Church of God News

COGwriter

Many have acknowledged evil associated with this US presidential cycle:

November 8, 2016

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election has all but come and gone and the predictable outcome has been limited to a choice between the evil of two lesser candidates … http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/08/u-s-election-the-only-choice-isnt-just-between-the-evil-of-two-lessers/

While Trump has little to commend him (and what an understatement that is), Hillary has a 30-year record of corruption and scandal that would have driven almost any other individual from public life.

Count me among the tens of millions of voters thoroughly disgusted that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the pathetic, reprehensible presidential candidates spewed out by our primary elections in 2016.

If anyone doubts that ours is a nation in moral, spiritual and political decline, just consider the appallingly egregious nature of the two scoundrels that the voting public has deemed worthy of occupying the highest office in the land. …

Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein has told RT that this year’s presidential election is about choosing between two of the most disliked and least-trusted candidates ever …

Whichever of these two disconcertingly dangerous disasters grabs the brass ring Nov. 8, citizens who truly love this country will have little or nothing to celebrate.

God help us. 11/05/16  http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/making-a-reluctant-choice-between-flawed-candidates/article_87c4025a-a290-11e6-a1da-1faa46857feb.html

“Voters are being intimidated into voting for the candidates that are the most disliked and untrusted in our history of presidential races,” Dr. Stein told RT’s Lindsay France on The FishTank …

Calling the two major parties’ choices for 2016 “a proto-fascist and corruption queen,” Stein vowed to work to disrupt the “very corrupt two-party system” after the election. 11/02/16 https://www.rt.com/usa/365045-jill-stein-elections-candidates/

Notice a secular view related to the 2012 USA presidential election as it has some ideas to ponder related to the 2016 campaign as well:

When confronted with the false dilemma of the democratic political process, many individuals settle for the “less of two evils” as a kind of compromise. But one suspects (or hopes) they do so with a certain degree of moral discomfort. Ask a disciple of the Elephant Party, for example, if he agrees with the murderous drone attacks this moment underway in Pakistan and you will likely offend a delicate delusion of “Democrats for Peace.” Similarly, press any Donkey Party advocate on the issue of economic freedom and watch them squirm under close scrutiny of their own candidate’s position vis-à-vis the IRS, the Federal Reserve, the indigestible, 75,000- page tax code, etc., etc., etc….

Contrary to the popular snipe that “only those who vote have the right to complain,” common sense leads us to quite the opposite conclusion. It is only those who have not aggressed against others who have the right to complain when they are aggressed against. Those who, to invert a phrase, “feed the mouth that bites them,” may stand firmly, but do so on shaky ground.

A vote for either evil is nonetheless a vote for evil. (Daily Reckoning, October 19, 2012)

Followers of the true God are told to:

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the LORD and depart from evil (Proverbs 3:5-7).

Christians are not to endorse evil. Voting for one promoting evil (abortion in the case of three of the top four polling presidential candidates and “country first,” in violation of the first commandment, in the case of the other one) is not a Christian thing to do.

Consider also the following:

2 “The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me,
And His word was on my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said,
The Rock of Israel spoke to me:
‘He who rules over men must be just,
Ruling in the fear of God. (2 Samuel 23:2-3)

19 Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: Stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God. 20 And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do. 21 Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. (Exodus 18:19-21)

None of the four leading presidential candidates (Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein) intend to rule, if elected, in the fear of God. And there should be little doubt that the two leading candidates are covetous.

The apostle Paul wrote that this present world was evil (Galatians 1:4). The Bible warns of the consequences of being part of the world’s systems and its governments and tells us to come out of it and to be separate (Revelation 18:2-5).

What is the solution?

Well, The Kingdom of God is the Solution.

Notice also the following that was written by the late Herbert W. Armstrong in 1980:

NO POLITICAL ELECTIONS IN THE WORLD TOMORROW!

   THIS WAS WRITTEN August 14—last day of the Democratic National Convention. I had to think—after viewing on television both this and the Republican National Convention a month before—HOW DIFFERENT it will be in the World Tomorrow!
All three national networks had their stars and superstar newscasters covering these major conventions.
The convention halls were decorated in bright colors with red, white and blue predominating. The delegates wore loud-colored casual or sports attire, many with outlandish oversized hats. There were horns, sound-making instruments, beside the brass bands. There were whoop-and-holler demonstrations. There were thousands with balloons, like little children at play. There were many large signs and placards.
Each convention was quite a show!
And of course the usual politics were being played secretly in the smoke-filled hotel suites away from the convention halls—the jockeying for selfish advantage, political gain and coveting of power.
I am reminded of the answer given by Franz Josef Strauss, often called “the strong man of Europe.” He had spent the day visiting the Ambassador college campus and was an evening dinner guest in my home.
It was a day or two after Richard M. Nixon had taken the oath of office after his first inauguration, January, 1969.
“What,” asked a guest of Dr. Strauss, “do you think was going on in Mr. Nixon’s mind as he was taking the oath of office?”
“How to be reelected four years from now, of course,” answered Herr Strauss without a second’s hesitation…
   There was one bit of humor on the CBS coverage of the Wednesday night convention show. The dry-speaking Andy Rooney was asked by Walter Cronkite if he had any comment on whether the President should stick with Vice President Walter F. Mondale for reelection. The VP nomination was to come before the convention on Thursday.
Andy Rooney did.
“I think,” he said soberly, “the President should select a vice president with more color. Why not ex-President Ford? He almost made the vice-presidential bid at the Republican convention. A Republican on the ticket as Mr. Carter’s VP would at least add color.”
“Or,” he continued, “if Mr. Carter does not like that suggestion, how about putting brother Billy on the ticket—keep it in the family? That way Billy could make foreign connections officially. Or, I have still another suggestion—since the First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, is the President’s chief confidante anyway, why not a husband-and-wife team? She’s a good campaigner.”
Many millions of dollars … have been spent on political campaigns and these conventions to nominate candidates for the people to vote on. The conventions were big noisy shows. There was laughter, “having a time,” shouting, confusion, anger, jubilation, pathos, emotion and even tears. In all this campaigning to “GET” the office of POWER, one vocal observer said, “Thank God, only ONE candidate can win.”
That is the way GOVERNMENT is carried on in this world.
Six thousand years ago, the former superarchangel Lucifer, having rebelled against the government of God on earth, and now called Satan, was slinking around as a serpent. God had just created the first HUMAN—in God’s own image—with a potential of inheriting the THRONE OF THE EARTH.
From this man, Adam, God made a woman, Eve, to be his wife. Eve was all for a “Women’s Rights Amendment.” She took the lead. The man, created to be the head of the wife, succumbed to her leadership. She led him into Satan’s way. Adam joined her in rebelling against the GOVERNMENT OF GOD—rejecting God as Revealer of basic knowledge and as Giver of eternal LIFE!
When the first man and woman REJECTED GOD and HIS GOVERNMENT, CUT THEMSELVES OFF from God and the gift of His Holy Spirit, God made their decision binding on all their progeny for 6,000 years—until Christ, the “second Adam,” should have come, qualified by overcoming Satan and Satan’s way and actually RESTORE the GOVERNMENT OF GOD. This shall happen now, very shortly. For we are right at the END of that 6,000 years of the DAY OF MAN under SATAN, and the DAY OF THE LORD is almost upon us!
So ALL HUMANITY—except the minutest FEW God has specially called to His service in preparation for that future world government, has been CUT OFF from God and HIS GOVERNMENT. Man has been left to form HIS OWN ideas of how he should be ruled.
Down through history, some peoples have submitted to the tyranny of DICTATORSHIPS and autocratic MONARCHIES. Some have swung to the center and called it democracy. Others to the extreme left, calling it COMMUNISM. Even there it is actually the autocratic dictatorial RULE of a central politburo, in which one man—a Stalin, a Khrushchev or a Brezhnev—dominates as real RULER.
Even in the Democratic national convention, some individual delegates interviewed were fightingly for turning “still farther LEFT.”
But through TV, the public has seen a sample of MAN-made government in our day.
The living Jesus Christ is soon now going to return, as KING of kings, to RULE ALL NATIONS with the GOVERNMENT OF GOD!
There will be no election campaigns. No multimillion dollar fund-raising campaigns—no political conventions. No politics, pulling the wool over the eyes of the people in the struggle for POWER!
No wars. No crime. No more broken families. No hospitals, for people will be divinely healed.
What will be the BIG DIFFERENCE, THEN?
The present world, though the world of humans doesn’t realize it, is actually swayed and RULED by the invisible Satan—the former Lucifer who originally sat on the THRONE of the whole earth.
Backtrack a second, to the original Adam and Eve. In the Garden of Eden were the two symbolic trees—one the “tree of LIFE” symbolizing the Holy Spirit of God and gift of eternal life. The other, the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” and this knowledge they—for all humanity—took to themselves.
Just one super-significant thing was wrong with that. They did not realize—and mankind does not know today—that man was made with a “human” spirit inside him. This spirit, not present in animals or any other physical life form, imparts the power of intellect to the human brain. But man’s KNOWLEDGE is confined to the physical and material.
Man’s PROBLEMS, troubles, evils, are all SPIRITUAL in nature. Man was made to NEED a SECOND SPIRIT—the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD. This was freely offered that first Adam. But he rejected it— rejected GOD’S GOVERNMENT and GOD’S revealed spiritual knowledge. All humans have been born with only this one spirit, limiting human knowledge to the physical and material. Man, without the Holy Spirit of God, is NOT MENTALLY COMPLETE—actually “NOT ALL THERE.” Human consciousness is limited to the physical and material, yet all his problems are SPIRITUAL and beyond his comprehension!
NOT ONLY THIS!
Satan the devil is REAL—he exists—he is SUPER POWERFUL—and he is “the PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR” (Ephesians 2:2). He BROADCASTS! He surcharges the air with HIS ATTITUDE of selfishness, vanity, lust for power and greed, envy and jealousy, competition and strife, rebellion against GOD!
It is not only that mankind—our human LEADERS—are only “HALF THERE” mentally—Satan has begun injecting from infancy into every human his SELF-CENTERED ATTITUDE! All we humans grow up saturated with it. It has become HUMAN NATURE!
So it is not only a matter of what ISN’T IN OUR HUMAN MINDS (spiritual comprehension!), it is a matter of WHAT IS IN HUMAN MINDS—what from infancy Satan has been injecting there—the SELF-CENTERED ATTITUDE—that of competition, getting the best of others, “GETTING” instead of “GIVING”—TAKING FROM OTHERS!
This writing was finished on Friday morning after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention. Senator Kennedy did conciliate just far enough to go to the convention hall platform after President Carter’s acceptance speech. But he was not smiling. He was sullen, plainly resentful. He coldly shook hands with the President—but no lifting of arms together in joyful smiles. I felt sorry for him. He had not gotten all he coveted—like a spoiled baby, who failed to take away a toy from another baby. Just as in all of us, Satan had injected that spirit of animosity in competition. Mr. Kennedy is only human. God’s Spirit of LOVE was not in evidence. Neither is it in evidence in ANY of this world’s leaders.
HOW DIFFERENT in the WORLD TOMORROW.
Satan will be GONE! Jesus CHRIST will be RULING! Ruling with, but under Him, will be truly converted saints then made IMMORTAL—filled with GOD’S Spirit of “LOVE”—immortal GOD BEINGS with no SELF-interest of coveting, but outflowing LOVE for the good, happiness, welfare and eternal salvation of all others!
Jesus taught us to pray, “THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!”
We’d better be PRAYING!.(Armstrong HW. Plain Truth magazine, October-November 1980)

I, too,  have been urging people to pray about this election:

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

We also are to pray:

14 The will of the Lord be done (Acts 21:14).

Similarly,  Jesus taught:

7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:7-10).

And that, I believe, should be the type of prayer that Christians have about elections.

Christians also are to pray for their physical leaders:

1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior (1 Timothy 2:1-3).

Notice that we are to pray for worldly leaders and those that have authority over us so that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life. Nothing like this is said for voting that many falsely claim is their “Christian” duty–prayer for leaders is.

Praying, not voting, is the morally good choice for Christians.

As far as Donald Trump goes, check out the article Donald Trump in Prophecy.

As far as Hillary Clinton goes, check out the article Hillary Clinton in Prophecy.

All four of the leading US presidential candidates support significant aspects of the LGBT agenda which is evil and will end in death (Romans 1:18-32).

They also have other issues.

Voting for any of them is not the ‘morally good choice.’

Pray (1 Timothy 2:1-3). Some might also wish to fast (cf. Isaiah 58:6).

Herbert W. Armstrong mentioned the first 6000 years of God’s plan for human beings to see how most will live apart from the true God is almost over (see also Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?).

We are decades closer to the end of that 6,000 years than when he wrote about it and voting in 1980.

In the Kingdom of God, there will not be voting like there is in the USA and many other places.

Tweet

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 at 7:00 am and is filed under Prophecy, WCG News.

• Free ‘Hillary Clinton Prophecy, What About Donald Trump?’ book
• Last Chance for free ‘Hillary Clinton, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the USA, What About Donald Trump?’ book
• Last chance for a free ‘Hillary Clinton, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States’ book
• Free book announcement: Hillary Clinton, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States
• Video: 10 Reasons Not to Vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton
• Donald Trump considering a third party option
• Sanders being pressured to disavow Hillary Clinton endorsement after Wikileaks emails suggest rigged system; DNC chair resigns
• BibleNewsProphecy: Could Donald Trump be Apocalyptic?
• ICG’s Mark Armstrong on the USA Presidential Race
• AP: ‘Democrats see Rubio and Kasich as 2016 threats’; Democratic debate including terrorism questions