– George Washington

Congratulations to you, sir, on your election as America’s 44th President.

As you prepare your transition and make the key staffing and policy decisions that will shape your administration, I urge you to heed the example of our nation’s first President, George Washington.

This great leader understood that he must answer to a Higher Authority–and that the Bible is the supreme expression of the One he called the Lord and Ruler of Nations.

President Washington knew better than to think that God and His Word should be dismissed from public life. In his first Inaugural Address he told the nation that national prosperity depends upon obedience to the moral obligations laid down in Scripture. He said that:

“the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation

that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”

Our first president took seriously the divine mandate that “He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.”  (2 Samuel 23:3 NKJV.)

I would urge, I would plead, I will pray that you, sir, will do the same.

Mr. President, you will take office at a time of great national and international turmoil. Upheaval and uncertainty rock both Wall Street and Main Street. The Great American Culture War divides our nation along moral and ideological fault lines. Our sons and daughters serve overseas in the struggle against Islamic Jihad. And in the Kremlin, the Russian Bear stirs anew.

 ***TEN POINTS FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY***

All those concerns and many more weigh on our nation. As you prepare to enter the Oval Office, I, as a friend of Coral Ridge Ministries, the Christian media outreach founded by Dr. D. James Kennedy, ask of you the following:

SPEAK AND ACT FOR THE UNBORN

Specifically, I ask you to please use your office to stop

the flow of tax dollars to abortion provider Planned Parenthood,

and support ethical and effective stem cell research

–not research that destroys living human embryos.

NOMINATE JUDGES

who will apply the Constitution

and not their own political agenda to the cases brought before them.

SUPPORT MARRIAGE

by fighting for a constitutional amendment defining marriage

as the union of one man and one woman.

DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

to apply current law that prohibits homosexuals from military service

and to once again ask inductees if they engage in homosexual conduct.

PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF EMPLOYERS

by vetoing the Employment Non0Discrimination Act, if it is passed by Congress.

STAND FOR EQUAL JUSTICE,

religious liberty, and free speech

by vetoing “hate crime” legislation, if passed by Congress.

SUPPORT EFFORTS IN CONGRESS

to protect free speech on the public airwaves

by rejecting the “Fairness Doctrine.”

USE YOUR OFFICE TO AID RELIGIOUS PRISONERS

of conscience who suffer in Saudi Arabia, China,

North Korea, and elsewhere for their Christian faith.

INSTRUCT YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL

to aggressively pursue and prosecute violators

of obscenity and child pornography laws.

HONOR AND RECOGNIZE THE ROLE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE

 in American life by proclaiming America’s Christian Heritage Week.

Mr President, I, along with my fellow Christians, will pray that God will give you the grace and guidance only He can provide as you prepare to take on the enormous weight of the presidency.

As citizens, we will watch to see if you, like George Washington, will honor and acknowledge God and His law as you lead our nation.

Do you keep hearing those of faith talking about “end times” and “last days?”  Me too.  But I understand what they mean. 

No, the world isn’t going to end, not according to God.  It is going to go through some tougher times though, maybe even with nuclear war wiping out a large percentage of the world’s population.  Prior to that though, there will be a peace plan signed, maybe it will even state it’s for “7″ years, but regardless, at halfway point,  3 1/2 years, one party will break it and take over.

Take over? Take over what?  The world.  Yeah, scary eh?

Here’s what the Bible says, very basically, about how to know when this is coming.

In the book of Luke, chapter 21 and in verse 32 Jesus said,  “So likewise you, when you see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.”  What things?

It’s in the Bible, and the generation of people that see ALL these things is the generation of the “rapture” when Christ takes the believers out of the world and to heaven with Him, and literally all hell breaks lose on earth, called the “tribulation” and then the battle of Armagedon.

Here are the 7 things that the generation that sees all 7 will be the one where the believers are taken away:

See the chosen people (the Jews) become a nation.  The State of Israel was recognized in 1948.

See the City of Jerusalem go under the control of the State of Israel.  This happened in 1967.

See the revival of the 7th world empire.  This happened in 1948 also.   It’s been renamed the European Union.

See the European Union take control of the finances globally.  (Revelation 13:16-)  The Wall Street Journal JUST published the plan of how the EU is planning to do this!!! (Article titled: EU to pick global oversight of top financial firms.)

See a power named Russia be in existence.

See a power named China be in existence.

See a power named Iran be in existence, and declare it’s hatred for Israel. (Psalm 83:4)  Anyone with a tv and who catches the news knows of Ahmadinajad’s declaration to “wipe the nation of Israel off the face of the earth.”  (He included USA too.)

So there you have it, the 7 signs required to be experienced in one generation, all together NOW.

There are many, many other signs that God has given us in His Word, pointing to the beginning of the 7 years of tribulation on earth before Christ’s battling the forces of evil in Armaggedon, which occurs after the 7 years while the believers are not in the world.  ( The majority of us, that is.  There will be Jewish evangelists protected by God’s angels, left here to witness to those of you who failed to believe, having never heard this word.  But you personally? You’ve heard so you need to decide if you will accept Christ’s love or not, now.)

Some of the signs that point to the after time of the rapture, 3 1/2 years of peace and the then 3 1/2 years of terror are:

Increase in wars, nations, earthquakes in many new places, famines, rise of false prophets who show signs and wonders to sway those on earth that they are God’s and you haven’t missed Christ’s rapture.  The sun will be dark, the moon of course can’t give light either.  But there are many concrete signs too, such as the war path the Chinese are building, with Russia, so they may march in battle across Asia.  You can read about that in secular papers.  The coming war where the Chinese and Russians move down to battle Israel with 200 million soldiers, well, that’s in the Bible.  The road they are building is not for public transportation, but for their army only.  Why would they need that, if not war?

But I don’t wish to overwhelm you.  I really just want you to focus on the 7 signs for the generation that will experience Christ’s  taking us up and out of the impending trials on earth.  Now I don’t personally know if just the EU’s planning to take over the finances is the prophecy, or if they actually have to begin to do it, but it’s close enough.  That really seals the deal. Nothing else is required at all for Christ’s return and rapturing out of the believers.

If you aren’t a believer yet, you might think seriously about it.  God loves you.  That’s what it’s all about, God’s love. Accept His love, His Son’s payment at Calvary on the cross for your sin (my sin too, I did this…accept Christ, God’s love.)  You can do it secretly if you wish, just you and God.  He’ll hear you.  Why not ask Him?

Peace.

MEMORY VERSE: Proverbs 31:30: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

The general public has fallen lock-step into the victim role while the government is enabled to take over our responsibilities for handling our monies.

The recent decisions by our Legislature in the USA have guaranteed our loss of yet more: that of our personal responsibility to manage our own money, and the freedom to fail.

Just like a parent with a child who is learning about failure and learning from those failures, the general public needs to learn how to fail, and work itself out of a mess. Just like a child who is never taught failure, never allowed to fail, has that parent with the umbrella always standing over them, parachute attached to them, will always need to be rescued, society has succumbed to allowing the government the same position of enabler.

Perhaps it is this mentality (“government save me!”) of a victim that allows for the expected rescue (bail out) when something goes wrong? So many members of society are true victims of crimes, whether as children or adults, that the scenario sits there awaiting reenactment. Perhaps so many adults have acted out in aggressive manner, that even the legislatures feel comfortable playing the now-necessary role of abuser-rescuer, having dragged the innocent victim citizen into play in the first place.

People are not learning from their mistakes. They don’t know how to, just like they don’t allow their children to learn from their mistakes. The current thought is: everyone is totally equal in all things and either no one receives a trophy, or everyone does. Everything the child does is “great!” and talk of room for improvement is dismissed as being abusive and negative. The child is left with feelings of victory with no correct reasons to attach to it, or of failure and no one and no place to work on correct feelings.

From years ago when the stock market, specifically, melted down, many seasoned investors felt that was the end of the problems: those that thought they could ignorantly make fast, safe money, were obviously weeded out. They shied away from reentering the market, and allowed those who were wise and somewhat savvy to continue. That market allows for newcomers to dabble and not disturb it.

But it appears the ignorant moved over into wanting to make that fast money in real estate. Buy more than they could afford, not bother to read contracts, maybe they even engage in magical thinking? But there they are, duped by bigger guns who took advantage of them. Now the government comes in to rescue them.

What have they learned? Only that if they mess up, government will rescue them. If they had been allowed to fail, the lesson learned would have been a good one. Government needs to reevaluate their bailout plan, and use it to truly benefit the citizens who didn’t bother to do their homework regarding home buying. Let them dig themselves out of their errant ways, with a little good enabling such as lower rates, and they will learn the error of their ways.

Whatever happened to being allowed to fail, and to learn from that failure? I hope not gone, with society.

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.  Luke 19:10

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Well, my friends, it’s too late.  All of our original universities,( Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, to name a few)  and indeed the children’s schools were based upon the faith in Christ!  Those mission statements came from them.

You can read about America’s religious history and the beginnings of our educational system on your own, but here are several gleanings I have posted from the internet.  I hope the next time you think religion has no place in our schools, that you’ll remind yourself that religion is the reason we have America, and what was the basis for the founding of this great country, and  of our educational system.

The first men and women who came to the ‘new world’ that eventually became the United States came with a particular religious and spiritual vision. Much of the history of higher education in the USA is therefore rooted in Christian teaching and institutions: for instance Harvard, founded in 1636, had as its early motto “For Christ and the Church.” (Schools in the USA.com)

It may come as surprise that when Yale University was founded on this day, October 16, 1701, it was by Congregationalist ministers unhappy with the growing liberalism at Harvard. It wasn’t called Yale then, of course, but rather the Collegiate School. The ministers donated forty books and declared their objective, that “Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences who through the blessing of God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.”

The purpose of the renamed school was “To plant and under ye Divine blessing to propagate in this Wilderness, the blessed Reformed, Protestant Religion, in ye purity of its Order and Worship.”

Students were required to “live religious, godly and blameless lives according to the rules of God’s Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties of religion, both in public and secret.” Prayer was a requirement. Furthermore every student was instructed to “…consider the main end of his study to wit to know God in Jesus Christ” and “to lead a Godly, sober life.”

http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2001/10/daily-10-16-2001.shtml  Glimpses of Christian History

Established by the “New Light” (evangelical) Presbyterians, Princeton was originally intended to train ministers     http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0860519.html

• 1809 Harvard having been lost to Unitarianism, Andover Seminary is founded
• 1812 Princeton Seminary founded

Modest in its origins, but blessd with professors marked by personal devotion to Christ as well as academic brillance, the name of Princeton Seminary became almost synonymous with erudidte (sic) biblical exposition, carefully worked-out reformed theology, and deep spirituality. In volume 1 of this magnificent work, Dr. Calhoun traces the moving story of the years 1812-1868      Church History Timeline 1800-1899  Churchtimeline.com

The Enlightenment in America was best represented by Benjamin Franklin, who clearly believed that the human condition could be improved through science. He founded the American Philosophical Society, the first truly scientific society in the colonies, and his academy grew into the University of Pennsylvania, the only college established in the eighteenth century that had no ties to a religious denomination.

New England Colonies

It has long been understood that the prime motive for the founding of the New England colonies was religious freedom. Certainly what those early colonists wanted was the freedom to worship God as they deemed proper, but they did not extend that freedom to everyone. Those who expressed a different approach to religious worship were not welcome. Puritans especially were intolerant toward those who held views other than their own.

The Plymouth colony. A more extreme view was held by the Separatists, a small group mainly from the English town of Scrooby, who opposed any accommodation with the Anglican Church. Unlike the Puritans, who were also referred to as Non-Separatists, the Separatists advocated a complete break with the Church of England. At first, the Separatists left England for the more tolerant atmosphere of the Netherlands, but after a while, their leaders found the Dutch a little too tolerant; their children were adopting Dutch habits and culture. When the opportunity arose to settle on land granted by the Virginia Company of London, the Separatists accepted the offer. In 1620, they set sail for America on the Mayflower. As a result of their migrations, the Separatists became known as the Pilgrims, people who undertake a religious journey.

Much of the religious disaffection that found its way across the Atlantic Ocean stemmed from disagreements within the Anglican Church, as the Church of England was called. Those who sought to reform Anglican religious practices—to “purify” the church—became known as Puritans. They argued that the Church of England was following religious practices that too closely resembled Catholicism both in structure and ceremony. The Anglican clergy was organized along episcopalian lines, with a hierarchy of bishops and archbishops. Puritans called for a congregationalist structure in which each individual church would be largely self-governing.

Massachusetts Bay was a theocratic society, or a society in which the lines between church and state were blurred. Church membership, for example, was required for men to vote for elected local officials.

CliffsNotes.com. New England Colonies. 19 Oct 2008
<http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/topicArticleId-25073,articleId-25010.html>.

The church was built by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband, Leland Stanford, who died in 1893.^[3] The Stanfords had intended that a church become “the centerpiece of the university complex”,^[4] but being “open-minded ecumenicalists”,^[5] they stipulated in the university’s original charter that a church built on campus be nonsectarian if “essentially Protestant“.[6      wikipedia stanford memorial church

Isaiah 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I AM GOD, and there is none else.

Tolerance is the willingness of an individual to put up with, or bear, the opinions,  lifestyles, and behavior of another without agreeing with it.  It’s the relative capacity of an organism to grow or thrive in the presence of one or more unfavorable environmental conditions.  It’s the act of allowing something.  It’s the allowable deviation from the standard.

 In no way does it entail the acceptance and condoning of the behavior! Yet, that’s what society is trying to push.

The information that the schools are putting forth, that everything is relative and other people’s opinions are equally valid as our own, that we mustn’t judge because there are no absolute guidelines is bogus!

The idea that because you “feel” that… something should be allowed or accepted is based upon a false premise: your feelings.  [That’s another topic altogether, how life becomes totally mucked up when you run by “feelings.” But if you’re already reading this, at psych central, you probably already know this.]

Polls show how people believe you cannot criticize without finding fault.  That’s errant thinking. [That means it’s incorrect thinking, it isn’t true.]  Whatever happened to the principles of debate?  Are there no more debate teams because they “have to hurt someone’s feelings if they disagree?”  Hog wash. Ridiculous!

And why is this such a big deal?  Because, with the basic errant thinking that if you disagree, and if you voice that disagreement, you are making them hurt, you are hurting their feelings, and if you know this, then you are committing a hate crime!  Hate crimes mean jail time.  Another absurdity society is foisting on you,  making you believe.

Some of the younger generation might have a few “test” cases shoved in their faces at school.  One being that of Matthew Shepherd. The homosexuals grouped together and put out a script how this was only because the guy was “gay.”  And the media jumped on that, hyped it up and voila! “hate crime” was insinuated.  Even in the other highly publicized case, there was no premise of any “hate crime.”  In fact, the right verdicts were arrived at, cases resolved,  without any such ruling about hate crimes.  You see, there was no such thing back then, as a hate crime.   We don’t need any hate crime laws. Our current ones do fine.

But back to the reasoning for tolerance being taught the way it is today.  There’s only one, in my,  and expert’s opinions.  This is a direct attack against Christianity.  OH no!  You cry, not another one of those articles!    Well, please read on?

You can have many beliefs in  this world, many at the same time, of any religions you wish to join or follow, except for Christianity.  Let me phrase that better:  Christianity is the ONLY belief that you have to hold to, and not hold to another belief.  Christianity is an absolute.

You see,  the schools teach relativity. ” All things are relative” it says.  And that just isn’t true.  Even Einstein, who I think is credited for making this absurd remark, didn’t say that.  He even countered it.  [Look it up for yourself, if you are so inclined.]  All things are NOT relative.  Christianity is the only, let me repeat:  ONLY belief that is absolute.   All the other religions and faiths and beliefs allow you to add as many of them to your repetoir as you care to, they are all very good for you blah blah blah.  But NOT with Christianity.  You either accept the tenets of Christianity, and God’s infallible Holy Word, or you don’t.  There’s no mixing it up with other stuff.

Christ, God Himself in the flesh, says,” I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. NO man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”  Absolutist? Yes!

No other entity declares that they died for us.  Buddha didn’t.  Mohammad didn’t.  Tao didn’t.  Only Christ died for sins of the world.  Only Christ rose again from the dead ( with many hundreds of witnesses, verified by historians.)  Only Christ gives freely this salvation.

The “new tolerance” is aimed directly, and specifically at Christianity.  We are being corralled like sheep to the slaughter!

If we don’t fight these efforts to create “hate crimes” bills, then we will be corralled and not allowed to speak God’s truth, not allowed to share and help others lost in their sin, not allowed to show the love of God through Word, because by doing so might “hurt their feelings” and thus we would be committing a “hate crime.”  They could throw all the Christians into prison.

WAKE UP!!!  Stand up for Jesus Christ, show some backbone while we still have a place to stand!