tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209838595909305792024-03-14T03:43:06.231-07:00Scattered SheepAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-81267168185154836242018-02-14T08:41:00.005-08:002018-02-14T08:41:54.988-08:00Purgatory — A Place of Torment for Dying Catholics to Anticipate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Purgatory: a cruel invention of the Roman Catholic Church – A false
dogma that lays a heavy burden on every Catholic. They hold men captive
to a system that claims the keys to heaven. They create a mythical
place where all forgiven people go that has the same fiery torments as
hell except souls can be sprung after they are purified for an
indeterminate period of time. It could be days, weeks, years, centuries,
or millennia. The soul’s only hope is that their surviving loved ones
offer enough rosaries and masses in their name to shorten their stay.
<br />
Jesus condemned the Pharisees for just such things – <strong><span style="color: red;">“They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders” — Matt 23:4a</span></strong><br />
The late television pastor, Bishop Fulton Sheen, who is now being considered for canonization, put it this way:<br />
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“There was a provision made for making up
for our failings if we die in the state of grace…, the necessity of
purgatory is ground upon the absolute purity of God. As the holy book
puts it, ‘there shall not enter into it anything defiled.’ So justice
demands that nothing unclean, but only the pure of heart shall stand
before the face of the pure God. Who of us would dare assert that at the
moment of death that we were pure enough and spotless enough to stand
before the immaculate Lamb of God? Do you think you could stand? I know
that I could not.”</div>
I’ll answer that question. Who is pure enough? Those whom the Lamb has washed clean, that’s who!<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">“Of
how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy
who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the
Spirit of grace?” – Hebrews 10:29</span></strong></div>
Purgatory is an invention of diabolical men that hijacked
Christianity soon after the death of the apostles, just as the Apostle
Paul warned would happen after his “departure.”<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">“I
know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not
sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.” – Acts
20:29-30</span></strong></div>
As Bible-believing Christians we have the assurance from God’s Word
that to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. That
promise from God’s Word gives us such peace at the time of our impending
death. Catholics are taught to believe that our faith is mere
assumption and that we’ll be shocked when we land in a place of torment
after we die.<br />
But the contrary is a bigger risk. Catholics who die putting their
faith in the Roman Church have no peace on their death beds. They
believe they are facing a much worse and longer period of suffering than
they are already in the throes of. They can expect to be carried away
from the pains of death into the pains of fire. What a cruel hoax –
especially if their misplaced faith lands them in hell instead of heaven
if they did not put their faith in the blood atonement of the Lamb. I
wonder if they will think they are in purgatory if they wake up in hell
separated from God and imagine there will be an end to their judgment.<br />
What spiritual malpractice it is to tell professing Christians that
their faith and hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God Who takes
away the sins of the world,” is inadequate to bring us to Heaven! He
came to set the captives free and Catholics are in desperate need to be
released from this cruel master in Rome.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">“Who
gave Himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Titus
2:14</span></strong></div>
<strong><span style="color: black;">** Go to <a href="https://youtu.be/TcAHkGcC7cE"> https://youtu.be/TcAHkGcC7cE</a> to listen to Jackie’s Scattered Sheep Report on this subject</span></strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-83384368734560530842017-06-05T14:53:00.003-07:002017-06-05T14:53:33.952-07:00CARRA BEAT TBN IN COURT <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">CARRA WON!!!!!!!</span></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"> The jury came back this afternoon with the
decision that Jan Crouch had a 45% liability for a $2,000,000 judgment
amount. My source tells me that TBN already said they would appeal. No
doubt they will spend more than the $900,000 on attorney costs to do so
-- but I'm sure that's fine and dandy with the legal sharks.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">
At least this is a psychological win for Carra - but it might not cover
her student loans after her own legal fees come out of the amount, if
and when it's paid. The big, giant disappointment is how all of this has
been pretty much ignored by the Christian media. The institutional
church doesn't give a rip. They will continue to wage their own public
relations campaign by ignoring anything that gets in the way of their
use of the airwaves. They've struck a deal with the devil -- they lose
in the long run.</span></b></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-7564422360133114442017-06-02T17:16:00.001-07:002017-06-02T17:18:09.144-07:00Carra Crouch: “Blamed, Branded and Broken”<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carra Crouch: “Blamed, Branded and
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Imagine if you
will a 13-year-old girl having just been raped by a 30-year-old man, still in
the state of shock – almost catatonic – sobbing uncontrollably, telling her
grandmother, an ordained minister, about the trauma she had just experienced.
Waiting for a hug and a prayer – maybe a little ministry – what she got instead
was an accusatory scream in her face and some unsavory name-calling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">That was back in
April, 2006 when innocence was lost at the Trinity Broadcasting Network. For
the past five years, Carra Crouch, now 24, has had to relive that horrible
night over and over again in legal depositions and in a fresh frenzy of blame
and humiliation in court for the past thirty days at the hands of TBN’s gun-for-hire
lawyers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carra filed a
civil suit for damages against TBN in 2012 after a series of lawsuits were
filed by TBN against her older sister, Brittany, whose attempts to bring the
biggest ‘Christian’ television network into compliance with proper accounting
standards as their financial director were met with outrage and eventual
termination by her dear old grandparents. (Both girls are daughters of Paul
Crouch Jr., the elder brother and disinherited son of TBN’s founders.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brittany recalls
in her own words the events of Carra’s calamity in her unpublished
autobiography which is what she testified to on the stand:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“My beautiful little sister, nearly 8
years younger than me and the quintessential All-American girl - she has blue
eyes and blonde hair and was the most naïve and innocent person you could ever
imagine. She was everything my mother had wanted in a little girl – she was
girly, enjoyed playing with dolls, and wouldn’t come home covered in mud and
grass stains like I would. I remember I was helping my dad coach her soccer
team when she was six years old – clearly the worst player on the team – she
told me she didn’t like playing soccer because she would get “too sweaty.” I
was at a complete loss, she was clearly nothing like me which makes me laugh. <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Given her
innocence and naiveté, I think I had this understanding or desire in my heart
to protect her. She wasn’t strong and hard like me; she would need someone to
help get her through the twists and turns life had to throw at her. She had always
mentioned to me that I had felt more like a mother to her than a sister and I
agree. We have a very close bond – even closer now given what we have been
through together the last three years. I mentioned earlier that one of the
things I feel most guilty and sad about in my life was leaving my sister alone
in my parents’ house after I left for college. If I had known then what I know
now about what was about to happen to Carra, I definitely would have stayed
home, simply to be her protector. She was left alone in a world ruled by evil –
a world where TBN and its corruption were so close that it was too easy for
them to get their hands on her.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“In April of 2006, my sister
was thirteen years old and had decided to attend one of TBN’s telethon
fundraisers that was being held in Atlanta, Georgia. My grandmother’s sister
and her family live in Atlanta and my sister was looking forward to spending
some time with my grandmother and cousins. Telethons usually lasted 5 days but
my grandmother would fly out a few days early to be sure things were ready for
the live broadcast. Being TBN’s largest fundraiser of the year, all hands were
on deck. There would always be a frenzy of energy, guests, audience members,
and pulling at the heartstrings of viewers around the world to convince them
god would bless them if they gave money to TBN. It was a display of “prosperity
gospel” at its finest. <br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“My sister was going to be
flying there with my grandmother on the corporate jet and would be in her care
the entire week she was there since neither of my parents would be attending. I
would assume the first part of the week went fine. My sister was running around
with our two cousins, Nick and Nathan. Both Nick and Nathan worked part time
for TBN so they were very friendly with TBN’s employees in Georgia. At one
point, they introduced my sister to a man name Stephen Smith. Stephen was
older, I think in his early thirties at the time. From what I have been told,
there was one night right before Carra and my grandmother were due to fly home
that Stephen and Nathan accompanied my sister back to her hotel room. Stephen
ordered wine from room service and the three of them began drinking. <br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“At a certain point, Nathan
passed out on the floor leaving my sister easily within reach of this man and
his dark desires. Carra mentioned that she didn’t feel well so Stephen went to
the bathroom to get her a cup of water. While in there Carra said she heard him
rummaging through a bag to find something but never knew what it was. She drank
the water he brought her, which she admitted tasted funny, and then she doesn’t
remember anything after that. <br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“She awoke the next morning,
feeling fuzzy and sore in personal places; Stephen was lying next to her. At
that point she went into shock – not knowing where to go or who to tell. She
didn’t say anything to anyone until she was home. She had a meeting with my
mother and my grandmother, which took place in my grandmother’s living room.
She told them what had happened, which was a very hard thing for her to do. She
was embarrassed and scared. I’m sure the reaction she received from my
grandmother didn’t do much to help the trauma of what had just happened to her
either. <br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“My grandmother became furious
with my sister; telling her how stupid she had been to drink and have people in
her room. She told my sister what had happened to her was her fault and it
would be best if she never spoke of it again. My grandma then put my mother and
sister in contact with my Uncle John so he could handle the situation and ‘make
it go away.’<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“…After what occurred in April
of 2006, Carra literally became an entirely different person. Instead of being
young, happy, and carefree she became anxious, introverted, and lost.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Decision Time</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carra’s endless
nightmare is now in the hands of the eight women and four men that make up the
jury in the civil trial. After receiving the judge’s instructions as to answering
several pages of questions they must decide upon, the attorneys on both sides
summed up their arguments last Wednesday, May 31<sup>st</sup> <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>in the Superior Court of Orange County.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Judge Peter
Wilson told the jury that the plaintiff must prove that it was Jan Crouch’s
outrageous reckless disregard that caused Carra to suffer emotional distress. Jan
knew Carra’s vulnerability and acted with negligence in her position as
ordained clergy at TBN that would require mandatory reporting. Jury must decide
in percentages of responsibility between plaintiff’s side (bad parenting) and
TBN’s side (bad minister-grandmother) for damages awarded for mental anguish –
no punitive damages to consider.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">David Keesling
began his opening remarks by saying it is good to be at final arguments after
five years of litigation and a 30-day trial for a crime that occurred eleven
years ago. “They distract, they distort, they don’t talk about Jan Crouch,” he
said, but TBN’s strategy has been to create a “side-show” to draw attention
away from the facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“They pick apart –
blame all on everything else and we should have been done in two weeks -- bogged
down intending to distort --calculated to distract to take attention away from
Jan Crouch.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Carra was looking at an ecclesiastical leader
of a global multinational network in need of Christian compassion and Jan sent
her away blamed, branded, and broken. There was no ministry in what Jan Crouch
did.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">As an observer, I
was amazed at Keesling’s oratory skills – I had to restrain myself from
applauding or shouting AMEN! His impassioned account of the hell Carra endured
from the rape and Jan’s heartless, unconscionable response to berate her
granddaughter for the ‘mess she put TBN in’ was quite moving. He reminded them
of what came out in testimony – Jan’s impulse was to prevent a public relations
fiasco for TBN. She instructed her nephew, TBN attorney John Casoria, to “do
what’s best for TBN” in total disregard for what was best for Carra Crouch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Michael King
began TBN’s lack-luster closing argument by admitting that Carra Crouch was
indeed raped and suffered “real trauma” from it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m not heartless,” he assured the jury. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">He argued that
Carra’s grandmother was not the problem, but her parents, Paul Crouch Jr. and
his then estranged wife Tawny, were to blame for Carra’s eating disorder and
other emotional problems. He recalled testimony from a psychiatrist that had
one interview with Carra as proof her issues predated the April 2006 incident.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">To establish his
theory, he recounted testimony from the trial that revealed how dysfunctional
her family life was and that Carra was damaged goods before 2006. Both Jr’s
daughters had been hammered by TBN’s attorneys and they admitted that they did
not recall their parents ever being happily married.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">King recalled all
the dirty details TBN raised in the case about lurid behavior of Tawny, who was
painted to be a simpleton with no moral character. (I will not repeat all the
sordid details brought up by TBN’s character assassination of Carra and her
immediate family since it was no doubt intended to tarnish their reputation and
are irrelevant to the case – even if it was used as a distraction by these
legal sharks.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">He briefly
touched upon the subject of the lawsuit: Jan Crouch. “Jan’s not here to defend
herself.” He said there was no evidence that Jan blew up at Carra (other than
the word of Carra and Tawny) and it was not in her character to do so. “You
will have to decide that Jan’s behavior goes beyond the bounds of all decency.”
And he told the jury to decide whether Jan was sought out as a grandma or as an
ordained minister – the answer to that question could turn the case. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">He argued that
even though Jan did not take Carra to the police to report a crime, neither did
her mom or her absentee father. The perpetrator was indeed fired, and the
lawyer said he sure should have been. (Stephen Smith took the 5<sup>th</sup>
amendment in a deposition so did not testify in the trial.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">In conclusion,
King dismissed the entire case as a conspiracy against TBN concocted by
Brittany who supposedly drew Carra into it. He pointed to the courtroom screen
that contained an email with the name “Jackie Alnor” in bold print. (Brittany’s
private emails were successfully subpoenaed by the court.) He made a big deal
out of my suggestion that it would be a good idea for Brittany to seek out a
pro-bono attorney such as Gloria Allred who could bring some public attention
to the harassment lawsuits filed against her by TBN. He said that Jackie
Alnor’s interview with Brittany was part of a media plot to harm the network.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">In rebuttal,
David Keesling said of TBN’s defense that they are, “sanctimonious under golden
domes, but at the end of the day they are destroyers… If we just turn our heads
like Jan Crouch, we tolerate it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
hypocritical for King to claim that Jan isn’t here to defend herself, when it
was he and his legal team that stretched this case out for five years, very
likely to wait out Jan’s demise. How convenient that when they finally stopped
all the depositions and stalling it was after she was incommunicado. I would
have loved to see Keesling have a go at her on the stand. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I wish that
Keesling would have produced character witnesses against Jan Crouch that could
have reported what was common knowledge at TBN – Jan was a potty-mouthed,
short-tempered tyrant that abused her employees. Her reputation for having an
unofficial casting couch as program director followed her – especially her
penchant for carrying on with men that looked like “Jesus.” Some might excuse
her dalliances with men since her husband, Paul Crouch, was known for his
preference for males – as it has been well-reported, paying out huge sums of hush
money to silence his gay lovers. Their on-the-air marriage was a sham –
Brittany says she never recalled Paul and Jan ever living in the same house in
her lifetime. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">The heir to TBN,
Matthew Crouch, with a word could put an end to all this bad public relations
mess by simply dropping the lawsuits against his niece, Brittany. Brittany is a
professing Christian and the Bible has an injunction against Christians taking
other believers to secular court. Matt should be held to account for defying
Scripture. (See 1 Cor 6:1-8) Where are the Christian leaders who are
collectively turning a blind eye to this? They’ll buy airtime on TBN, but as
recent history has shown, none will put truth and justice above their own
self-interests.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Matt seems to
have a public relations campaign of his own, transforming TBN from a rhinestone
hillbilly showcase into an emergent culturally acceptable lineup – replacing
Benny Hinn with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Shack</i> and ending
Praise-a-Thons to raise money by liquidating TBN’s properties. I won’t complain
if he gives Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar the axe now that’s he’s added
Mike Huckabee and Max Lucado. All fitting for the rise of the Church of
Laodicea.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, is there a
conspiracy against The Trinity Broadcasting Network? To cry “conspiracy” is a
tactic used by those who are trying to shift blame away from their own evil
doings. It is shooting the messenger. It is a distraction from admitting wrong
doing, which goes against the instincts of narcissists that believe they are
above scrutiny, even if they are keepers of public trusts such as the airwaves.
They believe that the biblical injunction, “Touch not God’s anointed” applies
to them – the height of arrogance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keesling told me
that my name came up in 25 of the depositions and eight times during the trial,
not to mention once in the closing arguments. To me that is really stretching
it. In fact, it is ludicrous. That is digging pretty deep to invent a defense
for Jan Crouch’s abhorrent behavior. It’s like the dumbest ad hominin attack by
losers I’ve ever seen. It simply proves they have no argument at all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">TBN’s 990s shows
they spent $6 million in attorney’s compensation in 2014, the latest ones we
could find. Much of that was used to avoid accountability to the Body of
Christ, even though Paul and Jan Crouch have always claimed that TBN belongs to
all the partners who have donated over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">You won't read
this kind of reporting in the "Christian" media. Where is WND or RNS?
Where is Charisma Magazine? Where is Christianity Today? You’ll only read
regurgitations of the secular news stories – and probably just small little
blurbs at that. There’s never been a bigger need for uncompromising Christian
reporting than today – investigative reporters instead of PR writers who stick
to the narrative of the publications.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">The takeaway from
this trial is that the founders of TBN, the late Paul and Jan Crouch not only
produced television programming that distorted the face of Christianity around
the world, but they also produced a dysfunctional family that eats its young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[When the
jury comes back with their decision, I’ll write an update.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See also:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My interview
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</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY2ygUXWpc"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY2ygUXWpc</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Walter
Martin’s attempt in 1987 to bring accountability to TBN</span></div>
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<a href="http://scatteredsheepreport.blogspot.com/2012/02/unheeded-warning-to-paul-crouch-back-in.html"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://scatteredsheepreport.blogspot.com/2012/02/unheeded-warning-to-paul-crouch-back-in.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The world hates us and
we’re instructed to hate the world. Jesus even said<i>:</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he
cannot be My disciple” - Luke 14:26.</i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Do not love the world or the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him”. -
1John 2:15</i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet
because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you” - John 15:19</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Of course, Jesus didn’t
mean to despise anyone, He was dramatically saying that our love for God trumps
all other relationships. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">However, the opposite is
often the case. Relatives will indeed despise their family member who is sold
out for Jesus. Once a person becomes a child of God, all earthly relationships
immediately change --sometimes for the good, when their testimony touches the
heart of their kin, but sadly it is more common for loved ones to turn against
the new convert.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The Epistle of James
says, “Friendship with the world is enmity to God.” It isn’t referring to
planet earth, but to the world system that is under the power of the god of
this age: the devil. Jesus said, “If you’re not for Me, you’re against Me.” You
can’t use His name as a cuss word today and then expect Him to accept your
praise come Sunday morning. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">New believers in the LORD Jesus Christ have been captured
by their newfound love for Him. They are so excited and optimistic; it can be
seen in their faces and their smiles. They just can’t shut up about Him. This
is especially true if they were not raised in the church and do not have much
Bible knowledge. They’re on Cloud 9, so to speak, and are just starting out on
their pilgrimage to the Celestial City. They feel invincible.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When the first fiery trial comes along, they do not see
it coming – like a bolt out of the blue. This is played out in a poignant way
in <i>Pilgrim’s Progress</i> when Pliable,
from Christian’s hometown of the City of Destruction, decides to go along with
him. This is the famous scene when they
both fall into the Slough of Despond. This trouble comes to a surprise to both
of them, but they respond differently.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">After struggling to extricate himself from the Slough,
Pliable leaves the way in a huff saying, “Is this the happiness you have told
me of all the while? If we have such ill speed at our first setting out, what
may we expect betwixt this and our journey's end? May I get out again with my
life; you shall possess the brave country alone!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Christian was rescued by a man named “Help.” He got to
the other side of the Slough, while Pliable turned tail for home. Along the way
more trials and tribulations confront our protagonist. About half-way through
the journey, as many others were running back to the comfort of their towns,
Christian assured himself: “</span>I must venture. To go back is nothing but
death; to go forward is fear of death, and life-everlasting beyond it. I will
yet go forward. “</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is reminiscent of a Bible passage in the Gospel of
John. As many men who had been following the Master walked away because they
could not understand His hard sayings, He turned to Peter and asked him if he
was going to go too. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“But
Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of
eternal life.’” John 6:68</span></i></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">New converts to the faith are not always born-again
believers. They may be quite sincere about their decision to become a
Christian, but have not come into the Kingdom through the door of repentance.
They might have simply responded to an emotional message to “try Jesus.” Or,
they might have learned about the Bible growing up and see it as the “good
book” and a valuable guide during troubled times. The church is just a building
in the community where people are married and buried, some think.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jesus’ parable of the Sower of the Seed gives the big picture.
The seed represents the Word of God that is sown into hearts. The soil is the
condition of the heart into which it is sown. The outcome of the crop depends
on the fertility of the ground. In summary, Jesus said:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">"The
sower sows the word. And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is
sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was
sown in their hearts. These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who,
when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and they have no
root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation
or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. Now these are
the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares
of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things
entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. But these are the ones
sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some
thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred." – Mark 4:14-20</span></i></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This installment focuses on just one of the reasons
people backslide and do not go to the end of the journey. The thorny ground “Christians”
are just temporary ones. This is probably the most common kind of pew sitter
there is – we used to call them “carnal Christians.” And sadly, today’s most
popular mega-churches cater to them. It is said of them, “they have just tacked
Jesus onto their worldly pursuits.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jesus said, “</span>He that shall endure unto the end,
the same shall be saved.” (Matt 24:13)<span style="line-height: 115%;"> That does not mean that they can lose their
salvation – it just means that they were not truly born-again in the first
place. To those who miss the mark and say, “Lord, Lord, did we not do many good
things in your name?” Jesus tells them, “I never knew you.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">These converts did not count the cost. They did not put self
on the altar and put Jesus on the throne of their lives. They never turned the
reins over to Him. They called their own shots. There was no major change in
their lives after their supposed conversion. They merely gave lip-service to
Jesus and found a church community center to attend where they could get an uplifting
shot in the arm every Sunday.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">These words from Romans, the epistle of grace, didn’t
quite penetrate:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“For
if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put
to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” – Rom. 8:13-14</span></i></span></span></b></span></div>
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Longer Cool</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The first big surprise that awaits a new convert,
regardless of their soil, is the reaction from family and friends when they
tell them they’ve become a Christian<i>. </i>A
typical response from these scallywags is “You’re not a Christian. I know you.
You’re just going through a phase. You’ll get over it.” And an assortment of
other colorful metaphors spouts from their lips.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The true saint will strive with them for a while, sharing
their testimony and giving them an answer for the hope they now have in their
heart. S/he might even get through to some, although some friends like Pliable
will only go so far.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But the enemy of our souls will not delay in striking
back, using those closest to them to inflict the most damage. He will inspire the convert’s associates to remind
him/her of who they used to be. If that doesn’t work, friends will invite them
to events where they are sure to get the new believer doing the things they
used to do – drinking, carousing, doing drugs – whatever the old habit happens
to be.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The solid saint will resist these temptations. The Holy
Spirit dwelling within them will make them uncomfortable in those old familiar
haunts, and they will be forced to leave. If they slip up, they’ll repent, cry
out to God for strength, and keep on going. Scripture reading will help them on
a daily basis as they take in the manna of His Word. They know they can run to
the pages of scripture for direction. They may stumble across this one that
will really speak to them:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Or
do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor <i>the</i> covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such <u>were</u> some of you;
but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” – 1 Cor 6:9-11</span></i></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Old
Me</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">After entering the Kingdom at the ripe old age of 28, I
was in for a rude awakening. My story is not unlike so many others whose
born-again experience changed them instantly – overnight even. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I was raised in the Catholic Church, but rebelled from it
as a teenager. I was a child of the 60s, ran off from my home in Los Angeles County
to the Bay Area. I bought the whole package: free love, drugs, and rock n’roll.
I dabbled in the occult; the Ouija board was my idea of a good time. I thought
I was making contact with dead people from the other side.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I excelled in the art of lying. I could come up with a
humdinger of a story to extricate myself from a previous lie. I learned this
early in life from sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night as a
teenager. When I got caught, I had to come up with a darn good story. When caught
in a lie, I just lied a little better to get out of it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My youth was cut short when I came home pregnant and my
hippy boyfriend became scarce. I had only been away for a few months and was only
17. I had to go to a home for unwed mothers to give birth to my baby girl and
gave her up for adoption as a newborn. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I blocked that emotional upheaval, working all week to
live it up on the weekends. I could out-cuss any sailor and was a bit of a
clown – I collected dirty jokes and loved to one-up the next guy in my delivery
of them. Cocaine became my recreational drug of choice in my 20s. I never did
like the taste of alcohol, so I’d take a vial of coke to the nightclubs I
frequented with my girlfriends. Dancing and partying was all I lived for, but
deep down inside it was not a very satisfying lifestyle. I needed something to
fill the spiritual void inside.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At that time, my friends would have thought me to be the
least likely person to ever “turn to religion,” as they would put it. But it
wasn’t religion that I was looking for. In fact, I wasn’t even thinking that
deeply; I was on auto-pilot. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Everything changed when I received a book in the mail
from the Book of the Month Club. I was a voracious reader – but only of
fiction. In fact, horror stories and murder mysteries were my favorite genre. Real
life stuff just wasn’t my bag. The book
I received was called <i>Michelle</i> <i>Remembers</i>. It arrived right after
reading a novel called <i>The Entity</i>
that had left me feeling creeped out. It was a novel supposedly based on a true
story about a woman living in L.A. who was being haunted nightly by a demon
known as an Incubus. But <i>Michelle</i> <i>Remembers </i>was different because it was
not a novel, but an eye-witness account of a young woman who was recalling,
under hypnosis, her horrifying experience of being used by Satanists in their
diabolical ceremonies when she was just a child.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What really got to me were the photos of her in the book.
The shrink administering the hypnosis testified that whenever his client would
recall those awful memories, big ugly red welts would appear upon her skin in
the shape of a pitchfork or a devil’s tail – reminiscent of the character seen
on the Red Devil Fireworks booths that would spring up everywhere before the
Fourth of July.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In hindsight, it was not a very credible testimony –
especially since the memories only came out of hypnotic induction. But that
didn’t matter to me at the time. Both books convinced me of the existence of the
devil – and I reasoned that there had to be a God because if there wasn’t then
we’re all in deep you-know-what.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I fell back on my religious upbringing and ran out to the
local Catholic bookstore and bought myself a St. Joseph’s Bible. I began
reading the Psalms – they really spoke to me. I steered away from the gospels
and epistles because I thought I knew what was in them from my years of growing
up and them being read at the Catholic mass.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I had a practice of attending midnight mass every
Christmas-Eve – a tradition I kept up with even in my unbelief. Baby Jesus in
the manger had always appealed to me that time of year. But that Christmas of
1980, I did something different. I visited Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa instead. I
had been somewhat familiar with It since a couple of my friends had attended at
one time years before when they met in a tent. I was totally blown away by
Pastor Chuck Smith’s message about Christmas. He talked about the pagan origin
of December 25<sup>th</sup> and the pagan feast of Saturnalia. His candor about
that was refreshing. I had never heard a sermon that admitted to any possible
flaw in the system. No Catholic priest would dream of being that forthright!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I left without responding to the altar call. I held onto
the bulletin though and put it in my Catholic Bible in my nightstand next to my
bed. I didn’t know it then, but it would sure come in handy some seven months
later at 3 am on the Fourth of July, 1981.</span></span></span></div>
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Death to Life </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">That New Year’s Eve was rather depressing. I spent it
alone due to an absent boyfriend with whom I was having an affair who kept
promising he would leave his wife for me. He just couldn’t seem to get up the
nerve. So he would string me along, living with me during the week and going
home to her on the weekend. Looking back it must have been a fine arrangement
for…let’s call him ‘Frank.’</span></span></span></div>
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time during this tainted relationship, I got pregnant. He insisted that I have
an abortion but I didn’t want to. He prevailed and talked me into it – he even
dropped me off at a Planned Parenthood clinic. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I was mad at him, but totally oblivious to what I had
just done to my unborn baby. The personnel at the death center convinced me that
I was merely wiping away a little tissue and there was as yet no form to speak
of. They called it a “potential baby.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I saw myself as the victim, and would look to the book of
Psalms for comfort as I lay in bed at night feeling sorry for myself. I would
run to “the book” every time some horrible self-inflicted disaster would befall
me. I believed in God and thought He was on my side.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On the night before the Independence Day holiday, I was
again resentful for being left alone. So I accepted a date with one of Frank’s
fellow supervisors and went out drinking, dancing, and snorting coke with him.
I only accepted the date, hoping to get Frank jealous. The whole thing
backfired – the guy got weird on me after he got high and violently forced
himself on me. I felt lucky to get home alive that night.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So at 2 a.m., after soaking in a hot tub, I reached for
the Bible for comfort. As I read it, I didn’t feel comfort, I felt dirty,
unclean. I blamed myself for the events of the night, knowing I brought that
upon myself for trying to get back at Frank. As that thought came to me,
another thought hit me between the eyes – my relationship with Frank was a sin.
That hadn’t occurred to me before. Where’d that come from? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">From that realization, my entire life of sin began
streaming across my mind – the lies, the partying, the drugs, the hurts I
caused others, the adultery, the fornication, and on and on. I sat there alone
crying and sobbing over all the awful things I had done. During all those years
of debauchery I had never once stopped to think about the guilt or fault that
was upon me. But now, the guilt was overwhelming me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I desperately wanted to tell God I was sorry and beg for
His forgiveness. I wanted to pray, but I just didn’t know how to. I had
memorized prayers as a Catholic – the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory
Be – but none of those prayers of rote could help me now.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I found that old Calvary Chapel bulletin, almost by
miracle, there was a 24-hour prayer line phone number in it. I grabbed the
phone and called. A man answered and the first words out of my mouth were, “I
don’t know how to pray. I want to pray, but I don’t know how. Can you help me?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There was silence on the other end for what seemed like
an eternal minute. I think the guy was stunned and was gathering his thoughts –
or else I had woken him up – it was 3 in the morning. He led me to the 6<sup>th</sup>
chapter of John’s gospel and told me that the so-called Lord’s prayer was not
given to recite, but given to instruct us how to petition God in our own words.
He ministered to me, explaining to me the free gift of salvation and led me in
a sinner’s prayer. I thanked him, and as I hung up the phone, I felt the weight
of all the guilt lift right off me. It was tangible! And I immediately just
knew how to pray. I had a heart-to-heart talk with Jesus and my words flowed
with praise and thanksgiving and I promised Him I would always follow Him and
learn to please Him. My entire life had just made a 180 degree turn. The Bible
I had been reading on and off for seven months, now came alive. One revelation
after another jumped off the pages as I read it with new understanding. It
changed from an interesting book to the living words of Almighty God, my
Savior!</span></span></span></div>
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of Hostilities</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The first person I called the next day was my mom. At
first she was delighted to hear that I had found Jesus. She thought that meant
I would return to the Catholic Church. When she realized that was not the case,
she expressed her disappointment. My dad, who was a convert to Catholicism,
wanted to discuss our differences, but those discussions usually turned into
heated arguments. Others in the family began to resent me because I was
disturbing the peace when we would all come together for family gatherings. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Things weren’t much better in my circle of friends. We
used to get together at Gilbert’s house every weekend to play board games and
laugh and act stupid together. My best friend Liz was a psychology major and
she was the Risk champion. The next time we all got together after my
born-again experience, I was shocked at Gilbert’s hostility to me. The first
words out of his mouth were, “so you’ve taken sides with the enemy.” I said, “What
are you talking about?” He said, “Christianity is against me; the Bible teaches
that I’m going to hell for being a homosexual.” I told him I didn’t know that.
He kept shouting one threatening question after another in my face, but I
didn’t know the Bible well enough to answer them. Then he stormed out of the
living room and walked back in and tossed me a book. “Read this,” he said. “You
can take it home.” The book was called, “Contradictions in the Bible.” I put it
down and said, “Gilbert, I’m not going to read this. I just started to read the
Bible and I know that it is true. This book will only confuse me.” At that, I
was asked to leave and not come back.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Liz tried to be more open to me and we continued to visit
each other. We loved getting together just to play Scrabble and feast on
munchies over at her house. She did not want me talking about it – just acted
as if she was not offended, but just not interested. Liz loved dancing and
nightclubbing. She was quite the lush. I would no longer go with her to clubs,
so our friendship sorta soured. The last time I saw her, I got her to go with
me to hear the late Walter Martin speak at Melodyland in Anaheim. He spoke
against secular humanism and she was most offended. She told me that she was a
humanist and he was wrong in criticizing it. I told her that maybe he meant
something different by the term – to which she rolled her eyes and almost
screamed at me, “No he did not.” That ended our friendship – and it had been a
close one.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Of course, one of my first calls to action after
committing my life to Christ was to tell Frank to stop calling me. I told him
how Jesus had saved me and I was going to follow Him and I was shocked at his
harsh reaction. I so much wanted him to receive the Gospel, and I gave it to
him in the best way I knew how. His response? “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” The
tragedy in Jonestown was still fresh in the public eye. Frank wasn’t the only
person to make that wisecrack to me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What followed at work was similar. I won’t go into the
long story here. But it didn’t take long for me to wind up at the Unemployment
office. Coming to Jesus had cost me my family relations, my friends, my job,
and then my condo – out of work, I could no longer make the mortgage payments.
I was forced to sell my house. I was literally stripped of every area of my
life and had to start over from scratch. I did not know a single Christian
nearby that I could run to for solace.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
struggle to hold onto my newfound faith was only just beginning. I had lost it
all – but I hung on to Jesus for dear life!</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The True Church has no Brick or Mortar</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus promised that He
would build His church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. And
yet He also said, “Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find
faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8b)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To reconcile this
apparent contradiction, it is vital to understand what constitutes the true
church and where the church fits into Bible prophecy. Jesus’ letters to the
seven churches in the first three chapters of the book of Revelation illustrate
how Jesus addresses each of them as “church” even though He had strong rebukes
for most of them.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We want to look at how
the church of the LORD Jesus Christ started, how it evolved, and where it is
headed. Has the visible church lost its way? Has Satan crept in and defiled the
Bride of Christ? </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The One True Church</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Various denominations
and bible-based cults today claim to be “the one true church.” The Roman
Catholic Church, in particular, lays claim to that title. Catholic dogma
teaches that she is the only church founded by Jesus Himself since she is the
oldest “Christian” institution and since there is only one true church. All the
others must be cheap imitations. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, Jesus sees it
differently. He did not set up any institutional hybrid of a religious
hierarchical centralized power that would lord it over congregations around the
globe. His church - the true church, the Bride of Christ - has no headquarters
or even buildings. The true Bride has no spot or wrinkle - there are no phony
infiltrators in the real Bride of Christ. She is pure as the driven snow.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The real Bride is made
up of the saints - the out-called ones - who are born-again, filled with the
Holy Spirit, set apart in this world and have forsaken all to follow the
Master. However, she is hidden among many congregations, each of which is a
mixed multitude. Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares reveals this truth,
and warns us that we are not in the position to separate the wheat from the
tares because with the naked eye they are, for the most part,
indistinguishable. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus said,<i> “Let both
grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, "First gather together the tares</i></span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0022; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and bind them in bundles
to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn." (Matt. 13:30)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rather than just one
institutional church, Jesus addresses the seven churches of Asia-Minor in the
second and third chapters of Revelation. Each church has a unique personality
and is composed of true and false converts. Even the churches that are the most
far-gone doctrinally, like the Church of Thyatira, has a few true saints hidden
in their midst.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the Apostle Paul
pointed out, <i>“Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this
seal: ‘The Lord knows those who are His,’ and, ‘Let everyone who names the name
of Christ depart from iniquity.’" (2 Tim 2:19)</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Jesus had put a
particular institution in authority over all the others, He would only have
written a letter to that one church. But these seven, each with its own
lampstand and angel, are in specified locations. The Christians in each city
where the early church was birthed gathered together regularly for fellowship
and teaching. There were no Gideon Bibles in every inn: the appointed bishop or
pastor would read from the apostles’ writings they had access to. And there
were no denominational divisions - Christians were Christians and they got
together. Overseers were appointed for the sake of keeping order and the gifts
and calling of apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and deacons were
recognized, as were those with all the gifts of the Spirit such as helps,
administration, and mercy. The elders kept things in order.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there was no
hierarchy. All believers are equal in God’s sight and each must endeavor to
follow the voice of Jesus and abide in the Vine. No pastor or church
institution is going to do that for anybody. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus was unequivocal
about what He thought of a hierarchy. <i>“But Jesus called them to Himself and
said to them, ‘You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it
shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall
be your servant.’” (Mark 10:42-43)</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The decline of
Christianity seen all over the world in the 21st century did not happen in a
vacuum. Church history is rampant with scandals and debauchery; men vying for
power and position in the institutional church. Inquisitions, Crusades,
Ecclesiastical Wars and whatnot. It’s the wickedness in the visible church that
gets all the attention. Individual saints in the invisible true church go
unnoticed. And it seems that as soon as they get recognition, it goes to their
heads and their sanctification slips when pride enters in.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The de-evolution of the
visible institutional church did not surprise Jesus or His apostles. The
Apostle Paul warned the Ephesian elders:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">"For I know this,
that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the
flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things,
to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that
for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.” -
Acts 20:29-31</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drawing disciples after
themselves? Anyone who preaches their church or denomination when witnessing to
the lost is doing just that. That is not being a witness, but a recruiter. They
are not preaching Jesus, but their church. The Roman mother church is notorious
for that. Their entire evangelization campaign is “Catholics Come Home.” </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul could see the
writing on the wall. The church he loved so much was being infiltrated by
wicked men with their own agendas for greatness. Paul and the other apostles,
under the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, had written the New
Testament gospels and epistles, establishing the foundation of the faith.</span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soon after Paul’s martyrdom,
many heresies crept into the church. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Jude, the brother
of Jesus and James, wrote his little epistle, the Christian faith had already
been founded. The last New Testament book to be written, Revelation, completed
the canon and contained a warning to those who would add to or take away from
the book.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> But Gnosticism and other devil-inspired
‘isms’ immediately gained a foothold to distort the truth that the apostles had
delivered. He wrote:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">“I found it necessary to
write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once
for all delivered to the saints.” - Jude 3b</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If the faith was not
under attack back in the first century, there would have been no need to pen
those words of warning.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even before the apostles
died off, the visible church that was planted was already a mixed multitude. As
early as 95 A.D., when Jesus gave the Revelation to John on the Isle of Patmos,
Jesus had issues with the direction some of them were headed. Out of the seven,
He only addressed two without a rebuke. He still acknowledged the errant ones
as “churches” - probably because they confessed His name and had some wheat
among the tares.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the wise man Solomon
once said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” From this list of noted bad
traits, the same issues are found in many church groups today:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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against you, that you have left your first love.” (Rev. 2:4)</span></li>
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the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before
the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit
sexual immorality.” (Rev. 2:14)</span></li>
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the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.” (2:15)</span></li>
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who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit
sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.” (2:20)</span></li>
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(2:24)</span></li>
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alive, but you are dead.” (3:1)</span></li>
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perfect before God.” (3:2)</span></li>
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(3:15)</span></li>
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poor, blind, and naked.” (3:17)</span></li>
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<span style="color: black;">I wonder what Jesus would have to say to today’s
churches were He to write them all a letter! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It seems like the older an institution gets, the
further away it drifts from its roots. People often say, “Well, that ministry
started out right; they just got off course along the way.” Think of the
plethora of church groups, denominations, and Bible fellowships that would be
true of. The Roman Catholic Church shouldn’t boast of their antiquity - they’re
just further afield from their beginnings. And you can easily detect their
roots when you read the LORD’s rebuke to the church of Thyatira with a little
dash of Pergamos thrown in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">On the other hand, true saints of the Most High God
today are not much different than the saints of old. The true called-out ones
are still living and dying for their faith. They are still sharing the
testimony of Jesus with others and not merely recruiting for some organization.
Institutions wax and wane, but the invisible church of Jesus Christ abides and
remains.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although I’ll be talking a lot about
the “institutional church,” made up of wheat and tares, that does not mean I am
adverse to organization. The Bible lays out the way the local body should
function – in decency and in order – with each saint bringing their gift to
minister to the rest. That is why in 1 Corinthians 12, the Apostle Paul lays
out the diversity of gifts that are given as the Holy Spirit so chooses. The
offices of pastor, evangelist, deacon, bishop, teacher, and every position of
leadership should function in the Body yet understand that the position does
not equate to being more holy or superior than the rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Roman Catholic Church (RCC) does
not stand alone as the oldest institution calling itself Christian. She shares
that distinction with her sisters, the Eastern Orthodox Church and her outposts,
along with the Coptic Church in Egypt. Remember, Alexandria, Egypt was a major
hub of Christianity in the days of the apostles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not only do these other bodies from
antiquity share the distinction of age, but they also share many of the same
attributes as Catholicism such as the use of icons, elaborate architecture,
religious art and sacramentals such as candles, incense, holy water, hosts,
priests, vestments, and whatnot. However, the RCC is the Mother Church
historically, as she is the institution that took the prominence over the
others. The rest followed her example, while maintaining their independence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As these institutions vied for
religious and secular power and importance, God still had His little lambs in
pockets of believers who did not go along with the hijackers of Christianity.
They do not stand out in history, because they were not the ones exerting their
importance over the others. God knows who they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So that begins this dysfunctional
family. We have the mother and the sisters. Then there are the daughters – the
ones who broke off from the mother. This list would include the Church of
England, also known as Anglican and Episcopalian, and the groups formed by the
Reformers such as Presbyterian, Lutheran, Reformed. These churches reformed
some of Rome’s errors, however they held onto some traditions that make void
the Word of God. A major blunder of the Reformers was maintaining Rome’s
insistence on a church-state in which they held secular power over the people.
And those who opposed that power were often put to death or imprisoned. (John
Bunyan for example.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That brings us to the cousins in the
institutional church. Some of these started out better, like the Methodist
Church and some Baptist denominations, although they didn’t move far enough
away from their ecclesiastical roots. But the power of the hierarchy – a sort
of Christianized caste system – took root as men and sometimes women rose up
the ranks in their chosen career as clergymen. Official ordination gave them
the power to institute so-called sacraments such as a distorted ceremony they
call “communion” or the ability to baptize, in some cousins even babies,
claiming that water baptism is what saves a person’s soul. Cousins like the
United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, American Baptist and so on, have
turned liberal and given platforms to homosexual incursions. In fact, the
liberal umbrella organization that many of the cousins belong to, the National
Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches, have an entire agenda of
liberal/progressive and anti-Christian positions. Even odd cousins like the
Quakers, Mennonites, and Moravians are members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, the grandchildren
institutions are on the rise. Emergent, Seeker-Sensitive, and Purpose-Driven
churches have become the norm, hand-in-hand with the fallen culture to attract
unsaved people, particularly the youth, watering down the Gospel to institute
their church-growth principles. Spin-offs from the Assemblies of God
denomination are expanding under the authority of false apostles and prophets
under the banner of the NAR: New Apostolic Reformation. They are leading scores
of young people into a Kundalini metaphysical baptism producing hypnotic
induction with the assistance of evil spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The grandparents of this
institutional Church, consisting of sheep and goats, are the spirit of
Antichrist and his cohort, the Queen of Heaven.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Church Family</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first century church as seen in
the book of Acts and the Epistles got along just fine without any institutional
religion. It was a time of innocence before the Apostle Paul left for glory.
Throughout Paul’s epistles, he spent much of his time correcting error as it crept
in – nipping it in the bud before it took root. After the time of the apostles,
wicked men crept in just as Paul had foretold. Paul’s second and third
missionary journeys consisted of strengthening the congregations he had
established, weeding out wolves and hirelings as he went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The early church met in houses. It
looked more like family gatherings than religious services. They would look out
for one another. If one had a need, the others would pitch in to meet that
need. They loved one another, worshiped corporately, prayed together, broke
bread together and shared wine commemorating the Last Supper and the LORD’s
sacrifice for their sins. They even joined together in industry – Paul worked
with Pricilla and Aquila in the tent-making business. They were hospitable,
entertained strangers, shared their testimonies, told others about Jesus and
His Gospel of salvation as a free gift to repentant sinners. They were in unity
– one body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As many as were being saved joined
their ranks. They had a love for Scriptures and hoped for the soon return of
Jesus, looking for Him in joyous anticipation. It wasn’t until a century or so
later that certain so-called “church fathers” came along denying His future millennial
reign on the earth. According to the infiltrators, Christ was ruling now
through the church hierarchy and His return would be to end the world, not to
rule it. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Parables of the Kingdom</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’ve all heard the saying, “History
repeats itself.” That happens to be a biblical concept. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When God gave the Law to Moses for
the children of Israel to follow, it didn’t take long for the nation to depart
from it. Even while Moses was on the holy mount, the Israelites were building a
golden calf and saying it was the image of the god that led them out of bondage
in Egypt. By the time they inherited the land under the leadership of Moses’
successor Joshua (another way of saying ‘Jesus’), they were already starting to
adopt some of the pagan practices and idolatry of the nations they were
uprooting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The fact that the same thing
happened upon the establishment of the New Testament church should come as no
surprise. That seems to be the nature of fallen man. And it’s not like we
weren’t warned. Paul admonished the baby church to learn from Israel’s mistakes
so as not to do likewise.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who
thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” 1 Cor. 10:11-12</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jesus especially showed us
how the Kingdom of Heaven when it manifests in the earth is immediately polluted
from within. Many of the parables give us clues to the condition of the church
which is supposed to be His witness on earth to the Kingdom of God after His
own people rejected Him and we gentiles were grafted into the same Olive Tree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jesus made this interesting
observation:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"And
from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers
violence, and the violent take it by force.” – Matt. 11:12</span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He certainly wasn’t speaking
complimentary of those who cause the Kingdom to suffer by invading it. Yet,
believe it or not, false teachers on TV have used – or should I say misused –
this passage to mean that they need to get violent to rise to position in the
church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jesus was obviously saying
that violent men had taken over the highest position in the synagogues,
referring to the high priest, Pharisees, and Herodians who eventually turned
their violence on Him. This fact is illustrated in His parable of the land
owner and the vinedressers.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"But
when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the <span class="criteria">heir</span>. Come, let us <span class="criteria">kill</span> him
and seize his inheritance.” Matt. 21:38</span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">That is an example of those
taking the Kingdom by force. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jesus warned His disciples
to beware of the “leaven of the Pharisees.” That leaven, the Bible says, is sin
and false doctrine. The Apostle Paul identified the leaven in the same way. He
told the Galatians: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A little <span class="criteria">leaven</span> leavens the whole <span class="criteria">lump” (Gal
5:9). </span></i><span class="criteria">And Paul said a similar thing to the
Corinthians:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Therefore purge out the old <span class="criteria">leaven</span>, that you may be a new <span class="criteria">lump</span>,
since you truly are unleavened.” (1 Cor. 5:7).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At Passover, Israeli wives
would have to sweep through their entire house and get rid of all yeast and
leavening agents as instructed by the Mosaic Law. Leaven is not a good thing in
biblical typology. So why would believers think it is a good thing to be leaven.
I can’t count how many times I’ve heard TV preachers telling their people to go
out and be leaven – using that as a metaphor for influencing others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">They base that on a
misunderstanding of the Parable of the leaven:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And
again He said, ‘To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all
leavened.’" – Luke 13:20-21</span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">That was a clarification of
the Parable of the Mustard Seed He had just shared:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
He said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It
is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and
became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.’" –
Luke 13:18-19</span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">These “birds of the air” are
birds of prey – unclean birds according to the Law. Some Bible translations
call them “vultures.” The pure Kingdom looked good to them to use it to nest
in. They took over the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This goes back to the Letter
to the Seven Churches – These churches had taken the kingdom – some rightly and
some wrongly – but he addressed them all since they put themselves in Moses’
seat.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"The
scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">,” Jesus said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“But all their works they do to be seen by
men.”</i> – Matt. 23:1,5</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And just like the Pharisees
and Sadducees who opposed Jesus, these leaders in the church who brought in the
leaven of their false doctrines claim for themselves “the seat of Peter”.
However, they will be cast out of the Kingdom when Jesus comes and dispatches
His angels to separate the wheat and the tares. Jesus said we will know them by
their fruit. Or as the late Walter Martin often said, “You can know a wolf by
his diet; wolves eat sheep.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Fellow
Pilgrims</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The true sheep of God’s
Vineyard are scattered throughout these little kingdom wannabe buildings. And
they’re also meeting in homes with little flocks of fellow sheep. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
Pilgrim’s</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Progress</i> is a
wonderful allegory for the life of the true believer. We can’t go it alone. It
would seem that the same percentage of pilgrims in the book of actual citizens
of the Celestial City is the same as in the world today. They were the few.
They didn’t fit in. They overcame. They were persecuted. They were attacked.
They were martyred. They were reviled. They made it through to their ultimate
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The nature of the enemies
that confronted Christian, Faithful, and Hopeful hasn’t changed. The modern
dress and speech is different, but the old sleuth foot has nothing new in his
bag of tricks. His time is short, but because he knows that, he is on the
warpath. As Christians we are targeted as the enemy. The Apostle Paul put it
this way:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“In
perils of waters,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perils of robbers,
perils of my own countrymen, perils of the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils
in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brethren;” 2 Cor.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But Paul told Timothy<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i></span></div>
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me.” (2 Tim 3:11b)</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>To be continued </b></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>
Rev. 22:18-19</div>
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While the ideas of the
Reconstructionists can be seen in the popular magazine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christianity Today</i>, the place to read the dominionist views in the
Pentecostal/charismatic tradition is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma
Magazine.</i> In its October, 2016 issue, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma</i>
carried an article called, “Why I Believe Trump Is the Prophesied President,”
by Lance Wallnau. The writer believed he received a word from God as he met
with Trump in Trump Tower alongside ‘notables’ like Franklin Graham, Paula
White, Kenneth Copeland, and David Jeremiah all of whom were invited to meet with
Trump and pray over him. Wallnau says that God revealed to him at that time
that Trump was His chosen anointed, Cyrus.<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>King Cyrus was a Babylonian
king in the Old Testament that God used to assist the Jews in returning to
Israel to rebuild the Temple that had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. Though
Cyrus was not a Jew but a Persian, God still used him to fulfill His will and he
returned to the Jews the Temple treasury that had been looted. The prophet
Isaiah prophesied of him:<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">“Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to <span class="criteria">Cyrus</span>, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations
before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two
leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make
the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut
in sunder the bars of iron. ” – Is 45:1</span></b></div>
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In October, 2016 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma’s</i> publisher, Stephen Strang interviewed Wallnau about his
‘word from God’ that Trump was God’s chosen leader. The 20-minute tape was
widely distributed to churches across America. Steve Shultz, the founder of The
Elijah List, (an umbrella group created for the propagation of so-called words
of knowledge and prophecies by today’s popular prophets, apostles, dreamers,
and seers) sent it to his millions of subscribers to rally them to vote Trump.
In his intro to the interview he wrote:</div>
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“The encounter Lance Wallnau had with God and the
things FROM SCRIPTURE that God told Lance is nothing short of shocking…PLEASE
go out and VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE. But this time... THIS TIME... you can vote
according to the WISDOM God has given to you through Steve Strang (owner of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma Magazine</i>) and Lance Wallnau.
Ready? Hold on to your hat.” [e-mail dated Oct. 5, 2016, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">emphasis in original</i>]</div>
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The link to the podcast on <i>Charisma</i>’s Podcast
Network (https://www.charismapodcastnetwork.com/shows/strangreport/950eca02f9c9b5e7eaa9882caabd3e73
) still contains the discussion. </div>
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Wallnau convinced Strang that God told him
that Trump was to fulfill in our day the same prophecies in Isaiah 45 that King
Cyrus did on behalf of Israel thousands of years ago. Wallnau had seen a
facebook picture of Trump shown as the 45<sup>th</sup> President of the United
States, which he interpreted as confirmation of the Isaiah 45 prophecies that
dealt specifically with King Cyrus who lived 3,000 years ago. </div>
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Many other pastors and leaders grabbed ahold of
this ‘word from God’ and built upon Wallnau’s testimony. Well-known prophecy
teacher Perry Stone posted his numeric spin on the Cyrus anointed Trump on his
Facebook page dated November 3, 2016: </div>
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“Donald J. Trump was born June 14, 1946 and is
presently 70 years of age as of June 14, 2017. Going forward 7 months would be
January 14, 2016, and adding 7 days brings us to Jan 21st, which would be
Trumps first full day in office if he were elected. He would begin his first
full day one day after his official inauguration on Jan. 20th. These three
sevens - 70 years, plus 7 months plus 7 days are three sevens - which may be
linked, from a rabbinical perspective, to the Jewish year we are now in,
5,777.”</div>
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Messianic pastor, Curt Landry, took it even further
in his blog post dated November 20, 2016. He restated the Isaiah 45 and Jewish
year 5777 ideas without attribution as evidence that Trump is God’s anointed
Cyrus and spoke of the prayer circle around Trump that Wallnau participated in:</div>
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“I personally believe that Donald Trump found God
during the election process. When the pressure was getting to him, he placed an
Evangelical circle around him who laid hands on him and prayed for him, and it
is reported that he accepted Yeshua as Lord!... Donald Trump is open to the
prophets and the prophetic word. There are good prophets of God surrounding him
and speaking into his life…</div>
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“George Washington had a vision and a prophecy in
1777 about this season of time. So isn’t it interesting that just as Isaiah
prophesied that there would be someone like Cyrus from Persia raised up for
that season; George Washington referred to a season of time when God would
raise up someone like Donald Trump.” [https://www.curtlandry.com/is-donald-j-trump-a-cyrus-or-a-nebuchadnezzar/#
]</div>
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Wallnau is the co-editor of a 2013 book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Invading Babylon: The 7 Mountain Mandate</i>,
with Bill Johnson, the infamous pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California,
most notable for their ‘fire tunnels’ and a prayer room inside a pyramid
structure. Wallnau defines them as: “The 7 Mountain Mandate, in which
Christians seek to gain influence over the "mountains" of government,
church, education, family, media, arts, and business…this can be done either
overtly or covertly, as ‘infiltration.’” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQbGnJd9poc
]</div>
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He attributes the idea for the mandate to a
conversation he had with Loren Cunningham (founder of Youth With a Mission
{YWAM}) who had bounced the idea off of Bill Bright (founder of Campus Crusade
for Christ), which evolved into the thesis for the book, which featured
chapters from like-minded leaders including C. Peter Wagner, Ché Ahn, and
Patricia King.</div>
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As already documented, the Post-millennial aspiration
of the church taking global control over all earth’s institutions was the
stated goal of the Reconstructionists in the mainline denominations. However,
these ideas parallel the dreams and visions of so-called prophets that arose in
the mid-twentieth century, from whom the charismaniacs got their inspiration.
So it is hard to say which came first – the chicken or the egg.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joel’s
Army and the Coming Civil War</b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Much has been written about
the development of the “Latter Rain Movement” popularized in the 1940s-1950s by
men such as William Branham and others in the big-tent “healing revivals” of
that time. One of the best historical analyses of its development was written
by Albert Dager, publisher of Media Spotlight, a quarterly that is still in
print.<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“In
the fall of 1946, a major teaching on fasting and prayer as a means to revival
and the ‘restoration’ of the Church was spread throughout Pentecostalism. The
principle textbook for this teaching was Franklin Hall’s, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atomic Power With God Through Fasting and Prayer</i>. . . Hall’s book
melded biblical concepts with occult methodology.” [Al Dager, Latter-Day Prophets,
Media Spotlight Special Report)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Hall book is still
available at Amazon. In its book preview, the original endorsements of two
major names in healing revivals of that day demonstrate its impact of the time:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>T. L. Osborn: “Brother Hall, we wanted you to
know, we do appreciate your vision, and the tremendous way you have stirred the
world with fasting and prayer. We are going to handle your books at our
meetings.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Gordon Lindsay: “We know of no writer whom God
has so signally used to bring out Scriptural truth on fasting as Evangelist
Franklin Hall. We feel that “Atomic Power with God” is the book of the hour for
believers.</div>
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Others that said Hall’s book had a major influence
in their ministries are Oral Roberts, A.A. Allen, O. L. Jaggers, and W. V. Grant.
Yet did none of these men see the merger of the Bible with the occult? If they
did, that didn’t seem to matter. Just the first chapter of the book says: </div>
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“The writer shall endeavor to
present a spiritual atomic power far greater than the physical force of all the
atoms in the universe… In 1848 A.D. the Aquarian Age was introduced to the
world. The era of invention began and the machine came into being.”</div>
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Dager quotes Hall’s book again making reference to
astrology:</div>
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“In the zodiacal sign,
‘Scorpio,’ which is the eighth sign of the Zodiac, we have a picture of a
scorpion with its stinger lifted ready to strike… Just before this sign in the
heavens, there is a sign of the Judge, Jesus, who is the giver of LIFE. Jesus
proceeds toward death and pulls the STING OUT OF DEATH. (Emphasis Hall’s)”</div>
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Dager records how anti-Trinitarian false teacher
William Branham, took Hall’s book and added his own spin on it in 1948. The
Latter Rain movement evolved into the teachings of “The Manifest Sons of God” popularized
by John Robert Stevens, a cult leader in the 1970s of a group known as The Walk.
The manifested sons played up Hall’s idea of the immortalization of believers
who tap into this atomic power and then put it into an eschatological context.
Dager lists the basic tenets of the Latter Rain that can be seen as
foundational to many of today’s new apostles and prophets.</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>The restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
in the last days;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Perfection of the saints in stages leading to godhood;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>New apostles to rule Church under their covering;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Signs and wonders would be wrought by them in a
worldwide revival;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Revival would result in the defeat of demonic spirits
via prayer and fasting;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Overcomers under apostle’s leadership will defeat death
and become immortal;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Church will become Christ on earth and rule the nations
with a rod of iron.</div>
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The chain of groups that tapped into the ‘atomic
power’ can be followed into the 1980s in the ‘ministries’ of the Vineyard
churches and Fuller Seminary’s Church Growth Department in the School of World
Missions. The late John Wimber headed up the former; Prof. C. Peter Wagner was
the voice of the latter. The two teamed up to do a class called “Signs and
Wonders” at Fuller, an apostate seminary that rejected biblical inerrancy in
the 1960s.</div>
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Wimber had been an assistant pastor of Chuck Smith,
founder of the Calvary Chapel association of churches that arose during a true
revival of the days of the hippies in Southern California. Wimber’s slogan was
“doing the stuff,” as he developed formulas for reproducing healing results by
studying true spiritual gifts that were present in that revival. He can be
compared to Simon the Magician in the New Testament that was impressed by God’s
power and wanted a piece of the action for his own selfish gain. Smith and
Wimber went separate ways after dividing over whether the emphasis should be on
the Bible or on the ‘power.” Wimber wrote several books on that atomic power,
including “Power Evangelism” and “Power Healing.”</div>
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C. Peter Wagner, a church growth expert at Fuller, saw
the potential in Wimber, a former producer of popular musical artists that
included The Righteous Brothers. Their partnership at Fuller was very
successful as their co-taught classes became the most popular ones in the
catalogue among the students for many years. They furthered Franklin Hall’s
ideas that through spiritual exercises, which included fasting and centering
prayer, they could ‘do the stuff’ themselves by their own supposed authority.
God was no longer the Healer; they were -- if they could just tap into the
power.</div>
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Enter: Mike Bickle. At the same time the Vineyard
movement was becoming popular under Wimber’s leadership, many so-called
prophets were showing up at conferences and crusades. Names like Bill Hamon,
Paul Cain, Bob Jones, and Rick Joyner would show up in ads in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma Magazine</i>, promising to astound
the crowds with revelation knowledge and testimonies of visions, dreams and disembodied
heavenly voices. One of those voices inspired a young man, Mike Bickle, to launch
a ministry to combine forces with the prophets “to touch the ends of the earth.”
Kansas City Fellowship was born.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In 1986, the leaders of Kansas City
Fellowship formed Grace Ministries, described as a ‘ministry team of men committed
to seeing the church fully restored to the glory described in God’s Word.’”
[Dager, Latter-Day Prophets]</div>
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Bickle’s para-church group became known as “The
Kansas City Prophets.” They published a newsletter called “The Shepherd’s Rod”
and when some of the ‘prophets’ were discovered to be living in immorality –
not immortality – they invited John Wimber to be their ‘covering.’ Wimber and
his associate Jack Deere provided some twisted doctrine for the false prophets
in order to stop the mouths of those warning of their collective false
prophecies. Wimber wrote articles claiming that New Testament prophets did not
have to have the same 100% accuracy as required in Deuteronomy 18 for Old
Testament prophets. He said that today’s prophets were like babies, needed to
practice to get better at it, and were just “messy” like all babes.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of Bickle’s favorite ‘prophets’
was Bob Jones, a man that convinced women to disrobe for his sick pleasure by tacking
a ‘thus saith the Lord’ onto his requests. Jones was considered to be a
super-prophet that supposedly had instant access to the heavenlies at will.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Kansas City Prophets
were thought to be a fulfillment of Hall and Branham’s Joel’s Army, the new
breed.<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
KC prophets were seen as “the ‘new breed’ an elite group of believers endowed
with supernatural power that would enable them to be a part of the army of
dread warriors that God was said to be raising up in our generation. According
to John Wimber, this is a type of ‘Joel’s Army’ who will overcome all
opposition to the gospel and eventually subdue the nations. This teaching is
part of what is known as ‘dominion theology,’ which teaches that an elite army
of overcomers will either destroy or subdue all the enemies of Christ until
they eventually gain power and authority throughout the world. The government
of the nations will be upon their shoulders and when all the secular
authorities, governments, princes and kings have finally submitted to them,
Christ will return and they will present the kingdom to Him.” [Clifford Hill, ‘Kansas
City Prophets, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prophecy Today Magazine</i>,
quoted from www.geocities.com/Bob_Hunter/8.htm]</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The biggest obstacle standing in the way of these ‘prophets’
are those in the church that expose them for what they are. The new
apostles/prophets refer to their critics in the church as the “old paradigm,”
and they are the “new paradigm.” The discerning people are old wine skins;
while they are the new wine. The old has to make way for the new, join up with
them or be cast away and out of the limelight.<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I believe that God is
going to renovate the entire understanding of what Christianity is in the
nations of the Earth,” said Bickle on a tape entitled, “Overview of Corporate
Long Term Vision,” 1/5/86. “In twenty years there will be a totally different
understanding of what Christianity is from what it is right now. . . I believe
God is going to restore it and change it in the Earth in this generation.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wimber cut ties with the
Kansas City Fellowship when he could no longer defend their long stream of
false prophecies given by poo-poo baby prophets. The same mantle was picked up
by C. Peter Wagner who was seen as the leading apostle of those following the
views of the Latter Rain. His new venture was named the New Apostolic
Reformation (NAR), and became an umbrella group for the movement. The false
prophets had a new defender in Wagner and under the NAR banner they continued
to operate alongside Word/Faith churches around the world.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Renowned false prophet Rick
Joyner, pastor of MorningStar Ministries, located in North Carolina on the
grounds of the former PTL Club of Jim and Tammy Bakker, has written about a
coming “Civil War” against all opposition to the “New Breed.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charisma Magazine</i> ran a cover story on
Joyner in the April 2001 issue, called “God’s Lightning Rod.” It pointed out
Joyner’s record of delivering prophecies that failed. Joyner responded angrily
to the article in a letter to the editor. He said that God told him that now was
the time for Matthew 13:41-42 to be fulfilled.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Son of
Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all
things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into
the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Joyner says that God
revealed to him that he is one of those angels and “this is a special
assignment that is now being given to some who are about to arise.” He referred
to his critics as “illegitimate authorities in the church who are in jeopardy
of being stumbling blocks, which the Lord said was worse than not having been
born.” He and other false prophets say that their critics will soon drop dead
just like Ananias and Sapphira did when lying to the Apostle Peter in the fifth
chapter of Acts. “The end-time spiritual seals unit will be an invincible band
who lead the church in dominion on the earth,” said KC Prophet Paul Cain. “A
purging of the wider church of those who will not follow the new order is
necessary to constitute a unified global church.” [Quoted in an article by
Orrel Steinkamp, “The Second Pentecost Leads to the World Church, March 2000]<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the past ten years or
so, the political aspirations of the NAR and their global agenda began to take
center stage. They would latch onto Christian politicians such as Michele
Bachmann and Sarah Palin who would participate in their dominionist/political
rallies or speak at their churches. They seemed to be looking for a political
leader to carry their own mantle to take back America. If they failed, they
would be forced to admit that all the ‘prophets’ of the past century were
indeed speaking with forked tongues. Their very reputations were on the line.<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Washington D.C. became a favorite
locale for their rallies. In November 2010, one such rally featuring an array
of false prophets such as Rick Joyner, Bob Jones, Chuck Pierce, Dutch Sheets,
Heidi Baker and representatives from ministries such as Bethel Church Redding
and CBN, Pat Robertson’s ministry, gathered under the title: “The Shift; Can a
Nation be Re-Born in a Day”?<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The promotional material
for the event laid out the aims of these NAR affiliated speakers:<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The
Shift is a call to the Bride of Christ who solely contains the power of God to
rescue the nation from the spirit of greed that is destroying our nation, and
realign our country with her destiny course… History has witnessed the Ancient
of Days who used His prophets to change entire nations overnight and turn
captivity into triumph time and time again… Extraordinary economic miracles are
ready to explode upon our nation as we gather around the Throne of God in holy
assembly. New signs and wonders of unprecedented proportion will become the
clear guideposts on the road to recovery.” </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All efforts to find a
political leader to head up the take-over of America for Christ seemed to fail
until Donald J. Trump put his hat in the presidential ring. The NAR, like the
other streams of Christendom, saw Trump as their long-awaited leader. Through
one of their own, televangelist Paula White, NAR false prophets like Sammy
Rodriguez and Lance Wallnau were invited to lay hands on Trump in prayer for
his success. Trump no doubt is totally in the dark about their agenda, but he
received them as religious names with big followings that could bring in the
vote.<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Trump fever has caught
on with the rest of the Pentecostal/charismatic Americans. The Elijah List
online TV network aired a recent church service on November 20, 2016 with Messianic
Pastor Curt Landry, in which he had his large congregation stand and repeat a
decree after him. A loud shofar was blown before and after the stated
affirmation. I’ll end this section with a portion of that ‘prayer’ --<br />
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We
agree with the decrees that Donald John Trump, president elect of the United
States of America – we agree with his proclamations and we decree he is sent to
the United States in 2016, biblical year 5777 as an anointed Cyrus. We receive
him and we set him in place in Yeshua’s name. And we agree out of Zion and out
of the courts of heaven that you would release new angels and Michael the
archangel and the heavenly hosts of Israel around him his family and all his
administration. We decree they are off limits to the attacks of the enemy. We
cover them in the blood of Jesus. We thank you Lord. There is a wall of
protection around their life and everywhere they go. Father, God, in the name
of Jesus, we receive the Cyrus anointing into our life into our mountain. We
touch and agree that this next 8 years be a season of prosperity, a season of
great health, a season of revival and a wakening blast… and we as the one new
man, as the inheritance of God decree and declare that President elect is a
Cyrus, sent to the United States and to Israel and to the nations to bring
alignment with God’s ways, to bust open the gates of iron. Father God, this
45th president will break open the gates of bronze. Father God, this Jubilee
year, he will subdue the nations; he will loose the armor of kings; he will
open the double doors so that the gates will not be shut. We as a nation will
go before and make a way to make the crooked places straight again so other
nations might align with the United States and not make war but that we would
prosper. . . We release the key of David and the sure mercies of David over
President-elect Donald John Trump... and we put a demand on the treasures of
darkness and hidden riches in secret places, come forth now in Yeshua’s name.
We decree in the courts of heaven that the transfer of wealth with the Cyrus
anointing (King Midas?) sitting in the highest place in the land, that the
economy… will recover, with exponential growth, witty inventions, and Cyrus
will prosper and the remnant of God, following God’s ways will prosper for
God’s kingdom, in Jesus’ name. Father God, we seal it in Yeshua’s name…”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reconstructionists and Kingdom-Now</b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just
as the New Age Movement of the 1980s morphed into today’s progressives, the
Reconstructionists of that decade still exist but shy away from labels. The
beliefs of both remain intact. The Recons of the 21<sup>st</sup> century can be
seen in groups like the Tea Party – political activists who wave the American
flag over President Trump. They have a better argument than the other religious
factions for claiming to be the secret to his election victory.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
the Catholic apologist pointed out, the Protestant view of the end times is
similar to their own. Both the Catholic Church and the denominations that broke
off from the mother church take their eschatology from Augustine, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The City of God</i>. Both deny the biblical
view that Jesus will return and establish the Kingdom of God on earth for 1,000
years, ruling out of Jerusalem – when the “New Jerusalem” comes down out of
heaven. The former are A-millennialists and the latter are
Post-millennial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Late Great Planet Earth</i>,
Hal Lindsey, explains the difference:</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“By the time of Augustine (A.D. 354—425), the famous
Bishop of Hippo, Origen’s system of interpretation dominated the Christian
scene. But it was Augustine who systematized the allegorically based teachings
into a cohesive theology that would dominate the Church for over a thousand
years. Even the Reformers continued to hold most of his views, including his
allegorically based, unrefined eschatology. The Roman Catholic Church…
instituted the teaching that they were the inheritors of the Kingdom promised
to Israel and therefore must take ultimate authority over the political powers
of this world. “ [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Road to Holocaust</i>,
pp 9-10)</div>
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The Catholic A-millennialists<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> saw no future reign of Christ on earth; saw
His second coming as marking the end of history. That would be one big
resurrection of all people who ever lived, good and bad together and then the
final judgment and all would go to heaven or hell. </div>
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Lindsey defines Post- millennialism
as the theory that “states that Christ will come only after the
Spirit-empowered Church has established God’s Kingdom on the earth by
progressively subduing the world and taking dominion over it.” Both A &
Post- millennialists “believe that the present age is the Kingdom of God and
understand the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">millennium</i> only
in a symbolic sense. The major difference between them is that
Postmillennialists believe the Kingdom of God is not just a spiritual reign of
Christ in the hearts of believers, but an actual reign of the Church over all
society in this age… they have transferred to the Church all of Israel’s
covenants and promises concerning a global Theocratic Kingdom, and shifted the
time of their fulfillment to before Christ’s Second Advent rather than after
it.” [Ibid. pp 28-29]</div>
<div class="story-body-text" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Both Catholics and mainline
Protestants kept eschatology on the back burner for hundreds of years until the
rebirth of the belief in Pre-millennialism - the view of the imminent return of
Christ – had its zenith in the mid-twentieth century. Although this was the
view of the ancient church for the first three hundred years of the Church, the
old guard saw it as a threat to their own church membership. In fact, many
became downright hostile to teachers like Hal Lindsey and other scholars out of
Dallas Theological Seminary that taught the Dispensationalist view of end
times.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
Dispensationalism views Revelation as a book of
future events, taken literally, yet acknowledging its use of symbolism and
typology in its <span class="st">apocalyptic </span>language. From the study of
the prophetic books of the Bible, both old and new testaments, and the words of
Jesus in the Gospels, came the clear teaching of a literal 1,000-year-reign of
Christ on earth following a 7-year time of trouble called the Great Tribulation
in which the devil, in the person of the Antichrist, would be in charge of a
global government. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s wrath would be
poured out on him and his followers during that time until most life on earth
would be destroyed. Then Jesus would return with His saints that had been taken
up bodily into heaven in the Rapture of the Church and the devil would be bound
for a thousand years during the newly established Kingdom of God on earth.</div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
In response to that teaching, mainline Protestants
came up with an alternative interpretation of Revelation called Preterism,
which views the events in the apocalyptic books as allegorical -- describing
past events of Bible history. Preterism became the remedy to what they considered
End Times Fever. It took some real Scripture twisting to project their desired
eschatology into the Bible, but they sure made it sound scholarly.</div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
The biggest name in Reconstructionism is Dr. Rousas
Rushdoony (1916-2001) a Presbyterian minister and author of over thirty books.
He founded the Chalcedon Foundation. His high-minded plan for Christianizing
modern society is in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Institutes of
Biblical Law</i>, published in 1973. He was assisted by his son-in-law Gary
North who served as editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Journal
of Christian Reconstruction </i>until the two split over some doctrinal
differences in 1981, according to Lindsey.</div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
Both men fell off the scene at the turn of the
century: one died, and the other’s reputation was shot after loudly promoting
the hysteria of the time, the Y2K scare. He had Christians in a panic that at
the turn of the century, New Year’s Eve, 1999 at the stroke of midnight, all
computers would shut down due to the date no longer starting with a ’19.’ There
would be blackouts, airplanes would fall from the sky, and every modern
contraption that uses computers would cease to operate. Planetary chaos would
ensue.</div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
North referred to Pre-millennialists as ‘pessimillennialists,’
since he saw them losers for not having a victorious view of their mission. His
associate, David Chilton spelled out their dominionist aspirations:</div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
“The Bible gives us an eschatology
of dominion, an eschatology of victory. This is not some blind,
‘everything-will-work-out-somehow’ kind of optimism. It is a solid, confident,
Bible-based assurance that, before the Second Coming of Christ, the gospel will
be victorious throughout the entire world.’” [Quoted in Road to Holocaust, pg.
41]</div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>North calls the beliefs of
the faithful Bride, “escapist religion.” He explains what he means by that: <br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
“This is the second great
tradition of antichristian religion. Seeing that the exercise of autonomous
power is a snare and a delusion, the proponents of escapist religion have
sought to insulate themselves from the general culture – a culture maintained
by power. They have fled the responsibilities of worldwide dominion, or even
regional dominion, in the hope that God will excuse them from the general
dominion covenant… The basic idea lying behind escapist religion is the denial
of the dominion covenant… This rival religion proclaims peace because it has
little interest in the systematic efforts that are always required to purify
institutions as a prelude to social reconstruction. In short, escapist religion
calls for flight from the world…” [North, Liberating Planet Earth: An Introduction
to Biblical Blueprints, Dominion Press, 1987]</div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is nowhere in
Scripture that calls on the Church to rule the world. The only dominion given
to man in the Bible is in the book of Genesis when God gave Adam dominion over
the animals. He never gave man dominion over other men as any sort of spiritual
mandate. These people are so self-deluded. Rather than growing in power and
influence in the world, Jesus told us the world would hate us just as it hated
Him. And the Apostle John reminded us of that fact: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Do not <span class="criteria">love</span> the <span class="criteria">world</span>
or the things in the <span class="criteria">world</span>. If anyone loves the <span class="criteria"><span id="yui-gen44">world</span></span>, the <span class="criteria"><span id="yui-gen43">love</span></span> of the Father is not in
him.” – 1 John 2:15</i><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>North’s ridicule of
biblical Christianity could very well have played a role in the LORD removing
him from any influence. His feet are firmly planted in this world, as can be
said of all Reconstructionists, but the true believer is a citizen of Heaven
from which we eagerly await our Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ. That’s not
escapism, that’s “the Faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”<br />
<br />
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
Unfortunately, the dominionist aspirations of North
and Rushdoony are alive and well on planet earth, although under a different
label. In the forefront is a group called the Coalition on Revival (COR), a
Reconstructionist group pushing the belief that churches, working in unity,
could impose the Old Testament laws upon believers and unbelievers alike.
Thirty years ago they produced a large document called “A Manifesto for the
Christian Church: Declaration and Covenant,” that was distributed to many churches
and para-church organizations, mostly those of the Reformed (Calvinist) and
Protestant camps. In fact, COR’s website is www.reformation.net, since the
unfinished reforms of the Catholic Church in the Reformation of the 16<sup>th</sup>
century is their badge of credibility.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of the aims of the
Manifesto is to get all of Christendom to work together to accomplish a new
Theocracy, with them at the top. They push a unity with all and envision a hierarchy
to which all must submit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They summarize
it in what they call “A Plan” (same term used by the New Age movement), which
says that the church (generic) needs to be taught: “The need for and strategy
to achieve the restructuring of society – in the home and in the fields of law,
government, business and economics, education, the media, the arts, science and
medicine, etc. – that all these fields may be brought under the Lordship of
Christ and operate according to the principles of the Bible.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of the points in the
Manifesto clearly shows an opposition to Premillennialists, an attitude upon
which all dominionists find common ground. It lays it out like this:<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We
have concerned ourselves more with Heaven, the future, and escaping this world
at Christ’s Second Coming, than with preparing His Bride to be spotless, beautiful,
glorious, and pleasing to Him when He comes.”</div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We
believe that it would be strategically wise for the sake of getting God’s will
to be done on earth to seek to reclaim America and reset her on the biblical
law base on which she was originally founded. From a reborn and rebuilt America
could be launched an increased missionary explosion and the exportation of
Christian-influenced business, government, art, and technology.”</div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The National Coordinating
Council, the political arm of COR, back in 1990 shows how far-reaching and
inclusive the leadership of the Recons is. Some better known names that sat on
the Council included: Ted Baehr, Good News Communication, Cal Beisner, Prof.
Covenant College, Harold O. J. Brown, Prof. Trinity Evangelical Seminary, Gary
DeMar, American Vision, Duane Gish, Inst. For Creation Research, D. James
Kennedy, Pastor Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Harold Lindsell, Editor
Emeritus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christianity Today</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and representatives from Reformed seminaries
and Protestant churches. They even had “The Charismatic Council” with such
dignitaries as: Jack Deere, author associated with The Vineyard, Vinson Synan,
mastermind of the ecumenical Congress on the Holy Spirit mega-conferences,
Rodman Williams, prof Regent University, Karl Strader, Carpenters Home Church
(that started the holy laughter craze), and names with ties to Oral Roberts
University and Y<u style="text-underline: words;">WAM.</u><br />
<br />
If you look at the magazine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christianity
Today</i>, you can see the fragments of COR from cover-to-cover.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COR’s recommended books to
help church leaders along include, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taking
Our Cities for God, </i>by John Dawson, Creation House, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Harvest</i>, by Rick Joyner, MorningStar Publications, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Church Triumphant at the End of the Age</i>,
by Nate Krupp, Destiny Image Publishers; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winning
the Battle for the Minds of Men</i>, by Dennis Peacocke, Alive and Free
Publishing and a variety of books and manuals by Reformed writers. The point in
placing books by charismatics into the list, no doubt, is to sell the dominion
mandate to them. Unfortunately for COR, they did such a good job of it that
those they were trying to convert, broke free and began their own Kingdom-Now
efforts, excluding the Reformed camp, plagiarizing much of the theology that
the Reconstructionists already worked out.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The charismatic alternative
to COR, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), is headed up by a group of men and
women, claiming to be the new prophets and apostles (something that would cause
the Reformed camp to cringe), that replaced the Manifesto with what they call <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Seven Mountain Mandate</i>. It has the
same Kingdom-Now aims, but with a ‘prophetic’ vision tacked on – another competing
New World Order to the New Age-inspired globalists, the Roman Catholic Church,
and the Protestant Reformers. They too have grand plans for President Trump.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;">
<i><b>To be continued . . . </b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>President
Trump is an American Patriot. His slogan, “Make America Great Again” makes the
globalists cringe. His platform of putting America first enrages the socialists
on the political Left. Never in the history of America has there been such
unreasonable opposition to a Commander-in-Chief. The New World Order and its
allies hate the Donald and have spent untold millions of dollars bankrolling
his enemies in order to create chaos in the streets. There is no length to
where the NWO is willing to go to take Trump down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
president is very aware of the globalist agenda of the United Nations and stands
in opposition to the leftist conspiracies against America, Israel, and the
western world. Those who have been programmed by the NWO oppose Trump’s efforts
to protect this country’s sovereignty, culture, and borders. He’s not in their
control as were his predecessors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
Trump doesn’t realize is that he has aligned himself with a competing One World
Agenda. A song from the 80s put it this way: “Everybody wants to rule the
world.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bible
prophecy foretells a global religious system will arise that rides the beast of
the political one-world government (Revelation 17). She is personified as a
spiritual whore called “The Mother of Harlots.” She cooperates with the
antichrist that will turn on her and “burn her with fire” (vs.16). These two
competing one-world systems are now developing and will eventually unite. That
time is getting very close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let’s
take a look at the destinies envisioned by various “Christian” institutions with
global ambitions that see Trump as their own personal knight in shining armor.</span></div>
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Roman Catholic Church’s Destiny</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
oldest group that institutionalized Christianity as a means of controlling the people
is, of course, the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). It is well documented that this
megalith had its start in the fourth century when Emperor Constantine declared
Christianity to be the state religion. The bishop of Rome therefore determined
he was superior to the bishops in other ancient cities. He took on the emperor’s
title of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pontifex Maximus</i> (a title
lifted from the Roman Emperors meaning “greatest bridge-builder”) and declared
himself the spiritual leader over the kings of the earth. All other bishops had
to be subservient to the one at the top of the heap known as the pope, or the “Vicar
of Christ.” Later as the traditions of men evolved, he was determined to be infallible
and the singular representative of Christ on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Roman Catholic Church had global aspirations from the beginning. Secular rulers
in Europe, then known as the “Holy Roman Empire,” could not reign without the
pope’s blessing (just look at the story of King Henry VIII). To expand their
authority, they began adapting the local pagan festivals and pageantry adding ‘Christian’
meanings to them to make them their own. This of course led to the persecution
of any Christians that would not recognize the authority of the popes. They
also carried the sword (and instruments of torture), as in Constantine’s vision
of the cross, “Under this sign conquer,” which justified centuries of crusades
and inquisitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Protestant Reformation of the 16th century kicked the teeth out of the Roman
beast, allowing rival Christian institutions to arise, starting in England and
then in Germany and beyond. And so the competition for the loyalty and
offerings of the laity spread among the others donning clerical robes and
mitres to signify their hierarchies. The RCC of today has been stripped of her power
over the kings, although given the opportunity; she’d take it all back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[The
reason for the female pronouns is that the RCC refers to their institution as “The
Holy Mother Church.” They personify her as a woman and recent popes have
dedicated themselves to another ‘woman,’ the Queen of Heaven, known by many
names all believed to be various materializations of Jesus’ mother, Mary.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Few
people realize that the RCC does have an eschatology, an expectation of the end
times. They did not arrive at their vision of coming events from Scripture, but
from centuries of sayings of ‘saints,’ mystics, and apparitions. The visions
that were ratified by the Magisterium formed the body of ‘knowledge’ and took
precedence over Bible prophecies. In fact, the words of Scripture were twisted to
comply with and ratify these strange doctrines of demons. And like other
extra-biblical prognostications, specified dates have come and gone proving
them to be false prophecies, but that has not stopped the ‘faithful’ from
trusting in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
of the most famous and trusted visions of the end is Don Bosco (1815-1888) –
who built on the vision of the ‘Three Days of Darkness’ predicted by many
Catholic saints, including stigmatic Padre Pio. Wikipedia even has an entry for
the vision:</span></div>
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“Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (1769–1837) is the most
known seer of the Three Days of Darkness and describes the event in this way: ‘There
shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and
three nights. Nothing can be seen, and the air will be laden with pestilence
which will claim mainly, but not only, the enemies of religion. It will be
impossible to use any man-made lighting during this darkness, except blessed
candles. He, who out of curiosity, opens his window to look out, or leaves his
home, will fall dead on the spot. During these three days, people should remain
in their homes, pray the Rosary and beg God for mercy. All the enemies of the
Church, whether known or unknown, will perish over the whole earth during that
universal darkness, with the exception of a few whom God will soon convert. The
air shall be infected by demons who will appear under all sorts of hideous
forms.’”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[Subsequently
to this prediction, many Catholic eschatologists interpret the three days of darkness
to be a longer period of time, possibly a three year period during the coming
reign of the Antichrist.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>St.
Don Bosco’s famous vision of war ships on the sea and the pope at the helm of
one of them trying to escape enemy ships steers it toward the center of two
columns. One Catholic website attributes this quote to him of his vision of May
30, 1862:</span></div>
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“<span style="color: #363636;">Breaking through all resistance, the new
Pope steers his ship safely between the two columns and moors it to the two
columns; first to the one surmounted by the Host, and then to the other, topped
by the statue of the Virgin. At this point something unexpected happens. The
enemy ships panic and disperse, colliding with and scuttling each other… Many
others, which had fearfully kept far away from the fight, stand still,
cautiously waiting until the wrecked enemy ships vanish under the waves. Then,
they too head for the two columns, tie up at the swinging hooks, and ride safe
and tranquil beside their flagship. A great calm now covers the sea. Very grave
trials await the Church. What we have suffered so far is almost nothing
compared to what is going to happen. The enemies of the Church are symbolized
by the ships which strive their utmost to sink the flagship. Only two things
can save us in such a grave hour: devotion to Mary and frequent Communion.</span>“<br />
[https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/vision-john-don-bosco-two-columns-mary-eucharist/
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A letter from Bosco to the
pope gave a prophecy regarding the earlier vision, rebuking the pope and the
Magisterium for their lack of zeal. “These things shall inexorable come to
pass, all in succession,” Bosco wrote. “Things follow too slowly upon each
other, but the great Queen of Heaven is at hand; the Lord’s power is Hers. Like
mist She shall scatter Her enemies. She shall vest the Venerable Old Man (from
Rome, the Pope) with all his former garments. There shall yet come a violent
hurricane. Iniquity is at an end, sin shall cease, and before two full moons
shall have shone in the month of flowers (May), the rainbow of peace shall appear
on the earth.” [“Vision of Don Bosco; Two Full Moons in May; Good Newsletter,
Vol 10, No 1, Lent 1998, Bob and Penny Lord)<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The authors concluded, “We
are not doomsday people… But we can’t ignore the signs before our eyes…. The two
full moons in May will occur again in 1999.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To summarize the RCC’s mystical
idea of the time of the end: it starts with an apostasy consisting of
corruption in the priesthood, decimating church membership (Pedophile priest
scandal). An antipope comes to power that abolishes long-held church laws (Pope
Francis?). The antipope works in conjunction with a wicked ruler (Antichrist?).
Horrible dark times of doom and gloom – wars, earthquakes, upheavals (as Jesus’
prophecies of the birth pangs). The ‘faithful’ church militant kicks into
action and with the power of many, many rosaries and Eucharistic adoration, the
Queen of Heaven shows up, installs a new holy pope and righteous king, and defeats
the antichrist. An undetermined long time of peace follows, all the world is
converted to Catholicism, a good worldly king and holy pope are in full control
of the new Kingdom of God covering the entire earth. At the end of that long
kingdom era, Jesus returns to initiate the eternal heavenly Kingdom and that’s
the end of planet earth. Whew!<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dominion and the bringing
of all temporal authority under the papacy has always been a goal of Roman
Catholicism,” wrote Al Dager in the Summer, 2005 issue of Media Spotlight. “What
do you think ‘the Holy Roman Empire’ was about?... The entire world will one
day recognize the pope as the spiritual head of mankind.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today a very large portion
of Catholics believe that the three days of darkness followed by the defeat of
the Antichrist is very close at hand. In fact, it is the more devout Catholics
who share that collective concern over the unfolding of current events. Gay
rights, abortion, terrorism, climate change, corrupt clergy – all point to the
unparalleled reign of sin and the devil.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The global era of peace
seems to be a predominant idea in the RCC that can’t happen until the Vatican
unites all Christians under her rule. The so-called apparition of ‘Our Lady of
Fatima,’ confirmed Bosco’s vision. Cardinal Mario Luigi, the Papal Theologian
Emeritus, wrote a letter to the pope, dated Oct. 9, 1994: “Yes, a miracle was
promised at Fatima, the greatest miracle in the history of the world, second
only to the Resurrection. And that miracle will be an era of peace which has
never really been granted before to the world.“… Our Blessed Mother promised us
this era of peace if we say the daily Rosary, practice the First Saturday
Communion of Reparation, and live lives consecrated in the truth.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rev. Kevin Barrett, the
Apostolate Chaplain of Catholic Familyland in Ohio, wrote in his newsletter of
March 8, 1999 that “Of all the prophecies Mary made at Fatima, only two have
not yet come true; the annihilation of nations and the Triumph of Her
Immaculate Heart. Remember, all prophesies are conditional and dependent upon our
response.” Good thing he added that unbiblical reminder, since he also pointed
out in the same letter the Don Bosco put a timeframe onto his pillars-vision. “But
before the year 2000, he (Bosco) foretold, the Church would win a glorious
victory through the laity who are loyal to the pope, devoted to the Eucharist
and to Our Lady.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To put this Mariology into
some biblical context, Michael Voris, head of a Detroit-centered apostolate
called Church Militant, teaches the official catechism of the RCC. He sees
prototypes of Mary outside the four Gospels. She is the fulfillment of the Ark
of the Covenant since she carried Jesus in her own temple body. She is the ‘new
Eve’ since when Jesus told John at the foot of the cross, “behold thy mother,”
he represented all of mankind of which she is now the mother. She is the
co-mediatrix and co-redemptrix and co-author of our salvation. Voris shared an excerpt
from his new book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Weapon</i>, on his
Church Militant website:<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Mary is a tenderloving
mother, absolutely. But She is also the Queen of the heavenly armies, the
angels, and Queen of the saints. She may be sweet Mother to us, but to Hell and
the devils, She is a terrifying sight to behold… She is the Woman of Genesis,
the Woman of the Apocalypse. And She is the greatest terror of the serpent. In
Eden, the diabolical legions could not know they had already achieved their
high-water mark, their most supreme victory. As the sun set that first night
following the Fall of mankind, a new day was in the offing, a slow, constant
march of rolling back from their victory. What would appear at the dawn would
be a New Woman, a New Eve, Who comes forth brilliant as the dawn, terrible as
an army arrayed for battle (Song of Solomon 6:10)… After Eden, Hell searched in
vain for the Woman, looking, wondering precisely what the Most High could have
meant by the prophetic decree that it would be a Woman who would crush the head
of their lord.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Weapon is the rosary –
that makes devils quiver. The Bible would identify it as prayers by rote and
endless repetitions – that the heathen do thinking God will hear them.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rome sees the Catholic
Church as the legitimate heir/replacement of Israel. Catholic apologist, Carl
E. Olsen wrote in his 2003 article, “Are We Living in the Last Days?” – “The
Catholic Church has always understood herself as being the New Israel…
Interestingly enough, even Luther and Calvin understood the Church to be the
true heir of Israel. They also would have rejected dispensationalism, which
only emerged as a method of biblical interpretation in the last two hundred
years or so.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>However another Catholic
theologian reviewing the Left Behind series in a major Catholic newspaper, Our
Sunday Visitor, admitted the premillennial return of Christ was believed by the
early church. “Since the fourth century, when the expectation of Christ’s
imminent return passed, the Catholic Church (and subsequently most mainstream
Protestants) has followed Jesus’ instruction that ‘you know not the day or the
hour” . . . Following the example of St. Augustine in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The City of God</i>, the teaching Church has been cautious about
interpreting the visions in Scriptural apocalyptic literature literally, and,
most especially, about connecting these visions to contemporary events.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So the official RCC teaching
is there is no earthly millennial rule of Jesus Christ. Catholic apologist Karl
Keating’s ‘ministry’ Catholic Answers gave this official version:<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Pre-tribulationism is
biblically bankrupt and does not know it. What is the Catholic position? As far
as the millennium goes, we tend to agree with Augustine and, derivatively, with
the amillennialists. The Catholic position has thus historically been ‘amillennial’
as has been the majority Christian position in general, including that of the Protestant
Reformers, though Catholics do not typically use this term.”<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Keating is not
contradicting Fatima with this statement. The coming days of darkness Rome
anticipates is not connected with any millennium rule of Christ personally.
They just see the fulfillment of His millennial rule as ruling through them.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So that brings us to Trump.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In a recent article in the
New York Times, critical of President Trump and his religious allies, such as
Michael Voris, writer Samual G. Freedman, writes:<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“As
the Trump administration prepares to take office, the use of Church Militant
theology has gone well beyond its religious meaning and has taken on a
political resonance. To fully grasp what “church militant” means in this highly
politicized atmosphere, it helps to examine the broader movement and the role
of a traditionalist Catholic website called — to no surprise —
ChurchMilitant.com… Michael Voris, the senior executive producer of
ChurchMilitant.com, said the website’s positions were a righteous defense of
patriotism and morality on behalf of people who believe those virtues have been
attacked by liberals, secularists and global elites.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Voris
is out in the open about his support of Trump. In fact, he credits Trump’s
victory with the rosaries recited by all his Catholic viewers of his YouTube
channel. He credits Trump’s victory to the number one spiritual weapon
prophesied to make the difference during the time of darkness that he sees his
church is currently in. On a recent broadcast, Voris elaborated.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“And
to Trump has fallen the role (whether he yet realizes it or not) of
Constantine, the ambitious man who wanted to be emperor of Rome, but who was
ignorant of the fact that Heaven would step in for him for Heaven's own
reasons. … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The forces aligned against
him were too great. And then Heaven intervened with the famous vision or dream
on the night before the battle whereby Jesus Christ told Constantine to bear
His standard of the Chi-Ros on his army, and he would win the day. "In hoc
signo vinces" — "In this sign you shall conquer." And conquer he
did. ..Constantine entered Rome the undisputed emperor, ended the persecution
against the Church, and a year later elevated the Church to the level of
preferred religion of the empire. … and a new era of history — salvation
history — was inaugurated. Whether Donald Trump could unwittingly be another
Constantine, in at least holding back the enemies of the Church, who knows?
Heaven has certainly used other earthly rulers in the past for Heaven's end —
good and bad rulers. Millions of Catholics all over America are in the middle
of a 54-day Rosary novena for a good outcome to the election, past the midway
point, in fact. Since the start of the novena, almost to the day, Diocletian's
fortunes have tumbled and Constantine's have risen, drawing near parity. Could
the Rosary be the sign of conquering in this case? If Heaven wills it, yes. But
Constantine has to respond correctly.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vortex
Tuesday, January 31, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Voris
often speaks of the current crisis in the Mother Church. Just look at the stats
he shared on a recent Vortex:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“No other religion in America is losing adherents at
the rate the Catholic Church is… For each person standing there being baptized,
six others have jettisoned the Faith in their lives. At current trends, the
Catholic Church in the United States will cease to exist in just 50 years! Stop
and think about that for a moment — a story of epic failure. If you are in your
twenties or even early thirties right now, you will live to see this<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: </b>the eradication of the Catholic
Church in the United States<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> with
only a few very small tiny pockets here and there.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So
where does Trump, Pope Francis, and the Queen of Heaven fit into the visions of
these Catholic saints and apparitions? When the real Great Tribulation occurs,
will Catholics interpret it as the “Three Days of Darkness?” We’ll examine
these questions more closely after we examine the other triumphant churches.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Catholics now have their Constantine. We will now look at the end times
expectations of Protestants and Evangelicals and their new hero, King Cyrus.</div>
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<i><b>To be continued. . . </b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The term, New World
Order, is a very familiar phrase. It has been bandied about by the United
Nations, various former presidents, and all the known and lesser known secret
societies. The concept of a global government is no longer merely a vision of
new age psychics and occult practitioners. It has now gone mainstream. Most
people promoting the NWO are clueless as to its esoteric concepts. They have an
ideological view of Star Trek’s Federation of Planets and see it as the next logical
step in the advancement of the human race.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>The
political left around the world promote an end to borders, a redistribution of
wealth, a world government with a global tax, an end to national sovereignty
and patriotism, and a socialistic rule that ends or at least curtails
capitalism. Freedom of speech goes only as far as the global agenda permits.
Tolerance is their rallying cry – tolerance for all but for those that have a
competing worldview. The anthem for the NWO is the late John Lennon’s song, <i>Imagine</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span><span> </span>The founding mothers and fathers of this
secular new order are various theosophists, occult practitioners, Jesuits and
so-called enlightened ones. The familiar names include Alice Bailey (1880-1949),
Manly P. Hall (1901-1990), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Pierre</span></em><span class="st"> Teilhard </span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">de Chardin (1881-1955), and Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Their
teachings of the ultimate New Age of Enlightenment in which peace is brought
about via world government, with a little help from the space brothers, have
been handed down over the ages. </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>An
online description of Alice Bailey’s book, </span></em><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">A Treatise on Cosmic Fire</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">, (Lucis Publishing Company, June 1, 1973), summarizes the teachings
that describe this coming cosmic era that follows what they call “The Plan”:</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">“A large section of the book is
directed to a detailed exposition of Solar Fire, the Fire of Mind, since this
is the dominant energy to be understood and controlled during this second solar
system. Among other values, the book provides a compact outline of a scheme of
cosmology, philosophy and psychology which serves as a basic reference and text
book. It is part of a set of 24 books by Bailey, written in collaboration with
a Master of the Wisdom. These books constitute a continuation of the Ageless
Wisdom, a body of esoteric teaching handed down from ancient times in a form
which is always suitable to each period. Intended to precede and condition </span></em><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">the coming era</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">, the Alice A. Bailey writings offer an unparalleled spiritual approach
to such subjects as the teaching on Shamballa and the Path of spiritual
evolution; the spiritual Hierarchy, the new discipleship and training in
meditation as a form of service; the teaching on the seven rays and the new
psychology of the soul; and the common thread of truth linking all the major
world faiths… The spiritual Hierarchy, we are told, works only through the
minds of disciples, using the science of impression, and only for the purposes
of The Plan.”</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Order of
Freemasonry sits at the top of the new age pyramid and is behind the symbols on
the American one-dollar-bill. The goal of the NWO is clearly seen – an idea we
all carry around in our wallets. The words shown, "Novus Ordo
Seclorum" translates to "A New Order of the Ages." And the
all-seeing eye on top of the pyramid is the most sinister sign of all. Yet
Hollywood singers and actors love to use this symbol on their attire and making
the sign of spread fingers over one of their eyes in their videos and photos. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">To get a better
understanding of what the pyramid symbolizes, we need to look no further than
the historian of esoteric knowledge, Manly P. Hall. At the end of his book, <i>The Initiates of the Flame</i>, Hall reveals
the mystery of the pyramid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“On the very top of the
great pyramid is a comparatively flat place about thirty feet square. In other
words the true stone which is the head of all the corners is missing. If we
look at the reverse side of the United States seal, we find again the pyramid
from which the top is separated. Omar Khayyam, the Persian Poet, gives us the
secret of the keystone when he says: “From my base metal shall be filed a key,
Which shall unlock the door he howls without.”…This stone is the spirit in man,
which fell from its high position, and has been lost beneath the rubbish of the
lower man. This is the true cap stone that is now hidden in the pit of man’s
temple, and which he must exhume and place again as the true crown of his
spiritual pyramid. He can only do this when he calls the thousands of workmen
within himself together and binds them to the service of the higher man. There
must be no traitors to murder the builder this time. And Lucifer, the one
rejected by man as the devil, is the one who must through the planet Mars send
man the dynamic energy which man himself must transmute from the fire of
passion to the flame of spirit. He then must take the tools of the craft and
cut and polish his own being into the cap stone of the Universal Temple.” (pg.
81-83)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Hall and other
initiates point to Francis Bacon (known to have been associated with King
James, the originator of the King James Bible) as the guy who influenced
America’s founding masonic fathers. According to Wikipedia, Bacon “was an
English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He
served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England.” Some deny
Bacon’s influence, but it would explain the symbols in America’s monuments and
seal. America, it seems, is the focus of the coming NWO. The fight for position
in the global authority depends on who controls the United States that was
built on the promise of the <i>Novus ordo
seclorum</i>. The Order of the Rose, the Rosicrucians, connect Bacon to their
occultic movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“The Rosicrucian
movement, of which the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, is the most prominent modern
representative, has its roots in the mystery traditions, philosophy, and myths
of ancient Egypt dating back to approximately 1500 BCE. In antiquity the word ‘mystery’
referred to a special gnosis, a secret wisdom. Thousands of years ago in
ancient Egypt select bodies or schools were formed to explore the mysteries of
life and learn the secrets of this hidden wisdom… the renowned Sir Francis
Bacon…directed the Rosicrucian Order and its activities both in England and on
the continent… In the late seventeenth century, following a plan originally
proposed by Francis Bacon in <i>The New
Atlantis</i>, (Bacon’s book) a colony of Rosicrucian leaders was organized to
establish the Rosicrucian arts and sciences in America. In 1694 Rosicrucian
settlers made the perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a specially
chartered vessel, the Sarah Maria, under the leadership of Johannes Kelpius,
master of a Rosicrucian Lodge in Europe. Landing in Philadelphia, the colonists
established their first settlement and later moved further west in Pennsylvania
to Ephrata. These Rosicrucian communities made valuable contributions to the
newly emerging American culture in the fields of printing, philosophy, the
sciences and arts. Later such eminent Americans as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, and Thomas Paine were intimately connected with the Rosicrucian
community. In fact, many Rosicrucians played an important role in the great
alchemical and social process leading to the founding of a new nation.” [https://www.rosicrucian.org/booklet-download
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin, a Jesuit priest, is often called “the father of the New Age Movement.”
He took the idea of evolution into the arena of the spirit and taught a
spiritual evolution of man becoming part of the cosmic Christ – that was the
goal of spiritual development. In the book <i>Encyclopedia
of New Age Beliefs</i>, authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon describe him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Teilhard de Chardin –
perhaps the man most responsible for the spiritualization of evolution in a
global and cosmic context – had mystical, occult experiences throughout his
life and confessed, ‘Ever since my childhood an enigmatic force had been
impelling me.’ De Chardin is one of the leading forces behind the New Age
spiritual movement toward globalization.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">As established already,
that ‘force’ that drove him along was Lucifer. Seeing God as just a ‘force’ has
also been popularized by the Star Wars series and their often repeated slogan, “Let
the force be with you.” Humanity has long been indoctrinated by the spirit of
the age to accept the antichrist agenda of the New World Order. The
entertainment industry is at the forefront of that social engineering,
alongside the public education system where teachers are the change agents for
the anticipated paradigm shift in the <i>Aquarian
Conspiracy</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The New World Order as
viewed by Lucifer is probably best seen through the eyes of the most famous Satanists
of all time: Aleister Crowley. In his book, <i>The
Book of the Law</i>, he spells out what Lucifer really thinks of the human
beings he has firmly in his corner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span><span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span>“<i>The Book of
the Law</i> was given to mankind chiefly in order to provide it with an
impeccable principal of practical politics… We should have no compunction in utilizing
the natural qualities of the bulk of mankind. We do not insist on trying to
train sheep to hunt foxes or lecture on history; we look after their physical
well being and enjoy their wool and mutton. In this way we shall have a
contented class of slaves who will accept the conditions of existence as they
really are, and enjoy life with the quiet wisdom of the cattle.” [http://revolutionharry.blogspot.com/2011/02/aleister-crowley-george-w-bush-911-and.html
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">That dumbing down of humanity looked like it was
complete, and The Plan of the Ages about ready to unify the planet and launch
the reign of Lucifer. All was in place until Donald J. Trump came into power. That
threw the masters of the New World Order off their game – at least for a little
while.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><i>To be continued. . . </i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-12928669620643219792017-01-30T15:33:00.001-08:002017-01-30T15:33:54.436-08:00Soothsayers of the Second Advent<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In 1988-89 I assisted my late husband, William Alnor, in
writing a book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">called Soothsayers of the
Second Advent</i> – subtitled, “A compelling expose' of doomsday-dating,
pin-the-tail-on-the-Antichrist, and other non-biblical games that Christians
play.” We were grieved in our spirits at the plethora of prophecy teachers who
were discrediting the study of Bible prophecy by extreme extra-biblical
sensationalism and date-setting.</div>
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Well, as Solomon once penned, “There’s nothing new under the
sun.” History is repeating itself even as we are even closer to the LORD’s
return. Careless speculations about future events are on the increase in
prophecy teaching circles which contribute to the rise of scoffers – even Christian
ones – whose faith has been damaged by those who build up excitement for coming
dates, only to end up in let-downs when time passes and all things remain as
they were. I put the blame right on the soothsayers of the Second Advent whose
work produces the mockers the Bible said would rise in the last days.</div>
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In 2015 the Jubilees, Blood Moons, the <span class="st">Shemitahs
</span>and all the Harbingers came to naught. The latest big non-event coming
up on September 23, 2017 has built up hopes for the date of the rapture. </div>
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Soothsayer Scottie Clark sees the “great sign” of Revelation 12 as the constellation
Virgo that is said to converge with Leo the lion on that date. Much speculation
has gotten people excited – those who probably never heard of Southwest Radio
Church and their guests looking at the astrological sign of the “Water-Bearer”
heralding the possible end-time events.</div>
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We’re told in the 18<sup>th</sup> chapter of Deuteronomy
that there must not be anyone among us interpreting omens. Reading something
into eclipses and movement of the constellations come under that category. This
is not pleasing to the LORD.</div>
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So below is a chapter from our book that I pray will make
people stop and think about promoting the coming date that just may be another
discouragement to those setting their hearts on a supposed woman Virgo that
doesn’t seem to give birth after all.</div>
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Maranatha!! - Jackie Alnor </div>
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NEWS ACCORDING TO THE ZODIAC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the end of the turbulent 1960s, a new
theme was emerging from the hippie movement. We all heard the message through a
snappy popular song, “The Age of Aquarius,” by the popular band the Fifth
Dimension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The song signaled what astrologers and occultists
had been talking about for a long time. The Age of Aquarius was coming – in 1982
the sun moved into the sixth constellation of the zodiac, called Aquarius. For
a long time many considered this a key sign and perhaps a symbol of the stars guiding
mankind to a new unity – maybe even a new world order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psychologist Carl Jung – himself an avid
occult practitioner – looked forward to the Age of Aquarius. The Age of Pisces,
the Christian era, would yield to Aquarius, the era of the Holy Spirit, he
said. It would bring in a utopian age – a time of peace, understanding and love
ruled over by the planet Uranus, which represents sudden changes, he added.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> Perhaps sparked by this
widespread acceptance of the occult, the fastest growing modern religious
movement in America – the New Age movement – kicked into high gear in 1982.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Make no mistake about it. Astrology and
occultism are intertwined, as they always have been from ancient days.
According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Facts on Astrology</i>,
by John Ankerberg and John Weldon, “The very practice of astrology is a
foundational occult art and . . . the practitioners [astrologers] open
themselves up to becoming involved in other occult practices.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> They point out that
astrology is related to the occult in “four major ways”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First, astrology itself
is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as an occult art. As such it employs occult
practices such as divination. Divination may be defined as “the art of
obtaining secret or illegitimate knowledge of the future by methods
unsanctioned by and at variance with the holiness of God” and which involve
contact with evil spirits. Secondly, astrology appears to work best when the
astrologer himself is psychically sensitive, what most astrologers would term “intuitive.”
Thirdly, prolonged use of astrology often leads to the development of psychic
abilities. Fourthly, due to its history and very nature, astrology often
becomes the introductory course to a wider spectrum of occult practices.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet despite its direct connection with
occultism, prominent soothsayers of the Second Advent teach astrology to the
church, even declaring that by entering the Age of Aquarius, the stars may be
signaling the great tribulation, followed by the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Combining the “message” of the stars and the testimony of the Bible, David
Webber and Noah Hutchings of the Southwest Radio Church saw the coming of the
Aquarian age as the end of the Dispensation of Grace and the beginning of the
millennium.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Colin Deal also claimed astrology had
something to do with Christ’s birth and now His return, which he said would
happen “by 1988.” He relied upon 1976 and 1977 newspaper and magazine articles
suggesting that the 1982 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the 1986
reappearance of Halley’s comet were similar to astrological signs around 7
B.C., the approximate time of Christ’s birth. (Halley’s comet was thought to
have appeared two years earlier, at 9 B.C.) One article stated: “As 1982
approaches, the planets will be moving into the sign of Aquarius. This sign is
pictured as ‘The Water Bringer.’” It goes on to say that by combining the
meanings of the names of three stars found in Aquarius, and with the water
bringer meaning Jesus Christ, it means that Christ “left, but returned to pour
out waters of blessings upon a people redeemed for the earth.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To that Deal adds: “Yes . . . the signs of
the heavens are declaring for the first time in 2,000 years that God’s Son is
about to be revealed!”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a> However, even if you use
the meanings assigned to the stars by the proponents of “Christian astrology”
or “glory in the stars” theory, the article Deal quoted is in error. The names
of the three brightest stars in that constellation <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> have any relevant
meaning at all.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Webber and Hutchings, at the Southwest Radio
Church, have laid out their “Christian astrology” theory in greater detail. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalyptic Signs in the Heavens</i>, they
speculated on a conjunction of planets before Moses’ birth.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a> Citing ancient historians,
they supposed that Egyptian astrologers foresaw the prophet’s birth and that
this led to the killing of the Israelite infants.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However, their speculations about the
conjunction being a reason behind pharaoh’s killing the male children shoots
wide of the biblical record. Exodus 1:6-22 states that because of a population
explosion by the Israelites” . . . the land was filled with them” (Exodus 1:7),
and the king of Egypt feared the Jews might become more numerous than the
Egyptians and eventually “join our enemies, fight against us and leave the
country” (Exodus 1:10). That is the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i>
biblical record of his reasons for ordering the deaths of the children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Later Webber and Hutchings suggested that
Cyrus, the king of Persia, commissioned the Jews to rebuild their temple on the
basis of astrological revelation. They favorably compared Zoroastrianism, the
religion of Persia, to Judaism, because it taught that a messiah would come.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a> They even saw the Persian
religion as something that developed from the worship of God.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But to imply that Cyrus, king of Persia, was
motivated by the heathen art of astrology to rebuild God’s temple comes close
to blasphemy, especially when the Bible says that the Lord God <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Himself</i> motivated the king, whom God
called His anointed in Isaiah 45:1. Ezra chronicled it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord
moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his
realm and to put it in writing . . . “The Lord, the God of heaven . . . has
appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem . . . “</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The same can be said for Webber and Hutching’s
comparing Judaism to Zoroastrianism. Although some have compared a few of the
sayings of Jesus to Zoroaster, the foundations of the two religions are
diametrically different. “Most Christians believe in three Persons in the
Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” writes Marcus Bach in his book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Major Religions of the World</i>. “Zoroastrians,
however, believe there are seven persons in the Godhead.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Southwest Radio Church duo also took
Deal’s thoughts on Christ’s birth occurring during the conjunctions of Saturn
and Jupiter a step further. Quoting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Gospel in the Stars</i>, by Joseph A. Seiss – which is one of the leading
Christian astrology books – they claim that Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted three
times during the year of Christ’s birth. Webber and Hutchings then suggested
the three conjunctions mean the three Persons of the Godhead.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The astrological signs have continued to
this century, they wrote. They stated that in 1917, along with the signing of
the Balfour Declaration, which recognized the land of Palestine as the national
homeland of the Jews, “there were four total eclipses of the sun, and three
eclipses of the moon.” In 1918, when the World Zionist Organization endorsed
the document, “a new star appeared in the heavens . . . it shone brightly for
40 days. Forty is the Jewish number of testing.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seeing Redemption in the Stars</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What is the theory behind “glory in the
stars” theology? According to Albert Dager, a Christian who runs the
Washington-state-based Media Spotlight, it’s the belief that “the Zodiac was
originally designed by God as a witness of His plan of redemption, and was
later corrupted to occult science into an instrument of divination (the
predicting of the future and/or the determining of personality traits based on
the positions of the heavenly bodies).”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Colin Deal, J. R. Church, David Webber, Noah
Hutchings and other like-minded prophecy teachers all cite the work of E. W.
Bullinger (1837-1913). Bullinger, an Anglican clergyman and descendant of Swiss
Reformer J. Heinrich Bullinger, partly edited <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Companion Bible</i>. He was also one of the most controversial
theologians in recent centuries, because he taught a type of Christian
astrology, numerology, and pyramidology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dager and others knowledgeable about this
starry theology say the earliest traceable work in the field was done by
Florence Rolleston of Keswick, England. She devoted over fifty years of her
life to “the compilation of a massive series of notes which was published under
the title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mazzaroth – The Constellations</i>
in 1863, when she was in her 80s,” writes William D. Banks, a proponent of “Christian
astrology.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a>
In 1884 her concepts, which included the listings of ancient astronomical
facts, significance, and the names of a hundred or more stars, gained more
acceptance with the release of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel
in the Stars</i>, by Joseph A. Seiss. But Bullinger’s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Witness of the Stars</i>, which came out
in 1893, took Miss Rolleston’s theories even further, because he stated that
for the stars’ “interpretation I am alone responsible.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn17" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From there Bullinger incorporated astrology
into other areas of his theology. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Companion Bible</i>, partly edited by Bullinger, he stated that the words of
Scripture parallel the words written in the heavens and preserved by the
zodiac. Bullinger also added that all the verbs in the second half of Psalm 19 are
of an astronomical nature. In a work often cited by today’s prophecy teachers, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Numbers in Scripture</i>, Bullinger fused
Bible numerology with the zodiac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But Dager said all theories such as
Bullinger’s are based on “conjecture. In so doing they have – with all good
intention, I’m sure, melded God’s truth with pagan myth, traceable no further
back than Babylon.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn18" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a> There is simply no record
existing that God originally created the zodiac signs as Christian symbols,
which were later perverted by the occult and modern astrologers, to reveal His
eternal plan. Writes Dager:</span></div>
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brilliantly stated, pointing out the Scripture’s references to certain of the
stars and constellations by their astrological names, the basis for his
argument is found wanting. Wrote Bullinger, “After the Revelation came to be
written down in the Scriptures, there was not the same need for the
preservation of the Heavenly Volume. And after the nations had lost the
original meaning of the pictures, they invented a meaning out of the vain
imagination of the thoughts of their hearts.” . . . [But] the fact is that the
pagan interpretations of the Zodiac are the only ones of which any legitimate records
exist, and they predate the Gospels by at least two thousand years.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn19" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bullinger also claimed to have found
scriptural justification for his “glory in the stars” theory. He claimed Paul
was referring to the zodiac in Romans 1:19-20:<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn20" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a> “Since what may be known
about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since
the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and
divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been
made, so that men are without excuse.” He also used Romans 10:18, which “is
similar to Psalm 19:1-6 which refers to the heavens declaring the glory of God.”
Wrote Dager.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn21" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bullinger also misapplied Scriptures dealing
with the tower of Babel, in an apparent attempt to refute traditional charges
that God scattered humanity so they couldn’t complete the tower. Some
commentaries have taught that the tower was an astrological attempt to reach
into the heavens for more occult meanings. Bullinger, ignoring the biblical
record, said that the sin was not in building the tower; it was in failing to
disperse over the earth.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn22" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As their theological father Bullinger did,
today’s soothsayers of the Second Advent distort the Scriptures to make them
appear to affirm a type of astrology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Colin Deal inserted “inscribe as a writer”
in the middle of Psalm 19:1,2 to imply it was talking about astrology: “What,
then, was the true meaning of (the verse) . . . ‘the heavens declare (inscribe
as a writer) the glory of God . . .’?” He also quotes Job 38:32, “Can you bring
forth the constellations in their seasons . . . ?” and Genesis 1:14, “And God
said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from
the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,’” as
proof of the astrological principle.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn23" name="_ednref23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[23]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deal also says that Jesus claimed there
would be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">astrological</i> signs that
would precede His Second Coming. His proof text? Luke 21:25: “There will be
signs in the sun, moon and stars . . . “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn24" name="_ednref24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a> But Deal – and Webber and
Hutchings, who used the same verse<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn25" name="_ednref25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[25]</span></span></span></span></a> -- conveniently failed to
mention that in parallel texts in both Matthew 24:29 and Mark 13:24, 25, Jesus
explained what he meant. He said that after incredible distress on the earth, “the
sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall
from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.” Even more telling, Deal
does not mention the same description of the signs of the end of time mentioned
in Isaiah 13:10; 34:4; Ezekiel 32:7; Joel 2:10, 31; Zephaniah 1:15; and
Revelation 6:12, 13; 8:12.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Using Psalm 19 to justify astrology is out
of line; the meaning is clear. Every time we go out on a quiet, clear, and dark
night in the countryside and look up, it is obvious that the “heavens declare
the glory of God.” What a breathtaking sight, particularly when one is reminded
that God made all the stars! Genesis 1:14 as proof for astrology is no better;
it simply states that God made the stars and sun. Through them we could know
the seasons, days and years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Webber and Hutchings also use Psalm 19:1, 2
and Job 38 to justify their brand of astrology. But they go further, much, much
further. They claim – without documenting it – that “Job and the Psalms spoke
of them [the stars] as authentic outlines of God’s revelation.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn26" name="_ednref26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[26]</span></span></span></span></a> They also suggest that
Jesus was referring to astrology affirming His arrival in Matthew 16:3.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn27" name="_ednref27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[27]</span></span></span></span></a> “ . . . You know how to
interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the
times.” It is interesting, again, to note that Webber and Hutchings ignored the
first part of the verse and the preceding one in which Jesus tells us that the
appearance of the sky has to do with the “weather,” not with the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of course all the while Webber, Hutchings,
and Deal practice their brand of heavenly astrology, they denounce other forms
of the practice. Deal said: “Demonic astrology, found abundantly in newspapers
and magazines, is strictly forbidden in God’s word (Isaiah 47:12-14).”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn28" name="_ednref28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a> Southwest has
consistently condemned known psychics such as Jeane Dixon, because they rely on
astrology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s interesting that in 1978 Webber and
Hutchings quoted Nostradamus, a sixteenth-century “prophet,” positively to
imply that our present pope, John Paul II, would be history’s last one.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn29" name="_ednref29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[29]</span></span></span></span></a> (Nostradamus allegedly
saw the end of the world around the year 2000). But two years later Southwest’s
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gospel Truth</i> ran an anonymous
article <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">condemning</i> Nostradamus’s
prophecies, because they learned “he used astrology to prophesy, which God
condemns.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn30" name="_ednref30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[30]</span></span></span></span></a>
The article didn’t mention that Nostradamus practiced other forms of the occult
(including out-of-body trances) and was persecuted by French and church
officials for doing so.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn31" name="_ednref31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[31]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quoting Dixon <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">favorably</i> was Edgar Whisenant. In reason 65 in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988</i>,
he wrote that Dixon – “today’s famous psychic” – foresaw the birth of a future
world leader on February 5, 1962. In reason 66 Whisenant said that this leader
born on that date is “our Antichrist of the end-time.” And Whisenant isn’t the
only prophecy teacher proclaiming that. R. Henry Hall of Las Vegas believes it,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn32" name="_ednref32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a> along with a ministry in
Cleburne, Texas, called “The Eschatology Hour,” which produced an audiotape on
the subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As Ankerberg and Weldon point out, “Just as
oil and water do not mix, the Bible and astrology are utterly irreconcilable. .
. . As both a philosophy and practice, astrology rejects the truth concerning
the living God and instead leads people to dead objects, the stars and planets.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn33" name="_ednref33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[33]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Therefore, today’s prophecy teachers ought
to stop all speculation about the meaning of stars and stop looking for
conjunctions and objects in space to tell us about future events such as the
great tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ. Astrology is a weapon in the
arsenal of Satan, one he tries to use against the church in these last days.
There is simply no evidence to suggest that in ancient times God revealed
Himself and His plan in the zodiac. Moreover I see little difference between
astrology columns in the daily newspaper and astrological speculations that
predict end-time events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, through His Son, Jesus, we have all
we need to know about the Second Advent. Hebrews 1:2 states: “ . . . in these
last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things,
and through whom he made the universe” (including the stars).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Second, prophecy teachers – or any Christian
– who justifies the use of any form of astrology, should stop ignoring the
heavy weight of Scripture that condemns the practice in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any</i> form and stop taking God’s Word out of context in an attempt to
affirm it. I would admonish the prophecy teachers mentioned in this chapter to
reread the Scripture verses (“the whole counsel of God”) concerning astrology.
God says the counsel of astrologers is worthless, and it won’t even save the
astrologers (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">see</i> Deuteronomy 4:19,
17:1-5; 18:9-11; 2 Kings 17:16, 17; 23:5; Jeremiah 8:2; 19:13; Ezekiel 8:16;
Amos 5:26, 27;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn34" name="_ednref34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[34]</span></span></span></span></a>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">see also</i> Isaiah 47:13, 14, already
referred to by Deal).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As Ankerberg and Weldon point out: “The
Bible teaches that astrology is not only a futile (worthless) activity, but an
activity so bad that its very presence indicates God’s judgment has already
occurred (Acts 7:42-43).”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_edn35" name="_ednref35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[35]</span></span></span></span></a> It is also occult, and as
we’ll soon see, it has led to some prophecy teachers’ embracing other occult
practices such as pyramidology and numerology.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> Richard
Woods, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Occult Revolution</i> (New York:
Seabury Press, 1973), 93</div>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> John
Ankerberg and John Weldon,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Facts on
Astrology</i> (Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, 1988), 12.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a> David
F. Webber and Noah Hutchings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalyptic
Signs in the Heavens</i> (Oklahoma City: Southwest Radio Church, 1979), 28.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a> Colin
Deal, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christ Returns by 1988: 101 Reasons
Why</i> (Rutherford College, N.C.: Colin Deal, 1981), 124.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a> William
D. Banks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Index of Star Names,” The
Heavens Declare</i> (Kirkwood, Mo.: Impact Books, 1985), 247-258. Deal quotes
the December 24, 1977, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atlanta Journal</i>
article as identifying the three stars as Sa as al Melik, Saad al Sund, and
Scheat. Banks, a professing Christian, is a proponent of the “glory in the
stars” theory. His exhaustive star-name index draws upon numerous works of
others of like mind.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a> Webber
and Hutchings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalyptic Signs</i>, 10.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
9, 10.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a> Marcus
Bach, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Major Religions of the World</i>
(Nashville, Tenn.: Graded Press, 1959), 37.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn13" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a> Webber
and Hutchings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalyptic Signs</i>, 10.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
20.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn15" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a> Albert
Dager, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel in the Zodiac</i> (Costa
Mesa, Calif.: Media Spotlight, 1987), 6.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn16" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a> Banks,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heavens Declare</i>, preface.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn17" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a> Dager,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel in the Zodiac, 8,</i></div>
</div>
<div id="edn18" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
9.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn19" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref19" name="_edn19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
66, 67.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn20" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref20" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
11.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn21" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref21" name="_edn21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn22" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref22" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
9.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn23" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref23" name="_edn23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[23]</span></span></span></span></a> Deal,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christ Returns</i>, 123.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn24" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref24" name="_edn24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
123, 124.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn25" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref25" name="_edn25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[25]</span></span></span></span></a> Webber
and Hutchings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalyptic Signs</i>, 20.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn26" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref26" name="_edn26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[26]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
24.</div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref27" name="_edn27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[27]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
11.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn28" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref28" name="_edn28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a> Deal,
Christ Returns, 123.</div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref29" name="_edn29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[29]</span></span></span></span></a> David
F. Webber and Noah Hutchings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Will Christ
Come by 2001?</i> (Oklahoma City: Southwest Radio Church, 1978), 7.</div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref30" name="_edn30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[30]</span></span></span></span></a> “Prophets
in the Last Days,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gospel Truth</i>
(November, 1981), 5.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn31" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref31" name="_edn31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[31]</span></span></span></span></a> Erika
Cheetham, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Prophecies of Nostradamus</i>
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 5-12, 177.</div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref32" name="_edn32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a> Hall,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AD 1991 – The Genesis of Holocaust</i>
(Las Vegas, Nev.: Spirit of Prophecy Evangelical Ministries, 1985), 53.</div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref33" name="_edn33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[33]</span></span></span></span></a> Ankerberg
and Weldon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facts on Astrology</i>, 22.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn34" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref34" name="_edn34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[34]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
23.</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=720983859590930579#_ednref35" name="_edn35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[35]</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.,
22.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-20182434188619086382017-01-08T09:52:00.003-08:002017-01-08T09:54:23.337-08:00 "Remember your first Love."<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> We all know people who have
drifted away from the faith who blame it on how they were treated by
fellow Christians -- especially pastors and those in leadership. A
bitter root took hold of their hearts and soon they perceived the church
as a sham and it reflected on their view of Christ.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
Also, many of us have been told that we are the ones who have closed
the door of salvation to others because we were dogmatic in our shining
the light of Scripture upon their faulty thinking.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Recently a
Christian-turned-atheist told me on a blog discussion that he rejected
the faith because of people like me who reflect the sort of talk our
Master used. In other words, we're right and everyone else is wrong.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
He was pointing the finger at everyone but himself for his rejection of
God. I challenged the new atheist with a verse that really sent him
into a rage:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>“For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." - John 3:20</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
To those who have been falsely accused of being the cause of others not
to receive the grace of God -- just stop it. It is not your fault. You
may be their excuse to continue walking in darkness, but each person is
accountable for his/her own position with their Maker.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> And to
those who are angry at professing Christians who have hurt you-- do not
harden your heart. If you do, you lose. Is it the church that you
committed your life to, or was it Jesus? Did you fall in love with Jesus
- or some group of believers you thought would dispel your loneliness?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
Put no one between you and the LORD Christ Jesus. When your eyes are
fully upon Him and you love Him from the depths of your being, ain't no
one gonna be able to get between you and your First Love.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> There's
enough blame to go around for those who are looking for a scapegoat for
their own dark hearts. Your faith will be tested -- don't fail the
test.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Set your heart of the beauty of the LORD. Keep your eyes on the Prize. His coming for us is near.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded." <br /> - James 4:8</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">
"Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first
love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the
first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your
lampstand from its place—unless you repent."<br /> - Rev 2:4-5</span></b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-85434699598112839462016-11-05T11:19:00.001-07:002016-11-05T11:19:18.173-07:00Weinergate and the Attempted Coup of the Antichrist<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> This presidential election has turned out to be the ultimate in spiritual warfare as Wikileaks reveals
a satanic conspiracy in the top echelons of our government. More and more emails are being released giving us a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the immorality and demonic nature of those in the Clinton campaign. Hillary's right-hand-girl and co-chairman, Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner whose computer has given access to the 33,000 emails Hillary and her associates thought they destroyed, reveal a couple who have brought in the most vile contacts with pedophilia and occultism.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you thought that was just a blind oversight on Hillary's part, how is it that her campaign manager John Podesta, whose emails have now surfaced, is a practicing satanist and also one using small children as sex objects and subjects for ritualistic satanic practices? This is showing us just what a tight grip the devil has on our country.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Listen to my podcast in which I lay out the documentation that proves this election is literally a vote between American freedom and global slavery.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Remember: History has shown that Hitler too used the occult arts to get his power to rule -- that was merely a dress rehearsal. If we can block his candidate from ascending the throne, we can once again hold off the powers of darkness -- until we be taken out of the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maranatha!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span class="st"><span class="f"></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-33416326227144348872016-10-09T12:22:00.003-07:002016-10-09T12:22:52.880-07:00Dirty Politics<span style="font-size: large;"> Today I'm trying to stop myself from taking the cares of this world
upon myself. This drawn-out election is getting uglier by the minute; it
just demonstrates our need for the King of kings. Our modern-day kings
are not going to get us out of the mess humanity has made for planet
Earth. They simply testify of our need for Jesus to return and rule as a
Monarchy.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Pray that God in his grace gives us a David and not a Saul. But recall that neither of<span class="text_exposed_show">
those kings were perfect. And if we hold back our vote, awaiting the
perfect one -- we might as well not register to vote at all. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
I hate to admit it -- but every election is a vote for the lesser of
two evils. Man needs his Redeemer. I remember one president who wowed
everyone by referring to himself as a humble born-again peanut farmer
and we later discovered his hatred of Israel. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Then our great
movie star president listened to his wife's advice on timing his acts
based on her psychic - oh he was such a model of conservative Christian
family values.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> We were all shocked in the 70s when the Watergate
tapes came out and we heard our Republican president throwing all those
'F' bombs out -- we were so naive thinking if a person makes it to the
White House s/he must be holier than the rest of us.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Whether
November brings us to a time of making America great or a time of war
and captivity, we must not take it to heart. We know that our God holds
the whole world in His hands. Our safest place is staying in His will.
When we walk with Jesus, and commit ourselves to be His instruments to
do according to His good pleasure, He will enable us to be His
representatives to this lost and dying planet.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> No matter who lives on Pennsylvania Avenue, our citizenship is in heaven from which we await our Savior. Maranatha!!</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">
"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and
for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable
life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in
the sight of God our Saviour Who will have all men to be saved, and to
come unto the knowledge of the truth." 1 Tim 2:1-4</span></span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "These all
died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them
afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things
declare plainly that they seek a homeland. ... But now they desire a
better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be
called their God, for He has prepared a city for them." - Heb
11:13-14,16</span></span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-14621148602340332992016-09-18T09:16:00.000-07:002016-09-18T09:16:02.886-07:00God's Word is Living<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3soh1" data-offset-key="en14d-0-0">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en14d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Ever have a verse just pop out at you while spending time in God's Word? How 'bout half a verse? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bmk30-0-0"><span data-text="true">While reading through First Peter the other day, I got hit with half a verse -- <span style="color: red;"><b>"conduct yourselves throughout THE TIME OF YOUR STAY here in fear;" (1 Pet 1:17b)</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="aea8m-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4gjjb-0-0"><span data-text="true">So it seems we're just visiting -- on a bad vacation -- anxious to go back home. Peter already told us earlier in the chapter where our home really is -- <span style="color: red;"><b>"to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, RESERVED IN HEAVEN for you." (vs. 4)</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5j68l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f50hg-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the next chapter, Peter calls us 'sojourners and pilgrims' -- as throughout both his epistles, he underscores our heavenly citizenship. It is awesome to just meditate on these things. It puts everything in perspective. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6etj4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Only you, my born-again, Spirit-filled, brothers and sisters can relate to this -- as we regularly see the Word of God come alive in us -- as "a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="568rj-0-0"><span data-text="true">"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Heb 4:12)</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e0v7o-0-0"><span data-text="true">Professing Christians whose beliefs are merely based on the academics of creeds and systematic theology miss out on the spiritual dimension that God has breathed upon us. Some of them even look down on us, dissing us as mystics and Gnostics, because they can't understand what they do not possess.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The unprecedented divisions among us are a sign that the time is
approaching when the final stand of good against evil is about to be
played out. Choose your side. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Religion has always been
tolerated as long as it kept its dogmas within the walls of the church
on Sundays. It complied for centuries until the last revival (late
60s-70s) and outpouring of God's Spirit<span class="text_exposed_show">
gave millions a love for the Word of God that overflowed into the
streets. Now the world hates those Christians who dare to quote
Scripture in mixed company -- because their deeds are evil and darkness
hates the light.<br /> <br /> As Jesus forewarned us, they will hate us, but
it is not really us they hate, it is Him they hate. Fence-sitters know
this and keep their mouths shut so as not to offend anyone. They are the
lukewarm of whom Jesus said He would spew out of His mouth. <br /> <br /> Just like the believers in the First Century, we are seeing this play out- Matthew 10:32-39</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess
before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him
I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I
came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a
sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter
against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;
and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves
father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son
or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take
his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his
life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.'"</span></b></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-34439805473922719972016-05-31T11:32:00.001-07:002016-05-31T12:10:57.945-07:00The True Legacy of Jan Crouch<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jan Crouch March 14, 1938 - May 31, 2016</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jan Crouch, 78, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the largest 'Christian' network on the planet went to her reward this morning after suffering a stroke. TBN has been using the false teaching of the Word/Faith - Give-to-Get - Seed Faith - scheme to con Christians out of their money since 1974.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jan died with 14 lawsuits pending against her whistle-blower granddaughter, Brittany Crouch Koper, costing TBN donors multiple millions of dollars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jan had not spoken to her granddaughter since she was fired as the Chief Financial Officer of TBN in 2011 for insisting that the Crouches follow the laws governing the use of donor money and not siphon it off to boost Matt Crouch's secular movie directing ambitions, among other reported wastes for the Crouches to live extravagantly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brittany had this to say to Jan recently before her stroke. After Jan's stroke, she and her family, including her father Paul Crouch Jr., were not allowed to know Jan's whereabouts, by the authority of Matt Crouch and TBN attorney cousin John Casoria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jan Crouch kissing the signed legal form just signed by ailing Paul Sr, making Matt Crouch (Jan's son via
adultery) the heir of the empire when the TBN president was close to death and not at
all thinking properly -- was all apparently done to keep Paul Jr. out of TBN.
Manipulation inspired from the pit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Both Brittany and her dad, Paul Crouch Jr., found out that Jan died by
news reports. No one called them and Paul's calls to the TBN lawyers,
Colby May and John Casoria (his cousin) were not returned when trying to
find his mother's whereabouts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paul Crouch Sr's unmarked grave at Pacific View Memorial Park and
Mortuary in Corona del Mar, California. But I'll bet Matt will place Jan
somewhere near the graves of Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paul Crouch Jr's son Brandon posted this today remembering the grandma
he loved - who would not bother seeing him over Jan's dispute with his
sister. His only slight was the family he was born into. What does this
say about the newly departed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jan's granddaughter had to witness the wickedness of her grandmother up
close and personal. Keep Paul Jr's family in your prayers -- there's
more hurt here than just the demise of a family member. Here is
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Paul & Jan Crouch's legacy must not go down in history all
white-washed and controlled by million$ lawyers. The truth is ugly but
must be told -- if the LORD tarries, it must be known from here on that
TBN was/is the biggest carrier of apostasy in all of church history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For further background information:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Inquiries - jackie.alnor@gmail.com</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My latest Scattered Sheep Report on Brittany Crouch's reflections of her grandmother Jan Crouch: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-giMKlrrB2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-giMKlrrB2s</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My complete 2012 interview with Brittany Crouch: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY2ygUXWpc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY2ygUXWpc</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My beef with TBN:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.apostasyalert.org/tyranny_of_tbn.htm">http://www.apostasyalert.org/tyranny_of_tbn.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My book, The Fleecing of Christianity that takes a hard look at TBN:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982211945/sr=8-1/qid=1464716488/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1464716488&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982211945/sr=8-1/qid=1464716488/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1464716488&sr=8-1</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-46842904701434967022016-03-13T10:20:00.000-07:002016-03-13T10:20:10.761-07:00Walking on Water<span style="font-size: large;"> As we watch the birth pangs count down to the soon return of our
First Love, the condition of the world around us can bring us down. I
hope you take the time to tune it all out - at least one day a week,
choose a day, any day - and rest in Jesus. Our souls can get so heavy
and only the LORD can give us the peace that the world does not know.</span><br />
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We overcome "by the blood of the Lamb" and by the word of our
testimony. We must never be ashamed of whose we are in Christ and keep
Him the focus. Remember, Peter could walk on water as long as he kept
his eyes fixed upon Him - but as soon as he looked at the storm, he
began to sink. </span><br />
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Jesus wasn't kidding when He told us we would have tribulation in this
world -- we sure do. And people are grabbing onto any hope they can see
-- which is why many are latching onto their favorite political
candidate as if winning the election would be the answer to their
tumultuous lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After we refill our souls with Jesus, don't
forget to spread Him around to those who have no hope in this world.
This is not the time for 'every man for himself.' Spread the excitement.
The world needs what we have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Keep your eyes on the Prize!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives
do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid. You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back
to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going
to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you
before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. I
will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is
coming, and he has nothing in Me. But that the world may know that I
love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise,
let us go from here." - John 14:27-31</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “In that day you will ask
in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for
you; for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and
have believed that I came forth from God. I came forth from the Father
and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the
Father. ...Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will
be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with Me. These things I have spoken to
you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have
tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” - John
16:26-28, 32-33</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “But I have prayed for you, that your faith
should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your
brethren.” - Luke 22:32</span></span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-32860737887299662016-03-06T10:55:00.002-08:002016-03-06T10:55:45.438-08:00Live Differently Today<span style="font-size: large;"> So many preachers ask the question, "If you knew the world was going
to end tomorrow, what would you do differently today?" To us end-timers
we need to ask the question, "If you knew the world was going to go on
the way it is for another 100 years, what would you do differently
today?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Would you be more diligent to plan for your family's
future? Would you be more optimistic about your children's education and
career plans? Would you enjoy watching your g<span class="text_exposed_show">randchildren
grow as they discover the beauty of God's creation, knowing they could
look forward to love and marriage and their own offspring?</span></span><br />
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If you answered 'yes' to any of those questions -- if you would live
life differently -- then you might be off-center in your apocalyptic
fervor. The evil of the times may be getting to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The
Christian way of life needs to keep all things in perspective -- in
balance, so to speak. We must always seek the truth and be realists, not
allowing the cares of this world to choke out our faith in God. Keeping
our eyes on Jesus, while making the most of the time He has given us to
enjoy His blessings and be a blessing to others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It is so easy
to lose heart and get down in the dumps as we look at the world falling
apart around us -- politically, religiously, and economically. Thinking
too deeply sometimes can be depressing -- especially regarding things
that are out of our control to do anything about. Not taking the time to
appreciate the good will turn many of us into pessimists -- people who
are no fun to be around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Things will most likely be very
different for the next hundred years -- and we can't do much to alter
that. But we can live expectantly, that Jesus has all things in His
hands and we can rest in that and look for ways to make the time left
joyful and meaningful - making every moment count.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We love Him because He first loved us. Spread that love around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>"Yes, if you cry out for discernment,<br /> And lift up your voice for understanding,<br /> If you seek her as silver,<br /> And search for her as for hidden treasures;<br /> Then you will understand the fear of the LORD,<br /> And find the knowledge of God....<br /> When wisdom enters your heart,<br /> And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,<br /> Discretion will preserve you;<br /> Understanding will keep you,<br /> To deliver you from the way of evil"<br /> -- Prov. 2:3-5, 10-12a</b></span></span><br />
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"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one
has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and
His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in
Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the
world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in
him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has
for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God
in him." - 1 John 4:11-16</span></b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-12944831874565656592016-02-28T10:52:00.002-08:002016-02-28T10:52:21.035-08:00Revival: It's Personal<span style="font-size: large;"> So many wayward leaders in the church are trying to cash in on the
next Great Awakening. It's almost like some sort of competition to see
what preacher will be in the spotlight of the next big revival.</span><br />
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But, what really matters to each and every one of us is our own joy in
the LORD and the strength of His might. Our love and enthusiasm tends to
grow cold -- especially when we do not renew our spirits by dwelling in
His Word. The cares of the world are c<span class="text_exposed_show">ertainly choking Jesus out of many people's busy lives.</span></span><br />
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It used to be that you could get to church on Sunday for a time of
refreshing away from the pressure of daily life; sing the praises of our
God; enjoy the sweet fellowship of the saints; listen to an uplifting
message and the Word rightly divided. You would leave church pumped up
on Jesus, ready to take on the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> During this time of the
Great Apostasy though, church is more often a time for some motivational
speech by a narcissistic guy who thinks too highly of himself, or a
monotone bland packaged sermon from a lectionary delivered by a guy on
salary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We cannot expect the preacher or teacher to do for us
what only God can do -- that work in our hearts as we are filled with
the Holy Spirit and baptized in His love. The renewal we seek will not
be found at the next 'wave' in the church. We cannot look to some man or
program to breathe life into our groggy spirits anymore than we can
blame others for our own indifference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It's time to get back to
that personal relationship each of us has with Jesus. There's no
middle-man. There's no intercessor between us and Him. We are instructed
to 'abide' in Christ. Cast our cares upon Him. Trust in Him. Commit our
way unto the LORD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> No one can do that for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>"Trust in the LORD, and do good;<br /> Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.<br /> Delight yourself also in the LORD,<br /> And He shall give you the desires of your heart.<br /> Commit your way to the LORD,<br /> Trust also in Him,<br /> And He shall bring it to pass."<br /> - Psalms 37:3-5</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!<br /> Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near."<br /> -- Phil 4:4-5</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Member/s of a Herbert W. Armstrong cult have deceptively
started a Facebook page called Rapture Ready International Ministries. People
thinking they are joining in uplifting discussions about the soon return of
Jesus instead are led into false teaching. On this FB ‘about’ page they list
their website as <a href="http://www.raptureready.com/">www.raptureready.com</a>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No doubt, the majority of the subscribers to this FB page
are friends of Rapture Ready and listeners of Rapture Ready Radio. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The problem came to my attention on February 17, 2016 when a
meme of the inside of a cathedral showed up in my timeline with the words, “There
is no such thing as the trinity! There is only 1 God.” It linked to a page called “Real Bible” that
was discovered to be associated with the United Pentecostal Church UPC,
considered heretical for their “Oneness” doctrine – the belief that God the
Father became the Son and then became the Holy Spirit, as opposed to the
doctrine of the Trinity that defines God in three persons, Father, Son, and
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<span style="font-size: large;">The discussion that followed between me and the FB page’s
moderator, Walter Hernandez, consisted of his attempt to denounce the Trinity
and defend his viewpoint. To do so, he posted three links to the same source,
the United Church of God, producers of the TV program <i>Beyond Today</i>. The UCG on their website calls the Rapture a false
teaching, demands legal observance of the Sabbath, and denounces the doctrine
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I looked up Rapture Ready’s position on the Trinity and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">"Who is Elohim?</span>
<span class="uficommentbody">Elohim is the plural word for God in the Hebrew
language. It can refer to three or more. It is used of the Father, Son and HOLY
SPIRIT throughout the Old Testament. Even though it is translated
"God" it should be "Gods." All translators use
"God" instead of "Gods" to emphasize the unity of the
Trinity. This unity of the Trinity is stated clearly in the Old Testament by
using singular verbs with the plural noun, Elohim."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">It is just like cults
to be sneaky and not operate on the up-and-up. They pretended to
be one of us – impersonating RaptureReady.com – showing RR's link as their own
– just to deceive people and try to draw away those who trust Rapture Ready -- Bait-and-switch
tactic of wolves in sheep’s clothing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">I had already un-friended Mr. Hernandez for coming to my own Facebook page, arguing with my
friends about the Trinity and showing Ambassador College as his place of
training. Ambassador College is an institution of the late Herbert W. Armstrong,
a heretic and dangerous religious leader who taught that we can become gods. </span></span></div>
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owners, Todd Strandberg and Terry James were contacted and neither of them know
Walter Hernandez -- Strandberg confirming that the Rapture Ready International
Facebook page has no connection to RaptureReady.com.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">If you are one who
has been fooled into thinking this FB page is valid, you might want to leave a
rebuke in the comments before making a hasty retreat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">After my confrontation of this bogus Rapture Ready Int'l Facebook page, the owner of the page issued this statement after taking the "Ready" out of the title of his page. However he continues to show RaptureReady.com as his website in the 'about' page.</span></span><br />
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publications. I am single out as a heretic because I am standing for the
only true and Living God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Check the
website and do your own research. He is coming back for us his church
of his body. How sad that Christians should be united but there are
divisions because we do not fit the theology and their seminary
teachings instead if the word of God. How sad the state of this at this
moment, but I am not surprise since Jesus Christ was single out as a son
of the devil. Thanks God por his matchless Word of truth." </span></span></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-39000251416790609222016-02-01T10:54:00.001-08:002016-02-01T10:54:22.906-08:00Love for the Truth with Cindy Hartline 02/01 by Rapture Ready Radio | Religion Podcasts<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rapturereadyradio/2016/02/02/love-for-the-truth-with-cindy-hartline#.Vq-p1nplMYI.blogger">Love for the Truth with Cindy Hartline 02/01 by Rapture Ready Radio | Religion Podcasts</a>: Cindy's guest is Nathan Jones from Lamb and Lion Ministries on the subject of Gog and Magog, a great war that will take place in end-times, which is mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and 39.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-29189601373031206242016-01-20T09:33:00.000-08:002016-01-20T09:33:02.486-08:00Just Passing Through<span style="font-size: large;"> FROM PASTOR RICHIE FURAY</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Calvary Chapel Broomfield (Colo)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Founding member of rock bands Buffalo Springfield and Poco</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Member of the Rock n'Roll Hall of Fame</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Please forgive me with this being so close on the heels of such a
sensitive time, but with so many notable, public figures crossing that
line into eternity – it<span class="text_exposed_show"> always causes
our hearts and minds to think about our own mortality, especially if
they are of a young age – younger than we are. But the reality of death
is a reality of life and each one of us will cross that fateful line
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passes our hearts are overwhelmed with grief, even if we really didn’t
know the person, but we identified with their music or their movies or
their books … and, it’s as if we did know them and when they die it
causes us to stop and think about this reality of life. The writer of
one of the books in the Bible, James, makes an observation (James 4:14):</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <b><span style="color: red;">“For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away”.</span></b></span><br />
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I believe we can all agree on one thing - we’re just passing through
this life, on our way to eternity and the hereafter. On the way, on
this journey we call “life”, we may have thoughts such as “what does the
future hold” or “what matter does it make”, and for some, it is “eat,
drink and be merry for tomorrow we will die” – but then what? Is this
life all there is to life? Have those thoughts ever crossed your mind?
It’s interesting, but we all have philosophies, religions – a faith we
choose to give us comfort in these thoughts; that’s why when one a loved
or someone who’s had an impact on our lives passes, we comfort
ourselves saying “they’re in a better place”. An atheist will tell you –
this is it, “eat, drink and be merry”; while an eastern philosophy will
tell you “you can work it out” – as you seek to attain nirvana –
obliviousness (Webster: a goal hoped for but apparently unattainable: a
dream) which, ultimately is nothingness; and if that’s all there is at
the end of the day, then indeed life is meaningless, if in fact its
ultimate end is nothingness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I wanted to share my thoughts
because I am a Christian and I believe there hope beyond this life and I
believe the way to heaven is possible, but it does come about through
what we call death. The Bible teaches that death is an “exodus” – moving
from one place to another – but “life” goes on. It is a door we will
all go through. The Bible also teaches when we go through that door it
leads one of two ways … into the presence of God (the Creator, Redeemer
and Savior) for all eternity (heaven) or to be separated from Him for
all eternity (hell) – this is my faith and regardless of what you
believe, this is what life boils down to – a choice, a belief, a faith. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> The Christian faith is different from every other major
religion and belief system of the world in that those religious system
put the weight of getting to heaven on you, your performance, your
efforts your works. The dilemma is how does one know when their
performance has met the standard and what is that standard? The God of
the Bible worked out the way to heaven and fellowship with Him through
the work of Jesus Christ – thereby, getting to heaven is not based upon
your or my “performance” but upon the “performance” – the work of Jesus
Christ. You’ve probably heard it said: “everyone wants to go to heaven
but no one wants to die”, but the per-requisite is, if heaven is a
reality, we’re going to die and leave this world as we know it.
According to my faith, Jesus died that I might live. At the end of the
day, it’s as Jesus said:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /> "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.<br /> "And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" (John 11:25-26)</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">
As I said – faith is a belief system and each one, in making the
decision about eternity (heaven and hell) will make a decision about
Jesus who said: </span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) </span></span></b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> May those of you who
read this receive it with the grace with which I have shared it; God
desires fellowship with His creation (He is the Living God) and
therefore He made the way to heaven possible in that:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <b><span style="color: red;">"God so loved
the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not
send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved. (John 3:16-17)</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is my hope; this is my belief; this is my faith."</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-57865662248365809362016-01-10T10:40:00.001-08:002016-01-10T10:40:13.613-08:00Sheep Crying Out<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> It seems like the scattering of the
sheep is in high gear. Count yourself blessed if you have a church
fellowship that keeps out the leaven, preaches the Word faithfully, and
worships the LORD in Spirit and in Truth -- screening out songs that are
unbiblical or that flaunt the flesh.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Churches today - for the
most part (with the exception of the Bible-teaching faithful few) -- are
either ritualistic (vestments and bells and smells), spiritually dead
(dron<span class="text_exposed_show">ing dry speaker with disinterested
pew warmers), charismaniac (flashing lights; a lot of words but no
Word), or inclusive (gay pastor -- all are welcome). It's a sad, sad,
sad day for the church.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> How is it that the Bride is making herself ready??? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">
The Mystery of Iniquity is securely embedded into what is known as
churches. It's in control and there's no eviction notice that will
change that. Has the time come when the words of Jesus are saying "Come
out of her, My people." And when the sheep comply and leave, they have
nowhere to go -- so they are scattered.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Scattered sheep are not
happy, well-fed creatures. They have no under-shepherds, although they
know the voice of the Good Shepherd. So they roam every hill bleating
for their Master and mostly apart from one another. They have a hard
time distinguishing between wild goats and lost sheep.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Jesus said
that those who do not gather with Him, scatters. Yet, many sheep are
frightened and don't know whom to trust. In their condition, they tend
to shy away from others, knowing there are dangerous wolves out there
disguising themselves as sheep. About the only way to find a fellow
sheep to snuggle with to stay warm is to find another one that looks
exactly like they do. If they are spotted, or black, or some other color
or mixture thereof, the sheep are fearful.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> It would seem the
only remedy for these scattered sheep is for their Good Shepherd to come
to the rescue. They are watching and waiting for Him to come and take
them to His pasture for safety and refreshing. They are not comfortable
in enemy territory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Baa-baaaaaaaaaaaa!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><span style="color: red;">"And I heard
another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, lest you
share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins
have reached' to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities." - Rev
18: 5-6</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "Jesus Wept." - John 11:35</span></span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-29373638068075016512016-01-03T09:48:00.000-08:002016-01-03T09:48:24.039-08:00The Father's Business<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="ac4pk-0-0">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="da2bd-0-0"><span data-text="true">In this new year of 2016, I'm sure you, like me, will be monitoring the news and global events in the expectation of our soon reunion with our loved ones who have gone on ahead and our rescue by our Messiah as He comes for us and takes us to that place He has prepared for us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1ki6q-0-0"><span data-text="true">We must remember though that God's Word as it was given to us is all we need to understand His plan for us and for the past, present, and future. It is not our vision for ourselves that matters, but how we fit into His plan that He lays out for us in His Word.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a2k98-0-0"><span data-text="true">We have the Great Commission and that is our Father's business that we need to be about doing. Isn't it interesting that during the time of the outpouring of God's wrath, He does not leave this planet without His witness. The Church is His witness in this dispensation, and in the time of the soon coming Tribulation His witnesses are 144,000 from the tribes of Israel, along with His special two witnesses who will be in Jerusalem, and the angel flying through mid-heaven with the everlasting Gospel. Apparently the Church's assignment will have ended or he wouldn't need the others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="183jo-0-0"><span data-text="true">So we must occupy until He comes and look out for silly fables you will hear people spouting -- such as Bible Codes, some proclamation from the counsel of prophets, or other soothsaying devices that go beyond what is written.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6fsl7-0-0"><span data-text="true">As deception increases we must be more and more on the alert, not only for ourselves, but for others. Pay no heed to those who find their revelation outside the Bible, who peep and mutter to impress others with their grand insights.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dfkn7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Now is the time to set aside all those things that hinder us from hearing the words of our God as He unveils His Word to us and quickens it to the eyes of our understanding as He determines by His will -- and not our own.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661526797662897618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720983859590930579.post-2862494332591896222015-12-27T09:03:00.000-08:002015-12-27T09:03:02.099-08:00Forecast for Hope<span style="font-size: large;"> Blizzards, fires, floods, tornadoes -- disaster forecasts are
looking mighty grim on the weather channel today. A terror-alert has
just been announced for major cities in Europe between Christmas and the
New Year. Life on this planet seems more fragile than ever.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Many
have lost loved ones this year and no doubt that paints their emotions
as this year comes to a close. If the LORD tarries - there is still the
consolation that 100 years from now all of us will have departed from
this life. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> It is hard to fathom how people can walk around
thinking that there is no God and no life after death. How depressing is
that? That's even sadder than the Christians who do not believe that
Jesus is coming back to rule and reign on earth for a thousand years.
Those Christians must despair as well as they watch the birth pangs
increase and see no purpose to it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> What a disappointment life
must be for Christians who think that we are now ruling and reigning in
the place of Christ. It is hard to believe there are such believers --
but Post-Millennialists/Preterists have such a defeated worldview. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
And the signs and wonders followers -- how do they feel when the
feathers stop falling and the gold glitter fades away? Where can they go
to find the next spiritual high? From Toronto to Lakeland to Redding --
all of that is empty thrills and chills.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> But we who wait for our
Savior to come for us His church have the comfort of knowing His Word
is being fulfilled before our very eyes. We have a Lifeline to hold onto
while we wait and a Hope for rescue before God pours out His wrath upon
those dwelling carelessly on the planet. His supernatural power makes
the weak one strong.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> We must keep lifting up Jesus to this
hurting world and pull as many as we can from the fire. Time is short
and the window of opportunity to turn to the LORD is closing.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I
showed the film, The Nativity, to the women in the prison on Christmas
and had the opportunity to share the Gospel with inmates I had not seen
before. I told them that we might envy those who lived when Jesus came
who got to see with their own eyes His miracles and touch the hem of His
garment. There were those who looked for the coming of the Messiah
2,000 years ago, but we are living in the time that will most likely see
His second coming. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Monitoring the birth pangs, as we do in this class,
we can anticipate His return and bring joy to a place that seems
joyless. Please pray for Sunny, Starla, and Cindy -- that the LORD would
give them good soil where the seed planted can grow.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Spread the hope, joy, and good news while there's still time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="color: red;"><b>“Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be
cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all
peoples to Myself.” -- John 12:31-32</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> "Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed
what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like
Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in
Him purifies himself, just as He is pure." - 1 John 3:1-3</span></b></span><br />
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