Pray for America and Her Cyrus

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.

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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