Yes, it is time!
Haggai 1:2 This is what the LORD Almighty
says: "These people say, `The time has not yet come for the LORD's house to
be built.'"
In Old Testament days, the first temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's temple) was totally
destroyed and the people were taken captive by the Babylonians. As they
moved back to their land, they kept making excuses why they should wait before
rebuilding God's temple
all the time they were busy improving their own houses. God sees our
desires and responds accordingly. In this example, God chose to punish the
people for their failures by withholding His blessings and the
people found themselves paralyzed as all their work was frustrated.
(see text below)
We have a parallel today with politics. How many claim
that now is not the right time to vote for a "third party" candidate,
further propagating the self-fulfilling prophecy that
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party) cannot win.
Some, especially Christians, claim that he cannot
win so they will not vote for him, proving that they were right. Instead
of making a difference, they accept the unacceptable.
When will
it be time? Will it be when the entire country is destroyed? Why
wait? You see, the longer we wait, both economically and spiritually, the more debt we owe not only to those
who hold our borrowed notes but to God Himself as we have chosen not to follow
His direction. We told God to stay out of our schools and our government.
We should have been thankful but we chose to spit in his eye. Until we
repent, our debt to Him will grow and our pain will increase. It is time.
It is past time.
It is time. We fear the Democrats. We don't fear God. Our nation
is under judgment today. We have lost God's protection.
We (especially the Christians) are under judgment for our unholy alliance with
the Republican Party as we see our nation fall further away from biblical and
constitutional guidelines. Politicians magnify the problem as they are in the pockets
of the businessmen. They cannot see beyond the next election. They
do not care for the people. They laugh at people who speak the truth. We
become ignorable distractions.
Our compromise has led us to probably the worst
choices in Republican and Democratic presidential candidates we have
had in recent years. Our compromise has taught others that
Christians are weak and will accept that which we claim is
unacceptable. We prove we are weak. It is time
for God's representatives on earth to act like we are the
all-powerful One's people. Stand firm, do our
duty, show faith in God, and deal with the results as God would have
us do.
Our economy
is in shambles. Food is expensive. Our people live for greedy gain. We care only about
ourselves, taking from others as we claim we are better businessmen.
Credit card debt has enslaved us. That is what
Secretary Paulson
wants to preserve! Our borrowing is the American way, he claims.
Without the availability of credit our nation will fall apart he claims.
Whatever happened to people holding off from purchasing what they
would like until they saved enough to afford it? The Paulson
bailout proposal exposes their arrogance and self-centered tunnel
vision. Politicians set this up as they set up 401k laws, trapping
people into tax deferred investments and losing the incentive of investing
elsewhere.
A couple of decades ago people generally held a job
for life if they performed well. Not anymore. To save
the costs of paying benefits, businessmen refuse to hire full-time
employees and hire multiple part-time employees, hurting those who
cannot afford the benefits on their own. People are fired to
avoid paying pensions. People become disposable, similar to
how prostitutes are used by self-centered, unscrupulous individuals.
How many lives must we hurt before we wake up? It is time
to repent.
It is time. We use flawed judgment that we
claim is progressive. Businessmen and politicians believe illegal aliens should
enrich themselves at American citizen's expense, a modern day form of slavery. We believe Wall Street and our corrupt government care about us.
We believe we can have all we want without paying for it. We believe
perception is reality exhibiting our overwhelming foolishness that has enormous
consequences. We believe
there was no God necessary to create us when we cannot even create ourselves. We claim we are
#1 when we don't work to become #1. We get used to school shootings.
We lose our troops as we fight an unconstitutional war. Gasoline is
expensive. Yes, we are being judged. God has turned us over to our
sins. We don't show love of others.
This attitude was predicted by Christ as He spoke of
times leading up to the end.
Matthew 24:12
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will
grow cold ,
Paul also spoke of this.
2 Timothy 3:1 But mark
this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will
be lovers of themselves , lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of
the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God-- 5 having a form of godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them.
It is time. The only way for our nation
(including our economy) to be healed is to
turn back to God. If we refuse, we will continue to suffer because of
deceit and lack of self-control that got us into this mess. We
must return to a populous with a general biblical morality, led by
Christian influence. Until then, we will find ourselves with attempting one
patch followed by another until we finally will fall victim to the final
overwhelming blow that devastates us. Why? Because our lack of love
of each other will devour us.
We are no longer the
shining city on the hill.
We love darkness. We are now recipients of the curses
Greed will rule until we turn back to Him.
Predatory lending is only a symptom of the true problem, our own hearts.
No one would take astronomical interest rates from those who are least able to pay
their loans back if they really cared for them. This used to be reserved
for loan sharks yet it is now commonplace in normal banking practices.
Even reputable banks steal from their customers when they add fees after fees
that empty bank accounts of those who least can afford it. People who took
loans they couldn't handle should take responsibility for their promise to pay
off these loans. No one forced such a decision on them either. The
Fed is unconstitutional and the Secretary of Treasury contributed to the problem
both at Goldman Sachs as well as more recently as he mislead the people claiming the
economy was sound, multiple times. There is a lot of blame to go around,
each of us should accept our role and repent.
We are no longer the
shining city on the hill.
We love darkness. We have become recipients of the curses John
Winthrop warned us about when he famously came up with the phrase.
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...But if our hearts shall turn away
so that we will not obey, but shall
be seduced and worship other Gods
our pleasures, and profits, and
serve them, it is propounded unto us
this day, we shall surely perish out
of the good Land whether we pass
over this vast Sea to possess it;
Therefore let
us choose life,
that we, and our Seed,
may live; by obeying his
voice, and cleaving to him,
for he is our life, and
our prosperity. |
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As Christians, our job is not to win. It is to be
faithful. Winning at any price is too high if you give up that which
matters most. Christians, we must be the first to repent!
Will we follow the Declaration of Independence and act as our
founders did when they said:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient
sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."
Pitchforks are appropriate, run them out.
Government needs to be smaller and unobtrusive to the citizens who
work and support the nation. It is
time once we repent.
Great News!!!!
Chuck Baldwin
has been
endorsed by Ron Paul. Baldwin is the only vote that speaks
against business as usual. It is the only vote for a return to
biblical values. It is the only vote that stands 100% with the
values God feels most strongly about, as He outlined in scriptures.
The others have been complicit with the economic failure and worse
yet, would rather please man than please God, our only hope and
strength. We are currently reaping what we sewed.
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Hagg 1:1 In the second year of King Darius, on the first
day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet
Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua
son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2 This is what the LORD Almighty
says: "These people say, `The time has not yet come for the LORD's house
to be built.'" 3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet
Haggai: 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled
houses, while this house remains a ruin?" 5 Now this is what the LORD
Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted
much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You
drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm.
You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it." 7 This is
what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up
into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I
may take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD. 9
"You expected
much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew
away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which
remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10
Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the
earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the
mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground
produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands." 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest,
and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their
God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God
had sent him. And the people feared the LORD. 13 Then Haggai, the LORD's
messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: "I am with you,"
declares the LORD. 14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel
son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the
people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty,
their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second
year of King Darius. |
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