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billiefan2000
February 29th, 2008, 11:58 AM
The Enemy Assigns Roles

My latest column has been posted at Christian Worldview Network, “

The Moses Code Movie Blasphemy and the Big Shift”.


It is a summary of many of the things covered here at Slice recently regarding the tidal wave of New Spirituality deception

sweeping the globe and how it is being presented by various teachers and authors from the same script.


I point to the fact that just as the Lord assigns us roles in the Kingdom of God to do His will, the enemy has servants who do his will.

You will find low-level proponents of eastern spirituality and occult teachings in every town in America.

These are the people who open their living rooms to meetings discussing

Neale Donald Walsch’s latest book,

or Oprah’s latest author/shill for the anti-Christ.




These are the ones who will be holding some of the thousand screenings

and prayer vigils worldwide with the opening of the Moses Code Movie.


Then you go on up the chain.

There are the intermediate false teachers and leaders who work on a regional level or who take the writings of the big kahunas and spread them far and wide.

Then there are those who promote wickedness in high places.

That would be men like Congressman Dennis Kucinich

who works in the halls of Congress promoting his Department of Peace along with his New Age friends.



There are all the authors and speakers who sell millions of books like

Neale Donald Walsch

Marianne Williamson

Deepak Chopra

Eckhart Tolle

and so forth.


The enemy has his own in the media like Oprah Winfrey who serve as fountainheads of this spiritual poison.

Oprah right now is featuring a 365-day course on the Course in Miracles on her satellite radio program,

taught by Marianne Williamson herself.

Oprah made Marianne Williamson what she is by featuring her book,

A Return to Love: Reflections on a Course in Miracles,

many years ago.

Overnight, she was a bestselling author.

Oprah is now pushing The New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle.

There is no false prophet she will not promote to millions.

She’s a big one.

Then there are those who work within the ranks of evangelical Christianity.

These subversive false teachers are assigned various audiences.

Some are given the task of deceiving the unthinking, shallow masses.

These false teachers smile a lot and hand out spiritual bubble gum to all takers.

These are popular guys who don’t talk about big shifts or the great emergence, they tell you that God wants you to be happy!


God wants you to have your best life now.

They speak of wealth and prosperity and they lead their followers around because of the lust of the eyes and the flesh.

They have an easy job to do because everybody loves a circus and they are only too happy to provide one.

For some audiences, Satan chooses men and women who are gifted with great subtlety.

These are the ones who spend their careers undermining confidence in the Word of God.

They question old truth, they redefine, they re-imagine, they twist and distort.


They travel to conferences far and wide where evangelical pastors and youth leaders attend.


Their special script reads, “Yea, hath God said?”

They are described in Jude:

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.


Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all


their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts;


and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

They are assigned to deceive the thinking people.


This target audience is deeply sincere, highly intelligent but they are poorly taught in biblical truth and sound doctrine.

These are often young people burned out on circus church.

They hunger for something substantive and real.

But because their feet are not solidly on the rock of Christ,

they are vulnerable to these gifted, forked-tongue leaders.

These false teachers are hand picked because

of their specific gifts in producing error on in intellectual level.


No bubble gum here,


just a hard core push for the rejection of Scriptural authority and a sneering contempt for those who hold to biblical truths.

These are men in black turtle necks with a charming, witty presentation.


They are educated, erudite, articulate, and as subtle as the serpent.


They play off the insecurities and frustrations of young people utterly fed up with McChurch.

They speak at colleges where these young people are alone for the first time,

away from the guidance of Christian parents.


These are higher order false teachers and they are legion today in the publishing world.

In times like these, we need to see what the enemy is doing so we are not, as St. Paul wrote, ignorant of his devices.

Error needs to be met with truth.

Scripture tells us to contend, and to put on our armor first.

God is responsible for the results.

We will not stop the tidal wave of error, but we will have sent truth forth for those remaining souls who have ears to hear.

Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,


And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng
Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong…

Careless seems the great Avenger; history’s pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness ‘twixt old systems and the Word;


Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-


Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

–James Russell Lowell



http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=411

seekingtruth1
February 29th, 2008, 12:22 PM
My qw below about how long before the majority of church leaders outright denounce teh faith is coming faster than I thought....I think within the next year ....many Christaisn will truly have fallen away and many WILL hav eto leave their churches.....We may be one of them as contemplative has begun to get a grip on ours..... Thanks for the article....

billiefan2000
February 29th, 2008, 12:28 PM
youre welcome




it is a sign of the times also


2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.



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Kamatu
February 29th, 2008, 01:51 PM
youre welcome




it is a sign of the times also


2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

I'm seeing lots and lots of itching ears showing up. OTOH, I see lots and lots of "Biblical" itchy ears too, who overfocus on something that actually is Biblical until they let it get too much of a hold on them. Rapture/Trib is an example relevant to many on this board with all the multiple books/movies/videos on the Rapture, Trib and AC that IMO are interesting but distract.

HeIsEnough
February 29th, 2008, 03:27 PM
Are you distracted by these subjects, Kamatu?

JoelH
February 29th, 2008, 05:02 PM
I'm seeing lots and lots of itching ears showing up. OTOH, I see lots and lots of "Biblical" itchy ears too, who overfocus on something that actually is Biblical until they let it get too much of a hold on them. Rapture/Trib is an example relevant to many on this board with all the multiple books/movies/videos on the Rapture, Trib and AC that IMO are interesting but distract.

Au contraire, I believe the itching is true. For every one voice that discusses the rapture and Bible prophecy , there will be ten angry voices shouting them down with words such as "you are paranoid", "it is an unhealthy waste of precious Christian life to distract from the primary focus of evangelism and loving neighbours", eg case in point Rick Warren, Mark Driscoll.

This tendency to assign the study of God's Word into perceived primary and secondary (essential and non-essential) importance also unmasks a theological implication that not all the Scriptures are equally important. This does a great inservice to God.

Kamatu
February 29th, 2008, 06:02 PM
Are you distracted by these subjects, Kamatu?

Au contraire, I believe the itching is true. For every one voice that discusses the rapture and Bible prophecy , there will be ten angry voices shouting them down with words such as "you are paranoid", "it is an unhealthy waste of precious Christian life to distract from the primary focus of evangelism and loving neighbours", eg case in point Rick Warren, Mark Driscoll.

This tendency to assign the study of God's Word into perceived primary and secondary (essential and non-essential) importance also unmasks a theological implication that not all the Scriptures are equally important. This does a great inservice to God.

By the subjects of Rapture and Tribulation? No, but then I "know" all I need to about the situation, His footsteps are very close and time and pressure are on us. I've seen others who cannot cease to chatter about the latest "Left Behind" fiction though (not necessarily here on the board). In these cases, I see what JoelH is mentioning with an implication that all Scripture is not equal important, in this case, that eschatology rules and much of the rest is to be blown past by handwaving. Essentially his point in the second paragraph in reverse. OTOH, I've seen the teens and early 20s falling by the wayside because they don't know the basics of the faith. They can tell you about all kinds of "signs of the times", but not anything of the five fundamentals or what something like the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith means (ok, that would be a bit heavy for them to start with, but it isn't that hard in the end).

Now, even if JoelH is correct about the 10-1 ratio, it has nothing to do with the parts of the "1" who are obsessive on the subject to the point of downplaying nonprophetic Scripture. My Sunday School class + house church (run by the same teacher) just completed a study on Daniel-Revelation that took over a year. Great stuff, it covered a whole lot of prophecy, but with constant side trips over into the other portions of Scripture for related readings. More of an open format and when people asked "why is that", several of us (I did some, but wasn't primary) could provide the Scripture and answers.

JoelH
February 29th, 2008, 08:32 PM
By the subjects of Rapture and Tribulation? No, but then I "know" all I need to about the situation, His footsteps are very close and time and pressure are on us. I've seen others who cannot cease to chatter about the latest "Left Behind" fiction though (not necessarily here on the board). In these cases, I see what JoelH is mentioning with an implication that all Scripture is not equal important, in this case, that eschatology rules and much of the rest is to be blown past by handwaving. Essentially his point in the second paragraph in reverse. OTOH, I've seen the teens and early 20s falling by the wayside because they don't know the basics of the faith. They can tell you about all kinds of "signs of the times", but not anything of the five fundamentals or what something like the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith means (ok, that would be a bit heavy for them to start with, but it isn't that hard in the end).

Now, even if JoelH is correct about the 10-1 ratio, it has nothing to do with the parts of the "1" who are obsessive on the subject to the point of downplaying nonprophetic Scripture. My Sunday School class + house church (run by the same teacher) just completed a study on Daniel-Revelation that took over a year. Great stuff, it covered a whole lot of prophecy, but with constant side trips over into the other portions of Scripture for related readings. More of an open format and when people asked "why is that", several of us (I did some, but wasn't primary) could provide the Scripture and answers.

Good on you then, because your church is pretty much a minority. Much of the mainstream evangelicalism (BTW, I go to a Baptist church in New Zealand that is part of the Baptist Union of New Zealand) do not. And no, neither does a systematic exposition of faith. It is more like a Mark Driscoll type of "building community" mixed with some Charles Stanley's constant preaching about dealing with specific issues.

If you think the likes of Driscoll or Warren etc are trying to gear the church back to teach "anything of the five fundamentals or what something like the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith means", you will be sorely disappointed. I can tell you they will pepper you with a lot of talks with sociology, contextualization, secular politics peppered with prooftexts of the Bible passages.

And no, I'm not suggesting an exclusive Bible study of eschatology, but I believe they should be emphasized alongside all streands of expositional teaching because the evangelical church on a whole has neglected on this area for a long time - again I emphasize your church is really a minority. Glossing over the subject with "no matter what you believe, the only thing matters is Jesus is coming again" isn't enough. I do believe there should be a systematic exposition of theology akin to what Arnold Fruchtenbaum or Chales Ryrie do, on all areas.

Eschatology does help us to understand that: God is sovereign, and nothing happens without His will - this will help us guard against world-driven evangelism method to "engage with the culture to preach the gospel". It also helps us understand the glory of God is manifested much more than simply salvation of man, and very importantly, the question of why the Jewish people are still surviving in the world and why anti-Semitic actions by misguided Christians in history has caused curses rather than blessings on Christians from God. In other words, it does tie with sotereiology, theology proper, Israelology.

PS: The rapture and prophecy is tied with dispensationalism, which is how God operates the world. Many people did not realize that dispensationalism is much more than prophecy. It actually is necessary for a healthy and proper understanding of God's truth. If we understand this part, we will not fall prey to much of the current unbiblical waves of teachings swarming Christendom today. If we preach dispensationalism, you can't leave eschatology out.

HeIsEnough
March 1st, 2008, 11:42 AM
By the subjects of Rapture and Tribulation? No, but then I "know" all I need to about the situation, His footsteps are very close and time and pressure are on us.

I know few who actually have studied prophecy, let alone those who merely have the take that the Church will grow and 'take the world' (dominionism, amill, etc.) for Christ. In general, there is a severe lack of focus on true, biblical prophecy.

Telling someone that Christ is coming back to judge the living and the dead tends to frighten people, but without knowing the reasons surrounding His returning, people can be led astray into all kinds of fallacious beliefs, like what the RCC has done. I think a good dose of the warning of the imminent return of Christ is needed today. One consistent with sound biblical doctrine on prophecy. This could go part way in getting people to be doers of the word, not hearers only.


I've seen the teens and early 20s falling by the wayside because they don't know the basics of the faith.

Those who heed the warnings from scripture, will not fall away. I too have seen people abandon their faith, and the scriptures give us ample warning that this would be the case. I'm not sure it can be simply stated it was because they didn't know the basics. We can agree that they refused to listen and heed the Lord's calling.

Kamatu
March 10th, 2008, 11:51 PM
Sorry about the delay and might be another one before I get back to you. My enforced inactivity is over and I'm getting back into the swing of things.

I know few who actually have studied prophecy, let alone those who merely have the take that the Church will grow and 'take the world' (dominionism, amill, etc.) for Christ. In general, there is a severe lack of focus on true, biblical prophecy.

Speaking in general about those professing to be Christians, I agree. I'm pointing out the other hand where there is an over focus on "prophecy", especially using fictional works as sources. In a similar manner, over focusing on God's mercy or the love of Jesus leads into the error of thinking that everybody is going to be saved. I mean if Jesus loves them so much and God is so merciful, then everybody must end up in heaven, right? Maybe after a little "correction" so they can learn the truth, right? :doh

Too much of "being an offense" turns into being offensive as some kind of proof that one is a Christian. Too much of "being hated by the world" turns into being hateful.

Telling someone that Christ is coming back to judge the living and the dead tends to frighten people, but without knowing the reasons surrounding His returning, people can be led astray into all kinds of fallacious beliefs, like what the RCC has done. I think a good dose of the warning of the imminent return of Christ is needed today. One consistent with sound biblical doctrine on prophecy. This could go part way in getting people to be doers of the word, not hearers only.

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Ti 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

All doesn't mean overemphasis on certain sections to the detriment of others. Man, I remember reading the website of that group that believed in "spare the rod and spoil the child". I didn't mind that at all, I learned that one from my grandfather, but determining that a certain length and diameter of PVC pipe is a "Biblically proper" rod is just a bit too much.

Those who heed the warnings from scripture, will not fall away. I too have seen people abandon their faith, and the scriptures give us ample warning that this would be the case. I'm not sure it can be simply stated it was because they didn't know the basics. We can agree that they refused to listen and heed the Lord's calling.

I'm referring to the young ones, within a few years of being able to heed the call and about to go out where Professer Fluffy is going to tell them that Christianity and the Bible are all lies and Jesus is just a myth. We are commanded to disciple. Teaching them Scripture (not just Daniel, Olivet and Revelation) and some basic apologetics is part of that. Showing them Left Behind #666 is not. At least not in that stage of their walk, it just leaves them open to influence by the nearest authority figure.