Yesterday I thought again of the bizarre nature of national Presidential politics in the United States. The towering gullibility of the collective American mind is demonstrably bizarre.<\/p>\n
Consider the two-ring caucus presently launching the opening act of Let’s Elect a President 2016<\/em>.<\/p>\n The hawk-eyed Iowans will gather tonight to chatter and vote their hearts or minds in an effort to select a party standard bearer in each major political party. What comes out of Iowa tonight is supposed to be Really Significant.<\/strong><\/p>\n Look. I don’t want to be unkind or sarcastic, but I have to be blunt. Iowa is only one of fifty states. What’s with making the results tonight so significant? Weird. <\/p>\n Not only that, Iowans don’t even represent 1\/50th of the American vote. If 350,000 of them vote tonight, that’s only about 1\/1000th of the US population. And yet what they decide will cause campaigns to wax and wane. Weirder.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the polls and the pundits, the talkers and the bloggers, the politicians and the mathematicians will rule the night and the process. Provided the shadowy “Masters” approve, of course.<\/strong> Provided the dark prince of this world gives his nod.<\/p>\n All these rallies, caucuses, and primaries may be a charade, a game, a pacifier. The “Masters” may have an unprecedented, Constitution-conquering surprise awaiting on January 20, 2017.<\/p>\n But never mind that. Let me give you the foundation for a faithful Christian perspective on the Presidential race<\/strong>: God is sovereign<\/em>. All that happens in the universe, be it micro like US Presidential elections or macro like the broad scope of human affairs, is irrevocably subject to the oversight and overrule of God Himself.<\/p>\n Nothing spins out of control for the eternal Almighty. Nobody surprises Him. Nobody thwarts Him. Nobody defeats Him.<\/p>\n We could speculate about whom the Sovereign One will elevate to the Presidency next. I would rather consider the other three questions.<\/p>\n Who sounds most genuinely friendly to the Christian faith: Clinton, Cruz, Rubio, Sanders, Trump?<\/strong> I suppose Ted Cross does. (You do know cruz<\/em> is the Spanish word for cross<\/em>, right?) Then again, the man who would be trumped by no one says he has a great relationship with God. (Just never mind his godless speech about others and his manifestations of an unbiblical value system.) Actually, the better question is this: Who will actually accomplish God’s purposes?<\/em> I don’t know, but it could easily be the one who will carry forward the last seven years.<\/p>\n Who are the Christians in the race?<\/strong> I suggest a very stringent test which requires a Yes<\/em> to each of the following questions:<\/p>\n That’s a hard test. Is it an unjust one? Is it incomplete? Is it God’s? Do I pass?<\/p>\n What should be my role in the process?<\/strong> My role tonight is to not vote — I don’t live in Iowa. My role later is to abstain from voting at all — my primary citizenship is not in the USA; I’ve pledged allegiance to another kingdom. My role is far harder than casting a political ballot.<\/em> My role is to pray. And I don’t do that much at all. My praying is too absorbed by other matters. I mustn’t pray less about those other matters; I should pray more so I can include political matters, don’t you think?<\/p>\n Maybe your key question is this: What’s with the prophet stuff in the title? It’s to catch your attention. It’s a hat-tip to others’ labeling. It’s a shrug toward certain tests and quizzes (which I haven’t done in decades, OK?). It’s a distraction. But I’ll make a point from it anyway…<\/p>\n I don’t profess to foretell the future. If I’m a prophet, it would be in the sense that I declare (“forthtell”) God’s truth. That’s not a claim; it’s just a clarifying statement.<\/p>\n If you are a Christian who voted in the last Presidential election<\/strong> or two, answer these questions and ponder the implications of your answers:<\/p>\n I close with a question: How should I pray regarding this election and the process leading up to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n Two other posts from longer ago — they have Scriptures in them to explain my thoughts:<\/p>\n What’s with making the results tonight so significant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[668,880,903,952],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-politics","tag-elections","tag-life-lessons","tag-president","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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