In this quasi-Christian realm of changing paradigms, hirelings, and heretics, numerous terms are coming forth that most professing Christians do not understand. \u00a0There 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 \u201cdumbed down\u201d from the pulpit, they cannot even recognize when they are being slowly converted to the New Age Movement or Roman Catholicism. \u00a0They buy books such as, \u201cJesus Calling\u201d, \u201cOne Thousands Gifts\u201d, The Barbarian Way\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0It is as if the word wranglers have studied a political spin manual.\u00a0 They should know that \u201cspin\u201d is synonymous with \u201clie\u201d.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
For example of such word wrangling, I refer to an announcement by James MacDonald for one the earlier Resurgence<\/i> Conferences<\/i>. \u00a0One might wonder why I would bring up an event that occurred a couple of years ago. \u00a0It’s not the event itself, although it is questionable, but the verbiage that described its purpose. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0I bring it up because there is a pattern that I see employed by the invaders of Christianity. \u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n
MacDonald began by saying, \u201cThe Resurgence conference is not going to be another tribal gathering but a gathering of tribes, united by grace as one body in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n
First, it is an elementary truth that all true Christians are one Body in Christ. \u00a0Is there a need for a conference to explain that? \u00a0\u00a0Not unless the conferences is actually about meshing heresy with Christianity to produce a synthesis. \u00a0Second, I didn’t know that Christians were\/are a group of tribes or even that we had tribal gatherings in the past. \u00a0Where there is a tribe, there is a chieftain. \u00a0Since it is not likely that the tribes attended, he must have meant, \u201cnot another chieftain gathering, but a gathering of chieftains (One sort of sounds like the definition of the other.). \u00a0As goes the chieftains, so go the tribes. \u00a0Not a pretty picture, to say the least. \u00a0I’m glad that it is not a correct one about the true Body of Christ.<\/p>\n
Then he wrote, \u201cWe want to bring together different voices, traditions, and backgrounds to show that the most significant, life-changing, can\u2019t-miss, unifying theme of first importance for the church across all time, all countries, and all peoples is Jesus Christ.\u201d \u00a0He continued, \u201cThe conference will be an invitation to pastors, church leaders, and Christians everywhere to make it all about Jesus in life and in ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okay, so the conference is about teaching \u201ctribal chieftains\u201d and their \u201ctribes\u201d the elementary principle that Jesus Christ is the theme of Christianity. \u00a0Who else did they think was the theme that they would need such a revelation? \u00a0Mohammed? \u00a0Buddha? It also appears that the \u201cchieftains\u201d did not know what it was all about in their lives and ministries. \u00a0What did they come to the conference believing it is about? \u00a0Selling books? \u00a0Playing golf? \u00a0Maybe 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.<\/p>\n
MacDonald then asked the question, \u201cDo we continue living the lie that some things are \u201csacred\u201d while others are \u201csecular\u201d?<\/p>\n
I will respond that if one is living a lie, one has no moral authority to lead God’s people. \u00a0Such a one needs more than a conference. \u00a0He needs to repent and submit to the Holy Spirit for a life change. \u00a0However, it is not a lie to consider that some things are sacred while other ones are secular. \u00a0But I won’t explain that to people to whom it ought to be patently obvious.<\/p>\n
MacDonald concluded his announcement with the following, \u201cThe 2012 Resurgence Conference is an invitation to start thinking differently. \u00a0It 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\u2019s grace\u2026Because Jesus lives, we live for Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The need to begin thinking differently is an indictment of the individuals that he invited to the conference. \u00a0First, God already sent out this call over 2000 years ago to whosoever will bow in full surrender before Christ the Lord and Savior. \u00a0If they were not surrendered and did not know they had to be, then they must have been apostates. \u00a0I personally believe that some of the speakers and attendees were and remain apostates. \u00a0McDonald\u2019s ending clich\u00e9, \u201cBecause Jesus lives, we live for Jesus\u201d although true, is completely apparent to true Christians.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0Eventually, they will usher in the False Prophet. \u00a0Most of those events included many of the major heretics and hirelings that are dismantling Christianity. \u00a0The main speakers read like a \u201cWho’s Who in Heresy\u201d. \u00a0I doubt that anything constructive was accomplished.<\/p>\n
MacDonald used gobbledygook and pabulum to invite leaders to attend the conference. Gobbledygook is defined as, \u201cwordy and generally unintelligible jargon\u201d (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. \u00a0It manifests as speaking elementary things as if they were resounding from the depths of God’s wisdom. \u00a0Included in the announcement were a number of axiomatic elementary truths that would be tacitly assumed by even a new convert. \u00a0I honestly do not know of another word for that linguistic practice. \u00a0I believe the Apostle Paul had a couple of terms that seemed to fit (1 Corinthians 13:1). \u00a0If gobbledygook is the sounding brass, then clanging cymbal fits the other practice. \u00a0There are many examples that I could give of this practice from some of my professing Christian friends (some are perpetually nominal). \u00a0They 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. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0How does it qualify these heretics and hirelings as significant and relevant?<\/p>\n
I am increasingly concerned about the number of professing Christians that have no clue about the tragedy that is closing in on them. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0Word craftsmen are sliding nets over their minds and they don’t even realize it. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0When they are exposed, does it change anything? \u00a0No, not the deceived or the deceivers. \u00a0The deceived will not change because they are fearful of the whole truth and remain in a state of denial. \u00a0The deceivers realize that they do not have to change. \u00a0Nothing 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.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0The overthrow and conversion of Christianity into a one-world apostate religion that ushers in the Antichrist is imminent. \u00a0Clinging to a thread of hope in this situation is like being in a canoe with a busted paddle and a hurricane approaching. \u00a0There 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. \u00a0It is past time to wake up and focus on reality.<\/p>\n
Consider the follow true story.<\/p>\n
It all started with one self-destructive leap. \u00a0Shepherds 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. \u00a0When it was all over, the local Aksam newspaper reported that “450 of the sheep perished in a billowy, white pile.\u201d<\/i> \u00a0Those that jumped from the middle and end of the herd were saved as the pile became higher and the fall more cushioned.<\/i> (450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey, WashingtonPost.com, 7-8-05)<\/p>\n
A wise and godly man once wrote, \u201cWhen confused sheep start over a cliff the individual sheep can save himself only by separating from the. flock. \u00a0Perfect unity at such a time can only mean total destruction for all. \u00a0The wise sheep to save his own hide disaffiliates.\u201d (A. W. Tozer, God Tells the Man Who Cares;<\/i> chapter entitled, \u201cDivisions Are Not Always Bad.\u201d)<\/p>\n
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