For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. - Ephesians 6:12 (NLT)
Election season is just a blur of the exhausting and the awful as the apostate church ramps up their efforts exponentially to steal your vote by spiritually bullying you and lying to you about what God has said. They have no true answer for why they worship such a weak God that needs our help so desperately. As if the bible does not say that God raises up all leaders and uses everything in His creation for His purposes. They know that Jesus was completely apolitical when He walked the earth and He had a real reason to be involved given the true oppression His people sat under from the Roman Empire. As He said however, His kingdom was not of this world. Sure, the NAR lies and pretends that flipping the tables was political but it most certainly was not as this was dealing within the temple, not the public square. Jesus certainly had a problem with the religious leadership but that is not indicative of being political. None of that matters to Steven Strang, who uses his media platform at Charisma News to do the bidding of his true master, the Republican Party. The GOP knows full well that their candidate, Donald Trump, cannot win without the evangelical vote and also, that Evangelicals cannot decide to not vote. So, we have seen in the past week the spiritual intimidation be stepped up as they want to make sure that Christians vote and vote only for their guy. To that end, today Charisma ran two articles declaring Christians must vote and we will review both in this devotional. The first is by the rapidly devolving Jack Hibbs. Last time Jack wrote an article on Charisma, which was last week, he declared that anyone who votes Democratic will suffer eternal punishment in unquenchable fires. I kid you not. Previous to that, he had tried to teach that Jesus would be waiting for us on Judgment Day with our voting record in His hands. Not content with these heresies, Hibbs now is declaring in the first link above that choosing not to vote would be a sin! With no respect because none is due, just shut up Jack, you lying hireling. The second link is to an article by Abby Trivett, a media content creator for Charisma. She is stating that Christians are called to vote - except they are not of course. So, let us reason once more together beloved.
"With the election mere days away, California Pastor Jack Hibbs did something rarely seen behind most pulpits in 2024"he issued an urgent call for Christians to vote. A previous message Hibbs gave, titled "When Christians Fail to Vote," sought to be a wake-up call to the ramifications of the church sitting out the election"challenging both the pulpits and the pews.
Equipped with dozens of verses from the Bible, as well as quotes from America's Founding Fathers and some troubling statistics, Hibbs underscored the personal and societal consequences of Believers neglecting the stewardship of their nation. "Christians can never sit anything out that has an impact or influence," Hibbs, who serves as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, insisted. Christians in America have been given the profound privilege of being able to impact laws and elections through their votes. Hibbs took issue with many Christians who commonly use God's sovereignty as an excuse not to get involved. The pastor emphasized that this thinking fails to recognize something critical: "In God's sovereignty, He involved us!" Despite the sanctity of life, the rule of law, the support of Israel, the safeguarding of children, and their own religious freedom hanging in the balance, scores of evangelicals have deemed it unnecessary to cast their vote." - Charisma News
Jack Hibbs is a NAR whore at this point. Once respected, he has sold out his savior for 30 pieces of political silver. You have to understand that this is not about saying you want to vote for this person or that. It is about lying and twisting the word of God. Think about the foolishness of this argument. That God has somehow transferred His sovereignty over to us. How blasphemous. The argument is not entirely about sovereignty anyway. Yes, God is sovereign but you can certainly vote as you feel led. The problem is that whores like Hibbs beats the sheep to demand that they must vote as he has decided. I understand he might have his reasons but he does not allow that someone else could reach a different conclusion, or conclude that neither candidate is a Christian choice. There is ZERO issue with religious freedom in this country and Jack Hibbs knows it. Supporting the wars of Israel is quite different than supporting Israel. The rule of law? Seriously? His candidate is a convicted rapist with 34 other felony convictions and has already declared that the first thing he would do if elected would be to fire the prosecutor who has two other cases pending against him. So, spare me the crocodile tears about the rule of law. At this point, Hibbs cites statistics from the 2020 election that show how many Evangelicals stayed home and his stupid conclusion if they had come out, then his boy would have won. The arrogance to assume that everyone Evangelical must come to the same voting choices as him is staggering. He would get worse however, after citing recent studies that show 32 million Evangelicals are planning on not voting this year as well.
'"There's no separation between what God says and what God wants from you as an American," he explained. "Voting in a constitutional republic is a privilege. It is an honor, ladies and gentlemen, for you and I to carry out this great responsibility. It's not something that we 'maybe' exercise as a believer. The believer must take this very seriously. "The church is failing. Why? Because it's being led by failures," he lamented, adding that every pastor will be judged more harshly and held accountable to God for how they instructed their flocks. Hibbs pointed to a quote from political researcher Craig Huey, which warned that the church has surrendered its role as the "conscience of the community." "That is true," Hibbs affirmed, adding that many church pastors "will never bring up the issues that will determine what your kids deal with in school, the definition of marriage, abortion, or who to vote for to preserve a Judeo-Christian worldview." Failure to vote for candidates who, for example, are more committed to defending children in the womb is equivalent to casting your vote for candidates eager to snuff it out, Hibbs further underscored, "When you don't vote, the void is filled by the bad guy."' - Charisma News
Let me see if I have this straight Jack. The guy who cheated on his first wife with his second wife and cheated on his third wife with a porn star is the good guy in your scenario? The guy who cheated his business partners and customers six times through bankruptcy is the good guy? The guy who created a fake university to scam two million dollars from poor people is the good guy? The man who ran such a corrupt charity that cheated other charities like ones for kids with cancer that he is banned from running charities in New York is the good guy? This is the problem the NAR dominionist can never answer. They try to confer righteousness upon a totally corrupt man. This is the game they play though. They try to pretend this is a choice between a good guy and a bad guy. Between good and evil. Except their choice is just as evil if not more. God does not want ANYHTHING from you as an American. Being an American is not impressive to God. It does not matter where we are, we still have to shape out lives as God commands. America, has no relevance to the conversation but because Hibbs worships this country, he teaches the opposite. Voting is a secular privilege but part of that privilege is in deciding not to vote at all. If the system insists on providing only corrupt candidates, then people can decide that neither candidate is worth that privilege. Note that Hibbs also trashes pastors who do not twist the bible as he does to promote Donald Trump. So, in the wicked heart of Jack Hibbs, if you only use the pulpit to preach the gospel - you are a failure! How vile and disgusting. He is right that pastors will be held to a higher standard for what they taught their flocks but I don't think that should be a source of comfort for him. He will answer for lying to the sheep and beating them on behalf of his politics. The church has indeed abandoned having a conscience but Jack Hibbs is leading that charge. It is unconscionable to spiritually bully God's sheep and tell them they are going to hell or sinning if they do not vote a certain way.
