The following post is from March of 2017:
It may be the single most valuable Christian ministry in America....well that's my opinion anyway....and they have a home conference coming up that they call The Next 500 Years. They are alluding here to its having been almost 500 years since Martin Luther's writings began the 16th century Reformation. So it's natural to take the opportunity to envision what can be done in the next half millennium.
I understand the message but what went through my mind upon hearing of the conference title was....."next 500 years....how about the next 500 days....or even the next five years? I just don't agree with the emphasis on the next 500 years when....if I might use this expression in a very literal sense.... all hell is breaking out in this world.
What it boils down to is this.....some Christians see events in one way....and others see them in another way. So I'll be the party of the first part. This is not normal what we are seeing. This is not problems with a Third Reich and an Imperial Japan. This is not a Cuban Missile Crisis. We're dealing with nuclear weapons in the hands of maniacs...maniacs who actually want nuclear war.
Nothing is holding together! Do you read the news? I'm not talking about that newspaper delivered to your door every morning....I'm talking about Drudge. He's where he is at because he actually links to real horror...and that's what it is....horror! A kid walks out of his house a couple days ago holding his mother's head in his hands! And this horror happens every single solitary day! And even if we somehow read about it it's a shake of the head and page over to the sports or weather.
Now the party of the second part here are the men of this conference....wonderful Christians! I'm but a gnat compared to any one of the dozen or so of these speakers. So what have we become....a church where only the well known are to be heard. I hope the peasants....and simple fishermen....can still give an opinion.
It's not only war....the people with all the money want a one world government....and they want it bad....I refer you to the coup attempt of President Trump. We Christians do know what that means do we not? One half of our nation...one half of America....are blind to just about anything. I listen to them on the news and marvel....marvel....at how little the human mind can at times comprehend.
The same men at that conference will admit that we are now pagan. We sacrifice children! New technologies are entering into areas that make the Tower of Babel look like child's play. The last one hundred years has been one warning from God after another along these lines.
I am not alone in this by any means. There are atheists out there...Stephen Hawking for one says that "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Here's a man with no concept of God who sees what most of us don't....that these are not normal times.
The party of the first part can read Revelation or the Olivet Discourse and see a message that after nearly two thousand years may literally have been written to them. The party of the second part reads the same words and says... "Uh....be careful there....don't want to be a date-setter!" Can anyone read my posts and think for a second that I have given up on proclaiming Christ because I think....and hope....that Christ's return in power and glory is near? The crux of the matter is whether one can see disaster on the horizon....warn about it....and still trust God. I say that they can....in fact that seems to be what Scripture tell us to do. I would question others on if they trust in God so much why don't they trust in His warnings?
Let me ask this question to the party of the second part....do they even think that it is possible....just within the realm of possibility....that they may have made a mistake....that others not so refined may see what they have not seen? I'm just asking an honest question....I know how accomplished these men are and how much good that they have done...and I praise God for that all the time! I've admitted that they tower above me....but have they even considered that it may be possible that they may have erred on this....that an Arminian....such as Billy Graham....not educated in a Reformed seminary....or maybe another who may wear an ill-fitting suit off the rack at Sears and dangle his misplaced modifiers...,that he may have discerned what God is saying and they may not have?
It may be the single most valuable Christian ministry in America....well that's my opinion anyway....and they have a home conference coming up that they call The Next 500 Years. They are alluding here to its having been almost 500 years since Martin Luther's writings began the 16th century Reformation. So it's natural to take the opportunity to envision what can be done in the next half millennium.
I understand the message but what went through my mind upon hearing of the conference title was....."next 500 years....how about the next 500 days....or even the next five years? I just don't agree with the emphasis on the next 500 years when....if I might use this expression in a very literal sense.... all hell is breaking out in this world.
What it boils down to is this.....some Christians see events in one way....and others see them in another way. So I'll be the party of the first part. This is not normal what we are seeing. This is not problems with a Third Reich and an Imperial Japan. This is not a Cuban Missile Crisis. We're dealing with nuclear weapons in the hands of maniacs...maniacs who actually want nuclear war.
Nothing is holding together! Do you read the news? I'm not talking about that newspaper delivered to your door every morning....I'm talking about Drudge. He's where he is at because he actually links to real horror...and that's what it is....horror! A kid walks out of his house a couple days ago holding his mother's head in his hands! And this horror happens every single solitary day! And even if we somehow read about it it's a shake of the head and page over to the sports or weather.
Now the party of the second part here are the men of this conference....wonderful Christians! I'm but a gnat compared to any one of the dozen or so of these speakers. So what have we become....a church where only the well known are to be heard. I hope the peasants....and simple fishermen....can still give an opinion.
It's not only war....the people with all the money want a one world government....and they want it bad....I refer you to the coup attempt of President Trump. We Christians do know what that means do we not? One half of our nation...one half of America....are blind to just about anything. I listen to them on the news and marvel....marvel....at how little the human mind can at times comprehend.
The same men at that conference will admit that we are now pagan. We sacrifice children! New technologies are entering into areas that make the Tower of Babel look like child's play. The last one hundred years has been one warning from God after another along these lines.
I am not alone in this by any means. There are atheists out there...Stephen Hawking for one says that "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Here's a man with no concept of God who sees what most of us don't....that these are not normal times.
The party of the first part can read Revelation or the Olivet Discourse and see a message that after nearly two thousand years may literally have been written to them. The party of the second part reads the same words and says... "Uh....be careful there....don't want to be a date-setter!" Can anyone read my posts and think for a second that I have given up on proclaiming Christ because I think....and hope....that Christ's return in power and glory is near? The crux of the matter is whether one can see disaster on the horizon....warn about it....and still trust God. I say that they can....in fact that seems to be what Scripture tell us to do. I would question others on if they trust in God so much why don't they trust in His warnings?
Let me ask this question to the party of the second part....do they even think that it is possible....just within the realm of possibility....that they may have made a mistake....that others not so refined may see what they have not seen? I'm just asking an honest question....I know how accomplished these men are and how much good that they have done...and I praise God for that all the time! I've admitted that they tower above me....but have they even considered that it may be possible that they may have erred on this....that an Arminian....such as Billy Graham....not educated in a Reformed seminary....or maybe another who may wear an ill-fitting suit off the rack at Sears and dangle his misplaced modifiers...,that he may have discerned what God is saying and they may not have?
