Samuel 8:6-7:"But
the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And
Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the
people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they
have rejected Me from being King over them."
In ancient Israel,
God ruled over the people through judges that rendered justice according to the
Word of God. But the people were not satisfied with an arrangement that had
worked since they became a nation. If you read the story, Samuel was growing old
and the office of being a judge fell to his sons who did not follow after the
righteous judgments of their father, but departed into sinful acts of greed and
evil.
The nation had
been built on guiding principles found in their basic doctrines given to them
from Mt. Sinai, The Ten Commandments. Israel forgot who was their source of
power, protection, and their very lives to prosper and grow. They demanded a
king to rule over them, just as the nations about them had over them. God
commanded that Samuel warn the people of their rejection of Him, and look to a
human ruler to meet their needs of daily living.
Samuel's
Warning Against Kings
1 Samuel
8.9-18:
"Now then, obey
their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the
king who shall reign over them. So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the
people who were asking for a king from him. He said, "These will be the ways of
the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his
chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
And he will
appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some
to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war
and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers
and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and
olive orchards and give them to his servants.
He will take the
tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his
servants. He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of
your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take the
tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry
out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will
not answer you in that day."
After those days,
Israel had nothing but trouble. Wars on every side and the peace and safety they
longed for, escaped them for years of hard living. Israel reasoned that to give
the control to a king, would relieve them of the responsibility of controlling
their own lives and following after the ways of their true leader, Almighty
God.
A king would
protect them, like other nations did, but never realized what they were giving
up or what they had become. It was not that God was against them having a king,
but the people had become rebellious against the ways of God, and the problem
was not them wanting a king, but that they had fallen so far in their spiritual
condition, they could not see that the problem was them, not the need for a
king. So it is with us!
Voting
for a Modern King amongst Us
Can we see this
happening around us? Can we apply this biblical story of what happened to
another ancient people who abandoned following after the founding principles
that formed their nation? The Bible was written to give us examples that
righteous living brings prosperity, a gift from God, when the people fear His
name and reverence His teachings; by submitting to His righteous rule and
embracing His ways by incorporating them into our individual lives.
So was it that
this nation was founded upon principles laid as bedrock in our Declaration of
Independence and the United States Constitution. We've had our "bumps in the
road" but God has blessed this nation like no other in all of history. We
elected our representatives to give a voice for the people who feared God and
expected those we chose to guide this nation in the ways of our founding
documents forged by men of honor, our founding fathers of this nation intended.
The nation was
founded by the people and for the people. Our guiding rule was our belief and
foundation in the invisible ruler of this nation, God Almighty. Our faith and
trust by historical events pointed to our need, our desire, and our
understanding of this principle, "One nation, UNDER GOD!" For two hundred years
this is the way it was, but times have changed and not for the
better.
A Nation
in Decline
Since the late
1960s and early 1970s, this country has decided that we no longer wish to have
God rule over us. We have abandoned the founding principles that made this
nation great. We have looked to ourselves. Humanist principles have overtaken
our once Godly principles based on the bible that the majority of Americans
believed in. Fleshly desires of sinful living have dominated our culture
starting with dissolving prayer in our schools. Our education system has
indoctrinated a whole generation of impressionable young minds that are now the
adults who govern this nation. It is said about education from a quote sometimes
attributed to Abraham Lincoln:
"The philosophy of
the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the
next."
From this period
of secular education, the teachers of our children have infected impressionable
minds with sex education, evolution, values clarification, moral relativism,
Darwinian evolution, Socialism and Marxism, earth worship, multiculturalism,
one-world globalism, Israeli "occupation" of Palestinian territories, and
appeasement in foreign policy.
This is the
generation that is of voting age that just elected Barack Hussein Obama to
another term of at least four more years. This deplorable spiritual condition of
our nation is manifested in the electorate voting for a man with credentials
that would not qualify him for dog catcher, let alone PROTUS. Joel Rosenberg has
noted:
It is stunning to
think that more than 6 million self-described evangelical Christians would vote
for a president who supports abortion on demand; supported the same-sex marriage
ballot initiatives that succeeded in Maryland, Maine and Washington; and was on
the cover of Newsweek as America's "first gay president."
Did these
self-professed believers surrender their biblical convictions in the voting
booth or did they never really have deep biblical convictions on the critical
issues to begin with?...This is what happens when the church is weak and fails
to disciple believers to turn biblical faith into action. Given the enormous
number of evangelical Christians in the U.S., this bloc could still affect
enormous positive change for their issues if they were to unify and vote for the
pro-life, pro-marriage candidate as a bloc....
What will it take
to educate, register and mobilize Christians to vote on the basis of biblical
principles, and what kind of candidates could best mobilize them? This is a
critical question that Christian political leaders as well as pastors must
seriously consider. As we have seen, just a few million more evangelicals voting
for pro-life, pro-marriage candidates could offset other demographics that are
becoming more liberal.
This behooves us
to ask us the question, "What has become of the citizens of this nation?" What
has developed is an entire generation devoid of biblical instruction or
understanding. They know nothing of the founding Christian principles that
formed this nation or the blessing of free market capitalism. They forget what
the Bible says when it comes to standing with His chosen people (Israel) in the
last days. Let's look at that. Why have we been blessed in the last fifty years
other than standing on founding principles that formed this nation?
We stood with
Israel from its inception. We nurtured and helped defend their national right to
exist. But you speak to a lot of the evangelical members and they only talk of
the Palestinian plight of Israeli "aggression." And no more do we stand with
Israel as a majority in our government or our citizenry. Oh, they talk the talk,
but their deeds and actions prove otherwise. We talk of still being a "nation
under God" but our actions and deeds prove us to be liars.
Cases in
Point of National Decay
We have an
administration that has from all reported details, lied to about what happened
in Benghazi, Libya. As more and more details are brought to light, we discover
how we were deceived. I hear reports of gun running headed by our now, deceased
Ambassador Chris Stevens, to Syrian rebels through Turkey. Is that
right?
I don't know, but
since they lied to us about one aspect, what else are they covering up? Security
was obviously lacking. So was it planned, or was it incompetence? It seems the
people of this nation could care less to hold those responsible accountable.
They should demand answers and punish those who are responsible bordering on
treason, if the reports turn out to be true.
We hear about
election fraud in Florida and the major portions of the all the swing states to
give the election to Obama. Voting irregularities of fixed voting machines that
are programmed to give a 51-49% voting edge to whomever they choose. Political
analysts who projected a landslide based on historical demographics of past
elections and somehow they got it all wrong? The people should be up in arms to
hear these stories of a perversion of the national right to vote and have it
mean something. Our God given right to vote our beliefs may have just been
stolen by dark forces.
We have a debt of
16 plus trillion dollars with no sign of fiscal sanity and the reported "fiscal
cliff" looms in our near future. Our economy is divided into the haves, and the
have not's. Rich against poor, black against white, ethic group against ethnic
group. We stand on the edge of financial ruin. Europe is burning with Greece,
Spain, and Italy all fearing economic collapse. The world has impending
financial collapse imploding upon itself. The people should be invading
Washington D.C. demanding fiscal sanity. This is our money being
wasted.
We have a Middle
East crisis with looming war between Gaza and the IDF, with players of Egypt,
Syria, Lebanon, and their benefactor Iran, just itching to get in the fight to
remove Israel from being a nation. Could this be the precursor to Psalm
83:2-4?
"For behold, Your
enemies make a tumult;
And those who
hate You have lifted up their head.
They have taken
crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted
together against Your sheltered ones. They have said,
"Come, and let us
cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of
Israel may be remembered no more."
Or Isaiah
17:1-3?
"Behold, Damascus
will cease from being a city,
And it will be a
ruinous heap.
The cities of
Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for
flocks
Which lie down,
and no one will make them afraid. The fortress also will cease from
Ephraim,
The kingdom from
Damascus,
And the remnant
of Syria;
They will be as
the glory of the children of Israel,
Says the Lord of
hosts."
Neither of these
prophecies have been fulfilled. Damascus has been a city inhabited for over
5,000 years and a confederacy of these nations determined to destroy Israel has
never taken place. A feared outbreak of war in the Middle East leading to
another world war engulfing all of us gives the masses a fear that cannot be
remedied except through the power of a man. This should give each of us pause to
understand the prophetic closeness of the coming of the Son of Man again to end
mortal man's rule and set-up His own kingdom that will never end.
Returning to our
own home country, we see a nation devoid of love of one another. Crime is
rampant as looting and evil grips the northeast after hurricane Sandy destroyed
many lives and their feelings of security. Still we look to a man to save us.
Also, voters embraced same sex marriage in a number of states, legalizing
marijuana in others, fraud in elections, and our borders pouring illegals into
this country with some, no doubt, with intent to do the citizenry
harm.
Energy prices
soaring only to get worse. Financial ruin awaits everyone who is suddenly out of
a job and can't find work. Unemployment at a false low of 7.8% will most likely
soar in the coming months. Evil is at the door of every American living today.
It waits to engulf us, but most go merrily along without a care in the world.
Obama will fix it. Really?
This is the man
who has repeatedly circumvented the clear constraints of the U.S. Constitution
with edicts and executive orders, thus bypassing the legislature who are the
lawmakers, and guardians of the purse strings. This is the man, who threatens by
UN agreement to take away our Second Amendment right to bear arms. This is the
man who constrains our ability to be energy independent by bowing to the
environmentalist at the EPA.
This is the man
who spends and wants to tax the masses till the buffalo on the nickel bellows in
pain. We are fast approaching financial insolvency and the collapse of our
economy. Millions will die from starvation or the streets will be filled with
rioters. Martial law will be enacted and many will be imprisoned for being
scared and hungry. And this is just a partial list of the Obamination that
inflicts our country. This is the same path that many dictators have taken to
control the masses, thus making themselves in effect, king. All hail, the
king?
Oh, we yearn for a
simpler time; when American was the home of brave, land of the free. America
started on the right foot, but see how far we have fallen?
James Madison
said:
We have staked the
whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far
from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the
capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us
to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the
Ten Commandments of God.
A great start for
this country, but what have we done? We have turned our backs on God, and I fear
that He has turned His back on us, as a nation.
Do we think that
it was coincidence that the largest perfect storm to hit the United States
called "Hurricane Sandy" was pure global warming, as the pundits want to
suggest? I believe God has given us wake-up call after wake-up call. 9/11/2001
was such a call. Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy most likely, were wake up calls as
well. It seems that God is trying to get our attention. Are we listening?
Appears not, as we need a king to rule over us. We need someone to fix what ails
this country.
We put our trust
in a man, that the media says "gives them a tingle up their leg." We want a
messiah, a deliverer, or anyone who can solve our problems for us. We want a
modern day, King Saul. We want free health care, we want free "Obama phones," we
want food stamps and any and all government handout systems that will relieve us
from self-reliance and getting off our duffs to have God provide. What? God
provide? It seems we threw Him out long ago. Don't look to God in your present
condition. Look to Obama!! Yeah, right!!!
We don't even
know who this man is or his background. We don't know where he came from with
certainty. We just go right on trusting our modern messiah. So we went to the
polls and at least 47% of Americans on the welfare dole, voted for this man. The
rest was by hook or crook, as the powers that be aren't going to give up without
a fight, or a plan to steal it right out from under our noses.
King
Obama
It has been
reported that this administration is the most divisive, non-transparent, and
narcissistic of any modern presidency of our time. Look at his record, or the
lack thereof. Barack Obama stands openly for the things that God is against. He
takes great pride is doing so. He campaigned with these things as the reasons
why you should vote for him and re-elect him to the office of president. The
first time he ran for president he was largely an unknown entity, and he used
great guile and deceit to become elected.
But when we all
went to the polls this month to again decide to vote him in or not, he was a
very well-known candidate. My question is, why? Because the problem is not that
we elected again an unqualified man to lead this nation, as our prince, but the
problem is "We the people." Look in the mirror, folks. Do you see the problem?
It's an unbelieving society. We are so far removed from the teachings of the
bible, if the founding fathers were resurrected, they would surely shake their
head in dismay and disbelief.
I have changed my
mind about the future of American, as I fear that we are so far removed from God
that we will never find our way back. The corner has been turned, and there is
NO coming back. Pray all you want for this nation, but I see the judgment of God
coming to our shores and covering the land like a cloud. To administer judgment,
God has a historical habit of using men to enact His penalty for rebellion
against His Laws, and His way of life. Coupled with that, expect more
natural disasters, environmental upheaval, and untold destruction. Islam and
their evil cohorts smell our weakness and they will only get stronger, as we get
weaker. The only thing holding back complete annihilation is that God's church,
His true church is in the way. When I say, true church, I don't mean that modern
social club that sits in Sunday services thinking on anything and everything
that is of this world and its pleasures. As it was in the days of Noah and Lot,
our Lord's statement in Luke 17:26-30 warns:
"And as it was in
the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did
eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them
all.
Likewise also as
it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold,
they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall
it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."
Jesus warned that
there will be no messiah, until the true Messiah, the Lord of Hosts will break
through the clouds and proclaim, "Come up hither." When Jesus calls for His
church to be removed, then my reader, "All hell will break loose." No false
messiah, no Obama and no mere man will be able to save this nation from utter
destruction. America will have gone the way of ancient Rome, destroyed.
Why is the nation
of America not mentioned anywhere in the Bible? I believe she will be decimated
to the level of a third world country or invaded from without or from within.
The principles that we rebelled against that were God given will matter not in
the least to what's left of this nation at that hour.
Judgment in all
its wrath will be raining down all over the world, and this nation SHOULD, and
will possibly receive the greatest condemnation as it had so much, and gave up
even more when so many turned their backs on their only benefactor that insured
their greatness and their posterity, God Almighty.
This nation that
poured untold amount of missionaries into other countries in days gone by,
printed millions of copies of God's Word to be distributed worldwide, and
professed to be a Judeo-Christian believing nation, has abandoned it all. It
will be a judgment sorely deserved and awful to watch.
Election
Is Over, America Lost
Men and women of
conservative political persuasion lament the outcome of this past election.
Maybe God would have given us more time by electing a president Romney, but from
where I stand, God has said "NO." I believe there is no more time. When will
this judgment start in earnest? I believe the introduction has begun. The first
act of impending judgment awaits its beginning with the opening of the First
Seal of Revelation 6:1-2:
"And I saw when
the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder,
one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white
horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he
went forth conquering, and to conquer."
This is the
beginning of the wrath of God, or the revealing of the Antichrist, the one who
sits on the white horse. How close is this man to be revealed? It would be safe
to say that this man is alive today. Many have hypothesized that Obama could be
this man. Is he? We can't say for sure, as he doesn't fit a lot of the
requirements and attributes of the infamous anti-Christ. But one thing is
certain, Obama is anti-God, anti-Bible, and anti-Christian no matter what he
mouths in words, as his deeds betray him.
We have nationally
elected by whatever means a man devoid of Christian principles and biblical
foundation for governing in righteousness or at least in honesty and truth. BUT
with all the doubts and failings in this president, WE THE PEOPLE ignored all
that and elected him anyway. It will come back to haunt us all. It spells the
spiraling death dive of a once great God fearing nation to its shame.
When the hour
comes upon you and judgment begins to fall, who will you look to? Will you hold
out your hand to Obama (or any sitting president if it should go to another man
or woman to fill that office) or will you raise your hands to heaven and pray to
your only hope, God Almighty through His Son, Jesus Christ?
If that man who
is spoken of in Revelation chapter 6 rides upon the scene and you wonder what
all the commotion is about when some report disappearance of a bunch of people
all over the earth, then what will you be thinking. Will you be thinking that
God is my source of deliverance or will you be voicing, "All hail, the king?"
Most likely according to Scripture, the latter will be your only choice and
you're only thought. Help from the king? Don't hold your breath. Death and
destruction is probably your future. When that happens:
1 Samuel 8.18: And
in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for
yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day."
But there is a
better choice. A choice for eternity, a choice for life:
2 Corinthians 6.2:
"For he saith, I
have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured
thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation."
For Jesus said in
John:
Jesus said to
him,"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me."
Hebrews
9.27-28:
"And as it is
appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was
offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will
appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation."
Don't make the
mistake that Obama or any other mortal can make your life meaningful or solve
your earthly problems. Look to Jesus who is our source for eternal life. Don't
look to an earthly king, but to the Lord of lords, and King of kings. Don't wait
another day. Time is running out.
This is Pastor
Mike Taylor, praying God's salvation comes into your life. If you have need for
counseling, prayer or just a listening ear, send me an email: realteam1999@sbcglobal.net , or visit me online at www.churchofgod-usa.org .
God bless you,
until we meet at Jesus' feet.
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