Yet the Lord's main focus is on His church. Certainly I fall short of what I should be in practical holiness, but may we who are of the body of Christ obey Heb. 12:1,2ff, as judgment must begin with the house of God, and the Lord who bought us is worthy to be glorified.
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America’s moral decline is not without precedent nor will it be without consequences.
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (Hosea 8:3-4)
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:12)
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hosea 8:14)
I am especially interested in the section on education.
Axiom: A religiously, politically, and culturally neutral education is impossible! Such a state of philosophic neutrality can not exist in the mind of any sentient human.
Corollary: When government dispenses schooling it will uphold the non-neutral religious, cultural, and political worldview of the most politically powerful and trash that of the less powerful.
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Decline?
We’ve fallen off the cliff, and it’s just a matter of time before we hit bottom.
And it won’t be pretty.
“A republic; if you can keep it.”
Spiritual Warfare is ramping up.