Disappointment is hardly the word to describe my opinion of
the presidential election result. There is truth in The Patriot Post’s cartoon.
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Have we reached the point where Americans will vote for
“free stuff” without regard to the condition of our country? The liberal
establishment promotes the entitlement mindset, which conservatives have not
succeeded in countering. The schools reinforce the virtues of big government,
and the media promotes the decay of morality while they cover up for Obama’s
failures. The liberals downplay the seriousness of America’s economic problems, and
never mention the dangers facing the dollar. We need not puzzle too much over
the lost opportunity of a good chance we had of avoiding fiscal collapse. We just
need to face reality.
This is a situation that, in my view, a Christian has to
realize, is ultimately in God’s hands. As I try to look at this from an
evangelical orthodox Christian standpoint, several aspects of it come to mind.
1. In view of recent
history, the Obama Administration’s policies are evidence that God’s punitive
judgment is upon America
for serious and worsening sin. That does not mean that everyone who suffers
under God’s judgment of a nation is guilty; the innocent suffer as a result of
the sins of the guilty (case in point: babies murdered by abortion). The Sandy superstorm seems to put an exclamation point on the
ongoing judgment of America.
2. As John MacArthur has pointed out, one of our major
political parties has adopted the sins of Romans 1 as its political platform
[1]. MacArthur didn’t say “Democrats” but his meaning is evident. To emphasize
their anti-moral attitude, they avoided a convention decision to remove the
last mention of God from their party platform (a reference to God-given
abilities), by falsely declaring that the group voted by over two-thirds
majority to retain the reference. If you think Democrats can’t do any voter
fraud, they did in their convention.
3. It is extremely unlikely that anything substantial will
be done to reduce the deficits or to slow spending. Taxmageddon will arrive. As Mark Steyn points out,
Congress will reach a triumphant “bipartisan” agreement to postpone Taxmageddon
for a short while, and also increase the debt ceiling, but these postponements
will only make the final result worse.
4. Obama and his minions will continue to chip away at our
freedoms with increased fervor, with no one to stop them. Economy-killing
regulations, arbitrary restrictions, and executive decrees will rule the day,
and the Constitution will suffer even more. The Supreme Court will undermine it
still more with new liberal justices, worsening the already unreliable Court.
In terms of what can be done politically to resist any of
this, I propose the following, but also think it is likely that little or none
of it will be done:
1. Remove House Speaker John Boehner and replace him with a
conservative. Or else put plenty of Tea Party pressure on him to not give in to
Obama on Obamacare or anything else.
2. Hold a tight grip on the purse strings and don’t be
afraid to shut down the government.
3. Do not raise taxes; defund Obamacare and the EPA.
4. Mainly, cut spending. Don’t compromise. Don’t be afraid
of gridlock. It’s better than enacting Obama’s agenda.
5. Encourage state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws.
5. Encourage state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws.
6. Don’t compromise conservative principles.
We lost the election
and we will live with the consequences, but we don’t have to give up the fight.
A great deal of damage will be done in the next four years, but four years is
not forever. Don’t be too anxious to “work with” liberals. The objective should
be to defeat them. Those are my suggestions politically.
Politics can’t solve
all our problems. In the larger sense, Christians should pray for America and her
leaders that God will move them to change the course we’ve been on. However,
unless America
experiences a strong spiritual revival, it seems we are destined for some very
serious troubles in the next few years, which may or may not ever be corrected
in this life. The bright side of this is that God still is in control, and we
must trust in Him, knowing that eternity awaits, and that He will ultimately
make things right.
Christians, pray for America and pray for revival.
[1] John MacArthur, “The Campaign for Immorality,” Decision, November 2011. Published by
the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Charlotte, NC.
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