Day: January 31, 2017

THE “REGENERATION OF THE CHURCHES”-AN OCCULT DREAM COME TRUE

THE “REGENERATION OF THE CHURCHES”-
AN OCCULT DREAM COME TRUE 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

By Ray Yungen

The Bible says that in the last days, many will
come in Christ’s name. If one examines the “prophecies” of occulist 
Alice Bailey, one can gain insight into what the apostle Paul called
in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 the falling away. Bailey eagerly foretold of
what she termed “the regeneration of the churches.”1 Her rationale for
this was obvious:

The Christian church in its many branches can
serve as a St. John the Baptist, as a voice crying in the wilderness,
and as a nucleus through which world illumination may be
accomplished.2

In other words, instead of opposing Christianity, the occult would capture and blend
itself with Christianity and then use it as its primary vehicle for
spreading and instilling New Age consciousness! The various churches
would still have their outer trappings of Christianity and still use
much of the same lingo. If asked certain questions about traditional
Christian doctrine, the same answers would be given. But it would all be
on the outside; on the inside a contemplative spirituality would be
drawing in those open to it.

In wide segments of Christianity, this has
indeed already occurred. One Catholic priest alone taught 31,000
people mystical prayer in one year. People are responding to this in
large numbers because it has the external appearance of Christianity
but in truth is the diametric opposite­. This has all the indications
of the falling away of which the apostle Paul speaks.

Note this departure is tied in with the
revelation of the “man of sin.” If he is indeed Bailey’s “Coming One,”
then both Paul’s prophecy and Bailey’s prophecy fit together
perfectly—but indisputably from opposite camps and perspectives.

This is very logical when one sees, as Paul
proclaimed, that they will fall away to “the mystery of iniquity” (2
Thessalonians 2:7). The word mystery in Greek, when used in the
context of evil (iniquity), means hidden or occult!


Photo: Thomas Merton with the Dalai Lama (photo: Thomas Merton Center)

This revitalization of Christianity would fit
in with Bailey’s “new and vital world religion”3—a religion that would
be the cornerstone of the New Age. Such a religion would be the
spiritual platform for the “Coming One.” This unity of spiritual
thought would not be a single one-world denomination but would have a
unity-in-diversity, multicultural, interfaith, ecumenical agenda.
Thomas Merton made a direct reference to this at a spiritual summit
conference in Calcutta, India when he told Hindus and Buddhists, “We
are already one, but we imagine, we are not. What we have to recover
is our original unity.”4

One can easily find numerous such appeals like Merton’s in contemplative writings. Examine the following:

The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a
Buddhist, nor a Hindu or Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must
assimilate the spirit of the others.5 —Vivekananda

It is my sense, from having meditated with
persons from many different [non-Christian] traditions, that in the
silence we experience a deep unity. When we go beyond the portals of
the rational mind into the experience, there is only one God to be
experienced.6—Basil Pennington

The new ecumenism involved here is not
between Christian and Christian, but between Christians and the grace
of other intuitively deep religious traditions.7—Tilden Edwards

What is happening to mainstream Christianity is
the same thing that is happening to business, health, education,
counseling, and other areas of society. Christianity is being
cultivated for a role in the New Age. A spirit guide named Raphael
explains this in the Starseed Transmissions:

We work with all who are vibrationally
sympathetic; simple and sincere people who feel our spirit moving, but
for the most part, only within the context of their current belief system.18 (emphasis mine)

He is saying that they “work,” or interact,
with people who open their minds to them in a way that fits in with
the person’s current beliefs. In the context of Christianity, this
means that those meditating will think they have contacted God, when
in reality they have connected up with Raphael’s kind (who are more
than willing to impersonate whomever they wish to reach so long as
these seductive spirits can link with them).

This ultimately points to a deluded global
religion based on meditation and mystical experience. New Age writer
David Spangler explains it the following way:

There will be several religious and spiritual
disciplines as there are today, each serving different sensibilities
and affinities, each enriched by and enriching the particular cultural
soil in which it is rooted. However, there will also be a planetary
spirituality that will celebrate the sacredness of the whole humanity
in appropriate festivals, rituals, and sacraments. . . . Mysticism has
always overflowed the bounds of particular religious traditions, and
in the new world this would be even more true.9

What we are warning about is not some unprovable conspiracy theory. In fact, far from it. In March of 2016, Newsweek
magazine put out a special edition called “Spiritual Living.” This
glossy publication presented page after page of pure Alice Bailey
spirituality. The entire issue was devoted to the mystical perception
that man is divine:

The key to positive change—both internal and
external—is present in everyone, and it also exists all around us.
Whether through meditation, energy healing or a full-on spiritual
awakening, you can transcend the physical world to better your mind,
body and soul.10

That may sound kind of benign, but numerous
articles in the magazine promote the idea of spirits that can indwell
people. If this had been put out by the National Enquirer, then this could be dismissed as nothing more than sensationalistic or exaggerated. But Newsweek
is one of the oldest and most respected news magazines in the world.
When they make this kind of an effort, then we need to sit up and take
notice that Alice Bailey’s religion has now come to the forefront of
mainstream society. What this means according to those who are
sympathetic with this is that if we are to be “spiritual,” we need to
partake of Alice Bailey’s “new vital world religion.”  Sadly, more and
more churches are doing just that.

Related Information:

100 Top Contemplative Proponents Evangelical Christians Turn To Today

Endnotes:

1. Alice Bailey, Problems of Humanity (New York, NY: Lucis Publishing, 1993), p. 152.
2. Alice Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy (New York, NY: Lucis Publishing, 1976), p. 510.
3. Alice Bailey, Problems of Humanity, op. cit., p. 152.
4. Joel Beversluis, Project Editor, A Source Book for Earth’s Community of Religions (Grand Rapids, MI: CoNexus Press, 1995, Revised Edition), p. 151.
5. Swami Vivekananda’s “Addresses at the Parliament of Religions” (Chicago, September 27, 1893, http://www.interfaithstudies.org/interfaith/vivekparladdresses.html, accessed 12/2005).
6. M. Basil Pennington, Centered Living (New York, NY: Image Books, 1988), p. 192.
7. Tilden Edwards, Spiritual Friend (New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1980), p. 172.
8. Ken Carey, The Starseed Transmissions (A Uni-Sun Book, 1985 4th printing), p. 33.
9. David Spangler, Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred (New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., New York, NY, 1984), p. 112.
10. Newsweek magazine, Special Edition: Spiritual Living, March 2016, p. 7.

BEFORE WATCHING THE “SHACK” MOVIE, READ THIS-THE “INSPIRATION” BEHIND THE MOVIE & EUGENE PETERSON’S CONNECTION

BEFORE WATCHING THE “SHACK” MOVIE, READ THIS-THE “INSPIRATION” BEHIND THE MOVIE & EUGENE PETERSON’S CONNECTION
BY LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

By Warren B. Smith


[The Shack Movie (Coming to Theaters in March 2017)]

I was drawn into the New Age Movement years ago by books and lectures containing parabolic stories that were not unlike The Shack.
They felt spiritually uplifting as they tackled tough issues and
talked about God’s love and forgiveness. They seemed to provide me
with what I spiritually needed as they gave me much needed hope and
promise. Building on the credibility they achieved through their
inspirational and emotive writings, my New Age authors and teachers
would then go on to tell me that “God” is “in” everyone and
everything.

I discovered that author William P. Young does exactly the same thing in The Shack.
He moves through his very engaging and emotional story to eventually
present this same New Age teaching that God is “in” everything.

But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me first
provide some background material concerning this key New Age doctrine
that “God is in everything.” A good place to start is with Eugene
Peterson, the author of the controversial Bible paraphrase The Message. After all, Peterson’s enthusiastic endorsement of The Shack is featured right under the author’s name on the front cover.

Ironically, it was Peterson’s endorsement that caused me to be immediately suspicious of The Shack.
Through his questionable paraphrasing of the Bible, Peterson had
already aligned himself in a number of areas with New Age/New
Spirituality teachings. One obvious example is where he translated a key
verse in the Lord’s Prayer to read “as above, so below” rather than
“in earth, as it is in heaven.” “As above, so below” is a term that I
was very familiar with from my previous involvement in the New Age
movement. This esoteric saying has been an occult centerpiece for
nearly five thousand years. It is alleged by New Age metaphysicians to
be the key to all magic and all mysteries. It means that God is not
only transcendent—“out there”— but He is also immanent—“in” everyone
and everything.

But, as I found out just before abandoning the
deceptive teachings of the New Age for the Truth of biblical
Christianity, God is not “in” everyone and everything. The Bible makes
it clear that man is not divine and that man is not God (Ezekiel
28:2, Hosea 11:9, John 2:24-25, etc.) In my book Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church, I quoted the editors of New Age Journal as they defined “as above, so below” in their book, As Above, So Below:

“As above, so below, as below, so above.” This
maxim implies that the transcendent God beyond the physical universe
and the immanent God within ourselves are one.2

My concern about Peterson’s undiscerning use of
“as above, so below” in the Lord’s Prayer was underscored when the
2006 bestseller, The Secret,
showcased this same occult/New Age phrase. In fact, it was the
introductory quote at the very beginning of the book. By immediately
featuring “as above, so below” the author Rhonda Byrne was telling her
readers in definite New Age language that “God is in everyone and
everything.” Towards the end of the book, The Secret puts into
more practical words what the author initially meant by introducing
the immanent concept of “as above, so below.” On page 164, The Secret tells its readers—“You are God in a physical body.”

Most significantly, in his book The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom,
New Age leader Benjamin Crème reveals that a New World Religion will
be based on this foundational “as above, so below” teaching of
immanence—this idea that God is “in” everyone and everything:

But eventually a new world religion will be
inaugurated which will be a fusion and synthesis of the approach of
the East and the approach of the West. The Christ will bring together,
not simply Christianity and Buddhism, but the concept of God
transcendent—outside of His creation—and also the concept of God
immanent in all creation—in man and all creation.3

New Age matriarch Alice Bailey, in her book The Reappearance of the Christ, wrote:

. . . a fresh orientation to divinity and to
the acceptance of the fact of God Transcendent and God Immanent within
every form of life. “These are foundational truths upon which the
world religion of the future will rest.4

In a November 9, 2003 Hour of Power sermon—just
two months before he was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of
the National Association of Evangelicals—Crystal Cathedral minister
Robert Schuller unabashedly aligned himself with this same New Age/New
World Religion teaching. The man who claims to have mentored
thousands of pastors, including Bill Hybels and Rick Warren, stated:

You know in theology—pardon me for using a
couple of big words—but in theology the God we believe in, this God of
Abraham, is a transcendent God. But He is also an immanent God.
Transcendent means up there, out there, above us all. But God is also
an immanent God—immanence of God and the transcendence of God—but then
you have a balanced perspective of God. The immanence of God means
here, in me, around me, in society, in the world, this God here, in
the humanities, in the science, in the arts, sociology, in
politics—the immanence of God. . . . Yes, God is alive and He is in
every single human being!5

But God is not in every single human being. God is not in everything. One of the many reasons I wrote Deceived on Purpose was because Rick Warren presented his readers with this same “God in everything” teaching. Quoting an obviously flawed New Century Bible
translation of Ephesians 4:6, Rick Warren—whether he meant to or
not—was teaching his millions of readers the foundational doctrine of
the New World Religion. Describing God in his book, The Purpose-Driven Life, he wrote:

He rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything.6

Compounding the matter further, “immanence” has
been taught as part of the Foundations class at Rick Warren’s
Saddleback Church. An ill-defined reference to immanence in the
Saddleback Foundations Participants Guide plays right into the hands
of the New Spirituality/New World Religion by stating:

The fact that God stands above and beyond his
creation does not mean he stands outside his creation. He is both
transcendent (above and beyond his creation) and immanent (within and
throughout his creation).7

All of this discussion I am giving about “God in everything” immanence is to explain why The Shack
is such a deceptive book. It teaches this same heresy. This book
ostensibly attempts to deal with the deeply sensitive issues surrounding
the murder of a young child. Because of the author’s intensely
personal story line, most readers become engaged with the book on a
deep emotional level. However, the author’s use of poetic license to
convey his highly subjective, and often unbiblical, spiritual views
becomes increasingly problematic as the story line develops. This is
most apparent when he uses the person of “Jesus” to suddenly introduce
the foundational teaching of the New Spirituality/New World
Religion—God is “in” everything. Using the New Age term “ground of
being” to describe “God,” the “Jesus” of The Shack states:

God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things.8

This false teaching about a “God” who “dwells
in, around, and through all things” is the kind of New Age leaven that
left unchallenged could leaven the church into the New Age/New
Spirituality of the proposed New World Religion. And while many people
have expressed a great deal of emotional attachment to The Shack and its characters—this leaven alone contaminates the whole book.

Clearly, the “Jesus” of The Shack is
not Jesus Christ of the Bible. The apostle Paul chided the Corinthians
and warned them that they were vulnerable and extremely susceptible
to “another Jesus” and “another gospel” and “another spirit” that were
not from God (2 Corinthians 11:4). In the Bible, the real Jesus
Christ warned that spiritual deception would be a sign before His
return. He further warned that there would be those who would even
come in His name, pretending to be Him (Matthew 24:3-5, 24).

Without ascribing any ill motive to William Young and his book The Shack,
the author’s use of spiritual creativity seems to give a “Christian”
assent to the New Age/New Spirituality of the proposed New World
Religion. His mixing of truth and error can become very confusing to
readers, and God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33).

Dr. Harry Ironside, pastor of Chicago’s Moody
Memorial Church from 1930-1948, emphasizes the fact that truth mixed
with error results in “all error”—a direct refutation of the Emergent
Church teaching to find “truth” wherever it may be found—including
books like The Shack. Ironside wrote:

Error is like leaven, of which we read, “A
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” Truth mixed with error is
equivalent to all error, except that it is more innocent looking and,
therefore, more dangerous. God hates such a mixture! Any error, or any
truth-and-error mixture, calls for definite exposure and repudiation.
To condone such is to be unfaithful to God and His Word and
treacherous to imperiled souls for whom Christ died.9

The Shack has touched the hearts and
emotions of many people. While there are many other examples of the
author’s unbiblical liberality, introducing the heretical New Age
teaching that “God dwells in, and around, and through all things” is
in and by itself enough to completely undermine any value the book
might otherwise have for faithful believers. To allow yourself to get
carried away by this story, while disregarding the book’s New Age/New
Spirituality leaven, is to fall prey to the “truth-and-error” mixture
that pervades The Shack. And as Dr. Ironside warned—“God hates such a mixture!”

Before Christians buy one more copy of this
book, they need to come to terms with what this author is ultimately
teaching and what it is they are passing along to their friends and
fellow believers.

And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:4) For footnotes
or to read this entire article about The Shack, click here.

DANGER: EMERGENT “‘IF’ GATHERING” CONFERENCE COMING FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS & GRANDDAUGHTERS IN A TOWN NEAR YOU!

ALL SMILES, BUT GREATLY DECEIVED
WARNING:
 Photo: Some of the IF women – photo used in accordance with the US
Fair Use Act for critical review and reporting. (source:
http://www.jennieallen.com/if-we-were-wild-and-full-of-faith-its-time/)
(Jen Hatmaker and Melissa Greene in photo)
DANGER: EMERGENT “‘IF’ GATHERING” CONFERENCE COMING FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS & GRANDDAUGHTERS IN A TOWN NEAR YOU, FEBRUARY 2-3, 2017
BY LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

[God] will take this hell on earth and someday show us how hell was building heaven.—Jennie Allen (founder of IF: Gathering)

Have you heard of the IF: Gathering? If you
haven’t, you most likely will soon enough. The women’s movement
started just a few years ago but is already making some big inroads
into the evangelical scene. On the outer appearance, this looks like a
legitimate Christian movement – the women who lead and speak at IF:
Gathering are young and vibrant; they talk about Jesus, they go to
church; some of them homeschool their kids—it all looks so Christian.
But underneath this outer thin Christian layer lies an emergent
atmosphere . . . and the target is your young evangelical daughters
and granddaughters.

In a few days (February 2-3), IF: Gathering
will be presenting their annual conference in Austin, Texas. The
conference, called IF:2017 will also be live-streamed to many churches
throughout America and Canada (and in some other countries as well).
Lighthouse Trails has received a number of phone calls and e-mails by
concerned parents and grandparents whose daughters and granddaughters
are attending the conference, either in Austin or one of the
sponsoring churches. Here is a link to the list of churches
that will be holding the IF:2017 conference next week via live-stream.
According to the IF website, there are over 2000 live-streamed events
for this year’s event. If you multiply that by even just 150, that is
nearly 300,000 women!  When you go to the list, type in your
zip code, see if there is a conference being held in your city or
town, and if there is, start alerting those you know. Your friends may
have daughters who are attending.

This year’s event will apparently not include
IF speaker Jen Hatmaker who, we have learned, dropped out of IF last
year for undisclosed reasons (recently she came out promoting gay
marriage, and this got her into trouble with LifeWay Resources who dropped her books at that point). Speakers for this year’s event include Jennie Allen (IF’s founder), Ann VosKamp (author of One Thousand Gifts – see section in Cedric Fisher’s article below), Lysa Terkeurst, Jennie Yang, Jeanne Stevens (Co-Pastor with Husband of Soul City Church – http://jeannestevens.com/about/– former staff member of Willow Creek and associated with Erwin
McManus: ), and Jo Saxton. You may not be familiar with these names, but
we encourage you to do your research and please read Cedric’s article
so you might come to understand the underlying agenda of IF. As
Cedric says, we don’t question the sincerity of these women, but we do
question the direction they are heading spiritually. While her name
doesn’t appear in this year’s line up, Melissa Greene is  involved
with IF as well (please see article below to learn about Greene’s
beliefs and this video of her). Greene, a pastor, resonates with emergent leader Brian McLaren, and her church made headlines when it came out promoting same-sex marriage.

In May of 2015, Lighthouse Trails author, Cedric Fisher, wrote a booklet titled “ IF it is of God—Answering the questions of IF:Gathering.”
We are posting that booklet in its entirety below. If you scroll to
the bottom of his article and hit the green Print button, it will
format a nice PDF copy for you (you can buy it in booklet format too,
but you’ll have to print it in order to have it in time before the
conference). If you know a woman who is planning to attend the
IF:Gathering conference next week, please print this article and give
her a copy to read. Because the emergent “theology” is deceptive and
spiritually dangerous, these young women need to be given a heads up.

Lest some say that Jennie Allen has cleaned up
IF by not having Jen Hatmaker and Melissa Greene at this year’s event,
keep in mind that Jennie Allen knew what these two friends believed
when she invited them to be part of IF just a few years ago. How can
we trust our daughters and granddaughters to someone who shows no
discernment and who very likely will continue connecting with and
inviting speakers who are of a similar emergent mindset.1 For example, Shauna Niequist (Bill and Lynn Hybels daughter) is involved with IF (they sell her book on their site, she contributes on the blog, and she is one of the speakers at IF:2017) and recently she gave her “blessing” to Jen Hatmaker’s acceptance of same-sex marriage and endorses Jesus Calling.

Once you read Cedric’s article below, we
believe you will understand why we are so concerned about this
movement. Writing this article reminds us of another article we wrote a
number of years ago in 2008. It was titled “Brian McLaren’s Hope for the Future – The Minds of Your Grandchildren.” 
Since then, the emergent church has continued growing and indeed
grabbing the minds of countless young people, many of them from
Christian homes. We hope and pray parents and grandparents will do all
they can to keep their own young people from going down that same path,
this time via IF.

Don’t forget to check the list of places IF:2017 will be livestreaming to see if your town or city is hosting an IF conference.

IF IT IS OF GOD—Answering the questions of IF:Gathering

By Cedric H. Fisher

IF:Gathering came in like a storm, one of those
winter events that seem to appear out of nowhere. No one saw it
coming. A team of highly popular women—authors, bloggers, and speakers
coming together—what a great idea. But it wasn’t novel. Professing
Christians have been making pilgrimages for decades to high-energy
conferences with a star list of speakers and singers. As with so many
of these other conferences, IF purported to do the work of God.
However, IF was unique in that it was mostly a digital event. It was
greatly effective.

The IF:Gathering held its second event in
February of 2015 and involved 1200 women at the physical location,
with a possible 100,000 or more watching by 40,000 live links in more
than 120 countries. The ongoing influence of IF after the
conference has the potential to reach hundreds of thousands of women
all while flying under the radar of pastors and church leaders who may
be accepting IF:Gathering at face value, not knowing anything about
this group of high energy talented women leaders.

After reading the list of IF speakers and
researching information about them, I have become convinced that IF
poses a significant risk to Christian women, who unwittingly are
submitting themselves to IF’s speakers and teachers. The danger? It
comes in the form of emergent ideology, spiritual formation,
and contemplative spirituality (contemplative prayer is a mantra-like
“prayer” practice that vitalizes the “progressive” “new” Christianity
(i.e., the emerging church). Thus, I am compelled to report on my
findings regarding IF.

How did IF:Gathering come about and is it
ordained by God? These are questions every responsible Christian needs
to ask concerning anything claiming to be a new move or revelation
from God. Those questions are especially important during such a time
as this, a time when the church is suffering from great deception and
apostasy. Is IF influencing women to draw nearer to God or rather
leading them onto a spiritually dangerous path to heresy?

IF’s Beginning—A Whisper from the Sky
The 2015 IF:Gathering did not end when the
conference was over. It continues to function through the network
established before the conference occurred. Its influence continues
through local churches and individuals who hosted the event, through
social media, available videos of the event, and the “IF:Table,”* all
of which have the potential to reach countless more women and evolve
into a major women’s movement. If that occurs, it will help set the
agenda of how the future generation perceives and implements
Christianity.

The first statement on their website under “Who We Are” is:

We exist to gather, equip and unleash the next generation of women to live out their purpose.1

The founder of IF:Gathering, Jennie Allen, is a
bright and energetic, best-selling author, blogger, and popular
speaker. She appears sincere and dedicated to ministering to people.
She and her husband have been involved in ministry for a number of
years. However, since she is the founder, we must consider her
activity, her influences, and her statements about the birth of
IF:Gathering.

Allen is a Bible teacher who had been teaching
groups of girls and young women since high school. She studied at the
University of Arkansas for three years, completed her B.S. in
Communications at Carson Newman College in Tennessee, and graduated
from Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master’s in Biblical Studies
in 2005. It would be two years after her graduation from DTS when she
had an experience that birthed IF: Gathering.

Allen signed a multi-project contract in 2011
with Thomas Nelson, which included a series of seven DVD-based Bible
studies and two trade books. Her first study released in 2011,
followed by another one released in 2012. Her first trade book was
also released in 2012. Allen’s book Restless: Because You Were Made for More and the Restless video-based Bible study were released simultaneously in January 2014, a month before the first IF:Gathering.

Allen was also one of the speakers in the
neo-emergent Nines Conference in 2014, which hosted a speaker lineup
that included some of the main influences in the New Christianity
movement.

How did the IF:Gathering originate? There are
different and conflicting explanations given by Allen. The first
account was presented by Allen in the initial IF:Gathering in Austin,
Texas, 2014:


About 7 years ago, a voice from the sky—that
doesn’t often speak to me—but that day there was this whisper. It was
the middle of the night, actually. And it was “Gather and equip your
generation.” And this was ridiculous, because honestly, I was a stay
at home Mom, I didn’t know anybody that could help me with that job.
And it was a completely ridiculous statement. So ridiculous that I
just, for two days my bones hurt, and I didn’t know what to do with
it. My bones hurt, for two days.

I thought, Okay God, what do you want me to do? Wisely my friend said, “Jennie, if
it’s God,” cause it may not be. All voices from the sky are not always
God, FYI. But, “if it’s God, then He’s going to give you everything
you need to accomplish His purposes. So just wait.” And so I waited,
and that was seven years ago, guys.2

Allen eventually came to believe it was God who
whispered. She would wait several years for Him to put IF: Gathering
together. However, a year after the account of IF’s birth that she
gave in the 2014 conference, she posted another account on her blog:

Truth is, IF:Gathering began as more of a hunch than a vision.3

A month later, and one year after her first
account, Allen gave another account of how the IF came about during
the IF: Gathering February, 2015:

I mean, 7 years ago, 8 years ago now, I heard
a voice that . . . well, okay, I didn’t. This is like all different
theologies right now. Okay, just give me grace. I don’t know, but I’m
just telling you, in the night I woke up, and I was overcome with
these words, “Disciple a generation.”

But I sat on it. I put it in my back pocket
and said, “Okay God, if you want to do something crazy like that,
you’re gonna have to make it happen.”4

I read Allen’s book, Anything: The Prayer that Unlocked my God and My Soul,
written a couple of years after her experience with the sky
whisperer. In her book, Allen describes deep intimacy with God and
willingness to obey Him completely. However, she does not mention
anything about Sky Whisperer or his commission to organize the IF:
Gathering. I find that puzzling. What better place to introduce and
expound on such a life-changing intimate experience and surrender than
in a book describing full surrender?

I’m willing to concede that there could be a
good reason for the inconsistencies of her accounts as to how IF came
about. But an individual whom God supernaturally calls to accomplish a
significant work should give a credible and unambiguous account of
that call. One could say, “I saw a need and did my best to meet it.”
However, when one says, “I heard a voice from God,” a different
standard is involved. The reason is because something that has a
supernatural event as an origin will have a much greater weight of
influence. It presents the individual as a special agent of God, just
as any of the figures in the Bible whom God used to accomplish
unprecedented purposes. It almost immunizes the revelation and the
individual from critical examination.

Therefore, I believe it is proper and
reasonable to examine Jennie Allen’s statements concerning the origin
of the IF: Gathering. The questions are: “Is Allen’s explanations of
the origin of IF:Gathering convincing and does she provide viable and
credible information that concludes IF: Gathering originated from God?
One should prayerfully consider those questions and ultimately should
ask: if it’s origin is in question and if it’s founder is involved in
emergent conferences, can IF:Gathering produce good fruit? The next
section concerning the speakers in IF:Gathering may help answer that
last question.

For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor
does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own
fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather
grapes from a bramble bush. (Luke 6:43-44)

IF, The Speakers: Ambassadors of God or Emergent Collaborators

If Jeannie Allen did indeed hear supernaturally
from God, and if God supernaturally equipped her to organize the
IF:Gathering, we would expect good fruit from the conference and the
speakers. We would not expect people who are influenced by emergent,
New Age, and other aberrant authors and teachers. It is logical to
expect that the speakers would be stellar Christian examples.

Space does not permit me to deal with all the
conference speakers, so I have chosen several whom I believe need to
be examined. They are listed in alphabetical order.

Sarah Bessey
After reading portions of her book, Jesus Feminist,
I get the impression Sarah Bessey believes that Christianity is stuck
with the Woman Suffrage movement somewhere in the 1920s. She
references radical feminist, social activist, and journalist Dorothy
Day in her book and seems to draw from secular feminism. From that
concept, she tries to invent a need for radical feminism in
Christianity, presenting bizarre commentary on the Scriptures to back
up her position. The following quote illustrates her view:

Many of the seminal social issues of our
time—poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture,
domestic abuse—can track their way to our theology of, or beliefs
about, women, which has its roots in what we believe about the nature,
purposes, and character of God.5

In the back of Jesus Feminist under “Further Reading,” Bessey offers a book titled How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership, which includes essays from emerging church authors Tony Campolo, John Ortberg, and Bill and Lynne Hybels. Jesus Feminist also has endorsements in the book by Brian McLaren and Tony Jones. On her blog, she lists among her favorites A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren and Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning.6 She also promotes The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen.7 There’s no question that Bessey resonates with the views of these men.

With such emergent and contemplative influences, how can good fruit be produced by this speaker?

Christine Caine
Christine Caine claims Joyce Meyer as her
“spiritual mother” and lists Word of Faith preacher Sheryl Brady as a
dear friend calling her “flat out the best chick preacher of the
word.”8 Caine has “preached” in seeker/emergent Steven Furtick’s mega
church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The following is transcribed from
Caine’s opening statement in Furtick’s church:

This place is a little bit like God, take
this in context, in that like you are omnipresent. You are here. You
are across the room. You are down the street. You are all over the
worldwide web. It is like wherever you look, here we are and it is my
honor and privilege to be here, I couldn’t wait.9

Caine also declared that her heart was
“knitted” to Furtick. One whose heart is surrendered to God could not
possibly be knitted to an individual such as Furtick. Journalist and
researcher Jim Fletcher says this about Furtick:

Steven Furtick . . . mentored as he is by
evangelical bigwigs like Rick Warren and Bill Hybels, felt bold enough
to post a YouTube video in which he sneeringly challenged what I’d
call traditional Christians to basically get out of the way, because
their time is past. Presumably, to Furtick, it’s the “new
generation’s” time now, so step aside with your stodgy hymns and
expositional preaching style. . . . Masked a bit by a pious nod toward
humanitarian causes, the leadership of this group is quite nasty,
albeit in subtle ways.10

Further, according to the itinerary on
Christine Caine’s website, she will be speaking at NAR (New Apostolic
Reformation) leader Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church in Redding,
California in August 2015 in the Bethel Women’s Conference. Why does
this matter? It shows a pattern of being willing to associate with
people and “minister” in churches that are teaching and promoting
false and dangerous teachings.11

Melissa Greene
Melissa Greene is the pastor of worship and arts
at GracePointe Church in Franklin, Tennessee. The church made national headlines in January of 2015 as senior
pastor, Stan Mitchell, declared his church now accepts homosexual
marriage.12

When I pull up Greene’s website, I immediately
notice the picture of her sitting in a Yoga position. In a May 25th,
2014 message on her website titled “Worth,” Greene admits to reading
emerging church pioneer Brian McLaren’s book, A Generous Orthodoxy
(and McLaren spoke at GracePointe in the fall of 2014). Greene
favorably quotes other prolific New Spirituality names: Phyllis
Tickle, Richard Rohr, Frederick Buechner, Rob Bell, Nicholas
Wolterstorff, Thomas Merton, Peter Gomes, Aldous Huxley—a list that
reads like a veritable who’s who in emergent and contemplative heresy.

In “Worth,” Greene declares that, “Christianity
is broad and diverse.”13 Considering that many of her influences
accept all religions as being of God, there is no doubt to what she
means when she states this. Greene also made the audacious statement:
“The most devastating fear in people’s lives is the fear of God.”14
She attempts to validate her statement by taking verses out of context
and misapplying them. What does God’s word declare?

And do not fear those who kill the body but
cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both
soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)

Therefore, having these promises, beloved,
let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2 Corinthians 7:1)

For thousands of young Christian-professing women to submit to someone like Melissa Greene could have a detrimental effect.

Jen Hatmaker
In Jen Hatmaker’s book, Interrupted: When Jesus Wreck Your Comfortable Christianity,
she makes it clear that she is influenced by a number of New Age/New
Spirituality individuals. She quotes Catholic priest and contemplative
activist Richard Rohr and emergent leader Shane Claiborne. On her
blog, she promotes the book, The Circle Maker, by Mark
Batterson, a book that encourages readers to draw circles around
specific things in order to have more answered prayers. Batterson was
inspired with this idea by an ancient sage.

In Hatmaker’s book, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess,
she reveals that her family takes part in a Roman Catholic ritual
with mystical origins, the “Seven Sacred Pauses.”15 Hatmaker got her
inspiration from Seven Sacred Pauses, a book by Macrina Wiederkehr who is a spiritual director
in the contemplative prayer movement. In Wiederkehr’s retreats, seekers
are guided through experiences of silence, contemplation and lectio divina
(a contemplative practice where words and phrases from the Bible are
repeated in mantra-like fashion). The “seven sacred pauses” are seven
times a day to pause and pray, which Wiederkehr describes as “breathing
spells for the soul.”

Consider Hatmaker’s statement concerning the preaching of God’s Word:

I have spent half my life listening to
someone else talk about God. Because of this history, I’ve developed
something of an immunity to sermons.16

This is eerily similar to the sentiment of Sue Monk Kidd (author of The Secret Life of Bees),
who once, as a conservative Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher,
expressed her dissatisfaction (and eventual rejection) of the preaching
of God’s Word. That led Monk Kidd down a path away from the Christian
faith and straight into the New Age. Today, she worships the goddess
Sophia.

This disgruntlement of God’s Word is so
prevalent among leaders of the emerging New Spirituality church. If
not preaching, then what? Is it emotionally charged conventions and
books with flowering, poetic phrases that open up to spit out a toxic
drop of heresy? If Hatmaker is immune to preaching, she has rejected
God’s method in favor of her own.

Ann VosKamp
Ann VosKamp’s highly popular book, One Thousand Gifts,
is peppered with favorable references to and quotes by various
mystics, pantheists, and universalists. The following is a list of
some of those influences:


Sarah Ban Breathnach, Teresa of Avila, Julian
of Norwich, Evelyn Underhill, Brennan Manning, Annie Dillard, Thomas
Aquinas, Peter Kreeft, Walter Brueggemann, Francis de Sales, Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, Henri Nouwen, and Jean-Pierre de Caussade. She
also quotes mystic Catholic nun Kathleen Norris on her blog.17

You may not have heard of all these names, but
in my research, I have found that they all embrace a panentheistic
mystical-based spirituality. For VosKamp to quote and reference so
many authors in this category shows she is embracing and absorbing the
spirituality of these figures.

In the last chapter of One Thousand Gifts, “The Joy of Intimacy,” Voskamp writes:

Mystical union. This, the highest degree of
importance. God as Husband in sacred wedlock, bound together, body and
soul, fed by His body, quenched by His blood . . . God, He has
blessed—caressed. I could bless God—caress with thanks. It’s our
making love. God makes love with grace upon grace, every moment a
making of His love for us . . . couldn’t I make love to God, making
every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit
skin to spirit skin . . . The intercourse of soul with God is the very
climax of joy . . . To enter into Christ and Christ enter into us—to
cohabit.18

This is what contemplatives consider “intimacy”
with God, as if God is more a lover or a boyfriend than the Creator
of the Universe, the King of Kings, and our beloved Savior. This is
what millions of young Christian women are being introduced to.

The question is, are Sarah Bessey, Christine
Cane, Melissa Greene, Jen Hatmaker, and Ann VosKamp really called from
God as they profess to be? While I won’t question their sincerity, I
must ask the questions: How can the IF:Gathering be ordained by God?
How can Jennie Allen have supernaturally heard from God concerning her
conference? And how could righteous God Almighty have sanctioned a
movement that is so influenced by diabolical sources?

The IF:Gatherings promise great solutions, but
in practice, they covertly chip away at biblical concepts of God, the
Holy Spirit, and biblical Christianity. They are based on flawed
concepts masked by alluring phrases. Like all other emerging church
“coaches” and mentors, the IF leaders intend to solve the problem of
what they insist is failed Christianity. They believe a
replacement—New Christianity—is the solution.

Considering the influences of the speakers, the
IF:Gatherings will lead to dangerous, alternate spirituality. The
Conference overwhelms susceptible women with music, visuals, and
emotional camaraderie. When their hearts are prepped and open,
provocative questions are presented, and  answers that conflict with
God’s word are offered.

IF the Fruit is Good
When I was a worldling, I visited the notorious
Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Fresh from the Oklahoma hills, I had
never witnessed anything remotely like it. One thing that fascinated
me most were the barkers. The barkers were men who stood outside of
the many establishments attempting to coax passersby to enter them.
They were so convincing. Their skills had been honed by trial and
error. Bending to the persuasive and captivating power of their words,
I entered one of those establishments. Once inside, I was shocked at
the total absences of morals. Although it made my cheeks blush, and my
moral upbringing urged me to leave, I was with a couple of friends
and didn’t want to be considered a prude. So I stayed. The longer I
stayed, the more I got used to the immorality. The more I got used to
it, the more I wanted of it.

The speakers at the IF:Gathering are barkers.
They are luring many professing Christian women with persuasive and
captivating words. A repetitive error I noticed in the Conference was
that a speaker would set up a straw man, and then mix the answer to it
with Scripture. She would then insist that the conclusion was a valid
point. An example was when Jen Hatmaker argued that we cannot
possibly know all of God. She quoted a Scripture from Romans 11:33.
Her conclusion was that because we cannot know God fully, it is not
detrimental to faith to have doubt. However, faith does not depend on
knowledge, but trust. Lack of knowledge should not make us doubt, but
rather a lack of trust. This was a prevailing theme at IF.

Hatmaker also insisted that God set us free
simply to set us free; that He set us free for us. Again, this does
not agree with God’s Word:

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:20)

We were created for God’s purpose, to worship
and serve Him. He set us free so we could belong to Him to honor and
serve Him with all our hearts, mind, bodies, and spirits.

One constant thing that made me cringe was the
cavalier attitude that some of the speakers, especially Jennie Allen,
exhibited toward God. At one point, Allen, says, “Darn it, darn it,”
and goes off on a rant implying that God is stupid, mean, and that His
plan is absurd. The rant came only minutes after she declared she was
nearly overcome with reverential fear of God.19

In Melissa Greene’s “Worth” sermon, one comes away with the following conclusions:

Certainty is bad; Questions (and no answers) is good.

The old-fashioned faith of our parents and grandparents is outdated and irrelevant.

References to numerous mystics and emergents

The “text” (the Bible) is OK, but there is so much more to be grasped.

In the end, everyone is saved.20

As I mentioned earlier, Greene admits to
reading Brian McLaren, and from the content of the “Worth” video,
McLaren’s spirituality has become her own. The IF leaders hope to lead
as many women as possible into the same direction as Jennie Allen
declares:

While I wish I were a more confident,
rebellious pioneer, God had to nearly force me to the wild, new path
He had for IF. I am however compelled to call as many of you as
possible to the roads less traveled because there are many wandering
who may never make it up to the highway.21

IF Conclusion

[God] will take this hell on earth and someday show us how hell was building heaven.22—Jennie Allen

The IF conferences are full of emotional
manipulation with videos of heartbreaking stories and impassioned
pleas to do something; draw near to God, have more faith, win the
lost, help the less fortunate, etc. At various points in the 2015
conference, a speaker would burst out in an impassioned plea to do
something about the plight of humanity as if it were the fallback
position when passion was otherwise lacking.

IF’s leaders insist that biblical Christianity has failed as a viable work of God and that God and they are bringing forth a cure—New Christianity.

I fear that IF’s excellent adventure
is advertisement for a mass departure from God’s Word. Rather than
having their faith built up, participants are encouraged to question
“traditional” Christianity. And those who are giving the answers—the
IF women—are unfortunately getting their information from emergents and mystics who present a different gospel and another Jesus.

It is addictive, this linguistic confection.
The mind is overcome with giddiness. But is it of God? Or is it rather
a “beautiful” seduction? I believe the latter is true.

To order copies of IF it is of God—Answering the questions of IF:Gathering, click here.

* IF:Table is a dinner hosted by one person on
the second Sunday of each month. It is described as six women, four
questions, two hours (https://ifgathering.com/new-to-the-table/)

Endnotes:
1. IF:Gathering website, “Who We Are”: https://ifgathering.com/who-we-are.
2. Jennie Allen, 2014 IF:Gathering: https://ifgathering.com/if-gathering-2014.
3. Jennie Allen’s blog, “How to Leave Normal”:
https://ifgathering.com/2015/01/how-to-leave-normal, January 21, 2015.
4. Jennie Allen, IF: Gathering: https://ifgathering.com/2014/09/ifgathering-2015, February 2015.
5. Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women (New York, NY: Howard Books), p. 169.
6. Sarah Bessey’s blog: http://sarahbessey.com, December 30, 2008.
7. Ibid., July 17, 2008.
8. http://instagram.mislav.net/users/christinecaine?max_id=216035535549657297_2724891.
9. Christine Caine, Elevation Church, Code
Orange Revival 2012,
http://elevationchurch.org/sermons/codeorangerevival (some of her sermon
can be watched at:
http://www.god.tv/code-orange-revival/night-4-anything-is-possible-with-god).
10. Jim Fletcher, “‘Hip’ church gives biblical
Christians new label: ‘Hater’” (WorldNetDaily,
http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/12/hip-church-gives-biblical-christians-new-label-hater/#JEfipOHtSOZJfZeD.99).
11. Read John Lanagan’s article/booklet titled The New Age Implications of Bethel Church’s Bill Johnson where it discusses Johnson’s propensity toward “quantum spirituality” (the belief that God is in everyone).
12. Elizabeth Dias, “Nashville Evangelical Church Comes Out for Marriage Equality” (Time Magazine, January 29, 2015; http://time.com/3687368/gracepointe-church-nashville-marriage-equality).
13. Melissa Greene, “Worth”
(http://melissagreenemusic.com/tag/worth, May 25, 2014, watch video
at: https://vimeo.com/97252399, 22:40 minutes to 22:47 minutes).
14. Ibid, 24:18 minutes to 24:25 minutes.
15. Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess (Nashville, TN: B & H Publishing Group, 2012, Digital Edition), Kindle location 3266.
16. Ibid., Kindle location 435.
17. Ann VosKamp, (http://www.aholyexperience.com/2006/11/memorizing-word).
18. Ann VosKamp, One Thousand Gifts (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010), pp. 213, 216-217.
19. Jennie Allen, IF:Gathering; Session 1- 03.
20. Melissa Greene, “Worth,” op. cit.
21. Jennie Allen, “How to Leave Normal,” op. cit.
22. Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More (Nashville, TN: W Publishing, 2013), p. 74.

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“YOU’RE FIRED”: TRUMP JUST SACKED OBAMA’S ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR BETRAYING AMERICA

FAREWELL OBAMA PUPPET & HACK!
SHE WAS NOT CONVINCED TRUMP'S ORDERS 
ARE LAWFUL BECAUSE THEY ARE 
NOT "WISE OR JUST" IN HER OPINION
 On January 30, 2017, Yates ordered the Justice Department not to defend 
Trump's Executive Order "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry 
into the United States", saying "At present, I am not convinced that the 
defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities of the 
Department of Justice, nor am I convinced that the executive order is 
lawful".
 https://cmgajcpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/sallyyates.jpg
Acting attorney general tells DOJ 
not to defend 
Pres. Trump's travel ban
 Published on Jan 30, 2017
Acting
Attorney General Sally Yates told the Justice Department not to defend
President Trump’s executive order on immigration in court. CBS News
justice reporter Paula Reid joined CBSN to break down what could happen
next.
 WASHINGTON IN SHOCK! TRUMP JUST FIRED 

THE 1 PERSON 



OBAMA DIDN’T WANT HIM TO 



FOR BETRAYING AMERICA
 Published on Jan 30, 2017

Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media
| This is HUGE! Trump just fired the acting attorney General! In a
statement released by the White house moments ago regarding the
Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General they declared,
“The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department
of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the
citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and
legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.”

 JEFF SESSIONS INTERVIEW WHERE SHE FORETOLD DEFYING A PRESIDENT

BACKLASH AGAINST TRUMP’S DIRECTIVES ON IMMIGRATION~ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL FIRED~FEMINISTS CONVERT TO ISLAM~ANTI TRUMP RIOTER KNOCKS OUT TRUMP SUPPORTER AT PORTLAND AIRPORT

VIDEO: ANTI TRUMP RIOTER KNOCKS OUT TRUMP SUPPORTER AT PORTLAND AIRPORT 
 Video footage shows an anti-Trump agitator punching and knocking out a
Trump supporter during a mini-riot at Portland Airport over the weekend.
The incident took place on Sunday during demonstrations against Trump’s travel ban on individuals from terror-linked countries.
The clip shows anti-Trump protesters pushing and shoving their way into the airport aggressively as they yell “peace! peace!”
A confrontation then quickly arises
before one of the anti-Trump radicals punches a man from behind,
knocking him out cold. The footage appears to show two anti-Trump protesters taking a swing at the same victim.

It
subsequently emerged that the victim, 39-year-old Grant Chisholm, a
member of the Bible Believers group, was hit with “something metallic”.
“They almost killed me tonight,” Chisholm told the Oregonian.

While
some of the anti-Trump protesters appear shocked at the violence and
denounce it, others are heard quite clearly celebrating the attack.
“That’s how you talk to a Nazi! That’s right!” screams one, before gloating, “Your boy got knocked out!”
“Don’t lose the propaganda war!” shouts another, presumably aware that the attack makes anti-Trump demonstrators look bad.
“Wooo! Hunt the Nazis!” screams another man in celebration of the vicious assault.
“That’s right Nazi boy! Where’s your f***ing fuhrer now bitch!” yells another.
To
add insult to injury, the demonstrators then began chanting “peaceful
protest!” as the victim lay prostrate on the floor of the airport.
It
seems probable that the legitimization of the attack was fueled by the
mainstream media’s veneration of the violent attack on alt-right leader
RIchard Spencer, who was punched in the face during an unprovoked attack
at the inauguration.
Outlets like Newsweek and The Nation
lauded the idea that punching people in the face was acceptable and to
be encouraged, so long as you claim they’re a “Nazi”. Using violence to
advance a political cause is otherwise known as terrorism.
The incident follows similar violence
at Trump’s inauguration earlier this month when numerous Trump
supporters were viciously attacked by self-proclaimed anarchists and
far-left anti-Trump rioters.
Having
been radicalized by the mainstream media’s legitimization of hysteria
and violence, so long as it is directed towards Trump supporters,
anti-Trump radicals are becoming more and more unhinged.
How long before these individuals adopt Weathermen-style tactics and replace fists and bricks with guns and bombs?
 Flashback: Anti-Trump Dems Opposed 
Vietnamese Refugees
 Dems said refugees shown more compassion than Americans, questioned lack of vetting
BY CLIFFORD CUNNINGHAM
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/flashback-anti-trump-dems-opposed-vietnamese-refugees/; 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Despite their outrage over President Donald Trump’s executive
order barring refugees from seven primarily Muslim countries, numerous
far-left Democrats once opposed admitting refugees fleeing the collapse
of South Vietnam.
While citizens of South Vietnam sought
refuge in the United States following their country’s defeat by
communist forces from North Vietnam, many liberal Democrats opposed efforts by Republican President Gerald Ford to admit them.
The
group of Democrats included then-Governor of California Jerry Brown
(who currently serves as the state’s governor), then-Delaware Senator
Joe Biden, former Presidential candidate and South Dakota Senator George
McGovern, and New York Representative Elizabeth Holtzman.

“As a rookie governor when Saigon fell in 1975 and the U.S. was
flying Vietnamese refugees to America, Brown was outspokenly opposed,” reported the Los Angeles Times in 2015.
In
particular, Brown said in 1975: “There is something a little strange
about saying, ‘Let’s bring in 500,000 more people’ when we can’t take
care of the 1 million [Californians] out of work.”
His
administration even attempted to block planes carrying Vietnamese
refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco.
Julia Taft, who directed Ford’s Task Force on Indochinese refugee resettlement, told author Larry Engelmann in his book, Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam, “The new governor of California, Jerry Brown, was very concerned about refugees settling in his state.”
“Our biggest problem came from California,” Taft said during an interview
with NPR in 2007.”They didn’t want any of these refugees, because they
had also unemployment. They had already a large number of foreign-born
people there.”
“They had – they said they had too many Hispanics, too many people on welfare, they didn’t want these people.”
In
his attempt to settle Vietnamese refugees, President Ford also met
resistance from many liberal Democratic members of Congress.
Liberal
New York Representative Elizabeth Holtzman opposed helping the
refugees, arguing “some of her constituents felt that the same
assistance and compassion was not being shown to the elderly, unemployed
and poor in this country.”
Delaware Senator (and, most recently,
Vice President of the United States) Joe Biden tried to stall passage
of the refugee bill in the Senate, complaining
that he needed more details about the refugee situation because the
Ford administration “had not informed Congress adequately about the
number of refugees.”
Pennsylvania Representative Joshua Eilberg,
the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and
International Law, accused President Ford of acting “with unnecessary
haste” in organizing the airlift of orphans from collapsing South
Vietnam.
South Dakota Senator George McGovern, who was decisively
defeated by Richard Nixon in the 1972 Presidential election, went so far
as to introduce a bill to assist refugees who wished to return to the
country, despite its occupation by North Vietnamese Communist forces,
suggesting most of the refugees “would be better off going back to their
own land.” 
_______________________________________________________

 Trump Defends Refugee Order: 
“Nothing Nice About Searching For Terrorists”
BY STEVE WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

President Trump took to Twitter Monday to defend his
temporary migrant ban from 7 countries known to host radical Islamic
terrorists who have stated their intention to use the refugee crisis to
gain entry to the US.
Trump noted that the problems with
the travel chaos at some airports are not because of fallout from the
ban, but rather due to a Delta computer outage:

Trump
added that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has informed the
President that “all is going well with very few problems”
Trump rounded off the second tweet with the words “MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.”

The
President issued a third announcement declaring that there is “nothing
nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country.”
Trump stated that he was carrying out policies he had promised during his campaign and urged detractors to “Study the world!”

The
President also defended the fact that the 90 day ban was not announced
ahead of time, saying it would have provided advance warning to
terrorists.

Trump’s
aides have praised the restraining order, which bars the admission of
Syrian refugees and suspends travel to the United States from Syria,
Iraq, Iran and four other countries.
One official told reporters “It really is a massive success story in terms of implementation on every single level.”
During
a press briefing, the official who asked to remain anonymous, urged the
media to stop “false, misleading, inaccurate, hyperventilating”
coverage of the “fractional, marginal, minuscule percentage” of
travelers who were “set aside for further questioning”.

 While Democrats and former Obama administration officials have decried the policy, it has been noted that Trump is using an Obama administration law, the same Obama DHS policy, and has identified the same 7 countries for a 90-day visa suspension that were picked out by The Obama administration under the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act.
________________________________________________________
 'Fake tears': Trump Mocks Chuck Schumer's Crying
‘Fake tears’: Trump Mocks Chuck Schumer’s Crying 
‘There’s about a five percent chance that it was real…’
BY ADAN SALAZAR
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Senator Chuck Schumer cried crocodile tears when he publicly 
criticized the Trump administration’s travel ban, President Donald Trump
 alleged Monday.
 

“I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with fake tears,” Trump said. “I’m
gonna ask him who is his acting coach. Cause I know him very well. I
don’t see him as a crier. If he is, he’s a different man. There’s about a
five percent chance that it was real, but I think they were fake
tears.”
At a Sunday press conference, the New York senator
surrounded himself with children and delivered a watery-eyed testimony
calling the travel ban “mean-spirited,” and “un-American.”

“It was implemented in a way that created chaos and confusion across the country,” he stated.
“This is one of the most backward and nasty executive orders that the president has issued.”
“Tears
are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight as a grand
tradition of America, welcoming immigrants, that has existed since
America was founded, has been stomped upon,” Schumer said.
On
Friday, the Trump administration enacted a travel ban halting flights
from seven nations which the Obama administration had identified as
terror-prone countries.

 SCHUMER’S TEAR FILLED PLEA, SURROUNDED BY “IMMIGRANTS”:
 _________________________________________________________
 THE BACKLASH AGAINST TRUMP FOR 
HIS IMMIGRATION DIRECTIVES: 
Sean Spicer Interview: Trump Won't 
'Apologize For Putting Safety of This Country First'
 Trump Copy’s Obama Muslim Ban, Media Flips
  
Why People are Protesting the Travel Ban
  
Feminists Chant Allahu Akbar, Call For Trump 
to Open Borders; Converting to Islam
  
Acting attorney general tells DOJ not to defend 
Pres. Trump's travel ban
 Published on Jan 30, 2017
Acting
Attorney General Sally Yates told the Justice Department not to defend
President Trump’s executive order on immigration in court. CBS News
justice reporter Paula Reid joined CBSN to break down what could happen
next.

  
WASHINGTON IN SHOCK! TRUMP JUST FIRED 
THE 1 PERSON 
OBAMA DIDN’T WANT HIM TO 
FOR BETRAYING AMERICA
 Published on Jan 30, 2017

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| This is HUGE! Trump just fired the acting attorney General! In a
statement released by the White house moments ago regarding the
Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General they declared,
“The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department
of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the
citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and
legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.”


  
 
 

UK: NO MORE WEEKEND “CHANGING OF THE GUARD” CEREMONIES DUE TO FEARS OF JIHAD ATTACKS

 
UK: NO MORE WEEKEND “CHANGING OF THE GUARD” CEREMONIES DUE TO FEARS OF JIHAD ATTACKS
BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

“Windsor Castle has cancelled Changing the Guard
ceremonies amid fears of a terror attack after devastating incidents in
Berlin and Nice last year.

The longstanding tradition will no longer take place on Saturdays due
to concerns over the possibility that jihadists could target the
thousands of tourists who gather to enjoy the show.

A tragic example of civilizational jihad: the weekend ceremony that
draws the most tourists, a ceremony representative of British culture
and history, is nixed because of the terror that was cast into the
hearts of the disbelievers by jihadists within. The Changing of the
Guard is said to be “one of the highlights of a visit to Windsor Castle.”

“Changing the Guard weekend ceremonies AXED amid fears of a Berlin-style TERROR ATTACK”, by Harry Walker, Express, January 29, 2017:

Two major truck attacks have shaken Europe over the past year.

In December, 12 people were murdered and 50 injured after a terrorist
ploughed a truck through a busy Christmas market in Berlin at high
speed.

And in July, 86 people were brutally killed and hundreds more hurt
after a cowardly jihadi drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating Bastille
Day in Nice.

Thames Valley Police ordered top military officials to alter the
ceremonial timetable avoid the busiest times in the week in the wake of
the Berlin attack.

Troops will now only perform the ceremony on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Security has also been ramped up, with armed police checkpoints and road closures.

But the precautions have been blasted by local residents and traders
over concerns they will lose money if the ceremonies are scrapped
entirely.

Mother-of-two Polly Miller, 37, said: “Families won’t be able to go during the week because of school and work commitments.

“I think you are going to get a generation of disengaged British people……

 

OPPOSITION GROWS TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS TAKEOVER

OPPOSITION GROWS TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS TAKEOVER
BY KURT HYDE
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The Obama administration’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson announced on
January 6 that he had determined that U.S. elections “should be
designated as a subsector of the existing Government Facilities critical infrastructure sector.” Johnson’s statement went on to say:

By “election infrastructure,” we mean
storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulations
locations used to support the election process, and information and
communications technology to include voter registration databases,
voting machines, and other systems to manage the election process and
report and display results on behalf of state and local governments.


In other words, DHS would assert its authority over virtually all
aspects of elections. The memo also had assurances that this would not
be a federal takeover, but the cosmetic assurances contradict the memo’s
wording, particularly the self-declared, open-ended definition of what
would comprise the election infrastructure. Also fueling the fires of
concern is the history of federal takeovers. Federal takeovers in the
past have been replete with soothing statements saying they are not
takeovers during the initial phases.

Within days, the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) issued a statement
describing DHS’s announcement as “legally and historically
unprecedented, raising many questions and concerns.” NASS’s statement
went on to say:

State and local autonomy over elections
is our greatest asset against malicious cyberattacks and manipulation.
Our decentralized, low-connectivity electoral process is inherently
designed to withstand such threats.

Further reaction by state election officials has been overwhelmingly in opposition to this federal takeover. Numerous posts on the website electionline.org indicate widespread opposition by Secretaries of State and other voting officials, both Republican and Democrat.

The opposition to this attempted federal power grab is gratifying to
those who oppose encroachment by the federal government into what is
clearly the domain of the states. Particularly gratifying is the
statement explaining that decentralization of the electoral processes
and low levels of electronic connectivity are actually security
strengths in our elections. These statements by NASS are a welcome dose
of electoral sanity compared to recent advocacies for Internet voting
and secure transmission of precinct vote counts, both of which increase
centralization and electronic connectivity.

The New American has published numerous articles with
criticisms of Internet voting and, in reporting from Iowa at last year’s
Republican presidential caucuses, questioned the wisdom of secure transmission of precinct results:

While no one should be upset with quick
and accurate reporting, there is no reason given why this app should
work “securely.” Why should publicly disseminated information be
transmitted securely? If everyone has a right to know this information,
why should it be secured? The answer is, it shouldn’t.

There is a possibility that this growing opposition may lead to a
resolution against the power grab at next month’s NASS Winter Conference
in Washington, D.C.

But one argument that is missing from the debate is
constitutionality. This attempted federal action is blatantly
unconstitutional. Apologists for federal intervention in state elections
have quoted Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which says:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding
Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each
State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by
law make or alter such Regulations except for the Place of Chusing
Senators.

Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist, No. 59, addressed the
intent of this provision in the U.S. Constitution. It does allow for
Congress to alter state election laws, but as Hamilton explained, this
was primarily to ensure the states would hold elections for federal
offices thereby ensuring there would not be a coalition of states
over-powering the Congress by failing to elect Congressmen :

But with regard to the federal House of
Representatives, there is intended to be a general election of members
once in two years. If the State legislatures were to be invested with an
exclusive power of regulating these elections, every period of making
them would be a delicate crisis in the national situation, which might
issue in a dissolution of the Union, if the leaders of a few of the most
important States should have entered into a previous conspiracy to
prevent an election.

Hamilton further explained that the power to alter state election
laws was not intended to allow the federal government to stretch it so
far as to allow Congress to pass laws making the federal government the
regulator of state elections:

Suppose an article had been introduced
into the Constitution, empowering the United States to regulate the
elections for the particular States, would any man have hesitated to
condemn it, both as an unwarrantable transposition of power, and as a
premeditated engine for the destruction of the State governments?

Hopefully, the opposition to this attempted federal takeover of
elections will not only be stopped, but will lead to eventually
dismantling such unconstitutional federal bureaucracies as the Federal
Election Commission (FEC) and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission
(EAC), which are currently assuming regulatory authority over state
elections.

CATHOLICS TURN AGAINST SATANIC POPE FRANCIS~ASK TRUMP TO PROBE SOROS-OBAMA-CLINTON CONSPIRACY AT VATICAN

CATHOLICS TURN AGAINST SATANIC POPE FRANCIS 
CATHOLICS ASK TRUMP TO PROBE 
SOROS-OBAMA-CLINTON CONSPIRACY AT VATICAN 
BY WILLIAM F. JASPER 
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
Did billionaire speculator George Soros, President Barack Obama,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and
Obama/Clinton adviser John Podesta conspire to overthrow the
conservative Pope Benedict XVI and replace him with a radical, Pope
Francis? Did they use America’s intelligence agencies, and our nation’s
diplomatic machinery, political muscle, and financial power to coerce
and blackmail “regime change” in the Roman Catholic Church?

Far from being some wild conspiracy theory, there is sound prima
facie evidence to indicate that this is a serious effort to expose a
political scandal of the highest order, involving flagrant, criminal
abuse of power at the top levels of the U.S. government. A group of
respected Catholic lay leaders have sent a letter to President Donald
Trump urging him to launch an official investigation into the activities
of the above mentioned individuals (and others) who appear to have been
involved in this alleged Vatican coup. They cite eight specific
questions they seek to have answered concerning suspect events that led
to the resignation of Pope Benedict, the first such papal abdication in
700 years.

“Specifically, we have reason to believe that a Vatican ‘regime
change’ was engineered by the Obama administration,” say the
petitioners, in their January 20 letter to President Trump. The five
signatories to the letter, first published in the Catholic newspaper/weblog, The Remnant, are: Lieutenant Colonel David L. Sonnier, US Army (Retired); Michael J. Matt, editor of The Remnant:
Christopher A. Ferrara, author, attorney, and president of the American
Catholic Lawyers Association, Inc.; Chris Jackson, Catholics4Trump.com;
and, Elizabeth Yore, Esq., Founder of YoreChildren.

“We were alarmed to discover,” their letter notes, “that, during the
third year of the first term of the Obama administration your previous
opponent, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other government
officials with whom she associated proposed a Catholic ‘revolution’ in
which the final demise of what was left of the Catholic Church in
America would be realized.” The letter includes footnote links that take
the reader to documents and news stories underscoring their charges and
pointed questions. It first directs attention to the
Soros-Clinton-Podesta e-mails disclosed last year by WikiLeaks, in which
Podesta and other “progressives” discussed ending the “middle ages
dictatorship” in the Catholic Church. Regarding the e-mails in question,
The New American reported last October:

Podesta, a longtime Clinton
adviser/confidante and hand-picked top activist for left-wing funder
George Soros, revealed in a 2011 e-mail that he and other activists were
working to effect a “Catholic Spring” revolution within the Catholic
Church, an obvious reference to the disastrous “Arab Spring” coups
organized that same year by the Obama-Clinton-Soros team that
destabilized the Middle East and brought radical Islamist regimes and
terrorist groups to power in the region. The Podesta e-mail is a
response to another Soros-funded radical — Sandy Newman, founder of the
“progressive” Voices for Progress. Newman had written to Podesta seeking
advice on the best way to “plant the seeds of the revolution” in the
Catholic Church, which he described as a “middle ages [sic]
dictatorship.” The issue that appeared to be the cause of Newman’s
e-mail was opposition by U.S. Catholic Bishops to the federally mandated
contraceptive coverage in ObamaCare.

In their letter to President Trump, the concerned Catholics write:
“Approximately a year after this e-mail discussion, which was never
intended to be made public, we find that Pope Benedict XVI abdicated
under highly unusual circumstances and was replaced by a pope whose
apparent mission is to provide a spiritual component to the radical
ideological agenda of the international left.  The Pontificate of Pope
Francis has subsequently called into question its own legitimacy on a
multitude of occasions.”

“We remain puzzled by the behavior of this ideologically charged
Pope, whose mission seems to be one of advancing secular agendas of the
left rather than guiding the Catholic Church in Her sacred mission,”
they say, expressing the thoughts, undoubtedly, of innumerable Catholics
worldwide. “It is simply not the proper role of a Pope to be involved
in politics to the point that he is considered to be the leader of the
international left.”

The Catholic quintet began their missive to President Trump with the
famous quote attributed to French historian Alexis de Tocqueville:
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good,
America will cease to be great.”

“While we share your stated goal for America,” they write, “we
believe that the path to ‘greatness’ is for America to be ‘good’ again,
to paraphrase de Tocqueville. We understand that good character cannot
be forced on people, but the opportunity to live our lives as good
Catholics has been made increasingly difficult by what appears to be a
collusion between a hostile United States government and a pope who
seems to hold as much ill will towards followers of perennial Catholic
teachings as he seems to hold toward yourself.”

They continue:

With all of this in mind, and wishing the
best for our country as well as for Catholics worldwide, we believe it
to be the responsibility of loyal and informed United States Catholics
to petition you to authorize an investigation into the following
questions:
– To what end was the National Security Agency monitoring the conclave that elected Pope Francis?
– What other covert operations were
carried out by US government operatives concerning the resignation of
Pope Benedict or the conclave that elected Pope Francis?
– Did US government operatives have contact with the “Cardinal Danneels Mafia”?
– International monetary transactions
with the Vatican were suspended during the last few days prior to the
resignation of Pope Benedict. Were any U.S. Government agencies involved
in this?
– Why were international monetary
transactions resumed on February 12, 2013, the day after Benedict XVI
announced his resignation? Was this pure coincidence?
– What actions, if any, were actually
taken by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and others tied to the Obama
administration who were involved in the discussion proposing the
fomenting of a “Catholic Spring”?
– What was the purpose and nature of the
secret meeting between Vice President Joseph Biden and Pope Benedict XVI
at the Vatican on or about June 3, 2011?
– What roles were played by George Soros
and other international financiers who may be currently residing in
United States territory?

It is likely that very few Americans, including American Catholics,
are aware of these matters, in the slightest degree. Although the
WikiLeaks, DCLeaks, and Snowden revelations have made most of this
planet’s inhabitants aware that the NSA routinely (and illegally) has
scooped up billions of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages, very
little media coverage has focused on the revelations concerning the NSA
spying on Pope Benedict and the cardinals of the conclave that elected
Pope Francis in 2013 (see here and here).

Architects of Subversion

What about the secret “Cardinal Danneels Mafia” referred to above? According to the Catholic blogspot Rorate Caeli,
“The election of Jorge Bergoglio was the fruit of secret meetings that
cardinals and bishops, organized by Carlo Maria Martini, held for years
at St. Gall in Switzerland.” That is the claim of
Jürgen Mettepenningen and Karim Schelkens, the authors of a recently
published authorized biography of the Belgian
Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who refer to the group of cardinals and
bishops as the “Mafia-club.”

Cardinal Danneels himself, in a video recorded for the book, admits
to taking part in the secret club of cardinals that were in opposition
to Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict). He refers to it as “a Mafia club
whose name was St. Gall.” In addition to Danneels, this “Mafia club”
reportedly included Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Dutch
bishop Adriaan Van Luyn, German cardinals Walter Kasper and Karl Lehman,
the Italian cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Britain’s Cardinal Basil
Hume, and other liberal-left churchmen. Cardinal Danneels, a Belgian,
has long been viewed as a key subversive in the Church prelature for
undermining traditional Catholic teaching against abortion,
homosexuality, and “gay marriage,” as well as for his efforts to protect
pedophiles in the clergy.

One name not mentioned in the recent letter of concerned Catholics to
President Trump, but certain to surface as a key culprit in any
substantive investigation, is former chairman of Goldman Sachs
International Peter Sutherland. Mr. Sutherland, an Insider’s Insider
among the globalist banking establishment, was brought in to help
“reform” the Vatican Bank, which was akin to putting Dracula in charge
of the blood bank.

Like Joseph Biden, Jerry Brown, and Nancy Pelosi, Sutherland is a
prominent political figure who is regularly described in media accounts
as a “practicing Catholic,” which means he wears his religion when it is
expedient to do so. As attorney general of Ireland, Sutherland helped
to scuttle that Catholic country’s legal restrictions on abortion and
favored the “LGBT rights” movement. He has served as a commissioner of
the European Union and  headed the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Here are some of his other globalist credentials, as previously in The New American:

• He is a regular attendee and former Steering Committee member of the ultra-secretive, ultra-elite Bilderberg Group;
• he was European chairman of the Trilateral Commission;
• he is past chairman of British Petroleum (BP);
• he is honorary president of the
Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN), one of the principal corporatist
insider organizations promoting EU-U.S. merger through the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP);
• as a top Eurocrat, he played a lead
role in destroying national sovereignty by replacing national currencies
(and national monetary control) with the euro, as well as engineering
the “borderless Europe,” which the current migrant crisis is now proving
to have been so destructive.

For the past decade, as the United Nations special representative for International Migration, Sutherland has been a key architect,
along with with George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other
globalists of the global scheme that has flooded Europe with the
disastrous tsunami of Muslim migrants. (Their plans, which called for a
similar migration deluge for the United States, got started under
President Obama, but have been scuttled by the election of President
Trump.)

The investigation that the concerned Catholics are requesting of
President Trump should be of interest to more than just Catholics. Peter
Sutherland, George Soros, and the world government movement they
represent will, if successful, wreak unimaginable havoc and devastation
upon the entire planet. The investigation — and prosecutions — cannot
begin too soon.

Related articles:

George Soros: The “God” Who Should Be Jailed

Democracy Alliance: Soros Billionaires Club for Revolution

Foundations: Cutting Off the Toxic Funding Flow

Clinton Campaign’s anti-Catholic E-mails: Will Catholic Voters React?

Hacked Docs Expose Soros-Obama-UN Refugee Invasion Network

Insider: EU-U.S. Must Take More Refugees, Get Rid of Sovereignty

Soros and CFR Exploit Refugee Crisis for New World Order

Refugee Crisis: Using Chaos to Build Power

Trading Away Their Oaths (TPN Transatlantic Policy Network)