Early Christian America

Antonio Gramsci was a young Marxist who spent time in the Soviet Union in the years following Lenin. He left the country when it became apparent Stalin was beginning his purges, purges that meant eliminating many of the revolutionaries who had been loyal to  the cause. Fleeing to Italy, there he ran afoul of Benito Mussolini, himself a dedicated Marxist,  who preferred Fascist socialism (the preference of the papacy) to the more overt Marxist “violent-overthrow-capitalism” method.

Gramsci Sees Lenin and Marxist Strategy as Failure…

In the years he spent in prison,  Gramsci analyzed more deeply the Marxist “failure” of the Soviet revolution. In Gramsci’s opinion, Marx and Lenin erred  in their thinking that the revolution that would  overthrow capitalism would occur because of distressed workers looking for a way to end their exploitation. What he saw, even before  the century would more fully reveal it, was the fact that Communism would NEVER come to power through spontaneous uprisings. No Communist takeover EVER came through worker uprising. The workers, he believed, had deeper priorities such as…

-    marriage and family,
-    love of country,
-    wanting to see their children advance in quality of  education and life,
-    faith in God and
-    belief in a Christian traditional order. 

What Gramsci discerned was a revolution in totalitarian thought. He saw  to win the world  to socialist-Marxist victory , which he believed  would establish “true justice” for mankind, there must first be “cultural hegemony”. He believed and wrote the International socialist movement must achieve what Aldous Huxley would later express succinctly in Brave New World:

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

What Gramsci knew was the center of the civilized world – thus, world dominion -  was focused in Europe and its North American surrogates.  And, like it or not, the socialist must come to grips with  the fact  Christianity  has had 2000 years of dominance philosophically, morally, and ethically.  Practically speaking, civilization and Christianity were inextricably bound together.

“Gramsci’s Theorems”

1.    Christianity necessitates transgenerational dedication: The Christian faith is the enemy in all of its forms and has been the creative worldview force in Europe and America for 2000 years. Therefore, there is  no sudden uprising of  the proletariat possible in this Christian-worldview embedded culture. Marx and Lenin were impatient, hoping for victory too soon, when such was not possible.

Comment: Note he includes Roman Catholicism, though Gramsci knew Jesuitism was a brilliant revolutionary model for subverting freedom and entrepreneurship, and the Christian theological worldview. Note here the fact that Gramscian revolutionary thinkers today ARE TURNING AGAINST CATHOLICISM IN THE GREATEST DISLAY OF HATRED AGAINST ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN HISTORY! (This continues to fulfill what the Historicist’s view of Revelation foretells about them hating the Lamb-like beast (which is the harlot that fornicates with the nations as well).

Much of the dedication is coming from within Rome as Roman Cardinals and Bishops join the political Left, and are well represented within Globalist organizations such as the Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, Fabians, and CFR. This is nothing new as Roman priests provided support for the French Revolution and every major Communist victory internationally has had sponsorship from within Rome. Liberation Theology (Marxist “Christian” theology) was developed within Jesuit circles.

Knowing the hatred developing for the Roman Church, many  ecumenical ties are being fashioned with Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism , and other religions such as Animism  so as to  CHANGE HISTORIC DOGMAS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. It is this series of subtle and not-so-subtle changes that have been distressing traditionalists since Vatican II.

The Roman Church leadership since Vatican II appears to have adopted the view that Christianity in any form is in its “death-throes”.  So, it would appear, Rome is willing to dispense more and  more with what formalities of  Christian theology remain within it (Trinity, Deity of  Christ, etc.). Rome has ALWAYS accommodated its tenets to the dominant cultural and political changes, as has been shown in an earlier volume of this series on Revelation.

2.    Changing the premises of societal belief: Gramsci argued that frontal assault upon Christian Europe and America was foolish and doomed to failure. Better to attack Christianity more subtly by aiming to  transform society’s collective mindset. Media, economics and public education would be crucial to  the transformation. This would be  done by eradicating all signs of public allegiance to symbols, signs, practices, traditions, and beliefs of Christianity.

Comment: The continuous attack upon public Christmas manger scenes seems relatively harmless. But, understand Gramsci. He knew the deeper the emotional ties to traditions and beliefs, the more important it is  to eradicate such positions, ideas, ideals, signs and symbols.

His attack runs much deeper however. The government school program has always used teaching-theorists who are Gramscian in their presuppositions (guiding worldview assumptions). The brilliance of  the “separation of Church and State” used to purge the schools of Christian ethic,  history, or values, has marvelously shorn Christianity from  the MEMORY of  the culture WITHOUT TIPPING OFF ALL THE TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND PARENTS AS TO THE REAL AGENDA!
   
Media is the same monster. Remembering Yuri Bezmenov’s statement that when he defected from the Communist KGB as the  Minister of Disinformation, he had over 100,000 KGB operatives in the American media. The media has done everything possible to shame, ridicule, marginalize and replace Christian values.  It has been the Guardian of the culture, turning its big guns upon anything even slightly favorable to  Christian thinking. 

Fabian Economic Commentary: Brilliant author Rose L. Martin, in her book, Fabian Freeway, had this to say about the Fabian use of Gramscian methodology (though the Fabians arrived at many of  the same conclusions earlier than he):
   

“If a minority group armed only with its wits hoped to subdue whole populations, the majority must somehow be induced through a judo-like action to turn its own strength against itself. This could best be done, the Fabian Socialists decided, by progressively gaining control of both education and the publishing field, so as to alter the premises on which opinions are formed and literally to change people’s minds.

Acting on the theory that

                      “A man convinced against his will
                        Is of the same opinion still”,

Every refinement of popular as well as scholarly propaganda, every twist  of carefully researched mass psychology would be employed, to seduce rather than goad the public down the high road to Socialism. The Fabian-approved economics  of John Maynard Keynes and his successors – now taught as gospel in most of our universities and adopted as the official credo of  governments – merely a latter-day device to accomplish the “peaceful transition” to a Socialist world. ”

3.    Uniting Leftist Networks under Marxist Directives: Uniting with the Left: Gramsci departed from Lenin  and Marx in yet another key point. They taught their cadre to attack other non-Communist leftists, leaving Marxists as the leaders. Gramsci countered their thinking by teaching them to adopt an attitude of broad networking with them, on the assumption that the Marxist could lead them and direct their social radicalism. In this respect, Lenin and he were not so far apart. “Communism is built with non-communist hands”, Lenin taught. But Gramsci moved further, advocating a WILLFUL Marxist and Leftist coordination of events and strategizing.

 

The Chinese Traffic Jam: One for the Books

Traffic has been snarled along the outskirts of Beijing, China and is now widened its reach toward the border of Inner Mongolia. This began with state roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway, which started on August 13. The next week, branches of a major highway encircling Beijing were closed off for further construction. The Committee members that decided that now was the time for that decision are probably all floating face down in the Bo Hai Bay about now. This bureaucratic socialist decision further embroiled an already overstrained roadway system.

As the traffic jam on National Highway 110 passed the 10-day mark Tuesday, local authorities dispatched hundreds of police to keep order and reroute cars and trucks. Authorities now estimate the roadway metroplex system will not get UNjammed until… are you ready for this Workers Paradise World Record… mid-September. 

That’s right folks. Straight from the Workers Paradise so long awaited, according to Karl Marx and Mao Tse Tung, and touted as an end to worker exploitation. Now, of course, the embattled workers cannot even GET TO WORK.  Worse, they sit in traffic guarding their vehicles with thousands of police swarming around the highway making sure no one loots the new…uh… “workers parking lot”.

Chinese Traffic Jam and the Cost: A Christian Evaluation

No worldview more fully presses mankind to understand the ethics of cost as a function of the curse and fallen man’s nature than the Christian faith. With the Fall came a new feature in man’s relationship to God: thorns and thistles.  God made Adam to know the ethical decisions of disobedience come with a price tag: cost, often with little or no reward. In other words, man’s fallen nature, instead of being a steward over Paradise, is now characterized with a predisposition toward poverty and slavery.

God’s law warns us the real cost of anything, both from the standpoint of society as a whole and the individual’s own stewardship, is the value it has in alternative uses. The real costs of building a bridge are the other things that could have been built with that same labor and material. 

Socialists NEVER get this stuff. It always goes right over their collective heads.  The only way they “learn” anything is by sitting in unique month-long Workers Paradise traffic jams hoping thieves and cops don’t exact “tribute”.  Not to mention the LOSS of watching over your parked car and/or the LOSS of earnings … and the multiple confusions that result from this foolish bureaucratic “made-for-the-benefit-of-the-people” (who-would-rather-not-be-benefited), nightmare. 

The Bible teaches us `“man’s desires are never satisfied.” Given that, a person – and the society he lives in – must learn to allocate scarce resources, prioritizing GOALS as necessity dictates. Such goals include personal pleasure, entertainment, and rest as proper goals as well. But the Bible treats them as “commodities”, not “rights”. In other words, you allocate time and resource, labor and risk. 

Two Soviet economists, Nikolai Shmelev and Vladimir Popov, wrote a book, during the short-lived glasnost era, giving a candid account of how their economy (propaganda aside) really worked. As they put it: Institutions and bureaucracies, managers and planning commissions involving production enterprises in the old USSR  “always ask for more than they need” in the way of  raw materials, equipment,  resources …and workers.”  They continued, “After all,  nobody ‘at the top’ knows exactly what  the real requirements are, “ so “squandering” makes sense to the Soviet middle management, who reported “from 5 to 15 percent of the workers in the majority of enterprise are surplus and are kept “just in case’. 

Citing official Soviet statistics, the two economists lamented:

According to the calculations of the Soviet Institute of World Economy and International Relations, we use 1.5 times more materials and 2.1 times more energy per unit of  national income than the Untied States… We use 2.4 times more metal per unit of national income that the U.S. This correlation is  apparent  even without special calculation: we produce and consume 1.5 to 2 times more steel and cement than the Untied States, but we lag behind by at least half in production of items derived from them… Recently, in Soviet industry the consumption of electrical energy exceeded the American level, but  the volume of industrial output  in the USSR is – by the most generous estimates – only  80 percent of the American level. 

In a price-coordinated economy, employees and creditors insist on being paid, regardless of whether the managers and owners have made mistakes. This means that capitalist businesses can make only so many mistakes for so long before they have to either stop or get stopped  – whether by an inability to get the labor and supplies they  need or by bankruptcy. In a feudal or  socialistic  economy, leaders can continue to  make the same mistakes indefinitely. The consequences are paid by others in the form of a standard of living lower that it would be if there  were greater efficiency in the use of scarce resources.

 

 

 

Recently, the President made a comment in answer to the continued rising unemployment figures. Of course, he couldn’t admit that the policies he has pushed made things worse. So, in his response, he pointed to the fact that “…the Administration took steps which “SAVED JOBS”. In fact, that does seem to be the mantra of the Democrats for this election. “We saved jobs.”

 ?

 

You know there’s an expression,  " Necessity is the mother of invention." Perhaps we can narrow the focus and make it more precise: “Getting caught is the mother of invention.”

Economics 101 tells us we need to start making the conditions right for new jobs to be created by the economy… ergo… economic conditions must warrant the belief that good stewardship can be achieved. That means “profitability”.

But, the politicos tell us they are SAVING JOBS.  What do we do with that “claim”?

Let’s assume  for a moment you are a baseball fan. Your favorite team hasn’t done well for many seasons. Not to worry.  Your team just got a new (expensive) pitcher. As the new season progresses, your new pitcher keeps losing games but his answer to the critics is, “I’m stuck with a team that has been just awful for so many seasons. I can’t do anything about that but I want you to see all the runs I’ve saved the team so far this season. Look at this last game. I saved the team 8 runs.”

Now, you’re a little confused.  The pitcher GAVE UP 6 runs in a loss to our rival. The final Score was 6 to 1. But, he says he saved another 8 runs. He means that the other team had many other men in scoring position, but they were prevented from scoring MORE runs.

So, you join the preferred Groupthink by telling yourself, “It’s true. The team did stop 8 other runs.” So, you comfort yourself and say “This shows me some progress. We can have a good season.”

But, this same pattern of losses continues in game after game. And the pitcher keeps assuring us that, despite the losses, he has SAVED THE TEAM MANY MORE RUNS. By this time you’re not so comfortable with the CONSTANT LOSSES.

So it is with our politicians. More and more unemployment continues to ravage the American landscape. But, Obama and all those like him keep telling us “We inherited a Bush economy… but, despite the continuing unemployment figures, we SAVED JOBS which would have been lost without our efforts.”

Might I suggest a revision in strategy?  Let’s start with winning some ball games. Perhaps we shouldn’t be comforted with this expensive pitcher either.

2.    Economics 101

Obama and his cohorts in Groupthink, speak repeatedly of the new taxes they’ve passed like it’s some sort of “blessed event”. The idea of business is to be a good steward of your resources and generate MORE than what you started with. Usually, that translates into more production, satisfying service to customers and… profitability.

Now, this next point seems to be too difficult for our reps at all levels of government. It goes like this:

a.    If a business SPENDS MORE than it brings in, we call that a LOSS.
b.    If a business sustains losses without reversing its course back to profitability, the business will be forced to CUT employees (job loss!).
c.    If the losses don’t stop, the business will be “out of business”.

Basic sense: Increase ANYTHING that adds COST and the business will be less profitable. That includes taxes. But, somehow “Groupthink” politicos speak of taxes as anything BUT an increased cost to businesses. (Groupthink: Obama and ALL politicians in Congress, state legislatures, judges that enforce the Draconian budget busters, and local town politicians).

Increases in business taxes is an increase in business expenses. Increase those expenses, especially in this severe recession, and you have the prescription for MORE job losses.

Now, here’s my real question: We know that local politicians follow the lead of the federal and state politicos. What they do, the lesser magistrates do. That’s a “no-brainer”. But, here’s the difficulty: The big boys in the Fed and State hierarchies have millions of dollars of CONSULTANTS and RESEARCHED DATA at their disposal. Do they not know the correlation between INCREASED COSTS (of any sort!) and DECREASES in employment? Of course they do!  They know increasing taxes increases losses and means job cuts in many industries. 

3.    Fabian Socialism 101

Politicians, media moguls, and intellectuals known as Fabian socialists believe that the most efficient way to spur “reform” is to touch the wallets of the people. Bring on pain and you get reform. But, to do so effectively, they believe in planting disruptive economic policies into the economy, allowing them to work like viruses in bringing economic disruption and “free market failures”. People then blame the “free market”, and give votes and controls to the politicians.

So, the Fabian politician creates…

•    Socialist reform with controls bequeathed by legislation designed to “cure” the disruption his/her policies created  in the first place
•    People cry for the pain thus created
•    But, they asked the politician to solve the problem because he/she deceived them in making them think the free market had failed!
•    Therefore the policy, politicians, reforms and controls all remain undisturbed while Americans pay with loss of freedoms, loss of jobs, increased taxes, disrupted markets, and confusion.

But, that’s not all. In order to “Let the good times keep rolling”, politicians need to be more and more deceptive so as to keep those disruptive policies in place. After all, people DO ask questions when politicos like Obama FAIL… repeatedly.  So, Fabians become “spin doctors”, convincing people in quite creative ways.

You see, reform and personal advantage seem to go hand in hand. However, for many politicos, “Fabian socialism” is just a phrase. Greedy and corrupt politicians and judges go along with the spin-doctors because of sheer advantage. They crave the advantages that come with controls and income redistribution. They line their pockets with tax money and votes.

So, they are forced to come up with “invented” economics to justify the ludicrous nature of their policies. The more they speak to justify their policies, the more failure they produce. The more failure they produce, the more inventive they must become to keep their indefensible policies in place. They don’t want the limelight shed on what they are doing.

So remember the truism every time the politicos open their mouths about economics.

 “Getting caught is the mother of invention.”

-submitted, Wayne  C. Sedlak, ICHR

Isn’t it interesting that today’s humanist in America (especially in the halls of academe) can’t find it in themselves to acknowledge the Christian influence upon the foundations of this country? So, of course, they deny any such influence. But, they don’t just miss it once. They miss it twice. You see, the other side of liberty found expression in the loyalists… those Americans who remained loyal to King George and the Parliament of England.

You see, the Loyalists all knew the strength of the call for American Independence was found in the Protestant churches, particularly those of what is called the Reformed faith (though certainly not exclusively). Loyalists used Scripture, knowing it was the Book that called forth obedience to the Call to stand for Independence. Loyalists used Scriptures like “Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft…” to convince people throughout the colonies to be loyal to the King and his Parliament.

Americans hated the tag “rebel”. Luke Swetland found a brigade to march with near Appleton, New York. “I asked them if the rebels were near.” A Patriot sergeant answered him in anger. He scowled, “Damn you. Do you call us rebels?” Swetland saw his mistake and corrected quickly. “No. I mean the army that is coming.”

“Revolution” was preferred to the hated word “rebellion”. Americans saw their revolution as driving Satan out of America, not making deals with him. “A Military Song by the Army”  On General Washington’s victorious entry into the Town of Boston”, was a tune sung by the troops who entered Boston victoriously as the British were leaving it. Its lyrics were …

It is very clear that Independence was contended in both liberal and orthodox churches throughout the land. Too, the churches saw God’s Providential Hand in the multiple issues of the weather, tempests, storms, their timing and “happenstance” that turned the pages of history.

 

One source of the revolutionaries’ boldness was a vocabulary and ethic drawn from the Word of God and the churches that preached it. Americans looked for God’s special acts which helped them and hindered the much more powerful enemy. Typical of the admonitions to the men at arms was this statement made by General Daniel Roberdeau of the Pennsylvania militia when he warned his men that…”The English army derive all their strength from a close attention to discipline, with them it supplies the want of virtue.”

What a statement! Just the recognition that God’s superintending grace (which creates the many virtues of the soul) is more than salvation. It is actually what grace is in the Old Testament: the strength God gives to the soul BOTH to will and to do of His good pleasure.

Certainly, salvation is the focus of all who have their hope in Jesus Christ and His justifying work in the soul. But, the fact that the officers were encouraged to bring to the men a theology which expected strength of character as a function of real virtue, for the most part trumps the American Churches today. It seems all we hear is grace and virtue associated with salvation. You almost never hear grace and virtue associated with terms like strength, resolve, boldness, and being steadfast for the truth.

It was this strength of spirit the British missed in the years leading up to the war. The British knew the colonies were Christian. Somehow, that translated into an image of ‘meek and mild”, easily moved, and generally enfeebled by their religion. They called the American colonials “a chickenhearted race of farmers” (typical of soldiers to look down upon farmers, merchants and craftsmen as something less than manly because not military), “dry goods dealers”, and “slave drivers.”

According to Ben Franklin, a certain Thomas Clarke (probably the King’s aide-de-camp), disparaged the Americans with the infamy, that with one thousand grenadiers he would go through America “…and geld all the Males, partly by force and partly by a little coaxing.” (Sounds like our new Supreme Court ‘Justice” Sotomayor who used the same kind of language in contempt of all white men in America.)

Soon enough, the British were seeing otherwise. Instead of the meek and mild “churched Americans”, the British were cursing the men of the Pulpit and blaming the revolutionary war, and the American’s resolve to fight, on, what they termed “the Black Regiment’, i.e., those ministers who mounted the pulpit each Lord’s Day in black robes, symbolic of the Lord’s justice.

So, the next time you hear your liberal friend or misinformed Christian brother chide you about “What ‘Early Christian America’” you talking about… just tell him read the Liberty Bell with its inscription from the Book of Leviticus 25:10 and ask why a people devoid of Christian principles would wish to draw inspiration from the Bible. Then pause during his mental regrouping, and quietly let him know he’s really missed the source of America’s Liberty… twice.

- submitted, Wayne C. Sedlak, ICHR

-    The imaginations of the Americans … is circumspect and hesitant. These habits of restraint… singularly favor the tranquility of the people as well as the durability of the institutions they have adopted. 

-    While the law allows the American people to do everything there are things which [Protestant] religion prevents them from imagining and forbids them to  dare.

-    American radicals are obliged ostensibly to profess a certain respect for  Christian morality and equity,  and that does not allow them easily to  break the laws when those are opposed to  the execution of their designs…                                                                                           

-     fluctuating incomes
-     the hidden tax, inflation, consumes their purchasing power
-     increases in taxation, fees, and licensing at all levels of government
-     the land swarms with regulators, restricting one opportunity after another
-     debt, where compounding of  interest makes payments debilitating
-    increased costs not normal to prior years… such as gasoline and vehicle costs, utilities, medical costs, identity theft, legal costs

Due to debt, people often face foreclosure.  Many find it difficult  to get  back on their feet after adverse contingencies.  Others may have income but are exposed to chronic diseases,  many of which were unknown to their fathers or quite rare, therefore discouragingly unexpected and lingering (Deuteronomy 28: 61). For example, cancer and heart disease were practically unknown prior to the Second World War. 

Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.  – Deut. 28:59

Thus, work is more difficult from a physical standpoint for any number of reasons… because existence is, itself, harder upon society.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. – Psa. 107: 39

Rest … restored

How do we restore “Rest”?  

1)    We need to repent of the sins that got us here. Too often we think of Christianity as merely another version of “Smiley Face”  :-)   instead of the faith that grapples with sin,  the curse and unrighteousness (Romans 8: 18-22).

2)    The son in Proverbs is instructed to reject “mobocracy” (the rule of mobs, the will of the “Collective” and GroupThink – Proverbs 1: 10), and teach a self-governing Christian faithfulness in all areas of societal responsibility (Proverbs 1: 20)  and ethic.

3)    We need to confront society with the claims of Christ as the King of Righteousness.  We need to confront the judges and magistrates as corrupt (Isaiah 1: 23; Amos 5:12).

4)    We need to stop looking to government and “more laws”, as our savior. We need to demand of our churches worldview training from the pulpits which gives people real solutions and answers to the tough problems of life. (See SolomonsToolbox.com).
 
5)    We need to stop tithing to – or supporting – churches that do not teach sin, righteousness and judgment.

6)    We need to demand sermons and preaching which has substance every week… and lasts longer than 20 minutes… Frankly, fewer “salvation messages” and more “How Then Shall We Live” sermons might save more families,  affect more young people with deeper answers,  and attract people to the wisdom of the Christian man and woman’s answers,  who “then” ask about Salvation in Jesus Christ.

7)    Churches need to create worldview in the hearts of their people, and need to  teach sound economy (hundreds of passages from the Bible speak to sound economic living.

8)    Isaiah taught prophetically that  God would send a great blessing, His Laws, to the distant lands of the Gentiles (Isaiah 2: 3-4; 42: 4). Why is it pulpits today send it back?

9)    People need to work with like-minded people, networking together for change from a Christian perspective, and that across the country.

Or… we can continue in back-breaking labor… full of hardships, until God has destroyed us out of the land.

In one great American city in particular the whole movement of social life is suspended from Saturday evening on. If you go through the streets at the hour when you would expect grown-up people to be going to their businesses, and young ones to their pleasures, you will find yourself in profound solitude. It is not just that no one seems to be working; they do not even seem alive. One can hear no sound of folk at work or at play, and not even that confused noise which constantly rises from any great city. -Alexis d’Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840)

Have a happy 4th of July… and remember why it became the happy occasion we all revere.

ICHR -    Wayne C. Sedlak

Worldview is a map of reality and  like any map it may fit what is there, or may be grossly misleading.The map is only an image of the world…and all of us carry around such a map in our mental makeup…we act upon it.

The church creates a mental map for people and, because the living God is among her, it gives pause to people, making them stop life and wonder where you got such understanding…and how did you apply it.

There is something that distinguishes you, something supernatural within you.

Complete Sermon Click HERE

We don’t expect much from the church of Jesus Christ and therefore we  discount the church. Gibbon wrote that 5 things were responsible for winning the Roman Empire… one was the miraculous of the first century… and on par with the miracles, is the Church. The Roman Empire faced all sorts of adversaries, but could not take on the simple church.

By the Mystery of God we mean “The Final Solution”…that which explains all things…why we are here…why we’re here in this place, why there is an America…a Russia…a China…why there is a certain series of events, why your business, your calling, why the seemingly untimely death of a loved one…In the Mystery of God the why of life is answered and in the center of the mystery is the Church.

Maybe we discount the Church because it has been so lack luster in her performance in the last 100 years, and we can’t see the latent power that resides in her. She is a humble enigma and when God visits her, He shakes the entire world with her. He calls us to agree and then to act.

The Lord is the defender of his Church and He will effect Reformation, come what may. The 3rd person of the Trinity is absolutely irresistible and will move with or without our consent.

Don’t miss the greatest event on earth…the Church of Jesus Christ…Protect and keep her.