Several weeks ago, I shared a post entitled, Five Weeks And Counting.
It is now less than five weeks until our national election. Today is October 23, 2024. The election is November 5, 2025.
The, next two weeks, will be fraught with intense spiritual warfare.
Spiritual battle has been ongoing since the rebellion of Lucifer, i.e., Satan.
Satan opposes God and seeks to disrupt Him, and His creation constantly.
We, as believers, in Christ Jesus are victorious.
Colossians 2:6-15 (Tree of Life Version):
“Therefore as you received Messiah Yeshua as Lord, so continue to walk in Him–rooted and built up in Him and established in your faith just as you were taught, overflowing with thankfulness. See that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men and the basic principles of the world rather than Messiah.” (vs. 6-8)
Consider this: This is the spiritual warfare that we, as followers of Christ, face everyday in our lives. This battle has been intensified in our nation in the past decade. The ‘tradition of men and the basic principles of the world (of politics) rather than Messiah’ have been pressed upon us. (insert mine)
And, unfortunately, many in the church, have paid more attention to the words of the political world, than to the Word of God.
What is the result?
The voice of the church has become insignificant in our nation.
B.U.T. (Believer Understand This), the Lord is awakening His Church. He is unstopping the deaf ears, and enabling the blind to see. PTL.
Returning to Colossians 3:6-16.
“For all the fullness of the Deity lives bodily in Him, and in Him you have been filled to fullness. He is the head over every ruler and authority.” (vs. 9)
So, Church, who is in charge? As many others have said, Jesus is!
The person who is elected as our president is in authority over our nation; but his or her authority is subservient to the Lord’s authority.
Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given unto Me.” (Matthew 28:18, TLV)
Roman 13:1-2 (TLV), “Let every person submit himself to the governing authorities (that is not based upon political registration). For there is no authority except from God. (that is clearly understood), and those that exist are put in place by God. (What is the implication then regarding our election?), So, whoever opposes, the authority has resisted God’s direction, and those who have resisted will bring judgment on themselves.” (inserts mine)
Am I saying, then, that we have no absolute say in the matter of our election of president? Absolutely not!
Our state governments have determined who is qualified to vote. So what does the U.S. Constitution say about voting. “…it merely states that anyone eligible to vote for the largest house of a state’s legislature is also eligible to vote for members of the House of Representatives from that state”. (Democracy Docket)
“However, that is not to say the Constitution says nothing about elections. Through the Elections Clause, it gives Congress and the federal government the power to determine the “Times, Places, and Manner” of Congressional elections. Congress has used this power throughout the nation’s history to, for example, establish a single national Election Day and mandate single-member congressional districts.” (Democracy Docket)
Throughout our history, adjustments, both positive and negative have been tried and implemented saying who is and who is not eligible to vote.
That wrangling of eligibility continues to this day and this election.
Returning to Colossians 3:6-15 (TLV),
“In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision done not by hand, in stripping away of the body of the flesh through the circumcision of Messiah. You were buried along with Him in immersion, through which you also were raised with Him by trusting in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with Him when He pardoned us all our transgressions. He wiped out the handwritten record of debts with the decrees against us, which was hostile to us. He took it away by nailing it to the cross. After disarming the principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross.” (vs. 11-15 TLV)
What you just read is the G.O.S.P.E.L.
God’s Redemptive Activity Changes Everything.
This is our VICTORY in Christ.
Christ has defeated Satan, conquered death, hell, and the grave, and death has died.
Jesus has regained through the cross, the position that Adam forfeited to Satan through his disobedience to God. Jesus, has re-assumed that position of authority by His obedience to God. (Romans 5:1-21)
What we have gained by our position in Christ, we will still wrestle against in our experience, until Christ returns, the End is finished, and we are with God, and He is with us. (Revelation 21:1-7)
This is our Blessed Hope.
As I have said the battle is still being waged.
What has this to do with our election?
Satan opposes what God is doing.
Satan has been and is undermining this nation’s foundation.
This nation was established by God.
Believers in Christ entered into a covenant relationship with God regarding the building of this nation. This nation has been blessed by God to further His Kingdom and to bless other nations in the world.
That does not mean that we, as a nation, have done all things, without sin.
Such an opinion is far from the truth. “…for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3″23b, TLV)
However, Proverbs 14:34, TLV, says, “Righteousness exalts a national, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”
Our founding fathers knew that for this nation to survive according to its founding Constitution and Declaration of Independence, it would only succeed if the people of this nation followed its Judeo-Christian roots of morality and ethics.
We as a nation have fallen.
Our roots of morality and ethics have waned.
I submit to you that this is the essence of our choice at the ballot box in less than two weeks.
I encourage you to look at the two platforms of the opposing political parties and ask yourself, which of the two platforms, not perfectly, but substantially expresses a Biblical world-view?
Let me be forthcoming! Does God’s Word approve abortion? Does God’s Word approve the destruction and mutilation of children? Does God’s Word remove a parent’s authority over their children? Does God’s Word clearly define the meaning of male and female, and leave no room for ambiguity? Does God’s Word have a standard for marriage?
These are moral and ethical issues of our day? One party’s platform ignores the Biblical standard, the other party’s platform seeks to support God’s Biblical standard.
The political party that wins this election will continue to propagate their worldly philosophy and dictate their agenda in this nation.
Do not be deceived by the political rhetoric that is being spewed out with an intensity of words, accusations, and doomsday lies.
Believers have been bombarded by a persistent negative verbiage that has immobilized their thinking to the point that it has discouraged them from voting.
Wake up Church!
First, it matters, that all Christian’s vote.
Second, it matters, that all Christians vote according to a Biblical world-view.
Third, it matters, that the Church voice itself assertively in its voting according to the Word of God, at the ballot box.
Fourth, it matters, that Christians pray for believers in Christ to vote.
Fifth, it matters, that believers remember Ephesians 6:12-14a, (TLV)
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood (him or her), but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to resist when the times are evil, and after you have done everything (which I believe includes voting), to stand firm. Stand firm then!” (insert mine)
Christian, you need to pray, you need to vote with a Biblical world-view, you need to continue to pray, you need to stand firm, and when the results are in, your task is not done, because the days are evil, and Satan is relentless. His battle will continue against God and His people. The good news is that God is totally in control. All things are being accomplished according to His will and purpose from eternity past until this age of creation closes and we are with Him in His eternal state.
If you have read this post, and are not a believer, I encourage you to vote. Look at the issues. Reflect upon them as I have mentioned in light of Who God is. God is a Holy God. He abhors sin. He hates the murder and mutilation of children. He created a man and a woman. He established marriage. He established the family. He engaged Himself in the founding of this nation.
The wisdom of the world, the philosophy of mankind, and ingenuity of man, because of mankind’s sinfulness of heart lives its life apart from God.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.(that is what Satan is totally opposed too.) The one who believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not put his trust in the name of the one and only Ben-Elohim.(Son of God) [John 3:16-18, TLV] {insert mine}
“There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved!” (Act 4:12, TLV)
That name is Jesus!
Blessings, a brother in Christ, deo
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