You hear a lot today about political polls. Elected officials are perpetually running for office. It might be 4 years until the next election, but everything counts and to screw up at one point and the media will ride it until the public loses interest.
But since the beginning, leaders have always been in the hot seat and pressure causes people to do strange things, like lie, or stretch the truth a bit. Even other prophets who profit (hmm, didn't mean the word play) from making leaders feel good about their decisions by proclaiming that God is on the side of these leaders who "who cry 'Peace' when they have something to eat, but declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths." (v. 5) Yeah, we do have some sketchy leaders in the U.S., but not nearly this bad. Can you imagine if a politician openly went to war against the poor and homeless in America? Our world is not without this sort of injustice, take a look at what is happening in Sudan and Darfur. Where are the prophets in those places?
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WE are blessed to be a blessing, but too often keep to ourselves and our problems. Watch the movie Hotel Rwanda to see what I mean. We see news stories, but rarely want to get our hands dirty or make sacrifices to our way of life to help.
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