FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENTS – – – BOTH / AND

Religious Freedom—NO “prohibiting the free exercise of religion”

Gun Freedom—“Right to BEAR arms shall not be abridged.”

True Americans must not emphasize either one of the above over the other.

We had to have both God and Guns to gain our freedom 240 years ago.

We must have both God and Guns to reclaim our freedom today.

GO ISRAEL ! ! !

Keep the land, Israel—every bit of it where your boots set foot (like God told you to do 4000 years ago).

Israel should go ahead and reclaim all of its ORIGINAL borders.

JUST ANOTHER ? ? ? (business as usual)

Just another – – – article

Just another – – -show

Just another – – -talk

Just another – – -interview

Just another – – -bill

Just another – – -documentation

Just another – – -alarm

Just another – – -day on the job

Just another – – -pay day

Just another – – -judge

Just another – – -traitor

Just another – – -trashing the Constitution

Just another – – -freedom

Just another – – -martyr

Just another – – -mall

Just another – – -city

Just another – – -country

Just another – – -page of history

 

Exciting to be such a part of history—today?

Exciting to “be history”—soon?

Exciting to make a difference—too late?

Exciting to see the 1930’s playing in front of our eyes—again?

Exciting for our enemies to see ripe fruit falling into their bloody hands—daily?

Exciting for our enemies to see us (U.S.) falling into their bloody hands—any day now?

And we just keep TALKING about it?

 

WHAT IS WRONG WITH US ? ? ?

 

I am trying, in every way I can, to say what is not being said—to influence you to say it.

And saying it is very risky—consequences imminent.

I am pleading, to everyone who reads, for action that is not being taken.  Necessary action is not safe—now.

I want to influence change in what you are doing—before it is too late.  And too late is too near!

PUNISHMENT—PERSECUTION—SACRIFICE (reprint from 12-29-12)

What do these three experiences have in common?

PUNISHMENT

PERSECUTION

SACRIFICE

Brace yourself, especially for the application.

All three involve suffering.

Punishment—you suffer, and it’s your fault.

Persecution—you suffer, and it’s not your fault.

Sacrifice—you suffer, and it’s your choice.

 

Application—using the above definition, ask yourself, “When was the last time I sacrificed for anything, or for anyone?”

GUARD DOGS – – – AND – – – FREEDOM

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

Liberty was given to us.

Founding Fathers gave us liberty—they paid the price.

Soldiers and citizens preserved our liberty—they paid the price.

Liberty did not come by information alone.

Liberty did not come by the democratic process alone.

People who passionately believed in liberty more than life sacrificed everything for freedom, for us.

 

And just whose job is it to guard our freedom today?

That would be anyone with a memory, a passion, a family, a voice, a prayer, a family, an audience, a family, a gun, a Bible.

 

But sadly, today, the universal commitment to vigilance by every American has been replaced with dependence on others—dependence on the government—to keep us free.

And government is the very thing the founders knew was the greatest threat that would endanger our freedom.

 

So how are we doing in guarding our freedom from the encroaching government?

 

People with a voice and an audience sound the alarm—guardians of freedom of speech in the Constitution.  Many are sounding the alarm loud and clear.  But is it enough?

People with a pen and a passion sound the alarm—guardians of freedom of the press in the Constitution.  Many are sounding the alarm loud and clear.  But is it enough?

People with a pulpit and people in the pew sound the alarm—guardians of freedom of religion in the Constitution.  Few are sounding the alarm loud and clear.  It is not enough.  In the Revolutionary War King George feared most the American Black Robed Regiment.  No one fears the preachers in America today.

People with guns sound the alarm—guardians of freedom to bear arms in the Constitution.  How many are sounding the alarm?  Not enough.  Many are very alarmed.  The next paragraph reveals a huge loss in America of understanding the connection between winning our freedom and preserving our freedom.

 

TWO CENTURIES OF DEPENDING ON THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS HAS MADE US FORGET THAT APPLYING THE SECOND AMENDMENT NOW IS NOT THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AS WE HAVE COME TO KNOW IT.

 

The second amendment was written so we can stop the government by force, when elections fail to do so.

The current government—too powerful, out of control, dictatorial, evil—now has huge stockpiles of ammunition specifically intended for killing Americans.  Many Americans understand that our right to bear arms is our only defense against this bad government.

Still we are told from every angle to refrain from violence.  But violence is coming to the streets of America.  Will it be productive violence, or just a massacre?  Will it be too late, then, even for the second amendment?

The Islamic terrorists are eager to do, in America, what they are doing without restraint around the world now.  And BHOB* is doing everything he possibly can to enable and invite them.  All that is left is for the signal to be given, and it will begin.

BHOB* can then hide behind blaming all on the ISIS attack, as he declares martial law and brings his dictatorship to full tyranny.

 

And now a word about guard dogs.

All the people with an audience (and including their audiences) who are diligently documenting all the bad things coming at us daily, and vigorously sounding alarms, are like guard dogs—well-trained to viciously confront the bad guys.

Problem is—the bad guys keep throwing delicious bones to the guard dogs, and occasionally juicy meat, and even something live, which they eagerly devour with loud “rrraarrr.”

The guard dogs are satisfied because they are occupied with frequent feeding frenzies, thinking they have done their job well.

They don’t realize they have just devoured the bait, while the bad guys laugh and ransack the place.  The property is unprotected because the bad guys have locked the guard dogs in a fence of non-violent compliance with the rules.

 

How many true conservatives in the media and in Washington can honestly claim that we are stopping BHOB* and his Islamic terrorist friends?

 

I HEAR A LOT OF TALK BEATING UP THE BAIT, WHILE THE ENEMY HAS NOTHING TO FEAR.

 

*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.

“BE STILL . . . “

“BE STILL” is becoming more uncomfortable and foreign to many people.

“BE QUIET” is also harder than it appears, if you try it.

But the benefits are well-documented.

And besides, it is all free.

Add one more thought to still and silent—

“BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.”

Sometimes we accomplish most while we wait on the Lord.

“THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH . . . LIKE EAGLES.”

Simple.

Try it.

CONTENTMENT ? – – – RIGHT NOW ?

This morning after breakfast, I was sitting in the recliner, drinking my coffee, watching the sun rise, listening to Christian music, trying to let the words soak in and lift out my worries.

I found myself dreaming of building my log cabin, with a sunroom outside the bedroom—a place to relax and enjoy the beginning of the day, warmed by the sun.

I realized once again that most of my thoughts of contentment revolve around someday when I get such-and-such done.  And many of those projects are so slow in coming that they rob me of peace for today and contentment right now.

Then I thought of a Bible passage, and I will close with this.  I want it to sink in and let God work in me.

 

“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me to walk upon my high places.”

UNCOMFORTABLE—THE TRANSITION OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY TO BIBLICAL, HISTORICAL CHRISTIANITY

More and more I find myself becoming uncomfortable with comfortable.

Most Christian brothers and sisters around the world do not have a life of ease, and are not comfortable.

In fact, many are suffering, some severely, and dying for Jesus.

Very, very few of Jesus’ followers have had easy lives, and today there is a sudden worldwide wave of attack on His people—AS PROMISED.

And, now it is starting in America also.  Christians are singled out and criticized and losing their jobs just for believing in Jesus and saying what He said.

Jesus said unpopular things, and He paid a high price for it.

My dad always repeated things Jesus said, and he paid a high price for that.

Perhaps the most unfavorable words of Jesus would be His prediction of the times closest to the end of the world.

“You will be hated by all for my name’s sake, . . . , and then shall the end come.”

 

Am I a soldier of the cross,

A follower of the Lamb?

And shall I fear to own His cause

Or blush to speak His name?

 

Must I be carried to the skies

On flow’ry beds of ease,

While others fought to win the prize

And sailed through bloody seas?

 

Are there no foes for me to face?

Must I not stem the flood?

Is this vile world a friend to grace

To help me on to God?

 

Sure I must fight if I would reign;

Increase my courage, Lord.

I’ll bear the toil, endure the pain,

Supported by my God.

 

Thy saints in all this glorious war

Shall conquer, though they die.

They see the triumph from afar

With faith’s discerning eye.

 

When that illustrious day shall rise

And all Thine armies shine,

In robes of victory through the skies

The glory shall be Thine.

FEAR THIS ! ! !

“There goes a man of God.”

I remember well when two people said that about me a few weeks apart.

I remember well when I stepped into serious sin soon after.

Jesus said, “Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.”

I have learned to share the following story from my dad when someone wants to praise me for something:

Two ducks and a frog were friends at a pond.  When the pond dried up, the ducks did not want to leave their frog friend behind.  The three finally implemented a plan that worked, and they left for their new home.  The two ducks held the ends of a stick in their beaks, and the frog held on with his mouth between them.

As they flew over a farmyard, the farmer looked up in amazement and said, “Whose idea was that?”

The frog answered, “Mine.”

“PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL, . . .”

There is another story of a woodpecker working hard at making holes in a tree to get his food.  Suddenly lightning struck the tree and split it in half, giving free access for the woodpecker.  But he left immediately and was gone for several hours.  He returned with a half dozen friends, and proudly announced, “See, there it is, just as I told you what I did.”

The next lightning strike was not so favorable.

“. . . AND A HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE DESTRUCTION.”

WHY CAN’T HE SAY, “ISLAMIC TERRORIST”?

BECAUSE HE IS ONE !

No further explanation needed.

No further explanation deserved.

No further explanation—NO MORE TIME ! ! !