Playlist: Mass Movements (topic)
Has America Gone Crazy? (Part One)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Mass movements and revolutions are led not by the downtrodden masses but by the well-educated and moneyed, who have the most to lose and keep their eyes on the true objectives. The downtrodden are only foot soldiers taking orders, and their focus stays on themselves and their immediate needs. Those who lead the parade toward …
The Nones and the True Believers
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Mass movements, whether Christianity, communism, or fascism, follow patterns analyzed by Eric Hoffer in The True Believer . Hoffer was a self-educated atheist who analyzed Christianity with no access to God and so misjudged the true religion, yet he was right on target about much of this world's version of Christianity. …
Children Will Be Their Oppressors
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughGod, in Isaiah 3:12, prophesies the recruitment of children for propaganda purposes, which we see happening regularly by the secular humanists.
Has America Gone Crazy? (Part Three)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Those being molded by today's education system lack the historical context to permit them to grasp how it is twisting their impressionable minds.
Has America Gone Crazy? (Part Two)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The word 'crazy' comes from the image of an object full of cracks. It implies that a crazy person is so untrustworthy that he must be handled with caution.
Handwriting on the Wall (2020): Critical Race Theory
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughRevolutions and mass movements are made, not born. They begin in universities, drawing rooms, and salons, where intellectuals form students with Messianic hopes, promising revenge on oppressors and utopia under a new regime the intellectuals intend to lead. The students then take the ideas into the streets. The American, French, …
Preempting God
Sermonette byThe purpose of activism is to take matters into one's own hands, often resulting in violence. Moses' slaying of the Egyptian may have been social activism.
Indifference and Offering
Sermonette by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Herbert Armstrong used his advertising skill to teach the truth of God, unlike the peddlers of the 'Prosperity' gospel who promise material blessings.
Our Hope
Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Our hope is based on having a living Savior. At times we are discouraged and overwhelmed, but God has not left us—though unseen, He is in the trials with us.
Philippians (Part Nine)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughGodly righteousness demands humility, a readiness to admit shortcomings, a yieldedness to correction, and a willingness to be refashioned.