What follows are some excellent and well written articles that agrees with the basic premise of Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s The Harbinger; America is being warned, and it is not listening, and it is due for a RUDE AWAKENING - Judgment is eminent, because America is not listening. It's made its choices and they're not good, not one of them.
Almost every elected official in the United States is corrupt and part of the machinery that put them there. Almost every public official in office is part of the machineries that feed into the corruption and maintains it for the party in power – be it Democrat or Republican.
Almost every federal employee is part of the system that feeds the corruption that maintains the apparatus that has brought America to its economic knees.
Almost every financial institution with ties to the Federal Reserve System is part of the construct that has monetized our currency, and debased it to the point that it has brought this country to the status of a third world economy.
Almost every media person is part of the corruption that maintains the lie of the government/media complex upon which it was built and has maintained itself for the past sixty-plus years.
Almost every entertainment media mogul is part of the system of secular humanists and Marxists who have worked hard for decades to convert the minds and beliefs of an unsuspecting public to favor an amoral, morally decrepit and deviant life style as an alternative to the Judeo-Christian one that for generations predominated our society.
Almost every public speaker, every educator, and every pundit today is part of the secular humanist progressives who have infiltrated the minds and beliefs of our people and have hollowed them out from within; filling in their places the trash of a deviant Post Modern culture.
Almost every religious institution has been corrupted throughout the land, and have fallen into three camps – those who seek signs and wonders instead of their G-d, those who seek the favor of man and compromise, and those who seek intellectual and theological predominance over others in the name of Christ – all of these have in one way or another missed the calling, missed the mark, and are adrift as regards their faith.
Today, sexual deviants of all sorts preach from many pulpits and hold marriage ceremonies in defiance of the clear teaching of Scripture. All of these have, like millions of ants eating an elephant slowly, eaten the moral underpinnings that formed the fabric of American society. Sexual deviancy of all types has plagued this administration with the sexual scandals at Janet Napolitano’s Homeland Security and within the ranks of the Secret Service in the Call Girl scandal that blew wide open earlier just months ago. Eric Holder’s Justice Department has been plagued with all sorts of allegations of racial irregularities. The ongoing investigation into voter intimidation and suppression of white voters in Philadelphia by the New Blank Panther Party has been suspended. And the Fast and Furious illegal government-sponsored and government-directed operation has uncovered corruption at the highest levels of this White House and in the Justice Department. Now with the 9/11 murder of four Americans, including our ambassador in Benghazi, Libya; it has been discovered that the senior officials at the highest levels of the State Department had immediate knowledge of what was happening at that consulate, and did nothing as our people were being brutalized and murdered by Jihadists. This president even went campaigning to Las Vegas without addressing the matter on the night of Tuesday, September 11th, 2012. Incompetence and corruption are at unprecedented levels in our government and across our land. Is it any wonder that our fiscal state of being and our debt is at unmanageable, and perhaps unrecoverable levels? America has reached a tipping point, and it is most assuredly headed off a cliff to its own demise and destruction. America has chosen for itself its grave.
The recent tragic shooting in Connecticut and all of the others, are harbingers of where this country is headed, where the heart of its people lie. It is a nation the glorifies death and killing. Its movies and entertainment such as games, glorify death and killing, revenge and hatred. Is it any wonder that we see our youth so desensitized by the madness of what's piped into their television sets and their computers in place of sound moral and Biblical ethics and teachings; and wonder why so many of them have lost their soul!? This is the Post-Modern/Post-Christian America of the godless and the unbelieving, and among Christians and Jews; the disbelieving and the materialistic self-centered. This is Twenty-first Century America.
And now we see the political opportunists with agendas calling for sweeping gun control laws, knowing that the states that have the most stringent gun laws are the ones that have seen crime rise as a result of these laws, because anyone will realize that if you disarm law abiding citizens of their fire arms only the criminal elements and law enforcement will have access to them. In a town or city where everyone has been disarmed, only the criminals and the police carry fire arms and use them. No law no matter how stringent, no matter how it is imposed or enforced upon a citizenry will prevent the criminal element from obtaining fire arms or any other means they employ to terrorize and brutalize others.
The same corrupt leadership that has sworn to uphold our Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic are the same people who in violation of that oath, we see and hear now calling for gun control and the banning of all so-called assault rifles. They prey on the ignorance of the public who does not know that every weapon that is semi-automatic is an assault weapon, regardless of whether it is a rifle or a pistol.
They know that no military in the world uses assault weapons, because they use automatic weapons such as machine guns that fire multiple rounds when the trigger is pressed. The assault weapon fires single rounds when the trigger is pressed. Yet, the corrupt leadership in our nation is now calling of a ban on “all assault weapons.” I repeat; no military in the world uses assault weapons, because they are semi-automatic. However they do use automatic weapons. Assault weapons are for the citizenry, not the military, and in order for any private citizen to obtain an automatic weapon, they must purchase it from our government after having gone through over a year of ATF investigation and background checks to verify that they have reason to own one, and our emotionally and psychologically competent and stable. There are private citizens who own them, but they are very few in number.
The voices that are calling for a federal ban on all “assault weapons” are playing off of the public’s ignorance and emotions on this matter. They are capitalizing as much as possible off of the tragedies of cities and towns that already have in place the most draconian anti-gun laws in the land; whereas states such as Texas where there people are allowed to carry concealed weapons, have the lowest crime rates in the nation.
People know that if a crazed gun man breaks into a crowded theater to shoot the people in it, he will think twice before he pulls the trigger if he knows that those people – every one of them – are armed and proficient in the use of their fire arm, and will shoot back. People realize that no demonically crazed and medicated gunman will break into a public place where the people are armed and can fire back. Every place where there has occurred a mass killing of people by demonically crazed and medicated gun men the hapless targets of those gunmen have without exception been unable to defend themselves or return fire. Why? Because of the gun laws in those place.
The politicians calling for more and tougher gun laws know that. They also know that these laws will do nothing to stop the criminal and psychotic from obtaining their fire arms or whatever other weapons they choose, because they are outside of the law, and will obtain them by other means outside of the conventional ways law abiding citizens do. They know all of this, but they’re unwilling to admit it publicly and will not discuss it with anyone. The only discussion they will have is how to pass gun laws that will curtail the law abiding public’s access to purchase all fire arms – yes, all fire arms – because assault weapons is the wide umbrella they are using to convince the public to give up their fire arms to the federal government in direct violation of the United States Constitution.
They know that emotions are running high in the wake of the Connecticut massacre, and they are capitalizing on it. Their aim is to neutralize the Constitution piece by piece by turning public opinion against the liberties protected under it without knowingly giving them up. They realize that no one in their right mind would willingly surrender their liberties, so they create a straw man argument against gun ownership by capitalizing on the public’s raw emotions soon after tragedies such as the mass shootings that have occurred across our nation in recent years. Instead of addressing the real root cause of the problem of violence in our land – not gun violence – but violence in general; these people are capitalizing on promoting their agenda of Constitution-Neutralization and with the surrender of key liberties of our national sovereignty to unelected foreign courts and organizations like the UN – and are actively doing this at this moment at every level, with this current administration and its president as its chief spokesperson.
But the real cause of violence and mayhem in our land is the rank lawlessness and godlessness that has overrun our streets, our public places, and our schools. What do we expect when we’ve expelled G-d and His Law from our society and replaced Him with situation ethics and the religion of secular humanism and the Eugenics of Margaret Sanger, a woman who sought the elimination of our Black citizens through government funded abortion on demand!?
We feed into the mind and into the heart of the young teen murder, mayhem, distrust, insecurity; having erased completely from his conscience any semblance to knowing the difference between doing right and doing wrong, that there are repercussions for one’s acts and behavior towards others – if such strictures were ever put in place to begin with. We removed prayer from our public schools – thanks NEA (National Education Association), thanks NFT (National Federation of Teachers) – we removed the concept of knowing right from wrong from our public discourses, we removed the Ten Commandments from our public places, we threw G-d from almost every facet of our society, even from our Pledge of Allegiance! WHAT DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO GET!?
What are we to think about all of this? What can we make of it? Our nation is turned on its head. What it once called evil, it now calls good. What it once called good, it now calls evil. There is no concept of good versus evil, because according to these people, there is no evil. It doesn’t exist, because to admit the existence of pure evil is to admit that the Bible is correct about the human condition. It is not basically good, but inclined to do evil. King David of old, once wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.” (Psalm 51:5) King Solomon, reputed to be the wisest man who ever lived, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit comments, “Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.” (Ecclesiastes 7:20) Isaiah the prophet was quite correct when in the Spirit he observed, “For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” (Isaiah 64:6) G-d Himself bears witness that all of mankind is corrupt from the heart, for He declares that “all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.” (Jeremiah 9:26b) But it is not hopeless, because the prophet Micah, promises under divine inspiration that, “He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea.” (Micah 7:19) This hope is extended to all of mankind, those who will return and turn to G-d in hopeless remorse, knowing that they cannot save themselves; for it promises escape through the Gate of Messiah, promising - But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Yeshua the Messiah might be given to those who believe. (Galatians 3:22) However, the question remains is to whether or not we are turning. All indications are that America is not.
Because we cannot define right from wrong, we cannot even define who our enemy is. Mention is made of a group named Al Qaeda; we hear of another called Hamas, and Hezbollah, but little is known about these groups, and no one can definitively say why these organizations are a threat to the United States of America. When Jihadists murder in the name of their prophet and their god, our national leaders cannot bring themselves to address the religious ideology that spawned such fanatical hatred. Neither can they bring themselves to prosecute these people under our laws. As of this writing Major Nidal Hassan remains incarcerated without a trial, and other Jihadists connected with the death of almost three thousands of our fellow citizens who perished on 9/11, such as Khalid Sheik Mohamed; have yet to stand trial. All of these have not been prosecuted and have yet to be sentenced to capital punishment for their heinous crimes, because the current White House cannot bring its Department of Justice to action on any of these cases. Why? Because they cannot define who the enemy is, or where they stand in regards to Islamic Terror – which they have claimed does not exist. If you cannot define who your enemy is, you cannot defeat him, and if you cannot defeat him, he will in time defeat and conquer you.
We have sown to the wind and have reaped the whirlwind. (Hosea 8:7) Fifty years of secular progressive philosophy and Laissez Faire Amorality and outright immorality, have made US into the most self-centered, egotistical, materialistic, and corrupt people on the face of the earth. We have no peers. We are our own worst enemies.
We export pornography around the world. Since the horrendous politicization of the Supreme Court in its abortion decision thirty-two years ago, America has put to death fifty million innocent human beings by abortion. Under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare; federal funding of abortion will be enforced upon organizations that because of their religious and moral convictions, cannot comply with a law requiring them to provide abortion services or contraceptives to troubled pregnant women. At the very core of this is the right of conscience, the right to privacy of both the woman and the institution, and the right to one’s own religious conviction, as well as the right of private enterprises to be free and independent from federal meddling in the conduct of its business. We now under this administration openly promote abortion on demand and tie our foreign aid policies to favor countries that promote abortion on demand as our federal government does. This was first introduced by the Clinton Administration, but had been ended by the George W. Bush Administration. Under the Obama Administration, it is now enforced and promoted globally, and our foreign aid is directly tied to favor nations that acquiesce to our “requirements” with regards to their policies.
The current president of these United States was the first national leader in the history of mankind to redefine an institution that God established – marriage. He has replaced the entire upper echelon of the armed forces with progressives who have turned our military – the greatest in the world with the finest traditions – into platforms for social engineering. The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that protected the rights of our military men and women from reprisals for their sexual preferences and kept the military traditions that made our fighting units the best in the world, has now been removed, and in its place, this administration is promoting openly the LGBT lifestyle. This administration has appointed sexual deviants to the highest posts in our government, and is slated to do more.
One generation of secular humanist teaching sans the Bible and its Ten Commandments, prayer in our public schools and public life, as well as the erosion of the ethical and moral compass these Judeo-Christian values provided to our young, has resulted in the most confused and debauched generation in our nation’s history. Today, more than half of our children are being taught in our public schools the LGBT deviancy as normal alternatives to the heterosexual lifestyle, and a large number of our teens are seen on the Internet as well as in their own private lives, acting out the deviancy taught in our schools.
It is any wonder that a philanderer could get away with his indiscretions with an intern while serving in this nation’s highest office? Is it any wonder that the road to his political ascendancy was littered with over thirty dead bodies of people who knew too much about him? Is it any wonder that so many of our preteens have been discovered in many of our schools to engage in oral sex, because they believed what their president had said in testimony about the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Is it any wonder that John Corzine could come before a congressional committee, and having committed the greatest theft of peoples’ personal investments in this country’s history, remains at large to do as he pleases without any accountability for the high crime he has committed!? Is it any wonder that regardless of political party the same policies continue unabated from administration to administration? Is it any wonder then that with each successive four years; our liberties and way of life continue to erode, while those of our public servants improve?
G-d help forgive US our trespasses and heal our nation and restore it once more.
The Pepster
Election 2012 — Was God Concerned?
By Don McGee
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The 2012 presidential election is over, and President Obama has been reelected to the office for four more years. Some are elated and some are saddened by the outcome. Among those who are saddened by Obama’s reelection is what might be called a sub-group; a group of people that is not only saddened, but terribly confused regarding what happened. That sub-group consists of Christians who, knowing the president’s stand on spiritual issues, cannot understand why God allowed this to happen. “Was God not concerned?”, they ask. The answer is He was, and was also aware of what the two candidates stood for and aware of the consequences for America should either be elected. What God did was to simply allow America to chart her own destiny. Of course she will also be allowed to suffer whatever consequences that will certainly arise as a result.
Most people look at elections from a partisan perspective, but most Christians look at them from a biblical perspective. That is, choices are not made according to party affiliation because that is far too broad. Christians understand that a candidate’s worldview is what determines the presence or absence of God’s blessings upon an administration. Thus, they look for the candidate who is not only capable, but whose life reflects biblical standards knowing those high standards will govern his political conscience and his administrative agenda.
Many Christians are confused for a couple reasons. They cannot understand why God chose to not intervene at such a critical time. Nor can they understand how fellow believers could choose to support a political platform that supports abortion on demand, the acceptance of the homosexual agenda, and other practices abhorrent to God.
Regarding Governor Romney, we can only speculate as to the consequences for America had he been elected, yet such speculation is based upon evidence presented from his past as a governor and business man. However, with President Obama winning the race there need be no speculation regarding the future, for in like manner his own past as president offers ample evidence as to what America can expect.
Religiously speaking, Obama’s record indicates he is probably close to being nothing. Though he claims to be a Christian, his life offers no real evidence. And, when one considers what he has said, written and done it seems he actually leans toward Islam. Other evidence regarding his spiritual convictions comes from his being a 20-year parishioner of Jeremiah Wright, a black-liberation-theology preacher whose own track record causes many to see him as being strongly racist.
Romney is a Mormon, and as such he is a member of a cult. For any number of reasons Mormons are not Christians, including the fact they believe Jesus is the child of Adam and Mary and that salvation is a process that ends by achieving godhood.
That said, it is important to note that in context of the election, Mormon moral standards and ethics are very similar to those of the Christian worldview. That similarity is just one of the indicators showing Americans had a very clear choice. There could be no mistaking what was morally and ethically important to either man.
So, did God simply ignore the prayers, fasting and intercessions of His people who understood those distinctions? No, of course not. Then, why did He not intervene?
Well, to be quite blunt it could be that national America, like the northern kingdom of Israel in the days of Amos, is beyond repentance. Israel had been a nation for many centuries when Amos issued warnings about her choices; warnings that were ignored. Less than 40 years later God sent severe judgment when the cruel Assyrians took them captive.
Consider America’s choices. When our nation was less than 200 years old God, prayer and the Bible were officially dismissed from its public sector. For almost 40 years America has officially sanctioned the murder of the pre-born by the most draconian means. Since that infamous day in 1973 over 50 million babies have been murdered in their mother’s wombs. In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of disorders, and in 1975 the American Psychological Association essentially did the same thus clearing the way for perversion to be labeled as a normal lifestyle. It means nothing to either professional group, nor to national America, that God long ago declared homosexuality to be a loathsome sin. The list could go on. National America’s heart is so calloused and hard that God’s word on these matters is ignored while His people who refuse to capitulate to social correctness are tyrannized.
Consider another choice. In a 2009 closed meeting with several Jewish leaders, when President Obama declared he will put more daylight between America and Israel in order to gain more credibility with the Arab states, two things became clear. One, Israel could no longer expect the U.S. to remain a serious partner in defense against jihadism. Two, it became all too clear that the U.S. is willing to put at risk its only ally in the Middle East while in pursuit of this political phantom. The Obama administration believes such a move will endear the U.S. to Moslems and reduce the risk of Islamic attacks. Evidence clearly shows that kind of thinking is foolish. Appeasement never lessens conflict.
With these things in mind we could conclude that it is not unreasonable to think God’s patience has been depleted.
God’s seemingly silent response to the concerns of His people on election day should give us reason to pause, get rid of all emotion that clouds objectivity and force ourselves to see America for what it has really become. When the cover is pulled back nationally, things are ugly. This is not the America of earlier days; those days when God was America’s God and the Bible was America’s primer. Though with a degree of difficulty, it is necessary to say that it would behoove Christians to wake up from their dream-world version of the America of the past and to admit to what the nation has become. Yes, there are many godly, patriotic people in the land, but their leadership does not reflect their values.
After reading the graphic description of God’s judgment upon Judah — His own special people, by the way — for her sin and hardened heart in Ezekiel chapter 5, it would be hypocritical and inconsistent for God to ignore our nation’s resolute and godless choices. We should learn from Judah and Israel. As God cannot lie, neither can His unlimited love and grace annul the eternal and immutable law of sowing and reaping.
And, there is also the matter of future events. Most of our readers have a good understanding of what God has mapped out for us, but the overwhelming majority of Christians do not have a clue. All the reasons for this cannot be addressed here, but a few are: no personal Bible study, ignoring or rejecting prophetic texts in Bible classes and in sermons, fear of coming events, etc. So, we might ask, if God were to do something to cause His people to relax their grip on this world, and to force them to look to Him instead of secular government for hope, what might He use? An election, maybe?
He might open the curtains and give His people a good look at what they have been basing their security upon for so long. The flag, those beautiful and emotional national hymns, the parading of our military might, and other such patriotic displays are good and noble. But, in today’s America they have been reduced to mere window dressing and a kind of sentimental camouflage that is effectively concealing the nefarious work of those who are gutting our country of liberty and destroying our system of free enterprise. If Christians have ever placed any degree of trust in government and politicians, recent events should be more than sufficient to expose the recklessness of such confidence. God is doing all He can to bring our attention to the absolute fact that the Oval Office, the Congress and the Supreme Court are not on His side. Read: they are thus not on our side! What God says does not even make their list of top 100 concerns.
It is one thing for Christians to submit to civil law, to respect public office and to serve our country. It is quite another for them to give misplaced honor to officialdom at the expense of faith in God. This means we must allow nothing to interfere with our belief in God, or in our believing God. And undue trust in any party or government does just that.
It could be that events of the last several decades are rapidly ushering our nation to the point where God’s judgment falls. It could come suddenly from out of left field in the form of any one of numerous potentially catastrophic events. The “what” is not known and is not even important; what is important is that it is coming. When the national agenda of late is projected into the future, somewhere very near on that projected time line judgment is waiting. And we can believe it will not be a comfortable thing. It is a fact that the church will not go through any part of the tribulation period, but it is also true that should the return of Jesus be prolonged, the church could very well see some hard times.
Judgment is a hard, flint-like word. It is like the voltaic electrical shock felt when a person with dental work bites a piece of aluminum foil. Judgment is meant to be like that. However, God gave America an option, and it had to do with conducting national and international affairs from the biblical perspective. It was all a matter of choice. Clearly and most unfortunately, America has chosen to turn from her former relationship with God. Ultimately, when it is all over, this decision will clearly be seen as the one that took our country to a place its people did not really want to go, and which cost its people more than they really wanted to pay . But, unlike the prodigal whose heart was susceptible to conviction that lead to repentance, our nation has no such heart.
Why is that so? There have been several events in America’s history that were remarkable in the sense of being agents of change. One was the rise of humanism. With the introduction of that deceptive philosophy into America’s system of public education came one of the first major attacks on the nation’s spiritual health. Another was the acceptance of a very similar twisted worldview, the theory of evolution. Like termites whose destructive work is silent and initially unseen, those two attacks had a collaborative effect upon the moral and ethical foundation of the nation — it became rotten and hollow to its core. Today the rot can no longer be concealed, but it is too late; the national heart is now too hard.
Humanism is essentially a religion in itself whose cardinal premise is that humanity is inherently capable of taking care of itself. God is therefore not needed, and is dismissed. Rules no longer mean much. Regarding governmental ethics, not only is the faith of the Founding Fathers no longer cherished, but the Constitution itself becomes a document that is open to challenge. Evidence? Its being regularly violated through executive orders, so-called security measures and other unchallenged unilateral decisions by those entrusted with authority. This has resulted in bureaucratic pronouncements that unconstitutionally restrict the open practice of religion, remove protections from unreasonable searches, etc.
To believe that the human race came from an unexplained event that triggered the creation of life, and to force-feed that into young minds is to destroy any notion of God. If there is no God then there is no heaven and no hell, no ultimate accountability and thus no reason to not satisfy any desire and give way to any lust. The notions of “right and wrong” become blurred concepts that are relative to time and culture. Thus, no moral or ethical law is absolute.
We do not know what judgment is before this nation. What must not be missed, though, is that it will come, and perhaps soon. President Obama encouraged his supporters to “vote out of revenge”. Such talk reveals what is actually in the heart of any elected official; the obvious absence of dignity and respect. Further, it springs from biblical ignorance, for such people do not have an inkling about real revenge (Deuteronomy 32:35). One day soon, however, they will.
The Christian’s charge is to remain faithful to God and to live in peace with human authority as long as such authority does not demand a compromise of our faith and does not interfere with our duty to protect and provide for our families (1 Timothy 5:8). Be at peace, for God was certainly concerned about what happened, but He was not taken by surprise.
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The Campaign for Immorality
November 1, 2012
Evangelical Christians have become distracted from the Great Commission in order to engage in partisan politics. And for what purpose? Our corrupt culture will not be transformed for the better by political movements or pop culture anyway—that is the work of God’s Word; the Gospel, in particular. That’s what our ministry is devoted to (Cf. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5).
In this current campaign season, however, politicians have stepped—overstepped—into spiritual and moral areas, promoting horrific wickedness and blasphemous immorality.
As you know, I am not one to talk about politics as such, but I was amazed that one of the historic political parties here in the United States adopted the sins of Romans 1 as their platform. This is a new day in our country. Parties that used to differ on economics now differ dramatically on issues that invade the realm of God’s law and morality.
In an ideal situation, their platform would mean that the government passes out condoms so people can fornicate at will. For those who happen to get pregnant in the process, the platform advocates that you kill the baby at the will of the mother, up to and including the ninth month. At the same time, it advocates homosexual marriage—which is an oxymoron, an utter impossibility and a gross violation of the law of God.
Add to that a platform that originally left God out. All that is Romans 1. Romans 1 says God will judge—and God has judged throughout human history— nations that experience sexual freedom. Romans chapter 1 lays that out clearly: The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against those who advocate sexual freedom—sexual conduct outside of marriage. And that’s an indication of the demise of a nation. Romans 1 also says God will judge those nations that advocate homosexual behavior, men with men and women with women, doing what is unnatural.
They are also haters of God. Leaving God out, advocating abortion, advocating homosexuality, advocating free sexual conduct and government-provided condoms so that everybody can do what they want. That is literally creating a platform out of what God hates.
This is not about politics, although there are things we could talk about. You are not voting for a pastor. You are not voting for a spiritual leader. You are voting for someone who has some sense of morality. Since the Bible says the role of government is to punish evildoers and protect the good, you’d better have somebody in power who understands what is good and what is evil.
And if you think homosexuality, abortion, sexual freedom and hating God are not evil, then you’d better go back and check your Bible again. How can people with that kind of agenda protect those who do good and punish those who do evil? (That’s the Romans 13 definition of the role of government.)
We could talk about foreign policy—should we protect as many defenseless people from evil aggressors as possible? We could talk about economics—is it right to get into irreparable debt? Is that being responsible? We could talk about that. We could talk about the economics of if you don’t work, you don’t eat, which is what the Bible says.
But those things are not what concern me here. I’ve seen something happen in these political conventions that is just stunning. The adoption of a Romans 1 platform: sexual freedom, homosexuality on an equal level with marriage, the murder of infants and the elimination of God. And, by the way, I didn’t like it any better when they put God back in, because that’s blasphemy. To connect God with that agenda is a horror. It is taking His name in vain. In fact, I don’t think God should be in either agenda. But when you have an advocacy of support for the slaughter of infants and homosexuality and complete sexual freedom, you have a formula for divine judgment. If we have any sense of justice, if we have any sense of righteousness, if we want to make a little bit of a voice heard about what is right and about the role of government being to punish evildoers and protect the people who do right, then we had better step up. I’m not sure what God has in the future, but I do know that we can take His side and give Him honor.
Romans 1 is not politics. The Bible is not politics. This has nothing to do with politics. This has to do with speaking the Word of God to the culture in which we live. It’s not about personalities. It’s about iniquity and judgment.
And why do we say this? Because this must be recognized for what it is: sin—serious sin, damning sin, destructive sin. You say, “Well our society cultivates tolerance, and you’re giving hate speech.” What I’m saying is not hate speech. What the Democratic Party is saying is hate speech, because they must hate homosexuals if they will allow them to go the direction they are going, if they affirm that direction, knowing that it will take them to hell. That’s hate speech. This is love speech. You either warn them or affirm them.
Romans 1 warns them. And any faithful Christian warns: this is dangerous, this is deadly. Better to warn them than to affirm them. You might be the nice guy to affirm them, but that’s not love speech, that’s hate speech.
Used by permission of John MacArthur, pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif. Macarthur is also president of The Master’s College and Seminary and is heard daily on “Grace to You,” a nationally syndicated radio broadcast.
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