Preface: I'm in our dining room typing.....looking like Albert Einstein on a bad hair day....sneezing with morning allergies....running through the Internet news.....and Googled up last night's National Anthem by Lauren Daigle.....the newest 'Christian' superstar I perceive. I stood up as I always do upon hearing our anthem....in anything but an inspiring sight....and listened to the fluctuating vocal chords.....trying to discern some of the hard to distinguish words....with the crowd cheering wildly....oblivious to their nation crumbling.....and our President on the sideline knowingly and intentionally....even diabolically stoking more animosity as he demands to be in the limelight....and although I stood....I was a bit of an emotional mess at what we have become.
Back in the early to mid-80s we Christians often used the analogy of a frog in the kettle where the frog could have jumped out of the soon to be boiling water but the temperature increased so slowly that by the time the frog knew it should escape.....it couldn't. Call it a revival if you want but I prefer just a movement of God. Looking back on it....it was a remarkable time....and actually it extended further back than the 80s. I can remember ten or so of us meeting for prayer after working a midnight shift. Dirty and tired....maybe a third of our crew choose prayer over getting in the car to go home and sleep....this for a time anyway. Christian bookstores where everywhere. Billy Graham crusades were on the UHF channel often. People were being born again all over the place....and we used that analogy because we knew America was in trouble.
We would warn back then that the judgment of God would first come to the church. Little did we know the extent of that warning from 1 Peter 4:17....that it actually included us. There is no way that a discerning Christian of any maturity should not have given Donald Trump the old heave-ho years ago....during the primaries....but God blinded our eyes to him. So here we are....the God-ignoring progressives can see this man....while the God-fearing....former conservatives....cannot.
We were in serious rebellion to God back then....but in retrospect not nearly in as much rebellion as we are in today....and we knew that God was going to judge us....whereas today we do not....as we are fully ensconced with the mad ravings of a genuine false prophet. It's hopeless....unless God has mercy upon us and returns some of our vision....and even then it would not be to restore America to Donald Trump's version of greatness....but for God to be with us through the maelstrom ahead.
God has warned us in America very clearly for well upwards of forty years now. We
responded at first....then fell asleep....but these are newer generations that are not aware of the
miracles of the past....nor the warnings of the past....but have accepted as miracles that which are
not....from false teachers....and a false prophet in Donald Trump....and are once again the frog in the kettle.
Back in the early to mid-80s we Christians often used the analogy of a frog in the kettle where the frog could have jumped out of the soon to be boiling water but the temperature increased so slowly that by the time the frog knew it should escape.....it couldn't. Call it a revival if you want but I prefer just a movement of God. Looking back on it....it was a remarkable time....and actually it extended further back than the 80s. I can remember ten or so of us meeting for prayer after working a midnight shift. Dirty and tired....maybe a third of our crew choose prayer over getting in the car to go home and sleep....this for a time anyway. Christian bookstores where everywhere. Billy Graham crusades were on the UHF channel often. People were being born again all over the place....and we used that analogy because we knew America was in trouble.
We would warn back then that the judgment of God would first come to the church. Little did we know the extent of that warning from 1 Peter 4:17....that it actually included us. There is no way that a discerning Christian of any maturity should not have given Donald Trump the old heave-ho years ago....during the primaries....but God blinded our eyes to him. So here we are....the God-ignoring progressives can see this man....while the God-fearing....former conservatives....cannot.
We were in serious rebellion to God back then....but in retrospect not nearly in as much rebellion as we are in today....and we knew that God was going to judge us....whereas today we do not....as we are fully ensconced with the mad ravings of a genuine false prophet. It's hopeless....unless God has mercy upon us and returns some of our vision....and even then it would not be to restore America to Donald Trump's version of greatness....but for God to be with us through the maelstrom ahead.
God has warned us in America very clearly for well upwards of forty years now. We
responded at first....then fell asleep....but these are newer generations that are not aware of the
miracles of the past....nor the warnings of the past....but have accepted as miracles that which are
not....from false teachers....and a false prophet in Donald Trump....and are once again the frog in the kettle.
