Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Mystery, Babylon The Great Revealed
The Church of Rome became the true heir to the Babylonian Mysteries of Nimrod Not only did the Bishop of Rome take the office of Pontifex Maximus from the pagan Roman Emperors, but the Church of Rome incorporated the worship and rites of the Mysteries into professed Christianity. This fulfilled the vision given to the Apostle John of the woman riding upon a scarlet coloured beast.
"And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." (Revelation 17. 5) Concerning the beast with seven heads which she rode, the scripture says, "The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth....
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." (Revelation 17. 9 and 18) That great city is none other than Rome, known through the ages for its seven hills.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Commentary by Roger Oakland: Another spirit or the Holy Spirit?
The Bible teaches there is another spirit, another gospel and another Jesus? If God is God, why would such deception exist? The answer is very simple. Satan, the father of lies, is the great deceiver who wants to be God. His plan is to deceive the world in the name of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
Therefore, if the Spirit of God leads the lost to the Son of God, could it be that that “another spirit” is how the devil leads the whole world to the antichrist? These are questions that every Christian should think about, especially in the Last Days when deception is on the increase.
For some time now, I have been thinking about these things. How does Satan deceive, and should a Christian be aware of how Satan works? The Bible is full of references that warn believers to wake up and to expose darkness.
Further, the concept of checking out the roots of a tree has been constantly on my mind. What does it means to check out the roots of a tree with reference to Christianity? Some time ago, a friend of mine gave me an illustration he believed had an important spiritual implication. The illustration was that of a simple drawing of a tree that was filled with ravens sitting on the branches. While some branches represented biblical truths, other branches represented teachings that had infiltrated the body of Christ and were clearly devious plans of Satan.
As for the roots of the tree, some of the roots were embedded in healthy soil and thus provided essential nutrients to the tree, while other roots were embedded in soil that was polluted with poison, and of course, did much harm to the tree. Further, the illustration showed that this tree was a hiding place for the ravens.
I will never forget this illustration as this is what is happening to fellowships and entire denominations within the Christian church today. Bad roots eventually produce bad fruit. While this should be obvious to those who say they believe the Bible, that’s not always the case. The human beings, who make up the tree, cannot see because they are part of the tree, and they have become blinded. It would be easy to recover from this blindness if they would only turn to the Word of God to gain understanding and discernment.
Christianity is full of examples of tree-like denominations full of ravens because Satan is the master deceiver, and he knows that men follow men instead of Jesus. While the Roman Catholic Church claims to be the Mother of All Churches we know this is not true. Jesus said His church would be built upon the true cornerstone. And He is that cornerstone. [4]. When we follow men instead of Jesus Christ, we have the ingredients for a spiritual disaster. Such is the case that we will try to analyze in the rest of this commentary.
A Counterfeit spirit is not the Holy Spirit?
Wouldn’t it make sense that if the Holy Spirit points the lost to the truth, then a counterfeit spirit called “another spirit” points those who are lost toward deception? This is the devil’s plan as recorded in the Bible. In our research, we have discovered this is one of Satan’s favorite strategies. How many have believed they have been led by the Spirit of God when later it becomes obvious that they had been seduced by a spirit of deception? This is why it is so important to have discernment, which only comes from knowing God’s Word and allowing His Spirit to lead us.
For example, I have known people who believed they were being blessed by the Spirit of God because they laughed hysterically, barked like a dog, slithered on the floor like a snake, or even clucked like a chicken. At first, they said they were not sure if it was God that was causing them to behave that way. Their line of thought went like this: if it was God, they did not want to miss out on what God was doing; thus they were willing to take the risk.
As you can see this line of reasoning is not reasonable. What if it was not God that was causing them to behave in these unusual ways? Would that mean they had been deceived by Satan? This is a serious situation
History shows the danger there is in following a man or woman who claims to be a Christian because he or she has an ability of making people “feel” like they are being influenced by the Holy Spirit.
On a number of occasions, I have heard testimonies from people who were first-hand witnesses of the “Jesus Movement.” They give testimony that one of the leaders had the ability to make them feel like the “spirit” was “flowing all over them.” The person who is speaking in the following clip states there would never have been a Calvary Chapel movement or a Vineyard Movement without Lonnie Frisbee who acted very strangely:
Here is another example of a testimony from a person who claims that Lonnie Frisbee had an “anointing” called a mantle. Today, there are those who believe there is about to be another Jesus movement and that this so-called anointing that Frisbee had is about to be released.
Now, here are the facts. Feelings can be very deceptive. Feelings or emotions should never be relied upon for determining truth and the presence of the Holy Spirit. Believing that one can receive a transferable anointing from a man or an object is nothing more than witchcraft. Following a man under the influence of drugs is not following Jesus and His Word.
Many who were under such an influence felt all kinds of things. They even saw things that were in their minds as the result of LSD. How much confidence would you put in a person who said he was a convert of Jesus Christ who was stoned Saturday night and then preached Sunday morning? Is it possible that “another Jesus” was often represented during this former Jesus movement?
Can Bad Roots Produce Bad Fruit?
While God saves sinners from all sin, does this mean that sin can be covered up by ignoring that sin never happened? Further, there is another piece of evidence that needs to be considered. It is possible to start out right and to end up wrong, isn’t it? What if a group becomes so proud of themselves they refuse to be corrected. Remember, pride comes before a fall.
Now that we are living in a time of great deception predicted by the Bible as the Last Days, is it possible that the ravens are coming home to roost in the dead branches of the trees? Could those branches have died because the roots absorbed poison by certain false doctrines that crept in unawares? Would the dead branches be the perfect nesting place for the enemies of God who are out to destroy all those who truly follow Jesus Christ?
Some time ago, after doing some research and gathering of the facts, I became suspicious because of some of the testimonies that I heard about the roots of the Jesus Movement. Here is one example that you can listen to and watch and see for yourself:
Furthermore, let us consider the connection of Kathryn Kuhlman with the Jesus Movement. She was a promoter of the Protestant Charismatic movement and in ecumenical unity with Rome. Does that sound an alarm? How can someone who has partnered with Rome be part of a true Jesus Movement?
Anyone who has done their research knows that the Jesuit plan is to bring the separated brethren back to the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Jesus is the Eucharistic Jesus and must be worshiped in a container called a monstrance. (See Another Jesus? The Eucharistic Christ and the New Evangelization by Oakland with Tetlow).
A number of things do not line up. Would those who have discernment please stand up? Please watch the following video clip of Lonnie Frisbee and Kathyrn Kuhlman:
While I am not saying that no one was saved during that time, I am saying that godly discernment was not used by the leaders of the Jesus Movement just as godly discernment is not being used by today’s Christian leaders either.
How devious is Satan?
Have you ever considered what spiritual deception is? We should never underestimate Satan’s ability to dupe the world or the church. In fact, the Bible teaches that a counterfeit church will be prepared for a counterfeit “Christ” in the last days. This means that pastors and church leaders who once were strong Bible believers and teachers will be seduced and become pawns of the deceiver. This is what is called the Great Falling Away.
So, the question is this: are we living in the very days that the Bible predicts this will happen? Could it be that another spirit is preparing the way for another Christ, and another gospel is masquerading to prepare the way for the harlot?
This is a time to check your faith and test all that you believe with the Scriptures. Finally, remember the tree with the ravens in the branches. Bad roots can produce branches that are unproductive that may even be the nesting place for false teachers that come home to roost. Check out the roots of the tree that your faith is based upon.
One final thing! Please watch the following video clip of Skip Heitzig’s 2010 production called Riptide. Skip promotes Lonnie Frisbee and Kathyrn Kuhlman as if they were heroes of the faith. It also promotes “another Jesus movement.”
Is it possible that this proposed new Jesus Movement that is being created will partner with the Second Pentecost that is being promoted by the Roman Catholic Charismatic Movement? That would mean that this proposed another Jesus movement would be the equivalent of “Another Jesus” movement also called the Eucharistic Reign of Jesus.
Time will tell, won’t it?
1 2 Corinthians 11:4
2 Isaiah 14:14
3 Revelation 12:9
4 Ephesians 2:20
5 For one example in Scripture, see John 16:13
For more Commentaries, Discernment articles, Videos, Books and DVD's go to:
Understand The Times International
Therefore, if the Spirit of God leads the lost to the Son of God, could it be that that “another spirit” is how the devil leads the whole world to the antichrist? These are questions that every Christian should think about, especially in the Last Days when deception is on the increase.
For some time now, I have been thinking about these things. How does Satan deceive, and should a Christian be aware of how Satan works? The Bible is full of references that warn believers to wake up and to expose darkness.
Further, the concept of checking out the roots of a tree has been constantly on my mind. What does it means to check out the roots of a tree with reference to Christianity? Some time ago, a friend of mine gave me an illustration he believed had an important spiritual implication. The illustration was that of a simple drawing of a tree that was filled with ravens sitting on the branches. While some branches represented biblical truths, other branches represented teachings that had infiltrated the body of Christ and were clearly devious plans of Satan.
As for the roots of the tree, some of the roots were embedded in healthy soil and thus provided essential nutrients to the tree, while other roots were embedded in soil that was polluted with poison, and of course, did much harm to the tree. Further, the illustration showed that this tree was a hiding place for the ravens.
I will never forget this illustration as this is what is happening to fellowships and entire denominations within the Christian church today. Bad roots eventually produce bad fruit. While this should be obvious to those who say they believe the Bible, that’s not always the case. The human beings, who make up the tree, cannot see because they are part of the tree, and they have become blinded. It would be easy to recover from this blindness if they would only turn to the Word of God to gain understanding and discernment.
Christianity is full of examples of tree-like denominations full of ravens because Satan is the master deceiver, and he knows that men follow men instead of Jesus. While the Roman Catholic Church claims to be the Mother of All Churches we know this is not true. Jesus said His church would be built upon the true cornerstone. And He is that cornerstone. [4]. When we follow men instead of Jesus Christ, we have the ingredients for a spiritual disaster. Such is the case that we will try to analyze in the rest of this commentary.
A Counterfeit spirit is not the Holy Spirit?
Wouldn’t it make sense that if the Holy Spirit points the lost to the truth, then a counterfeit spirit called “another spirit” points those who are lost toward deception? This is the devil’s plan as recorded in the Bible. In our research, we have discovered this is one of Satan’s favorite strategies. How many have believed they have been led by the Spirit of God when later it becomes obvious that they had been seduced by a spirit of deception? This is why it is so important to have discernment, which only comes from knowing God’s Word and allowing His Spirit to lead us.
For example, I have known people who believed they were being blessed by the Spirit of God because they laughed hysterically, barked like a dog, slithered on the floor like a snake, or even clucked like a chicken. At first, they said they were not sure if it was God that was causing them to behave that way. Their line of thought went like this: if it was God, they did not want to miss out on what God was doing; thus they were willing to take the risk.
As you can see this line of reasoning is not reasonable. What if it was not God that was causing them to behave in these unusual ways? Would that mean they had been deceived by Satan? This is a serious situation
History shows the danger there is in following a man or woman who claims to be a Christian because he or she has an ability of making people “feel” like they are being influenced by the Holy Spirit.
On a number of occasions, I have heard testimonies from people who were first-hand witnesses of the “Jesus Movement.” They give testimony that one of the leaders had the ability to make them feel like the “spirit” was “flowing all over them.” The person who is speaking in the following clip states there would never have been a Calvary Chapel movement or a Vineyard Movement without Lonnie Frisbee who acted very strangely:
Here is another example of a testimony from a person who claims that Lonnie Frisbee had an “anointing” called a mantle. Today, there are those who believe there is about to be another Jesus movement and that this so-called anointing that Frisbee had is about to be released.
Now, here are the facts. Feelings can be very deceptive. Feelings or emotions should never be relied upon for determining truth and the presence of the Holy Spirit. Believing that one can receive a transferable anointing from a man or an object is nothing more than witchcraft. Following a man under the influence of drugs is not following Jesus and His Word.
Many who were under such an influence felt all kinds of things. They even saw things that were in their minds as the result of LSD. How much confidence would you put in a person who said he was a convert of Jesus Christ who was stoned Saturday night and then preached Sunday morning? Is it possible that “another Jesus” was often represented during this former Jesus movement?
Can Bad Roots Produce Bad Fruit?
While God saves sinners from all sin, does this mean that sin can be covered up by ignoring that sin never happened? Further, there is another piece of evidence that needs to be considered. It is possible to start out right and to end up wrong, isn’t it? What if a group becomes so proud of themselves they refuse to be corrected. Remember, pride comes before a fall.
Now that we are living in a time of great deception predicted by the Bible as the Last Days, is it possible that the ravens are coming home to roost in the dead branches of the trees? Could those branches have died because the roots absorbed poison by certain false doctrines that crept in unawares? Would the dead branches be the perfect nesting place for the enemies of God who are out to destroy all those who truly follow Jesus Christ?
Some time ago, after doing some research and gathering of the facts, I became suspicious because of some of the testimonies that I heard about the roots of the Jesus Movement. Here is one example that you can listen to and watch and see for yourself:
Furthermore, let us consider the connection of Kathryn Kuhlman with the Jesus Movement. She was a promoter of the Protestant Charismatic movement and in ecumenical unity with Rome. Does that sound an alarm? How can someone who has partnered with Rome be part of a true Jesus Movement?
Anyone who has done their research knows that the Jesuit plan is to bring the separated brethren back to the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Jesus is the Eucharistic Jesus and must be worshiped in a container called a monstrance. (See Another Jesus? The Eucharistic Christ and the New Evangelization by Oakland with Tetlow).
A number of things do not line up. Would those who have discernment please stand up? Please watch the following video clip of Lonnie Frisbee and Kathyrn Kuhlman:
While I am not saying that no one was saved during that time, I am saying that godly discernment was not used by the leaders of the Jesus Movement just as godly discernment is not being used by today’s Christian leaders either.
How devious is Satan?
Have you ever considered what spiritual deception is? We should never underestimate Satan’s ability to dupe the world or the church. In fact, the Bible teaches that a counterfeit church will be prepared for a counterfeit “Christ” in the last days. This means that pastors and church leaders who once were strong Bible believers and teachers will be seduced and become pawns of the deceiver. This is what is called the Great Falling Away.
So, the question is this: are we living in the very days that the Bible predicts this will happen? Could it be that another spirit is preparing the way for another Christ, and another gospel is masquerading to prepare the way for the harlot?
This is a time to check your faith and test all that you believe with the Scriptures. Finally, remember the tree with the ravens in the branches. Bad roots can produce branches that are unproductive that may even be the nesting place for false teachers that come home to roost. Check out the roots of the tree that your faith is based upon.
One final thing! Please watch the following video clip of Skip Heitzig’s 2010 production called Riptide. Skip promotes Lonnie Frisbee and Kathyrn Kuhlman as if they were heroes of the faith. It also promotes “another Jesus movement.”
Is it possible that this proposed new Jesus Movement that is being created will partner with the Second Pentecost that is being promoted by the Roman Catholic Charismatic Movement? That would mean that this proposed another Jesus movement would be the equivalent of “Another Jesus” movement also called the Eucharistic Reign of Jesus.
Time will tell, won’t it?
1 2 Corinthians 11:4
2 Isaiah 14:14
3 Revelation 12:9
4 Ephesians 2:20
5 For one example in Scripture, see John 16:13
For more Commentaries, Discernment articles, Videos, Books and DVD's go to:
Understand The Times International
Monday, August 22, 2011
Commentary from Understand The Times: The Demise of Mega Corporate Churches By the Jesuit Plan Known as the Counter Reformation
Introduction
For some time, Understand The Times has been warning pastors of churches that were formerly considered to be Protestant and evangelical about the spiritual deception that is currently underway and seducing them into the One World Religion. As time has passed, it seems that these leaders no longer consider themselves Protestant or evangelical. They are ecumenical. Instead of protesting against the rule of Rome, they are now actually partners with Rome and even promoting a globalist Dominionist plan to transform the world in what they believe is a great revival or great awakening. While many innocent sheep follow these pastors and leaders and do not realize what is happening, the Lord is calling watchmen and watchwomen to sound the alarm. The question is, how many are listening?
For some time, Understand The Times has been warning pastors of churches that were formerly considered to be Protestant and evangelical about the spiritual deception that is currently underway and seducing them into the One World Religion. As time has passed, it seems that these leaders no longer consider themselves Protestant or evangelical. They are ecumenical. Instead of protesting against the rule of Rome, they are now actually partners with Rome and even promoting a globalist Dominionist plan to transform the world in what they believe is a great revival or great awakening. While many innocent sheep follow these pastors and leaders and do not realize what is happening, the Lord is calling watchmen and watchwomen to sound the alarm. The question is, how many are listening?
| These watchmen and watchwomen are concerned about apostate leaders who should know better, but they are saying and doing nothing to warn about the apostasy. In fact they are promoting apostasy as if it is not happening. While the sheep may consider their leaders to be supporters of the gospel and therefore evangelical, it is apparent one cannot be on the road to Rome and also be promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ that we find in the Scriptures. Either you are for Jesus Christ and against apostasy, or you are against Jesus Christ and for apostasy. Ecumenism and joining hands with the world religions is not of God. There is one God, Jesus Christ our Creator and our Redeemer.As time passes, there are fewer warning about how close we are to the demise of biblical Christianity. Many who once were blowing the trumpet have now either gone to sleep or they have forgotten what they once believed to be important. The Counter Reformation started by Rome and the Jesuits continues today unnoticed by the apostate churches that are uniting with Rome for many different reasons. They have lost their way as they have been sidetracked by a number of things – love of money, power, and prestige. They have even changed their view on the Word of God and what it teaches about the return of Christ. Some pastors say that Jesus did not even warn about apostasy as a sign of His soon return. They claim that a P.E.A.C.E. Plan and a One World Religion is much more important and we should spend our time and energy working together to solve our social problems.  We have personally been involved in trying to wake up church leaders who are leading their flocks astray. Either they know they are deceived and are covering up what they are doing, or they are ignorant of what they are doing and just deluded. Either way, our experience has not been good. These leaders do not want the light to shine upon the very darkness they have allowed to creep in. Instead of checking and correcting the course in which they travel, they spread lies and rumors about those who are confronting them with the truth. They do exactly what the religious leaders did in Jeremiah’s day. They ignore the message and proclaim that the messengers have lost their minds. While we have been threatened by pastors who have told us to “shut up” and that God “hates us for dividing the brethren,” let me publically state that dividing the brethren is not our desire or intention. While we realize we cannot judge the motives since only God sees the heart, it is biblical to be inspectors of fruit. What may look like good fruit may not always be good fruit. A pastor can appear full of love and beaming with smiles behind the pulpit, but in his office and behind his desk, he can exhibit a personality like a despot. So which pastor is the real pastor – Pastor A or Pastor B? Paul said it very clearly and with words of warning with regard to how some spiritual leaders can appear: But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.[1] The Great Delusion and the Lie The Scriptures reveal that the Last Days will be a time of great deception and even strong delusion. 2 The reason for this is simple. Satan, the god of this world, has a plan to deceive the world and the church in the name of the Savior. In order for this to happen, the greatest deception in the history of mankind must be pulled off in the Last Days. Those who once believed the truth will fall away from the truth. Worse than that, the truth will be replaced by the lie which apparently the whole world will believe. The world and the world’s religions will also be duped into embracing a One World Government and a One World economy headed up by the antichrist. The Bible forewarns this will happen, a plan authored by man and inspired by Satan. This best can be described as the three-legged stool or 6-6-6 Plan that we read about in Revelation chapter fourteen. For those who have followed the plans of Rick Warren and Tony Blair, it should be obvious this plan is underway. Those who warn others about this plan are called the “resistors” and are being silenced, removed, or ridiculed for their stance against the “new thing” that “God” is doing.  As one would expect, this plan would not just happen overnight or in a couple of weeks. In fact as one looks at an overview of Church history, we can see there have been numerous attempts by Satan to wipe out those who have held to biblical faith. If he can convince people to believe they are followers of the biblical and historic Jesus when instead they are set up to follow a man who claims that he is Jesus Christ, the ultimate delusion will have been pulled off. This is what the Bible says will happen in the Last Days. The best way of understanding Satan’s agenda is to analyze this spiritual deception in light of what we call the Counter Reformation. While we do not intend to lay out all the details here, understand that Satan uses human pawns to pull off his bidding. History bears this out. If humans are going to be used as pawns in an organized way then someone or some organization must be involved. Again, one needs to be a student of church history to see the whole picture. Most church goers today know nothing about church history. They know nothing about the many who gave their lives because they were dedicated to the truth – this martyrdom of saints began with the disciples and continued right on past the reformation. Most today know nothing of the masses that were slaughtered by the Roman Catholic Church during the Counter Reformation or the Inquisition. They are clueless that the Counter Reformation is still underway today and that the hope and final goal of the Counter Reformation is to have the world bow to the pope in Rome as the pontiff who represents Jesus Christ here on earth and establishes the ‘Kingdom of God” here on earth with the “presence” of Jesus. The players presently playing this ecumenical role are the Jesuits. Lighthouse Trails and Understand The Times recently wrote a commentary exposing the Jesuit plan. These clever deceivers have a calculated plan to win back the separated brethren to the Mother of All Churches in Rome. When we read the Bible, we know there must be a global religion for peace that embraces all religions in the name of the Savior. If Bible believing churches are not going to stand up and warn about this deception, they will eventually become part of the deception. Writing the book Faith Undone was an attempt to warn this generation what is going on as the emerging church clearly and cleverly devised a plan to bring this ecumenical unity about.  The Effects of the Emerging Church Faith Undone explained how the road to Rome is being established through the introduction of mysticism, contemplative practices, and outright Peter Drucker and Rick Warrenism; but writing and publishing this book has not been without a high cost - since the book was released, an all out assault from Satan has mounted to stop its warning. Faith is truly being undone, and the Word of God is under attack; those who love the Word of God can see it even though they are only a remnant. Jesus asked the question that is recorded in Luke 18:8: “When the Son of Man returns will He find faith?” If this is the indicator of how bad the deception will be, what should those who still have biblical faith be doing? is underway. We believe this is the case. Pastors and leaders who were once looked up to as great men of God are showing signs that they are willingly following various avenues to Rome. Whether they know they are being deceived or not may be difficult to prove because they often keep silent. However their silence is deafening. It is hard to understand how a born again Christian can show any support whatsoever toward the ecumenical apostasy. If you are not publically against ecumenical apostasy, could your silence possibly be an indicator that you are likely for it? Many pastors and Christian figures are forming alliances they would never have before. At one time, these pastors warned the sheep to look out for dominionist political/religious agendas and to remain steadfast boldly proclaiming the gospel according to the Scriptures. Now, the picture is much different - these pastors who say nothing about ecumenism allow themselves to be infiltrated by spokespersons whom they never would have allowed in their pulpits before. Some of these bad alliances are made with men who are knowingly aligned with Rome and the Roman Catholic Dominionist agenda to take over America and the world for “Jesus.” While this happens, many of the sheep don’t see. The wool is being pulled over their eyes. The shepherds have become wolves in sheep’s clothing. Another gospel and another Jesus is being prepared because there is another spirit at work. This counterfeit plan looks so good to those who do not have discernment that they cannot and will not say anything about it.  Worse yet, there are leaders of churches who claim “God is with them” while all the time they are fleecing the flock.Sheep, because they look to men and not to Jesus, believe whatever their pastors tell them (or does not tell them). Satan’s strategy is to get men to follow men and their methods and movements rather than Jesus and His Word. It’s the perfect setup for the final delusion when the world follows a man who is embodied by Satan. Perhaps you are one of those who is aware of the trends that clearly show biblical Christianity is under attack. Maybe you have even tried to warn your pastor or the Board of your church, and they were not interested in hearing what you had to say. Over the past few years we have heard countless stories from people spread throughout the vast spectrum of church denominations who all have similar stories. Many have been asked to leave their churches because they would not participate in ecumenism or the contemplative eastern mystical practices that lead to the ecumenical delusion. While there are few signs at present that indicate help is on the way, the one thing we know is that Jesus said the Church of Jesus Christ will not be defeated. Jesus said “Upon this rock I will build my church.” The rock was not and is not Peter whom the Roman Catholics say was the first pope. The rock is the true foundation of the Church that is faith in Jesus Christ alone. While I do not claim to know the future when it comes to all that will happen in the present church, I believe it is safe to predict something that few are predicting: the death of the churches that operate like corporations is just on the horizon. While this may sound foolish to those who have built up their invincible empires which include properties all over the world, radio stations and radio networks, many are detecting that something is terribly wrong. These churches have become nothing more than big businesses driven by greed. The pastors are the CEOs. Their boards are made up of puppets or “yes” men who have little or no power. Many of these large institutions have been allowing sin in the camp for a long time. You’ve probably read about some of this on the Internet. What kinds of sins? Sexual misconduct brushed under the carpet and not dealt with; mishandling of donor funds; mishandling of and even illegal financial ventures overlooked and sometimes even encouraged; spiritual abuse against church members by pastors and elders who have become arrogant and proud, and so on. But I believe God is going to judge the house of the Lord before He judges the world. Scripture tells us that the things done in secret will be exposed and brought to the light. Just like it says in the Bible, your sins will find you out. When this happens and the lines are drawn between the dots, many sheep will be so devastated they will not be able to cope. How tragic. The men they trusted in have let them down. Come Out of Her This is a time in history that every professing Christian leader and pastor should take very soberly. It is a time for true humility and true repentance. If there is not humility and repentance, Christian pastors and leaders need to know – your sin will indeed find you out. Better to willingly humble yourself and repent than to wait for God to bring His hand of judgment upon you. If you are leader who is part of the apostasy come out from among her; if you are a leader who is sitting on the sidelines in utter silence while spiritual havoc is taking place, humble yourself and repent and you too, come out from among her. The days are short – there is no time for any believer to compromise. The Word of God not only helps us to understand our times and the agenda to lead the poor sheep on a path towards spiritual suicide, the Scriptures also give us a clear solution. The harlot is the counterfeit bride that is prepared for the antichrist. Surely we can see this happening. The true Church will not disappear but remain triumphant even though faith in Jesus Christ will be a rare commodity. Come out of her, means just that. If you are caught in the web of deception that has been woven by the many tentacles of the strong delusion, now is the time to be bold and take a stand. In the circles that I have been part of for the last three decades, few pastors that I know are willing to separate from the comfort of their position or the security of their job. Either you are for Jesus Christ, or you are against Him. There is still time to repent and do what is right. Will you be counted in that number? [2] [1} 2 Corinthians 11: 12-15 [2] Matthew 24, 2 Timothy 3For more Commentaries, Discernment articles, Videos, Books and DVD's go to: |
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Strange Fire: The Rise of Gnosticism In The Church
by Travers and Jewel van der Merwe
This is one little book that may save a soul from walking into the error and falsehood so prevalent in our time.
FOREWORD
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)
Some books are written before their time. This is one such book. It was never our privilege to know Travers van der Merwe but we had heard of his exemplary walk before God and man while on Earth. While battling cancer, a painful ordeal that lasted for many years, Travers and his wife Jewel penned this book. He saw an ancient heresy arising in the modern Christian church and it weighed heavily on his heart.
After the book was completed, it lay dormant for several years. In the meantime much was happening in the Christian church nationally and internationally to confirm that there was a revival going on - not accompanied by repentance and a turning away from dead works - but of Gnosticism.
Gnosticism has a chameleon-like ability to appear like the genuine article, true Christianity, and thus has managed to transform itself to fit the times in countless new wrappings over the centuries. It particularly adapts itself to that place where the ideas of the east and west meet. Whenever eastern mysticism and western rationalism collide, one can find there the seedbed for a pseudo-Gospel that mimics the real thing.
Gnosticism is fool's gold, shiny and beckoning on the surface, yet phoney. Modern Saints are poorly equipped to recognise the counterfeit. Much Gnosticism enters the Church via the popular Christian media, where the real and the false get mixed up in a garbled soup of doctrines and teachings. The rise of the New Age movement, and the extent to which it has permeated Christian thinking, further clouds the issue. How is a Christian to sort out these strange teachings?
When Jewel first sent us the unpublished manuscript for the book it was because we had been asking her for more information about the rise of modern Gnosticism. The book, she said, would answer many of our questions. Indeed, it did. So many, in fact, that we then began pressing her to let us publish the book. We believed that it should be widely disseminated and read by Christians who were seeking to understand their growing uneasiness with the "new" moves of God, signs and wonders, "laughing revivals", and ecumenical unity.
Strange Fire is a brief, easy-to-understand book that explains how to tell the Truth from the Lie. It doesn't dwell on the spectacular manifestations, but concisely illustrates modern Gnosticism. The real gold of the Gospel is presented in such a way that it outshines the fool's gold of Gnosticism. Readers will have no doubt as to which is which. This handy tool enables even the unlearned to discern Gnosticism the next time they encounter it.
Lynn & Sarah Leslie; December 1995
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Monday, June 14, 2010
The Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction
The Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction as recorded in the Congressional Record of the U.S.A. (House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216):
I ______, now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, sacred hosts of Heaven, and to you, my ghostly Father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the Pontification of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that his holiness, the Pope, is Christ's Vice-regent, and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they may be safely destroyed.
I do further declare, that I will help and assist and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Liberal doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, legal or otherwise.
I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical, for the propagating of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels, from time to time as they may instruct me, and not to divulge directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father. ...
I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver but unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ.
That I will go to any part of the world, whatsoever, without murmuring and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me. ... I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.
That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poison cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the person or persons whatsoever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith of the Society of Jesus.
(These words basically represent the oath of an assassin to their master - in this case, the General of the Jesuits)
Jesuit Order No Friend of Jews and Muslims
By Greg Szymanski, JD
Jan. 27, 2008
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/
The spirit of the Order can be gleaned from the extraordinary prayer of the greatest of Jesuit saints, Francis Xavier, who sought to conquer the Far East for the Black Pope when he said 'Put me some place where there are no Jews or Moslems!'
The Jesuit Order is no friend of the Jews, using what can be called the "Pope's court Jews" to betray their own people.
In fact, Jewish leaders are loyal to the Vatican-led New World just like U.S. leaders, as both governments have sold their people down the river for their globalist pals in Rome.
Even one of the Jesuit Order's own, former Jesuit priest Dr. E. Boyd
Barrett verified this extreme hatred for Jews and Muslims. giving more insight into the reason behind the Pope's Crusade in the Middle East.
On page 180 of his 1935 publication, Rome Stoops to Conquer, he said:
"Owing to an early experience of a painful kind, which was all but disastrous to the Order, and which was due to a group of Spanish Jesuits of Jewish descent, who threatened to dismember the Order, the Jesuits as a body have conceived and fostered an intense animosity against the Jews.
Never since the days of 'the great storm,' as the Cardinal Toletus revolt was called, has anyone of Jewish blood or descent been admitted into the Order [until 1946]. Never since that day has the Order ceased to pursue vindictively the Jews. The spirit of the Order can be gleaned from the extraordinary prayer of the greatest of Jesuit saints, Francis Xavier [who sought to conquer the Far East for the Black Pope]:
'Put me some place where there are no Jews or Moslems,' cried Francis. "The present writer, who spent twenty years in the Jesuit Order, can recall no single occasion on which a word of praise for Jewish achievement or a word of sympathy for Jewish suffering was uttered by a Jesuit."
Regarding the Pope's Middle East Crusade being connected to Vatican hatred of Jews and Muslims, Eric Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins, had this to say:
it is for this reason I believe that the Order has brought a huge Moslem population into Europe as well as the US and Canada. The Moslems whose Masonic leaders are subject to papal control via the Black Pope's International Intelligence Community (CIA/FBI/NSA/DIA and
MI5/MI6/BND/SVR/FSB(former KGB), etc.) will be used to attack and kill many thousands of Jews.
"After they have been used for this purpose, these Moslems will be rounded up and sent to the concentration camps, the Order cleverly ending both the Jewish and Moslem presence in North America and in Europe. To facilitate this scenario, a military dictator must arise in
Europe and in the American Empire.
"In a clever roundabout way, the Order will have used their controlled Moslem presence in both arenas to "solve" its "Jewish Question." Once solved, these dictators can then move to eliminate the "Moslem terrorists" to the delight of the American and European peoples thereby
uniting White Roman Catholics and White apostate Protestants into the Order's "New Right" Republican fascism.
"This is a most doable agenda for the Jesuits. It is one of the strings to their bow of anarchy, revolution and war---for the greater glory of their god---the god who sits in St. Peter's Chair.
"It is for this reason that I have advocated an exodus of all Jews out of North America and Europe back to Israel while time affords. It will not be long until there will be no movement out of the US via aircraft and no bank wires will be permitted to move any dollars out of the country."
And the resurgence of Nazism and Papal power is also rearing its ugly head in Europe, next coming to the U.S., as the European Union is the beginning of the revival of fascism under the cloak of European unity.
If you don't think the Pope's involved, listen to the words of former UN President of the General Assembly, Charles Malik:
"The only hope for this western world is an alliance between the Roman Catholic church which is the most commonly, influential, controlling, unifying, element, in Europe and the western orthodox church. ...The
only hope for the western world lies then in a united Europe under the control of the Pope."
Furthermore, Garner Ted Armstrong 45 years ago warned Europe and America of the coming of fascism. saying:
"Just as certainly as we restore Western Europe to economic prosperity, and then to military power, a successor to Hitler will emerge, gain control of this power through a 'United States of Europe,' which we [the
United States government] are also encouraging, and we shall then wake up, too late, to realize we have restored our fascist enemy the power to destroy us! ... battlefields are becoming economic, just as we said they
would ... the movement is ... forming toward complete political solidification!"
In Peter Wyden's latest book, "The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler", he writes:
"The steady drift toward a populist Hitler renewal became noticeable in the early 1970's, first as a fad among the young, the generation that found in the Führer an appealing symbol, largely because he was taboo
for parents and grandparents and therefore made to measure as a rallying cry for a traditional revolt of young against old.
"Teachers in the Munich schools reported that more and more teenagers were sewing swastikas onto their jeans; telling demeaning jokes about Jews; greeting each other with a cheery 'Heil Hitler!'; and generally adopting the Führer as their idol.
“Under Hitler we wouldn't be seeing any terrorists.”
In the summer of 1979, Mr. Armstrong wrote, "Hitler imagined a 'Thousand-year Reich' with himself ... at the pinnacle of power, and dreamed of a millennial reign of 'German Supermen' over the world, as if e applied these prophecies [of a coming "Messiah"] to himself. This new
leader of a united Europe, who will probably be a German, will attempt to fulfill the very same dream
And English writer, Chris Cumming, who presented the Armstrong warnings in a recent article had this to say:
"This warning was published by Garner Ted Armstrong forty-five years ago. Is he accurate in his prediction? Will a successor to Hitler emerge and gain control of power in the European Union? Are events now unfolding that will lead to a resurrection and revival of fascist ideals
and methods? Is Hitler making a comeback? Will European masses soon demand a strong, central leader who will lead them from their economic and social woes and establish what is already being called, The Fourth Reich? How will it happen?
"All one has to do to is read news stories coming out of Europe the last few years. Here are just eight stories we have been monitoring:
Germany mulls over Nazi past
Adopt Nazi methods, says Italian councilor
Hitler Makes a Comeback
A Resurgence of Approval for Hitler's Politics
Hitler a Hero on Palestinian Authority Radio
How a modern fascination with Nazi evil fuels a thriving Hitler industry
Debating the Islamist-Nazi Connection
The Nazi Resurgence: So it seems Iran wants to recreate Hitler's Third
Reich
"Adolf Hitler, albeit one of the most evil and hated dictators of the twentieth century, remains an icon of a political system that brought its people and nation out of financial ruin and despair to power, world prestige and prosperity seemingly overnight.
"As we published in the Plain Truth back in August of 1964, “Now the specter of a united Europe is suddenly looming up ... the United States is oblivious to this new threat to its power. When will we wake up and realize that what is shaping up in Europe is the revival of Fascism under the cloak of European unity?"
"I would not be surprised to see an increased demand for a strong leader to come forth to stop the terrorism in Europe. Add to this the growing unrest with the Muslim immigration problems all nations in Europe are having, especially with the Muslim refusal to integrate into traditional European society.
And Cumming's reminds us that from the booklet, “Mark of the Beast: What is It? ”, Mr. Armstrong writes:
"The coming…dictator of a United States of Europe, will be hailed as a "deliverer"; he will be worshiped! History proves that many women fainted at the sight of Adolf Hitler during one of his parades!...It will happen again!
I ______, now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, sacred hosts of Heaven, and to you, my ghostly Father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the Pontification of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that his holiness, the Pope, is Christ's Vice-regent, and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they may be safely destroyed.
I do further declare, that I will help and assist and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Liberal doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, legal or otherwise.
I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical, for the propagating of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels, from time to time as they may instruct me, and not to divulge directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father. ...
I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver but unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ.
That I will go to any part of the world, whatsoever, without murmuring and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me. ... I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.
That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poison cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the person or persons whatsoever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith of the Society of Jesus.
(These words basically represent the oath of an assassin to their master - in this case, the General of the Jesuits)
Jesuit Order No Friend of Jews and Muslims
By Greg Szymanski, JD
Jan. 27, 2008
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/
The spirit of the Order can be gleaned from the extraordinary prayer of the greatest of Jesuit saints, Francis Xavier, who sought to conquer the Far East for the Black Pope when he said 'Put me some place where there are no Jews or Moslems!'
The Jesuit Order is no friend of the Jews, using what can be called the "Pope's court Jews" to betray their own people.
In fact, Jewish leaders are loyal to the Vatican-led New World just like U.S. leaders, as both governments have sold their people down the river for their globalist pals in Rome.
Even one of the Jesuit Order's own, former Jesuit priest Dr. E. Boyd
Barrett verified this extreme hatred for Jews and Muslims. giving more insight into the reason behind the Pope's Crusade in the Middle East.
On page 180 of his 1935 publication, Rome Stoops to Conquer, he said:
"Owing to an early experience of a painful kind, which was all but disastrous to the Order, and which was due to a group of Spanish Jesuits of Jewish descent, who threatened to dismember the Order, the Jesuits as a body have conceived and fostered an intense animosity against the Jews.
Never since the days of 'the great storm,' as the Cardinal Toletus revolt was called, has anyone of Jewish blood or descent been admitted into the Order [until 1946]. Never since that day has the Order ceased to pursue vindictively the Jews. The spirit of the Order can be gleaned from the extraordinary prayer of the greatest of Jesuit saints, Francis Xavier [who sought to conquer the Far East for the Black Pope]:
'Put me some place where there are no Jews or Moslems,' cried Francis. "The present writer, who spent twenty years in the Jesuit Order, can recall no single occasion on which a word of praise for Jewish achievement or a word of sympathy for Jewish suffering was uttered by a Jesuit."
Regarding the Pope's Middle East Crusade being connected to Vatican hatred of Jews and Muslims, Eric Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins, had this to say:
it is for this reason I believe that the Order has brought a huge Moslem population into Europe as well as the US and Canada. The Moslems whose Masonic leaders are subject to papal control via the Black Pope's International Intelligence Community (CIA/FBI/NSA/DIA and
MI5/MI6/BND/SVR/FSB(former KGB), etc.) will be used to attack and kill many thousands of Jews.
"After they have been used for this purpose, these Moslems will be rounded up and sent to the concentration camps, the Order cleverly ending both the Jewish and Moslem presence in North America and in Europe. To facilitate this scenario, a military dictator must arise in
Europe and in the American Empire.
"In a clever roundabout way, the Order will have used their controlled Moslem presence in both arenas to "solve" its "Jewish Question." Once solved, these dictators can then move to eliminate the "Moslem terrorists" to the delight of the American and European peoples thereby
uniting White Roman Catholics and White apostate Protestants into the Order's "New Right" Republican fascism.
"This is a most doable agenda for the Jesuits. It is one of the strings to their bow of anarchy, revolution and war---for the greater glory of their god---the god who sits in St. Peter's Chair.
"It is for this reason that I have advocated an exodus of all Jews out of North America and Europe back to Israel while time affords. It will not be long until there will be no movement out of the US via aircraft and no bank wires will be permitted to move any dollars out of the country."
And the resurgence of Nazism and Papal power is also rearing its ugly head in Europe, next coming to the U.S., as the European Union is the beginning of the revival of fascism under the cloak of European unity.
If you don't think the Pope's involved, listen to the words of former UN President of the General Assembly, Charles Malik:
"The only hope for this western world is an alliance between the Roman Catholic church which is the most commonly, influential, controlling, unifying, element, in Europe and the western orthodox church. ...The
only hope for the western world lies then in a united Europe under the control of the Pope."
Furthermore, Garner Ted Armstrong 45 years ago warned Europe and America of the coming of fascism. saying:
"Just as certainly as we restore Western Europe to economic prosperity, and then to military power, a successor to Hitler will emerge, gain control of this power through a 'United States of Europe,' which we [the
United States government] are also encouraging, and we shall then wake up, too late, to realize we have restored our fascist enemy the power to destroy us! ... battlefields are becoming economic, just as we said they
would ... the movement is ... forming toward complete political solidification!"
In Peter Wyden's latest book, "The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler", he writes:
"The steady drift toward a populist Hitler renewal became noticeable in the early 1970's, first as a fad among the young, the generation that found in the Führer an appealing symbol, largely because he was taboo
for parents and grandparents and therefore made to measure as a rallying cry for a traditional revolt of young against old.
"Teachers in the Munich schools reported that more and more teenagers were sewing swastikas onto their jeans; telling demeaning jokes about Jews; greeting each other with a cheery 'Heil Hitler!'; and generally adopting the Führer as their idol.
“Under Hitler we wouldn't be seeing any terrorists.”
In the summer of 1979, Mr. Armstrong wrote, "Hitler imagined a 'Thousand-year Reich' with himself ... at the pinnacle of power, and dreamed of a millennial reign of 'German Supermen' over the world, as if e applied these prophecies [of a coming "Messiah"] to himself. This new
leader of a united Europe, who will probably be a German, will attempt to fulfill the very same dream
And English writer, Chris Cumming, who presented the Armstrong warnings in a recent article had this to say:
"This warning was published by Garner Ted Armstrong forty-five years ago. Is he accurate in his prediction? Will a successor to Hitler emerge and gain control of power in the European Union? Are events now unfolding that will lead to a resurrection and revival of fascist ideals
and methods? Is Hitler making a comeback? Will European masses soon demand a strong, central leader who will lead them from their economic and social woes and establish what is already being called, The Fourth Reich? How will it happen?
"All one has to do to is read news stories coming out of Europe the last few years. Here are just eight stories we have been monitoring:
Germany mulls over Nazi past
Adopt Nazi methods, says Italian councilor
Hitler Makes a Comeback
A Resurgence of Approval for Hitler's Politics
Hitler a Hero on Palestinian Authority Radio
How a modern fascination with Nazi evil fuels a thriving Hitler industry
Debating the Islamist-Nazi Connection
The Nazi Resurgence: So it seems Iran wants to recreate Hitler's Third
Reich
"Adolf Hitler, albeit one of the most evil and hated dictators of the twentieth century, remains an icon of a political system that brought its people and nation out of financial ruin and despair to power, world prestige and prosperity seemingly overnight.
"As we published in the Plain Truth back in August of 1964, “Now the specter of a united Europe is suddenly looming up ... the United States is oblivious to this new threat to its power. When will we wake up and realize that what is shaping up in Europe is the revival of Fascism under the cloak of European unity?"
"I would not be surprised to see an increased demand for a strong leader to come forth to stop the terrorism in Europe. Add to this the growing unrest with the Muslim immigration problems all nations in Europe are having, especially with the Muslim refusal to integrate into traditional European society.
And Cumming's reminds us that from the booklet, “Mark of the Beast: What is It? ”, Mr. Armstrong writes:
"The coming…dictator of a United States of Europe, will be hailed as a "deliverer"; he will be worshiped! History proves that many women fainted at the sight of Adolf Hitler during one of his parades!...It will happen again!
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