Fifteen years, eh? You sure about that you huckster? I am pretty sure that throughout America's history there have been periods of terror, drought, cattle reduction and desolate roadways. The Great Depression jumps to mind for starters. The narrative Perry and the NAR is trying to sell is that America was an Evangelical Shangri-La, right up until some godless heathens somehow snuck into the country and started shifting us away from God. This is a specious and insanely stupid narrative, but they sell it, nonetheless. The crux of dominionism distorts American history almost as bad as the bible. Which Christian principles was America founded upon? The enslavement of other people based on race? The extermination of the indigenous people to steal their land? The blind, violent economic rebellion against established rulers, violating Romans 13? Look beloved, I believe America is the best secular government experiment in history and has done a lot of good in the world, but we cannot pretend that everything was puppies and roses because it was not. We still were imperialistic, conquering other countries to steal their resources. We still had children working 20 hours per day in sweatshops so the top 1% could profit. Now, we did change these things as we evolved but that does not give us the right to pretend, they never happened. The truth is that most of the Founding Fathers were deists, meaning they believed in "a" God, not Jesus. Thomas Jefferson in fact rewrote the bible to remove all references to Christ's deity and miracles. We have always mocked God, and even today the apostate church does by trotting people like Perry Stone out as some kind of biblical leader along with his absurd false prophecies and teachings.
At the heart of the disinformation is the false notion that verses about ancient Israel now somehow apply to America, while dismissing out of hand the fact that Christ has already died for those disobediences. Never lose sight of what the underlying message and purpose is here. Perry, Charisma and the NAR take their marching orders from the Republican Part machine and that machine demands that Christians vote for their guy, Donald Trump. So, this argument is that in order to avoid the curses and get all of those goodies found in the blessings verses, we must vote for the three times married, three times unfaithful, sleeping with a porn star, convicted of rape and 34 other felonies and six bankruptcies candidate. Then we wonder why the world wants nothing to do with us. We wonder why 40 million people have left the church in the past 25 years. America has not "turned its back on God." The apostate church has.
"This warning not for an individual but for an entire nation of madness, astonishment and blindness is one we must heed today. These are the types of traits that lead us out of peace and wisdom and toward deception and the feelings of anger and bitterness. It is this type of madness that leads us to become reactive and furious. "I looked at the word 'madness,' and it means in Hebrew 'craziness, irrational behavior, being furious in anger,'" Stone says.
Stone points out this madness is noticeable in the attacks against Christians, with allowing men to compete in women's sports and irrational, divisive arguments. It is living in this emotionally-driven nature that the Pharisees were accustomed to, and it is this kind of madness we must be careful of. As America now faces issues and calamity on many sides, we are seeing the same issues that Israel dealt with come to fruition in our nation today. "The things that God warned Israel of that would happen to them if they broke covenant are happening to us, and the reason is we know better," he continues." - Charisma News
It is important to peel apart the deception here. Perry and the NAR cannot say this is an issue at the level of the individual person. Why? Because that is the truth and then we can repent, turn to Christ and be saved. They are not interested in that. They are interested in retaining political power, so they change the issue to the entire nation and national issues are resolved by voting for people they have deemed as somehow in alignment with God. Of course, they are not. The other deception here is in comparing the idolatry of Israel to the wedge cultural issues of modern-day politics. They are not comparable whatsoever. In this warped analogy, Stone is saying America, a pagan nation, is somehow akin to Israel. If we were to insist on playing out this tortured logic, it is the Philistines that would be America, not Israel. Nowhere does Deuteronomy indicate that it is the unsaved nations that will somehow suffer the fate of the curses nor the wealth of the blessings. Stone gives up the game here at the end indicating that the disobedience is actually breaking a covenant. Except America has never been under covenant with God and it is ridiculous to assert otherwise. This is why the NAR dominionist narrative falls apart so easily.
The truly sad thing is blaming the lost, who the bible teaches us the things of God are foolishness to, is inherently dumb and only drives them away from the gospel. It is the church that has abandoned God by insisting on these false teachings and narratives. When the church abandons the gospel for carnal politics it is no longer serving God. When it chases earthly prosperity, false signs and lying wonders and all sorts of scriptural debauchery it is no longer serving God. When the church trades in the truth in pursuit of purpose driven or political dreams it is no longer serving God. When the church protects people like Perry Stone, credibly accused by 11 different women, who are then smeared, solely because he knows how to grift for the machine, the church is no longer serving God. This is the Great Apostasy and Perry Stone is a foot soldier for it. Mark and avoid beloved.
Reverend Anthony Wade - August 7, 2024
