Election Predestination? :: By Terry James
The title of this commentary will likely grab the attention of many who are fascinated by the conundrum presented to the finite mind: How can God, who is omniscient, have known in eternity past that most of His creation called humanity would go to a lake of fire prepared for the devil and his fallen angels? Yet God still isn’t willing for anyone to perish; He wants all to come to repentance—meaning that people must have the free will to choose or reject God’s offer of salvation.
Well, this is the wrong article if solving that infinite query is your quest. I mean this title to indicate an examination of this presidential election and God’s omniscient foreknowledge about all involved and the outcome. To what extent is all this predestined by Heaven’s governance?
To those who believe in God being in complete control of everything at all times, there can be little doubt. God reached down on July 13, 2024, and turned Donald J. Trump’s head at the precise moment a speeding bullet was about to enter the presidential candidate’s skull.
Even pundits totally opposed to Trump stated that the near miss was providential. The Lord of Heaven, then, is certainly intervening in America’s electoral process. God Himself has made it quite clear that He is doing so.
He has intervened before—for example, in the 2016 election, many of us believe. Mr. Trump was given almost no chance of winning against Ms. Clinton. But win he did.
However, with the miraculous turn-of-the-head moment as Trump was addressing the rally throng, God asserted that those wanting the former president removed from the process, no matter the method, would not get their way. At least not on that occasion.
What does the Lord’s obvious statement mean in terms of the election this year? I, like you and everyone else, have no idea. The only thing I can add with certainty is that God did make that statement. He does nothing without great purpose. This is especially true when the statement–the intervention—is so blatantly done in front of the entire world.
This makes me quite excited about just what it does, in fact, mean: what it means to America, what it means to the election, and what it means in terms of God’s prophetic timeline.
Founder Todd Strandberg’s and my website, Raptureready.com, has at its center, of course, a certain anticipation. That anticipation is found in the prophetic insight Paul gave all believers:
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).
Those who have read my series, “Scanning a Fearful Future,” know my long-held belief is that if America were to suffer a catastrophic fate that would bring the nation down to rubble, the entire world would suffer in a way that it would take decades, perhaps longer, to ever get back to business as usual.
Business as usual is exactly what the Lord Jesus said would be the condition when He next intervenes in the affairs of wicked, rebellious humankind. That condition is outlined in Luke 17:28–30—the “as it was in the days of Lot” prophecy.
Jesus said all of life’s business—buying, selling, building, marrying, and planting–would be going on when He next catastrophically intervenes into the human condition.
A calamity that destroyed the US would be a world-rending matter because the nations of the world are so intricately linked to America.
This being the case, Jesus’ intervention must take place before America’s demise or world-rending circumstances, such as total economic collapse or World War III.
That intervention will be the Rapture of the Church—all who believe in Jesus Christ for salvation. Jesus told us that it would be just like the day when God removed Lot and his family from Sodom. The righteous will be taken to be with Christ. The word for “taken” is the Greek word paralambanó. It is the word used when the Lord said “one would be taken and the other left” in His Olivet Discourse, describing how it will be at the time of the Rapture. This is the same Greek word used by Jesus as recorded in John 14:1–3 when He said, “I will receive (paralambanó) you unto myself, that where I am there you may be also.”
All that said, it is more than obvious that the minions of Ephesians 6:12, both demonic and human, are doing all they can do to destroy America as founded so they can bring about the changed global order essential to establishing the one-world rule of Satan’s son of perdition—the Antichrist.
The following article outlines just how they are attempting to do so with this presidential election. Here is the link; check it out: https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/god-trump-america-and-democrats-all-out-plan-to-steal-the-2024-election/.
Yet the God of Heaven has this Luciferian force in derision through God’s Great Restrainer, the Holy Spirit, resident within the Church. The fact that Donald Trump was supernaturally spared that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, is proof of that derision and restraint, I have no doubt.
Again, I have no idea what our Lord is up to in all of this intrigue. But it is fascinating and even infused with great expectation as this November approaches. Has He predestined this election to serve His prophetic purposes?
As the title of our website would have it, being “Rapture ready,” which Paul the apostle exhorted in the above Scripture, is most appropriate. And the Lord Jesus makes that a commandment for the Christians who will be on the earth when He next is revealed, as given in the “days of Lot” prophecy.
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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