TheAmerican Wisdom Series

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Pamphlet #634

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

"I received this e-mail received from my son Jeff." I've decided to share it with you all.... John Rhine

He says, "Please read the Pravda (and my) article below.  A spade really is a spade"

For years I have refused to use words such as Marxism, socialism or similar words when describing our current situation. However, it is time to call a spade a spade, regardless of how those who oppose us label us. Rome is burning. The article below was written by Stanislav Mishin, a blogger and columnist for the Russian newspaper Pravda.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us (Russia) about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blinds the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox (Russian Orthodox) churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin
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God Bless America? by Jeffrey A. Rhine

I am a sinner saved by Grace.  If there be anything worthwhile, Biblical, God honoring in this article, praise God.

God Bless America?

God bless America many demand.  On what basis?  Murdering millions of babies? Engaging in unjustified wars? Legalizing homosexual marriage (essentially, even in the city in which our nations capitol resides)?  Living in destructive debt, versus good stewardship?  Turning the education of our children over to practical atheists, humanists, communist/socialist/liberal/conservative collectivists, agnostics, scientists,  Unbiblical taxation?  Biblically unqualified elected officials?  Stealing from God (not tithing)?  The Federal Reserve and its creation of money out of thin air?, the necessary inflation (i.e. increase in the money supply) and concomitant invisible? taxation, and the lies to the people about this chicanery?  Because individual families and the church have relinquished to the state the ministry of providing welfare?

Welfare?

Be mindful of this, the state has no legitimate jurisdiction in welfare.  State welfare (government schooling, wealth redistribution, CHIP, corporate, etc.), is an  evil scheme used to enslave people.  Though, often, the children and grandchildren pay, one way or another.  Star Parker understands these points and tells a great story in her book: Uncle Sam's Plantation.  At one point she states, All of our welfare programs are morally bankrupt and socially and fiscally destructive.  People of religious faith could assume a leadership role in replacing the government and truly help. (p. 212)  Star Parker gets it.  Individual Christians and the church are called to provide charity, not the state.  She makes this point in a video, while debating socialized medicine.

But, where are the Christians?  Where is the church?  The parachurch organizations? All too often they are enslaved by the government schools and stealing from innocent families via taxation and so called faith based initiatives.

Public Schools?

I will puke if I hear, again, about how great it is that one of Pharaohs school indoctrinators is a professing Christian.  I do not see a principled difference between that and a professing Christian evangelizing while helping the Nazis kill Jews.  One cannot be salt and light while teaching evolution as truth. One cannot be salt and light by killing Jews.  Saying please and thank you while leading another human being to death does not seem to be what God has in mind in this regard.  Further, evolution is not limited to science class.  Godless thought and evolutionary thinking permeate all subjects in the government schools.  We must build and teach a Christ centered, Biblical foundation for every field: economics, mathematics, law, history, etc..

In addition, the government schools are inconsistent with the baby dedication of my children.  (Choose you this day whom ye will serve,  as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Josh. 24:15)  Gary North paints a good picture of why this is the case, in his Editor Introduction to Robert L. Thoburns book The Children Trap: The Biblical Blueprint for Education:

The Arguments for ˜Staying in the System" You have heard lots of arguments for Christians sending their children to the public schools, and for running these schools on a Biblical, moral basis.

Let me list a few:

1. We need to regulate the public schools.

2. We need to inspect them for health.

3. We need to make them safe from violence.

4. We need to require a prayer when they begin. (Illegal?)

5. Well, we need to have them allow voluntary prayer before they begin. (Illegal?)

6. Well, then, each student should be allowed to offer a silent prayer before he begins school. After all, this is a Christian nation!

7. Christian children need to attend. They need to be exposed early to the real world; they shouldn’t be kept in religious hothouses.

Let me try an analogy on you. We are adults here. Substitute the word whorehouses for public schools. Now, lets hear these same familiar arguments in favor of making the public schools decent for Christians:

1. We need to regulate the local whorehouses.

2. We need to inspect them for disease.

3. We need to make them safe from violence.

4. We need to require a prayer when they open for business.(Illegal?)

5. Well, we need to have them allow voluntary prayer before they open for business. (Illegal?)

6. Well, then, each customer should be allowed to offer a silent prayer before he conducts his business. After all, this is a Christian nation!

7. Christian children need to be exposed early to the real world; they shouldn't be kept in religious hothouses. (Cathouses, not hothouses!)

[Public Schools] inherently violate Biblical principles: the family has the moral and financial responsibility for educating its children, not the state.

But is a public school the same as a whorehouse? Its close enough! God calls worshipping false gods whoring after false gods.

What is a school system that teaches mankinds evolution out of meaningless slime, if not whoredom?
What is a school system that makes it illegal to teach Gods law as the only valid moral standard for mankind, if not whoredom?
What is a school system that teaches that the Bible is not a God-inspired book, but at best literature no better than Shakespeares plays, Hemingways novels, or for that matter, the Marquis de Sades novels?

[Is it] safe to send your children into a whorehouse for twelve years to learn music appreciation from the piano player[?]

[Tuition-avoiding Christian parents],  prefer to send their children daily into an education system designed in the pits of hell. They prefer to talk endlessly about cleaning up the public schools someday, while sitting quietly, doing nothing except paying ever higher property tax bills.  [Edited]

Alas, America -- including large portions of the church -- refuses to obey God. Apply the Bible to every area of life and every field of study. Nonsense, most American Christians would maintain. Bible is for religious stuff and only on Sunday; well, maybe we should oppose abortion and ˜the gays"

Nations are Judged in History:

American Christians have lost their way with respect to welfare and education.  Please, consider the stories below, too.  One can attempt to explain these issues away.  But, the facts will not go away.  God is no fool.  He will brook no competition.

After reading the following news stories, read Psalm 2:  [Then President] George W. Bush Whoring at a Shinto Temple, http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=516980 and http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=518466.

Are we naive enough to believe that God would not destroy America?  Note, these news stories hardly exhaust the evidence of our national sin, our fist shaking in the face of God.

Psalm 2 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

2      The kings of the earth set themselves,

          and the rulers take counsel together,

          against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,

3     Let us burst their bonds apart

          and cast away their cords from us.

4      He who sits in the heavens laughs;

          the Lord holds them in derision.

5      Then he will speak to them in his wrath,

          and terrify them in his fury, saying,

6      As for me, I have set my King

          on Zion, my holy hill.

7      I will tell of the decree:

     The Lord said to me, You are my Son;

          today I have begotten you.

8      Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,

          and the ends of the earth your possession.

9      You shall break them with a rod of iron

          and dash them in pieces like a potters vessel.

10      Now therefore, O kings, be wise;

          be warned, O rulers of the earth.

11     Serve the Lord with fear,

          and rejoice with trembling.

12     Kiss the Son,

          lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,

          for his wrath is quickly kindled.

     Blessed are all who take refuge in him. [ESV]
 

The American Church Has Lost Its Theological Mind

If America is going to change course, if we are going to obey God, if our Republic is not going to be wiped from the face of the earth, then Christians are going to have to learn, obey, and teach the Bible and a fully orbed Biblical worldview.  We must embrace what Jesus commanded:

Matthew 28 18 And Jesus came and said to them, All authority ïin heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them  ï» the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, toïthe end of the age.  (ESV)

When will the Church return to preaching and teaching the Word?  One may contextualize.  But it seems that branches of the Church have turned to Hollywood style nonsense.Broadway productions masquerading as presenting Gods Word to a starving nation are a sham and a shame.  These approaches to contextualizing are useless, when avoiding those areas where Satan and the world are attacking.  They are especially useless when the Word barely gets the role of scullery maid or is not even mentioned in the credits.  We've seen some great stories which illustrate truths of Gods Word  But, we need to remember, 1) they are not Gods Word and 2) many stories illustrate lies.  I wonder what would the Bereans say about us (Acts 17:10-12)?

How right Cornelius Van Til was when he wrote: we should observe that just as a thorough knowledge of the system of truth in Scripture is the best defense against heresy, so it is also the best help for the propagation of the truth The church will have to return to its erstwhile emphasis upon its teaching function if it is to fulfill its God-given task of bringing the gospel to all men.  Its present recourse to jerky evangelism as almost the only method of propaganda is itself an admission of paupery. When this propaganda turns to teaching as a means, it all too frequently employs uncritically the conceptions of reason and fact as these are understood by those who make no profession of Christianity.  The result is that there is no teaching of Christianity as a challenge to unbelief.  Revivalists ought to make themselves unnecessary as quickly as possible. Orthodoxy must take over the teaching function of the church anew, and do it with a better knowledge of the requirements of that work than ever before. [W]e must undertake our work in a spirit of deep dependence upon God and in a spirit of prayer that he may use us as his instruments for his glory. (An Introduction to Systematic Theology, Second Edition, 2007, pp. 24-25)

Turn to God

Repent America!  America bless God! Get on our knees and pray.  Pray for our leaders. And, act in accordance with the Word of God.  May His will be done.

There are a few other practical issues to deal with at the same time.  I will mention them briefly below.

Face the Truth

We must be prepared to know the whole truth and prepare for it.  Satan and the Fascists (Republican and Democrat) are winning in America.  It is no surprise why this be the case.

 Politically Astute wise as serpents, and innocent as doves  (Matt. 10:16)

 Do American Christian Men Have the Guts of a Hebrew Midwife (Ex. 1:15, 17) or a 12 Year Old Canadian Girl?

A 12 year old Canadian girl takes a stand, something which many American Christian men fail to do in the home and the city gates.

 Patriarchy

The following is a very brief summary of an idea I first heard on a tape of a speech by Howard Phillips. (Unfortunately, I do not have a reference)

The family is the fundamental unit of society.  The father is the head of the family.  One family one vote.  (Widows, at least, have a place in this system.)  Please bear in mind that ours is not a democracy, especially as defined by the contemporary popular vernacular.  Patriarchy appears to be the Biblical model.
 

That is it for now, folks
I am wholly responsible for any inaccuracies contained herein.

Earnestly,

Jeffrey A. Rhine