Midi "Their Spirits Cry" is used with permission copyright © 2000 Bruce DeBoer such a beautiful, plaintive song, and since so many hearts and spirits in America right now are still crying, I felt it was very fitting. You must visit Bruce's site All of his music is awesomely beautiful and available on CD |
Lin's Soap Box |
Exercise in Freedom of Speech #1: If you are a Christian, you have no doubt read the story of Elijah in I Kings 18. The parallel to modern times cannot be overlooked. Indeed, perhaps the main message of the prophet Elijah to his people, and to us today, is that God will not be worshipped in connection with any other god or object of affection. He will not share His glory with anything or anyone. He will not reside side by side with any so-called god. And He commanded His people not to either. "For how should my name be polluted? I will not give my glory unto another." Isaiah 48:11. "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: For I am God, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:22. The monotheism of Christianity does not lend itself to religious compromise. The challenge set forth by the prophet Elijah is fundamental to the outward practice of our belief. How many gods can there be? Based on the scriptures above and many more like them, only one. The popular western, ultra liberal culture of today is one that frowns on exclusion. Many demand that all things be equal for all people, regardless of religion and a lot of other things. That is blatantly contrary to the word of God. When it comes to recognizing and worshipping deity the all-inclusive nature of our society cannot be accepted by anyone who is a believer in the God of the Bible, the same one who is the only God of America. We as Christians cannot join in or even acknoweldge the validity of those who worship any other god. Period. We must draw a line of separation between what we know to be true from the Holy Scriptures and what is blatantly anti-christ. The "god force" of the far eastern metaphysical religions and middle eastern religions as well cannot be reconciled with the covenant God of the Holy Scriptures. Jehovah and Baal in Elijah's day and Jehovah and Allah in our day cannot be merely two different forms of the same god. Please do not miss this: The lie that Allah is another name for the sovereign God of Christianity is the lie of the enemy. It is no more true and no more to be tolerated today than when the nation of Israel tried to live worshipping a false god and the true God. The original immigrants who came to the United States of America were almost without exception from Christian nations. How, why, and specifically when America got derailed into letting immigrants of every godless sort into this country, not to mention that they most often are our liability sociologically as well, is beyond the understanding of any scripture-wise person. Approximately 40 years ago the immigration policy of America was changed by godless men who threw the doors wide open to any person from any country in the world, many times the very worst countries, and largely non-Christian nations at that. Not only did they throw the doors wide open, they left them unguarded so that the most despicable types of humanity (with no resemblence to those original "huddled masses) entered freely and settled in every city and town in this great nation. Of course, the inevital happened. God repeatedly warned His people in the Old Testament about the consequences of letting godless foreigners dwell in their midst. How has it happened then, that most of the immigrants to this country in the last 40 years have been just such godless foreigners? And what has happened to America because of it? God gave me a simple, encapsulated picture of this just yesterday as He knows how heavy this is on my heart. Take it down to the level of my own home, as that is what a nation is on a larger scale. Would I allow, let alone purposefully invite, any person to move into my home who in every way had beliefs that not only conflicted with mine, but one who also worshipped a false god, or was a godless atheist, or a practicer of occult religion, witchcraft, etc? Of course not! Why? Because not only would they pollute my home with their presence, but there would be no peace, only perpetual conflict. Add to that the fact that this person then becomes brazen enough to demand everything that I have by right as a God-fearing Christian. Brought down to this level, can you see that this would ultimately be an impossible and dangerous situation? Now look at the big picture of America today. Jesus Christ said we are either for Him or against Him. God from the beginning of establishing laws for his people warned them that they were never to allow the godless or those who worshipped false gods to dwell in their midst. Those who were allowed to remain with God's people had to become as God's people and live as God commanded. Why? For the same reason that He will not share His glory with anything or anyone else: It pollutes His nation, it pollutes His people. It puts His people not only in physical danger, but much more importantly in spiritual compromise. America is seeing the consequences of having violated this law of God. Now every recent immigrant in this country demands the right to practice whatever religion they choose, and in that process our liberal government has aided and abetted them to the extent that they have attempted to remove the Sovereign God from our schools, our businesses, and recently, from public mention and view altogether to the extent that we are told by our liberal, godless media not to do certain things lest we run the risk of offending these godless immigrants and temporary sojourners here on student and visitor's visas in this land. It is deplorable, in may ways it seems surreal, inconceivable, not even imaginable that this could be so. You can be sure of this: Our great and merciful God is offended by all of this, more offended than any person on this planet ever will be. And even as from the beginning of time, He only tolerates it for a certain time before the consequences are reaped and meted out. He is not overlooking this as many think, He is only biding his time until His time arrives. I am offended by all of this too. In fact, I am greatly offended for my God. I marvel at the vastness of His compassion and mercy, yet I tremble at His righteousness! How is it that the mindless masses of evil Americans try persistently to remove America's God from every institution in the country, while at the same time work tenaciously to give godless foreigners, and people who practice every abomination defined by a Holy God, the rights and privileges they are simultaneously removing from others, and in many cases demanding more rights for them than you and I have as sovereign, God-fearing citizens? What would Jesus Christ do today? What does He expect us with His Holy Spirit in us to do today? How are we to think and act regarding this situation? If we read His word, we canfind His answers. Jesus was no pacifist! We as Christians were warned by Him, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." (Pretty strong words and applicable today!) Is that a clear picture of what has happened to America today? Have we tossed the blood-bought freedoms, rights, and liberties of America to the vilest trash, swine and dogs of the world with no thought for the consequences? In my opinion by giving the God-given blessings of America to the "dogs and swine" (those are His words), we are reaping the results just as Jesus said. Jesus also told His disciples, and therefore us as His disciples, "Whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet." In other words, shake the dust of pollution and filth from you. (Matthew 10:14. Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5) Again, in Acts 13:51, they shook the dust off their feet against those who rejected God and they departed. The apostles did not hang around in their midst. Nor does God say that we should do so today. And God certainly does not ever want us concerned about offending the beliefs of the godless! Jesus offended nearly every person He came in contact with!!! We are never to deny the truth of our Holy God. We need to be less tolerant, not more. And we do not need to be concerned at all that godless foreigners and immigrants are offended by us. They need to be offended and hopefully many will be, and pricked in their conscience too by the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. They will not be if we endanger our own eternal life by watering down the truth of God, tolerating every abomination that God hates, meekly accepting the worst the world has to offer, instead of speaking out, and standing fast against all these things. Put simply, what is an abomination to God had better be an abomination to us as believers in Jesus Christ. And, we have a very powerful weapon to use too against the named-enemy, bin Laden and all his cohorts. I read in an e-mail that was going around recently that the worst thing we could do to bin Laden when we catch him would not be to kill him outright, that would only make him a martyr in the minds of fools. This e-mail suggested something a little different. Bring him to this country, do a sex change operation on him, making him a female, and return him to his own country to live as a female. However, we are not barbarians, and vengeance belongs to our God. From what I have read of His word, He is as perfect at that as He is in all things. In fact, He gets downright wrathful when provoked! As I said, He has given us a powerful weapon: God has given us the power to heap buckets of burning coals on each and every head of His enemy and our enemies. How? By praying for them fervently and relentlessly. I am serious about this! I actually prayed for bin Laden and all his cohorts the other day, and it was a wonderfully cathartic experience. It took some doing to pray with a sincere heart, but I have been working at this. I take the word of God literally, believing every instruction Jesus gave us was a commandment. He intends for us to do them!!! That's what commandment means. Commandments are not options, not multiple choice, do this thing, but opt out on that one. Do them as He commanded. Okay, so I prayed for my enemies. What an incredible God we have!!! Not only did that release God's power in the proper direction, it washed my heart and mind clean of the outrage, anger, bitterness, etc., etc! So beautifully amazing! And so I continue praying. And, when I am doing that, I am thinking less about rounding up all the godless foreigners and setting them adrift in rowboats in the general direction from whence they came. Putting them all on airplanes back to their country of origin along with their hyphenated-handle names would be fine with me. Until they demonstrate a desire to become Americans and everything that stands for, they do not have an automatic right to be here, and millions of Americans would be happier if they weren't. Anyone who comes to this country and then demands to be called by their country-origin name has to be more than a little bit deficient, and should not be allowed within the borders of America. That isn't meant to sound hostile, it is reality. They must love their homelands more than America to insist on using that as their title. Not only that, but they expect the rest of us to remember all these handles, and never refer to or address them incorrectly. And if we do boo-boo, oh, they are all over us with their whining about being offended!! Balderdash! Who cares what their country of origin is???? Do they care a hoot about your heritage or mine??? I am incensed and insulted every time I hear or read one of their "titles" and their ridiculous handles. And, then I laugh. What absurdity! There isn't one person living in America who doesn't have an ancestral handle of some sort, and some of us, at the risk of neglecting any of our ancestral heritage, would have some pretty long handles too. Mine would be something like: French-English-Scottish-Canadian-Chippewa-American. Now, doesn't that look ridiculous!!! However, my brother traced our family tree back to Adam, and I am also related to the prophet Jeremiah, King David, and a lot of other Jews so I better put that in my handle too!!! See what utter nonsense this is??? I am proud to be an American!!! And, in my opinion, anyone who doesn't feel the same way doesn't belong here! Well, thanks for letting me exercise my God given right of free speech and the privilege to speak freely! I welcome any and all comments, and I have no doubt I will get them. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, God of America and all that exists! Oh, what a wonderful God we have! |
"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe, and to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land." James Madison. |
"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us . . . to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded." President James Madison |
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. First Chief Justice of The Supreme Court John Jay |
Midi "Their Spirits Cry" is used with permission copyright © 2000 Bruce DeBoer such a beautiful, plaintive song, and since so many hearts and spirits in America right now are still crying, I felt it was very fitting. You must visit Bruce's site All of his music is awesomely beautiful and available on CD |
I read these quotes from our founding fathers and my soul weeps, my heart is crushed and broken. I am old enough to remember an America very different from the one I have lived in for the past 40 years. Decade after decade I have seen the immorality increase, and goodness decrease. Like Thomas Jefferson, my heart truly quakes in fear because I know God and know that His justice and judgment may be long in arriving, but they will arrive. Oh, how I pray that Americans will wake up to the truth so visible in America today. To see the blatant disregard and outright rejection of all of God's laws and statues is an abomination to decent people and to a Holy God. The land is overrun with animal rights activists who spend their life and energies concerned for animals with no care at all about the millions of babies killed every year by abortion. The amount of blatant homosexuality in America and the world makes Sodom and Gomorrah pale in comparison. God utterly destroyed those cities. He does not tolerate the sin of homosexuality today any more than then. And, He will recompense His justice not only on those who practice it, but on those who condone and tolerate it. Americans reject the true and living God, remove His name and His word from public institutions while they bend over backwards to make sure that every godless religion, every occult practice, wicca, witchcraft, peeps, sears, wizards, witches, and every other abominable person is given freedom of speech. America is a country hooked on drugs, legal and illegal. Easily 60% of the population is on some form of drug to help them "cope". Drugged, doped, sedated Americans don't care what's going on in their world. This too is evil and by design and not accident. (I work in the medical profession and I know what I'm talking about). Children are prescribed dangerous drugs because they have never been taught to behave, or because they are the product of drugs and chemicals ingested, injected, smoked, sucked up, snorted up by their parents. Every evil and abominable thing that God has destroyed people and nations for throughout history is being practiced in America today. It is both terrifying and unthinkable at the same time. Many millions of Americans can and will be brought to an acceptance of the truth of our Powerful and Holy God, Jesus Christ. But, as He Himself said, many millions more will not because they will forever choose evil over good. Many of our founding fathers had a lot to say about the fate of any nation that became utterly immoral. They read their history. In every case, there has always been either a spiritual awakening or the nation has utterly perished. How similar is America today to Rome in its decline. Frightening to behold. God help us to wake up and turn around from these things, to utterly hate them, and refuse to allow them in our midst. Then God can Bless America. As Christians, we are called to stand in the gap. Christ has empowered us to do all things by His strength and Spirit in us. We are to deplore evil and stand fast against it not only in prayer, but with our actions, with our lives. I do thank God for the heroes in these horrifying events. Jesus said, Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend." And they did. God has blessed them already we can be sure of that. Frankly, we wouldn't have evil, perverted, unregenrate men in government today if Christians would do something as simple as be informed and vote. We need to be awake, alert at all times as the Bible says. When we are done bowing our heads in prayer for ourselves, our families, coworkers, neighbors, our elected officials, our enemies, and America, we need to get our head up and be alert to everything that is going on in our own homes, neighborhoods, cities, and towns. Be alert, be susicious, be cognizant of everything that is going on around you because the America you knew has changed drasitacally from what it was on September 10, 2001. It changed forever on the morning of September 11, 2001,and we will never forget. But, unless we take responsibility in rooting out the enemy from our midst, America will never be the same great, free and beautiful country God purposed her to be. God is our help and our strength, yes. But with God all things begin with our confession that we are guilty of sin against Him, asking for His mercy, and receiving it. Then God can and will bless America again. I for one praise and thank Him with my whole heart that we have a godly man in the White house again. We must pray that God Himself will protect our president, George Bush. More than any president in my lifetime his actions and character so far will put him in history as one of our prize presidents, one in whom America can be proud. I read the historical quotes of previous presidents and our founding fathers and see the decent, God-honoring, God-fearing human beings they were, and then I understnd how we ended up with the powerful governmental documents that we did. But it breaks my heart to see what we have deteriorated to in such a short time - 226 years is a very short time span for a country. When America and her people turn back to God and desire with their whole heart for His laws and statutes to once again rule America, then we will have peace. Then once again, we can proudly wave high that flag that represents this great country, America, one nation under God. Lin |
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Here are God's own words on the matter of godless foreigners living with His people and practicing abominations, not the least of which is worshipping false gods, or anything that they believe is a god: "And the land is defiled: Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among you. (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when you defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall you keep mine ordinance, that you commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were commited before you, and that you defile not yourselves therein; I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 18:25-30 |
