The House of Representatives voted to impeach the President. This time for “high crimes and misdemeanors” and stating that the 14^thAmendment prohibits a person from holding office who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the US. The Articles of impeachment further outlined that the President “engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”

It can be debated whether the President incited violence. Those on the President’s side, who know the meaning of words, can legitimately say he did not incite violence, and the handful who did the violence made their own decisions. Those opposing him argue his remarks were a dog whistle.

The political party in control of the House is trying to ensure that Donald Trump never runs for or holds office again. The words insurrection and rebellion do not describe what occurred on January 6.

Insurrection is defined as: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.

Rebellion is defined as: open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government.

A handful of people, unarmed, is hardly an insurrection or rebellion. But the victor writes the history and solidifies the narrative.

Conservatism and Trump will long carry the black mark from this unpeaceful assembly and lawless act by a small group of undiscerning rioters—no matter the facts on who instigated, facilitated or directed it. This is insurrection and rebellion redefined as a grave warning.

Consider the past five years of facts that don’t seem to matter:

• The Democratic Party and its leadership paid for a false dossier on Donald Trump;
• used the false dossier to get a warrant to spy on his campaign;
• conducted a highly visible and media-charged investigation on Russian collusion that found nothing;
• put people associated with Trump in jail;
• repeated the investigative narrative about a non-existent quid pro quo call with the Ukrainian President;
• impeached Trump on baseless charges resulting from the aforementioned;
• relentlessly pursued disrupting and obstructing most everything of his administration’s actions;
• and somehow won an election amid a mountain of election fraud evidence that was systematically suppressed by the mainstream media.

Does any of this sound like insurrection?

The impeachment is perhaps symbolic of socialist regimes. When socialist regimes take over a country, they usually have kangaroo tribunals resulting in execution of the opposition. With this impeachment, the President was politically executed.

It also sends a strong message to all that those in power are politically intolerant of those who dissent or disagree, already evidenced by the coordinated censorship and cancelling of diverse opinion. On one hand, they call for healing. On the other, some 74 million citizens are held in contempt because of their support for Trump.

Don’t believe me?

Read what they are saying. I wish it wasn’t true. It’s not fair. It’s not American.

Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.”

Lord, show us your way.

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Many say that the Constitutional Republic of the US is over if Republicans do not hold the presidency and Senate. It looks as though, by those standards, it is over. But let us not forget that the Constitution remains intact, its precepts enforceable. Let us also remember that God is our witness; that Christ is our salvation; that the Holy Spirit is our comforter and guide.

The Republic should not define you. In fact, you should define the Republic. And that, my brothers and sisters, is the reason we are faced today with historic consequences of a revolutionary complacency. We are looking for solutions, but there are no solutions in politics, only compromise. And compromise is so systemic that it is as an evil upon our land.

Over the past 19 years, I have grown to know many Daily Jot subscribers very well. You are the active ones. You are, as Christ said in Matthew 5:13-14, “the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.”

You have written letters. You have made phone calls. You have attended prayer meetings and prayer conference calls. You pray unceasingly. You speak truth wherever and whenever the opportunity. Still, with all this, the Republic is crumbling. And we look for many reasons—the legality of abortion, the killing of the unborn; the acceptance of same sex marriage; the censorship of God in the public square; the abomination of the dishonest scale—which is found in politics, elections, government, the church, entertainment, and business dealings.

But these are not things that you practice. In fact, much of this you and I do not have any control over. We are at our wits end because all of our prayer and acts seem to come to little. Well, it is time to become more strategic. I have written for a long time that the condition of our nation reflects the condition of the “church.” So long as the “church” in general is focused on extra-biblical, emotional and self-indulgent feel-good religion, this nation and the world for that matter, will continue on its path into darkness.

No doubt, the prophecies of the end time foretell this darkness as Christ said in Matthew 24:38, “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until that day Noah entered into the ark.”

We cannot be defined by two seats in the Senate and the Presidency. You see, as is written in 1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people: that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”

We are the nation. There is a 70% majority of Christians in this nation. Trouble is, most do not even understand what it is to be a Christian because they haven’t heard the Word of God. When it comes down to the future of our nation being held by two Senate seats and the Presidency, we are holding onto the Republic by a thin-threaded rope. We need more than that. Be encouraged that you are the light in this present darkness and let that light shine. Hold accountability, especially with the “church.”

Overcome evil with good. Christ showed us how.

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