Now is the Time.......

​In June 2020, I wrote a blog, “Is now the time for a Christian Revolution?” It was during the first Trump presidency. We were recovering from the COVID-19 shutdowns and the riots from the death of George Floyd. This country seemed to be coming apart at the seams and we needed help to hold it together.
 
I was reading a book called Trumpocalypse The End-Times President, a Battle Against the Globalist Elite, and the Countdown to Armageddon (Babylon Code) and found these two paragraphs that inspired this blog’s topic. The authors Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson wrote about a Christian revolution. They stated, "While a simply conservative revolution can never succeed, a revolution inspired by Christianity certainly can, because it draws its energies from the existence of the biblical God, the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his second coming, the truth of the Word of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
 
It’s these factors, and these alone, that ignited the American Revolution. A true “Christian Revolution” can never happen unless the church, individual Christians, and Christian leaders really believe what they are teaching and then act upon it. Only a holy fire can ignite the hearts of men and women. Mere intellectual acknowledgment of the truth of the gospel will never release the explosive energies of heaven. The human heart, mind, and will must be absolutely gripped with the truthfulness of God’s existence and his purpose for their lives and the destiny of mankind. When and only when this happens will the Christian Revolution occur and radically change our world." After that, I wrote, “We need a revolution.”
 
We didn’t start a revolution, November 2020 showed us that we were not ready for a revolution. In fact, it looked more like a surrender than an insurrection. It had to happen. Some churches were not ready, it felt like a lot of popular pastors had to go into captivity and live through four years of being afraid to preach the Word for fear of being canceled. A new administration came in and told all of us that we were white and Christians, we were racist, homophobic, and antisemitic. I heard pastors saying that the sermons they were preaching put down minorities. If they didn’t change how they delivered the Gospel they could be canceled and the feared losing 5013c status. Pastors that I respected and listened to apologized for their biblical teachings. They needed to change how they explained the Gospel to be more empathetic to minorities. If they didn’t fall in line they would be labeled “Christian Nationalists.”
 
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) tried to put Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality in one of their Resolutions. The United Methodist Church split. It appeared that all denominations had some sort of battle and had lost their Way. My daughter told me that young people looking for stability in their lives were not looking at the church because of all of the scandals, division, and volatility in the church. I started hearing so many mainstream churches wondering why they can’t attract young men. It was because our society had made masculinity a bad word and they had fallen into that trap. Last month The Telegraph posted an article “Young, single men are leaving traditional churches. They found a more 'masculine' alternative.” Even our young men see the loss of adulthood in the traditional church and have headed to the Orthodox church after discovering the "masculine" Christian religion through online influencers.
 
 
What does this have to do with the church, Trump, Christian revolution, and safety teams? Let’s start with Trump. For now, forget about the 2020 election and all the issues with it. Trump had to lose. If he would have won, he would have spent the next four years trying to survive and might have gone down as the worst president ever. He had a Democratic congress, and they were not going to allow him to have a win, so he had to lose in 2020. Trump needed to be pruned and did God do a pruning on him? Search warrants on his home, being arrested, prosecuted, and found guilty of “Trumped-up” charges. Two assassination attempts and we could go on but we, started to see this was not only against Trump, but this was also against us. If the government could do what they were doing to Trump and had they won the 2024 election what would stop them from doing it to us?
 
We also had to be pruned because we were a country that had turned its back on the Word. Instead of seeking the Bible for guidance we fell into fear of being canceled, worried about civil lawsuits against those who did not fall into line, like the church itself was in their liberal crosshairs. If the other side won in 2024 it would have made them unstoppable. They would have perceived it as a mandate for them to continue their attack on the church, parents, and businesses. If you preached against abortion, that marriage is between one man and one woman, that you stood by Israel, and that our border should be secure, you would be labeled as an enemy of the state. Refuse to do a gay wedding or stop a transgender male from going into the women’s bathroom and watch them come after you. They may not have started by shutting down your church, but they would have found favor in a court with judges appointed from the last administration in a civil suit against your church and do you want to go through that ordeal?
 
But we cried out to our Lord and He heard us. He tore down the barriers between parties. We became a nation of the people, and both sides banded together for the good of the country. That was the start of the revolution and now we have to continue bringing the country back together. A battle plan must be created and implemented by followers of Jesus Christ, without political bias from either side. We need our religious leaders to get back to the teachings of the Bible and not look at the world for the answers to life. We need to be open to conversations with those in need. But we as safety team members need to remember we are still on the wall watching for the wolves in sheep’s clothing wanting to disrupt, harm, or create chaos in our churches.
 
We must understand that we are the new “safe spaces” for those who have been lied to over the past eight years. We have to look at those who voted against us as ones who did not know what they were doing. The other side was blinded by false teachings. We must come to the table and have an honest open discussion, not judgmental but looking at ways of showing them the light and peace they can only find through Jesus Christ. There is no peace in Critical Race Theory (CRT), there is no rest in looking for racism in all that we do, and no comfort in hating others who might not agree with their opinions. As Christians, we must unite to bring those back from the darkness of all the falsehoods they have been given over the last eight years.
 
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV). Jesus gives us the answer and we need to share this foundation for rest.
 
In any revolution there will be battles, there will be casualties, but the expansion of the Kingdom of God will prove worthwhile. McGuire and Anderson wrote in Trumpocalypse that we “draw our energies from the existence of the biblical God, the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his second coming, the truth of the Word of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit.” With Christ at the helm, we can right this ship for our children, and our grandchildren and get this country back on course to “Make America Great Again.”

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