Hello … and welcome to another Mission Possible: Truth and Freedom podcast, where we are seeking the truth … because we know that the truth will set us free!!! Today I’m continuing the input I received from Marshall Foster in the book I was telling you about entitled The American Covenant.
I lend my agreement with his premise that this nation has enjoyed liberty, prosperity, and strong institutions for as long as it has for no other reason except that the hand of God guided our Founding Fathers.
I am not without the knowledge that there are antagonists who deny this. What we have seen are those who have classified such prosperity as mere chance, a stumbling, if you will, into liberty and wealth without God’s favor or presence. We see this in higher education efforts toward revising history, celebrities and filmmakers who create mixed messages, and mass media manipulations.
The hope for reformation in the minds and lives of our citizenry that refocuses on a principled acknowledgment of God must become a priority. This will demand we dust off our great history and remember (or re-remember) where we came from and why we enjoyed greatness for so long. This is something to which the book of Deuteronomy points us.
The word “remember” is used 15 times in this fifth book of the Old Testament and the word is used a grand total of 234 times in the entire Bible. The point of Deuteronomy’s emphasis on remembering is probably best summed up in chapter 32 where it reads, “Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.”
Historian William Federer in an interview responded “People say that America is the greatest nation in the world.” On that basis, Federer spent several years proving it “by researching every civilization that ever existed on planet earth,” as he put it. He quoted Arthur Schlessinger, who was a historian on President John F. Kennedy’s staff. He said, “History is to the nation what memory is to the individual.” Imagine someone who has lost their memory. They don’t know who they are anymore; they don’t know who you are; they don’t know where they came from or where they are going. In America, we have lost our memory. Here we are in the most prosperous, freest country the world has ever seen, but we have forgotten where we came from as our country slips through our hands like sand.
Then all the way on the other end of the Bible is a passage from Revelation chapter two. This is where Jesus is talking to the church at Ephesus, “But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.”
We must repent in America, turn away from our sins and compromises and turn to God, yes. However, this verse says we must first “remember.” “Remember therefore from where you have fallen.”
Is it as clear to you as it is to me? We must prepare ourselves to lose our freedom unless we remember and repent. We can start taking vital steps, however, by teaching our children the history that has kept us free and prosperous. Unfortunately, our public schools, and other cultural ideologies, are not as committed to remembering our history at face value and are, instead, changing things to reflect something adversarial.
I heard recently that until 2013 broadcasting propaganda to our nation was against the law … but in America that was not legal to do. But President Obama signed into law that year the allowance of such propaganda in our own country. So, now we can have false history propagated to us in order to change the course of the future.
We have a great deal to repent of but the first thing we should repent of is forgetting.
Knowing our history is so significant that the success of our future rides on keeping our history exposed so we can rightly correct our failures according to Biblical principles and celebrate our successes.
I’m Tammy Reneé. And this is Mission Possible: Truth and Freedom
“Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!”
– 1 Corinthians 6:3
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
– Galatians 5:1
Announcer: Freedom will prove the ultimate evidence that truth was allowed to have its way. Godspeed.
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