Presentation 2
The Beginning of the End
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1 Tim 2:1-4
1 First, I tell you to pray
for all people, asking God
for what they need and
being thankful to him.
2 Pray for rulers and for
all who have authority so
that we can have quiet
and peaceful lives full of
worship and respect for
God. 3 This is good, and it
pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all people to
be saved and to know the
truth.
Do
you
pray
for your
country,
America?
2
“America is great because she is
good, and if America ever ceases to
be good, she will cease to be great.”
Psa. 9:17
The wicked
return to the
grave,
all the nations
that forget God.
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Ancient Civilizations
May 2009
Mayan
Egypt
Inca
Assyrian
Babylon
Persian
Job 12:23
[God] makes nations great,
and destroys them; he enlarges nations,
and disperses them.
Antarctica
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Great Nations
have passed
and now lay in
ruins
Assyrian
Babylon
Persia
Greece
Rome
Ottoman
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Great Nations
have passed
and now lay in
ruins
Is
America
exempt?
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Daniel Webster, 1903
“If we and our posterity
reject religious instruction
and authority, violate the
rules of eternal justice trifle
with the injunctions of
morality, and recklessly
destroy the political
constitution which holds us
together, no man can tell how
sudden a catastrophe may
Daniel Webster
overwhelm us that shall bury 2 term Congressman
all our glory in
profound obscurity.”
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In 1867 the North American Review summed up the
Founding Fathers’ accomplishment:
“The American
government and the
Constitution is the
most precious
possession which the
world holds, or which
the future can inherit.
This is true—true
because the
American system of
government is the
political expression
of Christian ideas.”
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“Not until I went into the
churches of America
and heard her pulpits
flame with
righteousness did I
understand the secret of
her genius and power.
The Americans combine
the notions of
Christianity and of
liberty so intimately in
their minds, that it is
impossible to make
them conceive of one
without the other.”
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A speaker from the esteemed Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences in Beijing said in a scheduled
lecture for tourists:
“One of the things we were
asked to look into was what
accounted for the success, in
fact, the pre-eminence of the
West all over the world.
At first, we thought the power of
the West was because you had
more powerful guns than we had.
Then we thought it was because
you had the best political system.
Next we focused on your
economic system.
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A speaker
from the esteemed Chinese Academy of
Jer 9:23-24
Social
Sciences
Beijing
said in
a scheduled
23 This
is whatinthe
Lord says:
"Let
not the wise man
boast
his wisdom or the strong man boast of his
lecture
foroftourists:
strength or the rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let
“One of the things we were
him who boasts boast about this: that he
asked
to look into
what
understands
andwas
knows
me, that I am the Lord, who
accounted
forkindness,
the success,
exercises
justiceinand righteousness on
fact,earth,
the pre-eminence
of the declares the Lord.
for in these I delight,"
West all over the world.
At first, we thought the power of
the West was because you had
more powerful guns than we had.
Then we thought it was because
you had the best political system.
Next we focused on your
economic system.
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“But in the past twenty years,
we have realized that the
heart of your culture is your
religion: Christianity. That is
why the West has been so
powerful. The Christian moral
foundation of social and
cultural life was what made
possible the emergence of
capitalism and then the
successful transition to
democratic politics.
We don’t have any doubt
about this.”
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‘Our laws and our institutions
1892
must necessarily be based upon
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and embody the teachings of
The Redeemer of mankind. It is U.S. Supreme
Court
impossible that it should be
otherwise; and in this sense and Church Holy Trinity vs. U.S.
to this extent our civilization and our institutions are
emphatically Christian [dicta]’ ... “this is a religious
people. This is historically true. From the discovery of
this continent to the present hour, there is a single
voice making this affirmation. [465]”... we find
everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth...
“These, and many other matters which might be
noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the
mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian
[471]
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“The First Amendment
has erected a wall
between church and
state. That wall must
be kept high and
impregnable. We
could not approve the
slightest breach.”
[Majority opinion in Emerson v.
Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1
(1947), last words]
U.S. Supreme
Court
Justice
Hugo Black
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“The First Amendment
has erected a wall
between church and
state. That wall must
be kept high and
impregnable. We
could not approve the
slightest breach.”
U.S. Supreme
Court
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.
[Majority opinion in Emerson v.
Justice
Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1
Hugo Black
(1947), last words]
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“wall of separation between church
and State”
U.S. Supreme
Court
Chain of Events:
1962: Engel v. Vitale school prayer outlawed
1963: Murray v. Curlett Bible-reading outlawed
1979: Florey v. Sioux Falls Schol District unconstitutional
for kindergarten class to ask whose birthday is
celebrated at Christmas
1980: Stone v. Graham Ten commandments outlawed
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
U.S. Supreme
“wall of separation between church
James Madison, author of Bill of Rights Court
and State”
4th US president, “Godfather of
Chain
of Events:
Constitution”
1962:
Engel
v. Vitale
school
outlawed
“We
have
staked
the whole
futureprayer
of American
1963: Murray
v. Curlett
Bible-reading
outlawed
civilization
not on
the power
of government.
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1979:
v. Sioux
ScholofDistrict
unconstitutional
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the future
all of our
kindergarten
class
to ask whose
politicalfor
institutions
upon the
capacity...
of eachbirthday is
celebrated
at Christmas
and all of
us to govern
ourselves... according to
1980:
v. Grahamof
Ten
commandments outlawed
the
TenStone
Commandments
God.”
“unconstitutional for the Ten Commandments to hang on the
walls of a classroom, since the students might be led to read
them, meditate upon them, respect them, or obey them.”
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“wall of separation between church
and State”
Chain of Events:
U.S. Supreme
Court
1962: Engel v. Vitale school prayer outlawed
1963: Murray v. Curlett Bible-reading outlawed
1979: Florey v. Sioux Falls Schol District unconstitutional
for kindergarten class to ask whose birthday is
celebrated at Christmas
1980: Stone v. Graham Ten commandments outlawed
1985: Wallace v. Jaffree unconstitutional for kindergarten
class to recite: “God is great. God is good….etc.”
1990: Roberts v. Madigan Christian books in classroom
library & teacher w/Bible in hand outlawed
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“wall of separation between church
and State”
U.S. Supreme
Court
Chain of Events:
1973 – Roe v Wade legalized abortion
2003 – FL Supreme Court granted girls
under 18 abortion w/o parental
consent
2003 – legalized sodomy in all 50 states
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The
Beginning
of
the
End
Rom 1:25-27
1947
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,
Everson
and worshiped
vs Board and
of Education
served created things
“wall
of separation
between
church
Supreme
rather
than the
Creator
— who isU.S.
forever
andpraised.
State” Amen.
Court
26 Because
of this, God gave them over to
Chain
of Events:
shameful
Even legalized
their womenabortion
exchanged
1973
– Roelusts.
v Wade
natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned
2003
– FL Supreme Court granted girls
natural relations with women and were
under
w/o parental
inflamed
with 18
lustabortion
for one another.
Men
consent
committed
indecent acts with other men, and
received in themselves the due penalty for
their–perversion.
2003
legalized sodomy in all 50 states
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1 Tim 2:1-4
1 First, I tell you to pray
for all people, asking God
for what they need and
being thankful to him.
2 Pray for rulers and for
all who have authority so
that we can have quiet
and peaceful lives full of
worship and respect for
God. 3 This is good, and it
pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all people to
be saved and to know the
truth.
Do
you
pray
for your
country,
America?
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