Some of the reasons why I support Ron Paul is that I believe the prophesies that are written in the bible and I really believe that we may be living in the end times. OK, maybe and maybe not BUT we do have a responsibility to do the right thing whether Jesus will return next week or a thousand years from now. That said, the bible tells us that in the last days a one world government will form along with a global cashless financial system. So today we have before us the United Nations and the World Bank. I looked into the origins of the UN and found that it was deliberatly set up specifically to some day become a one world government and that the World Bank was set up to become the central bank of the entire world.
One day I realized that even though these things must take place and they are mentioned in my bible, they are not God's plan. Yes, He will make all things work out in the end but no way would HE want sinful mankind to run this world. How do I know? He destroyed the Tower of Babal. How else do I know? Because when Jesus comes back He too destroyes the one world government.
I also understand that the antichrist who emerges to rule over the entire world through this one world government will embark upon a massive persecution of Saints, hence the end times Saints. The mayrters who are before the throne in great numbers. The persecution will be like none in all of human history.
Yes it will happen but I can't believe that God would want His children to be slaughtered like that. He blesses us when it happens. We're honored and rewarded but its still the result of a fallen world and not as He intended it to be.
There are other prophecies surrounding the end times. Since lawlessness will increase, most people's love will grow cold. We shouldn't support that any more than we do the one world government.
The emergence of the one world government is Satan's plan for the world, not God's. It is his false christ who will run the world, not our Christ.
If we are to be salt and light, then we MUST oppose evil, including the one world government. ONLY Ron Paul has authored Bills to get us out fo the UN and World Bank, the IMF and WTO. (IMF is to the rest of the world what the Fed is here and the WTO is their lending arm).
If anyone should respect the rule of law, it should be Christians. There isn't a single person running for president who really respects our Constitution the way Ron Paul does. The bible says, let your yes be yes and your no be no. So when you take an oath to uphold the Constitution as a Christian, you better uphold it and Ron Paul has. Huckabee hasn't. Not even close.
One fo the major hangups a lot of Christians have relative to supporting Ron Paul is his position on Israel. Many modern Christians think by subsidizing Israel or promising to go to war on their behalf reminds tham of the verse in Jerimiah where it says, those who curse you will be cursed and those who bless you will be blessed. They equate that with going to war and killing people in Iraq qho have never attacked us or threatened us and without a declaration of war.
These people loathe Ron Paul because he says that he would cut off subsidies to Israel. For some weird reason they don't hear the second part. That he will also cut off aid to Israel's enemies to the tune of three times the amount we give to Israel.
I have discussed these things with many Christians who think that if the USA didn't support Israel they would be obliterated by their enemies.
Do you know what I tell them? That NOWHERE in the bible does it EVER mention that Israel will be destroyed after their restoration.
That Muslims think some earthly nation can destroy Israel too. That God is her protector and not the USA. That even when ALL countries come up against Israel in the last war that Israel will wipe the floor with them. God doesn't need the USA to protect the apple of His eye.
Then, there is Ron Paul's position on drugs. That's a whoe educational process that I usually wind up convincing many of them because I KNOW the issue very well and make a very good argument.
But just to hint on it for now. God made Marijuana and ALL the plants that most drugs are derrived from. There was only one plant in the Garden that God said we couldn't touch or eat from its fruit and it wasn't marijuana or magic mushrooms or cocoa or poppy. God made those things and being ALL knowing, ALL seeing, ALL wise HE KNEW the effects those plants would have on humans if we ingested them and HE made our bodies so that they would be effected by those plants and guess what? He made them anyway.
But God doesn't want us to be "dissipated" right? Well He also gave us free will and a conscience and the Holy Spirit living in us to inform us about right and wrong. The government is not supposed to take the palce of our own conscience by passing laws that limit our free will and become authoritarian over our conscience or the Spirit. God said in Genesis that He made all the plants and that they were good and for our use. When man passes laws that forbid us to touch or use those plants what they are saying is that God made a mistake and they know better. I reject that. Laws are supposed to protect us from the harm that someone else does to us, not harm that we might do to ourselves. Crimes are harm that one does to another or his property. Vices are harm that one does to himself or his own property. Will the govenrment think it can protect us from alll stupid choices or throw us in jail when we're stupid?
War. Ron Paul is a strong adherent to the Christian Just War Principles. Huckabee said he wouldn't take a preemptive NUCLEAR strike of the table with regard to Iran. Jesus wouldn't want the USA to nuke a country with 80 million people in it even if we only killed as many as were killed on 911 and not all 80 million. But if we did nuke them I'm sure more than 3,000 people would get killed.
Would Jesus be a war hawk if He was here? Would HE want us to go into somebody else's country and killl people half way around the world? No, and in fact, I think He would consider it murder if we did that and when we approcah the Throne we won't be able to say that our government told me to kill them and expect to be justified.
Christians need to wake up big time and its up to us to wake them up.
I hope you will join us over at Christians for Ron Paul
and join me at Prophecy News Watch in the general discussion (along with others of course)
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I would also like to organize the lergest contingent possible of Christians for Ron Paul all to be together to make it look like there are lots of us at the rally.