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To: Mobile Vulgus
I would love to see each state's tea party people converge on their state capitols on a designated day before the November elections and hold prayer vigils.

You know, a nation-wide 'Right-Wing Bloodfeast' where we would give thanks for the blood of Christ that was shed for the sake of the reconciliation of man to God; where we would ask forgiveness and guidance for our nation, so that we might truly be one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, and that God might bless America again.

22 posted on 08/01/2010 8:29:36 AM PDT by LucyJo
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To: LucyJo
I would love to see each state's tea party people converge on their state capitols on a designated day before the November elections and hold prayer vigils.

Seriously, for what purpose?

where we would ask forgiveness and guidance for our nation

I never fully understood this line of reasoning under traditional teachings of Scripture. From what I understand of the doctrines, repentance is individual and is required for individual salvation, not for the promise of lower taxes and less regulation. If the prayer is a request for guidance and personal wisdom, then I can see a benefit here, yet I don't see why that prayer needs to be put off until the day prior to a national election. Now would seem to be a good time to bend the knee.

...so that we might truly be one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, and that God might bless America again...

That would require a Revival or another Great Awakening, and quite frankly, we don't have the Edwardses and Whitefields to preach that necessary message today - rather, the best we have is some middle aged Mormon apostate who is supposedly going blind.

So to counter your Peter the Hermit style post, I propose more of the Blue Bird of F'ing Joy: that we consider the strong possibilty that we are presently in God's End Game, in which case, praying for some sort of unmerited physical redemption for a spiritually bankrupt population seems incongruous with a Holy LORD who is presently harvesting the Elect in His Kingdom.

I submit that the US fulfilled its role in bringing prosperity and relative peace to the entire earth. Under the theory of the Upper Limits, the time of the Parousia is characterized to be similar to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Among a number of other things, "giving in marriage", "buying and selling", "eating and drinking", "knowledge increasing", "moving to and fro" is now a global reality whereas it was only available in part to only the well civilized world. The role the West in general, and the US in particular performed was the charitable increase in global prosperity to make all of this a reality when compared to all previous history.

Where the upper limits kick in is recognizing that we are irreversibly entering into a global Thousand Years of Darkness marked by famine, disease, wars and cruelty. These are not the conditions of the Parousia. So either we are at the threshold now, or we are at least a thousand years off before the land fully vomits out the evil and the righteous can again prosper. In any case, I recommend conduct similar to the first century Church which focused primarily on "Being Ready" (Parable of 10 Virigins) where the definition of "being ready" is preparing your own spiritual household and then effectively evangelizing your neighbor.

If now is not the time, then life will still suck, probably even boxcars and ovens for those who are not Party Members; but at least the things that matter will be taken care of.

27 posted on 08/01/2010 10:53:23 AM PDT by The Theophilus
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