"But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness !" -- Matthew 6:23
I guess I thought as soon the former evil president was off the scene, people who'd followed him would come to their senses. I thought the sounds of head-smacking, and cries of "WHAT WAS I THINKING !?!?," would resound throughout the land.
I was particularly hopeful the many deceived Christians...who know what "repentance" is, and how it's done...would turn back from their politics of lies and hatred.
The "Christian conservative" movement has quoted God's command from II Chronicles 7:14 so often, for so many years...against all those ungodly "other people:" abortionists, gay-rights activists, and "liberals"...that I hoped it might have lodged in their hearts...
...that if they truly desire God to "heal [our] land," it might come into their thinking that He requires "the people called by My name" to repent of their sins. And I hoped they would.
But if what I've heard and seen from "conservative Christians" the last few days, from Franklin Graham on down, is any indicator, "Evangelicals" are as deceived as ever: indeed, more willfully insistent on being deceived, now that their cherished Liar suffered political defeat.
(Hasn't it been clear from their start that "conservative Christians" are more about politics than godliness ? The vast number of their votes elected the "conservative" presidential candidate in 1980, over his Christian opponent.)
God says He will send "strong delusions" on "...those who refuse to love the Truth,"...and will PERSONALLY ensure that they will believe the lies of "the man of lawlessness (II Thessalonians 2:8-12)...and follow him to destruction.
That could well be the spiritual dynamic operating when Evangelicals' greatest "Super-Star" leader compares his departed sleaze-president to Jesus, to bash the "Judases" who politically "betray" him.
How profound is the darkness today over, and within, "conservative Christian" Evangelicals ! And how eternally irremediable for all who who know Who Truth IS...and willfully choose lies.
God, keep the hearts of those who truly love You stayed always on TRUTH !!
In Jesus' name, Amen.
