Obama has been re-elected; all the efforts of many Christian leaders,
prayer movements, "prophets" and "concerned Americans" who have lobbied, written appeals, articles, books, letters - some have even
done films - to warn not to vote for him have come to nothing. Many of them have
behaved as if the future of the Kingdom of God is at stake. Well, it is not.
Can we, as foreigners who dearly love you as a people, say a few words into this
situation? Because it is evident to us that God has a clear plan with your
nation. But many don't seem to see it, and therefore run the danger of fighting
the wrong fight, wasting precious time and resources, and even endlessly call
upon God to do what He just will not do.
The German weekly Der Spiegel, kind of a German Time Magazine, has a cover
picture of Uncle Sam in bed, titled, "The American
Patient: The decline of a Great Nation." We think this is a prophetic
picture. As your friends, we know, acknowledge and admire that
America has had a great past. But how will your future look like?
God chastises whom
He loves because He knows:
pride will come
before the fall, and humbleness and brokenness is the only condition
He responds to. We personally sense we need to tell you: the
destiny of your nation is in God's hands, not yours. It is not at all
about Obama or Romney, it is about God using all the nations in
the world according to His global and unchanging plans.
Did you
ever allow the thought that God in his sovereignty is using Obama
like a pawn on his chessboard to humble the US as a nation because He wants to
show his grace to a nation gone completely self-sufficient? A nation that is
so full of independence, individualism,
nationalism and trusting a greed- and fear-based economy that there
may be only one way open to heal it from its idolatry and re-align
itself with the Kingdom of God: a crisis beyond anything that America has ever seen?
In 2008, God has been challenged by a man standing up in public,
preaching to the cheers of a huge crowd: "Yes we can!" We watched it; we saw the tears of excitement in the eyes of the people; the
statements were received as if coming from the Messiah himself,
and the electoral rallies had all the flavor of a religious revival. "Yes,
we can" is the exact opposite of the King of kings saying: "Without
me, you can do nothing!"
If God is the one who
"deposes kings and
raises up others" (Dan
2:21), does it really matter what are the names of the current
puppets set in place by God that advance both the New World
Order and the Kingdom of God? Neither Herod, Pilate nor Caesar
were truly important for the development of the Kingdom. That is
exactly why Kingdom people do not play in the Second League,
but the First, the one that matters. The one that puts the Kingdom
first, and everything else - including their own nation - second.
The problem of the current commotion and insecurities arises
when even the people that call themselves after God keep confusing
the Kingdom of God with the United States of America. And when
that happens, especially through Christians with a public voice,
then we have truly lost all perspective of the coming Kingdom of
Jesus Christ and the predictions He has made that will precede
his coming.
America is being publicly humbled by God; and He is going to use
Obama - and those after him - to further advance his agenda that
will lead all nations to kneel before that one true King Jesus very
soon. If any nation wants to become a tower that reaches up to
high heaven, it will be humbled by a God who will not share his
glory with people relying on their own strength.
America, where do you go from here? What does this mean for
you? The future is going to be very, very rough. Your securities
will vanish, the economy will go down, the education system will
become even worse, the streets more dangerous, the churches
even more divided, the youth even more disillusioned - unless
there is a true movement that abandons all those idols mentioned
above, and radically repents, makes a radical alignment with the
King of the Kingdom of God and his constitution, live the Law of
Christ in all areas of life, first and foremost in the areas of sex,
money, power and how we "do church".
This is a defining moment
for you as a nation. You could go down, as the German journalist of `Der Spiegel´ predicted. Or, America could be literally re-invented
by Kingdom people who are ready to implode the prevailing myths about America's greatness, and replace it by
God's greatness.
The King has even greater things purposed and would fulfill those
purpose IF those who call themselves after Jesus the King, would
turn away from their self-made religion, self-made churches and
religious factions, self-made visions of success, and their self-made,
harmless God.
Can we lovingly but urgently ask you to submit yourself not only in theory but also
in daily practice to Jesus the King, choosing to obey
His Word and follow
His Way?
By idolizing anything else before and over God, you may remain aliens
to the only country that counts for all eternity: God's unshakeable Kingdom.
[See note below]
"...the whole world
is under the sway of the evil one."
1 John
5:19
"Be strong and
courageous; do not be afraid nor dismayed before the king of
Assyria, nor before all the multitude that is with him; for there
are more with us than with him. With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.'”
2 Chronicles 32:7
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Notes from Berit: (1) I don't know the authors
and their background, but I appreciate this message for our times! (2) I
shortened the last two sentences.
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