Posted on 02/16/2016 7:16:20 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Somehow, having an Enemies List is all right if you're Barack Obama and not Richard Nixon.
It has become an iffy idea to cross Barack Obama. After seven years, the president has created a Hugo Chavez–like deterrent landscape, intended to remind friends and enemies alike that he is perfectly willing to use the federal government's vast power to go after those he finds politically inconvenient, while exempting those he understands to be sympathetic to his agendas.
In Freudian fashion, Obama has long joked about using the power of government in a personal way. As early as 2009, when he had been invited to give the Arizona State University commencement address but had not been granted an honorary degree, he warned of rogue IRS audits: "I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets ... President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS." Jesting about politically driven IRS audits is always scary - scarier when life imitates art in the age of Lois Lerner.
Remember when Obama, on the Spanish-language Univision network shortly before the 2010 midterm elections, urged Latino groups to join him, in ancient tribal us/them fashion, in going after "enemy" Republicans. Instead of sitting out the election, he told them in community-organizing fashion, they should say: "We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us." That threat recalled his 2008 campaign braggadocio about urging his supporters to bring (of all things!) "a gun" ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl"), and "to get in their face" ...
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When Obama stands before God at the Great White Throne Judgment, I hope to be watching in the bleachers.
I think we who are Saved by Christ, will undoubtedly be there as witnesses.
I think so as well.
Psalm 1: 1-6
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
We believers will sit upon the Judgment Seat of Christ, or the Bema seat, whereby we will be rewarded and our acts and works judged. But, as you know, this is not the same as what the unbelievers will endure. One pastor I heard gave the analogy that during a graduation, some receive high lauds and rewards for achievement. But everyone at the ceremony graduates. It will be like that. Some saints will be given many crowns for what they did in faith. But we are all already redeemed in Him.
Seems as good a place as any to post this after your reference:
Revelation 20:12-15 King James Version (KJV)
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Those who have not confessed to being sinners and asked the Messiah’s (Jesus Christ’s) forgiveness can still do so, now. /No apologies
Great post.
I’m looking forward to that day.
I think we’ll have already been at the Judgement Seat of Christ for rewards long before then.
:)
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