2020 should have been their death knell

In an account people use to say there are contradictions in the Bible, Numbers 25 says,

[8] And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

[9] And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. 

In I Corinthians 10, Paul says, referring to what took place in Numbers, in what is obviously "subsequent revelation," [8] Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

"In other words, in the whole plague the aggregate was 24,000, but in one day 23,000 died; that was the impact of the thing," explains Preacher Richard Jordan.

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"All day long on Christian radio, they talk about 'the kingdom, the kingdom, the kingdom' and they use the term 'Christ followers.' What in the world is that? The devil's a 'Christ follower.' Well, of course, you've got to get the right Christ, because Satan's a christ.

"What is now called 'social justice' was one hundred years ago called the 'social gospel.' That is, we want to go out and feed and clothe the poor. When I was in college in the '60s, I worked in the rescue mission and we actually did feed and clothe poor people and house the homeless.

"The college campuses where people said you need to do this, I think, 'Hey, Doc, what are you doing? You sit in your ivory tower, get paid, go home and put your feet up on the coffee table. Come on down to the mission and actually do this stuff.'

"Anyone who's involved in preaching the gospel, appreciating the grace of God, is going to be concerned about ministering to those who are in need. With Paul in Galatians 2, when the apostles recognized his ministry, they said, '[10] Only they would that we should remember the poor,' talking about the poor saints in Jerusalem. Paul said, 'We're already doing that. That's the normal thing.'

"Anywhere you go in the world where the gospel's gone, you'll find ministries to the sick and needy, but they do it with the gospel in mind, trying to reach the souls of men, not just their physical well-being.

"The social gospel back 100 years ago was, 'Well, we take care of the physical needs.' Listen, there's no such thing as social justice. 

"In the Bible it's 'biblical justice.' If you want to see it in the age of grace, it's in Colossians 4:1: [1] Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

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"In the literal earthly kingdom to come, the Lord Jesus Christ will purify the government because He'll be the king. Isaiah 34 says all three branches of the government will be under His control. There will be a reign of righteousness. He'll bring justice to the social structure of the world.

"All the passages in Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel that you hear people quoting to bring social justice, that will never happen in the present evil age. But they will when Jesus comes and sets up His kingdom. That's what they're describing.

"He'll bring a healthcare system that will work: 'Inhabitants of my kingdom will no more say I am sick.' He'll bring an economic system that brings complete prosperity to everyone on the planet. He'll bring an ecological system that will take care of all the fright/hype.

"I remember in the 1960s, it was, 'We're going to freeze.' Global freezing. The cover of Time Magazine had a globe on it, all frozen over. Now it's global warming. That's just a bunch of rich, greedy corporations trying to suck money out of your pocket book to the government. 

"When Christ comes back He'll take care of that. When we say we're pre-millennialists, that's as much a political statement as it is a doctrinal statement. There's not going to be any hope outside of Jesus Christ.

"But there is hope now because we understand why Christ isn't here. He's not establishing the kingdom. Get out of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and get over into Romans-Philemon and find out what God's really doing and don't live in a false world with false ideas.

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"The brother was talking about 'suffering-avoidance.' I was convinced last year that the COVID situation would be the death of the Charismatic, Pentecostal fraud claims. I mean, why wouldn't it be?

"When the virus first started, Kenny Copeland, Rod Parsley, Paula White, all these whackos, they were 'breathing out the breath of God's heat upon the COVID' and they were going to destroy and get rid of it. What happened? Everybody got sick. It didn't work. You'd think if anybody had one living brain cell they would look at that and say, 'That stuff's just a fraud.'

"The same thing with the prophecy stuff. These guys claim to be prophets and made all these prophecies that didn't come about. Sid Roth had a big convention before COVID with all these big prophecy preachers and they all talked about '2020 Visions' and how wonderful 2020 was going to be. Not a one of them saw the pandemic coming.

"2020 should have been the death knell of them, so why wasn't it? Well, I got to thinking about that. I Timothy says, [8] And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

[9] But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
[10] For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

"Galatians 3 says, [3] Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? [4] Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

"People's religious flesh wants what it wants so desperately bad that it's willing to, well as Brother Crumb said it, 'God is not a man that He should lie.' They're willing to look that in the face and say, 'Well, He didn't really mean what He said.'

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"A pamphlet I came across gave arguments for why dispensationalism is wrong. It said, 'Because there's no proof for the Rapture.' The Rapture has been popularized into a side show by social media.

"You know how people sing Amazing Grace and have no idea what they're singing about? Well, they talk about the Rapture and have no idea what they're talking about. In other words, they set up straw dummies.

"Another argument on why dispensationalism is false is because it's 'new.' That's probably the one you hear the most. It's an argument that turns on the concept that only ideas that have widespread historical appeal should be considered truth. In other words, you need this long body of tradition and scholarship in order for it to be true. That's the argument of historical losers, frankly.

"The Reformation, and these are the people who often make this argument, was new 500 years ago. The Presbyterian denomination was new 300 years ago. The Lutheran denomination was new 400 years ago. The developments in Covenant Theology, from the 17th Century, are 'new.'

"So the argument that if it's new it's wrong . . . listen, truth is determined from the Scriptures. Truth isn't determined by history. Truth can be uncovered, it can be forgotten, it can be restored, it can be developed, but it's not going to be new. It's been there all along in the Book even if it's only just now being nailed to the door of the old dead-wrong tradition that you've been a part of.

"The things that people use to oppose are really traditions of the vain religious system; the man-made system."