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    Ramming the Ten Commandments: A Prophetic Picture of America


    Ramming the Ten Commandments: A Prophetic Picture of America
    We must recapture the life-giving beauty of God's laws in our own lives. That is our only hope.
    By Michael Brown Published on June 29, 2017
    https://stream.org/ramming-ten-comma...cture-america/

    It was the act of only one man who drove his vehicle into a Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas, but it reflected the sentiments of a growing number of Americans: "We do not want the Ten Commandments in our midst, nor do we want the God of the Ten Commandments in our midst." In that sense, the destructive act of this individual reflected the attitude of tens of millions of Americans. This is not simply a decreased interest in the Bible and the God of the Bible.

    This is outright rebellion. It sounds like this:

    Enough with God's laws and standards. Enough with His moral principles. Enough with His prohibitions of idolatry and adultery and murder.

    We will do what we want to do, when we want to do it, and no law — or God — will tell us otherwise.

    The America we want must have no connection to its Judeo-Christian roots. No connection to the moral values of many of its Founders. No connection to the Scriptures which so influenced their thinking.

    We will worship created things more than the Creator. We will be full of covetousness and greed. We want our idolatry.

    We will have sex with whomever we want to, whenever we want to, however we want to. And if we so desire, we will call these relationships "marriage," and neither God nor man will tell us anything different. We want our adultery.

    We will kill our babies in the womb if we so choose, and anyone who defies our wishes will be trampled with derision and scorn. We want our murder.

    Yes, we will do what we want to do when we want to do it. We declare ourselves free.


    Apart From God's Laws, There is Bondage, Not Freedom

    Ironically, the man in question, Michael Tate Reed allegedly yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed into the Ten Commandments monument less than 24 hours after it was erected. ...


    ...In truth, the more we depart from God's laws, the more we find ourselves in bondage. Rather than shouting "Freedom," Reed should have shouted, "Bondage! Self-destruction! Captivity! Decline!"

    Reed claimed that such monuments violate the separation of church and state. That phrase is not found in the Constitution ....

    ... More importantly, the phrasemeans the opposite of what Reed envisions.

    The so-called wall of separation was there to keep the state out of the Church, not the Church out of the state. ...


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    While researching my upcoming book, [/b]Saving a Sick America: A Prescription for Moral and Cultural Reformation[/b], I was struck by how big a role the Bible played in early American education, from the colonies to the late 1800's. I was also struck by how deeply biblical principles influenced our Founders, even though they did not want America to be a theocracy.

    They were not trying to impose the biblical faith on the nation (which included plenty of irreligious people, even back then). Nor were they trying to impose biblical morality on the populace by judicial decree. Instead, many of the Founders were convinced that the Bible was filled with practical wisdom and that God's commands brought life, not death. To the extent we would embrace these principles as a democratic republic, the better.

    Consider this extraordinary quote from our second president, John Adams:

    Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. Every member would be obliged in conscience to temperance and frugality and industry, to justice and kindness and charity towards his fellow men, and to piety and love, and reverence towards Almighty God. In this commonwealth, no man would impair his health by gluttony, drunkenness, or lust — no man would sacrifice his most precious time to cards, or any other trifling and mean amusement — no man would steal or rile or any way defraud his neighbor, but would live in peace and good will with all men — no man would blaspheme his maker or profane his worship, but a rational and manly, a sincere and unaffected piety and devotion would reign in all hearts. What a utopia, what a paradise would this region be." (This quote, along with those that follow, is found in Saving a Sick America, with attribution.)

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    Today we are told that the Bible is an evil book and the God of the Bible an evil, bigoted, petty tyrant. Such tyrants deserve our scorn. That is that attitude aflame in many American hearts today.

    Samuel Adams, one of the leaders of the American Revolution, had a sharply different view. Adams stated that the rights of the colonists "may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law-giver and head of the Christian Church [Jesus], which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament."

    Because of that, Adams could say:

    A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they can not be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or eternal invader.

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    [b]We do best to quickly re-erect that Ten Commandments monument. And, more importantly, recapture the life-giving beauty of God's commandments in our own hearts and lives. That is the only hope of our nation.





    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    This from an article I found about it:

    Plans for Arkansas’ monument sparked a push by the Satanic Temple for a competing statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed, angel-winged creature accompanied by two children smiling at it. Efforts to install that display, however, were blocked by a law enacted this year requiring legislative approval before the commission could consider a monument proposal. The Satanic Temple has vowed a lawsuit over the measure, and said it didn’t believe the law should be applied retroactively to its proposal.

    Crazy that someone would hate the moral law so much that they would ram their vehicle into it to tear it down.

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    I think this is the same guy who crashed the 10 Commandments monument at the OK state capitol. The satanists also jumped right in wanting to put up their monument.

    An anti-Christ spirit is running rampant in this time.

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