beginning to appreciate, that we should defend our nation against invasion by not engaging in wars of aggression abroad.
MILITARY
The constitution of ancient Israel did not provide for a standing army, but it was to have a militia as well as a national guard. (Judges 5:23) No aggressive wars were to be allowed. (Judges 34:23) They could not be involved in an aggressive war in a foreign country, because, all the men were to go the capital three times each year. They provided in the Constitution that the liberties of Americans should never be sacrificed on the altar of any cause except that of preserving American liberty. They further provided that no single American citizen should be sacrificed to promote the militaristic ambitions of an administration bent on conquest abroad:
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
In the Milligan case, the Supreme Court held that all the Constitutional "securities for personal liberty" are equally safeguarded against seizure or sacrifice in the furtherance of militaristic ends. The Constitution wisely does not forbid Congress from declaring war against foreign nations or sending our soldiers abroad in defense of the United States. No government can enjoy the respect of nations without this right. But it does forbid the scrapping of our liberties in the advancement of any war aiming at aggression. And the Constitution defines wars of aggression in a way which all can understand.
The framers of the Constitution were well acquainted with the device of dictators whereby they embroil their people in an offensive war, and then call it a "defensive" war and use it as an excuse to sweep away the people's liberties. Hence, they provided in the Constitution that only actual invasion can warrant the abridgment of our liberties; the placing of our people under martial law.
In the Milligan case the Court said:
"Martial rule cannot arise from a threatened invasion. The necessity must be actual and present; the invasion real, such as effectually closes the courts and deposes the civil administration."
The Court went further and said that martial rule could only apply to the "theater of active military operations, where war really prevails." Hence, during the Civil War, the Court held that martial law could not be established in Indiana, merely because there was insurrection in neighboring states:
"It follows, from what has been said on this subject, that there are occasions when martial rule can be properly applied. If, in foreign invasion or civil war, the courts are actually closed, and it is impossible to administer criminal justice according to law, then, on the theater of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority, thus overthrown, to preserve the safety of the army and society; and as no power is left but the military, it is allowed to govern by martial rule until the laws can have their free course."
It is a political reality, that no government ever did injustice abroad before it first did injustice at home. Christ taught that peace and justice among nations could only come through the salvation of individual souls, the regeneration of individual heart. The Constitution of the United States recognizes His Divine Principle that peace cannot prevail throughout the world unless it first prevails in the individual heart and will of man: it recognizes that a government cannot be free unless its citizens are free; that the liberty of peoples is based upon the liberty of individuals; that the destruction of the liberty of peoples issues from the destruction of the liberty of individuals. To safeguard those rights and liberties "which grow out of the essential nature of all free government," to prohibit assaults upon liberty sanctioned by even a majority, the Constitution made the cause of peace and liberty paramount to the ambitions of any class, however numerous, as well as of any individual, within the nation.
Most of the republics of the world have fallen, most of the dictators of the world have risen to power, because clever demagogues have been able to delude and mislead a nominal majority into standing still while the shackles of slavery were riveted upon them and they were marched off to war to fasten shackles upon other peoples.
The Constitution guarded against this: it made human life and liberty sacred, inviolate; it placed life and liberty upon twin pedestals, beyond the power of any governing group to touch or tamper with. In so doing it showed the way to peace; it built a wall against militarism, exemplifying the way to end that mass destruction of life and liberty known as war. The original plan to destroy the Christian religion has been going on for almost 2000 years but it really went into high gear in the twenties when anti‑Christ "sophisticated," subversive professors in our schools of higher learning began teaching, in earnest: "The Bible deserves no reverence; the Ten Commandments no obedience except in so far as they conform to 'modern science.'" In conjunction with this they also taught:
"The Constitution deserves no respect, and no obedience, except in so far as it conforms to modern theories of, and experiments in, government."
The present day assault on the Constitution is the natural and inevitable upshot of the concerted attack on the Bible and the Ten commandments launched so many years ago. Those who think we have outgrown the teachings of the Bible would not be consistent without holding that we have also outgrown a Constitution founded upon them.
Our Founding Fathers believed that in the teachings of Jesus they found the Absolute and Eternal Moral Principles upon which all good government must be based. The Constitution recognizes the validity of the Declaration of Independence. And the Declaration of Independence recognized the supreme validity of Christ's teachings when it declared that "all men are created equal." Which was recognition of the supreme validity of Christ's teachings of the Fatherhood of God when it declared that all men are equally "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights" including "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Christ taught that the Will of His Father in heaven was a Higher Law than that made by man; than that ordained by the majority; and that if the law of man transgressed this Higher Law of God, the law of man MUST be set aside and disregarded. Christ denied the so‑called "modern" theory that "the majority has a right to do anything it wishes to." He upheld the doctrine, which was enshrined in the Constitution, that the individual has "inalienable rights" which no majority has a right to take from him.
The United States is the only nation on earth which has a Constitution which protects every individual against offense committed by men wielding the strong arm of government. The mere fact that the government itself has embarked upon a great experiment to insure "the greatest good to the greatest number," but that does not excuse an offense done to one single individual; does not justify invasion of the rights of that individual. Under the "Original" American Constitution, Christ's teachings were upheld and every home and person and every child were safe and sacred. Even Congress itself was powerless to commit an offense against them, because the Constitution protected each individual form taking his "inalienable rights" of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution recognized that the "laws of nature and of nature's God" entitled men to those certain inalienable rights and the Constitution provided that when man‑made laws crossed the "laws of nature and of nature's God" in such way as to deprive an individual of his God‑given rights, then those man‑made laws MUST be set aside; declared invalid. The Supreme Court was established as an instrument to enforce that principle under which the Court was to function as protection against the will of the majority should Congress attempt to abolish entirely, the individual rights guaranteed by the "laws of nature."
Chrysostom said, "The laws of nature are the will of God." Christ said that we should be obedient first to the Will of God; that His Laws were superior to all others. Which principle was upheld by the "Original" Constitution of the United States. Much is being said on television today, about our Constitution, much of which is false. Just one of the many false ideas being presented to Americans and to our children I will endeavor to explain so that you may understand the true greatness of our Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson observed we "are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." I contend that there is not one in ten‑thousands of Americans who has the faintest idea what Jefferson was saying!
THE SABBATH
For many years most States had laws called Blue Laws. Which forbade most from doing business on Sundays, but few Americans ever really knew why.
The answer is found in part:
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates." (Exodus 20:8-10); "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant." (Exodus 31:16)
THE WEEKLY SABBATH
When the Israelites of old were in Egyptian bondage, God Almighty told the prophet Moses to have the Israelites kill their passover lambs at a specific time on a particular day. Besides the witness of Moses, what other Biblical character could provide an absolutely factual testimony as to that exact day and hour?
Now consider this: A very special guest is coming to your home for dinner. You have decided to serve a whole roasted lamb. To be assured that the lamb will be fresh, you have decided not to have it killed until the last minute. At what time should you have the lamb killed so that you can serve your special dinner guest the roast lamb at 6 p.m.? The answers to these questions are found in the Holy Writ and are critical elements in determining which day of the week is the Sabbath and at what time of day the Sabbath begins.
Part One: From When to When?
"Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." (Exodus 31:15, 17)
The purpose of Part I of this study is to establish solely from the Holy Bible - which we believe to be the inspired Word of God - the time of day for the beginning and ending of each weekly Sabbath.
Part II will deal with which day of the week is the Sabbath.
Part III will answer some potential objections to these conclusions. The Holy Bible gives us many examples and warnings that we are to follow and apply in our lives today.
In Matthew 15:9 - Christ told us:
"...in vain do they worship me, teachings for doctrines the commandments of men."
In Matthew 15:1-9 - Christ calls the Pharisees hypocrites. In verse 6 he tells them that they have,
"...made the commandments of God of none effect by your tradition." {which are the traditions of men}.
In Titus 1:10-16 : The Apostle Paul tells that there are:
"...deceivers, specially of the circumcision: whose mouths must be stopped..."
Paul went on to tell us in verse 14 not to listen to or follow:
"...Jewish fables, and COMMANDMENTS OF MEN, that turn from the truth..."
Those same teachings of "Phariseeism" which Christ and Paul warned us about are being taught today by the "deceivers of the circumcision" who worship in "synagogues" and teach the "traditions of men" and call those traditions "the commandments of God." Make no mistake about it those deceivers are spreading their "Jewish fables" and are "turning from the truth" millions of people in regards to the true Sabbath of Scripture and are causing people to follow their "Jewish traditions," thereby profaning God's true and holy Sabbath. In this study we will learn from the Scripture when God's true weekly Sabbath begins and ends.
Shortly before his death, Moses, the prophet of God, told the Israelites the blessings and the curses that Almighty God had assigned to His people, the sons and daughters of Jacob/Israel. You can read about them in Deuteronomy, chapters 28 through 34. There you will learn to whom they apply, and in 28:46 you will learn how long those blessing and curses will be in effect:
"...they shall be upon thee for a sign and a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever."
You might be wondering at this point; what has all this to do with which day of the week is the Sabbath. Our answer is "Everything!" As you read on, you will be seeing the fulfillment of this prophecy right up to the present day. Moses made this prophecy before the Israelites entered into Canaan land. As we read the books of Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah and all the other prophets, we find that whenever the Israelites obeyed God's commandments, which includes keeping His Sabbath, that none of their enemies could stand before them, and their prosperity was beyond comprehension to the nations around them. The most famous account, of course, was that of King Solomon, of whom it is written:
"...King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom. And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart." (1 Kings 10:23-24)
As you read the history of Israel in the Bible, you will see that as long as Israel obeyed God's laws, and kept His Sabbaths, they prospered; but when they disobeyed and violated His Sabbaths and went a-whoring after other gods, then the curses of Deuteronomy 28 were again showered upon them and they prospered. This was no accident, but only God fulfilling His promises. This up and down, roller-coaster prosperity that followed the Israelites has been going on now for over 3,000 years. This might seem like a long time, but when you re-read the prophecy you will notice that the blessings and the curses will follow the Israelites and be "...upon thy seed for ever."
Prophecy Fulfilled In America: Sometime around 1611 A.D., a group of Israelites left the shores of Europe and headed west. Their written and expressed intentions and beliefs were that they were the blood/genetic descendants of Jacob. Israel and that they were going to the NEW CANAANLAND that God had told King David that He would ordain for them, a place from which they would never have to move again.
"Moreover I [God] will appoint A PLACE FOR MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, and will plant them, THAT THEY MAY DWELL IN A PLACE OF THEIR OWN, AND MOVE NO MORE; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime." (2 Samuel 7:10);
"Also I [God] will ordain A PLACE FOR MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, and will plant them, and THEY SHALL DWELL IN THEIR PLACE, AND SHALL BE MOVED NO MORE: neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning." (1 Chronicles 17:9)
“For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, AND SET THEM IN THEIR OWN LAND: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.” (Isaiah 14:1)
“And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, AND WILL BRING THEM TO THEIR OWN LAND, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.” (Ezekiel 34:13)
“And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, AND BRING THEM INTO THEIR OWN LAND.” (Ezekiel 37:21)
Can you not see, God told David, while he was in his home in Jerusalem, in the Promised land that He [God] would move the Israelites to another place, which would be their home forever. They arrived at a place they called "Plymouth," and there set up their community; they covenanted together to abide by the laws of God. They kept His Sabbaths; they punished or executed those persons who disobeyed God's laws. Other Israelites came from all parts of Europe and from around the world: Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Scandinavians, Celts and other kindred people WHO ARE THE BLOOD DESCENDANTS OF JACOB/ISRAEL TODAY.
They built the greatest nation on earth; in the history of the world; they prospered beyond any nation in history. They were the most loved, respected and feared nation in the world. Their might and power were unmatched throughout the world. Why? That question is probably best answered by the statement of a French philosopher who came to America to find out why America was so great. After searching out the country's industry, commerce, agriculture, etc., yet he could not find the answer. The he visited America's churches and across the land he heard ministers on every Sabbath preaching obedience to God's laws. He returned to France and wrote:
"...America is great because America is good, but when America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great..."
This is just another indication of the blessings of Deuteronomy 28 that God put upon the "seed of Israel" according to His promise. The Sabbath Observed in America: For centuries, until 1925, the United States and most of the rest of the world started and ended their day at 12 noon. On Saturday at noon businesses closed, the post office shut down, all government offices closed until Monday morning. This included the military.
The people stopped their work and began their Sabbath rest. They took their Saturday night bath; they attended church services the following morning. After church services were over and the Sabbath was at an end, they would go home or visit friends for their Sunday dinner. After dinner they relaxed or played games or sports for their recreation (re-creation and rejuvenation). They could also water and feed their animals without breaking Gods Sabbath, thus bringing down the death penalty upon themselves.
This is how the weekly Sabbath was observed, in general, throughout the United States. It was during this era - while the Israelites of this country were obeying God's laws and keeping His Sabbaths - that our country was blessed and prospered to become the mighty nation that it was - still another example of God keeping His promises of Deuteronomy 28.
The Curses: Just like their fathers of old, these modern Israelites just couldn't stand all that prosperity; so, like their fathers of old, they started whoring after other gods; the god of money, the god of materialism, the god of sex and fornication, the god of baby sacrifice in the abrotitoriums, the god of sodomy and lesbianism - need I go on? Now, mind you, it didn't all happen at once. No, it was very gradual and very subtle. Most preachers today will tell you it was the work of the devil, but Scripture tells us it is the evil lusts of our own hearts. (James 1:12-15; 1 John 2:16-17; Romans 1:24; 2 Timothy 4:3; 1 Peter 4:2 to name just a few)
It started out by ignoring some little laws. That didn't seem too bad, so a few more laws were ignored. We changed the time of starting the day and gradually drifted away from observing God's true Sabbath, and started profaning it by letting stores stay open on Saturday afternoon. We stopped executing the death penalty for crimes worthy of death. We then allowed businesses to stay open seven days a week, and we Christians patronized them. We allowed freedom of choice for those who wished to kill their unborn babies. We accepted the sodomite life style as an alternative in our government employees as well as in private life. The alleged Christian churches condoned sodomy and they ordained sodomites into the ministry.
Today, the highest office in the land, the presidency of the United States, is held by a male who, along with his wife, promote this detestable, degenerate, abominable life style. And what has happened to our nation's wealth, its might, respect, morals, etc.? They have reached their lowest point in history, in direct proportion to our disobedience to God's laws.
The worst part of it all is that we have professing Christians who have been deceived into believing that God doesn't mind if we start His Sabbath on just any day of the week, or on a Wednesday, or Friday night, or Sunday morning. they expect God to pour out His promised blessings upon us. They just can't understand why God doesn't bless them as He did before.
Not Till We Obey: No, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ, fellow Israelites, don't expect our heavenly Father to honor His part of the covenant in regards to His blessings, until we do our part by keeping His weekly Sabbath as we did in days gone by: from 12 o'clock noon, the beginning of the seventh day; which we call Saturday noon, 12 o'clock noon the following day, which we call Sunday noon. Then we need to study God's laws diligently and see how there were very few laws that were done away with by Christ's death (the blood ordinances and Levitical rituals, etc.). Then we must put those laws into practice. Then, and only then, will God look upon our affliction, see that we have repented, and start again to pour out His blessings upon us, and start to heal our land as He promised in 2 Chronicles 7:14:
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
The Bottom Line: Most of you who have read this study:
1). Love and worship the only true God.
2). Don't have any idols you bow down to and worship.
3). You don't take God's name in vain.
4).
5). You honor your fathers and mothers.
6). You don't commit murder.
7). You don't commit adultery.
8). You don't steal.
9). You don't bear false witness against your neighbor.
10). You don't covet your neighbors wife or goods.
How about #4, the one that says "keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee?" God set aside a specific 24 hour period each week, that He wants us to set aside out of our work week to keep holy unto him. You now know that 12 o'clock noon is when God says we are to begin our 24 hour day. You now know that God's weekly Sabbath begins at 12 o'clock noon on the day that we call Saturday, and it ends at 12 o'clock noon on the day that we call Sunday. The final question is, WILL YOU "keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee?"
Part III: Yes, But What About...?
Right now, many of you may be saying:
"This all sounds pretty convincing, but I know of a passage or several passages that appear to contradict the belief that the Bible Sabbath starts at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday and ends at 12:00 o'clock noon on Sunday."
Matthew 28:1: One of the most common passages that seems to be contradictory is found in the gospel of Matthew chapter 28, verse 1, which states:
"IN the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn TOWARD the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."
Let us start with the very first word: "In." "In" is word #1722 in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, it is: "A primary preposition, denoting a fixed position in time ..." This word (#1722 has been translated as 35 different words, which means it can have many different meanings, depending on the context in which it is being used. It has been translated as: "toward" and "before" on at least four occasions. We believe that either "toward" or "before" would have been a more correct translation because the context of the passage so indicates. It says further on in this passage: "...As it began to dawn TOWARD the first day of the week..." The word "toward" here very clearly tells us that it was not yet the first day of the week, but that that time was soon coming. Consider this: It is just beginning "to dawn;" it is "before" "the end of the Sabbath."
The time of the year is shortly after the "spring Equinox" when daylight and dark hours are nearly equal, therefore "dawn" is around 6:00 a.m. There are still six more hours to go before 12:00 o'clock noon, (when the first day of the week will begin). This is the hour that the two Marys went to Christ's sepulchre. The Sabbath has nearly ended and the first day of the week is near. We believe this will clear up the confusion brought about by the old English style of writing found in the King James Bible.
Exodus 16:19: In Exodus, chapter 16, we learn that God gives the Israelites "manna" to take the place of grain for their main staple of food. Moses told the people not to leave any of the "manna" till the morning. We find this in Exodus 16:19: "And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till morning." We learned in Part I that morning begins at midnight, so we see here that Moses is telling the people not to keep the manna overnight. Each morning they were to gather as much manna as they would need to eat for their meals that day, but they were not to try to save any overnight, except on the sixth day, when they were to gather twice as much, which was to last them through the Sabbath, since there would be none to be gathered on the Sabbath. The day starts as 12:00 noon. Midnight comes 12 hours later. Sunrise comes at about the 18th hour of the 24 hour day. Noon comes at the 24th hour and another day begins.
When Moses told the Israelites to gather a double portion of manna on the sixth day, he was referring to the 18th hour of the sixth day. This double portion would then provide them with the anna that they would normally have gathered on the seventh day, around the 18th hour. By the 18th hour of the FIRST DAY of the week, they would again find manna in the fields.
The Last Supper: Many people say that the last supper of Christ which was the Israelite Passover does not support the "noon to noon" belief. Let's go to the Scripture and see if that statement is true or not. We don't believe that anyone will deny the fact that Christ knew when the Passover was to be killed and eaten; nor is it likely that anyone will deny that Christ and His apostles kept the Passover according to the law given to Moses for the Israelites.
We will start by reading the pertinent facts of the "last supper," starting in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 14, verse 12:
"...The first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, [Christ's] disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover? [13] And he sendeth forth two of his disciples...[16] And they made ready the Passover. [17] And in THE EVENING he cometh wi