America's Greatest Threat
By Chuck Baldwin
April 28, 2015
What is America’s greatest threat? Some would say it is
illegal immigration. Some would say the Muslim people.
Some would say homosexual marriage. Some would say ISIS.
But none of these are America’s greatest threat.
At the expense of sounding preachy, America’s greatest
threat is GOD. Rightly did Benjamin Franklin say, “God
governs in the affairs of men.” And, rightly did Thomas
Jefferson say, “I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep
forever.” Amen.
But the understanding of the Natural Law principles by
which God governs in the affairs of men and upon which
His justice and judgment are predicated is mostly lost
to this generation of Americans--including America’s
pastors and Christians.
The life of Old Testament Israel’s King David affords
many illustrations of the principles that God has
ordained for nations and governments. As a personal
note, King David is my very favorite Bible character. My
appetite for studying his life is insatiable.
Unquestionably, he is one of the three greatest men of
the Old Testament (Abraham and Moses are the other two).
I can even say that David is my hero. With all of his
faults and failures, God yet inspired the New Testament
writer to say that David was “a man after mine own
heart.” He is a man after my heart, as well.
As with others in the Bible, Holy Writ is not shy about
recording the misdeeds of God’s servants, including King
David. This is intended for our own “learning.” We
should earnestly seek to mimic the goodness of these men
and avoid their sins. Perhaps no man of antiquity
demonstrates the polar extremes of success and failure
more so than David.
To my non-Christian friends, please bear with me: this
column has an extremely relevant message to what is
happening in our country.
When almost everybody broaches the subject of King
David’s failures, they almost always go immediately to
the story of Bathsheba and Uriah. But, at the risk of
inducing the ire of my fellow Christians, that was NOT
David’s greatest failure. It might have been his
greatest personal failure as a MAN, but it was not his
greatest failure as a KING. In fact, the vast majority
of pastors and Christians have completely overlooked
David’s greatest failure. I dare say that the vast
majority of you Christian folks who are reading this
column right now have NEVER heard a message from the
life of David regarding this tragic failure in David’s
life and the implication it has for our country today.
I preached a message last Sunday on this very subject
to the people of Liberty Fellowship. You can find it
here:
The
Crime Of Aggression: The Curse Of A Nation And
Collapse Of The Church
The failure to which I speak resulted in the deaths of
70,000 men in the nation of Israel. (That is at least
seven times more than were killed in the judgment upon
Sodom and Gomorrah.) This was the single greatest plague
that God inflicted upon Old Testament Israel. Think
about the inference of that fact for a few minutes.
Again, Jefferson rightly said, “I tremble for my
country when I reflect that God is just; that his
justice cannot sleep forever.” God’s justice didn’t
sleep in David’s time; and it is not sleeping in our
time, either.
The story is recorded in II Samuel 24. The chapter
begins with these words, “And again the anger of the
LORD was kindled against Israel.”
As a result of God’s anger toward the people of Israel,
he allowed their leader’s heart to be overcome with an
awful motivation. And, remember, this leader was King
David: the man after God's own heart.
Ladies and gentlemen, America’s problem is NOT Barack
Obama, Muslims, liberals, etc. Our problem is US. WE are
the problem. God’s anger against the people (especially
the Christian people) of this country has caused Him to
give us evil leaders such as George H.W. Bush, Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John Boehner,
Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid (and Hillary Clinton or
Jeb Bush, should either of them be elected).
The evil motivation to which King David succumbed is
the same evil motivation that America’s leaders are
succumbing to today; and it portends America’s GREATEST
threat.
The above-referenced chapter records how David
unlawfully numbered the people of Israel, the prophet’s
warning against it, King David’s repentance, and God’s
judgment upon the nation. But, again, most pastors and
Christians have completely overlooked this episode in
David’s life--and the significance of this crime to our
nation today. As a result, America is teetering on the
precipice of the same plague.
To help readers understand the terrible significance of
David’s sin, I here quote the famous scholars Robert
Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, and David Brown commentary on
the Bible published in 1871. This is the commentary that
famed English pastor Charles Spurgeon said is the one
commentary a minister should possess, if he could
possess but one. They write:
“The act of numbering the people was not in itself
sinful; for Moses did it by the express authority of
God. But David acted not only independently of such
order or sanction, but from motives unworthy of the
delegated king of Israel; from pride and vainglory; from
self-confidence and distrust of God; and, above all,
from ambitious designs of conquest, in furtherance of
which he was determined to force the people into
military service, and to ascertain whether he could
muster an army sufficient for the magnitude of the
enterprises he contemplated. It was a breach of the
constitution, an infringement of the liberties of the
people, and opposed to that divine policy which required
that Israel should continue a separate people.”
Notice, this great sin of David included “ambitious
designs of conquest.” The legal name for this sin is
“The Crime of Aggression.” It is so grievous a sin, that
God plagued Israel with the deaths of 70,000 men. And
only David’s awakening to this crime, and his humility
in repenting of it, saved the nation from the deaths of
untold more. Plus, this is David’s last recorded act; he
died soon after.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Crime of Aggression is
currently America’s greatest threat. Many of the lesser
threats against our country (ISIS, for example) are the
result of this great crime. And since it is extremely
doubtful that any U.S. presidential candidate (with the
exception of maybe Rand Paul) would issue a national
“repentance” of the neocons’ wars of aggression around
the world, the same Death Angel that stood with sword
drawn above Israel is doubtless standing above the
United States as we speak.
Make no mistake about it: the neocons are governing
America’s foreign policy regardless of which political
party is in control of the White House and Congress. And
they have been in complete control ever since George
H.W. Bush was President. And the vast majority of our
congressmen and senators, as well as those who will be
running for POTUS in 2016, are in lock-step, I mean
LOCK-STEP, with the neocon agenda regarding foreign
policy. And, sadly, so are most Christians and
conservatives. It is also no hyperbole to say that FOX
News is totally and absolutely nothing more than a
propaganda ministry for the neocon foreign policy
agenda.
To help put this issue in perspective, and to try and
further help readers to understand the seriousness of
what I am saying, I want to quote some excerpts from an
attorney who is attempting to stop the neocons’ Crime of
Aggression via legal action and restore justice (GOD’S
justice, I might add) to American government. I’m sure
almost no one has heard anything about this case. The
propaganda media is even more expert at NOT reporting
news as they are propagandizing the news they do report.
Listen to attorney Inder Comar. He titles these
remarks, “Saleh V Bush And Precedent For The Crime Of
Aggression”:
“First, some brief background about the case. In 2013,
my client [Sundus Shaker Saleh], who is an Iraqi
refugee, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco, California,
in the Northern District of California, which is a
federal court, alleging the crime of aggression. The
defendants in that case are the six highest ranking Bush
administration officials: George W. Bush, Richard
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell,
and Paul Wolfowitz. So she is suing them in a civil case
for her damages as a victim of the war, in much the same
way that she would sue anybody for any cause of action.
“To make it very simple, if George Bush had hit her in
a car, for example, there would be no controversy that
she could sue him if she were injured. It’s a similar
type of claim that we’re making: his conduct and his
actions caused her monetary damage and under the
American system, she has a right to seek her tort
damages, her tort relief.
“The basis of the lawsuit in the United States is a
very old law dating from 1789, the first year of our
republic, known as the Alien Tort Claims Act. The first
Congress in the United States passed this law to permit
non-U.S. citizens--non-Americans--the ability to go to
the United States courthouse and file claims against
anybody for violations of international law. So you have
to allege violations of international law in order to
use this law.
“For about 200 years, people have used this law for
piracy cases, for example. More recently, in the 1970s
and 1980s, people started to use the Alien Tort Claims
Act for claims of torture or for claims of crimes
against humanity.
“In this case, we’ve alleged the ‘supreme crime,’ the
crime of aggression, as Ms. Saleh’s international law
claim. What this suggests is that just as you could
pursue a pirate under this law, or just as you could
pursue a torturer under this law, you must be able to
pursue those who commit the ‘supreme crime’--the crime
of aggression. In this case, she’s pursuing the six
people who caused the Iraq War. As we know from
Nuremberg, you don’t get to sue the soldiers who
committed the aggression: they’re not responsible. The
people who are responsible are the leaders who caused
the aggression. And those are the people who are giving
the orders, who are planning and executing these crimes.
“We filed the lawsuit. The United States Department of
Justice headed by President Obama moved to immunize
these defendants soon thereafter. They requested that
the federal court immunize them under domestic law, on
the basis that these defendants were acting under the
scope of their valid employment when they planned and
waged the Iraq War.
“We fought that certification for more than a year and
a half. But unfortunately, in December of last year, the
District Court agreed that they were immune and
immunized these defendants from further proceedings.
We’ve since appealed that order, and right now that case
is on appeal in the Federal Court of Appeal for the
Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.
“At the end of next month, we’re due to submit a brief
arguing a very specific point of law on appeal: whether
or not a domestic immunity applies to allegations of
aggression.
“Now for those of you who are familiar with Nuremberg,
you may recall that this was the exact defense--or one
of the defenses--raised by the German defendants. They
argued that everything they had done was valid under
German law and, as a result, they couldn’t be held
guilty for something like aggression.
“One of the things that we’ll be raising in our brief
next month is that that issue was decided already at
Nuremberg: domestic defendants do not get to raise that
as a defense.
“What I’d like to offer are some thoughts as to how we
can take this battle now on the offensive and go into
courthouses, go find venues where we can try and do our
best. Ultimately, I think, we can convince judges that
this is the law—and to not follow it would not only
upset Nuremberg, it would validate the defenses made by
the Nazi defendants, who argued that this type of law
could never exist, that everything they did was
completely legitimate, that they were simply following
orders.
“If those things don’t give you a chill, they ought to,
because these are the exact defenses that the government
is making in my case: that everything these defendants
did was valid, that the court shouldn’t scrutinize war
making, because war making is outside the scope of what
the sovereign can be liable for.”
See the complete address here:
Historic:
California District Court Lawsuit Against George W.
Bush, Et Al For “Crime of Aggression”
Folks, I hope you understand the significance of this
case. For all intents and purposes, Bush I, Clinton,
Bush II, Obama, et al., are behaving EXACTLY as did
Germany’s National Socialists (Nazis). If the U.S.
government prevails in this case, it will mean that the
Nazis’ defense at Nuremberg was RIGHT, and that the
allied courts were WRONG to indict them.
Ask yourself, why would Republican senators Lindsey
Graham and John McCain viciously attack Rand Paul’s
foreign policy like they have? Graham and McCain went on
national television last week and said that Rand’s
foreign policy was WORSE than Barack Obama’s. Why would
Republicans laud a liberal Democrat above a fellow
Republican, not once, but over and over? Why? Because
these men are governed by the same neocon (Nazi-like)
agenda. Rand Paul is not. Democrat and Republican mean
NOTHING. As long as he or she allows him or herself to
be controlled by the neocon foreign policy, he or she
will receive the approbation and support of the
governing establishment. And, while what I am about to
say is NOT an official endorsement, the ONLY candidate
for President who, so far, is not willing to grovel
before the neocon foreign policy agenda is Rand Paul.
You can bet that the political and media establishments
will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to keep Rand from
obtaining the Republican nomination, because, to them,
IT’S ALL ABOUT MAINTAINING NEOCON CONTROL OF AMERICA’S
FOREIGN POLICY.
(The pressure on Rand Paul to capitulate his policy of
non-aggression is massive. It will be a miracle if he
can maintain his convictions on this matter. His dad,
Ron Paul, was able to do it. I hope Rand can. I am
earnestly praying for him.)
The Crime of Aggression was the crime that King David
was guilty of planning in his heart in II Samuel 24. It
was the crime that caused a divine plague of 70,000
deaths and the end of David’s reign. It is the same
crime that the vast majority of America’s leaders are
currently guilty of. And it is the same sin that a
seeming majority of America’s pastors and Christians are
willing to tolerate and support.
Someone must see the Angel with sword drawn standing
above America. Someone must be willing to call out our
leaders for these crimes--as King David’s personal
chaplain was willing to do to him. This is one reason
why King David was such a great man: not because he
never failed, but, because the times when he did fail,
he was willing to repent and take personal
responsibility for his failure. And, remember, David’s
failure upon which we are currently focused was
predicated upon the fact that God was angry with THE
PEOPLE.
You can bet we are going to see NO REPENTANCE from the
vast majority of America’s political leaders or from the
vast majority of those who want to be our next
President. If the pastors of America don’t call out the
crimes of our nation’s leaders, who will?
Right now, there is an attorney in the Ninth Circuit who
is trying to do it. For the most part, he is a voice in
the wilderness. And, no, I know nothing of his personal
faith. It doesn’t matter. This is a matter of Natural
Law. This is a matter of national justice. And law and
justice apply equally to ALL PEOPLE.
No wonder that King David’s last words were: “He that
ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of
God.” (II Sam. 23:3)
People who love justice and who have the fear of God in
their hearts are the kinds of people spiritually
qualified to be a nation’s leaders. Right now, the vast
majority of our leaders have neither. And their almost
universal endorsement of The Crime of Aggression proves
it.
But, be not deceived: this national crime is bringing
America to the brink of divine judgment, the likes of
which this country has never seen. It happened to
David’s Israel; it happened to Caesar’s Rome; it
happened to Hitler’s Germany; and it will happen to
Bush/Clinton/Obama/Boehner/McConnell/Reid’s America.
© Chuck Baldwin
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