I was standing in the checkout line and saw a magazine with a famous actor on the cover. Underneath his pic was the quote, \u201cI love the American spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t. The reason is that the American spirit he demonstrates by his words and actions is demonic. The American spirit protects animals and murders babies. It hates godliness and celebrates perverseness. It loves lies and hates the truth, exalts wrong, and attempts to outlaw right. The American spirit is on Satan\u2019s side of every issue, secular or religious.<\/p>\n
But the misguided actor and those of his ilk are not the only lovers of the American spirit. It is essential to expose popular Christians, blind guides, for their support of the \u201cAmerican Spirit.\u201dFor decades Christianity has been loading with hirelings, heretics, and other charlatans. The religion is now heavily populated by professing Christians that are not indwelled by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, a great number of them also believe in and accept the American spirit to occupy their empty souls. Make no mistake about it\u2014Christianity is NOT the Church, which is the Body of Christ and members in particular.<\/p>\n
Consequently, a great mixture of New Age paganism, vain doctrines and tradition now sacrosanct, heresies, and just plain nonsense, intrigues individuals that eagerly consume everything but truth. The majority of them are on the path to apostasy and many have passed through its doorway. It is no surprise that they have incorporated the American spirit into Christianity via music for entertainment and \u201cworship.\u201d<\/p>\n
The religious lovers of the American spirit insist on the \u201csocial gospel,\u201d on peace and unity at the expense of truth, and seeks favor with their secular alter egos. They cannot recognize the spirits that are drawn by their compromise. Thus, they reject warnings and corrections and have ignored all the signs that they are courting deception.<\/p>\n
In their opinions, truth is too blunt, too lacking in love, too negative, and makes Christianity too difficult, and prevents conformity to the American spirit. A biblically-based lifestyle would separate them from the activities that they enjoy. And they are constantly reminded by their beloved hirelings and heretics that they are supposed to enjoy life to the limit.<\/p>\n
Thus, they are joined in spirit with the actor and his like-minded associates. Wittingly or unwittingly, they have embraced the motto, \u201cIf it feels good\u2014do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The logical conclusion that carnal logic is revealed in Oprah Winfrey\u2019s statement about sexual abuse. Winfrey told her audience, “If the abuser is any good . . . molestation feels great.” (Washington Post)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the American Spirit. However, millions of professing Christians watch Winfrey\u2019s program. Famous hirelings, such as Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes, flagrantly assisted Winfrey\u2019s New Age thrust into Christianity. Such blind leaders have led so many blind professing Christians into the ditch of compromise that Christianity is no longer the term genuine Christ-followers wish to identify with.<\/p>\n
There are many examples, but here are a couple. Denominational leaders, such as Russell Moore and J. D. Greear, appear to love the American spirit. Greear, as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention, declared that the church needs to apologize to homosexuals for not being their advocate.<\/p>\n
How about reveal their sin and need to repent before they enter eternity and experience the second death? The American spirit calls that homophobia\u2014a word contrived by Christophobic individuals. Genuine Christ-followers do not hate or fear anyone that is falling toward eternal torment. The ones that truly hate them refuse to tell them the truth.<\/p>\n
Long-time Democrat Moore invited Hillary Clinton, the embodiment of the American spirit, to address an Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission forum in 2015. When asked about the appropriateness of the term \u201cgay Christian,\u201d Moore responded, \u201cOur identity is to be found in Jesus Christ, not in the sum of our temptations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Really? If the sum of our temptations become the practice of them, we have no identity in Christ.<\/p>\n
Those leaders cannot recognize clear and flagrant evil and cannot recognize the warning signals that they are entering or have entered great apostasy. They support the false persona of the American spirit as a kind, benevolent, loving, accepting, and promote its false promise of peace and unity and a perfect society. The result will be the combined Humanist and Communist Manifestos with religious compromises, such as presented in the book, \u201cThe Time has Come,\u201d by Episcopal Bishop John Spong.<\/p>\n
They do not realize that they are giving victory to Satan. They are too cowardly to resist and too deceived to care. They are not embarrassed by their compromise because their consciences are seared.<\/p>\n
Blind to the signs that disaster is coming like a great dust storm, their deceived followers are still planning for the future, trusting in their 401-Ks, and going into deep debt to buy new homes. They may be miffed by the Government\u2019s impositions on their freedom, but with no lasting alarm or the cognizance that extremely wicked people desolate of moral constraints will rule our nation.<\/p>\n
They are still buying frivolous religious books full of gushing sentimentalism and barren of food for the soul. Emotionalism is their primary standard for determining a relationship with God. They are empty, spiritually bankrupt, and bereft of the ability to understand the ramifications of their departure from the faith. Long ago deafened to the Holy Spirit, they make no significant effort to commune with God. (When one no longer senses the presence of the Holy Spirit, he or she will pray a river of tears until their soul trembles with His presence\u2014or cease praying altogether.)<\/p>\n
All they have left is a meager moral base\u2014and that compromised by the pragmatism of situational ethics. They fail to realize what a very shaky and precarious situation it all presents. They do not recognize the precursors of the coming satanic world dominion. Men masquerading as deities will be \u201cgods\u201d of united secular society and religion.<\/p>\n
Consequently, they will eventually be convinced that individuals who refuse to bow to the Beast stand in the way of completing a (diabolical) utopia. The truth will come hard and fast when Christ appears and explodes their fantasy world with the sword of His mouth and brightness of His Coming.<\/p>\n
I am compelled to warn professing Christians that the notion that God would never allow His people to suffer brutal persecution is a deceptive fantasy. Proponents of escapism insist that believing otherwise is to accuse Christ of beating His Bride before He brings her home. Do they not realize that genuine Believers are being martyred in most of the world today. Either they are falsely accusing Christ of beating His bride, or the ones that are being martyred are not genuine Believers. How can weak, pampered, unfruitful, religious, compromised, American Christians designate people as false Believers that choose death rather than deny Christ?<\/p>\n
I realize that people do not wish to hear this truth, but they need to realize that they are being blinded and robbed by falsehoods. Brutal persecution by antichrists is already spreading across the world. Please consider the following statement.<\/p>\n
\u201dMartyrdom is a regular, ongoing feature of church life in the 25 percent of global Christianity that we call the \u2018underground church\u2019,\u201d claims David Barrett of the World Evangelization Research Center. \u201cIn one part of the globe, over 10,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1950, due to clashes with anti-Christian mobs, infuriated relatives, state-organized death squads, and so on.\u201d (James Reapsome, Persecuted Christians Today, Christianity Today, issue 27, \u201cPersecution in the Early Church,\u201d 1990)<\/p>\n
Instead of multiple millions of professing Christians being swept up from their religious comfort zones seconds before unprecedented persecution against Christians erupts across the world, they will be confronted with the crushingly brutal reality that they believed a great deception. Revelation makes it clear that the Believers martyred during the Tribulation are most honored in eternity (Revelation 7:9-17 & 20:4)<\/p>\n
The American Spirit is the sordid spirits of darkness merged with the apostate Religious spirits. Their paths have been pointed toward convergence for years. They have the same source and purpose\u2014one world, secular and religious, with perfect peace and unity and freedom from moral restraints. The American spirit will deceive billions of people. They will not realize that they are in the Tribulation Period even when the supernatural events arrive. How can they know with widespread deception so clever it has the potential to deceive the very elect?<\/p>\n
Warnings do not appear to affect potential captives of the dark kingdom. It is like their house is on fire and the family sits in the living room eating popcorn and watching Netflix. Apathy is the roof and walls of their comfort zones.<\/p>\n
Wake up, O sleepers! God will give light to everyone willing to seek it. But to continue in darkness and deception is to eventually reach the point where that path ends as it has always ended\u2014in destruction and eternal darkness!<\/p>\n
Deception is fatal! Only truth can set one free! There is a very harsh time coming!<\/p>\n
I read a statement that pointed out there were people in every generation that was certain the end was near. That may be correct, but the word of God cannot lie. Upon some generation(s) the end is certain to come. It will come when people least expect it, which denotes great deception. It will not begin with sudden destruction, but with extremely clever and alluring deception. (The phrase, \u201csudden destruction\u201d in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 refers to the wrath of God that occurs immediately following the Second Coming of Christ. Correct hermeneutics do not allow for any other interpretation.)<\/p>\n
Christ told His disciples that when they saw certain things come to pass that the end was near. We are witnessing those things in ways that no other generation could witness. There is now great apostasy and deception world-wide. Because of advanced technology the entire world can now come under one leader. Religion can now come under one leader. Everyone on earth can be required to have an identification mark. The great persecution of Christians in other nations can spill over into every nation\u2014including ours.<\/p>\n
There are too many things to list, but I think that the ones who pray and keep their eyes and ears open to the Holy Spirit know exactly what I am referring to. (Even if it does not arrive in my lifetime, no one is harmed by my warning.)<\/p>\n
Reverential fear of God is essential, but we must not rely solely on fear to remain faithful. The desensitizing of people from the cradle to grave by gory movies, video games, et cetera, is diminishing fear. In fact, for the most part, fear has already ceased to be a motivating factor to repent.<\/p>\n
We have to desire Him as God in our lives more than anything else and do whatever it takes to maintain a relationship with Him. Each person has to make his or her decision about how to do that. The fact is, one day there will be no more churches, no more sermons, and few people to fellowship with that love God and Christ. We are nearly there. If it is not the end time, the result will be the same if we are overcome by the world and its American spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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