Due to the nature of writing for a weekly publication, I submit articles five days before they land on your doorstep. You’re reading this article after election day; I wrote it five days before. Regardless, I am fully confident in what I am about to write. Here are my predictions regarding what will happen on Wednesday, November 4, the day after election day:

First, the sun will rise, and our planet will continue to spin. Later in the day, and sadly around 5 p.m., the sun will set, and it will get dark way too early.

Second, you will get out of bed and rush around to get the kids off to school while trying to get to work on time. Or, if you’re retired, you’ll pour a cup of coffee, turn on the news, and read the Webb Weekly before using it to start a fire in the wood stove or line the kitty litter. Then you’ll head off to your doctor’s appointment.

Third, November 5 will not be canceled. Like Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day, we’ll all basically repeat whatever we did on November 4. It’s risky to extend my predictions that far out, but not really. If I’m wrong, it won’t matter.

How am I doing so far? Are you wondering how I can be so confident in my predictions?

I am confident because the King of Kings and Lord of Lords is not up for re-election. Regardless of who is elected president, God will still be on the throne on November 4, and November 5, and forever. Of that you can be certain.
Some History

As the thirteen colonies were slowly organizing into the United States following the War for Independence, a letter written by Colonel Lewis Nicola floated the idea of Washington being crowned king. Washington’s response to the suggestion of a monarchy was so strongly disagreeable that the idea never took root. For this we owe Washington a major debt of gratitude. Had Nicola’s idea succeeded, the American experiment would have crashed and burned before takeoff.

What George Washington new, and what every American must understand, is that we already have a King. In the preamble to the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson declared the sovereignty of Almighty God the King when he wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

That’s right, God endows us with rights, not some blood-line monarch or elected president. If a human king or president endowed us with rights, they could also take them away. But because Almighty God endows us with rights, they are unalienable. It is for this fundamental reason that every American should declare from the highest hills and through the lowest valleys, “In God we trust!”
A Little Further Back in History

Israel was a theocracy led by high priests who represented God the King. At some point, Israel became enamored with the idea of having a human king and they asked Samuel the high priest to appoint one. Their demand was an outright rejection of God as King. God warned them about the bondage they would face under the rule of a human king:

“This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” I Samuel 8:11-18.

God’s warning landed on deaf ears. Their rejection of God the King resulted in centuries of bondage. My friends, God’s warning is just as relevant today as it was back then. If we reject God as King, the result will be bondage. Our Founding Father’s knew it and that’s why they wrote God’s sovereignty into our guiding documents.

Are you upset over who won the election? Join the club. Half the country didn’t like the outcome. But how long are you going to mope around and complain about it? It is what it is. Get over it and get back to work. Why? Because God is still on the throne regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. When you fully accept that truth, you’ll discover peace and hope and purpose that surpasses any fleeting promises made during an election – another prediction of which I am fully confident.