David Cox’s Take on the News is my comments on events I see in the news and my piecing of them together for a Christian understanding.
China’s War on Religion
Bible prophecy informs us that, in the end times, a great army from the East will march across Asia to attack Israel, and the Lamb of God will come to save the nation of Israel at that point. So we watch the great Asian nations (population-wise and military-wise) for who? this could be.
My Apologizes…
Let me begin by at first immediately separating two things. I have nothing, absolutely nothing against the Chinese people. I have known very few, but every one of them that I have known both in the US and in Mexico has been the nicest of people. I do not express anything negative against them because they are a bunch of great people, hard-working, and industrious people. But I am both logically and religiously inclined to reject forcefully the Chinese government, the Communist “system”. My opinions are always negative against that system first because I see it as unbiblical and antichrist positive, and secondly because it oppresses the great Chinese people.
Correct me if I am wrong, but…
- Diane Feinstein (Senator D-CA) had a personal driver for 10+ years that was a Chinese agent.
- Nancy Pelosi’s daughter-in-law is Chinese.
- Hunter Biden got a loan of 1.5 billion dollars from China, that they can call in if his dad doesn’t do what they want.
- Hunter Biden’s loan from China saw 10% go to his dad, Joe Biden.
- China has officially stated in its media outlet that they congratulate Joe Biden on winning because Joe Biden is “their boy”.
- What are we doing playing “footsie” under the table with China?
China’s Dead Tiananmen Square 10,000+ Dead -Breitbart.com
“Under Xi Jinping, we’ve seen a marked deterioration in the human rights situation,” Smith said. “On the religious front, whether it be the Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists, the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, or the Christians — even the officially recognized [Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association] — all are under a new and more aggressive siege under Xi Jinping.”
“He has declared war on religion and world leaders, including in this Capitol, and we need to speak out boldly and unambiguously against this attack against people of faith,” Smith said….
“It would be impossible to gather so many people from so many parts of the country onto the square because China has become a surveillance state,” Littlejohn said. “They use technology as tools of repression: millions of surveillance cameras for facial recognition and millions more of Internet thought police to spy on their citizens.”…
- More than 1 million Uighur and other Muslim ethnic minorities are currently in “Political reeducation” concentration camps.
- Experts believe that prisoners of conscience and religious believers are being executed to harvest their organs for transplant.
- Underground Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, have undergone tremendous persecution, with churches being bulldozed, crosses being torn down, and pastors and priests jailed. In April 2016, in Henan province, a pastor’s wife, trying to protect her church from being bulldozed, was buried alive by the bulldozer.
Mike Pomeo on the decades long Chinese war on Religion -Breitbart.com
“U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted China’s egregious violations of religious liberty, telling journalists on Wednesday the Chinese Communist Party has been waging a “decades-long war on faith.”
In China, “state-sponsored repression against all religions continues to intensify,” Mr. Pompeo said during the official roll-out of the 2019 International Religious Freedom Report.
“The Chinese Communist Party is now ordering religious organizations to obey CCP leadership and infuse communist dogma into their teachings and practice of their faith,” Pompeo said.
This is exactly the game plan of the antichrist, forced changes to doctrine and practice so that people will worship the beast, the antichrist, and the false prophet, the unholy trinity, instead of the true God.
“Despite Chairman Xi Jinping’s decree that all members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must be ‘unyielding Marxist atheists,’ the government continued to exercise control over religion and restrict the activities and personal freedom of religious adherents that it perceived as threatening state or CCP interests,” the report notes.
Satan will use his lieutenants to force a merge between the political and the religious so that all the world will worship the religious-political system Satan’s trying to institute.
Pomeo says China Greatest threat to Religious Freedom -Breitbart.com
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Thursday in Indonesia that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a “war” against people of all faiths.
The “gravest threat to the future of religious freedom is the Chinese Communist Party’s war against people of all faiths: Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners alike,” Secretary Pompeo told political and religious leaders gathered in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
“The atheist Chinese Communist Party has tried to convince the world that its brutalization of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang is necessary as a part of its counterterrorism efforts or poverty alleviation,” Secretary Pompeo explained to his audience in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
My understanding here is that everybody “hates” terrorists, and rightly so, but these people are using the concept of a “hated terrorist” to brand everybody that has ANY KIND OF RELIGIOUS FAITH as a terrorist. The link is impossible to make to any reasonable mind, but this is the brainwashing going on.
China is systematically destroying all religious buildings (churches) -Breitbart.com
I must emphatically remind you that your religion (whatever it is) focuses on your beliefs and practices, and those are taught, reinforced, and expressed by a “meeting” with others of that same faith. To destroy a “church” movement is done by forcing a different religious belief that is believing in Communism instead of your religious beliefs, and then shutting down all meetings together with others of your faith. That is done first of all by destroying the actual church buildings, then forbidding by law the reunions in other rented places, and finally by forbidding any Internet type meetings, chat, or emails where you can be instructed or encouraged in your religious beliefs. So this is a very important issues.
Human rights website Bitter Winter reported on Monday that over 300 Protestant churches were shut down by the Chinese government in 2019 in a war on religious liberty that continues unabated during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Bitter Winter, the shuttered churches included both underground or “house” churches and those belonging to the state-approved “Three-Self Patriotic Movement.”
Some of the closed Three-Self churches were ostensibly “merged” into larger churches, a procedure Bitter Winter described as “one of the CCP’s go-to tools to reduce the number of places of worship and increase control over them.”
Here we see why biblical Christians reject ecumenicalism, which is the Devil’s tool of choice in contaminating and destroy the true Christian faith.
Another common tactic employed to thin out the number of churches involves Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials abruptly pulling the license for a church because it is supposedly due for renewal, but the new permit is never issued and the “unlicensed” church soon finds itself ordered to shut down. Sometimes the CCP pulls off a double play by “merging” smaller churches into a larger church that suddenly needs a permit renewal because of all the new parishioners.
In the United States, a common ploy of this same vein is to demand by city code that a church of x number of people must have parking spaces for x number of cars (the maximum capacity of the church divided by two) even though many families have 4+ members and churches rarely surpass no more than 40% or 50% of their capacity.
Parishioners from shuttered churches sometimes try to keep worshiping together online, and of course the coronavirus pandemic made social media the only way to congregate in much of China….
“Our first and only online gathering was blocked by the government soon after it started,” complained a preacher who took to the Internet after five consecutive real-world venues were shut down by police harassment.
Several Chinese cities have issued blanket orders banning online worship during the coronavirus, citing rules against such services that were promulgated long before the coronavirus.
“Very few organizations, and only those that hold state-issued licenses, can broadcast religious services and provide faith-related information online in China. And the content is also very heavily censored. The strict regulations have not been eased even during the pandemic,” the report observed.
Hello United States Christians! The Democratic party wants to govern everything on the Internet exactly as China has been trying to do for years now. The United States then (Democratic Liberal people) are following China’s Satanic practice.
Even those churches that manage to keep online services running during the pandemic find themselves subjected to burdensome regulations and pervasive surveillance, such as demands to remove religious symbols from their web pages or provide the real names of every participant in their Internet forums.
“The Public Security Bureau has information on all members of every WeChat group, and network inspections are carried out, especially strict during the pandemic,” a Three-Self pastor lamented.