| Sinclair B. Ferguson [born 1948] is a prominent Scottish theologian with a B.D., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, one of the United Kingdom’s historic universities recognized for its academic excellence. Dr. Ferguson is a significant figure and contributor to theological education, pastoral ministry, and Christian literature in the Evangelical and Reformed circles. His 50+ books and tracts include his outstanding commentary on the Book of Daniel, which offers keen insight and perspective into American Christendom’s relinquishment of the public square over the last 100 years and capitulation to the false god of secularism. From a spiritual perspective, the deafening silence of the American Church over the secularization of culture and the atheistical indoctrination of America’s youth through public education is obnoxiously obscene. The psalmist’s lament over evil from Psalm 10:4 ought to be brandished in klieg lights above each entrance of public school buildings across America: “The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts.” The Book of Daniel begins with King Nebuchadnezzar II’s siege of Jerusalem: “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord gave Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into his hand with some of the vessels of the house of God, and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. “The king spoke to Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles: youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding science, and who could stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.” [1:1-4] Nebuchadnezzar’s reign from approximately 605 BC to 562 BC includes razing the Holy City of Jerusalem and the First Temple, exiling Judah’s youth from royalty and nobility to Babylon. The king’s method, worked out in advance, was to weaken the long-term prospects of Jerusalem by deporting the cream of Israel’s youth to ancient Southern Mesopotamia for assimilation into their culture, embedding deep into their soul a thoroughly Babylonian secular education. The king insightfully recognized that military force is incapable of changing the heart, and that to overcome the Biblical and theological underpinnings of Yahweh’s chosen people required a secular indoctrination. “And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s delicacies and of the wine he drank, and three years of training for them so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king.” [Daniel 1:5] Compromise in dietary laws appears to be the initial effort to seduce Daniel and his comrades to a Babylonian lifestyle by enjoying pleasures they had never known. No mention is made of Daniel being confronted with an apologetic for Babylonian theology or intellectual arguments against Old Testament faith, writes Dr. Ferguson. “The attack was far more subtle than that and potentially far more lethal.” |
The early American Founders’ greatest export throughout the 17th to 19th century centered on Christianity: Jesus Christ, Son of God, and Lord of Life, since only God can change lives. Secular America, on the other hand, relies on government bureaucrats and democratic capitalism’s alleged resurrection power.
Solomon noted that a nation’s glory lies in its righteousness [Proverbs 14:34], rather than in its Gross Domestic Product or military prowess. The American Founders’ revolutionary paradigm shift posited that rights come from God, not from government, and that the purpose of government is to protect the liberties enunciated in the U.S. Constitution.
Here’s where Dr. Ferguson’s insight from Daniel gets interesting: King Nebuchadnezzar’s tactics and strategies come straight from principles of spiritual warfare recorded in Ephesians 6:10-20, and were closely copied along the same line of deception in the 1790s by the adherents of the French Revolution and its godless Age of Enlightenment, infiltrating America’s colleges and centers of learning.
Even Plato [428-348 BC], the ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates [470-399 BC], and teacher of Aristotle [384-322 BC] understood subterfuge. He proposed two fundamental questions for sustainable freedom and liberty: 1) Who teaches the children, and 2) What do we teach them?
In Nebuchadnezzar’s case, he demanded that Jerusalem’s citizens live and think like secular Babylonians.
That said, a Babylonian-style garment bedecks and bedazzles contemporary American culture. Permeated by secularism over the last 100 years, the nation’s pagan culture is nothing but the public manifestation of the godless religion lording over the country, all splendidly fitted by profane and pagan contemporary American education theories.
As a result of secularists’ control of education, American Christendom’s footprint in the public square is almost non-existing. Seated next to Christ’s ekklesia Kingdom assignment from Matthew 16:18, only compromise and sin are found.
It’s not complicated to understand how we arrived here; just follow history:
- In 1963, Scripture was banned from public education in Abington School District v. Schempp, abolishing the American Founders’ Biblical education theories, which they put firmly in place to develop integrity and character in America’s youth.
- This led to the abolition of the Bible as the foundation to order and judge society.
- Which in turn opened the way for the secular indoctrination of America’s youth through public education, who are now “taught the language and literature of the Chaldeans” [Daniel 1:4], which is no longer academic but consists of indoctrination camps to retrain the mind to indiscriminately embrace secularism and its values and worldview.
The 1938 movie Gaslighting develops a storyline in which the husband attempts to convince his wife that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, misremembering things, or delusional when she points out discrepancies. Present-day America is living in a perpetual state of gaslighting, to which events like those below bear woeful witness:
- At the Olympic Games in Paris, everyone seems to know what a woman is.1
- In America, Democrats don’t know what a woman is but still want you to vote for one as your president because she is a woman.2
- Politico, a reversed reality promoting political outlet, deceptively declares that JD Vance has “a bunch of weird views on gender,” such as refusing to believe that biological males can magically become NCAA female swimming champions; that drag queens should be grooming children in the latest LGBTQ fetishes; and that parents should lose custody of their children if they don’t affirm gender dysphoria.3
Thankfully, prophetic leaders, evidencing an intimate relationship with Christ and a thorough knowledge of His word, have entered the public square: Gideons and Rahabs have begun to stand, and a cloud the size of a man’s hand is over the horizon. [1 Kings 18:44-46]
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David Lane
American Renewal Project
1. x.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1817551476988035373
2. x.com/TomiLahren/status/1815787290800648213
3. Robert Spencer, Politico says Vance has ‘a bunch of weird views on gender’; Frontpage Magazine, July 29, 2024.
