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BIBLICAL ROOTS Page 4 July-August 2011 A MAGAZINE OF UNDERSTANDING America’s BIBLICAL ROOTS Page 4 The Religious Roots of the Founding Fathers 8 • The Life Cycles of Empires 17 Violent Weather: Where Was God? 24 • Freedom and Free Enterprise 27 Warnings for America wo newspaper articles in particular caught my eye recently. The first, “U.S. Funding for Future July-August 2011 Volume 16, Number 4 Circulation: 341,000 T Promises Lags by Trillions,” appeared in USA The Good News (ISSN: 1086-9514) is published bimonthly by the United Church of God, an International Today (Dennis Cauchan, June 7, 2011). It covered a sobering phenom- Asso cia tion, 555 Technecenter Dr., Milford, OH 45150. © 2011 United Church of God, an International Asso- ciation. Printed in U.S.A. All rights reserved. Repro duction in any form without written permission is prohib- enon we’ve discussed previously in several articles—the skyrocketing ited. Periodi cals Postage paid at Milford, Ohio 45150, and at additional mailing offices. Scriptural references amount of financial obligations created by the U.S. government with are from the New King James Version (© 1988 Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers) unless otherwise noted. no realistic way to pay for them. Dona tions to help share The Good News and our other free publications with others are grate fully accepted and are tax-deductible in the United States and Canada. Those who choose to voluntarily While the federal government took on $1.5 trillion last year to support this work are welcomed as coworkers in this effort to proclaim the true gospel to all nations. 1 finance the budget deficit, it shockingly added 3 ⁄2 times that amount, “$5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retire- Publisher: United Church of God, an International Asso cia tion Council of Elders: Gary Antion, Scott Ashley, Bob Berendt, Bill Bradford, Bill Eddington, John Elliott, ment programs such as Medicare and Social Security,” according to Roy Holladay, Darris McNeely, Melvin Rhodes (chairman), Mario Seiglie, Don Ward, Robin Webber the article. The net effect? “That brings to a record $61.6 trillion the Church president: Dennis Luker Media operation manager: Peter Eddington Managing editor: Scott Ashley Senior writers: Jerold Aust, Roger Foster, Melvin Rhodes, Tom Robinson, John Ross Schroeder total of financial promises not paid for”(emphasis added throughout). Art director: Shaun Venish Circulation manager: John LaBissoniere Numbers like these are so huge that people find them almost mean- To request a free subscription, visit our website at www.GNmagazine.org or contact the ingless. To put it in perspective, if you spent $1 per second, 24 hours a office nearest you from the list below. The Good News is sent free to all who request it. Your subscription is provided by the voluntary contributions of members of the United Church of God, an International Asso cia tion, and others. “America must rediscover the qualities that orig- Personal contact: The United Church of God has congregations and ministers throughout the United States and many other countries. To contact a minister or to find locations and times of services, contact inally made it great. That will not be easy.” our office nearest you or visit our website at www.ucg.org/churches. Unsolicited materials: Due to staffing limitations, unsolicited materials sent toThe Good News will day, you would spend $86,400 per day and more than $31.5 million per not be critiqued or returned. By their submission authors agree that submitted materials become the year. It would take you over 32,000 years to spend a trillion dollars! property of the United Church of God, an International Association, to use as it sees fit. This agreement Multiply that by 61 times, and you have some idea of that one part of is controlled by California law. America’s debt problem. If you’re an American, your share is $534,000 NORTH, SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA United States: United Church of God, P.O. Box 541027, Cincinnati, OH 45254-1027 per U.S. household, “more than five times what Americans have bor- Phone: (513) 576-9796 Fax (513) 576-9795 Website: www.GNmagazine.org E-mail: [email protected] rowed for everything else—mortgages, car loans and other debt.” Canada: United Church of God–Canada, Box 144, Station D, Etobicoke, ON M9A 4X1, Canada Phone: (905) 614-1234, (800) 338-7779 Fax: (905) 614-1749 Website: www.ucg.ca The other article, titled “Decline and Fall of the American Empire,” Carribean islands: United Church of God, P.O. Box 541027, Cincinnati, OH 45254-1027 was written by Larry Elliott, economics editor for the British news- Phone: (513) 576-9796 Fax (513) 576-9795 Website: www.GNmagazine.org E-mail: [email protected] Spanish-speaking areas: Iglesia de Dios Unida, P.O. Box 541027, Cincinnati, OH 45254-1027, U.S.A. paper The Guardian (June 6, 2011). It’s a stern warning for a nation on Phone: (513) 576-9796 Fax (513) 576-9795 Website: www.ucg.org/espanol E-mail: [email protected] a perilous path, and shocking coming from such a left-leaning paper: EUROPE “America clocked up a record last week. The latest drop in house Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg): P.O. Box 93, 2800 AB Gouda, Netherlands British Isles: United Church of God, P.O. Box 705, Watford, Herts, WD19 6FZ, England prices meant that the cost of real estate has fallen by 33% since the peak Phone: 020-8386-8467 Fax: 020-8386-1999 Website: www.goodnews.org.uk —even bigger than the 31% slide seen when John Steinbeck was writing Eastern Europe and Baltic states: Head Sõnumid, Pk. 62, 50002 Tartu Postkontor, Estonia France: Église de Dieu Unie–France, 127 rue Amelot, 75011 Paris, France The Grapes of Wrath,” the famous novel of Depression-era America. Germany: Vereinte Kirche Gottes/Gute Nachrichten, Postfach 30 15 09, D-53195 Bonn, Germany Elliot points to America’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate, to one in Phone: 0228-9454636 Fax: 0228-9454637 Italy: La Buona Notizia, Chiesa di Dio Unita, Casella Postale 187, 24121 Bergamo Centro, Italy six Americans relying on government food stamps and to budget defi- Phone and Fax: (+39) 035 4523573 Website: www.labuonanotizia.org E-mail: [email protected] cits that, percentage-wise, rival those of Greece, which is on the verge Scandinavia: Guds Enade Kyrka, P.O. Box 3535, 111 74 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +44 20 8386-8467 E-mail: [email protected] of financial implosion. AFRICA His sobering conclusion? “America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or East Africa–Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: United Church of God–East Africa P.O. Box 75261, Nairobi 00200, Kenya E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ucgeastafrica.org Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its Ghana: P.O. Box AF 75, Adenta, Accra, Ghana E-mail: [email protected] power but with cracks beginning to show. Malawi: P.O. Box 32257, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi Phone: 085 22 717 E-mail: [email protected] Nigeria: United Church of God–Nigeria, P.O. Box 2265 Somolu, Lagos, Nigeria “The experience of both Rome and Britain suggests that it is hard Phone: 8033233193 Website: www.ucgnigeria.org E-mail: [email protected] to stop the rot once it has set in, so here are a few of the warning signs South Africa: United Church of God, P.O. Box 36290, Menlo Park, 0102, Pretoria, South Africa Phone: +27 12 751 4204 Fax: +27 (0)86 572 7437 Website: www.south-africa.ucg.org of trouble ahead: military overstretch, a widening gulf between rich E-mail: [email protected] and poor, a hollowed-out economy, citizens using debt to live beyond Zambia: P.O. Box 23076, Kitwe, Zambia Phone: (02) 226076 E-mail: [email protected] their means . The high levels of violent crime, epidemic of obesity, Zimbabwe: P.O. Box 928, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe Phone: 0773 240 041 E-mail: [email protected] PACIFIC REGION addiction to pornography and excessive use of energy may be telling Australia and all other South Pacific regions not listed: United Church of God–Australia us something: the US is in an advanced state of cultural decadence.” GPO Box 535, Brisbane, Qld. 4001, Australia Phone: 07 55 202 111 Free call: 1800 356 202 Fax: 07 55 202 122 Website: www.ucg.org.au E-mail: [email protected] For years The Good News has warned about America’s cultural, New Zealand: United Church of God, P.O. Box 22, Shortland St., Auckland 1140, New Zealand societal and spiritual decline. It’s becoming so obvious now that even Phone: Toll-free 0508-463-763 Website: www.ucg.org.nz E-mail: [email protected] Tonga: United Church of God–Tonga, P.O. Box 518, Nuku`alofa, Tonga a secular economics editor writing for a highly liberal newspaper can ASIA recognize the connection between the nation’s “cultural decadence,” All except Philippines and Singapore: United Church of God, P.O. Box 541027, Cincinnati, OH 45254-1027, U.S.A. Phone: (513) 576-9796 Fax (513) 576-9795 E-mail: [email protected] as he put it, and its downward economic spiral. Philippines: P.O. Box 81840, DCCPO, 8000 Davao City, Philippines Phone and fax: +63 82 224-4444 Elliott’s article concludes with this: “Above all, America must redis- Cell/text: +63 918-904-4444 Website: www.ucg.org.ph E-mail: [email protected] Singapore: United Church of God, GPO Box 535, Brisbane, Qld. 4001, Australia cover the qualities that originally made it great.
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