I enjoyed this editorial outlook from Rick Joyner the head
of MorningStar Ministries. I tend
to lead toward Charismatic/Pentecostal/Word of Faith. If that invokes hate, we
can pray for each other.
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A New Hope
By Rick Joyner
January 14, 2020
We live in a remarkable world in remarkable times. Advances
in every field are coming at warp speed, except for one area: our sense of well-being.
Depression and anxiety are increasing while happiness is decreasing. Why?
The increasing psychological instability is not the fault of
technological advances as much as it is the powerful and systematic attack on
our moral and cultural foundations. The fastest way to kill a plant is to cut
it off from its roots, and the fastest way to destroy a nation is to cut it off
from its history and its stabilizing traditions. For nearly a century, America
has been the focus of an intentional and relentless strategy to do this using
revisionist historians.
The goal of the revisionists is to rewrite our history,
making the good look evil and the evil look good. Each new generation of these
pseudo historians have gotten more extreme than the previous one. By this we
are being cut off from our roots, as well as from the powerful vision and
purpose for the future that fueled our growth and strength as a nation. When
the historical and cultural foundations are shaken, people feel the instability,
which results in anxiety. Anxiety leads to depression.
Medication has been the primary way to fight this rising
anxiety and depression. While this can give some temporary relief, it does not
solve the problem. Medication can dull the senses, making us feel secure in a
condition in which we are increasingly vulnerable. That keeps us from
addressing the source of the anxiety and depression, which can be a very real
threat.
The Prophet Isaiah explained in the first chapters of his
prophecy how turning good into evil and evil into good is an ultimate depravity
to which a nation can fall. This leads to honoring the dishonorable and
dishonoring the honorable. This twists and perverts the character of the
nation, and thus its stability.
As Isaiah went on to declare, such perversion of a nation
will bring the judgment of God upon it in increasingly severe measure. This
judgment begins with making “capricious children its leaders.” Cannot anyone
look at what is happening in our nation’s capital today and not see that we are
well into this phase of judgment?
After this comes increasingly severe judgments, such as
natural disasters and wars, until the ultimate destruction of the nation. What
has been the experience of our country over the last few decades?
The implication is that these are self-inflicted
consequences of removing the hedge of protection God places around the nations
that obey Him. As Isaiah warned, such nations will be afflicted with
increasingly severe natural disasters. Consider that just a couple of decades
ago, it shocked the nation when we suffered $10 billion in damage from natural
disasters in a year. We are now surpassing $300 billion in losses each year.
How bad will it have to get to wake us up?
There is one thing we can do to turn the nation from the
wicked ways that are leading to our destruction—obey the commandment to “Honor
your fathers and mothers.” This is the only commandment God gave with a promise
attached: that it would go well with us and we would dwell long in the land. It
guarantees this because it reconnects us to the roots from which our life
comes.
We honor our fathers and mothers by remembering them,
studying them, and seeking to hear the wisdom they passed on to us. If we go
back to the history written before the corruption of the revisionists, we will
find our forefathers and mothers to have been some of the best, most
courageous, good, and remarkable characters in all of history. They are
deserving of honor, not the lies that are being written about them now.
None of our ancestors were perfect, and neither was the
civilization they built. Some great advances were the result of evil motives,
and there were many tragic mistakes along the way. We must study these as well,
not to dishonor those who made them but to learn so that we don’t repeat them.
Even so, we must always keep in mind that “God resists the proud, but
gives grace to the humble”(see James 4:6, I Peter 5:5 NKJV). Therefore,
we must not fall to generational pride and think we are so much better and
smarter now. Even if we are in some ways, it is because we have been given the
grace to learn from them.
Proverbs 4:18 states, “The path of the
righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until
the full day.” Civilization has benefitted from ever increasing light.
This came from the understanding of new generations being added to what was
passed on to them. For this reason, it is not right or just to judge those in
history by our times. Rather, they must be viewed in the light of their own
times.
We also must keep in mind that we “see in part” and “know in
part.” There is always more to the story. For example, revisionist historians
have tried to paint American Founding Fathers like Washington and Jefferson as
being evil because they were slaveowners. We concur that slavery is evil, but
so did Washington and Jefferson. They both wrote and spoke out against it. They
called it not just evil, but a plague and a curse. So why did they own slaves?
They inherited their slaves. British, and then Virginia, law forbid the freeing
of slaves. Both Washington and Jefferson freed their slaves at the time of their
deaths, which at the time was the only way to do it.
There is almost always another side to the story that paints
it in an entirely different color. Even so, we acknowledge that it was a grave
mistake for any of the states to be allowed to pass such laws in basic conflict
with the Constitution. It was done for political expedience, a motive that has
continued to allow both unconstitutional and evil actions by our government.
These have now led to untenable divisions in the nation, just as slavery did.
Such compromises of our core values have cost the nation dearly, including the
Civil War.
Every generation has had flaws, sinned, and made mistakes,
but did they advance the light? Like the biblical history of Israel, some
generations did well and some did not. Even so, we can find some things and
people to honor in every generation, and we can learn important lessons from
each one. For some, we should stand in awe at what they accomplished. As we
look back, we will find in our national fathers and mothers some of the most
interesting, courageous, and great souls to have walked the earth. Let this
inspire us to pick up where they left off and keep advancing what is right, and
true, and just.
I wish to see all unjust and
unnecessary discriminations everywhere abolished, and that the time may come
when all our inhabitants of every color and discrimination shall be free and
equal partakers of our political liberties.
– Founding
Father John Jay
The welfare of America is
intimately bound up with the happiness of humanity. She is going to become a
cherished and safe refuge of virtue, of good character, of tolerance, of
equality, and of a peaceful liberty.
– French General
Marquis de Lafayette
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Blog Editor: Rather than
capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post
and share until the Leftist censors ban me. Recently, the Facebook censorship
tactic I’ve experienced is a couple of Group shares then jailed under the false
accusation of posting too fast. So I ask those that read this, to combat
censorship by sharing blog and Facebook posts with your friends or Groups you
belong to.
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