We Americans have been blessed to live our lives in this Republic that is founded on laws, not the whims of men. This “society of laws” is guaranteed by our Constitution, perhaps one of history’s grandest, most unique documents.
But we are witnessing a continuous erosion of the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. As our leaders display less regard for the authority of the founding document, our society suffers.
This administration has shown that it values its own ideology above the US Constitution. Charged with upholding the nation’s laws, it has willfully refused to enforce or defend those laws on more than one occasion. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to defend the “Defense of Marriage Act,” refused to prosecute the New Black Panthers for blatant voter intimidation, and turned a blind eye to “Operation Fast and Furious.”
The administration refuses to enforce existing immigration law and sued those states who did. It illegally engaged in military adventures without the concurrence of Congress. It charged in to bail out corporations, took ownership stakes, and saw to it that its union cronies were rewarded before secured creditors. It even forcibly passed an omnibus healthcare program that broke all convention to force all citizens to purchase a product — legislation that will almost certainly be declared unconstitutional next year.
It has consistently circumvented the other branches of the federal government by taking actions administratively that have been forbidden by the courts or the Congress. And those are just some of the things we know about!
So, if the very ones charged by the Constitution with upholding the law are themselves engaged in lawlessness, what does that portend for the rest of our society? And for our future?
The latest example of the administration’s refusal to uphold the law involves the State Department. US law requires that the place of birth for any US citizen born in Jerusalem be listed in his or her passport as “Jerusalem, Israel.” The State Department, which issues American passports, ignores that law and, instead, lists the place of birth as simply “Jerusalem.” No mention of Israel.
Could the motive be any more obvious? The Muslims and Palestinians do not want Jerusalem to be identified as part of Israel. And since the administration is obsessed with pleasing the Muslims and Palestinians, but couldn’t care less about what the Jews and Israelis want, they refuse to obey the law. Not only does this demonstrate a disdain for our entire system of law, but it illustrates the administration’s anti-Israel bias.
The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear a case involving this issue. As a result, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now has to defend her refusal to uphold a law that she voted FOR when she was a senator from New York.
The Bible predicts that between man’s “sin nature” and Satan’s desire to “kill and destroy” God’s creation, lawlessness will one day engulf the world. In fact, it predicts that the world will be completely controlled by a person it describes precisely as the “lawless one” — the Antichrist. The only thing that prevents that from happening today is the presence in the world of the “restrainer of lawlessness” — the Holy Spirit.
But someday soon, God the Father will decide that the world has finally chosen “lawlessness” and He will remove the Restrainer. And since the Restrainer indwells all true believers, that means He can only be removed if WE are removed from this earth. That’s what we refer to as “the Rapture.” Don’t miss that escape. Trust me, you do not want to be on this earth when lawlessness reigns.
from The Hal Lindsey Report – October 21, 2011
