Christians Reject God as Their King for Leaders Like Other Nations
Yes, believe it or not, this a photo of Rude Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag. The former Mayor of New York, admitted adulterer, estranged father, two-time divorcee, son of a mob enforcer, and nephew of a mobster that ran loan sharking and gambling in Flatbush, Brooklyn; but, the Religious Right loves him:Religious Protestants have come to view the issues that Giuliani has emphasized, "national security" and "fighting terror," as more crucial than those family issues they stressed in the past. (The American Conservative, June 4, 2007)I remain astounded at the power of 9/11 as a tool of mass mind control--likely the greatest instrument of propaganda used since Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. Everything must be sold or compromised for the sake of "national security." Our deepest morality is put aside so that we can allow political criminals and sexual deviants to protect us. What does this tell you? Christians don't believe their greatest "security" is found in faithfulness to God, or abiding under the shadow of the Almighty (Ps. 91). They will trust in Pharaoh in his chariots for protection (Is. 31:1). God will allow Pharaoh to rule over them!
How much lower can Christendom sink when their affection is directed toward worse than immoral men? This is the surest indicator that modern Christianity has all but forsaken the law of God. Even the old guard of perverted preachers like Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, and Robert Tilton are all back in business--or ministry--with hordes of faithful followers. Christians allowed the lying sodomite, Ted Haggard, to leave after a few weeks of counseling with money and a clean bill of health to start a brand new life. Now, they want a adulterating cross-dresser (Giuliani)--who's drunk on the blood of unborn babies and loves gay marriage--to protect them. I assure you, the judgment of God will soon be in vogue.
However, this is all probably necessary. The Scripture is clear that "when Thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness" (Is. 26:9). Despite this warning, God's people harden their hearts to the prophets and look to a man for security:
Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. (1 Sam. 8:19-20)God said to the frustrated prophet: "Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them" (v.7). But, for the record, Samuel the prophet still had to present the official statement of the Kingdom to this miserable people:
There will eventually be military conscription
"This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you. He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots." (v.11)
All GDP will go to support the military state (Closing in on a Trillion)In short, if you reject God as your king, and therefore as your protection, you shall be given civil rulers that shall create a totalitarian state and govern you by emergency; for it is only in a constant state of national emergency that despotic rulers can justify such draconian measures as military conscription, civilian workforces, eminent domain, and control of all national production.
"And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots." (v.12)
He'll create a civilian workforce (See Executive Order 11000)
"And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers." (v.13)..."and he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work." (v.16)
He will engage in Eminent Domain (Already happening)
"And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants." (v.14)
He will control farming and force farmers to serve the state (See Executive Order 10998)
"He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants." (v.17)
In this sense, I hardly see how radical Islam is the sole beneficiary of 9/11. For big oil, defense manufacturers, security companies, and the state, 9/11 is booming business. And while they are raking it in, Americans are suffering the rapid decline of the dollar, inflation, foreclosures, and the loss of their family members to foreign wars. All the while, those God-blessed Conservative Christians wave the flags of America and Israel while singing their liberties goodbye in the now ironic refrain of the National Anthem. If we were the "land of the free," we wouldn't tolerate such despotism. If this was the "home of the brave," we wouldn't put our trust in ungodly politicians to protect us.
The Christian, however, must be contrary to all world systems. He or she is the citizen of another country (Phil. 3:20). To make this point, I'll conclude with salient thoughts of Jaques Ellul:
"He [the Christian] is the citizen of another Kingdom, and it is thence that he derives his way of thinking, judging, and feeling. His heart and his thought are elsewhere. He is the subject of another State; he is the ambassador of this State upon earth (2 Cor. 5:20) -- that is to say, he ought to present the demands of his Master, he establishes a relation between the two, but he cannot take the side of this world. He stands up for the interests of his Master, as an ambassador champions the interests of his country." (Jaques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom, 34)
