Spiritualised Corruption

And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper. (2Chronicles 13:12)

Many Christian nations are reeling with disappointment and dismay at the way they have been played by the political class.

They wonder how easily they were duped into trusting the untrustworthy, believing the lies of perennial liars.

The sad part is that the spiritual leaders are groaning as much, if not more loudly, than the flock.

Allow me to look at some politicians in the scriptures, the first being this character Abijah, or Abijam in 1 Kings. It would be wise if you read the whole chapter.

The Bible plainly says that he was a wicked king.

Yet he was able to apparently bring God into his side in a war against a superior army.

How was he able to do it?

I know to some that is the million-dollar question.

He was able to do that by basically preaching God to Jeroboam. He was able to do that by painting God’s nature accurately to everybody listening. He was able to do it by broadcasting God’s word and attributes to his audience.

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2)

And God is activated by His word accurately quoted. He responds to His revelation when it is quoted, irrespective of who is quoting it.

I want us to look at another politician in the scriptures, this time the son of Ahab, the most wicked king Israel had.

And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab! (2Kings 3:10)

This king quoted God wrongly, ascribing to Him a scheme to finish His people, and this in the presence of a worshipful king.

That activated God to act since it really was His name that was on the block as He had done with Abijah.

Simply speaking, God is bound to His word and will not allow it to lose its power at any time.

That is why, even when it is accurately proclaimed by the wicked, it must have effect.

Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:12, WEB)

Looking at the last campaigns in Kenya, most of the politicians became very devout at the mouth level.

But after they were elected, they became just like their fellow politician Abijah. They then had nothing to conceal since they had got what they were looking for. I remember a classmate who got ‘saved’ to be made a prefect and ‘backslid’ when his term ended. And I say it because he had informed me of his plot.

They had simply used God and His word to further their ambitions.

But they are not to blame, though they will one time stand before God to give an account for their conduct.

There is one group fully to blame for misleading Kenyans, and that is the spiritual leaders; the prophets, bishops, pastors and their ilk.

Why do I say so?

You can not blame the chameleon for changing its colours since that is its nature. It is being true to the way it was created.

But a spiritual leader is different since he must prepare the people he leads for whatever their choices will release.

And an example is in order.

Remember when Israel asked for a king? In our times we might say that they voted unanimously for a king.

Yet what did Samuel do?

He said something like this.

It is fine that this is the way you are exercising your democratic right.

Yet listen to what heaven is saying.

That vote will bring about these consequences.

They could not therefore feign ignorance when the consequences caught up with them.

But look at our prophets!

They joined the campaign team and endorsed the chameleon, implying that it had changed into something else just because it used the scriptures accurately.

And that is why we have a verse like this in the scriptures

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. (James 3:1)

Leading has its cost because of the trust it attracts.

I remember once trying to expose a pyramid scheme making rounds in a church and was met with this response

‘Do you think you hear God better than our pastors who are in it?’

But that did not prevent them from being swindled

That is why the culprits in this deception are the spiritual leaders because they abused the trust vested in them to look for those envelopes at the expense of telling their flock what heaven was saying, not only about their choices, but especially about the consequences of those choices.

I am not absolving the politicians for chamelioning. But they were simply playing in their league, for which they will also give an account.

It is the prophet who allowed them to do it on their pulpits and even went ahead to advise their flock that they were God-ordained without any caveat. This has no excuse.

Again I am not saying that they could have campaigned for the alternative since even that was as chameleonic as any other.

They simply ought to have used their pulpits to share God’s word as revealed and leave politics to the politicians. And if they must speak about politics and politicians, a thing that many times accompanies the proclamation of God’s word, they share only what God is saying and not their opinions on this or the other. Because God must have a word in season even for such times.

Taking sides in politics is against the high calling God’s ministry aspires. It is not much different from leaving the pulpit for a political seat.

Incidentally I am writing this as a spiritual leader just asking that we search our hearts and return to what God has called us to.

Incidentally the judgment of that conduct is loading