From: EvangelicalOutreach.org
Ellen G. White Fact Sheet
Dan Corner
In Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) circles, a vision that Ellen G. White had in 1847 is important to their exaltation of the Sabbath command: (Ellen G. White is considered an inspired prophetess among the SDA.)
John MacArthur doesn’t only teach the once-saved-always-saved deception (which Dan reveals here), but also cessation, and is currently loudly criticizing those who desire to be led by the Holy Spirit:
Dan also discusses what MacArthur wrongly says to the adulterously married, which I have discussed here:
Clarifying My Perspective on Divorce and Marriage: The Role of the Holy Spirit
Divorce and ‘Marriage,’ Part 3: The Anointing — “Tell them about Pastor E.”
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Calvinist, John MacArthur gets the Skull and Crossbones Award for changing the grace of God into a “license for immorality” (Jude 4) with the following statements:
Yes, someone says, but can’t Christians put themselves outside God’s grace? What about those who commit abominable sins? Don’t they nullify the work of redemption in themselves? Don’t they forfeit the love of God? Certainly not … it’s preposterous to think that we can forfeit it [salvation] by anything we do. (John MacArthur, Jr., The Love of God, Word Publishing, 1996, p. 159, emphasis mine)
Believers will often fall into sin, but their sin is not more powerful than God’s grace. (John MacArthur, Jr., Saved Without A Doubt, Chariot Victor Publishing, 1982, p. 45, emphasis mine)
NOTE: As Charles Stanley teaches, You cannot outsin the grace of God, John MacArthur teaches EXACTLY the same way! In fact, John MacArthur teaches WORSE by also saying believers often fall into sin. Don’t misinderstand John MacArthur’s doctrine. He teaches a license to sin as a Calvinist. The above is clear proof, but there is even more. In his so-called “Study Bible” under his comments on 1 Cor. 6:9-11, John MacArthur comments:
Some who used to have those patterns of sinful life were falling into those old sins again, and needed reminding that if they went all the way back to live as they used to they were not going to inherit eternal salvation, because it would indicate that they never were saved (The MacArthur Study Bible, 1997, p. 1736)
NOTE: The listing of sins in 1 Cor. 6:9,10 identifies the unrighteous, not believers, but John MacArthur shockingly declares that a true Christian can commit ALL of those sins! However, the true Christian can’t go all the way back as before, for that would prove he was never really saved after all, according to John MacArthur. If he stops short, ever so slightly, from going all the way back, his salvation is real even though he is in those vile sins! That is not holiness! Here is the listing of sins that John MacArthur commented on:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9-11, NASB)
The Sovereign God who perfectly understands grace disagrees with John MacArthur. Rev. 21:8 is a clear passage which God spoke from His throne about who will NOT enter His kingdom. The Apostle Paul, the real grace teacher, gives us other Holy Spirit inspired lists in 1 Cor. 6:9,10; Eph. 5:5-7; Gal. 5:19-21; etc. Who will YOU believe? Also, please note: John MacArthur, known for “Lordship” theology, teaches the same as Charles Stanley and Charles Ryrie on the believer’s security!
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars — their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death (Rev. 21:8).
For of this you can be SURE: No immoral, impure or greedy person — such a man is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient (Eph. 5:5,6).
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19-21).
Under the subheading of Those That Are Illegitimately Divorced and Remarried John MacArthur teaches the obscene:
Now, there is only one other category. Some of you are saying, “I have a problem. I fouled up my marriage when I was a Christian and got a divorce that wasn’t legitimate. Furthermore, I am an adulterer (or an adulteress), because I remarried when I had no grounds. What is my status?” Well, you’re a sinner – welcome to the club. If you’ve already violated God’s laws as a Christian and you were illegitimately divorced and remarried (in other words, you’re in a union that the Bible defines as an adulterous union), you have only one recourse – to confess the sin, tell God the sorrow of your heart, and stay in that same union … (John MacArthur, Jr., On Divorce, Moody Press Edition, 1985, Chicago, p. 98, emphasis mine)
That is clear proof that John MacArthur is saying they would be lifestyle practicing adulterers, which he denies is possible at other times. Furthermore, he doesn’t say such lifestyle practicing adulterous people were false converts, but consoles them by welcoming them into the club of sinners! Moreover, he tells such adulterers to just tell God they are sorry and confess their adultery! According to John MacArthur, no turning away from their adultery (repentance) is needed for their forgiveness. John MacArthur’s teaching, therefore, is a poison-filled wicked abomination. BTW, the mere fact that John MacArthur denies King David lost his salvation when in adultery and murder should be enough to prove John MacArthur has a skewed understanding of Scripture.
WARNING! Dear reader, for your soul’s sake avoid John MacArthur’s Calvinistic version of saving faith. It is NOT the message of the Bible! John MacArthur needs to take to heart the compelling evidence found in The Believer’s Conditional Security, repent of his dangerous false teachings, and openly renounce his Calvinistic doctrines! Eternal Security is not true.
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Note: this is the tenth and final installment of a blog series announced here. The full series can be found here.
When it comes to the study of the New Testament canon, few questions have received more attention than the canon’s date. When did we have a New Testament canon? Well, it depends on what one means by “New Testament canon.” If one is simply asking when (some of) these books came to be regarded as Scripture, then we can say that happened at a very early time. But, if one is asking when we see these books, and only these books, occur in some sort of list, then that did not happen until the fourth century. To establish this fourth-century date, most scholars will appeal to the well-known canonical list of Athanasius, included in his Festal Letter in 367 A.D.
But, is Athanasius really the first complete New Testament list? Despite the repeated claims that he is, we have a list by Origen more than a century earlier (c.250), that seems to include all 27 books. Origen, in his Homilies on Joshua, writes:
So too our Lord Jesus Christ…sent his apostles as priests carrying well-wrought trumpets. First Matthew sounded the priestly trumpet in his Gospel, Mark also, and Luke, and John, each gave forth a strain on their priestly trumpets. Peter moreover sounds with the two trumpets of his Epistles; James also and Jude. Still the number is incomplete, and John gives forth the trumpet sound through his Epistles [and Apocalypse]; and Luke while describing the deeds of the apostles. Latest of all, moreover, that one comes who said, “I think that God has set us forth as the apostles last of all” (1 Cor 4:9), and thundering on the fourteen trumpets of his Epistles he threw down, even to their very foundations, the wall of Jericho, that is to say, all the instruments of idolatry and the dogmas of the philosophers.[1]
This is a fascinating passage. A reasonable interpretation of Origen’s words would leave us with a list of 27 books (he obviously puts the book of Hebrews with Paul’s letters). There is the question of whether the book of Revelation was original to this list—some manuscripts have it, some do not. …
This language suggests not only that Origen had a 27 book canon, but that, in his mind at least, that canon was closed.
Related:
10 Misconceptions About the NT Canon: #4: “Books Were Not Regarded as Scripture Until Around 200 AD”
Does the Bible Claim to Be God’s Inerrant Word? — Jesus’ Statements
For those who believe Jesus is a trendy, all-lovey-dovey God, and question the authority of the New Testament as applying today, saying we don’t have to meet together to worship under the authority of the 5-fold ministry according to Ephesians 4:11-16, etc., I write this article on ‘Revelation,’ in addition to the articles I just posted:
Does the Bible Claim to Be God’s Inerrant Word? — Jesus’ Statements
The Book of Revelation is hard to dispute for those who desire to disbelieve the credibility of the Bible, because Jesus declared a strict penalty to anyone who would add or remove any words from it.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book (Revelation 22:18,19).
And Jesus’ words to the seven churches validate much of what was taught in the New Testament letters.
Jesus is speaking to the leaders of the assemblies in these seven communities. Jesus supports the 5-fold ministry, Ephesians-4:11-16 theme by saying to the the assembly in Ephesus: “you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.” He doesn’t say: apostles aren’t legitimate anymore. He says: you correctly kept the false ones out.
Jesus warns against eating food sacrificed to idols, which the apostles (Acts 15) and Paul also warned about. Jesus warned against sexual immorality as being taboo for Christians, and said how strictly He was going to judge Jezebel if she didn’t repent for pushing this evil agenda.
And of course, one of the main, trendy, disinfo themes today is that God is only love. Many don’t want to hear Paul’s Romans-11:22 balance:
“See then the GOODNESS and SEVERITY of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, IF you continue in his goodness; OTHERWISE you also will be cut off” — which agrees with what Jesus really said in John 15, contrary to what K-LOVE says.
And Philippians 2:12-13:
“So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING. For it is GOD who WORKS IN YOU both to will and to work, for his good pleasure..”
Regarding Jezebel, Jesus demonstrates His non-lovey-dovey, SEVERE side of His personality towards those who refuse to repent of leading others to seriously sin. Not only would she be judged in the next life, but here on Earth too! “I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.”
2:21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works. 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
Jesus says the church in Sardis actually had a reputation for being alive (unlike most churches today) but were spiritually dead. He didn’t then say: stop group meetings because they don’t work. Rather, he said: clean up your act, and get holy so your names won’t be removed from the Book of Life.
And a few verses later, he told the assembly in Laodicea to repent from being lukewarm, so they could also be dressed in white (like the overcomers in Sardis), otherwise He will vomit them out of His mouth. Doesn’t sound like the trendy, only-love Jesus taught across America today.
The assembly in Philadelphia actually had some Spiritual power, and kept Jesus word. Probably because they kept Jesus’ word they had spiritual power. Jesus then declares that He will preserve them from the hour of testing, and they will achieve their reward in heaven. Praise God!
It’s up to us. Either we live holy, and are spiritually blessed now and forever — as we bless Jesus, watching Him smile — or we willfully sin, like the Prodigal Son, leaving our First Love, breaking Jesus’ heart, refusing to accept and obey His clear words, to live in the Son — and the consequences will be dire. Some will even be judged this side of eternity, like Jezebel….
Much could be gleaned from Jesus’ actions predicted in the main body of Revelation, but for now, I will skip to the last two chapters:
Revelation 21
5 He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” 6 He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. 7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 22
12 “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood [who don’t worship in Spirit and in truth – editor].
What follows are the complete texts of Revelation chapters 2 and 3 in the reliable, Textus Receptus based, royalty free WEB text, with my highlighting emphasis.
Let’s obey and be free!
Life in the Son!
From: blueletterbible.org
Don Stewart :: Does the Bible Claim to Be God’s Inerrant Word?
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The New Testament is also considered to be inspired of God for the following reasons:
Divine Origin
All throughout Jesus’ ministry the divine origin of His words is stressed.
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him – the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak (John 12:48,49).
In addition, Jesus said His words would never pass away.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away (Matthew 24:35).
That Jesus said His words would last forever hints at the idea they would be recorded.
The Promise Of Jesus
The main reason we believe that the New Testament has been inspired of God is the promise of Jesus. Before His death and resurrection Jesus made the following promises to His disciples.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you (John 14:26). But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, He will testify of Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning (John 15:26,27).
However, when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come (John 16:13).
We have, at least, two promises of Jesus contained in these verses:
1. The Holy Spirit would guide these hand-picked disciples into all truth. [For clarification, this applies to all born-again believers – editor]
2. They would be given the gift of total recall of the things He said and did. This would guarantee the truth of their preaching and teaching as well as anything they would eventually write about Jesus. [I agree with these overall principles in general; though, the wording here seems a bit strong. “Total recall” seems a bit unlike how this probably worked. We can say with certainty that the Holy Spirit accurately reminded the disciples of what Jesus said and did at the appropriate times, which He does to us about Bible teachings we’ve read too. And this, alone, would not “guarantee the truth of their preaching,” necessarily. Because they still had free will, and were not automatic robots. They still had to obey and choose to be led by the Holy Spirit, which we then see happen; though, there was a learning curve – editor.]
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From: blueletterbible.org
Don Stewart :: Does the Bible Claim to Be God’s Inerrant Word?
[…]
The New Testament is also considered to be inspired of God for the following reasons:
[…]
Accepted As Scripture
Although the concept of a completed New Testament may not be found, we do have the concept of the writings being considered as Scripture. Simon Peter compared the writings of Paul to other Scripture:
Our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his letters . . . which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of Scripture (2 Peter 3:15,16).
[…]
Specific Statements Of Other Writers
Apart from the four gospels, the New Testament makes other specific statements about its own inspiration. The Apostle Paul said that his writings were the commandments of the Lord.
If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord (1 Corinthians 14:37).
In the first letter that Paul wrote, he stated that his commandments were to be received as the Word of God.
And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
Paul also emphasized that all Scripture is God-breathed.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16).
Related:
10 Misconceptions About the NT Canon: #3: “The NT Authors Did Not Think They Were Writing Scripture”
Does the Bible Claim to Be God’s Inerrant Word? — Jesus’ Statements
I post this with sadness. It stuns me how even former church elders are openly questioning the authority of the word of God on Facebook, only ‘liking’ comments that encourage their theory that we aren’t accountable to live according to New Testament teaching. So now we don’t have to meet together to even try to worship in Spirit and in truth. I sometimes call it the anti-Ephesians-4:11-16 movement in which Jesus’ prayer in John 17:20-26 is also ignored. Jesus promised to give us His glory so that we would be ‘ONE’ with each other in Him, “that the world will know.”
Endless Facebook and coffee shop conversations, and going to Hollywood movies are in. The GREATEST commandment is out. And no one seems to be hearing from God, as the written word of God is now openly mocked, as well as those who defend it. It’s a travesty.
To be clear, I believe the teachers in the New Testament were led by the Holy Spirit, and most of what they taught is timeless (some applied directly to their situation only), and the Holy Spirit wants to lead us directly too. But if we refuse to do the basics taught in the New Testament, the lack of holiness will open the door to familiar spirits to confuse the new, trendy ‘Christians,’ so they don’t seem to be able to hear God directly at all. And they don’t seem to care, for some reason, to my utter dismay.
I would like to re-write the above two paragraphs when hopefully the carefully chronicled new covenant teachings of the New Testament are again appreciated for the clear teaching that they are.
This is part 2 of my posts defending the Bible.
We have a large body of work written by the ‘early church fathers,’ theologians who wrote during the centuries directly following the life of Christ and the apostles. The entire set of their work is here: “The Early Church Fathers, 38 Volumes.”
Broken into three sections, this authoritative collection of writings by the Early Church Fathers is essential for understanding patristic thought. Series I of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers consists of eight volumes of the writings of St. Augustine, the greatest and most influential of the early Fathers, as well as six volumes of the treatises and homilies of St. Chrysostom. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II contains in fourteen volumes the works of the Greek Fathers from Eusebius to John of Damascus and the Latin Fathers from Hilary to Gregory the Great. The Ante-Nicene Fathers represent the first primary sources of Christian history following the canon of the New Testament, and include writings from the Apostolic Fathers as well as various third and fourth century sources.
My favorite period is the ante-nicene fathers, because they lived before Constantine declared Christianity to be the state religion, after which it became institutionalized and mostly died spiritually. Miracles of healing, which had been prevalent became almost unheard of. At that point, pride became more evident and ecclesiastical authority could even surpass scriptural authority, which we now know as papal authority within the Catholic church.
The indexes of each book are filled with New Testament quotes that they cited before all of the 27 New Testament books were officially decided upon. In fact, much of the New Testament can be reproduced from what the early church fathers quoted in their writings. Most fully believed and accepted these writings as God’s truth applying to them, from what I remember from my in-depth study 20 years ago, and what Geoffrey Bromiley says here: “all writers accepted the inspiration and authority of Holy Scripture as self-evident. … There was no temptation to restrict its range to favored passages of the Bible.”
Of the four men Bromiley specifically cites, Clement of Alexandria and Irenaeus lived mainly in the second century, while Gregory Nazianzus and Augustine lived about two centuries later.
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Geoffrey W. Bromiley, “The Church Doctrine of Inspiration,” Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and
the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale
Press, 1959, p. 207-8
II. THE PATRISTIC PERIOD
When we turn to the patristic period, we are struck at once by the way in which all writers accepted the inspiration and authority of Holy Scripture as self-evident. The actual writings of the Old and New Testaments are seen to derive from the Holy Spirit and therefore carry the divine message. Nor is this merely a general inspiration; it extends to the detailed phraseology of the Bible in accordance with the saying of Christ in Matthew 5:18. Thus Clement of Alexandria tells us that not one jot nor tittle can pass because all has been spoken by the mouth of the Lord (Protrepticus, IX, 82, 1); and Gregory Nazianzus writes that even the smallest lines in Scripture are due to the minute care of the Holy Spirit, so that we must pay careful attention to every slightest shade of meaning (Orat., 2, 105). In order to emphasize the perfection and authority of the Bible, Irenaeus can say that they are actually spoken by God himself through his Word and Spirit (C.O.H., II, 28, 2). What the authors say is really said by God himself, and must be received and studied not merely or primarily as the word of man but as the Word of God. This emphasis on the divine inspiration of the Bible is obviously reflected again in the many statements in the Fathers which refer to the supreme authority of the Bible in the Church, as in the dictum of Augustine quoted in Cranmer’s Confutation of Unwritten Verities: “For I do not account Cyprian’s writings as canonical, but weigh them by the canonical scriptures; and that in them which agreeth with canonical I allow to his praise; but that that agreeth not, by his favour I refuse” (Parker Society ed., II, p. 33).
There can be little doubt that a sound and scriptural doctrine of inspiration was for the most part maintained and developed in the patristic period. The primary fact of inspiration was never in doubt. There was no temptation to restrict its range to favored passages of the Bible.
Related:
Does the Bible Claim to Be God’s Inerrant Word? — Jesus’ Statements
HEALING — The III Centuries After The Apostles, by Jeff Fenske
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”
– Leonard Ravenhill
Jesus in John 15:18-25
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Jesus in Luke 6:20-26
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
I posted this in 2009 at my ToBeFree site. Today, Stephen Paul shared this insightful comment that compelled me to post this at ONEcanhappen too. Satanism is flourishing because most ‘Christians’ aren’t worshiping God in Spirit and in truth. Stephen writes (I changed punctuation and spelling slightly):
Around 1999, the Lord spoke to me while I was in prayer. This is a direct quote: “Why is it that in your nation you spend more time in the two weeks preceding halloween teaching your children to worship Satan than you spend in an entire year teaching them to worship Me? That is not enough time to spend eternity in my presence.”
You think on that, you naysayers [Stephen is responding to those who in their comments questioned the validity of Satanism being this alive today – editor]. Furthermore, a pediatrician friend told me 30 years ago that he had been called upon to identify a small child’s semi-incinerated fingers that had been discovered by police at a suspected satanic ritual abuse site.
Repent, America- your time is far shorter than you think it is.
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Former Satanist, Glenn Hobbs describes this experience in this 7-minute clip from “Halloween Trick or Treat” Jeremiah Films
“This is something that’s happening every Halloween.”
“It’s quite ironic how one group of people are thinking it’s fun, and another group of people are taking human life, and yet there seems to be this wall, and nobody wants to face the facts of what’s really going on.”
– Glenn Hobbs
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Audio kicks in at the 12-second mark[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUeigrPrHdk]
Halloween – Not So Innocent after all !
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The Pagan Invasion # 1 – Halloween – Trick or Treat?:
English Transcript
[…]
[Chuck] Smith: While there are some people who may be concerned about the origins
of halloween and it’s focus on blood, death, horror and the occult, to millions
of youngsters across the nation it has been adopted as a time to pursue scary
fun. It is an opportunity to dress up in ghoulish or fanciable costumes, to
engage in the fantasy of being a witch or a vampire, ghost or devil. Eager
“trick-or-treaters” solicit candy door to door or bob for apples at halloween
parties. Others brave haunted houses and horror movie marathons, while the
more daring visit cemeteries at midnight, play with ouija boards and hold
seances in an effort to contact spirits of the dead.
One of the biggest promoters of halloween is the public school system. School
sponsored halloween-themed activities often include dances, costume contests,
carnivals and arts and crafts projects.
[…]
[Caryl] Matrisciana: Glenn Hobbs was initiated into a satanic coven as a child by his
grandfather and continued participating for many years. I recently asked
Glenn about his involvement and the importance of halloween to the occultist.
[Glenn] Hobbs: Well, my involvement in satanic worship was, I was involved in it as
a child, of course I was a generational satanist, what they call a generational
satanist and what that means is that my family was involved in it and their
family before them. Now my earliest rememberings of halloween and some of
the things that were involved was, it was a very dark time for me as a child.
It was something I didn’t enjoy.
Matrisciana: Glenn, could you tell us about your involvement in any rituals at
halloween as a child?
Hobbs: There was another little girl that was involved in the occult with me
and her name was Becky. Now Becky was a different type of child, she was
blessed to be a sacrifice. I was being blessed to be a high priest, where she
was being blessed and born into the coven there to be a sacrifice. …
Well, the ritual that I remember the most clearly began about the end
of September.
[…]
Matrisciana: All of today’s seemingly halloween customs and symbols have
their origins in the ancient keltic [Celtic] day of the dead. For example, the practice
of trick or treat is from keltic tradition where people gave food [even humans] in return for
blessings from spirits of the dead. Failure to supply treats would result in
demonic retaliation. Jack-o-lanterns grew out of the keltic tradition of carving
the faces of demonic spirits on turnips and later on pumpkins. The world
book encyclopedia says, the apparently harmless lighted pumpkin face of the
jack-o-lantern is actually an ancient symbol of a dammed soul, candle lit
pumpkins or skulls at a home signified that the occupant was sympathetic to
Satan and would therefore receive mercy by spirits and trick-or-treaters on
their halloween rounds.
Perhaps the most sickening of all druidic new year practices were the human
sacrifices which occurred at midnight. Adults and children alike would be
thrown into huge fires, while the celebrants danced around them in demonic
fits of abandon. By morning’s light only ashes and bones would remain, these
were called ‘bone fires’ which is where we get the tradition of ‘bonfires’
today. The druids believed that black cats were reincarnations of the evil dead
and were possessed with supernatural and knowledge, bobbing for apples was
part of the druidic new year sexual divination ceremony of fertility. The
broom stick and witches hats were originally considered phallic symbols.
[…]
Smith: Deuteronomy, chapter 18, spells out God’s position concerning man’s
participation in divination, sorcery or communicating with the dead. Verse 12
states that whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord. By
participating in the customs of halloween, whether in fun or ignorance, we are
continuing in practices which have been consecrated to Satan. People who
love the Lord should stand for separation from these things and not
compromise. Christians can gather together at halloween and use the night to
educate themselves to the dangers of paganism and to take the opportunity to
pray and wage spiritual warfare against the powers of darkness in their
community. It can be combined with a time of worship, praise and
thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father for victory over Satan, death and hell.
Related:
“I’d estimate a little under 4 million practicing Satanists in America. … 1.5%.”
“Three separate sources on number of human sacrifices:
between 50 and 60,000 a year.”
– Ted Gunderson, August 2000
Bill Schoebelen: The Occult Origins of Halloween & Mitt Romney’s Mormon Occultic Agenda
Santa Unmasked: The Origin of the St. Nicholas Cult — Why Europe is so messed up … and US!
The Origin of Christmas: Should a Christian Celebrate X-Mas?
[3-minute video] The Origins of Christmas — It is not the birthday of Christ
[photo] Still not convinced? Proof that Santa Claus isn’t real
Jesus wants to come. He is waiting for us to get right with each other and stop willfully sinning. Then we can worship God in Spirit and in truth, and…!
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” is guaranteed!
I never liked the “Fill us, Lord” ‘worship’ songs, that became a trend in the late ’80s. Worship should be worship.
jeff
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From: A.W. Tozer on Facebook
~~~ DON’T BEG GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT: GLORIFY JESUS CHRIST ~~~
“When we come into this important Scripture passage, the second chapter of Acts, I want us to consider something that is so often overlooked — the thought that wherever Jesus is glorified, the Holy Spirit comes!
Contrary to what most people unintentionally assume, the important thing here was not that the Holy Spirit had come — the important thing was that Jesus had been exalted.”
Tozer Speaks ( Volume One )
I just posted this at ToBeFree.
Joel believes the US is being set up by the globalists for an EMP & nuclear attack by Russia and China, which is at least 8-10 years out — which is even more reason why we need to get our spiritual act together now. This agrees with Dumitru Duduman and Henry Gruver’s spiritual visions, which are linked here.
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World Affairs Brief, October 25, 2013 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com)
This Week’s Analysis:
Saudi/US Rift: Real or Feigned?
NSA Spying Scandal Continues to Expand
China Buying up America?
Russian Missile Forces to be Upgraded by 2021
TSA Pre-screening Everyone Now
They Lied to us about Cyprus
[…]
RUSSIAN MISSILE FORCES TO BE UPGRADED BY 2021
You will notice an almost total absence of coverage or concern for Russian military growth. It’s like it doesn’t exist in the US media, even when the Russians openly publish it in Russian sources. Here’s an example that should concern us all, as it confirms my estimates of timing relative to when Russia will be ready for a future strike on the West:
(RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) will be fully equipped with fifth-generation missile systems by 2021, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Wednesday. The proportion of modern missiles in the RVSN will reach around 60 percent by 2016 and 98 percent by 2021, Col. Igor Yegorov said.
In addition to the fifth-generation Yars and Topol-M missiles, new command and control centers are being built and new communications, security and other systems put in place, he said. Russia’s missile forces are being modernized in a bid to enable them to penetrate the anti-missile defense systems being fielded by NATO and the United States, Russian officials have said previously.
And, unlike US systems which are purposefully encumbered by humans transmitting codes before launch, the Russians are automating theirs so that human factors won’t be able to block a nuclear launch once initiated:
Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces will use a new-generation automated command and control system from 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The new system, based on the digital transmission of operations orders bypassing intermediary levels straight to the launch pad, allows the prompt targeting and retargeting of missiles and ensures the effective command and control of all units and subunits, Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Andreyev said.
The fifth-generation system will use wire, radio and satellite communication channels that are well protected from jamming and other forms of interference, he added. The system is compact and reliable and boasts low energy consumption, secure information transmission and imperviousness to external impacts, the spokesman said.
Compare this rapidly increasing readiness with the static nuclear silo based defenses the US has, and which are vulnerable to both human errors and external attack. The US missile forces have received a lot of negative publicity of late due to the sacking of its top military commander for gambling and ethics charges. Now, a leak has revealed that a couple of missileer officers have been reassigned for leaving a blast security door open while one was asleep.
The following AP article talks about this technical violation of the rules and promotes some disinformation about the launch of US missiles:
— Air Force officers entrusted with the launch keys to long-range nuclear missiles have been caught twice this year leaving open a blast door that is intended to help prevent a terrorist or other intruder from entering their underground command post, Air Force officials said.
The blast doors are never to be left open if one of the crew members inside is asleep – as was the case in both these instances – out of concern for the trouble an intruder could cause, including the compromising of secret launch codes... The officers, known as missileers, are custodians of keys that could launch nuclear hell.
The last part is only partly true. The missileers have only half the launch codes. They must receive the other part from the “nuclear suitcase” which always accompanies the President. Without getting these launch codes from the president, no missiles can be launched. So this is hype about the silos being in danger of a terror attack.
In fact, even the blast door is not the door to the outside. An unauthorized intruder would have to get past other heavy duty steel doors and get down the secure-code elevator even to approach the blast doors. Entry to that elevator is controlled from an above-ground building where the officers initially enter and have their passes checked. All are secured with armed guards and cameras. All of this security before the blast door is what gives the watch officers some feeling of complacency about the need to keep this door closed if one is sleeping (allowable on a 24 hour shift).
What the article is talking about is the underground launch center, known as a capsule for its pill-like shape, buried in the ground. Each capsule operates 10 Minuteman-3 missiles (3 warheads per missile). The missiles are also underground in reinforced concrete silos with blast doors on top which open for launch.
The real weakness of our system is that we have fixed silos, easily and precisely targeted, while the Russians use mobile launchers which are always being moved around—very hard to find and hit. That is why the US must rely on “Launch on warning,” meaning that once Russian or Chinese missiles are detected by our satellites and on the way, all our missiles must be launched to avoid being hit by the first salvo of incoming warheads. No surface blast door covering the silos is going to withstand a full nuclear ground blast.
That is also why Clinton’s order (PDD-60) in 1997 to the missile forces to “not rely on Launch on Warning” but to “prepare to retaliate afterward” is suicide. This order is still secret and has never been made public, except in synopsis form by Arms Control Today, which helped draft the new nuclear policy.
Our missile forces are still on alert and they still think they are going to launch on warning, but their ability to do so depends on getting the codes from the president. All the globalist handlers of the president have to do to ensure we absorb a nuclear first strike is to not release the launch codes or create some pretense of technical difficulty.
Other evidence of Russia emerging from the phony “fall of the Soviet Union” is that she is starting to actively export military equipment to foreign clients: Space Daily.com reports from Baghdad (UPI):
As Iraq’s government grapples with a rising al-Qaida insurgency in which thousands have been killed, officials say the military has started taking delivery of Russian arms as part of a landmark $4.3 billion contract signed in October 2012… 30 of the all-weather Night Hunter helicopter gunships and 50 Pantsyr S-1 gun-missile short-range air-defense systems.
The 2012 contract marked Russia’s return to a major Middle Eastern market it had dominated during the Soviet era. During Saddam Hussein’s rule, that ended in April 2003, Moscow was Iraq’s main arms supplier.
Related:
Dumitru Duduman: Wake Up America
Skousen: U.S. Intentionally Vulnerable to Nuclear Attack from China/Russia
[2-hour audio] Henry Gruver with Steve Quayle: Visions of War – Visions of Heaven
[mp3 audio] Henry Gruver’s Vision of America being invaded by Russia
[47-minute audio] Henry Gruver: Russian Invasion of America
Skousen: U.S. Intentionally Vulnerable to Nuclear Attack from China/Russia
Skousen: Analysis of Strategic Threats in the Current Decade
All of my Joel Skousen posts (10 posts per page; latest appear first)
“Until people understand we’re involved in a spiritual battle being played out on a political battlefield — we got a one party system, and everything else is a fraud — until people understand that, nothing really makes sense today.”
– Dr. Stanley Monteith — Radio Liberty, 10/21/13 Hour 3
“That’s why they’ll round up the Christians at some point, and point the finger at us, because we’re trying to preserve the culture and prevent it from getting sucked down this Hollywood vortex, this ‘Do what thou wilt,’ social Darwinianistic, ‘sin is in’ culture.
And so that’s why Christians are seen as the problem, because we are the last stitches holding the fabric of society together, before the Orwellian, Illuminati plan is able to just unroll without any opposition.”
– Mark Dice
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avMkM8bNoPE]Hollywood Conditioning Youth to Produce A Satanic Society
Published on Oct 26, 2013
Alex is joined via Skype by Activist and video satirist Mark Dice to discuss the mind-blowing videos he produces having people sign petitions to strengthen the Authoritarian police state…”For Obama”. The slow and steady process of the Government degrading the the moral fabric of the youth in America through the use of media and technology.
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Related:
The Red Gate Prophecy — What If I Open It Just a Little Bit? The believers, not the non-believers, have opened the gate to sin, which is why this country has deteriorated — Christians were supposed to be salt and light, holding back the ‘sin is in’ culture, but many ‘Christians’ now have been taught once-saved-always-saved, so they’re in the sin wagon too, and the result is now evident.
From: Francis Anfuso’s Facebook post:
Is it possible to pursue holiness and scholarship at the same time…to expand both your heart and head? Jonathan Edwards did!
He graduated with a master’s degree from Yale when he was just 19. At 17, he said holiness was revealed to him as a ravishing, divine beauty. His heart panted “to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child.”
Intellect and the pursuit of holiness characterized Edward’s entire life. Yet, Edwards insisted that true religion is rooted in receiving affection from God, and then offering our affection in return, not in reason.
Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8, NKJV)
Related:
Cale Judd posted this comment on Francis Anfuso’s Facebook post on Jonathan Edwards:
I believe Edwards was right. Concerning holiness, the 19th century Puritan pastor Thomas Brooks wrote:
O sirs, do not deceive your own souls; holiness is of absolute necessity; without it you shall never see the Lord. (2 Thes i. 8-10)
It is not absolutely necessary that you should be great or rich in the world; but it is absolutely necessary that you should be holy; it is not absolutely necessary that you should enjoy health, strength, friends, liberty, life; but it is absolutely necessary that you should be holy.
A man may see the Lord without worldly prosperity, but he can never see the Lord except he be holy. A man may [go] to heaven, to happiness, without honour or worldly glory, but he can never [go] to heaven, to happiness, without holiness.
Without holiness here, no heaven hereafter. ‘And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth.’ (Rev. xxi. 27)
God will at last shut the gates of glory against every person that is without heart-purity.
Related:
I wrote this fairly long paper while in seminary, 27 pages (if I remember correctly). I had a great desire to investigate as fully as I could what was written about the gift of healing in the three centuries following what was written in the Bible, because the early church fathers directly followed the apostles, who were taught by Christ directly, and I thought they might have some insights as to how the gift of healing works.
This paper, alone, absolutely does prove that the gift of healing did not cease after the apostles left us, but that wasn’t my purpose in writing. And other books have covered this, but not nearly as thoroughly, to my knowledge. I haven’t checked in many years.
I did take a class entirely on Patristics (early church fathers) in seminary, and the professor didn’t once mention any of the miracles written about during that period. I asked him why during class, and he actually admitted he was a cessationist. A couple of other students then also spoke up, questioning why we were taught church history in such a censored way. I wrote this particular paper for another class and professor.
I would have posted this years ago, but the footnoting didn’t carry over into this format, nor did the bolding of many key words and phrases, which helps readability. So none of the footnote numbers are in the text, but the footnotes are listed at the end. Since I may not get around to solving this problem, I thought I’d post it anyway to at least get the material online, in case there is interest, and can help in some way.
God bless! May ‘ONE’ happen (Jesus’ desire for us in John 17:20-26), which I believe will likely include something like this: Sid Roth Interviews John Paul Jackson … Beyond-Asbury, ‘ONE’-Happens, All-Get-Healed REVIVAL!!!!!!!
Jeff Fenske
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“HEALING” — The III Centuries after “The Apostles”
by
Jeff Fenske
Presented to:
Dr. John Woodbridge
Church History I
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
March 6, 1990
© 2013 Jeff Fenske
Healing has been a topic of great interest to me for most of my Christian life. For in 1974, while studying book of Acts (the catalyst of my conversion), it seemed clear to me that the gifts of the spirit that the apostles were practicing were both for then and now, that these gifts had not ceased. Then, in the early ‘80s, when I realized I had a healing need that doctors could not decifer or cure, I spent much time studying, praying, fasting, and even experimenting, in order to understand this subject for my own benefit and others.
One of the topics I desired to study at seminary was spiritual gifts in the church fathers’ writings. While I was doing research for this paper, I discovered that there was no thorough and detailed treatment of this issue in which an author had determined to extrapolate all that could be learned about healing from the church fathers, the writers who had lived during and shortly after the apostles had written the Scriptures.
The goal of my paper became: (1) to find as many texts as I could on this subject from extra-Biblical writings prior to A.D. 400 [I have found additional texts since]; (2) to exclude none of these texts, in order that as much as was possible, a complete representation of these writers’ views on healing would be given; (3) to include as much of the quotes as is practical, giving readers greater access to the source itself, so they can determine for themselves what is being said by any given quote; (4) to bold the print of what I think are highlights of these quotes, in order for readers to more easily and rapidly assimilate what is being stated; (5) to write a detailed analyses of every aspect of healing that I see portrayed in these writings; (6) and to emphasize what seem to be themes that were commonly held by the fathers as significant to healing.
The prophet Joel stated that God would pour out His Spirit in the later times, which process God the Father begun by placing His Holy Spirit on His one and only Son. From that day on, Jesus was thereby equipped to perform many diverse signs and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus later sent His own disciples out, and then the “72,” to do the same works He had been doing— by the power of that same Holy Spirit. Then, upon His departure, He promised to not leave His disciples as “orphans,” but that He would send the Comforter, the Counselor, that same Holy Spirit they had performed miracles by when Jesus Himself was with them. In Acts, especially, these disciples and many other Christians as well performed countless miracles. The frequencies were immense and the effects were staggering. For example:
Acts 2:43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
Acts 6:8 Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs.
Acts 8:6,7 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they all paid close attention to what he said. With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many, and many paralytics and cripples were healed.
Acts 8:13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.
Acts 14:3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to do miraculous signs and wonders.
Acts 15:12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
Acts 19:11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, Acts 19:12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
Acts 28:9 When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.
But the data doesn’t end there. Early Christian literature demonstrates that miracles continued on into the fourth century, although they seem to have subsided greatly in the third and fourth centuries. The so called “church fathers” have left much for us from which we can glean. They report how the martyrs were empowered to die with boldness, how the blind received sight, how the dumb spoke, how those oppressed by demons were delivered, even how the dead were raised. Many of these miracles fit under the category called “healing”— miracles that cause human bodies to recover from various abnormalities and various sicknesses which may even be demon caused. The church fathers often used the term “healing” for all types of sicknesses, as does the Bible. And those who healed these abnormalities had what the Bible calls and what they reiterated— “the gift of healing” and/or the ability to drive out demons. The texts are rich with significant details as to the frequency of these healings, how they occurred, along with their results. Christ’s love was demonstrated in a very tangible way and as a result, many non-believers became believers, and God received much glory! I’ve arranged the following texts in chronological order.
This discussion must have occurred before host Rick Wiles and Dan Reidy knew that the audio played at the beginning of this interview was not said on the House floor, but in the elevator as Dianne was escorted out, as the first video link below shows.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdzlPD3jug]Stenographer Dianne Reidy’s Husband Interviewed
Published on Oct 19, 2013
Dan Reidy the husband of House stenographer Dianne Reidy is interviewed by Trunews regarding her brave message during the debt ceiling vote.
Related:
It’s true. Many charismatics are a bad example, particularly because most pastors now teach once-saved-always-saved (or it’s hard to lose one’s salvation), just like MacArthur. So sin is rampant, and the Holy Spirit hardly appears: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Evil spirits can then manifest and make a mockery of the spiritual gifts.
John MacArthur’s war against the Holy Spirit gifts is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, because he believes all spiritual gifts, including hearing from God ceased in 100 A.D., whereas once-saved-always-saved is the culprit.
Horrible!
Besides teaching the truth about who really are the children of God, the solution is also reconciliation:
Jeff
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From: Charisma
To My Fundamentalist Brother John MacArthur: Grace to You Too
10:00AM EDT 10/23/2013 J. LEE GRADY
Fundamentalist pastor John MacArthur is a gifted preacher, author and lover of Scripture. His Grace to You radio program points countless people to the Bible, and his Master’s Seminary trains hundreds of ministry leaders. He’s a staunch Calvinist….
In John MacArthur’s rigid world, anybody who has sought prayer for healing, claimed a miracle, received a prayer language, prophesied, sensed God speaking to them, felt God’s presence in an emotional way or fallen down on the floor after receiving prayer has already stepped out of the bounds of orthodoxy. … “No other movement has done more damage to the cause of the gospel.”
He doesn’t just write off fringe elements of our movement; he skewers the original founders of Pentecostalism and even goes after Baptist author Henry Blackaby for teaching that God can speak to people today.
MacArthur, who is 74, urges evangelical Christians to engage in a “collective war” to stop the spread of the charismatic movement, which he describes as a “deadly virus,” a “deviant mutation of the truth” and a “Trojan horse”….
MacArthur believes God’s miracle-working power stopped around 100 A.D. He says healing, tongues, prophecy, visions and other supernatural manifestations described in the New Testament don’t work today. MacArthur is particularly irked that charismatics emphasize speaking in tongues (which he calls “gibberish”); he also complains that we have a “perverse obsession with physical health” (in other words, if you get sick, just accept it because God doesn’t heal anymore). But the New Testament doesn’t tell us that heaven flipped a switch and turned off the Spirit’s power. …
Related:
John Calvin Had Servetus Burned at the Stake for Having Doctrinal Differences — His Ashes Cry Out!
From Rick Joyner’s Facebook page
“Repentance is more than requesting forgiveness for our wrongs. Repentance is going back to where we missed the turn and getting back on the right road. It also often includes restitution for the wrongs that have caused injury to others.”
– Rick Joyner
Related:
Charisma Editor: An Asbury-like Spiritual Awakening is the “Only Thing That Will Save Us”
My Dream of ‘ONE’ Happening at Abbott Loop CC!
If we build it He will come:
“Let Us Be ONE” (A Prophecy)
On October 17, I posted: (video) House stenographer Diane Reidy Dragged Off Floor Yelling About Freemasons and God [IN THE ELEVATOR]
The next day, thanks to a comment posted at ToBeFree, I discovered that the audio had been dubbed from what she said in the elevator while being escorted out of the House, and I revised my post.
Here is the latest from Paul Watson. It does seem like she was working with the white haired guy, and it’s possible it was mind-control. But I’m thinking that’s a big stretch here, especially since she is exposing a secret society, the Freemasons.
It would be interesting to hear what she actually said on the House floor.
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Click the YouTube icon to watch at YouTube in full screen HD[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewy3QrztUXo]Bizarre Mind Control Caught on Camera?
Published on Oct 21, 2013
Does bizarre footage from the moments preceding her ‘Freemason’ rant on the House floor suggest Dianne Reidy was a victim of mind control?
A man with white hair appears to give Reidy a nod, causing her demeanor to immediately shift as she enters a trance-like state before walking towards the podium to deliver her rant. A black man sat opposite appears to react to Reidy’s strange behavior. The man then immediately goes to his cellphone to send a text message.
Also learn why we never actually heard Reidy’s actual rant when she was stood in front of the speaker’s podium – the media simply dubbed over her words from when she was being dragged away in a different part of the building.
H/T: Truthstream Media – http://truthstreammedia.com
Related:
(audio) Stenographer Dianne Reidy’s Husband Interviewed — Her ‘Prophecy’ to Congress
From: Bible Gateway
Failure and Success: Godliness Is Not Valued
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day….—2 Timothy 4:7-8
After more than thirty years of observing the religious scene I have been forced to conclude that saintliness and church leadership are not often synonymous….
Were the church a pure and Spirit-filled body, wholly led and directed by spiritual considerations, certainly the purest and the saintliest men and women would be the ones most appreciated and most honored; but the opposite is true. Godliness is no longer valued, except for the very old or the very dead. The saintly souls are forgotten in the whirl of religious activity. The noisy, the self- assertive, the entertaining are sought after and rewarded in every way…. Man: The Dwelling Place of God, 97-99.
“What a sad statement, Lord, that ‘saintliness and church leadership are not often synonymous.’ Again we’re forced to recognize that if we serve You as You want, we may have to wait for recognition. Help me today to focus on ‘holiness of… character’ whether I’m valued by people or not. Amen.”
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A reader wrote me this email recently, and graciously gave me permission to post it: really awesome testimony about praying in tongues to overcome and dream! I said I would without mentioning her name. Thank you very much!
Having prayed in tongues many thousands of hours for 33 years, I believe praying in tongues is mostly about freeing from evil spirits, both the prayer and those prayed for. I explain this in a link below, as well as give biblical proof that most ‘Christians’ today have demons, and share my prophecy about praying in tongues to get free!
One of my teachers in Bible school, Frank G. used to call it “getting the carbon out.” We would often blow the carbon out at the start of his classes, or before Prayer and Praise to be free!
Use your gift, you all, and if you don’t know how, or think you don’t have this personal prayer language gift, there are links below for that too, or write me.
Life in the Son!
jeff : )
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“But you, beloved,
keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit”
– Jude 20
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I’ve been talking to believing friends of mine about speaking in tongues and how powerful it is for spiritual warfare, one friend and I have even started a small group so that those with the gift in the ministry can pray in tongues together. We get together a few times a week and the meetings have been effective and powerful. Every one of the people that have joined the group have expressed how they’re growing into a closer and more intimate relationship with the Father and with Yahushua, and we hear daily testimonies about how the Holy Spirit is dealing with and overcoming sin in the lives of these believers.
Earlier this week, a dear friend of mine even received his gift of speaking in tongues for the very first time. 🙂 We were both very excited, and I encouraged him to use the gift often, as he’s very much in tune with the great need for spiritual warfare.
I know what you mean about ‘Christians’ being empowered by these demonic forces – sometimes the “Sunday morning disconnect” is so great that one can hardly believe that the person saying “I love Jesus” is the same one that dropped the F-bomb yesterday while threatening to cut her nephew’s eyes out for something he did a year ago. True story.
I had an interesting spiritual dream the other night. I dreamed that a friend and I were on an embankment by the side of a great body of water during a storm. As a wave came up and was about to crash over us, I thought to myself, “I guess this is it. I’ll see you in the new city.” I closed my eyes in the dream and expected the next scene to be waking up in New Jerusalem. Instead, I opened my eyes underwater, realized I was still alive and swam up to the surface.
When I reached the surface, I looked up and saw the golden city above me, and Jesus was reaching his arms out for my friend and I, like he was inviting us. My friend started to fly up in the air toward him, I tried to grab his leg but I couldn’t hold on. Then I looked at Jesus and started speaking in tongues, and as I would pray in tongues, I started to fly up toward him too. We eventually made it up to him, and he set us on a high platform overlooking New Jerusalem.
At that point the dream was interrupted by someone calling me in real life, but it left me with a tremendous sense of awe, and I felt very loved and humbled afterwards.
Related:
I’ve finally shared much of what I know about and what can be done through the TREMENDOUS and mostly misunderstood and underused gift of tongues. A reader thankfully put me over the edge : ) This is specifically about how I do it
Can a Christian Have a Demon? Absolutely! Most Have Many!
Nightline: Speaking in tongues medical study PROVES Holy Spirit praying
(video) How to speak in other tongues as the Holy Spirit leads you
(video) How to speak in tongues as the Holy Spirit enables you
Jim Feeney: Why Speak in Tongues? (Is Speaking in Tongues of God? Is It for Today?)
A Gift that Will Set Many Free! (A Death Warrant is Out for Your Souls) — Let Us Be ONE Prophecy, Part 13 of 33
A Gift that Will Set Many Free!
There is another day, a day that will happen if you let it.
I want you to be free, free from anxiety. A death warrant is out for your souls. It will get you if you let it. You must pray.
Many die from unknown causes. They are weak from attacks from the Devil who never gives up—curse after curse—toward My people. Many have given in, unable to walk.
Tongues, I’ve given you the gift of tongues from My heart to you. It is a gift that will set many free if you use it regularly. It is for you to walk holy, set free in forgiveness while you pray.
The two work together. One attacks the Devil, while you release those who have hurt you deeply, wounded your soul.
Pray for them. You can focus; you don’t have to pray in general all the time. I will give you the gift of lifeas you pray.
This is how it works. Believe in your heart you are praying for one another; though, it will come from the Holy Ghost, the words you emit that I give you to speak. Focus on these people, and pray until your tongues cease. I will tell you who to pray for, but this isn’t necessary. You can pray for anyone that way.
Believe in your heart; direct your tongues. I will fill your mouth as you speak and set people free. I will pray perfectly, as you obey, giving your life to others through prayer.
Amazing things will result! Your heart will be glad!
Watch Me do it. Prove My point. Try it now. Focus on someone who needs prayer. Believe in your heart you are praying for them as you speak words from above that fill your mouth. Pray it out, and watch them change, for I will release them from anger and all kinds of oppressions as you pray. You will see it, and it will amaze your intelligence. Many will be set free. Do it now. This is an important point.
And as you pray, forgive, release them from all kinds of cares and bondages. The two work hand in hand. You forgive and I pray through your words that I give you.
This is freedom! Set them free. Do it now; why wait when you can have the chance to move mountains, havean impact on society that many will see and feel. Your heart will be glad. Many will walk holy.
Pray for your elders. Many are not in the ministry to give life. Many are sucking you dry. They need to give up the ghost of unforgiveness and get on the bandwagon of love.
The seal of approval, you all want it. You can have it now. Why wait? You can be in Me as we speak. You can know for sure that you are sons of God, that I am in you and you are in Me. You will feel it. Your heart will be glad, and you will pray.
I will take you to heights unknown. Miracles will take place all around you as you obey. Many will be glad that you took the step of faith to lead. When all looked hopeless, you got up from your seat and prayed.
Pray. Let your heart be glad, and don’t give up. Pray until your tongues stop. This is an amazing gift that has much power to change.
Anyone can pray in tongues. It is a gift for all who obey, all who call on Me for Mercy.
Drink deeply, and let it give you life, freeing you, while you relax and find peace in a home here on earth.
We are together. Let us pray.
Living Examples, Filled to Overflowing Let Us Be ONE Prophecy, Part 15 of 33 excerpt:
It takes two to have fellowship. No more, but more will come. Start meeting two by twos until more follow. Meet once a week, and pray aloud. Strengthen yourselves, and go to the nations. They will see your light and be glad. But first, start at home. Build yourself a base, a core of believers who know Me from the bottom of their heart.
You will see great things happen in your midst, and it will be fun, exciting to watch Me work in you to others. Let them see your light. Let it shine. Let it be bold. Don’t hold back. Live a life of love.
I just wrote and posted this as a comment on a friend’s Facebook page to demonstrate that Jesus’ teachings really are new covenant and do apply to us. Jesus taught new covenant principles while they were still under the law, which the Holy Spirit would remind the disciples of and help them understand. “You have heard that it was said, but I say…” applies to us!
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Unstoppable! Jesus sent the Holy Spirit in part to remind His disciples of what He said to do. They did it and we can too!
I’d like to share a concept regarding what Jesus said about being led by the Holy Spirit that I have never mentioned online, including on my ONEcanhappen blog. And this directly relates to this post on the reliability of the Bible, and whether we should do what the Bible says.
What Jesus says in John 14 also proves that He was speaking timeless, new covenant truths in the gospels, including the sermon on the mount, before the new covenant actually began: when Jesus died and the veil was rent, and the believers received the Holy Spirit during Pentecost.
I’ll capitalize some key points from this John 14 text:
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for HE LIVES WITH YOU, AND WILL BE IN YOU.
18 I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS. I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. ONE WHO LOVES ME WILL BE LOVED BY MY FATHER, AND I WILL LOVE HIM, AND WILL REVEAL MYSELF TO HIM” [similar to what Jesus says in the next chapter, verse 11: “I have spoken these things to you, THAT MY JOY MAY REMAIN IN YOU, AND THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE MADE FULL”]. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you. 26 But THE COUNSELOR, THE HOLY SPIRIT, whom the Father will send in my name, HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND WILL *REMIND YOU OF ALL THAT I SAID* TO YOU.
Lots of cool stuff in here, including being loved by our Father if we keep His commandments, which are the greatest two.
My main point here, though, is: “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will REMIND YOU OF ALL I SAID to you.”
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[Added 3/28/23]
The disciples couldn’t understand Jesus’ teachings while on earth, because they didn’t have the Holy Spirit in them yet to help them understand. In the John 14 text above, Jesus said the Holy Spirit will be our “counselor” who “will teach you (us) all things,” which He further explains in John 16 that it’s better for the disciples that Jesus would go away, because the Holy Spirit will guide them (and us) into all truth.
6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment….
12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
John then experientially says in 1 John 2:
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
In Matthew 18, the great commission, after the crucifixion, Jesus told the disciples to teach people in all nations in the NEW COVENANT “all things that I commanded you” in the OLD COVENANT, because He Jesus taught new covenant principles that they would remember and more thoroughly understand in the new covenant, after they had the Holy Spirit in them to help them understand:
16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. 17 When they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some doubted. 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
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So Jesus was teaching new covenant principles to the children of Israel and the disciples before they had the Holy Spirit in them to even be able to understand the concepts, which he said elsewhere too. But when the Holy Spirit would come, part of His leading them into all truth was to help them remember what Jesus taught while on Earth.
And much of this is what God made sure was carefully preserved, so we could read what was said by Jesus too.
And the Counselor, the Holy Spirit wants to help us understand what Jesus said too, so we can live it out too.
And then the rest of the New Testament, after the gospels, except for perhaps Revelation, is the disciples being led by the Holy Spirit to do the things Jesus taught them to do and more. Because Jesus didn’t teach them everything while on Earth. The Holy Spirit reminded them of what Jesus taught and then gave them further specific revelation of what to do and how to live, much of what also applies to us today.
Pretty cool, huh?
So this is a flat out endorsement of the Gospels being what Jesus wants us to do to, as the Holy Spirit will help us understand them to do even greater works than what Jesus did, what Jesus said followers of Him will do.
Will we be “Oh ye of little faith,” or we will gladly get into our yokes and do what Jesus did — together?!!!
ONE can happen — and we’ll be free — unstoppable!!!!!!!
We can do it together, by His grace : )
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“Those who belong to Christ
have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.”
– Gal. 5:24
Gal. 5:19-6:10
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. …
6:7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
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My Facebook comments to Pastor Joe Schimmel regarding this excellent exposé:
EXCELLENTLY DONE at every level, Joe! And thanks for quoting the entire John 3:16-21 verse; though, most probably won’t understand the latter half because they’ve heard verse 16 by itself so many thousands of times.
The AIDS victim’s testimony is powerful too, sharing how once-saved-always-saved, the greatest deception was his justification.
It’s really helpful too how you carefully opaqued body parts in the sleaziest scenes.
The quotes from her dad are amazing!
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfOH428_p8]Miley Cyrus: Perverted Sex Pusher?
Published on Oct 15, 2013
Miley Cyrus has become one of the most controversial and influential music artists since concluding her time on Disney’s Hanna Montana. She is now influencing her young fans with sexual perversion and drug use through her songs and music videos, not to mention her widely publicized 2013 MTV VMA Music Awards performance. Tragically, many have followed the ex-Disney child star into incredibly vulgar behavior.
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The article Joe references in the video:
Mr. Hannah Montana’s Achy Broken Heart
Pastor Joe Schimmel is the creator of “They Sold Their Souls to Rock ‘n Roll!” — which is also excellent!
And Joe also totally refutes the “once saved, always saved” deception in this important video:
[Video] Joe Schimmel: The Great Deception—Once Saved, Always Saved
Nicole Scherzinger: You Have to Sell Your Soul to the Devil
Kanye West: “I Sold my Soul to the Devil”
(video) They Sold Their Souls: AC/DC — “Hey Satan, paid my dues…. I’m on a highway to hell.” Yeah!
Michael Jackson Exposed: They Sold Their Souls For Rock & Roll
If you sold you soul . . . unsell it! (From my spiritual site ONEcanhappen)
[Video] Joe Schimmel: The Great Deception—Once Saved, Always Saved
Photo: Joe Schimmel at 2004 Radio Liberty Conference — “They Sold their Souls for Rock -N- Roll!”
OOOOPS/CORRECTION 10/17! The audio was from what she said in the elevator, not on the floor. Shimie left this comment under my ToBeFree posting:
“Sorry, OK just so we are clear, the audio dubbed over Diane Reidy when she was at the microphone on the house floor giving her “Praise God” speech is not authentic and does not belong to her moment at the house podium. The audio belongs to a few moments later when she is in the elevator and being removed from the building. http://voices.suntimes.com/early-and-often/sweet/house-stenographer-exclusive-sun-times-video
I thought Diane was wearing a wireless lavaliere mic. I did notice it wasn’t picking up the sound of the hammer, but thought maybe proximity….
I wonder what she did say on the floor.
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I posted this UPDATE on 10/21:
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ro8bQ6Rx-Q]House stenographer Diane Reidy VIDEO Dragged Off Floor Yelling About Freemasons And God bizarre
Published on Oct 17, 2013
House stenographer Diane Reidy VIDEO Dragged Off Floor Yelling About Freemasons And God bizarre outburst “Praise be to GOD!” as Congress voted | House Stenographer Removed from House Floor Yelling About God and Freemasons – VIDEO and AUDIO House stenographer unleashes bizarre outburst as Congress voted on bill to reopen government, settle debt limit
House stenographer unleashes bizarre outburst as Congress voted on bill to reopen government, settle debt limit
Reporters on hand for Wednesday night’s vote captured a ranting woman — said to be House stenographer Diane Reidy — yelling on the House floor about Freemasons and God.
quote the House Stenographer: “He will not be mocked. He will not be mocked. Don’t touch me. He will not be mocked,” the stenographer shouted as she was taken away by U.S. Capitol Police. “The greatest deception here is not ‘one nation under God.’ It never was. Had it been, it would not have been.” She continued, “The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons. They go against God.” “You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to God, Lord Jesus Christ.”
In this image from House Television, with partial voting totals on the screen, a woman, at the rostrum just below the House presiding officer, seen between the “yea” and “nay” in a white shirt, is removed from the chamber after she began shouting.
The shutdown of the government shutdown sent one woman into meltdown mode.
The ranting woman, reportedly a House stenographer, unleashed a bizarre tirade Wednesday night — just as the chamber hurriedly voted to pass a bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
Security officers quickly escorted her out of the House chamber following the outburst — which invoked God and the Freemasons.
“He will not be mocked! He will not be mocked!” the woman raved as she stepped onto the dais and took over the microphone on the House floor.
“Don’t touch me!” she cried as the officers started to pull her away by the arms.
“This is not one nation under God. It never was,” she said. “Had it been … the Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons, they go against God.”
Of the 39 men who signed the Constitution, 13 were reportedly Freemasons.
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“You cannot serve two masters!” she finished, leaving members and staffers stunned.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said the stenographer is a familiar and liked figure in the House, The Washington Post reported.
The bizarre speech came as Congress passed an eleventh-hour deal to avert a disastrous default by the U.S. government on its debts.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/polit…
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From: My Utmost for His Highest
“If you obey God in the first thing He shows you, then He instantly opens up the next truth to you. You could read volumes on the work of the Holy Spirit, when five minutes of total, uncompromising obedience would make things as clear as sunlight. Don’t say, “I suppose I will understand these things someday!” You can understand them now. And it is not study that brings understanding to you, but obedience. Even the smallest bit of obedience opens heaven….”
– Oswald Chambers
From: Steve Hill
Keep the Sky Clear
Hannah Whitall Smith beautifully portrays to us the secret of growing in God.
What we all need is to “consider the flowers of the field,” and learn their secret. Grow, by all means, dear Christians; but grow, in God’s way, which is the only effectual way. See to it that you are planted in grace, and then let the divine Husbandman cultivate you in His own way and by His own means. Put yourselves out in the sunshine of His presence, and let the dew of heaven come down upon you, and see the result. Leaves and flowers and fruit must surely come in their season; for your Husbandman is skillful, and He never fails in His harvesting.
Only see to it that you oppose no hindrance to the shining of the Sun of righteousness, or the falling of the dew from heaven. The thinnest covering may serve to keep off the sunshine and the dew, and the plant may wither, even where these are most abundant. And so also the slightest barrier between your soul and Christ may cause you to dwindle and fade, as a plant in a cellar or under a bushel. Keep the sky clear. Open wide every avenue of your being to receive the blessed influences your divine Husbandman may bring to bear upon you. Bask in the sunshine of His love. Drink of the waters of His goodness. Keep your face upturned to Him, as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow.
From: Steve Hill
“I was in love with Jesus, but sin crept into my heart. When the sin came in, the presence of God left. I got angry at God because He was gone.” The man was very thankful that when he got the sin out, he could once again feel the presence of the Lord.
From: Jesus-is-Savior.com
Is It Right: To Judge, To Expose Error, & To Name Names?
By Pastor E.L. Bynum
Many today believe that it is wrong to expose error and to name names. Liberals have always seemed to believe this, but in recent times it has been widely espoused by evangelicals and Charismatics. Now we are seeing the same fatal error being declared by those who profess to be Bible believing fundamentalists. Those who are faithful in exposing error according to the Bible are now being widely denounced, and are accused of being unloving and unkind. In this tract we intend to present the teaching of the Bible on this vital subject.
I. It Is Right To Practice Biblical Judgment
One of the most misused verses in the Bible is, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1). Every Scripture verse should be read in its context, if we are to properly understand the true meaning. In vs. 2-5 of this same chapter it is evident that v.1 is referring to hypocritical judgment. A brother who has a beam in his own eye should not be judging the brother who may have a mote in his eye. The lesson is plain, you cannot judge another for his sin if you are guilty of the same sin.
Those who cling to “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” to condemn those who expose error should read the entire chapter. Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing…” (v.15). How can we know false prophets unless we judge them by the Word of God? If we know the false prophets, how can we fail to warn the sheep of these “ravening wolves?” All through the Bible we find proof that they should be identified and exposed.
“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit” (vs.16,17). Did the Lord mean that we could not judge the tree (person), by the fruit of their life and doctrine? Certainly not, for you cannot know without judging. All judgment should be on the basis of Bible teaching, not according to whims or prejudices.
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” (John 7:24). Here our Lord commands that we are to “judge righteous judgment,” which is judgment based upon the Word of God. …
II. It Is Right To Expose False Teachers
False teachers are free to spread their poisonous doctrines today because there is a conspiracy of silence among many Bible believers. Wolves in sheep’s clothing are thus enabled to ravage the flock, thereby destroying many.
John the Baptist called the Pharisees and Sadducees (the religious leaders of his day) “a generation of vipers” (snakes) (Matthew 3:7). Today, he would be accused of being unloving, unkind, and unchristian. …
Standing face to face with these false teachers, Jesus Christ the son of God, called them “hypocrites,” “blind guides,” “blind,” “whited sepulchres,” “serpents,” and “ye generation of vipers” (Matthew 23:23-34). …
The Bible Admonishes Us To Expose Error
We are to TRY them. “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1st John 4:1). All doctrine and teachers are to be tried according to the Word of God. …
We are to MARK them and AVOID them. “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17). …
We are to REBUKE them. “Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith” (Titus 1:13). …
III. It is Right To Name Names
Many mistakenly believe that it is wrong to expose error and to name the guilty teachers; but they are wrong according to the Bible.
Paul named Peter publicly. …
Paul named Demas for loving the world. …
Paul named Hymenaeus and Alexander. Paul told Timothy to “war a good warfare; Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Of whom is Hymenaesus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme” (1st Timothy 1:18-20). …
Paul named Hymenaeus and Philetus. He told Timothy to “study” that he might be able to “rightly” divide “the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker….
Paul named Alexander the coppersmith. “Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words” (2nd Timothy 4:14-15). It is clear that this is not a personality problem, but a doctrinal problem. Alexander had withstood the words and doctrine of Paul. …
John named Diotrephes. …
In fact, the whole Bible abounds in examples of false prophets being named and exposed. All this modern day talk about love, used as an excuse for not exposing error, is not really biblical love but is really sloppy agape. …
Jude exposed “the error of Balaam” (Jude 11). John exposed “the doctrine of Balaam….
It seems to be believed by many that some people are too high and mighty to be named or exposed. Men in high places, pastors of large churches, and those with great radio of TV audiences, are supposedly above criticism. Whatever they may do or say, no matter how contrary to the Bible it may be, is supposedly all right. Nothing could be further from the truth. …
Yes, it is right to expose error and to name those who are in error. It is right to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3). It was once delivered and it has never been recalled for revision. We had better beware of “false teacher…who privily shall bring in damnable heresies” (2nd Peter 2:1). Faithful messengers will warn the sheep of these heretics, and identify them by name. It is not enough to broadly hint of their identity, for the young lambs will not understand and will be destroyed by the wolves.
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