By Richard Ruhling
Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, reflected on the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior. He is credited with saying that a democracy is always temporary until voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years during during which we see this sequence: "From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." America's Obituary: Born 1776, Died 2012
America, founded as a republic, is now a democracy where the majority vote money for themselves in welfare programs. Demographics are an impending problem with amnesty of illegal aliens, as suggested by by Daniel's prophetic book.
Scary Election Statistics
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
* Number of States won by:
Obama: 19 - Romney: 29
* Square miles of land won by:
Obama: 580,000 - Romney: 2,427,000
* Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million - Romney: 143 million
* Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 - Romney: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare... " Nearly half of the US is in the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals, we can say goodbye to the USA
Does the Bible have any light on this subject? When asked about the end of the world, Christ said to understand the book of Daniel. Matthew 24:3,15. "In the time of the end" the king of the north "overflows" the king of the south, Daniel 11:40. Who is the king of the north? The Bible is its own expositor-it interprets itself...
In Ezekiel 26:7, the king of the north is the king of Babylon, but we also see that in the end-time, this is not about a city in Iraq, but about confused systems of government, health, eduction, welfare and religion (Babylon).
In Ezekiel 26:7, the king of the north is the king of Babylon, but we also see that in the end-time, this is not about a city in Iraq, but about confused systems of government, health, eduction, welfare and religion (Babylon).
Babylon is redefined in Rev 17:5 where we see imagery of a church riding the beast of New World Order. The woman (church) is involved with politics, It's a wealthy church dressed with gold and the color of scarlet, sitting in a city of seven hills, and drunken with the blood of saints-historically a persecuting church.
So how does Babylon "overflow" the king of the south? With millions of illegal immigrants overflowing our southern border having their primary allegiance to the pope, it's no mystery how the king of the north will win in a democracy in which millions vote as told.
A friend asked a Mexican couple that he met in Montana why they move there. They replied, The priest told us to move here.
The pope says he has no problem with a Marxist label, (Google it) but he would not agree with Marx that religion is "the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness."
But maybe Marx is right when it comes to Catholicism. Many think they can live as they please through the week, yet get to heaven by paying the priest on Sunday.
The pope wants to see a redistribution of wealth. Why not admit the priest cannot forgive sins (Mark 2:7) and give back the money to the poor who, in some cases, gave the priest their last cow to get papa out of purgatory (a word not found in the Bible).
In contrast to every other nation south of our border, America was founded by Protestants risking stormy seas, bitter winters and starvation to flee the Old World Order oppression tht we could be inviting under New World Order, Rev 13:15-17.
Pioneers gave us a Constitution different from every other nation in its provisions for self-government and separation of church and state so that Congress should make no laws favoring a religious establishment (like they did in the school voucher program favoring parochial schools of which the great majority are Catholic as are the Supreme Court Justices, etc.
America was founded on wise principles that made it prosperous above every other nation to the south, and now the pope wants to distribute wealth to those that his church made poor, or did little to educate and benefit them, even though they were colonized at the same time that America was colonized.
For a most revealing economic expose' on money going to the Vatican, consider World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes, 7.5 minutes into this video, http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=4hgA9j-4dB0&feature=em-uploademail
In an editorial on WorldNetDaily.com Editor Joe Farah titled it "Separation and Divorce," seeing the need for demographic change. God is not taken by surprise. He sees the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10) and has a plan that we have overlooked. For a better understanding of this complex problem, please consider a short ebook showing how the US is the King of the South and is overflowed as shown is the above article. But there's a solution-- https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/348248 For readers with health issues, I recommend the DVD that includes Clinton's cardiologist from the Cleveland Clinic on how to reverse heart disease (diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, some cancers and many other problems) at http://RichardRuhling.com