Why The United States Governmenet is driving us to a doom of Biblical porportions
by R. Douglass Mahaffey
Isaiah wrote that unto us a child was born, unto us a Son was given. The government would be upon His shoulders. His name would be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, The Everlasting Father and The Prince of Peace.
The Government shall be upon His shoulders. Let’s take a closer look at that statement. Upon Jesus’ shoulders rests the responsibility of all the governments of the world. This particular government that Isaiah is referring to is God’s Kingdom.
The relevence of the U.S. government today in correllation with this scripture is that where this nation was founded on the principles of the Bible, not many representatives of government rely on the instructions within the Word of God anymore, but whatever popular ebb and flow that people are going with in today’s society. Or so one would think.
One would also think that the idea behind serving in political office would be to do what the majority of the people want as far as the direction of ideals and common goals. Here lately, that hasn’t been the story. There is rumor of an elite group of insiders that are allowed to run for public office. They are hoisted in the public eye by the mainstream media.
Some call this faction of indiviuals the “Illuminati.” Conspiracy theories run rampant on the internet about the so called “Leaders of tthe Free World.”
Some also say that talk is cheap when it comes to a candidate for public office making his or her campaign promises in which they build their platform. But still, people seem to keep voting the same politicians into office. Even when a politician has been put in the hot seat over a scandal surrounding their administration, for the most part, they seem to get re-elected again and again.
In the 1980s, I used to hear a slogan around election time that went something like, “This fall, fire them all. Re-elect nobody.” That idea seemed to spread like a wildfire in a wheatfeild of angry voters. They were supposedly angry because nothing about the politician’s lawmaking ever changed. Yet, when it came time to fire them all and elect new seat holders to the political office that they sounded interested in changing, the same people are still there in office making the same types of decisions that seem to only help them and their major contributors.
Now, I realize that when I started this blog, I stated that I would not get political. That is still my policy. But, I do need to mention a meeting that I attended on Thursday, January 2 in Azle, Texas. You may have heard about the town. It has been in the news in North Texas for the past two months due to the earthquakes and siesmic activity that has been keeping residents on edge, including to very good friends of mine that I attend church with.
The Texas Railroad Commission held the meeting at the high school auditorium, most thought, to give explanation for the seismic activity in the area.
A gentleman named Jim Lasater stepped up to address the panel from the Railroad Commssion and asked them how unbiased their investigation could be since it surrounded the oil and gas industry that puts money into their election campaign funds.
Lasater was cut off by the railroad commissioner David Porter and was told that the panel seated on the stage was not prepared to answer everyone’s questions about the ongoing investigation because it would take all night and there was only two hours allotted for the meeting. That would have been a good thing to know going into the meeting. Porter’s statement was met with boo’s and outbursts from the audience that asked why they were there in the first place, if they weren’t going to get any answers or explanations that the commission may have already gathered before calling the meeting in the first place.
Most people were angry because they felt the meeting was a waste of time if no answers were available. No one was present from the U.S. Geological Survey Organization, or the oil and gas industry. (Many of the theories surrounding the earthquakes are that they are being caused by liquid injections to the wells that are being dug for the hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) process by which oil and gas companies retreive natural gas from the shale layer three to four-thousand feet under ground).
The Railroad Commissioner and his men dodged responsibility for the quakes as they control the oil and gas industry regulations in Texas. All the commission was there to do was hear from the people, the stories of the experiences they had been through.
They offered no help whatsoever to people like Melanie Williams, who is living in a rent house and paying a mortgage on the house that she owns because that house is in disrepair due to the loud, thunderous booms that the residents in Parker and Wise counties have been witness to.
When government side-steps issues because they have no solutions of relsolve to the on-going issues, then they shouldn’t hold meetings to discuss people’s grievences unless they are prepared to answer questions Some thought they had a lot to hide.
The panel seated upon the stage held their poker faces and sweated right through the meeting. Afterwards, the only peopel that talked to the media was the angry citizens. The panel of Railroad commission representitives walked out in silence with no more answers or direction as to where to go from there, than when they had arrived that night.
That’s not what government should look like. They make our laws. They put things in motion that affect the rest of us. When they side-step issues and questions for the fear that the information that they don’t want leaked, might be, that’s when it is time for informed voting decisions.
God wants us to take part in that process and He wants us to use sound judgement. It’s hard to do that when all government does is clam up when it is time to be responsible for the direction in which the world they are leading goes.
The government shall be upon His shoulders. I think we give most of the leaders of the day too much benefit of the doubt when it comes to trusting them to lead us in a country that sings “God Bless America.” I think it’s time America blessed God back.
R. Douglass Mahaffey - Founder and Publisher of The Wise Conservative.
