A Coup In Progress

It's only natural that we can show courage while only on the periphery of conflicts but when we are actually involved in the conflict the reality of fear creeps in. Here is why so many nations of the world have one up on us for they do not live in perennially safe harbors as America has been. Take Lebanon for example. The people there may know that a war is imminent but they also know exactly what to expect. For us it is different. My concern for the safety of our nation began over a decade ago. One would only have to read here and there in my blog to get a glimpse of my extreme concerns. I write about tyranny and totalitarianism with defiance but I know very well that all of life changes when the final assault begins and I see that final assault beginning right now. Consequently that defiance becomes mixed with dire trepidation. This is no game. It's not just political rhetoric where exaggerations are often used to motivate people. I refer you to my blog of just a few days ago on Erwin Lutzer's book When A Nation Forgets God, 7 Lessons We Must Learn From Nazi Germany. The Obama administration methodology is way too similar and very likely purposely patterned after the power grab of the Third Reich. Pshaw...you say? Might I remind you that most of the German people said the same thing. Our current government, through its many tentacles, is not merely discouraging dissent but applying pressure, even threatening, what has been a bulwark of our freedoms. The assault on our churches is already beginning and one need look no further than the move against the Catholic church in the last few days to see this. Our schools have long since been commandeered to program our children. Even our families have been given notice of their proper place and there is disdain for our Constitution on the Supreme Court, the very body charged with upholding it! If one complains too loudly he is immediately under suspicion. Two things are necessary on our part: the first is the temporal and the lesser of the two in importance. We need an overwhelming Republican control of our Congress for it is the branch that, by design, is closer to the people and more responsive to those who put them in office. It can impeach the President and remove Supreme Court justices, and of course it can make law. Our Executive Branch can too easily be chosen by the elites of this nation, by big money and by any other coalition that has power over the people's minds. I want to see a strong Democratic Party but only as it pertains to checks and balances within our political process, not as a tool, a bully pulpit and a rubber stamp for subversive forces pretending to be compassionate and patriots.  This particular President has been amassing powers that were in no way given to him by our Constitution. It is a coup in progress. He needs replaced this November but even his successor will need to be reigned in. The second, and by far the most important thing that we as a people have to do is this; every American that loves their family, their country and their freedoms needs to escape the cultural quicksand that permits, even encourages, one to gaze in amazement up at the bright lights of our technological wonderland and entertainment paradise while at the same time sinking into the muck and mire of our Godless quest for self-autonomy, and pray with an earnestness heretofore only seen in our own personal emergencies. We need to pray for forgiveness for permitting these travesties to come upon us, pray for mercies not deserved, pray for discernment previously not sought and pray for the strength that only comes from Christ who strengtheneth. I have no idea if we have enough time left to hold on to our country. Jonah preached a warning to Nineveh but Nahum, years later, preached only impending doom to the same city. I had breakfast today in a restaurant where two televisions blared on my left and my right. On the one the audience was obviously thrilled by merely being in the presence of the ladies of The View, on the other was raucous laughter with Ellen DeGeneres. I could barely eat my food knowing that much of American womanhood had been enticed into this pit while at the same time our men waste their time on trivialities at the expense of their family's security, their country and their eternal souls. We refuse to learn from history and consider ourselves immune from tyranny and collapse. Why? Because we were pampered, then we became demanding of not liberties but entitlements and now we are just going to stamp our feet and hold our breath until we get what we want but such is not how God deals with men. Ultimately, we will either humble ourselves...prostrate ourselves...before the One who was not only our Benefactor but our Sustainer, or we will learn the hard way that we will fall as easily as any nation or empire before us. No, there's a lot of bravado before the war but it dissipates quickly when the canons go off and the armies charge. Many of us rail on about tyrants, and not many more than I, but the door of the wooden horse has opened and the barbarians are within the gates. It is for us now to apportion our time where we might defend our Constitution and secure a future for our children and even more importantly to heed the words of Isaiah 55:6-9

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.