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THE CLERGY AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY

2010-04-02T21:41:00.007-05:00

What has caused America to suddenly spiral downward into an economic, political and spiritual inferno? What moorings has she lost, resulting in her across-the-board vulnerability? The answer lies at the door of the Christian church. Following is an excerpt from the well known book Abandonment Theology (which is to say, abandonment of the faith of the founding Fathers).

Page 4, Introduction: What Is Abandonment Theology? " Abandonment Theology is a term devised by the author to describe a faith which deceptively pawns itself off as Christianity by operating in the name of Christ but which produces fruits destructive to America's God-given freedoms. It comprises what is left today of the militant, power-filled, full-dimensional Christian faith of America's Founders after decades of erosion, watering down and trivializing of God's action mandates by America's Abandonment clergy. It is a "feel good" theology that patronizes Jesus Christ and thereby gains legitimacy while at the same time producing disobedience to the commands of God and desertion of Christian duty.

Abandonment Theology is so deadly that we are losing our liberties, and evil is triumphing in nearly every aspect of life. A terrible spiritual blindness has come over millions of unsuspecting, victimized Christians who in turn have even allowed God , the Author of our liberties, to be in effect outlawed in our nation's public schools and institutions.

Through decades of erosion, the Abandonment clergy have succeeded in extracting from the Christian faith the teeth of vigilance, of action, of obedience to God. If the clergy taught their flocks to Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man (Eccl.12:13), America would not be plunging into the dark abyss as she is doing today. How have the Abandonment Clergy managed to triumph over such a nearly invincible heritage given as a sacred trust to every American?

This book deals with that subject in detail. [It] tells how it happened and reveals the central role of America's clergy in opening the floodgates to the archenemy of America's God-given freedoms. With the exception of an ever-faithful remnant, it was and is the clergy who have led the assault on the powerful, vigilant faith of the Founding Fathers who gave us our mighty, once-invincible American Constitutional Republic. Called the Abandonment Clergy, the theology they preach under the deceiving cloak of true Christianity can rightly be termed Abandonment Theology."

The sub-sub title of this book is An Action Guide To Save America. It is precisely what every American needs today to arm himself to obey Christ's mandates to engage in the holy cause of America's God-given freedoms. In fact, an entire chapter is devoted to the specific mandates of God and Christ Himself calling all Christians into front-line action.

This book of absolute truth is as fresh and applicable today as when it was written. It carries endorsements by men like Dr. D. James Kennedy and numerous other national leaders.

Tens of thousands have been sold and it is being featured by some as a collector's item.

If you would like to have an autographed copy for yourself, please send your check in amount of $14.95 payable to America - A Call To Greatness, Inc., 692 Coachlight Drive, Casselberry, Florida 32730. Or call the author, John W. Chalfant at (407) 629-5700. Payment by Visa or Master Card can be arranged.
Also, please make a donation in any amount to help further the work.

With much appreciation,

John W. Chalfant
author/President

HOW TO REVERSE AMERICA'S PLUNGE INTO THE ABYSS

2009-08-31T21:03:00.012-05:00

#4 of 4 The last three blog posts have focused on the escapist Christians – those who, led by their clergy, are looking forward to escaping the coming tribulations of this world by way of the “rapture”, thus abandoning their sacred duty to Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free (Gal. 5:1), and surrendering their children by default to hell on earth..

My 30 previous blog posts focused on America’s sacred Judeo Christian heritage, and the action mandates given by Christ Himself to all faithful Christians if we are to triumph over evil and continue to enjoy our God-given freedoms. Read them again and you will be well equipped to increase your effective witness.

The urgent need

America’s Christians need urgently to rise above the fog and spring into action with a concise reference guide which tackles and sets forth the crucial central burning issues of our times, and their related biblical mandates.

Such a proven reference guide does exist.

The essential militant Christian book

It is a book of Christian action mandates titled AMERICA – A CALL TO GREATNESS. It has been marketed on TV nationwide, including to the U.S. Armed Forces, and worldwide to over 200 countries; and bears endorsements by numerous of the greatest leaders of our cause.

It is designed to propel the reader out of the bleachers and off his reservation, and turn him into an effective warrior in the cause of America’s God-given freedoms.

This book is a MUST purchase for you. It will make you lethal in debates. Following are some of the hot topics in the book. If you buy this book,

Here’s what you’ll get in the book
AMERICA - A CALL TO GREATNESS

. The Christian worldview

. What is greatness?

. The militant, action-based faith of the Founding Fathers, name-by-name

. How the clergy neutralizes Christians

. What is “Abandonment Theology”?

. The Founding Fathers, slavery and “reparations”

. Church and State: the “wall of separation”

. America – democracy or republic?

. America – “A nation of laws? Who’s laws?
. Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution – anchored in the Bible?

. Government – the servant: Christian duty – what Christ mandates (Rom. 13:1-4)

. Salvation and works: are works important to Christ?

..Military Vulnerability: from without; from within

. Public schools – what wrecked them?

. Consequences when God was kicked out? Tolerant clergy and parents

. Creation vs evolution, seeds of freedom, or tyranny

. Christ the warrior: His mission “…to destroy the works of the devil”

. “Bleachers Christians” in the holocaust: pre-Nazi Germany; pre-communist Russia

. What is love? Does “love” mean to tolerantly “turn the other cheek”?

. When to tolerate: the most intolerant man who ever walked on Planet Earth

. “Front Line Organizations” fighting our battles

. Endorsements by America’s foremost church and political leaders

To sharpen verbal combat

Why do you need this book? So you can effectively combat and triumph over defeatist clergymen such as the following: Read this accounting of his national radio broadcast and ask yourself, “Is it any wonder why our enemies call the influence of the Christian church
“irrelevant”?

Abandoning Planet Earth

“You know, folks, people call my office and ask, ‘Dr. ____, don’t you love your country? You’re always so negative about it and unwilling to get into the battle.’ I respond, Of course I love my country, and I love living here. I love my freedoms, but I have to face the fact that America is on the way down as was ancient, pagan Rome, and she will meet the same horrible fate because of her sins. My concern is not for a country that is finished, but rather for the kingdom of God. I love my family. My concern is that they be right with God and concern themselves with the kingdom where nothing that happens on earth can affect their salvation and immortal souls.”

NOTE: America was never founded like ancient, pagan Rome. The above is indicative of so much of today’s clergy.

Another R.C. Sproul classic

I suspect that Dr. R.C. Sproul would respond to this famous preacher:
“Other religions may choose a radical denial of this world, seeking asylum in a supratemporal sphere of mystical otherworldliness; but Christianity enjoys no such luxurious option. Attempts by Christians, past and present, to quit this world in ascetic retreat betray a tacit denial of the most elemental principles of the Christian view of creation and redemption.”

NOTE: What consequences has God projected to nations when their citizens abandon their duty in this world, that is, abdicate their sacred responsibilities and duties? What has God decreed? All Nations That Forget God shall be turned into hell (Psalm 9:17)

Has America Passed the point of no return?

That’s God’s call. He makes this promise clear to us:

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them (Jer. 18:7-8)

John W. Chalfant
johnc@greatness.com
www.greatness.com

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Note: The above are the writer's views. If yours differ you are welcome to submit them.

AMERICAN ACHILLES: RAPTURE, PRETRIB, PREMIL

2009-08-28T06:40:00.024-05:00

Part 3 of 4. Continuing the common interpretation of Revelation: after the Rapture, a master deceiver- a man of peace, will turn out to be the anti-Christ, but not evidenced until after the first three and one half years. Those who hold to that midway thesis are said to hold the Premillinneal Midtribulational View . At the end of the 7 years of tribulation Jesus Christ will return “in the clouds” in His Second Coming. He will set up and reign over a kingdom on earth for 1,000 years. There will then be a resurrection of the wicked dead from all time, and they will be lost for all eternity, thrown alive into the Lake of Fire., and we will have a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH where we will dwell in joy forever with no tears and no sorrow. To which the people respond, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus!"

“ A new heaven and a new earth?” How could that be, in view of the Christian church’s Doxology itself and Ephesians 3:21 which declare that the world is WITHOUT END.

Although the above is the most commonly accepted interpretation of Revelation and prophesy of coming events, what duty does it call forth, to "occupy"(Luke 19:13) which involves the believer in obedience to Christ’s action mandates here and now in today's world?

In WHAT scripture...?

In what scripture, New or Old, does God authorize believers to abandon their sacred duty to Stand up against the workers of iniquity (Ps 94:16); to Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free (Gal 5:1); that we walk after His commandments (II John 6); and countless other such mandates from God pertaining to the here and now, and to the preservation and perpetuation of our sacred God-given freedoms.

In fact, the Christian's leader is Jesus Christ ...

Whose very mission statement was to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8); and to set at liberty them that are oppressed (Luke 4:18. Most people simply find it, together with a multiplicity of other end-times theories, overwhelming, thus their frequently heard expressions, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus”, “no more delay”. Devoid of leadership, many of the confused, de-energized, unfocused, squabbling, neutralized Christians (the “church”) have been relegated to the bleachers as pacifists and observers of events and taken out of the fight for America. After all, they're told, "We're IN this world, not OF it. Anyway, "mixing church and state could prove to be politically incorrect.

The Premillennial Pretribulation View, etc.

Whereas the prevalent view is known in "apologetics" theology as the Premillennial Pretribulational View, there is another similar view known as Premillennial Posttribulational in which the Rapture and the Second Coming occur simultaneously following the 7 year tribulation on earth (nobody escapes the anguish of the tribulation). Bear in mind that this theological in-fighting and energy-dissipating trades off, more accurately, "sacrifices" priceless time which should be devoted to obeying God's action mandates in all earthly matters.

Rapture history

Beginning in the year 44 AD, continuing through 3:28 AM London time on September 14, 2047 there will have been 220 predictions setting the date for the rapture. Many factions of "believers" have gone to the mountains to be raptured out of this world, only to be disappointed.

Revelation 16:13-14, 16 speaks of Armageddon (the location of the last great war), but scholars do not yet know exactly where the valley of Megiddo (Armageddon) is, in which the last world war will be fought.

To further complicate matters, a major faction of Bible scholars and researchers known as Preterists have recently gained the endorsements of some of the world’s most noted theologians. Preterists claim that Christ already returned in 70 AD, that the predictions for His return were for the generation of that time (Mat 10:23), not for 2,000 years in the future.

IN CONCLUSION: The prophesy experts have contradicted each other vehemently over the years and have written countless books expounding their theories. They have beaten on each other so ferociously that even a book was written about them titled “Prophecy Inn The Ring”. The cover shows a pair of boxing gloves. The resulting uncertainty about the future is the question of whether, in the name of Christ, America’s Christians (excepting a “remnant”), by defecting from the battle, have surrendered their children (their sacred trust) to the wiles and horrors of the devil.

Defection – Satan’s Master Coup

Nowhere in the Old and New Testaments are Christians authorized to abandon or compromise their vigilance in the relentless struggles against tyranny...against the evil ones who have drenched, and continue to drench, the world in misery. Bible describes them: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes (Rom. 3:15-18).

They are the reality of today's world, and Christians, being the only force which can stand off and defeat the forces of iniquity, have no authorization from God to quit the battle or slacken their vigilance toward victory as did America's Founding Fathers.

On the contrary, the Bible is packed with mandates to the faithful, direct from God, to stand and fight IN THIS WORLD, using the helmet of salvation and the Sword of the spirit, which is the word of God (Eph. 6:17), and the vast resources He has given us. [See essay #4 for another priceless priceless quote, in the context of a story, from Dr. R.C. Sproul, which states:

"Other religions may choose a radical denial of this world, seeking asylum in a supratemporal sphere of mystical otherworldliness; but Christianity enjoys no such luxurious option. Attempts by Christians, past or present, to quit this world in ascetic retreat betray a tacit denial of the most elemental principles of the Christian view of creation and redemption."

Satan, the author of confusion and death, must be ecstatic with the escapist, crippling abandonment mentality of vast numbers of today's Christians and the clergy.

Despite the warnings over decades from a handful of clergymen and leaders who clearly saw what was happening to America and became "watchmen on the wall" (Ezekiel 33:3) sounding the trumpet of alarm, the people aka the "church" have allowed themselves to be stripped of vigilance. direction, and definition of their purpose and mission in life in the service of Christ.

Primed for the kill?

America's leaderless Christians have allowed the eternal vigilance and action mandates for involvement by their Creator to be watered down, eroded and compromised. Are they now primed for the kill by their ruthless, bloodthirsty God and Christ-hating enemies?

What if they do not escape via the rapture? What have they given to their children and loved ones?

Whom do the rapture-focused clergy serve?

John W. Chalfant
johnc@greatness.com
www.greatness.com

Note: The opinions herein are those of the author. The reader's views, either pro or con, are welcome.

Most of the quotes were taken from the books Abandonment Theology and America - A Call To Greatness

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REVELATION, CONFUSION AND NEUTRALIZING CHRISTIANS

2009-08-27T07:50:00.005-05:00

Part 2 of 4 essays

If I were going to destroy (bring down) America:

(1) I would not attempt it by way of a sudden military strike. Rather, I would erode the moral and legal foundations: If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Ps 11:3). I would outlaw prayer and Bible reading in the public schools in order to deprive future generations of an awareness of their sacred heritage and commensurate duties in this fallen world. I would gag the clergy and threaten them and their churches with government sanctions based on 501(c) 3 tax status, and “hate crimes” such as preaching the biblical view of the abomination of homosexuality. I would remove every recognition of God from the federal buildings and from our coinage. I would belittle and mock the Founding Fathers and cast them as “opportunists”. Note: much of the above has already been accomplished or is in progress.

Military vulnerability

(2) I would slowly disarm America’s vital missile defenses and essential state-of-the-art counter-strike weapons systems, as President Obama has pledged to do (see my 6/7/09 blog essay: “Is Obama Crippling U.S. Military Defense?”).

(3) Simultaneously, I would take the militancy out of the church, replacing it with “tolerance” and passive “love”; focus on every conceivable social activity; invert the meaning of the centerpiece of Christian commitment and action, “love”, reducing it to mean gushy sentimentalism, not Christ’s battle cry: This is love, that we walk after His commandments (2 John6). To“walk” is a full action mandate. I would change the thrust of the church’s teachings to “victorious personal living”, and end-times rapture-based prophesy.

Classic Sproul

The famous theologian/professor Dr. R. C. Sproul summarized America’s deteriorating condition today:

“Wearing a benign mask, the secularist loudly proclaims his commitment to religious tolerance on behalf of those weak-minded souls who still cannot bear to face a hostile, or worse, an indifferent universe, without the narcotic effect of ecclesiastical opium. The church is safe from vicious persecution at the hands of the secularist, as educated people have finished with stake-burning circuses and torture racks. No martyr’s blood is shed in the secularist West – so long as the church knows her place and remains quietly at peace on her modern reservation. Let the babes pray and sing and read their Bibles, continuing steadfast in their intellectual retardation; the church’s extinction will come not by sword or pillory, but with the quiet death of irrelevance. It will pass away with a whimper not a bang. But let the church step off the reservation, let her penetrate once more the culture of the day, and the Janus face of secularism will change from benign smile to savage snarl.”

Extracting the teeth

(4) Next, as part of my plan to destroy America, following the erosion of her foundations and the extraction of the teeth of militancy from her churches and her men, and substituting passive "love" and "tolerance" to blur definition of our mortal enemies, I would capitalize on the loss of orientation and purpose of America's Christians by focusing on the Book of Revelation, and on the “end times” and “last days” by introducing all manner of confusing interpretations about the future and when Christ will return (Second Coming) to defeat the anti-Christ on our behalf.

(5) I would emphasize the doctrine of “free” salvation, that is, of salvation without responsibility and the duty to obey Christ’s mandates, thus making such obedience an option, not an evidence of salvation. I would stress that nothing is expected or required of a “born-again” Christian because all that is necessary for him to have a place in paradise, is his proclamation of faith. (Salvation without the fruit of works focuses on one’s self, not on service to Christ.)

Grace vs (?) works

Many are deceived into thinking that inasmuch as salvation is by grace, not by works, works are not important to Christ. The fact is that “works” (the real power factor from the newly indwelling Holy Spirit) are the irresistible manifestation and outflowing evidence of one’s salvation, Spiritual transformation, and empowerment by the Holy Spirit. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?(James 2:20). Outflowing works, inspired and directed by the indwelling Holy Spirit, are the power factor which gives the born-again Christian his spiritual vision, discernment, and fearless determination to triumph over Satan in his innumerable manifestations. No – simply “saying” you accept Christ as Lord and Savior does not give you a highway and bus to heaven. God will not be mocked. Conversely, Satan is no match for a truly born-again transformed (energized) Christian.

Peace?

(6) I would next introduce a factor of utter confusion, though the most commonly accepted interpretation regarding Revelation, the “rapture” of the church, which is to be followed by the invasion of Israel from the north by Gog and Magog, thereafter by 7 years of great “tribulation” on the earth, which will begin with a man of peace signing a peace treaty with Israel that allows them to rebuild their temple.

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Next blog post (#3) will concern the prophesied return of Christ "in the clouds", His 1,000-years reign and the establishment of a "new heaven and new earth", in contrast to the Christian Doxology and to Ephesians 3:21 which declare that the "world is without end"; and how those beliefs relate to the confusion and neutralizing of America's Christians at an hour when the maximum of clear vision and duty (obedience to Christ) is required of them.

John W. Chalfant
www.greatness.com
johnc@greatness.com

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IF I WERE THE ENEMY OF AMERICA'S SACRED FREEDOMS

2009-08-25T20:48:00.010-05:00

The following series of 4 posts comprise a story of how a deadly, paralyzing, anti-Christian cancer has been gradually injected into a Christian-founded nation long known as the light and hope of the world ... an oasis of life in a sea of godlessness, suffering, and death - a beacon of freedom once invincible to tyranny.

For decades, the cancer has eaten away at America’s heart, rendering her Christians confused and increasingly impotent in the face of ruthless evil which has one objective – her destruction..

From confrontation to surrender

The cancer has caused untold millions of church-going Christians to shift their focus away from subduing the wiles of the devil in THIS world, as Christ commands them to do with unrelenting vigilance, that is, to Occupy till I come (Luke 19:13); to concentration on an escape into paradise by means of the much-debated “rapture” which will signal the onset of the prophesied “tribulation”, “Armageddon”, Second Coming of Christ, His 1,000-year reign, followed by the “judgment” and eternal paradise with the Lord in a “New Heaven” and “New Earth”.

The one thing Christians have that is absolutely incontrovertibly unchangeably true and certain is their duty to live and be triumphant in THIS world prior to the rapture. Heaven and earth will pass away…but…his truth [laws] endureth to all generations (Mat. 24:36 & Psalm 100:5); to obey the action mandates of Christ, and in return to reap the Lord’s blessings for themselves and posterity, trusting that Christ will return when He is ready, NOT when our Bible scholars determine that He will: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only (Mat. 24:36).

All tyrants recognize that America’s strength, power and resolve have historically been rooted in her churches, that is, as French historian Alexis deTocqueville expressed it: “Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.”

Christianity brought to man an action-packed Christ-serving militancy of conviction which permeated every dimension of personal and national life in the spiritual, ideological and political realms, all exhaustively detailed in the Bible and cast within the framework of individual citizen responsibility.

The ultimate authority on government and freedom

In fact, the Fathers contended that inasmuch as Christ was (is) the Author of liberty, there was no more exhaustive book about politics, government and freedom than the Holy Bible. Thus they prayerfully drew upon it’s precepts in writing the Declaration of Independence (a declaration of man’s God-given right to be free), and the U.S. Constitution (the laws to establish our checks and balances Republic necessary to secure the divine rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as set forth in the Declaration.

What we have

When God, the Author of Liberty, governs in every citizen’s life, and His governing manifests itself as an awareness of duty, responsibility and the highest level of moral integrity, the citizens will be happy, free and their nation militarily prepared and invincible. Invincible, because Christianity recognizes and deals with the “fallen nature of man” and his propensity to enslave his fellow man, and that The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). In fact, that is why our Republic was grounded upon a system of checks and balances (Isaiah 33:22) and upon the “pillars of freedom” a/k/a The Ten Commandments.

If I were going to destroy America

Part 2 will concern the use of prophesy and speculated end-times time tables to strip the power from America's Christians and render them passive, surrendered spectators in the bleachers instead of warriors on the temporal battlefronts of "this world" where Christ commands them to be.

As you will see in my three upcoming blog posts, were I an enemy of America I would use last-days end-times, rapture at any-moment, prophesy to render Christians incapable of defining and identifying their earthly enemies; and to decimate their normal fighting spirit and will to win. At the same time I would create a longing among them for a painless escape through the rapture, from their duties to Christ in this life on this planet. I would promote (market) this "abandonment" theology in the name of Christ.

Note: At no time did God the Father or Jesus Christ Himself anywhere in the Old or New Testaments advocate or suggest that less than maximum effort and commitment by believers could be justified under any pretense, certainly not speculation on the future.

John W. Chalfant
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johnc@greatness.com

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"THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU CHRISTIANS TO GET UP OFF YOUR KNEES..."

2009-08-12T15:19:00.011-05:00

By the zenith of the 1980 Reagan/Carter election run, President Jimmie Carter, under absurd policies such as "detente" and "peaceful coexistence" had drastically crippled America’s strategic military defenses. At the same time the Soviet Union had focused every effort on development of a first strike nuclear attack to be delivered by intercontinental bombers, land-based ICBMs, and submarine-launched missiles. Few American citizens had any concept of the weakening thread by which their freedoms hung. Even Henry Kissinger spoke publically of the gravity of the crisis.

General George J. Keegan

General George J. Keegan, a committed Christian, decorated combat soldier, head of U.S. Air Force Intelligence, fully understood the imminent threat we faced and took early retirement in order to be free to alarm the American people. He tirelessly delivered speeches and radio broadcasts, and spoke out with an unprecedented passion. I was with General Keegan when on a Sunday morning he addressed a national television audience from the podium of one of the largest churches in America, Coral Ridge Presbyterian PCA, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Dr. D. James Kennedy yielded a full half hour to him.

Imperative for Christian Action

General Keegan delivered his thundering oration to a jam-packed sanctuary, detailing the critical military peril to which Jimmie Carter had brought us. He stressed the imperative for Christian action at the voting booth. I shall never forget General Keegan’s final words as he leaned over the podium and swept his finger across the stunned, tension-filled audience:

“The time has come for you Christians to get up off your knees, NOT to stop praying, but to obey Jesus Christ and get out onto the battlefront as you are commanded to do!”

That telecast was replayed countless times throughout America, and the sound track was distributed on cassette tape into every state and into over 100 countries.

Victorious President Reagan's immediate emergency action

As you know, the victory went to President Reagan who, understanding the gravity of the military crisis, immediately ordered drastic maximum-effort stopgap defensive measures which I will not enumerate here, except to pose a teaser question: If a vital element in a Soviet first strike strategy was to destroy our intercontinental bombers on the ground, what if there were no bombers on the ground? Thank you President Reagan! The USSR leaders were so stunned that they were caught off guard. Soon came President Reagan’s checkmate known as SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), that is, space-based weapons for defense designed to attack and destroy a Soviet nuclear first strike in flight.

General Keegan’s words, which bear repeating, still ring in my head: “The time has come for you Christians to get up off your knees, NOT to stop praying, but to obey Jesus Christ and get out onto the battlefront and do what Christ commanded you to do!”

One man

Consider the impact this one man had on the destiny of our country - of our God-given freedoms. Morning, noon and night he delivered hundreds of speeches.

What happened to General Keegan? He died…like many of our country’s founding fathers, long before his time, from absolute burnout and exhaustion.

Upcoming blogs

My upcoming blog essays will focus on why and how millions of well-meaning Christians are today on their knees praying for God's intervention, instead of prayerfully being on their feet exerting their maximum effort to save their loved ones and our country.

They are on their knees and not on their feet mainly because of confusion about the timetable for the "rapture", the "tribulation", the return of Christ; confusion over the theology of pre-millennialism, a-millennialism, and post-millennialism; Preterism (which contends that Christ already returned in 70 AD, and many other last-days, end-times theories.

Thus far there have been over 200 speculated dates regarding the day and even the hour for Christ's return. The paralysis of action resulting from such confusion has been and is like a deadly cancer to our freedoms. As you will see in my upcoming blog posts, it constitutes lame, gradual surrender of our God-given freedoms, in the name of Christ.

My essays will constitute a series which will leave no doubt that America was born in the pulpits and will perish there unless the deadly neutralizing paralysis induced by the abandonment (of duty) clergy can be overcome.

John W. Chalfant
www.greatness.com
johnc@greatness.com

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A TIME FOR LOVE; A TIME FOR WAR?

2009-08-07T17:39:00.003-05:00

There is a frequently-heard expression: "Sure, our country is collapsing because of its abandonment of God. He is in control and America is coming under His judgment. I'm not going to engage in the struggles that deter the rate of collapse, and thus the return of Christ."

Auto-justified abandonment of duty

That topic, auto-justification for one's neutrality and paralysis of action in the holocaust to the Christian faith and to our Christian-based American Constitutional Republic, when the most is demanded of Christians by our Creator. It is an infectious cancer which is an affront to God, a slap in His face. It denies the "seasons" which he spelled out in the Bible, and the duties in every season which he commands of men and women of faith. Those duties are detailed over and again throughout the Old and New Testaments.

A time of war?

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal;... A time to weap, and a time to laugh;... A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace..... (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8).

This theme will be expounded in my upcoming continuation of my last blog essay which was titled "Prophesy And End-Times Christian Paralysis".

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PROPHESY AND END-TIMES CHRISTIAN PARALYSIS

2009-08-05T16:58:00.009-05:00

If you knew for certain that Christ would return tomorrow, what would He have you do today? What does the Bible really mandate to be a true Christian's duty in these supposed "last days"?

Countless Christians who should be in the vanguard of America’s front-line Christian forces, and engaged in the great political struggles of our times (as mandated in Romans 13 and throughout the scriptures) are neutralized and paralyzed under the abandonment leadership of their rapture-focused, last days, end-times, politically correct clergy.

Authorized by whom?

How do “believers” justify their escape into neutrality at such an hour as now, from their clear Christ-mandated duties to Occupy till I come; to Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free; to Stand up against the workers of iniquity; to be Salt and Light? Is blind trust; such abdication of duty to be a force against the workers of iniquity at this pivotal hour in the struggles for our God-given freedoms, authorized by Christ? Are these “Christians” and their clergy simply using Christ to justify “hear no evil, see no evil” abandonment of Him, when in fact He requires the maximum of courage and resolve?

COMING SOON: answers to the above, and more focused issues of today. Also, a candid look at Christian prophesy: the “last days”, the “end times”, the rapture”, the “tribulation”, the Second coming of Christ. In that light, American Christian duty TODAY.

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WORLD PEACE - MARX SAYS; OBAMA DOES?

2009-07-29T21:04:00.021-05:00

The long-perpetuated travesty and blatant farce of going to war under the banner of anticipated World Peace is a deadly denial of fallen human nature.

Phony "peace" - another deadly round

In the name and dream of "peace", "peace in our time", "trust our enemies" (who are up to their elbows in the blood of their own countrymen), "Give him a chance in spite of his record", and other baseless, nonsensical cliches, the citizens of civilized nations have time and again refused to recognize the signs of their times and that they must defend themselves against predictable attacks of sworn enemies.

Calling a spade a spade - Peace Through Strength

President Ronald Reagan recognized the reality of evil, and called the USSR "The Evil Empire". He coined the phrase "Trust, but verify", and he saved America from a nuclear first strike from Russia by engaging in a crash rearming of the military defenses President Jimmie Carter had perilously disarmed. President Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative, which adopted a biblically sound policy of Peace Through Strength.

Peace through weakness?

In defiance of his sworn constitutional obligation to place the security of America first and foremost among his duties as President, Mr. Obama, who many claim is a hard-core Marxist, has sworn publically to "...cut $1.5 billion investments in our missile defense systems (essential to America's survival in this nuclear/biological age). It appears that he and his democrat administration have opted for a policy of peace through weakness, not peace through strength, and thus they are by intent telegraphing to the sworn enemies of America, our lack of resolve, even of recognition of the forces in conflict, and of our will-to-win. When a nation such as Iran threatens to annihilate America as soon as it has the nuclear warheads to do so, our response has been to offer to negotiate and to show our good will by militarily disarming our strategic defenses. Marx must be rejoicing!

Obama - Who benefits?

We as American citizens must ask the core question in all of Obama's policy decisions, "WHO BENEFITS?" For example, who benefits by his wrecking, simultaneously, the American capitalist economy, and our strategic military defenses? Perhaps a quote from Karl Marx will help: when asked his intentions, Marx responded: "My objective in life is to dethrone God and destroy Capitalism."

President Obama et al have based their peace-through-weakness policies on the assumption of the gullible, mushy love-based, neutralized, hope-based Christian outlook toward world and national events.

America's defiant clergy

This outlook, thanks to the clergy, is in defiance of the biblical mandates that true believers Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free (Gal. 5:1); ...stand up against the workers of iniquity (Ps 94:16); Occupy till I come (Luke 19:13), and hundreds of similar consistent mandates from Genesis through Revelation.

Sudden clenched-fist strike

The bottom-line reality today is that there are numerous nations of the world which qualify as mortal enemies of America and are awaiting their chance to attack. Dimitri Manuilski laid it out at the Lenin School of political warfare:

"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. ...To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist."

The way back

In conclusion, America was born in the pulpits, and there is where she will perish unless by some miracle her clergy get back to the business of leading their people in obedience to the crystal clear mandates of God, which must be obeyed in exchange for our freedoms.

The history of the world, especially over the past century, is a history of a gigantic slaughter bench upon which hundreds of millions of men, women and children have perished. Now, those who would enslave or destroy us today have come perilously close to being able to repeat those atrocities.

Encouraging the strike

They are being encouraged to attempt such a victory in the face of a weak, confused, impotent American/Christian citizenry, and a new President who thinks he can negotiate peace with those who define peace as total victory over us, with no conflict remaining because all opposition has been liquidated.

The alternative

Jesus Christ is the Author of America's liberty. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (II Cor 3:17). He is our Spiritual leader who must be obeyed if we are to remain free.

Christ the warrior

His own mission statement makes His intention clear: The Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil (John 1:3:8)...[who] as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:... (IPet.5:8).

Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes (Rom: 3:15-18).

America's clergy are not leading their "flocks" in the ways of righteousness. Now, as in pre-Nazi Germany the clergy risk incurring government charges of political incorrectness if they step off their reservations and, like the founding clergy, lead their people in the Word of God as it addresses all great personal and governmental issues. Note: The Bible is the most exhaustive, comprehensive action Book ever written on politics.

The clergy's easy, deadly way

It's much easier and non-controversial for the clergy to take the ostensibly God-honoring position that "God is in charge of everything. Don't worry, all you have to do to have a highway to heaven is be a 'believer'. " Throughout the Old and New Testaments God makes it clear that one's true faith is evidenced by the outflowing of his "works", and that faith without works is dead, standing alone.

Christians of America, led by their clergy, are the only hope that we have for passing to our children the blessings of liberty, and not the inferno of more death camps as per Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and many others.

Consequences of passive love and tolerance

Passive tolerance toward evil in the name of "love", "achieving a better understanding", "compassion" is nothing more than lazy, willful, defiant abandonment of the sacred mandates of Christ Himself. The Scriptures make clear the consequences of such abandonment. There can be no substitute for standing fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and standing up against the workers of iniquity - both impossible for a citizenry who cannot, thanks to their clergy, even define our mortal enemies.

COMING - AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DUTY IN OUR CRISIS HOUR

* The above are the views of the writer, John W. Chalfant. If you the reader have differing opinions, they are welcome. Please submit them.

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THE ULTIMATE HOAX: THE WAR TO END ALL WARS

2009-07-25T19:20:00.008-05:00

NEXT BLOG ESSAY: What happened to the WWI clergy, that they bought into the government propaganda justifying "a war to end all wars"?

On the surface, the premise is absurd. Was "world peace" really the most effective ideal that could have been used to inspire the English, Americans, French, and allied nations to send millions of their youth to their battlefield maimings and deaths?

To be continued in a few days.

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IS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION OUTDATED?

2009-07-23T15:37:00.006-05:00

This follows our last blog essay U.S. CONSTITUTION: WHO LOVES IT? WHO HATES IT?

Perpetually alive

We concluded that our Constitution was founded in the sacred laws of the Old and New Testaments; that it was authored by Bible-believing men of God as the legal expression of the Declaration of Independence, which exalts individual freedom as an endowment from our Creator. Accordingly, the Constitution is a living instrument of civil government reflecting the unchanging, eternal, absolute nature of the"Author of liberty", Jesus Christ, Himself. Christ, the Son of God, is also known in the Bible as the "Truth." (John 14:6). Truth never changes. It is absolute and eternal.

Q: Does the Word, the Truth, the U.S. Constitution" become outdated? Heaven and earth shall pass away... but his truth endureth to all generations (Mat. 24:35; Ps 100:5).

War to the death

Our last essay focused on the war to the death between the two principle factions: those who believe that freedom comes from obedience to it's Author Christ as reflected through the U.S. Constitution (God's law); and those who believe in government under the supremacy and rule of man based on an imagined fundamental "goodness" of man.

The rule of man through monarchies, oligarchies and dictatorships founded upon atheistic Marxism, Nazism, and countless ruthless freedom-extinguishing tyrannies, has dominated our earth for thousands of years, during which unbridled man demonstrated his fallen nature and irresistible compulsion to enslave his fellow man.

Man's law, described

The Bible describes rule by man's law: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. (Rom: 3:15-18).

Jefferson - "Chains of the Constitution"

Thus the history of the world under the rule of man's law is the history of a gigantic enslaving slaughter bench which has drenched the earth in the blood of countless millions of victims.
The secular humanist dog-eat-dog evolutionist must, as Thomas Jefferson declared, be "bound down by the chains of the Constitution" [with its system of checks and balances - Executive, Legislative, Judicial], that is, bound down from his natural tendency to enslave his fellow man.

Founder William Penn

As founder William Penn summarized it: "Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants"; that is, government under the rule of God vs government under the rule of man.

U.S. Constitution outdated?

IS the U.S. Constitution outdated? Inasmuch as it is founded upon the Bible, that is, upon the laws of liberty authored by Christ Himself, and his truth endureth to all generations, the Constitution is as fresh and applicable today as when it was authored by its Christian founders.
To become outdated is an impossibility!

The U.S. Constitution is the only counter-force which can withstand the relentless death-centered assaults of its (our) Marxist, humanist, atheist foe - fallen man.

The only 21st century path to freedom

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)

NOTE: Regarding mixing the Bible ("religion") and politics: The fact is: the Bible ranks as the most comprehensive Book ever written about politics. The two are inseparable.

INVITATION: The above commentary constitutes the views of the author. If the reader's views differ, they are welcome.

Most of my quotes were taken from two books, ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY, and, AMERICA - A CALL TO GREATNESS.

For other related essays, see the sidebar listing "recent posts".

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U.S. CONSTITUTION: WHO LOVES IT? WHO HATES IT?

2009-07-15T21:30:00.008-05:00

Our country has long been referred to as "America - an oasis of light and life in a world of darkness and death."

That is not a static condition. In fact, considering the rate at which our freedoms are being extinguished, the above statement may become: "America - once an oasis of light and liberty, now part of a world of darkness and death."

In over 30 prior blog essays I have written about the forces in conflict; which of them have long been attacking America's God-given freedoms; and who, beginning with the clergy, have abandoned their duty to be watchmen on the wall and sound the alarm (Ezekiel 33:6) to their millions of followers and church members.

The purpose of this blog essay is to offer a simple, basic summary statement defining the nature and objectives of the forces long in conflict.

The forces of darkness, evil, tyranny and death are founded upon atheism, secular humanism, evolutionism and Marxism. Their objective was summed up by Karl Marx:

"My objective in life is to dethrone god, and destroy capitalism."

That is to say, to them MAN is GOD, and in government Man, not God, must be supreme.

In the early 1920s Columbia University professor Dr. John Dewey, Father of "Progressive Education" summarized: "There is no god and there is no soul, hence there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes."

Those are the people who hate the U.S. Constitition - because it subordinates the rule of man to the rule of God. They believe in the supremacy of man. Thus their record of governing is drenched in centuries of blood, agony, slavery, and death under cruel dictatorships such as Nazism (Hitler) and communism (Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, Pol Pot), which murdered more of their own citizens - hundreds of millions - than military deaths in all of their wars combined.

Those who love the Constitution
Man under God

"Our Constitution is a government of laws, not of men". Whose laws? A: God's laws; NOT man's laws.

America was founded on the Old and New Testaments; on the Ten Commandments (a/k/a the "pillars- the laws of liberty") and on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Two sections of Christ's mission statement statement are"

[He] hath annointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; ...to preach deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are oppressed (Luke 4:18);

The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

Christians the world-over recognize Christ as the Author of liberty. In fact, that very term has long been at the heart of America's sacred hymns such as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee...Sweet land of liberty...Our fathers' God, to Thee [Christ], Author of liberty... .

The New Testament sums it up: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (II Cor. 3:17).

The Founding Fathers

America's Founding Fathers, beginning with the Declaration of Independence, were overwhelmingly devout Christians, scholars of the Bible, historians, and in general learned intellectuals including doctors, lawyers, and businessmen.

Samuel Adams, known as the Father of the American Revolution, declared, as the Declaration of Independence was being signed: "We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, declared on July 4th, 1821: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution fit hand-in-glove together. In a word, the Declaration established the divine purpose for government in which individual citizen's personal freedoms were considered sacred; the Constitution established the legal framework to achieve that end.

Man's fallen nature

The Constitution is unique and without precedence in the history of governments in that whereas personal freedom is its centerpiece, the founders and signers recognized, as Christians, the fallen nature of man and his propensity to enslave his fellow man if given power ("power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely").

Our Constitution - protecting man from himself

Thus a system of checks and balances was adopted a/k/a Legislative, Executive, Judicial (Isaiah 33:22) which would make degeneration into tyranny impossible. That is, unless the voting public (by concept the REAL government, the political government being their servant) did itself degenerate, and fall away from awareness of, and obedience to, the duties and responsibilities mandated of them by the Author of Liberty Himself, Jesus Christ. This eternal vigilance begins at the door step of the clergy. Thus the expression, "As goes the church, so goes the nation."

Freedom is anchored in obedience to Christ

There's no getting around it: the life and death struggles today - the conflicts between freedom and tyranny, essentially boil down to the concepts of man-over-man vs the God of the Bible over man.

The Constitution is not a secular instrument.

All of its Articles and its Bill of Rights were subject to the biblical test before they were considered for incorporation in the Constitution.

In fact, the Constitution concludes with the phrase "the year of our Lord":

Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven."

NOTE: The above constitute the views of the author, John W. Chalfant. If the reader's views differ, please submit them.

Most of the quotes have been taken from the author's two books: Abandonment Theology, and, America - A Call To Greatness.

John W. Chalfant
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HITLER, OBAMA and ROMANS 13: 1-4

2009-07-09T11:24:00.062-05:00

Is Romans 13:1-4 "religion", or hard core politics about freedom and government tyranny?

Hitler and his German collaborating pre-Nazi clergy used their perversion of Romans 13 to justify Christian non involvement in government and their non-resisting subordination to tyranny...in the name of God.

Obama is attempting through the misnamed Fairness Doctrine and hate crimes to extinguish or outlaw Christians who contend that involvement in government is their incontestable sacred duty.

The Dedicated Minority

Obama knows well that it is the dedicated minority which determines the rise of nations to freedom, or their descent into slavery. He knows that in America, just in pre-Nazi Germany, the Christian clergy can be used to confuse, neutralize and paralyze Christians whose Romans 13 mandates from Christ Himself demand their involvement in government freedom affairs. These are Christians who understand that the so-called "separation of church and state" is a farse fabricated to preempt Christian duty to our government and to resist those who would confront forces destructive to it.

A Remnant

Today there is a remnant of such Christians in America who feel the noose of tyranny tightening, and they foresee the dire consequences to their children and loved ones that will crush their liberties, just as happened in Hitler's Germany. America's clergy, excepting a remnant, are aiding Obama by default by their parroting the "separation of church and state" myth, and the freedom-killing misinterpretation of Romans 13.

Romans 13: Curse or Blessing?

So, what IS Romans:13 which opened the Hitler's door to genocide of millions of both Jews and Christians, and paved the way for absolute evil to subjugate an entire nation of men, women and children?

Romans 13:1

Romans 13:1 reads: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God.

The pre-Nazi clergy and Hitler contended that Romans 13:1 meant that government affairs are in the hands of God, and that while it was a Christian's duty to live a Godly personal life, but it was sin against God's will for Christians to be involved in political affairs of government. Christians who believed God mandated their total involvement in government soon found themselves and their families suffering horrible consequences or even transported to Hitler's death camps.

Romans 13:2

Further justification by Hitler and his clergy was based upon Romans 13:2, which reads: Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

The literal out-of-context interpretation of 13:2 would seem to justify horrible repressive measures against any remnant of freedom-based resistance which resisted the Nazi government's imposition of tyranny upon the citizens.

Where Hitler's clergy right? Are America's clergy today, right in their out-of-context interpretation of Romans 13:1,2?

Romans 13:3

PLEASE NOTE that IN context Romans 13:3 defines God's purpose for government:
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

Romans 13:4

Christ further defines the role of government as the defender of freedom (not its suppressor):
For he [government-ed] is the minister of God to thee for good [righteousness - ed]. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God , a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil ( Rom. 13:4).

Author of Liberty

God is the author of freedom. He is the arch foe of tyranny and slavery. In Romans 13:3 and 4 He specifies that the purpose of government is to promote and defend liberty. That is, government must be founded and structured upon His laws and ordinances of righteousness and freedom. Those who would attempt to extinguish those blessings will be subject to His wrath.
Recall the rubble to which Germany was reduced in a matter of a few years.

Our Christian Republic

America's Bible-based Constitutional Republic recognizes the sinful fallen nature of man as set forth in the Bible, and thus was established upon a system of checks and balances known as Legislative, Judicial and Executive. The citizen's rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights.

Obama's greatest threat to America

America's government perpetuates the righteousness of God through its biblical essence: "of the people, by the people, for the people". That is, our government is structured to be the servant of her citizens. It is the sacred duty of her citizens under Romans 13:3,4 to be totally involved in all matters of freedom, both personal and national. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3) That is Obama's greatest threat to America.

Survival - and America's complicit, defiant clergy

America is engaged in a war for her survival as a free nation. Her Christian clergy who stand neutral and intimidated on the great issues of our times such as homosexuality, right-to-life, the national economy, Christian education, or disarming our missile defenses, are on a parallel track with the capitulating clergy of Nazi Germany. They are in blatant defiance of the ordinances of God and paradoxically they justify their silence on the fabricated myth of separation of church and state, and Romans 13:1,2. By default, they are leading our nation to its probable destruction.

Only one way

God has made clear the consequences to America of these abandonment clergy:

All nations that forget God shall be turned into hell (Psalm 9:17).

In Reflection

Is Romans 13 theology, or politics?

To readers who think the above has been simply a discourse in theology: may I remind you that life itself is a continual struggle between the spiritual, ideological, and political realms. They are all inseparably interrelated.

America's political freedom, for example, is a spiritual concept unknown throughout man's bloody history. Ideology also has its roots in theology. Materialism/secular humanism such as Marxism, is at war with Christianity, thus the essence of today's battles is spiritual.

Romans 13, above, is a dissertation about hard core politics. The stakes of the war, if the victor be Marxism - are death, destruction, misery, enslavement for Americans.

If the victor be Christianity, the outflowing will be personal freedom, subordination of government to again become the servant of America's citizens as ordained by God, not their master; and blessings beyond measure from the Author of liberty, Jesus Christ.

The signs of our times: the imperative for Christian action

So successful has been America's Romans 13/anti "church & state" abandonment clergy, who have abdicated God's mandate to be "watchmen on the wall" (Ezekiel 33:6), that the Obama democrat administration has dazzled millions of Christians with the obvious tyrannical suppression of their God-given freedoms.

Rather than taking biblical corrective action, these would-be remnant Christians are retreating into "end-times, last-days" interpretations of "prophesy" according to Revelation. Many, being leaderless from their clergy, not knowing what to do, devote their time to praying for the "rapture", that they may participate in the great escape before they have to suffer the "tribulation".

America's call to action

America's call to action is obvious. Our prayers must become for Christ to forgive us; for Him to reveal His will to us and empower us with His Holy Spirit to become obedient to His will; and to carry out our Christian duty to our full measure, while still we have the freedom to do so, in His name.

John W. Chalfant
www.greatness.com
johnc@greatness.com

Note: The above discourse represents the opinions of the author, John W. Chalfant. If your views are different they are welcome.

Many quotes were taken from Chalfant's two books, Abandonment Theology; and, America - A Call To Greatness.

SUGGESTED READING OF PREVIOUS BLOG ESSAYS:

Will "Gimmie Prayers" Save Our Nation? (just published)

Obama and Hitler: Parallel Tracks

Abandonment Theology - What Is It?

The Neutralized "Irrelevant" Church

** AMERICA - Our Sacred Trust This is a classic. (Type that into the Google Search box)

WILL "GIMMIE" PRAYERS SAVE OUR NATION?

2009-07-05T06:36:00.018-05:00

re "gimmie prayers" actually a deceptive, disarming Satan-serving affliction to America's freedoms?

Our God-given nation teeters on the brink of oblivion and a new dark age brought on by moral collapse and possible attack by ICBMs armed with nuclear, chemical, biological or EMP warheads. I witness American Christians, Bible in hand, unconcerned, declaring that prophesy is simply being fulfilled as set forth in the book of Revelation. They reason that "God is in control". Under the leadership of their abandoning clergy they stand idle and impotent as the tidal wave of evil crashes down upon them and their children. Not to worry, though. We "believers" will be raptured out (the great escape) to meet the Lord.

Is There a Limit To Praise, Praise - ONLY?

I hear clergymen on TV and on the radio and in church endlessly praising God for Who He is, for His sovereignty and might. They praise His ability to intercede and save our country and freedoms from their plunge into darkness, tyranny and oblivion - as if Christians are meant to be impotent observers. So stripped of vigilance and militancy has our faith become under the batons of America's abandonment clergy!

More Blessings, Please

Typically, the clergy ask God to forgive our sins and transgressions, thank Him for sending His Son to die on the cross that we "believers" might be saved, and ask Him to continue His blessings upon America..."to save us from ourselves". In short, "thanks for the blessings. Gimmie some more."

There's More?

Is that all God requires of us? For the clergy to honestly preach the reality of our (and our children's) current condition and probable future is not easy. It does not make a preacher popular. Being politically correct under federal threat of committing hate crimes by teaching the truth, becomes exceedingly intimidating and threatening to the clergy, resulting in their church treasury being severely impacted. The gospel of "peace" (when there is no peace) supplants the call to duty and action in the deadly spiritual, ideological and political wars, takes precedence. Every conceivable church social program instigated under the banner of "victorious personal living" dominates the church agenda. The preacher (shepherd) is popular, but in fact he is Pied Pipering his sheep to their destruction.

Hymns of Action

Classic call-to-duty hymns such as "Onward Christian soldiers...forward into battle"; and, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", are replaced by songs of praise, which we are commanded to sing - but not to the neglect of songs calling forth Godly vigilance.

Even more unpopular and less politically correct is the preacher who risks spelling out the specific battle directives of our Lord which are an integral part of a Christian's obedience to Him.

Mandates For The Faithful To Engage

Teaching the imperative for obedience to God's action mandates in both Testaments - that the faithful engage in the battles for freedom on every front, including government, has been mostly abdicated by the contemporary clergy who, as in pre-Nazi Germany, fall back on a convenient but deadly interpretation of Romans 13.

Only America's Christians Can Save America

Today, only America's Christians, through their obedience to Christ, can save America and her scared freedoms from the inferno into which she is plunging. For readers who think of Christ as a sweet, loving, turn-the-other-cheek Savior, bear in mind the mission statement of Christ: The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil (1 John3:8). Christians are mandated to follow their leader, Christ.

American Christian duty in our crisis world is alien to most people because their clergy have abandoned their sacred duty to teach Christ's mandates for our time.

Upcoming Blogs

Following are some of the action-mandate topics with which I will deal in upcoming blog essays; that is, crucial survival topics mostly omitted from your preacher's sermons and "gimmie" prayers:

Christ's action mandates: Stand fast in the liberty...; Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?; Occupy till I come; Call upon me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty...;

Power of one Spirit-filled Christian: One shall chase 1,000

Surrender by default

LOVE is obedience to the Commandments

Romans 13: church and state: parallels with pre-nazi Germany by which the German clergy surrendered Germany's Christians by default;

Deadly prophesy

The Rapture

A Time For Everything - for peace and for war

All nations that forget God shall be cast into hell.

Call Upon Me...

Psalm 1: Two ways - the foundational Psalm;

The book of Psalms - praise psalms

Onward Christian soldiers - classic hymn
Battle Hymn of the Republic

More battle mandates in coming blog essays.

John W. Chalfant
(407) 629-5700

Note: The above discourse is derived from the author's books ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY, and AMERICA - A CALL TO GREATNESS

The views expressed are the writer's. If the reader's views differ, you are welcome to express them. e-mail johnc@greatness.com

AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DUTY IN OUR CRISIS WORLD

2009-06-19T20:06:00.023-05:00

Is Obama positioning America for a sudden kill by the enemies of freedom?

Today, the alliance between communist and Muslim nations who declare America to be their priority enemy is no secret. In the 1930s at the Lenin School of Political Warfare, famed Soviet political strategist Dimitri Manuilsky delivered the strategic military model for decades to come. Even through contemporary times there has been no retraction of that doctrine by any communist country such as China or Russia. Manuiliski declared:

War To The Hilt...

"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism in inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come... . To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist."

Clenched Fist Kill?

Is Obama positioning America for the sudden clenched-fist kill, as he brings untold wreckage to our way of life and engages in disarmament of our missile defenses? Such policy will render America defenseless against an all-out attack by ballistic missiles carrying chemical, biological, nuclear or EMP (electromagnetic pulse) warheads.

Whose Responsibility?

If so, how is he getting away with it, inasmuch as the President must answer to the American people, 85% being professing Christians?

The Bible (the ultimate source of authority) predicts: For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them... (I Thes. 5:3).

Vast numbers of Christians are taking refuge in their clergy-induced impotence by retreating to a hoped-for "rapture" out of the coming "tribulation". That is, to an anticipated escape from their duties as Christians, in defiance of Christ's mandates to Stand up against the workers of iniquity (Ps 94:16); to Stand fast in the liberty where Christ hath made you free (Gal.5:1); to Occupy till I come (Luke 19:13). .

Is "Love" Passive?

What's worse, they commit this travesty against the mandates of our Lord in the name of "love" (often a passive, mushy term of sentimental affection). Through John, Christ defines "love": This is love, that we walk after His commandments (II John 6). "Walk" is a full action mandate - a mandate for total engagement in the struggles against evil and tyranny. [Note: Freedom is everybody's business: your business; my business; the church's business!]

To erase any doubt or confusion Christ, through John, set forth in I John 2:4, He that saith, I know[love] him and keepeth NOT his commandments, is a liar, and the truth [Christ] is not in him.

Upcoming

CONCLUSION: The above commentary is partial preparation for my upcoming blog essay AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DUTY IN OUR CRISIS WORLD, part 2. I suggest you read my last six essays, especially the ones titled:

IS OBAMA CRIPPLING U.S. MILITARY DEFENSE?;
C-CAMPS (Concentration camps) FOR POLITICALLY INCORRECT AMERICANS?;
THE NEUTRALIZED, IRRELEVANT CHURCH;
ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY - WHAT IS IT?

For those who believe that Obama and his democrat regime must be stopped, is there a way?
See my upcoming essays.

NOTE: Numerous quotes above have been taken from the book AMERICA - A CALL TO GREATNESS.

The above commentary constitutes my opinions. If yours are different, or if you have any enlightening perspectives to offer, they are welcome.

John W. Chalfant

IS OBAMA CRIPPLING U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE?

2009-06-07T13:25:00.011-05:00

Newsmax.com published today, June 7: "A new report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center reveals that the missile threat to the U.S. from potentially hostile nations is growing." Is Obama unilaterally disarming America? Who benefits by his focus on reducing America's defenses and taking a chance, when the consequences of just one enemy missile armed with chemical, biological or nuclear warheads, even an EMP (electromagnetic pulse bomb) "getting through" could be so devastating?

Included in the NASIC report:

"...since 2006, North Korea has deployed nearly 50 new missiles with a range of more than 2,000 miles. It has also tested the Taepodong-2 missile, which has a range of 3,400 miles."

The NASIC report cites Iran's April launch of a missile that "can serve as a testbed for long-range ballistic missile technologies."

"China, has 'the most active and diverse ballistic missile development program in the world,' and the number of Chinese ICBM warheads capable of threatening the U.S. is expected to grow to 'well over 100 in the next 15 years.' "

"Russia has increased its arsenal of warheads on its SS-18 ICBMs by 250 in recent years. Russia is also developing new technology "to allow Russian strategic missiles to penetrate missile defense systems," according to the NASIC report... .

"The Pentagon, meanwhile, recently announced that its next budget includes a $1.5 billion cut in missile defense funding."

Mr. Obama, in his presidential campaign, pledged "I will cut investments in our missile defense system", which was exactly opposite of what he should have pledged. But the gullible, uncomprehending, neutralized, peace-loving, spiritually blinded Christians of America bought it under Obama's banner of "change". Change? Did they ask, in what direction?

For reference to Obama's defense intentions see our blog essay of May 11, 2009 titled OBAMA AND AMERICA'S DESTINY. You can read that essay by going to GOOGLE.com and typing that title into the Google Search box. Or, look to the left of this blog essay and click the title.

NOTE: The above information is presented for your consideration. Your views may differ from ours.
Your response, pro or con, is welcome.

Your consideration of all of the America - A Call To Greatness blog essays listed in the sidebar and in the Archives is welcome.

Considerable military history leading up to the above conditions is presented in the book America - A Call To Greatness.

John W. Chalfant

C-CAMPS FOR POLITICALLY INCORRECT AMERICANS?

2009-06-05T12:15:00.016-05:00

Are there signs that Obama policies could lead to concentration camps for American patriots on American soil?

For Americans? That is an increasingly hot issue. There appears to be an abundance of supportive evidence which has found its way to the internet. If it is true, the prospect for countless Americans who are not "politically correct" is truly horrifying.

Before you the readers close your eyes and minds to the possibility of such a pending fate for American patriots and your loved ones, bear in mind the fact that there is no virtue in blind rejection.

What if the evidence you are about to read about the concentration camp perils which may be confronting us is true? Is it possible that this horror actually could happen on American soil and may currently be in formation right under our noses? The question is not whether it could per se happen. History records that the world is drenched in the blood of millions of men, women and children of different nations who refused to heed and understand the signs of their times. Could America be next?

Before you draw any conclusions:

First, resolve to research the REX84 presentation about planned and existing concentration camps on American soil, and thus satisfy yourself as to whether or not the purported evidence has merit, and whether you have a duty to act to do your part to prevent it. To read it, go to GOOGLE Search and type in REX84.

Second, prepare yourself to recognize that man in his spiritually fallen nature is still fully capable of descending to depths of inhumanity necessary to subject his fellow man to a repeat of the horrors of the history of other nations.

For a good primer to REX84, I suggest you go to GOOGLE Search and type in AMERICA - OUR SACRED TRUST, which was our blog essay of March 4/09. It opens with the statement that "The history of the world is the history of a giant slaughter bench". It then defines what is meant by "slaughter bench", and includes examples of the human carnage inflicted upon men, women and children at the hands of their own governments (exclusive of military deaths) by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others.

The central questions: (1) Could man do such things to his fellow men, is thereby answered. (2) Has man done it to his fellow men, is answered. (3) Has there been any exception throughout recorded history? Only in America! (4) Could it happen in America?

Have atrocities been limited to any race, religion, or ethnic group? No! In the 20th century alone millions of Jews and Christians perished in Hitler's death camps and from being hunted down throughout Europe by the SS; Millions of Christians were singled out and killed in China by Mao Tse Tung. Historians have speculated that Stalin took the lives of nearly 100 million of his countrymen. The horrors of his gulag concentration camps mercilessly claimed untold millions. In Poland Hitler murdered thousands of Catholic priests.

ALL of those people who perished had one thing in common: they closed their ears and eyes to the warnings from patriots . They compromised their religious convictions and refused to offer resistance to the loss of their freedoms. They refused to heed the trumpets of the watchmen on the wall (Ezek. 33:3,4), and thus they turned away when they had a chance to resist and defeat the encroaching strangling tyranny.

In America today the Christian faith has been watered down and trivialized, its central militancy abandoned, and its men so feminized that the Lord's mandates to Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free (Gal.5:1); to Occupy till I come (Luke `19:13); to Stand up against the workers of iniquity (Ps 94:16) ...have long ago fallen from favor as in pre-Nazi Germany. The result has been confusion and uncertainty, loss of discernment and inability to recognize or act against the enslavement of evil. "victorious personal living" has pushed militant eternal vigilance aside.

CONCLUSION re concentration camps in America: In view of world history, the only rational conclusion is that there is nothing new about politically incorrect people being interred in death camps. "Could it happen"? YES! It is a matter of incontestable history. Could it happen in America, as it has in many nations of the world? The answer again is YES, if fallen human nature (man's propensity to enslave his fellow man) gets its way - which can only happen if the Christian church and clergy of America continue to abandon the action mandates of God - the Author of our liberty.

The ultimate question is: is the REX84 (above) presentation true or false? That is YOUR decision to be made NOT impulsively out of disbelief and emotional rejection, but rather, after your rational consideration in light of both presentations: REX84, and AMERICA - OUR SACRED TRUST.

The above is presented for your careful thought and consideration. If and to what extent RX84 it is true is your decision.

Your views pro or con, and researched findings would be appreciated.

John W. Chalfant
johnc@greatness.com

PRAVDA RATES MARXIST OBAMA

2009-06-01T18:52:00.007-05:00

American radio commentators and politicians such as Michael Savage and Ambassador Alan Keyes have labeled Obama as a "Marxist/communist", but now Russia's PRAVDA has published a lengthy editorial recognizing what Obama has done for the Marxist cause. You can read the entire editorial yourself by clicking

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/.

This Russian editorial, titled AMERICAN CAPITALISM GONE WITH A WHIMPER, is a MUST-READ in its entirety. To give you an idea of its span of subjects, I'll quote a few sentences from several paragraphs:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed.....

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics.....

...their churches, all tens of thousands of different branches and denominations were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side....

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. If this keeps up for more than another year ...America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

DOES OBAMA APPRECIATE THE CHRISTIAN CLERGY?

2009-05-27T14:51:00.017-05:00

Obama and the Church; Hitler and the Church

It occurred to me that you readers might find it interesting to speculate that President Obama may well appreciate the Christian church and clergy being as they are today, in the same sense that Hitler appreciated the Christian church as it was in his pre-Nazi Germany (In reality, he held the clergy in utter contempt for its weakness in the face of tyranny). If Obama is in fact a committed Koran-believing Marxist Muslim, he probably appreciates the fact that, thanks to America's clergy, the teeth of definition, enemy identification, duty, and vigilance in the cause of America's sacred God-given freedoms, have been pulled from the church by the clergy. The resulting vacuum has been filled by weak passive tolerance and irresolution in the great freedom issues by the American citizens.

Will Blind, Confused, Irresolute, Weak-willed Christians Be Raptured Out?

How have the clergy accomplished this weakness? By convincing the "sheep" that there's nothing to be concerned about - not to worry, "God is in control" and that in the "twinkling of an eye" the "believers" will be raptured out to an eternity of paradise with Christ. This prevalent "positive-only" non-confrontational disarming pseudo-faith patronizes, but in reality abandons and mocks Christ (and our founding fathers who gave their "lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" in the Holy cause of freedom). It blinds, neutralizes and confuses the vigilance of Christians toward the oppression and the tyranny of evil. [Read my recent blogs titled THE NEUTRALIZED "IRRELEVANT" CHURCH; and, ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY - WHAT IS IT?]

In Hitler's own words, straight out of Mein Kampf, He detailed the reasons why the nation was so vulnerable and ripe for his subjugation:
One of the worst symptoms of decay was the increasing cowardice towards responsibility as well as half-heartedness in all things resulting from it....All these symptoms of decay are ultimately only consequences of the lack of a certain, commonly acknowledged view of life and of the general uncertainty in the judgment and the definition of an attitude towards the various great questions of the time, resulting from it. Therefore, everything, beginning with education, is half-hearted and wavering, shuns responsibility and ends thus in cowardly tolerance of even recognized evils. Dreamy humaneness becomes the fashion, and by a weak surrender to the excrescences and in sparing the individuals, one sacrifices in turn the future of millions.

Hitler's Cross

Irwin W. Lutzer wrote a penetrating classic book titled "Hitler's Cross" in which he showed how Hitler capitalized on the passive clergy-induced weakness of the pre-Nazi church. Hitler was raised a Catholic and knew well the power of the faith. Accordingly he held the clergy and the citizens in contempt for not using the faith to confront evil. Rather, they capitulated, focused on salvation-only and personal virtuous living, thus by default opened the door to Hitler who proceded to gain a stranglehold and eradicate the people's personal freedoms. With utter contempt for the capitulating clergy, who had used a perversion of Romans 13:1-4 to justify non-involvement in government, Hitler sent many of them to his death camps.

Romans 13:1-4 vs "victorious personal living"

In America there have been a number of Paul Revere trumpet blowing clergy (and patriots in general) in recent decades. For the most part, the Christians, mesmerized by pabulum from the pulpits, have ridiculed them, labeled them "extremists", "opportunists" and publicity seekers. Rather than heeding their biblical "watchman on the wall" messages (Ezekiel 33: 4), America's Christians have opted to cop-out of their sacred duty to their country by invoking an inversion of the meaning of Romans 13:1-4 (exactly as did the clergy in pre-Nazi Germany) in favor of the
non-controversial lifestyle popularly termed "victorious personal living".

"Watchman" Dr. R.C. Sproul

One of America's great trumpet-sounding "watchmen", Dr. R. C. Sproul, authored a book, "Classical Apologetics" in which he described the church's condition today:

The church is safe from vicious persecution at the hands of the secularist...So long as the church knows her place and remains quietly at peace on her modern reservation. Let the babes pray and sing and read their Bibles, continuing steadfast in their intellectual retardation; the church's extinction will come not by sword of pillory, but by the quiet death of irrelevance. It will pass away with a whimper not a bang.

...but let the church step off the reservation, let her penetrate once more the culture of the day and the Janus-face of secularism will change from benign smile to savage snarl.

Are Christians "IN this world, not OF it"?

Another cop-out sign of the times running parallel to pre-Nazi Germany is the pious expression, "We're IN this world, not OF it", implying to heck with it because we're here only for an instant in terms of eternity. Dr. Sproul writes:

Other religions may choose a radical denial of this world, seeking asylum in a supratemporal sphere of mystical otherworldliness; but Christianity enjoys no such luxurious option. Attempts by Christians, past and present, to quit this world in ascetic retreat betray a tacit denial of the most elemental principles of the Christian view of creation and redemption.

Intolerable Tolerance

One of the glaring signs of the times is the willingness of Christians to compromise their faith by accepting "tolerance" of the previously intolerable. Dr. Michael Savage wrote: "Your tolerance of the intolerable is actually a reflection of your loss of clarity; your tolerance of virtually everything and your "anything goes" attitude is not a mark of liberalism, its a mark of degeneration of your ability to judge anything."

Does Obama Appreciate the Church?

In the above sense it could be speculated that President Obama does in fact greatly appreciate today's cowardly Christian church because, as with Hitler, it has created the vacuum of irresolution, indecision, uncertainty, passiveness, tolerance and inaction toward evil, which empowers Obama to tighten his socialist Marxist freedom-robbing noose around our necks... if in fact, as we speculated in prior essays, those are his intentions. The clergy have watered down the militancy of the Christian faith which gave us our priceless freedoms, and have paved the way for evil, a carbon copy of how they opened the flood gates to Hitler.

Hate Crimes And Political Correctness

The way is being cleared for the Obama-spearheaded "hate crimes" legislation in which the clergy and citizens, may be arrested for quoting God's exhortations in the Bible about the abomination of homosexuality; and his attack on the First Amendment (free speech) through the Fairness Doctrine, and his attack on the Second Amendment through proposed gun controls.

To be "Politically Correct"

These and other Constitution-destroying freedoms can only succeed if the clergy are neutralized and they take their members and followers down with them. It's known as being "politically correct".

NOTE: For references see especially:
AMERICA - OUR SACRED TRUST (archived February/09)
THOSE WHO HATE YOU SHALL REIGN OVER YOU (Lev.26:14) [archived 4/22/09]

NOTE: The above views and opinions are mine, John W. Chalfant. Your's may be different. They are welcome and appreciated.

Note: Numerous quotes above are from the book America - A Call To Greatness.

Looking at the religious conditions...here too unigform and effective convictions, through a view of life, had long been loist in great parts of the nation.

OBAMA AND HITLER: PARALLEL TRACKS?

2009-05-21T09:53:00.009-05:00

This is a continuation of my last blog essay, OBAMA AND AMERICA'S DESTINY, which is based on Ye shall know them by their fruits. (Mat.7:16)

Today, historians are increasingly drawing parallels between spiritual and political trends in pre-Nazi Germany, and similar ones in America in recent years. They warn that trends under the Obama Democrat Administration appear to be accelerating with potentially calamitous consequences to America's God-given freedoms. That is, Mr. Obama is not calling America back to her founding roots; rather, he is accelerating her downward plunge.

In my prior blog essays we examined the decay of the church and clergy in America. I called it "Abandonment Theology - the clergy and the decline of American Christianity". Let us now consider some of the political consequences of that abandonment and mocking of God, which were foreshadowed by parallel events in Adolf Hitler's pre-Nazi Germany.

Historian/syndicated radio broadcaster Brannon Howse authored in Worldview Times one of the most thought-provoking treatises I have read titled "26 Similarities Between America and Nazi Germany". Following are a number of excerpts:

(1) Hitler outlawed school prayer in Germany. In 1962, The U.S. Supreme Court did the same for us.

(2) Hitler believed in reincarnation. He even convinced SS officers that by murdering millions of Jews and other "undesirables" they were allowing them to get on with the reincarnation process and come back more quickly in an advanced status. Americans increasingly accept the idea of reincarnation as well as good and bad karma.

(3) Hitler prevented dissenters from using radio to challenge his worldview. Many powerful liberals in America have made clear their intent to reintroduce the "Fairness Doctrine" that would require conservative and religious radio stations to offer equal time to anti-Christian, anti-conservative worldviews.

(4) Pastors who spoke against Hitler's worldview and his murderous regime found themselves on trial and frequently imprisoned for "Abuse of Pulpit." In America, "hate crimes" legislation has the potential to criminalize Christians and pastors who speak out against the homosexual agenda.

This discourse about the accelerating trends on parallel tracks between today's America and Hitler's pre-Nazi Germany will be continued.

OBAMA AND AMERICA'S DESTINY

2009-05-11T14:10:00.013-05:00

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. (Mat. 7:15,16)

Much has been said and written about President Obama's motives in bringing calamitous damage to America's foundational institutions including national defense, the sanctity of life, national borders. Many have tagged him a Marxist and socialist. AmbassadorAlan Keyes, PhD, stated in an interview available on YouTube:

"Obama is a radical communist! He's going to destroy this country. We're either going to stop him or the United States of America will cease to exist."

Disarm America

For example, Mr. Obama is shown on YouTube delivering a speech on national defense in which, before he was elected, he said: "I will cut investments in our missile defense system. I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will take our ICBMs off their trigger alert and achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals. I will slow our development of future combat systems. I will not weaponize space." (Note: missile interceptors can be launched from space, and attacking missiles can be targeted by satellite-based lasers. It's part of our vital SDI -Strategic Defense Initiative.)

Cripple EMP Defense: Invite Enemy Attack

It is worth noting that one of the most devastating weapons is known as "EMP" (electromagnetic pulse). It is a nuclear bomb which is detonated about 200 miles high. It can be delivered by a scud missile launched from a cargo ship off our shores. The electromagnetic pulse can destroy solid state control systems nationwide in everything from central bank computers to electric power grids, to transportation. Scientists claim that one successful detonation could "return America to the 19th century, and make us a sitting duck for foreign invasion." Space based lasers and rockets could intercept and destroy those scud missiles in their launch phase. But Mr. Obama claims determination to compromise America's missile defenses.

Note: To "take our ICBMs off their trigger alert", signals America's enemies that they can launch a first-strike against us and decimate a high percentage of our military personnel and our missile retaliatory capability. By thus signaling our enemies who could, for example, comprise an alliance between massively armed (with ICBMs) Communist China and Russia, we are intentionally handing to them the strategic military advantage. We are telegraphing to them that we have lost the will to win. This could encourage an attack from them and all-but assure their victory (inasmuch as our retaliatory capability would be devastated), with unspeakable consequences to America and the free world.

This, at a time when enemies of America are acquiring (and possess) long range nuclear capability. There can be no substitute for America being prepared for any eventuality and possessing the will to instantly respond, and prevail.

Let The Babies Die!

On Right-to-life, Ambassador Alan Keyes stated in a recent YouTube interview: "Obama is one who has actually advocated infanticide - that when babies are the target of abortion, if they happen to escape the abortionist's intention and are born alive, Obama actually supported the idea that those babies should be set aside to die. That is a man with such a seared conscience I can't even understand why anyone in his right mind would consider him worthy of political support. That's a violation of conscience that is inconceivable. Even some of the most hard-line abortion people in America rejected that abomination, and he doesn't."

Is Obama President?

IS - Mr. Obama President of the United States? Dr. Keyes stated: "According to the Constitution in order to be eligible for President you have to be a natural-born citizen. He has evaded the issue and has refused to provide proof that he is a natural-born citizen."

Borders and Amnesty

Regarding borders, Ambassador Keyes stated: "Rushing forward with ideas like destroying our borders - an amnesty bill that will actually have the American tax payers footing the bill for illegals to come to this country to live, to get housing and everything they want...this is insanity. It's as if we have put insane children and adolescents in charge of our government."

Predictable Obama

CONCLUSION: We have only touched upon national defense, right-to-life, and national borders. If Alan Keyes is right, that Obama is a radical communist, then Obama is as predictable as a Marxist communist would be. "We disdain to conceal our views." (Marx, Communist Manifesto)

America's Predictable Destiny

It appears that America's destiny of plunging into a dark abyss under the baton of Mr. Obama is also predictable.

[Next blog essay will compare pre-Nazi Germany and Hitler to trends in America today.]

ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY - WHAT IS IT?

2009-05-02T15:15:00.009-05:00

Part II following THE NEUTRALIZED "IRRELEVANT" CHURCH: Abandonment Theology is a term devised by the author to describe a faith which deceptively pawns itself off as Christianity by operating in the name of Christ but which produces fruits destructive to America's God-given freedoms. It comprises what is left today of the militant, power-filled, full-dimensional Christian faith of America's Founders after decades of erosion, watering down and trivializing of God's action mandates by America's abandonment clergy. It is "feel good" theology that patronizes Jesus Christ and thereby gains legitimacy while at the same time producing disobedience to the commands of God and desetion of Christian duty. Abandonment Theology is so deadly that we are losing our liberties, and evil is triumphing in nearly every aspect of life. A terrible spiritual blindness has come over millions of unsuspecting, victimized Christians who in turn have even allowed God, the Author of our liberties, to be outlawed in our nation's public schools and institutions.

Through decades of erosion, the Abandonment clergy have succeeded in extracting from Christians the teeth of vigilance, of action, of obedience to God. If the clergy taught their flocks to Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man (Eccl. 12:13), America would not be plunging into the dark abyss as she is doing today. Instead of the clergy's focus being primarily on "victorious personal living", it should have led the people to vigilantly guard the sacred institutions of their American Constitutional Republic and not fall for the evil propaganda about separation of church and state, unable to distinguish it from the inseparability of righteous freedom-based government from God.

That is, as 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams said on July 4, 1821: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity".

The great theologian Dr. R.C. Sproul described America's defection from militancy, and the neutralization of her Christians by the clergy:

"The church is safe from vicious persecution at the hands of the secularist...So long as the church knows her place and remains quietly at peace on her modern reservation. Let the babes pray and sing and read their Bibles, continuing steadfast in their intellectual retardation; the church's extinction will come not by sword or pillory, but by the quiet death of irrelevance. It will pass away with a whimper not a bang".

In his famous book "The Gathering Storm", British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reflected upon why world war II which claimed 50 million lives, had been possible at all. The parallels between Churchill's England and today's undiscerning America are alarming:

The malice of the wicked, he said, was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY (once militant Christianity) may soon take a terrible toll as a consequence of the clergy's disarming the Christians of their understanding of the nature of our battle for the survival of our God-given freedoms against the destructive, enslaving evil of the devil.

Note Most quotes are from the book America - A Call To Greatness.

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THE NEUTRALIZED "IRRELEVANT" CHURCH

2009-05-01T21:38:00.010-05:00

ANNOUNCEMENT: I will write a sequence of blog essays on the subject of what is meant by, "As goes the church, so goes the nation". As the Christian church has descended into becoming primarily a politically neutral social institution dedicated to teaching its members the art of "victorious personal living", it has by default opened the flood gates to the onslaught of anti-Christian freedom-destroying political liberalism. So prevalent is the desertion by America's clergy of the militant full-dimensional faith of America's founding fathers which gave us our Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, that it's as if it today's Christianity is a strange new theology. So, I'll call it ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY.

Part 2 will be titled ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY - WHAT IS IT?

WORLD CITIZEN vs AMERICAN FREEDOM

2009-04-27T13:54:00.008-05:00

British Statesman George Canning said it: "A steady patriot of the world alone, a friend of every country but his own".

America's soverignty could be lost to the United Nations or, with the full implementation of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, the United States and Canada. In effect, it dissolves our northern and southern borders.

Consequence: "Christian America" and her citizens' God-given personal freedoms will be history. That is, "change" will have taken its toll. When political candidates call for "change", the voting citizens need to ask, "in what direction...toward what form of government?"

Fidel Castro advocated CHANGE. Joseph Stalin brought about CHANGE. Mao Tse-tung was a proponent of CHANGE; Adolf Hitler enforced CHANGE.

CHANGE spilled more blood and produced more genocide in the 20th century than in world history.

What change does Obama advocate for America's borders and sovereignty? What ultimate form of government does he envision? Did the "change" voters ask?

What CHANGES do the American citizens want who voted for Obama to be their President?

Note: Most quotes are taken from the book America - A Call To Greatness.

see www.greatness.com