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Is America “Babylon the Great”?

James F. Gauss. Ph.D.

July 19, 2022

Revelation 18 and the Fate of America (2021 Edition)

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“Dr. Gauss has authored a work that has elevated his star as a modern-day prophet. There are few books I have read that have held my attention for its entire duration. Every page is filled with pertinent news and information that should wake the church up and fire-up preachers to PREACH!”

David L. Cobb, Evangelist, Southern Baptist Conference

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Why would God choose to destroy a country that has  done so much good? Why did God send the enemies of Israel and Judah against her to destroy her? In the case of the dual kingdoms of Israel and Judah, it was because they broke their covenant with God; their covenant to follow Him and Him  only and His statutes. In the case of Babylon it was because it became  prideful, arrogant and refused to accept the only true God.

Today, God does not have to do the destroying directly. We as humans are completely capable of destroying ourselves. But why would God allow the United States to be destroyed, if that is the direction America is heading? One could reasonably argue that there are so many more despotic and evil nations and leaders that the world would be better without. However, no other country currently in existence, other than Israel, was specifically founded on biblical truth.    No other country, other than Israel, was established by founding fathers that made a covenant, an oath, with God and put it in the founding documents of the country.

America’s Founding Fathers. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America, in essence, if not in substance, made a covenant with the Lord their God through their faith in Jesus Christ. There is, of course, much debate about that among Christian and secular circles.  But the facts remain, that many, if not most, of the Founding Fathers, including those that signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 and those that drafted, debated and labored over the United States Constitution were unabashed about their religious convictions, most of whom were avowed Christians.

The 56 patriotic men who signed the Declaration of Independence appealed to God and pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor on behalf of the people of the yet to be formed new nation. They recognized completely that they were going up against  the world’s greatest military power of the era with a small group of untrained, rag-tag farmers and merchants and would need a miracle from God to win their independence from Britain. They made a covenant with God and solicited His protection.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Last sentence of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Now, when a people or a nation makes a vow and a covenant with God, God holds that nation or those people to a higher standard than He does a heathen nation. That is why John Adams (1735-1826), signer of the Declaration of Independence and the second president of    the United States, wrote in a letter to the Officers of the First Brigade   of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts on October 11, 1798 that, “Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other” (author’s emphasis). Adams knew, as did other Founding Fathers, that the United States and the U.S. Constitution that provided its guiding principles was based largely on the foundational truths of the Bible and the Christian faith. Many of America’s governmental foundations, as well as moral, criminal and personal property laws are based on the laws of the Old Testament.

When the Constitution of the United States of America was signed by the 55 delegates who became known as the “Founding Fathers” of the country, they signed a document which ended with, “Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven . . .” (author’s emphasis). George Washington, the presiding president of the Convention was the first to sign.

In his diary, on February 22, 1756, Adams made this entry:

Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God. . . . What a Eutopia [sic], what a Paradise would this region be.

Twenty years before he even knew there would be the need for a declaration of independence from Britain, Adams understood that  any future development of a new nation, if it were to succeed and be fundamentally different from all other nations, would have to be founded and based on solid biblical principles.

George Washington, who was designated as the Father of the United States of America and served as its first president, understood  that the country’s foundation and future success and viability rested in   the truth of God’s word in the Bible.

“The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity,” he penned for his first inaugural address in April, 1789; “and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes. Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the Supineness [inactiveness] or venality [corruption] of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting an inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchm[en]t can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other” (author’s emphasis).

Also, in his first inaugural address, Washington, ever so mindful of what the newborn country had just experienced a few years prior, wrote: “Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station [as president], 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 . . .”

Washington felt it was his duty to acknowledge that the country’s victory and establishment as a new independent nation was because of God’s faithfulness to their cause. He continued his reflection on God’s involvement, “that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a 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.”

Washington ended his first inaugural address with this final thought: “. . . 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 tranquility, and  dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of  their happiness, 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.”

Washington, who had experienced miracle after miracle on the revolutionary battlefield, understood that the nation’s continued success would depend on its willingness to persistently consult God for wisdom and direction and to acknowledge His role in the birth of the nation and the lives of its citizens.

No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People 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. . .

George Washington

First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789

The word of God, Washington believed would be the new nation’s benchmark to keep it on the right track. John Adams also believed that it was the “general Principles of Christianity” that were essential to the ongoing freedom and security of America. 

Excerpted from Revelation 18 and the Fate of America (2021 Edition), pp.43-46.

Is America “Babylon the Great” in the Book of Revelation?  Babylon of Revelation is not the resurrection of the Old Testament Babylon of history.  Rather, it is a description of a metaphorical people who have rejected God through their pride, arrogance and perverted living.  The United States has been on a downward moral slide for many decades, but now it has accelerated that slide at warp speed.  How long will God relent of His judgment? Is it now upon us?

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A Prayer for Repentance in the Church

James F. Gauss

This prayer was originally written on January 27, 2012 and I posted it on February 9, 2012 under the title, “A Prayer for Revolution.” The “Revolution” I identified was one of a spiritual nature. A lot has happened since that time, both in the Church in America and the country. Unfortunately, much of what has transpired in these years has further dragged the Church and country downward into the cesspool of sin and godlessness that has further separated us, as a Christian body and nation from the God of our founding and foundation.

Once again, I submit this prayer, with some additions, but under the title of “A Prayer for Repentance.” Please feel free to share it far and wide. America and the Church in America desperately need a change of heart and a full return to Almighty God, or both will suffer greatly in the years ahead.

A Prayer for Repentance

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Heavenly Father, in the name of Your Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior of all who will accept His sacrificial work on the Cross of Calvary, I fervently pray that you send a spiritual revolution upon America.

I pray that You raise up, at this time, bold and godly men and women of righteousness in Your Church across America that will lead Your people in a heart-wrenching repentance; a repentance:

• For remaining silent and unmoved by the murder of millions of innocent children through grisly abortion;
• For remaining silent when prayer and the Bible were taken out of our schools;
• For remaining silent when the practice of homosexuality and other perversions were sweeping the land;
• For remaining silent as corruption and injustice were running rampant throughout the country;
• For remaining silent as church leaders perverted Your Gospel;
• For remaining silent as politicians led America into bankruptcy, stealing the financial future away from current and future citizens;
• For remaining silent while You were banned from the halls of government, education, our places of work and our communities;
• For remaining silent as the country’s defenses and military are gutted and weakened;
• For remaining silent as subversive forces are allowed to infiltrate the land under the guise of freedom of speech and multi-culturalism;
• For remaining silent as anti-American politicians and other leaders pass laws or make judgments that subvert the sovereignty and freedom of the land;
• For “embracing the culture” of the land and bringing it into the Church instead of becoming a “light in darkness” and a “city on a hill” and “salt” among the lost;
• For watering down the Gospel of Truth and Light so that it no longer guides lost souls out of the depths of sin and hopelessness;
• For adopting materialism and prosperity as our gospel and god;
• For seeking mere mortal men and women to save us from the consequences of our sin and falling away from You, Almighty God;
• For proudly promoting our perversions worldwide for financial gain and pleasure;
• For allowing your God-ordained family of a man, woman and children to be torn apart and destroyed by a godless society;
• For allowing godless indoctrination of our children into the public schools and universities that extoll the virtues of sex and perversion; socialism, Marxism and communism or anti-Christ ideology;
• For allowing America’s history, in all its imperfections, to be torn asunder, revised and perverted;
• and numerous other failings that have separated us from You.

Father God, have mercy on me/us and forgive me/us, I humbly pray, for my/our many sins against you and for falling away from the truth of your Word and not standing firm against the evil in the Church and in the land. Help me/us, Father, to be strong and courageous in standing for Your truth and righteousness.

Father, may You raise up godly men and women in the tradition of those bold men and women who spoke out against oppression and tyranny during the Revolution that spurred the founding of this great country, the United States of America, and may the spirit of repentance flood the land with seeds of revival like never before.

So, that You, Father, will be lifted up as the One and only Sovereign Lord of the Church and America.

So, that You, Father, will be our One and only Trusted and Faithful Leader.

A revival, Father, that will return the heart of the Church and America’s people to You; to a foundation of faith in Your saving grace and redemption.

A revival, Father, that will return the Church in America back to the foundations of God-inspired truth, justice and personal freedom so that we may once again be a “light” on a hill; “salt” on the earth.

A revival Father that will bring godly wisdom and knowledge to our thinking, understanding, decision-making and voting decisions.

Thank You Father for so richly blessing America in the past; for revealing Yourself to those who set the godly and just foundations of this country so many years ago.

Thank You for Your mercy and grace.

In the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, Amen!

For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

1 Peter 4:17

Exciting News! New Website/New Release

Recently, I have established an “Author-Direct” website: https://www.jamesgaussbooks.com.  Through this site I will be able to offer my books at a significant discount (15-25%) off the regular retail or Amazon sale price, as well as offer free shipping on most books to addresses in the lower 48 states.  I will also be able to offer bulk purchase discounts on select books to the same address for ministries, Bible study groups, homeschool groups, youth groups, etc. My books will still be listed on Amazon since they offer e-book versions and worldwide distribution.

Please help to promote this new website by forwarding or cut & paste and send it to all your e-mail contacts, as well as posting on your other social media sites.  Before you do, even if you are not interested in purchasing a book, visit the site.  I would appreciate your feedback.

Along with the new site launch, I am releasing the “2021 Edition” of my 2013 book, “Revelation 18 and the fate of America.”  It is an extremely important read for all Christians (and non-Christians) that should drive us to our knees.

America and the Church in America are in deep trouble. This book not only identifies the issues, but provides the solutions to reverse the decline and restore America and the Church.

This book retails for $21.95 on Amazon, but through my website you may purchase it for $16.50 (25% savings) and still get free shipping.

Order today and get this 444-page blockbuster every American needs to read.

God bless and thank you for helping to spread the word.

James F. Gauss

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Patriot Quotes for Today

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin’d to destroy the people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.

Samuel Adams (1722-1803), second cousin to John Adams, and known as the Father of   the American Revolution, wrote in the Boston Gazette on December 2, 1771

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824

 As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.

            Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), a Founding Father and the first Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington, was a renowned interpreter of the U.S. Constitution.  In his impassioned speech at New York’s Constitution Ratifying   Convention on June 21, 1788.

            . . . the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1798; signer of the Declaration of Independence; educator

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

            Benjamin Franklin, the consummate multi-tasker and signer of both the Declaration of             Independence and the United States Constitution, penned in a letter on April 17, 1787

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Samuel Adams, October 16, 1778, Letter to John Trumbull

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppressive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

George Washington

The manners of women, are in the surest criterion by which to determine whether a Republican government is practicable, in a nation or not.  The Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Swiss, the Dutch, all lost their public spirit, their Republican Principles and habits, and their Republican forms of Government, when they lost the modesty and domestic virtues of their women. . . . 

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families,” Adams continued. “In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children, in their earliest years. The mothers are the earliest and most instructors of youth. . . . The vices and examples of the parents cannot be concealed from the children.  How is it possible that children can have any sense of the sacred obligation of morality or religion if, from their earliest infancy, they learn that their mothers live in habitual infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant infidelity to their mothers? 

John Adams’ autobiography

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found.  The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. . . . Let us, by all wise and constitutional measures, promote intelligence among the People, as the best means of preserving our liberties. 

James Monroe (1758-1831), a Founding Father and fifth president of the United States of America, his first presidential inaugural speech on March 4, 1817

We the People, Birth of a Nation

Just released a second addition (revised and expanded) of a an early American history book I published in 2005.  If you are an American history buff or just want to know the true history behind America’s start and the Founding Fathers, you will want a copy of We the People, Birth of a Nation, Second Edition for your very own library.  I guarantee you will not find another American history book like it anywhere.  It is now available on Amazon, but will soon be available at other online sites or through your local bookstore.  At 640 pages it is chock full of original documents and the words of the Founders.  It’s an easy read that you will enjoy and cherish as a family heirloom.

Are you tired of American history that has been revised and sanitized to be politically correct or reinterpreted to conform to present-day political or philosophical thinking? We the People: Birth of a Nation, from A Summary View of the Rights of British America, written by Thomas Jefferson, through the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution to President Washington’s Farewell Address, covers the most important period of America’s history.

Learn about the miraculous and providential underpinnings that established America as the most unique nation of free people in the history of the world. Read the actual documents and about their historical significance, as well as the thinking of those Founding Fathers who put them in force for the posterity of all Americans.

Each historical document had its place and importance and is presented in its entirety for your review. Each is preceded by an informative historical narrative to help the reader understand the importance and place each document plays in America’s history and form of government.

Birth of a Nation provides the reader with unique historical insight like no other American history text. It is an historical heirloom for every American.  Read history as it was meant to be read.

http://www.amazon.com/We-People-Birth-Nation-Edition/dp/1503022196/ref=sr_1_6_twi_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414672052&sr=8-6&keywords=james+f+gauss

The Prophetic Wisdom & Warnings of George Washington

(Excerpted, in part, from We the People: Birth of a Nation, 2^nd Edition.  Available on Amazon.com and elsewhere starting October 30, 2014.)

George Washington, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army—the forerunner of the U.S. military—and the first President of the United States of America, was a humble man of prayer and devout patriot. He was also a man of exceptional wisdom, discernment and vision.   Toward the end of his second term, Washington had Hamilton review the Madison draft of his farewell speech that he had intended to use at the end of his first term and make revisions. While Madison and Hamilton constructed the draft, it was Washington who carefully considered every word, every addition and deletion, before giving his approval.

Interestingly, it was never given orally by Washington but on September 19, 1796, it was published in the American Daily Advertizer in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter The Independent Chronicle, the published voice of the New England Republicans, printed the address.

With much reluctance, Washington turned down the offer for a third term. Washington had longed for the privacy of his beloved Mount Vernon since the end of the war. Two weeks before he took the oath of office on April 30, 1789, he told his fellow citizens of Alexandria, Virginia, that “my love of retirement is so great, that no earthly consideration, short of conviction of duty, could have prevailed upon me to depart from my resolution ‘never more to take any share in transactions of a public nature.’” Even when his second presidential term ended in March, 1797, his retirement and return to Mount Vernon would be brief. In 1798, as war with France seemed to be on the near horizon, Washington accepted President John Adams’ urging to lead the American military once again. His call was short-lived as tensions eased and he was able to return to his Virginia estate.

Although, unlike many of his compatriot leaders, Washington lacked a formal and collegiate education, it did not hamper his keen insight and wisdom that shone forth in his voluminous correspondence. Notwithstanding Madison’s and Hamilton’s contributions, the address is clearly Washington in style and content. In the lengthy salute to America, he presents several personal convictions and concerns for the future of his beloved country.

Importance of unity and the dangers of factions and divisions. He was greatly concerned about the growing trend of individual wants at the expense of national unity. Personal freedom, Washington believed, could only continue to exist and prosper with the desire of all Americans to be united in the ongoing, uniquely American brand of freedom, for the benefit of the whole nation. Strong, misguided, individualism or regionalism—that erupted into the Civil War—could destroy the young nation.

Washington firmly believed that for the Union of states to survive, unity, not only among the nation’s leaders, but its people as well would be essential. . . . as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; he wrote, that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; [and] that the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it . . . and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.

A man seasoned by a long military career and an extreme love of his country, Washington cherished the hard-won freedom and independence that was to be handed down to generations of Americans to come after him. But he was concerned about the real threat of factions and divisions in both politics and the people.

The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of  this truth; as  this  is  the  point  in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium [rarity] of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

Washington foresaw, that while the newly conceived U.S. Constitution had sufficient safeguards, that there would arise in the future those from both within the country and from outside the country that would seek to weaken the nation by a “divide and conquer” strategy if the populace was not watchful and committed to liberty, justice and prosperity for all, divesting themselves of self-interests. Whether Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections, he advocated. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles.

Perhaps Washington did not foresee the degree of “multi-culturalism” America would embrace 200 years later, but he did fully understand that unless all residents of the nation, whether native-born or foreign-born, fully accepted the “land of the free” as their cherished home—culture, language, laws and morality—the nation would soon be torn asunder. This unity among people of different backgrounds and beliefs was essential, not only to the country’s safety and prosperity, but to its strength and protection against all enemies foreign and domestic. . . . While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves . . . . they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.

Washington believed that Union should be the primary object of patriotic desire. Sadly, America today has never been so fractious and divided since the Civil war.  America has degenerated from a society of committed and unified freedom fighters and lovers to a “what’s in for me” society that appears willing to sacrifice true freedom at all costs as long as they can get something out of it.  As the venerable Benjamin Franklin once stated, He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

. . . there will always be reason, Washington wrote, to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.

Dangers of the party system. Washington detested the fractious and partisan two party political system that he saw developing under his administration. He saw it as destructive and unhealthy for the country. The party system of government, he foresaw, had the potential to go beyond the normal political checks and balances and rip the power of self-government out of the hands of the citizens.

To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, he penned, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliance, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. . . . This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. . . . The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution . . . till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.

Washington undoubtedly would be horrified how the Constitution has been ripped apart by special interest groups and self-serving politicians over the years since his demise. It is no longer a Constitution of just laws for all, but only for those who no longer have the power and will to confront injustice and the powerful.  The two-party system he believed had the potential to tear the country apart.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

“Money talks” as they say and Washington understood that the propensity of human nature to lobby and seek favor with politicians had the destructive potential to subvert the Constitution and destroy the liberty and union he and so many other patriots fought and died for. Today, the majority of Congress no longer truly represents the will or desires of the people, but only of those who can grease the palms of special interests or finance re-election campaigns.  It seems that the typical politician is not in office to stand up for and serve the people, but is there to secure the permanency of his or her future. Party factions, Washington wrote, in the course of time and things, . . . become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

One method of assault on the Constitution he believed would be alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. It seems that with each succeeding generation of leaders in high places each one flirts with stretching the efficacy of the Constitution.  The current administration in the Whitehouse is no exception and, perhaps, has clearly and willfully violated the Constitution with every available opportunity.  With each constitutional violation, the nation and its people lose another chick of freedom and independence, and like the proverbial frog in a kettle of gradually heated water, does not perceive the danger until it is too late.

This [divisive party] spirit, Washington continued in his warning speech, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. . . . it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, Washington continued, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, . . . has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. Has America not arrived at this point today?  According to Washington, it is up to the people—a wise and educated people—to rise up and discourage and restrain such abuse of servanthood.

[The party system] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty, Washington noted. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

Almost since the signing of the U.S. Constitution into law, partisan politics soon developed, starting with the Federalists and anti-Federalists. As the Democratic and Republican parties developed, sides became more permanently drawn and partisan politics has apparently reached its zenith with the current Congress and presidential administration, as over 380 bills passed by the House languish on the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who refuses to introduce them before the Senate for debate.  Washington’s foresight, unfortunately, has come to full fruition.

Protecting the sanctity of the Constitution. To Washington and those who labored over the Constitution and to the majority of those in Congress, the Constitution represented the bedrock upon which all current and future law and liberty would depend. It was divinely inspired with God-given individual rights. It was not something to be whimsically changed by partisan politics or by legislative or judicial fiat. To do so would destroy its sanctity and strength. It was a document that was thoughtfully and prayerfully conceived that did and would forever provide the stable foundation upon which all American generations could stand with confidence and security.

Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.

. . . a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.

. . . It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield (my emphasis).

Washington keenly realized that if the three branches of government—Executive, Legislative & Judicial—that the Founders so wisely set forth in the Constitution as distinct entities, with specific purposes and as a check and balance against each other, ever became co-mingled, with one usurping the role and responsibility of the other, it would result in real despotism. Have we not arrived at such a destiny as the Executive ignores the Legislative and makes, institutes and ignores whatever laws it desires?  And, as the Judicial selects what laws it chooses to enforce and modifies or changes those laws it does not like.  Truly, tyranny has arrived in the United States just as Washington feared and predicted.

Public and national debt. Washington was not opposed to indebtedness, but recommended that it should be used sparingly and only in times of national emergency. Whatever national debt that might be incurred “we ourselves ought to bear” it, Washington recommended, rather than pass it on to succeeding generations. When times of peace and prosperity returned, then that was the time to pay off the debt and not pile on more debt, thus increasing the burden for the next generation.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for    danger    frequently   prevent   much    greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.

Unfortunately, America’s national debt situation is out of control and impossible to pay off as politician after politician votes to “kick the can” of debt control down the road year after year. The National Debt will exceed $18 trillion by year-end with “unfunded” liabilities at a staggering $124 trillion.  Yet, congressional and administration spending continues out-of-control with more and more spending bills being whisked through Congress or put into action by Executive Orders.  We continue to send billions abroad, even to our enemies, as jobs and American lifestyles plummet into the basement.  Washington, who received his education in the field of hard knocks, knew what he was talking about.  Too bad no one after him followed his advice.

Foreign relations and national defense. One of the greatest threats to the American style of life and freedom would be the outside adverse influence of non-Americans and foreign governments. Under his scrutiny, these influences would become the destructive “foes of republican government”, Washington believed. Permanent alliances with foreign powers, in Washington’s view, were inadvisable and potentially injurious to American sovereignty and freedom.  Although he was not an isolationist—he saw the need for world trade cooperation—he believed that long-term alliances would be detrimental and not in the enduring best interest of the country.  Foreign entanglements and the large military build-up that might result would be “particularly hostile to republican liberty,” he surmised. For Washington and his fellow patriots who had risked all for the sake of true freedom, they realized that God had blessed them with the formation of the most unique and workable form of government for a free and fully represented people that the world had ever known. To Washington and his like-minded patriots, it was worth protecting at all costs.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

. . . The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations,  to   have   with   them as little political connection as possible.

. . . It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world . . . .

. . . Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences . . . .

. . . Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

When it came to foreign trade, Washington abhorred the idea that one nation would be treated any different than another. To create a “favored nation” status would only cultivate “a variety of evils” for America. As Washington continued his warnings in his farewell speech, he offered this prophetic advice:

. . . a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils? Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . a free people ought to be constantly awake . . . that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. . . . Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests (my emphasis).

One of the biggest mistakes America and its politicians has ever made was granting China “favored nation” status under President Bill Clinton. It was virtually a one-sided deal that highly favored China and immediately resulted in a flow of American jobs, technology and manufacturing to China, allowing China to become the world’s strongest economy at the expense of the American worker and American family.  At the same time the American consumer fell in love with “cheap” goods flooding the U.S. market, oblivious to the realization that one day it would cost them their jobs, wages and standard of living.  A nation that cannot produce for itself and exports the production of goods and services abroad is destined for an inferior and declining economy.

The necessity of religion and morality in the citizens and the government. For historians and others who have concluded that Washington was not a man of God, their conclusions would seem to be fallacious and misguided. Washington considered religion and morality two of the “great pillars of human happiness.” Indeed, religion and morality were “indispensable supports” for political prosperity. In fact, in his view, any person that would seek to undermine these pillars could not be considered to be a patriot. If one subverted the religious foundation of the country, “Where,” asked Washington, “is the security for property, for reputation, for life . . .?” As for individual or national morality, he believed it could not be maintained in the absence of religious education and acted upon principles of faith. It was and would always be that religion and morality would be the foundation of a good and just government.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert  the oaths which are   the   instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

. . . Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

It would be no great surprise to Washington if he were able to observe the state of affairs in America today. After all, he warned, without a foundation of biblical morality and virtue it would be impossible to have an effective and just government and society.  Without the strong and clear foundation of religion—and he meant Christianity—America would soon collapse into an immoral society lead by despotic leaders.

America, you have arrived. You were properly and prophetically warned by our nation’s finest leader.

ALSO READ this America in Prophecy book, Revelation 18 and the fate of America.

America in Crisis

At the beginning of America’s Revolutionary War with England, a new Englishman immigrant to the American colonies, Thomas Paine, began to write a series of 16 articles on The American Crisis.  Prior to arriving in Philadelphia on November 30, 1774, Paine had never visited the New World called America.  However, he quickly became a staunch ally of the colonists in their quest for independence from the British crown.

In his first article, published on December 23, 1776, he started with the now famous line: These are the times that try men’s souls. He followed that with, The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The fledgling country of America was in deep trouble.  Suffering under the oppressive and tyrannical rule of England, the majority of colonists felt they had no choice but to fight against King George III and his military might for their freedom.  While their heart and spirit was resolute, the young, developing nation faced daunting, if not impossible issues.  Leadership in the country was not completely unified and was still evolving and maturing.  The military was practically non-existent, made up of a rag-tag bunch of farmers and merchants and was seriously out-gunned and unprepared to go up against the superior forces of the British regulars and Hessian (German) mercenaries.  America’s military leadership was unproven and Congress had to “settle” on young George Washington who had never won a military campaign.  America had no navy to go up against the best navy in the world at the time.  The financial condition of the country was poor, with little or no central financial resources to finance the huge and costly undertaking.  By all observations and assessments, America was doomed to failure in this often ill-advised venture called “independence”.

Once again, America stands emerged in a crisis, a crisis like no other and no less to its survival than that of the American Revolution.  Only this time America is dealing with a multitude of crises from within as well as from outside.  At the heart of America’s crises is inept and unwilling leadership, both in politics and the church—past and present.

Some say that what America needs is another “revolution” to restore its fundamental foundations and greatness.  Even Thomas Jefferson believed that, The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure (Thomas Jefferson’s letter to William Stephens Smith on November 13, 1787).  Whether a true revolution will be needed in America, time will tell, but time is getting short.

The United States of America has been on the slippery slope of decay for many decades.  However, the acceleration of the decline has intensified over the last six years—yes, during the Obama administration.

Morally.  America is morally bankrupt.  Her moral decay started long ago but has accelerated at warp speed under a president who strongly opposes “traditional” marriage and has become a forceful advocate for perverted sexual unions.  America is now the largest exporter of online pornography in the world, dispensing 60 percent or 428 million pages of perversion, with 66 percent coming from one state, California.  In the latest survey, 48 percent of America’s “first-born” children are born outside of a marriage union.  Since the passage of Roe vs. Wade abortion legislation in 1973, America has willfully killed over 56 million potential citizens and exported this heinous crime worldwide.  For more information, see these two links, here and here.

Financially.  America’s national debt is unsustainable and approaching $18 trillion with around $125 trillion in “unfunded” liabilities.  Obama and his Federal Reserve method of dealing with this has been to pack on another nearly $10 trillion during his six years in office with trillions more to come before he leaves office and tens of trillions more after he is long gone. Under Obama, America’s “debt to government revenue” has soared to 656%, the highest in the world.  Compare that to near bankrupt Greece which had a debt to government revenue of 351%, while the average for all 27 Eurozone countries was 40%.  See this link here for more information.

Economically.  Instead of trying to cut the deficit, Obama authorized the Fed to print money at the rate of $85 billion/month.  Obama’s economic policies have been and will continue to be proven to be disastrous.   While the stock market has mushroomed due to all the easy money printed by the Fed, middle-class families are falling behind financially and the ranks of the poor and those on the government dole have skyrocketed.   America’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth from 2008-2012 was one of the lowest in the Western Hemisphere.  Full time, family supporting jobs have evaporated with millions of new college graduates working at low wage jobs or not working at all in their chosen field of study.  For more information, see this link here.

Militarily.   Since taking office in early 2009, President Obama has been intent on deconstructing the U.S. military, downsizing and weakening it at a time when America’s traditional and surging new adversaries are growing and strengthening.  During his tenure, America has been overtly threatened by North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and an ever-growing array of Islamic terrorist groups and armies.  Yet, he has the audacity to proclaim that under his administration the world has never been safer.  Over two hundred high ranking military leaders have been fired by Obama and another 500 or more career officers have received “pink slips”.  Under his “command” the military has not only been severely weakened but has become demoralized and seriously unprepared for major battle.  For more information, see this link here.

Politically.   Unfortunately, at a time when America needs a strong leader of unprecedented character, it has a two-term self-absorbed, narcissistic leader who cannot and will not lead—but will never turn down an opportunity to golf, vacation or fund raise at the expense of the taxpayer.  Obama is a leader who refuses to listen to his military advisors or any other advisors unless they agree with his destructive, socialistic and tyrannical policies.  He is one who has been the most divisive and constitutionally defying leaders the country has ever had; flaunting and abusing the rule of law anywhere he is allowed.  He refuses to secure America’s borders and has freely invited illegals into the country along with assorted criminals, drug lords and terrorists.  His democratic cohorts and assorted “czars” have wrecked havoc with America’s judicial system and laws, creating one unresolved scandal after another—anyone of which would have led to the impeachment of previous presidents.  See this link here for more information.

Spiritually. (chap 19 link)  The Judeo-Christian faith has been under relentless attack in America for many decades, partly because the church in America has grown weak, worldly and complacent.  Because of the addiction to “tax exempt” status, the majority of churches and their leaders would rather preach the gospel of compliance than the Gospel of God’s truth and righteousness.  Under the current administration the attacks on free speech and religious freedom have accelerated at a time when atheists and an assortment of “rights” groups have successfully denied the Judeo-Christian community of faith their God-given rights.  For more information, see this link here. 

America’s people who believe in God have one choice and one choice only when it comes to redeeming their lives, their family and their nation—they must turn from their wicked ways, repent and return to God.  Non-believers will scoff at this, convinced that they have the answers to America’s problems, but will only take the country further into the abyss.   “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).

America stands at the proverbial fork in the road and once again she must chose whether to follow the heathen, Baal or God.  But “a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom,” warned John Adams in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 17, 1775, “can never be restored.  Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” (From Revelation 18 and the fate of America, p. 354).

Prayer for Revolution

For more information and understanding of where America has been, is currently and where it is headed, read Revelation 18 and the fate of America.  You might also want to read Islam & Christianity: A Revealing Contrast and We the People: Birth of a Nation.

Who Was Like Her (Chapter 17 Excerpt)

. . . and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like this great city?’

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.’ Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!

Revelation 18:18-21

On May 23, 1785, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his friend and London merchant, George Whatley, on the nature of the members of Congress who represent the people of the newly formed government of the United States.

They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People’s Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections.

Old Ben was hopeful, but over two centuries hence; human nature has overtaken American politics.   No longer are the majority that are elected to Congress appear to be serving the people that elected them, but rather serving their own interests and whatever will get them re-elected.  They no longer seem to be conducting the “people’s business” but rather their own business.  And as far as having “no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages”, it seems that almost everyone in Congress is there for self-enrichment. Franklin envisioned or assumed that those who were elected to Congress would be statesmen and patriots, there for only one thing, to serve their fellow countrymen and not to enrich themselves with “enormous salaries or pensions”.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. Thomas Jefferson letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787

The concept of a “limited government” as envisioned by the Founding Fathers and addressed in the U.S.  Constitution (particularly in the 10^th Amendment and in Articles I, II and III), has been transformed and exploded into an unlimited government, without restraints, that controls every aspect of the life of the citizen.  There are so many criminal and tax laws on the books that not even the Library of Congress (the federal government depository) can say how many there are that affect life in America.  In 2012 alone, an estimated 40,000 new state laws went into effect across the country.  America was once a bastion of freedom, equality, military might and economic independence, but has declined into an “also-ran” among the world’s nations.

Samuel Adams had it right when he wrote a letter to James Warren, President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress on November 4, 1775.  “No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”  The American populous has been so “dumped-down” over the last several decades about their constitutional heritage that virtually no one less than 40 years of age can tell you what the Bill of Rights says or what privileges it offers American citizens.  The more ignorant the population becomes the more susceptible it becomes to tyranny and oppression from within.

The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.  Thomas Jefferson, letter to David Humphreys, March 18, 1789

Perilous Times and Perilous Men.  Indeed, Americans are living in perilous times among perilous leaders that many people feel are taking the country down a detrimental path of no return.  “But know this,” the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, “that in the last days perilous times will come:  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

America, some feel, has been in decline—spiritually, economically, morally and militarily—for quite some time.  The country has needed strong, patriotic, constitutional leadership for decades and when it appeared that things could get no worse, the people saw fit to elect and re-elect one of the most incompetent, self-aggrandizing and deceptive leaders in the country’s history.

It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.  Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia Query 19, 1781

As the spirituality and morals of a nation deteriorate, the people tend to elect the leaders they deserve.  Those who are devoid of God-fearing morals, elect the same.  The vast majority of Americans either do not have a clue as to what is happening in America or are complicit members of this advance guard of radical socialism.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.  Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, May 27, 1788

If Americans had been listening closely to Senator Barack Obama’s Berlin, Germany speech on July 24, 2008, perhaps they would have heard beyond their euphoric expectations of the first U.S. president of color and discovered a truly frightening man and his socialistic ideologies.  They would have recognized that Obama’s true dream and goal was not for a better, stronger America, but a weaker, globalized United States of America that would fit more into his anti-colonialist theology.

At the time of his worldwide campaign tour in 2008, many globalists abroad were cheering him on, not because he was black, but because of his socialistic, globalist, One World government philosophy.  The world saw Obama as a man who believes that America must be weakened and subdued and that he was the person willing to subvert America’s greatness and sovereignty to the United Nations and the rest of the world.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

In Obama’s A World that Stands as One speech on July 24, 2008 in Berlin, Germany, he stated that, “The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand.”  On the surface this sounds good, but when one understands Obama’s mindset, it really means that he is against American sovereignty; against American “exceptionalism”.  He sees America as just a domineering, colonial power that must be put in its place.  With that perspective in mind, digest some of his words that day.

• “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”
• “This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East.”
• “People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment. This is our time.”
• “People of Berlin – and people of the world – the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.”

Barack Hussein Obama, as presidential candidate in Berlin or as President in the Whitehouse has no interest or intent on restoring America’s greatness on any level. He is out to see that America is humbled and consigned to the ash heap of all great civilizations.  However, he is not alone.  Many of his predecessors laid fertile ground upon which he could easily build.

The Purging of the U.S. Military.  To accomplish his goal of a weaker America, Obama has been stealthily decimating the U.S. Military.  With the complicit liberal mainstream media standing idly by and succeeding in keeping the public ignorant of the subversiveness of their president, Obama has been systematically dismantling the finest military force in the world.  In just his first term in office he has modified the military’s “Rules of Engagement” to the extent that it has put more U.S. soldiers at risk and elevated the U.S. military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The 12-year war in Afghanistan, alone, has resulted in 2,290 U.S. military deaths and 19,464 wounded (source: Dept. of Defense, November 6, 2013).  Of those casualties, 630, or 27 percent, were killed during George W. Bush’s tenure as President and the remaining 73 percent under Obama’s presidency.  Of the 19,464 soldiers wounded in Afghanistan, 85 percent have occurred during Obama’s five years in office.  Military leaders in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan have constantly complained that their hands are being tied in an effort to carry out an effective military campaign in both countries.

Obama has further weakened the military by authorizing women to serve in combat positions; rescinding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, thus allowing homosexuals to freely practice their lifestyle while serving in the military.  He has down played the fight against Islamic terrorism, trying to placate the Muslims of the world and create a politically correct military view of Islam that waters down the true threat to America.  In reality, Obama has created a U.S. military after his own beliefs that coddles, sanctifies and promotes his ideals and his voting constituency—the minorities, women, homosexuals and Muslim service personnel.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. George Washington, First Annual Address to Congress, January 8, 1790

Perhaps as a result of changing military policies (or maybe not related at all), suicide among America’s military personnel is escalating.  In 2012, 524 U.S. servicemen and women committed suicide, the highest number on record.  Of these, 352 were active duty members; 172 inactive.  The suicide rate among military veterans is rising rapidly and greatly exceeds that of the general population.  The Veterans Administration estimates that 18 veterans per day commit suicide on average, or 1 in 5 U.S. suicides.  “To be honest, we don’t know how many veterans are dying by suicide,” commented Jan Kemp, who heads the Veteran Administration’s suicide prevention program.  In any case, it is a sad commentary on the state of America’s military.  After surviving the horrors of combat, some of America’s finest die at their own hands.

However, the most despicable act of America’s Commander-in-Chief is his outright war against America’s military leaders.  Since he took office early in 2009, Obama has purged all four branches of the U.S. military of 197 (last count) prime military leaders, many in key positions of military defense.  Why?  Because, in the majority of cases, they disagreed with him.

Such a rampant elimination of military leaders by an American Commander-in-Chief is unprecedented in all of American military history.  It has become so bad, that along with Obama’s military funding cuts, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Ray Odierno revealed in late October, 2013, that the U.S. Army only had two brigades that he would consider combat ready.  That is a total of 6,000 to 10,000 troops.  Gen. Odierno noted that, due to the sequester budget cuts, the . . . [For more information, read Revelation 18 and the fate of America.