Now What?

November 6th, 2012:  Other than the day of Pentecost and the immediate decades following, this election may have become the healthiest day in the history of the Church; perhaps exceeding even the beginnings of the Reformation.  In the eyes of the belligerent and predator-like entities of the world America has finally emasculated itself. 

The last cop in the international neighborhood is no longer a deterrent.  A power-hungry China with resources in abundance, a Putin-inspired Russia, a Mahdi-expecting Iran and the various leaders of an insane Jihadist mentality must be going Pavlovian about this time.  Bill Schanefelt (American Thinker) has seen clearly the ramifications of Romney's defeat. If we cannot (will not?) defend our own in Benghazi, why should our "friends" in the International community trust us?  He begins the article   with this observation:  "After Midway, Japan's fate was sealed, as was Germany's after Stalingrad." He concludes with this:  "What was written?  We know what Midway wrote for Japan, and Stalingrad for Germany, but we have yet to learn what was written on 6 November 2012.  We can only hope that it was not a similar tale."

It should be abundantly clear at this point that I have drawn the sad conclusion that it will indeed be a similar tale.  American exceptionalism is no longer the hope of the world.  "Benghazigate" announced itself and a country went back to sleep.  Comfort-zones and tummy-stuffing seem to always trump potential dangers.  Why then the seeming optimism for the Church?

We have not awakened sleeping giants.  These predators are keenly awake to the possibility that America, the only current deterrent to international aggression on a global scale, is overdue for a financial crash and is being socially fractured by various polarizing groups that will never again approach anything like a WWII unity.  Such a unified social structure is not even subject-matter to our current youth, and not even a memory for our adult population..  There is only one sleeping giant yet to be awakened, it seems to me, and that would be that part of the man-made and visible Church known as the called-out remnant that is resident within her.  "Come out of her my people" is the cry of the angel, even now! (Rev. 18:1-4)  "If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.  If you were of the world the world would love it own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you" (John 15:18-19) was Christ's utterance to all who are called to be His own. 

The best thing to happen to the true Church is the wrath of man.  As the insanity of a world-system interrupts our life of comfort two polarized groups will be totally and forever separated:  The true Church as a remnant and a false prostitute church as a majority seeking to please the world.  There is only one Giant remaining to be awakened.  Those who are in the current process of "overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony" (Rev. 12:11) yet remain to be awakened.  Perhaps Nov. 6 accelerated that process in a meaningful way.  Perhaps Nov. 6 was a blessing in disguise.

Let our frustrations drive us into the bosom of Christ.