I wanted to use that as my title for the Kirk memorial but it turned out there were other things I wanted o say. I use it now just because I like it and it's still more or less true. That was quite a long line of people who got up that day ad gave some sort of Christian gospel rppresentation, including all the governement people who would normally not say any such thing in public. Very impressive. .
The great company of preachers line is biblical but I always hear it in my ind as sung in the Chorus of Handel's Messiah, referring to the gospel bgoing forth to all the world after His ascension to GOd. The memorial did give us quite an array of preachers, a great and motley company indeed.
And that is a sort of revival after all, especially when we take note of the fact that churches allover the country had a surger of attendance, mostly of younger people, in the aftermath of Charlie's murder. It's fair to call that revival even if it isn't the falling down under the power sort of revival I always hope the Lortd will send us. The increased churche attendance included increased baptisms too and those don't occur iunless the people make a credible profession of faith in Christ, so let's call it revival and hope it grows.
Neverthleess the country is under seige ore and more too. We need God to flood the land with revival to give us the needed strength to deal with the corruptions and sheer evil that have been growing for decades now, and not letting up, even intensifying after Charlie's death. All public people on the right are getting death tghreats and it's pretty scary. Christians have nothing to fear in death but it's hard not to feel fear anyway even if you are willing to face it knowing it will only take you into the presence of the Lord Jesus. But the country has been overrun with murderous messages fruom what you would have thought were just ordinary people. People on the lieberal side who are quite willing to say that anyone they disagree with is a legititmate target for murder. One study had it fifty person, even more, who think it's just fine to furder Trump or Elon Musk. I can hardlyu believe the country has come to such a state.
Of course once we'd abandoned all reference to God and the Bible in schools on a bogus reinterpration of the first amendment, and building on that allowed laws to be passed that are in direct violation of God's Moral Law, from granting freedom of speech to pornography, to legitimaizing gay marriage, sancioning the murder of jhyjuman beings in the womb and so on, trearing down the Ten Commandments from public places what could we expect. God is judging us for all that.
You can kind of track how each of the secdon d table of the ten commandments has been officially violated over the last vfew dewcades, atarting with adultery or sexual freedom, and legalizing porn, destroyhing marriage with the ridiculous idea that there's any reason for homosexuals to marry, even to murdewring babies and now political opponents, even more or less legalizing setealing as consequances have been lifted in blue states and the police have been hindered from doing heir jobs. Lying or course is always in fashiong abut the Left does seem to havea taken it to a new level, even a specialized art form that is fvery effective at deceieving people who aren't paying much attention to the political world.
I do see in Matthew 24 That Jesus described two different kinds of second comings for Jesus, which of course makes the Rapture idea viable, the one that could come at any moment, while the other is clearly described as folling after the great tribultion. Both descriptions can't be true of the same event, either we won't know at all or we'll expect it after the tribultion. So I guess it could happen any day and I of course would like it to happen right now. Excpet for the fact taht I do know a lot of people who aren't believers yet and I hate the idea that they will have to stay behgind and go through the tribultion whehere they will need extraordinary courage to hold onto their salvation in the face of seductive offers to be safe from harm by selling their soulds to the antichrist.
So we're hapving a lot of powerful good going on in the country, and a lot of powerful bad at the same time.
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