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As a pastor, I greatly enjoyed preaching and celebrating Christmas in July since doing so pulled its biblical prophetic/historical fulfillment and glorious truths out of the make believe secular cultural trappings of the holidays where it can be more deeply appreciated as the vivid reality it is. The same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who personally came down to oversee and effect the deliverance of His people from Egyptian bondage, came down again robed in human flesh to save them and all willing men from slavery to sin and death to the glory of God the Father forever (Exodus 3:1-10; John 1:1-34, 12:27-28)!
As He suffered in His work to save us, so, we now suffer as those who labor “in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ” proclaiming and standing on God’s Word and His “testimony,” (Revelation 1:9, NKJV). In this second part of what was originally posted for Christmas 2012, look again to the witness of the saints that have gone before us as well as the “author and finisher of our faith” to be encouraged by Him and His example for what faithful American Christians as a powerless minority are about to endure in step with our brethren in many other nations (Hebrews 11:4-12:2, NKJV).
Originally Posted December 23, 2012
The silver lining in the incredible reversal of fortune Western Christianity and the faithful minority are suffering in these latter days is that it signals the near completion of God’s unfolding plan that began to be fulfilled at the birth of His Son that first Christmas. Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem as foretold (Micah 5:2), wrapped in common swaddling cloths and laid in a animal feeding trough by His mother, Mary, accompanied by Joseph, her husband (His surrogate father) that were ethnically, nationally and religiously oppressed as Jews (Luke 2:1-7).1
Shepherds of the lowest class stratum in Israel were sent by God (Luke 2:8-20) and Jesus was brought to a pair of patiently enduring faithful saints so they might behold and rejoice in Him born to save them ultimately from every source of oppression (Luke 2:25-38)! Confirmed in God’s fulfillment, Mary and a relative named Zacharias who was also a priest had earlier rejoiced in His faithfulness too (Luke 1:39-80). Knowing the Son of Mary was the long awaited Champion that was to come and bruise his head, Satan attempted to make a deadly pre-emptive strike against Jesus but God protected Him (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 2)!
As a Nazarene Jew, Jesus would grow up seeing and experiencing all of the bigotry, mistreatment and powerlessness that go with being part of an oppressed minority or nationality ruled over by those of superior numbers or might (He has felt my pain!). During His three and one-half year ministry He would encounter the three major layers of oppression upon His people: the kingdom of this world ruled by Satan, the wicked Roman Empire ruled by Caesar and the spiritually dead religious establishment of Israel ruled by the religious educated elite.
The Lord only directly and mightily engaged the demonic powers of this world oppressing His people with all manner of spiritual deception and affliction and Israel’s religious establishment who oppressed them with cold, dead and corrupt religion until the final hours of His ministry (Luke 4:1-13, 31-41, 5:30-6:11, 13:1-3, 31-33). Along the way in His service of preaching the Gospel and showing the glorious might of the Kingdom in great works of power, the Lord’s own family thought He might be mentally ill and tried to get Him to abandon His mission (Mark 3:20-21, 31-35); His brothers resented and despised Him in unbelief (John 7:1-9).
Not only did the religious rulers of His people want to kill Him, at times, the people wanted to do so too (John 8:48-59). However, the Father protected His Son till the time should come that He would undertake the final decisive part of His mission in which He engaged all three layers of oppression upon His people at once. His successful mission would first rescue the willing by faith among His people and the Gentiles from the tyranny of satanic oppression through sin and death and cause the promised judgment of Satan, “the ruler of this world,” to be another step closer to final fulfillment (John 12:27-33; 16:5-11; Hebrews 2:14-18).
As a minority of One, the Lord Jesus endured all that the prophets wrote in advance about His suffering before and on the cross (Isaiah 50:5-6, 52:13-53:9). He experienced the full oppressive weight of this world system’s might in the work of the powers of darkness through men upon His Person. Truly, for our sakes, they did far more to Jesus than any of His followers have or ever will endure! He even tasted what are now to us who have been born again, the horrors of spiritual death (Psalm 22:1-21a). Then, in accord with His and the Father’s plan, He ended His suffering and died triumphantly declaring the successful conclusion of His mission (John 19:30). His body was immediately buried but on the third day after He arose from the dead never to be subject to death again as foretold (Psalm 16:8-11, 22:21b-31; Isaiah 53:10-12; John 20:1-23).
Now, as the Lord Jesus foretold of His disciples beginning in the 1st century, fulfillment has reached us also that live in the latter days. We are persecuted by the ruler of this world and his human agents including in increasing severity our own unsaved, false and religious professing as well as Christian apostate family members who betray our love--so much for the successful measure of a man’s life being his devoted children (Matthew 10:16-26, 24:9-10). We are not to fear or become discouraged, but stand faithful to Christ as He stood for us until the end (Matthew 10:27-31, 24:13).
For all of the evil of these latter days is permitted by God as the testing of men’s hearts revealing their true loyalties and attitude toward Christ (Deuteronomy 13:1-4; Psalm 7:9-10, 11:4-6; Matthew 10:32-42; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; Revelation 3:7-13, 14:9-13, 16:15). Truly, as my Christian slave and free forefathers along with all the saints of history have joyfully discovered, the Lord is a comforting refuge for the oppressed and powerless minorities that have put their trust in Him (Psalm 9:9-10). These evil days too will pass for the Lord will prevail for His people who have had the kind of prayer He taught us on our lips and patiently endured waiting on Him (Psalm 10:12-18; Matthew 6:9-13).
1 See my two-part blog, Jesus: The Jewish Messiah originally posted for Christmas 2013 under the category, Holidays, but reposted January 28, 2014 (after a satanic interruption) for a fuller treatment of our Lord as an ethnic Jew.
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.
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