Ultimately, through this, as horridly rigged the 2020 election was, I try to keep in mind that God has said it is He who lifts up leaders and brings them down. I think Kolleen has some good thoughts, that through this last electoral farce, God has moved His Hand showing an obvious division. Seems our Lord has purposed in this nation a great divide that brings us a reminder how God hates lukewarmness . . . . . will our God lift up a Christian leader in this nation in 2024? will He grant a 'temporary' reprieve? . . It's comforting to know that God's timing is perfect whether near or far . . . Surely, the greatest shock in the world just before the Tribulation is the rapture . . talk about global chaos, the world ripe for such sheer confusion, which will greatly shatter America into its 'last stand' Humbly, I agree with your perspective and pretty much all of the comments given by others above, however here is another perspective to consider and it is not my own but Steve Deace’s and it is slightly more optimistic. Steve Deace has a radio show that I listen to via podcast and he is very edgy and I would highly recommend it. He is a strong Christian and combines his faith into his political commentary and fully recognizes on his show very often that the things we see going on are demonic or directly induced by Satan whom he frequently refers to as the “spirit of the age”. The only thing I am not a fan of is that he is not firmly pre-tribulation, but he is not sure. He is not against the pre-tribulation view, he hopes its true, but isn’t fully convinced - nevertheless his show is still very much worth the listen I think for its very unique analysis of current events from a political and Christian perspective. I forgot to mention, Steve Deace ran Ted Cruz’s campaign and was invited at one point to work for Trump, so he has a great deal of street cred. Anyway, so Deace’s opinion is a little more optimistic that they will NOT steal this election for 2 primary reasons. First - he claims that because they are local and state elections rather than a big federal election they will be harder to individually steal. But second - he claims that they do not have the “narrative” to steal this one. On the last election there were enough people that hated Trump that they had a narrative that they could somewhat convince the sleeping majority that Biden could win with a slim majority, but with the current state of the nation, gas prices, inflation, there is no way they could come up with a lying, believable narrative that does not come out with the democrats taking a shellacking as the outcome. Now for Derrick’s analysis which is not so optimistic. Everything Steve Deace says is true and reasonable in this regard so why is the democratic leadership BEHAVING as if they will not lose or as if there will be no election? One would think if you were a democrat and see the way this election is trending you would put the brakes on the crazy train long enough to shift the narrative that would allow you to at least cheat the election again as to make it believable that they could squeak out enough victories to stay in power. My personal opinion is that there is some turmoil planned that would cancel, postpone, or make special conditions for the election that would allow them to stay in control. And I am in the camp with Yohanan, I really think these are the signs we should look to to realize that our time is indeed limited and we won’t be here that much longer and we probably won’t make it to November to see the election. We can hope so anyway. If we are here and there is no candidate I can put my name behind, I always will write in JESUS CHIRST - I know that that vote still counts to Him anyway and He will make good on it soon. I already voted since I don’t expect to be here in Nov. I wasn’t going to do so but after reading our RINO governor urging parents to vaxx their young kids or they are not considered “caring parents” 🙄 So its on a wing and a prayer to try to vote him out and found another republican that is not pushing the vaxx and picked that one. Would have loved to vote Bernie S. out but he’s untouchable. 🥴 The ship is sinking-looking forward to being on heaven’s shoreline by this fall? :whistle: If they sign over national and individual liberties and sovereignty elections could also become a thing of the past as well! TR I agree with all of you. I hope we can get a decent government back in office in a true and fair election. But I have heard that when Jesus comes to rule, we will realize that all governments of man are desperately flawed. Yes, even democracy, or a republic such as we have. Why? Because people are corrupt or can be bribed, threatened, or compromised. They enjoy power or love money. Or they are not smart enough to see the big picture or they are too weak to do what is necessary. Our world was meant for Christ to rule and reign. His is the only government that will work in the long term. And it is coming soon! 
