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 7/31/2020 7:03 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | |  |  |
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I have just tuned into a YouTube video hosted by a black presenter, Larry Elder, who seems to have some very sensible out take on the whole lawlessness issue, basically “no fathers”!! He interviewed Pastor John MacArthur for about 15 minutes, and I found out more about why his church is opening. Though at first he complied with the 1st lockdown, and then with the slap down ruling by the liberal activist 9th Circuit Court judge, when the lockdown lifted partially, his people started coming back, actually started coming during the 1st lockdown, and more and more came. Finally when the tyrannical governor issued an indefinite 2nd lockdown with no time limit, “until the (no doubt mandatory) Bill Gates style vaccine” then the actual elders and Pastor MacArthur had had enough and threw the whole church open. A governor who declares leftist riotous protests fully lawful, breaking his own COVID 19 laws, and at the same time defied his own US Constitution is himself a lawbreaker and a tyrant. |
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| 7/29/2020 2:56 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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I am delighted at the new stand made by John MacArthur and his Grace Community Church against his local tyrannical Governor, but wish he had made it long ago!! As to Britain, many churches including my own, have not restarted in person services, because the restrictions are too severe, and they have many elderly members, though I listen to their recorded online services. Sadly, worse than this are some churches that don’t even do online streaming, like the large one I used to go to in the East Midlands, many years ago, which had a wonderful witness in an Islamic area, with many long pastorates, but whose elderly pastor had virtually retired some time before the COVID 19 crisis, totally closed down its activities, and only has written devotionals, and sound recordings of old pre-COVID 19 sermons on its website. Sadly, at present, it couldn’t even reopen if it wanted to, as its city is under a local lockdown order! |
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| 7/29/2020 2:14 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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This leftist Scottish Nationalist Party devolved government (which aims to have an “independent” Scotland, but only independent from Britain, partially, because it wants too keep the British pound, but rejoin the slavery of the EU, but without the euro!!!), has been a disaster for Scotland ever since it took power, and weak British politicians allowed it to set up. The only real opposition unfortunately is the leftist Labour Party, and one or two leftist Liberal Democrat’s. There are 1 or 2 Conservatives, but they have until recently been led by a feminist lesbian!! Praise God for 1 thing, the original independence referendum went against this “independence”, and with much prayer and backlash, a vile scheme to appoint state appointed guardians for all children overruling their parents was finally defeated! There are still in the rural Highlands and Islands some strong faithful churches, mostly reformed, and predominantly of the Psalm singing variety, and they often do stand against some of this leftist nonsense, but it is getting harder. |
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| 7/27/2020 4:48 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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As far as I know, IFB and many other types of Baptist churches do not have plural eldership, they have a pastor (who I suppose is the elder), and a board of deacons, that really acts more like a board of elders without the title. Reformed Baptist’s are different, and do have elders as well as the pastor, and as well as separate deacons. Returning to Pastor McArthur, I am glad he had stood up clearly against this tyranny of Governor Newsom, who is ruling by decree as an absolute monarch. I recall from history what happened when the absolute monarch here, King Charles I, and then after some years his son, King Charles Ii, tried to interfere with the church. The latter king actually threw out at one stroke all the godly men in the Church of England in 1662. |
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| 7/27/2020 2:35 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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At last. John McArthur and Grace Church rigidly kept the rules of the 1st lockdown in March, did consider meeting with strict guidelines 3 months later when President Trump said churches should meet, but demurred when a leftist activist judge on the 9th Circuit backed Governor Newsom’s ban. However, the hypocritical governor, allowed huge BLM protests, and still does (with no social distancing) and unlawful statue pulling!! Churches were finally allowed to meet with ridiculous guidelines, masks, then no singing at all. Then he suddenly moved the goalposts, closed down most of the state for a 2nd lockdown, with no time limit, and severe restrictions for the few remaining areas. Dire threats and predictions were made. By this time Pastor McArthur and his elders had had enough. They had been completely compliant until then. Newsom wants to keep the churches closed indefinitely, and bankrupt his state while he permits gross lawlessness. Praise God for Pastor McArthur and Grace Community Church that have had enough of this tyrannical absolute monarchy and moving the goalposts constantly. I wish we had people like him over here, as our church restrictions are ridiculous. Sadly, there is a deafening silence, many churches are not meeting, and those that are have severe restrictions. |
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| 7/26/2020 7:35 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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Yes, there is a Christian case for Trump, Mr Lincoln,, whether you like the man or not. The alternative in 2016, and now in 2020, is too horrendous to think about. If Hilary Clinton had got in in 2016, or if Joe Biden gets in in November of this year, 2020, which is the only alternative to Trump, you will have a Marxist hard left radical pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, (no conscience exemption permitted for medical or care staff), pro-LGBTQI+, pro-environmentalism, secularist, globalist, throw open all the borders to Islam and crime cartels without restriction, persecution of Christians, universal mask wearing everywhere, churches continuing to be closed or operated permanently under very strict conditions without things like singing, communion or baptisms, compulsory Bill Gates marker ID and genetically hypogenetic vaccine for all, (no exemptions permitted), pro-UN, dictatorial government. Need I say more!! In Britain last year, if we had not voted in Boris Johnson, with all his many faults and flaws, we would have been hoisted with Comrade Jeremy Corbyn in No 10, also a horrendous prospect!!! Praise the Lord that we did not!! |
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| 7/25/2020 8:10 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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Dear Mr Lincoln. Shutting up USA, Britain or any country for up to a year just bankrupts the economy and causes thousands and thousands of people to lose their jobs, their businesses and their livelihoods. The leftists can then come with their state aid, enforce their mask wearing everywhere, their imprisonment in the home, keep the churches closed indefinitely, through track and trace find out all our movements, and line us up for the compulsory gene changing (epigenetic) marker chip including aborted foetuses vaccine. But then we still will not gain our freedom, because the puppet Biden and his Democrat friends, the LGBTQI crowd, the environmentalists, and the UN, who will now send in their police, their troops, and levy their taxes to get the USA ready for the new global government!!! Your favourite policies will make USA like Venezuela, North Korea, or even China!!! |
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| 7/25/2020 3:25 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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When I lived in London, many years ago, in the very early 1980’s, I went to a special service at an Anglican evangelical church in East London, commemorating some returned evangelical missionaries who had been imprisoned and then expelled from Iran by the mullahs. I have heard of many Iranian Christians in this country, and one of them is Pooyan Mersahi, (I am not sure if I spelt his name right), a Reformed Baptist pastor in Cheltenham. He has translated many sermons by Reformed pastors into Farsi, the language of Iran, including Dr Peter Masters of Met Tab, and also Reformed books I believe, while having an effective ministry in his excellent English at his own church. |
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| 7/25/2020 3:05 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | Englad | | | |
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Here, in England, it is now compulsory, except for disabled people, children under 11,(in Scotland under 5!), people with breathing difficulties, and others who have severe mental difficulties over wearing masks, to wear them on all public transport, in shops, banks, indoor shopping centres, and in takeaways. Because you are eating and drinking, pubs and dine in restaurants are exempt, but so also are gyms, swimming pools, and hair salons, but they have other restrictions, and many require mask wearing as a private requirement. They are not required, but strongly recommended in churches, but church authorities do require them. despite the fact that people can’t sing anyway, (a government requirement). Masks are dehumanising, you are constantly breathing in your own recycled CO2, there are often suppressed studies by medical people showing how ineffective they are, and the leftist politicians love them. They actually want us to wear them permanent everywhere, all the time, until they can administer the compulsory marker tracer aborted foetuses vaccine. I have a snood and comply with the bare minimum of the law, even though I have an overactive sinus condition, which makes them insufferable to wear. It is a political agenda, and a good run up for acceptance of the vaccine. |
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| 7/25/2020 2:48 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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This man, when he was at the height of his power, as Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, was used as a kind of roving ambassador, wheeling and dealing, first a little by Pope John Paul II, then even more so by Pope Francis in the early years of his Papacy. McCarrick travelled particularly to China, where he set up the abominable deal, by which Pope Francis threw his own underground Catholic Church under the bus, and recognised the state appointed Catholic bishops, even requiring the underground bishops to step down, and giving full approval to the state approved “Catholic Patriotic Association” with all its restrictions. Pope Benedict XVI was much more cautious, as he found out about the early allegations of McCarrick’s behaviour, and banned him from travel. McCarrick’s episcopal friends rallied round, and the newly elected Pope Francis overruled these restraints. It was only when the allegations got too serious that McCarrick was finally forced to resign as a cardinal and then laicised (sacked as a priest). |
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| 7/24/2020 3:03 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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The most reliable information on this comes from Traditionalist Catholic websites, as the official Catholic media is very silent on this. When he was first forced to resign from the College of Cardinals, then laicised, he was placed as a “lay person” or lay brother in a friary in central United States, but when the pressure from traditionalist Catholic sources, and one or two secular authorities grew too great, he was spirited away from there, and is at some unknown address, presumably in the USA. Secular authorities need to act now to seize him and place him on trial, otherwise his many episcopal friends, may well get him spirited out to the Vatican, or some remote monastery in Italy, perhaps, where he will end out his days, and say nothing to incriminate them. His two successors in Washington are his friends, as are many other bishops and prelates, and Pope Francis acted very reluctantly against him, and currently has seemingly suppressed a report originally commissioned by the Vatican on his activities. What they all forget, is that one day, he will appear before a real Supreme Court, and face the Lord Jesus to account for his activities. There will be no appeal from this decision!! |
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| 7/24/2020 12:06 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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Having briefly attended Brethren Assemblies in two locations, (in one I was allowed to partake of the communion, though I am a believer not from a Brethren background, in the other one I was not), the Sunday morning service was as described by John UK, a breaking of bread service with unaccompanied hymns, Bible readings and short sermonnettes given out by male members as we were seated in a circle. The bread and wine (in a single cup), was passed round, after being prayed over by male members. All ladies wore hats and were silent.Sunday evening is more like a conventional evangelistic church service, with hymns accompanied by piano, normal seating facing the front, and an evangelistic message from an elder, either local or visiting from another Brethren assembly. The main Bible teaching or preaching service is usually midweek evening, on a Tuesday or Wednesday. |
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| 7/23/2020 7:55 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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If these characters are in the USA, then they should be arrested, charged, tried and as we say,”the book thrown at them”, and go to jail for an extremely long time. (They are fortunate, in past centuries it would have been the death penalty). . The trouble is, apart from the likelihood that innocent US citizens would be seized on trumped up charges in China, is a future Democrat leftist government would probably traitorously pardon them, or swap them for US citizens held in China, while also doing trade deals and reversing any sanctions that President Trump may have ordered. After all, the Democrats care nothing for Christians, or even Uighyer Muslims imprisoned in China, and would quite gleefully betray them, as the Marxist Pope Francis did with his own underground Catholics when he sold them out to the state approved “Catholic Patriotic Association”. |
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| 7/23/2020 3:27 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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Remember however, these statues are not being taken down and defaced by zealous evangelical Protestants from the Reformation, they are being defaced by lawless atheistic leftists, BLM activists and no doubt also by some occultic people, maybe even by satanists. Do not think that Protestant Evangelical churches, which do not have statues or pictures will escape the attentions of these people. Already, at least one church, a Pentecostal church, I believe, which opposed the ordinance of the local mayor shutting it down, was mysteriously burnt down, as they had won a case. The people that hate even wrong or flawed forms of Christianity, will most definitely come after the real thing, even harder. |
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| 7/22/2020 9:38 PM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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No more dangerous, Mr Lincoln, than a BLM demonstration of thousands of people all chanting and singing, or a lawless statue pulling down session with hundreds of people, many in masked, and not much social distancing, if you please, which COVID 19 with its infamous infectious droplets apparently actually misses, and which is fully approved by leftist governors, mayors and county commissioners alike, and might even be approvingly attended by them maybe. Yet a church where fully masked, distanced and presumably in many cases non-singing congregants, mysteriously become highly dangerous and infectious and must be persecuted and harassed by the very same governors, mayors and county commissioners. How odd!! Dear Mr Lincoln, when you have constantly breathed in your own recycled CO2 all day in a mask, and finally, who knows, round about Christmas or so, take your no doubt compulsory shot of aborted baby parts in a marker tracer epigenetic Bill Gates style vaccine, then you can relax, say “phew”!, and go back to “normal” life, hay??, and say to your new globalist masters, “Thank you. All we like sheep, obey master!!” |
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| 7/21/2020 2:31 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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This was also made worse by tyrants like Andrew Cuomo of New York State forcing nursing homes to take in COVID 19 patients from hospitals without any testing, thus endangering their staff and remaining residents who of course rapidly contracted the disease. All the social contacts were wiped out overnight, old people were treated like lepers, overnight, staff in care homes were masked and gowned, and no doubt the residents themselves, all communal areas closed down, and for those in their own homes, anyone over 70 or with health conditions was immediately put under an indefinite house arrest order, disguised as “shielding”. Visits by family and friends were banned, and of course, with the complicity of silent church leaders, churches are closed down. Even now, many are opening up, but the elderly are still banned from attending, (many do not have computers, so streaming is out for them), and all social events, singing, etc is still banned. These politicians, and their medical acolytes, who massaged their figures, and blew things out of all proportion have a lot to answer for!!! |
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| 7/21/2020 2:15 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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It is hardly surprising that during this whole COVID19 affair managed by globalists and petty tyrants, both medical and political, that there has been an increase in both physical (non-COVID-19) and mental illness. Firstly doctor’s surgeries were closed overnight, hospitals closed except for COVID-19, and now in hospitals medics, patients and visitors must wear masks at all times and in all areas, leading to a terrible dehumanising effect. Outside all social functions, (except for leftist protests), have been closed down, social distancing, which is not natural for humans has been drummed into people, all parks, etc., listed down, people thrown out of their jobs, businesses shut down, many never to reopen, dehumanising masks have to be worn everywhere and of course aided by the deafening silence of church leaders, churches have been closed, or subject to ridiculous restrictions, even being told how to worship, and banning core activities. Yes, in many places, lockdowns have eased, but there is always the threat of a new one, and the coming mandatory id marker vaccine with aborted baby origins!! No wonder there is mental illness! |
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| 7/21/2020 1:52 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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I oppose the doctrines of the Catholic Church too, but sometimes they (the lay led ones) are the only sources of information, and at times it is only Catholic (lay led again), that give information about pro-life and anti-abortion activities, and Protestant and particularly evangelical sources do not seem at times to be well informed. For instance when widespread persecution of Christians happened in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, at the hands of Iraqi Shiite militias and then later on the infamous ISIS bands of terrorists, it took ages for Protestant agencies to find out what was going on, but the Catholic lay led agencies were quick off the mark. I find out a lot of what is going on by reading Traditionalist Catholic websites, as the main Catholic Church under Pope Francis and his leftist hierarchy is complicit in a lot of these things, e.g. under the now disgraced and laicised homosexual former Cardinal Archbishop of Washington DC, Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis personally threw his own underground Catholic Church in China under the bus, and recognised the puppet Communist sponsored “Catholic Patriotic Association” instead. |
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| 7/20/2020 6:08 PM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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Our Secretary of Health, Matt Hancock, in the U.K. government, (which only really covers England, as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland deal with their own health systems), has, no doubt under the prompting of our PM, Boris Johnson, ordered an enquiry into the wrong counting of COVID 19 deaths, by Public Health England, the national body that coordinates the NHS hospital and health trusts in England. There was severe over counting and inaccurate results of statistics. E.g., if someone had proved to be positive, but for example, asymptomatic, in say, March, for COVID 19, had isolated for 14 days as required, developed no symptoms, and then apparently continued like that in apparent good health for say 3 months, but then died of a routine heart attack, or was run over by a bus in say, June, the death certificate would still have COVID 19 written on it!!There is a lot of fishy business going on here, and there are certain nefarious individuals in the left, who wish this COVID 19 crisis to continue for as long as possible, and then to force every one to take the vaccine. Sadly, people are falling for it. You do not arrest the healthy, but find out who is sick, quarantine them, treat them, and let every one else go. You certainly do not put police ankle restraints on little ba |
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| 7/19/2020 11:10 AM |
| Chrisgp from England | | England | | | |
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I don’t know the situation as far as churches meeting in Portland, Oregon, but I suspect that it is much the same as California, Illinois, Chicago, New York City and State, Germany, Alberta, and even
in my country, England, where there are severe restrictions on churches meeting, and wearing masks may be required (here only recommended, but enforced by the church leaders very often), rigid separation of seating, no singing permitted, and often restrictions or even a ban on communion and baptisms. These are often enforced quite harshly, or at least administrative threats are made. Yet once again the clever, crafty virus COVID 19, seems to instinctively know it must avoid rioters at all costs, it must leave them strictly alone, as mysteriously the local leftist authorities who hate churches so much, have decreed a complete amnesty for these and exemption from all the COVID 19 rules and social distancing!! |
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