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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><img class="caption" src="images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg" border="0" alt="Rick Joyner Morningstar Ministries" title="Rick Joyner" align="left" />I have been a devoted student of history for  more than forty years, but it has been only over the last several years that I  have felt compelled to understand our foundations as a nation. I was surprised  to see that we truly were a nation built on sound biblical principles. The  Scriptures give a lot of instruction about righteous governments, and The Great  Commission was to make disciples of all nations, not just individuals. I have  concluded that America was certainly one of the great nation disciples of the  Lord. Our government was founded mostly by those with a great resolve to adhere  to biblical principles of righteousness and justice. The prosperity we have  enjoyed as a nation was the favor of God promised to the nations that did this  as we see in places like Proverbs 14:34.<br /><br />If we had continued to adhere to  these basic biblical principles that the nation was founded on, we would not  likely have any of the troubles we’re now in. The answer to getting out of the  crises we’re in is to return to those solid foundations. However, we must  understand them to return to them.<br /><br /><strong>The Scheme of the  Devil</strong><br /><br />The quickest way to kill a plant is to cut it off from its  roots; the quickest way to kill a nation or culture is to cut it off from its  history, which are its roots. This is why one of the first things totalitarian  governments do when they gain power over a nation is to start changing its  history. There has been a systematic attempt to destroy America by doing just  that—gradually revising our history and then changing it altogether. What is now  taught in virtually all of our schools as American history is not the truth  about our history.<br /><br />History textbooks now used in our public schools make  almost no mention of our Judeo/Christian foundations unless they are derogatory.  The emphasis of these textbooks is so focused on the mistakes and negatives in  our history that they leave students ashamed to be Americans. This could be a  greater threat to our future than all of the other crises we’re now facing. We  have been systematically cut off from our roots. If we do not reattach to them  soon, we will perish as a nation. If we do recover our roots, revival will  quickly follow.</div>
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