"A Vanity Affair"

Because the church has not built her "members" on a firm foundation, (Jesus) the revelation of the word of God by the Spirit of God, she will NOT stand.

Using "soulish" methods to build membership guarantees numbers not commitment. The multitudes the church has supposedly harvested by using hooks or so-called "evangelistic tools" will not stand either ?for many will endure only for a season but when tribulation comes the hearts of many will wax cold, many shall be offended and fall away.

"But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution riseth because of the word, by and by he is offended." (Mt.13:20,21)

Those who receive the word into good soil are God's people. Those who receive the "stony places" are those with hardened hearts, or have itching ears that are easily offended.

Jesus never said, upon "stony places" I will build my church! He said, Upon this rock -referring not to Peter (not to Cephas or petros, but rather "petra") but instead to Himself (Petra) as the Chief Cornerstone, -upon the revealed word of God in Spirit and in Truth, upon this rock will He build His Church, and not upon the word of God according to the letter of the word in the understand or counsel of men.

The hearts of His people are over charged with surfeiting, drunkenness and the cares of this world and as a result His people (and their leadership) are asleep, stone deaf to what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. They have eyes to see but choose not to see, and they have ears to hear but choose not to hear, preferring the traditions, teachings, doctrines and commandments of men. As it was written of Israel at the height of her apostasy, so too it is true now of the Church which is in the midst of her apostasy, "the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" (Isa.9:16 KJV)

The people of God are being led by errant leadership to the day of slaughter where millions who bear His Name will suffer martyrdom who refused afore time to heed what was given in warning by His Spirit through His servants which He sent to speak to them, in His Name.

Potlucks have taken precedence over prayer meetings and palate pleasing has reduced most Christian "fellowship" to little more than tea socials; glorified recipe swapping sessions where true faith has been replaced by step-by-step "how to" formulas, served with tasty little tidbits of "Bible Trivia" as a side dish.

Although it has been said, that the way to a "man's heart is through his stomach," it must be remembered that it was for food, -in order to satisfy his appetite, that Esau sold his birthright.
God is raising up an army in these last days and spiritual battles are not fought with forks!

It requires a considerable amount of discernment to distinguish the church from the world these days. If you turn on "Christian" radio, for example, your ears are bombarded with a selection of pseudo-Christian songs ranging from classical to hard rock, most of which are only "lightly sprinkled" with the salt God's word.

Christian radio teaching ministry programs (averaging in length from 5 to 15 minutes) often spend approximately half the allotted air time either promoting their own ministry or soliciting funds.

During radio intermissions your senses are assaulted and your intelligence is insulted with advertisements for so-called Christian counseling centers offering supposedly godly counsel at affordable rates.

Meanwhile, Christian television programming is available 24 hours a day bringing you: hours of power, the praise of power, the power team, "prosperity" power, speaking positively power, thinking positively power, (even) a power trip family singing power, power, power.

Through the wonders of 24 hour a day Christian television, you can now critique a professionally choreographed ballet performance, participate in a piano sing-a-long and even learn to say "I love you very much" in Greek, -all in one show.

If that's not your cup of tea, you can learn how to s-t-r-e-t-c-h your faith and empty your w-a-l-l-e-t to master the Alacazam-inni style of perverted biblical economics. And if too many bills keep bursting that balloon, why it at Jesus's feet and listen, when you can select any one of a number of word of "faith fracturers" from a wide variety of a' la carte entries strait off Martha's menu, all guaranteed to cumber your mind with much serving.

There's programs teaching "faith" of every persuasion and price. They have faith that walks and faith that talks; faith that gives and faith that lives; faith that gabs and faith that grabs.

Christian television has just about everything secular programming has to offer: there's power packed martial arts demonstrations and "award winning" music programs; a real variety of shows: diet and health, physical fitness, even Christian soap opera; everything from soup to nuts.

Announcing their "Angel Awards" and boasting of ratings, Christian television programming is really coming into its own, right along with the rest of the world. They are downright proud to bring you nearly every thing secular T.V. has to give with a Christian twist, of course. Including, unfortunately, some of the same spirits: deception, divination, trends, of the Age, of worldliness and pride, and of whoredom; all free of charge. (But at a terrible cost!)

Christian television even comes complete with fund-raising (faith that lives is faith that gives) public television style telethons accepting offerings and love gifts great or small.

(Counting calories, yet?)

Instead of self-denial, self-sacrifice, self-examination and submission of self; we have substituted self-imaging, self-awareness, self-indulgence and self-esteem. There are two gospel's. One is the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the other is the gospel of self.

Idolatry is not just self-rule, it is stubbornness of mind. In her hardness of heart and stubbornness of mind, the church has chosen self-rule rather than the rule of God by His Spirit, according to His word, in Spirit and in Truth.

There are however only two kingdoms, the Kingdom of the Lord our God and the kingdom of the dung-god. Either you belong to one kingdom or the other. You are either living in one or the other, according to the rule of one "lord" or the Other. Either you are following (obeying) the lord of flies (Beelzebub) or the King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ. There is no middle ground, there is no Laodicean kingdom (of half-truth & half-lies).

By-the-way for all those who have been happily living in Laodicea, the cost of rent really is going "up." You might even say, it's worth re-counting the cost of complaisancy because lack of interest is spiritually lethal.

Many citizens of the kingdom of God who have been living in Laodicea mistakenly think they have the right zip code. Living in subsidized housing, paying artificially controlled rates, these residents are going to be badly shaken when they get their final "billing" statement. ( "I will render to every man according to His deeds.")

The false prophetess, Jezebel is the Laodicean landlady peddling half-truth and half lies mixing the harlotry of false religion with the word of the Living God. The church is currently employed as Jezebel's upper management complete with "top name" false teachers and false prophets, wolves among the sheep, errant leadership disguised as pastors and priests --singing shrinks peddling psycho-babble off as truth.

Madison Avenue market consultants and New Age motivational speakers preaching universal love, tolerance, health, wealth and happiness to multitudes of slumbering saints. Through these "advisors" Jezebel has successfully seduced the servants of God with deceptive doctrines of demons; her blind guides are digging spiritual "ditches" into which the churches have fallen.

How do you feel about "Eastern Cuisine" ?

The church has prostituted herself with many lovers; she has sold out to self-help sciences, her temple courts are chalk full of silversmiths teaching mind control, meditation and other occult "arts and crafts". Many of our children are being "passed through the fire" and sacrificed to Molech on the altar of self through involvement of the churches in the so-called biblical teaching of occult practices.

Our children are even being programmed in our own "Christian" schools with curriculum that is supposedly biblically sound but which is in fact, thoroughly polluted with Hindu philosophy. As we snub reproof and refuse to be corrected in our ignorance, our children are being indoctrinated into the "New Age" right under our (turned up) noses.

Humanistic philosophy disguised as biblical truth has supplanted the truth of the gospel (Christ in us the Hope of glory) with the humanist manifesto "know who you are" and "be all that you can be" as perfecting ourselves and reaching our full potential has replaced being slain and hid with Christ in God! The church has unwittingly exchanged her God for the god of self, and the Harlot Church is now teaching the New Age gospel of Christianized Humanist heavily laced with applied psychology and Hindu philosophy. Heretical sciences and (demonically inspired) humanist philosophy is passed off as biblical truth.

"Apple Pie" American clubs like Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, as well as hosts of other secular youth groups advocate self-deceptive age old heathen (aka New Age) philosophies of self-conceit redressed as self-esteem. We pacify the ego, pump the psyche and flatter the flesh in the name of personal growth.

Christian enrollment in these clubs and similar organizations is comparable to the Israelites sending their sons and daughters away to Philistine "day care" centers or Hittite summer camps for religious training.

Because of the advanced programming techniques utilized today, I suspect that our children would have been spiritually safer with the Philistines than they are in most child guidance centers and magnet school programs.

Involvement in sports activities which utilize self-hypnosis, mental imaging and other equally dangerous occult techniques give entrance to demonic activity which will manifest itself through oppression or possession. Be advised that even "little" league baseball is likely to employ some very "Big League" mind science "motivational" philosophies and occult techniques.

Weight clinic's and diet centers are also little more than respectable "fronts" for the occult. These clinics, even so-called Christian clinics specialize in ungodly counsel with re-programming and training accomplished through a myriad of self-improvement, self-help, self-hypnosis, manipulative mind sciences techniques. Stress reduction is taught through yoga, meditation, relaxation and breathing techniques. A veritable feast of occult practices and techniques that have simply been re-labeled with more socially acceptable "scientific" sounding names.

Generally speaking the occult is not readily accepted by most people. However it is perceived in an altogether different light when it's practices and techniques are re-labeled as an established medical treatment or "scientific" technique. In this way the occult technique becomes credible and acceptable. If you call it an art (like martial arts) then it seems removed from eastern mysticism. If you label it as science or call it weight control management or a form of diet therapy, occult techniques become quite respectable even popular.

Physical fitness programs involve the same mind science occult techniques and fitness experts employ the same type of "made-over" verbal cosmetics to cover-up that which would not other wise be acceptable in Western society. Yoga is no longer recognized to be the mystical mind altering occult practice that it is, but has been cleverly disguised as a harmless form of exercise with beneficial deep breathing and "relaxation" techniques.

Yoga's techniques and occult philosophy is an integral part of Eastern religion, yet it is now widely accepted among Christians as "just an exercise" program in the name of physical fitness we pay homage to evil spirits in order to perfect the god of self.

Even IF one claims they do not practice yoga as a religious science and say they do not adhere to its philosophy, just doing the breathing "exercises", the relaxation and concentration techniques subject the mind (the soul of man) to demonic spiritual activity whether you intend for it to do so or not!

The same is true of mental imaging, centering (concentrating or focusing on an object or a mental picture, guided imagery, biofeedback techniques, pain management & stress reduction techniques, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, and the various forms of meditation. None of these things are benign or harmless exercises!

Eastern martial so-called "arts" such as Karate, Judo, Tae Kwondo etc. are often seen as acceptable, even beneficial as self-improvement programs designed to develop self-confidence, self discipline, self control and improve self image. There are untold numbers of ignorant Christians actively participating in these occult so-called self enhancement "arts".

"When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations" (Deut.18:9) The God of Israel warned His people not to participate in the practices of the nations round about them. When His people disobeyed, God warned, judged and then chastened them for their disobedience. God has declared "I am the Lord, I change not..." (Mal.3:6)

"Jesus Christ IS the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." (Heb.13:8) and in the very next verse, Hebrews 13:9 we are admonished not to be carried about with divers and strange doctrines.

These practices and technique are occult and their philosophies are demonically inspired. Christians are to shun the very appearance of evil and are not to have contact with these things, yet these things are not only being taught in our schools but these things are being brought into the church (temple) into the sanctuary.

Magic tricks, guided imagery, deep breathing relaxation techniques, meditation (other than meditating upon the word of God), Karate and Tae Kwondo demonstrations in the sanctuaries. We have departed from the Lord to the extent that Church leadership has even defended Christian children dressing up as witches and devils and receiving communion in Church in Halloween costume! (What is wrong with this picture?!!!)

These are only a few of the abominations taking place in the sanctuary of churches and chapels of Christendom. Pastors, ministers, parents, teachers and leaders of the religious community "see" nothing wrong with these activities.

Occult mind control techniques, practices and programming are taught to Christians under the guise of helping you or your child to better themselves, to supposedly help them develop their full human potential. Not only are these errors tolerated, these things are encouraged and merchandised!

Christians are literally helping Satan to help himself to the souls (through the corruption of the minds) of our children. Sadly, ignorant participation does not exempt anyone from the activity of the demonic spirits associated with these teachings and practices. Activities and clubs which seem to be harmless on the exterior and which are even beneficial physically, although they may produce remarkable results in enhancing our bodies or in helping to redirect or modify behavior, they are perniciously evil and spiritually lethal.

We have forgotten that Satan always disguises evil with things that appear to be good in our sight. The fact is the children and the adults who are involved in these groups or participating in these practices are ignorantly opening themselves up to demonic activity --to influence, spiritual oppression and even possession while we unknowingly allow ourselves and our children to be indoctrination into New Age Eastern religion.

Silversmiths fashioning idols, merchants of Eastern mind sciences are churches are filled with so-called "Christian" psychologists, sociologists, social workers and "lay" counselors, who staunchly defend the psycho-social sciences, humanist philosophy and occult methods by attaching a veneer of truth cloaking error with supposedly biblically sound teachings.

The Apostle Paul warned that we should avoid these "oppositions of science" and "vain babbling" through which he said those professing such teachings have erred concerning the faith. Not only do they err themselves but their well-intentioned, unscriptural methods and teachings cause others to also "err concerning the faith". (ITim.6:20,21)

Unfortunately when confronted with the truth concerning the error of these teachings many will still attempt to defend these idolatrous practices to the death because it is their "livelihood". Deceived by the powerful, seemingly good, positive results they "see" -many will rise up in "riotous indignation" against any who threatens their "craft" just as Demetrius and his fellow silversmiths did in Ephesus against the teachings of Paul. (Act19:24-41 esp.vs.25 and vs.27)

Regardless of the "medium" used or the professional title attached, these heathen practices and occult sciences are no less demonically inspired, and although they may appear to be good in the sight of me, they are perceived to be good by that wisdom of men which is from below. (James3:15)

"Home Cooking"

The churches are being destroyed from the inside out. Our own "Christian" brothers and sisters lead us after other gods, the god of self and the god of this world. (Deut.13:6,7) Applied psychology, possibility thinking, positive thinking and it's not too distant cousin, the "Prosperity Message" are destroying us from within, while from without we have "Christian fellowship" in occult based social clubs that purport to be "godly".

Being a "Christian" and being a mason or being involved in freemasonry, Job's daughters, or Eastern Star (which are all purely front for occult rituals) makes about as much sense as having Satan worshipers serve communion at the table of the Lord. When Christians participate in thse groups they are literally partaking of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. The root of these groups (their philosophies) are demonic.

Groups such as these offer a multi-creed theology under the guise of ecumenicalism. In honor of the brotherhood of man, this multi-creed theology asserts that all faiths serve God (god) "god" by any name is all the same whether you see him as universal being or life force makes no difference, god is a generic.

Regardless of what labels or terms used: one may worship Allah, another Mother nature, another the God of Abraham, or another Jesus. Among masons, freemasons, Job's Daughters etc. there is no one truth or one exclusive way. This multi-creed New Age ecumenicalism reeks: since all is one, all paths lead in the same direction so, we need not emphasize our differences...we can all be one.

Jesus Christ is not one of many ways. He is not part of various truths or one of many avatars come to show us how to better live this life. Jesus is the only Way, the only Truth and the only Life. Without Jesus Christ (the hope of glory) you will die in your sins, you are without eternal Life.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (Jn.14:6) This is a far cry from the multi-creed, all is one and one is all, Hindu philosophy of these New Age groups.

Christians are not to have fellowship with idols or be friends with the world. Paul pleaded with believers to separate themselves unto God and to flee idolatry. IICor.6:16 KJV "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

The following is an actual excerpt from a Christian school (weekly) parent bulletin. "SPECIAL PROGRAM: On March 8, Mr._______ will be putting on a performance during our chapel time. (Tae Kwondo Program). Several children from ______ ______ School will be in this program and will be demonstrating Karate skills. All parents are invited to attend."

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and my daughters." (IICor.6:17 KJV)