Posted on 09/01/2019 7:54:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Earlier this week, I met with some Christian friends who have lived and worked in China for many years. What they shared with me was chilling and sobering. (They are well-connected and not simply airing personal opinions.)
First, the crackdown against Christian believers in the country (not to mention the crackdown against Muslims and others, which we did not discuss in detail), is getting increasingly severe.
Just a few years ago, there were real signs of change. Persecution was lessening and liberties were increasing. But not today.
There is a systematic attempt to purge the Gospel from the nation.
Even the national, Three-Self churches, in which there were some real, Gospel preaching pastors, are now virtually bereft of such leaders. And it is true that the Communist Party is rewriting the Bible to make it suitable for their purposes. This, then, would be the Bible used in these government-run churches. Talk about an utterly blasphemous act.
As for the underground churches, the crackdown against them is intensifying.
My friends have Chinese colleagues whose family members have received life sentences because of their faith.
Arrests, brutal interrogations, imprisonments, disruption of meetings, beatings, destroying of “unauthorized” Bibles and Christian books are increasingly common. In one instance that was shared with me, those owning non-approved Bibles and other resources were hit with “stiff fines and the books earmarked for destruction. But not before they (the materials) were first dumped in piles on the street before they were carted off…followed by the pastor who was then sent to prison.”
To be sure, much of this has been known for some time now and I myself have written about it, most recently, last September. But, to repeat, the persecution is increasing, and it is chilling to hear about it firsthand.
Second, President Xi really does have megalomaniacal plans. By removing presidential term limits, he is setting himself up to be emperor for life (as my friends couched it).
Not only so, but I was told that the government, from top to bottom, seems to be in lock step with him (in particular, when it comes to persecuting Christians).
In the past, Beijing might say one thing and a local province would do another. Today, I was informed, that is not the case. The cooperation and harmony are deep.
Third, while the Chinese people may have enjoyed having more liberties, they are more concerned with a healthy economy. And since more and more Chinese have more and more money, they don’t mind the crackdowns on their liberties, which include greater monitoring of their day-to-day lives.
Not only so, but the government is now regulating what days certain factories can run and having more say about certain cars on the road, which is leading to less pollution and more blue skies.
Simply stated, as the people have more money in their pockets and more blue skies over their heads, they are all the more supportive of President Xi. In fact, my friend felt that if China went to war, people would enlist in the army en masse.
Fourth, my friends believe that China is increasingly becoming the antagonist in the world today, and they stated plainly that someone needed to stand up to China’s aggression.
When I asked if President Trump could be that person, they replied, “The Chinese liked Obama but didn’t respect him. They don’t like Trump but they do respect him.”
Right now, Trump is standing up to China when it comes to trade, and it appears he has no intention of backing down. (I am not an economist, so I’ll limit my comments to this one sentence, not knowing the ins and outs of his strategy.)
But I also know the president has people close to him who inform him about the persecution of Christians in countries like China and India, and perhaps here, too, Trump could take a stand. Would it help, especially if tied in with financial sanctions?
Perhaps.
But at the least, it would send a loud message and get the ball of resistance rolling. Perhaps other nations would then follow America’s example.
But all that is speculation.
The reality is that a very powerful, very dangerous China is rising on our watch, one that is capable of destroying many millions of lives.
Let us pray for God to stand in judgment over China’s tyranny, to humble or remove President Xi, and to help His persecuted Church.
And let us encourage our government to do whatever it can to push back against China’s evil intentions.
“Communist Party is rewriting the Bible to make it suitable for their purposes.”
Pete Buttigig approves.
“Let us pray for God to stand in judgment over China’s tyranny, to humble or remove President Xi,....”
God will indeed stand in judgement of Xi as He will all of us mortals.
AS far as Xi being humbled or removed, that will be up to the people of China.
Sounds like the democrats here in America...
He’s already written into the constitution just like Deng and Mao, so removing him won’t make much difference - his vision for China will continue to be part of official state doctrine even after he’s out of office.
Most leaders can only dream of such a thing...consider how hamstrung Trump would be if the vision of the Obamanation had been written into US law...
This will be the US the next time we get a DemocRat president and Congress.
Even now it surprises me but when the USSR broke up, it was mostly a conversation. Some fighting, but nothing cataclysmic.
I don’t think the PRC break-up will resemble the Soviet one, or even the Yugoslavian one.
I think it will be much, much worse.
If a popular uprising becomes a coup, it would probably become a civil war, and in the case of China that would be extremely serious.
I think something BIG is happening in China, now.
Disturbing take in this article.
It’s 52 min and his Engrish really stinks to all hell, but this interview with Chinese billionaire fugitive and Commi Critic MILES KWOK is really amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwXifDaCjE
He predicts....
1. The Chinese Communist Party is evil and it is DONE FOR. They have maaaaybe 2 years
2. They’re going to kill (Alibaba) Jack Ma or put him in prison, it’s part of a pattern most haven’t noticed
3. The entire PRC is a yuge drug-running money laundering institution on behalf of a tiiiiny minority, the commi leadership whose lives have nothing in common with the people
4. Tons of other interesting stuff
5. His Engrish really stinks so they use subtitles, which help
You can see on his face he’s passionate and DESPERATE to get this out there
The Chinese Communist leadership has someone who can do time travel. They returned and reported that due to movements in China today, China becomes the largest Christian nation on earth in the future. So, the Chinese politburo is trying to change history before it happens. /sarc
“Simply stated, as the people have more money in their pockets and more blue skies over their heads, they are all the more supportive of President Xi. In fact, my friend felt that if China went to war, people would enlist in the army en masse.”
That was once true for the United States also. But then the Democrats were allowed to metastasize.
Xi is a cut throat and has marched China backwards again.
His primary opposition threat, within his own faction of the Party, was exiled to the camps for “corruption”.
Lots of democrat commies approve...
The turning point in China was, IMHO April 25, 1999 - when up to 20,000 Falun Gong practitioners encircled the leadership living area in Beijing in quiet prayer.
By all accounts, it took the Chinese leadership completely by surprise - in a Communist Dictatorship that insists that there be no organs of civil society outside of government control. At first, they had no idea who these people were, or particularly, how they were organized. Investigations showed that many Party members were also Falun practitioners. All of this would be absolutely terrifying (and embarrassing) for a Communist.
It was at this point they realized that in an increasingly open, “capitalist” society with a growing internet, they could not count on the traditional methods of control that existed since 1949 - food ration tickets, housing allotments, work-unit control, Radio/Print media control.
All-out control of civil society was revived after a slack period, and was combined with a long-term program of advanced technological monitoring. Christians are just one group of non-Party organization that are being steamrolled.
Call demon possessed couldn’t care less about their Crackdown on the Muslims. China would be out of its ever-loving mind to let Islam run wild there
“The Chinese liked Obama but didn’t respect him. They don’t like Trump but they do respect him.”
The current heretic Pope also agrees.
Isn’t that what Pope Gay is doing also?
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