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The Nixon Story! Our Most POPULAR President in History!
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2023-03-31T11:43:39.000Z
2023-03-31T11:43:39.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<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>
<p><a href="https://fb.watch/jCvnh1GBW4/?mibextid=v7YzmG">https://fb.watch/jCvnh1GBW4/?mibextid=v7YzmG</a></p></div>
The Gathering Nuclear Storm, Today Greater Than Ever!
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2023-02-18T10:04:38.000Z
2023-02-18T10:04:38.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>The Gathering Nuclear Storm</strong></span> by <strong>Mark Helprin</strong> in the Wall Street Journal, WSJ, of the Claremont Institute, is prescient, regardless it was written in SEPTEMBER 2016.</p>
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<p>Little has changed, except the World is in an even more precarious condition. <br /> We are in a fragile state. Our leadership is weak and indecisive. Our deterrence is weaker than the combined nuclear forces of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.</p>
<p>What has changed?</p>
<p>Russia is at war. It threatens The United States and European Allies including our NATO ALLIANCE as upon invasion, prior to weapons deliveries, Putin declared that Ukraine would be followed by Poland, and potentially others, especially the former Eastern European states part of the former Soviet Union East Bloc Iron Curtain. In the 1950's & 1960's the Russians deployed tanks to quell Hungarian(1958) and Czechoslovakia(1967) riots for independence. Putin stated that the breakup of the Soviet Russian Empire was greatest catastrophe in the history of his Motherland, Russia. </p>
<p>We have a feckless feeble President, who has possibly sold out to our enemies, with potential covert business dealings, especially with Chinese Internal Security Associates.</p>
<p>Worse, there is now a seldom discussed, national security threat devised under Chinese International Leadership called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. <br /> Today the Iranians are full member states, as well as the Russian Governments are full members. Others as well, including those in our own hemisphere! <br /> We have completely abandoned our Obligation to the necessary security of our Western Hemisphere called the Monroe Doctrine. Yet today as the world gets smaller, the threats grow rampant in our Hemisphere as we see China Russia, and Iran becoming partners with the socialist dictatorships that have been created over the last 63 years, since Cuba fell to Fidel Castro. <br /> Worse, Iran just announced its Navy's voyage into the Panama Canal Region, which we gave away after building it during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration at todays equivalent cost of Billions of Dollars as well countless American Lives lost. The Panamanian Government has just stated it was likely to grant authorization for the Iranian Navy to have full access to through and in the canal. Let's remember since abdicated the Canal, the Chinese control both access points, one in The Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. </p>
<p>Please take the time now to see the vulnerabilities we face as you read, The Gathering Nuclear Storm. </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gathering-nuclear-storm-1474668674">http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gathering-nuclear-storm-1474668674</a></p></div>
Letter by Ratcliff on CIA pressure to block RELEASE OF CHINESE ELECTION INTERFERENCE
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/letter-by-ratcliff-on-cia-pressure-to-block-release-of-chinese-el
2022-12-28T10:26:28.000Z
2022-12-28T10:26:28.000Z
Dave Wallace
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January 6 Footage Compilation
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2022-12-28T09:10:46.000Z
2022-12-28T09:10:46.000Z
Dave Wallace
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Falun Dafa outline of Torture & Vital Organ Harvesting
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2021-11-05T13:42:29.000Z
2021-11-05T13:42:29.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<div><p>Dear Dave,<br /> As discussed, the 2015 new evidences of forced organ harvesting crimes by Communist China was just released last Wednesday (11/18/2015), for your information, review, and comments (the Executive Summary is also listed below): THE FINAL HARVEST: A Comprehensive Investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners <a href="http://www.upholdjustice.org/print/284">http://www.upholdjustice.org/print/284</a><br /> As talked to you over the phone, we want to invite you to attend and speak at the 11/28 (Saturday, 1:30pm – 3:30pm) Forum on “Deteriorating Human Rights and Radical Changes in China” at the Hearing Room (3rd floor) of Montgomery County Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. You are also invited to the Forum/Press Event at the Congress on 12/9 or 12/8 (before 12/10, the 55th International Human Rights Day). But, the forum venue has not been confirmed yet, all are TBD.<br /> <br /> Both of my close friends, the world renowned dissidents/leaders: the blind attorney Chen Guangcheng (you met him at the Kennedy Center last month), and the many awards recipient Wei Jingsheng (Chair of Overseas’ China Democratic Movement) are invited to speak, along with several China experts/scholars from NY, Richmond, and DC, and a few victims. <br /> <br />The background of the Forums is:<br /> The Forum of 11/28 is to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the publishing of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party (or Nine Commentaries, <a href="http://goo.gl/rN62Lm">http://goo.gl/rN62Lm</a>) and to discuss its impact on China and world affairs. The Nine Commentarie speaks honestly about the brutality and deception of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its doomed fate. It immediately caught the attention of Chinese people around the globe and ignited a grassroots movement of Chinese citizens renouncing their membership in the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. This movement is referred to, in Chinese, as “Tuidang,” which means “Quitting the Party.” (<a href="http://en.tuidang.org/home">http://en.tuidang.org/home</a> )<br /> Since December 2004, the number of Chinese people posting their withdrawal statements and cutting their ties with the CCP and its affiliated organizations has risen to more than 100,000 daily, with over 220 million Chinese awakening from their conscience and renouncing their Party-affiliated membership to date. Credited by Congressman Chris Smith as one of the largest grassroots movement in history, Tuidang is rapidly changing China, rebuilding a foundation of credibility. Like the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, Tuidang is not a political movement, rather a spiritual solution and a moral choice of individuals.<br /> <br /> Look forward to your reply and seeing you soon.<br /> <br />Sen (C: 240-687-9490)<br />Email Signature-page-001<br /> <br />English Version of 追查迫害法轮功国际组织<br />Published on English Version of 追查迫害法轮功国际组织 (<a href="http://www.upholdjustice.org">http://www.upholdjustice.org</a>)<br />Home > Organ Harvesting > THE FINAL HARVEST: A Comprehensive Investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners > THE FINAL HARVEST: A Comprehensive Investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners<br />THE FINAL HARVEST: A Comprehensive Investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners</p>
<p>2015-11-18</p>
<p>Executive Summary</p>
<p>For more than nine years, serious questions about China’s organ transplant system have haunted the West. Are Falun Gong practitioners in the majority, but also Tibetans, Uyghurs, and House Christians being murdered for their retail organs in China’s hospitals? What is the real scale of China’s organ harvesting apparatus? And how deeply implicated is the Chinese Communist Party of China?</p>
<p>China is one of the most secretive medical systems in the world. In 2006, the Chinese medical establishment shut the door to any external investigation of forced disappearances of FalunDafa practitioners and the transplant system, while China’s hospitals went to strict Internet silence. The Chinese medical establishment filled the information vacuum with official numbers which appear to bolster their claim that “medical reform” of organ transplantation is at hand. And who can contradict them?</p>
<p>We can.</p>
<p>Because of the remarkably short waiting time for organ tissue matches – usually about two weeks for a foreigner – we theorized that the organ harvesting infrastructure of China uses a sort of coded communication system to maintain its vast pool of human subjects – the vast majority of which are Falun Gong practitioners – and barters them among regional hospitals. Now, we believe we have broken at least part of the code. Just as the successful attempt to decrypt the Nazi’s Enigma Device began with a traffic analysis of all German units, we subjected Chinese medical communications to a comprehensive data analysis, searching thousands of reports and medical theses for any reference to the hospitals under our investigation. Here is what we found:</p>
<p>In the report, the WOIPFG cited 35 testimonies from five Politburo Standing Committee members, one vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), one Politburo member, one CMC member and former defense minister, one department head of the People’s Liberation Army General Logistics Department’s Health division, an armed guard at a scene of live organ harvesting, several senior officials from the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee, and transplant surgeons from more than 20 hospitals. These testimonies reveal that the majority of the extractedorgans were harvested from Falun Gong practitioners, and the order to harvest organs from Falun Gong practitioners came from the CCP’s highest level.<br />After Jiang Zemin started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in 1999, several million petitioners were illegally arrested and subsequently went missing. In the meanwhile, the number of organ transplant cases across China has experienced explosive growth. The abundance of organs available for transplant in China has enabled the hospitals to perform transplant operations by finding matching organs within 1-2 weeks.The evidence from the investigation demonstrates: many Falun Dafa petitioners, who did not report their names when being illegally detained, have been secretly imprisoned and code numbered as living organ donors.<br />Seven types of evidence prove the existence of an enormous living organ donor pool: the wait time for a donor organ is extremely short; there are a surprising number of emergency organ transplants; there are cases of multiple organ transplant operations taking place simultaneously; and living human beings have been used for spare organs. In addition, detained Falun Dafa practitioners have been forced to go through blood tests, while suffering from physical and mental abuse, but they were never informed of the test results. This evidence reveals the existence of a massive living organ donor bank.<br />After 2006, the volume of China's organ transplant remains higher than that in 2003. Moreover, intensive organ transplants have emerged. As a result of carefully crafted lies by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), it has always been misunderstood that the amount of organ transplants has declined since 2006. The truth is: the number not only remains higher than that in 2003, it is also on the trend of rise after the peak of organ transplants in 2006. Particularly after the disclosure of the CCP’s massive organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in 2006, a stunning phenomenon of intensive organ transplants emerged nationwide.<br />A “building-blocks” method to estimate the actual transplant numbers of 712 Chinese organ transplant hospitals, demonstrates that the 10,000-per-year rate of transplants publicly released by the Ministry of Health is a lie. China’s annual transplant numbers are suspected to be at least 10-20 times higher than the publicly released numbers.<br />Our report, drafted by highly qualified researchers both inside and outside of China, represents nine years of unprecedented surveillance into the Chinese medical system. Produced under conditions resembling wartime, our report is an interim assessment; debates over numbers, estimates, and interpretation of evidence continue within our investigative staff. Yet the core evidence in our report is replicable, transparent, and ultimately, indisputable. And there is no internal debate over the following conclusions:</p>
<p>Conclusion One: Live organ harvesting is an act of the state by the CCP.All evidence testifies that Jiang Zemin has personally ordered live organ harvesting be used on Falun Dafa practitioners. The CCP’s Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and other high-ranking offices have been involved. On a national scale, the CCP has used the army, armed police forces and government forces, including the public security, prosecutorial and judicial departments as well as the Political and Legislative Affairs Committees, and all organ transplant institutions across China. So, live organ harvesting is an act of the state by the CCP.<br />Conclusion Two: The main sources of the living organ donor bank are suspected to be the millions of Falun Dafa practitioners, who were illegally detained for petitioning.<br />Conclusion Three: Seven types of evidence prove the existence of an enormous living organ donor pool in China.<br />Conclusion Four:After 2006, the volume of China's organ transplant remains higher than that in 2003. Moreover, intensive organ transplants have emerged.<br />Conclusion Five: With no evidence of a concordant rise in the execution rate of death-row criminals, our report concludes that the actual number of Falun Gong practitionersharvested cannot be counted in the tens of thousands but is suspected to be in the millions.<br />The serial public declarations by the Chinese medical establishment of a new ethical environment for transplantation are simply a privacy shield to facilitate state-sanctioned murder.<br />The goal of this study is to establish the trajectory of organ harvesting of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. To achieve that goal we have been examining China’s hospitals and focusing on organ transplants over time. A truly accurate estimate of the overall numbers of Falun Gong practitioners murdered by forced organ harvesting is not the ultimate goal of this study, nor is it attainable at present, for the simple reason that this is not a conventional investigation, but aspecial investigation carried out when the entire Chinese nation is in a state of a special war! The subject of this investigation is the crimes of the state perpetrated by the CCP, which is the most brutal, most insidious, most evil and the largest totalitarian terrorist organization in the entire human history! This report does not present the investigation conclusions in the conventional sense, but some of the clues obtained by the WOIPFG through more than nine years of investigation in extremely difficult conditions.</p>
<p>As investigativeresearchers rather than activists, we have remained on the sidelines for many years, calmly waiting for the West to take action. Yet this report demonstrates that any further diplomatic acceptance of the official Chinese line by the West is to be complicit in an ongoing crime against humanity.</p>
<p>Contents<br />Chapter one: The Surge in Organ Transplants: Forced disappearances and Witness Testimonies<br /> LANDSCAPE<br /> THE INITIAL SURGE<br /> CODES INSTEAD OF NAMES<br /> LAOGAI SYSTEM NUMBERS<br /> EARLY INCIDENTS OF LIVE ORGAN HARVESTING<br /> MACRO HARVESTING TRAJECTORIES<br /> MICRO HARVESTING TRAJECTORIES<br /> ANOMALIES IN CHINA’S ORGAN TRANSPLANT INDUSTRY<br /> FATAL FLAWS IN THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATION<br /> CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS<br />Chapter Two:A State Crime: Ordered by Jiang, and Carried Out by the Army<br /> I. Four types of evidence showing Jiang Zemin Personally Issued the Order<br /> Evidence One: Bai Shuzhong, Minister of Health for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Logistics Department, and Bo Xilai, member of the Politburo admitted that Jiang Zemin directly gave the order to extract organs from Falun Gong practitioners for transplant operations<br /> Evidence Two: High Level CCP Officials Knew About the Crime of Live Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners<br /> Evidence Three: Central Political and Legislative Affairs Committee (PLAC) and the 610 System are directly involved in the organ harvesting crime.High-ranking officials of political and legislative affairs further confirmed this crime<br /> Evidence Four: Military, Police, Judiciary Systems and Hospitals across China Participated in Live Organ Harvesting<br /> II.The Entire System of Military Hospitals and Armed Police Hospitals is Involved in Live Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners<br /> III. The Militarization and Industrialization of Harvesting Falun Gong<br />Chapter Three:Chinese Tissue Typing Requires a Large Captive Population <br /> I. During the Interview on March, 2015, Huang Jiefu Admitted Tissue Typing is Practiced in China. The CCP has Lied in Claiming that Death-Row Prisoners are the Sole Source of Organ Transplants.<br /> II. Extremely Short Waiting Time Proves the Existence of Huge Live Organ Reservoir in China<br /> III. The Massive Number of “Urgent Transplants” Indicates China Practices Reverse Tissue Typing and Killing People Based on Demand<br /> IV. Many Hospitals Often Simultaneously Conduct More Than one Transplant Operation, Indicating the Existence of Large, Living Organ Pools<br /> V. Case Study: One Transplantation Operation Employed Multiple Standby Donor Organs, with Two Spare Living Liver Donors, Revealing the Existence of Living Donor Pools for Organs and a Sophisticated Underground Operating System<br /> VI. A Large Number of Expedited Transplantations in 2006 Proves the Existence of a Large Pool of Living Donors<br /> VII. Reverse Matching Exposes the Existence of a Large, Living Organ Bank<br /> VIII. Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Forced To Have Blood Tests, Which Is Powerful Evidence for the Existence of a Living Organ Bank<br />Chapter Four:Organ Transplants did not Decrease after 2006<br /> I.Intensive Organ Transplants Emerged after the Disclosure of the CCP’S Massive Organ Harvesting from Live Falun Gong Practitioners (see Chapter III Section V for details)<br /> II. Organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners continued<br /> III. The CCP will not decrease the number of organ harvesting cases, as long as its political purpose is to eliminate Falun Gong<br /> IV. The CCP will Not Slow Down Harvesting<br /> V. The CCP designated 169 hospitals as qualified to transplant organs to make organ harvesting faster, more discreet, and better controlled<br /> VI. The CCP created the false appearance of declining organ transplant numbers after 2006 through the following three methods<br />Chapter Five: A Comprehensive Data Analysis Indicates the Number of Liver and Kidney Transplants Performed by Chinese Hospitals is Significantly Larger than Previously Understood<br /> I.The Rationale for Conducting a Careful Analysis of Hospitals Suspected of Organ Harvesting<br /> II.State-Level Military Organ Transplant Centers: Cases Where Data Has been Deleted and Tampered With and Websites Are No Longer Updated<br /> III.Medium-sized Military Hospitals have Falsified Data, Removed Related Webpages, and Stopped Updating New Cases<br /> IV.The Ministry of Health-Designated National Transplant Centers Falsified Data, Deleted or Stopped Updating Webpages<br /> V.Medium-sized Hospitals Accredited by Ministry of Health to Perform Organ Transplant Operations have Tampered with Data, Deleted Webpages and Stopped Updating Websites<br /> VI.A Pilot Hospital Performing Transplants from Donors of Cardiac Death Tampered with Data, Deleted Web Pages, and Stopped Updating Web Pages<br /> VII.Medium and Small Scale Hospitals also Tamper with Data and Delete Webpages<br /> VIII.Data Processing Methods for Other Hospitals<br /> IX.Actual Transplant Volume Likely Even Greater Than 401,678<br />Chapter Six:New Evidence Confirms the Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong is Proceeding at a Relatively Constant Rate. In Certain Hospitals it is Increasing. <br /> I. The Deputy Head of a Large Hospital Reveals that the Number of Transplants in Large Hospitals is as High as 2,000-3,000 Per Year<br /> II. The Reports by the CCP’s Official Media Outlets and Foreign Media Confirm: the Actual Number of Organ Transplants at 11 Hospitals is Significantly Higher than Reported and These Numbers are not Decreasing over Time, but Staying Constant or Increasing.<br /> III.Another 44 hospitals were also suspected to perform organ transplants at a far higher rate than the published numbers.<br /> IV. More than 40 Military Hospitals are Involved in Organ Harvesting. the Number of Liver and Kidney Transplants Suspected to be Connected with Organ Harvesting is over 100,000<br /> V.The Number of Organ Transplants Performed by Smaller Organ Transplant Center is also Beyond Imagination (China has 86 liver transplant centers, and the number of liver transplants is believed to be 50,000 per year)<br /> VI. The Use of the hospital classification approach and the Calculation Method based on the Ratios of Actual Transplant Number to Publicly Disclosed Numbers both allow us to draw the conclusion that the total number of people killed for their organs exceeds 2 million<br /> VII. The latest investigative phone recording: Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli Confirms that the CCP Harvests Organs from Millions of Living Falun Gong practitioners<br /> VIII. Three CCP Organ Transplant Experts Confirm that the Actual Number of Transplants far Exceeds Official Published Figures<br /> IX. Illustration on the Calculation to obtain the Conclusion that number of Falun Dafa practitioners slaughtered for their organs is suspected to exceed 2 million<br /> X. township hospitals, even Chinese medicine hospitals at county-level have transplanted large amount of organs<br /> XI. Case Study: Academician Li Leishi, Vice Dean of Nanjing Military Region General Hospital ; How his Military Research Institute of Nephrology Transplanted over 1,000 Kidneys in 2004and his Subsequent Suicide<br />Chapter Seven:Evidence of Falun Gong Practitioners Being Murdered in Other Ways<br /> I. Live Human Experiments<br /> II. China has become the Largest Country for Exporting Plastinated Human Body Specimens<br /> III. Many Hospitals Use “Fresh Corpses” of Healthy Young People to Perform Simulated Liver Transplant Experiments<br /> IV. Multi-organ Transplantation Experiments with Human Bodies<br />Chapter Eight:The CCP’s Lies about Organ Transplants <br /> I. The CCP Denied the Use of Organs from Executed Prisoners, Lying that China’s Organ Transplants come from Voluntary Donations<br /> II. The CCP Admitted that “Very Few” Organs Came from Executed Prisoners and Invited People from Abroad to Visit China but Refused to Issue them Visas<br /> III. The CCP Admitted that the “Majority” of the Organs were from Executed Prisoners, and They were “Used Systematically”<br /> IV. Denying Investigation Evidence only to Self-incriminate: CCP’s Farce regarding Guangxi National Hospital’s Surgeon Lu Guoping<br /> V. “Strictly Prohibit” Transplant Advertisements Online; Many Hospitals’ Online Information was Deleted and Tampered with<br /> VI. The CCP has been Hyping Up Organ Donations in China<br /> VII.Huang Jiefu’s Statement “China will Stop Using Organs from Executed Prisoners by January 1, 2015” had neither Legal Effect nor Enforceability<br />Chapter Nine:The CCP's History of Killing is Against Human Nature and Conscience<br /> I. The CCP’s history of live organ harvesting<br /> II. The CCP’s Various Murderous Political Campaigns were Acts of Genocide</p>
<p><br /> Synopsis:</p>
<p>When reports first emerged from China in 2006 that state-run hospitals were killing prisoners of conscience<br /> to sell their organs, it seemed too horrible to believe. But as researchers around the world—including human rights<br /> lawyer David Matas and former Canadian member of parliament David Kilgour—began to uncover the mystery, the true picture became all too clear. Their evidence suggests that tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been killed on demand to supply an ongoing illegal organ transplant industry. The story of how these investigators pieced together the evidence and continue to fight against this industrial-scale crime against humanity is a riveting and heart wrenching tale of both personal triumphs and unimaginable horror. This film has won many awards, including the prestigious<br /> Peabody Award this year. Watch trailer at <a href="http://humanharvestmovie.com">http://humanharvestmovie.com</a></p></div>
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
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<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>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8690537099,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8690537099,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="8690537099?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="256" /></a></strong></span></p>
<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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<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>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8652808888,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8652808888,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="650" alt="8652808888?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<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>
Amy Klobuchar & Left-wing Democrats All have One Thing in Common:Jim Crow Racism!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/left-wing-democrats-all-have-e-thing-in-common-jim-crow-racism
2020-05-30T09:14:06.000Z
2020-05-30T09:14:06.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong>Amy Klobuchar & Left-wing Democrats </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong>All have One Thing in Common:</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><em><strong>Jim Crow Racism!</strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><br /> A startling revelation has occurred in the case of Officer Derik Chauvan!</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5474685687,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5474685687,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="5474685687?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="480" /></a></p>
<p>Amy Klobuchar passed up the opportunity to prosecute him in a matter prior while serving to protect the citizens of Minnesota!</p>
<p>Lets remember: The Jim Crow Two Faced Democrat racists, duplicitous in the way they mete-out Justice, give a pass to criminally-bent racist and often corrupt Cops. Thus destroying our Protection of the Citizenry across our Urbanized cities Across America!</p>
<p>Lets explore this premise, shall we.</p>
<p>With these injustices the opportunity to prevent future criminal acts that destroy civil liberties, civil rights setting the stage for dehumanizing injustices against George Floyd to the point of Murder, and thus injustice against all mankind to thrive! <br /> Passing on the Opportunity to criminally prosecute a criminal cop, degrades society more quickly than passing up the average street murderer, as it demoralizes our law enforcement while destroying belief that Police are sworn to uphold and enforce the law, and instead reinforces the belief that they are a good old boy, slap on the back network of KKK racist vigilantes.</p>
<p>Todays outcomes were predictable.</p>
<p>National Riots on the order of those seen in 1968 where a large proportion of our minority blacks and possibly Latinos have lost faith in our law enforcement and in turn our Criminal Justice System. While RE-enforcing the idea we are no better of than when H. Rapp Brown, and Malcolm X protested to achieve. Yet we can not these racists and their socialist Black Leaders, who control our American Major Urbanized Cities off the hook!</p>
<p>They fail the same people they are elected to serve completely overlooking the criminals who run roughshod over the citizens, as they tolerate rampant murders by criminal syndicates that mete out justice in turf wars across our country. Just as Al Capone and Mob Bosses were given passes from decades in the past. Those socialists realize this is a tool to seize control over vast populations and to instigate protests that create so much anger and hatred that these protests lead to rioting mayhem and looting and the burning down of the same inner city communities where the poorest minorities are forced to live, based on a limited number of job opportunities created by their very same socialist crony corruption and liberty killing policies create!</p>
<p>Its time we fight to return the true spirit and meaning of The philosophy over our beloved cities, so all Americans regardless of income, race, creed, Religion or color of their skin can enjoy our Greatest treasures!:</p>
<p>Life and Liberty and man's essence, his God Given Right to pursue his Or her Glorious Happiness no matter where he or she chooses!</p>
<p>The essence of our American Dream created by our founding fathers!</p>
<p>and a warning,</p>
<p>if not now, when? <br /> <br /> And if we don't arrest the senseless looting and mayhem where will it end, where will it lead. <br /> Then lastly — what will become, of our Golden and Glorious America we Call Home and that we love so dearly! <br /> Yet..We shall over come!</p>
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<p><a href="https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/28/amy-klobuchar-passed-prosecuting-derek-chauvin-min/">https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/28/amy-klobuchar-passed-prosecuting-derek-chauvin-min/</a></p></div>
An Arrow Aimed at America’s Heartland
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/an-arrow-aimed-at-america-s-heartland
2019-06-07T13:00:03.000Z
2019-06-07T13:00:03.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>Are you ready to get down into the weeds and look at a current attack on our Federal System through the lenses of American Constitutional History to gain an understanding of something which is nothing less than an arrow aimed at America’s Heartland?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>This is a wakeup call to citizens of Middle America of a plot to strip us of our electoral importance by the entrenched elites of the Deep State.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Recently,</span> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/22/nevada-joins-popular-vote-movement-with-bill-to-nix-electoral-college/"><span>Nevada became the 15th state</span></a> <span>to pass a measure granting its Electoral College votes to the candidate winning the nationwide popular vote regardless of how the citizens of their own State voted.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>This movement is being led by an organization called</span> <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/"><span>National Popular Vote</span></a><span>. The founders of the 501(c)(4) Are election law expert and attorney Barry</span> <span>Fadem</span> <span>and John Kaza (co-inventor of the scratch off lottery ticket). </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Fadem</span> <span>and Kaza both have impressive careers filled with professional achievement. However, it’s easy for anyone with even a smattering of knowledge of civics to discount their efforts by assuming though they may be intelligent and accomplished they don’t know much about how our government is designed to work.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>In reality the exact opposite might be the case. These two and their organization aim to disrupt the balance between the States and have intentionally launched this arrow aimed at America’s Heartland.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Their objective is to influence a group of States whose electoral votes total 270, which is the number needed to win the presidency, into an alliance binding them to follow a majority vote attainable by a combination of New York, New England, and the Left Coast without regard to how the citizens of the States voted. </span></p><p><span>During the Constitutional Convention the Framers vigorously debated how the government they were designing should operate. When looking at the election of the chief executive they rejected direct democracy because they believed it was too prone to result in a majority that would act as a tyrant.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Looking back across time this collection of largely homeschooled patriots drew upon their knowledge of history and philosophy. Specifically they looked to the writings of Plato who wrote in the</span> <a href="https://www.iep.utm.edu/republic/"><span>Republic</span></a> <span>that the people or the demos, as they were called in Greek could not be trusted because they would inevitably vote for whoever promised to meet their desires of the moment even if that meant taking from others or from the national treasury. In other words they would vote for a Santa Clause over a Washington or a Jefferson. A lesson well learned and applied by the pitiful politicians promising paradise who make up the best Congress money can buy. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Plato thought the majority would lack the knowledge and wisdom to make sound choices. Of course he didn’t know about our enlightened American education system that spends more time indoctrinating the young skulls full of mush about Al Gore’s Climate hoax religion than it does about the founding of this country. A federally controlled union infected system spends more energy turning our children into good little socialist than teaching them that capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other system ever devised.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Instead of echoing the platitudes of Comrade Sanders and AOC as if they had any chance of working in the real world our government indoctrinators could teach about how the</span> <a href="https://www.history.com/news/how-the-great-compromise-affects-politics-today"><span>Connecticut Compromise</span></a> <span>led to the structure of our</span> <a href="https://constitution.laws.com/bicameral-legislature"><span>bicameral legislature</span></a> <span>and the executive branch. They could teach that the</span> <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/electoral-college"><span>electoral college</span></a> <span>was created to prevent the United States from becoming a place where the majority subjugated the minority.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Hamilton and Madison, two of the key strategists in devising our government focused on factions or combinations of likeminded people who work together to advance their own interests. Mainly they spoke of majorities and minorities. Madison especially thought that government must be structured in such a way as to fragment the power of the majority so that it could not become tyrannical.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>When you read</span> <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed09.asp"><span>Federalist 9</span></a> <span>(Hamilton),</span> <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp"><span>Federalist10</span></a><span>, and</span> <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp"><span>Federalist 51</span></a> <span>(Madison), these deep thinking political theorists identified three key elements they felt existed to help give the new United States a chance for success: its population size, geographic size, and the differing interests of the independent States. Back in those days before smartphones, the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and 24-hour cable news, these factors made it difficult if not impossible for minority factions to combine into a coalition large enough to do any real damage to our system. But today with near instantaneous communication people can be rallied quickly which means emotions can easily out run reflection</span><span> </span></p><p><span>In America today intolerant minority factions can be whipped up into tyrannical majorities in a way the Framers never imagined. At the very time in our history when we are more vulnerable than ever to manipulated majority rule the National Popular Vote movement wants us to embrace direct democracy at the presidential level.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>The Framers designed a system of government limited in scope and shackled by the Constitution. A system designed to do little as opposed to doing too much. They attempted to build a system based on the nature of man. A system of divided power able to control humanity’s less desirable tendencies. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>As Madison said in</span> <a href="http://constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm"><span>Federalist #51</span></a><span>, “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>This identifies the basic problem perfectly. We aren’t angels. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Because of this we need controls designed to prevent unfettered majority dominance. The Electoral College is the tool given to us by the Framers to make sure all of the States have a voice that is heard. However, if enough States adopt the</span> <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/"><span>National Popular Vote</span></a> <span>this safeguard will be neutralized, not through amending the Constitution but instead by doing an end-run around it. If this happens we’ll take a long step towards the dystopian vision our Framers sought to avoid: the tyranny of the majority.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>One question I have is, “How do these political manipulators convince people to vote to make their future votes irrelevant?” To paraphrase Lincoln, “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But you can probably fool enough people to convince a majority to vote themselves onto the sidelines of History.” If this arrow finds its mark a bicoastal electoral juggernaut will trample the voice of the Heartland into the dust of History.</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>
Marley’s Chains
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/marley-s-chains
2019-06-02T13:51:06.000Z
2019-06-02T13:51:06.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>To paraphrase scripture as presented in the Message we see that not only has the Church become</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+11&version=MSG"><span>Israel</span></a> <span>many have become</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+2%3A4&version=MSG"><span>spies</span></a> <span>only pretending to be Christians, who slipped in to find out just how free true Christians are who seek to pervert the freedom from religious legalism Christ gives us. They want to build their own kingdoms and feather their own nests by bringing others into the same religious bondage they drag around like Marley’s chains through a life that reeks of the grave.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Now the paraphrase of</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2%3A17-29&version=MSG"><span>Romans 2:17-29</span></a><span>:</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If you’re brought up <strong><em>Christian</em></strong>, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines! I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you? It is the same with adultery. And it is the same with idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law. The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you <strong><em>Christians</em></strong> that the outsiders are down on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going to go away.</span><span> </span></p><p><span><strong><em>Baptism</em></strong></span><span>, the ritual that marks you as a <strong><em>Christian</em></strong>, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being <strong><em>baptized</em></strong>. The reverse is also true: The <strong><em>unbaptized</em></strong> who keep God’s ways are as good as the <strong><em>baptized</em></strong> —in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law <strong><em>unbaptized</em></strong> than break it <strong><em>baptized</em></strong>. Don’t you see: It’s not the <strong><em>submerging in</em></strong> <strong><em>water</em></strong> that makes a <strong><em>Christian</em></strong>. You become a <strong><em>Christian</em></strong> by who you <em>are</em>. It’s the <strong><em>submerging of your heart</em></strong> in God, not the <strong><em>water</em></strong> on your skin that makes you a <strong><em>Christian</em></strong>. And the recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Not only are we warned to avoid the legalism of religion we are specifically warned about</span> <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-false-teachers/"><span>false teachers</span></a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.openbible.info/topics/wolves_in_sheeps_clothing_"><span>wolves disguised as Christians</span></a> <span>who seek to build their own kingdoms and lead others astray.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>At the end of the book of Romans Paul</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+16%3A18&version=MSG"><span>warns</span></a> <span>us; One final word of counsel, friends. Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble. Give these people a wide berth. They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They’re only in this for what they can get out of it, and aren’t above using pious sweet talk to dupe unsuspecting innocents.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>And in Philippians 3:17-19 Paul</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+3%3A19&version=MSG"><span>tells</span></a> <span>us; Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. There are many out there taking other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to go along with them. I’ve warned you of them many times; sadly, I’m having to do it again. All they want is easy street. They hate Christ’s Cross. But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>I’m not knocking anyone’s beliefs or their traditions. What I am doing is trying to warn those who want to follow Christ. We can’t let anyone, anything, or the peer pressure of any community fool us into elevating a system of man over the freedom of Christ. We should ask ourselves, “How can customs, traditions, holidays, and ceremonies transplanted from paganism to attract or mollify converts as faith in Christ was spread, sometimes by the sword, across barbarian Europe after the fall of Rome save us?” Anything that obscures the fact that it’s by faith alone that we’re saved and by obedience alone we’re changed is something holding us back from becoming what God created us to be.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Once again turning to Paul, the Apostle of the heart set free, we find in Galatians a stunning rebuke of those trying to turn a living faith into a religious structure. In Chapter three he</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3%3A19-25&version=NKJV"><span>says</span></a><span>, “What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. But the Scripture has confined all under sin that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.” After faith comes we’re free. Holding on to the structure of religion may make following easier but making ourselves a slave to it doesn’t set us free. And Christ came to set us free. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Remember</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+14%3A23&version=NKJV"><span>whatever is not of faith is sin</span></a> <span>and <u>no one can snatch us out</u> of the hand of God but</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+2%3A20-22&version=MSG"><span>we can sure jump</span></a><span>. </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>Scripture quotes taken from and paraphrases based on:</span><span> </span></p><p><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Message-MSG-Bible/"><span><strong>The Message</strong></span></a> <span><strong>(MSG)</strong></span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/?action=getVersionInfo&vid=65"><span>Eugene H. Peterson</span></a><span> </span></p><p><span>And:</span><span> </span></p><p><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-King-James-Version-NKJV-Bible/"><span><strong>New King James Version</strong></span></a> <span><strong>(NKJV)</strong></span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. </span><span> </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span> </span></p></div>
The Ambassador Comes to Call
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-ambassador-comes-to-call
2019-04-26T12:32:58.000Z
2019-04-26T12:32:58.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>When my wife and I were students at Regent University working on our doctorates we often had gatherings at our large Victorian home in South Norfolk. I’ll never forget when a man from Africa attended for the first time. He arrived with several of our usual guests and was a very engaging and likable person, “A hale fellow well met,” as he would’ve said in his elegant British accent.</p><p>As always we sat around our big table in the large kitchen talking, laughing, and sharing what the Lord was doing in our lives. After a few hours our new friend received a call and told us he was sorry but pressing business required his immediate attention. The people he’d come with offered to drive him home but he said, “No worries, I’ll call my driver.”</p><p>We went back to visiting until we were interrupted by a knock on the front door. You can imagine my surprise when I opened the door and there stood a tall man in a chauffeur’s uniform. Over his shoulder I could see one of the longest limos I’d ever seen with pennant flags of black, red, and green flying from the front fenders. I asked the man in and went back to the kitchen to alert our new friend that his ride was here. On the way back I asked him, “What do you do?”</p><p>He answered, “I’m the Ambassador from Kenya.”</p><p>You can imagine my surprise. There were some heavy hitters in that program; CEO’s for large corporations, command grade military officers, and pastors from some remarkable churches. However this made me think, “An ambassador was among us and we didn’t even know it.”</p><p>Since then I’ve thought, “Ambassadors are sent to represent the interests of another. If they don’t make this aspect of their presence known how can they fulfill their mandate?” And, “Every believer is called to be an Ambassador for Christ. How many of His ambassadors walk through this world and no one even knows this aspect of our presence?” </p><p>Sad to say the world is filled with undercover Christians. For most of us it’s a relevant question to ask, “If we were indicted for being a Christian is there enough evidence to convict?” Or would the charge be dropped with prejudice, which means it was dropped for a lack of evidence.</p><p>God’s Word is <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A18-20&version=NKJV">specific</a> about this responsibility, “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.</p><p>Or to put it <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A18-20&version=MSG">another way</a>, “Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.”</p><p>So many people say the Bible is filled with vague mysterious sayings open to almost any interpretation, like the I Ching or Tarot Cards but this operator’s manual for life on Earth gives us direct and real-time directions. Those of us who have confessed Jesus as our Commander-in-Chief and who believe that God raised Him from the dead are his twice-born children. As such these instructions apply directly to us.</p><p>We’re called to be Ambassadors for Christ. We’re called to share the message of his life, death, and resurrection and all that it means. As so often is the case the words of an <a href="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/987">old hymn</a> sung for generations delivers the good news.</p><p>One day when heaven was filled with His praises, one day when sin was as black as could be, Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin He dwelt among men, my example is He!</p><p>Living He loved me, dying he saved me, buried He carried my sins far away, Rising, He justified freely forever: One day He’s coming—O glorious day!</p><p>One day they led Him up Calvary’s mountain, one day they nailed Him to die on the tree; suffering anguish, despised and rejected; bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He.</p><p>One day the grave could conceal Him no longer, one day the stone rolled away from the door; then He arose, over death He had conquered; now is ascended, my Lord evermore.</p><p>One day the trumpet will sound for His coming, one day the skies with His glory will shine; wonderful day, my beloved ones bringing; glorious Savior, this Jesus is mine!</p><p>Which all adds up to our ambassadorial message, the one we’ve all been born-again to share: Living He loved me, dying he saved me, buried He carried my sins far away, rising, He justified freely forever: One day He’s coming—O glorious day!</p><p>Or, as one more contemporary song <a href="https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mercyme/bestnewsever.html">puts</a> it, “It’s not good news. It’s the best news ever.”</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><p> </p></div>
Who Weaponized the FBI?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/who-weaponized-the-fbi
2019-04-10T12:42:29.000Z
2019-04-10T12:42:29.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>With the release of the Mueller Report we finally have what should be the definitive word: There never was any collusion between President Trump or his campaign and the Russian government. After <span>675 days of investigation, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 warrants, and 500 witness interviews nada, zip, nothing but false charges, innuendo, slander, and an obvious smear campaign by the sore losers and their megaphone media.</span></p><p><span>The beginning of this sordid chapter in American History is almost laughable. After former Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/top-gop-lawmaker-calls-on-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-investigation/2017/03/02/148c07ac-ff46-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html?utm_term=.507f3532b449">recused</a> himself from his job Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein sends a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/rosenstein-letter-annotated/526116/">letter</a> to President Trump recommending he fire DBI director James Comey</span> for his handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. <span> Then Rosenstein appoints a Special Counsel to investigate supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin because President Trump fired Comey in an attempt to obstruct of justice. You just can’t make this stuff up.</span></p><p><span>With the release of Mueller’s report the first act in the silent coup has collapsed.</span></p><p><span>Now comes the time to pay the piper. There are increasing cries to investigate the investigators. It’s high time the American people find out who weaponized the FBI and then used them in an illegal attempt to influence an election and once that failed to overthrow a duly elected president.</span></p><p><span>Rep. Devin Nunes (R. CA) the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee plans to send</span> eight criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. Calling the gang-that-couldn’t-shoot-straight “Watergate Wannabees” Nunes <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/devin-nunes-referrals-russia-probe/2019/04/07/id/910578/">said</a> the criminal activity includes leaks of highly classified material and conspiracies to lie to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.</p><p>Nunes went on to <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/devin-nunes-referrals-russia-probe/2019/04/07/id/910578/">say</a> that five of the referrals "are what I would call straight up referrals… that name someone and name the specific crimes... [which are] lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information.”</p><p>He also <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/devin-nunes-referrals-russia-probe/2019/04/07/id/910578/">added</a> that "There are three [referrals] that I think are more complicated… We believe there was a conspiracy to lie to the FISA court, mislead the FISA court by numerous individuals that all need to be investigated and looked at that, and we believe the [relevant] statute is the conspiracy statute. The second conspiracy one is involving manipulation of intelligence that also could ensnarl many Americans."</p><p>This is not just a Republican witch hunt in response to the Democrat witch hunt.</p><p>Ex-Gov. / Sen. Bob Kerrey (D. NE) <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/democrats-bobkerrey-fbi-justicedepartment/2019/04/07/id/910559/">says</a>, "Rather than investigating the president further, Congress needs to investigate how the Department of Justice got this one so wrong. If the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us."</p><p>Former Harvard Professor and legal expert Alan Dershowitz, a self-declared liberal Democrat, has <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/democrats-bobkerrey-fbi-justicedepartment/2019/04/07/id/910559/">maintained</a> from the start that Congress needs a nonpartisan commission to investigate the failings of the justice system in searching for a crime that was not found in the Mueller Report.</p><p><span>The collapse of the Mueller investigation hasn’t stopped those who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome who infest Congress. The current smear being perpetrated by the never-say-die Watergate Wannabees and their silent coup is obstruction of Justice. Since collusion is not a crime and there never was any collusion to begin with how could there have been any obstruction of justice? If anything it should be obstruction of injustice.</span></p><p>Lying to Congress, leaking classified material, lying to obtain FISA warrants, conspiracy to influence a presidential election, and conspiracy to overthrow the president of the United States: this sounds like a plot from the TV series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(TV_series)">24</a>. All we need is the dramatic music to make it a real nail biter. If Rep. Nunes starts whispering like Jack Bauer I’m going to move to the edge of my seat.</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><span> </span></p></div>
Who Are We?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/who-are-we
2019-04-06T01:31:13.000Z
2019-04-06T01:31:13.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Who can ever know us better than we know ourselves? Obviously the answer is no one. Yet most people spend much of their life in frustrating attempts to figure it out. We’re like a man who looks into a mirror and as soon as he walks away forgets what he looks like.</p><p>I have that experience in an outward way daily as my inner man who feels like he’s in his mid-thirties remembers that outwardly I appear for some reason to be in my late sixties. </p><p>I’ve heard people say that life can be confusing because it doesn’t come with an instruction manual. I always feel bad for these people because they haven’t discovered there is a set of instructions for being a human being on the planet Earth. It’s called the Bible and it’s a really good book.</p><p>If we ever come to the conclusion that this one book was in fact inspired by God in a literal sense, that its words are a God breathed revelation written and preserved through thousands of years just so that we can learn the meaning of life, the universe, and everything and no, it isn’t 42. It can change our life. At least I know it did for me.</p><p>You see, I’m one of those radicals who believe to the deepest depths of my soul the Bible is God’s Word for humanity. I have a simple belief … God said it … I believe it … that’s it.</p><p>This life changing revelation teaches us God created a perfect world. Man was given the keys to the kingdom and made God’s overseer. We turned away from God and gave the keys to the Devil. God is a just God. He wanted us to have dominion over his creation but we gave it away so He couldn’t just take it from the one we’d given it to and give it back to us.</p><p>Imagine our Daddy bought us a brand new car. He wanted us to have the car. He wanted us to enjoy the car. He gave us the keys and the title. It’s our car. Than we give the car to someone else. That isn’t who Daddy wanted to have the car but we gave it this other person. We gave them the keys and signed the title over to them. Now it’s their car. It was legal transaction so it wouldn’t be fair or just if Daddy just took the car from that other person and gave it back to us.</p><p>It’s the same way with God’s creation. By turning our backs on God and following the devil we turned the whole thing over to our enemy and we became his slaves. That’s what original sin is all about. We inherit the sin nature from our father Adam then each of us adds to the burden of sin on our own. The sin from the first to the last has to be paid for if God is to return the title deed to creation back to humanity. And the only way for that to happen was for someone to carry all that sin through a perfect life, pay the penalty for sin; which is physical and spiritual death, descend into hell, and take the keys back from the devil. No human could ever do it because none of us has ever or could ever live a sinless life.</p><p>So God had to do it himself. He became flesh. He lived a sinless life. His death on the cross was a physical and spiritual sacrificial substitution for all of us. He went down into hell. He took the keys away from the devil. He rose from the dead. He ascended into heaven. And now as the new Adam of a new human race He declares any who believe in Him to be His children which means we can stand in the presence of God without any feelings of guilt or shame. We are completely forgiven and made sinless because we are united with Jesus through faith. When God looks at us He sees Jesus. He gives us back the keys.</p><p>That’s it in a nut shell.</p><p>So who are we? We are who He says we are. We’re His children. We’re living stones built up into a spiritual temple where He himself dwells. He says if we confess Jesus as Lord, acknowledge Him as the boss of our life and believe God raised Him from the dead we will be saved. He doesn’t say we might be saved. He doesn’t say we could be saved. He says we WILL be saved. Believe it. Receive it. Live it. Walk out of this vale of tears and into the light of the Son of His love.</p><p>So who are we? You can be anyone you want to be. As for me and my house we will follow the Lord … we will be who He says we are … His children.</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><p></p></div>
A Coup Wrapped in a Hoax Inside a Vendetta
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/a-coup-wrapped-in-a-hoax-inside-a-vendetta
2019-03-29T13:14:16.000Z
2019-03-29T13:14:16.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>After 675 days of investigation, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 warrants, and 500 witness interviews</span> <span>here are a few things that never happened in the</span> <span>time-consuming,</span> <span>money-wasting, slanderous attempt to erase the results of the 2016 election known as the Mueller investigation:</span><span> </span></p><ol><li><span>After endless speculation and daily smears Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and other people whose supposed legal jeopardy was the subject of around-the-clock media speculation in the last year were not indicted.</span></li><li><span>No one in the Trump campaign or his inner circle was implicated or charged with conspiring with Russia to fix the 2016 election, as the media authoritatively claimed day-after-day throughout the last two years.</span></li><li><span>The president was not subpoenaed though the almost hysterical pundits of the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party known as the drive-by media assured us he would be.</span></li><li><span>Though endless hours of speculation centered on the President’s imminent firing of Mueller it never happened</span></li><li><span>The ceaseless attacks against President Trump disguised as news constantly told us the President obstructed justice by interfering with the Mueller investigation. However, in a letter to Congress, Attorney General Barr after mentioning he was required to notify lawmakers if any top Justice Department officials ever interfered with the Mueller investigation stated, "There were no such instances."</span></li></ol><p><span>Completing an investigation initiated by the CABAL in the Justice Department dedicated to reversing the outcome of the 2016 election, an investigation which did not meet the Justice Department’s own standard for appointing a Special Prosecutor; the presence of an underlying crime, Mueller is finally finished. Not long after the news broke, Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts said, "The feeling at the White House right now is that this is finally over." </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Unfortunately for those of us who want to get about the business of making America great again this will probably be a yes and a no. Mueller's report not recommending any additional indictments doesn’t mean that the Democrats have given up on their eternal Trump-Russia investigation. Since those who knew there was nothing to this in the first place anticipated this possibility. This is why the House Democrats jump started new Trump-Russia investigations to ensure it will never be over. Does anyone doubt such investigations will continue, at least until the 2020 elections? In reality this has been and is government funded media fueled opposition research and Democrat campaigning for whichever socialist they eventually nominate.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>During one of their relentless wall-to-wall bash Trump panels even the dying CNN, nest of the most outspoken of the so-called journalists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, had to admit this was a “Huge Victory for the President,” and that Trump was “Vindicated.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Here are few samplings from their less than enthusiastic announcement of their</span> <span>long sought</span> <span>dream: the end of the Mueller investigation.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Their Commander Wolf Blitzer said, “President Trump has won a huge victory.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Evan Pérez commented, “He’s been vindicated by them.” </span><span> </span></p><p><span>The rabidly anti-Trump Gloria Borger agreed, “And then he’s now vindicated, exactly.” She added, “You know–how do you manage that politically? I mean, we obviously can’t jump the gun here. We have to see what comes out from Barr, and what’s in the report. But if I’m at Mar-A-Lago with the president, as Pamela has been reporting, the lawyers are … that I would be very happy.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Another of CNN’s trained talking heads Shimon</span> <span>Prokupecz</span> <span>said, “A couple of victories here. The president did not have to sit down for an interview. They were so concerned about that, because he’d get caught up in lies–and there’d be perjury traps. Okay, so that’s now over. No more people being indicted. Sealed, unsealed–no more indictments. Mueller is done. Huge victory for the president.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>The uncompromising off the rails nature of these investigations is exemplified in their incessant demands for President Trump’s tax returns. He’s been audited by the IRS every year for more than a dozen years. Does anyone believe if the highly politicized Obama IRS of Commissioner Douglas Shulman and Lois Lerner had found any irregularities in Trump’s returns they wouldn’t have been leaked? Does anyone in the Democrat echo chamber media ever mention that Nancy Pelosi refuses to make her tax returns public?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>So</span> <span>one chapter may be ending but never fear the sequels are here. It is all about damaging President Trump enough so that he will lose his bid for re-election. Add the votes of the low-information and indoctrinated by the nightly news sheep to the illegals, the felons, the socialists, and the America Last crowd and the Democrats hope to deliver us to Bernie, Beto, and their Green New Deal brand of Venezuelan worker’s paradise.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Let’s hope there’re enough people who’ve swallowed the red pill, had the scales wiped from their eyes, and realize the entire Trump – Russia side show was designed to front for a silent coup and to cover up the only real colluding that took place in the 2016 election. Hillary colluding with DNC to rig the nomination process against Bernie. And Hillary’s campaign colluding with Fusion GPS who hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile a “dossier” filled with fake news and garbage that was all dressed up by the FBI, taken to the FISA Court, and presented as a legitimate intelligence document. Let’s hope.</span><span> </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> © 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>
America’s Frankenstein Culture
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/america-s-frankenstein-culture
2019-03-03T20:37:06.000Z
2019-03-03T20:37:06.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Remember the big flap when the undercover video from <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/">Project Veritas</a> showed the leaders of Planned Parenthood callously talking about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPLzMIC7CI">selling</a> parts of aborted children? This was exposed several <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/26/planned-parenthoods-organs-lamborghinis-exec-busted-trying-sell-baby-body-parts/">times</a>. One federal judge even <a href="http://12160.info/page/huge-5th">ruled</a> that the videos were authentic and not deceptively edited. Altogether Project Veritas released a <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2016/07/14/new-video-exposes-planned-parenthoods-illicit-baby-parts-trafficking-scheme/">dozen videos</a> exposing this monstrous evil.</p><p>After the initial shock of the videos the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media or as they are also known: the Propaganda Arm of the Democrat Party went on a rampage attacking the videos and those who made them. And surprise, surprise, surprise an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/01/28/464594826/in-wake-of-videos-planned-parenthood-investigations-find-no-fetal-tissue-sales">exhaustive investigation</a> by Planned Parenthood found that despite all the video evidence there were no sales of fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood even though their own executives were the people on the videos talking about selling fetal tissue. Of course the manufactured results of the cover-up received more exposure than the videos.</p><p>Now comes this soul wrenching mind-numbing headline from the best government money can buy, “HHS Extends Contract to Make ‘Humanized Mice’ With Aborted Baby Parts for Another 90 Days.”</p><p>That’s right those baby parts that aren’t being sold are being purchased by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct experiments funded by our tax dollars. Which, according to the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/142">Hyde Amendment</a>, cannot be used to fund abortion.</p><p>What are “humanized mice” any sane person might ask? These creatures are made by implanting mice with human tissues taken from late-term aborted babies.</p><p>What is this all about? <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/hhs-extends-contract-make-humanized-mice-aborted-baby-parts-another">According</a> to CNSNews.com, “The HHS's multi-million-dollar contract with UCSF that requires the construction of these “humanized mice” creates a demand--driven by federal tax dollars--for tissue taken from late-term aborted babies. According to an estimate it has <a href="https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx">published on its website</a>, the National Institutes of Health (which is a division of HHS) will spend $95 million this fiscal year alone on research that--like UCSF's "humanized mouse" contract--uses human fetal tissue.”</p><p>The contract specifically requires researchers at UCSF to make two different types of “humanized mice” both of which are “engrafted with human fetal liver and thymus.”</p><p>After the Allies conquered Germany and liberated the demonic system of concentration and death camps the NAZI insanity used to kill millions many German citizens <a href="https://www.papermasters.com/german-public-knowledge-concentration-camps.html">denied any knowledge</a> that the Final Solution had been implemented by their own government. They must have thought this lack of knowledge absolved them of any responsibility for what their government had done. Allied troops forced German citizens to tour the camps and to <a href="http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauLiberation/aftermath03.html">view the results</a> of their government’s policies. After that they could no longer say they didn’t know.</p><p>The videos of Project Veritas serve the same purpose for Americans. We can no longer say we don’t know that children are being slaughtered and their body parts sold. Has the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave morphed into the Land of the Sleaze and the Home of the Knave? Have the industry of death and its networks of abortion mills so permeated our society that we can calmly accept them and these Frankenstein laboratories killing babies and perverting God’s creation for profit?</p><p>If we do not rise up and demand that this evil stop we become the silent tax paying sheep who not only allow it but also fund it. Let’s write our Representative in Congress. Write our Senator. Write the President. Demand that this slaughter of the innocents ends. Demand that the unspeakable evil of selling pieces of aborted children be branded as what it is … a crime against humanity … and that those who profit by this evil are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.</p><p>We need to speak up now or our silence will bear witness against us. <span>Do not be deceived, <a href="https://mobile.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+6%3A7&version=NKJV">God is not mocked</a>; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.</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> © 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><p> </p></div>
What is the State of Our Union?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/what-is-the-state-of-our-union
2019-02-09T22:14:15.000Z
2019-02-09T22:14:15.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>America is slipping over a cliff.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>And there’s one man locked in mortal battle with the political, judicial, military, and media establishment trying to stop it.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Ever since the election of 2016 the entire establishment has been trying to reverse the vote of those who put President Trump in office. They’ve investigated and smeared. They’ve put up road block after road block.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>And half the country backs them in their effort. We’re divided. One side wants America to be America. The other side wants a globalist vision of we are the world. One thing that illustrates the effectiveness of generations of dumbing down perpetuated by government-run public education and the power of a wall-to-wall propaganda megaphone is that so many of the self-anointed hip, the liberal, and the idealistic young are lined up with the establishment to bring down the first leader since 1980 who is actually trying to reverse America’s slide into the dustbin of history.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Their outrage is real. How dare Trump try to make America great again! How dare he try to stop the endless importation of low information voters! America doesn’t belong to its citizens. They didn’t build that. Walls don’t work. Just listen to all the capitalist hating socialists who’ve made millions and billions in our free economy living behind walls telling us this is so. It’s like Louis XVI leading the mob and trying to send Thomas Paine and Lafayette to the guillotine. If it wasn’t so serious it’d be funny. At least maybe we’ll laugh through our tears as the lights go out in the last best hope of mankind.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Watching the votes and the choices of those who want the Trump agenda enacted being disregarded daily by the governing elite and the howling mob of their fellow-travelers is a right now smack-you-in-the-face illustration of the futility of life without God. If people try on their own to change the world</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+4%3A4&version=NKJV"><span>the god of this age</span></a> <span>fights back. And in the worldly realm without God this little god, the</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A2&version=NKJV"><span>prince of the power of the air</span></a> <span>,wins a lot of battles.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>No surprise</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+16%3A8&version=NKJV"><span>there</span></a><span>, for the sons of this world are wiser than the sons of light. </span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+16%3A8&version=MSG"><span>In other words</span></a><span>, “Streetwise people are smarter in this regard than law-abiding citizens. They are on constant alert, looking for angles, surviving by their wits.” And that’s why Democrats always appear smarter than Republicans. They’re more disciplined and more focused on their goal of transforming America into a Venezuelan style worker’s paradise, and they never take a step back. Combined with the fact that at least half of the elected Republicans are RINOs these advantages add up to even when the Republicans win they lose.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>But that’s in the world. We who</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+10%3A9&version=NKJV"><span>trust in Christ</span></a> <span>as our Savior, who’ve confessed that Jesus is the Lord and Leader of our life, and believe that God raised Him from the dead may be in the world but we’re not of the world, and we shouldn’t be</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+12%3A1-2&version=NKJV"><span>conformed to its image</span></a><span>.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>So what is the State of our union with Christ?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Billy Graham taught us years ago</span> <a href="https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/february-2016/a-classic-billy-graham-message-in-the-world-but-not-of-it/"><span>that</span></a><span>: “The Bible teaches that worldliness is a force, a spirit, an atmosphere of the cosmos that is in opposition to all that is godly and Christian. Its goal is selfish pleasure, material success and the pride of life. It is ambitious, self-centered. God is not necessarily denied; He is just ignored and forgotten.” And</span> <a href="https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/february-2016/a-classic-billy-graham-message-in-the-world-but-not-of-it/"><span>that</span></a><span>, “The Bible is clear that the world’s inhabitants are either under the influence of this cosmos with its cunning, deception and spell; or they are in Christ and under the direction of the Spirit of God. There is no neutral ground. The lines are drawn by the Bible.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>This hasn’t changed. And it’s easy to check where we stand in relation to this reality. In the still of the night as you drift off to sleep what’re you thinking of? In the middle of the night if you wake up what’re you thinking of? In the morning when you wake up what’re you thinking of? These are the times when we’re as removed from our life-swallowing mind-numbing work-a-day-world life as possible. This is a perfect time to determine whether our mind is focused on Jesus or is it consumed by the things of this world?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If you have a hard time keeping your focus on God in the midst of the trials and tribulations of this vale of tears let me make a suggestion.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Christian radio is something that helps me. Maybe it would help you? There are local stations all over the dial, streaming to every devise imaginable. There’s every type of music from Gospel, to country, from rock to rap. I can suggest two that work for me. </span> <a href="http://www.klove.com/"><span>K-Love</span></a> <span>which is a national station found on dials from coast to coast and</span> <a href="http://life1071.com/"><span>Life 107.1</span></a> <span>which is a station heard around the Midwest. As I said there’re local channels all over and you can easily find one that meets your particular taste.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Pumping that positive faith message into my brain as much as possible helps me stay closer to Christ. Give it a try. What’ve you got to lose? If nothing else you’ll find uplifting music performed by some of the best musicians in the world.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>So what’s the state of our union? Are we moving toward God or away from Him? That’s the only thing that ultimately matters in this life. Let’s leave the carnival mirror reflections that make up the worldly life around us and exercise our rights as citizens of Heaven and as the words of an old song tell us:</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Turn your eyes upon Jesus,</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Look full in His wonderful face,</span><span> </span></p><p><span>And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,</span><span> </span></p><p><span>In the light of His glory and grace.</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><p><span> </span></p><p> </p></div>
Got Hope?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/got-hope
2019-02-01T20:30:16.000Z
2019-02-01T20:30:16.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world! What a world!” </span><span> </span></p><p><span>There is a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship. Founded by revolutionaries crying “No taxation without representation!” the Republic these revolutionaries devised has devolved into a society where</span> <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/81-million-americans-wont-pay-any-federal-income-taxes-this-year-heres-why-2018-04-16"><span>44%</span></a> <span>of the people pay no Federal Income Tax and the number of people receiving government benefits is even</span> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2014/07/02/weve-crossed-the-tipping-point-most-americans-now-receive-government-benefits/"><span>higher</span></a><span>. What incentive would these non-paying receivers have to reign in an overbearing and intrusive government? This unseen and unspoken problem is a cancer in the body politic.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Self-serving professional politicians buy votes by exempting non-productive people from personal financial responsibility while providing ever-expanding benefits at the expense of the productive. This is not the right versus left, conservative versus liberal, democrat versus republican he-said-she-said endless debate that devours the</span> <span>chatocracy</span> <span>of cable’s wall-to-wall talking-heads. This is not an academic exercise that pointy-headed political science and history majors with dueling pocket protectors debate for hours in their mother’s basement as they post their latest scoop on their samizdat blogs. If it is not any of these things what is it? It’s a dagger pointing directly at the heart of our civilization.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Western Civilization awoke from the slumber of the Dark Ages enlightened and empowered by a belief that humanity has an innate right to be free and a natural right to excel. Rights and freedoms given by God not bestowed at the whim of some Legend-in-his-own-mind Leader. This civilization gathered steam in Europe exploding upon the world stage through an energetic period of exploration. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>In America after a revolution fought by farmers and merchants against the greatest empire of the day the Founders dared to</span> <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/"><span>declare</span></a><span>, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” After centuries of government thugs standing on the windpipe of everyday people these self-sacrificing giants observed that in a civilized world government was not imposed by the strong upon the weak it was instead built upon a social contract between the governed and those entrusted with the privilege to govern when they</span> <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/"><span>said</span></a><span>, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Today this bold and unique experiment in freedom is being devoured from within and challenged from without. Those who believe the collective should reign over the individual, those who believe in the suffocating sameness of socialism over the rough-and-tumble of capitalism have worked for generations building a culture of dependency. This has tempered the steel will of the pioneers into the sloppy demands of the couch-potato slacker waiting for someone to find their remote as they guzzle some refreshments and wait for the game as bread and circuses take the place of innovation and accomplishment. Schools teaching 2+2 might = 5, trophies for everyone, politically correct new-speak and affirmative action promotions have sapped the vitality from the citizens of our Republic. Politicians and their fellow-travelers use a system of cronies and sweet-heart deals to reward each other for siphoning trillions from the public treasury promising the dumbed-down descendants of revolutionaries that they just might win the lotto before they have to declare bankruptcy so they might as well re-elect the same old grafters once again.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>There comes a time when those who are raising the sails and paddling the boat have to admit to themselves the ballast down in steerage weighs more than the cargo. There comes a time when even the most non-confrontational and loyal among us begin to ask, “Who is John Galt” as Atlas tires of his thankless job and shrugs the burden of dead-weight into the dustbin of history. As the perpetually-reelected and the propaganda spewing Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media trumpet the inevitability of government rationed health-care, cap-n-trade industrial suicide, comprehensive import-a-voter immigration reform and the surrender of sovereignty through treaties supposedly designed to deal with mythical global warming there shines a light in a bell tower, one if by land and two if by sea.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>America finally elects a president who directly runs on promises to deal with these life threatening problems and the disloyal opposition and the kangaroo courts do everything in their power to make sure no one applies the breaks as we careen towards the cliff on insolvency. Every trick in their playbook is employed to make sure the president elected to drain the swamp is neutered. Investigations run by politicized lawyers and G-men keep revealing things that point at Hillary as the only person who tried to fix an election by stealing the primary from Bernie. Hillary whose campaign colluded with the Russians through Fusion GPS and their KGB connected British Spy Christopher Steele. It turns out that the Trump campaign received 0 dollars from the Russians while the Clinton Foundation money laundromat</span> <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-government-initiative-gave-millions-to-clinton-foundation/"><span>received</span></a> <span>millions over a period of years while Bill earned 500,000 for a short speech to the Russians seeking to corner America’s uranium market, a sale that his wife help guide through the process. And the conclusion drawn by the witch hunters …wait for it … Trump is a Russian agent.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If Chicken Little hasn’t told you lately, “The sky is falling.” Can anyone say, impeachment? </span><span> </span></p><p><span>That is the sorry state of the American political world today. There is one almost humorous aside as we slide towards that dustbin historians love to reference. All the geriatric radicals and revolutionaries still dreaming of their glory years in the 60s and 70s aided by the screen-addicted beneficiaries of government public school programming lined up behind the swampy establishment to fight the first truly revolutionary leader we’ve elected since 1980. “What a world! What a world!” </span><span> </span></p><p><span>But praise God we have somewhere else to look for hope for without hope we’re hopeless and I refuse to allow the despicable but predictable changes currently assaulting our economy and our political system to bring about my own personal Great Depression. Those who believe in the Devil believe he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I believe if he can’t steal your joy he can’t keep your stuff</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+30%3A5&version=NKJV"><span>and</span></a> <span>weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>And I</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+8%3A36&version=NKJV"><span>believe</span></a> <span>that Jesus Christ has come to set us free. And if He sets us free we are free indeed. So take courage. Don’t lose hope. Instead be hope-filled.</span> <span>All you have to do</span> <span>is confess Jesus as the lord, the leader of your life and believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and you will enter into a world</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+1%3A8&version=NKJV"><span>of</span></a> <span>joy unspeakable and full of glory. If you haven’t done that before I’m going to believe you just did, and that fills me with hope.</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><br /></span></p><p> </p></div>
Dawn of the Debacle
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/dawn-of-the-debacle
2018-12-30T12:03:51.000Z
2018-12-30T12:03:51.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>As my favorite American philosopher, Yogi Berra once said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Nevertheless I’m going to take a stab at it.</p><p>Are you ready for the night of the long knives? Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of the Make America Miserable Again crowd have been trying to destroy President Trump by the death of a thousand cuts. Every day 24/7 their poodle press in the ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCPBSNPR Cartel has been trumpeting the lies and false accusations of their endless stream of fake news. They follow the teachings of Joseph Goebbels that “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” They operate on the wisdom contained in one of Mark Twain’s observation, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” And the Low Information Voters drink it all in and repeat it Ad Nauseam as their own personal opinions</p><p>Teaching political Science and History I have a window into the thinking of those who’ve been raised listening to the Cartel and being indoctrinated in our modem education system. They grew up with smart phones in their hands, worshipping Al Gore, and came to the age of maturity voting for Bernie. And from my observations the Cartel and the Democrat Socialists have picked a strategy that works. </p><p>Forget about the fact that half the people who should know better have inhaled the same illusionary smoke. After watching the implosion of the USSR and the destruction of Cuba and Venezuela they still hate capitalism as they frog march themselves into the voting booth to vote for the rope that’ll hang them. And in the long march from freedom to serfdom coming up behind us is a generation ready to give what they’ve been taught is the revolutionary new idea of socialism a try because they think it just means free stuff for everybody. If demographics is destiny and education is the seedbed of the future with our porous borders and progressive curriculum we’ve sown the wind and we’re about to reap the whirlwind.</p><p>With the election of the blue-collar billionaire we had a chance to maybe turn the ship of state around before we hit the iceberg of socialism, bankruptcy, and military adventurism but the Deep State bureaucratic nomenklatura couldn’t have that. So they marshalled all their resources and have been working on the aforementioned death of a thousand cuts. And if the results of the recent midterm election are any indication they’ve accomplished their goal.</p><p>They’ve captured the House of Representatives and will soon have the power to investigate until they reach they preconceived conclusions. Who are these counter-revolutionary street fighters dedicated to overthrowing the results of the 2016 election? They are the Party that fixed the primaries so the poster child of corruption could defeat the poster child of socialism. They are the Party that colluded with the Russians to create the Steele Dossier which they then used as the evidence to investigate Trump for colluding with the Russians. They are the Party that used the security apparatus to try and sandbag their opponent before and after the election. </p><p>Here comes the hard part of being a political prognosticator, the prediction part.</p><p>Because they are the Party that will find after their exhaustive show trials and prejudiced investigations just as their preconceived conclusions predicted surprise, surprise, surprise President Trump has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. No matter what they call them charges they will actually be, “We don’t like you and Hillary was supposed to win.” </p><p>Though some of the more savvy political savants among the Blame America First crowd realize impeachment will be toxic knowing it will energize Mr. Trump’s base like nothing else could. They’ll do it anyway. </p><p>Though they and their friends in the Fed know if they succeed in tanking the economy which has surged under Trump it will be blamed on them. Of course they won’t be held accountable by the lap dog media but they will by the work-a-day consumers it will hurt. They’ll do it anyway.</p><p>In spite of all the obvious signs that having people like Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters as the face of their party is going open the flood gates for even more middle-class working Americans to wake up and smell the Constitution burning. They’ll do it anyway.</p><p>Like moths to a flame the perpetually angry purveyors of identity politics, culture war, and taking America down a peg or two will overplay their hand. They’ll push their slow motion coup to its logical conclusion impeaching President Trump. </p><p>I predict he will not be convicted in the Senate. I also predict that two years of Kavanaugh-style hearings projected wall-to-wall by their propaganda arm in the media will walk on the last nerve of the American electorate and we’ll see a red tsunami in 2020.</p><p>As Yogi said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” But then again my favorite American philosopher also said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.”</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>
What is Christmas Without Christ?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/what-is-christmas-without-christ
2018-12-21T22:39:17.000Z
2018-12-21T22:39:17.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>What have Frosty the Snowman, roasting chestnuts, hippos, hula hoops, and barking dogs got to do with Christmas? </span><span> </span></p><p><span>They may bring warmth to our hearts. They may bring a smile to our lips. Or they may make us groan. Whatever they do to each of us what they all have in common is that they’re glued to Christmas like barnacles to the hull of the good ship lollipop. They’re the accumulated cultural baggage that increasingly obscures the real meaning of a revolutionary blessed event under the camouflage of a socially acceptable winter break.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>The ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCPBSNPR Cartel tells us constantly that we now live in a post-Christian America. They exalt in proclaiming the end of Christ’s dominant influence on Western Civilization. As a result we’ve descended from a city on a hill to a modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Our elites call evil good and good evil. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Ever since the nine black-robed masters of America decreed back in 1962 that God was expelled from school we’ve witnessed the steady degradation of our society. The coarseness and vulgarity we’re deluged with on a daily basis was unknown in earlier days. What we call prime time entertainment was once known as pornography. What were abominations and generally accepted as perversions have become the norm while believing them to be against God’s Word is now considered some type of mental disorder. The cabal of self-appointed paragons of pomposity that masquerade as educators, politicians, and journalists cap their war against God when they glory in the right of self-interest to sacrifice the lives of the innocent and demand that the government not only endorse it but subsidize it.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>As a natural outgrowth of the city of man’s war against God that defines America’s progressive culture comes the war against Christmas.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Back in the dream time we used to go to Christmas programs at our children’s schools and listen to the little darlings sing <em>The First Noel</em>, <em>Oh Little Town of Bethlehem</em>, and <em>O Come O Come Emmanuel</em>. Now we listen to them sing songs in foreign languages, or do beautiful arrangements of sounds that don’t even have a meaning intermixed with a few songs about winter, snow, or maybe animals. It may all be PC but it sure doesn’t have anything to do with the reason for the season.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Just in case all the tinsel and the twinkling lights have blinded us to what that reason is let me elaborate.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Christmas is all about Jesus the Christ born as a human so that he could bear the sins of the world, die a substitutionary death in our place, rise triumphantly from the grave and ascend into heaven so that we who believe can live in and through Him. That’s what it’s all about. Christmas must be linked to Easter to have any meaning. I’ve met people who never realized that the Jesus in the manger on Christmas was the same Jesus who hung on the cross on Good Friday. I did not meet them in the jungles of some remote island but in America with a church on every corner. This is a clear case of Santa with a coke in his hand winning the advertising debate over the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world. It may all be PC but it sure doesn’t have anything to do with the reason for the season.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>What is Christmas without Christ? It’s a worldly hedonistic overly commercialized gift giving/receiving orgasm perpetrated by humanity’s enemy to keep us from knowing that Christ came to set us free, to reconcile us to God, and to make a way for us to live as a new creation in a new creation. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Not to be Grinch, let me wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Let’s enjoy our family and friends. Let’s celebrate our traditions as we remember Jesus is the reason for the season. So let’s wake up and smell the frankincense and myrrh for without Christ in Christmas all we have is “mas.” </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></div>
Jump!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/jump
2018-11-01T12:39:17.000Z
2018-11-01T12:39:17.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Christ came to fulfill the Old Covenant. He paid the price for Adam’s sin and made a way back into fellowship with God. Sin was the problem and Jesus is the answer. </p><p>When he was offered up by the High Priest as a sinless sacrifice He fulfilled all that had ever been required in the Old Covenant.</p><p>When He breathed His last on the cross and cried out, “It is finished,” the curtain in the temple was ripped in half. God left the Holy of Holies on earth signifying the end of the Old Covenant. When Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven He poured out his blood on the eternal alter of God in the heavenly temple of God. All the sacrifices of the Old Testament had been but a foreshadowing of this event.</p><p>When we confess Jesus as Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead as it says in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+10%3A9-10&version=NKJV">Romans 10:9-10</a> we shall be saved. It doesn’t say we might be saved. It doesn’t say we will be saved by and by. It says we shall be saved. The moment we do that we’re born again, recreated, and translated from the old world of sin caused separation from God and death to the new world of fellowship with God and life.</p><p>Once we’re saved from the curse of sin we become the righteousness of God. This means we can stand in the presence of God without any guilt, shame, or fear for we’ve become His children. And as His children we have the right and the ability to come boldly into our Daddy’s throne room any time we want.</p><p>Think of it this way, if you or I walked up to the gate of Buckingham Palace and told the guard, “Let me in I want to see the queen” we wouldn’t even get a smile from one of those guys. But if Prince Phillip walked up and said the same thing they would immediately usher him into the royal presence.</p><p>It’s the same with us and the heavenly Holy of Holies. God is our Father. We can enter His presence any time we want. There’s no need to beg or plead. It’s our right as His child because we are one with Christ. He’s the head and we’re the body. We’re the very living stones built up into His eternal temple. We’re individually the tabernacles of His Holy Spirit who dwells in us.</p><p>Don’t accept less. Be all that God re-created you to be. We’re a new creation the old has passed away and behold all has become new. We dwell this moment in God’s New Jerusalem and collectively we are His Holy Temple. God the Father is on His throne. Christ the Lamb that was slain for the sins of the world and yet lives is seated to His right hand. The Holy Spirit indwells the temple built of living stones.</p><p>There is nothing left to be done. It is finished. There is nothing we can add. We have been given the authority to act in the Name of Christ. We shouldn’t sit back waiting to get good enough. We shouldn’t expect some hireling to do what God has called us to do. We’ve been called to take the light of Christ into a world of darkness.</p><p>He never told us to build a lamp. He never told us to pay a lighthouse tender. He told us to take the light of His love to those sold under bondage to the king of this world. And we must always remember greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. </p><p>Jesus told us that if we have faith, even if it’s as small as the smallest seed, and we tell the mountain to jump it’ll jump. So let’s quit waiting for some collective bulldozer to move the mountains and start living as what we are: children of the Most High God.</p><p>In the desert God told Moses to speak to the rock. He has told us to speak to the mountains. So now, all together on the count of three let’s say to the mountains in our life, “Jump!”</p><p>One, two, three.</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>
Want To Buy A Bridge?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/want-to-buy-a-bridge
2018-10-24T13:07:05.000Z
2018-10-24T13:07:05.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>From the “You can’t make this stuff up” Department:</p><p>It is beyond me how the Communists, I’m sorry I mean the Socialists, oh excuse me I mean the Democrats are able to peddle the bilge they’re spewing this election cycle. But I’m sure that a significant segment of the voting public will swear this bilge is rose water come Election Day. Now if these Soros-Clinton-Pelosi-Waters supporters were knuckle-dragging drooling Neanderthal types I could understand it. However, I personally know many very intelligent people who prove they’ve had one too many drinks of Kool-Ade by casting their precious votes for the Party of Obama and the new normal.</p><p>And now for some anecdotal proof:</p><p>I live in a State that is enjoying record high employment, has received the biggest tax cuts in history, has a balanced budget, millions in a rainy day fund and is ranked near number one in education and healthcare. In response to this the Pelosi Party has a gubernatorial candidate who says people are starving to death in the streets, rotting away on gurneys in the halls of broken down hospitals, and the pining away for the good old days of presidents who bow to kings and a perpetual Great Recession.</p><p>Nationally the party of globalism, open borders, and mobs as always promises one thing and plans on delivering another. They promise to fight for the little guy, protect Social Security, provide health care for all, and rainbows every day of the week. If given control of the House and/or the Senate they will deliver years of Kavanaugh style show trials and though their leader tells them not to talk about it they will impeach President Trump in 2019. </p><p>Currently their propaganda arm in the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media foist what they hope is a self-fulfilling prophecy of a huge blue wave on the low information voters. To facilitate this fever dream and create a spectacle they hope will overwhelm our border agents, detention camps and legal system they’re financing and coordinating an army of gang-age males hiding behind the skirts of women and children. Marching north after violently storming across Mexico’s southern border carrying the flags of Guatemala and Honduras the publicity flacks of the ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCPBSNPR Cartel tell us over and over these are peaceful hardworking people are peaceful asylum seekers and not the gate crashing pawns we can see tearing down fences and forcing their way into Mexico.</p><p>Promising to raise taxes, increase regulations, expand welfare, shut down the oil and coal industries, impeach Kavanaugh and President Trump the campaign slogan for the America Last fellow-travelers should be “Let’s Make America Miserable Again!” All I can say is if you buy this bilge I’ve got a bridge you can buy right here.</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>
We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/we-wrestle-not-against-flesh-and-blood
2018-10-04T14:19:10.000Z
2018-10-04T14:19:10.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>Watching the recent political theater that our ever more divided country serves up as leadership rminds me that the natural man cannot receive the things of God for they’re foolishness to him. The mockery of the late night political hacks masquerading as comedians or of the not even close to being funny Democrat shills haunting SNL reminds us that weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.</p><p>I wonder if someone came forward and said that Nancy Pelosi sexually abused them when they were a minor but they can’t remember where, or when, how they got there, how they got home, and everyone they said was a witness denied it … do you think the Congressional Ethics Committee would investigate it? Would the ABCCBSNBCPBSCNNMSNBC Cartel do wall-to-wall panel discussion about the validity of the claims?</p><p>As we watch these show trials staged for no other reason than to destroy the reputation and life of a man who the testimony of all who know him say is impeccable don’t lose heart. What the enemy means for evil God can turn to good. When we see what appears to be all of the media from New York to Hollywood piling on don’t despair the enemy may come in like a flood but God is well able to lift up a standard just as Moses lifted a serpent in the wilderness. Look with your spiritual eyes and see the real battle f<span>or we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood. We battle against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.</span></p><p><span>We’ll never have the strength to stand for what’s right until we hit our knees. Faith is the answer and prayer is the key. Forget about the unfairness of it for the fallen world is inherently unfair. Take your eyes off the here and now and get a view of eternity. All of this will pass away. Remember God not only wins in the end He’s won already. Stop living in the world. Jesus said we must be born again born from above. If we confess Him as Lord if we believe God has raised Him from the dead we will be saved. The moment we do that we enter into His kingdom. We die to this world and we’re born into the new heaven and the new earth. And we’ve done all the dying we’ll ever do. Our body will stop one day but we’ll live for all eternity in Him.</span></p><p><span>While it may be entertaining and it may make a world of difference here and now all this back and forth between one side and another is merely man re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Looking back did it make any difference which side of the deck someone was standing on? We’re they on the left or the right? When the ship went down both sides hit the water.</span></p><p><span>In a hundred years no one will know who we were. Some descendent may know our name, maybe even where we were born and where we died. But they won’t know who we are. In a thousand years no one will even know we were here. In a hundred thousand years America will have been erased from memory. But in an eternity from now we who choose to live in Christ will still be praising Him filled with joy and living hope.</span></p><p><span>The political and social battles of this life may make good TV, they may give us endless hours of animated conversations, and they’ll have an impact on the current course of this fallen world. But remember they aren’t what they seem. It isn’t about right versus left. It’s always about good versus evil, light versus dark, and life versus death. But never fear Christ is here. He has won the war and He has told us that “It is finished.”</span></p><p><span>So accept the victory and stop fighting a battle that’s already been won.</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><p> </p></div>
How Can A Moral Wrong Be A Civil Right
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/how-can-a-moral-wrong-be-a-civil-right
2018-09-07T11:57:55.000Z
2018-09-07T11:57:55.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p> As an American Historian my favorite area of study and discussion is the writing and ratification of the Constitution. It isn’t because this is the beginning because the 167 year long colonial period became the world which birthed the Revolution, and without the Revolution there would be no America. So the colonial period is crucial for identifying many currents and trends in our society many of which still impact us today. Then why does this short period of one year capture my attention so much? Perhaps, it stands out because this is the cradle, the bedrock of American civil society. It is here that we can find the roots of the issue I wish to discuss today. </p><p>Labels are important. </p><p>The Revolution was fought not because of taxation. Remember the battle cry of the Revolutionaries was not the anarchist’s “No Taxation!” It was instead the <a href="https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h640.html">cry</a>, “No taxation without representation!” This was not pulled from the heart of people who wanted to destroy the British Empire. It was not shouted from the lips of people who initially wanted to start a new country on the edge of wilderness thousands of miles from the center of everything they considered civilization. No it was the cry of people who sought for some level of local power. They wanted a voice and a vote in Parliament. What they wanted without vocalizing it was a federal system where there were defined levels of authority between a central government and a local one. </p><p>For most of the Colonial period the colonies had been allowed to run their local affairs. It is known as the period of <a href="http://community.weber.edu/weberreads/salutary_or_benign_neglect.htm">Benign Neglect</a> when England more or less allowed the colonies to do as they wished, to establish local governments, and manage their own local affairs. </p><p>So after the massive expenses of the French and Indian War, which finally secured the American colonies from the fear of French attack, the British government sought to make the colonies help repay that debt through taxes. The fat hit the fire and Katie bar the door. This sparked the Revolution fought to secure the right to local government. The thirteen colonies all considered themselves independent States after the Declaration of Independence which expressly says: </p><p>That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. </p><p>You can’t be much clearer than that. Thirteen independent States formed a Confederation to fight the Revolution and to coordinate their foreign affairs. After the Revolution when this Confederation appeared to weak a central power for some it was brushed aside in what some have called a counter revolution. Remember the so-called <a href="https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h368.html">Constitutional Convention</a> was called and empowered to merely draft suggested amendments to the Articles of Confederation. The Framers took it upon themselves to draft and entirely new government supplanting the one then in existence. It was mainly the weight of Washington’s name attached to the effort which gave it undefeatable currency among the people forcing the current government to agree to its own obsolescence. </p><p>Here is where the importance of labels manifests itself. The backers of the Constitution were in many cases wealthy and powerful men. They had powerful allies in the press. And in the ensuing debates that proponents of a strong central government were labeled the Federalists and those who opposed them were labeled the Anti-Federalists. </p><p>Besides the fact that “Anti” in front of anything certainly sounds and feels negative the reality is that the Federalists were the enemies of local authority. Hamilton, the leader of the Federalists in the debate, originally wanted a monarchy. And those opposing the Constitution wanted to keep the Confederation model of strong local authority and a loose central government. In other words, the opponents in this vital debate were intentionally mislabeled to confuse the voting public. </p><p>Fake news didn’t begin with the Trump era and propaganda didn’t begin with Hitler or Stalin. </p><p>If we look at the most famous artifacts of this debate the Federalist and Antifederalist Papers we see that the Federalists led by Hamilton basically said whatever they had to in order to get the Constitution ratified. They magnified the weakness of the central government and exaggerated the authority of the States. Then as soon as the Constitution was ratified and they took over the new government Hamilton and his followers immediately began stretching the central power by re-interpreting such things as <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/content/necessary-and-proper-clause-declaratory-truth">the Necessary and Proper Clause</a> and the <a href="https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/commerce-commerce-everywhere-the-uses-and-abuses-the-commerce-clause">Interstate Commerce Clause</a>. This continues to this day. Federalism which is the idea that there exists a separation between the sovereignty of the central government and the States continues to appear alive and well. There is a central government in Washington and State governments in all fifty States. However the Civil War radically changed the equation <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/gov/3b.asp">tipping the scales</a> forever in favor of the central government. The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution reigns supreme as does the central government. Try to find somewhere in America today that is not regulated, monitored, or controlled by the various tentacles of the Federal Government. They’re everywhere, everywhere! </p><p>I have said all that to say this. </p><p>Labels matter. </p><p>In a pivotal debate today the press is weighted heavily in favor of one side and solidly against another. They routinely portray one side positively and the other side as merely a negative of the side they are attempting to convince the public to support. What is this issue?</p><p>I believe abortion is a moral dilemma disguised as both a political debate and a religious issue. While it is certainly both I contend that at its heart lies a moral question whose answer will ultimately describe and define the reality of the three fundamental <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/">God-given rights</a> for which the Revolution itself was fought to secure, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” </p><p>There is no debate about the reality of what an abortion is and what it does. The science is all on one side. <a href="http://naapc.org/why-life-begins-at-conception/">Life begins at conception</a><u>.</u> A freshman in high school biology should be able to put that one and one makes two together. </p><p>Yet how is the public debate defined? How has it been defined for the many decades that it has occupied a prominent place on America’s horizon? </p><p>Is it Pro-abortion and Pro-life? Two names which clearly describe the two positions. No it is defined as a debate between Pro-choice and Anti-abortion or Anti-choice, Pro-women’s rights or Anti-women’s rights. </p><p>Why did I start this article speaking about the Constitution? One, because it is a quintessential example of the power of labeling in a public debate, and two because looking at what this country was founded to secure brings us immediately to those <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/">God-given rights</a> we all love so much. The first of which is “Life.” </p><p>We may call this a political debate between Republicans who are officially pro-life and Democrats who are officially pro-abortion. We may call it a religious debate between Christians, Muslims, and Jews who believe in the sacred sanctity of life and secularists who believe that one can be sacrificed for the convenience of another. We can be distracted by the carnival mirror reporting of the Corporations Once Called the Mainstream Media or we can look inside ourselves and let the voice of our conscious speak to the reality of our lives. </p><p>Murder by any other name is still murder. Murder is always and everywhere wrong. Does society need to do a better job educating people about the cause and effect of casual sex? Yes. Do we as Americans want a culture of life or a culture of death? The secularists demand that we look at the science when it comes to their Gia worship dressed up as man-made global warming so why don’t we demand that they look at the science. Life begins at conception period. If reading studies or listening to lectures is too tedious to prove this fact, maybe looking at ultrasounds of pre-born in the womb sucking their thumb or scratching their head might help. </p><p>Now back to the Constitution. </p><p>Those who seek to advance the Living Constitution model basically say that what the Framers believed was carved in stone was actually written in sand. Through their interminable twists and turns of literary interpretation legerdemain they seem unable to understand that the Second Amendment actually means what the words say. However, they have been miraculously able to stretch the Fourth Amendment to confer a right to privacy which is then stretched to say the right to an abortion, which was considered an abomination during the time of the Framers, was somehow implied in there some place. </p><p>The Constitution which was written to establish and maintain a limited government is now elastic enough to empower the leviathan along the Potomac. And the Revolution which was meant to secure our God-given right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness has morphed into the ultimate evil state approved and funded murder. </p><p>This all leaves me with a final question. How can a moral wrong be a civil right? </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>
The Heart of the Problem is in the Heart
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-heart-of-the-problem-is-in-the-heart-1
2018-09-01T00:17:46.000Z
2018-09-01T00:17:46.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Benjamin Franklin <a href="http://www.free2pray.info/5founderquotes.html">told</a> us, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”</p><p>Socialism is a debilitating confidence game dressed up as an ideology used by demagogues and want-to-be dictators to fool its victims into believing it is possible to have your cake and eat it too. Those who fall under the spell of the charlatans singing this siren song actually come to believe it is fair and just to force some people to labor for the good of others. This is the same type of sophistry and rationalization that was used by the clergy and philosophers of the Antebellum South to justify unending human bondage for an entire race of people because it was for their own good.</p><p>This twisted tool of central planners and bureaucratic tyrants teaches those who have not that it is fair and just to take from those who have and re-distribute the plunder as the government decrees. This is not fair! This is not just! To teach that it is raises up generations of people who believe they have a birth-right to that which is not their own forfeiting their true birth-right: the opportunity to succeed through their own efforts. The products of such an educational system are citizens without virtue voting pawns without honor. Not because they have made a personal decision to live without these two attributes but because they have been programmed to believe taking the fruit of someone else’s labor is permissible as long as it will be given to someone else. Theodore Roosevelt <a href="http://www.liberty1.org/virtue.htm">said</a>, “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”</p><p>Those who drank the Kool-Aid dispensed by the government schools learned that this type of theft is not only permissible it is laudable. They were told and they believe that this is what Robin Hood did: steal from the rich to give to the poor. However, in reality the legend of Robin Hood tells of a fighter for liberty and the sanctity of personal property who robbed the stolen wealth of corrupt government officials so that he could return it to its rightful owners: those who produced the wealth in the first place. However, the leaders of those wishing to turn America into a Venezuelan style worker’s paradise have turned the world upside down demanding that people <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koi_5o9mTsU">objectified</a> by the name “Millionaires and Billionaires” need to pay their fair share. Yet they never say what that fair share is or when enough will ever be enough. <a href="http://www.seekfind.net/NoahWebster.html">According</a> to Noah Webster, “...if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”</p><p>We look around us and we watch as our beloved United States of America crumbles. Our elected leaders act as if it is their goal to spend us into oblivion. The only way to understand their pronouncements and actions is if we consider ourselves a conquered people and the Washington-centered oligarchy as an occupying power. We, the silent majority who labor, innovate, and produce are treated as subservient beasts of burden needed and appreciated more for what can be extorted from us than for who we are. Samuel Adams once <a href="http://www.liberty1.org/virtue.htm">said</a>, "No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” </p><p>It is no wonder that we see such a sorry collection of second-rate scoundrels prancing about on the stage of power. They sell their snake oil of class warfare indoctrinating their victims to be needy and then promising to fill their gnawing need with loot legally taken from others. This immoral process breeds a population without the virtue of self-reliance or the honor of being independent. The soul sapping addiction to eternal government support leads to a nation neither adapted to nor deserving of liberty. When a birthright has been sold for a bowl of stew it cannot be regained by demanding more. Thomas Jefferson <a href="http://www.liberty1.org/virtue.htm">said</a>, “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”</p><p>We the present day guardians of America must stand before the tsunami of anti-education that leads our nation away from virtue and into unrighteousness. We must serve as examples working to earn what we receive and refusing to either play the victim or accept the self-imposed victim-hood of those who seek to expropriate the fruit of someone else’s labor. We must stand for righteousness or we will fall before the juggernaut of socialism’s final assault upon the land of the free and the home of the brave. </p><p>In the coming election we must choose wisely. We must find someone who is virtuous and who adheres to the principles of constitutionally limited government which alone can protect personal liberty, individual freedom, and economic opportunity. Samuel Adams <a href="http://www.liberty1.org/virtue.htm">instructed</a> us in this basic truth, “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”</p><p>Douglas MacArthur <a href="http://www.liberty1.org/virtue.htm">warned</a> us, "History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."</p><p>Finally, looking to the ultimate source of wisdom Proverbs 14:34 <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+14%3A34&version=NKJV">tells</a> us, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin <em>is</em> a reproach to any people.”</p><p>When we go into the voting booth this November don’t think about parties, think about right and wrong, don’t be swayed by catchy slogans or the newest buzzwords, be swayed by the search for good and the rejection of evil. God gave us freedom of choice. The Constitution gives the freedom to choose. Let’s do so wisely. Let’s vote from our heart. For as we look at the problems which beset our nation we must remember that the heart of the problem is in the heart.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future and the author of the History of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2018 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</p><p></p><p> </p></div>
Is America Under Judgment?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/is-america-under-judgment-1
2018-08-24T13:20:51.000Z
2018-08-24T13:20:51.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>All that follows I will preface with, “I believe.” I am not attempting to establish theology for anyone or to declare that anyone who does not agree with me is a heretic. I am merely sharing my beliefs, grounded on study and prayer, since my opinion has been solicited on this topic more than once.</p><p>Many Christians today bring every conversation back to, “Do you think these are the last days?”</p><p>This may be based on a personal reading of the Book of Revelation in the Bible. It could be based on the broadcast sermons and teachings of any number of professional End Times preachers who have built careers on pointing to an apocalypse around the corner.</p><p>The signs of the times are always easy to read they just aren’t so easy to interpret. Nero was the Antichrist as was Diocletian, King James II, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. False Prophets have equally abounded from the Pope to Martin Luther, from Henry VIII to Rasputin to Jim Jones.</p><p>Is the End coming? Most certainly. Can we know when it is coming? Most certainly not. Since it is impossible to know when the end is coming I cannot believe that God would want us wasting any of the precious time He gives us speculating as to when it will arrive instead of being His witnesses to the world.</p><p>Since it is anti-biblical to believe we can know the date of the End, it is obviously not a Godly use of our time to try and figure it out anyway. What can we know? Just as we can look at the clouds and know when a storm is coming or smell the wind and know when a rain is on the way, so to we can look at the present state of our nation and know the time of the season. If we use the analogy of a year’s cycle it is obviously fall headed for the winter. It has been fall headed for the winter since the crucifixion of Christ: the fulcrum of History.</p><p>Some may ask, “Why has fall lasted so long?” The problem is we really don’t know how long the previous winter and spring were. The belief that the Bible tells us that there were approximately X number of thousand years before Christ and there will be X number of years after Christ equaling 7,000 years as a week in God’s time as taught by some popular TV preachers is based on the a tissue of strung together scriptures and cherry-picked verses. Equally, the belief that the time from Adam and Christ is discernible from the Biblical text is based on the erroneous belief that the Bible is presented as a linear historical document.</p><p>While I believe that the Bible contains real History and that it is literally true I do not believe that it presents a year for year time-line type of presentation. The Old Testament is above all a spiritual History of how God chose one people and eventually one person to bring forth the Chosen One: Jesus Christ, the Messiah of the Jews and the Savior of man. I do not believe that by counting up the lives of everyone mentioned in Old Testament genealogies it is possible to know how many years elapsed between “Let there be light” and the birth, death, or resurrection of Christ.</p><p>Most of the names mentioned in the many Old Testament genealogies have no age associated with them so the would-be Biblical time liner has to make a guess. Also when you compare the genealogies there are obvious overlaps, repetitions, and omissions. <a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/biblefactsandlists/a/jesusgenealogy.htm">Compare</a> the New Testament genealogies of Christ found in Luke and in Matthew and you will see the problem with genealogies as linear History. Now multiply that by all the genealogies in the Old Testament and you will begin to see the problem with this method of calculating time.</p><p>The people who tell us that the Old Testament gives us an accurate count of the years between the beginning and the beginning of the end are the same ones who tell us that they can figure out from the book of Revelation when the end of time will come. They do this in spite of the fact that Christ Himself <a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/matthew/24-36.htm">tells</a> us in Matthew, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Then to make the point again it was one of the last things He <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%201:7&version=NKJV">told</a> us before ascending to Heaven in Acts, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.”</p><p>Since we cannot know the day or the hour, the times or the seasons how godly can it be to spend so much time trying to figure it out? So much for trying to figure out when THE end is since it can’t be done. However, I felt I had to deal with that before I moved on to the real subject of this column: whether or not America is under judgment.</p><p>I believe that is a topic that can be discerned by anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. I am not talking about the end of the United States. It is and will be called by the same name, waving the same flag. I will let you judge if it is the same country we grew up in.</p><p>Looking at the spiritual History of the Old Testament as a guide we see that Judah the southern kingdom of the Jews, the believing remnant that carried on the covenant after the apostatized Kingdom of Israel had been carried off into exile was finally delivered into the hands of its enemies <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2021:5-13&version=NKJV">because</a> <u> </u>they had sacrificed their children to pagan gods and walked in the ways of the world. Since 1972 when a case <a href="http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/lies.htm">based upon a lie</a> was used by an activist Supreme Court to invent a constitutional right to abort babies over <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2018/01/18/60069971-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973/">60 million</a> Americans have been deprived of the most fundamental right of all: Life.</p><p>God does not condemn societies because of the sin within them because the same sins are in all peoples at all times. Rather God condemns societies for the sins they condone. Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities of the plains were not destroyed because they were filled with more evil than the Canaanites that God eventually sent the Israelites to destroy. No, these cities were consumed by fire and brimstone because they gloried in what others did in shame.</p><p>Stroll down the streets of San Francisco. Flip the dial from the Modern Family to Two and a Half Men from The Jersey Shore to Glee and it seems Jerry Springer has defined the new America. On cable and satellite hard core porn fills the overnight hours while state after state legalizes pot on their way to legalizing everything. The government has taken over the numbers racket, calling it a lottery as they plunder the poorest among us by selling them false hope where winning is as likely as being struck with lightening.</p><p>What is the judgment of God on nations that have moved out from under His blessing by rejecting His guidance? He casts them down from the heights their former obedience had achieved. In the near future we may become the tail instead of the head as our leaders continue to wag the dog.</p><p>Alexis de Tocqueville one of the most astute observers of America said in the early 1800’s “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Now survey the current state of America for yourself. Don’t accept the opinion of someone else, but make up your own mind.</p><p>Is America good? The answer to that will provide the answer to the question posed in the title of this column “Is America under Judgment?” For if we are not good what are we? And what is the result of that? </p><p>If you decide for yourself that America is under judgment does that mean you should run for the nearest exit or hide in a fallout shelter?</p><p>Remember God has <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091:7&version=NKJV">told</a> those who follow Him, “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.”</p><p>Don’t hide run. Run to the nearest rooftop and proclaim Jesus as Lord. Share your witness everywhere with everyone you can for it will only be through a renewal of the heart that we will come to the heart of the problem.</p><p>Keep the Faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.</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 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>
Choose This Day Who You Will Serve
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/choose-this-day-who-you-will-serve-1
2018-08-17T16:23:54.000Z
2018-08-17T16:23:54.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>In our current confrontation with Radical Islam the battle lines are portrayed as those between a secular society, us and a religious society, them. I reject this portrayal as a betrayal of the faith of our Founders and of those patriotic Americans who still hold fast to Jesus as God and Savior, we too are a religious people.</p><p>America was founded as a Christian country. Anyone who denies that has not studied enough History or has been sadly misled. Columbus accentuated his desire to spread the Christian faith to his patrons the King and Queen of Spain and in his log. The first thing the English did upon landing at Jamestown was set up a cross to dedicate their endeavor to Jesus their Savior. Were these early explorers and colonists always true to their faith? Did they always operate under principles derived from God’s Word? Sadly they did not. However, to say that the Christian faith was not an integral part of their motivation and worldview is simply not true.</p><p>In the latter part of the twentieth century Progressive leaders pushing a collectivist agenda decided to declare us a <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_Pluralistic_society">pluralistic society</a>. They sought to detach the heavily Bible influenced Constitution into the dustbin of History by substituting what they call a living constitution for the rock-solid one the Framers bequeathed us. Mr. Obama, the quintessential Progressive in his speech to the Muslims of Egypt, Turkey, and many places spiced up his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAXA0WVwxiE">apology tours</a> by asserting that America is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik">not a Christian country</a>. This statement of his belief and goal does not make it true.</p><p>All of these recent changes aside, most Americans still <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/147887/americans-continue-believe-god.aspx">believe in God</a> and the <a href="http://religions.pewforum.org/reports">majority</a> consider themselves Christians. As a Christian, an Historian, and a Political Scientist in response to numerous questions I would like to share my beliefs concerning government, economies, and the rights of man.</p><p>As far as a government goes the only Biblically correct one is that God is God and we are His people. He is the King and we are the sheep of His pasture. As concerning an economic system God’s economy knows no lack and is exceedingly abundantly provisioned by the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills.</p><p>This being true I do not believe that God mandates any type of human government or economic system as pre-ordained, sanctified, or holy. However, I do believe that humanity as God has created it does require certain governmental and economic conditions to develop and thrive as God intended.</p><p>God <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A27&version=NKJV">created us</a> in His own image. He gave us the power to create and to <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+24%3A15&version=NKJV">choose</a>. He gave us a mind open to learning and ever eager to improvise. He also gave us what I believe is the most crucial aspect of our make-up: our free will or the power to choose. We can choose to follow Him and do what He desires, or we can choose to follow the leadings not only of our thoughts but of our emotions also. In other words we can dwell within the Kingdom of God wherein He is our King and we are His people or we can choose to live in the Kingdom of man and become the subjects of either our own designs or of whoever manages to gain control of the physical world around us.</p><p>If God wanted slaves or robots He could have created slaves or robots. Instead He created us and gave us a mind to think and a will to choose because He wanted us to decide to love Him and follow Him freely without compulsion. Therefore I believe that since free thought and free choice are the foundation of man’s nature freedom is necessary if man is to live as God designed. This being the case I believe that any governmental or economic system that denies man’s freedom interferes with and attempts to supplant God’s plan, which is the definition of evil.</p><p>There are of course limits to freedom as expressed in the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20&version=NKJV">Ten Commandments</a>. Beyond this we should be free to choose our own way. Will we follow God or will we follow man. Within these limits and building on the moral framework the Bible provides I believe that a republic based upon the commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness using democratic principles is the governmental structure which most closely matches man’s God-given nature. I also believe that free market capitalism is the economic system which best allows man to develop and live as God intended. Conversely, when man rejects God and seeks to create his own utopia he builds some sort of centrally-planned command economy and the intrusive government needed to impose it upon others.</p><p>A free economy and the free government it requires allows the independent choices of many to produce the greatest prosperity for all as everyone seeks to do the best they can because they reap the rewards. In a socialist or any type of hybrid economy between capitalism and socialism bureaucrats make the decisions and stagnation is the inevitable result. As Gary North, a Christian economist <a href="http://www.garynorth.com/public/department57.cfm">expresses</a> it, “The essence of democratic socialism is this re-written version of God's commandment: ‘Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.’” Or as Winston Churchill <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu164131.html">observed</a>, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” And that is not life as God intended.</p><p>If we look at History it is an outworking of the initial fall of man. In the beginning God created the world including man and it was all good. Then at the dawn of our existence we choose to go our own way instead of following God. We chose to follow the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A5&version=NKJV">siren song</a> of “You shall be like God” and ever since we have attempted to create heaven on earth. All we have succeeded in doing is to open the gates of Hell instead. A case in point would be the age-old question, if God is good why is there evil in the world followed by the age-old answer God gave us free choice and we chose evil.</p><p>With the help and guidance of those who seek to play god themselves humanity has often been convinced to surrender their freedom for security, to bargain away their God-given nature and assume the subservient nature of slaves. </p><p>In America the purveyors of socialism cloak their designs in the language of populism. They loudly proclaim that they seek a fair deal for everyone, except of course for the people they intend to loot. They want fair elections as long as nothing is done to stop fraudulent voting. They want equality enforced by unequal treatment. In other words they seek to build the kingdom of man where they can be king.</p><p>We have a mind to think and the capacity to make a free choice. As the day of reckoning draws near all I can recommend is, think and choose. We can choose to follow the path of redistribution, class warfare, and collectivist dependency or we can choose to at least attempt a return to limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom. Don’t be fooled by the progressive media and their obvious bias. To be free is God’s design. For us to be a slave to dependency is man’s.</p><p>One of America’s most beloved troubadours <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/paul+simon/sounds+of+silence_20559740.html">told</a> us, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls” and one of those secular prophets he was referring to <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/gottaservesomebody.html">reminded</a> us “You're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You're gonna have to serve somebody, Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody.”</p><p>Or as my favorite book <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2024:15&version=NKJV">says</a> it, “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that <em>were</em> on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”</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 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><p> </p></div>
Here’s a Free Gift
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/here-s-a-free-gift
2018-07-27T14:40:29.000Z
2018-07-27T14:40:29.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p><span>As a retired pastor I am still amazed at the number of people who came forward week after week repenting of sins and seeking salvation. It was often the same people week after week. No matter how much I preached it, no matter how much I taught it, so many never seemed grasp the idea that the cleansing of sins, salvation, and righteousness are free gifts given to us by our Father.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>People would cry, “I’ve been seeking after God for years. I’ve laid at the altar and pleaded over and over for God to guide me, to save me, to help me, and nothing happened. I leave the altar the same poor sinner as when I went up there.” </span><span> </span></p><p><span>My heart breaks for any and all who labor under such beggarly results.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>My mind would scream as my voice would say, “Salvation is a gift. It isn’t necessary for you to go anywhere to get it. You can find it anywhere. It isn’t what you do, it’s what Jesus has done. All there is to getting saved and to becoming a child of God is to receive something for free. You can’t earn it by doing anything.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Most of us have been taught and have accepted that it was all about giving up, surrendering, and confessing sins. It isn’t. It is receiving Jesus Christ as our Savior and confessing Him as our Lord. </span><span> </span></p><p><span>I have had people say, “It can’t be that simple.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>It is that simple. It’s free and it’s available to everyone, everywhere, at all times.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Some have asked, “But don’t we have to do something about our sins?”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>No, He has done everything that ever could be done. And this isn’t some new teaching or revelation. Our Father God</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+53%3A6&version=MSG"><span>told us</span></a> <span>about it through His prophet Isaiah long ago, “We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>This is speaking about all of us. We have all gone our own way, done what we wanted without any reference to what God wanted us to do. We were stubborn and willful yet the Father laid the penalty for all that on Jesus. Notice there was nothing we had to do to save or help ourselves.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>So how do we get from knowing this in our heads to having this become life in our hearts? John</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A12&version=NKJV"><span>tells</span></a> <span>us, “as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Once again we do nothing except receive a free gift.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>John also</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+3%3A16&version=NKJV"><span>tells</span></a> <span>us “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” This is the Father giving His Son Jesus as our substitute, as our Savior and all He asks is that we accept Him for what He said He is. There is nothing for us to do except believe that He paid the debt owed for our sin and that He rose from the Dead to bring us life. Or as Paul</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+4%3A25&version=NKJV"><span>put</span></a> <span>it, “who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>God delivered Jesus to pay the punishment for our sins and He was raised from the dead when He had paid the full measure, and all we have to do is accept that. We don’t have to do anything to earn what He has already paid for.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Paul sums it all up well in the next verse when he</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5%3A1&version=NKJV"><span>says</span></a><span>, “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Now besides salvation we have peace. There is nothing standing between us and God we are at peace and still there is nothing for us to do is there?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Paul tells us as clearly as can be how this all comes about and what the result is when he says, “that 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. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Look at that a little closer: when we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord that should be the end of us going our own way and doing our own thing. If you’re anything like I was before I did this that shouldn’t be too hard considering where our own choices and our own things have brought us. In other words if I relinquish being the Lord of my life and give that place to Jesus I will no longer be separated from God and I will become His child, a member of His family with all the rights and responsibilities that means.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If we do this what does the Word say? It says that we will be saved. When does it say we will be saved? It happens as soon as we believe. This isn’t pie-in-the-sky. This is here and now reality. What does the Word say we are when we believe? It says we are now children of God. Does that mean now or someday way over there in the future when we get to heaven? No it says we have it now even if we don’t know fully what that means. Or, as John</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+john+3%3A2&version=NKJV"><span>put</span></a> <span>it, “now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”</span><span> </span></p><p><span>How do we know all this is true? How do we know that as soon as we confess and believe we are born again into a new life right here right now? John</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+john+5%3A13&version=NKJV"><span>tells</span></a> <span>us, “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” </span><span> </span></p><p><span>Having learned this do you believe in the Name of Jesus?</span><span> </span></p><p><span>If you do then you have eternal life. Eternal life is the nature of God. That means you now have the nature of God. You are no longer a fallen sinner who needs to beg forgiveness you are filled with the very nature of God. Peter put it very clearly when he</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+peter+1%3A4-5&version=NKJV"><span>said</span></a><span>, “by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” That corruption is spiritual death and we have escaped it by receiving the divine nature: eternal life.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>So don’t fall into the trap of thinking you have to get good enough to get saved, or to see your life change. None of us could ever be that good. It isn’t about what we do. It’s about what He has done. It isn’t about who we are. It’s all about who He is. He paid the price. He purchased the freedom of all humans from the grip of Satan, and he extends that freely to all who believe He is who He said He is, that He rose from the dead and that He is the Savior of all who believe in Him.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Come on. It’s free and it’s yours for the taking. Why wait another moment. You can have it right here right now. Confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead and it’s yours.</span><span> </span></p><p><span>Got it? Done it? Now tell someone. Shout it from the rooftops you are a child of God living an eternal life in fellowship with our Father. Welcome to the family.</span><span> </span></p><p><span> </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><span> </span></p></div>
The Meaning of The Book of Revelation
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-meaning-of-the-book-of-revelation
2018-07-13T21:18:48.000Z
2018-07-13T21:18:48.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>A twisted mess of conflicting desires. We want what we want until we get it than we wonder why we wanted it to begin with. So often the wanting is much more fulfilling than the getting because the having is always transitory and the losing is inevitable. </p><p>Does that about sum up your experience in the world? It does mine until I met Jesus and committed my life to Him. The answer never quite fit the question. Or was it that the question never quite fit the answer. Either way I always ended up half way home half of the time standing on a cold corner waiting to die alone.</p><p>I was always asking, “What’s it all about?” Everything seemed so senseless. You work hard all your life and then you die with no U-Haul behind the hearse and no pockets in the shroud. As they used to say in the old neighborhood, “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”</p><p>Once I gave my life to Jesus things changed. Hope was birthed in my life and joy filled my heart. Along the way I found two things that didn’t fit the mold of the having not fulfilling the expectation of the wanting. Giving my life to Jesus has proven to be much more than I ever could have expected. And the gift of my wife and the life we have together in Christ grows deeper each day and is better than I ever dreamed possible.</p><p>But as to the “What’s it all about?” question God did not leave us without an answer. Many seek it in the Book of Revelation. I have found it there and I want to share it with all who can receive it. </p><p>In the Sci-Fi classic “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the mice ask the ultimate question, “What is the meaning to life, the universe, and everything?” Although an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years eventually comes up with the answer, “42” it somehow leaves everyone a bit unsatisfied.</p><p>In real life there is an answer to this ultimate question. His name is Jesus.</p><p>It is only through my hope in Him that I can walk through this hopeless world. It is only through my joy in Him that I can face the sorrow of knowing that everything in this world that isn’t in Him is meaningless. Life in this world is a race around a circle looking for a point. You’re young forever until you’re old. Almost everyone says, “If I would have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself” but few ever do even after they know this truth. The young disregard the old and the old disrespect the young. One hand washes another yet neither hand is ever clean.</p><p>The religions of this world seek to make us gods. The religion of God seeks to make us Gods’. We cannot possess that which we do not have and that which does not have us seeks to possess us. We enter this world lost and God wants us to find Him so that we can find ourselves in Him. What is the sound of one hand clapping? It is the sound of fingers slapping the heel of our hand. What is the answer to the unanswerable question? It’s found in my exegesis of the entire book of Revelation in one sentence.</p><p>Jesus is God, God wins in the end, and no matter how bad it gets we should pray, “Even so come Lord Jesus.”</p><p>There you go. That’s it. In other words, “Know Jesus and know peace or, no Jesus and no peace. Every one of us gets to choose for ourselves and in the perfect economy of God through His perfect justice each of us gets what we choose.</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>