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The Vanguard: Billy Graham, Parlt Robertson, and Timothy Keller

 


The Old Vanguard of the faith is leaving this world. Billy Graham passed away in 2018, Timothy Keller died last month, and today Pat Robertson reposed. Graham lead great crusades that saved hundreds of thousands and impacts millions through televised offerings. Timothy Keller wrote so many books that clarify the essentials like The Holy Trinity in books like Jesus The King. Pat Robertson founded the 700 Club & CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) that brought faith based news forward, and made plateform for contemporary Christian theologians, humanitarians, and etc to have a place to speak on TV. 


These men were not perfect. No man is saved The God Man Jesus Christ. What they did was be a vanguard in The Kingdom, they pioneered in the 21st Century a means to reach people for Christ. Billy Graham focused on evangelism (Matthew 28:19), Timothy Keller  equipping the saints in sound doctrine (2 Timothy 3:16), Pat Robertson created access to Israel and Christian leaders & communities, letting us see Armenia and other places around the world. They were titans who used all the mediums at their disposal to further the testimony of our Lord. You may disagree with their political views, Pat Robertson made some wild prognostications that did not come true, but he founded a program that gave Christians a voice in televised broadcasting and he founded a faith based university known as Regent University and a humanitarian aid called Operation Blessing that has been on frontlines of crises around the world. 


I weep at the leaving of this Vanguard, perhaps like that next generation who said fair well to the disciples and apostles of Jesus, knowing they now had to carry the torch. And that is exactly what we need to do. To take up the mantel of being next Vanguard, wielding our swords and torches in this dark world! We must not let a vacuum form. Franklin Graham is compromised, he let The National Day of Prayer become interfaith, when there is only One Way, Jesus Christ! (John 14:6, John 3:18). Gordon Robertson, Pat’s Son, has a big heart, but he allows Jews to Judaize Christianity through his Israel connections, when there is neither Jew or Greek in Christ, “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus,” (Galatians 3:28), “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink,” (1 Corinthians 12:13), and the Law doss not save, “and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith,” (Philippians 3:9), “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose,” (Galatians 2:21), and “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” (Galatians 2:16). Timothy Keller had no successor, and perhaps that is best for now, for his books set out sound doctrine, I’d have hated a son to rise and trade on his good name and mislead people. 


 The Charge is ours now. We the next generations must take up the orthodoxy and fight for the faith as fide defensors! The Old Vanguard has left. We must fill the vacuum and take responsibility for the future of the Church. Amen. 


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