Change

"The is year 2067,and the United States of America no longer exists.

In Washington D.C., the Constitution has been discarded, and the president has declared herself Queen. She begins persecuting her opponents-mainly Christians-who oppose abortion rights, secular education, homosexual marriage, and government control of religion.  The queen establishes the worship of "JesAllaYahBuddKrish" (JAYBuk for short) as the official religion of what is now called "Red America" with centers of worship at the National Cathedral in Washington and at St. John the Divine in New York City. It is widely rumored that the queen is insane and that she runs around the White House frothing at the mouth in an eighteenth century sleeping gown.

Not all Americans-if we can still call them that- go along with these changes. Some have banded together in northern Idaho, working out plans to restore the Constitution, decentralize power, and get things back to the ancient, happy, sane days of 2012. Some groups in Idaho begin stockpiling weapons to launch an assault on Washington. Other former Americans have fled to the South Sea Islands. Several thousand climb up into the Rockies around Colorado Springs. They think of themselves as the "true America", and begin to plan for the future, knowing that they can never go back to the old America.

If this happened, where would you be? Would you be among the people wanting to go back to the old ways? Would you go along with the Red America? Would you be in the Rockies planning for a new America? Suppose your group took over the U.S. How would you act then? Would you attack and destroy all the other Americans? Would you try to win them over to your side? How?

You may have to make decisions like this. But you are faced with changing circumstances all the time, and you have to decide how to react to them. We need to gain wisdom from Scripture about how respond to such changes. Do we accept all changes? Do we try to 'Turn Back The Clock'? Do we try to take advantage of these changes that take place? How are we to do this? "

~ Omnibus I: First and Second Samuel (67)



Read First and Second Samuel.