We live in perilous times. Troubing times. The days are evil and growing evilier.

As I’ve written recently I like Donald Trump. And I believe of anyone running for the office of President of America — we are NOT a UNITED STATES, we are a warring, fractured, seething, contentious, place of mayhem and utter darkness mingled with places of some light or more light than others.

We’re a compilation of a vast land mass and many people making a lot of noise. Or remaining idle and silent.

The decision to remove;

“The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.”

From the Republican platform for the first time since 1984 has many reasons.

From the outset, it’s to whore for votes. An attempt to secure more votes in the hope of assuring victory in November. Understandable for politicians and political parties. It’s a natural action. A wrong one spiritually, Scripturally, morally, and is just more wickedness prevailing over righteousness.

We are not going to get a holy, righteous, pure, Scripturally sound candidate running for any political office higher than, well, it just isn’t going to happen.

And that is related to one of the reasons the line above has been removed from the platform. The continual erosion of any morality, any understanding of Scripture and what is holy and right in the sigh of God, the decline of the Christian faith in America, and the overall acceptance of this erosion, this decline, this allowing the world to replace Biblical doctrines with political ideologies. Replacing the understanding a true Christ follower is nothing more than a pilgrim, a sojourner in any land they reside in. Yes, even in America.

What we have witnessed is the erosion within the Republican party impacted, greatly affected by the moral decline, the decline of THE FAITH, of the populace professing to be Christian sorely lacking a Biblical worldview having supplanted such with a corrupted worldview.

All for votes. To gain power.

And this tears within the spirit, the soul, the heart, and mind of any true believer — or it should. None should shrug, say let’s move on this is how it is now, or fall for the line, the lie — the lesser of two evils.

Evil is evil. Period.

There is softening, watering down, explaining away evil. That which goes against God and His Word, His Son, Jesus, against the Holy Spirit and adopts, accepts, and approves the sin, the wickedness, the lies and evil of this world.

Will I vote for Donald Trump in November? Yes.

Because whoever is on the ballot come November from the opposition party will be far worse in more ways than I have time to mention, and that you are already aware.

This is not a pleasing position to be in.

But not voting is casting a vote for an even greater evil. For many reasons. One, if, Lord willing, Donald Trump and more Repubicans gain office come November, and the people truly repent — and this is solely directed at those in Ameria professing to be Christian, which is around 63% currently, and there is NO WAY that 6 out of 10 folks in America are truly Chritians otherwise America would be in a totally other place than we find ourselves.

Much of what has occurred and is occurring would not have occurred or be occurring.

Kapish?

Think about this. Deeply. Someplace quiet. With an open Bible, an open spirit, an open mind, and a heart directed in the Word and towards the Lord rather than towards a politician, a political party, earthly worldly ideologies and making this place a priority over and above the place above where the Sovereign over all things and all people resides.

If such would take place — INDIVIDUAL REVIVAL — and the silence and idleness were broken and true believers spoke up, wrote, professed the gospel which is Jesus Christ the Lord, and lived THE FAITH truly?

We the people, who are supposed to govern according to how our foundations were established in this Republic would have the elected serving us rather than they seeing the erosion, the weakness, the silence, the turning from God and the Word while turning greater to this world and a political ideology and they would have to serve the will of a God-fearing righteous and committed to God, committed to Jesus, allowing the Holy Spirit to work in them people.

The question is — are we the people truly Christ followers while also being and understanding what it means to truly be an American?

Because there is little or no evidence of most possessing this understanding in this land.

For far, far, far too long.

It could change.

All things are possible with God.

But what of the people? Are we willing to serve the Lord, know the Word, live as a true light unto the world, and to live our lives for Jesus, while also living our lives as we have been blessed by our Founding Father to establish this unique in all the world land?

Who is willing to begin INDIVIDUAL REVIVAL?

While also understanding what it truly means to live out life as an American as put forth by our founding documents.

How can true believers, true Christ followers, whole Bible-believing folks who profess to be transformed, renewed of mind and spirit, born again in the faith and understanding of Who Jesus is and what He did on the cross and in walking out of the tomb remain silent, idle, or in support of the premeditated murder of human children made in the image of God?

When was it announced to be permissible for the misguided beliefs of men and women to override the Word of God? To replace God, attempt to change God to fit their desires and ways rather than humble ourselves and live to follow God’s will and ways.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Supporting, aiding and abetting, remaining silent, and approving of the premeditated murder of human children is not repenting and living as a light to others in this nation that has been going down the wrong road for a long, long, long time and we experience what we do as a result of our sin and woeful, shameful, disgraceful, ungodly, unholy actions.

God is the final judge.

Not the ballot box. Nor any man or woman. Or what they may desire replacing the truth of the Lord and His Word.

And should Donald Trump win the November election, Lord willing he does as a different outcome could be truly tragic for this nation — do not misunderstand — Mr. Trump is NOT a savior, not even close [he is a smart man, he is the best choice available, he can do much in the way of restoration and healing this nation but only Jesus is the Saviour and Jesus and heaven are eternal whereas America and what is here is not], and we learn more Republicans have won seats in the House of Congress, in the Senate will then live according to our founding documents and keep the Republic as Mr. Franklin admonished, by making it clear to those put in office to SERVE WE THE PEOPLE our desires according to the ways and will of God. All of which are easily found and understood in His inerrant infallible unchanging living and active Word.

It’s up to the living true believers of Jesus, of God, of what is written in the Word to be active in THE FAITH and as Americans exercise our God-given rights. No one but God gives rights and freedoms.

Why do we treat all of this so shabbily, so terribly, so foolishly?

Woe to U.S. for doing so.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Sunday, July 21st, 2024

The inside story of what happened to the Republican Party’s pro-life plank

July 16, 2024

by Jonathon Van Maren

Reprinted from The Bridgehead

First published in First Things.

The Republican National Committee proposed its 2024 GOP party platform in Milwaukee on July 8, and for the first time in forty years, this platform does not include support for a national abortion ban. Instead, the GOP’s anti-abortion positions are softened and many of the party’s previous pro-life commitments have been removed. In particular, the committee stripped a key line included in every GOP platform since 1984: “The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.” Instead, the platform states that the power to pass laws on abortion is the purview of the states. It only commits the GOP to opposing “Late Term Abortion” and it supports access to “Birth Control and IVF.”

In every presidential election year, Republican delegates from every state meet to form the Republican National Committee. This committee then puts together a GOP party platform, to be adopted at the Republican National Convention. Gayle Ruzicka, who has served as a delegate on every RNC since 1992, bar one, told me that the RNC process was different this year. Ruzicka is a national board member for Eagle Forum, the socially conservative interest group founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972. (It was Schlafly who originally fought for that 1984 line about a “fundamental individual right to life.”) In previous years, the committee process took several days, with sub-committees meeting, proposing amendments, and thoroughly discussing the platform before voting on it. When Ruzicka flew into Milwaukee last weekend, she was expecting several days of similar deliberation. Instead, it was all over before lunchtime on Monday.

On Sunday evening at orientation, delegates were introduced to those they were told would lead the sub-committees the following day. On Monday morning, however, the sub-committees weren’t convened or even mentioned. Instead, delegates had their phones taken from them—strangely, Ruzicka’s watch was taken, as well—and RNC officials rushed the proceedings.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called in to welcome the delegates, the draft platform was distributed for the first time, and the microphones were opened. Comments were limited to one minute. Most of the delegates were new, Ruzicka told me, people who “came prepared to do what they were told to do. They went quickly to the microphones and formed lines so that the rest of us couldn’t get there. They called the question after just a few statements. No discussion, none at all, about the unborn babies. Senator Marsha Blackburn was running the committee, and she was telling people they couldn’t speak.”

Ruzicka was shocked because she believed Blackburn was pro-life. “Tony Perkins [of the Family Research Council] got up and tried to make it a roll call vote and she told him he was out of order,” she said. “They wouldn’t take anything. No discussion. No amendments. It was shocking. Absolutely shocking. We tried to protest, but they wouldn’t let us. They wouldn’t even let us to the microphones. A few people got to the microphones on other issues and said they wanted to propose amendments, but they said that they weren’t taking amendments—that if you wanted an amendment, you could put it in writing. Of course, we were already voting, so it didn’t do any good.”

Ruzicka did see a number of other pro-life delegates. Two, Perkins and David Barton, have released statements expressing their disappointment in the platform and the process. Eighteen delegates voted against the platform. “Some people voted against because they hadn’t read it, some voted against it because it didn’t have pro-life language,” Ruzicka told me. “I voted against it for both reasons. I kept saying: I can’t vote for something I haven’t read! We had no input into the platform whatsoever. We were the platform committee, but we couldn’t talk about it because they had speakers going on the whole time.” It was obvious, she says, “that it had been pre-planned.”

“Every year at the RNC, we were seated in alphabetical order,” she noted. “This year, it was not in alphabetical order, and it was obvious to me when we stood to vote that they had surrounded the known pro-lifers—those who had been delegates and on the platform committee in the past—by people who were new. It was unbelievable. It was clear that they knew ahead of time how people would vote because of the way they seated us. We weren’t seated together so we couldn’t talk. But before noon, we were done. We were out around 11:30.” The delegates were thanked, told they were appreciated, and the RNC declared a success. “The only language included about abortion mentioned that we oppose late-term abortion,” Ruzicka said. “That’s not pro-life. The Democrats oppose late-term abortion for the most part.”

As I noted previously in First Things, the GOP appears to be pivoting. Trump claims to hold a federalist position on abortion, but in practice he condemns only states that pass pro-life protections—such as Florida—while saying nothing about states with permissive abortion regimes. During the presidential debate, he expressed his support for the abortion pill; Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, his running mate, followed suit in a Meet the Press interview. On July 10, two days after the RNC platform was released, Trump called North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum’s decision to sign a six-week abortion ban “an issue” and a barrier to choosing him as a running mate.

Perhaps the most depressing evidence of the GOP’s pivot is Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s decision to come out in support of Donald Trump’s new position on abortion. Rubio has long been a pro-life champion, but it appears he is moderating his position to go with the flow—or perhaps to make himself a viable option for the vice-presidential pick. 

Gayle Ruzicka remains confident that the Republican party is pro-life. It is just the party platform that has changed this time around, she told me. She may be right. But there are worrying signs that Donald Trump is leading the party in a different direction altogether—and that soon, the decision facing voters may be between a pro-abortion party and a pro-choice one.