A SAD TIME

   For me, this is a sad time in the history of the United States.
   We knew hurricane Sandy was coming to America, and we also knew that a perfect storm was in the making for the northeastern states.  Perhaps none of us knew, or thought, that the storm would be as bad as it was predicted to be.  All of us were wrong, for it was far worse than we could imagine, or anticipate because the United States has never had a storm as severe as hurricane Sandy. 
   And now the lives of millions of people have been upended, disrupted, and displaced in a matter of hours.
   Thousands and thousands of homes have either been damaged or destroyed as well as personal possessions:  clothes, furniture, appliances, keepsakes, family heirlooms, baby pictures, cars, and trucks, and important documents such as insurance policies and birth certificates.
   Superstorm Sandy also produced a nightmare for insurance companies and claims to individuals, families, and companies.  Restoration, reconstruction, and rebuilding of houses, apartments, and condos across several states will take a long time. 
   Millions of people are now displaced:  living somewhere that is not home:  with friends or families, or in shelters.  Those who owned vehicles could have evacuted, and many did, yet thousands and thousands of others do not own personal vehicles because they have always relied on public transportation, such as busses or commuter trains. 
   Children can not go to school until schools are repaired, or rebuilt, and are safe.
   Many companies were also destroyed by the storm, and, with the loss of companies, there is also the loss of jobs for thousands and thousands of people, for it will take a long time for companies to rebuild and get back online.  Needless to say, unemployment rolls will skyrocket. 
   For people able to relocate to other states, where are they going to get jobs when many jobs are unavailable all across the United States? 
   In addition to all of the above, winter months are ahead.  The cold weather, with ice and snow, will impede repairs and reconstruction, plus the possibility of freezing water from flooding.
   On top of all obstacles for recovery, there is the probability of an invasion of millions of rats to unoccupied homes and businesses and especially within New York City's subway tunnels.  Rats carry contagious diseases, and rats survive and multiply in the darkness of filth and garbage.  Food left behind in houses, apartments, and condos will, indeed, be attractive for rats and mice.  Thus, the possibility of plagues could be in the near future. 
   For more than fifty million Americans, from North Carolina to Canada, these are their darkest days.  If you believe in praying for others, now would be a good time.  They need hope.  They need light for tomorrow. 

LAST CALL

      Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:  and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.  Amen.  (Matthew 28: 19, 20)

   And after the Day of Pentecost, the apostles and disciples began to do a work that no generation had ever been commanded before:  go tell the world about God. 
   This would not be an easy task, for the people of the world lived in spiritual darkness:  they did not have the knowledge of God.  People all over the world did not know about God, nor had they ever heard of Him before. 
   Think about the difficulty Christians had at that time.  Speaking for Jesus was not popular, for the Lord had been crucified by evil people just over a month earlier, and, who would believe their report?   
   And even before they could leave Jerusalem, they were persecuted, jailed, and Stephen became the first martyr for Christ.  Think about being stoned by an angry mod.  Think about feeling and hearing your bones crush by men pounding you with rocks.  That is what Stephen experienced for talking about Jesus.
   Neither was the commission by Christ to the disciples and apostles allowed within the Roman Empire.  So now, not only did Christians have angry Jews harrassing them, but they would also face Roman soldiers for centuries to come as well as the wrath of the caesars and popes of Rome. 
   Thus, the disciples and apostles of Christ departed Jerusalem to take the Good News of Jesus that would eventually reach seven continents.  What an enormous responsibility did the Lord give to them!  
   The followers of Christ were not wealthy people.  They did not have much education.   Perhaps many could neither read nor write.  Neither did they possess wardrobes of clothes, nor extra shoes, nor even backpacks.  They had no Bibles, no brochures, no pamplets, no CDs, and no DVDs.  All they had was the love of God in their hearts, and off they went---knowing that they would face great peril and danger. 
   And they also knew that they would likely die, for hundreds and thousands of Christians have been beheaded for their faith in Christ Jesus. 
   In every direction the Christians went from Jerusalem, they faced opposition.  They faced people whose minds were full of pagan religions, pagan gods and goddesses.  They talked with people who worshipped gods of the moon, sun, and stars, as well as people who worshipped things of the earth, including animals, birds, and fish.  They met people who worshipped graven images, made with their own hands, and they also met people who worshipped dead people. 
   As strange as this may sound, Christians today meet people who are no different than people the disciples and apostles met 2000 years ago and for all of the years since the time of Christ on earth.  Even today, people of the earth have pagan religions, pagan gods and goddesses, gods of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and gods of the things of this earth, such as animals, fish, and birds, and also people who worship idols and graven images, including the worship of dead people and even to give diety to dead people and pray to them as if they are gods. 
   People of the world today do not want Christians to talk about Jesus Christ---yet millions of people are comfortable with the baby Jesus story of Christmas, Santa Claus, and the bunny rabbit of Easter. 
   Stranger than this is the fact that many people who are members of Christian churches and Christian religions do not like to talk about Jesus, even in the presence of Christians!
   So then, do you believe God is pleased with the behaviour and unbelief of people over the past 6000 years?
   No!
   We have exhausted God's patience and now we are beginning to witness the wrath of God's anger upon the earth, for God is beginning His judgments of the earth, and God will soon close the book on human history. 
   In so doing, the Lord is sending His last call to people to believe in His only begotten Son and to turn from their wicked ways.  For now the door of the ark is still open.
      For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but will have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3: 16, 17)
     

BRACE YOURSELF

   The events we are watching on television and on the internet, with the destruction of the northeastern states of the United States, is just the beginning of a time of pain and great sorrow, for God will bring the world to its knees.
   God has had enough of man's arrogance and man's wickedness.
   God has had enough of hearing His holy name cursed, and He has also had enough of hearing the name of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, cursed.
   God has had enough of the evil that man has created upon the earth, He has had enough of man's religions and idols and images, and God has had enough of man's worship of creation instead of worshipping the Creator. 
   Hurricane Sandy is a warning to New York City, to the United Nations, to the United States, and to the whole world.
   What will happen, however, is that the people will put Humpty Dumpty back together again.  New York City will be reconstructed, rebuilt, repainted, and recover.  Life will resume as if hurricane Sandy was no more than a speedbump, an interruption of the arrogance of man, and wickedness will continue. 
   Brace yourself. 
   God's next visit to New York City will not be another warning:
      Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire:  for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.  (Revelation 18: 8)

AN IMAGINARY WORLD

   As we have shared with you before, all religions of the world are creations out of the imaginations of people; therefore, all of the dogmas, doctrines, disciplines, laws, rules, and regulations are also created out of the imaginations of people. 
   If you consider yourself to be a religious person, or, if you have accepted, or inherited, a religion, your mind has accepted those beliefs, which are out of the imaginations of other people.  Your mind is now a prisoner because you are not allowed to think or act outside the walls of your prison.
   As a safeguard, your wardens have built in your mind the element of fear:  you will fear your masters, but you will also fear that the gods of your religion will be unhappy with you, or, that they will punish you for even considering looking the other way, or looking at something that could lead you astray.
   As such, you are living:  in an imaginary world. 
   Religion is a spiritual trap.  It is a snare to trick and trap people and to hold them captive---as prisoners---until the day they die, for religion is designed to block your mind from knowing God.
   Please remember:  God is not in man's religions.  For none of religions' ways are God's ways.  God cannot be contained, and God is not on a leash. 
   Neither can the salvation of God be bought with a price---not with money, and certainly not with your possessions, such as the title of your home when you die.  For God does not need your money, and God does not want your house. 
   To know God, then you must change your mind about religion.  You must come out of your religion, for God is not coming in your religion for you.  For God will not contaminate His holiness with the sin of religious idols and graven images, the works of the imaginations of people.
   By coming out of religion, you are standing up and thinking for yourself, which you must do in order to know God for the first time in your life. 
      For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  (John 3: 16)

THE SIGNS OF TROUBLE

   And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for (first) signs, and for (second) seasons, and (third) for days, and years; (Genesis 1: 14)
   Jesus said,  And there will be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Mens hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:  for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.  (Luke 21: 25, 26)

   Throughout human history, God has used Halley's Comet as a signal to announce the coming of times of trouble upon the earth.  Astronomers tell us that Halley's Comet was visible:
   before the Great Flood of Noah;
   In 70 A.D. with Rome's destruction of Jerusalem;
   In 1910, two years before the Titanic and four years before the beginning of World War I;
   In 1986-87, four years before President George Herbert Walker's announcement of the New World Order as well as four years before the Gulf War;
   In 1997, four years before September 11, 2001 with the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City;
   In mid-October, 2112, Halley's Comet arrived less than two weeks before the pending perfect storm for the northeastern states of the United States, and, since last night, there have been 50 earthquakes for Queen Charlotte Islands off the Pacific coast of Canada, including a 7.7 shaker with a tsunami warning for Hawaii.  Fifty earthquakes in less than 24 hours.
   Queen Charlotte Islands and Charlotte, North Carolina (the Queen City) are named for Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, the wife of King George III and the great-great-great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, the current Queen of the United Kingdom. 
   Queen Elizabeth II, by the way, is the world's wealthiest person.  Queen of the United Kingdom,  but she is also sovereign over 33 states and territories, and the owner of 6,600 million acres of real estate, which are worth $33 billion.  She also owns Canada. 
   Charlotte, N.C., was the host city for the Democratic National Convention, in August 2012, at which time the DNC embraced the Moslem Brotherhood.
   A week before the DNC, the Republican National Convention was held in Tampa, Florida, at which time Hurricane Isaac made landfall in New Orleans. 
   Is God trying to get our attention in order to reveal His displeasure with the United States, Canada, and Great Britain? 
   Thus we have two Charlottes.  Two News (New Orleans and New York City).  Three nations (the U.S., Canada, Great Britain).  Hurricane Isaac.  Halley's Comet.  Hurricane Sandy.  And a perfect storm for the northeast USA, which could possibly produce the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States.
   Thus, when we see SIGNS in the sun (solar flares), SIGNS in the stars (asteroids, comets), and SIGNS in the moon (alignments with planets), we can be assured that God is signaling a warning that His judgments are coming upon the earth, in the form of:  earthquakes, famine, pestilence, drought, disease, typhoons, and hurricanes, which produce distress of nations, with perplexity, which will happen this week with the perfect storm in the United States. 
   Could Halley's Comet indicate more troubled days ahead?
   Sure.
   Watch for the signs.
  
  
  


  
  

A MAJOR CATASTROPHE

   If the weather experts are correct and if the perfect storm hits the northeast states next week, not only are we looking at a potential perfect storm, but we could also be looking at a potential major catastrophe:  if the electrical power grids of the northeast states suffer major hits, millions of people will be out of electrical power for at least a week and possibly even longer.
   To begin, New York City is the financial capital of the world, and if the New York Stock Exchange and financial institutions can not function because of the lack of electricity, not only will the economy of the United States feel the impact, but the global economy will also suffer.
   With no electricty for the northeast, schools will close, businesses will close, and people will not be able to work for a week or longer. 
   Along the coast, the shipping industry will either shut down, or suffer setbacks with imports-exports.  Ships could be stuck in harbors, unable to deliver their goods and not wanting to leave with empty vessels. 
   Homes will be without electricity, and elevators in high-rise apartments and condos will not operate, forcing people to walk flights of stairs as well as be confined in their homes with no electrical power, which also means perhaps a week without heat, or perhaps even longer. 
   With no electricity, banks and ATMs will close, which means checks will not be depositied or cashed, no electronic transfers, and no cash dispensed from ATMs.
   Supermarkets will shut down, gasoline stations will close, and mass transit systems, such as subways, will not operate; and, except for emergency flights, airports and the airline industry will either close or operate at a minimum.
   In addition to electrical outages, the storm will produce flooding that will also impact millions of people, homes, businesses, roads, and bridges. 
   Thus we have a lack of electricity, flooding, and also very cold temperatures. 
   There is always the high probability of massive looting, thefts, and robberies. 
   Cell phones and personal computers will not be in operation, either. 
   And how will this storm impact fresh water supplies?  What will people do with no available cash, with food supplies running low, and unable to buy gasoline for vehicles and generators?
   Overall, this storm could be the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States. 
   Remember the Executive Orders President Obama signed last March that grant him the power to declare peacetime Martial Law in the event of national security or a natural disaster?  Could this perfect storm be the platform on which he will do that?  I am not saying he will; neither am I saying that he will not.
   When you pray, however, please remember that there is more to this perfect storm possibility than high winds, rain, snow, and cold temperatures.  It could be a major catastrophe, for it will take months or possibly years for the northeastern states to recover, which also means it could take our nation months or possibly years to recover---especially when we factor the financial losses in addition to the physical damages. 

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE

     Here is wisdom.  Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:  for it is the number for a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.  (Revelation 13: 18)

    I.  Inside the United Nations in New York City is a series of seats, representing the most powerful people within the U.N.  These seats are numbered, 660-672, and each seat presently has an occupant:  except for seat number 666.  This seat has never been occupied, but it will be occupied at a later date.  And the number of this seat, which is 666, is the number for a man.

  II.  Inside the European Union Parliament is a series of seats, representing the most powerful people inside the European Union.  These seats are numbered 660-672 and each seat presently has an occupant:  except for seat number 666.  This seat has never been occupied, but it will be occupied at a later day.  And the number of this seat, 666, is the number for a man.

III.  Inside the Vatican of Rome, the Pope is the most powerful person of the Roman Catholic Church.  The Pope's title, in Latin, is Vicarius Filii Dei, which means Vicar of Jesus Christ Son of God.  This Latin title, Vicarius Filii Dei, in Latin numerics equals 666, which is the number for a man. 

   For more than two hundred years, the Vatican of Rome, the United States, and European nations have been working together in a cloak of secrecy to produce a New World Order, which is a one world government, which will be a global dictatorship, and they have been working to draw all governments together as one as well as working to bring all religions of the world together as one in order to produce a one world religious-political government. 
   In the future, the United Nations will become the global government as nations within the U.N. surrender the sovereignty of their nations to the leadership of the U.N.  This also means that the United States will surrender its sovereignty to the United Nations.  In total, this marriage of nations will likely come together in secrecy, which also means that the surrender of the United States to the U.N. will most likely be accomplished in secrecy, such as a secret treaty.  When this union of nations is complete, then watch for a person to take seat number 666 in the United Nations.
   Moreover, the Pope of the Catholic Church (as well as the whole line of popes) is the same as Nimrod at the tower of Babel, which is written in the 11th chapter of the book of Genesis.  The Pope is considered a god-man, just like Nimrod, and the Pope is worshipped as God or as Jesus Christ, and he is called the Holy Father, yet there is nothing holy about the Pope.  Pope Benedict is in favor of the New World Order, and he is also in favor of the false messiah, who is Antichrist.  Pope Benedict has also stated that the Catholic Church and Islam will merge and thereby create a new religion, which the Pope has named Catholicislam. 
   Furthermore, in the European Union, be watchful about a man by the name of Francisco Javier Solana de Maderiaga, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, who is the most powerful person in the E.U.  Javier Solana is working to promote peace treaties among nations, and he wrote "Recommendation 666" which states that the Western European Union will be the "military muscle" of the European Union.  Solana is fluent in Spanish, French, and English. 
   In the near future, Israel will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, at which time Antichrist (666) will go there, sit down in the temple, and declare himself to be:  Almighty God.  This is the obomination of desecration spoken by Daniel the prophet (Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11).
   Antichrist will demand global worship, he will produce the greatest time of death to people around the world, and he will also produce the greatest time of persecution and death to Christians in the history of the Christian era since the time of Christ on earth. 
   In the 17th and 18th chapters of the book of Revelation, we are told that Antichrist will also destroy New York City as well as Rome, for he will have no more use of these two Babylons:  for Jerusalem, to him, will be the capital city of the world. 
   At the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which is at the end of the seven-year tribulation, the Lord will destroy Antichrist, who is Satan, and the the Lord will also destroy the temple in Jerusalem.
   At that time, human history on planet earth will come to an end and eternity will begin. 
   That day, too, will be Judgment Day, and Christ will judge people at the great white throne of the 20th chapter of the book of Revelation:  some to everlasting life with Him, and some to everlasting death, which is hell.  Without Christ, this is the day to be feared. 
   In conclusion, the United Nations, the European Union, and the Vatican is an unholy alliance, for their plan, working together, is to produce evil:  for nothing good will come out of this union. 
   Christ is the Good News to all of mankind, which the Lord has always been: 
      For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  (Romans 10: 13)
  

FIREWALLS

   The human brain operates like a computer:  data in:  data out.
   A person's brain can be educated to believe whatever data the educators have downloaded into the brain, after which the person will live, act, and behave according to the information. 
   A person's brain can be manipulated, controlled, changed, altered, tweeked and tweeted, and fine tuned like a musical instrument, or even as a robot, thus producing robotic behaviour as well as robotic thinking, and the person will do no more and no less than the program that has been downloaded by human programmers. 
    A computer can be equipped with a firewall that prevents or rejects unwanted data from entering the system, and that information is automatically ejected because it is not compatible with the program. 
    Likewise, a person's brain can be downloaded with a firewall that prevents incoming data from contaminating the system of the existing program, and the person's thinking and behavior will proceed as normal and without interruption.   
    Governments and religions are masters of mind control.  They can build minds that will do exactly as they have been programmed, and, within the programs, is another program that resists other information from entering therein:  to safeguard the minds from outside contamination. 
   Knowing this, a person's mind can be educated with lies and the person believes everything that is in his or her mind as truth because they have been taught to believe in the people as authorities over their lives, which includes their future, and which also includes their future beyond death. 
   Governments and religions are masters of mind control, and they are also masters of lies.  They can build lies in the minds of people and people will believe those lies as truth because they have been controlled to believe every word that has been implanted in their minds.  Thereafter, the firewalls in their minds reject truth because their minds do not accept outside data.  Their behaviour is now robotic because their thinking is also robotic; for now it is virtually impossible for them to think for themselves, which means they will likely never know the truth. 
    Of course, governments and religion do not want people to think for themselves, or to make independent decisions:  their decisions are made for them.  They have been trained to take questions to their masters and their masters will sort truth from lies for them:  they are not to think for themselves.  They can also be taught to believe that even their leaders:  are gods.
   Therefore, people under mind control have no lives of their own.  They have no independence.  Their choices have been made for them.  They have been trained to resist outside information.
   For example, religious mind control teaching techniques for toddlers is the same program for adults of all ages; thus, people of religion remain as toddlers until the day they die because the program never changes.  Converts return to their institutions, just like robots, for their continuing education, but also to receive their rewards for good behaviour.  They participate in rites and rituals in a precise order of worship, which never changes.  After which they get in line to receive their wafer or piece of bread, along with a sip of beverage, such as wine or juice, and this order never changes.  They bow their heads, fold their hands together, and they believe that their system is the only way to heaven, or paradise, or the great beyond.  People who do not believe in their way are considered to be infidels, and, obviously, they are trained not to have religious conversations with infidels because the infidels will try to convert them to go the wrong way, or to believe in another system which is, to them, a false system.
   Outside of their religious institutions, they are very pious and they can also be very proud.  They think of themselves as special.  They believe that their way is the only way, and if you do not believe in their way, then that is simply tough or too bad.  They do no like to engage in religious conversations or debates.  They do not like to hear about the Bible because they have been trained not to read the Bible, or that only the spiritual elite are authorized to read the Bible and to interpret the Bible for them.  Remember, they are toddlers, and, as toddlers, they are submissive to their adults.  Many call themselves Christians, yet they do not like to talk about Christ.  They say they pray, but they do not like to talk about God.  Topics about Christ, about God, or about the Bible are "off the table".  If these subjects should arise, they will either go stone silent, or they will change the subject, because they are not permitted to have engaging conversations with infidels. 
   Firewalls work.  Religions and governments have many converts, which are herds of sheeples:  people who believe all of the words from their religions and governments at face value, and they will not believe in anything else.  They never doubt their religious and political leaders, they never question their authorites, and they are moving in the same direction:  which is precisely the direction their authorities want them to go. 
   Therefore, because of the effectiveness of firewalls, governments and religions have converted people to sheeples and the sheeples are going in the same direction, which is the way that leads to the acceptance of the New World Order as well as to the acceptance of the false messiah, who is Antichrist. 
   My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:  seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.  (Hosea 4: 6)

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY

   Up until and even after the Protestant Reformation, Satan's attack on Christians was above ground as Christians were persecuted and murdered since the Day of Pentecost.  Suddenly, however, something happened to this visible attack against Christians and the cause of Christ:  Satan took his warfare underground as evil people created more and more secret societies. 
  Thus, instead of attacking Christians in the light of day, evil workers developed a plan to sabotage Christian churches from the inside as secret societies began to educate men to become ministers and preachers and to operate as double agents.
   So then, as freedom of religion was granted to citizens of the United States, and, with this freedom, Christians could build more churches.  Not only would this open the door for more and more false prophets to infiltrate more and more churches, but this building program would also allow them the opportunity to influence false doctrines as well as to get their dirty hands on the money! 
   In the New Testament, Jesus warned us about a conspiracy, He warned us about false prophets, and He warned us with His own woes to the scribes and Pharisees, who were members of an occultic, secret society.  Thus, all future secret societies that evil people have created are also occultic.  For at the center of all secret societies in the world is also a secret, underground religion, which is Satanism.
   Not only have these evil workers infiltrated Christian churches, but they have also infiltrated any and all other institutions that people have created:  religions, governments, business, finance, banking, education, military establishments, the entertainment world of movies, music, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, internet, satellites, and telephone communications. 
   Today, people of secret societies and all of their evil co-workers number in the millions of people, in the United States and all over the world, working together for the purpose to bring down nations, to unite the world in a global government, to unite all religions in one worldwide religion, and to prepare the world for the arrival of their messiah, who will rule the earth over all people, nations, and tongues as a global dictator---while leading people to believe that the New World Order will be a world of peace.
   Not only will this system control the world, but their purpose beyond this is to erase the knowledge of God from all people and to evict Christ from churches as well as from the minds of people.
   These evil workers out of occultic, secret societies have created a worldwide web of deception that is so great that no generation has ever witnessed before.  They have done it in slow and in subtle ways that people of the world never noticed, never saw it coming, and here we are:  standing on the edge of history in the making, in front of our eyes, while most people of the earth are fast asleep. 
   In the future, people are going to be shocked and stunned at coming events that will happen upon the earth.  As Jesus said, Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:  for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.  (Luke 21:  26, 27)
   In the future, our days ahead are going to be full of trouble.  If God allows us to live longer, we will witness events that no previous generation has ever seen. 
   Know, too, that the workings out of secret societies is not over.  They will continue their evil ways to deceive us even more.  Watch for them to make contracts or treaties that will be inked in secrecy---and we will not know about changes until a later time.  For the day will come when the United Nations will suddenly become a global government, the United Nations will become the head of all governments, which also means that the military might of the United States and other nations will be under the leadership of the United Nations, and citizens of the United States and citizens of every nation will then be citizens of the world.
   Secrecy is the harbor of evil and evil is hatched in secrecy; therefore, we can be assured that members of secret societies have found harbors in which to hide within Christian churches, within Christianity in total, but also in all religions all over the world for the express purpose of bringing down the cause of Christ as well as to usher their false messiah, Antichrist, when the Jewish temple in Jerusalem is rebuilt.  That day is quickly approaching.
  Now, as well as for the future, we must keep our faith in God and not let go of His unchanging love; for if He helps in good times, He will also be with us in times of pain and great sorrow.  Like Jesus said, For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  (Matthew 24: 21)
   Above all else, we can be assured that secret societies are producing a monster of evil:  and that monster will be Satan himself, clothed in a human body. 
   If you are a born again believer in Christ today, be thankful.  For God will give us the grace we will need to help us in the future. 
   The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.  Amen.  (Revelation 22: 21)
  

HIDDEN TRUTH

   When Jesus said Beware of false prophets, this is a warning from the Lord that we should pay attention to His words.
   Please know that deceivers are not dumb and stupid people.  They are not.  They are usually highly educated people, persuasive speakers, cunning, sly, sneaky, and with sharp minds and tongues.  They are apt to teach, apt to preach, and they are also skilled in writing convincing papers, teaching manuals, and books.  And above all of their characteristics, they are evil people:  their minds are trained from the teachings of darkness, not light. 
   Their purpose is to deceive people from knowing God, from knowing Christ, and to assist in the destruction of Christian churches as well as to lead Christians away from God's Word and thereby to lead people to accept false doctrines as truth.  They work in slow and in subtle ways to subvert the truth of the Holy Bible. 
   Today, these deceivers are in many churches across the United States as well as in churches in other nations.  They are also in Bible colleges and theological seminaries, working to deceive the minds of future teachers, ministers, pastors, and evangelists, and they also operate in Christian music as singers, musicians, and writers of songs. 
   If you, for example, belong to a church or religion that forbids you from the reading the Holy Bible, why does your church or religion do this?  Why is the Bible the only book on your reading list that is forbidden?  And why would your church or religion consider it a sin, or a violation of religious law, for you to read the Bible?
   The answer is simple:  to deceive you from knowing truth.  To deceive you from gaining the knowledge of God and to deceive you from knowing the truth of Christ.  Whereas, if you read the Bible and learn of Christ, you can be saved from your sins through Him, which means you will come out of your religion, and therefore your religion would lose a convert.  For the purpose of false churches and religion is to capture souls for Satan.  This is the truth. 
   False churches and religions are traps.  They are snares.  They are coffins.  For as long as you remain in your religion, and not knowing the truth of God from the Holy Bible, you will remain there and die there:  after which Satan gets your soul.
   The leadership of false churches and religions are liars and deceivers.  They work to persuade people to look with their eyes, to hear with their ears, and as long as they can keep people believing in everything that looks good and sounds good, that looks holy and sounds holy, they keep people trapped.  They teach and preach false doctrines, which have been created out of their own imaginations.
   For it is written, Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exaleth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (II Corinthians 10: 5)
   False doctrines are out of the imaginations of people that work against the knowledge of God and blind people from knowing the truth of Christ. 
  False doctrines are from false prophets, for God does not forbid people from reading the Holy Bible.  For God wants His truth known and not hidden.
  Amen.
  

TRUTH REVEALED

   Five days ago, I submitted an article, A FALSE DOCTRINE, which is the belief in a pretribulation rapture, and today I want to provide information to amplify the evidence of this lie.
   John Nelson Darby, an Anglo-Irish evangelist, introduced his secret rapture theory in 1827, which also includes the idea that there would be not one but two Second Comings of Jesus Christ.  Between 1830 and to the early 1900s, this idea began to grow as prominent ministers began to teach and preach Darby's concept as if it were truth.
   In 1909, C. I. Scofield published the Scofield Reference Bible and he added Darby's teaching to footnotes as if they were truth.  As the Scofield Reference Bible grew in popularity, so did Darby's idea of a secret rapture theory.  Teaching and preaching the rapture theory increased in churches, and then the theory was added to studies in Bible colleges and seminaries.  More books and teaching guides were written and distributed, and movies have been made about this secret vanishing of Christian believers prior to the beginning of the tribulation. 
   Scofield also believed that the Lord's prayer of the New Testament is a Jewish prayer and should not be recited by Christians.
   Today, millions of Christians are believers of the secret rapture theory, and, hopefully, God will lead them to learn the truth.
   To be honest with you, I was shocked and stunned to learn of this truth, for I, too, believed in the rapture for more than thirty years.  A few days ago, however, the Lord prompted me to take a closer look at this rapture idea, out of which He led me to see the truth:  and it is in the Word of the Lord, the Holy Bible, where I learned this truth. 
   When in doubt, go to the Word of the Lord and you, too, will learn truth.
   For Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15)
   Amen.

A FALLING AWAY

   Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.  Let no man deceive you by any means:  for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.  (II Thessalonians 2: 1-4)

   The return of Jesus Christ will be proceeded by two events:
      1.  a falling away from Christ;
      2.  the appearance of Antichrist.

   First, Christian churches across America have been falling like dominos because of the false doctrines by false prophets within Christian churches.  More churches will yet fall because of the continuance of false doctrines by false prophets within Christian churches.  For this is the purpose of false prophets:  to teach lies that sound like truth. 
   Secondly, many churches have not fallen because of the infiltration of false prophets, but because many of the ministers and teachers were likely never saved according to God's plan of salvation as it is written in the Word of God. 
   Either way, churches have fallen because:
   Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; (I Timothy 4: 1-2)
   For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.  (II Timothy 4: 3-4)
   There was a time when the Holy Bible was the only textbook of Christians.  People took their Bibles to church and studied the Word of God, and all preaching was also from the Word of God.  But for one reason or another, ministers in churches began to teach from other books from the writings of men.  In time, the Word of God was neglected to the degree that people stopped taking their Bibles to church and thereby they came to rely on the "man of God" to tell them everything they needed to know:  and they believed every word that the "man of God" spoke from the pulpit. 
   There was once a time, too, when people kept the family Bible in a prominent place in the home, such as on the coffee table in the living room or den.  In time, however, family Bibles in homes disappeared. 
   As such, people in Christian churches began to believe in the doctrine of devils.  Christians stopped believing that Christ is the only way to Heaven as they began to accept the human philosophy that there are many ways to get to Heaven, and that the Holy Bible is not the only source for truth from God.  As a result, people stopped getting saved in churches, and, immorality increased in families as well as in the membership of churches:  behaviours that were once considered to be sinful began to be accepted as normal. 
   And churches became Community Social Centers where people would socialize with coffee and doughnuts, sing a little bit, pray a little bit, and have a little sweet message, from which they would return to their homes and live as they wanted to live.  At which time they came to believe that all people are brothers and sisters, no matter if they believe in God or not, and that all people will go to Heaven, no matter which way they get there.  In their own minds, they evicted Christ from their churches as well as from their personal lives; however, they kept Christmas and Easter because these are traditional holidays, but not holy days. 
   This is the falling away first from Christ.  And when Antichrist appears they will accept him because their hearts are of the spirit of antichrist because they are against Christ even now.  Because they neglected the Word of God, they will not know the difference between the real Christ and a false Christ. 
   Two self-examination questions are these:
   Is your faith in Christ and Christ alone, or is your faith in your Christian church or Christian religion?  If not in Christ, then you will go the way of your church or religion, and you will be part of the falling away.
   Is your faith in the words of the Holy Bible, or is your faith in doctrines written by men?  If not in the Bible, then you will agree with any or all doctrines from the minds of the imaginations of people, and you will be part of the falling away.
   Amen.

  

FALSE PROPHETS

   Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15)

   Two problem areas that can happen to us, as humans, include:  (1) the power of assumption, and (2) the power of human emotion. 
  As such, it is our own assumptions as well as our emotions that can mislead us on the path that leads us to truth, and we, therefore, can be deceived by our own assumptions and emotions.
   False prophets are masters of deception.  They are highly capable to lead us to making decisions based on our own assumptions and our emotions.  In fact, they play on our assumptions and emotions because their purpose is to deceive us from knowing truth.  The truth is not in them, but because of their power to deceive us, they can have us eating out of their hands and believing exactly every word that proceeds out of their mouths. 
   The purpose of false prophets is not to tell us the truth, but to speak words that sound like truth.     
   Just because a person wears a nice suit with cuff links, or a black robe with a white collar, does not necessarily mean they are trustworthy.  If we, however, believe they are truthful based on their apparel, then we can be deceived by our own eyes (sight), at which time we assume they are truthful without ever considering the possibility that he or she could be a false prophet. 
   Just because a person holds a doctorate from a theological seminary, Bible college, or any institute of higher learning, this does not automatically mean that he or she is trustworthy. 
   Just as there are false prophet teachers and preachers, there are also false prophet musicians and singers in the arena of Christian music.  By their power to deceive, they can write music and songs that sound like songs and music that should be in churches; and by their power to persuade, people can be deceived by sights and sounds:  and then, by the deception of our own assumptions, we can believe that their songs and music are from the Lord.  They also have the power to play on our emotions:  getting us "stirred" or "pumped up" and we get thrilled by their performances because they become entertainers. 
   Remember, too:  if God's messengers must change their appearance by changing their garments in order to appease or to relate with certain groups of people, why must they do that?  To show that they are as cool as their audience?  For it is our relationship with Christ that matters most and not our relationship with the messengers we watch on pulpits.
   False prophets, however, turn pulpits to platforms and stages for their performances and they become the stars of the show---and not Christ!  And then we flock to buy their CDs and DVDs instead of going home to read our Bibles. 
  For if we look to people to thrill us, instead of Christ to feed us, then our faith is misplaced:  as we are deceived by not only sights and sounds, but also by our own emotions.  After which, when trials and testings come, we fall by the wayside because our faith was build on shifting sand instead of on the fundamentals of God's Word. 
   Know, too, that not every person we meet is a false prophet just because this blog today is about false prophets; for there are many, many people who are trustworthy, and they are teaching and preaching Christ as honestly as they know how to teach and preach.  Likewise, neither is every church a false prophet church, and neither are all Christian singers and musicians false prophets of music and songs. 
  To know the difference, however, becomes our responsibility if we will seek God's truth from the pages of God's Word, the Holy Bible, which will help us to remove the stumbling blocks of our decisions based on sights and sounds as well as assumptions and emotions.
   It is written, Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  (II Timothy 2: 15)
   Amen.

IN LIKE MANNER

   But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  (II Corinthians 4: 3,4)
  Satan has a cloud of darkness over the minds of people all over the earth in order to block people from gaining the knowledge of God as well as to block the light of Christ from shining in their hearts and convincing them that they need salvation in Christ Jesus.
   Knowing this, Satan has also worked to deceive people to become his evil accomplices and to work for him in order to distract people from looking for truth by building smokescreens in front of their eyes, thus filling the eyes and minds of people with sights and sounds that look and sound like truth.
   This, of course, is part of the conspiracy that Jesus told us about, when He said: 
   Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15)
   One of my late uncles told me the story of an event that happened in his life a long, long time ago.
   A stranger came to his house, knocked on the door, saying that he represented a Bible publishing company.  My uncle invited the man into his house, and he showed him a new, leather-bound, red-letter edition of the Holy Bible, King James Version no less, and the Bible even had that new smell.  My uncle told me how the man shared his personal testimony with him about the circumstances that led to his own salvation as well as events that led him to introduce new Bibles to others.
   From there, the salesman told Bible stories, quoted Scripture, and my uncle was not only impressed with the new Bible, but he was also impressed with the man's testimony as well as with his knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.  My uncle then gave the man the money for a new Bible, the man prayed with my uncle, and he told him that his new Bible would be arriving by mail in about three to four weeks---and out the door he went. 
   Three to four weeks passed, and there was no Bible in the mail.
   Three to four months passed, and there was no Bible in the mail.
   Months became years, and the Bible never arrived.
   Later, my uncle talked about the way he had been duped.  He said the man walked like a preacher, talked like a preacher, and how he quoted Scripture and told Bible stories, accurate to the smallest detail.
  In like manner, false prophets enter churches:  fresh out of Bible colleges, graduates of theological seminaries, or with the recommendation of a fellow minister, who can testify about the new minister's credentials, such as his success at smaller churches.  They walk like preachers, talk like preachers, and dress exactly as people expect a preacher to dress:  some with modest apparel, but some with nice suits, starched shirts, with ties and even cuff links.  In some churches, they wear priestly garments, such as robes, for the Sunday morning crowd. 
   The purpose of false prophets, however, is not to tell the truth, but to speak words that sound like truth.  And if the person's personality and uniform of the day matches his words, then his words must surely be truthful. 
   The purpose of false prophets is to distort truth in order to distract people from knowing the truth of Jesus Christ, and thereby to deceive people by convincing them that the way they believe is both accurate and true.  Do not change anything and do not doubt the words of the man in the pulpit. 
   Not only do false prophets distort and distract people from truth, but their hands are always near the money, for they are thieves.
   Remember Judas Iscariot?  Not only was Judas a traitor, but he was also a trusted member of the Twelve Disciples of Jesus, for Judas carried the disciples' money bag:  and he was skimming off the top, for he was a thief.
   For if false prophets can deceive people out of heaven, what is a few dollars worth to them?  The money is their reward or compensation for their labor of working for Satan; for if they can easily lie about heaven and hell, then embezzlement is no big deal, for this is part of their nature:  they are liars and thieves.
   Just as my uncle was duped by a false prophet Bible salesman, in like manner churches are also duped by false prophet preachers and ministers.  This is the reason so many churches have fallen, all across the United States:  people have been duped by that same spirit of Judas Iscariot, which is liars and thieves.   
   Jesus said, Beware of false prophets.  There are many and they are everywhere.
   To be sure that you know truth, therefore, go to the Holy Bible and read for yourself. 
   Amen.

AMERICA'S FUTURE

   This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, convetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof:  from such turn away.  (II Timothy 3: 1-5)
   Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocracy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.  (I Timothy 4: 1-3)

   Here in the United States, unless the people of America---and especially we who call ourselves Christians---pray in accordance to II Chronicles 7: 14, the United States will soon become a Satanic empire.  This will happen:  for even now there is a tidal wave of evil that has been flowing across the United States, from sea to shining sea, as it continues to flow even now; and, unless it is stopped, this nation, under God, will cease to be a nation under God, but rather a nation controlled and dominated by the prince of darkness, who Satan.  And God is the only One capable of stopping this flow of evil.
   How can we believe this is true?
   When Jesus told us about the Comforter, who is the Holy Spirit, the Lord said that the Comforter will guide you into all truth as well as shew you things to come. (John 16: 13)  Therefore, if we are saved by Christ and if we believe in the truth of God's Word, the Lord will reveal to us truth; and He will also reveal truth to us when we seek His guidance in prayer. 
   This evil that has been flowing across America has captured the minds, hearts, and decisions of people, over the past fifty years or more, and it has especially changed the minds of young people and children who are adults today.  Even now, many more young people and children are subject to this influence of Satan, and many are now his captives.  Tragically, many have gone over the deep end of evil and they are in darkness so deep that they will never come out; neither do they want to come out.  Others, however, can still be rescued, but their exit must be from their decisions to believe in God, and they must be able to hear the Word of God before they can be saved.
   Time, however, is quickly vanishing.   Unless we pray for God's help and then receive God's help, this evil will overtake and capture the United States in a matter of a few years, or perhaps in as little as a few months. 
   Therefore, we should pray because America's future:  is now. 
   I am the LORD:  that is my name:  and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.  (Isaiah 42: 8)
   Amen.

A HIDDEN AGENDA

   Here in the United States, our founding fathers gave us a government that set the people free, allowing free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to move, freedom to do, and the freedom to pursue, thus allowing us the freedom to be creative, to be inventive, which gave us the power to become a rich and powerful nation. 
   From this endowment, we learned to keep our eyes on the road:  to keep our hands on the wheel, do not look to the left, do not look to the right, but to keep our hearts and minds focused on the future, and thus we created focal points:
  Focus on goals.  Focus on education.  Focus on jobs and careers.  Focus on money.  Focus on getting married, having children, buying houses and cars, and taking family vacations:  from which we return, rested and relaxed, and ready to re-focus on the year ahead. 
   Focus on the future.  Focus on a nestegg for retirement.  And leave this world as a better place for our children. 
   With our focus finely sharpened, and with the liberty to pursue, we created family businesses, companies and corporations, which enabled us to make more money, create more jobs; and, to make life easier as well as more efficient and faster in our productivity, we invented products, goods, and services, in addition to inventions of entertainment, for our rest and relaxation.
    In short and in total, it has been we, the people, who have built the United States of America---and not our people in the offices of the United States Government.  
   And within this world of freedom that we have so richly enjoyed---in our pursuits of The American Dream---our government has been taking part of our money in taxes while churches and religions have been accepting our money in the form of tithes and offerings. 
   This blog today is not an indictment against taxes; neither is it an indictment against tithes and offerings:  for both are necessary to the existence of government, churches, and religions. 
   As for the United States, however, we are in a big mess!  Our United States Department of the Treasury is bankrupt!  This is the reason our government has had to borrow money from foreign nations.  And we are bankrupt because of internal corruption:  the hands of corruption have misappropriated the peoples' money.
   Churches, too, have experienced internal corruption and many have fallen all across the United States, for the hands of corruption have misapproprated the Lord's money.  More will also fall if the corruption is not addressed.
   On the night before Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, the Lord said to the disciples in the garden:  Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:   the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.  (Matthew 26: 41)
   For if we fall into temptation, we enter the world of corruption; and the world of corruption is the place of darkness, which is the place of evil:  out of which comes evil and more evil.  This is the world of secrecy and a hidden agenda.  The hidden agenda, therefore, is to extinguish the Light of Christ, and to block the Light of Christ from reaching people in the United States as well as people throughout the world. 
   To be truthful, the United States is in a mess because the hidden agenda is also a work to bring down the United States by people of darkness.
   Churches, too, are in a mess because the hidden agenda is at work to bring down churches by people of darkness.
  This present danger is bigger than we, the people can fix.  We are incapable of fixing our nation as we are also incapable of fixing our churches.  We need help from above, which is from heaven. 
   To paint a picture, the United States, with its people as well as with churches, is out on the water as a ship upon the ocean; and if God does not help us, we will sink.  If we pray, God will help us; but if we fail to heed the warning and fail to pray, we will sink quickly.
   Please pray that God will rescue the perishing.  Will you do that?
  Amen. 
  
 

A MEETING AT THE WELL

   And there came a day when Jesus and the disciples left Judaea to go to Galilee, at which time the disciples departed from Jesus to go to a town to buy groceries while Jesus continued alone; for you see the Lord had an appointment to meet with a woman, and the woman did not know that she had an appointment with the Son of God.
   Jesus went to the city of Samaria, and, in those days, Jews and Samarians were not friendly one with another; but Jesus went there anyway, for Jesus was not concerned about what the Samarians thought about Him. 
   The Lord sat down at a well where a woman had come to fill her waterpot, and Jesus asked her for a drink of water.  No doubt this situation surprised the woman, for she said, in the 4th chapter of John,  "How is that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samarians."
   In the course of the conversation that proceeded, the woman admitted that she had no husband, to which Jesus replied:  "Thou hast well said, I have no husband:  For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now has is not thy husband:  in that saidst thou truly."
   With that much information about the Samarian woman, it is easy for us, in our own pious prejudice, to paint the woman as either a tramp, a prostitute, or a woman sleeping around with men:  without even knowing the truth about her whole life, which we are not told in this story. 
   But did it ever occur to you that maybe the woman's five husbands had died?
   Did it ever occur to you that perhaps her five husbands left her in pursuit of other women or other dreams---that did not include her?
   Is it possible that she had been born to a single mother, which made her mother a whore in the eyes of her community? 
   Perhaps, too, that her parents died when she was young and she was passed from house to house, or from family to family. 
   Maybe she could have been an orphan and no families wanted to take her in to their homes. 
   Maybe she lived some years as a homeless person, and, with no education, as well as from being single, where would she be able to get a job to support herself?
   Have you ever considered the story about the girl who was never asked for a date, or who never had a boy to escort her to the prom?  And how she hung out in the company of other girls, neither of whom had dates for the prom?  But they went to the prom anyway, regardless of their rejections.
   What about the boy who was always picked last in the sandlot baseball games?  How do think he felt about always being picked last?
   Were you ever a benchwarmer for a sports team and the coach would not let you in the game until the very end? 
   Did you ever have to drive the family four-door stationwagon on a date when other kids drove hot Mustangs and Camaros?  And you didn't want others to see you in a drabmobile?
   Have you ever snubbed your nose at people for the clothes they wear, or the rundown house they live in?
   Did you ever reject your dad because he was an automobile mechanic when other kids' dads were sales executives and bankers? 
   What about your mother, who worked as a cook in restaurants while other kids' moms either stayed at home or worked in air-conditioned offices? 
   Rejection creates isolation:  We do not want to socialize.  We do not want to be near many people.  We spend time alone, doing things alone.  We work on personal projects that we can do alone.  We do not want to talk to others, nor to be seen by others.  We do not like the insults, the mumble of voices, nor the raised eyebrows.  We also harbor these feelings of rejection within us, and, with seemingly no escape, we feel trapped.  We want to be free, but we are not free.  Internally, we hurt because we suffer the pain of rejection.
   When the woman of Samaria met Jesus at the well, for the first time in her life she met a person who knew all about her pain, her sorrows, her sufferings, and her rejections.  That day she met the person who understood her unfulfilled dreams, her desires to have a happy marriage with happy children, and to be accepted by others in her own lifetime and within her own community.
      ...and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:  and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  (Isaiah 53: 2, 3)
   At the well, the woman of Samaria looked into the eyes of the One who would later suffer great pain and sorrow when the nails would be hammered in his hands and feet on a wooden cross to die for her sins.
    And for the first time in her life, the Samarian woman met the person who accepted her without pious prejudice and with no conditions.  For when she met and accepted Christ, she received a bonus, which is the same bonus every sinner gets at the time of salvation:
      the love of God is spread abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost; God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  (Romans 5: 5, 8)
   The journey Jesus made to Samaria that day was planned and on purpose, for He was not an accidental tourist.  This is what Christ does for all of us as He did that day with the woman at the well:  He comes to us, one on one and face to face.  This is the evidence of His wonderful love. 
   Amen
     
  
  
  
  

A SPIRITUAL INVISIBLE

      And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  (Genesis l: 26)
   Man was created, therefore, to have dominion over all the earth.
   Adam and Eve, however, were seduced by Satan's deceptive power and they disobeyed God; and by agreeing with Satan, they lost the "keys to the kingdom" and their dominion over all the earth, which is how Satan became the god of this world (II Corinthians 4:4) and which is also why an invisible shield came between man and God because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve; therefore, all future generations, from Adam and Eve, are born with this invisible shield that separates us from God, which is why all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3: 23), and which is why Christ came to earth to die for the sin of the world, thereby making a way for people to return to God for all who will believe in Christ, who came to pay or redeem our sin debt, which is why Christ is also called the Redeemer:  to do for us what we can not do for ourselves.  For at birth, our minds are blocked from the knowledge of God because of the invisible shield that separates us from God, which is why Jesus said, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3: 3)  To be born again is a spiritual rebirth, or, reborn.  For God wants us to come back to Him, which is a return to God spiritually.
   Satan, therefore, operates in the spiritual realm, which is invisible, and he has dominion over the earth because of his spiritual victory over Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. 
   Satan has been at war against people ever since that day.  He operates to deceive people from knowing God as well as works to keep people deceived until the day people die, at which time he gets their souls for hell. 
   Satan's personality characteristic is evil, and he can not change his nature.  He is a thief and he is also a liar.  Because of his spiritual invisibility, he transfers his evil to the imaginations of people because of his power.  His desire is to keep people from being saved by Christ, and he will do everything within his power to accomplish his desire.  If you, for example, have not been saved by Christ, the devil will do anything and everything he can do to keep you believing that you do not need salvation in Christ; and, if you believe you have been saved by another way, which is not of Christ, he will work to keep you believing in whatever you believe until the day you die:  then he gets your soul.
   Primarily, Satan deceives us through sight and sound.  Sight:  the things we can see with our eyes.  Sound:  the things we can hear with our ears.  For with respect to the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden, it is written:  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  (Genesis 3: 6)
   By his invisible power, Satan influenced men to create religion, and religion is exactly like the forbidden tree in the garden of Eden, which also contains forbidden fruit.  This tree of religion looks good for food as well as a tree that is pleasant to the eyes as well as a tree to be desired to make one wise.  And Satan's ministers, inside religion, masquerade themselves as ministers of God.  For by the sight of men dressed in priestly garments, we can believe that these men represent God because we are in a place that is designed to be pleasant to the eyes; and we are thereby deceived by what we see.
   Next, Satan's invisible power also operates in and through music, which can be used to sound good to our ears, pleasant to our ears, and to be desired; for music is also invisible, and, therefore, music is also spiritual:   a spiritual invisible.
   Therefore, when religion is mixed with music, Satan is using a double-edged spiritual sword to deceive people!  And the ministers of music are actually priests of Satan, for they are preaching Satan through the invisible power of music:  they are missionaries to win souls for Satan! 
   Consequently, when worldly music is incorporated in the program of Christian churches, such as rock music and contemporary Christian music, people are deceived by sight and by sound because churches look pleasant to the eyes and the music is pleasant to the ears:  from which people have spiritual experiences.  By deception, however, they can believe that they are worshipping God, because of the sights and sounds, without knowing that the music is in honor of Satan.  Thus the ministers of worldly music in churches are priests of Satan!
   As it is written in the Word of God:
      But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (II Corinthians 11: 3, 14, 15)
   Please remember:  God does not bless churches because they look pleasant to the eyes, and neither does God bless Satan's music. 
   For Christ alone remains the only way of salvation:  without atmospheres and also without music.
   Amen.

  
  
  

IN FALSE CHURCHES

      But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  (II Corinthians 4: 3-4)
   Satan is the god of this world, which means he is the god of all the systems of this world, in every nation on planet earth, and his workers, through a system of dark secrecy, manage all of the systems of this world, including religion, and his net is also over many churches across the United States as well as churches in other nations. 
   In the United States, Satan's invisible power has converted a nation from believing in God to believing in Satan by his power that operates in money, music, movies, television, radio, internet, sex, and drugs:  by his deception that focuses the attention of people to sights and sounds, mixed and blended with the power of human emotion and human imagination. 
   In 1976, rock music star, David Bowie, said:  "Rock music has always been the devil's music."
   Guitarist Craig Chaquico of the rock band, Jefferson Starship, said:  "Rock concerts are the churches of today."
   Spencer Dryden, also of Jefferson Starship, said:  "Get them while they are young and bend their minds."
   According to the book, Satanism in America, hard-core Satanism "is the fastest-growing subculture among America's teens."
   Several years ago, several brands of community churches were built across America like a chain of convenience stores.  These community churches offer the same format:
   Non-denominational.  Casual, relaxed atmosphere.  Casual dress:  come as you are.  Appeal to young couples.  Appeal to young singles and teenagers.  Appeal to children.  Contemporary format with contemporary Christian music.  Some feature traditional hymns, but primarily the focus is on contemporary Christian music.
   One of these community contemporary churches recently baptized twelve hundred people---in ONE DAY! 
   Perhaps we should say:  WHAT?  Many churches do not baptize twelve hundred people in a whole year, but that one church had twelve hundred baptisms in ONE DAY?
   Please take another look at the music format of these churches:  contemporary Christian music, which had its birth in rock music.  Changing the name, however, does not change the music---no more than changing the name of a Chevrolet to a Cadillac, for the Chevrolet is still a Chevrolet, no matter what the label says. 
   This, then, is the evidence of Satan's deceptive power:  rock music entered churches by wearing a different robe, and Satan's ministers of music became ministers of music in churches; and people, therefore, are being seduced to believe that they are worshipping God, when, in fact, they are worshipping Satan!  For they are being born again to a familiar spirit, and that spirit is not God:  after which they are being baptized, fully believing that they have been saved by Jesus Christ. 
   Satan is tricking people from within churches that were built on purpose by Satan's evil workers out of a system of dark secrecy.  These churches were designed to be traps in order for Satan to capture more souls for hell.  Satan did this same work in Rome with the Catholic Church (that was designed to trap and destroy Christians) and now he has done it again with community, non-denominational churches, featuring a deceitful concept called contemporary Christian music, with contemporary services and with a strong emphasis for young people and especially for children:  for as rocker Spencer Dryden said, "Get them while they are young and bend their minds."  For as the minds of young people and children are converted to another way, future generations will not know the truth of Christ.  They are in a religious system that features sights and sounds, emotions and imaginations, and not from the truth of God's Word, the Holy Bible.  They are being lured and seduced by the power of the devil's music in false churches, which are designed to be wonderful places for sights and sounds.
   May God help us to see and understand truth.
   Amen.

SELLING JESUS

   Jesus asks:
       For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  (Mark 8: 36-37)
      Again, the devil taketh him (Jesus) up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan:  for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy god, and him only shall thou serve.  (Matthew 4: 8-10)
   Jesus knew the devil, and the devil also knew Jesus.  And the devil believed that if he could trick Jesus, then the Lord would have never made it to the cross to die for the sin of the world; which would have also meant that there would have been no resurrection, and, obviously, there would have been no salvation for people of all languages and nations; which also means that there would have been no day of Pentecost, and the Holy Spirit would have never come to men, women, and children all over the world.  For if Jesus had accepted the offer from Satan, then Jesus would have become a servant of the devil, thereby making Himself a partner of Satan in the evil one's quest to kill people all over the earth in order to take their souls to hell. 
   In short and in total, Jesus would have sold His soul and the devil would have owned Him---and we would have never had the wonderful story of Jesus!  There would have never been a Christmas, no Easter, and no churches anywhere in the world.  Instead, we would have had a world of total darkness, death, and destruction, and no hope for a place called heaven.  Not only no hope, but we would have never had a way to heaven because the only Door of heaven, who is Christ, would have never opened. 
   Jesus, however, had the power to say "no" to Satan's offer, and Satan went away---only to appeal again to the weakness of sinful men and women:  of which men and women have accepted the devil's deal over the past 2000 years:  from which they have sold their souls for power, fame, and fortune. 
   Satan has had enormous success with four tools from his bag of tricks:  money, sex, music, and drugs---though not in a specific order.  For if a person has a weakness for one, then he or she could easily fall prey to everything else. 
   Today, there is a tsunami of premarital sex among teenagers in churches all across the United States, out of which comes unwanted pregnancies as well as sexually transmitted diseases and abortions.
   For Satan knows that whatever works for people out in the world also works for people of churches:  money, sex, music, and drugs. 
   Churches are falling all across America.  They have---and are--- abandoning Christ because they have been led to believe that the old ways are ineffective today; for churches have been seduced to accept the premise that people need new ways, new music, a modern Bible for modern man, and a new message:  do good, feel good, and do not consider bad habits as sin.
      If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  (II Chronicles 7: 14)
   What is God saying here?  And to whom is He speaking?
   The people, called by my name, are Christians.  And God is calling His people to (1) humble themselves, (2) pray, (3) seek my face, (4) and turn from their wicked ways.
   God is saying that Christians have sin in the camp, which the Lord calls, wicked ways, because Christians are guilty of going after money, music, sex, and drugs. 
   Churches are corrupted from within.  This is why churches have lost their power of God today.  This is why churches never experience true revival because revivals have become no more than Sunday morning services five nights a week.  This is why Jesus said, thou hast left thy first love (Revelation 2: 4).  Christ, in fact, has removed His candlestick from many churches across America, and the churches do not realize that Jesus has departed. 
   Christians have been lured away from Christ because of money, music, sex, and drugs. 
   How many ministers and preachers are selling Jesus for book deals, CDs, and DVDs and reaping financial rewards at the expense of the blood of Christ?
   How many ministers of music are selling Jesus for record deals, CDs, and DVDs and reaping financial rewards at the expense of the blood of Christ?
   For if we compromise the Word of God for money and music, for personal fame and power, the door is opened for sex and drugs. 
   When Lazarus died, Jesus wept.  Do you suppose Christ is weeping for Christians and churches today?
   Amen.
       

RAVENING WOLVES

   Jesus is not a superstar.  Neither were the disciples, apostles, nor even the writers of the Bible.
   In the 20th century, however, and because of the advent of electronics---such as radio, television, and recorded music---many Christians have attained the level of "star power" in the eyes of millions of people:  by which they have attained fame, recognition, and even the accumulation of great wealth. 
   This, of course, has resulted in the arrogance of people within Christianity as people look up to ministers to hear their great words of wisdom and prophecies, rather than looking up to the Word of God for God's words of wisdom and prophecies. 
   Music, too, has produced arrogance in people because of the "star power" they have gained in fame, recognition, and the accumulation of great wealth:  as people look up to them to fill an emptiness rather than  looking up to God.
   While Jesus was on earth, He was not a wealthy person.  Neither were the disciples, apostles, nor even the writers of the Bible.  In their time, not one of them attained the level of fame, recognition, nor the accumulation great wealth. 
   Jesus was crucified for telling the truth, and the disciples and apostles were executed for telling others about Jesus. 
   In the 20th century, how many Christians with "star power" have been executed for telling others about the Lord?
   Instead, they are "cashing in" on the name of Jesus and thereby receiving fame, recognition, and financial rewards at the expense of the blood of Jesus Christ, which He shed for the sin of the world.
   Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15) 
  

A GOLDEN CALF

   The Dove Award is a trophy by the Gospel Music Association to recognize outstanding achievements in Christian music in a variety of musical styles:  rock, pop, hip hop, country, urban, bluegrass, traditional gospel, and contemporary gospel.
   The Grammy Award is a trophy by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry:  rock, hard rock, heavy metal, R&B, rap, country, Latin, reggae, and gospel/contemporary.
   The television show, American Idol, is about the making of an American idol.  The winner receives a contract by a recording company, which can also include movies, videos, books, and television appearances.  This is when the idol makers go to work to form and fashion the person to become an American idol.  In time, the person becomes a golden calf:   loved, adored, and held high upon a pedastal, at which time the person becomes a sex god or a sex goddess.   
   As such, the golden calf is now a money-making machine, for the idol makers are now able to produce millions of dollars in sales revenue; and because of compromise for fame, the American idol enters a world of darkness by the hands of the idol makers, and as the person accepts more and more evil---in slow and in subtle ways---they reach a depth of evil from which they are unable to escape, from which they can receive a shortened life as the idol makers transform them to become messengers or agents of evil, which is the world of rock music as well as the world of Hollywood:  the production and showcase of evil. 
   God's Word warns us about the association of people with evil, for the average life expectancy of rock music stars is 36.9 years:
      As righteousness tendeth to life:  so he that pursueth EVIL pursueth to his own DEATH.  (Proverbs 11: 19)
      There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of DEATH.  (Proverbs 14: 12)
      For the wages of SIN is DEATH; (Romans 6: 23)
   At this point in time, let us be honest:  the music industry is about money; therefore, sales and profits is the bottom line, just like any other industry.  And the employees of the music industry are the same as employees of any other industry:  they must be able to produce sales and profits for their respective employers, or else they can be terminated, just as employees of any other industry can be terminated. 
   Jesus said, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.  (Matthew 21: 13)
   When we arrive in the arena of Christian music, we must also be able to see and believe that even Christian music is an industry; therefore, Gospel Music is an industry and Contemporary Christian Music is also an industry.  As industries, all of the various styles of Christian music must produce sales and profits for the record companies, or else the companies will go out of business in the same way that all companies can go out of business. 
   While it is true that many, many Christian people enter Christian music to spread the Good News of Christ in music and in song, their intentions are honorable.  At the same time, the owners of record companies may not be as honorable; for they use their skills to produce sales and profits for the record companies in the same way that they would use their skills as managers of secular music houses.  As such, they influence Christian individuals or groups to compromise their values in order to appeal to a wider audience for the purpose of producing more sales and profits.  In like manner, as in American Idol, they are the idol makers of the people in Christian music.  Their hit songs produce name recognition and, consequently, build a fan base.  The more their fan base enlarges and the more hit songs they can record, they become a valuable commodity to record companies:  they become a golden calf---with a greater share of the Christian music market, which converts to money.
   Today, in many, many churches across the United States, music is the Main Event:  for more time is devoted to the music program than than to any other program in the worship service program---while the time for prayer has become less and less important; for music and social calendars receive more attention in churches than prayer, and, quite often, even more important than the teaching and preaching of God's Word. 
   In a way, it is as if music itself has become the golden calf of churches across America. 
   Music is powerful, music is strong, and music can be highly deceptive; for music strums the strings of our internal harps:  thereby, we can be happy, we can be sad, we can be depressed, we can be glad, and we can even have mountaintop experiences through music and believe that surely the presence of the Lord is in this place---when, in reality, it is our own emotions that get excited.  For if our mountaintop experience is based on music, what do we do when the music stops?  The silence can be deafening, and to the well of music we must return in order to experience another spiritual high. 
   Jesus said, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. 
   Jesus never said His house should be:  a house of music.
   Amen.