The following are the last five of my questions about how you think each candidate will govern in the next four years. They are based on my Biblical Total Truth Worldview. A BTTW is like a mental map that tells us how to navigate the world effectively. To understand a BTTW we must embrace the whole counsel of God which includes the (BOC’S) Book of the Covenants (the OT) and the Renewed Covenant (the NT). It is important to understand that much of the BOC’S is regarding the governing of countries and, therefore, it speaks to how societies will succeed or fail depending on whether they follow God’s prescribed laws. Would Elohim (God Creator) leave His world rudderless without His navigational map? I think not!
This is why we MUST study and apply “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27) to be equipped to address the broader culture.
How will Biden or Trump govern?
- Will he defend and enforce the 1st Amendment?
“But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” – Acts 4:19-20 ESV
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.” – G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams the second American president
- Will he defend the 2nd Amendment?
“If a thief is caught in the act of breaking into a house and is struck and killed in the process, the person who killed the thief is not guilty of murder.” – Exodus
22:2 NLT
The Founders of America established the 2nd Amendment based on the above verse.
“The right to keep and bear arms for self-defense was embodied in what the Founders of America called the ‘Castle Doctrine.’ As Founding Father James
Wilson declared: Homicide is enjoined [required] when necessary for the defense of one’s person or house (castle)…and if anyone be robbed in it, it shall
be esteemed his own fault and negligence.” – The Founders’ Bible, p.127.
- Will he value the life of the unborn and will he protect the rights of a child in the womb?
“For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb. … 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was being formed in secret, and intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.” – Psalm 139:13, 15 AMP
“Now suppose two men are fighting, and in the process, they accidentally strike a pregnant woman so she gives birth prematurely… 23 But if there is further injury, the punishment must match the injury: a life for a life,…” – Exodus 21:22-23 NLT
“The OT (Book of the Covenants) attributes human personhood to the developing baby in the womb…” p. 179 ESV Study Bible. Abortionists argue that it is unknown when a baby becomes “a person,” while the Bible teaches a child becomes a person at conception (Jeremiah 1:5) “…before you were born, I set you apart…” Pretty staggering I would say!
- Does he have the wisdom and mental, and physical, capacity to lead the greatest nation in the World?
“Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years… So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.” – Joshua 14:10a-11 NIV
“God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.” – 1 Kings 4:29 NIV
A contemporary false god is intelligence (the accumulation of knowledge) at the expense of gaining wisdom (the quality of having good judgement learned through experiences of making sound decisions). With the veneration of intelligence: people conflate (combine the two ideas into one) intelligence with wisdom. This is wrong.
- Globalism compared to Nationalism?
Who would have ever thought when selecting a President, that the ideologies of anti-colonialism and globalism would be this important? Will Trump or Biden govern by enacting polices in which we control our own destiny? Or will we relinquish our authority to international administrative systems?
“When the Most High (El Elyon) gave nations their homes, and set the divisions of man, He fixed the boundaries of peoples in relation to Israel’s numbers.” – Deuteronomy 32:8 New JPS Translation
The Deuteronomy verse was used by Paul when he addressed the intellectual Athenian philosophers on Mars Hill:
“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.” – Act 17:26-27 NIV
God is responsible for establishing nations as to their ethnic identities and their specific geographical locations. He did this so that people in these countries would be able to seek Him and find Him even though he is not hard to find. Isn’t this marvelous?!
It is safe to say that the more godless and secular a leader is, the more persuaded they will be to attempt to exercise control worldwide. It is also true that a vast number of people, who are willingly deceived, will support the elevation of the State and a charismatic leader. It pretty much started with Nimrod (See Gen. 11) ☹.
The Push for a One-World Government
“He exercised all the authority of the first beast. And he required all the earth and its people to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 17 And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.” – Revelation 13:12&17 NLT
Contrary to God’s plan, we are experiencing the rapid advancement of globalism propagated by controligarchs (billionaires such as Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and George Soros, etc.), who are some of the major influencers on the world stage. “They wish to dictate every aspect of our daily existence from our energy usage right down to the foods and medicines we put in our bodies.” (Look to Controligarchs, by Seamus Bruner, page xiii).
Most of these individuals start out to support good causes but because of their secular ideologies they end up destroying God’s intended purposes. Examples: Bill Gates, addressing what he deems as overpopulation, has given millions to organizations that fund abortions. The Rockefeller foundation investing in preventative medicine, since 1901, to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases brings with it mandated vaccines, mandatory quarantines, face masks, temperature checks, and biometric identification for all citizens.
The closure of schools has proved to be more detrimental to our children.
The mandated closure of churches against the constitution resulted in the loss of our freedoms.
Many outcomes from these controligarchs promote dependence on, loyalty to, and control by the State. Far too many people wish to be taken care of and lose freedoms, than take risks that personal responsibility engenders. Individual responsibility is a core value in Scripture.
How will you use this material?
#1 Lead a discussion from the material with the information in your small group.
#2 Only imagine if every person in your church wrote up their own biblical opinions and sent it out to a small group of five people in their webs of relationships? There just might be a slight adjustment in your local culture.
In Christ,
Dale