The Kingdom of Democracy, Pt. 2

Barak Obama just won the presidential nomination for the 44th president of the United States. McCain withdrew from the race with the comment that he was yet a servant of the U.S. Obama expressed his excitement in working with both McCain and Palin as he steps into the role as President. Already, it is said his ‘to-do’ list is huge and he is stepping into an economy that is in recession, foreign policies that are murky, and diplomatic relationships that have become tense. Should we pray for Obama? The answer is simply, ‘Yes.’ There is no way of avoiding the fact that God has placed him in the position that he is in to carry out His redemptive purposes.
It is being said that the face of the Democratic Party is/has been changed forever with the election of (an often called Socialist) Obama. On the night of November 4, Obama stated to his rallying crowd in Chicago that he will be a President for all Americans. This is nice of him, considering the fact that when he was candidating it was the Democratic Party—causing serious division between himself and the Republican President. The attempt at ‘reaching across’ party lines is a noble task… but when reality hits, I believe we’ll all see too clearly that this President (like most Presidents) has an agenda of his own, or perhaps a party agenda to push through, in hopes for re-election in 4 years.
Democracy: the lifeblood of government and the political structure of the United States. The democratic process, one in which ‘every vote’ counts and all people are considered equal. In theory, this form of government seems to be a well fit government. No one would deny that it is far better to live under a democracy (or even a Republic) than to live under the tyrannical rule of an oppressive government. Yet, if our hope of life, liberty, and happiness is constituted by a democratic form of government, we have fallen short of what it truly means to have life, liberty, and happiness.
In a recent news article I read that President-elect Obama is stepping into the most powerful position of leadership in the world. On the surface, many of us would agree with this statement. But taking even a moment to reflect on the implications of this, one is clearly led to see that this reaches the epitome of Satanic pride. The truth, the reality of the Presidential office, is not that it is the most powerful office in the world. I can’t help but think of the Isaiah 14 and the day star who attempted to usurp God from His rightful throne through his vain pride. Obama is no ‘vicar of God.’ No President in the course of American history has ever ‘ruled’ the most powerful office in the world. That office belongs to the King and the King alone. Obama will be nothing more than a tool that the great King will use to bring about His redemptive purposes… which ironically, Revelation doesn’t shed ‘positive, affirmative, golden-age’ adjectives too. The redemptive purposes, so far as the Bible has laid out, is a purpose of catapulting the world into more chaos, turmoil, and distress. Not to mention the death of myriads of the King’s followers. Obama is no messiah. He will not, contrary to popular vote, bring back a ‘golden-age’ to America. America is doomed. Its fate has been sealed. It too, will perish in the winds of time and be scattered to the wind; perhaps not by an enemy ab extra, but an enemy within, but it will be destroyed none-the-less.
When considering democracy, when considering American legislation and government, we should remember, learn, and understand that freedom without form is tyranny. This we will address in a later post. The world is watching and waiting. Democracy as we know it, the democracy of Barak Obama (of both Republicans and Democrats) is largely a democracy without form—an enslavement of the American people and the world at large.