Harvard
President Samuel Langdon, in his address “Government Corrupted by
Vice,” May 31, 1775, referred to ancient Israel: “The
only form of government which had a proper claim to a divine
establishment, was so far from including the idea of a king, that it
was a high crime for Israel to ask to be in this respect like other
nations; and when they were thus gratified, it was rather as a just
punishment.”
This
is a warning to any republic, that if the consciousness of God is
removed and people yield to their unrestrained selfish passions and
lusts, there will be domestic chaos, random violence, mobs smashing
windows and looting in the streets.
In
this crisis, people will beg for a strong leader to restore order.
This leader will send militarized police down the street, who will go
house to house collecting all the guns.
Order
will indeed be restored, but when the dust settles, the people
will have given up ruling themselves and will have returned to being
ruled by a king.
Could
America be just one national domestic crisis away from fundamentally
being transformed from a republic into a dictatorship?
For
the American Republic to last, citizens must learn from the early
New England pastors, from ancient Israel, and return to the God of
the Bible.
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