Billy Graham

Billy Graham

"When GOD called me to preach, it was for life." 

Billy Graham was a Christian preacher who was noted to be among the first tele-evangelizers. Billy Graham began preaching in the 1950s and would fill football stadiums with people who wanted to hear the Gospel. Graham would preach King Jesus Christ throughout his life being able to live into his 90s. Graham would be an evangelizer that preached the need to repent of sin and accept King Jesus Christ Eternal LORD and Savior.

Richard Nixon in the 1970s would ask Graham to join his administration promising him a job. Graham refused to work for Nixon describing that he worked for GOD Almighty and not for the government. Graham's decision allowed him to persevere without being a part of Nixon's administration. 

It was noted that in the 1970s Nixon would send the FBI to wiretap the offices of the Democratic party in order to prevent the Democrats from competing in the elections. The FBI agreed to wiretap the Democrats and were found out. Nixon did not finish his presidency and kept denying that he was a crook. 

Nixon was an FBI agent prior to being president and also described that there was a lack of integrity from his part. Graham was able to keep preaching without being a part of Nixon's presidency. Graham would live to long life into his 90s while being able preach King Jesus Christ Eternal LORD and Savior. Graham's example allows us to know that we can persevere preaching and avoid the deception, wickedness, and snares of the world. Graham was able to persevere without being a part of iniquity. We can choose to deny temptation and persevere despite persecution.

Persevering Preaching Christianity

Graham's example helps us know that there have been individuals who decided to persevere preaching truth instead of practicing iniquity. We choose to deny the deceptions, temporary lies, and falsehoods that are used to tempt far from the worship of GOD Almighty. Graham probably had healthy skepticism concerning working in Nixon's administration due to Nixon having worked for the FBI. Graham decided to preach King Jesus Christ than be a part of iniquity. Graham's example helps us know that it is better to worship GOD Almighty than be a part of wickedness and grave sin. 

Instead of being in love with the things of the world describing temporary wealth, connections, and fame, Graham chose to redirect the worship to GOD Almighty. Graham chose to honor GOD Almighty with his life preaching King Jesus Christ than to partake with deceit and envy. Graham would be able to persist preaching allowing us to know that it is possible to worship GOD Almighty above the temporary things of the world. Instead of listening to the snake, Graham chose to worship King Jesus Christ.

In the 1970s Preachers Preached Against Illicit Drug Use

"[The Beats] Profoundly alienated from dominant American values, practicing voluntary poverty and spade cool, they rejected materialism, competition, the work ethic, hygiene, sexual repression, monogamy..."- (page 287)

"In the metamorphosis of beat to hippie, hallucinogenic drugs played an indispensible part. Indians had been using peyote and magic mushrooms for [idolatry] purposes since before the rise of the Aztec civilization. But in industrial civilizations, knowledge of mind-altering substances had virtually disappeared. In the 1920s chemists synthesized the active ingredient peyote, calling it mescaline, and did the same thing in 1958 for the mushrooms, producing psilocybin. Science even outdid nature in 1938 when Dr. Albert Hoffman of the Sandoz Chemical Works in Switzerland fabricated a compound many times more potent than anything imbibed by the most ecstatic Indian. Searching for a respiratory stimulant, Hoffman produced the diethylamide of lysergic acid, a colorless, odorless, apparently useless substance that he called LSD. Five years later, in the course of an experiment on animals, Hoffman accidently ingested an 'unmeasurable trace' of LSD and took the world's first acid trip. (It was, incidentally, a bummer.) Hoffman kept experimenting trying to cure schizophrenia. By 1960 LSD was seeping out of the laboratory into the cultural underground."- The Unraveling of America by Allen Matusow (page 287-288)

"LSD was a big story in 1966. Congress outlawed it. And the Food and Drugs Administration sent a letter to two thousand colleges warning of its 'widespread availability' and 'profound effects on the mental processes'."- (page 291)

"In 1965...[ a promoter of LSD] called it the acid test... Hooking up with the rock group the Grateful Dead, he experimented with multimedia shows so noisy and frienzied that, by themselves, they menaced reason. To make sure no one missed the point, lots of free LSD was distributed, a legal act, since California did not get to outlawing the drug until October 1966."- (page 292)

"[Concert in 1969 with 300,000 concert goers] Lots of bad dope, including inferior acid spiked with speed, circulated through the crowd. Harried medics had to fly in an emergency supply of Thorazine to treat the epidemic of bad trips and were kept busy administering first aid to victims of the random violence."- (page 304)

There were preachers who preached in the 70s against illicit drug use and idolatrous rock and roll. Preachers described how idolatry tried to instruct individuals to rebel against the values and ethics of Christianity trying to lead individuals to indiscipline, slothfulness, envy, adultery, homosexuality, and idolizing foolishness. It is noted in 1969 that pharmaceutical companies Sandoz and the CIA distributed free LSD in music festivals including Woodstock. LSD is known to cause madness and hallucinations along with anger. The pharmaceutical companies and the CIA gave out free acid (LSD) to see its effect on humans. Some individuals went mad and had significant health problems including psychiatric symptoms. The supposed intention of Dr. Hoffman was to treat schizophrenia with LSD while the use of the drug, LSD, actually caused auditory and visual hallucinations in drug users. It is quite possible that the CIA knew the effects of LSD prior to handing out free LSD at free concerts. Matusow described the turbulence of the late 60s and early 70s in his book stating that hallucinogenic drugs were used deceitfully to lead individuals to idolatry, overdoses, anger, hate, violence, and narcissism.

"As the decade closed, it became clear that drugs, sex, and rock and roll lacked intrinsic moral content."- (page 303)

It is noted that concerts and LSD were free in the 70s. Preachers preached against drug use and rock and roll and were right about avoiding such idolatrous things. It is noted that LSD is derived from peyote which is a hallucinogen and can cause madness. Idolatrous hostile native americans used peyote when practing idol worship. (There were also non-hostile Native Americans who converted to Christianity.) Preachers preached against illicit drug use and also against idolatrous music that needed illicit substances to "fully experience" the music. (If music needs illict substance use, then it must not be good music. Amazing music does not require drug use.)

The Publishing of Socialist Propaganda

Different socialist propaganda magazines began to be published in the 1960s. The intention was to separate from the worship of GOD Almighty to lead to the disobedience of the commandments of Moses and foment unneeded conflict. Magazines like Rolling Stone was started by a hippie from the 1960s who lived in the Haight-Ashbury district in California. The magazine published articles that were part commercials and part propaganda for socialist bands and socialism. Instead of honestly critiquing music it praised socialist bands while slandering and hating anything that was not socialism. The magazine was heavily biased in favor of anything that had to do with socialism.

The Rolling Stone magazine has been favored by socialists for covering and advocating for illicit drug use, promiscuity, rock and roll, idolatry, lies, and deceit. All of this under the disguise of glamor and "authenticity". Rolling Stone was probably hailed as an impressive magazine for preaching idol worship. We can avoid socialist propaganda and false advertisement that do not look to help individuals.

The Use of Street Drugs and Lust Lead to Envy and Hate

"For Weatherman as an organization, smashing monogamy meant liberating both men and women from sentimental bourgeois ties so that they give total loyalty to the anti-imperial cause. Couples, even married ones, were compelled to split up; heterosexuals were pressured into lovemaking with fellow communards, male and female; and group gropes were not uncommon. The goal was group marriage, in which all members of the collective would be bound in love for the armed struggle. As Susan Stern, a member of the Seattle Weather collective, recalled, 'A sleeping schedule was set up. According to it, you were to have a different bed partner every night, regardless of sex. The schedule was never enforced in our collective, but its very presence testified to the seriousness with which we approached the problem of smashing monogamy." (page 340)

There are theories from books that state that the use of illict drugs such as LSD and lust leads to anger and hate. Socialists who decided to practice envy and coveting, ended up using street drugs that was seen since the Beat generation in the 1950s. Beat poets attempted to encourage socialism and preach utopia while actually leading idolators to perdition and destruction. This was seen in the Haight-Ashbury district in California in the 1960s where socialists, college dropouts (who had the means (were from the wealthy class) but not the effort, and were not gangstalked, decided to not stay in school), and criminals would do drugs and listen to psychedelic music including the Grateful Dead. The socialists were rebeling against having a work ethic and industriousness.

It was noted that the Beat poets became hippies when LSD was introduced in the 1950s. The use of illicit drugs, adultery, and slothfulness led to envy and anger. Idolatry leads to envy and anger. This would explain the chaos of the 1960s being due to socialist who could not stand amazing individuals who were righteous, industrious, and positive. The different disguises of socialists seen in Weatherman, Black panthers, Liberation Party, and SDS were intent on leading to racial strife, conflict, and violence (however, there were deceitful individuals who only wanted to lead others to destruction and not be involved with the consequences of crime and deliquency.) It is most likely that the FBI recruited individuals from these organizations to be agents in the 60s. The Weatherman probably were in charge of explosives (there were Weatherman who died while making explosives). The Black Panthers main leaders may have attempted to foment strife, lead African Americans to violence, and opposed MLK and the Civil Rights. The Liberation Party wanted to help the proletariat in the "Third World countries" while persecuting industrious self sufficient workers and individuals in different countries (The Liberation Party persecuted the working class). The socialists made communes that degenerated into conflict, disease, madness, and envy seeing that no one wanted to work and everyone was either instigating for "revolution" (actually persecution) or maddened by street drug addictions. The Weatherman communes were particular in that men were supposed to be turned gay and women also. Men were supposed to renounce marriages for adultery and becoming gay. There were socialist orders that stated that men and women had to practice adultery and fornication with different partners to lead them to homosexuality. The practice of lust led them to anger issues and bitterness. Wicked individuals that practice idolatry and adultery are led to destruction. There was a Weatherman, Mark Rudd, who told his sycophants to break windows and throw rocks and bricks at stores, while not participating in the lawlessness. Rudd wanted to appear righteous while getting socialist sycophants to cause damage to private property. Rudd did not want to be involved in the "revolution", told others to damage property (not himself though), but did want to fight capitalism by persecuting working people. Carmichael did the same by telling African Americans to take up violence while not participating. This describes the need to avoid socialists.

"Hordes of white working class kids led by Weatherman, were supposed to gather in Chicago to trash the city. On the evening of October 8, 1969,... eighty Weatherman wearing black helmets marched into Lincoln Park expecting to find ten to twenty thousand kids ready for war. No more than a few hundred were there. Nevertheless, after cheering the brave speeches of their leaders, the American Vietcong charged into the streets to smash cars and hurl bricks. Vastly outnumbered by police, most were quickly beaten and arrested. Back in the park shortly after the battle ended, journalist Kirkpatrick Sale watched as 'a man in coat and tie suddenly emerged from the darkness, looked around as if in bewilderment, stood for a moment, and walked quickly off: it was Mark Rudd, in 'straight' disguise, a general who it seems had decided to not march with his troops."- (page 341)