to the heart of God. Babies can be murdered in the womb as a legal right. Practicers of moral perversion can become a protected class deserving special privileges. The State is able to frame mischief (evil) into the very foundation and fabric of the law. Injustice and immorality are promoted; evil is rewarded and righteousness punished.
Secular authority in a vacuum cannot last. Without a divine sanction, a State loses its authority and ability to govern. As it writes mischief by statute it opposes God, and then God opposes the State. Just as Israel and Judah were destroyed by God for their defiance of His laws, His justice, and His divine compassion for the poor, so God's patience with America draws to an end. The Founders knew, and cited often, the fact that when rulers in the Old Testament heeded God, Israel prospered, but when rulers did not, their nation floundered.⁴ Our Forefathers begged for mercy from Almighty God, lest this nation also fail to be sustained by divine favor and providence.
Thomas Jefferson said,
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the
gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country
when I reflect that God is just: that his justice does not sleep forever...."⁵ With the rejection of conscience and the Word, with the promotion of immorality and perverseness under the banner of liberty, with selfishness and greed replacing commitment and sacrifice, and with the blood of 30 million innocent children on our hands, can we really believe God remains indifferent to our disobedience? Can we really hope as a nation to be spared the rod of his wrath?

1. For extensive documentation of the Founder's reliance on Scripture as the principal founding document for the U.S. Constitution, get David Barton's video or audio cassette entitled "America's Godly Heritage," Wallbuilders P.O. Box 397, Aledo TX 76008; Tel. #817- 441-6044.
2. See the life of David as one example (esp. 2 Sam. 24). Chronicles and Kings are full of examples too numerous to mention.
3. Romans 13:1-7, Ephesians 3: 10, & John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, IV. XX. 3, 6, 8, 9,31 & 32.
4. From a Conversation on the Floor of the Constitutional Convention, the Founders discussed how a nation will answer to God: "As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this, by an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." As recounted by David Barton, op. cit.

5. Thomas Jefferson, from A Summary View of the Rights of British America, & Notes on The State of Virginia, Query 18., as quoted on the Jefferson Memorial, Wash. D.C.

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