by Rob Pue, All News Pipeline:
I guess I sort of consider myself a “visionary.” No, I don’t mean I see “visions” or am any sort of “prophet.” But I can see things as they are and ENVISION what could be. I can look at a broken-down, ramshackle house or car and see how it can be brought back to life. I can see a yard with badly neglected landscaping and lawn and see the beauty that it could be.
In the 1990s, I envisioned a Christian newspaper for Wisconsin — a virtually impossible feat to pull off, but the Lord God Himself TOLD me to start one, and now our newspaper, Wisconsin Christian News is putting out more copies than ever before and it’s distributed nationally — not just for Wisconsin anymore. And I can also look upon a lost soul, consumed and deceived by worldly enticements and see a new creation in Christ, IF only they’ll seek Him in humble repentance and faith.
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In my life, I’ve also had some great ideas for things long before they existed. For example, I envisioned self-adhesive postage stamps at least ten years before they came out with them. The idea of satellite radio also came to me at least ten years before it was launched. Lately, I had another great idea that somebody, eventually, will make millions of dollars with. You know, they have landscaping mulch that’s infused with insect repellant. Why don’t they have mulch that’s infused with deer and rabbit repellant, so the animals don’t eat your flowers or your garden? Just remember, when it comes out, you heard it here first!
But there are also plenty of things I got wrong. When the beverage industry started marketing bottled water, I thought it was the craziest idea I ever heard of. Who, in their right mind, would want to buy bottled water? Water is free. But now, there are dozens upon dozens of brands of bottled water readily available from your local grocery or convenience store. They even have a brand called “Smart Water” — and you can get two bottles of that for only $4 dollars now. People are paying for it, and drinking it. But apparently, not getting any smarter.
Speaking of “vision,” that’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it? Seeing what COULD be…if only… In 2020, we held our annual Wisconsin Christian News Conference and the theme that year was “2020 Vision.” My vision for that year was of a renewed, revitalized courageous Christian Church here in America — ready and willing to render their reasonable service as warriors in the spiritual battle that was raging against us all, especially our children and young people.
Boy, did I get THAT one wrong. During the 1990s and into the new century, the modern American Church began to rapidly descend down the drain to depravity. We had the “Purpose Driven” Church, then the “seeker friendly” Church, then the “Emergent” Church, then the “Social Justice” Church. All of these things were born of people with vision, but their vision was not inspired by the Holy Spirit, but rather by the enemy of our souls. Matthew 24:24, “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
Yes, even long-time church-goers jumped on the “love, love, love” bandwagon and began accepting all forms of ungodly stuff — in order to appear “loving,” “tolerant,” “accepting.” We were told that Jesus loves everyone, just as they are…a sprinkle of truth mixed in with a pound of lies. What we’ve ended up with is a Socialist Church, or dare I say even a Communist Church. The Holy Spirit has now, sadly, departed from most of these places. It’s very, very difficult to find a real Bible-believing, truth-teaching assembly of believers where the Holy Spirit really does dwell.
Instead, we have a carnival atmosphere. Sermons designed to tickle the itching ears of unrepentant and unsaved sinners as they’re told nothing about true salvation, nothing about the blood of the Lamb, shed for our redemption, nothing about being transformed by the renewing of our minds. Instead, the pulpiteers have been brainwashing the minds of the clueless victims they preach to with a “different Gospel” that Scripture tells us to flee from.
It was in the late ‘90s and early 2000s that the monstrosity that has become the modern LGBTQP+ movement “came out of the closet” and got right in all of our faces, demanding we not just accept sodomy as natural and normal, but we must also celebrate it, we must also teach it to our young children. We must embrace it. Because, after all, as many modern preachers will tell you, “love is love.” And as that demonic sodomite monster came out of the closet in earnest, the American Church meekly retreated into that very same closet.
We warned of a “slippery slope” of the many false teachings and the paths the churches were taking. But in 2020, I really thought enough people were waking up to the reality of the errors of their ways and God’s remnant Church would rise up, reject the lies and deception and join the spiritual battle against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
I was wrong. Our “2020 Vision” Conference was held on “lockdown weekend,” and it was the last large public gathering of any kind that entire year and beyond anywhere in the country. That was the weekend the big announcement came: “Just two weeks to flatten the curve.” Non-essential businesses — like Churches — were forced by the government to close their doors. No meetings or gatherings, not even in our own homes. Wear the masks. Wear rubber gloves, stay six feet apart from others. Follow the arrows on the floor when you go to “essential” businesses like Walmart and Target. Bow down to Big Pharma. Worship the “science” of Fauci and company.
My “vision” for 2020 was so different — and things could have gone so differently — IF the Church had risen up. IF the Church had done the job of the Church and the work of the ministry. IF the pastors had even an ounce of courage. Only a very few did, and they were severely persecuted. Just like the many doctors, nurses and scientists who dared to speak the truth and say, “wait a minute. Something’s not right here. We’re being lied to.” But most Americans and people around the world complied out of cowardice.
I remember people who refused to wear the masks and live in fear being confronted — sometimes violently — by law enforcement or even store employees. At one home improvement store chain, they actually hired armed guards to ensure no one enter the store without a face mask. If you didn’t have one, they would sell you one. If you didn’t comply, you were arrested by police and charged with trespassing.
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