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THERE IS A WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION COMING.
WE CAN SEE IT STARTING NOW.

The present attitude about Conservatives / Christians being the morally wrong ones seems to be a very recent view – a view now seemingly held worldwide. We have always felt WE were the moral ones, holding to the moral side of each issue. Now THEY feel they are the moral ones holding to the moral side of these issues, and we are the immoral ones.

As I’ve pondered the need to NOT answer each issue (gun control, Iraq, abortion, stem cell research, animal rights, etc.) head-on, but to answer the underlying charge that those on the Christian / Conservative side are the morally wrong ones in each of these issues, I’m perplexed as to how an answer should be crafted.

Christian morality has as it’s plumb line the Bible. The Bible has been proven a supernaturally given text (see Josh McDowell’s, “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”). Worldly morality has as it’s plumb line the popular ‘politically correct’, ever changing with the tides, subjective, “it seems right to us” attitudes of the day.

I’m reminded of one the classes in Academy, “The Criminal Personality”: The sociopath feels whatever THEY want/need is justification for criminal activity on their part. They don’t see their activities as criminal because in their mind the person they are offending is the true wrong-doer. They feel rules, guidelines, borders, and any constraint to what they want to do as wrong.

If we were only confronting a need to convince someone about an issue or two we could have greater hope at winning them over. This morality issue is much bigger and much harder to deal with as it is subjective in nature and up to the individual’s “feelings” or how they’ve been led to believe. The other problem dealing with the morality issue is that it has within it’s confines MANY other major issues.

I’m also reminded of the scriptures, “An hour is coming for EVERYONE WHO KILLS YOU TO THINK THAT HE IS OFFERING SERVICE TO GOD.” (Jn 16:2), and, “When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF GOD, and because of the testimony which they had maintained” (Rev. 6:9)

We know a great persecution is coming as Jesus said we would be HATED (strong word) by ALL (universal) men because of my name. It would seem to me that one step closer to that persecution, and doing God a service by putting us to death, has been taken with their taking the view that we are the wrongdoers, the immoral ones.

What are your ideas on how to respond to their attitude that we are the immoral ones and they are holding to the good moral side of each issue?

Remembering: “A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.” (1 Cor. 2:14)

Consider these two passages: “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.” And, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.” And, “ALL the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But Yahveh weighs the motives.” (Judges 17:6, Pro. 12:15, and Pro. 16:2)