There is a verse being thrown around the blogsophere concerning President Obama. No, not the silliness about the President’s name in super secret Aramaic, but this one:
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
(Psa 109:8-13 KJV)
Like this one for instance. A quick search on Google Blogs will reveal a whole list of those bloggers praying this prayer over the President. Verse 8 has also been turned into a bumper sticker. Really? You might read here as well.
Do they realize what this Psalm is actually calling for right?
November 17th, 2009 3:17 pm
No, they don’t know.
Nor do they care. They think it’s cute to play with the Bible for political purposes.
November 17th, 2009 3:19 pm
Yeah, but Wickle, what if they, or even some of them, do realize what they are really saying?
November 18th, 2009 2:22 pm
I take it back, by the way … I’ve read a few of these, from people who now defend themselves saying that it’s a joke.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think that murder and perverse readings of Scripture are funny.
November 18th, 2009 2:54 pm
No take backs, Wickle.
WE know which side YOU are on… and WE are watching YOU
November 17th, 2009 4:35 pm
Idiots and their use of Scripture are without end.
November 17th, 2009 5:50 pm
Impreccatory prayer is what I think that they call what these hate filled folks are doing. Townhall.com columnist and seminary graduate Doug Giles is really big into this. Also disgraced, defrocked, tried and convicted professional malcontent former Navy Chaplain Gordon “Chaps” Kingenschmitt, the head of the Klingenban is really big into this too. Somehow is seems that they only believe that government is ordered by God when it is someone that they like.
November 18th, 2009 10:52 am
I’m just glad to echo the psalmist:
”With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.“
(Psalms 109:30–31 NRSV)
November 18th, 2009 11:43 am
Um, I guess that missed that section! Thanks for the reminder.
November 18th, 2009 4:14 pm
Great question sir. I have been catching some heat myself lately due to my opposition to what seems to be the “evangelical” stance against any policy that is put forward by Obama. While I myself am on the fence regarding if Obama is a blessing or a judgment on this country, I find no scripture that gives me Christian liberty to bash, rally against, or pray for the demise of this current leader. I would love to hear your comments on these two postings:
http://thispilgrimland.blogspot.com/2009/11/not-ordained.html
&
http://thispilgrimland.blogspot.com/2009/11/mind-controlled.html
November 19th, 2009 12:58 am
My two cents — it’s quite unlikely that any of us are a complete ‘blessing’ or ‘judgment’ on the people around us (family, community or country), as sooner or later we’re bound to offend at some level. So isn’t it unrealistic to expect to see a person, much less a leader who has to think of the greater good, be *either* a blessing *or* a judgment?
Since God, in His mystery, listens to us, why not pray with persistence that Obama will be a blessing to the nation, and indeed the rest of the world?
November 19th, 2009 10:18 am
B Tan, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. I am finding that those who consistently pray against the President are themselves becoming a curse to this country.
November 19th, 2009 10:40 am
Part of the problem, as I think about it, is profound historical ignorance. People think that Pres. Obama is somehow the worst leader the world has ever seen … not realizing, perhaps, that Paul wrote about the need to honor civic leaders while NERO, of all people, was emperor in Rome.
Another part is that people just plain don’t read their Bibles, and don’t realize that we are supposed to pray for our leaders, whether we like them or not. Instead, people have been fed a load of “worldview” lessons and they’ve been taught about what’s sold as Biblical principles … not the Bible. From that position, a person becomes an enemy because he’s not pro-life or anti-gay enough. (“Pro-life,” of course, meaning anti-abortion, not having anything to do with feeding the poor, caring for the sick, or not killing foreigners and convicts.)