It is time to realize what you have gotten into bed with...

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"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?' And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." - Matthew 25:31-46 (ESV)

I have written extensively about the last idol of the church age, which is NAR dominionism. This idolatry is rooted in the deification and worship of one man, Donald Trump. It distorts people's clear thinking and biblical discernment. Realize that this is not a political discussion. As Americans, we have the right to think who would be best to run the Titanic into the icy depths until Jesus comes. It is when you interject God into the equation, pretending that your perceived lesser evil is somehow righteous, that you leave sound doctrine in favor of heresy. The subject of the president is now 85% of articles being run on Charisma News. They offer only one perspective - complete adoration and idolatry. There is never a consideration that maybe something their idol is doing is wrong. Any criticism is met with swift retribution and unbiblical aggression. Yesterday, an Episcopal Bishop had the temerity to express to the new president that he should show mercy because people are scared. You would have thought that she assaulted him the way the CHURCH leapt to not only defend Trump but eviscerate the bishop. One Republican lawmaker mocked and said the bishop should be deported despite her being born in this country. Today, Trump complained that the bishop needs to apologize. Again, because she asked for mercy. That is what the church now supports. This is what a cult demands.

I say this as background to begin to understand what we have wrought spiritually. I have maintained for some time now that when the entire apostate church system is insisting something is 'blessing" there is a good chance it is judgment. That we all demanded a king and God relented and gave us Saul. A man who builds monuments in honor to himself, for the people to bow down to. I could spend the day talking about how the Trump administration has already deleted the Spanish version of the White House website and the Spanish Twitter account. Cause you know, Jesus hates brown people. This is what the church now stands for in this country because there will never be any dissent. There can never be any criticism allowed. On Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump forgot to lay his hand on the bible when taking his oath of office. Big deal? Absolutely not. He forgot, who cares. Because he can never do something wrong however, the machine quickly went into cover his butt mode and started floating absurd and unbiblical reasons why he chose to not place his hands on the bible. I saw a vacuously dumb Tik Tok video, that keeps getting reposted, that said it would have been a sin for Trump to do this because of Matthew 5:33, where Jesus is teaching to stand by your word instead of taking meaningless oaths. This was not however a condemnation of taking oaths in general and in Matthew 26, when Jesus stands before the Sanhedrin, He answers a question under oath. This level of silliness is the definition of being in a cult.

Not enough to just hate brown people? How about the executive order backing out of international agreements to try and stop destroying God's creation? You don't think that matters to the Lord? Not enough? How about that he rescinded an executive order that lowered prescription drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid? You know, the least in society. The literal widows and orphans God always is worried about in scripture. You can have the political opinion that none of this matters but you cannot pretend that God does not care about it. The people on Medicare and Medicaid are either elderly or disabled. In what bible do you think you see a God that does not care about them being denied medication because they cannot afford it and their food? Is this really the ground we wish to stake out in the name of the Lord? Do you think this advances the cause of the gospel? Dear Lord, what is wrong with us?

This is only day three. Perhaps there is no more egregious behavior than the blanket pardons of 1500 felons who committed violent atrocities against police officers on January 6, 2021. These were not "hostages." They were not "tourists." This was not caused by "outside agitators." These are all factually untrue and insulting to the memories of the four officers who have died as a result of this attack. I have watched vile and disgusting people who cosplay as pastors bragging and rejoicing at these pardons. As if the law no longer matters. It is intellectually vacuous to just say everything you are unhappy about must be 'weaponization." These people had their day in court and were either convicted or agreed to their guilt and punishment. None of that matters to MAGA pastors selling this idolatry. By the way, if there were people who were just caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, they had already had their cases dismissed. There were over 400 of such. These pardoned people stormed the Capitol and violently assaulted law enforcement and now the church stands with them. Here is just a few of these folks that the church is in bed with:

1. One man on that day was wearing a "Camp Auschwitz - work brings freedom" tee shirt. Because nothing says Jesus Christ like glorifying the worst nazi concentration camp in history.

2. The infamous QAnon Shaman tweeted thanks to Trump and said, "now I am gonna buy some Motha Fu*kin Guns."

3. Enrique Tarrio was the leader of the Neo-Fascist Proud Boys paramilitary group and upon release yesterday said that he intends to "bring the heat" to those who dared to put him and the others in jail.

4. One man, who was on a pre-trial release for soliciting a minor at the time of the attack, assaulted cops with bear spray and a metal whip.

5. Another man, sentenced to 12 years was found guilty of 12 felonies, including choking one officer to the ground. During sentencing, he verbally attacked the judge.

6. Another man, facing 20 years, used fellow rioters as human scaffolding, used poles, crutches, pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture as weapons against police officers. Oh, and during a different protest, he assaulted someone else with a metal bat.

7. One man posted before January 6 - "welcome to the revolution" and "there will be blood." Then on the day of, he plunged a stun gun into the neck of Washington Police Officer Michael Fanone. He bragged after on social media that he got away and "tazed the f*** out of the blue," referring to the police.

These are just seven examples out of hundreds. Many who were released admitted yesterday that their assertions of remorse were faked. They have no remorse and now the President of the United States has excused and validated their violence in the furtherance of disrupting a peaceful transfer of power. That is open to political disagreement, but the real problem is the church now stands for this as well and that is not open for agreement. Beloved, if you are being fed this hatred as Christian doctrine you need to get out now. If you follow one of these disgusting pastors, you need to unfollow them now. Any politician or president will engage in behaviors and policies that stand against scripture. That is why none are righteous. That is why we should not be declaring one or the other is secretly "God's choice." That will always damage the cause of the gospel. Yesterday, Donald Trump directed ICE agents to forcibly remove people from houses of worship. Just consider that visual for a moment. What will you do when they come for the person sitting next to you in the pew? Will you applaud? Assume that they must somehow be dangerous? More dangerous than the man who shoved a stun gun into the neck of Michael Fanone? Beloved, this world is passing away. The only thing that matters is the gospel and reaching people before Jesus comes back. Not carnal politics. Not pretending violent criminals are hostages. Not glorifying people who break the law, assaulted cops and then preach about holiness. The apostate church and the seven mountains idiots force the church to straddle the fence between utter carnality and faux-spirituality. To constantly mix the holy with the profane. To worship a man who cheated on his first wife with his second wife and his third wife with a porn star, already convicted of rape, with 34 other felonies. Then in the next breath teach on the Beatitudes. Charisma News speculated the other day why 40 million people have left the church in the past 25 years, but they only focused on the moral scandals, such as Bickle, Morris and Dr. Brown. While those scandals certainly factor in, Charisma only needs to look in the mirror to see why the great apostasy is well underway. They are leading it. The world is not going to want to hear anything we have to say about Jesus Christ and the importance of repenting for sin, when we think someone wearing a "Camp Auschwitz shirt, who likes to use other people as human scaffolding and rejoices in buying some "motha-f*cking guns" is just a hostage that should not be punished for their crimes. Jesus did not say to turn the other cheek, so we could more easily jam a stun gun into someone's neck. The pastors who support this are beyond hirelings. They are demonic operatives leading people directly to hell. This is the end result of not checking your politics at the door of your faith and instead, mixing the two. There are always consequences and always victims. The apostate church system now stands with convicted felons who defecated and urinated in the Halls of Congress and then violently assaulted police officers. Its stands for making the most vulnerable in our society pay more for their medicines. It stands for the pettiness of deleting the Spanish version of official websites or demanding apologies from church officials who had the temerity to ask for mercy. It stands for dragging congregants out of churches. You know, in Jesus' name.

As a postscript, if you are reflexively making counter arguments in your head about Joe Biden, or democratic policies, or any other "whataboutism," I ask you to check yourself. Those are CARNAL arguments. I am not making any such arguments. If you excuse everything in this devotional as somehow permissible because of political reasons, knock yourself out. What you cannot do, and I will not allow, is any attempt to Jesus-fy any of this hatred and filth. Matthew 7 is real beloved. We will stand and give account. That reckoning will not be focused on our voting record or anything as banal as that. It will be based upon our faith in Christ, the real Christ. The one from the key verses today, which are part of the scriptures dealing with the final judgment. Who are the least of these beloved? The hungry. The thirsty. The stranger. The unclothed. The sick. The prisoner. It doesn't say to drag the stranger out of a church and deport them. It doesn't say make the sick pay more money for their life saving medications. It says visit the prisoner; not pardon everything they have done and pretend they are righteous. It doesn't say to ignore the hungry and thirsty. I am not sure where this finds you today but if you are on the side of carnality, come out from among her.

Reverend Anthony Wade - January 22, 2025

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.