The Resurrection of Tyranny on the 240th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Guest essay by Paul Warren

—descendant of an American Revolution soldier

“We will be governed by God or we will be governed by tyrants.”

—William Penn, founder of Philadelphia

Would you mind pausing for a moment of silence to lament the cancellation of the Declaration of Independence on its 240th birthday?

Can we acknowledge the obvious—America’s warrant for freedom from tyrannical government has been quietly rubbed out? A tyranny far worse than that of a British king has been resurrected by America’s eviction of the central figure in the American Revolution. The Media-Education Complex that controls the American mind has expelled the Declaration’s “Creator,” whom the founders believed gave them the American Revolution victory.

Are you aware that America 2016 is so night-and-day opposite from 1776 that it is no longer the country the Revolution established? The Declaration put the God of the Bible in the most prominent position, calling on Him to be the Revolution’s General. It invokes the hidden reality and authority of the “Creator,” the “Provider” and “the Supreme Judge of the world.” The Media-Education Complex ridicules these ideas.

Did you know the declaration concludes by praying to—“appealing to…the Supreme Judge of the world” for His evaluation of the rebellion’s intentions and requesting His help? The God of the Bible was so important to the founders at the start of History’s Great Revolution, He was cited four times in America’s birth certificate, at the beginning and the end. Were the Declaration written today, a tidal wave of media bigotry would denounce it as “right wing extremist fundamentalism”!

The Declaration begins with two terms describing the cosmic reality of the God of the Bible. (1) The first sentence invokes “Nature’s God.” Today we’ve lost the sense of the enormity of God’s authority that England and its colonies understood about the God who governs the material universe through laws He established. The “Laws of Nature” are the fingerprints of “Nature’s God,” not Mother Nature. Biotech scientists do experiments to learn the laws of “Nature’s God.” (2) The second sentence—the most famous of the entire document—raises the fact there is a “Creator,” and bases the Revolution on His Authority, which trumps that of the tyrannical King George III.

Writers know the two most important places of a piece of writing are the beginning and the end. (3) The Declaration winds to an end calling the God of the Bible ”the Supreme Judge of the world.” Implicit in this is the founders’ belief that death is not the end. They believed that the Creator is the ultimate Supreme Court Judge who one day will render His cosmic verdict on every person that He has created and on the righteousness of America’s Revolution. (4) America’s “birth certificate” concludes with a bold declaration of the founders’ confidence in “the protection of divine Providence” – i.e., the providential God of the Bible. (And God did render His verdict in favor of the United States, given them a Providential victory.)

The founders of History’s Great Nation were not going into a crazy odds-against revolution without the supernatural power of the Creator, Whom they believed had inspired the Revolution in their hearts. Unlike today, the founders viewed the Bible as Ultimate Truth, not antiquated myth and superstition.

The Big Question on the 2016 Declaration Anniversary

The big question on this Declaration anniversary is Why has America’s Media-Education Complex publicly and passionately denounced and ridiculed these theological-political beliefs of our brilliant founders as “fundamentalist” superstition for most of the last century?

When Americans won the War for Independence, the founding fathers did not go on a three-day drinking celebration of their genius and greatness. Instead, they were united in the belief that the God of the Bible had freed them—just as He had freed the Hebrews from Pharaoh in the Exodus.

Today, America’s anti-Christian Media-Education Complex deliberately hides all this. However, these foundational beliefs of the Continental Congress are preserved for us in the first two proposals for America’s national insignia, the Great Seal. Days after the public reading of Declaration, both Franklin and Jefferson submitted the first proposals for the Great Seal. Both drew a scene from the second book of the Bible Exodus—pictures of Pharaoh being defeated by God—as the national sign of the new nation. This gives us a close-up picture of the mind of America’s founders and voids the idea that the founders were Euro-deists who believed that the Creator was a hands-off God who allowed His creation to run on its own.

The idea of the American Revolution as a history-repeating-itself of the Hebrew Exodus from Egyptian bondage was not a passing fancy, or a fundamentalist misapplication of the Bible to history. The Big Idea of the American Revolution as a providential déjà-vu of the Exodus Passover remained etched into the American mind from the Declaration to Washington’s death, when eulogies typically referred to him as “America’s Moses.” This idea is now memorialized in a famous Washington, D.C. ceiling painting.  “The Apotheosis of Washington,” in the nation’s capitol depicts Washington, like Moses, being escorted to heaven by angels after successfully completing his divine assignment.

About 90 years before the Revolution, William Penn founded Philadelphia, the place where America was established and the Declaration written. He is spiritually connected to the Declaration as an authentic American prophet (according to God’s definition of a prophet in Deuteronomy 18:21-22). Penn wrote that Philadelphia, and by extension, America, would be “governed by God or we will be governed by tyrants.” America’s 90-year Media-Education Complex denial of the “Creator” of the Declaration has produced the tyranny Penn forecast. Doesn’t the second president in the 21st century of History’s Great Nation rule like a Pharaoh, imperiously walking all over the Declaration’s younger brother the Constitution?

A Tyrannosaurus Rex government has now replaced the anti-tyranny government that America has represented to the world for two-and-a-half centuries. It treats evangelicals, who have the same view as America’s founders, as if they were America’s Enemy. On the other hand, the media’s pretense that the “death-to-America” Muslim ruling class has not declared war on America is the brazen denial of history and reality. The plain fact of history is that what America’s ruling elite bizarrely proclaims “a religion of peace” has waged the longest war in history against Christianity—for 1400 years.

Is it “Right Wing Paranoia” to think the Government Media seems to fit the international definition of “treason” by providing “aid and comfort” to an enemy that may be America’s Final Conqueror? Hasn’t the media pretended for 16 years (the length of the American Revolution and World War II combined) that Islam is not fighting an escalating guerilla war on America? And haven’t the media been pretending with a straight face that millions of “illegal alien” Jihadists are not hidden in the shadows awaiting the apocalyptic blitzkrieg call?

Are you aware that Islam was the first enemy to call war on America, in 1801? Is it mere random coincidence that Islam resurrected its Holy War call on America on the 200th anniversary of the 1801 Jihad call – in 2001? Was 9-11 a symbolic announcement that Islam plans to finish what it started and lost in 1801?

Tyrannical government is on a campaign to control every aspect of Americans’ lives—from their bodies (state health care) to their souls (the mind-control mass media)—while reducing them to serfs who work nearly half the year to feed the insatiably greedy Tyrannosaurus. The state-sanctioned execution of the most innocent Americans (unborn babies) is at an astonishing rate that puts America ahead of the worst serial killers of the 20th century: Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

Evolution Doctrine Is at War with the Declaration

In 1925, during the Scopes Trial, notorious atheist lawyer Clarence Darrow famously asked, “Has evolution ever hurt you, little boy?” Darrow hijacked the Tennessee trial, turning it upside down to condemn the Bible as antiquated superstition with one hand while elevating evolution to the status of proven science on the other. Well, we now have a definitive answer to Darrow’s innocent question and it is, “yes, evolution has hurt.” The silent screams of 50 million assassinated babies testify to and echo this fact. Evolution belief is the foundation for abortion.

The Declaration of Independence gave Americans the warrant for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Under current revolutionary evolutionary theory, unborn children have been demoted from divinely created humans eligible for the Declaration’s “life” provision to mere “protoplasm.”

Hindsight is 20-20 and we can now see that the 1925 Scopes Trial was an Evolution Revolution that declared war on the creationist Declaration of Independence. The Evolution Revolution began with the Scopes Trial, which was ironically held in July at the time of America’s 149th celebration of the creationist Declaration of Independence. It was then the erasure of the Declaration’s most famous line began. The Declaration presented the “Creator” God of the Bible as the authority on which American liberty is legitimized. However, an army of reporters on behalf of a gang of God-haters behind the curtain of the Scopes Trial helped nullify “creationism” in the Court of Public Opinion.

Why did the press call Scopes “the trial of the century?” How could they know this when there was still 75 years to go in the century? Well, apparently they did know something. Hindsight is 20-20 and Scopes did indeed become confirmed as the “trial of the century” when 30 years later the Media-Education Complex anointed evolution “proven science” without any evidence that Americans understood. As a practical matter, Evolution was a Revolution against the creationist Declaration and American Revolution by media fiat.

On the heels of “Scopes,” the New Deal inaugurated Big Government tyranny. Implicit in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nonsensical declaration, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” was the denial of a foundational teaching of the Bible: “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” The seven years between the Scopes demotion of God’s Word to myth and the birth of New Deal Socialism was the hinge on which the American belief in a Creator-Savior was turned to faith in Big Government Salvation. Goliath Government quietly ordered the “Creator” of the Declaration to stand down.

Déjà Vu?—Two Pharaohs—King George III in 1776 and President Obama In 2016

The 2016 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s clarion call for rebellion against government tyranny rings like a fire alarm at midnight. Can you hear it? While being tyrannized and terrorized by a president who reigns like an African Pharaoh, History’s Great Nation is in the most dizzying nosedive since the Civil War. Let’s remember that America’s founders pictured the American Revolution as a western replay of Exodus and called King George III Pharaoh. Will history one day note the Giant Irony of 2016? Americans became so anesthetized under the dank spell of the media, the internet, public schools, and drugs that they were blind to the fact that an “African-American” president, ruling like an imperious African Pharaoh treasonously put America into this nosedive.

Many, though not all, talk radio hosts keep reminding Americans of the Constitution, but often ignore its older and more significant brother the Declaration. The Declaration’s earthshaking idea of God’s authorization of freedom from government tyranny transformed world governance from the ancient institution of monarchy to the modern politics of democratic elections. The “Democratic” plantation government President Jefferson inaugurated in 1800 began controlling every aspect of the lives of the plantation empire’s slaves. Today’s Tyrannical Government is on a campaign to control every aspect of American lives. Is there a relationship between the whiting-out of the Declaration doctrine of a “Creator-God” and the brazen government tyranny Americans are suffering under?

Who would have thought that a nonsensical, humiliating monkey-to-man quack science theory could erase America’s official, divine warrant for freedom-from-government-tyranny? Are you aware that the most effective defense of evolutionists has not been scientific evidence, but rather nasty, religious bigotry, as in “only stupid fundamentalist creationists don’t believe in evolution?”

Do they mean “stupid creationists” like the authors of the Declaration of Independence?

What was obvious in 1776 has been ruled ridiculous in 2016. The third sentence of the Declaration announces to the world, “We hold these truths to be self-evident [i.e., obvious] 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.”

The Scopes Trial laid the foundation for the Media-Education Complex’ war against Christianity, sanitized as “the Culture War.” “Scopes” jumpstarted the century-long media denunciation of the Bible in the most Bible-shaped nation in the modern world. By outlawing The Bible as an authority in the Court of Public Opinion, the media deviously excises the Declaration’s “Creator” and the conclusion of the document, which identifies the “Creator” as also the future “Supreme Judge of the world.”

Apparently, Americans haven’t noticed that by denying the reality of the Creator-God on which American freedom was authorized, the license for American freedom-from-tyrannical-government has been quietly shifted from God to the tyrannical government that the Declaration specifically rebelled against.

How ironic that the Constitution’s major protection from government tyranny has been secretly stolen by the nullification of the most famous line of its older sibling, the Declaration? Government Media censorship has erased Constitutional freedom of speech, substituting in its place Orwellian political correctness and hate speech laws. The idea that Americans “are endowed by their Creator with certain…Rights, including Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” has been rendered as antiquated as chamber pots.

The belief in the Creator of the Bible and His providential superintendence of history was the spiritual foundation for the Declaration and the American Revolution. Without a confident belief in a Creator, who responds to prayer and providentially rewards the righteous and condemns tyrants, there would have been no American Revolution. It is no accident that America grew into History’s Great Nation on the clock of the belief that America was God’s Creation. And neither is it mere coincidence that on the clock of America’s militant atheist era, history’s “last best hope” is in a tailspin en route to an apocalyptic crash.

On this anniversary of the Declaration, Americans are wondering if “the last best hope” can survive this diabolical tyranny.  Isn’t it time for Americans to awaken from the TV-numbing of their souls to admit it’s their fault? Americans, including Christian leaders, have been the enablers of the suffering under the tyranny Penn forecast.

By rejecting God, America has elected tyrants. Today’s zombie-like acceptance of tyranny is made even more insane and horrifying by the gleeful election of arrogant tyrants that media-brainwashed Americans believe are Saviors.

Nothing showcases the pathetically lukewarm state of American Christianity on the 240th anniversary of the Declaration better than the apocalyptic 2016 presidential campaign. In my view, the final candidates chosen by Americans appear to have the arrogant, dictatorial personalities and oppressive programs of tyrants. They are clear signs that the most Christian nation of the modern world is on life support. They may be the enablers of the resurrection of the tyranny that was cast out during the American Revolution 240-some years ago.

We are living with the very scenario the founding fathers feared and worked so hard to prevent.

One of these potential despots will be elected just before Thanksgiving when we express gratitude to the Creator-God-of-the-Declaration for His extraordinarily generous blessings on History’s Super Nation. As Americans once knew, it was God—not great men—who has the ability to make America great. Only God can save America. But God is watching His people. And, perhaps we can now understand why Christ “vomits out” the apathetic Laodicean church in Revelation 3:16. The last state of Christ’s Church is as sickening to Christ as rotten fish. He has no choice but to puke it out. Lest you think this is a misapplication of The Bible to today’s reality, let’s look at how the next verse describes 2016 American Christianity perfectly: “You say, ‘I am rich. I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.”

American evangelicals bizarrely rejected the only presidential candidate who is in a spiritual genealogy with the evangelical founding fathers who produced the Declaration of Independence. Ted Cruz was the only candidate who would call on the providential help of the Declaration’s “Creator”—who created not just the world, but also America. He was the only candidate who was like the great figures of the Republican Party, Lincoln and Reagan. He was the only candidate that appeared capable—by cooperating with God—of helping to stop America from crashing to the ground like the World Trade Center.

America’s Founders Were “Good People”

Americans today have forgotten what the American Revolutionaries knew. Around the time of the Revolution, English author Edmund Burke wrote that once famous line, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” What are “good men?” The second to last paragraph of the Declaration calls revolution against tyranny on “the Authority of the good People of these Colonies.” What? Did the founders not know that Jesus said there are no “good men,” that only God is good? They knew. The founders used the term “good People” referring to the Christian Center of the Revolution. The Bible informs us that true Christians have been made “good,” i.e., righteous, in their Creator’s eyes by electing His Son as their King. In doing that, people acknowledge that they are not good enough to stand in eternity before “the Supreme Judge of the world.” They understood their great need for and acceptance of God’s Son’s sacrificial payment on the cross for their sins.

Did you know most of the American colonists did not support America’s Revolution? Only a third, mostly Christian products of a Bible-shaped culture, did support the War for Independence. Virtually every one of the founders was a Christian, but the large majority were evangelicals. Let’s remember that the American Revolution began in America’s original Bible Belt, Puritan Massachusetts. The “shot heard around the world” was fired by the Redcoats against a group of churchmen led by their pastor in Lexington. America was established in ultra-evangelical Philadelphia named for the Christ-praised church in the book of Revelation. Just as at the time of the American Revolution, it was true Christians who helped the Creator create History’s Great Nation, it is today last call for Authentic Christians to help God save America.

Will the children and grandchildren of today’s media-anesthetized Americans end up as their parents’ accusers when they suffer the horrible consequences of their parents’ foolish decisions that caused America to crash? There’s still time to wake up!

This essay is an exclusive to the Nordskog Publisher’s Corner and The Bell Ringer. Paul Warren is a descendent of a Revolutionary war soldier and of people, on both sides of his family, who heard the Declaration of Independence being read in Pennsylvania. He is a veteran Boston journalist.

© 2016 by Paul Warren

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