We
are perhaps living in the most desperate times in many a long year in
Ephraim-Britain. Thanks to our Babylonian politicians, we may soon be joining
in the much-trumpeted World War Three, which is part of the desperate attempt
of the hidden hand to mold a new world order outwith the God-ordained authority
of the Throne of David. We are by a death covenant bound to the failing
Babylonian project of the European Union. As if this was not bad enough, our
God-created Union stands imperilled by traitorous forces from within.
Here
in Scotland, a potent figurehead of
loyalism to crown and nation – Glasgow Rangers Football Club – finds itself
dangerously close to extinction. Everywhere you look the United Kingdom faces
danger both by external and internal foes. History tells us that such dangers
tend to bring out the bulldog fighting spirit in we Brits. However, that is
part of, if not all of the problem.
Isaiah’s
reference to the crown of pride speaks of a jingoistic patriotism, a shallow
waving of the flag and dowsing ourselves in national pride. “We are The People”
is the battle cry of defiant Rangers supporters throughout the years. It, along
with “No Surrender!” signals the refusal of Rangers’ traditionally loyalist
fans to bow down and admit defeat to enemies, as well as affirming their chosen
status as God’s people.
Such
cries should be expected to come from the mouths of God’s people. Telling
others you are the Lord’s is testimony and testimony is an awesome weapon in
our spiritual arsenal.
The
problem is not what is being said. It is who is saying it. To invoke the Name
of God when you are not actually His is
to invite judgment. You see, God does not let people casually take His Name in
vain. To call yourself a Protestant means that God expects you to live like
one. Being a Protestant does not mean you wear Rangers tops, know the words of “The
Sash” and speak words of hate to Roman Catholics. God doesn’t recognise tribal
Protestants, only Bible ones.
Rangers
fans are about to find this out. But it is not just Rangers fans whose loyalty
to the Throne is but a “crown of pride.” Anyone whose patriotism is not rooted
in a deep faith and relationship with God through Jesus Christ is just a
jingoistic nationalist. The truly patriotic man or woman is patriotic to the
purpose of God for their nation.
This
is much more so in the case of our United Kingdom, given that we are descended
from the Israelites of old and that the Throne of David is perpetuated in our
royal family and monarchy. We are God’s Israel nation in the earth today.
Sadly, for many so-called loyalists, their god is alcohol. They are, indeed,
the bevy merchants of Ephraim. Take their faith and their Bibles from them but
don’t you dare take their lager or ale.
There
is a great shaking going on. YHWH is breaking our idols from us. It has to be
said that one of the biggest idols in the UK is Glasgow Rangers FC. People who
should be worshipping the Lord instead worship a football team. This has
happened throughout our history. Our forefathers worshipped monuments rather
than the Lord Himself. We are prone to worship anything which reflects glory
rather than the One who emanates it.
No-one
is more for the Throne than me. I am Emrys! But it is obnoxious to me when I
see the crown of pride – that arrogant vaunting of our monarchy – in the lips
of those who know not the Lord who ordained it. I speak of those who invoke God’s
Name to save our queen yet they are not God’s. You cannot support the monarchy
truly unless you honour He who instituted it.
Isaiah
28 also speaks of the fading flower. This speaks of the lily. The orange lily
is the flower of that most loyal of loyal orders, the Orange Lodge. Yet this
organisation is a toothless tiger, peopled by those who love drink more than
they love the things of God. It doesn’t stop them singing songs of shallow
patriotism, though. They truly are the drunkards of Ephraim, with their fading
flower of the Orange Lily, just as the Rangers fans sing of their blue
bluebells.
“It’s
only football,” some would say. If you believe that, you need to really spend
serious time in God’s Presence. Football reflects the society we live in.
Football is part of our culture of idolatry. God is destroying every excuse
people have to not worship Him. His policy is to begin such things in His own
house, with His own people. Jingoistic triumphalism won’t cut it anymore. That
is the lesson to be learned.
You
should support Queen and country and you should support Rangers. It is God’s
team. But God will bring all of these things low if people put them before Him.
After He has done this, He will destroy all those things which oppose Him. It’s
just that judgment must begin in His own house. We might not like it but
chastening is not meant to be pleasurable. Just learn the lesson fast.
If
you make an idol of even the most sacred of things, you are an idolater.
Renounce this and set the nation free. Accept the Lordship of Jesus Christ because the only true patriot is one who declares Jesus is Lord and the only true Protestant (i.e. witness) is He who has the witness in himself.
He who has the Son has life. He who has not the Son of God has not life.
