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Teachings of “The Prophet” William Branham – Branham was an important figure in the Latter Rain movement, a clairvoyant who masqueraded as a Christian faith healer. Branham taught a variety of antichrist heresies, which the linked articles details.
Latter Rain was what today is called New Apostolic Reformation, IHOP, International House of Prayer and Dominion Theology. Even many aspects of the Word Faith “prosperity gospel” preachers began in the Latter Rain. Branham was believed because of his healing ministry, even though his theology contradicted the Bible. This demonstrates that many people will follow signs and wonders regardless of what the Bible says.
Of course, the Bible tells us that in the last days, this will be the condition of the apostate Church.
If the reader comes across the phrase “Haters are gonna hate,” probably the best advice is: FLEE! “Haters” is usually shorthand for “Those nasty people who can’t appreciate what I’m saying.” or “How dare you disagree with me!” or (if one is or pretending to be a Christian) “I’m sincere! Don’t use your Bible against me!”
The ones throwing around the “hater” (or “h8r”) labels are usually the same ones who are the most unbiblical. “Hater” is their protection against criticism for not rightly handling the Word of God.
Yes, Jesus did say “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” [John 15:18]
But those truly being hated for the name of Jesus–as opposed to those hating the name of Jesus–pretty much knew the job was dangerous before they took it.
They are NOT standing around writing and complaining about the “haters.”
Lewis and the Bible – A resourceful essay comparing the work of C.S. Lewis and the Bible on a website called The Morning Star (part of the Middle Earth Network).
Questions are then posed which are easily answered IF ONLY one would consult that quaint book known as the Bible.
“What are we doing that our culture is asking those questions of us as followers of Christ?”
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”
—John 15:18
“What does this mean for us as the body of Christ?”
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
—John 16:33
How can we respond to those search questions like Jesus?
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
—John 15:19
That’s a start.
Is this too harsh?
Time is short.
The world hates Christians. The only reason some are not aware of this situation is because compromise allows those sitting in church pews to live in the world, enjoy the world and have friendship with the world while maintaining the illusion that they buddies with Jesus.
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
—James 4:4
Nowhere is compromise and friendship with the world more on display than in America. What “The American Dream” or the “Good Life” really means is “Friendship with the World.”
“Get serious. James 4:4 isn’t literal! How do they expect us to live? This is 2014 after all!”
This writer once heard a pastor preach on how right it was to keep a job where a person was required to work on Sundays. Obviously, people had come to him with this on their minds: their conscience had bothered them.
The pastor pronounced it a right thing to keep the job. He even quoted from the Book of the World: “You gotta do what you gotta do.”
The pastor’s word seared their conscience, presumably so the person could keep working, keep contributing.
There’s a time coming when the “Christian” will no longer be able to lie to himself about his friendship with the world. He will have to make a choice and openly declare which is the most important: Jesus or the world.
The Bible tells us that most will continue to lie to themselves; that they can declare for the world and still have the friendship of Jesus. They do not believe their Bibles or else they believe that they are a “special case.”
Perhaps they have been taught that grace conquers all?
“Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you;”
—John 15:20
“An exercise that will break your heart?”
No. An exercise whose questions that should make Christians shout “Hallelujah!”–because if the Bible is true about the world hating the followers of Jesus, then doubters can be assured that the many glorious promises it contains are also true.
“…choose you this day whom ye will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
—Joshua 24:15
“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;”
—2 Thessalonians 2:3
The apostle Paul tells us that the “temple of God” is not a building made with human hands, but the church of God. The man of sin will rise up from out of the midst of the end times apostate Church: the whore of Babylon the Great.
“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.”—2 Thessalonians 2:4
Satan is raising up an end times army to subjugate the world.
“and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”—Revelation 13:3-4,7-8
Many of those in this end times satanic army will come from those who once sat in Christian churches.
“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;”
—1 Timothy 4:1
“And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.”
—Matthew 24:10
“for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,”
—2 Thessalonians 2:3
Because these folks had not a love of the truth, God will send them strong delusion so that many believe the lie of their desire. Because of this delusion, all will remain deceived into thinking they serve the God of the Bible when, in fact they are serving Satan. Because they didn’t have a love of the truth, they all are damned.
“because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
—2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
Satan is raising up an end times army. His end times army is even now preparing the way for the coming of the man of sin and his apostate whore Church. This army will claim dominion over the entire earth. This army will be filled with people who are deceived. This army will claim to be from God Almighty, but the Bible says this army will be of a false god: Satan, the dragon, the prince of this world.
The army will claim that it needs to “reclaim the culture for God.” The army will claim to receive its authority from self-appointed, self-anointed prophets and apostles.
The army will claim it has dominion over the earth.
The Bible tells believers this deceived end times army WILL take dominion over every kindred, tongue and nation.
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;”
—Revelation 13:11, 13-14
Satan’s whore Church will fool many into believing it is from God. It will ask people to obtain the Mark of God for themselves and their family–so they’ll be “protected.”
They all claim they will take dominion over the earth before Jesus comes back. The Bible says an end times Church will take dominion and rule the world: the whore Church.
This last phase of divine war was entered into when IHOP got going. Bickle teaches we will release God’s end-time judgments (written about in The Revelation) because of the power of prophetic prayer. Bickle has never been one to let context get in his way. It does not matter that the context of Rev. 8 plainly states that it is an angel that God uses to release His judgments (Rev. 8:1-5) not some army of super-saints.
It all boils down to human works. […] I hope you noted who does the work in Bickle’s scheme of thinking. We do the work, poor Jesus is just sitting on the right hand of His Father (Hebrews 8:1) in the throne room of heaven waiting for us to grow up and act right.
—IHOP’s Three Ingredients which move the hand of God
They all claim they are working for Jesus. The Bible says they are clever counterfeits. Their operation will look like Christianity (lamb) but it will speak and be from Satan (dragon).
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”
—Revelation 13:11
SATAN IS RAISING UP AN ARMY: Is God raising up an end times army? What does the Bible say?
Satan’s troops are gathering. They go by many names. They all scheme for earthly power and the things of this world–which is why earthly dominion, power, miracles, signs and wonders are so important to them.
This end times satanic army will claim to be “the army of God.” However, it will be an army of men, by men and for men–and controlled by the devil and his counterfeit, lying spirits. This army will include many elements of the demonic.
This army, this church, claims it will “pray down the judgments of God” on the antichrist.
III.PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF THE PRAYER MOVEMENT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
The primary function of the End – Time Prayer Movement is to pray for God’s Kingdom to be established on earth as it is in Heaven (Matt.6:10; Eph 1:9-10). Specifically, the Prayer Movement is pictured in the book of Revelation, partnering with Jesus in the release of God’s “action plan” for the establishing of His Kingdom on the Earth in fullness. This has three main dimensions:
A. Releasing the temporal judgments of God against the antichrist and his world empire.
B. Releasing Angelic Help to Prevail in the Heavenly Realm
Bickle teaches that Jesus’ second coming can be delayed or sped up according to the degree of the church’s spiritual maturity and readiness. He declared that most Christians are waiting passively for Jesus to return, when in actuality, Jesus is waiting for the church to prepare itself as the pure Bride of Christ and to ready itself to launch the last-day divine war to drive evil from the earth and cleanse it so that it can be filled with God’s love and glory. Bickle does not simply preach that the church will go through the Great Tribulation sealed by God’s sovereign power, but that the end-times church will actually cause God’s judgments to be released on the earth through prophetic prayer. In other words, the end-time praying church will not simply be helpless martyrs during the Great Tribulation; it will victoriously establish justice on the earth by releasing the devastating Great Tribulation judgments on the Antichrist’s global evil empire.
The Bible says that this satanic Church will make it appear they are “releasing the temporal judgments of God”–but that the power will be coming from Satan, not God. The man of sin and his cohort will claim that this satanic power validates that they are from God.
Of those who believe the Bible, the followers of the enemy will ask “Can’t God do miracles and signs and wonders?”
But the Bible has already warned believers about the source of this power. God’s Word informs us who is really doing these amazing miracles. God will not act contrary to His Word.
“And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,”
—Revelation 13:13
“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,”
—2 Thessalonians 2:9
“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
—Matthew 24:24
The Bible warns of chaos, great disturbances and great tribulation in the last days. Are believers to join a great end times army? Is this what God’s Word advises to do? Are we to chase after miracles, signs and lying wonders? Are we to join a worldwide Church that features signs and wonders and amazing manifestations of spirits?
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
GNOSTIC TEACHINGS IN THE CHURCH SPLIT THE BODY OF CHRIST
PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE
DOMINION THEOLOGY – MODERN-DAY PROPHETS, APOSTLES
BRIDAL ESCHATOLOGY
LATTER RAIN ARMY OF GOD
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling, One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
—Ephesians 4:4-6
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: “So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. “
—Romans 12:4-5
“For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.”
—1 Corinthians 10:17
“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.”
—1 Corinthians 12:12-14
“But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.”
—1 Corinthians 12:18-20
“That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.”
—1 Corinthians 12:25
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”
—Colossians 3:15
Seems fairly obvious from the cited Scripture: there is one Body of Christ. One Body, many members with Jesus Christ as the Head. That’s one of the principles of Christianity–as the many verses cited above attest.
There are not two bodies, there is one.
Yet, gnosticim–a belief system that the apostles and early church ferociously battled and which has made a tremendous comeback in the modern American Christian Church–constantly attempts to divide the Body of Christ into two portions.
According to gnostic doctrine and strategy: one part of the Body of Christ has gnosticism’s super secret knowledge of new revelations and teachings. The other part of the Body has to make do with the Bible alone.
One part of of the Body is elevated through their spiritual experiences, feelings and mysticism.
The other part of the Body walks by faith alone.
But it is clear: the Bible teaches one Body of Christ. Not two.
Gnostic salvation is by experience and knowledge–and many American Christian churches have rushed headlong into obtaining extra-biblical experiences and knowledge. Many have elevated experiences, feelings and emotions above God’s Word while elevating new revelation to a position, if not surpassing God’s Word, to where it sits beside Scripture.
FOUR POPULAR TEACHINGS IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH WHICH SPLIT THE BODY OF CHRIST
BODY OF CHRIST: ONE BODY, many members
At its base, gnosticism appeals to the snob in every human: follow the gnostic gurus, learn their secret knowledge, practice their rituals and regimens and become a super, elite Christian divided from the rest of the Body of Christ.
Gnosticism uses this human desire to be an “insider” and to be exalted among a select group to snare its believers. Gnosticism begins with the lure of knowledge, revelation, knowledge and experiences. It progresses until it divides the Body of Christ along those same lines. Finally, it unveils its endgame: it the same lie the serpent told Eve in the garden.
“Ye shall be as gods.”
The essence of the ancient Gnosticism was its emphasis on knowledge as the single guarantee of salvation; so much so that real salvation could only be had by those who were “in” on the knowledge, the initiate, the elite, who were permitted to know what the masses were not; salvation came not by virtue of who and what we have become in Christ, in and through His grace, but through information, “understanding who we are,” “being in touch with our inner divinity”, “becoming aware of the `real’ self,” with what our potential is, and what it is that blocks us from achieving that divine status. Americans are consumed with the need for `information.’
—The Problem of Gnosis in the American churches
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
—Genesis 3:5
This desire to be part of an elite group of insiders with secret, insider knowledge–to “be as gods”–and experiences and power that others do not possess is the drawing card of secret societies, such as the Masons and Jesuits.
Fallen men most definitely understand the seductive allure of forbidden knowledge.
“Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible.”
—Adam Weishaupt, Jesuit and founder of the secret society, the Illuminati
Here are just a few of the popular doctrines in American churches which split the Body of Christ into two parts.
This is something that gnosticism has labored long and hard to accomplish. NOTE: One other thing that ties these four teachings together is the unbiblical teaching of Christ returning more than once.
How do they get around this? A variety of ways: pre-tribulationists claim that Christ come first TO His Church (but doesn’t touch the earth) and then comes TO the earth (Jesus touches down on planet earth). Dominionists claim that Christ returns through His Church to first set up the kingdom.
None of this is found in the Bible.
DOMINION THEOLOGY
There are many strands of the antichrist Dominion Theology. Practically all of its sects teach that an end times Church will rise up, take dominion over the planet and cleanse the earth of everyone who does not join this Church (the “evil-doers”).
This doctrine teaches that the Church must take over the earth and present it to Jesus before He can return. This is another Jesus than taught in the Bible.
This Church will feature modern-day self-appointed, self-anointed apostles and prophets and their followers. This Church will demonstrate miracles and power and continue receiving new revelations.
Dominionism teaches Jesus first returns through his body, those in the Church which establishes dominion over all the earth.
Their doctrine divides the Body of Christ into two groups: the follower of the whore Dominion Church and those who will adhere to the Bible alone.
Two bodies of Christ: not Biblical.
PRE-TRIBULATON RAPTURE
In the doctrines of the pre-tribulation rapture, true believers will be snatched off the earth before a period of tribulation. Those who are left behind get a second chance at redemption. Those redeemed who undergo persecution are in one part of the Body of Christ, while those who were sucked up to heaven are in another part.
In fact, according to some story lines, one portion of the Body will be in heaven (the reason the currently apostate Church is taken to heaven is never really explained. What is it that qualifies this portion of the Body to escape persecution?) while the other portion of the Body will be suffering refinement through persecution.
Supposedly, one portion of the Body will be eating and drinking with Jesus–celebrating the avoidance to witness for Jesus when things get tough–while the other portion of the Body will actually be witnessing for Jesus when that witness is most needed.
Revelation 20:4 tells of the “penalty” those who are “Left Behind” suffer.
“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
—Revelation 20:4
Those who were Left Behind to witness for Jesus get to “live and reign with Christ for a thousand years.” Modern Christianity has been deceived into thinking that the period of tribulation is God’s wrath. But God’s wrath is for His enemies; ONLY for His enemies.
“God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.”
—Nahum 1:2
According to the pre-tribulation rapture doctrines, true believers who are Left Behind endure God’s wrath and then are rewarded by living and reigning with Christ for one thousand years.
Indeed, is this not an odd way for God to treat His enemies?!?
Two bodies of Christ: not Biblical.
These doctrines have been refined by some to introduce further separation among the Body. Some teach that only the very best Christians–those who have revelation and experiences and knowledge and purity beyond other believers–will be part of this pre-tribulation rapture.
Some call this purified separate group of believers the “Bride of Christ,” which they teach is NOT Christ’s Church, but is selected from within Christ’s Church. These teachers will instruct one on how to be part of this “Bride.”
Once gnostic doctrine is introduced; once gnosticism begins dividing the One Body of Christ: it’s hard for that doctrine to remain in one place. It will always seek greater divisions. Gnosticism always seeks to fracture the One Body using elitism, knowledge and super-spirituality as its fault lines.
Again, two bodies of Christ: not Biblical.
There are numerous Scripture ( Matthew 24;29-31, Mark 13:24-27 and Revelation 7:13-14 for starters ) which clearly demonstrates that this recently-constructed rapture doctrine is in error. But one of the starkest testimonies against it is the many Scriptures testifying to the One Body of Christ.
Not two.
There is so much more which could be said about this doctrine which has invaded the modern Church after billions of dollars worth of free publicity by the Corporate Media for Left Behind and, in the 1970s, Late Great Planet Earth. There is so much more to say on this topic, it likely will be the subject of an upcoming article.
BRIDAL ESCHATOLOGY
Primarily a teaching of Mike Bickle’s International House of Prayer, this teaching divides the Body of Christ into two groups.
The IHOPpers believe they make up one group (Bride of Christ) of Super Christians–who pray and purify themselves after the manner of classic Catholic ascetics. Asceticism is an offshoot of gnosticism–and everyone else, including many true Christians who do not believe their unbiblical teachings, make up another group.
Again, two bodies of Christ are taught–which is a tip-off that the teaching is gnostic in origin.
LATTER RAIN ARMY OF GOD
The Latter Rain was a group of heretics who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s and then went underground. They have emerged again under the banner of Joel’s Army, Manifest Sons of God and other names.
Their doctrine is that God is raising up an elite army of superhuman super Christians to battle evil in the end times. This scenario is completely missing from the Bible, but who doesn’t want to have superhuman powers? Who doesn’t want to be calling the shots as part of an end times Army of God?
“No matter how we view Gnosticism, it is always an elitist faith. . . . There are certain groups of Christians that fall into the category of ‘elitism’ notwithstanding their affiliations. They use the same catch phrases: ‘Come out of your man-made systems’, ‘denominational walls are breaking down’, and ‘Christians need to be “delivered” from “Spirits of Religion” and “sound doctrine.”‘ The guilty groups are primarily among the Charismatics. . .. the common denominator is the ‘elitist’ concept. This [heresy] is set out as follows:
“God is forming an overcoming company within the body of Christ called, among other names, ‘The Manchild Company,’ . . . The Manchild Company is the true church. Those that are the real Christians are the Overcomers. . . and are becoming more and more perfected so that they will be able to drive Satan from the world. This must be done before Jesus can return. They believe that the church is not ready for the coming of the Lord. They are not looking for His imminent coming. They believe that Christ must come TO His Church before He comes FOR His Church.”
“All do not necessarily use this terminology, but the premises are the same. The language is becoming increasingly militant as the ‘Army of God,’ ‘Gideon’s Army’ or ‘Joel’s Army’ takes shape. A common thread is that they are expecting a ‘New Order’: ‘In all revolutions there are noisy and dangerous times as the OLD ORDER is replaced by the new. . . after the dust settles, we can proceed to build the beautiful kingdom that the Lord has purposed from the foundations of the World,’ says Vinson Synan, one of the leaders of AD 2000 (Fulness, Jan.-Feb. 1990, p. 24).”
This was written in 1995.
If your church is preaching that “God is raising up an end times army” or a special group of Christians will perform end times miracles and signs and wonders: FLEE!
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
—Revelation 18:4
The Body of Christ: One Body, many members with Christ as the Head.
American Christianity has a long history of churches which have primed their members to think of a division among the Body of Christ, especially the Charismatic sects. Other Christians have divided the Body of Christ into “dead” and “alive” churches, depending upon their style of worship.
The enemy has been attacking the concept of “One Body, many members” from the very beginning of the Christian Church. He continues to attack it today.
Gnosticism is alive and well in the American Church–and its doctrines usually try to divide the Body of Christ in two.
There is only ONE Body of Christ.
Anyone who tells you differently is not following the Bible.
“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.”
–1 Corinthians 12:12-14
The Corporate Media has been awash with talk of persecution and martyrdom of Christians.
In Syria.
In the Middle East.
All over the world.
Why is that?
Has the Corporate Media suddenly developed this great love for Christians–a group it absolutely despises? Is it trying to warn believers? Do they really believe that “Brotherhood of Man” stuff they’re constantly pushing on the great unwashed?
No.
No.
And no.
It’s all about fear.
THE FEAR AND THE PIT AND THE SNARE
The Coming Persecution – This article is a good overview of the stated objectives of the New Age and what its ascendency means to the true believers of Jesus Christ.
That said, this article has much good information about the trees (the New Age component of the coming New World Order spirit of antichrist beast system) but it doesn’t really see the forest (the New Age is but one component; representing the well-promoted face of coming persecution. The fear of which is meant to herd Christians to something worse than physical persecution.) Tough as it is for the modern American Christian to believe, there are worse things than physical persecution.
Like eternity in a lake of fire.
But the article gets a lot right, even if the author still holds to some of the mass-marketed eschatology of the Modern American Prophecy Industry. He makes some canny observations. [Emphasis added.]
“The Lord Jesus Christ reveals to us that mystery Babylon will be responsible not only for bringing the Antichrist to power, but for the atrocities of having both Christians and Jews put to death. New Age Babylon is referred to as being “drunk with the blood of the saints” and “the blood of the witnesses of Jesus” (Revelation 17:1-6). Since the great whore of Babylon rides the beast, she fuels his cause with religious terror and spiritual reasons as to why Christians and Jews must be put to death.”
American Christians are being primed with the fear of persecution in order to more easily herd them later into the boxcars of the beast. To the great relief of the lukewarm Christian, these boxcars will not be headed to a FEMA camp or a place of execution. For the lukewarm and deceived American pew-sitter, these will not even be literal boxcars–at least not for them.
For the lukewarm and deceived, these boxcars will be headed to a Church! (Maybe it’ll have a coffee shop?)
IF ONLY American church-goers would stumble across the many passages of their Bibles which speak of tribulation and affliction, they would discover that there are far worse things than persecution in the flesh. Far from being the “wrath of God” as many have been carefully taught, persecution is associated with words like “rejoicing” and “glory.”
“So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:”
–2 Thessalonians 1:4
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
–2 Corinthians 12:10
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”
–Matthew 5:11
“For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.”
–Mark 13:19
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;”
–2 Corinthians 4:17
“Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;”
—1 Peter 4:1
But those in the end times churches will experience neither persecution nor glory. And since they will be under a “strong delusion,” the chances of anyone reversing course don’t look so good.
The Bible has repeatedly warned us. In fact, Isaiah 24 lays out the whole New Age/Whore of Babylon game plan to any willing to read it–particularly verses 17 and 18.
“Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.”
—Isaiah 24:17-18
The fear of persecution will drive millions of deluded, lukewarm pew-sitters who play at Christianity into the pit of the end times American Babylonian whore Church. From the pit of that church, God’s eventual judgments on the earth will snare them.
“I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.”
—Jeremiah 50:24
Not a pretty scenario–and it could be avoided if only Americans had a love for the truth.
NEW AGE END TIMES PERSECUTION of the SAINTS: The Rider of the Pale Horse?
Make no mistake: there will be persecution and cleansing under the New Age, New World Order.
“New Age leader, Barbara Marx Hubbard has stated, “people will either change or die,” for “that is the choice.” According to those who would concur with Hubbard, Christians will need to be more open minded so they too can receive the mark of the Antichrist. If they will not join with the global community and its agenda, they will be killed by the “opened minded” New Agers. She states that, “This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it; be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed…. The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.”
—Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Selection Process
“We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, death… We do this for the sake of the world.”
–Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Book of Co-Creation, p. 59
Of course Hubbard is wrong. The New Age is not the rider of the pale horse. The New Age may run beside the pale horse. Kinda like an annoying rainbow-colored little yapping dog. For some time the New Age and the Luciferians have very publicly held up large, brightly-colored posters that proclaimed “Hey! Look at us! We’re the pale horse! Fear us! Are you scared yet? Come on, fear us!”
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
—Revelation 6:8
So the New Age claims that it will be cleansing the planet–and there will be some of that going on–and the “purging (killing)” will be purposely horrific.
WHORE OF BABYLON: Worldwide American Apostate Church?
But there’s another group who’s also itching to cleanse the earth.
“The way to achieve dominion is not to become “America’s Taliban,” but rather to have kingdom-minded people in every one of the Seven Mountains: Religion, Family, Education, Government, Media, Arts & Entertainment, and Business so that they can use their influence to create an environment in which the blessings and prosperity of the Kingdom of God can permeate all areas of society.”
—C. Peter Wagner, The New Apostolic Reformation is not a Cult!, Charisma magazine, Aug 24, 2011
“And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.”
—Revelation 17:9
Sounds great! Little wonder most American pew-sitters won’t have to be herded into such a refuge: they’ll run to it. Like the New Age, Wagner also talks a lot about “paradigm shifts” and “comfort zones.” But the dragon’s whore church that the apostate will embrace also talks of a great end times cleansing. [Emphasis added.]
Yet, not all NAR leaders admit to promoting dominionism. Some NAR leaders, such as Mike Bickle of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri, directly deny that they are promoting dominionism or, what he calls, “Dominion Theology.”30 But despite his denial, Bickle’s teachings are in line with “Kingdom Now” dominionism, including his teaching that the end-time church will cleanse the earth of evil. According to Bickle, this feat will be accomplished by end-time Christians — under the leadership of apostles and prophets — who will say “prophetic” prayers that will release the Great Tribulation judgments on the kingdom of the Antichrist.”
Totally 100 percent NOT biblical–unless one is talking about the satanic Whore of Babylon Church.
Then it’s completely, absolutely 100 percent biblical.
But since when has not being biblical slowed down antichrist ambitions? As long as it LOOKS biblical enough to fool most American pew-sitters, it will be close enough for one-world government work.
“The major tenets of the adherents of this sect include the belief that we are living in the final years before the return of Christ. However, they differ from dispensationalists in their belief that they must defeat evil on the earth and purify the existing churches before Jesus can return. Furthermore, the building of this “Kingdom of God” is not to be delayed until after the Rapture, or to be built in a heavenly sphere. They believe that they have a mandate to build the Kingdom in the present and in the physical realm.”
—Palin’s Churches and the New Apostolic Reformation
One has to admit it makes little difference who does the actual killing/cleansing: Hubbard’s little New Age Luciferian yapping dog or the much more dangerous “Satan’s Whore of Babylon worldwide Church of the Signs and Lying Wonders” crew.
The saints will be just as dead.
“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”
—Revelation 13:5,7
“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”
—Daniel 7:25
But the Whore will beckon and offer a safe haven, so that’s where most Americans who congregate in the churches will be. At least they won’t be lonely: they’ll have their strong delusion to keep them company.
That’s pretty much the choice for true believers: death by beheading OR death by being forced to listen to the yak-yak-yak of the Dominionist antichrist Whore of Babylon fake apostles and prophets–and then beheading.
Hate to be the one to break it: Not a lot of wiggle room.
Of course, the REAL choice is between persecution or perdition. But unfortunately, many will be looking to save their lives.
IF ONLY they believed their Bibles.
“Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it”
—Luke 17:33
The end times were never about charts and timelines. Or guessing the day and and hour. Or counting the days until the next Jewish feast. Or temples to be built with human hands. Or fake blood moons. Or guessing the nationality of that scary guy in the AntiChrist suit. Or waiting for a worldwide revival without repentance. Or renouncing the better covenant in favor of the Old under the guise of “Daniel’s 70th week for the Jews.” Or, being comfortably sucked out of Babylon before proving our love for the One who already proved His. Or any of the other cunningly-devised fables.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
—Revelation 12:11
The end times were always about forcing those who honor God and Jesus with their lips to make a real choice.
That choice isn’t to run to the end times satanic whore church of the dragon which will be praying down Satan’s fire and other signs and lying wonders. If you are in that Church, you’ve already made your choice.
The real choice: Either stand up for Jesus Christ when the whhiizzzzz of the guillotine is in the air.
Or sit down and shut up.
For eternity.
Because if one stands up for Jesus Christ in the end times–the REAL Jesus, not the other Jesus that’s being taught in so many churches in America; not Baby Jesus; not Jesus the Passionate Groom; not Jesus the Presence unleashed in you for POWER or Buddy Jesus the Love-God: the real Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God of the Bible Jesus–there’s not going to be anywhere to hide.
(Unless God, in his sovereign power, has decided you need to be hidden–and if one is worshiping another Jesus, that Jesus has no power to save, either eternally or physically.)
There are those who do make it through. In spite of what the Dominionists/NAR/IHOPpers teach, there is a rapture–though it takes on a much different form than what 95 percent of America’s worldly church-goers have been spoon-fed.
It’s not the the corrupt Christian Corporate Media version.
CHRISTIANITY AND THE OCCULT: The American Church infiltrated by occult imagery.
CHRISTIANITY:
References to the Occult Phoenix Permeate the Church
THE OCCULT and AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
While not exactly a love affair, American Christianity has long made a compromising peace with occult imagery and practices. (A brief history will be the subject of an upcoming article.) But the occult references have REALLY taken off during these first 14 years of the 21st century.
From The Circle Maker to lyrics in popular Christian “praise and worship” songs, one can’t do a little research into American Christianity without tripping over references to the occult which permeate the Church.
What brought this all about was a Christian website this writer stumbled across yesterday, which had a story about a (presumably) Christian boy. Long story short: the boy’s house burned down but something good came out of the house burning down. The next to last line of the story was set apart. It ran something like this.
“He found new life within the ashes of his old.”
This is a concept which is totally occult. There is nothing in Christianity, the Bible–even the Roman Catholic Church stays away from this–which states that new life rises from the ashes. There is however the occult story of the phoenix–which is where this symbolism originates.
Because the sentence is such a red flag, another line was added to the end of the article–after the occult reference–to make it seem biblical.
Something about the boy receiving “beauty for ashes.”
Oh, well that makes it alright then.
While trying to find the story and the website that featured it, a Google search for “In the ashes a new life” turned up
Out of the Ashes, A New Life – A September 2003 SERMON! This writer read the sermon in the hope that the person who gave it would provide some scripture for the occult symbology his sermon attached to Ezekiel. Alas, there was none–because none exists.
The book, Late Great Planet Earth, was responsible for introducing many previously-unknown concepts into popular Christian eschatology. The book really was ground-breaking in that regard. No wonder it was heavily promoted by the world and sold over 20 million copies,
However, one thing LGPE did get right was its prediction of a coming occult explosion within Christianity. It’s hard to find a period of American history where the occult was not “exploding” or flourishing in broad daylight. The entire 20th century was 100 years worth of the occult making inroads into ordinary everyday life. This process began with Hollywood and the movies and accelerated after WW2 with the widespread use of television.
Hollywood’s link with motion pictures generally began in 1912. Only a little over 100 years later, the occult is so engrained in America that it’s imagery is found on Christian websites, in Christian songs and even in Christian sermons. Americans don’t give it a second thought because they’ve been indoctrinated in the occult. The great majority simply don’t know any better–and many who are informed dismiss it outright or laugh it off.
In Galatians 5, Paul writes of the “works of the flesh.” Among them are “witchcraft” and “heresies.”
Revelation 22:15 speaks of those who will not be allowed to enter New Jerusalem.
“For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”
—Revelation 22:15
After God destroys Babylon the Great in Revelation 18, “a mighty angel” declares
“for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
—Revelation 18:23
While there is much finger-pointing at the Roman Catholic Church as the vehicle Satan uses to gather worshipers in the end times–and with good reason–after a few hours of running down leads one suspects that another culprit will also somehow be involved.
The Bible describes the end times one-world church that Satan sets up to worship him.
It will eventually worship Satan, but it will be preceded by false prophets and false apostles preaching another gospel, another Christ and/or another Jesus. These “ministers of righteousness” will claim to have a special anointing and will fool many Christians;
It will be exported throughout the world by a country called (MYSTERY) Babylon the Great.
Come to think of it, that end times satanic church is beginning to bear a striking resemblance to American Christianity.
“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.”
—2 Corinthians 11:14-15
Escaping notice are the churches where the building’s exterior looks the same, but where dozens of daily compromises have hollowed out its ability to preach the gospel; where dozens of daily compromises eventually turn the message of eternal salvation through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ into something else.
2- “Pharmakeia” (The modern word we use is pharmacopoeia or “drug making”) is the Greek word rendered “sorcery” in Revelation 9:20-21. But the word is also rendered as “witchcraft” in Galatians 5:20. So many have taught that the word meant “drug abuse” with an emphasis on illegal drugs.
But that is utter speculation. Pharmakeia nowhere carries the connotation of “illegal drug abuse.” The word simply means “medication, drugs or poison.”
The USA is the most legally-medicated country in the world by far. And that does not count the numerous compounds, chemicals and additives in the food, in the air and in the water about which most Americans are not so very much aware.
3- At one time, pharmacists (pharmakeia) and medicine was looked upon with a much more skeptical eye than most moderns possess. Surgeons were usually barbers (hence the red-and-white striped barber’s pole) and pharmaceuticals/drugs/potions/compounds were understood to be a type of poison. Which makes perfect sense as one of the meanings of phramakeia is “poison.”
“If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity”
—Oliver.Wendall Holmes, Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
“It’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing.”
—Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
Americans have been indoctrinated to believe that Prescribed Drugs = Good.
But is this true?
Before it was known for its aspirin, Bayer formulated and sold Heroin (that was the trademarked name) as a “non-addictive pain medication.” Heroin was also sold as a cough suppressant.
Amphetamines (speed) were first synthesized in 1887 (The late 1800s in Germany really were the Golden Age of Future Illegal Drugs.) It was marketed as an inhaler by Smith, Kline and French in 1937.
Prozac was first marketed as a diet pill. Asparame failed as an anti-ulcer drug before it was eventually introduced as an artificial sweetener.
Americans–and this includes American Christians–have gotten used to putting a lot of foreign substances in their bodies.
4- From remarks, emails and comments read over the last year, it’s apparent a great many American Christians believe that God will “cut them some slack“–if not for their actions then because of their good intentions.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast 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 Bible doesn’t say that God’s people are destroyed for a lack of good intentions. It says they are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. Here’s some of what the Bible says about good intentions.
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
—1 John 3:18
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
—James 4:17
Some will protest “God knows my heart.”
That is true: God does know the heart. And what does God tell us about the human heart?
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
—Jeremiah 17:9
The question that is never asked: which is the bigger problem today: sin or legalism?
6- Why has the enemy duplicated so many ungodly organizations? One understands that there will be deception and some groups will be used as distractions and red herrings. But the sheer replication of organizations with allegiance to the enemy is staggering.
A few of these organizational duplications are mentioned in this article. One suspects that their ultimate purpose is to assist the great end times deception.
No doubt there will be some who protest that the tone of this piece is too “harsh.”
Fair enough.
To those who advocate a softer tone, this writer will plead shortness of time and obvious lack of results from previous pieces which employed softer tones.
This piece is meant to inform.
What the reader does with the information is another matter entirely.
End Times Prophecy Report HEADLINES
December 31, 2013
NEW YEAR’S EVE
And OPINION
It’s the last day of 2013.
Some never thought we’d make it out of 2012–and here we are with 2013 nearly in the rear view mirror of history.
Many Americans will wonder: what will 2014 bring? Will things improve? Will things continue to go downhill–and if the answer is “yes,” will the ride down be long and winding or short, steep and brutal?
The USA will continue its plunge downward. The middle-aged middle class will notice it more because the corruption and thievery at the top of the political food change affect them now. No, there is no political solution to a spiritual problem. That includes ‘getting involved’ with whatever schemes of men happen to fit your political leanings (left or right); moving out of the country; or taking the revolution road to revolt and civil disturbance.
All of these are doomed to failure–though the revolution one will look more and more attractive to some as the revolt drums begin to be beaten by the better known of the rich and celebrated and some of the elite themselves.
It’s later than you think.
That observation applies whether one is Christian or non-Christian.
Those wondering “Later? What’s he talking about?” can read the Book of Revelation for the highlights. This will prove a challenge as many of the youth cannot read and fewer can comprehend. The Bible itself is not encouraging to mockers and scoffers who look to the Book for help on what’s about to befall the earth.
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
—1 Corinthians 2:14
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;”
—1 Corinthians 1:18
There are enough pew-sitters having trouble with what God’s Word actually says, let alone the lost and dying in the world.
But, it’s all coming down the back stretch and, believe it or not, America (in spite of the constant doom being shoveled by the media) will be the last place to feel it. This is for a variety of reasons.
In the meantime, the deception is everywhere and Americans struggle under layer upon layer of it. Those who depend on truth to come from the Corporate Media–ANYBODY in the Corporate Media–or politics (ANYBODY in politics) will receive more deception.
And deservedly so.
2014 will see more distractions and deception. In fact, many Americans will see with their own eyes what happens and yet, believe the words of those in the political and media and ‘spiritual’ cartels over what they see with their own eyes.
English: Leonard “Chico” Marx (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
JUDGE: DHS complicit in human trafficking which funds drug cartels – We’re seeing an awful lot of stories in the media these days which delegitimize the federal government. Is it because the federal government and the Corporate Media have an adversarial relationship all of a sudden? Is this because the Corporate Media is so concerned with keeping Americans well-informed? If so, why have we not seen these stories before? Why now? What is their purpose?
Quotes: ETPR Quote Collections – Quotes from the Bible, about holidays, the New World Order, the One-world government, the one-world religion, persecution of Christians.
“It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.” –Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 26-28)
This is a grand description of all media controversies–which are meant to distract from more important events–which includes the famous two-week one just concluded involving the Duck Pretenders of Duck Dynasty.
You’re Men Aren’t You? – Calls to take matters into your own hands are an American tradition. And here we have a woman questioning the manhood of men who might disagree with her prescription for what ails the USA. There’s a lot of that going around these days.
There’s going to be a lot more in the days to come.
IRAQ: Iraq War Framing for Dummies – Excellent article discussing the many Corporate Media narratives which surrounded the Iraq War. Referred to as “frames,” these bits of propaganda were used to sell the American public on the need for fighting the “War on Terror” not only rhetorically, but with real bullets and boots on the ground.
Heretics List – Very large list–yet, the author admits that publishing a complete list of false teachers is almost impossible. In the days in which we live, the number would have to be almost beyond calculation.
CIA-5-0 – A look into the murky background of Barack Obama’s “family.” It is a very deep web of deceit–but it is fascinating. This writer delved into that web during the writing of The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama, but there is so much out there, one book could not contain it all. And it is VERY time-consuming to sift through what one comes across to determine if the information is real, false; planted or genuine.
The average reader will shake their head and ask, “How can this be so?” What the average American has been taught about their presidents and those presidents’ actual history are two different, altogether different bodies of knowledge.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is either blissfully or willfully ignorant.
I Beseech You To Keep Away From The Evil Pleasures Of This World. Heart Trouble! – This comes from a Christian in Nigeria. It is sometimes useful to see what Christians around the world have to say and compare it to what Christians in America are talking about. This fellow seems content and genuinely happy for a life in Christ–regardless of his outside circumstances.
My Seven Years Working for the Elijah List by Kevin Kleint – Elilah’s List is a mailing list for modern-day “prophets.” What recipients get in their email is breath-takingly bad–if one is a strict follower of the Bible and Jesus Christ.
And yet we know that
“And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.”
—Luke 21:8
Turn on any so-called “Christian TV network” and “many” who “come in my name” may be seen, one after another without leaving the comfort of the viewer’s couch or easy chair.
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