The UK general election has sprung a surprise. Nigel Farage has announced he will stand as a candidate for the Reform UK Party in Clacton. He has also taken over the leadership of Reform UK. So let’s look at Mr Farage.
Stand and Fight!
In a press conference yesterday afternoon, he observed being elected would be difficult, but that: ‘If something is difficult, it doesn’t stop you doing it.’ He would rather ‘stand and fight’ than ‘stand aside’. I am reminded of what David’s army general Joab said to his brother Abishai:
2Sam 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Nigel Farage is certainly a larger-than-life character, and he is a human being, so he is flawed and subject to our human condition. Is he arrogant or merely self-confident? Brashness and directness are not sins, but any of us who want to succeed need humility before the Almighty.
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Criteria for Leadership
We are going to pray into this, but let’s first remind ourselves of the biblical criteria for leadership. Jethro told Moses:
Exod 18:21a Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people (1) able men, (2) such as fear God, (3) men of truth, (4) hating covetousness;
Well, I suggest to you that Nigel Farage may fulfil the third of Jethro’s criteria. He is straightforward. He answers questions. He seems to be a man of truth.
That’s different from so many of our current politicians. You may regard Kemi Badenoch as a breath of fresh air. But even she could not tell the truth about putting the Port Talbot steelmen out of work.
Covetousness vs ability
Mr Farage appears not to be covetous or out to enrich his pals. So that’s would be a contrast with what happened under the Tories with NHS Personal Protection contracts.
Is he an able man, the first criterion? He’s certainly very good at politics. He’s a gifted orator. He has been, as he says, ‘In this game for thirty years’.
If elected, he may find himself in his customary prophetic and activist role rather than in national leadership. That still needs ability from on high.
The Lord wants God-fearing men
But what about the second one, men ‘Such as fear God’? Well, earlier this year he said he had stopped attending church, blaming the Church of England’s ‘surrender’, as he put it, to the ‘woke agenda’. You may be in the same boat. That may even be a God-fearing position.
Some thirteen years ago, he said: ‘you can be Christian and fun or you can be Christian and be puritanical and want to control everybody.’
Of course, Christians don’t have fun, we don’t enjoy things, we are blessed by them. I’ve been really blessed by standing up in public for the Lord Jesus over the years. OK, it’s fun especially when you see the Lord move in power.
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Standing against the elite
But look closely. When this Nigel talked about ‘puritanical’ and wanting ‘to control everybody’ perhaps he was talking prophetically not about Christians but about today’s World Economic Forum influenced political and media establishment.
They were controlling everyone during Covid, and now with Net Zero, and they are nudging you to think as they want you to over transgenderism, racism, geopolitics and climate change, to take just a few obvious examples.
Mr Farage says he is standing up for little people against the elite. Credit where it is due, if he is, and it is hard to discern anyone else doing that, that is a godly position. The psalmist says:
Psa 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Stand for Righteousness with the Holy Spirit
And from the Proverbs:
Prov 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Where do Reform UK stand on abortion, on sex education, on the UK promoting evil abroad? I am not sure we yet know. And where is a whole-hearted proclamation of our Christian constitution?
When you stand, even imperfectly or in part, for righteousness against the godless elite, you are fighting a spiritual battle. You cannot do that with one arm tied behind your back. You need the spiritual dimension. You need the Holy Spirit.
Prayer
So let’s pray: ‘Almighty God, you reign on high. Scripture says you put down rulers and set them up. You both remove and set up kings. You give wisdom to the wise and to the humble. We pray you do not deal with us after our sins, but instead, Lord, revive your work and in wrath remember mercy.
‘Raise up men after your own heart, my Lord, humble men who will seek your face for wisdom and proclaim Jesus as King of kings. Especially lift up and sustain God-fearing Christian candidates.
‘May your kingdom come and may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, in our land. For we pray all this from your word in Jesus’s mighty name. Amen.’
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Scriptures informing the prayer
Psa 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Psa 103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Hab 3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
1Sam 13:14a But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart,
Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
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The captcha in the petition form is not working properly so I was not able to sign. On Nigel Farage I am tempted to call him Screaming Lord Nige – what he does today may have nothing to do with what he will do tomorrow.
Thanks John. These things are often a complex interplay between machines. A couple of others have signed on it ok…
Do you think you are being totally fair elsewhere?
And did you know that poor (Screaming Lord) David Sutch was so troubled by mental illness he committed suicide by hanging himself on 16th June 1999 at the age of just 58?
I did not know that David Sutch was ill or that he committed suicide. As for fairness, I don’t know how to answer that. His party still exists. As far as I know it continues to be good-natured in introducing a little levity and a smile or two where they are seriously lacking. I have nothing against David Sutch. And I stand by any comment that we don’t know where we are with Nigel Farage. He is not a crook but I can’t see him as a reliable party leader. I wish he were.
I am delighted that Nigel is standing for election. I also am wondering how he feels about subjects that Christians care about. I was asking the Lord to save us from a Labour government and although he probably won’t, he has now given many of us hope for the future.