DEMOCRACY

Democracy

 

“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” Eph. 2:2

 

            A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapse over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

            The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency to bondage.

            Government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What is hard for us to conceive is that ideal democracy would accurately be described as "lawlessness," since it is manifest that an individual or a society which is under no restraint except as self-imposed, is really under no restraint at all. To attain this ideal state is the end and purpose of present day movements; and, in order to promote these movements, that mighty spiritual intelligence who is designated "the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience"  [Eph. 2:2] very wisely, and with consummate subtlety, directs the attack, from many different quarters, against the authority of the Bible.

            Not only is the Bible, with its preemptory assertion of supremacy and control over mankind, directly contrary to the democratic movement, but it is now the only real obstacle to the complete independence of humanity. If only the authority of the scriptures be gotten rid of, mankind will have attained the long-coveted state of absolute independence, which is equivalent to utter lawlessness.