Prophetic Politico

We The People! (Message to President Obama)

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:00 +0000

Transcript – We The People by Nos Populus

Dear President Obama,

“We The People” have stated resolutely we reject your vision for our country. You claim you have not heard us.

“We The People” have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us.

Since you have not acknowledged our message, let us here present it once more for if as President Wilson said, “a leader’s ear must ring with the voices of the people,” the time has come.

Our greatest treasure is freedom – the absence of restraints on our ability to think and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual.

A few years ago President Bush said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the heart of our actions.

When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, “It is for us the living to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced.”

That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America. It has been nearly one hundred fifty years and the work President Lincoln spoke of is not finished. In fact, that work will never be finished.

Freedom is the capacity of self-determination. It is not an entity but a condition and conditions change. Freedom can expand, yet so can it contract.

You promised change when you took office, Mr. President, but subjugation is not change we wanted or will accept.

You have expanded government, violated our Constitution, confounded laws, seized private industry, destroyed jobs, perverted our economy, curtailed free speech, corrupted our currency, weakened our national security, and endangered our sovereignty.

By compromising our nation’s cultural, legal and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft you are robbing the unborn of opportunity.

This is not acceptable. Not in America. We did not become a strong nation through hope but rather through self-reliance.

No one better understands the relationship between individual achievement, dignity and strength than our armed forces. Through every war our soldiers have held this nation’s destiny in their hands. They have not failed us. They cherish freedom enough that they are willing to die for it.

Our duty to them and to ourselves is to treasure freedom enough to live up to it.

We accept the challenge, Mr. President. That is why we are assembling across the land to deliver our message to you as often and in every way we can. Dismiss us at your political peril.

Our great nation is a Republic. We will not accept tyranny under any guise. Your policy to redistribute the fruits of our labor is Statism and will not be tolerated.

By our honor, Mr. President, we vow forever to resist coercive government in America. Patriots will not stand silent as you attempt to dismantle the greatest nation on earth. “We The People” will defend our liberty. We will protect our beloved country and America’s exceptionalism will prevail.

God Bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

We The People

My Recent Facebook Status Messages

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:31:00 +0000

The following are a few of my most recent politically-related Facebook status messages and comments, in chronological order. These messages are brought to you under the auspices of the Freedom of Speech clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, do not represent or imply an endorsement of or advocacy for any particular candidate, and are merely an expression of my personal opinions and views.

I realize I'm not very smart, but I'm having a hard time understanding how a presidential candidate who is close to being or is a billionaire (he won't release his tax returns going back more than a few years to let the American see for themselves the extent of his personal wealth) and getting richer every year, and pays an effective tax rate of less than 15% can claim to be the candidate who cares the most about and will do the most for the now HUGE percentage of -- by definition -- POOR in America. Again, I'm not a mathemetician or CPA, but seems to me if you were demonstrating your concern for the poor by giving away large amounts of your money to the poor, you probably would not be a billionaire. Just sayin'. -Dr. Steven Lambert

King Obama outright LIED to the American Catholic Church officials about the effects of ObamaCare - now FORCING the Church to accept and engage in abortion and birth control against the Catholic Church's beliefs! Maybe now the rose-colored glasses will come off the largest single voting block in America concerning their beloved Democratic Party and its leader and finally see the truth! (Comment based on article, Obama Sandbags Archbishop) -Dr. Steven Lambert

About the only thing Romney hasn't flip-flopped on is Mormonism. That tells me all I need to know! -Dr. Steven Lambert

The vast majority of GOP opposition to Gingrich comes from the party "brass" who are themselves part of the elite establishment in Washington. The establishment in power in any segment of society, political and ecclesiastical included, always oppose reformers and those advocating for change. The vast majority of grass-roots Republicans get what Gingrich is saying, know he's right, and therefore will vote FOR him, not Romney. The national polls are never accurate and cannot be trusted. Don't believe them or the reports of the media claiming Romney will be the nominee. They'll all be proven false. -Dr. Steven Lambert

The likes of Rove and Krauthammer not excluded. They need to get over themselves and repent from their ridiculous vendetta against Gingrich -- for the sake of the party and the nation. They are the main promulgators behind of an anti-Gingrich bias now manifesting at FOX NEWS rising out of the backroom deals and promises made to Romney in the 2008 election that he would be their man and get the GOP support -- financial and otherwise --in the 2012 election if he would "wait his turn" and align with McCain for 2008 election just as they promised the same things to McCain in the 2004 campaign if he would drop out, go along to get along, and align with Bush's reelection campaign. It's all insider-trading, and the same backroom shinanigans that have been going on for years. Once again, the Republican establishment is determined to jam their hand-picked candidate that has promised not to do anything to rock the Republican boat and thereby unseat the sitting Republicans in Congress and the party, allowing them to keep their high-paying jobs, contracts, and deals. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is all making Roger Aires and FOX NEWS look very bad, and will backfire on them, no doubt. -Dr. Steven Lambert

Newt Gingrich is a political reformer and deliverer. Reformers and deliverers are never welcomed with open arms by the establishment who preside over the "status quo" -- i.e., what needs to be reformed and what people need to be delivered from. The story of Moses illustrates how the powers-that-be treat reformers/deliverers. Gingrich's history has some striking metaphorical parallels to the story of Moses, particularly the part of being exiled from the Republican Party and banished to the backside of the political desert by his GOP collegues who are still angry at him for telling them the truth and being "in their face" when he was speaker insisting that they DO what they promised the American people and the Republican Party members when they were elected. Biblically, the number 40 symbolizes fullness of preparation. Gingrich's life experience of fighting through turmoil, troubles, trials, and testings, particularly since 1997, is what has prepared and qualified him for the highest office of our land at the most pivotal and perilous period in our nation's history (ironically, 2012 marks Gingrich's 40th year in politics). A reformer and deliverer is precisely what our nation needs right now politically. Gingrich is the political Moses chosen by God for this time in our history to bring greatly needed reform in Washington and deliver our nation from the tyranny of the democratic party socialists now in power, whose agenda is the dismantling our republican form of government and establishment of New Age hybrid form of fascist socialism under a single dictatorial autocrat. -Dr. Steven Lambert

Romney and Obama are two peas in a pod! My personal sense is that in terms of personality (we know there virtually indistinguishable politically other than party membership), there's very little difference between Romney and Obama. Race and political strategic ideology are the only thing that distinguishes the two. Both are narcissistic, conceited, condescending, detached, aloof, dictatorial, patronizing, ruthless, and Machiavellian. Romney is a richer and less "slick" version of "Slick Willie!" What is it about this type of personality that Americans love so much and are so attracted to? All three view themselves as worthy of Kingship rather than "presider" as the office of POTUS is supposed to be. To me, replacing the Obamas in the White House with the Romneys means no change except for the name plates -- one monarch for another monarch! Reminds me of my prophecy before the 2008 Election in which I warned that if the American people did what it appeared they were about to do it would be exactly like when God told Samuel to let the people have what they want, which was a king, but warned them what would happen when they got the king they were demanding! How true that word from God was! (read it at: http://www.slm.org/?p=49) -Dr. Steven Lambert

But what disappoints and disheartens me the most is that purporting believers don't have the discernment to discern this about these men. Why do the American people, including purporting Christian Americans, still clamor for a KING??? -Dr. Steven Lambert

"Separation of church and state" appears nowhere in the US Constitution or any US Laws. It was a term Thomas Jefferson used in a personal letter to a friend, and the connotation was not anything like what the godless and atheists have twisted it to mean, which is license to preclude the Church of Jesus Christ from having any influence in politics and government. The Bible says the opposite, and it is the believer's "constitution," Magna Carta, and Legislative Laws, all wrapped up into one! -Dr. Steven Lambert

Of the current GOP field, Newt stands tall above them all, for me as well. He's the best qualified, most experienced, knowledgeable, intelligent, informed, pragmatic, straightforward, tested, and proven candidate. The reality is: there will be no perfect, sinless men on the ballot. Don't be so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good. We're electing a president, not a pope. Let's all come down out of the clouds, and use the common sense the Lord blessed us with. -Dr. Steven Lambert

21% of Democratic Party members have defected from the party since Obama was elected. Obama doesn't have any chance of being re-elected in November! Yee-haw! I mean, thank you, Jesus! -Dr. Steven Lambert

Should Christians Be Involved In Politics?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:07:00 +0000

By Joseph Mattera

View #1: The church should not be involved in politics but only concentrate on soul-winning; the rest will take care of itself. This has been promulgated in the Evangelical Church the past 125 years, especially in Pentecostal/Charismatic circles since its inception in the early 1900's.

View #2: The church should demonstrate its spirituality primarily by getting involved through social and political action. With this view, the inner spiritual life and the supernatural are deemphasized. Many mainline liberal denominations represented by the World Council of Churches have taken this position.

View #3: The classical reformed view (my view) is that God has allotted various jurisdictions of society, with the church and Bible at the center of culture and creation as "salt and light." Some collapse these jurisdictions (or governments) to five: self-government, family, business, civic (political), and ecclesiastical (church).Read more »

GOP RESPONSE TO OBAMA SOTU ADDRESS

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels delivers the Republican Party's response to President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address, delivered last night, Tuesday, January 25, 2012.

Daniels: Greetings from the home of Super Bowl XLVI.

The status of loyal opposition imposes on those out of power some serious responsibilities: to show respect for the presidency and its occupant, to express agreement where it exists.

Republicans tonight salute our president, for instance, for his aggressive pursuit of the murderers of 9/11 and for bravely backing long overdue changes in public education. I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the first lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.

On these evenings, presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our national condition. But when President Obama claims that the state of our union is anything but grave, he must know in his heart that this is not true.Read more »

God and Country -- The Truth Christians Need To Know!

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:18:00 +0000

A tsunami of humanism-based revisionism that pervaded America in the previous century through the national education system has had an undeniable impact upon the average American's views of our national heritage. American's have been lied to! The ultimate intent of all the lies proliferated by atheistic humanists is to convince Christians to shut up and sit down! Genuine Born Again believers must "KNOW the Truth" in this regard, and the Truth will set them free, and hopefully make them righteously indignant enough to DEFY the demands of the atheistic humanists, and instead STAND UP and SPEAK OUT about the inextricable place of the God of the Bible in the very foundations, fabric, and functions of America!

Editor's Note: Andrew Wommack's teachings and spiritual understanding mirror those of this ministry so closely that when we read his articles, we are often simultaneously stunned and elated, because it is such a rarity. In this prescient and timely article, Andrew identifies and addresses a number of issues that have been stuck in our craw for a very long time, though time-related limitations, not desire, have thus far precluded authorship on the topic ourselves. The magnitude and extensiveness of the issues, warrant deeper and more expansive exposition, expecially at this present time less than a year away from the 2012 national election—arguably the most critical election in American history, but inarguably the most critical with respect to America's future. Nevertheless, this article makes a great foray into touching upon the salient issues regarding the role of the church, in particular, church leaders, in shaping and influencing American political and societal culture. In it, the author references David Barton, who is a vastly underappreciated national treasure in terms of his unrivaled work in attempting to apprise Americans regarding the centrality of Christian-Judeo foundations to the founding and early development of this nation. While I wish I could recommend the DVD-set the author references in this article on the basis of having viewed it myself, I cannot, again due to that dastardly limitation called "time," I have no compunction whatsoever about urging readers to obtain, watch, and assimilate this video-compendium of the historic record, thereby allowing those stubborn nuisances called "facts" to debunk and correct their personal reservoir of American history and the role Judeo-Christian beliefs/philosophies in it.

God and Country
By Andrew Wommack

America is changing, and not for the better. With the recent passage of the national health-care bill, we are witnessing an unprecedented fundamental change in our government. And unfortunately, it’s changing in spite of the fact that the majority of Americans oppose it.

Many of our leaders are attempting to rewrite American history and reinterpret the motivations and intentions of our Founding Fathers. They believe that America is great because wise people with good morals and values have made good decisions and that God had little or nothing to do with the success of our country. It’s the lie of humanism.Read more »

Issues with Popular Mormon Evangelist Glenn Beck

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:11:00 +0000

The Ego-maniacal Prophet -- Joseph Smith -- Founder of Mormonism

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:37:00 +0000

With a multi-generational Mormon running for President of the United States, the matter of the Mormonism is a very important matter for the American people to consider. It is for this reason, and this reason alone that we publish this and other articles on this topic. This message is brought to you under the auspices of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.(ed.)
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The Ego-maniacal Prophet -- Joseph Smith
By David Reagan

The Mormon Church is the largest Christian [see Editor's Note below] cult in the world today, claiming a membership in excess of 10 million.

It is a cult for many reasons, the most important being the fact that it proclaims a false Messiah. The Jesus of the Mormons is the brother of Lucifer, one of thousands of gods created by the super-god, Adam, an exalted man. The Mormon's perverted concept of Jesus is just one of many demonic doctrines which the church inherited from its founder, Joseph Smith.

Smith's Origins

Joseph Smith (1805-1844) was born in Vermont and raised in upstate New York near a town called Palmyra. This was the heart of what came to be called "the burned-over district" because of its frequent and fervent Protestant revivals.

Smith claimed that his first revelation from God came at the age of 14 on the Smith family farm. In subsequent encounters, Smith said that God revealed to him that all Christian groups since the death of the apostles had strayed from the true Church of Christ. He claimed that he was given the responsibility to restore the one and only true church.

In later visions Smith claimed that he was led to tablets of gold stored in a nearby hillside. These tablets supposedly contained a history of the ancient inhabitants of North America. His "translations," written in perfect King James English, were published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon. This book was to become the sacred scripture of Mormonism.Read more »

The Tangled Web of Mormonism

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:46:00 +0000

The characteristics of arguably the world's largest cult.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive." This old adage would be a perfect epitaph inscribed on the tombstone of Joseph Smith. What started out as a profiteering scheme, by a young man known for his occult activities and tall tales, has now become a multi-billion dollar religious organization known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) whose main headquarters are located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Today, it influences millions of people and is trying desperately to present itself as part of mainline Christianity. But what is it really?

Mormon Theology

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon church, is a well organized, highly-controlling, aggressive religious movement that is out to convince the world that they have a corner on "the truth" about God. They use door-to-door missionaries, friendship evangelism, and slick TV advertising to promote their world view, as well as the Book of Mormon as "another testament of Jesus Christ." Some of their distinctive doctrines include the following:

Men have the potential to become gods with their own worlds to rule.
Joseph Smith, not Jesus, holds the keys to the last dispensation.
People have existed eternally.
Adam was given conflicting commandments in the Garden of Eden and was suppose to fall.
The Holy Ghost is spirit, but God the Father and Jesus both have bodies of flesh.
Lucifer was the "spirit brother" of Jesus.
Christ's death brought "universal resurrection" to all, but each man must now earn his place in heaven.
Couples married in a Mormon temple ceremony are married forever.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the one true church.

Are Mormons Really Christians?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:35:00 +0000

With a multi-generational Mormon running for President of the United States, the subject of this post becomes an especially important matter. (ed.)

"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg — or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us." —C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis's famous "trilemma" confronts those who affirm the moral teachings of Christianity while distancing themselves from Christ's more difficult declarations about His deity, man's sinfulness, and the narrowness of the path to salvation. Jesus' famous "Golden Rule," is enthusiastically embraced in postmodern society while his other teachings are widely rejected. Accustomed to defining their own reality, postmodernists pick and choose from Jesus' teachings as if He offered them some kind of spiritual smorgasbord. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is selected as a delicacy, while "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me" is rejected as distasteful.Read more »

Why Do the Members of the Secular Media Hate Bible-believing Christians?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:03:00 +0000

Why Do the Members of the Secular Media Hate Bible-believing Christians?
By Dr. Michael Youseff

The clearest answer comes from a statement reputedly made by President Harry Truman during his 1948 Presidential election campaign.

One of his supporters yelled out to him, “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” Truman responded, “I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell.”

That is precisely the reason why there is a war on Christians waged by members of the secular media.

Christians speak the truth about God’s best for humanity as it applies to morality, laws and governing principles, but the secular media views these truths as Hell. Truth always feels like Hell to those who reject, deny, or hate the truth.Read more »

WILL "CENTRIST" OBAMA WIN?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:59:00 +0000

WILL "CENTRIST" OBAMA WIN?

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on January 21, 2011

On this, the second anniversary of his inauguration, President Obama is clearly showing a determination to change his image, replacing his hard left dogmatism with a seeming flexibility and openness to the views of the center. Will it work? Will it lead to his re-election? Are we only one-quarter of the way through a two term Obama presidency?

If the Republican Party wimp out and embraces a moderate agenda, trying to meet him in the middle, Obama will succeed and will be with us for six more years. But if the GOP defines itself in stark contrasts and pushes conservative policies, we will beat him. The key is to test Obama's centrism by confronting him with bold demands to rollback health reform, undo his massive spending, deregulate community banks, enable state bankruptcies, and block pending executive orders to impose carbon taxes, card check unionization, and FCC regulation of talk radio and the Internet.

We have got to make the gentile and lulling waves of Obama's new-found moderation crash up against the rocks of Republican demands. Then the leftist rib tide that lurks underneath the seemingly calm waters will be exposed and, in the ensuing surf, he will flounder.Read more »

God Save Arizona

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:56:00 +0000

GOD SAVE ARIZONA!

God save Arizona
Once more...she's under seige again
God save Arizona
She's our frontline of defense
From the enemy within
She can handle the illegals
And protesting malcontents
But God save Arizona
From our own federal government

[Ray Stevens]

A President Without A Country

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:43:00 +0000

"We're no longer a Christian nation." – President Barack Obama, June 2007
"America has been arrogant." – President Barack Obama

"After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."
– President Barack Obama

"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."
– President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009

Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president … I keep wondering what country he believes he's president of.Read more »

A Veteran Remembers Memorial Day

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:26:00 +0000

MEMORIAL DAY – 2010
A Day set aside in our country in remembrance of all those who died on the battlefields over the past 240 years fighting for America’s freedom. For many: this is a day for Americans to reflect on the loss of family and friends who sacrificed their life on the battlefields around the world. For Others: It doesn’t mean anything more than a paid holiday from work.

I served 20 years in the Marine Corps including two tours in Vietnam. 1st Tour: One of the first Marine units to be sent to Vietnam in 1965. I was a young lieutenant who believed in our country and was totally committed to the allegiance of combat priority taught to Marine leaders: Mission first – Men in Unit second – our own life was last. That is: Country – Men – Self: in that order. Sounds similar to the greatest commandments of our Lord:

1st: God is our primary focus on the battlefield of life;
2nd: Prioritize others before ourselves.

If you're not a tea partier … why not?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:27:00 +0000

SOMETHING IN THE AIR
If you're not a tea partier … why not?
Exclusive: Pat Boone lists myriad reasons citizens should continue quest to reclaim U.S.
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Posted: April 24, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Pat Boone

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All the polls now show that, far from petering out and fading away, the phenomenon called the tea-party movement is growing, gaining momentum, stature and political clout every day.

This is particularly amazing when you realize that this "party" has no home base, no national or even titular leader, no billionaire support and no real coordinating organization. It's just a rapidly rising and vocal grass-roots activist reaction to the same crime that prompted the original American Revolution – taxation without representation.

The average American citizen is not as apathetic, ignorant, uninformed and disinterested as the leftist, "progressive" political opportunists thought.

For years now, as modern life for most citizens has become more diverse, pressured, distracted and uncertain; powerful – and power-hungry – forces have seized the opportunity to mold government into their image of what it should be. When an unknown, inexperienced but articulate Barack Obama rode into the White House, vowing openly to "radically transform America," the liberals felt they could now ride roughshod over the citizenry, disregard the constitutional limits on the branches of government and truly transform a democratic republic into a socialist Never Never Land.
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Arizona Woman Questions Obama

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:43:00 +0000

Recently Glenn Beck, host of the Glenn Beck show on Fox, read a letter he received from a 53-year-old woman from Arizona in which she chastizes the current Democratic controlled US government. Many Americans who've read the since widely circulated letter feel this woman was their surrogate spokeperson. The sentiments she expresses in the letter on a dozen pressing current issues indeed represent the well those of the overwhelming majority of middle America. Here's the letter with Beck's brief introduction of it.

GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:

"I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent.

There must be someone. Please tell me who you are Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now.

You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels.. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution.

P.S., I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with legal immigration.
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Remembering 9/11

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:04:00 +0000

It was eight years ago today that the horrific events of 9-11-01 occurred. In light of that, I wanted to reprise the article I wrote the day after, because it is obvious now that what I wrote was both prescient and prophetic. I knew that day, as I watched the events unfold on television that we were witnessing the collapse, not only of the Twin Towers, but the world's economy, if not the "Fall of Babylon" prophesied in Revelation 18. Though the news commentators and pundits were unwilling to speak such things at the time, it was confirming and reaffirming to hear Alan Greenspan, the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve — the twelve banks that are the real control center of America — admitted in a recent televised interview on a CNBC progam about the 2008 global economic collapse that he too instinctively knew he was witnessing the collapse of the world economy when he flew over ground zero in a helicopter the day after to see for himself the utter devastation and ruin wreaked at the hands of few foreign terrorists. The article regarding 9-11 follows.

America Under Attack
September 11, 2001

"A Day that Will Live In Infamy"

By Steven Lambert, ThD

Dear Friends and Fellow-believers,

Regarding the tragic and incredible events of yesterday, September 11, 2001, another "day that will live in infamy," some ten years ago, the Lord gave me a prophetic dream showing me, in essence, devastation of this sort taking place specifically in NY City. He also showed me in my discussion with Him about what transpired in the vision (far more than I can disclose here), that NYC was the epicenter of the financial, communication, commercial, and international political infrastructure of America, and hence the world. In the days following, He went on to tell me that there would come a time (I believe this is the beginning of that time) when everything that we have come to rely upon as being foundational to our individual and collective lives, the "foundations" of America and the free world, would be rocked, critically wounded, and indeed, some of them fatally wounded and destroyed.

Consequently, "life" as we have come to know it in this country especially, (at the time of the fulfillment of the vision) would be "forever changed." The words that continuously reverberated in my spirit, which I knew to be the words of the Holy Spirit within, were, "Nothing will ever be the same. Nothing will ever be the same."

Government health care plantation looms

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Halfway into 2009, Americans have turned more control of their lives over to government and politicians than ever before in history

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By Star Parker.............................

What is now being billed as health care reform is but the latest chapter in a process I described in an earlier column as "Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation."

Rather than moving dysfunctional America off the welfare state, as we did with welfare reform in 1996, we are now moving the free, functioning, and once prosperous part of our nation onto the welfare state.

Bills out of committees in both the House and the Senate contain all the elements of President Obama's dream to get as many Americans onto the government health care plantation as possible.

We've got creation of the new government run insurance plan that supposedly will create new competition.

We've got fines on employers who don't provide insurance and fines on individuals who don't buy it.

And we've got the trillions of dollars in new spending to subsidize insurance purchases for low to middle income Americans and expand Medicaid to get more low income Americans into it.

And, of course, we've got the massive new government bureaucracy to oversee it all.Obama continues to tell the many millions of Americans currently insured through their employer not to worry, that "If you like your health care plan you can keep that..."
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Inaugural Convention of Freedom Federation

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:22:00 +0000

June 30,2009
Washington, DC

Today the Liberty Counsel (http://www.lc.org/) announced the inaugural convention of the Freedom Federation, it describes as:

"a federation of some of the largest faith-based organizations in the country gathered in the Nation’s capital to plan, strategize, and work together on common interests within the Judeo-Christian tradition to mobilize their grassroots constituencies and to communicate faith and values to the religious, social, cultural, and policymaking institutions."

According to a press release for the event, "The constituents of these organizations are concerned about the spiritual, moral, cultural, and economic condition of the Nation." The convenor's self-description of the organization states:

"The Freedom Federation is a federation of individual, national, multi-ethnic and transgenerational organizations and leaders. The Freedom Federation is not a separate organization. It is a federation of organizations with large and unique constituencies that share common core values."

Director of Catholic Online, Ken Fornier, who represented Catholics at the gathering, on the organizations blog made the following statement regarding the purposes and goals of the Freedom Foundation:

On Tuesday we will come together as a “Freedom Federation” not to form any new organization but to stand together as Christians who are Americans and pledge, as did the founders of this Nation, our life our liberty and our sacred honor. At the top of our list of common areas wherein we will try to work together are these commitments to common action:

The Deception of the Elect in America

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:54:00 +0000

There's a frequently evoked saying today, especially by politicians: "The devil's in the details." How true that is with regards to the craftily deceitful machinations employed by a growing number of extremely influential politico-socio organizations whose mission is wholesale indoctrination of Americans with their radically profane, godless, and humanistic philosophy or world view predicated on the 21st century new age rudiments of pluralism, syncretism, inclusion, and "diversity tolerance."

Each of these concepts as they are interpreted and applied by these activist groups' are blatant lies and delusion of the highest order. Yet, the "father of lies," as Jesus Himself called him, referring to the devil, who is the ultimate author of all these hypotheses, is being astoundingly successful in duping massive segments of mankind with these thoroughly deceptive philosophies.

In America, organizations like Born Again America, whose parent organization is none other than Norman Lear's radically liberal and profane People For The American Way, are having huge success in the systematic seduction of the minds of the masses via their deft and guileful propaganda campaigns. The influence of this organization and its subsidiaries along with that of others similar to them upon the outcome of the 2008 Presidential Election was enormous and cannot be overstated. So deft and guileful are the brainwashing tactics and techniques of these politico-socio activists that, as Jesus predicted that would happen in the last days, even the elect are being deceived and led astray along with the unbelieving of the world. It is this delusion of the elect -- professing believers -- that concerns me the most, and should be the greatest concern of all believers.
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Democracy or Oligarchy?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:08:00 +0000

Here, one day before perhaps the most important presidential election in the history of this nation, I am painfully aware that this article, if it were to have any impact at all, will be far too little far too late. Unfortunately as well, in terms of the demographics of the readership of this blog, it likely will only amount to “preaching to the choir.” Moreover, I hold no illusions that its message will turn the mind of anyone regarding their vote tomorrow. Despite all this, I am somehow pressed with a patriotic and spiritual duty to write and publish it any way.

Only a year ago, I must confess at the outset, I had basically resigned myself to the premise that in the 2008 election America was going to get what it deserved politically. Considering the precipitous moral and spiritual decline of this nation, and the dizzying speed with which it is taking place, it is easy to arrive at such a conclusion, not from a pessimistic but realistic prospective. Yet, when I mentally scan all that I know regarding the scenario before us, the only thing that gives me a modicum of hope is the Apostle Peter’s resonating descriptor of God the Father, that He is “the God of all grace” (1 Pet. 5:10). As we know, the Gospel of Christ is all about, through and through, the Amazing Grace of God extended to humanity instead of the judgment we so rightly deserve.

So it is indeed a hard call, difficult to prognosticate, what will be the outcome of this pivotal election. Will America get what it deserves, or will God once again extend His grace? Frankly, I absolutely don’t know. Probably, few, if any, do know with even relative certainty. Though, we will ALL know our fate and future as far as things in the natural realm go within the next 48 hours.

Lest new readers misunderstand my tenor and thesis, I refer you to my previous post, God’s Plan For the Economic Collapse of 2008. I indicated there my belief that believers understand that we cast our vote not for a mortal human nor for a human ideology, but for a Superhuman and Sovereign God and Savior. The natural realm of this world is not the believer’s source for anything we need in this life. God is our source. And though we are IN the world, we are by no means OF the world. Our life on this planet is not limited to or by the world’s system, rather we live by another system called the Kingdom of God. For us, our daily prayer, according to the model prayer Jesus commended to us, is that God’s will be done ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. That prayer will not always produce a manifestation of God’s will on earth in all the affairs of men, nor does Holy Writ give us a hope that it will. But, for the believer, there is a hope, and even a confidence and expectation, that God will indeed bring forth a manifestation of His will in the affairs of true believers.

The result is that while on one hand, we at times may be tempted to despair, yet on the other hand we despair not, knowing that God the Father is still on the Throne, and the mighty Conquering Christ still reigns supreme, who instructed us:

“These things I have spoken unto you that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulations, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” (Jn. 16:33)

I know and wholeheartedly believe all these things I just enumerated, yet I, like many other American believers, nevertheless find it difficult to shake off the troubling and unsettling sentiment that the systematic dismantling of our democratic system and republic engenders within our patriotic souls. Heaven is our ultimate “Home,” of course, but America is our earthly national home. Many of us have served our country in some capacity, whether military, Peace Corp, civil organizations, political involvements or office, or some other way, which we did because of our deep-seated allegiance to our nation. We still get chills every time we hear the National Anthem, can barely resist the emotional reflex to salute the flag when its over, and tear up as we proudly recite the Pledge of Allegiance. When fellow Floridian Lee Greenwood sings, “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free,” he is not singing a solo, but is only one voice in a choir of millions who sing every word right along with him; maybe a little staccato and maybe a little off pitch, but sublimely melodious nonetheless. So, yes, it has been more than a little disconcerting for the vast majority of “boomers,” I suspect, over more than half a century now, to witness the gradual erosion of the foundations upon which this great republic was founded. The “unalienable rights” to which the founding fathers ascribed so profoundly and eloquently in one of our nation’s most sacred documents, The Declaration of Independence, are being systematically supplanted by the plenary activism of a decided elite minority who with their relentless and resounding hue and cry for the establishment of secular humanism have successfully convinced a majority of Americans that they represent the majority and that the majority of Americans subscribe to and support their anti-American, anti-God agenda. And, that, my friend, is more than a little troubling. It causes a righteous indignation to rise up within many patriotic Americans who are proud to be Americans, proud of this nation and what it stands for, and grateful to God we were born such.

The stark fact is that since, ironically, the “Great War”—WWII—America has slowly moved from being a democratic republic to being an outright oligarchy (rule by a few) in every sense that oligarchies were extant in past eras and previous societies. The oligarchy that has hijacked our nation is comprised of a relatively small (at the most, 15%) enclave that has surreptitiously infiltrated and systematically seized control of the segments of our society where true power rests: the legislative and judiciary branches of the federal government, commerce, financial institutions, the media, the educational system, and the religious sector.

The epicenter of the nemesis to democracy today is the third branch of government, the judiciary, its command center being the Supreme Court. It is from these nine men and women that “clear and present danger” for America’s future emanates. This tiny cadre of jurists has become the nerve center of the oligarchy, the apex of the pyramid, the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the prosecution of the secular absolutism war. Yet, it was the intent of the Founding Fathers that this branch of government be the weakest and most passive. It was never their intent that the purview of these nine jurists include sitting in judgment on the actions of the legislative and executive branches and have the negating power of “interpretation” of duly enacted civil laws that the Court has ascribed to itself. The genius of the framers of the Constitution was nowhere more evident than in the separation of powers instituted in the democratic republic they designed, which was intended to negate and nullify the power by any one branch to dictate. An ingenious system of “checks and balances”—that is, when it is not spuriously circumvented. Nowhere in that Constitution did the framers articulate anything close to the doctrine of judicial supremacy upon which the judicial domination that presently prevails over America is predicated. Jefferson himself thoroughly rejected the concept, and expressly repudiated and warned against it in a letter he penned to William Jarvis in 1820:

“[t]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine, indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy…. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.” (Emphasis added)

“A very dangerous doctrine, indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy”—such is precisely what has transpired 188 years since the primary author of the Constitution wrote those eerily prescient warnings. The Supreme Court has become a despotic oligarchy ruling over a larger oligarchy (judges of the lower courts system) which presides over an even larger oligarchy (the left wing liberals), subverting the elective branches of government and the will of the American people. In his book, Real Change, Newt Gingrich deftly articulated the essence of the impending quagmire:

It is hard to overstate the danger of tyranny from elitist judges who believe they have the right and the power to dictate to the American people what we will do and how we will do it.

Real change in American life will occur when the American people come to understand that we do not have to sit passively by while the federal judiciary redefines American history and takes away the people’s power to decide their future. The nature of judges and the power they have should be the most important single domestic issue of the 2008 campaign. It is that central to the future of America.

This issue alone—the appointment of Supreme Court justices to replace retired and retiring justices who are waiting to announce their retirement until after the election—is perhaps the most critical element making this election and its outcome so vital to the collective future of Americans. It is crucial that Americans vote not for a personality or persona but for a president that will appoint judges that are most likely to eschew judicial activism and the ludicrous notion that somehow the Constitution is a “living” document that must be interpreted according to the prevailing mores and ideologies of each succeeding generation. The Laws God transacted through Moses were literally, not figuratively, “written in stone.” The Founding Fathers considered the civil laws of our land to be an extension of those Laws of God. So it is preposterous to think that the Constitution is to be interpreted in accordance with changing mores. Thus, in my view, of all the reasons for believers and traditionalist Americans to go out to vote tomorrow, the matter of bringing a halt to judicial dominance in this country is at the top.

Nuances could be debated, but essentially that is the current state of affairs. Indeed, there was a time, not so long ago, when elections in this nation were mostly about nuances among men of good will regarding political expediencies and methodologies relative to shared goals and intents—the preservation and protection of our commonwealth. Such is far from the case today. Such is also the reason behind the extreme vitriol that has now pervaded the political system and process. No longer is the national debate about disparate opinions concerning how to reach the same destinations, but rather it is about the foundational ideologies that dictate the destinations. The fact of the matter is: the 2008 election is about a New Age hybrid of socialism, founded upon an anti-God, secular humanism ideology, against democracy “under God,” founded in the laws and principles of the Kingdom of God.

The world we live in today is a far different world as post-WWII, when our nation was the lead nation in putting down attempted world conquest by a crazed megalomaniac (Nazism) and an imperialist society (imperialism), as well as global proliferation of socialism, fascism, and communism. Have we, as a nation, so quickly forgotten the precious victories that were won in that momentous struggle to defeat world aggression predicated on ideologies wholly antithetical to those of this nation and the high cost that was paid by “The Greatest Generation” to secure them?

Have we so soon forgotten the great cost that was paid within our own nation 150 years ago to preserve the union when the ideals of its founders—namely the truth they held to be “self-evident,” “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”—were challenged by a renegade judicial system that overstepped its purview of authority, overruled the two elected branches and thus the will of the American people, and arbitrarily and without legal precedent ruled with its findings to uphold and extend slavery (Dred v. Scott, 1857). The horrendous result of that blatant abuse of authority by a few maverick judges was a Civil War in which 620,000 Americans lost their lives.

Need we be reminded of the oft-quoted aphorism that those who cannot or do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it?

The now infamous ode attributed to the German anti-Nazi activist Pastor Martin Niemöller lamenting the German people’s unforgivable inactivity and passivity as they stood by watching the Nazi systematic rise to power under Adolph Hitler should serve as a lasting warning to all civilizations:

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Well, all Americans who believe in and hold dear the traditional principles and beliefs upon which this country was founded and has made it the most blessed nation of God ever, need to give heed: Next, they are coming for YOU!

The signers of the our Declaration of Independence, who with their signatures of assent knowingly committed their fortunes and futures to the founding formulation of this the greatest of all nations, eloquently articulated the premises under which separation from tyranny by a people who believed themselves to be inherently free and the resultant establishment of a new and independent form of governance becomes necessary:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

It was from their deeply held beliefs in the freedom that Christ purchased for all men that the framers drew their ideology concerning governance. They believed to their very core that “whom the Son sets free is free indeed.” Indeed, the Gospel of Christ is all about freedom. Thus, so also was the founding of this country all about freedom. Freedom—first and foremost—to worship God according to one’s creed and conscience, rather than according to the dictums and definitions dictated by the State. The agenda of the secular humanists forming this oligarchy is to “define” God and His place in American life.

Though the term is nowhere evoked in the document itself, a genuinely democratic republic was born out of the auspices of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Indeed, the Founding Fathers with this document and in the formulation of the Constitution envisioned a nation whose government “deriving [its] just powers from the consent of the governed”—a system of governance truly “of the people, for the people, and by the people.” Intrinsically such language connotes the majority of the people. Yet, what we now have holding the reigns of control over our beloved nation is rule by an elite minority, and the democracy intended by the Founding Fathers has been supplanted by an oligarchy.

Much to my chagrin, when in a prophetic seminar in 1989, under the inspiration of the Spirit, I prophesied concerning the “fall of democracy” in America (which I have recorded on tape), I didn’t really understand, as I do now, nearly 20 years later, what the prophetic prognostication really meant. What is clear now though is the effect that the political activism of this minority of secular humanists has had over the preceding 20 years in securing the stranglehold it has over the control centers of the country. The effect is that democracy is indeed in danger of falling against the onslaught of a well-positioned and well-funded oligarchy.

Though there is so much more I could and wish I had the time to write about all this, the lateness of the hour before the election tomorrow simply will not allow it. The upshot of what I feel compelled to write is my personal conviction, which I believe was not generated through mere scrutiny of the candidates and their political philosophies and pledges, but from the Spirit within, and therefore is not an advocating for a particular candidate. My personal conviction is that tomorrow Americans will not be voting so much for a man, a race, a gender, or a political party, but for ideals and an ideology. Ironically, a vote for the Democratic candidate will be a vote for the continuation and establishment of an oligarchy—rule by an elite few, whose ideals and ideology is predicated on secular humanism and socialism. A vote for the Republican candidate is a vote for the retaining and sustaining of democracy and traditional American values founded upon God’s Word. Of course, there are numerous issues involved, but the overriding issue I believe is democracy or oligarchy.

What I sense in the Spirit is that there is some similarity between this election and another “election” when the Israelites clamored for a king to be there judge “like all the (other) nations” when Samuel the Prophet, who had been God’s surrogate judge and ruler to the nation, had grown old and would soon die. The people’s insistence on a human king instead of a theocracy in which God was the ultimate ruler greatly displeased Samuel. But, he prayed. Surprisingly, God told Samuel:

“Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being King over them. Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. Now then, listen to their voice; however, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them.”

So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of him a king. He said, “This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots. He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants. He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the Lord’s hearing. The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and appoint them a king.” So Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.” (1 Samuel 8:7-22)

This description by God sounds to me astonishingly like socialism, wherein the citizenry surrender their sovereignty and liberty and even their personal possessions unto the government and thereby become the property and chattel of the kingdom or State in return for the protections and provisions the kingdom provides.

In short, tomorrow Americans will be casting their vote not for a man, but for either democracy under God and the freedoms it engenders or oligarchy under a godless government that intends to own its constituency.

My prayer, and I pray the prayer of all believers and all Americans, is that God’s will prevails tomorrow, and that God continues to extend Amazing Grace to America. Amen and God Bless America!

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do!" -- Everett Hale

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God's Plan For The Economic Collapse of 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Steven Lambert) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:07:00 +0000

In this crucial hour when not only Americans but all peoples of all nations collectively are faced with the catastrophic effects of the most expansive economic collapse in the annals of human history, it is calming, comforting, and cheering to know that the Sovereign and Almighty God has a plan, has eternally known what the plan is, and that His plan—for individual believers and His true Body alike—is not for harm, calamity, disaster, or destruction, but welfare, good, prosperity, peace, and a hope-filled future.

'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’ (Jer. 29:11, NASB)

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Ibid; NIV)

For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. (Ibid; AB)

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (Ibid; NLT)

In the present tumultuous times in which talk of crisis, collapse, and calamity fill the air and images vividly portraying same fill our television screens, it is vital for believers to understand one thing—God has a plan. He’s always had a plan. In fact it is not just a plan, rather His plan is THE plan. The various translations of this oft-quoted verse cited above reflect some poignant points concerning the plans that He has for us.

First, it’s thrilling to just know that the Almighty has a plan for our welfare and well-being—that a plan actually exists. How often do people—believers and non-believers alike—languish in life for lack of a plan and because they don’t know what God’s plan is! One of the most pitiful divine laments in the Word of God is: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6). In other words, those who profess to be God’s people and wear the badge—“Christian”—don’t know that God has always had a specifically and intentionally devised plan for their life, and they have no clue what that plan is.

Many don’t know where they’re going, nor how to get to wherever it is they are going. As someone has said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

Lack of knowledge or ignorance of God’s plans for us is not just a “bummer,” as people say today, but it will cause you to live a defeated and destroyed life. Myriad are the professing Christians living lives of devastation and destruction due to ignorance of God’s plans, pledges, and promises for them.

Secondly, God says He knows the plans He has for us. Just the knowledge that He already knows the plans He has for us should be extremely comforting, calming, and cheering to us in the troubled and tribulation-filled times comprising our current collective life as Americans here in the fall of 2008, as the world reels in the wake of ubiquitous financial devastation for which there are no ready remedies.

Thirdly, the plans God has for us, by His own pronouncement, are NOT for calamity, disaster, devastation, or evil, but on the contrary for our welfare, good, prosperity, peace, and to give us hope and a hopeful future. Again, if there’s ever been a time a plan that will engender all those results is needed, especially hope and a hopeful future, it is now!

Yet, the stark reality at this present hour is that the scenario before us as a nation appears to be completely antithetical to what God declares concerning “the plan” He has for His people. Over the last few days the economy of the world’s greatest super-power has been officially, albeit reluctantly, diagnosed by the economic experts and the politicians charged with overseeing and managing it, as “collapsed”—in unprecedented, historic proportions. Our national economy lies listless on a blood-soaked gurney on life-support in the ICU. The team of highly-skilled ER physicians have signified with the familiar side-to-side swivel of their heads that at this point there’s nothing much they can do for the dying patient but provide comfort. And, since believers, though not of the world, are in the world, they are impacted much the same in the natural as the rest of the world.

The financial “fall” long predicted by a number of prophetic voices over the last two decades finally became an undeniable reality on Rosh HaShana, New Years Day for the year 5769 on the Hebrew calendar, signaled by the most precipitous one-day decline ever recorded on Wall Street with the leading stock market index plummeting precisely 777 points—a mark that surely is a divine signature. “Black Monday 2.0.” “The Super-Fall in the Fall 2008,” it could be dubbed. Humpty-Dumpty has fallen off the wall, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men it now appears are incapable of putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

Virtually all of the longest standing financial institutions heretofore forming the economic foundations of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world have totally collapsed; many literally are no more. The highest, mightiest, and smartest of our republic are totally bankrupt of credible answers and viable solutions. The nation’s most powerful and highly positioned government leaders cannot even begin to account for either the genesis or the denouement of the most immense national debacle in time immemorial. The most brilliant economic and political minds of the free world are totally stymied by the sheer scale of the dilemma and basically unable to offer a stunned and reeling American citizenry any plausible strategy for resolution and recovery. All that the entirety of Washington can offer is some hastily-devised dubious and purely speculative proposals that in effect transfer the retributive burden for the sins of the true offenders onto the collective back of the present generation of Americans, to bear for the whole of their and their children’s children’s lifetimes.

The cause, of course, we know with absolute certainty. Basic greed, bare avarice, and brazen aggrandizement are the uncontested and undeniable motivators. That—we all know. No debate needed in that regard. The proverbial chickens have come home to roost, and barring divine intervention the people of “the land of the free” will be suffering the wages that inure to those who foolishly disregard the biblical adage concerning the borrower becoming the slave of the lender. Unless and until Americans return to Biblical principles regarding financial integrity and morality, we will remain incarcerated in a debtors prison, where one of the horrible consequences is forfeiture of common human freedom and the freedoms we as the most prosperous nation on earth have enjoyed for well over two-hundred years.

For decades our national adversaries have well known and implemented strategies based on the understanding that there is no need for them to resort to expending massive amounts of their resources on a military aggression against “the great Satan,” when they can use American resources to bring the nation to its knees through economic and entrepreneurial exploitation of our national Achilles Heel—materialism, and more specifically the ills that unrestrained and pandemic avarice produce. The unfortunate result of decades of moral decline and spiritual apostasy in this country is that our gates are now overrun and our nation is overflowing with mortal enemies filled with venomous enmity.

What is critical for the true Church—the Church Jesus is building, the Remnant Church—to recognize in the face of current events, the presidential race in particular, is that, though the matter of what candidate and political party prevails in the election will certainly affect us all, nevertheless, our destiny does not rise and fall on who is president and vice president of the United States. Bona fide believers, one and all, cast their vote for the ultimate Commander-in-chief the day they accepted the risen Christ as their personal Lord and Savior! The Born Again Child of God can take solace in the fact that Jesus is Lord over all and has been permanently given a Name which is above every other Name—on earth and in heaven.

In a sense, so far as our own life is concerned, each of us are electors of the supreme electoral college that does not convene every four years for a new election, but once and for all. For those of us who by virtue of the New Birth have been become members of the Holy Race, earthly political races are of only minor consequence. We are IN this world, but we are not OF this world. The world’s systems and kingdoms are not the system and kingdom in which we operate. Oh our natural lives are surely affected by the earthly systems and kingdoms, but we are preeminently spirit-beings operating in the system of the Spirit—the kingdom of Christ—which cannot be seen with natural sight. Thus, we must ensure that we not limit ourselves or consign our destiny to the natural systems of this world, but rather seek to effectually function in the Spirit realm on a daily basis.

When compared with Jesus’ explicit description in His didactic discourses unto His contemporary disciples of “the last days,” can the current tribulation-filled times possibly not be the manifestation in earnest of His preternatural predictions (see Mat. 23; et al.)? I think not. Are these the times concerning which Jesus said, when you see these things taking place, LOOK UP, for your redemption draweth nigh? I think so. Are there those among us who seriously believed, say thirty years ago, that theirs would be the generation who would experience these scriptural predictions? I think not many.

Yet are the events that produced the present circumstances part of the Divine Plan of which I speak—meaning, did God orchestrate them? The answer is a resounding “No!”

Succinctly stated, God gave dominion of the earth to man, namely Adam and Eve, but Satan wrested it from man in the Garden of Eden through the aegis of man’s fall into perdition. “The heavens are the Lord’s, but the earth he has given unto the sons of men.” In Jesus, the Second Adam, God sent the Kinsman Redeemer and Prototype to generate Redeemed Mankind, the Holy Race, but it is now up to that Holy Race, the Church, Christ’s Betrothed, to wrest dominion back from Satan’s control. That is the Church’s ultimate mission, and heaven shall retain Christ until that mission is fully accomplished and all things are restored, at which time He will return to claim the Church as His Eternal Bride.

Clear and plain, Mankind—unredeemed humanity—in cooperation and collaboration with Satan, “the ruler of this world,” “the prince of the power of the air,” is responsible for the present circumstances. Man, operating through the aegis of the powers and principles of the kingdoms of this world, which are under the sway of the original rebel, Satan, has produced these circumstances.

Indeed all this is what makes the fact that God has an eternal plan that holds the welfare and prosperity of His People, the Remnant Church, in the midst of global tribulation, so indescribably magnificent.

As I said at the beginning, God clearly and unequivocally declares in the verse cited at the beginning that, one, He knows the plans He has for us, and, two, those plans are NOT for calamity, disaster, or evil, but rather for our welfare, good, prosperity, peace, and a hopeful and blessed future.

God knows the plans He has for us, but there are some things we need to know and understand concerning His plans for us, however—things that even His people, His Body, the Church, His betrothed, often, unfortunately and to their detriment, do not understand. As He says in His Word, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6). Now we know and have little problem assimilating that the unbelieving people of the world are destroyed and live decimated for lack of knowledge or spiritual understanding. That is pretty much a given. But, the lament of God through His prophet Hosea in this verse is that God’s people—what today is Born Again Children of God—are destroyed and experience destruction in their lives, needlessly, due to their lack of knowledge concerning God and His Kingdom.

It is what we don’t know that allows destruction to invade and oftentimes prevail in our lives. It is not—as the world, the occult, and the New Agers erroneously proclaim—“the truth” that sets us free. That is a misquote and twisting of Scripture. Jesus never said that. Rather, He said it is the truth of His Word that we KNOW from abiding in His Word that sets us free, and the ones the Truth sets free is not everyone and anyone, but rather only His disciples (John 8:31,32)! The obverse of that adage holds true as well, however: the fact that what we do not know of the Truth precludes our liberation and permits our bondage and slavery to continue.

So there are some things we desperately need to know about the plans that God has for us, which we will look at in the next edition of this article. But, the most important thing of all to understand in the interim is that God has a plan and knows exactly what that plan is, and how He is going to implement it. In fact, everything is right on plan, despite what we see and hear going on in our world today. So there is no need whatsoever for the true believer to despair or become dispirited at all. Yes, the kingdoms of this world are being shaken to their core, but we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken.

Moreover, the True Remnant Church that Jesus is and has been building for two millennia should be rejoicing, and again I say, rejoicing, at the events and circumstances transpiring at this time, because (this much I will share in this edition regarding what the Lord has shown me) where it is all leading is the most monumental transference of wealth and earthly means in human history.

But, hear this, and hear it good, this massive transfer will be only unto the proven righteous, the third part remnant who have been tested as gold is tested in the fiery furnace, refined as silver is refined (Zech. 13:8,9). God will get it TO these, because He knows He can get it THROUGH them to fulfill His purposes and plans the ultimate end of which is the glorification of the Bride:

Haggai 2:5-9
‘As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!’
“For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.
‘I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts.
‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the Lord of hosts.
‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”

God has a plan, and He knows what that plan is, but even more exhilarating is that He promises to reveal those plans to us, His Children, through the Spirit:

But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny]. (1 Corinthians 2:9,10; AB)