DISPATCHES

 

VOTED FOR HIM.....CELEBRATED.....NEVER AGAIN  

10:00 am Tuesday.....Please read the President's tweets from this morning. God help us.....for this man has the reins of power. A few days ago he was at a microphone....outside of a factory on a campaign trip to Ohio....and spoke these words speaking of his opponent..."No religion, no anything. Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He's against God. He's against guns...." This is sentence construction of a child. Is he really this stupid? No....although he has no vocabulary....for he is a man who in his life was most comfortable with a supermodel on his arm. Hurt God? Hurt the Bible? He let it slip in this speech that he looks at his evangelical supporters as mindless followers.....firmly in tow....just say something good about God and move on....and they will adoringly look up at him.

I Beg You To Consider This....I don't know who I have written of more in these posts of.....going on twelve years.....Billy Graham or R. C. Sproul....probably R. C....but as wonderful as Billy Graham's ministry was....he was still just a man....as was R. C. Sproul. Graham made serious.....serious mistakes in the beginning....with not only his involvement in politics....but in a terrible lack of discernment on how his politics almost obliterated the gospel that he proclaimed to more people in the twentieth century than anyone else....but all praise to God for keeping him....for as Billy saw his error....and as the politics diminished....God's warnings to America through him increased. We are all but feeble flesh....and Donald Trump has dragged us into the most fetid and toxic swamp of all....and right now we stink. God will pull us out as He pulled out Billy Graham....but even then let us be vigilant....for trusting in a smooth talking charlatan will always be a slippery slope just off to our 'Right.'

John MacArthur....began in the pulpit yesterday with these words...."Good morning everyone....are you glad to be here? Everything for us [is} based on the word of God, right? And that means we are pro-life, pro-family, pro-law and order, and pro church of the Lord Jesus Christ." No one more than John MacArthur....with the possible exception of Michael Horton....has more attempted to awaken today's church as to the deadly weakness of which it has taken on....and I have recommended often in these posts two of his books....Ashamed Of The Gospel....and....Christ's Call To Reform The Church....but he has thrown much of that work away in a matter of weeks as he himself was sucked into the Trump orbit....for that is what the demand to keep the churches open during the pandemic is....politics....Trump manufactured politics....to build into us fear of the other side....to secure his reelection. Limiting church services for a few moths while we try to get a handle on the pandemic is not a violation of either the First Amendment or God's Word. MacArthur's star with the conservative media has risen....which is what I always hoped would happen.....but not in this way. His ministry as it has always been...has taken a hit.....and therefore so have we. Rather than continuing to warn the church as he most magnificently has done for decades....he has changed to.....go to these churches....and stick it to the Democrats. This demonstrates that even the best of us have to be vigilant in this onslaught of delusion and false miracles of which we are increasingly being exposed.

SATURDAY...August 8th.....President Trump either golfed....then came in from the course to throw money at the masses for votes.....or first tore up the constitution.....then went out to golf.....or most likely....golfed....ran his coup....then went out to golf again.....as all the conservatives sang together.....They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-haaa....while his newly installed Praetorian Guard stood proudly and sang a Roman marching song.....and evangelicals prepare to gather and sing the Battle Hymn Of The Republic.

"Oh You Didn't Like That.....Well How Do You Like This".....Donald Trump pokes and jabs....stirring up strife....setting all of this growing fringe on fire....while ridiculing and ramping up his pokes and his jabs and his threats. He is a sick man....may God open our eyes to him.....though we deserve it not.

THIS MAY BE THE REAL COUP....as President Trump is attempting to circumvent Congress. Our tact in defending him....(we defend him in anything he does....as we are all tyrants now)....our tact is in saying that Obama did it with DACA. If Trump is successful with this it will not only enable him to seek bolder and greater power grabs....but it will open the door to Democrats....should they regain the White House.....to double-down.....for Trump has cleared the way for them. There is no wisdom in Donald Trump....nor obviously those he has whittled down to being his sycophant advisers....and there never has been any wisdom in him. He lives for the moment....as it all revolves around him. In the business world he could cut and run many times....and he did....leaving many others holding the bag....(but we wouldn't know this would we....because we utterly refuse to read about him.....because he has hypnotized us into believing that it is all fake news)....but in his current position....as he deals with enemies to our nation....there will be no cutting and running....only consequences for the entire country.

SIXTEEN DAYS LEFT until the scheduled start of the Republican National Convention....whatever that turns out to be. Republicans have that much time to 'encourage' Donald Trump to do the right thing and drop out of the 2020 race....but alas we would be fortunate if there were five members in the entire Congress willing to risk their exalted positions to do what is right. This president's actions are getting worse and he is getting bolder as he needs to get this deal done....his reelection. President Trump dropping out on his own...and taking whatever pardons can be given him...and supporting the nominee that will continue his initial agenda....would be better than forcing him to resign in the middle of the campaign....which is getting more likely all the time. We....evangelicals....are building a monster....a potential fuhrer....may God have mercy on us for desiring the return of an America that treated Him as an unwanted guest...rather than setting ourselves apart in preparation for the judgments He has been warning us of since before all of us were even born.

Are you familiar with the passage in Deuteronomy chapter 17....beginning with verse 14 to verse 20 at the end of the chapter? God foresaw that Israel would one day want a king of their own. That king would have to be an Israelite....please read these verses for yourself....with help from a good commentary if need be. There were some other requirements for choosing this king.....he wasn't to "multiply horses to himself"....he wasn't to lead the people back to the ways of Egypt....and he wasn't to "multiply wives to himself"....nor "greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." God was telling them not to rely on there own power....not to bring idolatry back into their lives....and not to depend on great wealth.... does any of this sound familiar to you today? One other thing....this king was to make a copy of the things God was telling them through Moses....and "read therein all the days of his life....that he may learn to fear the LORD his God." All this was...."That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren"....so that he does not think himself so great. Joe Biden is a terrible choice for even the Democrats....but a second terrible choice does not fix that. We have a very short time to 'persuade" Donald Trump to turn this job.....via nomination.....over to someone else....but in any case in any of these possibilities....the radical socialists....the textbook sociopath....or any one of a number of saner individuals who can replace Trump on the ticket....Christ is to be our king....if not for the whole people....then in the hearts of every one of us who have been regenerated and redeemed by His grace.

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This morning I was rereading President Trump's State-of-the-Union.....given this past February 4th.  That speech concluded with these words...."This nation is our canvas, and this country is our masterpiece. We look to tomorrow and see unlimited frontiers, just waiting to be explored. Our brightest discoveries are not yet known. Our most thrilling stories are not yet told. Our grandest journeys are not yet made. The American age, the American epic, the American adventure has only just begum. Our spirit is still young. The sun is still rising. God's grace  is still shining. And my fellow American, the best is yet to come." God had something to say about this arrogance....and in the near future....as judgments increase in severity....He may rightfully say to us...."Where is this Donald Trump in whom you have chosen to rely....go to him." 

Phil Robertson....It was at a Roy Moore rally in Alabama in September of 2017 that I first began to see who this Phil Robertson was.....and appreciate him. Trump at the time was endorsing Luther Strange....and we should have woke up as to who Trump really was right then.....but Rush got him out of that trouble by totally ignoring the issue. Phil spoke.....and as he finished he said...."We better get a godly man in the White House."  The rally went silent for a moment for it was obvious that Robertson was saying that at that moment we didn't have a godly man in the White House. Phil Robertson was on at the very end of Breitbart radio this morning.....Wednesday August 5. He rambled....showing what Donald Trump has done to him in the past few years....for not only does Trump viciously destroy enemies....(see a Tweet from minutes ago)....but even allies who cling to him are dragged into his personal swamp and often destroyed....so Phil described the situation this way....."Donald Trump is pro-God....he is pro-life....(only if he needs to be).....pro-marriage between a man and a women....(not really)....and he's pro-duck hunting....(only if the ducks don't quack his praises)....and that's good enough for me." "Pro-God" does describe it pretty well....for Donald Trump's philosophy on God is....'I won't step on his toes....if he doesn't step on mine.' Robertson....along with most evangelicals.....(Robertson is Church of Christ....and one should at least research this denomination a little....Google 'Church of Christ, equip.org'....for a short description)....have put Trump on one grid only....that of the radical Democrats....therefore Trump looks good.....sort of. Phil ranted on God's now judging the wicked.....those being the Democrats....not us....and that is his major mistake in this. No....God is judging all of us.....where Joe Biden et al....and Donald Trump.....are both part of that judgment.

My prayer has been....and continues to be...."Lord....open our eyes to Donald Trump...if not everyone....then at least your children." I can add to that Phil Robertson and his family.

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We are demanding the....'science'....of masks before subjecting ourselves to the inconvenience of wearing them....but hydroxychloroquine is too important to demand....the 'science'....of it?

We charge the Left with using 'fear' of Trump as a tool....but we have far outdone them with our campaign based on 'fear' of Joe Biden and the radical Left.

We are regularly outraged when someone on the Left tells a lie.....outraged....but conveniently ignore Donald Trump's thousands of lies.

Character was the chief issue with Bill Clinton....but as for Donald Trump....we say that we didn't elect a Pastor-In-Chief.

Whistleblowers against the Left were heroes....but whistleblowers against Trump are traitors.

We were outraged when Barack Obama employed executive orders to circumvent the Congress....but Trump's executive orders are sailing full speed into the tempest of third-world dictatorships.

I could keep listing examples....but none of them would be the point I'm trying to make....which is that we conservatives once held the ethical high ground.....we lost a couple of key elections....but we waited patiently....and followed the rules....but Trump has dragged off of the high ground....and to quote first from Joe South's 1969 hit song Games People Play....and then Barry McGuire's 1965 megahit The Eve Of Destruction....

People walking up to you,

singing glory, Hallelujah!

and they're tryin' to sock it to you

In the name of the Lord

You can bury your dead, 

but don't leave a trace,

Hate your next door neighbor, 

but don't forget to say grace."

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