We knew he could win, would stop at nothing to win; a “level
playing field” is for dreamers, it’s for politicians to use to buy votes. We
are resigned, we biblical Christians, we who read history, we who understand
economics. We are resigned.
You see, we know what is coming and I, for one, just want to
get it over with – like having a root canal. We had one last thread of hope in
this election, but deep in our bones we knew that the problem was much deeper
than anything an election could solve. We knew that as long as our fellow
Americans lack the integrity to see immorality as a problem, as long as they
trust government rather than God, as long as life is just about how much you
can scam from somebody else, then we are doomed. We know that it’s not possible
to run a country on wishing, on lying. This is not pretend.
And we knew that we were fighting a dishonest, biased media
and that we were working with a citizenry that has been systematically taught
not to think, not to be curious, not to face facts, not to love this country. After
more than a dozen years of institutionalized misinformation – both from our
churches and our schools -- and a constant drivel of Hollywood/television
propaganda, the resulting mass delusion is hard to overcome. We knew that.
Hope, however, is always struggling up through the mire, and we occasionally
indulged in imagining our friends and relatives waking some day, pre-election,
slapping palm to furrowed brow, and saying, “Boy, was I an idiot! I understand
now.” We hoped, but the lure of free phones evidently out-weighed the lure of
truth.
And there will be hell to pay. I don’t mind my liberal
friends gloating a bit right now. That will stop soon enough. Let them enjoy
themselves while they still can for their fairytale is drawing to an ugly, witchy close,
and we all need to brace ourselves.
What we will see now will be a mixture of economic
inevitability and biblical prophecy.
Soon war will erupt in the Middle East. Israel will win. Of
that I am sure, not just because the prophecies say so, but Israel has made it
this far – a God-proving miracle in itself. She has made it back to her land, against all odds,
just as the prophecies foretold, and she still has a huge part to play in the
rest of human history. She’s not going anywhere yet.
What will happen to us in that war, I don’t know. According
to Genesis 12:3 God has promised to “bless them that bless you and curse them
that curse you.” So far that has proven true. If this war breaks out as soon as
I think it will, and Obama is still in power, we will be in the “cursing”
category, a place we’ve never been before and it won’t be pretty. Name a nation
that has hurt Israel and you will be naming a nation that has met with mega
disaster – from the plagues of Egypt, to the dead army of Sennacherib, to the
defeat of the Spanish Armada it’s a terrifying picture. I don’t want to be in
one of those shots, but it is coming.
