This year Thanksgiving falls of the anniversary of JFK's assassination....the fifty-fifth anniversary of that terrible day that would get my vote for the beginning of the end for America....where rogue elements of our own government planned and carried out the unthinkable. The remaining 1960s were tragic and calamitous but were only a portent of the complete collapse of culture, government and society. We had a respite in the late 70s and early 80s. I wrote in a recent post how I viewed an old Dick Cavett interview with then Governor Ronald Reagan from June 5th of 1971. Cavett asked him if he was going to run for president in 1972. Reagan replied...."No....Lord willing I'll complete my second term as governor." That would make two United States presidents....in a row....Carter and Reagan.....who could naturally use the phrase...."Lord willing." Charles Colson was sent to prison n 1974 on charges of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair. Only two years later in 1976 he wrote an absolutely beautiful book titled Born Again. Working three shifts at a coal-fired power plant....about a dozen of us would meet after a midnight shift for a prayer meeting.....and this was only our crew! God was doing marvelous things and had brought many into His kingdom at that time who are now watching the ripping asunder of this nation of ours....and knowing why it is happening....and how we all bear some responsibility in our own demise as a nation. We may have been given a clue about what was imminent in America in what are known as the last' official' words of President John Kennedy. The following post is from January of 2107:
Every American, old enough of course, knows where they were and what they were doing when President Kennedy was shot. As for me, I was in my eighth grade homeroom when one of the Sisters came in crying with the news. We all then immediately went home.
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 November of 1963. 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 believed those words but he could not have truly understood their significance, nor timeliness, 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 produced college professors for the next few decades who gave us many of our problems today. The gave us Barack Obama and the Clintons....two Bush presidents....and Donald Trump.
President Trump will 'labor in vain' as he attempts to 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 would be wisdom and strength through judgments....and not the suspension of those judgments. 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 not care less what God has written in His Word.....looking at us now....and looking at America over the past 150 years....we have been laboring in vain. Even in the constitutional fervor surrounding Donald Trump we are but watchmen that waketh in vain unless we humble ourselves and look to God and not man for our strength.
Every American, old enough of course, knows where they were and what they were doing when President Kennedy was shot. As for me, I was in my eighth grade homeroom when one of the Sisters came in crying with the news. We all then immediately went home.
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 November of 1963. 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 believed those words but he could not have truly understood their significance, nor timeliness, 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 produced college professors for the next few decades who gave us many of our problems today. The gave us Barack Obama and the Clintons....two Bush presidents....and Donald Trump.
President Trump will 'labor in vain' as he attempts to 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 would be wisdom and strength through judgments....and not the suspension of those judgments. 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 not care less what God has written in His Word.....looking at us now....and looking at America over the past 150 years....we have been laboring in vain. Even in the constitutional fervor surrounding Donald Trump we are but watchmen that waketh in vain unless we humble ourselves and look to God and not man for our strength.
