As some may recall, this author is a "Son of the American Revolution" from both sides of his family (both grandmothers are confirmed members of "Daughters of the American Revolution"). So, this entire concept of defense of America with "the original homeland security," as a recent title of an internet article, and before that, creative perspective by many who share this perspective, reminds us is the entire point of the Second Amendment, is close to home.
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War is (still) a Divine Judgment. Ezekiel 14:21 -- The Four Sore (Great) Judgments: War, Famine, Pestilence (Disease, Plague), and "Beasts."
Success in war, and the remembrance of the expense of the success in war, which is what we get, in part, via the D-Day remembrance, in no way alters the fact that War is an act of Divine Judgment. To add some perspective, the extent to which we, as a nation, are off course is so great (in God's perspective), that He found a way to embroil "us" (Americans) in foreign wars.
As for D-Day, continuing study seems to bear out the reality that Omaha Beach was the worst part of the landing, and it's the part to which the Americans were assigned. Americans fought through that set of circumstances and overcame those German defenses at a relatively high price. It's a memorable, and costly, "victory." However, success in war, at whatever cost, isn't a reason to see War as something other than what it is, which is a form of Divine Judgment.
This nation has been "at war," one way or another, for 100 years running now. This is a bitter pill to swallow, for it's the confirmation that we've been that far off track for the 100 years of Judgment plus the time it took for us to be off track and remain off track long enough to motivate God into that level/form of Judgment against us. So, let's call it at least 150 years ago, maybe 200. There is reason to expect that we were far enough off track from well before "the beginning," i.e., from well before The Defense Against The British Invasion, mislabeled as a "revolutionary" war, such that the actual seeds of the concepts and perspectives and practices that have "asked for" this series of acts of Divine Judgment via War actually came over with "us" from western europe. The fact that we can claim "success" in The Defense Against The British Invasion in no way alters the reality that we were engaged in War, which is always a form of Divine Judgment. Were we the iron rod of correction to Great Britain? There's merit to the perspective, but the losses on our side were high enough that it's difficult to say that the Judgment was in any way one-sided.
Since homosexuality wasn't being promoted socially, or abortion, or interracial marriage, or living off the dole, or drug-addiction, or alcohol addiction, or (pick a pet peeve among the social issues of the modern day), we have to look for a different "cause" for our being Judged via War. To look no further than the pet peeves of "today" is to have a (an extremely) short-sighted and misplaced perspective. What we're seeing via these various social issues is further and additional proof of the existence of the long-since already established and operating Divine Judgment against this nation. These modern-day social issues many are attributing to "cause" of (future?) Judgment are not a "cause" for something future but rather an "effect" we're experiencing right now. They are proof of the ever-present existence and continuing nature of Judgment that has long-since been operating against us in America.
This author regularly lists Lent, Easter, and Christmas as high on the list of causes of Judgment of this nation. We find in a study of that history that Christmas, for example, was actually illegal in there for a while, and, of course, that got changed, and here we are today with full-tilt national participation.
On days like 6 June, the days that we're subtly asked to "worship the military," thanking them, instead of God, for such concepts and Freedom and Liberty, we're reminded of another source of Judgment. Here's a concise statement of the problem, and it's from a very popular song, which will likely get a lot of attention this weekend.
I'm proud to be an American
where at least I know I'm free,
And, I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me. (colorization emphasis added)And I'll gladly stand up (!)
next to you,
and defend her still today.
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land...,
God Bless the U.S.A.!
This is the refrain from Lee Greenwood's, "God Bless the USA," which is this century's most popular patriotic song, as reported by several different sources.
What Mr. Greenwood seems to have forgotten, and what a great many of us seem to have forgotten, is a truism found in The Enabling Act, i.e., the opening language to the "constitution."
Let's review that language, as well.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, . . ."
Freedom and Liberty are essentially the same concept with different labels. Calling it "freedom" instead of "liberty" takes us one step that much farther away from the concepts of which we need to be reminded.
Liberty is today what it has always been, namely, a Blessing. It's documented right there before God and all witnesses assembled in the list of motives, reasons, justifications, for trying to do an extraordinary thing, namely establish a system of Government that recognizes God first. From God come the Blessings, including Liberty, and to accomplish that condition in life, "man" has first to bring himself up under the Sovereignty of God.
"To secure the Blessings of Liberty."
"To secure the obedience to God, without which there are no Blessings, at all, including Liberty."
"To render Government of man subject to the Divine Law of God, so that we may enjoy life as God intended us to enjoy it, so that we may have Blessings, including Liberty."
And, where we get to the point of realizing that the back-breaking piece of straw for calling the Philadelphia Convention was the use by the States of the "funny money" of the day, namely the Bills of Credit, we see, in that additional way, the sensitivity to the problem they faced. They knew they had to maintain a system of honest weights and measures to remain within the protection of God. (More on what really needed to have been included in that document, even as a statement of political idealism which is about all that it amounts to today, in a different note.)
So, very, very, very contrary to the concept promoted in that song, no "men" gave anyone any "right" to Freedom or to Liberty. If it's a right, it came from God, and very, very directly from God. It may be recognized by man, and they are, of course, recognized by man, but the origin of them is God, not any sailor or soldier or pilot or any collection of sailors or soldiers or pilots, but God.
What that song does is attribute to those who have served in the military, and in particular those who have died in war, something that actually comes from God and from God alone. Nebuchadnezzar took credit for what God had done, and God turned him into a "beast." What are we doing differently, when we say that "men" gave us the right of Freedom, which is the right of Liberty, which isn't even a "right" so much as a Blessing (which Blessing we definitely do not have at the present)?
Do we see just exactly how far off track that entire concept is? It's so far off that this author cannot participate in the singing of that song.
And, yet we wonder why we're so heavily burdened with War, Famine, Pestilence (Disease, Plague), and this present "Beast" system, not even yet really, as a nation, accepting these as proof positive of long-since already being under Divine Judgment, not even realizing, yet, as a nation, that we're drowning in the Deluge of evidence and proof of Divine Judgment.
If we're going to fight a war, let's fight a war. Operation Desert Storm is the epitome on how war should be fought. Plan it to the nth degree; make the assault (or the preemptive defense) as an all-out effort; destroy the enemy utterly; and then go home. The Israeli's 4 July A.D. 1976 (interesting timing, isn't it?) Raid on Entebbe is another brilliant example on how war should be engaged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
But, why is anyone in a war? Because they're under Judgment. Neither side is free from that condition. The side God intends to be the iron rod of His correction will prevail, but neither side is free from the condition of rebellion that ends up in the form of Judgment called War.
Balancing the reality of the Curses and the Judgments is what? The Blessings. To whom are the Blessings bestowed? Right, the Obedient. According to what standard? Scripture, i.e., God's Law.
The "right" of Liberty isn't really a "right." The "right" of Freedom isn't really a "right." It's the natural by-product of a life obedient to God's Law. No One other than God bestows Freedom or Liberty. No One. No "man" gave Lee Greenwood any rights, of any type, kind, style, or nature. If Lee Greenwood has rights, and he does, then God bestowed them, not man. Rights are not a by-product of War, for they are simply not "of man." Rights are a by-product of God's Provision and Mercy. Rights are "of God." Obtaining the condition of Liberty is a by-product of obedience. War is the exact antithesis of obedience, for War is a Judgment visited upon the rebellious.
We need always to remember the price paid on D-Day, not just by Americans but also by the Allied Forces generally. Death didn't visit Americans alone among the Allies that day. The Axis powers had Death visit that day, as well. And, the banks made profit hand over fist.
While we remember the price of "success" in war, we do ourselves a favor by remembering right along with it the immortal words of Gen. Butler presented in this "War is a Racket" speech of 1933.
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"A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small [']inside['] group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many."
War is a racket.
Religion is a racket.
Medicine is a racket.
Politics is a racket.
Banking is a racket.
The stock market is a racket.
Law is a racket.
Government is a racket.
So, as we're encouraged "today," and for all days in which the focus is the military, not just to remember particular successes in War, however costly, but also to go so far as Lee Greenwood has gone and teaches us to go with him in "worship of the military," especially of the dead in the military, we do very well to remember that Liberty is a Blessing. Blessings are not "of man." Blessings are "of God." We do well to remember that War isn't anything but hell on earth for the participants and a tremendous profit generator for the businesses that provide supplies consumed in and by the war effort. War is in no way at any time to be celebrated, for it is proof positive of Divine Judgment. It's not a life-style that we are to want to grow accustomed but one that we are to want to be rid of for all times.
Gen. Patton was just way too correct: "Americans love a war." May we repent of this in time for it to matter.
Moreover, at present, this entire war machine exists to protect the continued use and circulation of "federal reserve notes," which are defiant of the Scriptural system of honest weights and measures. War involving Americans today has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting or defending America. America quietly went to sleep circa 1965, when the last vestiges of honest weights and measures were sucked out of general circulation by the banking system, which had just hired out the assassination of JFK in order to keep on schedule that transition from Currency to "currency," from from Common Law and into a maritime law system defined and regulated and orchestrated by the banking system. In this present "nightmare" (dream) condition, we find ourselves not in America but rather in "United States."
We'll know that America is coming back out of that sleep when such things as Lent, Easter, and Christmas are no longer part of the routine. We'll know that America is coming back out of that sleep when our use of honest weights and measures replaces our use of the "federal reserve notes."
We'll know that America is coming back out of that sleep when we are no longer being asked to "worship the military," dead or alive, and instead once again worship God, not by weekly meetings but rather by that "change of mind" Paul takes about, by which we seek to do things God's way, all the time, not just for an hour once a week, whether they necessarily make sense to us or not. God doesn't ask us to evaluate His Law, but instead to learn it and apply it. From whence comes the strength of the nation? It's military force, or it's obedience to God? Did God not crush Pharaoh and his vast army when that army was "opposed" by a retreating and relatively unarmed group of men, women, and children, while they were in the midst of a rather hurried move, carrying all their possessions (that they could carry)?
We'll know that we're actually experiencing The New JerUSAlem, a new thing even to America, when we stop thinking that our national defense, our "homeland security," a concept made famous by the Russians, of course ( “Department of Homeland Security” in Russian is "Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti" or KGB), comes at the use of any type of life-taking weapon, projectile-based or otherwise. Part of our problem, from (before) the beginning, has been the dependence on "arm of the flesh" instead of obedience to God, as the means of running this nation and securing its borders from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The original American "homeland security" is the Second Amendment, yes, and that's been part of our problem from that day to this.
We should remember and pass along the lesson that the original "homeland security" was proved at a time when there was only a promise of a homeland, namely the Promised Land, the down payment of which was in Canaan, the complete payment of which is called America. The original "homeland security" was proved when God crushed everything about Egypt, from agricultural production and economics to its military machine. The original "homeland security" proved that God's "homeland" is in our hearts and minds, not a piece of land somewhere, for the original "homeland security" activity inaugurated a 40-year march through the (spiritual) wilderness. There was no "homeland" at the time "homeland security" was first proved to exist, except for the hearts and minds of a particular people, who were the descendants of a man who happened uniquely to understand and relate to/with God. That man was Abram, renamed Abraham, and he was called out of Ur (called out of "the fire") to become the patriarch of a peculiar people. (It really helps to know who and where those people are, today, and as a hint, it ain't any location associated with a Mediterranean coastline.) The People of Israel of the Bible are Caucasian (as are the Edomites, i.e., the descendants of Esau). "Adam" means "ruddy," as in having pink skin, able to blush. http://www.biblestudytools.
The last thing on this planet that the banks can afford and that the military industrial complex can afford is a general "return to God" by the hearts and minds of the American people. We are not subject to the "Beast", if we're no longer in rebellion. The "Beast's" calling, of and by God, for it's God's "Beast," is to devour and to destroy the rebellious. That "Beast," then, must keep us in rebellion in order to remain with an appearance of control and power. We have been, are, and will continue to be "fed" that perspective that keeps us in (total and abject) rebellion, without which this present "Beast" system cannot remain in (the appearance of) power. As we stop "worshiping the military," we stop at least that part of our abject rebellion against God. Showing respect. -- Yes. Absolutely. They've more than earned that. Worship, though? We miss the point completely where we say that "rights" are of/by man rather than of/by God. We miss the point completely if we're thanking the military for our present condition (unless it's one of those back-handed sort of "slams" of "Well, thanks very much," which would be unfair but would fit, given that our addiction to that system is very definitely contributing to our present condition of Divine Judgment). Our present condition is a by-product of our disobedience, period, and we are no more at Liberty or any other Blessing than there's a man in the moon.
Yes, by all means, let's remember D-Day. Let's remember it, though, in the context in which it belongs, which is the Scriptural context. War is a Judgment.
May The Lord God Almighty, Lord of Hosts, the Mightiest Admiral and General of All, give us sight to see the reality of our Judgment so as to feel motivated to want to repent, which is His teaching on how to end His Judgment, and the courage to make the changes necessary so that the repentant condition "sticks," so as to obtain to a condition of habit, of heart and mind, of obedience, so as to start to experience the Blessings of Liberty, for ourselves and our Posterity.
Harmon L. Taylor
Legal Reality
Dallas, Texas
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It has been off track a lot longer then that, over 500 years of voting for wars and now civil war again. The problem has always been society's immorality and their vote for the beast system. Now they have voted for the beast in its full unleashed capacity this time, in a way they will all regret when it crashes all the empire states including delaware under literal water.
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