Posted on 03/29/2021 6:48:35 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
The last twenty years, we have seen as a people the near-complete erosion and extinction of conservative policies and programs in US politics. The United States is EXPONENTIALLY becoming a secular socialist state while rapidly abandoning and despising our representative republic. Our Judeo-Christian heritage, morality, and values do not dominate our culture and society as they once did which has led to our ruin. Another reality is that many have never known any other kind of society than what presently exists. Accountability, responsibility, and virtue are “hisses and by-words” in Hollywood, the Media Establishment, social media, College/University Campuses, and in Washington D.C. In the Ivory Tower realms of the Societal Elite, there is also found scoffing and mocking. These groups on the Left absolutely despise “nominal” Christianity and hate even more true Biblical Christianity. They seek to slander Christianity – and especially Christians - at every opportunity while they defend all sorts of godlessness, immorality, and vice. There was, however, a “new wave” in the arena of talk media led by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, etc., who use to lead the current fight for conservatism. These were able ar one time to counter the mainstream Media's secular leftist liberal bent, but now they are unable to stop the EXPONENTAL erosion and corrosion in secular leftist Washington D.C. In light of our day what are conservatives to do? Many conservatives are frustrated, many try to be optimistic, many are frightened, and many have just plain given up.
The sad thing today is that many conservatives have no comprehension of the Kingdom of God, which Christ will set up at His triumphant return to earth.
The reality is that now that these crucial foundations have completely eroded, they will never come back (Psalm 11:3). Is it hopeless for conservatism? Yes, indeed, if Almighty God is left out of the equation. God’s Word asks the reader of Psalm 11:3, If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? The sad thing today is that many conservatives have no comprehension of the Kingdom of God, which Christ will set up at His triumphant return to earth. This glorious truth is clearly taught throughout Almighty God's Word, the Bible. Conservatives, in general, are "church-going” individuals who, "have a form of godliness but no power" (2 Timothy 3:5). Many are biblically illiterate and adhere to church traditions rather than truth. They know nothing of Almighty God's RIGHTEOUS demands required for fallen man (i.e., man with a sinful nature) as revealed in Scripture. When it comes to “A-B-C” knowledge of the simple truths of the Bible, ignorance is to be found greater than understanding. There is little biblical reality or soundness when it comes to what most conservatives really believe.
Conservatism without the Christ of The Holy Scriptures and the righteous perfection of Almighty God is absolutely bankrupt.
Fallen humanity which only practices a “moral lifestyle” and "conservative principles" is still bankrupt and fallen and therefore doomed. The Bible speaks overwhelmingly of the EXPONENTAL godless and lawless conditions that will abound and will be present in the last days preceding Christ’s glorious return (Matt. 24; Rev. 6-19; 19:11-21)!
2 Timothy 3:1-5 states: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
And in 1 John 2:18, "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." (This describes a universal attitude or spirit that hates the True Christ of the scriptures.)
In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-7a, "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work…"
These conditions have always existed but they have never existed at this EXPONENTIAL intensity and at this EXPONENTAIL global level as seen today. Conservatives must face the reality that these conditions must come to pass before the triumphant return of Christ to earth, without whom there is absolutely no hope. There is no, nor will there EVER be, a man centered conservative utopia on planet earth without Jesus Christ; to even seek such is a demonic delusion and the height of vanity!
What must a Conservative do?
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed" (Romans 10:9-11).
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved!" (Acts 16:31).
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil" (Proverbs 3:5-7).
"Have faith in God." (Mark 11:22).
"And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
There is hope today and it is found only in Jesus Christ, The Savior of the World! "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).
In these trying Last Days before Christ's return in the clouds for His bride; may Conservatives abandon their trust in self righteousness and a conservative optimism by replacing it with a biblical realism and optimism,. In doing so they will ultimately find their hope and trust in Almighty God and His Word alone. Conservatism without Christ is pure vanity and has absolutely no ETERNAL future!
Dear friends, our ETERNAL hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness! On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
Actual republicanism. You remember - Like Abraham Lincoln...
A charismatic leader like Reagan.
And Trump wasn’t???
Conservatives..................
A military arm?
Courage!
A spine.
The GOP is not an organized party. The states all have state chairs that are involved for varying reasons, but typically not to attract new conservatives to join and not to win elections. The county committee’s are basically patronage mills, the main purpose of joining is for a county job or a future appointment to a job.
Dems are focused and organized. They are very active and put some differences aside to gain power.
Balls
A military arm?
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Yep...this side of Heaven no culture can maintain itself without force of arms. The Left will try to insure that nothing like our movement ever makes a dent on the power-structure of this country again.
As bad as we think things are getting, critical mass has not been reached yet. It may not happen in my lifetime (or even within the next generation), but I see it eventually happening some day.
Where is that marriage amendment we were promised if the courts got out of hand? It was deep-sixed in no time, hoping we wouldn’t notice. The time to pass it was when a critical mass of support was on the side of sanity.
All those scandalous tv evangelical rich-off-the-backs-of-the-sold-to-Xian-crowds have to be removed, first.
Second, that other unworthy establishment, who held those child-playing priests, AND NUNS, close to their breasts, needs to be brought down, for its crimes against humanity, and its greed.
Third, that ‘Judeo-Xian heritage’ does not speak of the splinters set by each sect marginalizing the other as ‘not true Xians’, ‘because they don’t do this or that’, or they do this or that. Within pentecostalism, a church may advise using the collegiate NIV , whereas another same church may use the old standard KJV! Which in itself, is a Xian ‘Hatfield- McCoy feud’!
These are some of the things that folks see about y’all that need to be cleaned up nationwide, to get any real “street credibility”.
The American evangelical church is okay with sin and is not repenting.
The conservative movement has many separate parts but no coordination between those parts. When the legal, political, educational, spiritual, logistical, financial, philosophical come together and do their role, we can get somewhere.
Yes, we have turned to idols and forsaken our God, the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We will also end up like Israel with no place to call our own but the promise of heaven.
If we could find the Word of God as did Josiah many years ago and receive it into our lives.
It’s too late to reform the conservative movement. It’s time for a MAGA movement. Conservatism was a brief moment in time, From Goldwater to Reagan, ending with DJT, a somewhat conservative populist. It’s a wholly unappealing movement for young people. Move on, put a stake in the carcass of corporate conservatism.
“And Trump wasn’t???”
No, not really. When I voted for Trump, it was because that was all we had. Hillary wasn’t an option. I thought Trump was a showman without substance.
I was wrong. Trump exceeded all expectations.
However, Trump can be abrasive, he uses hyperbole, and doesn’t always educate the way that Reagan did. In a country as divided and indoctrinated as this one, a charismatic leader who draws in the middle is what is required.
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