Thoughts on the election of Barak Hussein Obama.

The election of Barak Hussein Obama to the Presidency of the United States has been met with joy and celebration by many people, including many professing Christians, all over the world.

I don't share in this joy.

I feel like I'm about the see the woman I've loved my whole life raped by my worst enemy who I know is infected with AIDS, and there's nothing I can do about it.

Maybe you feel the same way.

My thoughts are this.

Although I love America I do not consider myself a citizen of that country, or any other earthly kingdom. I consider myself a citizen ofthe Kingdom of Christ, and I'm privileged to live in Israel, which is the Embassy of that Kingdom here on this earth (the Rabbis' vehement denials of this notwithstanding.)

For many American Christians, the USA was a bit of an idol, which we worshipped six days a week and only forgot about for a short time on Sunday. We were so confused that we thought that part of being a good Christian was being a patriotic American. I myself was the most guilty of this, along with other idols I worshipped, like guns and American military power. I worshipped them by loving them, putting my hope in them, and by trusting in them for my protection. It is time to get rid of those idols, and concentrate all our worship on the One True God.

There will be no American Flags flying when Christ returns to this earth.

Another Idol we need to get rid of is the Republican Party. Many American Christians vote Republican, and there's nothing wrong with that. But when we start to think of it as the institution that can"save" us and when we devote an inordinate amount of time, money, effort and energy to it, when we start to worry more about the health of the Republican Party then the health of the Body of Christ, then it becomes an idol.

The American people overwhelmingly rejected the Republican Party in this election, and the reasons are many. But one of the most often heard complaints about the Republican Party among the rank and file people who used to support it but no longer feel like they can is that it is "to right wing and Christian."

Among the largely secular leadership of the Party apparatus, there have long been murmurings about the "infernal nuisance" of all these "God people" who the Party needed for financial support and votes but whose Biblical Ideology the "pragmatic, realistic" Moderates wished they didn't have to cater to. For many years there has been a tug of war for the soul of the Republican Party, between the Christians who wanted the Party to focuson Biblical issues and the Moderates who wanted the Party to focus more on social and economic issues.

My prediction is that with this election, the secular Moderates will win this tug of war by pointing out (correctly I'm sorry to say) that the vast majority of voters will be more likely to support the Republican Party if their agenda instead of the Christian agenda is focused on.

Therefore, my advice, which I know will shock and dismay many, is to stop wasting precious time, talent and resources on the Republican Party. Leave gracefully, before the Moderates throw you out. Wish them well, and turn your attention to the more pressing work of re-building your own churches and communities from the ground up, because that's what is needed.

The sad fact is that the Church in America is a mile wide and an inch deep. You can see that in the fact that almost half of American Christians (and 78% of American Jews BTW) just voted for the most unapologetically anti-God candidate ever.

For far to long, it has been possible to be a luke-warm Christian in America. The one good thing about this election is that this will no longer be an option. There is coming a time of tremendous persecution on the church in America, and as much as it pains me to say this, that might be exactly what the church needs.

It will be a time when the wheat will be separated from the chaff and people will have to make a choice to either get serious or get out.

This persecution will come in the form, at first, of a revolution in popular culture that will embrace the idea that Mankind is destined to unite in peace and brotherhood, under the aegis of Secular Humanism, Science, Socialism and Progress.

The governments of the world will take advantage of the chaos and confusion caused by this financial crisis to push through a further integration of the worlds economic and political systems.

There will be only two really big roadblocks in the way of this plan. The Bible Believing Church, and the Nation of Israel.

The Church will block it by refusing to bow to the Idols of Secular Humanism and Israel will block it by refusing to give up its Independence. The Arab Muslim worlds' unwillingness to allow Israel to live in peace and Israeli unwillingness to be sacrificed to appease the Arab Muslim world will lead many to believe that Israel must be forced into disappearing so that an end can be found to the central conflict which fuels so many other conflicts around the world.

Anyone who belongs to or supports Israel and/or the Church will be painted as an "enemy of human progress" and subjected to tremendous abuse and pressure to go along with the new program "for the common good of all mankind."

Popular culture, which has already done much to heap disdain and contempt on Israel and the Church, will ramp up the pressure in the months and years ahead far beyond anything we've ever seen before.

The school system will also put tremendous pressure on our children to renounce their Christian faith and embrace the Satanically inspired ideology of Secular Humanism which teaches that every individual is the god of their own life and can live according to whatever rules (or lack of rules) they feel comfortable with.

It will start out being an outburst of popular sentiment, not officially sanctioned by the Government. But it will not stay that way. It will at some point become Government policy, and that is when the real reign of terror and persecution will begin.

Although this will be painful, and we will see many people we love falling away and those who don't suffering terribly, it is necessary and those who remain strong and steady will be choice. They will be the quality that the quantity of "Christians" in America has for to long been seen by many as a substitute.

The only person you can change is yourself. But you can pray for others who you love that they will also change, that they won't fall away, that they won't bow to the persecution that is coming. Be the best example you can be to them, and spend as much time as you can in the Word and in prayer, so that you can be prepared to give an answer to all who ask about Him.

There is one more thing I must say.

Because I know my countrymen so well, I know that many of them are thinking very seriously about resisting the coming persecution with violence. This is something we MUST NOT DO!

Put your rifle away, and reach instead for your Sword, which is the Word of God. Read and memorize it, internalize it, drink it in and be prepared to quote it and recite it so that those who persecute you might hear and be saved. It might occur that your last act on this earth would be to witness the Love of God to the man who martyrs you, and it might be that that witness is what saves his soul, and in the world to come you will be rewarded for it. Whereas if you kill him he will go to Hell and you will be held accountable for it in the world to come.

Everything that you have in this world will soon pass away, including your own life. The time we will have to endure is short, and the reward will be great. But the Ten Commandments still apply, and we will be held accountable for our actions and words. If we kill to preserve, for a very short time, our possessions or even our lives, then we will answer for it and the answer we will have to give will not be worth it.

As the Apostle Paul said, "To live is Christ, and to die is gain."

Never has that been more true then now, when our remaining time here in this world is so short.

So study the Word, witness constantly, pray for your loved ones to be strong and for mercy to abide in the hearts of those who persecute the End Times Church.

Pray without ceasing, that you and your loved ones would be saved. And pray for Israel and the Jews, for their protection and their redemption, which, as it is written, will be life from the dead for the whole world.