The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Romans 13:1-4, “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;
4 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.”

Isaiah 5:20-26, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and dry grass collapses into the flame, so their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 On this account the anger of the LORD has burned against His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, His anger is not spent, but His hand is still stretched out.
26 He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation, and will whistle for it from the ends of the earth; and behold, it will come with speed swiftly.”

It is indeed a sad day when people “call good evil and evil good.” It is equally sad when a nation and its government stoop to the level of its corrupt citizenry.

Our United States of America is in trouble! The difficulties our nation has and is currently enduring is infinitesmal when compared with what is coming, unless we get right with God and yield to His will in all of our affairs.

I will not polute this Letter by reiterating what is all too available day and night on our television screens. Our current government is corrupt! Laws long on the books are glibly ignored as if those in government (and those seeking to remain in government) are exempt from the law!
Laws are in place for correcting our “ship of state,” if we have the will to inact them!

The Bible has considerable to say about laws. The LORD does not exempt us from adhearing to law. It is He who originally structured the law and ordered His people to strictly obey it. This writer prays for Israel, who is daily under attack from ungodly nations, and for the USA, who is laboring under the strain of adherence both to His Law and the laws He led our Founding Fathers to ordain to His glory!

Friends, we had better get on “praying ground” with the LORD, or we may find ourselves “governed” by some ungodly tyrants. The LORD is in control, but He will suffer us to live under wrath, if we so choose.

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