“If [any nation] learn[s] well the ways of my people and swear[s] by my name…then they will be established among my people. But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,” declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 12:16–17, NIV 1984).
My Musings – On July 4, 1776 ” a new nation, conceived in liberty” was established and “assume[d] among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle[d]” it. No matter how well intentioned, however, no declaration by a nation is sufficient in and of itself to establish it “among [God’s] people.” Yet despite what many revisionists would lead us to believe, it learned “well the ways of [God’s] people and [swore] by [His] name,” it was established as a nation favored by God. There is no other way to explain how it…
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