Darkness Falls in the Western World..Part 2
Speaking of the American War of Independence, George Washington wrote in 1778 that, “the hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all of this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”1 [emphasis added]
George Washington led the Continental Armies – a group of ragtag colonialists against an experienced and better equipped British force. Washington was on the field of battle, watching the movements of forces and the clash of his armies against the superior power of the British empire. He knew that America was not raised by chance; it was raised by the hand of God.
But Washington’s warnings against infidelity and his reminder to be thankful for God’s blessings, which come with commensurate obligations, are no more fashionable in modern America than they were in the days of ancient Israel. Today, atheism and a godless evolutionism pervade public discourse. So-called science, such as that which imposed lockdowns, useless mask wearing, and the deadly Covid “vaccines”, has been elevated to the status of god. Ancient Israel worshipped the idols of other nations, and modern America worships licentious Hollywood, Anthony “I am science” Fauci, and Charles Darwin. The warnings of the Bible, and the themes of repentance and redemption, are thought irrelevant and antiquated, and it is not difficult to show that Washington’s warnings are almost entirely forgotten by this generation.
What will be the result?
God Himself warned the nation of Israel through Moses, down through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Micah and Habakkuk, and the other prophets about the coming destruction. Those stern warnings were disregarded until the ten northern tribes were finally destroyed by the nation of Assyria, and Judah and its capital city of Jerusalem was repeatedly destroyed as well, first by the Babylonians, and later, some decades after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ the Messiah, again by the Romans.
Christ warned Israel, “your house is left to you desolate.” Matthew 23:38. When Christ stood before Pilate, and Pilate asked the Jewish leaders who he should release, they desired the release of Barabbas, a robber and a murderer. When Pilate asked them what he should do with their King, Christ, they shouted, “we have no king but Caesar.”
It is not a new idea to connect American prosperity and success with faithfulness to God, any more than it is a new idea to connect ancient Israel’s apostasy with ancient Israel’s destruction. When Benjamin Franklin called the Constitutional Convention to prayer in the summer of 1787, he noted, "God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that “except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Psalm 127:1). I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”2 The tower of Babel was destroyed for faithless disobedience to the Creator God of the Universe. Lest any miss his point, Franklin is clearly warning America that its end will be the same if it loses the blessings and protections of heaven.
We live in a deteriorating and degenerate age. Violence, witchcraft and perversion of every sort is available at the tap of a smart phone button. False science mutilates children to supposedly change their biology. Millions of babies are killed for selfishness and convenience. Selfishness, narcissism, immorality and deceit are glorified by our entertainment industries. Atheism and relativism are taught as dogma in schools.
Watchful observers know that, like Rome, the western world is rotting at the core. Immoral. Decadent. Selfish. Effeminate. The question is asked – how can we stem the tide? How can we return to God, regain His favor, and forestall the looming judgments?
So-called “Christian nationalism” claims the solution to the widespread apostasy of America and the western world is for “Christians” to seize control of government and compel all people to abide by what it asserts is Christianity. This group hates the tyranny (and it is tyranny, make no mistake) of the woke progressive left and its ideological control of government, but it proposes to address leftist tyranny by imposing its own brand of Christian Nationalist tyranny.
The church and state combination of the woke left/government is an image to the church/state papacy. And Christian Nationalism, if it ever succeeded in controlling the government and imposing “Christianity” would be just as papal. How do you think the Inquisition started? For what purpose was it formed? It was formed to compel the conscience. There is no meaningful difference between the persecution of the Inquisition and the persecution of the left-over transgenderism or climate change. And there would be no meaningful difference between the Inquisition and a state controlled by Christian Nationalism.
Ideological control by the state, either as controlled by the left or the right, is nothing but the establishment of an orthodoxy and the punishment of any resultant “heretics”. If you disagree with the climate change farce, you are a heretic to the globalist tyrants. But if you disagree with the Christian Nationalists, who would compel the conscience on some other issue, you are a heretic to the Christian Nationalist tyrants. And either side would be perfectly happy to burn you at the stake.
So what is the solution?
The masses of the American colonies were from many different lands but were connected by the innate longing for temporal and religious liberty, and a desire to escape the heavy persecutorial hand of authoritarian kings and popes which had held sway over them and their ancestors for centuries. In modern parlance, they fled from state compulsion, and they would have fled from the child-confiscating mutilation of the left, as much as they fled from papists attempting to compel them to worship Mary.
There were many men in the time of Samson, but Samson was unique above all. What set bold Samson apart and made him different than all the other men of his age? How was it that he was equipped to stand alone, and to make war on the enemies of Israel?
We are told that Samson was called to be a leader and a liberator of the oppressed people of Israel. Consecrated to God from his birth, and sworn to uphold the principles of heaven, Samson was set apart from the “womb to the day of his death” – Judges 13:7.1
Just as there were many men in the time of Samson, there are many countries on the face of the earth. But America was called in its infancy to stand apart, to lift the banner of liberty of conscience for the oppressed masses of the world.
As Samson had a covenant with God which could not be broken without the loss of God’s special blessings, so America has a covenant with God, the breaking of which will not only result in the loss of the blessings of Providence but will results in the swift retribution of heaven against the nation, as it did in the days of old against apostate Israel.
What is the nature and content of this covenant?
Let us trace the terms of the representations by the Founders of America in the Declaration of Independence:
In Congress, July 4, 1776 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
All rights come from the Creator, not from the state. Governments do not make rights, they can only recognize a right or trample on a right. The secret of America’s success is that it safeguards the liberty of conscience of the Creator’s children, either from tyrants on the left (the current crop of tyrants), or any would-be tyrants on the right. The secret of America’s success is that it safeguards against human tyrants and protects inalienable rights.
If it forsakes this immutable principle, America will become nothing more than every other antagonistic and authoritarian human regime on the face of the earth, but with all the benefits that its forsaken Protestantism has bestowed.
1 The Writings of George Washington (from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. 39 volumes. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931), 12:343.
2 James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987), 209-210.
3 Samson’s mother was warned that what she ate and drank would impact the child growing inside her. She was prohibited from using any strong drink or eating anything unclean. God says that life begins in the womb, and that there is a connection between the health and spiritual strength of a child and the choices of the mother.
