Hi
Christian Saboteur
Nice account. But you can't offer any evidence that it's true, except your own personal testimony. Sorry, but according to the Scriptures, that isn't valid proof of something. And I certainly think that in this day and age of many, many just making up or twisting accounts to fit some agenda, that makes it suspect. Anyway, from your telling, I'm getting the idea that this may have been 50 years ago? Um, maybe 50 years ago Alcoa had a facility in Mexico where some of the workers slept in tents because it may have been a new installation and the Mexican worker chose to camp out to get a job or be at work on time. I don't know, of course, but without anything but an anecdotal account of such a thing happening, I'm sure there are likely more facts to consider in the account.
My point, of course, is to show how some will grab at all sorts of, apparently unfounded rumors and stories, to feed their anger, hate, distrust of the government that, according to the Sciptures, God says you should honor because those authorities have been put over you by God. Now, I'm not suggesting that the individuals that we set to fill those positions are necessarily put their by God's design or will, but they could be. But I think the Scriptures are clear that the political and governmental divisions that carve up the actual land area of the globe, were established by God. In other words, the nation of Israel was established by God. That Benjamin Netanyahu should be the designated leader of that nation at any particular time probably isn't. I support this understanding by understanding that over the history of Israel as a nation of God's people, He doesn't seem to have approved of many of the individual kings who came to rule over it in their various reigns.
If God does choose the individual leaders in each governmental authority that He establishes, then by denigrating the present administration, are you not going against God's chosen? Just a curious question that I keep coming to when I hear these claims that Donald Trump is God's choice for our president. I mean you must serve a fairly weak god that he can't seem to get his choice to win an election down here on the earth. Such a person would, in my estimation, be serving a pretty small god. And by then denigrating the person that, according to their understanding God must have put them there because they believe that God actually chooses the very people who serve in that position, are they not defying God's will?
Personally, I see America as the beast nation foretold in the Revelation. While I agree that God established the government of the new nation a few hundred years ago, I think it was so that 'the nation' would be here to fulfill its place in that part that we read of in the Revelation. In other words, God raised up the U.S. to be a nation much like He seems to have raised up Babylon against His people to use as their punisher for their continued rebellion. He has raised up the U.S. to be built into a nation that will one day fulfill the prophecies of what the beast nation will be doing. With that understanding, I'm not sure that God does pick our individual leaders.
He just raised up and established the nation because it has a part to play in God's unfolding plan. The leaders, over the years, much like in Israel, get to be chosen by the people and may be good or bad kings.
God bless,
Ted