They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee,
saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms; (Isaiah 14:16)
Last week I posted about people
of faith being obliterated by God’s wrath. It is a possibility even today that
when we play God we attract His wrath. And playing God does not just mean
designating yourself as God or calling on people to bow before you. How they
treat you and talk about you can open the floodgates of that wrath.
Remember in Acts Herod being
eaten by worms as he gave a brilliant speech? Yet he was not a believer!
I want us to look at unbelievers
to get us know that God clears the memory even of those who do not know Him
when they elevate themselves above others or are elevated by their people.
Worship is the preserve of God. Any other person or thing that invites or
entertains it opens themselves to His wrath.
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8)
Why was Egypt flattened during
the exodus? Pharaoh had asked, ‘who is the Lord?’ You realize that the Bible
says that those ten plagues were God’s judgment on all their gods. In other
words Egypt suffered because they came in the way of the Living God. They had
called Him to a duel.
Ever realized that most kingdoms
do not lose their status through defeat? That most collapse at their peak? Why
is it like that?
The God factor! They either start
believing they are God or behaving as if they are, whichever words they may use
to argue to the contrary. God steps in and they simply implode, without needing
human effort.
Remember Sennacherib taunting the
God Hezekiah believed in? God goes to his army at night and kills 185,000 of
his troops. He then hears a rumor and retreats back home where he is killed by
his own sons as he is worshipping his god.
Remember Nebuchadnezzar eating
grass? Remember his grandson and mene
mene tekel peres when he was having a bash in his palace after he decided
to use God’s temple utensils to praise his gods?
Where is Alexander the Great?
Where is Julius Caesar? Where is Pharaoh? Where is the Tsar? Where are their
descendants?
Can we find the trace of people
who shook the world at their peak?
Where are Stalin, Hitler, Mao,
Mobutu? What happened to them that we do not hear of their descendants
anywhere? Where is Haile Selassie?
Incidentally it is not only the
evil rulers who attract that wrath. The very good easily fall therein as their
people’s applause easily become adoration. Like Jeroboam and Saul one can start
with great and effective people and end up judged because of what people make
them into. Many start as servant leaders and end up as tyrants. Yet many are
judged because their servant leadership stands in the way of God’s revelation
and glory.
I thought I had finished the
message until God reminded me to write especially concerning political leaders.
God is in the business of demonstrating that He still rules over the affairs of
men.
There is an arrogance I am seeing
in political class that makes this message very current. There are politicians who
are playing God especially to their supporters. There are politicians who speak
words implying that even God needs their support to remain God. And I believe
there are politicians who are so full of the devil that they are, like these
politicians of the past, taunting God because of their ‘popularity’ and power.
And they get this arrogance many
times from the men of God they have swallowed into their cult. Ministers are spewing
their narrative without thinking. Ministers are bargaining for them without
caring that God also an opinion, which is not even an opinion but final
authority.
God is about to strike, and the
false ministers will be felled with their benefactors and heroes and champions
of whatever. And the hit will be so complete that in less than a generation you
will not even be able to trace any of their descendants. Like was told Jeroboam
they will be swept as completely as one cleans faeces from a house.
And we do not need to look far to
see this as a repeat of something God has consistently been doing. How many
politicians of the recent past have disappeared? How many of those who made headlines
and shook the nation can be traced?
God can use democracy to bring
you down. But democracy is a human tool that does not necessarily demonstrate
God’s hand.
I believe God will do a thing to
leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that He is the one that brings these gods down.
Only then will He get the glory that only He deserves. And I will repeat that
all those men of God who have swallowed their bait will be swallowed with them.
Let me use the Bible to explain.
Jehoshaphat was a godly king. He is the one who put the choir before the army
as he went to war. But like Solomon he made a political blunder by aligning
with Ahab who was on God’s crosshairs. He even took Jezebel’s daughter for his
son though God put several road blocks to that alliance.
Do you realize that his son was
killed when the house of Ahab was being obliterated? And there were over forty
other princes of Judah who died then. Then this bride from hell decided to
clear David’s lineage when her son died. It took an aunt to save the smallest.
All the rest were killed. All because Jehoshaphat who feared God was careless
with his alliances!
This is a post to believers and
not politicians as God has called me to minister to His church.
Repent for involving yourself in
politics, even if it was just inviting a politician to your church. Repent even
if it was just introducing a politician to the congregation. Repent even if it
was just visiting the politician in his office especially because you had a
project you wished him to support. Repent even if you only swallowed his
narrative and sought to amplify it and forgot about sharing your faith.
You will go down when he goes
down.
Like I have said elsewhere
politics is a spiritual structure. The judiciary is a spiritual structure.
Business is a spiritual structure. Looking for support from a totally different
spiritual structure is what the Bible calls harlotry, prostitution. And you
know what God thinks about adultery.
Being mixed up concerning the
side I belong to can be a disaster, a disaster that could obliterate my lineage.
Yet most of us would sacrifice anything for our posterity.
We work hard so that our
posterity can lead a better life. Many pursue degrees late in life more for the
security of their posterity than the pursuit of knowledge.
Why would you sacrifice that same
posterity by pouring vitriol in support of a person who has no problem pouring
scorn on the God you worship? Why sacrifice it for someone you are ashamed of
his dirty language? Why sacrifice it for one who is not ashamed at visiting the
devil’s high places to seek political power?
God is about to strike. I have
written some other posts on the blog about politics and politicians if you want
to know my take on them. The prophetic books also deal conclusively with God’s
dealings with kingdoms to the end of time. And pride and arrogance always
brought kings and kingdoms down, without fail.
Are you ready to see God
demonstrating His power over our puny political players?
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit
the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. I have seen the
wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he
passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall
be cut off. But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength
in the time of trouble. And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he
shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
(Psalm 37: 34 – 40)
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