What you wrote, "Christianity at the tables of power often get sclerotic and vapid. Earthly power tends to make shallow Christians" . . . describes exactly what has happened to so many high-profile American evangelicals during these last four years.
In striving to make life easier and more comfortable for their flocks, leaders consigned their own spiritual legitimacy, for the sake of influence and favor, to self-serving politicians. But that strategy has backfired.
Now evangelicals reap disgrace instead of honor, as the Trump juggernaut descends into ludicrous, desperate legal manipulation and vindictive denial.
Christians ought never to forget that our Savior, when he was here in the flesh, sometimes had no place to lay his head, and on one or two occasions ran the money-makers out of the temple. He was a friend to the lowly, the poor and the handicapped. He did not cozy up to prideful politicians expecting to gain influence.
As his testimony, his death and resurrection have stood strong in the hearts of men and women for 2000 years, we find that we have no need of collusion with powermonging politicians. Let them go stew in their own juices, while we get back to administering the justice and mercy Jesus has called us to.
Thanks Eric. I know that God is in control and has a better plan. However, it doesn't mean I'm not downright "pissy" today. So thanks for the reminder, which I have been trying to tell myself all day. But I haven't seen my families for months and can't see them now and one of my family members died today. Okay, enough bellyaching. I'm putting on my big girl panties and sucking it in! Thank you for your words of wisdom.
31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
"A listener on my radio program opined on my Instagram feed that she would not do this and if scripture said to do that then scripture might not be the inerrant word of God after all."
Interesting how a political election can also reveal something about God's Election - sometimes goats "out" themselves.
We just keep praying. Okay. Hello! There's lots to pray for. Our enemy roams about like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. It ain't gonna be me, my brother! God bless you!
Thank you.. But it's hard not to believe that evil is here. Look what happened Sunday in DC.. I'm glad I have my church. There is promise in your words and Pastor's McClain's and I know that I have to get past this. I wish the news would just go away. Bless you
I appreciate your insight. You may be losing others but I have narrowed my media consumption to you and the Wall Street Journal. You for local analysis, WSJ for national and international. I just can’t take the constant barrage of breathless commentary any more... and I was a FOX news hound. If something huge happens, I’ll hear it soon enough.
Going to try the barbecue this week... even though it has ketchup In it!
This is blasphemous. I am furious. I am not sure I can subscribe any longer. I thought you to be a reasonable, well informed man but just don't know anymore. Who in their right mind uses a ketchup based sauce on a brisket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That a is a tragedy. Oh and the reset of this post... spot on brother... keept the faith! you are appreciated.
There is hope in dark times for the people of God. Evil people can obtain political power, as did King Ahab and his wife Jezebel. But eventually they will hang from a gallows of their own making, as did Haman in Esther 7:8-10. Sometimes a just judgment happens in this life, but often not. But eventually the truth will win out and those who have been wronged, will have their appeal heard before a truly just judge (Revelation 6:9-11).
It is hard to have an honest election when a large number of people in this country are dishonest. On one side of this election, is a class of Biden supporters like the 4 anonymous Atlantic sources that claimed Trump disrespected fallen WWII soldiers. On the other side of this election is a class of mostly Trump supporters like the over 20 witnesses that publicly disputed the anonymous sources (Bolton disputed the allegations even though he is not a Trump supporter). Both sides can't possibly be telling the truth. The same is true about the integrity of the election results as one side or the other is being dishonest. If you have a multitude of people willing to swear to opposite things, only God who sees all and knows all can make a trurly just judgment.
This is the tweet pinned to the top of Lin Wood's account: "TRUTH: Light always overcomes darkness. Truth always overcomes lies. “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”- John 3:21" In addition to being at Trump attorney filing election challenges in GA, Lin was the attorney who defended the falsely accused Richard Jewell when the media and FBI tried to publicaly frame him for the Olympic bombing in Atlanta. It is easy to jump on the bandwagon of mob rule.
Erick can say Biden is the President Elect all he wants. He may be right that Biden will eventually be President Elect, but Biden is not that now because we have not reached the point where an official President Elect has been named by a constitutional process and there are pending court cases. Nor is Erick an infallible source on the fraud in the 2020 election or the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. For example, Jonathan Turley is an acknowledged legal expert who isn't in the rush to judgment crowd, even though he is not a Trump supporter ( https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/18/is-curing-a-colorable-claim-under-equal-protection/#more-165958 ). Similarly Alan Dershowitz has argued that the basis of the PA lawsuit is not fraud, but the counting of votes without the observation entitled by PA law ( https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/525118-can-president-trump-win-his-election-challenges-in-court ) : " The lawsuit in Pennsylvania is a “wholesale” challenge to a large number of votes counted in violation of state legislation. That lawsuit is based on the matter of constitutional law, so it does not need evidence or a trial. It was already before the Supreme Court, which was divided over the issue. All that is necessary is further briefings and a final decision."
It is very possible that Trump will lose his court cases and Biden will become President Elect. But I do wonder if the people arguing that God appoints rulers will be as ecstatically happy if Trump's legal challenges are able to prevent Biden from getting 270 electoral votes, and Trump is elected by the House of Representatives (as Alan Dershowitz suggests is possible -https://epochtimes.today/dershowitz-biden-is-not-the-president-elect/ ). One can always assume that not being hit with a virtual lightning bolt means that God approves of one's actions and therefore he has to be on one's side. God is on the side of truth and ultimately we will all know who is telling it, no matter who is inaugurated President on January 20.
Trump isn't going to win his legal challenges and the House of Representatives will not elect Trump. Frogs wouldn't bump their asses when they hopped if they had wings, but they don't.
My point is that if that did happen because of corrupt judges and or corrupt legilsatures, would you and your readers be making the same argument about God appointing Trump to a second term or would you/they be screaming bloody murder? You are not the judge of these cases and so while you may be correct (which I do not doubt), your opinions are not infallible. You are pronouncing judgments about things you do not know for sure, presuming to know the actions and hearts of a multitude of people as well as the will of God for an event not described in the Bible. For a man of your Godly wisdom, this is not a good practice to engage in. That is the truth Erick, whether you believe it or not.
@dmk....you once again demonstrate that you do not understand scripture regarding who gets to be in authority. No matter the circumstances, whomever wins elections (fraud or not) or is appointed into authority by whatever means ......that person is in that position of authority because God places them in that position. Simple as that. As disastrous as it is going to be (IMO) to have Biden/Harris as POTUS, it is a fact that God placed them there. The challenge for us Christians is to try to understand why God wants them in these positions at this point in time. Romans 13:1
So Trump is currently the anointed person of God as the duly elected President of the United States and he has the God given authority until January 20 to make the decisions a President is legally entitled to make. Is that the point you wish to make?
The election is not legally settled as I pointed out. Neither the media, nor you, nor Erick, nor anybody but an Electoral College vote selects the President Elect of the United States. Until that happens we have no President Elect appointed by God. That is straightforward Constitutional law and not an issue of Scripture, except for your Romans 13:1 argument that Constitutional laws are made by political leaders appointed by God, which I do not deny.
These points of mine remain unchallenged:
1) In regard to the extent of 2020 election fraud, it is a dangerous presumption to claim accurate knowledge of events that one does not witness. That is why Deuteronomy 19:15-21 requires at least 2 or 3 witnesses. Anonymous witnesses and/or second-hand opinions are not Biblically just because the testimony of actual eyewitnesses was to be thoroughly investigated by judges and if a malicious witness was found to have lied, they were to be severely punished because false allegations are evil. Many people on both sides of the 2020 election debate are making broad judgments about the extent of election fraud events for which they were not witnesses. People are entitled to form preliminary opinions based on the evidence they have seen reported, but only judges who "thoroughly investigate" charges of actual witnesses are Biblically-based authorities entitled to rule on the validity of witnesses testimony.
2. I am not arguing that God doesn't appoint leaders (Romans 13:1). I am arguing that one cannot know what leaders God appoints until they are in fact in office (whether by legal or illegal means). Biden is not yet legally appointed as President Elect and it is only a presumption that God's will is going to bring that to pass. It may (or may not) be a valid presumption, but it is still a presumption. Certainly the presumption of many people that Hillary would become President in 2016 has been proven false. God's will is not determined by human presumptions. Apart from actual Biblical statements we are not to make presumptions about future events (James 4:13-15).
3. I am arguing that just because God appointed a leader it doesn't mean that the leader will act in accordance with the "good, pleasing and perfect will of God - Romans 12:2" For example, the nation of Israel and its rulers are repeatedly declared by God's infallible word to have done "evil in the eyes of the Lord." It was God's will to let this evil transpire and I am not disputing that. Nor am I disputing that despite any evil, God works out all things together for good (Romans 8:28). However, my claim is that Americans have a responsibility to God to elect leaders who will implement Godly policies. In addition, my claim is that Biden/Harris will not do that regarding abortion in addtion to supporting other anti-Biblical policies. Therefore, my claim is that the American voters who helped elect Biden have voted for anti-Biblical political policies, which is evil on the part of these voters. That is not an anti-Biblical position for me to take.
The person who is making the allegations are Trump and his team. They are the ones with the duty to prove this with evidence. Until they do we have the right to be sceptical and your Scripture backs us up
If you listen to their press conference.Trump's attorneys have unambiguously stated that they intend to prove their allegations in court, Jonathan Turley has indicated that his attorneys (and possible Trump himself) have opened themselves up to a possible defamation suit by Dominion Systems ( see https://jonathanturley.org/ ), which would force Trump's attorneys to offer proof for the allegations or face severe consequences (such as with Lin Wood's lawsuits for media organizations that had defamed his client Nicholas Sandman). My advice is that you wait until evidence is presented at court before making a judgment.
I agree with you that the election is not settled. My point is that whenever it gets settled and whomever is POTUS 46 .....God is the author who placed them in the office of authority.
I agree with you on both points: 1. Election is not settled. 2. God is sovereign in all things. The question with point 2 is whether God in his sovereignty chooses to honor human choices, even catastrophic and evil ones, because no amount of human evill will ever thwart God's ultimate plan. Two OT related verses:
Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV): "This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."
Joshua 24:15 (NIV): "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living."
This passage from Jonah suggests that human responses can alter God's actions, in regard to the Ninevites repentance:
Jonah 3:10: "When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened."
One doesn't have to deny God's sovereignty to accept that human free will plays a part in our daily lives, and that events in this world are as much determined by people resisting the will of God as by people obeying it:
Acts 7:51: “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!"
The sad truth is that God's condemnation of the Nation Israel is applicable to a large section of humanity and America is not excluded:
Romans 10:21 quoting Isaiah 65:1 “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
So while the will of God is to let evil reign its course until the time of the harvest (Matthew 13:24-30), this doesn't mean that all governments are equal in striving to pursue the "good, pleasing, and perfect will of God - Romans 12:2). My point is that just because God permits a ruler to obtain power by his sovereign authority, it doesn't mean that God approves of what the ruler will do. That statement is true for Trump, for Biden, and for any human ruler ever. The only perfect ruler is Jesus. But there are rulers that are relatively good and relatively evil in terms of their political policies and actions. So while God's sovereign will may be to appoint Biden as President in 2020, this doesn't mean that it wasn't a foolish choice by the Americans who voted for him, and God would not have allowed Americans to make a better choice, as Deuteronomy 30:19 and Joshua 24:15 both imply in general terms.
Great message today ( well, every day ) 😊 There are so many that are so unhappy about this election, including me, and this is a reminder that we need to pray and know that God is with us always. I haven’t watched one minute of news since that Saturday almost two weeks ago...I know I’m a calmer person because of that one adjustment to my schedule. You, Erick, have been the only communication I’ve had about this election since then. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your beautiful family !
Oh you warm my heart so! Those are exactly the scriptures I lean on. We have to stop making politicians our savior. I love gas station food in South Georgia. I’m heading to Savannah for Thanksgiving and will stop in Dublin for gas station chicken livers. Happy Thanksgiving! May God reign down so much love and blessings on us all that we can’t see straight!
The Brisket was a BIG HIT yesterday! It's going in my recipe file. Thank you!
I’m still going to eat chicken livers in Dublin and then head to Savannah and eat Turkey.
What you wrote, "Christianity at the tables of power often get sclerotic and vapid. Earthly power tends to make shallow Christians" . . . describes exactly what has happened to so many high-profile American evangelicals during these last four years.
In striving to make life easier and more comfortable for their flocks, leaders consigned their own spiritual legitimacy, for the sake of influence and favor, to self-serving politicians. But that strategy has backfired.
Now evangelicals reap disgrace instead of honor, as the Trump juggernaut descends into ludicrous, desperate legal manipulation and vindictive denial.
Christians ought never to forget that our Savior, when he was here in the flesh, sometimes had no place to lay his head, and on one or two occasions ran the money-makers out of the temple. He was a friend to the lowly, the poor and the handicapped. He did not cozy up to prideful politicians expecting to gain influence.
As his testimony, his death and resurrection have stood strong in the hearts of men and women for 2000 years, we find that we have no need of collusion with powermonging politicians. Let them go stew in their own juices, while we get back to administering the justice and mercy Jesus has called us to.
Thanks Eric. I know that God is in control and has a better plan. However, it doesn't mean I'm not downright "pissy" today. So thanks for the reminder, which I have been trying to tell myself all day. But I haven't seen my families for months and can't see them now and one of my family members died today. Okay, enough bellyaching. I'm putting on my big girl panties and sucking it in! Thank you for your words of wisdom.
31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
--John 16:31-33
"A listener on my radio program opined on my Instagram feed that she would not do this and if scripture said to do that then scripture might not be the inerrant word of God after all."
Interesting how a political election can also reveal something about God's Election - sometimes goats "out" themselves.
Thank you, Erick. May God continue to bless you as you speak truth.
We just keep praying. Okay. Hello! There's lots to pray for. Our enemy roams about like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. It ain't gonna be me, my brother! God bless you!
Thank you.. But it's hard not to believe that evil is here. Look what happened Sunday in DC.. I'm glad I have my church. There is promise in your words and Pastor's McClain's and I know that I have to get past this. I wish the news would just go away. Bless you
I appreciate your insight. You may be losing others but I have narrowed my media consumption to you and the Wall Street Journal. You for local analysis, WSJ for national and international. I just can’t take the constant barrage of breathless commentary any more... and I was a FOX news hound. If something huge happens, I’ll hear it soon enough.
Going to try the barbecue this week... even though it has ketchup In it!
God Bless You.
This is blasphemous. I am furious. I am not sure I can subscribe any longer. I thought you to be a reasonable, well informed man but just don't know anymore. Who in their right mind uses a ketchup based sauce on a brisket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That a is a tragedy. Oh and the reset of this post... spot on brother... keept the faith! you are appreciated.
North Carolina vinegar sauce for me.
LOLOLOL. This is old school south Louisiana.
There is hope in dark times for the people of God. Evil people can obtain political power, as did King Ahab and his wife Jezebel. But eventually they will hang from a gallows of their own making, as did Haman in Esther 7:8-10. Sometimes a just judgment happens in this life, but often not. But eventually the truth will win out and those who have been wronged, will have their appeal heard before a truly just judge (Revelation 6:9-11).
It is hard to have an honest election when a large number of people in this country are dishonest. On one side of this election, is a class of Biden supporters like the 4 anonymous Atlantic sources that claimed Trump disrespected fallen WWII soldiers. On the other side of this election is a class of mostly Trump supporters like the over 20 witnesses that publicly disputed the anonymous sources (Bolton disputed the allegations even though he is not a Trump supporter). Both sides can't possibly be telling the truth. The same is true about the integrity of the election results as one side or the other is being dishonest. If you have a multitude of people willing to swear to opposite things, only God who sees all and knows all can make a trurly just judgment.
This is the tweet pinned to the top of Lin Wood's account: "TRUTH: Light always overcomes darkness. Truth always overcomes lies. “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”- John 3:21" In addition to being at Trump attorney filing election challenges in GA, Lin was the attorney who defended the falsely accused Richard Jewell when the media and FBI tried to publicaly frame him for the Olympic bombing in Atlanta. It is easy to jump on the bandwagon of mob rule.
Erick can say Biden is the President Elect all he wants. He may be right that Biden will eventually be President Elect, but Biden is not that now because we have not reached the point where an official President Elect has been named by a constitutional process and there are pending court cases. Nor is Erick an infallible source on the fraud in the 2020 election or the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. For example, Jonathan Turley is an acknowledged legal expert who isn't in the rush to judgment crowd, even though he is not a Trump supporter ( https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/18/is-curing-a-colorable-claim-under-equal-protection/#more-165958 ). Similarly Alan Dershowitz has argued that the basis of the PA lawsuit is not fraud, but the counting of votes without the observation entitled by PA law ( https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/525118-can-president-trump-win-his-election-challenges-in-court ) : " The lawsuit in Pennsylvania is a “wholesale” challenge to a large number of votes counted in violation of state legislation. That lawsuit is based on the matter of constitutional law, so it does not need evidence or a trial. It was already before the Supreme Court, which was divided over the issue. All that is necessary is further briefings and a final decision."
It is very possible that Trump will lose his court cases and Biden will become President Elect. But I do wonder if the people arguing that God appoints rulers will be as ecstatically happy if Trump's legal challenges are able to prevent Biden from getting 270 electoral votes, and Trump is elected by the House of Representatives (as Alan Dershowitz suggests is possible -https://epochtimes.today/dershowitz-biden-is-not-the-president-elect/ ). One can always assume that not being hit with a virtual lightning bolt means that God approves of one's actions and therefore he has to be on one's side. God is on the side of truth and ultimately we will all know who is telling it, no matter who is inaugurated President on January 20.
Trump isn't going to win his legal challenges and the House of Representatives will not elect Trump. Frogs wouldn't bump their asses when they hopped if they had wings, but they don't.
My point is that if that did happen because of corrupt judges and or corrupt legilsatures, would you and your readers be making the same argument about God appointing Trump to a second term or would you/they be screaming bloody murder? You are not the judge of these cases and so while you may be correct (which I do not doubt), your opinions are not infallible. You are pronouncing judgments about things you do not know for sure, presuming to know the actions and hearts of a multitude of people as well as the will of God for an event not described in the Bible. For a man of your Godly wisdom, this is not a good practice to engage in. That is the truth Erick, whether you believe it or not.
@dmk....you once again demonstrate that you do not understand scripture regarding who gets to be in authority. No matter the circumstances, whomever wins elections (fraud or not) or is appointed into authority by whatever means ......that person is in that position of authority because God places them in that position. Simple as that. As disastrous as it is going to be (IMO) to have Biden/Harris as POTUS, it is a fact that God placed them there. The challenge for us Christians is to try to understand why God wants them in these positions at this point in time. Romans 13:1
So Trump is currently the anointed person of God as the duly elected President of the United States and he has the God given authority until January 20 to make the decisions a President is legally entitled to make. Is that the point you wish to make?
The election is not legally settled as I pointed out. Neither the media, nor you, nor Erick, nor anybody but an Electoral College vote selects the President Elect of the United States. Until that happens we have no President Elect appointed by God. That is straightforward Constitutional law and not an issue of Scripture, except for your Romans 13:1 argument that Constitutional laws are made by political leaders appointed by God, which I do not deny.
These points of mine remain unchallenged:
1) In regard to the extent of 2020 election fraud, it is a dangerous presumption to claim accurate knowledge of events that one does not witness. That is why Deuteronomy 19:15-21 requires at least 2 or 3 witnesses. Anonymous witnesses and/or second-hand opinions are not Biblically just because the testimony of actual eyewitnesses was to be thoroughly investigated by judges and if a malicious witness was found to have lied, they were to be severely punished because false allegations are evil. Many people on both sides of the 2020 election debate are making broad judgments about the extent of election fraud events for which they were not witnesses. People are entitled to form preliminary opinions based on the evidence they have seen reported, but only judges who "thoroughly investigate" charges of actual witnesses are Biblically-based authorities entitled to rule on the validity of witnesses testimony.
2. I am not arguing that God doesn't appoint leaders (Romans 13:1). I am arguing that one cannot know what leaders God appoints until they are in fact in office (whether by legal or illegal means). Biden is not yet legally appointed as President Elect and it is only a presumption that God's will is going to bring that to pass. It may (or may not) be a valid presumption, but it is still a presumption. Certainly the presumption of many people that Hillary would become President in 2016 has been proven false. God's will is not determined by human presumptions. Apart from actual Biblical statements we are not to make presumptions about future events (James 4:13-15).
3. I am arguing that just because God appointed a leader it doesn't mean that the leader will act in accordance with the "good, pleasing and perfect will of God - Romans 12:2" For example, the nation of Israel and its rulers are repeatedly declared by God's infallible word to have done "evil in the eyes of the Lord." It was God's will to let this evil transpire and I am not disputing that. Nor am I disputing that despite any evil, God works out all things together for good (Romans 8:28). However, my claim is that Americans have a responsibility to God to elect leaders who will implement Godly policies. In addition, my claim is that Biden/Harris will not do that regarding abortion in addtion to supporting other anti-Biblical policies. Therefore, my claim is that the American voters who helped elect Biden have voted for anti-Biblical political policies, which is evil on the part of these voters. That is not an anti-Biblical position for me to take.
The person who is making the allegations are Trump and his team. They are the ones with the duty to prove this with evidence. Until they do we have the right to be sceptical and your Scripture backs us up
If you listen to their press conference.Trump's attorneys have unambiguously stated that they intend to prove their allegations in court, Jonathan Turley has indicated that his attorneys (and possible Trump himself) have opened themselves up to a possible defamation suit by Dominion Systems ( see https://jonathanturley.org/ ), which would force Trump's attorneys to offer proof for the allegations or face severe consequences (such as with Lin Wood's lawsuits for media organizations that had defamed his client Nicholas Sandman). My advice is that you wait until evidence is presented at court before making a judgment.
I agree with you that the election is not settled. My point is that whenever it gets settled and whomever is POTUS 46 .....God is the author who placed them in the office of authority.
I agree with you on both points: 1. Election is not settled. 2. God is sovereign in all things. The question with point 2 is whether God in his sovereignty chooses to honor human choices, even catastrophic and evil ones, because no amount of human evill will ever thwart God's ultimate plan. Two OT related verses:
Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV): "This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."
Joshua 24:15 (NIV): "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living."
This passage from Jonah suggests that human responses can alter God's actions, in regard to the Ninevites repentance:
Jonah 3:10: "When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened."
One doesn't have to deny God's sovereignty to accept that human free will plays a part in our daily lives, and that events in this world are as much determined by people resisting the will of God as by people obeying it:
Acts 7:51: “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!"
The sad truth is that God's condemnation of the Nation Israel is applicable to a large section of humanity and America is not excluded:
Romans 10:21 quoting Isaiah 65:1 “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
So while the will of God is to let evil reign its course until the time of the harvest (Matthew 13:24-30), this doesn't mean that all governments are equal in striving to pursue the "good, pleasing, and perfect will of God - Romans 12:2). My point is that just because God permits a ruler to obtain power by his sovereign authority, it doesn't mean that God approves of what the ruler will do. That statement is true for Trump, for Biden, and for any human ruler ever. The only perfect ruler is Jesus. But there are rulers that are relatively good and relatively evil in terms of their political policies and actions. So while God's sovereign will may be to appoint Biden as President in 2020, this doesn't mean that it wasn't a foolish choice by the Americans who voted for him, and God would not have allowed Americans to make a better choice, as Deuteronomy 30:19 and Joshua 24:15 both imply in general terms.
Great message today ( well, every day ) 😊 There are so many that are so unhappy about this election, including me, and this is a reminder that we need to pray and know that God is with us always. I haven’t watched one minute of news since that Saturday almost two weeks ago...I know I’m a calmer person because of that one adjustment to my schedule. You, Erick, have been the only communication I’ve had about this election since then. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your beautiful family !
There is hope! I think it's time I dust off the biography of Bonhoeffer by Metaxas. https://www.amazon.com/Bonhoeffer-Pastor-Martyr-Prophet-Spy/dp/1595552464
Oh you warm my heart so! Those are exactly the scriptures I lean on. We have to stop making politicians our savior. I love gas station food in South Georgia. I’m heading to Savannah for Thanksgiving and will stop in Dublin for gas station chicken livers. Happy Thanksgiving! May God reign down so much love and blessings on us all that we can’t see straight!