December 27, AD 2010

The Devil's in the Details
of UN's Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous People
Frank Allnutt

There’s headline news on World Net Daily this morning that Barack Obama “is voicing support for the United Nation's Declaration on the Right of Indigenous People. According to WND, the resolution "could accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty and opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American Indians, including even parts of Manhattan"—as if the UN and Obama had never proposed or had done anything radical heretofore.

Like most everything that comes out of Washington, redistribution of land has political implications. That’s no surprise. Nor is the predictable aftermath of such redistribution. Ultimately there are those in politics who want to do away with private ownership of property—or at least control all land and natural resources as well as those politically chosen to occupy and manage such land and resources.

But I’ll turn aside from the temptation of critical digression and move on to consider the application of the UN’s resolution to the whole planet earth.

What a mess!

Take Israel and the Palestinians, for example. Who were the first inhabitants? Neither, actually, and in the eyes of the UN not withstanding that God is said in Scripture to have given the land to the children of Israel.

A similar predicament is encountered with the claim of some that the Southwestern part of the United States should be returned to Mexico.

There are other examples—too many to mention. But allow me to indulge in just one more—a personal one.

There’s the tale out of my own family’s past (embellished I’m sure, if not totally fabricated) that my Christian ancestors of a few generations back were of a line of European nobility with extensive landholdings, and that they left it all behind when they fled political turmoil in Austria and came to America.

I wonder if way back before then my ancient relatives might have seized their land from Neanderthals.

If land titles had been in vogue from the very beginning, a title search would affirm the Genesis record that God put Adam and Eve in charge of the world He created. Add to that the prophetic biblical Beatitude that at some future time the children of God will inherit the earth.

It appears that some Christian Dominionists want their inheritance right now. And if they succeed, I wonder how much land there is on the earth’s surface and how many Christians....

You know, at age 70 I’m too slow any more to do the math in my head, even if I knew the numbers. Surely, though, my share would amount to many thousands of acres.

But there’s a problem with such land speculation.

Bible history reveals that Adam and Eve feloniously deeded the world, which they did not own, over to Satan in exchange for a lot of false promises.

But that’s another story.

Meanwhile, the Bible acknowledges that, for the time being, Satan is the “god of this world.”

Therefore, following the “logic” of the UN resolution to an extreme that is beyond their view, private land-owners and the governments of the world should return their real estate holdings to the deposed First Angel. So, if Manhattan reverts to the Indians, the Indians would have to revert to someone before them, and so on—all the way back to when Satan conned Adam and Eve into fraudulently signing the deed to the world over to him.

It seems to me that the U.S. Government would face only two choices. But because of the principle of separation of Church and State, the feds would never recognize God as the owner of the earth He created. And politicians would never, ever give anything to Satan. Unless they’ve secretly made some sort of pact with the Devil. I suspect most of them just want all the earth to themselves.

You know, some enterprising young people just might want to consider becoming real estate attorneys.

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