It
is not enough to cut of the branches of an evil tree. You have to uproot it and replace it with a
good tree.
Likewise,
you will not be able to drain the swamp from the surface of that dirty water. You have to dive all the way down to the
bottom of that mirky mire, find the drain, and unplug it and not only that,
find and patch up any breaches into which the swamp water is flowing.
Once
the swamp water is eliminated, only then will there be a place for pure, fresh,
clean water but then there is also the task of keeping that water fresh and
pure and that water is only as pure as the fountains that it springs forth
from.
So,
not only must the clog in the drain that is causing the swamp water to be
retained be identified and removed and not only must the breaches by which the
swamp water is entering be located and closed, but the fountains from which the
swamp water is issuing forth must be removed and then replaced with fountains
that produce the fresh water.
So
what is the clog that is keeping the swamp waters retained?
What
are the breaches by which the swamp waters are entering in?
And
most importantly, what are the polluting fountains from which the swamp water
is issuing forth?
These
are important questions that we all must be asking and seeking the answers to
if we ever hope to drain the swamp. When
it comes to “the swamp,” I would say that most of us who have heard the oft
chanted and repeated call by the MAGA movement to “Drain The Swamp” know what
that means:
It
is that call for all the corrupt politicians and bureaucracies to be held
accountable for their actions. Donald
Trump ran on a promise and a commitment to “Drain The Swamp” but once in
office, what prevented him from being able to do so?
Was
it a corrupt justice system?
Was
it treacherous persons entrenched at every level of our government?
Was
it all the RINOs within the GOP?
Was
it the people around Trump feeding him bad advice?
Was
it the ongoing political witch hunts carried out that in the end turned up
nothing against him and will still turn up nothing against him; at least
nothing for which any criminal charges could be brought against him or
disqualify him from running for office again?
Or
must we dive down even further than that to entities such as lobbying
organizations and special interest groups by whom most of our governing
officials, who are supposed to be acting in the best interests of the public,
have been bought? Might that be the clog that needs to be removed? And even if we identify the plug or the clog
that is retaining the swamp water, and succeed in removing it, that still will
be rendered meaningless if the breaches by which the swamp water is entering in
are not patched up and sealed up because if those breaches are not located and
sealed up.
In
as much as we would like to see every RINO and anti-Christ party member voted
out of office and, in as often as it is appropriate, to see them and other
corrupt government officials from bottom to top charged and convicted of all
criminal and treasonous offenses that they’ve committed and and in as much as
we would like justice to be done on the likes of Bill Gates of Hell, George
Soros, the Clintons, the Obaminations, mad doctor Fauci, Mark Zuckerturd and
other Big Tech figures, and as much as we would like to see the overthrow of
the CCP and their tentacles dry up in our nation as well in every place of the
world that they’ve reached, and to see the downfall of all other remaining
Communist regimes around the world, and to see globalist entities like the
Rothchilds, Rockefellers, and Klaus Schwab get taken down, and however much we
would like to see the likes of the WEF and the UN disbanded, all of that, even
if it were to happen, would not be enough because there will be other corrupt
and wicked persons and entities who are ready and waiting to fill the void they
leave, to carry on where they left off and even build upon the precedents that
they have set because those ready and waiting to take their places are entering
in from somewhere. They are being
produced, molded, and shaped at lower levels somewhere and are working their
way to the positions that they need to be in to be ready to fill the voids left
by their predecessors and these lower levels happen to consist of regional,
provincial, state, and localized places from which they arise and progress to
higher positions of influence and even authority.
As
contributing writer and commentator Greg Karraker for the publication, American
Greatness, the politics and policies that eventually manifest themselves at
the national level are formed at the local level and thus cites just a few
examples of how ridiculous, intrusive, oppressive, and even dangerous policies
implemented by local municipal governments can be:
Telling
a local deli owner how many poppies he can plant on his patio.
Opening
a homeless shelter that makes beer runs for its guests. With your tax money.
Letting
local felons know it’s OK to steal up to $950 worth of Tide Pods. Every day.
Those
are actual decisions made by such entities as the City of Cotati Planning
Commission, the Seattle Downtown Emergency Service Center, and San Francisco
District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Across the country, there are thousands more
examples that are just as egregious. [1]
He
goes on to say:
Zoning
gives cities much more than the power to keep gas stations from popping up on
Park Avenue. Zoning lets local governments impose nearly any mandate they like.
I’ve personally seen an unelected city planner tell a local deli owner that, of
the dozen flowers permitted for his patio, he can only plant three California
poppies. And in always-predictable Berkeley, the city council banned the
installation of gas cooktops in all new houses, condos, apartments, and
restaurants. Only electric cooktops, which are more than twice as expensive to
use, are now legal. [2]
And
furthermore:
School
boards routinely allow teenage boys who identify as teenage girls to use the
women’s bathroom, opening the door for heterosexual boys to commit crimes
ranging from voyeurism to rape. The most famous incident happened in Loudon
County, Virginia, where a father whose daughter was raped in a school bathroom
was arrested for complaining about it at a school board meeting.
Defunding
the police and replacing them with social workers is a tragically flawed
practice. In Thayer, Illinois the problem with this approach was made clear
when Deidre Silas, an investigator with the Illinois Department of Children and
Family Services, responded to a call of possible child endangerment and was
stabbed to death.
But
the worst threats come from the super-squishy district attorneys in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City. Their
soft-on-crime policies have resulted in uncontrolled shoplifting, organized
thefts on high-end retailers and railroad cars, and massive spikes in
carjackings and homicides. [3]
And
if any of you out there happen to live in a city, town, community, or county
whose government and bureaucracy have implemented policies you deem and
recognize to be ridiculous, intrusive, dangerous, oppressive, sinful, evil, and
unconstitutional, then why would you ever want the same on a statewide or
national scale?
If
you think the COVID restrictions implemented in your local community were
unreasonable, harmful, and oppressive, why would you want the same state or
nationwide?
If
you think the city you live in is too soft on crime, why would you want the
same for the rest of your respective state, or nation?
If
you think that the curriculum that your local school board is imposing upon
your respective public school districts will produce a dangerous way of
thinking in the minds of your children, and is a bunch of nonsense and madness,
and goes against the values and belief system that you are attempting to raise
them up in, why would you ever want the same to be propagated throughout every
hall of academia and establishment of education?
If
you think your local government, be it on a city or county level, is unethical,
immoral, corrupt and crooked, why would you ever want that same leadership to
progress to a higher office that could be at a regional, state, or even a
national level?
Karraker
has a point: If YOU want to prevent
evil, oppressive, destructive, and unconstitutional laws and policies from
being implemented on a national level, put it to a stop at the local level, and
if you want to see the implementation and preservation of those laws and
policies that are designed to serve the best interests of the public and from
which all people benefit, and which maintain the peace, prosperity, liberty,
and safety of all, then you must start at the local level and that means
electing leadership and representation committed to such.
If
you want your local law enforcement to be tough on crime, elect tough-on crime
leadership.
If
you don’t want illegal immigrants being bussed into your local community, elect
leadership who will be dedicated to identifying any illegal immigrants within
your community and then running them out of your city, town, or county. After all, if the current governors of
Florida and Texas can bus illegals out of their states to “sanctuary” cities
like Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City, and others of like mind, then why
can’t your respective Mayor, County Supervisor, or even your local Sheriff do
the same thing?
If
you don’t want babies being murdered in your local community, then elect the
most radically pro-life leadership you can find or try to have a ballot measure
passed that will turn your local community into a pro-life sanctuary. After all, if CA Governor Gavin “Loser”
Newsom can turn his state into a sanctuary for illegals, then there is no
reason why your local community can’t become a pro-life sanctuary.
If
you want to see your Constitutional liberties preserved and protected, again,
begin in your local community and turn it into a “Free speech, pro-gun, and
pro-God” sanctuary.
If
you want to ensure that your electoral results are fair and honest, take
control of the election process at the local level. Have the necessary reforms designed to
preserve electoral integrity passed, especially if you happen to have a state
legislature and governor who refuse to do so.
This
is how you repair the breaches by which the swamp water is entering: Draining
the swamp at the local level because when you keep the swamp drained at the
local level, it will begin to empty out at the state and national levels as
well but if the breaches are not repaired and sealed, the swamp water will just
keep pouring in, even if you remove the clog and plug from the drain.
But
the most crucial and difficult task of all is identifying the fountains from
which the swamp water is pouring forth and once identified, they must be
removed and then replaced with fountains out of which clean, fresh, nourishing,
life-giving, and life-sustaining water comes forth.
The
fountains out of which the fresh water and the swamp water come forth do not
come in the form of corporate or government corruption. They do not come in the form of riots, or an
insecure border, a weakening economy, massive debt, irresponsible financial
management, rampant crime, oppressive and dangerous political policies, sexual
immorality, unstable and broken households, or perversion. They do not even come in the form of
deceitful academic institutions, a depraved entertainment industry, or a
dishonest media. All of these things are
but symptoms, products, and end results of the fountains from which they have
sprung forth.
The
fountains themselves are philosophies, values, doctrines, and belief systems
that guide and influence our choices and decisions at every level of society
and there are unseen forces behind every doctrine and belief system that is embraced,
propagated, and entrenched in every society, kingdom, civilization, nation, and
empire and the type of fountain embraced ultimately determines as to what
course a nation ends up taking either for its betterment or its demise.
If
you want to know what really makes a nation great, prosperous, peaceful, safe,
and free, or what causes a nation to be unstable within itself whose people are
oppressed, subjected to perpetual misery, and in darkness, one need only to
examine the nature of the fountain from which its people drink and if the water
be poison, that fountain needs to be changed out in order for the water to be
pure for when the water is made pure, so then will the people who drink
therefrom.
But
the changing of fountains is the most difficult task of all; even more
difficult than unclogging the drain and repairing the breaches. It involves a change that is spiritual and in
order for a people to be persuaded to embrace a spiritual transformation, they
must be persuaded of their need for such a change and that requires breaking
down intellectual, philosophical, and even religious and theological barriers
that may blind those to that need who might otherwise see that need.
It
requires the discrediting in their hearts and minds those very lies they have
taken for truth and if need be, challenging widely held social norms,
traditions and customs but this is when we experience the fiercest opposition
and the greatest hostilities because the most intense battles are not
political, economic, environmental, or even moral. They are spiritual because the state of our
morality, the condition of our households and places of worship, the nature of
our education, media, private business sector, entertainment industry, and
government, the stability of our society, and the strength of our economy, and
national security, is all affected by our spiritual condition for better or
worse.
There
is an age-long spiritual war that is being waged for the minds, hearts, and
souls of men and it has been waged practically since the beginning of time
itself. There is a spirit who is the
sole definer of what is right and what is wrong, what is good, and what is
evil, and who is the source of all truth because He is the source of all life
and the Creator of all things and then there is another spirit who has rebelled
and set himself at enmity with our Creator, (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) who
has become everything contrary to the God who made all things, who is called
the father of lies, (Jn. 8:44) a bringer of death (v. 44) and who tries to
corrupt, distort, twist, and pervert the things of God, who through various elaborate
deceptions and falsehoods, blinds men to the truth of God and to the source of
all truth which is God, hardens their hearts against the love, mercy, and grace
of their Creator, and through various temptations, appeals to the base
instincts and inherent corruption that resides within each and every one of us
and has been doing so ever since the day that man was first created.
When
God had created man, there was no corruption, evil, pain, grief, or death
present in our world. There was perfect
harmony and unity between man, nature, and God, but one day, evil did enter
into the world in the form of a tempting serpent whom we know today as Lucifer
or Satan or the Devil. The first lies
recorded that were ever told were the lies that Satan told to Eve when he had
tempted her to eat fruit from a certain tree called the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil; the only tree that God had warned the first man Adam, and his
wife Eve, the first woman, to not eat from lest they surely die. (Gen. 2:16-17,
3:3)
God
allowed man to eat the fruit from any tree that was made, but it was the fruit
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he was not allowed to eat
from but at the behest of the that wicked serpent; that fallen angel called Satan,
they partook of that forbidden fruit that would bring death to them and it all began
with the first two lies ever told:
“Ye
shall not surely die” (Gen. 3:4) and “ye shall be as gods.” (Gen. 3:5) Upon
eating that forbidden fruit, they did not become any more enlightened as they
thought they would be. Everything was no
longer right in the world around them or within them as things had once been. They did not become divine, and they
eventually died as was the sentence for their transgression. (Gen. 3:19) and
the sin that entered into them and brought about their eventual death was not
confined to just them. The sin that
entered into them by way of that forbidden fruit was also passed down to the
rest of us (Rom. 5:12) because we are all descended from Adam and Eve into whom
sin first entered.
The
sin that entered into them is not merely a bad action or an ill-spoken word,
but that inherent corrupted condition within each and every one of us which produces
within us everything that is contrary to how God originally created man to be
and is the reason why it is written that it is not that which goes into a man
that defiles him but that which comes out of him is what defiles him (Mt.
15:11, 18-20) because man is already defiled by the sin within him; the bad behavior,
conduct, actions, and speech being but the outward manifestation of what is already
within him and this inherent corruption influences not only what we say and do,
but also defiles our thoughts, corrupts our motives, clouds our reasoning, darkens
our hearts, stains our souls, and produces within us wrong attitudes; all of
which brings to us death as a consequence (Rom. 6:23) and it is this inherently
corrupt and sinful nature to which Satan, the adversary of our souls appeals all
the time through various means and has been doing so ever since he caused the
fall of man by way of that forbidden fruit through which sin entered into Adam
and Eve and death into the world and to all of mankind through the sin that
entered into the first man and woman and then was passed down to all of
humanity; death being the sentence for all sin for it is sin by which death has
its power and it is by way of tempting corruptible flesh that Satan kills men
which is why he is called not only a liar, but a murderer as well and has been
so from the beginning. (Jn. 8:44)
But
the affects of sin are not confined to just men, but its taint has spread to
all of creation itself which is why it is written that the creation travails
and groans in pain (Rom. 8:19-22) and worse yet still, the sin and transgression
of Adam gave Satan cause to claim lordship over all of the nations and kingdoms
of the earth (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he is presently called the
prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and worse even still, not only is Satan
a murderer of the body, but he is also the murderer of the soul by way of sin
because it is by sin he takes souls captive and by his clever lies, blinds them
to the destruction that awaits them because of sin for what is worse yet still,
is that sin has estranged and separated men from their Maker and forbids them
access to His Kingdom which is without sin for that which is sinless cannot allow
that which is sinful into its presence lest the Kingdom of Heaven become defiled
with the taint of sin just as the earth became tainted by the sin of man.
Sin
is the reason for the death, decay, and every kind of evil, misery, suffering,
pain, grief, hardship, tumult, struggle, and sorrow that we witness, experience
and by which we are victimized and it is routinely exploited by the powers of
darkness to lead as many as they can to their eternal destruction and there is
coming a day when all sin and all evil will face judgment and everything that
has been corrupted, spoiled, distorted, and twisted by the touch of sin will
have to be destroyed, and that includes everyone who remains and dies in their
sins and what a unimaginable terrifying everlasting punishment that will be for
them but God, because of His unending love for humanity, is not willing that
any face such a punishment but that all would come to repentance. (2 Pet. 3:9)
And
He has brought redemption to us in Christ Jesus, the only begotten Son of God and
who has always been with God and is Himself God, (Jn. 1:1) who became a man to
dwell among us to be that needed and required perfect sacrifice (2 Cor. 5:21,
Heb. 7:26-27) for our sins thereby taking upon Himself and satisfying both the
demanded sentence of death and the plea for mercy at the same time and then
afterwards was raised from the dead so that our faith in Him for the forgiveness
of sins and salvation from what would otherwise be eternal damnation would be made
justified in Him. (Rom. 4:25)
And
just as our souls are cleansed from sin and are transformed in Christ (2 Cor.
5:17) so one day, even these earthly bodies of ours will also be transformed
from that which is corruptible and subject to death into a form in which dwells
no sin and which is not subject to the power of death (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1
Thess. 4:13-18) and then lastly, creation itself will be liberated from the
curse and taint of sin when it is made anew, free from Satan’s grasp, and in
which dwells no sin, evil, death, decay, grief, sorrow, hardship, or pain.
(Rev. 21-22)
But
it is the spiritual transformation that comes with the redemption of our souls
when we call upon the name of the Lord Jesus that changes out the filthy
fountain from which the swamp water comes into a fountain out of which life-giving
water flows. If we would exchange the
fountain out of which the swamp water flows, then we must want to be free of our
inherent corruption.
We
must want to be free of all sin.
We
must want to be free of all selfish desires.
We
must want to be free of all darkness and evil.
We
must want to be free of all falsehood.
And
we must want to be free of all things displeasing and evil in God’s sight and
which bring damnation to the soul
And
we must want pursue those things that are good and pleasing in the sight of the
Lord.
We
must want to our desires and ambitions to be heavenly minded and not worldly
minded.
We
must want to abandon every lie and falsehood by which our minds have been
poisoned and embrace the truth by which purifies our minds and we must want to
take care to not exchange one set of lies for another set of lies and to make sure
that what we are embracing is coming from God Himself.
We
must want to place our full faith in God for all of our needs and not in anything
lesser.
We
must want to place our full trust in Him to sustain us in difficult times and for
deliverance and not those things limited in their power and resources.
We
must want to place our hopes fully in the world to come and not in this present
world which is to one day pass away.
We
must want to fear God above all else before whom all men are going to give an
account one day, and to be free from the fear of what men may do to us for giving
our due devotion to the God who made us.
We
must want to walk in the ways, laws, precepts, and counsels of God Almighty and
not in anything contrary to.
We
must want to seek out God for the needed wisdom and the knowledge that we need
to direct the course of our lives and not the faulty and inferior wisdom of
this world.
And
we must want the Lord Almighty to be our greatest reason for being alive and to
be our source of a purposeful life and nothing else.
It
is only when we remove the filthy fountains from our own selves that we will be
then free of the polluted waters that defile us and it is only when that filthy
fountain replaced with a clean fountain out of which fresh and nourishing water
is produced can we be the vessels of light and life that we should be and once
our own fountains are cleansed, only then will we be able to deliver life-giving
water to our households, neighbors, friends, acquaintances, co-workers,
customers, business associates and partners, respective communities, which then
can be taken into our centers of education and academic establishments, which then
can be transferred throughout the private sector, which then can cleanse the
quality of our entertainment industry, bring integrity to our media, and shape
policy in the halls of government.
It
is by calling upon the God who created the heavens and the earth and all that
is in them, and earnestly seeking Him out, and receiving the redemption and
forgiveness offered to us by Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins
and rose from the dead again that we begin to Make America Great Again and divert
her away from the destructive course that she is presently on.
What
kind of water do you want to find yourself producing? The swamp water that has infiltrated, seeped
into, and saturated every level and sector of society or the kind of water that
will cause all of that mirky swamp water to eventually disappear?
If
you want to be a vessel of life-giving water and have not done so already, I
would urge you reader to turn away from the swamp of sin, darkness, and evil
and call upon the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who will take away
from you all of your sins, make you a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven and the
promised new world to come and transform you into the vessel of life-giving
water that He created you to be and desires for you to be. It is all but a simple prayer away:
"Lord
Jesus I need you.
I
realize that I am a sinner
who
has fallen short of the glory of God
and
that my goodness falls short
of
your standard of Moral perfection.
Please
forgive me of all of my sins.
Come
into my heart and into my life
to
be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make
me into the servant and follower
that
you want me to be.
In
your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know
that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him
forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all
sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in
Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven
and your place in Heaven is certain.
End
notes:
1.
Greg Karraker, “Forget the Progressives
in Washington,” American Greatness, January 24, 2022
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/24/forget-the-progressives-in-washington/
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid
Scripture
references:
1.
Isaiah 14:11-21
2.
Ezekiel 18:12-19
3. John 8:44
5. Genesis 2:16-17
6. Genesis 3:3
7. Genesis 3:4
8. Genesis 3:5
9.
Genesis 3:19
10. Romans 5:12
11. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
12. Romans 6:23
13. Romans 8:19-22
14. 2 Peter 3:9
15. John 1:1
16. 2 Corinthians 5:21
17. Hebrews 7:26-27
18. Romans 4:25
19. 2 Corinthians 5:17
20. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55
21. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
22. Revelation 21-22
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