I am sorry for the delay but I have been having some technical difficulties. Here is the continuation of the blog written by author Orrin Woodward. So here is part 5 of 5.

From dependency back again to bondage.

Eventually in our dependence, we see our status falling in the free world as slaves can never perform the functions of free men and women.  Although the government still mouths the words of our founding fathers, the words have new meanings.  The citizens cannot put a finger on the malady, but they know something is not right.  In their desperation, they look for a messiah to save them.  Because the Churches are not sharing the message of the true messiah and the true way to liberty, the citizens look for a worldly messiah.  A perceptive leader, with words that tickle the ears promises to be the searched for messiah.  With the republican form of government torn asunder and transformed into a nascent democracy – the powerful words and promises of deliverance speak directly to the masses.  A savior is born unto the people and salvation is just around the corner. 

A shocking truth is learned too late that man cannot save man and only Jesus Christ can liberate the soul in bondage.  A people held in bondage to sin can never be responsible to run a free government.  The people in bondage will look to the government the way Christians look to their Savior.  Government cannot be the savior to the people and was never intended to be so when created by our Founding Families.  America’s national debt is now over $10 trillion and to service the debt on the interest is over $450 billion per year.  This makes interest on debt the 3rd biggest item on our governments budget!   We are bankrupting our children’s inheritance on the altar of self indulgence!  Ben Franklin said after the creation of our Constitution when asked what type of government was created, “A republic, if you can keep it.”   A republic was formed to keep the masses from directly running the government and voting the government into bankruptcy.  How far have we traveled from our founding principles and roots? 

I did not write this to scare people into inactivity, but to awaken our consciences to the choices that face us.  We do not have to complete this cycle and just as Ronald Reagan interrupted the cycle, we can too!  Will it take convictions and guts? Yes, but a Godly people that have studied the truth of our founding principles will not be swayed by the promises of an almighty government.   Examine yourself.  Where do you stand at this historic time?

Let me close with one of my brothers favorite authors.  The science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein called this issue “Bread and Circuses” - a reference to Roman Emperors providing food and entertainment to distract the masses.  In “To Sail beyond the Sunset” the character Lazarus Long discusses this problem:

“A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally has no internal feedback for self correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens…which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it…which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses’

“Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader–the barbarians enter Rome.”

Where do you think America is on the cycle and what do you think we must do to address and fix?  I will close this article with the Biblical passage from Hosea 4:6-10, which I believe captures the crossroads where America stands.  I will address proposed solutions in several future articles.  God Bless, Orrin Woodward

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.  Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. 7 “ The more they increased, The more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of My people; They set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And it shall be: like people, like priest. So I will punish them for their ways, And reward them for their deeds. 10 For they shall eat, but not have enough; They shall commit harlotry, but not increase; Because they have ceased obeying the LORD.