You know what bothers me about what you just wrote
@runningwings ?
Ii was thinking today... ( I do that sometimes)
We have a very big adversary trying to take us out right now. The Chinese Communist Party.
They have infiltrated almost every aspect of our western way of life and democracy.
Our beliefs, our trusts, and are systematically stripping away our humanity and our rights.
You said:
I am of the opinion we must abide by the governing authorities - they were placed there by God.
And I was thinking about how Israel when they would turn away from God, some adversarial nation would be given power to overcome the Israel people.
Like Nebucchednezar was given a kingdom and a people to be God's arm to chastise His people that had gone awol.
Like Rome was given authority by God to rule over and control Jerusalem and all of Asia, all through the Gospels and the book of Acts, until Rome was conquered and another rose in it's place.
We know that this country for a long time now has fallen from God's Grace.
Our lewdness and crimes have overtaken the foundations, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And has turned into a cesspool of do what you want, when you want, regardless of who gets stepped on, abused, or even killed.
I am of the opinion that China is not a coincidence.
That they are being allowed to accumulate power and wealth, to use tactics against us that normally we would never think of doing as a nation.
Spying, propaganda, race baiting, attacking people's beliefs and religions...
That's just not American...
But it is the way the Chinese operate. Infiltration from within.
And the only way they could have come in is, the watchers fell asleep at the gate. They fell asleep on the wall.
We let our defences down. We removed prayers from schools. We allowed new technologies to take the place of studying and learning,
congregating, family, and prayer.
We dropped the ball.
We allowed our core principles to be chipped away. We opened our elementary schools to in any other decade would be considered almost pornographic if not wholly so. Allowing drag queens to read storytime to our children in Libraries. Some dressed as very creepy entities, but they have also been caught exposing themselves to children while reading stories.
We have allowed hatred to take control of every aspect of relationships. Gender. race. religion. political party..
Now my problem is...
China doesn't have an ounce of christianity in it's pinky finger.
They are genociding Muslim Uigers in China as we speak.
They have no mercy.
How do we allow ourselves as christians to put ourselves under an authority that knows no God?
That leads me to think of the Hebrews who when a new Pharaoh (power) rose up, who didn't know God, didn't even know Joseph.
But brought all the Hebrews under his authoritative dictatorship.
Increased labour with less resources, enslaved them to work for his empire.
Moses led a revolt. Pharoah's time had come to be cast down because now another would become first and the first would become last.
The rise and fall of nations.
And so here we are.. America First, the Greatest, Richest, most Democratic nation of the world... gone Godless..
We can't continue the path of being the greatest and Godless at the same time.
China is the Lord's Nebuchadnezzar, and we will be chastised.
I just pray we don't forget to pray.
That we keep God alive in our children so that China can not strip Him from our children's heritage.
They will try and already are turning people away from churches, their pastors...
they use propaganda to smear people and call them criminals, even though they may be innocent,
it causes mistrust, and doubt...
It is a way they erode things that our at the core of hearts and beliefs.
How do we allow ourselves to submit to that kind of authority?
Thank You
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