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I am armed to the hilt, cocked and loaded, keeping the "bug-out" bag at hand, prepared for martial-law, generators, fuel, food, water, seeds for planting, etc. Not for the sake of fear...but for the sake of being prepared...it may not be a biblical statement...but I like it nonetheless...Believe for the best, but prepare for the worse! I'm sure some would/could say that it is all fear based, cause you wouldn't prepare if you trusted God. Well, having medical, dental, and vision insurance makes sense. So does being prepared for the worse case scenario. Our constitution is at stake! Our forefathers never intended for the far-left liberal takeover of this nation, nor did they intend for the far-right ultra conservatives to take over this nation. However, things are-a-changing...and it ain't for the good. As long as in this country, homosexuality is given license/sanction, the murder of millions of babies is licensed/sanctioned, Marxism and Socialism are beginning to be put in place (ie...the "spreading the wealth" redistribution of wealth), out of control government programs and spending, and the Word of God being stripped from our schools and government, we are mesmerized by personality, eloquence of speech, charm, and it's ok to be a sexual predator and pedophile and be president of the US, and it's ok to be friends with terrorists (sure Jesus ate and loved the publicans and sinners, but his aim was to save them)...we cannot assume our country will remain mighty! I pray for our military, I pray for the office of the president of the US, as we are instructed......but I sure do not trust the politicians in Washington on both sides of the isle... the Word of God says:
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Oh how I long for the day when there will be no democrats, republicans, or libertarians, no congressmen, no senators, no kings, no presidents, no rulers as we know them, but THE King, Jesus Christ, will reign, as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords!!! Come quickly Lord Jesus!
We do need to be prepared for whatever does come our way...i.e. "go to the ant..." My reference to the brass lead and powder is to assist in supplying the needs of my family. Squirrels and varmints beware! The gold and silver is to buy when not able. Talk radio didn't get me to these codes, being LEAD Staff helped, but the Lord has shown me what I need to do. Every situation is different.
Shalom & Charis,
David
Since it is possible and understood that one can be a Christian and at the same time confess conservatism, liberalism, or libertarianism, and any other relative "ism," would it not be a good idea to take these discussions to another website? God knows that I am not one that avoids confrontation and I like a good healthy fight now and then, but, I would hate to see the wonderful folks on this site become polarized over political or religious convictions. Political parties will come and go, rulers of nations will come and go, but there has only been / and will ever be one King...and that is King Jesus! No matter who sits as president, controls the Senate and Congress, whether socialism or capitalism reigns, whether we retain our sovereignty or are given over to the UN / one world government and economy, God and Jesus Christ never change...the same yesterday, today, and forever! God cared for Israel in the worst of conditions for 40 years in the wilderness, fed them...clothed them...sheltered them...covered them by fire and clouds. He fed Elijah by angels and by ravens. The promises of God are sure and absolute and God is not a man that He should lie.
Worst case scenario...Jesus Christ returns and gathers us!
Doesn't the Word of God exhort us to "pursue those things which make for peace"?
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.