Maybe I’m vulnerable to suggestion today. I know I am getting weary of all the sniping when so much of substance needs to be addressed. As are many, I am deeply concerned about what is going to happen to all of us.
However, is it just me or was this speech today, both in tenor and content, the most frighteningly archetypical of the rantings of a dictator intent on whipping the masses into a frenzy of greed and envy against any one whom he has directed them to hate?
The campaign has not even begun in earnest. This is just his beginning. I tremble to see what he does when a Republican is identified and I am downright terrified of what he will do if he is clearly losing.
I hope and pray he cracks. It would be for the best.
I didn't listen to his most current speech, but if you say that it was:
"...archetypal of the rantings of a dictator intent on whipping the masses into a frenzy of greed and envy against any one whom he has directed them to hate...",
that really doesn't sound any different than many of his previous speeches. Yes, he normally delivers it in a 'passive-aggresive' mode - rather than full-throttle, eyes bugged out, veins sticking out of his neck, mode (which I kind of doubt he did today -- he's just a passive-aggressive guy. I don't see him getting whipped up about anything) - but the content is the same. He can claim the contrary, but his speeches are always about dividing us, and promoting Class and Race divisions and animosity.
As far as being 'frightened', or 'terrified' ... Don't worry about it. God IS in control, and He has always been in control. If it is our time to suffer as a Nation, due to our own sloth, and the choosing of 'leaders' who don't lead but appeal to our greed and pride; and the disavowal of giving the LORD the worship He is due ... so be it. We know that He who created the Universe is good, and by Him all things consist. If hardship drives repentance on a large scale -- wonderful. If it doesn't ... well more hardship might be in store - but our rest is in Him, from this time forth, and forevermore.
2 Corinthians 4:16 - 2 Corinthians 5:1
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.