Our fathers have told Us

Psalm 44:1-8

Having returned home from Prague, a beautiful and historical city in the Czech Republic,  but a city that was under the control of Communism from 1948 to 1989; it becomes apparent that something has gone wrong.  (The Communist Party seized complete power after the coup d’état on February 25, 1948. This event marked the start of the Communist totalitarian regime that lasted until the Velvet Revolution of 1989. A second wave of nationalization took place and 95% of all privately owned companies became the property of the state. There were a number of political trials and executions in the following several years. The economy went steadily down under the socialist regime. Basic human rights were suppressed.)

What happens to a people who have been under the total control of the State that tells them there is no God, and that the State is to whom they should look for all that is good? The Prague Post published this headline on April 6, 2011, Study: Religion is dying out among Czechs, Religion will be 'nearly extinct' in Czech Republic by 2050.  The article went on to give this information: “It seems especially cold that religion's extinction would be predicted not by an impassioned atheist or a humanist weary of the aggression perpetrated in God's name, but by a trio of physicists and mathematicians who are altogether neutral about what their study suggests.”  In todays Prague 60% are atheist and 33% are Catholic, and 7% have no opinion on what they are.

If you have been noticing and I’m sure that most have, we are going the way of Prague, we as a people have chosen to elect a party that is socialist, and socialism has failed on all fronts and it matters not what name you give it.  The President of the United States of America ran for a second term and in one of his speeches’ he stated the following: “You didn’t build that” and he was referring to a person success.  He made that statement in an election campaign speech delivered on July 13, 2012 in Roanoke, Virginia. He went on to say the following: (“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”)  He said much more, but the theme was that without government it could not have happened.  That was and is the message of all Communist totalitarian regimes, and it seems to be President Barack Obama’s message.

Now this may come as a shock, but the President got close to telling the truth on this point.  Now do not burn your computers or send me hate mail until you read on down the page.  He was 100% correct that you needed help in building whatever, but he was totally 100% wrong on the source of your needs.  Now have I got you back?  It is God who has blessed you with the mental, the physical, the monetary, the desires, the drive and the knowledge to build your family, your business, your life an it is your choice on whether you acknowledge His hand or not.  When God is given the glory a nation prospers and when He is not they go into the hands of evil people who take freedom from them.

Look at what the Psalmist has said in Psalm 44:1-8, “O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us. In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever.” Selah

If you are one of the ones offended by the President’s remarks on July 13, 2012 in Roanoke, Virginia, was it because you believed it was by your ability, your energy, your mental abilities, your financial resources; who blessed you with those?   Whom are you acknowledging as your source?  My prayer is that you will give all praise and glory to the only God and His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.  And my prayer is that you will teach your children and grandchildren these very profound truths.

Jan and I came back from this trip understanding that the world is looking for someone to step on the scene and rescue them, and all over there is unrest, wars and rumors of wars, if you are interested in what is coming, dust off your Bible and read Matthew 24 and II Timothy 3:1-5, it’s coming to America, and the world.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice