Posted on 08/14/2013 7:23:11 AM PDT by Sheapdog
In response to my two previous columns regarding the current development of a devilish New World Order, many professing Christians wrote me with comments to the effect that we should not be concerned about whatever global tyranny may be developing, because "it's all a part of God's plan," or "Jesus is coming soon," and similar statements. I, too, believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ to earth. But, then again, so did Christians from every generation over the last two millennia. In fact, the Apostle Paul was looking for the return of Christ while he lived (Philippians 3:20). But does anticipation of Christ's Second Coming excuse personal neglect, indifference, and downright laziness? Of course not.
Had pastors and Christians of colonial America believed and acted as most Christians believe and act today, this country would still be a Crown colony and we would never have known the freedoms and liberties that our forebears bequeathed to us. Christians of that era, however, believed that it was their duty and obligation to fight for right and do everything within their power to resist tyranny. They also believed that God would honor and bless their efforts, which He certainly did!
It is extremely difficult for me to reconcile the apathy and slave-like mentality that seems to permeate modern Christendom (in America) with both our own heritage and the very Word of God. For example, the Apostle Paul is very clear when he writes that a Christian must never "do evil, that good may come" (Romans 3:8). Yet, that is exactly what many, if not most, Christians are doing today.
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There is only one book.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
How about simply refusing to bear false witness by finding excuses to rationalize what is happening in Washington as acceptable?
We have a written Constitution, which simply does not authorize what is being done in its name--it just does not. Anyone who reads it in context understands that. Those who take an oath to uphold it, and then support what has been going on, have betrayed their oath; betrayed their duty, both to those presently alive, and to those who will follow. How can any man, claiming to shepherd people to Godly purpose, remain silent, if he understands this?
Pastor Baldwin's ministry is directed towards the honorable; those who really believe that there is a place for integrity in public life--not those who go through the motions, while ignoring uncomfortable reality.
William Flax
Difference between them and us was understood by our founding fathers and the reason for the second amendment.
The lefties in charge have no intention of closing our borders UNTIL they intend to round us up. In the mean time the are doing everything in their power to repopulate this country with people who do NOT believe like us.
There is NOTHING in the bible that says American Christians will escape persecution , NOT ONE THING , there is no such promise . It's very prideful to believe that we will not go through what much of the Body of Christ has had to go through since our begining.
Christians are to be watchmen , they are to watch and wait on the Lord and always ready to sound the alarm . Not snoozing . Faith of a mustard seed that can move mountains has nothing to do with moving a pile of rocks , it's about moving the mountain(kingdom) around you.
If you truly live like HE IS COMING TOMORROW then you are going to busy working making sure everyone around you aren't asleep. NOTHING will change in this country UNTIL the people repent and a whole lot of people in this country who have the audacity to call themselves Christians are not only just asleep - they are DEAD and just don't know it .
Amen
“blessed are those who seek justice for justice sake.”
Are they waiting til they get to heaven to seak justice?
If things are too difficult to think about, become indifferent and wash one’s hands of it ... like Pilate. That is their way. “I wash my hands of it.” They really say that.
Chuck Baldwin is a major leader of "palaeoconservatism." I don't understand how he can claim to be a "premillenial." He might as well be a full-blown "reconstructionist."
Well, we’re quickly coming up on that 70 or 80yr number as it is right now.
So, are you one of those "planet of peoples" guys?
Do you believe there's a different "true religion" for every "people?"
You sound like a "kinist."
You can bet a whole crowd has their 2018 books and lectures all ready to go at the start of 2014, too.
When I was 12yrs old my mother sat me down and told me it was wonderful! I’d never live to be old, I’d never grow up! The Lord was coming! Soon. Very very soon!
35 years later I’m still waiting...
And I’m 10+ years older now than she was when she told me. I’ve been grown up for a long long time now.
It’s this kind of stuff that makes unbelievers.
Ask me how I know that.
You need not speculate on what I intended by the quote you cite. The sort of damage to others, to which I refer, is described in An American Foreign Policy.
One aspect of it is developed in the piece, written at the time President Clinton joined Tony Blair in the war on Serbia: American Foreign Policy At The Crossroads.
All of this means that I subscribe to the Washington/Jefferson foreign policy. You treat everyone with respect, expect respect back; and--in Jefferson's phrase--"punish the first insult." On questions of the law of nations, I have great respect for Vattel, as did the Founding Fathers.
William Flax
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