Word of Life Christian Ministries of Spring Grove

 Are you ready for the coming persecution?

It is on its way and the momentum for it is growing everyday. At the risk of sounding like an extreme alarmist I am regardless going to sound the alarm. Persecution for those who hold to true biblical morality and social conservative core values are going to be under siege in a much greater way in the coming months and years.

I have been observing the dynamics of our spiritual, social, and political aspects of society. It has been my observation that all three of these facets of America are in rapid decay. Spiritually is the most important facet and the Church at large has compromised many tenants of the faith. There is hardly a line of demarcation between many churches and secular society today. It is hard to distinguish between what is called Christian and Secular, because many churches have compromised the practices of holiness and biblical teaching to accommodate carnality for the sake of larger congregations. Today homosexuality, adultery, divorce, fornication, extortion, drug and alcohol addiction and every kind of vice are running rampant in our churches, and many pastors choose to turn a blind eye and preach soothing messages of positivism instead of repentance.

But the good news is that there is a remnant who are holding fast to the truth and proclaiming and practicing those truths in their lives and ministries. However, it is these whom are the target of an ever growing consensus against true Christianity. It will be those who will be singled out and persecuted more and more as time goes by.

Secular Progressives are not the friends of equal rights even though they preach the gospel of egalitarianism. Secular Progressives are adding to their ranks each year through the radical leftist professors in many of our State Universities. Also the hero’s of secular humanist are usually cruel past and present Marxist oriented dictators who have no use for God in their communistic or socialist dictatorial government. However, Secular Progressivism is not the only opponent in our society which has set it sights on true Christianity and Social Conservatism.

The rise and prestige which Islam as well as some other eastern religions has been given in our society is astounding. Do you think that our Founding Fathers ever imagined a Wiccan Priest, Homosexual Priest or Minister, Islamic Priest, or any other so called ministers to be required staff of our Military, Penal, or Hospitals to accommodate U.S. citizens. I would say not! Do you think that our Founding Fathers would go along with the massive debt incurring political policies which will burden generations to come for the sake of a flawed political ideology. I would say not!

I was talking to an Atheist at a meeting for Public Access Television. This atheist has a program which is about politics and deals with the subject of Freedom of Speech, on the same channel that I have my broadcast. Evidently she had never seen my program and ask who I was and what my program was about. When I told her, she proceeded to tell me she didn’t want to hear about any God and was doing all she could to silence anything Christian from off the air. When I countered her about freedom of speech, her response in so many words was that as a Christian I did not have any right to be on public airways. So much for “ the Freedom of Speech “! It was not any surprise to me that she is a lesbian and her mission is to prove that there is no God and that all of those who hold such convictions are ignorant in her sight. This is not speculation, these are her own words. She is just one in an every growing army which is militant against true Christianity and Social Conservatism.

Among those in the Secular Progressive camp there is a distain for anything American, Christian, or Wholesome. There is going to be an all out assault upon even our opinions soon. The “ thought police “ are coming soon with arrest warrants in hand to arrest, prosecute, and punish anyone who stands in opposition against their decadent philosophies and anti-capitalistic politics. Secular Progressives are going to solicit anti-America law firms to push forth their agendas in the judiciary system to enact laws to persecute then prosecute anyone who holds a different view. This is one reason the renewal for a so-called “ fairness doctrine” and so-called “ hate crimes “ legislation is back in the system for review and a possible ratification in the Courts.

Now more than ever is the time to seek the face of God for a Spiritual Renewal among God’s children. It is time for a Revival in the Land.

[17] For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God's own children. And if even we Christians must be judged, what terrible fate awaits those who have never believed God's Good News?

[18] And "If the righteous are barely saved, what chance will the godless and sinners have?"

[19] So if you are suffering according to God's will, keep on doing what is right, and trust yourself to the God who made you, for he will never fail you. 1 Peter 4:17-19 (NLT)

I hope you are not looking at life through rose colored glasses, living in the denial of the reality of the digression of our culture. The reality that a major percentage of the American populace would not oppose a socialistic government, that because evolution is taught as fact, that many of our youth come out of colleges believing there is no God, that because the majority of so called high profile role models advocate homosexuality, adultery, fornication that many of our youth are being deceived into thinking its okay. That extreme environmentalist are encroaching upon our lifestyles with lobby dollars to bring taxation upon our families which would burden an already over taxed populace. I hope you are not in denial of the reality that our government today is bigger and spending more money than ever in recorded history, and that job loss is at an ever increasing rate with every month that goes by. I hope you are not naïve enough to think that there are not regimes or terror groups that do not want to destroy the United States by any means possible. Who would kill you just because you are an American period.

Myself, I have hope in Jesus Christ, he is the way, the truth, and the life! He is able to deliver me to through the uttermost devastation, but, he also requires that I do not stick my head in the sand and try to ignore the reality of the decadence, digression, and decay of the society in which I live. I understand that to stand for Jesus means that I will suffer persecution and ridicule in the present atmosphere of the societal culture and politics.

[12] Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

[13] But evil people and impostors will flourish. They will go on deceiving others, and they themselves will be deceived.

[14] But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. 2 Tim. 3:12-14 (NLT)

I ask you, are you ready for the coming persecution? Ready or not, it is coming and hopefully you will have prepared yourself to stand strong for the Lord.

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Your Emissary of the Faith,

D.R. Ritchie

D.R. Ritchie Ministries International

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San Luis Obispo, CA 93403