IndependenceDayCoaching
An Extraordinary $1,000.00 Wager


"Independence Day" is just around the corner. According to surveys, tens of millions of Americans believe that they get the day off from work on the 4th of July to celebrate the freeing of the slaves.

Go ahead. Laugh at these ignorant Americans:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

-----=====****** [history of repeated injuries and usurpations omitted] ******=====-----

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

You wouldn't have been invited to this website if you weren't smarter than 99% of all Americans. So have a good laugh. But America's Founding Fathers would laugh at you.

I'll prove that, and you'll hang your head in shame.
And then I'll show you how, by enrolling in the IndependenceDayCoaching Program, you can become

  • An Extraordinary American,
 
• An Extraordinary Christian,
  • An Extraordinary Human Being
.

I'm willing to wager $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) that you will look back on your enrolling in the IndependenceDayCoaching Program and agree it was the best decision you made in your entire life. I'll wager $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) that you will experience

the most profound, beneficial, 
massive, and lasting
personal transformation
of your entire life ...

Which of America's Founding Fathers is your favorite? Samuel Adams? Thomas Jefferson? George Washington? Patrick Henry?

What if your favorite Founding Father could travel through time and become your Personal Life Coach?

When America followed the advice of her Founding Fathers,
America was the most prosperous and most admired nation in human history.
But today, we have lost the vision of the Declaration of Independence,
and the United States is bankrupt and despised.

What worked for a nation will work for you as an individual.
You can become prosperous and admired by following the advice -- and learning from the mistakes -- of America's Founding Fathers.

Maybe you're thinking,
This sounds like playing the game of "Trivial Pursuit" in the category of "American History."
Maybe you're thinking,
I'm struggling with the day-to-day issues of life. I don't have time to risk any money on a colonial American game show.
Maybe you're thinking,
Show me how to gain victory in one of the four most pressing areas of my life:
Finances Fitness Family Faith

• Career change
• Getting out of debt
• Starting your own business

• Health
• Energy
• Longevity

• Who to marry
• Successful marriage
• Parenting

• Big questions
• Purpose in life
• Pleasing God

... and many other goals to achieve and problems to solve

Quick Facts
• If America's Founding Fathers could travel through time, they would say the United States is more of a tyranny than the British government in 1776, which the Founders abolished, risking "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
• They would blame you -- even though you're a better American than 99% -- because you haven't followed their example.
• You say, "But I don't know what to do to save America." They would blame your government-hired teachers, because you are a victim of educational malpractice, having been denied the Three Most Important Components of a Christian Education.
• IndependenceDayCoaching is an online program that reverses 12 years of government brainwashing in today's secular schools, and equips you with 12 years of a colonial American one-room schoolhouse curriculum of a Biblical worldview -- in just 12 months.
• We guarantee that you will become
 €  An Extraordinary American
 €  An Extraordinary Christian
 €  An Extraordinary Human Being
• These were the three goals of Samuel Adams in the first letter he wrote to America through the "Committees of Correspondence." A letter that put Sam Adams on a path to becoming "The Father of the American Revolution." A letter most Americans today cannot even understand.
• We guarantee all this with an astounding DOUBLE your money back guarantee.
• How much does it cost to hire a "Life Coach?" Google results.
• How much would it cost to hire one of America's Founding Fathers as your Life Coach?
• How much would that be worth?
• We think this 12-month program is worth $997.00/mo. But you don't have to pay that much.
• What kind of world will your children and grandchildren live in if Americans like you are not willing to risk "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor?"
• We don't worship America's Founding Fathers. They made mistakes. Our program will show you the Three Biggest Mistakes America's Founding Fathers made, and how you can avoid them.
• But you can't avoid these three mistakes without being called the three most hated words in our culture today.
• Our online coaching program contains the three things you need to become successful; three things that were banned by the government from your government-run schools.
• Our curriculum centers on five of the most important works in the history of America (if not all of "western civilization").
• You cannot qualify for enrollment in our 12-month online coaching program unless you complete our FREE 95-day boot camp.
• At the end of 95 days, you can enroll in the 12-month IndependenceDayCoaching Program for a one-time fee of $997. If you complete our coaching assignments and you're not satisfied with the results, we will DOUBLE your money back.
• Scholarships are available.
• Join our Affiliate Program. We pay a 60% commission. That means if you get your neighbor to enroll, we pay you $600. Get two friends at work to sign up, and your enrollment in the program is free, plus you get paid $200. Get all the members of your church to sign up and (do the math).
• Continue reading our educational sales pitch here to find out how to enroll.

Life is a seamless garment. All of these issues are inextricably intertwined. Financial struggles put a strain on marriages. Marital struggles increase your blood pressure. When your health and energy are sagging, you let tyrants run your life. Government becomes your savior. And at the end of your life, you look back and hear Jesus, "the Supreme Judge of the world," say those words nobody wants to hear:

I would like you to give me 5 minutes of your time to think about the following hypothetical scenario:

Imagine that your favorite Founding Father has stepped into a wormhole in the space-time continuum and has landed in your living room.

If I may, I'd like to join the two of you. I'd like to show this time-traveling Founder two things:

When I'm done, your favorite Founding Father will tell you two things:

I would add to what he said:

If you complete the IndependenceDayCoaching Program, you will experience

the most profound, beneficial, 
massive, and lasting
personal transformation
of your entire life ...

or we will DOUBLE your money back.

Are you willing to imagine the conversation with one of America's Founding Fathers? One of the people who risked his Life, his Fortune, and his sacred Honor to abolish the government?

This little exercise in imagination will get pretty grueling. Humiliating. Depressing.

Put away your credit card.
You're not ready to enroll in the IndependenceDayCoaching Program.
Put away your musket and cannon.
You're going to see that taking up arms against tyranny was one of the Three Biggest Mistakes America's Founding Fathers made.
Put away your Dunce Cap.
America's Founding Fathers would say you're a victim of educational malpractice. Once a "City upon a Hill," America has been sitting in the corner for decades, as the rest of the world laughs, learns, and passes us by.
Put on your thinking cap.
It's time to go "back to school."

And now we have one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence sitting in your living room. Can you give him -- and me -- five minutes of your time?

Thanks.

Let's give him a tour of your home. TV, microwave, hot and cold running water; he's totally amazed.

"You must be a king."

Nah, you're just "middle class." Everybody has this stuff. Even the poor have air-conditioning.

Wait until he seats himself in that horseless steel carriage in your garage -- which is as powerful as a hundred horses.

He's blown away.

We could spend an hour or more just "touring" your smartphone and explaining to your favorite Founder the global technology behind it. (Actually, having read Adam Smith's 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, our Founding Father could probably teach you a thing or two about "Providence" and the worldwide "division of labor.")

Do you begin each day with a sense of profound gratitude?

The three richest, most powerful human beings on the planet in 1776 could not even dream, much less possess -- at any price -- the wealth you take for granted.

But now, if I may, I'd like to share with your favorite Founding Father the dark side.

At this point, your favorite Founding Fathers has gone from amazement to disappointment. He's shocked. Horrified.

He asks what you've been doing about it. He reminds you that his generation risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to resist a government that they called a "tyranny," but the "despotic" reign of King George III was a kindergarten class compared to the vile, murderous, atheistic, imperialist, planet-suffocating tentacles of the regime we call "Washington D.C."

"Have you taken up arms?" he asks.

"Oh, no," you answer.

"Wait," I interrupt. "There's more."

I point out that just during the last 50 years, the government created by the Constitution has done the following:

  1. Secularized the Oath of Office, effectively replacing "so help me, God," with "so help me, Government."
    • This is a serious issue, even though most people regard the oath of office as a "mere formality." 
      • Even the U.S. Supreme Court has said the oath is little more than an "amenity."
      • But America's Founding Fathers believed that the oath was "an act of religious worship."
      • The oath is the subject of the Third Commandment, about taking the Lord's Name in vain.
      • More about the Oath of Office
      • Courts have recently ruled that a Christian, whose ultimate allegiance is to God as King, Judge, Lawgiver, and Savior, cannot take the oath to "support the Constitution."
        •  This means that a Christian, who was born outside the U.S., cannot legally become a naturalized U.S. Citizen in this "secular" nation. 
        • Even a Christian who was born in the U.S. and therefore automatically a citizen cannot become an attorney, nor a public school teacher, certified elevator inspector, or draftsman for the County of San Diego, or any other employment which requires an oath to "support the Constitution" (cases)
        • America's Founders would be outraged at all this. This one issue would be enough in their minds to commence a revolution.
      • My Petition Before the California Supreme Court - Appendix A
    • Biblically speaking, a secular oath is an act of idolatry -- especially a secular oath of allegiance to a "secular" (atheistic) state.
    • "The LORD will not hold them guiltless who take His Name in vain" (Exodus 20:7). North Korea does not take the Lord's Name in vain. "In God We Trust?"
       
  2. Banned the Bible from "public" schools
    • Schools were created 400 years ago to make sure everyone in town could read the Bible. "Common schools" were the product of the Protestant Reformation, with its banner of "Sola Scriptura."
    • Even the Ten Commandments have been banned. A private organization cannot spend money to print the Ten Commandments on a poster which will hang passively and quietly on a classroom wall, at no expense to the taxpayers, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
    • The U.S. Government says children cannot be taught the Bible as the authors of the Bible would teach the Bible. Students can only be taught the Bible as atheists would teach the Bible: that the Bible is an irrelevant artifact of the past, no different from any other "holy book."
    • The U.S. Government says that state and local public school teachers cannot teach students that the Declaration of Independence (1776) is actually true.
       
  3. Legalized the murder of 50 million children simply because they are inconvenient and cannot defend themselves. (Roe v. Wade, 1973)
     
  4. Killed, maimed, or made homeless TENS OF MILLIONS of innocent non-combatant non-white civilians around the world.
    • A million killed in Vietnam
    • 800,000 in Laos, and another 800,000 in Cambodia.
    • A million in Iraq
    • Before I was born, the U.S. played a significant role in unnecessarily killing tens of millions of people in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. None of those wars were "just wars."
    • The United States is the enemy of God and Mankind.
       
  5. The National Debt is One Thousand Times (1000x) greater than it was 100 years ago. All the goodies -- the TV, the microwave, the car -- were created using "false weights and measures," not gold and silver, as explicitly required by the Constitution, and the purchasing power for all these luxuries was stolen from the poor.
     
  6. Apostasy: What is even more astonishing and reprehensible is that the U.S. Supreme Court once acknowledged that the United States was a Christian nation. North Korea was never a Christian nation like this.
    • Jesus warned:
      45 But if that servant ... begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
      49 “I came to send fire on the land, and how I wish it were already kindled!”
      Luke 12:45-49

At this point your favorite Founding Father is not just horrified, he's angry. Outraged. Fuming.

And not just at "the government."

"Have you at least sent an email each day to one of the hundreds of political hacks who claim to "represent" you and have contributed to this heaven-offending disaster?"

You look at the floor.

You say nothing.

"Are you going to do something about this?" he demands.

At first you thought that it would be pretty cool to have a real-life Founding Father travel through time into your living room, but this is pretty humiliating. Even depressing.

"What can I do?" you ask.

"I'm just one guy."

Your favorite Founder reminds you that throughout history "one guy" has started revolutions and reformations. Your problem is not that you're alone. Your problem is that you are unarmed.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6.12f

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on the life eternal.
1 Timothy 6.12

Take your part in suffering hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:3.

This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
1 John 5.4

"Not only that," your favorite Founder concludes, "you've been bribed. You've been bought off. Your silence -- your unwillingness to risk an IRS audit -- has been paid for with all your luxuries (which you consider necessities)."
"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" (Matthew 16:26)
What has happened to the soul of America?

You don't know what to do to save America -- a land of "Liberty Under God" -- because you love the United States -- a socialist tyranny under atheistic Man, which buys your votes and your allegiance with trinkets and gizmos.


Welcome to IndependenceDayCoaching.

We have the answer to your question, "What can I do?"

We have the ammunition you need.

An education and coaching program composed entirely of advice from America's Founding Fathers, and the five texts that most influenced the creation of a once-Christian America.

What if your favorite Founding Father could travel through time and become your Personal Life Coach?

You would become

  • An Extraordinary American,
 
• An Extraordinary Christian,
  • An Extraordinary Human Being.

These were the three goals of Samuel Adams in his first letter to Americans through the “Committees of Correspondence,” November 20, 1772. This letter put Adams on the path to becoming known as "The Father of the American Revolution."   || Details ||  Of the few Americans who can actually read the words of that letter, only a few can understand their meaning and significance. Yet the average 15 year old in colonial America could have understood the letter. The Bible and the Westminster Shorter Catechism were the staples of his education. They could be found in every one-room school house in America. Teenagers understood the Declaration of Independence. They were more adults than the average 26 year old American in 2018, who attended government-controlled schools where it was illegal for a government-hired teacher to teach students that the Declaration of Independence is actually, objectively TRUE.

If you're still reading this, you're probably among the 99th percentile of Americans in the eyes of any Founding Father who might travel through time and talk with a sample of today's Americans. But even so,

You Are a Victim of Educational Malpractice

That's why you haven't risked your life, your fortune and your sacred honor, and why you don't even know how to do this, or what blueprint you would follow.

But if you complete the IndependenceDayCoaching Program, you will know what to do in the face of tyranny. You will have clarity on the will of God for your life. Your children will admire you. You will experience

the most profound, beneficial, 
massive, and lasting
personal transformation
of your entire life ...

or we will DOUBLE your money back.

You can't find an investment deal like that anywhere on Wall Street.
You can't find an educational deal like that in any university. Anywhere.
You can't find a reformation/transformation opportunity like this in any church. Anywhere.

But put away your credit card.

You're not ready for this program.

And we're not here to pass out checks to people who want double their money back.

On July 4, 2018, we're going to begin a 95-day boot camp. It's FREE, but you must complete the boot camp before we will allow you to enroll in the 12-month IndependenceDayCoaching Program.

A complete, day-by-day outline of the 95 day boot camp is found below. Most people who continue reading this page conclude they can't handle it, and they don't enroll. You're better than that. In a few weeks we'll post information on how to sign up for the 95-day boot camp.


The AmericanRevolutionCoaching Program is

100% Guaranteed
to transform YOU into
  •  an extraordinary American
  •  an extraordinary Christian
  •  an extraordinary Human Being

How can we make such an extraordinary claim?

When America followed George Washington's advice,
       America was the most prosperous and admired nation in human history.
When America turned her back on Washington's advice,
       the United States became bankrupt and despised even by our former admirers.

When Did This Happen?

Piece by piece, the Federal Government prohibited public schools from following the educational advice of George Washington.

The average colonial American 17-year old in 1776 knew more about what it takes to make America a prosperous and virtuous nation than the average American adult in 2018. The average colonial American teenager would be horrified at the things American adults tolerate in 2018: Tyranny, public immorality, idiocy. Unbelievable.

Thanks to the Internet, the colonial public school curriculum that made America the most prosperous and admired nation in history can transform YOU into
These were the three goals of Samuel Adams in his first letter to Americans through the “Committees of Correspondence.” Details
  •  an extraordinary American
  •  an extraordinary Christian
  •  an extraordinary Human Being
 
Twelve years of a colonial American one-room school house can be compacted into one year (365 days) of virtual online coaching. (Assuming you already know how to read.)
Our program is simple, but not easy.
1. Cut out 1 hour per day of the mainstream media for 365 days;
2. Substitute 40 minutes of the AmericanRevolutionCoaching program;
3. Become a mentor to two other people at home, work, school or church, by helping them fulfill steps 1 and 2 (and eventually 3).
We Guarantee you will be transformed from ordinary to extraordinary, and as a Certified Coach for the AmericanRevolutionCoaching program, you'll make a little money in the process.

Welcome to AmericanRevolutionCoaching 

 

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Frequently Asked Questions


Short Biography of George Washington

Fifty years ago, America's students were "Number One" in academic achievement.
Today, the students of more than 20 nations out-perform American students, who can't identify "the Father of his Country."


“Gentlemen, this is a football

The iconic coach Vince Lombardi began each season standing before a room full of professional NFL football veterans holding up a football and saying, "Gentlemen, this is a football."

As if they didn't know.

Lombardi's point: championship teams are made not by concocting unprecedented "Hail Mary" plays, but by going back to the basics, building a rock-solid foundation, and consistently executing disciplined progress toward the goal.

Once you lay a solid foundation and master the basics,
your personal coach can help you
overcome big problems
or achieve extraordinary goals
in all the most important areas of your life:

Faith Family Finances Fitness

• Big questions
• Purpose in life
• Pleasing God

• Who to marry
• Successful marriage
• Parenting

• Career change
• Getting out of debt
• Starting your own business

• Health
• Energy
• Longevity

... and many other goals to achieve and problems to solve


Houston, we have a problem

If George Washington could travel two centuries through time, and see what has happened to the United States of America, he would be horrified. He would be outraged.
He would see we have a big problem.
The first problem is that most people don't see we have a problem.
Even America's most intelligent, most patriotic citizens -- like you -- would be taken back if George Washington looked you right in the eye and said, 
“YOU have a problem
It's not just that George Washington fought a government which was like a cockroach in a child's sandbox that needed to be removed. Our government is like a huge Godzilla, towering like a skyscraper, crushing whole schoolyards full of children with one foot.
Washington would say to you,
“You ARE the problem
We want to think we are the solution, and everyone else is the problem.
But the solutions to America's problems do not begin with others, they begin with you.
The Solution begins with recognizing this embarrassing problem:

You are a Victim of Educational Malpractice

There were three things taught in every public school classroom in America when George Washington went to school. All three have been banned by the federal government from today's schools, and from the schools you went to.

You probably spent 17 years of your life in government-approved classrooms, and they were sanitized from the three most important things that would have made you
    •  an extraordinary American
    •  an extraordinary Christian
    •  an extraordinary Human Being
Amazingly, in just one year, our online home study program can duplicate a colonial American public school education in the essential points you were deprived of. (We don't teach "the three R's.")

 



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"Under My Own Vine and Fig Tree, 1798" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art, Virginia Historical Society
Under My Own Vine and Fig Tree, 1798
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Virginia Historical Society
Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art

“Gentlemen, this is a Fig Tree ”

If George Washington could travel through time and coach America, where would he begin in pre-season training? The vast majority of Americans have never heard the phrase “Vine and Fig Tree,” don't understand the culture it symbolizes, and don't know where the phrase comes from.

“Gentlemen, this is the Bible”

This is where George Washington would start. This is where America's “Vine and Fig Tree” Dream began.

What about the Constitution, which Washington helped create in the Constitutional Convention? The Constitution is dead meatWashington wrote:

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest of purposes.


The AmericanRevolutionCoaching Program is sponsored by Vine & Fig Tree, a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt educational organization dedicated to promoting the original American Dream. According to the Library of Congress Website, George Washington was motivated by the Vine & Fig Tree vision revealed in the Bible:
No theme appears more frequently in the writings of Washington than his love for his land. The diaries are a monument to that concern. In his letters he referred often, as an expression of this devotion and its resulting contentment, to an Old Testament passage. After the Revolution, when he had returned to Mount Vernon, he wrote the Marquis de Lafayette on Feb. 1, 1784:

"At length my Dear Marquis I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, & under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree."

This phrase occurs at least 11 times in Washington's letters.

"And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree" (2 Kings 18:31).

Peter Lillback, author of a 1,000-page study of Washington's life and thought, has found more than 40 references to the  “Vine and Fig Tree” vision in Washington's Papers.

Many other American Founders
wrote of this ideal. "Vine & Fig Tree" is the original "American Dream."

The phrase occurs a number of times in Scripture. These references are visual reminders of the Hebrew word for salvation, which means
• peace,
• wholeness,
• health,
• welfare, and
• private property free from pirates and princes.
When today's Americans hear the  word "salvation," they usually think about going to heaven when they die. When the writers of the Bible used the word "salvation," they wanted you to be thinking about dwelling safely under your own Vine & Fig Tree during this life -- much more often than they wanted you to be thinking about what you'll be doing in the afterlife.

The best place to see the Vine & Fig Tree ideal is in the book of Micah. We'll look at that passage below.

How can you expect to achieve "the American Dream"
if you don't even know what it is?

You've been misled.
You've been lied to.

You are a Victim of Educational Malpractice.
And it's costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What is "Vine & Fig Tree"

Do you know why
— for the first time in American history —
the next generation cannot expect to enjoy 
as high a standard of living as the previous generation?

If you are not a part of the solution,
you are part of the problem.

Imagine it:

If George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, or any other "Founding Father" of America could travel through time and spend a few weeks in your home watching TV, visiting your local public school, and learning about the federal government in 2018, what would he think? I believe he would be horrified at what America has become. He would be shocked that you are not shocked.

America's Founders risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to resist a government that they called a "tyranny," but the "despotic" reign of King George III was a kindergarten class compared to the vile, murderous, atheistic, imperialist, planet-suffocating tentacles of the regime we call "Washington D.C."

You watch late-night comedians joke about taxes, but you really do nothing, even though taxes are 20 times greater than in 1776, and we undoubtedly have less representation.

Samuel Adams would tell you, in words he learned from your TV, Facebook, or public school:


You SUCK at Being an AMERICAN


What if George Washington -- "the Father of his Country" -- or Samuel Adams -- the architect of the "Boston Tea Party" and "The Father of the American Revolution" -- could be your personal coach?

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.
[W]e ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained . . . .”

George Washington, Inaugural Address (1789)

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom —go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
Samuel Adams,
speaking at the State House in Philadelphia, “to a very numerous audience” on August 1, 1776
Very "politically incorrect." But people like George Washington and Sam Adams deserve some credit for creating the most prosperous and admired nation in history. They believed in the "Vine & Fig Tree" vision. They said
every American,
every Christian,
every human being,
should "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." But the generation of "the sexual revolution" has ensured that their posterity (if any) will enjoy a lower standard of living than the previous generation -- for the first time in American history.

Happily, there's GREAT NEWS on this website. You can be transformed into

  • An Extraordinary American,
 
• An Extraordinary Christian,
  • An Extraordinary Human Being.

These were the three goals of Samuel Adams, Ring-leader of the "Boston Tea Party" (1773), and  Signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776), who laid out a program of personal and national transformation in his first letter to America's Town Halls through a network of communication called "The Committees of Correspondence." His letters ignited the American Revolution, and they can ignite a revolution in your life. As a result of this timeless program, Samuel Adams became known as "The Father of the American Revolution." We call him "America's Coach."

Tragically, you probably cannot understand what Adams is saying in that letter. Most Americans can't. And you won't be motivated to take the medicine unless you're convinced you're sick. So continue to exercise your imagination by imagining what Sam Adams or George Washington would think if they could travel through time to your day.

America's Founders would be horrified, then outraged, at what has happened to the government they created. They would ask why YOU are not carrying out the duty you have (according to the Declaration of Independence) to abolish any government as tyrannical as ours.

After seeing what is taught -- and what is not taught -- in government-approved schools, Samuel Adams would say,

You are a victim of educational malpractice.

He would prescribe a curriculum of five of the most important works in the history of Western Civilization, to be read over the next 365 days, while asking three life-changing questions.

Following this program will make you as well-educated as the average American 17 year-old in 1776, and you will be far more qualified to help "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
 

 
Vine & Fig Tree
Personal Coaching 
will produce the most profound, beneficial, 
massive, and lasting personal transformation of your entire life,
or we will DOUBLE your money back.

 
Yes, you'll be required to complete all your assignments, but if you choose not to complete your coaching program, you can still get 100% of your enrollment fee refunded. 
 

If you feel like America is crumbling before your eyes . . .
if you feel like America is headed off the cliff
and you are powerless to stop it . . .

This program is for you!

 
To get started on the path to massive personal transformation and the "Vine & Fig Tree" worldview, you must accept the following painful reality:

I am a Victim of Educational Malpractice

We both are. You and I. This is easily proven, but not easily accepted. Your mis-education has affected not only the quantity of facts in your brain, but also the character of your heart, and the health of your soul.
Your morality, sense of justice and courage.
Your compassion, piety and virtue.

Every American born after 1957 is a Victim of Educational Malpractice.

Everything America's Founding Fathers believed was vital to a Christian, American, and humane civilized education was banned from your education. We will prove this, while making sure you don't drown under the tidal wave of evidence.

Can we blame America's Founding Fathers for our current malaise? Yes, to in important degree. As much as we admire them, their violent revolution ended up giving us a government which was more of a tyranny than the one they abolished.

We'll see what we can learn from Samuel Adams, George Washington, and other heroes about Personal Life Coaching.


 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
95-Day Orientation Program
5 Things You Need to Know
5 Books You Need to Read


Foundational Admission:
You are a Victim of Educational Malpractice


Overview:
Five Things You Need to Know

Thing #1: The Three Subjects Banned From Your Government-Approved Education
-- and why you must access them.
 
Thing #2: The Three Goals for You from Samuel Adams
-- and why you must achieve them.
 
Thing #3: The Three Huge Mistakes America's Founding Fathers Made
-- and why you must avoid them.
 
Thing #4: The Three Most Hated Words in Politics Today
-- and why you must adopt them.
 
Thing #5: The Three Things You Need to Become Extraordinary
-- and why you must activate them.

Thing #1:     
Three Subjects
Banned From Your 
Government-Approved Education
You are a Victim of Educational Malpractice.

details

Public Schools in America were originally created to teach everyone the Bible

proof

Religion, Morality, Knowledge - America's "Organic Law"

    Day 26:  "Necessary for Good Government and the Happiness of Mankind" - Not an elective, but the common core of a decent education in every public school in America, 1776. details
  Religion of Jesus Christ details
    Day 27: - Vertical Relationship - The Horror of Atheism • atheists banned: the importance of our relationship to God once pervaded society. A nation "Under God" is a religious nation. details
    Day 28: Creator-Creature Distinction - Man is not God - The State is not God details
    Day 29: Man is Broken - "The Fall" details
    Day 30: Atonement: The Politics of Guilt and Pity - Sado-Masochism - Scapegoating details
    Day 31: The One and the Many - Unity and Diversity details
  Morality  
    Day 32:  Horizontal: relations with others              source of liberty, "rights"       details
    Day 33: "national morality" details
  Knowledge  
    Day 34: -- Not just the "3 R's" (literacy) - knowledge of how the world works
           
Providence + Capitalism vs. Mercantilism/Socialist Central Planning
details
    Day 35: • knowledge vs. "self-esteem"
          the prosperous discharge of a lawful calling (work) brings self-esteem
details
       

Thing #2:     
The Three Challenges of Samuel Adams

details
    

1st Goal: Be A REAL American

details
          Day 1:  A Real American believes in "the American Dream": Vine & Fig Tree  details
    Day 2:  A Real American believes that the Declaration of Independence is really true. details
    Day 3:  A Real American Opposes Tyranny. (Americans today demand it.) details
    Day 4:  A Real American isn't afraid to be called an "alarmist" details
    Day 5:  A Real American Prefers Liberty Under God, over "Security under Man" (or you deserve neither liberty nor security) details
    Day 6:  A Real American is willing to Risk something to protect "Liberty Under God" details
    Day 8:  A True American is also a Christian. details
    Day 7:  "How do you know?" | audio answer | details
        

Samuel Adams' 2nd Goal: Be A GENUINE Christian

details
    Day   9:   A True Christian is a Follower of Christ (Messiah), the Prince of Peace. details
    Day 10:  Berean: "People of the Book" -  The Bible details
    Day 11:  Berean: Daily questions human authority in light of the Bible details
    Day 12:  A Genuine Christian  is not afraid to be called a "Creationist" details
    Day 13:  A Genuine Christian  is not afraid to be called a "Pacifist" details
    Day 14:  A Genuine Christian  is not afraid to be called an "Extremist" details
    Day 15:  A True Christian is not afraid to be called a "Theocrat" details
    Day 16:  A True Christian is not afraid to be called a "Utopian" details
    Day 17:  Forgiven by Imputation, not ecclesiastical works details
    Day 18:  Performs "works of mercy" | audio details
    Day 19:  Justification by Allegiance: How to Become a Christian [pdf] details
    Day 20:  Judges one religion to be true, and all others to be false. details
     

3rd Goal: Be TRULY Human

details
           "What is the chief end of man?" A question every child in America could answer in 1776.
    Day 21: Glorify God - Humility - You are not God. details
    Day 22: Enjoy Him forever - Gratitude details
    Day 23: Exercise Dominion over the earth. Not worship the earth. details
    Day 24: God Created Human Beings Male and Female details
    Day 25: Pleasing to God -- "Well done, thou good and faithful businessman." details
       
     

Iron Sharpens Iron
Daily

 
 

Thing #3:     
 Three Huge Mistakes America's Founders Made

-- and why you must avoid them

details
    Day 36: We don't worship the Founding Fathers. details
Huge Mistake Number One: "Rights"
    Day 37: The Myth of "Human Rights." Humanistic attack on moral duty. details
    Day 38: "Entitlements" are destroying this nation details
Huge Mistake Number Two: Revolution
They took up arms to abolish the government
by force and violence, murdering Christians from Britain
    Day 39: Just plain wrong. Romans 13 -- Sermon on the Mount details
    Day 40:  U.S. Overthrowing Governments Today.
              Global Revolution: War, Imperialism, CIA Overthrow,
              "National Defense," Foreign Policy,  Blowback.
              Trillions of dollars diverted, millions of lives lost
details
Huge Mistake Number Three: Restoration of Representative Regulation
    Day 41: Who has the right to steal, coerce, torture, or delegate these sins to someone else? details
    Day 42: Bonus Non-Mistake: no “Rapture.” Novus Ordo Seclorum. details
 
Each and every day, as you read the Bible and the other important texts in the Samuel Adams Coaching Program,, you should reflect on these three huge mistakes and ask three questions:
1. Rights:
  • Am I here to get or to give?
  • Am I here to demand my rights or to obey my duties?
  • Am I entitled or am I obligated?
  • Am I owed or do I owe?

When you speak about God's Commandments rather than "the rights of man," are you prepared to be called a "theocrat?"

2. Revolution:
  • Is "Rebellion Against Tyrants Obedience to God?" Really?
  • Should we preach to tyrants until they are converted, or should we assassinate them?
  • What is the Christ-like way to move sheeple and their wolf-tyrants to "Liberty Under God" and the Vine & Fig Tree society?
  • "Tyranny" and "liberty" are abstractions. The Bible says "Honor the king." You honor the king by not treating him as an abstraction or a conspiracy theory, and treating him as a human being created in the Image of God. Do you know a tyrant? Witness to him. Do you know someone who profits from tyranny? Witness to her. Are you prepared with an anti-tyranny apologetic?

When you speak about being "subject" to tyrants rather than asserting your "Second Amendment Rights," or assassinating tyrants, are you prepared to be called a "pacifist?"

3. "Representation":
  • Is it legitimate for me to grab my entitlements by "voting" for a "representative" to get them for me?
  • Is it legitimate for me to overthrow a foreign government so I can increase my corporate profits or lower my gas prices by "voting" for a "representative" to send the CIA or the Marines?
  • Is it legitimate for me to take money from my neighbor by "voting" for a "representative" to "tax" him?
  • Would the world be worse off or better off without any "archists" (people who believe they have the right to impose their will on others by force) at all?
  • Would the world be better off or worse off if all archists resigned and got jobs in the private sector?

When you speak about the superiority of Free Enterprise over socialism, and when you dream about markets freed from archists, are you prepared to be called an "anarchist?"

 Thing #4:     
 The Three Most Hated Words in Politics Today
-- and why you must embrace them
These three words
all stem from the Three Huge Mistakes  
that America's Founders made.
These three hated concepts are the only way to reverse those three huge mistakes.

details
Most Hated Word #1 - THEOCRACY!
    Day 43: God Rules - Isaiah 33:22 | 
               Not "Government by Ayatollahs" - Priestly Police State
details
Most Hated Word #2 - PACIFISM
    Day 44:  The opposite of violent revolution against tyrannical invaders: 
                no "national defense."
details
Most Hated Word #3 - ANARCHISM
    Day 45:  Jesus prohibits His followers from being "archists." Case closed. details
    Day 46: Bonus Word: Preterism - optimilllennialism, not pessimillennialism details
       

Thing #5:     
The Three Things You Need to Become Extraordinary
-- and why you must activate them

details
  • A Curriculum - Content
  • A Coach - Accountability
  • A Community - Support
1st Extraordinary Thing: An Extraordinary Curriculum
       

Our Curriculum: Five Books to Read

Five Books - Five Classes

Read Five of the Most Important Works
in the History of Western Civilization
in 365 Days

  Substitute one hour of our program for one hour of the Mainstream Media
Each book and accompanying resources is the equivalent of one college-level class.
Weekly live webinar "office hours." Email. All your questions answered.
Our 365-day Coaching Program is the equivalent of two years of college.
No exams -  just profound personal transformation. 
We assume you know "the 3 R's" -- You made it to this website
We assume you don't know "the 3 R's" - We provide audio in case you can't read.
 
details
    Day 47: The Importance of Ideas -Foundation: Ideas Have Consequences
             inevitability: Islam, Marxism
details
    Day 48  • The Importance of History - Avoiding mistakes - Lay a Foundation for the Future
                Ask Three Questions
details
    Day 49  • Daily Devotion -- Not just Sunday. Doing "religion, morality, and knowledge" every day of the week will transform your entire life. No day is secular. details
    Day 50  • Lifelong Learner -- wait 'til you see Year Two of the Program. And Year Three. Etc. Your education is not over. No matter how many degrees you have. details
  Why We Chose These Five Books to Read  
    Day 51:  1. The Bible: The Most Important Book in the History of the Human Race details
    Day 52:  2. The Westminster Standards details
    Day 53:  3. Theocracy vs. "Separation of Church and State" details
    Day 54:  4. Capitalism vs. Archism -- The Wealth of Nations details
    Day 55:  5. Optimillennialism vs. Pessimillennialism -- Hope for this planet details
  How to Read These Five Books  
    Day 56: The Bible is Our Textbook in Every Discipline details
    Day 57: Read Prayerfully  details
    Day 58: Bible: Christmas details
    Day 59: Bible: History/Chronology details
    Day 60: Bible: Psalms details
    Day 61: Bible: Proverbs details
    Day 62: Bible: Law details
    Day 63: Westminster: Theology details
    Day 64: Westminster: Duty details
    Day 65: Capitalism: Gratitude details
    Day 66: Theocracy: Character - The Rule of God in our Lives - Shapes Society details
2nd Extraordinary Thing: An Extraordinary Coach
    Day 67  Life = Race details
    Day 68: What is Coaching? details
    Day 69: The Coach as Elder details
    Day 70: Your duty to find experts details
    Day 71: Mentor/Elder/Pastor details
    Day 72: Grandfather in Deut 4, 6 | no grandkids? Adopt/Mentor details
    Day 73: FellowTraveller/Friend/Companion/Kindred Spirit details
    Day 74: About Me - Your Coach (no expert, no clergy) details
3rd Extraordinary Thing: An Extraordinary Community
    Day 75: “One Another”· | We like it details
    Day 76: Iron Sharpens Iron | We don't like it | sparks may fly details
    Day 77: Priesthood of All Believers details
    Day 78: "Cloud of Witnesses" | History | Heroes details
    Day 79: “Nouthetic Coaching”  — You are "competent to counsel" (Romans 15:14) details
  How to Be A Coach  
    Day 80: Passing on this Program to Others details
  Current Events, Recent Podcasts  
    Day 81: Contemporary Application details
  How Much Does This Program Cost?  
    Day 82: Different Costs: Price/value/opportunity details
    Day 83: Production Costs: Do it Yourself - Minimum Wage details
  How Much Should You Pay? [You should pay something]
Jesus says, "The laborer is worthy of his hire."
 
    Day 84: Aristotle and Alexander the Great details
    Day 85: College Tuition details
    Day 86: Pastor = double honor/labor in word details
    Day 87: Tithe to God details
  Other Alternatives: Our Competition:  
    Day 88: Centurions details
    Day 89: LibertyClassroom | Tom Woods | Ron Paul Homeschool details
  The Fine Print  
    Day 90: Money-Back Guarantee details
    Day 91: Double Your Money Back Guarantee: We will buy your blog details
    Day 92: Double, Triple, Quadruple Your Money: Affiliate Marketing details
    Day 93: Weekly Webinars -- Some weeks daily details
    Day 94: Office Hours - Email - Laser Coaching

details

    Day 95: Final Pitch - Fine Print details


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You're a victim of educational malpractice, and you live under tyranny. This is the land of slaves and the home of cowards. Let's start with some contrasts:

America Past . . .

. . . and America Present
The "Boston Tea Party" (1773) involved a tax on tea of 3 pence per pound. (Americans drank about ten pounds per year, according to Benjamin Franklin.) Today we pay ten times more in taxes on every gallon of gas.
     Even though an overwhelming majority of Americans opposed the Wall St. Bailout of 2008, Congress bailed them out anyway. With your money.
     Thus, we have massive taxation without representation. But "We the People" do nothing.
The Declaration of Independence says we have a duty (not just a "right") to abolish any government that becomes a "tyranny." "Tyranny" would have to be defined as a government more intrusive and confiscatory than the government over the colonies in 1776. The Signers of the Declaration would say The United States Federal Government in 2018 is a mega-tyranny.

The Federal Government prohibits local public school teachers from teaching students that the Declaration of Independence is really, objectively true. That's true. Students can only be taught that the Signers believed it to be true. Or that they didn't really believe it to be true, but it was all just a ruse to protect their slaves and businesses. But students cannot be taught that any proposition in the Declaration of Independence really is true -- objectively true -- regardless of whether anyone believes it to be true.

There were three things that America's Founders believed constituted the essential core of a decent, civilized education. All three have been removed from government-approved schools. This is why we are all victims of educational malpractice.
America's Founders believed these three things were the foundation of liberty, property, social order, and prosperity. In America today, the government searches millions of people every day without a warrant, confiscates private property at will, turns a blind eye to violent crime, and leads us into massive bankruptcy. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are dead meat.
When confronted with less than one-tenth of the soul-corrupting tyranny that we have today, America's Founders risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to restore "Liberty under God." What are you risking? Americans today are risk-averse, preferring cradle-to-grave "security" rather than LIBERTY and personal responsibility.

 

Vine & Fig Tree

Vine & Fig Tree is a non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization dedicated to transforming you and your world, accelerating the fulfillment of the Bible's "Vine & Fig Tree" prophecies.

The Vine & Fig Tree prophecies and our vision are described on the Vine & Fig Tree Home Page. Some of this information is found below. In a nutshell, the Prophets held out a vision of a world where we beat our "swords into plowshares" and everyone dwells securely under his own "Vine & Fig Tree." It's a vision of world Peace, secure Property, and holistic Prosperity.

What can Vine & Fig Tree Coaching do for you?
The same thing it did for America.

America Past . . .

. . . and America Present

The Vine & Fig Tree vision made America the most prosperous and admired nation in human history...



... government suppression of the Vine & Fig Tree vision has made America bankrupt and despised, even by those who formerly admired us.

The idea of everyone dwelling securely under his own "Vine & Fig Tree" is the original "American Dream." America's Founders often quoted "Vine & Fig Tree" language in their letters and speeches. Americans were familiar with the Bible in general and this vision in particular. Today . . .

 

 

 

. . . Americans are ignorant of the Bible; the "American Dream" is now described as "owning your own home," which means "qualifying" for a low-interest, fixed-rate mortgage. This means paying a quarter of a million dollars in interest over the life of a 30-year mortgage on a home owned by the bank, which can be taken at any time by the government under "eminent domain" whenever the government wants to give your home to some "special interest."

Two centuries ago, the only people who had a mortgaged home were those who had experienced some devastating personal tragedy. Americans who lived two hundred years ago would say that Americans living today are experiencing a devastating national tragedy, despite our iPhones and big-screen TV's.
When America was directed by the  "Vine & Fig Tree" worldview, America experienced economic growth. America is at a crossroads today. This is the first time that the next generation can expect to experience a lower standard of living than the previous generation.
America's Founders intended to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." Since 1973, American mothers have killed over 50 million of "our posterity," and the blessings of liberty are less secure than at any time in our nation's history.
We "text" each other on our "Smart Phones" . . . . . . because we lack the maturity of soul to form close, personal, meaningful, and lasting relationships with other people.
We bomb whole populations "back to the stone age" . . . . . . because we want low gas prices for our "adult toys."
America no longer exports missionaries who preach the gospel, dig wells, help farmers, build churches, establish schools, maintain hospitals, fund libraries, and create prosperous and harmonious civilizations out of poverty, superstition, and barbarism. Missionaries who speak of "false religions" and criticize superstition and barbarism are called "intolerant" and "hateful."  Today the U.S. exports more pornography and weapons of mass destruction than Bibles.
Our toes are hanging over the fiscal cliff, and the ground beneath our feet is crumbling.
To feel better about this, we go shopping or watch "infotainment."
We have paid for our bombs and our narcotic high-tech gadgets with money we haven't earned.
The Bible says, "The borrower is the slave of the lender."
Do you know who your lenders are?
Do you know how they will treat their slaves when their economic system collapses?
We vote for politicians who will make us feel better by promising us lots of stuff we can't afford. Politicians have promised us benefits totaling $222 TRILLION more than can ever be paid for.
We don't realize it, with our "Smart Phones" and our "Smart Bombs," but we live our lives in a state of profound economic and personal trauma.

What Can Be Done?

The Bible says life is like a race.
America was off to a good start, but it's a question whether we're going to finish the race.
It's a relay race.
Someone on our Team has dropped the baton.
We need to go back, pick up the baton, and run twice as hard to make up for lost time.
 
You need a personal coach.
If you want to win the gold medal in a grueling athletic competition, the first thing you should do is hire a coach.
Then, You need to become a personal coach.
For your family, maybe a neighbor, perhaps someone at work or at church. It's a team sport.
Encourage them to coach others. We need as many coaches as possible.
And let's work and pray that this becomes a "mass movement."

What is "Personal Coaching?"

There are lots of definitions of "personal coaching." Vine & Fig Tree Personal Coaching is not like any other coaching program.

Our goal is to help you win the gold medal in your particular event. At this stage, it doesn't matter what your particular event is.

You're out of shape. We've got "spring training" ahead of us. Then summer training. Then Fall.

  • If you're overweight, you'll need to lose some.

  • If you're sickly, emaciated and suffering from malnutrition, you'll need to improve your health and diet and build intellectual and spiritual muscle.

You don't know the rules of the game. Everything you learned on the playground is wrong.

  • If you don't even know the rules of the game, you'll have to study the playbook. Be prepared for your coach to drill you on the plays, strategies, and rules of the game.

The average American today does not know the rules of the game of life, and is in frighteningly bad physical shape.

[W]e ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained . . . .
George Washington, Inaugural Address (1789)


Vine & Fig Tree


  • Supporting: love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, sobriety
  • Opposing: Secularism, Humanism, Anti-Family Sex, Hedonism, Autonomy, Totalitarianism, and Mass Death

The name "Vine & Fig Tree" comes from the fourth chapter of the prophet Micah, and is set forth here. You've probably heard Micah's words before -- we beat our "swords into plowshares" and everyone dwells safely under their own "Vine & Fig Tree.

America's Founding Fathers were familiar with this vision: "Vine & Fig Tree" is the worldview that made America "the greatest nation on God's green earth."

George Washington's Diaries are available online at the Library of Congress. That website introduces those writings with these words:
No theme appears more frequently in the writings of Washington than his love for his land. The diaries are a monument to that concern. In his letters he referred often, as an expression of this devotion and its resulting contentment, to an Old Testament passage. After the Revolution, when he had returned to Mount Vernon, he wrote the Marquis de Lafayette on Feb. 1, 1784: "At length my Dear Marquis I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, & under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree." This phrase occurs at least 11 times in Washington's letters. "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree" (2 Kings 18:31).

"Under My Own Vine and Fig Tree, 1798" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art, Virginia Historical Society
Under My Own Vine and Fig Tree, 1798
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Virginia Historical Society
Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art

Many other American Founders wrote of this ideal. "Vine & Fig Tree" is the original "American Dream."

The phrase occurs a number of times in Scripture. These references are visual reminders of the Hebrew word for salvation, which means
• peace,
• wholeness,
• health,
• welfare, and
• private property free from pirates and princes.
When today's Americans hear the word "salvation," they usually think about going to heaven when they die. When the writers of the Bible used the word "salvation," they wanted you to be thinking about dwelling safely under your own Vine & Fig Tree during this life -- much more often than they wanted you to be thinking about what you'll be doing in the afterlife.

The best place to see the Vine & Fig Tree ideal is in the book of Micah.

 Let's look at Micah's prophecy (on the left) and ask a few questions (on the right):
And it will come about in the last days
That the mountain of the House of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains
And it will be raised above the hills
  Are we in the "last days?"

When did this establishment take place?

And the peoples will stream to it.
And many nations will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD
And to the House of the God of Jacob,
Is Christianity doomed to minority status throughout history? Hasn't Christianity been growing since the first century?
That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths."
For from Zion will go forth the Law
Even the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  What should be the Christian's attitude toward the Law? Isn't every Word of a "Lord" "Law?"
And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
Then they will hammer their
swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation
And never again will they train for war.
Are we commanded to beat our swords into plowshares today? Or do we wait for the Second Coming?
And each of them will sit under his   What about private property?
Vine and under his  fig tree,
With no one to make them afraid.
For the LORD of hosts has spoken.
What about technology? What about the military? What is it that really brings "security?"
Though all the peoples walk
Each in the name of his god,
As for us, we will walk
In the Name of the LORD our God
forever and ever.
  What if all the politicians, university professors, TV commentators, newspaper editors, rock stars, CEO's, athletes, authors, and think-tanks repudiate the Vine & Fig Tree vision and tell you not to believe it?
In that day, saith the LORD,
will I assemble her that halteth,
and I will gather her that is driven out,
and her that I have afflicted;
And I will make her that halted a remnant,
and her that was cast far off a strong nation:
and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever.
Should we strive to be on top, or to help those on the bottom? Is God on the side of those who have accomplished much by their own power and initiative, or is He on the side of those who are willing to be used by God to accomplish much to His Glory?

Seven Themes in Micah's Vine & Fig Tree Prophecy

  Micah's Prophecy (Micah 4:1-7)
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Archetypes Controversy Comfort
1 And it will come about in the last days
[For the LORD of hosts has spoken.]
That the mountain of the House of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains
And it will be raised above the hills

Audio

Predestination
vs. "Free Will"
Chose birth?
• Nobody used "free will" to come into existence
• Real issue: The nature of the Creator | Person or Mud
Calvinism
"Free Will" = imago dei | Image of God
 • reason
 • planning for future
 • symphonies
Providence
Protection is an act of love
Prayer  = anti-deism
      "Last Days"

V&FT "impossible even for God."

Predestinated tribulation?
No. Vine & Fig Tree
2 And the peoples will stream to it.
And many nations will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD
And to the House of the God of Jacob,

Audio

Conversion of the Gentiles

One religion is superior to the others

One has caught our attention: jihadism

blow-up vs. convert

Peace is possible
Peace is inevitable
3 That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths."
For from Zion will go forth the Law
Even the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.

Audio

• The God who gave you life deserves your respect
• Every Word this God speaks deserves your attention/obedience
• Bible is not just for "private" religion, "down in your heart"
• Also for public policy
• Textbook for every area
When Americans learned the Bible in public schools,
America was the most prosperous, most admired nation on earth

Now U.S. exports weapons/pornography

Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.

"judgmental" vs. Hitler

4 [And each of them will sit under his
Vine and under his fig tree,]

Audio

Male + Female
Father + mother

Family = "undemocratic"

When families are functional, the State is unnecessary;
Archism is suppressed

Adams: mothers:
religion + morality

5 Then they will hammer their
swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation
And never again will they train for war.

 

Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt not steal

Audio

Pacifism = "criminals will take over"
 
really? More people will die under pacifism than under archism?
More money will be confiscated under pacifism than under archists?
Myth:
  • OT = violence, slavery
  • Jesus = irrelevant utopian hippie; not
    "practical" or "realistic."

Fact:

6 And each of them will sit under his
Vine and under his Fig Tree,
With no one to make them afraid.
For the LORD of hosts has spoken.

Audio

Agrarianism vs. technology

Environmentalism

Garden of Eden / City of God

Wilderness vs. Garden

"False weights and Measures."

7 Though all the peoples walk
Each in the name of his god,
As for us, we will walk
In the Name of the LORD our God
forever and ever.
In that day, saith the LORD
       will I assemble her that halteth,
and I will gather her that is driven out,
and her that I have afflicted;
And I will make her that halted a remnant,
and her that was cast far off a strong nation:
and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever.

Audio

social darwinism

immigration vs. "enumerated powers."

works of mercy vs. focus on "winners," celebrities, power-brokers
  "Iron Sharpens Iron"

Audio

Purpose is not to have a fight or
shout-over like Fox News
 
Don't sign up if you just want to tell us we're wrong.

Bereans, search scriptures

"I'll have to think about this"

"This is what I've always been looking for"


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George Washington's Educational Advice

The Delaware Indians grew tired of living in poverty and superstition. They wanted what Americans had. On May 12, 1779, in a speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs, Washington coached them:

You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.
The Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol 15, p.55.

After asking you a few questions, would George Washington conclude that you, or the Delaware Indians, knew more about "The religion of Jesus Christ?"

On May 2, 1778, when the Continental Army had emerged from its infamous winter at Valley Forge, Commander-in-Chief George Washington issued the following:

The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. The signal instances of providential goodness which we have experienced, and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.—
The Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol. XI:342-343, General Orders of 5/2/1778

What is "the character of Christian?" Why did Washington believe that being like Christ was more important than being a "patriot?"


FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Who is George Washington?

  1. He was an extraordinary human being (b.1732-d.1799). He was a great general who led America's troops in a War for Independence against the most powerful empire on earth. He was a statesman who united political factions to agree on a new constitution. He was the only President elected unanimously. He was known as "the Father of his Country." Every post office, every school classroom, every boy's room used to have a portrait of Washington hanging on the wall. He was the best ballroom dancer in Virginia.  Read more.  If you don't know why George Washington is someone you should emulate, you are a victim of educational malpractice.
    But Washington was not perfect. He made mistakes. The United States is now following his mistakes and ignoring his wisest advice.

Q. What is "Life Coaching?"

  1. If you wanted to win a gold medal at the Olympics, the first thing you should do is hire a coach. The Bible says life is like an athletic competition. A life coach whose coaching model is George Washington can help you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and achieve extraordinary results.

Q. Is this program right for me?

  1. If you were invited here, this program is perfect for you.
    If you found your way here by following links ("surfing"), this program is exactly what you've been looking for, even if you never knew exactly what you were looking for.

Q. What if I'm not an American?

  1. Although the principles in this program made America a shining City on a Hill, and the most prosperous and admired nation in history, the principles will work for anybody of any race or nationality. In fact, our "hidden agenda" is to spread these principles to every nation under heaven. We may even have to leave the U.S.A. in the dust!

Q. What's this program like? Will I be subjecting myself to a Drill Sergeant?

  1. No. We won't yell at you, insult you, or belittle you. You know you need accountability -- we both know -- but our top priority is to inspire you, not compel you. It takes discipline to build good habits, but we are committed to being patient and encouraging. We want you to work hard, but we also want you to smile.
    Our Founder, Kevin Craig, was elected "Class Clown" in high school and his picture is in front of the yearbook, hanging from a tree like a monkey.  You can expect some madcap silliness here and there. It's all part of our recipe for extraordinary success!

Q.  What specific individual problems can be solved through coaching?

  1. Answer. But first we must lay a solid foundation upon which to build solutions.

Q. What if I want to contact you for more information?

Call me and I'll walk you through
the enrollment process.
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No obligation of any kind.
Let's just talk.
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