ELECTION DAY

By Rick Lange
http://bibleprophecybyricklange.blogspot.com/
Posted with authors permission

I have never cared much for politics. I concluded long ago that most of the posturing that takes place on the stage has very little to do with reality. Behind the scenes politicians work for the bankers and the globalists and so, what difference does it make?

However, as I have matured in my thinking I realize in looking back that it has been this kind of complacency that has allowed Satan to take over our nation. We remained silent when they took prayer out of schools. We remained silent when they started removing the Bible from the public. We remained silent when they declared that we were no longer a Christian nation. We remained silent when we abandoned our God give duty to protect Israel. We remained silent when they brought a secular and antichristian agenda into our nation’s schools.

We have remained largely silent and politically correct as our nation has passed laws that have literally made us like Sodom and Gomorrah and the Days of Noah. Our sins have brought us to the threshold of God’s forbearance. If He does not bring judgment soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah as well as the people He took out in the flood.

Politics leaves such a bad taste in my mouth and it seems that we are always having to vote for the lesser of two evils… and not only that, but we don’t really honestly know what we are voting for since so much of it is smoke and mirrors put out there for public consumption. The difference between Democrats and Republicans nowadays is only superficial and cosmetic.

And yet with all of that said, we have probably never faced a more critically important election than we face this year and it is highly important for us to realize that we don’t vote for people, we vote for issues… for moral issues… for biblical issues… for righteous issues. We need to find our voice again.

In today’s democracies people have less of a voice than we used to have, since most politicians work for the fat cats, the bankers and the globalists. However, we do still have a voice and a vote. We can still speak strongly enough to change elections and we can pray for God’s guiding hand. But we can’t very well ask God to preside over our elections if we are unwilling to stand up and be counted for what we believe. Faith without works is dead… and having political opinions without voting is also dead.

I don’t vote for people. I vote for issues… and yes it is heart rending because in many ways we have to take the good with the bad. It is sort of like a kosher meal with a little ham thrown in, or even a lot of ham.

But we have to look at the bigger picture as well. God tells us clearly that He sets up kings and He takes them down and for better or for worse He threw a wrench into the globalist agenda upon the last election and He bought us a little more time to repent and to come to Him with all of our hearts.

How long this reprieve will last depends upon our continued prayers and our votes and most of all by our repentance. After all, the church is being divided by great forces that most complacent Christians can’t even see. They can’t see it because they no longer study Bible prophecy so as to understand the real issues. A part, even a large part of the church is falling away from sound doctrine and embracing the doctrines of demons. They are falling away from the true Gospel. They are falling away from true grace which is the power to overcome. They are falling away from the sacrificial life, the life of holiness and sanctification without which no one will see God. (1 Thess. 4:3, Heb. 12:14, Heb. 12:25-29, Jn. 17:19, 1 Cor. 6:7-11) They no longer take up their cross and follow Jesus.

According to the tabernacle of Moses, what we have today is a huge crowd of Christians in the outer court who have rarely if ever visited the Holy Place, which is the place of sanctification through the Word, and prayer and the infilling of the Holy Spirit. We speak a lot about justification, but avoid the subject of sanctification like the plague. We don’t want to talk about sanctification and holy living and yet it is a vital part of the salvation package that takes us from justification to sanctification to glorification and we can’t be skipping steps in God’s plan.

In fact the Holy Place represents the age of Pentecost, while the Most Holy Place represents our glorification at Jesus’ return, but we are clearly intended to enter within that veil now, for the protection of Psalm 91 is only offered to those that dwell in the secret place of the Most High and that place is in the manifest presence of God in the Most Holy Place.

So it is not only important for us to vote on issues of righteousness, but even more importantly, we must be… we must be righteous. We must live holy lives. According to Jesus there is nothing much worse than a person that goes around bragging to others, judging others, placing burdens upon others while we ourselves are whited sepulchers. Righteous pretenders full of dead men’s bones. It won’t fool God.

So I will do my civic duty today as an ambassador of another kingdom. I do so because I care about the outcome, because time is short and our every freedom is on the line… critically on the line… and yet my continued prayer will be even as yours is… “Thy kingdom come… Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The King is coming. May it be soon is my prayer.