By Pastor Doug Cox

I heard several people say how relieved they felt once the inauguration ceremony for President Trump and Vice President Vance was over. You see the voice of the people had spoken through a landslide election and in the past once an election was over, everyone rested easy. But this year was different, mainly because there had already been two assassination attempts on then candidate Trump’s life, and many wondered if there would be another on the President elect. Thankfully no more bullets whizzed through the air and the oath of office was administered and many in the nation, including myself, breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Once that happened I wish we could say like Porky Pig at the end of a cartoon: ”Th…th…that’s all folks.” I wish we could get back to the way life used to be but doing that I’m afraid would be folly. Instead, we must now, after breathing a sigh of relief, take in a breath of resolve. A resolve to continue every day with much needed, fervent prayers and intercession for our president and our country. And I’m saying that not to be dramatic but because I believe it is true. I believe the battle for the soul of America is on the line.

I say that because as I watched the oath of office being given, I sensed intense spiritual warfare taking place. I thought it was very disrespectful that Justice Roberts failed to allow the Trump family time to gather around President Trump before he started to recite the oath. He failed to introduce Melania and did not give her time to bring the Bibles forward for the oath. Whether this was a simple oversight or an intentional one I don’t know, but to me it was a sign that there is a great resistance in high places against the Bible, the new President and the common sense ‘America first’ policies he brings.

This resistance is nothing new. It goes all the way back to Babel. According to Josephus the Jewish historian, the tower of Babel was Nimrod’s answer to God’s judgement. He thought, if God ever decided to flood the world again, he could survive on the top it, so Nimrod made everybody in town bake bricks to build the tower or he would kill them. Nimrod was defiant against God and oppressive over man. Sound familiar?

His was the first attempt at a one world government after the flood. The population of the world was gathered in the plains of Shinar, with one language just waiting to be exploited by Nimrod who wanted to control them. Instead of going into the world to replenish it after the flood they became citified. Thankfully God stepped in and confused their language, and the people were scattered into the world with different language groups.

Since then, many attempts have been made to have one world government. Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the great, Ceasars, Mussolini and Hitler, to name a few. They all tried and failed yet their anti-god, antichrist spirit is still working today. So, because of that, instead of us getting a pass from God to sit around and do nothing while the world heads into darkness we have the responsibility as followers of Christ to do our best to live for Him. While waiting we are to pray for His Kingdom to come and His will to done on the earth. Jesus tells us in Luke 19:13 we are to “Occupy until He comes.” He also posed a question saying “…when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 1:8) As far as we are concerned, let our answer to both questions be “yes Lord.” Yes Lord you will find faith in us and yes Lord we will occupy.