Early Christian America

Early History of a Christian America: Ideas and Ideals Preceding the Declaration of Independence & the Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate

Christian America: Compromise or Principle

Sometimes a generation such as ours cannot understand the principles which motivated an earlier generation. It becomes easy to mistake a principled stand with arrogance. Arrogance is often misunderstood as a refusal to negotiate (“compromise”: give a little, take a little). Actually, the real arrogance is willful resistance to truth, no matter how pious the appearance.

Compromised generations are usually experts in the art of negotiation. – like ours for instance. In other words, “go along to get along”.  Unfortunately, such a “compromising” generation becomes an easily manipulated one. It can always be expected to "deal" and most options are predictable. After all, "everyone has his price."

As a result, any “wanna be” tyrant has plenty of elbow room to maneuver the negotiable affections of a people, especially if authority and media are on his side. In other words, people usually do not see the true nature of tyranny as it takes advantage of the moral, economic and political crisis which gives opportunistic “Hitlers" leverage to transform crisis into control. Remember, Hitler first deceived a people before he could control them. Then again, the primary purpose of deceit is control, i.e., to create a monopoly of interpretation surrounding any given issue. That is the art of “the lie”.

The only thing which would tend to scramble the plans of such clever “Machiavellian” (here’s a term to learn if you don’t already) operators is a contrary position that combines virtue, knowledge, trust, love (the true motive for courage) and access to the people on a regular basis.

Christian America: Enter the clergy.

The key to unlocking the potential stranglehold of oppression is a position which approaches the culture with character:

• it cares little for prevailing fads of opinion
• it can discern a thing without waiting for a majority to vote on it, and …
• it has conviction enough to "let yeas be yeas and nays be nays”.

Conviction creates the dogmatic stand and “love for truth … AND love for one’s neighbor” (REAL love) compels it as a duty.

Two plus Two is a Mystery if…

Over the years, this author has had heard many clergymen denounce the American War of Independence. One case in particular some years ago comes to mind. A protestant clergyman denounced as "rebels", those who stood during the American War for Independence. Rejecting the wonderful results of liberty, Constitutional order, prosperity and peace which the war brought, as justification for their actions, he argued (as many pastors, theologians, and professors have argued in their pulpits, books and classrooms) that the colonists wrongfully resisted the Brits at Lexington and Concord.

This action was not justified by “Biblical ethics” he asserted. The British Parliament and King were the "authorities ordained by God" (Romans 13) to which “submission” should have boon rendered. When asked what the colonists should have done to be rid of such abuse, his comment was "That’s a mystery" but "They should never have taken the law into their own hands."

Hum . . . a "mystery" he says.

It’s axiomatic: there are at least two ways to get a mystery.

• First: a mystery may be truly so because a thing has great depth and needs further illumination.
• Second: the more common way in which "mystery" develops is simple. . . people reject the right answer and remain wrong. “Two plus two” will ALWAYS be a mystery, IF one rejects “four” as an answer.

  
Back to our clergyman for a moment.

What he refused to acknowledge was his own failure to answer for the “Truth” he so tenaciously claimed to be defending. Notice…

• He had no answers, only “mystery” (not the kind of counsel needed for decision-making).
• He had no answers… only platitudes for responses (platitudes solve nothing, except to mark the man using them).
• He could NOT answer when challenged.
• Most discouragingly, there was no room for “self-examination” given in the paucity of his answers. THE PAUCITY OF HIS POSITION - HIS LACK OF ABILITY TO ANSWER - NEVER GAVE HIM “PAUSE”… never made him re-examine his own LACK.

Not knowing answers is human. There are many questions beyond the abilities of all of us. But, not having answers AND tenaciously holding to poor positions without self-check or self-examination … shows a lack of a real “fear of the Lord”. 

Why, you may ask, am I being so hard as to suggest a lack of godly fear? Quite simply this: When a person “Fears God”, he is careful not to OFFEND the Lord.

Furthermore, when there is such a “willful unwillingness” to hear, weigh or consider answers to ethical jaw-breakers, then one must at least suspect that the person in question lacks any REAL LOVE for ANY neighbor “out there” who suffers from the dilemma needing a solution. Did this clergyman even care that others actually suffer from the question he can’t answer!

Imagine. You go to a doctor who tells you he has the answer to your plight. When pressed for answers, he replies, “That’s a mystery… but do as I say, anyway.”  Are you comforted yet?

Finally, the Christian faith is EXPECTED to supply answers. It should really bother Christians (and especially pastors!) that the faith is being assaulted by issues it has, heretofore, not answered. Do we, or do we not, REALLY believe this “stuff” about our faith as something “sent by God”?

Christian America: They Loved Deeply… Providing “Footing” for the Declaration of Independence yet to Come

The clergy of the 1760s and 1770s were among the first to “open fire” upon the false ideologies of the British politicians. Consequently, Americans searched all sorts of books and authors looking for answers beyond their own abilities. They especially sought answers, however, from their Bibles. The Bible constitutes 44% of all citations of the era (the 1770s) as far as extant citations we know. “Second place” is an impoverished 18% of all citations of the era.

Here are some issues our woefully under-prepared clergyman found most surprising (Yes. He actually discovered there were issues he had not heard of concerning the generation of “rebels” he so artlessly condemned.).

Christian America: Prior to the Declaration of Independence

Here are a few issues… with the clergy of the day leading the charge.

First, the colonists were never to be "under" the authority of a usurping Parliament. By colonial charter …or covenant… they had their own legislative bodies in which they had their own representation by people from their own communities. Thus, they complained that, when Parliament unlawfully taxed them, this was "taxation without representation". They neither had (nor wanted) representation in the English Parliament. In other words, Parliament was the usurping (rebellious) party in this issue.

However, the colonists did have a legal relationship to their sovereign, King George Ill. But that relationship was governed by their charters… and the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the defining document for all Englishmen in all of the British domains (Our above-mentioned clergyman by this time is amazed that he never heard of such a thing. Imagine that.)

Too, when the colonists took their stand on Lexington green, they were authorized to do so by local committees operating under the authority of their colonial legislatures and the Continental Congress which the colonies had elected to represent them in this contest with their King. The clergy mounted the pulpits and extended commentary to explain to the people the necessity and legitimacy of such elected “Lesser magistrates”, encouraging them in Christ’s Name to STAND with them.

In other words, the colonists were first taught by the clergy that such a thing could – and should - exist. Next, the PEOPLE so taught, were organized and authorized by their "lesser magistrates" in each colony and the Continental Congress, to act. In fact, the famous "Minutemen" was an historical institution of the old New England Confederation of those united New England colonies. They were defending their colonial charters made with the Kings of England over the many years of their existence as colonies. The Minutemen were authorized by Puritan pulpits as to their NECESSITY… and by their civil magistrates as to their acts of command.

In addition, the clergy taught the people that they, as a people, were defending constitutionally guaranteed rights under the reigning constitution of Englishmen—the English Bill of Rights. More specifically, they refused to be disarmed by tyrants because such an act was illegal according to the English Bill of Rights which guaranteed the right of "every Protestant" to own and use arms.

In other words, as Jesus put it, “Sell your cloak and buy a sword.” Why? So as to PROTECT righteousness side-by-side, with the Lesser Magistrates who DO STAND against the upper tier of abused power-mongering. Who will stand “side-by-side” if no one has the “known capacity” to resist?

This is the reason the colonists resisted the Brits at Lexington green. Those British soldiers were marching through Lexington on their way to the cache of weapons owned officially by the colony of Massachusetts at Concord. The people needed “arms” to render support to their "lesser magistrates", who were trying to negotiate with the Crown for redress of grievance. If they were disarmed, then their representatives would have no "clout" with the tyrant. Remember, like all tyrants, King George ultimately "argued" his point with the sword in hand (having no personal principles to move him).

The key was the clergy. They had been teaching the people for decades the principles needed to withstand evil. That was the “footing” needed for the preparation and conviction of the great Declaration of Independence.

It is the duty of the clergy to lead the people beside still waters, no doubt. It is equally their duty to “Tear the sheepskin off wolves.” Without such conviction, there would have been no Declaration of Independence. Nor would we have had a model of an early “Christian America”.

(For a thorough read on the empowered Christian and his/her confidence in the Lord’s consistent PROTECTIONS in the midst of trial and strife, See this lesson for real encouragement, the Lord’s kind of powerfully promised encouragement.

If you’re wondering about the claim early history of a Christian America, you may be surprised – and I believe thrilled - to read this Lesson.)

There is hope. First watch the short video. Then if you want to see what God DOES to protect the Truth and His people, Click Here…

- submitted by Wayne C. Sedlak, ICHR

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Early History of a Christian America: Theological (Romans 8) and the Legal Ideas Preceding the Declaration of Independence & the Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate

Early History of Christian America: The Theological Guidelines Moving a Generation toward the Declaration of Independence

Our forefathers understood from their pulpits the lessons addressed below from Romans 8. However, today’s pulpits do NOT address, perhaps through lack of understanding, this same theological underpinning.

Thus, any rendering of an “early history of a Christian America” would, of necessity, include a discussion of the redemptive application of the “Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate”.  That will include, as you will see in this series, the Declaration of Independence as an historical and theological continuum, not simply a political standalone in the history of nations or the claims to a Christian America.

Put simply, Christ’s death and resurrection brought forth much more than our great hope of eternity through a justifying faith in His merits.  It is given to the people of God to bring righteousness (Romans 8:4 - “fulfill righteousness”, i.e., mature its applications as an inheritance from Christ and for His Throne rights) to the nations IN ALL ASPECTS of LIFE, both this life and the one to come. 

In fact, Romans 8: 19ff specifies that there are three issues awaiting the insightful work of both Church and individual Christian: We are to bring meaning to the world which God has subjected to “emptiness”. In other words, God has frustrated all human discernments by making the world  APPEAR without MEANING and PURPOSE (It should be translated “creation”, not “creature” as the KJV effectively obfuscates it).

To understand better, think of “creation” as a machine that buzzes and whirls, lights up, gears syncing with precision – but the machine doesn’t do anything but sit there on your shelf buzzing, whirling, lighting up, gears meshing – but accomplishing nothing. It appears to be a precision-designed, purposeless contraption.

Romans 8 also specifies creation is subject to the “bondage of corruption” and to a deep, unutterable groaning/sorrow in all of us and even in the world around.  These three characteristics of creation are to be addressed by the Body of Christ… and changed dramatically.

In fact, the creation is said by St. Paul to “wait” for us in expectation, pictured as “longing for our appearance” so as to bring meaning and purpose, liberty and the rejoicing of a victory of righteousness through application of the EARNED merits of our Savior. He earned His inheritance by His perfect obedience. He SENDS us therefore to APPLY them (His merits) to the world with wisdom and virtue.

Redemption is a subject RARELY employed when discussing a Christian America or our forefathers and their discernments in the War for Independence, much less the Declaration of Independence. But, redemption is a buying back from slavery and bondage (Romans 8), as well as deliverance unto rejoicing through the victory of righteousness.

Early History of Christian America: Abuses Moving England toward the Magna Charta against a Gangster Government, Precedent toward the Declaration of Independence

The Normans conquered England in 1066 A.D. From that point forward in history, English kings were forced to strive to develop their power at the expense of historic English rights and liberties. Policies for extending the royal prerogative were, in fact, the legacy of the Norman conquest. One such king, King John, tried every corrupt means possible which an unscrupulous and ingenious mind could devise to translate liberty into bondage and sorrow.

1. Many English people suffered from the ruthless exercise and ever-increasing expansion of the royal jurisdiction, usurping the local courts of the barons.
2. Often, royal seizures of properties, assets or persons, took place over the protests of such "lesser" authorities.
3. The king’s tyrannies increased as he crushed any individual or family who resisted.
4. Many tried to defend themselves under the rules of the King’s new statutes and, of course, found that the royal prerogative of Gangster government inevitably prevailed.
5. The abuses of John – in his newly created gangster government - were many.
6. The gangster government he created experimented with all sorts of old and new kinds of taxes and levies.
7. Lands, castles, timbers, grains and other properties were seized on pretext of royal prerogative or as forfeiture for some alleged wrongdoing of its owner. Gangster governments (see video below) ALWAYS justify their excesses with some alleged “just cause” and thereby must accuse others and excuse themselves.
8. The abused owner often had no ability to raise a defense to stop the seizure or recover the lost goods or lands. Up against the comparatively infinite powers of the gangster government of the state, no single individual or family can prevail without constitutional power exerting a contrary pressure in his behalf. Hence, there is the necessity of upholding and maintaining constitutional safe-guards.

King John awakened further opposition when he secured excessive sums on inheritances, produced immense amounts of money on the trade of military services and literally bought and sold both maidens and widows who were heiresses in his custody.
King John was, predictably, licentious and callous. He seduced the sister of one great baron and quite probably others. He was responsible for the murder of his nephew, Arthur. He then went on to crush the family of another Baron whose wife tried to expose his acts of murder. She and her son were starved to death in a dungeon, and her husband and another son were driven into exile.

Early History of Christian America: The Clergy Begins to Move People and Barons toward Magna Charta, Opposing the Gangster Government, Precedent toward the Declaration of Independence

Some of the clergy which had opposed the king for his excesses, began to move the people with their public preaching and pronouncements against the corruptions of the king. Such preaching was vital for creating conviction of conscience. One of the least appreciated facts in the contest of tyranny and freedom lies in the fact that individuals need righteous principle to move their hearts to resist the evil exercise of authority.
Such righteous principle is God’s regal prerogative. His Law creates authority in church, family, and state (“lesser magistrates”) in the Name of His universal, Regal Authority. Therefore, Christ’s Authority must unbind the cords which bind the populace in servile fear, blind ignorance, or confused submission to authority.

Baron and populace began to act in concert to create public pressure against the tyrannical gangster government of the King. The common people looked to the local magistrates–the barons of the land–to stand in the gap to resist this tyranny.

The powerfully convicting preaching of the clergy emboldened many barons, who were the next lower tier of government under the king. As a result, many barons assembled and declared their resistance to the King. In addition, they declared it to be treason against England for anyone to stand in support of the gangster government of king John who had proven himself to be the enemy of the realm by his sins against God and man.

The people rallied behind this “revolt of the barons” who represented them, thus forming what they called "The Army of God". Finally, in the meadow of Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the barons forced King John to sign a new Constitution which guaranteed the rights and liberties of the people. That Constitution is known to history as “The Great Charter” - Magna Charta.

Magna Charta: The Precedent Opposing Gangster Governments in England Down to the Days of the Declaration of Independence.

In this contest with King John, one important precedent of a later Christian America was established. The English people applied very important principles, all of which the Church is called to teach from the Scriptures.

Put simply, no authority has an absolute right to do as it pleases, ¬including kings, and especially tyrants (whom we’ve been calling gangster governments). If a "higher" magistrate engages in lawless acts, it is the duty of those in the tiers of government “under him” to resist him and even divest him of his authority. Those who do this are the "lesser" civil authorities who, in God’s eyes, are NOW the highest legitimate civil authority until the upper office has its integrity restored and its calling renewed . . . or is eliminated entirely.

Key Questions: How has God repeatedly demonstrated His Presence when these gangster governments gain power? What are the consistent events that undermine and, ultimately, destroy their usurped authority? See for yourself…

-submitted by Wayne Sedlak, ICHR  (See our Gangster government in action above)

(For a thorough read on the empowered Christian and his/her confidence in the Lord’s consistent PROTECTIONS in the midst of trial and strife, See this lesson for real encouragement, the Lord’s kind of powerfully promised encouragement.

If you’re wondering about the claim early history of a Christian America, you may be surprised – and I believe thrilled - to read this Lesson.)

There is hope. First watch the short video. Then if you want to see what God DOES to protect the Truth and His people, Click Here…

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Early History of a Christian America: The Declaration of Independence: Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate

Part I in a series on the early history of Christian America

Legacy of a Christian America: Lexington and the Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate

Many Christians are confused by the fact that our forefathers somehow felt “authorized by God” to take up arms and resist oppression. Such action was taken before the issuance of the Declaration of Independence. When Pastor Jonas Clark of Lexington, a distinguished figure in any rendering of an early history of Christian America, led the men of his church and town onto the village green at Lexington to resist the heavily armed Grenadier “Redcoats”, his decision was not a “spur of the moment”, “shoot from the hip” “experience from God”. Many do not understand the view of Scripture he, and the whole generation of that era, had been taught.

Consequently, our generation showed itself asleep at the switch until this last series of economic catastrophes engulfed us. Now the internet is loaded with talk which is often too short-sighted and all too easily misled. Most have no idea of the mature principles which gained power and momentum leading to that supreme expression of the theology and ethic of the Bible epitomized in the Declaration of Independence.

You see… resistance of any sort, including the Declaration of Independence, is very much addressed in the Bible. However, HOW that must be done is also addressed. This is not the sort of issue “one just wanders into”. That’s akin to just “wandering into” the unhappy middle ground of a battlefield contested by two rival armies. There really are issues where even angels fear to tread. Our forefathers were well taught…from their churches. They did not just wander into a Declaration of Independence.

More to the point: The fear of the Lord must guide us and a restraining, well-thought-through positioning is in order. God has spoken to this issue, as John WIthespoon demanded on the floor of the Continental Congress. He was the one minister who “fathered” in ethical training, so many who attended to both the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution itself.

Ehud and Lesser Magistrates: Early History of a Christian America Documents Americans Drinking Deeply from the Wells of the Scriptures

In the Scriptures, Ehud, a judge in Israel, was commissioned by the representatives of the people of Israel (Judges 3) with a "gift" to the Moabite tyrant, Eglon, whom they had judicially condemned as a usurping ruler. That "gift" was Ehud’s sword in the belly of the tyrant. But, who “authorized” this kind of action? Put bluntly—

"Civil (covenant) headship, provided in the persons of ‘lesser magistrates’ (elders)". That is precisely the kind of men who attended the Continental Congress that penned the Declaration of Independence. They were men of renown in their colonies, elected by both people and state legislatures.

The Bible commends the choosing of representatives, ELECTED by the people who chose men of proven character, skilled in handling tough issues, experienced and courageous in facing wickedness as well as characterized by a distinctive ACCOUNTABILITY in person and conduct before the Lord (Deuteronomy 1: 13- 17).

Incidentally, that said, I’ve rehearsed to you in the last paragraph (in concise form of course) the points of the sermon preached by Thomas Hooker which gave our people, 150 years later, its Standard for ELECTING civil magistrates to office under the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the various sovereign states. This sermon also would influence the course of events leading to the Declaration of Independence.

Hooker’s sermon led directly to the creation of the one document most authoritative in the lineal descent to the Constitution of the United States… the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. That document, written by Puritans and grounded in the laws of God, provided multiple principles for our frame of government, including, as stated above, the Declaration of Independence. Think of it: any rendering of early “Christian America” must come to grips with the fact that their pulpits were handling depth of application on Sundays.

Headship in the families which constitutes the community creates "headship" in the community in the positions of civil ministry (police, aldermen, judges, mayor, etc.) as well as church officers. Such headship in the community creates headship in the upper tiers of rule (state and federal in our system).

But authority is only authorized to implement righteous precepts such as "Thou shall not kill or steal" which are designed to protect life and property. There is no authorization given to governments to violate the standards of life as protected in the righteous principles given by God. Governments are a gift of God. But, like all gifts, God’s “blessings” are dangerous (Examples: sex, food, freedom, money, drink, good looks, nice home, lovely spouses, talented individuals, etc.): They are designed for mature use. They are dangerous to misuse. Government is one of such gifts from God.

Such protections were the basis for enumerating multiple British violations of rights and responsibilities in the colonies, one by one, throughout the Declaration of Independence. Any claim to serious study of the early history of a Christian America must come to grips with such principles. Our forefathers were taught these things, in depth. Isn’t is time for our pulpits to preach accordingly? 

Early History of a Christian America: Legacy of Interposition of Lesser Magistrate

When the upper authority violates such principles of righteousness then it violates the reasons for exercising the authority for which it was created by the Lord. This is a contractual (covenanted) issue between it and the people as represented in their covenant heads in the community.

In life, if you violate the terms of a contract. then you are sued for breach of that contract. That is the rule in daily life . . . and that is the rule for government. The only difference between this and daily life is that God has limited the kinds of terms with which any authority may contract in order to impose its rule. In a word, government is to be "limited"–tied constitutionally to righteous principles and standards. If the Declaration of Independence represented anything, that was the source of its authority and power.

Early History of a Christian America – Earlier than We Usually Think

At Runnymede, England, in 1215, King John was sued for breach of covenant. And the lesser magistrates–the barons (who, in feudal England represented the people under them by feudal contracts) - imposed constitutional restraints upon the powers of the king so as to check his tyranny.

These barons were the “lesser magistrates” of the land. Granted, they were NOT the most discerning in other matters. But, they were restrained and effective in this famous episode – and biblical in the way they pursued it. No blood was shed. They learned to use government – the lesser magistrate’s power of interposition – to checkmate the debauched, impenitent king.

Like Ehud they brought a "gift" to King John- - their swords — which spilled no blood and yet governed effectively through lawful lesser magistrates. They held the criminal king in contempt and bound him judicially (Rom. 13:4). Such government is truly a gift, a gift of justice in the hands of those to whom justice is entrusted as “lesser civil magistrates”.

The question is this: before we go to Part II, can you answer HOW our colonial forefathers buttressed this position from the Bible more directly? See if you know which MULTIPLE EXAMPLES in Scripture were used by our forefathers repeatedly from the pulpits. Remember, the Bible, statistically, was the most oft-quoted book, during the years,1770- 1783.

-submitted by Wayne Sedlak, ICHR

(For a thorough read on the empowered Christian and his/her confidence in the Lord’s consistent PROTECTIONS in the midst of trial and strife, See this lesson for real encouragement, the Lord’s kind of powerfully promised encouragement.

If you’re wondering about the claim early history of a Christian America, you may be surprised – and I believe thrilled - to read this Lesson.)

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Iran, North Korea Confrontations: World War III at Our Doorstep

- Making the World “Safe” for … “What”?

Dr. Paul Johnson … Historian par Excellence…

… made a brilliant observation in his best-selling book “The Rise of the Modern”

The Rothschild’s gained their position of dominance throughout the financial world due to Nathan Rothschild’s ability to finance Wellington’s Peninsular War against the French during the Napoleonic Wars and the financial coup that allowed the Rothschilds tremendous profits as a result of the events surrounding the Battles of Jena (1806) … and later Waterloo (1815).

War Makes Money for Bankers: So Will World War III

Let’s clarify something. War, especially the massive ones, accomplishes these four objectives:

1.    War kills off whole populations…including the soldiers that fight the war. From a social engineering perspective, this means your country’s politicians know that they are publicly discredited (or soon to be) and in serious jeopardy of being replaced, i.e., “fired from their jobs”. This they know because they placed the economy in jeopardy through regulatory strangulation, financial mismanagement (inflationary spirals or deflationary fallout) and/or “kick ‘em when their down” taxation hikes, destroying savings of families, and profitability of businesses (which now fire people so as to “make budget”). Thus, they have too many mouths in the economy with dwindling resources. War is the only way out. It kills off the “mouths” while gaining (plundering) the resources owned by other nations (such as oil, for instance). Of course, such politicians must keep their pathway open to justifying a war. Could that be the reason environmentalists are used to keep us from getting at the richest oil reserves in the world, right here in the U.S. (while necessitating war-for-control over Oil in Iraq)?

War kills your children: Those 18 and over are liable to the resultant, necessary draft demanded by the Pentagon repeatedly over the last 5 years. Incidentally, that includes your daughters as well. [Look at your state’s Driver’s License regulations and see if your son or daughter (and you) are now liable for the military Draft because they got a Driver’s License.] 

2.    War temporarily redirects national resources so that capital goods (factory type machinery for production, tools, dies, equipment, etc.) get a hefty shot of financial adrenaline, increase production of newly desired “war materials”, stimulate employment and jump start an ailing economy. World War III will do all of that for this Obama Administration JUST AS WORLD WAR II DID for FDR and the GREAT DEPRESSION.

3.    War rearranges Constitutional liberties and rights allowing for greater police involvement in your life, overriding constitutional protections (like Habeas Corpus, for example, the “bedrock” protection for individuals against being harassed by their own governments). Certainly, War is the greatest pretext for a declaration of Martial Law and suspension of the Bill of Rights. (This has happened in previous wars of the United States. The people DID NOT get their rights and liberties back. We got “privileges” in place thereof. 

4.    Wars make money, especially for the bankers. J.P. Morgan made money on the First World War in as many as eight different ways (all the while pleading for peace while sending massive infusions of loans to the War). Wars tend to keep a nation permanently indebted and dependent upon banker lending power. Of course, if the banks make a nation dependent upon their loans, they hold tremendous capacity to dictate to people and toward policy. The lending “tap” was “shut off” to Napoleon III, who promptly fell from power.

World War III and the Lesson of J.P. Morgan:  Bankers Want War.

Radical foreclosure policies make more money from banks in recessions than those same banks made in prosperity.

However, disposing of the homes can be slow and problematic. War, on the other hand, is the world’s most potent way to gain almost instant profitability… if you’re a bank large enough to capitalize on the lending program and policies.

Banker J.P. Morgan made money on World War I in several different ways:

1.    J.P Morgan was selected by the Rothschilds to help raise bond issues for purchasing war-sensitive materials. Morgan himself acted as the U.S. purchase agent for those bond issues.
2.    Interest on the loans compounded over time guaranteeing the impoverishment of whole nations, many who, after the war, were broken up, their assets the spoils of war. Some were on the “winning side”  - but couldn’t pay their loans.
3.    Commissions were paid in TWO directions on each transaction: Once when the money was borrowed and again when it was spent.
4.    Morgan arranged it so that the money loaned to Britain, U.S.A. France and other allies was legally bound to be paid to companies which would produce the war materials. One stipulation: All the companies thus paid were owned or controlled by Morgan holding companies.
5.    Morgan often got paid in stocks of companies, each stock representing ownership and profitability. Through such means, J.P. Morgan acquired interest and/or control of dozens of powerful companies.

“Each month Morgan presided over purchases which were equal to the gross national product of the entire world just one generation before.” 

6.    The purchase and sale of American stocks was made by Allies so as to buy munitions. This increased Morgan’s power in the United States.
7.    His lending power gave him tremendous influence in Policy making decisions of the Allies all throughout the war.
8.    His funding allowed post WWI decision making which entitled both the lenders and the allies to apply reparations payments from Germany and the Central Powers which had lost the war. The infamous Versailles Treaty, negotiated by emissaries of the Banking industry (such as the Warburgs – Felix and Paul) is now admitted by most historians as a main cause for the outbreak of the Second World War!
9.    Loans continued to be made for Post World War I needs: reconstruction, medicines, bridges and other infrastructure loans – all of which gave opportunity for lending to both sides of the late War.

“Nobody could hate war more than I do.” – J.P. Morgan, testimony given before the Senate Munitions Committee.

World War III: Obama Administration Courts Confrontation with Iran, North Korea

Despite his pleas for economic soundness and fairness, Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with Bankers as his staff consultants and advisors. Of course, all of them are “appalled” at the rigged Iranian elections … and the North Korean sword-rattling. Well, of course, they are appalled. Such offensive actions and language means profits in an upcoming war. What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Not surprisingly, Mr. Obama has INCREASED his military presence around the world. He is now courting confrontation with North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Venezuela, and Russia (Remember, the late confrontation with Russia over Russia’s neighboring Georgia?).

He is surrounded by Bankers. Many of said bankers have ties with the very banking houses that have enriched themselves lavishly from the wars that cost us the blood of our children in Vietnam, Iraq, World War I and II, Korea, and many others.

Next step in the money-making history?  The need for a Third World War. The Administrations foolish attempts at jumpstarting the economy are failing miserably. So the Democrats need another War to garnish power and wealth.

Currently, the media is stirring the hatred toward Iran and North Korea. No doubt they both deserve it (the hatred, that is). But, we cannot afford the theatrics as an inducement to bloodshed.. and profits by the bankers.

Don’t let the U.S. go to war. Put a stop to the contrived but bloody crises that keep pulling us toward conflict. Make the Administration accountable for its theatrics. 

Why are we funding these nations like North Korea and Iran (through IMF, World Bank and direct loans to them as with North Korea last year).

These nations have NO CAPACITY to fight without sustained financial gifting from the West, particularly the USA. Why do we do business with the same China who equips our (present and future) enemies (Iran, North Korea, Taliban in Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela). Our corporations go and set up shop in China, helping that economy to bolster aid in war materials (including nuclear armaments now).  We lose jobs. China gains corporate assets and input for its own foreign policy agenda.

Eventually, we will gain only one thing here at home: the loss of our children in the massive World War III staring us in the face and the freedoms lost as a result of same.

²S.D. Chapman, The Foundation of Tthe English Rothchilds, 1793-1811 (Lonon, 1977), 20ff

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The Early Christian Pulpit vs. the Modern Pulpit

In the next couple of days we will be pursuing a mini serious on this blog which will compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of both of these eras in American history.

But here’s the question: What characterized the pulpits of the 13 colonies when they were once awakened? Here’s a second question: What kind of message and what kind of applications stirred the American countryside? Here’s a third question. What was the quality of the character created in the people and what transformations marked the newly emergent society in America? Could it be the greatest detonation commanded by God’s Holy Spirit involves something called "Reformation?" And did our forefathers recognize that what God was doing was bringing Reformation to their shores again? The answer to both of these questions was a definite YES

Today’s Pulpits are often criticized on a variety of accounts.

1 Often they are repetitive, saying the same things week after week
2. They are heavily secularized with modern psychological and and sociological principles
3. Our pulpits today rarely address issues the Bible repeatedly  emphasizes. Perhaps as much as 20 percent of the Bible’s content addresses sound economic thinking. Do our pulpits today? (See Solomonstoolbox.com)
4. Today’s pulpits are almost all salvidic, emphasizing " getting saved" without recognizing what the great missionary, Doctor Robert Livingstone, once recognized concerning his mission to Africa. i.e., he spent 12 year "witnessing" and gained one African convert. But, realizing his mistake in method and approach, he went to other key areas of the Bible and taught principles of the law of God which pertained to every aspect of civilized living, hygiene, medicine, family and cultural institutions, and trade ( productivity).The Africans saw the superiority of the wisdom of these Biblical principles in daily living that "Livingstone himself was taken as a god"- because of the power and depth of his preaching and teaching. In other words, the wisdom of the Bible in all other aspects of life compelled the Africans to seek the Christ of those wise counsels of the Bible. When they learned from him how to solve problems concerning disease, hygiene, family and tribal strife, productivity and trade envy, political justice, and the end to the slave trade, they realized this man was sent from God. Is it any wonder that when Livingstone died on May 1, 1873, being discovered by his two servants, in the posture of prayer, that Central Africa mourned the loss of its greatest teacher to that point in their history ? The natives prepared his body to be sent back to a mourning England, but the natives themselves buried his heart in the African soil.

This simple example of a Scottish preacher exemplifies the need for the whole counsel of God, not just simply "getting saved”.

Submitted Wayne C Sedlak, ICHR

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Obama’s United States: Pre-Crime Division

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