Afolabi Dare

Yesterday, the Olympics' opening ceremony surfaced as one of the most controversial in world history. It was the biggest blasphemy, sacrilege, and ridicule of the Christian faith the world has ever seen. Now, this angered us greatly. But strangely, we found joy. Before sharing, let us attempt to explain everything that happened at the opening ceremony. The most prominent was the corruption of the Last Supper. The Eucharist, or communion, is the start of the New Covenant. It is the Christian's translation from the world of death and sin to life and righteousness. It is our blessed hope and assurance that we are joined with the Lord forever. That was what they chose to desecrate. They replaced Christ, the head of the church, with an obese woman who looked like a queen. They replaced the apostles who witnessed the gospel that saved the world with depraved gays, lesbians, and transgender degenerates. Replacing Christ with a woman looking like a queen is like making a statement of being joined with a Christ that is not Jesus, but a Queen of Heaven— Jeremiah 44:19: “And,” said the women, “when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?” The apostles witnessed the gospel Christ preached to us. They are the channels through which the gospel that saves is preached: Hebrews 2:3: "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him?" Replacing them with depraved, immoral transgender and gay people is like signifying that another gospel of immorality is being witnessed, the one that spreads the gospel of our fallen state before salvation. They exalted the Golden Calf in a worship-like embrace. Remember, the Golden Calf was the first idol the Israelites turned to just 40 days after receiving the Law at Mount Sinai. It is a direct statement of rebellion against God. This world has and will denounce God. They featured one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the book of Revelation. The Pale Horse symbolizes death and decay, and hell follows closely behind it. This perhaps is a symbol of the realm of sin and darkness in immoral works that they all belong to and hope to take many to. They went through this immense trouble to simply tell the world they belong to Satan and hope to drag millions to the fallen world Jesus saved us from. If that was all they did, maybe there'd be no outrage. But they desecrated the faith of 2.4 billion people doing it. They threw all caution against disrespecting other people's religion to the wind. The need to honor and not discriminate against other people's faith that the West passionately advocates was dismissed yesterday. They desecrated the Christian faith, openly, before 1 billion eyes. Now, here is our joy. The happiness we found in this whole thing is that no one is pretending anymore. They have openly defiled our faith, so we can now openly proclaim and defend it. They threw all civility in respecting sacred elements of religion to the wind. We, too, will now, as we should have been, proclaim every aspect of our faith without any restraint. It will not matter which groups feel our gospel affects them. We are respectful and gentle as Christians. But we will also be firm and assertive in the things it condemns and those it commends. CHRISTIANS, DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU TO BE "CIVIL" ABOUT TALKING ABOUT YOUR FAITH. TALK ABOUT IT. EVERYWHERE. ANYWHERE. ANYTIME. STAND FOR IT. STAND BY IT. STAND ON IT. If the Olympics could defile the Eucharist, you can talk about the gospel on the bus. If the Olympics could worship the Golden Calf, you can tell your employer you can't do certain things because you are a Christian. Stand for the gospel. Stand by the Gospel. Stand on the Gospel. Lastly, Satanism is real. The West has been captured by him. The Man of Lawlessness, the spirit of the antichrist, rules the West. That is why everything is about the LGBTQ ideology. Everything. That is the sin that hallmarks the fallen world of sin. It is not a conspiracy theory to say that Satanism is the religion of the West. So, be wary of their entertainment. Be wary of their ideologies. Be wary of their money. Be wary. Stay in the word daily, and pray without ceasing. That is how we remain pure in this crooked and dark generation as we hold fast to the word of life— Philippians 2:15: "That you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world." May Jesus the Christ sanctify you in your body, soul, and spirit till the day He returns, in Jesus' name. Amen.