Posted on 07/10/2008 7:08:02 AM PDT by johnstown
Believers pray that the risen Christ will overcome Islam’s Allah. Their belief is that the Christ who defied death and the grave will topple all His enemies, including Islam.
Christians knowledgeable concerning Islam’s satanic base realize that Communism’s satanic base has been overcome by Christ’s power, though secularists will never admit that.
Communism promised to bury Christians underground, reigning atheism upon the globe as the dictatorial religion of all peoples. However, that never came to pass, though Communism’s prophets declared such a creed with their blood.
Now Christians are confronted with the demonic Koran, Muslim threats and mosque-with-cleric intrusions so as to smother cultures worldwide. Nevertheless, confronting that hellish onslaught, Christians continue to keep the faith.
They hold to prayer power and that Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven. In other words, God is still upon His throne, having the last word concerning global history.
Will Christ then squash Islam? Yes, say Christians. They get present-tense hope, for instance, from what is taking place in China. Christ is surfacing more and more there so as to displace atheism’s past-tense glory.
More and more, Christ is becoming popular and acceptable throughout China. Even the political powers are recognizing that religious faith bolsters a culture’s good.
Most believers are still worshiping Christ in underground churches. However, more and more Christians are surfacing, some even without that much concern about reprimand.
While Christ is being ignored by negligence in Britain and apostasy in North America, Christ is prayed to as God by increasing numbers inside China’s borders. Christianity’s “Made in China” is daily growing.
Why?
Many have become disenchanted with atheism, agnosticism and the empty promises of Communism. They find in Christian faith a hope in this life and the next as well as a well-grounded ethic for decency in everyday living.
Per Chicago Tribune’s Evan Osnos, “Christianity — repressed, marginalized and, in many cases, illegal in China for more than half a century — is sweeping the country.”
That is startling, particularly when recognizing the oft-told stories of persecution against Jesus followers. Human rights agencies have detailed for decades the bloody trail of the Christian disciples of the cross. Many have preceded present-tense believers by laying down their lives for Christ’s commission to go into all the world with the gospel.
“By some estimates, Christian churches, most of them underground, now have roughly 70 million members, as many as the Communist Party itself. A growing number of those Christians are in fact party members.
“Christianity is spreading from poor villages to urban power centers with often tacit approval from the regime. Intellectuals disillusioned by the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square are placing their loyalty in faith, not politics; tycoons fed up with corruption are seeking an ethical code; and Communist Party members are arguing that their faith does not put them at odds with the government.”
Those researching biblical prophecy concerning the Church Age’s End Times point to Scripture predicting a “great falling away.’ That is seen in North America with the “falling away” from the Judeo-Christian heritage that constructed the Republic. Same-gender “marriages” and liberalism’s situation ethics as espoused by B. Hussein Obama replace the once-honored Christian base.
However, likewise those into scriptural prophecy hope and pray for a Holy Spirit revival that will in fact sweep across the globe. Some suggest that it may begin in Africa and now in China.
Africa already reveals a large contingent of brave disciples fighting off tribal warfare and Islamic inroads. Now China is emerging as another revival center for the Spirit’s convicting presence. Awakened souls are testifying freely of their newfound personal tie to Christ as Savior.
“The government is permitting churches to be more open and active than ever before, signaling a new tolerance of faith in public life. President Hu Jintao even held an unprecedented Politburo ‘study session’ on religion last year, in which he said ‘the knowledge and strength of religious people must be mustered to build a prosperous society.’”
Evangelical leaders in the United States are surprised at the China awakening. Yet when becoming aware of the facts, they are urging their fellow believers to be brave in prayerful intercession for these brothers and sisters in Christ halfway around the globe.
“Today the Chinese government counts 21 million Catholics and Protestants — a 50 percent increase in less than 10 years — though the underground population is far larger.
“Christianity offered an alternative to China's political orthodoxy. To those in search of something new in which to believe, the church promised salvation, moral absolutes and a sense of being part of an enterprise larger than China.”
Salvation.
Moral absolutes.
Believers worldwide hold to both in thanking God for the gifts of the soul.
Despite the possibility that Mr. Swank may be, as Robin Williams used to say, “full-goose bozo”, I think that if it IS true, it’s a fantastic thing for the Chinese people.
I’ve heard stories of God doing miraculous things in China for fellow Christians. And anything that’s considered BAD for the godless Communist Chinese state, I say, “Bravo! More power to you!”
I agree, my post was part of a bigger picture as for some reason, we are being dumped with Swank posts today (probably because he was just fired from the aforementioned publication for writing like Fred Phelps.) He is right on some things, but it seems he has a problem with speaking curses on everyone like the Phelps crew.
I don't. I don't need to. Christ has ALREADY overcome Hell and Death and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
Why would I need to pray that He overcomes a made-up idol?
ACD does not speak for web sites that consider Swank’s posts significant.
Let the readers decide for themselves. And there are plenty of those readers on other web sites that post Swank’s articles daily.
Every author has those who are attracted to his theses and those who are not. So goes the way of writers and those who read them.
Would you squelch free speech by your lambasting?
Interesting comment. Isn't lambasting also free speech? In this case, it is not lambasting, it is finding a disclosure about the author you posted as it seems, a very respected publication found his articles 'insane' and opposing Conservative values. We do not give a rubber stamp approval on this site, every article, and the article's authors are discussed and analyzed.
And there are plenty of those readers on other web sites that post Swank’s articles daily.
There are plenty of readers on other sites who publish Reverend Wright and Fred Phelps (both of whom also claim to speak for God), that does not make them immune from analysis and criticism.
This is a privately owned and operated website. You have no rights whatsoever here...
I have no rights on the site.
That is for certain!
Glad you understand. Maybe you'll remember that next time, before you go yelping about Free Speech...
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