I’ve heard of the silent
majority most of my life. They have resided in the churches, the
neighborhoods,
and the workplaces. I’ve met them in the restaurants, in the shopping centers,
and at family reunions. The problem is they aren’t as noticeable as they once
were. Their numbers are dwindling, rapidly.
The voices of celebration are
getting louder and louder.
“When Joshua heard the
boisterous noise of the people shouting below them, he exclaimed to Moses, “It
sounds like war in the camp!” But Moses replied, “No, it’s not a shout of
victory nor the wailing of defeat. I hear the sound of a celebration.” Exodus
32:17-18 (NLT)
While we, the silent
majority, sat back and said nothing, Satan sneaked in the back door with a
whole bag full of surprises. Now we stretch and yawn while looking around us,
thinking, “What happened?”
Actually, I’m not sure there
ever was a silent majority.
“Finally, he turned to Aaron
and demanded, “What did these people do to you to make you bring such terrible
sin upon them?” “Don’t get so upset, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself
know how evil these people are. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will lead
us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from
the land of Egypt.’ So I told them, ‘Whoever has gold jewelry, take it off.’
When they brought it to me, I simply threw it into the fire—and out came this
calf!” Moses saw that Aaron had let the people get completely out of control,
much to the amusement of their enemies.” Exodus 32:21-25 (NLT)
Obviously the majority were
the evil people Aaron kowtowed to. Aaron was later to be the first of the Levi
priesthood, the high priest at that, but at this time he was a sniffling
coward, especially when compared to his brother Moses. Not only was he a
spineless coward, he was also a liar. He was willing to trade what he knew was
right in the eyes of God to participation in sin to appease the people. He
didn’t want to “make any waves” in other words. He knew what he was doing was wrong,
but why “rock the boat.” Let’s just please everybody. My goodness, don’t offend
anyone!
I think Joshua would have
stood up against them, but he was half way up the mountain with Moses. Surely
there were many others who knew it was wrong to be worshipping a golden calf
and dancing naked in the streets, but no one said a word.
Fast forward to the 21st
century and guess what is happening today? People are dancing naked in the
streets while worshipping the golden calf of greed, homosexuality, sexual escapades,
entertainment, wealth, watered-down religion, and a continuing on-going list of
putrid festered sins against God.
Almighty God miraculously
delivered the Israelites from Egypt and did nothing less miraculous in
delivering this United States of America from her enemies over the past 200
plus years. Are we grateful? How grateful is a child that is spoiled all their
life? Don’t they normally turn out being ungrateful brats, even hating their
own parents? We have forgotten that our blessings have come from God, not the
work of our own hands. Maybe that is why we no longer want anything to do with
God in this country. We’ve kicked Him out of our schools, our courts, our
military, our government, our entertainment, and even our homes.
In my opinion, we are the
most blessed country this earth has ever seen. We have been blessed not just
spiritually but materially in ways that make other countries jealous. Even our
poorest of the poor are rich in the eyes of others in some third world
countries. Are we grateful? Many of our people are grateful. Many have given
their lives because they were grateful.
Believe it or not, even
today, many still realize that we have been blessed for one reason. That reason
is that we started out in the beginning worshiping the one and only true God,
our Creator. We acknowledged the second person of the Godhead as Jesus Christ,
the Son of God. Even those who did not place their faith in Him still respected
Him and His people. That crowd is dwindling fast.
Satan has attacked us from
Hollywood to Washington D.C. He has thrown every tempting vice possible our
way, and we have succumbed to his temptations as did Adam and Eve. Sadly, only
a few have spoken up for Christ over the last several years. Satan’s crowd has
been able to throw their garbage at us with very little resistance on our part.
I can remember when Jesus
Christ was glorified from most of the pulpits and pews of America. Now, He is
vilified. Most of those great warriors of God have gone on to be with our Lord.
Few remain. Most of the churches now are social centers used primarily for
politically correct, feel-good, fuzzy, tingly, give me goose bumps pep rallies
for rebellion against God.
The world is now telling the
church what it should preach. We are never to offend anyone, but how can that
be? The Gospel is offensive. So what do we do? We stop preaching the true
Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We should never address sin.
So what happens? Sin runs rampant, not just in the back alleys, but in the
churches.
We should never say there is
just one way to God. We should say there are many. We just pick the one that
suits us best. Now what? Mass confusion is the result with the masses going to
hell, because the church desires more to be politically correct than Biblically
correct.
It is my opinion that
Christ’s return must be very close. None of us know when, but He did command
that we watch for the signs of His return. They are here, now. They are all
around us. They are multiplying and intensifying as we draw closer to our
Lord’s return.
Jesus says in Luke 18:8, “I
tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man
cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” I believe He is referring
specifically to His Second Coming at the end of the seven year Tribulation, but
we can see true faith in God diminishing rapidly even now.
As the clock ticks down to
Christ’s return, we who know Him as Savior and Lord need to speak up, loudly
and clearly. I realize that fewer and fewer are listening, but it isn’t our job
to make them listen. It is our job to speak. Let us boldly tell them about the
Good News, the Gospel. Let us warn them that He is coming soon. Many will laugh
and mock, but some, when in Heaven, will thank us for speaking out.
The silence from the Church
has been deafening too long.
Grant Phillips
Email: grantphillips@windstream.net
Pre-Rapture Commentary: http://grant-phillips.blogspot.com
