I originally shared this status a couple weeks ago.

After that, I received a message from a dear friend that wanted to share a few thoughts. This particular friend has been a blessing to me over the years. However, they had some concerns over the wording I used. The body of their message will explain their concerns.

I always take their words to prayers, as the Lord has used them to give me post and project material. So that is what I did. It took a few days, but the Lord opened up the reasons why He used the wording He used.

It comes down to our personal actions.

Here was the original post:

The “Equality Act” is actually the Sexual Predator Act. It will protect predators and enshrine sexual deviation.

It tells you everything you need to know about the leftists and Democrats.

If you voted for the Democrats and Biden, or more specifically against Donald Trump - this one is on you.

If you in ANY way voted in any manner which directly results in this getting passed, you will have to answer for your part and responsibility for the results when you stand before God.

Every last one of them.

The Bible is clear on this - if you have a hand in it, you own it.

That doesn’t even begin to touch on abortion.

That’s on you as well.

Hell is real.

The judgement of God is real.

The legislative changes now being pushed are real. What you have to understand is that even when the Lord intervenes and stops things from coming to fruition, you still bear responsibility for your individual actions.

These are the final days of separation. We are watching unfold before our very eyes. It’s literally the days of Lot and Noah unfolding before our very eyes, as though a modern day theatrical presentation.

You can literally see the numbers of the faithful being peeled away and reduced. It’s like watching Lot as his family steadily fell away and into destruction. If you are part of the reason we now face this situation I would offer a simple piece of advice.

Repent.

For the overcomer, it is critical to remain faithful to the promises of the Lord and keep looking up. These days are meant to shake all of us and see who will remain faithful to Him, and stand on His promises without fear.

He has this very much in hand, and it won’t get out of His control.

The only real question is whether or not you let your faith in Him get out of your control. ~~~

Here was their message to me:

My friend, you need to remember that a lot of your friends are democrats. The Lord loves us just as much as the republicans. He doesn't care about political parties. Me, for example. I come from 3 generations of Democrats. However, when he was elected, I had voted for him. Just because I'm a democrat doesn't mean I want to make things easy for child molesters. ~~~

Here is the primary message the Lord gave to me to share with them, along with a few additional supporting thoughts that the Lord was emphasizing as I was writing my response:

I did want to get back to you on this. Between some very busy days and prayerful consideration of what you said, this is the first best opportunity to reply.

I always take your words to prayer, and more than once the Lord has used them to open something up. This has turned out to be the case again. I don’t know if it will be a post or a full project, I just know that I am to write it.

First, some quick back story.

I typically have three types of posts. There is the general post that is all me. Could be humor, political rant, general boring stuff, the same as all of us.

The second is what I call biblical commentary. This is where the Lord gives me the overall picture and some details, and then I watch for related things to pop up in the news as fill-in-the-blank items. The biggest examples of this are my posts about Israel, Iran, the Middle East, etc.

Then there is the third post type, which also is where my projects fall. These are the posts that the Lord directly dictates.

In these posts there are a few common points that they all share. First, I never know that I’m going to write them until they are given to me. Second, they always come out of the blue. Third, the Lord will hit me like a hammer with the specific premise and understanding. Fourth, I will know how I am to start the post, and where it is meant to end up. Fifth, while I will have the starting material when I start writing, I won’t have all of the post material when I start.

The Lord gives me that as I write.

Six - many of the statements in the post will be specifically given to convey a point the Lord wants to convey.

That was the case with this post. You can usually tell the post type by how I sign them.

At any rate, the Lord typically has me use the word “leftist” alone to convey the understanding of a body of political positions that run intentionally counter to the Bible. In some cases it is active support for biblical abominations such as homosexuality or abortion. In other cases, it’s the support for political systems that are devised specifically to silence the Gospel.

Typically, “Democrat” is left out primarily under the premise that not all Democrats support these things. I have always held that view myself. I might broach political differences in political posts, but typically that gets left out of the revelatory posts that the Lord gives me.

This time it was different. This time I was specifically to use both leftists and Democrats in the post. This even caught me by surprise. Surprised or not, it was very clear - I was to use both.

Even still, when you messaged me I took it to prayer. I know that you aren’t trying to make things easier for child molesters, or any other person that indulges in abominations. Your words come from the right place as I have always seen, so to prayer I went.

The answer I got back was an entire laying out of where this post is found biblically, and where Christ Himself also addressed what the Lord was wanting me to share.

The days of party loyalty (any party) are over for those who overcome. What is happening is that the parties are adopting positions that are contrary to the Word of God, and they are being up front and honest about their intentions. They no longer hide where they stand collectively, nor do they hide their intention to pursue those policies.

Far too many of us justify voting one way or the other by telling ourselves that we do not support these particular anti biblical policies. Yet, in our God ordained system of government, a vote for a party is an endorsement of that party and all they stand for.

Until the last few election cycles his was not as big of an issue. Then, starting in 2008, the Democrat party begin to openly endorse and push for party wide positions that ran directly counter to the Bible, and embraced the most severely punishable abominations in the Bible. I’m talking about things which the Lord has actively wiped out entire civilizations for.

However, never was this more evident than in this election. We had a party that was actively pushing for the worst abominations. However, worse yet was the active embrace of socialism and outright communistic ideology. The reason these are worse than the abominations are that these ideologies actively seek to silence the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Simply stated, what the Lord had me to convey is that we can no longer say we don’t support these policies, yet then actively vote and endorse them.

The current direct assault on the Gospel in DC had its genesis in the last election and those who voted for the party that is now working to make this happen. The days where so many of us vote, yet fail to ask ourselves what our votes will be used to justify are over. What will each candidate do with our vote if they are elected? What will the party do if we vote down ballot for one side as opposed to the other? ]

Would I be better off in the eyes of the Lord if I made the choice to actively vote for each individual candidate based on their stated positions, and not on their party - and leave actual races empty if none of the candidates for a particular office represent the Bible and Christ?

Would it be better to ensure that there are ledger entries in Heaven showing that I invested my God given vote in a candidate that actively mocks God, or a party that seeks to destroy Him?

Is the lesser of two evils an acceptable premise?

Is the lesser of two evils actually still a vote for evil?

Is the lesser of two evils actually evil in their intentions and positions? Or have I simply found a way to declare them evil because of my own personal preferences, as opposed to those of God?

Lastly - and most critical - did I take every single vote before the Lord and ask HIM how I needed to vote?

The Lord is also wanting to get the point across that He is giving folks over to the desires of their hearts, specifically to bring about the type of open declarations that we are seeing now. He is doing to so as part of the great separation. It’s literally the same percentages that we see play out in the days of Lot (and Noah), and the parables in Matthew 24 and 25 - which includes the same spoken in Mark 13, and Luke chapters 17 and 21.

The Lord is trying to reach people to tell them that what they do matters. We live in a nation with a God ordained system of government where each of our votes are not just a function of one person, but of the collective action. We live in a system where we are supposed to invest our votes based upon what it may be used for.

We also forget that even if our side does not win, we are still responsible for what we endorsed. This is about ledger entries in the books of Heaven. It’s about what each entry will record about your life. It’s about every single intention behind every single action.

It’s about voting for a candidate, or more specifically against another candidate based on reasons that have nothing to do with how they will invest your vote. If you vote for a candidate based on any reason other that the policies they actively and openly support, then you are responsible for that vote.

Here is the critical piece of the puzzle.

It does not matter whether they win or not. I mentioned that a moment ago. What matters is the intent in your heart when you cast your vote.

If you were willing to overlook very godless and anti biblical positions of the Democrat Party because you had other motivations, then you are held responsible for that vote and what could result if they win.

Remember, sin is sin based on the intent of our heart. You are guilty of sin if you intend something in your heart, yet never carry it out. Remember, the lifts kings up and he tears them down. But we are still responsible for our own actions, and for the “why” behind those actions.

I’ll close with this. There was a time where it did not matter if we were a Democrat or Republican. It is also true that the Lord loves each of us no matter what. However, we often forget that perfect love demands perfect Justice.

If we actively invest the vote he ordained for each of us in a political party that has made it known that they will use that vote to destroy the church and bury the Gospel, then we bear the responsibility for that action. That responsibility is not dependent upon whether our party won or lost as we invested our vote in that plan and purpose none the less. We still committed an act on our part.

Unfortunately, though the Lord loves us, it now does matter if we identify with a particular party and endorse their chosen course of action. It matters because our vote enables their actions. It matters because when we endorse a party that seeks the destruction of the Bible itself, and to cement the very abominations that has brought the destruction of civilizations - and even all the world - then the unbeliever identifies us, as Christians, as a defacto biblical endorsement of the very things the Bible condemns.

The same premise holds for the various denominations as well. How many times have heard that there aren’t going to be Baptists in Heaven, or Pentecostals, or Apostolics, etc.? That used to be the case in that we were all saved and simply had argumentative differences at best.

Then, one by one, more and more denominations began to actively embrace the most godless abominations in the Bible. The United Methodist Church comes to mind first off. As a whole they have turned 180 degrees away from sound biblical doctrine. Of course there have been individual churches that have pushed back. However, by and large, the denomination as a whole now actively adopts new “doctrines” which the Bible expressly forbids.

Those who sit in the pews and actively endorse and supports the leadership which push these actions bear responsibility for that support.

To the premise of calling out a political party as a whole I would add this. There is a generally held error that it is wrong to do so. Specifically, it is wrong to lump everybody into the same group, even though everybody in that group may not hold all of the same values. People will hold Jesus up as the example. They will contend that Jesus never did such a thing. Furthermore, they will look at the Apostles and the crowd that Christ kept close as proof that generalizations are wrong. After all, how many times did the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes call Jesus out for consorting with the worst classes of people? How many times did Jesus rebuke them for doing so?

Yet, in their defense of their position they actually miss the direct evidence for what they are contending against.

Without getting into the weeds on this, let me ask you a question. When rebuking the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, did Jesus ever declare “woe unto you Pharisees - except for Nicodemus. Nicodemus is good, but the rest of you stink to high Heaven!”?

No. He called out the entire group. Even though each group had solid, godly members. Yet, if you actively participate and endorse the collective sin of a particular group, you bear a piece of the collective responsibility.

If you have never spent any time studying who the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes actually were, it would be worth your time to do so. To sum each group up, they were literally the exact Jewish equivalent of Democrats, Republicans, and lawyers of those days. They were that era’s version of the Jewish legal and political system. They exercised influence in the matters of law and policy as was applicable based on the Jewish system set up in the Laws of Moses.

They even attempted to influence how the actual feast days and Temple sacrificial systems were implemented! They attempted to change the interpretation of the Laws of Moses to support more liberal or conservative ideologies.

Jesus, quite literally, called out the ACTUAL political parties of His day, and called them out as a whole and complete body! Nobody was exempted from this generalization. If you want to undertake a real eye opening study, spend some time looking into the exact things Jesus rebuked these groups for, and also the back story behind those rebuked.

If you do you will find out we are collectively much further gone as a nation than seems evident to any of us.

At any rate, that is the heart of the original post. My orders in this were very clear. I was to use both “leftist” and “Democrat”, and I was to specifically address the corporate guilt that is shared amongst the entire body for what we are witnessing now.

That was the gist of the post.

Even now as I write this, I am being given the understanding that I am to share that post again, and use this response as a part narrative.

You won’t be mentioned, other than a brief summary of how this conversation started. This will likely turn into a full project.

The things the Lord gave me on this are massive.

At any rate, I pray all is well with you, and I know the Lord keeps you and your family. We’ll all be home soon enough! ~~

“You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting”.

In the name of our most blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Richard Kenrick

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