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Why Seek Ye The Living Among The Dead?

Published: Thursday, April 6, 2023

The title of this column is an excerpt from Luke’s Gospel, chapter 24, verses 1 – 6:

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen. (KJV)

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is not only the cornerstone of Christianity; it is the cornerstone of Western Civilization—and the United States in particular. There is absolutely no denying that the people who initially brought Western Civilization to the North American continent were almost exclusively strong adherents of Christian societies who were motivated by the love of God and the desire for religious liberty.

Thankfully, none of the Pilgrims, Puritans and Patriots of early America had ever heard of C. I. Scofield and his “Christian Zionism” heresy. If early Americans had been brainwashed by Scofield, as 80% of evangelical Christians are today, the United States would have never come into existence.

America’s Christian founders such as Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, James Madison, Benjamin Rush, Daniel Webster, Noah Webster, et al. had not been duped by Israel-based, Old Covenant-based, death-based Dispensational Futurism. They didn’t come to this new land seeking to find “the living among the dead.”

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Samuel Adams declared:

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

That is not a political statement; that is a New Covenant theological statement.

In his will, Adams wrote:

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

Patrick Henry proclaimed:

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

James Madison, America’s 4th president and the architect of our U.S. Constitution, said:

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

Benjamin Rush (signer of the Declaration of Independence and Surgeon General of the Continental Army) said:

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Daniel Webster said:

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Noah Webster, the father of American education, said:

Education is useless without the Bible.

The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields.

God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed….No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.

I could go on and on.

The men and women of America’s founding generations built a new country on Christ’s New Covenant.

Tragically, the unadulterated New Covenant Gospel has not been popularly taught in the United States since before the early twentieth century when Scofield’s Reference Bible immersed America’s churches and Christian schools in atheistic, occultish Zionism. For over 100 years, evangelicals have been taught a convoluted mixture of Old Covenant legalism, Israel-based futurism and works-based salvation to the point that the vast majority of today’s churches do not even resemble—either in faith or practice—historic Christianity.

The faith of most churches more resembles mysticism—and pastors more resemble mystics.

Hear Noah Webster again:

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

The true Christian faith is centered in Christ’s New Covenant. It was the preaching and teaching of the New Covenant that spawned the greatest political experiment in government-protected Liberty ever attempted on earth. And the basic reason that the government no longer sees itself as the guardian of Liberty is due to the fact that America’s pulpits no longer see themselves as guardians of the New Covenant. The further the pulpit removes from preaching the New Covenant, the further the government removes from protecting Liberty.

Listen to the Apostle Paul:

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament [covenant]; not of the letter [old covenant], but of the spirit [new covenant]: for the letter [old covenant] killeth, but the spirit [new covenant] giveth life. But if the ministration of death [emphasis added], written and engraven in stones [old covenant], was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away [old covenant—emphasis added]: How shall not the ministration of the spirit [new covenant] be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation [old covenant—emphasis added] be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness [new covenant] exceed in glory. (II Corinthians 3:6 – 9 KJV)

The rejection of liberty-giving, life-giving New Covenant teaching and the acceptance of the ministration of death and condemnation of Old Covenant teaching (popularized by C. I. Scofield) by America’s pastors and churches has shackled and enslaved the governing institutions of our country and, hence, the public lives of our people.

Accordingly, THIS SUNDAY, April 9, on Resurrection Sunday, I will deliver Prophecy Message Number 15 entitled The Seventh Trumpet: The Fall Of Jerusalem And Rise Of The New Covenant Kingdom.

This message is taken from Revelation Chapter 11, which is the most important chapter in the entire Book of Revelation.

As I have said before, the Book of Revelation is not as much a book about prophecy as it is a final exclamation point to the majesty and glory of the New Covenant contrasted with the death and destruction of the Old Covenant.

I invite readers to tune in this Sunday, April 9, at approximately 2:30pm Mountain Time to watch this message: The Seventh Trumpet: The Fall Of Jerusalem And Rise Of The New Covenant Kingdom.

Last Sunday, I told the true story of how a satanic attack took me to within minutes of death. The message title is Satan’s Attack Against These New Covenant Prophecy Messages. 

I urge readers to watch this message before watching the message this Sunday.

The forces of evil hate the New Covenant Gospel message more than anything in this world, and they will stop at nothing to try and stamp it out. And, sadly, they have largely succeeded in removing true New Covenant teaching from a majority of today’s evangelical churches.

People who are going to these Old Covenant “churches” are like the disciples who were looking for Jesus in a graveyard: They are seeking life among the dead.

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Don’t Let Any Man Take Away Your Hope | Chuck Baldwin

Published: Thursday, November 24, 2022

In my Thanksgiving Sunday message last Lord’s Day, I brought a message entitled Thank You, Lord, For Showing Me Truth.

The points of that message are:

1. Thank you, Lord, for showing me the truth about Salvation.
2. Thank you, Lord, for showing me the truth about the New Covenant.
3. Thank you, Lord, for showing me the truth about the Sovereignty of God.

I opened point number three by quoting Benjamin Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, when the delegates were at a total impasse to adopt a constitution. At that moment, it looked like the victory of our War of Independence that had come at such great cost would all be for naught. The divisions among the thirteen colonies seemed insurmountable.

It was then that Benjamin Franklin stood and said these words:

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God Governs in the affairs of men. [Emphasis added] And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel.

I therefore beg leave to move—that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that service.

And that’s exactly what was done; and the result was our Constitution and Bill of Rights—and the birth of the American republic.

America today is at a seemingly insurmountable impasse. We are a house divided.

Furthermore, everywhere I turn, I hear conservatives talking about stolen elections and acting as if this is all happening outside the sovereignty and omniscience of our Great God.

To be sure, it is the job of the citizenry of each county and State to do everything they can to ensure that our elections are honest. To this end, maintaining paper ballots is a necessity.

But the fact is, examples of election fraud have been with us almost forever. If you doubt that, you haven’t lived in Chicago or Boston.

I remember my good friend Howard Phillips telling me in a private conversation about the ubiquitous voter fraud he saw by BOTH parties that took place in Boston back in the 1970s. And the dead have been voting in Chicago almost forever.

Of course, corrupt people in BOTH parties will attempt to corrupt the election process if they are able. There is absolutely nothing new about that.

But ever since Donald Trump lost in 2020, conservatives everywhere are screaming “stolen elections!” And more than that, some of them are even saying that we can never have honest elections again. All is lost! Conservatives can’t win, because the Deep State has rigged—and will continue to rig—the elections.

(By the way, we just elected a bunch of dependable conservative constitutionalists to public office here in Montana—and, no, I’m not including Ryan Zinke. And Florida didn’t do too badly either.)

The truth is, these so-called conservative experts have no idea as to how much or how little election fraud has actually taken place. It’s all conjecture and speculation. They do NOT know. Suspicion does not make fact.

But what these conservatives are doing is planting the seeds of hopelessness and despair in the hearts of the very people we need to help win this fight. By doing so, they become self-fulfilling prophecies.

What good is it to vote if you truly believe the elections are all fixed? What good is it to “get involved” to help restore Liberty and Freedom in our nation if the elections are all fixed?

If you truly believe the election box is totally fixed, you only have one box left: the cartridge box. So, why aren’t these prophets of doom reaching for that box? There can be only two reasons: 1) They really don’t believe elections are a totally lost cause themselves, which makes them hypocrites for saying they are, or 2) They do believe what they are saying, but they are too cowardly to do anything about it.

In reality, these conservative pundits are doing what the Deep State only wishes it could do: They are demoralizing and defeating Christians and conservatives all over America with their fatalism.

They owe America a sincere, heartfelt apology!

It was not hopelessness and despair that put those Patriots on Lexington Green; it was not hopelessness and despair that put those Patriots on Concord Bridge. It was not hopelessness and despair that put those Patriots on Bunker Hill. It was not hopelessness and despair that put those Patriots at Valley Forge.

It was courage, conviction, faith and HOPE.

Away with fatalism! There is a God in Heaven that “governs in the affairs of men.”

“Don’t Let Any Man Take Away Your Hope”—a video of less than two minutes.

Men today who are promoting all of this fatalistic doom and gloom are either void of Christian faith or they are Christians who are still hanging on to parts and pieces of the rotting corpse of the Old Covenant, men who have been duped by Scofield Futurism’s fatalistic theology of an imminent “antichrist tribulation.”

As New Testament Christians, we are instructed to watch for the appearance of Christ, NOT antichrist. We are to anticipate entrance into New Jerusalem, NOT “great tribulation.”

(I have an entire message on the errant teaching of Scofield Futurists regarding “the antichrist.” Find it here.)

Do these conservative prognosticators of doom fancy themselves prophets? Have they received divine revelation that they can say what the Sovereign God will do or not do tomorrow?

Such arrogance!

If our Founding Fathers believed the nonsensical Old Covenant doctrines of Scofield Futurism, they would have said what we are hearing today. The Colonial Committees of Correspondence and writings of James Otis and Thomas Paine would have been filled with defeatism, fatalism and woe—and America would not exist.

But our founders had not been propagandized with Scofieldism, because it wasn’t even invented yet. They believed the Word of God and God’s Natural Law. They were filled with faith, hope and love—which gave them COURAGE.

Listen to Samuel Adams:

The rights of the colonists as Christians . . . may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.

The word “Testament” is a synonym for “Covenant.” Adams was fully acquainted with the New Covenant. Notice that Adams asserts that our Natural rights and liberties are predicated upon the New Covenant. And indeed they are.

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Samuel Adams declared:

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

That is not a political statement; that is a theological statement.

Instead of destroying the faith and spirit of our people, conservative Christian leaders should be reminding them to put their faith, NOT in political parties, but in the Lord God of Heaven and to fight the battles we face with HOPE, as the Word of God instructs us.

Our problem is not corrupt politicians, for they are but a reflection of the corruption in our own hearts. Our problem is we have forgotten the sage counsel of our founders and the divine instructions of God’s Holy Word.

If some of our elections are stolen, they are stolen with the notice and permissive will of Almighty God. And if so, this is a sign of God’s judgment on the CHURCH. God’s judgment on evil, unredeemed men is future; God’s judgment on the Church is now.

Instead of blaming the Deep State, we need to be putting the blame where it really belongs: on the doorstep of the Church and at the foot of the Pulpit.

Plus, conservatives just can’t seem to get it through their thick skulls that Donald Trump is a curse, not a blessing. Everything he touches turns to dung. He bankrupted his business SEVEN times. If the Zionist bankers didn’t own him and weren’t there to bail him out every time he failed—and failed, and failed, and failed, and failed, and failed and failed again—no one would even know his name. Successful businessman? Are you kidding?

The only reason Trump won in 2016—and I’ve said this repeatedly—is because he was running against the most hated politician in America at the time: Hillary Clinton. Had Bozo the Clown been the Republican nominee in 2016, HE would have won.

And conservatives can get mad at what I’m saying all they want to; it doesn’t change the truth of what I’m saying: Today, Trump is the most hated politician in America. Get outside the Trump fan base among conservatives and evangelicals, and Trump is despised. Every time he opens his mouth, more people hate him.

As long as Donald Trump is perceived as being the de facto (or literal) head of the Republican Party, they will continue to lose. They can blame stolen elections until the cows come home, but Trump is their albatross.

Stewart Rhodes and his companions would not be facing serious jail time today had Trump not led them to believe that he was something he’s not. Trump is good at that.

In this column during November of last year, I wrote:

I see only one way for the GOP to lose the White House in 2024: If they nominate Donald Trump. So, if you Republicans have a death wish, go ahead and nominate this con man. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.

With Trump at the helm, the GOP blew a golden opportunity to take both chambers of Congress, and barely eked out a win in the House. If they nominate Trump for president in 2024, it will be more of the same.

Don’t yell at me; save your curses for Trump.

The only light that is going to lead our nation out of this darkness is the light of the glorious New Covenant Gospel and the divine Liberty principles, which are the fruit of that great Root.

As did our Founding Fathers, in order to restore Liberty, we must “restore the Sovereign.”

And in that pursuit, don’t let any man take away your hope!

Have a Happy and Hopeful Thanksgiving!

P.S. This is the Second Announcement that we are NOW shipping THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS. This is our special Christmas printing of 57 of the greatest historical documents in American history, and our supplies will not last long. So, don’t wait to order.

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The Birth Of Christ And The Birth Of America Are Linked – Chuck Baldwin

Published: Thursday, December 23, 2021

This Saturday is the day in which we commemorate the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. As such, I am reminded of a quote by John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words:

Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? . . . Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?

Adams was exactly right. The United States of America is the only nation in human history established by mostly Christian people, founded upon 2,000 years of Christian thought, Reformation preaching and Biblical Natural Law principles—and dedicated to the purpose of religious and personal liberty and equal justice under the law. This truth is easily observed within America’s earliest history.

America’s forebears established a written covenant with God as early as November 11, 1620, when they penned The Mayflower Compact. It states in part:

In the name of God, Amen. . . . Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant, and combine our selves together into a civil body politick; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, Acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colonie: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

From the beginning, the sentiments and statements of America’s founders make it clear that this country has enjoyed a love and appreciation for the rights and freedoms recognized in Natural Law that is unique in the annals of human history. No other nation has such a heritage.

The Declaration of Independence states, “[Men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It also states that these rights are “self-evident” and that they were formed by the “Laws of Nature.

These principles are taken directly from the Scriptures—and from Natural Law philosophers such as Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Samuel Von Pufendorf, Emer de Vattel and Charles Montesquieu. Furthermore, one cannot read what these men wrote without quickly observing that they formed their writings largely on the Scriptures.

The signers of our Declaration of Independence could have never imagined that churches in America would cheerfully submit to white-coated tyrants and lock their doors and cancel their services, thereby participating in the oppressive act of denying men the fundamental right of the freedom of worship granted to us by our Creator.

They could never have imagined that individual states would deny their citizens the right to bear arms. They could have never dreamed that the American people would be denied the right to be free from warrantless searches—a criminal act which takes place every day throughout this country.

I am also confident that America’s founders would be completely repulsed by the way the United States has plunged headlong into welfarism, corporatism and Zionism. At the national level, Democrats and Republicans alike have created a central government so monstrous that it would be unrecognizable to any founding father—even Alexander Hamilton.

Big Business is merely an economic partner of Big Government; the major media has become little more than a propaganda ministry of Big Government; corporate 501c3 churches view Big Government as a god to be worshiped; and evangelical Christians seem to be drunk on the perpetual wars and entangling alliances of Big Government’s neocon Warfare State.

Surely, our Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves.

Therefore, it behooves us to recommit ourselves to our nation’s founding principles.

Furthermore, let us renew with vigor the fight for freedom before our liberties and heritage disappear altogether.

John Quincy Adams was right. The birth of Christ and the birth of America are indissolubly linked.

From my family to yours: Merry Christmas!

P.S. I again urge readers to get my newest sermon DVD entitled Christian Zionism Has Taken Bethlehem Back To The Days Of Herod.

This might be the most in-depth and personal homily of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I’ve ever delivered. I’ve received many letters and emails from people living in Jerusalem and Palestine telling me how much they enjoyed the message and how accurately I depicted the truth of what’s really happening there.

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The Birth Of Christ And The Birth Of America Are Linked

Published: Wednesday, December 25, 2019

As this is the day in which we commemorate the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, I am reminded of a quote by John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words:

Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? . . . Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?

Adams was exactly right. The United States of America is the only nation in human history established by mostly Christian people, founded upon 2,000 years of Christian thought, Reformation preaching and Biblical Natural Law principles—and dedicated to the purpose of religious and personal liberty and equal justice under the law. This truth is easily observed within America’s earliest history.

America’s forebears first established a written covenant with God as early as November 11, 1620, when they penned The Mayflower Compact. It states in part:

In the name of God, Amen. . . . Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant, and combine our selves together into a civil body politick; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, Acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colonie: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

From the beginning, the sentiments and statements of America’s founders make it clear that this country has enjoyed a love and appreciation for the rights and freedoms recognized in Natural Law that is unique in the annals of human history. No other nation has such a heritage.

The Declaration of Independence states, “[Men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It also states that these rights are “self-evident” and that they were formed by the “Laws of Nature.” These principles are also taken directly from the Scriptures—and from Enlightenment fathers such as Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Samuel Von Pufendorf, Emer de Vattel and Charles Montesquieu. Furthermore, one cannot read what these men wrote without quickly observing that they formed their writings largely on the Scriptures.

The signers of our Declaration of Independence could have never imagined that individual states would deny their citizens the right to bear arms. They could have never dreamed that the American people would be denied the right to be free from warrantless searches—which takes place every day throughout this country.

They could never have imagined that a U.S. president (Donald Trump) would attempt to deny people the freedom of speech and religion or call for people to be stripped of their right of self-defense without commiting a crime and without the due process of law.

I am also confident that America’s founders would be completely repulsed by the way the United States has jumped headlong into welfarism, corporatism and Zionism. At the national level, Democrats and Republicans alike have created a central government so large that it would be unrecognizable to any founding father—even Alexander Hamilton.

Big Business sucks feverishly at the teat of Big Government; the major media has become little more than a propaganda ministry of Big Government; corporate 501c3 churches view Big Government as a god to be worshipped; and America (including and especially its Christians and churches) seems to be drunk on the perpetual wars and entangling alliances of the neocon Warfare State.

Surely, our Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves.

Therefore, it behooves us to recommit ourselves to our nation’s founding principles.

Furthermore, let us renew with vigor the fight for freedom before our liberties and heritage disappear altogether.

John Quincy Adams was right. The birth of Christ and the birth of America are indissolubly linked.
Merry Christmas, America.

© Chuck Baldwin

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Chuck Baldwin: The Birth Of Christ And The Birth Of America Are Linked

Published: Thursday, December 27, 2018

As we are just two days past the day in which we commemorated Christ’s birth, I am reminded of a quote by John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words:

Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? . . . Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth. That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?

Adams was exactly right. The United States of America is the only nation in human history established by mostly Christian people, founded upon 2,000 years of Christian thought and Biblical Natural Law principles and dedicated to the purpose of religious and personal liberty and equal justice under the law. This truth is easily observed within America’s earliest history.

America’s forebears first established a written covenant with God as early as November 11, 1620, when they penned The Mayflower Compact. It states in part:

In the name of God, Amen. . . . Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant, and combine our selves together into a civil body politick; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, Acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colonie: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

From the beginning, the sentiments and statements of America’s founders make it clear that this country has enjoyed a love and appreciation for the rights and freedoms recognized in Natural Law that is unique in the annals of human history. No other nation has such a heritage.

The Declaration of Independence states, “[Men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It also states that these rights are “self-evident” and that they were formed by the “Laws of Nature.” These principles are also taken directly from the Scriptures—and from Enlightenment fathers such as Locke, Vattel and Montesquieu. And one cannot read what these men wrote without quickly observing that they formed their writings largely on the Scriptures.

The signers of our Declaration of Independence could have never imagined that individual states (including the State of Massachusetts where our war for independence began) would deny their citizens the right to carry arms. They could have never dreamed that states would deny their citizens the right to be free from warrantless searches, which happens every day throughout this country. They could have never imagined that the time would come when their posterity would be denied the basic freedoms to publicly express their reverence for God. Never could they have imagined that the day would come when citizens of the several sovereign states (each with a State constitution protecting religious liberty) would be denied their right to pray in school, place Nativity scenes on public property or hang copies of the Ten Commandments on courthouse walls.

I am also confident that America’s founders would be completely repulsed by the way the United States has jumped headlong into corporatism, socialism and Zionism. At the national level, Democrats and Republicans alike have created a central government so large that it would be unrecognizable to any founding father—even Alexander Hamilton or John Adams. Big Business sucks feverishly at the teat of Big Government; the major media has become little more than a propaganda ministry of Big Government; corporate 501c3 churches view Big Government as a god to be worshipped; and America (including and especially its Christians and churches) seems to be drunk on the perpetual wars and entangling alliances of the neocon Warfare State. Surely, our Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves.

Therefore, at this Christmas season, let us recommit ourselves to our nation’s founding principles. Furthermore, let us renew with vigor the fight for freedom before our liberties and heritage disappear altogether.

Yes, John Quincy Adams was right. The birth of Christ and the birth of America are indissolubly linked.

© Chuck Baldwin

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