USA is 250! 251 & Beyond Takes Your Faithful & Godly Action To Keep It Going…

Word-of-the-Day: ‘Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance.’ (Psalm 33:12); ‘(1) How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! (2) It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe. (3) It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.’ (Psalm 133:1-3)

This week, our great nation, the United States of America, turns 250 years old.  History notes that almost all governments’ ‘shelf life’ expires around the 250-year mark, on average.  While the Roman Republic lasted roughly 500 years (from 509-27 BC), its replacement, the Roman Empire lasted roughly 300 years before splitting between the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire (Byzantine). 

The Western Empire collapsed almost immediately afterwards, while the Byzantine Empire lasted intact for 300 years before all but dismantled by several Islamic caliphates and the Ottomans (though a remnant, much smaller ‘Byzantine Empire’ lasted in name until the 1400’s).

Most governments do not last even 100 years; the Soviet Union, arguably one of the most powerful nations on Earth in history, lasted from 1917 to 1991, or 74 years.  The ‘Thousand-Year Reich’ of Nazi Germany lasted 12. 

China is thought to have the longest continuous homogeneous culture with over 5,000 years but those millennium are separated by many dynasties, invasions, and revolutions, the latest being the Communist ‘Red’ Chinese taking over in 1949 from the consolidation of feudal states under the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek, itself formed in 1912.

So, 250 years is actually quite old for a nation and a government.  Many factors contribute to the longevity of the United States; it neighbors have been weaker and typically friendly (for the most part) to great extent. 

The ‘New World’ has the two largest oceans forming natural barriers that has stopped major invasions of hostile nations into America (the last major invasion was in the War of 1812, when the British successfully burned Washington D.C., but were repelled in New Orleans and forced back into Canada, which was British territory at the time). 

While two world wars decimated Europe and Asia, the US was safe and relatively untouched, able to build up its military might, and after World War II used its intellectual and industrial sectors to advance technical superiority in its arms. 

The free, ‘rugged individual’ culture ingrained in Americans up until recently helped train its forces into becoming the most collectively independent and fittest troops ever assembled.  The doctrine of ‘non-commissioned officers’, or NCOs, using their critical thinking skills and training, allow American forces to continue fighting cohesively even when its officers are taken off the battlefield, something other armies cannot comprehend.

The only times the United States have been threatened is from within.  The US Civil War was an internal, fraternal conflict that briefly divided the nation (from 1861 to 1865) and years afterward caused contention between the North (Union) and the South (Confederate), over the issues of states’ rights and slavery. 

The Great Depression of the 1930s in part caused many to flock to the newer governmental form of communism, which its growth was slowed by World War II, the ‘Red’ Scares of the purges lead by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Cold War between the US, the Soviet Union, and ‘Red’ China, but recently has grown in popularity.

This growth, in part, stems from left-wing ‘liberal’ influences from within American institutions, including religion, education, government, financial businesses, and media.  The media has been feeding Americans a slanted, unbalanced form of news reporting based on liberal opinion and feelings, not on facts.  These in turn have been used to educate our children, and as they have grown those opinions have turned into candidate platforms as they run for political office.  Banks have turned to ‘de-banking’ those individuals who have a more traditional, conservative opinion in order to take away their means of financially supporting the more conservative viewpoints from interfering.

This push to the left has unfortunately drawn Christendom into the fray.  The church itself has been divided into the conservative Biblical worldview of the consistent and unchanging nature of God and His precepts, and the concepts of the liberal, ‘God changes with us’ worldview. 

In many cases, even the ‘liberal’ view of God is pushed aside and condemned; prayer in school has been replaced with LGBTQ and gender-fluidity studies.  Bibles have been discouraged for books promoting agnostic and atheistic teachings, and many unproven and dispelled theories are taught in place of the facts and the Truth.

It wasn’t always this way.  David, in Psalm 133, talks of the nation, in his case Israel, that was most united, content, and pleased when the people were unified in their nation and, more importantly, in worshipping God.  The nation of Israel was indeed blessed in the early years of David’s reign, as God was paramount in their lives and in the life of their leader.  The Lord protected Israel, and provided for David victories against his enemies and made Israel, as Psalm 33:12 provides, blessed and prosperous.

The United States, through much of its history up until recently, was similarly blessed.  It’s revolt against British rule was in part due to the Godly following of the Founding Fathers and the early Americans, who had come to the New World to freely worship the Lord without the restrictions placed upon them by the Vatican or by the English King.  Later the Revolutionary War was won and its freedom secured by the divine intervention of God and His influence over those brave men who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence who simply wanted ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness’. 

The power of governance, residing with the people, clarified within the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, is based on the Righteousness of recognizing all things, including the freedoms and rights of the citizens, are bestowed upon us by God, not by any earthly person or entity.  Rights are not granted by governments but given to us by God.  Freedom is not free, but only given to God to a Righteous people who obey Him.

A right denied or delayed by any form of government edict is thus ungodly and evil.  A desire that attempts to disguise itself as a right is also ungodly.  Both of these have taken place over the years by various levels of American government, from the neighborhood HOA up to Federal law.  Restrictions on rights are Satanic and serve no purpose but to enslave the people; ‘do what I say, not what God desires’ is the mantra of the illicit bureaucrat, or the ungodly representative.

The US will only collapse from this internal turmoil; as a Christian you have an obligation to prevent this, through your freedom to speak against this, your freedom to vote for Righteous candidates who promote freedom and Truth, and your freedom to worship unashamedly Jesus and His Word.  Share His Word, and proclaim Him as Lord and His freedoms He gives to us openly and without fear. 

If you are led to do so, run for a political office and fight the evil from within.  If Socialism or an anti-Christian form of governance takes over, then the US will follow suit and will go the way of other nations, like the Byzantine Empire or the Kuomintang of China; in the dustbin of history.