The greatest tragedy in US history is that we were a nation founded by God and blessed by God and refused God's offer in 2 Chronicles 7:14!
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Ninevah did not have the Word of God, Ninevah did not know God! Their king didn't know God. The Word of God tells us they didn't know their right hand from their left! Yet they repented and turned from their wickedness!
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Jonah 4:11
They didn't know any better! God had to send his prophet Jonah to them to warn them!
In this country, what excuse do we have? We have the Word of God, the KJV Bible, Bible on CD, Bible on DVD, Bible on tape cassette...The best sermons by the greatest preachers of church history recorded on you tube. We have freedom to gather and worship the Lord and and it isn't against the law to preach the Word of God! Still, there is a famine in the land of the hearing of the Word of God!
There was a time when America was the envy of the world! We were blessed by God and yet this nation has steadfastly refused to repent and return to the Lord! THAT is the greatest tragedy of US history! After the judgment of God falls upon America, historians will look back and confirm this to be true.
I was on the treadmill today thinking of this very thing. My wife is praying that Trump wins, or more truthfully, Hillary loses.
I tell her that if it is God's will who wins then I am not sure He is going to listen to me about who should be president. Or for that matter even enter into the affair. Kinda like why does God allow tornadoes to hit churches. The truth is, He doesn't. God set the word into motion by laws and those laws govern what happens in the world. God on occasion will circumvent those laws but for the most part we are pretty much on our own. I use an example from "Letter From a Skeptic." I think I got the name right.
The story goes there is a house on the beaches of Normandy on dday. In the house are the sons of the Commander of the invasion. Shells and machine gun fire are everywhere. The sons call out to their father to save them. The father knows that by saving them many more will die thus he does nothing to help his sons.
So it is with your post, a very good one I might say. This election will dictate the course of the country. God has told us of the consequences of our actions. Not because God will punish us but more like picking up a hot frying pan, you were warned and you picked it up anyway and now you feel the pain.
Which doesn't make the decision of whom to we elect an easy one. My thoughts are we can not reward a proven liar. A person who thinks they are owed the position. A person who holds the unborn life in such contempt.. I truly believe we will be punished if we elect Hillary just as the country was punished by the election of Obama. Not a punishment melded out by God but by our own actions. Which has been the case through out time.
It is obvious that you love the LORD, Freewill. I want to assure of something. Although the commander did not rescue his own sons, you can be assured of this one thing - those who are God's sons and daughters and walk in obedience to Him will be like the Jews in Goshen who only saw with their eyes and heard with their ears the judgment of God and the cries of the wicked throughout Egypt.
The blood of the Lamb was put upon both sides of the doorposts and the top door post over the door. Here is the scripture: And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. Exodus 12:22
Then when that appointed night fell death swept through the land of Egypt killing the first born of all those who did not have the Lamb's Blood on the two side posts (of the door) and the lintel.
Now we are to stay under the covering of our blessed Savior's Blood and by obedience (not crossing the threshold - a symbol of disobedience...) He will keep us and the world shall see who belongs to God and who does not. Even as the Egyptians saw the difference between what happened to them during God's wrath being poured out and what did NOT happen to the Hebrews in Goshen.
The wrath of God is upon the wicked and the children of disobedience not his own obedient children. I can back this up by Scripture. Look at Psalm 17:13 and you will see that the wicked are God's Sword. If the wicked are God's sword we have nothing to fear because God will not turn His sword on His own obedient children. He shall keep us.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: Psalm 17:13
However .....and this is a big however... we are going to be persecuted. There is no question but that persecution is coming and that is something that we suffer to the glory of God. I can tell you something from personal experience. The greatest sufferings of persecution I have ever experienced in my life were also the sweetest times of fellowship with God I have ever had. His nearness was so tangible it was as if I could reach out and touch Him.
The peace of God is not like the peace the world has which disappears when terror strikes. The peace of God transcends all understanding and puts us above the storm clouds so that we do not feel the turbulence others feel (because they rejected God and His Word).
This is why Paul could write about contentment from a prison cell. Why he could sing and rejoice in the midst of bad circumstances.
One more thing about your mentioning tornadoes that tear down churches.... There are many possibilities here. We know that Satan sent a whirlwind to destroy the house where Job's children were gathered together and they all perished..... he is the prince of the power of the air - remember? See Ephesians Chapter 2:2.
On the other hand, if the church has fallen into sin, if the preacher has gone off into a false gospel or has not been vigilant to keep the altar undefiled (allowing people who live in sin to sing / play music from that altar) then Satan gains legal ground to attack and destroy that building. See John 1:5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
1 John 5:18
So many untimely deaths occur when we step over that threshold into sin and then the enemy petitions God on the grounds that he now has legal right to "touch us." (harm us)
Also - it could be a case like Job's where Satan petitions God to permit him to wage an attack claiming the Pastor is only serving God for benefits. We do not know but God does.
Nothing happens by chance, Freewill. God is in full control. He knows every hair on your head and those whom you love in your house so do not fear. God's got it. He is in full control. Read Psalm 91 tonight if you have the opportunity.
