Today's chaotic situation in the Western countries (and Japan) has been caused mostly by the public school education system which taught children godless humanism, before which Northern America and even Europe had had many dedicated Christians.

The biggest failure of the western Christians was the inablity to realize that humanism is Satan's invention and there is no neutrality in this world.

Then why was Van Til not born before Dewey?

Why did he not start teaching his philosophy before public education destroyed the Christian West?

The answer: God wanted so.

The will of God seems to lie in showing us first the fruits of the godless humanism, which was started by the ancient Greeks and developed by modern philosophers, such as Kant, Hegel and Kirchegaard and brought into practice by public school education, and then recovering Christian culture out of the debris.

The failure of the Soviet Union will just have preceded those of the Western countries by only a few decades.

So, as North said, our work is to prepare for this recovery after the fall of the humanistic West.

God has started this work before the secular world realizes the inescapable breakdown near at hand.

I think that God is about to pick out the tare out of the Kingdom of Christ.

Thus we should not expect to see the failure on our side.

God's plan is not discontinuous.

Why has God born some reconstructionists in many countries in the world now?

To believe and prepare, not to be a pessimist about their own countries' future.

We must be the founders of our own nations, I believe.

> I don't think that most Japanese circumcise themselves, however: if they did,

> it would prove that at least at one time Japan was a Jewish　nation.

The circumcision is said to be the tradition of the Imperial family. Rev. Kobayashi, who is a grandson of the Emperor Meiji, was circumcised after the birth.

In the family people call the food "Mana", which we average Japanese do not use (but a cutting board is called "Mana-plate").

> I am sure that if America really feared God in the 1940's and 50's,

> Japan would have been Cristianized during the American occupation.

> But even then, the Americans were more interested in money

> and technology and capitalism than in God.

Some of the Macarther's attendants, who worked as the formers of post-war Japanese basic social systems, were communists and Deweyists, that is, state-worshippers. Their influence also made Japan one of the humanistic countries.

But compared with those who had led Japan to the perdition, they were still "Christians."

The first Japanese primary school textbooks made by the Meiji government were Christian, showing that the world was made by the only Absolute Creator God and citing the Psalm 23 because Japanese first Minister of Education was a famous Christian statesman Arinori Mori. Meiji government's prime goal was to train Japanese to make a country that can catch up with the West, so they allow the American puritan textbook to be a model.

But Arinori Mori was assasinated by the chauvinists, who later published the Imperial Rescript of Education without the assent of Ministery of Education, and set their man as the new Minister of Education, who published the new textbook recommending emperor worship. Japan became a country of cult and judged by God in 1945.

It is very clear that there was a Satan's conspiracy preventing Japan from being influenced by the Christianity.

> So long as the Emperor does not change, neither will the Japanese

> people. The Americans choose not to remove the Emperor from

> his throne, directed by God to be merciful to him. God is still

> waiting for the Emperor to kneel to Him. He is patient, but not

> forever... ]

The present Emperor invites a pastor once a month to study the Bible. This tradition have continued from the time of Meiji Emperor. One of my friends, Mr. Wakayama, who is a Charismatic, was invited to teach the Prince music. The Emperor's brother Hitachinomiya is a Christian, who said to Princess Michiko, when she was married to the Emperor, "Because you came to our family, I am very glad to have a chance to talk about the Bible with you." It is widely believed that when the previous Emperor Hirohito heard this remark, he became furious and said, "In our family you, Michiko, must not talk about the Bible", but this proved to be false according to Mr. Minoru Hamao, the Grand Chainberlain, who said "The Emperor said to me, 'This story is not true. I have not even imagined that. I say to you this, because I am sorry for Michiko(This story was widely prevailed through the media and Princess Michiko was bashed by the whole nation.).'"("Shukan Josei"Feb.23, 1999)

> Nations rise and fall. Even that basket-case Greece

> was once a mighty empire, and the fog-bound island of Britain

> once owned a quarter of the world. But Japan peaked too soon,

> in the eighties, and the soil of prosperity was too shallow.

Nations rise and fall indeed. Greece did not abandon the false philosophy, after the fall of Greek nation, they continued to believe neo-Platonism. Egypt also did not turn to God.

If the nation does not accept God, the nation must experience the wane.

The promiscuities, rapes and murders committed by the today's teenagers we did never imagine two decades ago.

But the things are still better compared with the Europe and America, whose young carry the guns and kill the peers in the school.

People in here still are work-oriented and still have the anxiety about the future of the nation.

We must pray for the future of our own brothers and sisters, because we are chosen to be the priest of God.

> >The number of Christians and Reconstructionists does not count,

> >I believe. The important thing is whether we can truly believe

> >God can really work and change this nation through us or not.

>

> This is true: it's the growth rate that matters, not the initial

> starting numbers.

We cannot expect the rapid growth of Christianity here.

It may take many generations to become a Christian nation, but we must believe someday we will be meek before God.

The time also does not count to us.

As Rushdoony said, we have only to think about our own responsibility and depend upon God about the process of whole plan. God chooses men and sets them in His right places and makes them do His works.

We must only be content with the fact that God set the time before the foundation of the world and the fact that we are "doomed" to success.

I do not accept Gary North-like quick-tempered and neutrally realistic way of thinking.

I do not think this will makes us grow up in faith.

Satan wants us to make hurried and pessimistic about the future by showing us the grim reality before our eyes.

Northism's sensationalism and pessimism about the near future seem to have led us not to godly realism but humanistic one.

We need not inquire into how God will do this and that too much. Because I think, even if we know that the world will break down in the near future, that knowledge does not always make us love our own fellows, rather tends to make us a cold and synical bystander, who most of the prophets of OT were not.