Israel and the 2012 (U.S.) Elections

This morning I listened as a journalist made the statement that after last weeks speech made by  President Obama (at the UN), over 50% of all Israeli’s now firmly support President Obama. My first reaction was, ‘what does that mean?’. After all, only US citizens vote in American elections. 

When did support (or nonsupport) by those outside the US become such an important factor? Maybe I’m alone in finding it bizarre, but bizarre it is….

Anyway, came upon this short article at Talk2Action,

Associated Baptist Press is reporting that Presidential hopeful Rick Perry believes that support for Israel is a theological priority. The recent endorsement of Bob Turner by former New York Mayor Ed Koch is another example of the role of Israel in American politics. Koch was not satisfied with Obama’s support of Israel and he endorsed Turner. The litmus test was support for Israel according to Koch.

Richard Land, who opened the Response meeting in Houston, has stated that support for the modern state is a biblical mandate. Perry’s good friend John Hagee is the chief protestant cheer leader for the Jewish state. Hagee believes in a version of the prosperity gospel that teaches support for the secular state of Israel brings in gifts of money to the local church. It certainly has in his case.

Moody Bible Institute once had a heritage of anti-Semitism. This changed with the new version of end of times belief systems . End of times versions of the Dispensationalist theory brought with it a new support for the current state of Israel. The late Ed McAteer, from a large Southern Baptist Church in Memphis, wanted President W. Bush to appoint him ambassador to Israel. This was to allow Israel to retake all the lands she desired. Moderate Baptist Jimmy Carter wants the Oslo agreements to remain in place and has drawn the wrath of the Anti-Defamation League.

Hagee and crowd are encouraging resettlement of these regions. I have received several offers to visit Israel with the motive that getting me and my people to these regions will bring sympathy towards the idea of resettlement.

A nation of new evangelicals now sees support for Israel as a doctrinal mandate. This was not true a generation ago….  (More: Israel and 2012 Elections)

Let’s Go Home – Trevor Baker Concert

From a boy on his daddy’s farm to a Christian singer/songwriter, Trevor shares his love for God through his down-to earth “new country” sound and inspiring lyrics. Stressing that his ministry is non-denominational, and not limited to Christian venues only, he also plays at fairs, festivals, schools and prisons. Many who would never darken a church door identify with Trevor’s music and lyrics. His soft voice and gentle manner complement his message of hope and encouragement.

Trevor has done well over 1,400 concerts in his 11 years of full time ministry. Previously to that there were several years of part time ministry; which included singing on street corners. God; in His own unique way, has placed Trevor on many stages. Feeling undeserving of such opportunities he has shared his message with many people of influence; including the Prime Minister of Canada. Trevor has also sang in the United States at David Wilkerson’s Times Square Church in New York City twice.

With much of the present Church age running after every wind and wave of doctrine, most of the songs that God has given him are calling the Church back to repentance.

Although he has won awards he finds that many times they only get in the way of the message “There are many things in life that are uncertain”, he states. “I grew up thinking that God was one of them.” Trevor admits openly that he was searching for some meaning in life. He didn’t like the angry young man that he was and felt that his life had no direction. During this time of crisis, Trevor says that he met a ‘genuine, simple kinda’ preacher” in a little church who introduced him to Jesus Christ; the only One that could give him peace and direction.

Presently living in Tuxford Saskatchewan with his wife Jennifer, Trevor takes time to reflect. “I now know that true happiness comes from knowing God and trusting in His plan for my life and family. I intend to sing songs for Him and Him alone; that I might bring the message of the Gospel to so many who are searching for Truth and stability in this old world.” (link)

The Quiverfull Movement: Raising an army for Christ

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Vyckie Garrison’s seventh child, Wesley, was born by emergency caesarean section, at the Faith Regional Hospital in Norfolk, Nebraska. She had planned to give birth at home, unassisted, but her uterus partially ruptured during labour, almost killing her. For a month, she was confined to bed, barely able to move, let alone look after her family.

The doctor said it would be reckless for her to conceive any more children. But when she turned to her friends, they offered bleak counsel, with the force of biblical truth. “I was told that a woman shouldn’t shrink back from supposed dangers and that we should honour God with our bodies,” she says. “Jesus died for us, we should be willing to die for him.” She became pregnant twice more, suffering two miscarriages.

Garrison and her husband, Warren Bennett, had originally decided to stop at three kids. He had a vasectomy, to make sure. But after reading The Way Home, by Mary Pride, they decided to reverse the procedure and called one of the “natural family planning” organisations listed inside the back cover. In the next six years, they were blessed with four more offspring.

Pride’s book is one of the founding texts of the Quiverfull movement, which encourages Christians to refrain from using all forms of birth control, including abstinence. Child-bearing women are like missionaries, to be commended for their courage and sacrifice. “I had it all calculated out,” Garrison says. “I had seven kids and they were each gonna have twelve. They were all going to continue in the faith, to be warriors for Christ when they grew up.”

Calvinist pastor Doug Phillips, whose Vision Forum Ministry provides spiritual guidance, educational materials and an online catalogue of approved activities and clothes, has eight children. He preaches that Christianity can only triumph over secular liberalism if believers practice “multi-generational faithfulness,” by raising an army of devout soldiers. His 200 Year Plan envisages a godly United States, six generations from now, with fundamentalist evangelicals in the majority and a theocratic government in charge.

Quiverfull is a radical offshoot of the Christian Patriarchy movement, which is itself a subset of fundamentalist evangelicalism, and the nuances of observance make it tricky to estimate how many people adhere to its beliefs. What is certain is that tens of thousands of American families are withdrawing from the world, educating their children at home and living according to a literal interpretation of the Bible that stresses absolute submission to male authority.

“It is growing, and the reason it’s growing is that there’s a lot of fear among evangelicals right now,” says Garrison. “The more fearful evangelicals become, the more they retreat and start home schooling, and that is where they’re going to encounter Quiverfull ideals. Families are taught that getting into powerful institutions is part of their dominion mandate. They get internships at state level, get involved in political campaigns and in the justice system. That’s the whole point of having all these sons: to have an influence on policy and reclaim the country for God.”

Patrick Henry College, the headquarters of the conservative Christian Home School Legal Defence Association, sent more interns to the George Bush White House than any other institution. Republican Presidential front-runner Rick Perry has close ties to Vision Forum, through multi-millionaire campaign contributor Jim Leininger.

More Here 

Related: My Life as a Daughter in the Christian Patriarchy Movement

Why the Antichrist Matters in Politics

Jewel Grewe (founder of Discernment-Ministries) found this interesting (I agree) and posted it at her facebook page..

NYTimes

THE end is near — or so it seems to a segment of Christians aligned with the religious right. The global economic meltdown, numerous natural disasters and the threat of radical Islam have fueled a conviction among some evangelicals that these are the last days. While such beliefs might be dismissed as the rantings of a small but vocal minority, apocalyptic fears helped drive the antigovernment movements of the 1930s and ’40s and could help define the 2012 presidential campaign as well.

Christian apocalypticism has a long and varied history. Its most prevalent modern incarnation took shape a century ago, among the vast network of preachers, evangelists, Bible-college professors and publishers who established the fundamentalist movement. Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and independents, they shared a commitment to returning the Christian faith to its “fundamentals.”

Biblical criticism, the return of Jews to the Holy Land, evolutionary science and World War I convinced them that the second coming of Jesus was imminent. Basing their predictions on biblical prophecy, they identified signs, drawn especially from the books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation, that would foreshadow the arrival of the last days: the growth of strong central governments and the consolidation of independent nations into one superstate led by a seemingly benevolent leader promising world peace.

This leader would ultimately prove to be the Antichrist, who, after the so-called rapture of true saints to heaven, would lead humanity through a great tribulation culminating in the second coming and Armageddon. Conservative preachers, evangelists and media personalities of the 20th century, like Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, shared these beliefs.

Fundamentalists’ anticipation of a coming superstate pushed them to the political right. As the government grew in response to industrialization, fundamentalists concluded that the rapture was approaching. Their anxieties worsened in the 1930s with the rise of fascism. Obsessed with matching biblical prophecy with current events, they studied Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, each of whom seemed to foreshadow the Antichrist.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt troubled them as well. His consolidation of power across more than three terms in the White House, his efforts to undermine the autonomy of the Supreme Court, his dream of a global United Nations and especially his rapid expansion of the government confirmed what many fundamentalists had feared: the United States was lining up with Europe in preparation for a new world dictator.

As a result, prominent fundamentalists joined right-wing libertarians in their effort to undermine Roosevelt. That this mix of millennialism and activism seemed inconsistent — why work for reform if the world is destined for Armageddon? — never troubled them. They simply asserted that Jesus had called them to “occupy” until he returned (Luke 19:13). Like orthodox Marxists who challenge capitalism even though they say they believe it represents an inevitable step on the road to the socialist paradise, conservative Christians never let their conviction that the future is already written lead them to passivity.

The world in 2011 resembles the world of the 1930s in many respects. International turmoil and a prolonged economic downturn have fueled distrust of government, as has the rise of a new libertarianism represented in the explosive growth of the Tea Party.

For some evangelicals, President Obama is troubling. The specious theories about his place of birth, his internationalist tendencies, his measured support for Israel and his Nobel Peace Prize fit their long-held expectations about the Antichrist. So does his commitment to expanding the reach of government in areas like health care.

In 2008, the campaign of Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, presciently tapped into evangelicals’ apocalyptic fears by producing an ad, “The One,” that sarcastically heralded Mr. Obama as a messiah. Mr. McCain was onto something. Not since Roosevelt have we had a president of charisma and global popularity, who so perfectly fits the evangelicals’ Antichrist mold.

While Depression-era fundamentalists represented only a small voice among the anti-Roosevelt forces of the 1930s, evangelicals have grown ever savvier and now constitute one of the largest interest groups in the Republican Party. In the past, relatively responsible leaders like Mr. Graham, who worked with Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, and even Mr. Falwell, who reined in evangelical excess in exchange for access to the Reagan White House, channeled their evangelical energy. Not now.

A leadership vacuum exists on the evangelical right that some Republicans — Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and even Ron Paul — are exploiting. How tightly their strident anti-statism will connect with evangelical apocalypticism remains to be seen.

A new generation of evangelicals — well-versed in organizing but lacking moderating influences — is lining up behind hard-right anti-statists. While few of the faithful truly think that the president is the Antichrist, millions of voters, like their Depression-era predecessors, fear that the time is short. The sentiment that Mr. Obama is preparing the United States, as Roosevelt did, for the Antichrist’s global coalition is likely to grow.

Barring the rapture, Mrs. Bachmann or Mr. Perry could well ride the apocalyptic anti-statism of conservative Christians into the Oval Office.

Author: Matthew Avery Sutton, an associate professor of history at Washington State University, is the author of “Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America.”

Euthanasia by Roller Coaster

I kid you not. What a bizarre world we live in…

Want to enjoy the ride of your life along with the last ride of your life?

That’s what Julijonas Urbonas envisions with his Euthanasia Coaster. The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops.

The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the gravitational force — 10 Gs — from the spinning loops at 223 miles per hour in that single minute is lethal.

According to Urbonas,

(the) “Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely — with elegance and euphoria — take the life of a human being.”

Urbonas sees it as both an intellectual and artful departure from the world, one that isn’t about the paperwork and medical issues of the current euthanasia system.

How do you turn a rollercoaster ride into a “meaningful” death?

Urbonas has built in a long, slow trek to the top before the first fall. In fact, of the three-minute ride, two minutes are devoted to the climb. Urbonas writes:

“…The rider has a few minutes to contemplate his decision and his life in retrospect. He would find enough time to adapt to the height and get through a series of imaginary fatal falls, while realizing that the objects on the ground are getting smaller…The slightest movement of the car would trigger intense heart-beating and goosebumps and most importantly it would test your decision. Therefore the very top of the tower is an ideal place to give the very last word.”

More (with video) at Discovery News: Suicide by Roller Coaster

Company Offering Free AK-47s for People Opening New Accounts

 What can I say….

Do you happen to need an AK-47, as well as a company to process your credit card transactions? If so, that would make today your lucky day, strangely enough.

MerchantService.com — a Sarasota-based company that provides the equipment and processing for credit-card transactions in businesses — announced its “Free AK-47 Giveaway” yesterday, offering an AK-47 worth up to $750 for new accounts based on how much credit-card processing volume businesses put through the company.

Under the banner on its website that says “God, Guns & Guts” as part of the company’s “No Victims” campaign, the company is promoting its services to protect against robberies and such, and apparently assault rifles fit the bill:

One of the most important steps toward ensuring you and your businesses well being is deciding to not be a victim. According to a survey conducted by Professors James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi, 56% of the felons surveyed agreed that “A criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun;” With the all of violence and crime in the US there are many things merchants can do in order to protect themselves in the future. 

The website also uses a song that claims “I got rights” — not the Hank Williams Jr. “I’ve Got Rights” — and includes the lyrics “the Good Book says, I got rights.”

For the $750 AK, you’re going to need to open an account for 15 or more stores and do more than $1 million in volume. If you do less, the company still offers smaller payouts toward the purchase of your new assault rifle, down to $50 for one store and $100,000 in volume.

Source, Broward-Palm Beach

 

Tossed About Because of the Heresies and False Doctrines

Recently, ‘tossed about’ could be said to fit my own general mood. Or perhaps over-loaded is a better descriptive term. The author of all deception has his sights set on accomplishing one of two things; either trapping the saints within the tangled web of false doctrines and heretic beliefs, or wearing us out by the daily parade of heresies (and heretics) before our eyes, and blurring the line between true biblical Christianity and the worldly endeavors acted upon by those calling themselves ‘Christians’. Its enough to wear the strongest saint out! Of which I am not. 

Phil Johnson posted a good word of encouragement today, taken from a sermon by Spurgeon in 1887 titled “Earthquake but not Heartquake”. I pray it may encourage you as it did me…

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling.” Psalm 46:1-3

 I am often sadly tossed about because of the heresies and false doctrines of this present age. It grieves me to the heart to see the want of spirituality among ministers, and of holiness among professing Christians. It cuts me to the quick to see the utter rubbish and poison which is preached instead of Christianity.

At times it looks as if all things were going wrong; the men to whom one looked as pillars, forsake the faith, and the staunchest give way for the sake of peace.

We are apt to cry, “What will become of us?” But if God is our refuge and strength, we need not be afraid, even amid general apostasy. While God lives, truth is in the ascendant.

I remember years ago meeting with that blessed servant of God, the late Earl of Shaftesbury. He was at Mentone with a dying daughter, and he happened that day to be very much downcast, as, indeed, I have frequently seen him, and as, I am sorry to confess, he has also frequently seen me. That day he was particularly cast down about the general state of society. He thought that the powers of darkness in this country were having it all their own way, and that, before long, the worst elements of society would gain power, and trample out all virtue.

Looking up into his face, I said to him, “And is God dead? Do you believe that while God lives the devil will conquer him?”

He smiled, and we walked along by the Mediterranean communing together in a far more hopeful tone.

The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock. All long as the Lord liveth our hope lives also. Gospel truth will yet prevail, we shall live to see the old faith to the front again. The church, like Noah’s dove, will come back to her rest again.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised) Hebrews 10:23

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 35-37

Idiot Quote of the Day

Frequent Fox News contributor, Andrew Breitbart, speaking about liberals at a Massachusetts tea party event last Friday;

“I’m under attack all the time. They call me gay, there are death threats… There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should, and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first shot.’ Bring it on. Because I know who’s on our side. They can only win a rhetorical and propaganda war. They cannot win. We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns… I’m not kidding. They talk a mean game, but they will not cross that line because they know what they’re dealing with”

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THE COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIAN

Good message.. 

By Olabode Ososami (bio)

The first question you ask yourself is this: Is there any such thing as a counterfeit Christian in church and in the world? Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said there is, and right there in church.

It is not for me to go round looking for the counterfeit Christians in church but to look inwardly and ask myself: “Am I a counterfeit Christian? Have I truly experienced Christ? Is He alive in me at home, at work and in church?

It is not my neighbours that make me a true Christian. They are there to test whether I am really what I profess to be. My life as a Christian is to reveal the life of Christ to my world beginning with the people I live with at home each day from my spouse to the rest of my family and moving outwards to the place where I work and then to the church where I visit less frequently each week.

We must recognize that a lot of good can come from religious observance, without the knowledge of the true God and His Christ. Take the life journey of a fake currency. A fake $500 note may be used to buy bread to feed the hungry. The bread seller may then pass it to the rice seller and then to the meat seller and after a journey of twelve years it would finally arrive at the bank to be lodged by a car dealer. Then the bank subjects it to scrutiny and detects that it is a fake currency. Now the fact that it was and had always been a fake currency did not stop it from doing some good along the way. It might even have visited churches and done some good there too. But all that good could not change the fact that it is a fake currency posing to be what it is not. This is why supposed Christians could go far, but never far enough to prove the reality of Christ. Only the grace of God in Christ Jesus driven by the Spirit of God can empower us to stand up to the pressures of compromise with evil.

Counterfeit Christians may be hard to detect in church. We say here in Nigeria that every toad is squatting so it is difficult to say the one that has diarrhea. In church we all put on our very best behaviours and try to say the nicest things to the most difficult people. At work, we lose some of the constraints of church. At home where we may be king and queen, we tend to lose even more restraint. How often do very nice people at church and at work turn (to) monsters at home? How often do very nice people at church turn (to) monsters at work? Monsters are generally uncommon in church but not altogether rare.

Part of our self-examination as Christians must hinge on the word conversion or change.

The truth of our faith is that God put on human nature so that through faith the nature of God can be experienced by man. It is not just that we become children of God by faith. It is that through faith we begin to reveal the nature and character of God in our dealings with others in the world. Faith draws down the spiritual inner strength that drives the change. And this is the change that must be for us to be sure that we are no counterfeits.

A young Christian asked me the other day how one could change his way of life. My response was straight forward: The first step is a very strong desire to change. The Holy Spirit always works effectively where He can see very strong desire. When we study the Word of God with this quality desire, the life of Christ will stare us in the face as we study and the Spirit of God will empower us to effect the necessary changes like – unyielding love, humility, integrity, kindness, compassion, willingness to forgive others as well as ourselves, self-control, self-denial in the pursuit of righteousness, consistent rejection of compromises with evil, seasoned speech that edify the hearers at home, at work and in church, suffering for what is right and much more. Nobody can work these works of righteousness in their own strength. We all need daily, nay moment by moment inner strengthening by the Spirit of God to stand up for Christ in this world. The truth we must grasp is that Almighty God gave us eternal life in the person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Through the knowledge of Christ, this eternal life is expressed in this world through our lives. This is that eternal life which our Lord Jesus Christ described in these words:

John 17[3] And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

It is when my life reveals that I know God: when my dealings with others show forth the character of Christ, then I can be assured that I am no counterfeit. It is for this reason that we must make a difference wherever we are as Christians because we are expected to reveal the character of Christ no matter the cost. This is a daily challenge and that is why those who had gone before us admonished us in this way:

Genuine Christians know the daily struggle to keep on the straight and narrow road at home, at work and in church. Counterfeits tend to struggle in church to stay godly but lose all restraint at work and at home. If a nation that boasts that 50% of her population are Christians is not being transformed, then the churches in that nation must be full of counterfeits. This calls for deep self-examination. It poses a challenge to each Christian. We must know that God has called us into Christ so that the world around us can see Christ in us and through us. Every nation will change when a good percentage of its people are changed. I cannot control change outside of myself. My greatest challenge as a Christian is to be a changed person so that the world can see the nature of Christ in me and through me. If the world around me is not full of light, then it is either that I bear no light at all or that the light I carry is weak and faint and so cannot dispel the darkness around me. As Children of Light, let us rise and shine ever so brightly in every corner of our world – church, work or home, to the glory of our God. He who has called is very faithful and is a true and consistent rewarder of all those who love and serve Him. Our labours can never be in vain either in this world or in the world to come.

May the Holy Spirit empower you to take your place in the frontline of the struggle for righteousness in the very place where you are now, to the glory of God and His Christ, Amen.

CPost

Dominique

A Marriage Made in Heaven on Earth

A Political Parable by Dr. Orrel Steinkamp (Herescope)

“The Bride [of Christ] has combat boots on. I said, the Bride of Christ has combat boots on under her wedding dress. . . .” - Bill Hamon[2]

Political Perry has proposed marriage to Dominique (NAR & IHOP apostles and prophets) and she has accepted. Political Perry chose for his beloved from a fringe evangelical clan of descendants of the long-forgotten Pentecostal clan called “Latter-Rain.” Many among the various clans of evangelicals haven’t even heard about Dominique, or even the clan Latter Rain. But many evangelicals are just content to know that Dominique is from conservative stock and has no relatives among the liberals.

James Dobson leader of a conservative/evangelical political action group, greatly revered and known to all the evangelical clans, attended the engagement party in the Reliant Stadium. His presence sealed the deal for those who were not aware of Dominique’s family. His approval insured that this marriage partner was free of any abortion advocates and homosexual relatives.

In fact, many in the evangelical clan haven’t even heard of the clan called Latter Rain. They probably wonder about her name “Dominique.” But even though some of Dominique’s nearest family members call their leaders apostles and prophets and have plans to start a worldwide struggle to subdue the earth, they are perceived as better than the liberals and their leftist quest for a one world pagan order. So what’s to worry about with contemporary apostles and prophets and trips to the third heaven, etc.? The choice seems to be a no-brainer.

But is this marriage really a good match made in heaven? Does Political Perry come from a historic evangelical clan? Does he have the right pedigree? It does seem a little odd that 4 years ago political Perry endorsed Rudi Giuliani, the divorcee who espouses abortion and homosexual marriage. Furthermore, a few years earlier Political Perry was Al Gore’s national campaign chairman. Well, I guess he must be a recent convert.

Dominique has a lot to offer Political Perry to become the Republican nominee and become the leader of the free world. Dominique has in place a network of close relatives in every state, even down to the precinct level. Her more distant cousins and other evangelical clans can be counted on later in the national election. The prospective bridegroom is already making friends of Dominique’s closer political friends and extended family. He will be speaking at Liberty University shortly. The overriding goal for Dominique’s closest friends is the goal of saving America and moving into the White House. So they’ll do anything to help her.

But what about Dominique? She has family roots in the historic fringe Pentecostal clan Latter Rain. Dominque doesn’t seem to want to talk about her Latter Rain roots. Does Dominique love Political Perry for Perry himself? Will she be a good political wife? Or, does she have plans of her own that go beyond Political Perry? What does she want out of the marriage for herself? Will she be true to Perry as long as they both shall live?

Do Dominique’s distant evangelical clans and relatives really know much about Dominique? Maybe the evangelicals need to know a little more about Dominique. Could it be that Dominique looks upon the marriage as just a step up to goals that go much further than her fiancée? It appears she needs Political Perry at the moment, but does she have plans that go further than just a bedroom in the White House?

How could the evangelical clans discreetly check out this bride-in-waiting? It just so happens Dominique has kept a diary. She has written for years about her real future. That diary is not generally known. Recently some liberals suggested that the real reason for Dominique’s name comes from the term ‘dominionism.’ Dominique’s clan hastily disavowed any knowledge about the meaning of Dominique’s name. But here’s the catch—someone put all of Dominique’s diary on the Internet. If the evangelical clan gets curious about what Dominique’s real plans are for the marriage they can read her words. They just need to google it. It turns out the words of the diary are in clear plain English. But Dominique will do all she can to suppress this search.

Dominique and her wedding party have greater plans than achieving influence in the White House. That would be a great plus. But Dominique wants to go beyond America. She wants to use this for a global dominion kingdom. She wants to lead and rule the earth. Political Perry wants to be the leader of the free world. But Dominique wants to rule the earth in a consummated kingdom. The real King Jesus said My kingdom is not of this world. Dominique wants to suppress that saying of Jesus.

We need to browse Dominique’s diary to find out her real wedding plans. Dominique knows clearly what her name means even if almost all of America does not.

Let’s read a few excerpts from her diary: (click here)

Pat Robertson: Divorce Your Wife With Alzheimers

“The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?’ And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female,” and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.’ They said to Him, ‘Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?’ He said to them, ‘Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery’” (Mat. 19:3-9)

Cindy Jacobs: ‘The Response’ Broke The Curse Of Native American Cannibals

 O’ for goodness sakes! Do these folks ever stop? 

From RWW, 

As we’ve been reporting, self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs has dedicated her show God Knows to discussing how lands are cursed by sins like abortion, adultery and homosexuality, calling on Christians to literally take control over the weather and reverse the curse. In the fourth part of the series, Jacobs claims that lands are cursed with violence because they were previously inhabited by Native Americans who “did blood sacrifice” and “were cannibals and they ate people.”

This concept of curses left by Native Americans has a large foothold in the New Apostolic Reformation, and today Bruce Wilson reported that NAR figures Chuck Pierce, John Benefiel, Tom Schlueter and Jay Swallow recently participated in an event in Texas that involved “smashing of Native American art objects” in order to “divorce and tear down the principalities of Baal, Asherah and Leviathan.” Like Benefiel and Swallow, Jacobs was an official endorser of The Response.

Fortunately, Jacobs maintains, Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally in Houston broke the curse and “the land is starting to rejoice, you see, because of that prayer.” ( See article for corresponding links)

Evangelical Pastors heed political call for 2012

 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. You therefore must endure[a] hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.  No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 2 Timothy 2: 1-4

LATimes, Evangelical pastors heed a political calling for 2012

For most of his two decades as a preacher, Iowa pastor Mike Demastus eschewed partisanship, telling colleagues and congregants that “religion and politics don’t mix.”

But there he was last month in Ames, making his way across the festive grounds of the Republican presidential straw poll, mingling with political operatives and candidates as he spoke openly about his preference for Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.

He wasn’t alone. The straw poll drew a slew of previously apolitical Iowa pastors — a constituency increasingly heeding a call to speak out on politics.

“There is a concerted assault on everything that we consider sacred — and we pastors need to move to the forefront of the battle,” said Demastus, wearing a T-shirt and shorts for the Saturday event.

Demastus is part of a growing movement of evangelical pastors who are jumping into the electoral fray as never before, preaching political engagement from the pulpit as they mobilize for the 2012 election.

This new activism has substantial muscle behind it: a cadre of experienced Christian organizers and some of the conservative movement’s most generous donors, who are setting up technologically sophisticated operations to reach pastors and their congregations in battleground states.

The passion for politics stems from a collision of historic forces, including heightened local organizing around the issues of abortion and gay marriage and a view of the country’s debt as a moral crisis that violates biblical instruction. Another major factor: Both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Bachmann, contenders for the GOP nomination, are openly appealing to evangelical Christian voters…

“The Christian activist right is the largest, best-organized and, I believe, the most powerful force in American politics today,” said Rob Stein, a Democratic strategist who recently provided briefings on the constituency to wealthy donors on the left. “No other political group comes even close.”

“This is the congregational version of the ‘tea party,’” says Richard Land, president of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “Pastors who in the past would dodge my calls are calling me saying, ‘How can we be involved?’ “

The pastor movement is being guided and ministered to by a growing web of well-financed organizations that offer seminars, online tools and a battery of lawyers.

Tim Wildmon, who runs the American Family Assn., one of the most generous underwriters of Christian conservative activism, predicted that evangelicals in 2012 will match the fervency of the Ronald Reagan era — in large part because so many pastors are prodding their flocks to the polls.

“They’re going to be telling their parishioners to get registered and to make sure to go vote,” he said. “I think it’s huge.”

Boosting the movement are veteran figures such as Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition. His new organization, Faith & Freedom Coalition, is developing a list of Christian voters in key states, a tool it used to reach thousands of voters in Wisconsin’s recent recall elections. New players are even more ambitious. United in Purpose, financed by an anonymous group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, aims to register 5 million conservative Christians to vote. The organization boasts a sophisticated database that identifies millions of unregistered evangelical and born-again Christian voters around the country. Bill Dallas, the group’s chief executive, said pastors would be pivotal to its efforts,

“They’re the shepherds of the flock,” he said. “It’s a great mass media channel.”

Are they really shepherds over the flock?   

1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. 4 The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them. 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.”

7 ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 8 “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock”— 9 therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD! 10 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.”  Ezekiel 34

Wagner Admits NAR Presence At Perry Rally A Sign Of Its Growing Influence

Interesting…

During our coverage of the massive prayer rally organized by Gov. Rick Perry last month, one of the things we noticed was the large number of people associated with the New Apostolic Reformation who were involved in organizing, endorsing, or speaking at the event, including prominent NAR leader C. Peter Wagner.

Today, Voice of America posted a wide-ranging twenty minute interview with Wagner in which he discussed everything from Seven Mountains theology to spiritual warfare to the role of NAR in Perry’s prayer rally…..

Article and audio at RWW

Rodeo Angels and Doves

OK, sitting here thinking… sorry, I have nothing. 

Rodeo Angels are Being Released…’Tis the Season to Ride Broncos and Bulls 

Steve Shultz: This a prolific word by Bill Yount. You who are seers will appreciate it because it’s quite a visual one. You’ll be able to “picture it” so to speak.

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I (then) began to see many in the Body of Christ straddling wild broncos and bulls, fenced in by tight perimeters, but now couldn’t wait for their rodeo gate to open. I then heard a “rodeo” angel proclaim, “Hold on, you are in for the ride of your life…you will now ride with the One who rides a white horse!” I then saw this arena filling up with rodeo angels and a great cloud of witnesses standing in the grandstands of glory cheering God’s people on to overcome great odds that were stacked against them.

I sensed one rodeo angel saying to another, ”Heavenly ‘Super Bowls’ are coming to earth for God’s people. By facing their fears many will overcome the agony of defeat and will accomplish great exploits, as the world fills up the grandstands to watch the Glory of God come upon them.”  (Elijah List)

One more… 

Kim Clement: Starting from 2012 to 2013, for a Seven-Year Period, Everything’s Going to Move Upward  

Steve Shultz: God loves sending us signs. I’ve experienced many myself – including a visitation from a dove and even wild turkeys at my house. Kim Clement shares about some signs God has shown him too and for our nation.

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Now I’m going to share with you the vision or the revelation that God gave me. I actually captured it on film and the Lord spoke to me and said, “I forbid you to share this with anybody.” I showed my staff before that was told to me and they were absolutely amazed at what happened. Then I was toying with the idea of still sending it out and showing it on this program today, and so I went to sync my iPad, because that’s where I captured it in the garden, and everything crashed and I lost it all. So God was trying to tell me that this is very sacred – you can tell the people about it, but I do not want you to show it. I don’t know what the reason is, but I want you to know something, that that is why I’m telling you today what happened, and it’s about the seven-year period that is coming upon us. It’s absolutely incredible.  (So he claims God ‘forbids’ him to share it, but Clement ‘toys with the idea of still sending it out and showing it on (his) program?)  

I was in my garden; I was extremely burdened. I was burdened because I was looking at what is happening in this nation. I’m looking at even what is happening with this president and the leadership of this nation and I’m saying, “God, what is it that you want me to tell the people?” I did something that I very seldom do in the garden. I said to the Lord, “I want you to send me a dove.” Doves often come, but they never come into the garden – they’ve flown over, they’ve sat on the fence, but they’ve never come into my garden, specifically the way this happened. I know you’re going to love this. I said, “God, I want You to send me a dove into my garden, onto my pathway.” A lot of you have seen my pathway in my garden. It’s where I walk up and down and I make my declarations, where I pray for you, where I worship Him.

Then I said, “And I want You to send me a hummingbird; it must come right into my garden, right by me, because of the fragrances and the spices that come out of my garden when I praise and worship You.” I’ve always said, it’s like God comes in the garden, like the hummingbird looks for something sweet. I’ve just always said that; that’s my relationship with God, but I want you to understand so you get it.

So, I’m praying and I’m praying and I’m worshipping God, and suddenly I see this dove and it flies into my garden in front of me and turns around and walks down my garden. Now, I’m standing by the gate. In other words, I’m standing facing the pathway, as you’ve seen before. So I’m at the very entrance of it. I’m standing there, the dove comes in, it lands in front of me, turns its back on me, and walks down my pathway. Now, my team saw this.

Listen to this: God’s Spirit comes upon me and He says, “I’m speaking to you about America. I’m speaking to you about this nation. I’m speaking to you, and I’m going to send it over and over and over again, and this shall be a sign of what I’m going to do. For even as Noah sent out the dove…” Listen to me – that’s when the floods were subsiding, the waters were subsiding, remember? “…That was a sign that the judgment or the bad season had come to an end.” So God said to me, “The waters are subsiding. The waters of famine and all that’s been happening, they are subsiding right now,” and the dove is a sign that God has found a resting place, and He has found a resting place in this nation…

Listen to this – number two comes in. The second dove comes in, lands in front of me, fearless – turns around and walks ahead, down my pathway. This happened within a period of ten minutes – twelve times it flew in, in front of me, and got closer and closer and closer, and turned and walked down my pathway and flew out again – twelve times. The Spirit of the Lord came upon me again. He said, “I’m speaking about 2012 and 2013.” He spoke to me about this…

If your head hasn’t exploded yet you can click here to read more

Christian crusaders cash in: Jay Sekulow’s family, firm collect millions

Interesting article at the Tennessean

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A Tale Of Two Kingdoms

By Sandy Simpson, Deception In The Church

Be careful of those who teach about a “kingdom” that is not the same as what the Bible teaches.

There are two kingdoms being taught in many churches today. Teaching about one of the kingdoms is on the decline while the other is being promoted all over the place. I am warning Christians that they need to check out who is using the word “kingdom”, the books they have been reading and recommend on building “the kingdom”, the people they have been hanging out with at conferences, and what they mean by “the kingdom”.

Biblical Christians need to understand that many of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), Emergent Church, Church Growth, Word of Faith and other related movements are operating under a paradigm shift. Because of that when they use the word “kingdom” they do not have the same biblical concept of that word that biblical Christians do. Whether purposely or under the influence of the Zeitgeist, the “new breed” paradigm shifters use the word “kingdom” in order to lure people into their Dominionist/social gospel worldview. They know that most Christians love to hear about the “kingdom” so they act like they are talking to them in the unity of the Faith. But they are not.

This is an old trick of the false teachers and cults. They redefine certain words so that when they talk to biblical Christians they can sound like they are on the same page. For instance, the New Age cult called “Unity” did this years ago with many Christian terms and was able to lure in some people on that basis. Once you lure them in then you slowly brainwash them away from their former understanding of those terms into a new paradigm.

The first concept is called Kingdom “Kingdom Now (KN)” and the second we will call “Kingdom Come (KC)”. “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). KN claims this prayer is about Kingdom Now. Biblical Christians understand this is referring to the Kingdom being first established in the spirits of born again believers (Col. 1:13) and finally physically established in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ when He returns (1 Cor. 15:24), since the dominion over the earth currently has been temprarily given to the devil (Luke 4:5-8, Eph. 2:2).

1Jo 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

The KN people expect the Church to fulfill the “Lord’s Prayer” even though Jesus was not referring to the Church when He gave this example prayer to the disciples. This prayer is to be prayed to God the Father, not the Church. Jesus was primarily talking about KC, the physical Kingdom of Jesus Christ in the Millennium when He comes again, because establishment of the physical Kingdom on earth is impossible because it is against God’s will at this time.

KN theology has been around for a long time. Those who have been spreading KN basically represent a whole number of denominations and movements.

Keep a keen ear ready to distinguish between those who talk about the “kingdom” and what they are actually teaching, whether it is KN or KC.

There are many arguments by KN teachers that they try to use to convince people of their position, but ultimately all those arguments end up being either entirely unbiblical or they twist Scripture to try to prove their points.

One argument KN promoters make is that we are to be light and salt, therefore we must populate every aspect of life in order to accomplish KN/Social gospel. They say that Christians must take over every aspect of life … businesses, government, all leadership positions, etc. But this is not only not taught in the Bible, how to live as light and salt in a fallen world was also practically demonstrated by the first century Church in Rome. Here is an example of how the first century church were being light and salt to their generation.

The Romans, during that time, were becoming ever more immoral. Because of the proliferation of prostitution and adultery in Rome, there were a number of unwanted pregnancies. It became a practice for Romans to take their unwanted babies out to the rocks around the city and leave them there to die in the hot sun. What did the first century church in Rome do? Did they go to the authorities and protest? Did they try to get laws past to forbid this practice? Did they try to get people of the government on their side? Did they try to populate the government with Christians? Did they protest in the streets and form public prayer meetings to “divorce Nero”? Did they make claims that they would rid the land of this practice? Did they try to “overthrow” the government of Rome? No. They simply went out, got the babies off the rocks, took them home, nursed them back to health, and kept them as their own children.

Instead of addressing social amorality from the top, true Christians deal with the problem from the bottom because that is the only solution that actually works. They live in the law of Christ, which is love, by demonstrating that in a practical way, thereby influencing people to find out what makes Christians different. Ultimately the Gospel is demonstrated then taught and people get saved.

*Sandy (also) included an excellent chart comparing Kingdom Now to Kingdom Come.

A Tale Of Two Kingdoms

Israel Protests: 450,000 Hit The Streets In Country’s Largest Demonstrations

Over 450,000 Israelis hit the streets this weekend to protest the rising cost of living in the Mediterranean country. Demonstrations were held in cities across Israel, the biggest of the protests drawing 300,000 people in Tel Aviv. 50,000 protesters came out in Jerusalem. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the demonstrations were the biggest in the country’s history.

Israelis have been organizing the massive protests for six weeks, aimed at addressing a range of economic issues such as soaring housing prices and the rising costs of gas and food. In Haifa, people also protested discrimination against Arabs. Opinion polls suggest the demonstrations are supported by large segments of Israeli society.  PHOTOS HERE

From Haaretz,

The main protest took place in Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina, where some 300,000 people gathered after marching from Habima Square about two kilometers away. Protest leader Yonatan Levy said the atmosphere was like “a second Independence Day.”

Protest leaders Daphni Leef and National Student Union Chairman Itzik Shmuli both addressed the Tel Aviv crowd. “Mr. Prime Minister, the new Israelis have a dream and it is simple: to weave the story of our lives into Israel. We expect you to let us live in this country. The new Israelis will not give up. They demand change and will not stop until real solutions come,” Shmuli said.

Orna Banai told the crowd in the capital: “I am not amused that there are hungry children here; that we have a soldier rotting in captivity for five years; that Israel is one of the poorest examples there are of human rights.” The chairman of the Hebrew University Student Union, Itai Gotler, said: “We changed this summer. The voice of the mother, the teacher, the student, have been heard…The fire of protest was lit in Tel Aviv, but the tent city in Jerusalem shows that the protest belongs to all of us.”

In Haifa, the protest drew 40,000 people, many of whom waved red flags. The Haifa protest focused on the issue of discrimination against Arabs. Shahin Nasser, representative of the Wadi Nisnas protest tent in Haifa said: “Today we are changing the rules of the game. No more coexistence based on hummus and fava beans. What is happening here is true coexistence, when Arabs and Jews march together shoulder to shoulder calling for social justice and peace. We’ve had it. Bibi, go home. Steinitz, go and don’t come back, Atias, good-bye and good riddance,” he said, referring to the prime minister, the finance minister and the housing minister, respectively.

 

Indiana Pastor: ‘Saved’ Should Be Removed From Church Vocabulary?’

He also doesn’t care for the term, ‘born-again’. 

An Indiana megachurch pastor says he is annoyed at the word “saved,” especially when used among Christians to describe someone that has made a commitment to follow Jesus for the rest of their lives.

In one of his recent blog posts, Granger Community Church’s executive pastor, Tim Stevens, asked readers, “Does the Word ‘Saved’ Bother Anyone Else?” Stevens told The Christian Post that he also has a problem with the phrase “born again.” “I have similar hesitations with ‘born again’ probably because it’s also an insider term,” Stevens said….“I’ve recently noticed that I’m becoming more annoyed by the word ‘saved’ than ever before. (more at CPost)

I don’t know about you but born-again is the only terminology which comes close to what happened to me on November 2nd in 1980. That morning I was truly saved from a horrible life of sin and wonderfully BORN-AGAIN! 

Sadly this pastor cannot understand the significance (and power) of those terms because he apparently has never experienced them personally…    

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” – John 3:1-7)

 “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” – 1st Timothy 1:15

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” – Romans 10:13 

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” – 1st Peter 1:23

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” – Romans 1:16

“If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.” – Mark 8:38 

Rick Joyner: Muslims Are Capturing The Seven Mountains!

 Can’t say why, but the title had me laughing out-loud  

A few weeks ago we noted that Rick Joyner and Frank Gaffney had teamed up to fight Islam in America and said that we could probably expect to hear a lot from them as they moved forward on this joint effort. This week, the two have produced a special series for Joyner’s “Prophetic Perspective on Current Events” program seeking to highlight the dangers of Islam and “creeping Sharia” and “cultural jihad” and all the other right-wing buzzwords.

On yesterday’s program, Joyner again falsely stated that the word “Bolshevik” means “minority” – it doesn’t, it actually means “majority” – in order to demonstrate how a small group of ideologues can take over a country and to warn that the Muslim Brotherhood has been secretly gaining control over, of all things, the Seven Mountains: (Video and source, RWW)