This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report'
The Orlando massacre will change our lives. Certain acts of terrorism have that effect.
This is one of them.
Since this century began, airports, concert venues, theme parks, even synagogues and churches have become much different places. Each of the changes came in response to terror attacks.
This one will be like that.
To understand one of the ways our lives will change, consider what is being blamed for the attack. It's not the shooter. It's not the ideology that drove him: Islam.
Instead, it's the tools he used. Guns.
Guns are being blamed for the deaths of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
As if Omar Mateen's guns showed up on their own and killed those people.
In the few days since, there has been a flurry of gun control proposals at many levels of government. There has even been a sit-in by legislators who were probably remembering their protest days -- or wishing they had protest days to remember!
The most prominent gun control measure now being proposed sounds reasonable at first: Do not allow anyone on the government's "No Fly List" to purchase a gun.
The logic is that if they're too dangerous to board a commercial airliner, they're too dangerous to own a gun. Simple. At least it seems simple until you think about it a moment.
If this law is enacted, it will allow a constitutional right to be taken away from any individual American on the whim of a government bureaucrat.
There would be no due process; no court order; no accountability. Just a whim.
The "No Fly List" is already an enigma. The government is telling us that a person is to dangerous to board an airliner, but not a bus or a train. They cannot fly with you, but they can live next door. They can shop with you. They can go to a church or a movie theater with you.
If they are that dangerous in the air, what makes them less dangerous on the ground?
There is no meaningful accountability with the "No Fly List." The federal government refuses to say how many people are on that list or even how they got there.
Some say as many as 47,000. But if it doubles as a "No Gun List," you can expect that number to rise dramatically.
And it is certainly not dependable. Omar Mateen was investigated by the FBI three times for his terrorist sympathies. He was never placed on the "No Fly List!"
Folks, don't be fooled. The Left sees an opportunity here. This is not just about gun rights or the right to defend ourselves. This is a threat to ALL of our rights. It's only starting here.
Speaking of Orlando. Boy, the blame game has gotten rather bizarre.
Not only are prominent lawmakers blaming guns for the killings, but President Obama went so far as to imply that the shootings are the fault of Americans who believe that homosexual behavior is a sin. Of course, it could never be the fault of Muslims who believe homosexual behavior is a sin.
Senator John McCain believes the President's foreign policy is at fault.
The New York Times blames Republicans.
Don't believe me? Here's what the New York Times editorial writers said: "Hate crimes don't happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians."
Let me interpret that for you. By "Republican," they mean people who hold traditional values -- mostly Christians.
But Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter, was neither a Republican nor a Christian. He was a registered Democrat and a Muslim.
But all of the blame that is being thrown around -- especially by the Left and the mainstream media -- has had some disturbing effect.
A recent Gallup poll shows that only 48% of Americans believe the Orlando massacre was primarily an act of Islamic terrorism. I say "only" because it was such a blatant act of Islamic terrorism.
Mateen, himself, said he was doing it in the name of ISIS. During the massacre, he repeatedly shouted, "Allahu akbar!" (Allah is Greatest) He was a regular on radical Islamic websites. From inside the nightclub, he tweeted that America should expect more terrorist acts in the coming days.
But the President and the media have done such a good job of muddying the waters that Gallup says that 41% of Americans do not see it as terrorism, but "gun violence."
That gives me the distinct impression that too many Americans are either incredibly naive or too lazy to think for themselves.
Either way, it's not an encouraging thought.
Here's something else that isn't a pleasant thought. A recent survey by the Center for Security Policy found that 51% of recent immigrants to the United States believe that "Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed by Shariah." Did you get that? More than half of the migrants who are being allowed into the country prefer the oppression of Shariah law to the freedom of the American way of life.
But that's not even the worst of it. The same poll found that 25% of those recent immigrants believe that "violence against Americans here in the United States can be justified as part of the global jihad."
25%! Folks, these are not Americans. They are the "refugees" our President has insisted on allowing into the country in the last few years. At the present rate, by the time the President leaves office in January, he will have authorized the importation of more than one million immigrants from parts of the world that promote this ideology. And more than 25% of them -- you do the math -- believe violence against Americans is acceptable as part of the global jihad!
This is insanity.
Especially when you realize that the Administration turns to radical Islamic groups for advice on how to deal with Islam. And in 2011 removed "Islamic terror" from the FBI's counter-terrorism training curriculum. FBI agents are no longer given accurate, honest instruction on radical Islam. No wonder they detained Omar Mateen three times and never saw the need for further action.
Again, insanity!
Finally, this week I am going to discuss something I call the "Web of Worldliness."
If Satan can make anything in this "world system" first in our affections -- taking the place of Christ's place of priority in our lives -- he has effectively sidetracked us into his web of worldliness. And that is a dangerous place to be.
It is also an easy trap to fall into. That's why we must be careful and diligent in our walk with Christ.
Tune in this week to learn more about how to avoid that pitfall.
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God Bless,
Hal Lindsey
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