Many Pastors Today Leading Congregations To The Antichrist
Pastor Dale Morgan
Many Pastors Today Leading Congregations To The Antichrist*
Aug 7th, 2007 7:53 AM
WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SO GULLIBLE?
By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
That today's Christians appear to be among the most gullible people on
the planet seems to be a gigantic understatement. For example, it was
just a couple or three decades ago when the largest and most influential
churches in America were pastored by strong Bible men: men who preached
hard against sin; men who didn't try to tickle ears and didn't mind
stepping on toes; men who were not afraid to call civil and business
leaders to account; men who called a spade a spade. Those days are gone.
Today, the largest and most influential churches are pastored by
fluff-daisies such as Joel Osteen, Bill Hybels, and Rick Warren: men who
preach entertainment evangelism, political correctness, and
feel-goodism. Today's largest churches share absolutely nothing in
common with America's historic revival-style churches. How can
Christians be so gullible to fall for these snake oil salesmen?
Consider, too, how so many Christians seem to consider President George
W. Bush's "war on terror" to be bona fide and legitimate. Yet, this
escalating and never-ending "war on terror" is doing more to ruin
America than anything Osama bin Laden could ever dream about.
The war in Iraq is not only depleting our military readiness, it is
facilitating America's entrance into fascism and even endangering our
economic stability. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Bush's
"war on terror" will soon cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion. Private
economists say the actual figure will double that prediction. It is no
hyperbole to say that Bush's war in Iraq has America teetering on the
brink of economic recession or worse.
Beyond that, Bush's "war on terror" has convinced Americans (including
many Christians) that they need to surrender more and more liberties in
order to be "secure." And for those Democrats who expected that their
party's congressional victories last November would help thwart Bush's
insidious infatuation with fascism, they didn't. Congressional Democrats
have caved to the Bush "surrender your liberties or face terrorism"
hysteria time and again. In fact, just before breaking for their current
recess, Democrats in Congress approved Bush's latest request to expand
warrantless wiretaps and eavesdropping.
Bush's war is also working hand in glove with the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) blueprint for a North American Union, including a NAFTA
superhighway and an increase of imports from Communist China. In fact,
Jerome Corsi reveals that the bridge collapse in Minneapolis last week
could be largely due to the extra burden of trucks coming from Mexico,
per Bush's SPP agreement with Mexico and Canada. If this is true, and I
suspect that it is, we can expect to see more of this in the months to come.
Even Newt Gingrich, a globalist insider himself, said that Bush's war on
terror is "phony."
Consider, too, that in spite of a dangerous lack of inspections of all
products imported from China (including food products) President Bush is
determined to increase imports from the communist country. His
administration is now even working to loosen restrictions against
poultry products from Red China. This is being done in spite of the
dismal track record of China's health standards. One could even say that
China's food imports may be poisoning Americans. And not only does this
administration not care, it is in the process of assisting this atrocity.
Plus, this does not even take into account how Red China is supplying
weapons and ammunition used to kill American soldiers and Marines, or
how it is obtaining much of Iraq's oil, or how this "president, proudly
bestowing upon himself the title of 'war president,' supports trade
policies with China that actively undermine the national security
interests of the United States and our armed forces." Neither does it
take into account "that under the administration's prevailing trade
policies, America's chief export to China consists of U.S. jobs, which
are disappearing at an estimated rate of 2,250 per day." (Source: Kevin
O'Brien, President, Sovereign Advisers in Editorial appearing in The
Washington Times, June 29, 2007. [Read]
In spite of all this, (and a whole lot more), Christians still support
Bush in large numbers. How can they be so gullible?
I believe one of the reasons, if not the main reason, that Christians
are so gullible lies in a mistaken, and even dangerous, intrinsic trust
of government. I hear and see this attitude expressed among my brethren
constantly.
Part of this problem stems from an illogical and unscriptural
interpretation of Romans Chapter Thirteen. Christians have been drilled
(and dare I say, brainwashed?) into believing that government is
endemically good and should be thoroughly trusted. Of course, this was
not the belief of America's Founding Fathers, and neither was it the
belief of Church Fathers.
In fact, our entire system of government is predicated upon a
deep-rooted DISTRUST of government. Our three branches of government
stem from the suspicion that no one branch could be thoroughly trusted
and must have at least two other branches to help keep it in check. Yet,
even that was not considered enough of a deterrent to combat the
propensity of government to become tyrannical. What the separate
branches of the federal government could not do to police each other,
the states and people were to do. In other words, if Christians were
really good Americans, they would distrust, not trust, their government.
Of all people, Christians should understand the fallen nature of man:
that man in a sinful state is capable of anything (unless they attend a
"Purpose Driven" church, of course). How is it, then, that they cannot
seem to comprehend the evil machinations of people in high office? Are
they totally taken in by the "I am a Christian" façade so many
politicians use? Perhaps.
However, I believe that constant preaching from milquetoast preachers
instructing their people to trust their government is the main culprit.
The lack of discernment and courage of America's pulpits is frightening.
They have produced a generation of Christians incapable of
understanding, much less opposing, the manifestations of evil and
oppression.
I doubt that most American pastors have even heard of, much less read,
R. J. Rummel's book, Death By Government, in which he factually
documents that more people have been murdered by their own governments
than by all of the world's terrorists, gangsters, and outlaws combined.
They have probably never read Frederic Bastiat's book, The Law. They
have never read Erwin Lutzer's book, Hitler's Cross. I'm sure they have
never heard of or read the book Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos, one of the
most famous of the Monarchomach treatises ever written, which advances a
systematic justification of resistance against legitimately constituted
political authority. I doubt that they have ever read William Rawle's A
View Of The Constitution, Secession As Taught At West Point, etc.
In other words, most American pastors are unschooled and untaught in the
finer points of Biblical authority, the doctrine of jurisdiction, the
causes and necessities of civil disobedience, constitutional government,
natural law, etc. As such, they have not taught and trained their
congregants to be good Christians, much less good Americans.
In short, Christians are blind and gullible because our pulpits are
blind and gullible. As the shepherd goes, so go the sheep.