Something Different…
Well, I’ve been maintaining this blog for a little over 4
years now. During this time I have
ranted about all sorts of topics ranging from Pebble Mine to the current
Hijrah. Some of the subjects are of
particularly significant interest to me and some were fleeting concerns that
really haven’t much impact upon anything.
But one thing I have tried to do is back up the stuff that I post with
facts. Which brings me to today’s rant…
Politicking from the Pulpit.
“When the
righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
Proverbs 29:2
Yesterday as I was working with a friend on installing a new
window at my restaurant, he asked me which church I attend. I told him that I go to the Dillingham Bible
Fellowship and then asked why I didn’t go to the church directly across the
street. As usual I was quite blunt and
told him that it was the ‘preacher’. I
went on to explain that We had been attending the church in question but that
he had gotten into politicking from the pulpit. I also went on to explain that this wasn’t
necessarily a bad thing and that I personally thought that the pulpit is an
excellent place to air ‘political’ views.
Upon hearing that, he looked a bit confused and then asked me again
about why We didn’t attend there.
I went on to explain that if a Preacher felt compelled to
preach and politick from his pulpit, he should make damn sure he knows what
he’s talking about. “Huh?” was the
response and I felt obliged to expound upon my answer. That went something like this…
“During the last election cycle the preacher had decided
that he would speak out against the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol
of which I was an ardent supporter and went so far as to point out that there
were people in the congregation that supported the initiative. He continued and said that we were promoting
sin and the downfall of society.” Now,
that’s fine to have those opinions… but when I questioned him about his stance,
his only response was to say that Cannabis is evil and leads to the destruction
of family and faith. Yep… that was his
answer.
Now, I was a bit perturbed by this but now to badly and
decided to ignore it. But then again he
brought it up a few Sundays later. He
went through this whole list of things that were happening across Alaska and
America that in his opinion were helping to bring about the downfall of
society. He focused on Cannabis
legalization and the abandonment of Israel by America.
Seriously… that what he chose to make his point on the
downfall of America. He never mentioned
the growing LGBT movement, greedy warmongering and the dumbing down of
America’s education systems. Perhaps he
chose to ignore the homosexualization of America because there was one sitting
directly behind Us that is know to be quite defensive/offensive when it comes
to that topic… perhaps he’s unaware that the US government and numerous NGOs
send million upon millions of American dollars to Israel annually and perhaps
he doesn’t know that Cannabis was long known as a natural remedy and
pharmaceutical aid before the lobbying of Big Pharma and Georgia-Pacific had it
federally classified as a controlled substance.
Perhaps he doesn’t know why he’s preaching from a flawed perspective of
‘right and wrong’ and working to further the tyranny of government instead of
the liberty of Man. When a preacher
decides to politick from the pulpit… He or She should make sure that they are
knowledgeable of the topics and are doing it from a perspective that actually
endorses the teaching that the Bible and more properly the New Covenant
convey.
"The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of
my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from
violence. I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.” 2 Samuel 22:3-4
If you speak out to support Israel… understand that the
State of Israel is not the “People of God” and that the actions of Man that
created that State were not done to help bring about the fulfillment of
prophesy, but to aggravate the Muslim nations that control the carbon fuels
that the Earth has become so dependent upon.
It was known that the new industrial revolution following WW2 would
require massive amounts of fuels and that the only way to meet that demand was
to have a foothold in the Middle East that would allow for constant conflict
that Great Britain and America would have to intervene in and maintain a tacit
control of the region…thus the resources as well. Pacts with the governing peoples in the
Arabian Peninsula were made and the resource extraction giants from Great
Britain profited from them, as did the industrial war machine developers of
America. This is what happened…. Not the
creation of a Theocratic State for the Jews.
Israel was an excuse and the government that was created was allowed
under false pretense to ‘defend’ itself from the original occupants of the area
by rounding them up and shoving them into concentration camps that operate to
this day.
But let’s get back on track with the meaning of this post…
politicking from the pulpit is not only acceptable, it is expected and there is
nothing in the US Constitution that prohibits this at all. The churches are the foundation of society
and are to be the ones that reach out and maintain our communities. Preachers are the members of those churches
that are expected to take the teachings of the Bible and help people make
informed decisions about their communities and their ‘leaders’. This becomes quite complex in today’s
convoluted society of equality for all and the ignorance of supposed
“Separation of Church and State”, but the fact remains that the “Church” is the
heart of community.
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of
your towns within your land that the Lord your
God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand
against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient
for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you
say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly
on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and
he cry to the Lord against
you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him
freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him,
because for this the Lord your
God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never
cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open
wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ Deuteronomy 15:7-11
Quite simply to finish this up… The times of persecution of
Christian beliefs are upon Us and We are not to cower before this. This is time in history to stand even taller
and stronger together to defend the Church and to step up Our efforts at
fulfilling the Great Commission.
“Put on
the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.”
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