Now, I want you to consider this passage in Acts 1 with the picture I’ve already painted courtesy of the Beverly Hillbillies.
The Beverly Hillbillies were television missionaries to America and they were rejected. The show was cancelled while it was a top rated show. It was cancelled because America as it existed then was detested and hated primarily for its Christian roots. The message of the show was no longer acceptable to those who had the power to silence it. Friends, THAT was the beginning of censorship of the Christian message even though Christians did not see it.
So, this melting pot that was once America, was refashioned for another purpose – that purpose was to slowly boil frogs. Let me say that again - The melting pot that was America was re- ...