Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)
By Bill Randles
Some find it very offensive when I decry “the Left” and when I espouse a “conservative” outlook. More than a few of my brothers and sisters in Christ have challenged me that I am being “political” and not “spiritual.”
I appreciate the concern and the willingness of those concerned to call me out on what they think is a drift away from the prophecy analysis and biblical exposition which I usually offer. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend.”
I don’t consider myself “political”; I think of myself as “spiritual.” As far as I can tell, I write and think from a God-centered and biblical perspective.
I don’t have a political “party” with which I identify. I do not believe there is a political solution to our national problems. I have no doubt that our nation will go the way of all nations that “forget God.” Psalm 9 tells us:
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalm 9:17)
I realize this and mourn over it greatly. All that remains is to try to urge people to see what is happening and to get them to repent and receive the Gospel. That is not a political perspective by any measure; it is a Kingdom-of-God, realism perspective.
Having said that, I do decry “Leftism,” or “the Left,” and for that, there are some who passionately warn me against being political.
First of all, they think I am being one-sided. “Why don’t you criticize the right?” as if I have to be careful to constantly balance everything out in the name of fairness.
For example, would a critic of Nazism in the 1930s who happened to be a pastor, have to make sure his criticisms of Nazism are balanced with criticisms of the Social Democrat party or any other of the German political parties that were in existence in those days? Would criticizing Nazism make him any less Christian if he didn’t also criticize the others? Would criticizing Nazism prove that the pastor was political and unspiritual? I think not. That should be obvious. Nazism was and is blatant evil, and it would be the job of German pastors to criticize and call it out in the same ways the Prophets of the Bible called out the Baals and other idolatries.
It is as a Christian that I call out Leftism. In fact, Leftism has infiltrated all of our political parties. It is a cancerous blight, an idolatry based on a Utopian fantasy, which ruins everything precious in society. Leftism in both major political parties has given us the abomination of Abortion on Demand and has thus cheapened human life, desecrated the sacredness of women, and perverted the natural instincts to love, nourish, and cherish human life.
Leftism has also spawned abortion’s deformed twin, so-called gay marriage and sexual anarchy.
I hate Leftism because it is evil and has nothing to do with any political party; the cancer is in both lungs of America now, and we are dying. We are to hate and decry evil.
As a pastor, shouldn’t I be able to make a diagnosis and call out for repentance. I know that our nation is under judgment and is dying, but didn’t all of the prophets explain to sinners what they were dying of and call them to repentance?
There are some who accuse us of loving and worshipping President Trump. I do love Trump, but not as a Savior, but as a sinner whom God has allowed to be our leader for the time being. I pray for him, but I do not believe in him the way I believe in Jesus. He has some remarkable gifts and qualities about him, I must admit, but for all I know he could turn out to be the Antichrist. Probably not, but who knows?
He certainly will not save our nation, but in my view he is a reprieve from the deadly, sickening, downward spiral that the philosophy of Leftism has inflicted on us. This sickness is definitely unto death. Are we not to hate it and warn against it?
Some misunderstood our joy when Trump took power in 2016.
It wasn’t political; it had more to do with the fact that the Clintons are manifestly evil people who do not have scruples and have engaged in criminal behaviors at the highest levels. Why shouldn’t we be happy we dodged that bullet?
So many Christians are conflicted due to the humanistic pablum that passes for Bible teaching these days in some churches. They do not get that. Yes, we are to love the LORD and each other, but also, we are to hate evil! The Clintons are not Christians—they are anti-Christians. After covering our nation with soot for eight years, they went on to be the advocates of LGBT, abortion, Planned Parenthood, and virtually everything godless that is bringing judgment on America.
Should I criticize the right? Why? What do you mean “Right.” In theory, one group (the Right) stands for personal responsibility, the right to self defense, religious liberty, freedom of speech, and the conservation of our Judeo-Christian culture.
On the other hand, the other group (the Left) stands for the deconstruction of our borders, group identity, abortion, sexual anarchy, State control of education and every other facet of life, government-funded illegitimacy, and so forth.
“Right” has nothing to do with Party—both Democrat and Republican are infiltrated by Leftism.
The real urgency I have is that I see Leftism as an alternative religion which will damn people’s souls. Being a Leftist is the antithesis of being a Christian. One cannot be a “Leftist Christian” for that is an oxymoron.
Another form of Leftism is currently making many into converts through the use of false guilt. I speak of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement (co-founded by three women, two of which are lesbian) which is responsible for the murder of policemen in Dallas and God knows where else, and which openly calls for the slaying of policemen.
And yet so many have taken to the streets (indeed in many, many cases peacefully) while chanting the slogans of this hateful and, in fact, “racist” movement, which condemns and criticizes people who insist that “All Lives Matter.” God says: Man was made in the image of God; therefore, all lives matter.
I have come to realize that Leftism is a powerful, godless political religion, which is a rival to Christianity and will one day persecute us as they have in every nation that adopted its tenets in the last century. It demands sacrifices, brings judgment on those it hates, and is virulently atheistic at the core.
Should I ignore that, as a man of God, and just stick to “preaching”?
I am Preaching! Maranatha!
(photo from bigstockphoto.com; used with permission)
Correction of typo: Where ARE the protests about THEIR deaths?
I meant to say this earlier: I don’t see how President Trump could possibly be the Anti-Christ. Anyone who assumes that should read Revelation, which says the whole world will go after (follow) the AC, will be deceived by him, that he will be very popular. President Trump doesn’t fit that bill! 🙂
I agree with Pastor JD Farag, that we have passed a tipping point in America, and on God’s time table alike, for a revival here to be likely, in time. Rather, it seems likely, with the escalating pace at which prophecies are being fulfilled, and changes are being effected, we should be keeping an ear peeled for trumpets, while we “occupy ’til He comes”
The churches, by and large, have fallen away from preaching the Gospel; that’s been going on for decades, right in front of us. The real watchmen are few and pretty far between. Thank God for Lighthouse Trails and the few others who remain.
May all Christians pray for Lighthouse Trails for their preaching the true Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and defending The truth of of Gods Holy Word. May God Bless all of you!!
I am thankful Bill said he did not think President Trump was the Antichrist and added who knows? The Bible tells us that the Rapture of the Church will come before the “falling away” of the false church on earth and the “man of sin” is revealed. Thank God we will be in Heaven! The book of the Revelation tells us that the deception of earth dwellers will be great. We see even today that Satan is hard at work. Covid-19, death of George Floyd by police officers, riots, how long was your place of worship closed? Criminals were let out of prisons. Confusion, deception? Christians we need to pray. The world is ready for judgement. Pray for the unsaved. Pray for our country. Pray for the world. Be strong in the Lord. Even so Come Lord Jesus.
Amen. The enemy has done a great job infecting our nation’s churches, seminaries, schools, and government. I pray for a revival and for many of the left who might be saved. They call good evil and evil good but they are blind. They don’t really know what good is. I think their virtue signaling for help and don’t even know it. Lord please take the blinders off their hearts.
GODSPEED to You and to all believers in Our Savior Jesus Christ.Know God, know peace.No God,No Peace.
Amen! Thank you Brother.
If Christians had not voted in the last election Hillary would be President of the U.S. right now. Donald Trump is not persecuting Christians and conservatives; he is trying to hold on to what little we have left of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. He is not perfect or our savior; he is our Cyrus. We may be experiencing the last days of our precious nation. Americans must repent and return to the God of the Bible if they wish to see America continue as the land with the most freedoms in all the world. We must return to our first love–Jesus Christ. Thank you, Bill Randles for saying what is in my heart.
Oh my I’m going thru this very issue. I was getting a lot of pushback and started questioning and praying about my own heart and GOD just answered me with this great article ~ thank you again
Barb Rutherford
If Black Lives Matter (and I agree they do, just as ALL lives matter), then why don’t the lives of …
Black police officers
Black Babies, who comprise 75% of all abortions in America
and Black people who are killed by Black people …
Why don’t THEIR lives matter? Where aren’t the protests about THEIR deaths?
The double standard is Evil.
True justice is not possible without True righteousness. The Lord showed me this while reading Isaiah.
Pamela, Thank You for telling the truth about Marx! Yes, the same hatred for God and thus everything good which pervaded his thinking, his destructive ideology, is all too evident in the American Left today. I pray for the mercy of God on our land daily.
I’m so thankful that He says in His Word (Lamentations 3), that His mercies are new every morning, His compassions, they fail not. Praise God!!! 🙂
Yes! ALL pastors, preachers and teachers in Germany when Hitler came to power should have been truly God-fearing, Bible-believing pastors who fearlessly spoke the TRUTH, trusting God to take care of their souls and their congregations — and that alone would have given their congregations courage (those who knew the Lord) to do the right thing. I know the analogy is not perfect, but it is close enough. {shudder}
IF all pastors, preachers and teachers in the USA were truly God-fearing and believed the Word of God as it is written, they would not have pandered to the evil which is embodied in the Left, for decades now. IF only ungodly unbelievers had done that, what a difference that could have made in our nation!
A united front is vital in ANY battle, and the Lord Himself says we are in a real battle against evil. (Ephesians 6:10 and on)
A man named Edmund ? [Burke] said something like “All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
The devil has already deceived the minds and hearts of unbelievers. Those who know the Lord MUST speak Truth. Christ Jesus said, “Occupy until I come.”
Thank you for your left assessment. It is well explained and I will be sharing it with others. This is a position i can share with people of any political party affiliations. Very Biblical!
Yes! There is still a remnant preaching God’s Truth. As a born-again Christian who is also Black, my heart is grieving over the exploitation of the Black community in order to gain political power and even worse to destroy our great nation. Please know, we are not all blind. The Left is evil and will eventually triumph. Our only hope: The soon-returning Lord Jesus. Maranatha!
Praise the the Lord Jesus Christ for speaking truth in this depraved and antichrist nation where people have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof where such turn away. All lives matter, not just one sect. In this lost culture discernment has fallen in the streets setting the stage for the antichrist to come. Come quickly Lord Jesus.
Bill,
Your words are the words of a shepherd guarding the flock as all good and faithful servants should.
Conversely the faithless cowardly deeds of heirlings has many faces. It will range from saying and doing nothing. Some will speak of empty empathy for this political cult. Worst of all are the ones who condone it and join it.
Those who are with us gather those who are against us scatter.
Leftism is based on a spirituality. Karl Marx, the father of Marxism and its ideological cousins, Communism, Socialism, and American Leftism, based his teachings on his spiritual faith. He was not an atheist, as so many think. He believed in God and hated Him. The proof is in the poems that he wrote in his youth, such as “Feelings,” “Invocation of One in Despair,” “The Fiddler,” and in his drama, “Oulanem.” These writings clearly reveal the spirituality behind the Left in this country. So a Christian pastor is well within his rightful role to preach against it.
I agree with many of your comments Brother. Leftism is godless. They hate our Savior and Christianity. The truth needs to be told. The B.L.M. Is very disturbing. Poor people in the cities are not getting help from Government funds. They are seeing their homes destroyed by riots. When the Lord saved me I lost all interest in politics. Maybe I’m wrong but I stopped voting because I was afraid of going against Gods will for President. You are a faithful Brother. Keep on keeping on.
Keep preaching!