A If you were to call your local police station and try to file a missing person’s report, in most cases where there is no evidence of foul play, you would have to wait for about 24 hours simply to ensure the person may really be missing. And in many cases that makes good sense because many “missing persons” are missing for logical reasons unknown to the reporting party. However, do you think waiting for over 70 years is a logical waiting period?! I hope you don’t.
I have been shocked and angered for many decades about how so many confessing “Christians” have been consistently missing when it is time to vote in American elections, both national and local elections. There is no excuse for this sinful lethargy, or should I call it out as the sinful hypocrisy and self-righteous baloney it truly is? Quite frankly, I am unimpressed and unconvinced when people confess their faith in Jesus Christ yet do absolutely nothing to validate their confessions by how they live their lives. They just “want to fit in”, and that they accomplish well by continually letting pagans and satanists rule over them, and then they have the temerity to complain about all the corruption in our government!
When I was growing up in a Protestant church, we sometimes poked fun at the Roman Catholics with all their archaic traditions, yet we also respected them because they at least displayed a fearsome unity at the polls, and even the politicians walked on thin ice around that voting bloc. I don’t know much about today’s Catholics, but when I hear of the tens of millions of politically unengaged Christians who don’t vote election after election, for whatever self-righteous stupid reason, it angers me in a place I didn’t know I had. Just wanting the home team to win doesn’t matter at all if the home team doesn’t show up to play, and if the game is forfeited for that reason, how dare you be dumb enough to complain about the team’s record at the end of the season?!
As I prayed this morning, I found myself sincerely thanking God for all the truly evil people that God allowed to be in our current government, because without them becoming so painfully obvious, the few good men and women we do have would not stand out so clearly. Ever since heading into the second Obama presidency I have been astounded that our choices for even decent candidates seemed even remotely unclear to so many voters. In this coming election, the contrast between right and (very) wrong, good and evil is impossible to miss, yet the election may be lost to evil because millions of good men and women are too “religious” to vote.
In 30 AD Jesus did not have the right to vote, and to make His non-voting record an example for the religious hypocrites in our churches to also not vote, is to miss the point He did make. He came to undo the works of the devil, and if we have the means to mirror that mandate by voting, then by all means we should. The entire idea of “Government” was a creation of God. Why does it make any logical sense to not involve ourselves in it if we can?
This brings up another big, often unspoken question: why is politics almost never mentioned from American pulpits? American pulpits before and during the American Revolution were stuffed with pastors who publicly opposed the government evil foisted upon them. Many of them even preached with their muskets parked on their pulpits while they preached! Many pastors and their families died as they opposed British tyranny, and all who spoke against the British monarchy were hunted as criminals by the British troops. These pastors were called the “Black-Robed Regiment” (great, two-book series by Dan Fisher), and they were anything but shy when they preached against the evil of their time, and yet a majority of today’s pulpits are filled by men and women who preach as if they are paid government shills instead of people called to be spiritual leaders.
Many pastors spend more time during their “worship service” shaming tithers to give money than they do on their sermons, and if that’s your church I’d advise you run, don’t walk to the nearest exit. It should come as no surprise that pastors of churches like that are called “hirelings” in the Bible. It used to be a common saying among Christians that “God will provide where He guides.” Why should He fund what He isn’t doing?
I ran across a very well-written article today that is much better written than anything I could write, and I think you will like it: https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/15/staying-out-of-politics-is-not-the-moral-high-ground-some-christians-think-it-is/
While God is in charge of the war in the heavens, He has given Americans the responsibility to participate in the earthly battles of that war, and in war, many weapons are used – prayer is just one weapon; action should follow. In that sense, it matters more that we participate than whether we win the particular battle we are fighting.
We won’t be judged on winning the war because that’s God’s job; we will be judged on whether we fought it.
John Miltenberger
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