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What an amazing post/essay and testimony to the sovereignty of God, P-Marlowe. The following goes to the heart of the discussion that has raged on Free Republic for a couple of months now.

I have no fear of what Obama can do for America simply because I believe what Jesus said to Pilate, that he would have no power at all if it were not given to him by His Father.
So I trust that whatever Power Obama has is power given to him by God. Proverbs 21:1 says clearly that the the heart of the ruler "is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will."
So I do not fear Obama. I fear God. .... What will America gain if every Christian sacrifices their principles and votes for a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual lobby president merely because we fear that if we don't sacrifice our principles on the alter of expediency, then God will give us 4 more years of what God has already given us?

The biblical testimony is clear. God considers sacrificing one's children to Molech to be worse than disloyalty to the nation of Israel. In fact, the final prophets of the norther and southern kingdoms were to a man disloyal to their nation. Jeremiah was thrown into a dungeon of muck because he advised surrender to the King of Babylon.

Jeremiah 32:35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, though I never commanded, nor did it enter my mind, that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.

Jeremiah 37: "This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, 'The Babylonians will surely leave us.' They will not! 10 Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down." .............. he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. 15 They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison. 16 Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time.

God did not judge Judah and Israel because their prophets were disloyal to the idea of the nation. No, God judged the nation because they had so totally left the way of the Lord that they were engaged in such terrible sin even to the point of sacrificing their children.

However, -- and this requires spiritual insight -- God inspired The Apostle Paul to write:

1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
I Tim 2:13 For Adam was first formed , then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived , but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

And again from the Apostle Paul, who warned us:

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Galatians 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!

As John wrote: "The one who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

What an amazing post/essay and testimony to the sovereignty of God, P-Marlowe. The following goes to the heart of the discussion that has raged on Free Republic for a couple of months now.

I have to strongly second xzins post.

And adding my 2 cents:

Romney is the lightening Rod, if you will, that seems to separate those who are willing to take the narrow road and remain true to their God-given principles, morals, and and Gods commands, and refuse to vote for a lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal on those principles alone, and those willing to both live in fear and sacrifice their own Christian Principles in what can only be labeled a Party over Principle approach.

Excellent post by both xzins and P-Marlowe.

Thank you so much for those beautiful Scriptures, dear xzins, and for your and P-Marlowe's testimony of faith! And thank you, dear EternalVigilance, for sharing your concerns.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. - 2 Ch 7:14

...Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - Zech 4:6

God's Name is I AM.