Every
American, old enough of course, knows where they were and what they
were doing when President Kennedy was shot, and every American knows
where they were as America was attacked on 9/11. As for me concerning
the former, I was in my eighth grade homeroom when one of the Sisters came
in crying with the news for us. We all then immediately went home.
I am one of those who could never quite get President Kennedy's assassination out of my mind. I would return to the subject at least once every year and read the newest book or just sit and reflect on the tragedy of that day. If asked my opinion I would tell people that I was certain of only two things.....that JFK was killed that day....and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not do it. Well, it appears that we finally may have some of those answers, and as it turns out there may have been truths in many of those books that came out over he years. Robert Wilcox is an author who just happened to come across a man who claims that he had a lot of these answers. That man was very old at the time and apparently thought that the time had come for Americans to know that happened to their young and handsome president way back on November 22, 1963. The book is Target JFK, The Spy Who Killed Kennedy, but that is not the topic of this post...for the topic is much more important.
Many of you remember that magazine sized book Four Days, The Historical Record Of The Death of President Kennedy. I think that just about everyone had it back in the months and years following that tragic day. In that book the editors reveal what were "President Kennedy's last official words-the conclusion of the speech he was to have delivered in Dallas." John Kennedy was to give this speech but never did... for assassins (plural) ended his life.
That speech never given concluded with these words, "...the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: 'Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain'." That Bible excerpt is the last half of the 1st verse of Psalm 127... from the King James Version, which begins with this "Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it." So the full verse is:
"Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was nominally religious as was I. He would have respected the Bible and truly believed the words that were written for him that he was to give, but he could not have truly understood those words nor the significance of nor the timeliness of those words, nor even seen his own part in attempting to build a city (a country) without the LORD. The 60s were an absolute disaster, the effects of which nearly brought my own life to an end. They gave us our college professors for the next few decades which gave us many of our problems today. The gave us Barack Obama and the Clintons....and two Bush presidents and Donald Trump. They, the 60s, were the foundation of my life apart from Jesus Christ.
Donald Trump will "labor in vain' as he attempts make America 'great again'....unless we as a people see our own culpability in our troubles (past-present-and future) and seek His forgiveness and mercy; and even then our hope is wisdom and strength through the judgements, and not suspension of those judgements. Looking at America now where half of the voting electorate just cast ballots for known corruption in order to keep God out of society while much if not most of the other half championed a man who apparently could care less what God has written in His Word...looking at us now... and looking at America for the past 150 years... we have been laboring in vain, and even in the constitutional fervor surrounding Donald Trump....we are but watchman that waketh in vain....unless we humble ourselves and look to God and not man for our strength.
I am one of those who could never quite get President Kennedy's assassination out of my mind. I would return to the subject at least once every year and read the newest book or just sit and reflect on the tragedy of that day. If asked my opinion I would tell people that I was certain of only two things.....that JFK was killed that day....and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not do it. Well, it appears that we finally may have some of those answers, and as it turns out there may have been truths in many of those books that came out over he years. Robert Wilcox is an author who just happened to come across a man who claims that he had a lot of these answers. That man was very old at the time and apparently thought that the time had come for Americans to know that happened to their young and handsome president way back on November 22, 1963. The book is Target JFK, The Spy Who Killed Kennedy, but that is not the topic of this post...for the topic is much more important.
Many of you remember that magazine sized book Four Days, The Historical Record Of The Death of President Kennedy. I think that just about everyone had it back in the months and years following that tragic day. In that book the editors reveal what were "President Kennedy's last official words-the conclusion of the speech he was to have delivered in Dallas." John Kennedy was to give this speech but never did... for assassins (plural) ended his life.
That speech never given concluded with these words, "...the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: 'Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain'." That Bible excerpt is the last half of the 1st verse of Psalm 127... from the King James Version, which begins with this "Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it." So the full verse is:
"Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was nominally religious as was I. He would have respected the Bible and truly believed the words that were written for him that he was to give, but he could not have truly understood those words nor the significance of nor the timeliness of those words, nor even seen his own part in attempting to build a city (a country) without the LORD. The 60s were an absolute disaster, the effects of which nearly brought my own life to an end. They gave us our college professors for the next few decades which gave us many of our problems today. The gave us Barack Obama and the Clintons....and two Bush presidents and Donald Trump. They, the 60s, were the foundation of my life apart from Jesus Christ.
Donald Trump will "labor in vain' as he attempts make America 'great again'....unless we as a people see our own culpability in our troubles (past-present-and future) and seek His forgiveness and mercy; and even then our hope is wisdom and strength through the judgements, and not suspension of those judgements. Looking at America now where half of the voting electorate just cast ballots for known corruption in order to keep God out of society while much if not most of the other half championed a man who apparently could care less what God has written in His Word...looking at us now... and looking at America for the past 150 years... we have been laboring in vain, and even in the constitutional fervor surrounding Donald Trump....we are but watchman that waketh in vain....unless we humble ourselves and look to God and not man for our strength.
