The Scourge Of Racism
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As the Lord has led, I have left the original, sad introduction to this now 2012 blog repost intact not only so that readers may have a wider historical context for it, but also see the inescapable reality and steady intensification of prophetic fulfillment in these times revealed in it. So many professing Christians are in denial about the times because in their arrogantly invented, culturally conditioned amalgamation of manmade Christianity the religion and American patriotism God would not allow what He has foretold in His Word to occur in this nation. Ignoring His Word, they fail to grasp the God of the Bible truly “shows no partiality” to anyone (Acts 10:34, NKJV).
Thus, the United States Supreme Court decision handed down on June 26th giving national legal status to same sex marriage is a final repudiation of the selectively created, biblically based Judeo-Christian morality historically espoused by American Christian religionists. It is a day the Lord showed me and I have been warning for years was coming because of the historically demonstrated impotency of manmade Christianity the religion and its centuries long corrupt practice by those in America’s majority culture that allowed for evils such as abusive slavery and the bigotry and discriminations of racism amazingly still practiced in many contemporary churches.
Now that our nation has reached the point of no return to any kind of biblical morality having by the Supreme Court legally excluded God and His Word from public life as well as enshrined feticide and iniquity into law, what is the response God expects of faithful Christians? With encouragement, that is what the Lord from His Word leads me to briefly present in this two-part blog repost and the one to follow. If it is not said plain enough in what follows, let me say here in absolute clear terms, no born again Christian is authorized by Scripture to take up arms to fend off or violently resist our government or the prevailing culture (Matthew 26:47-54; John 15:18-16:4; 1 Peter 2:11-25, 3:8-17, 4).
Originally Posted December 16, 2012
(Note: This past week’s outbreak of violent lawlessness in a mall here in Oregon and elementary school in Connecticut forms a foretold wider context for the following blog as well as fulfills another way satanic hatred for God and mankind that He loves is being manifested in these latter days (Matthew 24:12). This lawlessness and that which is still to come in increasing tragic proportions also clearly demonstrates that sinful men of humanistic philosophies, law, medicine, religion or in churches are not nor ever have been the restrainers of evil: God is (2 Thessalonians 2:3-8; Revelation 6:3-4)! What we have seen happening before our eyes are the natural consequences when a nation rebels against God and forfeits His blessings including the restraint of lawlessness.)
In one day this month Washington State became the legal host for same sex marriages and dope smokers. My reaction of helpless powerlessness is one I have known in various settings all of my life. Most frequently however, I have known powerlessness as a racial minority. This world system under Satan’s rule is bound and determined to challenge and resist God and His moral order in every area of human life on earth to the end (Revelation 16, 19:17-20:3, 7-10). Besides continuing to witness Christ and preach the Gospel that even now some might be saved, praying and laboring for spiritual revival among dying churches and exhorting believers to turn out in numbers to vote biblical righteousness on all issues, there is nothing else faithful Christians as a minority can do about the rising tide of open satanically inspired rebellion against God in the West except patiently endure it.
Indeed, faithful Western Christians from every race and ethnicity should begin to adapt to the new reality of shrinking societal influence, increasing hostility and the overt discriminatory mistreatment that is already in progress when one is the despised minority. Apparently, many professing white Christians in particular are finding minority status incredibly oppressive, suffocating, chafing and infuriating if the talk in Christian media is any indication. Welcome to my world and that of most every kind of racial, ethnic or religious minority in human societies since the days of Noah and Lot who had to patiently endure the evil and oppressive deeds of the majority until God intervened in judgment (Genesis 6:5-18; 19:1-25; 1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 2:4-9)!
Christianity as a religious force, of course, once dominated the predominantly white nations of Europe and their colonial satellites around the earth. This was so much the case, Christianity came to be referred to negatively as “Christendom.” America was founded by Western Europeans looking for religious freedom and wealth in a “New World.” A nation was built on Judeo-Christian morality and values selectively drawn from the Bible. The result was a cultural Christianity and national religion that cut across denominational lines becoming as it turns out temporarily part of the American fabric of life. For all of its appearance as righteous, the spiritually dead religion practiced by the majority of white Americans has permitted much wickedness including the oppression, discriminatory mistreatment and abuse of blacks, other people of color and ethnicity as minorities (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
Christian abolitionist and later Civil Rights preachers peacefully challenged America’s corrupt form of flesh driven Christianity that oppressed racial and ethnic minorities. Reluctantly, the white majority gave up some of its more egregious corruptions of biblical morality where race and ethnicity were concerned--a Civil War had to be fought to end slavery and the Civil Rights era Voting Rights Act guaranteeing blacks the right to vote still has to be periodically reaffirmed by Congress a generation after it was first enacted.
This reluctance is still evident among many predominantly white churches that call themselves preserving biblical morality and values, but are really only holding on to America’s corrupt, spiritually impotent, manmade “old time religion” of bigotry and oppression as I am a witness. From among these religionists who are either spiritually weak or impostors will eventually come those that take up arms to violently resist the new rebel majority and bring needless suffering upon the faithful who will be wrongly lumped in together with them.
The rebellious white children of the sixties have come along and rejected most aspects of the American Christian morality of their fathers including those that were biblically sound and introduced their own system in the form of political correctness, tolerance and multi-culturalism. They are joined by many racial and ethnic minorities that are secularists, biblically and politically liberal religionists (including our current President) and Christian apostates seeking to correct all perceived past inequities. The morality and values that have grown out of their humanistic approach have now led to the current state of affairs where those faithful to Christ and God’s Word regardless of race or ethnicity are being marginalized as religious minorities with worse still to come as we have been warning.
What does the racially motivated murders of the black American Bible study participants at the Emmanuel AME Church of Charleston, SC on June 17th and the June 26th United States Supreme Court decision making same sex marriage the law of the land have in common spiritually and morally speaking? Both expose again the failure of corrupt manmade Christianity the religion historically practiced by an influential majority of professing white Christians of all denominations that have sanctioned, even cherished the privileges of racial inequality and inequity which secular champions of political correctness and tolerance are wrong-headedly attempting to fix.
If with truly converted hearts in the power of the Holy Spirit the early colonists, founders of the nation and those going forward had stood firmly in the biblical worldview that the equality of humanity as persons was of God, the inequalities of racism even in slavery would not have been (Ephesians 6:5-9; Philemon). In the flesh though, religious men do no better than rank sinners and are actually worse since they corruptly use religion to justify their wicked ways. So, now, our nation--built on a flawed religiously constructed and supported foundation of racial inequality and inequity upheld for almost four centuries by the professing stewards of Christianity in their churches and seminaries--seeks to correct things by making everything equal and fair in its own flawed worldly view.
In a biblical worldview all apparent inequalities and inequities are not the same. God considers goodwill relations between human beings different from intimate same sex relationships since by His design we are expressly male and female for His purpose of procreation (Genesis 1:27-28). Also, while the eternally perfect God requires men to act by His standard of fairness in our transactions with each other, His standard does not apply to what He has forbidden nor in disagreement are we to invent our own (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; Isaiah 29:15-16). Therefore, many talk defiantly now, but they will bow in absolute humiliation at the soon glorious appearing of the righteous Author of the Word of God and our Judge (Matthew 5:17-20; Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 1:7-8)!
In the following still relevant July 4th 2011 commentary from our Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Monthly Newsletter as this week’s blog, I appeal with Christ’s heart especially to my conservative professing Christian white brothers that are guilty to thoroughly renounce your racism still so evident in your default attitudes of racial superiority and contempt as well as deeds of exclusion and discrimination bound up in maintaining racial inequality and inequity.
Originally Published July 2011
Ever since broaching the subject of equality in my commentary entitled, Childish Arguments back in March this year (see my May 3, 2015 blog), I have been deeply desirous before the Lord to deal with the issue head on and as fully as this limited space permits. The same goes for equity or fairness. Both of these biblical and highly moral terms have been co-opted and corrupted by various individuals and groups since the founding of our nation. Consequently, it is very fitting on the occasion of America's 235th birthday to call us back as a nation to the original intent of the Author of equality and equity for He is surely judging us at this hour for our failure to live out His definitions.
How high, noble and true are the words of the Declaration of Independence that declare, "all men are created equal." The words are true not because sinful men said so, but because a holy Creator made all humanity from the one man, Adam (Acts 17:24-26). No one man is innately superior in nature to another. Though to suit His creative glory God made mankind of different physical appearance and varying abilities, we are all from the one original man and equal in standing before our Creator. There is no qualitative difference between men when God the Righteous One is doing the judging. However, when fallen, sinful men judge, now all manner of human inequality enters in.
Some contemporary white historical commentators such as David Barton and David Von Drehle in a recent Time Magazine article on the Civil War assert the "all men are created equal" statement was an attempt by the nation's founders to address the reality of human inequality involved in slavery.1, 2 In American style slavery a whole race of people were deemed inferior and suitable only for perpetual servitude. The attitude of contempt and judgment as unfit for equality held toward blacks by many whites has continued to this day even with an African-American President. Shamefully, among those whites has been and are many professing to be Christians (Galatians 3:26-28).
The moral concept of equity has come to man from the Lord as He introduced to Israel His requirement of their being just in their dealings with strangers and each other (Leviticus 19:33-37; Deuteronomy 25:13-16). The Lord Jesus came along and emphasized loving one's neighbor (whoever that human being was) as one's self as the motivation for fair dealings and then some (Mark 12:31; Luke 6:27-36, 10:25-37). The apostle Paul was later inspired by the Holy Spirit to explain the absolute reason for love as the high motive in human relations when he wrote, "Love does no harm to a neighbor," (Romans 13:10a, NKJV). Sinful humanity does not naturally possess this kind of love.
The history of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and institutional racism in America clearly demonstrates how human hearts filled with contempt for others will not treat them with equity. A devastating Civil War had to be fought to end slavery. Legal battles continue to reverse institutionalized racial inequities throughout American society. While white men chafe under the finger of responsibility for much of this ungodly legacy of American racial inequity, there is nowhere else to look historically since the Women's Suffrage Movement is evidence white women were not in control of society. This is not said to blame for blame’s sake but to call the right persons forward to lead to action.
As the Civil Rights Movement taught us, we cannot legislate our way into what the nation’s founders had in mind for us as a free and equal people. We must love our way into it. And since as fallen sinners we are not able or willing in our own strength to love each other equally and fairly, then what we are really talking about is turning back to God for help (Ephesians 3:14-21). Therefore, this is a special call to my Christian white brothers and pastors in particular as aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ. Lead out in owning and repenting from the historic sinful attitude and willful practice of treating black and other racial minority men unequally and unfairly.
Indeed, it is because of the half-hearted effort to do this in racial reconciliation talks that have gone on since the 1960s Satan has been enabled to co-opt the righteous equality and equity quest of racial minority men for rebels against the divine order. Talking and public platitudes have yielded so very little given how pervasive this evil is in our nation and the churches. The hour grows late and time is running out to get this right. True repentance is reflected in deeds as John the Baptist chided the religious leaders of his day (Matthew 3:4-10). Therefore, let the loving begin in obedience to the Lord's command (John 13:34-35; 1 John 2:7-11, 3:10-23, 4:7-21)! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 David Barton, Setting The Record Straight: American History In Black & White (Aledo, Texas: Wall Builders Press, 2004), 17-18.
2 David Von Drehle, “The Civil War 1861-2011, The Way We Weren’t,” Time, April 18, 2011, 40-51.
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