The two key issues facing both the world and the church are Sovereignty and Dominion: who rules and who has legitimate ownership of all things. Every aspect of life must come to terms with these questions. None can claim neutrality when faced with this challenge. Either man is the supreme lawgiver, judge and king, or God is. Either man owns all things, thus giving him ownership legitimacy over the created order, or God owns all things. Both cannot be true. Neither [...]
THE WARNING: "Paper money has had the effect, in your state, that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." —GEORGE WASHINGTON, in letter to J. Bowen, Rhode Island, Jan. 9, 1787THE SITUATION:On February 22nd, President’s Day, World Net Daily released an email stating the following:“After almost a century of inflation, today's dollar has less than 2 cents of the purchasing power that it had in 1913 when [...]
The Intelligence Organization of STRATFOR recently posted this statement in regard to the unrest in Libya:"There has now been some spark of unrest in places as far afield as Cote d’Ivoire and Iran. For the most part, these protests are limited in size and scope, and not all of them are connected. But are some? Are there protests unified by common themes? Are there common forces at work behind the scenes in some cases?"Today FOX New reported that "witnesses say protesters [...]
In his superb analysis of democracy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Distinguished Fellow at the Mises Institute observes that "prime ministers and presidents are selected for their proven efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Thus, democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government." Those who thirst for political office appear to be eager to break the moral code that most of us are willing [...]
"Eschatology is inseparable from purpose, purpose in history. The goal of the enemy is the Kingdom of Man. The goal of Christ's people must be the Kingdom of God, ruled by God's law-word. Eschatology is not only about ends, but also means to the given goal. This is why Theonomy, God's law and its rule, is inseparable from God's Kingdom." ~ R.J. Rushdoony ‘Journal of Christian Reconstruction’, Vol. XV, 1998 p. 11Eschatology coupled with the application of God's Law is the [...]
The sin against the first commandment, Thou shalt have no other god's before the true God, banishes the Name of Jehovah by means of taking to one's self other gods and their idolatrous names.The sin against the second commandment obscures and disfigures His Name by making graven images.The sin against the third commandment, Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord in vain, abuses the Holy Name of God.All abuses of God's Name is a repudiation of His authority, and [...]
"America is an oligarchy of lawyers and the businessmen who hire them. In no other nation do five lawyers determine what is lawful and what is not. This supreme authority of five people is both a symbol and the legal foundation of the political system that rules 310 million Americans. Yet we are so used to it that we give it no thought. We assume that this is normative: 'the way things are supposed to be.'Yet it is neither normative nor [...]
"I know some divines hold that the Judaical laws of Moses, so far as concerneth the punishments of sins against the moral law, idolatry, blasphemy Sabbath-breaking, adultery, theft, etc., ought to be a rule to the Christian magistrate; and for my part, I wish more respect were had to it, and that it were more consulted with......It is one thing to govern the commonwealth, and to make political and civil laws; another thing to interpret the Word of God, and out [...]
