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2024-03-29T02:40:16Z
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The Nixon Story! Our Most POPULAR President in History!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-nixon-story-our-most-popular-president-in-history
2023-03-31T11:43:39.000Z
2023-03-31T11:43:39.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}11017744279,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}11017744279,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="480" alt="11017744279?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>The Nixon Story's assertion is Accurate. Beyond Measure. The President won by the widest margin in History! With the Greatest number of Elecoral College Votes in History. <br /> What we didn't know was the CIA's involvement in the Bloody Assassination of one President; then the bloodless Assassination of Nixon! <br /> The Deep Statists placed Robert Bob Woodward into the attack of President Nixon along with the Deep Throat operative to remove political foes! Thus, we see the hit job on Nixon! We now see vividly he was a victim of a CIA assassination! <br /> never so well has the case been laid out then by Tucker Carlson!</p>
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Our National Treasure, Chesapeake Bay may be the next Love Canal Toxic Zone!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/our-national-treasure-chesapeake-bay-be-the-next-love-canal-toxic
2023-03-27T15:28:49.000Z
2023-03-27T15:28:49.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Will our Beloved Chesapeake Bay Become a modern era Love Canal Toxic Zone!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">The answer could surprisingly be YES!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">My Early Roots are in Dundalk, specifically West Inverness. My Saturday mornings and other mornings were spent exploring a small woods directly on the extension of Lynch Road. I walked out of my backyard directly onto And even into Bear Creek! We had a pier into the creek from our Row homes where many families had a boat tied up. It wasn’t perfectly clean back then. And it’s not perfectly clean even today. But it wasn’t filled with <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh.2006.21.1.1/html" target="_blank">PCB’s</a>! Now Clean Harbors Environmental Services , the operator of the notorious Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant has contracted to accept potentially Millions of gallons of Toxic Waste water from East Palestine! This water could be described as that Rivals the contamination of <a href="https://www.forgottenhistory.me/disaster/the-love-canal-disaster" target="_blank">Love Canal</a>! The water is known to contain VINYL CHLORIDE,<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh.2006.21.1.1/html" target="_blank">PCB's</a>, and other toxic waste,and potentially Dioxin This isn’t a local problem, it’s a national problem! It’s a problem that the long term and even short term consequences could rival the multi-billion dollar ecological disaster of Love Canal! </span><br /> <span style="font-size:12pt;"> I am asking every elected official to notify the EPA we will not accept this East Palestine train wreck from being disposed of in our backyard!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">Yet, if no action is successful at stopping the release of refuse from East Palestine and it’s toxic sludge, now there will be A transformation of the Back River, Middle River, Bear Creek and the entire Chesapeake Bay, as the State Governor Wes Moore, acquiesced along with Mayor Brandon Scott! And Baltimore County Executive, Johnny Olszewski, Jr. and initially accepted the finality of the contract. The legacy of their period in office could easily become “The Dastardly Politicians that made the Chesapeake a Modern <a href="https://www.forgottenhistory.me/disaster/the-love-canal-disaster" target="_blank">“Love Canal!</a>”</span><br /> The facility that has been contracted to “clean up the waste is the NOTORIOUS Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant! It’s record is replete with failure after failure. <br /> Seldom do a few weeks go by without an E. Coli outbreak occurring in the Back River! Yet now the EPA has approved a contract with its owner Clean Harbors Environmental Services and Norfolk Southern Railroad to accept East Palestine Toxic Waste water. This facility just underwent an explosion within the last three weeks, when gases in the Centrifuge Building exploded! <br /> This is a nightmare happening before our very eyes. I call on our Elected Officials to act on our behalf to stop this nightmare from becoming a reality! <br /> Letters are great for average citizens. But these people are elected to represent us! They must demand that we say No! And request an Emergency meeting, three meetings. To say no! And that the gloves come off. M<br /> The first action item is to File an emergency injunction to Stop the process at this moment.<br /> The second is to attain a permanent injunction that will shutdown the process completely. It’s time to cease the operations of the facility to assure one Tanker car of toxic East Palestine waste is not pumped into the facility. Not one ounce let alone one gallon. <br /> This clean up requires remediation of Millions upon millions of gallons of toxic sludge. We will potentially permanently destroy our habitability surrounding the Bay! We will will put our families at risk! <br /> Love Canal was evacuated, all homes and businesses were bought out! We have an Estuary teaming with Shellfish, especially, our famous Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs, our succulent and mouth watering Bay Oysters, and the most prized fishery, where we have in recent times, finally replenished our Much Sought-after Chesapeake Striped Bass known to all of us as Rockfish! Our watermen and Fishermen depend upon Our Bay to earn their livelihoods! That could be placed into permanent Condemnation! <br /> These Chemicals Including Vinyl Chloride are toxins, poisons when released into our water. There is a probability that at some level there is dioxin. A chemical used as a chemical weapon in past wars. <br /> Worse PCB’s just like Those that contaminated LOVE CANAL ARE PERMANENT! They are described as “Forever Chemicals!”<br /> These toxins are permanent, and accumulate over time in living organisms. Fish, shellfish, plant life! Our water fowl hunt for food and thrive off of the Bay’s fishery! They will accumulate it too! We will not be able to enjoy the bay and it’s activities it offers! These are carcinogens. They create genetic defects! Are we all rightfully up in arms Hell yes! <br /> A politician once said that the Eastern Shore was the Outhouse of Maryland Politics! Well now the politicians and cynical owners of Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant are attempting to create a literary outhouse of our beloved Chesapeake Bay! Can we all stop it! Only If we are all engaged!</p>
<p>Here is a link to be able to send an email, make a call and fax The two executives who initially accepted then questioned the prudence of the decision. Yet there are people who complain that too many donations pass via Clean Harbors Environmental Services for them to put up a real fight, which if that’s true, we don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell of winning! But they stand a fantastic chance of losing in their upcoming election.<br /> And then there is the infamous EPA! They are the agency with the mandate to clean up our Waterways, under President Obama under regulation, even attempted to regulate use of our land if we had recurring puddles on our land.</p>
<p>WORSE!</p>
<p>Yet today we see that the EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, is threatening legal action if we attempt to stop this catastrophe from happening!<br /> He will not dictate from on high, telling us how to handle our Beloved Bay!<br /> It’s time to pick up the phones! Fax! And Email!<br /> Say no! We have a letter that you can use with contact information here below.</p>
<p>————————————————————————<br /> An example letter— please feel free to copy and paste.</p>
<p>Dear County Executive John Olszewski, Jr. <br /> & Mayor Brandon Scott,</p>
<p>Gentlemen please accept my email in STRONG OPPOSITION to your decision to approve the contract between Clean Harbors Environmental Services and Norfolk Southern to accept the extremely toxic waste water from EAST PALESTINE TRAIN DERAILMENT that includes Vinyl Chloride, along with other toxins.</p>
<p>We do not want you to risk our family’s health nor the aquaculture of our bay! It must be cleaned up, but even after it is cleaned up, it must not be dumped anywhere in our precious And greatest estuary in the World, our Chesapeake Bay! If it is to be dumped after it is supposedly environmentally safe, let it be dumped into the oceans out at sea, hundreds of miles off the coast using tankers. We can not be the outhouse of the East coast for Norfolk Southern, nor for any amount of money received under contract to Clean Harbors Environmental Services! Our Bay is not for sale at any price. Please be the statesman we know you are and very diplomatically, just say, No, I have reconsidered after a strong outcry from my Baltimore County Citizens, and I must reverse my original decision, I hereby, reject the approval of any contract that will lead to the release of treated toxic hazardous waste water into our Precious Chesapeake Bay!<br /> Thank you in advance for listening to my plea to reverse your decision and to assure the safety of my family especially my (grand)children and my neighbors.</p>
<p>Yours Truly,</p>
<p>Your Name<br /> ————————————————————————</p>
<p>And contact County Executive OLSZEWSKI, Jr., along with Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott! Say No!<br /> Email County Executive Olszewski <br /> johnnyo@baltimorecountymd.gov<br /> Call his office: (410) 887-2450<br /> Fax his office: (410) 887-5781<br /> Mayor Brandon Scott<br /> Email: mayor@baltimorecity.gov<br /> Phone Number: (410) 396-3835<br /> Fax Number: (410) 576-9425</p>
<p>Phone Number: 410-396-4900</p></div>
Drastic Increases in Diseases and Causes of Death since 2021
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/drastic-increases-in-diseases-and-causes-of-death-since-2021
2022-12-28T19:07:17.000Z
2022-12-28T19:07:17.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p>Drastic changes in diseases<br /> and causes of death since 2021<br /> According to Section 13 of the Infection Protection Act, the Robert Koch Institute and the Paul Ehrlich Institute have to evaluate diagnosis codes from the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) at regular intervals in order to determine vaccination effects. But since the beginning of the corona vaccinations, this data has neither been requested nor evaluated.</p>
<p>After numerous inquiries in recent months, the KBV data (period: 2016 to the first quarter of 2022) are available to our health policy spokesman, Martin Sichert.</p>
<p>The data was evaluated in cooperation with the data expert Tom Lausen. It was found that in 2021 not only were 2,487,526 patients with vaccination side effects seen by the doctor, but that there were also drastic changes in clinical pictures and deaths since the start of the corona vaccination.<br /><br /><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10921207252,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10921207252,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10921207252?profile=RESIZE_180x180" /></a></p>
<p>Original German--</p>
<p>Drastische Veränderungen von Krankheiten <br />und Todesursachen seit 2021<br />Gemäß §13 Infektionsschutzgesetz haben das Robert-Koch-Institut und das Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in regelmäßigen Abständen Diagnosecodes der Kassenärztlichen Bundesvereinigung (KBV) auszuwerten, um Impfeffekte festzustellen. Doch seit Beginn der Corona-Impfungen werden diese Daten weder angefordert noch ausgewertet.</p>
<p>Nach zahlreichen Anfragen in den vergangenen Monaten liegen die KBV-Daten (Zeitraum: 2016 bis ins erste Quartal 2022) unserem gesundheitspolitischen Sprecher, Martin Sichert, vor.</p>
<p>In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Datenexperten Tom Lausen wurden die Daten ausgewertet. Dabei wurde festgestellt, dass 2021 nicht nur 2.487.526 Patienten mit Impfnebenwirkungen beim Arzt waren, sondern sich auch teils drastische Veränderungen bei Krankheitsbildern und Sterbefällen seit Beginn der Corona-Impfung zeigen.</p></div>
Mr Kurd. A friend of all Americans! Rahim Rashidi
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/mr-kurd-a-friend-of-all-americans-raheem-rashidi
2021-08-21T03:19:58.000Z
2021-08-21T03:19:58.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9453792254,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9453792254,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="9453792254?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a><a href="http://www.mrkurd.com/2021/08/rahim-rashidi.html">http://www.mrkurd.com/2021/08/rahim-rashidi.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mrkurd.com/2021/08/rahim-rashidi.html" target="_blank">Mr Kurd, K-24 News Chief Correspondent</a></p></div>
The last Afghan resistance
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-last-afghan-resistance
2021-08-20T07:21:30.000Z
2021-08-20T07:21:30.000Z
Sujay Gaurav
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/SujayGaurav
<div><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/18/mujahideen-resistance-taliban-ahmad-massoud/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/18/mujahideen-resistance-taliban-ahmad-massoud/</a></p><p> </p><p>The last Afghan outpost which is not under the Taliban. The US government should do what they can to help these people because that's this only way to stop the Taliban from taking over.</p></div>
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2021-04-12T08:16:48.000Z
2021-04-12T08:16:48.000Z
Dave Wallace
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Biden’s Border Crisis!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/biden-s-border-crisis
2021-03-22T21:08:14.000Z
2021-03-22T21:08:14.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8694150660,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8694150660,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="8694150660?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="320" /></a></span><strong style="font-size:8pt;text-align:center;">Photo shown originally on Western Journal </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong><br /> Biden's BORDER CRISIS!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><em>Tent cities are now popping up on border cities!</em> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br /> We must remember— People are policy!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">No more true words were spoken than when it comes to immigration policy. Especially as it relates to border security! And as hard as it was to get the border under control by President Trump, President Biden makes the destruction of border Security mere child's play! In the snap of his fingers and stupid, yet intentional words, none the less, President Biden, in his comatose wisdom destroyed all semblance of Border a Protection. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">While we finally achieved a more controlled border situation as the Trump Administration developed its strategy, it wasn't easy. Yet, finally after a period of fits and starts, the illegal crossings at the border, began to take hold. And it was due to work by President Trump with relentless attacks on each snd every policy attempted to implement. Even denying him funding that had been promised by a bipartisan vote of approval by Congress back in 2000's! Yet against all roadblocks and massive haranguing by Leftists both inside and outside of government, President Trump and his team assigned to accomplish a secure border had finally done so. </span><br /> <span style="font-size:12pt;"> Yet before Biden came in he promised that the US Sovereign border protection would be disassembled and those crossing would see a welcome mat on the border, including admission of unaccompanied minors. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Contrast:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">The border wall came to the screeching halt. Yet this stands in stark contrast to our Northern Border with Canada, the Keystone-XL pipeline was stopped in its tracks with the stroke of Biden's Pen. While Canadian Oil and Gas create National Security,one hand. The influx of Illegal immigrants across the Mexican Border creates Lost safety and destroys our National Security. Biden's purpose is clear, he is working to undermine our security at all levels, and in the process bring America down to its knees. It can be argued that this is shear conjecture of course, and those on the left will scream that isn't. Yet these actions taken by President Biden scream out that this author is correct. And we don't take glee in it, one little bit. We deplore these contemptible actions. <br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-size:12pt;"> The numbers are meteoric.<a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-20/us-mexico-border-crisis" target="_blank">The LA Times says it's going at record not seen in 2 decades</a>. The Epoch Times reports that the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-100-percent-monthly-rise-in-illegal-border-crossings-by-families-and-unaccompanied-children-cbp_3739606.html" target="_blank">number has increased 100%</a> in one Month! Let's remember too, that there is massive evidence that less than 5% who are released ever come back for their scheduled hearings. Worse these are inverted for the most part, in cases of release, the illegals can be in Baltimore or Albany in less than 48 hrs, many times less. This Border crossing crisis is an endangerment to us all, and it's all the creation of President Biden. For those who knowingly and legitimately voted for this president, a scoundrel in the first degree, must be having huge buyers remorse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">We will see by the end of this quarter at the current rate a years and possibly the last two years or more of illegals' crossing into the US.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">What to do? Biden the security titan that he is, along with his yellow and red comrades in his administration have devised an immensely humanitarian plan to deal with Border Crisis! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">They are setting up tent cities across the Southwest, putting countless American citizens at risk! Of disease, not just COVID19, as well as safety as potentially huge numbers of cartel members and even Hezbollah are active along the border region. And those are well pressed T-Shirts that are being displayed on the illegal aliens chests displaying Biden campaign logo!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;">Lets remember two things. <br /> Raum Immanuel said, "Never Let a Serious Crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is that during a crisis you can accomplish more tha you otherwise ever could." So let's seize this grand opportunity to talk about the difference a president makes when it comes to every American's Security! We need to push back against this intentional destruction of our American Sovereignty. <br /> Further, if President Biden brags about his ability to get things accomplished in his sleep, let's agree! He can destroy our country and create a massive nightmare for all of us. </span></p></div>
SAVE THE FILIBUSTER & SAVE AMERICA!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/save-the-nation-save-the-filibuster
2021-03-21T17:26:18.000Z
2021-03-21T17:26:18.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong>SAVE AMERICA NOW!</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>SAVE THE FILIBUSTER!</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><br /> URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>America</strong> desperately Needs <strong><em>You!</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><em>THIS VERY INSTANT..from your Mobile phone tap the three numbers to call Joe Manchin! Tell him we support him! In standing in the breach to block the imminent KILLING of the FILIBUSTER! IF THE LEFT IS SUCCESSFUL! You! Will wake up living in a totally DIFFERENT WORLD! There is no doubt about it! None! The America you know will be dead!</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><em>Full stop!</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><em>So ACT now!</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong><u>PLEASE</u></strong> <strong>Call Honorable Senator Joe Manchin's </strong></span><strong style="font-size:12pt;"><u>three District offices</u> Honorable Democrat Senator Joe Manchin America's only Chance to SAVE Us! Save you! Save your Children from the Scourge of the Leftists! Socialists! And Aspiring Communists!</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> Thank him for supporting the filibuster and urge him to not relent!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>His unwavering courage is necessary while Manchin comes under blistering and relentless coercion and attacks by his leadership.(Ever see Current Conservative Leadership do this to the "moderate" wing of the Republican Caucus.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Call him and tell him we support him as he continues</strong> to<strong> stand up to the Democrat bullies who are putting <u>great pressure on him to cave</u>. Senator Manchin stands between us and the destruction of our country</strong><strong>.</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Charleston <a>304-342-5855</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Fairmont <a>304-368-0567</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Martinsburg <a href="http://304-264-4626">304-264-4626</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>(You can call after hours and leave a voice mail)</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><em><strong>Only by Saving the Filibuster will we prevent Leftists disguised as Democrats from ramming through PASSAGE OF:</strong></em></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Federal takeover of election laws, destroying election integrity-Your Citizenship Franchise cancelling your Vote!</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>D.C. and Puerto Rico's Statehood with 4 New Leftist Senators <span style="font-size:12pt;">in the mold of AOC!</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Packing the Supreme Court <span style="font-size:10pt;">WITH LEFTIST JUDGES TO DESTROY OUR BILL OF RIGHTS! <br /> </span></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, Creating an Unsafe America with our Culture Destroyed. Your Safety and Security Ended.</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>A massive wealth tax destroying our Economy!</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Restrictions on gun and ammunition ownership destroying your Right under the 2nd Amendment of Self Defense! </strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Abortion on demand for any reason, <span style="font-size:12pt;">anytime Pre and Post Delivery!</span></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Government mandated beliefs on sex and gender, criminalizing your faith and moral based values!</strong></span></li>
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<p> The Elite ULTRA-Leftists who now CONTROL THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, who control all three branches of our Government, promised their base that they would do these things if winning majorites in the HOUSE & Senate and WhiteHouse! Ending the Filibuster will guarantee their ability to destroy America, the Republic that our Founding Fathers bestowed upon us. This country was founded on the triumph of of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness! </p>
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Wrongful Death - Coronavirus - Michigan's Governor Whitmer in Hot water!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/wrongful-death-coronavirus-michigan-s-governor-whitmer-in-hot-wat
2021-03-10T13:26:26.000Z
2021-03-10T13:26:26.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p>Wrongful Death - Coronavirus - Michigan's Governor Whitmer in Hot water!</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/michigan-prosecutor-says-gov-gretchen-whitmer-face-criminal-charges/">https://www.westernjournal.com/michigan-prosecutor-says-gov-gretchen-whitmer-face-criminal-charges/</a></p></div>
The Rise of Radicals in Office. Thanks to American Principles!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-rise-of-radicals-in-office-thanks-to-american-principles
2021-03-07T19:07:24.000Z
2021-03-07T19:07:24.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p style="text-align:center;">When we are concerned about the future of America, and we worry about what direction the Democrats will take us, we need look no further than at the Letters of Support to Linda Sarsour. <br /><br /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">And Sour she is.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8640690477,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8640690477,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="350" alt="8640690477?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><br />Sarsour is a antisemite. And antiZionist. She stands for the destruction of Israel as a state.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">so enter the Hard Globalist Movement. Who are they?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">They are the Leadership of the Democratic Party. <br />they surely aren't the rank and File Democrats or Republicans. Yet they are the Leadership of the Democrats who have hijacked the Entire Leadership that represents the majority Democratic Districts. And if you think they undermined the Socialist candidate Bernie Sanders, that's nothing compared to what they do to moderate Democrats in the primary. They can't even get on the podium to air their views. So what do Moderates do? They jump ship and join the Republicans. Whether that is good or bad, that's a subject of a different conversation.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8640702682,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8640702682,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="8640702682?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>Those voicing Support for Linda Sarsour a year ago. <br />It's now most important as the Left has seized power.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">we need to recognize that all leftists support her, regardless of their faith traditions. So never be fooled by a persons supposed Religious credentials. That is not the litmus test. As you see Catholics and Jews are on this list of Supporters. It's those that place their socialist ideology before their faith that pop up on this list. Lets focus on the large group of Democrats in leadership that show support at an anti Israel Rally. It is concerning.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">For without The United States, it's very difficult to see Israel standing a chance. <br />Yet now, enter Donald Trump, let's look at the progress made between Israel and its many former Arab adversaries. With the advent of Trump diplomacy, we see the Abraham Accords being accepted and a line of Peaceful communication and cooperation between Israel and its new Friends. Thank God that President Trump has left a living legacy, while he has left office. American leadership is critical to creating a lasting peace in the Middle East. It doesn't take armed Conflict with those who are actually in many respects the bulwark against the Radical islamist Iranian regime. The Iranians today as they did in 2001 create the greatest threat against the United States. The Iranians helped perpetrate that attack, yet have never faced the consequences. <br />ans Linda Sarsour has worked wirh the CAIR Foundation a co conspirator in 9/11 based on grand Jury information released to the public archives, and yet we still see the attacks on our society by them. They use lawfare to war against us. They turn our system on us to attack us, yet they are at war with us. We continue to act as through we are not in an asymmetric war. Yet they have declared war on us repeatedly.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">My friends, Sunnis and Kurds and Shi'a have explained on a number of occasions, that they want nothing to do with the radicals, in Egypt, in Iraq, and elsewhere. They say they are against their modern Islamic traditions. They lust for power! They strictly use Islam as a coercive front for their rise in power. Although I don't always agree on every aspect, we must keep this in mind as we see the reformation of the Islamic Faith before our very eyes. We see Iran as they do, as the existential threat to civilization and peace. We must push back. To do that we must vet all candidates both Republicans and Democrats to assure that they do not rise into our Representative leadership in local, state, or Federal office. </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://americanprinciples.org/anti-israel-muslim-brotherhood-affiliate-group-cair-snags-letters-of-support-from-more-than-120-members-of-congress/">https://americanprinciples.org/anti-israel-muslim-brotherhood-affiliate-group-cair-snags-letters-of-support-from-more-than-120-members-of-congress/</a></p></div>
Rush Limbaugh Dies.
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/rush-limbaugh-dies
2021-02-17T21:08:10.000Z
2021-02-17T21:08:10.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
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<div>Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III,</div>
<div>The Greatest Radio Talk Show Host of all Time has passed away at 70 years Old. He was America’s conservative. We mourn his death. We celebrate his life. We celebrate his testimony on The Vision and Brilliance that is America. He was able to convert many people to America’s Conservative Values. His spirit will live on through all of the people who’s Lives he touched. We are all better for the wisdom Rush Limbaugh imparted to us.</div>
<div>May God Rest His Soul!</div>
<div>Born - January 12, 1951 Friday</div>
<div>Died - February 17, 2021 Ash Wednesday</div>
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<div>Rush was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 2020, February 4th during The State of the Union Address by President Trump. The First Lady, Melania Trump placed the award upon his Neck.</div>
<div>Rush was always a stylish showman, he had his own line of ties that were part of his EIB legacy.</div>
<div>EIB - Excellence in Broadcasting Network was the moniker under which he broadcast.</div>
<div>His first National show was aired in August, 1988. Emanating from New York’s WCBS Radio. It aired from the 12:00 Noon - 3:00pm Time slot. The Rush Limbaugh Show, aired in that time slot continuously until his death today, albeit, with a Guest Host.</div>
<div>Rush announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer. His battle ended today.</div>
<div>Rush announced on his Last Show before the Holidays that he had been blessed to serve his listeners for these years and felt it was an honor to have such a loyal audience. And that regardless of when it happened he wanted to thank his millions of Listeners who had followed him and who had loved him. He said he loved his career and all of Listeners. He said he was Truly Blessed as an American to do what his heart told him to do.</div>
<div>Rush we will always keep you in our hearts and in our prayers.</div>
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Show Me Then I’ll Believe
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/show-me-then-i-ll-believe
2019-05-23T12:40:53.000Z
2019-05-23T12:40:53.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>I’m in the process of re-writing my autobiography. I initially wrote it back in the early nineties. Until now it never seemed like the right time to publish it, but now I believe the time has arrived.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>As I re-read the chapters which chronicle the adventures of a lost young man throwing away everything nature and nurture gave him and self-medicating his way to total despair I can’t help but think of all the missed opportunities and self-inflicted pain. Anything that should’ve meant something was discarded in a blind attempt to escape the pain of not understanding the world around me. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>However, time and maturity have finally taught me that if I hadn’t taken every step I’ve taken to be here I wouldn’t be here. Instead I’d be somewhere else. And I know without a shadow of doubt that I’m standing exactly where God wants me, which is the only place I ever want to be.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>At an early age I discovered History and my immature mind told me, “If you understand how we got here maybe you could understand here?” So I started reading History on a daily basis, a habit I’ve never lost. However as I gained a vast knowledge base I didn’t seem to gain any wisdom.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>I knew what happened but the why always seemed to escape me. I just couldn’t figure out why bad things happened to good people and good things happened to bad people. A fact the study of History proves over and over. The drugs and alcohol I used to ease the pain of confusion didn’t help. I ended up thinking I should do bad things if I wanted good things to happen.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>As a child I’d given up on Christianity the first time I heard about turning the other cheek. My young but already street smart mind told me, “If you do that the world is going to slap the taste out of your mouth.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>I thought ideas such as loving those who hate you, returning good for evil, and sacrificing yourself for the good of others was foolishness. Living like this seemed like walking backwards through a burning building. I just couldn’t see the forest for the trees.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>At least not until I’d lived my life into a corner and came to the end of my rope believing there was no afterlife and nothing except what I could touch, see, or feel. I figured if this is all there is why go on, why continue living only to die. My life became a parody of the chorus from the song, <em>Is That All There Is</em>; “Is that all there is, is that all there is, if that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing let's break out the booze and have a ball if that's all there is.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Luckily for me that isn’t all there is.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>That’s when I ran into Jesus. I gave my burned-out useless life to Him and He gave it back to me all shiny and new. He gave me purpose. He gave me hope. He gave me a loving wife, the love of my life, who’s my other half in a one flesh marriage. He gave me the opportunity to know the joys of being a second-chance father and a stand-in grandfather after having all my own children aborted. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>In my former life I did my best to destroy and throw away everything given to me. But, God works with what’s left. He takes the cinders and the ashes and makes them into something beautiful. Tears may come at night but</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+30%3A5&version=NKJV"><span>joy</span></a> <span>comes in the morning.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Has everything been as smooth as silk and twice as nice since I’ve become a new creation? Not by a long shot. There’ve been trials and tribulations beyond counting and they aren’t over yet. At first I would pray for God to take this cup from me forgetting the second half of</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+26%3A39&version=NKJV"><span>the prayer</span></a><span>, “but not my will but yours be done.” Then I’d wonder, “Why do I keep going through the same things over and over?”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Somehow in my continuous reading of God’s Word I’d missed this</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+5%3A3-5&version=NKJV"><span>part</span></a><span>:</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Even when we’re surrounded by troubles we keep right on shouting praises, because we know if we walk through these troubles hand-in-hand with the man who stilled the sea they’ll develop perfect patience in us. And if we learn to practice perfect patience this forges the polished steel of virtue. This virtue keeps living in expectancy ever on the lookout for what God will do next. Living in this kind of breathless expectancy, we’re never left feeling ripped-off or overwhelmed by circumstances. No, it’s just the opposite. If we’ll walk through our problems like this we can’t find enough treasure chests to contain all the blessings God in His mind-blowing generosity pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Still seeking after wisdom I spend every day pursuing the One who</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A30&version=NKJV"><span>is</span></a> <span>wisdom, the One who</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A4&version=NKJV"><span>is</span></a> <span>light and life, the One who is the Savior</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+3%3A16&version=NKJV"><span>of</span></a> <span>my soul, the King of Glory who died and rose again. The ever living Jesus</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A33&version=NKJV"><span>who</span></a> <span>sits at the right hand of the Father, the One</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus+3%3A+5-6&version=NKJV"><span>who</span></a> <span>sent the Holy Spirit to live in me.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If life doesn’t seem to make any sense, if we find ourselves going through the same things over and over let’s step out of the meaningless maze of carnival mirrors and find peace in union with God. Give it all up to get it all back. If we lay down our lives Jesus will show us how to live. Let’s stop fighting a war that’s already been won. Victory is found in surrender. It isn’t a matter of “Show me then I’ll believe,” instead it’s a matter of “Believe and it will be revealed.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @</span> <a href="http://drrobertowens.com"><span>http://drrobertowens.com</span></a><span> © 2019</span> <span>Contact Dr. Owens</span> <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com"><span>drrobertowens@hotmail.com</span></a><span> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens"><span>Drrobertowens</span></a> <span>or visit Dr. Owens</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1"><span>Amazon Page</span></a> <span>/ Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</span><span> </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p> </p></div>
All We Need To Know
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/all-we-need-to-know
2019-05-16T13:21:14.000Z
2019-05-16T13:21:14.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>The Bible tells us Adam sold us down the river of sin. His first sin, disobedience was followed by death; spiritual death or separation from God and then physical death. The Bible also tells us no one gets a free pass. Every one of us descended from Adam is born in sin and subject to death. Because that first sin of Adam’s broke humanity’s relationship with God in every way. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>However, the far reaching extent of this wasn’t apparent till God made it crystal clear to Moses. Here’s what we learned from God’s detailed and explicit law: Sin is a yawning chasm separating us from God that leads to death. We also learned that even those who don’t sin in the same way Adam did, by disobeying a specific command of God, sin in one way or another. Consequently we all experience both the spiritual and the physical end of life which is separation from God not just as an inheritance but as something each of us earns on our own. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>But God didn’t leave us hopeless. When God cursed the serpent for tempting Eve to sin which is what dragged Adam into choosing fellowship with his wife over fellowship with his Creator He also made a</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A15&version=MSG"><span>promise</span></a> <span>that from woman would come a Savior. From the moment of the fall comes the hope of resurrection pointing ahead to</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+1%3A17-21&version=NKJV"><span>the One</span></a> <span>chosen before the foundation of the world to get us off this one way conveyor belt to hell.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>To maintain God’s absolute justice sin had to be paid for. The penalty of separation and death had to be fulfilled. All humanity could ever do was continue the cycle over and over since everyone sinned and added to the burden of the verdict. Then Jesus Christ, God Himself, came to bear the burden and pay the price becoming a sinless sacrifice, the just for the unjust. His death foreshadowed by every sacrifice ever offered up under the Law. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>However, the blood of goats, bulls, sheep, and other animals could never cleanse from sin. The best they could do was cover symptoms of sin through obedience to the commands of God. They couldn’t deal with the root cause, separation from God because no human ever lived a sinless life after offering one sacrifice so another was always needed and death flowed like a river of sewage through the lives of all. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Just as Adam’s sin brought death into the world one person condemning many the sacrifice of Jesus brings life into the world One person making the way open for many. Though one foreshadowed the other and one fulfilled the other the gift of Jesus is not perfectly parallel to the death-dealing sin of Adam. You see if Adam’s sin put all of humanity in the well-deserved black hole of separation from God, imagine what God’s undeserved gift poured out through Jesus Christ’s sinless sacrifice can do. How can we possibly compare Adam’s death-dealing sin and Jesus’ life-giving gift? The righteous verdict on Adam’s sin was the death sentence on everyone born of Adam. The gracious verdict on the sacrifice of Jesus is this life restoring sentence on everyone born of Jesus,</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15%3A45-49+&version=NKJV"><span>the second Adam</span></a><span>. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Here it is in a nutshell: Death which is separation from God gained the upper hand through Adam’s sin. Now the astounding recovery of life, real life, life in union with God explodes in our spirit as soon as we’re born-again out of the descending line of Adam and into the ascending line of Jesus. Since the price has been paid and an acceptable sacrifice made the just for the unjust everyone who accepts this absolutely undeserved and free life-gift sees reality flow back into the mold God initially wanted for humanity: Living, loving, and praising in union with Him. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>That’s the back story now for all you need to know:</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If we confess Jesus as the head of our life and if we believe in our hearts God raised Him from the dead we will be saved. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>It just that easy and it’s yours if you want it.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @</span> <a href="http://drrobertowens.com"><span>http://drrobertowens.com</span></a><span> © 2019</span> <span>Contact Dr. Owens</span> <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com"><span>drrobertowens@hotmail.com</span></a><span> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens"><span>Drrobertowens</span></a> <span>or visit Dr. Owens</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1"><span>Amazon Page</span></a> <span>/ Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</span><span> </span></p><p></p></div>
Random Thoughts V
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/random-thoughts-v
2019-03-15T13:36:24.000Z
2019-03-15T13:36:24.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>If Planned Parenthood was selling puppy body parts they would be shut down yesterday.</p><p>The thirties and forties are a blur with work and family. The fifties start to slow down and in the sixties you start to get comfortable with yourself, or not.</p><p>Before Obama: We had no ISIS, no BLM, No ANTIFA, and no war on cops.</p><p>With Obama: We had a no-growth economy we were told was “The New Normal”</p><p>Sometimes wisdom is best said with silence.</p><p>You may have lost but you are not lost. You are His and no one; nothing can snatch you out of His hand. When there’s nowhere to stand...stand on your faith.</p><p>Clinton admitted to using marijuana. Obama admitted to using cocaine. Teddy Kennedy killed a girl in a car accident and covered it up. But suddenly Kavanaugh’s drinking habits 30 years ago are reprehensible to Democrats.</p><p>Three democrat senators on the judiciary committee voted not to impeach president Clinton even though: He committed perjury, obstructed justice, lied about having sex with a White House intern until DNA evidence proved he lied, Almost a dozen women accused him of rape and sexual assault. But at least there was no political motivation for their political assault on Justice Kavanaugh.</p><p>One thing the Presidential alert test did….reveal all the cell phones illegally owned by inmates in prison.</p><p>People are poor because of rich people. And slow cars are slow because of fast cars.</p><p>Why are American citizens who want to protect our sovereignty called Nazis and racists while illegal aliens are called Dreamers?</p><p>Everyone is the center of their own universe because that’s the only vantage point any of us have.” </p><p>When we compartmentalize reality the little chunks seem to slip away like ice floats on a river. They're a big deal while they're here but once they're gone there's another in its place to be a big deal for a while. Maybe that's why when something happens, even important things I figure, "That's not such a big deal." Because the river is still flowing and I'm looking forward to the ocean.</p><p>You get what you get because that’s what you got. Which is the possessive of Popeye’s philosophical high point, "I yam what I yam an' tha's all I yam,” which is the cartoon reflection of the Hippie truism, “It is what it is cause that what it is.” Which is the modern reflection of Aristotle’s insight of the law of identity: 'Whatever is, is.” Which is the verbal expression for the math term: For all a: a = a. </p><p>Most people read the headline and make-up the story.</p><p>All one can do is all one can do and if everyone would just do that imagine how much would get done.</p><p>The difference between junk and stuff: Junk is stuff you no longer want. Stuff is junk you want to keep.</p><p>When all is said and done it will all be done just as He said.</p><p>God saves us from things we think we need and blesses us with things we don’t know we need.</p><p>Irony is lost on the ignorant.</p><p>I used to remember that before I forgot it.</p><p>Graveyards are filled with indispensable people.</p><p>The melting pot has become the smelting pot. Once we all wanted to become Americans. Now Americans all want to become some kind of hyphenated – American. Identity politics and the cult of victimization is Balkanizing America.</p><p>The Bible: Read it – Believe it – Live it and watch it change your life</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2019 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens">Drrobertowens</a> or visit Dr. Owens <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1">Amazon Page</a> / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
A New You for a New Year
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/a-new-you-for-a-new-year
2019-01-06T13:06:30.000Z
2019-01-06T13:06:30.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Have you reached the end of your rope only to find out that it’s much shorter than you imagined? Was last year as good as you hoped it would be? Was it as bad as you feared it would be? Does the uncertainty of the future leave you anxious? Has your own mortality entered like a crack in the ice in your youthful belief in personal indestructability?</p><p>But wait there’s more…</p><p>Does the randomness of good happening to bad people and bad happening to good people leave you wondering if there’s any rhyme or reason to reality? Is looking for answers to these and many other questions like looking for needles in haystacks? Is the quest to find meaning in life like trying to nail fog to the wall?</p><p>If you’ve rejected Christ because of Christians don’t mistake the messengers for the message. Christ told his followers to lake His light to the world and most have spent the last 2018 years trying to build a lamp and pretending it was the light.</p><p>The message is as simple as receiving it: Confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead and you will be saved.</p><p>That’s it. </p><p>It’s not about joining the right club or following the right rules. We don’t need a seminary degree or someone with one to walk us through learning the secret handshake or the <span>Abra Kadabra password</span>. And there is no magic decoder ring. We don’t have to read the Bible from cover to cover. We don’t have to wear the right clothes, beard, or haircut. We don’t have to vote for the right candidates. We don’t have to take an oath to believe the same things that everyone else who confesses Christ as Lord does.</p><p>It isn’t about being good enough. That’s one of the great miracles of God’s economy. While we were yet sinners Jesus came and died so that we could live.</p><p>It isn’t about becoming a religious robot who says the right things at the right time to the right people in the right place. God is the One who created us with free choice, so we’re free to choose. It isn’t about conformity. God is the One who created us to be an individual and He doesn’t make junk. We are who He created us to be. He has placed us in a certain time and place so that we can become all He designed us to be and do all that He has called us to do. And that means what He created, placed, and called you to be will be different than what He created, placed, and called me to be. You see it isn’t about cookie-cutter, repeat a formula, and follow the rule book club membership. </p><p>It’s about each of us individually confessing Jesus as Lord and each of us individually believing God raised Jesus from the dead and then learning to commune with God, to hear Him speak to us as individuals and then doing what He tells us to do.</p><p>If the questions at the beginning of this article float through our minds like storm clouds in a cloudless sky obscuring what should be clear. Let’s give up the battle to do it on our own. Let’s surrender and find victory in allowing God to count the victory of Jesus over sin and death to our account.</p><p>It’s so easy we can do it right here right now. We don’t need to be in a meeting, at an altar, or in a special building. We don’t need anyone to hold our hand or even know what we’ve done. We will know. God will know. And once we’re in his hand no one can snatch us out.</p><p>I confess Jesus as Lord and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the Dead. That’s it. All done. The battle is over. The war between us and God is over and we are one with Him. Welcome to a new you for a new year.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2019 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens">Drrobertowens</a> or visit Dr. Owens <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1">Amazon Page</a> / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
I Got Faith You Got Faith All God’s Children Got Faith
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/i-got-faith-you-got-faith-all-god-s-children-got-faith
2018-12-13T13:29:01.000Z
2018-12-13T13:29:01.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>Pastor John Osteen the father of Mega Church Joel used to lead his congregation in this confession, “This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.” while waving his big black Bible in the air. He started every service this way encouraging the faithful to stand on God’s Word.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>It’s our confession of God’s Word that opens the door to miracles. For if we don’t believe God’s Word how can we say we believe God? And if we don’t believe God who and what do we believe?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Many of us have been told we’re losers. Many of us have been told we’re worthless, unwanted, unnecessary, and unloved. Not all of us grew up with Mom and Pop Cleaver protecting, supporting, and affirming us. Many of us have told ourselves we’re no good, forgotten, and useless. And sad to say many of us believe what the world says about us. We often believe ourselves and allow these beliefs to shape and guide our lives.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>May be we should try God? Let’s believe His Word and let that shape and guide our lives.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Now think about God’s Word for a moment. He</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119%3A160&version=NKJV"><span>says</span></a> <span>that His</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+7%3A28&version=NKJV"><span>word</span></a> <span>is</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+17%3A17&version=NKJV"><span>truth</span></a><span>, and that His judgments endure forever. He also says He watches over His Word to</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+1%3A12&version=NKJV"><span>perform it</span></a><span>. If He’s lying about all that He’s a liar, and we know God isn’t a liar. The</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A44&version=NKJV"><span>devil is</span></a><span>.</span> <span>That’s his very nature. And since</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+14%3A13&version=NKJV"><span>the devil’s original sin</span></a> <span>was his desire to be recognized as God, when we say or act as if God is a liar we’re giving the devil exactly what he wants, because we’re saying the liar is our God.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Spiritual things can only be</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+2%3A13-15&version=NKJV"><span>understood</span></a> <span>by those who are spiritual. To the natural man they’re</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+2%3A13-15&version=NKJV"><span>foolishness</span></a> <span>and the fool has</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+14%3A1&version=NKJV"><span>said</span></a> <span>in his heart there is no God. In this article I’m speaking to believers and hopefully to those without hope who might become believers. To those who’ve confessed Jesus as Lord and who believe in their heart that God raised Him from the dead. If we’ve done those things His Word says we</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+10%3A9&version=NKJV"><span>will be saved</span></a><span>. It doesn’t say might be. It doesn’t say could be. It says will be. Which also means you can be.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>He also says we overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb AND</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=REV+12%3A11&version=NKJV"><span>the word of our testimony</span></a><span>, that we will be</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A37+&version=NKJV"><span>judged by the words</span></a> <span>that come out of our mouth, and that whatever we ask</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A13+&version=NKJV"><span>in the name of Jesus</span></a> <span>we shall receive that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>That is some powerful stuff. Our words are important. Some people interpret all this in such a way that believe God becomes their servant and that He’s honor bound to give us anything we ask for. But in His Word He tells us that we need to ask for the right stuff when He</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=+James+4%3A3&version=NKJV"><span>says</span></a> <span>you ask and don’t receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>We need to get lined up with Him. We need to allow Him to</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+37%3A4&version=NKJV"><span>put the desires in our heart</span></a> <span>and then use the power of confession in the Name of Jesus to move forward in the ministry He’s called us to, and then we’ll receive the desires of our heart, the ones He put there. For make no mistake if you’re a believer you’ve been called to minister the Word to a world dying to receive it. That ministry is</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+1%3A8&version=NKJV"><span>your witness</span></a><span>. You don’t have to be a Bible scholar. God will always</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+12%3A12&version=NKJV"><span>give you the words to say</span></a> <span>if you testify of Him. Share your witness, your testimony. Simply tell what the Lord has done for you. And if you don’t have a testimony seek the Lord until you have one.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>All it takes is faith to walk out on God’s Word and expect Him to accomplish it. That’s what we do to get saved. And that’s what we must do to be who He says we are, to have what He says we have, and to do what He’s called us to do.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>And if the believers among us think we don’t have enough faith remember we had enough faith to believe God for salvation. And I don’t know about you but if I have enough faith to believe God will welcome someone like me into heaven I’ve got more than a mustard seed’s worth so mountain you better</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+17%3A20&version=NKJV"><span>start jumping</span></a><span>. Also remember</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A8&version=NKJV"><span>faith itself is a gift</span></a> <span>from God. We can always</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A24-25&version=NKJV"><span>ask for more</span></a><span>. So if you don’t have enough faith to believe God for salvation ask God and He will give it to you.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>I got faith, you got faith, all God’s children got faith, and the only kind of faith for me is faith in Jesus Christ.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @</span> <a href="http://drrobertowens.com"><span>http://drrobertowens.com</span></a><span> © 2018</span> <span>Contact Dr. Owens</span> <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com"><span>drrobertowens@hotmail.com</span></a><span> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens"><span>Drrobertowens</span></a> <span>or visit Dr. Owens</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1"><span>Amazon Page</span></a> <span>/ Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</span><span> </span></p><p></p><p> </p></div>
Third Temple Revealed
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/third-temple-revealed
2018-12-08T02:04:54.000Z
2018-12-08T02:04:54.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Do you think we’re living in the End Times? </p><p>If you spend much time with Evangelical Christians you’re bound to be asked this question. Perhaps, more times than you’ll be able to remember. I know I have.</p><p>Those who believe that the Revelation of John found in the New Testament foretells future evets are constantly looking for signs that the End Times have begun. They’re always on the lookout for the birth of the Red Heifer, the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant, and the building of the Third Temple.</p><p>News flashes from around the world:</p><ol><li>The writer of the Book of Hebrews in the New Testament tells us that the end times were already upon us back in the first century when he said, “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has <em><u>in these last days</u></em> spoken to us by His Son…”</li><li>The Temple Institute in Jerusalem <a href="https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/113476/temple-institute-certifies-red-heifer/">announced</a> in September of 2018 that the first red heifer born in Israel in 2,000 years “was certified by a board of rabbis as fulfilling all the Biblical requirements.”</li><li><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/keepers-of-the-lost-ark-179998820/">According</a> to the Smithsonian.com the Ark of the Covenant may not have been lost at all. “Through the centuries, Ethiopian Christians have claimed that the ark rests in a chapel in the small town of Aksum, in their country's northern highlands. It arrived nearly 3,000 years ago, they say, and has been guarded by a succession of virgin monks who, once anointed, are forbidden to set foot outside the chapel grounds until they die.”</li></ol><p>And there are scholars who agree with the Ethiopian Christians. “While the idea that the Ark was taken to Ethiopia is not new there has been renewed interest after evidence was unearthed by the Bible Archaeology, Search & Exploration Institute (BASE). In a blog post on the organization’s website it said: "As unusual as this may sound, the BASE team has uncovered compelling evidence that the Ark may well have been spirited up the Nile River to an eventual resting place in the remote highlands of ancient Kush–modern-day Ethiopia.</p><p>According to their research the Ark was taken out of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the reign of Manasseh where it was first taken to a Jewish colony on Elephantine Island in Egypt.</p><p>After that it is thought it was taken down the Nile to Lake Tana in Ethiopia and in particular Tana Kirkos Island, which is considered to be a holy island only populated by Christian monks.”</p><ol start="4"><li>And in this article I will reveal the location of the Third Temple.</li></ol><p>Let me digress:</p><p>When I gave my life to Christ and was born-again into a new life I was an alcoholic drug addict.</p><p>I’d never thought that was a bad or unusual thing, either before I was born-again or immediately afterward. Let me explain. You see I thought everyone was an alcoholic drug addict except of course for those bland bobble-heads I called squares or citizens and they meant no more to me than the gravel under my feet. Everyone who was anyone in my life was someone who either helped me get alcohol and drugs or enjoyed them with me.</p><p>I didn’t think there was anything wrong with using and abusing alcohol and drugs because where I came from everyone did. At least everyone I knew or interacted with. The local priest had his own stool at a local bar and was famous for his capacity to drink people under the table. The pastor of the church my parents attempted to make me attend was a notorious drunk. I knew police officers who got high and arrested people just to seize their drugs. I sat in police cars drinking with on duty officers. My best connection for weed was a Chicago police captain. In my neighborhood teachers, judges, doctors, everyone self-medicated.</p><p>I figured the only reason drugs were illegal was because the government had to throw a bone to the mob when they made alcohol legal. And besides in my mind the government made more money running people through the system then they would if they just taxed drug sales. I figured the presidents and others running the country got high they just had the real good stuff.</p><p>After I was born-again I was consumed with reading the Bible. As much as possible that was all I did. I would walk around my house reading the Bible drinking whiskey while chain-smoking cigarettes and joints. I just figured I was getting a spiritual high to augment my self-medicated continuous life buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p><p>It was beautiful.</p><p>Then I ran headfirst into <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+3%3A16-17&version=NKJV">I Corinthians 3:16-17</a>, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.”</p><p>This brought me up short. “I’m the temple of God!” I thought. Looking at the eight ounce tumbler of whiskey in one hand and the cigarette in the other I thought, “What am I doing?”</p><p>Right there and right then I set down that glass of whiskey, put out that cigarette looked at the bag of weed lying next to my hands on the desk and gave them up. That was it. No withdrawals. No regrets. God did all the heavy lifting and He made me clean.</p><p>Since that day I’ve never been drawn off course by anyone wondering about when the Third Temple was going to be built because God makes it clear that we are the temple of God. In <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+3%3A16-17&version=NKJV">I Corinthians 3:16-17</a> He says it straight out, “you are the temple of God.” And if that wasn’t enough there are other references to this fact in the Bible as well. Such as <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+peter+2%3A4-5&version=NKJV">I Peter 2:4-5</a>, “Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” </p><p>What is the Temple besides God’s house? What is it for? It is where the priests offered sacrifices. In the new world, the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+21%3A1&version=NKJV">New Earth</a> we inhabit when we become <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+CORINTHIANS+5%3A17&version=NKJV">a new creation</a> the sacrifices are spiritual and they are offered up in God’s house, His Holy Temple, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+3%3A16-17&version=NKJV">which temple we are</a>.</p><p>Secret revealed:</p><p>Where is the Third Temple? It is right here right now … it is the body of Christ made up of all believers <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+12%3A27&version=NKJV">collectively and individually</a>.</p><p>So don’t be drawn off base looking for that which has been revealed. Our Father God calls every Christian to be Christ to the world around us. To see with His eyes, hear with His ears, touch with His hands, and love with His heart. He told us that we will do the same kind of works He did while He walked among us only greater. So let’s not waste our time navel gazing into a reflecting glass of superimposed meanings when Revelation tells us clearly; Jesus is God, God wins in the end, and no matter how bad it gets we should <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+22%3A20&version=NKJV">pray</a>, “Even so come Lord Jesus.”</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens">Drrobertowens</a> or visit Dr. Owens <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1">Amazon Page</a> / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p><p> </p></div>
It Takes Faith to Be an Atheist
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/it-takes-faith-to-be-an-atheist
2018-07-20T14:08:46.000Z
2018-07-20T14:08:46.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>I once had enough faith in myself to believe there was no God. I had enough of that self-centered faith to believe the entire universe sprang from a Big Bang. I could believe that Big Bang came from an unbelievably dense unbelievably small point that for some unexplained reason suddenly exploded. I could believe that after the explosion this unbelievably dense unbelievably small point expanded into everything that is. I could believe that everything that is now expanding would eventually stop expanding and then contract back into that unbelievably dense unbelievably small point that would then eventually explode again and the entire process would happen again over and over from eternity to eternity. Yes, I had enough self-centered faith to believe all that. </p><p>I blindly accepted what scientist told me was verifiable evidence that all this was physically true. I never once asked myself any of these obvious questions: How could anyone possibly know that this had ever happened before? How could anyone possibly know that it would happen again? How could anyone possibly know where the unbelievably dense unbelievably small point came from? Or better yet, what made this self-existing unbelievably dense unbelievably small point explode?</p><p>Without asking any of these important questions I could believe all that without ever contemplating the fact that chaos breeds chaos it does not breed the complex organization that we observe in reality from atom to Adam. Or, as the <a href="https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-chemistry/chapter/the-laws-of-thermodynamics/">Second Law of Thermodynamics</a> puts it the <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/entropy">entropy</a> of any isolated system always increases.</p><p>In other words, the odds of a tornado hitting a junk yard and leaving a fully assembled 747 in its wake are less than zero. And to have order come from chaos on a universal scale would mean that that would have to happen billions upon billions of times. Which flies in the face of something I learned back during the Hippie commune days, no matter how many times you multiply zero it is still zero.</p><p>But I had faith! <span>Without blinking an eye I was proud</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23%3A24&version=NKJV">to</a> <span>strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. Everything came from one itsy bitsy piece of who knows what that existed from eternity to eternity exploding into everything and the shrinking back to an itsy bitsy piece of who knows what over and over. Sure that made sense but a loving God who created everything that was too far out to believe.</span></p><p><span>Jesus</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8%3A34-37&version=MSG">tells</a> <span>us that we have to come to the end of ourselves if we want to walk with Him. We have to realize that anyone who intends to come with Him has to let Him lead. We’re not in the driver’s seat; He is. We shouldn’t run from suffering we should embrace it. Follow Him and He’ll show us how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, His way, to finding ourselves, our true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything we want but lose ourselves? What could we ever trade our soul for? He</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+17%3A33&version=NKJV">said</a> <span>those who seek to hold on to everything will lose everything and those who let go of everything will gain everything.</span></p><p><span>When I first started trying to live this kind of life I thought of it as learning to walk backwards because it was the opposite of everything I had ever been taught on how to succeed.</span></p><p><span>When some people see another walking in faith following Christ sacrificing themselves for others they say, “Wow! They have such great faith.”</span></p><p>To be sure to follow Jesus takes faith but even that faith is a <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ephesians+2%3A8-10&version=NKJV">gift</a> from God. God <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+12%3A3&version=NKJV">gives</a> each of us a measure of faith and we should think seriously about that and follow that faith into the good works He’s <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ephesians+2%3A8-10&version=NKJV">given</a> us to do.</p><p>So while it takes God given faith to follow Jesus it takes faith in ourselves to be an atheist. I praise God that in my life the faith gift of God overwhelmed my own faith in me. When I look at all the dead ends my choices led me to and compare that to the fulfilling and joyful life I have found following Him and I can see that He has a better way.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens">Drrobertowens</a> or visit Dr. Owens <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1">Amazon Page</a> / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
Why is More Important Than How
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/why-is-more-important-than-how
2018-06-29T14:07:26.000Z
2018-06-29T14:07:26.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Does the immensity of creation ever overwhelm you? Does the fact that when you lay your hand on the cold hard surface of a table there is actually more space than matter in the table numb your mind? When you’re sitting on a beach letting the sand run through your fingers have you ever reflected on the thought that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth? Has the image of reality extending as deep through a microscope as it does through a telescope make you grasp for understanding when all you can possibly understand is that you can’t understand this immensity at all?</p><p>Science tries to explain it all.</p><p>Back in the 1890s Albert Abraham Michelson an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light who received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science <a href="https://www.quora.com/Which-19th-century-physicist-famously-said-that-all-that-remained-to-be-done-in-physics-was-compute-effects-to-another-decimal-place">put</a> it this way, “While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. It is here that the science of measurement shows its importance — where quantitative work is more to be desired than qualitative work. An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical sciences are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.”</p><p>In other words the deepest thinkers came to the conclusion t<span>here was nothing new to be discovered in physics. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.</span></p><p><span>Since then the theories of Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have shown us that we know a lot less than we thought we did. I guess it took a genius like Einstein to discover that we aren’t as smart as we think we are. And yet most of us who figured that out by about eighth grade continue to listen to these geniuses when they tell us they can figure out everything else.</span></p><p><span>And while science is pretty good at explaining the “how” of things they always leave out the “Why.”</span></p><p><span>They can tell us there was a BIG BANG (the “Let there be” experience for believers) they even try to tell us how there was BIG BANG, but they never even attempt to tell us why there was BIG BANG.</span></p><p>And to my mind and my heart the why is more important than the how.</p><p>Science is great at identifying things. They are passable at explaining things. Yet, when it comes to this ultimate question of why, science never utters a sound.</p><p>Look at life. Scientists can identify it. They can quantify it. They have attempted to tell us how it became so diversified. They now even say they can create it. But they never tell us why there is life.</p><p>Have you ever wondered why?</p><p>Life is the essence of the universe. Life is the ultimate goal and it’s the meaning of everything.</p><p>The Bible is the why book. It is the operating manual for life. It not only tells us how … God created everything. It tells us why … as a dwelling place for the crown of His creation … humanity.</p><p>Why?</p><p>In the Old Testament God is specifically called the Father of the nation of Israel (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/deuteronomy/32-6.html">Deut 32:6</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/isaiah/63-16.html">Isa 63:16</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/isaiah/64-8.html">64:8</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/jeremiah/3-4.html">Jeremiah 3:4</a> <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/jeremiah/3-19.html">Jeremiah 3:19</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/jeremiah/31-9.html">31:9</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/malachi/1-6.html">Mal 1:6</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/malachi/2-10.html">2:10</a>) or the Father of certain individuals (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-samuel/7-14.html">2 Sam 7:14</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-chronicles/17-13.html">1 Chron 17:13</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-chronicles/22-10.html">22:10</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-chronicles/28-6.html">28:6</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/68-5.html">Psalm 68:5</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/89-26.html">89:26</a>) fifteen times. At times the father imagery is present although the term "Father" is not used (<a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/passage/?q=Exodus+4:22-23">Exod 4:22-23</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/deuteronomy/1-31.html">Deut 1:31</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/deuteronomy/8-5.html">8:5</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/deuteronomy/14-1.html">14:1</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/103-13.html">Psalm 103:13</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/jeremiah/3-22.html">Jer 3:22</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/jeremiah/31-20.html">31:20</a> ; <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/passage/?q=Hosea+11:1-4">Hosea 11:1-4</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/malachi/3-17.html">Mal 3:17</a>).</p><p>In the intertestamental literature the term is also used. In the <a href="https://www.biblica.com/resources/bible-faqs/why-do-some-bibles-have-a-section-called-the-apocrypha/">Apocrypha</a> (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Wisdom%202%3A16">Wis 2:16</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Wisdom%2014%3A3">14:3</a>; <a href="http://apocrypha.org/tobit/13-4.htm">Tob 13:4</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+23%3A1%2CSirach+23%3A4&version=NRSV">Sir 23:1</a>, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+23%3A1%2CSirach+23%3A4&version=NRSV">4</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+51%3A10&version=NRSV">51:10</a>); and in the <a href="https://www.compellingtruth.org/Pseudepigrapha.html">Pseudepigrapha</a> (<a href="http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/jubilees/1.htm">Jub 1:24</a>; <a href="http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/jubilees/19.htm">19:29</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3+Maccabees+5%3A7&version=CEB">3 Macc 5:7</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3+Maccabees+6%3A8&version=CEB">6:8</a>).</p><p>The teaching of the Fatherhood of God takes a decided turn with Jesus, for "Father" was His favorite term for addressing God. It appears on His lips some sixty-five times in the Synoptic Gospels and over one hundred times in John.</p><p>Because of Jesus' use of this metaphor, it is not surprising that the rest of the New Testament also emphasizes the Fatherhood of God. In the Pauline letters God is described as "Father" over forty times. It occurs in blessings (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1-7.html">Rom 1:7</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-corinthians/1-3.html">1 Cor 1:3</a>), doxologies (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/15-6.html">Rom 15:6</a>), thanksgivings ( <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-corinthians/1-3.html">2 Cor 1:3</a> ; <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/passage/?q=1%20Thessalonians+1:2-3">1 Thess 1:2-3</a>), prayers (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/colossians/1-12.html">Col 1:12</a>), exhortations (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/ephesians/5-20.html">Eph 5:20</a>), and creeds (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-corinthians/8-6.html">1 Cor 8:6</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/ephesians/4-6.html">Eph 4:6</a>). For Paul this fatherhood is based not so much on God's role in creation but rather on the redemption and reconciliation he has made available in Jesus Christ. This is why Paul refers to "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/15-6.html">Rom 15:6</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-corinthians/1-3.html">2 Cor 1:3</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-corinthians/11-31.html">11:31</a>). It is through the work of Christ that God invites us to call him "<em>Abba,</em> Father." It is through Christ that grace and peace have resulted and we have become God's children (<a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/passage/?q=Romans+8:12-16">Rom 8:12-16</a> ; <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/passage/?q=1%20Peter+1:3-4">1 Peter 1:3-4</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-john/3-1.html">1 John 3:1</a>).</p><p>This is not to say that God is male. He is spirit and as such is neither male nor female. It is not to denigrate motherhood. For who among us would desire to live in a world without a mother’s love. When God is referred as a father, this is simply the use of a metaphor in which he is likened to a kind and loving father. And if we were to tip our hat to the political correctness of the day by avoiding the metaphor of father as a description and designation for God we would lose sight of the fact that Jesus chose this as His metaphor to address God and that He taught this as <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+6%3A9-13&version=NKJV">the metaphor</a> by which His disciples should address God.</p><p>It also loses sight of the continuity established by the use of this metaphor with those who have called God "Father" over the centuries. These include the disciples; the earliest congregations (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/8-15.html">Rom 8:15</a> ; <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/galatians/4-6.html">Gal 4:6</a>); the earliest church councils ("I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth "); and Christian churches all over the globe who over the centuries have prayed <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+6%3A9-13&version=NKJV">together</a> "Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name."</p><p>Because of God’s <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/fatherhood-of-god.html">Fatherhood</a> the heart of the Eternal Father longed for children. This is why He created Adam and Eve and gave them the power to go forth and multiply. Unfortunately they <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genisis+3%3A1-24&version=NKJV">sinned</a> and fell short of the glory of God. There was no way back. They had surrendered their place as God’s companion, the gardener of Eden to Satan and were cast out.</p><p>But God in His infinite mercy and love made a way back.</p><p>He sent Jesus to live a sinless life and then die as the sacrifice, the payment for all our sins so that all who have faith in Him can be counted as righteous and thus re-united with God.</p><p>It’s all summed up in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+10%3A9&version=NKJV">this</a>; <span>if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.</span></p><p><span>We are born lost and rejected, children of sin and children of the devil. If we turn away from the world and accept Jesus as our Savior we are born again and we become children of God in Christ.</span></p><p><span>This is the why. All of creation is for one reason and that is to bring children to God and fulfill the Father’s love that is His heart.</span></p><p><span>So science may try to tell us how but you see the why is more important than the how.</span></p><p><span>A short story to highlight the what, the where, and the how:</span></p><p><span>A scientist says to God, “You’re not so much we have figured out how to make life in our laboratories.”</span></p><p><span>God says, “Oh, you have.”</span></p><p><span>The scientist, swelling with pride then says, “Come on let’s have a contest and see who can make life the quickest and the best.”</span></p><p><span>God smiles and says, “All right.”</span></p><p><span>God reaches down and picks up a hand full of dirt and starts molding it gently.</span></p><p><span>The scientist adds some chemicals to a couple of test tubes and starts mixing them back and forth.</span></p><p><span>God looks over at the scientist and says, “Hey! Get your own dirt.”</span></p><p><span>From atom to Adam God has done it all. So if you find yourself hung up in the how just remember the why is more important than the how. And if you find yourself questioning God just remember, “He’s the Father that’s why.”</span></p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens">Drrobertowens</a> or visit Dr. Owens <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1">Amazon Page</a> / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
If God is So Good Why is There Evil?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/if-god-is-so-good-why-is-there-evil
2018-06-23T12:31:54.000Z
2018-06-23T12:31:54.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>This question has confounded philosophers for ages and led countless millions to blame God for all the evil in the world. We must have faith if we’re going to question whether God is the author of evil since the Bible <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119%3A68&version=MSG">says</a> of God, “<span>You are good, and the source of good.</span>” </p><p>We need faith to doubt God and instead ask the question, “If God is good why is there evil?”</p><p>Why do I say that we need faith to question God?</p><p>To even consider this question we must first accept the fact that God is and that He created the world. If those two things are not the foundation of our faith, the basis of our world view, the question which forms the center of this essay is a meaningless exercise, an enigma wrapped in a riddle that makes no sense. </p><p>Most of us believe in fairness. So how can we even think of blaming God for evil if He isn’t the source of it? That wouldn’t be very fair would it? So we’ve established that if we ask this question, “If God is so good why is there evil?” Or, if we blame God for all the evil we see in the world we must therefore believe in God and believe He is the creator of all things.</p><p>Having established that this question will only make sense in the context of faith let’s move forward with our reasoning.</p><p>First, we must determine is life as we know it normal? Is this world filled with hatred, violence, death, disease, and war what God intended? Was it His plan to have us suffer through this vale of tears?</p><p>There is only one place we have a chance to get God’s side of this question. He only wrote one book. Therefore if we reject the Bible as God’s word we have nowhere to get the answer to this question except our own finite mind. Does seeking the answer to an eternal question in a finite source make any sense? If as established above we have a foundational faith in the existence of God and that He is the creator of the world eternal facts which we can only learn from the Bible why would we then reject the Bible as a source of other eternal knowledge?</p><p>Moving forward in reasoning based on the eternal knowledge revealed in the Bible:</p><p>We know God placed Adam and Eve in Eden. Are we to believe that God intended for his children to run around naked in a poison ivy patch filled with thorns and thistles? No, <span>at the end of the fifth day of creation after God had made the whole universe and all that is in it except man he looked over everything He had made and</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genisis+1%3A31&version=NLT">it was good</a><span>. If everything was good and then after He brings man into the equation all of a sudden there is all this not good going on all over the place what happened?</span></p><p><span>Humanity was not an afterthought. God didn’t create the world and then decide, “I need a gardener” and then make humans to fit the bill. You see</span> <span>long</span> <a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/1-4.htm">before He laid down earth’s foundations</a><span>, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love, to be made whole and holy by His love. Long, long ago He decided to adopt us into His family through Jesus Christ. Humanity was marked out as God’s children before He said, “Let there be light,” or as the science guys call it, the big bang. Before the foundations of creation were laid God purposed a family, and humanity is the</span> <a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/1-4.htm">answer</a> <span>to that purpose.</span></p><p><span>But what kind of a being did God create?</span></p><p><span>When God was saying let there be this and let there be that and He came to the creation of humanity He</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genisis+1&version=MSG">said</a><span>, “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature.” That’s right. He made humanity in His own image. He goes on to</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genisis+1&version=MSG">tell</a> <span>us, “God created human beings; He created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature.” That’s what it says. When God first created humans they were in His class. Not the monkey class…the God class.</span></p><p><span>And He even</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genisis+1&version=MSG">tells</a> <span>us why, “So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.” Then He</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genisis+1&version=MSG">gave</a> <span>them the power to reproduce so they could give Him a wonderfully large family to manage His creation, “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.” </span></p><p>That was His plan. He created a perfect earth and then created beings that were like Him to run it as His assistants, His superintendents. Humanity was given complete charge over the earth from the fish in the sea to the birds in the air. It was all ours to command because God gave it over to us. </p><p>If God is anything He is fair. If He makes a deal He sticks to it. God is not a contact breaker.</p><p>Just think of this: if I gave my child a new car signing the title over to him doesn’t he then have a legal right to do anything he wants with that car?</p><p>I may have wanted him to use it for his business, maybe taking the kids to school, and even for his own pleasure. That was my vision when I gave him the car.</p><p>But he had other ideas. He decided to give the car to someone else. He signs the title over to her. Who does the car belong to? </p><p>Would I have any legal right to take it back from the one he gave it to and say, “Hey, that isn’t your car! I bought it for my child.” I don’t think that would stand up in court. That wouldn’t be legal.</p><p>You see God gave humanity dominion over the earth. We have no idea how long that dominion lasted. Adam and Eve could have been in the garden for millions of years. We have no way of knowing. But then along comes Satan, the father of sin, whose <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+14%3A+12-14&version=NKJV">original sin</a> was saying that he would set his throne above the Most High and that he would make himself god. </p><p>And what does he do? He invents the first pyramid scheme.</p><p>He entices Eve with the idea that she could be like God. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+timothy+2%3A14&version=NKJV">Eve was conned</a>. She bought the dream … eat the forbidden fruit … then lay on the beach collecting residuals as the new god. Hook, line, and sinker she swallowed it all. She never understood the part about kicking it all back up the line to her new boss, Satan.</p><p>Then Adam comes home and Eve tells him of the fabulous deal Satan is offering. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+timothy+2%3A14&version=NKJV">Adam isn’t fooled</a>. He sees through the whole thing but he wants to be with his wife so he signs on the dotted line and by doing that he transferred his dominion over to Satan. He gave Satan the title to the new car.</p><p>Now God being a loving Father wanted his children to have the new car but they gave it away, so being a just God He can’t just take it back. Therefore, because of the treason of Adam creation now <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8:22&version=NKJV">groans</a> under the lordship of Satan.</p><p>That’s it in a nut shell. God created humanity to be His supervisor here on a perfect earth. He gave us the title deed to the planet. Then through Adam’s willful disobedience we gave it to Satan and that’s how he became the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+corinthians+4%3A4&version=NLT">god of this world</a>. Ever since, Satan’s nature, evil, has ridden rough shod over us and sin and death have plagued us from that day to this.</p><p>This isn’t what God planned. This is the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5%3A12-17&version=NKJV">result of our choice</a>, the choice to serve Satan instead of God. And remember Satan’s original sin was that he wanted to play God, so every time we blame God for what Satan has done we give him exactly what he wanted all along … to be recognized as God.</p><p>What a mess we made. God gave us a good deal and we traded it in for a swindle. </p><p>All I can do is echo another poor sinner saved by grace who once said, “Oh wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”</p><p>More on that later. …</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ <a href="https://twitter.com/Drrobertowens">Drrobertowens</a> or visit Dr. Owens <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Robert-Owens/e/B01M24DREO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509455220&sr=8-1">Amazon Page</a> / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
A Childless Father Who Has a Son
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/a-childless-father-who-has-a-son
2018-06-15T19:17:29.000Z
2018-06-15T19:17:29.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>I am blessed. My wife gave me a son. He was hers before he was mine. Then he became ours. In my heart he is always mine and I feel as if I am his Dad. But it often feels like a homerun record with an asterisk, an almost. You see, I’m a step-father. That’s as close as I will ever come to experiencing the life of a father and for that I am forever thankful to God for I am a childless father who has a son.</p><p>I know the pride of watching my son play little league. Together we experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat. I encouraged him to play music. I helped with homework. I watched him march in band. I raced against the stop lights time after time to make it to events and meetings with teachers, doctor’s appointments, and birthdays. I watched him graduate grade school after driving him from one town to another so he could remain in the same school with his friends after we moved. I blessed God when he graduated high school and earned scholarships to college. I was happy when he chose the girl my wife and I prayed for long before we ever met her, enjoyed being the father of the groom, and I love my grandchildren with all my heart. I am truly blessed. My wife gave me a son.</p><p>But there are four other children I have never known. Four other children blood of my blood and bone of my bone that I never had the chance to know.</p><p>These are my aborted children.</p><p>They were aborted without my consent, told by the women involved and the courts that it was none of my business, murdered within the law, slaughtered beyond the pale. They are still alive within my heart.</p><p>Let me say in defense of the women who aborted my children, before I gave my life to Christ I was a snake. As a matter of fact I’ve always said that before I was saved snakes would cross the street when they saw me coming. I was a drug addicted; drunken scheming dreamer convinced I should be something I wasn’t and equally convince I wasn’t what I was.</p><p>Any young woman who learned they were pregnant and that I was the father could not be blamed for deciding I was a waste of space, a self-indulgent loser, and a disaster as a potential father. And although none of the three young women involved ever told me why they aborted my children, that’s what I have always thought was my addition to the equation.</p><p>Once I gave my life to Christ. Once I sobered up, straightened out, and stood in the light of His love I knew he forgave me for any part I played in the deaths of these innocent children. I know He forgives everyone who lays their sins at the foot of the cross.</p><p>Over the years He has ministered to my heart, my spirit, and my soul as I have cried tears for who could have been. I am healed for when He said, “It is finished,” sin was defeated. When He rose from the grave life conquered death, and since He ascended into heaven where He took His place at the right hand of the Father together we all live in Him. I am healed.</p><p>But there is not a day I don’t miss those children. There is not a day I don’t think of what might have been. There is not a day that I don’t imagine seeing them in Him.</p><p>I struggle sometimes knowing that two of the women who aborted my children later had other children. They’ve had an experience they took from me. I don’t begrudge them the joy of parenting. I have forgiven them. But sometimes I’m jealous of what they have and of what I shall never have and for this I repent. I also struggle sometimes watching other women I know have had abortions and later had children. I know God has forgiven them. I don’t have anything against them but at times I struggle with my own emotions.</p><p>All of this is the burden of this forgotten father. I was forgotten in the decision to abort my children. I have been forgotten in all the years since.</p><p>I may be forgotten but I cannot forget.</p><p>My children died. Four lost lives in the American holocaust of millions. They are four souls whose blood cries out to God, four cracks in my broken heart, four children of God I long to know, four tears I shall cry till the day we meet.</p><p>A step-father is like a used shoe. It may look good, it may wear well, and at time it may even feel good. But it’s still a used shoe.</p><p>However my step-son may feel about me I know how I feel about him. He is my son. I may have lost four but I have gained one. I am blessed. My wife gave me a son.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
Christmas 2017
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/christmas-2017
2017-12-21T13:51:27.000Z
2017-12-21T13:51:27.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>In <a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/trenches.htm">December of 1914</a> in the first bitter winter of a long bitter war the solders of the German Empire and the soldiers of the British Empire defied the orders of their officers. They abandoned their hastily dug entrenchments that would soon grow into an elaborate maze of trenches stretching from Switzerland to the English Channel to meet each other in no man’s land. They sang hymns and exchanged gifts in a spontaneous outpouring of the feelings of peace, fellowship, and forgiveness which were then the staples of a Christ centered Christmas season.</p><p>In the midst of the War to End War these enemies found peace in the love of their Savior. Can we at least hope that in the midst of what feels like a terminally divided America if we would take His hand, if we would follow Him maybe we could do the same?</p><p>The season for which He is the reason is upon us so let us reflect:</p><p>If you drench yourself in the torrent of Christmas movies that bombard us from Thanksgiving till December 25<sup>th</sup> you see that the spirit of Christmas in emotional America isn’t about the Christ child who came into a lost world to die as a payment for sin and to rise again to bring new life in harmony with God. It is instead about the sentimental ideal of love and the boy gets the girl or is it the girl gets the boy? Who knows sometimes they throw in a curve that really builds the suspense. There are movies about Santa Clause, his sons, his daughters; his elves and wingless angels all of whom help people learn the true meaning of Christmas which is never about Christ and always about family and friends and being nice people.</p><p>In our highly commercialized America Christmas is about Black Friday that starts on Thursday then goes for a week and discounts so deep they remind me of the street vendor in Mexico who follows you shouting “I’ll give you 110% off if you buy two!” The Chia Pets come out along with snuggies, pet rocks, and every other doodad imaginable to buy for people who already have too much.</p><p>The mountains of presents which obscenely bury Christmas trees in so many American homes are ripped apart by sugar-high children. Children who get into a frenzy of getting so intense they never have time to appreciate what they get. All they want is to get something else. The beautiful wrapping paper, the miles of ribbon, and the forests of bows are stuffed the next day unceremoniously into big green garbage bags on their way to landfills. </p><p>We hear and see the refrain, “Jesus is the reason for the season,” from those who try to stand against the tide. If we do or say anything to question the Madison Avenue, Miracle on 34<sup>th</sup> Street, It’s a Wonderful Life, tinsel, twinkling lights, Santa’s on the roof, and do reindeers really know how to fly presentation of a holiday on steroids we are accused of being a Grinch.</p><p>The following sums up the tension between Christmas and Xmas for me:</p><p>Shortly after I gave my life to Jesus I was moving to another part of the country and I decided to spend my last Christmas with relatives in the old home place. When I walked in the door I was greeted by a small committee who knew of my new found devotion with the command, “Don’t ruin Christmas with a bunch of Jesus.”</p><p>Sometimes the words of others can express our own feelings as well or better than we can do ourselves. For me personally of all the contemporary Christian artists which help make my life livable <a href="https://castingcrowns.com/home/">Casting Crowns</a> most closely expresses my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. And although this isn’t technically a Christmas song it gives voice to the faith that for me truly makes Jesus the reason for the season:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Friend-Of-Sinners/dp/B005SZTF8A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513346779&sr=8-1&keywords=jesus+friend+of+sinners">Jesus, Friend of Sinners</a></p><p>Jesus, friend of sinners, we have strayed so far away<br /> We cut down people in your name but the sword was never ours to swing<br /> Jesus, friend of sinners, the truth's become so hard to see<br /> The world is on their way to You but they're tripping over me<br /> Always looking around but never looking up I'm so double minded<br /> A plank eyed saint with dirty hands and a heart divided</p><p>Oh Jesus, friend of sinners<br /> Open our eyes to the world at the end of our pointing fingers<br /> Let our hearts be led by mercy<br /> Help us reach with open hearts and open doors<br /> Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours</p><p>Yeah</p><p>Jesus, friend of sinners, the one who's writing in the sand<br /> Make the righteous turn away and the stones fall from their hands<br /> Help us to remember we are all the least of thieves<br /> Let the memory of Your mercy bring Your people to their knees<br /> No one knows what we're for only against when we judge the wounded<br /> What if we put down our signs crossed over the lines and loved like You did</p><p>Oh Jesus, friend of sinners<br /> Open our eyes to world at the end of our pointing fingers<br /> Let our hearts be led by mercy<br /> Help us reach with open hearts and open doors<br /> Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours</p><p>You love every lost cause; you reach for the outcast<br /> For the leper and the lame; they're the reason that You came<br /> Lord I was that lost cause and I was the outcast<br /> But you died for sinners just like me, a grateful leper at Your feet</p><p>'Cause You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever<br /> You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever<br /> You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever<br /> You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever</p><p>Oh Jesus, friend of sinners<br /> Open our eyes to world at the end of our pointing fingers<br /> Let our hearts be led by mercy<br /> Help us reach with open hearts and open doors<br /> Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks Yours</p><p>And I was the lost 'cause and I was the outcast<br /> Yeah<br /> You died for sinners just like me, a grateful leper at Your feet</p><p>To make sense of His birth we must look also to His death, His resurrection, and to the fact the He will come again.</p><p>Or as Casting Crowns puts it in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXp6xcY5IqU">remake</a> of a classic:</p><p>Living, He loved me<br /> Dying, He saved me<br /> Buried, He carried my sins far away<br /> Rising, He justified freely forever<br /> One day He's coming<br /> Oh glorious day, oh glorious day</p><p> </p><p>So from me to you: Merry Christmas…oh glorious day indeed.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2017 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
My Witness
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/my-witness
2017-04-13T15:08:26.000Z
2017-04-13T15:08:26.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>When I was young I was not a nice fellow. Snakes would cross the street when I sauntered down the sidewalk. My all consuming passion was getting enough alcohol and drugs to help me forget something I couldn’t remember. Playing music and living in a 24/7 party atmosphere was all I cared about. Other people were collateral damage on my way to a buzz. I had the name of my guitar tattooed on my arm so women would know where my loyalties lay. </p><p>Spiritually I was dead inside. I called myself an atheist and I was faithful to my boast. Anyone who spoke to me of any religion was automatically consigned by me to irrelevance. The closest thing I had to an actual conviction was a strident attachment to militant apathy. I didn’t care about anything and I couldn’t stand anyone who did.</p><p>That was my life until I was thirty. Then God spoke to me. God touched me. God changed me. God gave me a new life. I was born again.</p><p>Today I can remember what I did in my former life but I can no longer relate to it. It as if my life before God was a movie I have seen. I can recall the important scenes and the important characters but I feel a complete detachment to being one of the actors in the plot.</p><p>God gave me a wife who is the love of my life. He gave me a son who is my heir and friend. He gave me a daughter-in-love who is the daughter I always wanted to have. He has given me two grandchildren who are the joy of my life as a seasoned citizen. He has allowed me to see miracles, plant churches, be a pastor, found ministries that fed and clothed thousands, watch people accept Him, watch people grow in Him, and hold the hands of people who went to join Him.</p><p>I was born again on Palm Sunday in 1980 so I just had my 37<sup>th</sup> birthday as a child of God. I give Him the glory for my life. I give Him the honor that is His due. I cannot even give a fraction of the love He has shown. He is my source, my summit, and my all.</p><p>As we approach the celebration of His rising from the dead I am reminded of the fact that it is faith that saves us and that not of our self for even the faith is a gift. I look about at all the traditions and customs we have developed in more than two thousand years and I smile. I pray that everyone who calls on His name has a blessed and joyous Resurrection Day. Enjoy the season as best meets the requirements of your faith.</p><p>Let us all recall that if we confess Jesus as Lord and if we believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead we shall be saved.</p><p>That is the truth, the truth upon which all of reality rests. That is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, all the rest is window dressing. Just as one enjoys Italian food and another enjoys Chinese yet all food is good to those who like it. So too, our traditions and customs if they do not detract from the truth of by who and how we are saved are all good.</p><p>Have a wonderful time with family and friends, co-religionists and those C&E Christians who make it standing room only at so many normally empty churches at this time of year. Love them all and let God sort them out. Just remember, the biggest surprise when we get to heave in not who is there but that we are for it is not by works but by faith that we are saved. The greatest saint and the worst sinner both need the Lord’s grace to enter in.</p><p>There is no sin so great that it cannot be forgiven if we lay it at the cross. He knows us better than we can ever know ourselves and he forgives us. Don’t labor under a load you were never meant to carry any further than the cross. Give it all to Him and he will give you rest.</p><p>I praise Him for saving me. I praise Him for giving me life. I ask Him to open doors for me to serve Him. And when I am gone there is but one eulogy I wish anyone to hear, “God got the glory!”</p><p>Yours in Him,</p><p>Robert</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2017 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p></div>
Science Fact Swallows Science Fiction
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/science-fact-swallows-science-fiction
2017-01-26T16:26:19.000Z
2017-01-26T16:26:19.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Not too long ago I began a science fiction novel, which has always been a dream of mine, and since I finally broke through the fiction wall last year with my book, <i>America’s Trojan War</i> I thought it was time. I even had a plot that had been rattling around in my mind for years.</p><p>I began working in what I call Writing Mode, which is where I go when consumed with the writing of a new book. Typically I will rise at about four in the morning and write for twelve hours, sleep and repeat until done. Building on the years of pre-writing and research that precedes the first chapter I often stay in continuous Writing Mode for weeks at a time.</p><p>This process has led to the completion of a dozen published books and several more that are currently working their way through the publication pipeline. In my mind’s eye I could see my long anticipated science fiction novel spring fully formed from my forehead much as Athena sprang from Jupiter’s in the Greek Myth. The anticipation of a successful creative birth drove me on.</p><p>Here is the plot that inspired me. A couple of scientists who were also husband and wife, he a world renowned geneticist and she a programming superstar, decide to translate the human genome into computer code. Once they have completed this herculean task they decide to hack the code. When they do they are immediately confronted with the entity that wrote the code and transported into an endless array of parallel realities. In these multiple realities it seems each was the invention of another and like a reflection of a reflection in a mirror these wheels within wheels stretched infinitely off into life begetting life.</p><p>Through struggles, temptations, and conflict the pair of scientific Argonauts chased the golden fleece of knowledge searching for the prime cause. For they knew that every sequence has its beginning, and there must always be not only a first domino to fall but also someone to knock it over. </p><p>Then in what was meant to be a stunning and thought provoking climax our intrepid duo finally break through to the final reality and find themselves using their hacked DNA code to birth a new reality. Thus the circle is unbroken and life begets life begets life begets life in an eternal cycle and the prime mover remains veiled while the unnatural source of nature reverberates through reality.</p><p>That was the plan.</p><p>Unfortunately the reality of science fact swallowed my science fiction. First the <a href="http://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-crispr-cas9">CRISPR-Cas9</a> comes along. This is a remarkable technology that enables geneticists and medical researchers to edit the genome by removing, adding, or altering sections of the DNA sequence. There goes the revolutionary idea of hacking the genome.</p><p>This was followed by a <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/lab-made-dna-breed-life-form/2017/01/25/id/770293/">headline</a> which provided the final nail in my science fictional coffin, “Lab-Made DNA Used to Breed a Life Form for the First Time.” This article continued to hammer away at my fictional ideas of creating life by introducing modified genetic codes into reality and thereby willing existence into reality. The author, Clyde Hughes, put it this way, “Lab-made DNA has been used to breed a life form for the first time by expanding the genetic code with the help of common E. coli microbes.” </p><p>Not satisfied with dashing my dreams of wowing people with outlandish concepts the article added, “Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California modified common E. coli microbes to carry expanded genetic material which they believe will eventually allow them to program how the organisms operate and behave.” As my imagination was corralled by reality the following posts were driven into the now to confine my musings of the future:</p><p>“Scripps Research scientist Floyd Romesberg said his colleagues have created a single-celled organism that can hold on indefinitely to the natural DNA mix in synthetic-base material.”</p><p>“You can think of these unnatural nucleobases as X and Y.”</p><p>“Romesberg said the challenge with X and Y … was that they would lose their code as they divided. Graduate student Yorke Zhang and Brian Lamb, an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow, used a tool called a nucleotide transporter to allow X and Y to be copied across the cell's membrane.”</p><p>According to Zhang, "The transporter was used … , but it made the semisynthetic organism very sick."</p><p>The author of the article interjected, “The researchers found a way to modify the transporter that alleviated the problem, making it easier for the organism to grow and divide while holding on to X and Y.”</p><p>And finally the author and the scientists ganged up on me and delivered the death blow to my science fiction fantasy about creating life when they delivered this, “The researchers said their next step is to study how their new genetic code can be transcribed into RNA, the molecule in cells needed to translate DNA into proteins.”</p><p>I figured why write a fictional novel about what is now reality. Therefore to compensate for this extreme case of Writus Interruptus and to live out the rituals and exigencies of my artistic <a href="http://www.startrek.com/database_article/pon-farr">Pon farr</a> I waded into the depths of writing mode birthing two new books which will soon be available. These books are: <i>Then Came Trump</i>, wherein I share insights about where we have come from, where we are now, and where the Donald promised to lead us. And <i>The More things Change the More They Stay the Same</i>, which deals with the development of the secular political religion which is jingoistic patriotism using the three presidential assassinations of the 19<sup>th</sup> century as case studies.</p><p>Reflecting further on the startling announcement that humanity now has the power to create life I am reminded of an old story.</p><p>A scientist says to God, “You’re not so much I can create life right here in my laboratory.”</p><p>God answers, “Is that so?”</p><p>“Yes, it is and I challenge you to a contest. Let’s see who can create life faster and better, you or I” responded the scientist filled with pride over his great ability.</p><p>“All right,” said God “let’s give it a try.” </p><p>With that God stoops down and picks up some dust and starts molding it in his hands and the scientist grabs his test tubes and starts pouring liquids back and forth. God pauses and looks at the scientist and says, “Hey, get your own dust.”</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2017 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>I began working in what I call Writing Mode which is where I go when consumed with the writing of a new book. </p><p>Tags:</p><p></p><p> </p></div>
Merry Christmas or Mary’s Christmas?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/merry-christmas-or-mary-s-christmas
2016-12-22T12:51:06.000Z
2016-12-22T12:51:06.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p class="paragraph">In <a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/trenches.htm" target="_blank">December of 1914</a> in the first bitter winter of a long bitter war the solders of the German Empire and the soldiers of the British Empire defied the orders of their officers. They abandoned their hastily dug entrenchments, that would soon grow into an elaborate maze of trenches stretching from Switzerland to the English Channel, to meet each other in no man’s land. They sang hymns and exchanged gifts in a spontaneous outpouring of the feelings of peace, fellowship, and forgiveness which were then the staples of a Christ centered Christmas season. </p><p class="paragraph">If you drench yourself in the torrent of Christmas movies that bombard us from Thanksgiving till December 25<sup>th</sup> you see that the spirit of Christmas in emotional America isn’t about the Christ child who came into a lost world to die as a payment for sin and to rise again to bring new life in harmony with God. It is instead about the sentimental ideal of love and the boy gets the girl or is it the girl gets the boy? Who knows, sometimes they throw in a curve that really builds the suspense. There are movies about Santa Clause, his sons, his daughters, his elves, and wingless angels all of whom help people learn the true meaning of Christmas, which is never about Christ and always about family and friends and being nice people. </p><p class="paragraph">In commercial America, Christmas is about Black Friday and discounts so deep they remind me of the street vendor in Mexico who follows you shouting “I’ll give you 110% off if you buy two!” The Chia Pets come out along with snuggies, pet rocks, and every other doodad imaginable to buy for people who already have too much. </p><p class="paragraph">The mountains of presents which obscenely bury Christmas trees in so many American homes are ripped apart by sugar-high children. Children who get into a frenzy of getting so intense they never have time to appreciate what they get. All they want is to get something else. The beautiful wrapping paper, the miles of ribbon, and the forests of bows are stuffed unceremoniously into big green garbage bags soon on their way to landfills. </p><p class="paragraph">The problem with being a Historian is that you are constantly looking for the context, the background, the circumstances in the past that created the circumstances you face in the here and now. Sometimes when you discover the story behind the story it isn’t what you thought it would be. Sometimes it is the opposite of what you thought you would find. <a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/111225/Plus/plus_10.html" target="_blank">Take Christmas for instance</a>. </p><p class="paragraph">The early Church never celebrated Christmas. Why didn’t the early Christians celebrate the festival honoring the birth of Jesus Christ? For the same reason they didn’t honor either birthdays or anniversaries. It was known that the celebrating of any day or date was a custom of the pagans. By the word ‘pagans’ they meant people who still lived in the darkness of superstition. In an effort to divest themselves of all pagan practices, they did not even set aside or note down the date of their Savior’s birth. </p><p class="paragraph">In the Fourth Century, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Controversy, heresy, and false teaching began to plague a church now swollen from small groups of dedicated disciples ready to suffer persecution with and for Christ to a massive bureaucratic organization crammed with those who wanted to be part of the religion mandated by the government. Naturally the Church began to lose its fervor and fire: the zealous faith that exploded out of Israel and spread through the Roman world. Unfortunately, just like today, the Christian leaders of that time not knowing the true secret of the Church’s growth, looked to outward sources to bolster their flagging faith. Celebrations and entertainment began to surface within the church. </p><p class="paragraph">In 354 AD - Bishop Liberius of Rome declared that Christians everywhere should celebrate the birth of Christ on December 25. Since the early Christians didn’t record the actual date of Jesus’ birth how was December 25<sup>th</sup> decided upon? Most scholars agree that the birth of the Redeemer did not take place in the month of December at all. In fact, the 25th of December was not even chosen by the Christians, but by the pagan Romans. </p><p class="paragraph">When the Romans of that age noticed that the days grew shorter each year during the months of November and December, they began to fear that the earth might be dying. Therefore with the ‘return of the sun’ at the end of December resulting in longer days, the Romans began to celebrate the “Feast of the Sol Invictus” (the Unconquerable Sun) on December 25. Soon many Christians began to join in this pagan festival and the various celebrations that went with it. Their faith wasn’t vibrant enough (or real enough) to stand against the strong pull of the festivity and celebration around them. They drifted with the crowd. </p><p class="paragraph">Thus, in order to keep the Christians away from all the pagan rituals that were part of this worship of the sun, Bishop Liberius of Rome declared, in 354 A.D., that all Christians everywhere should celebrate the birth of our Lord on December 25. </p><p class="paragraph">Did this celebration continue unbroken? No. During the rule of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of Britain and the Commonwealth, the celebration of Christmas was banned because of “the heathen traditions surrounding this sacred event.” From 1649 to 1658 no celebration was allowed except for special church services on Christmas Eve. Cromwell was a dedicated Christian who lived by the commands and principles of Scripture. </p><p class="paragraph">We must recognize a parallel in what took place in church history and what is taking place in this day and age. The pagan festivities of the fourth century and Cromwell’s day are much like the commercial celebration of Christmas today. </p><p class="paragraph">Christians no longer participate in the worship of the sun or the sun god as in the fourth century. The centerpiece of Christmas is now no longer the sun but the unconquerable Santa Claus. This white bearded, chubby benefactor typifies the god of this age – materialism. It was Coca Cola who first gave the white bearded individual his red suit to go with the advertising color of the popular drink. What this plump, rosy cheeked individual has to do with the advent of the precious Lamb of God, I cannot even begin to understand! Writer Jonathan Skinner <a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/111225/Plus/plus_10.html" target="_blank">puts</a> it this way: “A white-bearded old man has thrown the baby out of the cradle, and his trinket-filled grotto has replaced a rustic stable…The spiritual has been swallowed by the secular, the sacred obliterated by sentiment. Christmas has been gutted of its meaning.” </p><p class="paragraph">These humanistic and unscriptural traditions have quietly crept into the church when true faith and real worship were fading. All this is reflected in the entertainment aspect of much of the Christian worship of today. If we claim to be Christians and disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, let us distance ourselves from the commercial (and pagan) celebration of the so-called Christmas season. Holy celebration is Scriptural but must begin from within in the hearts of those who claim to follow Jesus. The crazy rushing whirl that typifies the celebration of Christmas today has nothing to do with our servant Lord who had no place to lay His head. </p><p class="paragraph">Instead of obsessing over the war on Christmas waged by Progressives who desire to erase all that made America great, and instead of campaigning to get Christ back into Christmas perhaps we should pray for a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Azusa-Street-Revival-Robert-Owens/dp/1597815861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482329903&sr=8-1&keywords=azusa+street+revival+owens">revival</a> that will get Christ back into Christians. Instead of worrying about whether we are allowed to say Merry Christmas, we should be concerned that so many have lost sight of Mary’s Christmas. </p><p class="paragraph">Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com" target="_blank">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com" target="_blank">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm" target="_blank">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens </p><p></p></div>
Back When I was a Boy
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/back-when-i-was-a-boy
2016-12-15T14:27:29.000Z
2016-12-15T14:27:29.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p class="paragraph">I think one of the hardest things about growing old is that you can remember what a pound of hamburger cost fifty years ago ($.45), so when the government assures us over and over there is no inflation we sort of get a disconnect going that seeps into many different areas of our lives. </p><p class="paragraph">Wise men say that History repeats itself. Those who have studied the facts and lived long enough to get a seasoned perspective understand that if it doesn’t repeat itself it sure does rhyme. Which leads me to an observation made by every generation since time began; every generation believes that the one following it is made up of a bunch of molly-coddled softies who will obviously allow the world to go to hell in a handbasket. </p><p class="paragraph">As a still surviving though somewhat battered member of the boomer generation I am beginning to think that when the Greatest Generation thought this about us they may have been right. By every metric imaginable except of course technological toys and wonders we have presided over the decline of America. </p><p class="paragraph">Our parents conquered the world and then defended their conquest against that destroyer of hope the USSR for fifty years until that great gulag of nations collapsed under its own weight. Then in 1992 we repudiated those who had won the war and secured the peace. Following a colossal betrayal, “Read my lips,” our generation took the reins and proceeded to run the whole thing into the ditch. </p><p class="paragraph">First we have the Clinton inter-lewd with its fake prosperity courtesy of the peace dividend, the dot com bubble, and the Contract with America Congress. Then we have George II and endless wars for peace combined with a guns and butter economy at home where couples making a combined income of 40,000 could buy $400,000 houses. This was followed by BHO and his anti-colonialist disdain for all that had made America great combined with a micromanaged centrally-planned economy guaranteed to sweep us into the dystopian trash heap of History. </p><p class="paragraph">Then faced with Mrs. “The Last Nail in Our Coffin” Clinton and Mr. “Take a Chance on Me” Trump we chose Mr. Chance who may well end up being the last Boomer president. All of us who chose the chance are now waiting with baited breath praying he will do what he said he would do. If he does, this last Boomer president may well bring back the glory of our parents and we will hand this off to the X Generation and give them a shot at preserving it for those who come after them. </p><p class="paragraph">Back to my theory that each generation sees the one following them as the ruin of all that is holy and why that is in reality a truism as old as time. </p><p class="paragraph">The Greatest Generation was once known as the Silent Generation until we re-christened them because of their stolid plodding through FDR’s Great Depression and their solid performance in WWII. They looked askance at the music and the counter-culture of the Boomers. Those few who actually were Hippies did ride a sociological tsunami that did in fact change our culture. The draft dodging flag burning micro minority rose to the top of the political world with the Watergate Congress and hang on to power to this day. The rest of us went to work. Eventually most of us followed the predictable trajectory. The liberal firebrands of youth become the worker drones of middle age and eventually the conservative mossbacks of old age. </p><p class="paragraph">Remember the Generation Gap? Today it feels more like a Generation Gulf, or close encounters of the third kind.</p><p class="paragraph">Generation X seemed to come out of the womb with an eye for style, a penchant for name brands, and an ability to work for what they wanted. They are mostly moving through the worker drone phase right now. Their younger brothers and sisters of Generation Y or the Millennials are now shedding their youthful fire and entering into middle age. Now come the Centennials or as some of us call them the Snowflake Generation and we see the fruit of our loins terrified of micro-aggressions, seeking safe places, and protesting elections when they didn’t even bother to vote. Oh what is the world to do? </p><p class="paragraph">Take a beat, take a breath, and step back. Yes, when we see our grandchildren crying because they think someone might have looked at them crossways we wonder about the fate of the Republic. Instead of bemoaning our coming fall once these limp-wristed get a trophy for showing up crybabies take over remember they have several stages of growth coming before they get there. There’s nothing like raising kids and working twelve hour days to support them to put a little steel in your spine. Give them time. Their rebellious attitudes and oh so delicate sensibilities will crash upon the reef of 3 AM feedings, paying the bills, buying the house, and worrying whether Social Security will be there when they need it. </p><p class="paragraph">The young always act as if youth was some clever thing they invented not knowing that we all were once young, and if we survive we grow old and things generally seem to carry on from there. </p><p class="paragraph">The only lesson we learn from History is that we don’t learn the lessons of History. As far back as records go every generation has thought the next was going to be a disaster forgetting that they are the ones who raised that next generation and having a little faith in how their example and time would mellow youth into old age. </p><p class="paragraph">Remember everything is relative. The next time you find yourself telling some young whippersnapper how you walked to school uphill in both directions in a blizzard without a coat think of the story of two old men. One says, “Why back when I was boy all I had to play with was a stick.” The other old man his eyes blazing with jealousy at the frivolous prosperity of others exclaims, “You had a stick!” </p><p class="paragraph">Just as an interesting <a href="http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/70yearsofpricechange.html" target="_blank">by-the-by</a>: </p><p class="paragraph"><b>Average Cost Of New Home</b> <a href="http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/homes.html" target="_blank">Homes <br /></a> 1930 $3,845.00 , 1940 $3,920.00, 1950 $8,450.00 , 1960 $12,700.00 , <br /> 1970 $23,450.00 , 1980 $68,700.00 , 1990 $123,000.00 , 2008 $238,880 , 2013 $289,500 <br /> <b>Average Annual Wages</b> <br /> 1930 $1,970.00 , 1940 $1,725.00, 1950 $3,210.00 , 1960 $5,315.00 , <br /> 1970 $9,400.00 , 1980 $19,500.00 , 1990 $28,960.00 , 2008 $40,523 , 2012 $44,321 <br /> <b>Average Cost of New Car</b> <a href="http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/cars.html" target="_blank">Cars</a> <br /> 1930 $600.00 , 1940 $850.00, 1950 $1,510.00 , 1960 $2,600.00 , <br /> 1970 $3,450.00 , 1980 $7,200.00 , 1990 $16,950.00 , 2008 $27,958 , 2013 $31,352 <br /> <b>Average Cost Gallon Of Gas</b> <br /> 1930 10 cents , 1940 11 cents , 1950 18 cents , 1960 25 cents , <br /> 1970 36 cents , 1980 $1.19 , 1990 $1.34 , 2009 $2.051 , 2013 $3.80 <br /> <b>Average Cost Loaf of Bread</b> <a href="http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/foods.html" target="_blank">Food</a> <br /> 1930 9 cents , 1940 10 cents , 1950 12 cents , 1960 22 cents , <br /> 1970 25 cents , 1980 50 cents , 1990 70 cents , 2008 $2.79 , 2013 $1.98 <br /> <b>Average Cost 1lb Hamburger Meat</b> <br /> 1930 12 cents , 1940 20 cents , 1950 30 cents , 1960 45 cents , <br /> 1970 70 cents , 1980 99 cents , 1990 89 cents , 2009 $3.99 , 2013 $4.68 </p><p class="paragraph">Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com" target="_blank">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com" target="_blank">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm" target="_blank">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens </p><p class="paragraph"> </p></div>
Inconvenient Truths About the Man-made Global Warming Scam
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/inconvenient-truths-about-the-man-made-global-warming-scam
2016-12-10T13:22:23.000Z
2016-12-10T13:22:23.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p class="paragraph">Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by September 2016 - they were <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/07/experts-said-arctic-sea-ice-would-melt-entirely-by-september-201/" target="_blank">wrong</a>. </p><p class="paragraph">Texas has been cooling since 1895, but that doesn’t suit NOAA’s global warming agenda. So they keep <a href="http://realclimatescience.com/2016/10/more-on-the-noaa-texas-temperature-fraud/" target="_blank">cooling the past</a> further and further to create the appearance of a warming trend. </p><p class="paragraph">The UN <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/10/21/caught-on-tape-un-bans-skeptical-journalists-from-climate-summit-for-holding-views-not-particulary-helpful/" target="_blank">bans</a> skeptical journalists from climate summit for holding views not particularly helpful. </p><p class="paragraph">The Earth is <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/723481/Earth-ICE-AGE-big-freeze-solar-activity" target="_blank">heading</a> towards another ice age as solar magnetic activity is set to drop by up to sixty per cent in the next fifteen years. </p><p class="paragraph">Winters may be getting <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/02/colder-winters/" target="_blank">colder</a> in the Northeast. </p><p class="paragraph">The Weather Channel video <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/11/03/the-weather-channel-uses-young-kids-to-promote-global-warming-fears-dear-mom-dad-climate-change-could-be-very-catastrophic/" target="_blank">uses</a> young kids, scaring them about their lack of a future to promote global warming fears. </p><p class="paragraph">Looking to the hypocrites who are perpetrating this scam we have our Secretary of State who never saw a Global Warming photo op he didn’t like. On one Trip to the Antarctic, Kerry <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/his-very-long-trip-kerry-producing-much-co2-average-american-1-year" target="_blank">produced</a> as much CO2 as an average American does in one year. </p><p class="paragraph">The whole Global Warming <a href="https://w3.newsmax.com/General/RWL/LP/RWL-Dark-Winter?dkt_nbr=xe2alwoz" target="_blank">scam</a> is nothing more than a power grab. The collectivists lost their homeland when that great gulag of nations the USSR imploded in 1991. Since then they have been trying to use the mythical man-made global warming campaign as a back door to world-wide power. </p><p class="paragraph">Feeling that they have enough cover to state openly what is really going on the U.N.’s climate chief Christina Figueres candidly <a href="http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/" target="_blank">admitted</a> that the organizers’ ultimate goal was “to change the [capitalist] economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.” </p><p class="paragraph">Another U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) official, Ottmar Edenhofer <a href="http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarmist-admits-real-motive-behind-warming-scare/" target="_blank">confirmed</a> the travesty of global warming treaties, “ . . . one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth . . . ” </p><p class="paragraph">As reported on the Deplorable Climate Science Blog site; NOAA claimed record heat in numerous locations is September in Africa and the Middle East. This is a remarkable feat, given that they don’t have any actual thermometers in those regions. In fact, NOAA doesn’t have any thermometers on about half of the land surface. Satellite temperatures showed that September was close to normal in those regions which NOAA declared to be record hot. Not only is the land data fake, but much of the ocean data is fake too. The global surface temperature record is garbage. This is the 21st century, and it needs to be replaced by satellite temperatures which show little or no warming this century.</p><p class="paragraph">The climate bullies are afraid that Donald Trump is going to do what he said he was going to do, free America from the wealth draining insanity of man-made global warming reparations. Consequently at the recent giant carbon footprint that marks their latest confab in Marrakesh Morocco. In a statement, the ministers at the meeting said momentum for cutting greenhouse gases was "irreversible" and reaffirmed their commitment to "full implementation" of the Paris accord.</p><p class="paragraph">They went on to say, "We call for the highest political commitment to combat climate change, as a matter of urgent priority," in the Marrakesh Action Proclamation. And, "Our climate is warming at an alarming and unprecedented rate and we have an urgent duty to respond.” After which the elite delegates applauded, joined hands above their heads in standing ovation after the proclamation was read out having one of their international kumbaya moments that always end up costing the American tax payer a fortune. This one is estimated at 100 billion, that’s, billion with a ‘b’ from both public and private sources, by 2020 to help developing countries. Sounds like income redistribution to me and I wonder if any of these climate collectivists will be riding to the airport in a wind powered limo or flying home in a solar powered jet?</p><p class="paragraph">President Obama and the American Progressives have been willing conspirators in this attack on American sovereignty. They have negotiated treaties and signed accords which are designed to impoverish the US and transfer that wealth to the UN. </p><p class="paragraph">Up until now the collectivists have had an easy path using this alternative approach to enslaving mankind. They have brainwashed generations to live in fear of man-made global warming though none has taken place since before most of them were born. They have had the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media and their cable network step sisters blaring out their propaganda for decades. They have made major movies about the day after and other apocalyptic scenarios. They have recorded hit songs, staged protest rallies, and in general done everything they can to scare people into putting the noose around the neck of Western Civilization. </p><p class="paragraph">Now we are living in the post-wave election world of 2016. President-elect Trump has promised to reverse the course. He has labeled man-made global warming for the scam it is and promised to free America from the mass of threads with which the Lilliputians have ensnared us. </p><p class="paragraph">Trump has pledged to follow the GOP platform committee’s <a href="http://www.exchangemonitor.com/publication/ghg-daily-monitor/gop-adopts-platform-big-coal-hard-climate/" target="_blank">call</a> for “ . . . an immediate halt to U.S. funding for the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in accordance with the 1994 Foreign Relations Authorization Act.” </p><p class="paragraph">What about that disaster waiting to be implemented: the Paris Climate Agreement? Since in his hubris President Obama never bothered to even try to have it ratified by the Senate as required by the Constitution, the newly invigorated Republican-controlled House and Senate can pass a law stating that it is null and void. And if that is too bold for the Ryan-led House or the McConnell-led Senate a President Trump, according to the agreement itself, can pull out of it by issuing a one-year notice. </p><p class="paragraph">Trump has said he will have no part in funding a $100 billion annual U.N. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/25/developing-countries-will-need-270bn-more-to-adapt-to-climate-change-study" target="_blank">pledge</a> by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “to help poor countries adapt to global warming.” During the campaign the Republican presidential nominee <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/02/trump-we-will-cancel-global-warming-payments-to-the-un/" target="_blank">told</a> supporters at a Florida campaign, “We will also cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations, and use that money to support America’s vital environmental infrastructure and natural resources.” </p><p class="paragraph">In his economic speech at the New York Economic Club he <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-delivers-speech-on-jobs-at-new-york-economic-club" target="_blank">summed</a> it all up, “We’re going to keep our money here and our jobs here and bring our jobs back.” </p><p class="paragraph">One way to judge the reality of the man-made global warming scam has been pointed out by Rush Limbaugh for many years. If we decided we wanted to raise the temperature of the globe by one degree by 2020 what would we do? What program could we follow or what steps would be implemented to make this happen? Obviously all can see that this would be impossible. If we cannot raise the world’s temperature deliberately what a ridiculous thought that we could do it just by living in a modern word using electricity and driving cars. </p><p class="paragraph">Another way of looking at the man-made global warming issue is to remember that our records only go back a few hundred years at most. The Earth is billions of years old. In the past there have been multiple ice ages and even a <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100304-snowball-earth-ice-global-warming/" target="_blank">snowball Earth</a> when the entire planet was frozen from pole to pole. Each of these multi-million year freeze events have been followed by warm periods. Where were the SUVs and smokestacks responsible for all that warming? For that matter how do we explain the cooling? </p><p class="paragraph">I may be way out in right field here, but I believe that gigantic nuclear fusion explosion we revolve around that rises and sets every day of our lives might have more to do with global warming or cooling than anything anyone or all of us could ever do. </p><p class="paragraph">Let’s get over ourselves and admit there is only One who can hold the world in His hand. There is only One who was there when the heavens were made and the limit was set for the sea. There is only One who knows the end from the beginning. And there is only One who controls the thermostat for this planet and it isn’t us. </p><p class="paragraph">Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com" target="_blank">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com" target="_blank">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm" target="_blank">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens </p><p></p></div>
A Parallel Universe Without Progressives
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/a-parallel-universe-without-progressives
2016-09-02T18:22:06.000Z
2016-09-02T18:22:06.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>An astrophysicist, Ranga-Ram Chary at the European Space Agency's Planck Space Telescope data center at CalTech <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2015/11/03/alternate-universes-discovered/75102502/">says</a> he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than thirteen billion years ago. </p><p>Then there is always <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/21-the-possible-parallel-universe-of-dark-matter">the possible parallel universe of dark matter</a>. As researchers learn more about dark matter's complexities, it seems possible that our galaxy lives on top of a shadow galaxy without us even knowing it. </p><p>I have often heard it said the universe is so large that anything we can imagine exists somewhere. Taking that as a starting point for a flight of fancy, let’s imagine a parallel universe without Progressives. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had the 16<sup>th</sup> amendment. Therefore we would still have a land without personal income tax and the Federal Government would have lived on fees and tariffs as it always did before the Progressives secured a source of money large enough to spend us into oblivion. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had the 17<sup>th</sup> amendment and the senators would still be selected by the State legislators. This was one of the checks and balances the Founders embedded in the original Constitution to protect the federal nature of the Federal Government. The House represents the people and the Senate was supposed to represent the States. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal/dp/0912986212">The Creature from Jekyll Island</a>, the Federal Reserve System, and America’s representative of the international banking cartel. Without the Fed to mismanage the money supply there would never have been the banking crisis of the early 1930s. This is crisis that set the stage for the re-boot of America’s free economy as a centrally-planned command and control machine used to transform every sector of American life. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had Woodrow Wilson to take us into the War to End all Wars that ended up building up the three largest empires in the world and setting the stage of WWII. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had FDR to impose <a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html">fascist economic forms</a> on America extending what would have been a recession into the Great Depression. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had JFK to lose his nerve in 1961. Thus the Castro brothers and their murderous savagery would have fallen with the successful Bay of Pigs invasion. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had LBJ to build a Great Society safety net that has become a hammock entrapping uncounted millions and generations in the snare of dependency. </p><p>We wouldn’t have had BHO to fundamentally transform America into a falling empire and a soon to be third world backwater. </p><p>And we wouldn’t have HRC campaigning for president as Mrs. Santa Clause promising to give everyone who doesn’t work everything they want while she seeks to take the Second Amendment from the rest of us. </p><p>Think about this; look at how our government treats citizens now as taxing units or dependent voting units and we are armed to the teeth. Imagine how they will treat us once we are disarmed. Many believe the Second Amendment makes all the others possible. </p><p>Just imagine a parallel universe without Progressives. It’s easy if you try. </p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens </p><p></p></div>
American Pravda and New York’s Sixth Crime Family
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/american-pravda-and-new-york-s-sixth-crime-family
2016-08-18T20:05:31.000Z
2016-08-18T20:05:31.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>In America today most people choose only the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media based on the charisma of the news reader, and do not tune into other news options. Do they think they look or sound like authoritative? Are they better looking? Do they have a more pleasing voice? Are they a Male? Are they a female? Are they Gay? Are we not sure? Whatever the reason, it isn’t because they say anything different. It often sounds like they all have the same writers and story selectors. The content is no different. It is perhaps the line-up of the stories and that is about it. </p><p>Do you want to hear the story about how the Republican Elite is trying to figure out some way to dump Trump before you hear the story about how the Donald is not fit for the highest office in the land or after? Do you want to learn about the latest polls that show the race is already over before or after you hear how much better Hillary’s economic plan is than the insane proposals of the racist homophobe misogynist Trump? </p><p>When I have a chance encounter and what passes for conversation with so many Kool-Aid drinking low information voters i.e progressive induhviduals the conversation usually goes like this: </p><p>Me: What do you think about _______ (fill in the blank)? </p><p>Progressive Induhvidual: Repeat what ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, etc. has said recently. </p><p>Or if they are a Conservative Induhvidual: Repeat what Fox, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review, etc. has recently said. </p><p>It is almost impossible to find anyone who has actually read any books on topics of importance such as economics, politics, sociology, or the History that ties them all together. </p><p>Several times a year I attend meetings that are filled with nothing but PhDs, professors, and university administrators. All content experts in these very subjects as well as many others. The results are basically the same. The death of critical thinking has led us to a deafening silence in the area of actual personal opinion, a dearth of dialogue, and a collapse of conversation. The American people, who at the time of the Founding saw blacksmiths discussing with candle makers the pros and cons of constitutions and the meaning of liberty or carpenters debating with plumbers the need for a free economy versus the need for public works. Just read the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers, look at the level of thought and speech and ask yourself, “How does the public debate, and the newspaper articles of contemporary America match up?” Today the public debate takes place at about a 3<sup>rd</sup> grade level compared to the graduate school of those earlier days. </p><p>What happened? Back then there weren’t public schools. Churches and families educated their own. Today after generations of highly funded and severely structured public education we have successfully dumbed ourselves down to the lowest common denominator. </p><p>Looking at the Bernie Sanders revolt which was contained by the elite in the Democrat Party and the Trump Revolution which over whelmed the elite in the Republican Party it is obvious that we tax paying entities that inhabit flyover country have had enough of the bi-coastal elite that is driving us over the cliff into the third world. Obviously the elite controlled media has dropped their camouflage of objectivity and is all in to make sure their empty pantsuit carries the day so she can carry the water for the donor class all the way to the bank. </p><p>At least there has been one pseudo surprise in the Hollywood scripted replay of Primary Colors the Distaff Edition, all of the frothing at the mouth Bernie supporters who were so brave to boo or turn their backs at the recent Democrat Party Spectacle in Philadelphia are falling into line and surprise surprise they are planning to vote for Hillary. Just as evidence surfaces that yes, the entire primary exercise was rigged from the beginning they are going to stand in line to cast their rationally considered and highly principled vote for the very person who engineered the fix, takes her money and marching orders from the crony capitalists, and is arguably the most corrupt person to ever run for the presidency. Who could have seen this coming except a blind man in a dark room with no media access? </p><p>The pre-programmed electorate combined with the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2216">usual fraud</a>, imported voters and all the <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/05/23/cbs2-investigation-uncovers-votes-being-cast-from-grave-year-after-year/">dead</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Dead_people_voting">people</a> who <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/hundreds-of-dead-voters-cast-ballots-decades-after-dying/">never leave</a> the voting rolls of the corrupt Democrat City fiefdoms, will march in lockstep to the polls to hand America lock-stock-and-barrel to the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435968/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-crime-family-where-politics-and-mafia-meet">Clinton Crime Family</a>. Our only hope is that enough people have swallowed the <a href="http://people.math.sc.edu/dix/pill.html">red pill</a> and are willing to at least take a shot at shaking things up before we are swept away by the unregulated immigration invasion and state sponsored outsourcing. </p><p>An old saying goes, “There are only two things that are certain in this life, death and taxes.” We have all been programmed to accept this as an inevitable truism. Death to be sure is natural and inevitable. If you were born you will die. Taxes however are not a natural thing. They are in actuality the forced expropriation of funds from the productive taken through the use of the state’s monopoly on the use of coercive force. And so though they are not natural and they are not inevitable like death or gravity they may in realistic terms given the overwhelming preponderance of government power be unavoidable. </p><p>If our country follows the dictates of the elite controlled media America becomes the turf of the Sleazy Donna from Chappaqua whose word parsing motto should be the Bart Simpson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbgsoHDc24">anthem</a>, “I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! There’s no way. You can't prove anything.” If the White House once again becomes Bill’s love nest and the George Soros puppet in heels moves into the Oval Office with her rolodex of contributors both foreign and domestic let’s hope we don’t find something else becoming inevitable. Such as critics of the regime joining the <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2016/08/09/clinton-body-count-or-leftwing-conspiracy-three-with-ties-to-dnc-mysteriously-die-n2203000">ever</a> <a href="http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/another-clinton-associate-found-dead-bill-hillarys-body-count-increases/">growing</a> <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/liberty/liberty/bdycount.txt">list</a> of questionable deaths that follows <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435968/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-crime-family-where-politics-and-mafia-meet">New York’s Sixth Crime Family</a> around like a bad odor. </p><p>Don’t just opt out because the system is obviously going to hell in a handbasket, vote for a change or shall we say, “See you in the camps”? </p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p><p> </p></div>
History is The Story of Life
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/history-is-the-story-of-life
2016-08-12T22:55:31.000Z
2016-08-12T22:55:31.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p class="paragraph">The older we get the more of our lives become History. Perhaps that is why it slowly eventually becomes interesting to many people; we can remember so much more of it. The future slides into the present. The present slides into the past. Our lives are the history of the future. </p><p class="paragraph">The average American has no Historical perspective. To most people History began the day they were born and it will end when they do. Without a historical perspective we live constantly in an ever progressing NOW and now can always be shaped and molded by whoever has the loudest megaphone at the moment. This puts the lives of the low information citizen in the hands of the establishment and their media mouthpieces. </p><p class="paragraph">So many students say, “History is boring, just names and dates” yet if History is boring than so is life, because History is the story of life. It is nothing more or less than the accumulated stories of the lives of people just like us who have lived at different times in what might as well have been different worlds. </p><p class="paragraph">These different worlds are the scaffold upon which our own world exists and if we ignore the framework that holds us up we imagine that we are afloat on a sea of forgetfulness beginning each epoch with no guidance from the collected wisdom of those who have gone before. And if we choose ignorance as our starting point can we wonder what will be our end? </p><p class="paragraph">What passes for education today doesn’t help much, and in many ways it just muddies the water. The History we are taught in secondary school is often sugar coated or slanted through the eyes and opinions of someone who has been run through the progressive stamping plant that is contemporary teacher training. Either we get an uncritical, “America right or wrong!” or “America’s always wrong!” depending on the slant of the education bureaucracy in the area. </p><p class="paragraph">After decades of teaching History to America’s best and brightest I have sadly come to the conclusion that as time goes by people not only know less and less about History but also what they do know isn’t so. It is only when we start to look at alternative views that we find there has always been a great debate as to what happened, how it happened, why it happened, and what it all means. To most of the snowflake generation and even to those older who have swilled the progressive kool-aide it is a micro aggression to try to expose them to anything that contradicts or even conflicts with the mantra of Al Gore’s man-made global warming cult or the anti-colonial views of the Obama zombies. Yet it is these alternative views that make History expansive, exciting, interesting, and informative. Without them it isn’t education it is indoctrination. </p><p class="paragraph">Every society and culture has always taught what might be called a glorified History that explains why they exist and should exist as a distinct group. When a country stops teaching this to their young in a few generations it is hard for the people to justify in their own minds why they are who they are and why they should continue to be a distinct people. This leads inevitably to a crisis that usually portends the end. Things are being left out of our History books, purged you might say. What isn't remembered will be forgotten. That which is not written, is not preserved, passed down or remembered is the dust in the dustbin of History. </p><p class="paragraph">History is the best opportunity we have to learn from the mistakes of others. If we ignore these or we never learn of them we face the inevitable reality of repeating these mistakes over and over. </p><p class="paragraph">A case in point: </p><p class="paragraph">The socialist economics of the USSR and the inefficiencies it caused brought about the implosion of the Soviet empire. After that fall America rushed headlong into socialism itself. After almost 50 years of resisting communism, spending trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives lost or destroyed how did Americans fall for the siren song of, “From each according to his ability to each according to his need”? How did the Cold Warriors morph into interchangeable drones, cogs in a socialist utopian pyramid scheme? They didn’t realize the snake oil the Progressives were selling was the same thing all the other socialists have been selling since the 19<sup>th</sup> century. They couldn’t see that the hell holes of Cuba and Venezuela are the inevitable result of collectivism carried to its predictable dead end. They had no historical perspective. </p><p class="paragraph">Having followed the hope and change of the pied piper Barack Obama, America is teetering on the edge of the abyss. If enough of our fellow citizens bolstered by the best imported voters available and all the dead people in Chicago give Hillary and the Clinton crime family another shot at plundering this country we may well topple over following Rome and Britain into that aforementioned dust bin of History. </p><p class="paragraph">It may just be a matter of time until we join the Soviets on the trash heap of History. I remember that we woke up one morning and the USSR was arguably the strongest nation on earth and unarguably the largest, and by the time we went to bed it had disappeared. Since then we have worked hard to limit competition and extend benefits while our self-satisfaction has risen everything else is in decline. Maybe what we need is some Glasnost and Perestroika? </p><p class="paragraph">We can’t know what we don’t know but we can know that we don’t know. I first discovered History when I was nine years old, and I realized I didn’t know what had happened in the world before I had arrived. I set off on a journey that has now lasted fifty-eight years. I read and study History on a daily basis. I look for perspectives that may not match my own. I try to extend my understanding by looking at the world from many different viewpoints, and often I find that what I thought yesterday isn’t what I think today. Not that History has changed, but my understanding of it has. And with this evolving understanding comes new ways to move through this puzzle factory we call life. </p><p class="paragraph">I heartily recommend anyone who wants to make it through the maze and find the cheese study History so you will learn, someone always moves the cheese. </p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p></p><p> </p></div>