Consequently, the Founders of our nation were not "replacement" theologians. Our nation's founders did not perpetuate the damnable heresy that suggests that God has replaced the nation of Israel with the "Church". That diabolical substitution argument undergirded the rise of Nazism, the extermination of a multitude of our dear Jewish brethren, and survives to this day. It lives as a sinister unstated premise behind many "so-called" well-meaning, well-established denominations. It ideologically entertains subtle fascist elements, from prominent pulpit to the "skin head" squaler even today in some of our communities. In the midst of this, isn't it great to know that nothing takes God by surprise. And, God does not change about His commitments. That's good news for us, Saints! More about this later.
For now, I encourage you to read this wonderful article by J.Michael.
"Even Now, The Future Is All New Clay"
by J.Michael Sharman, Contributing Writer
Fittingly, the first presidential inaugural occurred in the newness of spring.
To us, it is all settled and dusty history, as solid and firm as the marble of the statues used to memorialize old heroes. But to them it was all new clay, ready to be shaped by each touch of their hands.
George Washington wrote to James Madison 220 years ago today, May 5th, that: “As the first of everything in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.”
The new Constitution prescribed the president’s oath, but the first president felt that his unique new office of servant-leadership should also be commenced by a statement to the people. Coming down from the balcony where he had given the oath to the floor of the Senate Chamber, President Washington addressed a joint session of the two Houses of Congress.
In his inaugural address he offered, as his “first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect.”
For the Congress, it was no mystery who Washington knew was that Almighty Being. Washington had always incorporated his faith into his public leadership. Ten years earlier, in May, 1779, in speaking to a different representative body, an assembly of Delaware Indian chiefs, he said:
“Brothers: I am a Warrior. My words are few and plain; but I will make good what I say,” Gen. Washington told the chiefs. “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.”
When the Hebrew Congregation of Savannah, Georgia, on May 6, 1789, wrote to thank the retired general, upon his inauguration, for helping to remove from them the “cloud of bigotry and superstition” and for having “enfranchised us with all the privileges and immunities of free citizens”, President Washington’s response elegantly expressed the Biblical unity of Jews and Christians without offending the faith of either: “May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, planted them in a promised land, whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of heaven and make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.”
A few hours before the first inaugural ball began on May 7th, 1789, the first senators met with President Washington so that Vice President John Adams, the president of the Senate, could read to him the Senate’s written concurrence that each precedent set by their new government must be fixed on God’s true principles:
“[W]e are with you unavoidably led to acknowledge and adore the Great Arbiter of the Universe, by whom empires rise and fall,” said Adams on behalf of our first Senate. “We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue.”
This Thursday, May 7, 2009, is the National Day of Prayer. Join your community at noon on the courthouse steps. Because even now, the future is all new clay, ready to be shaped by each touch of our hands, each intent of our hearts, and each prayer from our lips.
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MY POSTSCRIPT Concerning "Replacement Theology"
Be on guard against error, Saints. Failure to read with discernment the entire Bible, failure to pray for understanding when reading, and failure to allow the Holy Scriptures to search us so that we might fear God rather than man, led to the failure of the church worldwide to speak out against the Holocaust.
The entire Church worldwide with only a few individuals such as Bonnhoffer as exceptions became mute.
Silence murders, Saints.
Inaction against attrocity is an act of violence. Silence cloaked in abominable error is the real crime against humanity. Let such silence not happen on our watch. Amen!
Unfortunately for us, history tends to repeat what we do not learn. But,...
Know this.
God has not changed His mind about Israel. Israel is and will always be the "Apple of God's eye." [Deuteronomy 32:10 & Zechariah 2:8]
God says of Israel,
"I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The WHOLE land of Canaan , where you are now an alien, I will give you as an everlasting possession to you and to your descendants after you; and I will be their God." Gen 17:7,8
Again, the Holy Bible says,
"Jacob Said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me and said to me, ‘I ma going to make you fruitful and will increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an EVERLASTING possession to your descendants after you." Genesis 48:3,4
And, the Holy Bible says,
"He [God] remembers his covenant FOREVER
The word He commanded to 1000 generations
The covenant He made with Abraham
The oath He swore to Issac
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree
To Israel as an everlasting covenant:
To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion YOU WILL INHERIT" Psalm:105:8-11
According to the Apostle Paul in Romans 9:1-5,
". . . . . my brothers, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen."For more information, click. Also click here.That later link summarizes attrocities perpetuated by a diabolical shift of focus away from what the Holy Bible says about Israel.
National Day of Prayer is this Thursday, May 7, 2009
Prime time to speak to and for God. Only He remains powerful enough to transform heart, mind, and acts collectively in our nation.
Saints, Don't be silent!
Get ready to change the world, one prayer at a time!
AMEN!--Olivia M. McDonald, :) <><
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