Evangelical Leaders Have Thrown Us To The Wolves

All right, guys, just a couple of quick thoughts about the last two, the last three videos that I've done this week.

And the first thing is about sort of the curses for disobedience for the nations and things

like that.

Micah, thanks for the comments.

By the way, Micah expressed a little bit of exasperation that when I say general equity, that's almost like

a weasel word.

It's just a kind of a way to sort of get away from the specificity of your positions or something like that.

If I'm misrepresenting you, Micah, sorry.

But, you know, chances are there are some of you that believe the same thing.

So when I read the curses that God says will happen to Israel, you know, if they if they

disobey his covenant and things like that.

And I want to apply I want to take the general principles of that and apply it to the nations, including our nation.

And I want to say that unless we repent as a nation that we're going to be destroyed by God.

Like that's a non -negotiable.

We will be destroyed.

And the ways that it describes in Deuteronomy 28 are the ways that God's likely to destroy us.

Now, it doesn't have to be one to one.

That's part of what general equity means.

So, like, we don't have to get every single one of those curses and they don't have to be specifically exactly

the way it happens in Israel.

But the general ideas, the general categories, the general equity of those curses

absolutely will come to us.

And I think that we can see some of these things happening.

A lot of you guys can see it, too, with the illegal immigration and the status of

Americans going down and down and down and all that kind of stuff.

Anyway, all that to say, though, what I am going to do, because what I told Micah and Micah, I'm not trying to

insult you.

I don't think this is as complicated as you're making it seem.

And a lot of people make it seem the whole idea of general equity.

What I'm going to do, I'm going to take the time to look through the prophets prophesying about the nations.

So, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, you know, all of the major prophets that

prophesy, you know, curses and destruction upon Israel, but also the nations.

You know, they prophesy against Egypt and Assyria and Babylon and all that kind of stuff.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to find what the categories and what the verses say about what's going to happen

to the nations.

And I'm going to categorize them into military strife, economic strife, health,

things of that nature, pestilence, stuff like that.

I'm going to categorize them.

Then I'm going to categorize the curses that he says are going to happen to Israel in Deuteronomy 28.

And I'm going to show you what general equity means, because what's going to happen, and I haven't taken the time to do this yet, but what I'm going to

do is you're going to see that Jeremiah prophesies that Egypt is going to be defeated

before their enemies.

They're going to come in one way and then they're going to go out a million ways in terror and chaos, just like he

tells Israel is going to happen to them as a curse for their sin.

So what's going to happen is you're going to see that all the same categories that God judges the nations, according

to the Book of the Prophets, are all the same categories that he judges Israel according to

the Book of the Law.

And so it's really not that complicated.

You know what I mean?

Like, yeah, maybe Egypt's not going to eat their own children, but there's going to be a category for

that too, where they actually end up destroying their own children.

I think we're doing that now, right?

Like most people aren't eating their own children the way Israel did in the United States.

We're not doing that.

But what we are doing is we're killing our children and then taking the money that we would have used to raise those

children and going on vacation and going to expensive restaurants.

So like in a way, we're eating our own children, right?

So that's what I mean by general equity.

God has cursed the United States for our sin against him and our rebellion.

He has judged us and found us wanting, and as a result, we are in a way eating our own

children, not like Israel did because that was a specific prediction for Israel, but the general idea

is happening here in our culture today.

Now, will there be a time when people are so hungry in the United States that they eat their own children?

Well, I don't know.

Possibly.

I don't know.

But you see, that's how the general equity works, right?

So I'm going to take the time to do it because I think it'll be helpful for a lot of you.

Look at how the prophets predict curses upon the nations and judgment

among the nations and also the standard of judgment.

What's he judging them based on, right?

And you're going to look at that, and we're going to categorize it in the same way we categorized Deuteronomy 28 and the Book of the Law, and

we're going to see that, you know, lo and behold, God is consistent.

It's just that simple.

God is consistent.

So that's the one thing.

I also want to talk about John Piper again because John Piper's article has really shook me

up a little bit, not because of the fact that he's come out for the vaccine, that kind of thing I expect, right?

But just the subversive nature of the article has really just struck a nerve with me

because it's so twisted, and it's basically what everybody in Big Eva is

doing.

Evangelical leaders have abandoned you.

I mean, we got to get that through our skull.

A lot of us have it, but some of us, including myself, haven't really fully absorbed what has happened here.

Our leaders in evangelicalism have abandoned us and thrown us to the wolves.

What John Piper did in that article is—let's just put it, let's put ourselves from his perspective for a second, right?

Getting the jab or not is a matter of Christian freedom, right?

And what he's done is he's provided not only peer pressure, like he says, well, we shouldn't

succumb to peer pressure, by the way, if you don't get it, all these people are going to die.

And it's like, he doesn't counterbalance that with an actual point that people make.

Like, for example, the vaccine can also make you die as well.

And for example, they're under -reporting the deaths for the vaccine, and he doesn't really do that.

He just says, oh, you know, you consider the risks.

So you've got to compare considering the risks, which is very innocuous, to hundreds of thousands of deaths, which is very,

very peer pressure -y and sneaky.

So not only does he do that, but let's, again, put yourself in the mindset, this is Christian freedom.

That's the point of the article that you're trying to write.

Where in the world do you come up with the idea that the people that need encouragement right

now, the people that need to be encouraged before God exercising their freedom are the

ones who aren't getting the vaccine, who are getting the vaccine, who want to get the vaccine?

Like, it's so subversive.

Like, that's the exact opposite of who needs to be encouraged right now, because who needs to be encouraged right now

are those who don't want to get it before God.

They're not getting this vaccine.

They're not going to subject their children to the vaccine and all of that.

And they're being threatened with their livelihoods.

They're being threatened with, in some countries, they're being threatened with things like potentially internment

camps.

In some countries, they're being threatened with just basic things, going to the store, things like that, like the

vaccine passports.

If anybody needs encouragement about how free they are in Christ and how they need to rely on

Christ, if anybody needs that, it's those who aren't getting the vaccine.

But yet, John Piper found a way to write an article, a piece of trash article about the

opposite, about the people that are feeling the peer pressure and have no pressure on them whatsoever,

because the entire world is on their side in this.

Get the vaccine.

And by the way, all's going to go well with you, because you can keep your job.

You can still go to the grocery store.

We won't have to put you in an internment camp, and everything will be fine.

You can go to church, even.

You can go to church, even.

It's got me shook up, and it's got me pissed off, because this is Big Eva's thing

now.

They've thrown us to the wolves.

Whenever there's an issue where they say, oh, it's a Christian freedom issue, they're encouraging people on the

wrong side of it, the ones who don't need any encouragement.

They're the ones that are following the zeitgeist.

Things are going to go well.

Caesar will give you his approval.

Those are the ones they're writing articles encouraging, and it's so infuriating.

Now, let me calm down for a second, because this is common now.

You remember John Lehman, that little snake?

That's right, Jonathan.

You're a snake.

He did the same thing in the critical moment.

He made the case, oh, you know, going to church or not in the middle of a pandemic, it's a matter of

Christian freedom.

But his entire article was written to those who are going to continue to obey

Caesar when Caesar said don't go to church, when in that moment, what we needed was

encouragement to go to church.

Those who were bound conscious, you know, by their own conscience, according to how they understand the scripture,

bound to go to church, they're the ones who needed encouragement.

You're free in Christ to be arrested by these charlatans.

You're free in Christ to go to prison by these jackbooted thugs who are just going to do whatever they have to do

because I'm doing my job.

You're free in Christ to disobey in that regard.

That's who needed the encouragement.

And by the way, when that snake wrote his article, that's what was happening.

People were being encouraged.

One of the evangelical leaders was like, no, guys, we're going to church.

MacArthur, God bless you.

God bless you, brother, because he stood up finally.

He changed course, if you remember, because at first he was closing down.

Then he changed course because he realized he was wrong.

God bless you, John.

And he was encouraging brothers to say, you can go to church, you can risk arrest, you can pay the fine,

you can disobey.

Caesar is not your Lord.

Christ is your Lord.

People were being encouraged.

And of course, big evil goons, they got out.

Those snakes who are throwing their flock to the wolves, they got out and wrote a Christian freedom

article encouraging the other side.

Oh, no, no, you cannot go to church.

No, no, you can listen to Caesar.

Like, Caesar's okay here.

He is kind of Lord in this area.

Yeah, you can do that.

You have the freedom to do that.

At the critical moment when nobody on that side was being threatened with arrest, nobody on that side was being threatened with fines.

We have brothers in Canada who have been imprisoned because of this.

And all the while, these leaders, these Christian leaders who

have thrown us to the wolves have just pretended like it's not happening.

And they're encouraging those on the other side who need no encouragement.

They're just fine doing whatever Caesar says.

As long as you say, Caesar, that things will go well with me.

Oh, Lord, I believe you.

It's disgusting, guys.

It's so subversive.

These are people that I question whether or not they're working for the enemy.

And I don't say that lightly.

If you watch this channel, you know that I don't say that lightly.

I take heat from people that think I'm too naive.

Even in the John Piper thing, people are messaging me privately and publicly saying, I don't know why you're surprised.

I don't know why you're expecting different.

And they question my discernment.

And I get it.

I get it, man.

I'm not griping with you guys.

I think I am a little bit naive sometimes.

But you have to wonder if they're consistently encouraging those on the other

side of this, the side that's going with the zeitgeist, the side that'll say, whatever you say, Caesar.

And they're never encouraging those who are actually taking a stand for Christ on these issues

where they admit, well, it's just freedom, Christian freedom, which by the way, I don't think going to church or not is

actually one of those issues, but let's just stay in their weird world.

On these issues where the Christian freedom, that's the argument they're making.

The encouragement is always on the side to disobedience.

And it's just so infuriating.

These people have thrown us to the wolves, but I'm here to tell you

that that's good.

That's a good thing.

I'm glad that our evangelical leaders have decided to throw us to the wolves so the wolves can have a meal and they're

going to, and they can, they can still sit at the nice tables.

They can still have their nice, you know, articles in the Washington post and all that kind of trash, because that is

trash and they're going to have their fill of that trash.

And some of them, I think will come to their senses, like the prodigal son, that some of them are going to be eating,

gorging at the pig slop.

And they're going to be like, wait a minute, what have I done?

Maybe it'll be John Lehman currently gorging on the pig slop.

Maybe it won't.

Maybe, maybe Jonathan Lehman will gorge himself to death on the slop,

but it's a good thing because here's the reality.

There has to be division so that we can see who's true.

And I have to say that I am so grateful that God has revealed so much with so much clarity

in such stark contrasts in 2020 and 2021.

It's never been easier to see who's true than it is right now.

And I'm so grateful for that, guys.

They've thrown us to the wolves and they, they, they, they think it's going to save their own skin.

It's not.

And I'm, I'm glad to be thrown to the wolves by these charlatans because when it gets really serious, and by

the way, guys, I'm not downplaying those of you who are about to lose your job and all this kind of stuff.

I'm not downplaying that.

Karen Swallow Pryor thinks that that's cosplay, that she's an idiot.

Okay.

And a bottom line, idiot at best.

So I'm not downplaying what you're going through now, but when I don't think it's going to get better before it gets worse.

And so when it gets really serious, it's good thing.

It's a gift from God to know who you can count on and who you can't.

So many people email me and they say, man, I can't believe my church closed down.

Like I had to leave because obviously this guy doesn't have his head on straight, but I'm

grateful because I found a great church who will not comply when Caesar starts rounding the

people up.

They will not.

And so we can be grateful to God that we've seen so clearly now with even minor, minor

disruptions to our normal lifestyle so that when the major ones come, we're ready to, we're ready to go.

And we know what to do.

I didn't expect this video to get so heated.

I don't, I don't really even know why it did.

But, but God bless you guys.

I hope you found this video helpful.

If you're feeling a little discombobulated and you need help finding a good church and you, you know, need, you know, need advice on anything,

guys, like I'm glad to message you.

I might not respond right away.

Obviously you should go to your pastor first, but I'm certainly glad to give you my take as well.

God bless you guys.

I hope you found this video helpful.

God bless.