This analogy is true for nations, too. There is a reason why Rome became a long-lasting republic and empire and the Girgashites didn’t. And much of that is to be found in the foundations Rome was built upon. The Romans were far from perfect, of course, and could be brutally cruel and barbaric. But they understood character and moral worth, the value of family, law, and tradition, and they survived 1,000 years because of it.
America is changing, and I would argue, given history, headed for either utter ruin, or worldly irrelevancy, like modern England. Remember, 100 years ago, it was the British Empire that ruled the globe. The Germans had a lot to do with destroying that, but so did the quality and character of the British people. Read the great British novels of the late 19th century—20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, the Sherlock Holmes novels, etc.—and you see a completely different people than today. You see a religious people, a nation with character, strength, duty, moral values, and earthly perception—no egalitarian nonsense. Today England has sacrificed itself on the altar of political correctness, and it is a bankrupt country in all the ways that matter. And, as I noted, largely irrelevant in world affairs. Who fears the British today?
The United States was not founded by perfect men, of course; there are no such creatures. But they were, by far, the most perceptive and perspicacious men who ever established a country. They founded America on Christian principles—and they made no bones about it. Christianity was the substance upon which America was established. And Christianity is, of course, the mortal enemy of today’s “progressive,” the thing he hates with the greatest vilification, the one element of society he wants to destroy more than anything else.
And he is succeeding, right now, almost beyond his wildest dreams.
And with it, he is destroying America, because he is abolishing that upon which the country was founded. Destroy the foundation…and the building disintegrates.
Nobody will listen because it is too late, but we need to hear—again—the men who founded the United States. So I propose to write, over the coming weeks, a series of articles quoting the great, far-sighted, historically-brilliant architects of the United States. Oh, yes, they knew history, they knew it well. And they built the greatest national structure in the totality of mankind’s existence. The only thing they couldn’t do—try though they did—was protect it from wicked, power-hungry human beings. Abraham Lincoln destroyed the governmental foundation—and today’s liberals are using what Lincoln put in place to destroy the moral one. No nation can survive that.
History doesn’t work fast—or I perhaps should say, God moves at His own pace. It was right after the fall of man that He announced a Savior would come (Genesis 3:15); it was 1,000s of years later before He sent Him (Galatians 4:4). Isaiah predicted the destruction of Babylon almost 200 years in advance of the event (Isaiah 13). Hosea uttered Israel’s downfall a full generation before it happened (Hosea 1). We cannot rush the Almighty, for His purposes are as far above ours as heaven is above the earth (Isaiah 55:8-9). All we can be assured of is that He will not acquit the wicked (Nahum 1:3). But He will do it in His own time.
America’s founders pointed the way. We will see what they said. And the wise will discern why America is in the forlorn condition she now finds herself. The foolish will discern nothing.