Leaving Egypt Ministries, Zachary Gomez

It is always in an “election season”—a peak time of idolatry in America amidst the usual barrage of statist propaganda—that many fallacies flare up and spread around like the worst of songs on repeat. 

It is disheartening to see what these worldly-minded men who profess to be Christians say around this time, because their ideas are often a complete reversal of the truth.

While falling into the traps of the kingdoms of the world is most surely satanic deception if anything is, one man online was bold enough to claim that not voting is being deceived by the devil! This, mind you, even though the devil’s very temptation toward Jesus was to hand Him the kingdoms of the world! (Matt 4).

We are also seeing a lot of people amazingly blaming non-voters for having blood on their hands, rather than the people who dirty their hands by involving themselves in such evil systems as the kingdoms of the world!

Voting allowed these evils 

The prevailing narrative from the “Christian” talking heads is that things are so bad because Christians aren’t voting (even though tens of millions of them are and it would seem the majority opinion is that “Christians must vote”). There is no self-reflection that maybe things are this way because of decades of political participation doing nothing but furthering the very system they believe they are fighting against by voting. But now, after all the evils have spread further, we’re told we must jump in and double-down. Those who don’t are supposedly the problem.

This idea that non-voters are to blame is asserted as if it’s 100% truth. But it doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t add up. Christian “leaders” and “pastors” have been saying this kind of thing for decades. They have had the platforms, and have cornered the market on what Christians believe. They and their congregants say things like: “America is in the state it’s in because so many Christians stopped engaging in politics and stopped letting their voice be heard through their vote. If all Christians would just vote we could change America overnight. Christians not voting handed the government over to evil powers and Satan himself. But we could take it back if all Christians voted Biblical values. Because not voting is basically an endorsement of evil.”

These statements don’t make any sense. Where is the Scripture for it? Doesn’t the Word say that Satan is the god of this world? We see just how much this is the case indeed with “Christians” who tell us we must be politically involved, since these are worldly views, ideas, opinions, and goals, all which come from the deceiver and not the Lord. It is not only the world’s institutions that are satanic, but likewise the accompanying ideologies and worldviews that support them, eg., the statist philosophy that tells men they must vote and support certain rulers of certain political parties that they have been made to believe represent and serve them.

What about 1 John 5:19? That word “world” means the organized system of the world involving State and government rulers and powers. We didn’t hand over anything by not voting. America was always under the control of Satan. It was founded to spearhead his new world order. It’s on the US Great Seal commissioned by “founding fathers” — another set of false gods that “Christians” have unwittingly bought into.

When Jesus said that His kingdom is not of this world, He meant that it is precisely unlike the statist kingdoms that “Christian voters” are telling us that we must participate in as a means of (supposedly) advancing His kingdom. He meant that His ways are not the ways of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, or Americans.

Voting is not the way of the Lord

Since when does using worldly power (lording it over people like the Gentiles do) produce the fruit of the Spirit in people? Voting to elect people to wield the powers of the State is not Christ-like at all. Otherwise Jesus would have taken over Rome. When Satan offered Him the world, He turned down the offer (Luke 4). When some of the people wanted to make Him king, He declined (John 6:15).

The way of Christ is not the way of the State. In fact, these ways are the enemy of Christ. His way is not to use American politics to usher in His kingdom and make America a Christian nation. It’s not going to happen. Because His “nation” is His true remnant Church! And He’s calling people to come out of the world and stop participating in its charades and be under His rule and reign.

Another fallacy we see is the tired old, mindless citation of Romans 13 as if this is the refute-all citation against any comment that points out the evil in the world. That God has “ordained” government (ie., put it into place) is for them supposedly a case for us positively supporting it, voting for rulers, and perpetuating or even praising this system. But Romans 13 isn’t a call to be conned by the deception, delusion and illusions of choice of the American political system.

Voting gives false legitimacy to worldly kingdoms 

Christian voters, however, entirely ignore Jesus telling us that His kingdom is not of this world, ie., that it is not like the kingdoms that have been raised up in this world: the Egypts, Babylons, Romes, United Kingdoms, United States, or Soviet Unions. It is another, alternative kingdom that is entirely at odds with the political systems of the world.

Since so many Christians don’t seem to understand this, they are able to believe that there are political solutions to the world’s problems, which are, of course, caused by these systems. If they ever took the time to understand the way of the one who they vainly profess to be their Lord, they would see that the Kingdom of God is not advanced by voting. 

But almost everything has been twisted in their worldview, mostly since they have taken their ideas from the world—“it’s your civic duty to vote and right as an American”—rather than from the Holy Spirit.

Voting is irresponsibility

Thus we also hear that by abstaining in the religio-secular ritual of voting that we are forsaking our responsibility, and that this (rather than engaging in politics) is the reason for our troubles today.

Again, the truth is precisely the opposite of what these Christian voters tell us. To promote voting is to promote idolatry and an abdication of kingdom authority and responsibility by handing it over to worldly men to wield the powers of an evil and corrupt State. It is to support men who exercise authority over other men, rather than to advance a network of voluntary charity based in true love of one’s neighbors.

Once again, the Christian voter is here relying on their own worldly “wisdom” rather than the paths given to us by the Lord. Jesus never wielded the sword of Rome. He turned down the kingdoms of the world when offered. The worldly (ie., statist) means of advancing the kingdom of God is a fallacy. This does nothing but advance the satanic kingdoms of men.

Voting is not being salt and light 

Another fallacy we are hearing lately is that not engaging in the world—by which I mean ignoring the political systems and not the failure to serve our neighbors—is failing to be the “salt and light” that we are told to be (Matt 5:13-16). We are supposedly to shine our light on Babylonian systems, by which they simply mean to vote for the one man who is presumed to be the “more godly” or even less evil candidate, not to enter these arenas and call for men to repent, which would be completely acceptable and exactly what the prophets were doing.

But being salt and light is not about endorsing this or that political candidate. It’s advanced by the gospel, changing one person at a time from the inside out by the Spirit. No law or force of government can advance the kingdom or make anyone righteous. No politician, no matter how well-intentioned, can do it either.

Contrary to what thousands of Christians are telling us today, when Jesus said to be salt and light, He didn’t mean to vote for Donald Trump (as if this would show the world how great and loving Christians are). 

Voting is rebellion against God

Another fallacy is that non-voters are the ones who are rebelling against God. This flies in the face of 1 Samuel 8, when the Israelites sought a king and God explicitly said it was rejecting Him! It is precisely the seeking of human rulers that is sinful. But in order to duck these charges, the idolaters turn it around on us and say that not voting is sin and rebellion.

This is funny, because the whole existence of a State and all its tyrannies, which Christian voters tell us requires us to storm the polling stations, is proof that men have rebelled against God and His provision of social order as contained in the godly family structure. If men wanted to fight the evils, the last thing they would do is continue supporting the political system, which is the very reason they’re in bondage to them. They should call for repentance from these systems and their ideologies. These systems and their evils come as punishment for the sin of idolizing human rulers. They are what people get when they refuse to make God their God. Thus, they will not be turned back by further voting and stumping for human rulers.

Voting cannot replace the gospel

Again, by thinking that voting is a solution, these “Christians” essentially declare that the gospel is not good enough! They say that instead we must wield force against others to change the world, that we must vote in sword-wielders to change things. This is a truly astonishing admission for one who professes to be a Christian, because the sword—by which Jesus said all who live by it will die by it—is raised up above the gospel, above the word of God as a means of changing men.

Voters do not love their neighbors

These are the things men come to think when they get their ideas from the world. Those who tell us we “must” be politically involved have come to think that politics exhausts the means of social change, such that not voting is (as one person said) “literally doing nothing.” According to them, those who preach repentance and being born-again in Jesus Christ are “doing nothing” while the one who checks a box on a ballot has fulfilled his whole duty to his neighbor and need not lift a finger again to do anything else for anyone.

Voting does not advance the kingdom of God

Once again, the kingdom of God is not advanced by voting, and not voting does not mean that one is doing nothing. There are plenty of actions one could take besides the completely ineffective (at best) and downright evil (at worst) of voting men into power. They could check on their neighbors, get to know them, teach their family and friends about God, etc., all which are more powerful means of changing the world than voting — and all things that the “Christian voter” never really thinks they need to do, seeing as how they virtually consider voting to be fulfilling all the commandments of the Lord, despite that voting precisely means that you do not love your neighbor. 

The State will never be able to abide by the laws of love and the fruit of the spirit. The way the kingdoms of the world become the Kingdom of our Lord is by preaching the gospel of His kingdom. For it alone is the power of God unto salvation. The cross and the blood is how the powers and principalities are disarmed, not by voting. Voting in the sham and charade that is the American political system is like bringing a water-gun to fight a huge forest fire. It is what is truly not doing anything.

But again, saying it does nothing is the best case scenario. Arguably it makes things worse and perpetuates the very evils they believe they are fighting. Voting is most certainly not the way of furthering Christ’s kingdom, which is nothing like these systems that blasphemous voters have been tricked into supporting. Building kingdom communities is how we walk in dominion, prospering despite what they do. Truly loving our neighbor, which would mean that we would never appoint human rulers to stand over them, is how a freer and better world comes about.