Does the Battle for LA Prove the End of the Great Commission?
If bringing in every racial and ethnic group to America is like bringing the mission field to us, why does LA resemble a foreign invasion?
Why do the nations protest and the peoples conspire in vain?
Psalm 2:1 (New American Bible)
Let’s be clear right off the bat- there is absolutely nothing in all of Scripture to suggest inviting hordes of foreigners, who share neither heritage nor faith with the native population, can ever bear good fruit.
Nothing in the Bible ever says such a thing. In fact, Deuteronomy 28:43 declares that such a thing is a curse upon God’s people: “The resident aliens among you will rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower.”1
Yet time and again, I hear from liberal Christian organizations how thankful we should be for the Lord is bringing our mission field to us! What a blessing!
Here is what that blessing looks like as of this week.
Now, these huge, enthusiastic gatherings beg the question: Where are all the street witnessing teams?
Why aren’t we seeing LA’s biggest megachurches mobilize their outreach efforts to Compton and Paramount so these poor foreigners can finally, mercifully, hear the Gospel and repent?
Didn’t the first-century Christians go out to evangelize with little regard for threats of violence or death? Why is this any different?
The faith tactics of these “churches” who preach and teach such madness are fully exposed under the weight of truth, which at this moment, comes via burning cars and American flags while foreign flags are flown in honor of Reconquista, the long-simmering Mexican movement to recapture the West Coast as its own land.
Surely, just as when Spain colonized the Amerindian population of Mexico, there will be attendant priests and prayers involved. Right? Like, shouldn’t we be seeing what saw back then? The dreams of a thousand dreamers lifting up the cross of Christ, demanding justice in His name and the proclamation of a coming kingdom in which He alone will reign.
Oh. No, wait. They just want free iPhones and sneakers.
What a joke.
There’s no noble cause here. No hunger and thirst for righteousness.
And in such lawlessness, which the Bible defines as sin, let’s be honest, there can be no presence of the living God.
Instead, Los Angeles, this week at least, resembles a God-forsaken dystopia, when muddied by all manners of people, except, it appears, faithful Christians, who are invisible and silent as violence overtakes the region.
Where are you, missionaries? Why not cancel your trip to Zimbabwe and preach the Gospel down near the 101 Freeway? Or is that not sexy enough of a mission for you?
No, the reason you don’t see evangelists swarming into this particular hostile, dangerous situation as they do so many other hostile, dangerous situations is because, deep down, they know preaching the Gospel for these folks would be like casting pearls before swine.
The same message of Christ’s judgment for sin and love for sinners has nothing to do with the international mob of “Americans” currently burning down the City of Angels.
And hear me out - it’s OK to say it. It’s OK to say, you know what, maybe these folks are simply doing the works of their father just as Jesus came to do the works of His.
OK, so maybe these racialist, communist agitators aren’t Pharisaical Jews in the religious sense, but certainly, they are committing acts of evil commensurate with the acts of the evil one.
Or, according to an actual news anchor, someone who likely dreamed all his life of being called a TV journalist, they’re “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.”
Look, I get it.
You don’t think us Bible-believing Evangelicals are “sick and tired” of fruitless religion, too?
You don’t think we, too, are done with conventions and conferences and outlets and pastors and churches who think of new and exciting ways to convert heathens and make them two times more the son of the devil than they were?
You don’t think most Evangelicals who love the Lord aren’t over all of this nonsense about “give Jesus your heart” as we watch our way of life destroyed?
If the Gospel - which is the Good News preached by Isaiah the prophet 600 years before the Son of God came to this earth - is merely “believe and receive” for anyone anywhere, than Christianity should be flourishing, nowhere more so than in Los Angeles, California, the birthplace of countless sound and faithful Christian teachers, movements, and congregations.
It should be, by far, the dominant religion and growing, considering the century-plus head start the city has enjoyed.
Instead, we have riots and violence and fire consuming our nation’s most precious symbols. How’s that for Christian nationalism?
‘No thrones, no crowns, no kings’
Turns out the LA riots are just the beginning.
There’s a "NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance" protest set for Flag Day which, inadvertently or otherwise, coincides with the Army's 250th Birthday Parade being held on President Trump’s birthday in Washington, D.C.
This “No Kings” effort is unsurprisingly organized by Indivisible, a leftist activist group that wants Americans to know the American flag - the ones they are currently burning and/or replacing with foreign flags - belongs to them. “The flag doesn’t belong to President Trump. It belongs to us.”
Their slogan? “No thrones, no crowns, no kings.”
So, just to be clear - after generations of these people living here and enjoying the benefits of our nation while at the same time calling us an illegitimate nation of colonizers, now they want to claim our flag, just to burn it?
Is this the sign of a prosperous and healthy nation? Or is this symptomatic of a nation teetering on the brink?
And their verbiage of choice - “no thrones, no crowns, no kings” - would it all surprise you to learn these are the very things promised to God’s heavenly assembly?
In fact, the book of Revelation tells us the throne room of God is replete with this imagery.
At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it. The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
The redeemed in Christ are the same people who are granted thrones, who cast crowns, and who are made kings in the presence of the Lamb of God.
Is it, then, just a coincidence that the hordes of nations seeking to destroy ours would have as their battle cry, “No thrones, no crowns, no kings?”
The only throne they oppose is that from which the Lord Jesus Christ will soon reign. The only crowns they hate are the ones He has promised all those who love His appearing. The kings they revile are the kings and priests who will soon rule and reign with Christ at His coming.
How much do you need to see before understanding none of this is strictly political? In fact, notice how their politics are dropped at the first sign of inconvenience.
Those who shout loudest that we who stand for life and laws and liberty of conscience are “racists” and “nationalists” are flying the flag of their nation while burning ours.
These folks are nationalists in every sense of the word. They’re just not White Christian nationalists. And thus, they are Commissar-approved by our morally bankrupt Fourth Estate, which will soon resemble the third world once AI demolishes what’s left standing of the antiquated MSM establishment.
In fact, anti-American displays, foreign flag-waving protests, etc. are inherently anti-Christian. What else would they be?
They’re not opposed to a “system.” They’re opposed to the existence of the people who built that system. And the people who laid the foundations upon which later generations built (and corrupted) were Christians.
All this against a backdrop of potential catastrophe on multiple levels. Economic calamity. Political violence. An Armageddon-like war brewing in the Mideast between Israel and Iran.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a sociopolitical-economic landscape as fraught with disaster and doom. I don’t state that flippantly.
And the nations that are perhaps most at risk are those nations like the USA, where the Gospel has flourished, where the freedom to worship has been defended, and where Christ Jesus has been glorified.
Why is that?
What changed?
Are we even allowed to say it?
We better speak up soon, or they’ll be nothing left for them to burn.
New American Bible Revised Edition