Mr
Bryan Fischer on his AFR show Focal Point (20 Aug. 2019) turned a statement
of Pres Lincoln’s from his 2nd Inaugural Address into a prophetic
utterance that must in no wise be challenged, namely that God used the War of
Northern Aggression to atone for the sin of slavery, that ‘every drop of blood
drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword’ (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln2.asp).
This
is a dangerous game to play, ‘for who hath known the mind of the Lord?’ (Rom.
11:34) Yet it is typical of the faithful
of the religion of Americanism to engage in such prideful behavior since they
believe themselves the choicest of all the peoples of the earth and of all the ages
thereof. They believe they do know the
deep things of God.
Tell
us, then, Mr Fischer, Dinesh D’Souza, and Victor Davis Hanson, what cataclysm
befell the States, Spain, Portugal, and other colonizers of North and South America
for the suffering and bloodshed they visited upon the Native Americans, since
you know the counsel of God? Their numbers
of dead far surpass the number of Africans who were caught up in the slave
trade:
Did
God not care as much about the ‘red man’ as He did the ‘black man’ and so leave
his persecutors unpunished? Tell us,
since you know.
Tell
us Richard Land, Sen Cruz, and Rich Lowry, shouldn’t Haiti be a land blessed by
God since the slaves there waged war to overturn slavery?
Why
is she still suffering so badly today if she fought for such a righteous cause
as freedom? Tell us, since you know.
This
is madness. More often than not, our answer
to such things must be that we simply don’t know why certain things happen the
way they do. We have to recall the tway-speech
between the Lord Jesus and His disciples:
[1] And as Jesus
passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
[2] And his
disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents,
that he was born blind?
[3] Jesus answered,
Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should
be made manifest in him.
--Gospel of St John 9:1-3,
KJV, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=4760421
Our
spiritual sight is like the disciples’ at that time, not being able to grasp
the depth of the Providence of God.
Likewise
remember the plague that killed 70,000 men because of King David’s sin in
counting the people (II Samuel 24). A
simple passer-by could very easily have assumed that those 70,000 were guilty
of some transgression and were killed by God as a righteous punishment. But that was not the case; it was because of
one man’s sin that they died.
So
it is not a wise thing to say with certainty like Pres Lincoln, Mr Fischer, and
their fellow travelers that 620,000 died to atone for slavery. As the passages from the Holy Scriptures
above show, the darkness of our hearts blinds us to the true causes of
things.
It
is just as likely that the War came on as a result of both sections setting up
idols: the North to abstract human
rights, the South to dead pieces of parchment and ink. And, therefore, because of their apostasy, God
handed them over to the demons, who stirred up their passions to such a degree
that they fell to slaughtering one another.
But,
again, all such conjectures must be handled with caution unless and until a
true holy prophet comes forward to disclose what God’s reasoning was in
allowing certain events to come about.
May
God grant us all humility and restraint in the claims we make, especially those
which we make in His Name.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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