Seven Themes in Micah's Vine & Fig Tree Prophecy

How a  Vine & Fig Tree World "Really" Works

Q.4: What are you promoting in place of "archism?"

A: Liberty Under God.

Liberty Under God
vs.
“Security” Under Archists

In a nutshell:

Liberty Under God

Liberty Under God is the philosophy that made America
the most prosperous and most admired nation in history.
America is now bankrupt and despised even by former admirers
because we have abandoned Liberty Under God
in favor of "Security Under Man"

By "Liberty" I mean

Freedom from Archists  (burglars, "the Red Coats," etc.)

By "Under God" I do not mean

the god of Osama bin Ladin.

• I mean the God of Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and America's Founding Fathers:
  • James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," would say that Osama bin Ladin's religion is a "false religion." (Happily, not all Muslims share Osama's religion.)
  • I mean the True Religion.
• I mean Jesus Christ
  • I apply Christianity
    • personally, pledging my allegiance to Jesus.
    • nationally, acknowledging that America was once a Christian nation;
    • globally, working to fulfill Christ's "Great Commission" to make every nation a Christian nation.

Q.5: "Wait a minute . . . . Aren't you illegally mixing politics and religion?"

The modern idea of "Separation of Church and State" is an evil lie. While the modern Supreme Court declares that America is a "secular" nation, for the first 100 years after the Constitution was ratified, the Supreme Court frequently acknowledged that America was a Christian nation. And the more consistently America was Christian, the less archist America was.

On May 2, 1778, George Washington ordered the troops:

The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. The signal instances of providential goodness which we have experienced, and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
— George Washington, General Orders, May 2, 1778 The Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol. XI:342-343.

You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.
The Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol 15, p.55.

George Washington to New Hampshire Founding Father Meshech Weare, June 8, 1783:

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.
 a Circular Letter of Farewell to the Continental Army, containing "my final blessing to that Country, in whose service I have spent the prime of my life."
Inscribed on a bronze tablet adjoining the Washington pew in St. Paul's chapel in New York City.

Can we know for sure who is the Divine Author of our blessed Religion? Could it have been Muhammad? On July 9, 1812, President James Madison proclaimed a day of prayer,

to be set apart for the devout purposes of rendering the Sovereign of the Universe and the Benefactor of Mankind the public homage due to His holy attributes; of acknowledging the transgressions which might justly provoke the manifestations of His divine displeasure; of seeking His merciful forgiveness and His assistance in the great duties of repentance and amendment, that He would inspire all nations with a love of justice and of concord and with a reverence for the unerring precept of our holy religion to do to others as they would require that others should do to them.

"Our religion" is Christianity.

If elected I will follow James Madison's advice to vote against any bill which does not promote Christianity, the "true religion." In one of his most famous speeches, Madison, the "father of the Constitution," gave his reasons for opposing proposed legislation:

Because, the policy of the bill is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity. The first wish of those who enjoy this precious gift, ought to be that it may be imparted to the whole race of mankind. Compare the number of those who have as yet received it with the number still remaining under the dominion of false Religions; and how small is the former! Does the policy of the Bill tend to lessen the disproportion? No; it at once discourages those who are strangers to the light of (revelation) from coming into the Region of it; and countenances, by example the nations who continue in darkness, in shutting out those who might convey it to them. Instead of levelling as far as possible, every obstacle to the victorious progress of truth, the Bill with an ignoble and unchristian timidity would circumscribe it, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.

The Disciples were given a "Great Commission":

During the first 100 years after the Constitution was ratified, courts -- including the Supreme Court of the United States -- repeated on numerous occasions that America was a Christian nation, including the notable 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States. Only someone ignorant of the facts or with a secularist agenda would ever say that America was not originally a Christian nation.

But Washington D.C. does not always act consistently with "the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion" -- to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and to not be like "the kings of the Gentiles." America has never been 100% consistent with "the religion of Jesus Christ." Of all the political parties, I think the precepts of the True Religion are best reflected by the Pledge required of all members of the Libertarian Party:

1. I do not believe in or advocate
   the initiation of force
   as a means of achieving political or social goals.

• no theft -- even if it's called "taxation" or "revenue enhancement."
• no kidnapping -- even if it's called "conscription" or "imprisonment"
• no murder -- even if it's called a "bold foreign policy" or "capital punishment"

Beyond the initiation of force, the religion of Jesus Christ prohibits the return of force:

2. I do not believe in the return of force -- no retaliatory, punitive vengeance

• Returning Force Against Private Force
  • Love your enemy
  • "Turn the other cheek
  • be defrauded rather than sue (1 Corinthians 6)
  • Do not return evil for evil; overcome evil with good (Romans 12; more)
• Returning Force Against Government Force
  • Go the Second Mile
  • suffer persecution
  • martyr, no revolutionary
  • Did Jesus Practice "self-defense?" Yes, but not by armed revolution
    • Jesus said, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But actually My Kingdom is not from hence."
      John 18:36
• The Myth of "Self-Defense"
  • Christians seek to prevent evil from occurring.
  • There are ways to defend yourself against aggression;
    that is, to prevent an act of aggression from happening.
    • Lock the door
    • Use a shield
    • Run away.
  • But once the act of aggression has taken place
       and you have been aggressed against,
       then initiating a second act of aggression against the aggressor is not "self-defense."
    You're no longer defending yourself,
       you're on the offense;
       you're taking vengeance.
       You're not preventing violence, you're adding to the world's violence.
  • The myth of personal self-defense
  • The myth of "National Defense"
• Reconciliation through Repentance, Not Vengeance or "punishment"
  • Goal + Process = repentance and reconciliation
    • Matthew 18:15ff - The Church as Dispute Resolution Organization
  • Competing Free Market Institutions of Systematic, Reconciliation and Restitution
    • Free Market Dispute Resolution Agencies
  • Do not return evil for evil; overcome evil with good (Romans 12; more)
    Do not return force for force, but return incentives to reconcile for force.
  • Archists (in their hearts) will pretend to not be archists (in society).

3. Private Property - Individualism, not collectivism

• No compulsory redistribution of wealth.
• not socialism
• not fascism
• not crony capitalism
• not democracy
• The "Vine & Fig Tree" society, not the New World Order
• List of ways politicians steal private property
• The rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are also threatened by archists.
• Unregulated private action - the exercise of divine callings using private property -- increases mankind's standard of living more than archists.

4. Order, not chaos/disorder

• "Let all things be done decently and in order"
• throughout society, not just in your home or church
• Liberty is the mother of order; archism is the father of chaos.
• America's Founding Fathers would say America today is chaotic and disordered, even though we have archists which are a thousand times more numerous and more powerful than the "swarms" of archists who plagued America in 1776.
• Archists are the greatest source of disorder and instability in our world today.
• Education:
  • The Founders insisted that the primary purpose of public education was to teach religion and morality, because order is maintained by religion and morality, not by archism.
  • Archists in Washington D.C. have prohibited local public schools from teaching students that the Declaration of Independence is really true
  • Archists are at war with "our holy religion" and with Christian morality
• Economics:
  • Archists cause economic recessions/depressions, the "boom-bust" of the "business cycle," and economic disorder; compounded by archist confiscation and redistribution of wealth known as "bailouts." Archists are an obstacle to the economic stability and predictability needed for long-term investment.
• International Relations:
  • Archists destabilize and overthrow competing archists on a far greater scale than so-called "anarchists."
    • The government of Iran was overthrown in 1953 by U.S. and British Intelligence, which led to the Iranian Revolution, then U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran..
    • The International Islamic Jihad from Afghanistan to Kosovo to the U.S. was created with American dollars beginning before the Carter Administration to destabilize and overthrow the Soviet Union, including the building of Mosques throughout Eurasia and printing of Korans with Wahabbi notes. "America Made Islam"
    • The CIA in Indonesia, 1965-1967
    • CIA destabilizes Guatemalan government Guatemala in 1954, and other governments in Latin America
  • Would Jesus Celebrate Archist Warmakers' Day?

5. God's Law, not Man's Law

We have been trained to think of "anarchy" as a situation where every man is his own god. But if Jesus is Lord, then we ought to obey His command not to be "archists." A world without archists is a world of peace, cooperation, harmony, and Free Markets, with everyone dwelling safely under his own "Vine & Fig Tree."

• "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"
• Theocracy - but not imposed by archism
• The Christian Religion
• The Religion of Secular Humanism brings genocide
• King Jesus requires "works of mercy" | Works of Mercy audio

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