“Strong Religious Beliefs”: America’s Version of Faith In God

The following Pew Forum article is a view of America’s “religious” politics from the perspective of the Irish secular press.

February 5, 2010

Obama keeps faith as prayer breakfast criticised

by Lara Marlowe

The Irish Times

The U.S. president, first lady, vice-president, secretary of state and a host of elected officials yesterday ignored appeals from government watchdogs, secularists and civil and gay rights movements that they boycott the National Prayer Breakfast.

Seventy-two per cent of Americans believe it is important that their president have “strong religious beliefs”, according to a 2008 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Participating in the National Prayer Breakfast is an easy way to demonstrate those beliefs. It has been attended by every US president since 1953. Bono, Mother Teresa and Tony Blair have all been speakers.

But the breakfast came under a barrage of criticism this year because it is organised by a secretive evangelical group called the Family, or the Fellowship, which counts several Congressmen among its members and has tentacles overseas, notably in Africa.

David Bahati, the politician who drafted the so-called “gay death Bill” or “kill the gays Bill” that would make homosexuality punishable by death in some cases in Uganda, is believed to be a member of the Family. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Obama keeps faith as prayer breakfast criticised.

Let me say first, I could care less what Ireland, or the rest of Great Britain, believes, or thinks, about “religious” political matters in America, since they are most likely as bad off, or worse (in the eyes of God), than the good old U.S. of A.! If they think America is bad off, Spiritually, then I would encourage them to take a good, long look inside themselves: “Physician, heal thyself!”

Now that I’ve said that, America still puts forth this false, and extremely hypocritical, picture of a “God fearing” nation, which not even England does anymore. So, because of this hypocritical stance, the U.S. of A. opens itself up to look like a complete fraud, which it is, when it comes to the issue of believing and seeking God and His Christ!

For example: “Seventy-two per cent of Americans believe it is important that their president have “strong religious beliefs” What?! Then why did the 72% allow Obama to be elected, since Barack is all over the place when it comes to what he believes, Spiritually: the president is a mere child, when it comes to the matters of the Lord and His Spirit, as are most of the 72%! And then there is this quote: “Participating in the National Prayer Breakfast is AN EASY WAY to demonstrate those beliefs.” So, then, all Barack has to do is eat breakfast at a “prayer” get-together, and he’s cool with the constituency? What a sad, and apostate, “religious” joke!

Here is another issue that puzzles me, if Americans are impressed with “strong religious beliefs”, then they should love the Taliban, Bin-Laden, and Al-qaeda, since all of these “religious” people, and their radical organizations, are willing to die for their beliefs; that’s a pretty good test of a “strong religious belief”, or at least it is to me!

Here is a Truth that I can hold tightly to; our Lord and Savior is not a “religion”! Our Lord and Savior is the Way to God, the Truth of God, and the Life of God!

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; NO ONE comes to the Father but through ME. (John 14: 6)

And those who know this Truth, His chosen sons and daughters, and seek Him first, the ones who do more than attend “church” and “tithe”, have no concerns with this country, its economic system, its government, and the so-called “strong religious beliefs” of its elected, and corrupted, officials.

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8: )

“Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For THE GENTILES (the unregenerate and pagan) EAGERLY SEEK all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Matthew 6)

If “religious” Americans were really concerned about “strong religious beliefs”, then they would be more concerned with their own, and why they can so readily be led around by a corrupted government caught up in the concerns of this evil world-system! This kind of Spiritual self examination, of course, will probably never occur to them, nor ever take place:

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—UNLESS INDEED YOU FAIL THE TEST? (2 Corinthians 13: 5)

“A Deluding Influence” XI

{I have decided, from time to time, to post certain items that I sense (through my Spirit, hopefully) speak to many of the issues I write on. These will be short snippets (NOT ALWAYS), and I’ve decided to call them, “A Deluding Influence” (2 Thessalonians 2: 11)}

The spirit of anti-Christ is alive and well in all of Christendom: the nominal “church”. But in particular, it’s alive and well in pagan Catholicism, as the following Pew Forum article reveals.

January 25, 2010

Why some Americans mix Christianity, Eastern religions

by Mark Guarino

The Christian Science Monitor

Because she attends Catholic mass every Sunday and observes all the religious holidays of her faith, Angela Bowman may well exemplify the Latin root of the word “religion,” which is “to bind.”

But the Chicagoan also meditates several times each day and practices yoga every other week. She knows Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism have contradictory elements but is unfazed by her multiple observances because, to her, “it’s all pretty much the same thing.”

“The biggest part of praying is opening yourself up to a connection with God, and I perceive clearing your mind in meditation as another form of receptivity,” says the 30-something textbook editor. Although she is a devoted Roman Catholic, she says she doesn’t “believe it’s the one true path and anything else is flirting with the devil.”

Ms. Bowman’s attitude tracks with those in a study released last month, which found that large numbers of AMERICA’S FAITHFUL do not neatly conform to the expectations or beliefs of their prescribed religions, but instead freely borrow principles of Eastern religions or endorse common supernatural beliefs. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Why some Americans mix Christianity, Eastern religions.

"Religion is all relative, man! Be cool!"

Angela Bowman (one of “America’s faithful”?) is bound by her “religious” beliefs alright, she is the living and breathing example of “carnal Christianity” (false Christianity). Ms. Bowman doesn’t believe that the Christ is the ONLY WAY to God, yet she professes to be a Christian. She is so confused, as are so many others, that she honestly believes she can follow and serve Buddha (a demon inspired “religion”) and the Lord at the same time; as Bowman states, “it’s all pretty much the same thing.” In her absolute Spiritual and intellectual ignorance (her “delusional” state), fostered by the apostate doctrines and ritualism of pagan Catholicism (Christendom), Ms. Bowman believes she has it (“religion”) all figured out, Spiritually. But, in Truth and reality, she is just another mere pawn, a “religious” fool of Satan. Ms. Bowman, like so many other religionists, has been blinded by the god of this age:

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, 2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4)

Ms. Bowman, like most politically-correct Americans today (relativists), is very “open-minded”: here is what scripture has to say about this “open-mindedness”, this cultural/”religious” relativism:

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (1 John 4)

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3 For THE TIME WILL COME when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths (Buddhism, Hinduism, New Age relativism). (2 Timothy 4)

Well THE TIME HAS COME, and it’s here and now!

Ms. Bowman, of course, is most likely unfamiliar with these scriptures, or any other portion of the word of God. Like Bill Clinton, and most other escapees from the lunatic ward that was 1960s America, Ms. Bowman probably would claim that the word of God is “ambiguous”. She, like Bill Clinton and the others, confuses ambiguity with not having the Spirit; without the Spirit to lead us, we cannot discern the word of God, so without the Spirit the word will appear to be ambiguous:

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. (John 14: 26)

Yet we do speak WISDOM among those who are MATURE; a wisdom, however, NOT OF THIS AGE NOR OF THE RULERS OF THIS AGE, WHO ARE PASSING AWAY; 7 but we speak GOD’S WISDOM in a mystery, THE HIDDEN WISDOM which God predestined before the ages to our glory; 8 the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; 9 but just as it is written,

“THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD,
AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN,
ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.”

10 For to us God revealed them through THE SPIRIT; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14 But A NATURAL MAN (the unregenerate, pagan, and apostate believer) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY APPRAISED. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. (1 Corinthians 2)

Satan loves the “open-minded” (especially the hypocritical, “open-minded” and “tolerant” religionists like Ms. Bowman, Bill Clinton, and the like), since there’s always loads of room, in these folks’ minds and hearts, for his disembodied spirits (demons) to move in and do their best work! The fruit of these demons’ work will be the messed up, Godless, and/or apostate, lives they produce: adulterers, liars, pedophiles, murderers, or even just plain old corporate criminals!

Just as the Hebrew nation offered up sacrifices to other gods (idolatry), and, in so doing, incurred the wrath of God, many modern “Christians” offer themselves up to other gods today (third-world and “new-age” demon-inspired religions, post-modernism, Darwinism, feminism), and they will, on the coming day of judgment, incur their just punishment: which will be, depending on Spiritual salvation (“being saved”), either loss of reward, or the same punishment as the pagan, the unregenerate, and Satan: the lake of fire.

“Behold, I am coming quickly, AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, to render to every man ACCO0RDING TO WHAT HE HAS DONE. 13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. 15 OUTSIDE (of the New Jerusalem) ARE THE DOGS and THE SORCERERS and THE IMMORAL PERSONS and THE MURDERERS and THE IDOLATERS, and everyone who loves and practices lying (LIARS). (Revelation 22)

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is THE BOOK OF LIFE; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into THE LAKE OF FIRE. This is THE SECOND DEATH, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in THE BOOK OF LIFE, he was thrown into THE LAKE OF FIRE. (Revelation 20)

The lost folks on the “outside“, will consist of the unregenerate, the pagan, and those like Ms. Bowman, who chose to live an idolatrous spiritual life of convenience and hypocrisy; she had to have her worldly and spiritual cake, and eat it too, and soon her cake will turn and eat her up. These folks chose their heaven here and now, so they have no right to expect anything in the coming ages; except, that is, the judgment which will involve “loss of reward”, for the saved, and rejection, and the wrath of God, for the rest!

For more information on Catholicism and Paganism, I suggest the following text (chapter 48 to end of book):

The Church the Churches and the … – Google Books.

Those Who Love God Were “Foreknown & Predestined”

We live in a dark world where many people reject our Lord and His Truth. But is it truly the unregenerate (atheist/agnostic or pagan) doing the rejecting, or has God, in accordance with His pleasure and will, not chosen those whom He knows will, of their own volition, reject Him?

Our Lord and Savior makes it clear that those who believe on Him will be drawn to this belief by the Father:

Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44 “NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS THE FATHER WHO SENT ME DRAWS HIM; and I will raise him up on the last day. (John 6: 44)

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14 “You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 “YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME BUT I CHOSE YOU, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 “This I command you, that you love one another. (John 15)

The Apostle Paul also confirms that believers were drawn, or chosen:

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are CALLED according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He FOREKNEW, He also PREDESTINED to become CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He PREDESTINED, He also CALLED; and these whom He called, He also JUSTIFIED; and these whom He justified, He also GLORIFIED. (Romans 8: )

This is what the word of God has to say about those who have NOT been FOREKNOWN and PREDESTINED:

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature (Spiritually); a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; 7 but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; 8 the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory…

For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14 But A NATURAL MAN (unregenerate) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THEM, because THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY APPRAISED. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2)

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, 4 in whose case the god (Satan) of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4)

It would also appear from scripture that the unregenerate will choose to follow the enemy of our Lord. And thus, since our Lord can see the beginning of all things from the end (omniscience), this would explain why He didn’t choose those whom He knew would choose to follow His enemy (the seed of the serpent):

The LORD God said to THE SERPENT (Satan),
“Because you have done this,
CURSED are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;

15 And I will put enmity (hatred)
Between you and the woman,
AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED (Christ and believers);
He shall bruise you on the head (The second advent of Christ),
And you shall bruise him on the heel (the crucifixion and death of Jesus).” (Genesis 3)

The seed of Satan is the anti-Christ, and also those who choose (through the spirit of anti-Christ) to follow and obey him:

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and EVERY SPIRIT THAT DOES NOT CONFESS JESUS IS NOT FROM GOD; THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They (the unregenerate and pagan) are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (1 John 4)

Whereas the woman’s seed is the Christ, and those, also, who were chosen to believe on Him, OBEY Him, and seek Him: His (true) Church, His Body, His Bride:

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as A BRIDE adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” (Revelation 21)

In reference to the seed of the serpent, we hear Jesus rebuking the “religious” leaders of Israel (pharisees, scribes, priests, etc) in this manner:

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 “You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. 35 “The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil. 36 “But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. 37 “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12)

They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. 40 “But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. 41 “You (the seeds) are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. 43 “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.” (John 8: )

"For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword..." Hebrews 4: 12

The message here is clear: if a person denies the Christ, then that person cannot discern the Truth of our Lord and Savior (the word of God), and thus he or she will automatically discern and follow after the lies and leadings of the evil one, the serpent; whether they be cognizant of it or not.

{As much as the atheists/agnostics, and pagans, hate to hear this, I will say it once again: if anyone, after having the chance to hear and believe, openly rejects the Lord, and His Truth, they will, then, accept and follow the leadings and lies of the serpent, the evil one, Satan! There is no third or fourth Spiritual option!!}

The person who has heard the Truth of Christ and openly rejected it is the seed of the serpent and will, in the end, perish with the serpent. But the seed of the woman is Christ, and also those who hear His truth, and believe, and OBEY, and they shall have life eternal and abundant (see Earth’s Earliest Ages, Chapter 6: G.H. Pember).

Therefore, it is not the unregenerate person, in reality, who is doing the rejecting. It is, instead, the Father, by means of His omniscience, Who does not choose those whom He KNOWS will choose to follow, and obey, His enemy, the serpent!

For any who would question the fairness of this, or God’s justice and judgment, I would refer them to this scripture from the Apostle Paul:

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 15 For He says to Moses, “I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION.” 16 So then IT DOES NOT DEPEND ON the MAN who wills or the man who runs, BUT ON GOD who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, WHO ARE YOU, O MAN, WHO ANSWERS BACK TO GOD? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? (Romans 9)

I will finish this in Part II.

The Ten Commandments of God: Law to the Jew, Fulfilled by the Christ!

What is wrong with the “religious” (American Jew) portrait being painted by the following Pew Forum article?

January 27, 2010

‘Philosophy’ poster containing Ten Commandments gets judge back in spotlight

by Mary Beth Lane

The Columbus Dispatch

A second constitutional challenge to an Ohio judge’s display of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom is making its way through the court system.

At issue is whether a new, self-designed and framed poster put up by Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese in his Mansfield courtroom is constitutional. He says it is. Advocates for church-state separation say it isn’t.

The judge hung the poster in 2006. That was after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 let stand previous lower-court rulings that his first poster, which he hung in 2000, violated the constitutional separation between church and state.

On Tuesday, Americans United for Separation of Church and State joined Hindu, JEWISH and other groups in filing a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the judge’s display is an unconstitutional governmental endorsement of religion. The brief was filed in the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: ‘Philosophy’ poster containing Ten Commandments gets judge back in spotlight.

What’s wrong with this “religious” portrait? Well, let’s see…. Jewish groups have joined with pagan religionists (Hindus), and the unregenerate (atheist/agnostic), to keep an Ohio judge from displaying the first Law given, by Jehovah, to the Hebrew nation: the ten commandments. At the very same time “Christian” activists are insisting on their political “right” to display the ten commandments in government buildings, many American Jews who, unlike the (Christian), are still under the penalty for breaking these commandments (Laws), are insisting on their “right” to enforce “the separation of church and state.”

{the Hollywood, Kabbalah (ancient paganism) type “Jew”: the synagogue of Satan, Madonna, and the like.

Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie– I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you. (Revelation 3: 9)}

Let me state this, once again, a little differently: “Christians”, whose Lord and Savior came, died, and was resurrected, to fulfill these commandments (and all others), are strenuously in favor of the ten commandments being displayed in government offices, while many American Jews, who still remain under the legal force of the Law of Jehovah (since they rejected and murdered their Messiah, almost two thousand years ago), are firmly against the LAW of Jehovah being placed in government offices; and for the same reason as the pagan worshiper and unregenerate atheist/agnostic, “the separation of church and state” clause. This is so bizarre that I can hardly put it into words!

In either case, “Christian” or Jew, it’s these folk’s “religious”/ superstitious ignorance, and subsequent Spiritual confusion, mixed with their love of this world-system and country, that keep them chasing after man-made, Satanic-inspired “rights” and “entitlements”: “a chasing after the wind”. It would appear, then, that these particular American Jews, as with apostate “Christian” religionists (patriots all), love this country, its constitution, and their “rights” and “entitlements”, more than they love the word of God and His truth!

I’ll leave the following verse for the “Christian” apostate-patriots:

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth, power, “rights”, “entitlements”). (Matthew 6: 24)

And I’ll leave this FIRST COMMANDMENT of God for those particular American Jews who seemingly love this country, and its constitution, more than they do Jehovah:

‘I am the LORD your God (Jehovah) who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

7 ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

8 ‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 9 ‘You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Deuteronomy 5)

This first commandment may be the reason why these particular American Jews don’t want the ten commandments displayed? Perhaps, it’s too much of a reminder to them of their history as a nation, and their own idolatry (Hebrew, not U.S. of A.)?

Where Is Our Treasure Stored?

The “American Dream” isn’t over, since it never really existed to begin with; except, of course, in the minds of the perpetrators who created it, and in the desperate imaginings of the “got-to-get-ahead”, working-class poor. The “American Dream” was, and still is, an ideological-based pyramid scheme and nothing more. The “American Dream” was created by the filthy rich and powerful to keep the middle class in bondage to an ungodly golden phantom, which always fades away as soon as it is close enough to be grasped: except, that is, for the selected few who are allowed to win in order to keep the other “suckers” (the working middle-class) involved and worshiping. The “A. D.” is, and always has been, “the carrot dangling, temptingly, in front of the yoked mule’s nose (the working middle-class nose)” routine!

Jesus told the multitude,

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6)

The following quotes, and article, were sent to me by a brother in Christ. This informative and passionate article only affirms, in my Spirit, what I have sensed for the last thirty years: Americans who ARE NOT part of the elite 1 to 20% are here merely to act as a means to an ungodly political, economic and philosophical end: capitalistic greed and power, or, in other words, idolatry!

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country“- Edward Bernays, 1928 (emphasis added)

“Our enormously productive economy…demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate”- Victor Lebeau, 1947 (emphasis added)

In a nation consumed by politics, where pandering and lobbying are two sides of the same platitude, what will the increasingly angry gentle folks of Ohio, Iowa, and Florida demand of their philandering representatives in Washington? What form of instant remedy will some baseless political hack come to offer them as the snake oil for what ails them? How will those decisions come to dominate the lives of those in Canada, Ecuador, and Ghana?

In the distant future, historians will consider the rise, fall, and collapse of the great American Dream and conclude that was the cause of all that followed. None will be surprised at the all too human response of anger, frustration, and action in the teeth of injustice and inequality. After all, history is full of angry people who just weren’t going to take it anymore. They will wonder only how it was we could not see it coming – how we could be so stupid to have blown it.

The coming fury of angry America is as palpable as it is silent. What will that tiny part of a tiny part of the earth’s population (the wealthy and powerful ‘invisible government’) do when the utter hopelessness of the situation washes over them and the tides of history curl around and bear them, inexorably, into the past? (emphasis added)

via Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash.

Note Mr. Bernays’ use of the word “masses” (first quote):

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the MASSES is an important element in democratic society.”

Sound familiar? Mr. Bernays’ approach to “the people”, or “the masses”, was much the same as the following person’s approach:

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. IT IS THE OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE (the “MASSES”). The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. (Karl Marx)

Mr. Bernays, as with Karl Marx, evidently saw people merely as a means to a philosophical/political/economic end, and not as unique individuals made in the image of God. Shouldn’t it be surprising, then, that an avowed capitalist would use a similar manipulation of language, as an avowed communist/atheist, to describe the people of this “democracy”? Were we created merely to be the pawns, the fools (with the “carrot” dangling in front of our noses), the cogs in the “unseen mechanism” of an “invisible government” (“the top 1 to 20%” who live to serve mammon), or were we created to fulfill our purpose in the Lord? Is “consumption to be our way of life“, or is the Lord’s Way and Truth to be our Life?

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. 3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; 4 and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. (Ephesians 5)

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12)

I’m not going to write much more on this, since the article speaks for itself; or, at least, it should, if we have ears to hear the TRUTH! All I’ll say is this, I believe we must choose who or what we will faithfully love and serve in this life: will we choose to serve this corrupt and decaying government and economic system (the evil world-system), or will we choose to love and serve the Lord: our Creator, our Savior, our sovereign King and Brother?

Choose wisely NOW, for in the age to come, when mankind will be judged, there will be no changing of minds, nor will there be any politically-correct, mealy-mouth and childish excuses accepted at that Greatest and Final Seat of True Judgment and Justice: “He didn’t have a daddy, and that’s why he sold drugs and murdered…”, “My great, great, great grandparents were slaves, and that makes me angry and bitter…”, “It was my right as an American citizen to lie, cheat and steal in my business! After all, I was in charge of a corporation, and that’s how capitalism works…” These miserable excuses, if they’re even allowed to be spoken, will fall to the ground (where they belong) before the righteousness and brilliance of our Lord’s perfection, and they will be immediately burned up:

Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem (the unregenerate enemies of God); their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. (Zechariah 14)

I will close with these scriptures:

1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

2 Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

4 Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

6 You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you. (James 5)

1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”? (James 4)

Whether It Be Aborting A Baby, Or The Killing Of An Abortion “Doctor”, Murder Is Murder!

Einstein was close to being correct with his statement, but, being an atheist/agnostic, he left out the most important part, which is, “AND A BLESSING FROM GOD”!

On the issue of abortion (An unborn baby’s LIFE vs “A woman’s RIGHTS”), there are two corrupt sides struggling against each other: on the one side are the unregenerate perpetrators of abortion (murder), worshiping at the alter of constitutional (humanistic) “rights” and “entitlements”, and on the other, a “religious” and patriotic side, worshiping at the alter of constitutional (“religious”) “rights” and “entitlements”; while, at the same time, claiming to know, love, follow and worship the Lord.

The latter are so wrapped up in their love for this country that the Lord’s truth has little or nothing to do with their so-called “religious” fervor. In fact, they equate loving democracy and capitalism with being a “good Christian”. So out of this confused apostasy comes men like the one in the article below, a man who felt justified (somewhere in his depraved, Godless mind) in murdering an abortion “doctor” (murderer).

January 22, 2010

Roeder trial begins on Roe v. Wade anniversary

by Ron Sylvester

The Wichita Eagle

On the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that gave constitutional protection for abortions, prosecutors this morning will begin presenting evidence that Scott Roeder killed George Tiller because he performed them.

A jury of eight men and six women were seated Thursday afternoon and will begin hearing evidence this morning — 37 years to the day after the high court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert plans to swear in the jury, most of whom are over the age of 40.

Roeder, 51, is charged with the May 31 killing of Tiller, one of the few physicians in the country who performed late-term abortions. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Roeder trial begins on Roe v. Wade anniversary.

Where do we see Jesus ever taking a political stand? Even when Jesus was being falsely accused, He refused to take part in man’s depraved sense of justice and judgment and, instead, remained silent, knowing that He was doing His Father’s will. This “religious” zealot (murderer), on the other hand, decided to play God and take another man’s life! Evidently, Mr. Roeder never read or discerned the following scriptures:

YOU SHALL NOT MURDER (for any reason!) (Deuteronomy 5: 17)

“You have heard that it was said, ‘AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.’ 39 “But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 40 “If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. 41 “Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 “Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ 44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 “If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5)

Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord. 20 “BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12)

It’s a shame that most of these “religious” zealots have never actually read or, if they have, discerned the word of God. For if they had, then they would have noticed that, according to the Lord (the Word), we (the sons of God) have no political rights in this decaying world. We are, if we truly have Christ living in and through us, a heavenly people: this world (system), and it’s evil and ungodly ways, are not to be our concern. Our minds are to be set on the things above, not on what is perishing below:

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2)

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. (Colossians 3)

Murder is murder, whether it be an abortion of a living child in the womb of its mother, the murder of an abortion “doctor” (murderer), or the waging of war, and the subsequent “tragic but necessary” murdering of hundreds of thousands of people to “keep America free and safe”. “Thou shall not murder” is the command of God to all people, not just the Hebrew nation, or the Christian, but to all of mankind!

“For Behold, Darkness Will Cover The Earth…”

The Lord states, through the Prophet Isaiah,

“Arise, shine; for your light has come,
And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.
2 “For behold, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the LORD will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you.
3 “Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising. (Isaiah 60)

Isaiah prophesied that at the end of this current age (this age, or dispensation, of the Lord’s grace), when the gathering together, and reestablishment, of the nation of Israel would occur, there would be great Spiritual darkness covering the earth and its peoples. We shouldn’t have to look too far, or too long, to see that Isaiah was truly a prophet of God.

Darkness is everywhere we look, even in the so-called “good things” that are supposedly making our lives “better” and “easier”. Oh yes, we have a myriad of electronic “conveniences”, which, in the end, merely serve to make us more self-absorbed and weak. And yes, we have advanced medical procedures and medicines that extend our lives, make our noses prettier, and suck cellulite from our guts and extremities. We have forced our way into “outer space” (the heavens) and landed men on the moon. But have we learned how to love and care for each other? Have we learned to be at peace with those around us, or even with ourselves?

When we look deep inside ourselves, into our souls, what do we truly sense or see? When we’re alone with our thoughts, philosophies/ideologies, memories and conscience, where we cannot hide behind our arrogant professions, what is our response, then, to the self we see in the mirror that is our soul? When we consider our families, friends, neighbors, and those who exist around us, what is our response, what is our first inclination: to love them, respect them, hate them, abhor them, or outright flee from them?

The disciples of Jesus wanted to know what signs would signify His second advent, and the end of this age:

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. 5 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8 “But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. (Matthew 24)

The Apostle Paul also speaks of how men (believers in God, not the unregenerate) will be at the end of this age:

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 HOLDING TO A FORM OF GODLINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE DENIED ITS POWER; AVOID SUCH MEN AS THESE. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 ALWAYS LEARNING AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. (1 Timothy 3)

So, then, we have, according to the Lord, the state of the world at the end of this age:

1) “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.”

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed! (Galatians 1)

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. (2 Peter 2: 1)

2) “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars.”

Two world wars, Korea, Laos, Viet Nam, the first Iraqi war, Iraq, Afghanistan, the middle east (Israel, Palestine, Iran), and North Korea. And this lists the major areas of “war and rumors of war” in just the last one hundred and ten years. Need I mention more?

3) “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.”

Nation against nation, meaning ethnic group against ethnic group (“race against race”: from the Greek word “ethnos”): eugenics, the holocaust, and “ethnic cleansing”. The Haitian earthquake, famine throughout Africa and much of the rest of the “third world” nations.

But these are, according to Jesus, just the beginnings of “birth-pangs”. Thus, since these “wars and rumors of wars…” are just the beginnings, the true revealing of the Lord’s “birth-pangs” may still be in the near future: what we’re witnessing, now, may be just the foreshadows of what will become the true “birth-pangs”. This, then, would suggest that what is coming after these wars, famines and earthquakes, Daniel’s “seventieth week”, will be more horrible than any human being could ever imagine:

“But when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. 15 “The one who is on the housetop must not go down, or go in to get anything out of his house; 16 and the one who is in the field must not turn back to get his coat. 17 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 18 “But pray that it may not happen in the winter. 19 “For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will. 20 “Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days. 21 “And then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ’; or, ‘Behold, He is there’; do not believe him; 22 for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect. 23 “But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance. (Mark 13)

Then the Lord tells us, through the Apostle Paul, what mankind will be like at the end of this age:

1) Lovers of Self (“Self-Actualized”, “Self-Esteem”):

SELF ABSORBED is more like it! Narcissistic is more like it! Megalomania is more like it!

2) Lovers of Money:

Corporate and individual greed, Hedonism.

3) Arrogant/Boastful:

“Gay pride”, “Loud and Proud”, “I am Woman, Hear Me Roar…” “I deserve better than _____ (fill in the blank).” “Yes we can!”

4) Unloving/Without Self Control/Brutal/Treacherous/Lovers of Pleasure rather than Lovers of God:

As just one of a billion examples of this, just watch the MTV channels for more than five minutes, and you will see a veritable parade of self-absorbed, “loud and proud”, unloving, without any self-control, people who love their pleasure (what they want, when they want it) more than they love anything or anyone, including their families, friends and God!

5) Holding to a Form of Godliness, although They have Denied its Power. Avoid Such Men as These/Always Learning and Never Able to Come to the Knowledge of the Truth:

“Churchianity” (the institutionalized [nominal]) “church”, the clergy/laity system, “church boards”, seminaries, bible colleges, the Vatican. All of these pieces of an ungodly puzzle form the apostate “church”, or Christendom.

This “religious”/political entity, which has existed for almost nineteen hundred years, has a “form of Godliness” (rituals, dogma, etc.), but it’s a man created and inspired “form”, thus it “denies the power” (the Life) of the risen Christ, and substitutes a “religious” set of rules and pagan-oriented rituals (“doctrines”: traditions) that have little or nothing to do with the Lord and His Truth! The rulers of this entity (Satan being the first), the ministers, pastors, priests, bishops, cardinals, and popes, go to seminaries and bible colleges where they learn the “doctrines”, or manipulations, which will secure them a life-long career. That is, of course, as long as they don’t get caught pilfering from the “collection plate”, or coveting their “flock’s” wives. These “men (and women) of God” are always going to seminars, conferences, etc., they’re always learning, but never are they capable of coming to the knowledge of the Truth!

Unless we’re completely blind, deaf, and without discernment, we should be aware of the horrible state of our country and world. If we can look around us, and convince ourselves that all is well, and life is a blast, then we are either ignorant, stubborn, or deluded. Every night, the evening news is like watching a horror movie, only we can’t change the channel on this one.

The time is at hand, whether we like it or not, and the enemy of God (Satan) is preparing for his “swan song”, and soon he and his cohorts will be cast down from the heavens.

And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, 8 and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,

“Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12)

Then, in great anger, fury and evil power, Satan will work his abomination on the face of the earth. Then, the Lord, in great power and glory, will come with His true Church, His Bride, and make war with the evil one, and cast him into the abyss!

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh…

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time… (Revelation 20, 21)

So, with all of this darkness covering the earth, and its peoples, we must remember with whom, and what, we truly battle, as the Apostle Paul states here:

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 15 and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE; 16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints… (Ephesians 6)

“Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness:” The American Religionists’ Creed

It was all about the so-called “inalienable rights” of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” with the deists, atheists, and hypocritical religionists who, in rebellion against England (and the word of God), “established this nation”. The scripture above evidently meant nothing at all to the Washingtons, Jeffersons, and Paines, since their minds and hearts were set on their own desires, as opposed to the Lord’s will and purpose. Besides, according to these “enlightened” deists, atheists, and religionists, the word of God was inspired by man, not by God, so there was no need to pay attention to the Lord’s Truth, through the Apostle Paul, or any other writer of the Word: as a matter of fact, most or all of the “forefathers” didn’t believe that Jesus the Christ (the author and perfecter of our faith) was the Son of God, nor did they believe that God intervened, supernaturally and lovingly, in the lives of man and the universe He created.

Today, the effects of this Godless and hedonistic rebellion can be witnessed every day in America! The Lord, to most Americans, is either a figment of a “feeble-minded” and ignorant imagination (“not quite ‘evolved’ yet”) or a magic genie who provides what Americans want, when they want it: all these folks, in the latter group, have to do (according to their “religious” beliefs), then, is go to church at least two times a year (Christmas and Easter), sing meaningless hymns (while shouting, “hallelujah”) with arms flailing in the air, and, of course, pay the piper on the pulpit (tithe). Then, after jumping through all of their “religious” hoops, these lost and confused pew-sitters believe, erroneously, that the Lord will automatically give them “the new home of their dreams”, a new car every two years, tons of money in the bank, and, of course, will make sure their promiscuous (“youth group” attending) daughters and/or sons don’t end up with an “std” or, even worse, an unwanted baby to abort. This hypocritical “religious” interpretation of our Lord and Savior has been created and nurtured by an apostate, nominal “church” system (Christendom), which, in reality, is not of God, but of man, his government and economic system. The Lord condemns this “religious” system in the following scripture, but He also offers a way of escape for those with an ear to hear:

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 17 ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, 18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see…

‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22 ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” (Revelation 3)

As one example of this “right” to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, today, the Lord has become somewhat of a marketing ploy for many college and professional sportsmen; in particular, with college and NFL football players. Many of these football players, after scoring a touchdown, or bludgeoning an opponent, will point to the sky and, then, pound their chests: evidently this action is to symbolize their devotion to the Lord, and is, thus, supposed to be a type of “religious” “witness” to those watching the game. In reality, this gesture isn’t much different from that which the gladiators exhibited to show devotion to their god, the emperor!

Here is a further example of what I’m referring to: Tim Tebow, of the University of Florida, wears eye patches with scripture verses designated on them, as do many other college football players. {I use Mr. Tebow as an example, here, since he seems to want the attention more than most, when it comes to his being viewed as a “man of God”.} During his bowl game, on January 1st, 2010, Mr. Tebow wore two patches with “Ephesians 2: — 8-10″ written on them. Here is what the scripture states:

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

A few weeks prior to this, Mr. Tebow had this scripture designated on his eye patches:

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12)

I wonder if Mr. Tebow really understands these scriptures? I wonder if he really comprehends what “the good works he was created for” entail? I wonder if Mr. Tebow, at his youthful age, really comprehends, Spiritually, what it means to “fix his eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith”? My guess is that Mr. Tebow is sincere, but in his Spiritual immaturity, and ignorance, he has no idea of what his commitment to Christ entails, or what a difficult road lies ahead for anyone who has been foreknown and predestined to be CONFORMED to the Image of God’s Son. I wonder if he knows what it really means to have his mind TRANSFORMED, so that he NOT BE CONFORMED to this world and its ways?

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. (Romans 8: )

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12: 2)

I do not know Mr. Tebow, nor any of these other football players, so I am not judging his, or their, sincerity, nor am I in a position to do so! But I am more than certain that Mr. Tebow, and the others, has been influenced by the Spiritual deadness of Christendom. They have been taught, by their scripturally-incorrect priests, bishops, popes, and right-reverends, that they can serve the Lord at the very same time they are pursuing the desires and treasures of this ungodly world system: fame, fortune and power, and all the privileges (“inalienable rights”, “entitlements”) that come with them.

This is so contrary to what the Lord teaches us through His word:

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also…

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. (Matthew 6)

When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. 2 He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (Matthew 5)

So, according to the Lord (Who these football players are supposedly pointing to, after every touchdown), we are not to store up earthly treasure, since where our treasure is, there our hearts will be also. The Lord also says we cannot serve two masters: mammon (fame, fortune, earthly power) and God the Father.

Also note that the “Blessed Are” folks seem to have attributes which have nothing, whatsoever, in common with the worldly successful person: since they are the poor in Spirit, the mourners, the gentle folk, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the pure at heart, the PEACEMAKERS and the persecuted. No, these Godly folk (the heavenly people) have nothing in common with the “self-actualized”, the rich, the proud, the powerful in this world system. These Godly folk have the attributes of the One Who purchased them with His Blood: that is the Lord, Jesus the Christ, the One Who sits at the right hand of the Father and intercedes for His true Church, His Bride, His people. These Godly folk have no need of scriptural eye-patches, nor overt and obnoxious gestures in public (much like the pharisees), which only, in the end, serve to glorify man and his worldly desires, whether he be aware or not!

Our Lord and Savior, then, is drawn to the things despised in this world system, the lowly things, not the things honored and revered by “religious” or unregenerate man:

For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, 28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, 29 so that no man may boast before God. 30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31 so that, just as it is written, “LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.” (1 Corinthians 1)

How do these scriptures portray anything of what we see from confused and/or apostate “religious” men, and women, pretending to be pious, while making millions of dollars for playing a child’s game, or living in the Vatican and receiving the adoration of “sheep-le”? How can professed believers, then, whether they be football players, presidents, or popes, “witness” for Christ on earth, when they represent everything that Satan, and his world system, offers mankind?

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” is an unregenerate and worldly ideology, and those who think and believe differently are either ignoring the word of God, or they are refusing to believe the word of God. It is one or the other! We, who believe and seek, are called to make a choice! Whom, then, will we love and serve, God or mammon?

“The Teachings of Demons” (1 Timothy 4: 1)

The Apostle John states,

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins (willfully) has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who PRACTICES righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who PRACTICES sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who is born of God PRACTICES sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother (in Christ). (1 John 3)

Unlike Pat Robertson, I will make no claim for God’s judgment on the small country of Haiti, after the cataclysmic earthquake that occurred over two days ago. {After all, who am I to sit in judgment of anyone?} But I will say that Mr. Robertson brought up a valid point when he spoke of the “voo-doo ceremony” that initiated the Haitian revolution, at the end of the 18th century. Although, in my estimation, Mr. Robertson used this horrible catastrophe simply to condemn others, and, more importantly, to bring attention and money, from his right-wing, “religious” followers, to his scripturally-incorrect “700 Club”.

Below are quotes from a Wikipedia article which establish the historical fact that Mr. Robertson so callously stated two days ago:

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) is the period of violent conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by people of African ancestry. Although hundreds of rebellions occurred in the New World during the centuries of slavery, only the revolt on Saint-Domingue, which began in 1791, was successful in achieving permanent freedom. The Haitian Revolution is regarded as a defining moment in the history of Africans in the new world…

Historians traditionally identify the catalyst for revolution as a Vodou ceremony in August 1791 performed at Bois Caïman by Dutty Boukman, a Voudo priest…

Boukman was born in Jamaica, and later sold by his British master to a French plantation owner, who put him to work as a commandeur (slave driver) and, later, a coach driver. His French name came from his English nickname, “Book Man,” which he earned due to his ability to read…

Bois Caïman (Haitian Creole: Bwa Kayiman) is the site of the Vodou ceremony presided over by Dutty Boukman on August 14, 1791. The purpose of the ritual was to attempt to expel the French occupation, which were using the Haitians as slave labor.

According to the official “History of Haiti and the Haitian Revloution”[2], in 1791 the following events occurred:

A man named Boukman, another houngan, organized on August 14, 1791, a meeting with the slaves in the mountains of the North. This meeting took the form of a Voodoo ceremony in the Bois Caiman in the northern mountains of the island. It was raining and the sky was raging with clouds; the slaves then started confessing their resentment of their condition. A woman started dancing languorously in the crowd, taken by the spirits of the loas. With a knife in her hand, she cut the throat of a pig and distributed the blood to all the participants of the meeting who swore to kill all the whites on the island. On August 22, 1791, the blacks of the North entered into a rebellion, killing all the whites they met and setting the plantations of the colony on fire. However, the French quickly captured the leader of the slaves, Boukman, and beheaded him, bringing the rebellion under control.

It is widely accepted as the starting point for the Haitian Revolution. (emphasis added)

via Haitian Revolution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

As anyone should be able to see, then (if they haven’t been “blinded by the god of this age”), when we turn to the enemies of the Lord (false religions, demons) to force our own fleshly will, we not only take the risk of dealing with “the father of lies”, but we also take the risk of alienating the Lord, so that He turns away from us:

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6: 23)

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Galatians 6)

For if we go on sinning WILLFULLY after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. 28 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.” 31 It is a TERRIFYING THING to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews 10)

The Apostle Paul warns us, in his first letter to Timothy,

But the Spirit EXPLICITLY SAYS that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, (1 Timothy 4: 1)

We live in a very superstitious time, and yet most people refuse to believe in a Sovereign and loving Creator (Christ the Lord) and His enemies: Satan, his (fallen) angelic officers, and a myriad of disembodied spirits (demons).

The apostle also exhorts and warns,

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm AGAINST the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but AGAINST the rulers, AGAINST the powers, AGAINST the world forces of this darkness, AGAINST the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6)

These angelic forces and demons prow around looking for souls to steal and devour:

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. 10 After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. 11 To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen. (1 Peter 5)

Note that the Apostle Peter doesn’t speak here of the Lord’s blessings, and that we can have it all here, as well as in the coming ages. No, Peter speaks the truth:

But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. 10 After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

The Roman “church”, and its spin-offs, preach a false gospel, a gospel that we are of this world system, and that we can take part in this system at the same time we are serving the Lord. But this is a lie! We cannot love our temporal lives, and this world system, and still love and serve the Lord: we must choose whom we will love and serve. This is why the Lord warns us:

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. 23 “But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth (the trappings of this evil world system). (Matthew 6)

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 “For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS. (Matthew 16)

Below is an article that describes life in the nation of Haiti:

Haiti: Rape, murder and voodoo on the Island of the Damned

By Andrew Malone

For tourists on cruise ships plying the Caribbean, Haiti appears a beguiling, mysterious place.

The first independent black state, set up 200 years ago after a rebellion by African slaves against colonial France, the mountainous island is home to exotic birds and animals and mist-shrouded tropical forests.

But it is no paradise for the country’s nine million people. Indeed, the devastating earthquake now bringing death and heartbreak is the latest in a long line of tragedies to befall a place dubbed the Island of the Damned.

Those with the misfortune to be born in Haiti – part of the island of Hispaniola, shared with the Dominican Republic – have long endured a living hell.

With one in ten under-40s infected with HIV, and millions living in squalor and destitution, thousands try to flee each year to the U.S. by hanging on to anything that will float.

While hurricanes, floods and earthquakes have all devastated the landscape over the years, the biggest threat has come from humans.

Successive dictators have raped, murdered and even reputedly eaten their enemies.

Described by one commentator as an ‘international crime scene’ rather than a country, Haiti became infamous around the world during the reign of Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, a former doctor who murdered 100,000 people and formed a private band of killers called the Tonton Macoutes.

Wearing their trademark mirrored sunglasses and designer T-shirts, these murderers and cannibals were named after a terrifying bogeyman from Haitian mythology, who carried off naughty children into slavery… (emphasis added)

via ANDREW MALONE: Rape, murder and voodoo on the island of the damned | Mail Online.

“The island of the damned.” “A living hell.” “An international crime scene.” This certainly sounds to me like making a deal with the devil (through voo-doo), in order to force a nation’s or individual’s deliverance from slavery, might not be the best course of action to take. If, two-hundred years ago, the Haitians had sought the Lord, and accepted their suffering, as Jesus and His disciples had, then, perhaps, the country might not be in the demonic and disastrous position it is in today.

With all of this, then, it should be no surprise, to those who have escaped the rampant paganism in the Roman “church”, to find that 80% of Haitians are Roman Catholic. It would seem, then, with 80% of the Haitian population being Catholic, that, just maybe, the Roman “church” may not be a part of Christ’s Church (ecclesia of God: the Body of Christ): the Catholic “church”, as well as its spin-off “churches” (denominations, non-denominations), may well be, as the Lord says, in Revelation 3, the “Synagogue of Satan.”

So as much as I disagree with the way Mr. Robertson made his statement, over two days ago, I must admit that there may have been some truth in what he said, Spiritually as well as historically.

Voo-doo, as well as all other pagan and false religion, is the result of Godless, superstitious people following after “the teaching of Demons”, period! There are not “many ways to God”, as the unregenerate pagan claims, there is but One Way, and His name is Jesus the Christ!

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. (John 14: 6)

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2)

“A Deluding Influence” X

“Mr. Potato Head-like spiritual identities….”

{I have decided, from time to time, to post certain items that I sense (through my Spirit, hopefully) speak to many of the issues I write on. These will be short snippets, and I’ve decided to call them, “A Deluding Influence” (2 Thessalonians 2: 11)}

What’s wrong with the “religious” picture painted in the following Pew Forum article?

January 3, 2010

Opinion: The fact of the matter. Or not.

by Barry Goldman

Los Angeles Times

I once asked my Aunt Mary what her beliefs were on the subject of life after death. She said: “Whatever Jews believe, that’s what I believe.”

Aunt Mary’s view was that there were people whose job it was to consider such things. She was not such a person herself, but she was completely confident that the guys assigned that task were doing their job, and it was all written down in a book somewhere. If you were sufficiently interested, you could look it up.

This view is in decline. A new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life concludes: “Large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, mixing elements of diverse traditions. Many also blend Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs such as reincarnation, astrology and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects. And sizable minorities of all major U.S. religious groups say they have experienced supernatural phenomena, such as being in touch with the dead or with ghosts.”

What is striking about the Pew study is not the prevalence of superstition and hocus-pocus, alarming as that is. It is the feeling that we are free to choose from a broad, cafeteria-style menu of superstitious hocus-pocus. Charles Blow in the New York Times called it the construction of “Mr. Potato Head-like spiritual identities….”

Christians, for example, do not believe in reincarnation. At least not according to theology classes in the seminaries. But the population likes the idea. And people like the idea of being Christians too. So they just choose to believe in both. It is a kind of democratization. People feel entitled to make choices about things that used to be within the exclusive purview of the priestly class. That’s fine, I suppose, and consistent with our American mythology. We like to think we are a nation of individualists who make up our own minds. But what are the limits to this inclination? (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Opinion: The fact of the matter. Or not..

The nominal “church” has created quite a “religious” joke among the unregenerate, with all of its “seeker sensitive” and “politically-correct” “outreach” to the “unsaved” world. Unfortunately, it is the Lord’s Way, Truth and Life that suffer the slings and arrows caused by this less than mediocre, hypocritical and Spiritually ignorant religiosity.

In the Spiritual apostasy and deadness of the nominal “church”, many pew sitters, as this article reveals, have turned to ungodly, superstitious beliefs; in order to fill up the Spiritual void left by the priests, reverends, ministers, pastors, and popes, and their distorted ungodly doctrines of Christendom.

Therefore, we, who are earnestly seeking the Lord and His Truth, must come out from this Spiritual blindness and death. We must seek the leading of the Spirit through the word of God, so that we may know what the Lord’s Truth is, and what His will and purpose are for our lives! We may want to start this process by considering these verses:

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4)

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. (2 Peter 2)

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (1 John 4)

“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 47 “Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 “But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.” (Luke 6)

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ (Matthew 7)

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men (believers, not the unregenerate!) will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these… 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3)

Sound familiar? It should! These scriptures describe, in detail, the ungodly and hypocritical dealings of Christendom, which take place, throughout this country and the world, every Sunday morning!