Turning The Tide!

Why are people so ready to be obedient, to be attentive to an excessive or servile degree?  Why are people so ready to the call of those who govern them?  Is it because they venerate those who command might, and are convinced that it is by force that men prevail?  Is it splendor, and pride shown by those who are governing them that blind people?  Is it that the governor’s word is right, that is that of a god, and cannot be changed?  These are the thoughts of ancient men, even the thoughts of present men, and they can be seen from Mesopotamia where they said: “The command of the palace, like the command of Anu (a Chaldean god), cannot be altered.  These things were like that of god; cannot be changed!” This was never taught by the prophets of old or anywhere else in the Bible; prophet Habakkuk stated: “…  They are guilty; their own strength is your god.” (Habakkuk 1:1b).  Jeremiah further stated: “Their course is evil, their might is not right” (Jeremiah 23:10).

The purpose of public authority is to realize the moral law and even though knowledge and understanding and the position of power are indispensable means, those in charge must not have a tendency for conceit.  It is easy to see, and that is if one is looking to see, that many men in the positions of power and governing knows no satiety, their appetite grows on what it feeds: in other words, they come to not only believe their lies they themselves become the lie.  Those who are wielding power and might themselves become incapable to yield to any transcendent judgment; and as Zephaniah stated: “She has not obeyed His voice, She has not receive correction, She has not trusted in the LORD, She has not drawn near to her God” (Zephaniah 3:2): in other words, they listen to no voice.  The government that desires to control people believe that they can do so by material forces and then by material force alone they can keep the peace; in other words, give them from the government to appease them in some way: i.e., stimulus package.  This is not speaking about defending from a foreign enemy, rather that the government is using material force to control its own people.

It must be noticed that this control over people is not just a war, that is, when the nation seeks to destroy another nation rather it is by cheating, cunning, and humiliation which the government attempt to destroy freedom and independence pursued discreetly hoping to hurt no one’s feeling, and that they will consciously except that they are a victim without believing that they are a victim.  The secret crimes that are committed remain in quiet.  These evil men believe that they are untouchable but Micah reminds us: “Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds!  When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away, they oppress a man in his house, a man and his inheritance” (Micah 2:1-2). 

These men who are in power in government spread not only grief and destruction, but also moral corruption.  The Prophet Isaiah states that the root of all evil is man’s false sense of sovereignty and stemming from it, man’s pride, arrogance, and presumption.  Today, the man who sits in the president’s seat of United States is full of arrogance, and presumption that what he said is, or mandates, must be followed because he is acting like a god.  To do this in secret that is not to be hidden in a back room rather it is to deflect by holding other issues more important than the issue that just occurred in Afghanistan.  To hide this blunder that is being called an evacuation is nothing more than a retreat leaving behind enemy lines, American citizen and those Afghans who are legally able to come to America.  Furthermore, to leave behind some 85 billion sophisticated armors, clothing, planes, even the names of those who assisted in the past and if history tells us anything about the medieval thugs who now control Afghanistan, those left behind people will be killed or in the least, used as pawns for their gain.  What is needed is a man who will stand strong for the United States, a man we once had in our government and Presidential office.  It was by many who became believers in a socialistic ideology that our freedom and our independence, our Constitution, our culture came under fire of destruction.  While that may be true, there are many more people who believe in our freedom and our independence, in our culture and believe that we need a man who will lead us as our president should lead. Isaiah told is about such a man: “This is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word….  For thus saith the high and the lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and lofty place, and also with him who is contrite in humble spirit, to reviving the spirit of the humble, to revise the heart of the contrite…  Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent by righteousness” (Isaiah 56:2; 57:15; 1:27).

What is needed is a priority for Christians to repent and become contrite and humble in spirit and if so, God will redeem by His justice and if you demonstrate that justice and you repent through righteousness God will hear your prayer, and God will act upon your prayer.  There is no other way, not even the might of force, even though it may be needed to defend our country, it is only by the intervention of God can we expect to return to freedom and independence. Only you and others like you who see the need to return first to God, His Savior Jesus Christ, and to our Constitution will the tide of evil be thwarted.