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I regret to hear of yet another gender and sex related scandal that is rocking our nation’s Military; this time, the Marines. As historically great as this formerly all male fighting unit has been, today, its vaunted ranks along with other combat components of the Military are being despoiled by the forced imposition of equality as defined by secular feminism, political correctness and tolerance. Supporters in rebellion against the divine order and biblical morality have been professed Christians at the highest levels of government including former Commander In Chief, Barrack Obama, as a matter of his social policies. Let me be clear, I in no way condone disrespecting or molesting women by men in the Military or otherwise!
However, as this edited 2012 blog repost foretells, such problems will persist in the Military because short of each Marine becoming born again believers in Jesus Christ with power through the Holy Spirit to exercise supernatural self-control as I write in this post, sinful males will be sinful males especially in a society that has ratified sexual promiscuity as normative. But even as Christian males and females in the Military culture it would still be difficult because it is the hormones as I painfully know from my own failures as a baby Christian and acknowledge in my book as well as see historically in those many failed, supposedly celibate priests along with the significant number of church pastors now addicted to porn. There is only one realistic solution as this blog declares.
Originally Posted January 29, 2012
Our Military has a sad, highly embarrassing and shameful problem with rape among its ranks. It was recently reported in the News that while there is no certain number, the Military itself estimates that up to 19,000 of its females may have been raped in recent years. Everyone is wringing their hands about what to do since punishing and drumming out of the Military the many guilty men will surely prove folly. There are two reasons why promiscuity, rape and let’s not forget a high number of pregnancies to boot will continue in our present day Military without a change: the healthy sex drive of sinful men and the presence of women in close proximity.
Contrary to recorded history where discipline was required and war was considered only for men out of their protecting role, women are permitted in today’s Military combat ranks out of a new gender equality and fairness quest. While that sounds good, testosterone driven men are not going to stagger (and in many cases are not permitted) off base to consort with the women or prostitutes from the neighboring cities, towns or villages when conveniently, females are their drinking buddies after a long day of combat. Do all of the education, make all of the penal threats to and punish as many men as you want to and even encourage religious practice. But as the Bible also insists, these (and manmade religion in particular) will be of “no value against the indulgence of the flesh,” (Colossians 2:20-23, NKJV).
There is one simple solution that will work for our Military and its rape problem. Admit we are not smarter than history on this point and remove women out of the combat mix. It is the height of arrogance to believe that men can be brought under control with a sex drive that has been designed by God and a fallen nature that must satisfy its lusts. Our society and Military should also admit we are not smarter than God. Women were never among Israel’s armies as combatants in the Bible. Too, Israel’s armies had God’s presence in the midst requiring their abstinence and provision for natural bodily function which resulted from the sex drive He chemically wired men with for purposes of procreation in marriage (Deuteronomy 23:9-11). Moreover, Christians have God’s power to help.
In my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, I discuss in a relevant Chapter and Appendix the struggles men have with sexual purity and the power available through faith in Jesus Christ to be victorious (Romans 13:13-14; Galatians 5:16-17, 22-25; 1 John 5:4-5). Yes, I already know our secular society, Military and many professing Christians will not receive what I am saying. However, presenting the supremacy of God’s Word and salvation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ in tough problems like rape in the Military is exactly what we who know the truth are supposed to be doing. The Military can ignore me and whoever else stands up to proclaim God’s power in the Gospel, but their problem will not ever go away because history and God are smarter than they on the matter whether they admit it or not.
Just in case anyone was wondering if the Lord had led me to write anything about the 2012 Presidential election, He did with a prophetic edge! This edited (punctuation and a footnote added) 2012 repost is one of a few corollary postings inspired of and to follow the four-part blog, “God Of Restoration And Judgment” under the category, The Cause among three others. Needless to say, after this past bizarre 2016 election year, I am even more personally exasperated with elections and lack of candidates with a biblical worldview. I hope, though, that you will also see in this blog as I have and am encouraged, that in my frustration with the present state of affairs, God is preparing my heart for the coming of His righteous King!
Originally Posted October 7, 2012
Elections are a fact of life in a Democracy. As a Christian with a biblically conservative worldview (preserving the Word of God, its truth and instruction as it is written) however, I confess that I have become weary with the endless cycle of local, state and national elections. It is especially frustrating to me when fewer and fewer of the candidates share my worldview. This nation’s founders victoriously concluded their rebellion against the British monarchy by instituting a democratic form of government--called the best men ever invented. They did acknowledge that this experiment in self-government would only work if the people stayed connected to their Creator (most seemed to agree this was the One, true God of the Bible) and His moral precepts found in His Word.
In the well over 200 years since that auspicious and unapologetically Christian beginning, many of the people have not simply drifted, but in effect staged another revolt.1 This time, it is against their Creator! This revolt, it seems, has ebbed and flowed in intensity depending on how much our nation’s leaders stood for God and His Word or not. The back and forth reflected in elections and especially those for President exposes a major flaw in the democratic form of government that it shares with human monarchies: the well being of the nation can rise and fall based on the men or man in power as Solomon in God’s wisdom saw (Proverbs 29:2) and Israel’s experience also shows (2 Chronicles 33-34).
Depending on the make-up of Congress and who the President is, our nation has gone back and forth in its policies; up and down in its economic fortunes and spiritual climate. Of late, the only constant we have seen is the steady spiritual and moral decline of our nation that has not been reversed by the last several Presidents from different political parties. President Obama has given support to the evil rebellion against God clearly unfolding through his social policies. This is why every aspiring strong man and great woman of God needs to consider that in this upcoming Presidential election we will be selling our nation out by simply voting for which candidate has the best short-term economic recovery plan.
Truly, economic upheaval and scarcity to the end are foretold (Revelation 6:5-6). Thus, either candidate’s economic plan on paper might be academically sound, but what we know for certain is that it is not sinful man’s wisdom in play here. It is the grace of an Almighty God that our nation needs for even a temporary recovery, but which now hangs in the balance because the many are in revolt against Him (Psalm 33:16-22, 127:1-2). For this reason, I am afraid for our nation in the short and long-term if we continue with President Obama who is a professing Christian at the helm or elect Mitt Romney a member of a cult form of Christianity to take his place.
In their first Presidential debate this past week, as part of his answer about the role of government Mr. Romney said, “We're a nation that believes that we're all children of the same god...” I know what he may have meant generically. After all, it was my forefathers who in great simplicity and hopeful hearts first uttered similar words to get bigoted white folk professing to be Christians to let up off of their hurtful oppression and like us. However, as a Bible student, I know that the statement is inaccurate. We are all God’s creation, but not all are His children. Only those who have put their faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, the Son of the living God become sons (John 1:12-13, 3:3-8; Romans 8:14-17).
What did or will Romney the Mormon mean spiritually by his statement? I believe Romney as President will do what his camp has done during the campaign in further attempting to legitimize and mainstream a cultic, false religion calling it Christian. President Obama will continue to assert his biblically liberal Christian credentials if he is re-elected. Meanwhile, the nation will continue to falter as neither the people in the majority or their leaders are able to connect to the God of the Bible who holds our future in His hands due to rebellion and spiritual ignorance respectively.
In my weariness I will vote in this Presidential election and urge all of my fellow citizens to do the same. Too, I will thank God for the options to explore other candidates besides the two the media has offered or responsibly write in a selection as my choice in this democratic form of government. Nevertheless, I will also keep waiting eagerly for the coming of God’s permanent King, my Lord, Jesus Christ (Psalm 2)!
1 Read my posts dealing with “Christianity” and being a “Christian” as Americana, September 4-18, 2016 under the category, Call To Repent.
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