Strong Man Of God Blog

          In last week’s post, I announced this Ministry’s evangelistic outreach with the Gospel to Generations Y and Z through our latest Online Rally.¹  The preaching of the Gospel and witnessing of Christ to make disciples has been and will remain the starting place of our restoration work among men and all mankind until God’s end!  This priority is consistent with and clearly signals our continuing obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ who gave it as the Great Commission to His followers (Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 24:46-49).  Search high and low in the New Testament and you will not find a directive from the Lord to seek to save any nation, no, not even Israel, but souls from among them!

          As a concerned, voting citizen of this nation with family and progeny here, I empathize with those calling themselves conservative Christians and patriots that want to fight to save it from its very obvious downward spiral to collapse.  But this is not the priority Christ has given His followers.  We may use every legal, biblically righteous and praiseworthy means to stand against the evil destroying America as our secondary labor, but the first task authentic believers in Jesus Christ have been given following His example is taking the Gospel to the lost or did He not know Israel was occupied and oppressed by pagan Rome (Matthew 4:12-17; Luke 13:1-3, 15:1-10, 19:1-10, 20:20-26)?

          It is actually the Lord’s assignment to preach the Gospel and witness Him making disciples with revival among those already claiming to be in the fold as positive outcomes that hold out the best chance of at least bringing about a temporary slowdown to our nation’s self-destruction as I similarly wrote previously.²  Otherwise, fighting as a priority to forcibly impose biblical morality through political and legal processes on a nation in the majority that does not want it hastens the day of its collapse!  The angry response to the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is Exhibit A for the open hostility in the nation toward plain biblical morality and righteousness (Exodus 20:13).

          Indeed, the Supreme Court decision taking away the ungodly legal sanction of murder has awakened virulent hostility toward Christians like no other time in our nation’s history.³  The reaction is comparable to taking away an addict’s stash without consent.  Expecting the deprived addict to be calmly accepting of this is absurd!  Only salvation with Holy Spirit wrought true conversion and biblical instruction can cause anti-Christians enraged by the Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade to be “renewed” in their thinking (Ephesians 4:17-24, NKJV).  Hence, the wise focus in obedience to Christ on saving souls as a first priority is the best hope for prolonging the nation past a sooner downfall.⁴

          Even so, there is no biblical guarantee the sovereign God will allow America to stand any longer than necessary to harvest from it the balance of souls He has foreknown from eternity will answer His call to repentance and faith in the Gospel of His Son.  Working through The Acts Of The Apostles in my personal Bible study, I have been amazed yet again at their faithful evangelistic labor focusing on saving souls, not nations.  After the Lord checked them on their anticipation of immediate national restoration and set their priority work on witnessing Him, His twelve apostles maintained their hope for Israel’s future restoration as they obeyed Him (Acts 1:4-8, 15-2:41, 3:11-26, 10:24-48).

          The Jewish apostle Christ sent to us Gentiles, Saul of Tarsus also called Paul, was of the same mind (Acts 13:13-49; Romans 11).  He made several missionary trips making many disciples from Syria, the Mediterranean Islands, Western Asia, the provinces of Greece and finally Rome itself.  Never once did he speak of preserving even his home town or the Jewish homeland.  Instead, he concurred with the Lord’s prophecy of wrath coming upon his fellow Jews which it did in 70 AD (Luke 21:20-24; 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16).  While Jerusalem as the birthplace of Christianity was destroyed and the Jews scattered from the land first, Syrian Antioch and most of the other great cities and territories Paul in Acts preached the Gospel eventually came to ruin also.

          Only standing at this hour (with a few other locales where Christianity once took hold in the first century whose final humiliation is in God’s foretold plans) after over nineteen hundred years of ruin because Jerusalem is still destined for its greatest days (Zechariah 14:16-21), the Gospel is being preached anew in it.  The point being history clearly shows God as affirmed in His Word has been more concerned about the Gospel being preached for the salvation of souls than the preservation of nations!  Those that believe our nation is so exceptional God would not allow its collapse need to sober up in the face of this reality.⁵  To be about our Lord’s business is to be zealously preaching the Gospel to make disciples as His priority, not fighting to preserve a nation He is judging (Psalm 2)!

1 Read the July 31, 2022 post, God’s Message Of Reconciliation Proclaimed, under the category, The Cause.

2 See the two-part post beginning September 11, 2016, American Culture’s Religion, under the category, Call To Repent.  Our nation is in trouble not only because many do
   not  know the Lord Jesus Christ, but also due to the fact a large number that profess to know Him including among conservatives who want all to honor certain moral prin-
   ciples from the Bible are hypocritically not obeying His Word as it is written themselves and refuse to repent!

3 The  Supreme  Court’s  decision will be looked back on as a trigger event for the coming violent persecution of Christians in America virulent hostility morphs into the Lord
   has  been  leading  me  to warn about (see the two-part post that begins May 17, 2020, Persecution, Hatred And Betrayal, under the category, Bible Prophecy).  Their vio-
   lent  persecution  explodes  on  all  the  saints  because  of  the  persistent, forceful acts by conservative, mostly religionist professed Christians through political and legal
   means from the court’s decision to continue rolling back more of what the unsaved and rebels consider social “progress.”

4 Lack of the transforming power of God in the Gospel at work is the reason anti and those professing to be Christians out of alignment with Christ and His priority of making
   disciples are so bewildered about why their worldly based efforts to bring peace and order to their lawless communities are not working.  I can understand this of unbeliev-
   ers, but professed Christian pastors and churches--seriously?

5 Some  conservative  white  professed  Christians  on Christian television of late have been attempting to rebuke biblical conservatives from all hues for not supporting their
   idolatrous fervor for saving America.  On the sly, they have even used blacks that share their view of American history and exceptionalism in an attempt to negate biblically
   conservative  black voices like mine.  Shame on the guilty for falling back on this old, well worn tactic of using either unsuspecting or outright complicit blacks to attempt to
   nullify   the  righteous  truth  spoken by those with whom they disagree.  Shame too, on the guilty blacks for being complicit out of a desire for their support.  Let all repent!
   For  yet another time I cry out in the Lord: biblical conservatism is not the equivalent of political and social conservatism though, the latter selectively borrows from the for-
   mer!   Biblical  conservatives in the image of Christ present and stand on God’s Word as it is written (Luke 4:1-21).  They as it suits them with their opposition substantiate
   their claims by the clever and corrupt twisting of Scripture.