Dear viewer: I am posting this article and videos below because for centuries there have been many Christians from mainline Protestant Denominations that have been peddling a man made doctrine known as cessasionism. This was a doctrine that was created by John Calvin during the Reformation Age. Simply put, many of these Christians believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit together with signs, wonders, and miracles ceased to operate when the last Apostle John died and the Sacred Text(Bible) was finally canonized. For more details go to the following link:
Below I am sharing actual 21st century video footage as well as scriptural evidence refuting this false heretical doctrine.
REMEMBER: THAT YAHWEH THE SELF EXISTING ONE IS THE LORD GOD THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE. AND HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER AMEN AND GLORY BE TO HIS HOLY MAJESTIC NAME!
Shekinah means "dwelling," or "one who
dwells." So, the Shekinah glory of God would refer to the personal
presence of God. The word Shekinah does not occur in the Old or New
Testaments in the original languages. However, it entered Christian
theology as a term via the targums and rabbinic literature after the Old
Testament was completed and before the New Testament period began. It
was used to describe the very presence of God. Therefore, it was used
by rabbis in reference to the Lord's presence among his people (Exodus 19:16-18; 25:8; 40:34-38; 1 Kings 6:13). The rabbis used the term in reference to the glory of God filling the temple (2 Chronicles 7:1), his presence at the cloud (Exodus 14:19; 1 Kings 8:10–13), and his dwelling in the mountain ( Psalm 68:16-18; 74:2; Isaiah 8:18; Joel 3:17). Another way of describing it would be to use the term "glory of God" since the phrase is used to describe his presence (Psalm 19:1; Ezekiel 43:2; Luke 2:9; Acts 7:55).
Phrases used in the Bible that fall under the Shekinah are
In the Old Testament, various people would see God (Genesis 17:1; 18:1; Exodus 6:2-3; 24:9-11; Numbers 12:6-8).
They would be in his presence. However, we know from the New Testament
that they were not seeing the person of God the Father (John 6:446; 1 Timothy 6:16).
They were seeing the pre-incarnate Christ. Of course, God would
manifest himself in different forms in the Old Testament such as wind, a
cloud, In the New Testament, the manifestation of God, the manifestation of
his presence, occurs in the person of Jesus. Jesus is the Word who
became flesh (John 1:1, 14). In him, all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form (Colossians 2:9). He is called "the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature," (Hebrews 1:3). Therefore, to see Jesus was in effect, to see God (John 14:9). Jesus is the Shekinah presence of God. Quotes
Shekinah, "A circum-locution used in rabbinic literature to signify God’s presence." 1
"Transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning “the one who dwells” or
“that which dwells.” The term enters Christian theology from its use in
the Targums and rabbinic literature to describe the immanent presence in
the world of the transcendent Deity."2
"The Shekinah (Heb. šeḵinâ), the radiance, glory or presence of God
dwelling in the midst of his people, is used by Targumist and Rabbi to
signify God himself..." 3
DEAR VIEWER: I AM A FORMER MEMBER OF PASTOR CAHN'S CHURCH BETH ISRAEL. I UNFORTUNATELY DEFECTED FROM HIS CHURCH BECAUSE AFTER MANY YEARS WHILE SITTING UNDER HIS TEACHINGS, I REALIZED THERE EXIST SERIOUS ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES REVOLVING AROUND HIS APOLOGETICS. THIS BLOG WHICH I CREATED NEARLY 5 YEARS AGO HAS SOUGHT TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.
BELOW I AM SHARING THESE ARTICLES AND VIDEOS BECAUSE I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT THIS SO CALLED PROPHECY BY JONATHAN CAHN IS FALSE BASED UPON THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED. MR. CAHN IN THIS VIDEO CLAIMS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A MODERN DAY KING CYRUS OF PERSIA REFERRED TO AS GOD'S ANOINTED IN ISAIAH 44:28-45:1. HOWEVER THOSE CLAIMS CANNOT BE VERIFIED THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD. MR. CAHN ALSO LIKENS PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THE BIBLICAL WARRIOR/KING JEHU OF SAMARIA. BUT WHAT HE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT JEHU DEPARTED FROM THE LORD AND CONTINUED IN HIS SINS UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH 2 KINGS 10:29-36.
PART I
Preface: Now, a new star has risen, a quite unlikely one at that. The crowds
are also thronging to hear him, and his followers are convinced that
this man, their man, Donald Trump, will single-handedly make America
great again. The political system is corrupt, say his loyal supporters,
and America has become a shell of what she used to be, both nationally
and internationally. Donald Trump will save the day. Donald Trump knows how to get it
done. Donald Trump will not back down. Donald Trump is the alpha male we
need. Some even claim that God Himself has raised up Donald Trump for
such a time as this (AS JONATHAN CAHN SO BOLDY CLAIMS IN THE ABOVE VIDEO)!
Mr. Cahn brings his BOGUS MYSTERIES fully into
the social-media age: many of his fans first saw him on Facebook;
hundreds of posts and reposts of his sermons are uploaded on YouTube,
slipped into the corners of the web where esoteric religion and
conspiracy theories overlap.
Into this
mix came Mr. Cahn’s latest book, “The Paradigm,” which could be his
most polarizing, tying his bogus prophetic work to the election of Donald
Trump.
The book, published in the
months after Trump’s win, again likens America to the ancient nation of
Israel — two peoples, Mr. Cahn says, who have a unique relationship with
God. He then argues that all sorts of figures in contemporary politics
have biblical counterparts. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, for
example, are the modern-day analogues to wicked Ahab and Jezebel. Trump
is thewarrior-king Jehu, who
took control of the nation and cast idols out of the capital. “Jehu also
sought to drain the swamp,” Mr. Cahn said.
Trump,
“like his ancient predecessor,” Mr. Cahn writes in his book, was a
“flawed vessel” being used by God. “The unlikely and controversial
warrior was destined to become the new ruler of the land,” Mr. Cahn goes
on. According to Mr. Cahn: “The template would ordain that Donald Trump would become the next
president.”
Unfortunately
Mr. Cahn didn’t stop with a paradigm which shows how human actions
which separate themselves from the laws of God lead naturally down a
path which has common threads among all human beings. In what appears
to be a well-meaning effort to buttress this paradigm Mr. Cahn takes the
ancient Biblical types and attempts to show how specific actions and
dates are paralleled in their modern American political anti-types. This
takes the subject from type and anti-type into the realm of prophetic
speculation. Most
of the paradigms are based on no specific cross scriptural reference
to other passages of the Holy Text. They serve only to define whatever
point Cahn wishes to make about future events, corresponding to past
events and usually can be readily matched to the future person. You can read the rest of his thesis by going to the following link: https://christinprophecyblog.org/2018/11/a-biblical-blueprint-for-america-jehu-as-trumps-paradigm/.
These absurd claims by Mr. Cahn is nothing more than prophetic speculation. He accomplishes this by applying an EISEGETICAL method for interpreting Holy Scriptures. This EISEGETICAL METHOD IS EVIDENT IN ALL OF THE BOOKS HE HAS WRITTEN. Refer to the 2 links below:
To reiterate his latest book mentioned above was
released only after Trump had taken the White House and is largely
backward-looking, giving biblical explanations to current events only
after the fact.
He also declined to weigh in on Trump’s 2020 chances for re-election. “The Bible doesn’t say one or two terms,” Mr. Cahn demurred.
He insists he has always included
disclaimers on his work and never sets exact dates. Mr. Cahn: “I always say You can’t put God in a box.” He is absolutely right. Because God does not speak with a forked tongue! Only false prophets do that. Still,
he appears to have learned from the brouhaha, growing even more
cautious about making prognostications that could fall through.
Deuteronomy 13:1-5
Worshiping Other Gods
13 [a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,2 and
if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let
us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship
them,”3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord
your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land
of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
"But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have
not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods,
that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we
know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in
the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true,
that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:20-22)
The warning in the above scriptural passages is urgently needed for
today. Some of God's people are so enamored by the supernatural that
they are ready to receive anyone who demonstrates supernatural power or
divine revelation knowledge as necessarily being a true servant of God.
But the passages quoted above indicates that this attitude is UN
SCRIPTURAL & DANGEROUS.
To get the full picture we need to combine the above two passages(
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 & Deuteronomy 18: 20-22) that clearly show us
how to identify a false prophet like Jonathan Cahn.
The first passage warns us against a prophet who gives us a
supernatural sign that is fulfilled, but at the same time teaches
disobedience or disloyalty towards God. The second passage warns that a
prophet who makes some supernatural prediction that is not fulfilled is a
false prophet.
PART II
Why evangelicals are calling Trump a “modern-day Cyrus.”
It’s a typical morning segment on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, late in 2016. The controversial Access Hollywood
tapes, on which then-candidate Donald Trump can be heard boasting about
grabbing women by the genitals, have just been released.
Standing on a sunny street, reporter Chris Mitchell says, “Christians are divided about what to do on Donald Trump.”
Some want to abandon him, he says. Others want to stand
with him. But others, he says, are wondering: Does Trump have a
“biblical mandate” to become president?
Mitchell runs swiftly through the first two options,
citing both a condemnation of Trump and an endorsement by Focus on the
Family’s James Dobson. But it’s the third option — that God himself has
chosen Trump to be president — that Mitchell focuses on.
Evangelical thinker Lance Wallnau then gives Mitchell his
take: Trump is a “modern-day Cyrus,” an ancient Persian king chosen by
God to “navigate in chaos.”
Mitchell notes that some evangelicals disagree but does
not name or cite them. Instead, he cites the growing threat of China,
Russia, and Iran, before Wallnau concludes, “America’s going to have a
challenge either way. With Trump, I believe we have a Cyrus to navigate
through the storm.”
The comparison comes up frequently in the evangelical
world. Many evangelical speakers and media outlets compare Trump to
Cyrus, a historical Persian king who, in the sixth century BCE,
conquered Babylon and ended the Babylonian captivity, a period during
which Israelites had been forcibly resettled in exile. This allowed Jews
to return to the area now known as Israel and build a temple in
Jerusalem. Cyrus is referenced most prominently in the Old Testament
book of Isaiah, in which he appears as a figure of deliverance.
That comparison has become more and more explicit in the wake of Trump’s presidency. Last week,
an Israeli organization, the Mikdash Educational Center, minted a
commemorative “Temple Coin” depicting Trump and Cyrus side by side, in
honor of Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem. It was among the most brazen, public links between Trump and
Cyrus; one that takes the years of subtext running through outlets like
Christian Broadcasting Network and, quite literally, sealed the
comparison.
Monday, however, an even higher-profile figure linked
Trump and Cyrus. During his visit to Washington, DC, Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu heavily implied Trump was Cyrus’s spiritual heir.
Thanking Trump for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, Netanyahu said,
“We remember the proclamation of the great King Cyrus the Great —
Persian King. Twenty-five hundred years ago, he proclaimed that the
Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in
Jerusalem...And we remember how a few weeks ago, President Donald J.
Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Mr. President, this will
be remembered by our people throughout the ages.”
While Cyrus is not Jewish and does not worship the God of
Israel, he is nevertheless portrayed in Isaiah as an instrument of God —
an unwitting conduit through which God effects his divine plan for
history. Cyrus is, therefore, the archetype of the unlikely “vessel”:
someone God has chosen for an important historical purpose, despite not
looking like — or having the religious character of — an obvious man of
God.
For believers who subscribe to this account, Cyrus is a
perfect historical antecedent to explain Trump’s presidency: a
nonbeliever who nevertheless served as a vessel for divine interest.
For these leaders, the biblical account of Cyrus allows
them to develop a “vessel theology” around Donald Trump, one that allows
them to reconcile his personal history of womanizing and alleged sexual
assault with what they see as his divinely ordained purpose to restore a
Christian America.
“I think in some ways this is a kind of baptism of Donald
Trump,” says John Fea, a professor of evangelical history at Messiah
College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “It’s the theopolitical version of
money laundering, taking Scripture to … clean [up] your candidate.”
This framing allows for the creation of Trump as a viable
evangelical candidate regardless of his personal beliefs or actions. It
allows evangelical leaders, and to a lesser extent ordinary
evangelicals, to provide a compelling narrative for their support for
him that transcends the mere pragmatic fact that he is a Republican.
Instead of having to justify their views of Trump’s controversial past,
including reports of sexual misconduct and adultery, the evangelical
establishment can say Trump’s presidency was arranged by God, and thus
legitimize their support for him — a support that has begun to divide
ordinary evangelicals and create a kind of “schism.”
Trump has capitalized on this idea of “vessel theology”
Numerous evangelical leaders have used the Trump-as-Cyrus
comparison to explain how a leader who, while not (originally)
religious, might nevertheless figure into a divine historical plan.
In December, Christian evangelical leader Mike Evans made the comparison while praising Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, another act with deep theological connotations. Before
seeing Trump right after the announcement, Evans said, “the first word
I'm going to say to him, 'Cyrus, you're Cyrus.’” He explained that Cyrus
“was used as an instrument of God for deliverance in the Bible, and God
has used this imperfect vessel, this flawed human being like you or I,
this imperfect vessel, and he's using him in an incredible, amazing way
to fulfill his plans and purposes.”
Likewise, last year, Creation Museum founder Ken Ham used
the same rhetoric to explain how God had, in his view, brought Trump to
power: “God is in total control,” Ham told the Deseret Daily News early last year.
“He makes that very clear in the Bible where he tells us that he raises
up kings and destroys kingdoms. He even calls a pagan king, Cyrus, his
anointed, or his servant to do the things that he wants him to do.”
Trump himself seemed to bolster this particular comparison. He referenced a (fake) quote from Cyrus in March 2017 as part of a speech commemorating Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
Adhering
the Cyrus motif to an American president — and particularly using it to
justify evangelical support of the Trump presidency — is unique.
Anbara Khalidi, a former research associate at University
of Oxford’s Wadham College and an expert on American evangelical
apocalyptic narratives, says she has not come across the Cyrus narrative
in her previous study of evangelicals and politics. “I actually have
personally never heard any of the Christian evangelicals I've researched
refer to any politician as Cyrus,” she said in an email.
Often, she said, the end-times-conscious evangelical
communities she researched in the pre-Trump era were far more reticent
to make specific associations between biblical figures and present-day
ones.
Khalidi said most evangelicals tend to be “pretty
cautious” about associating individuals in history with biblical figures
or prophecies. Rather, she says, many evangelicals traditionally speak
more generally about “signs of the times” or indicators that the end,
more broadly, may be at hand, without speaking specifically about
linking modern politicians to given biblical prophecies or parallels.
However, Khalidi said, the Trump-Cyrus association has
gained traction in recent years, especially among those “who have
recognized its political expediency.” Furthermore, Trump seems to have
been encouraged to publicly embrace these associations.
Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel
to Jerusalem late last year, for example, might have been seen as one
such curated response, evoking the historical association between Cyrus
and the liberation of the Jewish people as a kind of dog whistle to
evangelical voters that he’s on their side.
Fea pointed out that among a certain subset of
evangelicals, even innocuous details seem to be evidence of prophecy.
The most famous biblical verse about Cyrus as God’s “anointed” is found
in Isaiah 45 — and Trump is the 45th president. Wallnau made this
connection explicit, telling
the Christian Broadcasting Network that God spoke to him directly to
tell him, "Isaiah 45 will be the 45th president ... Isaiah 45 is Cyrus.”
Andrew Whitehead, an assistant professor of sociology at
Clemson University who focuses on the rise of Christian nationalism,
agreed with Fea. “Christian nationalist rhetoric, defending America’s
Christian heritage” — all these, he said, were common tropes throughout
American history. “But what makes Trump interesting, a test as to the
power of this Christian nationalist rhetoric, is that regardless of
personal piety … his use of that rhetoric still resonated, and people
still voted for him.” Trump managed to capture the evangelical
imagination without being particularly evangelical — or, indeed,
personally religious — himself.
The Cyrus narrative allows evangelicals to thread a
difficult rhetorical needle. It allows them to see Trump as “their”
candidate — a candidate who will effect God’s will that America become a
truly Christian nation — without requiring Trump himself to manifest
any Christian virtues. He is, like Cyrus, anointed by God and thus has
divine legitimacy (Trump’s spiritual advisers, including evangelical
figures Robert Jeffress and Paula White, have repeatedly hammered this point), but he has no obligation to live out Christian principles in his personal life.
According to Fea, this narrative works because it allows
evangelicals to capitalize on Trump’s “strongman” persona — in practical
terms, his ability to get votes — while allowing them to justify their
support theologically and preserve their sense of Trump as a God-backed
candidate.
Someone like Ted Cruz, Fea says, may initially have been a
“purer candidate” as far as evangelicals were concerned. But when it
became clear that Trump was performing better in the Republican primary,
they shifted tactics. “They have to have some kind of biblical or
theological or Christian reason ... for their support,” he says. But
they also have to back a winner.
Fea
describes evangelicals’ pivot as somewhat pragmatic. Major evangelical
figures like the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and Focus on the
Family’s James Dobson endorsed Cruz before finally endorsing Trump once
his nomination became an inevitability.
Trump’s rhetoric ties into and significantly expands on a
robust historical tradition of language and thought about God, and a
kind of “vessel theology,” in American political history.
Whitehead says the idea that God plays a divine role in
politics is nothing new. When it comes to the presidency, narratives of
divine intervention have been woven into American cultural discourse
from the beginning of what Whitehead calls America's “civil religion,”
which he describes as a fusion of political and religious imagery.
For example, after George Washington died, Whitehead
said, “stories cropped up about his religiosity, about what a great man
he was.”
“Great leaders [have been historically] identified with
how God was using them, or that God placed them there for a purpose,” he
said. For America, a relatively new nation, this Christian mythos
became a foundational element of creating a national identity.
“Colonials had closer ties to Britain than they had to each other.
Christianity became a part of that.”
Fea concurs. Throughout the early history of America, he
notes, American exceptionalism and a particular blend of Christian
nationalism — seeing America as a kind of new chosen land for God’s
intervention on a parallel with the Israel of the Old Testament — went
hand in hand. He references the ideal of the “city on a hill,” an image
from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, used by Puritan settler John Winthrop
to describe how the new American colonies would serve as a model for
Christian living.
Fea references, too, the work of early American revivalist preachers like Jonathan Edwards,
who believed the second coming of Christ was imminent in Boston during
the 18th century. Fea says the idealistic nature of America’s founding —
as a country that believes in “liberty and freedom” — has lent itself
to appropriation by Christian narratives. “It’s sort of taking these
Enlightenment ideas [of freedom and liberty],” he added. “Since day one,
they have been kind of ‘baptized' by evangelicals who say in a very
unthoughtful way, ‘America is for freedom. God is for freedom.
Therefore, God must privilege the US.’”
This sense that God has “chosen” America as a special
people, or that he acts directly in American affairs, has, Fea argues,
given us quintessentially American historical phenomena such as Manifest
Destiny, the imperialist expansion of the United States across North
America.
Therefore, at the very least, the idea that God
intervenes directly in American political affairs, and uses American
political figures as vessels to effect divine will, is deeply rooted in
centuries of Christian nationalism.
Trump’s whole team furthers the Cyrus narrative
The continued prevalence of the Cyrus narrative
throughout the campaign and the first year of Trump’s presidency speaks
to its longevity and power. But it speaks, too, to the degree to which
those around Trump — from his unofficial evangelical advisory
council to Christian supporters on CBN — are able to signal to
supporters that the evangelical agenda is receiving attention in the
White House regardless of Trump’s actions, or even regardless of whether
Trump is aware of what’s going on.
After all, Trump himself has mentioned Cyrus just once
(and made up a quote in the process). But every time those around Trump
mention Cyrus, they’re signaling to their listeners that because Trump
is nothing but a vessel for God’s will, he’s also somewhat irrelevant in
the scheme of things.
Pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain, they imply. The real work is being done by his evangelical influencers behind the scenes.
But Trump, too, is doing his share of influencing,
dog-whistling to evangelical rhetoric of an unexpected or incongruous
“divine plan.”
Within that paradigm, his somewhat incongruous anecdote
during the State of the Union address about the New Mexico couple that
adopted a homeless, heroin-addicted woman’s baby makes far more sense.
Trump says of Ryan Holets, the New Mexico police officer
who adopted the baby, that “Ryan said he felt God speak to him: ‘You
will do it — because you can.’”
Within the context of a presidential address, the
anecdote felt jarring, out of place. But as a theological nod, the
anecdote made perfect sense. The image of an unlikely individual chosen
unexpectedly by God to shoulder a difficult and divinely ordained burden
is a popular narrative within Christian, and more specifically
evangelical, discourse.
And it’s a narrative that Trump will continue to capitalize on to keep his evangelical voters close.
PART III
America's False Prophet Jonathan Cahn, To Sell Yet Another End Time Prophecy Book
By this point, you would think the mathematical odds of Jonathan Cahn
accurately prophesying something would be in his favor. Surely throwing
out random guesses about the near future would result in greater
accuracy than that which has been produced by this fake rabbi and false
prophet, but Cahn has yet to provide an oracle that has ever come true,
not even by blind luck.
The Bible is very clear as to what we should do to/with false prophets.
2when a prophet speaks
in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true,
that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him (Deuteronomy 18:22)
Fans of the Cahn-man will claim that he isn’t a
prophet, but that he only “interprets” Biblical prophecy. Of course,
Cahn takes a good many Scriptures that aren’t prophetic and wrongly
applies them to modern events, thus making them prophetic. Cahn’s
horrible track record at prophecy interpretation seems not to bother his
biggest fans, who are eager to buy his next book.
Cahn’s latest book is The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Revealed.
Once again, Cahn claims to have found super-secret mysteries locked
away in the Bible, and only he has the extra-fancy decoder ring that can
unlock the codes. Never mind that this is the same schtick he’s been
trying since 2011 and hasn’t yet hit a single nail on its head. Cahn’s book pitch includes…
“Could
an ancient prophecy and a mysterious ordinance given in a Middle
Eastern desert over 3,000 years ago be determining the events of our
day? Could some of the most famous people of modern history and current
events be secretly linked to this mystery—even a modern president of the
United States? Could this ancient revelation pinpoint the events of our
times down to the year or even the day? And is there a master plan
affecting the entire world and altering the course of history?”
What Cahn is getting at in his new book is clear. According to Cahn, Donald Trump is in the Bible.
Interestingly enough, Cahn’s promotional material for The Oracle contains no reference at all to his book, The Mystery of The Shemitah, which is his most provable prophetic failure.
MANY RELIGIOUS PROFESSIONALS ARE ENDORSING JONATHAN CAHN'S PRODUCTS STRICTLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BOOSTING THEIR TELEVISION RATINGS AND TO ATTRACT GULLIBLE CHRISTIANS TO SEND THEM MORE MONEY IN THE FORM OF TITHES/OFFERINGS. THEY ARE: PAT ROBERTSON OF THE 700 CLUB, SID ROTH FROM IT'S SUPERNATURAL, JOSEPH FARAH FROM WORLD NET DAILY, CONVICTED FELON JIM BAKER & HIS CIRCUS TALK SHOW, KENNETH COPELAND FROM WORD OF FAITH CULT, BENNY HINN THE MAN OF SIN WHO JUST A FEW YEARS AGO WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA WITH PROSPERITY PIMP PAULA WHITE HAVING A ROMANTIC FLING IN ROME WHILE PRETENDING THEY WERE PATRONS OF THE ARTS FOR THE VATICAN( BENNY HINN WAS STILL LEGALLY MARRIED TO HIS FIRST WIFE AT THE TIME), CHARISMA MAGAZINE WHICH CONSTANTLY WRITES ARTICLES PROMOTING SO CALLED APOSTLES FROM THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION CHRISTIAN CULT WHO CLAIM THEY ARE RIVALS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FOUNDATIONAL APOSTLES ETC, JUST TO NAME A FEW. SOME OF THESE SHADY CHARACTERS HAVE GONE AS FAR AS PROCLAIMING JONATHAN CAHN AS AMERICA'S PROPHET.
EVEN MORE SUBTLE THAN THE ONE WHO SEDUCES SOULS IN A FLASHY WAY FOR SELF GAIN ARE THOSE WHO WRITE BOOKS THAT BECOME ASTOUNDINGLY THE BEST SELLERS AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY. THEY USE LITTLE SCRIPTURE, AND WHEN THEY DO, MANY TIMES IT IS USED OUT OF CONTEXT IN THE FORM OF EISEGESIS IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THEIR OWN AGENDA, AND IT IS NOT ALIGNED WITH THE WHOLE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. DOES THIS NOT QUALIFY FOR MAKING MERCHANDISE OF GOD'S PEOPLE? (2 PETER 2:1-3,14).
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn was recently asked how many false prophecies he had
given in his book The Harbinger. That may well be an accurate number,
rabbi. Cahn is also a sensationalist and why the body of Christ gives
this man any credence is beyond me. He predicted a shaking in the
economy before 2015. There was a shaking all right as he began quivering
when another of his prophecies failed to come true. Bible prophecies
have a 100% accuracy rate. Cahn’s accuracy rate is about 0% which
should tell you something. Yet his followers remain loyal to him proving
indeed that there’s very little discernment in his flock. Jesus would
put it another way. If the blind lead the blind both will fall into a
ditch. And his people love to have it so. He puts on a good
nickel-and-dime show and Jim Bakker puts him on whenever his ratings
drop. Maybe Jonathan Cahn and Jim Bakker should read Matthew 23:8. Call no one on earth rabbi. DONALD STAMPS IN THE LIFE STUDY BIBLE PAGE 1,995 WRITES: "THE FALSE PROPHETS/TEACHERS WILL COMMERCIALIZE THE GOSPEL, BEING EXPERTS IN GREED AND IN GETTING MONEY FROM BELIEVERS TO ENHANCE THEIR MINISTRIES AND AFFLUENT LIFESTYLES. BELIEVERS MUST BE AWARE THAT ONE OF THE CHIEF METHODS OF FALSE MINISTERS IS TO USE FEIGNED WORDS TO TELL IMPRESSIVE STORIES THAT ARE NOT TRUE , OR TO GIVE EXAGGERATED STATISTICS IN ORDER TO INSPIRE GOD'S PEOPLE TO GIVE MONEY. THEY GLORIFY THEMSELVES AND ENHANCE THEIR MINISTRIES WITH THESE FABRICATED STORIES (cf 2nd Corinthians 2:17). THUS, THE UNWARY AND SINCERE CHILD OF GOD BECOMES AN OBJECT OF EXPLOITATION. BECAUSE THESE MINISTERS DEFILE GOD'S TRUTH AND PEOPLE WITH GREED AND DECEIT, THEY ARE ASSIGNED TO ETERNAL DOOM AND DESTRUCTION". 2 Corinthians 2:17 "You see, we are not like the many hucksters who preach for personal profit. We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority, knowing that God is watching us".
20 Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Exodus 34:7New International Version (NIV)
7".... maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not allowthe wicked to go unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
Same-sex attraction is a mental disorder. I know that for a fact. I do
not hate homosexuals nor do I believe in harming them, but stating the
fact is not hate, anymore than saying that an alcoholic really is an
alcoholic is hate. This thread will explore the history of homosexuality
as a mental disorder, and the reasons why is should be classified once
again as a mental disorder. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist
nor do I claim to be an expert on the issue but there are plenty who are and
who would agree with me. The APA changed the DSM in 1973 not as a
result of any new scientific findings, but as a result of political
pressures:
Until 1973 homosexuality was listed as a
mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the
American Psychiatric Association. Originally listed as a "sociopathic
personality disturbance" in the first edition of DSM in 1953,
homosexuality was "upgraded" to a mere "sexual deviation" in 1968 with
the release of DSM-II.
In 1973, when homosexuality was removed from
DSM-II, there was a great deal of controversy about that decision in
the psychiatric community. Many psychiatrists and psychologists still
believed that homosexuality was a psychopathology which must invariably
cause impairment and distress. Others recognized that the impairment and
distress often seen by clinicians were a byproduct of stigma and social
repression of homosexuals. This group argued that the pathologization
of homosexuality in the DSM was a form of social control that itself
contributed to the social stigma and to the harm it did. See DSM-II_Homosexuality_Revision.pdf
The famous decision did not come about as a
result of a lengthy professional debate on the scientific merits. It
happened in an important national political context -- the Watergate
Affair -- and revelations surrounding Nixon's "Enemies List" and his
conduct of the Vietnam War. This was an era in which much of academia
was very loathe to be seen as authoritarian, and very sensitive to
charges of political complicity in upholding the cultural status quo.
This was the heyday of "humanist psychology" and of second wave
feminism. The "backlash" of "angry white men" was still a gleam in the
Koch brothers' eyes.
This anti-authoritarian atmosphere
undoubtedly contributed to the willingness of the head of the APA to "do
the right thing" and remove homosexuality from the DSM. His decision
occurred immediately before the actual vote, and as a result of being
taken into a room in which many psychiatrists he knew personally were
present and came out to him as homosexual. Thus, this major change in
the legal status of homosexuals turned on a knife edge and actually had
nothing to do with "scientific evidence". The issue had never been about
"science", only about political prejudice posturing as "science". The
fear that the APA would be stigmatized as an "establishment institution"
was the primary driving factor behind the change in the DSM. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/2 ... al-illness#
More recent studies point to homosexuality as a mental disorder:
Homosexuality a Psychological Disorder: Pentagon Document http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archiv ... n/06062008
The American College of Pediatricians
urges healthcare professionals, educators and legislators to reject all
policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical
and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology –
determine reality.
1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait:
“XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of male and female, respectively – not
genetic markers of a disorder. The norm for human design is to
be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design
with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our
species. This principle is self-evident. The exceedingly rare disorders
of sex development (DSDs), including but not limited to testicular
feminization and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, are all medically
identifiable deviations from the sexual binary norm, and are rightly
recognized as disorders of human design. Individuals with DSDs (also
referred to as “intersex”) do not constitute a third sex.1
2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a
biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or
female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective
biological one. No one is born with an awareness of themselves
as male or female; this awareness develops over time and, like all
developmental processes, may be derailed by a child’s subjective
perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy
forward. People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or
“somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain
biological men or biological women.2,3,4
3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.
When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an
otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective
psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it
should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria.
Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder
(GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric
Association (DSM-5).5 The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.2,4,5
4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous. Reversible
or not, puberty- blocking hormones induce a state of disease – the
absence of puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously
biologically healthy child.6
5. According to the DSM-5, as many as 98% of gender confused
boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological
sex after naturally passing through puberty.5
6. Pre-pubertal children diagnosed with gender dysphoria may
be given puberty blockers as young as eleven, and will require cross-sex
hormones in later adolescence to continue impersonating the opposite
sex. These children will never be able to conceive any genetically
related children even via artificial reproductive technology. In
addition, cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated
with dangerous health risks including but not limited to cardiac
disease, high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.7,8,9,10,11
7. Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among
adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery,
even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ – affirming countries.12 What
compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to
this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of
boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and
physical health?
8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of
chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and
healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as
normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and
parents, leading more children to present to “gender clinics” where
they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually
ensures they will “choose” a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise
toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical
mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.
Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
President of the American College of Pediatricians Quentin Van Meter, M.D.
Vice President of the American College of Pediatricians
Pediatric Endocrinologist Paul McHugh, M.D.
University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns
Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns
Hopkins Hospital Originally published March 2016Updated September 2017
The Bible doesn't speak of homosexuality very often; but when it does, it condemns it as sin. Let's take a look.
Lev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."1
Lev. 20:13,
"If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman,
both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put
to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them."
1 Cor. 6:9-10,
"Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom
of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the
kingdom of God."
Rom. 1:26-28,
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their
women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and
in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the
woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men
committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due
penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to
acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do
those things which are not proper."
Sexual unions such as same sex marriage which are clearly forbidden in God's Word are contrary to God's Divine order for decent relationships expected in a family. These sexual unions result only from unnatural and uncontrolled lust. If allowed to go unchecked, such unions as same sex marriages will eventually destroy human society. When this kind of moral filth becomes incurable, God is left with no other recourse but to destroy the nation(cf with Genesis 19:1-38).
Also when our nation legislates laws which are in direct opposition to God's word, our loyalty is first to God and his word and we are not to BOW DOWN TO CEASAR!
Question: "When is civil disobedience allowed for a Christian?" Answer: The emperor of Rome from AD 54 to 68 was Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known simply as Nero. The emperor was not known for being a godly person and engaged in a variety of illicit acts, homosexual marriage being among them. In AD 64 the great Roman fire occurred, with Nero himself being suspected of arson. In his writings, the Roman senator and historian Tacitus recorded, “To get rid of the report [that he had started the fire], Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace” (Annals, XV).
It was during the reign of Nero that the apostle Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans. While one might expect him to encourage the Christians in Rome to rise up against their oppressive ruler, in chapter 13, we find this instead:
“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor” (Romans 13:1–7).
Even under the reign of a ruthless and godless emperor, Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells his readers to be in subjection to the government. Moreover, he states that no authority exists other than that established by God, and that rulers are serving God in their political office.
Peter writes nearly the same thing in one of his two New Testament letters: “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king” (1 Peter 2:13–17).
Both Paul’s and Peter’s teachings have led to quite a few questions from Christians where civil disobedience is concerned. Do Paul and Peter mean that Christians are always to submit to whatever the government commands, no matter what is asked of them? A Brief Look at the Various Views of Civil Disobedience There are at least three general positions on the matter of civil disobedience. The anarchist view says that a person can choose to disobey the government whenever he likes and whenever he feels he is personally justified in doing so. Such a stance has no biblical support whatsoever, as evidenced in the writings of Paul in Romans 13.
The extremist patriot says that a person should always follow and obey his country, no matter what the command. As will be shown in a moment, this view also does not have biblical support. Moreover, it is not supported in the history of nations. For example, during the Nuremberg trials, the attorneys for the Nazi war criminals attempted to use the defense that their clients were only following the direct orders of the government and therefore could not be held responsible for their actions. However, one of the judges dismissed their argument with the simple question: “But gentlemen, is there not a law above our laws?”
The position the Scriptures uphold is one of biblical submission, with a Christian being allowed to act in civil disobedience to the government if it commands evil, such that it requires a Christian to act in a manner that is contrary to the clear teachings and requirements of God’s Word.Civil Disobedience—Examples in Scripture In Exodus 1, the Egyptian Pharaoh gave the clear command to two Hebrew midwives that they were to kill all male Jewish babies. An extreme patriot would have carried out the government’s order, yet the Bible says the midwives disobeyed Pharaoh and “feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live” (Exodus 1:17). The Bible goes on to say the midwives lied to Pharaoh about why they were letting the children live; yet even though they lied and disobeyed their government, “God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them” (Exodus 1:20–21).
In Joshua 2, Rahab directly disobeyed a command from the king of Jericho to produce the Israelite spies who had entered the city to gain intelligence for battle. Instead, she let them down via a rope so they could escape. Even though Rahab had received a clear order from the top government official, she resisted the command and was redeemed from the city’s destruction when Joshua and the Israeli army destroyed it.
The book of 1 Samuel records a command given by King Saul during a military campaign that no one could eat until Saul had won his battle with the Philistines. However, Saul’s son Jonathan, who had not heard the order, ate honey to refresh himself from the hard battle the army had waged. When Saul found out about it, he ordered his son to die. However, the people resisted Saul and his command and saved Jonathan from being put to death (1 Samuel 14:45).
Another example of civil disobedience in keeping with biblical submission is found in 1 Kings 18. That chapter briefly introduces a man named Obadiah who “feared the Lord greatly.” When the queen Jezebel was killing God’s prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them and hid them from her so they could live. Such an act was in clear defiance of the ruling authority’s wishes.
In 2 Kings, the only apparently approved revolt against a reigning government official is recorded. Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, began to destroy the royal offspring of the house of Judah. However, Joash the son of Ahaziah was taken by the king’s daughter and hidden from Athaliah so that the bloodline would be preserved. Six years later, Jehoiada gathered men around him, declared Joash to be king, and put Athaliah to death.
Daniel records a number of civil disobedience examples. The first is found in chapter 3 where Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow down to the golden idol in disobedience to King Nebuchadnezzar’s command. The second is in chapter 6 where Daniel defies King Darius’ decree to not pray to anyone other than the king. In both cases, God rescued His people from the death penalty that was imposed, signaling His approval of their actions.
In the New Testament, the book of Acts records the civil disobedience of Peter and John towards the authorities that were in power at the time. After Peter healed a man born lame, Peter and John were arrested for preaching about Jesus and put in jail. The religious authorities were determined to stop them from teaching about Jesus; however, Peter said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19–20). Later, the rulers confronted the apostles again and reminded them of their command to not teach about Jesus, but Peter responded, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
One last example of civil disobedience is found in the book of Revelation where the Antichrist commands all those who are alive during the end times to worship an image of himself. But the apostle John, who wrote Revelation, states that those who become Christians at the time will disobey the Antichrist and his government and refuse to worship the image (Revelation 13:15) just as Daniel’s companions violated Nebuchadnezzar’s decree to worship his idol. Civil Disobedience—Conclusion What conclusions can be drawn from the above biblical examples? The guidelines for a Christian’s civil disobedience can be summed as follows:
• Christians should resist a government that commands or compels evil and should work nonviolently within the laws of the land to change a government that permits evil. • Civil disobedience is permitted when the government’s laws or commands are in direct violation of God’s laws and commands. • If a Christian disobeys an evil government, unless he can flee from the government, he should accept that government’s punishment for his actions. • Christians are certainly permitted to work to install new government leaders within the laws that have been established.
Lastly, Christians are commanded to pray for their leaders and for God to intervene in His time to change any ungodly path that they are pursuing: “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity” (1 Timothy 2:1–2). see link below: Redeeming
the Rainbow 202 THE HOMOSEXUAL MANIFESTO By Michael Swift,
"GayRevolutionary." Reprinted from The Congressional Record of the
United States Congress. [PDF]
As
the black clouds of persecution grow ever closer, a small remnant sees
it coming and are preparing for it. However the vast majority of
Americans, Christian, and Traditional remain in a deep sleep...as if a
blindfold of deception, confusion, and delusion were placed over their
eyes.
