Godlessness Groupies

Godlessness Groupies - Terry James - http://raptureready.com/rap16.html

 

Antichrist, the coming  beast of Revelation chapter 13, will be the most attractive, charismatic personality ever to step foot on the planet. He will have a following that defies imagination. His magnetic personality and, no doubt, striking appearance, will be the antithesis of Jesus Christ in every way when he "magnifies" himself, as the prophet Daniel foretold.

 

Jesus was meek. He came as a lamb. The Bible tells us that He had no outstanding physical features or characteristics that would set Him apart from the rest of humanity. The exceptions were when He was on the Mount of Transfiguration when He was said to shine like the sun, and when He was said to be the most "marred" of all men at the time of His crucifixion.

 

Antichrist, that man of sin, will have, literally, a worldwide, totally devoted following.

 

I'm a "back number," as Dr. Vernon McGee used to say, referring to his own naïveté when it came to keeping up with the pop culture of his time. But it was brought to my attention the meteoric career of a singer who started out as Katy Hudson and now entertains under the stage name Katy Perry.

 

She went from singing as a Christian recording artist to becoming a secular, recording/entertaining phenomenon. Her Christian album under Katy Hudson sold only 2000 copies or so. She switched to secular recording and soared to the top of the charts. According to Wikipedia: She became the first artist with multiple videos to reach 1 billion views on Vevo with the videos for the songs "Roar" and "Dark Horse."

 

Her following on Twitter and other social media forums indicates that she has at least 90 million fans.

 

Those numbers are stratospheric. Neither ol' Elvis nor the Beatles ever reached those heights--although they had their share of groupies, to be sure.   

 

Antichrist, according to Revelation chapter 13, will be literally worshiped by the whole world. Those who don't worship him will have their heads lopped off and worse. His numbers of followers will put Miss Katy's numbers in the category of the infinitesimal by comparison.

 

We know of the Democrat Party's incessant coming under pressure to remove any reference to God from their party platform. When the convention began for the 2012 presidential nominating process, we remember that the no's were much louder than the yeas when the question was put up for keeping God's name being used in official language of the party's doings.

 

Just over a week ago, there was a report of an entertainer demanding that the song "God Bless America" be no longer sung at half times or at the beginnings of sporting events. He wants that offensive anthem, as he characterized it, forever discarded. Even in the Congress of the United States, there is a constant drumbeat from some of the "progressive" quarters to do away with prayer to open sessions and to remove "In God we trust" from coinage and other governmental officialdom. There has been much progress, as they would have it, in getting vestiges of God, such as the Ten Commandments, removed from public places. Prayer and Bible reading have long since been forbidden in public schools and other public places, as we know.

 

The perverting of human sexuality at every level and the slaughter of countless millions of babies assault our senses daily.  

 

There is an ongoing effort to rewrite America's founding history. The champions of godlessness revisionists insist that the founding fathers wanted a totally secular nation--one devoid of any moralistic governance. When confronted with the facts of those founders' own words in this regard, they, in effect, put the palms of their hands over their ears, close their eyes, and start humming one or the other of this debauched culture's musical atrocities. 

 

While engaged in research for my book, Rapture Ready...Or Not: 15 Reasons This Is the Generation That Will Be Left Behind, I looked into what the founders of America spoke and wrote on the matter of God's influence in their nation-creating efforts. I included many of their quotes in the book and could have put in hundreds more. Here are a few.

 

John Adams, second president of the United States, said:

 

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."

 

"I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world."

 

John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the United States, said:

 

"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."

 

Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution, said:

 

"I conceive we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world . . . that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and the people willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is the Prince of Peace."

 

Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Diplomat, printer, scientist, said:

 

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and His religion as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see."

 

Thomas Jefferson, Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Diplomat, Governor of Virginia; Secretary of State; third President of the United States, said:

 

"The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses."

 

George Washington, Judge: Member of the Continental Congress; Commander-In-Chief of the Continental Army; President of the Constitutional Convention; First President of the United States; "Father of his Country," said:

 

"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."

 

"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would... most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of the mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion."

 

(Source: WallBuilders - Issues and Articles - The Founding Fathers on Jesus, Christianity and the Bible, David Barton,  wallbuilders.com)

 

How far we as a people have strayed by allowing the groupies of godlessness to determine that Jesus Christ is anathema, but that the gods of entertainment in this world are to be glorified and followed into the abyss of national destruction. There is time to turn things around if the people who truly name the name of Christ will follow the godly directive of 2 Chronicles 7:14. Sad to say-to put it in terms the groupies of godlessness will understand--the trending is in the opposite direction.

 

Let's continue to do our Christian duty in carrying out the Great Commission. Let us also vote the right way to the best of our ability. But, at the same time, let's keep looking for the glorious appearing of our "blessed hope" (Titus 2:13).