Posted on 12/30/2021 2:49:14 AM PST by Kaslin
The prophets of the Bible are individuals chosen by God to speak for God. Many mentions of prophets are made in the Bible. In fact, a section of the Old Testament is devoted to a collection of books by them. Their names, and quotes, appear all over the New Testament and are the subject of sermons to this day.
What they all had in common was a heart for God, an anointing to hear from Him, and the faithfulness to impart his message to others.
“For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21).
Prophets speak loudly from the pages of the past, their words seem to take on greater meaning over time, are more relevant than ever and provide us with insights into the past and counsel for our present and future.
As a fan of American history, I often think of historic figures as similar to the prophets of the Bible, whose lives, experiences, achievements and words take on greater meaning over time and provide us with guidance concerning the great challenges we face today as a nation.
In my view, three such American Prophets are former Presidents George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, each of whom presented the American people with prophetic farewell messages that speak loudly today and, if we listen closely, can provide us with guidance and counsel to guide our collective future.
Like George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower was a commanding general who led American and Allied forces in a great war for freedom… this time overseas on foreign soil.
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Rotten RINO who crippled the GOP as a majority party for decades and did nothing to campaign for Nixon and stop the JFK/LBJ theft of the 1960 election and everything that has happened since.
A great general. Terribly flawed President who did some great things. Agree on allowing the theft of the Presidency. Complete failure.
I seem to recall that Nixon himself chose not to do anything about the 1960 theft. IF you look at the old news reels you would be hard pressed to find him in a better mood than when he conceded the election. Without sound you would swear he won!
Nixon was literally a dick. There wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between him and Kennedy. Kennedy was arguably more conservative.
Kennedy wouldn’t have had Kissinger kissing Mao’s ass.
Talk about a Hobson’s choice.
If the author David Butler is using this Eisenhower quote with which he closes his article to justify his assertion that Eisenhower was a prophet, I can only deduce he means a false one! The idea that the nations can reach peace and justice by their own goal-setting and effort -- even "under God" -- is completely laughable, false, and of the spirit of Babel.
God himself must do the work, beginning to end, and will do it through many tribulations. Man by his own nature does not want peace and justice on God's terms, yet that is the only way it's going to come about for any nation, much less all the nations: On God's terms.
People get ready, there's a train a'comin'!
Anyway. Ike doesn’t belong in the same conversation as Washington as President. Nobody does. As a general? Yes.
Like Washington, the devil is in the details.
Yup. Excluding Nam, he was mostly liberal in domestic policy. Ike probably seen the handwriting on the wall to account for his non participation in the election, imo.
Um, I think you are confusing him with Dick Nixon.
Ike was a great man, and indeed a prophet, warning us from everything from the Military-Industrial Complex to unquestioning obeisance to "scientists", and carried out Operation Wetback, forceably returning 1.5 illegal aliens back to Mexico.
Nixon was pond scum.
Ike forcibly returned 1.5 illegals to Mexico. Reagan handed 6 million+ of them amnesty.
As a general, Eisenhower was a political general, and was in that role at a time when that was necessary.
Having to deal with the likes of DeGaulle and Montgomery must have caused him to order cases of Pepto Bismol.
I was less impressed with him as a President.
No comparison to Washington, not even in the same universe. Washington was a one of a kind.
Whatever his flaws, Eisenhower was prophetic in his Farewell Address, warning against what we now call Neocons, and the capture of government by unelected scientists and tech companies.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/farewell-radio-and-television-address-the-american-people
… In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist...
… Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present—and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite...
Ike was the Greatest American of the 20th Century.
Disagree. A 1961-69 Nixon Administration would’ve rid Cuba of Fidel (after ‘69, it was too late) and been more decisive on Vietnam. There would’ve been no ludicrous Socialist orgies (Great Society) and Black voters would not have been re-enslaved to the Demonrat Party.
Nope. I meant Eisenhower. He was absolutely toxic. The 1958 elections he presided over took 4 decades to recover from. Not even Hoover inflicted that level of damage to the GOP. Ike did nothing to shrink the national government and purge the Soviet influence that had gone on for 20 years before he took office. He set the standard for campaigning against Socialist Democrat policies only to merely “manage” them rather than eliminate them.
For someone who decided to “warn” the public at the END of his administration, he certainly did NOTHING about countless problems when he had the power, and all but ceded control to the 2/3rds Democrat Congress he handed them on a silver platter in 1958 (along with the final touch of turning the country over to an over-his-head drug-addicted sex degenerate dilettante beloved by the media). Absolute disaster.
Democrats did not keep their word on the deal President Reagan struck on border enforcement. You should know that.
I agree with Ike NOT supporting Nixon.
Tricky Dick’s true colors finally came thru.
We needed Patton and MacArthur in the White House. Not a Democrat agent like Ike. Frankly, had he served as a Demonrat as Truman wanted, at least the GOP could’ve fought against him and preserved their viability as a majority party in the ‘50s. Ike destroyed that possibility for 4 decades.
Nixon was a very liberal President when you look at his record.
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