Friday, February 24, 2017

The Third Great Awakening

        There's a lot of talk about it right now in the news and on the talk shows. Yes, it's extraordinary in one way but in another it's more than extraordinary....it's something else altogether. I'm referring to how President Trump has put the mainstream media in their place. From a conservative point of view I can tell you that all across America people are cheering him on. No one deserves a comeuppanse more at this point in time than those who have taken upon themselves the responsibility of journalistic news yet have failed miserably while utterly shaming the profession, but that's only the 'extraordinary' aspect of this.
         Drudge is highlighting an article right now where NBC newsman Chuck Todd thinks that President Trump is going too far in his criticism of the press. Either Chuck Todd is a liar or there is something else going on here, and I do not think that he's a liar. I've seen him only once folks, on election night, and he did a decent job in analysis on what was going on. That's why I'm using him as an example. There must be an explanation on how he would be so wrong. How could an intelligent person such as Chuck Todd appears to be, witness the free ride that Barack Obama was given for eight solid years in scandal after scandal, and lie after lie, and then have any complaint whatsoever on how this new president is chastising the press for their what can only be called willful obstruction? This isn't politics, it defies reason, it's something that is...more than extraordinary!
           So what? He lied or he's just incredibly wrong...what's the difference? Well there is a difference with what I believe are consequences of biblical proportions. Friends, for eight years we have watched half of America fall for the dumbest statements, biggest lies and support the most corrupt individuals America has ever produced. We ceased being amazed many years ago. How on earth could our president in essence arm Iran with nuclear weapons that may one day be used against us? How could this be? How could half of America vote for someone like Hillary Clinton? How could we actually pave the way for terrorists to enter our country to kill us? This is but three examples of which there are probably hundreds! How could this be? How could this possibly be? This is what we asked ourselves.
         The only explanation for such lunacy is that God purposely blinded them not only to our enemies but also to the simplest forms of logic and common sense.... and this as a form of judgement! We are expiring as a nation...Donald Trump and all of our man-centered grand schemes notwithstanding.....and we did it to ourselves! We are indeed...as a nation....'sinners in the hands of an angry God!' When Jonathon Edwards preached his famous sermon by that title in 1741, during what has become known as the First Great Awakening, people actually moaned and cried as God opened their eyes to the reality of hell. Today we don't moan and cry over the blindness of half of America. We are more likely just to react with anger. May God show us that the blindness in half of our nation is not political, which in turn only causes us to react politically, but that it is judgement from Almighty God!!! For then....we might moan...and we might even cry....and we might then repent....and maybe God would have mercy upon us in the days ahead.