Thanksgiving, an American holiday and Israel

By Dave Funnell
Email: dave@enstruments.com

It's a cliché that the treatment of the patriarch Abraham by his fellow-men would be reciprocated by God for good or ill. According to Genesis 12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

While the fact that these United States has had a special relationship with modern Israel may seem to say little about the original awe of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that was held in the bosom of our Founders, quite the contrary is true. It has to do with little else.

Their attitude of reverence is equally important to consider not only to comprehend Israel's place-in-the-world today, but to properly place this Republic in the longer scope, through the changes-of-scenes as it were, on the stage of world history.

This modern era is utterly inconceivable without our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, founded on the Bible (as published in vernacular language) having first fomented the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...

The prosperity and happiness pursued by Americans have been the blessing of the world promised by God.

When Abraham (doubtless, to my mind) recorded the promises he'd heard, the success of American liberty was already a contingent potential to be achieved in company with the Jews who'd kept those words for posterity.

Why do President and Vice President support gay marriage?

"Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to President Barack Obama for putting him in a tough position that led to Obama's announcement that he now supports same-sex marriage, senior administration officials said Thursday. Obama said in an interview that aired Thursday on ABC that he made his decision public earlier than he had planned after Biden's weekend remark that he was "absolutely comfortable" with letting gays and lesbians marry."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/10/politics/obama-same-sex-marriage/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

They are suppose to follow, obey and defend the Constitution. Even the Highest Law of the Republic can be written, but not with God, the Creator and Owner of us all says:

"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.

Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."

Worth reading the whole chapter 1 of Romans.

http://www.examiner.com/article/billy-graham-s-son-accuses-president-of-shaking-his-fist-at-god

"Rev. Franklin Graham, son of Rev. Billy Graham, has issued a response to the president's recent announcement of his support for same-sex marriage. WLOS ABC13 in nearby Asheville, North Carolina, posted the entire statement in full on the WLOS ABC 13 Facebook page. The most emphatic part of Rev. Graham's remarks follows:

In changing his position from that of Senator/candidate Obama, President Obama has, in my view, shaken his fist at the same God who created and defined marriage. It grieves me that our president would now affirm same-sex marriage, though I believe it grieves God even more.

Rev. Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, both were vocal supporters of the controversial legislation that passed in North Carolina Tuesday. With Montreat, North Carolina, being the home of the Billy Graham Ministries, their endorsement of Amendment One on Tuesday helped the state become the 31st state to pass a constitutional amendment establishing the institution of marriage as solely between a man and a woman."