October 1, AD 2010

Will November 2
be the Day of America's Redemption?
Frank Allnutt

America’s political conservatives optimistically look to the mid-term elections on November 2 as the Day of America’s redemption and first step on a path to restoration.

But first things first: Are there candidates for election that are able and willing to lead the way conservatives want? Will they have the voter support to get elected?

Assume for the sake of discussion that ballots across the land will actually list candidates you can enthusiastically vote for, rather than choose the lesser of evils. And assume that such conservatively like-minded, newly-elected officials will comprise a majority in the House as well as the Senate. Assume that one like them will become our next president. Assume the three branches of Federal government will be trimmed of their bureaucratic fat, turned from their anarchial paths, and steered back onto the Constitutional track; and lead America and other nations on a path to world peace and prosperity.

Improbability of a consensus worldview
To assume all of that must assume that the majority of Americans will share such an optimistic view of the future and work together to bring it about. That is to say such a future must be the primary focus and realization of a consensus worldview.

But that is improbable.

In America there are the polarizing views of Democrats and Republicans, Progressives and Conservatives, nationalists and globalists...and a staggering number of other philosophies and religions.

The biblical worldview
As a Christian, I seek to know and live by the biblical worldview. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and that He alone is the way, the truth, and the life. So, not only do I believe in Jesus, I believe and am committed to abide by all that He teaches.

There are many who profess to believe in Jesus but, whether out of apathy or disbelief, do not believe Him and consequently do not consistently follow Him. If they were to believe Him, then they would adopt His -- the Bible’s -- worldview and abide in it.

Jesus is the Word of God and the Bible is the Word of God, and one cannot be separated from the other. To ignore or reject one is to ignore or reject the other. The Bible calls that apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:3).

Shocking statistics of rampant apostasy
According to a Barna Group survey, only 4 percent of all Americans hold to a biblical worldview. Who knows what the other 96 percent believe? The survey also found that only 9 percent of born again Christians profess to embrace a biblical worldview. Who knows what the other 91 percent of Christians believe? Even among the 9 percent of Christians who claim a biblical worldview, what are their perceptions and interpretations of what the Bible teaches?

Consider, as an example, two of several quite different perceptions of the biblical worldview. Christian Dominionists believe the Bible calls the Church to establish God’s Kingdom on earth, in a spiritual and cultural sense. On the other hand, some Christians believe the Bible indicates just the opposite: that America and its offspring global movement will become the kingdom of the Antichrist, symbolically named in the Bible, “Mystery Babylon the Great” (Revelation 17:5), and that Jesus will thereafter return to establish His Kingdom on earth (Revelation 19-22).

Those are but two perceptions of the biblical worldview, and there are many others. But what is the true biblical worldview?

It can only be found in Scripture by those who truly seek it. And the Holy Spirit is ready, willing, and able to illuminate biblical truth, in a timely fashion of revelation, to those whose hearts are right with God. But if the believer is half-hearted, and thereby quenches the Spirit, he ends up with a distorted if not false perception of things. Just imagine the plethora of divergent perceptions of the biblical worldview among Christians! Then, add to that the innumerable worldviews of the billions of non-Christians around the globe.

November 2 might well mark a turning point that will bring about some changes in American politics, the economy, and national security. But those are superficial -- only symptoms of the cause. And that root cause is a nation-wide epidemic of spiritual heart disease. Non-believers need the miraculous heart transplant that only God can perform (Ezekiel 36:26, 27), and many believers need to surrender their divided hearts to the healing hand of Jesus.

What to expect beginning November 2
As I see the world today, in light of my understanding of the biblical worldview, I expect Washington and the rest of the fallen world, along with half-hearted Christians, will continue to flounder in a haze and maze of divergent worldviews that are founded upon lies, deceptions and fantasies.

What does that mean for the Church? For you, me, and other Christians?

It means answering the call of Jesus to love God and others (Mark 12:28-34), to occupy till He returns (Luke 19:13), to strengthen that which remains (the Church, Revelation 3:2), and to look for the blessed hope of Christ’s return in glory (Titus 2:13), knowing that in the interim He will keep His Church on earth from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world (Revelation 3:10).

For further reading:

The Christian's New Heart

The Ways of the Heart

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