Persecution

   I read an article today on the Christian News website and it was about an Arizona preacher who is facing possible jail time for holding a private worship meetings in his own place. Aside from the obvious fact that this once great country of America is falling to it's knees, our freedoms are going with it. Persecution of Christians are on the rise. Now, it's no where near the persecution of Christians in other countries such as Romania, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Africa, but when we take a glance at their governments, (or lack thereof) it is very reminiscient of what ours is starting to become (without going into politics, which is one of my weaker areas, but it's kind of hard not to notice when you are falling off a cliff). With that, the tolerance towards Christians vanishes. America is the last great country where freedom of religion still reigns, but like I said for the Christians, who are singled out, our freedoms are going away. I'm sure if this Arizona preacher was that of Islamic faith, everything would be just fine and dandy. It's sad when people can hold giant superbowl parties and make tons of noise, getting drunk off their butts, but when your holding a Christian meeting in your house, on your own property, you get thrown in jail. Please Pray for this brother and his family, they have done nothing wrong.

   I suggest picking up the book, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", one can catch a glimpse on what persecution was like throughout the ages. Even today we see these types of persecutions, tortures, imprisonment, beatings, beheadings, burnings...of course you don't hear this kind of stuff on the news, but biblical prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes. When this persecution comes to America, and I promise you it will, the goats will be seperated from the sheep.

The apostle Paul warned us that “everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” 2 Timothy 3:12.

Jesus Christ said,"If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." John 15:18-19

   We need to stay strong and pray for those who are enduring these tough times. Pray for God to keep the church strong and for brave men and women to stand up for what's right and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. If we are actively being persecuted, keep Philippians 3:8-10 in mind,"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which [is] from the law, but that which [is] through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faiththat I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death." Praise God for He is good.


Here is the article for the story and a link from Gotquestions about persecution:

http://christiannews.net/arizona-preacher-facing-jail-time-for-holding-home-worship-meetings/

http://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-persecution.html


 

Uneducated?

   Read an article on Yahoo today about "More Americans Continue to Accept Creationism Than Evolution." I thought to myself... this should be interesting. It went on to talk about how a certain percentage believed that God created humans within the last 10,000 years (I hold to the young earth creation worldview, no more than 7,000 years old), another percentage believed God played a role in humans evolving, and God played no role, doesn't exist. But one certain part of the article...kind of had me scratching my head.

Here's what it had to say. "People with postgraduate degrees stood out because they favored evolution (29 percent) over creationism (25 percent), although most (42 percent) said they believed God guided human evolution. More than half of people with a high school education or less said they believed God created humans."

Over the course of researching the creation vs evolution debate, reading many articles, watching tons of videos, the main consensus boils down to this..."if you believe in special creation, you are stupid and uneducated." Really? I beg to differ. I'm pretty sure it doesn't take a college education (of which I'm working on at the moment, just throwing that out there) or a rocket scientist to figure out that a frog cannot turn into a prince. But throw the magical ingredient "time" in the mix, and WHALLA! It can happen! And that is essentially what evolution teaches. Given any amount of time...something from nothing can be made by pure chance and then grow legs, hands, feet, lungs, a heart, eyes,etc..etc...get the picture? Looking at the evidences, without a biased mindset, one would reasonably conclude that someone or something, greater than us had to have made all these...beautifully complicated things.

Let's just say...the indoctrination in our highschools and colleges for (it's still a theory and a bad one at that) evolution is mindblowing and dangerous, any mention of God and creation automatically earns you the "crazy" ticket and end up being called "juvenile" and "uneducated". You get told to "put away the baby stuff your mom and your church taught you and think for yourself ." Yet when creationists put the unscientific religion of evolutionism/naturalism/atheism, under scrutiny (see what I did there?) we get nothing but an ear splitting babies cry from people who THINK they are the only educated bunch, and they retaliate with such animosity I would be lead to think that they were proof for evolution...I mean...if I'm taught that I'm a useless insignificant animal..why not act like one? Don't get me wrong, I love science, good science. I don't like being lied to. This dangerous theory is used to justify someone's sin by taking God out of the picture. Bottom line, that's really why people dupe themselves into believing in evolution. It doesn't get any more simple than that.

Reading the Yahoo comments, sometimes heat's my blood to the point of boiling. But I have to remember...they are people God cares about and at the moment, are headed for hell. They are in need of a Savior and God has provided an atonement for sins through the blood of His Son Jesus Christ.


Here is the article. Just read some of the comments.
http://news.yahoo.com/more-americans-continue-accept-creationism-evolution-200156608.html

Oh. and look up: Ken Ham, Kent Hovind, and Walt Brown, the people over at http://www.answersingenesis.org/. Very smart, intelligent, educated creation scientists if you would like to get some good information.