“Our patience is wearing thin.” Joe Biden threatens Americans with job loss if they don’t take the Covid shot, September 9, 2021.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Proverbs 24:10
During what would prove to be a historic win for the University of Cincinnati football team, things got a bit wobbly for a while during the third quarter. Playing on the road at Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana, UC held a 17-0 lead in the second half. But then UC missed a makable field goal. Not long after, Notre Dame went on a touchdown drive and cut the lead to 17-7. Next, UC’s quarterback fumbled the ball. Notre Dame recovered and scored another touchdown. They missed the extra point, so UC’s lead stood at 17-13.
Now if you’re a fan of Cincinnati sports teams, this was the point where you started saying to yourself, “Here we go again.” Without going into all the boring and gory details of years of agony and frustration on the part of the local fan base, let’s just say people in this area are used to disappointment and heartbreak.
But when things were looking their bleakest and many of us were waiting for the Bearcats to find a way to choke, for some reason they didn’t. UC went on a touchdown drive making the score 24-13, and that’s how the game ended up.
I’d like to tell you I knew UC was going to win all along. But that would be a lie. I thought either they either were going to get blown out in some epic humiliating defeat or lose in agonizing fashion at the last second. But neither of those things happened.
UC, much to my shock, far from choking, actually won a huge victory. One that is certainly the biggest win in school’s football history, a history which dates back to 1885. One of the sort I never thought I’d see.
Now you may wonder why I’m starting a post about the present trials facing Christians here in America and around the world by referencing a college football game. After all, it’s just a football game. And football isn’t really all that important in the grand scheme of things.
Football isn’t a Christian enterprise. It’s a sport after all.
But if you think about it, there are a number of references to sports in the Bible. The Author of Hebrews wrote, “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” Paul wrote, “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.” There are other verses along the same lines. So it’s not out of place to reference sports in the context of the Christian life.
In this case, there’s a message for Christians about persevering through adversity.
Haitian migrants use a dam to cross to and from the United States from Mexico to Del Rio, Texas on Friday. Eric Gay/AP
“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.”
– Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, Presbyterian Minister and Union Civil War Veteran
The account of David’s fight with Goliath is, doubtless, the most famous case of singly combat ever. Many people, even if they have never so much as opened a Bible have heard of their duel.
But while the history of what took place is justifiably famous, there is at least one important detail that is often overlooked. We read how Goliath was wont to come out and taunt Israel and how he, in so many words, double dog dared anyone from Israel’s army to come out and have a go at him one on one.
Now among those present in Israel’s army was King Saul. But even he would not dare to challenge Goliath.
If you stop and think about it, that must have been very demoralizing to the Israelites. After all, a few years prior the Israelites had demanded a king to fight their battles for them like all the other nations. Well, Israel had its king, but the king wasn’t doing his job. He wasn’t leading Israel to victory in battle. Quite the opposite. He was cowering behind the lines at Goliath’s words just like everyone else.
And it got worse.
It wasn’t as if Goliath came out once or twice, got bored with disrespecting Israel, and gave up. No, not at all. If you’ve ever been picked on by a playground bully as a kid, you probably received advice such as, “Just ignore him and he’ll go away.” Sometimes maybe that’s true. But what if the bully doesn’t go away? What if the bully comes back day after day to torment you?
The Apostle Paul in writing to the Romans notes, “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” By saying “as much as it depends on you,” Paul acknowledges that living peaceably with others does not depend solely on you. Sometimes there are men who want to have a go at you for one reason or another, those who like to pick fights.
Goliath was one such man. And he wasn’t the sort of fellow to just go away.
No. The Scriptures tell us that Goliath would come out and say, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” And this, Scripture tells us, he did for forty days both in the morning and in the evening.
So twice a day for forty days, Goliath “defied” the armies of Israel. And no one did anything. Not Saul. Not David’s elder brothers. No one.
Rather, we read, “When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.”
Not very inspiring, that.
Into this courage, leadership, and ultimately faith gap strode David, who famously, by God’s grace, won the day.
Today’s American Protestants More Like Saul than Like David
Now you may wonder why I started a column on the Babylonian Harlot’s – the Babylonian Harlot or Mystery, Babylon the Great as the Apostle John called the Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS) in Revelation 17 – attack on the United States of America by talking about David and Goliath.
My point is this, that when I look at the reaction of today’s American Protestant church to the obvious, in-your-face predations of the RCCS, I am reminded more of Saul’s reaction to the giant than David’s.
It seems that the more Antichrist – the office of the papacy is the Antichrist and Son of Perdition we read about in the new testament – and his Harlot Church attack America, the more God’s people cower in fear.
Goliath loved getting in Israel’s face. He loved playing the bully. And it all was going great for him until one day it suddenly didn’t. But it took a man of faith and courage to put an end to Goliath’s proud defiance of God’s people.
In like fashion, the RCCS and its Antichrist pope love getting in the face of American Protestants. Since it’s football season, I’ll use a football metaphor. It’s as if Rome is spiking the football in our face and doing a touchdown dance, and no one does anything to put a stop to it.
The pope and his bishops, cardinals, priests, and nuns lecture American Christians constantly about their (supposed) moral duty to destroy their own nation through mass welfare migration, immigration, and refugee resettlement of people, many of whom are difficult if not impossible to assimilate. And not only is there a moral duty, these liars tell us, for Americans to take in the people, but we have an obligation to pay for our own dispossession as well.
And what do we hear from Protestant pulpits about this shameful, daily dissing of our faith of the nation our forefathers built?
Crickets for the most part.
But it gets even worse.
In some cases, putatively Protestant teachers actually internalize Rome’s immigration lies and begin spouting the same socialist, nation-destroying immigration nonsense as do the popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and nuns of Rome.
Now it may well be, and I’m of a mind to believe that it is the case this day in America, that there are 7,000 in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
But I think we need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, what are we going to do now that the Harlot Church and her pope are in our face? Are we going to be as Saul and his men and be dismayed and greatly afraid?
Now there are reasons, ultimately not good ones, but reasons nonetheless, to be afraid.
First, there is a lack of knowledge. God said, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” And we see this every day here in America. If not literally perishing, many Christians, perhaps even people who sense that there’s something seriously wrong with an immigration system that threatens to replace the historic majority population of this county, lack the ideas to adequately express their concerns.
Even in Bible-believing churches, it’s a rare day that you will ever hear any overt criticism of the RCCS or its false gospel. It’s a rare day indeed that you’ll hear the pope identified as the Antichrist of the New Testament in plain language of the sort used in the original Westminster Confession of Faith.
At a Bible study, I once brought up that Rome teaches the real presence of Christ in the mass. Now this being one of the most important doctrines of Rome, I would have thought that this would be a non-controversial statement. But it wasn’t. There were some people in my Bible study who actually defended Rome, denying that Rome teaches this doctrine that it very clearly does teach. I got the distinct sense that some were embarrassed that I had even brought up the point. And it wasn’t even as if I’d called the pope Antichrist! He is. But I simply brought up what Rome herself teaches in her own words and found myself met with resistance in a Protestant Bible study.
If Protestants won’t teach and believe the Reformation doctrine of Antichrist and refuse to criticize Rome for its many soul-destroying and blasphemous teachings, how can we possibly expect anyone else to do so? This is our fight. We’re it. If we don’t get the job done, who will?
Second, speaking out against Rome feels strange. We don’t see others doing it, so maybe we start to think calling out Antichrist and his Harlot Church is a sort of social “no go” zone. We’re told as children that you don’t talk about religion and politics. And talking about the evil of political Romanism is both of those things at once. It’s easier to pretend not to notice what’s going on and talk instead about the weather or sports or something like that.
Third, we can’t handle the truth. One suspects that there are Protestants who have a sense that there is something extraordinarily, preternaturally evil about Rome, but they don’t want to go there. They prefer willful blindness to the evil of the RCCS rather than doing a little research and reading on their own. It’s easier for us to play hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil rather than look at the situation as it is. Because if we know what Rome in truth is, how can we not speak out against it? And that’s dangerous. And we don’t want to go there.
I once had a Protestant minister say to me that he knew Rome was the Babylonian Harlot with a false gospel sending that sent people to hell, but he said he couldn’t speak out against it. The implication seemed to be that it would cause so much controversy in his ministry that he would lose his job.
The minister may well have been right. But that’s not a good reason to avoid criticizing Rome.
Where Has Our Cowardice Gotten Us?
So, just where has our cowardice gotten us Protestants? Has playing nice with Rome and calling the pope “Our Brother in Christ” mollified the pope or caused the Babylonian Harlot Church to stop kicking sand in our faces?
No, it has not.
If nothing else, our cowardice and unwillingness to speak out against the unbiblical, unchristian, unholy evil of Rome’s philosophy, theology, politics, and economics have simply invited more blatant attacks.
What’s going on with the migrant hordes assaulting our southern border is one of the most flagrant and in-your-face attacks by Rome this author has ever seen.
To use another comparison, Protestants today are acting much more like Neville Chamberlain than Winston Churchill, begging Rome for “peach in our time” while the Pope and his henchmen in the church and his dutiful servant in the White House assault our southern border with what is probably the single largest wave of mass, illegal immigration in our nation’s history.
Christian, do you think Rome is going to feel sorry for you? Do you think the Antichrist Jesuit Pope will have mercy on you? Do you think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will call off their attack dogs?
No.
The more we remain silent, the more we will be attacked until all is consumed and we find ourselves strangers in the land built by our forefathers.
Reprove, Correct, and Instruct
Writing to the Ephesians, Paul said enjoined them, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove (or expose) them.” In 2 Timothy we’re told by Paul that all scripture is profitable for reproof, correction, and instruction.
It is high time, and well past time, for us Christians to get about our job of applying the Scriptures to the evil deeds of the RCCS. And there are so many of them.
In the past, I have thought at times that I was being overly hard on Rome. I think to myself that I had gone overboard in my criticism of their doctrine and their evil deeds, only to find out that I didn’t understand half of how evil Rome truly is.
The flagrant, in your face evil of what’s being done to Texas with the flood of migrants, and the weak to nonexistent response from the American Protestant church is disgraceful. Paul ordered the Corinthians to “in understanding be men.” Yet far too often, we Protestants prefer to remain as children.
I realize I’ve been hard on my fellow believers in this post. But seriously, enough is enough.
It has come down to this. Either God’s people trust in him, believe his Word, and apply it to Rome’s evil economic and political philosophy and practices, or we lose our nation.
It’s really that simple.
May the Lord grant that we make the wise choice and follow him.
“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.”
Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, Presbyterian Minister and Union Civil War Veteran
“Our patience is wearing thin
.” Thus did the imposter-in-chief and son of Antichrist Joe Biden bellow from the lectern on Thursday.
My message to unvaccinated Americas is this: what more is there to wait for, what more do you need to see? We’ve made vaccinations free, safe, and convenient. The Vaccine is FDA approved [it isn’t, but that’s another matter]. Over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot. We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us. So please, do the right thing. But don’t just take it from me. Listen to the voices of unvaccinated Americans who are lying in hospital beds taking their final breath saying, “if only I’d gotten vaccinated! If only!” It’s a tragedy. Please don’t let it become yours.
With his words, this treasonous liar managed, in very short order, to declare war, not just on unvaccinated Americans, but on all the constitutionally guaranteed liberties of all Americans.
Quite apart from the fact that the Covid vaccines are unsafe and ineffective, Biden’s arrogant and threatening words are among the most disturbing, unconstitutional, and unchristian utterances made by any American politician ever. It’s that serious.
There is no provision in our Constitution that allows a president to dictate what medical treatments a person must have. There is no support for such a thing in Scripture.
It only he had stuck with plagiarizing Neil Kinnock.
Now, when speaking as President in 2021, it seems that Biden has raised his game, lifting his ideas from a higher source. In this case, Revelation 13 seems to be where Biden is stealing his ideas these days. There we read, “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
It is not my point here to argue that the Covid vaccine answers to the prophecy in John’s Revelation. With that said, Biden’s threat to the unvaccinated is certainly of that same spirit we find in Revelation. “Do what I tell you, or else!”
It’s also of the same spirit one finds in the Roman Catholic Church, the Great Babylonian Harlot of Revelation. In the middle ages, Rome was all about “do what we say, or else!” If you didn’t believe that Christ really, truly was present in the sacrifice of the mass, well, you were in a whole lot of trouble and would likely find yourself on the receiving end of some nasty business. This is what dogma is. “Believe, or else!” No matter how stupid, absurd, and unbiblical Rome’s pronouncements were. You had to accept what the pope and his henchmen said or suffer the consequences.
Back in 2006 in his essay “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century,” John Robbins wrote, “The Protestant Reformation is indeed over; the respite of peace, freedom, and prosperity it afforded the West from the long history of human brutality is drawing to a close; and the world is about to enter a new Dark Age of slavery, brutality, and war. Only the second coming of Christ or an extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit can prevent religious totalitarians from imposing their will on billions of people.”
Some may have thought Robbins a pessimist when he wrote that. But fifteen years later, his words seem downright prescient.
America is suffering under the government of its second Roman Catholic president. And unlike the first one, John F. Kennedy, Biden not only sees no need to hide his political and economic Romanism, but actually goes out of his way to embrace them.
By political and economic Romanism, I mean the application of the Roman Catholic Church-State’s (RCCS) theology and philosophy to those two disciplines.
Ohio senatorial candidate J.D. Vance shared tweeted out this screen shot from a recent NBC News broadcast. It would seem that if you question the liberty destroying Covid protocols demanded by the Democrats or think the 2020 presidential election was stolen, the Department of Homeland Security thinks you just may be a terror threat.
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Psalm 18:3
“America is under sustained attack,” wrote Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar in a recent tweet.
In what way? you may ask.
The Rep. Gosar went on to site a few examples. “America is under sustained attack on its sovereignty with open borders, against its culture by race hustlers, against our public fisc [fisc meaning state treasury], and against our political/medical dissidents with a capricious legal system.”
The Congressman is right on all counts.
Worth noting is that Rep. Gosar’s tweet was in response to a tweet by Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee who had tweeted out “The Republican Party stands with the people of Cuba fighting for freedom!”
Rep. Gosar finished his tweet writing, “For the love of everything holy Cuba can wait. Help America First.
Again, Paul Gosar is right on target.
The Democrats have openly become the party of treason and tyranny, while the Republicans uselessly tweet out about the goings on in other countries while ignoring the fire in our own house.
To borrow a turn of phrase from Isaiah, our cites are burned with fire (Antifa and BLM riots) while strangers devour our land before our face (Biden’s treasonous open borders polity, what some migrants call “la invitación”), yet all the Republican leadership can do is tweet out about demonstrations in Cuba. Apart from a few individuals – Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Thomas Massie, the afore mentioned Rep. Paul Gosar and some others – very few Republicans have taken any kind of public stand against the deliberate destruction of the United States of America by the treasonous, lying, illegitimate Biden regime, the Democratic Party, and Deep State technocrats such as the Jesuit Anthony Fauci.
America is under sustained attack to a degree and in a way that I personally have never witnessed. And I’d be less than honest with you were I to say that I’ve been unfazed by it. I’ve found myself alternately furious, despairing, and even scared.
In mid-August 2021, Americans are faced, not only with some of the items already mentioned, but by vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, renewed mask requirements and possible lockdowns, not to mention a War On Domestic Terror which is threatening to criminalize political opinions at odds with the ruling elite’s preferred narrative.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on July 16, 2021 (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members of one another.
Ephesians 4:25
“There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world.”
In the same speech, Obama went on to deny that he was calling for censorship, noting, “The answer is obviously not censorship, but it’s creating places where people can say ‘this is reliable’ and I’m still able to argue safely abut facts and what we should do about it.”
Nearly five years later, it’s fair to say that quite obviously Obama and others of his political persuasion were talking about censorship, and this became clear enough last week that even the most ardent deniers of the big government/big tech censorship complex have not excuse for missing the Biden regime’s full-bore attack on the First Amendment.
In the same press conference, Psaki voiced her displeasure that Facebook was not deplatforming spreaders of “misinformation” fast enough for her, and presumably, for her boss’s tastes. She said, “there’s about 12 people who are producing 65 percent of the anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including Facebook – ones that Facebook owns.”
If all that wasn’t enough, Psaki was at it again the next day. In a Friday 7/17 press conference she offered that, “You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not other if you – for providing misinformation out there.”
As the saying goes, I need new conspiracy theories, because all my old ones are coming true.
Seriously, people have speculated for years that the Deep State has been behind much, if not all, of the social media censorship. But this is right in your face government censorship. We have what is, in my opinion, an illegitimate government installed through election fraud stomping on the right of American’s to freely access information on a matter that affects all our lives.
Luther at the Diet of Worms, by Anton von Werner, 1877.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a might man is not delivered by much strength.
Psalm 33:16
Watching the news. It’s hard to do these days.
I admit to following day to day events, politics, economics, and the like. It’s too much a part of me not to do so.
But it really isn’t a very enjoyable experience.
There’s simply no good news. Or at least many days it doesn’t seem like it.
As a reformed believer, I know well that God has decreed all things, whatsoever comes to pass. He doesn’t merely know in advance what’s going to take place, or passively allow it to happen. He actively brings about the events that occur, both in our own lives and on the scale of nations and of the world.
As much as I don’t like it, God decreed from all eternity that Joseph Robinette Biden would be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. And his purposes in doing so are his own glory and the good of his people.
But even though a Biden presidency is for our ultimate good as Christians, this does not mean that it is going to be a pleasant experience.
Scripture does not teach a foolish optimism where we’re expected to treat disasters as if they were manna from heaven. It’s okay to call a disaster a disaster an mourn over it. As the Author of Hebrews tells us, “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful.”
Jeremiah wept at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus. If it was not wrong for them to grieve, it is not wrong for us to grieve the enormous disaster that has befallen our nation.
And yet, there comes a time when grieving must end, and work must begin. We, all of us, have suffered difficulty and disappointment in our lives. There is a time for grieving, and a time to cease grieving.
Joe Biden is in a position to do a lot of damage to this nation. As Christians, we have a responsibility to speak out against his evil policies, to refute them from the Word of God and, if possible, to prevent them from being enacted. We have a responsibility to preach the Gospel of Christ, that perhaps some who don’t know him may hear and be saved. We have a responsibility to protect and provide for our families, both our natural family and our brothers and sisters in Christ.
How do we do this? Do we look to ourselves, to our inner strength? As the hymn goes, the arm of flesh will fail you, you dare not trust your own.
No. It is to Christ we must look if we are going to find the knowledge, wisdom, and strength to not just to survive, but to triumph in these dark times.
This brings me to the lesson from Luther which I’d like to discuss.
Lux Lucet 