It is astonishing to me that so many families are being divided and even destroyed because of the "Qanon" anonymous conspiracies. It is positively outrageous.
Not only families but church gatherings are being ruined and divided while loving fellowship in Christ is diminished and even entirely eliminated.
It is no longer about Christ but rather it is about the latest horror that the government is doing. This paranoia about worldly matters is doing what the devil planned that it would do, that is to ruin the Christian witness and divide and devastate relationships.
Instead of an evangelistic mentality that drives the believer to share and defend Christ, we see an "us versus them" mentality as though unsaved human beings are the enemy, or even worse, Christians who don't think the same way about politics are being treated as the enemy.
Sadly, the enemy is not the believer who doesn't follow someone else's idea of good but does obey the Word of God. The unsaved are not our enemy either, they are lost souls to be shown the way of salvation.
Do you know who the real enemy is? The enemy of our soul and everyone's soul is the devil. He is bringing all this division and hatred, over things that have no ability to save anyone's soul. He is causing the unsaved to resist hearing the gospel because of the angst of the modern political Christian.
Distraction and lies are the biggest tools on the devil's belt and he is using them both on steroids. Christians are falling into his trap, brainwashing them into fighting for or against things that do not matter for eternity.
My heart grieves every time I hear a believer bringing up all the evils of the government that thwarts their personal freedoms. How much freedom will there be in hell?
As Americans, we have all we need all the time and yet so many are comparing instead of praising God for His provision. It sort of reminds me of our spoiled children who received no less than three gifts often more than that, at Christmas many years ago when we were still involved in the holidays.
Some of the children would open their final gift after all others had been opened and ask; "is this all." Perhaps if believers would spend their time praising God for all His provision they would see their joy returning.
OH, and by the way, the biggest provision of all was the cross and our ability to be saved from our sin and hell because of what Christ did on that cross. Nothing else matters in comparison to the sacrifice He made for us.
Hebrews 12:4-15 "4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are punished by Him;
6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is impaired may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all people, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;"
The American church is under God's discipline right now, with the virus, and the removal from office of the man they began to treat as the savior of the nation. Some people even refuse to believe God removed this man, they believe the lies that he is going to return. They will not believe or support God's decision to remove him in order for believers to return to their first love, that is Jesus Chris.t
If the church does not repent, placing their freedom and leaders above God, then God is going to increase the discipline. With each act of discipline will come a worse chastisement than the one before if the church does not repent.
1 John 1:9
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Confession of the sin of idolatry, that is placing things and people above God must happen in order for the church to be cleansed.
We know in these last days most gatherings will not repent, their lampstand has been removed and they are carnal and apostate, however, there may be some left that wants to repent and begin again to place Christ first. May the Lord bless them with cleansing and joy as they move forward in their desires to follow their first love, Jesus Christ.
