I've posted numerous times that Donald Trump is in effect a destroyer. He destroys. He destroys enemies of his but even those who fly too close to his flame are destroyed. Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen would be examples of this....as would be to a lesser degree so many who joined his administration only to be raked over the coals before being cut loose. The conservative movement in America is pretty much non-existent right now. Conservative talk radio is a one-sided farce. Evangelicalism has gone full-blown 'politics can save us.'
The issues of the successful 2016 campaign are long gone as everything revolves solely around protecting a man who has deceived us to such an extent that we may be showing symptoms of what became known as The Stockholm Syndrome where the injured (or deceived) wind up defending the person who took them captive (Donald Trump)....utterly refusing to testify against their captor (this is why Justin Amash is being hammered)......and ultimately becoming one with his philosophy (in this case power....greed....the end justifies the means....and in other words become just like our captor.)
This time that we live in is so difficult and dangerous that we need a president that does not have a reelection on his mind....this is particularly and glaringly the case with Donald Trump. We need to humble ourselves before God whose warnings we ignored....trusting in Him even as we find ourselves repenting over thinking that we could do our own way....our MAGA way.
The following post is from October of 2018 and was titled....We Are No Longer Aware Of Our Condition:
There was a time in the recent history of the church when Christians knew that America was in trouble....not with earthly enemies....but with God. Preachers warned of this. Billy Graham and others wrote on this....and we all knew it deep down within. We looked around and all that we saw was rebellion....decay in the culture....and corruption in the government....and a growing easy-believism within the church. Time passed....a few decades....and this knowledge of our rebellion just sort of slipped away. We experienced 9/11....the wars that followed it....turmoil at home....and then Barack Obama....a socialist.....who we found to be a Marxist....and is probably a communist....was in our White House.
We were giving the farm away so to speak and Hillary Clinton seemed destined to continue the charade of Progressivism's distorted view of American patriotism. There was a large remnant....a small minority overall but a large remnant within the church in America that knew that God was judging us by giving us these leaders.....but then along came Donald Trump. He along with Rush Limbaugh....the single strongest voice within Christian conservatism's earshot....told us....no convinced us....that everything was going to be alright.....better than alright....great....exactly the opposite of what God's Word tells us!
So here we are today.....ten times....just to use a generic exclamation....ten times worse than we were at the height of faithful Christians ministers warning us....and yet all discernment of God's judging us as a nation is gone. We are much more in rebellion to God....and aware of it much less! We are in a far worse condition than we were before because we are not only not aware of God's judgments that should be evident every day but cannot even remember how far we have fallen as a nation in rebellion to God.
We project everything that is wrong onto the Democrats. After all....we're the good guys....trying to get conservative Supreme Court justices....trying to get the heavy hand of government away from our families....and trying to restore the Constitution back to its proper place. It gets worse folks....we think that we are winning.... we think that God is blessing us because of our faithfulness....just look at the economy! Forget that God said that when a rebellious nation such as we are starts to think that peace and security and good times are ahead....that sudden destruction is at the doorstep.
The issues of the successful 2016 campaign are long gone as everything revolves solely around protecting a man who has deceived us to such an extent that we may be showing symptoms of what became known as The Stockholm Syndrome where the injured (or deceived) wind up defending the person who took them captive (Donald Trump)....utterly refusing to testify against their captor (this is why Justin Amash is being hammered)......and ultimately becoming one with his philosophy (in this case power....greed....the end justifies the means....and in other words become just like our captor.)
This time that we live in is so difficult and dangerous that we need a president that does not have a reelection on his mind....this is particularly and glaringly the case with Donald Trump. We need to humble ourselves before God whose warnings we ignored....trusting in Him even as we find ourselves repenting over thinking that we could do our own way....our MAGA way.
The following post is from October of 2018 and was titled....We Are No Longer Aware Of Our Condition:
There was a time in the recent history of the church when Christians knew that America was in trouble....not with earthly enemies....but with God. Preachers warned of this. Billy Graham and others wrote on this....and we all knew it deep down within. We looked around and all that we saw was rebellion....decay in the culture....and corruption in the government....and a growing easy-believism within the church. Time passed....a few decades....and this knowledge of our rebellion just sort of slipped away. We experienced 9/11....the wars that followed it....turmoil at home....and then Barack Obama....a socialist.....who we found to be a Marxist....and is probably a communist....was in our White House.
We were giving the farm away so to speak and Hillary Clinton seemed destined to continue the charade of Progressivism's distorted view of American patriotism. There was a large remnant....a small minority overall but a large remnant within the church in America that knew that God was judging us by giving us these leaders.....but then along came Donald Trump. He along with Rush Limbaugh....the single strongest voice within Christian conservatism's earshot....told us....no convinced us....that everything was going to be alright.....better than alright....great....exactly the opposite of what God's Word tells us!
So here we are today.....ten times....just to use a generic exclamation....ten times worse than we were at the height of faithful Christians ministers warning us....and yet all discernment of God's judging us as a nation is gone. We are much more in rebellion to God....and aware of it much less! We are in a far worse condition than we were before because we are not only not aware of God's judgments that should be evident every day but cannot even remember how far we have fallen as a nation in rebellion to God.
We project everything that is wrong onto the Democrats. After all....we're the good guys....trying to get conservative Supreme Court justices....trying to get the heavy hand of government away from our families....and trying to restore the Constitution back to its proper place. It gets worse folks....we think that we are winning.... we think that God is blessing us because of our faithfulness....just look at the economy! Forget that God said that when a rebellious nation such as we are starts to think that peace and security and good times are ahead....that sudden destruction is at the doorstep.
I would only ask one thing....that someone out there says...."OK....I'll at least consider the possibility that what is written here is correct.....and ask of God to show me if we as a church in America have lost sight of where we stand before Him."
