The Broken saints

Broken Saints

It was a dream. I went back to the cemetery where the broken saints were left under the feet of the Christ hanging from an arch of cement. More people, that didn’t have any face, were coming to throw away saints but this time the saints were not broken.

I immediately knew what the saint represented. The broken ones were the churches and religions to which I have had the opportunity to “belong”.

The first was the Roman Catholic Church with all the ‘Hail Marys’ and ‘Our Fathers’ that were repeated and repeated without any particular purpose; the walking on your knees for several blocks to obtain something that obviously was up to you (like good grades in math, or passing an exam); the confession of sins again and again; the search for new sins to confess.

Then, after I asked Jesus to come to my heart and my second baptism in the Ocean, I was attending a Presbyterian Church where I learned that you didn’t have any choice. If you were not predestined, tough! The pastor of that church confessed to us that he went to seminary and become a pastor without knowing God at all. It was only after his small daughter was miraculously saved from sickness and saw how prayer works, that he became a believer. Then he left the church and started a new ministry.

Because of my work, I had the opportunity to attend services at many different churches in different countries. I received amazing prophecies that came true after several years.

For instance, at a church in North Carolina, a group prophesied that I would help many children and that a child will come to the Lord through me. Knowing that I didn’t have children, that sounded crazy. However, several years later, when I was teaching at a university, I had the privilege of leading one of my students to the Lord.

In Jamaica, while attending a Rastafari service I was told that I should stay planted where I was. In fact I had applied to a ministry that had a major influence in Chile, the country where I was born. I was accepted and was ready to go, but just a few days after I was in Jamaica, the ministry I was in offered me a raise and a new secondment to an organization we were working with. I stayed.

One American Presbyterian church I attended while in Florida decided to accept homosexuals at their services and “accept them as they are made by God”. I knew that was not right. We are supposed to love them and not tolerate or support their sin. This and other denominations started tolerating and accepting behaviors and morals that were totally against the Scriptures. These, in the dream, were the saints that were still whole but then intentionally broken.

In my current reality, churches are scared to defend the right for babies to survive in the bellies of their mothers, they approve same sex marriage, they do not speak up about how politicians are using force against “old fashion” morals. It’s like living in Germany when churches kept silent while Hitler and his fanatic followers killed millions of Jews.

It is obvious that members of churches today are more influenced by the goodness, meekness and gentleness that Jesus talked about in the time He was here on earth. They are not focusing on repentance. Everything is accepted or tolerated. They are not focusing on the end of times! Jesus is returning as a lion, a warrior, a judge. He is expecting His Church warriors to be prepared. He does not expect scared church people that the only thing they do to be “Christians” is going on Church on Sunday and keep gossiping and destroying others the rest of the week. Only His warriors will join him in His final battle.

Sadly, in all these 2000 years plus, Christians have not heard the voice of the Holy Spirit telling them to act for justice and take their place in the government and the power authorities so Bible principles and not worldly values and immorality predominate in the world.

Comfort, and the fear of pain seems to overcome Christians. Pastors preach the same gospel that was adequate 2000 years ago to bring people to Christ, but they come short in preparing them to put what they learn into practice in all aspects of their life: family, communities, education, politics, entertainment, etc.