Psalm 14
Fool states there is no God verse 1
The fool hath said in his heart
There is no God
They are corrupt – they have done abominable works
there is none that does good
Total depravity of man witnessed by LORD verse 2- 3
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men
to see if there were any that did understand
and SEEK God
They are all gone aside – they are all together become filthy
there is NONE that does good – NO – not ONE
LORD protects HIS people verse 4- 6
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
who eat up MY people as they eat bread
and call not upon the LORD
There were they in great fear
for God is in the generation of the righteous
you have shamed the counsel of the POOR
BECAUSE the LORD is his refuge
Salvation of Israel coming out of Zion verse 7
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion
when the LORD brings back the captivity of HIS people
Jacob shall rejoice – Israel shall be glad
COMMENTARY:
DAILY SPIRITUAL BREAKFAST: Young Believers
: 1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good. (5036 “fool” [nabal] means foolish, senseless, morally insensitive or vile person)
DEVOTION: There are two types of people in our world. There are those who have an understanding of God and those who are fools. There is no middle ground. All men are totally depraved. They are sinful. They cannot save themselves. Only the LORD can save them. HE is going to send deliverance or salvation to Israel through someone coming out of Zion. We realize that the LORD came out of Zion after HE died on the cross for the sins of the world.
There is established in America a holiday for those who don’t believe in Christ. It is April first. The husband of Abigail was named Nabal, which means fool. He didn’t understand what David had done for him or what David was going to do to him because of the way he treated his men. The one who doesn’t believe in God is senseless because he doesn’t understand creation.
There is a majority of people who really feel that this life is all there is. They are going to live it to the fullest. They are not going to worry about an afterlife. They believe they can treat anyone poorly and there will be no consequences. They don’t think there is a creator of this beautiful world. They have been taught in our schools that we are just animals that will die someday and go into the ground and turn to dust. It is sad but true.
The Bible tells a different story. The Bible tells us that there is NONE righteous, no on one. All are sinners. All need a Savior. Christ died on the cross for the sins of the world. All those who follow Christ will spend eternity in heaven.
There is HOPE. There is FAITH. There is LOVE. It is my prayer that we can reach our loved ones with this message. We need to remember that all those who die as those outside of Christ will spend eternity in the lake of fire with the devil and his angels.
Are we going to allow our loved one to think wrong when we have the TRUTH? Share the TRUTH!!!
Our worldview must accept the fact that everyone is headed to the lake of fire that doesn’t have Christ in their heart. Many will not respond to the Gospel because they think it is good to put down Christians. That doesn’t give us an excuse not to reach them.
CHALLENGE: Never give up!!!
DAILY SPIRITUAL LUNCH: Transitional Believers
: 2 The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. (7919 “understand” [sakal] means to have success, comprehend, to act or behave in a way that demonstrates wisdom, be prudent, give attention, clever, insight, or devotion)
DEVOTION: There are people who are smart but they don’t comprehend the teachings of the Word of God. They can even read the Bible but still not understand it. They can read the word but not be able to apply them to their lives because they never made a commitment to follow Jesus Christ.
The majority in our world don’t want to know more than they know about church and the Bible. They don’t think it is important enough to give their time and effort to the search of Scripture or even want to understand who Jesus Christ is and how HE has provided salvation for eternity for those who chose to believe.
The LORD understands this FACT! HE knows that the majority don’t want to change their sinful ways and follow HIM. HE has given them every opportunity to understand what HIS Son, Jesus Christ, did in history.
They have met people who are genuine believers but still don’t want to have anything to do with God because they don’t think they need HIM in their life. They are doing OK on their own. Eternity means nothing to them.
It seems that most humans think that once they die they will turn to dust and that will be the end. However, the Bible teaches something different and hard to understand that there is a life after death.
Our responsibility is to teach those we know and love to tell them that the Bible is right and there is an eternity in either heaven or hell. If we comprehend this truth we need to spread it to those we love.
CHALLENGE: Helping others understand that there is a life after death is not easy but for a believer it is necessary.
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:3 “They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, No, not one.” NKJV (Strong’s אָלַח \ [ʾalach /aw·lakh/] v. A primitive root; TWOT 98; GK 480; Three occurrences; AV translates as “become filthy” three times. 1 (Niphal) to be corrupt morally, tainted. James Strong, Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2001).
DEVOTION: We live in a society that increasingly is looking at good as bad and bad as good! Absolutes and morals are challenged and the mentality of whatever is right for the individual is right. This attitude advances the general consensus of society that God is irrelevant and only necessary when a crisis or miracle occurs. Each person is free to do what is right in their own eyes and together all become corrupt. Paul refers to this verse in Romans 3: 12 and then describes mankind with phrases such as; we have become unprofitable, have tongues that practice deceit, mouths full of cursing and bitterness and have no fear of God before their eyes! (Romans 3:13-18) We can receive the truth of God’s word and accept that unequivocally all have sinned as he states in 3:23.
A difficult truth to accept but God’s word does not stop there and offers an avenue of reconciliation to those corrupt individuals that will accept the justification offered by Jesus Christ through the redemption that is in Him.
CHALLENGE: The recognition and admission that you are a sinner is the first step to salvation. The grace of God of God is extended to man by the kindness of Christ Jesus. Receive the truth of Ephesians 2:8-9 today, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Corrupt sinners become saints through receiving by faith the gift of God through Jesus Christ. Have you become a saint? (Dr. Brian Miller – board member)
DAILY SPIRITUAL SUPPER: Mature Believers
: 6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge (4268 “refuge” [machaceh] means something or someone turned to for assistance or security, the person to whom one flees, shelter, trust, or hope)
DEVOTION: The majority of people in our world don’t believer or think they need Jesus Christ in their life. In fact, they teach everyone around them that they don’t need to turn to assistance from the God of the Bible.
The Bible understands that those who are poor need help. They can learn if they study the
Bible or know a believer that there is help given by the LORD to those who trust in HIM. This is something that they need to know but most people don’t believe it or share it.
In fact, many people make fun of those who trust in the LORD. Those who are poor turn to the LORD for help because they can’t find it anywhere else and so they don’t understand the fact that HE is not real to most of the world.
HE is real and every person on earth needs to have a personal relationship with HIM but the majority don’t believe or even give HIM the time of day. They think this world is it and you have to make the best of it without any hope for you after you die.
This teaching is not from heaven but from the devil and his angels. The Bible tells us that we need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ to live in eternity in heaven with Jesus Christ.
So a choice has to be made whether to believe those who reject Jesus Christ or those who have genuinely accepted HIM as their Savior and are trying to live a life that is pleasing to HIM.
There is no middle ground either you are a follower of Jesus Christ or you are not. Those who are poor need hope and it is found in Jesus Christ alone because this world doesn’t give hope to those who follow Jesus it is a problem.
If Jesus is real and has died for our sins then we need HIM. If he is not real then we will die and there will be no life after death. The Bible teaches there is life after death and in Christ there is hope.
CHALLENGE: Who are those who are poor to believe? The Bible or the people around them that say there is no life after death. One of them is right!!!
________________________________________________________ : 7 “Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.”(Captivity, 7622 שְׁבוּת [shĕbuwth], exile, concretely, prisoners; figuratively, a former state of prosperity: captive(-ity).
DEVOTION: David harkens to a time when the children of Israel will be in captivity. The people were not actually removed from the land in captivity until the defeat by Nebuchadnezzar, but that does not mean that certain ones were not already in captivity prior to that time. There were many times during the era of the judges when the Israelites were subjugated to other peoples. In addition, David and his men rescued the people of Ziklag (1 Samuel 30). So there is no need to see this psalm as a later pseudepigraphal psalm written by someone else during the Babylonian captivity and ascribed to David when it was compiled in the psalter.
Captivity is a loss of one’s personal freedom, and this can happen in a number of ways. Often we become captives as a result of our (moral) choices, and only realize too late that the choices we have made result in many unanticipated outcomes. For example, how often have people chosen to go into debt only to find out that the payments they are obligated to make cause their finances to be strained? For Israel, choosing to worship false gods had the result that God allowed them to be conquered by their enemies. Once we are in captivity, we realized what has been lost (the former state of prosperity). Paul says that those who commit sin are slaves to those sins (Romans 6:6-7).
Only God can bring someone back out of captivity, and release us from the slavery that our sin puts us into. This is David’s prayer that God would do so for HIS people Israel. This prayer and prophecy was answered by the arrival of the Messiah, Jesus. Jesus quoted this same thought about HIMSELF when HE quoted Isaiah 61:1-2 in the synagogue in Nazareth (Luke 4:18-19). HE wanted those who were listening to HIM to know that it was HE who would finally provide the deliverance from captivity.
The first step in deliverance from captivity is to realize what sin(s) are holding us as captive. Then, we can confess these to the Lord and ask Him to forgive us. God delights in setting us free from the sins that enslave us. What do you need to ask God to help you experience HIS freedom from today?
Dr. Marc Wooten – board member)
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DISCIPLINES OF THE FAITH:
BODY
Chastity (Purity in living)
Fasting (Time alone with LORD without eating or drinking)
Sacrifice (Giving up something we want to serve the LORD)
Submission (Willing to listen to others and LORD)
Solitude (Going to a quiet place without anyone)
SOUL
Fellowship (Gathering together around the Word of God)
Frugality (wise use of resources)
Journalizing (Writing down what you have learned from the LORD)
Study and Meditation (Thinking through your study in the Word)
Secrecy (Doing your good deeds without others knowing but God)
SPIRIT
Celebration (Gathering around a special occasion to worship LORD)
Confession (Tell the LORD we are sorry for our sins on a daily basis)
Prayer (Conversation with God on a personal level)
Call on the LORD verse 4
Silence (Letting the LORD deal with some problems and needs)
Worship (Time to praise the LORD alone or in a group)
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DOCTRINES OF THE FAITH:
Scripture (66 inerrant books of the Bible)
God the Father (First person of the Godhead)
God – Elohim (Creator, Sovereign) verse 1, 2, 5
LORD – Jehovah (Covenant keeping, Personal) verse 2, 4, 6, 7
Heaven verse 2
MY people verse 4
LORD is refuge of poor verse 6
Brings back captivity of HIS people verse 7
God the Son (Second person of the Godhead –God/man, Messiah)
God the Holy Spirit (Third person of the Godhead – our comforter)
Trinity (Three persons of the Godhead who are co-equal = ONE God)
Angels (Created before the foundation of the world – Good and Evil)
Man (Created on the sixth twenty-four hour period of creation)
Children of men verse 2
Poor verse 6
Sin (Missing the mark set by God on man and angels)
Fool verse 1
Corrupt verse 1
Abominable works verse 1
Not doing good verse 1, 3
Not seeking God verse 2
Gone aside verse 3
Filthy verse 3
Workers of iniquity verse 4
No knowledge verse 4
Eat up godly people verse 4
Not call upon the LORD verse 4
Great fear verse 5
Shamed verse 6
Salvation (Provided by Christ’s death on the cross for our sins)
Good verse 1, 3
Understand verse 2
Seek God verse 2
Righteous verse 5
Refuge verse 6
Salvation verse 7
Rejoice verse 7
Glad verse 7
Israel (Old Testament people of God)
David verse 1- 7
God’s people verse 4
Generation of the righteous verse 5
HIS people verse 7
Jacob verse 7
Israel verse 7
Zion verse 7
Church (New Testament people of God)
Last Things (Future Events)
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QUOTES regarding passage
Psalm 14 ….”Atheists Are Fools, and Agnostics Are Cowards.” …. He [God] insists that the reason people do not see this reality is that this side of the fall we human beings suffer from such a deep moral and spiritual corruption that we are blind to the obvious. …. Christians never have the right to say, “ I am smarter than you are,” because Christians deep down know that they can never be more than fools who have been shown forgiveness and grace. We are never more than poor beggars telling other poor beggars where there is bread. (p. 92, 93 The God who is There, by D. A. Carson)
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The folly of evil, already emphasized in verses 1 and 2, is now seen as failure to discriminate (4) and failure to foresee (5f.). There is an animal complacency about the unconcerned exploiters and secularists of verse 4 which is only matched by that of the practised sinner of Proverbs 30:20. It is more impenetrable than the bluster of verse 1; this might well be twentieth-century man. On the terror to come (which 53:5 calls ‘terror such as has not been’) see further Isaiah 2:19ff.; Revelation 6:15ff. Cf. C. S. Lewis: ‘In the end that Face which is the delight or the terror of the universe must be turned upon each of us …, either conferring glory inexpressible or inflicting shame that can never be cured or disguised.’(Kidner, D. (1973). Psalms 1–72: an introduction and commentary (Vol. 15, p. 96). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.)
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14:4–6. David revealed the outcome of the struggle between these workers of iniquity and the righteous. He was amazed at the ignorance of evildoers who think they can freely devour God’s people. Their wickedness is most pronounced in their vicious attack on His people. They are oblivious to the fact that God will overwhelm them, because in attacking the people of God they are attacking God. He is present in the midst of His people. So the psalmist foresaw that the wicked will be in great dread when the Lord judges them for persecuting His own. They may frustrate the lives of God’s people (the poor) for a time, but those people will be vindicated because they trust in the Lord … their Refuge (maḥseh, “shelter from danger,” a word used of the Lord nine times in the Pss: 14:6; 46:1; 61:3; 62:7–8; 71:7; 73:28; 91:2, 9). (Ross, A. P. (1985). Psalms. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, p. 802). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.)
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Sudden Fear—They Meet God (vv. 4–6)
Someone asked the agnostic British philosopher Bertrand Russell what he would say if, when he died, he suddenly found himself standing before God. Russell replied, “You did not give us sufficient evidence!” If the heavens above us, the earth beneath our feet, the wonders of nature around us, and the life and conscience within us, don’t convince us of the existence of a wise and powerful Creator, how much more evidence must the Lord give? An atheistic Russian cosmonaut said he’d looked carefully while in space and didn’t see God. Someone commented, “If he’d opened the door of the space capsule, he would have met Him!” The time comes when God and the sinner suddenly meet. (See Belshazzar in Daniel 5, the rich farmer in Luke 12:13–21, and the people in Revelation 6:12–17)
Verse 4 gives us two more indictments: these practical atheists take advantage of the weak and the poor, and they will not call upon the Lord. To “eat people like bread” is a biblical metaphor for exploiting the helpless (27:2; 35:25; 53:4; Mic. 3:1–3; Lam. 2:16; and see Isa. 3:12, Jer. 10:25, Amos 2:6–8, and Mic. 2:2 and 7:3). People must never be used as a means to an end or “treated as consumer goods,” as Eugene H. Peterson expresses it. Instead of praying to God, the wicked prey on the godly. But then the Lord suddenly appears in judgment, and He identifies Himself with the remnant of faithful believers. We don’t know what event David was referring to, but the parallel passage in 53:5 suggests a great military victory that left all the enemy dead, unburied, and therefore humiliated. Some interpret the scene as a metaphor of a court case and connect it with verse 6, “You evildoers frustrate the plans [counsel] of the poor” (niv). Imagine God suddenly appearing in court and ousting the crooked judge! Whatever the meaning, this much is clear: God is in the generation of the righteous, God is their refuge when the enemy attacks, and God will protect His own people. (Wiersbe, W. W. (2004). Be worshipful (1st ed., pp. 59–60). Colorado Springs, CO: Cook Communications Ministries.)
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Ver. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? &c.] Of the being of God, of the nature of sin, and of the punishment due unto it? This question is put either by way of admiration, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra observe; the psalmist, or rather God speaking after the manner of men, wondering that there should be such ignorance and stupidity among men, as before expressed; or rather, as denying this to be the case, and affirming that they have knowledge, notwithstanding they think, and say, and do, as before related, as in Rom. 9:21. Do not they know that there is a God? That sin is the transgression of the law of God? and that they are accountable to him for their actions? Verily they do: for this is said, not of sinners of the Gentiles; though even they, by the light of nature, know there is a God, and shew the work of the law written in their hearts; and have a consciousness in them of good and evil; but of sinners in Zion, of the profligate part of mankind among the Jews, who had a divine revelation, by which they knew the one God of Israel; and a law, by which was the knowledge of sin, and whose sanctions were rewards and punishments. And it seems to design the chief among them, who had power over others, to eat them up and devour them; even their political and ecclesiastical governors; see Mic. 3:1, 2, 3; Ezek. 34:2. who, though they had no spiritual understanding, nor experimental knowledge of things, yet had a theoretical and speculative one; so that their sins were attended with this aggravation, that they were against light and knowledge, particularly what follows: who eat up my people as they eat bread: not David’s people, but the Lord’s people: see ver. 2. whom he chose for his people, who were his covenant-people, and who professed his name, and were called by it; these the workers of iniquity ate up, devoured, and consumed; see Jer. 10:25. by reproaching and persecuting them, doing injury to their persons, property, and character: they devoured their persons, by using them cruelly and putting them to death; they devoured their substance, by spoiling them of it, and converting it to their own use, as the Pharisees are said to devour widows’ houses; and they destroyed their good names and characters with their devouring words: and this they did with as much ease, delight, and pleasure, and without any remorse of conscience, and as constantly, as a man eats his bread. Or the words may be rendered, they eat up my people, they eat bread; that is, though they act such a wicked and cruel part, yet they have bread to eat, and fulness of it; they are not in straits, nor afflicted and punished; and because they are not, they are hardened in their impiety and iniquity: or they eat bread, after they have persecuted and devoured the Lord’s people, with peace of mind, without remorse of conscience, as if they had done no iniquity, like the adulterous woman in Prov. 30:20. And call not upon the Lord; or pray to him, or serve and worship him; for invocation includes the whole worship of God; and this they do not, though they know him, and are daily supplied by him, and eat his bread. Some read this clause with the former, they eat bread, and call not on the Lord; as if their sin was, that when they eat bread, they did not ask a blessing upon it, nor return thanks to God for it, which ought to be done; but the accent athnach under לחﬦ, bread, will not admit of this sense, though it seems to be countenanced by the Targum. (Gill, J. (1810). An Exposition of the Old Testament (Vol. 3, p. 578). London: Mathews and Leigh.)
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4–6. The sad blindness of men’s minds in their denying the existence of God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such unbelief as strongly pointed out in the fear of such a guilty mind. And the cruelties to God’s people is also shewn. The sacred writer hath drawn a striking representation of the horrors of an alarmed conscience, enough to make the ears of every one that heareth it to tingle. Deut. 28:66, 67. (Hawker, R. (2013). Poor Man’s Old Testament Commentary: Job–Psalms (Vol. 4, p. 201). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.)
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FROM MY READING:
(Remember the only author that I totally agree with is the HOLY SPIRIT in the inerrant WORD OF GOD called THE BIBLE! All other I try to gleam what I can to help me grow in the LORD!!)
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Poem by F. R. Havergal:
O teach me, Lord, that I may teach
The precious things Thou doest impart;
And wing my words, that they may teach
The hidden depths of many a heart.
O give Thine own sweet rest to me,
That I may speak with soothing power
A word in season, as from Thee,
To weary ones in needful hour.
(January 28, The Continual Burnt Offering, H. A. Ironside)
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The Opened Heavens
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.” (Revelation 19:11)
This is the final climactic reference in the Bible to God’s opened heavens. Sometimes, as in this verse, heaven is opened in judgment; sometimes in blessing. Sometimes it is the atmospheric heaven that is open; sometimes the heaven of heavens where stands the throne of God.
The first such mention refers to the world-destroying Flood of Noah’s day when “the windows of heaven were opened” (Genesis 7:11). The second mention, however, speaks of blessing. God had “opened the doors of heaven, And had rained down manna upon them to eat” (Psalm 78:23-24). The windows of heaven rained down the waters of death, while the doors of heaven rained down the bread of life! Ezekiel also saw the heavens opened in judgment (Ezekiel 1:1), but God told Malachi, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse . . . and prove me now . . . if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Malachi 3:10).
At the baptism of Jesus, the heavens were opened and men heard the great testimony of the Father concerning His beloved Son (Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:21). Jesus promised Nathanael, “Hereafter ye shall see heaven open” (John 1:51), and Stephen and Peter actually saw the heavens open (Acts 7:56; 10:11).
Finally, the apostle John reported that “a door was opened in heaven” (Revelation 4:1), and he saw the Lord on His throne—12 specific references (four in the Old Testament, eight in the New) to the opened heavens. (HMM, The Institute for Creation Research)
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Israel demands a king from the Lord. I Samuel 8
INSIGHT
The Lord intends to rule Israel by theocracy, which means that God will rule through a man who will be His spokesman. In rejecting this method, the Israelites are not rejecting Samuel but God. To be sure there is a problem with Samuel’s sons not walking after the Lord, but rather than ask God for another theocratic administrator, they demand a monarchy. In seeking to correct a legitimate problem, they make matters worse because their motives are wrong. They have a selfish desire for a king like the nations around them.
When we see legitimate problems, we must be careful that we do not demand wrong solutions. There is no substitute for pure motives when it comes to problem solving. (Quiet Walk)
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A RIGHT CONCEPTION OF GOD
Hallowed be thy name. Luke 11:2
When the disciples came to our Lord and said, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples,” He replied, “When ye pray say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name” (Luke 11:1-2). You must start, said our Lord, with a right conception of God. Now is this not where we all tend to go astray? So often our initial error and trouble is that our ideas of God are so loose. Let us be quite frank and honest about this. Most of us, before we listen to Jesus Christ, rather feel that we are in a position even to criticize God: “Why should God….? Why this? Why that?” We are, we think, the judges even where God is concerned.
Now what our Lord tells us at the beginning is, “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou stand is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5). Can you imagine God, can you picture Him? God is utterly and absolutely holy, so much so that we cannot imagine Him, eternal in His holiness and His absolute perfection.
That is what our Lord taught about God, and we must start there. We have to realize that if to know God is the first essential thing in rest and peace, we must begin by knowing something of His nature and character, and that is what our Lord always taught about Him. Take His own attitude toward the Father. Look at the time He spent in prayer; observe the way in which He was always careful to say that He did nothing of Himself, that the works He did were those the Father had given Him to do, and that all the words He spoke were those that the Father gave Him.
A Thought to Ponder: You must start, said our Lord, with a right conception of God. (From The Heart of the Gospel, pp. 173-174, by Dr. Martyn Lloyd- Jones)
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Judy sends this: As you read this history of guns, remember when you vote which party in this Country wants to take away your guns.
*A LITTLE GUN HISTORY*
*PLEASE DON’T THINK FOR A MOMENT, THAT THIS COULDN’T HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY ALSO!!!!!!*
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control:
From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control:
From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend
themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938:
From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935:
From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964:
From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970:
From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956:
From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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56 million defenseless people were rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control.
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You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
With guns, we are ‘citizens’; without them, we are ‘subjects’.
During WW II, the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
Gun owners in the USA are the largest armed forces in the World!
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control
message to all of your friends.
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
*SWITZERLAND ISSUES A GUN TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD! SWITZERLAND’S GOVERNMENT ISSUES AND TRAINS EVERY ADULT IN THE USE OF A RIFLE.*
*SWITZERLANDHAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!*
IT’S A NO BRAINER! DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
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