Dave Borlase
and his attack on true Christians while teaching false teachings
By Sandy Simpson, 5/30/20
There is a man by the name
of Dave Borlase, head of “Intercessors for Britain”, son
of the former director, who has joined a very small chorus in opposition to
true Bible expositors such as Jacob Prasch. I will not even provide links to his pages
because of the attack ads he has posted which are patently disgusting and
libelous. He has joined a tiny group
whose mindset I can only define as “Prasch
Derangement Syndrome” where they spend most of their time taking pot shots, not
at false teachers, but at legitimate Christian apologists and expositors. Jacob Prasch is one
of the smartest people I know and one of the most knowledgeable on the
Bible. He speaks many languages and for
many years has travelled the world preaching the Gospel and warning churches
about false teachers.
Dave Borlase has
added his voice to this miniscule group of malcontents instead of taking his
concerns to the Lord in prayer as he purports to do in his organization.
He has been speaking recently about COVID and conspiracy theories.
He says if we criticize the government then we are lending credibility to
conspiracy theories and he bases this on his position on Titus 3.1-11. He
has encouraged his congregation and IFB to support the government and
download and encourage them to use the new contact and trace app. He continued
to encourage acceptance of and use of any potential vaccine that is developed.
He says this to continue his Titus 3 teaching that failure to accept the
vaccine is rebellion against the Government and therefore GOD. He then
adds insult to injury by praising Bill Gates and the work he has done to save
the lives of children in poor and developing countries. He
believes his agenda and financial investment is sincere and we should
discourage any negative comments or conspiracy theories against him. He
ignores Gate’s abortion and right to suicide support and his very public
support of LGBT agendas. He also claims big Pharma and Tech companies
only have your best interests at heart.
Naiveté!
Interestingly, Prasch,
whom he berates, has also done a lot of good “work to save the lives of
children in poor and developing countries” through the orphanages and other
mission efforts of Moriel around the world, without
the baggage of supporting the mass killing of innocent babies and the support
of the unbiblical LGBT agendas.
Borlase goes on, in his recent video, to claim that those who take the mark of
the beast may at a later date repent and be saved as long as they never
“worshipped” the Antichrist. He claims
to take the mark does not mean a person worships the beast. This idea has been
proposed by other 5-point Calvinists but is roundly refuted by Scripture.
Rev.
14:9-10 Then another
angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and
his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented
with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and
in the presence of the Lamb.
There is no distinction
given in these verses between those who worship the beast and those who take
his mark. They are one in the same. As we know, every believer receives the seal
or mark of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22 Eph. 1:13, etc.) We also know that the Holy Spirit will seal
the 144,000 in Israel during the Tribulation (Rev. 7:4) to distinguish between
those sealed by the Antichrist (Rev. 19:20).
The Bible says nothing about those who receive the mark of the beast
being able to repent and become unmarked.
In raising cattle the owner brands the cows that belong to him. God puts his mark on those who believe in Him
and belong to Him. The Antichrist does
the same. This teaching of being able to
repent of the mark of the beast is false teaching, perhaps not on the level of
teaching against one or more of the core doctrines, but false teaching
nonetheless.
Jacob Prasch
addressed this issue when John Macarthur taught this idea in his article “A Final Response
to Phil Johnson's Defense of John MacArthur's False Teaching That Worshipers of
the Anti-Christ Taking the Mark of the Beast Can Be Saved”
The issue here is hermeneutics. A text,
out of context, in isolation from co-text is always a pre-text.
The text of Revelation chapter 4: 9-11
does not address or relate to the issue of which sin is or is not forgivable;
that diversion is alien to the context.
The point is that it is a prophetic
prediction divinely decreed that states that those accepting the mark of the
beast, worshiping the anti-christ and his image will
not repent and has no direct relation to the moot question of a hypothetical
possibility if or not they could be saved; the text predicts they will not be.
This is fully consistent with the thrust
of The Book of Revelation's teaching on a post Parousia world where men will
not repent even in the face of apocalyptic cataclysm (eg. Revelation 9:21).
The notion that unregenerate people who are worshiping the Antichrist, and have
taken his mark, can come to a saving faith in Jesus after the age of grace is
closed, when God is again dealing with unbelieving Israel and the Jews (2/3 of
whom, will perish), after The Holy Spirit is no longer restraining evil and the
powers of Satan, nor is He convicting the lost of
their sin, as per John 16:8, is
nothing short of hideous.
How will Antichrist worshipers who have
sold their soul in exchange for the mark be saved without the conviction of the
Holy Spirit when the plain text of Revelation 9 states unambiguously that
they won't?
For Berlase
to attack Jacob Prasch and yet be teaching false
ideas such as the above is the height of hypocrisy. Prasch has not taught
false doctrines and, in fact, I would wager he knows his Bible and the original
languages far better than Borlase and his merry band
of conspiracy theorists. And if Borlase is concerned about rebelling against God, he had
better look at himself and his bitter friends to see the damage they are doing
to the cause of Christ in attacking one of His faithful servants.