I’m reminded today of the words of Jesus to Saul of Tarsus on Damascus Road (Acts 9:5). Jesus said to Saul, who was engaged in a losing battle against Christ’s church, “It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.” In other words, Saul would never get anywhere in his campaign to extinguish Christ’s church upon the earth, since it is divinely destined to endure upon this earth until Christ returns to the earth. It is indeed an exercise in futility to attempt to eliminate Christ’s church within this world, since it is, as Jesus Himself taught, being built by Him, so that nothing, not even the gates of hell, can prevail against it (Matthew 16:18). Still, me must realize that the true church of Jesus Christ is a small remnant upon this earth that transcends denominational lines and national borders.

The real people of God within the world today are, as they have always been and always will be, but a remnant, as the Apostle Paul teaches us in Romans 11:5. Even our Lord Himself taught us that many will enter the wide gate and travel the broad way that leads to destruction, but only a few will ever find the strait gate and travel the narrow way that leads to life (Matthew 7:13-14). As Scripture teaches, the true church of Jesus Christ is not only comprised of a small minority of our world’s population, but also of a small minority within our own nation. Indeed, most of those who profess Christ within our country today do not truly possess Christ, as is proven by both their beliefs and their behavior. They are, as Jesus described them, those who say “Lord, Lord” with their lips, but whose hearts are far from Him, as is proven by their unwillingness to do the will of God and to obey the Word of God (Matthew 7:21; 15:8; John 14:23-24).

Before his death in 2008, Paul Weyrich, who not only cofounded the Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell, but also coined the name "Moral Majority," wrote a letter to Christian conservatives. It was one of the most honest evaluations of the sad and sorrow state of America that I have ever read. In the letter, Weyrich admitted that there was no moral majority in America. He went on to add that the culture war was over and that we had lost, which he claimed was proven by the fact that our society had become a cesspool into which we were sinking deeper and deeper. In conclusion, Weyrich called upon all true Christians to separate themselves as much as possible from American society, in order to protect themselves, especially their children, from its moral pollution.

True conservatives, like true Christians, are a minute minority in America today, not only in our representative republic, but even in the Republican Party, which has just experienced, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has described it, an extinction-level event. Our midterm elections not only sounded the death toll for our republic, but also for Republicans, who have long feigned conservatism, but never really fought liberalism, along with all of its other inimical isms; such as socialism, globalism, wokeism, and Islamism. Sick and tired of being betrayed by Republican Benedict Arnolds and bamboozled by Republican Joe Isuzus, conservative voters didn’t line up to punch ballots for backstabbing Republican candidates in our midterm elections. Consequently, our anything but conservative country dashed to the polls in droves to sweep the Republican Party into the dustbin of irrelevancy, where it arguably, and I believe rightly, belongs. 

It’s high time that true Christians in this country stopped kicking against the pricks and pulled their heads up out of the sand. We’re not living in a Christian nation, but in an antichrist nation, one that no longer fears God, but has forsaken God and been forsaken by God. There is no moral majority in America. Conservatives in this country are now a minute minority in the midst of a militant liberal majority. And, with Democrats on the ascendancy and Republicans reduced to irrelevancy, we’re well on our way to becoming a socialist state under single-party rule. There is no political solution to our problem, since the ballot box and polling place have become our representative republic’s burial plot. If you don’t believe me, then, just listen to the sound of taps bugled over America by our midterm elections’ ballot punchers. 

As Christ’s church and God’s remnant in our country, we need to turn away from the polls and turn to our prayer closets, devoting ourselves to serious prayer, now that the end of all things has come upon us (1 Peter 4:7). While it’s too late for our country to be saved, it’s not too late for our countrymen to be saved. Therefore, we need to stop trying to clean up the pond and go back to fishing in it, trading in our political activism for the preaching of the Gospel. Meanwhile, we must also prepare to persevere through these perilous times of the last days, by separating and shielding ourselves from our godless society, so as to be less vulnerable to it and a more formidable force for God within it, by providing it with a visible and viable alternative. Throw down your ballots, grab your Bible, drop to your knees, and lift up your heads, for Jesus is coming and our redemption is drawing near (Luke 21:28)!