The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Numbers 27:18-23, “So the LORD said to Moses, ‘Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
19 and have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and commission him in their sight.
20 ‘You shall put some of your authority on him, in order that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may obey him.
21 ‘Moreover, he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his command they shall go out and at his command they shall come in, both he and the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.’
22 Moses did just as the LORD commanded him; and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.
23 Then he laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.’”

The verses listed above seem appropriate to the time in which we live. The LORD appointed (elected) Moses to appoint Joshua to stand before Eleazar, the priest of the congregation. The appropriate authority was then vested
in others, who, in turn, worked more directly with the people.

We are at this very time engaged in an off-year election. It’s difficult not to believe that the way our election procedures are arranged came originally from the passage above or other like-passages of Scripture. Were that so, we would be all-the-more responsible to research the candidates and then vote for those most honoring to God.

Searching the Scriptures reveals that those, who were charged with spiritual responsibilities, but neglected to properly attend to them, were disenfranchised from their responsibilities. Our enablement of that today would be called “term limits.” What business tolerates employees who doddle around instead of tending to matters for which they were hired? It should be so in government. Elections will take care of indigent office-holders, if “we the people” pay attention to what’s going on!

I have long been an advocate for “term limits!” Your representative or senator (state or national) may be –without question— excellent in representing and voting for your views. Yet, when he (or she) is elected again and again and again, it says in point-of-fact that there is no other person in your city, county or state who can represent your views as well. And, in my view, that is just not so!

One more thing… we the people lack Biblical morality! Thus, we send those who lack it also to represent us. Then, we wonder why we are so inundated with “trans-this” and “trans-that”!! The Constitution that has a Biblically moral basis, is by-passed and trampled upon, as if the LORD Himself did not exist! Well, He does exist! And those who ignore Him will one day “cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall upon them,” so heinous and reprehensible they are!

Pray for our Beloved United States! Vote for Godly office holders! And remember that you and I are responsible to to God for what we do!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom