Ideally, in order to capture a true first-hand narrative of history, one would simply need to add more pages to the history textbook as events unfold. For example, a history textbook from the 1930s would simply need additional pages added as World War II unfolded. This process could be continued up to the present day.

However, for the sake of brevity, textbook editors necessarily must minimize the amount of material placed in the American history textbooks, lest the students be overwhelmed by the volume of information. One early America history textbook that I bought, which was written in 1928, stated: (1) “The early chapters of the book have been shortened to make room for fuller treatment of the industrial revolution and recent history.”

Imagine how much history has had to be removed to make room for new, more current information. Herein, then, lies the problem. It’s up to the individuals who edit the books to determine what history stays and what history is left out: what they feel is and was relevant or irrelevant to the founding of the nation.

Since many of those in charge of editing American history textbooks do not see the relevance or the correlation between America’s Christian past and how it affected the founding of the nation, America’s true Christian heritage and its influence on the formation of our Constitutional Republic was one of the first things to be removed. We are left with a generation of Americans who have no idea what our country’s true past looked like. As a result, many of the people I have talked to have little, if any, understanding of the influence that religion had upon the founding of this country and the establishment of its form of government. Gary Palmer, President of the Alabama Policy Institute tells us: “It has been the consistent practice of the totalitarians, the atheists, and the materialists to concentrate on undermining, ridiculing, or eliminating the basic truths of religion. They know that once these go, all the derivative truths and practices that depend on these primary principles become virtually meaningless.”

As Dr. Mike Spaulding once noted, “History is written by the victors. History is rewritten by propagandists. But true history narrates the actual events through the testimony of eyewitnesses.”

Contrary to what secularists in the mainstream media and educational system may have us believe, most of the men responsible for the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were men with firm religious convictions. This is why nearly all first-hand account from the founders themselves have been omitted by present day revisionist textbooks.

There have been many credible studies of the religious and moral influence of our founding fathers by educated and highly credentialed individuals and universities. These studies have been largely ignored by the both the mainstream press and the American court system because it goes against the commonly accepted narrative and as a result return all sovereign power to its rightful place.

“Over a ten-year period, political science professors at the University of Houston analyzed over 15,000 writings and speeches by the founding fathers to determine the primary source of ideas behind the Constitution. The three most quoted sources were the French philosopher Montesquieu, English jurist William Blackstone, and English philosopher John Locke. But the bible was quoted more than any of these: four times more than Montesquieu, six times more often than Locke, and twelve times more than Blackstone. Ninety-four percent of the Founding Father’s quotes were quoted either directly or indirectly, from the bible.”

Historical revisionists have done this country a great injustice by removing our founding fathers’ faith and the influence that it had on their lives and on the founding of our nation from our children’s public school history textbooks.

The Isaiah 3322 Project will present America’s history based on the characters themselves; their writings and the writings of their contemporaries. In this way, true history will be shown to be neither the fanciful dreams of perceived victors in any dispute nor the revisionist dreams of those who seek to obscure the true history of America.

I cite the following conclusion of a study by the University of Houston:

(1) The Nation’s History. Arthur Leonard & Bertha Jacobs, ©1924, Henry Holt and company, New York, p. iii

Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media.

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We live in a very strange and divisive time. No matter the time, as believers in Christ we must respond to the culture of our day with both truth and love (Ephesians 4:15). As we attempt to live up to that Biblical mandate, we must recognize that there are two very powerful voices arising in America in response to the various unlawful acts that have been committed against the American people by their government in the midst of the pandemic (sic). In the first case, one group desires to appease the current culture. This group believes that by going-along-to-get-along, peace can be found. However, by not standing for individual liberty, this group essentially allows themselves (and their posterity) to become enslaved to a system of power mongers who rule by fiat. On the other hand, another group of people wants to take justice into their own hands by picking up firearms and waging a revolution that they believe will restore our Constitutional Republic to what our founding fathers intended it to be.

Many Americans are increasingly expressing their desire to bring to justice those in power who are responsible for the great overreach of their authority. These two aforementioned positions (indifference and violence) are both morally and theologically unacceptable for Christians; especially when there is still another lawful and Biblical course of action we can take.

As ministers of the gospel, we are called to be “Peacemakers.” Now more than ever, our nation is in dire need of peacemakers. Still, our actions need to be conducted according to a standard of “righteousness and justice” (Psalm 89:14). The clergy can no longer sit idly by while many are calling for secession, revolution and civil war, without first letting the spiritual voices of wisdom and sanity to be heard throughout the nation (Romans 10:18). Therefore, before we can seek a solution, we must first understand the purpose of a solution. Ultimately, the solution we seek is in response to the injustices we now face.

The express purpose of the US Constitution was to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility. The two terms “Justice” and “Tranquility” did not just happen to follow one another in the text. The founders understood that you could not have one without the other. They knew from all of their experiences that denying “justice” destroys “domestic tranquility.” The antonyms of Tranquility are “agitation, disturbance and violence.” When justice is denied to any people group, it ALWAYS results in chaos. As Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) recognized, “justice too long delayed is justice denied,” and America is currently experiencing justice denied. We are presently like people inside of a pressure cooker. The righteous indignation that is growing among many Americans is the result of this injustice. As clergy members, we continue to ignore these warning signs at our own peril. Any true historian will tell you that it was government injustices that led to the American Revolution, the American Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Those with historical and prophetic insight have been warning that a revolution is coming. What type of revolution it will be is up to us. Robert F. Kennedy warned us that “A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability”

Yet, our Lord grows weary of the isolationist and pacifistic positions of many pastors. The familiar excuse that “Jesus never got involved in the political affairs of the nation” is indefensible. Jesus also never left the nation of Israel to promote the gospel. Are we going to denounce all missionary efforts for the same reason? The function of any chief executive (King) is to establish the vision for his servants to carry out. Jesus also spent very little time within the four walls of their religious institutions, but did spend most of His time being the “salt and the light” in the community. He continued seeking and saving the lost and creating disciples. Is not the chief command of Christ’s follower to “Go” and “make disciples?”

How many modern-day pastors leave the four walls of the church or empower the members of their congregation to fulfill this mandate? As a result, many pastors in America are relegated to mere administers of million-dollar bushels that hide and obscure the light from the community. Is that how we show the world that we are salt and light?

Pontius Pilate had a responsibility to ensure that Christ was receiving justice against the false allegations levied against him. Pilate actually wanted to have nothing to do with sentencing an innocent man to die (Matthew 27:19). Washing his hands and declaring his innocence did not absolve him of the fact that he allowed the sentencing of an innocent man to die (Matthew 27:24). Do we think that we can absolve ourselves of our responsibility as our nation falls into darkness? Let us not be deceived!

In the meantime, many of these same pulpits see teachers twist and distort the Biblical requirements for lawful government that is revealed in the Holy Scriptures. These clergy members are mistaken if they teach that scripture passages such as Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2:13-17 instruct followers of Christ to forge their own chains by bowing down to the illegal and unconstitutional mandates of unethical “leaders” and “rulers.” “We have been bought with a price” and are forbidden from making ourselves the slaves of men (1 Corinthians 7:23).

In America, the transfer of sovereign governmental authority was taken from the “king” and given to “We the people” through the American Revolution; this process was then finalized when the last state ratified the US Constitution. Therefore, the scripture passages concerning submission to civil government that some like to quote do not have the same application as when they were written 2000 years ago. In America, we DO NOT have “leaders” or “rulers,” WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES AND CIVIL SERVANTS — and they serve at the “consent of the governed.”

What is the function of a servant? It’s to serve their masters, of course. Who are the masters of the American Republic? WE THE PEOPLE! As Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it: “The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert that Constitution…” Being elected to a government position in the American system of government IS NOT a promotion to unchecked and unchallenged tyrannical power – it is an act of service. As Benjamin Franklin reminds us: “In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns.” This is an important principle that many of our government officials do not understand, nor do they want to in some cases (Matthew 20: 25-27).
Far too often, government figures today are looked upon as celebrities. They are given Hollywood-like status as if they are above the people of the nation. They are not and should never be treated as such.

According to the Declaration of Independence (the American Statement of Faith) we are taught “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. That to secure these [God-given] rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” So, then, the primary function of any government official is to protect our God-given rights.

Therefore, any and all power that an elected American government official has comes from the “Consent of the governed.” The American people have no need to ask their “servants” for permission to exercise rights that have already been endowed by their creator.” We do not have to beg our public servants to exercise a right that has been endowed to us by heaven and protected by the US Constitution. Rather, the people are to demand that these public servants fulfill their oath to defend said rights.

Any true shepherd, who wants to faithfully preach the word of God and the righteous mandates towards their government officials, needs to explain that to “obey our rulers” means we must obey God and His law first and foremost. Furthermore, our “rulers” in our system of government are not the same kind of “rulers” in Biblical times. In the American system of government, supreme authority is lodged in the hands of both Almighty God and the US Constitution. A failure of the clergy to explain our system of government to the church, leads our nation down a road in toward civil unrest. The clergy, who should be the foremost authorities on Law and Government, often find themselves ignorant of God’s commands on the subject. The American clergy needs to recapture the understanding that God and his Moral Law are the foremost authority of the restrictions of human civil government.

America’s founders all agreed that government was a “necessary evil.” So, when forming the American system of government, the challenge was how to create a government that would grant them enough power to restrain lawless people, while simultaneously restricting the amount of power that they are given so that they do not have the power to enslave their own people (See Federalist No. 51). Since power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, how do you restrain this necessary evil once it is created? That is the dilemma.

Throughout history, man has sought the perfect remedy for restraining government officials from wielding unrestrained and arbitrary power over the citizenry. This has taken the form of laws and what would later become known as constitutions.

The need for a method of restraint for government officials can be traced back thousands of years. In Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar wielded absolute power. He was king, lawgiver and judge. He passed a law demanding his people worship the statue of a false god. When three Jewish men who worshipped the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, known as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to worship a statue, the king sent for them to be arrested. They were soon tried, found guilty and thrown into a fiery furnace. Other than An Appeal to Heaven, Nebuchadnezzar’s power was unchecked by mortal men.

However, by the time King Darius began to reign over Babylon, there were provisions in their laws that restricted this type of unchecked and arbitrary power. When the king issued the decree and put it in writing, it could not be altered, repealed or rescinded in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians. Once the king signed a decree, he was powerless to alter or retract the law (Daniel 6:8). Thus, by reading the scriptures, we begin to see the purpose for government restraint; government is made of sinful people.

During the reign of the Roman Caesars, there were laws in place that restricted the actions of otherwise unchecked government officials. The Apostle Paul routinely called upon his “civil rights” as a Roman citizen, to stop government officials from abusing their power (Acts 22:22-30). Today, many faithful shepherds who are protecting their flock for simply exercising their God-given and constitutionally protected rights, are being criticized by the hirelings who are siding with the oppressors rather than the oppressed. They have forgotten or failed to keep the command to: “Seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow” (Isaiah 1:17).

To better understand this Biblical mandate, we must first understand the 3-tiered system of governmental authority. They are, in descending levels of authority, Divine Law, Constitutional Law and Statuary law.

1. Divine Law – Divine Law is the supreme law of the world. It is superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over the entire globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to these God-given laws. “Divine” carries the idea that there is a moral authority higher than even earthly governments and the laws and rulings of government officials. The idea that Divine law is the source and basis for all laws was also expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence when he used the phrase “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” Alexander Hamilton, quoting William Blackstone in The Farmer Refuted, explains what these terms mean: “This is what is called the law of nature, “which, being… dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over the entire globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their authority, mediately, or immediately, from this original.” Romans 13:1-4 teaches us that all authority comes from God and that being the case, man, government official or not, has no authority to override divine law.

2. Constitutional Law – Constitutional Law is second in authority only to Divine Law. While Statuary Law places restriction upon the citizenry, Constitutional Laws are enacted by “We the People” in order to place restrictions on the government (i.e., government officials) from exercising or wielding absolute and/or arbitrary power that would otherwise go unchecked. The American Bill of Rights is essentially the “Thou Shall not…” to our government officials.

3. Statuary Law – Statutory Law is the term used to define written laws that have been enacted by some legislative body. It is third in authority behind Divine Law and Constitutional Law. Any Statuary Law that has been enacted by men that is contrary to or antagonistic to either Divine Law or Constitutional Law is null and void as the signatories had no legal authority to enact the Statuary Law in the first place. And since the so-called law is “null and void” from the outset, the people are under no legal or moral authority to obey the unjust law. On the contrary, they are actually duty bound to resist the unjust law as it carries no legal authority.

The historical challenge for the citizens of all nations has been what recourse do you have when your government officials, drunk with power, enact Statuary Laws that violate both Divine Law and Constitutional Law? We can always use the “Redress of Grievance” clause of the 1^st Amendment; unfortunately, history shows that tyrants, thinking of themselves to be almost gods, ignore the Grievances and leave the people with no recourse but civil disobedience.

The American people have been subject to many violations of both Divine and Constitutional law by their elected representatives. This lines up with what has been seen through history. Government power brokers have used one crisis after another (and the fear that it creates) in order to grant themselves greater control of the people. Those in power seem to take advantage of a situation by “not letting a good crisis go to waste,” thus, exploiting the crisis to increase their power. However, our elected servants have no authority to suspend constitutionally protected rights even during a crisis.

In the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers listed a series of crimes that their government leaders were guilty of committing. Likewise, the history of tyrannical governors is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations. To prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world by looking at the scriptures:

Almighty God has commanded mankind “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest.” (Exodus 34:21). Thus, our fellow citizens, who are our government servants, have NO AUTHORITY to order those in the private sector to close their place of business, rendering them incapable of taking care of their families. Even a few thousand dollars in stimulus checks is still not enough money to pay the bills in many cases. Yet some leaders have declared illegal mandates and threatened severe repercussions for defiance to their stay-at-home orders, while all along they continued to receive paychecks for themselves. This is hardly fair. America’s founders understood that “Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.” Many speaking from the pulpits of America today have instructed their congregations to “Obey man rather than the commandments of God.”

The Supreme Court acting beyond its constitutional authority has made laws which either directly prohibit or indirectly inhibit the free exercise of the Christian religion, and instead promoted an agenda antagonistic to the original intent of the First Amendment, falsifying the meaning of said Amendment, and falsely built an argument for separation of church and state, which separation was never found in the Constitution and cannot be proven by history.

The Supreme Court has barred the posting of the Ten Commandments on public property and in government while the Supreme Court chamber in which oral arguments are heard is decorated with a notable and permanent – not seasonal – symbol of religion: Moses with the Ten Commandments.

The Supreme Court has destroyed the original intent of the First Amendment by banning religious speech, prayer, and voluntary reading from the Bible from our public schools – schools that are supported by tax dollars from those who believe in the Christian God and His Word as the highest ultimate authority in the universe.

Governors and their surrogates have denied the American people their constitutionally protected First Amendment rights of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Assembly by banning church services. Scripture commands that “not to forsake the gathering of yourselves together” (Hebrews 10:25). Some Governors have forbidden churches, congregations and even Bible study groups from coming together, all the while forcing people to “forsake the gathering of yourselves together.” Again, many in the pulpit have instructed their congregations to “Obey man rather than the commandments of God.”

Governors and their surrogates have violated their oath of office by depriving the citizens of their state “the equal protection under the law” guaranteed us in the 14th Amendment. Government arbitrarily and unilaterally declaring citizen businesses “essential” and non-essential” is a violation of the 14^th Amendment. Imagine the outcry if the declaration were that white businesses were “essential” and black business were “non-essential.”

Today, we are faced with a struggle that is not between black and white. This pandemic and its government overreach, has been used to divide us as Americans. The struggle is obviously between those Americans who refuse to be enslaved by corrupt government officials and the corrupt corporate and special interest groups that control them. Ask yourself why only the big corporate stores were allowed to remain open while “it was too dangerous” for churches and small businesses to stay open. These businesses were owned and operated by all people of all races and were forced to close. The discrimination, therefore, was not racially based. It was economically based discrimination by the power elite.

Government officials and their corporate power brokers have denied the American people access to goods and services by use of these illegal government mandates. The same type of corrupt practices was once used by government to deny black Americans access to goods and services based upon racial discrimination. Yet, we are now being denied goods and services for not wearing scientifically unproven face masks.

This means that Governors and their surrogates have violated their oath of office by depriving “We the people” of their 5^th Amendment protected right. “No person shall… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The America people have not been “quarantined” but rather placed under a form of house arrest. Depriving a citizen of their Liberty without the due process of law is a criminal offense.

Every offence listed above is a violation by a government official of both of constitutional and statutory law. According to the US Justice Department under Title 18 U.S.C. Section 242:

“Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”

“Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties… The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

The American people must understand that some Governors are lawbreakers. Placing COVID-19 infected elderly people in nursing homes, causing the spread of the virus to others who then die as a result, is nothing short of criminal. These leaders are in violation of Divine Law, Constitutional Law and Statuary law. The American people have every right to demand that these injustices cease and those responsible be brought to justice.

The Christian church has a long heritage of rebuking the oppressors and defending the oppressed. “Time would fail me” (Hebrews 11:32) to cite all of the men and women of faith who had the courage to stand toe-to-toe with government tyrants. Every story that we tell our children in Sunday school class (the Hebrew midwives, Moses, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, Daniel and the apostles), is the testimony of courageous saints defying the unlawful mandates of tyrants. If you have never read Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” now would be a good time because we are engaged in the same reoccurring type of struggle. This letter was written to the other Clergy who were publicly criticizing MLK’s efforts. This resulted in about 60 black ministers and other Christian leaders attending Ebenezer Church in Atlanta; where they formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). This group of clergymen advocated peaceful civil disobedience to all unlawful laws. The letter engaged the clergy:

“So often [the church] is an archdefender of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church’s silent–and often even vocal–sanction of things as they are. But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust. Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic. Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?”

Therefore, as American Christian leaders we have to draw TWO LINES in the sand from which we refuse to budge. They are God’s law and Constitutional law. When we allow these lines to be encroached upon, we are setting up our children and grandchildren to be incrementally enslaved. We place our children on a slippery slope toward Christian persecution.

As a veteran of the United States Armed Forces, I took an oath to Almighty God to “Support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.” Whether a veteran or a public office holder who has taken the same oath, the government may release a person from the oath at the end of their obligation period. As a theologian, I can assure you that Almighty God DOES NOT release us (see Ecclesiastes 5:4).

Secondly, I refuse to resort to any type of unlawful violence. You can see the damage that the “capitol riots” (sic) did to our movement. Even though there is evidence that it was not actual patriots who were responsible for the violence, but radicals on the political left and right. It has caused the Christian patriots to “stand down” at a time when we need to peacefully and lawfully be “standing up” and defending our Constitutional Republic. Biblical and world history teaches us that there is still a third option that does not have to resort in either slavery or bloodshed. We need a peaceful Christian civil rights movement, much like the one led by Martin Luther King, Jr, along with the Appeal to Heaven Flag that symbolizes the movement now more than ever.

Our omnipotent Lord knew beforehand where we would be as a nation today, “for such a time as this.” Through the mouths and writings of many prophetic voices, He revived that age old “Appeal to Heaven” flag in order to point us to the solution. That solution can be found in my book An Appeal to Heaven: A Cry of Divine Justice. Even though the solution that we have been seeking has been used over and over again throughout Biblical and world history, honest and sincere people, just keep trying to “reinvent the wheel” rather than relying on both the wisdom of God and the cloud of witnesses that have come before us.

After the people are made to understand the divine strategy that has been successfully used for thousands of years, the next thing that people need to be made aware of is that this is not a struggle for the fearful or the faint of heart. This movement will have to be composed of individuals who have the faith and courage to follow this through to the end regardless of the threats and consequences. Before we bring people into a leadership position, these individuals have to be told to “count the cost;” Luke 14:25-34.

MLK asked his followers in the training sessions: “Are you willing to have batons, police dogs and firehoses turned on you and not retaliate with violence?” He did not sit by and allow his people to be enslaved by unjust laws, but also did not go to the extreme of advocating violence to counter the lawlessness like the Black Panthers were once proposing. Watch the YouTube video titled: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate and ask yourself if we need more people like MLK or Malcolm X leading our nation.

Anyone who finds themselves engaged in the fight against government enslavement must count the cost. Those who are not willing to be spoken ill of, to lose friends, jobs, business clients or even be jailed or martyred, will not have the faith and the courage to LEAD this movement. You people have to know that the forces of hell are not easily conquered. Those who try will quickly find that Hell’s children will rise against you (Matthew 5:10-16). This is just evidence that you are being used by God as the salt of the earth.

We are presently re-living the historical cycle of 1776. ONLY a “Give me liberty or give me death” level of commitment will be able to overcome this level of government and corporate tyranny. As Thomas Paine declared in his revolutionary War writings titled The Crisis:

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

The founding fathers mutually pledged to each other their “Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” This was not hyperbole; this was a literal pledge of everything they had. Anyone who does know what it cost the Signers of the Declaration of Independence needs to watch Paul Harvey’s YouTube video titled: “The Declaration of Independence! Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor! Anyone who does not know what it cost the founding fathers of the Christian faith needs to read Hebrews chapter 11. Unfortunately, if the “pandemic” (sic) revealed anything, it is that many of our clergy do not possess this level of faith.

In closing, allow me to remind my fellow clergymen of theological truth. What we are facing today is not as much about Right vs. Left or Democrat vs. Republican matter, but right vs. wrong as God’s word defines it. America is being polarized into two groups: those who are walking in the truth vs. those who are walking in darkness; those who believe lies and those who believe truth.

This polarization should not be surprising because light cannot (and should not) have any fellowship with darkness. (Ephesians 5:11). We are told that at the “End of the Age,” truth would go forth as a sword. The purpose of the sword is to divide or separate. [1 Kings 3:16-28 Hebrews 4:12]. When Christ returns, the entire world will be found polarized into two groups: The Wheat and the Tares (Matthew 13:24-30). Those who will hear: “Well done good and faithful servant” and those who will hear “Depart from me wicked and lazy servant” (Matthew 25).

The question that has yet to be answered is in which group will you be found as an individual? Which group will America be found in as a nation? The American nation WILL be found as either a “sheep nation” or a “goat nation.” We will either be found following the shepherd (Christ) or we will be found as stubborn and rebellious goats. The church is the only institution on Earth that has the power and authority to ensure that we are found as a sheep nation (Matthew 25:31-46). This will not occur if we stay within the four walls of our church and continue to allow our nation to be engulfed by darkness.

As I have said for years, using the lawful process that we have before us as Americans, combined with peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, we can restore our Republic. The time for inaction is over. We must adopt the attitude of William Jennings Bryan, who once said:

“We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conquest; we are fighting in the defense of our homes, our families, and posterity. We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned; we have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked… We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them!”

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Many doctors are sounding the alarm about how this vaccine will actually change an individual’s DNA. But to what end? Could scientists be able to use a virus to vaccinate people against religious extremism? Far too many gullible Christians would say that that a vaccine against religious extremism is some wide conspiracy theory. When in fact it is a conspiracy FACT. According to Cornell University Law School, a Conspiracy is defined as “An agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, along with an intent to achieve the agreement’s goal.”

The question before us is this… Is there is a worldwide conspiracy that would seek to use a virus in order to vaccinate the worldwide population with the goal of ending what these luciferin totalitarians view as “religious extremism.” Don’t believe me? Listen HERE to a briefing given to the CIA 15 years ago about developing a vaccine to change a person’s DNA in order to end “religious extremism.” 

But who do these people consider to be religious extremists? According to the Pentagon and Department of Defense training documents, evangelical Christians and Catholics, (Trump Supporters) are linked with other violent extremist groups such as the KKK, Hamas and Al-Qaida.

The term “extremist” however, is always “subjective” depending on the position of the speaker. The basic definition for the word extreme carries the understanding of two things being completely opposite of one another or on opposing sides of any political, religious or social spectrum. For example, good is the extreme of evil; right is the extreme of wrong; moral is the extreme of immoral; light is the extreme of darkness. Therefore, the term “extremist” is always subjective depending on the observer’s political, religious or moral position.

In authoritarian societies, tyrants, whether they be kings, dictators, judges or even elected legislatures consider those who espouse freedom from tyranny as extremists. It has often been said that “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Our Founding Fathers were seen as “terrorists” by the tyrannical government of King George. However, the American people remember them as “Freedom fighters” and as a result; Americans have enjoyed more freedom than any other nation in history for nearly 200 years because the courage that they displayed in throwing off the chains of oppression.

In today’s American society, those who hold the moral, social and political values of our Founding Father as being labels as extremists by an increasingly tyrannical Federal Government. In an article titled, “Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists” by Todd Starnes of Fox News, he contrasts the religious and political ideologies of the present-day American government and that of our Founding Fathers. The article begins:

“George Washington would not be welcome in the modern U.S. military. Neither would Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin, according to Department of Defense training documents that depict the Founding Fathers as extremists and conservative (what they really meant to say is Christian) organizations as “hate groups.” Included in the 133-pages of lesson plans is a student guide entitled “Extremism.” The DOD warns students to be aware “that many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights and how to make the world a better place.” Under a section titled “Extremist Ideologies,” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”

True followers of Jesus Christ should be viewed as extremists by the wicked and unjust men of this world.

“For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said… “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17)

Did not Jesus Christ himself teach that those who followed and applied His teaching to their lives would be labeled as extremists?

“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kind of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Matt 5:11-12)

The next time someone labels you as an extremist, do not receive it as a term of derision… wear it as a badge of honor! The next time someone labels you as an extremist, consider yourself to be blessed. You will be known by the historical company you keep.

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Are you having a hard time reading the entire Bible in a year? Do you consider the Old Testament archaic and irrelevant for your life as a New Testament believer? Are there parts of the New Testament that you consider irrelevant and useless? [Mark 7:13] Are there portions of scripture that are so hard to understand that you ignore them altogether? [2 Peter 3:16] WE HAVE GREAT NEWS!

We are pleased to announce the “New Redacted Bible” for only $4.99. The word redacted is the process of editing a document to remove information before publication. Since this version of the Bible (consisting of about 30 verses) utilizes far less ink to print, we have been able to greatly reduce the printing costs and therefore pass the savings on to you!

The New Redacted Bible reduces Christian theology to its most elementary, pleasant, and non-offensive teachings. This new version of the Bible is already in use by your favorite ministerial hirelings [John 10:12] and Satan’s ministers who are presently standing in your pulpits masquerading as ministers of righteousness. [2 Corinthians 11:14-15].

This new version of the Bible includes all these apostates’ favorite offering plate filling scriptures such as “God is love” (1 John 4:8), “Love God and your neighbor” (Mark 12:30-31). “Obey your government” (Romans 13), “We are saved by faith and not works,” (Ephesians 2:8-9), and “There are none righteous, not one” (Romans 3:10).

For your convenience, we have also removed all of those pesky scripture verses such as God “hates all workers of iniquity” (Psalm 5:5), “We must obey God rather than man [government],” (Acts 5:29), “We are saved for good works” (Ephesians 2:10), and “You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.” (James 2:24).

Redacted from this new version of the Bible is the entire Old Testament. Also redacted are any New Testament Scriptures that calls for repentance. Burdensome Scriptures such as the “Awake to righteousness, and do not sin. (1 Corinthians 15:34) have been removed. As an extra added bonus, we have also included several blank pages for you to add new scriptures to your Bible that better reflect YOUR theology. This way, you are able to make up your very own Book, Chapter and Verse for these new scriptures. You can even call it “The Book of [your name here].” Here, you can include all of the commonly accepted unbiblical scripture’s verses such as “We are all God’s children” “God loves everyone,” “We all sin, all day every day and it is OK.”

Also removed are any New Testament Scriptures that calls for spiritual maturity or any level of personal responsibility. Since individual Christian perfection, righteousness and holiness is unachievable, we have conveniently removed all the unrealistic and unachievable verses such as “Therefore, you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:48). Also removed are any and all calls for personal righteousness such as “Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as [Christ] is righteous,” (1 John 3:7). Unrealistic Scriptures that calls for holiness such as. “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:16) have also been redacted for you convenience.

If you cannot afford the new Redacted Bible for $4.99, we also have a do-it-yourself Scripture Redaction Kit for $1.99. This wildly popular kit has been sold to millions of theologians (sic) and has been used for centuries by all of your favorite false teachers and prophets [2 Peter 2:1], falsepastors [Acts 20:29] and falseapostles [Revelation 2:2]. This kit includes a yellow highlighter marker that you can use to highlight all of your personal favorite scripture verses. Also included is your own Black Redaction Marker that you can use to redact any remaining scriptures from God’s word that does not fit into your traditions. Anytime that you find a scripture verse that you theologically disagree with or simply refuse to apply to your life, it is easy as pulling out your redaction marker and scratching it out. Never again will you have to waste time or otherwise wrestle with these useless or irreverent scriptures.

If the Redaction Bible is not for you, we also offer the more expensive and more time consuming “Whole Council Bible.” This manuscript was created by faithful witnesses who feared God and respected His word so much, that they did not dare to add or take away any of the messages that they had been entrusted with. (Deuteronomy 4:2 – Revelation 22:18-19).

This Bible contains over 31,00 verses and has been used by some of history’s greatest theological minds such as Christ and the Apostle Paul (Acts 20:27). It operates off the revolutionary concept that “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

A thorough understanding and application of the “Whole Council Bible” will prevent the spiritually immature from “being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine. (Ephesians 4:14) and will help you to escape the snare of those who would twist the Holy Scriptures to their own [and your] destruction. (2 Peter 3:16). The “Whole Council Bible” is the only manuscript with the authority to bring the church to unity before Christ returns. {see John 17}

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“Grant me justice against my adversary… And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly.” -Luke 18:3-8

Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, tyrannical Democratic Governors Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom, have made churches a primary target of oppressive and unconstitutional closures and restrictions. While Home Depot and Wal-Mart have been allowed to remain open, churches, regardless of size or attendance have been forced to close their doors or face the wrath of these tyrants, as if a virus somehow knows the difference between a crowd at a House of Worship and a grocery store.

The America Christian Church needs to wake up and understand that this is a premeditated attack on the Christian church. We must understand that State Governors have no legal, moral or Constitutional authority to deprive the American people of their God-Given rights. These rights are protected by the US Constitution and include things such as “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion; or “abridging the freedom of speech; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

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In a recent address to the Federalist Society, Justice Samuel Alito warned of the dangers to both free speech and religious liberty. On Monday, April 27^th, Attorney General William Barr publicly released an official memorandum that he had sent to United States attorneys and to his assistant attorney general for civil rights. In the memo, they were told to “be on the lookout for state and local directives that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens” and “to oversee and coordinate our efforts to monitor state and local policies and, if necessary, take action to correct them.”

The actions that are being perpetrated by many of these Governors are not only unconstitutional, but they are in fact criminal and these crimes carry many very harsh penalties. According to the US Justice Department under Title 18 U.S.C. Section 242:

“Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties… The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.”

Unfortunately, the Church of Jesus Christ in America has accepted a distorted theology with regard to a proper interpretation of Romans 13. A belief that we have to obey every unlawful dictate of our elected officials. As a result, we have forgotten that God is a God of justice and is always on the side of the oppressed and at no time in biblical history has God ever stood on the side of the tyrants! God did not side with Pharaoh against the children of Israel. God did not side with King Nebuchadnezzar against Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. God did not side with King Darius against Daniel when these tyrants sought to violate these believers’ religious liberties. We would be unwise to think that God’s position has changed. In the parable of the persistent widow, Jesus actually teaches that it is acceptable to pray imprecatory prayers and Appeal to Heaven when we are being oppressed. The Christian church is going to regain all of the religious freedoms that have been attacked, beginning with the SCOTUS’ illegal and unconstitutional separation of church and state ruling.

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“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” -Luke 8:17

As a theologian, I oftentimes get asked “Why would God allow something like the Corona Virus” or “What do you think God is doing by allowing this worldwide pandemic? (sic). Unfortunately, those Christian leaders who are supposed to have an “ear to hear” and enough biblical knowledge to inform the people what is happening and how Christians are to respond, simply reply to these questions with the same theological rhetoric that they give for every question.

Christianity in America is quite frankly broken. This should not surprise us. When Christ came the first time, most of His contentious arguments were with the spiritual and political leaders of the day over the proper interpretation and application of scripture. At one point, Christ even told the Sadducees “You err not knowing the scripture” (Matthew 22:29). Sadly, today, many pastor’s Bibles are only about 30 verses deep. Their whole theology can be summed up with the following three bullet points: “1. Love God. 2. Love your Neighbor. 3. Obey your government. If we do these three things, we will be good witnesses for Christ.” Unfortunately, this spiritually lazy answer is given for nearly every question with which we are faced.

During the coronavirus shutdown of Churches in the spring, I taught a series of lessons dealing with all of the issues that we were facing. Whenever a question arose about how a believer is to deal with a particular issue, I searched the Scriptures (Acts 17:11) in order to faithfully speak as the oracles of God (1 Peter 4:11). The Bible contains over 31,000 verses and we cannot cherry-pick our favorite Scriptures and shoehorn them into every situation. We have to start with the understanding that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16-17) and not just our favorite 30 verses. To understand what we must do, we must first find the proper context and then be able to draw from the “whole council of God’s word” (Acts 20:27) in order to gain a divine perspective of the situation and to determine a proper biblical course of action.

The Bible is profitable for teaching us how to respond to fear; how to respond to a pandemic; and even what Christ would say and do about government-mandated lockdowns and face masks. None of this is what you hearing from most of the pulpits of America. As a result, we have become a nation of the blind (both politically and spiritually) leading the blind. If Christ were here, His advice would be the same as it was in His day… “Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch” (Matthew 15:14). As Christians, we can rest in the sovereignty of God. For what the enemies of mankind have intended for evil, God intends for good. (Genesis 50:20)

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The Covid-19 Crisis Syllabus:

Introduction

1. Facemasks. What Would Jesus Do?

2. Conspiracy Theories

3. The Eyes of Faith: Seeing the Invisible

4. Two Genealogical Lines: God’s and Satan’s

5. The Guardian Angels: A Legion of Watchers

6. Kiss the Son: Lest He Be Angry

7. Covid – 19: A Pandemic of Fear – Part I

8. Covid – 19: A Pandemic of Fear – Part II

9. An Appeal to Heaven – Part 1

10. An Appeal to Heaven -Part 2

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“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

Two people recently died and multiple others were injured in a stabbing on Sunday night at Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, California. This is just one in an increasing number of attacks that goes virtually unreported by the mainstream media. One black man is killed and it makes the 24-7 news cycle. Shoot up an entire church and the story does not even get a passing mention.

As America continues to be polarized into two groups, the American Christian Church must not only be prepared for what is coming but also have the discernment to understand the spiritual battle the is raging behind the scenes. One might wonder why innocent church-goers might find themselves as targets of such evil and violent people. To understand this unseen battle, we must go back to the beginning.

In the Garden of Eden, the LORD said to Satan, “I will put enmity (open hostility) between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.” (Gen 3:15).

Ever since then, earth has been the battleground between these two genealogical lines.

The bible refers to the “seed of the woman” and the “seed of the serpent” as “the children of God” and “the children of the devil.”

The apostle John helps us to understand that the primary trait of the children of the devil is that they routinely persecute and kill the children of God.

“In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous. (1 John 3:10-12.)

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These two genealogical lines can be followed through Scripture. Every prophet that God had sent (child of God), was murdered by the children of the devil.

Jesus told the leaders of His day: “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning… Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. (John 8:44; Luke 11:47-48). While these hypocrites oftentimes masqueraded as religious people, Christ exposed them for who they really were and was murdered for it. Stephen then testified before the same group of the history between the “the children of God” and “the children of the devil” when he asked them: “Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.”

Stephen met the same fate.

So, what does this mean for the Christian Church in America? These two genealogical lines are beginning to manifest themselves in our nation today and they can be clearly identified as they display the same character traits as their father the devil. We are told that the enemy comes to “steal, kill and destroy.” (John 10:10). The children of the devil are members of political parties and their affiliated political advocacy groups who come to steal (elections) and kill (our economy) and destroy (our cities). They are also members of the lying media. “When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. (John 8:44).

There is a revolution coming to America. This revolution will pit the children of God vs. the children of the devil. It will pit those who want to uphold the principles of the Declaration of Independence against those who seek to destroy it. Ultimately, it will pit those who recognize and submit to the living God against those who believe that they ARE God. As it was in 1815, so it is today…

“America has become the battleground between the world’s two oldest religions. The first religion to appear in the history of mankind worships God. The second worships man. In America, the first is expressed primarily by Christianity. The second is Humanism. It is not a question of whether morality can or should be legislated. It is a question of which religion’s guidelines will under gird the legislation; religious guidelines that deify God, or religious guidelines that deify man.” –The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth v. Sharpless (1815)

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“We will take America without firing a shot” – Former Soviet Union Premier of the Nikita Khrushchev

In the early to mid-1980’s, I spent eight years during the height of the Cold War learning how America’s enemies, the Communists, operate. Former Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev once proclaimed “We will take America without firing a shot.” Joseph Stalin even told us what would be their primary targets. “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is three-fold. Its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” These three areas, which the Christian church has been tasked with protecting, have been ignored and neglected for decades.

After returning home from the military, armed with this training, I began to recognize the true extent of how badly America has been infiltrated by those who seek to destroy “Americanism” and our American way of life. It was so clear that both our schools and our government were infiltrated by anti-America Marxist ideology. As a result, I wrote my first book titled Fighting the Next American Revolution in attempt to warn the American people, especially the Christian Church, of the pending destruction to our way of life if these forces were not opposed. It was soon apparent to me that the Marxists had not only taken over our schools and our government, but also all of our media outlets.

While attending 8^th Air Force Leadership School, our instructor taught us that our enemy had learned some very valuable lessons that were now being applied in America. When the Communists took over Eastern Europe following World War II, they immediately took over the state media in order to control the “minds and hearts” of the people. What they did not expect was that alternate news sources would rise up to counter their anti-christ influenced communist lies and propaganda. Therefore, the lesson that they learned was that you must not only control the state media, but also create and control what would later be called the “controlled opposition.” This way they could control the entire narrative from both the left and the right. They learned that they could tell the people the truth and seem like they are on the side of “the People” and in opposition to their totalitarian regimes, but in reality, these news organizations would actually work with and for these same regimes. Their propaganda offered no solutions concerning how to oppose these tyrannical Marxists. As a matter of fact, the “controlled opposition” would actually oppose and attack the true patriots who are providing real solutions and opposition.

The Covid-19 Crisis and the 2020 elections has exposed not only these tyrannical Marxist politicians, but members of the controlled opposition such as Fox News. The American Right in America has been duped by news organizations like Fox News who, for decades, have been nothing more than the controlled opposition. The controlled opposition likes to talk about the problems and tell the people what they want to hear for ratings’ sake, but actually oppose and attack any real solutions. True patriots, like Allen Keys and Ron Paul, are oftentimes attacked and/or censored because they actually were offering real solutions for American problems.

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For many years, those with “ears to hear and eyes to see” have been warning the American people that their news organizations are nothing more than controlled propaganda mills. As a matter of fact, all of the news journalism that you receive today is totally controlled by a handful of very power and influential organizations. Media watchdog organizations such as The Sons of Liberty Media and the Media Research Counsel have been trying to sound the alarm for years, if not decades, that even your local news cannot be trusted. In the compilation video titled The Media Mockingbirds, several of these organizations provide undeniable evidence of these facts.

The LORD is raising up a squadron of Citizen Journalists, and the American Christian Patriots armed with truth need to lead this charge! We need to learn to equip ourselves with the tools, techniques and technology in order to fight all of those who hate the truth and seek to propagate lies in the name of their father, the devil.

If you have a media calling on your life and would like to learn the craft and network with other professional Christian journalist, please join us in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in February at the Content 2020 Film Festival and Media Summit as we offer our first ever News and Journalism Masterclass. IT IS TIME FOR THE REAL MEDIA REVOLUTION TO COMMENCE!

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