“Any successful election,” says Whatley, “requires a combination of a good candidate and a good campaign. We are really good at running campaigns. We can help with messaging and fundraising, grassroots organizing, and any other part of running a race. But good candidates are required, which is why we are here to talk to you.”
Over the last 100 years, however, contemporary Christendom has been in the ill-fated, lamentable habit of shying away from confrontation, contention, and conflict, thereby letting go to waste the Biblically based nation established by America’s Christian forefathers. A democratic republic can never be neutral regarding religion and morality, for someone’s values will reign supreme in the public square. Voter enthusiasm and turnout are key elements to affect a favorable outcome.
As a result of the Christian relinquishment of the public square, the State has exalted itself to a godlike position of worship, with the nation simultaneously and willfully turning away from Jehovah God to fully embrace the Baal of secularism. Of great importance as a seminal Mephistophelian moment in American history in this context was the ominous Warren Court’s [1953-1969] ruling to remove the Bible from public education in 1963.
As to let continuous secular control over church house, schoolhouse, statehouse, courthouse, movie house, and art-house go unchallenged, God’s Word must be eliminated from the public square and only allowed to be heard behind the walls of the church.3,4
Contemporary Christianity has completely lost the ability to wage spiritual battle with weapons that are not the weapons of the world [2 Corinthians 10:4] as well as accepting spiritual warfare and hostilities as part of the call. To quote the French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose, Blaise Pascal [1623-1662]: “The most cruel war that God can make with men in this life is to leave them without that war he came to bring. ‘I came to send war,’ He says, ‘and to teach them of this war.”
In his excellent book My God Is Yahweh: Elijah and Ahab in an Age of Apostasy, M.B. Van’t Veer comments on Ahab’s sin and the negative stamp it set on Canaan and the darkness that fell over the entire people of God in 1 Kings. “When the aged Solomon stumbled into the temples of Chemosh and Molech, he was sinning as the king and leader of the people, which is why he was punished so severely. Yet he did not demand that the entire people follow him in this sin. Solomon tried to deal with the issue as though it was a purely private matter.
“Ahab, however, took a different view of things. At the instigation of his wife Jezebel – which does not absolve him of responsibility – he chose to act as ruler, as the one who takes the lead. He demanded that his subjects follow him down the sinful path … which meant that the service of Baal now became the official state religion. This is what made Ahab’s sin so much more serious than Solomon’s.”5
This leads us again to the culture forged by the Bible’s removal from public education in 1963 by the U.S. Supreme Court. A decision of such catastrophic consequence propelled the nation by necessity into the sin of Ahab, the pathway to unfettered secular social change and rebellion against God.
The beneficial countermeasure to “supreme” secular detrimental leadership is found in this: “Some 30 NC pastors and spiritual leaders will be running for local office in 2022.”
Onward to the Battleground States of 2022 and 2024: FL, OH, PA, MO, WI, GA, AZ, IA, NH, SC, and NV.
Gideons and Rahabs are beginning to stand.
David Lane
American Renewal Project
1. A.W. Pink, Exposition of the Gospel of John.
2. Archie P. Jones, Foreward to The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States; 1864.
3. P. Andrew Sandlin, Foreword to The Mission of God, A Manifesto of Hope for Society; 2016.
4. Peter J. Leithart, 1 & 2 Kings Commentary; 2016.
5. M.B. Van’t Veer, My God Is Yahweh: Elijah and Ahab in an Age of Apostasy; 1981.
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