A recent article appeared in The Christian Post, titled “How Christianity in America Changed During Obama’s Presidency: Pew Report”.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/how-christianity-in-america-changed-during-obamas-presidency-pew-report-172970/
What caught my attention was the end of the article:
‘”I think evangelicals largely felt alienated and ignored during the eight years of this administration. If you rewind through the decades, evangelical Christians were at the head of the table, then they moved to the foot of the table, and then they got moved to the kids table, and then they got kicked out of the dinner party altogether,” Dickerson said.
Those negative feelings likely precipitated a vote for a man in a presidential election many evangelicals found unsavory, he explained.
First Things editor R.R. Reno previously told CP in an interview about his book Resurrecting the Idea Of A Christian Society that “the main problem facing Christians today is a kind of lament, a spirit of lament of having lost the country” and that lament “tends to make contemporary Christians resentful of the present age. So it creates a defensive posture toward the contemporary moment as we feel the current going against us.”
“Instead, what has happened is very powerful elements of our society are shaking off this presumptive authority of Christianity to define their lives and for the wider public culture of America,” Reno said.”‘
The end of the article states that there is a “shaking off this presumptive authority of Christianity to define their lives and for the wider public culture of America”. This ‘shaking off’ of legal and/or moral authority/preeminence is the essential meaning of “intifada“, which is what the Muslims and Palestinians call their resistance against the Israel and her sovereignty.
It is the essence of what Psalm 2 speaks of “the kings of the Earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against YHVH and against His Messiah (Anointed/Christ): let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us“.
This ‘shaking off’ is some of the final words that a nearly blind Isaac left with his profane aggrieved son, Esau, upset that he had forfeited his birthright and blessing to Jacob, whom YHVH had already appointed to be a covenant heir to the promises of the righteous and holy God: “By your sword you [Esau] shall live, and you shall serve your brother [Jacob]. And it shall come to pass, when you become restless, that you will break his yoke from off your neck.” (Gen 27:40)
The article points out the general feeling among Christians, who have received God’s highest call and blessing, and who are called to be agents and faithful of living by and making known God’s holy moral standard, that the current culture and society are actively overthrowing these foundations and authority by any means at their disposal.
The whole LBGTQI movement and agenda is a prime example. Redefining what is right and wrong, good and evil, holy and profane — turning them on their heads — is a frontal attack on the truth and holiness of the Creator and Maker of Heaven and Earth, who has chosen and appointed those through whom He is working out redemption and to ultimately establish His rule and authority over Israel and the nations. It is the Islamic jihad to overthrow Judeo-Christian civilization. As written in Ps 2, God laughs derisively at those who would presume to overthrow HIM!
This “shaking off” is the spiritual war taking place in these last days of a final rebellion against the sovereignty and constituted authority of the one true living God and of the lordship of the Son of God — Messiah Yeshua/Christ Jesus — over all peoples and nations.