The World That Hates Us: Our Promised Inheritance

By Bob Jamison

Today, the United States leads the world in prison population, rate of divorce, teen pregnancies, voluntary abortions, sexually-transmitted diseases, single-parent households, teen suicides, cocaine, alcohol, drug consumption, and pornography production. The horrendous plight of our children, from increasing broken homes, is getting worse. Yet,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stonewall Press
• Release date: Oct 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781949362831

Bob Jamison

Bob Jamison, 86, is a retired businessman living in the Texas Hill Country. During his life he has transitioned from being unchurched to mildly interested (but questioning), to passionately believing in all of the scriptures. Bob has a Bachelor of Theology degree and a Master's degree in Public Administration. He has five children and fourteen grandchildren.

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The World That Hates Us

Copyright © 2015 by Bob Jamison. All rights reserved.

First published by Xulon Press 2015

Second Edition published by BookBlastPRO 2017

Third Edition published by Stonewall Press 2018

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We at City Hall can’t do it all. We can’t address all these human infrastructure needs. I think the church is uniquely positioned to be able to reach people in a different way and often in a more effective way.

Ivy Taylor

Former Mayor, City of San Antonio

I respectfully recognize there

is much hunger, violence and suffering in the world beyond my knowledge. This book presents a start to overcome our spiritual enemies, and redeem a part of the world within my knowledge. I believe God will intervene in the rest of the world, leading us to reach out to those nations with His truth and love for their reconciliation to Him.

Contents

Section I The Issues 

Chapter A The World That Hates Us

Chapter B Our Promised Inheritance

Chapter C Societies View of the Church

Section II What We, The Church,

Are To Do To Gain Our Inheritance 

Chapter One Introduction

Chapter Two God’s Boot Camp

Chapter Three Losses

Chapter Four Introduction to Battle

Chapter Five Modern Revolution

Chapter Six The Preparation

Chapter Seven Passions Unite

Chapter Eight A Look Forward

Section I

The Issues

Chapter A

The World That Hates Us

Jesus told His disciples,

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. (John 15:18-19)

Recently at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a panel of experts discussed the shocking report about how rapidly the world is becoming unsafe for Christians. The worst part? The persecution, torture and murder of Christians worldwide is getting substantially worse at an alarming rate.

In the Middle East, some Christian communities in Syria and Iraq had existed for nearly 2,000 years, but in the past decade they’ve been wiped out. Iraq was home to 1.5 million Christians in 2003, there are only 2,000 Christians now after 15 years of violent Islamic insurgency. More than a million Syrian Christians have been killed, forcible converted or chased out of their country by Islamic extremist groups, like ISIS.

Anti-Christian persecution is spreading throughout Asia, with Christians in Bangladesh, Laos, Bhutan and Sri-Lanka reporting dramatically worsening conditions. It is reported that Christians are no longer allowed to enter Hindu/Moslem India. In North Korea, a recent defector described a life of hell for her Christian population, all under a constant fear of torture, horrible imprisonment and death.

In Africa, Coptic Christian churches are burned and Christians are chased out of the country. Libya has been a stronghold of ISIS for years; all North Africa is anti-Christian Moslem country. In Nigeria, the killing of Christians shot up by more than 62% from 2016 to 2017. It is a problem now spreading to other central African countries such as Sudan.

Recent studies show that 215 million Christians in more than 50 countries currently experience extreme levels of persecution simply because they believe in Jesus Christ.

The National Catholic Register reports: Anti-Christian Persecution is Gaining Strength in Ireland and Great Britain.

Viewed from a distance, anti-Christian activity might seem to have undergone an increase in intensity. But a closer inspection reveals that something more fundamental may have changed. It is not physical persecution but it is no less real for that. It takes the form of gradual exclusion of church people or activities from the public space. There is denigration of religious beliefs, practices and institutions on radio, television and on social and other media. There is often a focus on bad news about the church to the exclusion of any good news.

A Catholic school for girls in Ireland recently decided to remove the cross from its insignia lest it would cause offense. There is a trend to turn ownership of some Catholic hospitals and Catholic schools over to secular authority. There is recognition of the growing media agenda against the church.

What is true about Great Britain and Ireland anti-Christian conduct is probably true of most of Europe, and it equates with the growing persecution of anti-Semitism throughout Europe, which has been documented.

This reminds me of the large controversy existing in the U.S. when Roman Catholic Senator John Kennedy ran for President. There were large anti-Catholic views in many portions of the country at that time. Senator Kennedy gave a speech on the subject pledging that He would not bring any Catholic tenets into the Whitehouse. The rules of the state would remain totally separate from his religious views during his Presidency. And it has remained that way since the Kennedy term of office began in 1960. The Word of God formerly was an important guide to the founders of our country, its Constitution and Declaration of independence.

Admittedly, the Word of God was not always consulted by our Congress and Supreme Court, such as in the days of legal slavery, but President Kennedy was the first President to pledge that God’s Word would not be the nation’s guide. That pledge caused some bad consequences on the whole tenor of our society, including the opening of anti-Christian tendencies. The recent report of the American Center for Law and Justice:

Religious Persecution: Worldwide Epidemic.

Persecution in America is not yet life threatening, but it begins with discrimination, and slides down into persecution. Some applicants are not accepted in college due to their Christian beliefs, for example. There are documented cases of denying promotions and salary increases due to a worker’s Christian beliefs. I was personally told praying to God before working hours was not allowed in a place I formally worked.

We are now living in what social and demographic researchers call the post Christian era or now called the secular era. Secular means absence of anything related to religion, including your Bible, in some cases wearing a cross, don’t mention Jesus, no ten commandments. Such discrimination has even been commanded in our military, chaplains even disciplined for praying in Jesus name.

Dr. William Bennett, former Director of this country’s Department of Education, wrote in the Imprimis publication of Hillsdale College, "Today, America leads the Industrialized world in:

Prison population

Rate of divorce

Teen pregnancies

Voluntary abortions

Sexually transmitted disease

Single-parent households

Teen suicides

Cocaine, alcohol and illegal drug consumption

Pornography production and consumption

Drug cartels and organized crime control significant parts of many Latin countries to the South of the U.S. In summary, it doesn’t take much argument to demonstrate that the world hates us.

Chapter B

Our Promised Inheritance

This article follows the

article titled The World That Hates Us and anticipates church response enumerated in the rest of the book. It assumes a town whereby most of the citizens are Christians who have experienced a God initiated revival, a town that has a very positive view of Christians and Christian churches. For such a town, God has promised an inheritance in Romans 4:13:

Paul wrote, For the promise that he would be heir of the world (the town in our article) was not to Abraham or his seed (Jesus and the church) through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Isaiah gives us another good reference in 49:7-9—Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel; and He has chosen you (the townspeople in our imaginary town who embrace God and Christians). Thus says the Lord, ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you and give you as a covenant to the people (the state, nation, world), to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the desolate (worldly) heritages; that you may say to those in prison (bound up) ‘Go forth,’ to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’

Galatians 6:16 tells us the church is the Israel of God. Often God judged Israel, and often God judges the church. But in this imaginary town, the churches enjoy their inheritance. God has chosen to hear their cries and help them overcome the hatred they once endured.

God has poured his Holy Spirit upon them to an intensity that they are caught up in a culture of revival that has spread throughout the town. The town is a