Persecution is Very Near-Part 2

Part 1 is here.

He is an excerpt from Andrew Webb. Note the last two sentences.

"We evangelicals are currently going through the process of demonization, the fact that evangelicals as a group are the most charitable people on earth, or that they have created the freest and most tolerant societies is being conveniently forgotten, and the myth of the ignorant, ranting, gay basher is being spread far and wide. The next steps after demonization are marginalization and then finally purging.


To be sure, there is still a lot of talk in the media about discrimination against homosexuals, and outrage against evangelical Christian attitudes towards the homosexual agenda, and in particular, same-sex marriage. But at this point any objective review of the situation would indicate that the worm has turned and that it is not homosexuals, but Bible believing Christians who are facing increasing discrimination in society, and in particular in the media.


....we need to remember where this vilification is headed. History teaches us that in order to really victimize someone you have to first make them the villains and oppressors. In order for the Nazis to successfully persecute the Jews they first had to portray them as thieving oppressors who “stabbed Germany in the back” during the first world war, stole their jobs and their women, and perverted their youth. By doing that, they made the persecution of the Jews seem justified to most Germans, who came to believe that the Jews were, after all, only “getting a taste of their own medicine.” The Soviets did something very similar with the Ukrainian Kulak farmers. First they demonized them, and then they starved, imprisoned, and shot them en masse.


The UK is already in the marginalization stage, we’d be gullible indeed not to think that the US won’t follow or that persecution can’t happen here.



Andrew Webb is a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and is Pastor of Providence Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, N.C.

Persecution Looks Very Near--Part 1

If you've studied why the German people didn't seem to "get" what was happening to the Jews in their midst, here are some clues. For one thing, most of the Lutheran churches had long abandoned their evangelical viewpoint and had entered the world of liberal Protestantism . But their liberal Protestantism was a very strange hybrid. It was very anti-Semitic (meaning anti-Jewish). They blanked out most of the Bible so it read that Jesus was an Aryan and not a Jew. This isn't really surprising, as in liberal Protestantism, you really can deconstruct the Bible text any way you wish. Another important factor was the intense propaganda directed by the Third Reich government toward the Jews. They were portrayed as slimy, rat-looking, dirty people who went around seducing young innocent German women. This would be funny if it weren't so serious. Jew are the cleanest people around because of their cleanliness rituals. Even most secular Jews keep themselves very clean because of that tradition.

If you are paying attention to the news in the past years, that is, the mainstream media, you might have noticed an ongoing oneslought
against us evangelical Christians. We are portrayed as all living in the rural south (or sometimes rural Midwest, but not west of Kansas), with an eighth grade education, almost no teeth, and we don't talk too good. In this worldview there couldn't be any evangelicals on the Westside of L.A. (there are), or on Long Island (there are many there) or in Cambridge, Massachusetts (there are scads there). And of course absolutely zero in Beverly Hills (there are quite a few including some stars in the entertainment industry). The sad thing is I don't think most of these news liberals even knows and evangelical. Tammy Bruce was the past president of the large chapter of the Los Angeles branch of the feminist organization, NOW. She took a feminist stand on domestic abuse that didn't sit well with her national NOM Masters (or should that be Mistresses?). After she was fired she received myriads of supportive letters from....gasp! Yes, from evangelical Christians agreeing with Bruce's stance against domestic abuse. Tammy was aghast! She had been taught by her NOW friends that evangelical Christians were her enemies. This so confused her that she went back to those friends and asked if any of them had ever met an evangelical Christian. They all told her they hadn't.

I rest my case.

Fantastic Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

A BIG thanks to the Revival list (Andrew Strom ) for these fantastic quotes.


Isn't it staggering when you think that one sermon on the day of Pentecost produced 3000 people? And we had some cities yesterday where 3000 sermons were preached and nobody was saved. And it doesn't even faze us.


In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.


If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.