Spot on ^5
Freegards
LEX
We either turn this ship of state around, or we're done for.
It will come sooner than we think too.
RAMIREZ
In his latest Ramirez covers:
Syria Denies Using Chemical Weapons
Depending on how you figure it, his judgment against Rome too 400 or 1400 years to work out.
If you track NASA’s accomplishments, you can almost see America’s rise and fall. The Apollo missions were the high point for America and we’ve declined since that time. The female liberation movement and ‘the single mom’ began the emasculation of boys (including 0bama himself) which is now deeply entrenched.. just the way the tyrannical government wants it. No one available to fight back. Goodbye America.
President George Washington and our founders knew how important the favor of God is to have a successful outcome.
This current regime and so many arrogant know-it-alls snub their noses thinking they don’t need Him. A dangerous and destructive way of thinking.
Rome’s depravity grew as the Empire grew, as the power of the City of Rome grew, as the power of Caesar grew, as its people became subjects vs. citizens.
To fix this problem in the USA, we need to end the growth of the American Empire, limit the power of Washington, restore freedom, and above all, restore responsibility to the citizen.
Someone give this writer a history book. He can start with Gibbons. Nothing burns my rear more than someone spouting comic book history. The actual facts are fascinating. It can be said the Western Roman state collapse, the Eastern lasted to the discovery of America, was insignificant in that Roman culture endured. The new “barbarian” kings might have replaced the old political order, but they considered themselves a part of Roman culture, not a replacement. Every time you pass a Roman Catholic Church you are seeing a piece of the late Roman Empire.
Overall, a good article, but I would take acception to his comment that God has written His truths on the hearts of EVERY man, woman, and child...Jew, Gentile, and pagan (Romans 1:18-20.
Rather, the passage is speaking about men who have a knowledge about God that is based on His creation, and who have suppressed in in unrighteousness. This knowledge about God is evident within [Or, among] them, God having made it evident to them by what He has made. This knowledge is described in v. 20 as God’s invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, that have been clearly seen and understood through the creation, so that they are without excuse. These are men who worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator, v. 25. Their practices are described in the passage.
God has revealed Himself in 3 ways: 1) Through Creation, 2) Through His Word, the Bible, and 3)Through His Son.
As far as God’s writing on the hearts of men [within]—this is a promise of the New Covenant to the remnant of Israel in the last days, described in Jeremiah 31:31-34:
31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
This is the same new covenant that all believers since the cross, both Jew and Gentile, up to this very day, come into by Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf for the forgiveness of our sins. All who repent of their sins and turn to God through His only provision for forgiveness, the Lord Jesus Christ, enter into the new covenant. The new covenant is in Christ’s blood, which was poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.
The promise to the Jewish nation, of the law within, written on their hearts, is yet to be fulfilled. It will be fulfilled when Yeshua returns. Jeremiah is not the only passage in the Old Testament that speaks of this; Ezekiel 36:25-38 also speak of the same day...and there are other passages as well.
God has not forgotten Israel and will fulfill ALL of His promises to the believing remnant—AND the church HAS NOT replaced Israel (read Romans 9, 10, and 11).
The American nation has grown.
But the arrogance and ego of our politicians has grown exponentially.
They have come to believe they ARE the nation.
To them the citizens are like milk cows who sometimes forget their place.
The Modern Romans? Garner Ted Armstrong, call your office...
In about 195 AD, Septimius Severus, Rome's first African born Emperor pulled all the troops out of the the string of forts that guarded the frontier and sent them off to fight a war in Iraq against the Iranians. Illegal immigrants, Franks mostly at first, flooded across the borders. After the war with Iran attempts were made to expel them. This failed. The Roman elites were unwilling to spend the money or provide the sons to support the legions. Before 300 AD they had given the invaders land to settle on in Gaul and granted them amnesty - attracting more illegal immigrants...
Sound familiar?
The free love atmosphere and free for all sexuality will end as soon as one of the XDR (extra drug resistant) STD strains literally goes viral.
And unlike AIDS, it will cause untold misery without killing people. This means they XDR STDs will spread far and wide, while the afflicted are unknown unless health services actually returns to its core mission.
This creates a very strong reason to stay abstinent or faithful, because you don’t know who has it and really don’t want to get it.
I had 5 years of Latin, much of it translating Roman history and biography.
When people compare ancient Rome to modern day America, it’s just silly, and completely pointless.