The Scourge Of Racism
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In the last decade the impossible dream of a black President as a professed Christian from a sinfully broadminded denomination, wickedly linked our long time just cause for racial equality with that of all rebels against the divine order and biblical morality. By the grace of God I was among those He dispatched in 2008 warning not to vote for a man to be President just because he was black since this would be as wrong as what many white Americans had been doing.8 But deceived by the novelty and notion of creating history, a large number did so; making a terrible spiritual miscalculation in disobedience and disloyalty to God (Matthew 7:13-14; Mark 8:34-38; Luke 16:13-15).
The legally sanctioned social changes fostered by former President, Barrack Obama, compare in divine offense and devastating consequences to follow with that of Israel’s king Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:25-13:2, 33-34, 14:14-16) and Judah’s Manasseh even after he repented and revival led later by godly Josiah (2 Kings 21:1-16, 23:15-18, 24-27; 2 Chronicles 33:10-17).9 Leaders of any hue that defy the holy God and His Word always bring on His judgment because He does not condone sin (Proverbs 14:34; Ezekiel 18:4) and is immutable (Hebrews 13:8)! Having endured slavery does not spare black Americans in sin from further judgment with all other guilty Gentiles as it did not Israel.
For the God of restoration and judgment is working His plan unabated so that the Gentiles with His people, Israel, will shortly come to fully understand Israel was scattered and has suffered judgment from Him as have all peoples for their sins (Ezekiel 39:21-29). The historic spread of the Gospel and various experiences of His judgment among the ethnicities, races, tribes and languages of the Gentiles are so because God is man’s Creator, Judge, Savior and sovereign Ruler (Genesis 2:7; Psalm 50:6; Isaiah 45:20-25; Daniel 4:17)! Repentance and faith in the Gospel of His Son is His one and only provided path to saving righteousness (John 14:6; Acts 4:8-12; Romans 3:21-31).
And now, we are coming to the end of this period of grace since as foretold by the Lord Jesus, this would occur after the Gospel had been preached in all the world “as a witness” and very few peoples remain that have not heard it (Matthew 24:6, 14, NKJV). Until now, the Lord has visited individual Gentile nations with judgments of every kind including those of Europe and their satellites that have served as His instruments of it upon other nations--God is perfectly just!10 But His foretold regional and global judgments approach and will be especially hard on nations that have long had the Gospel and now, reject it (Jeremiah 25:30-33; Luke 21:10-11, 25-26; Revelation 8:1-11:6).
Following after will be God’s wrath (Zephaniah 1:14-2:15; Revelation 14:6-16:21). Only a tiny remnant of what is Israel today will survive the foretold final outpour of God’s wrath upon sinful human rebellion against Him. Honoring the faith of their fathers, God promised in mercy to hear the cry of this future remnant in tribulation that would be delivered through the Second Coming of His Son (Deuteronomy 4:29-31; Matthew 24:15-31). As foretold by the prophets and affirmed by the Lord’s apostles, this Jewish remnant with the Davidic kingdom will be restored in the land and He will reign over them (Isaiah 25:9; Hosea 3; Zephaniah 3:8-20; Acts 3:13-21; Romans 11:11-36)!
Because of Israel’s prophetic future, professed Gentile Christians were specifically instructed not to get “haughty” during this final Jewish Diaspora since we stand only by faith (Romans 11:19-22, NKJV)! For we do not replace Israel as some falsely hold. We enjoy the blessings of God’s New Covenant with those Jews that believe and to whom the Gospel went out first (Acts 2:1-39, 3:22-26; Ephesians 2:11-22). Due to the aforementioned falsehood and more, professing Christianity teaches Israel no lessons on faith in or faithfulness to God since judgment is upon it too (1 Peter 4:16-19)! Truly, all manner of ungodliness mar its history on the earth.
The historical sins of professing Christianity include the worship of relics and icons (idolatry) in manmade religion, political intrigue, violence, murders, crusades (wars), sexual immorality, heresies with syncretism, racism and twisted sanction of the violent subjugation of indigenous peoples and the immoral practices of slavery. Luther’s Reformation did not halt much of this since many Protestants are guilty of the same things. Today, it is rank rebellion as well as divisions rooted in disobedience to God’s Word as I have already written about among professing black American Christians. These are not God pleasing works of faith, but sin; sin that has not gone and will not go unpunished by the Lord (Psalm 135:14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-11; Hebrews 3:1-4:13, 10:26-31; Revelation 17-19:4)!
Glory to God who preserves His faithful in judgment! Commissioned as Israel to be “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” that gives glorious witness to God on the earth (Exodus 19:5-6; Isaiah 43:10-13; Acts 1:8; 1 Peter 2:4-10), the faithful of professing Christianity in history have been so. Truly, only His faithful ones will stand to the end through persevering faith in Christ (Revelation 3:7-13, 7:9-17, 12:9-11)! ‘“And we shall reign on the earth’” with Him also (Revelation 5:8-10, 19:5-20:6, NKJV)! Therefore, I will again glorify my God for His amazing wisdom and power to fruitfully fulfill His cause to restore men despite evil opposition and sinful human failure (Genesis 22:15-18). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord's side?”
8 Read the October 2008 Journal, Judging Righteous Judgment in the Journal Archives of The From Slavery To Victory Education Project Web Site.
9 This is not said to suggest Mr. Obama’s break with the Bible as a professing Christian is the sole instance of this in American Presidential, Congressional or Court
history. His social policies sanctioned by the courts following a long line of blatant breaks with biblical instruction and morality, however, have pushed the nation
past the point of return (see the introduction of my July 12, 2015 blog, Powerlessness Of Being The Minority, Pt. 1, under the category, Encouragement) and
“remedy” with God leading to certain national judgment even with immediate repentance and revival as the Scriptures cited show. This shame is not what our
Christian slave forefathers endured by faith waiting for.
10 Read part three and the conclusion of the Journal article, Spiritual Reality Is The Reality in the Journal Archives on The From Slavery To Victory Education Project
Web Site.
“…for whatever is not from faith is sin,” (Romans 14:23b, NKJV). Faith in God is not just belief that He exists. It is trust and confidence in as well as reliance upon Him for everything. As it was for Israel, so, it is absolutely required of those truly restored in Jesus Christ to have faith in God if they will be blessed (Psalm 33:10-22)! From such faith in God proceed a man’s life and works that please Him. However, for many blacks since slavery, Satan, sin and self working through the “wine of the world” as well as powerless manmade Christianity the religion has obscured the truth that to believe there is a God is not the same as having faith in Him shown by lifestyle and actions.5
While it is admirable that most descendants of slaves have maintained at least a basic belief that there is a God, according to the Bible, one has risen no higher than a fool and done no more than a fearful demon to “believe there is one God.” It concludes, “…faith without works is dead,” (James 2:19-26, NKJV). Surely, no one really believes any work of sin is from God pleasing faith. The works of faith that please God begin with obedience to His Word! Obedience spurred minimally by faith in Him has been God’s requirement from Eden where Adam and Eve’s disobedience brought upon all mankind the horrors of a fallen world, pain and death (Genesis 3:6-19).
Preserving a godly line of men that related to Him in submissive faith down through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exodus 2:23-3:8), God brought forth the nation of Israel to whom He gave His Law with again, the expectation of faith motivated, covenant obedience that He might be glorified before the nations (Deuteronomy 4:1-24, 32-40). However, Israel’s persistent disobedience culminating in the rejection of God’s Anointed led to all of their promised judgments and scattering to the Gentile nations (Deuteronomy 4:25-28). God judged them only after repeatedly sending His Word to no avail through His prophets and Son (2 Kings 17:5-23; 2 Chronicles 36:15-21; John 19:1-22).
Every instance of Israel’s stumble in disobedience to God resulting in His judgment was facilitated by or purposely came about through their leaders (Isaiah 9:16). Having such an affinity with Israel because of the similar way through slavery God has dealt with us, all of our leaders should have humbly sought to avoid the mistakes of their ancient spiritual and other rulers. While in general, our Christian leaders from slavery up through its end led well, at the turn of the 20th century a major act of disobedience took place. That major act of disobedience was followed by another in the middle of the century and post-Civil Rights Movement, while yet another came recently, a generation later.
Having powerfully visited our slave forefathers and their masters with mighty revivals in the 18th and 19th centuries, God did so again at the opening of the 20th century with the 1906 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, CA. This fresh fire from the Lord among struggling black Christians was His encouragement and power provided to continue His restoration cause in the difficult challenges of freedom. However, the leadership misinterpreted and applied the revival to assert God was making a change in the order of His house to allow women to stand with men in shouldering the leading, speaking and teaching responsibilities just because they also experienced His fresh fire.6
So persuasive then were the experiences everyone had at this revival, whites in attendance took notes back to their segregated churches to duplicate them. Segregated Pentecostalism and eventually the Charismatic Movement emerged and with other professing Christian groups following behind, now, prominently feature women acting contrary to Scripture to speak to the whole church assembled, take authority over, teach and pastor men (Genesis 3:16b; 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, 14:26-40; 1 Timothy 2:8-15). This “new thing” launched by black Christian leadership has hurt blacks the most since at this hour in the confusion, women are the dominate number in most predominantly black American churches; some with female memberships over ninety percent.7
After the height of the Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., many of our Christian and other leaders that had marched with him sold themselves out for personal gain in worldly fame, power and riches. Rather than God whose name and Word they invoked to stir emotion and conveniently paint over their lusts, they lobbied for the secular government to be the late coming deliverer of our “victimized” people. Now, through permanent welfare and other government programs many of our males have been reduced to being irresponsible, unwed baby makers in disobedience to God’s Word and are being destroyed along with their fatherless families caught in an endless cycle of poverty and institutional dependency (1 Timothy 5:8; Hebrews 13:4).
5 Read parts one and two of the three part article, Spiritual Reality Is The Reality that discusses James Weldon Johnson’s Lift Every Voice And Sing featuring this quote
from the third stanza of the song in the Journal Archives of The From Slavery To Victory Education Project Web Site.
6 I devote Appendix space in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics to discussing this grave error by a man I honestly believe meant well after reading the
account of this revival. Scripture has many accounts of men who were well intended, but sinned against the Lord in the process--see Aaron’s folly in Exodus 32, for
example. You can get my book in the Strong Man Store or any major internet book seller.
7 I reference this over the top statistic in my book from p. 56 of David Murrow’s, Why Men Hate Going To Church.
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