The left hates the church.
This is fact and not fiction.
You can count on them to use the coronavirus in an attempt to damage Christianity.
Their ultimate goal is to sell preachers on a future church with a vastly decreased influence on the nation.
They proved both their hatred and their future plans by the way they closed the churches during this pandemic.
They should have found a way to keep churches open, and they could have done so, easily: they found a way to keep “necessary businesses” like Planned Parenthood open.
But by not even trying to find a way, they made a very dangerous statement.
The First Amendment to the Constitution states,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
It is illegal to prevent worship.
If there was any way possible to allow churches to remain open safely, they were duty bound to find it.
If it is in the Constitution that you can’t create a law which prevents American citizens from meeting for worship in churches, why did they do it?
California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will tell you that it is necessary to close churches for the safety of the public.
That is a bald-faced lie.
California found a way to keep Walmart, Costco, and liquor stores open, as well as the Planned Parenthood death mills.
But when it came to churches, they didn’t even try.
They didn’t even bother to consult pastors about what could be done. California is the epicenter of technology, and they couldn’t find a solution for safe worship?
Why would they do this?
Could it be they couldn’t find a way to keep churches open for the same reason a burglar can’t find a policeman?
The preexisting hatred for the church emboldened them to ignore their Constitutional priority to allow freedom of religion.
This hatred is so blatant and open that Governor Northam of Virginia hideously overruled freedom of religion by passing a law that forces churches to allow men to use the ladies room.
Ever notice how the Left uses the phrase “freedom of worship” rather than “freedom of religion”?
They do that on purpose.
They use it to justify their bans on churches.
They say, “You can worship God in nature, in your car, or in your house.”
But “freedom of religion” means something else, entirely.
Freedom of religion refers to houses of worship, doctrines, creeds and traditions.
Freedom of religion means you cannot write a law that overrules a religious conviction, but that is precisely what Northam did.
He is saying, in essence, “I don’t care what your Bible says, I order you to violate your faith.”
Using that logic, they could force Rabbis to eat ham sandwiches…
So why did they do all these things?
This, my friend, was merely a dress rehearsal.
They flexed their muscles to prove they could close down every church and keep them closed for as long as they wanted.
If you think they won’t do it again—and next time, do it with far less justification—you are naïve.
The purpose of the test was to see how America would react. Look carefully at these verses:
Acts 12:1-3, “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church.
Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter, also.”
Are you seeing a pattern here?
When Herod saw how murdering Christian leaders pleased the anti-Christian crowd, it emboldened him to arrest Peter.
Bingo! That is what California and other States are doing.
Testing to see how it plays with their base when they persecute the church.
Here is the tragic fact we must face.
Millions were okay with the church shutdown because they hate President Trump and they see the church as his ally.
Long after the virus is no longer a viable threat, every State under Democrat rule will keep churches closed as long as possible.
And even after they allow us to open, there will be permanent irrational limitations placed on us.
Here in Reno, they opened the marijuana dispensaries today, but churches are still forced to remain closed indefinitely.
Go figure.
I hate the term ‘wakeup call’ because it is vastly over-used.
But, this really is a wakeup call.
Just as Paul indicted the Philippian politicos for their gross violation of Roman law in Acts 16, we must take legal action against all the governors who illegally violated the Constitution, and who oppressed the church.
If we fail to come together in unity and act against this tyranny, we will be bitterly failing our children and future generations.
It’s a hard truth, but when it comes to defending freedom of religion, at this point, we can only look to God and ourselves.
But if God be for us, who can be against us?
