Religious persecution, specifically persecution of
Christians in this country is moving apace, and the results of the 2012
elections will strengthen it. My view is this was a tipping point election,
where government greed, government enabled sloth of the people, culturally
approved lust, government wrath directed to those that do not adhere to the
secularist\atheist faith in the State over God, barely literate uneducated students thinking they
know everything out of pride, envy of those that have more of anything, and
gluttony (we have become an overweight nation desiring things more than God). In
short, we have embraced the seven deadly sins. The Judeo-Christian values that form the foundation of this nation's success have been rejected. This Christian Conservative is not going to stop the fight for free minds, free markets, and religious liberty.
It's been said, and I've said many times, that totalitarians
must oppress Christians to be successful in their rule. Their success may be
eased now because even though this administration and Democrat Party openly
attacked and tried to take control of doctrine and force them obey the State,
most Catholics still voted Democrat and for Obama. It's clear Obama is an
anti-Semite, and his political party is anti-Semitic, yet Jews voted for Obama
and his Party. Stunning because governments have a long history of pogroms to
eradicate Jews from the planet, and the Democrat Party is the party of the government, the State.. I had written earlier of Christians getting
upset when elected officials pass regulations and laws limiting religious free
speech, deny the posting of the Ten Commandments, abolishing Nativity Scenes
from public view, and the rest we're all aware of. Then Christians turn around
the next election and vote again for anti-Christian secularists, atheists and
bigots.
It's all part of persecuting Christians in this country, and
I'm ever so grateful I'm not faced with martyrdom, torture or imprisonment, as
in China
Marginalizing is one aspect of persecution. Another is that
constant refrain Christians have an intolerant criminal history. You remember
the Crusades (a thousand years ago) and the Inquisitions (500 years ago). Of
course this history proves how oppressive and violent Christians are. That's
the "knowledge" secularists and atheists have in the present day.
Stereotyping, which we all do to some extent is particularly
effective. You find a Christian or two that falls short on Christian behavior, and
keep repeating that's what all Christians are like; intolerant, bigots, closed
minded, stupid. We know all the names. Of course very few Christians are these things,
but enough non-Christians "know" this, so it must be true.
This may be the first time in history Christians are
contributing to their own persecution. Vote for the persecutors. Not standing
up for your faith. Being afraid to speak of Christ in public, allowing
secularists to prevent public prayer. Not witnessing. Confining your religious
practices and beliefs to Sunday. Of course then you become the hypocrite they
claim you are because you are only Christians on Sunday, and forget about it
the rest of the week. Catch 22.
The time has come for Christians to take a stand. Better now
than when we reach the point when Jesus says in Matthew 24:9: "Then they
will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all
nations for My name's sake".
In Matthew 10:22 He says "And you will be hated by all
for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved".
I appreciate the sentiment, but right now in this
country we can avoid being delivered up for tribulation and death. The path
we're on though, it will lead to that.
The Sermon on the Mount he said, "Blessed are you when
they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely
for My sake."
Evil is being said about us, and it is false. I'd rather be
blessed for some of the other reasons in that Sermon.
How long before being against homosexual marriage becomes a
hate crime? If you're a Catholic and stand against the State mandate that
contraception and abortion must be paid for by Catholic institutions, and it
becomes a crime, you will be imprisoned and\or fined, where is your
religious freedom? When you are against abortion for religious reasons, what will you do when it becomes a hate crime? What will you do when wearing a cross or crucifix becomes a hate crime?
This is rather long, but is what Jesus said would happen,
and it is happening, from John 15:18-27 and 16:1-4.
The World's Hatred
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
The Coming Rejection
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.
Jesus has told us what would happen. Our culture has passed the
tipping point. Ignored is the true history of Christianity, that it saved civilization
when the Roman Empire collapsed. That in the
pagan world the concepts of hope, charity and love were nonexistent. There were
no charitable institutions. No hospitals. Altruistic love was a non-starter. It
was Christians that ended slavery. Ask just about anybody, and all they know about Christianity is bad stuff. None of the good stuff, that far outweighs the negatives.
Now we have churches and charitable institutions that
provide millions upon millions of dollars of food and money to help, but it's ignored by the secularist press, and the government. The
secularist government is forcing Christian adoption agencies to shut down
because they think a male and a female together are best to raise a child.
Hospitals and Christian social services are being shut down because the they
won't obey the atheist/secularist anti-Christian government. It's more important to the government to shut down Christianity and its institutions than it is to serve people. The money taken in by government to help the poor goes to middle class bureaucrats, that let a pittance dribble down to those in need, with the purpose of keeping them in need. They're not there to serve anyone but themselves.
And who will the Helper recognize when Christians that
supported and voted for those against Christianity, that have not been with Him.
We are stumbling, because we're supporting those that hate us, and Christ, without
cause. We are being put out of our churches. Jesus told us of these things, and
not only are we ignoring these prophecies, but we are contributing to our own oppression
and enslavement to the State.
Many, even Christians will mock this prophecy of Christ. Naw, not here in America. Well, it is happening, here, in America.
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