Billy Graham – The Devil and Demons – Dallas TX 1971

@arianamolina9460 says:

Honestly! Amen!

@nicoletteCA says:

Amen❤️

@rickscott6127 says:

Listen to Pastor Greg Locke. Just as riveting as Billy Graham.

@newhopeagchurchagasthiyarp3979 says:

I agree this too

@tshirt2009 says:

Sadly even Billy’s son Franklin preaches the “comfortable message” I seen him a few months ago and was not impressed at all.

@stefanfehr1221 says:

“Billy Graham was an essential actor in the right wing political takeover of evangelical Christianity.

From the time he met his wife Ruth Bell at Wheaton College, the career of Graham, son of a North Carolina dairy farmer, was guided by his father-in-law Lemuel Nelson Bell, MD. Dr. Bell had been a medical missionary to China, one of the many refugees from their imperial calling embittered by the Democratic Party’s “loss of China”.
Bell hooked Graham up with Youth for Christ, a parachurch affiliated with the Christian anti-Communist movement,progenitor of the Religious Right, and placed him under the tutelage of Pastor William Bell Riley, the raving anti-Semitic Conspiracy theorist and anti-evolutionist known as the “Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism”. Pastor Riley, who believed in “an international Jewish-Bolshevik-Darwinist conspiracy to promote evolutionism in the classroom” chose Graham to succeed him as president of Northwestern Bible College in St Paul.

Red-baiting was a feature of Graham’s debut on the national stage, his famous 1949 Los Angeles tent revival:

“Do you know, that the Fifth Columnists, called Communists, are more rampant in Los Angeles than any other city in America?” Communism, he said, “is a religion that is inspired, directed, and motivated by the devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.” (Christianity Today)

Business leaders of the far right immediately saw in Graham a vehicle for their goals of rolling back the New Deal and defeating organized labor, under the guise of fighting godless communism for Jesus. While the LA revival was still under way, publisher William Randolph Hearst wired his editors to “Puff Graham!”.

Introductions to other titans of business and politics followed. South Carolinians Henry Luce, the Time-Life magnate, and financier Bernard Baruch teamed up Graham with governor Strom Thurmond for a statewide tour in March of 1950, when Strom was leader of the white nationalist Dixiecrat Party.

Later that year, Graham met the man who would become his biggest patron, right wing oilman “Mr Sid” Richardson, who would soon encourage Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president, in part by purchasing a farm for Ike and Mamie at Gettysburg, PA. Considering that that Graham and Ike were both sponsored by Richardson, Ike’s sudden conversion to Christian orthodoxy by Graham before Inauguration Day looks less than miraculous.

So important was Richardson to Graham that Billy, who never lived in Texas, placed his official church membership at Richardson’s First Baptist of Dallas, and kept it there throughout his life. (When Billy was at home in Montreat, the nominal Southern Baptist preacher attended the local Presbyterian church with wife Ruth and father-in-law Nelson, a leader of the effort to revive Confederate era Calvinism that resulted in the Presbyterian Church in America. PCA was founded in 1973 in Birmingham, at the height of the school busing crisis.)
When Mr Sid and other Texas oilmen were defending their Oil Depletion Allowance, a most generous federal tax break, Graham came to their aid by producing two feature films celebrating the Christian virtues of the Lone Star state petroleum fraternity.

Oilman J. Howard Pew, a John Birch Society leader, would succeed Mr Sid as Graham’s biggest financial backer. He joined Nelson Bell as co- publisher of Christianity Today, which presented itself as the voice of moderate, mainstream evangelicals. ( Even while Bell was simultaneously publishing the newsletter of the Confederate Calvinism revival movement.) Together they ousted the erudite Carl FH Henry as CT editor because of his opinion piece condemning evangelicals who reflexively opposed the Civil Right movement. Repeat: The two Birchers who ran Billy Graham’s magazine canned the editor who suggested that the Civil Rights movement might have some merit.” – Oomf

@benvenegas8708 says:

Amen

@beanindividual4000 says:

@@user-in2jt2hk2h how are you fulfilling the word of God right now?

@user-in2jt2hk2h says:

@@beanindividual4000 it is simple, since all things are according to the will and purpose of God, and as John the Baptist stated, a man can not do anything unless it has been given to him from above, then I must be doing the will of God. Did Paul not call Peter out in public for his hypocrisy, was he doing the will of God? If a person is teaching scripture falsely, should we just allow them to continue, or should we expose them, which is right? Since it have proof, in his own words, his own sermons, with dates and places preached, should I just ignore his falseness, and let him continue deceiving people? Should there not be the truth of scripture, and not the falseness and interpretations of man?