Democracy clearly is not working so well in the Middle East. It has not brought peace and stability to the region. In fact, it has destabilized it even more! If it was democracy that brought peace and stability to America, why hasn’t it done the same in these other nations as well? The truth is that democracy is not the primary cause for American greatness. What, then, made America great? What brought it freedom and stability? It came because God was fulfilling His promise of material wealth to Abraham, who is the ancient patriarch of the nation of America. You can learn more about this in The United States and Britain in Prophecy. Keeping those God-given blessings was conditional on keeping God’s law. When America’s forefathers created the Constitution, they tried to pattern it after the Ten Commandments. As editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in No Freedom Without Law: "THE CONSTITUTION IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR REPUBLIC. And the Ten Commandments were, in many ways, the foundation of the Constitution. Our forefathers believed that if we didn’t keep God’s Ten Commandments, OUR REPUBLIC WOULD COLLAPSE!" The recognition of the Ten Commandments by the Founding Fathers was noble in its intent. The trouble is, Americans, as with the great body of humanity, never did have the capacity to fully obey them. To the extent that Americans either wittingly or unwittingly obeyed God’s law, they were either individually blessed or cursed. However, the fact remains that it was only through God fulfilling His promise to the patriarch Abraham, after withholding it for 2,520 years, that America once reaped the benefits of so many national blessings. Yet now America is turning its back on the very principles within its Constitution that helped keep America great in human terms. This can only have disastrous results. Abraham Lincoln declared: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God … we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!" As America continues to turn its back on God, the blessings will continue to be removed, just as He prophesied in Deuteronomy 28. Imposing democracy on the world will not solve America’s problems. It will take a far, far superior form of government to do that—the very government of the God America rejects! The signs are that government will soon bring peace to the whole world (Matthew 24:3). Those prophetic signs, now extant in timely abundance, reveal that Jesus Christ will soon return to this Earth (John 14:3). As prophesied, He will bring universal peace and prosperity as He administers and enforces God’s law—the Ten Commandments—through the loving government of God (1 John 5:3). Only then will man experience the peace he has so fruitlessly tried to attain by his own means. To learn how you can experience that peace and freedom in your life today by submitting to God’s government now, be sure to read No Freedom Without Law.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:14:05 +0000
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