"And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the LORD was moved by entreaty for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel."
(2 Samuel 24:25)
The American presidential primaries reveal a nation which is moving farther and farther from its roots. Two candidates who advocate the murder of the unborn, the approval and legalization of same gender marriages, slavery to foreign oil by siding with those who refuse to use our own resources, appointing Supreme Court Justices who advocate consulting foreign legal systems, and big government as the answer to the nation's and even the world's problems, received more votes in an American primary than any other candidates in American history.
The American 2008 presidential election reflects a new spirit in "the land." It is an election year which is driven by gender and race. The population is on such a history-making agenda that Biblical/Kingdom principles mean nothing. I recently heard about a large evangelical, charismatic, black congregation in a major American city which is supporting Barack Obama. Its neighboring interracial congregation has many of its members also on the Obama deception. And reports have been leaking out that more and more women, church-goers and non church-goers alike, are admitting that their votes for Hillary are based on her gender. I have been saying this for months and have received comments that I am just wrong, that Americans are more "intelligent" than that, and that I am bigoted. We'll see.
But in spite of the bleak horizon, if you consider our text, you will not be discouraged. The Living Triune God is "moved by entreaty for the land," any land which has a people who are not loyal to their ethnicity or their gender, but to Their Lord Jesus Christ. Push anyone hard enough and you will find where their loyalties really lie. And it is time for you and me to "push" the Church in "the land," whether America or any nation of the world. Don't allow Satan to appeal to your gender or race. Don't allow the prevailing culture in your "land" govern the way you live------------ or vote! May the attitude of Caleb guide our "entreaty for the land" today.
"As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me (us) and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said."
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
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