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There are many assertions going around about the US government seizing control of us all someday and putting us in camps and such. Often these theories are backed up by pointing to executive orders that grant the Federal Government major power during an emergency and crisis situation. Then these are all weaved in to an even greater end times theology scenario. Often this all ends up creating a sense of panic and despair for Christians.
I want to debunk, and de-despair, what I view as an incorrect interpretation of "stuff".
First of all, emergency powers to the federal government is nothing new. Sometimes our government needs to take control during a major war or emergency. The constitution is not a suicide pact, and sometimes the government needs to be given power. In fact doing such is nothing new.
During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and even had a general who burned down entire cities. If our end of the worlders had lived back then, they would have viewed such control as a sure sign the end was near.
During WW2, the government took over factories and used other extreme measures of "control". Again if our end of the worlders had been around then, they'd have said the end is near.
The point is, is that sometimes the government needs emergency power. All these executive orders are meant for extreme situations.
Also, if the government was going to plan some takeover to control us all, they wouldn't need a decades long paper trail of public executive orders to do it. If someone is that bent on "control" chances are they're gonna do it regardless of a decades long paper trail of executive orders.
But for a moment, let's say these people are totally correct. Let's say they're correct that this is all a sign of "the end".
Even if these are a sign of the end, Christians shouldn't be filled with despair, doom and gloom. We shouldn't become bogged down in the minutia of all the details of the coming "take over".
Rather we should proclaim, "Come quickly lord Jesus!": With a sense of hope. We shouldn't be filled with gloom and doom as we fill our minds with an obsession over the minutia of the coming take over.
I want to debunk, and de-despair, what I view as an incorrect interpretation of "stuff".
First of all, emergency powers to the federal government is nothing new. Sometimes our government needs to take control during a major war or emergency. The constitution is not a suicide pact, and sometimes the government needs to be given power. In fact doing such is nothing new.
During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and even had a general who burned down entire cities. If our end of the worlders had lived back then, they would have viewed such control as a sure sign the end was near.
During WW2, the government took over factories and used other extreme measures of "control". Again if our end of the worlders had been around then, they'd have said the end is near.
The point is, is that sometimes the government needs emergency power. All these executive orders are meant for extreme situations.
Also, if the government was going to plan some takeover to control us all, they wouldn't need a decades long paper trail of public executive orders to do it. If someone is that bent on "control" chances are they're gonna do it regardless of a decades long paper trail of executive orders.
But for a moment, let's say these people are totally correct. Let's say they're correct that this is all a sign of "the end".
Even if these are a sign of the end, Christians shouldn't be filled with despair, doom and gloom. We shouldn't become bogged down in the minutia of all the details of the coming "take over".
Rather we should proclaim, "Come quickly lord Jesus!": With a sense of hope. We shouldn't be filled with gloom and doom as we fill our minds with an obsession over the minutia of the coming take over.