"Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered." Proverbs 21:13
I was on the Tea Party side....or the real conservatives side....Oliver Cromwell's modern day round heads if you will. The other side was the Establishment....or the Uni-Party as one professor labelled the unification of our two party system. The following is part of a 2014 post that I titled....The Republican Party And Its Discontents.
"Mr. Boehner...and Mr. McCain...and Mr. Mitchell....and Mr. Graham....and Mr. Rove...and Mr. Bush.....we are not alone. We are Americans who trust in their God and recognize His hand in all of creation, His omniscience and omnipotence in forming this people, His power in sustaining us though we often strayed far away, and also His warnings to us after years and years and years of our increasingly ignoring Him..... the continuance of which you are advocating..... your third and most egregious mistake. You have become impervious to common sense, to wisdom or to any light in your darkened halls of power.
America's future does not lie in these elections that the Republican Party is selling more than its birthright for; and the winners of these elections will have no power that God does not permit and no wisdom that God does not give, for His purposes and to His glory! Our duty is to elect God-fearing leaders and pray for God's mercy knowing that His will is perfect, and that it may or may not include the United States of America as a source of stability in the world or even an entity in itself.
Celebrate your polling figures all that you want. We'll celebrate a risen Savior and a returning King. Yes, we'll follow Luther's advice to 'plant a tree,' to continue to work, even if we knew for certain that Jesus was returning the very next day, but you might want to take notice of Oliver Cromwell's words to the 'establishment' of his day in:
'I had rather a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else'."
These sound like words of a true conservative do they not? Well I listen to the same men today who were our heroes back then.....Ted Cruz being one.....I read some of his comments at the recent CPAC....and I shudder at what we have become....the horror in some cases of what we have become. I tell myself....'These are not the same people.....they can't be!' But I know that they are....and I know what happened to them.
There is a viciousness that has come over us. We used to occupy the high ground on ethics.....but charged down it in 2016....passing the establishment on our charge downhill....they at least staying on level ground....as we descended into a pit! We don't care one iota for truth for truth's sake....but rather we pick up small stones of truth....to add to a sack of rocks....to crush skulls with.
The controversy over the origins of Covid-19 concerns me greatly. It seems to have become our....Reichstag fire....that we are using to stir up hate and win an election.....(that fire was 1933...ninety years ago last week.) We have to have a Reichstag Fire....something to blame the other side on....to keep our side angry and non-thinking....to keep this revolution going! Prominent evangelical leaders let their guard down....beginning with the ascendance of the false prophet Trump....and they....because of that....are hurting today for discernment on many issues.
Assyria was in somewhat a state of temporary decline....this was about four or five decades before they invaded Israel and took the ten tribes captive. History records two plagues within a few years of each other. Some of the Assyrians on the outskirts were rebelling....and then came a total solar eclipse....which would really have shook every one up. And then came Jonah....out of the belly of a fish....one of their gods. It seems that they as a people may have been ripe for repentance....and it also seems that it didn't last long.
Well we have had one plague....and if we have another we probably won't do anything to protect anyone....for we on the 'right' have planted our flag....no masks anymore....no vaccinations ever again. We have one thing and one thing only as our goal....Joe Biden and the Democrats have to be defeated....and no ethics shall hold us back....no repenting shall slow us down....and no reputations are safe from destroying. We shall no longer...."celebrate a risen Savior"....but celebrate a risen political party....we shall give no quarter to the defeated....display no compassion....and show no mercy....even though we had been forgiven so much ourselves.
