Joseph Farah --- Open Letter To Billy Graham

Dear Rev. Graham,

One of the highlights of my life as a young journalist was getting to meet you and spend some quality time interviewing you.

I recall how you flew in to the then-tiny Orange County airport in Southern California, traveling alone, with only a hat and dark glasses as protection from your celebrity.

I would have been grateful for 20-30 minutes of your time at your hotel, but you graciously gave me hours. It wasn't so much an interview as a friendly discussion.

What a nice man – real, genuine, down-to-earth, I thought. And I still feel that way.

I have no doubts that for your role in bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to 210 million over the past 60 years, some day you will hear the Lord tell you: "Well done my good and faithful servant."

But there comes a time in every man's life, I suspect, for accountability. King David had that time when the Prophet Nathan confronted him with his sin.

I'm not sure you have anyone in your entourage like Nathan. So let me lay it on the line: You did the Kingdom of Heaven a disservice last week when you mixed the worldly and corrupt politics of Bill and Hillary Clinton with the Word of God.

The Clintons are "a great couple," you said. "I told an audience that I felt when he left the presidency he should be an evangelist because he has all the gifts and he'd leave his wife to run the country," you continued.

I've got news for you, Rev. Graham: Bill Clinton is already an evangelist. But it's not for the Gospel you preach. He is an evangelist for moral relativism, for the great sin of pride, for abortion on demand, for adultery, for sexual perversion, for abuse of power.

You and the Clintons are, as the Apostle Paul explained it, "unequally yoked." You should have no part of them. You should rebuke them the way Mother Teresa did when she got the chance. Darkness has no place with the light.

You sowed the seeds of confusion in the hearts of many when you suggested that they are children of the light.

I understand you are not at the top of your game. You are 86 years old. You suffer from Parkinson's disease, prostate cancer, a pelvic fracture and other debilitating conditions.

What has been widely billed as quite likely your last crusade on this mortal plane was sullied by this grievous error in judgment.

Bill and Hillary Clinton used you, Rev. Graham – and, sadly, you allowed them to do it.

A more appropriate response to the Clintons would have been to humble them – not lift their already inflated egos higher still.

Billy Graham, I love you and respect you as an elder Christian brother. It is not easy for me to publicly chastise you. But sometimes, it is better not to be "nice," not to be "charming," not to be "gracious."

That was the Jesus we see in the Gospels twice in His earthly ministry chasing the money changers from the Temple. Christians privileged to live in the United States of America need to understand we have some money changers of our own right here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. And some of them, too, deserve to be driven out of our Father's house with a bullwhip.

It's not too late for a word of clarification from you on this matter. It's not too late for you to withdraw your "endorsement" of Hillary Rodham Clinton for president – one that will surely be used in her television ads in the 2008 campaign. It is not too late for you to admit you, too, are human and subject to error. It is not too late for you to explain to the American people that public officials who claim to be "Christians" have a special responsibility to act like Christians.

It's not too late for you to issue yet one more prophetic warning to a nation sorely in need of accountability to the one, true God we both serve.

Sincerely,

Joseph Farah

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com