COMMENTARY & OPINION - THE ELECTION

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

10//14/16

COMMENTARY & OPINION

This is an e-mail sent to me by an old navy buddy and I'm passing it on as received.

Subject:  THE ELECTION

Don’t know where this originated, but it’s well worth a few minutes (a few more than the three it requests)  to absorb.    What it fails to address is The Donald’s foot-in-mouth disease.

This may be the best and most honest political promotion statement you will ever read. It decidedly does not brush objections aside. You hate Hillary? READ it. You hate  Trump? READ it. You think there's no choice? READ it. And, read it with your grown-up hat on. We've all been dealt huge responsibility with this election.  

The first step toward accepting responsibility is accepting it, and the first step toward accepting it is recognizing it. READ THIS. Read every single word. It'll take you about three minutes.

Be sure to read to the end (take a few minutes and read all of it!)

Are you sickened and despondent with the current campaign and upcoming presidential election?

I consider myself a conservative and do truly believe our country is at a political/economic/moral/social crossroads. I need to let you know I could/would never vote for Hillary Clinton to lead this country.

To me, she represents everything that is wrong with our current political structure. On the flip side, I look and listen to Donald Trump and I cringe at every rude, insulting comment he makes.

If you find yourself in a similar state of mind, please read the following article:

A Message For Christians About Donald Trump

Here's a famous joke about God and how he talks to us.

"A deeply faithful Christian man is stuck on roof at home with massive flooding up to the 2nd floor. Rowboat comes. He says "No, I'm waiting for God. I prayed and I know he's coming." 2nd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God." 3rd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God."

Water rises. The man drowns. Now he's meeting God in heaven. The religious man says, "Where were you God? I prayed. I was faithful. I asked you to save me. Why would you abandon me?"

God says, "Hey dummy, I sent you 3 rowboats. Are you blind?"

Did you ever consider Trump is our rowboat?  Maybe God is trying to tell us   something important--that now is not the time for a "nice Christian guy" or a "gentleman" or a typical Republican powder puff. Maybe now is the time for a natural born killer, a ruthless fighter, a warrior. Because right about now we need a miracle, or America is finished.

Maybe the rules of gentlemen don't apply here. Maybe a gentleman and "all-around nice Christian" would lead us to slaughter.

Or do you want another Mitt Romney, Bob Dole, John McCain, Gerald Ford or Paul Ryan? Did any of them win? Did they lead  the GOP to "the promised land?"  Did they change the direction of America? No, because if you don't win, you have no say.

Paul Ryan couldn't even deliver his own state, Wisconsin! And as leader of the House, Paul Ryan rolls over to Obama like my dog rolls over for a scrap of food, or a steak bone. Nice, but obedient. I mean Paul Ryan...not my dog. My dog is actually a pretty good defender and loyal.

Maybe God is knocking on your door loudly, but you're not listening. Maybe God under-stands we need a "war leader" at this   moment in time. Maybe God understands if we don't win this election, America is dead. It's over. The greatest nation in world history will be gone. Finished. Kaput. Adios.

And with one last breath, maybe what we need to save us at the last second, is someone different.  Someone you haven't ever experienced before-- because you weren't raised in rough and tumble New York where nothing good gets accomplished unless you're combative, aggressive, outrageous, on offense at all times, and maybe just a tad arrogant too.  Someone with a personality you've never seen on stage at your church. Maybe, just maybe, being a nice gentlemanly Christian would  not beat Hillary and her billion dollars, and her best friends in the media who will unleash the dogs of hell upon the GOP nominee.

I guess you think God is only nice and gentlemanly. Really? Then you've missed the whole point of the Bible. When necessary, God is a pretty tough guy. When necessary, God strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts vengeance.

Maybe you think God couldn't possibly be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude. When we won WWII, was God "nice?"  Were we  gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Is God ever "nice" on the battlefield? Or does he send us vicious SOB's like General George S. Patton so the good guys can defeat evil? It's pretty clear to me God sends unique people to be "war leaders." That's a different role than a pastor or church leader. God understands that.

And maybe it's time to re-define "nice." Maybe Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren't nice at all--because they led us to defeat. And losing again would mean the end of America. And God can't allow that. Maybe  Romney and Ryan mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or maybe they're just jealous they had their chance and blew it. Maybe they'd rather help elect Hillary than allow a Trump victory that would make them look weak, feckless and incompetent.

"Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint." (Isiah 40:30-31)

God is about miracles. We don't need a "nice guy" or a "gentleman" right now.

It's the 4th quarter and we're losing 14-0. We need a miracle.

So let me repeat my message to Christians: "YOU'RE MISSING THE BOAT."

I believe Trump is our miracle. I believe Trump is our rowboat.  Except he's more like a battleship!

No one is saying Trump is perfect. No one is saying Trump is a perfect conservative. But he is a patriot. He is a warrior. He is a capitalist. He is the right man, at the right time. Yes, he's a bit rude and crude and offensive. But that may make him the perfect warrior to save America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and Judeo-Christian values. The choice should be easy for Christians. It's Trump...or it's the end of the American dream.

Ramey comments:

I could (and do) disagree with a number of points in this e-mail but the basic message appears to be true. 

To me, however, the choice seems to be more clearly delineated.  Do we want more of the business as usual or do we want to clean house and have a massive rerun of the Nurenburg trials for crimes against humanity?  Trials that include industry, media, banking and political leaders involved in the present corruption that reaches into every level of our current government. 

Have we the vision to see the size of the problem and the size of the solution?  It is for this reason that the prophetic solutions we see in scripture are so apocalyptic.   We are facing judgment on a national scale that is to be mind boggling.  Because we have neglected to free ourselves from this tyranny that has gripped America for the past century, the responsibility and authority has been delegated to a foreign nation as it was in the days of ancient Judah and that correction came in 587-586 BC with the butchering and enslavement of Judah by the Babylonians. 

You can read some of the anguish in the book of Lamentations and more of the details in the book of Jeremiah.  It was awful!  And Jeremiah was told three times not to pray for these people because the Eternal said, "I will not listen". 

This is where America is today and this is why I have said, and continue to say,  "No politician is going to save America."  We have already been judged as a nation and we can see the indictment in Habakkuk 2. 

Christians today do not seem to realize that the nation of "Israel" is as phony as the "Jews" who inhabit it.  Christians today refuse to accept the truth of Isaiah 29 that this "Israel" is just before being destroyed. 

America will be destroyed at approximately the same time and this is covered in Isaiah 13.  You can see the same event described in Revelation 6:12- to the end of the chapter. 

King Solomon said, "Where there is no vision, the people perish".  Isn't this where we are today?  Christ said that just before His return it would be, "... as it was in the days of Noah".  According to the book of Genesis, there were only eight people who were worth saving at that time. 

We are about to see the sword of justice applied in America and who is it that is among the two thirds that are to die as noted in Ezekiel 5?  Is that such a tough question?  Obviously the military has to go.  Next comes the parasites who contribute nothing to gross national product.  Some politicians will make it to their bunkers and may survive for several years before being brought out to face judgment for their crimes against humanity.   

Are we about to see judgment meted out against the modern Babylon and their war making puppet NATO?  Yes we are and the results will be nothing short of catastrophic.  You saw it first in the Commentaries.