“Make America Good Again!”
Justice Is Coming!
My dear wife Bonnie came to me today with tears in her eyes. She wanted me to read a passage she had just found in Psalm 94:20-23. It reads:
“Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute? They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. 23 He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.”
We live in a time where God could use any number of calamities to “wipe out” wicked rulers who “frame injustice by statute.” Disease, famine, nuclear war, rogue AI, and our falling birth rate, to name just a few. Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever…” — Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) page 404.
At the time Jefferson was contemplating the grave injustice of slavery while he himself still owned many slaves. His hypocrisy was outrageous. But his observation was none the less true. It would be just like God to punish our nation for slavery. But it was no more outrageous than our own hypocrisy today regarding the abortion of our babies.
Sadly, one of our major political parties, the Democrats, now aggressively advocates for unrestricted abortion under the Orwellian euphemism of “reproductive healthcare.” All this while totally ignoring the right of the unborn baby to its own healthcare. While one baby in a hospital receives expensive life-saving care in the womb, another in a clinic next door is being murdered. According to FactCheck.Org, only 2.7% of abortions have been to save the life of the mother. All others were for lifestyle convenience.
The Psalmist quoted Ps. 94 had previously asked a few questions in verses 9 and 10: “He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?”
In other words, “Do you really think God does not see the slaughter and hear the screams of those who are being murdered? Do you really think He does not care about the baby and will not take action when “wicked rulers frame injustice by statute” in order to win more votes? This is outrageous!
We Must All Get Involved!
At His trial, Jesus told Pontus Pilate “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:33-38). Since then, many Christians have refused to get involved in politics, assuming that doing so would contradict their Lord.
But Jesus was not forbidding His followers from fighting injustice. He was explaining that His disciples did not need to fight to save Him. He had 60,000 angels on call if He needed help (Matt. 26:53). He was not negating all the exhortations in the Bible that call on us to resist wickedness and pursue justice. We are all to speak up for those who have no voice of their own, and act for those who have no power to save themselves.
It Is a Sin To Ignore Any Evil!
In Proverbs 24:11-12 we read: “Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not He who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not He who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will He not repay man according to his work?”
This passage is just as much a part of God’s Word as John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” We are forgiven for our own sins when we repent and believe that Jesus Christ died in our place and rose from the dead (Rom. 8:8-11). But then, having been saved, we get to show our love for God by the way we love and care for others, and that includes both mothers and their babies.
God Judges Individuals in Eternity, But He Judges Nations In History.
In James 4:17, we read: “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” God judges nations that sin:
It was sin to ignore the wickedness of slavery before the Civil War. Lincoln was right when he said “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Allowing slavery to be practiced just across state lines could not endure. God would act. Lincoln was also right in his 2nd inaugural address during the Civil War, “Yet, if God wills that [this war] continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’” He saw the United States Civil War as God’s judgement to “wipe away” the “wicked rulers” who “frame injustice by statute.”
It was also sin for congregations during the Nazi Holocaust to try to drown out the cries of the Jews by “singing louder” as the train cars passed by their churches. They were on their way to the death camps! Fascist Germany, Italy and Japan were all punished. But they did not cause God’s judgement on the world, they were God’s judgement on all the nations.
Stop And Think!
The Roe Vs Wade decision in 1972 has resulted in more than 63 million babies being killed in their mother’s womb. Abortions are increasing especially in the “blue states” across our nation. Once again, we are “a house divided” with nothing more than a state line standing between life and death for the unborn. Will God look the other way as “wicked rulers” in both parties now strive to win votes by promising to “frame injustice by statute” in this cruel and outrageous way?
I understand that when the physical life of a mother is in real danger, she has a grievous “right of self-defense.” “But what,” many ask, “about rape and incest?” Where else do we ever require an innocent person to die because of who his or her father is? Punish the father for his crime, but not his baby. It is not unreasonable for any mother to allow her baby to live and be adopted. It is the role of government to establish such justice by law.
Vote to Avoid God’s Judgement!
In the upcoming election we will be selecting new “rulers.” Please vote for those who promise to fight for the life of the unborn. Don’t be part of the reason why God must “wipe out” our nation for it’s wickedness. The clouds of war and other disasters loom darkly on our horizon. So, be wise. Do what is right. God may yet show us mercy. Let us make America GOOD again! Only then can she ever be truly great.
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— Gregg Harris is a Pastor of Preaching & Teaching at Gracious Cross Reformed Church in NE Salem, Oregon. He is the author of over 20 published newspaper articles written specifically to evangelize and raise the level of biblical literacy in the Willamette Valley. If you would like to join our team to support this effort, please contact him at greggeharris@gmail.com.
Gregg resides in Silverton, Oregon with his wife Bonnie where they serve together as Hosts at Noble Inn, a respite Bed & Breakfast for weary missionaries and ministers of the gospel. You may contact him by text or phone at 971-370-0967 with any comments, questions, or for pastoral counsel.
