On Defending the Flame of God in the Unborn: Negligent and Idle Shepherds Still Exist in the 21st Century

 

“Let us then, all together, make haste to act so that God’s wrath descend not on us as on negligent and idle shepherds, that we be not counted dumb dogs, too feeble to bark.”

 ~Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, 12th Century.

I recently watched an interesting presentation by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Thomas Becket and was reminded of several of his famous quotes, including the one above, written to the Church leadership which, he believed, had failed for quite some time to defend God and the Church and her teachings. He must have been a most exasperated man:

Words of Thomas Becket to Church leaders:

“For a long time I have been silent, waiting if perchance the Lord would inspire you to pluck up your strength again; if perchance one, at least, of you all would arise and take his stand as a wall to defend the house of Israel, would put on at least the appearance of entering the battle against those who never cease daily to attack the army of the Lord. I have waited; not one has arisen. I have endured; not one has taken a stand. I have been silent; not one has spoken. I have dissimulated; not one has fought even in appearance....

May God lift the veil from your hearts, that you may know what you ought to do. Let any man of you say who knows if ever since my promotion I have taken from anyone of you his ox or his ass or his money, if I have judged anyone’s cause unjustly, if out of anyone’s loss I have won gain for myself, and I will return it fourfold. If I have done nothing to offend you, why leave me alone to defend the cause of God?...”

                                                                          

Fast forward to the 21st Century and the similarly incredible lack of effort by leaders of not a few traditional and New Age churches and spiritual groups to defend God, take practical action and share much needed spiritual teachings on behalf of the unborn, and you can almost hear Becket still pleading from heaven:  

“If I have done nothing to offend you, why leave me alone to defend the cause of God?”

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