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Our nation at the time of the founders was largely a God-fearing nation, people who had self discipline because they were disciplined by the love and fear of the Lord. (Not perfect by any means, but fearing God.)

No evil Marxist philosophy or progressive subversion can be successful when people fear only the Lord, not other men. The people are not ruled by greed, or laziness, or desire for fame or power. They fear only God and know they must answer to Him. (Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell) That is the only way our country ever worked.

But when the majority of Americans began turning away to a liberal version of Christianity in the early 1900s, or a pop culture version of evangelicalism by the 1970s, 1980s– cheap, easy grace with no commitment to obey God, that left a vacuum in men’s hearts, souls and minds. Then it was easy to fill American’s minds with the latest socialist propaganda.

Welfare never would have had a chance in the 1800s. Why? Not because conservatives could politically beat out the socialists or had better marketing or more organized political parties. It was that normal people, probably 99% of American society (even atheists had pretty similar morals), believed that taking charity was a sin! For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:9-11
It also violated several of the 10 commandments. Exodus 20:15 “You shall not steal. Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

The majority of people in this country were pretty close to being on the same page spiritually and morally. You just couldn’t sell the depraved ideas of the socialists, people could not be spiritually deceived like that, they could see right through it, that it originated not from the Progressives or Socialists, but from the Father of Lies himself.

Not so now. Partly by the huge influx of immigrants from non Christian countries, but even more by just Christians being lukewarm and disobedient and pastors caring more about building megachurches with all the latest entertainment than about preaching the Word clearly.

While I see the possibility of war, I am very, very concerned that it may turn out more like the French Revolution than the first American Revolution, simply because the hearts of so many of the people here in America have changed, not nearly as many love and fear the Lord.

God gave us a warning in Deuteronomy, and I believe, as the Puritans did, that this still applies to us today.
Deuteronomy 30:15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” (The last several chapters of Deuteronomy gives the full details of these warnings.)