The Gobbledygook of Heretics and Hirelings on a Mission

In this quasi-Christian realm of changing paradigms, hirelings, and heretics, numerous terms are coming forth that most professing Christians do not understand.  There is Emerging and Emergent Church, Contemplative Spirituality, Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Director, Labyrinths, Enneagrams, Breath Prayers, The Silence, Spiritual Direction, Centering prayer, Soaking Prayer, and etcetera. Since most Christians have been “dumbed down” from the pulpit, they cannot even recognize when they are being slowly converted to the New Age Movement or Roman Catholicism.  They buy books such as, “Jesus Calling”, “One Thousands Gifts”, The Barbarian Way”, or books written by Brian McLarean, Rob Bell, or Rick Warren, and do not know they are soaking in heresy that could bring them under great deception.

Further, there is a clever (and some not so clever) use of words to puff up conference, pulpit, and literary jargon so that it appears something truly special is occurring.  It is as if the word wranglers have studied a political spin manual.  They should know that “spin” is synonymous with “lie”.  These word wranglers have descended on Christianity with a mission. They intend to birth a new Christianity by destroying the old Christianity. The truth is that it will not be Christianity, but instead the religion of the Antichrist’s sidekick, the False Prophet.

For example of such word wrangling, I refer to an announcement by James MacDonald for one the earlier Resurgence Conferences.  One might wonder why I would bring up an event that occurred a couple of years ago.  It’s not the event itself, although it is questionable, but the verbiage that described its purpose.  The verbiage promotes an event about elementary principles as if it is a revelation from God, a tool in His hands, a necessary event for the restoration of Christian ministers.  I bring it up because there is a pattern that I see employed by the invaders of Christianity.  It needs to be exposed because it is being used by heretics/hirelings not only to sow deception, but to cover up their activities when they are exposed.

MacDonald began by saying, “The Resurgence conference is not going to be another tribal gathering but a gathering of tribes, united by grace as one body in Christ.”

First, it is an elementary truth that all true Christians are one Body in Christ.  Is there a need for a conference to explain that?   Not unless the conferences is actually about meshing heresy with Christianity to produce a synthesis.  Second, I didn’t know that Christians were/are a group of tribes or even that we had tribal gatherings in the past.  Where there is a tribe, there is a chieftain.  Since it is not likely that the tribes attended, he must have meant, “not another chieftain gathering, but a gathering of chieftains (One sort of sounds like the definition of the other.).  As goes the chieftains, so go the tribes.  Not a pretty picture, to say the least.  I’m glad that it is not a correct one about the true Body of Christ.

Then he wrote, “We want to bring together different voices, traditions, and backgrounds to show that the most significant, life-changing, can’t-miss, unifying theme of first importance for the church across all time, all countries, and all peoples is Jesus Christ.”  He continued, “The conference will be an invitation to pastors, church leaders, and Christians everywhere to make it all about Jesus in life and in ministry.”

Okay, so the conference is about teaching “tribal chieftains” and their “tribes” the elementary principle that Jesus Christ is the theme of Christianity.  Who else did they think was the theme that they would need such a revelation?  Mohammed?  Buddha? It also appears that the “chieftains” did not know what it was all about in their lives and ministries.  What did they come to the conference believing it is about?  Selling books?  Playing golf?  Maybe they came thinking it is all about them, which explains why they need a conference to explain Christianity and that Christians are one Body in Christ.

MacDonald then asked the question, “Do we continue living the lie that some things are “sacred” while others are “secular”?

I will respond that if one is living a lie, one has no moral authority to lead God’s people.  Such a one needs more than a conference.  He needs to repent and submit to the Holy Spirit for a life change.  However, it is not a lie to consider that some things are sacred while other ones are secular.  But I won’t explain that to people to whom it ought to be patently obvious.

MacDonald concluded his announcement with the following, “The 2012 Resurgence Conference is an invitation to start thinking differently.  It will be a call to every Christian to live all of life to the glory of Jesus and for the benefit of his kingdom, to say, by God’s grace…Because Jesus lives, we live for Jesus.”

The need to begin thinking differently is an indictment of the individuals that he invited to the conference.  First, God already sent out this call over 2000 years ago to whosoever will bow in full surrender before Christ the Lord and Savior.  If they were not surrendered and did not know they had to be, then they must have been apostates.  I personally believe that some of the speakers and attendees were and remain apostates.  McDonald’s ending cliché, “Because Jesus lives, we live for Jesus” although true, is completely apparent to true Christians.

It is obvious to me that the Resurgence Conference and the successive conferences are but a few of many events that are nothing more than conclaves to unify the entirety of Christianity in apostasy.  Eventually, they will usher in the False Prophet.  Most of those events included many of the major heretics and hirelings that are dismantling Christianity.  The main speakers read like a “Who’s Who in Heresy”.  I doubt that anything constructive was accomplished.

MacDonald used gobbledygook and pabulum to invite leaders to attend the conference. Gobbledygook is defined as, “wordy and generally unintelligible jargon” (Merriam-Webster). In the hireling and heretical sphere, it is religious gibberish, e.g. words concocted into nonsensical or elementary sentences usually to purvey the impression of wisdom, deepness, or perhaps a special revelation.  It manifests as speaking elementary things as if they were resounding from the depths of God’s wisdom.  Included in the announcement were a number of axiomatic elementary truths that would be tacitly assumed by even a new convert.  I honestly do not know of another word for that linguistic practice.  I believe the Apostle Paul had a couple of terms that seemed to fit (1 Corinthians 13:1).  If gobbledygook is the sounding brass, then clanging cymbal fits the other practice.  There are many examples that I could give of this practice from some of my professing Christian friends (some are perpetually nominal).  They post quotes on Facebook from America’s leading heretics (e.g. Joel Osteen) as if it were pure and rare gold from faith tried in fire.  I am not saying that the quotes have no truth in them, but that the truth is so elementary that it is like explaining to an adult what a table napkin is used for.  How does it qualify these heretics and hirelings as significant and relevant?

I am increasingly concerned about the number of professing Christians that have no clue about the tragedy that is closing in on them.  They are so distracted by the world system, and enamored with smooth words, and outward appearances, that discernment cannot function in them. Numerous ones are clinging to dead, defunct, or heretically metastasized denominations thinking things will get better when the opposite is obvious.  Word craftsmen are sliding nets over their minds and they don’t even realize it.  The state of affairs is so decrepit that blatant wickedness is committed by denominational leaders and they spin their way out of it with doublespeak and little or no consequences.  When they are exposed, does it change anything?  No, not the deceived or the deceivers.  The deceived will not change because they are fearful of the whole truth and remain in a state of denial.  The deceivers realize that they do not have to change.  Nothing is going to slow down their diabolical word machine, that is, until Christ appears. And they know the first part of that statement very well.

Some professing Christians are aware that evil is at the door, and I include ordained ministers. However, they are remaining in the defiled churches and denominations still clinging to a tiny thread of hope.  The overthrow and conversion of Christianity into a one-world apostate religion that ushers in the Antichrist is imminent.  Clinging to a thread of hope in this situation is like being in a canoe with a busted paddle and a hurricane approaching.  There is the captain of a nearby ship inviting them on board, but they are focused on the fact that they are still floating. Not for long.  It is past time to wake up and focus on reality.

Consider the follow true story.

It all started with one self-destructive leap.  Shepherds eating breakfast outside the town of Gevas, Turkey, were surprised to see a lone sheep jump off of a nearby cliff and fall to its death. They were stunned, however, when the rest of the nearly 1,500 sheep in the herd followed, each leaping off of the same cliff.  When it was all over, the local Aksam newspaper reported that “450 of the sheep perished in a billowy, white pile.”  Those that jumped from the middle and end of the herd were saved as the pile became higher and the fall more cushioned. (450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey, WashingtonPost.com, 7-8-05)

A wise and godly man once wrote, “When confused sheep start over a cliff the individual sheep can save himself only by separating from the. flock.  Perfect unity at such a time can only mean total destruction for all.  The wise sheep to save his own hide disaffiliates.” (A. W. Tozer, God Tells the Man Who Cares; chapter entitled, “Divisions Are Not Always Bad.”)