Silence

 If your convictions are determined by what the world finds acceptable, popular, or noteworthy, you have no convictions to speak of but rather a duplicitous sense of self-preservation that keeps you silent when you should speak up. Turning your head and pretending not to see the horrors unfolding in real time does not make them go away or alter their reality.

This isn’t the Matrix; we can’t pretend there is no spoon, and the church cannot remain insulated from the consequences of its silence. The pendulum has swung to such an extent that we’ve gone from wondering why the church isn’t saying anything to hoping it shuts up. The silence was better. At least we knew who the cowards were and steered clear of them. Nowadays, you have pastors pledging fealty to drag queens from pulpits, and the lemmings in the pews follow along, repeating the lunacy as though it were a perfectly normal occurrence. They’ve gone from neutral observers to picking a side, and it’s not the side of righteousness, light, or truth.

If you have no clue what I’m talking about, look it up; it’s on the interwebs. It’s nigh to unbelievable, but it's real, and it’s happening, and fake shepherds are leading ignorant flocks to the gates of perdition and waving them through, insisting it’s really heaven in disguise.

You no longer have to wonder at what the Bible meant by individuals calling good evil and evil good. You are seeing it happen, and there’s no denying it. When culture dictates doctrine, what you have is no longer a church but some hideous monstrosity sown together with faux love and excessive tolerance.

Remember back in the olden days when everyone was screeching about coexisting and allowing for different viewpoints? Remember when certain individuals who will remain unnamed warned that once they got enough power, that would no longer be the case?

To the devil, tolerance is a one-way, dead-end street. He cannot abide the light. He cannot abide the truth, and he cannot abide righteousness, but endlessly drones on about the children of God needing to be tolerant, accepting, and validating of every perversion under the sun.

To those falling all over themselves wanting to be seen as allies, know that to be an ally of darkness is to be an enemy of the light. To be an ally of sin is to be an enemy of righteousness. To be an ally of the devil is to be an enemy of God. You’ve gone from neutrality to being an enemy of the cross while insisting that you are still an ambassador of God’s kingdom.

It’s not an issue of never having known the truth but rather rejecting it while knowing full well that it was the truth you were rejecting.

Hebrews 10:26-30, “For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?”

It used to be we had to take much of what the Bible said about the last days on faith. We believed it because it was the Word of God, but we had difficulty seeing how some of the things it said could play out. From a great falling away to children betraying parents, wives betraying husbands and vice versa, to those of the household of faith calling good evil, to global control to such an extent that you will neither be able to buy nor sell unless you submit to a mark, these were all things we knew would come, but could not fathom the mechanisms by which they would arrive.

Now, the how of it is clear. What seemed fanciful and impossible two decades ago is being implemented and rolled out. What we thought could never happen in the church is happening because His Word is true, and He knows the end from the beginning. We knew it would be so; we just couldn’t wrap our minds around how it would come about.

I’ve been accused of being unloving because I refuse to spend time trying to convince those who have trampled the Son of God underfoot that they did something wrong. They already know. Reminding them of this will do nothing to change their trajectory because they’ve already chosen their master knowingly, willingly, and voluntarily.

The ones we must strive to pull out of the fire are those ignorant of the truth, not those who have willfully returned to the darkness after having received the knowledge of the light. There is a distinction there that we must be aware of lest we tilt at windmills for the rest of our days with no fruit to show for it.

But that’s impossible; you can’t fall away, fat man. Says who? The Bible says you can; people are doing it every day, and rather than try to twist myself into a pretzel and eliminate rational thought just to make a round peg fit into a square hole, I think I’ll just believe the Word and acknowledge the existence of backsliders.

Yes, there are evil men in pulpits today. Yes, there are enemies of the cross pretending to be servants of Christ. Yes, deceivers are pretending to be what they are not in order to ensnare the gullible and unsuspecting in their traps. We knew it would be thus. We have been warned. Whether we heed the warning or pretend that everything is all right and we’re about to course correct is another matter entirely.

With love in Christ,

Michael Boldea, Jr.