Pray
for America and Her Cyrus
By Julio Severo
As Americans get ready to vote for their
next president on November 3, Christians have the responsibility to pray.
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| Cyrus and Trump |
There are two presidential candidates:
Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Biden is a left-wing Catholic who believes
in unrestricted abortion and homosexuality. So he is not a pro-family Catholic.
Trump was born a Presbyterian and he was a
left-winger for a long time, but after 2016 he began to change some stances,
especially on abortion, which is legally allowed in the United States. He has
tried to restrict the abortion holocaust, even though his
stance on homosexuality is antagonistic to Christian conservatism, because he
is seeking to legalize homosexuality around the world.
With Biden, there will be protections for
abortion and the sin of homosexuality.
With
Trump, there will hopefully be protections for unborn babies, but not for unborn babies conceived
as victims of rape. On the homosexuality issue, Christians will have to pressure him
to protect not homosexuality, but its main victims, boys.
The fact that Trump is open to some
Christian stances does not mean that he knows God. King Cyrus of Persia did not
know God too. But God used him to help Israel. In fact, God anointed him and he
said that Cyrus was His servant.
“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the
kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded
me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who [is] among you of
all His people? May the LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up!” (2
Chronicles 36:23 NKJV)
Even though Cyrus mentioned God’s name and
acknowledged that he had a mission of God to help God’s people, God Himself
said that Cyrus did not know Him. He talked about God and His Temple in
Jerusalem, but he did not know God. Even so, God said that He was using Cyrus.
God said,
“Thus says the LORD to His anointed, To
Cyrus, whose right hand I have held — To subdue nations before him
And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the
gates will not be shut: ‘I will go before you And make the crooked places
straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron. I
will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places,
That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call [you] by your name, [Am] the God
of Israel. For Jacob My servant’s sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called
you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.” (Isaiah
45:1-4 NKJV)
God
can use people and rulers who do not know Him to do His will to His people.
And there is no doubt that God has used
Trump in many issues.
With such understanding, we can pray that God
may grant Trump the same anointing He gave Cyrus.
Our prayers should ask God to use Trump as
His servant, even though he does not know God.
Other
lesson we can learn after all Cyrus did to help the Jews, God’s people, is that
the Jews never idolized this king. The Jews did not use him as a model of
conservatism and nationalism, because they understood that we should worship
only God, who can use anyone and anything He wants.
Vote with Cyrus in your mind. Pray that
God may continue using Trump as He used Cyrus.
Portuguese
version of this article: Ore pelos EUA e seu Ciro
Source: Last Days Watchman
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