Hell has no wrath like the righteous wrath of God. Second, it is clear that Hell does not have the wrath that the politicians said they would, if they died in their sin, receive that righteous wrath.
Meet Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel, a church in Chino Hills, California. Hibbs is a conservative ideologue and politician, as one can tell from his website
On January 30, he was invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson to deliver the invocation as the guest chaplain of the House, where he prayerfully called on God to “hear my cry in this hour of desperate need that we may be humbly blessed.” Before you to repent for our national sins.”
The matter had flown under the radar for much of February — until a letter sent to the Speaker of the House and signed by 26 House Democrats last week accused Hibbs of being an “unqualified hate preacher.” Who was pushing a Christian nationalist agenda, according to Roll Call.
Furthermore, Democrats linked calls to “repent for our national sins” and the need for “holy fear” and “allusions to the puritanical and bigoted agenda he preaches regarding the LGBT community, Jews, Muslims and anyone who disagrees with his policies.” The Biblical Worldview.”
“After we raised our mouths when we learned that this hate preacher had been allowed to guest-preach, I think a lot of us decided we needed to start rescinding this,” said Rep. Jared Huffman of California, author of the book “The House of Representatives.” The message, Roll Call said.
Hoffman, who identifies himself as an atheist according to The Washington Times, apparently took a long time to get his jaw off the floor, as the two-and-a-half-page letter was only sent on February 15, a full two weeks. After the fact.
In the letter, Democrats accused Johnson of not following protocol in various ways, including serving as a sponsor for Hibbs even though Hibbs is not from his congressional district. Johnson represents a district in Louisiana.
Furthermore, they claimed that Hibbs was an “extremist Christian nationalist who helped fuel the January 6 insurrection and [who] He has a long record of vitriolic hatred toward non-Christians, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.
“As if spreading election lies and providing religious support and cover for the January 6 insurrection were not enough to disqualify Hibbs from serving as our guest pastor, Hibbs also has an abhorrent and divisive public record on civil and human rights,” the letter said.
When his opening prayer invoked “holy fear” and “repentance” for “national sins,” these were allusions to the puritanical, bigoted agenda he preaches about the LGBTQ+ community, Jews, Muslims, and anyone who conflicts with his “biblical worldview.” “”
Complete prayer does no such thing.
Hibbs called for “repentance of national sins” — and the Bible teaches that we are all sinners, though it's not as if Democrats (and some Republicans) have hidden the fact that they think the Bible is a weird book. Suggestions, not Scripture, should be treated as such in matters of sexual sin and other forms of “tolerance.”
Hibbs may have angered some in the room when he suggested they would be judged by biblical standards.
“Come upon these here, who are the stewards of the affairs of our nation, with your wisdom that comes from above, and with your wisdom.
Holy fear, knowing that your next day of judgment is at hand, when all who were and are now in power will answer you, O great judge of heaven and earth.
As The Washington Times noted, Hibbs “has been targeted for years by LGBTQ+ activists and the media because of his prominent opposition to same-sex marriage and transgenderism.”
As for his supposed hatred of “Jews, Muslims, and anyone who contradicts his biblical worldview,” you won't be surprised that most of the examples Hoffman cites in his letter are two or three words out of context. Quotes linked to articles or clips out of context by supposedly unbiased referees such as Media Matters for America or the social media account Right Wing Watch.
The letter also asked Johnson to “please explain why the church continues to prohibit members from pastoring certain fully qualified guest pastors such as Rep. Mark Pocan's elector, non-religious pastor Dan Parker.”
Mr. Parker, that “non-faith minister” (an apparent contradiction in terms similar to “jumbo shrimp”), is actually the president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, an anti-Christian troll group.
Moreover, the idea that an individual invited to be a guest pastor should be in the invitee's area is largely replaceable, especially when one considers that, according to the Times, on November 9, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff invited Gov. California Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, to offer supplication. Aram lives in Antelias, Lebanon.
(Aram's prayer, along with other daily prayers in the House and Senate, can be found here.)
As for the connection with January 6 or “Christian nationalism,” little evidence has been provided or needed, it seems, other than more out-of-context quotes. Hibbs told the Times that he would “challenge Hoffman to show any connection I have to January 6, because I take that as a slanderous statement when in fact, I have nothing to do with it.”
But then, that has nothing to do with the message.
Hoffman and company are angry that so-called lawmakers who blatantly ignore the Bible and push for laws requiring parents and doctors to grant the right to chemically and surgically mutilate minors in the name of “transgender tolerance” are guilty of a “national sin.” They must repent, as the Bible commands.
If Rep. Huffman or the 25 other Democrats who signed this letter don't believe it, that's OK. In this world they are not required to believe in God or follow His Word. Nobody forces them.
All Pastor Hibbs said on January 30 was that eventually, those who mock God and His law will be called before Him to answer for their transgressions. All the out-of-context quotes from Media Matters and scary terms like “Christian nationalism” won’t sway his judgment of their actions.
The choice to heed or ignore Reverend Hibbs' warning is theirs.
God's rule is not like that.
This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.
