The following post is from this past August:
It is not impossible....it takes real effort....to stand back and view America as it is today....as if from the outside....but it may as well be impossible because we do not even attempt it. The ugly reality is that we....evangelicals....just do not care about God judging us. Take the pandemic for instance. That was God's judgment....on America....all of us in America....even the church....and the world....but we rejected that concept of judgment....and transferred the focus to China....and continue that narrative....'gain of function' if you will....altering the meaning of this pandemic....for political gain.
The Reagan years turned into the Clinton years....and then the George W. years....and then the Obama years. 9/11 shook us to the core....but it is what happened after the dust settled....and we found ourselves....two sides....facing each other....bayonets in place....that should really have sent us to our knees....but it never happened.
It was probably only months before that terrible day in 2001....when as I was going through an eighteen month master's degree program in Higher Education....a fifty year old among mostly newly graduated young people....that I stood up in class....during a general class participation time over the issues of the day....and I....looking back on it....pleaded with those in our cohort to consider the division that was coming to America. I could see it....and I could feel it. They were already familiar with the word 'division'....for we had been a divided society for a while...but not nearly as intense a division as what I saw coming.
We in evangelicalism have settled into an erroneous and destructive 'rapture' mentality where since Jesus will return in 'the twinkling of an eye"....we don't have to think about any of this at all. We will be zapped up....and the world will have to deal with the tribulation. So....since in our estimation Jesus may not return for fifty or a hundred years....OK....we'll admit....maybe it's sooner than we than that....maybe twenty years....whatever it is we just have to get the republicans back in charge so that we can continue to work on our future....and the future of our children.
This is not God's will for us....and since it is not His will....we are out of His favor....and have lost just about all discernment. It is literally horror that engulfs us today. Our governing processes have collapsed. Our media....both sides of it....are so biased that the news they gives us does more harm than good. We have become as two wild animals going at it. God has given us up to chaos. Israel is in chaos. Both they and us will have to defend ourselves in the near future....but we are so divided that se may not have the will.
The greatest disappointment has been the churches....particularly the pulpits. We are in need of severe warnings....to prepare for what is ahead....and they give us none. Our shepherds have abandoned us. Great delusion is right at our doorstep....but for them to warn us would jeopardise the plans they have made....to grow.....and build. That is if they were even aware of the dangers ahead....which they are not. We simply cannot come to grips with the concept that one church age might differ from another....and that therefore....one might be worse than another.
A winnowing is not only coming but upon us right now....and it is going to be very difficult....families and churches split between those who can discern what is happening....and those who have fallen for the delusions.
Look at your own church. When is the last time that your sermon filled you with the glory of our Lord….or depleted you so that you had to call out for mercy....and cried thanksgiving for God's patience? Probably never! It’s the church age folks. We have no idea what the power of the Holy Spirit can do in either mortification because of our failures to be faithful....or exaltation of our glorious Savior....because we have never experienced it.
We have been told that the power of the Holy Spirit is fifty thousand filling a stadium....or a million-man march....or college students in a marathon revival service. We manufacture visitations....and concoct stories....trips to heaven....or hell. None of it changes us....or humbles us. We have fallen under the sway of counterfeit….emotion-driven substitutes....or practical church-growth gospels that do not save. No one has to be born again anymore....and there is no call to come out of the world....or to separate ourselves unto the Lord....but all that is about to change....should the Lord will it....only it will come with tears....and then shouts of....
"Amen! blessings and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.
(Rev: 7:12)
