Chapter 9.14
Prayer, Trump
and then God
Prayer,
Respect & Honor – The Hand of God
The
Matrix – Sampson & Nebuchadnezzar
It is God that places men in authority to BLESS as well as to SPANK a nation.
Political War Games
In
elementary school I heard about living in a democracy and about
people called Democrats
and the others were called Presbyterians or something like that. Democrats sounded like Democracy and that
sounded like something that I wanted to be. Like many others today, I didn’t have a clue
about politics, I was just part of the “HERD”.
Thirty years
later, Pat
Robinson of the famed Christian 700 Club was running for President of the United States. It was at that time I realized we are a REPUBLIC,
so being a Republican sounded like a good thing to be, so I decided to be a
Republican in order that I might be a part of putting a Christian in the White House. I certainly was not savvy to the Left or
Right; Liberal or Conservative, platforms, super packs or “The Machine”.
I
jumped in with both feet and was asked to be a delegate to the
convention. It was then that I got my
first shock of the reality of politics; to the infighting within my own party,
the tricks, and the lies, the methods to discredit someone and tear down their
character. Amazingly it was as if
everything had already been decided, it was a glimpse into what I would now
call a SHADOW GOVERNMENT or organization (or perhaps even
the Illuminati) that was turning and guiding “THE HERD”. There is something called “The Herd Mentality”
and all you have to do to get what you want is to GUIDE THE HERD; they will FOLLOW what they see everybody else doing…
Our Church was
televised on Sunday Morning and a
friend told me he couldn’t help take up the offering because his friends might
see him on TV and they would know
that he was a Christian. He said he was
a “double
agent” within the Republican Party.
GOOD
GRIEF
With all the
antics, I got out of politics seeking to vote only for the candidates whose
voting record was as close to the concepts of
the Bible as possible. For a time, Churches put out a list of
Candidates on where they stood concerning Bible issues to help make a
choice. Now they are intimidated to do
so, in fear that they will lose their tax free status;
so I have to study for myself; what a concept that is: studying for myself.
Governments
change, sometimes they are agents of help and sometimes they are harmful,
if not downright
evil. The Bible is filled with Presidents or Kings who perpetrated evil on its
people. We should look at history for examples of the effects of God being removed from government and also how God used other nations to SPANK
Israel.
When we go our own way and dishonor God,
it results in our separation from Him. Our actions either bring glory
to God’s name or brings shame.
Our nations MURDERED 862,320 unborn babies in just 2017 alone and
we are due a severe
spanking or God will have to
apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. We should pray for our Governmental Leaders,
that we don’t get what we deserve, but get God’s grace and His mercy.
Voices for Trump
In
my forties I admired Trump for his business savvy and I heard him say many
times the best investment was real estate.
So I invested in rentals which dividends paid ten times what the bank
paid plus my initial investment would continue to grow in value over the years.
I want good
sound business practices to be utilized in the government to run it like a
well-oiled debt free successful business machine, not from undue tax burdens on
its citizens, but savvy decisions to reduce the size of government. So I could easily board the Trump Train before he ever became a candidate for President.
Trump’s Billions
seem to make him immune to being manipulated by super-packs, party mandates and special
interest groups. He could not be owned or HANDELED and
that was a problem with the establishment. It’s amazing, but we make decisions based on
how it will affect us personally, not what is best for everyone else; think
about that. Trump surrounded
himself with other extremely wealthy people who are already successful in the business
community. They too would seem less
likely to be motivated to do anything for themselves, but do the right thing
for our country.
Christians in the White
House Staff appeared. Reince Priebus,
the new White House Chief of Staff is impressive with his emphasis on
family. Kellyanne Conway one of Trump’s Senior Advisors is openly pro-life and pro-traditional marriage. She is quoted as saying that “while all of the
Trump stuff that is going on is exciting and historic, it is nothing compared
to the universe in which we live, the God that I worship, and totality of our
lives”. Sean Spicer Press Secretary is pro-life
and said in an interview on ETWN that he brings
his faith to work with him every day and “looks to God every day to give him the strength to do what’s
right.” Mike Pompeo, CIA Director is an evangelical
pro-life Christian.
Vice President Mike Pence is an
Evangelistic Christian who in 2007 openly opposed abortion and sought to defund Planned Parenthood. He has criticized comprehensive sex
education and spoke at the March for Life in
2017. He openly opposes same sex marriages and civil
unions. He is quoted as
saying that Pastors could be charged or be subject to intimidation for simply
expressing a Biblical
worldview on the issues of homosexual
behavior.
When we vote, our vote should be in
line with God’s
Word and with Biblical Values.
Proverbs 11:14 –
With many GODLY advisors there is Wisdom
14 Where there is no guidance, a
people falls,
but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
(ESV)
Voices against Trump
Many
felt that Trump was the best candidate for President till he OPENED HIS MOUTH and spoke crudely. I can easily jump off the Trump Train and put myself in this category too. The scriptures that speaks about a man that
is quick to vent his mind is a FOOL and another that says even a FOOL
is considered wise until he speaks.[1]
TRUMP SHOOTS FROM THE LIP: Scripture says speak evil of no
one, avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all
people.[2] There are other scriptures that say there
will come times of difficulty such as the ELECTIONS when candidates will be lovers of self,
lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, ungrateful, heartless, unappeasable,
slanderous, without self-control, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit,
and having
the appearance of godliness; to
AVOID SUCH PEOPLE.[3]
Undecided Voices
It’s
bothersome when people say that they are a Christian, but act as if it’s
just a membership in another club and added to that, they don’t do like you
expect them to do, and are not politically correct, nor polished and they don’t
weigh their words and DON’T CARE WHAT
YOU THINK.
Scripture
recalls Sampson
who was called by God before he was ever born[4] to
take the Nazirite vow and be a JUDGE over Israel. Although he was a Judge, he DID NOT seek God in his actions;
far from it, According to Josephus the Jewish Historian, Sampson
became FULL OF PRIDE and ARROGANCE stating that God had
nothing to do with his success, however much later he did
Acknowledge God’s guiding hand.
The
Philistines were the enemy of God and Sampson
married a prostitute Philistine woman, bringing shame to his parents. However; his SHAMEFUL
MARRIAGE,
his ARROGANCE, his PRIDE and LACK
OF HUMILITY
was USED by GOD in His ultimate plan and in the end Sampson the
Judge killed more heathen
Philistines in his death than he did in his life time.
King
Nebuchadnezzar was THE ENEMY of
Israel and was God’s
enemy, BUT God called him
“His Servant”.[5] God uses those in authority to carry out HIS WILL,
knowing their hearts fully.
NOTE: All through scripture, God would raise up a king
“TO SPANK”
Israel to get them back in line. While
each spanking was devastating, it did not wipe them out, but it did get them to
seek God’s face once again.
Is America under President Donald J.
Trump
about to get a BLESSING or a SPANKING?
Did
you ever think, that God would allow a person to come into power as our
President to get our attention back on JEHOVAH GOD? I think scripture would shout out a resounding
YES. Kings, Emperors and Presidents are ALL put
into power and given authority by God Himself;[6]
they are ALL His servants.
So
many Christian voters had the dilemma; to vote for a Un-Believer or a Make-Believer. This brought many undecided Christian voters
to the position of voting for a COMMITTED Christian VICE
PRESIDENT
and whoever was his running mate.
Josephus 9:301 –
Sampson became proud and vaunted himself
301 Upon this slaughter Samson was too PROUD of
what he had performed and aside that
THIS DID NOT COME TO PASS BY THE
ASSISTANCE OF GOD,
but that his successes was to be ascribed to this own courage and vaunted
himself, that it was out of a dread of him that some of his enemies fell, and
the rest ran away upon his use of the jawbone.
The Matrix
The movie “The Matrix” believe it or
not was a parable right out of the Bible with the sub plot of the fight between
Good
and Evil;
God against Satan. Nebuchadnezzar is the name of the hovercraft
ship that keeps Morpheus’ crew safe. In
scripture King
Nebuchadnezzar was the king of
Babylon where all the heathen gods were birthed along with the famed tower of
Babel. He was the enemy of Israel and of
God; but God used him in His sovereign plan. He was the agent of God’s Justice; God called
him His servant.[7]
While Nebuchadnezzar was an Evil King;
looking at the movie the “Matrix”;
God had placed Good on the inside of this hovercraft in the form of THE CREW; God can use Evil for Good.
With that said, there is scriptural
evidence that after Daniel interpreted the dream of Nebuchadnezzar that he
actually became a believer in the God of Israel; a “son of God”, a follower of ‘THE ONE GOD” of Israel; YAHWEH. Do yourself a favor and read the
Word Study on the Matrix and then watch all three of the Matrix movies “in sequence”.
The Plaque: There is a plaque inside the Nebuchadnezzar
that simply reads Mark III, II or to
say it another way Mark 3:11 which
from scripture reads, “You are the Son of God”.[8]
NOTE;
In the beginning I believe Nebuchadnezzar was a non-Believer, then became a Make-Believer
and in the end I believe scripture supports that he became a True Believer,[9]
so if Trump seems to be a Make-Believer to
you, I think that the Holy Hound of
Heaven will get him while he
is still in office.
And Then God
What
was amazing to me, is before Hillary Clinton announced
her candidacy for President, she along with the Democratic Party, the Super
Delegates and MY SELF thought because
of the “SYSTEM” and because of
Trump’s arrogant
mouth, she would surely become President. There was just no way that someone who was
not ‘PART OF THE SYSTEM” could be
elected; the RUSSIANS must have
rigged the voting machines; that’s it, the
Russians did it.
There is a story
in scripture about Daniel praying to God for help. God heard him before he began to pray, and
immediately dispatched an Angel before he had even finished praying and the forces of Evil fought the angel for 21 days to stop the promises of God from reaching him.[10]
What
if Daniel had stopped praying?
This
is STAR WARS;
we are not in a battle with flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers
of the darkness of this age, and
against spiritual
hosts of wickedness in the
heavenly places[11]
and PRAYER
is our ONLY weapon. This
was the first election that I had ever prayed for God to NOT give us what we deserve, but to give us MERCY. I
firmly believed that NEITHER CANDIDATE was right for America.
I had to HOLD MY NOSE AND VOTE.
I prayed often
and for more than 21 days, and I
believe my prayers joined with other Christians everywhere as they humbled
themselves and prayed; “AND THEN GOD” heard. God had already said that IF CHRISTIANS would humble themselves, pray and seek His face and turn
from their wicked ways, THEN HE WOULD HEAR from heaven, forgive their sins and HEAL THEIR LAND.[12]
Franklin
Graham,
President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of Samaritan’s Purse said
that it was not the Russian Hackers that put Trump in power, it was none other
but THE HAND
OF GOD; he was just quoting the Bible; “There is no
authority except from God and those that exist have been instituted by Him”.[13]
The mysterious hand of Divine
Providence was at work in this election.
I like the part
in the Bible where God acknowledges those in power got mad because their plots
failed and now they are taking counsel together to plot against the one who
the LORD has chosen and
God just sits in the heavens and laughs and continues to mess with their
plans.
[14]
NOW THAT’S FUNNY because IT’S IN THE BOOK.
Hatred
In the
Electronic News Gathering Media, we are taught that the Standard of
Excellence in doing a BALANCED job of journalism is when we please HALF of the people. If everybody is happy, then we are just
placating the “HERD”. If that is the standard for excellence, then
Trump is doing an EXCELENT
JOB,
because half the people don’t just not like him, they HATE him. Have you ever witnessed in History such wide
spread intense
hatred for a political leader whose
only platform is
TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
This begs the
question; is all of this severe hatred because
Trump is bringing
God back into the Government with
his appointments of Senior Officials with DEEP FAITH in God?
[15] What might not seem obvious, many of those
interviewed in the protests don’t even know the basis for their protest, they
are just out following the HERD and the HERD is being guided
by Satan
to KEEP GOD OUT of Government, schools, the workplace and FAMILY.
Have you noticed that the Government welfare system favors a family with no father present?
You must get
this; the rejection of
Biblical concepts is the rejection of Almighty God.
It’s in the
Book
Prayer
Respect Honor
As bad or corrupt or deranged as we may
believe a president or a government is and even if we did not vote for them,
does not relieve us from the responsibility of praying for them; that’s not an
option. We are COMMANDED to pray for those in authority that we may enjoy a
peaceful and quiet life that is godly and dignified in every way. Our President must deal with North Korea and
their nuclear weapons, ISIS, and Jihadist terrorist that want to cut off the
heads Christians, National Security leaks and as a Thorn in the Flesh; FAKE NEWS and controversy
over which bathroom we can go PEE in.
Charles Spurgeon said that “Prayer is the
slender nerve that moves the Omnipotent muscle of God”. Praying for the President is about our
relationship with God, not about Trump. We should pray that our President will be
surrounded with Godly
council making Godly decisions
that will be for the nations benefit. We
should pray that the President will appoint a Chief Justice and associate
Justices to the Supreme Court that embrace Biblical Values as
this will affect us for our entire life and that of our children and that the Justices will receive wisdom from God and act on it
God is watching over what He has already said and will perform
it.[16]
We are to not only pray for our
President and his cabinet, but for all that are in authority; that would
include Judges, Congressmen, Senators and Law Enforcement Officers, employers,
school boards and principals. Some may
not even be saved, even more reason to pray and intercede that they might come
to the saving grace of Jesus Christ, and also pray for Pastors, Elders, Deacons
and the like, they too seek to guide us.
This makes practical sense as all these
people affect the conditions upon which we live in and impacts our city, our
church, our workplace and our family’s lives.
Those in authority are often the targets of criticism, face complex and
dangerous challenges and are stressed and weary from trying to do the right
thing. We should recognize
the greatness of their task and pray for their wisdom, spiritual understanding,
protection and strength to bear up under the load; to be encouraged and pray
for their relationship with their families. Scripture says because of their position of
authority they will be JUDGED more strictly. [17] It’s in the Book
We are subject to the governing
authorities and when
we oppose and resist the President we resist God who has appointed him and
there are consequences.[18]
We are commanded to pay to all what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are
owed, money to whom money is owed, respect to whom respect
is owed, honor to whom honor is owed which includes our President.[19] When we do so, we are living in obedience to
God and it
pleases Him.
It’s in the Book.
1 Timothy 2:1-4 We are urged to pray for
our President
1 First of all, then, I urge
that supplications, PRAYERS, intercessions,
and thanksgivings be made for all people,
2 for kings (PRESIDENTS) and all who are in high positions, that we
may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
3 His is good, and IT IS PLEASING in the sight of God our Savior,
4 who desires all people to
be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
(ESV)
The Take Away
We
still don’t know if God put President
Donald J. Trump into power to BLESS us or to SPANK us. If we get what we deserve we will surely get
spanked and it WILL be serious. This is the more reason for us to humble ourselves and pray
for God’s mercy and grace.
If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble
themselves,
and pray, and seek my face, and turn from
their wicked ways;
THEN will I hear from heaven, and will FORGIVE their sin,
and will HEAL THEIR
LAND. 2
Chronicles 7:14 (ASV)
IT’S IN THE BOOK
[1] Proverbs 17:28 - A FOOL
is considered wise if he doesn’t speak –
Proverbs 29:11 – A FOOL quickly vents his
thoughts
[2] Titus 3:1-2 – Speak no evil to anyone,
show COURTESY to all people
[3] 2 Timothy 3:1-5 – AVOID PEOPLE that are stuck on themselves -- 2 Timothy 3:5 – STAY AWAY from people who ACT religious
[5] Jeremiah 27:6 – Nebuchadnezzar was Evil,
but God called him His Servant
[6] Romans 13:1-2 – It is God that appoints our
President for His plan
[7] Jeremiah 27:6 - Nebuchadnezzar became God’s pawn; His Servant
[9] Daniel 4:2-37 – Nebuchadnezzar exalts God; he May have become a Believer
[10] Daniel 10:12-13 - Angels fight their way to us to bring God’s answers to
our prayers
[11] Ephesians 6:12 – We battle against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness
[12] 2 Chronicles 7:14 – If you humble yourself
and pray; God will hear and heal the land. (Coronavirus)
[13] Romans 13:1 – All PRESIDENTS & authorities are instituted by God
-- Proverbs 21:1 – God directs the President’s heart wherever
He chooses -- Daniel 2:20-23 – God removes kings and sets up
kings -- Job 12:23-25 – God makes nations great, & destroys them;
[14] Psalm 2:1-4 - God just laughs at all the shadow
government’s conniving
[15] Psalm 33:12 - Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD
-- 1 Peter 2:9 – Believers are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation chosen to proclaim God’s excellences
-- Jeremiah 29:7 – Pray for your city
to prosper; then you will also
[16] Jeremiah 1:12 – God is watching over His Word & will perform it
[17] James 3:1 – Those in authority will be judged more strictly
[18] Romans 13:1-2 – Resisting the President is
resisting God’s chosen vessel
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