William J. Federer is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc.  He's the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast.  He has authored numerous books including, America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America?, Socialism: The Real History From Plato to the Present - How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control and the newly released, Silence Equals Consent: The Sin of Omission.

On this broadcast William goes through several examples throughout history to explain to listeners the importance of not being silent, not just as it pertains to elections, but to sin in general.

Perhaps you're not aware that in early America, you had churches establishing cities where everyone was involved in the church and city government.  Baptists were responsible for the founding of Providence, Rhode Island, while Hartford, Connecticut, was founded by the First Congregationalist Church in America.   In other words, you had cities with a covenant form of government as the founders of such cities were looking back to ancient Israel and their first 400 years of existence after leaving Egypt.  He went on to note how even our Constitution was modeled after a covenant government from New England for the same reason.

William also pointed to Numbers chapter 30, the silence-equals-consent chapter in the Bible.  For example, if a daughter binds herself with a vow while living in her father’s house in her youth, and her father hears her vow and holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand.  However, if her father overrules her on the day he hears, then none of her vows shall stand and the Lord will release her.  This has come down to us in our day as vows in a wedding ceremony.

In law this is referred to as the Rule of Tacit Admission. It’s in Black's Law Dictionary.  It’s an admission reasonably inferable from a party’s failure to act or speak.  In property law, if someone moves onto your property/land and lives there for several years and you remain silent and fail to charge them rent, they gain title to your property.  It’s known as “adverse possession.”  In this case, by your silence, you’re giving approval for them to take your land.

This principle is also in our U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 7.  Congress passes a bill.  They send it to the president.  He can veto the bill, sign it, or he can simply let it sit on his desk for 10 days.  However, if the president is silent and doesn’t do anything with it, it automatically becomes law as if he had signed it.

William also reminded listeners about Paul from Acts 22.  Paul recognized that when Stephen’s blood was shed, even though he didn’t throw a single stone, just standing by means he was consenting to his death.

William warned listeners how those who oppose Christians who speak out have a clever tactic.  It’s to “guilt-trip” Christians into being more Christian than Christ.  In other words, they tell us that if we’re truly Christian, we’ll be silent and give our consent while they teach our children something Jesus would never teach.  This means that the person who claims to be spiritual by not getting involved will one day realize they’ve made a huge mistake when they understand that by their silence, they’ve brought the judgment of God upon their heads.

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