Why Our Political And Economic

Machinery Are Fast Grinding

To A Halt!

By

Robert B. Record

Strange, is it not, that in spite of the fact that our political and economic machinery are fast grinding to a halt, it has not yet begun to dawn on our leaders just where our trouble lies? In spite of the fact that the Democrats have passed the buck to the Republicans and the Republicans to the Democrats, neither has been able to come up with any solution. This only illustrates the fact that if there is something wrong with the motor of an automobile, simply changing drivers will not make it run.

The Failure to Declare The Whole Counsel of God

Our trouble, to begin with, lies largely with the preachers who have failed to declare the whole counsel of God. Altogether too many ministers have confined their preaching to a simple gospel message. The people of Christiandom are therefore largely milk-fed, and thus untaught and unlearned in the Scriptures. As the writer of Hebrews puts it, they are “imperfectly acquainted with the doctrines of righteousness,” and their spiritual faculties have not been trained to distinguish good from evil. Heb.5:11-14 (Weymouth). The empty husks of religion do not feed the saints; and there is no light or edification in fable and tradition which only too often supplant the Word and make if of none effect.

In spite of the fact that fully 70% of the Bible is national, and deals with civil and national affairs, you can hardly find a preacher anywhere who has any message from the Bible for the nation – save in a vague, general sort of way.

God’s Law Given To A Nation

Civil and national affairs are governed by laws. The Law of God was given to a nation for this purpose. That law is the Divine standard of right and wrong; it is God’s way of doing things in contrast to man’s. And the violation of God’s law is sin –whether personal or national! And sin invites trouble and the judgments of God.

As King David thought on the Law of the Lord in Psalm 19:7-8, we find him saying, “The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandments of the Lord are pure, enlightening the eyes.”

But where is the preacher who bears witness to the wisdom and necessity of Divine Law?  Most of them have thrown the law of God in the wastebasket, or they have little or nothing to say about national sin and national righteousness. If the clergy today were preaching the law of God for the nation and pointing to its violation as a cause for most of our troubles , our politicians in Washington would begin to get wise and start correcting many of the evils that plague our nation. But no.  Most clergy have been brainwashed to the point where they think that such preaching would meddle in politics, or constitute a breach in the separation of Church and State.  But the fact is, such preaching is a part of their duty and responsibility.

The Purpose of Law

So imbued are most preachers with the personal message of the Bible, and of salvation by grace, that the moment you start talking about the wisdom and necessity of the Law of God for the nation, they accuse you of being a legalist and of teaching salvation by works. What nonsense! People who make such statements declare that they know not the purpose of God’s law in the first place. At no time does the Bible ever set forth obedience to the law as a means of salvation. The man never lived who was ever saved by his works of obedience. The Bible declares that if we violate the law in one point, we are guilty of all.  And as Paul declares in Rom.3:23, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Therefore the ceremonial law of sacrifice and ritual was instituted to make an atonement for sin until Christ, our Passover, came to make the one perfect and complete sacrifice for sin. The faith of the believer in Old Testament times, rested not on his works, but in the efficacy of the blood that was shed to make an atonement for his sins.

And if you are one of those who claims that the only law the Christian needs to keep is the law of love, I would like to ask just how you would go about keeping this law? How would people know that you were keeping this one law? What did Jesus say – He who was God manifest in the flesh?  In John 14:21 Jesus declares, “He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me.”  To what commandments was Jesus referring? To just the one commandment of love, or to a few oral commandments which He uttered while here on earth? Then why were they never codified so we would know that they were?

Perhaps we had best let Paul clear up this matter for us. In Romans 3:31 he asks: “Do we make void the law through faith?” And what was his answer? “God forbid! Yea, we establish the law.”

Then the law of the Lord is still the Divine standard of right and wrong. The violation of that law is still sin, and it is the violation of God’s law that is the basic cause of all our troubles.

God’s Law and Our Economy

It has been estimated by men in Washington that about 90% or our national problems are economic. They have to do with money in some way, shape, or form. Money has been called the life-blood of business and industry. A healthy economy has to have plenty of money. Money issued or spent into circulation should balance production so as to facilitate the transfer of goods from producer to consumer.

But that is not the way our economy works. Supply and demand no longer have anything to do with the price of goods or the amount of money in circulation. You see, a private corporation called, “The Federal Reserve Banks,” has been given the exclusive right by Congress to distribute our money among the other banks of the nation. And where do the Federal Reserve Banks get their money? They get it upon demand from the government printing presses for the mere cost of printing. How would you like to be a part of a corporation that could get money like that? It is almost unbelievable that Congress, which represents the people, would deliberately and with their eyes wide open, farm out their constitutional right to coin and issue our money to private banking interests – and without a constitutional amendment. These banking interests represent no one but themselves. They are the distributors of our money; they get it for the cost of printing, and then loan it back to the government by taking a bonded indebtedness on the country, and on which we are now paying billions a month in interest to the moneychangers.

This is a monstrous evil perpetrated upon the American people by Congress. Through their control of our money, the banks have exploited, robbed and enslaved our whole people and nation until we are fast becoming renters on a land we once owned. Any graduate from elementary school can see the evil and injustice of such a system. Yet Congress – your representatives and mine -- have stood by in stolid indifference for 92 years whole the moneychangers proceeded to take this country and its people to the cleaners. Which can only mean we have either had a lot of pinheaded lawmakers in Washington all these years, or they have been so brainwashed as to act like obedient zombies in the hands of the moneychangers.

The Taking of Interest Outlawed

What is more important, the Supreme Law-Giver of the universe had decreed that the taking of interest or usury is wrong. In a land of plenty and abundance, and where there was a proper distribution of the goods and wealth of the nation, only the poor would have to borrow money. He would be the exception, rather than the rule. And in Lev. 25:35-37 the Law of the Lord declares:

       “If thy brother be waxen and poor, and fallen into decay with thee; then

         to shalt relieve him (not take advantage of him) …that he may live with

        thee.  Take no usury (interest) of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that

        thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon

       usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.”

But have the preachers cried out against the violation of this law? The fact is, more often than not they and their churches are part and party to the whole iniquitous system. They see no wrong in it. They even ask you to loan them money and they offer you a sizeable interest rate for the use of it. Apparently they have never read

Proverbs 28:8 which reads:

       “He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it

        for him that will pity the poor.”

And the next verse reads:

       “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall

         be an abomination.”

Need I say more? It should be abundantly clear in the light of the truths we have set forth, just why our country is in a bind, and our people suffering from bondage, enslavement, and privation. The time is long past due for Congress to come to its senses and make reparations to the American people for the multitude of wrongs they have heaped upon them. And with the end of the age upon us, and the Kingdom of Heaven at hand, our lawmakers have no choice, but to repent of their sins and get back to God and His law in our national life. That is, they have no other alternative. It is just a question of what it will take to wake them up and turn them back to God.

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Originally published in The National Message.

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