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Not just the melanin factor
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Dear Editor, I wish to register my congratulations to the senator who is now set to be inaugurated as President Barack Hussein Obama, a mixed-race black man with the audacity of hope, whom God has allowed as a divine choice in the race to become the commander-in-chief of America for reasons especially known to the Godhead.
"For those who doubt our abilities and possibilities, the Barack Obama story reminds us that anyone can achieve anything with the right guidance, a good education, a positive attitude and a moral compass," wrote Jean LowrieChin in her column on Monday, reminding us that "we may lionise but be careful not to idolise (even if his infomercial surpassed the ratings for the finals of American Idol)".
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Now we will have to wait and see to what extent the world will appreciate the policies of Obama. I think the younger generation of Americans in particular are aware that the enemies of the USA are more likely to appreciate a more diplomatic president than George Bush. Terrorist fighting is inevitable, but Obama proposes a better way. Isn't this one of the major reasons why the world prefers Obama?
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Who ultimately allowed Obama to win? The first two verses of the book of Daniel remind us that God is in ultimate control, for there it shows us that "the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah" into the dominion of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Hopefully, the young policy-conscious voting generation will also be exposed to the prophecy-conscious among them so that they may know that Nebuchadnezzar was more than the name of some spaceship in The Matrix.
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They will know, in real terms, that Nebuchadnezzar was an icon minted on one side of an Iraqi coin by Saddam Hussein, that Babylon was located 54 miles south of what is presentday Baghdad, that no matter how hard Saddam dreamed to rebuild the ruins of Babylon contrary to the Bible's promise, it will never be rebuilt. This policy- and prophecy-conscious generation will know that it is God who changes the times and the seasons, God who removes kings and sets up kings, God who knows "what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him" (see Daniel 2:20-22). When the final recount is done, it will be known that God has allowed Obama to be president, with more than melanin percentage as a factor, because "promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south, but from God who is the judge. He puts down one, and sets up another" (Psalm 75:6-7). Ryan O'Neil Seaton Kingston 11
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