ISRAEL....Why would Iran give a warning well in advance of sending a few hundred drones and missiles that they probably knew were going to get blown out of the sky anyway? Did they want to see how many would get through and then calculate how many would get through if ten times that many were launched? Did they want to get a more accurate picture of Israel's defense procedures? Or did they simply want to save face for their general getting blown up in Syria?
Lord help us see our weaknesses: We had a wonderful sermon today in our church on the need to be born again! But this the day after the attacks on Israel by Iran....there wasn't even a mention of it in the prayer time. We have our strengths....and they are in the most important need of all....but we also have our weaknesses. The state of Israel means little to us....as we believe that this is the way to keep the gospel pure....but we miss everything else on the Jewish people that is in the Word of God that we defend. All of the denominations have weaknesses. All of us individuals have weaknesses. May God bring out our strengths....while giving us the humility to see our weaknesses....and may He do that to me!
MIKE JOHNSON GETS A SECURITY BRIEFING AND CHANGES HIS MIND: The Speaker of the House had one opinion on some restrictions to be placed on spying....until he was given highly classified information in an intelligence briefing. He then saw how ultra-serious some threats against us were....and modified his criticism and his plans on a vote. The new Republican Party has turned our intelligence agencies into the enemy....because of Trump.
JOHN BOLTON'S WRITE-IN VOTE....The former National Security Advisor to the President said in a recent interview that he wrote in DickCheney in 2020....and would do the same thing in 2024. I cast a write-in vote in 2020. As a Christian....Joe Biden is not an option....and Donald Trump is a genuine biblical false prophet. I say this because he resides in the mind of the evangelical....is right smack dab in the middle of the sheepfold....and has told us every day for none years now that we are going to be greater than we ever were....(very similar by the way to how Hananiah prophesied to Zedekiah that Jerusalem would be great again in two years....chapter 28 if you are interested)....when God's Word tells us the opposite.
THIRD PART CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT: In January I posted this....All a third party candidate would have to do is win enough electoral votes to keep either of the other candidates from 270. Then the election would go to the congress. As I posted earlier on....it is not a one-congressperson-one vote situation. If that were the case you could just look at the numbers of Rs and Ds in the House. No....our constitution calls for each state to poll their representatives and then cast their....one vote. Twenty-six votes would be needed. At this time....Republicans control 26 state delegations to congress....the Democrats control 22....and two states are evenly divided. So one might think that the Republican would likely win if the election went to the House of Representatives? Well that might not be the case. Remember...a lot of people do not want Donald Trump in the White House again
AND WHO WOULD BE THE VICE PRESIDENT: Choosing the vice president is just as complicated. The Senate decides this. They choose the vice president. There would be a lot of....'ties'....in this whole process....and it appears that everyone just keeps voting until they come up with a president and a vice president....similar to choosing a pope. Some Republicans might say....'OK....we'll go with Manchin....(if he were the third party candidate)....but we want the VP....where the Democrats might jump at that. There is a lot of room for compromise in this situation....and neither Joe Biden or Donald Trump would be getting compromise votes....do you not agree?
I bring this up only in an attempt to demonstrate to evangelicals that....as it is often repeated...."the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry"....and that they therefore might rest on this....as did David.....
"For God Alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from Him.
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken." (Ps 62:5,6)
