In reply this brazen request, God told Samuel make sure the people knew how a king would behave and the ways that is would affect them! owing, in I Samuel 8:11:
"And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots." (1 Samuel 8:11)
And about 80 years later, during the reign of King David, we are told in II Samuel 15:1...
"And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him."
Absalom was out to overthrow his father's throne, and become king himself. By craft and conspiracy, he stole the hearts of Israel from the man after God's own heart. Why didn't the king, his faithful officers, and the subjects loyal to him catch on right away?! Wasn't Absalom just doing that which is the manner of a king?
They missed the signals.
And when David was old, in I Kings 1:5...
"Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him."
Another son also made HIS bid for the throne, and did after the manner of kings, though the throne had been promised to Solomon. If it had not been for the swift action of Nathan, the prophet of God, Adonijah might have succeeded!
David and those loyal also missed the signals, or didn't know how to respond.
There are certain signals to pay attention to, certain behavior that can be perceived in those who are plying for certain types of governments and societies--particular ploys, steps they take in preparation for a takeover, for overthrowing that which is contrary to their design.
But how many have been blinded to the signals, or bulldogged into not speaking? How many have been scared into inaction in the face of the evil? And many who do thunder about it, do so in church but whimper in public!
In my country, we missed the signals long ago.
"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision" made one wrong decision after another, choosing not to stand, not to speak, not to be a dissident of the culture of rebellion against the Truth.
Those who chose instead to be content with their own feeling of security and not think Biblically, and certainly not prudently, to the generations to come!
Now we find that the precious rights and freedoms given by the Creator, Who created us equal, have been relinquished one after the other. They those freedoms are trodden under foot and the evil that has risen to replace God's order is celebrated openly!
And the blessings given and come down from the Father of lights, upon a nation whose God is the LORD are diminishing, for we, as a people in our policies, as families, and yes, churches, are more and more, casting God's word behind our backs and arrogantly assume that the LORD will not see, nor regard it.
We believe that He will benignly pass over our lukewarmness, and still shower pleasantries upon our heads.
We have been silent:
While government schools have become more increasingly overt in being AntiChristian, tossing out prayer and Bible reading, "decrying religion" while promoting false religions, especially that of Secular Humanism (which is tax-supported). This has been followed by attempts to inhibit the declaration and expression of Bible truth in all public areas.
We have been silent:
While real science has been usurped by science falsely so called as the fairy tale for grown ups, known as Darwinian Evolutionism has been lauded in all places, so that millions who have been indoctrinated into thinking that they are merely bipedal protoplasm, evolved from star dust, now walk about, believing they are the god of their own universe.
We have been silent:
While American society at large has become increasingly inundated (by both Media and Academia) with sexual immorality and confusion, exposed and exploited from early ages to abominable perversions of the design that God has ordained, bringing destruction upon its participants, those around them, and the nation that supports and promotes the atrocity, so that evils like fornication seem commonplace and run rampant.
We have been silent:
While over 60 millions of unborn American babies have been dehumanized and destroyed (poisoned, burned in chemicals, hacked to pieces) in their own mothers' wombs. This homicide in the worst degree is called healthcare and a human "right". Students are taught to esteem abortion as good even while exposing and despising Hitler, though we have slain over 10 times as many as the Nazis slew Jews. Innocent blood has been shed very much, and those who oppose such wickedness and seek to plead for lives and establish equal protection for the preborn are branded as "haters".
All this, while the majority of the American church have kept their children in those government schools, enjoyed the entertainment of the world without recognizing and countering the lies and ungodly worldviews therein, and allowed the shutting up of truth from public life to avoid discomfort.
Therefore now for several generations, millions upon millions of Americans, have been trained to not think or live according to the Biblical worldview. And those millions and millions include children who grew up in Christian homes, going to Christian churches. So many are in bondage to pornography, homosexuality, and are confused even about what to think of gender.
Millions of those who still attend churches and call themselves Christian are not even aware of how much they have been infected by the lies.
My Brethren, these things ought not so to be!
How shall we answer?
If we speak not to warn the wicked of judgment, their blood is on our hands (Ezekiel 3,33)!
Christian, if you speak not for the innocent and the righteous, then how shall ye answer Him with Whom we have to do (Proverbs 24:11-12)?
I Corinthians 15:34 "Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I speak this to your shame."
The signals!
Have you missed them?
They are being set up by the government, the media, education, on all sides. Even now more are prepared, cloaked by subtle words and "responsible sounding" rhetoric, to throw us into more ruin. The signals of more takeovers unimagined by previous generations. Will your voice be heard?
Is there yet time to turn the tide? I do not know.
But I know what God can do.
Isaiah 59:19 "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him."
When God judged His people for their wickedness, He sought for a man among them who would stand in the gap, and make up the breaches in the hedge, that He might destroy it not. Yet He found none. Even if it is too late, I am resolved that as the judgment continues to fall upon my people, the LORD will find me, standing in the gap.
As the king of Nineveh (weeping and in sackcloth) told his people, when the signal of destruction was preached in the streets,
Jonah 3:9 "Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?"
Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to ANY people.
I love my country! I pray for God's deliverance and for the awakening of my people.
As with Daniel, I pray,
"[I] do not present [my] supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies." Daniel 9:18
I beg God to give America what she needs, and NOT what she deserves. For we deserve the worst destruction for our corruption, callousness, and cold blooded massacre of the most innocent and defenseless of human beings.
God forgive America for United we have sinned!
Abortion must be abolished.
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