Everything you wanted to know
(and preachers were afraid to tell you)
about Gun Control
by Pastor Pete Peters
INTRODUCTION
The Christian God of the Bible once made an appeal through His faithful prophet Isaiah sent to a sinful, dying, soon to be a conquered and enslaved
nation. Come now, and let us reason together... Isaiah 1:18
This treatise concerning what you should know about gun control is not just an attempt to reason from statistics, history, opinions or even
the Constitution of the United States, but to ultimately reason from the Word of God, the Bible, the highest of all laws and ultimate authority for any
and every man who has installed Christ as King above all rule and authority. (Ephesians 1:21)
The authority of the Bible and the fact that it is the Word of God has been recognized many times in America's history. Public Law 97-280 passed by joint
resolution of the 97th Congress of the United States is but one example.
That Law reads as follows:
PUBLIC LAW 97-280
Public Law 97-280 96 STAT.l211
97th Congress Joint Resolution
Authorizing and requesting the President to proclaim
1983 as the "Year of the Bible."
Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people; Whereas
deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation;
Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil
government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States;
Whereas many of our great national leaders-among them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Wilson-paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the
Bible in our country's development, as in the words of President Jackson that the Bible is "the rock on which our Republic rests";
Whereas the history of our Nation clearly illustrates the value of voluntarily applying the teachings of the Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families,
and societies;
Whereas this Nation now faces great challenges that will test this Nation as it has never been tested before; and
Whereas that renewing our knowledge of and faith in God through Holy Scripture can strengthen us
as a nation and a people:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is
authorized and requested to designate 1983 as a national "Year of the Bible" in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our
Nation, and our national need to study and apply
the teachings of the Holy Scriptures.
Approved October 4, 1982.
Now let us reason from such a proclamation of Congress. If the Bible is the Word of God then the laws and principles contained within its pages are the
Laws and Principles of God. Reason tells us that the Creator (God) is greater than the creation. Thus, the Creator's creation is greater than the creation's
creation; that is, God's Laws are greater than man's (His creation) laws (man's creation). Simply put, God's Law is the highest of all laws.
Events of our day and definitions should be considered before going further. America is presently experiencing the incessant, insidious disarming that
has happened elsewhere in the world by a process the Communists call "CREEPING GRADUALISM". This process is described by Jan Kosek, a member of the Secretariat
of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia, in his book NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED. With this process the Communists took control of Czechoslovakia.
It's been compared to boiling a frog alive in a pan of water: A process that is not hard to do if one begins with room-temperature water and then gradually
turns the heat up only a degree at a time.
So, in America men forbid automatic weapons, then concealed weapons, sawed-off shotguns, then they begin to work on Saturday-night specials,
hand guns and now of late, it's semi-automatic assault rifles. Plus, we pass laws to sign forms before purchasing and have so-called "cooling-off" waiting
periods. City councils pass gun laws, City mayor groups cry out for more gun control, certain elected officials with bleeding liberal hearts decry gun
deaths and the water gets hotter.
Communist V. I. Lenin said, A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. In 1968 the
Director of the National Task Force for the Control of Firearms was asked why the Americans were suspicious of gun control. He replied, "Because they
know we are coming to get their guns."
As we list in this treatise what Christians need to know concerning gun control, we shall use the term "gun control" to mean ANY infringement upon the
right to possess and bear arms. We ask God’s blessings upon this treatise knowing full well, ...the Lord gives Wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge
and understanding. Proverbs 2:6 (All Bible quotes will be taken from the New American Standard unless Otherwise noted.]
KNOW WHAT MANNER OF MEN PROMOTE AND VOTE FOR GUN CONTROL. When politicians, bureaucrats, or so-called men of the cloth endorse gun control
in one fashion or another, Americans need to know the company such men are keeping. Let's consider that company in light of Grandma's old adage "Birds
of a feather flock together" and in light of Scripture.
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KING GEORGE Ill was in favor of gun control as Well as high taxes, corrupt courts, big growing government, oppression, people control and denial of God-given,
inalienable rights. History shows the Colonists tolerated such tyranny until the day George sent his men to get their weapons. It was a beautiful spring
day, April 19, 1775, when George’s men, on their way to Concord to confiscate guns and powder, met resistance at Lexington Green.
The history book
THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY
revealing America's Christian roots tells of the event on page 272, Throw down your arms, damn you!' A British officer on horseback called out. 'Why don't
you rebels lay down your arms?' As if in answer, several Minutemen fired...
Yes, King George favored gun control and had our White Christian forefathers consented and laid down their arms there would not be a United States of America
today. If their descendants continue to cave in to present-day gun confiscation, done on the installment plan, there may well be no United States of America
tomorrow!
V.I. LENIN, the murdering Communist attributed with the establishment of the world's first communist dictatorship in Russia, voted for gun control.
He said, "One of the basic conditions for victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (the communists) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle
class)."
LEON TROTSKY, a Communist contemporary of Lenin, also believed in gun control and said to ensure a communist totalitarian state there "arises
the necessity of disarming the bourgeoisie and arming the workers, of creating a communist army."
JOSEF STALIN, another Communist butcher who championed the destruction of freedom, showed how well he favored gun control when he said, "If
the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
MAO TSE-TUNG, the Communist often called the greatest mass murderer in all history, favored gun control. While the hypocrite cited the communist
slogan of power to the people, he took away their power by disarming them. He said, "Power comes out of a barrel of a gun."
Of course, today's communists such as Gorbachev and Castro also vote in favor of gun control.
Americans need to recall these names, these champions of government oppression and human slavery when their own leaders advocate the same council
on gun control. Then they need to remember God's Word which says, You shall not follow a multitude in doing evil. Exodus
23:2
Concerning the ways of evil men Psalms 1:1 says, How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,... It can just as well
be said, "how blessed is the nation whose leaders do not walk in the counsel of the wicked and how cursed is the nation whose leaders DO."
KNOW IT IS YOUR ENEMY WHO WANTS GUN CONTROL
He or she who favors gun control may masquerade as a republican, democrat, Christian, communist, peacenik or whatever, but Jesus Christ has identified
such a person as an ENEMY. Know that only an enemy objects to you exercising self-defense or owning the means of self-defense.
Before we examine the words of Jesus Christ on this point, let us first consider the writings which help sparked the War for Independence against
King George III.
Those Christian men who resisted gun control by opening fire at Lexington Green, April 19, 1775, were familiar with both the Bible and the writings
of John Locke, and as a result, knew who an enemy was when they saw one.
John Friske once wrote concerning Locke, The principles upon which their Revolution was conducted were those of Sidney and Locke.
The following works of John Locke address the subject of enemies. Consider them in light of gun control just as carefully as did your White
Christian forefathers.
And hence it is, that he who attempts to get another Man into his absolute power, does thereby put himself into a state of war with him: it
being to be understood as a declaration of a design upon his life. For I have reason to conclude, that he who would get me into his power with without
my consent, would use me as he pleased, when he had got me there, and destroy me too, when he had a fancy to it; for nobody can desire to have me in his
absolute power unless it be to compel me by force to that, which is against the right of my freedom, i.e., make me a slave.
To be free from such forces is the only security of my preservation; and reason bids me look on him, as an enemy to my preservation, who would
take away that Freedom, which is the fence to it; so that he who makes an attempt to enslave me, thereby puts himself into a state of war with me.
Concerning a state of war, Locke wrote:
And one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason, that he may kill a wolf or
a lion; because such men are under the ties of the Common Law of reason, have no other rule but that of force and violence, and so may be treated as beasts
of prey, those dangerous and noxious creatures, that will be sure to destroy him, whenever he falls into their power.
The words of Locke on slavery seem to match the Scriptures. It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject
again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
While many pietistic, so-called Christians of our Scripture-twisting, perverted Judea-Christian church world may say, “that just means free
from your sin", thank God our forefathers knew better. The following quote from page 267 of
THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY
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lately illustrates this point.
In like spirit, the new year of 1773 was rung in by the men of Marlborough. "Death," they proclaimed unanimously on the first of January, "is more eligible
than slavery. A freeborn people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given
them to recover and support their laws and liberties ... [we] implore the Ruler above the skies, that He would make bare His arm in defense of His Church
and people, and let Israel go.
Now let us consider the words of Jesus Christ which teach a valuable principle.
When a strong man fully armed guards his own homestead, his possessions are undisturbed; but when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers
him, he takes away from him all his armor on which he had relied, and distributes his plunder.
Luke 11:21-22
Notice from this teaching how peace and safety existed in and with the household of the man who was fully armed. Notice the first thing his
enemy did was overpower him and disarm him ('take away from him all his armor."). Isn't it interesting the more power (including media support, armed police
men and national guards) obtained by certain city councils, state legislators and elected officials, the more desirous these people become of disarming
the people? [Remember power is not authority. For instance, city councils may have the police power at their disposal to confiscate or outlaw certain firearms,
but they do not have the authority.]
This principle of first disarming the people before full scale oppression of the people was seen firsthand by Reverend Wesley Millen who, as
a missionary, witnessed the communist take-over of Asia. In his lectures he would explain how in the first 90 days the communists were so benevolent humanitarian
and helpful and at the same time labored vigorously to confiscate all weapons. The people were told peace had arrived and they would no longer have need
of weapons. Once the people were disarmed Reverend Millen said, "Then at the end of ninety days we learned the difference between theoretical communism
and Bolshevik terror."
KNOW THAT HISTORY SUPPORTS THE TEACHING OF LUKE 11:21-22
For example, prior to the communists enslavement of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, firearms were taken into police custody to “protect” the people.
On the other hand, consider Afghanistan, a country full of armed citizens. That country is a modern historical example of this point. The communists
have never been successful in taking over a country without first disarming the citizens!
The action of the British General, Thomas Gage, against the people of Boston in 1775 illustrates both the words of Locke, (I have reason to
conclude, that he who would get me into his power with without my consent, would use me as he pleased, when he had got me there), and the words of Jesus
in Luke 11:21-22. The General made great and earnest promises to the people if they would turn in their weapons. The following, taken from page 409 of
The Christian History of the American Revolution, by Verna M. Hall, tells the rest of the story.
Gage plighted his faith in the strongest terms, that if the inhabitants would deliver up their arms, and suffer them to be deposited in the city hall,
they should depart at pleasure, and be assisted by the king’s troops in removing their property.... The insulted people of Boston, after performing the
hard conditions of the contract, were not permitted to depart, until after several months of anxiety had elapsed, when the scarcity and badness of provisions
had brought on a pestilential disorder, both among the inhabitants and the soldiers…this unfortunate town, which contained near twenty thousand inhabitants,
was betrayed into a disgraceful resignation of their arms, which the natural love of liberty should have inspired them to have held for their own defense,
while subjected to the caprice of an arbitrary master. After their arms were delivered up and secured, General Gage denied the contract, and forbade
their retreat… On certain stipulated gratuities to some of his officers, a permit was granted them to leave their elegant houses, their furniture, and
goods. and to depart naked from the capital, to seek asylum and support from the hospitality of their friends in the country.
KNOW A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING WHEN YOU SEE ONE. Note in the General Gage story and in missionary Millen's story now the gun confiscators appeared as
one thing when in reality they were another. Then consider that today certain of America's leaders say their motive for disarming citizens has to do with
the citizen's health, safety and welfare, has to do with crime reduction, has to do with accidental gun deaths, etc. Jesus has told His followers to,
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Matthew 7:15
The communist criminals who gain power such as Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, etc., want firearms out of the hands of the citizens. This attitude of
criminals is evident in the statement of a criminal, quoted in the January I966 issue of Guns Magazine, as saying. "Any gun in the hands of a citizen is
a menace as far as I’m concerned.”
The next time a bleeding-heart liberal politician, or a so-called loving minister or priest who is supposedly interested in your health, safety
and welfare speaks out in favor of gun control, REMEMBER-CRIMINALS WANT THE CITIZENS DISARMED. Beware of wolves!
AH: The rest of this article can be found in the Scriptures for America Dragon Slayer newsletter, 2023, Vol. 3 as well as being available as a separate publication. Write to Scriptures for America P.O. Box 766 Laporte CO 80535 or call 307-742-7582.
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