Conservative Christian Politicians sounding a call to resist the new power in Washington with litigation and “hold their feet to the fire,” is like the three Hebrews trying to make Nebuchadnezzar ‘feel the heat’ on legal grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We just passed that point in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, God’s people were in that bind because God put them there for turning away from Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a time when the call to stand, shifts from standing up in order to change the forces in power—to falling down before God in repentance for what got us here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A realistic look at the current climate would call the people standing for God and freedom to prepare for persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fiery furnace has already been fired, and we’re not going to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The time to prepare lawsuits to change the mind and the course of action in Washington, is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get real—they’re laughing at threats against what they are doing (anti-American, anti-Constitutional, anti-God)—“Try to stop us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of the church taking (un)marching orders from the government (like the 1930’s church in Germany, like the American church in 2020), we need to seriously identify with Hebrews 11:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+God delivered some in<\/span> this world, miraculously, throughout the Bible and throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +”And others, . . .” God delivered others from<\/span> this world, through all kinds of horrible deaths, to glorious coronation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, Jesus is forever seated on His throne, at the right hand of the Father, after He completed His work, his horrible suffering and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, remember this—Jesus gets up from His throne to give a personal standing ovation for each Christian faithful in martyrdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Re-read Stephen in Acts, and re-visit Faithful in Pilgrim’s Progressl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conservative Christian Politicians sounding a call to resist the new power in Washington with litigation and “hold their feet to the fire,” is like the three Hebrews trying to make Nebuchadnezzar ‘feel the heat’ on legal grounds. We just passed that point in America. Actually, God’s people were in that bind because God put them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}