Posted on 04/12/2020 5:55:28 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
One of the most popular professional wrestlers of all time is calling for a Christian revival.
Terry Gene Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, posted a message to Facebook this week commenting on the coronavirus pandemic.
Amid all the death and suffering caused by the crisis, Hogan saw one silver lining.
“In three short months, just like He did with the plagues of Egypt, God has taken away everything we worship,” Hogan said.
“God said, ‘you want to worship athletes, I will shut down the stadiums. You want to worship musicians, I will shut down Civic Centers. You want to worship actors, I will shut down theaters. You want to worship money, I will shut down the economy and collapse the stock market,'” Hogan wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Pretty much the same article was posted on FR five days ago, except the publication was The Tampa Bay Times and the headline was "Hulk Hogan on coronavirus: ‘Maybe we don’t need a vaccine."
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3832509/posts
Quite a different take, isn't it?
And look who is trying to take away our churches, the government. The self-appointed opposition to God.
The difference is, we can still HAVE church without GOING to church thanks to online sermons and radio broadcasts, etc.
RE: Hulk Hogan Calls for Revival Amid Pandemic: ‘God Has Taken Away Everything We Worship’
Hmmm... since when did Hulk Hogan become religious?
If you think church is online sermons and radio broadcasts, you don’t read your Bible much......in scripture, “church” is all about human relationships & personal interaction.......e.g., see how many times “one another” and “one accord” are found in Acts.......
Sermons or long messages were not even a part of the early church and only appeared a century or more later.......
And as opposed to large congregational “services” where everyone follows the leading of one or a few men, the early church was “two or three....” and “house-to-house” - see Acts 2:42.......
Agreed, but you forgot to mention cell phones. I have been doing Bible studies over the phone with a friend. We do not need to worship in large groups, but just with one or two others will suffice.
“For where two or three are gathered in My Name, there I am among them.” Mathew 18:20
I hate to tell you this Terry, but it wasn’t GOD that took it away.
It was Satan and his minions in government and the media.
I always thought he was an atheist.
And of course, now that I read the article, I see that the headline infers the opposite of what Terry meant.
Don’t know but Pastor Bill Randles made the same point the other day in a sermon mostly about the idol sports is to a big chunk of America.
Well, let's see. Let me answer that question and see if I don't step on somebody's toes.
One of the responders comes at my statement from the "letter of the law" standpoint and the other from a "spirit of the law".
The case can be made that both are pleasing to God, but one is MORE pleasing. Which do you suppose is more pleasing? Observing the letter or the spirit?
I am not a Bible scholar nor did I stay at a a Holiday Inn Express last night. But isn't there a story in the Bible where someone was preaching for so long that a listener fell asleep while sitting on a window sill fell two stories to his death only to be resurrected by the guy preaching? When did that take place? ...
Not the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard
It was Satan and his minions in government and the media.
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Could God have chosen to stop it?
An excellent article from an unlikely source, on Easter.
Your post? Not so much.
I heard a preacher at a Revival one time tell us a story. He said he went to visit someone who didn’t like to go to the service, but the man told him he faithfully listens on the radio. They were sitting beside the fireplace as the man told explained all his reasons. As he spoke, the preacher took the poker and pushed one glowing red coal off to the side.
As they spoke, that coal slowly cooled and turn black while the rest of the fire stayed the same.
‘Foresake not the gathering together of yourselves...’
Just looked up his FB page and read many comments. Interesting.
RE: I’d rather be a Christian. The Pharisees were religious.
Hogan’s statement does not sound like something a hypocritical pharisee would say.
“Maybe we don’t need a vaccine, Maybe we need to take this time of isolation from the distractions of the world and have a personal revival where we focus on the ONLY thing in the world that really matters. Jesus,” he said.
See you in the clouds, Big Guy, sooner rather than later.
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