In today’s America we have millions of Christians who should and may well still serve as the backbone of the resistance against the globalist anti-God communism infecting us here and throughout the entire world. American Christians hold all the traditional beliefs and tenets that have historically undergirded the American national experience, and have the most to lose should we be overcome in this philosophical and political fight. The enemy seeking to overwhelm us is demonic and determined to establish anti-Christian principles and principalities to rule over us. The American Christian experience is the historical root of the American experience, and relies on the judgement and commitment of her Christians in order to preserve its very historical existence.
Yet many of my fellow Christians have become enamored with believing that they have an air tight understanding of Biblical prophecy—that we are clearly in the end times—and that all the evil coming at us in the world is the will of God, who is fulfilling the end of prophetic history in our very own time, preparing the way for Christ’s immediate return. So therefore, in their minds, any type of serious resistance to modern day American tyranny in essence becomes in their minds an anti-Christian attempt to thwart the revealed will of God, potentially blocking the culmination of world history through the emergence of the end times.
Modern day prophets abound, and are accepted without any attempt to prove their words or judge their prophecies’ validity. They say they are Christian prophets, and nobody is allowed to question their contention, even after their prophecies fail to come to pass—a sure sign of a false prophet. Almost all these prophets lead the faithful in only one direction—to sit back, not to resist current day evil, and to let God play out “his will” as he leads us into the emergence of the Anti-Christ as a precursor to the times of tribulation. Being naturally eager to get to the millennium, Christians hear these words and neglect to form any type of resolve to stand against evil that stands directly in front of them—which can easily be counter-interpreted as the serious sin it is. We allow millions of innocent babies to be slaughtered in the womb—we allow actual communists who seek the destruction of the church to rise to positions of governmental prominence with virtually no resistance, as dispensationalist yet ethically lazy Christians sit back and do nothing to stand against this rise of evil, assuming the rise of the incidence of evil to be the “will of God.”
In America’s colonial days, in the struggle against our British overlords from whom we wrested our independence through force, our founders could have easily determined that the evil dominion of the British foreign empire was the will of God—that the end times were near and our oppression as a Christian nation by the British was the fulfillment of prophecy, and a necessary step towards our final fulfillment in the presence of God. They could have laid back and accepted this interpretation of “the will of God” in their circumstances.
But the Colonialists took a different position—they saw the oppression by the British as a present day offense against all of their Christian principles, and took up arms in order to protect themselves and their progeny against it. They left the fulfillment of prophecy to God—the only one who knows the exact nature of its timing—and stood on Godly principles in their present day, which is the only time that any of us has in which to do the good and the right.
During the run up to the war between the American Colonists and the British, the Colonists attended Christian churches where ministers wore their ministerial vestments over their colonial military uniforms, shedding their vestments after the service, and in colonial war uniform proceeded to seek conscripts from their very own parishioners to take up arms against and to kill the British soldiers in order to secure American freedom.
American Christians claim to revere the brave colonialists, who lit the fire of the American liberty that has advantaged Americans with religious freedom for over two centuries. Yet as today’s American patriots seek to imitate their ancestors in bravery and action, it is now in large part today’s marginally Christian church that stands in the way the most—revering the Colonists in word but not in deed—refusing any such courageous defense of righteousness—instead turning to their own questionable prophets in a misguided attempt to understand the nature of our times and our position in the history of God’s created world, awaiting the future glory with no sense of present day Christian responsibility.
No action that has benefitted the Christian world and the world in general has ever been rooted in inaction and resignation. To sit back and interpret the current rise of evil as the will of God—suggesting that to stand against it with arms would be a great sin and in some way un-Christlike—leaves the world without the Christian counterbalance that has always been necessary to set it right again. Christian America took up arms against the Nazis and prevailed through a significant use of physical violence. It would have been easy to simply cite the rise of Hitler as a sign of the general rise of evil predicted in the Bible for the end times, and to have sat idly by in inaction, afraid of possibly standing against the will of God. But American Christians decided instead to stand in the defense of European Jews and the general citizens of the threatened European nations, and initiated a violent physical campaign to stop the unrighteous oppression, which they knew to be an inherent evil.
No man knows the hour that the culmination of world history will start with the Tribulation. To try to time this occurrence, to claim a certain understanding of its context and coming, and to refuse therefore to act in the meantime as the savoring salt in our society and our world, is in essence a wholly selfish modern act cloaked in the guise of Christianity. It seems ultimately to suggest: “the less good that I do now, potentially the more quickly I will make it to heaven.” It is an attitude claimed by many Christians, but from a place far removed from the practice of actual Christian ethics and morals. It is a lazy, smug form of Christianity, and stands as a major impediment against the undertaking of a righteous resistance against today’s evil overtaking us.
More in line with both Christian principles and the American ethic would be to battle against evil in all its forms, everywhere it occurs within our purview. More wise indeed would be to commit to standing forcefully against evil in our day, as standing for good against evil has always been supported by God. In Ecclesiastes 3, God states that “there is a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.” Most of today’s modern Christians only accept half of these biblical proclamations, rejecting the other half as being somehow “un-Christlike.” As if God the Father was not in accord with his son when he inspired those biblical words. As if it is was the Father’s idea, and the soft and solely merciful Son disagreed!
I for one intend to act in defense of those heading to certain terrible oppression and persecution at the hands of our enemies, both within and outside of our borders. I call on all my fellow Christians to stand up for what is right and against all that is unrighteous. Do not succumb to any philosophy that tends to lull you to sleep, effectively keeping you from entering the fray as we seek to save our civilization. No one knows the Biblical timing of the end times with certainty. To act as if you do, and to therefore fail to defend civilization because you see its downfall to be the will of God, is a serious error and may indeed lead to the neglectful destruction of one of the greatest societal gifts from God in the history of man.
God historically has changed his mind many times when his people did what was right, and granted a reprieve against the terrible judgement that he had planned. Who is to say that he might not be moved by our attempts to protect our innocent fellow citizens, both the living and the pre-born, and to re-institute his principles again over our nation, extending the arc of history out in reaction to our righteous comprehensive defense of all that is right and good?
This is where I will place my bet, not on Christian fatalism nor a selfish dispensationalist stand.
American Renewal