Heaven Is Our Destination Where We Will Be ONE With The Lord Forever

Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!
Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!
Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

WHAT IS REAL CONSERVATISM?

THE COMMON CONSTITUTIONALIST

WHAT IS REAL CONSERVATISM?

Exclusive: Brent Smith offers 8 principles he wishes government would abide by

Many or us, like me, refer to ourselves as conservatives. And that means something – something different to almost everyone. Ask a dozen people what a conservative is, and you’ll get a dozen varied answers.
This is why it’s really not proper to just call oneself a conservative
Because everything these days seems to boil down to politics, the term conservative invariably evokes an emotional response, much like the term liberal, or progressive.
But if we strip away the politics, a conservative is just one who wishes to conserve, or preserve. Conservative is broadly defined as one who is disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, or to limit change.
So we see that the term conservative is much too broad. By using this broad-brush definition, one could say that many of today’s radical left-wing groups are conservative, as they wish to restore the radical traditions of the 1960s, or even Soviet-style communism. We could accurately claim this of any person or group that desires a return to long-lost traditions – good or bad.
For it to be properly or more precisely defined as we “conservatives” wish, the word must therefore be bound or affixed to another – a prefix, suffix, or adjective, such as constitutional, originalist, fiscal, or social.
So which one is most appropriate? I suppose it depends on who you ask and how they wish to define themselves.
We’ve all heard people describe themselves as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. For the average Joe or Jolene, this may be adequate, but it doesn’t work within the political spectrum. 

It simply can’t.
A politician can’t separate social policy from fiscal policy, as they are intertwined. 
Setting fiscal policy will always have some sort of social component. Take, for example, the great debate over whether to stop government funding of Planned Parenthood. 
That’s a social policy measure that also has a fiscal component, or vice versa, depending on one’s motivation. 
For this reason, many conservatives, myself included, think these descriptors are just a dodge or cop-out by slick politicians.
For many of us, the default descriptor is “constitutional conservative.” Yet there is a problem with even this seemingly proper adjective. It doesn’t tell the story adequately, as the Constitution is merely a framework of governance.
Therefore, the term “originalist” is a better descriptor than “constitutionalist” for some conservatives. It is understood, at least to those with knowledge of America’s founding, to describe not just that which pertains to the governance of our nation, but also the intent of the founders – their societal, moral and religious code, their vision for our nation – not just a framework of governance.
This simple code, which is laid out in the Ten Commandments, transcends any era and the Constitution. And apart from the first four, even a good-hearted yet avowed atheist would agree that these Commandments should be the pillars of a properly ordered life and properly ordered society.
5: Honor thy father and mother
6: Thou shalt not kill
7: Thou shalt not commit adultery
8: Thou shalt not steal
9: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
10: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods
Add to this, two other simply principles. 
The Golden Rule, to treat others as you would like to be treated, and Jefferson’s rule: “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. If it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg, what difference is it to me?” 
Who couldn’t or wouldn’t agree that this is a foundation of a pretty good ordering of one’s life and society?
This is what it means to be an originalist conservative. 
Originalist conservatism is not merely a political ideology, but an ideology of self.
John Adams, in a speech to the military in 1798, warned that, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. … 
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first dictionary stated: 
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. … All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
This of course doesn’t mean, and our founders certainly didn’t mean, that everyone had to convert to Christianity to be welcomed in America. They were actually quite accepting of other faiths. After all – they knew a bit about being persecuted.
The bottom line is: 
If we throw out all the labels and identifiers like conservative, liberal, progressive, Republican, Democrat, etc., and just started living our lives and asking our government to abide by these eight simply principles, we’d all be a lot better off.
At the end of the day, I think that’s a bit more important than how we label ourselves.
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/what-is-real-conservatism/#HehE7vxsCWOKxwsy.99

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