Free Republic

Actually the Roman Republic began in 509BC and lasted until 29BC. 509BC - 29BC = 482 years. Close enough to 500 years.

A wonderful expression of your love and the deep and abiding care for your children that only God can give a mother.

As a young and expectant dad I wondered if I could love a child as a father should. An older a wiser man than I told me not to worry as when that most helpless of little creatures closed his hand about my finger it would be case closed. He was right and later as that love surged through me I realized I was helpless before it. With that came sudden fear that I must protect him with all I had to give. Even with my life.

When a few days later the doctors told us with solemn faces that our tiny son had a rare and incurable disease called Cystic Fibrosis and might not live to school age the shock and fear for our child overwhelmed us. The child I was prepared to die for was going to die and and no amount of anger or tears was going to change that. All that mattered now was to live for our child and to do the work of love that daily sustained his life. Through this labor of love we discovered one of God’s greatest truths of life; love makes you stronger.

We remembered That God the Father had a son, also, who He watched suffer and die so you and I could live. I think He felt every wound and nail His Son suffered and can personally understand intimately our son’s and our own suffering. His love and our ability to love others is the greatest of God’s gift to His created children.

Brendan lived 38 years at our home and lived as active a life as possible. He taught us so much about love that we could have never known otherwise. Before he passed he knew the Lord and we prayed together for reunion in His presence. His last words were of his love for us.

“For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians13:12-13 )

It has rarely been more important that Christians understand this principle of civil disobedience.

The Civil Authorities have been ordained by God as His servants to “Do us good”. Since a servant can not be greater than his master he must call good what God calls good and evil what God calls evil. Nowhere in scripture does it allow the Christian to obey the State and disobey God so long as we can show we did so at the command of the State.

For two thousand years Christians have been persecuted and killed because they they lived by this rule of conscience: When the Authorities ordained by God require what God forbids; or forbids what God requires, then the Christian obeys God.

The State as God’s creation to provide good order can never have the moral authority to cause us to obey evil laws and sin against God.

This is why Godless Marxism must try to crush Christianity and force us to worship the State where ever Communism has been planted.

Thanks for your reply TIF. Perhaps you could clarify for me how you are using the word EXPONENTIAL. I take that you mean it in the mathematical sense —that America’s National and personal sins have built-up against her, like accumulating interest on a large unpaid loan debit. Would appreciate if you could advise this is correct.

I agree with you that God has been very patient with us over the decades, as we have indeed strayed far from the shared Judeo/Christian moral consensus upon which our Country was founded. I think John Adams would agree that an America without these moral standards can not survive, simply because it and any Constitutional government it forms will be destroyed by human fallen nature.

In other words (Adam’s) “We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, and revenge or vanity, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.

Sin and corruption is the default condition of any government formed with the best of intentions, just as it is for any human being. Hence our absolute need for Christ in our personal and political lives if we are to survive as a nation. Still I think there is hope for us, TIF, because Christ’s death on the Cross canceled the the debt of sin against us. As He who knew no sin became sin for us.

I take comfort from the well known scripture 2 Chron.7:14 “If My People who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.”

But I also believe in the chilling verses in 2 Chron.7:19-20 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods. and worship them; then I will uproot them from the land I have given them, and this house which I have sanctioned for My name I will cast out of My sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.”

There may yet be time before God gives us over to the baby killers, the tormentors of the Church, and those who would require we worship the State that we have tolerated. I believe soon the prince of this world will require each of us to choose which king we will serve.

But the only important question is; will Gods judgement be restorative or final? Only He knows the answer to that one.

As the first Civil War was His judgement for slavery He blessed us with “A new birth of freedom”, perhaps we will be so blessed again.

This sort of paranoia by the Left reminds me of a time in the 80s when we stopped abortions at our local clinic in my home town. We had rallied over thirty churches in our area and after several months of boycott, letter writing, leafleting the clinic parking lot, and picketing the clinic stopped murdering pre born children. No violence took place and a Christian witness was maintained at all times.

Of course the usual vicious smear started-up. We were accused of every atrocity know to humankind. Their claims were so absurd we found them comical. We were sure they would not be believed. How wrong we were.

We woke-up a couple of weeks later to reports in our local newspaper that all the abortionists in a three county area surrounding us had quit. Yes; they had taken those accusations against us seriously and had been scared shut by the very lies their “champions” had spun against us.

The Left had scared themselves, and God had presented us with His victory and the first Abortion Free Zone in our state. Abortions were no longer available in a third of the state.

The paranoia playing-out in Washington D.C. now shows that our Country’s enemies know the vile damage they have inflicted upon America. It was they that wanted the optics of the troops in D.C. to protect us from Trump and the crazy conservatives. But then-——what if— could it be just possible that the National Guard we brought in to save us might be filled with Right Wing Death Squads?

Thanks for your offering John 3:16.

Try not to be disturbed by the tiny minds that seek pleasure in ridiculing you. You happen to be in very good company.

Just checked with Georgia elections and only Hancock County left to complete count with two precincts still out with about 1,500 registered potential voters left. Ossoff has 73% and Purdue 28% with a 60.3% turnout in the County. That would leave around 905 votes left to count and at 28% for Purdue that would mean only about 253 votes left for him in the County.

Ossoff leads by over 1,700 total overall votes in Georgia with (of course) mail-in/absentee ballots breaking overwhelmingly for the Commie. I don’t see why they haven’t called it for the little Bolshevik by now.

Thanks for your creative thinking Taffylucy. We will need more of that as the future rolls-out.

What would happen if, say, a Marxist coup took over the government of the United States and in three years failed leaving behind a wrecked economy and a Federal government incapable of functioning. People could be looking for a better place to live, work, and raise their children in peace within a system of values capable of rebuilding a powerful and free America.

A basic consideration for any geo-political “homeland”, that large numbers can migrate into, is the local economies’ ability to support them. The more remote a region the less likely this can happen unless you are prepared for subsistence farming. This is good choice for young families but as they grow older they will need their youngsters committed to stay home and support them. Any parent knows this is risky.

Another option, and I think a better one, is to move to a region where the residents share and sustain the same values you do and have friendly local governments and economic infrastructure already in place. To be independent a port system, international airports, and not least - military installations up and running that are sympathetic to your purpose would be an objective. This describes the Southern tier of states from South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Florida would over time become a strongly conservative state through in migration.

I am not suggesting a formal secession or reestablishment of the old Confederacy is necessary, but a cooperative of states bound in common values, economic interests, and mutual defense agreements relying on existing state guard units. All other governing structures would remain in place. This way such a movement would not have to invent the wheel over and again. These relationships already exist less formally in many cases.

Considering that we are writing this today January 5th 2021 is not lost on me and all that the Georgia vote and the Electoral Certification tomorrow implies for us and our Country. While it is right to consider what we would do if this or some other scene might play out; I think we owe it to those who came before us and our children’s children to take off our gloves first and fight until we no longer can to make our system work.

As a people who value human life and the decency to treat others as our selves, we have hesitated to use the weapons of our deadly enemy but they have brought this fight to us. Now we must fight for the life we hold dear.

I am an old man who has known what war means and peace is better, but every generation must struggle for its freedom. There are hills worth dying on and the time may come when we must risk it all or live a coward’s life in the ashes of never knowing what might have been.

It looks like we will know the answer soon.

Well said Gnome 1949 but if 100 million armed Americans are not united and organized into an interacting force with a plan, core groups in the grassroots, communications, a time line for action, and voluntary leadership; then they will be isolated and picked-off one by one defending their own homes to the death.

Experience shows that when the hard times come, as they have now for America, effective Resistance begins when we start with ourselves and carefully reach-out to others. I think you will quickly find yourself a part of a growing family of brothers and sisters that believe as you do.

Then your willingness to fight to the death for your Country can succeed and make your enemies fight to the death instead.

Sidney Powell is in line for Special Council if appointed by the President. The Joint Chiefs of Staff including Gen. Milley will have to be arrested before troops are deployed or we could have genuine civil war on our hands.

Yes! Of course the Red Scum bring three generations of experience defrauding elections all over the world. Practice makes perfect and when combined with the technical expertise of useful idiot billionaires in Silicon Valley they have crafted stealing elections into a fine art.

It seems like he was saying; make a core group, make a plan, make a network, make a timeline, take preemptive action, take it again.

Thank you for your reply. DJT has the names, addresses, E-mail addresses, and phone numbers of a conservative committed network in the millions from which a serious recruiting effort can be made. Whether it is social/ political action or more; we need to network first with people that supported him and would be open to action of many kinds to save our Country.

We also must reach out at the same time to other like minded groups that may not be founded on this principle but are open to cooperate with their networks and resources to achieve this ultimate goal. President Trump, If willing, would be an invaluable resource and leader perhaps up to a point; but would be a the best leader we could have to get Resistance off the ground.

This would continue as a grass-roots movement and build communication trees that can be activated quickly for all kinds of action. If we are living under a suppressive Marxist State this will require imagination and the more that can be done now the better.

Hopefully our “alleged” conservatives on the Court are standing tall, minus Roberts of course, and will hear the case. Problem is the Constitution requires the Electors vote on the first Monday after the second week of December (In 2020 Dec.14) only two more full days away!

Since the Court cant Constitutionally delay the vote they would have to hear verbal arguments over the weekend or very early Monday AM. They could simply accept the written record in the suit without verbal argument and find in favor of Texas et. al. making the votes in question tainted.

If they do that, in effect, they decertify the Presidential election in the the Defendant States and make it impossible for either Presidential candidate to get the 270 Electoral Votes needed. This would begin the Contingent Election process in the House of Representatives when the INCOMMING Congress is seated Jan.18th which will be a one State one vote election and would certainly elect Trump President.

This would mean the Marxist media assembled for victory parties across America to celebrate the Biden/Harris win would choke on their wine and cheese. Those surviving would attack the Supremes with a fury they do not want.

I can only imagine the food fight that is taking place between the factions on the Court with Roberts trying to convince everyone to simply “Decline” and save his cocktail schedule for next year. No explanation would be needed.

With Barret there are enough conservatives to prevail without Roberts if the salvation of their Country is enough to give them the courage needed.

Pray for them.

In our State (Washington) a case is anyone testing Positive!

Dear Friends,

May the road rise-up to meet you

May the wind be always at your back

May the sun shine bright upon your face

And until you and Shelia meet again

May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

a blessing

I agree with what you have written here. Revolution is called for only after all these Constitutional remedies have failed, but both are not mutually exclusive. We can not simply choose one or the other.

Revolutions against a sitting government are a bloody business; and in the end are successful when the police and military that defend the tyranny refuse to obey orders to massacre their own people with superior armament. It also took an organized and coordinated effort by the Continental Army led by Washington with ordinance equal to the British to win.

Important as both political and hit and run guerilla tactics were to success of the American Revolution it was the Continental Army that accepted Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown. Revolutions are begun by individual citizens with their personal arms but the greatest weapon they have is a willingness to shed their own blood for a reason larger than themselves. Although we may not have yet reached this point, vigilance, and preparation is advised.

Today we face the threat of the Red Storm Troops we call Antifa taking control of the streets, burning our businesses, and continuing intimidation raids into our own neighborhoods. These are S.O.P. Marxist tactics to neutralize the police and local governments, then in the final stages to occupy ratio/TV stations, government offices and utilities. This effort will go on after the election and should be resisted community by community.

The web site for CPUSA (Communist Party U.S.A.)is reminding its members to prepare for the aftermath of the election regardless of outcome. Their plan is to raise the level of violence where we live and move to the next stage. Please check this out for yourselves.

While continuing every Constitutional and political freedom open to us; we are wise to prepare to defend our homes, our neighborhoods and our communities against the revolution being waged against us NOW by our bitter Marxist enemies.

Their plan to destabilize and overtake America has never changed: Top Down-(government), Bottom-up-(the streets Antifa), Inside-Out-(You and I)).

Yes! You are right on. We need to be much more concerned about a State government exercising power over the Church which belongs to God; than whether John MacArthur has all his theology right.

It is this principle of God’s Sovereignty over His own Church Universal that is the issue here. It is recognized by our Constitution in the First Amendment, but it is God expressing His Will through His Natural Law that gives the First Amendment it’s value and purpose.

That is why “We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” The governments of human authority cannot take from us what God has given and commanded us to do —even if the State believe it’s for our own welfare and their intentions are good.

The principal that Christians have lived by, and died, for over 2,000 years is: That when the Civil Authorities require what God forbids; or forbids what God requires, then we obey God. In all other secular matters we obey the authorities over us as God commands in Romans 13 until those authorities over-reach their God-given authority and require of us something that belongs to God. In this case, it is his command to assemble and worship Him.

Is there risk from Covid-19?, of course; but when God’s people make a conscious decision of FREE WILL to put their lives in God’s hands and do what He commands, it is GOD that enables that right and NOT the STATE’S right to deny it!

All the State can do is exercise it’s raw power over us, and they will make us suffer. Over the centuries monarchs and Governments have taken our fortunes and and our lives if we did not bend the knee to Caesar and deny God. To be a Christian was and is today not for those who seek an easy and compliant religion when the hard times come; and the Prince of this world requires us to choose which King we will serve.

I don’t know the fine points of John MacArthur’s theology beyond that he believes Jesus Christ to be the Son of God and that he takes him as his Lord and Savior. I don’t know if MacArthur takes a Calvinist or Pentecostal view of the Holy Spirit. But might I not support him in this struggle for lack of this knowledge given his surrender to Jesus Christ? I would not dare.