My Rant: Facing Lies, Facing the Church's Future

 

I’m at the moment working on another article about the suffering church looking back to the French-Indian wars and the following Revolutionary war to show the suffering of some Christian native Americans. But for a short time, I feel the need to stop and do some explanations and even rant about why I am doing what I am doing.

I have been thinking about this for a while and then I saw a small article posted by someone who used to be a friend and who is an expert on homosexuality from a biblical point of view and someone who I often defended on my blog. But I can’t defend the constant putdown of so many Christians who disagree with Trump and his administration. The insistence, in his posting, that the No King protests were funded by billionaire’s millions and that people were flown in to make crowds etc., is to use a good old-fashioned word, stupid. It was written by Ken Blackwell without any proof and posted by him. Then copied by my friend. But anyway, it caused me to write what I am going to write.

I have written before about the false prophet Julie Green and her insistence that many who disagree with Trump are enemies who well in the end be in jail or be hung, even picking on Chief Supreme Court Justice Roberts, insisting he will be jailed. She gets by with this by seemingly having God speak through her in prophecy, even calling Trump God’s beloved David. Green is an influencer and a friend with Eric Trump Jr. one of the President’s sons.  She is fairly well known by many who are involved in the Trump administration. None have ever, at least in writing to the public, denounced her insistence on the hurt to those who disagree with what is happening in our government.

At the moment I have and am terribly concerned about the actions of ICE and how they are intimidating American citizens and even refugees who have made a life in America. I am appalled at how the churches that minister to Mexican and other diverse groups are being treated. I am appalled by how many, who are followers of Jesus are ignoring that treatment.  But I am concerned for the church in the future, for their ability to withstand what is happening to our nation and our freedoms. If people like Julie Green and those who follow them have neither compassion for those, they consider enemies—they believe that those who disagree with Trump are enemies and must be jailed or even killed—where will the Church stand—will they be faithful? How will they be faithful?

That is why I am exploring the various ages and groups of Christians who have faced suffering.

To bring it back to the posting about the NO Kings, I believe we must look to all Scripture that confronts worldly sin, both those against life, against purity, those fostering lies, those slandering, those hurting the refugees, the poor and the needy. We must weep and advocate against the death of unborn babies, but also against the harm happening to the refugees. We must weep and advocate against the mutilated children because of their identity needs, but also for those who are being beaten, kidnapped and deported by ICE. How can we honor Christ when we ignore children being awakened in the middle of the night having their hands tied by masked men while they are separated from their parents?

My desire is to know how we can give comfort to the Church amid what is happening now and may happen in the future? We need the whole Scripture poured into our hearts and lives. We need to encourage each other with love. We need to let go of idolatry and cling to Jesus.