An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so. But what will you do when the end comes?
Please find below a full-length reading of the book of Isaiah with guests from New Zealand, America and the United Kingdom. (Recorded on Friday, September 9th, 2022).
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are required to maintain silence. The American government insists that prisoners there do not have the same human rights as you or I do. Their humanity is bypassed in the name of George W. Bush’s βwar on terrorism.β
And so, Guantanamo detainees are silent or they are punished, perhaps tortured.
When Queen Elizabeth II passed away yesterday, early news reports from the BBC described the βsocio-cultural changesβ that she had witnessed during her unparalleled reign as being βunprecedentedβ. Within less than five minutes, the narrative had been corrected to instead describe these socio-cultural changes as βglobalβ, which, of course, they are.
But why edit that word β why replace βunprecedentedβ with βglobalβ? Well, quite simply, to appease the LGBT wokerati. βGlobalβ softened the starkness of the reality, it dampened in βnon-descriptnessβ the abominations that Queen Elizabeth had witnessed.
Clive Myrie (A BBC news presenter) had it right the first time: βunprecedentedβ was the more appropriate word for the socio-cultural changes that Queen Elizabeth had seen (that many of us have seen).
These unprecedented socio-cultural changes in British society, throughout the world, adopted wholesale by much of the Body of Christ, are precisely the realities that should be catalysing the conscription of conscience in all of us.
But, sadly, we are currently detained in the wrong prison and hence we will comply with our orders: βDetainees, maintain silence.β
It’s not every day that I get off my bus five minutes early to film something that has caught my eye outside of a church building. What a powerful prophetic image this is! The people of God are drunk with denominational idolatry and the inebriating compromise of the world. Some of you reading/watching this will roll your eyes because you’ll think I’m being ‘too religious’ but, what have we come to when our buildings are hired out to “generate income for the gospel” while concealing the aftermath of the godlessness that we’ve propped up?
We are all called to proclaim the gospel. We need to flick a switch mentally to be prepared in every season to give a reason for the hope that we have.