ON SILENCE – THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
I present this commentary with humble fear not to offend.
That is not the intent, but I must speak boldly.
In the past few weeks, I have seen on Facebook and in person
where Christians and even preachers have spoken against Christian political
activism. This response is not personal, but it must be said, If the nation’s
forefathers had not been political activists, God would not have created a
Christian nation! Likewise, if the Reformers had not protested the politics
of the Roman Catholic Church, we would all still hold allegiance to the Pope! “The Big Lie” in America is that there is a
wall between separation of Church and State. Even that Big Lie, although derived
to “protect” God from the State, in effect shunned God from the government. It
turned out to be a one-way “wall” where Christians must stay out of politics,
but the government can fornicate against the Church with impunity.
Recently, Kentucky had a Christian governor, but Kentuckians
sought to protect their retirement from him. He was not even the nemesis; the
former governor (Beshear) had squandered the state pension fund as well as his Democrat
predecessors. Not to be confused with the facts, well-meaning Christians voted
against the pro-life, pro-family, good steward of money, Gov. Bevin, and for “abortion
Andy.” Their vote was emotional and irrational because Bevin had saved their
retirement fund and they were like angry little children.
The point with that background is that Christians were
apathetic to abortion Democrat Beshear all those years, but screamed mercilessly
about a great Christian governor, Bevin. That irrationalism made me angry, and
as a Christian, I do not enjoy being angry. The Christians “hung” an innocent
man much like the KKK mob has done so many times!
Christians have remained silent, now with “gags,” as
Christianity has floundered in the United States. They have stayed silent as
the “united” nation has been torn asunder. Not that capitalism is the victim,
but some essential doctrines of socialism are: (1) destroy the Church or remold
it to fit Marxist doctrine, (2) trivialize gender roles, (3) diminish the
family, and (4) create a government wherein the masses are no longer dependent
on God but the government.
As such “Comrade Sam” becomes the chairman of the socialist party,
and Marx becomes their main god, along with such demigods as Obama, Clinton, Biden,
and even AOC. Turning a blind eye toward Satan does not diminish Satan and is
very socialistic in the manner socialists turn a blind eye toward Christianity.
Ignoring Satan will not defeat Satan! His army is out to end Christianity, and
preachers who preach blinding oneself to socialism as the Christian thing to
do, naively invite Satan in for easy pickings!
There are two wars in progress: (1) political and (2)
spiritual. The apocalyptic ruler will be both a “Caesar” and the Antichrist in
one package. He will laugh at and taunt Christians for believing in that
fantastical wall between separation of Church and State.
As the crucifixion demonstrated so well, silent Christians
were “human shields” for the tyranny of the mob and stood by silently as political
and religious leaders had their way with Jesus! Yes, nearly every group in the
mob had some connection to political power whether they were Herodians for King
Herod, zealots for the Hasmonean Dynasty, Pharisees for personal power, or
Sadducees for the line of Zadok to be chief priests. And then we had the Levitical
chief priests who wanted the power! You see, “politicians” crucified Jesus, and
they were able to do that because of silent Christians!
I am so emphatic about remaining vocal in the U.S. because I
do not want God diminished in our nation. So emphatic, that I wrote nearly
five-hundred pages about the politicians who attempted to kill God by killing
His Flesh. [1] However,
it was God’s Will and the very purpose of Jesus that He was killed, and God
knew that He could depend on Christians to remain silent just as the Jews had
often done when confronted by the prophets to defend the Temple just by being
righteous.
Therein is the issue; in the war against Satan, do Christians
depend on the President or do they depend on God? They test God by remaining
silent; will He come through? Of course, He will for the surviving remnant just
as He did in Judah’s wars against the harlot Babylon, but the after-effects is
to this day, Jerusalem is the “harlot Babylon” (Rev 17:5). And do Christians
want Washington to be one of the harlots like Jerusalem?
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the other prophets spoke against two
things: (1) the fallen “Church” and (2) the defiant government… defiant against
God with the rulers allowing in any and all pagan gods along with Yahweh.
They became tolerant of sin and encouraged by their kings to be tolerant and
even to worship other gods. They could have all those things if they only
remained silent! The answer on whom to depend is always on God.
It is alright to be vocal if it is speaking for God. It was
God’s Will that both Obama and Trump to be president; one to make Christians contrite
for their straying, and the other to Make God Great Again to Americans. That in
effect is the MAGA slogan! Why should Christians not be joyous about making God
Great again in the eyes of a Christian nation? Why should we not scream out in defense
of anyone who would encourage its peoples to see God in the Greatness that IS
Him?
Paul warned Christians who were soft of the war at hand, “For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places” (Ephes 6:12). Paul admonished that Christians put on
the whole armor of God and named the spiritual pieces of armor. Finally, he
told Christians what he had done in his armor: “For which I am an ambassador in
bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak” (Ephes
6:20). With that said, Paul told us elsewhere to do what he was doing because he
was doing God’s Will. Is it God’s Will that America be destroyed — His last
refuge? His will is that all be saved, but his reluctance is that they be punished
if they are not His followers and defenders.
Using social media, I speak boldly against the New Age
Church and its rotten government — the Deep State that operates in the shadow
of the legitimate President and government. It is not really against Trump but
is Satan’s plan to have the Church that belongs to God.
Trump is in the way, and cunning demons know to diminish
Trump is their way of diminishing God. Satan depends on Christians to remain
silent. Silent to “the rulers of darkness in the world” (the Deep State) but in
“high places” meaning false religions such as Islam. Why have conservative
Muslims allied themselves with liberal socialists? Because like Pilate and
Herod, they shared a common enemy, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend,
as the saying goes.
In that war, what is the main weapon? “The sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephes 6:17). Is that weapon effective if
preached only in the Church? No, it is not. The Great Commission is taking the
Word of God to the world, and how better to speak the Word than through social media?
Paul also said how, to peacefully “Stand therefore, having your loins girt
about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness” (Ephes 6:14).
God’s warriors were not to put on all the armor and carry the “Sword” to hide
in Church. It was for the war in the world, and if not there, it will come to
the Church, and slowly but silently has — to the extent that even some preachers
encourage Christians to remain silent!
Jesus found two discouraged fishermen who had pulled up
their nets. The lack of fish had discouraged them and along came the Great Fisher
for men — Jesus — who demonstrated how to catch many fish. And inevitably it was
to depend on and trust in His methods. After regaining their confidence, they
were ready for many “fish,” as Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you
fishers of men” (Mat 4:19). With that, Simon Peter and Andrew followed Jesus to
catch many “fish.”
Did Jesus tell them never to fish for fish again? No! He encouraged
them to fish for different fish. Were they to forget who thy were? No! They
remained fishermen. They surely ate. Jesus did not always work miracles of the
feeding the multitude with fish. They somehow ate and surely Peter and Andrew
continued to catch fish to eat, of course, using God’s techniques.
Most assuredly, Jesus never intended that they were not to
fish again, but add to their catch, men. It was still okay to fish for fish or He
would have told them not to do that any longer. They must, however, as disciples
following Him, follow Him to the catch, and that is still His intent today.
As for myself, I still enjoy history. The past reveals the
future. I know what and how Judah and Israel were destroyed, and although I
follow Christ, and trust him to save the nation, I am one of His “useful tools”
who speaks boldly about Jesus and the fate of America if they turn to
godless socialism, or better said, America whose “gods” are anyone but Jesus!
As such, I remain silent in the Church (most of the time)
but speak boldly as Paul did to the world. Like it or not, our new “world” is
social media and I use Google® Blogger and Facebook to tell the
world about Jesus and warn them about the government of the Antichrist. It is
the answer to my own Great Commission. Is there evil therein? Certainly, but
Christians must follow Jesus wherever evil exists. Paul followed the Holy Ghost
of Jesus to pagan nations, even political Rome, and what happened there? Rome turned
to God, at least for a while, until they quit following God and followed the
Pope; also to whom Christians remained silent except for Martin Luther.
Luther protested against the political intrigues of the Pope
as well as His irreverence of the Word. Because Luther protested to the world
at the door to Wittenberg Church, things changed; the Pope finally lost his religious
authority as well as his political power. In like manner, I protest the shadow
government and the heretical Church. Jesus did that Himself!
15 They (Jesus and the disciples) come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. (Mark 11:15-16)
Jesus spoke boldly and was even angry at what the “Church” allowed in; so
much so that He went inside the “den of thieves.” Many Christians bring socialist
economic doctrine into the Church, and the liberal preachers (not mine) allow
social justice to be the pre-eminent doctrine in the Church. In those churches,
God is diminished.
How would the true Church know if there is a war within the Church unless
they are somehow persuaded. Preachers must preach boldly as both Jesus and Paul
did. The War is spiritual and political! The wise recognize that. It must be
fought on both turfs, because as the Romans go, so goes the world. The Roman
Church is going the way of the world because genuine Christians in their denomination
fight well like David overcoming Goliath, but most Catholics, as most
Christians, remain silent.
Like Peter and Andrew who likely did not give up fishing because they
fished from different “waters,” Christians do not diminish God for fishing in
dangerous waters. That is fishing in the world; the world Jesus took them to,
to fish. He did not take them to the synagogue to fish for men, but to the evil
places! Ironically, the most turbulent waters were in the Temple, and Jesus
took them there to fish for men who would relish what He offered, and He discarded
the slimey “fish” who thought it was the “economy, stupid” as Bill Clinton had
to say.
Who better to set the world straight on crime and punishment, and rightness
and salvation, than Christians? Where better to present the “Sword of the Word”
than Facebook and other social media?
What makes the difference? Whether their “word” is fought by the Word or
not, rather than “turning over tables,” so to speak. Not only do I present the
word, but since we are not Jesus, when speaking the Word, oftentimes out of
righteous anger, we too “turn over tables” and disrupt the media.
Many as myself, use social media to warn the nation much as the
Books of Lamentations, Jeremiah, and Isaiah warned the nations about the bricks
falling down in Israel and Judah.
Did he save them? God could have if the people had turned back
to Him, and Jeremiah tried hard to prevent the fall. It is okay to be a
Jeremiah! We have an obligation to warn Americans that we too can fall, and at
the moment, the nation is falling fast and with great dissension. Only God can
save the nation from falling, and we Christians are His “useful tools” for
warning the nation of impending disaster! Remaining silent in the world is the
Silence that killed the Lamb of God. That must not be repeated time and time
again.
[1] Trump
and Triumph available at Amazon Books. Another one of mine is Killing
God, there as well.
(picture credit: www.aliexpress.com)
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