Some Christians don’t like to post political or social comments on social media. But I cannot forget flicking through the pages of a book that detailed the steps to be carried out in Britain after the Nazis had occupied that country. Chilling stuff. Had Operation Sea Lion proceeded across the Channel and succeeded, every elected official, politician, pastor and priest would have been deported to Germany.
From film documentaries we know that death would have awaited them. Which is why it is imperative that we speak up, while our democratic right to do so is under challenge. If Leftist extremists were to get their way here, the right of free speech would be removed. Courts would be replaced by tribunals, the Bible banned as a “hate book”, and what is happening in the UK to those who dare to speak out would happen to all those who refuse to “bow the knee to Baal” or “take the mark of the beast”, “the boot on the neck”, or whatever term that might describe a people under total control.
Danger is not a distant threat but an ever-present fear. The old caution about never allowing a camel to get its head into your tent has become a reluctance to recognize — or even discuss — the presence of the elephant in the room. Silence and a failure to act in the face of intimidation is a form of moral cowardice.
Remember this when next your conscience prompts you to add your name to a worthwhile petition aimed at bringing some much-needed change and the thought enters that an unknown person seeing it might add your name to a list of people who could be potential problems.
Reject that thought as one aimed at intimidating you, and affirm 2 Timothy 1:7 which assures us that “God has not given us a spirit of fear [timidity]; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” Intimidation results when outward threats enter the mind and take on the form of inner fears. We should never voice such fears but instead expel then in the authority of the all-powerful Name of Jesus Christ.
We need not shout at demons: we need only to speak with such authority that they know that we know that they know that we know that they must go. Say again? Yes, again and again, until we believe it.