Could it be that the Biden Harris administration is a blessing from God? I read so often that God wanted a Trump administration. That Trump is God's man to bring conservative policies back into fashion. Yet if that were the case, was God's plans thwarted,? Christians often like to quote...
KJV Romans 13:1-2
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
...when there's a government they like. But that scripture tends to be conspicuous by it's absence when there's a government Christians don't like. So God wasn't powerful enough to bring about a presidency to His liking? Maybe the church wasn't praying enough... Yet surely not, I've never witnessed a more cohesive determined spiritual and physical response to a candidate ever in my life. Not even Reagan, or Carter or Bush, all professed Christians, got the church behind them any where near so much as had Trump. The devil and deep state more powerful than God who rules and reigns over the nations?
I think we need to remember who actually is the apple of God's eye. It's you. It isn't America. He wants what is best for you personally at all times, in all seasons, in all circumstances, and unless you stubbornly resist all His pleadings and chastisements, He will organise circumstances that will assist in your development, and happiness and maturity and He would not do anything other than what you would approve of if you could see the end from the beginning.
Was the church ready for a Trump presidency again? What really would have been the likely outcome of a Christian friendly state? What does history reveal? In the 4th century the state became friendly to the church. The emperor actually presided over church councils. What happened to the church then that was so enamored of the emperor? She apostatized. She grew complacent. She stopped growing. Her spiritual power disappeared and she had to resort to the state for the following 1200 years in order to wield any authority.
Maybe as I suggested in a thread several months ago, a Biden or Harris presidency is a blessing sent by God for the churches benefit? Before the above church/state union in the medieval church the church was spiritually unstoppable. She grew in leaps and bounds despite constant and vicious opposition. And even during the dark ages, when the Roman church was persecuting non Catholic Christians before and during the reformation, the church outside of the Catholic communion grew in power and the whole world was affected through the truths of the gospel. But I guess if there came opposition to the church through the current administration and worldview of it's supporters, any benefits would depend on what you do with it and your personal attitude toward those who hate you.
And then of course all the above just might be turned on it's proverbial ear with the second coming of Trump. Seems Christians are working harder to that end than speeding up Christ's second coming. And maybe that's the very reason you've got Biden.
KJV Romans 13:1-2
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
...when there's a government they like. But that scripture tends to be conspicuous by it's absence when there's a government Christians don't like. So God wasn't powerful enough to bring about a presidency to His liking? Maybe the church wasn't praying enough... Yet surely not, I've never witnessed a more cohesive determined spiritual and physical response to a candidate ever in my life. Not even Reagan, or Carter or Bush, all professed Christians, got the church behind them any where near so much as had Trump. The devil and deep state more powerful than God who rules and reigns over the nations?
I think we need to remember who actually is the apple of God's eye. It's you. It isn't America. He wants what is best for you personally at all times, in all seasons, in all circumstances, and unless you stubbornly resist all His pleadings and chastisements, He will organise circumstances that will assist in your development, and happiness and maturity and He would not do anything other than what you would approve of if you could see the end from the beginning.
Was the church ready for a Trump presidency again? What really would have been the likely outcome of a Christian friendly state? What does history reveal? In the 4th century the state became friendly to the church. The emperor actually presided over church councils. What happened to the church then that was so enamored of the emperor? She apostatized. She grew complacent. She stopped growing. Her spiritual power disappeared and she had to resort to the state for the following 1200 years in order to wield any authority.
Maybe as I suggested in a thread several months ago, a Biden or Harris presidency is a blessing sent by God for the churches benefit? Before the above church/state union in the medieval church the church was spiritually unstoppable. She grew in leaps and bounds despite constant and vicious opposition. And even during the dark ages, when the Roman church was persecuting non Catholic Christians before and during the reformation, the church outside of the Catholic communion grew in power and the whole world was affected through the truths of the gospel. But I guess if there came opposition to the church through the current administration and worldview of it's supporters, any benefits would depend on what you do with it and your personal attitude toward those who hate you.
And then of course all the above just might be turned on it's proverbial ear with the second coming of Trump. Seems Christians are working harder to that end than speeding up Christ's second coming. And maybe that's the very reason you've got Biden.
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