The references in this post to Ahab, Jezebel and Jehu are to Jonathan Cahn's book The Paradigm where the author pointed out remarkable similarities between King Ahab and Bill Clinton....Jezebel and Hillary Clinton....Jehu and Donald Trump....along with a number of others pairings.
O that this Lord's Day would be the day....that today would be the day that many pastors around the country would sit at their desk looking over the sermon that they had prepared for the morrow....that they would bury their face in their hands in the grave concern that they had somehow missed that calling that had given them so much joy back when their faith was new.
This would be the work of the Holy Spirit should it happen. These pastors would take up that sermon on 'building bridges' or 'snapping out of the doldrums' or some other milquetoast psychological encouragement....complete with humorous anecdotes....and toss it in the waste basket. "What have I become?" they might ask of no one in particular.
America is what it is today....because its shepherds have failed the sheep....and we....none moreso than I.... have failed our Good Shepherd. When paradigms change it is like a glacier slowly moving south....crushing everything in its path. The church of a nation is not immune....as education and the law and politics and everything else in that path is not immune.
Yes we are totally divided in America today but that division is one of degree as both sides have drifted away from the origins of America.....only one side has drifted away faster.....completely forsaking God and any concepts of liberty and freedom that used to be a signature of this nation.....while the rest of us are trying to cling to vague memories of John Wayne's America....unaware that America came about primarily through its pulpits.....not its patriotism.
We would now use politics to save us from the evil opposition. Yes, that's the ticket, we would anoint us a champion and smash the temples of the Baals.....but of course we would be like Jehu and keep the golden calves in the church and in our own lives. Jehu destroyed everyone associated with Ahab and Jezebel. God....we presume....has today commissioned us to do that in America.....that's all we need to know......we would smash the idols of the bad guys.....not our own.....God had not said anything about that had He?
So we have our champion....not exactly what we pictured....and his championship season record has asterisks all over the place......but at least we still have our golden calves....and that golden cup awarded for making America great again seems within our reach....but unbeknownst to us the lord whose name is given to that cup is not the name our LORD!
O that this Lord's Day would be the day....that today would be the day that many pastors around the country would sit at their desk looking over the sermon that they had prepared for the morrow....that they would bury their face in their hands in the grave concern that they had somehow missed that calling that had given them so much joy back when their faith was new.
This would be the work of the Holy Spirit should it happen. These pastors would take up that sermon on 'building bridges' or 'snapping out of the doldrums' or some other milquetoast psychological encouragement....complete with humorous anecdotes....and toss it in the waste basket. "What have I become?" they might ask of no one in particular.
America is what it is today....because its shepherds have failed the sheep....and we....none moreso than I.... have failed our Good Shepherd. When paradigms change it is like a glacier slowly moving south....crushing everything in its path. The church of a nation is not immune....as education and the law and politics and everything else in that path is not immune.
Yes we are totally divided in America today but that division is one of degree as both sides have drifted away from the origins of America.....only one side has drifted away faster.....completely forsaking God and any concepts of liberty and freedom that used to be a signature of this nation.....while the rest of us are trying to cling to vague memories of John Wayne's America....unaware that America came about primarily through its pulpits.....not its patriotism.
We would now use politics to save us from the evil opposition. Yes, that's the ticket, we would anoint us a champion and smash the temples of the Baals.....but of course we would be like Jehu and keep the golden calves in the church and in our own lives. Jehu destroyed everyone associated with Ahab and Jezebel. God....we presume....has today commissioned us to do that in America.....that's all we need to know......we would smash the idols of the bad guys.....not our own.....God had not said anything about that had He?
So we have our champion....not exactly what we pictured....and his championship season record has asterisks all over the place......but at least we still have our golden calves....and that golden cup awarded for making America great again seems within our reach....but unbeknownst to us the lord whose name is given to that cup is not the name our LORD!
