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The Declaration Of Independence As Covenant Theology

Did the Founding Fathers know what they were doing when they wrote the Declaration in the form of & the US Constitution suzerain covenants?  No, I don’t thing they did, but the fact of the matter is that it does follow that outline — which ought to give strict secularists pause.  While it’s true that (White) (Pseudo)Christian Nationalism / Dominionism are errors from which we should all flee, it is also true that the Law of God is written on our hearts (Romans 2), & the LORD has His heart, mind, mouth, feet, hands, etc (on a functional level) everything, & since the Founders called upon the Judge of All Things, we ought to be paying better attention to this sort of phenomenon than we are. Shema   The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,   Historical Prologue  When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among th...
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Covenant Theology In Outline Form 29 - Malachi

  Shema     A prophecy: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi. Historical Prologue  2  “I have loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,  3  but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” 4  Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.  5  You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’ General Stipulations  2  “And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I w...
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Covenant Theology In Outline Form 28: Matthew 21:12 - 22

  Shema And Jesus entered the temple  Historical Prologue  and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.  General Stipulations  13  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” Specific Stipulations  14  And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.  Covenant Renewal    15  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,  16  and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”  Document Clause & Witnesses  And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “ ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?” 17  And leaving them, he went out of ...
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