The Scourge Of Racism
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Listening this past week to the heartfelt singing of Gospel music legend, Mahalia Jackson, as she sang a standard of the genre, How I Got Over, I was joyfully reminded again of the rich legacy of faith in God through Christ reaching back to slavery Christian black Americans have. It is also a recent addition to and on par with the biblical legacy of faith God has bequeathed to His saints the world over who must contend with the foretold rise in satanically inspired oppressive hatred, persecution and suffering of these latter days (Matthew 10:16-26, 24:9; John 15:18-25; Hebrews 11:17-40). This Black History Month, consider how--like my Christian forefathers--we can get over by simple, child-like faith in God (Matthew 19:13-15)!
1 A prime example of culturally conditioned biblical faith is the entrenched and accepted attitudes of racism and bigotry still practiced without thinking by many professing Christian white Ameri-
cans in the churches. This was highlighted recently in a national news article where a coalition of Asian-American pastors and leaders wrote an open letter to white evangelicals urging an
end be brought to racial stereotyping within its ranks (click here to see the article). It is time for professing white Christians that are guilty to face the reality that the smelly skunk of racism in
your midst can no longer be masked by theological subterfuge, force of intimidation and deceitful denial or will you doggedly corrupt biblical Christianity maintaining this evil to the end very near (John 13:34-35; 1 John 3:10-23, 4:7-5:3; Revelation 22:10-16)?
2 Visit our companion Web Site, www.fromslaverytovictory.org to learn more about this biblically rooted and Holy Spirit inspired understanding of the enslavement of West Africans in Europe and throughout the so-called “New World.”
3 Click here to be linked to a formerly published article on the from slavery to victory Web Site entitled, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Revisited that refutes Uncle Tom in the famous book as “a sellout”
and instead holds the character up as an aspiring strong man of God in the image of Christ!
Writing last post about males properly promoting females, the magnitude of the male and female issues we have in these latter times and challenge of overcoming them became inescapably clear to me.1 Sin in us and the active opposition of the powers of darkness throughout this world by way of feminism and other deceitful doctrines they have fostered among fallen mankind make the challenge appear impossible. Oh, but my Lord Jesus Christ has declared that though it may be impossible for men, it is not with God among those who are willing (Matthew 19:16-30)! Indeed, for Christ has overcome this world and enables any who trust in Him to also (John 16:33; 1 John 5:4-5)!
Let’s be real and sober about the challenge before us who want to do right by God. The deck is totally stacked and the odds are against us as the secular world and culture has succeeded in a few centuries to overthrow Christendom’s dominating influence after what took it many to gain. I will not insult my Lord and the biblical faith to suggest in any way that the former dominance of what was called Christianity over secular kingdoms and cultures counting our own here in America was His failure.2 No, Christianity the religion of men holds that distinction to itself since it is impossible that the biblically taught and true Kingdom of God should fail to stand and eternally so (Daniel 7:13-14)!
This points up the fact again the Lord has led me to declare that the biblical mission of Christ’s Church was never to rule over and dominate the world in this temporary epoch of grace before His return with the Kingdom, but to preach the Gospel and witness Him in all the nations (Psalm 145:8-13; Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:44-49; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:4-8). The temporary nature of the mission is also the reason local churches as corporate entities do not have a biblical guarantee of perpetuity; their authentic existence predicated as it is on the active assemblage and participation of mortal members who endure mounting persecution, apostasy and God’s judgment!3
This reality makes our mission as Christ’s faithful--even every aspiring strong man and great woman of God--all the more urgent. Time and opportunity are getting away from us as escalating evil makes clear. In a fallen world now, with millennia of the destructive work of sin in it including from the ostensibly hallowed brick and mortar halls of Christianity the religion of men and reaching its foretold climax (2 Timothy 3:1-5), we must intensify our proclamation and witnessing of the biblical Gospel for the salvation of as many as possible (Jude 20-23); teaching them as our Lord requires to obey all of His commandments and instruction which also incorporates biblical man and womanhood.4
Sin in us is one of the unseen operators thwarting humans from getting along together in marriages, families, communities and the world. And why is this so? Is it not because sin always has us looking out for self--its interests and desires first? Because of sin we are also natural born rebels against whoever (God and His righteousness too) will stand in the way of us having ours! The other unseen operators are Satan and his extensive network of demons that make up his kingdom and use our sin nature against us in fomenting bitter discord; pitting us against each other leading to malice, failed marriages, broken families, lawlessness, violence, murders, unrest and wars (1 John 3:4-15).
Thanks be to God that while sin is not eliminated in this mortal life, its work is mitigated in us who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and the supernatural transforming power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 3:10-26, 6, 8:1-13, 12:1-2)! We are also able to overcome the activity of the evil one by faith in Christ, the battle provisions God has made for and the greater power of the Holy Spirit who lives in us to help us fight (Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 John 4:1-6). Thus, not for human religious reasons do we preach the Gospel, witness and teach Christ, but the very real difference believing in Him can make now, in time and eternity for individuals and mankind in overcoming the devastating work of the unseen operators of sin in us and active opposition without by the kingdom of darkness!
If you have not already, I invite you in prayer to repent of your sins and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ: that He died on the cross for your sins, was buried and rose again on the third day as Scripture teaches so you can be forgiven (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Further, in your prayer ask the Lord to fill you with the Holy Spirit that you might be brought to spiritual birth and eternal life (John 3:1-8; Acts 2:38-40). If you do pray, begin to praise and thank the Lord for your salvation by His grace through faith! Begin also to read a Bible (I recommend a New King James Version) at the Gospel of John. Prayerfully seek out a real Christian you may know for fellowship, introduction to a Bible teaching assembly of believers and baptism by the designated male leadership (Acts 2:41-47).
1 Read the November 7, 2021 post, Properly Promoting Females, under the category, Biblical Worldview.
2 One of the books on my reading list this past summer was The Unsaved Christian by Dean Inserra, Copyright 2019, Moody Publishers, Chicago. He does an excellent job of making a distinction between cultural Christianity and the real biblical deal. It matters and because it does, I highly recommend this book to anyone who does not know the difference between Christianity of manmade cultural invention and what the Bible actually says it is. Such knowledge for example, will keep one from believing falsely that the accepted American cultural view of males and females held as righteous by even many professed Christians and their churches is also that of Christ, His Kingdom and biblical instruction. Truly, American held values and freedoms are not all the same as, superior to or cancel out those of Christ’s Kingdom! Pastor Inserra’s book follows in similitude the prophetic word of warning the Lord gave me on the eve of this 21st century, The Gods Of Cultural Christianity available for free download as a single docu- ment in the Strong Man Store.
3 See the August 23, 2015 post, Babylon Is Falling, under the category, Bible Prophecy along with Praise For The Lord God Almighty!, posted on September 13, 2015 under the category, Glory To God! Also, the two-part, Revelation’s Seven Churches In Time, beginning January 5, 2020 under the category, Bible Prophecy followed January 19, 2020 with Doing God’s Will, under the category, The Cause and There Is Only One..., posted on April 26, 2020 as well as the two-part, The Churches Under Judgment be- ginning August 23, 2020 both under the category, Instruction. The decline and eventual end of the organized brick and mortar local church in America and abroad makes it all the more imperative that Christian men again be taught and encouraged in their responsibilities to lead their families and teach them at home. View this Ministry’s Men Leading Family Worship At Home short YouTube video (https://youtu.be/PU93AenZnNQ) then, download the free document in the Strong Man Store.
4 Learn about the aspiring strong man and great woman of God as well as biblical man and womanhood in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and its com- panion works, The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study and Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study available at your favorite internet book seller as well as in the Strong Man Store.
It is the arrogant pride of rank racists who like Adolf Hitler of Germany, believe it is a manifest destiny born of superiority that Western Europeans and their scattered progeny have been dominant in the world for just over the last five centuries. As He leads me to assert otherwise in my book, The Scourge Of Racism, the God of the Bible in sovereignty controls the movements, habitations and dominions of ethnic nations to this very hour.1 No ethnic group has risen or rises to prominence in any sphere apart from His purposes and permissive will. This being so, the global dominance of Western Europeans and their descendants until now, has been of God and should inspire humility!
The record of nations in the Bible objectively read, interpreted and applied begins with the sons of Noah after the global flood and God’s command, ‘“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,’” (Genesis 9:1, 7, 18-19, NKJV). In Genesis 10 his youngest, Japheth, is presented first, then middle son, Ham, and finally firstborn, Shem; the birth order and names of their respective sons follow. Ham’s son, Cush, begot Nimrod the first named empire builder “on the earth” with “the beginning of His kingdom” being “Babel” and other cities “in the land of Shinar;” beyond it as well, building Nineveh in Assyria (Genesis 10:2-12, NKJV). There is general consensus Nimrod as Cush was racially black.2
Here is the point I make in The Scourge Of Racism: God in His sovereignty has granted global or at least hemispheric prominence and dominance to various descendants of the sons of Noah beginning with black Nimrod down through the centuries as He has willed. It has had nothing to do with the superiority of race, but the sovereign election of God in accord with His purposes!3 So then, all of the rest of Ham’s sons had geographical dominions (Genesis 10:13-20) as did the sons of Shem who was part of the godly line from Adam elected by God to be the progenitors of the greatest King ever; even His Jewish Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (Genesis 10:21-32; Luke 3:23-38)!
Despite their population growth at the time as well as present and future dominions, Nimrod and company ran into a major problem with God. With their single language and culture, they sought to build a city and worship platform to reach into “the heavens” as part of a plan to allow them to remain together in one place as a single people. God was having none of that and came “down” to “confuse their language.” Not being able to understand each other, the people left off building the city and “the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth.” Rebellion against God and idolatry has characterized the Gentile nations from that time until now (Genesis 11:1-9, NKJV).
Only God in sovereignty knows exactly why He has allowed the ascendancy of Western Europeans to global dominance in these last days. Even so, given the disdain He has for the proud who walk in pride and arrogance written in His Word, it surely was not so men puffed up could exalt themselves before Him or boast in any measure for He ‘“resists’” all who do (1 Samuel 2:1-3; Proverbs 8:13, 16:18-19; James 4:6, 13-17; 1 Peter 5:5, NKJV)! Indeed, history is replete with God taking down arrogant, proud rulers and their kingdoms after first allowing them for His purposes to mistreat and oppress His people, Israel. Pharaoh of Egypt was first (Exodus 10:1-7, 15:1-19).
Pharaoh and his kingdom was followed later by God’s take down of the proud rulers of surrounding nations that had oppressed Israel in the land with His permission during the period of the Judges (1 Samuel 12:6-11). Then came Israel’s kings when God did the same thing among nearby rulers and nations along with those far off such as Nimrod’s legacies Assyria and great Babylon as foretold by the Lord’s prophets (Isaiah 10:5-19; Jeremiah 25:1-29). Truly, if God uses any nation or kingdom to punish others, you can be sure they will be punished too! His holy prophets also foretell the world will see Him take down all of the kingdoms of proud men in “the day of the Lord” (Isaiah 2:10-22, 13:6-13; Jeremiah 25:30-33; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Revelation 6:12-17, 11:15-18, NKJV).4
In light of all the foregoing, not racial supremacy birthed of arrogant pride, but humility should characterize the hearts of the descendants of the Western Europeans who founded America.5 For with proper humility global prominence and dominance is understood as a serious stewardship responsibility from God to which He holds men accountable.6 To have been globally known as the arrogant oppressors of non-whites does not commend the guilty to the Lord who judges. Realizing this, guilty especially professed Christians must repent as Samuel the prophet also challenged Israel that sinned against the Lord to do (1 Samuel 6:7-7:6).7 Otherwise, without repentance those who exult in the arrogant pride of racial supremacy following Satan are in grave peril of divine take down.8
1 The Scourge Of Racism, Copyright 2023, ODCM Publishing Division, Portland, OR, p. 45-46. The printed book is available in the Strong Man Store, all major internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores. The just released E-Book is available at major E-Book sellers. Watch the book trailer.
2 Use your preferred search engine to pull up academic articles asserting that Nimrod was black skinned.
3 Scourge, op. cit. p. 45-46.
4 See the two-part post that begins February 13, 2022, War Of The Ages End, under the category, Bible Prophecy, to see the prophetic details of how our nation potentially among all that survive in some form in the day of the Lord will come up under the sovereign reign of Jesus Christ!
5 Scourge, op. cit. p. 26-27.
6 Ibid, p. 65-66. Here is why white conservative evangelicals as aspiring strong men of God in the image of Jesus Christ are so desperately needed and can help at this hour. Such men display Christ’s character trait of humility I write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and are on mission to proclaim the Gospel about and witness Him to others. Genuine salvation will help any man that needs a change of heart and mind. Pick up the book in the Hard or Soft Cover or E-Book Edi- tions in the Strong Man Store, all major internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores.
7 See the end of the January 21, 2024 post, Not Heeding God’s Word On Racism Consequential, under the category, Call To Repent for background to the Scripture cited. The Lord Jesus has extended His call to return to Him in repentance to any professed Christian that has strayed in rebellion against Him, His will and way plainly taught in the Bible through this Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord. Watch it now on YouTube.
8 Satan is the original rebel creature of arrogant pride whose destruction was long ago declared (Ezekiel 28:11-19)!
In the opening weeks of 2018, the Lord led me to write about the dire need and His requirement for character among all professed Christian men.1 Now, as a measure of His urgent stress on the issue, in the very first week and post of 2019 I write about the important character trait of integrity even this morally deteriorating world still values to some extent, but apparently not all professed Christians! Integrity with other godly traits of character God values are not just about honoring what pleases Him or modeling the divine image and likeness as a witness as important as these are. In the Spirit’s power, being men of integrity also helps enable our faithful living for Christ.
Microsoft Encarta Dictionary defines integrity in three parts. First, it is “the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards.” Second, it is “the state of being complete or undivided.” Third, “it is the state of being sound or undamaged.” The Bible incorporates all three aspects of this definition and related synonyms in its use of integrity. For example, Abimelech falsely sought to assure Abraham he was acting with the highest morality toward his wife (Genesis 20:1-7). God charged Solomon to live up to his father’s completely devoted heart (1 Kings 9:4-9). Paul exhorts young Christian men to be sound in doctrine and speech (Titus 2:6-8).
In biblical Christianity, Christians are not to just be known for what we do not do in sin, but what we do in accord with Kingdom righteousness! In His powerful instruction “on a mountain,” the Lord Jesus Christ, our King, teaches among many things that we of the Kingdom are to be men of integrity that need not swear to give authenticity to our words (Matthew 5:1-2, 33-37, NKJV).2 We are honest and truthful as the moral standard of God’s Kingdom; we do not lie because He does not and cannot lie (Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:1-2). And so, as a matter of integrity Christians are not supposed to lie to each other or anyone else; our word is our bond (Colossians 3:9-10).
Telling me what I and the Lord know full well that lying is endemic among professed Christians (hence, this post) does not change the truth of His Word or amend His eternally firm will as some appear foolishly to want to believe. Dishonesty and lying are sin! The sovereign God pure in absolute truth is who He is, has been and will be forever; He does not change (James 1:16-18)! As a result, professed Christian men of integrity not only do not lie, but steal from or cheat anyone nor do they conspire together as many do in the churches to do these things, harm others in any way or cover up sin (Leviticus 19:11, 13, 35-37; Mark 10:17-22; 1 Corinthians 6:1-8; Ephesians 4:28).
This latter business of church leaders and members conspiring to in some way harm others and cover up sin so sadly, but accurately portrayed in many contemporary fictional dramatic films and television shows, is thoroughly scandalous and reprehensible to the Most High God! They clearly forget He hears and sees as He has also enabled them to do (Psalm 94:8-9; Proverbs 20:12). Indeed, the Lord knows the very secrets of their hearts since He searches the hearts of all men to reward each according to their deeds (Jeremiah 17:10; Revelation 2:18-23). This is why it is completely ludicrous to plot or do evil or cover it up thinking no one saw it when in fact the living God who judges did (Psalm 37:12-15; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Romans 1:29-2:16; 2 Corinthians 5:9-11)!
The Bible is filled with examples of men and women with a lack of integrity as a momentary or lifestyle issue that God exposed and dealt with. Adam and Eve “sewed fig leaves together” in an attempt to cover up their sin guilt and shame before God (Genesis 3:6-11, 16-17 NKJV). Achan let Joshua go through an extended process to discover him as the one guilty of sin in the camp (Joshua 7:10-26). David conspired to murder Bathsheba’s husband after he got her pregnant (2 Samuel 11:1-17, 12:1-15). Jezebel conspired to steal a field for her husband (1 Kings 21). Religious leaders conspired to murder Christ, Ananias and Sapphira to deceive the church about their property sale proceeds and magistrates to cover up Paul’s mistreatment (Matthew 26:1-5; Acts 5:1-11, 16:16-40).
Now, if it is all like that from Scripture, ought we not all that profess to be Christians to take due warning? God expects His sons to be men of integrity who are always joyfully conscious of His living presence within and seek to please Him by living holy, righteous, transparently honest and truthful lives. Rather than attempting to hide or cover up our sins to our hurt knowing God knows (Numbers 32:20-23; Luke 12:1-3) and certainly not sharing in the sinful deeds of others (1 Timothy 5:22), we instead, confess and repent from our sins as they occur to obtain forgiveness and cleansing (Psalm 32:1-5; 1 John 1:5-10); rising up afresh to welcome God’s inescapable work of building Christ’s holy character traits in us such as integrity. Therefore, let the guilty repent now (2 Corinthians 7:1-12)!
In being men of character generally and integrity in particular through the power of the Holy Spirit, professed Christian men are enabled to live faithfully, pleasing God and doing His will as His aspiring strong men in the image of Christ; standing out brightly “as lights” in an ever darkening world (Philippians 2:12-16, NKJV).3 Such men also welcomed and allowed to flourish in the churches as leaders obedient to Christ’s command to “love one another” surely will not think themselves lofty enough before the Lord to justify conspiring to deceive, manipulate, cheat, mistreat or otherwise harm any of God’s people especially through sinful, manmade religious rules or cover up anyone’s sin including their own (John 15:12; Romans 13:8-10; 1 John 3:10-23, 4:7-12, 20-5:3, NKJV). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 See the January 28, 2018 post, Character Is Required Of Christian Men, Instruction.
2 Not because He needed to as the writer of Hebrews instructs, but only to give double confirmation to Abraham and his heirs that He would do as He promised, God
swore an oath (Hebrews 6:11-20).
3 The Lord leads me to present the character traits of Christ He wills to build in redeemed men in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and its compan-
ion instructional resource, The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study. Both are available in the Strong Man Store. Incidentally, I name Nehemiah in the book and
men’s group study as among the Bible’s many aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ that are men of integrity. New Testament stand outs beyond the
apostles include Joseph, the Lord’s surrogate father and Simeon (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 2:25-35).
Critical to a human family as God designed it in perfection is a devoted wife and mother. For while a man as the head of the family importantly initiates, gives visionary leadership and overall governance to it, a devoted wife and mother provides bonding love to all and excellent management skills that keeps it running smoothly. Regardless of family size, her job is incredibly challenging and requires all that God has designed a woman to be naturally and because of sin, supernaturally in nature, character and demeanor to pull off successfully! Therefore, being a devoted wife and mother as a woman is not something inferior or trivial, but very significant and precious to her family.
The struggle many women of child bearing age have today balancing education and career aspirations with the demands of being fully devoted wives and mothers is taking a devastating toll on them and their families. From personal mental and physical health issues to the multifaceted drama of marital strife often leading to divorce and traumatized children, many affected 21st century women attempting to live out 20th century feminism’s narcissistic ideal to “have it all” are suffering greatly. In the process, virtually gone are the days women as devoted wives and mothers joyfully gave themselves in self-denying, sacrificial service to their husbands and children and were still fulfilled.
From the 18th century industrial age women have been pressing their way into male dominated workplaces. While the Woman’s Suffrage Movement sought to politically enfranchise them in the 19th century, by the middle of the 20th century, feminist descendants expanded their objectives to include the right to be free from the ancient biblical, Judeo-Christian expectation of marriage and family. As I wrote in a previous Mother’s Day post, Betty Friedan is generally credited with voicing the rallying cry for “Women’s Liberation” from what she and others she surveyed felt were the mundane and dissatisfying tasks of just being wives and mothers especially for those that had been educated.1 2
Since Friedan in the mid-sixties, feminism has urged women to pursue their dreams in all fields of endeavor and to do so without guilt concerning marriage, family and their own biological clocks to find the significance and fulfillment they equally deserved with men. But there yet remains stubborn resistance by the large number of struggling women to an all out abandonment of marriage and family as a valid avenue of female experience. Indeed, among them are many professed women of faith who like others still wanting marriage and family as devoted wives and mothers in accord historically with God’s design for them, struggle too, because they cling to Satan’s lie in feminism.
For a generation women have heard the lie that they should not be satisfied and in related evil, envious and resentful toward men in authority. However, faithful contemporary women of faith find themselves in a long line of sisters that begins in the Bible who were well adjusted, satisfied and fulfilled as devoted wives and mothers of significance and blessing to their families. These women receive satisfaction from their God designed roles and praise from their families because they start not in narcissism with themselves, but Him as the woman of Proverbs 31:30. Interestingly, it is a mother’s instruction to her son that reveals why such women are relatively few (Proverbs 31:1-3, 10).
A woman that knows and fears God loves and is devoted to Him first! In that devotion, she is joyfully eager and willing in all submission to embrace the roles and responsibilities He has assigned in order to please Him and do His will. As a result, with His guiding wisdom and strength, this great woman of God purposefully commits her life to being the best possible wife to her husband and he knows it (Proverbs 31:11-12).3 With his trust, encouragement and support because he and the whole family also benefit, she works in and outside of the home using her God given talents to operate businesses without neglecting her family (Proverbs 31:13-24). Because she knows the Lord, she is a woman of compassion, strength, dignity, wisdom, kindness and diligence (Proverbs 31:25-27).
Amazingly, because her significance is tied to her God’s love, acceptance and approval, the great woman of God is completely satisfied with her life. She also truly has it all since she uses every fiber of her being, knowledge, talents and skills to serve the purposes of God in her roles and responsibilities as a devoted wife and mother. Blessed, her family rises up to “call her blessed;” her husband “praises her” as does the watching community (Proverbs 31:28-31; NKJV). Foolish is the man that would oppress such a wife; treasure her, she is from God!4 My sisters that are guilty: repent from buying into the lie of feminism; put God first then your husband and children (Psalms 37:3-4, 111:10; Isaiah 55:1-3). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 See the May 11, 2014 post, Motherhood In A Time Of Rebellion, under the category, God’s Creatures.
2 Read about Betty Freidan and her impact on American feminism at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan.
3 Learn more about the great woman of God in the image of Jesus Christ in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics available through all major internet book-
sellers, by order from your favorite brick and mortar bookstore and in the Strong Man Store.
4 My grandmother, Eunice Campbell, featured on the Great Woman Of God Mothers CD cover worked nearly all of her sixty-six year life as have most black women from
slavery, including her daughter, my mother, Bettie Kelley and my wife, Mary, when our children were in the home. Momma as an aspiring great woman of God main-
tained an excellent Christian witness to her nominally professing Christian husband and family. While being an excellent wife, mother, homemaker and working full-
time as a Civil Service Food Service Worker with AAFES at the Fort Ord Army Base, she still went to mid-week and Sunday church services. She only took my siblings
and me to church as children on many Sundays where we were exposed to Christianity. Momma was overjoyed later when as a young adult, I came to Christ and gave
her a preview of my exercising the gift of preaching as a babe before her departure. We called her blessed while she was with us; I declare her so again in sweet mem-
ory of her this Mother’s Day! The Great Woman of God Mothers CD is available in the Strong Man Store.
Far from the supposedly hope quenching gloom and doom view of Bible prophecy foretelling the apocalyptic end of this present world as we have known it even many professed Christians hold, is the gloriously bright reality captured in the phrase, “the Lord reigns,” (Psalms 93:1, 96:10-12, 97:1-9, 99:1-3; Revelation 19:6, NKJV)! These three words are exclaimed on the earth and in every other realm of existence after the victory of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem!1 Indeed, elect, mortal Israel and surviving Gentiles of His grace are urged to join the glorified immortal saints in joyful celebration of the King; singing His praises with awe and jubilation (Psalms 47, 98, 100, 150:1-4; Isaiah 12)!
As the faithful reflect from this mortal vantage point prior to the coming Day of the Lord, it is beyond tragically sad that all of humanity does not accept God’s free offer of salvation and restoration through repentance and faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ! For knowing the end from the beginning, salvation and restoration has been in God’s heart from eternity when He saw that man would sin. Giving His creature free will, God also saw that many would exercise it and reject His gracious offer of pardon with immortal glory. For this reason, any sadness we have now should move the faithful to proclaim the Gospel and witness Christ to unsaved fellow humanity with all the more zeal!
For truly, we of all people have known from God’s Word that deliverance from and an end to this present evil age governed by fallen angels was finally going to come. Rule over the earth or any part of physical creation was not intended for them, but man under the sovereign and righteous reign of God (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8). However, Adam rejected God’s rule (Genesis 2:16-17, 3:1-6)! Nevertheless, the Day of the Lord was telegraphed in His foretelling of Satan’s defeat by the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15)! Patient and longsuffering over the millennia, God first celebrates restoration of His Kingdom rule through Christ outside 1st century Jerusalem (Colossians 2:11-15).
Doing my assigned Kingdom work with many tears for the lost and disobedient professed Christians along the way, I gladly leave it behind for a moment and in God’s will come to the foretold second celebration of His rule restored by Christ at Jerusalem! With His prophetic Word, faith and Kingdom vision causing me to be in attendance, I join in the celebration--shouting, clapping, dancing and singing praises to King Jesus; yes, in unrestrained joy shouting with all of my voice “the Lord reigns, He reigns forever and ever!” “All glory, praises and honor be unto Him!” Then, like David, with total abandon I dance before the “King of glory,” (2 Samuel 6:12-15; Psalm 24, NKJV)!
Subsequently, I realize again I and all of the saints around me are shining with God’s glory and explode in fresh inexpressible joy--yet, I am expressing it fully (Daniel 12:2-3; Matthew 13:41-43; 1 Corinthians 15:47-49, 54-57; 1 Peter 1:3-9)!2 My slave forefathers may have truthfully sung “nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.” On this Day, though, everyone under, on and positioned over the earth knows my joy in the Lord with all of the saints for His victory; vindicating our faith, hope and suffering in Him (2 Thessalonians 1:3-12)!3 “Glory to God; glory to the ‘King of Kings and Lord of Lords’ who reigns and alone is worshipped forever more” (Zechariah 14:9, 16-19; Revelation 11:16, NKJV)!
As foretold, the King One with the Holy Spirit will reign in the reverence of His Father in truth, righteous judgment, unimpeachable justice that punishes wicked mortals in accord with what their sins deserve, divine wisdom, knowledge, strength, perfect fairness, impartiality and tenderness toward the meek (Deuteronomy 32:3-4; Psalm 99:4-5; Isaiah 9:6-7, 11:1-5; Matthew 5:5). Men will be taught the ways of the Lord and from Jerusalem His law will go forth throughout all the earth. In consequence, under His rule a real, thorough and lasting peace will prevail on the earth. Men will turn their weapons into tools and study war no more forever. The ferocity and carnivorous behavior of related plants and animals will cease (Isaiah 2:1-4; 11: 6-10; 65:24-25; Micah 4:1-3)!
The King will rule over mortal men with a “rod of iron” from His glorious throne at Jerusalem; elevated in height and beauty by Him (Psalm 2:8-9; Zechariah 14:8, 10-11; Revelation 19:15, NKJV). And we, His saints, shall reign on the earth with Him in all of the same character qualities and governance as He (Psalm 150:5-9; Daniel 7:26-27; Revelation 1:4-6, 2:26-29, 5:9-10, 20:4-6)! “Glory, glory to God for His awesome vindication of His faithful; of those that endured to the end proclaiming the Gospel to restore men and standing firm on His Word!”4 If only all professed Christians today could truly believe that what is unfolding in the world--great evil, a creation in labor pains and His coming wrath--is heading toward the exceedingly better Day of God’s Kingdom restored to earth!
1 I acknowledge that I with many other prophecy teachers and authors have conveniently named earth’s final war, “Armageddon” as is the case in my December 20, 2015 re-post, Reigning With Christ On Earth, under the category, Bible Prophecy that I recommend be read along with this present post. Technically, though, Armageddon is the hill or tel of Megiddo in northern Israel overlooking plains easily corresponding to the prophet Joel’s “Valley of Jehoshaphat” (Joel 3:1-2, NKJV). It serves as the ma- jor assembly area, staging ground and launch point of the world’s armies with Antichrist for war against Israel and Jerusalem. Christ descends upon the Mount Of Olives immediately in front of Jerusalem on the east and engages the enemy there delivering it while also overseeing His swift victory in the war actually raging all over Israel in- cluding Armageddon and around it (Isaiah 63:1-6). Then my Lord the King will enter Jerusalem to great acclamation as before, but this time on a white horse and with all knowing in absolute certainty who He is (Matthew 21:1-11, 23:37-39; Revelation 19:11)!
2 See the July 31, 2016 blog, The Immortal Bodies Of God’s Eternal Sons, under the category, God’s Creatures to learn more about the glorious immortal bodies of the saints!
3 Read the November 29, 2015 blog, When The Glory Comes, under the category, Glory To God!
4 Check out the Give Page on our Web Site to see how you can support the ongoing work of Strong Man Ministries to restore men.
God can and does use whoever He wants to but never in corruption of His already written Word! A donkey spoke in service to the divine purpose of the occasion not because God intended that going forward, dumb animals should now be preachers to men (Numbers 22:21-35). Likewise, Mary Magdalene who was at the tomb of Jesus because of her deep devotion to her Deliverer stood outside weeping because it was empty. She encountered the risen Lord and was commanded to go repeat a message to His disciples not because He was giving her a new ministry or authority over them, but simply because she was there to go to them as she had done earlier (John 20:1-18)!
Arguments from experience attempting to justify the corruption of and disobedience to God’s already written instruction in His Word abound among professing Christians today. From sensational Charismatic claims to of course, the exaltation of females to positions of authority over men in many churches, experiences have played more of a role in bringing these about than the objective truth of God’s Word. This has occurred in spite of our Lord’s foretold royal character and instruction we are supposed to live out in following Him (Isaiah 11:3-5; John 7:21-24). Also, the motives are legion and include pastors that bow to the idol of success by every worldly means.
The Lord’s apparent slowness to righteously judge has deceived many into believing He is fine and even complicit with them doing whatever works to fulfill their selfish ambitions instead of what is actually in accord with His will, way and Word. However, such persons have confused the Lord’s forbearance with His permission as they will soon learn (Psalm 50:16-21). Truly, we have come to the time of God’s severe judgment among the churches because His forbearance is drawing to its close (1 Peter 4:17-18). His judgment will break the demonically controlled stranglehold arguments from experience alone has on a large segment of professing Christianity as I warn in today’s blog.
Originally Published May 2011
Tied directly to emotional arguments are those from experience that are made to justify willful disobedience to God's Word. To hear some professing Christians and preachers discuss or refrain from discussing the matter, personal experience has not only been elevated to a sacred status higher than God's Word itself, but it is forbidden to be questioned. As a result, just about anything goes today in many churches because people are able to say, "I think, I feel, I believe God…" to have their way in either direct defiance of or by clearly corrupting Scripture. Such is how, in part, female leadership over men in American churches has come to be routine over the past 100 years.
God declares, ‘“The just shall live by his faith,”’ (Habakkuk 2:4b, NKJV) not feelings and experiences. Always, the object of our faith is the Lord who is holy, never changes and acts consistently with His already written Word! Human emotions cannot be trusted because they are easily influenced by sin in us and manipulated by Satan from without. For the same reasons, we cannot put unquestioned stock in experiences. In fact, because of sin’s deceitfulness, we put no confidence in the flesh even related to religious stuff understanding that by pride and evil desires, we can and do invent experiences that support our cause to have it our way (Philippians 3:3; Colossians 2:18).
We are commanded by the Lord through the apostle Paul, "Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil," (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22, NKJV, emphasis mine). For those that trust their feelings and experiences supposedly inspired by the Spirit, there should be no issues about us weaker ones testing these by what He has already inspired in the written Word! In obedience to Paul's instruction, we would hold on to that which is good (consistent). However, we would abstain from (reject) every form of evil. All that leads to the disobedience of God's already written Word is evil!
“On any given Sunday there are 13 million more adult women than men in America’s churches,” an I’m The Man Conference promotional Web page proclaimed.1 With great pronouncements from God but in defiance of Scripture, male pastors have been ordaining women to take authority over men in and to lead churches as pastors. Aside from caving to the feminine power represented in their numbers and the worldly emotional argument about equality in the churches, many feel led to support this movement of disobedience arguing from experience. They assert that they cannot deny those whom God has obviously given the ability to preach and lead the opportunity to do so.
As it concerns biblically defined preaching, it should be no surprise that God would equip women to preach because according to the purpose of spiritual gifts, none of us can do anything in the Body of Christ without being gifted (1 Corinthians 12:1-11). As it is written, however, “God is not the author of confusion (disorder) but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints,” (1 Corinthians 14:33, NKJV). One of the reasons we are in confusion and conflict on this in the churches is because we have made preaching a matter of cultural style, emotion, ego, pride, fleshy show and entertainment rather than what it is--a demonstration of the Spirit and His power (1 Corinthians 2:4)!
This demonstration of the Spirit and His power is not only of ability, but in giving honor and glad submission to all of God’s Word including its instruction that a gifted woman does not stand to speak, teach, preach or take authority over men in His churches (1 Corinthians 14:34-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-14). Women in prisons, for example, are in dire need of gifted women to proclaim to them the “unsearchable riches of Christ” in the Gospel! But there is no glory there; the prize in the flesh is to be admired by men. God gives His strong men and great women spiritual gifts and expects that we will honor His fixed family order in our homes, His assembly and beyond in exercising them.
To their peril, far too many male pastors and women have ignored the fact the church on earth and in Heaven is not an invention of sinful flesh. It is the construction of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God who maintains His Headship over it (Matthew 16:16-18; Ephesians 1:22; Colossians 1:15-18). Church government, protocols and programs do not spring from emotions and experiences that contradict His Word, but Jesus is Lord! Therefore, according to His already written Word, without repentance severe judgment is the indisputable experience of the guilty (Revelation 2:18-23). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
1 http://www.imthemanconference.com/
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