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Injustice in the American Courts (Part Two)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)For many years, our nation's lawmakers have drafted two sets of laws—one for the wealthy and influential and another set for the poor and lower social rank.
Another Supreme Court Nomination
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughThe upcoming Supreme Court appointment could possibly tilt the court in favor of conservatives for the first time in decades.
Injustice in the American Courts (Part One)
Commentary byJust as the leaders of ancient Israel despised justice, the leaders of modern Israel have also given a pass to the guilty and condemned the righteous.
Globalism (Part Eleven): The International Criminal Court and Bad Law
'Prophecy Watch' by Charles WhitakerThe International Criminal Court corrupts the very idea of a court by posing as a body of law while escaping the accountability that makes law just. Modeled on the bureaucrat-centric, elitist European Union, it shares that Union's democracy deficit. It answers to no popularly elected legislature or executive, and its Prosecutor, acting independently under Article 42, is virtually plenipotentiary and answerable to no sovereign state, not even the UN Security Council. With no legislative body, no checks and no balances, only vaguely stated mandates and substantial power, the Court becomes a law unto itself, and absolute power brings absolute corruption. Unaccountable non-governmental organizations with purely political agendas would in time capture it, so justice would be the last interest it served. Its definitions of crimes are so vague that they invite interpretations fitting a current political agenda, a kind of law American courts have struck down under the void-for-vagueness doctrine. It also disregards the Bill of Rights and the common law tradition behind it. By claiming jurisdiction over citizens of nations that never consented, it amounts to conquest by courts, as in the bullying detention of Pinochet. Ezekiel 20:25 shows God allowing a rebellious Israel to receive statutes that were not good. Americans, respecting law, may accept this bad law and surrender national sovereignty.
Gorsuch's Nomination
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughThe prospect of originalist Judges who eschew using the court to make social policy terrifies 'progressive' lawmakers.
America's Most Powerful Religion
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Court decisions reveal what the governing class actually believes, and a huge share of today's government holds to humanism, a religion in which man denies the Creator and assumes His role, first dictating morality to himself and then to others. Judges' rulings now permit abortion, which is infanticide and murder, along with homosexuality, gay marriage, and feminist ideals, and virtually any practice that undermines family life is declared morally good and free. This corruption traces to the nation's founding. The Constitution is the best carnal governing document in history, yet it is no covenant with God. It acknowledges His sovereignty but nowhere states His moral standards, such as prohibitions against murder, stealing, lying, and adultery. That left the door of immorality open a crack. Because the government is of the people, the people are responsible to oversee it and hold it in check, but they bailed out, partly because pastors stopped reminding them of that duty. When pastors fail to preach responsibility and accountability, a power-loving group fills the gap, and history shows it is always the government. Officials gradually took more power, including the authority to set standards of spirituality and morality, until the citizenry is practically in bondage and the courts push the nation through the open door into the gutter.
A Government To Fear (Part Two)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)American courts have been tilted away from equal justice and toward the humanist brand of immoral liberties, so that those who hold conscience-based belief in God's law almost always lose. The trend began about fifty years ago, when challenges to school prayer and Bible reading succeeded in ending practices more than a century old. Anti-God, anti-Bible organizations such as the ACLU then extended those victories into nearly every area of public moral conduct. They had the Ten Commandments removed from courthouses, schools, and libraries, and they won legal approval for abortion, which is legalized murder of the unborn, not liberty. Their later gains came through media-planted falsehoods and the promotion of homosexual lifestyles. Those who press these causes become vicious toward anyone who resists, and they win their cases while the innocent suffer penalties and the guilty go scot-free. The root cause is that knowledge of God and His Book has been systematically drained from Americans of every level, including lawmakers, attorneys, and judges. Most people, even regular churchgoers, do not study the Bible, believe it, or live it, and many do not care when moral standards such as honesty are violated. Corruption of the courts is nothing new. Solomon saw that in the place of judgment wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, iniquity (Ecclesiastes 3:16). The oppressed weep without a comforter while power sits with their oppressors (Ecclesiastes 4:1). Liberties have been taken away tiny increment by tiny increment.
Everything Is Upside Down
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)We have crossed over into a dystopian society, where wrong is right and right is wrong, bad is good and good is bad, error is truth and truth is error.
Liberals and the Election
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The next four years will require sacrifices from our citizenry, just like Americans were required during the Second World War.
Another Step Further
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The leadership of the current government is enacting Executive orders to box in the citizenry, preparing to restrict the movements of all enemies of the State.
The Will of the People
CGG Weekly by David C. GrabbeDoes the public truly care about this death knell—the fact that a civilization cannot survive if the basic building block, the family, is destroyed?
Political Correctness in Spades (Part Five)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Political correctness is a kind of programmed conditioning by progressives to convince people to override their common sense and clear evidence.
A Great Victory - But!
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughThe Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade is a step back from the brink of destruction, but the moral climate of the United States has not changed.
A Chance to Right the Abortion Curse
'WorldWatch' by Richard T. RitenbaughThe leaked draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization sparked widespread protests. Roe v. Wade is both morally and legally flawed.
The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2000)
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThose entrusted with power within the community and nations are taking advantage of their positions, metaphorically raping those who have no power.
Prepare to Meet Your God! (Part Four)
Article by John W. Ritenbaugh and Richard T. RitenbaughIsrael rejected God's truth, rejecting God Himself. In this way, God became their enemy. When they refused to repent, His wrath was not long in coming.
Ecclesiastes (Part Seven)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughWe are required to make judgments in our area of influence, in the home and in our own lives. We cannot be careless with God's standards in our own family.
Biblical Principles of Justice (Part One)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughAll authority for law and justice resides in God; when God is taken out of the picture, darkness and chaos dominate. God's laws create a better life and character.
Ecclesiastes (Part Eight)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughToday, as in Solomon's time, we can become discouraged and weary about the corruption in government, especially the evil corruption of the courts.
Ecclesiastes and Christian Living (Part Five): Comparisons
'Personal' from John W. RitenbaughSolomon provides these comparisons to indicate the choices we should make to live better lives in alignment with God, even in an 'nder the sun' world.
Who's Sending the Looters?
Sermonette by Ronny H. GrahamAs God anciently used Gentile nations to puncture Israel's pride, so He may allow Gentiles in Israel to serve as a testimony of Israel's lawlessness.
One Speaking For Many
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The United States is not a democracy (that is, popular or "mob" rule) but instead a representative republic in which citizens elect representatives.
In the Wake of an Unnatural Disaster (Part One)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The past 70 years has seen a systematic undermining of morality by humanists, and a bizarre redefinition as to what constitutes normal and abnormal.
Psalms: Book Three (Part Three)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughPsalm 75 reveals that God both promotes and removes individuals from positions of power and He has the final say as to how power will be administrated.
A Government to Fear (Part Seven)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Even though Western governments are comparatively less tyrannical than their Gentile counterparts, they too can force their ways on the populace.
What Will It Take?
CGG Weekly by David C. GrabbeWhat would have to happen for us to wake up and, instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, actually turn back to God with the entirety of our being?
Everywhere But Up
Commentary by Joseph B. BaityWestern society is looking to technology, medicine and government for solutions to its seemingly unsolvable problems, looking everywhere but up.
Amos (Part Eight)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughAmos severely chides Israel for exalting symbolism over substance, superstitiously trusting in locations where significant historical events occurred.
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Ten)
Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Many of God's servants, including Elijah and Jeremiah, had their crises of faith, desiring to flee from their responsibilities and commitments.
Take Heed and Remember the Less Fortunate
Sermon by Kim MyersWhen a nation loses its morals, people feel free to take advantage of one another, especially the poor. God hates seeing the poor oppressed.
Micah (Part Two): Rest for the Restless
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsMicah describes the current state of America, in which the former checks and balances between the three branches of government have rapidly deteriorated,
God's Stare Decisis
Sermon by Mark Schindler'Stare Decisis' is a principle that precedent should determine legal decision in making a case involving similar facts.
The Goodness and Severity of God (Part One)
'Prophecy Watch' by Charles WhitakerRestoration often follows swiftly on the heels of God's wrath, providing us with hope that God's blessing will come sooner rather than later.
Micah (Part Three): Who Is a God Like You?
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsMicah 5 describes legal proceedings against the people who have rejected God, promising a harsh retribution but future restoration for a physical remnant.
Amos 5 and the Feast of Tabernacles
'Personal' from John W. RitenbaughHow can we evaluate whether our Feast is 'good' or not? God's criticism of Israel's feasts in Amos 5 teaches what God wants us to learn from His feasts.
Homosexual Marriage?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughHomosexuality is not a lifestyle, but a sin directly against God, flouting God's creation of male and female, and perverting the natural use of the human body.