I didn't say anything about being afraid of conflict. Experience teaches that those who beat their chests about how brave and strong they are - are usually the first ones to run and flee in terror when a real fight shows up.
Are we to huddle in our homes and permit the stormtroopers of a new generation to enact the same policies of tyrants past in the name of our present tyrant(s)?
Judging the fruits - the daily news, apparently the answer is yes. We are even losing our ability to discern good from evil as our rulers are exclaiming that what is good is evil and what is evil is good.
What, exactly, do you propose?
Repentance, along with defiance and refusal to comply with tyranny. That will bring out the tyrant who will seek to impose that tyranny by deadly force. Then we will know what time it is, and then will we have justification to do what is necessary.
That said, we are divided even among our 'own side'. Many of us cannot define liberty the same way and this nation at the moment, stands apart from God.
We suffer what we suffer because of our sins, and because our faith is lukewarm to the point we were not willing to do what was necessary to resist evil. We even capitulated to evil to avoid conflict and labels. In the mid-1760's - the Pastors understood that the Colonists were suffering the tyranny of the crown because of their collective sins - and the First Awakening prepared the people for the war that would come the following decade.
I can't even get pastors to agree that the nation needs to beseech God in repentance in this hedonistic culture.
Yup. An idol is being trusted in. Those who trust in the Lord will dig in and fight out of indignation (in-dig-nation, did I just state a pun?) but don't relish the idea of such fights, in fact will try just about anything else that is not sinful in preference to them.
Though not exact quoting you, I agree that yes we Christians need repentance. This is not some elaborate affair. It is simply to take seriously the exhortation and connect promise of James to "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." As you do so, God will indicate things that you've been doing wrong that you can do right (or at least better). It isn't God who is making repenting hard. The Cross has already been provided to obviate our need even of making amends for past misdeeds. Who'd be able to traverse that labyrinth, to say their amends were enough? But we are sternly reminded that our sin must stop if we are not to end up in hades.
“...defiance and refusal to comply with tyranny...”
“NO” is the most powerful word in any language.
Connecticut, right now. They’re GOING for the military-pattern rifles. This is a test-bed, what happens there.
That little fascist Lawlor running the show up there has sent out over 100 confiscation notices to private citizens to surrender, render inoperable, and remove military pattern rifles.
The reality is this; what’s happening in CT is exactly what the Second Amendment was put in place to prevent. And this is just at the State level.
Here’s one man who’s taking them on single-handed: Mike Vanderbeough.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2014/02/open-letter-to-legislative-tyrants-of.html
This...I agree with.
"In the mid-1760's - the Pastors understood that the Colonists were suffering the tyranny of the crown because of their collective sins - and the First Awakening prepared the people for the war that would come the following decade."
Our society as a whole in this day and age doesn't even recognize sin as sin...with the exception of the faithful few. So I have my doubts that a "First Awakening" of this type will come about with the types of people we have in this country.
Call me cynical, but that's the way I see it when so many are contented with AI, Survivor, Sect. 8 and EBT. Bread and circuses abound in this nation...sigh.
