As the ekklesia, we are to pray for good government!
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Isaiah chapter 1:
1 Here is the vision that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, received by Divine revelation concerning what was going to happen to Judah and Jerusalem during the times of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Listen, O heavens! Hear, O earth! For the Lord YAHWEH has spoken: “I tenderly nurtured children and made them great, but they have rebelled against me!
3 Even a dumb ox instinctively knows its owner and the stubborn mule knows the hand that feeds it, but Israel does not know me nor do my people understand.”
4 Oh, how this nation keeps sinning! See them dragging the heavy burden of their guilt! They are corrupt children, descendants of evildoers. They have turned their backs on the Lord God and despised the Holy One of Israel! They have cut themselves off from the help of God!
5 Why would you seek to be injured further? Why would you stubbornly continue in your rebellion? Your whole head is sick, and your heart and your will are weak and faint.
6 You are corrupt from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. There is no integrity—nothing but bruises, putrefying sores, and raw open wounds! They have not been drained or bandaged or soothed with oil.
7 Your country is devastated and your cities burned to the ground; foreigners plunder your crops before your eyes—with nothing but devastation and destruction in their wake!
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as helpless as a deserted shack in a vineyard or a flimsy shelter in a field of cucumbers—in every way like a city besieged!
9 If the Lord of Angel Armies had not left us survivors (a remnant), our fate would have been the same as Sodom and Gomorrah!
The above passage applies to America as well as many other countries. Do you recall when the lawless were burning down cities in various states? A statue of George Floyd, a known drug user and felon, was erected. Sixty million children have been aborted. Over the last four years, illegal aliens have been welcomed across the borders in a lawless fashion only to drain the productive capacity of the country. Sexual debauchery has spread like wildfire.
What is sexual debauchery? It is extreme indulgence in bodily pleasures and especially sexual pleasures: behavior involving sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. that is often considered immoral.
Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin studied 86 societies and civilizations to see why some collapse and others don’t. What did he find? That sexual debauchery leads to the collapse of a civilization within 3 generations. Further, he found that those societies where the woman remained a virgin until married, flourished.
If people were expected to remain virgins until marriage, the culture was more likely to have all of the markers of human flourishing. They were more likely to be an “advanced” civilization.
What was the best combination, resulting in a culture that exceeds other cultures?
Prenuptial chastity combined with absolute monogamy. Absolute monogamy means one spouse for life.
Yes, they effectively followed Biblical principles and flourished. Those that didn’t died off. Think about it. People become slaves to their own wants and needs, their appetites.
The church has been too busy being religious rather than correcting the societal problems through intercessory prayer.
Sexual freedom unleashes all sorts of demons on a society. Couple it with modern medicine, which basically baptizes sexual debauchery with antibiotics and abortion, and you have an acceleration of collapse. Slaves are too busy having orgies to be truly productive.
The solution is spiritual and intercessory prayers of the righteous will turn back the current path of society.
Once again, as Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Timothy chapter 2:
1 Most of all, I’m writing to encourage you to pray with gratitude to God. Pray for all men with all forms of prayers and requests as you intercede with intense passion.
2 And pray for every political leader and representative, so that we would be able to live tranquil, undisturbed lives, as we worship the awe-inspiring God with pure hearts.
3 It is pleasing to our Savior-God to pray for them.
4 He longs for everyone to embrace His Life and return to the full knowledge of the Truth.
The next president has a clear mandate to clean up the lawlessness in the country. However, it is up to us to pray and pull down the spiritual strongholds that have been allowed to operate over the past years.