Our Nation is Shifting Toward the Lie

December 18, 2000

Our Nation is Shifting Toward the Lie

If there has ever been a time in our recent history when men have been called to see events from God's perspective, it is now. He is calling us to rightly discern the events of the day (what He is up to) and then to act upon His wisdom in the power of His Holy Spirit. Yes, He is calling us to become like, "… men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do…" I Chronicles 12:32.

Our country is in the midst of a huge paradigm shift. It has never occurred in our nation before. We are on the precipice of moving from one worldview to another. We are moving from the objective, absolute standard of God's Word (rule of law) to the subjective, relativism of each man doing what is right in his own eyes (the will of the people). The implications of this shift are deep and, for those who have eyes to see, it is really a manifestation of the battle between two seeds. This paradigm shift is movement from the rule and reign of God Almighty to the reign to the rule and reign of another.

Our nation and its government were established upon the principles of God's Word. Our Pilgrim forefathers, our founding fathers, and generations following them have openly and gratefully acknowledged their dependence upon God and His providential hand in our nation's history. We are a nation governed by law, God's Law. Because His law governs us there is liberty. Liberty, true liberty is the freedom to become what we ought. It is the freedom to become what God intended us to be. It is not the freedom to do whatever we want but the freedom to lay our lives down that others might live.

In no other nation has liberty so magnificently expressed itself as in America. "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Corinthians 3:17. Our nation has become a light unto the world shouting that, "there is another King and His Name is Jesus." Missionaries have unashamedly taken this message from the shores of America into the uttermost parts of the earth. Millions have come to escape the tyranny of godless governments and found safe harbor here. America is a visible expression of God's love for the nations because God Himself is her foundation and her rock. It is Jesus Christ Himself who made America great and to be His servant.

This rich history and purpose, however, is rapidly being lost. We have moved into times of a thing called "pluralism." Pluralism prides itself in being tolerant of all views. Pluralism stresses pragmatic working together (bipartisanship), with unity being its summum bonum. Principle is left behind as pluralism emphasizes common ground. Pluralism is not an end state. It is actually the state that exists when a nation is moving from one worldview to another. Pluralism is that transition state where a nation moves from one form of government (system of law) to another.

It is this paradigm shift that we must battle. We are living in a pluralistic society that is on the verge of making a shift from the God of our fathers to the god of our own imaginations. Christians, stay the course! I have purposely-italicized words that you might be hearing a lot lately. They are the whispers of the enemy

The Scopes Trial, or Monkey Trial, of 1925 is most illustrative of what we are experiencing in America today. Evolution was pitted against creationism. What would be taught in our children's schools? For more than 250 years the biblical account of creation was taught in our nation's colleges, schools, and home schools. But Charles Darwin brought a new theory to the fore in his On the Origin of Species published in 1859. It did away with the idea that God was necessary to explain creation. Man could do all of the explaining by himself. Evolution became an accepted "truth" by the scientific community and intellectual elite in America in the early twentieth century. Evolution and creationism were on a collision course looking for a place to crash, and crash they did in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925.

The pluralists felt that evolution should be taught side by side with creation. It certainly seemed fair. "Can't we all just get along?" "For the sake of unity can't we find some common ground?" Little did they understand that one worldview would not tolerate the other. Little did they know that they were being used by the devil himself in the battle between two seeds. Little did they know that they were involved in a war of eternal proportions that has ravaged generations throughout the pages of history. What was done in the Scopes trial of 1925, paved the way for the Supreme Court ruling on January 22, 1973 whereby a mother can, simply because she chooses to, kill her unborn baby.

According to the New York World, "Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, feminists, birth-control advocates, agnostics, atheists, free thinkers, socialists, communists, syndicalists, biologists, psychoanalysts, educators, lawyers, and preachers all joined the army of Scopes supporters." Their legal advocate was ACLU attorney Clarence Darrow who argued that John T. Scopes (a science teacher) was well within the rights of academic freedom to teach evolution side by side creationism. For anyone to think otherwise was downright bigoted or fundamentalist. With the help of a biased media, Darrow and his advocates ultimately won the right to have evolution taught along with creationism in our nation's schools. This would seem to be pluralism's ideal, right? Wrong! The devil used pluralism as a means to an end - the expulsion of Almighty God Himself from our nation's schools. Pluralism was just the transition state.

Teaching evolution side by side with creationism was only the first step (a transition step) to outlawing the teaching of creationism altogether. Today, evolution is king in our nation's schools. Creationism or design theory is not tolerated under any circumstances. One worldview eclipsed the other. Pluralism was the mechanism used to dethrone God and exalt self. History is a great teacher.

Today, America is teetering on the brink of moving from one god to another. We are moving from justice, the rule of law, and mercy as laid out by our Lord in the Bible; to a whole new worldview based on fairness, the will of the people, and being nice as laid out by man. One has an absolute, objective standard (the Bible) that applies to everyone, at all times, everywhere. The other has a relative, subjective standard where every man becomes a law unto himself. One brings with it stability and blessing. The other brings chaos and curse. There is no common ground between the two.

"When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Psalm 11:3. When our eyes are opened to the destruction of the foundations of our nation, our order is to rebuild the foundations. The absolute truth of the God of both the Old and New Testaments, who revealed Himself most perfectly in His Son Jesus Christ, and who dwells within us through the blessed presence of His Holy Spirit, is under attack. Our sole duty in these days is to stand firmly in His objective truth and represent this truth to a world that is being shaken to its very core. Now is no time for bipartisanship, common ground, or pragmatism.