Posted on 10/17/2016 1:12:37 PM PDT by amessenger4god
The following is just my own surmising in regards to the importance of the United States election on November 8th and what might happen depending on who wins.
I firmly believe that 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges was a major moral turning point in the United States. Some commentators, such as J.D. Farag, even thought that there could be no turning back or revival at this point. The country has been on a downward spiral for a half-century, but up until 2015 Christians were still largely protected and individual states could support righteousness in a variety of ways. The SCOTUS ruling in 2015 effectively made it so that the U.S. government could federally mandate whatever is evil and contrary to nature and nature's God (see Romans 1:18-32). The rest of 2015, and 2016 especially, saw for the first time in U.S. history outright government persecution of Christians for holding to their faith (Kim Davis, Roy Moore, Lakewood bakery, Oregon bakery, religious freedom laws attacked in Indiana and North Carolina, etc). My home church has even come under attack just this past weekend.
...And despite the desperate need our country has for a last-minute revival, there are not yet any signs that people are flocking back to churches as they did in the immediate aftermath of September 11th.
Now we come to November 8th, 2016. It is my personal belief that God has given the U.S. its very last chance and here is why I think that:
1. For decades the Supreme Court had a delicate balance with usually about four conservatives, four liberals, and one moderate who leaned socially liberal. It was never enough for the conservatives to roll back cases such as Roe v. Wade, but it was just enough that if the country repented, a single Christian president could sway the court - but alas, the country never repented. With the death of Scalia and the appointments of Sotomayor and Kagan, the court now has a younger, liberal majority and will soon have an even larger majority if Clinton wins and appoints Scalia's replacement. Clarence Thomas has even suggested he may soon retire. In other words, if Clinton wins on November 8th, the Supreme Court will be lost for a generation or more.
2. Hillary Clinton has publicly supported the World Federalist Association, an organization that wants to finally do away with the nation-state in favor of true world government (see here and here).
3. Hillary Clinton has publicly stated that Christian beliefs must be changed through force of law.
The alternative is a die-hard nationalist who day after day seems more and more opposed to global government and liberalism and in favor of the rule of law. He appears to be God's offering of an antidote to the growing lawlessness. Will the country take it?
Many Christians want to sit this election out because they see two immoral options, but I would remind them that all are immoral except God alone. We have all fallen short. Trump's sins were out in front for all to see, but Clinton's and Bush's were hidden and buried deep. Are we electing a president or a pastor?
Consider wise words from Eric Metaxas:
Many say they won’t vote because choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. But this is sophistry. Neither candidate is pure evil. They are human beings. We cannot escape the uncomfortable obligation to soberly choose between them. Not voting—or voting for a third candidate who cannot win—is a rationalization designed more than anything to assuage our consciences. Yet people in America and abroad depend on voters to make this very difficult choice.
Children in the Middle East are forced to watch their fathers drowned in cages by ISIS. Kids in inner-city America are condemned to lives of poverty, hopelessness and increasing violence. Shall we sit on our hands and simply trust “the least of these” to God, as though that were our only option? Don’t we have an obligation to them?
Two heroes about whom I’ve written faced similar difficulties. William Wilberforce, who ended the slave trade in the British Empire, often worked with other parliamentarians he knew to be vile and immoral in their personal lives.
Why did he? First, because as a sincere Christian he knew he must extend grace and forgiveness to others, since he desperately needed them himself. Second, because he knew the main issue was not his moral purity, nor the moral impurity of his colleagues, but rather the injustices and horrors suffered by the African slaves whose cause he championed. He knew that before God his first obligation was to them, and he must do what he could to help them.
You know.. I think there is something in the Bible about making stuff up and declaring it to be prophesy.
I’m reluctant to interact with folks on the Religion forum.
Odd rules and I might get Zotted for disagreeing with someone
if they put a magic word in the title or something.
Carry on.
Understood.......
Personally, I never give a thought to which forum is being used and only reply to interesting comments...........
I may have overstepped my bounds on this one.........
Biblically, God wins in the end, regardless how many billions of years it may take.
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