In the United States, the First Amendment of the Constitution establishes that church and state must be kept apart, meaning the government cannot endorse or establish any religion or claim to represent or speak for God. Today, the Republican Party, one of the major political parties in the United States, appealed to God and religious values during its 2024 Republican National Convention, held on July 15–18, 2024.
God became the focal point of the party’s platform on the fourth and final night of the convention. Both Pastors Franklin Graham and Lorenzo Sewell attended the political conference and urged people to help the party come together for the upcoming elections by using their spiritual influence. To excite the base and attract a wider audience, they both made an appeal to God and combined political policies with biblical themes, Scriptures, and prayers.
The video makes it clear that these religious leaders are combining politics and religion as a focal point to sway voters. These pastors are mobilizing people to engage in a political election while claiming to speak for God. Such initiatives run counter to both the constitutional mandate to preserve the separation of church and state and the ideal of religious freedom. Inspiration tells us that the day will come when the churches will have the power to influence the state and create laws. This implies that religious leaders will exert political pressure on policymakers to uphold their decrees. This is getting us closer to the formation of the image of the beast during the Sunday law crisis.
“When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the State to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result” (Great Controversy, p. 445).
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Trump will be a de-facto union of Church and State from day 1.g
Glad you can see, some are blind to the possibility
Of a guy who is a Knights Malta
Rich Merchant
President
Married to a Catholic
Who the Catholic church is saying Mary saved
Having anything to do with Popery
Even though at the Al Smith dinner who promised to look after Catholic interests,
And the Pentecostal church false Prophets have multiple visions about, some saying He’d usher in a thousand years of peace etc etc…
In the United States, the First Amendment of the Constitution establishes that church and state must be kept apart, meaning the government cannot endorse or establish any religion or claim to represent or speak for God. Today, the Republican Party, one of the major political parties in the United States, appealed to God and religious values during its 2024 Republican National Convention, held on July 15–18, 2024.
1st Amendment religious clause only applies to Federal.
There’s an excellent video on rumble by truth triumphant showing the immense Catholic influence in American politics of late:
https://rumble.com/v57ptkt-lets-get-serious-about-trump-kody-morey.html
Would post it on Fulcrum7 but I’ve been randomly selected for Excumenication by Cardinal Read, who’s fast becoming a Christian Nationalist by his own words.
Exactly, I am watching ADS being drawn into politics by encouraging them to take more and more political participation, arguing that they can positively shape reality by choosing the right candidate. Contrary to the admonitions of the Spirit of Prophecy, not to speak of the Bible itself, a narrative is being made that we are left with only politics and either its left or right side. We are supposed to be apolitical and not get involved in politics and take sides.
We have a much loftier task: to proclaim the Eternal Gospel to the people in the context of the end times in which we live.
“The Savior was often asked to decide and judge in political and legal matters. He, however, reproached meddling in temporal affairs; He knew that in the political world the authorities were acting unjustly and exercising tyranny. But His only aspiration was to explain the truths of Scripture. To those great hosts of people who followed Him, He presented the pure and holy principles of God’s Law and spoke of the blessings that flow from obedience to those principles. The powers from on high affirmed the perfection of justice and mercy. But He did not allow Himself to be drawn into private disputes.”
“The Lord wants His people to bury political issues. On these issues, silence is eloquence. Christ calls His followers to unite on the pure principles of the gospel clearly revealed in the word of God. We cannot safely vote for political parties because we do not know who we are voting for. We cannot safely participate in any political affairs. We cannot work to please people who will use their influence to suppress religious freedom in order to introduce repressive measures to lead or force their comrades to keep Sunday as the Sabbath. The first day of the week is not the day to be worshiped. It is a false Sabbath and members of the Lord’s family are not allowed to interact with people who exalt this day and violate God’s law by trampling on His Sabbath. God’s people are not to vote to have such people in the office because when they do, they are participants with them in the sins they have committed while in the office.
What should we do then? – Let political issues be put aside. Do not walk in a foreign yoke with unbelievers for what has righteousness to do with iniquity or what fellowship between light and darkness? Or what agreement between Christ and Bellah, or what division has a believer with an unbeliever? What then can there be in common between these parties? There can be no camaraderie or fellowship. The word camaraderie means participation, partnership. God uses the strongest imagery to show that there should be no relationship between the worldly parties and those who seek Christ’s righteousness. “What relationship can there be between light and darkness, truth and injustice?” – None. Light represents righteousness, darkness error, sin, injustice. Christians are to come out of darkness into light. They are to put on Christ and assume the mark of truth and obedience. They are to be guided by the exalted and holy principles that Christ expressed in His life. But the world is governed by the principles of dishonesty and injustice.
Those teachers in the church or school who stand out for their involvement in politics should be removed from their jobs and responsibilities without delay because the Lord will not cooperate with them. Tithing should not be used to pay anyone to speak on political issues. Any teacher, servant or leader in our ranks, stirred by the desire to air his opinions on political issues, should be converted by faith in the truth or abandon his work. His influence must speak as a worker together with Christ in winning souls for Christ for otherwise his letters of credentials must be taken away from him. If he does not make a difference, he will do harm and only harm.”
In the United States, the First Amendment of the Constitution establishes that church and state must be kept apart, meaning the government cannot endorse or establish any religion or claim to represent or speak for God. Today, the Republican Party, one of the major political parties in the United States, appealed to God and religious values during its 2024 Republican National Convention, held on July 15–18, 2024.
Delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863.
Quite frankly, I would be extremely happy to see people with true Christian principles occupy every office of the land. It’s one thing to want to see Christian principles prevail, and another thing altogether to want to see them forced by law on other people. I believe that some SDAs, in their zeal to make sure that no one who speaks of God and/or the Bible gets anywhere near a public office, have come to lift up, and even vote for, pagans and some of the most godless people our nation has ever seen. There is nothing wrong with wanting to see truly godly people in leadership positions in government.