In recent weeks, America once again has been awakened to the hand of God in such a way that only fools can deny it.

Irrespective of your political beliefs, former president Donald Trump was miraculously saved from an assassin’s bullet. Trump himself said,

“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.”

Even the news media, well, at least FOX commentators were saying it was the hand of God that saved Trump from death. Democrats, however, were calling for a ban on guns and blaming Trump for riling up hate as a predictor of his own assassination attempt.

But what of the hand of God?

From the time of Plato to Thomas Hobbes to John Locke in the 1600s, to our Founding Fathers in the 1700s, to Marx in the 1800s, men attempted to define the need of government in society.

Plato wrote of a utopian communistic society, as did Hobbes, using Biblical imagery in his essay “Leviathan” to describe the all-powerful government. These men used the fallen nature of man to justify strong central authority to control man in preventing man from destroying other men. Marx wanted to ban all religion.

Their systems essentially focused on the idea that man is inherently evil and must be strongly governed by a “benevolent” sovereign. But this is against God’s will for mankind. In Genesis 2, God put Adam in the Garden, giving him the rules… the law, if you will. And he said in verse 17 if you violate this command, “you will surely die.”

Locke, however, saw that God created man in his own image, gave him dominion over the earth, and gave him laws by which to live. Locke believed these inalienable God-given rights were those of life, freedom, and property. He believed that man generally wanted to get along with men, but from time to time, those who covet the life or labor of others would try to take their fruits rather than create them from their own enterprise. In these cases, governments were needed to impartially enforce the laws of God. In other words, man would give up some of his freedom for the protection of government in civil society. Otherwise, he should be left to prosper by his own value add, which is his labor.

The Founding Fathers were influenced by Locke. Laws derived from the laws of God, civil society with freedom and impartial enforcement of the laws, checks and balances, were all staples of American government.

Locke also wrote that if there was “a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to people… that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was first erected…”

In other words, if government is not impartially enforcing the laws of God, the people should put it into the hands of those who would rule as such.

In America, we have the choice of our leaders. Christians are still a majority. We must decide if we are to be slaves to tyranny or benefactors of Liberty.

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It’s been termed the “Government Media Complex” by some conservative writers. It refers to the mainstream corporate media that is taking the hard-left position in its coverage of the presidential race, a mouthpiece for the Biden Administration, and ongoing purveyor of dog-whistle rhetoric spewed by the hateful left.

Americans, wake up! Just read the headlines of what has happened over the past two weeks. CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and various other left-leaning propaganda machines downplayed the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump and subsequently refused to report the substance of his Republican nomination acceptance speech.

In the moments after the Trump shooting, I went to the aforementioned media sites to get updated information. They actually downplayed the assassination attempt. Collectively, they portrayed the event as something totally other than what it was. Anybody watching the speech could tell that there were rapid-fire shots at the former president. The government media complex reported that there was a “security incident” and Trump had to be escorted off the stage.

It was literally over an hour before these giants of news got around to reporting the truth. They downplayed the assassination attempt as if some sort of technical glitch had taken place. Nothing to see here.

Their coverage of Trump’s nomination acceptance speech was much the same. The government media complex talked about everything except the substance of the speech.

• Politico reported about the 92-minute record speech and showed pictures of the convention audience dozing off in boredom.
• AFP talked about what Melania wore and how Trump has “reshaped” the Republican Party into his own image (isn’t that was presidential nominees do?).
• The Washington Post did a story on what Trump DID NOT have in his speech.
• Reuters wrote about how critics of Trump worry that his power will go unchecked.
• AP continued its coverage of the assassination attempt by calling the would-be assassin a “Rally Shooter.”

This is the kind of coverage we would expect from Soviet-era Russian media like Tass and Pravda.

For nearly a decade, the government media complex has had Trump in its sites and has been the attack dog of the left. This is not becoming to a nation where heroic men and women have died to protect freedom of speech and religion. Yet this government media complex attacks both regularly, disrespecting the very constitution that guarantees their right to do it.

Maybe it’s time to recognize them for what they are and encourage people to seek the truth, not what they are being spoon-fed by propagandists.

In John 8:32, Christ says, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

There is freedom in truth, but neither freedom nor truth is found in news that is filtered through an extreme agenda.

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