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100K Member Satanic Temple Opening Chapters All Across America To ‘Battle Christianity’

Since its founding, The Satanic Temple has waged a highly active campaign to demand greater separation between church and state, and to challenge the privileged relationship Christianity has with government.

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Geoffrey Grider

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Since its founding, The Satanic Temple has waged a highly active campaign to demand greater separation between church and state, and to challenge the privileged relationship Christianity has with government.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” Ephesians 6:12,13,16 (KJV)

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the Laodicean Christian church continues on it’s self-defeating path of preaching the powerless ‘love gospel’, and looking for their ‘blessing’ promised them by charlatans like Joel Osteen, Lou Engle, Rick Warren, and Kenneth Copeland, the Satanic Temple is on the rise. The prophesied darkness is coming as the Church of Jesus Christ continues it’s falling away into apostasy. The war is real, the battle is hot and the time is short, to the fight, Christian!

Robert Eggers’ period horror film “The Witch” has been one of the surprise hits of 2016. It’s even gained a second wind since its February 23 release: the first weekend of April it played on 666 screens around the country, raking in an additional USD$465,000.

The tale of a Puritan family turning on each other as they attempt to root out the supernatural evil plaguing their farm, the film won Eggers the award for best director at Sundance – and even frightened horror master Stephen King.

The Satanic Temple of Detroit: Unveiling of Baphomet

GRAPHIC WARNING: This is HARD CORE Devil worship, and it took place in Detroit on July 25, 2015 at the unveiling of the Baphomet monument. This is the spirit that is now rising in America as Laodicean Christianity is powerless to stop it. Please be prayed up before viewing this.

But neither of these accolades has generated as much buzz as an endorsement from The Satanic Temple (TST), a satanic political movement that first appeared in 2013.

In December, TST and A24 studios began collaborating on a four-city tour called The Sabbat Cycle, which consisted of screenings of the film followed by politically driven satanic rituals. The stated goal of The Sabbat Cycle was to inspire a “satanic revolution.”

TST believes that the separation of church and state is currently under attack by radical religious conservatives. They also believe there is a silent majority that opposes this agenda, but remains too apathetic to do anything about it.

The Sabbat Cycle was an attempt to raise political awareness by piggybacking on “The Witch”’s appeal. This is part of larger PR model the group has used since its inception, in which the shocking and the frightening are used to lure media attention to their cause.

As a religion scholar, I find TST fascinating. Not only do their campaigns raise serious questions about the First Amendment and religious pluralism, they also challenge the public to think about what counts as a “religion.”

To learn more, I attended the Sabbat Cycle at its Austin stop, and spoke with attendees about their religious and political views.

Political movement, religion or both?

A cornerstone of their campaign has been tongue-in-cheek “stunts” intended to show how government institutions favor Christianity in ways that would never be tolerated for other religions.

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Pay attention, Christians, this is the Christian CRAP being preached to people that think they are going to take on the forces of darkness and win. In a battle between powerless Joel Osteen and his followers against the Satanic Temple and their followers, who do YOU think would win?

TST first made headlines in 2013, when it held a rally in Florida, ostensibly to congratulate Governor Rick Scott for passing a bill that would allow students to read “inspirational messages of their choosing” at assemblies and sporting events.

While Scott probably envisioned the law permitting Christian students to offer public prayers and Bible readings, it could not, constitutionally, specify what sort of “inspirational messsages” were allowed – including satanic messages. And so the rally featured a sign declaring, “Hail Satan! Hail Rick Scott!”

Whether or not TST is a “real” religion has been a subject of debate. But some members insist that while the movement is atheistic, the group, like other religions, has a shared set of values, concerns and symbols (like Satan as a symbol of rebellion).

Religion or not, no one can question TST’s appeal or its sincerity about its political goals.

Today TST has 17 chapters in the United States and Europe and claims an estimated 100,000 members – a figure based on the purchase of membership cards and various forms of online support.

Masters of media attention

TST chapters across the country have launched campaigns demanding the same religious rights and privileges afforded to Christianity.

These have included the creation of satanic coloring books for distribution in schools in Florida and Colorado; bids to erect satanic “nativity scenes” on government property in Florida, Michigan and Indiana; offering prayers to Satan at a high school football game in Seattle; and demanding that a monument to the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol be accompanied by a monument to Baphomet (a goat-headed idol associated with witches’ sabbaths).

The 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) reinforced the religious freedoms outlined in the First Amendment. When the Supreme Court ruled that RFRA applied only to the federal government and could not be applied to the states, many states passed their own versions of RFRA. Several of TST’s campaigns involve using RFRA laws to claim religious accommodations for satanists.

For example, since 2014 TST has invoked state RFRA laws in Michigan and Missouri to demand a religious exemption from laws dictating that those who seek an abortion need to review literature or endure a waiting period.

In January, TST’s Tucson chapter demanded that the Phoenix City Council include them in public prayers offered before their council meetings. The council responded with a new rule that only chaplains from the police and fire departments may offer the prayers before meetings. (TST has threatened to sue.)

Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman has argued that James Madison would have supported the Tucson satanists. Madison was concerned that individual rights could be threatened by a “tyranny of the majority,” and saw laws guaranteeing individual rights as “paper barriers” that offered no real protection. Only a diverse coalition of minorities could effectively check a majority and protect individual freedom.

“We do not seek followers, but collaborators”

It was exactly this sort of coalition that TST spokeswoman Jex Blackmore hoped to forge through events like the Sabbat Cycle.

In Austin, Texas, Blackmore took the stage before a screening of “The Witch” at the Alamo Drafthouse and explained that the film was a “microcosm of a patriarchal theocratic society that results in satanic revolution.” In Blackmore’s reading of the film, the titular witch was driven to witchcraft by Puritan oppression.

Afterward I got to chat with Drafthouse employee and film buff Laird Jimenez about this assessment. He noted that “escaping patriarchy” is currently part of a cultural zeitgeist that includes films like Oscar-winner “Mad Max: Fury Road,” which depicts women escaping – and then overthrowing – a patriarchal warlord.

Following the screening, everyone migrated to a bar and music venue called The Sidewinder, where TST held their ritual. Members from the Detroit and San Antonio chapters began setting up and handing out satanic American flags painted in only black and white. I mingled with a small crowd of Satanic sympathizers and the curious. Leather jackets, tattoos and pentagrams were in abundance.

During the ritual, a speaker played an excerpt from a speech by Baptist pastor Dr. Jeff Owens, in which Owens warned his congregation, “Satan does not want you to do what he wants you to do. Satan wants you to do what you want to do.” (Other eyewitness accounts of the ritual can be found here and here.) Owens had been warning that Satan uses people’s pride and selfish desires against them, but the ritual imposed its own interpretation onto his message: To TST, Satan represents moral autonomy and personal responsibility.

Blackmore eventually appeared from beneath a hood and took to a podium to deliver what can only be described as a “satanic jeremiad.” She warned that Christian theocrats were taking over America and that those present – atheists, satanists, fans of heavy metal and punk music – were allowing it to happen: “There’s too much apathy and not enough resistance!”

She told the audience, “We do not seek followers, but collaborators.”

Afterward I spoke with some young people from the crowd. One explained that he was attracted to Satanism because “It’s about knowledge,” not dogma.

Another, Jonathan – who identified as a witch – seemed the most likely to be sympathetic to TST’s politics. He said that when he attended high school in Virginia Beach, his classmates targeted him for openly identifying as a Pagan. Someone even pretended to be him and called in bomb threats to his school. The events attracted the attention of Detective Don Rimer, a notorious “occult crime expert,” who confiscated all of Jonathan’s books on witchcraft as evidence. There was an attempt to forcibly commit Jonathan to a mental institution.

I asked Jonathan if he thought TST was really a religion.

“Definitely,” he said, “Some people treat Christianity as a hobby. But no one thinks it’s not a real religion.”

Can the satanists win?

As the event wound down, I was able to interview Blackmore. Like Marx, Blackmore saw her revolution as inevitable: the Christian Right would naturally drive people to rebel against it.

She told me that she’d recently met a French journalist who said that nothing like TST could happen in France. The French model of laicité – a much more ingrained version of America’s professed separation of church and state – leaves nothing to rebel against. By contrast, TST wants to challenge the popular belief that America is a “Christian nation.”

Many TST members and allies I spoke to described strict Christian upbringings. In Blackmore’s assessment, progressive cities like Austin are paradoxically the most apathetic about resisting the Christian Right because people in progressive cities feel they are unaffected by religion-influenced laws. Blackmore saw “The Witch” as an opportunity to get more people involved and hasten their political revolution.

But Jonathan pointed out that this dialectic can swing both ways: revolution begets counterrevolution. For example, in the 1970s, the New Christian Right formed, in part, as a response to the perceived excesses of the 1960s.

Likewise, there is a risk that an openly satanic presence in American politics will energize the very forces TST opposes. Right wing news sites such as Breitbart.com and LifeSiteNewshave given TST heavy coverage precisely because their rhetoric can be used as fodder for antiabortion activists.

Conservative voices have claimed TST “proves” what they have said all along – that God is with them and their political opponents are literally demonic.

In many ways, TST is the heir to the “New Left” of the 1960s and such figures as Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. Events like the “exorcism” of the Pentagon in 1967 demonstrated an understanding of ritual and semiotics: the strategic use of religious symbols could change what the Pentagon represented to the public.

But the New Left also intentionally straddled the line between prank and sincerity in order to draw media attention to their cause. It is contested today what effect the New Left actually had toward the goal of ending the Vietnam War and it is similarly unclear what effect TST might have on America’s political center of gravity.

Nonetheless, millennials now outnumber baby boomers. They’re a more diverse generation than their predecessors, and major changes to the political landscape seem inevitable.

Still, supporters like Jonathan remain skeptical of TST’s true viability.

“It’s not that they’re wrong,” he said, “But this is Austin, and look how many people came out? And how many people here are actually going to do anything?” source

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A Cow, A Farm And Preaching The Gospel Of Jesus Christ Come Together As Operation Africa! Helps Good Child Missions To Care For Needy Children In Uganda

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July 4, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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NTEB’s Operation Africa! Steps In To Help Good Child Missions Buy A Cow And Build A Farm That Feeds Children And Preaches The Gospel Of Jesus Christ In Uganda

NTEB through our Operation Africa! is helping Brother Irad and Good Child Missions in Kanungu, Uganda, purchase a cow for their farm, and this is the type of practical missions work that makes an immediate difference. Irad ministers to orphans and needy children, helping provide food, clothing, sponsorship, and most importantly, the gospel of God. In the photo, you can see the farm setting where this cow will not be a luxury, but a living source of provision, stability, and daily help for children who need it. They need it, and we want to help them to have it. Come help us to do that!

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” Galatians 6:10 (KJB)

A cow can provide milk, support nutrition, help sustain the work, and become part of a long-term missions solution instead of a one-time handout. This is the heart of biblical charity: preaching Christ while putting something tangible in the hands of those in need. NTEB is honored to stand with Brother Irad as he labors in the field, both spiritually and physically, caring for the least of these while pointing them to the Lord Jesus Christ. We have sponsored the Cup of Porridge Program for many years, Christmas dinners where many children to come eat, fellowship and hear the gospel, and now we want to help them establish a farm which will enable them to become self-sustaining. That’s always been the goal, and now it’s in sight. The cost for the cow, that’s pregnant by the way, is $2,294.00, and Irad needs to purchase the cow within the next few days or it will be sold to someone else. Time is of the essence. We invite you to come help us here at Operation Africa! to provide the much-needed cow for Iran and Good Child Missions. We need you!!

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THE BIBLE BELIEVERS SUNDAY SERVICE: The Last Man Standing

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July 4, 2026

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Will You Be The Last Man Standing When The Lord Jesus Comes For His Church And The Good Fight Of Faith Finally Reaches The Finish Line?

The Bible never presents the Christian life as a casual walk through friendly territory; it presents it as a fight, a race, a warfare and a watch. The tragedy is that many men begin with fire in their bones, a Bible in their hand, and a burden in their heart, only to quit somewhere along the way when the wounds, disappointments, temptations and weariness begin to pile up. Some are taken out by sin, some by bitterness, some by pride, some by the love of this present world, and some simply grow tired of standing alone. But Paul’s testimony at the end of his life was not that he had enjoyed an easy road, but that he had stayed in the battle: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:” That is the cry of the faithful soldier, it is yours today, Christian?

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3,4 (KJB)

The question “Who will be the last man standing?” is a searching question for every saved believer here in the closing hours of the Church Age. Will you still be faithful when others walk away? Will you still preach the Book when compromise is easier? Will you still get back up when you fall? Will you still be watching, working and waiting when the Lord Jesus Christ comes for His church? The last man standing will not be the strongest man, the loudest man, or the most gifted man; he will be the faithful man, held up by the Lord, anchored in the Book, washed in the blood, and looking for that blessed hope. The Bible says, “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.” In a day when so many are quitting by inches, cooling off by degrees, and trading conviction for comfort, may God help us to stay in the fight, rise when we fall, and be found standing at our post when the trumpet sounds!! On this Sunday Service, we ask who will be the last man standing? TO THE FIGHT!!!

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The Bible Believers Sunday Service: The Last Man Standing

The Last Man Standing

The Christian life is not merely about starting well, but finishing well. Many men begin the fight, but the Bible places great emphasis on remaining faithful, standing fast, getting back up after failure, and being ready when the Lord Jesus Christ comes for His church. Today we are going to see how ready you are.

We Are In A Fight

Main Text

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” 1 Timothy 6:12 (KJB)

Truth

The Christian life is called a fight because there is real opposition. The believer fights the world, the flesh, and the Devil. This is not a playground; it is a battlefield. A man who expects the Christian life to be easy will become discouraged when the pressure comes. And the pressure will come, guaranteed.

Paul does not tell Timothy to admire the fight, study the fight, discuss the fight, or explain the fight. He tells him to fight.

Application

Every saved believer must decide whether they are going to be a spectator or a soldier. The last man standing will not be the man who avoided conflict, but the man who stayed faithful in the conflict. The question is not, “Will I be attacked?” The question is, “Will I still be standing when the attack is over?”

Supporting Verses

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3,4 (KJB)

The Enemy Wants You Out Of The Fight

Main Text

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” 1 Peter 5:8 (KJB)

Truth

The Devil does not have to destroy a man physically if he can destroy him spiritually. He works through discouragement, bitterness, pride, lust, fear, compromise, weariness, and offense. Many good men do not quit in one dramatic moment. They drift, cool off, get wounded, become isolated, and slowly lay down their sword.

The enemy knows that a faithful man is dangerous. A man who keeps preaching, keeps praying, keeps witnessing, keeps giving, keeps studying, and keeps standing is a threat to the Devil’s work.

Application

Do not underestimate the attacks that come after years of service. Sometimes the hardest battles are not at the beginning, but after you have been wounded, disappointed, and tired. That is when the Devil whispers, “You have done enough. Let someone else fight now.”

Supporting Verses

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 (KJB)

“Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?” Galatians 5:7 (KJB)

III. Good Men Can Fall In The Fight

Main Text

“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.” Proverbs 24:16 (KJB)

“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” Galatians 6:1 (KJB)

Truth

The Bible does not hide the failures of good men. David fell. Peter fell. John Mark faltered. Elijah became discouraged. Moses lost his temper. The difference between a just man and a wicked man is not that the just man never falls. The difference is that the just man gets back up.

Falling is serious, but staying down is deadly. A fall should not become a final testimony.

Application

When a man falls, the Devil says, “You are finished.” The world says, “You’re a hypocrite.” The flesh says, “Might as well quit, no use trying anymore.” But God says, “Get up.”

The last man standing is not necessarily the man who never got knocked down. He is the man who refused to quit after being knocked down.

Supporting Verses

“Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.” Micah 7:8 (KJB)

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.” Psalm 37:23 (KJB)

“Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.” Psalm 37:24 (KJB)

IV. The Danger Is Quitting By Inches

Main Text

“Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.” 2 Timothy 4:10 (KJB)

Truth

Demas is one of the saddest examples in Paul’s ministry. He was once named among Paul’s fellow labourers, but later he forsook Paul because he loved this present world. Many men do not quit because they suddenly hate God. They quit because they begin loving something else more. The world becomes more attractive. The burden becomes too heavy. The cost becomes too high. The reward seems too far away.

Application

A man must guard his affections. What you love will eventually pull you. If you love this present world, sooner or later you will leave the fight. The battle is often lost in the heart before it is seen in the life.

Supporting Verses

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” 1 John 2:15-17 (KJB)

V. Faithfulness Is Required

Main Text

“Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” 1 Corinthians 4:2 (KJB)

Truth

God does not require a man to be famous, popular, impressive, rich, applauded, or accepted by the crowd. He requires him to be faithful. Faithfulness is continuing to do right when nobody claps, nobody notices, and nobody seems to care. The last man standing will be the faithful man. He may not be the most talented. He may not have the largest platform. He may not be the most praised. But he will still be at his post.

Application

Ask yourself: Am I faithful when I am encouraged? Am I faithful when I am discouraged? Am I faithful when people appreciate me? Am I faithful when people misunderstand me? Am I faithful when I am wounded? The true test of a servant is not what he does when the wind is at his back, but what he does when the storm is in his face.

Supporting Verses

“His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” Matthew 25:21 (KJB)

“Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.” 1 Corinthians 4:1 (KJB)

The Faithful Man Keeps His Eyes On The Finish Line

Main Text

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:” 2 Timothy 4:7 (KJB)

Truth

Paul did not merely start. He finished. He did not merely fight for a season. He fought a good fight. He did not trade the faith for comfort, popularity, or safety. He kept the faith. The Christian life is a course. Every man has a race to run, a ministry to fulfill, a testimony to keep, and a judgment seat to face.

Application

Do not measure your life by who quits around you. Measure your life by whether you are still following the Lord Jesus Christ. Others may leave. Others may compromise. Others may grow cold. But you must determine, by the grace of God, to finish your course.

Supporting Verses

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” 2 Timothy 4:6-8 (KJB)

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” Philippians 3:13 (KJB)

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14 (KJB)

VII. The Last Man Standing Is Watching For The Lord

Main Text

“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.” 1 Corinthians 16:13 (KJB)

Truth

The faithful believer is not merely standing for a cause; he is waiting for a Person. The blessed hope of the born again believer is the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church. The entirety of the Christian life is your preparation to meet Him face to face, either by death or through the Rapture, and to stand before Him with your course completed.

That is why the question matters: “Will I remain faithful, ready and standing when the Lord comes for me?” This is not about proving ourselves stronger than other men. It is about being found faithful when our Saviour calls us home.

Application

The Rapture should purify us, steady us, strengthen us, and keep us in the fight. The Lord could come today. He could come before the next sermon, the next podcast, the next article, the next sunrise. Will He find us watching? Will He find us working? Will He find us standing?

Supporting Verses

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” 1 John 3:2 (KJB)

“And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.” 1 John 2:28 (KJB)

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 (KJB)

Closin g Challenge: Will You Be Found Standing?

The question is not merely, “Who started?” Many started. Many preached. Many served. Many gave. Many once stood boldly. But the question that weighs heavy on the heart of a Bible believer is this: Who will still be standing at the end?

Will I be faithful when others quit?
Will I get back up when I fall?
Will I keep fighting when I am tired?
Will I keep preaching when I am mocked?
Will I keep serving when I am wounded?
Will I still be watching when the Lord comes?

The last man standing will not be standing because he was strong in himself. He will be standing because the Lord held him up.

Final Verses

“I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8 (KJB)

“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,” Jude 1:24 (KJB)

“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;” Ephesians 6:14 (KJB)

Final Charge:
Stay in the Book. Stay under the blood. Stay in the fight. If you fall, get back up. If you are wounded, keep going. If others quit, keep standing. The trumpet is closer than it has ever been, and the Lord is looking for faithful men who will still be at their post when He comes. Remember that there are people watching you in the fighting who are struggling, who are thinking of quitting, and what you do will absolutely affect them.

“Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.” John 21:3 (KJB)

The Fellowship Of The Unashamed.

Dr. Robert Morehead Overlake Christian Church in Kirkland, Washington tells the story a young man from Rwanda who was forced by his tribe in 1980 to renounce Christ or face death. He refused to renounce Christ, and he was murdered on the spot. The night before, he had written the following commitment which was found in his room. This is what this unnamed saint wrote:

I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed.

I have Holy Spirit power.

The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of His. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.

My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I’m finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, worldly talking, cheap giving, and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don’t have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, am uplifted by prayer and labor by power.

My pace is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven. My road is narrow. My way rough. My companions few. My guide is reliable and my mission is clear.

I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed.

I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, pander at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.

I won’t give up, shut up, let up, until I’ve stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.

I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till He comes, give ’til I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me. And when He comes for His own, He’ll have no problem recognizing me. My colors will be clear!

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: How Baptists And The King James Bible Were At The Spiritual Forefront Of The Founding Of The United States Of America In 1776

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July 2, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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America Owes A Debt To The Baptist Preachers Who Fought For Religious Liberty Against The Powers Of Church And State In 1776

The story of America’s founding cannot rightly be told without talking about the Baptists. Because while polished statesmen were debating liberty in halls of power, Baptist preachers were paying the price for it in the prison houses, courtrooms, and hostile colonial towns. They were fined, mocked, taxed, beaten down by religious establishments, and in some cases jailed simply for preaching the gospel without permission from the state. These were not men trying to build a secular nation without God; they were Bible believers fighting the old Roman spirit of state-controlled religion dressed up in Protestant clothing. The Baptists understood that Jesus Christ is the head of the church, not Caesar, not Congress, not a magistrate, and not a government-approved religious machine.

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” 2 Timothy 4:2 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, what the Baptists helped secure in America was not a godless public square, but liberty of conscience—freedom to preach, freedom to assemble, freedom to baptize believers, freedom to print and distribute the Bible, and freedom to worship God without asking permission from a state church. Men like John Leland and Isaac Backus stood against the religious powers of their day and helped push the nation toward the protections that would become the First Amendment. America was not founded as the Kingdom of God, and it was never the Church, but it was founded in the shadow of an open Bible. The tragedy of our day is that the liberty Baptists fought to preserve is now being used by modern America to reject the very God who made liberty worth having. Also present at the founding of the United States of America was the “Bible of the Revolution”, a King James Bible New Testament published by Robert Aitken in 1771. It was so small the soliders of the Continential Army could easily carry it their pockets. And you wonder how it is we beat the strongest army on Earth? With the word of a King! By 1782, the fledgling Congress would authorize the publication of a complete King James Bible, and that became the pillar on which America began. The King James Bible was one of the foundational texts of English-speaking colonial America, shaping literacy, preaching, law, morals, rhetoric, and education. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were all born in a world where King James scripture was treated as the central authority of truth, and ministers were among their chief educational products. Where we are here in 2026 is a Podcast for another day. Join us as we journey back to when America began, and meet the Baptists, and the Bible, that God used to start our nation.

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