The situational ethics of Evangelical Republicanism
Name one, single, moral-legal absolute (particularly those placed as top-tier criminal/sin issues, in God's view) that evangelical Republicanism has not actively, purposefully betrayed during elections or policy-making moments, before justifying the betrayals afterward with situational ethics.
Name one.
Just one.
I do not believe you can name a single one (with honesty).
Then, after you fail to name even one thing... Tell me more about why God is in any way obligated (or even statistically likely) to do anything other than intensify His righteous judgment against America.
Many of my preacher friends not only scratch the itching ears of their followers, they have itching ears themselves, and do a great disservice to EVERYONE in ear-shot by finding too-clever-by-half cliche's lifted from old Bible stories (from the Old Testament they spend most of their pulpit time convincing people have no authority for the New Covenant - especially in the voting booth).
You should not be taken seriously when you ignore the fire that ACTUALLY DID drop on Sodom as an eternal warning, in favor of emphasizing God's stated willingness to spare Sodom (what ACTUALLY DID NOT HAPPEN) for the sake of a few righteous hold-outs.
Dive much, much deeper into that story, friends.
God discussed hypotheticals (that were not reality) with Abraham, in the same way that a loving parent endures a child's simpletonian questions with the goal to teach them a deeper, more sophisticated truth.
Ultimately, God taught Abraham by LEAVING HYPOTHETICALS IN THE SMOLDERING ASH. God DEMONSTRATED the reality of what He had already PREDETERMINED to do for the righteous residents of Sodom BEFORE Abraham's first, child-like question was ever asked...
God commanded the righteous to either depart Sodom or die right along with the wicked in the fire He was sending upon SODOM.
The FIRE was REQUIRED.
IT IS STILL BURNING IN HELL AND BEING USED A THOUSAND TIMES A MINUTE EVERY HOUR OF YOUR TEMPORARY PHYSICAL LIFE. JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE IT DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN'T BURNING. JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SMELL IT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NOT SMOKING!
God showed what He was resolute to do to the wicked residents of Sodom... He burned them alive.
He is STILL DOING THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY in Hell.
Place your optimism, faith and hope in what God will do when MASS REPENTANCE occurs. Then preach repentance with SPECIFIC sins that require repentance.
If you SKIP THIS STEP you have no legitimate word from God to America. You are just another preacher of cotton-candy and the delusional drug of rechurchlican choice called "hopium."
Lot would have preferred a different sermon than He got from the evangelists sent to his living room, but he listened to them while his wife looked for a more positive style of preacher to drop-in.
"Remember Lot's wife." - Jesus Christ
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."
— 2 Timothy 4:3-4 KJV
Big Tech censorship has been expanding beyond just Conservatives… Christians are next.
While many of us have been warning about the coming persecution of Christians, I don’t think any of us thought that it would be ramping up so quickly. While we are luckily not facing physical persecution yet, such as beatings or death, we are facing censorship, deplatforming and even jail time in some instances. These are just the birth pangs of what is coming next.
While we still have a voice here at The GateKeepers, we are doing everything that we can to bypass the algorithmic walls put up by Big Tech and the Social Media companies like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Our videos used to get thousands of views across all of our platforms, while now they are being throttled and hardly getting distributed at all. An added wrinkle is that, while our video content is seeing lower views, traffic to our website has never been higher. Over the past year we’ve seen a 700% increase in traffic, and it’s been amazing to experience this kind of growth. Because of this, we’ll be launching GKTV very soon, hosting all of our shows exclusively on our platform.
While The GateKeepers started out as nothing more than a blog for me to post my articles, it has now expanded into a podcast network featuring fifteen shows, a publishing company that has published three books over the past year and we are now hosting conferences on a regular basis. We’ve seen the addition of contributors to The GateKeepers such as Denise McAllister, Pastor Cary Gordon, Pastor Ken Peters, Dr Mike Spaulding, Dr Bobby Lopez and many other amazing Christian leaders. Our lineup of shows has expanded, as well, featuring shows such as The Shining Light Podcast, Conversations with Jeff, The Big Brown Gadfly, Battlefront: SouthGate and The Verum Monitae Report with Dr Mike Spaulding, in addition the the several other shows we also carry on The GateKeepers.
While we’ve seen some amazing growth and expansion, we are also working hard to make this be a long-term play, and with that comes with how to fund our work here. I’ve intentionally not turned The GateKeepers into a non-profit organization because I don’t want to become beholden to the government, and I also don’t want to be focused on sending out fundraising letters constantly begging for money like most non-profit ministries do.
Instead, we have our online book store, are hosting online conferences and have our Plugged In membership program. Right now we are funded exclusively through these three different avenues. We are especially excited about our Plugged In membership, as this brings so much added value to you as a thank you for supporting our work here at The GateKeepers.
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