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Don Mackintosh

Dealing with Domestic Terrorism: 100-Day Bible Strategy

Well, let's just bow our heads again and ask God to bless us.

Father in heaven, bless us as we delve into your Word this morning.

And we live in interesting times when more and more people recognize their need of you and are searching for you.

So bless their search and deepen our search and make us not only put a blessing on us today but make us a blessing to someone else today as well.

Dealing with domestic terrorism, a 100-day Bible strategy.

As I was listening to the news of the last few weeks, I've heard a lot about the first 100 days of the presidency.

How many of you have ever heard about a 100-day plan?

And this 100-day plan, of course, first of all, started the idea with Napoleon.

Napoleon left the island of Alba and went back to fight on the continent, and he lasted only a hundred days, and then he met his Waterloo, that was it.

And that 100 days was seen as his best try at regaining the continent and putting the government in place through military exploits and through external control.

American presidency, the first president to adopt this idea of the first 100 days was FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

And he decided that he, in fact, in the first 100 days, would attempt to turn things around.

So he passed, actually, executive orders and new legislation.

FDR passed 76 laws in his first 100 days.

And coming in at number 3 was actually Donald Trump.

As I listened to our new president in his inaugural address, he focused on a need for unity, mentioning it 11 times, and warned of the rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that's a direct quote, which he said threatened this unity, saying it was something that, quote, we must confront and we will defeat.

So essentially saying that there would be a war on domestic terrorism.

I was the first president that has ever said that.

And this confrontation would be initiated, he said, within the first 100 days of his administration.

And Indeed, on the third day in office, he ordered the US intelligence officials, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, to assess potential threats across the US and develop ways to counter them.

They released a report actually last week, last Wednesday.

How many of you got the report on your cell phone?

Some people told me they actually got the report that there was high alert National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin because there's a heightened threat across the United States that will persist at least until April.

Ideologically motivated violent extremists fueled by false narratives could continue to mobilize in cities and commit violence.

So this is something that's really been taken seriously in the Capitol, with a show of force, thousands of troops surrounding the Capitol and state Capitol buildings.

And then a slew of executive orders to promote the new legislation that will bring people back to comfort and peace in their lives.

So attempting to not only have executive orders, but then putting forward legislation where hopefully laws will be laid down to make everybody calm down.

So how many of you think this is going to work?

How many of you think it's going to work?

How many of you are thinking, man, this is the right approach?

I mean, it goes back to FDR, it goes back to Truman.

So in this time of extreme volatility and polarity, will this work?

Well, there was an interesting article by Rabbi Noah.

To unite our country, we don't need policy and politicians.

So the rabbi said, we don't need policy and politicians at this time in our nation.

We need Theology we need God You know how many of you notice that politicians doing science is not really good How many of you notice that politicians doing theology isn't really that good.

I mean, 1 politician held his Bible up, misquoted it, and then when questioned about what his favorite text was, he said, look, the Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.

I think maybe that's not the guy to talk about theology.

The other guy said, I just read this last week, my idea of self, of family, of community, and a wider world comes straight from my religion.

It's not so much, get this, this just bored me.

It's not so much the Bible, the Beatitudes, or the 10 Commandments, or the prayers that I've learned.

I think either way you look, either political side of the aisle you look, these guys do not know what they're doing with theology.

To unite our country, I agree with the rabbi, we don't need policy and the policy of theologically compromised politicians either side of the aisle.

We need things straight from God's Word So turn with me your Bible to Luke chapter 24 and I want to talk to you about a time that was not unlike our time.

And I realized that the sermon title I put up on the internet will get me the attention of the FBI.

And so I just want to wave to you guys because, I'm now getting into the Bible and, and away from you.

So, Luke 24, Luke 24, and by the way I didn't realize it but these sermon titles have actually gotten a lot of attention and I've been getting some interesting feedback.

It's all positive because it's from God's word, and that's why we're turning right now to Luke 24.

Christ's followers were confused, and they were extremely afraid.

In fact, they were so afraid that they had taken up hiding and started to deny knowing their leader, who was pictured as a political leader.

And all in their midst had risked everything on their association with Christ.

And to be honest, they, even though they listened to his spiritual things, were actually listening with political lens.

And they were thinking that he was gonna get rid of political corruption.

He was gonna get rid of all the collusion of the ruling parties.

He would drain the swamp, and he would tear down, and he would build back better.

They believed he would drain the swamp, he would build back better.

In fact, 1 time they said, why don't we just go ahead and make him king right now?

And so he gave them a free boat ride to calm them down a bit.

But alas, now at this stage, it had not come to pass, not only had he lost the election, you might say, he actually had been killed.

And now, his very words that were spoken concerning the Capitol buildings, you know the ones where he had said, tear this temple down and I'll rise it up in 3 days, those were now coming back to be used against them, and it was in this kind of political climate that we pick up the story in Luke 24.

They were being pictured as being basically interested in policy and politicians and political upheaval and in storming the Capitol etc.

And so they were discouraged and let's pick up the story in Luke chapter 24 and verse 13.

Now it says, Behold, 2 of them were traveling.

It's not the 12 disciples, because these are not the 12 disciples that are mentioned.

This is not Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.

And Cleopas was part of, actually, the 70 elders, or 70 disciples, that were sent out.

And this guy Cleopas was also called Alpheus and he was actually related to...

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