I am not hopeful. Why?
I suspect that God will let Christians and conservatives boil in the stew of their OWN making and let them feel the full heat and consequences of decisions made by way of their OWN God-given agency!
1) Abortion:
Millions can show up to buy a chicken sandwich but can't figure out a way to legally and peacefully end abortion. Really?
2) Every day our nation's godless K-12 socialist-entitlement schools are filled to the brim with the children of conservatives and Christians. In these schools the children **WILL** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom. Yet....Conservatives and Christians do not remove their kids or work to SHUT DOWN these godless ABOMINATION to the First Amendment and freedom of conscience.
3) Nearly every K-12 teacher in this nation ( both private and government schooling) was trained by godless Marxists in godless colleges and universities run by godless Marxists. This influence can not help but seep into the K-12 classrooms, and the indoctrination continues from freshman year of college through to the highest levels of graduate school. Yet...Conservatives and Christians turn their children over ( every school day) into the care of these indoctrinators.
I am not hopeful. Why?
I suspect that God will let Christians and conservatives boil in the stew of their OWN making and let them feel the full heat and consequences of decisions made by way of their OWN God-given agency!
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Well, that’s what I said, only not so pessimistically. I don’t disagree with your points, but I would add that God is bigger and greater than any nation’s problems, or any individual’s problems.
I think if we as believers recommit our lives to Him, our every thought, our every word, our every action, He will take notice, and bless us according to His will.
We are in the equivalent of Babylonian captivity. During that time, God said to His people, and I believe to us today:
Jeremiah 29:4-14
New International Version (NIV)
4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” 8 Yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. 9 They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them,” declares the Lord.
10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”