Prophets and Adulterous Politicians
By
Julio
Severo
To
rebuke or not to rebuke a president’s adultery? That is the question — for the
prophets.
Under
God’s inspiration, John the Baptist said to King Herod: “You are in adultery!”
He was executed for rebuking the king, who did not repent. Herod was a king in
the New Testament who did not the Lord.
So
whether they were in the Old Testament or New Testament, whether they knew the
Lord or not, kings were rebuked by prophets.
A
prophet’s life is hard. If he is faithful to God, he can be executed or
honored. If he is faithful to a politician, everything will go well for a
while, but when the time for reckoning with God comes, nothing will go well.
To
hide his adultery with Bathsheba, David enlisted the help of Joab, a general who
was faithful to him. Joab blindly obeyed David’s command to have Bathsheba’s
husband, Uriah, killed.
Later,
Joab died a humiliating death. He gained nothing from God for being faithful to
King David. He gained nothing from God for helping to execute and cover up King
David’s sins.
Being
faithful to politicians in their sins, even politicians who claim to be
dedicated to God, brings a humiliating end. Being faithful to God, even when
the prophet is sacrificed by adulterous politicians, brings an end of eternal
honor in the presence of God.
Is
there a lack of politicians and adulteries of politicians today so that the
rebukes of the prophets have ceased? No. And there are a lot more Joabs today
to cover up any sin of politicians who call themselves Christians.
However,
there are many pastors and pseudo-prophets who, fearing losing government
permits for TV, radio and other government and presidential perks, prefer to
take on Joab’s politically comfortable role. They are silent on their
responsibility to be a prophetic voice of Nathan or John the Baptist in the
lives of politicians. Other times their silence is because they know they have
no morals to criticize politicians for what they themselves practice in their
private lives. They are addicted to adultery, pornography and prostitution.
If
alive today, before rebuking Davids, Herods and other politicians, Nathan and
John the Baptist would say to the pastors: “You are in spiritual and political
adultery because for fear of losing political privileges, you do not open your
mouth to speak what politicians need to hear!”
In
many other cases, they would say: “You are in adultery, because you left your
wife to be with a younger woman!”
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