It's volatility....or instability. Everything looks great for a month or so but then some things change and everything looks terrible. A month ago President Trump was at the top of the world....now it looks real bad for him again......but a couple of good news cycles and he may be on top again! This is the life of a gambler.....and this is what conservatives have chosen over consistency...and what Christians have chosen over a straight and narrow path.The following post is a few weeks old:
I think that the thing that bothers me most about Donald Trump is what he has done to the conservative movement and to Christians who had trusted in him. Two years ago we.....conservatives and Christians.....knew very well how bad things were. We saw our nation crumbling right in front of us. Many of us were on our knees or praying in whatever manner is our habit.....praying for God to have mercy on us. This discernment....limited though it was....that was brought on by eight years of a Marxist president and the probability of Hillary Clinton taking control for another eight years....this discernment that we were a people who were in rebellion against God....was shredded and discarded by a man who now tells us that things are better than they ever were. This is the rantings of a false prophet....and false profit....but Christians fell it.
He sold us on MAGA and America First so much that we forgot what we were all about before he came along. Our eyes are fixated on economic figures that can vanish as a morning fog....and when it does we will be standing there with no armor and no banners and no weapons. The President has absolutely no concept of truth for truth's sake....and we could not care less.
By his own admission Donald Trump hasn't changed since he was eight years old. There are probably dozens of biographies out there....I've read quite a few of them.....they say the same thing....he's a bully who has to get his own way. How many people lost money in his bankruptcies.....getting 30 cents on the dollar of what they were owed....but this....also by his own admission....is just the way its done. How many people were stiffed by his unethical business practices?
His self-love is so similar to that of Nebuchadnezzar....'Look what I have built!' His meanness is troubling....or should be troubling.....but we ignore it. We ignore everything....for he is our leader....our champion. We would stand up and shout "I am Spartacus!" if it came to that. He has turned us against all information that does not first pass over his desk. He purposely stirs us up every single day.....and pokes the opposition in the eyes every day. He bears some responsibility for the anger that is everywhere. Our cause has become Mad Magazine's Spy Vs. Spy only in red and blue. He demands loyalty but possesses none. He'll summarily discard an ally if need be.....and become fast friends with those who hate his guts as long as they play the same game.
Here's a favorite tactic of his.....we have faced evil in so many ways in America over so many years....he identifies that evil....(the Kavanaugh hearings for example)....and then becomes the antithesis of that evil....the perceived guardian angel of righteousness....simply by identifying it.....and we fall for it!
He says that other nations now respect us. They don't respect us. They may respect the power that he may wield....for a time....until they can get even....but they don't respect us as a nation. So whereas at one time not too long ago we were separated into two groups....one that bought into the lies of socialism.....and conservatives who fought these lies with all of our might.....we are now still two peoples.....with the former being the same only more enraged and intellectually disoriented.....and us who have given up that which had previously driven us....for the lure of power and money! Our sincerity and our humility and our righteous earnestness was our strength but we have given all that up.
This cannot last.....but President Trump will figure out a way to put the blame somewhere else....and we will buy into it.....unless our pulpits awaken. They have become too far detached from our culture to worry about the suffocating gases spewed from this volcano which erupted off in the distance. Nearly half of them think that they are going to be raptured out before it reaches us....(I hear them say all the time...."these are exciting times we live in.") These are not exciting times! These are treacherous times! The others are mostly as our politicians.....'know thy constituents (or congregation)....and give them only that which soothes them.'
Men....you who are in the pulpits of America....God's judgment is evident everywhere. You should be aware of this from the Bible that you preach from every week. Warn your flocks to prepare and once again seek those mercies of which not that long ago we pleaded of Him. Do you read your Bible other than when preparing for a sermon....or are you now part of an elite class who knows everything....whose only purpose is to pass on your knowledge accumulated in seminary and your first five or ten years of ministry? Is there nothing you can possibly find in Daniel....or Nahum....or the 24th chapter of Matthew....pertaining to our nation today.....or dozens of other books of the Bible and hundreds of other chapters? Is there no common laborer who God can use to correct you? Have you become that exalted in your own mind? Is there no precedent in God's Word that might point to shepherds that do not warn their sheep? Is there no way that you may have missed something?
I think that the thing that bothers me most about Donald Trump is what he has done to the conservative movement and to Christians who had trusted in him. Two years ago we.....conservatives and Christians.....knew very well how bad things were. We saw our nation crumbling right in front of us. Many of us were on our knees or praying in whatever manner is our habit.....praying for God to have mercy on us. This discernment....limited though it was....that was brought on by eight years of a Marxist president and the probability of Hillary Clinton taking control for another eight years....this discernment that we were a people who were in rebellion against God....was shredded and discarded by a man who now tells us that things are better than they ever were. This is the rantings of a false prophet....and false profit....but Christians fell it.
He sold us on MAGA and America First so much that we forgot what we were all about before he came along. Our eyes are fixated on economic figures that can vanish as a morning fog....and when it does we will be standing there with no armor and no banners and no weapons. The President has absolutely no concept of truth for truth's sake....and we could not care less.
By his own admission Donald Trump hasn't changed since he was eight years old. There are probably dozens of biographies out there....I've read quite a few of them.....they say the same thing....he's a bully who has to get his own way. How many people lost money in his bankruptcies.....getting 30 cents on the dollar of what they were owed....but this....also by his own admission....is just the way its done. How many people were stiffed by his unethical business practices?
His self-love is so similar to that of Nebuchadnezzar....'Look what I have built!' His meanness is troubling....or should be troubling.....but we ignore it. We ignore everything....for he is our leader....our champion. We would stand up and shout "I am Spartacus!" if it came to that. He has turned us against all information that does not first pass over his desk. He purposely stirs us up every single day.....and pokes the opposition in the eyes every day. He bears some responsibility for the anger that is everywhere. Our cause has become Mad Magazine's Spy Vs. Spy only in red and blue. He demands loyalty but possesses none. He'll summarily discard an ally if need be.....and become fast friends with those who hate his guts as long as they play the same game.
Here's a favorite tactic of his.....we have faced evil in so many ways in America over so many years....he identifies that evil....(the Kavanaugh hearings for example)....and then becomes the antithesis of that evil....the perceived guardian angel of righteousness....simply by identifying it.....and we fall for it!
He says that other nations now respect us. They don't respect us. They may respect the power that he may wield....for a time....until they can get even....but they don't respect us as a nation. So whereas at one time not too long ago we were separated into two groups....one that bought into the lies of socialism.....and conservatives who fought these lies with all of our might.....we are now still two peoples.....with the former being the same only more enraged and intellectually disoriented.....and us who have given up that which had previously driven us....for the lure of power and money! Our sincerity and our humility and our righteous earnestness was our strength but we have given all that up.
This cannot last.....but President Trump will figure out a way to put the blame somewhere else....and we will buy into it.....unless our pulpits awaken. They have become too far detached from our culture to worry about the suffocating gases spewed from this volcano which erupted off in the distance. Nearly half of them think that they are going to be raptured out before it reaches us....(I hear them say all the time...."these are exciting times we live in.") These are not exciting times! These are treacherous times! The others are mostly as our politicians.....'know thy constituents (or congregation)....and give them only that which soothes them.'
Men....you who are in the pulpits of America....God's judgment is evident everywhere. You should be aware of this from the Bible that you preach from every week. Warn your flocks to prepare and once again seek those mercies of which not that long ago we pleaded of Him. Do you read your Bible other than when preparing for a sermon....or are you now part of an elite class who knows everything....whose only purpose is to pass on your knowledge accumulated in seminary and your first five or ten years of ministry? Is there nothing you can possibly find in Daniel....or Nahum....or the 24th chapter of Matthew....pertaining to our nation today.....or dozens of other books of the Bible and hundreds of other chapters? Is there no common laborer who God can use to correct you? Have you become that exalted in your own mind? Is there no precedent in God's Word that might point to shepherds that do not warn their sheep? Is there no way that you may have missed something?
