At one time one of our mottos was “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.” Are we? Really? If we are free, why is there no longer private property? That’s right. There is no truly private property in America. Please allow me to explain.
Ownership is determined by several components. One of the major components of ownership is the power to destroy. Not power as in strength, but power as in authority. If I own a chair, I am free to destroy it. If I own an article of clothing I am free to destroy it. Destruction of property is reserved to the owner of the property. Someone else may destroy your property but they would owe you for the destruction of your property.
Now lets consider taxes. We are bound by both law and God to pay our taxes. We are to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. When in 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, “The power to tax is the power to destroy,” it should have set off some major warning bells about private ownership of property, if the property is taxed.
What do we own that is not taxed? Additionally, when our private property is taxed on an annual basis, are we nothing more than holders of the property and not owners of it? When my forefathers came to this land from Wales, they were true property owners. There was no property tax, and they could dispose of it in any method they wanted. They could improve it, plant trees, cut trees, build a house, or just let it lay with no obligation to the government.
Today the government, through the power of taxation, zoning and permits, has become the owner. Pay your taxes and you are permitted to live on the land. Refuse to pay and the government will kick you off and put someone there who will pay. In a sense, the tax has become a payment of rent. We no longer own, we rent. An additional proof of non-ownership is the permission you must have from the government to build or modify a building. In a sense, the “owner” asks permission if he can build an structure, even a shed, on the property before it can be built. Another foreign idea to our forefathers.
Oh, by the way, remember those “wild” animals our forefathers could shoot and eat at any time? They have also become the property of the government. The government regulates all aspects of the previously “wild” animals. Notice again, the aspect of destruction of an item helps you determine who owns it. Every deer, turkey, owl, and skunk is regulated. No animal may be killed unless at government approved times and using government approved methods, unless you are permitted by the government to have a waiver.
One last item, as I think of hunting and gun ownership, I think of the abolition of the Second Amendment. Yes, I said abolition. The Second Amendment says, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Notice the wording of the second part: “The right of the People to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.” Just a question: Isn’t requiring a permit, like a CCW or a Concealed Carry Permit, an infringement? Yes, of course it is. Our forefathers understood this Amendment was not a permit from the government but a recognition of a RIGHT given by God. They knew they had the right to carry a weapon, concealed or not, when they wanted. Are not people who agree to getting the permit also agreeing to, or consenting to, the infringement of their Second Amendment right?
There are other amendments being violated too, but I come to the question: So what? What’s the point? The point is understood when you realize government ownership of property and the destruction of the Bill of Rights are all a part of a greater plan. These issues are all connected to a greater goal of a global government, a global economy and the control of the commerce of every human on the planet.
The government of the beast will require every person in the world to join it. Revelation 13:16 says this world government will have the power to force ALL to join it. The America of our forefathers, where private property was truly privately owned, where wild animals were truly wild, and arms could be carried any way they thought best, is no more. Those rights we have surrendered to the government will never be returned, but don't despair.
We don’t need to stock up on gold, guns or ammo. Remember the warning found in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”
What is the best thing you can do to prepare for the future? 1) Get saved, commit your heart and life to Jesus Christ and trust Him to be your King; 2) Get right, repent of your sins and live a life obedient to God’s Word; and 3) Get busy, the world is being overtaken by the evolutionists, they need to be told of the Creation, the Creator and the Coming Judgment.
