By Charlie Daniels
If
you read this column very often you know the frustration and disgust
I feel for our government, their profligate spending, their all
consuming passion for self-preservation, and the inevitable fall at
the end of the ruinous path they seem so determined to force this
nation down.
You
know I'm deeply concerned about the rapid erosion of personal liberty
and our president's cavalier attitude toward the Constitution and
consolidation of power into a monolithic central, federal government,
a bureaucratic nightmare that makes and enforces the rules,
controlling even the administration of health care and the curriculum
our children will study in school.
I
fear the rampant apathy and lackadaisical work ethic of the
entitlement society will become so deeply ingrained in the coming
generations that the nanny state policies of this president and
others like him who are likely to be elected will gradually drain the
wealth and the will of the population until the well is bone dry and
the confusion and anger of those who are suddenly left to fend for
themselves will overrun the streets of this nation resulting in chaos
and bloodshed.
I
fear that this nation and this planet are in the midst of a great
apostasy, or falling away from belief and faith in God as cults,
false prophets and faddish feel-good religions pop up and capture the
attention of many.
Even
some of the old-line Christian denominations have tried to modernize
their doctrine, bending the curve to accept things that are forbidden
in the Bible, conveniently ignoring or subverting scriptures that fly
in the face of the new age dogma they now embrace.
Anti-Semitism
is on the rise around the world and while Islamic fanatics scream
about the destruction of the State of Israel, the dominos in the
Middle East fall one by one, with only the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan preventing the fulfillment of the ancient biblical prophecy
that Jerusalem would be surrounded by armies.
Yes,
I am very concerned about Israel. It is not the land of my birth, but
when I became a Christian I was grafted into the root of Israel like
a wild olive branch grafted on to a full-grown tree. The Bible says
that salvation comes to the world through the Jews, the race of
people by which the Creator of all mankind chose to reveal Himself to
the world, the race into which my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was
born, the land where He would live and die on a cross for our sins.
How
could any true Christian not be concerned?
Street
gangs, flash mobs, drug cartels, incurable diseases, wholesale
abortion the tearing down of traditional marriage and nuclear
families, child molestation, the belittling of American
exceptionalism, the export of manufacturing and jobs, murder, rape,
home invasions, it's enough to give a person a nervous
breakdown, but then I have to stop and think.
This
world is just a short stop, only a testing ground on my eternal
journey.
Any
earthly leader or government, no matter how pervasive and powerful
are only temporary place holders who will eventually pass into
oblivion and be reduced to dust.
Israel
will be battered and bloody but will never be completely destroyed
and 85% of the vast armies allied against her in the final
battle will be annihilated in the Jezreel Valley near Megiddo, known
as Armageddon.
This
earth with all its awesome military might, pompous politicians,
mega-rich magnates and all the evil the powers of darkness can
bring to bear are no more than a grain of sand compared to the
indescribable power of the One who created the planets and flung them
out across endless space, He who can part the sea and make the sun
stand still.
Only
One is Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent, He is everywhere, He
knows everything and He can do anything. And yet in all His Majestic
might, he cares for you to the point that He knows the number of
hairs on your head.
His
name is God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Dios to Spanish speakers, Gott to the
Germans and so on, but He does have, always has had and always will
have the last word and be the final judge in the affairs of mankind.
He
will write the final pages of history.
We
will all stand before Him and give account for our lives, every king,
every president, every dictator, every super star, every human being.
Lord,
please help me to keep my confidence in You and my mind on eternal
things to come. Amen.
What
do you think?
Pray
for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God
Bless America
Charlie
Daniels
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