Standing Upon
the Word of God or Not
Part One
Lea Sylvester
“The thing
that sets the American Christian apart from
all other people in the world…is that he
will die on his feet before he will live on
his knees.” –George Washington
George Washington
firmly believed in God and in the precepts
[laws] of God. He began his term as
president with prayer, dedicating our
government and our nation to God. The ironic
thing about the quotation is that American
Christians are no longer set-apart from all
other people in the world.
The notion that they
would die on their feet rather than live as
servants begging on their knees, is doubtful
today─because if that were the case,
abominations taking place in the United
States today would not be happening. They
would not exist; for Christians would be
standing firmly upon the Word of God.
Responses to a previous
commentary about how Christians are never to
tolerate evil because God never tolerates
it, indicates that the notion of following
God’s commandments is something most
Christians do not believe is necessary.
If
Christians today actually took a stand
against evil, then why did professing
Christians vote for the current president?
Despite Obama’s
pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage,
anti-religious freedom record─a record
presumably abhorrent both to evangelicals
and conservative Catholics, 42% of the
Protestant Christian vote and 50% of the
Catholic vote went for Obama in 2012.
It is stunning to
think that more than six-million
self-described evangelical Christians would
vote for a president who
supports abortion on demand;
supported the
same-sex marriage ballot initiatives that succeeded in Maryland, Maine and
Washington;
and was on the cover of
Newsweek as America’s, “First Gay
President.”
Did these
self-professed believers surrender their
biblical convictions in the voting booth, or
did they never really have deep biblical
convictions on the critical issues to begin
with? This is what happens when the church
is weak and fails to
disciple believers to turn biblical
faith into action.
In 1977 British journalist
William Rees-Mogg saw that the West had lost
its faith,
and like a fish out of water or a drowning man was,
“...desperately
thrashing around for lack of oxygen. Since
the time of Christ there has been no period
in which there has been the same feeling
of...spiritual impoverishment”
(Idols for Destruction: The
Conflict of Christian Faith and
American Culture, Herbert Schlossberg,
p. 2).
America’s idolatrous,
post-Christian culture and narcissistic
postmodern church are quickly following
suit. There are as yet many faithful
churches and evangelists, distinguished
Christian lay people and missionaries here
in America and around the world proclaiming
Christ crucified for the sins of all,
fulfilling their vocations with humility and
integrity.
The culturally relevant church of
“What’s happening now”:
The contemporary church consisting of trendy,
disaffected Roman and Eastern Orthodox
Catholics and “new” Protestant evangelicals
who
practice a spirituality that is Christian in
name only.
This movement has a
“spirituality” that is trivial, irreverent,
self-affirming, irrelevant, and permissive
to the point of practicing abortion. The
practice of abortion by Christians is
spiritual prostitution to an idol, defiles
God’s sanctuary and profanes His holy name.
God alone is the Author of life
and it is not the creature's prerogative to
question the Creator’s wisdom in bringing to
life a fellow human being at conception.
Whenever men disregard their Creator’s wise
judgment by destroying His innocent
creation, they are serving another god. They
are, in fact, spiritually prostituting
themselves to the idolatrous “self” whom
they believe is wiser in its value
judgments.
Following is a list of
abominations in the eyes of God.
Passages of Scripture are referenced. Listed
below: Some of the official Democratic
Platform, which shows actions taken or
allowed and/or legislation passed as a
result. These actions have been taken on
behalf of the American people who elected
these officials. Our nation is/will be under
the judgment of God for the following
actions that Christians have allowed and/or
condoned.
Biblical
Abominations/Official Democratic Party
Platform
1. Homosexual activity (Leviticus
18:22; 20:13)
Gay Rights, feminism, Don’t Ask Don’t
Tell.
2. Idolatry, Rebellion, Witchcraft (Deuteronomy
7:25; 13)
Isaiah 44:19, 1 Samuel 15:34)
Radical Marxism, feminism,
AIDS, Excessive Taxation; Black Liberation
Theology; Gay Rights; Environmental
Extremists.
3. Cross-dressing (Deuteronomy 22:5)
Gay Rights, feminism, Don’t
Ask Don’t Tell.
4. Telling lies (Proverbs 12:22)
DNC platform instructs
campaign to deliberately lie! Deliberately
concealed and priorities! Saying
whatever pleases the crowds without regard
to truth. Deliberate deception. Not
providing a valid birth certificate.
5. Being proud in heart (Proverbs 16:5)
Declared listed abominations
…are a right!
Banking crisis.
6. Justifying the wicked and condemning the
just
(Proverbs
17:15)
Clinging to Ayers, Rezco,
Wright, Kenyan, while condemning
conservatives and Christians! Making
alliances with corrupt governments (Cuba,
Venezula, Russia, Iran). They tried to
destroy “Joe the Plumber” and anyone else
who questioned their campaign or platform.
Attacked Sarah Palin and her family.
7. Cheating in business (Proverbs 20:10 and
Proverbs 20:23)
Accepted donations from outside USA,
ignored campaign finance laws. ACORN
8.
Cheating in the market by using rigged
weights
(Deuteronomy 25:13-19, Proverbs 11:1)
Accepted donations from
outside the USA; ignored campaign finance
laws. ACORN, Recount plans.
Proverbs 6:16-18 lists things, which are
also abominations:
Haughty eyes:
Resisted efforts to verify
presidential candidate’s US citizenship and
his associates, etc.
A lying tongue:
Instructed campaign workers to
deliberately lie. Concealed plans and
priorities. Saying whatever appeases or
pleases the crowds without regard to truth.
Deliberately not providing a valid birth
certificate for presidential candidate, no
economic plan.
Hands that shed innocent blood:
Abortion, Infanticide
A heart that devises wicked schemes:
Radical Marxism; Black
Liberation Theology
Feet that are swift in running to mischief:
Attacks on: “Joe the Plumber” (Jacksonville
Reporter, Connecticut Reporter)
A false witness that speaketh lies:
Taxation plans, associations,
scare tactics.
He that soweth discord among brethren:
Ignored conservatives. Not a
consensus, Radical Marxism, Black Liberation
Theology, Racism.
Envy/Covetousness
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the
gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the
equal sharing of misery.”
(Winston Churchill, British orator,
author and Prime Minister during World War
II, 1874-1965)
“When I say that Marxism is based on envy, I
mean that the glorious revolution of the
proletariat...was really a promise to put a
final end to all the conditions that make
for envy.”
(Joseph Epstein, author and former editor of
The American Scholar, from Truths
about Socialism, Coral Ridge Ministries,
p. 66)
Envy/covetousness is the principle of
negation and rebellion
in the heart and soul of every person has played a part in this human
dynamic ever since Cain murdered Abel.
Dorothy Sayers, who
translated Dante’s Inferno where
pride
and envy were punished in the lowest
part of hell,
called
envy
“the great leveler.”
“At its worst...it is a destroyer, rather
than have anyone happier than itself─it will
see us all miserable together.”
Alice
Baily was an
apostate Christian who negated the living
supernatural Triune God, heaven, hell and
substitutionary atonement. She viewed
other people as dehumanized “vehicles.” She
taught that Christ’s kingdom is of this
world, asserted her own divinity; embraced
evolutionary conceptions, eugenics,
abortion, revolutionary violence, communism
and socialism.
Baily
preferred
“self ” to God and other
people, and is one of the important
contributors to the concepts and language of
the New Age movement─a modern mixture of
occultism, spiritism, eastern mysticism,
subjectivism (everyone invents their own
truth), philosophical monism (ultimate one
substance), pantheism (everything is god)
and self-centeredness.
The beginning of envy is pride:
Preference for self over God and neighbor. A
proud man or elite group of men i.e., Cain,
Alice Baily, Karl Marx, Obama, global power
complex) make idols (deify themselves) out
of themselves, thereby assuming they possess
honor and rights.
This is why pride leads to contempt for truth:
Law, wisdom, norms, authority, standards,
rules, institutions and other people in
combination with any or all of the
following: Lying, treachery, gluttony,
greed, covetousness, lust, hate, cheating,
promiscuity, sadism, sodomy, pederasty,
pedophilia, adultery, theft and the
dehumanization of other people resulting in
psychological and physical slavery,
population control schemes, abortion,
brutality, terror, murder and even
mass-murder or genocide.
In
many respects, modern Americans and Western
Europeans are the unwitting dupes of a
coalition of monstrously envious/covetous
elitist international bankers and
corporatists, a global power complex that
for over a century has been stealthily
preparing its serfs to submit to a
totalitarian world order that requires the
liquidation of millions of people. it can’t
happen in the U.S., one might ask… As long
as Christians do nothing it will continue.
In
Tragedy and Hope, Dr. Carroll Quigley
deliberately revealed the existence of this
snake of political and economic power poised
to seize control of the planet. Right from
the start said Quigley, the complex has been
controlling and manipulating Left-wing
groups:
“The power that left-wingers exercised was never their own power or
communist power but the power of the
international financial coterie.”
Karen
Hudes, a former insider at the World Bank,
reported that a treacherous global financial
system dominated by a small group of
corrupt, power-hungry figures centered
around the privately owned U.S. Federal
Reserve dominate the pillars of America’s
government and control the media to cover up
its crimes:
“What
is really going on is that the world’s
resources are being dominated by this
group,” she explained, adding, “The corrupt
power grabber” has managed to dominate the
media as well. They’re being allowed to do
it.”
Envy/covetousness is a major theme in the
Law, psalms, prophets and New Testament.
Scripture combines envy with pride,
covetousness and selfishness into a single
manifestation of idolatry of self, and
belief that there isn’t enough “good” to go
around.
Hence the
idolater’s burning compulsion to destroy by
way of gossip, slander, ridicule, scorn and
destructive criticism the good name and
spiritual virtues of people who are the
objects of envy as well as to consolidate
all goods (i.e., recognition, honor, status,
privilege, wealth, natural resources) into
the hands of one or a privileged few.
Envy/covetousness ultimately leads to
abortion (child sacrifice) and other forms
of murder including genocide.
Among the
self-serving, social elite of Punic
Carthage, for example, the institution of
child sacrifice may have assisted in the
consolidation and maintenance of family
wealth, of eliciting favors from the gods
and as a convenient way of disposing of
unwanted and illegitimately conceived
babies.
What does any
of this have to do with today’s Christians
and the modern church?
Everything.
Christians
are being labeled as intolerant today but
the fact is─nothing could be farther from
the truth. Today’s “church” has tolerated
far too much and therefore, society’s
condition is an indictment on Christianity.
This topic will be continued in
Part
Two.
The amazing
thing is how quickly Christianity has been
changed in such a short period of time.
Why has this
happened?
Does it have
something to do with the Word of God being
undermined?
I am reminded of
the heavy statements we find in the Old
Testament when the children of Israel
rebelled against God. For example, this is
what we read in Deuteronomy:
“When thou art
come into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do
after the abominations of those nations.
There shall not be
found among you any one that maketh his son
or his daughter to pass through the fire, or
that useth divination, or an observer of
times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a
charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For all that do
these things are an abomination unto the
LORD: and because of these abominations the
LORD thy God doth drive them out from before
thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD
thy God” (Deuteronomy 18:9-13).
Straying away from
God and being led by the gods is an
abomination unto God, and will be judged.
Perhaps it is time for Christians to take
the Bible seriously.
Sources:
Newsweek,
May 2012
Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for
Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith
and American Culture, p. 2
Andrew White, MD, 1/5/2012, “Associates for
Biblical Research, Abortion and the Ancient
Practice of Child Sacrifice”
Truths about Socialism, Coral Ridge Ministries, p. 66
Dr. Carol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope,
p. 954
New American, May 22, 2013; Alex Newman, “World
Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption,”
Federal Reserve
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