Against political activism by believers to curb the trend of moral decay in America
Reponse to A Christian Radio Show
by Timothy L. Price


Paul & Marty,

On your Thursday show you had I believe Terry as a guest discussing things that seem to happen conveniently at precise moments when other more abhorrent things are happening behind the scenes in Washington. Specfically the story of "prior knowledge about 9-11 events before 9-11 by Bush" surfacing at the same time "smoke filled room discussions of fast tract legislation for the President to control trade..." which would be a constitutional overstep. This type of thing has been happening for years. Clinton did the same thing, starting the US entrance into the war in Bosnia in order to take the attention off of investigations into improprieties at the White House...namely the Monica Lewinski deal. Virtually every President, Republican or Democrat, or their handlers, have done this type of thing going back 60-70 years and maybe further.

This is another reason why Christians trying to control politics and turn the cultural tide through political means will never work. What you see in the political process is only the tip of the iceberg. Some say that there is great "conspiracy" in all that goes on in politics and I would not disagree totally with this idea. I do not believe that anyone could prove this kind of super-clandestine cooperation is going on in between groups bent on total control as the conspiratorialists such as the John Birch Society would have people believe to be true. However, there is an incrementalism that is happening. Rush Limbaugh has made references to this fact by comparing the rhetoric of Kennedy with modern day conservative politicians speech content. It is so comparable that one would have to say that the conservatives of today have lowered themselves to yesterdays liberal threshold. So we can see that there is a downward incrementalism from just this simple example.

A believer can cartainly read their Bible and see a conspiracy on the part of the enemy of our souls since the beginging of time. This is where I think conspiracy really originates and operates. Human agencies and societies are merely blind complicitous partners in what even they could not even fathom. This is the enemy's world! See Matt. 4:8-11 Jesus did not even disputes this fact. For the believer to march into its halls of power in this world, even though it is said that we have the right in this country to do so, and try to establish and maintain a moral standard is absurd! The government has not the means to establish morality anyway.

In addition, to these few problems for the believer in regards to using politics they way conservatives have tried for the past 40 years, is the fact that we know from the Bible that the world is going to end in a specific way. Our presense as believers in this "end" is argued over because of various views of endtime porphecy interpretations. However, views of end times do not resolve problems nor do they determine for fact how things will really play out. Many religious people have been wrong about understanding prophecy and applying what they interpret properly;Pharisees, Fundamentalist, Cults and many Christians.... The point I am trying to make is that we could be ignorant complicitous partners in the destruction of "traditional culture" for those who are concerned about such things, as well as the abolition of the sovereignty of nations, the implementation of the One-World Government system, the world's new monetary system and many other things. All while we are naively trying to hold back the busted damn of self-serving human purpose that will culminate in antichrist system, which the current systems are rapidly giving way to. No thinking person, given the word of God, could deny that the current events of this world are headed towards the final end times at terminal velocity. We are at the point of sudden impact!

So with all this in mind, how long will conservatives continue to fiddle with trying to do what they are doing through politics while naively helping the antichrist's system to come into power??? When will believers stop being the "political conservatives" they charade themselves as being and get back to being soldiers of Christ in an evil world? At what point in the future should we cut bait and have nothing to do with the tree that is falling, (the political system of the world)? Should we have been about our Fathers business in a more direct way long ago rather than trying to work through the death-maze of politics??? Why do Christians feel that they have to justify the systems of this world and bow before the god of this world to do what they are supposed to?

Why do Christians want to justify themselves by showing they can work through the mechanics of the world's system to try and accomplish what we have been commanded to do. Doesn't this seem masochistic and sinful? Why didn't Paul or Jesus take over the Roman Senate and force the right beliefs and morals on the societies of their day? Hmmmmmm! As you like to say.

It would seem that "believers" in this country are the most ignorant and naive people on the face of the earth because we have the means to do what is not only right but to be much more effective than we have been.
Yet we are too busy with the diversions of the temporal world to pay attention to God and what He has to say today! George Verwer, the director of Operation Mobilization, once said Evangelical Christians are champions for those who know everything and do nothing", in regards to christians in America and world evangelization. We are not much removed from those who worship dead gods. We might as well worship dead gods since we do not pay attention to the living God we claim to follow. We are more blind than even Belshazzar who was at least attentive enough to see the handwriting on the wall. The handwriting for us has clearly been on the walls for years, close to a century for those who would but look, however we have continued in our turning aside to serve that which is not a god in place of Him who is God! Very soon "believers" in this country will no longer be able to say “for God and Country” anymore. They will be forced to choose either “for God”, or “for country”, but not both. When will believers wake up? Will it be before the One-World Government system hits us full force so we cannot deny the reality of where things are going, or will we continue to lean on the unprovable theories of end times and hope God will snatch us out before things get thick after we have total screwed up every last chance to do what should have been done all along? As Believers we need to reevaluate our eschatology, our "theology", our motives, our perceived identity and our relationship to God. Could we be as far off as Old Testament Israel from God and His purposes?
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Timothy is a 37 year old man, who graduated from Omaha Bible School in 1988. He and his family also went through YWAM's intensive discipleship school in 1999. He and his family have had extensive "cross-cultural experiences" in Romania, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, Germany and Holland where these place and experiences "have left an indelible mark " on how Timothy thinks about the church. Timothy's email is tprice123@juno.com