A Simple Smiting Will Suffice, Please! -- a prayer

Dear God,

Here we are in 21st Century America, and there is a huge group of people that just don't get it about the Word of God, err, your letter to your people. Your children don't seem to want to read your word. The reality is that the reality of the Bible is forgot in all the hype and hoopla surrounding the election, err coronation, of a new leader for the body politic. And one group goes on and on about how wonderful it would be to have Armageddon in our lifetime, all while doing everything in their power to do exactly that. Make the world blow itself to kingdom come.

Now, this wouldn't be Your Armageddon. It would be our very own, self destructive, burn the earth to a toasty crisp, Armageddon. Billions would die, and all the beautiful places in the countries of the currently richest and most powerful nations, would be uninhabitable for Millenia, not just generations, or eons, to come.

Don't they know? Armageddon is Your Plan, not our own? And the fire of Armageddon, done Your Way, might not be a nuclear holocaust?

These people, self anointed with the power to run the country, seem also to forget that You control the timing. And You will determine, You alone, will decide when it is right to send Jesus back to earth.

It is not in our power, nor is it our right, to usurp Your power, to muddle in Your plan. It is our right, as your people, only to have dominion, not domination, over the earth. It is our duty only to love one another as You love us. That would be your kind of loving, not destructive, burn the Earth, or render its inhabitants Krispy Kritters.

Some of these folk even proclaim they know the sequence of events, and that You will "Rapture" them out of here, sending them to Heaven on "clouds of glory". All of this "flying away" will happen before Armageddon gets really dicey down here, and before Jesus comes back. Except, when one reads your Letter to Your People, AKA the Bible, it's not quite like that in those pages. The Rapture clearly comes after Jesus comes back, the false Jesus. And AFTER all the suffering of Armageddon begins in earnest.

Those are the folk who think it fine to use up the Earth, destroy it if necessary, so that they can get all the power and money and glory they are able to accumulate, in Earthly terms, all while allowing, encouraging, and making possible, the greatest possible suffering of the Billions here on Your Earth.

They have been in charge of slipshod levee systems, have allowed drowning of a huge
American city, been negligent in seeking peace, been activists in seeking war, have lied nations into battles, have encouraged the waste and killing, of millions, have declared a War on all who don't believe what they believe, even as what they believe is not even in Your Word, Your Letter to Your People, Your Bible.

Now, I don't have a doctorate in theology. I don't have a degree in ministry. I do have a deep and abiding love of my God, and Your People. All of them. I also love the Bible, and I love the Jesus of love, the one that corrects lovingly, that puts and keeps us on the correct path, by following the Great Commandment -- to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves.

But sometimes God, a simple little smiting is required when things are going so far out of control that there is no way for humans to get a grip any longer.