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Plead With the Lord to Save Us

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Warning: The following is not for you, if you have a weak stomach.

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, taxpayer-funded, has produced a video informing teenagers (and pre-teens) of the joys of sadomasochism. It’s part of Planned Parenthood’s National Kink Month. This Lifenews article includes a link to Planned Parenthood’s video on this revolting subject, http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/27/planned-parenthood-video-promotes-bondage-and-sadomasochism-to-teens/ .

The video features a gabbling airhead, possibly supposed to be a teenage girl, chattering away about how sadomasochistic “sex” can be “safe” and “fun”–in fact, slapping someone around, or tying her up and sticking pins into her, “relies upon and creates trust.”

Our country is in deep, deep trouble. Not content to follow ancient Israel and Judah in crime and idolatry, for which God razed their Holy City and sent them into captivity in Babylon, now we want to follow Sodom and Gomorrah, too.

The stink of our nation’s sins rises to high heaven, and every day we think of new ones. I think we’re too far gone to save ourselves. We need national repentance–but do you think that babbling bimbo in the Planned Parenthood video is ever going to repent? Do you think the moral imbeciles in Washington or Hollywood are ever going to repent?

Only one power is strong enough to save us now: God’s power, the power that made the heavens and the earth.

Plead with Him to exert that power, that irresistible power, to turn us, turn us back to Him; and make His face to shine; and then, and only then, we shall be saved.

Otherwise, we’ve had it.

The Purpose of the Bible Is…?

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The purpose of the Bible is… why, to help you to get rich!

Here I was, thinking that the Holy Scriptures are there to teach us God’s ways, His will for us, and to help us to know Him better, and to know the truth… when all the time it was about making tons of money!

There is an alleged “pastor” out there selling “The Lost Investment Principles of Scripture.” He says he can teach you how to read the Bible as “a secret code for making money… a code buried deep within the Biblical text.”

No, I will not give you his name, nor provide a link to his website. That would be to give him free advertising.

So, if you were naively thinking that God’s Word is truth, the word of eternal life, the moral law, or anything like that–well, pilgrim, you missed the boat. Please disregard those tricky passages about it being easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into Heaven. That’s just in there to disguise the real business at hand, which is to heap up riches–or so says the “pastor.”

Would you like to be in this guy’s shoes on Judgment Day?

Getting Rid of the Human Race

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You can learn a lot from reading novels. Case in point:

Agatha Christie wrote Curtain while the Nazis were bombing London, locked it away in a safe, and didn’t publish it until 1975, the last year of her life. So in addition to its many virtues as a mystery novel, Curtain is a kind of time capsule of England circa 1940.

In its most disturbing scene, all the characters are sitting at dinner and discussing euthanasia. One zealot declares that “the unfit” and “people who lead useless lives” should be destroyed: she reckons that could be about 80% of the population. Instead of jumping down her throat for spouting wicked and ungodly babble, instead of demanding to know why she isn’t siding with Hitler, who is the poster boy for the ideas she thinks are so enlightened… instead of doing that, all but one of the persons at the table sort of nod their heads in agreement and throw in little comments to the effect, “Well, of course you’re right about that…” They don’t agree enthusiastically; but it’s plain to see that at the time this scene was written, Hitlerian ideas about eugenics had made their way into the mainstream of English culture, and English Christianity failed to keep them out.

Compare this with something written 100 years earlier–A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens: in which Scrooge wishes “the surplus population” to “die and get it over with.” Instead of everybody else sitting around and agreeing with him, Scrooge gets a sharp lesson that he’ll never forget. When proto-eugenics raised its ugly head in the 1840s, English Christianity was quick to shut it down.

What a difference 100 years makes.

Today the ruling classes of the Western nations, including ours, are gung-ho for euthanasia–yes, Obamacare does indeed include death panels: public employees who will try to talk you into having yourself humanely killed off, if it’s costing too much to keep you alive–and at the same time, they do everything in their power to encourage people to become “useless”! Read my posts for the past two days, and you’ll see what I mean.

This is not the time for Christ’s servants to be throwing in the towel.

A Meditation

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Sometimes I feel like I went to sleep in my own bed and woke up in a strange room. While I was asleep, the America I knew got taken away and something else put in its place. No one can tell when or how it happened.

Now fools are hailed as wise, the wicked as the country’s benefactors, and the works of our own hands, and the corrupt desires of our own minds, are our gods. We reject beauty and celebrate ugliness. We turn away from life and embrace death.

Why did no one stop this from happening? Where was the Church? What were our families so busy doing, that they never even noticed what was being done all around them? How many careless people were recruited to the service of evil, without them even knowing it?

Trust in the Lord.

There’s no one else.

It’s Christmas Day!

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In a few minutes we’ll be heading off to my sister’s faraway and hard-to-find house for Christmas dinner, via the Road of Death, the Garden State Parkway. Please pray for us to get there and back without any harrowing adventures.

But what really matters today (and on all the other days) is this:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,  the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.   John 1:1-5,14

You servants of Satan, who misgovern the nations and feed your people’s souls to the Devil, the light that shineth in the darkness will destroy you and erase your works: for the Lord hath spoken it.

A Prayer for Christmas

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I know there are some of you out there who think it’s wrong and non-Christian to celebrate Christmas. I understand your point of view and respect it, but I haven’t come here today to debate it. I am here merely to offer the following prayer, and to invite anyone who pleases to pray it with me.

Father in heaven, I beseech you to endow with power and glory this year’s Christmas season, more than past Christmases: because we need it more today.

Let this day, chosen to proclaim the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ as a solid fact of history, have power to revive our hearts with love for You and for Your Son, and to renew our minds.

Above all, give it power to move our hearts to repentance, that our poor, fallen, sinful country might be saved. Turn us, O Lord, turn us back to You, and cause Thy face to shine: and then we shall be saved. Amen

There. That didn’t hurt so much, did it?

 

Our Swell Post-Christian World

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I think I’ll watch Miracle on 34th Street this afternoon. It’s a wonderful fairy tale. It’s also a great movie about fairy tales.

In my time the biggest fairy tale ever told is that the world doesn’t need Christianity anymore, it can get along just fine without Jesus.

Uh-uh. Yeah, sure looks it. How many stories have I seen this morning–just this morning–of people rioting, stabbing each other, having apoplexies, etc., during the course of their “Black Friday” shopping? There was no such thing as “Black Friday,” not so long ago. Some ad men invented it, and people went for it. You can’t get them to hear the Gospel, but they’ll kill and be killed for Black Friday.

And then there’s the rest of the news: the new urban craze, “Knockout,” which used to be known as unprovoked assault and battery; our elected officials’ most current lies; this new sexual liberation movement, that new wrinkle in public education to support the new sexual liberation movement…

Yeah. Post-Christian civilization.

Even if Christianity were a fairy tale, which it isn’t, it would still be a thousand times better than what our ruling nincompoops are pleased to call reality. But it isn’t the Bible that’s the fairy tale.

It says something about our wise men and our scholars and our whoopee crowd that they can’t even make up a fairy tale that doesn’t suck.

Was Daniel a Prophet?

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I’ve been having a discussion with one of my chess buddies at http://www.chessgames.com on the Book of Daniel. I take it as I find it. But he, following the lead of various Biblical scholars, believes Daniel was written not by Daniel sometime in the Sixth Century B.C., but by unidentified persons circa 150 B.C. (give or take a few decades). By then, the events prophesied by Daniel would have already happened–making the book not prophecy, but a pretended prophecy: in a word, a deception.

Believing this, he says, makes no difference to his Christian faith. Well, who am I to judge that? But it would make a difference to my faith if I thought big chunks of the Bible were a load of humbug.

In Chapter 11, Daniel accurately predicts the turbulent, complicated history of the Holy Land and the successors to Alexander the Great’s empire–including the long, see-saw struggle between the Seleucid Empire, centered in Syria, and the Ptolemaic Empire, in Egypt. The prophecy does not give the names of the individuals who make this history, but it does describe their actions–in great detail.

Because these predictions are so accurate, “scholars” say the book could only have been written after all those things had happened. They begin their analysis from the presupposition that there is no such thing as prophecy–that accurate and detailed predictions of the future are simply impossible.Then they hunt up “evidence” to support their position.

I don’t have a lot of time for scholars.

If my friend’s faith can survive “Biblical scholarship,” my hat is off to him. I presuppose the truth of God’s word–not to mention its fundamental honesty!–and reason upward from that basis.

Sure–I want to know a lot more about the persons, places, and events described in the Bible. I consult historians and archeologists. After all, it was a “scientific” finding–satellite photos showing the course of a once-mighty river that flowed across Arabia into southern Mesopotamia, now buried under the desert: a river that was hidden many thousands of years ago, yet is nevertheless remembered in Genesis 2:11-13 as one of the original “rivers of Eden”–that years ago shocked me out of my indifference toward the Bible. (They’ve even named this long-lost river: the Kuwait River.)

So don’t accuse me of despising knowledge. I just despise knowledge that only claims to be knowledge, and isn’t.

Atheist Mega-Churches (New Fad)

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This is bound to take its place alongside of pet rocks and Nehru jackets.

The “news media” this weekend–Fox, CBS, NBC– all featured reports of what they were calling “atheist mega-churches.” These are large gatherings, on a Sunday morning, of people who want all the church stuff but without belief in God.

It was started by two British comedians. It’s awash in money. They get together and sing “Here Comes the Sun” and “Lean on Me.” I’m sure they sing “Imagine,” too, although that wasn’t mentioned in any of the news articles. Like, right there is ample reason to stay away.

The services feature music, sermons without God, and assorted feel-good-about-yourself activities.

I’m confused. How do you tell the difference between one of these “atheist mega-churches” and a regular mega-church? If it’s that hard for us to tell, will God trouble Himself to make a distinction?

When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8)

Only if He knows where to look.

 

To Be Raptured, or Not to be Raptured

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One of my chess buddies has been chiding me about the Rapture. If you don’t believe in the Rapture, he says, you won’t get raptured when the Rapture comes. I don’t understand this. You’d think, if it was in the Bible, all churches would have taught this doctrine: and it wouldn’t have taken theologians 1,800 years to discover it.

My wife explained for me.

“It’s like Monopoly,” she said. “Look at all the people who put money under Free Parking, and it’s yours if you land on it–but that’s not in the printed rules. If they do that with something simple like Monopoly, imagine what they can get up to with Christianity.”

I’m not here to say anyone is wrong for believing in the Rapture. Maybe I’m wrong for not believing in it. I just can’t find it in the Bible, that’s all.

Anyhow, we’re stuck here till the Rapture comes; and while we’re here, I think we ought to stand and fight, while breath is in us, against what the Heathen are doing to our country and our world. Why should we hide under the church-pews while the ungodly “radically transform” America? They’ll only come for us there in the end, after they’ve done everything else they want to do.

When Moses sent men to spy out the Promised Land, the spies all returned with scary stories about great giants living in walled cities, compared to whom “we were in our own sight as grasshoppers.” But one of the spies, Caleb, said, “Let us go up at once and possess [the land], for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13: 33 and 30)

I’m not here to wait for the Rapture. I’m here to fight.