America's voting system crumbling--Why?

"And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field....

The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them." (Deuteronomy 28:1-3, 12-14).

This and the verses in between described a beautiful Protestant America at its beginning. God gave us liberty because we honored Him and His covenant of Law and grace. But the churches have left the Reformation covenant. Instead of hoping in the Prince of peace and never-forsaking Father, we hoped in the land that He gave us for the fidelity of our Reformation forefathers. Now, just like Israel of old, we have kicked our God out of our lives.

"So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation...." (Deut. 32:12-15).

This was a song that Jesus inspired Moses to write and to "put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel." (Deut. 31:19). Hasn't Jesus' new covenant, "better covenant" (Heb. 8:6), been treated with the same distaste by His church? Has our track record been better than that of ancient Israel?

So, now after generations of apostasy and departure from loving the truth in His whole Bible, we are seeing the final end of a long erosion of the original peace and prosperity that gave us so much opportunity for rejoicing before the Lord our God, the God of the Protestants Reformation who delivered us from the Roman Papacy.

Representation makes America a Republic, not a Democracy. Democracy tends toward dictatorship and despotism. But the only way representation and a Republic can avoid despotism is for its constituents to be tolerant and self-governing, which our God gives us. A narcissistic, self-serving society can never manage a free nation. Therefore, no such society deserves to be free.

But, now that we have cut Jesus out of our lives we no longer know His justice and mercy. His character is no longer our standard of life. David rejoiced, "Thy gentleness hath made me great." (Psa. 18:35).

"For who is God save [Jehovah]? or who is a rock save our God?

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

Thou hast also given me the shield of Thy salvation: and Thy right hand hath holden me up, and Thy gentleness hath made me great." (Psa. 18:31-35).

But today we have lost our gentleness. Torture is part of Presidential policy. How much longer before our nation is doing the very oppression that characterized the Imperial Roman Republic? And how much longer before we cut the last strands of the cord that Providence lowered to us when we were fleeing from the Jesuits of the Counter-Reformation? To lose our God is to lose our protection, our prosperity, and our liberty.

There should be no doubt that after three centuries of being influenced by the goodness of Jehovah, that our providentially provided refuge from Jesuit persecution, according to Revelation 12:15,16, the quiet and comparably safe American wilderness, left our people desiring a peace-loving and gentle Constitution. It's not because we were British descendants, or inherited a peace chromosome. Americans had a hodge-podge pedigree. Protestant America was a melting pot of many cultures. It's because we were far from Rome, both doctrinally and physically, and the Bible had been our guide for almost 300 years during our colonial period, that we ended up peace-loving.

"O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?" (Jer. 2:31).

Now that we feel big and wise enough to manage ourselves without any of God's help, and He has let go of the reigns in deference to our desires, who has come to govern our nation in His place? The organization that persecuted our godly forefathers, our old enemy from the Dark Ages, whose sole purpose to exist was (and still is) to destroy Protestantism, its Protestant form of government, its holy Textus Receptus KJV Bible, and its Protestant people.

Read what John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson two years after the great 1814 Congress of Vienna:

"I do not like the late Resurrection of the Jesuits. They have a General, now in Russia, in correspondence with the Jesuits in the U.S. who are more numerous than every body knows. Shall We not have Swarms of them here? as many Shapes and disguises as ever a King of the Gypsies, Bamfied More Carew himself, assumed? In the shape of Printers, Editors, Writers School masters &c. I have lately read Pascalls Letters over again, and four Volumes of the History of the Jesuits. If ever any Congregation of Men could merit, eternal Perdition on Earth and in Hell; according to these Historians though like Pascall true Catholicks, it is this Company of Loiola. Our System however of Religious Liberty must afford them an Assylum. But if they do not put Purity of our Elections to a Severe Tryal, it will be a Wonder.

                                  J. Adams"

(https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6595)

What does the president's last sentence, his grand finale, unveil concerning the very heart of our U S. Constitution? It would be a wonder if the innumerable army of Ignatius Loyola, the Jesuit Order, doesn't put to a severe trial the purity of our election system! What did he and President Jefferson know that we don't? Who should we fear, as much as did their generation? That generation was more knowledgeable of, and therefore, attuned to, the dangers to constitutional government by the machinations of the Jesuit order. In 1816 the order had just recently been reinstated from its eternal dissolution because of its history of non-stop political intrigue. 

The top secret Papacy-Monarchy Congress of Vienna, the first of three, held in Vienna Austria, began a centuries-long attack on America and on all free, popular governments that began to follow America's lead. (Please see https://amazingdiscoveries.org/CHAPTER-1-TARGET-AMERICA)

Does not this "Holy" Alliance explain President Adams' fears? The above link takes you to the book by Bill Hughes, Secret Terrorists. It is a small, quick read that helps explain who is behind the massive changes that have taken place in our free nation. The new mentality that the media has drilled into American brains concerning conspiracy theories have been actual, real conspiracies. They have not been inventions of kooks, all along.

But the onus is on us, former Protestant America. We, like ancient Israel, have "waxed fat", as a society and a nation, and have "kicked". That phrase pictures a goat kicking its owner. It's too late for our nation and all the other former Protestant nations. It took Providence centuries of difficulty, persecution, carnage to have a people who would treasure righteousness and freedom. There is no more time to discipline another nation. But there's still hope to turn to the Lord for individuals among the formerly Protestant nations. A loose federation of willing, humbled servants of the God of salvation will come out of the woodwork within every country.

The desolation is on the way, fired by the wrath of God. Plague after plague. Captivity after captivity. The coming wickedness will make Hitler Germany, and Stalinist and Maoist Communism, look tame. And no one gets raptured out of it. 

A rapture fraud is highly likely, but even then we are all left behind! And such a deception, for which the Jesuits have a long resume and reputation, would cause the chaos that would leverage the global subjugation. Deception is the order of the day, "all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2Thess. 2:9,10).

So, the world and the ex-Protestant Americans will repeat the history of the Babylonians conquering the Jews in 606 BC. Just read Lamentations for an idea of your future--that is, if you sleep on until it hits. 

But if you sigh and cry to Jehovah for the abominations taking place, and speak out like Jeremiah, who wept often for the troubles that his warnings caused him. But, Jesus gave him the precious promise, "Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction." (Jer. 15:11). 

The trouble has been on the way for awhile. So, today make Jehovah your refuge. Make a vow, and pledge your whole heart's service to Him and to all who He is seeking to save. He will get up to speed. He can keep us from falling and make us presentable to His Father. But all who will refuse to serve Him will suffer more than those who will be persecuted.

"Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young...." (Deut. 28:41-50).

The little horn is halfway to heaven

"...toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven." (Dan. 8:8-10).

The little horn, which came out of one of the four winds, would be fatally wounded and put down by Providence and His Bible. But, before it would die, a great healer, through "great wonders" (Rev. 13:14), would restore it to life and health and strength.

"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." (Rev. 13:3).

Its head would not be severed, therefore it stood the chance to grow back into its former exaltation in the earth, and in its former despotism.

"And when they [the witnesses for Christ] shall have finished their [42 month] testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." (Rev. 11:7).

In 1849 the little horn adversary of God would be loosed from its divinely judged interment and, with a vengeance, reassume its earlier Dark Ages brutality and genocides, its corruption of faith and obedience in God's church, and its complete control of humanity's every move. But, how was it the victor over the Protestants' war against it? By laying an old trap inside the church.

"The great adversary now endeavored to gain by artifice what he had failed to secure by force. Persecution ceased, and in its stead were substituted the dangerous allurements of temporal prosperity and worldly honor. Idolaters were led to receive a part of the Christian faith, while they rejected other essential truths. They professed to accept Jesus as the Son of God and to believe in His death and resurrection, but they had no conviction of sin and felt no need of repentance or of a change of heart. With some concessions on their part they proposed that Christians should make concessions, that all might unite on the platform of belief in Christ." Great Controversy, p. 42.

Have we seen the slackening of primitive godliness among the Protestant churches since the end of the Papal persecutions? And again among the Seventh-day Adventists after the revivals of William Miller in 1844?

"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is." (Rev. 17:8).

Isn't it almost here? Hasn't the Protestants' faith come under attack for the past 150 years, not by a rogue scientific system, but by scientists that have all been propagandized by the beast's Jesuit deceivers from the bottomless pit?

Hasn't the infamous abomination that maketh desolate the mighty and holy Protestant people all but placed himself in their God's stead? He has sent the thinking Protestants off in the direction of hopeless atheism, and sent the non-thinking Protestants off in the opposite direction of religious foolishness and madness.

"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" (Jer. 5:31).

"And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith." (Deut. 32:20).

The time of trouble such as never was

"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season." (Rev. 6:10,11).

The following is graphic and may be very unsettling and distressing to the reader. But it is, I'm sure, but a small taste of all the tortures that occurred during the wicked days of slavery in America.

And I quote it because the days are yet to come when, not almost all of the Spirit of God is removed from the conscience of a wicked group as has occurred many times in history, but all of the Spirit of the Lord will be removed from the whole world and there will be a time of torturous revenge taken upon all who maintain their obedience to the Law of God and their faith in Jesus. The densest darkness ever to befall the human race will be left in a globe of deceived minds that fear for their self-centered lives and are given carte blanc promise of absolution from the Trinity god to hunt down and bring to justice all state-condemned heretics.

Slave Punishments

James Ramsay, a doctor working for several sugar plantations in St Kitts, was shocked by the way the slaves were treated by the overseers. Ramsay later recalled in his book, Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies (1784): "The ordinary punishments of slaves, for the common crimes of neglect, absence from work, eating the sugar cane, theft, are cart whipping, beating with a stick, sometimes to the breaking of bones, the chain, an iron crook about the neck... a ring about the ankle, and confinement in the dungeon. There have been instances of slitting of ears, breaking of limbs, so as to make amputation necessary, beating out of eyes, and castration... In short, in the place of decency, sympathy, morality,and religion; slavery produces cruelty and oppression. It is true, that the unfeeling application of the ordinary punishments ruins the constitution, and shortens the life of many a poor wretch."

The law provided slaves with virtually no protection from their masters. On large plantations this power was delegated to overseers. These men were under considerable pressure from the plantation owners to maximize profits. They did this by bullying the slaves into increasing productivity. The punishments used against slaves judged to be under-performing included the use of the whip. Sometimes slave-owners resorted to mutilating and branding their slaves.

William Box Brown, a slave in Richmond, later wrote about an overseer on his tobacco plantation. "Stephen Bennett, who had a wooden leg; and who used to creep up behind the slaves to hear what they had to talk about in his absence; but his wooden leg generally betrayed him by coming into contact with something which would make a noise, and that would call the attention of the slaves to what he was about. He was a very mean man in all his ways, and was very much disliked by the slaves. He used to whip them, often, in a shameful manner. On one occasion I saw him take a slave, whose name was Pinkney, and make him take him off his shirt; he then tied his hands and gave him one hundred lashes on his bare back; and all this, because he lacked three pounds of his task, which was valued at six cents."

Olaudah Equiano blamed brutal overseers for the worst treatment of slaves: "Another negro man was half hanged, and then burnt, for attempting to poison a cruel overseer. Thus, by repeated cruelties, are the wretched first urged to despair, and then murdered, because they still retain so much of human nature about them as to wish to put an end to their misery, and retaliate on their tyrants. These overseers are indeed for the most part persons of the worst character of any denomination of men in the West Indies. Unfortunately, many humane gentlemen, but not residing on their estates, are obliged to leave the management of them in the hands of these human butchers, who cut and mangle the slaves in a shocking manner on the most trifling occasions, and altogether treat them in every respect like brutes."

Some punishments were associated with certain areas. William Wells Brown argues that slaveowners in Virginia smoked slaves. "In his fits of anger, he would take up a chair, and throw it at a servant; and in his more rational moments, when he wished to chastise one, he would tie them up in the smoke-house, and whip them; after which, he would cause a fire to be made of tobacco stems, and smoke them." Moses Roper claimed that in South Carolina they used to "drive nails into a hogshead so as to leave the point of the nail just protruding in the inside of the cask. Into this he used to put his slaves for punishment, and roll them down a very long and steep hill."

Harriet Jacobs, a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, explained in her book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861): "There was a planter in the country, not far from us, who had six hundred slaves, many of whom he did not know by sight. His extensive plantation was managed by well-paid overseers. There was a jail and a whipping post on his grounds; and whatever cruelties were perpetrated there, they passed without comment. He was so effectively screened by his great wealth that he was called to no account for his crimes, not even for murder. Various were the punishments resorted to. A favorite one was to tie a rope round a man's body, and suspend him from the ground. A fire was kindled over him, from which was suspended a piece of fat pork. As this cooked, the scalding drops of fat continually fell on the bare flesh."

Lewis Clarke, a house slave in Kentucky, described in his autobiography the different methods used by his mistress: "Instruments of torture were ordinarily the raw hide, or a bunch of hickory-sprouts seasoned in the fire and tied together. But if these were not at hand, nothing came amiss. She could relish a beating with a chair, the broom, tongs, shovel, shears, knife-handle, the heavy heel of her slipper, and an oak club, a foot and a half in length and an inch and a half square. With this delicate weapon she would beat us upon the hands and upon the feet until they were blistered."

States with large numbers of slaves introduced their own slave codes. The main idea behind these codes was to keep the slaves under the tight control of their owners. The death-penalty was introduced for a whole range of offences. Slaves could be executed for murder, rape, burglary, arson and assault upon a white person. Plantation owners believed that this severe discipline would make the slaves too scared to rebel.

(From website https://spartacus-educational.com/USASpunishments.htm).

The Equal Rights Act

"Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh....

And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. 

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.

And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. 

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them." (Num. 20:1-13).

"Just before the Hebrew host reached Kadesh, the living stream ceased that for so many years had gushed out beside their encampment. It was the Lord's purpose again to test His people. He would prove whether they would trust His providence or imitate the unbelief of their fathers. 

They were now in sight of the hills of Canaan. A few days’ march would bring them to the borders of the Promised Land. They were but a little distance from Edom, which belonged to the descendants of Esau, and through which lay the appointed route to Canaan. The direction had been given to Moses, 'Turn you northward. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you.... Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.' Deuteronomy 2:3-6. These directions should have been sufficient to explain why their supply of water had been cut off; they were about to pass through a well-watered, fertile country, in a direct course to the land of Canaan. God had promised them an unmolested passage through Edom, and an opportunity to purchase food, and also water sufficient to supply the host." Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 413.

"The cessation of the miraculous flow of water should therefore have been a cause of rejoicing, a token that the wilderness wandering was ended. Had they not been blinded by their unbelief, they would have understood this. But that which should have been an evidence of the fulfillment of God's promise was made the occasion of doubt and murmuring. The people seemed to have given up all hope that God would bring them into possession of Canaan, and they clamored for the blessings of the wilderness." Ibid.

What does the Equal Rights Act really mean for the church? 

All of our godly rights and Christian culture are going away, permanently. Does this mean we should dispose of the Spirit of Prophecy counsel to have nothing to do with political questions? Is it time to join hands with the Ecumenical movement and get up in arms legislatively? Is it time to weaponize the Bible?

From the Heritage Foundation:

"Where the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 furthered equality by ensuring that African-Americans had equal access to public accommodations and material goods, the Equality Act would further inequality by penalizing everyday Americans for their beliefs about marriage and biological sex. Similar sexual orientation and gender identity laws at the state and local level have already been used in this way.

Here are 5 groups who would be harmed if the Equality Act becomes law:"

Then the website lists the five groups and explains the issues.

1) Employers and Workers

2) Medical Professionals 

3) Parents and Children

4) Women

5) Non-Profits and Volunteers

To read the details of the five issues, the website is

https://www.heritage.org/gender/heritage-explains/the-equality-act

No, it's not time to unleash a rage of "righteous indignation". Shouldn't we view this latest attack that portends the disintegration of the U.S. Constitution as the end of a long awaited end of this world of sin? Aren't we very soon to go up to our heavenly Canaan? Won't we have to fight for it? Yes, we sure will! But only with words! And love!

Let's not do like ancient Israel and chide with our heavenly High Priest. Let's not tempt our faithful men of God to legislatively fetch us an extended period of life in our sinful bodies, if Providence is showing us the wrapping up of our earthly sojourn. And, let no Christian hands be stained with sinners' blood, for whom Christ died.

Let's lose our connection with heaven at the increasing corrupting of our people, and the transformation of our society and citizens of all ages to a nation wretched, polarized and divided, and at each other's throats.

Let's remain separate from the wrath of man and running with the militarized religionists. "Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the Lord of hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. And He shall be for a sanctuary" (Isa. 8:12-14).

And if we get swept up in the populist foray, then the Lord has a word for us,

"But [the Lord shall be] for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples." (Isa. 8:14-16).

Yet, for His called and chosen and faithful, His continued provisions and salvation will be theirs.

"And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him. Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given Me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion." (Isa. 8:17,18).

The book of Daniel confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls

The following article is not new. But it is new to me. And anything that adds credibility to sacred scripture should be given as widespread coverage as humanly possible.

The Ministry Magazine article was the January 1992 issue. It is copied from the website 

https://www.ministrymagazine.org/

where you can read the 13 page article.

"Thus the canonical acceptance of the book of Daniel at Qumran suggests an earlier origin of the book than the second century B.C. In 1969, based on the evidence available at that time regarding the Qumran Daniel texts, Roland K. Harrison had already concluded that the second century dating of the book of Daniel was 'absolutely precluded by the evidence from Qumran, partly because there are no indications whatever that the sectaries compiled any of the biblical manuscripts recovered from the site, and partly be cause there would, in the latter event, have been insufficient time for Maccabean compositions to be circulated, venerated, and accepted as canonical Scripture by a Maccabean sect.'45

Subsequent to this, he stated that based on the Qumran manuscripts, 'there can no longer be any possible reason for considering the book as a Maccabean product.' 46 The most recent publications of Daniel manuscripts confirm this conclusion.47"