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Patriots are awake. If the Nov. 5 election is stolen, the republic is likely over. The radical Dems will execute what they have been threatening for ages: pack the Supreme Court, add two far-left states, eliminate the Electoral College, and (not yet openly promised) give illegal invaders the vote. Oh, and prohibit public expressions of faith as “hate speech” – remember Hillary’s distorted phrase “right to worship” – that is, worship tucked away safely inside church buildings? How about Harris’s: “You’re in the wrong rally” to the follower who declared “Jesus is Lord”?
Is your pastor also awake? Does he take a stand on the election? If not, why not?
Arguably, if patriots lose the Nov. 5 election (and the country), those most directly responsible will be the timid-pastor class, which unfortunately is the majority. Courageous patriot pastors are about as common as pastors who defied mandates to close churches. (Do Houses of God serve governments or God?)
A theology rotten to its core has infiltrated churches for generations. It is the completely false concept of “separation of church and state.” As most of us know, there is nothing in the Constitution or Declaration along those lines. The 1st Amendment’s “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” was to protect the church from the state, not the state from the church. Furthermore, it was directed towards the threat of a federally-mandated religion – as the Founders had seen the corruption of England’s state-mandated Anglican Church – while most of the individual, sovereign states had their own preferred church systems. (Massachusetts: Congregationalist; Rhode Island: Baptist; Maryland: Catholic; Pennsylvania: Quaker; Virginia: Anglican; etc.)
Public prayers, the 10 Commandments, Holy-Days, infiltrated all levels of governmental bodies since before the founding. The state runs much better with the church and eternal values throughout.
Why have pastors, then, bowed to this false theology? Convenience and fear. It is convenient to claim you can’t “mix” politics and religion at church as it is against the law, in order to avoid controversy or offending Democrats in the congregation. Fear, as the IRS’s Johnson Amendment threatens to remove any church’s tax-exempt status for preaching politics from the pulpit.
Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel who bravely and successfully defended pastors against massive fines (or jail) for keeping churches open during the lockdowns, strongly recommends pastors ignore the IRS rule. The IRS has only removed the tax-exempt status of one church during 70 years; they realize the rule is blatantly unconstitutional and would be struck down in any high-profile case. Staver – who shared his insights at the Remnant Alliance lift-off a year ago at Lakeland, FL – reasoned that the IRS will never invoke the Johnson Amendment going forward as it’s entire effectiveness is as a threat. Why is the threat effective? Materialist pastors.
Back in 2021 I began a long journey looking for a doctrinely-sound, patriot church. For the life of me, I couldn’t find one in Miami-Dade County. (The closest was a Calvary Chapel offshoot in western Miami, whose founder pastor, a Cuban exile, was unabashedly patriotic, but whose rising pastor son was more cautious.) Eventually I was blessed to find a patriot church in Broward County.
Why does all this matter? According to Tucker Carlson, at his Sunrise, FL “Tucker Live” event on Sept. 7th, over 40 million born-again Christians do not vote.
This massive moral failing can only be attributed to fearful, misinformed pastors.
I recall back in 2020, when my personally-conservative pastor in Miami Dade refused to take a stand on the election. The best he could do was to say “look at the party platforms and vote for whichever better aligns with your values.” (No claim to eternal values/truths there.) After the steal, he was sufficiently guilt-ridden (I believe) to give a stem-winder sermon against abortion. Not before the election, after.
A friend who ran the café ministry explained why: half of the congregation were Democrats, more than I expected.
When the steal was consolidated over the following months, the word reached me that the leadership team has been told presidents are, essentially, chosen by God and they had to move on. That is when I left the church and began my search.
This reflects another area of theological rot: modern bible translations mis-translate Romans 13:1-2 as “governing authorities” in such a way that any fair reading would prevent German Christians from resisting Hitler. (If Hitler was chosen by God, who am I to be against God’s will?) The pure & preserved translation of the King James Bible places the verses up in the heavenlies: “every soul” instead of “everyone”, “higher powers” instead of “governing authorities”, “ordained” instead of “established.” The original translation speaks more of a spiritual order, less of an earthly one.
Such spiritual rot has been infiltrating our churches for 150 years or more – starting with Darwin’s undermining of the true, biblical account of creation found in Genesis.
My new pastor in Broward encouraged voter registration inside the church, and frames many sermons with references to current affairs and the godless, corrupt values of today’s society and leaders. But he, unfortunately, won’t mention Trump by name and this past Sunday (the last of two opportunities!) did not exhort the congregation to go out and vote.
The two parties – and their platforms – are so radically different, I personally have a hard time believing someone who votes Democrat can actually be saved. The issue of abortion alone is a clear divider. Accordingly, I believe a great sifting is happening, and needs to happen, throughout Christ-centered churches: with salt & light pastors preaching courageously, the unsaved will depart, leaving the congregation (temporarily) smaller but healthier.
Our primordial mission is to save souls, but not at the expense of a compromised, watered-down congregations. Apostasy does not need any help from fearful pastors.
Is your pastor a patriot pastor? If not, why not?
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. (Luke 12:48b)
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. (James 3:1)
Ben Batchelder is the author of four extended travel yarns and has been a Contributor to The Miami Independent since its inception. Contact him at his author site benbatchelder.com
