Our hope should not be in the institutions of men, because a people who are not governed by God will be ruled by the tyranny of men - that is a fact of history and constant warning from our Founders and Framers.
Then it could be said that it is a fruitless endeavor to align oneself with those few who ARE governed by God, which I must necessarily reject out of hand, lest we must ask ourselves what we are even doing here...
No, when there is a breach in the wall, and the sheep are escaping, the prophet stands in the breach, preventing further losses, and calling those that left back to safety - Such should be the position and action of those of us who are called by His Name. And I for one will not give up the field, but I will sally forth, redoubling my efforts, knowing full well that where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. If for no other reason, speaking truth will afford those that are lost an opportunity to heed the call. Every opportunity must be seized, every lost lamb sought after.
[...] refusal to comply with tyrants and active resistance to abiding their decrees and refusing our support for their existence is what our course should be. This federal government no longer has lawful legal authority over a righteous people.
And that is happening in leaps and bounds - We have not reached the point of no return, where good is called evil - But even now, the people rebel, supporting what is good against the onslaught. Chik-fil-A gives me hope. Target's precipitous earnings drop gives me hope. Burgeoning home-schoolers and homesteaders give me hope. Liberal churches bleeding members and Bible believing churches growing in leaps gives me hope.
Push has not yet come to shove (though it is admittedly drawing nigh on that moment), yet even now, resistance, nascent though it is, is forming up. And the more people reach that 'aw, hell no!' , the more people will seek out truth. And so it goes.
In financial lingo, we're playing the short game - but there is wealth even in that.
They lost that authority when they made their newfound morality higher than that of The Almighty's Authority and when they sought to force it upon The Lord's people. Refusal to submit to a lawless and Constitutionally unmoored Kleptocracy is every Patriot's duty. Without God and scripture as our Sovereign, we have no claim to the Higher Authority which is where Our Rights come from and where justification for refusing the king originates.
I understand and sympathize with your point - where I differ is in when the frogs realize they are being boiled. Those who have principles to rely upon, and the reasoning it begets, predict the boiling and either never get in the pot in the first place, or hop out as son as their feet get warm. Some take longer than others, liking the warmth of the water - but as things get uncomfortable, many will remember the things their fathers told them and become suspicious... thus coming to the reality that a mighty leap is all that will save them.
This is just now starting to heat up... many will come to see the truth.
We can claim the Constitution all the day long - and it will have null effect on the institutions of men that have determined they can ignore it, redefine it and make decrees that usurp it making the document irrelevant. Which in all practicality it is now. In addition, the risk of ruin and penalty is not something most would even allow themselves to contemplate.
And such is the downfall of every republic - But whether it finally suffocates American individualism and independence (a thing not found in past republics) remains to be seen... And as ruin and penalty become ever more unavoidable, so the edge is sharpened, and we come ever closer to watering the root of our liberty.
Case-in-point: I've watched entire church cultures buckle and bow to the homosexual agenda out of fear and loss of offerings and tax exempt status. Money is what most value today - and risking wealth and property is not what this people today are willing to do in terms of defying tyranny.
And yet whole new branches spring up in orthodoxy - Those who will not bend the knee. The Messianics (of which I am one, you might recall) were almost non-existent ten years ago, and now they are everywhere. Another ten years, and they will be a massive bulwark, steeped in the Word, living Torah, unplugged from schools and dependence on the system... It's pretty hard for Uncle Nanny to influence that.
American churches are being winnowed, there is no doubt - YHWH is separating the wheat from the chaff. What is left will be strong and pure, and ready to stand. The rest will predictably die on the vine.
Most people still refuse to call Mordor on the Potomac what it is, or even acknowledge that we live under a meddlesome tyranny. They are comfortable where we are now, or think they have found ways to prosper or cheat the 'system' to their benefit. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God according to Benjamin Franklin.
I disagree - I think many, many are uncomfortable, just not far enough along to resist. And one must take into accounting the propaganda that keeps them blind - many are becoming wise to it. It is surely coming to a nexus point - but that's just a bit down the road yet.
The problem is, the few who do resist are made quick and very public examples of - or the Beast waits patiently to ensure anyone caught defying them is rounded up and imprisoned or worse.
That will only go so far. They cannot impose that which they cannot enforce.
Central Planning tyrants will not permit defiance from States, Governors and legislative bodies to their edicts. They state that course of action was settled in 1865 and we have no recourse except to submit, or the Courts continuously tell the States they have no authority to refuse what Mordor demands, or what their people overwhelmingly vote for.
Again, that will only go so far. They cannot impose that which they cannot enforce. Just try gun control in the Rockies. Not anywhere near going to happen. The States, from MT and ID all the way to Texas would would rebel.
It is stupid and foolish to expect corrupt, vain and evil men to comply with the rule of law and the will of the people they hold in contempt and ignore.
Exactly right - which is why we must fight to elect Conservatives - full blooded and rock-ribbed. No more lesser evils - No more politicians, only statesmen, who understand and will preserve their oath. To do anything otherwise is to acquiesce. And that hope, no mater how diminishing and small, is all we have left in the ballot.
And if the ballot box is no longer sufficient to protect our liberties, then there is one box left in our possession... And when the time comes I think you will find more folks than you know that are ready to stand. That is the hope that is in me for this nation.
But if our doom is as you say (and it could certainly go that way), Then there we are, and we will have to deal with it - or they will, because if it goes that far, I am fairly certain that I will not be here long to witness it, and I dare to say that you would not be either.
Sorry to be so long in replying, I actually read you a while ago, but I find it hard to find something I've read previously unless someone keeps it BTT. That is the reason for my tardiness, and I thank you for your well written reply.
