Moooolah, mammon vs. going formless

Driving home from a work assignment last night I heard a local conservative radio talk show host tell about a primary school in a German ski resort village where children were forced this week to chant and memorize, “Allahu Akhbar,” and “there is no God but you.”

A German parent reported that his daughter came home from the school with a teacher handout that read: “Oh, Allah, how perfect you are and praise be to you. Blessed is your name, and exalted is your majesty. There is no God but you.”

Referring to the Islamic takeover now under way in countries like Germany, France, Belgium, etc., the talk show host lamented, “Europe’s toast, folks. There’s no going back.” He urged listeners who wanted to vacation there to do so as soon as possible. He said in another 30 years Europe won’t even be recognizable. He predicted that within a year a school somewhere in the U.S. would be under the same Islamic dictums. 

*****

Back in my car listening to conservative talk radio this morning, host Dennis Prager commented how, “I used to think being free was the greatest human desire. I have come to see that for many, being taken care of is the greatest human desire.”

One of the common themes of the Left today is, “We take care of our own.” That means, if you stay with our agenda and promote our cause, you won’t lose your job and you’ll be promoted to fame and financial success, on and on. Just look at Hillary’s campaign slogan: “Stronger Together.” As Jordan says, 

“Somebody over here is milking the cow and somebody over there's milking the cow and you know who the cow is? Moooolah.”

*****

“When the Antichrist tries to put ‘the last days’ together—you got to remember Satan doesn’t have a kingdom that’s made of peaceful, loving, sweet people,” says Jordan. “He’s crafty enough to keep all these different creatures--people who’d cut each other’s throats if they had a chance to get ahead . . . He’s crafty enough to stay ahead of it all. He sits on a boiling pot with the lid jiggling. The Antichrist is going to be that master craftsman putting this thing together.”

Of course, in ‘the last days,’ as Revelation defines them, all the nations of the earth, including the United States (which will be so insignificant at that point it won’t really matter), will gather themselves against Jerusalem and against Israel. The Antichrist will rule the Middle East as he harnesses the influence of the nations under his rubric to fight against God’s purposes.

*****

Jordan reminds, “Satan keeps up-to-date on what God’s doing so he can oppose it. He doesn’t shoot blanks and he doesn’t waste ammunition shooting at something God used to do and isn’t doing anymore. The Adversary knows God’s not trying to repossess the land of Palestine today. What’s He doing? He’s forming the Body of Christ.

“One brother said, ‘I fear for the future of our country.’ Well, I would, too, if I thought (the good times) were never supposed to end! What I fear about the future is (the Body of Christ) not being prepared for Winter; dressing like it’s still summertime.

“My answer to this guy is I’d say, ‘Get unplugged.’ By that, I mean what Paul says in Romans 12:1-2:

[1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
[2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

*****

“Don’t follow the cohort thinking. You go to get over seasonal thinking and learn not to evaluate the way things were yesterday, but understand the way it’s GOING to be.

“Get over the myth of the Christian nation, all that kind of stuff that makes you think the political action and the political arena is where the real action is. We’re not called to political dominion and law-motivated service.

“When you’re involved in that, that’s nothing but to be consumed with mammon. And everybody who’s always worried about the government and the politics--making the law do things, making people do things--all they’re concerned about is mammon. I say that and I know that grates at some of you.

“People are going to say: ‘Well, if that’s the way you feel, then just don’t have any of my mammon!’ Well, I don’t want that; I want your heart!

"You know what we need to do? We need to get busy talking to people about the Lord and sharing the revelation God’s given us today.

“Be involved in getting that out and get over all the form issues that say it’s got to be done ‘my way or the highway.’ Understand the key is to take the truth and put it in people and let that truth in them do the work of the ministry.

*****

“Paul says, ‘Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

“When he says one mind, the business way of saying that is we have ‘agenda harmony.’ We’re all on the same page about where we’re going and we’re striving, we’re working, we’re laboring together to the point of exhaustion to get there.

“And then he says ‘in nothing terrified by you adversaries.’ Because there is opposition. You and I have been called to radical risk-taking faith and service. We haven’t been called to living lives of ease. We've been called to lives of united, radical, risk-taking service for the gospel. That’s what you do in the Wintertime!

“It may look radical to the system, but if it’s based in the Book, it won’t be radical; it’ll be FAITH! In this Wintertime, you’re going to get the greatest privilege of your life, and if you’re older, people are going to need your wisdom. If you’re younger, you’re going to be building what you’re going to carry throughout the future."