Posted on 03/12/2015 8:39:35 AM PDT by xzins
President Barack Obama and his outgoing attorney general, Eric Holder, are, along with "progressives" in government, forcing "a new morality" on the American people, a "morality that does not include God" and which is "an Anti-Christ movement," said Reverend Franklin Graham.
"There is an anti-Christian bias that is now in our government, has permeated our government, that’s also permeated Washington but [also] at the state and local level," said Rev. Graham during a Mar. 11 interview on Washington Watch With Tony Perkins.
"It’s the progressives, whatever you want to call them, that are trying -- and the president is into this and the attorney general is into this 100% -- and that is, forcing on the American people a new morality," said Rev. Graham. "And it’s a morality that does not include God or His standards. That’s what we’re facing today."
"It is an Anti-Christ movement that we’re seeing taking place," he said.
However, the reverend, who runs the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the international relief group Samaritan's Purse, said Americans still "have a voice" and "can speak up, like we're doing right now."
"They cannot silence our voice yet," he said. "I think as long as we speak we've got an opportunity to turn the tide."
Leading into the program, host Tony Perkins asked Rev. Graham about religious persecution in the Middle East by the Islamic State and whether the United States was doing enough to help the people fleeing the persecution.
Rev. Graham said that what was happening constituted, in his view, genocide. "I'm just frightened that the Christian community in Iraq is going to be completely wiped out," he said.
As for the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Shia Muslim government there has placed tough restrictions on the Farsi-speaking Christian churches to the point, said Rev. Graham, where they "will soon be gone" and just "die off."
The Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria, in contrast, are just "killing the Christians, beheading them, cutting their throats, telling them to convert to Islam or we're going to shoot you," he said.
Concerning the Obama administration, they were warned by our military leaders not to pull completely out of Iraq but they did not do that "and now we have an imploding in that part of the world," said the reverend.
We pulled out of Iraq and "that vacuum was filled by ISIS," the Islamic State, said Tony Perkins, adding that the administration doesn't want to acknowledge that the Islamists are motivated "by their radical beliefs."
Commenting on that point, Rev. Graham said, "One of the problems we have, the president, his father was a Muslim and his stepfather was a Muslim -- [he] lived in Indonesia and went to Muslim schools. His mother must have been a Muslim. We don’t know that but she married two Muslim men, so there must have been something there."
"The framework that our president has growing up, his influences in his life were that of Islam," said the reverend. "My influences, growing up in this country as many in this country, were under the Christian influence and the biblical influence. But our president did not have that; it was Islam. Many feel that he’s protecting Islam. I don’t know that but it certainly seems that way."
Perkins said, "Well, it doesn’t look like he’s going out of his way to help Christianity." He also raised the point that an apparent "growing religious intolerance here at home" is perhaps "fueling this persecution abroad."
Rev. Graham responded, "I would agree with you but I would humbly focus a little bit more on that it’s not so much religious freedom, because other religions have lots of freedom. It is really focusing against Christians." The reverend then went on to explain his observation of the anti-Christian movement in the government.
Franklin Graham, 62, is the son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham who is 96 and doing fairly well, according to reports, residing at his home in Montreat, N.C.
Craig Millward contributed to this report
This is a courageous man.
It's heartening to see him stand up and be so forthright, proclaiming how evil has seeped in to leadership at the highest levels.
I agree and Obamacare is one of those positions that intentionally and unnecessarily harms Christians.
...”I really like Franklin’s outspoken courage”...
Indeed...he’s not on the International Circuit for Political purposes or be seen as every mans Pastor. I think his father too often did that but then the World has changed drastically from then. I think if his father was in his sons place ‘today’ he’d likely be as courageous.
One of the things the news often fails to include with Franklin’s comments is his wrap always includes the gospel message for all men including Muslims.
He tells them they don’t have to die for their faith...that Jesus died for them to set them free from the violence and hatred etc. and that HE is forgiving.
You know, Obama even caters to the idea that Christianity is vibrant and alive in the United States. He had to lie about it, saying he was a Christian, he is so sure this is a Christian nation.
He is also doing his best to convert it to Islam, one immigrant at a time. Scratch that, tens of thousands of immigrants at a time...
If the “silent majority” would make one quarter of the effort that the libtards make say, with their 160,000 signatures on the GOP treason petition, or the push-back from the NRA about the ammo, Ostinko and his brood would at least be more cautious about going up against normal people with libtard ideals so much of the time. IMO.
It’s also the SCOTUS going all the way back to Brown v. Board of Education.
There was a period of time....during the 80’s perhaps?....that the BGEA took a few unwise turns, made some unwise decisions that raised eyebrows among conservative Christians. I think your description about a big tent” approach is accurate. That course has been set straight again, actually over the last several years but intensifying even more under the leadership of Franklin.
Which just goes to show that even a righteous person or entity can make mistakes. The thing to do is recognize it, change course and seek God’s forgiveness and direction.
The elder Rev. Graham is in very poor health, and is 96 if memory serves me. Although it could happen, it’s unlikely that you’ll read much current news that involves a comment from the elder Graham, even though his mind is still pretty good, I believe.
Franklin is the top guy at the Billy Graham Assoc now.
Franklin Graham leads and preaches at several evangelistic efforts worldwide every year just like his father did. He has renamed them “Festivals” instead of calling them Crusades. Grandson Will Graham holds similar evangelistic preaching efforts called “Celebrations”. Just different names for the same activity.
Franklin Graham calls for this very thing on a regular basis in his interviews on FoxNews too. Lately, he’s taken to speaking out directly to muslims, telling them that they don’t have to kill people and that God’s isn’t pleased by that. (paraphrasing)
Pretty courageous stuff really...
I stand corrected. Maybe we need to persuade the MSM to carry one or two of these Crusades in prime time....just to see what the ratings would be.
I believe he DID associate Obama with the anti-christ. The fact that he used the term in the same paragraph when he could have used anti-christian, which he did later.
Reading between the lines is very important sometimes.
We need to remember that and at the same time keep perspective.
I have no doubt Graham said exactly what he meant.
And what he did NOT say is “We see the Anti-Christ”
BTTT!
No, it was Billy, not Franklin, who catered to the Clintons in the 1990s. Billy even said once he understood how much the “ladies” like President Clinton.
2 Thessalonians 2.7: "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." It is the church who must be taken out of the way before the Antichrist can rise up.
Just because the Holy Spirit’s restraint no longer prevents the rise of the Anti-Christ, that doesn’t mean the Christians have been taken out. It COULD mean that, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that.
It means that the restraining power of the Holy Spirit no longer restrains.
2 Th 2:7 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. (NKJV)
I’d recommend reading the Matthew Henry Commentaries on 2 Thess 2.
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