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Sean
Hannity discusses the effort made by NBC to discredit President Donald
Trump at any cost during his opening monologue. The latest attack is
Donald Trump’s 2005 Tax Return. Sean Hannity interviews Laura Ingraham
and Jay Sekulow about this latest news.
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
By Chuck Baldwin
From the beginning, there have been several things that have bothered me about
Donald Trump. Perhaps my biggest concerns have always been how genuine Trump
is and, if he is genuine, how much he truly understands about “the swamp” he
promised to drain.
Where,
oh where, are Donald Trump’s manly parts?No one has
seen them. There are no solid leads. Every jar in the 202 and 212
area codes has been inspected, and they’re not there. There
are rumors that Trump was really being wire-tapped in an attempt
to find out where he lost them, but that cannot be confirmed or
denied. We’re barely halfway through the first 100 days, and
already Trump has backed down on the following:•
He’s not going to arrest “crooked Hillary” and
“locker her up” after all.•
He’s not going to repeal Obama’s unconstitutional (see
that as illegal) executive amnesty (DACA) after all.•
After saying throughout the campaign it was weak and dumb
to show your plans and give a heads up to your enemies, his new
(and watered down) immigration executive order gives jihadists a
10-day warning before being implemented.•
He’s siding with weak House GOP leadership in not repealing
Obamacare as promised, and instead replacing it with something that
could even be worse.•
His RNC leadership team looks like a Who’s Who of the establishment,
including the name Henry Barbour. The man who orchestrated one of
the worst betrayals ever of the grassroots–the literal stealing
of the 2014 Mississippi senate primary.•
He still hasn’t lifted a finger to protect religious liberty.
No repeal of the Johnson Amendment. No executive order. Not even
a reference in his recent congressional speech to the Left’s
attempt to destroy the lives of believers like Barronelle Stutzman.
Making The Auto Industry Great Again.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A Texas-based religious liberties
legal group is pushing back against an atheist activist organization’s
efforts to put an end to prayers and Bible readings that are presented
by a chaplain during ceremonies at a Air National Guard base in New
Hampshire.
The First Liberty Institute sent a letter
on Tuesday to Col. James Ryan, the commanding officer at Pease Air
National Guard Base, to advise that it believes the Freedom From
Religion Foundation’s (FFRF) assertions about the prayers are
fallacious.
“The FFRF’s position and legal argument are incorrect. Federal law,
military regulations, and court precedents belie the FFRF’s specious
claims. Uniformed chaplains are clearly permitted, indeed protected,
when they offer invocations at military functions,” senior counsel Mike
Berry wrote.
He pointed to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the
National Defense Authorization Act, as well as the Department of Defense
(DoD) instruction entitled “Accommodation of Religious Practices Within
the Military Services.” Berry said that under these rules, “the DoD
must accommodate individual expressions of religious belief, which
undoubtedly include a military chaplain’s invocation.”
First Liberty also noted the 1997 federal court ruling in Rigdon v.
Perry, which upheld the rights of two chaplains who desired to preach in
favor of banning partial-birth abortion.
Berry“In
Rigdon v. Perry, a federal court explained that when military chaplains
are acting in a religious capacity—such as when conducting a sermon or
offering an invocation—they are not acting under color of military
authority, and ‘it is wholly appropriate for them to advance their
religious beliefs in that context,’” Berry noted.
“Thus, when military chaplains engage in religious conduct,
their conduct is protected under the First Amendment to the
Constitution,” he said, concluding that the U.S. Constitution, federal
law and DoD regulations alike all permit chaplain-led prayer at military
events.
“Moreover, those legal authorities actually forbid military
commanders from censoring or prohibiting such invocations,” Berry
contended.
As previously reported, last month, FFRF sent a letter
to base leadership to assert that the inclusion of the chaplain-led
invocations and Scripture readings at official Air National Guard
ceremonies is unconstitutional. It said that it had been contacted by a
concerned guardsman, who informed them of the chaplain’s offerings.
“Christian prayers delivered at an official military event violate
the Constitution’s mandate of government neutrality between religious
beliefs,” FFRF contended. “Any prayer—including non-denominational
prayer—violates the required neutrality between religion and
nonreligion.”
“By imposing prayer on its guardsmen at mandatory events, the Air
National Guard is violating the constitutional limits on government
religious endorsement,” it said.
The organization also opined that the inclusion of the prayers is
“unnecessary and divisive,” as well as “coercive” and “insensitive.”
FFRF said that the invocations exclude those who don’t identify as
atheists, and noted that military members are “free to pray privately or
to worship on their own time.”
“The Air National Guard must refrain from lending its power and
prestige to religion, amounting to a government endorsement that
excludes the over 23% of military personnel who either express no
religious preference or are atheists,” it said. “It is also simply
insensitive for a government employer to inflict prayer on employees
regardless of their personal beliefs.”
FFRF requested that it be assured in writing that the invocations
would be discontinued at future events to “protect the rights of
conscience” of guardsmen, such as those who do not share in the
religious beliefs of the presenting chaplain.
The base has not yet released a statement or decision about the matter.
As previously reported, in 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee said to his
troops, “Soldiers! We have sinned against Almighty God. We have
forgotten His signal mercies, and have cultivated a revengeful, haughty
and boastful spirit. We have not remembered that the defenders of a just
cause should be pure in His eyes; that ‘our times are in His hands,’
and we have relied too much on our own arms for the achievement of our
independence.”
“God is our only refuge and our strength. Let us humble ourselves
before Him,” he declared. “Let us confess our many sins, and beseech Him
to give us a higher courage, a purer patriotism, and more determined
will; that He will hasten the time when war, with its sorrows and
sufferings, shall cease, and that He will give us a name and place among
the nations of the earth.”
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Officials at the New York State Board of Regents believe it is more
important to be politically correct than to ensure that the individuals
educating New York’s students have a mastery of the English language.
Associated Press reports that the Board of Regents plans to scrap a
literacy test for potential teachers today because too many non-whites
are failing the test. Critics claim the test is making it difficult to
achieve diversity within the teaching profession.
The test in question is the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST),
which “measures whether a prospective teacher can understand and analyze
reading material and also write competently,” according to the New York Post.
The ALST was introduced in the 2013-2014 school year, along with
three other assessments, ostensibly to raise the quality of teachers in
New York by assessing reading and writing skills and testing an
individual’s ability to master the Common Core standards for English.
New York State Deputy Commissioner of Education Ken Wagner defended the
test as one that would help to “ensure that each newly certified teacher
entered the classroom with certain minimum knowledge, skills and
abilities.”
Improving the quality of teachers is of prime importance to the
education reform movement, according to AP. A December 2016 study by
the National Council on Teacher Quality found that 44 percent of
teaching programs accepted students from the bottom half of their high
school classes.
The ALST is comparable to a 12th grade-level assessment, states the
executive director of the New York office of the Education Trust Ian
Rosenblum, and is comprised of multiple choice questions based on
reading passages such as President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.
When the test was first rolled out, the statewide pass rate was 68
percent, prompting State Education Commissioner John King to announce
that New York’s teacher-prep programs needed to improve or be closed.
“It’s better to have fewer programs that better prepare teachers than
having many schools that have teachers who are unprepared for the
classroom,” King said.
But focus has been redirected from failing teacher-prep programs to
the test itself. Critics claim it hurts diversity because too many
non-white individuals are failing it. AP reports that just 46 percent of
Hispanic test-takers and 41 percent of black test-takers passed the
test at first try, compared to 64 percent of white test-takers.
In 2015, individuals who had failed the ALST challenged the test in
court with claims that it is discriminatory, but a federal judge
determined that the test was not racially discriminatory.
Judge Kimba M. Wood, a failed Bill Clinton nominee for U.S. attorney
general, ruled that just because racial minorities scored lower on the
test did not mean it was discriminatory. Wood determined that the test
accurately evaluates the skills necessary to teach successfully and
therefore has a place in determining which individuals should be
permitted to teach.
Judge Wood ruled that the state and Pearson, the testing company that
helped devise the exam, had adequately ensured that the “content of the
ALST is representative of the content of a New York State public-school
teacher’s job.”
At the time, New York State Education Department spokesman David Tompkins celebrated Wood’s ruling in favor of the test.
“Our students need and deserve the best qualified teachers possible,
and the ALST helps make sure they get those teachers,” Tompkins said,
according to the Times.
Despite this ruling, however, members on the Board of Regents assert
that the test is hurting its agenda of achieving a diverse workforce of
school teachers. Professor of Education at Pace University Leslie
Soodak, who served on the task force behind the recommendation to
eliminate the ALST, said, “Having a white workforce really doesn’t match
our student body anymore.”
Soodak contends that the test is not necessary to make sure that teachers are meeting high standards.
“We want high standards, without a doubt. Not every given test is going to get us there.”
Soodak and other critics claim that basic literacy tests only measure
a person’s ability to write and speak, which may not be as important as
other aspects.
Alfred S. Posamentier, former education dean at Mercy College, told the Times
that the test is not an indicator of who would be a good teacher
because it measures “how eloquent a person is in the English language.”
“The question is, is that one of the criterion for determining who
will be a good teacher?” Posamentier adds, “My sense is that the answer
is no.”
Supporters of the ALST understand, however, that eliminating the test
could open the doors to having weaker teachers in the classroom.
According to Kate Walsh, the president of National Council on Teacher
Quality, minorities tend to score lower on these exams as a result of
other factors, such as poverty and the “legacy of racism,” but that
should not warrant the exam’s eradication. “There’s not a test in the
country that doesn’t have disproportionate performance on the part of
blacks and Latinos,” she said, but removing it as a prerequisite for
teachers would be “a crying shame.”
This is not the first time critics have claimed that expectations of
reading and writing in proper grammatical English is discriminatory,
unfortunately.
An anti-racist poster at the writing center at the University of
English claims that American grammar is inherently “racist.” The poster
contends that students should not be penalized for using slang or poor
grammar in speech or in writing assignments.
According to the poster, “there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English”
and that “language is constantly changing.” As a result, there is no
real justification for “placing people in hierarchies or restricting
opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in
particular versions of English.”
The irony of this, of course, is that the poster’s message is racist
in that it presumes that minority students are incapable of speaking and
writing in proper English and require the protection of academia to
safeguard them from such unfair expectations. But what happens to these
students when they are out in the so-called real world away from the
“safe spaces” of college campuses and need to construct a well-written
cover letter and professional resume?
Apparently, they can go teach in New York State, where literacy will no longer be a requirement for teachers.
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The
Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) is being removed in the state of
New York because too many “minorities” are failing the exam. So
apparently examining the literacy qualifications of our teachers and
having high standards of them is now racist.
Dear Lighthouse Trails:
I read the story
behind Lighthouse Trails a couple of times, and it hit me that we are
going to reach only a fraction of evangelical believers because the
movement has progressed so much farther into Contemplative Spirituality
(CS) than I had realized. I became aware of CS five years ago, so when I
read that Ray Yungen
wrote his book (which I am re-reading currently) in 2002, it occurred to
me that the battle is nearly won by the forces of evil. Out of all the
people I have tried to reach, only two have been receptive to my
warning. Of course, your ministry can reach many more than any one
individual. Jesus told us we would see this apostasy in the end.
II do wish you would do some research on Pastor Brian Zahnd, my former
pastor. His church went emergent, and he is deep into Contemplative
Spirituality. He teaches seminars on Contemplative Prayer at Word of
Life Church in St. Joseph, MO. He is now taking his prayer school on the
road. And like Roger Oakland says, he’s on the “road to Rome.” He is
currently writing his sixth book. https://brianzahnd.com/books/
If you were to read his blog and his Twitter account, you’d see just how far he has gone into apostasy. https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd
He has said he is a friend of Eugene Peterson.
He quotes Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, and many other CS authors and
“theologians” on Twitter. One tweet said: “The future of Christianity
belongs to the Thomas Merton kind of Christian, not the heirs of Jerry
Falwell.”
Recently he had a reply to one of his tweets from Ann Coulter, so he is not an unknown.
He has jettisoned the OT (though he says not, but then he says he’s not Emergent) and is against substitutionary atonement.
I sent my current pastor your booklet on Brennan Manning and got no response. So I guess I’ll be looking for a new church again.
May God bless you in your vital work.
Ruth
Lighthouse Trails Comments: As
Ruth has perceived, Brian Zahnd is a mystic. If you asked him if he
was, he would proudly tell you yes. He’s not ashamed of it. His book Water to Wine
tells of his mystical experiences and the outcome of those experiences.
It’s in that book that Zahnd made the Merton/Falwell quote. Here is a
little more of that quote:
The way forward is far less political and far
more mystical. A generation ago the great Catholic theologian Karl
Rahner famously predicted, “The devout Christian of the future will
either be a ‘mystic’, one who has ‘experienced’ something, or he will
cease to be anything at all.” The future of Christianity belongs to the
Thomas Merton kind of Christian, not the heirs of Jerry Falwell. This
should be seen as a welcome change. It is only our false hopes that are
being disappointed in the death of Christendom. (Zahnd, Brian. Water To Wine: Some of My Story (Kindle Locations 1606-1610). Spello Press. Kindle Edition)
During the course of our author Ray Yungen’s
adult life, he studied the New Age, occultism, and mysticism, their
connection to each other, and their influence in the world and in the
church. He frequently mentioned Karl Rahner’s quote that the Christian
of the future will be a mystic or he will be nothing. That is how the
mystics view their belief that a Christian must engage in mystical
practices if he really wants to be spiritual. They believe these
practices will produce esoteric experiences that if practiced by enough
of mankind, the earth and the world can be saved. They believe that real
love and a change of heart can only come from these experiences. The
mystics believe that this mystical transformation can happen to anyone,
of any belief, of any religion, or of no religion at all. That’s because
it isn’t about Jesus Christ (though they may say they like him) and man
realizing he is a sinner in great need of a Savior. It can’t be about
that—that would take away from the mystic’s belief that divinity dwells
in all people and in all things. Though a bit obscure in the following
quote by Zahnd, he puts it this way:
Love all of God’s creation, both the whole of
it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light.
Love animals, love plants, love each thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in things.
Once you have perceived it, you will begin tirelessly to perceive more
and more of it every day. And you will come at last to love the whole
world with an entire, universal love. (Zahnd, Brian. Water To Wine: Some
of My Story (Kindle Locations 1897-1900). Spello Press. Kindle Edition,
emphasis added)
As Ray Yungen often pointed out, the “fruit” of
contemplative prayer (which Zahnd refers to over 40 times in the book)
is interspirituality (all paths lead to God) and panentheism (God in
all). Zahnd explains in his book that when he moved from the moral
(doctrine) to the mystical, he became interspiritual:
When I was converted from sectarian to
eclectic [mystical], I obtained a passport that allowed me to travel
freely throughout the whole body of Christ. In my theological travels I
have discovered a Christianity that has both historical depth and
ecumenical width. Now I can’t imagine not being able to access all the
great contributors to contemporary Christian thought. Orthodox thinkers
like Kallistos Ware and David Bentley Hart. Catholic thinkers like
Richard Rohr and William Cavanaugh. Anglican thinkers like Rowen
Williams and N.T. Wright. Mainline thinkers like Walter Brueggemann and
Eugene Peterson. Without them my Christianity would be horribly
impoverished. (Zahnd, Brian. Water To Wine: Some of My Story (Kindle
Locations 459-463). Spello Press. Kindle Edition)
Water to Wine is filled with
interspiritual statements like the one above. Using words such as
“tribalism,” he says we must get rid of this notion that traditional
(biblical) Christianity is more true or right than other religious
traditions. Just prior to the statement above, Zahnd quoted Thomas
Merton saying:
If I can unite in myself the thought and the
devotion of Eastern and Western Christendom, the Greek and the Latin
Fathers, the Russian with the Spanish mystics, I can prepare in myself
the reunion of divided Christians… If we want to bring together what is
divided, we cannot do so by imposing one division [doctrine] upon the
other. If we do this, the union is not Christian. It is political and
doomed to further conflict. We must contain all the divided worlds in
ourselves and transcend them in Christ. (Kindle Locations 454-459,
quoting Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Colorado Springs,
CO: Image Books, 1968, 14).
You may recall when Thomas Merton spoke via
letter with a Sufi master (an Islamic mystic) and told him that
doctrinal differences needed to be laid aside, and we must turn
to esoteric experiences as a common ground for unity and fellowship
between all . He actually used the Cross as an example of one of those
doctrines that had to be laid aside. (Rob Baker and Gray Henry, Editors,
Merton and Sufism, Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 1999, p. 109)
While Zahnd’s book is filled with examples of
his “new life” as a mystic, we’d like to bring out just one more point
about Zahnd because it reveals some insight that affects a huge
percentage of today’s Christian culture, and it is the person who
initially pointed the way for Zahnd to become a mystic. You will know
the name. Most likely, your own pastor has read at least one of his
books. Read what Zahnd has to say:
On a summer afternoon I was at home browsing
my bookshelves. I was deliberately looking for a book that would “give
me a breakthrough.” I couldn’t settle on anything. So I prayed, “God,
show me what to read.” And I sensed…nothing. I went downstairs feeling a
bit agitated and slumped into a chair. Within a minute or two my wife,
Peri, walked into the room, handed me a book and said, “I think you
should read this.” She knew nothing of my moments ago prayer, but she
had just handed me a book, and told me to read it. This was my
Augustine-like “take and read” moment. It sent chills down my spine.
Somehow I knew it was the answer to my prayer. The book was Dallas
Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy. The strange thing was Peri had
not read this book and had no more idea who Dallas Willard was than I
did. (As I said, I was embarrassingly ignorant of the good stuff.)
Neither of us were sure how the book had even made its way into our
house. But, oh my, was it ever an answer to prayer! The next day I was
flying somewhere and I took out the book providentially given to me by
an angel. I began to read. And my life changed forever. Hyperbole? No.
Stone cold fact. Reading Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy
was like having a door kicked open in my mind. It opened my eyes to the
kingdom of God. And the kingdom of God is, well, everything! In his
foreword to The Divine Conspiracy, Richard Foster writes: “The Divine Conspiracy
is the book I have been searching for all my life. Like Michelangelo’s
Sistine ceiling, it is a masterpiece and a wonder… I would place The Divine Conspiracy
in rare company indeed: along-side the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
and John Wesley, John Calvin and Martin Luther, Teresa of Avila and
Hildegard of Bingen, and perhaps even Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of
Hippo. If the parousia tarries, this is a book for the next millennium.”
That’s exactly what I needed! Augustine and Aquinas for the
twenty-first century! Dallas Willard was my gateway to the good stuff.
Directly or indirectly reading Willard led me to others: N.T. Wright,
Walter Brueggemann, Eugene Peterson, Frederick Buechner, Stanley
Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, René Girard, Miroslav Volf, Karl Barth,
Hans Urs von Balthasar, David Bentley Hart, Wendell Berry, Scot
McKnight, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, and so many more. (Kindle
Locations 116-133)
Sadly, the spirituality that Brian Zahnd found
in those authors cannot save souls and does not point to the Cross of
redemption through Jesus Christ. Like so many mystics before him, Zahnd
has discarded the idea that Christianity is dualistic in that it is
separate from all other belief systems (and that there is a right and
wrong, true and false, good and bad, etc), and the doctrines that the
mystics so readily dismiss are the very framework of our Christian
faith. Within those rejected doctrines is the doctrine of the Cross that
says man is not divine and he desperately needs a Savior who
is just one Person, Jesus Christ who died a violent death on behalf of
mankind. He took our place. To reject dualism (two sides) is to reject
the Cross. The contemplative emergent Episcopal bishope Alan Jones
illustrated this in his book Reimagining Christianity. In Roger Oakland’s book, Faith Undone, Oakland states:
[Alan] Jones carries through with this idea
that God never intended Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross to be considered a
payment for our sins:“The Church’s fixation on the death of Jesus
as the universal saving act must end, and the place of the cross must be
reimagined in Christian faith. Why? Because of the cult of suffering
and the vindictive God behind it.”“The other thread of just criticism addresses
the suggestion implicit in the cross that Jesus’ sacrifice was to
appease an angry God. Penal substitution [the Cross] was the name of
this vile doctrine.” (Faith Undone, Lighthouse Trails, 2007, p. 193, quoting Alan Jones, Reimagining Christianity, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, 200, pp. 132, 168)
Jones calls the doctrine of the Cross a “vile
doctrine,” similar to Brian McLaren who said the doctrine of the Cross
and Hell are “false advertising” for God.* Brennan Manning did the same
thing when he said that the God who exacted the last drop of his blood
to appease His anger for our sins does not exist. (Above All, Manning, p. 58) Brian Zahnd says it this way:
Over time I began to see the cross in a much deeper way—not as a mere factor in an atonement theory equation, but as the moment in time and space where God reclaimed creation. I saw the cross as the place where Jesus refounded the world. Instead of being organized around an axis of power enforced by violence, at the cross the world was refounded around an axis of love expressed in forgiveness. (Water To Wine, Kindle Locations 305-308, emphasis added)
It’s a perfect ploy of Satan to get people to
stop believing in that atonement. Remember, our adversary hates the
atonement. And once a person begins down that road of mystical
experiences, entering esoteric realms (really demonic realms), Satan
will even allow that mystic to think he has become a fully evolved
enlightened person who loves everyone and everything. All the while that
person, who is being seduced by familiar spirits, is moving further and
further away from the only path God has provided for salvation. And he
will share this “mystical revolution” with as many people as he can.
This is what happened with all the “great” mystics, and tragically, it
appears to have happened to Brian Zahnd and who knows how many other
evangelical pastors.
Extra Footnotes:
* Interview by Leif Hansen (The Bleeding Purple
Podcast) with Brian McLaren, January 8th, 2006); Part 1: http://bleeding
purple podcast .blog
spot.com/2006/01/brian-mclaren-interview-part-i.html; Part II:
http://bleeding purple pod cast. blog
spot.com/2006/01/interview-with-brian-mclaren-part-ii.html).
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By Warren B. Smith
For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine; But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, Having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from
the truth and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
YOUNG PUBLICLY ENDORSES UNIVERSAL SALVATION
In his just-released book (March 7th), Lies We Believe About God,
best-selling author Paul Young openly describes himself as a
universalist. In chapter 13, Young would have us believe it is a “lie”
to tell someone, “You need to get saved.”1 Young asks himself the
rhetorical questions, “Are you suggesting that everyone is saved? That
you believe in universal salvation?”2 He answers, “That is exactly what I
am saying!”3 Young then goes on to teach that “every single human being
is in Christ” and that “Christ is in them.”4 With this unbiblical
teaching, one recalls how Young put these same heretical words in the
mouth of his “Jesus” character in The Shack. He wrote:
God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things.5
THE TRINITARIAN LIE
Young would have us believe his trinitarian lie that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit inherently indwell everyone.6
This is exactly what the false “Christ” of the New Age teaches. In
fact, it is the foundational teaching of the New Age/New
Spirituality/New World Religion that has progressively moved into the
world and into the church.
NEW AGE IN THE CHURCH
As I pointed out in my booklet, The Shack and Its New Age Leaven,7
the teaching that God is “in” everyone is a heretical New Age teaching
that has been increasingly popularized over the last thirty years by New
Age authors and teachers and heavily promoted by people like Oprah
Winfrey. Sadly, it is also found in the books and teachings of
well-known church figures like Robert Schuller, Rick Warren, Eugene
Peterson, Leonard Sweet, and Sarah Young.8 And in a November 1, 2016 Catholic News Service
article titled, “Pope Offers New Beatitudes for Saints of a New Age”
Pope Francis, in a Catholic Mass in Malmo, Sweden, proposed a new
“beatitude”—”Blessed are those who see God in every person and strive to
make others also discover him.”9
WHAT WILL THE CHURCH DO?
Paul Young wanted to have a conversation about the
nature of God, and that conversation is now front and center before the
church. Will pastors and leaders and day-to-day believers contend for
the faith and fight the good fight, or will they let false teachers like
Paul Young have their uncontested say and have their uncontested way?
Endnotes:
1. Chapter 13 title in Lies We Believe About God is “You need to get saved.”
2. William Paul Young, Lies We Believe About God (New York, NY: Atria Books; An imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2017), p. 118.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 119.
5. William P. Young, The Shack (Newbury Park, CA: Windblown Media, 2007), p. 112.
6. In C. Baxter Kruger’s book, The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here Than You Ever Dared to Dream, in the foreword, Shack author William Paul Young writes: I want to say, “Thank you, and please read The Shack Revisited.” He adds, “If you want to understand better the perspectives and theology that frame The Shack,
this book is for you. Baxter has taken on the incredible task of
exploring the nature and character of the God who met me in my own shack” (p. ix). On page 49 of The Shack Revisited , Kruger writes: “For inside of us all, because of Jesus, is nothing short of the very trinitarian life of God.” C. Baxter Kruger, The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream (New York, NY: FaithWords), p. 49.
7. To read this booklet, click here: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=12290.
8. I have documented a short history of how this deceptive
New Age teaching has entered the world and the church in my booklet Be Still and Know That You Are Not God. The booklet includes quotes by each of these figures. To read this booklet, click here: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=17572.
9. Cathy Wooden, “Pope Offers New Beatitudes for Saints of a New Age” (Catholic News Service, November 1, 2016,).
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Lighthouse Trails has now sent out its 4th letter since early 2016 to
over 130 prominent Christian leaders. Along with the letter, we
included a copy of the booklet we publish, The Shack and Its New Age Leaven
plus a news brief we released recently. Both the booklet and the news
brief are written by former New Age follower Warren B. Smith. Here is
the letter we wrote to the leaders introducing the material:
Dear Christian Leader:
Please find enclosed one of our booklets titled The Shack and Its New Age Leaven by Lighthouse Trails author Warren B. Smith along with a short news brief we released on March 9th. As you probably know, The Shack movie came out this month, which no doubt will bring renewed interest in the book, The Shack.
When you read this booklet and the news brief, we hope you will
understand our sense of urgency given that many Christian leaders and
pastors are now endorsing The Shack. In William Paul Young’s newest book, Lies We Believe About God, he once again openly rejects biblical tenets of the Christian faith.We hope you will read and prayerfully consider the content of both the booklet and the news brief.
Sincerely in Christ,
The Editors at
Lighthouse Trails Publishing, Inc.
The letters and booklets were mailed out from our office in Montana on March 13th. You can read the news brief we included by clicking here. And here is the link to the content of the booklet we sent.
Since we began sending out letters and booklets to Christian leaders in early 2016, we have received the following responses:
Short letters of thanks from the ministry offices of: Chuck Missler, Nancy DeMoss, Tony Evans, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Beth Moore
Notes of thanks personally signed by Tim Tebow, Kay Arthur, George Wood (Assemblies of God General Superintendent)
A letter of thanks via e-mail from Ben Kinchlow’s ministry manager (Kinchlow is the founder of Americans for Israel and former 700 Club host)
An e-email from the office of Chuck Swindoll telling us to stop sending booklets (we have since removed his name from our list).
It is our hope and prayer that many of the leaders on our list will take a few moments to read the material we sent out on The Shack.
If you would like us to add the name of a leader to our
Christian leaders list, please send the name and mailing address to us
at: editors@lighthousetrails.com. Because of time restraints, we will
not be able to add a name without an address. Plus, because we cannot
send out these letters and booklets to every pastor in the country,
we ask that you only submit names of pastors and/or church leaders who
have written at least one book (you can check Amazon) thus moving him
or her into a place of influence throughout the church at large.
We wish we could send booklets to every Christian pastor in
North America. However, here is an idea given to us from one of our
readers for anyone who feels compelled to reach the pastors in his or
her denomination and/or state: Last month, a woman contacted us from
Mississippi who learned that we were sending out booklets to Christian
leaders and pastors. She said she was burdened for Southern Baptist
pastors in her state and asked us to put together a mailing of two
booklets and a letter and mail it to every Southern Baptist pastor in
Mississippi. Our reader paid for the list (which we purchased for her),
the booklets, the postage, and our labor. At her request, we sent
each pastor a copy of 10 Scriptural Reasons Jesus Calling is a Dangerous Book by Warren B. Smith and 5 Things You Should Know About Contemplative Prayer by Ray Yungen. If you have a group you would like us to reach in this manner, please contact our office.
If you would like to view and/or print a list of the
Christian leaders we are currently sending booklets and short letters
to 3-4 times a year, click here.
Perhaps you would like to pray for these men and women who, in total,
influence millions and millions of people throughout the world.
Incidentally, just because a name is on this list does not necessarily
mean that leader is in deception. We have included a wide assortment of
names in this list. There are many pastors and Christian leaders who
may not be part of the deception but, for various reasons, are not
aware of what is happening in the church today.
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republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
I’m not going to write a review or detailed critique of William P.
Young’s book or movie both entitled “The Shack.” The reason is because
there are already a number of good reviews available. You can access
plenty of information on Lighthouse Trails Research. What I will do is
present a warning.
First, I want to point out that there are some heresies and
deceptions that one should not need a review to recognize and reject.
The televangelist selling God’s favor, which increases with the size of
the donation, is one. Another one is a preacher smoking pot or getting
drunk on video while claiming that it is the way to get closer to God.
One more is the preacher that declares that God has entrusted only him
with new revelation essential to understanding the Bible. Likewise, does
anyone really need to inform a true Christian about what is wrong with
“The Shack”?
Now for the warning. God’s word declares that the end times will be
very dangerous for Christians. There will be many spiritually wicked
individuals masquerading as servants of God. They will present heresies
and other lies for the purpose of deceiving God’s people. However, some
professing Christians declare that it is impossible for Christians to be
deceived and apostatize. If that is true, then who is Satan deceiving
and who is apostatizing? The lost are already deceived and cannot
apostatize from faith that they do not have.
Obviously, the deception has to be very clever. If it were disguised
as an orange, it would appear exactly as a genuine orange. Therefore, we
can expect lies disguised exactly as truth. However, if people accept
enough false oranges loaded with a mind-numbing drug, it stands to
reason that false oranges will no longer be needed. Then whatever is
being disguised by the falseness will be offered without pretense.
Leading Christians accepted and promoted movies such as the “Son of
God” and “Noah”. Now professing Christians are accepting “Silence” and
“The Shack”, movies, which are more obviously wicked. Does anyone want
to know what is coming next that professing Christians might support?
William Paul Young, author of “The Shack”, wrote another book, “Eve.” Young explains about his book:
“As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious
understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that
have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.”
Any warning bells going off yet? If one is deceived by “The Shack”
one is probably unaware of the diabolical boasts in Young’s explanation.
Remember, this is not the author of a timeless Christian classic, but
the author of a heretical book that blasphemes the Holy Spirit.
What is it that Young intended to set us free from with “Eve”? Here are a few links in the chain of our “bondage.”
But it gets even worse. Young has a new book entitled, “Lies We
Believe About God.” Here are some of what Young calls lies about God.
If professing Christians accept the blatancy of that satanic
deception, their fate is sealed. When one of these books also becomes a
movie, professing Christians will fawn all over them and declare that
anyone that opposes them is ignorant or just plain mean-spirited.
The false orange is no longer needed. Professing Christians are
significantly deceived by number and intensity to consume the raw lies.
However, the subsequent deception does not stop with convincing them
to believe the lies. Additionally, they believe that the fact they can
so easily line up for the feast is not proof of deception. Instead, they
consider it to be evidence that they are superior in spirituality and
knowledge to the ones who refrain. Tragically, those feasting masses
can be warned, but they are unable to receive the warnings.
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A woman standing in line outside the theater to see The Shack movie was eager to talk with me about Paul Young’s best-selling book. She said she “loved” The Shack
and couldn’t understand why it had so many critics on the Internet. She
was especially perplexed by the number of “negative” comments made by
pastors. Obviously confused by all the controversy, she suddenly
exclaimed—”But The Shack is just a novel!”
What the woman and so many other Shack
readers fail to take into account is that the book is much more than
just a novel. It is a carefully crafted presentation of Paul Young’s
alternative “Christian” universalist theology based on “real”
conversations he claims to have had with God. In Young’s forward to The Shack Revisited, a book written by his friend C. Baxter Kruger, Young corrects any misunderstanding that The Shack is “just a novel.” He writes:
Please don’t misunderstand me; The Shack is theology. But it is theology wrapped in story.1
If you want to understand better the perspectives and theology that frame The Shack,
this book [Kruger’s] is for you. Baxter has taken on the incredible
task of exploring the nature and character of the God who met me in my
own shack.2
According to Young, God came to him in the “Great Sadness” of his own “shack” and communicated directly with him. Much of The Shack’s theology is based on what Young learned in his conversations with God.
Young’s Conversations with God
A Christian news source recently reprinted
excerpts from several posts Young made on his personal blog back in
August 2007. In these excerpts, Young explained that The Shack is a story, but it is a story based on real conversations he was having with God, his friends, and his family. He writes:
Remember, I am thinking about writing
this for my kids, so I am searching for a good vehicle to communicate
through. I figure a good story would be great . . . but I didn’t have
one. So I started with what I did have . . . conversations. So, off and
on, for about three months I wrote down conversations; conversations that I was having with God mostly, but which often included friends or family.3 [emphasis added by W. Smith]Is the story “real”? The story is
fiction. I made it up. Now, having said that, I will add that the
emotional pain with all its intensity and the process that tears into
Mack’s heart and soul are very real. I have my “shack,” the place I had
to go through to find healing. I have my Great Sadness . . . that is all
real. And the conversations are very real and true. . . .So is the story true? The pain, the loss, the grief, the process, the conversations,
the questions, the anger, the longing, the secrets, the lies, the
forgiveness . . . all real, all true.4 [emphasis added by W. Smith]
Young’s “Christian” Universalism
In a February 16, 2008 post on a blog called Christian Universalism: The Beautiful Heresy: The Shack,
an avowed “friend” of Paul Young corroborates Young’s 2007 blog post
about his conversations with God. The friend describes how the
conversations Young’s main character Mack has with God in The Shack
are “real conversations” that Paul Young actually had with God. She
reveals how these conversations “revolutionized” Young, his family, and
friends such as herself. She says that the “radically dangerous”
teachings that Young put in his novel have become her new “systematic
theology” and The Shack is her new “systematic theology
handbook.” The following are her exact words and punctuation as they
were originally posted on the “Christian Universalism” blog:
I know the author well—a personal friend.
(Our whole house church devoured it last summer, and Paul came to our
home to discuss it—WONDERFUL time!) The conversations that “Mack” has with God, are real conversations that Paul Young had with God . . . and they revolutionized him, his family, and friends
(Paul had a very traumatic past, raised by missionary parents, who left
him in the care of the stone-age Dani tribe, while they did “God’s
work.” He was abused by them, in the process—and there were other
tragedies in his life, later on. When he was a broken mess, God began to speak to him).
He wrote the story (rather than a “sermon”) to give the real
conversations context—and because Jesus also used simple stories to
engage our hearts, even by-passing our objective brains, in order to
have His message take root in our hearts, and grow. . . .I had already come to believe all the
“radically dangerous” teachings within this book—so it mostly confirmed
what I already believed. But, it most definitely highlighted the reality
that I don’t yet KNOW (KNOW!) how much God loves me. I want the
relationship with God that I see in Paul Young’s life. . . .This was the first book that I read
straight through 4 times. First to absorb it. Secondly, to underline.
Third to highlight. Fourth, to put “headers” on the top of each page, so
that I could find certain passages again. It’s become my new
“systematic theology” handbook!5 [emphasis added by W. Smith]
Thus, by his own account and that of his friend, Paul Young would be the first to deny that The Shack is “just a novel.”
Young the Universalist
Back to my conversation with the woman in front of the movie theater. When she said that The Shack
was “just a novel,” I described how his novel was actually a fictional
device used as a “vehicle” for presenting some of his own misguided
theological teachings—teachings that had more in common with New Age
teachings than biblical Christianity. When she acknowledged knowing
about the New Age movement, I told her that some of The Shack’s
teachings were actually New Age teachings. But before I could explain
what those specific teachings were and how I had once been involved in
the New Age myself, the theater doors opened, the line started moving,
and our conversation was suddenly over. She seemed relieved as she
turned toward the theater and away from me. Praying that she would come
to understand that Paul Young has more in common with New Age
universalism than biblical Christianity. I had no idea at the time that
Young was about to publicly declare in a new book what so many of us
already knew. In Lies We Believe About God, which was released
on March 7th, Young states that he believes in “universal salvation”6
and that “every single human being is in Christ” and “Christ is in
them.”7 Thus, Young himself makes it very clear in his own words that The Shack
is not “just a novel” but rather a “cunningly devised fable” (2 Peter
1:16) for presenting some of his own heretical universalistic New Age
views.
Who is Paul Young Really Listening To and Conversing With?
Paul Young would have us believe that he has been having “real” conversations with God and that he was inspired by God to write The Shack. Yet
he is now declaring himself to be a universalist who believes in the
false New Age trinitarian doctrine that God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit
are already “in” everyone. In other words, Young, as a professing
universalist, would have us believe that all of humanity is already
saved (universal salvation). The question that naturally arises and
that is now before the church is—just who is Paul Young
actually listening to and conversing with? The God of the Bible or the
false “God” of the New Age?
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that
in the latter times some depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils. (1 Timothy 4:1)
Endnotes
1. C. Baxter Kruger, The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going on Here than You Ever Dared to Dream ( New York, NY: FaithWorks, Hatchette Book Group, 2012), p. xi.
2. Ibid., p. viiii.
3. Sunny Shell, “The Shack, a Biblical and Interactive Review” (http://blogs.christianpost.com/abandoned-to-christ/the-shack-a-biblical-and-interactive-review-28674/, posted 2/16/17, quoting Paul Young from his August 15, 2007 blog titled “The Shack
– update – Background #2″
(http://web.archive.org/web/20070911092057/http://www.windrumors.com/29/the-shack-update-background-2/).
4. Sunny Shell, “The Shack, a Biblical and Interactive Review” (http://blogs.christianpost.com/abandoned-to-christ/the-shack-a-biblical-and-interactive-review-28674/, posted 2/16/17, quoting Paul Young from his August 15, 2007 blog titled “Is the story of THE SHACK
true . . . is Mack a “real” person?
(http://web.archive.org/web/20070911092319/http://www.windrumors.com/30/is-the-story-of-the-shack-trueis-mack-a-real-person/).
5. Christian Universalism-The Beautiful Heresy: The Shack (http://web.archive.org/web/20080307051159/http://christian-universalism.blogs.com/thebeautifulheresy/2008/02/the-shack.html, posted February 16, 2008 by Dena Brehm. (Thanks to Kent McElroy for bringing this blog to my attention).
6. Wm. Paul Young, Lies We Believe About God (New York, NY: Atria Books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2017), p. 118.
7. Ibid., p. 119.
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LTRP Note: The Shack movie has just been
released. Millions of Americans will go to theaters to watch the movie.
Most likely, the majority of them will be church goers and proclaiming
Christians since The Shack book is vetted as a Christian story.
Recently, a church contacted Lighthouse Trails and ordered 300 copies
of Warren B. Smith’s booklet The Shack and Its New Age Leaven.
If you have family, church members, pastors, and friends who might be
considering attending this movie, please pick up some copies of the
booklet and pass them out. As you can see from the piece below by
Lighthouse Trails author Lois Putnam, William Paul Young resonates with
panentheists (God is IN all), and we know from our research that The Shack resonates with this concept too. Please do what you can to warn everyone you know. The false “Christ” of The Shack
has big plans to deceive many. If you can’t afford to buy the booklet,
you can print the content from our blog; but we believe this very inexpensive booklet is a better way to go (in a published bound format, it helps give credibility to the material and the source).
By Lois Putnam
Catholic priest and panentheist mystic Richard Rohr (along with co-author mystic emergent Mike Morrell) recently wrote the book The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation. William
Paul Young wrote its foreword. Inside, its dedication says: “From
Richard Rohr: To all unsuspecting folks who do not know they are already
within the ‘Divine Flow’” [i.e., panentheism]. In the foreword, Young
says, “May we feel within us the eternal life of Jesus reaching through
our hands–to heal, to hold, to hug–and celebrate the bread of our
Humanity, the sanctity of the Ordinary, and Participation in the
Trinity.”
Other endorsers include Rob Bell, Brian D.
McLaren, and a host of others. As Lighthouse Trails Research points out
in “In Case You Still Aren’t Sure About the Shack and Its
Author,” perhaps Young’s “Twenty Books Everyone Should Read” will
convince you otherwise. Click onto the article here: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=17684
And Young, continuing his close association
with Rohr, will join him and Cynthia Bourgeault in April 6-8, 2017 to
take part in a program titled: “Trinity: The Soul of Creation”
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its online descriptive ad reads, “Rohr,
Bourgeault, and Young believe the Trinity . . . has the capacity to
change everything. We already participate within this dance whether we
realize it or not [that God is in everyone]. But when we consciously
engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at
the deepest levels. Bring your heart, mind, and body to this . . .
conversation. Join an ecumenical and inter-faith gathering, moving
together through reflective experiences, including contemplative prayer,
music, movement (Yoga, Tai Chi Chin, and walking meditation), group and
individual processing. …” To read Lois Putnam’s entire article on The Shack, click here.
Note: Cynthia Bourgeault is a
name we know well at Lighthouse Trails. Ray Yungen spoke of her to us
often. She is an Episcopal priest who is a devoted advocate for
everything contemplative. Here is a list of some of her books to prove our point.
Related Articles:
Something to Think About – Richard Rohr, the New Age, and Young Evangelical Christians
IF: Gathering Leader/Pastor Melissa Greene—A Female Version of McLaren, Bell, Rohr, and Merton
Richard Foster’s Renovare Turns to Panentheist Mystic Richard Rohr and Emerging Darling Phyllis Tickle For New Book Project
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SEE OUR POST ABOUT CATHOLIC MYSTIC RICHARD ROHR:
https://ratherexposethem.org/2013/04/much-more-on-rohr-plus-enneagrams.html
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Geert Wilders is all guns blazing in the finals days before
critical elections in the Netherlands that will serve as a referendum on
the Islamization of the country – and Turkey’s attempt to bully its way
into the European Union.
On the heels of a violent
Turkish uprising that started in Rotterdam this weekend, and was further
exacerbated and encouraged by Turkey’s president Recep Erdogan, Wilders
called for Turkey’s ambassador and staff to be ejected from Holland.
Erdogan
repeats we are nazis + fascists. He insults Dutch police. No
de-escalation. Expel Turkish Ambassador to NL and entire staff!— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 13, 2017
“Erdogan
repeats we are nazis + fascists. He insults Dutch police. No
de-escalation. Expel Turkish Ambassador to NL and entire staff!” he
wrote.
The riots are in retaliation to the Dutch government blocking Turkish officials from traveling to the Netherlands to rally and whip up support for an April referendum in Turkey that many believe could turn the already-authoritarian Erdogan into a full-blown dictator.
Some
400,000 Turks already live in the Netherlands, and many of them turned
out to rage in the streets of Rotterdam, where they were met by riot
police in a scene that could continue to play out through election week –
especially if Wilders’ Party For Freedom (PVV) were to win.
Erdogan flagrantly fueled the fires of his people on the ground,
accusing the Dutch of “nazism” and demanding international sanctions.
“I thought nazism was over, but I was wrong. In fact, nazism is alive in the west,” Erdogan declared at a rally in Istanbul.
“If you are willing to sacrifice Turkish-Dutch relations, you will pay for it,” he also threatened. “What’s more, we’re not done yet.”
“They will pay the price of treating my citizens, my foreign minister… in an impudent way.”
Turkish
Islamofascists in Holland have responded in kind to their true leader,
defacing PVV party member’s houses with the words “fascist” and stabbing oranges intended to represent Dutch society, while holding signs accusing the Dutch of being “fascist.”
Vannacht gebeurd bij een PVV-volksvertegenwoordiger thuis.Walgelijk. pic.twitter.com/dbzTf0YvMM
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 13, 2017
Wilders’
tweet echoes sentiments he unleashed in a blistering video from 2015,
aimed directly at the Turkish regime and its people, that has found new
life and relevance on social media and alternative press outlets during this explosive and rapid erosion of Dutch-Turkish relations on the cusp of the election.
Today, I have a message for the people of Turkey:
Your government is fooling you into believing that one day, you will become a member of the European Union.
Well, forget it.
You are no Europeans, and you will never be.
An Islamic state like Turkey does not belong to Europe.
All the values Europe stands for – freedom, democracy, human rights – are incompatible with Islam.
We
do not want visa-free travel for Turks coming to Europe, either.
European governments that agree with this will be voted out of office by
the people.
Turkey voted for Erdogan, a dangerous Islamist who raises the flag of Islam.
We do not want more, but less Islam.
So Turkey, stay away from us. You are not welcome here.
Congressman
Steve King (R-Iowa) tweeted his support of Wilders and Dutch
nationalists, saying, “Wilders understands that culture and demographics
are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s
babies.”
Wilders
understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t
restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017
This, of course, set the globalist media on fire.
Rep. Steve King doubles down on his controversial tweet: “I meant exactly what I said” https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/4SYoAAiGtQ— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 13, 2017
The
Netherlands will hold their elections this Wednesday, March 15, and the
world will be watching with baited breath as the crumbling European
Union could be dealt a veritable death blow with a win by the ‘Dutch Donald Trump’ and his passionate supporters.
Dan Lyman: Facebook | Twitter
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Senior Republican congressman Steve King has sparked a
backlash on social media after tweeting his support for the Dutch
anti-Islam politician, Geert Wilders.
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” Mr King wrote on Twitter.
“We can’t restore our civilisation with somebody else’s babies.”
King clearly was not alluding to all visible minority immigrants when
he referred to “someone else’s babies.” He was specifically pointing
out the widely noted tactic of Islamic conquest via population growth.
Years ago, the Daily Mail reported
that Muslim leaders preached about taking over Britain “by having more
babies and forcing a population explosion”; while 9-11 mastermind Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed “revealed that al Qaeda’s plan to kill the United
States was not through military attacks but immigration and ‘outbreeding non-Muslims.’” An Imam — Sheikh Muhammad Ayed – also gave a speech
at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem where “he told Muslim migrants to
breed children’ with Europeans to conquer their countries and vows: ‘We
will trample them underfoot, Allah willing.’”
Despite the recognized conquest through population plan, the BBC reported that:
Mr King’s comments in support of Mr Wilders on Sunday led to accusations that he was “openly peddling white nationalism”.
His post was retweeted by the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, with the words “sanity reigns supreme”
It was only a matter of time before the Ku Klux Klan reared its head
in media reports about King’s statements: it is the mainstream media’s
go-to group to discredit politically incorrect ideas. The BBC is trying
to obscure the fact that outside of groups such as the KKK, many of the
concerns expressed about Muslim immigration by Geert Wilders (supported
by King) are also widely held by peace-loving Westerners of all races.
Meanwhile, the Independent put a malicious spin on King’s words in its article entitled: “Republican Steve King suggests Muslim children are stopping ‘our civilisation’ being restored.”
It is a pity that leftists seem to think that only Muslims represent
all visible minority immigrants, as if brown people of other religions
and cultures were non-existent. Any opposition to the incursion of Islam
in the West has been set up by leftists as a race war between visible
minority immigrants and white people. The truth is that critical
concerns about Islamic supremacist and jihadist incursions into the West
are shared by all who support free and pluralistic societies, including
some Muslims.
Those who are affronted by King’s words seem indifferent to the fact
that the Muslim Brotherhood’s “General Strategic Goal” for North America
openly discusses
the destruction of “Western civilization from within and “sabotaging”
its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so
that it is eliminated and God’s [Allah’s] religion is made victorious
over all other religions.” It is also apparently acceptable by the same
to fling open the doors of immigration to usher in the hijrah (jihad via immigration) to colonize the West; and implement anti-Islamophobia stratagems ubiquitously, intended to forestall any criticism of Islam.
“Steve King: Geert Wilders tweet sparks a social media backlash”, BBC News, March 12, 2017:
Senior Republican congressman Steve King has sparked a
backlash on social media after tweeting his support for the Dutch
anti-Islam politician, Geert Wilders.
“Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” Mr King wrote on Twitter.
“We can’t restore our civilisation with somebody else’s babies,” he added.
The US Republican Representative of Iowa is a strong advocate of putting a stop to birthright citizenship.
All children born in the US currently get citizenship under the
constitution, including the children of families living in America
illegally.
Mr King has pushed for radical reform of the interpretation of the
14th amendment of the US constitution so that it no longer gives the
children of undocumented migrants the right to a US passport.
It seems Donald Trump is not the only politician who can bring social
media to a screeching halt with an inflammatory tweet. Congressman
Steve King has a history of walking on the edge of white nationalist
rhetoric, and on Sunday afternoon he once again hit the hornet’s nest,
perhaps in his most direct manner yet.
The outrage from Democratic politicians and commentators across the
political spectrum was quick, ferocious and entirely expected. The
bluntness of Mr King’s message, the talk of “our destiny” and “other
people’s babies”, ensured a vigorous response.
Of greater interest will be how Republican officeholders handle the
controversy. So far they have remained silent. That may be increasingly
difficult, as this is yet another indication of the growing bonds
between the Trump wing of the Republican Party and white nationalist
movements in Europe.
Breitbart, the conservative media outlet recently headed by White
House senior advisor Steve Bannon, often sings the praises of Mr
Wilders, as well as France’s Marine Le Pen and Frauke Petry, leader of
the Alternative for Germany Party.
Mr Bannon has predicted the coming of a new “alt-right” order that
will disrupt politics across the West. The question is whether
establishment Republicans stay along for the ride.
Mr King’s comments in support of Mr Wilders on Sunday led to accusations that he was “openly peddling white nationalism”.
His post was re-tweeted by the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, with the words “sanity reigns supreme”……
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With
400,000 Turks already living in the Netherlands, Erdogan’s government
sent representatives there to campaign in favor of giving the Turk
president dictatorial powers. When the Dutch government sent the
campaigners home, violence erupted and the Erdogan, without any sense of
irony, accused the Dutch of being facist Nazis. With the EU and even
Merkel taking the side of the Netherlands, Turkish rhetoric has become
so heated that the Dutch government warned its citizens not to travel to
Turkey. But the Netherlands is also having an election — in 2 days —
and Geert Wilders has taken the opportunity to again warn the Dutch
about Islamic invasion.
CONFIRMED: TREASURY SAYS OBAMA STOLE FROM FANNIE & FREDDIE INVESTORS TO FUND OBAMACARE
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A careful analysis of the Treasury Department’s “Agency Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2013” provides evidence the Obama administration stole from Fannie and Freddie investors to fund Obamacare.
Guided
by a CPA, who worked for two years for a major U.S. accounting firm as
an outside auditor for Freddie Mac, Infowars.com has documented in the
Treasury Department’s 2013 financial reports how the Obama
administration diverted into Obamacare billions of dollars that Treasury
confiscated from Freddie and Fannie earnings.
On Aug. 17, 2012,
the Obama administration finalized the amendment of the Treasury
Department’s Senior Preferred Stock Agreements with Fannie and Freddie
that deprived private and institutional investors of their legally due
dividend payments.
This enabled the Obama Treasury Department to confiscate billions of
dollars in Fannie and Freddie earnings, in what is known as the “Net
Worth Sweep,” or NWS.
The analysis begins with a table entitled
“Summary Financial Information,” presented on page 26 of the Treasury
Department’s “Agency Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2013.”
Note
the line item “GSEs Non-Entity Costs (Revenue)” that records the flow
into Treasury of the funds confiscated by the Obama administration in
the NWS: recorded in 2012 as a cost to the treasury of $5.3 billion.
This
line item dramatically reverses in 2013 to reflect the NWS revenue
inflow from the two Government Sponsored Entities, GSEs, amounting in
2013 to $126 billion.
Treasury also revised their 2013 internal
estimate of GSE liabilities from a liability of $288.7 billion in 2012,
to a much-reduced liability of $9 billion in 2013 — a difference
explained entirely by the Net Worth Sweep.
The second paragraph of the “Financial Overview” below the chart leaves no doubt, reading as follows:
“Additionally,
the Department amended its Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements
(SPSPAs) with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – two Government-Sponsored
Enterprises (GSEs) – in 2012, which changed, among other things, the
basis for determining quarterly dividends that are paid by the GSEs to
the U.S. government commencing with the quarter ending March 31, 2013.
As a result of the amended SPSPAs, coupled with the GSEs’ long-term
financial forecasts within a specific time horizon, the Department
reduced its contingent liability associated with the GSE program by $9.0
billion and $288.7 billion at the end of fiscal year 2013 and 2012,
respectively, via a reduction in expense.”
The $126.6 billion that
Treasury received from the Fannie and Freddie NWS is also noted in the
“Consolidated Statements of Net Cost for the Fiscal Years Ended Sept.
30, 2013 and 2012” that the report publishes on page 50.
The
explanation of the $126.6 billion in Treasury revenue received from the
GSEs is further elaborated in the following paragraph that appears on
page 29 of the report:
“GSE Non-Entity Revenue totaled
$126.6 billion for 2013 compared to net cost of $5.3 billion for 2012.
The revenue in 2013 was primarily driven by a $77.3 billion increase in
preferred stock dividends, coupled with a $30.9 billion valuation gain
on GSE investments in 2013 compared to a $42.3 billion loss in 2012.
These increases primarily stemmed from federal income tax benefits and
other improvements in the GSEs’ financial performance in 2013.”
On
page 94, the report provides a chart detailing that the $126.6 billion
in GSE revenue came from preferred stock dividends and from the market
fair value gain on the preferred stock Treasury held in Fannie and
Freddie, as seen here:
A
table presented on page 113, entitled “Transfers to the General Fund
and Other” makes clear Treasury transferred the NWS revenue from Fannie
and Freddie to the Treasury “General Fund,” where the revenue was
accounted as available for Treasury reallocation.
The
analysis of how the Treasury Department spent the NWS receipts
deposited into the General Fund derives from an analysis of the
month-by-month analysis of “Table 9: Summary of Receipts by Source, and
Outlays by Function of the U.S. Government,” found in the Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the U.S. Government.
With
the assistance of the accounting expert mentioned above, Infowars.com
constructed a spreadsheet to summarize findings from an analysis of the
Table 9 entries for calendar year 2013.
As
seen in the above excel spreadsheet, analysis of the line items in
Table 9 for the months of calendar year 2013 revealed that the amounts
Treasury received in GSE revenue corresponded to decreases in the
“Commerce and Housing” line item, and to increases in the line items
“Health” and “Medicare.”
This strongly suggests Treasury used the
“Commerce and Housing” line item to record receipts in GSE revenue that
were reallocated in subsequent months as debits out of “Commerce and
Housing” that corresponded to increases in “Health” and increases in
“Medicare.”
Note the first NWS payment was received by Treasury at the end of March 2013.
During
that month, the Treasury accounting debited “Commerce and Housing” by
$23.770 billion, establishing a pattern where the amounts credited to
“Health” and to “Medicare” increased for each of the next two months.
This pattern was repeated with the NWS of $65.2 billion received by
Treasury in June, the NWS of $14.6 billion in September, and the $39
billion in December.
With the exception of September, the amount
debited out of “Commerce” corresponded closely (but not exactly) with
the NWS received, and the amounts added to “Health” and “Medicare”
increased for the two months following Treasury’s receipt of NWS funds
from Fannie and Freddie.
The $133 billion in NWS Treasury receipts
for 2013 correspond interestingly to a comment made by Joshua Rosner,
managing director of the independent research firm Graham Fisher &
Co.
Rosner is a widely-recognized authority on Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, known for co-authoring with Pulitzer Prize-winning business
reporter Gretchen Morgenson the 2011 best-selling book entitled Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon – an analysis of Fannie Mae’s role in the sub-prime mortgage crisis that led to the economic crisis of 2008/2009.
“In
2013 alone, Treasury swept over $130 billion dollars in GSE profits in
the form of dividends via the Net Worth Sweep,” he wrote in a paper entitled “Former White House Officials Involved in GSE Scandal,” published May 23, 2016.
“To
highlight the scale of these dollars, these are the same amounts
recently at issue in a lawsuit over the cost of 10-years of ‘Obamacare’
reimbursements to insurers.”
That the Obama Treasury Department
was diverting funds to pay the Section 4012 insurance subsidies under
the Affordable Clear Act has been uncontested since May 12, 2016.
This
is the day when U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled against
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell, in the case
U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, (130 F. Supp. 3d 53, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia).
In
this case, Judge Collyer decided HHS Secretary Burwell had no
constitutional authority to divert funds Congress appropriated to one
section of the ACA, to fund Obamacare subsidy payments to insurers under
another section of the ACA.
The section of the ACA that HHS was desperate to fund was Section 1402 – the clause defining the insurer subsidies.
The problem was that Congress specifically declined to appropriate
any funds to Section 1402 to pay for the insurance subsidy the ACA
required for low-income individuals and families to afford the insurance
the ACA provided.
“Paying out Section 1402 reimbursements without
an appropriation thus violates the Constitution,” Judge Collyer
concluded. “Congress authorized reduced cost sharing but did not
appropriate monies for it, in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget or since.
Congress is the only source for such an appropriation, and no public
money can be spent without one.”
The U.S. District court in this
ruling entered judgment in favor of the House of Representatives,
enjoining HHS from using unappropriated money to pay insurers under
Section 1402.
What was at issue in Section 1402 was the Obamacare
provision that capped the amount low-income families would be required
to pay for insurance purchased on state insurance exchanges.
The law provided that federal insurance subsidies under Section 1402 would pay the difference between the capped maximum a low-income family was required to pay and the amount the insurance cost.
On
July 8, 2016, Thomas Miller, J.D., a resident fellow in health policy
studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, submitted a statement before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
In
this statement, Miller added support for the conclusion that the Obama
administration was desperate in its effort to identify funds that could
be diverted to keep Obama care from collapsing.
“For the last six
years, the Obama administration has been frustrated by its inability to
get Congress to support more funding for a number of its less-popular
objectives under the ACA,” Miller commented. “It keeps trying to stretch
appropriations law and administrative guidance to spend money without
necessary consent or authority.”
In a report issued in March 2016, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the cost
for providing Section 1402 subsidies over the next ten years
(2016-2026) was estimated to be $130 billion – the amount referenced by
Rosner in the quotation above.
Judge Collyer’s decision
specifically prohibited HHS to pay Section 1402 subsidies by diverting
money Congress had appropriated for other ACA provisions.
Given
this, the Obama administration faced the prospect the government could
not pay the insurance subsidies required for low-income persons and
families to buy insurance under Obamacare.
The only other
alternative was to force insurance companies to absorb as a loss the
amount the government had intended to pay as an insurance subsidy under
the ACA.
In other words, Obamacare risked bankrupting
participating insurance companies if the Obama administration could not
find a way to circumvent the District Court’s decision U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell to find a way to fund Section 1402 despite the fact Congress had refused to do so.
In
July 2016, the Republican majority staff of the House Committee on
Energy and Commerce together with the Republican majority staff of the
House Committee on Ways and Means issued a “Joint Congressional Investigation into the Source of Funding for the ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program.”
Page 10 of the joint committee’s final report noted the following:
“Between April 10, 2013 and July 11, 2013, in an unusual move, the
Administration informally withdrew its request for an annual
appropriation for the cost sharing reduction program by calling the
Senate Committee on Appropriations.”
The timing would suggest the
Obama administration realized in March 2013 the $130 billion the
Treasury expected to receive in 2013 as revenue from the Fannie and
Freddie NWS could be reallocated to pay for a decade the anticipated
shortfall in low-income insurance subsidies.
Having found this
solution may explain why the Obama administration stopped trying to
divert other funds Congress had appropriated to keep insurers solvent
under ACA requirements to subsidize health insurance for low-income
persons and families.
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There
was a time when ideas like yoga or eastern meditation in the church
were only associated with Christ Science churches, Universalist
Churches, and a few spurious non-biblical fringe places. In a few scant
decades, the walls have been so completely torn down that we not only
see no harm in these things, we promote them. This is exactly what
Theosophist (Luciferian) leader Alice Bailey predicted would be part of
the new age infiltration into the church: ““The three main channels
through which the preparation for the new age is going on might be
regarded as the Church (emphasis mine) the Masonic Fraternity and the educational field.” (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, Page 511.)
So, in fact, this has been underway for some time. It probably began
to get a real foothold in our present time with Norman Vincent Peale’s
“Power of Positive Thinking” theology, quickly adapted by Rev. Robert
Schuller who was really the first modern “megachurch” and “Seeker
Friendly” church pastor. Their ideas were once considered a bit of an
aberration from mainstream Christian doctrine. But here we are decades
later, and seeker friendly and power of positive thinking is normal and
unchallenged. The crack into Bible-based evangelical churches had begun
to open just a little…
Fast forward: In the last three decades we have opened our doors to
things like the laughter movement, barking like dogs and oinking like
pigs and calling it the “anoinking of the Spirit,” and worse. A number
of leaders challenged these things, but its promoters did not repent of
it.
A few years later, spiritual formation, “be still” meditation,
breathing techniques, “Christian” yoga, “the sacred feminine,”
labyrinths, circle making – all an extension of exotic religions,
eastern mysticism, and Buddhist/Hindu tools to reach “the divine within”
– all began to creep into church media, books, music and movies. Even
Father Thomas Merton came to be revered by many evangelicals – a man who
said at the end of his life that he wished to ““to become as good a
Buddhist as I can,” as well as Henri Nouwen, who influenced millions of
evangelicals but at the end of his life denied that Jesus was the only
way to the Father.
The door opened a little wider…where were the watchmen? Where were
the Shepherds? One at a time, I began to see even pastors welcome these
things. And as these things crept in, the Word of God began to become an
addendum to our lives, a devotional nicety but not central in our walk
with Jesus, and no longer our final determination of truth.
Slowly, the poison seeped into our ranks…one book, one DVD, one movie
at a time. Everyone ignored the subtle twisting of the Word of God in
Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis,” hailing it as “groundbreaking.” And indeed,
it was, but not in a good way. His next book, “The Sex God” raised a few
eyebrows, but youth pastors everywhere still adored him and emulated
him and bought glasses and cool clothes just to look just like him in an
attempt to “relate to youth.” Millennial youth pastors began diluting
the Word of God and preparing little mini-messages to justify their
increasingly party-like youth group atmosphere which was strong on
entertainment and weak on the Word of God.
Then Rob Bell wrote “Love Wins,” denying hell and proclaiming
universalism – the idea that everyone gets saved. And now, he is
speaking at conferences alongside New Age guru Deepak Chopra at
conferences titled things like, “The Seduction of Spirit.” [1]
When he was exposed as being truly a non-evangelical false teacher, I
heard nothing but crickets from all those who formerly sang his
praises. But by then, everyone was off chasing the next big thing
anyway, the next bestseller, the next circle-making, ear-tickling,
scripture-diluting thing. We had begun forming a pattern of going after
the latest “it,” or hot speaker, or bestselling book, and then when it
turned out the thing or person was fraudulent, in error or full of
deception, almost no one took responsibility for originally supporting
or promoting them – least of all the Christian media and those who
peddled their products – even when these false teachers were fully
exposed. Very few took responsibility for an evangelist’s crazy, ungodly
antics in Florida that hundreds of thousands of believers flocked to
see, while behind the scenes he was conducting an affair that shredded
his wife and kids. (For the record, I deeply believe in restoring fallen
servants of the Lord.) They gave him a short time-out (“restoration
process”) and bam! He was back on the circuit – new wife, new life. And
few took responsibility for calling him – no, for laying hands on and anointing him – as the “world apostle” in front of an international audience.[2]
Very few called a well-known “prophet” to account for his 1998
prophecy that Obama would be a mighty man of God – a Christian – who
would set everything right. They just said, “Oh well, nobody’s perfect”
and kept supporting and following his ministry anyway.
Rarely do people say, “we were wrong.” Rarely do leaders say, “We
were in error.” And because of that, unrepentant error in discernment
has led to greater and greater error, because deception is a PROGRESSIVE
DISEASE.
The more error we receive, the more the ability to discern goes numb
and then dies in us. It applies to us as individuals. It applies to
churches.
Nobody was alarmed that Roma Downey was still attending a new age
college at the same time she was working on their television series “The
Bible” or that she never renounced her new age beliefs, despite the
fact that these concerns were brought to some of the highest levels of
leadership in the church and corporate Christian world possible. They
gave her a pass on those issues because, as I was told, the benefits of
how it would reach people outweighed the theological problems. And
nothing kept several bits of clear gnostic teaching from being inserted
into their movies, including giving a prominent role to Mary Magdalene,
whom new agers consider the “thirteenth apostle.” And to be honest, by
the time these concerns were raised, even certain denominations had
invested far too much money in promoting the movies to retract, recall
product and repent at that point. In the end, I believe financial
concerns were more important than truth.
By the time The Shack came around, we had already been
prepped through years of “felt need” theology, experiential-based faith
and cherry-picking scriptures we liked while ignoring the ones we
didn’t.
As the internet grew, I began to understand the power of the appeal
to our emotions. More than once, I had seen almost an entire five to
ten-minute video on some issue and found myself in tears before I found
out at the end that not only was it not a Christian video and did not
have a Christian message, but it was produced by people and represented a
view that was unbiblical, new age and worse. I got emotionally hooked
before I learned the truth. Those without a biblical foundation of truth
just get hooked.
People loved The Shack because it replaced the God of the Bible
(which deep down they possibly didn’t feel comfortable with, because His
ways are beyond our understanding and bad things happen, and it upsets
our sunshine version of Christianity) and gave them a God who made them feel good, who took the God of the Bible and said, “That’s not really God, this
is what God is like…” and gave them a diluted, false version of Father,
Son, Holy Spirit, and a dose of Sophia, Greek goddess of wisdom.
I was sure that anyone with even a modicum of discernment would throw
the book in the trash. I had underestimated how wide the door of
deception had opened. I lost friends who were pastors who were furious
at me for questioning the book. One pastor railed at me, “I haven’t had a
relationship with God for years, but now I have my ‘Papa’ back! You
can’t take that from me!”
Nothing jarred me more than seeing grown men of God just abandoning
clear truth because something tugged their heart, justifying the
scriptural butchering by saying, “It’s just fiction, it’s not the
Bible!” I confronted someone on this the other night. “What about the
satanic Necronomicon. Can I read it? It’s just fiction. Can I read
pornography? It’s just fiction.” They thought that a bit extreme. Of
course it was. My point was, where what was their criteria, where was
their own event horizon they were not willing to cross because it was
just too obviously wrong? How much scripture bending or ignoring would
they accept and justify as ok because it was “just fiction” before they
had enough and said no more? The demonic genius of The Shack is
how cleverly it has clothed itself in a loose and nebulous garment of
scriptures – just enough to justify the complete butchering of the true
nature of God and morphing Him into a Trinitarian hybrid god that
represents whatever will make you feel better about your horrible
tragedies and “great sadness.” The fact is, though, God will not appear
as whatever we want. One person said, “God appeared as a fiery bush, but
I know he’s not a bush!” But He appeared in the bush. He wasn’t a bush. God will not appear as Shiva, Buddha, or Sarayu, because He is “I AM WHAT I AM.” We can say God is like a rock, but we cannot say God is like Baal. It’s not about imagery, it is about the nature and character of God. And The Shack gives a false representation of both of those.
Look, I get it. I’ve suffered innumerable losses my entire life, and
every one of us at some point cries out, “WHY, GOD?” And in those
moments, people either reject Him as uncaring, or He brings us into His
Kingdom, and we learn to trust Him in the midst of, sometimes in spite
of tragedies that seem to have no reason. And we may find ourselves once
again crying out in pain, “WHY, GOD?” And His response is, “You don’t
need to know all the answers. Trust Me, trust My Word. Trust in My
love.” It’s called FAITH. But The Shack is a shortcut to
feeling better, a panacea, a spiritual drug that allows you to embrace a
conception of God that may temporarily take away the pain but leaves
you with an open door to deception because it is not the God of the
Word. IT IS NOT THE REAL JESUS.
Is The Shack the God portrayed in scripture? Is God a woman?
Is Jesus a clumsy Jewish kid with a hook nose? Is the Holy Spirit a
Japanese girl named after a Hindu river? Is the judge of our lives
Sophia? Is everyone saved? Is Jesus just the best way to the Father, as
the book suggests, or is He what the Bible says – the only way?
“But they’re just parables! Stories! It’s not the Bible!” some argue.
So is it acceptable to distort the truth in the guise of fiction just
to make a point? How is that ever acceptable? Someone said, “CS Lewis
did The Chronicles of Narnia, they were spiritual allegories! It wasn’t scripture!” True, that; but unlike The Shack, when Lewis did
touch on the nature of God or Jesus, he kept it fairly consistently in
line with scripture and the biblical character and nature of God. The Shack
has a radically different version of God: One who does not judge, one
who can change, one who suggests Jesus is simply a better way to God,
not the only way. But feeling trumped truth, and the book has become a
multimillion bestseller. To simplify the responses I have heard, “Don’t
confuse me with biblical facts. It made me feel good!”
It did not bother leaders and publishers that Young’s second book,
Eve – a “reimagining” of the Adam and Eve story – was laced with
kabbalistic themes and occultic, gnostic fairy tales. “It’s just a
story.” The door opened wider….
You see, Satan keeps pushing the goalpost deeper and deeper into the
center of the church, and every time he sees no resistance, he is
emboldened and takes it to “the next level.”
Now, the movie is out. The arguments as to why it’s such an amazing
life-changing story despite the clear unscriptural aspects that were
brought up when the book came out are the same. The difference seems to
be that those who support it are much angrier at those of us who pose
the crucial questions. “You’re so judgmental! Who do you think you are?
You must be looking for a book deal or something. You’ll never lead
anyone to Christ, and I doubt if you ever did before.” I’ve had it all
thrown at me the last few weeks as I tried to reason it out with folks
on Facebook. And I realize that the level of deception had gone so deep
that not only were people willing to embrace a lie and ignore the error,
but worse – they saw themselves as fully biblical believers who were
completely loyal to the Word of God, while at the same time promoting a
story by a man who claims that everyone is “in Christ” already. And you
cannot reason with that level of delusion. It seems to bother devoted
Shack followers not at all that the author is a universalist.
Universalism, the “all paths lead to God” religion, is exactly what
is needed to turn the Christian church into part of the one-world
antichrist mystery religion that Alice Bailey wrote about and all
Luciferian world leaders are counting on.
We did not accept Rob Bell’s universalism. But now we are
willing to ignore William Paul Young’s. That is the malignancy of
deception unchecked.
This movie comes at a time when the next level of eastern meditation
techniques under the guise of “mindfulness” are being pushed into the
educational system,[3]
and now are coming into the church. (Mindfulness is a Buddhist
technique of detachment, leading to realizing the “divine within,” which
eventually leads to Nirvana – nonexistence. There are several new
“Christian” books promoting meditation and mindfulness practices with
devotional books and coloring books, and a new book on spiritual
formation and meditation called The Wired Soul: Finding Spiritual Balance in a Hyperconnected Age by
Tricia McCary Rhodes which “reintroduces us to the classic disciplines
of Scripture reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation.” In other
words, it’s just more repackaged eastern religious teaching and
techniques for the church which will further it on the road to the new
age goal of “east meets west,” where we all become one under a false one
world religion and we all recognize the “Christ spirit” or godhood in
each other (Namaste – the divine in me bows to the divine in you.)
Add to that, a new book is being used in Christian youth groups called, God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God
by Ken Shigematsu, who “draws on both eastern and western perspectives
in writing and speaking.” Those are buzzwords for introducing a mixing
of eastern religion thought processes with Christianity and bringing it
into the church.
All of this is producing Christian minds that are malleable, soft,
undiscerning, half-drugged, feeling good, and completely open to the
power of suggestion from…whoever, and whatever. That is what eastern
meditation techniques do. You empty your mind and accept that whatever
comes must be good and right and from God.
The church has become an entity seeking to have their ears tickled.
Seeking to feel better about their painful lives. Seeking to be
successful, happy and prosperous. What is it you seek? Step right up
folks…we’ve got it all now.
Everything except the whole truth of the Word of God, the
way of the cross, the power of the blood to save and heal and forgive,
the altar of God where we come to be broken and changed, healed and set
free. Everything which made the Gospel powerful has and is being
systematically removed by the enemy of our souls – not because it is not
powerful, but because we no longer wish to bow to its demands, its holiness or its truth.
We are seeing the fruit of nearly thirty years of dumbing-down and
de-prioritizing the Word of God, giving it a mini-place in our lives
while shiny things and baubles and the newest “move” catch our attention
and send us off on a fruitless quest for the next experience. The seed
of the Word of God has corporately fallen on stony ground, without depth, where it grows up quick, shrivels and dies.
I know I am very passionate about this, reluctant to even use the
word passionate, so overused it is. I have a right to be. I grew up in
the occult, a world of delusions, lies, and darkness. Even when I tried
to turn to new age thought to dispel the darkness, turning to Hinduism,
Buddhism, and becoming an avid follower of Paramahansa Yogananda in my
little bedroom devouring his every word as “truth,” I ended up deceived,
wrecked and in utter darkness, even though some of it temporarily
numbed my pain and made me “feel good.”
I understand many of these Christians who are so emotionally bound to The Shack
that they have thrown caution to the wind and ignored the dangerous
reality that it in fact promotes unbiblical lies and is being promoted
by someone who has rejected Biblical truth about hell and salvation. I was one of those Christians after I was saved. I was totally brainwashed. I was
a universalist. Then came this “mean man,” this “judgmental Christian”
Bible study leader named Dave Malkin, who dared to get out the Word of
God and without holding back challenged me about my beliefs. This “judgmental, mean man” saved my spiritual life. (I thank God for Dave, may his memory be blessed!) I needed a hard word to break through the lies.
In all my dealings with everything from Rob Bell to The Shack,
I understand that simple logic and reason isn’t working with people who
are emotionally invested in the teachers or the stories. People need a
wake-up call, and that may not feel good or seem loving. But I cannot
apologize for my approach because I see that in the end, The Shack
is not just a book or a movie but a game-changer that is extinguishing
some of the last lights of discernment out of the hearts of thousands of
believers. I know how they feel. I have been there. And I thank God
that someone cared enough to hurt me with the truth. When a house is
burning down and people are asleep inside, one cannot afford to meekly
whisper, hoping the people hear. You have to shout at the top of your
lungs, “Get out, quickly!” In dealing with these new delusions, it may
be necessary to jar people awake.
Jesus said in Matthew 24 that all of this would happen. Paul said,
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils”. (1 Tim. 4:1) The great falling away is at hand. But a remnant
will remain faithful. I can only pray humbly not to be one who falls for
the lies in a moment of vulnerability, or weakness, or pain or giving
up, for we are all vulnerable. That is where I understand the motto of
the French foreign legion that a friend shared with me. “If I falter,
straighten me out. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me.”
Blunt, but as a spiritual warrior it resonates in my heart. None of us
are exempt from having to diligently guard against the lies of this age,
outside and inside the church.
I believe all these progressive deceptions over the last few decades
have been just the build-up to the next great delusion, which could be
the final one. God help us to turn away from the slow poisoning
of the church through breath-prayers, eastern meditation, mindfulness,
yoga, etc. God help us to surrender our soulish ways of perceiving God
based on a book that was written by a wounded man, William Paul Young –
unhealed from abuse and bitter church hurts – whom those seeking to make
a profit have promoted regardless of his spiritual fragility and
woundedness – who rejected the God of the Bible for a god who would
somehow ease his pain – one that eases your pain as it kills your soul. The Shack is the spiritual Jack Kavorkian of our age.
Pray for William Paul Young, that God would pull him out of this most
dangerous and deadly strange fire. Pray for the multitudes who are
believing lies. And may God deal with those mercenaries and
money changers who care more about what sells and profits them then about
the care and protection of the flock of God.
Alice Bailey’s plans are about to come to full fruition. The greatest lie is just around the corner.
Stay strong, saints. “And when these things begin to come to pass,
then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
(Luke 21:28) He is coming soon!
[1] http://www.carlsbadlifestylepubs.com/am_event/seduction-of-spirit-i-am-wholeness
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrtac7IgXs
[3] https://www.facebook.com/BBCLondon/videos/1361390013924062/
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Levin Levin called Obama’s efforts, “police state” tactics,
and suggested that Obama’s actions should be the target of a congressional
investigation. He also stated that the theories about Russian interference
in the presidential election were nothing more than conspiracy theories.
Here’s the
entire interview.
My Jeff
Kredo is reporting that, “The CIA and Departments of Justice
and Treasury are being sued
by Judicial Watch for their role in leaking highly classified material
as part of an effort to undermine the credibility of former Trump administration
NSA Chief Michael Flynn, according to a recent announcement.”
The Gingrich made it clear that Schumer
is trying to derail this presidency by keeping Obama appointees in power.
Schumer knows that Jeff Sessions is a man of integrity and character above
reproach, but he attacks the finest in Trump’s administration.
Look,
what happened to me was a despicable
straight up political hit job. There is a very toxic and increasingly
poisonous atmosphere of personal destruction in DC and the media. It’s
always been there, but now it’s on a whole different level.The
attack on me was a test. What happened to me, what happened to General
Flynn, what is happening to AG Sessions and others, is all of a piece.
There is a very dangerous and very effective destabilization campaign
under way against this President, his administration, and his agenda.
What I hope the President and his senior aides understand is that these
forces are not just looking to delegitimize him, they want to personally
destroy him, destroy his presidency, and they would like to see the
man in prison.
They
are out for blood, and the reason they must destroy him is because Donald
Trump is an alien organism that has been injected into the body politic
by the American people to reform it. He must not be allowed to succeed.
They want him and his people rejected from the system, just like any
alien organism. He must not be allowed to succeed, and I hope everyone
around him understands that this is a war, and they will not end until
they destroy the President of the United States.
David
Brock and other organizations have already raised tens of millions of
dollars for an impeachment process. They want “jail to the chief.”
We are so far beyond normal politics. We are in a very dangerous moment.
While President Trump is a very strong leader and a man of strong constitution,
and he was able to survive all of this during the campaign and get elected
president, I hope to God he is strong enough to withstand the monolithic
opposition, a federal bureaucracy that is completely out to undermine
him every day, and the intelligence community that is engaged in this
as well.If
Trump succeeds, the country changes for the good, and the globalists
do not want that to happen.
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By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
Besides
WhenGeorge Soros is determined to destroy America by any means necessary, now funding the women’s march.
China is positioning itself for war and trying to bring the globalist plan for world domination into reality.
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Alex Jones discusses how leftists are devolving into zombies as their minds
are infected with identity and victimhood politics.
Best Of Social Justice Warrior FAIL Compilation
SJWs: Dumbed Down By Design Via Vaccines
& Public School Brainwashing/Indoctrination
PROOF! SJW’s Are The Bad Guys
Are SJWs Mind Control Victims?
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Goes NUTS!
Jon Rappoport hosts the fourth hour of the Alex Jones show and breaks down the medial tyranny of the left.
Jon
Rappoport hosts the fourth hour of the Alex Jones show and breaks down
how the media is used to censor all kinds of information from the
public.