In Memory of Independence

"So He said to him, "bring Me a three year old heifer, a three year old female goat, a three year old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other." -Genesis 15:9-10a

"And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it...I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth." - Jeremiah 34:18 & 20

A blood covenant was one of the types of covenants made in the Old Testament in which animals were cut in half &  the halves were laid across from each other. Both parties involved in making the covenant walked through these animal halves thus signifying "if I break this covenant that I have made, may it be done to me as is done to these animals." God's covenant with Abraham was unique in that he took the responsibility of the both parties upon his shoulders, but for most other covenant's each party was held responsible for their actions before God.

While I do not contend that America is God's country, that we are *the* Christian land, we were founded on Christian principles and Christian influences. Our constitution was written after much blood was spilt in our war for Independence from the illegitimate rule of the British parliament. There was not cutting of animals in half, but I would say there is a case to be made that it was a blood covenant.

 The constitution was set forth as a document of negative powers, its intent was to limit the powers of all, but specifically the federal government "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Yet this has not seemed to stop the federal government from greedily grabbing up ever more and more power unto itself. These are real people behind the ominous mask of civil government, blatantly shaking off the fetters of the constitution to do what they please, how they please, when they please.

One has only to look back over just this past year to see how our Constitution, the covenant of the American people, have been violated. NDDA, which allows the indefinite detainment of a US citizen without a trial, the implementation of Obamacare, garnering funds for which there is no constitutional right that the federal government should take such action;  the president calling for restriction of firearms; the fourth amendment has been positively BLOWN out of the water. And that is but the tip of the iceberg.

In these times we find ourselves staring at our leaders, (and the true powers-that-be that stand behind them) with tattered pieces of the constitutional covenant dripping from their hands, when will the guilty party(ies) pay?

Oath Keepers have come
for the Covenant Breakers,
the constitution ignoring,
have shown their rule void.

The pages of the treaty
set forth in times past
ripped in two pieces,
animals cut in half

There's a price to be paid
in blood money given
when one party strays
from its promises made.

Rise up! Oh you righteous,
and see your betrayers,
fulfill the punishment
prescribed from of old.

Your obedience is forfeit,
shattered like the covenant.
Revolt in disobedience;
and keep your solemn  oath given.