Why Evangelical Christians Must Vote in the Upcoming Election
The standard of righteousness has not fallen by accident. It has been lowered, deliberately and systematically, by those who hate the God of the Bible and the ordered liberty His law makes possible. Evangelical Christians who still revere Scripture as the final authority cannot treat the ballot box as optional. Voting is an act of moral stewardship. It is the practical expression of the truth that Jesus Christ is Lord over every realm—including the civil realm. To refuse that duty in this hour is to abandon the field while the enemies of faith, family, and freedom advance.
The Biblical Mandate for Civic Engagement
Scripture does not leave the believer in ambiguity. “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn” (Proverbs 29:2). The civil magistrate is “the minister of God to thee for good” (Romans 13:4).
Neutrality is a myth. Silence in the presence of evil is consent. The prophet Isaiah pronounced woe upon those who “call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness” (Isaiah 5:20). The apostle Paul commanded that prayers be made “for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty” (1 Timothy 2:1–2). A quiet and peaceable life is not secured by retreat. It is secured by the active restraint of wickedness through the lawful instruments God has placed in the hands of free citizens.
Psalm 33:12 declares, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” Second Chronicles 7:14 still stands: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Turning from wicked ways includes refusing to surrender the instruments of self-government to those who openly despise the moral law. Ephesians 6:12 further reminds us that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” The evils confronting this generation are not merely political or cultural. They are demonic in origin and character—manifestations of rebellion against the throne of God.
The Shedding of Innocent Blood: Human Abortion
We stand at a moment of profound moral crisis, one that strikes at the very foundation of our claim to be a people who acknowledge the self-evident truths upon which this nation was established. The deliberate, systematic destruction of unborn human life—carried out under the protection of law and often with the financial support of the state—is not a matter of private preference or contested medical opinion. It is the willful shedding of innocent blood, an act that Scripture identifies as an abomination before the living God and a direct assault upon the image of God in man.
The Lord Himself declares, “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:16–17). The commandment is unambiguous: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13). In Genesis 9:6 the Creator establishes the principle that “whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”
The unborn child is no exception to this sacred protection. The psalmist testifies, “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13–14).
The prophet Jeremiah records the divine word: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee” (Jeremiah 1:5). Even in the New Testament, the infant John the Baptist, still in the womb, leaped for joy at the presence of the unborn Christ (Luke 1:41–44). Job asks the searching question, “Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?” (Job 31:15).
To legalize the destruction of that life is to participate in a form of modern child sacrifice—an act historically associated with the worship of false gods and the influence of demonic powers that demand blood in exchange for power, convenience, or autonomy.
Deuteronomy 30:19 sets the choice before every generation: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Isaiah 59:7 describes the path of a people under judgment: “Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood.”
When a nation enshrines in law the right to destroy its own offspring, it does not merely commit a political error. It repudiates the Declaration’s affirmation that all men are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life. It abandons the moral premise upon which liberty itself rests. And it invites the consequences that Scripture associates with the shedding of innocent blood—consequences that no amount of technological sophistication or rhetorical evasion can indefinitely postpone.
This is not a peripheral issue. It is the decisive test of whether we still recognize the authority of the God who gives life, or whether we have transferred that authority to the will of the strong over the weak. A people that will not defend the most vulnerable among them has already begun to dissolve the bonds of justice that make ordered liberty possible.
The Enduring Evil of Communism
Communism is not merely an economic theory. It is a materialist religion that denies the Creator, elevates the state as god, and seeks the systematic destruction of the family, the church, and private property.
Karl Marx and his heirs declared war on heaven itself. The blood of more than one hundred million victims in the twentieth century testifies to the fruit of that ideology. Wherever it gains power, it abolishes the free proclamation of the Gospel, rewrites history, and trains children to regard the state as their true parent. Its modern heirs operate under softer names—progressivism, equity, democratic socialism—yet the goal remains the same: the concentration of power in the hands of an elite that answers to no higher law.
This ideology is demonic in its essence. It is the spirit of antichrist working through human systems to dethrone God and enslave man. Evangelical Christians who refuse to vote against this ideology effectively grant it room to advance.
The Challenge of Political Islam
Islam, in its classical and orthodox forms, is not a private faith compatible with constitutional liberty. For Islam divides the universe into two separate entities: Dar al-Islam (those who are fully submitted to Islam) and Dar al-Harb (those whom Islam is at war with until the day of judgment, including Jews and Christians). It is a comprehensive system of law, politics, and culture that claims universal jurisdiction.
Sharia and the Constitution cannot both be supreme. History records the pattern of conquest, dhimmitude, and the gradual erasure of Christian and Jewish communities under Islamic rule. The founders understood the difference between religious liberty and the importation of a political theology that rejects the very foundations of Western ordered freedom. Behind the geopolitical and demographic pressures lies a spiritual reality: a system that denies the deity of Christ and seeks the subjugation of all nations under a law hostile to the Gospel. To ignore the doctrinal and historical reality of political Islam is not charity. It is dereliction. A people that will not defend its own civilizational inheritance will lose it.
Luciferian Globalism and the War on Sovereignty
Behind the rhetoric of “global governance,” “sustainable development,” and “rules-based international order” lies an older ambition: the consolidation of power beyond the reach of any sovereign people or any higher moral law. This project is not merely technocratic. It is spiritual. It seeks to erase the nation-state that God established as a restraint on human ambition (Acts 17:26), to replace the authority of Scripture with the authority of international bodies, and to condition populations to accept management rather than self-government. The John Birch Society and like-minded patriots have long warned that this drive toward a managed planetary system is incompatible with the American constitutional order. It is luciferian in the precise sense that it seeks to dethrone the Lordship of Christ and enthrone human will as the highest authority—mirroring the original rebellion of the adversary who said, “I will be like the most High” (Isaiah 14:14). Christians who value national independence under God must treat every election as a defense of that independence.
The LGBTQ Revolution Against the Created Order
The LGBTQ movement is not a plea for tolerance. It is a demand for the public celebration of what God has declared disordered. Genesis 1:27 establishes the binary of male and female as the deliberate design of the Creator. Romans 1 describes the exchange of the natural for the unnatural as a mark of a society under judgment. The systematic indoctrination of children, the erasure of sex-based protections for women and girls, the redefinition of marriage, and the medicalization of gender-confused youth constitute a direct assault on the image of God in man. This rebellion is not merely cultural. It is demonic—an attempt to overturn the created order itself and to normalize what Scripture calls abomination.
A society that teaches its children to reject their own created nature is a society in open revolt against the God who made them.
The Black Robe Regiment, Revivalist Pastors, and the Founders’ Witness
In the American founding, the pulpits were not silent. The Black Robe Regiment—those colonial pastors who preached the doctrines of resistance to tyranny and the right of a free people under God—helped forge the moral consensus that made independence possible. They understood that civil liberty rests upon moral liberty, and that moral liberty rests upon the fear of God.
John Witherspoon, president of Princeton and signer of the Declaration of Independence, declared that “there is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire.” Jonathan Mayhew preached that resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Peter Muhlenberg famously removed his clerical robe in the pulpit to reveal the uniform of a Continental officer, calling his congregation to the defense of liberty as a Christian duty.
These revivalist pastors of the Revolutionary era did not separate the Gospel from the public square. They understood that the public square is either governed by the moral law or it becomes a theater of power without principle.
The founders spoke with equal clarity. John Adams wrote that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
George Washington, in his Farewell Address, declared religion and morality “indispensable supports” of political prosperity.
Benjamin Franklin, addressing the Constitutional Convention, asked: “How has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? … The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men.”
James Madison affirmed that “religion is the basis and foundation of government,” warning that without virtue sustained by religious principle, free government cannot endure.
Alexander Hamilton insisted that “the sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
These men did not envision a secularized public square stripped of moral restraint. They understood that liberty without the fear of God collapses into license, and license into tyranny.
Lincoln’s Clear-Eyed Warning
Abraham Lincoln, facing a nation divided over a moral evil of immense scale, spoke with clarity that still cuts. “If we do not do right,” he said, “God will let us go our own way to ruin.” He understood that nations, like individuals, stand under the judgment of a righteous God. The Civil War was, in his view, a terrible refining fire permitted because the nation had tolerated a great wrong.
Today the wrongs are different in form but similar in substance: the legalized destruction of innocent life through abortion, the corruption of the young, the abandonment of the created order, the advance of atheistic ideologies, and the progressive surrender of national sovereignty. Lincoln’s logic remains: a people that will not restrain evil through the lawful means available to it invites the judgment that follows moral collapse.
The Duty of the Hour
The upcoming election is not a contest of personalities alone. It is a test of whether the remnant still possesses the will to raise the standard. Perfect candidates will not appear this side of glory. The question is never perfection. The question is direction. Measure every candidate and every party by the fixed standard of Scripture: the protection of innocent human life from conception, the defense of the natural family, the preservation of parental authority, the maintenance of national borders and sovereignty, the rejection of ideologies that deny the created order, and the restraint of those who would place the state or global institutions above the moral law of God.
The principalities and powers that stand behind abortion, communism, political Islam, luciferian globalism, and the LGBTQ revolution will not yield to silence or private piety alone. They must be resisted in the realm of law and policy by citizens who understand that their citizenship on Earth is exercised under the higher citizenship of heaven.
Register. Inform yourself thoroughly. Speak with clarity and charity. Vote. Then continue to pray and to labor. The Lord of hosts has not abdicated His throne. He still raises up and casts down. He still honors those who honor Him. The standard of truth, once lifted high by the Black Robe Regiment, the revivalist pastors of the Revolution, and the founding generation, can be raised again—if the people who know the truth will refuse to lower it.
The time for private faith that never touches public duty is over. The time to raise the standard has come.
“If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”
— George Washington, Constitutional Convention (1787)
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Travis is a Berean student of Bible prophecy.