The 2006 Elections -
What does it mean to the Christian
by
Rev Michael Bresciani
As always right after any election the phrase “the
American people have spoken” is being resounded profusely. Given that
only forty percent of Americans have voted and of those the
disenthralled, the unlearned and the well coaxed make up a goodly
percentage of the voters, some are more willing to say “the American
people have regurgitated.”
Majority rule has never proved itself to be infallible. From lynch mobs
to the landslide re-election of former President Nixon in 1972 which
ended in cries for his impeachment, majority rule has in so many ways
proven that a crowd can be just as mistaken as an individual.
It is also said that the seats were lost because Americans want a new
Iraq policy. Staying the course is out and getting out is in. Abrogation
from anything that requires a little resolve and the slightest
protraction of time and effort is not so surprising in this country
today. America is the undisputed avant-garde of the X generation. In a
society where information is ingested in split second spots and daily
life is broken down into hundreds of little segments of business and
complexity it is little wonder that Americans are said to have the
shortest attention spans of any people in the world. Stay the course? It
would be easier to stop a swarm of killer bees by asking them to calm
down.
Adding to a short American attention span is short sightedness
concerning the nature of the conflict in Iraq. Removing Saddam from
power can only be a good thing for Iraq and for the rest of the world
but that is about where it ends. Trying to set up a democracy where a
religion formerly carried the ball for over fifteen centuries is like
trying to get the whole world to replace soccer with American football.
We are not dealing with clear cut ideologies like communism, fascism or
socialism in this region. We can’t call for the removal of a wall as we
did in 1989 or send aid to distressed countries as before to help them
and generate goodwill for the U.S. Now we are a spiritual entity
according to the Muslims (Satan) and it takes more than guns to bring
down Satan. It is an Islamic theology not a political ideology that is
what is making the U.S. Iraq policy ineffective.
Whether Allah is God or anything like God is up for major dispute but
that Arabs rule their countries as not so benevolent theocracies is not.
America is anything but a theocracy and there are few Americans who can
extend their thinking far enough to understand that kind of government.
To America government and theology are miles apart. They may compliment
each other but they don’t share the same seat.
It is wrong to say that all democrats are liberal but entirely safe to
say that the majority of liberals involved in politics can be found in
the democratic camp. While it is only a slight overstatement, liberals
are the crowd that generally believes that anything goes. They have been
severely suppressed these last twelve years by both the predominantly
republican house and a strong executive branch that has defined and
carried out policy that kept the old jack at bay. The democratic
rebellion was inevitable.
What does the democratic victory in both houses mean to the conservative
and more so what does it mean to the conservative Christian and the
Christian church? It is not a cause for panic but it is something to
carefully note because the political shift is probably a precursor of
yet darker and far more ominous trends and events.
Prophetically it would seem that just another shift between the
political left and the conservatives is nothing new, so why worry?
Normally that would be true. American politics has made countless shifts
in the past without plunging into confusion. The one difference today is
that nearly every major prophecy about the second coming of Christ is
now far underway. This put simply means that what America and the world
are running out of is not democracy, hopes for peace, theocracy or any
other form of government. What we are running out of is time.
It is not the seats in the Congress that are so important to the
believer but the seat of the Antichrist. For almost all conservative
eschatologists, theologians and Christians in general, that seat is
without doubt the newly formed European Union. Also the unanimous cry of
the ancient biblical prophets is that when Israel regains independent
sovereign nationhood and possesses Jerusalem again there is but a single
generation left before the arrival of Messiah. Other signs and portents
are emerging in full force through world events, nature and increased
warnings from those in the Christian community who have been called upon
by God himself to give stern and urgent warning to all who will listen.
Let’s do the long and the short of it. What liberals have already
engineered and what they are actively pursuing today might give us a
clue of what they could seek to accomplish in the future.
Liberals have brought in abortion, removal of school prayers, stem cell
research, removal of religious symbols in various places, restraints on
military chaplains concerning prayer, gay rights and same sex marriage
and civil contract laws. This is just scratching the surface the full
history would take up more space than this article is wont to produce.
To the serious student of bible prophecy the liberal progressives are
the most likely candidates to bring in the changes that are implied or
specifically warned about in the scriptures. With all other last days’
prophecies merging and barreling forward to the final rise of the
world’s last and worst dictator, the 2006 elections look like yet
another step in the wrong direction for America.
Here are some of the things that we will see ahead.
1. A totally new view of marriage and family that includes same sex and
multiple partners which will be protected under the law.
2. Laws that will attempt to limit what gospel preachers can say from
the pulpit about gays, abortion or any other disputed issue that has
come under constitutional protection through the law.
3. Removal of many of the protections and freedoms guaranteed under
501-C exemptions for churches and ministries.
4. The possible rise of a politician or someone akin to a minister of
science (the false prophet) that will encourage America to ally with the
emerging dictator of the European Union. (the Antichrist)
5. A participation in the world’s newest economic system that tracks all
the personal information on every person in the system.
6. The active demonizing and persecution of Christians first, then on to
any religion false or real.
7. The jailing and eventually the instant execution of anyone resisting
the new dictator by not becoming compliant with his economic program.
8. The shaking of the whole world by wars, natural disaster, disease and
pestilence which culminates in the bloodiest battle the world has ever
known, Armageddon. Where all the armies of the world will be gathered in
the vast plains of Esdraelon but will fall completely.
9. The second coming of Christ, who removes the governments from men and
sits in Jerusalem to rule for one thousand years of peace.
The new cultural churches of the day have become increasingly
uncomfortable with these kinds of prophecies. But to those who fully
understand the commission laid on them by the Lord Jesus Christ there
can be no apology or shrinking away from proclaiming them. I too would
rather that the world would come into its own and acquire peace and
harmony throughout the nations but this is not what is going to happen.
To apologize for broadcasting such portents would be the equivalent of
saying “I’m sorry for raising my voice” to someone whose life was spared
because you yelled at them to jump out of the way of a falling piano.
One item that is often missing in any warning about biblical prophecy is
a bit of advice to bolster or prepare the hearers of such
prognostications. The biblical prophets always provided their listeners
with a way out or a way to change course at least for individuals if
they were willing to listen. Here is my best advice.
Turn your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ. Start by confessing your
sins and then ask him to endow you with the Holy Spirit so you can live
the rest of your life under His Lordship.
Study your bible starting with the New Testament. Ignorance of Gods plan
will cost more than any crash of the stock market or personal loss you
may ever experience.
If you are already a believer stop being ashamed of the Lord Jesus
Christ and his gospel. If you are in a cultural or any other kind of
liberal church that is ashamed of him and every word he spoke…get out of
it! “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this
adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be
ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy
angels.” Matthew 8:38
Hurry! I don’t know the day or the hour Jesus is coming but I am
persuaded that we are approaching the midnight hour at breakneck speed
and when the smoke clears every now and then you can see the final
station just ahead.
About the Author
Rev Bresciani is the author of two Christian books. His articles on the second coming of Christ, faith, politics and the American way of life are read in every country in the world. Come visit http://www.americanprophet.org
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