On Saturday, August 28, Glenn Beck will be heading an event at the Lincoln Memorial in our nations capital he says is not a political event, not a Christian event, but a God event. Beck is the highly influential and popular Fox News host who has rightly been railing on the socialistic tendencies of our government of late and has done a wonderful job showing some neglected facts regarding our history. But now Beck, a self professed Mormon, is moving in the religious realm. For Beck's event, since he is a Mormon, we must ask: What God is this event really about?
Ephesians 5:11-13 tells us, "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light." Beck is billing this event as one that will restore America's road to honor and America's divine destiny. While it is true that God is the only one who can do this for our nation, it is only the God of Christianity that is real, and able.
I've been amazed as I have watched Christian ministers yolk themselves with Beck. While it may be acceptable to join forces with unbelievers regarding a political issue, how can one in good conscience and sound doctrine link themselves to a self proclaimed "God" event with someone who believes in another God? Beck himself asked on his TV show on 8/27 whether this was permissible, and without hesitation, all the ministers nodded in agreement. Beck asked whether Christians, and Mormons, and Jews, and Muslims could join together to try to bring our nation back to God. Every minister present said yes. Simply astounding.
How can people who call upon a different god join together to call upon the One God of the Christian bible? The answer is, they cannot. Beck though has effectively tapped into an ecumenical lurch by Christianity that we can put aside doctrinal differences to join together for the common moral good. While we can have doctrinal differences regarding some things that are not absolutely spelled out in the bible, how can we yolk together with those who do not believe that Jesus is God, the Savior, the only way to the Father? How can we join forces with those who worship another god and expect God to move?
Beck proclaims we will be seeing miracles in our nation. Let me remind everyone, Satan is capable of great miracles. Friends, I tell you, I love my country. But I fear in my heart we are putting the welfare of our nation above the Greatest Commandment. Is Beck right on many political issues? Yes, I believe he is. Does that mean we should overlook his following a false god in a false religion and join forces with him in the name of God for our nation? God forbid!
Instead of embracing Beck here, we should be presenting the clear gospel to him. These Christian leaders who have compromised the faith instead of "earnestly contending" for it should be pulling Beck aside to try to show him the error of his beliefs, not appearing beside him in the name of God. Brothers and sisters, if we do not agree upon Jesus, we have no agreement about God.
Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan were brothers. They believe they are of the so-called lost tribe of Israel. They believe America is the "Promised Land" and that the New Jerusalem will be in Missouri. They believe that by living the "Mormon" life that each man will one day be God(as they believe God was once man and attained Godhood) and will have many goddesses and their own planet to be God of one day. I ask you, does this sound like the God of the bible? For further understanding please read 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
Christian ministers are telling Beck and America that God is using him. Now many times in the past God worked through the ungodly, but do they believe the Holy Spirit will work through a person who espouses the god of Mormonism? Have they been deceived to believe that Mormonism and fundamental Christianity follow the same God? Where is our discernment? Where is our backbone to stand for the fundamental teachings of the bible over the good of our nation? Where is Christianity heading when we cannot see these things for what they are?
Darkness and light have no place together. Like at twilight when the two are intermingling, we do not see well, nor clearly. It appears more and more as though God's light is setting over the horizon, and darkness is enveloping our world. And sadly, we are helping extinguish the light due to and ungodly desire for our nation to be right, apart from Him. Different faiths means different gods. For this event tomorrow, which God will be exalted?
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