Last night I was asked, rather disingenuously, whether I believed “that the Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, has a candidate and party in US politics?!”
It came in the context of arguing that what occurred, recently, with a Colorado clerk, Mrs. Tina Peters, being sentenced to nine years in prison at the hands of a Leftist judge on trumped-up crimes against her.
What she really did was expose the election fraud taking place there and elsewhere, as has been the case since 2020, and the Left engages in lawfare to take down or shut up those who become threats to them; Mrs. Peters being the latest victim.
So, instead of addressing that subject and comments related to it, a person claiming to be a “Christian” went off the deep end with his question about God favoring certain candidates and parties.
Of course, as is frequently the case, the person claiming to be a Christian was really an ignorant unbeliever at worst or a biblically ignorant believer at best.
For the Bible makes it clear that as part of God’s providence, he is in control of all that happens in the world, including the election and appointment of leaders throughout the world, which includes the bad with the good.
Psalm 115:3 states, “Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.”
Psalm 135:6 echoes as much by arguing, “”Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the deeps.”
As far as politics are concerned, the prophet Daniel is recorded to have said, “He [the God of heaven] changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him” (Dan 2:21-22).
The Apostle Paul made it perfectly clear that the governing authorities were “instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad” (Rom 13:1-2).
Of course, the key to understanding what Paul is saying is that God’s appointments are supposed to do what is good, and righteous, and just, and if they happen to go awry, then God’s people are to listen to God instead of the corrupted political appointee (Acts 4:19), or as the Apostle Peter stated, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
Moreover, it must be understood that regardless of who God appoints to lead a nation or organization, that leader will glorify God, whether the leaders actions are good or bad.
What? you may ask. How can a bad or corrupt leader glorify God?
By merely doing as God has permitted or allowed, which God, then, turns into something good, whereby God is credited for his omnipotent act.
It is part of the reason why Paul would write, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28).
In other words, even the worst tyrant and his heinous plans and activities will glorify God at the end of the day simply because God is in full control of all that happens and goodness already has been predetermined to be the outcome; those who love God understand this, while those who do not love God, they hate the mere thought of it.
Again, this is God’s providence at work, or something that separates the true believer from the one who only mouths that “God is in control.”
So, has God already picked a winner for the U.S. Presidential Election in November 2024?
You better believe he has.
He removes Presidents and sets Presidents up, as God moves history along to its intended purpose: the glorification of Almighty God.
The focus of the believer, in the meantime, should be to that end, as he/she sees the evil coming to fruition that not only signals the coming Day of the Lord, but also his/her ultimate redemption (Lk 21:28).
