| When we are talking about a good nation, we are | | | | people were scattered all over the earth. |
| talking about a nation that allows its citizens to prosper | | | | 4. Economics=Value Exchange/Gold and Silver |
| and grow without undue restraints. Love and respect | | | | Standard: Economics equals a value exchange that |
| reigns supreme in every area of its society. The | | | | has a gold and silver standard. Economics is the |
| government is free from corruption. Government | | | | production, distribution and consumption of wealth. It |
| regulations are at a minimum. It is a nation that works | | | | has a uniform standard of measurements and a |
| toward the well-being of all its citizens. The | | | | uniform medium of exchange. This is the reason our |
| Government serves the citizen's best interests as it | | | | Founding Fathers chose gold and silver coins as our |
| protects them against tyranny, both domestic and | | | | medium of exchange and the English System of |
| foreign. No one is treated as a "second class" citizen. | | | | Weights and Measures as our standard of |
| Everyone has good physical, emotional and spiritual | | | | measurements. |
| health. They are not plagued with guilt and feelings of | | | | 5. Inspiration=Media/Ideas: Inspiration equals a media |
| inferiority. Everyone is free to have life, liberty and | | | | that carries ideas. The media could be a newspaper, a |
| property. The workplace is a place that is a delight. All | | | | speech, a radio or TV station, the Internet, graphics, etc. |
| is at peace and rest as God's blessings abound to the | | | | Ideas mold people's thinking. Only those who are |
| full. | | | | motivated by Bible-based, Christ-centered ethics can |
| Such a nation does not come by accident. It must be | | | | be trusted to promote good ideas. One of our big |
| nourished and protected. Its pillars serve to support the | | | | problems today is, we have people who are leaning on |
| shelter of protection for its people. These pillars are set | | | | this pillar to inspire us to forsake God and His ways. |
| on a solid foundation of God's love and grace. Their | | | | 6. Transportation=Movement/people/goods and |
| composition must not be changed at any time. Once | | | | services: Transportation equals a movement of people |
| they are put in place they should not be moved. They | | | | with goods and services. Transportation could be by |
| work together as each one lends its strength to the | | | | foot, bicycle, car, truck, train, plane, boat, horse, etc. This |
| others. Each one is essential for the nation to function | | | | pillar allows people to freely move around in our nation. |
| properly. There are seven pillars that support a good | | | | It also allows them to move their goods and services |
| nation like the one pictured above. They are as follows: | | | | among one another. The best means to accomplish |
| 1. Faith=Morals and Ethics/Christ-Centered: Faith equals | | | | this end is a capitalist system that rewards people for |
| morals and ethics that are Christ-Centered. Everyone | | | | their service to others. In this system everyone wins. |
| has faith. To have a good nation, we must have faith | | | | When this pillar is removed only the "ruling elites" win. |
| in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one who can | | | | Everyone else loses. |
| make us good citizens. It was "the faith of our fathers" | | | | 7. Politics=Republican form of Government/Unity and |
| that made our nation a good nation. Without this pillar in | | | | Protection: Politics equals a republican form of |
| our nation, we have been thrown into the cesspools of | | | | government that brings unity and protection to its |
| moral relativism and situational ethics that are | | | | citizens. Jesus condensed the Ten Commandments |
| destroying us. | | | | into two: the first four loving God and the last six loving |
| 2. Order=Absolute Laws of right and wrong | | | | others. Politics exercises our love for others. It is |
| Bible-based: Order equals absolute laws of right and | | | | practiced on the Family, Local, State and Federal levels. |
| wrong that are Bible-based. Without absolute laws of | | | | When we view politics this way, we raise it to the high |
| right and wrong we cannot have equal justice. This is | | | | level God meant it to be. |
| the reason our form of judicial government is based on | | | | I saw an illustration of what happens when a good |
| the Ten Commandments. This is the reason we have | | | | person associates with bad company. A white cat |
| a Constitution that is the law of the land. Equal laws | | | | was run through a stovepipe. When the white cat |
| mean equal justice. Unequal laws mean corrupt justice. | | | | came out on the other side it was black. The United |
| 3. Communication=Common Language/English: | | | | States of America has been run through "stovepipes" |
| Communication equals a common language which is | | | | of moral relativism and situational ethics for decades. |
| English in the United States of America. Each nation | | | | We need to be "bathed" in God's soul-cleansing Word, |
| has its own common language. One sure way to | | | | the Bible, and "rinsed" off with our Founding |
| divide a nation and harbor suspicions among its citizens | | | | Documents. If we will do this, our "black cat" can be a |
| is to destroy its common language. When God wanted | | | | "white cat" with the sweet aroma of God's blessings |
| to divide the world into a number of nations, He | | | | upon us once again. |
| changed their language at the Tower of Babel. The | | | | |