WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD LEARN FROM THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

 WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD LEARN FROM THE 2020 ELECTION

Many of us are extremely disappointed in the pending most probable outcome of the Presidential election.  Though we may feel that the outcome was stolen by illegal votes mailed in by Democrats, our President is fighting the illegal activities through the courts and will hopefully prevail.

If, however, he does not prevail, though we may initially be personally disappointed and distraught over the results, though we may dread the aspect of having to live under a God-hating administration of basically evil people, we need NOT let that keep us in despair and discontent in our status.  We must remember the lessons from God's word, which teaches us that ALL events in our lives are controlled completely by God.  In Philippians 4:10-13, Paul writes that he has learned to be content in every situation.

Dr. Charles Stanley's sermon today in intouch.org speaks directly to this.  He says that we can be content in every situation through our faith in God through Christ Jesus if we remember four lessons: Here is a link to his sermon from today, “Contentment in All Situations”:  https://www.intouch.org/listen/featured/contentment-in-all-circumstances.

Dr. Stanley’s four main points are as follows:

• 1. Remember that every event in our lives is controlled by God and is designed to make us more like Christ on this earth. 

• 2. If we believe #1, then we must submit to God's control of the situation

• 3. In our submission, we must learn to trust God that this situation, in the long run, is what is best for us to conform us more to Christ.

• 4. We need to learn to draw instantly from God’s power given to us through the Holy Spirit to guide us through learning to be content in our circumstances and the lessons that God is teaching us through the circumstances.

This lesson caused me to step back and look at the election from a higher  perspective.  I remembered how God dealt with Israel all the times that nation forgot or intentionally turned its back on God, even after being rescued from four hundred years of enslavement to Egypt by God through His messenger Moses.  Is America not in a situation very similar to how God treated Israel?  

• Has America’s government not turned its back on God as the establisher, sustainer, and protector of this nation?  

• Has America not instead become arrogant and conceited, believing that it does not need God anymore, or even worse, banning God from all public institutions and teaching that God does not exist?  

• Has America rejected the teaching of the Bible and, in fact, mocked and turned the truths of God in the Bible into objects of ridicule and condemnation; truths like adultery being a sin, homosexuality being an abomination, same-sex marriage being a sin?  

• Has America started worshiping false gods like fame, beauty, wealth, sex, drugs, adoration of self, and power, and turned its back onf the God of our founders, the Lord God, creator of the universe, the one true God?

• Has America become a nation that sacrifices its unborn children to the God of “a woman’s choice”, or sexual freedom, the same way that Canaanites sacrificed their children to Moloch?

I believe most Christians would answer these questions with a definite “YES”.  My personal beliefs say America as a nation has abandoned Christianity.  Instead, we have become a nation led by hypocritical politicians, influenced by predominantly secular, misguided news organizations controlled by evil, misguided, narcissistic, brainwashed individuals who do not worship God and fear nothing but failure in the ratings races.  We as Christians have sat by and done little to stem the tide of secular humanism that had been spreading through the nation for two generations.  Now, our gullible, brainwashed youth are rebelling against us, against God, and against anything that the liberal left says they should rebel against.  

My tendencies during this time are probably typical of most Christians.  I rotate through spells of anger, frustration, rebellion, depression, sadness, resolve, and determination to fight back.  I ask myself “how can so many people be so stupid?”.  The soldier/warrior instinct surfaces; to quote my former fighter squadron patch’s slogan “Patience my a**, I’m gonna kill something”!  Then that quiet inner voice of the Holy Spirit in me speaks up and reminds me that I made a choice a long time ago to let God be the Lord of my life; to control my thoughts so that they honor him, and I am broken again of my rage, my hate, my sadness, my dread, and I pray to my Savior for forgiveness, and for wisdom to honor Him in all I do.  

Today, when I listened to Dr. Charles Stanley, I was reminded of how the Apostle Paul handled himself through the good times and the bad.  His experiences taught him how to be content in every situation; abundance, poverty, freedom, abuse, or imprisonment, Paul learned to be content.  I reflect back on the Israelites and how they had to learn to turn back to God when they strayed and were enslaved and persecuted, and I see the great analogy to America.  It is America’s time to be humbled by God, and we Christians living in America well feel the impact of the chastisement along with those who brought it on us.  America has to be chastised, and God will do so as He desires.

This is  a lesson evident throughout the Bible.  No matter whether we like it or not, God is in total control, and America will be chastised until it sees the error of its ways and returns to God as our Father, Protector, Disciplinarian, and Giver of good gifts.  God will NOT allow it both ways.  Will there be pain?  Yes.  Will there be trials?  Yes.  What do Christians do?  We recognize and acknowledge that God is in total control of this situation.  Though he may not have imposed it upon us, He definitely allowed it so that we might learn lessons from it that  in the long run, conform us more towards Christ.

Finally, the question arises, “do we just stand by idly while all this evil occurs?”  I believe that the Bible teaches us that we are to comply with the dictates of our leaders, but it does NOT teach that we should be silent.  Daniel was not silent, and he used persuasion to convince his captors to allow him to each foods which did not violate God’s laws at the time.  Paul went into the Temples and taught the Gospel regardless of the punishments he received.  Virtually all the apostles suffered because of their refusal to stop preaching the Gospel of Christ.  Therefore, I believe that it is our duty as Christians to unashamedly profess the truths of the Bible to anyone who will listen.  It is our duty to point out lies from our leaders, the news media, and anyone who tries to convince people that God’s laws are not Holy, are from Divine inspiration, and that things like homosexuality, abortion, gay marriage, or persecution of Christians for speaking the truths of the Bible are wrong.  I also believe that we need to continue to support our police, firemen, and military and speak against those who try to persecute them.  We must stand for truth, justice, and God’s way in America while also being good citizens and obeying our elected leaders.

When David heard how the Phillistines were attacking and mocking God, he put on the whole armor of God and faced his enemy fearlessly because he knew the enemy was evil, and he believe God would deliver them into his hands, which he did. When we are attacked if we defend God, we do not have to stand by and let the evil harm us or our property. The law gives us the right to defend ourselves if attacked by lawless people or groups, and we should not be afraid to do so. It is my belief that we should at first try to convince them of the error of their ways according to God's laws, and we should pray for them, but if they persist with their intent to hurt us, our families, or our property, that we should exercise our right to stop them however it is required to attain that stoppage, using only the least amount of force as possible. I heard someone say that "we are in a war for the soul of our nation". I do not know who said it, but I do believe that is a completely accurate statement. We should not initiate any attacks, but we are perfectly within our rights as citizens, and I believe as a Christian, to defend ourselves and our properties against lawbrakers who are attacking us illegally.

To quote Dr. Charles Stanley, our duty is to obey God, and leave the consequences to Him.  God bless America.  

OPEN LETTER TO ALL U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: "SCOTUS HAS ABANDONED 'ORIGINAL INTENT' AS THE FOUNDERS INTENDED IT TO BE"

 THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SCOTUS Justices complaining about how over the last seventy years, they have abandoned their original role of interpreting laws according to the Original Intent of the writers of the laws, and yielded to social pressures.  

The letter included numerous quotes from our founding fathers regarding the Bible and Religion and government.  Those founding fathers would probably have shot or hung many of the justices that have been on the bench the last sixty or seventy years!  Many of them should be or should have been impeached!

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November 5, 2020

 

Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh,
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice Stephen G. Greyer
Associate Justice Elena Kagan
Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice Neal N. Gorsuch
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett
 

Dear Justices,

 First, let it be known that I am publishing this letter on every social media site that I can, and am encouraging all my “friends” on social media to copy, print, and mail copies of this letter to every SCOTUS justice, just as I am.  I am also asking every friend to share it with every one of their friends and that they also will print and mail this letter to SCOTUS.  I am praying that America will flood the SCOTUS mailbox with sixty-plus million signed letters protesting and demanding change in SCOTUS’s behavior.  I am also copying this letter along with a letter directly to the President, Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, Senator Rand Paul, and my Representative, Democrat John A. Yarmuth, who does nothing but what Pelosi tells him he can do!

 I am amazed at how well you “Justices” can sleep at night; especially the liberal members of the court.  How do you sleep knowing that the rulings of your court and your predecessors have let to America now basically being a nation on the verge of another Civil war thanks to your dictates over the last seventy years? 

 I am amazed at how cowardly our legislators are, and why impeachment proceeding were not filed on those justices who were responsible for destroying the use of precedent rulings in their decision, and instead decided to yield to public pressure to adjust the Constitution’s original intent as written by the founders and ruled instead by societal pressures of the day. 

 The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States makes no caveats when it states “…Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Federal, State and local governmental officials that set out to prevent citizens from exercising our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms are behaving in an unlawful and unconstitutional fashion, and it is our duty to oppose and resist such behavior. 

 I think the term “prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” is self-explanatory! Neither SCOTUS, POTUS, Mayors, City Councils, City Managers, or anyone else that can be named has the right to prohibit a church’s right to worship as it sees fit according to its church doctrine.  Citizens of the United States of America have a God-given right to worship their Creator however and whenever they see fit, and any Federal, State, or Local Governing body is constrained by this Amendment to the Constitution from interfering with that worship. 

 As a taxpayer I deeply resent the over-reach that has taken place in cities and towns across this nation during this pandemic.  The persecution and tactics of state and local officials against those wishing to worship their creator as they see fit is a flagrant violation of the 1^st Amendment, and should be opposed with great vigor in situations where the Pastor, church governing boards, and members decide that they wish to meet in person.  I am encouraging all to resist both legally and with protest any movement by the U.S. or State or local governments to stop those services.

 As the 3^rd and smallest branch of the U.S. Federal Government, the SCOTUS is responsible to decide legal matters according to the U.S. Constitution.  It is your jobs to protect and defend, and interpret the Constitutional issues based upon what the writers of that Constitution intended the pertinent articles of that Constitution to provide for the citizens.  You have failed miserably for the most part in those decisions since the late 1940’s with the Brown versus Board of Education decision.  What a ridiculous ruling that was!  The majority of that ruling certainly caused the founders of our great nation to roll over in their graves and cry foul!  One complaining parent does not want his child to have to pray because that parent is an atheist.  So instead of allowing that student to be excused during the prayer, the entire class is prohibited from participating in that prayer?  And can someone please explain to me how allowing a prayer is somehow establishing a national church, especially when something as simple as setting aside a room for children whose parents do not want them to hear a prayer is violating their civil rights?  What kind of warped mind could conceive these ideas?  Talk about over-reaching.  The Pharisees and Sadducees in Jesus’s day would have been proud of that type of lunacy!

 Where in the Constitution did it read that the government’s role was to protect citizens FROM religion?  I do not see that anywhere!  I see in the wording of that 1^st Amendment that the SCOTUS is prohibited from interfering with an act of worship anywhere and anytime.  It is also obvious that the SCOTUS hearing the Brown case chose to ignore the wishes of our founders, which were readily available if they had done their homework.  Had they looked, they would have found statements by John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson said, “…The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were …the general principles of Christianity….Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God….I could therefore safely say, consistently with all my then and present information, that I believed they would never make discoveries in contradiction to those general principles.”

Or they could have referred to the Northwest Ordinance, which was used in the development of the 1^st Amendment, which said “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, school and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”

 How about what our 2^nd President John Adams thought about religion being important to the country’s well-being:  ““We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any others”

 Here are numerous other quotes from founding fathers regarding the Bible in schools!  OH, and by the way; SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION, and the way that it has been interpreted by SCOTUS is not what then President Jefferson intended when he wrote it to the Danbury Baptist.  In fact, the correct interpretation is exactly the opposite of what SCOTUS has used; Jefferson was promising that government would NOT interfere in anyway with the way they practiced their religion.  That is a phrase manipulated by liberal judges in to justify their banning prayer in the public schools and now virtually everywhere but inside church buildings and private homes!

 

1.     The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [extinguishing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. [T]he Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. . . . [It] should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public temporal happiness.
BENJAMIN RUSH, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION

2.     [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
FISHER AMES, AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE LANGUAGE FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT

3.     Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited.... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.  I have examined all [religions]... and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.
JOHN ADAMS

4.     [T]he Bible.... [is] a book containing the history of all men and of all nations and... [is] a necessary part of a polite education.
HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; U.S. DIPLOMAT; SELECTED AS DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

5.     The Bible itself [is] the common inheritance, not merely of Christendom, but of the world. 
JOSEPH STORY, U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE; FATHER OF AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE

6.     To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible . . . "it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it."
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

7.     The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and of public life is there displayed.... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, PENMAN AND SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION

8.     [The Bible] is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.
PATRICK HENRY

9.     [T]o the free and universal reading of the Bible in that age, men were much indebted for right views of civil liberty. The Bible is . . . a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man.[64]
DANIEL WEBSTER

10. The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
JOHN JAY, ORIGINAL CHIEF-JUSTICE OF THE U S. SUPREME COURT

11. The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.
NOAH WEBSTER

12. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses.
JAMES MCHENRY, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION

By motivation directed straight out of the pits of hell, SCOTUS over the years has passed and reaffirmed laws which basically have accomplished exactly the opposite of what our founders intended for our new government’s relationship with Christianity to be! 

 Shame on the SCOTUS.  Shame on even the new courts where politics have resulted in rulings which guarantee at least somewhere between two and three million innocent unborn children will be murdered and butchered by companies like Planned Parenthood because a woman’s control over her own body is deemed more important than a babies right to life!  I am certainly glad that when I stand before God after my death, I will not have to answer for allowing genocide against American unborn children as many SCOTUS justices will have to do.  I hope they-all enjoy burning sulfa bathes!

Sincerely,                                                                           

Carey S. O’Neal, Jr.
MAJOR, USAF/USAR (ret’d), MBA
csonealjr@gmail.com

https://csoneal.wixsite.com/onealmanagement

Protest Letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell re: "Kneelers"

 Here is a link to my latest post:  OPEN LETTER TO COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL RE:  "KNEELERS"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IG2n3aFhrgBdlQYDWliDlDERTwiBY8bq/view?usp=sharing