Corruption, just like stock markets, "word of mouth" IPOs and other "get it and get it now" investments, all exhibit a frothy, churning top before their ultimate collapse.
Political corruption is just another path to riches pursued by the godless and lawless. It's why greed – wanting more than you need to go through life – has always been known as one of the seven deadly sins. These behaviors are deadly because they destroy the soul and spirit to satisfy the lusts of the body, which will anyway die at its appointed time.
But greed destroys others as well. The Epi-pen scandal, where a company carefully carved out a monopoly with regulators for a simple product costing almost nothing to manufacture, is the poster child right now. Greed is the reason for a 600-percent-plus price increase on a product that had been producing a handsome rate of return for its investors for years. Now greed will cost patients who can't afford the pen their lives. But today that is deemed an acceptable cost by greed's adherents.
Greed in government
The wall of corruption surrounding the Clintons and their pay-for-access sales of our government is another. The Clintons have been selling the United States government since Bill was president and enabled the sale of U.S. missile technology to China.
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Members of both political parties in America can be bought for a pittance: crumbs from the tables of the rich and famous. It's so easy to sell another piece of America to put more money in your own pocket. It's not like you had achieved anything in life or had anything to offer the rest of us. You just sold something that had been entrusted to you for safe keeping.
The political left most often falls prey to corruption because its voters support corruption if that is the price of advancing their agenda. These voters are easily bought – even more so than the "leaders" they elect. Throw in a little anti-Christian rhetoric, twist degeneracy and human failure into a virtue, then point out how it has been suppressed for the benefit of society – and the votes fly off the shelves at election time.
The role of Christians: salt and light
Is America experiencing its high-water mark in corruption? That depends on you, doesn't it? If you believe that the rule of law makes life better for everyone in America, are you going to vote for a candidate who has used her legal education to enrich herself by flaunting the law from her earliest days of public life? Salt preserves, and light exposes.
If you are a Christian, are you going to vote only if there is an evangelical candidate, and if not then to hell with it? Do you imagine that God has somehow throughout history confined himself to using only those who have lived pious lives within the church walls to change the world? Do you not understand that because of America's policies millions upon millions of Christians worldwide are being murdered and persecuted for their faith, while America admits primarily within her borders those Islamist enemies who are murdering these Christians? Do you somehow think that God intends to sacrifice an entire generation to preserve our personal piety?
The civic responsibilities of a citizen in a prosperous nation governed by the rule of law and by freely elected leaders are not onerous or difficult. He hasn't asked you to kill abortion doctors, or to preach to homosexuals that they are going to hell for their lifestyle. Both those behaviors are anyway futile in our culture. All God asks is that when he gives you two imperfect choices, you make the choice that best advances His kingdom here on earth. Right now, that kingdom is the church. Ultimately, it will be the entire world; but not yet.
Has your memory of history dimmed so deeply into the twilight that you have forgotten how many millions of people worldwide sacrificed their lives at a young age to preserve our God-given freedom to build a better world at the ballot box without resorting to the battlefield?
Then why would you scorn the choice He has offered? God has, in His infinite wisdom, set two choices before this nation this year. He's even simplified the choice for Christians down to this: Which of the two candidates is going to make life better for His church in this world?
What in the world is God doing?
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