The following is a preface from October of 2018 to a post two and a half years earlier....and now it's about two and a half years later. There is no stopping where this world is headed....but we Christians can halt our own slide if we but realize that we had long ago cut our moorings to Christ and tethered up to one false political hope after another. I remember it vividly....it was basic training in 1969....and they transported us to the firing range in large trailer trucks with horizontal wooden slats allowing the air to pass through. I don't recall who started it....it may have been me....as we loudly began 'mooing!' It must have been quite a sight. They are moving us now....as cattle....rounding us up....putting us in one large pen for their own purposes....Tucker Carlson and talk radio hosts riding herd. We are sheep among the cattle....our faith being trampled on by the agitated and volatile bovine herd. It also is quite a sight....evangelicals kicking the wooden slats....waiting for a chance to stampede....stomping to death anyone that they direct us over (Fauci.) We need winnowed out out of the herd by faithful shepherds...to once again hear the voice of the Good Shepherd.
Preface: One might expect it from those whose primary allegiance is to conservatism....but not from those whose primary allegiance is to Christ.. We put all of our trust in a man....a prince as the Bible would refer to him....not only a fallible man but one with serious character disorders....a few even pathologies that lead to the inability to discern fact from fiction....and we gave nothing but lip service to the Prince of Peace and the King of Kings....ignoring His warnings as we planned our own rescue. We are now paying for our total lack of discernment....and utter refusal to admit that we are part of the problem....with a rapidly collapsing nation. The following post is from February of 2016.... few days after the death of Antonin Scalia:
What Is Our Trust Centered Upon.
The plan was to put a conservative in the White House (that didn't happen) and then add two or more originalists to the Supreme Court (that may happen) and take back America (that won't happen.) It was a good plan as far as plans go. It's putting our trust in those our own plans where we depart from God's will.
Saturday we lost one of America's greatest jurists of all time. We had plans but those plans have suddenly been abridged. We are reeling once again but nine Antonin Scalias could not pull us out of this pit if God did not will it. Should God desire to have mercy upon us for His purposes there is no force on earth that could stop those mercies from being extended....(not even nine ultra-liberal Supreme Court judges).....and all the power of hell could not destroy us if God did not permit it.
Do you the reader recall the Biblical text from Exodus 17 where when Moses raised his arms with the staff that parted the sea in his hands....or that later the Israelites prevailed on the fields of Rephidim when he raised that same staff....and when he lowered it the Amalekites in the battle when he lowered itprevailed in the battle? It was also at Rephidim where Moses at first feared for his life and then rebuked the Israelites for not trusting God to provide water! Surely you remember God limiting Gideon to just three hundred men to rout the Midianites. Have not these messages set in? Have we forgotten the word to Zerubbabel...."Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts."? We have departed from God with disastrous results, planned our own rescue, and then found out how brittle man's plans can be.
The tectonics are shifting friends, the magma chamber has been breached! Trust now in God and in Him alone for as even Nahum in his taunting oracles to Nineveh wrote..."The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows them that trust in Him."
