Oh Man, Why This?

 I grew up in the evangelical world. And living in this part of the world, they influence your life whether you want them to or not. 

For months now, the people who have " prophets or make prophecy" in this evangelical world have predicted that Mr. Trump would win the election....And then after the election, they made the prophecy that some miracle would occur and Mr. Trump would still be President by some sort of event from God.

As I publish this, Mr. Biden has been sworn in as the 46th President. Mr. Trump for the first time in 150 years, an outgoing president skipped the inauguration. 

I go into the evangelical world of blogs and anti-evangelical blogs and for the most part, most are silent. Well, the anti-evangelical ( The anti-evangelical blogs are people who grew up evangelical, left that type of Christianity, remain Christian, but in another form of Christianity...Other have been so damaged by evangelicals that they have become atheists or agnostics.....Many are now in the "None" realm. 

Forty plus years ago a young undergraduate at Lamar University wrote a paper in a senior level Government class called " American Political Parties and Elections." 

In the paper, the young undergrad said that the evangelical church was going to leave their principal goal and become more and more involved in the world of politics.  He discussed Jerry Falwell and what was going on  at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Virginia and the old " Moral Majority." And how the evangelical church was becoming more and more involved in the Republican Party. 

Of course, he met some opposition from a couple of Baptists in the classroom saying that the church would stay by the old " separation of church and state."  Forty years later, you rarely hear the word separation of church and state....The evangelical world has become a wing of the GOP. 

The old missionary " Great Commission" is secondary. 

There is a fear of change by the church. The church wants you to do what they want, not what you feel is right for you personally....And they wonder why there is a drop in church attendance? 

You know, you align yourself with one political party, you already have lost half of the people you are suppose to witness to.  

We had ministers storm the Capitol this past week. ( This 'preacher' was at one time the 6-man football player of the year in Texas, won state 3 times 2004-2006. And before he stormed the capitol, he was famous for coming out again pre-marital sex.  Never mind he had sex with every girl who would let him in high school and college. That pre-marital sex would "ruin" you life. Look, I waited, but I would never tell a 21-30 year old person they shouldn't have sex outside of marriage. 

When Jesus came in the First Century C.E., Jews expected him to throw the Romans out of Palestine. He didn't and Jesus was about as a non-political person as there was. The Jews killed him for not being political.

I wonder what kind of explanation these preachers/ministers will have someday when they are trying to get into heaven?

I wonder how much deception people who are the "elect" can be....It fails to take account of the evidence of history. Christians have been, and are, capable of being deceived. Have none of the elect been deceived in recent years into supporting “ministries” that have proved so tragically different in reality from what they professed to be? Sadly, we are more easily addicted to the spectacular (“signs and wonders”) than to the substantial, to novelty (“false prophets”) than to a wholesome orthodoxy. If we think Christians cannot be deceived, the deception has already begun.

I lied about you giving me a prophecy that Mr. Biden would not be president? 

Or instead of sharing the " Good News" I was storming the Capitol?   

Instead of worrying about "Political Power" these preachers need to be out "preaching the gospel." I don't remember the " Great Commission" talking about talking about political involvement-