Election - Part 2 | Pastor Paul McGee

Hallelujah, that garment of the high priest that was passed down

from father to son, father to son, father to son.

That old garment had all the oil of the previous high priests

that were anointed in that garment in the garment.

But still, yet when that new king took position, all that oil

from the previous kingships wasn't enough, took a fresh

anointing on that king. Amen.

This coming weekend, this is our revival services for the Michael

Moppin. All right So Friday night at

7:00 and then he'll be preaching also Sunday morning and Sunday

night on Sunday on Saturday however is our annual chili

supper in hayride that starts at 4.

There will be schedules posted here about when what is taking

place or what may overlap, some other things.

You'll know all that. There'll be stuff posted around

here that day that one form you on that.

Concerning the Cone Corn Ho competition, we are doing away

with any entry fees. And so if you wanted to be a

part, but you know that stood in your way, anybody can be a part.

No entry fee. If you already submitted an

entry fee, you'll be getting that back.

All right, You'll be getting that back.

We still though have two trophies to award and there will

still be a cash prize awarded by the 1st Apostolic Church, but

there isn't no entry fee, all right, nothing like that

involved. All right, so you still have

tonight you can get you a partner and swing them round and

round for the old corn hole competition.

All right, I already got the trophies there in my office.

Be one for each each team member.

All right, And so just be mindful of that out on the

bulletin board. There's still sign up sheets for

the food items needed. There's some lines still left on

that. There are also some lines left I

think on the volunteering to either set up, tear down or

stuff in between that Brother Mason has out there that you can

sign your name to and participate in as well.

If there's anything else that I forgot someone can pull on my

coattail, my wife can or such. Also, just a friendly reminder

to whenever you made your missionary commitments back in

the month of March and they started the month of April,

there is a shortfall right now and that some are behind, so we

just ask. If you're not sure if that's

you, just check with Sister Mason.

She'll be happy to help you to see where you're at concerning

that and so on and so forth. So just try to be diligent.

Amen. Concerning that tonight you may

be seated. I've had you standing.

I'm so sorry you can be seated. I'm not springboarding from Jose

again, by no means I'm not going to put it up there, but we are

destroyed for a lack of knowledge as well Jose and told

us nonetheless. We're just going to dive on in

here tonight with Election 2024 part #2 here this evening.

And let's, I think this goes without saying, but I think we

should just say that, and we maybe made mention this a little

bit last week, There are no perfect candidates, OK?

As long as candidates are made-up of humanity, there will

never be a perfect candidate. And so there never has been.

There never will be. There will be no singular

candidate that 100% aligned with perfectly all your spiritual

values and your moral values. Seriously doubt that.

And so as you go forward and you support maybe one candidate or

the other, it, it, it's probably not about them identifying 100%

with your morality because they're probably not going to.

But it's about us considering as a, as Christians about putting

somebody in the most powerful position in the United States of

America, right? It's about that and the ripple

impact that that could have on us as a society and realizing

that that person can either help dilute or defend a lot of the

liberties we have as or has had as an American people.

And so we just keep those things in mind as we as we go forward

to the polls. And they tell me and Sister

Robert just handed me a thing before church.

There were millions of Christians that didn't vote last

year, millions that did not vote last year.

And so it's, it's a great privilege that's been given to

us to be able to do that. I was even talking with my

daughter the other day. I said, I think what's happened

is we're so far removed when women didn't have a right to

vote, when others didn't have the, the novelty of being able

to vote, That privilege that was extended several years ago,

however long ago, I think we lost in the understanding of how

much of A privilege that really is.

And so since we're so far removed from that, it, it, it

just becomes less important to people.

But it is, it is a great pillar. You're, you're not in a country

that a dictator or, or something like that, or, or a king that

just comes through a lineage, you know, type of thing.

You, you, we, we're, we, we got this, this privilege to be able

to do this. And so when we do this tonight,

I'm going to take a little bit of time. 1 is considered the

power of the presidency. All right, consider the power of

the presidency. Some of you, you, you know,

you're so smart and educated, You know all these things

whenever we talk about the executive branch, the judicial

branch and the legislative branch.

But just humor me tonight. Let us just, you know, again,

trigger our minds again. The executive branch, of course,

led by the president and vice president, they enforce our

laws. They enforce our laws.

We talk about the judicial branch, which is led by the

Supreme Court. They interpret the laws that we

have. We talk about the legislative

branch, which is made-up of Congress, both the Senate and

the House. They make our laws.

But when we consider the power of the presidency, there was an

article that was published by National Public Radio, NPR on

June 16th of 2024. And it reports that Biden said

this. He said the next president is

likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees.

That's what he said. And so Biden expects that the

winner of this year's presidential election will

likely have the chance to fill 2 vacancies on the Supreme Court.

Again. The reason why this is important

is because whenever justices are appointed to the Supreme Court,

they are given lifetime appointments.

That is something they serve in for the, for their life.

They serve in that capacity. And so with that, you have the

potential of altering the entire landscape of your culture for

generations to come by who is appointed to our, our Supreme

Court system. And so that's just something to

take in consideration as we go in.

And they have our next president with the likelihood of, of, of

two new nominees for the Supreme Court.

Also, you got to consider your Amendment rights whenever you

talk about the President of the United States and such, because

since it is the Supreme Court or the Supreme Court justices, when

it's the Supreme Court that interpret our laws.

So they going to interpret the First Amendment, the Second

Amendment, all these things that are seemingly up for grabs right

now, today. You know, we have, well, what

did the founders believe? They interpret what we believe

the original intent of those things were and how sometimes

they can be redefined. So they're going to look, then

again, be the ones looking over our First Amendment right, your,

your free speech, your free expression, your freedom of

religion, going to be looking over your Second Amendment or

the right of citizens to bear arms.

What does that really mean? They're going to be helping to

give interpretation, if you will, to these things that have

been under scrutiny even in our day and and reconsideration

given to them. But whenever you talk about

this, we also then talk about the lower courts, right?

You have Court of Appeals, district courts, federal judges

and things of that nature. Well, the president and the

United States nominates these federal judges, and then the

Senate will confirm them. And so you have the power of a

president involved in this as well.

And although these lower Court justices are not appointed for

life like the Supreme Court, they do usually serve some

lengthy terms and their decisions have huge effects and

impacts. As a matter of fact, it is

notable that the Supreme Court often does not re examine the

decisions of the lower courts. Basically, what is made in the

lower court usually just goes on through.

They don't re examine those. So there is some power that's in

even the lower courts. And the president again

nominates those federal judges and they must be confirmed by

the Senate. Also.

We have your president, right? We go to war.

He's the commander in chief. He's the commander in chief in

the military. He's not just deciding to send

when to send our troops into harm's way, but he's determining

who's going to serve and who doesn't serve.

And he's going to determine the rules of engagement that that

bind our troops in warfare and in battle.

It also means he has the ability of the command of nuclear

weapons. Just think about that for a

moment. You know, really internalize

that. Also, the president of the

United States has the ability then to give executive orders.

We've experienced those in some recent years.

But executive orders which can be issued, and it almost seems

like an unmitigated power over a nation and over all our lives

because executive orders do not require a congressional

approval. It doesn't require the approval

of the Senate or the House of Representatives, but to take

effect, they must have legal way.

They have legal way as laws passed by Congress.

That's that they have weighed as though they were passed by

Congress, but their executive order from the president

himself, Section 3 of Article 2 of the Constitution, further

directs the president to take care that the laws be faithfully

executed. Now, when we talk about

Congress, Congress may rewrite and amend a previous law.

They can rewrite or amend the previous law, but then the

president has the ability to veto that.

That's what we call checks and balances within our government.

But it basically takes about 2/3 of majority in both the Senate

and the House to override an executive order.

So in order, there's going to take a 2/3 of both in order to

override it. So when we talk about the

president, we're also talking about control over bureaucracy.

What does that mean? It means this.

This is what Carl Gallup said. He said personnel is policy.

And the president doesn't just direct or influence things like

the economy and health care system, but appoints the people

who run the major federal institutions, right?

He can set up who's Secretary of Defense, who's the secretary of

commerce, who's the Secretary of State.

He can set and place these people in these particular

positions so and so forth. They required the Senate to

confirm them, but he can give say, I want them.

And whether or not the Senate will confirm them is of course

up to the Senate also. Then the president has control

over immigration in our in our in our country, right?

And however that president views immigration can determine

sometimes the security of your border, if you have a border at

all, right, about who comes in or who is not allowed him.

It's control over those things. He has control over a lot of

intelligence. There's a lot of things that the

president is entrusted with that's very sensitive material.

The highest national security in our nation is under his hand.

So, you know, what type of person would you like to have

that type of intelligence, I guess, is what you got to ask

yourself. They also deal with foreign

governments in the United Nations.

All right, Carl Gallup. Gallup also said this.

The fact is the president has almost unlimited power in

dealing with foreign policy and usually gets what he or she

wants when it comes to treaties and foreign agreements.

And these are bonding on all of us.

So let's let's go to Scripture, right?

Moses's father-in-law Jethro came to him and advised Moses to

appoint some rulers and appoint some judges, and he gave him

some criteria about what should be the qualifications of these

judges and rulers. The Bible says in Exodus 18 and

verse 21, he said, Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all

the people able men, such as fear of God, men of truth,

hating, covetousness and play such over them to be rulers of

thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of 50s and rulers of 10s.

So there were 4 prominent qualifications listed in those

that would be judges and rulers here in exodus #1 They're going

to demonstrate they're going to be able men.

So they're going to demonstrate some type of capability, right?

They're going to have some type of competence in, in, in maybe

managing business affairs or professional fairs or a nation

for that matter. They, they, they would fear God.

That doesn't mean to be afraid of him, but have a respect,

right, a God consciousness about them.

They would hate covetousness. And so they're, they're,

they're, they're going to have some honesty.

They're going to have some integrity.

They're going to or men of truth, I skipped over men of

truth, men of truth. They're going to have honesty,

integrity #4 is hating covetousness.

So there's going to be generosity.

They're going to have benevolence.

They're going to want to be able to help and not necessarily

desire and want and just pull everything into my pool, but

they're going to be able to help and be generous.

And so we're, we're privileged to be a part at best, what is

known as a Democratic Republic, as I said earlier, rather than a

dictatorship. We're not under a dictatorship,

you're not under a communism. And you need to thank the Lord

every day for that, that you're not understood.

We have enough history, world history that indicates what what

the fallout is with some of those type of things.

And so this by and large, we are still by and large.

I know some people would probably debate with it, but a

government of the people, by the people, for the people, as

Abraham Lincoln noted in his Gettysburg Address.

And so the word democracy comes from an origin of two words, one

the most meaning common people and the other Kratos, which

means roar, strength. Simply put together, common

people rule. And so we're not purely

democratic because our vote does not directly vote in the

president or pass laws. In other words, it's not like

everybody votes in the popular vote gets the president in.

That's not the way that it operates.

But we still have a voice. Our vote still then impacts

those that the representatives in our state known as the

Electoral College. All right.

And so with that, we try to the best of our ability to vote and

hope and then enabling our representatives that will stand

in for our values and the things that that we entrust Moses in

Deuteronomy, there's this biblical sound concept that

Moses took the people in Deuteronomy 16 and verse #18 he

said judges and officers shalt thou make in the Greek, it's

basically or, or the, the word can basically be defined.

Shalt thou make a point? All right, judges and officer,

shalt thou make thee, and all thy gates, which the Lord thy

God giveth thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the

people with just judgment. And so Moses to the people

you'll appoint people, and then will hopefully they will give

just judgment for the nation of Israel.

He later said in Deuteronomy 17 and verse 14, when thou art

coming to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and

shall possess it and shout dwell therein, and shall say, I will

set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me.

Verse 15. Thou shalt in any way set again,

or appoint him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall

choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king

over thee. Thou mayest not set a stranger

over thee which is not by brother.

And so just. In these two passages, the

people were important or essential for appointing their

leaders, and they were instructed to appoint judges.

They were instructed to appoint officers.

But then, even in this instance, the king was really only chosen

by God or should have been chosen by God.

John MacArthur in his book Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong,

said God's sovereignty never excuses man to be lazily lazy or

irresponsible. He said having a eternal mindset

does not excuse us from temporal responsibilities.

It should help keep them in right perspective.

What he's saying is this though. That's what he's saying.

You, you can have an eternal mindset that you also need to

remember there's some temporal responsibilities we have on this

life as well. That's the reason why some

people play even plan for a four O 1 AK or in retirement.

You say, well I might not ever reach retirement.

You might not, but you might. So, you know, you just got some

temporal obligations that you can see to as well.

I mean, did not the Lord even tell the one man, he says what

man that built the house or a structure does not sit down 1st

and count the cost, right? That's the Lord saying that.

He's not saying just be Willy nilly about this stuff.

He said take take responsibility for what you need to be

responsible for. So it doesn't matter whether or

not we vote, folks. There have been elections that

have rewritten history many times over, and you might not

think just one vote is important, but your one vote

could swing an election just in the right direction.

There have been 12 presidential elections that were decided by

less than 1% margin, meaning that if less than 1% of the

voters in certain states had changed their minds about the

other candidate, the outcome of the entire election would have

been totally different. I did this eight years ago.

I'm going to share it again because I think some people are

fuzzy upon what it all means when you cast your vote and how

that affects the Electoral College from where the president

is truly, truly elected from. So this is just about 5 minutes,

just a little education video here from Prager University.

And we're just going to show that right now if Brother Alex

is ready for. Me.

I want to talk to you about the Electoral College and why it

matters. All right, I know this doesn't

sound like the most sensational topic of the day, but stay with

me because I promise you it's one of the most important.

To explain why requires a very brief civics review.

The president and vice president of the United States are not

chosen by a nationwide popular vote of the American people.

Rather, they are chosen by 538 electors.

This process is spelled out in the United States Constitution.

Why didn't the Founders just make it easy and let the

presidential candidate with the most votes claim victory?

Why did they create and why do we continue to need this

Electoral College? The answer is critical to

understanding not only the Electoral College but also

America. The Founders had no intention of

creating a pure majority rule democracy.

They knew from careful study of history what most have forgotten

today or never learned. Pure democracies do not work,

they implode. Democracy has been colorfully

described AS2 wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner.

In a pure democracy, fair majorities can easily tyrannize

the rest of the country. The founders wanted to avoid

this at all costs. This is why we have 3 branches

of government, executive, legislative, and judicial.

It's why each state has two senators, no matter what its

population. But also different numbers of

representatives based entirely on population.

It's why it takes a super majority in Congress and 3/4 of

the states to change the Constitution.

And it's why we have the Electoral College.

Here's how the Electoral College works.

The presidential election happens in two phases.

The first phase is purely democratic.

We hold 51 popular elections every presidential election

year, one in each state and one in DC.

On Election Day in 2012, you may have thought you were voting for

Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, but you are really voting for a

slate of presidential electors. In Rhode Island, for example, if

you voted for Barack Obama, you voted for the states for

Democratic electors. If you voted for Mitt Romney,

you are really voting for the states for Republican electors.

Part 2 of the election is held in December, and it is this

December election among the states 538 electors, not the

November election, which officially determines the

identity of the next president. At least 270 votes are needed to

win. Why is this so important?

Because the system encourages coalition building and national

campaigning. In order to win, a candidate

must have the support of many different types of voters from

various parts of the country. Winning only the South or the

Midwest is not good enough. You cannot win 270 electoral

votes if only one part of the country is supporting you.

But if winning were only about getting the most votes, a

candidate might concentrate all of his efforts in the biggest

cities or the biggest states. Why would that candidate care

about what people in West Virginia or Iowa or Montana

think? But, you might ask, isn't the

election really only about the so-called swing states?

Actually, no. If nothing else, safe and swing

states are constantly changing. California voted safely

Republican as recently as 1988. Texas used to vote Democrat.

Neither New Hampshire nor Virginia used to be swing

states. Most people think that George W

Bush won the 2000 election because of Florida.

Well, sort of. But he really won the election

because he managed to flip one state which the Democrats

thought was safe, West Virginia. It's four electoral votes turned

out to be decisive. No political party can ignore

any state for too long without suffering the consequences.

Every state, and therefore every voter in every state, is

important. The Electoral College also makes

it harder to steal elections. Votes must be stolen in the

right state in order to change the outcome of the Electoral

College. With so many swing states, this

is hard to predict and hard to do without the Electoral

College. Any vote stolen in any precinct

in the country could affect the national outcome, even if that

vote was easily stolen in the bluest California precinct or

the reddest Texas one. The electoral.

College is an ingenious method of selecting a president for a

great, diverse Republic such as our own.

It protects against the tyranny of the majority, encourages

coalition building, and discourages voter fraud.

Our founders were proud of it. We can be too.

I'm Tara Ross for Prager University.

Join Prager University. All right, So hopefully maybe

that brought a little enlightenment.

If he was a little confused over the fact that whenever you vote

again, it's not the popular vote of the people that does it, as

we vote, then we're voting for our representatives, our

electorials that will cast that same vote.

Then in December, whatever we, whenever we consider these

things again, 538 electors must have 270 and know the

representatives based upon the population of these states.

And that's constantly in flux. For instance, I looked back, but

whenever I did this eight years ago and there were numbers that

had changed for California and Texas and Florida, the number of

lectors have changed just in eight years because the

population have shifted. Some have got more, some have

got less based upon population. And so an article that was

updated on July the 6th of 2020 by Brennan Center for Justice

stated on July 6, I quote, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled

a state may enforce an electors pledge to support his party's

nominee and the state voters choice for president.

Electors are not free agents. They are to vote for the

candidate whom the state's voters have chosen.

In other words, it's not like the popular vote says, oh, we

vote for this one and then they can go there and do what they

want. No, they speak the voice of the

people from that popular vote, if that makes sense to you.

OK. They're not free agents just to

do as they please. They do as we please through our

popular vote. As a side note, folks, there is

a lot of policy. I say policy.

There's a lot of things going out there that people would like

to see it change to just be a national popular vote.

There's a lot of that that's going around today that they

would like to push. That would just be that.

So something to consider or keep a pulse on as we go forward from

year to year or election from election.

So maybe maybe my personal choice doesn't get in the White

House, right. If if you lived long enough,

that's probably happened to you, Maybe your personal choice

doesn't get into the White House.

Regardless, we do have a mandate in Scripture that we pray for

that office. Regardless whether the person

virtuous survival the office Scripture says that we pray for

it. First Timothy chapter #2 and

verse #1 Paul told Timothy he said I exhort therefore, that

first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions and given

of thanks be made for all men, for kings and for all that are

in authority. Why I'm in certain to why why

that we may lead a quiet peaceable life in all godliness

and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the side of our of

God our Savior. You know what why we need to do

this so we can live peaceably and acceptable, you know in the

side of God and and for this is good us doing this practicing

praying for those that are in authority over us is acceptable

in God's sight. That means that God approves us

praying for our national leaders.

For that matter, think of for a moment whenever the Israelites

were taken away into Babylon, he told them even to pray for them.

Jeremiah said, why? Why should you do that?

Because that's where you live. That's where you're living right

now. Pray for that environment

because that's where you're living right now.

And that's going to have a direct, indirect, if you will

impact upon you. So, yeah, absolutely.

Just remember, I want to talk about Israel for a little bit

here, probably for the rest of the night.

Israel, let's be reminded of a promise whenever we consider the

nation Israel. I know there is a lot of and

there's just a lot of stuff going on around Israel right

now. All right.

And there are a lot of opinions as well that surrounds Israel

about what is right, what is wrong, what about what they have

done or what they shouldn't have done, so and so forth.

I'm just here to remind you of biblical promise concerning

Israel. Genesis chapter #12 verses one

through 3. The Lord spoke.

He said Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy

country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house unto

a land, that I will shew thee, and I will make thee a great

nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy nation make thy

name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse

thee. And in thee shall all the

families of the earth be blessed.

All right. One thing concerning the nation

of Israel in particular, all the other nations through times past

have been the designs of men, right?

Brought about by men. But when if we look at the

nation of Israel, it was a nation that's been established

by God. So that is quite a contrast

right from the go. And so that we asked, why are

these people blessed? And it's evident you can look at

them in science, Pulitzer Prizes, so and so forth.

That seems like the nation of Israel, The people of Israel are

somewhat mighty, blessed. And it's because God blessed

Abraham and his covenant son Isaac in the Scripture.

The Bible says in Genesis 25 and verse 5.

And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac, but unto the sons of

the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent

them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived eastward into

the E country. And so there were some

concubines that Abraham had had as well.

But they, Abraham didn't give all he had to them.

They were just giving gifts. But all that he had, all that he

possessed, he passed on down to Isaac.

And so Abraham is respected all right.

Abraham is respected among the the the monotheistic religions

of the world, which are namely 3.

Christianity, all right being one.

And then there's the Jewish community and the Muslim

community as well. I understand that the, the, the

religion of Islam, they have a God who is all of, but it's

monotheistic, one God. All right?

That's what monotheistic means. And so all of these three

religious groups are monotheistic again, believing in

one God. But the Bible is absolutely and

quite different from the Quran. The Bible has Abraham in our

scripture, Genesis 22, I believe it is, has Abraham offered up

that only son Isaac, that was of the covenant.

But whenever you read in Quran, Abraham is offering up Ishmael

in the Quran in Genesis chapter 17.

Genesis 17 · chapter mention

We'll read the Scripture here in a little bit, but remember, God

had promised Abraham and Sarah that they would have a son, that

they become impatient and waiting for that to occur.

And so was the suggestion that Haggard the handmaid, which from

what we can see in Scripture more than likely came from

Egypt. During Abraham's time spent in

Egypt after they first came to the land of Canaan, The Bible

says there was famine in the land.

They went down into Egypt. They didn't spend much time

there, but he got a lot of gold and silver and other stuff.

And he also got some handmaidens and men servants as well.

Haggard then Abraham goes into Haggar, has his son, his name is

Ishmael, right? Ishmael, that was not the son

that God was talking about. It was going to come between

Abraham and Sarah, all right? And so they kind of pushed, if

you will, the agenda of having a child rather than waiting on

God. Later Abraham and Sarah would

conceive they would have a son Isaac, which was the promised

son, the covenant son. And this is what Scripture says

in Genesis chapter #17 and verse #18.

And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before

thee. And God said Sarah, thy wife

shall not to kind of preface where this is.

This is where God has already told Abraham, you're going to

have a son. All this is going to happen.

There's like we're we're O God, you know, we're like up in years

we're owed. They laughed about it.

And then this is Abraham's response.

Verse 18 And Abraham said to God, O that Ishmael, a male

might live before thee, right, because Ishmael has already been

born at this stage. And God said, Sarah, thy wife

shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call name Isaac,

and I will establish my covenant with him for an ever Everybody

say everlasting, everlasting covenant, and with his seed

after him. And As for Ishmael, who you

brought up, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and

will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. 12

Princess, shall he begep, and I will make him a great nation.

But my covenant, if I say covenant, well, I establish with

Isaac which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in

the next year. And so whenever God says I'm

going to do this, he's like, well, God, how about Ishmael

over here? Let Ishmael live before you.

He says I see Ishmael, I acknowledge Ishmael.

He says I'll bless Ishmael. This is important.

But my covenant will be with Isaac.

Folks, there's a vast difference between just being blessed and

being in covenant, he says. I'll bless Ishmael, but my

covenants going to be with Isaac.

It's later then that we see that there is Jacob and there is

Esau. The Bible describes them as two

nations that struggling within the womb of Rebecca who also

have been barren. And these two nations are

struggling from the womb. They come out right and we

understand that Jacob's hand is up on the heel of Esau as they

issue for from the womb. We will later see them.

Esau, guess what? He intermarries with some

Ishmaelites according to the word of the Lord, Genesis 28 and

verse 9. Then when Esau unto Ishmael took

unto the wives which he had, Mahalaf, the daughter of

Ishmael, Abraham's son, and the sister of Nabajaf, to be his

wife. So here all the way years ago,

there comes this parting, the separation, what really began as

the what we know today is the Israeli Palestinian conflict all

the way back here in time with Ishmael that even continued

through Esau's intermarriage with the Ishmaelites and so

forth. Again, God blessed Isaac, right?

He that covenant son, he blessed him.

He was in so much so that he's in covenant with him.

All right. But now we see that God would

even he's in covenant with Jacob out of the Esau and Jacob, he's

in covenant with Jacob that he would later rename.

Remember at the river jabalk. Here's Jacob wrestling with an

Angel, huh? He said your name shall no

longer be called Jacob though, because you'll be Israel because

you have you have wrestled, you have struggled with God.

Israel comes these twelve sons, right?

The 12 sons of Israel or the 12 tribes of Israel that would make

up the nation of Israel. And so this child Jacob, mind

you, not Ishmael and not Esau, received the blessing of their

father to become what the nation of Israel was and even is today.

The Bible says in Genesis 35 and verse 12.

Please note this and the air by say land and the land which I

gave Abraham and Isaac to thee I will give it and to thy seed

after thee will I give the land now No.

Back a few verses ago we talked about how this was an

everlasting covenant. This doesn't change.

This doesn't end. It doesn't have a a date of

termination. And this largely considered a

man the people with a land. He said, I'm given the land that

I gave to Abraham and Isaac. I'm giving it on to Jacob.

I'm giving it to his seed and his seed after him.

I'm given the land. Well, 600 years before Christ,

the Jews were deported to Babylon.

They spent their 70 years there in Babylon.

Then they were brought back to Israel in 70 AD Rome conquered

Jerusalem. There was the dysphoria, which

basically means the scattering, if you will, of the Jews took

place. We have Jews All in all kinds of

different countries around the world.

We have Jews in the United States, Jews here, Jews

everywhere, Amen. Those who remained, many of them

were, were just simply massacred.

But early Christians had heeded Jesus warnings and the Olivet

discourse in the New Testament. Many of them escaped the city,

got out of Jerusalem, and in the next 2000 years persecution even

continued upon the Jews. We have seen it in history.

For instance, the Night of the Broken Glass as it's called,

formed the beginning of the Holocaust that killed some

6,000,000 Jews, led many of them away in those cattle cars going

to death camps such as Ostwich and other places then.

Yet they returned 1900 years after saying goodbye to

Palestine, nearly 2000 years after being expelled from their

land back under the Roman Empire.

Then there is the Balfour Declaration that was signed.

It was a declaration by the United Nations of statehood for

Israel in 1948. Some of you were alive maybe.

Then May the 5th of 1948, U.S. President Harry Truman issued

the declaration recognized this fledging state of Israel as a

statehood or nation. And America, oh good old USA,

America was the First Nation to extend recognition to Israel as

being a nation. That that's the foot that we

took so many years ago and acknowledged then their, their,

their statehood. And then there were others that

followed, however, throughout the years, and many of you

probably already know this, and that's fine.

Just let me be redundant. We have had throughout years, a,

a good relationship with the nation of Israel.

Amen. We've, we've been an ally to

Israel on many fronts and in many conflicts.

We've been an ally to Israel. Ten days after the country was

founded, Harry Truman met with her first president, Israel's

first president or Prime Minister, and pledged our

nation's support to that Jewish state.

And consider this. Our nation has been blessed

whenever we've had strong support to Israel. after World

War 2, we experienced global domination like never before and

we grew in stature ourselves as a nation.

And we were blessed at home and abroad.

But we had some tetherings of support to Israel. the US did

not stop supporting Israel in 1948.

Whenever there was the Six Day War of Israel in 1967, United

States stood right next to her. After the war, Lyndon B Johnson

administration again extended support to Israel.

Phantom fired fighter jets and other armaments were sewed to

Israel. In the Yom Kipper War of 1973,

Israel again was surrounded by all these forces, hostile

forces. Hey, man, they were backed and

supported by Russia. President Nixon ordered a

strategic airlift operation to deliver weapons and supplies to

help Israel. All right.

And Israel then gave the upper hand again. the United States

supported Israel administration since Truman, including

Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, both Bush

administrations, the Clinton administration.

These are some of the presidencies that have supported

Israel and have been at peace with Israel.

And I just read just even today from a virtual library of Jewish

history and they said all together since 1949, Israel has

received more than 160 billion in assistance and this does not

include loan guarantees that United States have given to

Israel. So we have been supportive, not

just by word of mouth, but financially we have been

supported. Furthermore, the same thing said

Israel has received more direct aid from the United States since

World War 2 than any other country.

In March of 2022, Congress to prove the largest funding

package for Israel in history, according to the British Colonel

Richard Kemp. And this is a debatable

statement, but we could talk about it.

But nonetheless, he said, I'm saying when he said Israel has

never started a war, said the only reason that Israel really

have ever went to war is to defend herself.

So we support Israel, because the Bible says that any nation

that would try to divide the land is getting on the bad side

of God. In Obadiah 115 the Scripture

says, For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen.

As thou has done, it shall be done unto thee.

Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

But more plainly spoken in Joe three and two, he says, I will

also gather all nations and bring them down into the Valley

of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people

and for MyHeritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the

nations and parted my land, right.

I'm not happy with the disbursement and he's not happy

with the divion up or dividing of his land, the nation of

Israel. So our obligation to end Israel,

particularly you've heard to say before we pray for Israel, we

talk about Psalms 122 and verse 6, where the psalmist advises to

pray for the peace of Jerusalem, right?

They shall prosper that they shall prosper that love thee.

Do you see what that says? Pray for the peace and they

shall prosper that love Jerusalem, that love that place.

All right? And so that puts us in the same,

in the same basket, Amen. Potiphar.

And it's not uncommon, right? We see it in Scripture, Old

Testament, we look at Joseph, right?

This Jewish guy Potiphar prospered because Joseph the

prison keeper and that in the prison prospered because of

Joseph. Pharaoh prospered.

Egypt did knowing what to do in the time of famine and the time

of plenty because of Joseph. Then there was another Pharaoh

that Rosa over Egypt that did not know Joseph.

And when that Pharaoh rose over Egypt that knew not Joseph, he

had then attempted to kill the Jewish boys.

And in that particular setting, that's when the exodus came

about. And it's interesting that that

Pharaoh that didn't know Joseph, that Pharaoh as Israel would

leave Egypt, that Pharaoh's first born son would be taken.

You want to take all the Jews males, that first born son, but

that Pharaoh would be taken because what you do to the

Jewish people is rendered back to you said, I'll bless them

that bless you, I'll curse them that curse you.

Amen. Look at Luke chapter #7 verses

one through 6 and just consider this if you will.

The Bible says Now when He had ended all his saying in the

audience of the people entered to Capernaum, a certain

centurion servant who was dearing to him, was sick, ready

to die. When he heard of Jesus, He sent

to him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that He would

come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus,

they besought him instantly, saying that He was worthy for

whom He should do this, for He loveth our nation.

You hear this, He built us a synagogue.

Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from

the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him,

Lord, trouble not myself, for I am not worthy that thou should

us enter under my roof. So Jesus goes to this house and

capernum to heal, to heal a a servant of the centurion who the

Bible speaks as though he's ready.

He's at this point of death. And the logic, no, the logic

that the Jewish elders used with Jesus was this said, Come to

this House of this Gentile, because the centurion was a

Gentile. Come to unbeliever, come to this

House of this Gentile and perform a miracle.

And the logic they used is found in verse #5.

For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

What is it? He's been kind to the Jewish

nation and the people. He's saying, God, this Gentile

deserves a God blessing because He loves our nation.

He has done something very practical to bless the Jewish

people. The Bible says this in Exodus

Exodus 19:5

19, verse 5. These are God's words to Moses

at Sinai. He says Now therefore, if ye

will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall

be a peculiar, if I say peculiar, treasure unto me above

all people. For all the earth is mine, and

ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

These are the words with which thou shalt speak unto the

children of Israel. So God wanted Moses to tell

Israel this Israel, you're a peculiar treasure to me, you as

a nation. You, you are above all people to

me, a Kingdom of priests, a holy nation.

You are to me. So if you tamper, if you tamper

with Israel, you're tampering with God's peculiar treasure.

You tamper with them, you're tampering with God's peculiar

treasure. And so to stand against them, by

and large is to stand against the holy nation is to stand

against God. Amen.

Just share a few things here. Just in closing, all right, just

share candidates views. Visited the site just today

again, the Family Resource Council.

It's a 5O1C for nonprofit and it just gives the statement on

anti-Semitism Awareness act, federal legislation defining and

opposing anti-Semitism. Let's define anti-Semitism for

anybody that may not know directly from the dictionary.

Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people.

That's why anti-Semitism is or means hostility or prejudice

against Jewish people. So this is a anti-Semitism

awareness act. Federal legislating the

legislation defining and opposing anti-Semitism.

Harris supports Trump. It's unknown at the site.

The Council on Foreign Relations last updated October the 14th of

this year concerning the topic of Israel and Gaza in the Middle

East. Harris and it quotes and I quote

verbatim. Harris supports a ceasefire and

hostage release deal in the war between Israel and Hamas.

She also calls for A2 state solution to the Israeli

Palestinian conflict as a Sinner.

She endorsed that Iran nuclear deal and voted for restrictions

on arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Trump I quote verbatim.

Trump's approach to the Middle East has been defined by strong

support for Israel and Saudi Arabia, a confrontational stance

toward Iran. He backed away from long

standing bipartisan consensus by saying he wasn't interested in a

separate Palestinian state. Lastly, I'll read it from the

again, the Family Resource Council on the parties,

Republican Democrat. Just one issue I'll read to you

about and that's Israel and anti-Semitism under the

Republican Party. This is their platform for

Israel and anti-Semitism. Promised promises to stand with

Israel and seat peace in the Middle East condemns

anti-Semitism and supports revoking visas of foreign

nationals who support terrorism and jihadism promises to hold

accountable those who perpetuate violence against Jewish people.

The democratic platform on Israel and anti-Semitism

supports building a durable peace in the Middle East.

Bolster by regional integration a strong coalition to counter

and deter Iran and prevent it and its terrorist proxies from

threatening the security of the region.

And in the negotiated 2 state solution says the United States

strongly supports Israel in the fight against Hamas and that

it's the body of an administration with having made

real progress on a way forward that will free the hostages,

establish a durable ceasefire, ease humanitarian suffering in

Gaza, make possible normalization between Israel and

key Arab states, together with meaningful progress and a

political horizon for the Palestinian people.

If you can stand with me here tonight, again, our purposes

last week, this week and next week is just basically to

educate. All right, to to to point out

maybe where the biblical stance is on issues and the share with

you where each party, each candidate is on the same issues.

Next week we'll be looking at like the economy, abortion and

things of that nature and we'll wrap all this thing up whenever

this is all said and done. I might take a poll whether or

not this help for anybody. If it's not, I won't do it.

All right, if, if, if, if this is like, you know what, let's

just do other stuff. You just let me know because I

don't want to waste your time or mine.

All right, but nonetheless, so let's pray tonight that God

would lead us. Father, I need you, God, you're

able to lead our hearts and our minds.

I pray God in the days to come, Lord people, some already early

voting Lord and others Jesus. God that will in November, I

pray, O Lord Jesus, you're able to give us wisdom and knowledge

and understanding. I pray, O God, in the best of

our ability, God to follow Lord Jesus, the scruples, the Lord

Jesus of your word. I pray, O God, help us Lord over

all as a nation in the days to come.

God will put our faith and our trust in you God.

We'll pray Lord God for the authority God and those Lord

that come into place God because Scripture Lord admonishes to do

so. God for those that hold

authority Lord and rulership of office.

I pray, O God today, minister Lord, as only you know how God,

and we just depend solely upon you God and help us to do our

part. God in this, in the name of

Jesus Christ that we pray Amen and Amen.

Everybody say Amen Friday night. Everybody say Friday revival.

All right, don't get so focused on Saturday you forget about

Friday. Friday revival at 7:00, all the

sign up sheets again are in the back.

If you have submitted entry fee, see my wife, she will give it

back to you. All right, all right, so let's

have a good time Amen this weekend before we leave, Can I

get some? I just for Thursday and Friday,

who will fast on Thursday for revival?

There's a few hands. Anybody fast on Friday for

revival? There's some hands.

There we go. Amen.

Let's enter in a prayerful fasting.

That's great. All right.

Thank you Jesus name.