Pharaoh and our government

I got this in an email today and I wanted to share it. 

Genesis 47:13-27

VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE

  I would love to give 3 cheers to the Pastor of this predominantly black church in

  Virginia. This guy is obviously a leader. Perhaps we should

  each decide who our real leader is ... It is amazing to see that very little

  has changed in 4,000 years.

  Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews

  crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn

  with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis. We'll

  begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27.

  Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ... (reading)

  .... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray. So we see that economic

  hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of

  Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain

  harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the

  people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave

  it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money

  ran out, and they were hungry again.

  So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their

  cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and

  verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine

  wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and

  admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There

  is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should

  we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food,

  and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their

  homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold

  themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

  What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?

  That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard

  times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to

  be our provider is to also become our master? Yes.

But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel settled

  in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it,

  and were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God provided for His people, just as

  He always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government,

  no, it says they gained possessions! But I also tell you a great truth today, and

  an ominous one.

  We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to

  "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us.

  It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education,

  and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government

  decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it,

  and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt

  did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our

  leaders.

  What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what

  Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people

  like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't

  the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives;

  may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? Well, I tell you this - I know

  the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH!

  No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is

  Pharaoh.

Bow with me in prayer, if you will..

  Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone.

  We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be.

  We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of

  what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because

  of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not

  answer you in that day..."

  And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of

  the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this

  nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would

  be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect

  Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's governments like Communist and 

  Socialist in the World - In God We Trust 

   

      It is sad to contemplate the vitriol that will be heaped on this Pastor by 

      Obama's minions because of these truth.