What's a Theocrat?

October 9
Actually, I’m not a republican; I’m really not a conservative; when push comes to shove, I’m really a theocrat. I am opposed to freedom of religion because God is opposed to freedom of religion. I am opposed to freedom of speech because God is opposed to freedom of speech. I am opposed to majority rule because historically the majority is wrong. Actually, we don’t have a democracy in America; our country is a republic. There is quite a difference, but I don’t have room here to expand on that. The coming kingdom of God will be a theocracy. It will be ruled by kings whom the King of kings will appoint to that position all around the world (Rev. 20:4; cf. Zech. 14:8-21). And they will reign during the millennial reign of Christ with His rod of iron (Rev. 2:27; 12:5; 19:15). Of course, that said, It is clear men, doomed to become proud when given the kind of power King David had, become so corrupt they are unable to rule effectively. Even David became proud and that pride resulted in the rebellion of his own son against his rule. I guess my point for today that we need to understand what we perceive as freedom is actually not. The best man can do in his finite wisdom is make laws that attempt to treat people who have differing views about God equally. That is done out of a fear someone will come to power whose understanding of God is so perverted that his leadership drags our country into the depths of depravity and despair.


Unfortunately, the most decadent of our fears has come upon us who believed having those kind of freedoms would somehow magically protect to us from what has come upon us. We now have a group of men and women leading our country who have such a perverted view of our God, their leadership embarrasses those of us who love and embrace the God of creation. Worse yet, their leadership has made us the laughingstock of the world. Those who once feared us now laugh in derision as our President bows before kings and dictatorial tyrants of tiny, insignificant countries around the world. They laugh in derision as the leader of the most powerful and onetime godly nation of the world apologizes for rescuing dozens of small, poor, and needy nations with billions of dollars in relief, hundreds (if not thousands) of people who gave their lives to assist in their education and training, and dozens of organizations funded by philanthropists to dig them out of the mire.

I have no fear of people like Barak Obama and his cronies in Washington. What I fear is a citizenry entirely ignorant of the fact that without God’s blessing, this country has no chance of recovering from the depraved state to which it has fallen. Our economic fall is the effect, not the cause of our problems. The cause is our departure from the pure, unadulterated, worship of the Creator of the universe. Unless we stop tolerating every kind of evil and sin, that which our God finds abominable, our country will continue its decline into the pits of hell until it get so deep into its depravity, it will not be able to recover. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. One of the signs a nation has become so depraved is that it has no fear of those who speak for God. When God’s prophets entered an assembly to speak in Israel, those present trembled. They quit trembling at the sight of God’s prophets just before their nation collapsed into oblivion. And that’s God’s word for us today.