Come out of her, my people
The feast of tabernacles 2020 is now upon us, a time when the children of Israel gathered in booths and celebrated YHWH seven days in the seventh Hebrew month; once again in America the American people are going to decide upon a man who will be the next President of the United States.
It was around this same holy time, four years ago, that Christians were deciding who to cast their vote for when then candidate Donald J. Trump was then witnessed on a Hollywood Access Video tape boasting about grabbing women in their private parts and wanting to commit adultery and pursue sex with a married woman.
Four years later as President, Trump having won the election of 2016 with over 80% of the Christian white evangelicals, Christians will have to decide yet again who they cast their vote for to become the next President of the American nation.
Will they support as they have so far in large numbers Donald Trump to four more years or elect his opponent Joe Biden as the next President of the United States?
Last night (as I write this article) and only a few days from the start of the Feast of Tabernacles, Americans witnessed the first Presidential debate of what the two men have to offer the American people in the next four years to come. Instead of a normal debate, Americans witnessed a chaotic shouting spectacle and war of words, name calling, lies, and even ideas of racial supremacy.
The man who Christians supported in 2016 to become President, was on full display during the debate exhibiting hardly the Spirit of Christ, but rather the deeds of flesh, as Trump violently attacked his opponent with a continuous barrage of insults and unruly chaotic rash behavior.
Trump told mistruths on many issues exhibiting fleshly behavior in his repeated lies.
He further exhibited the fruits of the flesh when he refused to denounce White Supremacy and when questioned by his opponent Joe Biden to denounce the white supremacist armed militia group named the Proud Boys, Trump replied as if to send a directive to the group, to “stand back and stand by!”
He refused to acknowledge the question of the moderator asking if Trump would denounce White Supremacists and armed militias. Instead Trump chose the opportunity to call out to his predominantly white base and encourage and bolster White Supremacists by his words,”stand back and stand by.”
This is not the first time Trump has not condemned white supremacists.
Christians who will vote for the next president witnessed two men on the debate stage last night; one prideful, narcissistic, loud, abusive, lying and misrepresenting the facts on many issues, angry, tormented, furious, agitated man who would not denounce racist prideful white supremacy, and another man Joe Biden; a man of Catholic upbringing who entered humbly, quiet spoken, at times forceful when it was necessary, who calmly tried, against Trump’s continued angry interruptions, to state the facts and his positions and his hopes and ideas for the American people acknowledging that America has flaws with its problems of racism and empathized with the pain and with the loss of more than 200,000 American lives to the COVID-19 Coronavirus and the economic hardships Americans are enduring from the pandemic.
Galatians 5:19-23
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
The contrast could not be more startling between these two men.
Trump won the first election by more 80% of white evangelical supporters and a large majority of Christians.
The question is will they vote for Donald Trump this time around, supporting a known racist xenophobic white supremacist in charge of the nation for four more years?
White pride or white supremacy, or racist beliefs, has no place in the Church, the body of believers, of Jesus the Christ.
I shouldn’t have to state that fact, because anyone who says they are a Christian should certainly be familiar with the apostle Paul‘s teaching about those in Christ.
Galatians 3:26-28
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Though it was not mentioned in the text here, we surely can take from the scripture that there is no white, nor black, nor mixed race, for you are all one in Jesus the Christ.
There is a second witness in Paul’s letter to the Colossians.
Colossians 3:8-11
¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
There are no divisions of man, woman, race ethnicity, political or prideful racist attitudes, but Christ is in all.
There is not a White God, nor Black God, nor a Hispanic God, nor Asian God, there is only GOD!
Jesus the Christ did not bleed White blood, or Black blood, or any other race, only of that which is attributed to him in the Holy Bible of a Hebrew birth of the Israelite tribe of Judah.
The truth is Jesus bled human red blood and bled God‘s atoning blood shed for the sins of all men, women and humans of all races, skin colors and origins.
There is absolutely no racism or pride for any race in Jesus the Christ.
There was no one race in the Holy Bible that was blessed above another, except the solely the people of Israel whom the Holy Bible states were with a mixed multitude before God when they were given the law at Mt Sinai.
Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Israel was not one race of one people, but a mixture of many diverse people.
God did not choses Israel as his chosen people for their race.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For thou art an holy people unto YHWH thy God: YHWH thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 YHWH did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because YHWH loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath YHWH brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
The Holy Bible rejects any notion of racism or prideful supremacy of one race over another.
God is not a respecter of persons.
Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
Furthermore, Jesus said that to be his disciple, or follow Jesus, one must first deny his or her self.
Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
To deny one’s self is to deny one’s pride, one’s life, one’s thinking, and one’s ways.
One therefore cannot be a Christian and a white supremacist, or any other prideful racist, just as one cannot be prideful and gay and be a Christian.
One cannot belong to anything or any group with pride and be a true Christian or in Christ.
Christ is not divided!
1st Corinthians 1:10-15
¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? 14 ¶ I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
1st Corinthians 3:3-4
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
There are no divisions, but all those truly in Christ are in one Spirit, one in God.
John 17:20-23
¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Lastly, Christ left his disciples a commandment that they should love one another.
John 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Racial Supremacy has no place in the love of Jesus and the love of one’s fellow man. Love casts off hate. It is the direct opposite of hate and therefore any hatred of a person’s race, ethnicity, or origin is contrary to God’s law of love.
1st John 3:11-16
¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14 ¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1st John 4:20-21
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
If a Christian is to live by the words, teaching, and law of Jesus the Christ, why would they not practice that life in not only the way they live, but the way they vote and who they might vote for?
Therefore if a Christian cannot in good conscience vote for a man or political party because it is conflicting with his own faith and biblical foundational truths, then perhaps it might be a good idea not to vote at all.
Christians are not supposed to conform to this world.
We are not of the world.
John 15:17-19 These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18 ¶ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
If we are not of this world then why do we participate in voting in elections and for political parties which support only the aims of this world?
If Christians can support Donald J. Trump to win in this next election are they not then partakers with his white supremacist views and divisive hatred, his adulterous lifestyle, his repeated lying, his rage, strife, and divisive chaos?
2nd John 1:9-11
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 ¶ If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Donald Trump is not Christian leader, nor a religious man, nor does Trump have the Spirit of Christ within him, nor does he truly care for the doctrine of Christ; he is simply a wolf in sheep’s clothing and another sinner who truly needs the salvation of Jesus Christ!
Will Christians again support Trump; a transgressor of some of the highest sins: pride, the love of money, adultery, bribery, deception, and lies? Will they vote again for an unrighteous man?
Will Christians come back to Jesus and place all they do in their lives for Jesus and his ways, his commandments, or will they partake of the sins of Donald Trump?
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
YHWH I pray that you would open the eyes of your blinded people, bringing your people back to you O God! Bring them back to Jesus and shepherd them away from the dark spirit of this wolf in sheep’s clothing. In Jesus' Name I pray.