WHEN GOD SPEAKS

      And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind:  and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:  And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.  (I Kings 19: 11-12)

   Television news cameras follow noise:  damages from strong winds, earthquakes, fires, tornados, typhoons; rapes, murders, protest marchings, and scandals.
   People who make the most noise get the most attention.
   In families, the child that makes the most noise gets the most attention.
   A sports team can have the chemistry for winning:  except for one player, who causes disunity, disrupts the team, and gets attention because of his noise.
   The birth of Jesus Christ was a silent event, not noisy; for even King Herod did not know that Messiah was in Israel until messengers of God delivered the news to Herod's door---two years later!
   The resurrection of Jesus was also a silent event, not noisy. 
   From Jerusalem to the United States, Christians moved in silence---never noisy---as they told others about the Good News of Christ, and churches multiplied. 
   In the 20th century, however, something happened that changed the way Christians delivered the message of the Lord:  the Age of Electronics was invented and, for the first time, the message of Jesus entered the arena of the Age of Noise with microphones, loud speakers, electronic instruments, drums, radio and television---thus producing a New Era of Christianity, which became Electronic Evangelism. 
   Thus, with the rise of microphones, loud speakers, electronic musical instruments and drums, the  age of noisy music moved within Christian churches, which has---perhaps more than in any other way--done more to damage churches across America than from any other form of infiltration; which has, in turn, aided the rise of the Age of Apostasy:  the turning away from Christ and the turning to Satan. 
   Even so, as we learn from the pages of God's Word, the LORD is not in the wind, not in the earthquake, not in the fire; and neither is the LORD in the noise of noisy music; for the LORD continues to speak in a still small voice. 
   Please remember, therefore, that when noise increases, Christ decreases; and the louder noisy music increases, the further Christ moves in the opposite direction. 
   To know Christ, keep your ear tuned to His still small voice. 
   Amen.
 

TEMPLES OF DOOM

   When I was a kid, there was a television show on Sunday nights called The Ed Sullivan Show, which featured an assortment of entertainers, such as stand-up comics, singers and musicians, dancers, circus animals, and young kids from rock n roll music.  One night we were watching the Sullivan show and while a rock n roll band was playing their music and singing their songs, my dad said:  "This is the devil's music". 
   That was fifty-five years ago. 
   Fifty-five years ago, Christian people identified rock n roll music for what it was, and still is.
   Fifty-five years later, however, and rock n roll music is in churches all across the United States of America---though under a different name:  Contemporary Christian Music.
   Contemporary Christian Music is the softer side of rock music, and CCM was allowed in churches as a way to attract younger people.  This happened because pastors accepted the idea that if churches do not have a dynamic music program, people will not come to church; and the more CCM was allowed, the more it was accepted; and the preaching of God's Word became secondary, or less important.
   Today, CCM is the primary form of worship in many churches all across America, which has led to the fall of many churches because thou hast left thy first love.  (Revelation 2: 4).   Thus we can clearly see that a transformation occurred inside churches as:
      traditional churches became contemporary churches
      when traditional music became contemporary music.
   Today, it is difficult to find a traditional, Bible-believing church that still places Christ first; it is also difficult to find a church that still has traditional Christian music. 
   Contemporary Christian Music is big business, producing millions of dollars of revenue.
   Contemporary Christian music is also a cancer.  If churches do not apply corrective surgery and remove this cancerous tissue, it will grow, consume, and destroy more churches. 
   Therefore, the danger of this music is in leading young people and children to believe that they have been born again in Christ, when, by deception, they have been born again to a familiar spirit:  after which they are being baptized, thus producing a false sense of security:  for a religious, spiritual experience has abducted them away from the truth of God's Word, for God still speaks with a still small voice (I Kings 19: 12) and not by the thunder of rock n roll music.
      For we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against PRINCIPALITIES, against POWERS, against the RULERS OF DARKNESS of this world, against SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS in high places.  (Ephesians 6: 12)
      Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.  (II Corinthians 6: 17, 18)
   The music we are seeing in churches today is the same music we saw on The Ed Sullivan Show fifty-five years ago---when my dad said, "This is the devil's music."
   If we, as Christians, fail to take a stand for the truth and righeousness of Jesus Christ, we will enter a state of denial and watch more and more churches become:  temples of doom.
   It is Contemporary Christian Music, perhaps more than any other factor, that has led Christian churches to the Age of Apostasy.
   Amen.

 

DANCING WITH DEMONS

   Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.  (Matthew 23: 15)
   To review, the scribes and Pharisees were members of an occultic, secret society out of Babylon.  They penetrated the Sanhedrin.  They adorned themselves in priestly garments.  They looked like, walked like, and talked like Jewish priests.  But they were not.  They were snakes.  They were serpent people. They were servants of their master, Satan, and they were also masters of deception.
   Jesus knew them.  Jesus was not kind to them, for these were the people who were out to kill the Son of God.  For early in the morning on the day when Christ was crucified, the Lord said to His captors:  this is your hour, and the power of darkness.  (Luke 22: 53)
   Churches across America are in trouble today.  The church of Christ is suffering today because churches have compromised with the power of darkness.  This is why that a preacher in California said churches could draw more people if churches would remove the cross from atop church buildings.  This is why a preacher in Texas talks to his people about their bad habits but not their sins.  This is why many Protestant churches deserted Christ in 2011 to lock arms with Islam and thereby create a new religion, Chrislam.  This is why scores of other Protestant churches joined the World Council of Churches and pledged their allegiance to the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.  This is why the United Nations is working toward a Green Religion to bring all of the religions of the world together in one unified religion. 
   Remember, too, that wherever there is money, there is Satan.  And wherever there is music, there is Satan. 
   Christian Music today is big business.  Gospel Music today is big business.  And Contemporary Christian Music is an even bigger business.
   Thus when we enter the arena of Contemporary Christian Music, we are looking in the faces of proselytes:  recruits of the scribes and Pharisees, the management arm of the music industry today. 
   Contempory Christian Music has its roots in rock music, pop, R&B, and hip hop. CCM was born in the 1960s and 1970s out of the Jesus Movement.  The ministers of this music dress like people out of rock music:  Spiked hair.  Long hair.  Whiskers.  Beards.  Heavy on the makeup.  Body jewelry, chains, and tattoos.  Dim the lights.  Create shadows and darkness.  Add flashing lights and smoke. Get people stirred up.  Bring the house down. 
   Contemporary Christian Music turns churches into Entertainment Centers.  The congregations become audiences.  The pulpits become stages.  And the ministers of music become entertainers as well as sex gods and sex goddesses.  They dance and prance.  They make a name for themselves.  They become the center of attraction.  People adore them.  And they make big bucks!  Churches make big bucks!  And the music companies are making fortunes!
   Contemporary Christian Music has the same impact on people as rock music, opening doors for depression, bitterness, envy, greed, sensuality, drunkenness, lust, rage, promiscuity, jealousy, and a false belief that they are hearing music from God when, in fact, it is music from Satan. 
   Drums have been part of tribal religions for thousands of years and they are used to conjure up evil spirits; therefore, as people hear the beat of the rhythm of drums, they perform sensual, sexual dances.  When drums are mixed with loud music, people can actually go into frenzies.  And when Satan's demons hear the drums and music, they show up and people get happy and want to dance.
   In the history of recorded music, more than three hundred artists of rock music have met early deaths, making an average life expectancy of  36.9 years for people in rock music.
      As righteousness tendeth to life:  so he that pursueth EVIL pursueth it 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)
   Therefore, it is easy to see and to believe that when people play with EVIL they are playing with DEATH. 
   The target audience of Contemporary Christian Music is the same as Satan has always wanted:  YOUNG PEOPLE:  teenagers and children.  Take your children to the Contemporary Christian Music concert and leave them there:  they will be in good hands.  Send your children to Youth Camp, for they will be in good hands.  Away from parents, childrens' minds are indoctrinated by the power of music as they learn a new form of worship!  Later, Amazing Grace is not amazing anymore.  How Great Thou Art is not hip anymore.  Songs from the church hymnal are for an older generation that has not grown with the times of the new way.  For now they have music that they like, enjoy, and can relate with.  Now they can dance with demons. 
   The management of Contemporary Christian Music are the same as scribes and Pharisees.  To them, music is business and the business is making money.  They hire people to become artists, and not ministers of music.  Their CDs and DVDs are laced with occultic symbols and logos, in colorful and in subtle ways, and their music brings glory to themselves and to another god, and not to the Lord.  The music sounds good and helps people to feel good.  And the artists produce fortunes for their employers:  out of which the artists also receive handsome dividends and contract extensions.  And thus the artists are paid to produce by performance:  to sell their product for their employer.
   Jesus pointed out the danger of the scribes and Pharisees, and Jesus also pointed out the danger of the power of darkness. 
   Across America, churches are falling as dead fruit from the vine.  Christ has removed His candlestick from many churches and the people do not know that the Light of Christ is no longer in their presence. 
   Traditional churches have become contemporary churches through the power of Contemporary Christian Music; and by the power of deception, people are believing that a religious frenzy is the same as a salvation experience with Jesus Christ.  Satan, therefore, is taking the souls of young people and children through this deceptive cult of Contemporary Christian Music:  in the midst of our churches and in the presence of parents and pastors. 
   Music is used as a power of mind control and also to produce hypnotic trances, which include religious frenzies, or dancing with demons.
   Be careful what you to listen to. 
   Amen.
  
  
  

FOR MEN ONLY

   The secret world of secret societies are for men and men only:  women and children not included.
   The physical and sexual abuse of women and children began with secret societies, and the roots of their evil can be traced to the soil of Babylon in the time of Nimrod and the tower of Babel; for even to this very day, women and children suffer inhumane treatment at the hands of bandits:  robbing them of their dignity, their self-worth, and even their lives. 
   For in these secret societies, men consider themselves to be as gods:  and therefore self-anointed rulers over women and children. 
   Women and children have been hunted and captured by these evil lords of darkness, used and abused, purchased and sold as sex slaves to other men, captured as prisoners in the traffik of prostitution, and even used as human sacrificial offerings on the altars of Satan in the dungeons of their secret chambers. 
   Just like their daddy, Lucifer, men of secret societies are professional deceivers.  They live double lives.  Jesus calls them, hypocrites and vipers.  Vipers because they are serpent people.  Like snakes, they have split tongues.  They are masters of lying, cheating, and stealing.  They appear to be the good neighbor next door, the city merchant, or a priest or preacher.  Their world is to create corruption wherever they go and to change the world to the way they want the world to be.
  Men of secret societies are responsible for the muzzles placed on women.  They are responsible for the lack of women's rights; for even women of the United States were not allowed to vote in elections until 1920!  As if women are supposed to be seen and not heard.  To stay home, cook and clean houses, provide sex for men and to have babies.  But no more than that.  She's not supposed to think, not to speak, and certainly not to act.  She should have no independence.  Like a dog, she must remain on a leash.  This attitude came out of secret societies and entered Christian churches by the work of deceivers:  so that women in churches are just like women in religions. 
   Throughout the Bible, God never treated women and children as horribly as men do.  Jesus never treated women or children badly, nor with disrespect.  Neither does the Bible discriminate against women or children.  But men have taken words of the Bible and twisted them to fit their own interpretation:  all because of the infiltratation of Christianity by men of secret societies!
   Secret societies are nothing more than bands of outlaws; but because of the power they have rendered to themselves in establishments throughout the world, they ARE the law.  They ARE the government.  They ARE the courts, lawyers, and police departments.  They ARE religion.  They ARE the heads of banks and financial institutions.  And they cover the trails of their partners in crime.  They hide and destroy evidence that could lead to the arrest and conviction of their brothers of the brotherhoods.  And they blame others for their own crimes against their own people.  They are dangerous, they are mean, and they are evil!  They are corrupted and they have corrupted Christian churches across the United States and around the world. 
   If people of the United States ever needed to pray to God for help, that time is now.  And if people around the world ever needed to pray to God for help, that time is now.  For the problems we face in this world are bigger than we fix. 
   Amen.

INTERNAL CORRUPTION

   As we studied yesterday, Jesus said it is not that which enters a man that corrupts him, but rather it is that which comes out of him that corrupts him. 
   Therefore, with respect to the collapse of Christian churches in the United States, Jesus said,
    I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil:  and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:  And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.  (Revelation 2: 2-4)
   The collapse of Christian churches in the United States is the direct result of the infiltration by evil people from secret societies in order to obstruct the cause of Christ.  These are the same people that came out of Babylon from the day of Nimrod and the tower of Babel.  They created religions all over the world, and they also disguised themselves to appear as Christians in order to corrupt Christian churches, beginning in Asia Minor.  From there they went to Rome, to northern Europe, to England, and then to the United States.  Wherever churches went, they went. 
   And since their days in Asia Minor, they also created more secret societies to assist them in their battle against Christ because they are agents of Satan.  As such, they have no fear.  They send agents to Bible colleges and theological seminaries.  They have established churches.  They have become pastors and teachers of the Bible.  They have also recruited and trained people to serve in the arena of Christian music as singers, musicians, and writers of songs.  They created associations and conventions in order to gain power over many churches by way of a group government, by which churches have lost their individual sovereignty.
   Two of the most powerful secret societies over Christianity in America includes Freemasonry and Illuminati.  Many Christian pastors are Masons as well as deacons of churches, ministers of music, and church members.  Both recruit people for music and thus, after many years of slow and subtle changes, Christian singers and musicians look and sound like singers and musicians of worldly music:  complete with light shows and smoke!
   Jesus said, thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.  Today, however, many churches and many pastors are in a state of denial because they would lose their "jobs" if they exposed the false apostles from within their churches.   They will preach about the sins of the world, but they will not preach about the sin that is within their own congregations!
   Do we wonder, then, why Christianity has lost its power in the United States?   Do we wonder why so many churches have left their first love to lock arms with Islam in a new religion called Chrislam?  Do we wonder why churches have become more like Centers for Social Change?  Or more like places with activities for the whole family with gymnasiums, baseball fields, nursery centers for children, and social calendars for every age group throughout the land? 
   Do we wonder why we changed sanctuaries to auditoriums?  Or why we changed music ministries to concerts?  Or why Christian musical groups go on tour from church to church, or from arena to arena?  Or why music soloists and groups need record deals from recording companies?  Or why we changed a calling from God to career opportunities?  Is this why so many preachers and music groups base their offerings on a good performance?  To get people pumped up or to bring the house down?  And why some groups have a curtain calls?  And when the acceptance of the audiences, instead of congregations, is based on the clapping of hands instead of an Amen?
   How many preachers will not preach today unless there is the attachment of money?
   How many singers will not sing today without the attachment of money?
   Christ has removed His candlestick from many churches today and the churches do not know that the Light of Christ is not there anymore.  This happened when churches became religion. 
   Like Jesus said:  it is not that which enters a man that corrupts him, but it is that which comes out of him that corrupts him, for then he is living a corrupted life.  The same is true with churches:  it is not that which has entered churches that corrupted them, but rather that which has come out of churches that has corrupted them, and now they are organizations of corruption, at which time the preaching and the music are corrupted:  and which, in turn, corrupts others. 
   May God help us to see that our own sins also corrupt people around us.  Thus, as individuals, as churches, and as a nation, we need to repent.
   Amen. 
  

FOUR KINGDOMS

  Four of Satan's greatest tools of deception are these:  money, sex, music, drugs.
  These are the four kingdoms of men and women.  These are the four that dominate the lives of people, beginning in their minds, which are also natural choices that we make. 
  No matter if people claim a religion, or no religion; no matter if people claim a church, or not a church; and no matter if people belong to Christian churches or Christian cults, these four choices are ever-present in the minds of people. 
   Jesus said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:  All of these evil things come from within, and defile the man.  (Mark 7: 20-23)
   Each person is in charge of his or her mind, and each person has the power to choose.  But if we surrender our minds to the authority of other people, then we have surrendered our authority to the power of others, and we become their "workers in the field".
   These four kingdoms of money, sex, music, and drugs can become gods.  First, we become servants; secondly, we become slaves.  As servants, we become intoxicated; then slaves because we become addicted. 
   By itself, religion is a spiritual prison, but when these four kingdoms of money, sex, music, and drugs are mixed with religion, people reach spiritual insanity:  and Satan becomes the god of their minds---out of which flows all the behaviours that Jesus described in the book of Mark:  All of these evil things come from within, and defile the man. 
   Today, we are witnesses to a worldwide plague or epidemic of the four kingdoms of humanity:  money, sex, music, drugs---by which the evil leaderships of the world today are luring people toward a magnet to which they will stick like glue:  a global government with a global dictator.
      There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.  (Proverbs 14: 12)
   Christ remains the one and only way of salvation and eternal life.
   Amen.

OUT OF BABYLON

   We shall never escape the truth of God's Word, the Holy Bible, and the story of Nimrod and the tower of Babel (Babylon) in the 11th chapter of the book of Genesis.
    Babylon is the origin, the birthplace, of all pagan religions throughout the world today; including the origin of pagan priests, orders of nuns and monks, the worship of the sun gods and moon goddesses, the worship of things of the earth, and the beginning of secret societies.  For at the head of that occultic religion in Babylon was Satan, and thus the beginning of human sacrifices to Satan began in Babylon under Nimrod.  And the system of Babylon spread throughout the world, the evidence of which is in religions worldwide, and the practices that began in Babylon are still practices today, in the year 2012!
   All religions have been created out of the imaginations of men, and the imaginations of men have been fueled with the images of the occult practices of Babylon; and because of the deceptive power of Satan, people are under the assumption that they go to religions and false Christian churches to worship God, when they are, in fact, worshipping Satan without realizing Satan is the head of worship in their religions and false churches; and, because Satan is invisible, people tend to believe that the Devil does not exist---which is precisely the intent of Satan:  out of sight, out of mind.  Yet religion is the habitation of Satan!
   Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, said:  "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."  As a result, many people came to view Adolph Hitler as the Savior of Germany! 
   In Babylon, Nimrod married his mother, Semiramis, and she became a goddess just as her husband/son became a god-man, and she also gave birth to a baby, Tammuz, who became the son of god.  Semiramis became the "Queen of Heaven" as well as the "Mother of God", which gave birth to the cult of mother/son, as evidenced in religions across many nations, cultures, and languages; as such:
      Babylon:  Semiramis and Tammuz
      China:  Shingnoor (or Holy Mother) and child
      Germany:  Virgin Hertha and child
      Scandinavia:  Disa and child
      India has three:
         Isi and Iswara
         Devaki and Crishna
         Indraini and child
      Greece:  Aphrodite and Ceres
      Egypt:  Isis and Horus
      Ancient Rome:  Venus and Jupiter
      Modern Rome:  Mary and Jesus
      Islam:  Mary, but no son
   According to statistics, approximately 75% of the world's population practice the mother/goddess worship that originated in Babylon:  Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhism (and various sects), Hinduism, Japanese religions, Tribal religions, and Mohammedism. 
   Out of the earth's remaining population, an educated guess estimates that there are approximately 300 million true Christians living on the earth today.  Perhaps the total is not that high, for only God knows for sure.
   What does all of this information mean today?
   With the rising of the New World Order and with the world heading in the direction to accept the Green Religion, we are witnessing the return of Babylon with a man-god, Antichrist, or false messiah, just as Nimrod is a "picture" or a "type" of the first false messiah. 
   In the future, God will judge and destroy modern Babylon:  Babylon Rome.  Babylon United States.  Babylon United Nations.  Babylon Great Britain.  Babylon European Union.  And all other Babylons throughout the world. 
   Thus saith the Lord in the Holy Bible:
      The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
     Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD:  do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
      Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. 
      But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:  and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
      But they harkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.  (Jeremiah 7: 18-20; 23-24)
   Now is the time for people to make a choice:  to believe in the Light of Christ, or to believe in the darkness of Satan.  Refusing Christ, however, is an automatic vote for the darkness of Satan; for there can be no middle ground.
      ...but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.  (Joshua 24: 15)
   Amen.