President-Elect in the Garden of Eden

At the start of the Civil War, Georgia politician Howell Cobb said that only two things stood in the way of peace between the North and South: "...the landing of the Pilgrims, and Original Sin."

Those same factors will determine America's fate today. Especially the latter.

God set Adam and Eve to live in the reality He'd created. God ruled reality by one simple Law: obey God, and He will bless you; disobey Him, and you will die.

Original Sin came by human beings accepting satan's "alternative theory" of the law. Not only will you NOT die when you break the law, "the father of lies" assured Eve: breaking the law is actually the way to seize blessing for yourself...and then you'll be like God. (Genesis 3)

This is an interesting time for we who believe God's law still rules reality: who believe that doing evil can NEVER bring good results.

An interesting time for God's people, because the leader Americans have chosen for themselves promises that his harsh, arrogant, and violent ways will have good results, and "make America great again." An interesting time, in which Americans have chosen to follow the leader in testing God's law.

If America's defiance of God's law fails disastrously and quickly, it will be because God chooses to show us undeserved mercy. The sooner we learn the consequences of rebelling against the King's authority and rule, the more hearts will repent, and turn back from rebellion.

But God rules as well over time. He may choose to let our chosen leader's evil schemes succeed in "making America great again"...for a time.

The hearts of the rebellious who helped bring that leader to power...including many "Christians"... are already vested in his success. If God lets his unrighteous rule temporarily "succeed," the hearts of the rebellious will be devoted to him even more than they were in electing him: and even more blind to God's impending judgement on America.

If letting evil rule seem to "succeed" is God's choice for America, we should expect His delayed judgement will be especially harsh. God is no respecter of persons. And we know how harsh His judgement was on those whose rebel hearts were devoted to the evil rule of the leader who promised that his evil ways would "make Germany great again."