Pain & Hope – A Divided Nation At The Crossroads

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.

Proverbs 14:34 — New International Version

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 14:34 — Christian Standard Bible

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people

Proverbs 14:34 — King James Version

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20 — King James Version

Any way you cut it, any way you say it, whether you are a person of Christian faith or a raging heathen refusing the Word of God, refusing God the Creator, refusing the truth and life of Jesus Christ history and the facts prove that when a people are turned in obedience to God, placing their faith and trust in Him and exhibiting in their lives more than not a faith in God, a love of and for His Word and His Son, Jesus Christ, those people, that nation is greatly blessed.

Conversely, it has always been historically and factually shown all those people who rebel against God and His Word? Deny His Son, Jesus Christ? Mock, spit upon, scoff at, and deny the Word? Refuse the truth and life contained in the Word of God? Those people, those nations greatly suffer and in time all disappear from the face of the earth.

America, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, accept it or not, is a place, a people wherein we have been calling evil good, good evil, where we have been and ever are putting darkness before light and calling the light darkness, and we hand out, offer up, dish up the bitter calling it sweet while we spit out and call the sweet bitter.

Do not fall prey to the lie that those protesting and causing all the destruction and violence are doing so because they want real change in America to make our nation a better place. Do not fall for that blatant, cunning lie for one second. This is the movement and means of evil desiring to tear down all the foundations. Of anarchy and liars to work to remove and destroy the system in place. A system of laws. A system built upon a faith in God and His Providence, on faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, no matter the lies and propaganda taught within U.S. schools, universities, and colleges. Spewed by talking heads on broadcast so-called news.

This is an orchestrated nationwide effort to further teardown the system in place. It has nothing to do with justice, equality, rights, or injustices. No matter who may proclaim otherwise. Even if a pastor, a politician, a well-known person to you claims otherwise.

This is evil let loose on the land. And evil desiring to increase and remove the truth, the light and the foundations upon which our nation was built. Contrary to perceptions, ingrained imaginings thought to be truth, refusing to face the truth and reality, very few — only about 6% of our total population actually has and holds a Biblical worldview in their worldview. This crosses into pastors, preachers, churches, all denominations, all institutions — across the board. Only 6% of our current population holds a Biblical worldview. The vast majority of so-called Christian writers, pastors, Christians have a corrupted mingling of worldview, New Age ideologies, worldliness in their writing, their preaching, their speaking. Some of that appears here on ACP from writers who are posted here as an example. Very few will resort to being 100% Biblical. Most want to have people like them. They will appease. Sympathize with the worldliness, the lawlessness replacing the laws going on in everything at every level. They misrepresent this as “love” this “tolerance” of sin and evil.

Do not be deceived otherwise.

No wonder such judgments come upon U.S.

All you see, all you hear is due to one core foundational matter. The spiritual war ever taking place and escalating daily as the devil and his legions are acutely aware their time on earth having domain as they have for thousands of years is racing towards its conclusion.

At the root cause of all that has taken place, is taking place, and will yet take place is the war of all wars. The spiritual war between God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God and all the rightness and life within Them and That, and the mayhem, confusion, lie-based only lies and deception whisperings, seductions, abominations and evil of Satan and his multitude of ministers.

Period. That’s what all you see, all you hear is truly about.

Do not fall prey to vain imaginings of how this man, that woman, this election, this law, this country or that, this supposed new thing, this new ideology or that is going to remedy and fix all things that are rotted, corrupted, vile, dangerous, evil and lost in this very, very, VERY broken nation and world.

What are a people, a nation to do?

The only thing that actually will bring about REAL change. That REALLY matters. That is MOST IMPORTANT.

Turn back to God in humble repentance. Confess our sins, each individual among us. Pray openly, continually, fervently brutally honest to God (for He knows our hearts and when we pray amiss, lie, place ourselves above Him and His Son and His Word — God is never mocked or deceived).

Each of us repents. Truly. Knowing the meaning of real repentance.

Turn earnestly, fully to the Lord our God. And to His Son, Jesus Christ.

Placing our faith in the Holy Spirit of God, the Comforter sent by Jesus after His ascension into heaven to serve at the right hand of God.

Spending more time, much more time immersed, diving into the living waters of God’s Word. And not only those places and verses that we like or agree with. The whole of the whole Word of God that is living and active. Every word of the Word.

And a lot more time in prayer. Beyond our self-absorbed thoughts and pleas and requests. To pray much larger, more faithfully, believing that which we ask, not amiss, the Lord will incline His ear and hear us and bless us, grant us our prayers, if they be His will.

Always keeping in mind — His will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Not our will.

Stop placing errant faith in men and women and return to placing all our faith in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Knowing God’s will by knowing God’s Word.

Ken Pullen

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020

ACP — A Crooked Path

Pain & Hope – A Divided Nation At The Crossroads

June 2, 2020

By Tony Perkins / Family Research Council

Reprinted from: Prophecy New Watch

When the sun broke over Washington, D.C. this morning, in a cloudless blue sky, it was hard to believe it was the same city where I had to navigate barricades and riot police as I made my way to our office. The fires that blazed up and down the National Mall were finally out, leaving one charred reminder after another of the carnage.

Pieces of history, like St. John’s Church, either went up in flames or were shattered into a thousand glassy pieces on sidewalks that were no longer places where presidents walked — but war zones.

But dawn brought something else too — a realization that America is in a very broken place. On a beautiful June day, what people noticed at first light wasn’t the quiet warmth or the marble monuments — but the ugly words scrawled in fury across the city’s most sacred places.

At the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King, Jr. stared out across an ocean of peaceful protestors and urged, “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline,” rioters claiming to want that same justice splashed black paint along the steps.

It was an act of cowardice in a monument to healing — a disgrace to the man who looked out over that pool and had a very different vision than the reflection we see today.

“Again and again,” Rev. King’s words rang out, “we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” Fifty-seven years later, we’ve abandoned the idea of change through peace. We want change through revenge. “These weren’t activists,” Pastor Jonathan Tremaine Thomas shook his head. “They were anarchists.” And in cities all across this country, they want us to believe that the way to avenge a horrific death like George Floyd’s is to turn that same violence on others.

But even in a nation as torn and hurting as ours, there are powerful moments breaking through the chaos to remind us: darkness will not have the last word.

In Miami, pictures surfaced of protestors and police, kneeling as one to pray. Thousands of miles away in Portland, someone caught a video of the same solidarity, where men and women in riot gear got down on their knees in a gesture of understanding and respect.

Some of the footage was emotional, like the Shreveport officer consoling a man in tears. Or the pockets of believers standing in the middle of the mayhem, praying as the tear gas fired into crowds. Places where men and women came to Christ, despite the unrest swirling around them.

There were the views from the pews, where congregations were together again for the first time — a reminder of God’s perfect timing at a point of true desperation. With our nation at a breaking point, Americans sat in synagogues and sanctuaries, seeking solace from the turmoil and grief racking our country.

Pray, urged Franklin Graham, for peace, perspective, and patience. Some, like the rector of St. John’s Church, prayed for protection — not realizing that later that night, flames would engulf the nursery of the building that’s welcomed every president since James Madison.

“None of this,” its pastor wrote after seeing the devastation, “changes our purpose to be an instrument for God’s work through all of this — in fact now more than ever.”

These are storms that America has weathered before, but never with our backs so broken by sickness, death, and uncertainty. The businesses that woke up this morning to looted shelves and floors were already hurting. The communities angered by George Floyd’s death aren’t just grieving his loss but of tens of thousands others gone to coronavirus.

Forty million people have time to flood the streets because they’re out of work and out of hope. There is suffering everywhere we turn. We don’t need more pain. What we need is more hope.

“Violence never brings permanent peace,” Dr. King warned. “It solves no social problem — it merely creates new and more complicated ones… It seeks to humiliate — rather than win understanding. It seeks to annihilate rather than convert… It thrives on hatred rather than love.”

The heart of the matter, as Dr. Ben Carson once said, is the matter of the heart. Maybe it’s time we stepped back as a nation and considered what’s happened since we removed the spiritual foundation that’s anchored this country from its cradle.

The same foundation that teaches us human beings are intrinsically valuable — not because of who they are or where they live or what color their skin is — but because they carry the image of God.

If Americans are content with riots in our streets and everyone doing what’s right in their own eyes, then, by all means, let’s stay this course. Otherwise, a return to hope starts with a return to God — in whose name we pledge our country and our future.