I think they should uphold a a ban on handguns,and that it leads to other prominent cases that will get rid of the right to carry or own handguns.

I support it. I know that US citizens consider it part of their constitution and often get upset about opposition..but from a Canadian perspective: "Canada has roughly 1 million handguns while the United States has more than 76 million. While there are other factors affecting murder, suicide and unintentional injury rates, a comparison of data in Canada and the United States suggests that access to handguns may play a role. While the murder rate without guns in the US is roughly equivalent (1.8 times) to that of Canada, the murder rate with handguns is 14.5 times the Canadian rate."

the diplomatic capital of the world is Washington DC.ban the handguns and give the diplomats machine guns.do you think that will work?

Historically, when governments begin to feel insecure about the hold on power they have over the people they become more restrictive of liberty. IF, the USSC rules that gun ownership is a COLLECTIVE right then I interpret that as a sign of a weak and insecure ruling class. That would signal the end of Representative Democracy in the US.

The second amendment to the U.S. constitution states: "A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." I wonder what part of "shall not be infringed" they didn't understand?

Will America be next ???? A LITTLE GUN HISTORY I Thought you might appreciate this . . . In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------ In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------ Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------ China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated ------------------------------ Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------ Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------ Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ----------------------------- Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million. ------------------------------ It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: List of 7 items: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns! While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it. You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens. Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late! The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson. With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'. During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED! If you value your freedom, Please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.

A simple review of History is the Very Reason we can even Defend ourselves as Guaranteed by our Forefathers by National Law. Now some will point out that we have Crime in D.C., but so did our Forefathers. Some will say that we need to do this for the "Greater Good" which really means we will "Surrender" to the "Evil Ones", Ur ability to be "Protected Under the Law of this Great Nation"!!! Our Forefathers also had "Gun Bans" imposed upon them by the "King" so that they could be "Controlled as the "Kings' Slaves"!!! So, they made Sure it would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN by Forbidding it by LAW!!! I think that after 200+ years of Precedent if the Courts Allowed this they would be putting us right back where we started, AS SLAVES TO GOVERNMENT and no longer a Nation "Of, By & For the People" in a "Land of the Brave & Home of the Free!!! Sorry, I forgot to add some pertinent Doctrine here. Enjoy! John DOCTRINE OF CRIMINALITY A. The criminal is an irresponsible person. 1. All criminality is the product of human volition. Criminals are not criminals because of their environment, but because of the function of their volition in relationship to the trends of the old sin nature. Irresponsibility is a basic characteristic of the criminal-type person. 2. The criminal is not a mature person because he does not take the responsibility for his own decisions in life. a. Therefore, criminality is characterized by irresponsibility and childishness. The criminal is not responsible, answerable, or accountable to any authority in life. b. Therefore, the criminal lives in a state of self- fragmentation followed by polarized fragmentation in the field of antinomianism. c. A responsible person relates to some form of virtue; virtue related to people, virtue related to obligations, virtue related to the work ethic. This virtue produces self-esteem under the laws of divine establishment and spiritual self-esteem under the protocol plan of God. The unbeliever from his own achievements derives self-respect, respect for others and a lifestyle related to the laws of divine establishment. The believer from learning thinking and solving develops respect for truth and occupation with Christ. 3. In anger, vindictiveness, and bitterness, the law-abiding citizen may violate someone else's privacy or show disrespect for property, but it does not become a way of life. 4. While criminality is sinful, all sinfulness is not criminality. 5. The law-abiding citizen is basically a responsible person. He takes full responsibility for his own decisions and avoids infringement on the privacy, property and freedom, and rights of others. 6. The law-abiding citizen may be irresponsible without violating laws. In such a case, the irresponsible liar, or obligation defaulter, or excuse offerer is so poor at work, so dishonorable in his social life, that he may be classified as unreliable rather than criminal. 7. The criminal is also irresponsible, immature, and refuses to take responsibility for his own decisions and motivations. 8. An Old Testament example is Absalom's irresponsibility in his burning of Joab's barley harvest, and his undermining of the jurisprudence of Israel. 9. The believer who is negative to doctrine fails to execute the protocol plan of God and becomes a loser. Losers will inevitably enter into some form of fragmentation and Christian degeneracy. Some Christians become criminals. 10. A law abiding citizen may be irresponsible without being a criminal, but all criminals are irresponsible. Criminal irresponsibility translated in terms of the laws of divine establishment includes: a. The criminal has no respect for the freedom of others. b. The criminal does not recognize the rights of others in a free society. c. The criminal does not understand or totally rejects the concepts of freedom - privacy of others, the sacredness of life. d. The criminal is insensitive to others. e. The criminal is totally preoccupied with self, totally subjective, totally arrogant, therefore, totally irresponsible. f. The criminal has no sense of obligation to such institutions as marriage, family, or government. Therefore, his relationships in life are superficial, self-centered, and irresponsible. B. The criminal lacks authority orientation. 1. In authority arrogance, the criminal rejects all delegated authority from God, beginning with his parents' authority. Without authority orientation there is no capacity or blessing. 2. The arrogance of rejection of parental authority results in disorientation to authority in life in general. This becomes the basis for self-justification. 3. The frustration of no capacity for life turns young people to criminal activity as an outlet for their arrogance and energy. 4. The criminal is guilty of authority arrogance, which begins in the home and extends to every facet of life. 5. In this country there is increased teenage crime, a direct result of rejection of parental authority. This rejection of authority extends to every system of authority in life, so that disorientation to authority extends into adulthood and leads to criminal activity. 6. Criminality begins early in life and extends into the teenage years. As a result criminality becomes a way of life. C. The criminal has a basic sense of insecurity. 1. Insecurity may result from various fears in life, i.e., fear of injury, death, not being accepted, ridicule, or being put down by others. Emotional revolt of the soul can produce criminal activity. 2. The criminal has all of these fears, but thinks in terms of fear reducing him to a nothing. When his self-esteem reduces him to a state of worthlessness and helplessness, psychology calls this the zero state. 3. The criminal's insecurity includes a sense of failure in terms of extremes. He must be either top dog or he thinks he is nothing. 4. The criminal fears the zero state even when he is not in it. 5. This insecurity leads the criminal to transparency, in which the criminal believes his worthlessness is obvious to everyone and that everyone sees how horrible he is. 6. In reality, when he thinks he has succeeded in life, society regards him as a failure; but when he thinks he has failed, society thinks he is a success. In his bored state he thinks of himself as a zero. This is why it is so difficult to rehabilitate him. 7. So the criminal's insecurity keeps him in a state of disorientation to the norms and standards of divine establishment. 8. In the zero state, the criminal often blames others for his real or imagined failures. In this way the self-pity of the arrogance complex interacts with arrogant self-righteousness resulting in great instability. D. The criminal has no control over his temper or emotions. 1. A lot of law-abiding citizens also have no control over their temper, but when this is related to criminal arrogance and a distorted conscience, it becomes a characteristic of criminality. 2. Anger is a sin, and therefore applies to the entire human race. But criminality is characterized by chronic uncontrolled anger. 3. Anger in the criminal is outwardly suppressed for a purpose, but inwardly it boils continually. It is the inner anger never expressed overtly which exists in criminals and certain non-criminals. 4. Criminality anger is anger related to the interlocking systems of arrogance. It begins with an isolated episode, but expands into scar tissue of the soul until the criminal has lost all perspective in life. 5. Only the criminal parlays his anger into criminal motivation and activity. He uses his anger and lack of control to get his way. E. Criminality is characterized by boredom or lack of capacity for life. 1. Boredom means having no capacity for life, no ability to entertain self. Being involved in the interlocking systems of arrogance, the criminal has no capacity for life, happiness, or love. Therefore, he is easily bored by life even when things are going his way. Criminals are bored even when doing what they want to do. 2. The criminal wants excitement as proof of his power. He is bored unless he is demonstrating his power. He wants people to see and feel his power. He wants to make people afraid. 3. The criminal's desire for excitement is so great and so much a part of himself that he becomes jaded and requires even more excitement and more stimulation from excitement. 4. To live without increasing excitement is a put down to him. Therefore, he seeks constant excitement from sex, torture, alcohol, or drugs to get his kicks. 5. Finally, only violence and extreme criminal activity is the antidote for his boredom. This is why they torture their hostages. All terrorists are criminals; terrorism is not patriotism. 6. The Christian criminal has no interest in Bible doctrine except when he is in trouble. F. All criminals are liars. 1. All liars are not criminals, but all criminals are liars. 2. For the criminal, lying is a way of life. The criminal is a pathological liar and habitually he deceives. 3. Habitual lying is the criminal's demonstration of his total disregard for the truth in any form. 4. Lying is his standard way of dealing with the world. 5. He lies for self-preservation, to build himself up, and to achieve criminal objectives. 6. Lying is a major part of criminal manipulation. 7. He lies as part of the con game. Conning is a way of life. 8. He lies so often that he comes to believe his lies. He says whatever is necessary to get what he wants. 9. "The criminal may seem to be remarkably modest; however, the inner state is far different. While adopting such an outward demeanor, he is deceiving someone. He is enjoying the triumph of being a con." The Criminal Personality, Yokelson and Saminov, Vol I, p. 275. G. The criminal is arrogant. 1. Humility gives capacity for life and perfect happiness without reacting to failure and responding to success. Humility is the ability to perpetuate happiness and capacity for life in every circumstance of life, while arrogance is failure to cope with success or failure. Capacity for life cannot be related to success or failure. 2. Arrogance is inflexible about self; criminal arrogance is totally preoccupied with self. Criminal arrogance is subjective. 3. Arrogance is the motivation of the criminal personality. Criminal pride is inflexible; it creates an image of power in the totally self- determining person. "I am powerful because I have decided to be." 4. Neither argumentation nor persuasion nor reason nor logic nor truth can modify the criminal's arrogance and his inflexible subjectivity. Therefore, he rejects all authority in fear of entering the zero state. 5. Criminal arrogance rejects Bible doctrine, the only real source of help and hope. He learns the language to use it for manipulation. Criminal arrogance knows it all. He insists he is right and resists all views to the contrary. 6. Therefore, criminal arrogance is disorientation to establishment authority. 7. From life in the arrogance system, the criminal becomes both a sociopath and a pathological liar who functions under mental attitude arrogance using the facade of hypocrisy to cover his evil thinking. 8. The criminal has a colossal ego. He considers himself superior to all other people, too superior to work at an ordinary job. 9. The criminal expects to dominate every gathering, believing that everyone who meets him will be impressed. 10. The criminal reasons that no woman can resist him. 11. The criminal will trust only those people whom he can control, and he would rather get what he wants through manipulation or force than by asking for it or earning it. 12. The criminal cannot tolerate criticism. He considers it a put down and to which he responds with anger and violence. 13. Arrogance is hypersensitive; criminal arrogance carries a hypersensitivity to the point of violence and crime. 14. It was the famous thief Judas Iscariot who used the facade of hypocrisy to cover his criminality, Jn 12:3-6. a. "Mary therefore took a pound of very expensive, genuine spikenard ointment, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who intended to betray Him, said, `Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii [eleven months wages], and given to the poor?' Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the money box, and used to steal what was put in it." b. Criminal arrogance hides behind a facade of self- righteousness. H. The criminal is irrational. 1. The motive for crime against property is not money; the motive for sex crimes is not sex. In both cases the criminal is acting to assert control and superiority over a victim, over the authorities, over the non- criminal way of life. Arrogance is the motive for crime, not money or sex. The criminal is motivated by what he is thinking, not by emotion or libido. 2. This is also true of senseless violence. Actions which may appear senseless to a non-criminal are perfectly normal to the arrogant criminal, because it lines up with his desire to establish his superiority and control all others. The classic example is the criminal who, after holding up the bank, returned to stand around and listen to the description which didn't fit him, laughing to himself. 3. In both cases as well as in the case of senseless violence, the criminal is acting to assert control over his victim. This is where criminals and revolutionaries meet to form leadership for revolution. 4. The criminal feels superior when he hurts others. The criminal rationality is to avoid the zero state by getting back at society for not admiring him. This includes going down in a blaze of glory. They would rather live one day as a lion, rather than 100 years as a sheep. 5. The criminal cannot stand routine in life. 6. In arrogance, the criminal rejects legitimate power and authority. 7. Arrogance disowns responsibility and makes God the scapegoat. Religion allows the criminal to cloak himself in a mantle of respectability. A criminal may wear a cross to give a good opinion of himself while committing a crime. I. Criminality and childhood. 1. The Criminal Personality, Yokelson and Saminov, Vol I, p. 119, "Over half the criminals came from stable families, in which the parents have lived together, raised their children, and have experienced the usual tensions in living. Many of the criminals when children rejected the people who attempted to show them affection and stabilize their homes." 2. They generally presented their mother as their excuse for why they choose to use their volition to commit crime. They didn't care about their parents, they only used them as an excuse for what they had done. 3. Instead of the parents rejecting them as children, the criminal as a child rejected their parents. Parents were rejected because the criminals were interested in other things. 4. The criminal also rejects his brothers and sisters, rather than they him. 5. The criminal child has a mantle of secrecy surrounding themselves. They develop a secret life early in life. Lying is a major part of this life. He sets himself apart from others, keep to himself. He wants to keep his activities secret. He makes a contest out of anything just to win the fight with his parents. He rejects being friends with responsible children. 6. He lacks deep friendships. He does not maintain relationships. He only wants people available to use them. He does not know how to act with responsible people. 7. Crime does not come to or force itself upon a child. It is not the neighborhood; it is not association with bad company. Rather a child decides very early he wants to be with, and what kind of a life he wants to lead. He makes choices all along the way, and criminal patterns are identifiable by the age of ten. 8. Criminality is a function of arrogance and volition. It is a matter of self-fragmentation. J. The Christian criminal. 1. Eph 4:28a, "He who stole up to now, from now on stop stealing." Christian criminality is part of immoral degeneracy. 2. This implies that the born-again criminal can make the break from crime. It requires daily decisions over a long period of time to recover. An unbeliever probably cannot because of the control of the old sin nature. 3. The believer can stop because God in grace provides the way to obey the command: spiritual growth through perception, metabolization and application of Bible doctrine in the soul; learning, thinking and solving. 4. For a criminal to recover takes more than just rebound, but he must learn a vast amount of doctrine, and apply it so that he changes his enter way of thinking. His complete occupation with self must be converted to occupation with Christ. His belief in his superiority must be converted into impersonal love toward others. Criminality is permanently broken when the former criminal is sharing the happiness of God. When you share the happiness of God, the desire to be a criminal is gone and will not even tempt you. The same is true for drug addiction, alcoholism, and chasing women. 5. Criminals have a fundamentally different view of the world. All criminals are product of their own volition. Social conditions do not cause crimes. The criminal must be held completely accountable for his own decisions and actions. Criminals cannot be reformed, they must learn to think differently and to make different choices. 6. There are four categories of sins the criminal commits. a. Sins against human life - murder. b. Sins against people - kidnapping, assault. c. Sins against property - stealing. d. Sexual sins - rape. 7. Mandates against criminal activity are given in Ex 20:15; Lev 19:11; Jer 7:9; Jn 10:10; Rom 2:21. 8. The criminal believer is anti-authority, anti-establishment, a liar, a con artist, a rapist, a murderer. He follows the lust patterns of the sin nature. K. Misconceptions about criminals and criminality. 1. The criminal is mentally ill. Criminals learn to fool psychiatrists and the courts in order to serve "easy time" in a hospital with the prospects of getting released sooner. He is anything but sick. He is rational, smart, calculating, and deliberate in his actions. 2. Criminals do not know right from wrong. In fact, some know the laws better than their lawyers. They believe that whatever they want to do at any given time is right for them. 3. Criminals are compulsive in their acts. Their crimes require logic and self-control. They are habitual in what they do; it is not a compulsion. 4. Some people act out of character and are seized by a sudden uncontrollable impulse. In his thinking there was a precedent for such a crime. 5. Criminals are victims of poverty, broken homes, racism and a society that denies them proper opportunities. Crime knows no social boundaries. 6. Social institutions (schools, churches, the news media) contribute to crime. This is one of the biggest myths of all. 7. Economic hard times cause people to turn to crime. Most poor people are law abiding, and most kids from broken homes do not end up as criminals. Children may be neglected, but must who are never become criminals. Most employed people are not criminals; the criminals just do not want to work. 8. Criminals frequently claim that they were rejected by their parents. But rarely does a criminal say why they were rejected. Usually it is because they were sneaky, liars, defiant, a thief, and made life unbearable in the home. It was the criminal who rejected his parents, not the only way around. 9. Human character is easily shaped by external events. Criminals are already thinking about committing crimes and have already made their decision to commit a crime before they ever read anything in books, newspapers, or see something on television.  CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM A. Definition. 1. There is a tremendous emphasis among evangelical Christians today to enter into activism, to practice social and political engineering. This arrogance manifests the fact that most Christians don't have a clue about the Christian way of life. 2. Christian involvement in vigorous and often illegal activity to achieve political goals is another manifestation of this arrogance. a. Christians stick their nose into other people's business. b. Christians intrude into the privacy of other people. c. Christians violate the constitutional rights of other people. d. Christians destroy property, e.g., abortion clinics. B. Client Nation versus "Christian Nation." 1. There is therefore little or no understanding of the role of the believer in the client nation to God. 2. This lack of understanding is often predicated on the erroneous theory that we have a so-called "Christian nation." There never has been a Christian nation and there never will be. This is a misunderstanding of the priest nation or client nation to God. 3. In a priest or client nation to God, there exist all the concepts of freedom, including privacy, the sacredness of property and life, free enterprise, and little government with big people. 4. Yet evangelicals today want to pass laws which would, in effect, make all unbelievers outlaws. This is wrong and evil. 5. Under freedom, people have the right to believe in Christ, to be evangelized, and to say no or yes to the Gospel. People's rights must be protected whether we agree with them or not. 6. Furthermore, believers in a client nation should be free to find their right pastor and learn the details of the protocol plan of God from him, and as a result, to have a fantastic historical invisible impact. 7. In any client nation there are both believers and unbelievers, as well as many other religions besides Christianity. 8. There is no such thing as so-called "Christian laws." The standards for Christianity are found only in the protocol plan of God and in our portfolio of invisible assets. 9. Therefore, we have no right to interfere in the lives of others and dictate what they should wear, how they should think, or what they should say. The impact of Christianity is found only in evangelism, yet few believers understand salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. 10. Therefore, to outlaw a certain segment of society because they do not adhere to Christian principles is a disaster. To force a superficial theory of Christianity on all people becomes tantamount to tyranny. 11. We have the right to our opinions, but so do other believers and others who are involved in cults and religions. People have the right to believe what they want to believe. We have no right to persecute or imprison such people. 12. The Bible clearly emphasizes that the impact of Christianity on a nation is definitely spiritual. 13. Christians have civil responsibility in military service, paying taxes, and in fulfilling certain civic responsibilities. But this does not include violence, destruction of property, intrusion on the privacy of anyone, or any form of civil disobedience. Yet Christian leaders in evangelicalism today are advocating civil disobedience. 14. The separation of church and state demands that the believer understand his role in society in terms of the will, plan, and purpose of God for the Church Age believer as a member of the royal family of God. 15. The spiritual impact of the protocol plan of God not only opposes the present modus operandi of Christian activism, but assigns it to the arrogance of the cosmic system. 16. Activism among Christians is a sign of a fragmented life in the cosmic system. 17. As goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God. A client nation to God is defined in terms of spiritual activity under establishment freedom. C. The dual responsibility of the Christian does not include activism. 1. Our Lord Himself anticipated the Church Age when He said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." So we as believers have a dual responsibility, but it does not include activism. 2. "Render unto Caesar" refers to establishment activity. a. It includes the function of the divine institutions. b. It includes freedom, the right of self-determination, the sacredness of property and life. c. It means freedom through military victory and therefore the responsibility to serve in the military. d. It means free enterprise, and the inevitable existence of wealth and poverty side by side, the healthy sign of the proper working of free enterprise. The only interference into free enterprise should be that of law enforcement where criminality exists. e. It means the separation of business and state, as well as church and state. f. It includes civil authority to protect us from criminality. 3. "Render unto God" includes: a. The execution of the protocol plan of God. b. The manufacture of invisible heroes. c. The establishment of a pivot by which the client nation is blessed by association. d. Manifest destiny demands blessing by association with the mature believer. D. Illustration: The Fall of the Northern Kingdom. 1. There were five Jewish client nations in the past. a. The theocracy from Moses to Saul. b. The United Kingdom from Saul to Solomon. c. The Northern Kingdom from Jeroboam to Hoshea. d. The Southern Kingdom from Rehoboam to Zedekiah. e. The Kingdom of Judah from Zerubbabel to 70 A.D. 2. All five of these client nations started out great, and all five were destroyed due to the shrinkage of the pivot of mature believers. Instead, most believers were involved in activism, failing to execute God's plan for the dispensation of Israel. 3. When the Northern Kingdom had an alcoholic and drug problem, there was no activism, but simply a statement of the problem and the ultimate solution in Isa 28:8-11. "All the tables are full of filthy vomit, and there is not even a clean place in any of the joints. To whom shall he teach the knowledge of doctrine? To whom shall he cause to interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk [little children]? Those just taken from the breast, or those who had just been born? Principle added to principle, principle added to principle; line added to line, line added to line [exegetical and expository teaching of doctrine]; a little here and a little there [consistent post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation]. For with alien articulation, and by means of a foreign language, he will speak to this people. But they would not listen." a. This message is sanctified sarcasm, for reversionistic believers are just like babies. b. But even if there is hope in the next generation, it's too late because the cycles of discipline have already begun. c. Verse 10 is one of the greatest Hebrew monosyllabic imitations of both drunken speech and the babbling of those who reject doctrine. It is also an imitation of those who would legitimately speak in tongues from 30 to 70 A.D. d. So the monosyllabic babbling of drunks is imitated to give the solution, which is not activism, but consistent teaching of Bible doctrine, line upon line, precept upon precept, a little doctrine here, and a little doctrine there. e. The babblings reminded the prophet of speaking in tongues, which would be the final warning to the final and fifth Jewish client nation. f. Having had five client nations, the Jews were responsible for evangelism, for maintaining freedom in their own nation to that people could be evangelized. They were responsible for executing God's plan for the dispensation of Israel and for missionary activity. Yet they failed completely in all these areas. g. So what was the sign to the Jews that they would no longer function as a client nation to God? By being evangelized in their own country by Gentile languages. This was the sign that there would never again be a Jewish client nation in history until the Second Advent of Christ. h. Therefore, Isaiah's message was a prophecy of the gift of tongues. i. 1 Cor 14:21 quotes from Isa 28:11-12. "In the Torah [Old Testament] it stands written: `"With foreign languages and by lips of strangers [Gentiles], I will speak to this people.' [Isa 28:12] `And even so, they will not listen to Me," says the Lord.' Therefore, the gift of tongues is for a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who do not believe." j. Notice that no activism was involved here, but only the teaching of the Word of God line upon line, precept upon precept, a little doctrine here, a little doctrine there. k. That was the answer in Israel's day, but they would not listen. Today, we do not have the warning of the gift of tongues. l. Though there is a Jewish nation that exists today, it cannot be a client nation until the Second Advent. These are the times of the Gentiles when only Gentile nations are client nations. 4. All client nations of history, Jewish and Gentile, have gone down in the fifth cycle of discipline. Today, our United States of America is about to follow the same pattern. The manifestation of our decline is seen in the failure of born-again believers to learn and execute the protocol plan of God, to utilize the ten problem solving devices, and the fantastic invisible assets in our portfolio. 5. For forty years, the gift of tongues was used to warn Israel of the coming of the fifth cycle of discipline, from 30 to 70 A.D. Israel failed completely, and will never again be a client nation to God until the Millennium. 6. Hosea 4:1-6, "Hear the word of the Lord, you citizens of Israel [Northern Kingdom], because the Lord has a lawsuit against the inhabitants of the client nation; because nothing of doctrine is being taught, and nothing about grace is being applied. There is no true knowledge of God in the land. Instead, there is lying, dishonesty, deception, murder [homicide], rape, therefore violence. Therefore, the land mourns, and all who live in it languish [loss of national courage, strength, vitality, power], along with the beasts of the field [domestic animals suffer]. Yet, let no one find fault [become an activist], let no one offer criticism [activism], for your citizens are like those who contend with the [Levitical] priests. Therefore, you have stumbled in the daylight [cosmic involvement], and even the prophets will stumble with you in night darkness. Therefore, I will destroy your mother [nation]. My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge. Because they have rejected knowledge of doctrine, I will also reject you from being My priest [client] nation." a. The Levitical priesthood were still teaching doctrine, like some pastors today, and avoiding activism. They were faithful in teaching the Word of God as it existed then. b. The people stumbled because believers had become activists instead of Biblicists. c. The prophets who were supposed to be warning the people had also pulled the pin of arrogance, and they, too, were involved in activism. d. A nation without absolute truth is a nation without solutions. Believers have absolute truth. As they accept it, they begin to grow in grace and become invisible heroes. When the pivot of mature believers expands, the nation is delivered. e. As goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God. f. Both Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in B.C. 721 when the Assyrian armies overran the Northern Kingdom. E. How can activism be described? 1. Activism in the client nation to God is a terrible cancer. Christian activism is arrogance and a sign of a fragmented life. 2. Rom 12:2-3, "Stop being conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your thought, that you may prove what the will of God is, namely the good of intrinsic value achievement [advance to spiritual maturity], the well-pleasing to God [execution of the protocol plan], the mature status quo [manufacture of invisible heroes]. For I say through the grace which has been given to me to everyone who is among you: stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance beyond what you ought to think, but think in terms of sanity for the purpose of being rational without illusion, as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from doctrine." 3. The devil sponsors Christian activism, which is the believer involved in the improvement of the devil's world. This becomes tantamount to the Church Age believer being involved in the temporal solutions to the problems of life when spiritual solutions are available. a. 2 Cor 2:11, "In order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his strategies." One of Satan's strategies is to get the believer involved in Christian activism. b. 2 Cor 11:3, "But I'm afraid, lest the serpent, who deceived Eve by his craftiness, deceive your minds, and that you should be led astray from the purity and virtue which belongs to Christ." c. Jas 4:6, "He gives greater grace. Therefore, the Scripture says [Prov 3:34], `God makes war against the arrogant, but He gives grace to the humble.' Therefore, submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you." The resistance of the devil referred to here means to avoid Christian activism. Christian activism combines arrogance with legalism, or self-righteous arrogance with crusader arrogance. d. 1 Pet 5:6-8, "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may promote you at the proper time. Casting all your cares [worries] on Him, because He cares for you. Be vigilant [alert], for your enemy the devil prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking some believer to devour. But resist him, firm in doctrine." (1) To wait on the Lord's promotion is the antithesis of activism. (2) You are to be firm in doctrine, not in activism. 4. Activism finds the cosmic Christian becoming humanistic in his philosophy. Therefore, in reversionism he becomes occupied with temporal solutions. He advocates systems to improve man's environment rather than his relationship to God. 5. Christian activism includes the social Gospel, social engineering, social crusades related to moral degeneracy, civil disobedience, violence, destruction of property, and even revolution.