THE COMING STORM
The following crises will shake the church foundations in the next two decades. Whatever is written at shamblesheep.com will weave in and out of these five points throughout. And these are no more than opinions, no more valid than yours.
Herodias--LGBT (just in Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents, NY Times--(the AntiChrist is already in the Church--"Between 2009 and 2019, white evangelical support for same-sex marriage nearly doubled, from 15 percent to 29 percent, according to the Pew Research Center." Why now? Because the government gave them an ultimatum: either embrace LGBTQ or lose funding--and those posh offices and high salaries don't come cheap. Herod will build you a very fancy Temple, but you must embrace Herodias to get it) will enter the church on the back of evangelical divorce-adultery doctrine---the same arguments for divorce-adultery can be made for every aspect of LGBT. Christianity Today churches are already secretly doing this. There are no doctrinal arguments to prevent this. You cannot separate LGBT from divorce-adultery biblically. The horror that you feel in Evangelical pulpits is the awareness that time is running out, and no one has even begun to think about a solution here, because there are none. Which is why the Church is seeking a political remedy in the courts and legislature, but, as they keep losing, more LGBT are pouring in. The reason being that LGBT hijacked the Civil Rights movement, and here the Church is fatally compromised because of slavery. Besides Herodias, then, LGBT is marching into the Church on the back of the Confederacy. Herodias has been entrenched in the church for 500 years, and now they cannot touch her without losing their heads. They are Baptists, but not John the Baptists. Most likely they will try to remain in power by removing the church almost entirely into “the gates” with Lot and Barabbas: politics. If you've been reading the New York Times the last two months, you can sense the same horror there: they hear violence, the rising voice of the anti-Roman Barabbas in church pulpits, with great anger calling the descendants of Cromwellian Puritans and Huguenots to the standards once again against the infidels and Antichrist.
Greeks and Hebrews--As immigrants pour in they will enter the church and force a reckoning on race across the entire spectrum. This will effect a great purge, as “Hebrews will refuse to eat with Greeks or Gentiles (imagine mixing with the Samaritans, John 4),” and many will again look to the patriot Barabbas to resist change: again, politics will become church. This is the true face of the immigration crisis, for it will expose the Confederate heart of the Protestant church. If Hebrew Christians objected to eating with unclean Greek Christians, imagine the Hebrews' horror at the thought of intermarriage. They would see their children playing together and draw the obvious conclusion. The temptation to succumb to Ananias-Sapphira Syndrome will be almost irresistible (one foot in, one foot out, write your own salvation ticket, plug in Sunday, plug out the rest of the week, or just keep moving until you find a church that allows you to "lie to the Holy Ghost"). Judgment will begin at the house of God, and the wrath of God will unquestionably burn fiercely to prevent Ananias-Sapphira Syndrome from taking hold. If what happened in Jerusalem happens here, God will use the American church as a launching pad, and like Jerusalem, allow it to sink into decay and ultimately disappear. They thought they were indispensable. America was supposed to be the last Headquarters of the Holy Ghost, and now the Glory is rapidly departing. To this day, the Jews cannot believe that God moved on, the move was so abrupt. Imagine if God were to set up Headquarters in Africa next. The seven churches of Asia completely disappeared. As in Europe, the church will likely exist only among immigrants. And as Europeans have fewer and fewer children they will be absorbed by the immigrants. Because they "did not know the time of their visitation,"
Yea-hath-God-said-Serpent-Christian-Evolution----people will have to be told what their preachers really believe. That the earth is 13.8 billion years old and that blood, violence and death were present at the first signs of life, billions of years ago. This means that the notion of sin is a human invention. That the early chapters of Genesis are poetic stories like parables, not meant to portray real events but only lessons in divinity. Those who maintain that the entire Universe is less than 7000 years old, will be laughed out of the Party. You will not be allowed to believe in 6 day Creationism and sit in “the gates.” Loss of political power. Many will seek relevance with Lot and Barabbas in "the gates," but they will soon find their houses desolate. If the first chapters of Genesis are myths, then you would be advised to take up Darwin and either become an Alpha male or put yourself under an Alpha male. Your only goal in life should be to get to the top of the food chain by any means necessary. Wolves do not commit crimes or evil when they do what wolves do? Wolves are admired for doing what wolves do? If Genesis is myth, than Nature is all there is, and Survival is the chief duty of Man. He that hath ears to hear, let him lop off Malchus' right ear, before he puts your "ear to the ground." Tooth and Claw is the violent Path of Salvation.
"Give us Barabas" Christian violence--Luther/Calvin/Zwingli/Knox incorporated their Herods into their churches in order to ward off the Antichrist with the sword. There can be no doubt that the Left will turn on the Church the minute it gains absolute power. It’s hard to imagine that the Right will allow this. The NRA and armed forces are fully within the Evangelical camp. The ability to project violence is 90 to 10 in favor of the Right--and Lot and Barabbas go back to Augustine. Reformation churches have always kept their swords bright and their powder dry for just such a time as this. Once you burn your enemies at the stake and behead your king, everything else is just par for the course. The Evangelical martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was hanged for trying to assassinate his Fuehrer Hitler is another example. At this point the church would be part of a larger identity movement, and persecution of those who go their own way will undoubtedly come from here, rather than from the Left, which will cease to exist. Because there has never been a Leftist government. Governments are founded on violence, and in a divided society (in order to prevent anarchy), such a government would become what you see in China or Russia. There is no going back to the old days, and the poor pitchfork deplorables will suffer the worst as always. The Capitol Riots are a taste of things to come. Luther and Calvin were able to slaughter their enemies without turning their churches into Serb-Christians. That delusion is no longer possible today--the Protestant church will become Serbian--"born again" will become religious furniture like the Trinity among murdering Serbs. Putin, who has revived “Holy Moscow,” would not be uncomfortable in such churches.
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5) A Crippling, Debilitating ("come unto me-poor in spirit") Identity Crisis among the Gospel of the Poor deplorables. Nothing is as soul-killing and paralyzing as the loss of identity. This is what lies behind the hysterics of "where we go one, we go all--right over the cliff with Mr. Trump." These people have become so dumbed-down biblically, and so hollowed out spiritually, that they wouldn't recognize Antichrist if he came at them with horns. Here will be the "fields white unto harvest."