THE RUINING OF AMERICA PART V

 The news isn't good as Samuel continues to trace the descent into ruin of the institution called goverment.  What would you think the next step would be in view of the ones listed so far? Samuel has warned that the descent would in include an ever=expanding beauracracy and the hiring of employees for useless jobs.

You would be right if you said that next in the progression would be burdensome taxation to support all of that. The state will always want more money; the taxes must increase. As Samuel says, "The state will take 10% of your seed and 10% of your vvineyards and 10% of your sheep. This would effect only Israel's food supply but today, the burden is much worse. 

New York City is one of the few U.S. cities that imposes a local income tax in addition to the state tax. This tax applies only to residents, regardless of where they work. New York City has a combined sales tax rate of 8.875%, which includes 4% from the state, 4.5% from the city, and a 0.375% surcharge for the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD). Businesses collect this tax at the point of sale and remit it to the government. Some necessities, such as unprepared food and prescription medications, are exempt, while restaurant meals, electronics, and luxury goods are fully taxable.The list is endless. 

For every dollar the state spends, you have one dollar less to spend. Such budensome taxation demoralizes the population and supresses any incentive to work, produce, and earn. The government spends money on what others want, not on what you want, on what thebeaucrates think is what's good for you, such as:

1. $419,470 spent to study if lonely rats are more likely to seek cocaine.
   (NY Post)

2. $10,000 awarded to a drag show on ice promoting climate awareness.
   (NY Post)

3. $477,000 spent on experiments involving transgender monkeys.
   (NY Post)

4. $549,000 spent to test cats’ performance on treadmills in Russia.
   (NY Post)

5. $2.24 million to research COVID-19 transmission in cats.
   (NY Post)

6. Millions spent researching magic and its cultural impact.
   (Newsweek)

7. $32,596 spent on breakdancing initiatives.
   (HSGAC Report)

8. $620,000 spent on arming the Environmental Protection Agency.
   (NY Post)

9. $1.3 billion sent to deceased people through federal programs.
   (NY Post)

10. $171 million paid in unemployment benefits to incarcerated individuals.
    (Washington Examiner)

11. $2 billion spent on maintaining and leasing unused properties.
    (NY Post)

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THE RUINING OF AMERICA IV

 

In I Samuel 8, the prophet Samuel is warning Israel of what governments do just by their own nature. So far in our study, we have now come to warning number four. A government will, like a juggernaut, advance to existing for its own sake. The government will set its beaurocarcy to "doing its work" (I Samuel 8:16). "for its itself" (vs. 11); for "its harvest" (12; and for its chariots" (vs. 11) 

In other words, the functions of the government are to ensure the maintaning of the government. The government will talk about "serving the people," but the focus is not on serving the people; the focus of the government is on its own support and maintanance. The officials of the state will "talk a good game" of being for that nebulous group called "the people," but their focus is not on them. The focus of the government is bent in on itself.. 

This should be evident. The first loyalty of the employee of the government is not to "the people." Instead, it's to the party. Thus the employee's focus is on the party that controls the government. The party is the be-all-and-end-all for the employee. 

In short, the government will operate for its own sake, not for "we the people." So, that's the progression of the government; it will come to where the idea of "You were elected to serve the people" becomes a fiction. It will progress to serve itself. 

Samuel isn't through with his blunt warnings. Has he has more to say.

TBC  

THE RUINING OF AMERICA PART III

     

Samuel continues to reveal what a monarchy would entail for the Israelites and in so doing, he reveals the progression of how governments march toward their own ruin over a short amount of time. We've come to the third point in the march of the doomed: "the government will take your sons and your daughters" (I Sam. 8:8, 11, 16). 

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ran for a second term on the slogan, "He kept us out of war." He knew Americans wanted no part of the war in Europe. but did anybody notice that there was one word missing in that impactful slogan, the word, "will," as in, "He will keep us out of war." "He kept" did not mean "He will keep."

After his election, he reversed his course and over 24 million men were registered in the draft. Of those, 2.8 million men were drafted; just over 500 thousand in the last half of 1917 and nearly 2.3 million men in by 1918. The war took 116,516 lives while the war in Viet Nam claimed 64,000 lives. 

As a result of rebelling against Samuel's warning that government takes "your sons and your daughters" is the taking of those who should be involved in family matters, farming, and working in factories. The result was a shortage of labor and serious econmic consequences. 

Add the fact that the percentage of women working outside the home jumped from 23.6% to a whopping 46.7% in 1918! Almost half of the working age mothers were now outside the home for the entire day. 

TO BE CONTINUED

THE RUINING OF AMERICA II

 

In I Samuel 8, the nation of Israel expressed its desire to be like all the other nations even though in their founding documents, God had called them to be separate from the Gentile nations around them: Moses reminds the Israelites of their unique status: "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession, above all the peoples on the face of the earth." 

This text is a destructive blow to multiculturalism which is "the concept that promotes the recognition, inclusion, and celebration of diverse cultural identities within a society. In theory, it encourages tolerance, acceptance, and cultural exchange. However, multiculturalism can pose challenges to social cohesion and national identity.

What the nation wanted was a change in the format of the theocracy: "No more judges. Give us a monarchy." This triggered Samuel to let them know that this was a rejection of God's will for them but if that's what they wanted, so be it, but he then went on to tell them the consequences. In so doing, he declared that there would be a progression in which all human government produces.

In last week's blog we saw the first stage in the progression: the government will bring the people into its service beginning with military service, then into civil service. Thus begins a bureaucracy, a word taken from French and Greek, meaning "rule from a desk." Today, this is what we call, "The Deep State."

Samuel's prediction now moves to the next stage: the government will create jobs such as "captains over fifties and captains over thousands." Included in this job creation will be those who "run before the king's chariots." The government will create the job of the runner whose only function is to call attention to the chariot riding king. This is what a bureaucracy does: it creates useless jobs. 

The problem is that once a bureaucracy begins, dislodging it is like trying to remove a face from Mt. Rushmore with a noodle. The desk ruler is like Elliot Ness and his men, untouchable. The bureaucrat was not voted into the position and cannot be voted out. To quote Cassius to Brutus in Shakespear's "Julius Caesar," "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves." 

"The original bureaucracy of the federal government consisted only of employees from three small departments — State, Treasury, and War. The executive branch employs today almost three million people. Not only have the numbers of bureaucrats grown, but also the methods and standards for hiring and promoting people have changed dramatically." (From ushistory.org)

 

THE RUINING OF AMERICA

The Bible predicts the ruin of America. Wait! What! No, America is not predicted in the Bible anywhere. Any one who says so is reading America into the Scriptures; it's not there. What I mean by the Bible's predicting is that it America and every other country, although not metioned by name, is predicted in regard to being under certain principles given in I Samuel 8 by none other than the prophet Samuel. Let's look at this.

The people of Israel have had enough; they are sick and tired of being under the judges. The judges were men called by God at various times to deliver Israel from enemies who were attemptking to destroy her. Israel came to see this as a problem; they had to wait for God to raise up a deliverer to lead them. In other words, they were to live by faith that God was going to do this. Waiting on the Lord isn't easy, we all know that. 

So,they make a request of Samuel: "All the other nations have kings. We demand one." Their reasoning was that a king would always be there one after the other, always visible and at the ready to enforce the Law and lead them into battle. 

This was a rebellious demand which Samuel took as insulting to his ministy but God pointed outthat their demand was a rejection of Him, not the prophet. The people have free will, so they were told that if they want to be like other nations in rebellion of God's call to be diffent, then, go head but I will, through Samuel, tell you what's going to happen. What will happen is recorded in I Samuel 8:7ff. 

What's going to happen to Israel is what will happen to all governments of all time in a fallen world because this is the way goverments are in such a world. And what's going to happen will bring ruin upon any nation. 

What Samuel reveals to them is a progression which leads to ruin and it doesn't take long to bring any and all nations down. The progression goes like this:

1.The govenment will bring the people into its service in all areas of life such as agricuture. The American government's control of agricuture can be seen in the 1930s, 

At that time, American farmers were paid by the government not to produce. by paying farmers. This meant that the government was controling farm production. 

What happened when we paid farmers not to produce? First, Americans had to pay more for bread, corn and cotton shirts. The higher prices for farmers meant price increases for customers buying farm products.

Second, because farmers were growing smaller crops, we used up more quickly the food being grown, and soon had to import the very crops we were paying farmers not to produce. In 1935, the U.S. imported 36 million pounds of cotton, 13 million bushels of wheat, and 34 million bushels of corn. This govdfnment contol was a disaster. (From "The NewYork Times")

This would include manufacturing control as well as food processing. A bureaucracy has begun. FDR had begun to put water in the American gas tank. The progression to ruin had begun.

[The progression is detailed in "The Greatness of the Kingdom" by Alva J. McClain.]

TO BE CONTINUED

MEGYN KELLY, CHARLIE KIRK, A PRIEST, AND HOSEA

 

Hosea 4:1-2: "Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,

For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no]faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.
2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed [c]follows bloodshed

The scene in Israel had become serious; the people were running wild all over five of the Ten Commandments. They had ears of stone in regard to the Word of God. They weren't listening to the prophets who were calling them back to the Bible. 

Their ears of stone had caused a vacuum; as Aristotle said, "Nature abhors a vacuum." Something must rush into a vacuum. In their case, some things, plural, took its place: "Swearing, a reference to curses made in the name of some deity in which one person calls down calamity on another, such as "I wish he were dead!" or "May he be struck dead!" 

Violence rushed into the vacuum. The news carried one report after another of violent crimes which were so common that they seemed to follow one another without interruption as in "bloodshed follows bloodshed," the prophet thundered. Their society had fallen apart, all because "there was no knowledge of God in the land." 

No one's property was safe. To the Israelites, "Thou shalt not steal" was a suggestion to be ignored. 

The root of the bitter fruit wasn't poverty, a lack of education, or being homeless; the root was spiritual. God's people had rejected the Bible. The record of their past had taught them nothing; God's disciplining rod had come to their forefathers who paid with pain. 

THE HERE, THE NOW

If a speaker with a biblical world view is going to speak on college campus, he or she must enter its ivy walls with heavy security. If a Jewish student is to go to class, it would be best for him or her to divest themselves of any attire that would reveal their identity. On one campus not too long ago, a rabbi advised all Jewish students to go home or else face rapid mobs from which they would have no protection from the school and local authorities.

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk entered a campus in Utah to do what he loved to do--sit under an awning and answer thousands of students' questions one by one, seeking to persuade students via the Socratic method of dialogue, question and answer.  

A female student accuses him of being a fascist. He asks, "What's a Fascist?" Her reply, "I don't know." Through that one question, he has politely shown her she doesn't know what she's talking about. another student informs Mr. Kirk that he will cast his vote for Kamala Harris, so Kirk asks him to name her greatest accomplishment. Silence. Then he asks, "Name one accomplishment. Crickets. That's he Socratic method.

ENTER MEGYN AND A PRIEST

On Megyn Kelly's podcast as seen on YouTube, she is distraught and rightly so. She also must travel with heavy security. Her guest is a Roman Catholic priest whom she respects and calls upon to make some sense out of the tragedy. His reply is that man ruined what God had created. 

She asks him, "What should we do?" The young priest answers, "We must stand up strong and do good. Kelly agrees and tells him and her audience, "Yes, that's what we should do. You don't get in heaven unless you do good." That's not unusual; that's what a Roman Catholic would say. But how many millions were hearing that false gospel snd will continue to hear it? Over and over again, the Bible in which Charlie Kirk unashamedly believed informs u, heaven isn't entered by works but by faith alone o Christ apart from works as the gospel of John says a hundred times. 

Kelly revealed that she and the priest have ears of stone.

I began with Hosea. I conclude with Paul who wrote of a society with ears of stone:

"And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. 

 

 

THE ENDURING RAGE

 When it comes to history, far too many are far to ignorant of a global, entrenched, irrational, fanatical, and demonic hatred: there's a soft name for this irrationality; antisemetism. That's a euphemism for "Jew hatred." Jew hatred is the most ancient of all hatreds; popes and princes, kings, queens, pharoahs, professors, students, universities and politicians have Jewish blood on their hands. National heroes have promoted the raging; "heroes" like Henry Ford have promoted it. 

Let's take a look back, way back, throughout history and see the specifics and results of this hatred. The picture isn't pretty and, most important, it's way, way worse than you think it is. To start our historical journey, let's go back to Spain in the fifteenth century, that century at whose close Columbus sailed the ocean blue. (This notation is not to suggest that he was a hater of the Jews; he wasn't but two famous people he knew were. He delayed sailing out of the harbor so he could save a few Jews.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE A JEW IN SPAIN BACK THEN?

In 1391, a mob murdered 4,000 Jews in Seville. In the space of 90 days, 5,000 more had een murdered. Tens of thousands more were forced to convert to the Roman Catholic Church. Those horrific numbers didn't quench Spain's thirst for the blood of the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The people had come to believe that Jewish blood was so tainted that even a forced conversion couldn't eliminate the problem. Their solution: extermination. 

This triggered the infamous Spanish Inquition during which 32,000 were burned at the stake. Those who weren't were forced to wear clothes with yellow crosses. If they refused, they were branded and burned to death. Other punishments: Jews were banned from being lawyers, notaries, or doctors. They couldn't bear arms, thus rendering them defenseless. Gun control! Jews couldn't receive money, carve stone, own a tavern, ride a horse, travel by cart or carriage, wear gold, silver, or precious stones, silk, or grow a beard.

THE MAGNIFICENT IRONY

The king and queen of Spain were Ferdinand and Isabella. Under their rule an edict went out that all Jews were to be exiled from Spain. In July 1492, the exodus began. When Columbus left on his famous voyage in August, he could not use the port of Cadiz because of the large numbers of Jews waiting to board ships in the harbor. 

How was his trip in which he discovered the new world financed? Ferdinand and Isabella funded Columbus' voyage through a combination of royal treasury funds and contributions from the city of Palos.

And it was in the new world that a nation would be founded to support giving the Jews their homeland in 1948 and provide protection for them.

THE SPANISH ARMADA

And what happened to Spain? What happened to Spain was that they ran into Genesis 12:3b : ". . . those who curse you [the Jews], I [God] will curse."

And this brings us to the mighty Spanish Armada. "The Spanish Armada was a fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England. The Armada faced numerous challenges, including poor weather ["the wind and the waves obey His voice"] and strategic miscalculations, leading to its defeat by the English navy. This defeat marked a significant turning point in history, as it established England's naval supremacy and was celebrated as a great victory for Protestant England over Catholic Spain."