Sufra and Ocean were street preachers who were gunned down in Florida by an 18-year-old man with whom they had shared the Gospel. Precious in the sight of God is the death of His saints.
Martyred: Pastor Fred Winters – March 8, 2009.
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Pastor Fred Winters
Pastor Fred Winters and Family
Fred Winters was pastor of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, United States of America; and was killed at his church while preaching a sermon on happiness. You can read about it here.
Statement of Faith of a Charismatic Church – Part 3
Grace and peace to the Elect of God, and greetings to those who are still in darkness.
Today we complete our examination of the Charismatic statement of faith.
6. “By the power of God, He was raised from the dead in the same body now glorified. He ascended into Heaven where, at the right hand of God the Father, He continually makes intercession for us.”
Notice that they say that Jesus was raised from the dead “by the power of God.” If Jesus Christ is God (as they claim in statement #4), then saying He was raised “by the power of God” is like saying He was raised “by His own power.” There are Scriptures that state that the Father raised Jesus up, that the Spirit raised Him up, and that He raised Himself up. These were provided for us so that we would believe Him when He says, “The Father is in me, and I am in Him” (John 10:38). If we believe that Jesus was and is God, it suffices to say, “He rose.” For, if He is God, that is exactly what He did. Protestant Reformation churches have always stated, “He rose on the third day.”
As stated, charismatic churches subordinate Jesus Christ to the Holy Spirit, though they pay lip service to Jesus, for example, in ending prayers in Jesus’ name. But they don’t properly exalt Him or obey Him. This will become evident shortly.
7. “The Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and Son; regenerates the believing sinner; indwells, guides, instructs and empowers the believer for Godly living and service; comforts the children of God. The Holy Spirit guides and gives power to the church, the Body of Christ, to fulfill the Great Commission, and convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.”
No problem.
8. “Man was created in the image and likeness of God; but through the sin of Adam, mankind fell into sin and is, thereafter, lost apart from Christ. Unless a person is born again, they cannot see the kingdom of God.”
There is nothing doctrinally wrong with this statement, however, the use of the third-person plural pronoun they to modify person shows that this church strives to be politically correct: using gender-friendly, inclusive language to placate the liberals and feminists. As stated before, a charismatic church believes that in the Bible we have the words of men, not of God. They therefore believe that the Bible is full of errors and reflects the prejudices of the time it was written: specifically the antiquated notion that women were second-class citizens.
Feminists resent that God gave the man headship (not ownership) of the woman in the hierarchy of the family and they do not like the fact that the Bible uses the masculine subjective pronoun “he” to refer both to men and women. They argue that the use of such language subordinates the woman to the man and that women then lose their own identity. For this reason, charismatic churches will say that one bible is as good as another, but because they don’t like the “biased,” “hateful,” and “judgmental,” language of the King James Bible, you will not see it used often, if at all.
Moreover, the use of the term “born-again” here is unclear, because an unsaved person would not understand the meaning of this term. To include it here necessitates an explanation, which is not forthcoming. But as you will soon see, there is a reason they introduce it here.
The next three statements dealing with Salvation are what identify this church as Charismatic, so pay close attention. We will list them together and comment afterwards.
9. “Salvation is the gift of God and includes the forgiveness of sins, the imputation of the Righteousness of Jesus Christ, and the gift of eternal life. Union with the triune God provides all blessings in this life and the life hereafter.
10. “Salvation is received by faith in Christ’s finished work alone, apart from all good works and merit.”
11. “A believer is saved by the washing of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:4-7), and is baptized into Christ (1 Co 12:13, Eph. 4:5) [sic] the instant a person genuinely repents and wholeheartedly trusts in Him as Lord (God) (Ro. 10:9-10).
This is why the Charismatic Movement is so dangerous: it is very deceptive. First of all, notice that only now does this church give any Scripture references for their beliefs. Why now particularly? Because they know that what they are claiming here is unscriptural and that the spiritually discerning Christian will know it right away. So they mount a tactical offense by attempting to put up a Scriptural defense. But as we shall see, in so doing, they wrench the Scriptures out of context to their own destruction.
Second, it is interesting that they never explain exactly what salvation is. We are told it is a gift (9) and we are told it includes forgiveness, imputation of righteousness, and eternal life. But we are not told how to get it. Note #10 tells us that salvation is received, and the use of this word is very interesting, because Christians don’t normally speak of salvation as being “received.” We usually say we “got saved,” not “received salvation.” Nowhere does the Bible speak of “receiving” salvation. The use of this term is actually a clever and diabolically deceptive endorsement of the Roman Catholic communion.
You see, the Roman Catholic church teaches that the actual body, blood, and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ are present in the communion wafer that Catholics eat. This doctrine is known as the “Real Presence.” So, when a Catholic receives the wafer in his mouth and eats it, he may then say that he has “received” (literally consumed) Christ. That is what a Catholic means when he says he has received Christ as his Savior. He can’t mean it in the sense that we do, because instead of believing his sins are washed away by the blood of Jesus, he believes that after death he must spend time in Purgatory until all his sins are “purged” away. But the Bible tells us that belief that the shedding of His blood for the remission of our sins is sufficient for salvation (Romans 3:24-25). Why then, the necessity for Purgatory?
By stating that salvation is received, the Charismatic Movement cleverly endorses the Roman Catholic communion and the blasphemous doctrine of the Real Presence. This
is why I don’t feel Christians should say that we have “received Christ” when referring to our salvation. It is better for us to say that we are trusting in the blood of Jesus Christ. The inclusion of this term in the Protestant Christian lexicon is proof positive of the infiltration of Roman Catholic theology into the Christian Church through the Charismatic Movement.
What’s worse is that because Roman Catholics and many Christians claim to have “received” Christ, they are both misled into believing that Catholics are saved, and they are not. There is no longer a clear line of demarcation between the Roman Catholic church and the visible Christian church.
When Protestant churches were strong in the U.S., you would never see a Roman Catholic attend a Protestant worship service and be comfortable there; it would be way too foreign to him. And the Holy Spirit moving in that place would be an affliction to their very soul as they fell under conviction for their sinfulness.
Today that is no longer a problem. Some Roman Catholics regularly attend Protestant worship services. Charismatic churches have so watered down the Gospel and have made the Christian message so “accessible,” that sinners no longer feel uncomfortable in their sin; in fact, they feel very much at home. This ought not to be.
Statement #11 cleverly implies that salvation is a separate process from repentance and becoming a believer in Jesus. The sentence construction is very deceptive. Walk with me as we deconstruct it.
“A believer is saved by the washing of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:4-7), and is baptized into Christ (1 Co 12:13, Eph. 4:5) [sic] the instant a person genuinely repents and wholeheartedly trusts in Him as Lord (God) (Ro. 10:9-10).
Grammatically, this sentence is incorrect, and it is not by accident. There should really be a period after “baptized into Christ,” because there are two subjects: believer and person. There is no period, however, as the intent is to obscure what the author really wants to say: that when a person accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior, he is not yet saved. I will explain how they do this.
As stated, there are actually two subjects here: believer and person. If they were the same person, the author could have repeated believer or used the third person singular pronoun he. And if he wanted to be politically correct, he could have used the third person plural pronoun they as he did in statement #8. Here are some examples:
1. “A believer is saved…the instant [the believer] repents…”
2. “A believer is saved…the instant [he] repents…”
3. “A believer is saved…the instant [they] repent…”
But he does neither of these things because the intent is to obscure that they are talking about two different people: the unsaved person before becoming a believer and the believer. This is because there are two actions being discussed:
- Getting saved.
- Being baptized into the Body of Christ.
If the author wanted to say that salvation happens when a person repents and trusts in Jesus for his salvation, he could have said:
“A person is saved the instant he repents and wholeheartedly trusts in Jesus as Lord.”
This would be a true statement. But the author doesn’t say a person is saved when he accepts Jesus as Lord. He says that a person is “baptized into Christ the instant [he] genuinely repents and wholeheartedly trusts in Him as Lord.” This is different from the believer, who he says is “saved by the washing of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”
Make no mistake: the author doesn’t use the word person as a politically correct alternative to he, because as we have seen, he uses they for this purpose (#8). The author is talking about two distinct people and two distinct actions: a person who”trusts Jesus Christ as Lord” and a “believer [who is] saved…by the Holy Spirit.”
This is the Charismatic doctrine of the “Baptism of the Holy Spirit.” They believe that when a person repents and trusts in Jesus, he is merely baptized into the Body of Christ, but he is not saved until he experiences the Baptism of the Holy Spirit evidenced by the speaking of tongues. We can prove this by looking at statement #14:
“The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 2:4, is given to believers who ask for it, with the Bible evidence of tongues. It is essential to be an effective witness of Christ.”
Now he says that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is only essential to be an effective witness, but in the earlier statement he said that it was what saves the believer. Remember, the writer says that a believer (as opposed to a non-believer) is “saved by the washing of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit.” This is code for Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
This doctrine makes salvation a separate process from repentance and accepting Jesus Christ as Savior. That is why they say that a person “trusts Jesus Christ as Lord” instead of as “Savior.” They believe a person who merely trusts in Jesus is not yet saved. This is why they never explain what salvation really is, because if they did, they would have to explain that remission of sins (salvation) involves the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22). And only Jesus Christ shed His blood for us, not the Holy Spirit. The Bible says it is trusting in the blood of Jesus Christ as sufficient for remission of sins that saves us (Romans 3:25).
This doctrine actually blasphemes the Holy Spirit—the unpardonable sin, because nowhere in Scripture does the Holy Spirit have the ministry of salvation. The Holy Spirit did not shed His blood for us—Jesus did. As a matter of fact, when Jesus completed his work on the cross, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit had separated themselves from the Lord Jesus (Matthew 27:46), because He had become sin (literally a curse) for us (2 Corinthians 5:21). The work of salvation was completed by Jesus Christ and Him alone. Why then, does the Charismatic Movement exalt the Holy Spirit into the position of Savior? This is blasphemy!
This is where this charismatic church reveals its agenda, for they know that salvation is not a ministry of the Holy Spirit. Look at Statement #7 and see if you see salvation among the ministries of the Holy Spirit. It is not there. Also notice that, among all the ministries they attribute to the Spirit, one is strangely absent: and it can be found in 1 John 5:8, which says,
“And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood.”
Witnessing. That is the ministry of the Holy Spirit that is missing. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would remind of us of everything that He ever said (John 14:26), and Jesus never said that the Holy Spirit would save us. He said He was the Way and that no man could come to the Father but by Him (John 14:6). The doctrine of salvation through baptism in the Holy Spirit calls Jesus Christ a liar.
Moreover, why list statements ten and eleven separately? If this church truly believed that a person is saved when he believes in Jesus’ finished work on the cross, then statement #11 would not be necessary. The only plausible explanation for its inclusion is that they don’t really believe a person is saved only through trusting in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, there is no mention of the blood at all.
The doctrine of Baptism in the Holy Spirit makes salvation a two-step process:
- A person repents and trusts in Jesus. He is now a believer.
- The believer experiences the Baptism in the Holy Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues. He is now saved.
I take this whole doctrine, ball it up, and throw it away. It is now trash. Paul told us that there was only one thing we need do:
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).
Interestingly, this church states that speaking in tongues is necessary to be an effective witness. But how can one be an effective witness if no one understands what he is saying? Paul is very clear on this matter:
“Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
“So likewise you, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into the air.
“Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
“Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say ‘Amen’ at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
“I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
“If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
“How is it then, brethren? When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
“If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that by course (one at a time); and let one interpret.
“But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God” (1 Corinthians 14:6-28).
It is obvious the Charismatic Movement does not follow this advice. I have visited many charismatic churches and I can tell you that once the preacher gets fired up, most everyone starts speaking in “tongues”—especially the preacher.
Tongues are dangerous unless there is an interpreter present because a person speaking in an unknown tongue (as opposed to a foreign tongue) can be saying something that does not glorify Jesus Christ. They could even be paying homage to Satan. This does not edify the Church.
Notice that in verse 28 above Paul says, “if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence…and let him speak to himself.” Why doesn’t Paul say, “if there is no interpreter let him speak only to God?” The obvious answer is that God would not give someone tongues unless He also provided an interpreter so that the Body of Christ could be edified. So, if an interpreter is not available, those tongues are not of God.
Some people who attend charismatic churches have serious concerns about their salvation because they cannot speak in tongues. Conversely, I have seen others pretend to speak in tongues so they would not be considered “left behind.” One woman even told me that she was coached to say “Jesus saves” many times in rapid succession until it seemed she was speaking in tongues. In reality, she was only babbling. These are man-made tongues.
“Gospel” singer, Kirk Franklin, gives a perfect example of man-made tongues in one of his songs, when he says that the church “taught [him] how to speak in tongues.” This is not of God.
At one charismatic church I visited, I went to the altar for prayer and the pastor, a woman who claimed to be a prophetess, kept slapping me on the forehead and crying “Loose him!” When I did not fall back or start speaking in tongues as the others did, she said that I was resisting the Holy Spirit. From that day forth, I was on this woman’s list of uncool people. This is the danger of the Charismatic Movement: it is about “going along to get along.” It is a diabolical form of peer pressure.
As stated before, the Charismatic Movement emphasizes the works of the Spirit, rather than the finished work of Jesus Christ. Another one of the works that they emphasize is healing:
13. “The redemptive work of Christ on the Cross provides perfect healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer.”
The Charismatic Movement again disregards what the Bible says about both prayer and healing. The apostle John tells us:
“And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, he heareth us” (1 John 5:14).
Belief only does not guarantee we will get what we ask of God. Paul was given “a thorn in the flesh,” a messenger from Satan so that Paul would not be “lifted up” by all the revelations that God had shown Him. For Paul was such a faithful witness of Christ in the midst of all his trials, that God showed him a bit of what awaited him to keep him motivated.
Satan, therefore, to keep him humble, afflicted Paul (students differ on the nature of this affliction). Paul asked God three times to take it away from him and each time Jesus said no, adding finally that His grace was sufficient for Paul, for God’s strength was “made perfect in [Paul’s] weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:1-10). The apostle Paul was as close to God as a human being can get, having been taken to the “third heaven,” and yet, God did not grant him the healing he asked for.
Healing is according to the will of God. It may be His will that we remain sick. We can pray all we want for healing, but if it is not God’s will for us to be healed, we will not be healed. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t pray for healing, but we cannot compel God to heal us. Healing, like all the works of the Spirit, is an act of grace.
God also allows us to be sick for a variety of reasons. It could be, as in Paul’s case, an envoy from Satan that God allows to keep us humble and depending on Him. It could be punishment for sin, such as when someone partakes unworthily of the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11:27-30). It could also be because of unconfessed sin in one’s life (James 5:14-16). And I don’t have to remind you how Job was afflicted by God though he was innocent.
The point is that God allows sickness for a number of reasons, and merely praying believing you will be healed is not a guarantee of a healing.
Many have bought into this unscriptural teaching and have been ultimately disappointed, even going so far as pretending to be healed. Others have been told that they have not received healing because they didn’t believe they would be healed. This can really cause a crisis of faith for some Christians. That is the danger of the Charismatic Movement.
We will look at the remaining statements a little out-of-order for the sake of comparison and emphasis.
15. “The Church is composed of all those regenerated by the Spirit of God by whom they have been baptized into one Body of Whom Christ is the Head. The purpose of the Church is to witness concerning Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures, and to preach the Gospel among all nations.
Again, they emphasize regeneration by the Holy Spirit. This statement really says that the true Church is all believers who have been baptized by the Holy Spirit (evidenced by speaking in tongues). If it were not so, they had merely to say that the Church is composed of all believers or all who are trusting Jesus Christ as their Savior. But they emphasize those who have been “regenerated by the Holy Spirit.” Regeneration is part and parcel of salvation, so special emphasis should not be necessary; unless, of course, they have something else in mind; which they do.
The next statements are curious:
12. “Water baptism is for born again believers only, and does not save. It is essential for obedience to Christ.”
16. “The Blood and Body of Christ are not physically present in the Lord’s Supper, which is given to remind believers of His Sacrifice of which they partake spiritually.”
They seem eager to differentiate themselves from the Roman Catholic church. This would not be necessary if they were a real Protestant Reformation Christian church. But since their doctrines are decidedly charismatic, which movement was begun by the Roman Catholic church, they feel the need to specifically state for the record their position on the two most contentious doctrines between Christianity and Roman Catholicism. This, however, does not fool the discerning Christian.
17. “Jesus Christ will come again to receive to Himself those who believe in Him, that where He is, they may be also. He will come again personally and visibly to establish His kingdom.”
No problem.
18. “The resurrection of the believers will be to eternal glory in Heaven, and the resurrection of the unbelievers will be to eternal punishment in Hell.”
No problem.
As stated before, the Charismatic Movement is very deceptive, because it retains some traces of authentic Christianity. Satan always mixes truth with error to make his unscriptural doctrines more palatable. As Kent Hovind loves to say, rat poison is 99.9% good food. It’s that .1 percent that is deadly.
The Charismatic Movement is sweeping Christianity leaving doubt, confusion, and destroyed churches in its wake. They are preaching another Jesus, another Spirit, and another Gospel. Beware of this many-headed hydra and pray that it doesn’t come to your church.
I know that some reading this will not appreciate what we have said here, but it is 100% scriptural. Take it to the Word in prayer and see if it’s true. And as always, watch and pray.
If you doubt that this statement of faith is authentic, it can be found on the internet under a ministry called Born-Again-Christian.Info. We are not attacking this ministry or the webmaster of this site. We randomly found the site and were perusing it when we came across this statement of faith. When we read it and realized that it was charismatic, we decided to do this piece, because before we read their SOF, it really seemed like a Christian organization. Unfortunately, this is not the case. They may be good, sincere people, but if they adhere to the beliefs in their SOF, they are tragically deceived, and are deceiving others.
We only offer the information on this ministry so that you can see that we are not making any of this up.
Remember, we must watch in all things.
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
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Statement of Faith of a Charismatic Church – Part 2
Grace and peace to the Brethren, and greetings to the lost.
We resume our expose’ of the Charismatic Movement. Let us continue to examine the Statement of Faith of a charismatic church with statement # 5:
“In His earthly ministry He lived a sinless life, performed miracles, and died on the Cross as a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures.”
There is a tremendous problem with this statement that must not be overlooked. Jesus was sinless, it is true, and He did perform miracles and die on the cross. These are true statements. But He was not merely a sacrifice for our sins, He was The—meaning The Final—Sacrifice for our sins. There need not be another sacrifice.
“But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice (READ The Last Sacrifice) for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:12).
It is important to understand that though this may seem like an exercise in semantics, in actuality the seemingly innocuous use of the indefinite article here obscures the most important teaching in all of Christianity: That the vicarious death of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary was the absolute Final Sacrifice for the sins of all mankind. Our very salvation hinges on the verity of that statement. If Jesus’ sacrifice was not sufficient, then we are still in our sins. And if we who believe are still in our sins, then “we are of all men most miserable.”
Now you may think this is unimportant, but it is crucial—nay, vital.
The Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah. To them, His crucifixion was nothing more than the righteous murder of a demon-possessed blasphemer, who went around saying that He was the Son of God. Because they don’t accept Jesus’ sacrifice as sufficient atonement for sins, Scripture says that they will reinstitute animal sacrifice for atonement of sins during the Tribulation, and in so doing, “cast down the truth to the ground” (Daniel 8:12, 9:27). The truth that they will cast down to the ground, is that Jesus is the Last Sacrifice.
The Roman Catholic church purports to be Christian, yet it crucifies Jesus Christ twenty-four hours a day every day all over the world in the continuing bloodless sacrifice of the mass. Why would they do this if they believed Jesus’ sacrifice was sufficient atonement for sins? I assure you they do not believe this, as every Roman Catholic (and Lutheran for that matter) that I have talked to about the issue of salvation has been uncertain if they are going to heaven. They all say they don’t know if they have been “good enough.”
Remember, Roman Catholics believe that when they die they are going to Purgatory, where they will spend an indefinite length of time until their sins are “purged” away. The length of time they will spend there, they believe, depends, among other things, on how “good” they were in this life. This is unscriptural, as the Bible says:
“For by grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
“Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
That is why the performance of good works is so important to Roman Catholics. They are not trusting in the blood of Jesus Christ. His sacrifice means nothing to them.
Jehovah’s Witnesses claim to be Christian, yet not one Jehovah’s Witness believes he will go to heaven. According to their doctrine, the only ones who are assured of entrance into heaven are the “144,000,” the elite “inner circle” of the Jehovah’s Witness organization, most of whom are now dead. Never mind that the Bible teaches that the 144,000 are JEWISH (Revelation 7:4-8), not to mention that they are supposed to be virgins (Revelation 14:4); they still adhere to this blasphemous doctrine. When I mentioned this to one Witness I witnessed to (pun absolutely intended), she said that this refers to “spiritual” Jews and “spiritual” virgins. Sigh.
Now, since the average Witness believes he cannot see heaven, what does he think will happen when he dies? He doesn’t know for sure, but he believes he may be able to reign with Jesus Christ on earth during the Millennial Kingdom if he has been “good enough.” What does he do to be “good enough?” He tirelessly goes door-to-door canvassing neighborhoods passing out literature and trying to gain converts. That is why you see them out there under some of the worst conditions. To them, their salvation depends on it. The Witnesses, also, base their “salvation” on works, which, again, is unscriptural.
I am not just talking out of the side of my neck. I have heard this from conversations with real Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I have great respect for most Jehovah’s Witnesses. Most of them are some of the hardest working, diligent, and sincere people you will ever meet. But they are terribly deceived. They consider themselves Christians, yet they deny the sacrifice of the very God whom they claim to follow and are trying to obtain salvation by their own efforts. But they will fail miserably. They have denied a free gift from the Almighty God, Who, by the way, they deny is Jesus Christ. To the Witnesses, Jesus was merely a created being.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, also claims to be a Christian denomination, yet they too, deny the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. For one, they teach that Jesus Christ and Satan are brothers. That’s right. Brothers.
They believe that there was a heavenly council held by God (Elohim), Jesus Christ, and His brother, Lucifer, to decide who was going to go to earth to “redeem” mankind. It was decided that Jesus would be given the chance. When Lucifer heard that, he got angry and rebelled against God, taking a third of the angels with him. There is a lot to this story that Christians need to know, for Mormonism is but a spawn of Satan and is steeped in occultism and Freemasonry. In fact, “prophet” Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was himself a 33rd degree Freemason.
But to make a long story short, Mormonism teaches that Jesus failed to redeem mankind when He was crucified. So, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, according to Mormonism, did not free mankind from sin. As a matter of fact, Mormonism explicitly teaches that there are some sins that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot atone for, such as the marriage of a Mormon to a Black person. They teach that an individual guilty of such a sin must have his blood shed by a member of a group specially commissioned for this purpose called the Danites. I kid you not.
The Mormon is not concerned about reaching heaven anyway, as his religion teaches that if he follows Mormon doctrine and teachings, which include marrying plural wives (though many Mormons deny this is practiced today) and having as many children as possible, he will achieve godhood and will one day be given his own planet to populate.
All this may sound incredible, but according to Ed Decker, former Mormon and author of The Godmakers, it is absolutely true. Get the book and read it. The sound of your eyes popping open will be heard for miles.
By the way, if you are Black, understand that Mormonism and Black-ness are seriously incompatible, despite their recent efforts to include those of the Negro persuasion. When you read The Godmakers, you. will. be. angered. If you are Black and are a Mormon, you, my friend, have been marvelously deceived. I could tell you what the Mormon doctrine is concerning the Black race, but it is so incredible that you will not fully appreciate it until you read it for yourself. I want you to do your own research.
In case you believe that this is merely anti-Mormon propaganda, check out the video version of The God Makers. It is very enlightening, to say the least.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfz6pG5JRQY
Notice the Mormon chairman says that “if they are worthy” a Mormon will dwell forever in the presence of the Father. This confirms that the Mormon church teaches that salvation is “works-based” rather then faith-based. This teaching rejects Jesus’ sacrifice for the sins of the world, and bases salvation on our works rather than on the finished work of Jesus Christ.
I could go further, but I think you get the point. As you can see, the issue of the efficacy of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for remission of sin is crucial not only to our salvation, but to our identity in Christ Jesus. It is what makes us Christians.
So, you see, a doctrinal statement that calls Jesus’ death on the cross merely “a” sacrifice for our sins, is not only an exceptionally gross understatement, it is actually false. Jesus was the Last Sacrifice—THE Last Sacrifice.
The danger of this statement is that it says that Jesus’ work was not finished and justifies the need for other means of salvation such as the continuance of the Roman Catholic mass and the performance of “good works.” Moreover, those religions that call themselves Christian, yet deny the efficacy of Jesus’ sacrifice as sufficient atonement for sins, are in actuality calling Jesus Christ a liar. For Jesus said,
“It is finished” (John 19:30).
If Christians would trust in Jesus as the Final Sacrifice for sins and if Christian churches and ministries would emphasize this fact, there would be fewer Christians who are unsure of their salvation, and more Christians would be aware of the differences between the true Christian Church and the many imposters which teach “another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel.”
As you can see, the devil truly resides in the details, and one must be very careful to read a church’s statement of faith under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. Charismatic churches are very deceptive.
Not convinced this church is charismatic? You will be. We are nearing the meat and potatoes of this charismatic statement. God willing, I want to finish this study in the next couple of days. When we finish, you will have no doubts that the Charismatic Movement is not of the Lord Jesus.
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
“For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4).
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Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
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Get Thee Wisdom, Not Entertainment
Grace and peace to the body of Christ.
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted anything new in a couple of weeks, but I have been otherwise engaged. But rest assured: God has been busy. And as most of us know, whenever and wherever God is, the Devil is somewhere to be found, and is also busy. There is much I want to say, but it would only be informative and not edifying, so I will refrain from sharing it with you. It suffices to say that we need to take every opportunity to witness, as time is truly running short, and many, many people are lost.
I prefer to cite the sources for the information I share; whether Biblical or secular. With secular sources, this is not always possible, because some of the information I obtained before I started doing formal research. In other words, I was doing research before I actually started doing research, and back in those days, I didn’t always record where I got the information.
Now and again, however, I will come across a reference to a particular source and I am able to retrieve the information and record its source. I am always pleased when this happens with secular sources, but I get absolutely beside myself when the Bible verifies secular information, as was the case today.
I was in the Word today, in the Book of Genesis Chapter 30, when I made a most remarkable discovery. As you may recall, in our post on generational curses, we explain how partaking in games of chance or a belief in good luck are harmful for Christians, not only because when one does these things, one is depending on something other than Jesus for a blessing, which is sin, but also because belief in luck or fortune is actually god and goddess worship, because Fortune was actually the name of a Babylonian deity.
So belief in luck or fortune, whether good or bad, is actually idolatry.
Well, today, the Spirit led me to look up the meaning of the names of Jacob’s (Israel’s) children. I used Strong’s Concordance for this purpose. Word studies are great, because they often provide a deeper meaning to a particular passage and, in some cases, actually change the entire context.
Well, I was looking up the meaning of Gad, whose name, in the 1990 edition of Strong’s, can be found on page 25 of the Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of the Old Testament. The Hebrew language is very rich, and even a subtle change in the pronunciation of a certain vowel or the use of an upper-case or lower-case letter can produce an entirely different word with an entirely different meaning.
Such is the case with Gad. Upper-case Gad (pronounced gawd), the son of Jacob, is listed under number 1410 and is said to mean “a troop.” Lower-case gad (also pronounced gawd), is listed under 1409, and is said to be derived from a word that means fortune (in the sense of distributing). In other words, bounty.
This is where it gets interesting. Upper-case Gad (pronounced gad) gives the following definition:
“a [variation] of 1409: Fortune, a [Babylonian] deity:—that troop.” [Brackets mine, boldface mine, italics in original.]
Here we have Biblical evidence that Fortune was the name of a Babylonian idol. This was confirmed by another source. The Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible (a book on Biblical archaeology) defines Gad thus:
“A foreign deity of good fortune worshipped by some Israelites in the period after the Exile (Is. 65:11). In a bilingual Aramaic-Greek inscription from Palmyra the deity is identified in Greek as ‘fortune‘. Is. 65:11.”
Isn’t this incredible? Here we have biblical and secular confirmation that Fortune was a Babylonian god—an idol. Now we know that idols always come in pairs. If there is a god, there must also be a goddess. So, if Fortune is a god, what are the odds that Fame is a goddess (fame and fortune)? I think they are very good.
But that isn’t all I got from this word study. As I stated, the Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible gave Isaiah 65:11 as the source of the term, that troop, which is Gad (pronounced gad). Isaiah 65:11 tells how some of the Israelites had begun to worship idols:
“But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.”
As we have seen, that troop is listed in Strong’s Concordance as the Hebrew word Gad and is said to mean, “Fortune, a Babylonian deity (idol).” What do you think that number means? Well, it can be found in Strong’s #4507 as:
“Meniy (pronounced menee): the Apportioner, i.e. Fate (as an idol).“
Did you see that? Fate is also an idol. Is this not incredible? This is proof that paganism has so infiltrated American life, that pagan terminology is part of the American lexicon. When something goes well for us we say we had “good fortune” (an idol, the god) or good luck (Lucifer), and when it goes bad, we say “that was our fate” (an idol, the goddess). We are idolaters! Is it any wonder that America has so many problems seeing that idolatry is forbidden by God, and the penalty is a generational curse?
I have known for some time that Fortune and Fortuna (also known as Fame and Fortune) were a god and goddess, but I had no idea that this was in the Bible. Now I know that everything we need to know is in that Book; if we would only read it.
As we told you in Juanita Bynum: Prophetess or Witch?, all idolatry, both ancient and modern, goes back to the Babylonian worship of Nimrod and Semiramis. What is incredible is that just as they have been worshipped since antiquity in every country in the world under different names, they are mentioned in the Bible under many names, but most of us don’t know this. In fact, all the characters from all the myths from every culture on the globe go back to just two people: Nimrod and Semiramis. Incredible, isn’t it? Alexander Hislop made this very claim in The Two Babylons, and this has been borne out in my own research. Today’s find was merely more icing on the cake.
Whether you call them Fortune and Fortuna (or Fame and Fortune), Yin and Yang, Isis and Osiris, Shiva and Parvatti, Apollo and Aphrodite, Diana and Kernos, Odin and Frigga, etc. They are all just nicknames for Nimrod and Semiramis. Many of the people who kneel to these false gods would have a heart attack if they knew who and what they really are. I know, but I’m not going to tell you. You will have to find out for yourself. And you should, because therein lies the key.
Do you see why I rarely watch television? Television provides entertainment, not knowledge. The Bible says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). So, all the knowledge in the world is ultimately useless if it doesn’t bring you to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Incidentally, the man who introduced me to the New World Order which ultimately led me to the Lord Jesus is himself not saved; which is strange, because one of the books he used to bring me to this knowledge was the first in The Crusader series by Chick Publications. Chick comics are not just ordinary comic books. They are Gospel tracts that are meant to save souls. This man had the entire Crusaders collection, but he never accepted the Gospel message they contained. He basically only used them as history books. He was “every learning, but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7).
By the way, the etymology of the word entertain is very interesting. It comes from the French word entretenir, which Webster’s Dictionary says is formed from the words entre + tenir. Interestingly, Webster’s says that tenir means “to hold,” but it doesn’t tell us what entre means. So, I go to my handy-dandy Harrap’s French and English Pocket Dictionary, which tells me that entre means “between.” So, entertain literally means “to hold between.”
Why would Webster’s not want you to know that entertain literally means “to hold between?” Why, because Webster’s, is politically correct, and doesn’t want you to know how bad things really are; for, you see, it is you who are being “held between”—literally suspended—between Heaven and Hell.
You must understand that if the Bible is true, then when we die we either go to Heaven or Hell (Hebrews 9:27). If the media, therefore, were truthful (not to mention godly), they would be telling you this and would be promoting one or the other—either Heaven or Hell.
But the media do neither. In fact, if you really look at the messages most of the programs convey, they are telling you that neither heaven nor hell are real; that when we die, we either get recycled into a worm or a plant or come back as another person either on earth or on another planet or in another dimension. They hold you in suspended animation between heaven and hell. They don’t want you to know that you must make a decision.
Unfortunately, that won’t cut it with the Lord Jesus. He says you must be either hot or cold. If you’re lukewarm, Jesus will spit you out of His mouth (Revelation 3:15-16).
Further proof of the real purpose of entertainment is the fact that Webster’s Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, defines entertainment as “amusement or diversion.” The meaning of diversion in this sense is to direct one’s attention from what it should be on to something else. In this case, from the truth to fables. This is what the media do: they direct your attention from the truth of God to lies.
Moreover, Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (p. 291), defines entertainment thus:
The pleasure which the mind receives from anything interesting, and which holds or arrests the attention; that which entertains; that which serves for amusement.”
Again, the idea is to “hold” (tenir) or “divert” your attention onto something other than what it should be on. They do this through entertainment. The media use entertainment to get you to look to the right or to the left instead of up, where there is a piano suspended above your head. Don’t fall for it.
The etymology of amusement, like entertainment, is also very revealing.
“A” is a a prefix that means among other things, “not.” So when you want to say something is not a particular thing, you can put the affix “a” in front of it. For example, a person who is not moral is said to be a-moral. A person who does not believe in God is said to be an a-theist (theo is Greek for God). Now, the word muse means “to think.” So, what would you call a person who does not think? That’s right. A-mused. Now, you know the true purpose of Hollywood and the entertainment industry.
If you are a Christian and watch a lot of television, sports events, or other entertainment, know that it is impossible for this behavior not to affect your Christian walk in some way. In fact, if you are experiencing problems reading and/or understanding the Word of God, this alone could be the cause.
If you are not saved, and realize that you have been entertained and amused all your life and are in danger of being spit out of the Lord Jesus’ mouth because of it, you need to get saved now.
Saints, let’s get out of the entertainment business and into the Word of God. It is very revealing.
“Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7).
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
Dr. Juanita Bynum: Prophetess or Witch?
Grace and peace to the brethren, and greetings to those still in the world.
This morning while reading the headlines at a Christian news site, I came across this one:
“Televangelist Juanita Bynum Raises Brows With ‘Tongues’ Prayer on Facebook”
It seems that Ms. Bynum was praying for the congregation of recently deceased mega-church pastor Zachary Tims, who was found dead in a NYC hotel room a few weeks ago. Apparently, Bynum, a self-proclaimed prophetess, who at one time appeared on Divorce Court to talk about her pending divorce from her pastor husband Thomas Weeks, frequently posts prayers on one of her Facebook pages.
The prayer begins in a commendable fashion:
“God, we pray for the Destiny Church family. We pray for the strength of Pastor Riva Tims. Mighty God, give us strength. We are the body that feels this pain. We all feel it. cover the minds of his children. Grab them up in your arms Lord Jesus…”
Then it gets strange…
“Be a comfort to them. You are the Many Breasted One.”
We’ll come back to this. Now, as if the reference to Jesus as the “Many Breasted One” isn’t troubling enough, in her third post, curious characters appear:
“Gird them up in the Spirit. Give them a mind to pray like never before. We call on you Jesus. You are our Help and our Hope!!! NDHDIUBGUGTRUCGNRTUGTIGRTIGRGBNRDRGNGGJNRIC You are our Help and our Hope!!!
RFSCNGUGHURGVHKTGHDKUNHSTNSVHGN You God…You are our Help and our Hope!!!
Our hope is in you Father. Our strength for such a time as this is in you Father. Help us now. Lord, we don’t ask for help for just them. This is us. This is a part of our own body.”
The article goes on to say that many such posts containing these intelligible characters began to appear on Bynum’s site. These prayer posts soon caught the attention of the media and one reporter surmised that Bynum was communicating “in tongues.”
This has sparked a major debate and controversy in the online “Christian” community. Though some have spoken against the notion of Holy Ghost-filled, tongue-speaking keystrokes, Bynum’s posts have reportedly garnered 2,000 “likes” and “hundreds of supporting comments.”
But is such a thing scriptural? Those of us who know the Word of God know that it is definitely not. Paul has this to say on the subject:
“Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
“So likewise you, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into the air.
“Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
“Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned (doesn’t speak tongues) say ‘Amen’ at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
“How is it then, brethren? When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
“If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that by course (one at a time, instead of everyone at once); and let one interpret.
“But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God” (1 Corinthians 14:6,8,11,16,27,28)
As you can see, tongues were a problem even in the early church. But, as he says, tongues mean nothing unless it is a word of prophecy, revelation, or knowledge: in other words, edifying to those listening. But if a person is just blabbering and no one understands him, the body of Christ does not profit from it. It is useless.
Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t know anyone who speaks holy keyboard. So “Prophetess” Bynum should keep her fingers shut. This clearly is not of God. But if it is not of God, then of whom is it? We should go back to Bynum’s first post to determine this, for it is very enlightening.
Notice that at the end of this post, she calls Jesus, “The Many Breasted One.” Where in Scripture is Jesus Christ called by this name? Since Jesus is a Man, and men don’t have breasts, it should be clear to any Bible-believing Christian that “The Many Breasted One” is not Jesus Christ. Who then is this person?
Well, The Many Breasted One is actually in the Bible, but before I tell you where you can find her, first I’ll show you a picture of her:
The Many Breasted One is one of the many names of an idol; namely, the goddess Diana of Ephesus. And the many symbols on this idol speak volumes about her true identity.
A picture very much like the one above can be found on page 29 of the book, The Two Babylons (which every Christian should have). In the book, author Alexander Hislop has this to say about Diana:
“In general, Diana was depicted as a virgin, and the patroness of virginity; but the Ephesian Diana was quite different.
“She was represented with all the attributes of the Mother of the gods, and, as the Mother of the gods, she wore a turreted crown, such as no one can contemplate without being forcibly reminded of the tower of Babel.
“Now this tower-bearing Diana is by an ancient scholiast expressly identified with Semiramis…a Babylonian goddess” (Hislop, 30).
Semiramis was the wife of Nimrod, the world’s first king. Both were worshipped as gods in the ancient world. After God confused their tongues at the Tower of Babel, everyone went to the four corners of the earth. And they took the idolatrous worship of Nimrod and Semiramis with them. So, Diana is really Semiramis, the “Virgin Daughter of Babylon” (Isaiah 47:1).
Now the Book of Acts tells us that Paul had much trouble when he was in Macedonia because he preached against all idolatry, including the worship of Diana. He had sent two of his companions into Macedonia at about the same time a meeting of idolaters was being held concerning Paul. We pick up at this point:
“For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsman;
“Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth, Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
“So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
“And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians” (Acts 19:24-28).
There you have it: Biblical collaboration that Diana of Ephesus, “The Many Breasted One,” is a Babylonian goddess—an idol—who was worshipped all over Asia and the world. And she is still worshipped all over the world today —in many different guises.
Now remember that idolatry is devil worship, as the Bible teaches that behind every idol is a demon (1 Corinthians 10:19-20). So when “prophetess” Bynum pays homage to the “Many Breasted One,” she is in actuality paying homage to Lucifer—Satan.
Having problems digesting this? Well let us look at where the Bible tells us this idol Diana comes from:
“And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great image which fell down from Jupiter?” (Acts 19:35).
Folks, Jupiter is just another name for Nimrod, who worshipped Satan. For this reason, Jupiter is used by “those who know” to represent the fallen angel, Lucifer. Look it up. So, ultimately, when “prophetess” Bynum pays homage to the “Many Breasted One,” she is actually worshipping Satan.
But that’s not all. Did you know that this same Diana, the “Many Breasted One,” is also the goddess of Witchraft? Well she is.
From this perspective, Bynum’s digital “tongues” begin to make a little more sense:
“NDHDIUBGUGTRUCGNRTUGTIGRTIGRGBNRDRGNGGJNRIC YOU ARE OUR HELP AND OUR HOPE…
RFSCNGUGHURGVHKTGHDKUNHSTNSVHGN YOU GOD…YOU ARE OUR HELP AND OUR HOPE!!!!!”
Notice that in both instances, the indiscernible characters come right before “You.” She is addressing a person, but it ain’t Jesus. Remember, she’s talking to the “Many Breasted One.” For lack of a better example, this is like a digital representation of the backward masking the music industry uses to inject Satanic messages into their music.
So, is Juanita Bynum a prophetess, a witch, or neither? You, my friends, must decide that for yourselves.
Now if the true body of Christ knew the identity of “The Many Breasted One,” would “Prophetess” Bynum make such a blasphemous and revealing declaration? Definitely not. But she probably knows that her followers fall into three camps:
1. Fellow Diana worshippers
2. Sincere, but lost sheep
3. Those who are just along for the ride, and could care less what Bynum really believes
To which group do you belong?
Diana of Ephesus is really Semiramis, the wife of the great rebel, Nimrod, the first king of ancient Babylon. Semiramis and Nimrod were worshipped as gods in the ancient world, and were called many different things, depending on the specific attribute or personal quality that was being recognized.
Semiramis was not only worshipped as Diana, but as Aphrodite, Astarte, Demeter, Ceres, and others. For proof of this, let us look briefly at Acts 19:24 again:
“For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsman…”
Strong’s Concordance of the Bible says that the name Demetrius is derived from “Demeter (Ceres)” (SEE #1216). Webster’s Dictionary describes Demeter as “the Greek goddess of agriculture—compare CERES.” We are told that Demetrius worshipped Diana, yet his name is derived from the goddess, Demeter. So we have both biblical and secular proof that Diana and Demeter are one and the same. Because his name is derived from Demeter, it is a logical conclusion that Demetrius worshipped the goddess as both Demeter and Diana.
Note that both publications reference the goddess Ceres. You may be interested to know that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture and cereal grains. In fact, it is from the name Ceres that we get our modern word cereal. So both a biblical and a secular source prove my contention that the goddess Diana went by other names.
Now if Semiramis was worshipped under different names two thousand years ago, and the Bible tells us that she was worshipped in “all Asia and the world,” is it a stretch to believe that she may still be worshipped all over the world today—including in the United States—under different names?
No, it is not a stretch, as you will soon see. Goddess worship is still going on today, and Juanita Bynum is proof. But Semiramis is not being worshipped only as Diana. A clue to another name under which she is being worshipped may be found among her many traits and aspects; for Semiramis was also known as a Virgin and the Mother of the Gods. Click here to find our more.
In the Book of the Revelation this goddess is called The Abomination of Desolation.
Think.
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Animal Rights and the New World Order
Grace and peace, saints.
Since I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and understood that many of the fantastic things going on in the world are actually a part of Biblical prophecy, I have always tried to view the world in the context of the Bible.
I know, for instance, that the goal of the ecumenical movement is to unite all churches into a One World Church under the pope. So when I see events such as the Episcopal parish that wants to join the Catholic Church, I understand that this is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. When the media accused Norway shooter Anders Breivik of being a “Christian fundamentalist,” I understood that this was a part of the prophesied great persecution of the Christian Church. I also understand where various movements like the environmental movement fit into the Biblical picture.
What I could never understand, however, was what role animal activism played in prophetic events. I know that Satan likes to take the word of God and twist it to suit his purposes, so I thought that this unnatural affinity and reverence for animals was merely Satan profaning God’s commandment. For God said:
“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things” (Genesis 9:3).
According to the Bible then, every animal on the face of the earth is suitable for consumption, including dogs and cats—animals that we have come to think of more as friends and family than food. Yet God’s Word is clear: dogs and cats are edible.
Don’t get me wrong: I am in no way suggesting that keeping a dog or cat as a pet is going against the Bible, and I don’t think God disapproves of the practice. After all, dogs have more than proven themselves invaluable in many capacities, and in the case of the disabled, they are not only viable as companions, but are also a means for them to maintain some kind of independence. And the soothing and comforting qualities of cats have made them an ideal companion for the infirm, the elderly, and those who live alone.
But the animal rights movement has gone so far in their activism that they seem almost to be trying to win the same rights for animals that human beings enjoy. Listen to this statement from PETA, the animal rights organization:
“People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is ‘Yes!’”
They go on to explain that, by this, they mean “animals deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation.”
But they also make the following statement:
“Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves.”
This seems to suggest that animals are entitled to civil rights—just like human beings.
They go on to identify animals with groups such as blacks and women by suggesting that they are being similarly discriminated against:
“Whether it’s based on race, gender, sexual orientation or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable. If you wouldn’t eat a dog, why eat a pig? Dogs and pigs have the same capacity to feel pain, but it is prejudice based on species that allows us to think of one animal as a companion and the other as dinner.”
According to this statement, they believe that those who eat pigs and cows, but not dogs, are discriminating against those animals, and violating their rights! And they don’t base animals’ entitlement to civil rights on their capacity to reason or talk, but on their ability to suffer.
“Suffering [is] the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration. The capacity for suffering is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or higher mathematics.
“All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account.
So the decision to eat or not to eat animals is no longer simply a matter of personal preference, but a moral consideration.
This next statement goes even further:
“Supporters of animal rights believe that animals have an inherent worth – a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans. We believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering.”
Do not mistake what they are implying here. A will is a human characteristic and entails the ability to choose and to distinguish right and wrong. This statement redefines animal behavior from what was previously thought of as instinctual to intentional and effectively makes an animal not an animal, but a person. The next statement makes it crystal clear that this is exactly what they have in mind:
“Animal rights is not just a philosophy – it is a social movement that challenges society’s traditional view that all non-human animals exist solely for human use. As PETA’s managing director, Ingrid E. Newkirk has said, ‘When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.'”
By calling animal rights a social movement, they are comparing it to the civil rights movement and the fight for women’s suffrage. Social movements involve people, so by considering animal rights a social movement, they are calling it a human rights issue. Moreover, by grouping a human boy with a rat, a pig, and a dog, Newkirk is putting us all on the same level. This is unscriptural, because God clearly distinguishes man from animals and has given man the dominion over animals:
“All that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered” (Genesis 9:2b).
Besides having major implications for society, this actually has prophetic significance. There are two possible scenarios that could occur whether the animal rights agenda is realized or not, simply because it has become such a major issue:
If the animal rights movement succeeds in gaining civil rights for animals and they become legal persons, then it could be considered murder to kill an animal and cannibalism to eat an animal. This sounds fantastic, but it is totally possible given the great strides the animal rights movement has made in the past decade. I don’t believe such a law would be accepted internationally, but countries that signed a United Nations resolution in this regard could accept it. There are a number of U.N. resolutions that have not been accepted by all the member states, but are enforced in those countries that have accepted and signed the resolution.
The prophetic significance of this is that Daniel 8:12 tells us that the Jews will again practice animal sacrifice:
“And a host was given him (the Antichrist) against (in preparation for) the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it (the host) cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered” (Daniel 8:12).
A host in this sense means a group of priests whose commission will be to begin the sacrifice of animals again for sin atonement; for, as we know, the Jews reject Jesus as the Last Sacrifice. That is what is meant by, “casting the truth to the ground.” The practice of animal sacrifice is denying that Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was sufficient atonement for sins.
Now the devil has always demonized the Jews and gotten the support of the people before he tried to kill them. In Germany, the Jews were blamed for the hated treaty of Versailles and they were accused of being the authors of the Protocols of Zion and the founders of international Communism. All this was to turn international opinion against the Jews in preparation for the great “cleansing” perpetrated by the Nazis.
In America, the media has for years launched its own assault on the Jews. They are constantly accused of being the true power in the world and ultimately responsible for all of its problems. More recently the Jews have received bad press over the issue of circumcision, which is portrayed in the media as a barbarous and satanic practice.
Now, if animal rights gains worldwide acceptance—and there is every reason to believe it will—then when the Jews start practicing animal sacrifice again, then the whole world could be against them. We know this could happen because the Bible says that in the middle of the seven-year agreement the Antichrist will make with Israel (a tenet of which will be their permission to practice animal sacrifice) he will renege on his word (Daniel 9:27), and put a halt to the sacrifices. This will coincide with the Antichrist placing an idol in the Jewish Holy of Holies (Daniel 11:31). His change of heart could ostensibly be a result of worldwide outrage at the practice of animal sacrifice.
It is conceivable that Americans can be beguiled into turning against the Jews for animal sacrifice. It has been said that Hitler offered to let America take the Jews and America refused, though I cannot substantiate this. If anti-Jewish rhetoric increases, and Americans continue in their militant zeal for animal rights, one can see the possibility of this scenario.
Even if animal rights does not succeed, there is still the potential for trouble. If the idea that humans are merely higher-evolved animals ever gains public and God forbid, legislative acceptance, cannibalism can be legalized. After all, if human beings are merely a species of animal, and it is legal to eat all kinds of animals, then it should be technically OK to eat humans.
This is barbarous, but under these circumstances, totally conceivable. The likelihood of this scenario is increased by the fact that cannibalism is actually being discussed in the public forum.
This would agree with Scripture, for Daniel 8:25 says that the Antichrist will cause witchcraft to prosper, meaning it will be government approved. Since witchcraft is a religion, and human sacrifice is a practice of witchcraft, then human sacrifice could become a religious privilege—with government sanction.
Think about it: if the Jews are allowed to sacrifice animals for religious reasons, and if human beings are also animals, then technically witches could also be allowed to sacrifice humans as a religious privilege. All that is needed is:
- For witchcraft to gain legislative acceptance as a religion. This is almost the case. Military and prison chaplains receive training in Wicca so they can minister to witches. The military and prisons are taxpayer funded and this means that the government recognizes it. And since we pay taxes, it essentially means we do too. If this seems a stretch to you, consider that theUnited States Air Force Academy recently dedicated an $80,000 outdoor pagan worship center.The dedication was presided over by two witches. Convinced?
- For witchcraft to gain public acceptance as a religion. With the success of Harry Potter and Twilight, and all the witchcraft programming on T.V., witchcraft is already enjoying enormous public approval. This is because the majority of the public has no idea that human sacrifice is a major part of witchcraft.
- For humans to be considered just another species of animal. This is being taught to our children every day in anthropology classes all over America, and being reinforced by Hollywood, the media, the Discovery Channel, and in many of our churches through evolution theology. Just a cursory glance at most of our children and one will plainly see that they have bought into it.
- For animals to be granted human rights.
Now do you understand all the media coverage and movies about animals like chimpanzees, gorillas, and dolphins that exhibit human qualities? Now do you understand the wave after wave of news stories lately about animals attacking human beings? The one thing that has differentiated humans from animals is our capacity for senseless violence. Animals, on the other hand, have always been seen as instinctual creatures that only kill for food and to defend their young. With the media’s coverage of unprovoked attacks on human beings, however, people will soon begin to see animals as indiscriminate killers—just like us. There will soon be no difference between the two. And that will play right into the puppet masters’ hands.
All this is frightening when you consider that the Bible says the Antichrist will “cause craft (witchcraft) to prosper.” He will give it his seal of approval. Then it will be Hell on earth. I hope that you now understand the danger of the animal rights movement. Humanizing animals de-humanizes human beings. I also hope you understand that it is actually a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. From now on, when you see an animal related story in the media, consider it in the context of Biblical prophesy. You may come to believe that animal rights is not such a good idea after all.
The first rabbinically-approved Jewish sacrifice in over 1500 years was performed in June of this year in Israel. My thanks to Craig Boliek for providing that information. It’s coming down to the wire, folks.
If you are reading this and you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ, but you have come to realize that if the Bible is right about Jewish sacrifices starting up again in Israel, then it is probably right when it says that Jesus is the Christ—the only way to salvation. And if the Bible is right about that, then it is also right about God’s coming judgment on this sinful world.
If you want to escape that, plus have the added bonus of peace in this life and the assurance of spending an eternity with Jesus Christ free of want, pain, sadness, or loneliness, then click here.
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
Source: http://www.peta.org.uk/issues/why-animal-rights/
Copyright © 2011 Anthony Keeton, The Still Man ®. All rights reserved.
Vancouver and the Trail of Tears
Grace and peace to the brethren and greetings to the unsaved.
When Kanucks in Vancouver, B.C. got upset because their team lost in the Stanley Cup finals a few months ago, mayhem ensued, and the world did a double take. Despite the media’s best efforts, the Canadians themselves showed us that, their reputation as a “laid back” people notwithstanding, they are just as capable of violence as the residents of Los Angeles. Welcome to the family!
A couple of weeks after this episode, I came across a story about Vancouver’s Trail of Tears as Canada’s Highway 16 is known, so-called because over 500 girls and women have been murdered or have gone missing in areas near this highway in thirty year’s time. Most of the women have been Native American.
I was very surprised that such a thing is occurring just North of us and yet it has gotten little if any attention from our news media. I was going to post something about this, but thought better of it. But now another story has come out of Vancouver that instantly reminded me of this one.
It seems that a human foot wearing a tennis shoe washed ashore in Vancouver, B.C., the latest in a grisly trend that began in 2007. The article states:
“In previous cases, police said it appeared the feet separated from bodies naturally in the water and foul play wasn’t suspected.”
I don’t know if I believe this statement, because if the feet separated from the bodies naturally and no foul play were involved, wouldn’t other body parts or even an entire body have washed up on at least one occasion? And why does a foot always show up wearing a shoe, if there were no foul play involved? Moreover, that the police say there was no foul play “in previous cases,” seems to suggest that, in this case, there may be foul play, and perhaps the foot did not separate naturally. With the media one must always read between the lines.
And why does the article say that “at least two” of the feet belonged to men. Can’t they be any more precise? This wording may suggest that only two of the feet were of men. That would mean that ten of the feet belonged to women. If that were the case, what are the chances that this case is in some way related to the cases of the missing and murdered women on the “Trail of Tears?”
This has a definite satanic feel to it. Many of the women who were killed on the “Trail of Tears” were last seen hitchhiking. Jack Chick writes in his comic tract, “The Broken Cross” (co-written by former Druid witch John Todd) that many women that Satanists use in human sacrifice rituals are picked up hitchhiking. Though there was no sign from either of the above stories that the deaths were occult related, one can’t help but entertain this notion, especially considering that all the feet found were wearing a shoe and attached to a leg bone. This seems to suggest occult overtones.
Brothers and sisters, witchcraft, Satanism, and human sacrifice are alive and well. The Bible says that the Antichrist will “cause craft (witchcraft) to prosper” (Daniel 8:25). That means witchcraft will be government-sponsored during the Antichrist’s reign. Both witchcraft and Satanism involve human sacrifice. I don’t have to tell you what that means for the innocent.
Brethren, we will see a lot more of this sort of thing as the Spirit withdraws and the appearance of Antichrist grows nearer. I am neither a sensationalist nor a conspiracy theorist. I am a born-again, Bible-believing Christian, and the Spirit is speaking to His people. Get under the blood of Jesus and protect your family.
I suggest that you do not let your children take part in sleepovers with anyone, saved or unsaved—even if they are your best friends. You don’t want your precious child to end up like this poor lady, whose daughter was murdered by the daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton for no clear reason. She had allowed her children to spend the night with her friend, even though she claimed she could tell something wasn’t right with her. And now her daughter is gone forever, just because she didn’t act on her instincts, which were telling her to get away from this woman. Don’t be a victim.
The Holy Spirit is withdrawing and as the time of Antichrist nears, people are getting increasingly evil. Moreover, the world is rife with people who practice the dark arts. These people are all over the place and may even be your family and friends. They certainly were mine. Their motto is:
“Do as thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law.”
In other words, if it feels good, do it. That includes murder and human sacrifice. If you think about it, that would explain a lot of what we see going on around us. People are living this creed every day of their lives—and the innocent are paying for it.
That is the reason I believe Cayce Anthony got off for murdering her daughter. Until now, the media, Hollywood, and the education system have been teaching us “If it feels good, do it,” “There are no moral absolutes,” and “The end justifies the means.” But, those who actually live out that creed are treated as criminals by the justice system—as they should be. This is inconsistent, and I’m sure someone noticed the hypocrisy. But with Anthony, they seemed to have established a precedent. What other reason could there possibly have been for acquitting her? Everyone knew she was guilty, including the jury, yet they let her off. C’mon folks. Something is rotten in Denmark.
Pray, dear ones, for your children; and keep an eye on them! And let us say a prayer for the families of those murdered girls on the Highway of Tears. Let’s keep it under the blood.
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
Copyright © 2011 Anthony Keeton, The Still Man ®. All rights reserved.
God Is In Control
Grace and peace, believers!
As I write this, it is 12:03 a.m. I just got through reading a document that provided a great deal of clarity to me and proved yet again, that God Is In Control.
Yesterday evening, I was reading Codex Magica, a book on symbolism written by Texe Marrs.
DISCLAIMER: Christians should avoid this book, as it is full of New Age anti-Jewish propaganda. It is also very deceptive.
On page 32, I came across a previously highlighted reference to a book by a researcher named Jim Keith, entitled Mind Control and UFOs: A Casebook on Alternative 3. I couldn’t remember why I had highlighted the reference before, so I went to Amazon and attempted to locate the book, which I did. I decided to read the reviews of all of Keith’s books, beginning with a book entitled, Mind Control, World Control. This is where it got interesting.
One reviewer posted the following comment:
“I read this in 1999 and found it to be an accurate primer for those who have long suspected that things in America aren’t quite ‘right’. “Having undergone 30+ years of non-consensual experimentation, harassment, stalking and other crimes here in the US, I can recommend this book to others who may just be coming to the realization that they, too, are under attack.”
NOTE 1: This was no ordinary review. It was placed intentionally to encourage those who may have experienced some strange occurrences to research the books the reviewer recommends. These books have been written for the express purpose of sensitizing the researcher to mind control techniques. I will touch on this subject again later.
Now, I have had experiences similar to those that this gentleman claims to have had, so I went to the websites he posted. One of them dealt with the government’s use of mind-control and EMR (Electro-magnetic radiation) weapons on unsuspecting citizens, and includes testimonies by individuals who are under EMR attack.
NOTE 2: I had posted a link to the document at one time, but I have come to believe that it may have had the potential to sensitize someone to mind control techniques. So I have removed the document and some potentially harmful excerpts it contained. What remains, I believe, will be informative, but not harmful.
Here is an excerpt from the document:
“Victims are subjected to various kinds of harassment and torture, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for years on end.”
This happens. If you refer to my post, Chronology of Joy, I explain that I’m followed wherever I go, whenever I go. I often use it as an opportunity to witness, because, even though these people are on the enemy’s side, they are horribly deceived; a godly person would not participate in such activity. They are under Satan’s power, and need to be delivered. And they can’t be delivered unless someone gives them the Gospel. It continues:
“Most believe that some type of technology can remotely track, target, and control every nerve in their bodies. Heart and respiration rate can speed up and slow down, and stomach and bowel functions are regulated.”
I can verify some of this. Muscles in my face, arms, buttocks, legs, and elsewhere often twitch uncontrollably. Sometimes, when I am about to fall asleep, I will be jerked awake by some part of my body: either my foot would kick (like when the doctor is checking your reflexes), or an arm, finger, or toe would jerk. Occasionally a hand will close and then open, or my mouth would open and shut violently, waking me. Often the muscles in my buttocks, thighs, or stomach will spasm. There have even been times when I have been awakened because my mouth opened and closed or my head nodded up and down. My lips have even puckered. It sounds fantastic, but it is true.
“Most victims describe a phenomenon they call “street theater.” For example, people around the victim have repeated verbatim, the victim’s immediate thoughts, or harassive [sic] and personalized statements are repeated by strangers wherever the victim may go.”
I have heard people I don’t know repeat things in a public setting that I have said in private, or say something about me that only a family member or close friend would know. Once, for instance, I heard a person talking on his cell phone say the nickname of my youngest grandchild; a name that is so different, that it could not be a coincidence. Therefore, the person must have been given personal information about me.
Conclusion: I am under surveillance.
“Emotions can be manipulated. Almost all victims say repetitive behavior control techniques are used and include negative, stimulus-response or feedback loops.”
Skinnerian operant conditioning techniques are common with this harassment. I will discuss this later. They do indeed use very sophisticated behavior control techniques designed to effect the behavior of the target individual.
“Many have been labeled mentally ill and live with financial ruin, loss of health, social life, and career. Victims theorize that the goal of the experiments would appear to be the development of weapons to neutralize the enemy, without killing them. All say the technology is unbelievably sophisticated and effective.”
I don’t believe these are experiments. The American government has been involved in mind control experiments for decades, and I don’t believe there is anything more that they can learn. The attacks are, therefore, deliberate.
Now, I can imagine how a victim of harassment could be labeled mentally ill. If you were to tell someone, who has no knowledge of these things, what you were going through, they probably would be inclined to label you insane. And that’s the idea. That is why you don’t tell just anyone about it. If you were diagnosed with HIV, you would probably tell only those whom you really trust, so that you would not be treated like a pariah. It is no different with harassment. Resist the urge to share your experiences with anyone, unless you are certain you can trust them; and even then, use caution.
When I first realized what was happening to me I was afraid, because I didn’t know things were actually this bad. I didn’t know that human beings, especially Americans, had become this base. This was the extent of the “What A Wonderful World” programming that was done on me—the same programming that is being done on you, through the “big eye” in your living room. It was like I went to sleep one day and woke up in another world. I found out what the movie, The Matrix, was really all about. I had taken the red pill, and was plumbing the depths of the rabbit hole. I now live in the real world, while most everyone else, including many Christians, lives in a world of make believe.
Then the Lord showed me why my fear was unfounded. He showed me in His Word that Christians are strangers and pilgrims in this world. That means that everyone else is right at home; we are the ones who are out of place. We are the ones with the problem as far as the world is concerned. That is why they hate us. We represent the Lord Jesus, and the world hates Him too. Jesus also told me that if it is true that He is in charge, and that He sees and knows everything, and all power is His, then He has allowed this in my life. And if He allowed it, then it has a purpose: my good and His glory.
He also showed me in His Word that:
“All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution”
2 Timothy 3:12
and
“It is given unto you in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake.”
Philippians 1:29
These verses mean that I will be persecuted until Jesus returns. But He also showed me something very encouraging that helped me to put everything in perspective. It can be found in 2 Corinthians 10:13:
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. But God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted (harassed) above ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye shall be able to bear it.”
1 Corinthians 10:13
Translation: God will not put more on you than you can bear. This is wonderful news! It means that no matter how bad things get, no matter how hopeless they may seem, they will never get so bad that I can’t handle them. There are nights when I get only a couple hours of sleep, if any at all; but Jesus always gives me strength. In most cases I have had more energy the next day than when I have slept a full night. I have learned to rely solely on Him; and He’s made good on His promise not to put more on me than I can bear.
Let me give you an example. At one point, the noise campaign around me had gotten really bad. As I related in Chronology of Joy, the harassment I have been subjected to is primarily a result of my efforts to evangelize Roman Catholics and Muslims, and because I speak out against the errors of Roman Catholicism and Islam. St. Louis is a Roman Catholic city, and the neighborhood in which I live is an old traditionally Irish Roman Catholic neighborhood. So, as you could probably guess, my neighbors are not too pleased with me. In fact, they are involved in the harassment.
Now, the house I live in is a poorly-insulated frame house that does not keep sound out as well as it could. If a dog barks outside, I can hear it pretty well inside. If someone mows their lawn, I can hear that pretty well too. In fact, I can hear just about anything going on outside from inside the house. This makes my house perfect for a noise campaign. So, it got so that whenever I would go to bed, the next-door neighbor’s dog would start barking the moment I would begin to fall asleep, and/or someone would repeatedly slam their car door, and/or someone would actually kick the side of my house. And while all this was happening, there would begin a loud ringing in my ears.
Well, you can probably imagine how hard it was for me to get a night’s sleep. So, I began to wear earplugs when I went to bed. But then I would be worried that someone would try to break into my house while I was asleep and I wouldn’t hear anything. What a dilemma!
Then God showed me a verse in the Bible that put the situation into perspective:
“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.”
Psalm 4:8
With this verse, God was showing me two very important things:
1. God is the Lord of sleep. Therefore, if God wants me to sleep, then I will sleep; no matter what my neighbors did. God reminded me how the Bible says Adam went into a deep sleep, before God took his rib in order to make Eve:
“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept…”
Genesis 3:21
God showed me how He caused the great patriarch Abraham to fall into a deep sleep so the Lord could show him a horrifying vision of the future of Israel:
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abraham…”
Genesis 15:12
God showed me how He made King Saul and all his soldiers go into a deep sleep in order that David could steal into the cave and take his water and spear:
“So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked; for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.”
1 Samuel 26:12
And God showed me in the Book of Acts how He made the prison guards fall into a deep sleep so that Peter could walk out without harm (Acts 12:5-11). There are other examples of how God makes men fall into a deep sleep when He wants. GOD IS THE LORD OF SLEEP.
But notice that Psalm 4:8 contains a very important word: Both:
“I will both lay me down in peace and sleep.”
The inclusion of the word both means that David would not only go to sleep, but he would sleep in peace and security. With this verse, God was showing me that He will protect me while I sleep, because He has the power to do just that.
When I understood what God was telling me, I prayed and told Him that I would put Him to the test. So, I took out the earplugs, and I went to sleep; and, for the first time in weeks, I got a full night’s sleep. Every night from that point on, whenever my neighbors would try to rob me of my sleep, I would repeat Psalm 23 (“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want…”) until I fell asleep. And I have never put on earplugs again.
Now, there are still nights when I can’t go to sleep immediately because of the activities of my neighbors, and there are times when I go to sleep right away, but am awakened hours before I would like to get up. But I now understand that if God is truly in control–and He is–then He is allowing this to happen. So when I can’t sleep, or am awakened in the middle of the night, I get out of bed, get on my knees, and pray. Then I either read my Bible, study, or write a blog post that God has laid on my heart. Sometimes I go back to sleep.
When I reflected on it, I realized that sometimes this happens when I have been lax in my prayer life: for example, when I haven’t been praying for the people on my prayer list as regularly as I should. So, Jesus knows what He’s doing. Moreover, Jesus has told us in His Word that we Christians will suffer for His sake. Persecution is a part of this suffering. And harassment is persecution.
I also realized another important thing: most of the people involved in my harassment would never step foot into a church, or come into contact with Christians under normal circumstances. I realized then, that God had provided me with an opportunity to witness to these people. And that is exactly what I do. You must understand that these people are horribly deceived. They will be among the first to be eliminated when the New World Order is established. Why? Because they know too much. There will come a time when they will realize that they have been used and are no longer of any use to their slave masters. It is my hope that at that moment, they will remember my witness and call on Jesus Christ to save them. It could be right before they draw their last breath.
Allow me to elaborate further on this last point, because it is very important. It is a known fact that the Nazi regime eliminated not only the Jews, but also, as it is reported, the mentally and physically disabled, people with epilepsy, drunks, bums, homeless people, drug addicts, homosexuals and anyone else who was considered undesirable or less than perfect. Now, most history books will tell you that Hitler and the Nazis were into perfection, and that through eliminating these people, the Nazis were ridding the world of blemishes on the otherwise smooth face of the perfect utopian society they were striving to create.
But, during the course of my persecution, I noticed something very significant. Recall that I am under surveillance twenty four hours a day. There is scarcely a moment–if indeed there is such a moment–that I am not being watched or listened to. I began to notice that, wherever I was, there would be an unusual number of physically disabled people, mentally ill people, drunks, bums, homeless folks, drug addicts, and, yes, homosexuals. Now, it was not only their presence that alerted me that something was not right with them, but their actions, movements, and body language. In short, they were just all wrong. I eventually understood that these people were surveilling me, and, in some cases, were active participants in my harassment!
It suddenly dawned on me that this was probably the reason the Nazis eliminated those groups of people I related earlier: not only (if at all) because they were considered a blight on society, but because he had used those people to spy on German citizens who did not support the Nazi regime as well as others that the Roman Catholic church considered enemies. Never forget that Hitler was considered a very good Roman Catholic. In fact, Hitler was never excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church for his crimes.
Now Hitler’s elimination of those groups made sense to me, because it had never really made sense to me before. I believe that history has been doctored to conceal Hitler’s real agenda in eliminating these people: to tie up any loose ends, and to make sure that there was no one left to tell what really happened to bring the Nazis to power and who was really behind it. Lenin and Stalin did the same thing in Communist Russia.
So, nothing has changed. As Hitler eliminated many of those unfortunate thralls who helped bring the Nazis to power–drunks, bums, the physically disabled, homosexuals, people with mental problems, AND Roman Catholics who were deemed insufficiently zealous for their faith, so will the Antichrist do exactly the same in the New World Order. Satan always double crosses his slaves.
Now, not all of these people are what we would normally consider an enemy. Many are our friends, family, and neighbors and have, in some way, had their reasoning compromised. Consequently, they are living double lives. The Bible says that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways, and I have seen this first hand. Many are quite literally insane. Because of their actions, they have sunken lower than they can ever recover. They will never be “normal” again, if indeed they ever were. They can never go back. They have gone over to the “Dark Side” and can never come back again without help from Jesus.
They are also horribly deceived if they think they are not being spied on too. The puppet masters want to enslave everybody; and their first slaves are always those who they have enlisted to help them—our friends, family, and neighbors. As the Bible says, they are “deceiving and being deceived.” They have enslaved themselves.
This is actually God at work. The Bible says that Jesus is going to separate the sheep from the goats. A sheep has always been a symbol for a follower of Jesus. A goat has always been the symbol of Satan worshippers. So Jesus is going to make sure that everyone picks a side. There will be no fence sitters. They may not directly worship Satan, but as far as God is concerned, they might as well be. He who is not with Jesus is against Him, and He is going to make sure that there is a clear line drawn in the sand.
So to this end, Jesus has sent a “strong delusion,” so that many will be deceived into doing things they never dreamed they would do. Why is Jesus doing this? I can show you better than I can tell you:
“Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. That they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
This is a frightening verse. God doesn’t do anything by half. So, when God sends you a delusion–a strong delusion–then you can bet your bottom dollar that you will be deluded beyond any concept of the word. This explains why many of our unsaved friends, family, and neighbors are starting to have all kinds of weird beliefs and practices. This is why many of their lives have been turned literally upside down. God has sent them to La-La Land. Next stop: Hell.
I am sharing this with you, brothers and sisters, so that you will be encouraged and not discouraged; courageous and not afraid, because strange things may be happening to you that you can’t explain. Maybe you’ve tried to explain them to someone and have been ignored, written off, or been called crazy. I’m here to let you know that I understand, because I’ve been there; and I’ve given you at least one explanation for your troubles. I’m here to let you know that you’re not alone, and that you’re not crazy. This is happening to many of us. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10). He will get us through.
If this is happening to you, but you are not a Christian, maybe you have an enemy. In the Bible, Jesus tells the parable of the man who sowed good seed, but when the corn came up, weeds came up with it. The man’s servant said to him, “Master did we not sow good seed?” to which the man replied, “An enemy has done this” (Matthew 13:24-26).
Notice the man didn’t say, “My enemy has done this.” This is because he may not have known exactly who did this to him, but he had sense enough to know that such a thing had been done by someone hostile to him, rather than friendly. Thus, he called him an enemy.
The same applies to us. Understand that you do not have to do anything in particular to have an enemy. The Bible says, “we wrestle not against flesh and blood” (Ephesians 6:13). The material world is influenced by the spirit world. The angel Gabriel told Daniel that on the first day he started fasting and praying, God had sent him with the answer to Daniel’s prayers. But Satan sent a demon that held Gabriel up for three weeks! Michael the Archangel had to come to Gabriel’s rescue (Daniel 10:12-13).
This truth is not limited to Christians. Satan hates all mankind, and his demons are constantly at work causing enmity and division between people. So, just because you don’t know you have an enemy, doesn’t mean he isn’t there. If he doesn’t want you to know he is your enemy, you may never know, until something happens. Most enemies masquerade as your friends. It gives them enormous pleasure to do damage to you behind your back and smile to your face.
Now a person who dislikes you is not necessarily an enemy. What distinguishes an enemy from someone who just may not care much for you, is the amount of time an enemy spends thinking about you. An enemy will be absolutely obsessed with you, and will wake up and go to bed thinking about you. You may find it unbelievable that such people exist, but those of us who have had experience with such people can tell you that they do. People like this make the perfect tool for an harassment campaign, because they don’t do it for ideological, political, or religious reasons, but for the sheer pleasure of wreaking havoc on your life. A person like this would do it even if he had a full-time job and family responsibilities, because you have become the center of his existence.
Now, a person with a job and responsibilities would be bad enough. But imagine if this pawn were someone who had nothing but time on his hands. Imagine if this person were someone whom people would normally classify as a loser: someone who had no job, no family, no friends, no responsibilities, and no prospects–in short, no life. And imagine if, to top it off, he had psychological problems and/or an addiction of some kind, like alcohol, drugs, or sex. Even better would be a person who had something to hide: such as a pedophile, rapist or other sex offender, who the neighbors don’t know about yet.
Now imagine if someone offered to pay this person’s rent, pay his utilities, buy his groceries, and supply his addiction, and the only thing he had to do was harass you. Do you think he would do it? Of course he would! This would be his idea of heaven under any circumstances; but, in this economy, even someone who might have had misgivings about doing something like this before would now leap at the opportunity. Now you know another reason our economy has been deliberately sabotaged.
It is even possible that you may not be the primary target of this person. Maybe the primary source of the harassment is targeting someone else, but the person he is using is taking advantage of the opportunity to harass you. Maybe you were his enemy and you didn’t even know it, or maybe he sees you as a threat (competition for a job, a man or woman, or public office). Maybe you have a good job (or just a job), a pretty wife or girlfriend, a nice house, or maybe you dress nice. Then, again, maybe it’s for no particular reason at all. Maybe you are merely collateral damage.
It is important to understand that one thing that motivates a great many people to do evil is the sense of having power and control over another’s life. As one surveillance expert said in a recent NPR interview, “There is no greater temptation to spy on a neighbor than to know more about you than you know about him.” When you add economic considerations to the picture, the temptation for a weak unstable individual to descend into perversion can be overpowering.
Now, with this in mind, consider the fact that unemployment in the U.S. is at an all-time high. We are also in a recession. Now consider that a recession and record unemployment have not affected the private sale of surveillance equipment. Do a Google or YouTube search for consumer surveillance equipment, and you’ll see what I mean. Now, while you ponder that, consider that rape, child molestation, child abduction, and other sex crimes are also on the rise. I don’t believe in coincidences. One is not required to have morals to purchase surveillance equipment. Think of the potential for abuse.
Now, I’m not trying to scare you. I’m just trying to get you to think critically: a skill that is sorely lacking in today’s mind-controlled society. I’m trying to get you to understand that people are being encouraged to misbehave. This is the reason for all the media coverage of consumer surveillance equipment and the explosive growth of reality TV. People want to know what others do behind closed doors. The puppet masters know that a significant portion of society has deviant tendencies, and they want to exploit that fact for their own purposes. That is the purpose for all the movies about ordinary people who are spies, like “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” and cartoons about kid spies. The puppet masters are creating in the average citizen a taste for voyeurism and espionage. They are creating a culture of spying.
But they not only want people to spy on and harass one another. They also want people to be afraid of and mistrust their neighbors: that way, they won’t talk to one another. And it is working: people are becoming increasingly isolated.
So, if you have friends or loved ones who are behaving strangely—possibly even seeming to live a double life—I’ve just given you one possibility. Believe me: some of our family, friends, and neighbors are behaving very, very badly. I know mine are. If, like me, you have family like that, pray for them. They are being deceived.
By the way, remember a couple of years ago when the Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of the Citizen’s Corps?
Have you heard anything else about it? I haven’t; but I’m not stupid enough to think that no one has. What do you suppose the “citizens” that make up the Corps do?
At this point, it should be emphasized that many who claim to be fighting mind control and informing the public about this activity are actually controlled by the enemy (including most, if not all, organizations that deal with mind control). The mind control movement is closely linked to the whole UFO/extraterrestrial movement, and many so-called alien abductees claim to have been mind controlled. While some aspects of mind control (such as EMR weapons) may very well be real, most mind control promoters say the perpetrators are the “global elite.” They never mention the occult, demonic aspect of this issue. They never say that the Great Whore of Babylon, the Roman Catholic church, is to blame. But she is. Believe me.
The testimonies of those who say that thoughts have been implanted into their mind, to me suggest demonic possession or obsession. A Spirit-filled Christian cannot be mind controlled in that way, though he can be harassed, as I am, which, if successful, is a form of mind control. I do believe, however, that a Christian, who is living in sin, can be mind-manipulated in some way. Many mind control testimonies contain elements of an unmistakably satanic nature.
Harassment in the manner I have described is real and is happening. But what you are not going to hear from most sources is that it is Satanic and demonic in nature. You will also not hear most sources make any connection between mind control, the Roman Catholic church, and our military. That’s right: our military.
You see, mind control (one of the “silent weapons for quiet wars”) is a part of military psychological operations (PSYOPS), and PSYOPS units form a part of United States Military Intelligence. This is a known fact. What is not universally known, however, is that psychological operations were invented by the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order, according to a U.S. Army psychological operations training video. And the Jesuit Order was formed by the Roman Catholic church for the express purpose of stamping out the Protestant Reformation.
Are you starting to make some connections?
The link between mind control, persecution and the Roman Catholic church is a very important one. I believe that Christians, such as myself, who are not afraid to speak the truth, and who are actively evangelizing Roman Catholics and/or Muslims, are being targeted by the Roman Catholic church as part of Phase Three of The Roman Catholic Takeover of America. Psychological operations are being used by Satan to persecute the Body of Christ, and anyone else they consider a threat. As a matter of fact, it is a known fact that U.S. military psychological operations units, equipment, and tactics were deployed against the Branch Davidians during the United States government’s illegal and un-Constitutional raid against the Mount Carmel Center and Church during the siege at Waco. See how deep the rabbit hole goes?
One more thing: do not waste your time researching mind control and harassment. The enemy has been very busy printing books on the subject of mind control and disseminating information on YouTube that actually explains the specifics of mind control and what to look out for. These books and videos contain what are known as “triggers.” A trigger is designed to invoke (or provoke) a certain response in a targeted individual. A trigger has no effect unless the victim knows what it is. That’s why Satan wants you to go out and research mind control. He knows that you will go out and look for those things, and they will make certain that you find them. And once you find out the subtle cues the enemy uses–diabolically subtle cues–you will become sensitized to them and they will start to affect you. Then the harassment will begin. They are “priming the pump,” so to speak. This is classic psychological warfare.
This is called “operant conditioning,” pioneered by Ivan Pavlov and developed into an art by behaviorist B.F. Skinner and others. Skinner said that the goal of operant conditioning is “to shape an individual’s behavior by controlling his environment.” Skinner was a sick, twisted individual who believed that since people are going to be manipulated anyway, “I only want them to be manipulated effectively.” Operant conditioning is a very effective means of manipulation. Everything that is being done to you is designed to elicit a response, and how you respond determines what the manipulators will do next. In this manner, they can control your actions and even your thoughts. The ultimate goal is to create fear in the subject and ultimately reshape his personality and, if possible, even drive him insane (or cause others to think he is insane). This effectively neutralizes the individual.
This is a perfect way to discredit a targeted individual. If everyone thinks he is paranoid or insane, no one will listen to him. America has already been programmed to believe that anyone who behaves in a way that does not fit into their socialist worldview is mentally unstable. And the media has played a big role in this. The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1985 edition, for example, lists paranoia as one example of schizophrenia, and gives as an example someone who believes he is being followed or spied on. This has been done well in advance to condition the public to classify anyone who claims he is being followed, harassed, or spied on as mentally insane. In that Christians are on the government’s list of targeted individuals, you should now understand why many, including President Barack Obama, have implied that Christians are mentally insane.
If you believe you are the target of a harassment campaign, the key is to understand what is being done to you and why, and to take steps to minimize its affect on you. Once you understand that the purpose of this harassment is to control your thoughts and actions, then you will understand the purpose for each and every tactic the enemy uses and you will not react in the manner that your tormentors would like. With time, you will see their tactics and understand them, but you will not be moved to react to them. They will become a part of life.
It is important therefore to understand that the key to overcoming persecution, especially mind control, is not to react or even act, for that matter. The key is to keep on doing what you always do. For the Christian that means to pray and to preach. Notice that, in the Bible, Satan always reacted to what Jesus, the Apostles, the prophets, and the Christians did, and never was it the reverse. The Christians’ reaction to what Satan did was always the same: they prayed and they kept on preaching.
What did Peter say after the Jews arrested him and John and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus?
“Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
Acts 4:19,20
What did the Christians pray when they heard what had happened?
“And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy Word…”
Acts 4:29
What did the Apostles do when the high priest and the Sadducees put them in prison and God released them from prison?
“[T]hey entered into the temple early in the morning and taught”.
Acts 5:21
What did the Apostles do when the Jews arrested them again, beat them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus?
“They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus Christ.”
Acts 5:41,42
What did Paul do after escaping an attempt on his life?
“[H]e spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed…” (Acts 9:27).
Notice that the Apostles never missed a step even when they were being persecuted. They just kept on doing what they always did. In fact, they did it more. And this is exactly what we must do. If the goal of the persecution is to change who we are, then we resist by continuing to be who we are and to keep on doing what we do. When the persecution increases, pray for more strength to overcome. This will strengthen your testimony, and you will grow stronger spiritually as you learn to rely solely on Jesus Christ. Anyone who is being or has been harassed in this fashion, knows that you are powerless to do anything about it. And that’s the key. Acknowledging that you are powerless is the first step. The next step is to run to Him who has all power and to throw yourself at His mercy. And Jesus will bring you though. I’m a witness.
I believe the harassment is a form of torture and has even been described as such. The Dominican monks during the Roman Catholic Inquisition used torture to try and force Christians to reject Jesus and convert to Roman Catholicism. I believe harassment and gang stalking are being used for the same purpose. Those who reject Jesus either outright or by becoming less vocal or conspicuous in their faith as a result of the harassment will be left alone for the most part, as long as they do what they are told. Those such as myself, however, who will never reject Jesus will continue to be harassed. We must choose whom we will serve. I’ve already made my choice.
Again, resist the urge to research harassment and gang stalking, as many, if not all, of the resources available are intended to sensitize you to mind control programming techniques and to inculcate fear. If you must do research, get books written by those suffering from long-term or terminal diseases, like cancer, who share how they didn’t allow the disease to stop them from living, but found ways to live with the disease and accept its limitations on their lives. Avoid anything on mind control or harassment as they only engender fear and bondage. And God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).
Once you understand that this is all satanic, you will begin to see it as just another manifestation of the age-old battle between good and evil. Pray to God for wisdom concerning what is being done to you and He will show you what is going on and tell you what to do.
For the Christian, it is vitally important to stay in the will of God to get through this persecution. If we place our trust solely in Jesus Christ, and understand that He is in control of everything, He will ease our suffering. Remember, He promised not to put more on us than we can bear. But we must trust Him, and to trust Him we must first know Him. If you don’t know Him yet, why don’t you now?
The fact that Texe Marrs cites Jim Keith’s book demonstrates the link between the New Age, mind control, and UFOs. Alternative 3 is a supposed government plan to colonize outer space and involves a supposed moon base. More New Age mumbo-jumbo. This also tells us something about Texe Marrs. I have always believed him to be a New Age light worker, despite the fact that he claims to be a Christian. He has made statements that demonstrate a hatred for God’s beloved Jewish people and an affinity for the Catholic church. Do not be surprised: The New Age has many such “Christians” on a leash.
Moreover, I believe Texe Marrs to be a crypto-Catholic (ironic, since he’s always talking about crypto-Jews) because, of all the occult hand signs he discusses in Codex Magica, he doesn’t discuss the Marian Salute or Cult of Mary hand sign, which he would be compelled to do if he were a real Christian. Use discernment, saints. Texe Marrs is not what he appears to be.
This should not surprise you, dear brethren. We are in a war. And in war, anything goes. The enemy is pulling out all the stops in their insane quest for power and revenge. One weapon Satan uses to great effect is fear. If you can get people afraid for their lives, the battle is won before a single shot is fired. We must, therefore, not fear; we must pray. God is not only willing, but able. I’m a witness.
The enemy will win many battles, but they shall not prevail. They will have their New World Order, but only for exactly 42 months. Then Jesus will flex. And we will see it.
We as Christians have a mandate to give the world the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Even if we are being harassed, spied on, and otherwise persecuted, we are to obey the Great Commission. I know it is tough, but for this purpose have we been called. Let us take courage in the fact that our reward awaits us on the other side. Remember the words of our Lord Jesus:
“Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. “Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.”
Luke 6:22,23
Watch and pray, brothers and sisters.
Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh!
The Still Man
Watch this video on harrassment and gang stalking:
Reply To A Christian About the Charismatic Movement
Grace and peace, believers, and greetings to those still in the world.
The following post is a reply to a comment made by a dear soul who believes the Charismatic Movement is of God. I am posting it here for the edification of the Body of Christ.
“Thank you, for your comment, Lisa, and thank you for the loving way in which you presented your argument and your disagreement with my position on a very sensitive, but important, topic. The Body of Christ could benefit from your charitable example.
“Good intentions notwithstanding, dear sister, you are uninformed about the nature of the Charismatic movement. Perhaps the best way to inform you would be to take your comments point by point.
“To begin, you are correct when you say, “many Charismatic movements have arisen through Protestant churches.” As you know from my essay, I hold that the goal of the Charismatic movement is to unite all religions (specifically Protestant Christianity) with Roman Catholicism on something they can all agree on, since doctrinally they will always disagree. Within Christianity, that something is the works of the Holy Spirit; hence the name, Charismatic. The Charismatic movement can best be seen in the Protestant Church, because it is this church that Satan wants to destroy.
“You are mistaken, however, in your belief that errors such as salvation with the evidence of speaking in tongues “have been outgrown through the maturity of the movement and are no longer in practice.” This practice is in place at this very minute, and in today’s atmosphere of “oneness,” is gaining popularity with a people who no longer believe that the Christian church should separate itself from the world. Knowing this is not dependent on how many years you have been a Christian (praise God for blessing you 20 years in the faith), but on how sensitive you are to the leading of the Holy Spirit, from Whom comes discernment.
“At this moment, I do not have a church home, because, with one exception, every church that I have visited in my hometown since returning to America three and a half years ago has been charismatic—and the one exception was still ecumenical.
How do I know? Because when I hear a teaching that is not Biblical, I talk to the pastor about it, to know if he is doing it out of ignorance or if he has an agenda. Not one pastor I have talked to has been able to defend a false teaching with Scripture. And because they neither concede that their teachings are unscriptural, nor defend them with Scripture—unless they wrench It out of context—I conclude that they are purposely teaching it.
“Let me give you a couple of examples.
“At one church I visited, the pastor talked about “the Holy Ghost” so much that it seemed that he was subordinating Jesus to Him. When he went so far as to say that a person is not saved unless he demonstrates his salvation through the speaking of tongues, I confronted him.
When we went to Scripture, I noticed that every passage he used referred only to the Holy Ghost, while the ones I used referred to both the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit. I told him that his argument seemed to suggest that the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit were two different persons, to which he replied, “They are!” When I asked him what was the difference between the two he replied, “More power; that’s all, just more power.” Incredible, but true.
“A few months ago, I answered a church advertisement for an associate pastor. I sent the senior pastor my résumé and he sent me an email asking me to go to his website and that, if I agreed to his Statement of Faith and his “Supplementary Agreement,” contingent on the interview, I looked pretty good for the job. I went to his website and upon reading the Statement of Faith, I understood that this church was Charismatic.
But I gave him the benefit of a doubt, and examined the “Supplementary Agreement,” which included a statement to this effect: “The applicant must agree that salvation is evidenced by the speaking of tongues. Scripture references can be given.” When I wrote the pastor back and gave him the Scripture verses that refute this errant belief, he came back with, “We should have a teachable spirit” and even said that speaking in tongues is not essential to salvation, even though the “Supplementary Agreement” says it was.
“This is why one must “quibble” about wording. Charismatic churches have realized that discerning Christians know speaking in tongues as an evidence of salvation is unscriptural, so they mask it or ostensibly drop it altogether, such that one would never know unless one were to press the pastor about it. I always do. Believe me: the devil is always in the details.
“The aim of the Charismatic Movement is not, as you say, “to use Jesus as the example.” It is to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Greek: charismata) as the common denominator. Jesus said the Holy Spirit would remind us of everything He ever said (John 14:26), not center the Christian faith around the Spirit’s works, which is what the Charismatic Movement does. The Charismatic Movement is works centered, not faith centered. And works cannot save us (Romans 3:19, 4:4-5). Remember, our works should be a sign of our salvation, not a requirement for our salvation. The only requirement for salvation is faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ as sufficient for atonement, or remission of sins (Romans 3:25).
“Moreover, Jesus Christ is not to be used merely as an example. Jesus is the Way (John 14:6), not an example of the way. That would be a map. There are a plethora of unbelievers who say they are Christians simply because they use Jesus Christ as an “example.” Oprah Winfrey is one of those people, yet she says God is merely a “force” and not a person. This is totally unscriptural.
“Your reading different bible verses “side by side” suggests that you don’t think that any one version is the correct one, and you go so far as to say so. This is also a belief of charismatics, who believe that only the “original writings” were error-free. This is saying that we don’t have what Jesus actually said anymore, which is calling Jesus Christ a liar, for He said that His words would never pass away (Luke 21:33).
This is also calling the Holy Spirit a liar, for He wrote the Bible. This is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit—the only unpardonable sin. This is the sin of the Charismatic movement. And all that are in this system will perish unless they leave it and repent of it.
“So, although you believe me to quibble over semantics, I am merely zealous for the word of God, as all Christians should be; for Scripture says that we should be ready to avenge all disobedience, when our obedience is fulfilled (2 Corinthians 10:6).
“My spirit tells me that, by your words, sister, you are wanting for discernment: for if you believe the Charismatic Movement is of Jesus, you are terribly deceived, and it could cost you your soul. I’ll be praying for you, because time is short. I would advise you to research the Charismatic Movement under the guidance of the Holy Spirit so that you are not deceived into the Pit.”
I plan to complete my study of the Charismatic movement very soon. I’m sorry for the delay. I understand that there are many who need this information.
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
Copyright © 2011 Anthony Keeton, The Still Man ®. All Rights Reserved.
Does President Obama Think All (Christian) Gun Owners Are Terrorists?
Grace and peace unto you, brothers and sisters.
President Obama has just told us what the war on terror is really all about. In a CNN interview, he reportedly made the following statement with regard to the government’s terrorism focus:
“The biggest concern we have right now is not the launching of a major terrorist operation, although that risk is always there.”
“The risk that we’re especially concerned over right now is the lone wolf terrorist, somebody with a single weapon being able to carry out wide-scale massacres of the sort that we saw in Norway recently.”
“You know, when you’ve got one person who is deranged or driven by a hateful ideology, they can do a lot of damage, and it’s a lot harder to trace those lone wolf operators.”
Recall that we previously discussed that the USA PATRIOT Act revised the government’s prior definition of terrorism. It used to read:
“Acts that attempt to affect the conduct of a government by assassination, or kidnapping,”
It has now been amended to read:
“Acts that:
“involve acts dangerous to human life,
“appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce,
“influence the policy of a government‚
“affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”
The change considerably broadened the definition of terrorism.
Now the president has given us the definition of a new type of terrorist: the “lone wolf,” and it ought to worry everyone reading this. To show you why, let’s look at the first sentence of the president’s statement again.
“The risk that we’re especially concerned over right now is the lone wolf terrorist, somebody with a single weapon being able to carry out wide-scale massacres of the sort that we saw in Norway recently.”
A student of language can appreciate the grammatical sleight-of-hand the president uses. It is both simplistic and deceptive. Let’s break this sentence down.
“The risk that we’re especially concerned over right now is the lone wolf terrorist…”
Cut and dry. The government is concerned about lone wolf terrorists. Now President Obama goes on to tell us what a lone wolf terrorist is:
“…somebody with a single weapon…”
That’s it. According to President Barack Obama, a lone wolf terrorist is “somebody with a single weapon.” The rest of the sentence describes the weapon:
“being able to carry out wide-scale massacres”
The phrase “being able to carry out wide-spread massacres” is not intended to be a part of the definition of a long wolf terrorist. If it were, the clause would read:
“…somebody with a single weapon, who is able to carry out wide-spread massacres…”
But the President does not say, “who is able.” He says “being able.”
If he wanted to be clear that he was describing the ability of the weapon, he could have said:
“…somebody with a single weapon which (or that) is able to carry out wide-scale massacres…”
But he uses the phrase “being able,” which makes it unclear whether he is referring to the person or the weapon. Anyone who has heard him speak knows that President Obama chooses his words very carefully. One may assume, then, that the president said what he meant.
Because of the terms “single weapon” and “wide-scale massacres,” it would seem the president was referring to a grenade or bomb, both of which are single weapons capable of producing mass casualties. Is a lone wolf terrorist then, a person armed with a bomb? Perhaps the rest of the sentence will tell us:
“…of the sort that we saw in Norway recently.”
Obviously, the president is not talking about a bomb, because a handgun and an automatic rifle were supposedly used in Norway. The “single weapon” that President Obama is referring to, then, is a gun. Wait. Is the president calling handguns and rifles (even a .22 squirrel rifle) weapons of mass destruction? The phrase “single weapon…able to carry out wide-scale massacres of the sort we saw in Norway” would seem to suggest that very thing.
This is incredible, but totally consistent. The War on Terror was supposedly about weapons of mass destruction. If a handgun were classified a weapon of mass destruction, then the government could consider it a terrorist weapon. Anyone carrying a gun then, could be classified as a terrorist. Remember that President Obama defined a lone wolf terrorist as “somebody with a single weapon.” That translates to ‘anybody with a gun.’ The War on Terror comes to Anytown, USA.
The problem is that the president bases his description of a lone wolf terrorist on the capability of a weapon and not the actions of an individual. Instead of describing a lone wolf terrorist as “a single person who carries out wide-scale massacres,” the president focuses on the capability of a weapon to produce mass casualties as the basis for his definition. He’s making it about the weapon and not the person.
This is frightening. It would be the same if a guy went around bashing people’s skulls in with a baseball bat. Would the government consider baseball bats weapons of mass destruction? Would all baseball players then be considered terrorists? Do you see where this type of thinking would go in a hurry?
But what separates baseball players and terrorists is, among other things, ideology. We should know something of the psychology and ideology of the lone wolf. The President’s next statement gives us some ideal:
“You know, when you’ve got one person who is deranged or driven by a hateful ideology, they can do a lot of damage, and it’s a lot harder to trace those lone wolf operators.”
This is the final characteristic of a lone wolf terrorist. Not only does he carry a “single weapon” (READ handgun), “able to carry out mass-scale massacres,” but he is “deranged” and “driven by a hateful ideology.” No one would disagree with the first part of this statement. A deranged person with a handgun can do a lot of damage. I would have a problem with the second part, however, because the President doesn’t define what he (and by extension, the government) considers a “hateful ideology.”
Or doesn’t he?
Remember, the president referred to the Norway massacre, and it’s no secret that the media is calling the alleged shooter, Anders Breivik, a “Christian fundamentalist.”
Is “Christian fundamentalism”—what we would call Biblical Christianity—the “hateful ideology” to which President Obama refers? Well, anyone who has heard his opinions on Christianity would have no difficulty answering this question. Also notice that, with his wording, the President associates insanity with Christianity. That ought to tell you what he really thinks of us.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvnY8WY24bA
Understand, folks, that the President is communicating a major policy shift with regard to terrorism. When Bush invaded Iraq, beginning the War on Terror, the impetus was supposedly weapons of mass destruction, which, at the time, meant nuclear weapons (remember the hearings on C-Span featuring that one Arab gentleman talking about the nuclear weapons inspections in Iraq?), and the terrorists were the Taliban.
Now what President Obama is essentially saying is that, at least for now, the Taliban is on the back burner, and “lone wolf terrorists,” (which, by his definition, means anyone with a weapon and a “hateful ideology”), are the government’s primary concern. The term “weapons of mass destruction” no longer applies only to nuclear weapons, but has been expanded to include a “single weapon” (such as a handgun), because it is “able to carry out wide-spead massacres.”
It is being implied (but later it will be openly stated) that handguns are weapons of mass destruction, and it is being implied (but later it will be stated openly) that Christians are terrorists.
What Christians need to understand is that it seems the President is giving us a very simple math equation.
A person + A handgun + A Christian ideology = A Terrorist
It will soon be open season on all Christians. And that is what this is really all about.
By the way, have you noticed that the media have conveniently forgotten that survivors of the Norway massacre originally said that there was a second gunman? In a court of law, their testimony would be considered evidence and conveniently forgetting it would be obstruction of justice. The same thing happened at Columbine, where the survivors said there was a third shooter. The same thing happened on 9/11, where survivors AND firefighters on the scene said there were explosions in the towers. We are being set up–again.
I have believed all along that the Norway massacre was a planned event that would be used to get rid of guns–and Christians.
Prior to his election, President Obama was rabidly anti-gun.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z745MfGynYY
He only employed pro-Second Amendment rhetoric to get elected.
The Bible has given us ample warning that these things would come to pass, and now we are seeing it with our own eyes. Persecution is coming. Are you spiritually prepared? Is your family? Get right with Jesus. Pray for the strength to overcome to the end.
If you need encouragement, go to the end of The Book. We win.
If you are not a Christian, but you can see that the Bible predicts events like Norway, and you realize that if the Bible is right about that, then perhaps it is right about other things–like God’s coming judgment on this sinful world, then you need to get right with Jesus.
Understand that things like the Japanese tsunami are merely a dress rehearsal for the final act, coming to a neighborhood near you. Make the right move. Get right with Jesus now. It will be the best decision you will ever make.
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
Breaking Generational Curses
Grace and peace unto you.
The subject of generational curses is so controversial, that it is rarely, if ever preached. I have never heard it preached in my entire life, yet generational curses are responsible for destroying more people’s lives than possibly any other reason. It is also responsible for destroying many Christians’ testimonies.
That this subject is not being preached is not surprising given that most churches today are more concerned with keeping the offering basket filled than with the spiritual well being of their congregations. Truth be told, many preachers are themselves under a generational curse, and this affects their ability to preach hard-core gospel.
We here don’t have that problem; so today we will discuss this menace, because many unsaved people’s lives have been utterly ruined by a generational curse, while many Christians are having great problems in their Christian walk and are having their testimonies destroyed because they are in bondage to sin due to a generational curse. We will therefore discuss:
- What is a generational curse.
- Why one comes under a generational curse.
- How one comes under a generational curse.
- How you can know if you are under a generational curse, and
- How you can remove a generational curse (yes, you can do this yourself!).
First let us go to the Lord for peace, perseverance, and protection. Satan does not want you to have this information, so he may either try to distract you, fatigue you, or even harm you. Let us pray:
“Lord Jesus, please grant us your peace during this discussion. Let no one call us or otherwise distract us, and please help us to lend our whole heart, as we strive to be obedient to your Word. Furthermore, Father, please protect us from the power of Satan through your mighty name, Amen.”
To begin, a generational curse is a curse that God will place on a person’s family when that person is guilty of committing a sin which is so detestable to God that He considers it an abomination. Webster’s Dictionary defines abominable as, “Worthy of or causing disgust or hatred: DETESTABLE.” An abomination, therefore, is something that God detests and hates. Remember, God is Holy.
One sin that is high on God’s list of abominations is idolatry. In fact, the first time God talks about the generational curse it is associated with this sin. Let us turn to Exodus Chapter 20, which begins with the Ten Commandments. In verse 4, God says,
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”
The prohibition is clear:
- We must not make any idols.
- We must not bow down to them.
- We must not serve them.
The second half of the passage contains the penalty for breaking this rule. Let us examine it.
“Visiting the iniquity of the fathers…”
The word visiting in this sense means to bestow or appoint. Iniquity, of course, is sin. In other words, God will put the sin of the parents…
“Upon the children…”
God will curse the children with the sin that the parent(s) committed…
“Unto the third and fourth generation.”
God will curse four entire generations with the very sin that the parent was guilty of. So, if the parent committed idolatry, four generations of descendents will also commit idolatry. If the parent practiced witchcraft, four generations of descendents will also practice witchcraft (we will revisit this subject later). This is because God has cursed the children for the parent’s disobedience.
But it doesn’t end there. God will also curse the descendents of each of the four generations, also for four generations.
Exodus 34:7 reads:
“Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generations.”
Exodus 34:7
That’s sixteen generations of descendents under God’s curse, all because of the sin of one ancestor. Over time this will become a perpetual curse because, if the original sin is not dealt with, each succeeding generation will commit the same sin and will be cursed anew. Without intervention, the entire lineage will ultimately be accursed. Many reading this have already started to make some connections.
Now that we know what a generational curse is and why God places a generational curse on a family, let us examine the sins that God considers abominations. As we have seen, idolatry is number one on the list. Leviticus Chapter 18-20 gives us several more.
Pornography. Leviticus 18:1-19 deals with the various flavors of this sin. What few in our time understand is that, according to the Bible, to see anyone naked other than our spouse or our children is an abomination to God and is thus, pornography.
Children naturally know this. When they reach an age that they begin to know their bodies, they are naturally modest. Not only do they not want anyone to see their nakedness, but they aren’t particular about seeing anyone else’s nakedness either. Beginning in grade school, society makes children ashamed of their modesty.
Americans touting an open society cite how “uninhibited” the Europeans are. But what few, other than those who have lived in Europe, know, however, is that the Europeans are obsessed with sex. Being “liberated” and “uninhibited” has not had any positive results for the Europeans: it has only made them want to have sex more. Only they don’t do their dirt at home. They go to third world countries like the Philippines to live out their sexual fantasies. It’s called sex tourism.
Adultery. “Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her” (SEE also 20:10).
Child Sacrifice. “Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech” (18:21a).
Molech was a Babylonian deity—an idol. Parents would sacrifice their children to this idol by tossing them into a fire before his image. This is still practiced today in secret.
Profaning the name of God. “Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God” (18:21b).
This means using the name of Jesus Christ as a swear word (which Americans do ad infinitum), texting “omg!”, or saying “God$!*@it!”
Homosexuality. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination” (18:22). (See also 20:13).
Besides being a perversion of God’s intention for sexual relations to be exclusively between a man and a woman, homosexuality is a sin against the body, because the body is God’s temple (1 Corinthians 6:18-19).
Sodom and Gomorrah are God’s warning to us that He hates homosexuality. He hates it so much that He not only destroyed those two cities, but he destroyed “all the cities of the plain” with the exception of the city to which Lot and his family fled (Genesis 19:24-29). God basically destroyed an entire state for the sin of homosexuality. He seriously hates it.
Many homosexuals hate the Bible, especially the Book of Leviticus, because it reveals God’s hatred of the homosexual lifestyle. Many so-called Christians who defend homosexuals like to say, “God hates homosexuality, but He loves homosexuals.” I don’t like to use this saying, because it glosses over God’s abhorrence of the homosexual lifestyle. It is like saying, “God hates murder, but He loves murderers” or, “God hates child molestation, but He loves child molesters.” Clearly this conveys the wrong idea. It is best to say that God loves the person, but He hates their sin. We should love homosexuals enough to tell them the plain truth.
Bestiality. “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith” (18:23).
Dishonoring one’s mother and father. “For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death” (20:9).
Incest. “If a man shall take his sister…it is a wicked thing” (20:17).
Witchcraft. We will look at this sin more in depth, because it is so widespread today, that even many Christians are practicing it unwittingly. There are several types of activities that God calls witchcraft, and they can be found in Deuteronomy Chapter 18.
“There shall not be found among you any one…”
“That maketh is son or his daughter to pass through the fire…
This means child sacrifice, a common practice among the ancient people. Parents would sacrifice their children to the god Molech by tossing them alive into a fire before his image. Child sacrifice has never stopped. As a matter of fact, there was a news story a few days ago about a Nigerian ‘baby factory’ that was raided, wherein 32 young girls were being used as breeders. The children which they produced were sold into prostitution, slavery, and child sacrifice.
But, this practice is not just limited to Nigeria; it is going on all over the world, especially in the United States. For more on this read, The Franklin Coverup: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John DeCamp. You will be amazed–nay, horrified–to know what is going on in every city in America right under our noses.
“Or that useth divination…
Divination is the practice of attempting to see the future. This includes going to a fortuneteller, having your palm read, reading tarot cards, pendulum swinging, using an Ouija board, or any number of occult practices that attempt to determine future events. This even includes reading fortune cookies if you actually trust them. Notice the root word of divination is divine; in other words, this is an activity that is meant only for God to engage in. Anyone trying to see the future is attempting to usurp the authority of God.
“Or an observer of times…
This means astrology. Yes, astrology is an abomination to God. When God created the sun, the moon, and the stars He said,
“Let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years” (Genesis 1:14).
He didn’t say that we are to use them to tell the future.
Let me repeat this for you, because some Christian out there is going to try to justify his or her participation in this activity. God said–GOD said:
“Let us put lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for SIGNS, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”
Genesis 1:14
Signs means omens. God is going to use the planets and stars as omens of the impending coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. When you practice astrology, you profane our Lord, and by reading your horoscope in the paper or online you are actually committing an abomination in God’s sight. The same goes for those Christians who call themselves Leos, Virgos, or any other astrological sign.
Astrology is diametrically opposed to the Bible because astrology teaches that a person’s personality is immutable and is determined by what sign he was born under. But the Word of God says that anyone can change through the blood of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). Therefore, astrology calls Jesus Christ a liar. Telling the future is the devil’s counterfeit of the power of God. Only God knows the future.
“Or an enchanter…
Another word for enchanter is sorcerer. This is a person who does magic through the use of spells and incantations. An example of this would be a witch who waves a wand while uttering an incantation like, “Abracadabra.” What is interesting is that the Hebrew root of this word is similar to the word for a serpent’s hiss.
Enchantment also means hypnotism, as the Hebrew word also means “to whisper” (as in, “to utter in secret”). In view of this, does “The Horse Whisperer” make more sense to you now? In this sense, bewitching would be the appropriate term. An example of enchantment in the form of bewitching or hypnotism can be found in the book of Acts, in the case of Simon the Sorcerer, who had hypnotized an entire country:
“But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
“To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
“And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched (hypnotized) them with sorceries.” [Boldface and parentheses mine.]
Acts 8:9-11
Now, if you think it hard to believe that an entire country can be hypnotized, think again. Whole countries have been bewitched in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Do you think Hitler beguiled the German people into thinking killing the Jews was a good idea just by being charismatic? Those people were mesmerized—enchanted. It happened here in America in the last presidential election. And it will happen again on a worldwide scale, when the world worships the Antichrist.
Meditation also falls under enchantment, except a person does it to themselves. Take Yoga for instance. When a person chants (en–CHANT–ment) a mantra, they are in effect saying an incantation; they are hypnotizing—enchanting—themselves. The danger in this is that they become an empty vessel, which can be filled with something—like a demon. By the way, the term Yoga in Sanskrit means “to yoke” or bind. Would you like to guess to what? Could it be with any of Hinduism’s over three hundred and fifty million gods and goddesses? That would be my guess.
Silva Mind Control is a form of self-hypnosis. Hypnotism is forbidden by God and is very dangerous. I once witnessed to a young lady who had been hypnotized as a child after witnessing a horrible car accident. The psychologists were successful in erasing the memory of the event from the woman’s mind, only there was a devastating consequence: she completely lost the ability to form a mental picture or see anything with her mind’s eye. In other words, she could no longer imagine. This is demonic.
“Or a witch…
This is a general term for a person who practices magic through the use of spells and incantations. Witchcraft apologists argue that the term “witch” originally meant “wise one” and that witches were just knowledgeable individuals who have been given a bad name by the Christian Church. But this is not true. The word witch comes from a root that originally meant “willful one.” In other words, a witch attempts to affect events by sheer force of will, using occult power. The source of the power of witchcraft becomes crystal clear when you consider that Satan said, “I will” five times when he rebelled against God. (Isaiah 14:12-14).
“Or a charmer…
This is a person that does magic through the use of charms, fetishes, amulets, potions, enchanted jewelry, etc. It is similar to an enchanter except that the incantation is said over an object, which is then used for a specific purpose. A person who sells love/hate potions or voodoo dolls would be a charmer. A person who practices this type of magic or has enlisted the services of a charmer is guilty of enchantment.
Charming also involves the use of fetishes: personal objects or a lock of hair or the fingernails of a person, which a witch says an incantation over in order to cast a spell on the individual. Also, if you carry something like a rabbit’s foot in your pocket or wear a “charm” or amulet around your neck or wrist for good luck, you are actually practicing witchcraft. This is a superstition, also a form of witchcraft. We will discuss this further later.
“Or a consulter with familiar spirits…
This is a medium, or seer, more commonly known as a psychic. People engaging in this practice usually hold séances where they attempt to summon the spirit of a deceased person, which in reality is a demon able to imitate the appearance and speech of that person. I believe that the spirit is familiar not merely in the sense that it knows the person, but in the sense that it is a family (adjective form, familiar) spirit: that is, a spirit that has inhabited one or more members of a family, usually in succeeding generations, and is therefore privy to inside information about persons in that family.
This also includes activities like channeling or automatic writing. Witches who engage in mediumship like to say that they become a “human chalice.” This is because they literally become a vessel for a demonic entity. New Age author, Alice Bailey, claimed that she wrote the book, Externalization of the Hierarchy by automatic writing under the influence of an “ascended master” who called himself Djwhal Kuhl. This was actually a demon.
Channeling is a very common activity. A friend of mine who is a recording artist once told me that the words to the songs on her first CD were dictated to her through channeling. Actors and actresses who have rendered incredible performances have admitted to channeling the spirits of dead actors or personalities in order to better play the role. These spirits are demons. Is there any wonder then, that celebrities have such terrible problems?
“Or a wizard…
A wizard is similar to an enchanter, only a wizard performs magic by using incantations to summon evil spirits to do his bidding. Former Druid High Priest, John Todd, testified that when he worked as an executive for a major music recording label, they would invite the most powerful witches in the world to a ceremony. In that ceremony, Todd said, the witched would conjure up a powerful demon and request that it do two things:
- Bless (or curse) the master copy of an album, so it would be a success.
- Send a demon with every copy that came off the master (every CD), which would inhabit the home of every person who bought the album. According to Todd, this is still being done today. This is why satanic rap, rock, and even country music are so popular. It is also the reason why people who are really into this music are being possessed in ever increasing numbers. I challenge you to look at the world around you and disprove what I am saying.
“Or a necromancer…
A necromancer is a person who communicates with the dead. An example would be the little boy from the movie, “The Sixth Sense” who spoke to “dead people.” This practice is forbidden because the Bible says,
“It is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
If the Bible is true, then everyone who dies goes immediately to his reward, be it Heaven or Hell. Therefore, anyone who claims to communicate with dead people is actually communicating with demons.
There are many religions that practice necromancy. Roman Catholicism is probably the best known. Roman Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary and also to dead saints. The Virgin Mary of Roman Catholicism is not the mother of Jesus Christ, but an ancient goddess. However, because they believe they are praying to Mary, who is dead, Roman Catholics are actually communicating with demons. This means that Roman Catholics are practicing witchcraft. They are earning themselves a generational curse.
Moreover, because prayer is a form of worship, Roman Catholics are worshipping demons. In fact, according to Strong’s Concordance of the Bible, necromancy is a form of worship. (See Strong’s #1875 and 4161.)
“For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.” (Deuteronomy 18:10-12.)
Now can you see why witchcraft is so prolific today? During the 60’s and 70’s everybody was into astrology—even me, and Ouija boards, tarot cards, and séances were all the rage. Many European families brought magic and witchcraft practices with them from the “old country,” and slaves brought voodoo practices with them from Africa. Asians have their own form of witchcraft, and even Arabs and Jews have mystical practices.
In short, every culture in the world has practiced some form of witchcraft. And most of these cultures are represented in America.
Now, if God was serious about cursing the families of those who practice witchcraft (and God does not make idle threats), then possibly every family on earth at some time has been under a generational curse. In that almost every culture in the world is represented in America, that means that virtually every American family has been cursed with the sin of witchcraft.
John Todd, a former witch and member of the Grand Druid Council, once said that people who come from generational witchcraft families are preferred as witchcraft initiates because they already have psychic abilities. That is because they have been cursed with the sin of witchcraft that their parents practiced. Is it any wonder that witchcraft is the fastest growing religion in America? Now that doesn’t mean that every family is knowingly and openly practicing witchcraft (though in many families, witchcraft is practiced over many generations), but it does mean that many, if not most, families are practicing some form of witchcraft and are under a curse.
Now, recall that God first mentions the generational curse as a punishment for the sin of idolatry. Witchcraft and idolatry go hand in hand. Almost every time God mentions witchcraft in the Bible, it is in conjunction with idolatry. Listen very closely. Roman Catholicism is idolatry. Roman Catholics worship an idol they call the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary is not the mother of Jesus, but a goddess that has been worshipped since afer the time of the Great Flood. This is why often you will see Roman Catholics like the pope bowing down before an image of Mary alone, without the image of “Jesus.” This is because it is actually Mary they are worshipping—not Jesus. For more on this, read the books, The Two Babylons, and Fifty Years in the Church of Rome.
Remembering God’s hatred of idolatry, Roman Catholics would have to be under a generational curse, because this is God’s punishment for the sin of idolatry. In that God said that He would punish the descendants of idolaters with the sin of idolatry, is there any wonder that Roman Catholicism (idolatry) is practiced over many generations? Is it also any wonder that witchcraft is practiced in many cultures that practice Roman Catholicism?
Europe is mostly Roman Catholic, and witchcraft is prevalent in Europe. In fact, there is a book called The Six and Seventh Books of Moses that is very popular among witchcraft families, especially in Germany. This profanes the name of God’s prophet and blasphemes the Holy Spirit, because Moses only wrote five books. Brazil is a Roman Catholic country, yet macumba, African witchcraft, is widely practiced in Brazil. Haiti is Roman Catholic, and voodoo is very popular there. Central and South America are definitely Roman Catholic, and Santeria, a mixture of witchcraft and Roman Catholicism, is practiced there. Great Britain, especially in Ireland and Scotland, is mostly Roman Catholic, and Druidism is very popular there; so much so, that England recently made Druidism an official religion.
Remember, idolatry and witchcraft go hand in hand.
Now I want you to see something else. Homosexuality is closely tied with idolatry and witchcraft. In the first chapter of Romans, Paul tells us what happened when people began to practice idolatry:
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
“And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image (idol) made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things,
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature (they became lesbians):
“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly…” (Romans 1:22,23,26,27).
Did you see that? Those who began to practice idolatry also began to practice homosexuality. Why? Because they were cursed by God, and under this curse, other sins began to enter in, the first of which was homosexuality. This is an historic as well as biblical fact. History clearly records that homosexuality was widespread in the Roman Empire. The Roman Caesar, Caligula, for example, was a notorious homosexual, and the Romans practiced idolatry.
Now bearing this in mind, is it any wonder that the Roman Catholic church has such a problem with homosexual priests? This is a problem that will never go away. But, not only does every Catholic parent risk having their child sexually abused by a pedophile priest or nun, but they also run the risk of the child becoming a homosexual himself—a penalty for idolatry.
Do you now see how great a problem this is? I would sincerely like to know the percentage of homosexuals who were raised Roman Catholic, for I feel that the statistics would be very telling. Moreover, if the Bible is true, then homosexuality—an abomination to God—should also run in families. And it probably does.
Further proof of the link between idolatry, witchcraft, and homosexuality, is the fact that former witch, John Todd, said that witchcraft initiates have to perform a bisexual act. Bisexuality is an empty term. If you regularly have sex with someone of the same sex, you are a homosexual. The fact that you occasionally have heterosexual sex doesn’t change anything. If I am regularly a meat eater, but occasionally go weeks eating only vegetables, am I therefore a vegetarian? of course not. We are defined by what we do regularly.
Look at what else happened to the idolaters:
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”
Roman 1:28
Because they turned their backs on God, God turned His back on them and allowed Satan to have his way with them. And Satan literally infested them with demons. Idolatry results in demonic possession. This is why people who practice idolatry ultimately become homosexuals, practice witchcraft, and commit many other evils. They are often possessed.
This is reflected elsewhere in the Bible. Recall that Jesus cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:2). Tradition holds that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, and prostitution was associated with goddess worship–idolatry. Her idolatry resulted in her being demon-possessed.
The reason idolatry results in demon possession is because behind every idol is a demon:
“What say I then? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?
“But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God.”
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
When one worships an idol, one inherits the devil or demon that is behind that idol. And demon possession is always the result.
This brings me back to Roman Catholicism. Remember, Catholics worship an idol named Mary. Now idolatry is an abomination to God. This alone would mean that every Roman Catholic is under a generational curse. But they are also under a curse for another reason: the crucifix. Let me explain.
The Bible says that when Jesus hung on the cross He became a curse:
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.”
Galatians 3:13
The tree of course, is a metaphor for the cross. So, Jesus on the cross is a curse. This would make the crucifix, which features Jesus hanging on a cross, a curse. Moreover, because the crucifix features a graven image of Jesus, which many Roman Catholics pray to, it is also an idol—an abomination to God—and God says that anyone who has an abomination in his house is cursed:
“Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.”
Deuteronomy 7:26
So, the crucifix is a two-fold abomination to God, because it features a graven image of Jesus, making it an idol, and it has Him hanging on a cross, making it a curse. Anyone having a crucifix in his house, therefore, is cursed. This applies to the idol called the Virgin Mary also. Moreover, if the Bible is true, anyone with these in their house is not only cursed, but could also have demons attached to them. Remember, behind every idol is a demon.
Now let us look at what else happened to the idolaters, for when God turned His back on them, they became:
“Filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.”
Romans 1:30-31
This sounds a lot like the world today. If the Bible is true, all the problems of the world are a result of our turning our backs on God and supplanting Him with something else, like sports, gambling, women, men, movies stars, etc. This is idolatry.
Idolatry is not only the worship of an idol or deity, but also “extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem” (Webster’s Dictionary). Is it merely a coincidence that celebrities are also called “idols?” Does the title, American Idol make sense to you now? Did you know that some rock stars have called their rock concerts “churches?:
“This is my church. This is where I heal my hurts.” –Faithless
On the DVD, They Sold Their Souls for Rock and Roll, a teenage girl makes the following eye-opening comment:
“They have totally changed my life; they are gods. I love Korn.”
Is it so strange then, that most people who rabidly follow celebrities or listen to rock, rap, and other music obsessively also have many other problems in their lives like alcohol and drug abuse, premarital and/or illicit sex, suicidal thoughts, violence, and many other abnormal tendencies? Again, this is because they are committing idolatry, and God hates idolatry. They are under a curse.
It is important at this point to explain that not only does God curse subsequent generations with the sins of the parent(s) (such as witchcraft), but He also curses them with the punishment for that sin. This is consistent with Paul’s statement that some sins are open and go to the judgment before a man dies (meaning he will be punished in this life), while other sins are hidden and will follow a man to his grave to be judged later (1 Timothy 5:24).
For proof of this, let us look again at the abomination of homosexuality. Now, Romans 1:27 says that homosexuals “receive within themselves the recompense (payment) of their error which was meet (due).” If the Word of God is true, that would mean that homosexuals should receive the punishment for their sin NOW, in this life. And they do: It is called AIDS.
Seen from this perspective, that would put a whole new spin on things. It would debunk the lie that AIDS came from Africans in the Congo having sex with monkeys. It would destroy the myth that AIDS was created in a laboratory by the government as a population control measure. If the Bible is true, it would appear that AIDS has been around as long as homosexuals have been around. Let God be true and every man a liar.
The homosexual lobby tries to counter this biblical perspective by pointing out the fact that innocent children have contracted AIDS from their mothers, and that others such as Arthur Ashe, have gotten AIDS from blood transfusions. I have my beliefs as to why this happens, but I can’t pretend to know why. But, I am sure that God knows. As far as children are concerned, they are merely the victims of the actions of their parents. If we are guilty of committing abominations, it is we who have condemned our children—not God. He has already given us a warning. We are to blame if we don’t heed it.
Take the case of King David in the Bible. 2 Samuel Chapters 11 and 12 tell us how David was guilty of committing adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, one of his valiant generals. David even had Uriah killed so that no one would discover that David had gotten the man’s wife pregnant. Now the Bible says that David was a man after God’s own heart. God loved David. But when it came to David’s crime, God’s love for him did not shield David from the responsibility for his actions.
Remember, God said that He would by no means clear the guilty. This included his servant, David. For his crime, God killed the first child Bathsheba bore to him. Did David curse God? No. He knew he was guilty, because he knew God’s rules. He took comfort in the fact that his child was with God, and he knew that someday he would join him (2 Samuel 12:23).
So it is with those children who are stricken with AIDS. After suffering the penalty for their parent’s disobedience, they will go and be with the Lord. God, in His mercy, will not condemn a child for his parent’s sins. And this is true for all children, including those who are the victims of abortion and children who suffer from mental illness. God is merciful.
We have discussed the what, the why, and the how of generational curses, and have discussed briefly some of the sins God punishes with a generational curse. Having laid the groundwork for the remainder of our discussion, we shall next discuss other sins that Christians are guilty of that seem innocent, but are actually witchcraft. The first of these is superstition.
Many people, some of them Christians, are superstitious. They are actually afraid of opening an umbrella indoors, and are terrified to break a mirror, step on a crack (break your mother’s back), or spill salt. Others have developed a habit of doing a particular thing on a particular day, at a particular time, or in a particular way. They do this not for simplicity’s sake, but for fear that if they deviate in any way from the established pattern, they will bring themselves “bad luck.” Athletes are notoriously superstitious.
While on the surface, superstitions appear to be merely harmless idiosyncrasies, they are actually very dangerous. Superstitions are, in fact, witchcraft. Webster’s defines superstition as:
“A belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception or causation.”
The ignorance Webster’s speaks of is ignorance of the Word of God. This ignorance leads to fear, and fear leads to superstition or trust in magic or chance.
Those who know the Bible know that nothing is a result of chance. God is in complete control. If it is good, God caused it and it is therefore, a blessing. If it is bad, God allowed it, and it is either a curse (as a result of sin), a trial (sent by God to test us and strengthen our faith), or a chastisement (a stern rebuke by God to steer us back on course). In any case, God is in charge. Scripture says,
“God has not given us the Spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7
A Christian does not fear the unknown, because He knows that all things have been put under Jesus’ feet. That includes us. If Jesus is in control, why should we fear? We have but to depend on Him. A person who does not trust in Jesus, however, does not have this assurance. Such a person believes that life is just a series of random events governed by the laws of chance. No one is in charge. Everything just happens for no particular reason. This produces fear of the unknown and fear of the future; and fear results in a belief in magic and chance. Magic, in the form of superstition, offers a modicum of security and some sense of control to the unbeliever.
Such a belief is dangerous for the Christian. The apostle Paul said, “whatsoever is not of faith (in God) is sin” (Romans 14:23). That means that faith in anything but the operation of God in our lives is sin. That includes faith in luck.
Did you know that luck comes from the Devil? The Bible says that the Devil or Satan, used to be named Lucifer, which means “the light bearer.” The Bible also calls Satan an “angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). Lux (pronounced lucks)is Latin for light, and is also used as a pseudonym for Lucifer. So the word luck actually comes from Lucifer, or Satan. This is consistent with Webster’s Dictionary, which defines luck as “a force that brings good fortune or adversity.” The Bible also calls Satan “the god of forces” (Daniel 11:38).
Webster’s uses the terms “good fortune” and “adversity” because it is a secular publication. The Bible never mentions good fortune or adversity; it only mentions blessings and curses. That’s because both good and bad fortune come from the Devil.
Incidentally, the word fortune is actually the name of an idol. The god of good luck was called Fortuno, and the goddess of bad luck was called Fortuna. This can also be found in the Bible. Isaiah 65:11 tells how some of the Israelites had begun to worship idols:
“But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.”
Isaiah 65:11
“That troop” is listed in Strong’s Concordance under #1408 as the Hebrew word Gad (not to be confused with the Hebrew tribe Gad), which is said to mean, “Fortune, a Babylonian deity (idol).”
The Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible defines Gad thus:
“A foreign deity of good fortune worshipped by some Israelites in the period after the Exile (Is. 65:11). In a bilingual Aramaic-Greek inscription from Palmyra the deity is identified in Greek as ‘Fortune‘. Is. 65:11.” [Boldface mine.]
Belief in fortune, luck, or chance, is therefore, idolatry. By the way, Chance or Fate is also the name of a Babylonian goddess or idol. That’s right. Fate is a goddess. She is referred to as “that number” in the same passage of Isaiah mentioned above. I’ll let you research that one yourself. The principle of duality holds that the male is the positive pole, while the female is the negative pole. That is why when we leave things to chance, and they go well, we say we had “good luck” (the god), and when they go bad, we say “that was our fate” (the goddess).
Now do you see why so-called games of chance are dangerous? You are putting your life in the hands of Satan instead of the hands of God. Good luck and bad luck are the same as Fortune and Fortuna, Yin and Yang, white and black, Britain and Britannica, Americus and America, Shiva and Parvati, Diana and Kernos, Odin and Frigga, etc. It’s all idolatry—the worship of false gods and goddesses, which, in all actuality, are really Nimrod and Semiramis. And now we have come full circle.
Where did superstitions come from? John Todd called superstition “Christian witchcraft,” and explained that witches found that they could not cast spells on genuine, born-again Christians, who keep it “under the blood,” so to speak. In other words, witchcraft is useless against a Christian who is sold out to Jesus Christ. Witches, therefore, had to find a way to get Christians to “cast spells on themselves,” as Todd said. So, they invented superstitions to get Christians to stop depending on Jesus and to start believing in chance or luck. Remember, whatsoever is not of faith in God is sin (Romans 14:23). Christians, then, who stopped depending on Jesus, became vulnerable to magic attack, because they were now living in sin.
You may ask why witches have such a problem with Christians, when they appear to be so nice, liberal, and inclusive. This is only a facade. Witchcraft and Christianity are irreconcilable, because Jesus and Satan are irreconcilable. Everything witches are for, God is against, and vice versa. So, if you are a born-again Christian who is truly walking in the Spirit, witches cannot cast spells on you, but if they can get you to take your eyes off Jesus, and to start depending on something or someone else for a blessing, then they can influence your life.
That is another reason why many Christians have problems: they are under magic attack. Trust me on this one. I have been doing battle with witches for almost seven years. I was once even married to a witch. If you are not walking 24/7 in the Spirit, then you may not be protected, and witches can then hurt you in many ways, including financially, psychologically, and physically. This is one of the reasons why I believe many Christians, such as myself, are under surveillance by the forces of darkness. The enemy is baiting many Christians by influencing them to get involved in activities that will bring them under bondage to Satan. Once under bondage, they become vulnerable to magic attack, and then Satan can begin to destroy their testimony.
Let me share something with you. Before I got saved, my family and I moved into a certain apartment building in Munich, Germany. Our neighbors were very friendly at first, and our next-door neighbors even came over and introduced themselves and brought us a house-warming gift. But about six months later, we started getting all kinds of illnesses: uncontrollable diarrhea, vomiting, tumors, sleepwalking, epilepsy: you name it, we got it. The doctors had no idea what was going on (or so they said).
When I got saved three years later, most of the illnesses went away, but a strange thing happened: our neighbors stopped being nice and became very evil. With time, God showed me that my next-door neighbors (and most of the people in the building) were actually witches. What had happened was that when I got saved and began to pray and intercede for my family, their magical attacks didn’t work anymore and probably even began to backfire on them (one of the neighbors died very suddenly). That was why they stopped being friendly toward us and showed their true character. I’m sure I’m not the only person this has happened to.
This is no joke. Even as I write this, I am under attack. They can’t hurt me with magic, but they do have other means at their disposal, one of which I believe is extremely low frequency, electro-magnetic weapons (also called directed energy weapons). I don’t know this for sure, simply because I am not that familiar with those weapons. But judging from the things that are happening to me and what I do understand about these weapons, I don’t believe I am far from the truth. If you would like to read more about this, click here. We are in a war, saints.
Thus far, we have discussed the what, the why, and the how of generational curses. You should now know that it originates with idolatry and could lead to witchcraft, homosexuality, and many other evils. You should understand that idolatry is not only the worship of false gods, but also excessive attention paid to objects, things, people, and the belief in luck or chance.
For this reason, superstition is also a form of witchcraft, because it takes our eyes off Jesus. All of the above could open you up to further bondage by Satan and could make you susceptible to magic attack and deception. This can weaken your Christian walk and even cause you to leave the faith. This should make determining if you or your children are the victim of a generational curse a major priority in your life.
Now that you know that sin is at the root of a generational curse, here is a brief list of the things to avoid and that can cause you to be cursed. This is in addition to the sins we have already discussed:
Dependence on anything other than Jesus for a financial blessing.
Gambling, Bingo, the lottery, and other “games of chance,” betting: (horse racing, sports games, the casino, etc.). Remember, if you are depending on anything other than Jesus for a financial blessing, you are practicing witchcraft. Also avoid any card games like poker, where you are playing for money. John Todd said that playing cards used to be used as tarot cards, until Hoyt invented poker.
Avoid board games like Dungeons and Dragons and Game of Thrones, which use witchcraft concepts and terminology. Also avoid Star Wars trading cards, as The Force is Satan.
Chain Letters.
In my experience, professing Christians will send out emails with prayers in them. Each recipient is to say the prayer and in turn forward the email to a specified number of people who are to do the same thing. They are told that if they follow these instructions, they are guaranteed to receive a spiritual or material blessing. This seemingly innocuous practice is actually spiritual arsenic. Besides the fact that anyone who trusts in a blessing from this activity is not trusting in Jesus, and, is therefore, committing a sin, chain letters are a medieval form of witchcraft. And there is always the danger that someone in the chain has placed a curse on the email.
Chain letters are a doorway for Satan to enter your life and home. They are also a way that a witch could beguile a Christian to stop trusting in Jesus thus opening him up to magic attack. If you recall that superstition is a form of witchcraft, and that email chain letters are superstition, then you will see how a great many Christians are probably cursed because of this activity. Click here to read more about chain letters.
Freemasonry.
Many Christians are members of occult secret societies like the Freemasons, and have had their lives and testimonies destroyed. Many have been deceived into believing that Freemasonry is Christian, or that it can be reconciled with Christianity. But, this is a lie from the pit of hell. Freemasonry is the enemy of Christianity and of Jesus Christ. I could give many, many examples to prove this, but for the sake of time and space, I will just give a brief example that could be easily proven.
Let’s look at the apron of a Freemason. Freemasonry says that the apron is a “spotless emblem…a symbol of the purity of the order” (A Dictionary of Freemasonry, p. 87). But this is a lie. Chapter 3 of the Book of Genesis recounts how, after being deceived by Satan, Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and became aware of their nakedness. The Bible tells it thus:
“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
Genesis 3:7,21
As you can see, God rejected the aprons that Adam and Eve made, and, instead, made them coats of animal skins. God did this, because they used the aprons to cover their shame and rebellion (sin), but God knew the only thing that could cover (atone) for sin was blood (Hebrews 9:22). So God shed the blood of animals (a foreshadowing of the animal sacrifices of the Jews and of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for the sins of mankind), and covered their sin with those.
Nothing has changed. As it was then, the Freemason’s apron is still an emblem of shame and rebellion and is a reminder of Adam and Eve’s sin. And God rejects it. Yet, Freemasonry sees the apron as an emblem of purity.
Isn’t it interesting that Freemasonry usually runs in families? That’s because Freemasonry is witchcraft, and God has cursed succeeding generations with this abomination. If you or any of your ancestors were or are involved in Freemasonry, you are under a curse and so are your descendants. If you are a Christian, this will affect your Christian walk in some way. You must be delivered. This sin must be confessed.
Pornography
Reality TV
Movies featuring violence, horror, magic
Harry Potter, Twilight, Goosebumps, etc.
Movies featuring violence, horror, and magic
- Pornography (even so-called soft porn)
- Reality TV (it is a form of soft porn
- Movies featuring violence, horror, magic (Harry Potter, Twilight, Goosebumps, etc.)
- False religions and churches: Yoga, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Charismatic churches, etc.
- Martial Arts: Because they get into Eastern Mysticism. Remember Yin and Yang are a god and a goddess. That’s idolatry. The “Chi” force that they speak of is a demon.
- Sexual sin: Homosexuality, fornication (sex outside of marriage), incest.
- Abortion:
False religions and churches: Yoga, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Charismatic churches, etc.Sexual Sin
Homosexuality, fornication (sex outside of marriage), incest.
Yoga, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, charismatic churches, etc. etc.
Martial Arts:
Because they get into Eastern Mysticism. Remember Yin and Yang are a god and a goddess. That’s idolatry. The “Chi” force that they speak of is a demon.
Sexual sin
Homosexuality, fornication (sex outside of marriage), incest (even if you were the victim), etc.
Murder.
Abortion.
Abortion is the taking of a human life and is therefore murder. If you are a man and allowed your partner or spouse to have an abortion, you are still an accessory to murder, and are guilty of this sin.
Trophies.
If you look at a trophy, it is basically a little idol. An idol of whom? You. You are worshipping yourself and your own accomplishments, instead of worshipping Jesus and what He has accomplished.
Trophies are not bad in and of themselves, but if you spend a great deal of time looking at them, and if you have a room dedicated to them (commonly called an “I Love Me” room), you are flirting with idolatry. Did you know that such rooms were (and are) used by idol worshippers to house their deities? It’s true.
Cigarettes:
That’s right. Cigarettes are a drug. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines a drug as,
“a substance that has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body, in particular:
1. a medicine, especially a pharmaceutical preparation,
2. a substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects.”
The second definition is an accurate description of a cigarette. On of the telltale signs of a drug is the physiological and psychological effects on a person when use of the drug is abruptly curtailed. This is known as withdrawal. Cigarettes smokers commonly testify to going through intense withdrawals when they stop smoking.
Did you know that drug use is a form of witchcraft? The word from which we get our modern-day word “pharmacy,” is the Greek word, pharmakeia, which, besides meaning medication, also means sorcery and witchcraft. Remember, a drug can either be a medicine or a narcotic or stimulant. So, what makes a drug witchcraft depends on whether it is being taken for valid medicinal purposes or for purely recreational purposes. Cigarettes have absolutely no physiologically beneficial effects and are actually harmful. That makes cigarettes a drug and means that the cigarette smoker is guilty of witchcraft.
Now, in that the person that practices witchcraft will come under a generational curse, and his descendants will also be cursed with the same sin (as well as the penalty for that sin), it should come as no great surprise that cigarette smoking runs in families. The smoking family is under a curse. That is why many, if not most people who smoke also have other substance abuse problems, like alcoholism or abnormally high caffeine intake. It is because they are under a curse.
Besides being a drug. cigarettes are just plain deadly. Did you known that cigarettes contain over 7,000 different chemicals, including formaldehyde–embalming fluid? Did you know that over 70 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer? That means the person who smokes is slowly killing himself. He is committing suicide. The Christian who smokes is not only killing himself, but he is destroying the temple of God, which is temple is his body. The Christian smoker is committing a grievous sin.
Given all the chemicals contained in cigarettes, they should be a controlled substance like other drugs. Why, then, are they not? Because Satan wants as many people to smoke as possible. While many people wouldn’t dream of becoming a witch, they don’t have a problem smoking a cigarette. And, because cigarettes are a drug, and drug use is witchcraft, and practicing witchcraft will earn you a generational curse, then cigarettes are an easy way for Satan to bring the mass of humanity under a curse and into bondage. Is there any wonder society has so many problems? Moreover, Satan hates humanity, and would like very much for people to kill themselves with cigarettes, as this makes his job a lot easier.
This is not an exhaustive list of generational sins, but if you let the Holy Spirit be your guide, He will reveal more things to you. Practically everything the “world” says is OK is not. Notice that virtually everything on this list is promoted on television and movies. That ought to let you know what Hollywood is really up to.
How do you know if you are under a generational curse?
If you are not a Christian, it may be more difficult for you to know if are under a generational curse, because it manifests as sin in your life. And society is used to sinning. I believe that most people are under a generational curse. This is why society has such a serious problem with murder, abortion, homosexuality and other sexual perversions, pornography, alcoholism and drug abuse, and mental illnesses like bipolar disorder (schizophrenia). If you have a serious psychological, behavioral, or, in some case, medical problem in your life for which there is no ordinary solution, then you may be under a generational curse.
If this sounds like you, understand that only Jesus can break a generational curse. And the only way He will do it is if you ask Him to do it. But you must first hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and believe that He has the power to save you. Because if you believe that Jesus has the power to save you, then you will believe that Jesus has the power to break the curse that is ruining your life. If you are willing to do this, keep reading; we’re almost to the good part.
For the Christian, a generational curse is easier to spot because the Bible says,
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are past away; behold, all things have become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
If you are not sure you are saved, find yourself doubting the Word of God, and/or there is absolutely no change in your life (meaning you are struggling with sin just as much now as before you got “saved”), chances are, you are not saved. You should go back to square one: repentance. That means you should be sorry for your sins and want to be forgiven by the Lord Jesus. You need to understand why you need salvation and why Jesus is the only One who can save you. Then you need to believe in your heart that only Jesus can save you, repent of your sins, and ask Jesus to save you. If you are ready to do this, click here. If you are at the end of your rope, and need forgiveness RIGHT NOW, then click here. Afterwards, come back to this page.
If you have repented of your sins, asked Jesus Christ for forgiveness and have trusted Him as your Savior; in other words, you know you are saved, but you are having difficulties in your Christian walk, it may be due to generational sin.
A generational curse can manifest itself in the following ways:
– You struggle with sexual sin (adultery, pornography, homosexuality, etc)
– You have unnatural urges (spying, peeping Tom, stalking)
– You are drawn to some form of witchcraft (refer to above)
– You manifest psychic abilities or psychic phenomena take place around you
– You struggle with addiction (cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, food, sex, etc.)
– You lack discernment (are easily deceived)
– You can’t seem to read your Bible
– You can’t pray
– You lack joy and contentment in your life
– You have trouble coping with hardship
– You struggle with depression
Other ways it can manifest itself:
Sickness (like epilepsy)
Mental illness: bipolar disorder (schizophrenia), excessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks, etc.
Troubling behavior in your children
This is not an exhaustive list, but you should now have an idea of the kinds of things that can occur to one who is under a generational curse. The idea is that if it is not of God, it is of Satan.
What you can do to break a generational curse.
If you are a Christian, you must understand the difference between salvation and deliverance. Salvation is an act of grace by God (Ephesians 2:8-9) whereby He cleanses us of original sin (Romans 5:12), our own past sins (Romans 3:25), and declares us justified or righteous (Romans 5:1): meaning we are no longer guilty of past sins. We are saved when we believe the Gospel, which is that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died and shed His blood on the cross at Calvary for the remission of our sins (Romans 3:25). When we believed, we were saved, and God forgave us, washed away our sins, and wrote our names in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Salvation is believing on the name of Jesus and that His blood was sufficient payment for our sins (Romans 3:25, Romans 10:9-10, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Acts 16:31).
Deliverance is also an act of grace, but whereas salvation removes the ultimate penalty for all sin, which is death, (Romans 6:23), deliverance involves removing a curse, which, according to Exodus 20:5 and 34:7, is the punishment for committing sins that God truly hates. If we are living under a curse, then we are living in sin. And we cannot experience a joyous Christian life if we are living in sin. In other words, salvation has to do with the life to come, while deliverance has to do with this life.
Now, remember that Exodus 34:7 says that God will “by no means clear the guilty,” and remember that God said this in connection with a generational curse. This means that at that time, a person guilty of generational sin could be forgiven those sins, but the person could not be delivered from the penalty for that sin, because Jesus had not yet paid the blood for sin at Calvary. (Many thanks to the late John Todd for helping me understand this concept.)
There is Biblical precedent for this. Recall that King David committed adultery and murder; both of which will earn you a generational curse. The Bible says that God forgave David:
“The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die” (2 Samuel 12:13).
But, because David had committed adultery and murder, God still had to punish him:
“Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house…
“I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor…
“For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.”
2 Samuel 12:10-12
As a result, David’s family had all kinds of problems. His son Absolom rebelled and attempted a coup. Another one of his sons committed incest with his half sister and was killed by the girl’s brother, Absolom. And another son of David, King Solomon, began to worship idols, turning his back on God (though he eventually repented). All this happened because David sinned, and God cursed his children for David’s sins. The only explanation for why God still punished David, even though He forgave him, is that Jesus had not yet paid the blood for sin at Calvary.
Only after Jesus paid the blood, could the Apostle John say:
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9
Notice that Paul says, “If we confess our sins.” This is very important, because many believe that this verse means that when we are saved, all our sins, including generational sins, are washed away. But this is not true. This verse emphasizes confession. Confession of what? Sins.
Very few of us con-fessed any sins when we accepted Jesus as our Savior. Most—and I dare say all—of us only pro-fessed that we were sinners, and asked to be forgiven. But there is a difference. With respect to sin, the difference between a pro-fession and a con-fession is that the latter deals with admitting to having committed a specific act. It is an admission of guilt. For lack of a more poignant example, it is the difference between saying, “I am a murderer” and saying, “I murdered So and So.” Do you see the difference?
To be saved, we need only believe that Jesus Christ died and shed His blood for us on the cross and that His blood washed away our sins. But to be delivered, we must confess the sin or sins that we are guilty of. 1 John 1:9 says that if we confess our sins, then Jesus will forgive those sins. This goes for generational sin also. If we confess generational sin, then Jesus will forgive generational sin. And if Jesus will forgive generational sin, then Jesus will deliver us from generational sin.
This is important, because there are genuine, born-again Christians who have all kinds of problems in their lives. There are Christians who are alcoholics, drug addicts, chain-smokers, Freemasons (witchcraft), play the lottery (witchcraft), gamble, and struggle with pornography, adultery, anger, bi-polar disorder (schizophrenia/manic-depression), compulsive lying, and other problems. Some even manifest psychic abilities (witchcraft). Why weren’t they delivered from these things when they got saved? I believe it was because their forebears committed those sins, and, because the sins were generational, they were passed down to seceding generations.
It is important to understand that we may not necessarily be guilty of the exact same sins as our parents, but our sins may fall into the same category of sin. One, for example, may have a parent who practiced witchcraft. Though the person may not himself practice witchcraft in the form of casting spells, he may be into astrology, play the lottery, or use drugs, which things are also witchcraft.
For illustration, let us compare David’s sins to those of his children:
Rebellion. David rebelled against God. Absolom rebelled against David.
Murder. David had Uriah killed. Absolom killed his brother.
Sexual sin. David committed adultery. David’s son committed incest.
Idolatry. Covetousness is idolatry (Colossians 3:5); for that which we covet becomes the center of our lives. David coveted another man’s wife. His son, Solomon, committed idolatry with false gods.
As you can see, David’s children did not all commit the exact sin he did, but the sin fell under the same category. This is how a generational curse works. So, while the children of a witch may not necessarily cast spells, they may simply be rebellious. And the Bible says that “rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft” (1 Samuel 15:23). They may also read their horoscope, which the Bible says is also witchcraft.
A generational curse may not seem like a generational curse, because it manifests in a person’s life as sin, and we are used to being sinful. Moreover, society and the media promote sin and have taught us that sin is normal. So we may have no idea that we are under a curse and that many of the activities we engage in and practice are actually an offense to God.
I understand that most of us are not aware what specific sins our parents are guilty of. But, if you are under a curse, you will commit the same type of sins your parents were guilty of. So while they may not have cast spells, they may have practiced idolatry (Roman Catholicism, Yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc.), false religions (Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc.), and Occultism (Wicca, Freemasonry, Scientology, astrology, voodoo, 1-800-Psychic, etc.).
An ancestor may even have done something seemingly harmless involving folk practices like pendulum swinging (i.e. swinging a button over a pregnant woman’s hand to see if it will be a boy or a girl), using a divining rod to find water, folk magic to cure illnesses in people or animals, etc. without our knowledge. Whether they did it wittingly or unwittingly, if they did not abandon, repent of, and confess these sins, rest assured, the affects are manifested some way in your life and will also manifest in your children’s lives. If you are saved, it won’t hurt your salvation, but like David, your life will continue to manifest the consequences of this curse until it is confessed.
A curse may not necessarily manifest itself in your life in a way serious enough to get your attention, but it could show up in your children in a major way. In my case, the result of my sin manifested in my children in a way that could not be overlooked.
At this point you now understand what a generational curse is, why one comes under a generational curse, how one comes under a generational curse, and how you can know if you are under a generational curse. We will now discuss how you can remove a generational curse.
Many so-called deliverance ministries offer help with this, but generally, a humble, repentant, and obedient heart is all you really need. There is no special prayer that needs to be uttered. There is no such thing in the Bible. I believe you must confess these sins specifically to the Lord, and we have already discussed why. In my case, I wrote down on a piece of paper every single sin I could think of that I had committed and everything that I knew was an abomination to the Lord. This took several days of prayer and diligent thought. I then took the list and went into a quiet place by myself and confessed those sins: every single occasion I could think of.
For instance, fornication: that is, sex outside of marriage, is an abomination to the Lord. And sexual sin was a big problem for me. So, I confessed every occasion I could remember that I had sex out of marriage, and I asked God to bring to mind others I could not readily remember and to forgive those that would not come to mind. During the course of my confession, the Holy Spirit also revealed to me specific sins I had committed. He was actually showing me what He wanted me to confess. Most importantly, I renounced Freemasonry, as I was a Master Mason.
I had read in a Jack Chick tract on Freemasonry that Baphomet, a demon said to have been worshipped by the Knights Templar, is the god of Freemasonry.
That meant that in being a Freemason, besides practicing witchcraft, I was also committing idolatry. In that behind ever idol is a demon, then I was probably possessed with a demon of Freemasonry.
And I was. Proof of this was that once, while visiting a church, the pastor asked me to come back that evening to hear a man preach on Freemasonry. I instantly got angry at the pastor and told him that there was nothing wrong with Freemasonry. Now, I was not that crazy about being a Freemason, but the demon inside me wanted to make sure that I did not come back to hear what the preacher had to say. So, the demon caused me to react the way I did, and I didn’t come back.
Next, I confessed those things that I knew or suspected my parents and grandparents were guilty of. I then asked God to forgive my children for the sins I had brought on their heads through my disobedience, rebellion, and ignorance. Then I burned the list. Then I started casting demons out of me in the name of Jesus, beginning with the demon of Freemasonry. Next, I cast out the demons that I believed were in my children, beginning with my middle daughter, who had epilepsy. Lastly, I cast out the demon of every other sin I could think of from my home in the name of Jesus. I cast out the spirit of discontent. I cast out the spirit of pride. I cast out the spirit of strife and contention. Whatever was going wrong in my home, I perceived there was a spirit in the house causing it, and I cast it out. Then I thanked God for His mercy and went to bed.
The immediate result was that the child that had epilepsy was completely cured. Her epilepsy had been so bad that she was having seizures at least once every three months, and her cognitive skills were steadily deteriorating. I wasn’t even aware that she had been cured until, during one of her checkups, the doctor remarked that she had been seizure-free for two years. It was then that I realized that it had been two years since the night of my confession. That was six years ago, and my daughter is still epilepsy-free and not on any medication. The doctors can’t understand it. But I can.
There is Biblical precedent for this:
In Matthew 17:14-21, Jesus heals a possessed boy. The boy’s father told Jesus,
“Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for oftimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.”
Matthew 17:15
The Greek word for lunatick means “crazy or possessed.” The Greek word for falls, in this context, is very revealing, because it means “thrashing about” (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance). This boy was possessed with a spirit of epilepsy. My daughter’s epilepsy was also caused by a demon, which I cast out the night of my confession. God is good!
In verse 21, Jesus told His disciples that this type of spirit can only come out by prayer and fasting. This is very important if you need to cast out a spirit of epilepsy.
Much, much more happened, but the power of repentance and confession in the name of Jesus to destroy the works of the devil is what I want to emphasize here. Jesus healed my daughter, because He forgave me; and He forgave me, because I asked for forgiveness.
This is consistent with James 5:13-16:
“Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
James 5:13-16
Verse 14 says “pray… in the name of the Lord.” The Lord has a name: it is Jesus. It is confession and prayer in the name of Jesus that heals. Don’t just say “Lord” or “God.” Say His name and mean it in your heart. There is incredible power in the name of Jesus. Believe me. Take advantage of it. Say His name with conviction. Give Him all the respect and reverence He is due, and couple it with a broken and contrite heart.
Verse 15 says, “If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” Again, this is consistent with 1 John 1:9. Confession of sin is crucial to deliverance from a generational curse. In fact, without confession, there is no deliverance. We must do this. Don’t hold back. That’s why I suggest a list.
Now, it’s not magic that has to be said a certain way at a certain time using specific words. That is why, unlike many deliverance ministries, I am not going to tell you what to pray. I didn’t have any idea what I was doing when I prayed for deliverance. I just identified my sins one by one and asked God to forgive them. And I knew that He would understand my prayers, because Romans 8:26 says,
“Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
Romans 8:26
The Holy Spirit will translate our prayer for us. We don’t speak God’s language, because it is a heart language that only the Spirit understands. So don’t worry about whether you are saying the right thing. Concentrate on the meaning, not the words. The only words that cannot be omitted are Jesus, please, forgive me, and “thank you.” God will honor your prayer if it comes from the heart.
James 5:16 tells us that confession and prayer heals. Did you know that demonic affliction is a spiritual sickness? Well, it is. This verse also applies, then, to generational curses, because a curse is caused by demonic activity.
James 4:7-8 best describes what our attitude should be when we approach the Lord for spiritual healing:
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (I’m a witness!)
“Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
“Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.”
James 4:7-8
The abridged version: Repent! Humble yourself! Let go all pride! Be sorry!
Don’t be casual about this. Your sin should hurt you as much or more than it hurts God. Submit, repent, renounce, humble yourself, and thank the Lord for His forgiveness, and you will be healed.
I have told you what worked for me, and it did work. If you have trouble receiving this, go to the Word in prayer, and see if it is scriptural. I wouldn’t mislead you. I want you to have the victory that I did. And you can. But it all starts with confession of sin, and you must realize this.
Be honest with yourself and with the Lord. Confess your sins to the Lord Jesus. Renounce ungodly practices and religions like Freemasonry and Roman Catholicism, which are idolatry. Rededicate yourself to the Lord. Ask Him to crucify you in the spirit and to raise you up again in newness of life. And watch God move.
Now, as I said, I didn’t have any idea what I was doing when I prayed for deliverance, so I asked forgiveness for the sins of my parents and grandparents. I now believe that, because we are cursed with the same sins as our forefathers, it is enough to confess our own sins to break the cycle of sin. It is not unscriptural, however, to confess your parents’ or grandparents’ sins, especially if you know what they are. If it were, I would have received no deliverance.
After you confess those sins, be sure to thank God for His goodness. I didn’t know how important this was at the time I confessed my sins. But I now realize what a huge blessing it is to be able to go to Jesus at any time and in any place and receive forgiveness for whatever sins we have committed. No other god grants this type of mercy. And neither can it.
And don’t believe that your sin is so bad that God won’t forgive it. No matter how serious our sins may seem to us—and they may be—understand that they are nothing to God. He has seen it all. So no matter how repulsive our sins may be in our own sight, they are a trifle matter for God when our desire is to do His will. God is a Good God and His love for us endures.
The next step is to get everything out of your house that has to do with the sinful practices you repented of. These include:
Any magic paraphernalia.
Rock or rap CDs/DVDs/posters of rock stars or other celebrities.
Books, magazines, or other media containing sinful material: pornography, Harry Potter, Twilight, etc.
Idols and religious paraphernalia: Crosses with dead guys on them, prayer beads, shrines, statues of saints, little Buddhas, the Virgin Mary, etc.
African or Asian masks (they are the faces of demons), Native American artifacts (Dreamcatchers, spears, etc.)
“Peace” symbols, Yin/Yang, or any, ANY symbols, including stars. If you would like to know the occult significance of stars, click here.
Drug paraphernalia.
Books on Yoga or meditation.
Ask the Holy spirit to reveal to you anything He doesn’t want in your life. These things could block you from receiving the filling of the Holy Spirit, and that’s what every Christian should want. They can also be a gateway for a demon to come back into your life. Understanding what is not of God is an ongoing process (part of the process of sanctification) and could take years as you grow in knowledge and become more sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
For example, I just got rid of my X-Files collection last year. I loved the X-Files, but it had to go, because The X-Files deals with witchcraft, paranormal activity, murder, horror, devil worship, demons, cannibalism, UFOs, and other ungodly subjects. These things are not of God. He let me keep them as a learning tool for a time, but ultimately they had to go.
I had to get rid of most of the movies I liked, because even the ones that seemed to be wholesome blasphemed the name of Jesus. I was amazed, for instance, that in the movie, “Twister,” the male lead, Bill Paxton, used the name of Jesus as a swear word more than a few times. This is an abomination to God. Before I was saved, I never noticed this. In the movie, “Hancock,” which seems like a good ol’ super hero movie, Will Smith uses the name of Christ as a swear word. Incest is also a theme of the movie.
I got rid of most of my comedy collection for the same reason. Seinfeld will be the last to go, and it’s going this week. Seinfeld is hilarious, but it glorifies gratuitous pre-marital sex (for example, the “Yada, Yada, Yada” episode), irresponsibility (Kramer and Castanza are basically deadbeats), lying and stealing (the “Jacket” episode), human imperfections (the “Man Hands” and “Nose” episodes), and many other sins. Seinfeld also blasphemes the name of God as in almost every episode someone says, “Oh my God!” In another episode, Jerry decides that whenever someone sneezes, rather than say “God bless you,” he would say “You look marvelous,” or something like that.
And Seinfeld is most obviously against the institution of marriage, as it glorifies the “single life” just like “Friends” and just about everything else out of Hollywood. Hollywood is singlehandedly responsible for the destruction of the marriage institution in America. That is why I don’t own a television.
Seinfeld even has occult overtones. On episode 16 of Season 3, at 34:24, a scene begins with a shot of an intersection to the right of which is the restaurant frequented by Jerry and the gang. Featured prominently in the background, is the satanic Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine was, at one time, the headquarters of the Luciferian movement in the United States.
Moreover, the boxed DVD set of the Seinfeld series features cast members Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Mary Louise Dreifuss, and Michael Richards in rather enigmatic poses that are clearly occult in nature. It is said that they all practice Cabala: Jewish ritual witchcraft.
Notice Mary Louise Dreifuss’s hands in the photo below. They are displaying the Cult of Mary hand sign:
Remember, the Bible says that we are to “keep our heart with all diligence” (Proverbs 4:23). That includes being careful what we let come in through our eyes and ears. And we must be especially careful with our children. They soak up things like a sponge. My rule of thumb is, if I wouldn’t let my children see or listen to it, then I shouldn’t be seeing or listening to it either. Moreover, if those whose movies we watch and whose music we listen to are against God and the Bible, we must not patronize them. If they are not for Jesus, they are against Him, which means they are against us too.
Remember to cast any demons out of your house left over from your days of sin, in the name of Jesus. This is much easier than it sounds, because the demons are not fleeing from us, they are fleeing from the name of Jesus. If we are living right; that is, if we do not “regard iniquity in [our] heart” (Psalm 66:18), then we have the authority to cast out demons in the name of Jesus. I suggest that you ask the Holy Spirit to tell you what you should say, and then follow His lead. That is what I did, and it worked.
I pray this information blesses you and my prayers go with you as you shake the vestiges of generational sin from your life. God will then be able to move in your life in ways you never thought possible. And when He does, tell somebody.
If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior and Lord, but these words have spoken to your heart, and you can see how sin has damaged your life, why don’t you tell Jesus about it? Click here for forgiveness.
And please pray for me.
“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.”
2 Timothy 2:21
Our five-part companion audio series on generational curses is available for free at the iTunes Store. You can get it here. For your convenience, Part One of the series is provided below.
Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
Witnessing: Every Christian’s Ministry
Grace and peace.
Many Christians are concerned because they don’t know what specific work God has called them to do, and they feel discouraged when they hear others talk about their personal ministries. But God has a work for all of us to do—a ministry that He has equipped every one of us to fulfill. That ministry is witnessing.
I have always believed that not all of us are called to witness to many, but we are all called to witness. It may be that we have been called to witness to one particular person, and perhaps it is that person who will go on to affect the lives of many more.
Take Abraham Lincoln. History has been doctored such that there is no singular account of Lincoln’s faith. By some accounts he was a Christian, but by others, he was merely a man of high moral standards. Among those who believe he was a Christian, some believe he was so raised, while others say that he was converted while viewing the graves of thousands of soldiers killed in war. Still others say that he converted to Christ after the death of his son.
Among those who believe Lincoln was not a Christian, the consensus is that it was not out of religious conviction that Lincoln freed the slaves. They believe that Lincoln held no particular regard for the Negro or his plight, and that his only concern was to keep the Union together.
In the book, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy writes that Lincoln was indeed a very devout Christian, and I tend to agree, for freedom is a biblical concept. Had Lincoln not signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves and gone on to sponsor the 13th Amendment to the Constitution permanently abolishing slavery as an institution, blacks would be in bondage to this very day. Given that his very life was at stake—and there is every sign that he knew it was—I don’t believe that Lincoln or any other man would have given his life merely to hold a nation together.
No, it was something more. Many men are willing to die for a cause; some are even willing to die for principles. But it is a rare man indeed who would give his life for another man.
“For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
“But God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:7-8).
Abraham Lincoln was emulating his Master, the Lord Jesus, who gave his life to set mankind free.
I believe that at some point Lincoln heard the Gospel and that Gospel changed his life and ultimately the lives of millions of others. God used Abraham Lincoln in a mighty way. And it was the witness of one faithful person that began a chain of events leading to what is one of the greatest events in the history of a people. And it all started with a witness. Even if that witness was Lincoln’s mother or father, it was no less significant. In fact, if that were the case, it would even better illustrate my point.
So, if you are trusting in the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation, you have a ministry. It may not involve preaching before many people or even teaching a Sunday school lesson. And it may not entail a radio ministry that reaches millions of listeners or publishing a book that will inspire many. It may only be sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with one person; and that person may go on to do great things for God and man.
You may not be gifted with a charismatic personality or a great speaking voice. You may even be reluctant to speak to people. But if you are a true Christian, you have a testimony. And if you have a testimony, at some point, there will be an opportunity for you to give it. That one opportunity may be your entire ministry.
Believe me when I tell you that if you have been saved by the blood of Jesus, you can testify to what God has done for you:
- You could testify how God delivered you from some sin or addiction you previously had no power over.
- You could testify how God brought you through some very difficult time: whether it be losing a job, life after a difficult divorce, or just coping with everyday life.
- You could testify how God showed you that contrary to what everyone else in your life thought, you are somebody.
- You could testify how God was your comfort after suffering the loss of a friend, loved one, family member, or child.
- You could testify how God delivered you from depression or profound sadness.
Understand that our lives are hidden with Christ. Therefore, absolutely nothing in our lives is coincidence. God allows us to go through difficulties not only to make us stronger, but so that we may incorporate the experience into our testimony—that it may be of benefit to someone else. Believe me, there are people in this world who are hurting. Most of them don’t know the Lord, so they are powerless over their circumstances. These people could benefit greatly from knowing how God brought us through. This is the importance of our testimony: to testify of the all-providence, protection, and goodness of God in Christ Jesus.
Even if we haven’t been faithful, God still does for us. He is better to us than we are to Him. That in and of itself is a testimony. Scripture says, “If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself” (2 Timothy 2:13). God is putting beans and rice on your table. So, He is making good on His promise to provide for you. It may not be steak and potatoes, but it’s keeping you alive. In this economy, that may be the most comforting testimony of all!
Now, Satan is not going to be happy with our witnessing, so we must be constantly on the alert. Satan will do everything in his power to demoralize and discourage us. It is not unusual for people who are on fire for the Lord to have all kinds of personal problems. People may see this as a sign that the person is being punished for some sin, but it may very well be that the person is living a life that glorifies Jesus and Satan is not happy about it. Sometimes the intensity of our persecution is in direct proportion to our obedience to God.
If Satan can’t keep you from witnessing, he will try to destroy your witness. In other words, he will try to put you in a situation that makes you act contrary to your avowed Christian faith, so he can accuse you (Revelation 12:10) of being a counterfeit Christian. Once in this position, your witness will be ineffective.
I have read that one tactic Satan uses is to lure a male Christian such as a pastor or evangelist into a compromising situation with a female. He may do this is by having the female receive counseling from the male without another female present. In this situation, she may reveal some sexual indiscretion such as a sexual liaison with someone not her husband or a sexual addiction. Satan will always use a situation like this to his advantage. Without another female present, the male could be beguiled into falling into a sexual relationship with the unfortunate woman. From that point on, Satan owns the individual. Many have had their witness destroyed in this way and have compromised the Gospel. Others have left the ministry altogether.
Another way Satan can do this is to have a male constantly approached or passed by women dressing in provocative clothing to get him to react in a way that is unchristian. In the digital age, recorders are getting smaller and smaller, and people are just itching to post something on YouTube. It would be easy to compile a digital record of a Christian male with an eye for the opposite sex. Rest assured that there are people who would—and do—go to that extreme.
For example, sometime ago, I became aware that an inordinate number of women were passing me on the street wearing “daisy dukes.” It all started when a young lady in one of my classes wore daisy dukes on the last day of class. Usually, this girl dressed in very good taste, but on this day, she wore the shortest pair of shorts that I had every seen. Now this girl was attractive and liked attention, so she normally came to class fashionably late. Yet this day she showed up almost an hour before class and didn’t bring any book or study materials. She told me that she was not worried about passing the test. So why did she come to class so early? Because I always come to class early for tests. The enemy orchestrated this meeting so that I and the girl would be alone for almost an hour—and we were.
I knew instantly that Satan was trying to set me up. So I first rebuked the girl for the way she was dressed. I told her that she should show more respect for herself than to wear something that showcased what she had downstairs rather than upstairs. Then I witnessed to her. I gave her a Gospel tract entitled Unloved. As God would have it, she ended up telling me that her father was in jail serving a life sentence and that she had suffered serious abuse as a child. This changed the entire course of the conversation. A few minutes later, she got a text, and she stopped talking to me. Her handlers knew that they had lost this battle and I imagine they told her to cease and desist.
Afterwards, when I saw her in the hallway and on the train, she avoided making eye contact with me altogether. I had succeeded in deterring her from further attempts to distract me, and I never saw her again. The Bible is true: “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Another tactic Satan uses is to attempt to discourage us from witnessing by putting people in our path who have no desire to hear the Gospel. Their mission is to keep us from witnessing to others who need it, by wasting our time on them. In my case, for example, Satan will fill a train with people who will outnumber 10 to 1 those who really need and want to hear the Gospel. I have also had people walk up to me who will strike up a conversation that will inevitably come around to religion. The person will pretend to want salvation and will ask questions, sometimes even pretending to make a decision for Jesus. Ultimately he only wanted to occupy my time and keep me from witnessing to someone who really needed to hear the Gospel.
We should not be discouraged when this happens. We are in the last days of the Last Days, and Jesus said it would be as in the days of Noah before He returns. Not everyone who hears the Gospel will accept it, and they are not intended to. Our ministry is not only to lead people to the Lord, but also to give Jesus the means by which He will later condemn those who refused to hear the Gospel (2 Thessalonians 2:12). God told Jeremiah that not one person would be converted by his preaching. Jesus told the disciples that if a town rejected the Gospel, they were to shake the dust off their sandals for a testimony against them. Scripture says that Noah’s ark was an indictment against the sinful people of his day. So it is with our witness. The point is that since we don’t know who will ultimately accept or reject the Gospel, we are simply to witness and let the Holy Spirit do the rest.
Often I will even give a tract to these people because they too are souls for whom Christ died. It makes no difference whether the person genuinely wants to hear the Gospel or is trying to waste our time; the important thing is that we witness. As you gain experience and become more sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, He will reveal to whom He wants you to witness, and you will find yourself wasting less time. In the meantime you are in training, and every person is a training opportunity—even the rebellious. Remember, God is in control, and He will find a way for those He wants to hear the Good News.
We must fulfill the Great Commission for it is for this purpose that we are in the world. We must witness. If we can’t, we can at least pass out Gospel tracts; they are available from several ministries. I rarely leave home without a number of tracts in my pocket. I either pass them out directly or leave them where they will be found.
I hope this encourages someone who is wondering what work God has for him to do. Whether you are someone who doesn’t know how God could use you, someone who thinks he doesn’t have the gift of preaching or a talent for expositing Scripture, or someone who feels he hasn’t been through enough to have a testimony; if you want to be used, God will use you. Right now. You already have a testimony. Just tell people what God has done for you. I guarantee He’s done something. He saved you, right? If you can’t muster up the courage, tracts always work.
If you already have a ministry, but the Devil has discouraged you almost to the point of giving up (I’ve been there)–don’t. Your work in the Lord has not been in vain. If Satan is leaning on you, it’s because you have been faithful and are disrupting his plans. There will be pushback. So hang in there. God will see you though. I’m a witness.
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Stay encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
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Is St. Louis Preparing For A Terrorist Attack?
Grace and peace, saints.
Sunday morning was a busy one for emergency responders, law enforcement, and other select personnel who participated in a joint exercise at the Scottrade Center, home of the St. Louis Rams. Read the story below.
Emergency responders conduct drill at Scottrade Center
ST. LOUIS • Some 350 emergency responders and volunteers, complete with firetrucks and other equpment, gathered outside City Hall this morning to conduct a large-scale scheduled drill across the street at the Scottrade Center.
The exercise began in the late morning and was to continue for four to six hours, said Capt. Dave Neighbors, a St. Louis Fire Department spokesman.
As to the exact nature of the exercise, “We will not tell until it’s done,” Neighbors said.
In addition to units from the St. Louis fire and police departments, the exercise includes hazardous materials and SWAT teams from St. Charles County, a St. Louis County hazmat team, and the 7th Civil Support Team, a National Guard unit from Jefferson City. [Read original story here.]
Interesting. It is not the joint training between the emergency responders, law enforcement, and fire department that is of interest, but the inclusion of hazmat teams, SWAT, and the 7th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team out of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri that has me wondering.
And apparently this is not the first joint training mission these units have participated in. In 2009, they collaborated for baseball’s All Star Game, also held in St. Louis. This is intriguing; especially since the FBI, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Energy, the St. Louis Police Department and the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit also participated. Why the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Energy? Do they anticipate a terrorist attack on our water and/or energy reserves?
This reminds me of the Rex 84 type training exercises that William Cooper wrote about that are being held in cities across the nation. The goal of Rex 84 is continuity of government in the event of a national emergency and the institution of martial law.
And the New World Order just keeps rolling along. Watch and pray, saints.
If you had no idea that Rex 84 is actually a fulfillment of prophesy, and you now understand that if the Bible was right about Rex 84, it was right about God’s coming judgment on this sinful world, you need to get right with Jesus Christ–ASAP.
The Still Man
Copyright © Anthony Keeton, The Still Man ®. All Rights Reserved.
Chronology of Joy
“Anyone who doesn’t have principles that they are willing to die for at any moment is already dead and of no use to anyone, including himself, and will be miserable their whole life because of it.”
William Cooper, author of Behold A Pale Horse
Grace and peace, saints.
I’m just a guy with a blog. I’m just a guy who wants to bring as many people as I can to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. I’m just a guy who wants to see people get saved and freed from bondage to Satan the way I was freed. I’m just a man who tells the truth. I am nobody special, except for the fact that Jesus Christ died and shed His blood to save me. But I must be pretty important to somebody.
Right now, the time is 1:52 a.m.; and I can’t sleep; or rather, they won’t let me sleep. I went to bed at 11:30 p.m. last night and at about 1:00 this morning the index finger on my left hand jerked me awake. I’m assuming it was the index finger on my left hand, because that’s the finger that normally jerks me awake when I try to go to sleep; that is, when it’s not the baby finger of my left hand, or that of my right hand, or a foot, or the muscles in my thigh, or the muscles in my lips.
Saints, I seem to have made somebody angry.
This lends credence to my belief in the Bible and that at the root of all the evil that is going on in the world is a religion, and it’s not the worship of Jesus Christ. You see I don’t know jack about politics. I don’t know squat about economics. I don’t know diddly about nuclear physics. But I do know the Bible. And everything that Satan does and is going to do is based on and is foretold in the Bible. The so-called New World Order that is coming to a neighborhood near you is foretold of in the Bible. And everything that I talk or write about is Bible-based; therefore, whomever I seem to have angered is angry because I talk about the Bible, because that’s basically all I ever talk about.
Therefore, the Bible must be right about the Roman Catholic church being behind everything that is going on in the world, including the Norway massacre. Therefore the Bible must be right about the Roman Catholic church being the Great Whore of Babylon responsible for spilling the blood of the prophets and saints of God and having caused all the wars that have ever been fought. Therefore I must be correct in my belief that the pope is the Antichrist, and I must be correct that the Great Persecution of the Christian church is imminent.
I must also be right about the Roman Catholic Charismatic Movement being used to beguile the Christian Church into uniting with all the other ungodly religions in a one-world church headed by the pope. I must be right in my contention that the Rapture is a farce. I must be correct that the New Age Movement has united Freemasons and other secret societies, along with witches, occultists, homosexuals, feminists, and anyone else who hates Christians, into one giant fraternal organization bent on destroying the Christian church. I didn’t make all this up; it has already been established by many other people, most notably William Cooper. But I did the research on my own and came to the same conclusion; and my research has been confirmed by the fact that people in St. Louis are paying an awful lot of attention to me–an awful lot.
But all this didn’t begin in St. Louis. It actually began in Munich, Germany, in around 2002. This is why I believe the Bible when it calls the Roman Catholic church the Great Whore. And since they won’t let me sleep and are determined to mess with me no matter where I go and no matter what I do, I am going to tell you about it—to pass the time.
First of all, when I say I don’t have any knowledge of those subjects, I mean it. I was born into a poor family in St. Louis, Missouri, and received an average public school education. I enlisted in the Army in 1982 at age 21 as a Combat Engineer and did my basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. My first duty station was Fort Sill, Oklahoma with the 299th Engineer Battalion. I had done two tours of duty at Fort Sill and one in Panama before I changed specialties.
One day after coming in from a field training exercise, I saw an announcement that was to be the catalyst for a great change in my life. It was for the Bonus Enlistment and Re-Training (BEAR) program. As the title says, this program allowed soldiers to retrain into jobs that were classified hard to fill; some because they were jobs that no one wanted to do, and others because it was difficult to find and keep qualified people to do those jobs. After successful completion of the training, the soldier reenlisted for a minimum of three years, at which time he received a cash bonus.
One job caught my eye. It was MOS 97E, Interrogator. Though the name sounds high-speed, it was not. The job was basically as a translator, who during times of war, was supposed to interview enemy prisoners of war in their native language. If you saw the movie, “Saving Private Ryan,” you probably remember the scared American soldier who spoke German, and who let the German soldier go free who later killed another American soldier. Well, that guy probably had the same job I had.
It sounded exciting, and I thought that it would give me better opportunities for a career after the military than I would have as a combat engineer. So, I went to talk to the in-service recruiter (the guy one talks to when one wants to transfer to another specialty). I learned that this job fell under Military Intelligence, and that I would have to be willing and able to go to school for a year to learn the Russian language. Well, to make a long story short, I went to Russian School at the Presidio of Monterey, California, and on to the Military Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The entire process took about 18 months. I was then stationed in Stuttgart, Germany.
Eight months later, the Gulf War broke out and in December 1990, I was sent to Saudi Arabia, where I spent the next six months. After the war, the unit disbanded and in September 1991, I was sent back stateside to Fort Carson, Colorado. At that time, this was one of the best duty assignments in the military. A couple of years later I was transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where I was assigned to an airborne Intelligence unit.
I must say at this time that I believe my whole career in Military Intelligence was a fluke. Military Intelligence soldiers are among the brightest men and women in the military. They can also be some of the weirdest. I was not all that bright and I certainly wasn’t weird. But I was a very good linguist and a good soldier. However, it was difficult for me to find where I fit in. I’m black, and there were very few blacks in Military Intelligence at that time, and those few were not at all what you would expect. So, it was sometimes difficult. Overall, though, my experience in Military Intelligence was priceless, as I learned things about myself that I probably would not otherwise have learned.
After two years at Bragg, I transferred to Augsburg, Germany, about 45 minutes from Munich. It was here that I met my wife, which occurred one Saturday afternoon on this wise: Occasionally soldiers would have to pull an eight-hour shift at the airport to await incoming soldiers and arrange for their units to pick them up.
On this particular day I was sitting at the inbound flights section talking to a new found friend of mine, also a soldier, when this beautiful black girl walked past us emptying ashtrays into a plastic bag. My friend took notice and attempted to strike up a conversational with her, which didn’t go well, because she didn’t speak English and he spoke neither Portuguese (she was from Angola) nor German. Moreover, the entire time he was talking to her, she was looking at me; so my friend suggested I talk to her. I was reluctant, however, because I had no idea what possible common ground there could be between an African girl and an American solider. Uh-huh, I was just that stupid.
Well, I gave her my number half-hoping she would not call, because I dreaded the thought of struggling through a conversation with her. It wasn’t the prospect of trying to talk to a foreigner that daunted me, because having been in the military for fifteen years at the time, and having been stationed overseas twice before, I was used to the mechanics of language. It was the idea of looking like a fool. Well, needless to say she did call and we went on a date the next weekend.
We went to McDonald’s (where else does one go on a first date in Munich?) and had struggled for fifteen minutes trying to understand each other–her German and my English locked in mortal combat–when it suddenly occurred to me that many Africans are multi-lingual. So, I asked her what other languages she spoke. Among the several she mentioned was Portuguese. It so happened that when I was taking Russian at the Presidio, I had befriended some Rwandan soldiers who were there learning Portuguese. They had tried to teach me some, and I learned that it is similar to Spanish. So, I started speaking Spanish to her, which I had picked up in Panama. That’s when the floodgates burst. That quiet, demure girl instantly morphed into Joan Rivers, and I couldn’t get a word in edgewise, which was perfect. It was a great first date. And many more followed.
In 1998, I retired from the military, and, after a short stint in the U.S., I went back to Munich to be with my girlfriend. Shortly afterward, I managed to land a job as an IT consultant with a German firm and I and my wife and newborn daughter settled into a comfortable life. That is, until one day, while at home in St. Louis visiting my hospitalized mother, I was in my car on the way to the VA hospital, when I got a call from my little brother. He told me that an airplane had just flown into the World Trade Center. That day forever changed my life.
I was in shock. I sat in the lobby of the VA hospital watching in stupefied horror as the tower burned. Then suddenly out of nowhere in plain daylight a second plane crashed into the second tower. That was when I knew that this was no accident. Sometime later came the announcement that this heinous crime was perpetrated by Islāmic terrorists.
I instinctively knew that something was terribly wrong. Though I knew nothing of United States national security, I knew that NORAD sits in Colorado Springs, and that it watches the skies over America day and night. How then, could not one, but two planes manage to hit the twin towers and F-16’s not blast them out of the sky? Something was wrong, and I was very confused.
In the ensuing anti-terrorist frenzy that followed, I panicked. My first thought was that someone, knowing that I was in Intelligence and spoke Russian and owned a Koran, might think I was a terrorist. You see, though I didn’t talk about it much, when I was in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, I had studied Islam and had actually become a Muslim. I later abandoned it, when I realized that I could not reconcile Islam’s view of Jesus Christ as merely a prophet with my Christian upbringing of Him being something more, though at this time, I didn’t know what.
Now, because everyone was talking about how these terrorists had studied in America, had commercial pilot’s licenses, and seemed to have led ordinary lives until that fateful day, people no longer trusted anyone who wasn’t “normal.” In my eyes, that included me. So, one day, I got all my Russian books, dictionaries, and tapes, my Koran, Hadith, and everything that didn’t “belong,” and drove to the Goodwill, where I deposited the lot. I then flew back to Germany in a daze.
Back in Munich, a friend of mine came to visit me in November 2001, and handed me a book. The book was entitled, Secret Societies and Their Power in the Twentieth Century.
DISCLAIMER: This book is full of New Age propaganda, Eastern Mysticism, and disinformation, designed to mislead those who have realized that something is wrong in the world. God used it as a means to guide me into His truth, but Christians should STAY AWAY from this book. It is dangerously deceptive.
That was the second event that forever changed my life, for that book introduced me to what has commonly become known as the New World Order. It also introduced me to a group that has almost become cliché, the Illuminati.
This book blew my mind, because it suggested that all the wars, famines, depressions, dictatorial regimes like Hitler’s Third Reich, and events such as 9/11 were not just random accidents, but planned events brought about by those who constitute the real power in the world. This was a lot to handle, but it made sense. In fact, it was the only thing in my life up to that point that had made sense. Now, things that had always puzzled me about the world and even my own life began to sharpen and solidify. But there were still many questions, chief among which was how something like this could be happening without anyone knowing anything about it. Well, it turned out someone had known something about it and put it in a book entitled, Behold A Pale Horse. That someone was William Cooper.
William Cooper was a former Naval Intelligence Officer and Vietnam War veteran who began to study the New World Order ever since the Kennedy Assassination. Cooper had a shortwave radio program called The Hour of the Time where he presented evidence that the NWO stems from an ancient plan to create a One-World, totalitarian Socialist government that will supplant God with the worship of Lucifer.
Cooper’s research led to a 42-tape series on his broadcast called “Mystery Babylon” where he presented “the history, the dogma, and the identity of those who operate in secret to bring about a One-World, totalitarian Socialist government,” and he proved that this New World Order is actually based on an ancient pagan religion. I managed to acquire the series and, using it and the references that Cooper gave, conducted my own research. I found out that Cooper was 100% correct.
Now, in the course of my research, I found that the common thread between all the disparate groups that make up Mystery Babylon is the occult. I also realized that they all hate Christianity. At this time, I was not a Christian, so it rather surprised me, because I reasoned that if the devil were a fantasy, then these people would not have a problem with Christianity. Therefore, I surmised that not only must the devil be real, but also so must Jesus Christ. And if Jesus Christ is real, then so is the Gospel. This realization eventually led to my salvation.
Shortly after I got saved in Munich in September 2005, I discovered Chick gospel tracts and began a tract ministry distributing tracts at train stations, subway stations, and basically anywhere there were people, and I managed to personally lead one person to Christ. But strange things began to happen. People became increasingly hostile towards me.
One day for instance, I was riding my bicycle down the bike path when a German man just walked up and pushed me off my bike. I pulled myself off the ground and confronted him, never once, mind you, losing my cool. I simply wanted to know what had prompted him to act in a way that could have resulted in me getting seriously injured. As we were talking (he was yelling), an Asian lady, who had nothing whatsoever to do with this, walked up and told me that she was going to call the police and tell them that she saw everything and that I had assaulted the man. And she meant it. I got on my bike and rode away. Something in me though, told me that the thing was staged.
There were many more events such as this all feeling similarly staged. Besides this, strange things were happening at home. Once someone had allowed his dog to poop on our doormat. Another day, someone had dumped trash on our first-floor balcony. Often I would find my bike tires punctured, and someone would ring our doorbell early in the morning or knock on our living room window. Occasionally when my wife and I were having an intimate moment, someone would knock on the floor of our apartment just beneath us. There were many, many such incidents.
Of course, my neighbors were responsible for all this, in particular the family who lived next door to us. Often when I would be in my study, the next-door neighbor would bang on the wall or, as he had access to the janitor’s room that was underneath our apartment, he would bang on the floor with a hammer or use very loud power tools. And ever single day for almost three years, he would play his music as loud as possible in the early morning hours. This family also practiced witchcraft.
The spiritual warfare that went on between that family and me is a very interesting story indeed and shows not only the existence of witchcraft, but also the power of Jesus Christ. But it went further than just harassment. One day a young lady walked past my family in the subway and burned my daughter with a cigarette.
At this point, in the interest of fairness, let me say that not all Germans are bad, just like not all Americans are good. In fact, if I didn’t say that I am extremely grateful for the time I spent in Germany and for all the great people I met, not to mention the great life lessons I learned there, I wouldn’t be very honest. Hey, I got saved in Germany! The Germans are a great people many of whom have been engineered to be racist. I had once heard that Satan hates Germany because the courageous Martin Luther, who started the Protestant Reformation, was German; so by setting up the Nazi regime and exterminating over six million Jews, Satan knocked off two birds with one stone: he partially eliminated an old enemy and he forever altered the world’s opinion of Germans. Germans are a largely misunderstood and very deceived people, whom I can’t help but love.
Now, to continue, I had chocked all of this up to neighbor hostility and hostility towards blacks (or at least this black) and I figured that perhaps my presence in the building disturbed something that shouldn’t have been disturbed. I tried to see things from their perspective and this actually helped. So, even though there was always this feeling that everything was choreographed, I eventually let it go, and I thought no more of it. It was just one of those things that you can’t change.
Then I came back home. And the same thing happened here. When I first got back to St. Louis, I lived in an apartment in a four-family flat in one of the roughest neighborhoods in town. The landlord was a man in his thirties and was without a doubt a drug dealer, who also lived in the building as well as his mother and cousins. In fact, the only tenant that wasn’t in his family was me. Even though I was a very good tenant, this guy and his family just didn’t seem to like me. And they let me know it. What was strange about it was the way they let me know.
There would be knocking on my wall, stomping on the floor from his cousins who lived above us, and water leaking from the ceiling as if they purposely let water run on the bathroom floor upstairs so that it would leak into our bathroom. Sometimes I would come home from school to a quiet house. Yet five minutes after arriving, the front porch would be full of people making the worst racket. One time my kids and I were coming home from grocery shopping. As we approached the apartment building, which was empty and quiet, someone peeked from behind the curtain in the apartment above us. Suddenly there was a stream of people onto the balcony as we approached. There was a familiar choreographed feel to all this activity. I struggled to remember whence I had felt it. I made up my mind to move.
I moved about 15 miles away to what I thought was a quiet suburb. Everything was fine for a couple of days until one day my kids and I went to the store. While we were at the checkout counter, a lady behind me subtly pushed her cart into my leg. When I looked at her, the most sadistic grin coupled with feigned ignorance crossed her face. My youngest daughter, who saw the thing, told me that the same lady had followed us all over the store.
On another day we had come out of the store onto the parking lot, where I found that a shopping cart had been pushed with great force against the front quarter panel of my car, making a dent. As I looked around, realizing that there was no wind to blame, I spotted a lady looking at us from her car, parked a short distance away. She was smiling. For reasons totally unrelated to these incidents, we moved six months later to where I live now. You guessed it: the same things happen here, only much more sinister.
If you were to see my street, you would think it was one of the most idyllic, quiet streets you had ever seen. And yet, some of the most evil people on the face of the earth live on this street. The neighbor to the right of me is a chronic drunk. He is only thirty-six or thirty-seven years old, yet he looks like he has lived a hard life. He is unemployed, and he rarely, if ever, leaves the house. He maintained a strategic silence the first couple of days after we moved in, but soon made his presence known.
Had I known that my next-door neighbor would be a drunk, I would not have moved into this house. After six years of living next door to a drunk in Germany, I was not in a hurry to relive the experience. I tried to get along with him for my children’s sake, because I don’t have any family. If something had happened to me, there would have been no one to take care of them. Men like this are often a prison sentence just waiting to happen to some poor unwitting fool. They will start it, hoping you will finish it, so that they can call the police and have you hauled off. My drunken neighbor in Germany had tried to do this to me.
So, I put up with him until my children returned to Germany. I even tried to witness to him and gave him a Gospel tract. But, the man is full of self-loathing and hate, and hate needs no excuse. Even though I tried to be friendly with him just to keep the peace, he has called me the ‘n’ word on three occasions. So, I left off speaking to him. As in Germany and in my first apartment, even this man’s actions seemed choreographed, and he one day confirmed my suspicions.
Once, when I was washing my car, he walked up to me, inebriated as usual, and slurs a greeting. I told him in the nicest way possible that I didn’t want to talk to him at that moment. He seemed stunned and walked away to his own house. When he reached his porch, he yelled, “You’re a f-ing racist!” This blew me away. I had never been accused of being a racist before, especially just for saying that I didn’t want to talk to someone. This seems to be a growing trend.
I have had the same thing happen to me here that happened at the other locations. Trash dumped in front of my house, people kicking or hitting the side of the house, setting off my car alarm, someone taking the flea collar off my cat (she even disappeared for two days), and knocking on the side of the house when I go to the bathroom. And they make tons of noise: Dogs barking constantly. Lawn mowers, chain saws, and weed eaters screaming. Loud music. Loud talking. And everything has this choreographed feel to it. But it doesn’t end there. Wherever I go I am followed. If I go to a restaurant, twenty minutes after I arrive, it is packed to capacity. And the noise is deafening. One of my neighbors, whom I had never met, just “happened” to be taking his trash out at the same time I was and I realized that I had seen him before at my school.
And hardly anyone works in my neighborhood. Virtually everyone is always at home. The streets are as filled with cars during the day as in the evening. When I’m at the store people nearly run into me with their carts and almost bump into me coming around corners as fast as the Indy 500. And everything and everyone feels choreographed. Before I realized what was going on, I sat down once and tried to find a common denominator to reconcile the same behavior manifesting in people of different colors, nationalities, income brackets, and on two continents. I could find none, until one day I remembered the family that lived above me in the four family flat.
One day after they had been particularly annoying, my kids and I had gone to the park to relax. When we came back I noticed an interesting development. The window on their front door, which had a plain white curtain on it, now sported a curtain embroidered with the Roman Catholic “Mother and child.” Suddenly everything that had happened in the last ten years made perfect sense. Religion was the only thing that all these diverse groups could have in common. It then hit me that Munich is staunchly Catholic as is St. Louis, and the neighborhood where I live is seriously Catholic. Could this all be Roman Catholic persecution in response to my evangelism efforts? I am thoroughly convinced of this.
But I think it goes even farther. I have taken a mental inventory of the people who literally follow me around and congregate wherever I am. They include a large number of homosexuals and lesbians, and I have even seen on occasion, Muslim women dressed in the typical headdress. There are also many Chinese. All of these groups are hostile towards Christianity, and I have passed out Christian tracts speaking out on homosexuality, Islam, and Communism. It seems I have made some enemies.
And there’s a high-tech element. I don’t know how they do it, but they do manage to wake me up and even keep me from sleeping by causing my muscles to spasm or twitch. Last night for instance, when I started writing this, it was 2’oclock in the morning. It is now 7:08. As I was typing this I nodded off for a second. Immediately my back spasmed, waking me up. And it is always accompanied by what feels like a minute electric shock. William Cooper said that it was possible to do this sort of thing to a human body by remote control in his four-part series on Mind Control. Now I’m a believer. But God is faithful. He always sticks a few days in there where I do manage to get some sleep, and thus, I am able to keep going.
Once, I was on my bike on the way home from the university. As I was about to cross an alleyway that I have crossed dozens of times, something told me to stop immediately. A split second later, a large truck came flying out of the alley onto the street. If I had not have stopped, I would have been killed, or, at least, seriously injured. On the side of the truck was written, “Irish Construction.” My neighborhood is Irish Roman Catholic.
Why am I telling you all of this? Because I am just a guy. I’m nobody special. I don’t have any special knowledge of what’s going on in the world, and I have no government contacts. Yet, you would be amazed to see the number of people who follow me around, and the elaborate scenarios they set up to make it look authentic. It’s almost like a movie where everybody is an extra. Like the Truman Show. It is of course intended to look that way which serves its own purpose.
When you think of the logistics of this, it is costing someone a lot of money. All of these people who just stay at home. All of these people shopping, eating at restaurants, or just standing around. Who’s paying their rent? Who’s paying their bills? Someone with a bankroll. Now who has that kind of money?
All this would make no sense unless the things that I say were true. This would be pointless if I were not a threat to someone. Everything I say comes out of the Word of God or is a result of Bible-based research. Therefore, I am right to say that religion is at the root of this. And that is what I want you to know.
There is a lot more I could tell you, but it may very well be that someone is experiencing something of this nature, but not to the extent as I. I don’t want to make that person paranoid, because the enemy wants you to know what he’s doing and has even published books on this subject. The purpose is to get Christians scared and paranoid always looking over their shoulder. The less you know of their tactics, the better. Suffice it to say that every single Christian-hating group is united in the New Age.
So, don’t get all wrapped up in conspiracy theories. Stick to the Word of God. Everything is in there. Pass everything you see, everything you hear, and everything you read through your Biblical filter. If you can’t reconcile it with Scripture, throw it out. And listen: don’t be in a hurry to “fellowship” with everybody, especially Roman Catholics and Mormons. By all means witness to them, because they are also souls for whom Christ died. But don’t consider them Christians, because what they actually believe and practice as opposed to what they say is quite different from Christianity.
Jack Chick writes that right before the Roman Catholics massacred the Protestants in the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, they gave them gifts. And this doesn’t just go for Catholics. Anyone in your life who is not a bone-e-fied born-again Christian you had better watch; for your own safety and that of your loved ones. I’m hearing too many stories these days about friends killing their friend’s babies.
If you saw the things that I see every day you would be amazed. I walk alone. My wife took me to court and took my kids back to Germany in a court case that was so lopsided and crooked, I could write a book about it. My kids hate Germany, but they are being forced to live there. Can you imagine three black American children being forced to live in Munich, Germany? That they are blacks is problematic enough, but they are also Christian. Regardless what you have been told, Roman Catholicism is the enemy of the Christian church, and Roman Catholics are persecuting Christians in secret. If it is happening to me, it must be happening to someone else. Like me, my kids are being persecuted for their faith, as the events I described above are also happening to them, especially my son. Why? Because he is my son.
He has been beat up by groups of German kids several times, and once they busted his head so badly that he required stitches. He once told me that a group of boys left him in a large hole on the school grounds where construction was being done—for three hours, on a school day. This means that even his teacher was in on it, which doesn’t surprise me at all. And the same neighbor who harassed me for six years is now harassing him. He once told me that he couldn’t sleep, because someone beats on the floor of his room. The same thing the neighbor did to me.
Nothing will be done about this, because unfortunately, his mother is also a Roman Catholic. Don’t be surprised; Jesus said that the day would come when a man’s foes would be those of his own house. That day has arrived. If you are a praying person, please pray for my kids.
As for me, my whole—and I do mean whole—birth family has forsaken me. I don’t have one friend. I am totally alone in the world. That’s why I have to rely on Jesus: there is no one else. But let me tell you something: Because I am alone and everyone here knows it, they let their hair completely down. They do things in front of me that they would never do if I had someone to tell it to. That has enabled me to see wickedness of epic proportions. I’m sure that’s the way God planned it.
Folks, believe me: you don’t know people as well as you think you do. Use discernment! If you don’t have it, then ask God for it.
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;
“We are perplexed, but not in despair;
“Persecuted, but not forsaken,
“Cast down, but not destroyed;
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
2 Corinthians 4:8-10
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
1 Corinthians 10:13
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Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
Tony Keeton
The Media Assault on Protestant Christianity Continues
Grace and peace.
In our post entitled, “In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor” we discuss how the media associates Biblical Christianity with terrorism by calling it “fundamentalism,” the same term applied to Islāmic terrorism. In “The Occult Significance of the Norway Shooting” we explain how the media is using the same technique to claim that the alleged shooter, Anders Breivik, was on a Christian “crusade,” by stating that he posted his views on “fundamentalist” websites. Now, in a further development, the Associated Press takes an even bolder step toward brainwashing the populace into accepting this scurrilous allegation.
In an article entitled “’Christian Terrorist?’ Norway Case Strikes Debate,” the author makes the claim that Breivik “is being called a “Christian extremist” or “Christian terrorist,” going so far as to even include this unfounded allegation in the title of the article, which he cleverly masks as a query.
The problem with this is that the author only cites two sources for his contention. Two opinions is hardly a consensus, yet that doesn’t deter the author, who goes on to quote a college professor who apparently wrote an essay “likening Breivik to Timothy McVeigh.” The media made this same association in the immediate aftermath of the Norway incident. But where the previous article made only a subtle allusion, this article makes an explicit and damning accusation:
“McVeigh and Breivik were both ‘good-looking young Caucasians,’ self-enlisted soldiers in an imagined cosmic war to save Christendom…and both were Christian terrorists.”
How the media can call Breivik a “Christian terrorist” based on these unsubstantiated claims beggars the imagination. The media hate Christianity. The article continues this vitriol:
“For Christians who think of their faith as preaching peace, how to explain the faith-sanctioned killing of the Crusades?”
The media always reanimate the bloody Crusades when they want to paint Christianity as violent extremism. But as any first-year history student knows (that is, any history student that hasn’t been brainwashed by a liberal, Jesuit-run school), the Crusades were sponsored by the Roman Catholic church, which is not Christian, no matter how much the pope says it is.
Any discerning Christian would expect the liberal, Jesus-hating media to pull this type of stunt, but even so-called Protestant Christian clergymen are pattering this rhetoric, including the pastor of an AME church in Philadelphia, who said,
“It clearly puts us in a position where we can’t simply say that extreme and violent behavior associated with a religious belief is somehow restricted to Muslim extremists.”
By his words, this pastor, just like the media, associates Christianity with Islāmic terrorism. This is not totally surprising, however, because even the apostle Paul said that he was often “in danger of false brethren.”
The article even goes so far as to refer to the Ku Klux Klan’s burning of crosses as a form of Christian terrorism. Though the Klan are indeed terrorists, no one in his right mind believes they are Christian. Jesus Christ, the Apostles, and the true Christian church never did the things the Klan has.
Again, the media’s association of Christianity with all this bloodshed is designed to discredit the Christian church by making Christianity appear violent and extreme and a threat to “peace and security.” This is in preparation for the planned “cleansing”: the persecution of the Christian church. Soon, thanks to the media, the Christian church will appear more violent than Islam; that is, until American Islam is in a comfortable enough place to show its true character. And this is not very far off. The Muslim public relations efforts are about as effective as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’.
A chilling portent was offered by Arsalan Iftikhar, an “international human rights lawyer and author of the book ‘Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era,’” who says that the effect of the media’s association of Christianity with terrorism would be “to restart a debate on the term terrorism, and [to whom] and when the term should be applied.”
I hope you understand the import of Iftikhar’s words, dear readers, for make no mistake: they were prophetic. Iftikhar is talking about a global debate on terrorism and that means the United Nations. If the United Nations gets involved, you can rest assured that any resolution on terrorism will supersede our Constitution, because the Constitution has already been subordinated to the United Nations by treaty. That will spell doom for our freedoms—including freedom of speech—and that will effect the ability of Christians to witness. That, my friends, is the end game. Watch for this to happen.
What is especially troubling is that this prediction was made by a Muslim. When a Muslim can make such a bold statement given the history, doctrine, and goals of Islam, you know we are in trouble.
In case you didn’t know, Saudi Arabia just passed a law that makes any dissension against the government a terrorist act. A couple of years ago, a similar bill was introduced into Congress. Truth be told, the USA PATRIOT Act already accomplishes this; it just hasn’t been enforced yet. But it will. Saints, we are truly in the last days of the Last Days.
If Christianity is considered terrorism—and there is every indication that it will be—then anything a Christian does will be considered terrorism—this includes witnessing, and passing out Christian literature such as Gospel tracts. The Bible then, will be considered terrorist literature. Some in the homosexual movement are already pushing for the Bible to be considered hate literature for its condemnation of their abominable lifestyle.
Before all this happens, saints, while it is still legal to witness, while it is still legal to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we need to get out there and witness to a lost and dying world.
Jesus told us these things would happen and that they must come to pass, so we are not to be troubled. We are however, to be prepared. Therefore, watch and pray. And by all means, saints, witness, while we still can. One day soon, witnessing will be considered terrorism, and the price of winning a soul will be martyrdom.
If you now realize that the Norway massacre is a part of prophesied events, and you now realize that if the Bible was right about events like Norway, it may be right about God’s coming judgment on this sinful world, you need to get saved now, while there’s still time.
Be encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
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Sins of the Fathers – Part 2
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The Occult Significance of the Norway Shooting
“And He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east; and they worshipped the sun towards the east.”
– Ezekiel 8:16
Grace and peace to the brethren in Christ Jesus and greetings to my brothers and sisters in Adam.
This has been a very significant weekend.
You may recall that in our post entitled, “In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor,” we told you how the media uses the term “fundamentalism” to describe Biblical Christianity and Islamic terrorism, and in so doing, imply that the Biblical position is extremist. Now the media has implicated the man accused of killing 92 people in Norway with being associated with so-called Christian fundamentalism.
First, I must offer my wishes for a speedy recovery to the surviving victims and my condolences to the families of those killed in this senseless tragedy.
Now, the Associated press reports that Anders Behring Breivik, believed to have killed 92 people at a youth retreat on an island in Oslo, Norway and to have detonated a bomb at the Norwegian government headquarters, resulting in seven deaths, was on an “anti-Muslim crusade,” and had posted his views on “Christian fundamentalist websites.” There are serious problems with these allegations.
First of all, just because he posted his views on some Christian websites does not necessarily mean that the websites held the same views Breivik did. It is easy to post comments to websites, as most moderators do not prohibit people from expressing their opinions, so long as it is done in a clean, respectable way. Furthermore, it has only been reported that Breivik “posted to Christian fundamentalist websites.” It has not been alleged that he expressed any anti-Muslim sentiments in those postings.
Lastly, we don’t even know what was the nature of his postings. For all we know, he could have posted “Nice post” in response to someone else’s post. But because of the media’s savvy word jockeying, many who read this article will not only assume that Breivik posted anti-Muslim rhetoric on these websites, but that the websites themselves were anti-Muslim (or at least the forum on which he posted), and this has not yet been established. He will already be tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion with the media as the prosecutor.
I see nothing in the body of the article that justifies the headline that Breivik wanted an “anti-Muslim crusade.” If anything his anger was vented at the government because he thought they supported “islamization.” There is a big difference. Besides, if he had truly wanted to hurt Muslims, the Norwegian government building would have been the last place to plant a bomb.
The article went further and reported that “[b]oth targets [the youth retreat and the government building] were linked to Norway’s left-leaning Labor Party.” The juxtaposition of the Christian right and the Labor left presents a curious and not accidental role-reversal. The so-called left wing—which gave us Marxism, Socialism, and Communism, all of which throughout history have been responsible for violent revolutions worldwide, resulting in the death and enslavement of millions upon millions of people—is being portrayed here as the victim, while so-called Christian fundamentalism—which was the basis for Western civilization, was responsible for the majority of the medical and scientific breakthroughs of the last century, and which was the basis for our Constitution—the document that gave us our freedoms—is being portrayed as violent and revolutionary.
Another indictment of the Christian church is the article’s mention of the “mixture of fertilizer and fuel” used to blow up the government building as being similar to that used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995; an act attributed to Army veteran, Timothy McVeigh, who is said to have been associated with the militia movement. The militia movement has been associated with so-called Christian fundamentalism. Coincidence?
The combined effect of the media’s efforts is to make Christianity seem a menace to peace and security. A threat to Islam. A threat to labor. And in that many innocent civilians and youth were killed and injured by Breivik, a threat to the innocent. All by an implied and totally unsubstantiated connection between Breivik and Christianity.
This crime also bears a resemblance to another tragedy: The Columbine massacre. Witnesses to the shooting at the island retreat claim that there was a second shooter, though Breivik’s lawyer, Geir Lippestad, says his client claims to have acted alone. Similarly, witnesses at Columbine also claimed that there were at least three shooters, and this was covered in the first media reports. Later reports, however, focused exclusively on Kliebold and Harris.
I am reminded that witnesses to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center claim to have heard bombs going off in the buildings before they collapsed. One gentleman, a janitor, claimed that he heard an explosion after which he found and assisted a man whose clothes were on fire. What is curious is that all of this happened in the basement of the tower. The fire was on the top floors. Even more troubling is that many who claimed to have seen or heard explosions in the twin towers seem to have met with mysterious deaths.
Moreover, Eric John Phelps, the author of Vatican Assassins, claims that over 100 witnesses to the Kennedy assassination were killed over a 20-year period. Just food for thought.
A very important element of this story is the allegation that Breivik supposedly penned a 1500 page “manifesto” entitled, 2083 – A European Declaration of Independence. Besides the nominal similarity with our own Declaration of Independence, a document that was modeled after several Christian documents, is its similarity, at least in this context, with the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a document falsely claimed to have been written by Jews and which was later used by the Nazi government to justify the murder of over two-thirds of Europe’s Jews in the Nazi death camps. Will the media somehow try to tie this “manifesto” to Christian “fundamentalism?” Only time will tell.
Perhaps most interesting is the connection between this incident and Freemasonry. It is reported that a video on YouTube believed to have been posted by Breivik features “symbolic imagery of the Knights Templar and crusader kings.” It is widely believed that Freemasonry is merely the modern day manifestation of the Knights Templar, though Freemasonry claims to be much older. This is very important.
Freemasonry contains practices similar to Kabbala, which is Jewish ritual magic. The Kabbala places great emphasis on numerology and “sacred numbers.” Certain numbers are considered powerful and hold significant meaning. Among the many numbers of Kabbalistic importance the numbers 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 27, and 33 seem to come up the most often.
Nine is one of the most important numbers because for one, it holds the triple number of Antichrist, the Beast, which is 666. Now, 6+6+6=18. 18=1+8, and 1+8=9. Thus, the number 9 holds the hidden number of Antichrist. For this reason, 27 is also important, because 2+7=9. Also, 27=9+9+9 and 999 upside down is 666. And lastly, the number 27 is a multiple of the numbers 3 and 9 (3 x 9 = 27), both powerful occult numbers.
Multiples of any sacred number are said to be even more powerful. So, 22 is important because it is 2 x 11. It comes up a lot. Three is the number of the pagan trinity, so most any multiple of three is important. 33 is important because it holds the sacred numbers 3 and 11 (3×11), and is the sacred number 3 doubled. 33 also just happens to be the number of the ostensibly highest degree in Freemasonry, the 33rd degree.
13 is the number of rebellion, so besides 18 it is a very important satanic number.
Someone once said that everything Satan does is based on the Bible, and I have found this to be true. For example, Jesus had 12 disciples. But at one crucial point, there were actually 13 disciples. That crucial point can be found in John Chapter 13 at the Last Supper.
This is the scenario: Jesus and the disciples were at supper. Jesus is troubled because he knows that soon Judas will betray Him into the hands of His enemies. So He tells His disciples that one of them will betray Him, and they are all wondering whom it is going to be. Simon Peter then asks John, who is leaning with his head upon Jesus’ chest, to ask Jesus who the traitor is. We pick up at this point:
“He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto Him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
“And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop, Satan entered into him.
“Then said Jesus unto him, that thou doest, do quickly” (John 13:25-27).
As you can see, at this crucial juncture, there were actually 13 people sitting at the table with Jesus. One of them was The Great Rebel, Satan. This is why I believe the number 13 is important in occultism. If you have a better explanation, I would be interested to hear it.
Notice something else very important: All of this happened in Chapter 13 of the book of John, and the verse where Satan entered Judas is verse 27. Both very important occult numbers. I could give you other examples that make a very good case that what Satan does is based on the Bible.
I’ll give you another example. As we have seen, 18 and 27 have great occult significance. Now remember that in the book of the Revelation Jesus talks about the Synagogue of Satan, men who claim to be Jews, but actually worship Satan, whom they call Lucifer. (By the way, these are who I believe are Zionist Jews, not God’s chosen people. The difference is Zionist Jews worship Lucifer, while true Jews worship Jehovah.
Also, Zionist Jews support the pope, not God, and want to give Jerusalem over to the Vatican, hence the current effort to make Jerusalem an international city. Well, Jesus mentions the Synagogue of Satan twice: in Revelation 2:9, and at Revelation 3:9.
“[I] know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 2:9)
“Behold I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie…” (Revelation 3:9).
2 x 9 = 18, and 3 x 9 = 27.
The numbers 18 and 27 show up again. Coincidence?
So, as you can see, numerology plays an important role in the occult. Perhaps now you can understand the occult significance of 9/11. It was not just an arbitrary date. Many, many events just happened to have occurred on September 11. Look it up. You will be amazed.
What have Freemasonry and Kabbalistic numerology to do with the Norway shootings? Let’s take a look.
First of all, as you can see below and from the article, Breivik is dressed in Masonic formal attire, with the Masonic apron around his waist.
It is also interesting that Breivik is 32 years old. The 32nd degree just happens to be the highest degree that most Masons can make. The last degree, the 33rd, is only acquired after meritorious contribution to “The Great Work.” Only a select few obtain the 33rd. There is also an honorary 33rd, but it is not the same as the meritorious degree.
Now let us look at the date of this tragedy, for it is very “illuminating.”
The incident happened on July 22, 2011, or 7/22/2011, or 7/22/11.
7/22/2011: 7 + 22 + 4 = 33
7/22/11 (three occult numbers): 7 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 13
July 22: 7/22 = 7 + 22 = 29, 2 + 9 = 11 and 2 x 9 = 18
July 2011 the 22nd day or 7/2011/22: 7+4=11 + 22(11x2) = 33
7/2011/22: 7 x 2 = 14 + 2 = 16; 16 + 22 = 38, 3 + 8 = 11
7/2011/22: 7 + 2 = 9(11) = 99(9 + 2 = 18); 22 = 2 x 11; 99 + 11 = 110 + 11 = 121; 121 = 12 + 1 = 13
7/2011/22: 7 + 2 = 9 x 2 = 18 x 22 = 396; 3 + 9 + 6 = 18
7/2011/22: 7 x (2+1+1+2+2) = 56, 5 + 6 = 11
I’m sure there are more here, but I just wanted you to see how this works. Now, I ask you, what date could yield this many combinations of the same specific numbers? When you get the same occult numbers over and over like this, it is no coincidence.
And that’s just the date. We haven’t even gotten into other details of this crime.
There were 92 total people killed (as of this article). 2 x 9 = 18.
There were 97 wounded. 9 x 7 = 63; 6 + 3 = 9; 6 x 3 = 18
There were 85 killed on the island retreat. 8 + 5 = 13.
There were 7 killed in the bomb explosion.
Breivik ended his “treatise” on the internet with a note dated 12:51 p.m.
1 + 2 + 5 + 1 = 9; 12 + 51 = 63; 6 + 3 = 9; 6 x 3 = 18
And remember, the number nine contains the triple number of the beast, or 666.
Recall that the name of the manifesto starts with the number 2083.
2 + 8 + 3 = 13
2(8 + 3) = 2 x 11 = 22
8 – 2 = 6; 6 + 3 = 9
20 + 8 + 3 = 31; 31 reversed is 13
3 x 8 + 2 = 26; 26 = 2 x 13
80 + 2 + 3 = 85; 8 +5 = 13
38 + 2 = 76; 7 + 6 = 13
2 x 83 = 166; 1 + 6 + 6 = 13
32 x 8 = 256; 2 + 5 + 6 = 13
Remember, 13 is the number of REBELLION! And the Bible says, “Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft.” The article gives the number 2083 another significance. But what are the odds that almost every combination of this number yielding 13 is a coincidence? Ask a mathematician.
The article states that it took 90 minutes for police to reach the island.
90 = 9 x 10
Now common sense should tell you that the odds of the same numbers popping up time and again in the same event are astronomical; unless of course, that event were planned.
This is just one more planned event towards the New World Order, and I believe that at least one of its goals is gun control, meaning the total disarmament of the populace. It is also being used to stoke the fires of resentment in the Muslim community against Christians. It is also my belief that the Muslims will be part of the persecution of the Christian church during the Great Tribulation.
There’s one more thing to think about. Often when the occult forces pull off something significant that they don’t want us to think about too hard, they will stage another event as a smoke screen. Did you know that Amy Winehouse died this very weekend? Do you know that she died on Saturday 23 July? Did you know that she was 27 years old? Do you know that running the math on the day of her death turns up some more interesting numbers?
Saturday, 23 July 2011 or 6/2/3/7/4
6 + 2 + 3 + 7 + 4 = 22 (11 x 2)
Saturday, 23:
6 + 23 = 29; 2 x 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9
Saturday, 23 July:
6 + 23 + 7 = 36; 3 + 6 = 9
6 + 2 + 3 + 7 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9
One could go on and on with this, and the same numbers will keep coming up.
Did you know that the police were called “shortly before 4:05 pm (1505 GMT)?”
4 + 5 = 9
1 + 5 + 5 = 11?
Can you see 9/11?
9 x 11 = 99; 9 + 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9
Did you know that the original report of Amy’s death listed the cause as “unexplained?” Is it a coincidence that the name Amy Winehouse just happens to have three and nine letters, respectively? Don’t 3 x 9 = 27? Don’t 2 + 7 = 9? Is it yet another coincidence that the day and month of the Oslo shooting add up to 29? (July 22 or 7 + 22 = 29.) Don’t 2 x 9 = 18? Don’t 1 + 8 = 9? Is it merely yet another shocking coincidence that we have the numbers 18 and 27 (which both equal 9) again?!
You see the same numerology in the birth and death dates of singer Whitney Houston, who also died under mysterious circumstances.
The number of the Beast and the number of the Synagogue of Satan!
Are you starting to see that very little that goes on in the world is a random event? Are you beginning to see that a human life has absolutely no value to these people? Can’t you see that these people are not playing games? Do you realize that the New World Order Kingdom of Antichrist will be characterized by the greatest wholesale slaughter of people the world has ever known? Do you know that the main target (but not the only target) of these people is Christianity and all Christians? Can you see that the Inquisition is about to return with a vengeance? Don’t you understand that is why Christians must get on their knees now and ask the Lord Jesus to prepare us spiritually for what is coming? All true Christians will have an opportunity to stand up for the Lord Jesus, and if necessary, to lay down our lives for Him the way He laid down His life for us.
The Oslo shootings and bombing was an occult planned and controlled event; one of many to bring about Antichrist. There will be many such events until their ends are achieved. Saints, you had better be on your knees daily praying for discernment. Get out and witness to this dying world while there is still time. One of the goals of constantly falsely implicating Christianity with these atrocities is to one day criminalize our ability to witness and to close people’s minds to the Gospel message.
Satan is at the bottom of this. Events are happening so quickly now that when you go to bed at night, you have no idea what the world is going to look like when you wake up in the morning. That ought to sober you up, you fence sitters! Researcher on the occult mystery religions, William Cooper, said some very important things:
“If you do not believe in God, Lucifer, or Satan, you must understand that there are great masses of people who do.”
—Behold A Pale Horse
“It makes no difference whatsoever if you believe it or dis-believe it. If they hold the powerful positions of the world; if they are pulling the strings that make you dance, then whatever they believe AFFECTS YOU.”
—The Hour of the Time, Mystery Babylon Episode #27, “Christianity to Babylon.”
Unbelievers, can’t you see that Satan is real? And if Satan is real, then Jesus Christ is also real. Even if you don’t believe, can’t you see that these people who do believe can and, in fact, do affect your life with their beliefs every single day? Whether those 92 people believed in Satan or not, their lives were permanently affected, as were the lives of the survivors.
Any thinking person should be able to see that there are things going on that just don’t make sense in any worldly context. Coincidences are a rarity, if they occur at all. But when there are too many coincidences, there are no coincidences.
Before the satanic education system destroyed our ability to think critically, people knew intrinsically that when something could not be explained logically then the explanation must be supernatural, and therefore spiritual, and they knew that the truth could be found in the Bible. There is a great war being fought for the hearts, minds, and yes, SOULS of the human race. Satan is waging all out war against the Lord Jesus and all humanity. You are going to have to make a decision, and to decide not to decide is to decide. You must choose.
Choosing Jesus is to choose eternal life. Choosing not to choose is actually choosing Satan, which is eternal death. Understand something: until we choose to accept Jesus’ free gift of salvation, we all belong to Satan, because we are sinful, and we will go to the Lake of Fire with him. Sin is a death sentence. God does not want us to die, that’s why He sent His Son Jesus to die for us. That’s Love.
The Bible teaches that all the world except those whose names are written in the Book of Life (Christians) will worship the Antichrist and the dragon which gave him his power (Revelation 13:3-4). The Dragon is Satan. All those who worship Satan are doomed to eternal fire (Revelation 20:15). The only way to get your name in the book of life is to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. There is no other way.
Satan’s greatest deception is to convince the world that he doesn’t exist. For those who know better, his next deception is to convince those people that he and his people are the good guys, and that Jesus and His people are the bad guys. Whom will you believe?
Choose Jesus and live.
Oh, crooked and perverse generation! Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
The Still Man
Disclaimer: I used these quotes from William Cooper because they are very appropriate. However, in his earlier research, William Cooper made some claims about the existence of extraterrestrials and their role in the global conspiracy. He later recanted these claims, when he found out that the UFO threat will be used in order to scare the world into accepting a One World government. That was the message of the movie, Independence Day. I will add that the existence of extraterrestrial life will also be used to discredit the Bible and Christianity. Never forget that this is their end game.
William Cooper eventually realized that he was being used to perpetuate the lie of extraterrestrial life and that he was being fed misinformation, and he subsequently left the UFO community. Unfortunately, his earlier research is often quoted by New Agers, those who believe in “reptilians,” the horribly deceived UFO community, and those who believe that the New World Order is merely a banking conspiracy of the “Global Elite.”
These people are either concealing the truth or have no knowledge of the religious and occult roots of the New World Order and that it actually fulfills Bible prophecy. In some ways, this discredits Mr. Cooper. Moreover, Cooper himself vacillated on his religious beliefs, claiming to be a Christian, yet sometimes doubting the inerrancy of Scripture and the deity of Jesus Christ.
Notwithstanding, William Cooper’s research concerning the occult Luciferian origins of the New World Order and the Mystery Religion of Ancient Babylon stands as one of the greatest contributions to Truth ever made.
The Wounded Platoon
Grace and peace to you.
I came across this video the other day. It is tragic what is happening to these young men.
We must pray for them.
Doctrines of Devils: The Rapture
Grace and peace unto you, saints.
I want to expose a false, deceptive, and poisonous doctrine that pervades the Body of Christ today, and makes us look like fools before the unbelieving world. That doctrine is the Rapture.
The doctrine of the Rapture is a false, unbiblical teaching that directly conflicts with the Bible’s teaching on the Resurrection. It is a heretical doctrine that is part of the Great Apostasy. Anyone who believes in the Rapture is actually calling Jesus Christ a liar.
The doctrine of the Rapture was never preached. What was preached was the Resurrection, which has been corrupted by the preaching of the Rapture. The most vocal proponents of the Rapture tout a pre-Tribulation event, or the teaching that the body of Christ, the Church, will be taken to heaven by Jesus prior to the Tribulation. The problem with this theology is that it conflicts with Jesus’ teaching that there would be only two resurrections: the resurrection of believers and the resurrection of unbelievers:
“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth, they that hath done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation” (John 5:28-29).
This was also taught in the Old Testament:
“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2).
So, there will be one resurrection for all believers: past, present, and future. Further proof that the Resurrection will happen after the Tribulation is the fact that John saw in his vision the martyred Tribulation saints:
“And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands” (Revelation 20:4).
It is clear that this passage is not talking about all the saints who have ever been beheaded, but only those who will be killed during the Tribulation. We know this because the passage says that these saints had neither worshipped the beast and his image, nor had received his mark; and the Mark of the Beast appears during the Tribulation.
Not all the Tribulation saints will be put to death, however, because Jesus taught that some would spared:
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22).
So the bloodshed will be stopped only by Jesus’ coming. Therefore, the resurrection will include the living and the dead: the dead saints and martyrs from all ages and the saints who are alive when Jesus comes. Paul verifies this when he said:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51).
Further proof that the Resurrection will be after the Tribulation is the Two Witnesses.
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothes in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will” (Revelation 11:3-4,6).
See our post entitled, “Don’t Get Too Enraptured by the Rapture” for the identity and importance of the two witnesses. Now, notice that these two men will preach for “a thousand and threescore” (one thousand and sixty) days. That equates to 42 months or three and a half years. At the end of this time, Scripture says that the Antichrist will kill them (Revelation 11:7), after which time, their dead bodies will lie unburied in the street of Jerusalem for “three days and a half” (11:9). At the end of this time, the Holy Spirit will enter into them, and they will stand on their feet. Then, a voice from heaven will summon them, and they will ascend into heaven in a cloud (11:12).
I submit that three and a half days is symbolic for three and a half years. This is because if there is only one resurrection for believers, and that resurrection will occur after the Tribulation, then the two witnesses would have to be a part of this resurrection also. If the witnesses will testify for three and a half years, be killed, and lie in the street for three and a half more years, that makes a total of seven years—the number of years of the Tribulation.
Moreover, the Tribulation is also called “Daniel’s 7oth Week” because it is the last week of a prophesied 70 weeks that God showed Daniel at the end of which Jesus would be anointed King. The sixty-ninth week ended when Jesus was “cut off” (crucified). The 70th week will begin when the Antichrist signs “a firm covenant for one week (7 years).” In prophetic language, one week is seven years, rather than seven days, so three and a half days is three and a half years. If Jesus told the truth about only one resurrection for believers, then the only way for all the past saints, the Tribulation martyrs, the living saints at Jesus’s coming, and the Two Witnesses to be included in one resurrection would be were it to occur after the Tribulation, before God’s judgment on this sinful planet.
Therefore if Jesus told the truth, then the Rapture is a lie—or at least the way it is understood today. I believe that the teaching originated when some tried to reconcile Jesus’ teaching of the resurrection of the dead with his teaching that all would not perish during the Tribulation. As we have seen, though Jesus clearly states in Matthew Chapter 24 that not all would perish, when speaking of the Resurrection He mostly stressed the resurrection of the dead. I believe this was because He knew that He would die and be resurrected, and He wanted us to understand that in the same way He rose from the dead, we shall also rise.
Rapture theologians like to use 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 1 Thessalonians 4 as proof. But they neglect to consider the preceding verses and in so doing, they miss the fact that in both of these passages Paul is talking primarily about the Resurrection of the dead. 1 Corinthians Chapter 15, for example, is devoted entirely to the Resurrection, for Paul begins this discussion by saying:
“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?” (v. 12.)
It is obvious that false doctrine concerning the resurrection had crept into the Corinthian church, for Paul later says,
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not, for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? (vv. 33-35.)
Obviously there was a false teaching abroad concerning what type of body the dead will get in the resurrection. Paul explains that they will have the same body they had before they died, but that it will be changed because the body of sin cannot enter heaven (vv. 42-44). He then goes on to say that in the same manner the dead will be changed, those who are alive at Jesus’ coming will also be changed (v. 51-52).
The passage most often cited as proof of the Rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, but again, the preceding verses are often neglected. Yet they are important, for they contain the context of Paul’s dissertation, which is based on the resurrection of the dead:
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him” (v.v. 13-14).
It would seem that the church at Thessalonica was worried about whether their deceased brethren would be resurrected, so much so that they worried “as others which have no hope” or unbelievers. For Paul to have to reassure them about the Resurrection it would seem that, as did the church at Corinth, the Thessalonians had somehow come to a corrupted understanding of this teaching. Verse 15 gives us interesting insight into the dilemma:
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep” (v. 15).
The key to understanding this verse is the word prevent. It is the English translation of the Greek word phthano (f-than-o), which means, “to precede” (Strong’s Concordance, 1990). It would seem that Paul is reminding them that both the dead and the living will be resurrected together. But notice that the Thessalonians aren’t worried about themselves—the living, but about the dead saints and whether they would be resurrected. I believe that this was because they felt that the Lord’s coming was imminent and wondered if their dead brethren would also be resurrected. This is the reason why after explaining that both the living and the dead would be resurrected together (vv. 16-17), Paul goes on in 5:1-2 to say that he had no reason to write them about “the times and the seasons,” and that “the day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night.”
The case of the Thessalonians is closest to what we see today concerning the Rapture. Unlike the Corinthians, they still believed in the Resurrection, but they somehow came to believe that the living would be resurrected first. This became a problem for them, because they knew that there is only one resurrection and that if only the living saints would be taken, then the dead saints would be left behind. That is why they were worried, and why Paul had to remind them that both the living and the dead would be resurrected together.
This is the same problem that Rapture theology presents to the church today. If the Rapture only concerns the living, then it is a heresy because the Bible clearly teaches that both the living and the dead saints would be resurrected. If the Rapture also includes the dead in Christ, then it is the Resurrection and should be called such. If the Rapture includes both the dead and the living, but occurs before or during the Tribulation, then again, it is a heresy, because the Bible again teaches that the Resurrection will occur after the Tribulation, and as we have already discussed, it must include the Tribulation martyrs and the two witnesses, who are not resurrected until the end of the Tribulation. Lastly, if the Rapture includes both the dead and the living and occurs after the Tribulation, then it is the Resurrection, and it should be called such.
If Christians would have adhered to Jesus’ teaching that the Resurrection would occur after the Tribulation “on the last day,” the Harold Camping fiasco would never have happened, and he would have been seen as the horribly deceived man that he is. Instead, the church looked foolish, weak, and selfish, because, unlike the Thessalonians, who worried about their dead brethren, many so-called Christians were only concerned about themselves. That’s Rapture theology.
I hope that it is becoming clear to you that times have not changed. The Mystery of Iniquity doth still work, and we as Christians will have to stay in the Word of God and walk in the Spirit 24/7 so as to not be deceived.
Stay tuned for “Relief In A False Belief” Part 2 of Doctrines of Devils: The Rapture, coming soon.
Stay encouraged and look up; your redemption draweth nigh.
The Still Man
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