Remove prayer from schools? Check.
Forbid Christmas and Easter events in schools? Check.
Gun registration and eventual confiscation? Pending.
Free speech fades to where the media only tell the government’s side? Too close to “check” for comfort.
Pastors fearful of addressing serious moral and political issues because of government intimidation? See answer immediately above.
These were the circumstances that developed in Nazi Germany in the mid-to-late 1930s.
According to pastor Carl Gallups, they also are looming like a storm cloud across America.
“This is what Americans are beginning to see,” Gallups said in a recent appearance on CTN’s “It’s Time with Herman & Sharron.” “We see these similarities. We know that we don’t live under government decree to persecute us like other Christians do, but we see the progression, or digression.”
Christian believers, who are increasingly under assault in today’s world, said Gallups, need to prepare for the worst.
Gallups, an author, talk-radio host and former law enforcement officer, lays out several ideas on how to prepare in his latest book, “Be Thou Prepared.”
However, the pastor wants people to know it’s not just some crazy prepper guide.
“I’m not some wild-eyed prepper dressed in camouflage, eating grubs, hiding under a log in the woods,” Gallups said.
Rather, he said, he drew on his 40 years of experience in ministry and law enforcement, where he had to regularly deal with tragedy and trauma in other people’s lives. Many people have asked him what to prepare for and how to prepare, so he put it all into a book.
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Some people live in areas where they need to always be prepared for a hurricane or tornado, Gallups said. But now there are dangers unrelated to the weather that are confronting Americans all over.
For example, he cited a porous southern border and FBI confirmation that there are ISIS cells in all 50 states.
One particularly troubling scenario, according to the pastor, is an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, used as a weapon of mass destruction.
A nuclear weapon that harnesses the power of a high-energy EMP could be detonated in the sky above a country and shut down all electronic equipment on the ground below. That includes cars, computers, phones, radios and television – essentially the whole power grid.
Such an emergency, Gallups noted, would create a massive panic and cause ordinary Americans to do things they might not otherwise do.
He said: “Your sweet little next-door neighbor can turn into a killer if, all of a sudden, they don’t have food and water, all of a sudden if they think, ‘I’m going to die.’”
Therefore, it’s good to be prepared not just for yourself, but for others around you, too. Gallups explained to hosts Herman and Sharron Bailey that being prepared is not a selfish act.
“The reason I tell people to be prepared, guys, is not so that we can horde up something and go hide,” he said. “If we’re taken care of, if our families are taken care of … when disaster strikes, guess what? You’re then free to minister to the world around you in the name of Jesus Christ.”
Gallups and Herman Bailey both pointed out many Americans assume no major disaster will ever strike their country. But that is selfish thinking, according to Gallups, because it ignores the major disasters currently inflicting the rest of the world, particularly Christians in other lands.
In fact, considering the rampant persecution of Christians in North Korea, China and the Middle East, Gallups believes the world is already in a period of tribulation.
“I’m not saying that the Great Tribulation that will last seven years has necessarily begun, but I am saying we are in tribulation,” he said. “This world is in desperate tribulation.”
Americans may not realize that fact, Gallups acknowledged, because they are still able to live mostly comfortable lives. But Americans should not let their First World comfort blind them to the troubles around the world.
“I tell people just because Starbucks is open and an NFL game was on television last night doesn’t mean all is right with the world, and America needs to wake up,” Gallups declared.
The pastor said Christians often refuse to prepare, telling him they will simply rely on faith to get through any disasters that come. Gallups replies it’s important to have faith, but the Scriptures also tell believers to prepare. Besides, preparation is an essential part of everyday life.
“Do you have insurance?” Gallups said he asks people who won’t prepare. “Do you have a spare tire in your trunk? Do you buckle your kids in before you take off on a trip? Do you brush your teeth? Do you have an alarm system? Do you lock your doors?
“What are you doing? Our whole life is a life of preparation. Preparation for what? For the possibility of something going wrong.”
Some Christians, in addition to failing to prepare, don’t want to get involved in the world around them. Gallups said that, too, is a huge mistake.
“That’s a cancer; that’s a blight upon the churches,” Gallups admonished. “Pastors say it, Christians say it, and I say to them, you must be. You’ve got to stay engaged.
“God called us, Jesus said, ‘You’re the salt, you’re the light.’ Well, guess what? To sprinkle salt, you’re getting involved. To shine the light, you’re getting involved. I tell my congregation all the time: The darker it gets, turn your light up. Stay engaged. Never grow weary of doing good. We have been raised up for such a time as this.”
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