The “stone of stumbling” stand of the Doc & Joes! Portrait of the Remnant! Amen?

Why, He was a “stone of stumbling” to thousands, actually to His own neighbors, to His own nation, because through Him they blasphemed the Holy Spirit, and in His own country “He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matt. 13:58). ~ Oswald Chambers, The New Testament Passion

My last Ephesians epiphany was the Eph. 6:16 “Above all” rank of faith over every other precious piece of the whole armour of God…even above the {Eph. 6:17} word itself! Well, as God would have it, I’ve always found the comma placed before to stand in Eph. 6:13 out of place…until I realized in the context of rapidly unfolding of events in this past week, there is no out of place in the Word of God! If there were no comma, there would only be one command to stand versus the two commands the comma creates. The ending two words of verse 13, and the first two words of verse 14. Furthermore, having done all {Eph. 6:13}; God is issuing the double command only AFTER giving us absolutely everything we need to stand! Amen?

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1

, and having done all, to stand…we comply, compromise, appease, and capitulate. Why? How? Evil used shedding. In the very same way the spike proteins are shed from the jabbed to the un-jabbed, much of my generation was infected by the ideological shedding from their children via the indoctrination in our public education system. We allowed the devil to turn Proverbs 22:6 upside down with kids training up their parents in the ways of the world…out of fear…the fear of losing their love. It happened in my own home. In the final days before our separation in 2016, my wife was lecturing me on my white privilege.

Our churches, the moral immune system of society, were thusly compromised…

It is no longer a church. It’s a den of thieves! The church needs to be the light, not darkness. The church needs to speak the truth, not the lie. The church needs to reflect and represent Jesus Christ of Nazareth, not Satan. I’ll step on Satan in Jesus’ mighty name. To hell with the world! Well, we want to bring the world back to the Lord. But for the world to come and impose and dictate things that are worldly to the church? Over my dead body! You only live once…I will never die a coward…when are you going to stand? ~ Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at the 30:19min mark https://www.bards.fm/e/ep2908_bardsfm-passover-not-eggs-and-bunnies/

Adding to Bishop Emmanuel’s courageous point, watching the church’s silence and appalling indifference to the imprisonment of Christian patriots for trespassing while a literal flood of violent criminals are caught and released into our communities, as juxtaposed to the prayerfully loving and compassionate Christian community in support of Peter’s Acts 4 and 12 imprisonments, needs to be called for what it is; a blatant and cowardly dereliction of the faith that will deservedly bring the true justice of a loving God. Pre-Pentecostal cowardice was forgiven at the Cross. Post-Pentecostal cowardice will suffer the wrath of the Lamb {Rev. 6:16}.  

Now, brothers and sisters, add to this developing polaroid of pastoral paralysis the story of 250,000 American pastors who signed NDA’s with FEMA and DHS to effectively lull their flocks into a stupor of compliant submission to the state, as reported by Jamie Walden of Omega Dynamics…and it suddenly becomes a diabolical stew of cowardice and treason.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. ~ Ephesians 4:8

Paul uses the figure of Jesus as the goal to which the whole human race is to attain—“till we all come…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ {Eph. 4:13}.” ~ Oswald Chambers, Spiritual Evolution…That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ {Eph. 4:14-15}:

I had to leave a men’s Bible study group after three years because of the weakness, self-deception, and ultimately their refusal to, to stand.

Don’t need religion to find the best of me, I give it all away religiously. And when its gone, and I’m alone…just God and me in solidarity. ~ Chip Murray, Déjà vu Blues 2004

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ~ G K Chesterton