Doug Giles
I don't know about you, but when I look at
the multifaceted ways Obama and his ilk are
destroying our nation I get more angry and
depressed than Ted Nugent being forced to
watch Lois Lerner do an interpretive dance to
Boy George's song Do You Really Want To
Hurt Me, the extended cut.
Obama has overwhelmed/is truly
overwhelming our nation with truly
overwhelming cataclysmic crises that have
left a lot of good people saying, “Screw it. I'm
moving to Panama.”
Despair seems to be the soup de jour and it's
being served up to us cold. Ice cold.
When I get around people who still give a flip
about our nation the conversation inevitably
goes to “What can we do to stop this fetid
mess BHO and his boys are foisting upon our
land?”
The typical response is: Get knowledgeable
about what our nation was originally
intended to be and what a cartoon of that we
have now become. After that get active, get
vocal, protest, vote with your money, join
Facebook groups with like-minded warriors,
go to a bunch of conferences, scream at the
television, and of course, vote during
elections.
The problem is we do all that and it still
doesn't look like we're putting a dent in what
the President and the progressives are doing
to our land and a lot of folks think that our
votes won't count anyway because of voter
fraud and corruption.
Some people of faith conclude, “Well ... I
guess this is The End. Our preacher said it
was gonna get this way before Jesus returns
to kick some ass.' And they resolve
themselves to apathy and cynicism and
become about as active Howard Hughes was
during the flu season.
Speaking of God, for those who still care
about Him and what He and His word think,
what does the Bible say we should believe and
look for when our nation is getting gutted and
ransacked by leaders and policies that try to
dispense with that which is holy, just and
good? Does it lead us to despair? Should we
look for Jesus to rapture us out of this mess?
Should our current climate make believers act
like Lewis Black? Are. We. Done. For?
First off, let state that as much as it might
look like we’re Paula Abduling and going one
step forward and three steps back with the
best of our efforts to right the Obama wrongs,
I do believe our righteous works are working
and we need to step everything that we’re
doing up several notches and get aggressive
with the progressives.
Secondly, who the heck says that God’s only
recourse when dealing with sucky situations
is to rapture his people out the mess they’ve
allowed themselves to get into? Biblically
we've got a slew of passages that show that
God can and will jackhammer rulers who
dispense with his way and turn nations into a
lawless, idolatrous and godless mess. For
instance check out Psalm 2 gloomy Christian
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Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed,
saying,
“Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
“As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”
I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your
heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel.”
Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Let’s break this Psalm down, shall we? So,
what do we have? Well, according to the
psalm we have a nation and their ruler[s]
that’re blowing off God and his righteous
decrees, right? Right.
How does God respond? Does he pout? Quit?
Move to Panama? Start overeating Hagen Daz
because he’s so depressed? Does he
emotionally check out and starting smoking
weed and get into tie-dyeing beefy T’s to pass
the time? Let’s see shall we?
According to Psalm 2 God does three things.
1. He laughs at the people and rulers who
snub his ways. God’s amused that the puny
ants he has created have now decided they
can take things from here and they don’t
need his holy ways or wisdom. Not only does
he laugh at these wicked rulers who seek
autonomy but he also scoffs at them and
holds ‘em in derision. He thinks not only is
their rebellion laughable but he also makes
fun of them and sneers at them. Didn’t they
ever teach you this at Sunday School? I didn’t
think so. But it is Biblical, eh?
2. God rebukes the people and the rulers
crapping on the nation. “Rebuke” is a word
we don’t hear much of anymore, which
makes me like it all the more. Rebuke is sharp
or harsh disapproval. Check it out. Psalm 2
does not say, “God forgives and forgets” how
wicked people and policies are destroying a
land. It doesn’t say he’s changed his eternal
ways and is now cool with their hip, groovy,
21 century decisions. It does not say he’s
passive and merely acknowledges or, worse
yet, winks at their wantonness. Oh, heck no.
It says he castigates the folks that are jacking
things up.
3. Not only does God laugh, scoff and rebuke
the unrighteous acts of ingrate leaders, Pslam
2 also states that He is out to terrify him.
What does that mean? I don’t know but it
sounds terrifying, doesn’t it? When God arises
to whup some ass, from what I’ve read and
seen, you don’t what to be the recipient of
that pool cue. In several different ways the
inspired psalmist brands the reader with the
revelation that leaders and godless policies
impenitently pursued and propagated stir up
God’s terrible wrath and that he will unleash
it on their particular heads and land. Here,
in this psalm, a promise is given, in a
metaphorical way, that he will break and
dash their wicked ruler and their reign into
pieces. Whatever that means, it sounds pretty
bad and pretty thorough.
In conclusion, according to the Verbum Dei,
God states, according to Psalm 2, that he’s
going to bless his people; he promises to
establish his son’s rule and to protect those
who take refuge in him. For those who’re
blowing Him off and leading their nation
down highway 666 to CrapTown, God
promises in no small or unclear way to deal
with them in an exhaustive manner as only
he can.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, who love
God and this great land: expose, fight, protest,
vote, rally, decry and do everything in your
power to derail this dastardly dismantling of
our nation; and never forget that a Holy God
is also monitoring this BS and will temporally
and eternally kick the backside of those who
despise and dispense with His ways.
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