Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde and Trump illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde and Trump illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

 

 

 

There is no such a person as a liberal or progressive ideology Christian. They are a false front. Dry dead bones. Deceived heart and mind. Lost souls. False teachers and the followers of false teachers.

It’s all about the times in which we’re all living today. The last of the last days of this world as it has been known.

There are only two kinds of people on earth. Of all the people everywhere and all the noise, all the declared isms, beliefs, religions, ideologies, and words spoken or written — only two kinds of souls on earth.

Born from above, born again faithful obedient followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, who believe in the whole inerrant infallible unchangeable eternal living and active Word of God — and everyone else.

You might not like that or agree. Too bad. It isn’t my opinion, viewpoint, or idea. It’s straight from Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, God came to earth to take upon Himself skin, bone, and blood to live among us for a while, to die on the tree of shame for the sin of those who would faithfully believe, obey, and follow Him, to conquer death on the third day and walk out of the tomb.

Jesus said it.

Anyone refuting it or attempting to alter the fact will face judgment.

Rather than go on her worldview New Age pagan ungodly, un-Scriptural political speech to President Trump and the congregation on that particular Sunday she, and those in attendance, would have been much better served if first off — she wasn’t in the pulpit preaching — but if she persisted in being there as she did that she preached;

The Great Apostasy

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Stand Fast

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

2 Thessalonians 2

That, instead of what she did.

But then, she shows she doesn’t believe the above. Doesn’t it?

Not being judgmental. Discerning. Observing and discerning. Testing every spirit to see if truly of God or of man/Satan.

She certainly would avoid 2 Thessalonians 2, and many other words within the Word just as most churches refuse to preach on Romans 9, 10, and 11, and rabbis circumvent Isaiah 53 and, well, every clear indication in the Old Testament of Jesus born in Bethlehem, growing up in Nazareth, from the linage of David — just read the beginning of Matthew 1 — and avoiding at all costs just as the Sanhedrin, Pharisees, Sadducees, and scribes of Jesus’ day did.

It isn’t about church, being spiritual, about how the world defines and serves the words love, faith, obedience — because the world is consumed, strongly deluded in adopting, advancing, and approving the god of this world for a season, the cunning father of lies — Satan.

It isn’t about wearing a shiny cross around one’s neck. What some utterly lost of the world false teacher in a white beanie sitting on a throne in Rome says.

Or what all the false teachers, all their followers given over to strong delusion to believe the lies and refuse the truth say or write.

It only matters what Jesus actually said and what’s in the Word of God — NOT taken out of context, not given personal interpretation, not twisted to appease and please and comfort the lost of the world who are in utter darkness while imagining themselves to be so enlightened and part of a New Age revival.

They all will discover their eternal fate unless they repent and come out of the darkness they are, and are in hearing the sound, true voice of the Holy Spirit and learning what’s actually in the Holy Bible. Believing it. Living it. Obeying it. Hearts aflame for Jesus rather than on fire to push the world’s deluded lying ways.

A woman who is installed to preach to a congregation of men and women in a denominational church goes against Scripture from the get-go. Should never be. Something the world, and more and more so-called “Christian churches, Christian denominations,” fail to acknowledge. Because they would rather serve the world and appease and please the world and people than obey God.

Then, added to this having that woman, or any preacher, pastor, minister, bishop, you name it attach whatever label desired, be the individual a man or a woman preach unsound doctrine, the dogma and doctrine of the world, which has its origin from the mouth of Satan, as gospel? Is to preach a different gospel. It is to preach the gospel of today’s worldview rather than a Biblical worldview and to boldly, and accurately preach the whole Word of God.

I saw the video of Budde speaking in that Episcopalian congregation and she stated there are no absolutes. Wrong. There are many absolutes. It’s just that most folks don’t like them or agree with them or want to acknowledge them and live accordingly.

So many, the majority of so-called Christian churches and denominations now preach the world rather than the Word.

Not being judgmental. Merely stating fact.

Following the Lord Jesus Christ and being a true servant of the Lord is not about being comfortable, hearing only what you want to hear, and “feel good” messages that appear to align with God but are in truth totally opposed the what God desires of us.

Itching ears following fables.

Preach the Word

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

2 Timothy 4:1-5

Exactly as we’re told it would be in these times.

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Questions for Bishop Budde and the Church of Never Trump

 

Addressing our ‘spiritual betters’

 

Sunday, February 2, 2025

By Everett Piper

Reprinted from The Washington Times

 

For the past two weeks, adulation over Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s scolding of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance has become all the rage for liberal church leaders across the United States and, indeed, around the world.

Here’s just a sampling of what the “Church of Never Trump” has had to say.

The Free Methodist Church Board of Bishops issued an emergency statement echoing the words of Bishop Budde and expressing “deep concern for the very real pain” that members of their community are experiencing.

The general superintendent of The Wesleyan Church, Wayne Schmidt, called for a national webinar to address his denomination’s “anxiety and uncertainty” because we now have a president who intends to enforce our country’s laws.

Catholic Archbishop Timothy Broglio took to the media to state that requiring people who want to enter the United States to do so legally is “deeply troubling.”

Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the U.S. Conference of the Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, added that Mr. Trump’s intention to keep his oath of office and preserve and protect our nation’s borders goes against the “fundamental right of every human person to be respected.”

Pope Francis added to the public flogging by calling the Trump administration’s actions a “disgrace.”

Social media pundits, too numerous to count, piled on. One named “Allan” had this to say about any conservative opposition to Bishop Budde’s homily: “MAGA ‘Christians’ were exposed to the actual words and teachings of Jesus, of compassion, love, and mercy, and find the only way they can respond is with vitriol and spite.”

How should conservative Christians respond? Here’s a short list of questions we might ask of these leaders who apparently fancy themselves our spiritual betters.

Do you think it’s “vitriolic” to have compassion for the 300,000 children who have been trafficked by cartels into America’s heartland and are now missing?

Do you think it is “spiteful” to care about the quarter-million people who have been killed by fentanyl?

Don’t you think we should have “deep concern” for the tens of thousands of women who have been forced into prostitution?

What about the blue-collar folks in Springfield, Ohio? Do you feel “real pain” that they have lost their neighborhoods, their public parks, their local schools, their security and their fundamental property rights because of the thousands of vagrants overwhelming their town?

What of the working-class people in Aurora, Colorado? Did you call for an emergency webinar when they lost their safety at the hands of violent gangs who infiltrated their community and took over local hotels?

Do you feel “deeply troubled” for the ranchers in southern Texas who have lost cattle and other livestock and who are now afraid for their lives on a daily basis?

How about Laken Riley and the millions of other women who fear they could suffer the same fate? Have you written any official proclamations about the “anxiety” they feel when they simply want to go for a jog across their college campus or in a local park?

Then there are the residents of urban Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York — those who have suffered untold loss of their property, their freedom, their security and even their lives because of the foolhardy policies of the past four years — Do they have the “fundamental right to be respected?”

What about “compassion” for the surrounding rural communities of Colony Ridge, Texas, whose villages, schools and infrastructure have been overrun by 75,000 undocumented aliens and multiple drug cartels?

What have you said about any of this? Your silence on these issues seems rather odd.

Furthermore, if you’re so concerned about the “sojourner in our land” (which, by the way, the Bible does not define as a criminal who flaunts our nation’s laws), what have you done for him?

Have you torn down the fence around your backyard? Have you removed the locks from your front door? Have you posted a sign inviting everyone and anyone to live in your house, stay as long as they want and do as they please? Have you stopped locking your car doors? Have you offered your guest rooms to all comers free of charge? Have you opened your kitchen to anyone who wants to swing in and grab a snack?

And how about this: Is it “vitriolic and spiteful” to suggest that if you can’t answer yes to all the above, you’re really little more than a sanctimonious hypocrite who says, “Do as I say, not as I do?”

One final question: I’m just curious about those “same words as Jesus” you keep referring to. Was it the words where Jesus told us to ignore the plight of our neighbors who are suffering murder, rape and the loss of their property and their safety at the hands of evil politicians who ignore the law and refuse to enforce it? Funny, I can’t find anywhere where Jesus said any of this.

• Everett Piper, a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.

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