“Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.”  (Psalm 69)

“Let them be blotted out of the book of the living…”  (Psalm 69)

“Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.”  (Jeremiah 14)

 

Reader, I have seen God do somethings that would surprise many, especially those who are all about, “God is love.”  C.S. Lewis commenting on this type of believer said, “Love is not God.”  There must be a balanced view of God. Certainly God is love to those He loves, but Scripture is clear God also hates who and what He hates, Lucifer/(s)atan, Sin, demons, Esau and his descendents called Edomites, all workers of iniquity, The seven (7) things God hates in Proverbs, and the Nicolatians.

There must be an understanding of God’s attributes that balance Him and make Him God. God Is Holy and Righteous and therefore, He is also Just, and Angry. God is Merciful and God has wrath and fury and is a Consuming Fire.

Returning to what I have seen God do.  Years ago, we were part of a church that met in a store front.  This church saved money and had an opportunity to move into a very nice building. Everything seemed to be going well until one (1) man on the City Council blocked us. The church went back and forth with this city council for a little while until this one (1) man dropped dead.

I know a Christ-ian who was verbally assaulted by a drunk in a convenience store.  The Christ-ian identified himself as a Christ-ian after the drunk said, “You better pray to Jesus because I’m about to —- you up.  This drunk started flexing his muscles and even said to this Christ-ian’s children, their father was a —-h.  The Christ-ian had enough and was about to knock this guy out until the guy up and left.  The Christ-ian man went back to the convenience store the day after and apologized for the altercation.  The clerk then told the Christ-ian that the drunk drove down the street to a gas station and before he could get out of his car, he dropped dead.

We have seen other persons, who were very militant against the faith, put in their place by health issues and other life changing events.  Reader, Christ was not joking when He said, God would avenge His elect quickly.

Why am I writing about this topic in this article? A few reasons, one (1) being a young woman died recently. This young woman died after being in the hospital for six (6) days. She was hospitalized because she had acid thrown all over her. She had acid thrown all over her because she refused to marry a (m)uslim and convert to the cult of death. It is Biblical to ask God to reward this dirty muslim animal according to his wickedness. The second (2nd) reason we are writing upon this subject is because in California, there is a bill floating around that would ban the Bible in that state.

This bill would lead to the suppression of the Christ-ian witness.  The bill is being pushed by the demon-c-rat-ic governor, Jerry Brown. He said the Bible is anti- gay and therefore is a form of hate speech. If one follows this bill to it’s logical end churches would be closed, those counseling persons out of the gay lifestyle would be criminally chargeable, as would be anything that is anti-gay agenda, even two (2) persons at lunch discussing the gay agenda in a negative way.  Reader, I am not paranoid, nor am I having a knee jerk reaction.

All of this has been foretold by the Prophets, by Christ, and by His Apostles. To think this is not going to happen is to doubt the veracity and validity of the Scriptures.

Reader, I am doubtful or I am hopeful that this bill will fail. However, the very fact that this bill has come this far should be sobering to all Christ-ians.

Having written all of the above, I would now write about imprecatory prayer. What is imprecatory prayer? It is the praying against someone or something, it is petitioning God to curse or stop someone or something. David, in the Psalms, prayed many imprecatory prayers.

I will not be dogmatic on this next point, but I do believe it to be Scripturally sound. The imprecatory prayers of David in Psalm sixty-nine (69) were prophetical of what our Lord Jesus would be praying as He was nailed to the Cross. When He asked His Father to forgive them because they knew not what they were doing, He was praying for the soldiers that nailed Him to your Cross and mine only. However, for the enemies of God, He was invoking Psalm sixty-nine (69). Read this Psalm for your self.

Christ-ian reader, I believe it is Biblical to pray against Governor Jerry Brown. I’m not saying pray for his death.  All I am suggesting is we, as the people of God pray not for this man but against this man and his active assault upon God’s Word and God Himself.

A word to those of you that find this type of prayer uncomfortable.  In Romans eight (8), we are told the Spirit of God cleans up our prayers and only takes those prayers that would be according to God’s will to the Father. Therefore, if it is not God’s will that you and I pray against this man and his active assault upon God and God’s Word, the Spirit will not take it to Him anyway.

Paul asked God to reward his enemies according to their evil works. Paul also prayed that God would “cut off” the men that were trying to hurt his ministry and those that came to faith through his ministry. Paul also said, let those that love not God be damned. Peter wrote about many of the persons we are seeing today, he said they have no respect for government, they speak about issues they understand not, and then he says they are like brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed.

Reader, one’s heart is not right if one pleasures in the imprecatory prayer and at the same time one’s heart is not right if one does not have a sense of righteous indignation and then acts upon this indignation in the form of talking with God. One can pray against a movement or an agenda and still love the persons caught up in it. One can pray against Jerry Brown and ask God to stop him and still be willing to give him a glass of water in the Name of Christ.