Choosing an Evil

Tomorrow many of my fellow United States citizens will go to the polls to cast their votes in the quadrennial presidential election.  I will not be among them.  I voted in one presidential election, back in the year 2000, which was prior to my true conversion.  Toward the end of a time I had been drifting and getting caught up in a lot of the wrong ideas (due to lack of reading the Word and praying as I should) I voted in a primary election, February of 2008, for Congressman Ron Paul.  He's certainly vastly different than the rest of them, but he's still not representing God's government.  Besides that time I have not voted for anyone, for anything, during my time being a citizen of God's spiritual nation, nor do I plan to ever do so again.

So why not, you may ask.  Do I not think it's important to try to vote in the "lesser evil?"  No, I don't. I don't think it's important to vote for any evil.  Admitting both sides are evil should be enough.  End of discussion.  If you admit that both sides are evil, how do you then determine which is less evil, and how do you even know that?  I think a lot of the time those who think they're voting for the lesser evil are voting for the more evil.  Only God knows, really.

Concerning the two main presidential candidates (since most of my fellow U.S. citizens continue to be so foolish as to ignore anyone but the two main guys), both support different evils.  Some of the evils they both support.  And besides what they openly say they support or oppose, how do you know they're not just lying?

Obama supports human fetus murder.  Romney says he's against that, but he's a big hypocrite when he says he's pro-life (as opposed to anti-abortion), because he's the bigger supporter of war between the two.  More innocent people are murdered and otherwise harmed in war than any evil people they claim they're after.  And all the so-called Christian right-wing extremists who tune into the Catholic-owned Fox News base their vote on two main issues--abortion and homosexuality.  Whichever candidate is against those two things (especially the former) is their pick.  Ironically, the right-wingers are the pro-war side.  I guess it's fine for countless Arab in-utero babies to prematurely abort or be born terribly deformed due to all the chemical warfare to which they and their mothers are exposed.  I guess it's okay to them that some pregnant mothers and children of all ages are killed by U.S. forces.  Or maybe they're just too brainwashed and sadly ignorant to even consider that these things happen, because the news they watch doesn't bother telling them this happens, and they live in la-la land.

These same people don't bother to get on the Internet and look into these things.  They don't bother to sit and simply meditate on what must happen over there in the Middle East.  They also apparently don't bother to read what the real Christ taught about war.  True Christians do not engage in war, they do not support war, and they do not vote in the elections in the governments of men.

This is what God's servant Samuel said to the people of Israel when they desired a man to rule over them (taken from KJV):

12And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king. 13Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. 14If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:15But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.16Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.17Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. 18So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel (I Sam. 12:12-18, bold emphasis mine).

Now the scriptures spell out the reasons why the Eternal says it's evil to ask for a king (or president or any other name for a leader).  You can read it all for yourself, all the details about being taxed heavily and having your children go to war, etc.  Sound familiar? 19And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.

Now pay attention carefully to what Samuel said to the people after this:

20And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; 21And turn ye not aside: forthen should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. 22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. 23Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: 24Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. 25But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

Only reverently obey the Eternal.  He's our Father, and we are to obey him as did Father's Glory Firstborn, our Lord Salvation, did so.  Did Salvation (Jesus/Yeshua) get into Roman politics or even Jewish politics when he tabernacled among us in the flesh?  He clearly did not.  The Jews of his day (and still to this day) thought he was coming to establish God's Kingdom on the earth (and he will, but that is not what he came to accomplish during his first coming).  The religious and political leaders of his day thought he and his supporters were going to rebel against the Roman government.  The Lord made clear, though, that his kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36), and if it was then his servants would fight (which definitely puts an end to any notion that Christians should engage in warfare).

The Church, made up of a spiritual priesthood, the begotten children of God--destined to be born as spirit-bodied Sons of God at the beginning of the next age, upon Christ's return--is a spiritual nation that has no physical national boundaries on this earth.  We are a people scattered all over the earth, and we live as secondary citizens in various man-ruled governments.  To participate in these unGodly governments (there is no government on this planet that truly teaches a nation under God to abide only by the Ten Commandments with Christ as the Judge) is treason against the Government of God, because you are working against the principles of that spiritual nation.  If you CHOOSE (vote) anyone to rule over you but Christ, you are rejecting his rule and rather choosing the other.  We ARE God's government.  We are to represent it.  We are not representing the coming Government of God if we are choosing the flaw-filled men and U.S. government principles to have rule over us.  We are an EXAMPLE nation, a holy nation.

We are to pray God's Kingdom come and for Father's will to be done.  We can't in good conscience do that while we are seeking for the world to become Godly by the hands of man.  It's NOT going to happen.  Why should we who are spiritual be choosing the unspiritual to rule over us?  How insane is  that?  Stop a few minutes and seriously meditate on this.

There is much scripture on this subject, and if you do not yet understand the truth about God's government and how his elect are going to become Sons of God  and reign over mankind to show them the way of Peace, then you should open your bible and get to work studying it now.  May the Spirit of Truth guide you and open your eyes to His awesome way.