First to clear up a misconception –

When I spoke of rebellion in my video – America – a Christian Foundation?

ORIGINAL VIDEO HERE:

I wasn’t referring to the Pilgrims who did all they could to peacefully find their freedom to worship. As far as I understand the story – King James the 1st was trying to force his will through the church of England – forcing Protestants and Catholics alike to conform to his own beliefs… In fact – they fled in a time when the King was demanding that all citizens took an Oath against the Pope and that the citizens worshiped as the Church of England deemed appropriate which ultimately led to them fleeing Europe and risking their lives to come to the ‘New World’. I don’t think the Pilgrims were wrong for leaving. I wouldn’t follow a leader who forced false religion on me either.

When I spoke of rebellion I was speaking of the men who actually broke away from the authority of England and declared America an independent nation. As far as I understand it – in a nut shell – the nation rebelled over unfair taxation without representation. As unfair as it may have been – I have a hard time proclaiming the rebellion as justified when I realize that Jesus, the Apostles, and their disciples did not revolt against the Roman occupation of Israel, or the oppression and persecution of the faith throughout the early centuries of Christianity.

Romans 13:1-7 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Despite the general Christian sentiment to paint the American Revolution as a Godly event – we should not forget Romans 13! Our rebellion from England based on tyranny carried out through taxation without representation is not based on anything Christ and the Apostles taught. People say God ordained this new government but we sure would have a hard time sating this looking at the fruits of this nation. The revolution really wasn’t about religious freedom – even though this was something that was important to America as they formed a new nation. Our colonies were already enjoying freedom of religion before the start of the Revolution. Now before we go any further I think we should also remember 1 Timothy Chapter 2 verse 1-8:

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle I am telling the truth, I am not lying as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

We are called to pray for the kings so we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in ALL Godliness and dignity… This is good according to God who ransomed Himself for us despite all the bad governing that was going on in the time that Jesus walked the earth. Its a higher calling for us to rise above the idea of rebelling. Paul finished verse eight with four words that are too curious to ignore… we are to pray without wrath or dissension… Again – I can’t state this enough – I have a hard time proclaiming the rebellion as justified when I realize that Jesus, the Apostles, and their disciples did not revolt against the Romans. Was the American Revolution an act without wrath or dissension? Is that even possible? I would say the early Pilgrims acted without wrath or dissension, but can the same be said for American Revolutionaries? I don’t think so.

Now another thing that troubles me concerning the claim that this nation was founded on Christianity is that Jesus wasn’t mentioned in the Declaration of Independence by name. Many have argued that those who signed the declaration understood the Trinity – and thus – Jesus is mentioned by way of mentioning God. While I agree that many – if not most of those who signed the declaration were indeed Trinitarians, the exclusion of Jesus’ name brings me to a startling conclusion which many American Christians do not accept, which is the declaration wasn’t written for Christians but for people of all religions – the declaration fits most religions just fine; Judaism, Islam, even Hinduism in a way. I also believe this because – there are other writings in America from the same time period the Declaration of Independence was written that plainly mention Jesus, the Holy Spirit and even Christianity, the religion – in the 1600′s there are many mentions of Jesus in official writings…

For instance – The Constitution of the New England Confederation (May 19, 1643) actually says Whereas we all came to these parts of America with the same end and aim, namely, to advance the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to injoy the liberties of the Gospell thereof with purities and peace, and for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the gospell.

The Fundamental Constitutions of Pennsylvania (1682), written by William Penn, says – that every Person that does or shall reside therein shall have and enjoy the Free Possession of his or her faith and exercise of worship towards God; in such way and manner as every Person shall in Conscience believe is most acceptable to God and so long as every such Person useth not this Christian liberty to Licentiousness, that is to say to speak loosely and prophainly of God, Christ or Religion, or to Committ any evil in their Conversation.

The Constitution of the State of North Carolina (1776), stated: Article XXXII That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State. (until 1876) In 1835 the word “Protestant” was changed to “Christian.”

The Constitution of the State of Maryland (August 14, 1776) That, as it is the duty of every man to worship God is such a manner as he thinks most acceptable to him; all persons professing the Christian religion, are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty; wherefore no person ought by any law to be molested… on account of his religious practice; unless, under the color [pretense] of religion, any man shall disturb the good order, peace or safety of the State, or shall infringe the laws of morality… yet the Legislature may, in their discretion, lay a general and equal tax, for the support of the Christian religion. (until 1851)

And the list goes on! State constitutions once said things that were exclusively Christian such as these… yet the national declaration painstakingly ignores Jesus? Obviously there was deliberate effort to avoid mentioning anything that would be expressly considered Christian even as the states included Christ in their own constitutions. Why was this? I believe it was so that down the road – the Supreme Court could force the states to remove Jesus from their Constitutions claiming that it violated separation of Church and State. Had Jesus been mentioned by name in the Declaration of Independence, this never would have been tolerated. While its obvious that Christianity was here from the start of America in a big way – be it through good intentions or devious deception – we were lulled into a system that has allowed opponents of Christianity to actually suppress its influence on our Land.

I also said I thought it was wrong how we killed the Indians as we ventured towards the West coast. I still believe this.

One other thing I’d like to address is people say we should focus on the good for God that our constitution has done – and that God created it and that Satan is trying to destroy it… Really? Why would Satan seek to destroy the one system that has given him the power to spread filth and greed across this land and ultimately the world? Whether we are willing to admit it or not – America has promoted a love for money that has brought on everything from a huge porno industry to the incredible illegal drug market to exploitation of third world nations. People complain that America has lost its jobs – and that nothing is made in America anymore – but thats because things are made cheaper elsewhere – and the bottom line is corporations want to make more money and consumers want to pay less money. Despite all the perceived good we can claim – we can’t ignore that our national freedom has done as much harm as it has good. Sure, we can worship in freedom, but so can the Satanist. Yes, we are free to spread the Gospel through freedom of speech but that also means that the sex and violence of Hollywood in the form of music and movies is free to infect society. Furthermore, our freedom has become a breeding ground for Christian division. I mean, how many thousands of denominations got their start right here? How many cult from false prophets such as the Mormons, the Jehovah Witnesses – the Seventh Day Adventists have come from America? We are the one and only nation ever to nuke another and don’t even get me started on abortion. Jesus said no good tree can produce bad fruit so what does this say about our nation? I know He was speaking about individuals but the principal can apply to our nation as well. Its a doubled edged sword that we have in America and that isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Now this may seem like I am being anti-America – and to that I say perish the thought! God put me here in this nation, I have grown up in the system – and I love my country… I view our nation as a body of people – one unit – and looking back at our life as one body – we have done things that have not been Christlike. Our insistence that the US was a Christian country as a way of trying to make it a Christian country again is misguided. From the time of the Declaration of Independence it can easily be demonstrated that ‘freedom’ has been chipping away at the foundation of Christianity that existed before the revolution. Denying these truths undermine our efforts to change anything in the hear and now. It would be like a Christian trying to go back and change the fact that they were an unrepentant sinner before they knew Christ… the past can’t be changed – it shouldn’t be denied – but by recognizing the problems today we can hopefully do better at making things right for tomorrow… Our denial of our past simply means doomed to repeat it…

Which leads me to the next issue at hand – and that is the NWO – which I am absolutely not in favor of… but we have to ask ourselves – how should we – as american christians – deal with it? If it should come about that tomorrow our nation joins such an unHoly alliance, how will we meet it?

It seems to me that many will just accept it. They don’t give much thought to these things. And even if that means that they will have to accept some marking – perhaps the mark of the beast – so be it… anything for the benefit of the whole right? This would be a sad mistake.

It seems to me that Americans on the other hand – will fight it. They will form militias, arm themselves to the teeth, kill and die for this system which has promoted this freedom that we are under. To me – this is repeating the same mistakes our founding fathers did. Killing for our so-called freedom. We should never forget that King David – a man who’s heart was after God’s own heart – was not permitted to build the Temple because of the blood on his hands…

1 Chronicles 28:2-3 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it. But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

The wrath of God is His alone… He will deal with the wicked – its simply not our calling. It seems to me that a Christian would resist the NWO just as the early Christians resisted the Romans. We can run – we can hide – but we most certainly can’t take up arms and fight the NWO because that’s not how the Christians handled oppression before the fourth century.

But what if you are an American Christian? Well, now you have some real choices to make… If you lean towards following the way the founding fathers of America – you will fight for the sovereignty of our nation. Yet – if the NWO – the One World Government – is part of the end of world that God has said will come – will you not then be fighting the will of God? If you simply accept the NWO then you are being bound to the anti-Christ and his system if the end of the world is soon to pass… but what would Jesus and the Apostles have done? Can there be any doubt that they would have fled – hidden – and died for the truth without killing their enemy? Is this not what they did? Now I know I am going to hear about how Jesus told the Apostles to get swords – and how there is a season for peace and for war – and so on – but I am asking – how did Jesus face those who killed Him? How about Stephen? Did the Apostles take up arms against the Jews who persecuted them? Did the disciples of the Apostles fight Nero and the Romans when they were burned at the stake or fed to the lions?

I’m not expecting this article to win me any friends – and I am sure it will anger many of you – even frustrate those of you who have heard me touch on these subjects previously – but consider these passages of scripture before you rip into me…

Matthew 6: 33-34 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

We are first to seek HIS kingdom – and HIS righteousness…

Mark 13 5-11
Jesus said to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many. When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.”You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Notice when Jesus speaks of being arrested – He doesn’t council us to fight – resist – and kill – He tells us not to worry about what we will say. In fact,- when speaking of how we are to deal with an evil man, He says…

Matthew 5:38-42″You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Now I have heard many ways of looking at this passage – but the bottom line is we are called to be so good it brings shame to those who are evil. So the NWO is at the front door, they’ve got guns and are ready to use them… are you going to shoot and kill as many as you can – or are you willing to trust God – even if that means you will lose your life and maybe even the lives of others?

Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Finally – I am very familiar with the argument that if we do not fight – then all the Christians will be dead and there will be no one left to preach the Gospel to the Lost… I am instantly reminded of the time Peter walked on water – but began to sink…

Matthew 14:31?Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”

If we truly believe its all in God’s hands then why don’t we trust Him in all ways?