So the question is.....I guess a question for the calvinists..... is if Biden is sworn in instead of Trump..... will we say it is God’s will because it is all predestined?
Does ANYTHING occur which God has not permitted?
God’s sovereign will is what comes to pass. Is He so powerless that He for example gets forced to let people die, etc.?
“ Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”.
Not a sparrow falls outside of His will. He is not somehow constrained by our evil. See how He allowed Joseph for example to be so badly and unfairly treated? See also the entire book of Job! Throughout scripture really.
Yet we also know that
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.“
See. All things are NOT good. But all things eventually and somehow work together for good for those of us who are called.
Where does that leave us? We aren’t sovereign. We do his REVEALED will. He tells us how we are to behave. We are to faithfully do His will as He tells us in His Word. And trust Him to run the world.
That all depends. God being all-powerful, I guess one would have to say BiteOne being sworn in was His will, even if we don’t at that time understand the reasons why.
It could be that if God allows BiteOne to be installed and America to fall, it will be because it’s time for the Rapture, the Tribulation (including the rise of the Antichrist), all the judgments therein, and then Armageddon.
That being said, I believe (for what it’s worth, anyway) that that time isn’t yet. In other words, that even if Pres. Trump is the final President, he’s going to be in office for one more term. Two, if there’s a successful movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment.
I hope this all made sense. Always have these brilliant, witty, concise orations in my head, but when I start writing them down, they go on and on and on. Sorry about that; it’s not intentional. :-)
Daniel 4:17 - "In order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, [He] gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men.’
Of the two, Biden is the lowest.