They Mean It
by Dave Johnson
04/22/05 "Seeing
The Forest" - - This is so important and scary that I'm
going to just steal some of it from Lambert at corrente as
well as send you there for the rest.
Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy
responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ – to
have dominion in the civil structures, just as in every other
aspect of life and godliness. But it is dominion that we are
after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are afier. Not just
influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to
accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the
Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less. If Jesus
Christ is indeed Lord, as the Bible says, and if our
commission is to bring the land into subjection to His
Lordship, as the Bible says, then all our activities, all our
witnessing, all our preaching, all our craftsmanship, all our
stewardship, and all our political action will aim at nothing
short of that sacred purpose. Thus, Christian politics has as
its primary intent the conquest of the land — of men,
families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments
for the Kingdom of Christ. It is to reinstitute the authority
of God’s Word as supreme over all judgments, over all
legislation, over all declarations, constitutions, and
confederations. True Christian political action seeks to rein
the passions of men and curb the pattern of digression under
God’s rule. Fortunately, because of the theocratic
orientation of our founding fathers, our nation has virtually
all the apparatus extant to implement such a reclamation.
Unfortunately, the enemies of the Gospel have hand-in-hand
eroded the strength of those godly foundations. Thus, we stand
at the crossroads.
That above passage can be found in The Changing of the Guard;
Biblical Blueprints for Political Action, by George Grant.
Published by Dominion Press of Fort Worth, Texas; copyright
1987. Grant is a former Executive Director of Coral Ridge
Ministries.
You can read that passage, and many others, here: (see book
pages 50-51 - online pages 81-82) The
Changing of the Guard.
A more recent post is here
and a related post is here.
Meanwhile Lambert is sending people here
for more:
Americans have long been in denial that there is a movement
in the U.S. that seeks to impose a Christian theocratic
government; that there is a movement that is effectively
using the tools of constitutional democracy, (also known as
elections) to end constitutional democracy as we know it;
that this movement is growing in number and power. It can't
happen here, we reassure ourselves. Americans won't let it
happen. But in fact, we are closer now than we have ever
been, to "it" happening here.
These people mean it. America is an experiment.
Democracy is an experiment. American democracy has
not been around very long, and we have never been so
perilously close to losing it. All the checks and balances
have been removed by allies of these people. They
mean it. The leader of the Senate is saying that
Democrats hate "people of faith." They mean it.
Time magazine puts
on their cover a person who calls for murdering
us. They mean it. A Supreme Court Justice declares
that rulers should be chosen by God, not the people. They
mean it. The Vice
President is the keynote speaker at a conference where other
speakers called for "a new McCarthyism" to bring
"terror" to intellectuals, saying "let's
oppress them [liberals]," and that "the entire
Harvard faculty" are "traitors." They mean
it. They mean it.
Watch your backs. I mean it.
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The Forest
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