At a recent
Faith and Action briefing on Capitol Hill, David New an Attorney in Washington,
gave a provocative presentation of the legal basis of the Christian Foundation
of the United States of America.
It left my mind whirling with the implications.
While most Christian believers in America would assert an historical account of America’s Christian heritage and founding, they would not allege a legal case for it. What is this legal case? If there is a strong legal case, there must be evidence. What is this evidence?
The 1783 Treaty of Paris between the United States of America and Great Britain is exhibit A. You history buffs will remember that the Treaty of Paris is the legal document that formally ended the Revolutionary War, but it also became what is the deed of the land and territorial rights of the original thirteen colonies.
The legally binding Treaty of Paris begins with the following Preface:
In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.
The opening
of the actual treaty communicates that the King of Britains’ and the United
States’ hearts had been disposed by this God to do His pleasing will. The treaty goes on to relinquish all
claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the thirteen
colonies and acknowledges these colonies to be free states. There was no money paid for the land. These rights were transferred because
it pleased God to dispose the hearts of the respective parties to enter this
agreement. This document, signed
and ratified by Britain and the U.S. deeded the land to the United States of
America by and in the name of the Holy Trinity.
The Holy Trinity is the Christian God, the one, true and living God. So the land of the United States was given to her by God, the Christian God. Let that one sink in for a minute.
While I was
listening to the conclusion of Mr. New’s presentation, my mind was racing with
the implications of such a proposition.
If Almighty God gave the land of the United States in a land grant, what
are the ramifications?
Since it is legally documented that the land of the U.S. has been granted by God and the evidence of this grant is now on display at the National Archives in Washington D.C. for all to see, we have to understand that with this land grant by God come all of the responsibilities that go along with ruling over land that has been given by God.
God gave
land to the people of Israel back in the book of Joshua. If you look in the final chapters of
the book of Numbers, God gives Israel precepts and procedures for properly
ruling over this land. In the
final verses of Numbers 35, a chapter that deals with the creation of cities of
refuge to deal with people who were guilty of manslaughter, God gives a statute
on dealing with the person who is guilty of pre-meditated murder.
A person guilty of pre-meditated murder was to be put to death. And this was to be done according to the law of the witness, where the witness of 2 or 3 would establish guilt. The question is why would God deal so decisively and irrevocably with a murderer? The answer is found in Numbers 35:34. God says, “Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell.” NKJV
In context, you see the principle that God is teaching Israel. The land can become defiled. It can be come polluted. In fact, at the time Israel received this binding procedure, the land was polluted and defiled from the practices of the Canaanites. The Canaanites who lived in the land were displaced by God’s decree because they had defiled the land. The question then is how can land be defiled or polluted?
The spilling of blood by pre-meditated murder defiles the land (Numbers 35:33). The crime of murder is not only an offense against the sanctity of life; it is a pollutant to the Lord’s land. Abel’s blood cried out from the ground in Genesis 4.
Genesis 4:10
Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”
He
said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out
to Me from the ground.
The Canaanites had polluted the land with their religious practice of sacrificing their infant children by burnt offering as they placed them on the scalding arms of their brazen god Molech. And so the land had to be cleansed. God cleansed it through His command to Israel to wipe out the Canaanites. This point is often missed by atheists who try to point out that the God of the Old Testament is a malevolent God and therefore shouldn’t be believed in much less followed. God’s decree to Israel was not malevolent but righteous judgment to cleanse His land.
What are the implications for the United States of America? Presently, according to the Center for Disease Control, we murder by pre-meditation over 800,000 people a year by abortion. Since Roe v. Wade was decided we have killed over 49 million people by abortion. Needless to say, blood has been spilt in such huge quantities that it is safe to say that the land has been polluted and defiled.
With all the attention we rightly give to the issue of ecology and pollution in our day, there is an act of pollution that goes far beyond the trashing of rivers, the killing of lakes, the killing of forests, and the spilling of oil in the oceans; it is the abuse of persons. The worst abuse of all is wrongful death. God will not draw near a land where blood is the polluting agent. Source Unknown
What can we do about this? There are a few things we can do. The first is that we can repent as a nation and ask God’s forgiveness. The second is that we can pray that God will change the hearts of those who stand in the way of fixing this pollution of the land. And thirdly, we can prayerfully vote for men and women who will not only acknowledge the issue with their lips but do something about it in their actions by way of legislation and the appointment of judges who understand the spiritual, legal and territorial ramifications of this issue.
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