Our theme this week is, “It could never happen in America.” Of course, our great grandparents may have been able to say this with a little confidence but today, we are witnessing history most Christians would rather not see repeated!
An openness to socialism has spread across the land, and moral relativism now rules our culture while liberalism has infected the Church. Not a good sign for America, but these are definitely signs of the times as predicted in the Bible. Make no mistake; what we have today is not a culture war, but a war against the deity and person of Jesus Christ.
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Today’s guest, Jan Markell, of Olive Tree Ministries, writes:
I’d like to prepare you for what is likely to come, so consider this information a warning and perhaps a harbinger of things to come. Fascism starts slowly. It did in Nazi Germany and it has here.
Christianity is not appreciated by the Left any longer. They just mocked conservatives and Christians over guns, faith, and prayer. It started with the New York Daily News but moved on to scolding by many on the Left.
Let’s be honest: They are out of control. For most of them, government has become god. They wish we would go away and are testing the waters to come up with ideas that will speed that up. They are calling good evil (Isaiah 5:20).
They have allies in their back pocket: Google, YouTube, Bill Gates, Apple, Facebook, and dozens more. I am now talking from personal experience.
Understanding the Times radio aired a benign radio program November 28-29. It featured Tom Doyle of E3 Partners talking about Christian persecution in the Mideast and Africa. It also talked about Muslims coming to faith in Jesus Christ. It was all about “overcoming.” And this violated YouTube’s “community guidelines.” But to the Left, “coming to faith” and forgiving killers are offensive. It is hate speech.
We read the guidelines and nothing was violated. So why were these topics off limits? Keep in mind that YouTube is the purveyor of a lot of evil, but they only have issues with righteousness.
But on Saturday, November 28, all of Olive Tree’s YouTubes were shut down due to “inappropriate content.” We had had a warning or two starting two weeks earlier. But mid-day on November 28 all the lights were turned off.
After an inquiry by World Net Daily, the lights came back on. They were confronted by a powerhouse and YouTube, owned by Google, said it was all a mistake, but that would have been 2-3 weeks of mistakes on their part.
In Nazi Germany, Germans in the early 1930s were promised a return to the “glory days” after the devastation of WWI. Government then started to paint a picture of the good life returning, but only if government could become their god. The Germans thought that was a great idea.
They hung onto every promise of “hope and change.” They simply had no idea that Hitler’s “hope and change” would cause the swastika to be burned across the very fabric of Europe. Once it began to be burned, they looked the other way as the “good life” was going to return for them — or so they thought. Hope and change agents always promise utopia.
There are haunting comparisons in America to Nazi Germany. It’s easy to get comfortable with government. Human nature wants to be taken care of. It’s easy to let compromise gradually turn into tyranny and that’s a frog-in-the-kettle phenomenon. It never happens overnight.
When the people fear government that is tyranny. When the government fears the people, that is liberty.
Censorship for Christians who maintain a biblical view of marriage, who are pro-life, and who maintain other biblical worldviews is likely dead ahead. Do you remember Lois Lerner and the IRS war on the Tea Party and other conservatives? Isn’t it obvious that religious freedom is under fire?
What about Christianity’s claim to be the only true way to God? Is this hate speech? After the San Bernardino slaughter, they hung out with radical Muslims at a Washington D.C. mosque and showed solidarity with them. But not with Christians — ever.
The history of WW2 is repeating itself. But in persecution, the church prospers.
Stand firm and let’s fight the bullies while there is time.
Check Daily News Headlines at Olive Tree Views, Jan Markell’s ministry web site.
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It Could Never Happen in America
There truly is no left/right spectrum, as I pointed in another thread, this country is run from behind the curtain, the left/right spectrum is in place to keep the sheep divided, foreign policy is dictated by the CFR and in turn administered by the State Department, notice how foreign policy is tweaked to look as if it's coming from the presidential administration, but it's not. Can anyone really see a difference between the Bush/Obama administrations foreign policy? We are still in the Middle East, Gitmo was never closed, the Patriot Act was never rescinded, all these things were supposed to be terminated after Obama took power, they didn't, it's simple……smoke and mirrors. Presidents today are figureheads beholden to the CFR, the TC and Wall Street. Anyone that wants to see how all these are meshed can go to to their web sites and see membership rosters. Now, I ask you this: why would left and right politicians hold hands in a think tank (CFR, TC) if they're supposed to hold to different "ideologies? Why consult, become member of and support two organizations that are pressing for world governance, single monetary issuance, and erasing national sovereignty in the name of peace? Folks, this is not conspiracy theory, if you go to their sites you will be surprised how many politicians of both parties are members, how many cabinet appointees come from these two organizations and how much influence they have over every aspect of American government. Today when one votes, you're voting for a label, that's it.
CFR.ORG and TRILATERAL.ORG, it's all there in black and white, they don't hide it.
The Nazis by their own moniker were socialists, yet the left paints them as far right, totally inaccurate. The problem is society at large is too consumed by entertainment to consider history, civics, government or any detail that will intrude in their 9 to 5 workaday and their 7 to 11 television consumption. As for the biggest enemy to the church? I don't even count it as Caesar, it's the Rick Warrens of the world, they're doing much more harm, insidious and duplicitous they wreck the faith of the simple, at least with Caesar we know where it stands.
*by Caesar I mean institutions that oppose Christianity, whether government or institutionalized religion.
A typical ploy or tactic by the left-wing ‘progressives’ to close off any debate and silence the critics is to deploy their usual ‘shut-off valves’ like “Islamophobe”, “homophobe”, “bigot”, “racist”, “hate-monger”, “fear-monger”, “denier”, and, of course, labeling an opponent as a “far-right” extremist.
Mike you mentioned that you were taught in political science in high school that fascism is on the right and communism on the left. While you explain it as a circle instead of a continuum whereby communism and fascism differ very little, one can still make sense of it maintaining the linear scale. The left/right or communism/fascism dichotomy on the political spectrum is a false dichotomy as explained in a 1-minute segment (15:44 to about 16:56 minutes) from the excellent video, “Agenda – Grinding America Down”, a documentary on the socialist subversion of America through cultural Marxism. On the far left of the political scale, you have 100% government and on the far right 0% government, that is, anarchy, which is no government. Thus, on the far left you have socialism, communism and Nazism/fascism, all totalitarian forms of government. That is, fascism and socialism are two peas in a pod, birds of a feather. Both are totalitarian, supremacist ideologies that reduce the peoples’ freedom to nil. When you are on the extreme left on the political spectrum, it’s not hard calling someone who is more of a “centrist”, as being a “far-right” extremist.
In the end, we know how it turns out. Let the tussle begin.
The only thing we are to prepare for is the return of Jesus, to gather all that are His, first the dead then the living. If you are living comfortably then you are doing nothing for Christ the Savior. If you are preparing for something you have no control over you are working against yourself. It is about Jesus Christ and His Gospel, nothing else.
Well said Joel. A scriptural passage I have in mind these days is from 1 Chronicles 12:32, the men of Issachar understood the times and knew what Israel should do. Christians should be prepared for the increasing persecution to come and stand boldly, and, as you say, understand the immanence of preparing for the return of Jesus, gathering all that are His.