Julie Green, Eric Metaxas, ‘Still’ it is said, ‘still, shall the City of God abide, lusty beside her tiny stream’

 

There is a beautiful peace that belongs to the children of God, those who belong to Jesus, who are held within His redemptive kingdom, who wear the blood washed garments of grace. They are yoked to Jesus’ easy yoke even in the midst of suffering. But there are those meddling with evil, pushing, or believing lies, who end up substituting idols for Jesus. And sometimes those who meddle in heresy reach demonic depths.

The leaders of the MAGA movement, (Trump’s movement), and leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation movement are growing in their vengefulness’ and verbal abuse. I have been listening to various videos, one of Eric Metaxas on Steve Bannon’s War Room, “Eric Metaxas on Loving Your Country Too Much,” a putdown of Tim Alberta’s book, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, and his many interviews. And many of Julie Green’s videos. She is considered a prophet within the NAR movement. Green gives supposed prophecies almost every day. The prophecies are offered as though Jesus is speaking directly through her as though she is a medium.

Bannon and Metaxas refer to Alberta as a Marxist, globalist, and his book as coming from the “pit of hell” insisting that it is meant to silence the Church. But, instead Alberta’s book is a warning and a gift to the Church calling us back to faithfulness, not to the kingdoms of this world, but to the Kingdom of God and to the King, Jesus.

Green’s prophecies have mostly, seemingly, been calls to stand up for God; but one does not listen long before hearing political messages. Trump is referred to as God’s David and the people of God are interchanged with God’s United States. God will punish His enemies referring to their actions as infiltrating all American institutions and stealing elections. Green mentions what some of these two movements are calling the Haman effect, which refers to the biblical Haman who planned to have Mordecai, Queen Esther’s uncle, hanged but was himself hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. The belief is that many of the enemies of the two movements will be hanged or imprisoned.

Probably the worst of the prophecies Green has released was, at my writing, less then a day ago. The video is entitled Judgement is Here and Judgement is Clear. I am focusing on this video because it has a demonic quality to it. As Green supposedly begins to allow Jesus to speak through her, her voice becomes harsh and loud and her face begins to be contorted. It is frightening, not because I am frightened by God’s judgment—after all, I belong to Him; but I feel deeply sorry for Green who has allowed herself to be pulled into a very dark world for the sake of a very bad man. And she and others, Metaxas for one, are pulling many lost sheep into this dark world.

The messages coming out of these videos and also the conferences are about enemies, who want to destroy America and Christianity. But the words one hears are about judgements on those Christians who don’t agree with either the MAGA leaders or the NAR leaders. And there is nothing about loving enemies. When writing a review of Metaxas book, Letter to the American Church,  I quoted Barth which I often do—it speaks so well to the real need and purposes of the Church in the middle of trying times:

Of course something has to be done; very much so; but most decidedly nothing other than this, viz. that the Church congregations be gathered together again, but aright and anew in fear and great joy, to the Word by means of the Word. All the crying over the Church will not deliver the Church. Where the Church is the Church she is already delivered. Let persecution be never so severe, it will not affect her! ‘Still’ it is said, ‘still, shall the City of God abide, lusty beside her tiny stream’ (Psalm xlvi. 5; Luther’s translation).[1]

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[1] Karl Barth, Theological Existence To-Day: A plea for theological freedom, ( Hodder and Stoughton: London 1933) 77,78.