Observations©

By Donald S. Conkey

Date: April 26, 2007 -- # 917 – The Only Source of Real Security (809)

The tragic incident at Virginia Tech last week, where a deranged individual killed 32 human beings, once again riveted Americans to their TV screens causing many to wonder just ‘how secure are we?’ In efforts to make America more secure legislators, usually for a quick fix, often propose legislation, which, instead of making the nation more secure lull the people into a false security while adding more chains of bondage onto those that elected them to office. History is replete with dictators who have led their people into bondage using such tactics.

The reaction of the liberal press to the Virginia Tech massacre was predictable: eliminate guns and overturn the second amendment, one of America’s most cherished Bill of Rights. An amendment of few words, it reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Note the words “necessary to the security of a free state.” These words are as true today as they were in 1791 when this amendment became a part of the Constitution.

This continuing battle over the second amendment is only one of several major issues confronting America today, issues that affect the current and future freedoms of all Americans. Political correctness is another major issue, and, if left unchecked, could easily destroy the ‘freedom of speech’ section of the first amendment. The elimination of “God” from the fabric of America is another issue that has historically led to declining moral standards, an issue that could easily bring the wrath of God down on America.

This issue has caused the destruction of thriving civilizations throughout history. Jefferson embedded “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” into the Declaration for a reason. He understood America could not ignore neither nature’s nor God’s laws and survive as a free nation. He comprehended God holds both man and nations accountable for their individual and collective actions, especially in a nation raised up by His hand, as the Founders believed.

Being a government “of the people” has never been easy. It requires ‘the people’ to choose “able men (or women) such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness” to govern. When the people’ fail to choose leaders with these qualifications they often end up with tyrants as leaders. History, both biblical and secular, is filled with examples of people who found themselves bound in the chains of bondage after rejecting the laws of God, both spiritual and secular, as America is now doing, and as did the Israelites anciently.

An ancient king, Mosiah, once told his people to “choose you by the voice of the people, judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws which have been given you by our fathers, which are correct …” He then stated: “Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law – to do your business by the voice of the people.” Good advise anciently, good advise today as we watch “the lesser part of the people” working to destroy the laws established by our “fathers” and lead the people into greater bondage.

This principle, as old as the world itself, was first established in the councils of heaven. It is the principle of agency where mankind was given the right to choose. It is a basic element of mortality and is often associated with the principle of “thirds.” This principle explains why ‘the people’ in every generation divide into thirds. Revelation 12 tells us a ‘third of the hosts of heaven’ were cast out during that Great War in heaven. This principle was again seen in action during the Revolutionary War when a third of the colonists (the Tories) pledged their loyalty to the king of England (many were later ‘cast out’). In 1787 and 1788 this principle again surfaced during the ratification process of our Constitution. One third, the federalists, supported the new Constitution, one third, the anti-federalists fought hard to defeat it, and one third were undecided. This undecided third, like today’s undecided third, determined the path this nation would follow – freedom or servitude. In a nation that declares, in poll after poll, that they believe in God, “the lesser part of the people” seem to be winning most of the battles - against freedom.

When will Americans realize their freedoms are not connected to gun control but to adherence to those “perfect laws of liberty” the Founders found in the Old Testament?

Which third, for, against, or undecided, are we in? Our freedom, and the freedoms of our posterity depend on all of us to be for freedom.