Searching on a different topic....I came across a post from 2011 titled....We Are All Rioters....this after England had experienced major riots. We conservatives tend to look at street rioters as the only rebels in this equation....for we are the good guys....who obey the law....but rebels and rioting come in many forms. Some are law abiding....proper to a T....very conservative.....and even church goers. When we build giant churches that are heavy on entertainment but light on warning of God's judgement....we are rioters. When we fill giant auditoriums to listen to rich 'Christian' teachers who tell us how to procure Christ's powers to be healthy and wealthy....we are rebels....when others of us....(and I need to examine myself here)....who pay close attention to doctrine but may forget our first love....we are looters....and when we let Donald Trump preach to us....with false prophesies of peace and security and greatness ahead....and lead us away from our trust in Christ....we are nothing but a mob. The following is just the last paragraph of that post.
"We all riot every time when we rebel against God. We all loot when we fashion a gospel of our own making....a god of our own liking...and a christ of our own creative imaginings. There will never be a shortage of rioters until Christ comes again. Only God's grace can make it such that the rioter is isolated where he does not feed on the (passions) of the majority....nor is egged on by others of like minds....nor lives in total darkness where the light of the gospel cannot point the way. Both Britain and America teeter on the edge where riots will be the least of our worries. As bleak as the situation is....and it has never been bleaker....not during the Civil War....nor on December 7th, 1941....and not as Rebellion became our middle name as our visible collapse began in the 1960s....our only hope is in the omniscience and omnipotence and mercy of Almighty God. One way or the other America and Britain will prostrate itself before Him, either in fear as He comes in judgement or in thankfulness as His Spirit melts our collective hearts."
Note: We in America are obviously 100 times worse off than when these words were posted. I was warning often but even I would have been hard put to envision the complete collapse of both sides in this divided country....where the Progressives become nothing but budding Bolsheviks....and conservatives become the cult following of a political carpetbagger....and bon vivant playboy par excellence....Donald Trump. Folks we in the church need to examine ourselves on the collapse of America....for until we see that our dalliances with culture and entertainments and greed added to this collapse....we will be of no help. We need terribly to move on from Donald Trump...and pray that God would awaken our slumbering pulpits.
"We all riot every time when we rebel against God. We all loot when we fashion a gospel of our own making....a god of our own liking...and a christ of our own creative imaginings. There will never be a shortage of rioters until Christ comes again. Only God's grace can make it such that the rioter is isolated where he does not feed on the (passions) of the majority....nor is egged on by others of like minds....nor lives in total darkness where the light of the gospel cannot point the way. Both Britain and America teeter on the edge where riots will be the least of our worries. As bleak as the situation is....and it has never been bleaker....not during the Civil War....nor on December 7th, 1941....and not as Rebellion became our middle name as our visible collapse began in the 1960s....our only hope is in the omniscience and omnipotence and mercy of Almighty God. One way or the other America and Britain will prostrate itself before Him, either in fear as He comes in judgement or in thankfulness as His Spirit melts our collective hearts."
Note: We in America are obviously 100 times worse off than when these words were posted. I was warning often but even I would have been hard put to envision the complete collapse of both sides in this divided country....where the Progressives become nothing but budding Bolsheviks....and conservatives become the cult following of a political carpetbagger....and bon vivant playboy par excellence....Donald Trump. Folks we in the church need to examine ourselves on the collapse of America....for until we see that our dalliances with culture and entertainments and greed added to this collapse....we will be of no help. We need terribly to move on from Donald Trump...and pray that God would awaken our slumbering pulpits.
