Living in the New Jerusalem

 If we’re currently living in Babylon rather than Jerusalem, then it’s amazing how well the Gospel, Scripture, and the Church have spread throughout Babylon over the past two thousand years. I would have expected more failure.

It’s John MacArthur syndrome, a disconnect between soteriology and eschatology. It’s acting as if Total Depravity was the beginning and the end of the thing, and ignoring the other four points of Calvinism.

“All authority in heaven and on earth have been given to Me.” It’s not as if He was vague in that. Unbelief, faithlessness, pessimillennialism, anti-intellectualism, sloth, laciviousness, plain old erroneous theology - that’s what has brought us the failure we see. But this generation’s failure won’t stop God’s final conquest.

When Moses lowered his arms, the battle turned against Israel. But when he obeyed God and kept his arms raised, Israel saw victory. Stop lowering your arms. Stop expecting failure. This world belongs to Jesus. He bought it with His blood. Act like it.

9/11 and Our Continuing Apostasy

 Immediately after 9/11, the churches in America were flooded with people seeking answers. Special prayer services were held. But since then, the churches are more empty than ever. We’ve opened the doors to unrestrained immigration. Drugs pour across the border and usage is out of control. Human trafficking continues. We have Muslim communities, mosques, the Islamic call to prayer going out multiple times a day in places in the West, and Muslim politicians. And we have innumerable lives permanently changed or ended due to a twenty year war we lost after we simply walked away from it, leaving millions of dollars of equipment behind.

No matter how much we remember, we seem to have learned nothing. We have not repented and returned to the Lord.