To the Election and Beyond!

As the Presidential election draws closer, several sides look with great anticipation.  What sides you ask; Republican, Democrat, Left, Right, Liberals, Conservatives, Socialists, Capitalists, Theirs, Ours, Mine and Yours, just to name a few.

I didn't mention "Moderates" you say.  That is because I don't believe there are.  If you look back at candidates that have been labeled as such, they have been historically (in my short lifetime) liberal.  Not to disparage the "left", they might say, with good logic that these so called moderates were conservative?

The Bible refers to moderates as "luke warm", people whom are neither hot nor cold?  Today I think the term would be "wishy-washy"!?

Revelation 3:16 NIV     So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

What is really interesting is where this passage is found in the Bible.  Jesus the Christ is writing seven letters to seven churches and this is the last letter.  After this letter is the end of this chapter and the next act of God is the Rapture of His Church (Christians).   Laodicea was the wealthiest of the seven church cities.  The city was known for its banks, its manufacture of a rare black wool, and a medical school/system (sound just a tiny bit familiar?) that produced eye salve.  The hills had a very strange color.  The people took the clay from those hills and made it into a salve for the eyes and also the ears. This salve was shipped all over the Roman Empire.  Today the chemical analysis reveals that there is nothing healing in that clay, however some made a good living at selling it.  As civilized people today, there is still a lot of medicine on the market that won't do us a bit of good; yet we are buying it just as fast as we can.  This medicine comes in many forms but ironically it is designed to continually blind us from The Truth.

Revelation 3:14 NIV     To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation.   

"The faithful and true witness." This reveals that the Lord Jesus Christ alone is the One who will reveal all and tell all. This is the day when it is very difficult to hear the truth. We certainly don't get it through the news media or from the government. Both our educational institutions and the military are great brain-washing institutions. Whom can you believe? Well, there is One who is the faithful and true witness even in the days of apostasy. You cannot believe the church in many instances today; the liberal church has no message for this hour.  Dr J Vernon McGee

The election of the president is not our hope, it is the election of God's people and to be counted as one of them that will decide the fate of this nation.

2Ch 7:14 NIV     if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Psa 81:13-16 NIV

(13)  "If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,

(14)  how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!

(15)  Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

(16)  But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."

Something to think about...

ernie