Nov 8, 2026 0
Revival? Let God Do It.
11-9-26
I have received inquiries about the recent midterm campaign. (If you are reading this in our Archives, I refer to the startling “wave” elections of 2026, when Democrats and Democratic Socialists virtually cleared the table of Republicans and conservatives.)
Unless you are merely curious about the political opinions of this Christian Curmudgeon, I advise you rather to look unto yourselves. Do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (II Corinthians 4:18).
Politics in a Christian blog? Not because I am a raging partisan, but in contemporary times, politics have become inextricably intertwined in the daily lives of us all.
I am reminded of something the cartoonist Al Capp told me when asked whether he intentionally infused commentary into his comic strip Li’l Abner: “If I draw a cat, I am automatically commenting on cats.” Taking it further, these days politics is injected into education, entertainment, law, sports, religion, and even to absurd degrees, politics itself… so it is impossible to ignore. Like Li’l Abner’s cat, nothing is sacred, or neutral, any more. As mentioned in last week’s message here, even the Dean of Students at a prominent “Christian” university recently declared the Biblical dictum “In Christ alone” to be a dog-whistle of “White supremacy.” Absurd spiritual paranoia!
The truer dog-whistle is the recent election. 2026, politically, has been a major inflection-point in American history, akin to only a few watershed years. There is an Italian saying, Il passato è il futuro, literally “The past is the future.”
So as a professional historian but also as a busy commentator over decades, and as a published Bible scholar, I offer my thoughts on the current political situation in America. It is incumbent on all of us, especially in this year and this moment in our social evolution, to study less the “burning issues” of the day, and more closely examine long-term trends. Cable-TV’s Breaking News stories usually are broken anyway, or only are click-bait for commercials; meanwhile the overarching trends that really indicate and affect our lives are neglected.
What are these major factors in our lives?
- Population shifts and demographic changes throughout America and the West are more substantial than at any time in history, even after major wars. European nations are flooded by immigrants, many of them illegal with their own “zones” where local police are forbidden. In America, the largest city with a White-majority population in 2026 is Boise, Idaho. There simply are bound to be social disruptions brewing as a natural consequence, and faith-traditions are victims.
- ”Religious affiliations” and other euphemisms for moral standards, traditional values, voter identifications, social affiliations, and group loyalties are critically underwater. Apart from views on whether such trends are good or bad (I believe them to be extremely bad), we must expect dangerous disruptions not only “underwater” but “downstream.”
- The policies of the American government have been suicidal for two generations. The Uniparty – we must face that for all the squabbles in Washington, it is a shadow-show: nothing much changes except to get worse – has increased the debt, pursued foreign wars, surrendered national sovereignty, invaded citizens’ rights and privacy, and abandoned the foundations of faith. Any one of these factors is a certain prescription for disruption and disaster. In concert, they ensure the end of the American Experiment in Republican Democracy.
- The invasion of the Christian West is succeeding after almost 1500 years. Periodic invasions rebuffed by heroes like Jan Sobieski at the Gates of Vienna and Charles Martel and Roland at Roncevaux Pass and the Battle of Tours, eventually convinced Islamic hordes to employ “soft invasions.” Immigration, infiltration, marketing, and appeals to “compassion” have succeeded where blasphemy, scimitars, and bullets have not.
- Every self-styled “empire” in world history has self-destructed. First around the edges, not always by attacks but often by misadventurous over-extensions (sound like Iran war?), then from within – moral decay. America has military bases in more than 140 countries around the world, many of them propping up dictatorships, or letting some of them, like Israel, dictate our policies. The template for destruction.
- Secularized re-definitions of Christian standards and the false values of “welcoming” attitudes have combined to deaden the souls of once-proud Americans. Institutionally – that is, through infiltration of education, media, and the church – citizens somehow view their doom as something to be accepted, even celebrated.
- If “past is prologue,” the current events in Europe are dress-rehearsals for the next act of the American Story. Swings in voter loyalties, the rise of extremist parties, and bloody street riots are on the nightly news. Right-wing movements in Italy, Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, and the UK are ascendant. Leftists had their parliamentary moments, and might again (as they do in 2026 in the US), but the trend is toward nationalism. I believe it is a hopeful trend, as traditional groups assert their identities and values.
Get ready. We are in the midst of an upside-down culture devoted to its own destruction. As Jesus described the ability of people to dismiss the signs around them – In the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark – it is easy for people to ignore the doom we face.
We are a species who practice, and these are times that invite, cultural conflict-avoidance. Chances are that many people will only recognize the crisis when it is too late. At the drain of the slippery slope.
God has never issued “Get Out of Jail Free” cards throughout His recorded Word – except by acts of mercy… after repentance. He has never violated His own warnings and commands… except in cases where He responds to pleas for forgiveness. And He never sends revival. Really?
A number of Christians plead for God to send Revival. We hear it quoted endlessly, “If My people, who are called by My name…” but it is our duty to seek revival, to be revived, and to practice spiritual revival. It is to be a lazy Chrsitian, or no Christian at all, to snap our fingers and ask God to do what we have not done for ourselves.
Are these points of mine prophecies? Predications? Warnings? A spiritual crisis – which is, after all, the basis of all our problems – can only be met and solved by spiritual standards… and by spiritual means, methods, strategies, tactics, action, and practice.
Saving our nation, rescuing our families, and redeeming our culture cannot be part-time hobbies. Do not look back. We have God’s marching orders, His battle plan. Lot’s wife turned to a pillar of salt because she looked back. Peter walked on water by the Savior’s instruction until he looked down in unbelief. Don’t look back or down; look ahead into the Face of Jesus, and the “victory that lies ahead.” God rewards repentance: even the unbelieving Ninevites sought forgiveness and were spared destruction.
Of course politicians will disappoint and fail you. Of course. Jesus never will. How can we keep making unwise choices?
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Click: Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand – Lindell Cooley
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvBvtIKZB60 )
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