{"id":1112,"date":"2016-03-30T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2017-01-31T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:19:03","slug":"its-a-war-not-a-skirmish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a War, Not a Skirmish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians need to realize one fact and prepare their minds accordingly:\u00a0 we are in a full-scale war.\u00a0 The minions of Satan are coming at us under all sorts of flags and labels with the same objective. \u00a0It appears that the frontline troops in the encroaching army are the LGBT.\u00a0 No other single factor has weakened, altered, changed, and destroyed Judeo\/Christian values as much as the LGBT.\u00a0 They have been assisted in our nation by a near completely liberal news media, ACLU, Hollywood, the music industry, Disney, sports enterprises, politicians, and pseudo-Christians, to name a few. \u00a0Together, they have pulled the festering moral cancer from its natural position at the bottom of society and placed it on a throne.<\/p>\n<p>However, they are not satisfied with that accomplishment. Their goal is not simply to force Christians to tolerate wickedness and other (false) religions.\u00a0 They wish to destroy Christianity.\u00a0 The first phase of the plan was to infiltrate and pervert Denominations, Christian colleges, universities, and other organizations, mega churches, and make allies of leading Christians.\u00a0 The second phase is to subjugate Christians by forcing the LGBT narrative on them via legislation and litigation.\u00a0 The third phase is to persecute by any means possible the remainder of the ones who refuse to concede.\u00a0 The hold-outs will be demoted to the bottom of the \u201cNew World\u201d caste system. It is time that true Christians realize that we are a rapidly shrinking minority.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The war has progressed strongly in favor of the God haters.\u00a0 Evidence is in the fact that they are very bold in their shenanigans.\u00a0 Consider the unscrupulous SCOTUS ruling violating the Constitution of the United States to force homosexuality on the nation.\u00a0 There is also oppression by the Obama administration to force Christians to deny or refrain from publically expressing their values.\u00a0 There is the scurrilous behavior of state officials, such as Brad Avakian, extreme liberal Commissioner of Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.\u00a0 In Avakian\u2019s case, he was prosecutor, judge, and jury, to unjustly punish Sweet Cakes by Melissa for refusing to make a lesbian wedding cake. Presently, nearly a dozen major companies threaten to leave Georgia if the Religious Freedom Bill passed.\u00a0 Twenty companies have cancelled their conventions and major film stars have refused to work in the state.\u00a0 The same threats are being made against North Carolina in reaction to the passage of the HB2 bill that requires individuals to use bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender. All the Georgia bill does is secure religious freedom for religions including Christianity.\u00a0 \u00a0However, it protects Christians from LGBT militants and their supporters attacking and oppressing individuals and organizations that do not fully agree with them.\u00a0 The NC bill protects citizens from lewd individuals who believe they have the right to invade the privacy of people of legitimate opposite gender.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal news media is covering up the truth or refusing to report fairly about the Religious Freedom and HB2 bills.\u00a0 They allow false information and false accusations of hate and bigotry to go unchallenged. The fact is that all across this nation, with help from the liberal news media, Christian freedom is being shredded.\u00a0 Any significant individual resisting the LGBT advances is caricatured in the worst possible terms.\u00a0 The punishment is meant to frighten other ones into submission.\u00a0 It is working.\u00a0 Many Christian leaders and politicians are cravenly rescinding their opposition or \u201coffensive\u201d remarks concerning LGBT\u2019s militant activity.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the world society has changed in irreversible ways.\u00a0 Deluded individuals have gone too far in their rebellion against God.\u00a0 They can only travel the path of wickedness to its disastrous conclusion. \u00a0It will result in a total eradication of the social norms essential to functioning societies.\u00a0 It is a last day\u2019s formation of the Antichrist kingdom that will be followed by God\u2019s wrath.\u00a0 Christ prophesied that a \u201cSodom and Gomorrah\u201d society would be indicative of the last days (Luke 21:28-30).<\/p>\n<p>To more clearly understand how deep we are into the last days, consider this verse in Revelation: \u201cAnd their dead bodies <em>will lie<\/em> in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.\u201d\u00a0 (Revelation 11:8) Christ Jesus the Lord was crucified in Jerusalem.\u00a0 It is stunning to think of Jerusalem being called \u201cSodom\u201d.\u00a0 However, consider the following information:\u00a0 \u201cLGBT rights in Israel are the most advanced in the Middle East and one of the most advanced in Asia. Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1988.\u00a0 In 2004, the Nazareth District Court ruled that same-sex couples have the same rights as married couples in inheritance rights. In 2005, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court ruled that lesbian couples can legally adopt each other&#8217;s children. In 2005, the fourth annual Pride march of Jerusalem took place. In 2008 the Tel Aviv opened the Municipal LGBT Community Center, the first of its kind in the country. Israel today is one of the world\u2019s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities. Politically, legally, and culturally, the nation has moved from life at the margins of Israeli society to visibility and growing acceptance.\u00a0Israel was ranked as the seventh happiest place in the world for gay men to live on the first ever annual Gay Happiness Index, which surveyed over 115,000 gay men in 127 countries. Tel Aviv is known as one of the world&#8217;s finest and friendliest GLBT travel destinations.\u00a0 <strong>Israel<\/strong>&#8216;s government is backing a public-relations campaign styling the country as a haven for the <strong>gay<\/strong> community.\u201d (Compiled from various sources including, myjewishlearning.com, Wikipedia, timesofisrael.com, jewishvirtuallibrary.com, gaytlvguide.com, npr.org.)<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that it is time to heed the words of the Apostle Peter. \u201cTherefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner <em>of persons<\/em> ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.\u201d \u2013 2 Peter 3:11-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians need to realize one fact and prepare their minds accordingly:\u00a0 we are in a full-scale war.\u00a0 The minions of Satan are coming at us under all sorts of flags and labels with the same objective. \u00a0It appears that the frontline troops in the encroaching army are the LGBT.\u00a0 No other single factor has weakened, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,8,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eschatology","category-for-the-remnant","category-politics","category-the-great-apostasy","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIm2N-hW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}