08/07/17 REWRITE

08/07/17 REWRITE

As I was going through my writings from seven years ago I came across an article that I have rewritten here today. I did the rewrite, not because the first article was wrong, but it was not clear enough. Sometimes I have written things in a hurry and though they made perfectly good sense to me, they were possibly a little cryptic to others. However, the article is even more disturbing today than it was in 2010. Here is the rewrite.

REWRITE OF 2010 ARTICLE
I have had people try to insult me by saying that my preaching sounds more like conservative radio and news reporting than it sounds like Scripture. The reason I call that a backhanded compliment is that I was foretelling the tragic condition of America decades before America became aware of Limbaugh, or Hannity, or the existence of Fox News (considered by many to have been the champions of conservative reporting).

This is a bitter/sweet/bitter reality.
It is bitter because my preaching does sound to people like I am preaching the popular controversies today, rather than preaching the Bible. Of course, I know that my message is, and always has been founded in Biblical revelation rather than current events.

But then the bitterness becomes sweet because my preaching the unseen realities have actually become the realities that are the present events, which make up our history. It is always sweet to know that you have been a faithful messenger of God.

Then the bitterness returns, not because I was accurate in lifting my voice against the rise of Secular Humanism and fall of America, but because Secular Humanism has taken such monstrous control of our nation. And though there are now a greater number of people who cry out against America's blatant rejection of God, it is (probably) too late for our country and our world to turn to Christ.

We are (probably) now in the Laodicean Period, which is the post Open Door Period of Church prophecy/history. This period of evangelism is more related to the individual who hears Christ and opens the door of his heart to Him, than like the people movements, and the revivals of the past.

ALL IS NOT LOST... YET.
Though I do not believe we will see a National move to God, I know that God is still inviting the lost, and if any man hears His voice and calls on Christ, then God will hear him and save him.