The following post is from this past January:
The political upheaval today is similar in principle to what happened in the American colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century during the Great Awakening. There was the ruling class of sorts, those who held all the power.....the establishment if you will....some in the church and the rest in the government, who thought that they knew everything that there was to know. They would therefore quite naturally lead, and everyone would quite naturally follow, for they had been ordained as God's ministers....fair and square....and would in no way relinquish that power over the souls of men; as for the people, well their job was simply to listen and obey.
The political upheaval today is similar in principle to what happened in the American colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century during the Great Awakening. There was the ruling class of sorts, those who held all the power.....the establishment if you will....some in the church and the rest in the government, who thought that they knew everything that there was to know. They would therefore quite naturally lead, and everyone would quite naturally follow, for they had been ordained as God's ministers....fair and square....and would in no way relinquish that power over the souls of men; as for the people, well their job was simply to listen and obey.
As always happens, and always will until Jesus Christ returns, the
people had once again failed to remain vigilant in their faith and colonial America's light
had dimmed, but once again God had mercy on a wayward people as He raised up men like Jonathon
Edwards, George Whitefield and Samuel Davies who would, through much
opposition, proclaim the glories of the gospel of Jesus Christ to a
fallen world. The religious tyranny would end as would decades later the tyranny of the king.
That colonial American had a pedigree, forged in the cauldron of
persecution of the religious tyranny of 17th century England, for
Puritans and Dissenters who had known their God did not recognize
the voice then emanating from the pulpits. These people who were well
versed in the scriptures that God had given them thus recognized wolves
in bishop's clothing. They rebelled against the religious darkness of the
pulpit elites but were legislated against with their light then being
confined to meeting in the meadows and forests. Ultimately many came to
America where they would build a city set on a hill whose light
could not be hidden.
That city is today but an
archaeological ruin or at best a homestead to be visited occasionally as
is Mount Vernon or Monticello. The hubbub in Iowa and New Hampshire
which is only the beginnings of a spring and summer of political frenzy
exhibit the pedigree of 1776 but the results of this election cycle,
necessary as it may be, will be inconsequential as to the immediate
future of America, for there is yet another cauldron awaiting us which
will either prove to be a witch's brew or a purification process where
we will be refined as a people who once again call out to their God. The
candidates elected, should God give us time to do so, will be but some
of the ingredients in this cauldron. Therefore, and for this reason
alone, we must choose wisely.
