The Great American Experiment

Verse of the Week

And then I will declare to them, from everlasting, I never knew you;

"depart from me, those working lawlessness!"

(Matthew 7:23)

(HRB Note: The lawless gospel message that Christianity is teaching did not originate from the bible and when Yahshua returns all those who have been practicing lawlessness will be cast into the lake of Fire. (Psalms 6:8)

Thought for the Week

One of the keys to conducting a successful experiment is the application of “control mechanisms” to regulate environmental variables. Control mechanisms must be in place or the experiment will be meaningless and thus a failure. When the USA began even the Founding Fathers knew it was an experiment and knew that controls would be needed for it to succeed. This grand experiment is now failing because the two primary controls are being ignored. This experiment was conducted by the people and the Government they formed and employed a “control” to regulate each. The people were, in general, regulated by the moral principles of the Bible. The Government was, in general, regulated by the Constitution.

A key component of the experiment was the separation of powers as dictated by the Constitution. The entire experiment has gone awry as the Government (and politicians) resist all efforts at any type of restraining control whatsoever. Under the Constitution all laws must come from the Legislative branch. Yet, today, the Executive branch passes thousands of laws every year under the guise of regulation. The Judicial branch also creates laws all by itself under the guise of “precedents”. As bad, if not worse, both the Executive and Judicial branches randomly and selectively enforce or ignore the laws that are enacted by the Legislative branch.

Taxation without representation was a big issue when the experiment was initiated. Under the Constitution only the Legislature – the representative branch of government – could enact taxation. Yet, today, the Executive branch enacts thousands of new taxes every year under the guise of fees. Failure to pay these fees will result in action to collect even more money under the guise of penalties; and, if necessary the Judicial branch will assist in these collections.

The control mechanism for the people, though not mandated, was also considered an absolutely necessity for success (SEE NOTE 1). The mechanism was, in essence, a moral code of conduct based upon the Bible. Just as the Government is largely ignoring the Constitution the people are largely ignoring the Bible. Just as the Government operates in opposition to the Constitution so too the people are operating in opposition to the Bible.

The people did not just casually and accidentally begin evading moral responsibility. The Government has been enforcing laws and educational doctrines contrary to the Bible for decades. Worse, even so called religious leaders are teaching and encouraging people to behave in ways contrary to the Bible.

The powers-that-be in the Government are happy to see this failure among the populace because they know all to well that a populace that does not hold itself individually accountable will not bother to unite to demand accountability from those who govern them.

By way of analogy: With no rudder to guide the Government and no power for steerage supplied by the people the US has become a nation adrift and lost at sea. The world itself is as a tropical storm that is approaching hurricane strength and unless drastic and heroic action is taken, and taken soon, the US will find itself dashed to pieces upon the shoals of history.

Now, more than ever, the children of YHWH in the US must shine forth as a light for others. They must strive to act as a lighthouse providing a guiding light to aid their country to reestablish a safe course.

The evil that is destroying the US from within is insidious; but, because it has gone unchecked for so long the corrective measures needed cannot be so incremental. Satan and his minions have been deceptively patient and persistent in their attacks on the morals of the US; and, these attacks are bearing a bumper crop of evil.

The warriors of YHWH, even knowing the war will be won in the end, have a duty not to “rest on their laurels”. We can resist “the enemy” best by loving them enough to recruit them to our side.

Quote for the Week

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

TIDBITS

When asked by a curious citizen after the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention what kind of government had been structured by the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is said to have answered: "...A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT."

When running for President Obama said he would not use signing statements and “we aren't going to use signing statements as a way to do an end run around Congress”. Yet he issued his first signing statement in March 2009. In fact he issued more than 2 dozen during his first term in office. This is in direct violation of the the US Constitution: Article 2 section 3: . . . he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed –

According to recent study 40% of U.S. college students graduate lack reasoning skills.

NOTE 1 – Some comments from the Founding Fathers:

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

But it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can surely stand. – John Adams

The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, . . . – George Washington

It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. – George Washington

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. – Charles Carroll

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. - James Madison, 1788

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians and on the gospel of Jesus Christ! - Patrick Henry, 1765