The question that faces Christendom in general and Identity Christians in particular is: what are you going to do when faced with racial violence? Because of the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman incident, one pastor recently declared “The race war has begun.” But, as I’ve said before, the race war of black on White crime has murdered, raped or robbed over a million White victims in the last 30 years. What I would like to hear declared is that a Holy War has begun and it can begin within our movement, because whether rightly or wrongly portrayed, the Christian Identity movement has been labeled militant and radical. I would prefer the moniker of ‘zealous’ for the Word of Truth. A zealous Christian is not someone who is prone to violence, but is no one’s doormat, and discriminates who walks through his door, allowing mud to be tracked into the house. The current trend of home invasions would be met with the zealous use of a shotgun. But, it is not just our home that is under attack, but the whole house of Israel.
Everything in the Bible is there for a reason and the story of Phinehas is no fluke or anomaly. It’s a model for the zealous believer in the God of Israel.
Jesus gave His Disciples a lawful command to arm themselves and it was as appropriate then as it is now. The countries they were going in to were wrought with dangers, infested with robbers and wild beasts. There’s nothing new under the sun. Wild beast roam the streets of America and rob people of their valuables. I choose today’s Scripture reading in Numbers as a lesson in how not to stand your ground with the exception of Joshua and Caleb. In fact, when God gave our ancestors the Promised Land, He sent them out to observe the gift He had given them. But, what did they do? They complained about how weak and powerless they were compared to the inhabitants of the land. In other words, they were afraid to stand on the ground that God had given them. As a consequence, they spent the next 40 years in the wilderness and never did enter the land of promise. Did White Christian Americans let the savage Indians stop their westward migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans? No, they were familiar with the Bible story and saw the American frontier as their promised land.
The pioneers sold their possessions and bought a covered wagon, with provisions and guns to protect them in their journey to find their plot of God’s green earth to settle and raise their families. The thought that God was setting them up for defeat was the last thing on their minds. The only thing on their minds was the “High praises of God in their mouth and a two edged sword in their hand” (Ps. 149:6).
We learned last week about one phase of the Roman Catholic Church Menace. They substituted one Simon Peter, “Simon the Interpreter,” for another Simon Peter, the apostle of Jesus Christ; as their first pope, a so called 'apostolic succession.' This is an important doctrine, for if they are wrong on this—then their church is false.
They are wrong; for Peter is never in the Bible mentioned about being in Italy, but was a minister to the circumcised (the Judahites, the House of Judah) not the uncircumcised (the Gentiles, the House of Israel), which were the ones who were mainly in Rome. But there was a Simon who had a statue made of him in the Pantheon with the title of Holy God; who was buried in a pagan cemetery in Rome and who was well known as a sorcerer and a worker in witchcraft—this is their first pope.
The word ‘menace’ means someone or something that is a dangerous threat that is likely to cause harm. The word ‘catholic’ evokes images of a religion that has been and is a dangerous threat to Christianity that has caused so much misery and suffering and will continue on its path of destruction until it is finally destroyed. I’ve said many times that catholic is not synonymous with Christian nor is it godly or righteous. With a long line of abuses and violations of God’s Word, the catholic religion can only be considered an ongoing and persistent evil. It cannot escape its sordid history. Once a Christian is informed of why the catholic religion is a counterfeit, they will hate it with a perfect hatred.
