Commentary by Jack Kelley
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself."(Ezekiel 33:7-9).
I'm a self-appointed observer, not a God-appointed watchman, so it's not really my job to warn my countrymen of an approaching enemy. I limit my efforts to periodically drawing comparisons between current events and Bible Prophecy. I do this to demonstrate the validity of Scripture in the hope that those who read my articles will attach more significance to God's Word as a guide for their daily living and will also read my more traditional Bible Studies.
Others have a more specific calling, like Hal Lindsey, who recently abandoned the world's most popular biblically based TV news report rather than submit to network censorship where Islam is concerned. He's taken a lot of heat for his stance, considered by some in the Christian Community to be excessively narrow and "unloving."
In his most recent editorial, "The Enemy Within" Hal in effect revealed that he is a God-appointed watchman. Then he explained in detail the extensive foothold radical Islam has gained in the US in recent years in yet another clear wake up call to the rest of us. From the response to date, I wonder if anyone's listening. Both within and outside the church majority opinion seems to lie somewhere between treading lightly for fear of offending Moslem sensitivity at one end to obvious fawning over followers of the so-called "religion of peace" at the other.
Nobody likes bad news, even when it's true. A whole gaggle of "prophets" denied Jeremiah's warning that judgment was coming to Israel, even as they stood on the city walls and watched the Babylonians get ready to burn Jerusalem to the ground.
And how about Hitler's run-up to WW2? Bad enough that the politicians were blindly following their cowardly appeasement policies, but where was the Christian majority? The world finally learned that denial isn't a workable strategy when you're dealing with a spiritually driven enemy, but by then it cost 50 million casualties to stop Hitler. Are we about to discover this again? Bad news may be unpleasant but it's necessary, and we better pay attention. Fore warned is fore armed, after all. And remember, the penalty for not learning from history is that you have to repeat it...
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Dave McPherson's beliefs have been around for a long time and, as far as I know, have not changed. From what I understand, many of the early church fathers were "pre-trib" (See Grant Jeffrey's studies on the Rapture), so McPherson's beliefs concerning the Rapture are nothing new. As far as Dallas Theological Institute, they have been moving away from a classical dispensational view for some time now as are many other conservative seminaries (See Zola Levitt's and Roger McCall's monthly letters concerning this). As far as my beliefs concerning the Rapture-- they do not rest upon some young woman's vision that supposedly happened back in the 1800's, but a systematic study of God's Word.
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