Things are much different now then when I was in school. We were required to take a civics class in high school. It covered everything from the 3 branches of government, how laws are made, the role of Congress and the Senate, the Supreme Court, the electoral college, and many more important roles of the government. 

And man am I thankful that we had to take it. In fact every student should be required to take civics before they graduate. They should also be required to take personal finance as well, but that’s a topic for another show. 

We obviously don’t have time to dive into everything concerning government, but I didn’t wanna to touch on the electoral college today. 

The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by Congress. Each state elects the number of representatives to the Electoral College that is equal to its number of Senators—two from each state—plus its number of delegates in the House of Representatives. The District of Columbia, which has no voting representation in Congress, has three Electoral College votes. There are currently 538 electors in the Electoral College; 270 votes are needed to win the presidential election.

Several weeks after the general election, electors from each state meet in their state capitals and cast their official vote for president and vice president. The votes are then sent to the president of the U.S. Senate who, on January 6 with the entire Congress present, tallies the votes and announces the winner.

The winner of the Electoral College vote is usually the candidate who has won the popular vote. However, it is possible to win the presidency without winning the popular vote. 

The Electoral College is not a place, it’s the process that takes place to election the President of the United States as set forth by the Constitution. 

Why is this such an important process? What makes it different than just taking the popular vote? We’ll, the answers gives you an idea why Democrats want to abolish not only the electoral college (which would have to be done by constitutional amendment, and that requires being ratified by 3/4 of the states) but they also want to destroy the constitution. Why? Because that would keep them in power. 

You can think public school education, or lack there of, for removing things like history and civics from the classroom and we’ve raised generation generation of young people that don’t know anything about government, how it works, or how brilliant the founders were in setting up our system.

Why not just vote and whoever gets the most votes wins? 

I don't want to dive to deep into the process, but it comes down to population distribution among the states. The founders were brilliant in designing a system that not only ensures federalism, which is the diffusion of powers among federal, state, and local governments rather than a strong central government, but they wanted to ensure that each state had equal representation of votes. Remember, we are a representative republic, not a true democracy.  

Let's look at population. I live in Mississippi, and yes, we have shoes, we can read, and we have all of our teeth....well most of us anyway....and the population is around 3 million. The smallest state by population is Wyoming at around 600,000 people. On the other hand, California is the largest state by population with approximately 40,000,000 people. #2 is Texas with almost 30 million, followed by Florida with around 22 million, and then New York with 20 million.  

If we decided the presidential election by popular vote, simply put, the largest states would determine the presidency each year. That means Mississippi's votes would count less than California.  

Smaller population states like Wyoming, their votes would significantly matter less than California. Simply put, it means that California, New York, Texas, and Florida would decide who was President every four years. By having an electoral college, it evens the playing field for smaller states.  

So why do Democrats want to get rid of the electoral college? Just look at the makeup of voters in states like California, New York, and Florida. California and New York almost always vote majority democrat. Florida is a toss up each year and Texas is usually a red state. Considering that this year, not considering any election fraud, it is estimated that President Trump got over 73 million votes. That means that California, New York, Florida, and Texas alone cold decide who would be president.  That hardly seems fair for smaller states.

Since the majority of these states vote Democrat, no wonder why Democrats want to do away with the electoral college. It would almost ensure that a Republican president would never be elected again barring a demographic shift in population. 


It is because we have raised a generation of young people who aren’t taught history and civics, they are ignorant of our form of government and are easier led down the path of socialism. I mean who doesn’t was free stuff? But what they don’t realize is that it is not free. Someone is paying for it. 

Is there a Christian form of government? Does the Bible speak to the issue of government? The answer to these questions is “Yes.”

The issue has certainly been debated over the years, as to whether or not these questions can be answered, and it comes down to whether there is evidence to support that America’s Constitutional Republic is a Biblical form of government.

There are numerous biblical principles that speak to a form of government and give us biblical direction on how a biblical government might be established. Ideas that come directly from Scripture, either by direct edict from God or by principles extrapolated are as follows (not exhaustive):

* Humans, as image bearers of God, have a right to life

* Humans have a right to private property: if stealing is wrong, that implies that people have a right to have sole possession of certain goods.

* Humans have a right to self-defense to protect said rights to life and property

* Government is a God-ordained entity which has been given authority by God to punish evil and promote good (1 Peter 2:13-14).

We can even see representative government in scripture. In the Scriptures, we read about the travels of the nation of Israel in Exodus through Deuteronomy. In Exodus chapter 18, Moses was speaking to his father-in-law and it became apparent that Moses was being worn out by all the needs of the people. Jethro gave Moses advice (which is then reiterated in Deuteronomy 1) which, when implemented, turned the Hebrew nation into a representative government of sorts. 

Jethro told Moses to “select out of all the people, able men who fear God, men of truth, those hating dishonest gain; and you shall place them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. Let them judge the people at alltimes; and let it be that every major dispute, they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their place in peace.” The passage goes on to say that Moses implemented this plan. Ancient Hebrew historical texts shed further light on the system which was established what could be called the Hebrew Republic.

We also see in the New Testament that churches were established as elder-led communities. While the Apostles clearly had much authority over church affairs, they also allowed for much republican rule.

God desires to execute His government in the universe through the church; the divine government among God’s people is not democracy or autocracy but theocracy, God Himself ruling and reigning through some agents.

This is how God ordained things, and even if we don’t agree with the way God runs things, we cannot but say Amen to His arrangement.

Our God is the One who rules and reigns; He has a government in the universe, and there’s also a government in the church.

God is still governing and administrating in this age according to His economy; He governs and administrates in the church, and judgement begins from His own house.

God’s intention is to execute His government in this universe through the church; He first heads up a group of people – the church – and then through the church He heads up all things in the universe in Christ.

The divine government among God’s people is not autocracy (which is a form of dictatorship) or democracy (which is the voice of the people and their decision) but theocracy (government by God according to what He is).

The divine government among us today in the church life is a theocracy (Rev. 4:2; 5:6); theocracy means that God governs among us according to what He is (Psa. 89:14).

We don’t have democracy in the church; God’s administration among the children of Israel was a theocracy, which means that God Himself came to govern, to rule, to administrate, the people directly – yet through some agents (Deut. 1:9-18).

These agents were the priests and the elders working together for God’s theocracy.

The priests received the word from God, they had God’s judgements, and they passed these on to the elders to execute that judgement among God’s people; the elders depended on the others to help them accomplish that.

Our country may have a democratic system or an autocratic system, but in the church life as the divine kingdom there’s no place for autocracy or democracy – here we have only theocracy!

1 Samuel 8

There’s a reason that we have messed up. There’s a reason we have the election mess that we see happening. It is partly because we are trying to live by a system of government that God has not prescribed. Now for the sake of this podcast, I don’t want anyone to leave today thinking that I believe a representative republic is anti-God or not blessed by God. 

There is no doubt that Hod has truly blessed America and has His hand on this nation, but God ultimately wants to be king. When Christ returns we will not be led representatives. Christ Himself will rule and reign. This is the system of govt that God desires, no matter what we may think is best. 

I hope this podcast has been helpful.