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“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” My, oh my, to have seen that 1941 film The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. when it first came out! Like the original Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy there has never been anything their equal in my opinion. But that curse of lycanthropy that so captured the imagination of children of my time after viewing the film seems to afflict politicians, some of whom may have begun with all the best of intentions, even saying their prayers by night but somewhere along the way succumbed to the bite of a werewolf.

Reflecting the very cautions of Jesus, Emerson had it no one of noble character would ever choose to become a politician since those that want power and authority over others with few exceptions want much and want such power and authority for their own benefit, not the benefit of others. But there can be no peace for those as the Psalmist had it who exercise themselves in great matters or in things too high for them. Invariably pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall, and it is the wisest course to choose to live simply rather than having much and becoming a victim to thieves.

I am used to living in the country where I learned as a boy you do not throw scraps of food out of doors since this will attract wild critters like bears, nor do you have garbage about in the house to attract roaches or other unwanted insects, and for years I have lived without much that would entice vermin like thieves. It is foolish to be improvident, to fail to heed the moral of the story of the ant and the grasshopper, but to live simply in the truest sense requires due diligence to providing for yourself while not wasting your time on acquiring the superfluities of wealth, those things that not only are beyond necessary food, shelter and clothing but the shiny things that will only perish in the using and will never satisfy the real needs and longings of the soul.

No one expects repentance or any wearing of sackcloth and ashes among politicians, but one might think that with all the bad news of their own creation some of them along with the empty suits and heads on TV MSM wouldn’t find that much to laugh about. But there they are still joking around with each other, smiling for the cameras as though everything was hunky dory; and if not victims of a werewolf’s bite probably don’t say their prayers at night in any event and who would accuse any of them being pure in heart.

The sky actually is falling on America, but the political contenders continue to avoid the really hard issues facing our nation and spend their time flogging dead horses depending on their TV personas to carry the day and carefully avoiding threatening, disastrous realities like a failed system of education and health care, our open borders and the invasion of millions of illegal aliens, the drug wars, the ever burgeoning socialist/welfare dependent population together with concomitant jails and prisons being growth industries destroying America. And to add insult to injury not a single greedy crook at the top of the food chain reaping enormous profits from the disasters brought about by corruption at the highest levels will ever go to prison for their crimes since those in our government are so corrupt and in collusion with the crooks none dare attempt to prosecute the guilty.

Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity along with a few others have been sounding the alarm about the ills overtaking America for quite some time, and I’m not ignorant of their views, I’m not unappreciative of their efforts. However, I believe the prophets of the Bible have given us due warning that unless America is brought to repentance not all the efforts of the most well-informed and well-intentioned people will avail. And why not? Because they are not calling on people to repent and turn to God. Who among these will warn of judgment to come unless America changes direction and turns back to God? They have the bully pulpits, but you know full well that if they started preaching a message of repentance from those pulpits they would quickly lose their jobs.

But how did such people get their jobs to begin with? Because they espouse conservative views in line with the thinking of ordinary Americans? I don’t think so. Somewhere along the line those that succeed in the business have generally had to shake hands with the Devil. America as a nation needs to repent of the wickedness of allowing the abomination of perverts to flaunt themselves openly, to repent of the filth and violence spewing out of TV screens across the nation, to repent of our government and courts, even our schools encouraging the demise of what used to be families and morality in America. If those things that are an abomination to God are allowed to flourish in America how can we escape the judgment of God? You won’t hear this message being preached by any in the MSM. We are in need of a John the Baptist, not someone on the Devil’s payroll no matter how “conservative” they claim to be.

The very fact that Barack Hussein Obama could even be a serious contender for president should tell all Americans that our nation is in the process of being judged by God. This evil man is such an obvious tool of Satan and so unqualified for the White House no one can possibly miss this being the work of the Evil One because who else but Satan could advance such an evil man with his background and associations to this position? You should be asking yourself why since this man’s evil has been openly exposed he continues to be a threat to America? And the only plausible answer is Satan. But even those working to expose this evil man are not pointing out the obvious, that he would not be a threat if America had not turned away from God.

A call for America to repent as a nation and turn back to God requires godly leaders, not just in politics but in the MSM that plays such a prominent role in doing the Devil’s work; and this is not going to happen. Nor do I have any confidence in those preachers who wear soft clothing and live in kings’ palaces contrary to what Jesus taught about the real prophets of God to call America to repent of the abounding wickedness our nation has come to represent. And because iniquity abounds the love of many will wax cold we read in the Bible. The clear and present danger I see for America is the need as a nation to repent, but I don’t consider this very likely to happen. And because this is not likely, I expect the judgment of God to fall upon our nation.

God does not promise his peace beyond understanding to those who involve themselves with the affairs of this world to the extent they forget just who it is they are supposed to represent by rejecting the ways of the world and not exercising themselves in great matters or things too high for them. The children of God are known by their refusal to go along with the ways of the world as well as by their love for one another, by their good works not for any reward but because it pleases God that they should live such lives as to put the works of the Devil and his servants to shame.

Well, I believe the Devil owns the media and uses it for his purposes. I believe America may very well be the Babylon of Revelation. But whether or not these are true, it remains that Jesus did say very few are going to be saved out of this world system of evil: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13,14. And looking at human history with all the bloodshed throughout and ongoing I’m more than a little inclined to take Jesus at his word.

The world will continue to love its own, the Devil will continue to reward those that serve him, but God prizes those who live quietly, peaceably, humbly, and seeking neither fame nor fortune work with their own hands to provide for themselves, for widows and orphans without fanfare or the applause of others. I really believe Jesus meant it when he declared “What does it profit to gain the world and lose your own soul.”

But never will a child of God think they somehow place God in their debt by any good works. And if you believe there are not people thinking such a thing, perhaps you have never met a werewolf though they are well represented in government, on TV, and among those being rewarded with wealth and power while serving the Prince of Darkness. The Bible teaches the earth is the Devil’s domain, and his hatred of the children of God is made manifest wherever we look. And while some of us speak out against the works of the Devil we do not do so with the expectation of saving the world, but rather warning of the judgment of God to come.

Given all the evil abounding it is too easy to fall into an angry mode and forget the evil of the day is sufficient without worry for tomorrow as Jesus said, and I’m among those fortunate who can spend the day in communion with loved ones now gone on before me who still stand with me during both the good and the evil of each day, these loved ones eager to greet me once God has determined to call me home. They are in my thoughts throughout the day and my conversations are with them as I fall asleep at night, trusting they are all safe with our heavenly Father. Folks, no matter what the future holds it just doesn’t get any better than that.

Sam Heath - samheath's Blog - Bakersfield.com

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