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F. Earle Fox
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of the old Emmaus News. E. Fox
2007 AD
8/14/07
Greetings, Fellow Christians and other Friends,
You have not heard from me for
nearly two months because, unknown to me, my email was coming in fine,
but not going out. It just disappeared with no clue to me. A longer
story than worth relating here, but when I reinstalled my software after
a crashed harddrive about two months ago, the wrong server port number
was installed in Outlook Express. So from that time, no one was getting
anything I sent. Some clues began to filter in, and the easily
correctible problem is now corrected.
For almost a year now, I have been going
down to the Mexican border near a small (American) town, Boulevard, CA, to
Camp Vigilance, on land rented from a very friendly RV vacation spot, a
couple of miles from the border fence (what there is of it). We are very
welcomed by the Border Patrol because we help fill in gaps in their very
gappy ranks (thank you, Pres. Bush). We do nothing but spot for them and
radio in the information as to where we see illegals crossing. We are also
trained in first aid to help anyone we find who needs it, but otherwise, we
make no contact with the aliens. It is a sad, sad story, people being
deceived and deluded by their own government to become fodder for the
Globalist war on sovereign boundaries. See the piece below on "14
reasons".
The reliance on massive foreign labor is
one of the common signs of a culture on its last legs. I do not mean honest
immigrants, I mean the control of the situation by Globalists who want
borders wiped out, who run the corporations who say they desperately need
the immigrants to do the work Americans will not do, etc. They want to turn
America in to another 3rd world country where they control the population
economically and politically. The evidence for all this is available. See
the "Conspiracy" section of the Politics Library. There has never been a
time when conspiracy was not rampant, there has never been a time when those
with the capability (real or imagined) were not conspiring for control of
the known globe. And today is no exception.
The difference today is the success of
the mind-control program (government diseducation, the media, and the
political parties). We Americans and been sold the consumerist mentality --
i.e., to keep the Globalist international corporation coffers full. And we
are quite happy with it. Well, we hate it, and we love it. Like an
addiction. We are often ashamed of it, but 99% do nothing about it. OK,
I'll give you 95%. We LIKE our government Nanny. We have no conception of
the freedom for which our founding fathers fought. And, worse, we have no
conception of the Way of the Cross, how to die well. And, not knowing how
to die well, we know not how to live well. Death makes cowards of us all.
Except for an occasional 13 or 11 year old girl such as at the Nickel Mines
Amish community some months ago.
We cannot survive long on this diet.
The disaster looming over Europe will hit us in about 50-75 years -- unless
we get serious with the Lord Jesus Christ. Either Jesus is Lord, or civil
government will be lord. Choose this day whom you will serve.
I have written and commented about the
growing understanding of the scam which is the IRS -- and am universally met
with disbelief and apathy. "Well, the IRS will win in court..." Where is
our backbone??? We are being scammed and people do not rise up in
anger? What kind of men are we???
Well, see the piece below on the IRS
losing in court. Not the first time, and for sure not the last. Some bold
folks who are willing to risk losing are beginning to win. And the results,
if we get faithful to God and each other, will be telling.
Edwin Vieira (see below) is one of those
bold and creative writers (one of those 2 to 5%) who is laying part of the
groundwork for the renewal of America -- a restoration of the Constitutional
Militia. If you value your political freedom, read it. And get equipped
yourself. And learn how to put the military into a Biblical/Christian
context. God, not our government, owns the military.
The founding fathers rightly feared a
standing army more than almost anything else. And we are illustrating why.
We have come to the point where we can no longer trust that our (standing)
military will side with the people in a contest against centralized
government. The signs are not good. And the government has been steadily
conditioning the military and the police (where they can get at them), to
see us citizens as their wards, not the supreme officers of the state.
And the Church is an utter disgrace --
spending most of its time fighting with each other (where is there a major
denomination which not fracturing?). That, too, has been on the agenda of
the secular globalists -- infiltrate the Church (Antonio Gramsci style) to
disable it from any possible spiritual warfare against the enemies of God,
against the enemies of truth, righteousness, and love.
There are Godly globalists --- Jesus is
Lord. The secular folks are too late. The global leader has already been
chosen. But the Western followers of the King of kings and Lord of lords
are currently not much help to the Kingdom of God and not much threat to the
kingdom of Satan. That will change, but it appears that nothing short of a
severe persecution will make the change.
Some wonder, no doubt, whether I am
focused too strongly on political and social issues, and neglecting the
Gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. Sorry, it is both/and, not
either/or. Only a saved people will be able to sustain their political
freedom.
So pray, plead, beg that God will do in
us whatever He has to do in order to get us, both personally and
corporately, where He wants us to be -- intellectually, morally, and
spiritually. Even if it hurts -- a lot.
Blessings, Earle Fox
7/3/07
Greetings, Fellow Christians and other Friends,
Well, a lesson learned. You have not
heard from me for nearly two months because, unknown to me, my email was
coming in fine, but not going out. It just disappeared with no clue to me.
A longer story that worth relating here, but when I reinstalled my software
after a crashed hard drive about two months ago, the wrong server port
number was installed in Outlook Express. So from that time, no one was
getting anything I sent. Some clues began to filter in, and the problem,
which is easily correctible, is now corrected.
The messages of the past eNewses are
posted in the Emmaus News Library (at
For almost a year now, I have been going
down to the Mexican border near a small (American) town, Boulevard, to Camp
Vigilance, on land rented from a very friendly RV vacation spot, a couple of
miles from the border fence (what there is of it). We are very welcomed by
the Border Patrol because we help fill in gaps in their very gappy ranks
(thank you, Pres. Bush). We do nothing but spot for them and radio in the
information as to where we see illegals crossing. We are also trained in
first aid to help anyone we find who needs it, but otherwise, we make no
contact with the aliens. It is a sad, sad story, people being deceived and
deluded by their own government to become fodder for the Globalist war on
sovereign boundaries. See the piece below on "14 reasons".
The reliance on massive foreign labor is
one of the common signs of a culture on its last legs. I do not mean honest
immigrants, I mean the control of the situation by Globalists who want
borders wiped out, who run the corporations who say they desperately need
the immigrants to do the work Americans will not do, etc. They want to turn
America in to another 3rd world country where they control the population
economically and politically. The evidence for all this is available. See
the "Conspiracy" section of the Politics Library. There has never been a
time when conspiracy was not rampant, there has never been a time when those
with the capability (real or imagined) were not conspiring for control of
the known globe. And today is no exception.
The difference today is the success of
the mind-control program (government diseducation, the media, and the
political parties). We Americans and been sold the consumerist mentality --
i.e., to keep the Globalist international corporation coffers full. And we
are quite happy with it. Well, we hate it, and we love it. Like an
addiction. We are often ashamed of it, but 99% do nothing about it. OK,
I'll give you 95%. We LIKE our government Nanny. We have no conception of
the freedom for which our founding fathers fought. And, worse, we have no
conception of the Way of the Cross, how to die well. And, not knowing how
to die well, we know not how to live well. Death makes cowards of us all.
Except for an occasional 13 or 11 year old girl such as at the Nickel Mines
Amish community some months ago.
We cannot survive long on this diet.
The disaster looming over Europe will hit us in about 50-75 years -- unless
we get serious with the Lord Jesus Christ. Either Jesus is Lord, or civil
government will be lord. Choose this day whom you will serve.
I have written and commented about the
growing understanding of the scam which is the IRS -- and am universally met
with disbelief and apathy. "Well, the IRS will win..." Where is our
backbone??? We are being scammed and people do not rise up in anger?
What kind of men are we???
Well, see the piece below on the IRS
losing in court. Not the first time, and for sure not the last. Some bold
folks who are willing to risk losing are beginning to win. And the results,
if we get faithful to God and each other, will be telling.
Edwin Vieira (see below) is one of those
bold and creative writers (one of those 2 to 5%) who is laying part of the
groundwork for the renewal of America -- a restoration of the Constitutional
Militia. If you value your political freedom, read it. And get equipped
yourself. And learn how to put the military into a Biblical/Christian
context. God, not our government, owns the military.
The founding fathers rightly feared a
standing army more than almost anything else. And we are illustrating why.
We have come to the point where we can no longer trust that our (standing)
military will side with the people in a contest against centralized
government. The signs are not good. And the government has been steadily
conditioning the military and the police (where they can get at them), to
see us citizens as their wards, not the supreme officers of the state.
And the Church is an utter disgrace --
spending most of its time fighting with each other (where is there a major
denomination which not fracturing?). That, too, has been on the agenda of
the secular globalists -- infiltrate the Church (Antonio Gramsci style) to
disable it from any possible spiritual warfare against the enemies of God,
against the enemies of truth, righteousness, and love.
There are Godly globalists --- Jesus is
Lord. The secular folks are too late. The global leader has already been
chosen. But the Western followers of the King of kings and Lord of lords
are currently not much help to the Kingdom of God and not much threat to the
kingdom of Satan. That will change, but it appears that nothing short of a
severe persecution will make the change.
So pray, plead, beg that God will do in
us whatever He has to do in order to get us, both personally and
corporately, where He wants us to be -- intellectually, morally, and
spiritually. Even if it hurts -- a lot.
Blessings, Earle Fox
Greetings, Fellow Christians and other Friends,
The last two weeks I have been out of
action, occupied getting my car transmission rebuilt, costing lots of bucks,
and my harddrive, which crashed, reset up with software, costing lots of
time. That is normally a two day job, but with complications, it has been
nearly ten days (OK, so three of which were spent at the border with the
Minutemen). Things are just getting moving again.
I had planned for some time to rebuild a
whole new hard drive from scratch and then back it up just in case I needed
it to start over again. With a back up, getting started again is about a
half hour job, not two to ten days. O well. In all things, God is good. I
did have a rest from lots of other things like keeping the website up and
publishing newsletters....
Immigration continues to be top news.
Thankfully, the amnesty bill was scuttled. It will be back again, but
perhaps the American people will continue waking up. If you think
immigration is "not a problem", see the Immigration Gumballs
video with link below. You will not view the matter the same again. We
cannot invite more people into our midst than we can absorb without
destroying the very thing for which the honest folks come in the first place
-- a stable culture where they can find a good life. Open
immigration is NOT the way to solve the problems of the third world poor.
Helping them with their own economy and political wisdom under Jesus Christ
is. But we have to repair our own breeches first.
I have thought that having a five year
moritorium on immigration, as some have called for, was a bit too heavy.
But the Gumball Immigration presentation has changed my mind. We had better
shut down the borders until we get control of our own culture
-- including dethroning the globalists -- who are the real
enemy right in our own midst. We must name them, flush them out into the
open, force them to expose their real agenda, and get them out of
government. Fast.
Card sharks fool people with a moving
distracting hand while the quiet, still hand does the deception. Globalists
are the quiet hand. They cleverly remain out of sight, letting all of us
folks out here noisily fight among ourselves, while they continue quietly to
control the direction of the West. That must be stopped.
The situation in California,
and probably other border states is approaching disaster proportions.
Some 18 hospitals were closed down last year
because they were forced by law into bankruptcy by having to take patients
who could not pay for themselves. Mostly immigrants from Mexico. The state
of California has to start one new school every day
of the year, on average to keep up with the growing numbers of
illegal children (of course, we are not doing it, so classrooms get more and
more packed...). Many of those coming here have no intention, just
like many Muslims, of integrating. Their intent is to take
over. We have schools now in Los Angeles started specifically to
train their young to do so. This is multi-culturalism??? This is betrayal,
deceit, and invasion.
How much of the current travesty and
nonsense would not be happening if government were not in charge of
schooling? ...if parents controlled the education of their
children. How many children would be shooting their own
classmates? Where would sexual promiscuity be being graphically taught to
children? Almost nowhere. Parents love their children and want to set them
free with honest education to live their own lives. Governments want to
control them.
Government is rightly
about control, that is why its main role is to be a
referee in the social/commercial game. And that is why it
should never be a player in the game of
commerce and providing the goods of life. Least of all, providing
education, for the same reason as for religion. Both form the hearts and
minds of the people -- never, never, never to be coerced at gunpoint, as we
do with government schools. (Gun point? Yes. When in the 1800's
Massachusetts dictated government schools for everyone, people out on Cape
Cod refused. They were "persuaded" by the militia -- at gunpoint. Your
truant officer enforces ... at gunpoint.)
People object, "Well, without
public schools our country would be Balkanized! split into a
hundred warring groups!" And what is happening now??? We are headed down
the road for another civil war -- our constitution is being destroyed by our
own government -- our new taskmasters who want to run every aspect of our
lives -- including what food supplments we can take (see Mannatech
articles).
That is astonishing. But more
astonishing is the apathy and culpable, sinful ignorance of American
Christians who are not willing to pay the price for honest
truth-seeking. Whose God is their bellies (consumer mentality).
See below the article on The
Misery of Diversity. Common sense might just be breaking through.
Unity comes through an honest free market of ideas. That cannot happen with
government monopoly-control of education. It will always become a
mind-control system, not for setting free.
Lesson to be learned: get yourself
educated (NOT by the government) so that you are skilled in assessing the
reliability of the "experts". NEVER let the experts take over your
decision-making. They are your paid servants to give advice, not
to run your life. Including government.
There are a few articles below on a
company called Mannatech, which produces food supplements called
glyconutrients. Some of those supplements are already on their way
to changing the whole face of medicine and health care.
Read these articles. I have tested Ambrotose. It is a winner. My
experience can be found at the Mannatech Page (see below).
See also the commentary on the
20-20 program on Ambrotose, my response, and the responses of
others, including the CEO of Mannatech. Quite a story of media,
globalist Big Pharma, and government collusion and abuse against we, the
people.
If you have any problems with your
immune system or with degenerative or autoimmune diseases, including
cancers, you need to get informed about glyconutrients, Mannatech, and
Ambrotose. A nutrient which strengthens one's immune system is
worth investigating for anyone on the face of the earth.
Justice Scalia writes
an article on the 10 Commandments below. A good start, but
much more can be said.
And Islam gets its
share of articles. There are good ways of engaging Muslims,
honestly, gracefully, and compellingly. Ditto for
homosexuality. These are winnable battles for persons who are
intellectually, morally, and spiritual mature.
But the people we really need to
engage are the Globalists, the leaders (as Eisenhower warned) of
the military-industrial complex, those now
international corporations and banks rich enough (through national
and internation grand theft) to buy out just about any political force
around. They are not honest secular folks, they are aimed at world control,
and they are specifically anti-Christ. Their God is their belly
(feel-good), and they will do anything they think they can get away with.
Anything. Their only serious enemy is a renewed Biblical
civilization. So if you are a serious Christian or Jew, expect to
encounter trouble.
On the other hand, it is they
who should be scared, not us -- if we are secure in Christ.
No force on earth can stand up to a mature, healthy Christian
community which has no fear of death and understands Godly freedom
-- both personal and political. Such Christians won the Roman Empire, and
we can win back Western Civilization -- if we are sold out to Jesus Christ
-- who (the globalists are too late) has already been appointed World
Governor.
Blessings, Earle Fox
5/26/07
Dear Fellow Christians and other Friends,
Just by the way, I count as "other friends"
generally any truth-seeker. Christians can make common cause with
any truth-seeker in maintaining the open public arena of debate, even though
we may disagree on issues. That attitude certainly ought to be a primary
foundationstone of any relationship among Christians -- but
often is not. That public arena of discussion is the place where
evangelism ought to take place, the place where we are set free to
make our own decisions about the matters before us.
I think that to be part of the burden of I
Timothy 2:1 ff. where Paul urges us to pray for kings and all in
high position "that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and
respectful in every way..." because God "desires all men to be saved and to
come to the knowledge of the truth." A primary role of civil govt
is to keep the peace just so that the issues of life and truth can be openly
and honestly discussed. That is what our US Constitution was
written to provide -- not the systematic mind-control which always becomes
the policy of government-controlled education, and not the legal exclusion
of religion from public policy, another part of mind-control.
That free public arena provides the ground
where honest pluralism can happen -- everyone is invited into the
debate, not because everyone's view is right, but rather to find out which
view is right. That is what science is about. Including the science of
honest politics.
The pseudo-pluralism of so-called "liberal
democracy", which is neither liberal nor democratic, which thinks
that one can live by feeling good rather than acting and relating rightly,
is a cover up for a hidden totalitarian agenda -- as we see happening all
over the West. When homosexual advocates are striving for power, they are
all about "inclusiveness", but when they get into power, they are
totalitarian -- as in "hate crime" laws, which are not about
protecting homosexual persons, but about shutting down open discussion. The
pseudo-liberals (those who do not liberate) of today claim to be the party
of the people, but they distrust the common man and want big government
elite to make decisions for us. Those elected elite will soon become our
slave masters if pseudo-conservatives (who cannot conserve anything) allowed
it to continue. It is my opinion that the homosexual folks are being used
as cannon fodder by the globalists as tools for the destruction of Western
(Biblical) morality.
Only under the law and grace of God
can genuine responsible ordered freedom be sustained, that is,
freedom where the rights of others to enter the discussion are respected.
That was built into our Constitution, which is being trashed by the people
who are using the homosexual agenda. Homosexualist leaders do are not
protecting their constituents, they rather want to shut down criticism of
their position. If they cared about their people, they would above all,
insist in open discussion of the truth rather than sell them out to a
compulsive, lethal addiction.
But the attack is being promoted in many ways,
e.g., through "open borders", which is promoted, not to
help the poor, or to help the economy, but to import buyable votes, and to
promote world control by the globalist successors to what Eisenhower warned
was the "military-industrial" complex. See item below on
"What is Biblical Government?"
I hear many people ranting about "ain't it
awful!!!" yet very few offering any substantial way to turn things
around. The piece below about "How to Win..." is one of my
attempts to point to a solution. There are solutions, real solutions. But
winning is not mostly about "them" and how awful they are.
It is about how incompetent we have become, about becoming
a new kind of people, people who can speak the truth in love, who
will do so at any cost to themselves, people who can get up to a microphone
or a bully pulpit or stand before someone ranting and
speak truthfully and gracefully.
That means people who have died to themselves
and so found themselves in God, who have walked the way of the
cross sufficiently to become truly dependent on, and obedient to, God.
Trust and obey. If I am dependent on and obedient to anything in
the world, that thing will control my life. God
has no interest in controlling us, He wants to set us free to join
Him with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. My decision to follow
Jesus to the Father has to be a freewill gift. No one but God can set us
free to do that. Amazing grace....
Chapter III of Personality, Empiricism, &
God is now online -- "Creation: a Dialogue with God". Don't
try to read this without reading the prior chapers, as it will probably make
no sense. But I believe that the cosmological argument for God
(reasoning from the fact that the world cannnot explain itself to the
existence of God) is a logical and compelling case. It alone can supply the
foundation for empirical science (a fact of history as well as of logic).
Ascension Blessings, Earle Fox
5/3/07
Dear Fellow Christians and other Friends,
Big News! The first volume of
a Personalist Cosmology in Imago Dei is getting ready,
under the title, Personality, Empiricism, and God (PEG). The
preface and first two chapters are online (rough and ready, but substance
all there). See link below.
Vol. II will be called Yahweh or the
Great Mother? (Y or GM?), hopefully out sometime in
2008.
PEG began as my D. Phil. thesis at
Oxford (1964) on the subject of science and theology,
showing the logical reasons why science could not have arisen without the
Biblical background, and why inductive reasoning requires the Biblical God
in order to make sense at all. It has been sitting on my shelf all this
time, but turns out to be very relevant to the Evolution vs.
Intelligent Design debate raging around us.
(See Rodney Stark's book,
The Victory of Reason, a sociologist's interpretation
of why science and the free market arose only in a Biblical framework.
Medieval scholars have known for a long time that the Middle Ages was not a
"dark age" from which the secular Enlightenment rescued us. It was a hotbed
of intellectual and spiritual ferment, leading to both the rise of science
and the development of a democratic republic under God.)
A "personalist" cosmology is one in
which the basic entities of the cosmos are persons, not
things, not atoms, electrons, quarks, snarks, and not essences or ideas.
The Biblical worldview has always been either snubbed from without by
persons who think the Hellenic philosophical tradition is the only way to
go, assuming that basic realities are impersonal, abstract, and ultimately
unknowable, and/or compromised from within Biblical ranks by persons who
were taken in by the Hellenic view. (For an excellent summary of how the
Hellenic view undermined most of Christian history, read Nancy
Pearcey's Total Truth.)
Y or GM? will follow up with the
theological issues, and a more detailed comparison of the Biblical
worldview with the secular/pagan worldview.
Biblical theology collapsed during
the late 1700's and all through the 1800's, and was thrashed during the 20th
century. But there are signs that Christians are regaining their
intellectual credibility over the last few decades. Biblical
theology must be rewritten to answer the challenges of modernity and
post-modernity. That can be done by mining Scripture itself, not by
compromising to conform to the norms of secularism or neo-paganism.
If we do not accomplish this task, we can count on remaining in the
backwaters of Western civ.... as it collapses into oblivion.
Some months ago, I had promised a review of a book,
Cracking the Code, by Peter Eric Hendrickson, on
how the IRS Tax Code has fraudulently interpreted the statues
and persuaded America that we are all required to hand in a 1040 on April
15.
There are court cases in progress, and being pushed,
which rely on arguments such as his, so we ought to be hearing more in the
near future. Aaron Russo's documentary, From
Freedom to Fascism, is another example of the same kinds of
claims, and which I highly recommend. See links below.
Resurrection Blessings, Earle Fox
4/11/07
Dear Fellow Christians and other Friends,
The world at play is a sad sight. Especially when
God's own people, the Judeo-Christians, cannot stand up and speak the truth
in love. The homosexual movement continues onward. That
is not due to the strength of that movement, but to the dysfunction
of the Judeo-Christian community.
It is due also to the fact that the
globalist one-worlders (who have a river of wealth being siphoned
off the public arena into their tills, and much of the wealth of global
industry at their disposal) are using both homosexual people and the Muslims
for their own ends.
That is evil and cruel, no matter how much you might
disagree with homosexuality or Islam.
It cannot last forever. And the globalists
in the end may find that they have gotten hold of a bear (or two)
by the tail when the two parties in question discover what is happening --
and find themselves out of control. Certainly Islam is something globalists
would not find compatible other than as a club by which to beat what is left
of Biblical civilization. They are being used to create one more crisis to
keep people distracted, and another excuse to centralize power.
All this is a brilliant execution of the
Hegelian-Gramsci strategy of creating an antithesis to a thesis
with the intent of controlling both sides to control the outcome, the
synthesis. Globalists of the 20th century were known for having funded both
sides of most of the conflicts, including the Bolshevik revolution, WW I and
II.
These people, in other words, are evil minded. They
will stop at nothing they think they can get away with.
And they have the public pretty much befuddled, fighting side issues, not
the real enemy. And not giving testimony to the real Savior.
Until we Christians stand up and can give a
truthful and graceful testimony that Jesus is Lord, we will
continue down our present path. Most Christian denominations today are
consumed with important infighting, and have no time for minor issues such
as survival of Western (Christian) Civilization.
All that leads me to believe that one of our
main tasks is the rewriting of Biblical theology so that it can
stand up toe to toe with any other religion or philosophy in the public
arena. Helping to do that is what I believe to be my calling, and what the
Road to Emmaus is about. The theology that came out of the Reformation
conflict, on both the Protestant and Catholic sides, failed
to see what God was doing and ended up opposing reason to revelation
-- the worst mistake the Church has ever made.
All of these address
issues from the Biblical worldview, which can stand on its own in any public
debate. It would -- if Christians knew how to handle evidence and were able
to reason well in public. The evidence is overwhelmingly on the Biblical
side of every significant issue. So it is our own fault that we are losing
and continue to swirl around in the backwaters of western civ.
Some of the reading
will be long and hard. But not to worry. It is going to be a long and hard
war, so you will have plenty of time.
Tyranny over education and terribly
destructive sexuality are a large part of the content below. Not
easy or pleasant reading. But we either face the facts and force
the public to face the facts, or we continue to go under. That
means the Way of the Cross (see "Dying a Successful Death".
If pleasure, comfort, and peace are more important to you than freedom and
truth, you will be useless in the battle. So let's get on with it.
Resurrection Blessings, Earle Fox
3/13/07
Dear Fellow Christians and other Friends,
First of all, three big issues:
1. READ THE BILLS ACT
In the 1990's when I was living in Ambridge, PA, I
was working with a group led by two men who had discovered (a) that few
state legislators ever read the bills they passed, and (b) also did not
write their own bills, that the bills were written by a special agency
designed to do that. So the legislators neither wrote nor read the
bills they pass to create laws imposed upon We, the People. The
two campaigned to get legislation passed to compel legislators to both write
and read the bills.
A good friend, Jim Babka, is head of an organization
called Downsize DC, with the intent of doing just that,
bringing our government down to the size intended by the writers of
the Constitution and the people who voted it in. Essentially, that
means limited to being the referee for society (not a
player in the game), caretaker of the public space,
and defender against enemies foreign and domestic. The federal
government has no constitutional authority for the vast majority of laws it
makes and projects it sponsors and funds (at our expense) -- e.g., welfare,
education, federal reserve, the IRS, and much of its meddling in commerce.
One of the main projects of Downsize DC is the
"Read the Bills Act" (RTBA), which will require legislators
to read the bills they point at the rest of us. The bill is already
before Congress, and will likely get a lot of verbal support which
will wither when the vote comes. So there needs to be considerable
pressure from "We the People". That is where Downsize DC comes
in. They provide a means of focusing opinion on those kinds of issues.
Visit www.downsizedc.org, sign on
for their email newsletter, learn their simple system, and make your
opinions known to your legislators. Sufficient pressure requires lots of
people doing just that.
Jim's e-letter keeps you informed about many items
before Congress. Well worth looking at.
2. THE MILITIA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
In another direction, I just
received a copy of The Nation in Arms, which is Vol. 1 of Constitutional
"Homeland Security". Author Edwin Vieira is
advocating the revival of the militia as indicated in the Constitution.
The militia has fallen into disrepair, and largely coopted by the Fed, which
makes it useless for the purpose for which it was intended -- namely to
provide the citizens the coercive capacity to discipline a central
government which had gotten out of control. The only parallel of which I am
aware is the Swiss system of cantons which have something like a canton
militia.
Americans are behind the 8-ball on just about every
issue before us -- about 50-75 years behind dying Europe. There is not a
single issue in which Christians are taking the offensive, or are even
talking about it. Christian failure to understand Biblical
government is a tragic result of our anti-intellectual "tradition" of the
last 5 or so centuries. See my article on Vieira's work.
3. GLOBALIZATION OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
Of all the issues before us, this one is the
second most important of all (the first being our spiritual integrity).
When we lose control of the education of our children, we lose
control of our future. Hitler mocked the parents
of those who objected to his policies -- You are irrelevant, he declared,
because I have control of the minds of your children, so the future belongs
to us...
We are in exactly that position -- we have
given our children for over a century to teachers dedicated to the
destruction of our Biblical faith and of our democratic
republic under the God of that faith. They understand that a
spiritual renewal means the end of their plans, so they have been planning
(yes, as in conspiracy...) for well over a century to control the minds of
the people, beginning with the defenseless -- the children -- the children
of parents who have lost their faith and their courage and common sense to
stand for their faith. I.e., almost all Westerners, including Americans.
Evidence? Christians are losing about 85% of their
children to hostile beliefs. We do not know how to pass on our
faith to our children. That is a tragic fall into spiritual
self-destruction. And globalists are making ready to spring
the final trap.
So read the article below on that subject, and visit
the website for the Commonwealth Education Organization which is ringing the
bell on this issue. And get your children out of government
education...!
Those are the three BIG ISSUES of this eNewsletter.
There are others below. See especially those in bold type.
Note also that I am updating my D. Phil. thesis,
Personality, Empiricism, & God for publication. It will
impinge on the evolution vs. creation debate significantly, so please
keep this (and that issue) in your prayers.
Lenten Blessings, Earle Fox
3/3/07
Dear Fellow Christians and other Friends,
The BIG NEWS for Anglicans
(Episcopalians are part of the worldwide Anglican Communion) is the
strong discipline administered to the Episcopal Church at a recents
Primates' conference at Dar es Salaam in Africa. (Primates
are the leaders of the local national churches.) While the Western parts of
the Anglican Communion (AC) have almost all jumped ship from the Christian
faith (they claim to be "reinterpreting" it), the African and Asian
Anglicans are almost universally solidly on the side of orthodoxy. These
cultures have not yet faced the full onslaught of modernism/secularism, so
their support for orthodoxy is very helpful, but at the same time not always
to the point.
This onslaught was generated by the failure of Western
Christians to respond to the secular "Enlightenment", which has
successfully portrayed Judeo-Christendom at out of date, arbitrary,
anti-intellectual, etc. Sadly, their picture all too often fits
reality. Christians have often acted just like that. But that is
changing as Christians regain their intellectual credibility.
The Primates at Dar es Salaam have required the Episcopal
Church to let them know by September 2007 whether they will comply with a
request to have a moritorium on consecrating homosexual persons as bishops.
If they do not so agree, there will be severe consequences, probably
generating either a rejection of their attendence at the every-ten-year
Lambath conference of all the bishops in the world -- or -- a walk-out by
the African and Asian bishops from the Anglican Communion.
This will necessitate an emergency meeting of
the General Convention, or at the very least, the House of Bishops.
There will be one terrific fight. Some value the unity of
the AC, others value more the ordination of homosexual persons.
Most conservatavely thinking persons are rejoicing at
the strong stand of the Primates. But I think Geoffrey Kirk below
issues a fair warning. The capacity for the pseudo-liberals to smooze their
way through things is astonishing. Mostly because the
conservatives do not understand what is at stake, they do not understand how
to defend their own faith against the tactic of "dialogue to consensus", or
they are cowardly. They do not understand how to "dialogue to truth". On
that issue, see below, "Dialogue in Darkness...." which
documents the two opposing strategies.
We are losing America. The drift in America
toward totalitarian government continues. As with the Episcopal
Church, so-called conservatives (with a few exceptions) are
unable to mount an offense (as in "the best defense is a
good offense"). The unconscionable government abuse of border
guards becomes increasingly obvious, even an admission of
having lied in the prosecution of two officers doing their duty.
This could not happen without the consent of the very highest levels
of leadership -- I mean the White House, and those globalists behind the
scenes who control the President.
Bush has again supported the homosexual
agenda, promoting homosexual groups in the UN. I see no reason for
considering Bush a faithful Christian, or a faithful American. He is
supporting policies which are leading to the total downfall of our
Constitutional order under God. He imposes strict "Patriot Act" laws on
citizens, yet opens the borders to let in just about anyone who wants to
come in.
I see two possibilities.
1. Bush knows that there is no danger from the Muslims. That
could happen only if there were collusion between him and his globalist
cronies with the Muslim terrorists. I suspect that the globalists are using
the Muslims for their own ends to foment crises to implement their global
order. The Antonio Gramsci approach. Or, 2. he does not care
about the terrorist danger because he and the globalists are so
compulsively focused on bringing down the sovereignty of America to
implement their globalist new world order -- of which Bush has spoken
numerous times. I think #1 is the more likely because
there is support of Islam in our own government run schools, the acceptance
of Muslim military chaplains (see below), and Islamic prayers at Democratic
(globalist) meetings (see below) -- which could happen only with the
consent of our globalist overlords.
On the oaths being taken with the Koran,
see the article second from the end below with link to David Barton.
The treasonous "North American Union"
continues apace, without congressional or public
input. Bush ought to be impeached for his betrayal of our constitution. If
we had a Congress with backbone...
See the articles by David Kupelian & Joseph
Farah -- two of the best Christian writers in the public arena.
Clear and powerful.
Mandatory vaccine in Texas???
Mandatory psychological exams for school children??? This
is not about health, this is about control.
For more on the control issue, see the We,
the People law suit coming up before the Supreme Court -- about the
right of the people to petition the government for redress of grievances.
The courts have consistently denied that right -- the fundamental right
which keeps government subservient to the people. A LOT hangs on this
one. Get on your knees, repent of your sins (you want to be heard,
right?), and pray for these people and this case and the Court.
On the good side, note the possible candidacy
of Ron Paul for President. A very, very long shot,but it would
focus the debate on reality whether or not he won. And perhaps
coalesce the forces for truth for the long haul.
God knows what He is doing. He has
not lost control. He is continually sifting all of us. He
put the Hebrews out on the back side of the desert "to see whether you would
obey my commands". He is doing the same with us today. Will we
obey Him in this situation, here, and now??? Will we lay down our lives for
Him, here and now??? In these very circumstances???
God is raising up His new Gideon army.
Are you ready?
Blessings, Earle Fox
1/17/07
Dear Fellow Christians and Other Friends,
The news abroad that Congressman Ron Paul might run for
president is the most encouraging news on the political scene
that I can remember in a very long time. He is still, apparently, in
the research stage, and not yet finally decided. But the possibilities
are enormous. See first two articles below. The BIG ISSUE is whether
Christians and Jews will get their political ducks in a row, and learn
what Biblical government really is.
The Hate Crime law is again in Congress,
another attempt to take over public discussion (along with Senate Bill
#1, and its silencing of local lobbying groups). Call your legislators
and tell them what you think (202 225-3121 - & give name of
legislator).
The pseudo-liberal mindset is essentially totalitarian
because they (like the Muslims -- as per the Pope's
remarks) do not hold themselves accountable to reason.
They just want to feel good -- which means, they want the rest of us to
scuttle our reasoning so that we become easy marks for takeover and
mind-control. That, my friends, is what the US public school
system has been designed for since the very beginning with
Horace Mann in the 1830's in Massachusetts. And it is succeeding. From
where did Horace get his brilliant inspiration? From the most
militaristic nation on the planet in the 1830's - Prussia. He was
interested in controlling, not educating, students. And he did a super
job of selling it by playing to the fears of people.
Muslims and "liberal democracy" globalists are
both interested in control, not peace, not righteousness, not
justice, and not love. They both reject submission to reason
and to open discussion of issues -- which are the mainstay of
both Biblical religion and honest politics. The primary
difference between the Muslims and the pseudo-liberals
(modern-day globalists politically) is that the Muslims do it by force
and terror, the globalists do it by stealth. But globalists are willing
to use Muslim terror to destabilize a society to accomplish their
ends. Both are utterly ruthless.
Note below that even Jews are raising warnings for
Christians to WAKE UP. They, of course, are familiar with the
signs of approaching tyranny. We Christians are unbelievably naive and
apathetic. Perhaps the Ron Paul candidacy will wake up a few.
Two border patrol agents have gone to prison -- for
doing their duty. And the President refuses to give them a
pardon. This is deliberate policy. No way could it be accidental. The
news has been all over the internet, and people have pleaded with Bush.
But two innocent agents are paying the price for the globalists to have
their open borders. If that is not betrayal by our president, what is?
The article on the defensiveness of multiculturalism
is a simple piece of logic (if you have not given up your intellect),
and it seems more and more people are waking up to the fact that
multiculturalism, with its subversion of truth, will be both
totalitarian and defensive, not vibrant and free. Only in Christ can
we sustain either a vibrant, joyful life, or our freedom.
On the good side, read the piece below on
Holland's new spiritual revival. Very small and hidden
away so far, but there and growing. The Muslim 2x4 over their heads and
the sight of their own people incapable of responding has perhaps
wakened some of them to reality. Religion matters, who is the
true God matters. Same processes happening here in America,
but, as we are about 50-75 years behind Europe in the decline, we may be
a bit behind in the waking up as well.
We know that in the end, Jesus wins, not just
because we "have read the end of the book" (which is, I think, an
incompetent response...), but because we have begun to see and
experience the presence and power of God in our own lives.
Blessings, Earle Fox
1/6/07
Dear Fellow Christians and other Friends,
The new year is off and running,
with many persons are doing their best to make it go one direction or
another. My predictions are not cheerful if you are not standing solidly on
the Hand of God and obedient to His Voice. My thoughts on New Years Day are
expressed below on 1.1.
Living through the death of a civilization
is, as we say, an "interesting" experience. Someone wanted to find
out how Jesus conducted funerals, but discovered that He
did not do any. He did resurrections. Resurrection is my
long-run prediction for Western Culture, but I think it will look quite
different when it all shakes out, and we are able to pick up the pieces. I
think we are in for very difficult changes. The Biblical
foundations of America have been too severely damaged to predict anything
else. That coupled with the incapacity of the Church (the conscience of
society) to even address most of the issues spells hard times ahead.
Church and State have both lost their moral and spiritual compasses,
a condition which began centuries ago (see The Tragic and
Disastrous Failure of Western Christendom below).
In my annual Christmas letter to family and friends,
I noted five decisions we all make, like it or not, just
because we are human. There is a Biblical way to make those decisions, and
then there are the world's many ways of making them. The five decisions
are the subject of a chapter in Biblical Inner Healing
which just came out. The five decisions are:
1. to be a truth-seeker at any cost
to oneself;
2. to rest the weight of one's being
on the Hand of God, the only safe place for it;
3. to take responsibility for one's
own actions, reactions, behavior, etc., to be open and honest;
4. to be obedient to one's reason for
being, given by the Voice of God;
5. to do all of the above with a
loving spirit.
Well or poorly, we will make those decisions.
If we follow Jesus on the Way of the Cross, they will come out
right. If not, not. Well made, they lead to strong, free,
responsible personalities -- children of God who can stand before anyone,
any time, any where -- just like Jesus. That ability to be
ourselves right out in front of God and everybody is the primary power of
the Holy Spirit which Jesus promises. All other gifts of the
Spirit are built on this one. When Christians catch onto this, things will
change. The Church will grow up and begin to conduct its public testimony
again, and the spiritual war we are losing will change directions.
The largely Calvinist theology which
America inherited from Europe in colonial times proved inadequate
on both sides of the Atlantic to deal with the rising secular
"Enlightenment". It had devolved into the moral hypocracy and
judgementalism portrayed in The Scarlett Letter for growing numbers
of Americans. We have yet to replace it with anything substantial
which we can, with intellectual, moral, and spiritual integrity, bring into
the market place. That, I believe, is THE MAJOR task of Western
Christendom -- and, that it can be done.
If we resolve our theological disorder and malaise,
we will again turn the tide. But time is growing short, and the
cost of mounting an offensive is growing exponentially as the other side
gains more and more control of politics, economics, and, yes,
religion, everywhere. By the "other side", I mean (in its current chief
expression) secular globalism. The UN and all that for which it stands, our
rebuilt Tower of Babel. The Muslims are in on this, but
not, I think, in the way we hear posted abroad. See "Allah, Christ,
& America" below.
The renewal begins with #1 above, being
truth-seekers at any cost to ourselves. My favorite example is
Elijah on Mount Carmel (I Kings 18:19 ff.). God is
willing to put His whole case to an honest public up or down test.
Winner take all, no quarter asked or given. The stakes are everything.
Will we join Him in that contest?
And what would that mean for each of us personally?
The articles below with a ** preceding are among my
efforts to apply these principles and goals to our current situations. I
especially point to The Authority of the Bible in a Scientific
World, which spells out how we can assert the authority of
Scripture with reason and grace, and, Defining 'Oughtness'
& 'Love' which is my case for saying that God and God alone
can provide any foundation for morality. God alone can obligate any other
person. If we can meaningfully assert the authority of Scripture in today's
world, and if we can truthfully explain the Biblical foundations of
morality, Judeo-Christians will be able to recapture the moral high
ground from the current winners -- socialists/communists and other
government centralizers of various stripes -- the Tower builders.
Below are the articles posted since the last EMMAUS
eNEWS. You will find the whole list with many more at the What's New? page
link below.
Christmas (All 12 Days) Blessings, Earle Fox
2006 AD
1/17/06
Will be posted as time allows.....
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