When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Whose words can we trust?

As polling day for the 2015 General Election draws closer politicians are becoming more desperate in their search for votes. For many months the pollsters have been predicting a Hung Parliament. Why is this? The Times editorial back on 7 February asked this question.

The answer given was that it was a difficult economic time for any Government to be in power and that the Coalition had not eradicated the deficit during their five years at the helm.

The Times also blamed the rise of smaller parties, noting that back in 1951 the two main parties, Labour and Conservative, scooped up 96% of the nation’s votes. By 2010 this had shrunk to 66%. The last five years has accelerated the fragmentation of the political vote with a sharp rise in the fortunes of UKIP and the Greens.

The Establishment in Trouble

The Times failed to offer any explanation for this rise. But it is the rise of the smaller parties that holds the key to understanding the reason why neither the Conservatives nor Labour are not ahead in the polls and why the nation lacks confidence in the main parties. The plain fact is that people have lost respect for the establishment: we no longer trust our political elite.

"The plain fact is that people have lost respect for the establishment: we no longer trust our political elite."

The nation wants to see change; and they’re willing to trust the newcomers who offer something fresh and unknown, on the grounds that anything might be better than what we’ve had! It’s really the greed, corruption and lack of vision among those who have been ruling the nation for so many years that has finally produced a backlash of disillusionment among voters.

A Problem of Trust

There is a major problem of trust between the electorate and the political leaders of all three main parties. Labour voters have never forgiven Ed Miliband for ousting his brother David, whom they would have much preferred as leader, believing that he would make a better Prime Minister. LibDem voters have never forgiven Nick Clegg for reneging on his promise to cut student fees. That was one of the most blatant pieces of political double-crossing in recent years which could even lead to the wiping out of a political party that has had a great history of serving the nation in former centuries.

MPs Warned

David Cameron will go down in history as the man who not only defied the majority of his own backbenchers and the older generation of Conservative voters; but as the man who defied God! In order to please a tiny minority of the country he chose to deeply offend his own core supporter-base by introducing the Same-Sex Marriage Bill, which actually ‘redefined' marriage (part of God’s act of creation).

                  "David Cameron will go down in history as the man who defied God!"

You cannot mess about with God’s laws without bringing judgement upon the nation. Christians right across the country warned their MPs that this would inevitably lead to disaster. More than 100 Tory backbenchers defied the whips and voted against the Prime Minister. Despite this Cameron succeeded in passing his infamous bill with the aid of Labour and LibDem votes (unsurprisingly, the latter parties both have atheist leaders).

The Price of Victory

But the price of this victory has yet to be paid. 1 million evangelical Bible-believing Christians in the older generation have not forgotten their vow never to vote Tory again so long as Cameron is in charge, unless he publicly apologises to the nation for his folly. This does not mean that Christians hate homosexuals. The reason is that the family- as God defines it -is one of the foundational parts of the social structure of every nation. 300,000 children have their lives devastated every year by family breakdown. The nation needs measures to strengthen family life not to undermine it!

So Who’s Going to Win the Election?

We believe the pollsters are right in predicting no clear result. But this is not just because of the rise of UKIP, the Greens and the SNP; it is because as a nation we have offended God. This is not just because of same-sex marriage. In Deuteronomy 28 there is a list of consequences of deliberately going against the word of God; one of which is ‘confusion’ in the leadership of the nation:

The Lord will send on you confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. (Deut 28:20)

  "As a nation we cannot go on breaking moral laws without incurring the inevitable penalties."

The sudden ruin is most likely to be the collapse of the economy which is riddled with greed and corruption, and driven by unrighteousness and injustice, all of which are offensive to God and all right-thinking people. As a nation we cannot go on breaking moral laws without incurring the inevitable penalties. In moral issues, we reap what we sow. But where will we find politicians who really are squeaky clean?