Has the Church lost in these past elections?

Many people might think so, because there are many issues that affect it in the new changes that will take place by the previous administration which had God’s permission to keep on benefiting themselves while the fortress Christians built is still up. Some people also think that many churches will lose because they are giving the wrong message, like the one of “prosperity”, for instance. God will not tolerate a lie using His name as a bait to get publicity.  Paul said to the Galatians: I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel . . . But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed. (Galatians. 1: 6, 8). Some “Christian organizations” even pray for only the ones who send them money or buy their goods. They are doing the same as the ones who sold the indulgences. Perhaps worse, for the richness is not for the church in general, but for the ONE in particular, writer, owner of business, or administrative head of a congregation, which basks in luxury. Others think that God is punishing the Church by permitting the nation that always caressed it to be ruined, as every other great power that ever existed. And whose fault is it? It is ours, for not educating ourselves enough with God’s Word. Do you think the world’s problems are new? They are as old as Adam and Eve and we are simply living its consequences now, reason why we should study the Word because.  All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field . . . the grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. (Isaiah 40:6, 8)

The Church of Christ, and I mean the real one that preaches the gospel as Jesus did, and wants the goodness for everyone, despite their way of thinking, for it wants to spread the Good News to everyone so they can be saved eternally; that Church does not need the Power nor does what other institutions hidden under its name do, that is to be on the side that will give them the most benefit, like many non Christian people who invested in death. The Church is vulnerable because it is made of humans, but if they are really imbibed in the word of God, they are not blind to what will happen in the future, because it’s all there in the Bible.

The real church is “you and I”. We, the people of God, who will endure, as always have, the scoff and the mockery of all those who voted for liberalism despite the warnings of the Lord. We, who preach and model The Word of God and Trust in Him, know that

“The Lord will execute His Word on the earth, thoroughly and quickly.” And just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity, we would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah” (Romans 9:28-29)

No, the Church has not lost. The church Christ established never loses for it opens the eyes to the blind and receives them with love, if even when having voted for death, many shall run to it. As it happened in my country of birth, where the churches are full of many who once persecuted them, and now they seek refuge in them for they become victims when they realize the dishonesty they were involved with. That is why I say the Church of Christ does NOT suffer any loss, on the contrary, it becomes stronger as people realize they were in the wrong front. Legalizing independence from God is a method of the Antichrist, which will fail as it always has. Do not worry, for God will defend the Church with all His might, as it is His bride.

 I would like to finish with the words of the first stanza of a hymn I learned by heart many years ago. Number 500 in the old Presbyterian hymnal:

        God is working His purpose out as year succeeds to year.

        God is working His purpose out as the time is drawing near

        Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be

       When the earth shall be filled with the Glory of God

        Like the waters cover the sea.

And remember, whether you believe on Him or not. All knee shall bend and proclaim Christ Lord of All.

Why does God allow bad things to happen?

That is a question which I had been dealing with for many years. Many people might sadly say: “It is simply NOT fair.” It was not fair to me, for instance. At 28 years of age, after years of trying to have a normal life, I had a loving husband and two beautiful daughters, a nice and brand new place to live my dad had built for us close to him and mom who helped us a lot; and I had a wonderful job that I liked with a good salary, at a 10 minute drive from home (where I paid no parking and had good meals);  but I lost it all. (except my dad and daughters), I lost mother first with lung cancer, who had always lived in a non-smoking home; then my husband who did not survive a head-on collision trying to save his three girls who were also in the car. I could not work anymore because I lost my ability to move about and had other health problems. If everything was going so good with me, why did He allow the bad to happen? If we were a church going family; and were engaged in a project with young people, a choir at church where I played the piano and my husband played the drums, I was also going to get the organ playing position at the main service at church and now I have even lost the ability of playing it ever more. Why? Why? Why?  That is something very difficult to understand. Nevertheless you can try it, and perhaps you’ll get to even appreciate the results. Through hardship I have learned that you can fall in a hole and weep until all of the ones who pass by scatter their dust over your wailing until you are all covered up and suffocate; or you can try to find a way out the pit and someone might help you out, even God, if you ask Him to, which was what I did.

I saw a movie about the life of John Hus who was a priest in Prague. He used to preach the truth from the Bible in a language that people could understand so they could learn. He read: Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). That made the church angry in the time it was selling the “pardon” to the people. “The church” burned him alive for his daring to defy it with God’s truth. At the end I thought God would save him for doing the right thing, and hoped for a Hollywood ending like a great storm which would have extinguished the fire, but he died singing praises to God. John Hus knew he would soon be with the Creator and with all the ones who preceded him for having prevailed in the truth..

In the case of Jesus, “the church” also betrayed Him. He was doing so much good to the people that they might have thought he deserved not to die. Nevertheless He did, for that was the reason He came to this world, He even asked God for forgiveness to the ones who killed Him.

Many people think that if one is “good” enough will not get into trouble. That is true to what our “doing” is concerned, but when it concerns the will of God, no matter what, one will have to endure it. Why? Because God is Sovereign and He does whatever He wants to fulfill His plan. And His plan is more effective to us, sinners, so we could be saved, eternally. It is always for our cause. John Hus would have probably suffered more if he had stayed alive and people today would have not ever known him nor read about him. In the case of Jesus, He would not have accomplished what he came to this world to do (the Salvation Plan) and it would have been fatal for us. Which is why He could say: It is finished.

I do not doubt God’s will is perfect, whatever we might think. If he allows something to happen, whether it seems bad to us, He does it so we learn to trust in Him, He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God, And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8: 27-28)