Mississippi is dangerously close to becoming a totally foreign owned and managed state. Why should you care? Studying the purchasing, acquiring, leasing, and holding interests in Mississippi agricultural land by foreign governments should be on your radar for several reasons. One main reason is that food security is national security. However, that is not the only security threatened because of foreign purchases and management. To really grasp the importance of the national treasures we are to defend and preserve, we must first understand why we have national treasures in the first place.
"When we grasp the intended “bottom-up” model, we take personal responsibility to select from among us worthy representatives. We entrust stewardship and leadership to them according to Exodus 18:21. That scripture lays out how we are to elect our servant leaders. It requires three quarters character and one quarter competence. The Biblical form of government is a Constitutional Republic, but we can smell the decay and rot that sweeps over our nation. It is caused by the universal downfall of man—the unquenchable thirst for power and self-promotion. Exodus 18:21 has been ignored."
#1) In Exodus 18:21, Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, is giving him advice on how to establish a hierarchy of authority and a distribution of responsibility. According to Jethro, Moses was supposed to appoint men from among the people who could lead and adjudicate disputes. These men were not political hacks who dispensed justice for personal gain. They were not elected by the people, but chosen by Moses. Nothing in this verse says anything at all about today's comedy show of voting for a particular person because he (or she) promised you the most. In fact, since we are discussing Scripture as references to our political system, let's look at 1 Samuel 8, in which the people demanded a king. God, through the prophet Samuel told them it was a bad mistake, but in the end, "We, the People" got what they wanted--and paid dearly for it.
#2) Where in Scripture does it teach that the ideal, preferred, and God-ordained form of government is a constitutional republic? Or is that something made up out of whole cloth because America's experiment "seemed" to work for a long time--until it didn't. In fact, America's constitutional republic has been eroding ever since the ink began drying on the scrap of parchment on which the Constitution was written. In fact, referring again to 1 Samuel 8, we learn that the people had no king, everyone was his own sovereign, and God Himself said that the people had rejected Him when they decided to set up a centralized government under a monarch.
Sounds to me like God said the best form of government was individual, personal self-control and that even though "every man did what seemed right in his own eyes", it was still better than giving power to a despot, a tyrant, a tin-horn in a democracy.
If that was true 4000 years ago, it is still true today.
"There is only so much land, commodity, assets, and intellectual property that can be sold off before Americans can no longer do as God commanded."
Would you mind explaining what God commanded that Americans will no longer be able to do IF they sell off their land, commodities, assets, and intellectual property? Where is it written that Americans MUST have these items to do what God has commanded them?
Your argument is false. Contrast it with this well-known bit of Scripture.
"Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?' Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these hang all the Law and the Prophets.'" --(Matthew 22:35-40)
Obviously, these are direct commands from the mouth of the Christ, the #1 and #2 commands of all, the greatest and the one equal to it, and Jesus says that ALL others are dependent on these. These commands are not conditional on the "ownership" of property of any kind. They apply whether or not a person has great possessions or none at all. In fact, Jesus advised the Rich, Young Ruler to sell his property and give the proceeds to the poor so that he could follow the Master, which advice was rejected.
Anyone can obey the commands of God IF THEY WANT TO. It does not matter if they have property. It does not matter if they sell their property. It does not matter if their property is stolen from them. All that matters is that a person love God completely AND love their neighbor as they do themselves.
I also disagree with this.
"When we grasp the intended “bottom-up” model, we take personal responsibility to select from among us worthy representatives. We entrust stewardship and leadership to them according to Exodus 18:21. That scripture lays out how we are to elect our servant leaders. It requires three quarters character and one quarter competence. The Biblical form of government is a Constitutional Republic, but we can smell the decay and rot that sweeps over our nation. It is caused by the universal downfall of man—the unquenchable thirst for power and self-promotion. Exodus 18:21 has been ignored."
#1) In Exodus 18:21, Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, is giving him advice on how to establish a hierarchy of authority and a distribution of responsibility. According to Jethro, Moses was supposed to appoint men from among the people who could lead and adjudicate disputes. These men were not political hacks who dispensed justice for personal gain. They were not elected by the people, but chosen by Moses. Nothing in this verse says anything at all about today's comedy show of voting for a particular person because he (or she) promised you the most. In fact, since we are discussing Scripture as references to our political system, let's look at 1 Samuel 8, in which the people demanded a king. God, through the prophet Samuel told them it was a bad mistake, but in the end, "We, the People" got what they wanted--and paid dearly for it.
#2) Where in Scripture does it teach that the ideal, preferred, and God-ordained form of government is a constitutional republic? Or is that something made up out of whole cloth because America's experiment "seemed" to work for a long time--until it didn't. In fact, America's constitutional republic has been eroding ever since the ink began drying on the scrap of parchment on which the Constitution was written. In fact, referring again to 1 Samuel 8, we learn that the people had no king, everyone was his own sovereign, and God Himself said that the people had rejected Him when they decided to set up a centralized government under a monarch.
Sounds to me like God said the best form of government was individual, personal self-control and that even though "every man did what seemed right in his own eyes", it was still better than giving power to a despot, a tyrant, a tin-horn in a democracy.
If that was true 4000 years ago, it is still true today.
"There is only so much land, commodity, assets, and intellectual property that can be sold off before Americans can no longer do as God commanded."
Would you mind explaining what God commanded that Americans will no longer be able to do IF they sell off their land, commodities, assets, and intellectual property? Where is it written that Americans MUST have these items to do what God has commanded them?
Your argument is false. Contrast it with this well-known bit of Scripture.
"Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?' Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these hang all the Law and the Prophets.'" --(Matthew 22:35-40)
Obviously, these are direct commands from the mouth of the Christ, the #1 and #2 commands of all, the greatest and the one equal to it, and Jesus says that ALL others are dependent on these. These commands are not conditional on the "ownership" of property of any kind. They apply whether or not a person has great possessions or none at all. In fact, Jesus advised the Rich, Young Ruler to sell his property and give the proceeds to the poor so that he could follow the Master, which advice was rejected.
Anyone can obey the commands of God IF THEY WANT TO. It does not matter if they have property. It does not matter if they sell their property. It does not matter if their property is stolen from them. All that matters is that a person love God completely AND love their neighbor as they do themselves.
We prefer to accumulate property.
Awesome and critical “Paul Revere” information.
Thanks Rebecca!