Below is a comprehensive compilation of U.S. federal laws historically and currently aimed at combating communism and subversive activities, particularly within institutions such as government, labor unions, education, and other positions of influence. This list draws from historical anti-communist legislation primarily from the First and Second Red Scares (1917–1920 and 1940s–1950s), as well as remnants still on the books. Many provisions have been limited, repealed, or declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds (e.g., requiring specific intent for advocacy of overthrow rather than mere belief). Enforcement today is rare and typically requires evidence of criminal acts like espionage or incitement to violence, not ideological affiliation alone.
The list is organized chronologically and includes:
Full Name and Citation: Legal reference.
Key Provisions: Focus on those enabling prosecution, registration, removal from positions, or restrictions in institutions.
Application to Institutions: How it targets roles in government, unions, etc.
Current Status (as of September 2025): Enforceability, amendments, or court rulings.
Requires organizations advocating overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence (including communist groups) to register with the Attorney General and disclose foreign ties; failure is punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment and $10,000 fine.
Targets subversive groups infiltrating unions, political organizations, or educational institutions; used to monitor communist fronts.
Still in effect as part of FARA; enforced for foreign agents but rarely for domestic communism without foreign links. Upheld in cases like U.S. v. Dennis (1951).
Alien Registration Act (Smith Act)
18 U.S.C. § 2385
Criminalizes teaching, printing, or advocating overthrow of the U.S. government by force/violence; prohibits membership in groups plotting such overthrow; penalties up to 20 years imprisonment and $20,000 fine.
Used to prosecute Communist Party leaders and remove them from federal employment or union roles via loyalty oaths.
Active but narrowed by Yates v. U.S. (1957) (requires incitement to imminent lawless action) and Scales v. U.S. (1961) (active membership with intent only); last major use in 1950s, but applicable to modern sedition cases.
Required union officers to sign affidavits disavowing communist affiliation; non-compliant unions lost NLRB protections.
Barred communists from union leadership, affecting labor institutions.
Repealed by Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (1959); historical only. Upheld initially in American Communications Ass’n v. Douds (1950).
Executive Order 9835 (Employee Loyalty Program)
5 C.F.R. § 731.101 et seq. (1947; revoked 1953)
Established loyalty review boards to investigate federal employees for “totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive” affiliations; grounds for dismissal included membership in listed subversive groups.
Led to purges of ~5,000 federal workers suspected of subversion in government institutions.
Revoked by Executive Order 10450 (1953); influenced modern security clearance processes but no longer directly enforceable.
McCarran Internal Security Act (Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950)
Requires registration of “Communist-action” (foreign-controlled) and “Communist-front” organizations; bars members from federal jobs, passports, and citizenship; authorizes emergency detention of subversives; prohibits sharing classified info with communists.
Targets infiltration in government, defense, and unions; created Subversive Activities Control Board to investigate and remove from sensitive positions.
Partially repealed (e.g., detention in 1971 Non-Detention Act; Board abolished 1972); registration invalidated in Albertson v. SACB (1965) on self-incrimination; passport ban struck in Aptheker v. Sec’y of State (1964); employment ban in U.S. v. Robel (1967). Remnants (e.g., §797 on military regulations) still used.
Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act)
8 U.S.C. §§ 1182(a)(3)(D), 1227(a)(4)(B) (1952)
Makes communist affiliation grounds for inadmissibility/deportation; bars naturalization for current/former party members unless they prove non-advocacy of force.
Prevents subversives from entering or holding influential roles in U.S. institutions; used for deportation from academia/government.
Active; Section 241(a)(6)(C) invoked in 2025 case against Mahmoud Khalil for alleged communist ties. Upheld in Galvan v. Press (1954) but challenged on due process.
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin Act), Section 504
29 U.S.C. § 504 (1959)
Prohibits convicted communists or those advocating overthrow from holding union office for 5 years post-conviction; penalties up to 10 years imprisonment and $10,000 fine.
Removes subversives from labor union leadership positions.
Active but limited by Brown v. U.S. (1965) requiring specific intent; rarely enforced today.
Communist Control Act of 1954
50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844 (68 Stat. 775, 1954)
Outlaws the Communist Party as a conspiracy to overthrow government; criminalizes membership/support (up to 5 years/$10,000); strips party of legal rights (e.g., no ballot access, suits); defines “communist-infiltrated organizations” for removal of leaders.
Bars communists from unions, government, and elections; targets institutional influence.
Still on books, never repealed; unused since 1950s due to constitutionality issues (e.g., bills of attainder); ruled unconstitutional in Blawis v. Bolin (1973) for ballot bans; dormant but cited in 2025 discussions on anti-communism.
Executive Order 10450 (Security Requirements for Government Employment)
5 C.F.R. Part 731 (1953; amended)
Mandates loyalty checks for federal employees; denies clearances for subversive associations, including communism; allows removal for “criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct.”
Applies to all federal institutions; basis for modern background checks revoking access for subversives.
Active and amended (e.g., by EO 12968 in 1995); focuses on conduct over ideology; used in security clearances.
18 U.S.C. Chapter 115 (Treason, Sedition, and Subversive Activities)
This is how we do it folks. We must tie the democrats, perverts, and globalists to these laws, and prosecute them.
Below is a historical list of major U.S. federal laws and legislative actions enacted over the past century that were designed to counter the threat of communism. These measures formed a comprehensive legal framework aimed at preventing the spread of communist ideology, curbing subversive activities, and protecting national security during the 20th century, particularly during the Cold War era.
This list is presented as a historical plan of action reflecting how the U.S. government legally responded to the challenge of communism. It is not an endorsement of these policies, but rather a factual summary of legislative efforts grounded in the national security concerns of their time.
A Legal Plan of Action to Counter the Spread of Communism in the United States (1920s–1950s) 1. Immigration Act of 1918 (Amended 1919, 1920s) Purpose: Enabled the deportation of non-citizens advocating radical ideologies, including anarchism and Bolshevism. Action: Targeted foreign-born radicals deemed a threat to public order; used against members of the Communist Party and labor activists. Legal Tool: Provided executive authority to remove individuals promoting revolutionary doctrines. 2. Smith Act of 1940 (Alien Registration Act) Purpose: Criminalized advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Action: Made it illegal to: Conspire to teach or advocate the violent destruction of the government. Be a member of any organization promoting such overthrow. Impact: Used to prosecute leaders of the Communist Party USA in the 1940s and 1950s (e.g., Dennis v. United States, 1951). 3. Executive Order 9835 (1947) – Federal Employee Loyalty Program Purpose: Root out communist influence in the federal government. Action: Established loyalty review boards to investigate federal employees. Impact: Over 3 million background checks; hundreds dismissed or resigned over alleged communist ties. Legal Basis: Administrative enforcement of anti-communist standards within the executive branch. 4. Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act) Purpose: Strengthen domestic security against subversive activities. Action: Required Communist organizations to register with the Attorney General. Created the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) to investigate suspected communist groups. Authorized detention of suspected subversives during national emergencies. Presidential Veto: Vetoed by Truman as “dangerous to freedom,” but overridden by Congress. 5. Communist Control Act of 1954 Purpose: Neutralize the Communist Party as a legal political entity. Action: Declared the Communist Party an “unlawful association.” Prohibited CPUSA members from holding union office or obtaining passports. Revoked the party’s right to collective bargaining representation. Legal Effect: Effectively criminalized organized communist political activity. 6. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act) Purpose: Restrict entry of individuals based on political ideology. Action: Barred admission of anyone affiliated with communism or anarchism. Allowed deportation of immigrants found to be communist sympathizers. Impact: Institutionalized ideological screening in immigration policy. 7. Legislative Framework Supporting the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Established: 1938 (formalized in subsequent years) Purpose: Investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Action: Conducted high-profile investigations into Hollywood, labor unions, and government agencies. Used subpoena power to compel testimony; blacklisted individuals who refused to cooperate. Legal Authority: Derived from congressional investigative powers. 8. Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450 (1953) Purpose: Expand loyalty standards beyond mere membership. Action: Broadened criteria to include “sexual perversion” and other “security risks,” but primarily used to dismiss federal workers suspected of communist sympathies. Impact: Reinforced the Lavender Scare alongside anti-communist purges. Summary of the Legal Strategy This plan of action reflects a multi-pronged legal and administrative approach to combat communism in the United States:
1. Prevent Entry: Exclude communists through immigration law. 2. Monitor & Investigate: Use congressional and executive agencies to identify suspected subversives. 3. Prosecute Ideology: Criminalize advocacy of revolution and compel registration of communist groups. 4. Purge Institutions: Remove suspected communists from
A Christian nation says, “There is not enough food for our people. How can we produce more food?” A godless communist nation says, “There are too many people to feed. How can we reduce the population?” Mao Zedong killed approximately 55 million of his own countrymen during the communist revolution, and the so called, great leap forward. He killed millions by starving them to death, while he got fat, and exported the people’s food.
Citation from the Heritage Foundation.
“Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
For Mao, the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting, “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.” Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear.
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million—the population of California.
Rounding up enemies
Only five years later, when he sensed that revolutionary fervor in China was waning, Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution. Gangs of Red Guards—young men and women between 14 and 21—roamed the cities targeting revisionists and other enemies of the state, especially teachers.
Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten—all for the promulgation of Maoism. A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, but not before 1 million Chinese died.
All the while, Mao kept expanding the laogai, a system of 1,000 forced labor camps throughout China. Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in labor camps, has estimated that from the 1950s through the 1980s, 50 million Chinese passed through the Chinese version of the Soviet gulag. Twenty million died as a result of the primitive living conditions and 14-hour work days.
Such calculated cruelty exemplified his Al Capone philosophy: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds. At the other end of the square is a giant portrait of Mao above the entrance to the Forbidden City, the favorite site of visitors, Chinese and foreign.
Repression continues
In the spirit of Mao, China’s present rulers continue to oppress intellectuals and other dissidents such as human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo. He was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” His offense: signing Charter 08, which calls on the government to respect basic civil and human rights within a democratic framework. .
China presents itself as a vast market for U.S. companies and investors. But some U.S. companies are taking a second look at doing business in a country which considers Mao Zedong its patron saint. Google has said it is reconsidering its operations in China after discovering a sophisticated cyber attack on its e-mail which the government must have initiated or approved.
Google has revealed what many in the Internet world have known for some time—China routinely hacks into U.S. and Western Web sites for national security and other valuable information. Mao would have enthusiastically applauded this intellectual rape.
I wonder: would President Obama be so ready to kowtow to China if in the middle of Beijing there was a mausoleum of Hitler and, hanging from the gate to the Forbidden City, a giant swastika?
First Appeared in Vindy.com” Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong.
According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
For Mao, the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting, “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.” Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear.
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million—the population of California.
Rounding up enemies
Only five years later, when he sensed that revolutionary fervor in China was waning, Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution. Gangs of Red Guards—young men and women between 14 and 21—roamed the cities targeting revisionists and other enemies of the state, especially teachers.
Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten—all for the promulgation of Maoism. A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, but not before 1 million Chinese died.
All the while, Mao kept expanding the laogai, a system of 1,000 forced labor camps throughout China. Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in labor camps, has estimated that from the 1950s through the 1980s, 50 million Chinese passed through the Chinese version of the Soviet gulag. Twenty million died as a result of the primitive living conditions and 14-hour work days.
Such calculated cruelty exemplified his Al Capone philosophy: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds. At the other end of the square is a giant portrait of Mao above the entrance to the Forbidden City, the favorite site of visitors, Chinese and foreign.
Repression continues
In the spirit of Mao, China’s present rulers continue to oppress intellectuals and other dissidents such as human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo. He was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” His offense: signing Charter 08, which calls on the government to respect basic civil and human rights within a democratic framework. .
China presents itself as a vast market for U.S. companies and investors. But some U.S. companies are taking a second look at doing business in a country which considers Mao Zedong its patron saint. Google has said it is reconsidering its operations in China after discovering a sophisticated cyber attack on its e-mail which the government must have initiated or approved.
Google has revealed what many in the Internet world have known for some time—China routinely hacks into U.S. and Western Web sites for national security and other valuable information. Mao would have enthusiastically applauded this intellectual rape.
I wonder: would President Obama be so ready to kowtow to China if in the middle of Beijing there was a mausoleum of Hitler and, hanging from the gate to the Forbidden City, a giant swastika?
First Appeared in Vindy.com Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong.
According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
For Mao, the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting, “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.” Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear.
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million—the population of California.
Rounding up enemies
Only five years later, when he sensed that revolutionary fervor in China was waning, Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution. Gangs of Red Guards—young men and women between 14 and 21—roamed the cities targeting revisionists and other enemies of the state, especially teachers.
Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten—all for the promulgation of Maoism. A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, but not before 1 million Chinese died.
All the while, Mao kept expanding the laogai, a system of 1,000 forced labor camps throughout China. Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in labor camps, has estimated that from the 1950s through the 1980s, 50 million Chinese passed through the Chinese version of the Soviet gulag. Twenty million died as a result of the primitive living conditions and 14-hour work days.
Such calculated cruelty exemplified his Al Capone philosophy: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds. At the other end of the square is a giant portrait of Mao above the entrance to the Forbidden City, the favorite site of visitors, Chinese and foreign.
Repression continues
In the spirit of Mao, China’s present rulers continue to oppress intellectuals and other dissidents such as human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo. He was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” His offense: signing Charter 08, which calls on the government to respect basic civil and human rights within a democratic framework. .
China presents itself as a vast market for U.S. companies and investors. But some U.S. companies are taking a second look at doing business in a country which considers Mao Zedong its patron saint. Google has said it is reconsidering its operations in China after discovering a sophisticated cyber attack on its e-mail which the government must have initiated or approved.
Google has revealed what many in the Internet world have known for some time—China routinely hacks into U.S. and Western Web sites for national security and other valuable information. Mao would have enthusiastically applauded this intellectual rape.
I wonder: would President Obama be so ready to kowtow to China if in the middle of Beijing there was a mausoleum of Hitler and, hanging from the gate to the Forbidden City, a giant swastika?
First Appeared in Vindy.com Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong.
According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
For Mao, the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting, “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.” Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear.
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million—the population of California.
Rounding up enemies
Only five years later, when he sensed that revolutionary fervor in China was waning, Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution. Gangs of Red Guards—young men and women between 14 and 21—roamed the cities targeting revisionists and other enemies of the state, especially teachers.
Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten—all for the promulgation of Maoism. A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, but not before 1 million Chinese died.
All the while, Mao kept expanding the laogai, a system of 1,000 forced labor camps throughout China. Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in labor camps, has estimated that from the 1950s through the 1980s, 50 million Chinese passed through the Chinese version of the Soviet gulag. Twenty million died as a result of the primitive living conditions and 14-hour work days.
Such calculated cruelty exemplified his Al Capone philosophy: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds. At the other end of the square is a giant portrait of Mao above the entrance to the Forbidden City, the favorite site of visitors, Chinese and foreign.
Repression continues
In the spirit of Mao, China’s present rulers continue to oppress intellectuals and other dissidents such as human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo. He was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” His offense: signing Charter 08, which calls on the government to respect basic civil and human rights within a democratic framework. .
China presents itself as a vast market for U.S. companies and investors. But some U.S. companies are taking a second look at doing business in a country which considers Mao Zedong its patron saint. Google has said it is reconsidering its operations in China after discovering a sophisticated cyber attack on its e-mail which the government must have initiated or approved.
Google has revealed what many in the Internet world have known for some time—China routinely hacks into U.S. and Western Web sites for national security and other valuable information. Mao would have enthusiastically applauded this intellectual rape.
I wonder: would President Obama be so ready to kowtow to China if in the middle of Beijing there was a mausoleum of Hitler and, hanging from the gate to the Forbidden City, a giant swastika?
First Appeared in Vindy.com” Lee Edwards, Ph.D. @LeeWEdwards Former Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought Lee Edwards is a leading historian of American conservatism and the author or editor of 25 books.
Let’s be civil, and act as mature people in Christ while dealing with the lost. Remember, the people who have modern leftists ideals are not your enemy. It is the power behind them, pulling their strings. That is why our Lord, and His apostles, when they were killed, could ask God to forgive their murderers, due to their ignorance. We are dealing with a group of people who are unable to recognize truth, reason, love, and who are enslaved to sin, their master. They are children of their father, satan. According to Romans 1, their minds are debased, and unable to reason. Pray for the miracle of regeneration to happen to them, that they would be born again, and that they would repent of their sins, and trust solely in Jesus’ work on the cross for their justification.
The last few days have been interesting. So much snow, that my gas furnace and on demand water heater both had their roof-top exhausts covered completely with snow. I didn’t want frozen pipes or a frozen house, so I had to get the exhausts cleared and call some professionals to get the over 3 ft. of accumulated snow off my roof. Thanks Arturo Martinez for all your hard work. If anyone needs some snow removed from their roof, message me and I’ll send you his number. The next morning of fun was realizing the pets could not go outside to do their business. I began to dig them a patch of ground out and wrenched my back. It gave me time to ponder deep topics like, “Will it get better or worse? Will I be able to get to work Monday? How many ibuprofen have I already taken?” One thing is for sure, is that the will of God will be done. This brings me to the inauguration. 4 and 8 years ago, I trusted in the will of God when the pro-abortion, (a.k.a. baby killing) perversion promoting, (LGBT nonsense) Barry Soetoro a.k.a. (Barack Obama) took office and kept it. Even while I wondered how people could condone the evils of perversion, (LGBT) perverse marriage, (Gay Marriage… no such thing) abortion, and socialist totalitarianism, I was comforted by the knowledge that God is sovereign and in control of all things, including the political leadership of this country. I honestly believe we were getting the leaders we deserved as an unrepentant people. We have been calling good evil and evil good for far too long to keep on experiencing the blessings of God. Instead, for 8 long years or corrosive evil leadership, we were under the discipline of God. I hope that the people have repented, and we will be experiencing a reprieve. God willing, may America be blessed once more. I would ask all of you to repent of your sin, put your faith in the finished work of Christ, and seek God’s glory and will first and foremost in the years to come.
“Habakkuk 1:1-4 NASB The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. (2) How long, O LORD, will I call for help, And You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save. (3) Why do You make me see iniquity, And cause me to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises. (4) Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out perverted.”
Notice, his cry to God could be our cry today in the midst of a godless, secular, America. Now look at God’s reply,
“Habakkuk 1:5-11 NASB “Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days– You would not believe if you were told. (6) “For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs. (7) “They are dreaded and feared; Their justice and authority originate with themselves. (8) “Their horses are swifter than leopards And keener than wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come galloping, Their horsemen come from afar; They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour. (9) “All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. They collect captives like sand. (10) “They mock at kings And rulers are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every fortress And heap up rubble to capture it. (11) “Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on. But they will be held guilty, They whose strength is their god.”
Do you see what God was doing there? He was giving the prophet Habakkuk His word that He is using the pagan Chaldeans for His purposes. He was raising them up to use as judgment against His people. Israel had rebelled and neglected God’s word as revealed through the prophets. Make sure to read the last part of verse 11, “But they will be held guilty, They whose strength is their god.” The Chaldeans were going to be held accountable by God in His justice.
Habakkuk’s reply to God,
“Habakkuk 1:12-17 NASB Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge; And You, O Rock, have established them to correct. (13) Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You can not look on wickedness with favor. Why do You look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they? (14) Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them? (15) The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. (16) Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net And burn incense to their fishing net; Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful. (17) Will they therefore empty their net And continually slay nations without sparing?”
At first it seems that Habakkuk understands why God is going to punish Israel, but then he goes on pleading with God. His questions seem to call for God to not allow this to happen. Sometimes we can be like that. We live in a great land. Many of us are like the Chaldeans. We put our faith in the strength of our military, or our wealth. We trust a nationalistic ideology called America. We offer our sacrifices to it. We neglect God and His word. We rebel against Him. We kill our young and call it a woman’s right to choose. We make legal all types of perverse abominations and call it progress, and liberty. Just because we legislate it and make it legal does not make it moral. Just because a secular majority deems something to be good doesn’t make it so.
As Christians we have an external moral authority Who is immutable. He never changes and is eternal. His decrees of good and evil stand for ever, no matter what human government makes legal. The political candidates we have to choose from, the debased minds that many of our fellow Americans have, the perversions that are abounding, are all punishments from God. We are under judgement. We need to be outside of our Churches, evangelizing so that people might be saved and come in. We need to repent of our personal sins. We need to repent of the attractional model of Church. We need to stop begging goats to come in to our Churches. We need to go out to them and preach the gospel of Jesus, which is repentance from sin and faith in Christ’s work on the cross.
When people are miraculously changed by God they will become sheep. They will come to Church without the need of the gimmicks of silly centers. They will hunger for the preaching of God’s word, fellowship with brothers and sisters, praising God with hymns, prayer, and the glory of God will be their aim. Don’t be bashful, now is not the time. Be bold for Christ and His gospel to go forth! Are you saddened by the damage and hurt you see being done by sin in the lives of your friends and neighbors? Do you think that you love them? If you do, then you must give to them the only cure for their brokenness. You must give them the only thing that will heal them and make them whole! Give them the gospel of Jesus! It is truth and love!
So if you find yourself crying out to God much like Habakkuk did, ask yourself why God is doing what He is doing. Ask yourself what the proper response is to what He is doing. Then I think you will come to the same conclusion.
For many years, I was a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core, conservative, Republican. I was so Right-wing, I made Rush look like a moderate. You name the stance, and I was firmly and extremely on the right. I couldn’t watch the news unless it was from Fox. It got so bad I couldn’t even watch Fox anymore. Everything made me frustrated or mad. I vowed to go into politics when I retired from my career in Corrections. I figured that the only way for things to get better was if I got into the game and made some allies. I figured if there is a secret organization behind the scenes pulling the strings, I would make my own cabal to fight them.
For years I considered, “what if” scenarios. I tried to account for variables that could occur. I ran scenario after scenario by my cohorts. It was like the scene from the movie, “War Games” where Matthew Broderick tricks the W.O.P.R. computer into stopping the nuclear attack by playing tic-tac-toe. It came to the conclusion that what it was doing was futile. That’s exactly where I found myself. I realized what I was doing was futile.
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