There many answers to this question in this book The Harbinger: The ancient mystery by Jonathan Cahn
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
that holds the secret of America's future
Posted on 10/11/2012 10:06:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Mitt Romney is elected president of the United States, his religion, a serious, cultic distortion of the Bible and history in the eyes of many evangelicals, will have new standing and credibility, and likely experience an acceleration of its already fast expansion.
Under Romney, some policies may languish in the swampy squish of centrism, one that embraces elements of Obamacare. If his leadership in Massachusetts is a sample, Romney may attempt to combine statist, modified Keynesian economics with Reaganesque supply-side policies, a mixture of oil and water. He is untested on national defense and foreign policy.
If President Obama is re-elected he will continue the overturning of a value-system often in direct contradiction with biblically aligned morality and ethics, including expansion of abortion, and official affirmation of same-sex marriage.
As we noted in the previous article in this series, the next Obama administration likely will have secularism as the underlying motif of policy, utilitarianism as the measure of the right to life, equivalency as the standard for universal values, internationalism as the context for foreign policy, statism as the means for the "general welfare," unfettered Keynesianism as the basis for economic policy, and anti-institutionalism as the attitude toward traditional values institutions.
Why would God give us either of these men?
The Bible leaves no doubt that God is in charge of nations as well as individuals. Among those passages is Proverbs 21:1, which says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes." Daniel 2:21 is just as blunt when it declares, "He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings…"
So why would God do it? Why would he raise up a president from a belief system that, to some, seems a parody and caricature of the Bible and history, or a president who officially endorses a moral code contradictory to Scripture?
There are a couple of reasons apparent in the Bible, and probably many more in the yet hidden mysteries of God. First, God will raise up national leaders in the best interests of His Kingdom and its advance in the world. Jesus reveals in Matthew 24:14 that the expansion of His Kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17) is the whole point of history. God knows what will make nations fertile for the seeding of His Kingdom, and the kinds of leaders necessary to bring about those conditions.
Second, the accumulation of judgment for the sins of a nation will determine the type of leader God will raise up. There is a point of "fullness" of sins (Genesis 15:16) where the perfect mercy of God must give way to the perfect justice of God. This occurs when a nation rejects God despite His pleadings and prophetic warnings. That judgment may be in the form of a national leader who guides the country into disaster, leading to people waking up and turning back to the Lord and His gracious ways.
In the short term, supporters of the loser will be disappointed and anxious about the immediate future. Obama's extreme partisans fear a nation where freedoms are severely limited, and conservative values imposed on everyone if Romney wins. Romney's most fervent voters fear that if Obama is elected, it is the end of America.
However, everyone must pull way back, and get the largest of perspectives. If God is in charge, and the whole tangled business of elections and governing is leading ultimately to the "blessed hope" (Titus 2:13), then there can be rejoicing even in the midst of what will be defeat for one of those candidates and their voters.
There many answers to this question in this book The Harbinger: The ancient mystery by Jonathan Cahn
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
that holds the secret of America's future
I totally agree with you, there.
I didn't understand any of your replies to be coming from that perspective.
There are many answers
Judgement.
I confess I was not being very clear. It is the core thing I was trying to communicate.
I don’t think we can blame God for the people we elect.
And, yes, God’s will ultimately triumph — but our decisions in the interim will result in less, or more, people who are able to enjoy His presence for eternity, and have their needs met in this life.
Satan
America’s days are numbered. All throughout the Bible the common theme is that arrogant nations are absolutely destroyed, ransacked, raped, leveled economically and taken over.
Very slim chance that America will repent like Nineveh.
LLS
If Lott had been able to find “one good soul” in Sodom... GOD would have spared Sodom. America is full of GOD loving Christians and Jews. Those that support the murder of the most innocent have damned their souls... not ours.
LLS
I’ve often thought when I see a list like that...Dan. 4:17 certainly applies:
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Being the top of the food chain is temporary.
Gideon, Moses, Joseph....
Even some of the apostles were not considered the best of society either.
...One cannot also deny the party that denied God thrice and the kingdom of Jerusalem....
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
For an alternative view, the Bible also says the whole world is in the hand of Satan.
When Jesus was tempted with power over all the nations of the world, he rebuked Satan. He did not challenge Satan’s power to deliver what he claimed.
stupid premise. God will do for us what we CANNOT do for ourselves. He will not do that which we can and should do....e.g. plant your corn or starve. (yes manna did come from heaven but only when strict rules were followed-—when those rules were broken no more manna. besides the Israelites were returning home according to God’s direction)
So how did India and Japan manage to survive, what with thousands of years of worshiping false gods? They seem to be doing better than ever.
we are not electing a religious leader for the country
in terms of our own beliefs, we only expect the leaders we elect to preserve and protect the legal religious freedom the Constitution says is our right
the rest is politics and politics is where it resides
Individual unrepentant sinners will be punished in the next world. Nations have to be punished in this world. Natural disasters, disastrous leaders, epidemics, whatever.
Why did God give us Obama and Romney?
-Because we DESERVE it.
Let there be no doubt, as a nation we WILL get what we deserve.
This is a great Test. And the Test does not end Nov 8, it only begins.
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