The blog that I am about to share has created in me, not a fear to write it, but a fear to publicly share it. Why? Because of a fear that I perceive is growing in this nation. I am wondering if a person still has the ‘freedom of speech’ to have an opinion different than the thoughts of our current administration and share that opinion without fear of personal ramifications, such as, being labeled as a threat to the nation. Sounds drastic, doesn’t it, but I am not sure if one’s freedom of speech and thought has been drastically curtailed if it doesn’t agree with the administration’s rhetoric. I will share my thoughts, and…we shall see.
B.U.T. Believer Understand This: “For God has not given us a Spirit of fear, but of power and of love ad a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV)
As the hours, minutes, and seconds wind down to November 8, 2022, a fiery rhetoric has heated up to an exceedingly hot temperature that reminds me of a story in Book of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzer, who was the king of Babylon, had made an edict that for the space of a month, the people of his kingdom were to bow down to a golden image that he had had constructed.
I am sure that many of you who are reading this blog are fully aware of the story. As you will recall, three Hebrew young men, refused to bow down to the image and obey the king’s edict. The penalty for not bowing down to the image was to be thrown into a fiery furnace.
Because these three Hebrew young men had defied the king’s edict, they were “cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.” (Daniel 3:21b, NKJV)
So intense was the heat of the furnace; and so ‘harsh’ was the king’s anger, Daniel 3:22 (NKJV) says, “Therefore, because the king’s command was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (to the furnace to throw them in) (insert mine).”
As I mentioned earlier, assuming that most of you know the story, then you know the outcome. Three men were bound and thrown into the fire; but when the king looked into the furnace himself, Daniel 3:25 (NKJV) says, “”Look! he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the fourth is like the Son of God.”
The Spirit Filled Life Bible notes on this verse says (page 1237, for 3:19-27) “This is a dramatic illustration of the personal presence and protection of the Lord with His people who suffer for their testimony. The fourth man is a Christophany (pre-incarnate appearance of the Messiah) who Nebuchadnezzer recognized to be like the Son of God. ” 3:26-28 says, “Nebuchadnezzer acknowledged that the deliverance was of God.”
My concern is that the voting electorate of the nation has been challenged with a fiery rhetoric that commands us to vote as our current administration has told us. This is not the true spirit of democracy. The electorate’s freedom to vote for whomever it chooses is the definition of democracy not a fiery rhetoric that seeks to tell the voters of this nation how it must vote.
On November 8, 2022, the voting electorate must choose whether it will acquiesce to the fiery discourse of our administration or ignore its ‘command’ and be willing to be thrown in the fiery furnace of the results of the election and its consequences depending upon its outcome.
Like you and many others I have been praying for God’s kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven (paraphrase Matthew 6:10) for this election.
I have been praying to the Lord asking Him to fulfill Psalm 64 in behalf of this nation. What does that mean? Pease read Psalm 64.
In short, I am asking the Lord to shoot His arrow as it says in Psalm 64:7.
Psalm 64:7-9 says (NKJV), “But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded. So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; And all who see them shall flee away. All men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; For they shall wisely consider His doing.
Psalm 64 is the fourth man in the fiery furnace of this election that is being heated up rhetorically. Count on it, the rhetoric will heat up more these last few days. Nebuchadnezzer saw in the fiery furnace God’s sovereign intervention.
God’s A.R.R.O.W. is an acronym that says, A Righteous Revelation Of Wrong-doing. May God’s ARROW do its intended work.
If you are interested, you can go to livingwordsofencouragement.com and read The A.R.R.O.W. of God.
Let us go forward in the boldness of the three Hebrew men!
blessings, remember to pray, a brother in Christ, deo
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