The Truth Behind Biden's COGIC Church Visit

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President Joe Biden was asked about dropping out of the presidential race.

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He said he wouldn't do it unless he heard from the Lord Almighty.

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It was an unprecedented acknowledgement of God in the political discourse.

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Hello everyone.

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I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to this special edition of the Strang Report

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podcast.

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Even though I've written several books on Donald Trump and cultural trends, I've

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said very little in this election season. But when President Biden invoked the name

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of the Lord Almighty, I felt it was time to speak up.

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Right now in early July 2024, as the media and many Democrats are saying that

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Biden should drop out of the race after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump

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on June 27th, it's worth examining this question.

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Where is God in all this?

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And also discussing how Biden is using God and the Christian community as he

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digs in his heels, saying he won't drop out of the race.

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Many will watch this podcast much later and will know how this shakes out.

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But right now in early July, we don't know.

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However, the media is full of calls from some Democrats for Biden to resign from

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the race while the president and his family are digging in their heels.

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Saying he's in it to win it.

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And he also has enough delegates to carry the day.

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It's his decision to make.

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The media rarely examine events in the light of what the Bible says or what God

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is saying.

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So this podcast is focused on giving the Christian perspective to the news.

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It's interesting that when President Biden has his back against the wall, he

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invokes the name of the Almighty.

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He isn't known to be a religious man.

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He uses foul language.

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His policies are anything but biblical.

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But he's a lifelong Catholic.

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And over the years, he says that that makes him religious.

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Interestingly, Bill O'Reilly, also a Catholic, in a commentary said that

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Biden's stand on abortion, which goes up almost until the time of birth, is so

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bad that Biden had better not want to meet his maker anytime soon.

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Now, I know that most of my listeners and viewers probably see the current

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upside down world like I do, where right is called wrong and wrong is called

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right.

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When we articulate biblical stances, especially on things like gay rights and

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abortion, but also many other issues, we're ridiculed and speaking out against

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them is even called hate speech by some.

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There are many other reasons not to back Biden, partly because his policy is

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those of the extreme left and many of his policies have been utter failures

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like inflation, the economy, people coming across the southern border,

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where he's out of control.

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Yet the media love him.

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They defend him.

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But at the same time, they hate Donald Trump and they pick apart anything that

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Trump does.

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It seems to me that Biden actually gets a free pass when it comes to some

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things that are really very terrible and need to be investigated by the press.

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Things like getting bribes that are portrayed as a payment to a son or a

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loan from countries like the Ukraine or even our enemies like China.

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And when it comes to a son, Hunter, they ignore the horrible evidence on his

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famous laptop.

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I'll share my views and give my endorsement to Donald Trump in another

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episode.

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I've written about Trump and I've posed some of the questions raised by many

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Christian leaders that ask, did God actually raise him up?

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Did God raise up such an imperfect leader like he often did throughout the Bible

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to lead this nation at a critical time?

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I believe that he did.

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And I make that argument in the book God and Donald Trump.

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At the time he was running against Hillary Clinton, who I consider to be

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one of the most corrupt politicians in recent American history.

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But here was the story.

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There were prophets, and I go into it in the book, who prophesied that Trump

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would win two terms.

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And Trump did win in 2016 against all odds.

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But he lost his second bid for office in 2020.

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He said that he thought the election was stolen.

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And that if you say that, that's almost enough to get you canceled nowadays.

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Yet just the fact that so many people feel that that's a possibility is

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something that should be investigated.

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It should be examined.

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Interestingly, the Democrats have tried to litigate against Trump over charges

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of election interference.

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They said that he incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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They call it an insurrection.

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Actually, I believe that those people who are upset about what was going on in the

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country were exercising their constitutional right to petition the

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government for redress of grievances.

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Unfortunately, the thing got out of control.

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If that's not enough, they have tried to defeat Trump in the courtroom since

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they must believe they can't defeat him at the ballot box.

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There have been seven frivolous lawsuits that would have never been brought

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against anyone else.

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The charges could have been brought years ago, but weren't because the

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statute of limitations had run or because investigators looked at them and

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said it was a nothing burger.

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One of them, where the statute of limitations had run, was resurrected by

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If Trump had quietly retired and enjoyed the life of a billionaire and gone away,

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none of this would have happened.

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You know, it's really very serious, much more serious than just this election

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because what's happening with what they now call lawfare, that's warfare using

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the law, is what they do in third world countries where leaders on one side

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will bring charges and jail their opponents.

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It's never happened before in U.S.

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history.

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And it was so serious that it actually had to go to the Supreme Court, which

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basically ruled in Trump's favor.

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Yet the left, who did the things to Trump, which caused it to go to the

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Supreme Court, are saying that the Supreme Court has given Trump the

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ability to go after his political opponents.

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And I think he should because they're the ones that started this and it's

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almost like nuclear war.

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There has to be mutual assured destruction to keep it from happening

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again.

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If the conservatives don't stand up to this, it's going to become the new

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normal.

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Now, I think that the Republicans and Donald Trump need to exercise

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restraint.

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They need to be careful and not just be vindictive, but what has happened is

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wrong.

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They're concerned that he'll go after his political foes.

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The irony is that they're projecting onto Trump what they have already done.

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So where is God in all this?

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The secular community, especially the press, can't understand how faith can

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mix with politics.

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Years ago, during the Clinton administration, the Orlando Sentinel

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asked me to write a commentary on how I could justify using my religious

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beliefs to determine who I voted for as if there was somehow something wrong

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with that.

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I remember writing that my faith determines everything that's important

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in my life, such as where I live or who I'm married, what kind of work I do,

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who my friends are, and so forth.

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So why wouldn't my faith also determine who I vote for?

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And I'm sure that many of you feel the same way.

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I've covered politics for my early days as a journalist.

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Charisma magazine has endorsed a candidate for president every election

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cycle since Ronald Reagan ran in 1984.

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I've interviewed four U.S. presidents.

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I've written several books about Donald Trump trying to deal with some of these

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same spiritual aspects.

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Now, let me make clear that often elections are constantly changing the

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world. Let me make clear that often elections are come down to the lesser

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of two evils.

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In 2016, Trump, for all his weaknesses and quirks, and there were many, was so

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much better than the alternative Hillary Clinton.

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Remember the corruption of her destroying 30,000 emails that had been

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subpoenaed by Congress or the influence peddling through the Clinton Foundation?

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Those things are well known.

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Later, her campaign paid several million dollars for the Russian election hoax.

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Yet virtually nothing was done against her.

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Compare that to how the left and the Democrats have gone after Trump over what

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some people have called a bookkeeping entry that was central to the New York

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case or another case had to do with how he evaluated the value of real estate

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and getting a loan.

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The loan was repaid.

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No one was hurt.

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The lender said they'd do it again.

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Yet somehow he exaggerated the value and that was somehow illegal.

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To me, the hypocrisy is staggering.

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Yet here we are, barely four months from the election, and it looks as if

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Biden may not even make it on the ballot to oppose Donald Trump.

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Even though Biden as president is the head of the Democratic Party and he

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has the nomination sewn up, he has more than double the number of delegates he

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needs.

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Yet due to his blenders and his declining cognitive ability, this is

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becoming a referendum on him and his ability to serve, not even how bad his

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policies are or how bad his performance has been.

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Ironically, part of the strategy by the Democrats was to indict Trump and to

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make this election a referendum on him, yet that has boomeranged and is

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becoming a referendum on Biden.

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From where I sit, I believe that the things that they meant for evil are

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coming back to hit them.

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I believe that God is answering our prayers.

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I believe that he's moving out one of the worst presidents in American

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history who has gone along with the far left radical agenda far more than

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any of his predecessors like Obama or Clinton did.

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And I believe that that agenda is not only anti-American, but anti-God.

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Then this past Sunday, Biden showed up at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ

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in Philadelphia to a very warm welcome from that predominantly Black

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congregation.

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In a way, I'm glad that he went to a Pentecostal church.

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I know the Church of God in Christ denomination very well, but I'm

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disappointed that such a great holiness denomination with a strong

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stance against sin like abortion and gay rights would support a party and a

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president whose policies and values are so opposed to everything the Bible

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states.

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I'm very disappointed that the Church of God has been so generous with

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the leadership of the people of the United States.

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I'm very disappointed that the Church of God has been so generous with the

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people of the United States and so opposed to everything the Bible stands

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for.

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Now, there's so much more that could be said, but I've tried to make the point

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that God does have a plan and purpose for America.

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I believe that God has a plan and purpose.

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I believe that God has a will for this election.

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We all need to pray that God's will will be done.

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I believe that he answered our prayers in 2016 and, of course, many times

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in 2016 where we felt that the country was really headed in a wrong way,

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particularly if Hillary Clinton had been elected.

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Yet God raised up an unlikely person, someone never elected before.

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First time in American history that a president had never served in public

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life or been a general, yet God raised up Donald Trump.

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So let's pray that God will have his will be done.

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Also, I encourage you to stay on top of what's happening.

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You don't get a biblical perspective very often, so tune into what we write at

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Charisma News and Charisma Online.

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Tune into my podcast where I'm going to deal with this more and more.

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I believe that Trump was a good president.

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He stood for religious freedom.

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He moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem like he said he would.

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He nominated Supreme Court justices as he said he would.

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It's the reason why Roe v. Wade was overturned.

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I believe that we need him back.

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So let's pray that he be elected again and get involved, share this with friends,

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