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Hollywood loves turning loose out of place in time gigantic dinosaurs and other beasts into the cities and suburbs of the modern world to wreak havoc and destruction as terrified humanity runs for their lives to escape. And while God Almighty in no way compares to any beast of the earth past, present or of fallen man’s imagination, humanity in the 21st century world is just as unprepared for His unveiling in judgment as those of fiction are to the sudden appearance of out of place and time giant beasts. Nevertheless, Bible prophecy is very clear this world hostile to and in rebellion against God is near to experiencing His completely unexpected display of severe warning judgments and wrath!
Sadly, among those that are not prepared for God Almighty to again show His superior power in the earth are many that profess to be Christians. Ignoring the most significant sign God has given yet of what is coming, many still want to put the Day of the Lord off for possible thousands of years away or hide behind “that day and hour no one knows” which refers to specificity, not general times or why would the Lord command us to watch for signs He Himself gave (Mark 13:28-37, NKJV)? It is righteous to avoid confusion from way out speculation about the end times. But it seems many avoid the issue because it interferes with their carefully laid plans and preoccupation with this world!1
Can you speak thunder? The Lord Jesus can and whomever He enables among His servants (Revelation 10:1-4)! During the week leading up to Passover and His crucifixion, “certain Greeks” among the Jewish throngs sought to have an audience with the Lord. Though He did not meet with them, He plainly took their desire for an audience to be prophetically significant as it concerned His glory, fruit of His crucifixion and perpetual requirements to be His disciple as He spoke to Andrew and Philip who were attempting to arrange the meeting (John 12:20-26, NKJV). Squaring up with His crucifixion again, the Lord then speaks of it as His disturbing, but unavoidable approaching reality and concludes it was for that experience He had come to the moment (John 12:27).
Honoring His Father who had assigned Him the cross, the Lord Jesus exclaimed, ‘“Father, glorify Your name.’” Immediately the Father replied, ‘“I have both glorified it and will glorify it again,’” (John 12:28, NKJV). The people standing by heard the Father and “said it had thundered;” some thought the thunder was an angel speaking to him. Jesus said the voice (and very importantly, the words) of His Father was not for His sake, but the people present (John 12:29-30, NKJV). And why? The Lord says, ‘“Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself,’” (John 12:31-32, NKJV).
The Father would be glorified a second time in the earth by the atoning death of His Son, Jesus Christ, for the sins of the world (John 1:29-34). While delivering all (Jew and Gentile) that look to His sacrifice for salvation through faith, it also certifies the judgment of the rejecting remainder (John 3:14-21). Also, finally, in the aftermath of Christ’s triumphant sacrifice Satan, the ruler of this world, will be deposed and eternally banished (Colossians 2:13-15; 1 John 5:19; Revelation 20:7-10). Now, if all of this from Christ’s sacrifice constitutes a second time the Father is glorified, then, when was the first time? Wasn’t it His mighty deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt?2
God Almighty came down from Heaven to deliver Israel from bondage to Egypt about the midpoint of the 15th century B.C. (Exodus 3-14). With the rod of Moses the Lord strong and mighty suddenly visited and brought plagues upon Egypt representing the modern world of its time because Pharaoh, their ruler, would not let God’s people He came to deliver go. By the time the Lord was finished Egypt was destroyed; Pharaoh who claimed to be a god and all of the rest of Egypt’s gods (demons) were humiliated in defeat (Exodus 7:3-5, 10:7, 14:1-9, 21-30). The fame of the Lord went throughout the earth from that day and remains among all mankind that have heard of what He did to Egypt on behalf of Israel; to deliver them from bondage with mighty signs and wonders in judgment.
So, now, Israel is back in her land after nearly 1,900 years of dispersion throughout the earth by divine decree as foretold by the prophets beginning with Moses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68, 31:14-29; Hosea 3, 5:8-15). Many are returning to the land as God’s preparation for both His final punishment and deliverance of the Jewish people. Indeed, as foretold by the Lord through His prophets, as Judah returned from exile and rebuilt the Temple and Jerusalem beginning in the 6th century B.C., so, those presently in the land are doing the same, but in reverse order. Opposition exponentially greater (involving global hostilities) to what was faced by Jews building the second Temple faces those that would build a third (Ezra 1, 3-4:24). Yet, they have to and will--the Temple is part of their identification with God.3
In the days leading up to and during building the Temple according to the Lord’s specifications (Ezekiel 40-43:12), He will begin to finish bringing glory to Himself again in the cause of delivering Israel this time in the sight of this whole 21st century earth. After sealing His chosen Jewish remnant (Revelation 7:1-8), God will suddenly display His unmistakable wonders in mighty warning judgments (Revelation 8-9). After this will come Satan’s last stand before Christ returns, God’s final exam, Israel’s travail and “great tribulation” that spreads to the whole world (Mark 13:14-23; Revelation 11:1-14, 12:1-14:13, NKJV). Then, following as foretold, God will unleash His full wrath inaugurating the Day of the Lord that also features the Second Coming of Christ to lead the charge.
This unique Day of the Lord delivers remnant Jews and Christians, judges this world and overcomes all kingdoms including Satan’s (Isaiah 13:6-13; Zechariah 12:1-9, 14:1-7, 12-15; Mark 13:24-27; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10; Revelation 11:15-19, 16, 19:11-20:3). Just as He brought Israel out of Egypt, God Almighty will triumphantly bring all of the chosen, surviving remnant of His people back to the land in that Day from all over the earth to see Him in glory. They will turn to Christ as foretold (Isaiah 10:20-23, 11:11-16; Jeremiah 30:1-9, 31:1-9; Ezekiel 39:21-29; Hosea 6:1-3; Zechariah 12:10-13:1; Romans 11:1-29).4 This present world will never be the same again. The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 Faithful and true disciples of Jesus Christ live in this world to please Him and do His will which is the heart of every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in
His image (Mark 8:31-38; Luke 9:57-62; 1 John 2:15-17). Learn more in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics available in print or digital download for-
mats at major internet booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ChristianBooks.com and Apple (digital only). You can also get the Hard or Soft Cover print ver-
sions of the book in the Strong Man Store.
2 Read the July 30-Sept 3, 2017 six-part series and especially part five, Restoring Men In The Two Minute Drill, under the category, Bible Prophecy as additional back-
ground information for this post.
3 This is another reason putting end time events off for even hundreds of years from now is not sound. Truly, the Jews mournfully commemorate the exact day both the
first and second Temples were respectively destroyed (which amazingly are the same--only God!) by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. and the Romans in 70 A.D. on an
occasion called Tisha B’Av--The Fast Of The Fifth Month (see The Feasts of the Lord, Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal, Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville 1997,
151-157). The devout not only grieve the loss and lack of a Temple, but most assuredly will not let the 2,000 year anniversary of the second Temple’s destruction
looming ahead this century pass without notice as many make preparation for a third to be built (Ezra 5-6; https://www.templeinstitute.org/main.htm). This should not
surprise faithful Christians since as He did with the second Temple, the Lord stirs up the hearts of the people nearing 100 years back in the land also this century
(Haggai 1:1-2:9)! Thus too, as it was with Pharaoh who God demanded to let His people go forth to worship Him, so, with Satan through his human vessels among
the Gentile nations and finally, the one who becomes Antichrist, God will demand through Jewish leaders what He similarly spoke to me writing in a former post: “Let
My people worship Me in the house I have commanded them to build Me,” (see footnote 2).
4 See the June 12, 2016 post, The Day Of Israel’s Comfort, under the category, Bible Prophecy.
As the Lord has led me to write many times, removing the artificial and stuffy inventions of manmade Christianity that serve as barriers to unsaved folk coming into the churches to hear about Him is a good thing. However, many in recent years have gone much further than this and are among other things, altering biblical Christianity’s core message, the Gospel (if not eliminating it altogether) along with the Lord’s commandments and instructions to make the faith more amenable to especially those born after 1980. Tinkering with or setting aside the biblical Gospel no matter how noble the motive is still to fall under the apostle Paul’s God approved anathema (Galatians 1:6-10)!
Departures from God’s Word to accommodate human worldly interests and tastes are legion. They come complete with light, video and sound worship extravaganzas and dress code fit for the Holy One? I mention a few of the heretical departures from God’s Word in this edited 2012 repost that along with tinkering with the Gospel is clear evidence of widespread succumbing to worldly peer pressure by many professed Christians and their church leaders to fill large meeting venues. In the end though, besides the temporary display of the ability to draw a crowd by the leaders, what will the ostensible crowd of Jesus followers have to stand firmly against the world when they are still of it?
Originally Posted April 22, 2012
The pressure to conform to someone else’s standard of whatever begins early in life when as newborns, in spite of our best efforts to have our way, those giant people called parents insist that we behave as it pleases them. Then, it is siblings and finally school age peers that start applying pressure for us to share their interests, likes, dislikes, etc. Not only did I experience the foregoing for myself, of course, but as a parent I had to endure what I now know is every parent’s nightmare, the dreaded: so and so’s “parents let them do it.” This is followed by the not so subtle, “they have one.” This may be funny because at whatever level, you can relate to peer or other pressure to conform.
However, the issue turns deadly serious when others are attempting to pressure us to do evil. Contrary to worldly standards of political correctness and tolerance, evil is whatever goes against the written Word of God--period! Knowing my own exasperation at times with the yielding of my children to worldly peer pressure, I cannot imagine God is very pleased with how easily His children cave in to it. Oh, we try hard to rationalize and justify our worldly compromises even using Scripture at times and saying, “I don’t see anything wrong with…” or “that was back then” as if God changed; seeking any tiny sliver of release to line up with the world’s standards and what we want to do.
A major example of compromise is the removal of the Gospel for salvation from sin as the central theme of witnessing and preaching. As their defense, many corruptly cite the apostle Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. Yet, he did not mean that he changed the Gospel, adopted worldly practices or did evil to bring about the good of saving souls in his witnessing. He did mean that he began his work where the people he was dealing with were at in their spiritual, cultural or occupational lives so he could connect to them. He then proceeded to work the Gospel into his conversation and preaching to the end of some believing and being saved (Acts 13:4-12, 16:20-34, 18:1-11). The Gospel is God’s first priority for preaching (Acts 2:14-41; Romans 10:13-15)!
Another example is how--contrary to Scripture--many professed Christians do not believe all of Scripture’s ancient commands and instructions are still valid lest the world be offended (Isaiah 40:8; Mark 13:31). Among these are God’s order of mankind and the related roles of men and women in the home and churches (Ephesians 5:22-24; 1 Timothy 2:11-15).1 And very popular at this strategic moment is the false teaching and inspired movement that makes Christ a fulfiller of personal dreams and selfish ambitions contrary to His demand of self-denial to follow Him (Matthew 16:13-27). Selfish ambition is a flesh work whose practitioners will not inherit God’s Kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21).
The fact today is that many professed Christians and their churches are downright worldly as the norm! This is purposeful on the part of guilty leaders to fill seats and offering plates. It is also an effort especially of younger congregants to show their observing worldly peers they are still just like them. Nope, Christianity has not made these folk change one thing of this world that is precious to them. In so doing, they deceive themselves into believing they have made God more appealing and the Gospel less judgmental of people’s lifestyles. The truth is, they love not being left out of the world’s fun and having to stand out as weird in its eyes. That is classic submission to peer pressure.
God the Father would remind His wayward children that we are His peculiar people who are not to be ashamed of Christ or the Gospel (Mark 8:38; Romans 1:16; 1 Peter 2:9-10).2 He has called us out of the world no longer to conform to its standards, but in all self-sacrifice, His and supplies the Holy Spirit to us to make it happen (Romans 12:1-2; 1 Peter 1:13-16)! The ways of this world are of the sinful, selfish nature we enter it with; ways parents are hard pressed to restrain as we develop and peers work hard to get us to indulge.3 The ways of this world are also deadly as a holy God has already condemned them. He calls us out of the world to save us from that condemnation (1 John 2:15-17).
Therefore, the Lord commands the guilty young and old to repent from the demonically deceitful doctrine that you can have God and the world too! Come out from under the condemned false teachers that with syrupy sweet words make God’s whole reason for existence to be all about you (2 Peter 2:1-3). They prep you for the fire that waits for all who fail God’s final exam in not loving and walking in the truth of His Word (2 Thessalonians 2:9-15; Revelation 14:9-13). God is the Creator; you are the creature. God is the Savior; you are supposedly the grateful saved creature that is eager to please and serve Him in doing His will,4 not He to serve you in doing all your bidding! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 As an unforeseen and unintended consequence I am sure, these guilty Christians find themselves on the side of the world in rebellion against God and His Word (they
may not see it that way, but God does--Psalms 2:1-3, 50:16-23; Matthew 12:30; John 14:15). They must also accept responsibility in this for such developments as
today’s gender identity confusion and the transgender movement. Sin, like seeds planted in the ground, always produces a crop of consequences because a holy
God will never be outsmarted by any of His creatures!
2 Read The Peculiar People, posted May 22, 2016 under the category, Instruction.
3 Fellow Christian Baby Boomers will recognize the frontal assault here on the worldly notion that sin is only learned behavior as captured in the lyrics of a song from one
of our favorite bands from back in the day and world, Earth, Wind & Fire. In That’s The Way Of The World, they sang, “Child is born with a heart of gold, way of the
world makes his heart grow (so) cold.” However, the Word of God is clear that we are born sinners learning only how to fine tune our methods as we get older (Psalms
51:5, 58:3)! For this reason, the wisest sinner that ever lived charged parents not to spare the rod (Proverbs 13:24, 22:15, 23:13-14). God also “now commands all
men everywhere to repent” and believe the Gospel to receive among other benefits, deliverance from His eternal rod of punishment for sin and a new nature wrought by
the Holy Spirit (Acts 17:24-31; Titus 3:1-8; 2 Peter 1:1-4, NKJV)!
4 This is the heart of every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Jesus Christ I write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics.
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In the leadership and power of the Holy Spirit I am endeavoring to live out my life and labor in ministry with a biblical worldview toward everything since the Bible is God’s eternal Word (Isaiah 40:8)! I make this statement understanding there are many worldviews out there including those that are Christian. Indeed, knowing the confusion created by the historic division, rebellion, corruption, compromise and scholarly arrogance within the ranks of professing Christianity, I am comfortably anchored and “blessed” in a biblical worldview as the Spirit leads to enable my continued objective and consistent interpretation and application of God’s Word as it is written (Psalm 119:1-8, NKJV)!
For my critics in and outside of professing Christianity, I do know very well the world does not work the way the Bible says it ought. But the world can never out righteous or do the living God! Therefore, for the world to admit it does not operate as the Bible prescribes is to confirm God’s plainly and repeatedly stated cause for His coming wrath (Romans 1:18-32). The world in rebellion has not improved upon God’s truth in the least bit. Instead, the world in rebellion against God and His Word along with the professed Christians following after it has plunged itself into ruin and “is passing away.” “But he who does the will of God” from a biblical worldview “abides forever,” (1 John 2:17, NKJV)!
For this reason with the Psalmist “I have chosen the way of truth;” I will even “run the course of” God’s “commandments” and trusting His Word, “the word of truth,” I will “keep” it “continually, forever and ever,” (Psalm 119:29-34, 42-44, NKJV)! Truly, the Psalmist and I are far from alone in this. Every Bible writer and all of the godly characters to include Jesus Christ in it take God’s Word to heart as biblical conservatives--presenting, interpreting, applying and preserving it as it is written; living in and serving God out of a biblical worldview. And when I stumble in my quest to faithfully live out a biblical worldview through sin, like a child learning to ride a bicycle who falls off, I get back on the bicycle in accord with God’s Word (Psalm 119:57-60; 1 John 1:5-2:2).
So now, are you maintaining a biblical worldview exclusively or do you possess a hodgepodge of worldviews rooted in rejection of God’s Word as it is written as I have far too often found among professed Christians? Your answer reveals your future (Psalm 37:37-38)!
(I will be taking Sunday, September 5th off as my Labor Day rest with thanks to God. He willing, my next post will appear on September 12th. Have a safe, well and restful Labor Day.)
People can hate and deny the truth of the Bible’s holy God all they want to, but He says all are sinners by nature and have sinned against Him (Romans 3:9-18, 23)! Because of this, all are born into the world condemned by Him who had warned and judged our progenitors (Genesis 2:7-3:13). Even in that time of judgment, out of His great love, grace and mercy God announced a “Seed” to come forth from the woman as a Deliverer (Genesis 3:14-24, NKJV). He kept His Word (Galatians 4:4)! Meanwhile, up to and through the Deliverer’s appearing until the end, sinners as defiant rebels will have sought, but failed to create a perfect world for themselves (Genesis 11:1-9; Psalm 33:10).
The historic folly of sinful human beings believing they are so superior they can create a perfect utopian world is well presented in many fiction film classics. In my estimation, one of the best films ever in this vein is Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 Jurassic Park in which a man exploits dinosaur DNA to bring the creatures in their nearly every form back to life with the intent to control them and their ability to multiply. The creatures are confined within a safari/theme park the man hoped people from around the world would pay to visit. He miscalculated. They could not control the natural ferocity of the carnivorous dinosaurs or the ability of any to breed due to a DNA oversight.
The film dramatically ends with an unbowed T-Rex inside the park’s destroyed main pavilion sounding his triumph while a banner that reads “When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth” falls from over his head to the ground. The creatures had prevailed over man’s unbridled arrogance and greed. In a similar manner, the kingdoms of arrogant men down through history have collapsed; their ruins displayed wherever they have been all over the earth. And now, even in the face of such sobering tangible evidence, we have a generation of sinners in our nation that believes they can beat the historic odds against them and create a perfect and enduring world that fulfils all of their evil lusts.
The natural rebellion of sin is in the spiritual DNA of our citizenry as the people of all other nations. However, our nation was created by breaking away in rebellion from the king of England whatever all of the noble reasons proffered to justify it. Consequently, the national spiritual DNA of our citizenry also contains rebellion as a patented right of action whenever it is desirable to resist even righteous laws, morals and ethics. Such has clearly been the case over the past sixty years with the efforts of humanistic science and social engineers particularly among feminists and the sexually immoral as they seek to throw off what they see as the yoke of the Bible’s God (Psalm 2:1-3).
In the place of God’s transcendent spiritual truths, righteous laws, morals and ethics the arrogant sinners as rebels in our nation are establishing their own believing them superior and more adequately suited to the way they want to live. Their rebellious onslaught is seen in the culture at large as they press their wicked agenda through the media, all levels of government, education, business and false Christianity. With only a relative few standing against them,1 for all practical intents and purposes it appears the creation of the world they want is immovably established and will endure. Not! Already their banner of rebellious self-assertion is falling down to the ground in tatters.
Instead of a utopia, the world the rebel sinners against God have created and are attempting to uphold is fast becoming a dystopia of great evil! People are so miserable they are killing themselves in unprecedented numbers. Even the rebels have acknowledged the need for more mental health help and particularly among disillusioned youth some of whom have found the bright promise of well being through same sex relations and transgender sex changes contrary to God’s design is not panning out.2 Many families are dysfunctional and in distress. Violence and lawlessness rule the day as folk physically harm and kill one other and organized mobs rob stores. Drugs such as fentanyl are killing many while life ruining homelessness is seemingly intractable and systemic racism persists.
Amazingly, in the face of the foregoing and evident defeat, rather than repent and seek the grace and mercy of God the rebel sinners continue to press their evil agenda.3 Doubled down and hardened in heart, they are coming against the relative few biblically conservative Christians as “ambassadors for Christ” with His message of reconciliation and that dare to call out their folly and resolve to destroy themselves along with our nation (2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Titus 2:11-15, NKJV). For as the kingdom ruins of nations plainly testifies, God has judged and will do so with growing severity until the day of His wrath and removal of sinners from His presence (Zephaniah 3:6; 2 Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:11-15). Then He will create an eternal perfect world (Revelation 21:1-8).
1 You can be sure among these are aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ He leads me to first write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and that also necessarily show up in my recent release, The Scourge Of Racism. Learn about the book and read reviews on the Featured Publishing Resource Page at https://www.opendoorcommin.org/featured-publishing-resource. You can obtain print copies at your favorite internet book seller and in the Strong Man Store. E-books are also available at major E-Book sellers.
2 Read the AP article by Lindsey Tanner which portrays the number of the youth regretting their transgender decision as only a very small percentage. Even so, one is too many and there would be none if such options were not possible!
3 If you have never received the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the message of reconciliation from God to be saved especially as one of our nation’s youth, watch this Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Reconciled To God, on our YouTube channel. Read the July 31, 2022 post introducing the rally, God’s Message Of Reconciliation Pro- claimed, under the category, The Cause. If you are professing to be a Christian, but know you have strayed far from the Lord in rebellion with the world against His will, way and Word, hear His merciful call to return in the Online Rally, Return To The Lord.
Before having you read the short tribute of praise to God in this 2012 blog repost, He has sanctioned my brief and appropriate lamentation in advance for the local churches of history from the 1st century until the destruction of great Babylon. It is appropriate for the faithful to lament now, since upon our departure to Heaven (Hebrews 12:18-24) and in the resurrection to immortal glory to follow we will no longer lament or weep over what we will not remember from this present mortal age (Isaiah 65:17; Revelation 21:4). Of course, many tears of bewilderment and loss are already being shed in various parts of the world for re-tasked, empty and destroyed buildings where professing Christians can no longer assemble; many more tears are still to come.
With understanding and our hearts properly set on God’s eternal big picture, however, let the faithful of God join me in this purposeful lamentation for the coming end of the overt local churches and this mortal epoch of the Church on earth. For we know Christ did not suffer to save temporal buildings, but the souls that become the spiritual construction material for the glorious eternal Church He builds (1 Peter 2:1-10)! Let professing Christians bound anchor and chain to this present age hear this lament as a sign and yet another prophetic warning from the Lord to get your priorities straight in all repentance (Romans 2:4)! The prophet Jeremiah’s Lamentations 1-2 and Revelation 18:21-23 serve as the Scriptural backdrop and Holy Spirit fired inspiration for my lament.
How lonely sit the churches that were once filled with people! The re-tasked, empty or destroyed buildings that once hosted the weekly parade of men, women, boys and girls into its rooms, now, only offering a kaleidoscope of bittersweet memories to them as they pass by seeking for hidden refuge elsewhere. No more ringing church bells or families dressed in their Sunday best filling seats to hear prayers, sermons, hymns and songs; the silenced voices of deacons, preachers, choirs, soloists and musicians a mere echo in the swift moving memories. No more babies crying or children rustling restlessly during the service. No more baptisms, communions, weddings, dedications or funerals.
The picnics, potlucks and fellowship meals are no more; the polite banter of adults and laughter of children at play are no longer heard. Endless meetings where members in the pride of the flesh sought to wrangle for their way have ceased; labor and activities devoid of the Spirit’s leading and power halted. The distinctive qualities which made every church formed among the ethnicities unique are no longer exhibited; the world famous emotional shouts of ecstasy, dancing and testimonies in the churches of my own black American people: gone. Re-tasked, empty or destroyed buildings certainly display the fruit of satanic hatred; the displeasure of God on the evil done in His house--no more an offense to His holiness and the shed blood of Christ (Hebrews 10:26-31)!
Originally Posted July 8, 2012
As a short postscript to my July 1st blog, Death Of A Church--One Year Later, under the category, “Glory To God!”, I offer up my praise and worship to God Almighty for the amazing work done to save souls in the multiplied millions to this hour in spite of the intense opposition of the powers of darkness as well as the failures of many professing Christians and local churches. Indeed, how awesome; how great is the triune God who has suffered long, is patient and persevering in the divine cause to redeem men from the day Adam fell through these nearly two thousand years since the Son of God was crucified because of our sins, buried and raised for our justification (Romans 4:25)!
What many even faithful Christians fail to appreciate about this so-called “church age” is that the local church was never intended to be a permanent fixture on earth. Local assemblies of mortal believers have come and gone as the Spirit of God moves throughout the earth pressing the cause of saving individuals through the preaching of the Gospel in power (Acts 1:8)! To that end, God never needed us, but dispatches His eager sons redeemed by faith in the cause (Romans 10:14-15). Truly, the everlasting Gospel will be preached one final time to the whole world by an angel not churches (Revelation 14:6-7)!
Therefore, I praise the Lord God Almighty for His steadfast work of saving sinful men like me around much satanic opposition and many obstacles of fallen men in building His eternal Church of the redeemed (Matthew 16:13-18; Revelation 5:8-14, 19:1-10). To God be the glory!
The world ruled by Satan is pushing his great deception hard in these latter days; namely, that all of the social changes upending God’s order of mankind with gender roles and responsibilities in the family are going to permanently endure. Not so, according to God Almighty who long ago announced the end of all kingdoms in the eternal triumph of His own through His Son (Isaiah 2:1-4, 9:6-7; Daniel 2:31-45, 7:13-14; Micah 4:1-3; Revelation 11:15)! Now, the world in rebellion against God and His coming Kingdom can believe the lie as it wishes, but those that profess to be Christians are not supposed to standing firm in the never changing truth that is Jesus Christ (Hebrews 13:8)!
The Lord has led me to confront the lie with the truth especially from His prophetic Word in the footnotes of recent posts. They make clear He will push back against the rebel social engineers of worldly feminism among others destroying the family as He designed it even before He returns to visibly install His Kingdom on earth.1 The reality that the ostensible positive advance of worldly feminism now, at its triumphant peak is about to be turned back forever should be deeply sobering to professed Christian males and females that have banked their souls on the hope that somehow God was in it for the good even to the extent of corrupting and setting aside His Word to make it so.
However, Satan has successfully deceived these worldly minded Christians in convincing them that good can come out of his evil (Genesis 3:1-11)! Indeed, none of the relative few legitimate grievances of feminism such as pay inequity that should be fixed have justified the evil of attacking to dismantle God’s order of mankind.2 But like the Trojan gift horse the ancient Greeks used to hide in before coming out to war against and defeat Troy, so, worldly feminism has packaged itself as advocates for the positive advance of females while destroying them, their families and communities; duping many professed Christians and related entities into supporting their cause in the process.3
Their cause is ultimately Satan’s cause which means his successful temptation to lure many professed Christians and their entities into supporting worldly feminism under the pretext of advancing females is a two for one win for him since they are also aiding and abetting him in his war against God! This is spiritually unthinkable, unconscionable and a betrayal of the Lord who’s Word guilty professed Christians so easily compromise, corrupt and twist to justify their transgression and iniquity. For the implication in their departure from God’s Word is that He and it have been wrong and unfair in the treatment of females from the beginning! What, God unrighteous (Romans 9:14)?4
Even if you say, “we reject the more extreme assertions of secular feminism such as a woman’s right to murder her unborn child, but stand for the positive and progressive advancement of females into all heretofore exclusively male instances of authority and work,” it is an affront to God and His Word since the unspoken implication is again that He has been wrong! This is as arrogantly high handed as the creature can get before its Creator and expected from the unbelieving unsaved, but not those that profusely profess to know and love Him (Romans 9:20)! This is the mind of those professed Christians who have corrupted themselves still following after the world and its ways.
By God’s express will we Christians have been called out of the world; renouncing our former allegiances, worldviews and ungodly conduct for the sake of Christ, His eternal Kingdom and biblical worldview (1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians 4:17-24). But many “who exchanged the truth of God for the lie” of worldly feminism and its perpetual endurance have been so effortlessly deceived and drawn away by Satan because they have not turned their backs on the world (Romans 1:25, NKJV). They still love and revere particularly its opportunities for financial gain!5 As a result, when God and the Word are falsely portrayed as unfair toward females to them--as if this were really possible for the perfectly “Just One”--it is believed (John 1:1-5, 14-18; Acts 7:51-53; 1 Timothy 6:6-10, NKJV).
Professed Christian females are seduced by their ambitions and lust for power feminism insists is righteous since males have these. Professed Christian males are seduced by fear of appearing oppressive, sexist and misogynistic in the face of feminism’s false contention that true equality demands the removal of all forms of male leadership inherit in God’s order of mankind beginning in the family.6 Like Esau who desperately sold his birthright for some food, many males in and outside of Christianity have sold their election to lead by God to females to escape their wrath not considering His wrath is exceedingly greater and eternally devastating (Genesis 25:29-34; Revelation 21:8)! All fear being labeled “extreme” like they and the world see the Amish who generally reject modernity.
1 See for examples, the fourth footnote in the September 13, 2020 post, Marginalizing Men Proves Costly During Pandemic where the Antichrist is presented as a damp- ening foil to feminism and more recently, the eighth footnote in Fathers Help Build Excellent Wives posted on October 10, 2021 showing how God will send the prophet Elijah to restore fathers and their children in Israel even before the Antichrist appears. Both posts were made under the category, The Cause.
2 Read the April 8, 2018 post, The Second Adam Rules And Judges, under the category, Bible Prophecy.
3 See the May 6, 2018 post, The Value Of Women To Families, under the category, God’s Creatures.
4 Take a look especially at part one of the three-part post beginning April 18, 2021, Daughters Of This Age, under the category, God’s Creatures.
5 Guilty pastors, elders, and other church leaders motivated to keep churches going and solvent have heavily fallen for the lie since females predominantly fill them as have Christian leaders of ministries and businesses (to include Christian media concerns) motivated by financial profit because females also dominate the markets for the purchase of Christian merchandise. This tendency to rationalize away and/or jettison God’s commandments, spiritual principles, morals and ethics in the Bible for the sake of financial gain is an evil thread running throughout Christian history clearly seen for example, in the enslavement of my forefathers. It is soon to be done by many when the decision to “worship” and take “the mark or the name of the beast” has to be made in the face of God’s warning (Revelation 13:11-18, 14:9-13, NKJV).
6 Read the November 8, 2020 post, Why so easily Deceived?, under the category, Instruction.
In last week’s post that was originally a 2012 Commentary, the Lord led me to write about the need for American church pastors that are guilty to be more intentional about developing the men in their churches as leaders. The absence of men in the churches today and their weakness in the pews when they are there is major evidence pastors are failing in their biblically mandated responsibility to reach men for and develop them in Christ. I also present a number of reasons for the failure of pastors in this matter, but reserved discussing an important one this and elaborating on another next week. In this week’s edited 2012 blog repost, it is the equality trap.
Originally Posted November 4, 2012
Writing about equality causes a powerful mix of emotions in me as a black American that has lived all of my life with the painful sting of racism fed inequality. I have endured being treated unequally in both the secular world where without connection to Christ it would be expected and among many white professing Christians, their churches and related entities where I have refused to accept such behavior as representative of biblical Christianity, but frankly, have also come to expect it from experience. Even so, more and more professing white Christians are following the world’s lead in not displaying some of the more openly discriminatory practices of racial inequality.
However, the evil practice of treating a man unequally because of the color of his skin is not the supposed immoral equivalent of a God honoring society treating same sex relations as wrong and forbidding its practice. My skin color was genetically programmed whereas same sex relations are a choice even if the demonically instigated and deceitful allure is over powering. All men are not to be marginalized as a group due to the racism of many white men either. Mysteriously and wickedly, God’s ancient instruction on males and females is being lumped together with racism. By divine assignment men are leaders in the home, church and wider society as it has been from creation.
The world’s clamor for equality is not moral or righteous, but hypocritically rebellious!1 The righteous demands for a more equal and fair society made historically by blacks and other racial minorities has been co-opted and used as a pretext by the mostly white “children of the sixties” to press their own immoral agenda and rebellion against God’s ancient morality for and order of human society (Psalm 2:1-3). This is not just my opinion offered from afar. I experienced the attempted brain washing that has come with this rebellion while in secular colleges in the mid-seventies and early eighties through particularly all of my social science courses.2
And now, the world’s clamor for equality has fully made its way into the churches where worldly anything is not to be tolerated as opposition to God’s program which is already perfectly equal and fair since He is the Author! Thus, the God of the Bible has never condoned or sanctioned racism or its related practices including segregated anything much less churches. This has all been done by those that are guilty in willful defiance of and disobedience to God’s Word. Similarly, those professing Christians that would think God’s male and female roles, responsibilities and order are not equal and fair are rebels and carry a worldly agenda into His house. They are of prospectively three types in their rebellion.
First, they are false disciples and impostors that have never met Jesus Christ personally (Galatians 2:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:13). Second, they are carnal, willfully weak and untaught babes in Christ who foolishly believe the church should look like the world rather than the peculiar people God called us out of it to be (1 Peter 2:9-10).3 Finally, they are self-willed and led, fearful of the world and ultimately ashamed of Christ and the Word of God (Matthew 10:24-33; Mark 8:34-38). Out of this latter group come many of the pastors today who feel pressure to make the world be fond of their churches for the sake of building them bigger and fear of persecution.
Too, their mostly female filled churches demand that women be treated equally and fairly as in the world and have positions of authority God has reserved for men. A special effort to develop men as leaders is a big no-no. Pastors who truly know and love the Lord must resist the temptation to compromise God’s Word and corrupt His program in being caught in Satan’s equality trap. In the first place, your assignment, pastor, is not to build a big congregation. It is to preach the Gospel, baptize and teach those who believe in making disciples (Matthew 28:19-20). Any legitimate increase in congregation size will come from the Lord not your efforts (Acts 2:47b; 1 Corinthians 3:5-7).
Furthermore, in the example of Christ, you must teach and develop men first as leaders in the home who will then prove themselves worthy to serve as leaders in God’s house. This approach in turn will lead to spiritually healthy homes and churches that are blessed of God even if they are despised by the world.4 Who are you to please in this, brother pastor: God or the world? If you have already compromised and corrupted yourself, repent! Our God rich in mercy through Christ will forgive you. However, you are right to consider the sobering possibility of natural consequences as you attempt to undo the damage you have done. I salute and encourage all faithful pastors to stay on the battlefield--it only gets tougher from here.
1 Read the May 15, 2016 blog post, God Unfair?, under the category, God’s Creatures for more on the world’s brand of equality and fairness.
2 Recent films such as God’s Not Dead 1&2 while fictional, nevertheless, capture how brain washing has morphed into open hostility and contempt now on many campuses toward especially a biblical worldview that challenges all of the rebellious tenets of a secular worldview including evolution to explain origins and science as the final authority on all.
3 Read my May 22, 2016 blog post, The Peculiar People, under the category, Instruction.
4 The Leader Kit for The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study is a great starting place for pastors to consider using this excellent resource in their efforts to teach and de- velop men. It is available exclusively in the Strong Man Store.
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