Edging Toward the Door

Today I am thinking about Youtube’s decision to take away the voice of T.B. Joshua, Youtube’s most prominent evangelist. As people who read my last blog post know, he was sentenced to persecution for doing exactly what Jesus did and what he said his disciples would do: casting out demons.

Let’s put our cards on the table and quit pretending Christians and unbelievers aren’t at war. What Youtube did was an affirmative assertion that Jesus is not God. That kind of assertion has traditionally been off-limits to the godless people who control the media. They have been reluctant to censor normal, Bible-based Christian activity, until now.

I don’t think any modern American seriously thinks the people at CBS, The New York Times, Salon, or any Hollywood studio believe in Jesus. We know atheists and other anti-Christians control our information and entertainment. That being said, we are used to being humored. Newspapers cover the pope without calling him the figurehead of a cult based on superstition. TV stations allow paid Christian programming. Mel Gibson made a popular movie about the crucifixion. We expect the gatekeepers to pretend to be tolerant, in order to prevent offending viewers. The Google kids just told us that’s not going to happen any more. They are finally baring their teeth, and other gatekeepers will follow suit.

Youtube is telling us it’s had enough. It was okay when we worshiped Jesus while they were weak and needed our eyeballs and content. We helped build the monster. Now they’re tired of indulging our belief in what they see as an ancient psychotic who talked to imaginary ghosts and somehow gave rise to Donald Trump.

A small number of tormented individuals believe spirits affect them, and they come to us for help. They make informed decisions regarding their own religious beliefs, and we accommodate them. Many get deliverance, physical healing, and relief from curses. Youtube has decided they don’t have the right to express their beliefs. A minor who wants to be drugged so his penis never develops, and then to be castrated, should be allowed to follow his beliefs, but a grown man who wants to have demons of homosexuality and effeminacy cast out, in a church, by people who believe as he does, in accordance with an ancient, globally popular religion which very clearly condemns homosexual relations, has to be stopped. He must not be allowed to choose or to know he has a choice.

If Youtube viewers are only allowed to see Satan’s churches at work, how will they know what real Christianity looks like? They’ll have to encounter Christians in the real world, outside of whored-out churches. This is what I’ve been predicting will happen in the future. Churches will lose their power over us, and the Internet will silence us, so God will have to use ordinary people wherever they are.

I feel I should delete my own Youtube channels. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m praying for guidance. I see Joshua’s persecution as a sign that it’s time to stop trying to reach people via a service controlled by deluded, enraged leftists who hate God. Almost no one watches, but the videos are time-consuming to make, and they have the potential to draw torches and pitchforks to my door.

I have a rapture mentality. The rapture will come when Christian outreach ceases to be profitable. When the suffering of Christians becomes sufficiently great, and the number of people we succeed in helping becomes sufficiently small, there will be no point in keeping us on earth. The Bible expressly states that the only reason we are here in this miserable place is to reach others.

As a general rule on this planet, in times of persecution, early adaptors fare best. The people who can’t read the writing on the wall are the ones who suffer. Many Jews believed in the sanity and humanity of the German government, and they waited too long to try to get out. Armenians suffered a similar fate. Capitalists in Cuba and other countries ruled by mass-murdering socialists were imprisoned, tortured, and killed. I feel that it’s best to think about the rapture every day, as though it were coming tomorrow. I keep asking God to rapture me and my lady friend internally, right now. If you want to be raptured physically, you need to be raptured in your heart and mind first. God isn’t going to rapture women off stripper poles. He’s not going to rapture TV preachers who impoverish old people with lies about God rewarding us for giving ministries money. He’s going to take the people he finds “serving meat” in his house. That’s what the Bible says.

Meat is the advanced word of God. It goes beyond, “Judge not.” Meat is something a baby can’t chew or digest. It includes things people don’t want to hear. It includes criticizing popular things like homosexuality, fornication, astrology, and yoga. It includes promoting prayer in tongues, healing, and casting out demons. It’s the gospel of the kingdom, which can better be translated as the gospel of power and authority.

We have a lot of preachers who crawl on their bellies, trying to get people to go to church. They serve milk day after day, until they die of old age. “You’re wonderful.” “God loves you just the way you are.” “Judge not.” Jesus taught about them. He said, “Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!” Weak preachers will be surrounded by grown babies when the time comes to leave. They won’t be able to walk.

If you think Christianity is just a belief that you should be nice, with no supernatural significance, you’re not a Christian. God is a spirit. Satan is a spirit. Demons are spirits. We have our own spirits. We are supposed to operate in the spirit realm. We are supposed to believe there is a place called heaven, with a throne and a great being who sits on it. We’re supposed to believe hell exists and that every person who rejects Jesus ends up there. If you think it’s all about being nice and refusing to confront anyone, you don’t worship Jesus. You worship Richard Simmons.

The key to adapting and being ready is to eat meat and share it with others. Jesus said we had to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Blood is salvation, and meat is his advanced word. God told the Jews they had to eat the entire Passover lamb. He was telling us we have to accept every part of his teaching, as well as accepting the consequences.

The danger of too much exposure to the ignorant, hostile, unlistening masses is that we will become like them. Proverbs 26:4 says, “Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.” If we get caught up in argument and anger, we will lose our salvation. God says we have to forgive if we want to be saved. Hanging around on social media subjects us to needless temptation. People will insult and persecute us, and we may sink to their level.

Every Christian is saved by God’s charity, not his own goodness. It’s easy to get mad at persecutors and feel as though we’re superior. It’s very dangerous. We have to be the head, not the tail. We have to lead instead of following. Too much time with the others tempts us to follow.

Everyone, Christian or not, is an evangelist. Christians recruit people into God’s family, and the others recruit people for deportation to hell. You don’t want to spend too much time with the other side’s recruiters.

It seems like some of the best people in the Bible left their environments willingly, before they could be forced out. Abraham, Enoch, Noah, Elijah, and Jesus didn’t wait around to be driven out. Abraham left Ur, Enoch was translated, Noah boarded the ark, and Elijah and Jesus were translated. It seems to me that a person who is really close to God should not be taken by surprise or defeated.

I don’t know if I’ll take the channels down or not. Maybe I’ll just remove the Christian content. Maybe I’ll leave the videos up in case people in the future come across them and find help.

If I do take the videos down, maybe the blog will follow. I’m not sure. I think it will be a while before hosting companies come after Christians. Maybe I should wait.