A lot is coming out in recent articles concerning our duty as Jesus followers to embrace the stranger and sojourner.  These trying to imply that Trump is not following the scripture including possibly John Piper are overlooking some very important aspects of God’s word.  Israel certainly was to treat these as they were instructed, but were they to bring in foreign gods, that was not to be tolerated.   Israel was a chosen nation not to become mixed with the outside world but to remain different.  If foreigners were not to want to assimilate they were not taken in.  

So, why do so many of us act as if we were the authority on Doctrine when Doctrine is Holy Spirit territory?   God the “Us”, who performed the creating in Genesis, reveals to us His Jesus (the Savior) and He is revealed as being God (One of The Us Who created us).  He did this early on in that First book that He  inspired Moses to write for all, who have ears to hear.   

Does the same God, who also inspired us from the cross with these words “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”, also mean for those His enemies to be forgiven and accepted just as they are, not having any contrition for their sinful and unjust propensity for sin.  Or is He the same God, Who loves Justice and hates injustice, and who searches for those contrite of heart?  Is it not necessary for Doctrine to be true to both of these attributes of God, which are only two of His unnumbered many?  We know that there is His Grace, Mercy and forgiveness on the one hand; and on the other His judgment and wrath.  Is it not necessary for these truths to have the Holy Spirits discernment in order to see His intent as He leads us. 

So how then are we to see this present political climate wherein the freedom to choose or not to choose, both, God’s Grace and His Justice must certainly be ours to discern?

I have heard very respected Christian leaders say that we need to tamp down the rhetoric and most of all not seek revenge; for vengeance is mine saith the Lord.  But can vengeance be confused with justice, and if so can justice be overlooked, which is God’s desire for us to take up as our charge from Him?  So herein is the real question.  Does God use Nations and leaders to enact His Justice?  Certainly He has and He does.  So my next question is: If Trump and his former Administration was unlawfully and unjustly prosecuted; (this then must be provable in court).  His own charges resulted in no upheld conviction that could stand the scrutiny of our laws, but if these things done to His administration were done; then because “no one is above the law”;  so, if things were done by those who were actually breaking laws in their attempts to accomplish their efforts; then is it not just and lawful to prosecute those, who in so attempting did, in fact, themselves break the law, with their unjust actions?

If we as Christians think that we are properly representing God by only offering Mercy and forgiveness for even those, who do it seemingly as being without any knowledge that we serve a God who also is Justice loving. For this God will exercise wrath in order to attempt to restore man’s respect for His justice as well as His exercising of love to show forth His love.  

Judgment and even wrath can lead to repentance and repentance leads to His forgiveness. Our understanding of His justice must have its reliance squarely upon His word.  We cannot afford as His Church to see Jesus only in His willingness to Forgive from the cross; but we must also see Him as He forms with His own hands (the hands of God) a whip and then proceeds to drive out the money changers from the Temple.  Without this His former action; then His message to us from the cross would be that not only has He paid for the sins of the whole world, but that He has also forgiven them all no matter what individual men’s response might be.   But this is not what His Word tells us.  

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (KJV)

If men who’s deeds are evil are continually allowed to rule without the consequence of the law; then we must conclude that God’s intent is not correct when it instructs us to pray for our leaders that we might live godly lives in peace.  (1 Tim  2:1-2)