When the Early Church sealed the canon of the Scripture, Tertullian complained that the Holy Spirit had been “chased into a book.”  Consider how large and confusing the Bible would be today had they not made that decision.  Further, the compactness of the Bible has made it possible to study and know the nature of God, His Divine Order, and develop a standard by which the false and the true can be determined.

A simple rule when determining the truth or falseness of a statement or concept of God is, “Does it agree with the nature of God and Divine Order as expressed in God’s word?”  If it does not, then we should reject and discard it.  The same goes for signs and wonders.  We have God’s word and the Holy Spirit to direct us in determining what is true and what is a deception.   Can you imagine how discombobulated Christianity would be if Tertullian’s wishes had been followed?  Lying signs and wonders would be on the same “stage” as manifestations of God’s power and presented to the same crowd.  That only occurred once in the Scriptures, and that was when Moses faced off against the wizards and magicians of Pharaoh.

But wait, it is occurring anyway in spite of the word of God to guide us.  Why?  When we have the clear word of God, why are people accepting lying signs and wonders as valid manifestations of God?  Why are they obsessed with meetings where lying signs and wonders are manifested?   Why are people accepting demon spirits so that they can perform lying signs and wonders?  There is only one answer.  Obviously, they are rejecting God’s word or perverting it to validate evil.  They are also rejecting the Holy Spirit and submitting to a false “holy spirit”.

I was reading a Charisma Magazine article (for research) the other day about Cindy Jacobs, an incredible false prophetess.  (Charisma Magazine is a veritable caldron of the diabolical mixed with what appears as truth.  I rebuke it and everyone associated with it in the name of Jesus Christ.  May the Lord God reward them according to their works.)  In the comments section below the article, I read one individual’s response that agreed with Jacobs that everything was going to be okay in America.  The individual claimed Christ was going to come in 2065.  Someone asked how he or she could make such a claim since no one knows the day or hour.  The individual replied, “Because God told me several times.”

The clear truth is that Tertullian finally got his wish—the seal on God’s word has been violated.  It has now become a free-for-all, as false prophets and other diabolical individuals have cast off all restraints.  They have merged themselves in the folds of darkness that are just outside of God’s light.  They are led by emotions, imaginations, and some are captivating speakers.  Some of them have the same qualities as best-selling fiction writers.  They have breached the seal on God’s word to accept a flood of demonic prophecies, heresies, lying signs and wonders, and all deceivableness of unrighteousness.  Essentially, they have added to and are taking away from God’s word.  Some major heretics even go so far as to publish their own bibles with their words woven into the Scriptures.  As a result, they are tributaries for the polluted information that flows from the kingdom of Satan.

Charisma Magazine (and other literature), the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), churches such as Bethel Church, Redding California, television networks and programs such as God TV, Daystar, TBN, a hoard of false prophets and prophetesses, false teachers, New Age gurus such as Richard Foster and Ruth Haley Barton, “super-apostles” such as Rick Warren, etc., all operate outside the Bible.  They have insidiously pried apart its sacred pages and inserted incredibly diabolical material.  The result is a massive confusion of truth mingled with error.  This has initiated the great and final deception, delusion, and apostasy.

There is no doubt that this great departure from the time-honored acceptance of the sealed canon is conditioning people for the False Prophet and Antichrist.   There are groups, churches, organizations, and high-profile professing Christians that are at this very moment prepared for the demonic duo.  Their blend of truth and error has fermented to the extent that anyone imbibing it is made ready.  I have not been able to get through to even one of them with the truth.  Since truth is deemed to be in perpetual flux and subject to experiences and imaginations, there is no standard to hold up to them as a contrast to their error that they will accept.  Their standard is unconditional tolerance and acceptance of everyone and anything to the rejection of any godly truth and discernment and beyond.

At present, a huge portion of Christianity is as Chernobyl:  satanically contaminated.  It may not instantly kill someone, but will enter their spiritual system to slowly destroy them.  I am witnessing people entering this satanic waste in spite of many warnings and expose’s, because they are desperate to see signs and wonders.  I’m going to be blunt with my response.  In a deadly period which Christ, the Apostle Paul, and others prophesied would be identified by false Christians producing great lying signs and wonders, does it make good sense to be chasing after those things?  God will not compete with them.  Christ declared that a wicked and evil generation would seek after a sign, but the only sign they would receive would be the sign of the prophet Jonah.

“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” – Matthew 12:40

The most powerful supernatural sign that God manifested to this world remains manifested and will continue until the end of time.  That sign trumps all other supernatural signs.  It is of itself sufficient to satisfy anyone’s thirst for the supernatural.  If, in this time of great deception marked by lying signs and wonders, a person should decide that he or she needs those things, then that person is marginalizing the greatest sign.

People had better understand what this means.  The Antichrist will one day wrap his influence around the mass of deceived and delusional individuals, and they will never realize they are in his grasp.  They will believe they are at the point of Rapture.  They will believe they have met the godliest, most supernaturally imbued, individual that has ever lived.  Instead of trepidation and rejection, they will pledge full support.  It will occur because God’s word was violated with insidious heresies, and the standard thereby obscured.  As for me and my house, it is sola scriptura, sola fides, and solus Christus.

I read where several leading Christians, some theologians, declare that discernment is simply understanding the difference between right and wrong, truth and error.  That is not true.  It reduces a supernatural gift to a natural ability.  We have our natural senses for that and if properly exercised will make that determination in most matters.  However, Satan’s ministers appear as ministers of righteousness.  If one only relies on the natural senses, all indicators will lead him or her to believe the satanic minister is actually a minister of righteousness.

We are in a war with a supernatural being who has had over 6 thousand years to observe and experiment with human nature.  Satan’s deceptions are sometimes clearly obvious, and other times are imperceptible by the natural senses.

In this final great deception, delusion, and apostasy, the most damaging deceitfulness of Satan is impossible to detect by the natural senses.  Christ clearly expressed the power of the last day’s unrighteous deception.

 ^“For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” (Matthew 24:24)

For this intense deception, we need the gift of “discerning of spirits.” (1 Corinthians 12:10)  This gift is obviously not a natural ability, but one imparted by the Holy Spirit.  It is the ability to know beyond the skin of an individual who is deceptive.

People do not understand this gift.  Some reject it without consideration.  However, think of the consequences of ignoring it.

Because of the Internet and social media, people can watch videos, read posts and observe how Christians interact with each other.  They can copy the speech and little nuances to perfection.  They know what to post to attract Christians to “like” their pages, blogs, websites, or join their groups, etc.  Christ declares that evil doers would be so deceptive (as sheep in their appearance) that only by their fruit would you know them.

However, on the Internet one cannot see their faces or discern their spirits naturally.  I personally know a man who is on Christian social media whose grandson is also his son, if you can understand that.  He is one of the vilest and reprobate individuals I know.  Yet, I watched him join Christian groups, even be invited into the inner circle of a Christian music group, and fellowship with professing Christians without detection.  He can say exactly what professing Christians want to hear because he has had years of involvement in Christianity.  There is no hint of guilt in him, nor anything else that reveals him as a reprobate except his fruit.  That is hidden from everyone on the internet.

I have witnessed individuals who I know molested their daughters, and yet they rise to leadership in churches and their denominations.  We are witnessing pastors being outed for homosexuality, drug abuse, and affiliation with “Ashley Madison”.  Some of them (Ed Young) make no attempt to hide their salacious spirits.  Oher ones are outed (Eddie Long), but the people are already so deceived it does not matter to them.

People who constantly stir up discord among Christians, who consistently honor themselves, lauding their accomplishments, question every valid point of truth, and otherwise divert people from the path of the righteous, may be detectable naturally.  But what of the covert ones?  Only by the Holy Spirit’s gift of discernment can these people be detected before they drop their evil fruit.  Before that occurs, they may have so many gullible followers that it will not matter that they are exposed.

There are satanic people that have risen to prominence in Christianity.  They are so flagrantly evil that their shame is exalted as their glory.  Their many followers love to have it so.  That fact is indicative of how rotten Christianity the religion has become.  The rot is not being exposed on a national level.  There is only an appearance that it is being exposed.  I read articles published on the Internet that point out excesses and errors.  However, the same sites that publish those articles will publish false prophecies, heresies, promote false prophets and incredible heretics, and worse.

Charisma Magazine is a prime example.  They recently published a so-called prophetic vision about two rivers that was blatantly false.  At the bottom of the page was an ad for soft porn.  Clicking the link may lead to hard porn.  To the right of the page was another ad supporting an incredible false prophetess.  The magazine has the negative effect of deceiving people into believing that the evil invasion of Christianity is being properly dealt with.  Instead, it is being smoothed over like a bed with filthy sheets and bug-infested mattress covered by a clean quilt.  Bitter and sweet water cannot flow from the same fountain because the bitter will overwhelm the sweet.

I rebuke Charisma Magazine.  Any professing Christian that writes for it has compromised his or her calling and is contributing to the deception.  That goes for Dr. Michael Brown.

I had a vision not long ago.  I was a young boy again living in Oklahoma.  We lived beside a peach orchard and had a very large garden that we had planted with the landlord.  Mom sent me out one morning to pick a watermelon for lunch.  It was cool.  The dew soaked my feet.  It was cool, so I squeezed my toes together as I waded through the wet bermuda grass.

I spied a large hoosier melon in the distant, its dark green dewy back glistening in the morning sun, arched well above all the rest.  It was so large that I wondered if I could carry it.  I thought, “Mom will be happy about this one.”

The closer I got to it, the more excited I became.  I stood over it, admiring the size and perfect color.  I knew that it was ripe and could almost taste the sweet red heart, the juice running down my throat.  I reached down and cut it off of the vine, wrapped my arms around it, and began to lift.  I almost fell backward because it was so light.  Setting it back on the ground, I rolled it over to discover that some critter had beat me to the rich meat inside.  The melon had a significant hole in the side.  The skin had turned yellow and much of the meat was gone.  There was rottenness, insects crawling about, flies, and a stench of sour fruit.

At that point, the statement came into my mind, “This is what Christianity is in America.”  There is a shell that has the appearance of healthiness, its buildings with tall steeples and full parking lots on Sunday morning.  But within is rottenness and infestation of demons.  It has no power left to hold back the encroaching evil flood.  Its rottenness exceeds the point of restoration.  It is an apostasy that will usher in the False Prophet and Antichrist.

We are headed into a difficult period.  At some point, every true believer will be forced to withdraw from organized Christianity.  Either one withdraws, or one allows the rot to eat like cancer at his or her faith.  When the only voices of warning that remain are prophets, we will know that the death of the massive religion is imminent.  It’s gigantic shell inwardly rotten with heresy, compromise, hypocrisy, ecumenism, paganism, and blatant diabolical activities will collapse.  The true Christian had better not be caught inside when that occurs.  Out of its dead and stinking carcass will rise a demonic one-world religion more toxic than the world has ever known.  “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.”  “In your patience, you possess your souls.”