Depedence Day
7/04/08 - 6th Day - Midday. Preparation of the Sabbath. DEPENDENCE Day. Today is the day when more and more Amerikans are celebrating their dependence on the world and not on God Almighty. Everything is upside down in this world, and as the deception grows deeper, it seems that even some supposedly right-minded folks are falling for whatever the latest "sleight-of-hand" magic trick that comes around. Here is the latest popular load of cow feces that is going around the internet:
Joe American Challenges the Candidates
People everywhere are praising Joe American. However, Joe American, portraying himself as a "regular american" without a political agenda - is actually a flag-waving right-wing republican jingoist who really, really, really believes that what America needs is another couple decades of cheap petroleum so Joe Amerikans like him can be lulled even further into the coma of covetousness, greed, stupidity, and gluttony that has crippled millions mentally and spiritually over the last 100 years. I mean, is that really what we need? Listen, I like cheap gas. It helps me to NOT do the hard things I ought to do in order to separate from the world and obey God. I hate paying $4 a gallon. I would love gas to be $1 a gallon. That is because the carnal man doesn't want to cut ties to the antichrist petroleum economy that runs the KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD. Joe American is nothing more than a well-educated, well-spoken, George Bush without the accent, and people are out there applauding this pabulum and sending it to my email box with a bunch of AMENS! attached.
***Pause to calm sickened stomach... drinks some Alka Seltzer... takes some deep breaths***
The fact is that most of these people pushing this junk don't WANT to have to make hard decisions. They like SUV's and air-conditioning and Wal-Mart more than they like obedience to God. Oh my... I feel a rant coming...
Ok, so after my last post we can sit back and wait for the inevitable backlash. The first comments and responses will be mostly positive. Some people, when they get over the blunt trauma of it, will be reflective and even might start to make some hard decisions. But then the SYNCRETISTS will move in. Wait on it. It's inevitable. The devil is in the game too. You know the game. Here is how it is played... I'll lay it out for ya'... (Most of this will go on in the minds and hearts of people, but some of it will be in conversations and discussions, or in comments on blogs, etc.)
First Responses... "Good Job!" "Thanks Michael!" "Lots to think about!" "Keep up the Good Work!" (Some will just sit and stare at the computer with blank looks).
That will last for a bit, then it will turn to...
Second Responses... "A lot to think of here. There will be a great tendency to overreact." "You can err in either direction. We have to be balanced." "We have to make sure we are not extreme." "Overall we should pray about this and make sure we don't do anything rash."
These responses are part of the dialectic. Remember syncretists love the world, and won't part with it, and want to bring it with them. That will go on for a bit, then it will go to...
Last Responses... "God called us to be part of the world, to evangelize the world, to engage the world. How can we do that if we are separate? We can't, right?" (WRONG). "Christ is using the Church to convert and to take authority over the world! We must engage! If we pull out there will be no witness!" "The Kingdoms of this world are becoming the Kingdom of Christ! He's using our involvement to make the world better!"
Blah, blah, blah...
That opinion is what I am talking about in my previous post. The same attitude that was the launching off point for the apostate "church" into apostasy; the same attitude that began the syncretism that ushered in the industrial revolution; the same attitude that let every devil and foul bird right into the professing "church"; that is the attitude that always pushes syncretism, and that calls any true obedience "extremism" or "radicalism".
In 2004 I published an article entitled Why Christians Should Not Vote. The article was posted all over the internet. We followed the reaction with interest. It followed the pattern I just explained. Early on there was a huge positive response. My email box was flooded with people thanking me for changing their minds. Pretty soon, though, there was an overflowing tide of syncretism (frankly almost all of it from Presbyterians). The argument is that if we don't vote for George Bush, then we'll get someone worse, and, after all, God is using George Bush to bring in the Kingdom! Right. So here is the deal.. the founding documents and confessions of Presbyterianism call the Papacy and Catholicism the ANTICHRIST. The politician these syncretistic Kingdom Now covenanters all bombarded my email box telling me we MUST elect, is now about to convert to Catholicism! This isn't an attack on Presbyterianism, it is an expose on error and what listening to these people leads to. Listen, the same error (that Christians ought to be politically active and take over the world so Christ can come back someday) is what brought many of the Reformers to the point of killing Christian Anabaptists and following the model of the Pope in becoming tyrants and usurpers.
They will fill the air with protests and will condemn me in no uncertain terms, but their road is the road to failure and it is inevitably the road to Rome. Greed, covetousness, and the love of this world will always be masked in the lexicon of the Christian warrior. But when you boil it down, and when you look at the fruit of what these people are pushing, you will want to reconsider their brand of Agrarianism. THESE PEOPLE AND THESE IDEAS GOT US WHERE WE ARE TODAY. They are the pied pipers of syncretism.
So they will brand me an extremist, and I'm alright with that. They will always preach luke-warmness, and I'm alright with that. It's their movement, and I'm alright with that.
I have a message to deliver, and I have a standard I must preach to, and I have a master whose Kingdom is not of this world, and I'm alright with that too.
Praise God that right now these people don't have the power to silence me.
Ok, so that probably cut down my audience some more.
Hey, keep praying for more rain for us!
Peace,
Michael Bunker
Joe American Challenges the Candidates
People everywhere are praising Joe American. However, Joe American, portraying himself as a "regular american" without a political agenda - is actually a flag-waving right-wing republican jingoist who really, really, really believes that what America needs is another couple decades of cheap petroleum so Joe Amerikans like him can be lulled even further into the coma of covetousness, greed, stupidity, and gluttony that has crippled millions mentally and spiritually over the last 100 years. I mean, is that really what we need? Listen, I like cheap gas. It helps me to NOT do the hard things I ought to do in order to separate from the world and obey God. I hate paying $4 a gallon. I would love gas to be $1 a gallon. That is because the carnal man doesn't want to cut ties to the antichrist petroleum economy that runs the KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD. Joe American is nothing more than a well-educated, well-spoken, George Bush without the accent, and people are out there applauding this pabulum and sending it to my email box with a bunch of AMENS! attached.
***Pause to calm sickened stomach... drinks some Alka Seltzer... takes some deep breaths***
The fact is that most of these people pushing this junk don't WANT to have to make hard decisions. They like SUV's and air-conditioning and Wal-Mart more than they like obedience to God. Oh my... I feel a rant coming...
Ok, so after my last post we can sit back and wait for the inevitable backlash. The first comments and responses will be mostly positive. Some people, when they get over the blunt trauma of it, will be reflective and even might start to make some hard decisions. But then the SYNCRETISTS will move in. Wait on it. It's inevitable. The devil is in the game too. You know the game. Here is how it is played... I'll lay it out for ya'... (Most of this will go on in the minds and hearts of people, but some of it will be in conversations and discussions, or in comments on blogs, etc.)
First Responses... "Good Job!" "Thanks Michael!" "Lots to think about!" "Keep up the Good Work!" (Some will just sit and stare at the computer with blank looks).
That will last for a bit, then it will turn to...
Second Responses... "A lot to think of here. There will be a great tendency to overreact." "You can err in either direction. We have to be balanced." "We have to make sure we are not extreme." "Overall we should pray about this and make sure we don't do anything rash."
These responses are part of the dialectic. Remember syncretists love the world, and won't part with it, and want to bring it with them. That will go on for a bit, then it will go to...
Last Responses... "God called us to be part of the world, to evangelize the world, to engage the world. How can we do that if we are separate? We can't, right?" (WRONG). "Christ is using the Church to convert and to take authority over the world! We must engage! If we pull out there will be no witness!" "The Kingdoms of this world are becoming the Kingdom of Christ! He's using our involvement to make the world better!"
Blah, blah, blah...
That opinion is what I am talking about in my previous post. The same attitude that was the launching off point for the apostate "church" into apostasy; the same attitude that began the syncretism that ushered in the industrial revolution; the same attitude that let every devil and foul bird right into the professing "church"; that is the attitude that always pushes syncretism, and that calls any true obedience "extremism" or "radicalism".
In 2004 I published an article entitled Why Christians Should Not Vote. The article was posted all over the internet. We followed the reaction with interest. It followed the pattern I just explained. Early on there was a huge positive response. My email box was flooded with people thanking me for changing their minds. Pretty soon, though, there was an overflowing tide of syncretism (frankly almost all of it from Presbyterians). The argument is that if we don't vote for George Bush, then we'll get someone worse, and, after all, God is using George Bush to bring in the Kingdom! Right. So here is the deal.. the founding documents and confessions of Presbyterianism call the Papacy and Catholicism the ANTICHRIST. The politician these syncretistic Kingdom Now covenanters all bombarded my email box telling me we MUST elect, is now about to convert to Catholicism! This isn't an attack on Presbyterianism, it is an expose on error and what listening to these people leads to. Listen, the same error (that Christians ought to be politically active and take over the world so Christ can come back someday) is what brought many of the Reformers to the point of killing Christian Anabaptists and following the model of the Pope in becoming tyrants and usurpers.
They will fill the air with protests and will condemn me in no uncertain terms, but their road is the road to failure and it is inevitably the road to Rome. Greed, covetousness, and the love of this world will always be masked in the lexicon of the Christian warrior. But when you boil it down, and when you look at the fruit of what these people are pushing, you will want to reconsider their brand of Agrarianism. THESE PEOPLE AND THESE IDEAS GOT US WHERE WE ARE TODAY. They are the pied pipers of syncretism.
So they will brand me an extremist, and I'm alright with that. They will always preach luke-warmness, and I'm alright with that. It's their movement, and I'm alright with that.
I have a message to deliver, and I have a standard I must preach to, and I have a master whose Kingdom is not of this world, and I'm alright with that too.
Praise God that right now these people don't have the power to silence me.
Ok, so that probably cut down my audience some more.
Hey, keep praying for more rain for us!
Peace,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 7/04/2008 08:45:00 AM
2 Comments:
OUTSTANDING!
It is amazing that the "envangelization" of AmeriKa's 'churches' amounts to nothing less than casting pearls before swine:
"To tell the Christ-rejector that God loves him is to cauterise his conscience, as well as to afford him a sense of security in his sins." A.W. Pink
How much more beneficial could it be to instead wholeheartedly embrace the following passage:
"Search ME, O God, and know MY heart: TRY ME, and know MY thoughts: And see if there be ANY wicked way IN ME, and lead ME in the way everlasting." Psalm 139:23, 24
Another quote someone once said:
"Politics is a fish hook for the depraved. See that you don't get hooked."
Lonnie Godsey
I am praying for rain for you.
I just looked up "syncretism". I had no idea what that word meant, until now.
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