Half of America is absolutely giddy with excitement due to Donald Trump’s earth-shaking, paradigm-shifting ascension to the White House, from which he will administer over the reincarnation, rebuilding, and remaking of the United States, bringing peace, justice, and truth to the world after a calamitous headlong plunge into the pit of Hell by the soon-to-be-deposed administration of Biden/Harris.
The other half is absolutely sick with grief, despair, and certain that Armageddon has finally been reached despite decades of trying to avoid it at all costs while ushering in Utopia. At least they gave it their best shot! It’s the end of the world as they knew it. OMG! We’re doomed!!
This is the result of Trump/Harris. Switch the descriptions if Harris/Trump.
OK, so now we get to spend the next four years watching and waiting while Trump and his A-Team try to usher in their own version of Utopia via government rule. This prospect fills me with a sense of unease about the future. Now, I will admit that throwing around ideas like slashing $2 trillion from the budget sounds appealing and, in reality would be a wise thing to do, but the only way to do this is to eliminate federal departments and bureaucracies wholesale. With a meat cleaver, not a surgical scalpel. Unfortunately, Trump has proposed to create a new department and bureaucracy to get rid of the old ones and charged Musk and Ramaswamy with the task of making recommendations without giving them authority to actually make the cuts.
DOGE. Dept. of Government Efficiency. An oxymoron. A contradiction of terms. A facetious tribute to an earlier DOGE which was created as a joke and a farce, yet reached an astounding market cap of $80 billion.
Much wow wow, indeed.
Will Trump “save” America? Was he shot in the ear, buried, and resurrected victorious over his enemies? The answer to both questions depends on your perspective.
I remain skeptical. In fact, I believe that we haven’t seen the bottom of the iceberg yet, but as the ship of State is visibly sinking into the depths of cold, hard reality, we almost certainly will. With Trump at the wheel and millions upon millions of his followers playing musical chairs on the tilting decks, unwilling to face the truth of the matter.
America is going down. Of that, I have no doubt. We ain’t seen nothing yet. Four years from now, we will call these the Good Old Days.
“Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a [nation] sows, it will also reap.” — Galatians 6:7
“And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.” — 1 Samuel 8:18
Poor Roger's Almanac 
THE GOOD OLD DAYS means returning to pre-1787/88 and the adoption of the biblically seditious Constitution as the law of the land that officially commenced America’s suicidal trek to the precipice!
The constitutional framers’ sins were of both commission and omission. The framers’ sins of commission are evidenced in that there’s hardly an Article or Amendment in the Constitution that’s not antithetical, if not seditious, to Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality.
Their sins of commission aside, the framers’ sins of omission—that is, their failure to establish government and society based upon Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments—alone sent America to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently teeters on.
Ask the millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs if the constitutional framers’ failure to establish government on Exodus 21:22-23 and Deuteronomy 27:25 didn’t lead to their annihilation?
There’s not one national problem in America today—criminal civil “leaders,” government-financed in utero infanticide, sodomite “marriages,” Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples devoted to false gods dotting America’s landscape, international entanglements, America’s crumbling economy, runaway debt, and taxes on nearly everything, etc.—that cannot be traced back to the framers’ sins of omission.
“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)
For evidence that the Constitution itself is biblically seditious, see free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective,” in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible, at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Books page.
Find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the sidebar and receive a free copy of the 85-page “Primer” of “BL vs. USC.”
“I believe that we haven’t seen the bottom of the iceberg yet.”
This is so true. And, yes. God will not be mocked. Sadly, it is many who attend Christian churches on Sunday who are doing the mocking.
Ted,
Your comments, in my opinion, equate to the arguments of people who blame the Jews for everything and cannot get off the subject. Or those who figuratively “shove” the Bible down people’s throats in order to get them saved. And, yes, I have experience with both.
I am not amused. Therefore, let this be my warning to you. Either you couch your argument in reasonable discussion OR your comments will simply NOT be approved here.
My tolerance for your dogmatic insistence is at an end. Final answer.
Hi Roger,
Sorry you’ve been offended! Of course, it’s your page and your prerogative what gets posted and what doesn’t.
As for my persistence in addressing the Constitution as the genesis of America’s woes, you’re correct – I’m unapologetically dogged about it; but no more so than those who have been promoting it as the solution to problems it created.
Idols die hard! None more so than the Constitution. In Acts 19, we’re informed the Ephesians cried out for two hours “Great is Artemis of Ephesians!” Two solid hours! Well, America has been crying out “Great is the Constitution of the Americans!” for 230-PLUS YEARS! And with every year, America has found herself further along on her suicidal trek to the precipice.
People are waking up to what’s come from the biblically seditious Constitution, but the numbers are still miniscule compared to those still promoting the reason for America’s demise.
On February 27, 2009, James Dobson conceded that we have lost the culture wars. This is the consequence of Christians having spent the last two centuries lopping at the rotten branches of our culture’s corrupt tree while watering and fertilizing its roots.
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” (Henry David Thoreau)
We should lop away at the tree’s corrupt branches (infanticide, sodomy, the economy, etc.) every chance we get. However, until the root of these problems is biblically addressed, we will never shut down the infanticide mills, we will never defeat the sodomites, and we will never fix the economy. In short, we will never win the culture wars. This issue is more than important for anyone concerned about God, our nation, and the future of our posterity, it’s the cutting- edge issue of our day.
Thus, for the love of America, our people, and our posterity I will continue to both hack away at the treek’s corrupt branches while, at the same time, also doing everything I can to help cut down it’s tree at the roots.
And, of course, I leave it to you as to whether you see fit to post what my attempts to do so.
Better. I can handle this. FYI, I am not offended. I just want some moderation, if not in message, at least in tone and delivery. Conversation, not preaching.
As far as the Constitution is concerned, I agree that it has been made into an idol and needs to be scrapped. I follow the lead of Lysander Spooner on this matter. No treason! Whenever I hear someone arguing that we need to “return” to the Constitution, my stock answer is that we have never left it.
As far as returning to Old Testament law (Leviticus, Deuteronomy, etc.), my immediate thought is that the Hebrews of the day received THAT law verbatim and were not able to adhere to it. How much less likely are we after 3500 years AND without the cultural mindset and cohesion? My answer, short and simple, “Ain’t going to happen.”
We have, in my opinion, a far better chance of making some serious progress if we follow the only two laws which were given by Jesus. “Love the Lord your God AND love your neighbor like you love yourself.” If we can figure those out and incorporate them into our lives, we will be doing quite well. In my opinion.
Thanks for your kind response. Much appreciated!
To clarify, I do not advocate a return to the Mosaic *Covenant” that Christ fulfilled and ended via His blood-atoning sacrifice and resurrection from the grave. Only the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes that explain them and their civil judgments that enforce them, foundational to all of the Covenants, which, according to Christ, hang upon the two foremost Commandments you cited above.
The Bible’s triune moral law is a reflection of Yahweh’s morality which never changes. For more regarding this crucial distinction between the Mosaic Covenant and the triune law of God and how it applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see free online book “Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/law-kingdomFrame.html
As for never going to happen, if interested, I provide ten reasons why it is, Lord willing, very possible, in my blog article “10 Reasons Why the Kingdom Here on Earth Isn’t Mission Impossible” at https://www.constitutionmythbusters.org/10-reasons-the-kingdom-here-on-earth-isnt-mission-impossible/
See also blog article “Self-Imposed Impotence” at https://www.constitutionmythbusters.org/self-imposed-impotence/
Have a blessed Thanksgiving! We all are blessed beyond what we deserve and have much to be thankful for.
Ted,
You say that the Mosaic Covenant was fulfilled and ended when Christ was crucified and resurrected, therefore it is no longer in effect. You also say that the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes are in effect today. Yet, in the article linked, “Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant”, you make the following assertions, and I quote:
“In Galatians 3:16-17, Paul identified the law that was annulled as the law added four hundred and thirty years after the promises were given to Abraham. This means only what was added at Mt. Sinai was abolished under the New Covenant. Any law in existence prior to the Mosaic Covenant cannot be the law Jesus repealed.”
“When, in Galatians 3:19, Paul stated the law was “added because of transgressions” committed during the pre-Mosaic dispensation, he provided additional proof that Yahweh’s moral laws existed before Mt. Sinai. The sins alluded to by Paul in Galatians 3 were transgressions of Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments during the period between Adam and Moses. Where there is no law, there can be no transgression; therefore, Yahweh’s moral laws existed before the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and could not have been the laws that were added at Mt. Sinai. As a result, they also could not have been the added law fulfilled and abolished by Jesus.”
I find this to be contradictory as it is quite clear from scripture that the Ten Commandments, its related statutes, and virtually all the other laws written were added either at or after Mt. Sinai. The Ten Commandments do not show up until Mt. Sinai, therefore, according to your argument, they MUST have been annulled by Christ as part of the law.
“Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years–on that very same day–it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 12: 40-41)
If you read this literally, it says that the 430 years ended on the very same day the Israelites left Egypt. ON THAT VERY DAY! This means, according to your unequivocal statement quoted, any law added after that day does not apply to us any more since it has been abolished. Now, I suppose that we can engage in semantics and quibble whether the scripture is literal, figurative, or relative to the 430 years, but this is not necessary. What it does mean, in my opinion, is that any laws added after the Israelites left Egypt applied only until the death and resurrection of Christ, after which they are done away with. This will, by necessity, include the Ten Commandments.
In your article, you chide Christians for cherry-picking scripture to make their case, yet this appears to be exactly what you are doing. Either the law , including the Ten Commandments, which was added after the exodus has been done away with or it has not. Which is it?
Furthermore, you state that Yahweh’s moral law (I will address Yahweh later) existed prior to Mt. Sinai and use Genesis 26:5 as your reference, but this verse only says that Abraham kept and obeyed the moral law. It does not define nor delineate what moral law was. In fact, between Adam and Moses there are few, if any, moral laws which were given by God which mankind was expected to adhere to. What is this “law” which is referred to? To my understanding, it can only mean what is known today as “natural law”, the moral law which every human being is under and which is constantly broken, even by those who wish to use government and law to force people to “do good”. See Hebrews 8, which refers back to Jeremiah 31:33.
““This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”
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Returning to Yahweh, I refer you to this article by Laurent Guyenot, https://www.unz.com/article/christianity-cant-save-the-jews-can-historical-criticism-cure-them/, in which he claims that the Levites were not part of the original Israelites, but came out of Egypt and conquered them, grafting their god Yahweh onto the people who worshipped El at that time–Isra El. Furthermore, he argues that the Israel of today IS consistent with Scripture and Yahweh’s law BECAUSE they continually murder, slaughter, and try to exterminate those others around them–EXACTLY as they had been instructed to do. The modern state of Israel is obedient to Yahweh’s law and is currently practicing it.
Thanks for your response and the opportunity to elaborate upon what’s a crucial issue for those of living under the New Covenant, without which we are at the mercy of the secularists and their biblically abominable commandments, statutes, and civil judgments.
The Greek word “nomos” translated “law” is used for six different laws in the New Testament. Thus, we cannot just randomly apply “nomos” to whatever law we choose. The context and the rest of the Scriptures must determine what law in each instance is the author is referring to when employing the word “nomos.”
Many people make the mistake of applying New Testament passages referring to the Mosaic Covenant to Yahweh’s triune moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and civil judgments) – the law that reflects God’s very moral nature and that is foundational to all of the Covenants.
Do away with the Ten Commandments and their statutes and judgments and its anyone guess what should be law and what should not, which is nothing but unadulterated humanism. Worse, if you do away with the law that reflects God’s moral nature (the very essence of who He is), you “do away” with God Himself.
God’s triune moral law has always been in existence since the dawn of time. It did NOT come into existence when Moses came down Mt. Sinai with the two tablets.
For one of many pre-Mosaic examples:
“Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” (Genesis 26:5)
See Genesis 18:19 that reveals that the ‘laws” referred to here in Genesis 26:5 included the civil judgments that enforce the Commandments and their statutes.
You often refer to two greatest commandments. Rightfully so. My response has to been to point out that Christ declared in Matthew 22:37-40 that the law hangs upon the two greatest commandments. What law? The Ten Commandments – the first four of Ten Commandments elaborate on how we love God with all our hearts, minds, and souls, the last six of the Ten Commandments elaborate on how we love our neighbor as ourselves.
And those Ten Commandment cannot be divorced from the statutes that explain them and the judgments that enforce them – all three are integral to each other.
I hope this helps.
“God’s triune moral law has always been in existence since the dawn of time. It did NOT come into existence when Moses came down Mt. Sinai with the two tablets.
True. It is what is commonly known as “natural law”. Human beings, from the very beginning, have been born with a natural instinct for what is right and what is wrong. They do not need a law to distinguish between the two. Witness the story of Cain and Abel. Even though, as far as we know, there was no codified or written law which forbade murder, Cain knew that what he had done was wrong and suffered for it.
Since God’s moral law existed before the Ten Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments), it cannot be said that moral law hangs on those. Rather the Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments) rest upon the moral law which has always been in existence. It is the pre-existing moral law that reflects God’s moral nature and character. The Ten Commandments, etc., are nothing more than a written, codified system of defining right and wrong within a society and culture, and the application of justice in any particular case if the bounds are transgressed.
What would it be like if we “did away” with the Ten Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments)? Well, life before they took effect, for one. What was that like? On the one hand, Sodom and Gomorrah. On the other, Abraham. Consider also that the “giving” of the Ten Commandments, etc., did not prevent the Israelites from transgressing the moral law of God. Rather, it only served as evidence against them. Likewise, even if America adopted the Ten Commandments, etc., (in other words, Jewish law) as the basis for our society, culture, and nation, it would not stop us from sinning against the moral law of God, which has always existed.
We do not need more law or a different law to define right and wrong. We already know that. What is needed is moral justice, so that when a crime is committed against someone, proper punishment can be administered. BTW, every crime is a sin, but not every sin is a crime. Every crime should be punished, but punishment is not required for non-criminal sin.
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But, you never answered my question concerning my assertion that your position is contradictory. If the 430 years ended when the Israelites (Hebrews) left Egypt AND every law written after that was annulled by Christ’s death and resurrection, then the Ten Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments) are today no more than good advice. As you say, you cannot pick and choose which law or what law you will follow. So which is it? Did Christ “do away” with the Ten Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments–Hebrew law) or not? Were they written after the 430 years had ended or not? Were they written at Mount Sinai or not? Are they binding upon us as LAW or not?
Let me repeat your words again.
“In Galatians 3:16-17, Paul identified the law that was annulled as the law added four hundred and thirty years after the promises were given to Abraham. This means only what was added at Mt. Sinai was abolished under the New Covenant. Any law in existence prior to the Mosaic Covenant cannot be the law Jesus repealed.”
The annulled law was the law added 430 years after the promises given to Abraham. What was added at Mt. Sinai was abolished by Christ. The Ten Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments) were given at Mt. Sinai. Therefore, according to logic and reason, the Ten Commandments, etc., were abolished AS LAW and are not equivalent to the Two Great Commandments, upon which all other law is based. The moral law (natural law) which existed before Mt. Sinai was not abolished and is still in effect and it is this that society and culture ought to follow. Sadly, we don’t. Instead we rely on enforced legislation to create a flawed version of the Kingdom, our own version.
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“For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery’. You shall not murder.’ You shall not steal.’ You shall not bear false witness.’ You shall not covet.’ and if there is any other commandment, are ALL summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” — Romans 13: 9-10 (emphasis mine)
Interestingly, this chapter is used by many, many Christians as LAW that evil governments are to be obeyed without question.
There is also the apostle Paul’s statement in Galatians 5:14, that, “For ALL the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself'” (emphasis mine) In other words, the only law which counts for anything at all is that we love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Anything else is a sinful, evil attempt to order your neighbor, to control your neighbor, to force your neighbor into behaving and acting as you want him to do, which is as far from loving him as you can get.
Must there be a moral basis for society’s rules? Absolutely, I am in agreement with that. Must that moral basis be a set of codes which were developed by a murderous, thieving, group of people who could not themselves adhere to it and are still following the evil practices of their history? No, I do not agree and will forever argue that we have a better example, Jesus Christ, Who is love in the flesh and Who shows us the righteous way through His Spirit.
Damn the Constitution of the United States! Damn the rigid application of the Ten Commandments (and their respective statutes and judgments)! Love your neighbor as you love yourself. This is all I need. This is all anyone needs.
Oh, one more thing. The Ten Commandments were literally a summary or an outline of all the other laws which were “given” to the Israelites at the time of Moses. They can also be summarized in two words: “Don’t steal”, which can be applied to every single crime which has ever been committed or will be committed, because criminal activity always, always, always, is an act of theft by one person against another. Something, regardless what it is, is always taken away without consent and should be considered as theft, which is prohibited.
God’s law is never identified in the Bible as generic natural law, aka “laws of nature,” that leaves morality up to fickle finite man to define, most of whom will not agree with each other. That’s what created the biblically seditious Constitution and every other attempt by man to form his own government of, by, and (allegedly) for the people. Every government not of, by, and for God expressly established upon His moral law is a government of, by, and (allegedly) for the people – aka as man doing what’s right in his own eyes, per Judges 21:25, aka We the Peopleism.
“Natural law” is the term of the 18th-century Enlightenment boys, including that of anti-Christ Thomas Jefferson in the biblically egregious Declaration of Independence. See Chapters 2 & 3 of free online book “Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence” at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/declaration/declaration-index.html
The tree of the “knowledge of good and evil” is hyperbole for God’s moral law. There is only one thing that provides us with the God’s understanding of what constitutes good and evil and it’s not some undefined alleged natural law but rather the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments (aka as the perfect law of liberty) in existence from the very beginning with Adam and Eve. Compare the description for the tree of knowledge of good evil with David’s description of the triune moral law of God in Psalm 19:7-11 and you will see they are nearly identical.
I did answer your question. I’m not sure how to clarify it any differently than I already have.
Additionally, we have the repeated testimony of the New Testament’s inspired authors as to the continuing relevance of God’s triune moral law under the New Covenant. The context of most of the following passages reveal they are in reference to the Ten Commandments.
Salvation, justification, forgiveness, and all things comparable are provided us exclusively by God’s grace via the blood-atoning sacrifice and resurrection of Christ. Praise Yahweh! This fact, however, does not mean that Christ abolished His Father’s morality as reflected in His Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments as society’s standard–God forbid!
These are two different issues entirely. The first has to do with the remnant’s individual salvation, the second with whose ethics God intends for us to govern our lives. As to the latter, it’s quite clear where the Apostles Paul and John stood on the matter, as reflected in the following New Testament passages:
“…truth [is] in the law.” (Romans 2:20)
“…by the law is the knowledge of sin.” (Romans 3:20)
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” (Romans 3:31)
“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” (Romans 7:12)
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Romans 8:7)
“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.” (1 Corinthians 7:19)
“But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.” (1 Timothy 1:8)
“And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.” (1 John 2:3)
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” (1 John 3:4)
“By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.” (1 John 5:2)
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” (1 John 5:3)
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 12:17)
For more on how the Bible’s immutable/unchanging moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land) see free online book “Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant” at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/law-kingdomFrame.html
Then, at the same location, “A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.”
I’m flogging a dead horse and will comment no further on this matter.
On this we agree.