There was a time when the American Dream could be summed up in the word 'opportunity.' Not everyone had a legitimate chance to become a millionaire but they did have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. Was it perfect? No....far from it, and that opportunity wasn't universal but enough so that it drew millions here from other countries and most of them succeeded, and if not they themselves then their children. But that's all gone. To those readers from other countries who comprise about a fifth of the readers to these posts.... there is no more... an American Dream. Oh, you can come here and make money if that's all you want. You might even become a billionaire but why come here, for if you are so good you could do the same thing in Europe or Asia.
That 'opportunity,' that 'dream' that so many talked about came alongside of freedom and liberty. The hand of God was on this nation, not to build an empire but to proclaim a kingdom....the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's been done and we have since rejected Him... and his hand is no longer upon us. So come and make your billion if you so desire but the stench of greed and grasp of tyranny will come with it. We once had an American Creed. It didn't matter what nationality we were for we were Americans but alas that is gone also.....we have been set up and taken to the cleaners.
Communism is based upon a lie that it actually cares for the workers of the world and it will murder tens of millions of those workers to have the opportunity to prove it to you. That's what happened in the last 100 or so years. A revolution was taking place in Russia, proceeding just as all revolutions tend to, but there was an element within that wanted to replace one dictatorship with another. The Bolsheviks were that element. If your life is going to be based upon a lie then you have to have someone to tell the lie and that is where we became the focus. Whether they be card-carrying Communists or just 'fellow travellers' as they call the help, they inundated America from education to unions, from the common man to the star of the silver screen and from the street activists to the Oval Office.
God has to go if Communism is to survive so they attacked God. The family, marriage and private property all have to go, the creed has to go and the American dream has to become a nightmare. All these things were happening in due course but a group of United States Congressmen (HUAC- House Un-American Activities Committee) who were not so easy to fool, slowed the momentum down greatly. The Communists then used Senator Joe McCarthy as a whipping boy to pave their way again but another member of our Congress, a Senator who had become a president (JFK), put another roadblock in front of them. The Communist caused havoc all around the world until a former movie star, former governor and once again a president, called their bluff. We celebrated the perceived demise of Communism but they had a back-up plan in the Dialectic. They could retreat at any time and return under a new guise, a new name. They did so and took over the Democrat Party here in our country, put one of their own in the Oval Office, and are speedily giving away the store. Anyone for a cruise to Cuba?
Communism is not one of the kings on a chessboard. It's a pawn that reached the eighth rank and changed into a Queen ready to do battle for the god of this world. Our battle is not on a chessboard, or political map or even a war table, for as Scripture informs us "....our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)
The following is part of an unnamed Puritan's prayer The Awakened Sinner from Arthur Bennett's much valued book, Valley Of Vision:
O my forgetful soul,
Awake from your wandering dream;
turn from chasing vanities,
look inward, forward, upward,
view thyself,
reflect upon thyself,
who and what thou art, why here,
what thou must be soon be.
Thou art a creature of God,
formed and furnished by him,
lodged in a body like a shepherd in his tent;
Dost thou not desire to know God's ways?
That 'opportunity,' that 'dream' that so many talked about came alongside of freedom and liberty. The hand of God was on this nation, not to build an empire but to proclaim a kingdom....the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's been done and we have since rejected Him... and his hand is no longer upon us. So come and make your billion if you so desire but the stench of greed and grasp of tyranny will come with it. We once had an American Creed. It didn't matter what nationality we were for we were Americans but alas that is gone also.....we have been set up and taken to the cleaners.
Communism is based upon a lie that it actually cares for the workers of the world and it will murder tens of millions of those workers to have the opportunity to prove it to you. That's what happened in the last 100 or so years. A revolution was taking place in Russia, proceeding just as all revolutions tend to, but there was an element within that wanted to replace one dictatorship with another. The Bolsheviks were that element. If your life is going to be based upon a lie then you have to have someone to tell the lie and that is where we became the focus. Whether they be card-carrying Communists or just 'fellow travellers' as they call the help, they inundated America from education to unions, from the common man to the star of the silver screen and from the street activists to the Oval Office.
God has to go if Communism is to survive so they attacked God. The family, marriage and private property all have to go, the creed has to go and the American dream has to become a nightmare. All these things were happening in due course but a group of United States Congressmen (HUAC- House Un-American Activities Committee) who were not so easy to fool, slowed the momentum down greatly. The Communists then used Senator Joe McCarthy as a whipping boy to pave their way again but another member of our Congress, a Senator who had become a president (JFK), put another roadblock in front of them. The Communist caused havoc all around the world until a former movie star, former governor and once again a president, called their bluff. We celebrated the perceived demise of Communism but they had a back-up plan in the Dialectic. They could retreat at any time and return under a new guise, a new name. They did so and took over the Democrat Party here in our country, put one of their own in the Oval Office, and are speedily giving away the store. Anyone for a cruise to Cuba?
Communism is not one of the kings on a chessboard. It's a pawn that reached the eighth rank and changed into a Queen ready to do battle for the god of this world. Our battle is not on a chessboard, or political map or even a war table, for as Scripture informs us "....our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)
The following is part of an unnamed Puritan's prayer The Awakened Sinner from Arthur Bennett's much valued book, Valley Of Vision:
O my forgetful soul,
Awake from your wandering dream;
turn from chasing vanities,
look inward, forward, upward,
view thyself,
reflect upon thyself,
who and what thou art, why here,
what thou must be soon be.
Thou art a creature of God,
formed and furnished by him,
lodged in a body like a shepherd in his tent;
Dost thou not desire to know God's ways?
