America is quickly becoming a Socialistic nation. This is heart-breaking! Our beloved nation was built upon the principles of people who wanted freedom. They believed in freedom of religion, freedom to work and pursue happiness, and freedom 'from' an oppressive government. Times are changing however.
The downward spiral of our financial environment has played into the hands of socialistic ideas. With the freedom of opportunity comes the risks of failure. As a nation we are under no obligation to bail out institutions that fail. The problem is, we have waited too long, so long that we have allowed the big companies to buyout the smaller institutions. These monopolies, many of them, have fallen prey to greed and from extending themselves beyond their capital base. Now, the government has stepped in and is attempting to be the savior of all these failing businesses and banks.
Our government has just put more and more debt on future generations under the name of 'stimulus packages'. As a nation, we are 13 Trillion dollars in debt already. Talk about needing a bailout! Understand that a trillion dollars would be like making a million dollars a day (365 days a year) beginning at the birth of Jesus and extending 700 years from now. We can never repay this! Let me tell you what we are doing.
We are setting up our nation to fall in line with a one world government! Without socialism, we could go forward as a free enterprise nation. With the financial impossibility, we are just like many other nations around the world. We await someone with the answer. The Bible tells us that man of perdition will be revealed. The world will embrace him, our beloved nation will also. We value our dollars, our businesses, our fine lifestyles more than we value principles.
I conclude by telling you to watch us become more and more socialistic. Listening to the news this evening I couldn't believe my ears when I heard them talking about 'Nationalistic Banking'. Do you realize that puts, not only the auto makers, educational centers, etc under the control of the government, but it now places our financial institutions under their power as well. Didn't I read where the anti-Christ will make it so that no man can buy or sell without taking his mark. Well how can he enforce this unless he has control of the banks? The pieces of the end of time are falling rapidly in place. I urge you to be prayerful, check your heart and be ready for the return of the Lord.
It is too bad our government is taking away from its people the rights that are the basis upon which our government was built. The government is to be for the people and by the people....not to limit and control the people. Such is Socialism.
T E
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Tim, I agree that these are trying times. Its hard to belive that just over 230 years ago our country was founded by men based on their faith in God. Our constitution was written with God at the center of the thoughts of our founding fathers. Seperation of church and state was not intented to keep the church out of our goverment, but rather to keep our goverment out of our churches. I am sure that our country was founded by God fearing people to keep our rights for success and failure to be what sets us apart from the rest of the world. To comment on what you had to say in your blog about what the bible has to say about what is happening today. As Christians we often we want to blame Judas for betraying Jesus, and the others who had a hand in the crusifixion but they had no choice !! It happened just the way that Jesus and the old testement predicted that it would. And I would like to add, Thank God that it did !! With that simple fact in mind , we need to look to our bible's for what is coming!! We need to study our lessons !! The bible has predicted much our our worlds history and now is no different. It is time like no other for us to put our faith in God and his word. To try harder than ever to live according to his word !! And to be sure that we keep in mind that our days are numbered. The end can come at any time. Either as individuals or as a whole !! We just dont know, and that should be enough to convince us that now more than ever we need to have our hearts right with God and his word. Our Grandparents lived thru the depression, our parents were born during the depression, and they have all lived to achieve success in their lives. We may not have that chance, or maybe I should say that we may not have that choice. What is happening in our world today may be the prophecy of God's word just as the end of Jesus' life as a man was. What I am trying to say is that our leaders may not have a choice. They may be full filling the prophecy. What ever is happening I am thankful for men like you to remind us what God's word tells us about the world we live in today !! Keep telling me what the word says!! We need to live each day like it is our last, and we need to make sure that God's word is in charge of our lives !! Dont get me wrong, I am not saying that we need to sit here and take whatever is handed to us . We need to continue to hold our leaders accountable for their actions. We need to vote in the elections . We need pray for our leaders always, and we need to pray that God's will be done in all things. Be thankful for our many blessings and know that our reward will be in Heaven.
I was reading on cnn.com in the last few days for a better understanding of this whole "stimulus package" mystery and there was a cnn quick vote about our finances and our Church(funny thing is that you can't get back to them to find the past votes or I would send you the link).
However, it was a vote that asked a question such as; would you seek financial advice from your Church? I clicked, yes and then it popped up with the current results.
Amazingly, the results were about 75% to 25% (in that range) and you guessed it, overwhelmingly people said no.
I remembered your comment during church last week about how everything we ever needed to know about financial responsibility was in our Bible.
Thank you for your leadership and guidance as we all struggle to make sense of the economy and continue to build our Church and lift up its members.
Bless you,
Teresa
Kent,
You are absolutely right! We must realize God is in control and continue to do our best and stand for what is right while we have our brief days on earth.
Bless you...see you at church.
Tim
Teresa,
Thanks for blogging. It is truly amazing how many people overlook the value of God's advice on money. Jesus spoke approx 500 verses on hell but more than 2000 verses on finances.
Have a blessed day.
Tim
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