If you are a born-again, God-fearing, Bible-studying, praying Christian, I implore you to read this post. If not, it’s too late for you to have the impact what I’ll say here that Christians can have on the outcome of the election on the seventh day from now, but I implore you to access resources that can help you understand what I mean in using those terms and find your path to becoming a Christian [I recommend the Billy Graham Evangelical Association [Note 1.]
Religion is a potent factor in elections, and the role of Christianity in 2024’s political landscape will be significant. With the rise of newer organized movements, such as Christian nationalism, and the impact of polarized news and social media outlets, the voting behaviors of practicing Christians may have an even more pronounced impact on results than in past election cycles [Note 2.]
In one of many examples in the Bible, God enabled the Israelites to achieve victories that odds-makers would have said were beyond their capabilities — the capture of the city of Jericho. The sixth chapter of Joshua describes the “battle” in detail. I will attempt to draw some parallels here between that event and our challenge as a nation between now and November 5th.
I strongly encourage you to read about the event in detail [Note 3,] but in a nutshell the Israelites took the city in seven days because they did exactly as God instructed them even though it might seem “odd” —even “silly” — from a secular viewpoint. As you read God’s instructions in the next paragraph, consider them in the following context:
- Jericho — A degenerate culture. America’s current economic problems are significant, but more serious is our rapidly-accelerating moral decline.
- Walls — what is referred to in politics as “the Swamp” — the political “machine” that our government has become.
- Rahab — Born-again, God-fearing, Bible-studying, praying Christians today.
- Daily Trumpets — the “tools of battle” in preparatory mode for the first six days
- Trumpets on 7th day — the “tools of battle” activated
- Shout on 7th day — the final “strike”
- Joshua — the leader [each of us needs to decide which candidate — for President, and for Senate and House of Representatives seats — best parallels this role in our current situation and is most in line with God’s principles as stated in His Word.]
The “battle plan” was simple and straightforward:
- March around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark.
- But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”
The winner of this election will simply be the next leader who is subject to God’s Will for our nation, because “the king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes” Proverbs 21:1 NKJV.] Advisers to people who post blogs suggest avoiding numbers and details, so I won’t get that granular here. I did, however, publish a post to this blog during the 2020 election cycle that included statistics demonstrating that if all Christians who are registered to vote actually voted, that alone would have been enough votes to swing the result one way or the other.
So in summary, I’m asking all born-again, God-fearing, Bible-studying, praying Christians to pray every day from now through November 4th — and at seven different times during the day on November 5th — asking God to speak to them about why they should appreciate and exercise their precious right to vote, and vote.
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Notes
- Billy Graham: Peace With God
- Source: Michael O. Emerson, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, September 17, 2024.
- [Joshua 6 – quoted above, Joshua 6:3-5 NKJV.]
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