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There is one undeniable truth concerning the final and great deception and apostasy.\u00a0 <\/span>Millions of people first become cold, subsequently deceived, and consequently apostate.\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s word is clear that there is little hope of salvation for these individuals in their final state.\u00a0 <\/span>Paul declares that God will send them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie and be damned.\u00a0 <\/span>The reason for the delusion is because they refused to receive love for the truth.\u00a0 <\/span>At this very moment, millions of people not only have no love for truth, but they have developed love for falsehood.\u00a0 <\/span>I have observed congregations listening to incredible liars and the experience fills them with ecstasy.\u00a0 <\/span>They laugh, shout, and become nearly hysterical as the heretic plays them like a mad fiddler.\u00a0 <\/span>Further, they become angry at anyone attempting to tell them the truth.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In order to understand why so many people are succumbing to major heresies, one factor must be considered.\u00a0 <\/span>Surrendering to heresy actually induces pleasure.\u00a0 <\/span>The definition of pleasure is; a state of sensual gratification or indulgence; the state of feeling or being pleased; enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one’s liking;happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria.<\/em> \u00a0<\/span>This could identify ones mental and emotional state during and after a charismatic meeting by one of the leading heretics.\u00a0 <\/span>It can also identify ones mental condition after performing contemplative prayer or any of the other pagan practices that are presently invading Christianity.\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, if a professing Christian intends to base his or her judgment of a doctrine or practice solely on the fact that it brings him or her pleasure, then that individuals philosophy can be summed up as, \u201cif it feels good, do it\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>That is a dangerous philosophy for judging whether or not someone or something is of God.\u00a0 <\/span>For such people, all the validation they need to accept a heresy is sensationalism and a sprinkling of misinterpreted scriptures taken out of context.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n What is manifesting in meetings led by heretics is a strong inflaming of the fleshly spirit.\u00a0 <\/span>This fact becomes clear when one considers the manifestations of the Kundaleni spirit are observed in many of those meetings.\u00a0 <\/span>Some discerning individuals refer to the Kundalini spirit as a false Holy Spirit. Pleasure is poured into the emotional system by the demon spirit until the recipient reaches the state of ecstasy.\u00a0 <\/span>Ecstasy is the epitome of pleasure.\u00a0 <\/span>It occurs the moment tha pleasure completely saturates and overwhelms the emotional system.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Webster\u2019s Dictionary defnes ecstasy as, \u201ca<\/span> state of being beyond reason and self-control; a state of overwhelming emotion; especially<\/span> rapturous delight.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Many individuals that show up at charismatic meetings conducted by modern heretics are expecting ecstasy.\u00a0 <\/span>They shake their heads violently, thrash their bodies about on the floor, howl like animals, exhibit drunkenness, stagger about in uncontrollable laughter, and manifest other symptoms of demon possession.\u00a0 <\/span>They obviously are not feeling pain.\u00a0 <\/span>Further, they are not feeling depressed, sad, worry, fear, or any such angst.\u00a0 <\/span>What they are experiencing the greatest degree of pleasure\u2026ecstasy.<\/p>\n Pleasure is not a bad emotion.\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, God gives us pleasure in Him and in the things that He allows us to do and possess on this earth.\u00a0 <\/span>One of the verses that describe ecstasy in the Lord was written by Peter.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Though now you do not see Him,<\/i> yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, (1 Peter 1:8 NKJV)<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n However, many modern Christians have decided it is proper to get their pleasure and ecstasy from another source.\u00a0 <\/span>They are reluctant to drink from the fountain of God because it includes conditions that they are not willing to agree to.\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, they have turned to the broken cisterns of paganism and the world system.\u00a0 <\/span>There they can drink pleasure unto ecstasy without the conditions of being fully submitted to the lordship of God Almighty.<\/p>\n \u201cFor My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And<\/i> hewn themselves cisterns<\/span>\u2014broken<\/span> cisterns<\/span> that can hold no water. <\/b>Jeremiah 2:13<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n Satan found a respective mass of professing Christians when he began his last days trust of deception.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Most of them have a church background, but have probably never experienced pleasure (much less ecstasy) in a church meeting.\u00a0 <\/span>So dry and unspiritual are most churches that the joy of the Lord has long been absent.\u00a0 <\/span>They have no intention of returning to dry and unspiritual religion.\u00a0 <\/span>Additionally, under the tutelage of their ecstasy junkies, they will throw out much of the doctrine that they received while in the joyless churches.\u00a0 <\/span>It is not all bad doctrine.\u00a0 <\/span>It is simply doctrine that was delivered and\u00a0 possessed with little or no passion.<\/p>\n Consequentially, they are as addicted to ecstasy as a drug addict is addicted to crack cocaine.\u00a0 <\/span>I don’t believe it to be a stretch to compare the addiction to ecstasy as addiction to illicit drugs. \u00a0<\/span>One experiences ecstasy when smoking crack cocaine.\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, one of the most popular and addictive street drugs is called Ecstasy.\u00a0 <\/span>Just as there are dangerous consequences for addiction to illicit drugs, there are spiritually disastrous consequences from experimenting with ecstasy provided by heretics.\u00a0 <\/span>For one thing addiction is instant.\u00a0 <\/span>It is immediately followed by a soul binding and blinding deception. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Someone might accuse me of advocating stoic and austere Christianity void of all emotion.\u00a0 <\/span>Not true.\u00a0 <\/span>As I have previously stated, there is unbridled joy in the Lord.\u00a0 What I am pointing out the fact that one must have more and better criterion than emotion to judge the spiritual worthiness of a doctrine or practice. \u00a0<\/span>However, we live in a generation that has been raised on sensationalism from their first cartoon to the steady stream of drama, comedy, sports, and reality television programs.\u00a0 This thirst for sensationalism has spilled into the church.\u00a0 <\/span>No wonder that a complete charlatan can present sensational performances on YouTube, and a star is born (ala John Crowder) in modern Christianity.\u00a0 <\/span>Other heretics search the Internet for quotes and other information to plagiarize so that they appear to be deeply connected to God.\u00a0 <\/span>They mix truth with heresy, add their sensational antics, and it seems that most professing Christians have no clue.\u00a0 <\/span>As long as they can get their fix of ecstasy from the false Holy Spirit they are content to surrender their souls to the heretics.\u00a0 That source of ecstasy has no conditions, no requirement to live godly, and is a broken cistern contaminated with paganism. Sensationalism alone is a sure path to deception.\u00a0 <\/span>I have observed over 35 years of Christianity that most deceived people go from one heretic to another attempting to feed their thirst for sensationalism and addiction to ecstasy.\u00a0 <\/span>However, the pleasure of sin is only for a season.\u00a0 <\/span>Eventually, the season will to an end.\u00a0 <\/span>At that point many of them become disillusioned or bitter, and some will abandon Christianity altogether.\u00a0 <\/span>Other ones move on to another popular heretic or become involved in openly pagan religions.\u00a0 <\/span>What they all should realize is that the great endtimes deception is different.\u00a0 <\/span>Instead of becoming disillusioned or venturing into paganism, the deceived masses will be lured deeper into deception to the point of delusion.\u00a0 <\/span>Additionally, they will not have to leave Christianity to find paganism because the final deception is a blend of Christianity and paganism.\u00a0 <\/span>In my opinion, Contemplative Spirituality is the key to that blend.\u00a0 <\/span>Professing Christians who practice Contemplative Prayer are on the slippery slope to the great delusion. <\/span><\/p>\n We are in the final chapter of the long history of the world system.\u00a0 <\/span>Every discerning Christian knows very well that the final great deception and apostasy has now arrived.\u00a0 <\/span>Heretics are attempting to marginalize every warning with statements that make the watchmen and truth speakers appear to be naive, unspiritual, or judgmental.\u00a0 <\/span>They insist that the godly souls who are warning the masses are frivolous and ignorant individuals that are not enlightened or that have not been elevated to the higher dimension.\u00a0 <\/span>Individuals hooked on the ecstasy of deception do not need much justification to continue their indulgence.\u00a0 <\/span>The heretic will offer an occasional small nugget of truth and the deceived masses will hold it up triumphantly as if it is a compendium of validation for their supplier. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I must be honest and blunt here.\u00a0 <\/span>There is no substitute for God\u2019s word.\u00a0 <\/span>Being filled with the Holy Spirit is an essential deterrent to deception.\u00a0 <\/span>Being enamored by and obsessed with individuals that claim special status with God will lead to unhealthy dependency. \u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s all about God and not us.\u00a0 <\/span>Every true believer ought to have his or her own unmitigated relationship with God.\u00a0 <\/span>Drifting away from that truth is a dangerous mistake in this day of many demons and dark schemes.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is one undeniable truth concerning the final and great deception and apostasy.\u00a0 Millions of people first become cold, subsequently deceived, and consequently apostate.\u00a0 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