Preface: The Drudge Headlines below are from May 3, 2019....as is the preface below the headlines. I took the screenshot because of our arrogance....and God's warning in Malachi 1:4...."They shall build, but I will throw down." As you will read...the post itself is from November of 2016....just after the election. February 4, 2020 was a watershed moment for America and the church. President Trump was at the top of the world....at his State of the Union Address. Our Republican representatives were celebrating. If there were goal posts....they would have been torn down....as if the coming election was already won. This was Nebuchadnezzar boasting over the great Babylon that he had built. The coronavirus was in its incubation stage....and would tear America and the world apart. This was judgment....and we denied it....and continue to deny it. A month shy of a year later....January 6, 2021....Trump was as if grazing in the grass on the ellipse. Nebuchadnezzar became humbled....Trump became enraged.
Preface: The following post is from November of 2016. Donald Trump had just won the election but something was terribly wrong. Only a year or so earlier we were humbled before our God. What a mess we had made of things. In the aftermath of our rebellion and arrogance we were so close to seeking His mercy.....and then along came Donald John Trump. Only losers humble themselves before God. So here we are today....broken but not humbled....not even aware that we are broken....and further away from God than at the height of the Obama years....all the while proclaiming peace and security and prosperity. The above headlines on Drudge can vanish in an hour....but we choose to focus on what we perceive to be proof of those words from the poem Invictus....
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.
Pour Your Oil In The Sanctuary Lord....November 2016
Have mercy on us Lord. We took credit for what others had done. We looked over this land of wealth and prosperity and said 'look what our hands have built!' We took chisel and hammer to the tablets that you gave us and broke them in pieces. We tore up the documents that our fathers had worked so long and so hard to write and said 'they are but fetters and we don't need any directions.' We thus scuttled everything our forefathers put in place for a nation to run orderly, honestly and wisely, and now we stand on the ruins gazing off into the distance often arrogantly but in the case of many....ignorantly....proclaiming that 'we....can make it great again'....without seeking first your mercies and forgiveness.
We took the day that you commanded us to keep holy and set it apart for our games. We took our children that are precious in your sight and let others raise them who care nothing for you. We bought them toys to pacify them, and when they got bored and demanded more we gave them 'smart toys' that were to be tools of education but turned out to be doors of perception where upon entering they are introduced to the very deceiver that you warned us about.
We look into a mirror and see nothing.......and then marvel at how there are no imperfections. You Lord have become as a pet, an alabaster statue of a pet that needs little attention other than dusting off once a week. You are placed in a corner whose bareness called out for a knickknack. Your book has long since become outmoded fashion. It no longer fits in with the decor.
We are blind but a virtual reality has given us eyesight into a new world called Utopia. We have enemies on all sides of us but they wear masks that we compliment them on. In times past we would be considered The Almost Christian but we are unaware of this for the past has been locked up and the key thrown away. We are in need of a mercy that only our pulpits can accurately proclaim, but those pulpits now only soothe, play music and enchant us with witticisms and advice. Thunder no longer emanates above them, glory no longer fills the buildings, grace no longer rains upon the roofs, and angels no longer protect at the gates.
Pour your oil in the sanctuary Lord that we may sweep out the dust. Do this Lord because the building that we have let become rundown bears your name. Do it for your glory Lord! Have mercy upon us for your glory alone Lord.
