On January 6, 2021, donald trump’s attempt to mount an insurrection against our Congress was not a victory for him. It backfired because of the steadfast integrity of one man, Vice President Mike Pence.
Our Vice President, Mike Pence, did the right thing on January 6, 2023. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. In so doing, he rescued our Constitutional Republic from disaster.
Later, when our US House of Representatives appointed a committee to investigate the insurrection of Jan6, many profound testimonies were heard. But there is one testimony that surpasses all of them in its importance. That was the testimony of Mike Pence’s Counsel, Greg Jacob. Mr. Jacob took hold of the Lord's enabling to do the right thing.
During the violent attack on our Capital and our Congress, dutiful defenders of Vice President Pence had hustled him down to a secure location beneath the main Capitol building. While our Vice President was getting extreme maga pressure to do the wrong thing— to join the confederacy of trumpian traitors— his Secret Service defenders shuffled Mike quickly down to that secure location. Months later, when Congress was conducting an investigation to find out who had mounted the insurrection, the US House Jan6 committee interviewed Vice President Pence’s lawyer/defender, Greg Jacob.
Mr. Jacob’s testimony presented an explanation of the ordeal that Mike Pence and his staff were forced to endure while waiting for the mob to be defeated and arrested. His account of doing the right thing when it mattered the most represents the long history of Jacob's ladder providing a divinely-enabled ascent to do the right thing.
Greg Jacob testified that, in that hour of peril and confusion, he turned to a divine source to find some direction about how they should endure and prevail in this extremely dangerous attack.
Greg Jacob testified:
“. . . my faith really sustained me through it. Down in the secure location, I pulled out my Bible, read through it. . . took great comfort. Daniel 6 was where I went. . . Daniel had become second-in-command in Babylon. . .a pagan nation. But he completely and faithfully serves. He refuses an order from the king that he cannot (must not) follow . . . he does his duty in consistence with his oath to God. And I felt that that was what had played out that day.”
In that moment, Mike Pence grabbed hold of the ancient enablement to do the right thing:
Why did Mike Pence and Greg Jacob accept the peril of trump's violent attack by resisting it and standing with our People and our Constitution to do the right thing? Greg Jacob explained it this way to the Jan6 committee:
“The Vice President did not want to take any chance that the world would see the Vice President of the United States fleeing the United States Capitol. He was determined that we would complete the work that we had set out to do that day—that it was his Constitutional duty to see through. . . and that the rioters who had breached the Capitol would not have the satisfaction of disrupting the proceedings beyond the day on which they were supposed to be completed.”
Since that fateful day, many have commended Mike Pence for his courage in defending our Constitution, our Congress and our nation’s Rule of Law. But some people criticize his Christian faith.
We need to understand that it was Mike Pence’s faith in God that motivated him to do the right thing when it mattered the most.
The Bible teaches that Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
We are fortunate today that Vice President Mike Pence’s fear of the Lord compelled him to ignore, and thereby defeat, the fear of trump and his band of murderous rebels. But he didn't do it all by himself. The Lord, Greg Jacob and a few other brave souls assisted our dutiful Vice President in doing the right thing when it mattered most.
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