Posted on 06/21/2015 1:07:04 PM PDT by pcottraux
I'm not usually one to share my blog on FR (I haven't FReeped regularly in a long time), and I wasn't sure if this should be posted in Bloggers or Religion. But I wanted to share my thoughts on the Charleston shooting, how it pertains to media coverage, homosexuality, and Christianity in current events, and what the Bible has to say about persecution in the end-time hour.
Drunken with the Blood of the Saints:
By Philip Cottraux
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns (Revelation 17:3). She goes by many names: the whore of Babylon, the mother of Harlots. The whore of Revelation. John goes into vivid description of her, and the inscription on her head tells us all we need to know: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth (verses 4-5). The beast on which she rides is the antichrist, and she is the one-world church that will usher him into power. And she is drunk on the blood of the saints.
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I just read it. Thanks
What stopped you from posting the whole thing?
Besides, in all truth, Black and white chrstians have never really been co-religionists in this country. Instead each has considered the other as the Ultimate Enemy and chosen political allies on the basis of ethno-cultural solidarity.
Seriously? You’re using FR to plant clickbait?
Only in the eyes of Zionist conspirators, who see everything politically. There are many black Christians who take their inspiration from the word of God, mainly the New Testament, not from politicians, black or white.
By the way, something must be wrong with your spell checker. It is Christians, not "chrstians." And with a capital "C."
So you want to separate religion from state? You don't think religion has anything to say about everyday life? I suppose you label simple support of the bare minimum of Divinely-mandated decency as "political?"
I know many Black chrstians too--I have all my life. And they behave one way and vote another, and any time one enters politics he seems to automatically become a screaming red on every issue across the board (or else is labeled an "uncle tom").
Blacks have been out to lunch for sixty or more years on issues of morality other than those that directly affect issues of race and poverty. Their silence has allowed common decency to be derided as "white" by the Left. They have also benefited from a fanatical Left that hates and attacks "redneck" chrstians but which celebrates Black chrstians as if they were not chrstians at all but members of some other religion being persecuted by chrstians.
My spelling of the word "chrstian" is due to a religious scruple on my part. If you would rather see the "X" just let me know.
Much of what you say about the black political situation is, of course true. I speak, however, of only a remnant of black Christians. Regardless to how small. God always has his faithful remnant, in Old Testament Israel - see Hebrews 11 - and Christianity. In universalist Christianity, a faithful remnant irrespective of their race, nationality, or color.
I’m actually not sure what that means, but if I did anything violating any rules here, I apologize. I haven’t shared my blog on this site since I started it (this was my 21st message, with one up every week I think), since I feel my writing will speak for itself, but I decided since this one was relevant to the shooting that occurred in Charleston (a current event rather than just a generic Bible study) some on FR may be interested in reading it.
Again, I wasn’t sure if it should go in the Bloggers section or Religion but I had no intentions of doing any kind of self-promotion or doing anything wrong.
Welcome!
I understand that unfortunately, Sunday mornings are the most segregated days of the week in America. But I don’t think that’s the will of God at all; in the early church, Paul spent a great deal of effort in his epistles trying to get Gentiles and converted Jews to put their differences aside and worship together as one Church.
During the Asuza Street Revival in 1917, which was more-or-less the birth of the modern Pentecostal movement, black and whites came together and worshiped and sang in one church. This during some of the worst days of segregation. The liberal LA Times was indignant and wrote slanderous articles decrying this “inappropriate” integration of negroes and whites.
William J Seymour, leader of the movement, was the son former slaves and is said to have gone to Bible schools, but sat outside the windows to listen to the messages because as an African American, he was not allowed in. But he did not have any hatred or ill will, and even hugged and prayed for other white students as they left the building. Today’s race-baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have a lot to learn from Seymour!
As per what I wrote, I don’t know anything about the church in Charleston—what they taught or believed, etc. I just see great hypocrisy in the left that decries this someone shooting people at a church but has been entering churches and businesses and trying to force Christians to abandon their beliefs and cater to and perform homosexual weddings.
That is one messed-up gene pool.
Sorry, I came across as grouchier than I intended. The point was, excerpting is a necessary evil with respect to certain publications only because of copyright laws. If you post your own blog, you don’t need to excerpt it because you own the content. So by excerpting and forcing others to click to read the rest of it, when you could have simply posted the whole thing, it comes across as self-serving.
No biggie; I promise I had no idea. I don’t want people to think I’m being self-serving. I don’t post on FR much though I do lurk a lot so when I do read articles here they almost always have just the first paragraph followed by a link so I assumed that was just the rule. :)
I actually hadn’t planned on posting any more of my blogs here on FR (just this one due to it being about a current event rather than a general Bible study), but if I do I will remember that for future reference.
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