Posted on 03/12/2015 8:39:35 AM PDT by xzins
This is a courageous man.
It's heartening to see him stand up and be so forthright, proclaiming how evil has seeped in to leadership at the highest levels.
I agree and Obamacare is one of those positions that intentionally and unnecessarily harms Christians.
...”I really like Franklin’s outspoken courage”...
Indeed...he’s not on the International Circuit for Political purposes or be seen as every mans Pastor. I think his father too often did that but then the World has changed drastically from then. I think if his father was in his sons place ‘today’ he’d likely be as courageous.
One of the things the news often fails to include with Franklin’s comments is his wrap always includes the gospel message for all men including Muslims.
He tells them they don’t have to die for their faith...that Jesus died for them to set them free from the violence and hatred etc. and that HE is forgiving.
You know, Obama even caters to the idea that Christianity is vibrant and alive in the United States. He had to lie about it, saying he was a Christian, he is so sure this is a Christian nation.
He is also doing his best to convert it to Islam, one immigrant at a time. Scratch that, tens of thousands of immigrants at a time...
If the “silent majority” would make one quarter of the effort that the libtards make say, with their 160,000 signatures on the GOP treason petition, or the push-back from the NRA about the ammo, Ostinko and his brood would at least be more cautious about going up against normal people with libtard ideals so much of the time. IMO.
It’s also the SCOTUS going all the way back to Brown v. Board of Education.
There was a period of time....during the 80’s perhaps?....that the BGEA took a few unwise turns, made some unwise decisions that raised eyebrows among conservative Christians. I think your description about a big tent” approach is accurate. That course has been set straight again, actually over the last several years but intensifying even more under the leadership of Franklin.
Which just goes to show that even a righteous person or entity can make mistakes. The thing to do is recognize it, change course and seek God’s forgiveness and direction.
The elder Rev. Graham is in very poor health, and is 96 if memory serves me. Although it could happen, it’s unlikely that you’ll read much current news that involves a comment from the elder Graham, even though his mind is still pretty good, I believe.
Franklin is the top guy at the Billy Graham Assoc now.
Franklin Graham leads and preaches at several evangelistic efforts worldwide every year just like his father did. He has renamed them “Festivals” instead of calling them Crusades. Grandson Will Graham holds similar evangelistic preaching efforts called “Celebrations”. Just different names for the same activity.
Franklin Graham calls for this very thing on a regular basis in his interviews on FoxNews too. Lately, he’s taken to speaking out directly to muslims, telling them that they don’t have to kill people and that God’s isn’t pleased by that. (paraphrasing)
Pretty courageous stuff really...
I stand corrected. Maybe we need to persuade the MSM to carry one or two of these Crusades in prime time....just to see what the ratings would be.
I believe he DID associate Obama with the anti-christ. The fact that he used the term in the same paragraph when he could have used anti-christian, which he did later.
Reading between the lines is very important sometimes.
We need to remember that and at the same time keep perspective.
I have no doubt Graham said exactly what he meant.
And what he did NOT say is “We see the Anti-Christ”
BTTT!
No, it was Billy, not Franklin, who catered to the Clintons in the 1990s. Billy even said once he understood how much the “ladies” like President Clinton.
2 Thessalonians 2.7: "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." It is the church who must be taken out of the way before the Antichrist can rise up.
Just because the Holy Spirit’s restraint no longer prevents the rise of the Anti-Christ, that doesn’t mean the Christians have been taken out. It COULD mean that, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that.
It means that the restraining power of the Holy Spirit no longer restrains.
2 Th 2:7 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. (NKJV)
I’d recommend reading the Matthew Henry Commentaries on 2 Thess 2.
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