Progress and the centralized government (or, how to be overwhelmed with technology that you don't notice on your way to tyranny)

In this entry, I'm going to attempt to tie biblical prophecy to our current system of government, which bears almost NO resemblance to what our founding fathers created and shares more features of despotism than freedom.  Also, how I believe the progressive movement is looking at its last gasps in the early part of the 21st century.  But, for those of you that LIKE socialism and being told what to do about everything from what you can transport yourself in to who and what kind of sex you can have, well then, go on with your bad self.  Take another bite of that maggot filled apple, as Mick Jagger said in that famous song, Shattered.  

We live in some very, VERY strange and challenging times.  Times that cause most ordinary people to be in extreme fear and distress.  Not that I'm special, I'm just your ordinary child of the living God, bought and paid for by Jesus' sacrifice at Calvary's cross, but I'm just not scared.  I think I'm more closely akin to that guy that sits on the edge of the tub and watches the drain water swirl around the drain, taking all those little dead skin cells and soap bubbles off to the sewer.  I actually think these days cause me to be somewhat bemused.  I'm not crazy.  The necrotizing fasciitis did not get to my brain, God knows enough drugs and chemicals have been pushed through my body the past two years, but those aren't the reason either.  

I think the reason is is that I'm an evangelical.  There it is, that terrifying word to liberals and idolators around the world.  Evangelical also means FUNDAMENTAL.  I believe the Bible is the true and unadulterated word of God, written by holy men as breathed upon them by the Holy Spirit.  I know how the story ends.  I've read the Book.  But even if I didn't read the whole Book, and all I read was the book of Revelation, I still know how the story ends.  It's the in-between Genesis and Revelation I would have missed out on by cheating.  

This nation, I believe, is where it's at right now because God is in control of ALL things.  He appoints kings and raises and collapses kingdoms.  

Daniel 2:21:  And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.

Thankfully, He's given me the discernment and wisdom to see things as they truly are.  So, I have no reason to be afraid.  As a matter of fact, for me to live in fear would be to live in sin because He gives me a heart and spirit of boldness and not of fear.  If I were to fear it would be the same as telling Him, "You do not tell the truth, I do not believe in the words of Your book, you're just a doddering old fool sitting up in heaven having created a solar system loaded with galaxies and universes and letting it run amok on its own, like a pinball game."  As for big government, the system we seem to be ruled by now, along with Daniel 2:21, the Lord also gives us the government we ask for.  He gives us the leadership that we deserve.  A lot of you are probably going to flip out, curse me and tell me that I'm full of it or a hypocritical fraud, and that's alright.  That's your problem, not mine.  Your ignorance and lack of knowledge showing up.  But as it says in the scriptures:

Proverbs 14:34:  Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.


So if you look at all that's bad in our country and our government, one would have to say that as Americans, we are fairly sinful.  I can say that because America has a deep and rich Christian heritage.  I don't care what that idiot in the White House says, Muslims make up less than one percent of the population.  Christians make up 80-85% of the population of our nation.  Yet, who does he hang out with?  And who does he pray with?  Muslims.  


Europe and the Asian nations, but especially Europe, are so far removed from the gospel that God doesn't even hear them anymore.  They have spent CENTURIES giving the Lord the middle finger and perverting Christianity to where it's widely despised and hated.  Churches in Europe are closing like a black hole sucking in anti-matter in outer space, but I digress because I don't care about Europe.  That was just an illustration.
Six hundred years ago they fought the Crusades to keep the Muslims out and now they've let them right back in again with multiculturalism.  To those that don't know to study history and do not heed the warnings of history, history comes back around at you like a boomerang to smack you in the head.  

America has many parallels to Old Testament Israel.  Israel would agree to obey the covenants brought down by the prophets and they would live in peace and harmony, sin would be minimalized, and then after a few generations, they wouldn't listen to the wisdom of their fathers, and they got back into sin, chiefly idolatry.  They worshiped various gods like Baal and Molech, Molech being quite interesting because I believe he is a ancient form of the practice of abortion.  Molech is an Asyrian god, for lack of a better term, a fertility and good harvest god.  An ugly looking little creature, he looks sort of like a chimnea with a belly where the fire was lit.  At certain times of the year, live babies would be thrown into the fires to apparently satisfy the blood lust of Molech in order to grant good harvest and fertility of livestock and all that sort of garbage.  The bottom line is they murdered their babies in the fires to better their outcomes.

Here today in America, we have murdered over 60 million--60 MILLION--of our babies.  The greatest gift that God could ever give a person.  I can tell you as a father of a gorgeous, vivacious, smart, creative nine year old I could NEVER, EVER, no matter what my socio-economic position would be, never have considered aborting her, even though I was 41 when she was born.  She has filled an ache in my soul, she has tempered the feeling and the despair of loss that Lori and I have faced over the loss of 4-5 of our own children in miscarriages.  We were both one percenters of having a child, me having been a Type 1 diabetic since age 25 and Lori with her reproductive problems.  There should have been no chance and yet we have Alison.  She was born two years to the day after we lost twins.  So, for me, it's extremely painful and frustrating and enraging issue when I hear of these big nasty loud mouthed feminazi buffarillos that stomp their feet and demand the right to murder another human being in the name of "family planning" or "personal choice".  They say their body is their own.  You couldn't be further from the truth.  The truth is your body is rented, on loan from God, as a vessel for your soul to inhabit while you're here on earth.

1 Corinthians 6:19:  Do you not know that your body is the temple of The Spirit of Holiness who dwells within you, whom you have received from God, and you are not your own?


Because of rampant drug and alcohol abuse, our minds have become dulled to the difference between righteousness and sin.  We see movies and television shows where the heroes are morally and characteristically flawed.  They eventually do good while committing a whole lot of evil and sin to get there.  Hollywood wants to confuse and muddy the barrier of right and wrong for society to such an extent that the average person, without the benefit of true biblical fundamental convictions, throws up his hands and says, "To hell with it.  I'm tired of looking like an idiot and fighting a losing battle.  I'll just go with the flow and whatever works for you without hurting me is OK."  But what happens, that sort of poison creeps into the lexicon of our elected officials.  Look at Anthony Weiner, Elliott Spitzer, San Diego's Mayor Filner, Barney Frank, Mark Sanford, and every other disgraced public official who has walked away ashamed or in chains.  Sad thing is is that there's always one more willing to step into the gap.  One more who comes in with the notion of American idealism, the love of country and Constitution draped in the American flag as he takes his oath of office, proud to call himself a Constitution loving conservative or even independent who, inside of a year, becomes corrupted by the sleaze and easy money of K Street in Washington, DC, who concern themselves with what is not best for the country, but is what is best for their little block of constituents or lobbyist handlers and before you know it, we're in 2013 America.  

We have a president whose rise from obscurity to the top of the political food chain is only rivaled by John Kennedy.  But all comparisons die there.  Kennedy, even though he was a womanizer, did love this country and stood up to the Russians, something O could take a lesson from, because Putin has sure made him look like the ass clown of the world.  I mean, really, Barry, why even bother going to the G20.  Our foreign policy is a joke.  Only John Tyler and William Buchanan and Jimmy Carter had worse foreign policies and presidencies than this guy, and yet people want to anoint him as the Messiah. 


The point I am making (after my little rant) is we have sold ourselves down to a centralized government, whether it be through apathy, delusion, or as it says in Romans 1:28: 

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

The bottom line is is that it's OUR FAULT.  We are responsible.  The founding father's gave us a nation, a Constitution, The Federalist Papers, The Declaration of Independence, everything we needed to make self-governance amongst the nations work and we have blown it.  We keep electing the same corrupt, disgraced figures over and over to congress and the senate.  Both side of the party line are guilty of defrauding the people and committing treason against the Constitution, the very document they swore to uphold, defend, and protect with hands carefully placed on a Bible.  The tip of the arrow was supposed to be the federal government.  The smallest government possible to do the 17 things the Constitution allows it to do.  The broadest point of the arrow was to be the people.  The state governance being in the middle.  It is up to the PEOPLE to elect moral and ethical men and women to both houses.  It is up to the people to be their own watchdogs rather than allowing the fourth estate, or what they say passes as journalism in American, to be the watchdogs of government.  They've corrupted themselves in the sewage of liberalism taught in the colleges and the progressive movement that has failed three times before in America.  Right now, we're in the fourth throes of progressive socialism in America attempting to take over.  If failed under Woodrow Wilson, FDR, again with the hippies and the Weather Underground, Saul Alinsky, Cloward and Piven, and all the radicals who have gone from saying don't trust anyone over 30 to being the very people they were telling us not to trust, except their brand is Fabian Socialism.  

The federal government has gone from bottom-up to top-down.  Every year thousands of laws are being passed by government agencies that dictate every aspect of your life.  They say, "Fear not!  For we have your best interests at heart.  You're just a Regular Joe.  You don't understand what we understand because we're smarter than you.  We have all the answers!  Just look at the Obama campaign.  Look at the fools in Detroit waiting for Obama-everything for their lives.  The man has bankrupted this nation by driving up the debt faster than the first 43 presidents combined.  He dictates what we will drive to how we will light our houses, heat our houses.  He gives billions in OUR TAX DOLLARS to crony capitalists who waste it on the Solyndras or the latest fad that we're told will be in our best interests.  The very enemies we have waged war against since 9/11 are the most common visitors to the White House and hold many top-level jobs in the administration. 

Last month, of the 269,000 alleged jobs created in America, 238,000 of them were part-time, less than 30 hours a week.   The pipeline from Canada that he's so against and the State Department is so for would create more jobs for Americans than anything he could think of or tried collectively of all that he's tried to do.  He screams about getting off foreign oil yet he won't do the one thing that will kill two birds with one stone.  Guess where the oil goes if it doesn't come to America?  China.  Like we need them getting more oil for their ever-growing economy and military industrial complex.  

The only thing this king who doesn't wear any clothes is good at is destroying America under the guise of creating a utopia for the greater good, but he destroys by class and by race.  The Racist in Chief, The Great Divider, he opens his mouth on campaign stumps and more jobs are lost.  But, we got him.  And we're stuck with him.  And my first thanks goes out to the 47% of Americans that would rather sit on their ass and collect their EBT cards than work to feed their families.  

2 Thessalonians 3:10:  For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."


Again, teaching another generation to put their hands OUT instead of putting their working hats ON.  It's worked so well in the inner city ghettos and housing projects.  Welfare anyone?

Second, the retards in the unions that think $15/hour is a good minimum wage--it's called minimum wage for a reason because minimum wage is meant for you to move up and develop skills--you're a big reason this country is swirling down the toilet.  Minimum wage is not meant for you to be comfortable where you're at.  It's not meant for you to build a career asking, "You want fries with that burger?"  Minimum wage was meant to be a springboard to a better life.  It's bad enough that we have millions of illegals in fast food that don't understand, "No onions, please!", but now we're going to pay people to make a career out of Sonic or McDonalds.  And our 15-18 year old kids that need to learn how to work in corporate America will have no chance at getting the jobs.  

Thirdly, and most prominently, I want to ask you 2-3 million American conservatives who sat out the election with their thumbs alternating between between their mouth and their butts because they didn't like Romney, "are you people out of your mind?  You have to be because this has been death by suicide 1) for the Republican party and 2) for conservativism.  You're not really conservatives.  You just didn't want a Mormon, a man with a track record for living within his means and building successful companies.  These were the Americans that acted like progressives in disguise, sabotaging our chances to end the nightmare of Obama.  But nooooooooooooo.  So to you people, I say, thanks a lot, you jackasses. 

I also think, in conclusion, that technology has a whole lot to do with where we're at today.  It took 1500 years of technological advances to get us to the automobiles in the 20th century.  It took 68 more years to put the first man on the moon and bring him back.  It took roughly 15 years for us to go from push button telephones to a brick we could carry anywhere and talk to anyone at any time.  We have video games that first came on the landscape in the late 70's, crude and rudimentary as they were, it was an incredible leap from board games and card games.  And now, less than 30 years later, we have video games so real they have had to give them a new name, an avatar that makes the controller and the game box an extension of our personality and our soul.  We play games with no moral consequence, stealing is glorified, gangster life is praised, corrupt sports heroes are franchised and idolized, again lending to the impossibility of knowing the truth as the truth.  Truth has taken on so many shades of gray the only reason it isn't white is because it's still too dirty.  

At first, technology in the 90's was doubling about every 18 months.  Technology in the 21st century is doubling at just over every 10 months.  We have computers in the Utah desert that can track every living breathing person on the planet's every breath and word, 24/7/365.  And we need it because the evil that's within that's spread of a policy of no borders has left us vulnerable to the evil that may reside in your next door neighbor's home.  Americans don't hold their head up anymore.  WE look at the ground when we walk, or play palm sized games, talking on palm sized telephones, and doing everything we can on mass transit to make sure we don't make eye contact because you don't know who the crazies are anymore.  Everyone just wants to get home to lock their doors and hunker down in a bunker mentality, failing to get to know anyone in your neighborhood, and that my friends is tyranny.  Whether it comes from the fist of one man or the sheep-like cowardice of a whole population.  It changes only when we do as the Bible says:

2 Chronicles 7:14:  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.


This is TRUTH!!!!!!!!!  Straight from the mouth of the living God.  I promise you, if everybody in America, of good conscience, would just read and do as this passage says, you would see a third reformation in America to far exceed any spiritual reformation that's come to America before.  The first one being just after the American Revolution, the second in the late 19th-early 20th century.  It can be done, people.  We can cut the Obamas and the Weiners and the Spitzers and the Larry Flints off at the knees.  We can end their lifestyles of profitting off of man's carnal nature and the lies and deception.  But, it has to start with each and every one of us.  

People say one individual can't make a difference.  I say you're wrong.  Step one in making a difference, go to your knees tonight, go to your knees in contrition with no pride, no hubris, with a contrite and broken heart, tell God you're a sinner, tell Him that you know you've done wrong by His law and if you were sentenced today you'd be sentenced to hell.  Tell Him that His son Jesus Christ came here and took on human form so he could live in a world as humans lived experiencing the same pains and same temptations that we experienced.  That He was perfect and did not sin.  And because of that He, and He alone, was qualified to be crucified on a cross for the sins of all humanity, past, present, and future, so that we may not die in our sins, but go to heaven.  All you have to do is BELIEVE and confess with your mouth to God and you will be saved.  You will be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, you will spend eternity in heaven with your Savior and your friends and loved ones that have gone on before you.  And in this life, you will know truth from the lie, honesty from deception, and you will become a point of light that others will see and seek  YOU out to have what you have.  I promise you.  And if nothing else, at least you're not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic as she goes down.  

Shalom.