Governments always gets “their share” (plus)—right or wrong—unless the people stop them.\u00a0 Such is the content of history books.<\/p>\n
When I was growing up, I remember my dad opposing Social Security.\u00a0 He said taking our money for “retirement” was none of the government’s business.\u00a0 He was right, because the Bible is right—it just takes time for history to prove him right.<\/p>\n
Fifty years ago, this is how Daddy handled civil disobedience, and how he was “treated like a common criminal.”\u00a0 He arranged to have money in his checking account, and the United States government took it without his signature to pay for Social Security.<\/p>\n
Americans, Christians, Conservatives, get ready.\u00a0 Get ready for a repeat of my dad’s experience, and more, very soon.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t look good for us now.\u00a0 Government is never satisfied to get what is “theirs.”\u00a0 By the way, Jesus said government should get what is theirs.\u00a0 Today, they are coming after more, and more, and more.\u00a0 They are coming after us, especially Christians.\u00a0 It will be difficult.<\/p>\n
BUT, if you follow history in the Bible, and look at all world history in its light, you will see the rest of the story.<\/p>\n
Governments also “get theirs” in the final chapter, when bad governments and evil leaders get what’s coming to them.\u00a0 Sometimes, individually, we don’t live long enough to see it, but God is in control.\u00a0 He sets up empires to do His bidding—even to discipline His own people—and then He takes them down when He pleases.<\/p>\n
Such will be the rise and demise of nations today that hate God and His people, as well as nations that loved God and then forgot Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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