THE JUDGMENT OF NATIONS

    It is an observable fact of history that empires and nations are not eternal.  Eventually they all fall and are ground into fine powder in the crucible of time.   While men must stand before the Supreme Judge of the Universe at the end of days, governments are not judged at the end of history but within history.  In neither case is God deceived.  Whatsoever is sown is reaped.

    The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God are not modified by a vote of the people, or by an executive order, or by judicial fiat.  These laws are not mysterious or inscrutable.  They are easily discovered and cannot be refuted.

    1.  Any nation which does not secure its borders against invasion will be invaded and overthrown.

    2.  Any nation will create a bubble in whatsoever it subsidizes.

    3.  Any nation will create a shortage in whatsoever it taxes.

    4.  To the extent that any state combines judicial. legislative, and executive power in a small group, an elite, or an individual, it will act in place of God.

    5.   A free state can only exist in a moral atmosphere in which a substantial proportion of its population act in moral self restraint.

    6.   Whenever a substantial proportion of the population no longer act in self restraint the rule of law will be lost.

    7.   Whenever the rule of law is lost the separation of powers will vanish.

    8.    Any nation or empire having proceeded to a vanishing of the rule of law and the loss of the separation of powers will adhere to the notion that the fundamental existential truth of the universe is the punishment of man into submission.

    9.   All nations adhering to an ideology of punishment are at war with their victims and at war with all mankind.

    10.  The end of such a nation is calamity within and calamity without punctuated with unimaginable violent barbarism.    The people will cry out because of the king whom they have chosen for themselves, but the “Lord will not answer them in that day.”