I was convinced several weeks ago that my time here was ending. It seems God is not through with me yet here, even though some may not be exactly thrilled.
Afew months ago, I made a post entitled "The rabbit hole called Christian Nationalism". In it, I warned of the danger and deception of mixing evangelical Christianity.... primarily white based.... with patriotism.
The results have been sadly predictable. But the results are not the end of the road. Know this. Things will not get back to normal.... ever. Lies and misinformation, playing upon people's fears, have swamped much of the church. Pastors have bought into this mess, and it is causing huge waves of anger, fear, unbelief and doubt to creep into the hearts of His own, all to the delight of the father of lies.
This may seem at the beginning as a Trump bashing but trust me, it is not. Some in the church have made Trump into some sort of good, even God-like hero, the defender of America. Are we blind?? He is simply a woman-using, narcissistic liar, who uses peoples morals and inner anger to his advantage, because even more than money and sex, he loves power and adulation.
Do you think for a moment he cares about abortion... or Israel? But we as His church are so blinded to our state that because of Trump's 'stance' on these two trigger issues that many have turned a blind eye towards the fact he said that being rich and famous allowed him to come up to a women and grab her by the p****y, and she would let him. Very God-like. Not.
Lie after lie came out of his mouth, saying 'fake news' and 'hoax' so often, even rational men and women would be into his rhetoric, unaware they were the ones swallowing the lies. Enough about Trump. But the rabbit hole is not going away. It is deepening.
But this morning, I read an article on Yahoo about Qanon and its cult grip on the minds of many who once walked in the world of reality. The latest? They just discovered a tunnel system under the White House filled with children who have been sexually abused, tortured, while others were eaten or their blood drunk for satanic rituals, led of course by evil 'demoncrats'.
Oh, and FWI, Biden is actually a body-double, the military is actually in control and Biden and Harris are at Gitmo, awaiting their hanging. i could go on, but I will spare you. The point I make is this.
In the article I read on Yahoo News about loved ones losing their mothers, fathers, children to Qanon's rumor-mongering grip, and the desperation they feel in trying to see them delivered to the increased blackness, the article honed in on several demographics that seems ripe for the taking. One of them? Christians. It made me angry and sick all at the same time. Here is an exerp...
"Her mother, a kind and quiet woman, never cared for essential oils, alternative medicine or anything of the sort. Kat believes she took a different on-ramp to QAnon: religion. Kat was raised in an “extremely conservative” Seventh-day Adventist household, one in which Rush Limbaugh’s talk-radio show played every day and where she was home-schooled until she was 14. Her mom grew even more religious after marrying Kat’s stepdad, a militant gun fanatic who got her listening to Alex Jones and other big-time conspiracy cranks.
For Kat, who abandoned her religion after leaving home many years ago, her mom’s newfound faith in QAnon feels, in a way, very familiar.
QAnon draws its adherents into an imagined battle of good versus evil that is prophesied to culminate in an apocalyptic reckoning. In its mission to prevail over a satanic cabal of liberal elites, it promotes themes of Christian nationalism, including patriotism and the preservation of traditional American values. QAnon believers also spend a great deal of time pouring over Q’s cryptic 8kun posts, or “Q Drops,” which are often steeped in Scripture, like sacred texts bearing hidden truths. And above all, QAnon demands unwavering faith in a higher power.
“Trump is the savior in all of this,” said Kat, who worries that her mom’s belief in QAnon, like her trust in God, is resolute. Both her mother and sister were steadfastly convinced that Trump would thwart Biden’s inauguration and are now praying for another miracle.
“I feel like they’re waiting for their God to come save them.”
Why do I write this? Because the depth of deception is only beginning. It is going to get so crazy that unless one is rooted in Jesus Himself, abidibg in the vine, not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, walking in the safety of their new nature, with their shield of faith raised at all times, they will be open to great deception, even to the point of falling away, regardless that they have bedn told that it is impossible.
Sadly, and I mean to call no one out here on this site, but we have seen this darkness wrapped in Christian nationalism right here on the forum with many swept up in its lies and half truths, even with calls for executions. Really.
Please understand. I am NOT a democrat. Truth is, in my whole entire 71 years on planet earth. I have never voted..... not once..... until this election. My hope does not rest in this world, nor either political agenda. This world is not our home, and has not been since the day we came to Jesus. We are sojourners, passers through, awaiting our heavenly kingdom.
Can we not recognize the signs of the times? Are we that blind? And if it is true that.... let's say.... Bill Gates is the anti-Christ, what exactly do we plan to do about it? Do we have money saved up for our families to last you 42 months? Food? Medicine? Toilet paper?
We cannot change ONE thing.... except the direction and focus of our gaze, and hopefully the gaze of others.
Let us be about our Father's business, which is to lead others to safety of the wrath to come. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, whether it be Trump's, or Biden's. We have a bigger enemy to wage war against, one who has already infiltrated our ranks, and it is time we realize, that despite the fact we have been fed the lie that we have to do nothing, Jesus respectfully disagrees. We have a lot to DO, and no, it is not legalism. It is obedience, starting with the obedience of faith.
He tells us the enemy is coming in like a flood. A tsunami of evil, hatred, deception and temptations like we would not believe are approaching, and gaining steam. We have seen nothing yet.
Think for a minute. If we have not been able to walk as overcomers in this light affliction, unable to resist the pull of sin when we are tempted now, exactly how in the world do we think we be able to resist it when our life is on the line with how we resist?
What does Christ tell us to do? He tells us that it is time to dig deep. Foundation level excavation. And when you do, when I do, we will find either the foundation is US, or it is Christ IN us, with us.... the old us... dead. We are told to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith. Not whether or not we once said a prayer to ask Jesus in. Whether we be IN the faith NOW.
Our valley of decision approaches. We will decide...
Us or Christ in Us
This world or the world to come
All our pearls or the pearl of great price
Hate our life and save it, or love our life and lose it.
Fall on the rock and be broken or have the rock fall on us and grind us to powder.
Believe what we see and what we have been taught, or believe God's promises, regardless of whether they seem logical or even possible.
Doubt or faith.
Love for others or love for self.
Faith in a church or a doctrinal stance, or faith in Jesus Himself.
I saw a post here that stated free will was not true. I disagree. Each of these is a choice. May we each choose wisely, but know this. We MUST choose.
There is an ultimate place of safety and rest that remains for every single follower of the Lord. However, it involves a final choice, a 'free-will offering' so to speak, that God asks each one of us to make.
And what offering is it that God requests of us? That we offer up our free will back to God, as the last, the most valuable of our pearls to give to our creator. Absolute surrender. Absolute trust. Not my will but thine be done. It is the key to real Christianity being seen again on the earth.
This is a real choice I speak of, and you and I are asked to make it. There is no running from it. It is one the prodigal made, fearing the worst after shaming his Father with the way he lived for himself, hating his life and the foolishness he, if the Father would only forgive him and let him just be a servant.
His own sins had reproved him and brokenness had finally brought him low. Yet, praise God, the Father's love lifted him back up. Grace.... the fullness of God's love for us, had done its assigned task, finally bringing him to hate himself. His eyes were finally off of him, his goodness, his badness, to look solely on the Father. And he finally had his eyes opened to what he could not previously see.... even as a child of the Father.
May God awaken us to our religious contentment, our shallowness, our worldliness, our unbelief and acknowledge that we have brought shame to His Holy name. God will store our tears in a bottle as a sweet smelling sacrifice and lift us up to a place of victory we simply never previously imagined.
blessings,
Gideon
Afew months ago, I made a post entitled "The rabbit hole called Christian Nationalism". In it, I warned of the danger and deception of mixing evangelical Christianity.... primarily white based.... with patriotism.
The results have been sadly predictable. But the results are not the end of the road. Know this. Things will not get back to normal.... ever. Lies and misinformation, playing upon people's fears, have swamped much of the church. Pastors have bought into this mess, and it is causing huge waves of anger, fear, unbelief and doubt to creep into the hearts of His own, all to the delight of the father of lies.
This may seem at the beginning as a Trump bashing but trust me, it is not. Some in the church have made Trump into some sort of good, even God-like hero, the defender of America. Are we blind?? He is simply a woman-using, narcissistic liar, who uses peoples morals and inner anger to his advantage, because even more than money and sex, he loves power and adulation.
Do you think for a moment he cares about abortion... or Israel? But we as His church are so blinded to our state that because of Trump's 'stance' on these two trigger issues that many have turned a blind eye towards the fact he said that being rich and famous allowed him to come up to a women and grab her by the p****y, and she would let him. Very God-like. Not.
Lie after lie came out of his mouth, saying 'fake news' and 'hoax' so often, even rational men and women would be into his rhetoric, unaware they were the ones swallowing the lies. Enough about Trump. But the rabbit hole is not going away. It is deepening.
But this morning, I read an article on Yahoo about Qanon and its cult grip on the minds of many who once walked in the world of reality. The latest? They just discovered a tunnel system under the White House filled with children who have been sexually abused, tortured, while others were eaten or their blood drunk for satanic rituals, led of course by evil 'demoncrats'.
Oh, and FWI, Biden is actually a body-double, the military is actually in control and Biden and Harris are at Gitmo, awaiting their hanging. i could go on, but I will spare you. The point I make is this.
In the article I read on Yahoo News about loved ones losing their mothers, fathers, children to Qanon's rumor-mongering grip, and the desperation they feel in trying to see them delivered to the increased blackness, the article honed in on several demographics that seems ripe for the taking. One of them? Christians. It made me angry and sick all at the same time. Here is an exerp...
"Her mother, a kind and quiet woman, never cared for essential oils, alternative medicine or anything of the sort. Kat believes she took a different on-ramp to QAnon: religion. Kat was raised in an “extremely conservative” Seventh-day Adventist household, one in which Rush Limbaugh’s talk-radio show played every day and where she was home-schooled until she was 14. Her mom grew even more religious after marrying Kat’s stepdad, a militant gun fanatic who got her listening to Alex Jones and other big-time conspiracy cranks.
For Kat, who abandoned her religion after leaving home many years ago, her mom’s newfound faith in QAnon feels, in a way, very familiar.
QAnon draws its adherents into an imagined battle of good versus evil that is prophesied to culminate in an apocalyptic reckoning. In its mission to prevail over a satanic cabal of liberal elites, it promotes themes of Christian nationalism, including patriotism and the preservation of traditional American values. QAnon believers also spend a great deal of time pouring over Q’s cryptic 8kun posts, or “Q Drops,” which are often steeped in Scripture, like sacred texts bearing hidden truths. And above all, QAnon demands unwavering faith in a higher power.
“Trump is the savior in all of this,” said Kat, who worries that her mom’s belief in QAnon, like her trust in God, is resolute. Both her mother and sister were steadfastly convinced that Trump would thwart Biden’s inauguration and are now praying for another miracle.
“I feel like they’re waiting for their God to come save them.”
Why do I write this? Because the depth of deception is only beginning. It is going to get so crazy that unless one is rooted in Jesus Himself, abidibg in the vine, not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, walking in the safety of their new nature, with their shield of faith raised at all times, they will be open to great deception, even to the point of falling away, regardless that they have bedn told that it is impossible.
Sadly, and I mean to call no one out here on this site, but we have seen this darkness wrapped in Christian nationalism right here on the forum with many swept up in its lies and half truths, even with calls for executions. Really.
Please understand. I am NOT a democrat. Truth is, in my whole entire 71 years on planet earth. I have never voted..... not once..... until this election. My hope does not rest in this world, nor either political agenda. This world is not our home, and has not been since the day we came to Jesus. We are sojourners, passers through, awaiting our heavenly kingdom.
Can we not recognize the signs of the times? Are we that blind? And if it is true that.... let's say.... Bill Gates is the anti-Christ, what exactly do we plan to do about it? Do we have money saved up for our families to last you 42 months? Food? Medicine? Toilet paper?
We cannot change ONE thing.... except the direction and focus of our gaze, and hopefully the gaze of others. Let us be about our Father's business, which is to lead others to safety of the wrath to come. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, whether it be Trump's, or Biden's. We have a bigger enemy to wage war against, one who has already infiltrated our ranks, and it is time we realize, that despite the fact we have been fed the lie that we have to do nothing, Jesus respectfully disagrees. We have a lot to DO, and no, it is not legalism. It is obedience, starting with the obedience of faith.
He tells us the enemy is coming in like a flood. A tsunami of evil, hatred, deception and temptations like we would not believe are approaching, and gaining steam. We have seen nothing yet.
Think for a minute. If we have not been able to walk as overcomers in this light affliction, unable to resist the pull of sin when we are tempted now, exactly how in the world do we think we be able to resist it when our life is on the line with how we resist?
What does Christ tell us to do? He tells us that it is time to dig deep. Foundation level excavation. And when you do, when I do, we will find either the foundation is US, or it is Christ IN us, with us.... the old us... dead. We are told to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith. Not whether or not we once said a prayer to ask Jesus in. Whether we be IN the faith NOW.
Our valley of decision approaches. We will decide...
Us or Christ in Us
This world or the world to come
All our pearls or the pearl of great price
Hate our life and save it, or love our life and lose it.
Fall on the rock and be broken or have the rock fall on us and grind us to powder.
Believe what we see and what we have been taught, or believe God's promises, regardless of whether they seem logical or even possible.
Doubt or faith.
Love for others or love for self.
Faith in a church or a doctrinal stance, or faith in Jesus Himself.
I saw a post here that stated free will was not true. I disagree. Each of these is a choice. May we each choose wisely, but know this. We MUST choose.
There is an ultimate place of safety and rest that remains for every single follower of the Lord. However, it involves a final choice, a 'free-will offering' so to speak, that God asks each one of us to make.
And what offering is it that God requests of us? That we offer up our free will back to God, as the last, the most valuable of our pearls to give to our creator. Absolute surrender. Absolute trust. Not my will but thine be done. It is the key to real Christianity being seen again on the earth.
This is a real choice I speak of, and you and I are asked to make it. There is no running from it. It is one the prodigal made, fearing the worst after shaming his Father with the way he lived for himself, hating his life and the foolishness he, if the Father would only forgive him and let him just be a servant.
His own sins had reproved him and brokenness had finally brought him low. Yet, praise God, the Father's love lifted him back up. Grace.... the fullness of God's love for us, had done its assigned task, finally bringing him to hate himself. His eyes were finally off of him, his goodness, his badness, to look solely on the Father. And he finally had his eyes opened to what he could not previously see.... even as a child of the Father.
May God awaken us to our religious contentment, our shallowness, our worldliness, our unbelief and acknowledge that we have brought shame to His Holy name. God will store our tears in a bottle as a sweet smelling sacrifice and lift us up to a place of victory we simply never previously imagined.
blessings,
Gideon
