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Let me \u00a0be honest and transparent with you, dear reader. I hope you would expect nothing\u00a0less from me.<\/p>\n

This morning I posted a picture that, I admitted, was crass. It made light of the perversities of the homosexual lifestyle. A couple of\u00a0people were kind enough to register their surprise over my post. Because of this, I took the post down. In retrospect, I crossed over the line, and I apologize for offending anyone.<\/p>\n

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This blog is primarily a Bible study blog, but from time to time I deal with social issues, which\u00a0are of\u00a0moral or spiritual concern. The biblical prophets of old did this. John the Baptist lost his head for doing the same.<\/p>\n

Now let me say this. I am well beyond frustrated and to the point of righteous anger over those in our society who are aggressively pushing their perverse, anti-biblical and Antichrist agendas upon us. I either want to leave and flee to an island in the South Pacific, or, if I have no option but to stay, I\u00a0feel compelled to oppose the evil vigorously!<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, the purveyors of perversity are\u00a0using Gestapo-like tactics to marginalize, vilify, destroy, bully, put out of business, defame, imprison and sometimes kill their opponants \u2014 namely Bible followers. This\u00a0is getting to be more than I can take!!!<\/p>\n

Let’s be honest. I believe in spiritual warfare and prayer. I do it all the time. But there comes a time when we must exit our prayer closets and take a stand in the streets. The Bible and Christian history is full of people who did this. Every read Foxes Book of Martyrs? You wouldn’t have the Bible in English if people hadn’t done this very thing!<\/p>\n

Frankly, I’m not seeing spiritual warfare and prayer winning a lot of victories against the tide of evil presently overtaking the world. It’s not stopping the spread of Islam, Christian persecution worldwide, the spiritual decline of the church and the West, and the spread of sexual perversion, and the destruction of the family and marriage is it? True, if it weren’t for our prayers, things would\u00a0probably be worse, but that’s not a lot of consolation for those in the middle of the war zone who are losing everything including their lives, families, livlihoods and everything else!<\/p>\n

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What are we as Bible believers to do? Sit there and take it? Ever read Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Francis Schaeffer? There came\u00a0a point when they thought that just wringing one’s hands over the spread of evil wasn’t enough. Bonhoeffer lost his life in a concentration camp for being a party to the plot to kill\u00a0Hitler. Martin Luther King lost is life fighting racism.<\/p>\n

So where are the Davids, Daniels, Isaiahs, Jeremiahs, John the Baptists and, yes, Yeshuas of our generation who\u00a0will take a stand against the modern evil doers as per Psalm 94:16? Does anyone else feel as I do, or am I alone on this? Three\u00a0such American Christian leaders in our day who have been taking strong spiritual stands come to my mind. They are Billy and Franklin Graham and James Dobson. I salute them!<\/p>\n

As far as crassness goes, let’s talk about this briefly. Several of the\u00a0biblical prophets, at times, were pretty graphic in describing the perverse sins of the evil doers of their generation including spiritual sexual promiscuity.\u00a0In addition to this, the Bible chronicles\u00a0some pretty graphic perverse sexual acts. Because it’s Bible, we seem to take it for granted and it therefore loses its shock value. Let’s take of our rose-colored religious glasses for a minute!<\/p>\n

Shock is sometimes necessary to wake the\u00a0spiritually asleep. Yeshua used shock when he turned over the moneychangers tables. In modern terms, that might be like going into a bank and vandalizing it. Isaiah ran through the streets naked urging the backslid Israelites to repent. It that crass and indecent?<\/p>\n

Not only that, Yeshua went into churches of his day and began to preach against the leaders of the church. He almost got himself killed for doing this\u00a0a few times.<\/p>\n

I could give many other examples, but you get the point.<\/p>\n

It seems that those who take the lid off the garbage can of society and begin to expose the putrid filth inside are the scourge and sometimes the martyrs of their generation, but the heroes of the next generation. Yeshua accused those of his day of this very crime. The fathers killed the prophets of YHVH, while the sons built memorials to those same prophets.<\/p>\n

Yes, there’s a proper, Spirit-led way go about addressing the sins of one’s generation, even in a confrontational and a controversial kind of way. But history tells us that only a small minority\u00a0will ever do this, and that most of\u00a0the rest\u00a0will criticize them (sadly) when they do.<\/p>\n

This is my hope: May YHVH give us the boldness to stand righteously for him. May YHVH give a few the boldness and know-how to stand up to the Goliaths of our day in the public square. And when he raises up Davids to do that, may we not be those who criticize them\u00a0for it.<\/p>\n

I solicit your thoughts and comments on any of these issues I’ve raised in this post.<\/p>\n

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