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I heard the opening title above “When the church loses its voice, the world loses its mind!” from Pastor Russell Johnson, who was a guest on the Victory Channel’s Flashpoint program. Even though Pastor Johnson is only 31 years-old, he knows the history of what happens in our country when the church stays silent. Things like prayer and the Bible banned from schools. Murdering of babies legalized for 50 years and babies are still losing their lives in most states. The Holocaust saw thousands of Jews executed before the church woke up and spoke up . . . too late to stop Hitler from his horrific genocide mission. Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
Now, almost 80 years after that unfathomable genocide of Jews when no one thought it could ever happen again, Islamic terrorists funded by Iran are trying to wipe out Jews again! Babies beheaded, shot in their cribs or taken as hostages. Children shot, kidnapped, or traumatized watching their parents brutally shot trying to protect the family. Young people at a music festival celebrating peace when terrorists hand-glided in gleefully murdering them as they tried to run for safety. Young girls raped while their assailants videotaped the horror and then shot them. Elderly shot in wheelchairs or taken hostages, along with approximately 200 others, including Americans. In the initial Hamas attack on October 7 in Israel, around 1400 innocent civilians were mercilessly slaughtered, some in their beds, cribs, or eating breakfast.
You’ve read the stories and seen the faces yourself. Israel is releasing some of the footage as proof of how horrible this annihilation was and still much of the church today stays silent.
In our own country, where you would expect an overwhelming support for Israel, instead we have college students mixed with radical militants masked and shouting in the streets supporting the terrorists and calling for the extermination of Jews and Israel! It’s as if they’ve been indoctrinated almost preparing for this day. Harassing fellow Jewish students afraid to go to school or barricaded in school libraries as anti-Israel protestors bang on the doors. Many of the militant students don’t even understand the cause they’re supporting. In one interview, the young girl couldn’t pronounce Palestine correctly. She was clueless, but belligerent.
A question to ask these protestors would be, “Why do you support Hamas terrorists? Would you be defending them if they attacked your neighborhood or home, killed or raped your friends and relatives?”
It reminds me of the Black Lives Matter militant protests that sprung up after George Floyd’s death, which turned out to be what many of us knew, nothing but a Marxist moneymaking scheme that could care less about black lives. But few people apologize today for being complicit with that charade or for discovering that they were actually funding BLM mansions, Marxism, and Antifa. Much of the church stayed silent then too as the world lost its mind.
Israel is our only ally in the Middle East and they represent God’s favored people in our Christian faith. Jesus was a Jew. Yet, still the church stays silent, as the world is losing its mind!
Just like Pastor Johnson, a Bible-teaching pastor has a wealth of biblical history to draw on in teaching his congregants how to respond to current events. The Bible doesn’t tell us only what happened in the past, but it tells us what always happens. The same cultural and political issues existed then as currently. People come and go but demons remain the same from the days of Elijah, Ahab, and Jezebel until now. Jesus accused the church at Thyatira of the same demonic spirit that prevails today just a different decade. The demonic spirit of evil fills the void when a country like America turns its back on God. If we tolerate this demonic spirit in our culture, it will dominate.
“I know all the things you do. I have seen your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance. And I can see your constant improvement in all these things. 20 “But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman—that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet—to lead my servants astray. She teaches them to commit sexual sin and to eat food offered to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to turn away from her immorality. Rev. 2:19-21
If you haven’t already read my blog Only One World Event Will Bring Peace in the Middle East, I hope you’ll stop and read it now. It’s also listed below in this month’s blogs.
While some pastors remain silent, I’m encouraged and have hope that there are signs of influential Americans helping return America to its Christian roots. Here are just a couple examples and we need to be in prayer for them.
Christian actor/author Kirk Cameron interviewed on his TBN program Takeaways, NBA basketball athlete, Jonathan Isaac. Isaac is a bold vocal Christian who chose to not take a knee during the National Anthem or wear a BLM shirt with the rest of his team in 2020, even though he himself is black. Numerous times during the interview as Isaac shared his strong faith in Jesus that fueled many of his decisions, he mentioned his pastor as his mentor.
When he needed wise counsel, he went to his pastor. I would hope that every pastor has an open door to the younger generations or at least a mentoring ministry where young people can discuss how to live today in a world that seems to be more and more demonic and anti-God, just as we’re watching in the anti-Israel movement.
I’m encouraged, as I hope you are, that the newly elected Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is willing to openly pray and describe himself as a “Bible-believing Christian.” As he immediately comes under attack from the left for his faith and beliefs, his response is “Pick up a Bible and read it. That’s my personal worldview!”
I’m not a fan or follower of Dr. Phil, but Dave and I happened to come across an interview with him and his wife on TBN’s new Praise program. Prior to the interview, Dr. Phil made a statement regarding the war in Israel and the unfathomable pro-terrorists reaction on many college campuses. I highly recommend you listen to Dr. Phil’s statement here. It’s not long, but his message is spot on!
Our young people need mentors. We should expect our pastors to teach biblical and historical truth from the pulpit, but we need godly men and women who will step up to help teach and train the next generation how to live godly lives daily. The culture doesn't have a conscience. The church has to become the conscience.
Parents can’t relegate to the schools or the church to instill godly principles in their children. It needs to start and continually be reinforced in the home. I saw a great commercial where a dad and his college age son are sitting in a pickup. The dad tells the son he’s been reading his social media about supporting Nazism against the Jews. They’re parked in front of a Jewish Synagogue as families are exiting smiling and talking. The dad challenges his son to get out of the truck and go tell these people face-to-face what he’s been posting on social media. The son looks sheepish and Dad has made his point. That’s parenting. That’s mentoring.
Let’s not be known as a generation that tolerated the spirit of Jezebel. Pray for how and where the Lord wants you to get involved, then just do it! Praying is important but God also calls us to action. Faith without works is dead. Works don’t save us, but God expects us to live out our faith.
But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? James 2:20 NKJV
How foolish! Can’t you see that faith without good deeds is useless? James 2:20 NLT
Who needs wise counsel in your life? My book, Mentoring for All Seasons, the featured book this month, will help women mentor each other or find a mentor. Last month’s featured book, the Rooted Bible for Men, is excellent for men’s mentoring.
The world is losing its mind; let the church find its voice!
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. Is. 62:1
About His Work with You,
Janet
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