Wednesday, December 27, 2023

ALL THINGS BUILT ON GOD

 

OUR FOUNDATIONS: CONSTITUTIONS 

There is a ‘constitution’ for all free enterprises. For the revolutionaries in the American colonies, it was the ‘Articles of Confederation’ and when that proved too weak to have a union of the thirteen states, in 1787 the United States Constitution was written, amended, and signed by the member states. The reason being, from the Preamble to it, is the following: 

 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The constitution was for everybody… “We the People,” not of the entire world, but of the “United States.” The first words of the Preamble are that the government is for the people, not the people for the government. The Constitution was not for the elite, but the common people. It would not be a kingship, a dictatorship, nor an oligarchy, wherein the powerful few dictate many repressive laws for those considered ‘lesser.’

The purpose of the Constitution was for “Order” in contrast to the chaos that had been there under both the English Parliament and the colonial Articles of Confederation. The latter was a great attempt at a strong Constitution, but it had created a loose association of the states with each state merely a state within a state, much like the Holy Roman Empire which Voltaire described in this way, “The Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” The same applied to the colonial states.

‘Order’ was the key word. Order is a planned, a working system, not a haphazard set of afterthoughts. Order is reasonable and logical.

Before the Constitution was signed, amendments were added and included in the original document. The amendments guaranteed liberty. An amendment was included to guarantee order — the right to bear arms against those who would jeopardize our liberty which was the very reason for the revolution.

The right to bear arms: guns, swords, knives, explosives, and such was used in the Revolution and would be allowed if anyone should attempt to forcefully change the Constitution.

The colonial Congress wrote in 1776 the purpose of the Declaration of Independence; to “declare the causes which impel them to the separation;” 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 Therein is again the word, ‘people’ — “the governed” who should have the “Right of the People” to establish their own destiny. The second amendment — to bear arms — is the only way to enforce liberty, or freedom to live and to be happy and content.

The people had before bore arms to gain freedom and must have those same arms to retain freedom. So long as the Constitution stands, the only recourse the elite have is deception.

Even the Supreme Court of the United States has no armies to enforce their judgments. The military has a Commander in Chief, and they are obligated to follow him or her regardless of their abilities or sanity. Another amendment was added much later. The Commander in Chief can no longer be a madman thanks to the 25th Amendment (Section four): 

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

 ‘Unable’ is very general, although it implies derangement, senility, death, sedition, ineffectiveness, and so forth. It seems that the Vice-President has the role of a new duty: ‘Psychiatrist General of the United States.’  

The word ‘unable’ could also include those who are controlled by others: the bureaucracy, the media, the UN, the WEF, enemies of the States… both foreign and domestic, and even the very wealthy. All, or even one, of those inabilities is reasonable cause for the VP to begin the process of replacement.

Dictators are usually crazy people. Their underlings, generals, and cabinet officials may be as crazy as their leader. There is no safety valve if both the president and his vice-president are both crazy, or otherwise incapable of running our government.  A nation run by the members of the asylum is as chaotic as an insane asylum itself. (As a sidebar, it seems that the Democrat Party is the ‘asylum’ and now the U.S. government is run by its ‘inmates.’ Even those who are to defend us have gone crazy. The ‘state’ of the union is now chaos, and claiming otherwise would be as insane.)

However, this is meant to be much more than political analysis.

That’s the state of the government, but also the ‘State of the Spirit’ of the people. Because of too much liberty, the nation and much of the world has gone crazy with liberty.

Just like Satan himself sneaked into the Kingdom of God, he struck again in the same manner in the United States. The ‘Preamble’ to our Constitution differs to the Preamble to God’s.

How did Satan sneak into the Constitution of the United States? With the statement, “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

A ‘blessing’ is a religious consecration (Merriam-Webster 2023). Rather than a blessing from God, clearly the blessings derive from ‘Liberty.’

That seems like a good thing, but liberty can be taken to the extremes, and it has been since the beginning of time.  The government idea of personal liberty is, “the freedom of the individual to do as he pleases limited only by the authority of politically organized society to regulate his action to secure the public health, safety, or morals or of other recognized social interests” (ibid).

Too much of any good thing can be bad for us with only one exception; God is the ‘Good Thing’ and there can never be too much God. The nature of man since original sin is a ‘God Deficiency’ and too little God is coming “short of the Glory of God” (Rom 3:23). With that state of depravity, “In those days” when there were many gods in Israel, “there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud 17:6).

Liberty is a good thing but too much liberty is chaotic. Of the many gods, then and now, among them are each person. Even Christians essentially write their own state of their union with God wherein anything goes. As the Church goes, so goes the nation. Why is our nation in chaos? Because each of the people of our nation is a ‘god’ in their own eyes.

Note that Libertas became the god of the French in the First French Republic, then they planted their goddess in our harbor. Miss Liberty has become the god of all who enter our nation.

Remember the poison of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? It is deception — failing to recognize just what is good and what is evil.

Liberty is a good thing and with free will, God gave us liberty. Too much of the good thing was an evil thing. The persona of Liberty is doublemindedness. Liberty to most of us is doing what is right under the Law. The Law, both civil and moral, is not to imprison but to preserve. Everyone doing as they please seems good, but many will infringe on the liberty of others — not to be infringed upon.

Protests are a good thing if done under the confines of law. If the law of the land is ignored, then the result is chaos. Over the years, our country has gone from civil to chaotic as liberty is given to an elect few to do as they please, all the while infringing on the liberty of others.

Chaos is the beginning of any process. Order comes about by intelligence, used wisely; to improve upon disorder.

The American colonies, for instance, was disorderly, with each colony pursuing their own interests without much regard for the other colonies. The first government had a ‘Constitution’ that were ‘Articles of Confederation.’ It was the first attempt by Americans to create an orderly New World. The confederation of colonies were allies, in much the same manner as NATO is today. What could go wrong? About everything, but it was indeed some order from chaos.

The colonies came into existence by exploration of the new world. The adventurers overcame the new world because each indigenous tribe were each their own separate nation with at most alliances.

The adventurers began the adventure in the same manner as the Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and others that divided the new world into pieces. The present United States was once an amalgam of foreign territories that were divided. Each sought the territories of the others and wars ensued. These American colonies were much like tribute payers to the “Caesar” and his ‘senate’ in England. Britain had become an empire much like in Roman times in the Mediterranean.

The Roman Empire had fallen centuries before. Britain emerged from the heap of ashes first. Britain chipped off the edge of Rome and chaos began all over again, as one by one, each former Roman Colony became independent kingdoms.

Realms with kings became somewhat orderly again, and soon a new Roman Empire, made mostly of Germans and their conquests, emerged from the ashes of Rome. They too had their Caesars and Pontifica Maximus — the popes.

There was no pope nor king in colonial America. They were mostly independent of their mother country, except for their abuses and taxation. Distance made them somewhat independent before their independence.

King George was, in the beginning, a just but lax figure. It was the English Parliament that was the ‘master’ of the colonies. To many Americans, Parliament was no more than ‘parasites’ in their glorious hair that needed to be brushed off, and when that failed, eradicated.

After several years of war and disharmony with their weak alliances, the Americans united in a federal union. To make a more perfect union, they decided on one Constitution. “It is from Latin constitutus, the past participle of constituere, meaning ‘to set up’” (Merriam-Webster 2023). Think of any constitution as a cement-like compound that must be set up over some period, to be strong and loadbearing.  It is never wise to stress concrete before it is cured.

The curing time for the U.S. Constitution was from 1787 to 1860 when the load exceeded the compressive strength of the Constitution, and like concrete, the lower edge broke off because it was obvious that with all the compromise, it had not cured.

The Civil War, not so civil, was a compression test. The nation failed and it was weakness in the Constitution that made it fail. To strengthen the Union, more ‘Concrete” was added to replace what had been broken. Since that time, the amended Constitution needs patching when any crack ensues. Not just the majority must agree that a ‘patch’ is needed, but 2/3 of the States must agree that a patch is even needed.

One patch cannot be placed over the original Concrete. It must be bonded in a manner that it appears to be the same concrete as before.

Benjamin Franklin said to a Mrs. Johnson when queried about our type of Constitution, “It is a republic… if we can keep it.”

Republics had proven to be mere ‘pavements.’ At the time of the original Constitution, the way was paved, but it had yet to be tested. Growth strained relations between member states. That gave way and the Republic crumbled like asphalt into two distinct pieces with some even wondering where they would fit in.

The Civil War created the ‘Union’ for there had never been a union of states before. The Constitution was weak, and out of the ashes of War, a new way was paved in America. For over one-hundred years, the Republic was in union and fairly strong. Then, when it all seemed to be well, there came a wise man (Abraham Lincoln) showed the world the cracks in the United States, rather than fix them, a majority desired to tear down to build back better.

Why all the history of our nation? Because this nation, like many before ours, had a purpose. For instance, Assyria was created to test Israel’s northern kingdom and they dissolved. That kingdom was ‘patched’ by bringing Cuthites from Mesopotamia in BC 500. Rather than Yahweh, their god was Nergal.

Essentially, after the diaspora and the replacement there were two ‘Israel’s’ — Samaria to the north with their own ‘constitution’ and Judah to the south with their ‘constitution.’ For the former, Mount Zion was their base to the south whereas Mount Gershom was to the north.

Both nations worshipped God but on different mountains with different priests. Yahweh was considered the God of peace at the ‘Foundation of Peace’ (Jerusalem) compared to Nergal, the ‘god of war’ whose city was Samaria, the ‘Guardian’ place.

Just like the Federal and Confederate America’s, built on one foundation, there were two Israel’s built on one foundation. Both nations were built on God in both places. The problem is that a ‘Nergal’ stepped in, hoping to repair what was broken in both Israel and America.

A ‘Constitution’ is what any existence is founded upon.

The constitution of mankind is the Image of God — the souls of men: “God created man in his own Image, in the Image of God created He him; male and female created He them (Gen 1:27)… then “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). Therefore, the human soul is the constitution, or foundation, of mankind and the ground became the structure built on that foundation.

The foundation, or soul, is immortal but the structure continues to ‘rust’ away. It was made for a perfect environment and economy, but in the world, it perishes. Even so, the soul never dies!

In the end, it is the soul that is saved on which to build a new structure, just as the foundation of the temples in Jerusalem was the foundation of Judaism in Judah, the Samaritans had an entirely different foundation that was destroyed, not to be replaced, by John Hyrcanus, the High Priest of Yahweh, in BC 128.

In like manner, Richmond Viriginia suffered the same outcome, never to be replaced, but for the America’s it was a reversal; it was our South whose confederate foundation was destroyed, never to be replaced.

Samaria and the American South were both destroyed by wars, but the foundation of both remains quite alive in its people. Just as the souls of people never die, neither do the souls of nations.

For instance, Rome was destroyed, and so they thought its soul was as well, and for a time Rome was revived when the Holy Roman Empire arose from its ashes.

Even Holy Rome has perished but its ‘soul’ survives in the heart of Rome; the Vatican is the soul of Rome and Romanism, and many believe that Rome will live again during the apocalypse.

It must be remembered that Rome was not just a great city, and the foundation of civil government, but of the Christian religion; but it is just the ‘heart!’

Rome extended from Britian to the Euphrates and beyond and from Egypt to Scythe. It was the ‘Promised Land’ and it will soon raise its head again in the end.

If Rome is the ‘heart’ of civilization, then Jerusalem (Zion) is its ‘belly.’ In fact, Zion is the belly of all civilizations, but its heart is migratory. Jerusalem is the foundation of peace, and ironically, the Foundation Stone beneath the Dome of the Rock is the ‘Navel of the World.’ It will always be so, and at the present the parasites on the body of civilization are eating away at its navel to erode the foundation.

Just as the Foundation Stone has been chipped away by adversaries of all ages, so it remains. The Muslims built a sanctuary to preserve the Foundation Stone, not because they had a use for it, but out of fear it would be the foundation stone of the third Hebrew Temple.

All those comparisons were presented to demonstrate that everyone and every thing has a ‘constitution.’ Just as Adam, before sin, was our ‘constitution,’ after sin, Eve became the constitution of so called, ‘mankind.’

Sin caused Adam’s kind to have their constitution modified, not by election nor democracy, but by deception (Gen 3:1; 13).

That we are ‘mankind’ is flattery; we must humble ourselves! We are ‘Eve’s kind’ as Adam named a new kind of being after she sinned: “Adam called his wife's name ‘Eve;’ because she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). Remember that Adam had named all the various kinds? 

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. (Gen 2:19)

 God made their constitutions as well — the different kinds, each very different from the other and of a totally different constitution than Adam!

As the ‘mother of all living,’ Eve became the genetic ‘Adam,’ and of the ground (Adam); both man and earth having the same Hebrew name. Hence, our modified constitution is of the wicked one. Rather than the Image of God (Selem) within anyone, everyone born comes short of that, having the image (nahas) of Lucifer, the Serpent, within us.

Our Image is our ‘constitution’ and sin changed it from righteous to unrighteous, even inglorious. Adam was made glorious, but Eve came far short of the Glory of God after she was beguiled — impregnated with guile — and the beastly child, Cain, was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

The Hebrew name, ‘Eve,’ means among other things, “to show” or “to reveal,” surely her new constitution. Some experts say that ‘Eve’ means ‘Serpent” and others that the name is a pointer toward her descriptor, ‘wife’ (‘Issa) — the ‘adulteress’ (Strong 2006). Note that Cain was not a man (Adam) but an (‘Is) — another “extant” being (ibid)… another existence was not that of man.

After sin, mankind was reconstituted. Lucifer perished the glorious foundation and replaced it with a serpentine-like one, and Cain became the new kind. Everyone has Cain as their foundation and our genetics are his. Cain is our ‘constitution,’ the revised edition whose author is Satan, so, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10). No, we are not glorious but come far short of the Glory of God (Rom 3:23).

David indicated that he was “shapened in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) and as mere sinners like David, we too are formed in iniquity. All of us are born depraved, and are brutish in our Constitution, just like the Beast whose kind we are born of within.

You have no power to change your constitution for indeed you were born decadent. Who can patch you until you are reconstituted? Only Jesus can do that; it is His Glorious genes in His Blood which is the “propitiation” for “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25), the sins of the female ‘Adam,’ subsequently called, ‘Eve.’

Your own constitution can be rebuilt in much the same manner as the Third Temple. Jesus can do that; He said, “Marvel not, you must be born again” (John 3:7). He will reconstitute you, using the same foundation as with Adam — your personal soul.

(Jews wait on the Third Temple to be built to prepare for the end, but the Body of God, Jesus, is the ‘Temple of God,’ so waiting is foolishness!)

Believers in Christ, “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9) is the saving of the your souls; your constitution is saved, the same one that God created before the foundation of the world (Ephes 1:4).

It was Adam’s kind that were chosen, not the other kinds, and certainly not Eve’s kind! To be saved is the salvation of the soul; it is your constitution that is preserved at death, just waiting on a new structure. At the resurrection, “the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor 15:52).

The resurrection is an erection of a new, glorious material substance upon our foundation — the soul that is the constitution of man — that was made like the Constitution of God. It was glorious as God is Glorious!

Just as the Holy Ghost of Jesus was the phantom of the man Jesus, when John baptized Jesus with the Holy Ghost, the Constitution of Jesus was imbued within Him in “bodily shape” as Luke wrote, (Luke 3:22). Hence, the constitution of a person is the shape of the person just as with Jesus. Who does the human soul resemble before reconstitution? The Serpent. Who does the soul resemble after reconstitution? The Holy Ghost of Jesus.

If after rebirth, your soul still resembles the devil, then you have not been reconstituted, or else Lucifer has again sneaked into your new life to create chaos. You may be safe, but you remain corruptible because incorruptibility comes after death.

The Serpent deceived Eve by convincing her that she could do as she pleased and her constitution would remain glorious. She ‘died’ when inwardly, she was changed and made corruptible. Her new foundation was unstable and soon it gave away to death, and her soul awaited on Jesus to do a re-genesis — a new beginning on her soul that was preserved by grace until the coming of the LORD GOD again… right back to the foundation stone at the ‘navel of the world.’

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), a personal ‘constitution’ is “the sum of an individual’s innate characteristics,” or more generally, “the basic psychological and physical makeup of an individual, due partly to heredity and partly to life experience and environmental factors.”

Your constitution is genetic but subject to modification due to your environment and experience. Strangely, that agrees with Holy Scripture. You are indeed, “born this way,” as Lady Gaga sings, but that way is decadent. Decadence is the constitution, but behavior is the Wicked One building a structure upon it. The world is the author of the structure, and the final composition is built on that faulty foundation.

Buildings will fall. Builders at one time built them to last. Foolishly some were built on faults and when the earthquakes came, they perished.

Even ancient concrete buildings of stone and cement still exist, but they too will fall. Man cannot build a foundation that is eternal, nor can they build nations that are eternal. However, if built on the LORD GOD, all things can be eternal. He is our Foundation Stone!

Speaking of New Jerusalem, it is a reconstitution of the ‘foundation of peace;’ it was seen and written about by John the Revelator: 

And the city had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon, to shine in it: for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. (Rev 21:23-25) 

The heaven and earth were the ‘structures’ on ‘The Constitution” in the beginning (Gen 1:1). They were built on God, and in the end, there will be a new Constitution.

“What kind of Constitution?” some will ask? “An eternal one,” so says God.

God created all things (John 1:1). 

"In the beginning He created the heaven and the earth." (Gen 1:1).

God is the Founder and Author of our Constitution, but while so many honor the signers to our Constitution, few honor the Author of our existences.



 

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