James F. Gauss, Ph.D.
May 13, 2023
No. 278
The following is excerpted from the author’s book, Revelation 18 and the Fate of America (2021 Edition), pages 43-47.
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.
The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.
Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System (John Adams, June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson; author’s emphasis).
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