America Must Return

America today must heed the proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln on March 30, 1863.  Otherwise, God will bring judgment down on America and our "government of the people, by the people, for the people" will perish. Then, the dead shall have "died in vain." 

If America perishes the world will be lost.  The world will be turned upside down and America will become a people for the government rather than a government for the people. 

If we allow this to happen, and it is, then Communism will have won the day.  And Americans will no longer be entitled to our unalienable rights - life, Liberty or the pursuit of happiness.  

On the other hand, if America returns to God we shall have another "new birth of freedom."

Abraham Lincoln Proclamation

March 30, 1863

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

I, Jonah, believe America must humble itself, repent and seek forgiveness.  "Build back better" is the opposite. We are repeating the same hubris and mistakes Israel made which led to it's destruction thousands of years ago. Israel too was warned. 

America began as a City on a Hill dedicated to God. 

America is a rarity in history.  We are nation with a purpose which has resonated with a wide range of thinkers and writers since our inception. 

In his 1630 sermon John Winthrop made a now famous proclamation that “we shall be as a city upon a hill.”  Winthrop’s text has been quoted by almost every president to hold office.

Sadly, many American's fail to know, understand or appreciate our history.  There was just significant historic anniversary.  Did you miss it? 

We must return - return to God.

Hashivenu Adonai (Restore us God).

Glory Altarpiece in Saint Paul's Church NYC

Explanation of the Glory Altarpiece: "The magnificent work of art that appears in the center of the windows is the “Glory“ altarpiece 3. It was designed by architect Pierre L’Enfant, famously known as the planner of Washington, D.C. This piece depicts Mt. Sinai in clouds and lightning, the Hebrew word for “God” in a triangle, and the two tablets of the Law. When outside the chapel, although not easily seen through the glass, the altarpiece contains a sculpture of an eagle pulling back a curtain to reveal a sun with thirteen rays, representing the original colonies." 

Did You Miss It?

This circa 1869 engraving titled "Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, 1620."

While most people were focused on Covid, the election and the so called "Bethlehem Star" we were distracted from an anniversary of National and international significance - the 400 year anniversary of the Puritans/Mayflower landing at Plymouth on November 11, 1620.

Sadly, many of the commemorative plans by local and international groups for this quadricentennial anniversary were upended by the coronavirus pandemic. 

Our Nation's early settlers on the Mayflower made a famous agreement on board the ship called the Mayflower Compact.   This was essentially a covenant with one another in which they dedicated themselves to God. The first sentence of the Compact is "In the name of God."  

The Mayflower Compact stated their voyage was “For the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith,” and that people derived their right to self-government from God.  I think it notable that on the top of the Washington is the Latin phrase with nearly the same meaning, "Laus Deo," which translate to, "Praise be to God."

The significance of this profound concept cannot be overstated.  About 150 years later, in 1776,  this belief would be expressed as the "unalienable rights" which human beings are entitled to -- Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

The revolutionary concepts in the Mayflower Compact laid the foundation for two other revolutionary documents: the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. The United States’s founding documents did a lot more than just affect Americans, they inspired free societies all over the world.

The Pilgrims created a democratic form of government where officials would be elected, and laws passed. Every male member of the colony over 21 would be able to vote. Based on a popular vote, the eligible men would have the right to change and propose laws and elect or remove office holders. This was unprecedented. 

The Mayflower Compact essentially laid the way for to the concept behind the historic phrase "We the people."

In 1802, John Quincy Adams described the agreement as “the only instance in human history of that positive, original, social compact” and it is popularly believed to have influenced the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

400 years later the Mayflower Compact matters more than ever. The Mayflower Compact famously applied the idea of law established by the people. 

God is under attack in America and around the world. Communism seeks to eliminate God.  God and America are under attack by the CCP. 

The principles embodied in America's founding documents are the opposite of the principles of the Chinese Communist Party. 

Why were they called Pilgrims?

A pilgrim is a person who goes on a long journey often with a religious or moral purpose, and especially to a foreign land. After the Mayflower arrived, the first baby born was a boy. His parents (William and Susannah White) named him Peregrine - a word which means travelling from far away and also means pilgrim. The writer of Mourt's Relation in 1622 refers to the Plymouth Colonists as pilgrims. Governor William Bradford calls the Plymouth settlers pilgrims when he writes about their departure from Leiden, Holland to come to America: “They knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country; and quieted their spirits.”  

A Rock of Ages

Isaiah 26:

We have a strong city.

He appoints salvation
    as its walls and ramparts.
2 Open the gates![a]
Let the righteous nation enter—
    one that keeps faith.
3 You keep in perfect peace
one whose mind is stayed on You,
because he trusts in You.
4 Trust in Adonai forever,
for the LORD Adonai is a Rock of ages.
5 For He humbles those dwelling on high,
leveling the lofty city,
leveling it to the ground,
bringing it down to the dust.

America is a City On A Hill. 

Hashivenu Adonai. 

AMERICA MUST RETURN.

THIS IS WAR!!

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is attacking us biologically, electronically, economically, culturally and politically. Eventually they will attack us environmentally and otherwise.  China is already the largest polluter of the world's oceans.

"All warfare is based on DECEPTION."

All the while the CCP will do so deceptively and they NEVER admit it. 

Here is what we all need to do. We need to bring China to it's knees economically.  There are many ways to do this. They need us more than we need them.

STOP BUYING EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING MADE IN CHINA!  

Look at the labels. Housewares, clothes, toys pretty much anything made with plastic is made in China with slave labor or people working under unfair conditions. Spend more to get the product made elsewhere. If you cannot find the product without a Chinese maker, do without.  

When the USA went to war to defeat the NAZI'S we gave up much more. As for lives, We have already lost nearly as many lives to the Chinese virus as we lost in WWII.

Many of the people in China will be behind us. They hate the tyranny they are forced to live under. Those who defy the government are tortured, imprisoned and killed.

People throughout Asia, in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and elsewhere will cheer our efforts to free the Chinese people from their evil government. They fear the CCP! Hong Kong has been brutally crushed by the CCP over the last 18 months!  Look what they do* to their own people who practice a Chinese version of Buddhism.  Christians have faced terrible persecution. 

*UP WE SOAR- Watch this beautiful new animated documentary based on a true story.

WAKE UP AMERICA! The CCP is overthrowing America without firing a single bullet. They are winning a war that too many Americans don't even realize we are in.  If we don't do something about this now our grandchildren will not have a free country. 

Excellent article which gives examples of how China is excuting it plans.  

Is China Establishing a Strategic Lever in the Caribbean? Read Newsmax: Is China Establishing a Strategic Lever in the Caribbean?

WAKE UP AMERICA - Part I

If this was updated the figure would be up into the hundreds of millions!

KNOW YOUR ENEMY!!

This election may seem to be about President Trump. It is about Trump the way the American Revolution was about George Washington.  

The American Revolution was about Liberty - It was about Sovereignty and individual freedom.  Our Constitution is designed to protect the people from the government!  It is completely the opposite concept at the Chinese Communist Party. 

In many respects this election is a battle in the war to maintain Sovereignty and freedom of "We the People."  China subordinates the individual. Globalists subordinate nations. They both eliminate God!

It is fair to say that had the first conspiracy by a foreign power been successful at killing or capturing George Washington in 1776, the Revolutionary War would have been over when it started. 

In 1776 we fought against the superpower at that time - The Crown of England. Today the war is against a very different and more evil power - Communism. More specifically Communist China and Communist Russia. 

The outcome of our war against the National Socialist party (the NAZI'S) ended with in Triumph for Truth, Justice and the American way.  (Yes, I did just quote Superman.)  

After WWII was over, "EVIL" and the forces of darkness simply popped up like a ballon on the opposite side of the world in 1949. This time in the form of the Communist revolution, Chairman Mao - THE CCP.

An arm's race is practically irrelevant if your enemy can win the war without ever firing a missile.  

American's tend to have a very short attention span. We think in short periods of time such as "tonight." Seriously, American's focus on the very very short term, whereas the CCP plots out objectives and strategies on very very long periods. While the USA struggles to produce a one year budget, China has a 50 year plan to become the world's dominant superpower. 

IT'S NOT OK!

Before you think it is OK for the CCP to surpass the USA, I strongly suggest you learn about the terrible things the CCP regime does to it's own people.  With England, at least the thought was that the King/Queen loves their subjects. In China the individual is snuffed out for minor offenses to the CCP.

WAKE UP AMERICANS!

In the same final days that China was negotiating in bad faith with the Trump administration on trade, they were releasing the virus on the world.  The CCP knew that would cripple the booming USA economy. They knew that was key to defeating Trump. 

Communists have made substantial progress.  But like the Nazi's, the Communist know that they ultimately must take away our 2nd Amendment rights. Biden/Harris are a key in their next steps. Trump is a road block. 

Let's consider how much progress Communist have made. Here are actual communist goals read into the Congressional record in 1963: 

• Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 
• Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 
• Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 
• Gain control of all student newspapers. 
• Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 
• Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 
• Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 
• Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.” 
• Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.” 
• Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press. 
• Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 
• Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” 
• Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.” 
• Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” 
• Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 
• Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.” 
• Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” 
• Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 
• Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 
• Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 
• Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 
• Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 
• Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 
• Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 
• Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 
• Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 
• Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 
• Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems. 

As one should be able to discern from comparing the Communist stated strategic objectives above to the present situation which American Conservatives have articulated, China is very far along.  There are genuine reasons to be deeply concerned.  If you see that then you can also appreciate why this election is so critical. 

The CCP'S #1 goal at this time is to defeat President Trump. 

HOW ARE COMMUNIST DOING IT? HOW ARE THEY WINNING THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST, PARTICULARLY IN THE USA?  

WAKE UP AMERICA. Part II

THIS IS WAR.

WAKE UP AMERICA - Part II

CHINA IS CONQUERING THE WORLD IN COMPLETELY THE OPPOSITE WAY AS HITLER DID.  HITLER'S APPROACH WAS HEAD ON IN BATTLE AND IN PROPAGANDA.  CHINA'S APPROACH IS FAR MORE DECEPTIVE, INSIDIOUS AND INTELLIGENT.  

China's CCP is following a methodical approach to war. That "way" is laid out in the classic military treatice The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

America is in a war that it is unaware it is fighting. It is war against the CCP and China's intention to gain world domination. By the time China goes to battle with the USA they will have already won the war.

China's Sun Tzu teaches in "The Art of War" that the warrior must know themselves and their enemy. That is one of the reasons so many Chinese come to America for education and then return to China.  

Here are some of the other lessons that Sun Tzu teaches: 

"All warfare is based on DECEPTION. Hence when able to attack we must seem unable. When using our forces we must seem inactive. When we are near we make the enemy believe we are far away. When far away we must make the enemy believe we are near."

"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." 

Build a massive military base disguised as an Island in the South China sea while denying it is for military purposes. 

"In war, the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won." 

It is over for Hong Kong. The same will happen eventually to Tiawan. 

"A wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own."

China has been foraging off our intellectual property for decades.  

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move fall like a thunderbolt."

Honey pot spies, computer hacking and lucractive business deals have all worked real well for the CCP. They gotten into the offices, board rooms and bedrooms of the most influential politicians and business people in America. 

"Make your way by unexpected routes and attack unguarded spots."

Everything from the China Silk Road to Huawei is a part of a deceptive plan to overtake snd dominate the world economy. 

China's Navy is already larger that the USA and they are taking over the operation of commercial ports around the world. After two decades of rapid enlargement, China's presence is at the forefront of both the demand and supply sides of many global maritime market sectors. 

The Chinese Communist Party is decieving us.   We can't trust them in business -- ANYONE who knows anything about stocks KNOWS that the financial statements and reports of Chinese based companies cannot be trusted.

Chinese intelligence operatives have infiltrated leading and key politicians from McConnell to Feinstein, from Biden to Clinton. 

If Biden is President, China will take over a lot more that the seas!  We saw what China did to the USA steel industry and USA manufacturing at large. And they do their growth without the protections or concerns for the environment. 

Once China is have control, like they now do in Hong Kong, they crush and kill ALL dissidents. People who can't be quieted disappear. Everyone is survielled! No one has privacy and everyone lives in fear. 

"According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one’s plans."

Trump put a major roadblock in the CCP's way. Trump is the greatest threat to their strategies and tactics in 20+ years!  CCP Solution? Covid and Biden!!

WAKE UP AMERICA! Part I.

WHAT WOULD WASHINGTON SAY TO TRUMP

Imagine if George Washington could speak to Donald Trump today.  What would he advise him to do? 

As you know, America's Declaration of Independence was declared in 1776, but General Washington wasn't annointed President until 1789 at the 1st Presidential Inauguration in a little stone church at Ground Zero in NYC which miraculously survived 9/11. 

During Washington's inauguration speech, in his first prophetic words as President, the Father of our new country affirmed our Country's special relationship with God. 

We are a country with a sacred obligation. George Washington made this clear in his Inauguration speech. 

"In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." GW

Washington went on in his speech to WARN our nation. Here those words from his speech:

"I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the PROPITIOUS SMILES OF HEAVEN, CAN NEVER BE EXPECTED on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."

I believe our nation is facing judgment.  I believe we have been warned. I believe currents events are a final test. 

What would George Washington tell President Trump. I imagine he'd say something like this: 

OUR NATION MUST REPENT TO BE RESTORED.  THE LEADER OF OUR COUNTRY MUST PUBLICALLY SPEAK WORDS OF REPENTANCE FOR HOW OUR COUNTRY IS ACTING.  OUR LEADER MUST CALL US TO RETURN BACK TO GOD.  (He is essentially saying Hashivenu Adonai.)

The shaking of our nation is going to continue. Future events such as the outcome of the election, will determine whether national restoration begins or judgment is accelerated.  

I wish PRESIDENT Donald J Trump would go to the steps of this same Church at Ground Zero and deliver words that might satisfy God and make our Nation great in God's eyes. If our President surrenders to God he will march on toward victory. 

HASHIVENU ADONAI

🙏PSALM 91🙏

Link to the full Inauguration speech

MY THANKSGIVING DAY SECRET

Ten years ago today, Mary and I went to Thanksgiving at my sister's with a secret.

The doctor called the day before with the results.  Mary had breast cancer.  The doctor called it a "very angry cancer."  Given the growth of the cancer since Mary's last mammogram only nine months earlier, it was likely advanced, though the doctor couldn't tell us how far it spread until the surgery. It would lead to a double mastectomy, many months of chemo, many dozens radiation treatments and more doctors visits than I can count. I look at it as the year we had cancer. 

We chose not to share the "news" on Thanksgiving ten years ago. So there we were at my sister's home, with news that we knew that was going to have a profound effect on our children, parents, our business and others. It was a surreal feeling. 

Cancer is a teacher.  It teaches us about life and death. It teaches us to be thankful, what to be thankful for and who to thank. 

I imagine, as one lays dying that we feal thankful. If our mind is peaceful and we aren't in too much pain, we feel gratitude for people and moments throughout our life that we remember.  I imagine as my eyes close and I take my last breadth and my soul is leaving my body, the feelings of gratitude turn into a feeling of love - a greater love than one has ever felt. All the gratitude becomes love. 

Thanksgiving is wonderful reminder that there is so much to be grateful for. Praise God. 

Have a happy and grateful Thanksgiving 💞