“When the wicked rise [to power], men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book<\/p>\n
“Like a roaring lion or a charging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book<\/p>\n
“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.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n –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,”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>—–United States Declaration of Independence<\/p>\n “. . . governors, . . . sent by Him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book<\/p>\n “Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” (Queen Esther’s uncle, when she risked her life standing against evil.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book<\/p>\n “It is not possible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–George Washington<\/p>\n TRUE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TRUE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TRUE<\/p>\n We clearly see the effects of both kinds of government.\u00a0 Let us do all in our power (and no less) for Godly government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “When the wicked rise [to power], men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–His Book “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}