We live in the age of chaos. Much like the failing final days of the Roman Empire in the West, we neither have nor seek any center of authority. No matter our professions, mankind has fully ingested the Big Lie at the heart of the temptation in the Garden. Because we have eaten of the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:17) and we have imagined that we’ve become like gods. So we invent our own morality….and chaos reigns. And the tragic truth of the matter is that it is a circumstance of our own choosing. “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6) (ESV)
THE CHOICE
“In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:1-3) (KJV)
One of our most glaring weaknesses as human beings is that we live with the illusion of permanence. We believe the world that we live in will last forever. Even when we can intellectually tear down that construct it is still the world in which we operate. To some degree we all suffer from a bit of ‘Normalcy Bias’ – a condition that underestimates both the possibility and the effects of a disaster. But the evidence of the last decade should have put the lie to that fiction. [And in point of fact that is probably part of what is happening in this year’s election cycle. But I jump ahead of myself.] The last big financial crisis neatly punctuated that truth. Our reaction to the falling of the financial house-of-cards only hastened a transformation that had been going on for decades. GM, America’s largest car maker was effectively ‘managed’ by a government only too willing to flex its authority. Massive debts were incurred to ensure the financial stability of the “too big to fail,” and guarantee the prosperity of the international bankers that created those entities. This was the assertion of the unfettered power of the Federal Government over the affairs of citizens. It represented a further triumph of Progressive principles that had been in the ascendance for decades.
Progressivism is a nice sounding word that belies the truth at its core. [After all….who could be against ‘progress’?] In the words of Kim Peterson, one of its apologists: “Progressivism is a term that encompasses a wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women’s rights, animal rights, social justice and political ideologies such as anarchism, communism, socialism, social democracy, and liberalism….. It is about social justice for the masses….Through solidarity and the building of mass social movements, people gain the power to begin to revolutionize societies and the world.”[i] In other words, it is a philosophy wrapped in humanist principles and in opposition to the Judeo-Christian ethic upon which this country was founded.
The Progressive Movement began in the 1880’s and retained political momentum until about 1920. During that time it came to dominate American intellectual thought offering Big Government solutions to address societal issues. While America’s Founders had based the Constitution on limiting the power and scope of the Federal government and protecting the God-given rights of the individual, progressives disdained such formulations as limiting. So over time they promulgated the theory of the ‘living Constitution,’ one that could be adapted to any circumstances. [After all, they reasoned, words can have no permanent meaning.] Progressivism could have no truck with pure constitutionalism. Professor RJ Pestritto of Hillsdale College explains. “Quite simply, the Progressives detested the bedrock principles of American government. They detested the Declaration of Independence, which enshrines the protection of individual natural rights (like property) as the unchangeable purpose of government; and they detested the Constitution, which places permanent limits on the scope of government and is structured in a way that makes the extension of national power beyond its original purpose very difficult. ‘Progressivism’ was, for them, all about progressing, or moving beyond, the principles of our founders. This is why the Progressives were the first generation of Americans to denounce openly our founding documents. Woodrow Wilson, for example, once warned that ‘if you want to understand the real Declaration of Independence, do not repeat the preface’ – i.e. that part of the Declaration which talks about securing individual natural rights as the only legitimate purpose of government.”[ii] To them, the purpose of government became not the protection of individual liberty but about increasing the power of the government itself.
So we can easily draw a line from Woodrow Wilson to Saul Alinsky to Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton. Power and rights are not to be individual but collective. Attacks on the Second Amendment, the First Amendment – the entire Constitutional framework can be justified in the name of social justice. But this is not happening in a vacuum. The old architecture is being torn down in order to build a promised new structure; an all-encompassing, all-powerful globalist entity. The internet must be controlled – because thought must be controlled. Religious beliefs must be compromised in the name of abortion. [Just ask Mrs Clinton!] Free Speech Zones protect students from thought. Conservative and Christian views are censored. It would seem the very purpose of America has been corrupted and compromised.
Through the struggles of the Revolutionary era, an American government was founded upon Constitutional principles whose foundations were laid in turn centuries earlier in English Common Law – [first codified by Alfred the Great in the 9th century] – and documents such as the Magna Carter or Great Charter of Rights of 1215. These in turn drew their authority from the pure principles inherent in the true character of the Creator God. This is the tradition that is compromised when the constitution is corrupted.
In its place is put a call to worldwide brotherhood. A globalist utopia is offered in the form of Agenda 21 and climate control treaties and ever more surrender to the worldwide authority. But it really offers only the accumulation of central power and control and enslavement. The New World Order is a very real thing. High-level Freemasonry is a real force in the movement. The Bilderbergers actually exist. The Council on Foreign Relations is a part of that network. The Illuminati are a historical phenomenon – as well as a real power to be reckoned with. They all seek the elimination of national borders, economic centralization under their control, a unified global system run according to their specifications. And everything thing that happens is either engineered or put to use to advance their greater ends. There is no place in this system for the American Constitution or individual rights. All must be subordinate to the emerging super-state.
The attack is more coordinated than one might think. Not so very long ago, Britain’s Economist magazine trashed both the American Constitution and its supporters. “Indeed, there is something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshipers that the complex political arguments of today can be settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century.”[iii] Foreign Policy magazine, the mouthpiece of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, staked out a similar position. Former CFR member Admiral Chester Ward – (a dissenting member) – once warned that that organization wants “to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty of the national independence of the United States.” Professor Carroll Quigley, – the official and approved historian of the movement – blithely admitted in his landmark work, Tragedy and Hope, that “The CFR is the American Branch of a society which originated in England, and which believes that national boundaries should be obliterated, and a one-world rule established.”[iv] They hide it not!
Now Quigley, a Georgetown professor – and true believer himself in the virtue of a One World Order, was the only historian allowed into the inner circles of the international puppet masters, put there to document an ongoing work of which they were very proud. His work, published in 1966, let out the ‘real plan.’ “[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” This was to be a new form of feudalism, – operated by the “central banks of the world acting in concert… The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.”[v] Speaking of the economic infrastructure being built, he went on. “It must not be felt that these heads of the world’s chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers (also called ‘international’ or ‘merchant’ bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks. These formed a system of international cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks.”[vi] So under the dominance of the International Bankers – (think Rothschilds, Warburgs & Rockefellers etc) – the various agents are working to “to consolidate all currency systems and central banks under the outward control of the International Monetary Fund and the Bank Of International Settlements.”[vii] And it all started to creep in to the American system back in 1912 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve, a privately-owned entity that essentially loans our own money back to us and charges us interest.
The American Tragedy
This nation – all of Western culture – the very culture that advanced the cause of Christianity and served as the bedrock of civilized thought for centuries has entirely lost its way. Social Justice has replaced Equal Justice under the law. Nanny State has replaced Individual Choice. So as the validity of the Constitution wanes: Instead of treatises on freedom and republican government, we get Continuity of Government Plans that would rob us of all our civil rights. These claim the right to seize all power. Executive Orders assert authority over every aspect of our lives; food, economics, power, communication, transport, our very labor. We get lists of people dangerous to the republic. These include returning veterans, constitutionalists, pro-life supporters, conservative Christians. We get Constitution-free zones, and free-speech zones limiting our free speech. It’s all part of the plan. Allow – even foment the chaos – and prepare for the reaction. Then use the reaction to achieve your ends. No crisis should be put to waste.
Thus we see the promotion of the militant gay agenda that demands not only tolerance but the celebration of the perversion and the subsequent indoctrination of our children. [We are being forced to be accomplices in our own demise.] If gay marriage wasn’t radical enough let us tear down yet another layer of culture and enshrine transgenderism as the next civil rights frontier. If even that is not enough we can change the very meaning of what it is to be human. Let us alter our DNA. Combine it with that of animals. Pollute the human gene pool. This is the ultimate goal of the Enemy: to destroy God’s work. To take Man, created in God’s image, and render him into something less-than-human; a mere shadow of God’s intended creative purposes. This is beyond governments and laws. It is beyond even the Illuminati. This is part of a greater struggle that goes back before even the Garden. This is a cosmic war; a battle between ultimate good and evil. This is a part of Satan’s Grand Rebellion against God.
A Once Great Nation
In a relatively short time, America has journeyed from belief to virulent apostasy. It was once a nation that by-and-large worshiped God and acknowledged His predominance. Evil was practiced in pockets, in secret. Then came the 1960’s & 70’s and what once was shameful became tolerated…..then politically correct….then the opinion of the majority. We now live in a day when the holders of that Judeo-Christian worldview, that biblically-based morality are shamed, shunned, persecuted and prosecuted. There remains only one acceptable morality. It is the one offered by the “god of this age.” (2Corinthians 4:4) This was a parallel too, seen by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, as he drew the connection between ancient Israel’s slide into Baal worship and America’s embrace of its own brand of sin. Repeatedly the Scripture has shown us that Israel – throughout its history – was offered a choice. It was between the gods of the Land; the pagan demonically-inspired entities with their lewd and bloody practices – and that of the God of the Bible, Yahweh. When they worshipped they experienced prosperity and freedom and miracles and the national greatness of David and Solomon. When they slipped into honoring Baal and Ashteroth and Molech and the other pagan gods they faced famine and war and destruction and persecution and banishment from the Land God had promised them. And still that cycle of sin – apostasy – servitude – repentance – restoration, was repeated over and over again in Israel’s history. They reaped what they sowed. It is a principle of scripture. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
The 8th chapter of the writings of the Prophet Hosea offers a picture of God’s judgement upon Israel, His people that He chose to bring Messiah Jesus into the world. It gives the pattern of God’s dealing with nations. “Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law…. Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. They made kings, but not through me…. For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” (Hosea 8:1, 3-4, 7)
We are feeling the effects of America’s whirlwind through the unprecedented presidential campaign season we are experiencing. To a great degree, much of the American electorate has recognized that something is wrong with the direction this nation is going. Millions of Americans chose to vote for what was perceived as anti-establishment candidates. Despite the political chaos and nascent political revolt, we are left with a choice that is less than ideal. The Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton has a track record of lying on Benghazi – an event that resulted in the preventable deaths of Americans in Libya. She stands near indictment by the FBI, protected only by an Obama administration that can choose to ignore the facts and decline to prosecute. She has taken a radical position on the continuance of legalized abortion – that she advocates the altering of religious beliefs to protect the sanctity of that bloody, murderous sacrifice, telling the Women in the World Summit, its protection would require that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”[viii] She would sell American souls to ensure the continuance of abortion.
On the Republican side we are offered a candidate who offers a return to the greatness of America – but with God nowhere in sight. As Rabbi Cahn points out again, Trump offers the – I can do it without God – spirit of the age. Still there is the enunciation of some sound and sensible policies on immigration and healthcare and foreign trade and business taxation. And there is looming the future of the Supreme Court. It is likely that the next president will make appointments that will influence the direction of this country for a generation or more. We can either accept our slide into national apostasy or try to influence events in the right direction. It is not a perfect choice. But for me, at least where I sit right now, it is a clear one. I fear that to not act….would be to act.
But America’s real choice is not about presidential politics. As Benjamin Franklin pointed out: “I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.’”[ix] But that house can only be rebuilt on the foundation of revival. The walls may have come down but as 2Chronicles 7:14 so famously reminds us, we need only repent to see God reveal His healing power upon the land. The choice is ours. Joshua too lived in a time when the nation was choosing to serve foreign gods. He stated the choice clearly. “And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15) (ESV) Let us follow him in that choice.
[i] Kim Petersen, What Is Progressivism?, Dissident Voice, January 29, 2013
[ii] RJ Pestritto, The Progressives and their Attack on America’s Founding, GlennBeck.com, April 16, 2009
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/23936/
[iii]The Perils of Constitution Worship, The Economist, September 23, 2010
[iv] Kurt Nimmo, Rothschild and CIA Publications Attack “Constitution-worshipers”, Infowars, September 25, 2010
[v] Dr Carroll Quigley in: In Tragedy and Hope, 1966, – as quoted by Ellen Brown in The Tower of Basel, Global Research,
April 18, 2009
[vi] Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966, pg 326-327
[vii] Brandon Smith, IMF Now Ready To Slam The Door On The U.S. And The Dollar, Alt-Market, December 17, 2014
[viii] Hillary: “Deep-seated … religious beliefs” have to be changed for abortion, Hot Air, April 24, 2016
[ix] Benjamin Franklin, Speech made during the Constitutional Convention, qutoted from: CaptainJamesDavis.net, February 2, 2014
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