The Apostate Church
- by Paul Proctor
Many Americans cast their vote for George W. Bush in the last presidential
election because of his much-publicized Christian testimony. All that most
church-goers needed to know before pulling the lever in their booth was:
(1) Is he a Republican?
(2) Is he a Christian?
Once these two questions were answered, their loyalty and allegiance became
virtually immovable. That testimony carved an image of morality and
righteousness into the minds of conservatives that remains to this very day.
There was no stopping the tsunami wave of favorable public opinion that
followed. But tsunami waves don't just happen. They aren't an action but a
reaction...the reaction to an unseen earthquake rumbling deep beneath the ocean
floor that forces the sea upward into an unstoppable wave of devastation.
Without that earthquake there would be no tsunami.
In vain I tried to warn to my readers that Mr. Bush was not all that he appeared
to be. Unfortunately, those eight agonizing years of Bill Clinton had
successfully conditioned them into believing that ANY REPUBLICAN who called
himself a born-again Christian would be better than what we had. This was the
dialectic defense used against Bush critics and the relativistic result of
comparing one public image to another instead of comparing the behavior of one
and all to the Word of God. Consensus is a deadly process that quietly and
steadily moves the center of a nation's morality leftward until conservatives
begin thinking and acting like the very liberals they oppose and the redeemed of
God begin looking more like the lost they wish to save. In order for George Bush
to look righteous in the eyes of the masses it was necessary that an arrogant
liberal of unbridled sin and corruption precede him. Clinton was the earthquake
that created the George Bush tsunami.
If you think these things aren't planned out in well in advance by men of great
wealth and influence you had better think again. Once you become familiar with
the ways of globalism and the players involved it becomes much easier to predict
the outcomes and agendas of certain elections and events that are staged for
public consumption. At the risk of being erroneously viewed as clairvoyant, I
hope you'll take a moment to read the following piece I wrote about Bush the
week he was sworn into office over a year ago. As you consider my remarks on the
"choices" laid before him, please keep in mind that I am in no way a
fortune-teller. I just don't swallow the steady flow of propaganda from the
mainstream media that misguides most folks these days. The media isn't just
liberally biased. It is globally biased and will manipulate public opinion using
conservatives as well as liberals. Like many others who do more than just read
headlines and watch TV for their news and information, I simply recognize the
global agenda for what it is and refuse to play along in the tit for tat, party
vs. party game that republicans and democrats use to confuse the electorate.
Once you get past this dialectic distraction your vision and understanding of
world leaders and events becomes much clearer. A healthy Christian worldview is
essential for this.
CHOICES...THE REAL TRUTH DETECTOR
There was an alarming article and accompanying photo in yesterday
morning's news that told of President Bush worshipping the "universal god" in a
Shinto temple in Japan last February. The picture shows him signing the temple's
book that officially confirms the disturbing event.
Bush 'worship' at Shinto Temple troubles Christians in Japan and U.S.
Though the article's author suggests that Bush may be drifting into
"universalism" many of us who have researched the countless reports of his
repeated participation in occult activities and practices like the Skull & Bones
Society and the Bohemian Grove know that pagan idol worship is nothing new or
unusual for him. His calling Islamics to the White House recently to worship
Allah with him in response to the Twin Towers tragedy is just more evidence that
he'll honor whatever god is politically expedient for him at the time. When
addressing evangelical Christians, politicians and world leaders eagerly use
ecclesiastical catch phrases like "ecumenism" and "ecumenical" to promote an
unbiblical unity with everyone who claims to follow Christ, even if their
beliefs and behavior clearly suggest otherwise. The reality is, "ecumenism"
includes everyone from Marxists to Mormons and Bill Clinton to Bill Hybels with
a generic Jesus that serves as a storefront mannequin to lure Christians into
the big-wide-world of global/socialism. "Universalism" is just the alternate
word those same people employ when addressing non-Christians to promote the very
same agenda...a one-world religion. These dialectic terms and slogans are merely
transitional tools designed to bring everyone together under a manufactured god
at the United Nations.
"Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be
partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils." (1 Corinthians
10:21)
So, what does Bush have to do with today's apostasy in the church, you ask?
Brother George, simply put, is the new measure of morality in America for a
Christian constituency that no longer reads or obeys the Bible it claims to
embrace. Like Clinton, he is not the cause of our spiritual decline but rather
the effect. If an outsider wanted to see where America was spiritually, all they
would have do is observe the presidents we elect. Sadly, many still see Bush as
the pseudo-savior of America, not so much because of the things he has said and
done but because of the things he HAS NOT said and done that Bill Clinton and Al
Gore HAVE. In reality, Bush is the personification of the lukewarm Laodician
religion that Christ said he longed to spew from his mouth. If you don't think
Bush is looked upon as divine by his supporters then I invite you to go to any
conservative chat room or news group on the internet and criticize the words and
deeds of both he and Jesus Christ and see for yourself which one of the two is
more passionately defended.
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God." (James 4:4)
Paul Proctor, a rural resident of the Volunteer state and
seasoned veteran of the country music industry, retired from showbiz in the late
1990's to dedicate himself to addressing important social issues from a
distinctly biblical perspective. Paul Proctor is a writer for the American Reformation
Project and a regular columnist for
Ether Zone.
Paul can be reached by email at watchman@usa.com