Save The Republic: Remember the Past

For the past two weeks, we’ve shown how our Republic has been under attack from non-government forces and how the government has slipped the chains that bound it to the limited exercise of power, which now permeates areas in our lives heretofore unimaginable. 

We’ve also outlined some concrete steps you can take to help keep the Republic safe by utilizing the freedoms guaranteed us in the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment allows us to have a voice in how our government operates and to criticize it when it runs afoul of our founding principles. The Second Amendment protects everything else, because what good are rights if you’ve no means to defend them? History has demonstrated what happens when the government has all the guns.

We’ve shown how governments and people overstep and engage in evil and the unjust use of force. Evil is real, it exists, and it’s your duty to resist it wherever you find it. But the evil that men do isn’t new, nor is the cycle our nation seems to be in. Consider, for example, the Book of Judges.

Sin, repent, rinse, repeat

The Book of Judges outlines how the Israelists descended into sin and God would punish them by sending an enemy to oppress them. Realizing the error of their ways, the Israelites would repent and pray to God for forgiveness, who would send a champion (judge) to free the Israelites from their oppression.

The Israelites would again prosper, but after a time, they’d fall back into unfaithfulness to God. God would again punish them with an oppressive enemy, and the Israelites would again repent and be sent another judge to free them. After some period of peace, the cycle would recur.

With each cycle, the Israelites’ status was diminished a little bit more. The lines of morality were continually blurred by both the Israelites and the judges, to the point that Samson was no more virtuous than the Israelites for whom he fought. Even their champions were morally compromised.

Everyone does what is right in his own eyes 

History is replete with examples that no society is perfect, we all experience problems. But it also shows that some societies descend into an evil place from which there is seemingly no return, but are somehow able to escape from the abyss. And, as in Judges, things are OK for a period of time, only to fall apart again, repeating the cycle. 

Our current situation shows what happens when man turns from God. An argument could even be made that we are heading down the same path traveled by the Israelites. We need to decide as a country if we are a people governed by the rule of law, or by the whims of men (including government officials) where “everyone does what is right in his own eyes”, regardless of what the law says. 

The battle between Good and Evil is ever present, and what happens in the physical plane is a spillover from the spiritual plane. Our faith in God gives us the armor we need to protect us from evil from the spiritual plane. God has also given us, as free men, the tools of liberty needed to defend and safeguard our Republic. 

If we can keep it.