{"id":5959,"date":"2021-02-03T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:50:22","slug":"trumps-alleged-landslide-victory-what-happened-in-the-u-s-2020-presidential-election-pastor-warns-about-excessive-consumption-of-conservative-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/trumps-alleged-landslide-victory-what-happened-in-the-u-s-2020-presidential-election-pastor-warns-about-excessive-consumption-of-conservative-n\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTrump\u2019s Alleged Landslide Victory,\u201d \u201cWhat Happened in the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election?\u201d \u201cPastor Warns about Excessive Consumption of Conservative News,\u201d and \u201cShould God\u2019s People Be Ignorant of What Is Happening?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reply to Feedback From Last Friday News (wayoflife.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reply to Feedback From Jan. 29 Friday News<\/strong> February 3, 2021 David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
866-295-4143,\u00a0fbns@wayoflife.org<\/a>T<\/strong>he last\u00a0Friday Church News Notes<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Jan. 29, 2021, contained four reports that produced considerable feedback, most of it negative. These reports were \u201cTrump\u2019s Alleged Landslide Victory,\u201d \u201cWhat Happened in the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election?\u201d \u201cPastor Warns about Excessive Consumption of Conservative News,\u201d and \u201cShould God\u2019s People Be Ignorant of What Is Happening?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following is one of the calmer responses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood morning. I always enjoy reading your emails. Thank you for the work you do and the time it takes to prepare them. I wanted to mention one thing in regards to this past Friday\u2019s. I can’t agree more that the fact that America is going through this upheaval right now is the clear judgment of God. However, I can’t disagree with Michael Medved more either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHere’s why. First, I have two personal friends from Wisconsin who’s votes were \u2018lost.\u2019 They live in a very small town with only about 500 people in the town and majority of them Republican. However, when miscellaneous folks from the town checked to see if their vote counted, the database says they never voted (their votes were \u2018lost\u2019). Then, I heard second hand from someone who grew up in our school who is a pastor now in Pennsylvania, that they had people in their church whose votes were lost or in another case, they went to vote, and were told that they had voted already (and they had not). All that to say, I believe very firmly that there was extensive voter fraud in our past selection and President Trump truly did win. If I only heard about the fraud from conservative websites, I would have my doubts. …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYet, I think the fact that the judges have decided not to look at it, and houses of legislatures have ignored it, is a true sign that God is the one that is allowing this to happen. Think of Pharaoh, logically speaking, he should have let the children of Israel go by about plague 3. However, because Pharaoh hardened his heart, God hardened it even more. God wanted to bring to pass His will. America has mocked God for far too long. Sadly, it is what we deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat said, I believe Christians ought to do whatever possible to retain the freedoms we have here in America. First and foremost, we have to continue to give out the Gospel. However, we should do all we can to keep the freedoms which are nation was founded on. Think of China, It is extremely hard for Christians there to spread the gospel. Hong Kong has slipped into being that type of place as well. If you are not already a \u2018Christian,\u2019 it is illegal for you to attend church services. I believe that we as American Christians would be very poor stewards of the freedoms God has given us if we don’t do what is in our power to preserve those freedoms. We shouldn\u2019t get sidetracked from our number one goal, but we shouldn\u2019t also just say, \u2018Oh well, I guess this is what we have to deal with.\u2019 I\u2019m so thankful that our forefathers didn’t do that. Patrick Henry was an outspoken Christian. I\u2019m glad he gave out the Gospel, and I\u2019m also glad that he said, give me liberty or give me death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BROTHER CLOUD\u2019S REPLY
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Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it because it helps me to see in what ways I am not communicating effectively. Many have expressed similar views. One longstanding reader said he is finished with my publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know if Trump won or lost the election. I do not doubt that there was corruption and said as much. I said that \u201cthere can be no doubt that there were illegalities\u201d and that it is \u201cdoubtless\u201d that \u201cDemocrats committed corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know if Medved is right about this. I do think his view is worth a read and that is what I urged people to do, then make their own decisions. Based on the feedback I have gotten, though, I sense that few took the time to actually read what Medved wrote in the article to which I linked. It could be that Trump won, but I do not believe it was a landslide as he says. That is my point in regard to the election. The \u201clandslide\u201d part is the point. I do believe that it is very likely that a majority of Americans voted against the man. I do believe that Trump should be more humble and accept some of the blame for losing the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But my main exhortations are not about the election itself and who won. They are about what time it is prophetically and what God\u2019s people should be doing today and how that so much time is wasted on vanity when the churches and Christian homes are so incredibly weak in most cases, and other such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the loss of our liberties, of course we should be concerned about that. I don\u2019t know of anyone who believes we should just say, \u201cOh well.\u201d I certainly have never said that or even hinted at it. I am deeply concerned about what is happening to America in my very lifetime. I have seen more of the changes than most of my readers, because I am older than most of them, and I am deeply concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is what we are going to do?<\/strong>What <\/strong>can<\/em><\/strong> we do?<\/strong> On the political side, what more can be done than what has been done by millions of hardcore conservative patriots since Carl McIntire\u2019s crusades? You point to Patrick Henry. He and our forefathers took up arms, fashioned a new temporary government, formed armies, went on the warpath. Is that what we should do? Really? Is that what time it is? If not, why quote Patrick Henry? Personally I don\u2019t think it is the same situation and that if we did try to do what our forefathers did at that time we would not succeed even briefly and we would make things much worse for ourselves, for no good reason. I am confident that God would not be with those who attempted a new revolution. That\u2019s what I said in last week\u2019s issue of Friday News. We will be like the godly king Josiah who didn\u2019t understand the times, galvanized his people, and went rip-roaring against Pharaoh out of God\u2019s will to his untimely death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can we do? <\/strong>Much, as we have often said. We can pray a whole lot more<\/em> and we can learn to pray more effectively and we can be on much better praying ground spiritually, and that encompasses pursuing a real revival of purging ourselves and our churches and homes from worldliness and being much, much more immersed in God\u2019s Word and filled with the Spirit, etc. What can we do?<\/em> We can seek to strengthen the homes in a very serious, determined, focused way, the fathers pursuing being the spiritual heads of the homes, the mothers pursuing being the keepers of the home, the fathers and mothers being the primary teachers and disciplers of their children and carefully overseeing all other teaching. We can seek to strengthen the churches in a very serious, determined, focused way. We can pursue serious discipleship of the youth and renounce the \u201c90% party-party\/10% Bible\u201d brand of \u201cyouth ministry.\u201d I am convinced that the best<\/em> churches need to be a whole lot stronger <\/em>in order to stand in these evil days. <\/em>The majority of the churches are truly lukewarm, which means they make Christ sick at His stomach. \u201cSo then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth\u201d (Re. 3:16<\/a>). In my experience, the vast majority of the churches that have a name that they live in reality are on life support and need to be revived and strengthened mightily. Taking any one of the major NT Epistles really seriously would transform most \u201cgood, solid KJV churches,\u201d so called. These are no small, part time tasks. This is clearly what God wants His people to be focused on, because this is what we are commanded to do in Scripture. And if we will do what God has commanded us we do, it will do more to help us keep our freedoms than any political action crusade and certainly more than any armed revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bro. Cloud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUGGESTIONS FOR TAKING A CHURCH\u2019S SPIRITUAL TEMPERATURE
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Some pastor friends helped us put together the following suggestions for taking a church\u2019s spiritual temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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