By Rick Joyner
Intro © March 10, 2020
Regardless if you have the opinion that Rick Joyner’s (Joyner
bios: Believers Portal & Wikipedia) theology is way out
there or right on, the insights I just read on Church/State separation are spot
on. Pay particular attention to the facts that various State Constitutions
incorporated on religion that were repealed but NOT struck down by SCOTUS to
demonstrate the Original Intent of America’s Founders. IT IS NOT THE LIVING
CONSTITUTION crap America’s Left (Dem-Marxists) are trying to brainwash you to
believe.
Pro-Original Intent Constitution
o The Founders' Intent for the First Amendment;
By Nathan McClintock; Free
Republic; 5/3/2002, 8:28:44 PM
o U.S. Constitution: Original Intent of the Founding Fathers;
By Douglas V. Gibbs; Political Pistachio; 12/29/10
o The Case for Original Intent; By Jamal
Greene; George Washington Law Review; (PDF –
24 pages) November 2012 12 Vol. 80 No. 6
o Original Intent –The First Amendment! Acts 4:1-20;
By Michael J. Barnard; Shoreline Community
Church; (PDF – 4 pages) 7/2/17
Living Constitution Implies Tyranny of Majority or the
Few
o Federalist No. 51 - The Structure of
the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the
Different Departments; By James Madison; Federalist Papers - Bill of Rights Institute; 1788
o Our Constitution: Absolutely Not A “Living
Breathing Document”; By Joseph Corrado;
Policy Interns; 3/15/12
o When “Democracy” Becomes a Threat to Liberty;
By Richard
M. Ebeling; American Institute
for Economic Research (AIER);
7/3/18
Living Constitution Rabble
Tyranny
JRH 3/10/20
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A Clear Vision—Heritage Brief 10
Word of the Week
By Rick Joyner
March 10, 2020
Following up on the fact that nowhere in The United States
Constitution does it state that there must be a separation between the church
and the state, it only states that “Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.” Because Congress was the Federal Government, this did not
prohibit the states from establishing a recognized religion if they chose to,
and many of them did.
For example, a couple of states made it a requirement to be
of the Protestant faith to vote. Others required church attendance to vote.
This did not make these laws right, and eventually they were all repealed, but
that this was allowed proved that the states had authority to do such things
under The Constitution. The Constitution only forbade Congress from
establishing religion.
These religious test laws by some states were legal under
The Constitution, but they were not right, and they did cause problems. The
wisdom of how these matters could be worked out by the states while the whole
country was not subjected to the turmoil they caused proved to be genius.
It has only been when the Federal Government started to
exceed the authority given to it in The Constitution, and thereby encroach on
the rights of the states and the people, that the turmoil and divisions this
has caused became national and threatened to tear the nation apart. These
unnecessary pressures will continue to grow until the Federal Government
returns to its constitutional boundaries, and the rights of the states and the
people that it has usurped is returned to them.
Concerning the proper and constitutional relationship
between the church and the state, we have all likely witnessed men and women
who were good friends ruin that friendship by getting married. It is a worthy
goal for those who are married to be friends, but the love for each as friends
may not work well in the more committed bonds of marriage. This is why many
languages have different words for these two types of affection—friendship and
romantic love. The point is that the church and the state should have a
relationship as friends, but not marriage.
The church is called to be the bride of Christ, alone. In
relation to the bride of Christ, the state is called to be like the eunuchs who
provided security for the king and his bride. They defend her if necessary, but
they can have no relationship with her beyond this.
When the relationship between church and state went beyond
what it is supposed to be, it brought upon the earth the darkest of times—the
Dark Ages. The abuses of the wrongful union of the church to the state was
deeply impressed on the early Americans. Many had been witnesses to, or victims
of, the horrible corruption that came from this wrongful union of the church
and state in Europe, which culminated in the worst persecution in human
history—The Inquisition.
The Inquisition was the persecution by Christians of other
Christians and Jews. It was only possible by the institutional church being
married to the state at that time. Christians and Jews who would not conform to
the dogma of the institutional church of the time were slaughtered on an
incomprehensible scale. Halley’s Bible Handbook estimates that
up to 50 million of these non-conformist Christians and Jews were tortured and
killed in The Inquisition. This number is corroborated by other historians. We
can read in such works as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs the kind of
demented and diabolical tortures used by The Inquisition. This was truly one of
mankind’s darkest hours, and done in the name of Christ by the harlot church
that had wrongfully married the state.
With many of the first colonists being victims of this
persecution—and the leaders of the independence movement in America knowing
their stories well—when The British imposed a law on the colonies that no
minister of the gospel could be licensed except through The Church of England,
it was intolerable to the colonists.
The Founders of the American Republic were resolute in
ensuring that such a thing would never happen in America. To do this they
established the government first and foremost on the freedom of religion,
resolving to keep the Federal Government out of religion, but a protector of
religious freedom.
As the Jews of Europe were persecuted along with the
Protestants and other Christian movements, they also fled to America to escape.
They were both welcomed and honored by their Christian fellow colonists. Those
of other religions, or no religion, also found in America the tolerance and
freedom they had not found anywhere else in the world. America was born as a
haven for religiously persecuted people.
The American Founders were resolved to keep the church and
state as separate entities, but it was clearly to keep the state out of the
church’s business, not the other way around. We must then ask, how did The
Supreme Court and many lower courts issue so many decisions prohibiting the
free exercise of religion? By blatantly violating The Constitution
and The First Amendment. The leadership of Congress was too weak or inept to
confront this tyrannical abuse by the judiciary.
If our Republic is to be preserved, we must recover the fact
that The Supreme Court is not the “supreme law of the land”—The Constitution
is. The Supreme Court has made many unconstitutional decisions in its history,
some of which were reversed by later courts, but many have not. In recent times
it is piling them up almost yearly because it has now departed so far from the
lane The Constitution gave to the judiciary. If this is not corrected, it will
soon cause the destruction of the Republic, just as Jefferson and other
Founders warned.
We will cover these violations of The Constitution in more
detail in future Briefs, along with the devastating impact they
have had on the nation. The Judicial Branch may have been the biggest culprit
in this, but all three branches are guilty of deviating from the clear and
limited authority given to the Federal Government by The Constitution. The
stress this has put on the entire country has us at the breaking point. Under
The Constitution, the people are the sovereign. The longer we wait to demand
that our Federal Government obey The Constitution, the greater the cost it will
be to save our Republic.
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I believe there are more
instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent
encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.
– James Madison, author
of The Constitution and fifth President of the United States
We the
People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish
justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.
–Preamble to the
United States Constitution
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