The prophet Jonah preached, “Yet 40 days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” This ancient pagan city in 760 BC believed the preaching of Jonah, repented, and God spared them.
In 20 days, we will have an election. This event will decide whether our federal government’s attitude towards God (and the people of God) is going to be friendly or hostile. It is a very serious matter.
I took a Christian businessman to lunch the other day. He heads up an international business. I said, “Our nation is being destroyed before our very eyes, and no one seems to understand why.” He agreed. I said, “Let me show you why.” I slid a blank sheet of paper across the table and said, “I want you to write out the Ten Commandments. They don’t have to be in order; they don’t have to be word for word.” After 10 minutes, he quit. He got eight.
Today in this country only about one person in every 500 are familiar enough with the Ten Commandments to name all 10. And in our churches, it’s only 1 percent. If you think it couldn’t possibly be this bad, take the test yourself, and then give it to your family and church.
As we ended our lunch, I said, “If we could get people to 1. Display the Ten Commandments, 2. Learn them well enough to explain them to their children, and then, 3. Teach God’s law to their children daily, we could change our nation.” Very quickly, and with some feeling he said, “No brother! No! You’re thinking too small. We could change this world!”
There is still hope, but our repentance is required. Our repentance could bring about God's mercies like those that He showed to Nineveh.
Think about this. Overnight we could save this nation, if parents, especially fathers, would go home this afternoon, and learn the Ten Commandments, and commit before God to follow them, then, in the morning, begin teaching God’s law to their children and then get a copy of the Ten Commandments up in their home.
Yet 20 days to the election and will America will be overthrown?
Charles Wysong
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Charlie Wysong’s bible lesson about the upcoming election is a bit vague. Is he saying if we vote for Trump America will be saved? Vote for a man who has broken at least nine of the 10 commandments that Mr. Wysong is so fond of? Vote for a man who makes fun of anyone who is against him?
I say no.
Mr. Wysong, keep your faith to yourself as your Jesus said to do. We will be just fine with President Harris, thank you.
Pat Hagan
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Instead of the Ten Commandments, of which there are a variety of versions, maybe people should memorize--or at least remember--2 Timothy 3:2-4:
"People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God."
Michael V. Woodward, Ph.D.
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God spared Nineveh from Jonah’s warning because all the people repented. Not a dozen, not hundreds, not 50.1 percent. All. One hundred percent. Yet, a later generation faced God’s wrath again and was destroyed by flood, as predicted by Nahum, and as told in Nahum 1: 8-10.
So why should the United States be any different because Mr. Wysong quotes Biblical history? I’m sure there are many self-proclaimed prophets who too prophesize about the sin and wickedness of the U.S, preaching essentially “repent, the end is nigh”.
“In 20 days, we will have an election. This event will decide whether our federal government’s attitude towards God (and the people of God) is going to be friendly or hostile. It is a very serious matter.”
To pronounce “this event will decide whether our federal government’s attitude towards God (and the people of God) is going to be friendly or hostile”, with Mr. Wysong implying the destruction of the country if the vote is “hostile” to God, challenges the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. It even purports the Founding Fathers were wrong. It implies that Mr. Wysong does not believe in the separation of Church and State.
For 237 years, the U.S. has unquestionably believed in and relied upon the First Amendment’s separation of Church and State, despite Lauren Bobert, MTG, et.al. If the Founding Fathers were divinely inspired, as many, many people believe, then the separation of Church and State was also divinely inspired.
So it’s imperative to ask Mr. Wysong a question: how can you prognosticate a Nineveh-like end of the U.S. because one candidate, your candidate, did not win?
Phrased inversely, how can you prognosticate the U.S. will not be destroyed because your candidate, a loathsome man who only uses Christians and is not a Christian himself, won the election?
Just as the First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing a national religion, it allows Mr. Wysong to share his beliefs.
Mr. Wysong sees the country being destroyed because U. S. citizens do not know all Ten Commandments. To me, that’s as ludicrous as my Dad saying Elvis was destroying the country. I’m sure similar was said about alcohol, the repeal of prohibition or the Beatles.
While it’s hard to argue against the Ten Commandments making the world better, we would be far better served if we also knew the beatitudes.
I’m glad we live a country where Mr. Wysong can believe freely. But the outcome of an election “will decide whether our federal government’s attitude towards God (and the people of God) is going to be friendly or hostile” determines God’s judgment? It’s now (Oct. 18) 19 days to the election and will America will be overthrown?
Regardless of the outcome, if Mr. Wysong’s candidate loses, I expect a repeat of Jan. 6, 2021 but more violent and far broader. Should his candidate, not a Christian, but a man who is the poster boy for the seven deadly sins, full of hate, planning to prosecute his enemies after he uses the military to hunt the down, and with immunity win, the country will be overthrown and run by his supporters.
Should Mr. Wysong’s candidate win (“friendly”), does this mean Project 2025 inspired by God? Do we want all government employees fired and replaced by those who sign a loyalty oath? Do we want the First Amendment right to peaceful assembly taken away because unions are declared illegal and disbanded? Do we want it becoming easier to discriminate against minorities and gays, that discrimination based on the book of Leviticus, and contrary to the separation of Church and State? Do we want a Justice Department based on a loyalty oath and prosecution and persecution of those not signing a loyalty oath?
Maybe that’s how God will punish us, contrary to Mr. Wysong’s belief in the “friendly to God“ outcome of the election.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
Don’t expect that from Mr. Wysong’s candidate and the despicable minions he entrusts to office.
Joe Warren