So What Now?
7 SETS OF QUESTIONS TO ASK AFTER PRESIDENT OBAMA?
Starting with: "Is the implosion of American more or less likely
now?" Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., November 7, 2012) -- Waking up the day after
the 2012 elections, I had many questions on my mind. But none so
pressing as this: Is the implosion of America more or less likely now?
I'll share my thoughts on that in a moment. First things first:
Many Americans are stunned by President Obama's reelection. Most
prominent conservative analysts and pundits had definitively predicted
Romney would win decisively. Several even predicted a landslide for
Romney (most notably Dick Morris and George Will and Michael Barone.)
Yet in the end, Mr. Obama won 50.3% of the popular vote and 303
electoral votes, while Mr. Romney won 48.1% of the popular vote and only
206 electoral votes.
Many evangelical Christians and
conservative Catholics are stunned and grieving by the fact that the
President's support for abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, massive
deficits and national debt, nationalized health care, and large defense
cuts have been ratified by the majority of the American people, as has
his policies of appeasing the mullahs in Iran, misreading and
mishandling the Arab Spring, and creating distance and daylight between
the U.S. and Israel. What's more, same-sex marriages ballot measures
were passed in Maryland and Maine; and marijuana-legalization ballot
measures were passed in Washington State and Colorado (in defiance of
federal laws prohibiting its use).
Why did God say "no" to the
prayers of millions of Christians who were asking Him to save the Obama
and Biden families spiritually but also remove them from office? It's
going to take time to prayerfully and Scripturally analyze what happened
and why. We should be careful not to rush to conclusions. Instead, we
need to take time to carefully analyze the facts. The Bible says, "It is
the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings to search
out a matter." (Proverbs 25:2) As we process all this, we need to ask a
number of probing questions. Among them:
1. Did Mr. Obama win
because America is becoming more liberal, more secular, more hostile to
Biblical values and those who hold them? That is, are we losing the
battle for the soul of America, and should now expect more liberal
political leaders to dominate the American scene in the years ahead?
2. Or, did Mr. Romney lose because he was a flawed candidate, who
made numerous unforced errors, flip-flopped on numerous policy issues,
and campaigned as a conservative when he was in fact a Massachusetts
moderate? That is, could a truly principled, experienced, articulate,
conservative, orthodox Christian leader be able to persuade a majority
of the country to change course?
3. Precisely how did
self-professed born-again Christians vote? Did they vote on the basis of
personality, or principle? For those who voted for Obama, why?
4. Did many born-again Christians stay home and not vote? If so, what
caused them not to turn out for Romney? Was it for personality reasons?
Policy reasons?
5. What significance did Mr. Romney's Mormonism
play in the decision of born-again Christians not to vote for him? That
is, did many Christians refuse to vote for Romney for religious reasons,
and if so, how many?
6. Why were GOP and conservative pundits so
wrong, so far off the mark, and what role did wishful thinking rather
than sound analysis play in their predictions (especially when the Real
Clear Politics average of polls showed Obama pulling ahead of Romney in
the last few days)?
7. Considering all the data, is the
implosion of America more or less likely today, and will the Church in
America wake up and repent and call the nation back to Christ before
it's too late?
We are at a very vulnerable moment. I can't say
that the implosion of America is imminent. But how much longer will God
be patient before He decides to judge us for 54 million abortions, a
celebration of homosexuality, rampant heterosexual immorality, marital
affairs, separations, divorce, the implosion of whole families, rampant
pornography, unprecedented murder and violent crime rates, massive
deficits, unfathomable debt, and a weak, increasingly apostate Church?
Just as we are living on borrowed credit, so we are living on
borrowed time.
A few final thoughts for now...
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