ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
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“There are two things which Rome hates with an implacable hatred. They are the Bible and liberty. At any cost, Rome is bound to fight down these two things, till they are completely destroyed… Thanks to the betrayals of the politicians, and the delusions of the theologians, except God makes a miracle of it, the Bible and liberty are doomed in the United States…
“Whenever the Church of Rome has the power to do it she has persecuted the Protestants to her utmost capacity. She has sent them to jail, she has confiscated their goods, she has sent them into exile, or even put them to death. Before the conquest of Canada by the English, it was forbidden to Protestants to live in that country. They had the choice between going to jail or becoming exiles, if they persisted in their Gospel religion. In France, thousands have lost their lives, and have been forced to go and die in exile for becoming Protestants. In a single night, and the four or five months after the St. Bartholomew massacre, seventy-five thousand Protestants were slaughtered in France by the order of the Pope…
“In an important sense, I have written this book because I could not help it. The truth I have is not my own — it belongs to my heavenly Father, and the treasure in the earthen vessel I am bound to give to others as far as I can. With this feeling and purpose, I send forth this volume on its mission, hoping that it will be doing good after I am gone, and thus, though dead, I still may speak to others. — Charles Chiniquy
The First and Foremost To Fail - The Church Leaders.
The Bill of Rights
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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GJ - When the Wuhan Flu visited our country, it was natural for something to be done quickly, with everyone cooperating. Early on, it was known to have an effective counter-measure - HCQ. A quarantine of the flu victims was only natural, quarantining the healthy and the least likely to catch or transmit it? Grocery store shoppers were not worried about wearing face diapers, but they emptied entire aisles of certain goods. A truckload of paper products would disappear in an hour. Cleaning fluids were bought as if we were entering a new Prohibition, only this one a war on viruses, germs, and common sense.
As this continued, church leaders showed no interest in opening their churches for worship, even though grocery stores were open and crowded with people. Suddenly, state governors and managers were dictating the future and then extending the capricious demands.
Nothing changed here, except there were more people participating in our worship services, and I had more work as an online instructor. I passed through the three stages of invention after Y2K in 2000, about online education:
- It is against the will of God!
- They must pass laws against it!
- How did we ever live without it!