The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) isn’t just fighting a battle over women pastors, though this is the issue that will be front and center at the 2024 annual meeting in June. The reality is that the SBC is facing full-on apostasy from every angle, from women pastors to Critical Race Theory to homosexuality. While the Bible is certainly clear on all of these issues, the one being most overlooked is the subtle embrace of homosexuality within the ranks of Southern Baptist churches, yet, it is the one that will cause the most damage.
It started in 2016 after a mass shooter gunned down dozens at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL, one of the nation’s largest Southern Baptist Churches exposed itself as an undeniably compromised congregation with pastors who aren’t fit to lead. That church is First Baptist Church Orlando (FBCO) which is pastored by lead pastor, David Uth and associate pastor, Danny DeArmas.
Following the nightclub shooting, FBCO hosted an ecumenical event whereby they gave the stage not only to false teachers but to LGBTQ activists to blaspheme God. This was done with no apologies, no corrections, and no second thoughts.
During that event, Larry Mills, Pastor of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, was allowed to take the stage and apply the name “head cornerstone,”—a title reserved for Jesus Christ—and apply it to the LGBTQ “community” referring to them as the “head cornerstone.”
But it didn’t end there. One year later, in 2017, FBCO began inviting “gay Christian” leaders from the Revoice movement to speak at the church.
Revoice is the “gay Christian” movement that has been largely condemned by conservative Evangelicals and even condemned by more moderates including Al Mohler. Revoice is led by openly gay but “celibate” men who claim to be Christians but whose sexual orientation is not (and cannot be) changed. This movement, led by people like Nate Collins and Preston Sprinkle, advocate for acceptance and inclusion of homosexuals in the ranks of Christianity and those who choose to remain single (from the opposite sex) should form close, intimate, marriage-like relationships with people of the same sex with the exception that the abstain from intercourse.
“Augustine is so wholly within me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings.” John Calvin https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.v.xxiv.html I can certainly understand the need to teach what Augustine taught, like you would teach what Darwin taught and what Evolution teaches, and what Karl Marx taught regarding Socialism, but you would do so to expose and mark them, not promote them. So I would think that Conservative Christian and Baptist seminaries and Baptist Church denominations would be the last people on earth to promote Augustine. So I can’t help but ask if pastors and professors ever told their members and students the rest of the story about Augustine, in obedience to the Apostle Paul that commanded us to “expose the deeds of darkness,” not conceal them, as follows:
The Roman Catholic Church considers him one the Four Ecumenical Doctors and Founding Fathers of Roman Catholicism
Augustine himself stated that if it were not for CATHOLICISM he would not have found the Gospel. He was either a Founding Father, or Collaborator, and/or Co-Conspirator of these Doctrine of Demons and Seducing Spirits:
Allegorical (Subjective) vs. Literal (Objective) meaning of Scripture, particularly Creation Week in Genesis. See my article: Does God Expect Man to be able to Tell Time http://nwcreation.net/articles/theageofearth.html Also exposes Dr. Hugh Ross who promotes Augustine “It not infrequently happens that something about the earth…may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of
obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation.” Augustine of Hippo SOURCE: The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1:19–20, Chapt. 19 [AD 408] 4 Defied the warning of the Apostle Peter with his private interpretation of Scripture and subjective eisegesis: “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” 2 Peter 1:20.
Purgatory and Works Salvation and Sanctification, which is the Doctrine of Non-Justification by Faith Alone, and thereby defying Christ’s own word on the Cross by teaching “It is Unfinished” (but rather finished in this life and the life to come). Augustine could have prevented Indulgences from ever gaining traction in Roman Catholicism by renouncing Purgatory as a myth, so that there would never have been a place to spring saints from. The Apostles Paul and Peter renounced myths and fables, Augustine promoted them. We would all be well to take Paul and Peter’s advice. But what happens is a host of pastors would even say they oppose Augustine, yet continue to promote myriads of his teachings. The Bible calls this “double-minded…unstable in all their ways.” James 1:8. In modern vernacular we call this “waffling.” They might even agree with this list of reasons why Augustine was not a saint, but then claim he was “saved” (how could he be saved by becoming a Roman Catholic), “a good theologian” and “we are Augustinian?” See this article: Can a Roman Catholic be Saved?: https://carm.org/are-roman-catholics-christian. One Baptist pastor who taught at Baptist Seminary who said these very words also insisted on diminishing the Old Testament, with particular contempt for the Book of Numbers and Leviticus. Yet this same pastor pushes tithing from the pulpit and weekly cites Malachi 10:3 regarding tithing. But these books clearly spell out why tithing can’t be a Christian Doctrine. Had he properly taught these Books of the Bible, the church members would be properly equipped. Also see: Blasphemy of Purgatory http://thesewordsmin.blogspot.com/2011/10/blasphemy-of-purgatory.html Augustine perverted Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement: “Does this mean then that his Son was already so reconciled to us that he was even prepared to die for us, while the Father was still so angry with us that unless the Son died for us he would not be reconciled to us?… Would
the Father have not spared his own Son but handed him over for us, if he had not already been reconciled? … I observe that the Father loved us not merely before the Son died for us, but before he founded the world…” Augustine, xiii [of De Trinitate] And even if one were to fully concede that Augustine published a statement that was clear that he believed that Christ died to appease his Father’s wrath, etc., because he also believed in Purgatory, as did C.S. Lewis, this would nullify PSA, because it would no longer be “it is finished” because we have to finish it in Purgatory, at least those who couldn’t first make it to Heaven, according to this nefarious teaching. At least C. S. Lewis was consistent re Penal Substitutionary Atonement, because the insufficiency of the Blood of Christ in this life and the life to come (Purgatory), so that the balance of our sentence would have to be paid by us. Many Protestants and Evangelicals were led to convert to Roman Catholicism because of C.S. Lewis and his writings. See these links for evidence: Catholic Sources: C. S. Lewis and Catholic Converts http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2724/cs_lewis_and_catholic _converts.aspx and My Path to Rome
I personally knew someone who attributed their conversion from being an Evangelical to Roman Catholicism in great part to C. S. Lewis.
Millennialism, Amillennialism, and Dominionism Augustine taught that there is no literal thousand year period reign of Christ on the earth when he returns, contrary to Scripture. He was originally Premillennial but retracted this view as being “carnal.” In fact, Augustine systematized Millennialism in the 4 th Century.
See Leonard Verduin’s books exposing Augustine, the Father of Dominionism: The Anatomy of a Hybrid The Reformers and Their Stepchildren I searched for months to find books opposing Augustine’s teachings and couldn’t find any authors except defenders of him. So I want to thank and honor with a special thanks to Sarah Leslie, researcher and Director of: h ttp://christianresearchnetwork.org/author/sarah-h-leslie/ for leading me to this source. I am so glad someone in the last hundred years told the whole truth about him!
Apostolic Succession…if this is true, then signs and wonders couldn’t end or cease. This would nullify or make the Reformation impossible, Apostolic Succession is alone the domain and teaching of Roman Catholicism! As anyone who is canonized as a saint in Roman Catholicism must have performed two miracles. It takes one miracle to be beatified. But Baptists and many Conservative Christians believe sign gifts ended with the Apostles. So then why are there so many Baptists Augustinians??
Replacement Theology (aka Supersessonism) In keeping with his allegorical systematized theology, Israel is now the Church, therefore, the Promised Land does not go to the Jews in his view. Michael Youssef exalts Augustine’s City of God as being the Church, as to a host of those embracing Replacement Theology. No the City of God is Jerusalem! You can’t restore what never existed! The Church never existed until Pentecost and once launched it will never be destroyed to have to be restored! The Church was never exiled by God in judgment, will not be brought back from captivity, as Ezekiel made crystal clear! If Augustine’s City of God is the Church, I would hate to think what the City of Satan is! If you reject the literal City of God then you have to reject the Resurrection as Eric Douma made clear in one of his 10 Megaton Sermon: The Attempt to Destroy Israel Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxF3kgIvD5g What just struck upon hearing Andy Wood’s sermon on Identity of Michael and who is the Restrainer was that if Michael is defending Israel (which he is) but If Israel is now the Church which Alan Kurschner, Amillennialists, Post Millennialists and 80+ percent of all Christian denominations believe that Israel is replaced by the Church then by logical deduction, then Michael is defending and protecting the Church throughout the Church age and in many realms up to 3/4 of the Tribulation.
Coercive Torture and Terrorism Augustine weaponized Christianity and systematized and institutionalized torture in the Name of Jesus. His Convert-or-die Christianity paved the way for the Inquisition, persecution and martyrdom of the tens of millions of true saints, massacring the Parable of the Wheat and Tares in Matthew Chapter 13. Had Augustine taken the opposite stance, i.e., the biblical stance, there may not have been the roots planted that eventually led to the Crusaders rounding up Jews, herding them into synagogues, locking the doors, and burning them to the ground, and what the Conquistadors did in Central and South America in the 16th Century. If I were the Donatists, I would feel safer with Freddy Kruger, the legendary horror movie villain, than Augustine. But Freddy Kruger was an imaginary figure…the horrors toward saints at the hands of Augustine were real…a pastor from Hell….totally disqualified as an elder or minister of righteousness. In fact, he never met the biblical qualifications to be an elder in the first place. The Apostle Paul persecuted Christians too, but that was BEFORE he was a Christian. In his own right, Augustine was a terrorist, torturer, and persecutor of Christians, and planted the seeds and fertilizer for the infrastructure for millions of martyrs, laying the ground work for and supplying the blueprints to John Calvin a thousand years later and the Holocaust four hundred years after that. True Christians should run for their lives from Augustinians, certainly not make one of them their pastor. With pastors like this, who needs enemies? And how ironic, that Augustine taught that “wrong have no rights.” Therefore, since his teachings are chalked full of wrong heresies, he is indicted by his own testimony. He believed that coercion using “great violence” was biblically justified against fellow Christians…all in the name of love. And where in Augustine’s Confessions do you find a single confession and repentance for inciting and systematizing the torture of Christian saints? So torturing saints in Purgatory who don’t make it to Heaven, without Purgatory, is not enough for Augustine, he taught torturing while they were still on earth too? And what could top what the Catholic Church Crusades did for torture and Antisemitism then rounding up the Jews in Israel, herding them into synagogues, locking the doors, then burning them to the ground, mirrored by and forming the foundation, the blueprints, and justification for the Holocaust! However, I should clarify that Roman Catholicism believes that even you have to go to Purgatory, everyone that goes there would still eventually make it to Heaven. This means that eventually it would be empty, though it might take millions of years. But where is the accounting ledger in Augustine’s book of all the restitution he made to all of the saints he tortured and published that they should be tortured? John the Baptist taught the necessity of making restitution to those who were defrauded, and Zacchaeus even proposed increasing the amount of restitution to victims to four times the amount he defrauded them. So were Augustine here today would he make restitution to all his victims suffering from Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder from what he did to them? Where is the “God of ALL comfort” that Paul taught for them? How about restitution for all of the false teachings he promulgated? To say nothing about what all of the tithing money went for to promote a false religion. Augustine claims to find his doctrine and justification for harassing, stalking, and persecuting Christians from Scripture. Augustine turned the healthy tissue of church discipline given to us in Scripture into a metastasized form of Spiritual Melanoma Cancer. So where did the Apostle Paul ONCE persecute, torture, believers or unbelievers in the New Testament? Where did he once prescribe retaliation or use violence against even the Judaizers and Pharisees, even though he was repeatedly beaten, flogged, tortured, and imprisoned by them? The Apostle Paul ultimately twice eternally cursed and damned them for Eternity, but did not physically abuse them in any way in this life. But did that only once! The death penalty was decreed for any one who practiced re-baptism…It is a fact recognized by many recent historians, that the persecution of the Anabaptists surpassed in severity the persecution of the early Christians by pagan Rome (“Mennonites in Europe,” by John Horsch, p. 300). They were burned alive and turned over to wild animals to be devoured, and in some case given a third baptism of drowning. Augustine In Defense of Torturing Heretics: From Conversion to Coercion http://egregores.blogspot.com/2010/10/augustine-in-defense-of-torturing.html Here is a video depicting Roman Catholic Torture Techniques against heretics, originally inspired by Augustine (incredible): Roman Catholic Satanic Torture Methods! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI13wMpvj3s I am utterly astonished at the number of even Conservative Christian Denominations, pastors, professors, authors, seminaries and Christian colleges who exalt Augustine virtually to the Stratosphere as a theologian and pastor of pastors, particularly in America. Augustine’s persecution of Christians paved the way and established the infrastructure for torture which was perfected by Loyola in the Inquisition…victims ultimately in the tens of millions. King James in England took the mantle and baton from Augustine and Loyola for the Anglican Church, resulting in the fleeing of Puritans and Pilgrims and an avalanche of other Christian refugees in England and the rest of Europe. And Calvin took his baton to Geneva, Switzerland. American was founded on fleeing from terrorists that had merged Church and State. In fact, the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights was created to prevent Augustine’s antithesis of Freedom of Religion. The Bill of Rights was created to prevent Augustinian types, with a path for redress
should any control freak ever attempt or succeed in taking anyone’s freedom of religion away or infringe these rights. And the Second Amendment with the Right to Bear Arms was added, so that if necessary, and an Augustinian type of terrorist comes to your house or city would be stopped in their tracks. Furthermore Immigration Policy is designed to ban entry into the U.S., to anyone like Augustine who promoted and terrorized Christians that did not meet his definition of Christian or heretic: Here are just two of the 18 restrictions which would bar Augustine even from entry into the United States at least historically before Covid and the Border Crisis in which up to millions of unvetted terrorists are freely allowed to cross the border: “have a physical or mental disorder that makes you harmful to others” and “have committed or been convicted of a crime of ‘moral turpitude’” SOURCE: List of Reason/Ground of Inadmissibility for Entering the United States
How about inside of the United States? Augustine would be guilty of torturing by these statutes: Bill of Rights It is debated as to whether or not torture as a punishment falls under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The text of the Amendment states that: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” The U.S. Supreme Court has held since at least the 1890s that punishments which involved torture are forbidden under the Eighth Amendment.[4] 18 U.S.C. § 2340[edit]
An act of torture committed outside the United States by a U.S. national or a non- U.S. national who is present in the United States is punishable under 18 U.S.C. §
The definition of torture used is as follows: As used in this chapter—“torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control; “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the
senses or the personality; the threat of imminent death; or the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; and (3) “United States” means the several states of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States. And if somehow Augustine had managed to sneak into the country as an illegal alien, and started up the same Godfather tactics he practiced in North Africa, he would have been rounded up and rightfully deported or tried for a host of crimes. Fortunately, now they have stalking laws to use against 21 st Century stalkers like Augustine, and kidnapping. In fact, kidnapping would be a federal felony crime. Tragically these laws are exponentially no longer being enforced. So if Augustine were to attempt seizing someone today in the U.S., he could, or at least should be deported, or in some cases, if death resulted in the person being tortured, it would be Augustine himself receiving capital punishment. Were Augustine alive today, tragically, this would be the perfect time for him to sneak across our Southern Border. Yet pastor after pastor remains gobsmacked and delirious in their delusion over Augustine. Augustine shouldn’t be able to even gain legitimate entry into the United States, couldn’t become a member of a Conservative Baptist Church, and could not become a pastor. Yet Pastor after pastor, denomination after denomination can’t control themselves from exalting him and no doubt couldn’t wait to install him as their pastor or head of their church denomination. John Calvin too, took the mantle of persecuting Christians in Switzerland, from Augustine, who were running for their lives. So thorough was Calvin’s total submersion and baptism into Augustine, he said that his whole theology could be found in the words of Augustine. Augustine designed the original torture of Christians by the Catholic Church, Loyola refined it. I thought we got rid of the Divine Right of Kings, once and for all, only to be replaced by the Divine Right of Pastors, who want to put us back under bondage? Augustine is indisputably the global Grand Architect, and Founding Father of Christians torturing Christians…a gangster. Anyone in law enforcement or the FBI profiling this person, not knowing who he was, would see a psychopath and sociopath control freak hungry for power who could not contain himself from abusing his perceived enemies of the church…real or imagined…until they find out it was Augustine…then mystically he becomes a sacred cow with diplomatic immunity…and in the church, anyone speaking ill of him is the one with the problem.
The Shepherding Movement pales in comparison, yet no doubt has its roots in Augustine. If anyone does not believe my report, I invite you to do your own Google search for Augustine’s own words, published in his writings and books. Had pastors and authors on Augustine done this, they would discover they had deceived their own sheep, in this generation, and actually preached from the pulpit what Augustine really taught before the Internet, for sixteen hundred years, perhaps the Great Falling Away could have at least been minimized. But now, as the Apostle Paul would say, they are without excuse! And in case you think control-freak Christianity is extinct in either Roman Catholicism or Protestants, see these stories in Germany, where hundreds of thousands of both Catholics and Protestants are either terminating their church membership, or are leaving the country, as recent at 2015 because the national government taxes all members: “The German church tax — which is 8 to 9 percent of the annual income tax — is so steep, however, that many people formally quit the church to avoid paying, while nevertheless remaining active in their faith.” 10 Facts about German Church Tax 10 Facts about German Church Tax | myGermanExpert Blog blexpert.com/2013/ /10-og.mygermanFacts-about-German-Church-Tax.ht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
Taxpayers, whether Roman Catholic, Protestant or members of other tax- collecting communities, pay an amount equal to between 8% (in Bavaria and
Baden-Württemberg) and 9% (in the rest of the country) of their income tax to the church or other community to which they belong. Compulsory Income Tax on Christians Drives Germans Away From Protestant and Catholic Churches http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11380968/Compul
Just War Antisemitism Theology led to Crusades justification for and Global Conspiracy to Steal the Land of Israel [the title of my documentary] for the Catholic Church. His vitriol toward all Jews can be captured in this quote: “As “Witness People”, he sanctified collective punishment for the Jewish deicide and enslavement of Jews to Catholics: “Not by bodily death, shall the ungodly race of carnal Jews perish … ‘Scatter them abroad, take away their strength. And bring them down O Lord.’” Also see: http://www.messianicassociation.org/ezine17-at.replacement-theology.htm
Leaven of Herod defying warning of Christ; merging Church and State as well as the warning of the Apostle Paul to let punishment for church matters and heresy stay within the church, unless crimes have been committed, then turn that over to the State.
Priests as Mediators between God and Man defying the Apostle Paul who wrote there is only One Mediator, Christ Jesus.
City of God is the Church and not Jerusalem
Infant Salvation Baptism and calling anyone who rejected it “infidels” and “cursed.” Augustine effectively called these Christians “accursed” is what the Apostle Paul did to the Judaizers in Galatians, so that they would have NO hope of salvation, eternally damning them. Augustine’s doctrine on infant baptism was eventually codified in the Roman Catholic Council of Trent, which anathematized anyone who did not hold these views on baptism. Want proof? Here is the Catholic Doctrine: “ON BAPTISM CANON I.-If any one saith, that the baptism of John had the same force as the baptism of Christ; let him be anathema. CANON II.-If any one saith, that true and natural water is not of necessity for baptism, and, on that account, wrests, to some sort of metaphor, those words of our Lord Jesus Christ; Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost; let him be anathema. CANON III.-If any one saith, that in the Roman church, which is the mother and mistress of all churches, there is not the true doctrine concerning the sacrament of baptism; let him be anathema. CANON IV.-If any one saith, that the baptism which is even given by heretics in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, with the intention of doing what the Church doth, is not true baptism; let him be anathema. CANON V.-If any one saith, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation; let him be anathema. CANON VI.-If any one saith, that one who has been baptized cannot, even if he would, lose grace, let him sin ever so much, unless he will not believe; let him be anathema.
CANON VII.-If any one saith, that the baptized are, by baptism itself, made debtors but to faith alone, and not to the observance of the whole law of Christ; let him be anathema. CANON VIII.-If any one saith, that the baptized are freed from all the precepts, whether written or transmitted, of holy Church, in such wise that they are not bound to observe them, unless they have chosen of their own accord to submit themselves thereunto; let him be anathema. CANON IX.-If any one saith, that the resemblance of the baptism which they have received is so to be recalled unto men, as that they are to understand, that all vows made after baptism are void, in virtue of the promise already made in that baptism; as if, by those vows, they both derogated from that faith which they have professed, and from that baptism itself; let him be anathema. CANON X.-If any one saith, that by the sole remembrance and the faith of the baptism which has been received, all sins committed after baptism are either remitted, or made venial; let him be anathema. CANON XI.-If any one saith, that baptism, which was true and rightly conferred, is to be repeated, for him who has denied the faith of Christ amongst Infidels, when he is converted unto penitence; let him be anathema. CANON XII.-If any one saith, that no one is to be baptized save at that age at which Christ was baptized, or in the very article of death; let him be anathema. CANON XIII.-If any one saith, that little children, for that they have not actual faith, are not, after having received baptism, to be reckoned amongst the faithful; and that, for this cause, they are to be re-baptized when they have attained to year of discretion; or, that it is better that the baptism of such be omitted, than that, while not believing by their own act, they should be baptized in the faith alone of the Church; let him be anathema. CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that those who have been thus baptized when children, are, when they have grown up, to be asked whether they will ratify what their sponsors promised in their names when they were baptized; and that, in case they answer that they will not, they are to be left to their own will; and are not to be compelled meanwhile to a Christian life by any other penalty, save that they be excluded from the participation of the Eucharist, and of the other sacraments, until they repent; let him be anathema.”
Even Vatican II was just as ruthless, which was supposed to be kinder and gentler: “If anyone says that in the Roman Church, which is the mother and mistress of all churches, there is not the true doctrine concerning the sacrament of baptism, let him be anathema.” (ibid., p. 53 — Seventh Session, Sacrament Of Baptism, Canon 3) So when was this doctrine ever rescinded? Answer: NEVER! One more urgent point regarding Eucharist, Augustine believed it is the literal body and blood of Christ [Real Presence], and Catholic children can not take Eucharist until and unless they were first baptized, usually as an infant, and took Confirmation. But these vows requires that they are confirming what the Catholic Church says Infant Baptism accomplishes which is to remove Original and Saves them. But to do this means they are confirming two false teachings. This makes both the priest and the partaker of this Sacrament guilty of this Scripture passage warning of the Apostle Paul: “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.” “For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.” I Corinthians 11: 27,29
Monasticism…marriage only value is to produce celibate offspring, defying Scripture and paving way for pedophilia abuse and homosexuality among priests
Neoplatonist (you can become perfect and happy in this life) and Humanist
Mysticism and Gnosticism Augustine was not just a mystic, but is considered the Father of Mysticism in the both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Church, which he acquired from the Desert Fathers in North Africa. He paved the way for Contemplative Prayer that invaded even Conservative Christian Denominations. Augustine = Contemplative Meditation = Altered State of Consciousness = Spiritual LSD without $ cost in this life = antithesis of Biblical Meditation, but Eternal Cost in the next life! Augustine got it all rolling in the Catholic Church, but now the plague has spilled into Reformation Denominations…read the fruit of this in the 21 st Century:
More proof, see Bob DeWaay’s: Richard Foster—Celebration of Deception http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue112.htm (This article does not name Augustine, but is about Richard Foster. However, Richard Foster says this about Augustine): “Confessions of St. Augustine” Recommended by Richard Foster as one of the best of the “experiential classics in Christian literature.”
Transubstantiation (Catholic Doctrine that teaches the Body and Blood of Christ becomes literal) historically known as the Eucharist but given this additional title in the Roman Catholic Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215.
Necromancy: Praying to the dead and to Mary and Mary never sinned Necromancy is a magic art, i.e., sorcery. Revelation states clearly that those practice magic arts “will find their place in the Lake of Fire.” Rev. 21:8, and reconfirmed in Rev 22:15. So if Augustine was truly a saint, and “saved” then how does he find himself in the Lake of Fire by practicing and stumbling multitudes to do the same? Augustine was so mixed up he call Mary the spouse of God: Augustine wrongly calls Mary, ALONE, the Spouse of God. The Church is the Spouse, or more technically the Bride to be, she is presently betrothed to Christ who is the Groom. She becomes the Bride (therefore the Wife) at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, when Christ returns in Glory for his Bride. Now Mary, though highly favored among women, is less than one-billionth of the Bride to be, because she is a Christian. But all born-again Christians make up the Bride. “Mary was the only one who merited to be called the Mother as Spouse of God.” Augustine of Hippo SOURCE: Augustine, Sermons 208; quoted by St. Alphonsus de Liguori in The Glories of Mary (New York: Redemptorist, 1931) But it is the Church that is the Bride of Christ the Groom, who is God. Mary was only a fraction of one percent of the Bride. Also a spouse must be married. The Church is presently betrothed to the Lord (engaged), but not married yet. That can’t happen until the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when Christ returns in Glory. Furthermore, how could Mary be the Mother of God? Mary needed a Redeemer. Can someone in need of a redeemer be the Mother of God? And how can you be simultaneously Wife and Mother of God? Now imagine that if Mary is the Mother of God, wouldn’t all Christians (the Church) then be collectively the Mother of God, using Augustine’s logic…since after all, the Mother of God and the Spouse
(Wife) are one and the same? Mary doesn’t become the Spouse of God until all we as Christians simultaneously become His Spouse with Mary, at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb! Yet the legend of Augustine lives on without his deeds of darkness and false teachings being exposed, marked, and named, as the Apostle Paul commanded of all true Christians. The fact of this statement of Augustine, alone, renders him Reprobate. Some might say he is apostate. But apostate means to fall away from something that was originally a true religion or seed. But as Christ said a thorn bush cannot produce figs. Matthew 23, though initially written to call Judaism a worthless religion, it is mirrored in Catholicism. Catholicism, just like Judaism in the First Century are thorn bush religions worthless (Christ and the Apostle Paul’s words, not mine). Though I will say that Roman Catholicism has also fallen away even further into the Abyss since Augustine.
Praying for the dead
Jews have the Mark of Cain
Nephilim were descendants of Cain
Christians must Tithe at minimum. This is extortion and defies the Council of Jerusalem’s ruling for minimum requirements of Gentile Christians, and the Apostle Paul’s own instructions that all giving must NOT be out of compulsion. See Dr. Russell Kelly’s film documentary entitled: Tithing is not a Christian Doctrine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFkEh5bEXw
Added to God’s word importing Apocrypha to Canon
Exalted Traditions of men over Traditions of Christ and His Apostles in Scripture as Final Authority in defiance of the Apostle Paul and John in Revelation
Augustine, again Calvin’s foundation was virulently Antisemitic: “Not by bodily death, shall the ungodly race of carnal Jews perish … ‘Scatter them abroad, take away their strength. And bring them down O Lord.'” “Judaism, since Christ, is a corruption; indeed, Judas is the image of the Jewish people: their understanding of Scripture is carnal; they bear the guilt for the death of the Savior, for through their fathers they have killed Christ.”
And again mirroring Augustine, both were intensely misogynistic against women. AUGUSTINE MISOGYNIST QUOTES AGAINST WOMEN: “I don’t see what sort of help woman was created to provide man with, if one excludes procreation. If woman is not given to man for help in bearing children, for what help could she be? To till the earth together? If help were needed for that, man would have been a better help for man. The same goes for comfort in solitude. How much more pleasure is it for life and conversation when two friends live together then when a man and a woman co-habitate?” “. . . woman was who perhaps still lives more in accordance with the promptings of the inferior flesh than by superior reason. Is this why the apostle Paul does not attribute the image of God to her?given to man, woman who was of small intelligence and” “. . . the woman together with her own husband is the image of God, so that that whole substance may be one image; but when she is referred separately to her quality of help-meet, which regards the woman herself alone, then she is not the image of God; but as regards the man alone, he is the image of God as fully and completely as when the woman too is joined with him in one.” “Watch out that she does not twist and turn you for the worse. What difference does it make whether it is in a wife or in a mother, provided we nonetheless avoid Eve in any woman? “What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman.”
So would you send your wife or daughter to this man for counseling, let alone lay hands on him to become an elder of your church? God forbid! And will you warn everyone? In another bizarre irony. Nuns and Nunneries go back at least to the Fourth Century. Augustine came along two centuries later. So how in the world could he justify Catholic Nuns, if all they are good for is to produce offspring? And yet to this day there are Augustinian Nuns and Nunneries named after him!
And finally, Augustine was a Predeterminist, drawing from pagan religions that the gods automatically pre-destined your Eternal Destination.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is the liberal wing of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) that is dragging the denomination through the mud. They represent the denominations’ viewpoints to America, and now they want to make it Unconstitutional to quote scripture. The previous President Russell Moore and the current President Brent Leatherwood are mentioned on this blog site and both have led the ERLC to support LGBTQ+ causes. Now Brent Leatherwood and the ERLC want to suppress the quotation of scripture. Surreal. This is one of the plethora of reasons that our church and 3 million Southern Baptists have left the SBC. In Christ, Pastor Steve <><
ERLC Head Lobbies Congress for Unconstitutional Bill That Makes it Illegal to Quote Scripture, “We Are in Full Support…”
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Yesterday we reported that the U.S. House passed a bill that would challenge the freedom to express certain biblical truths regarding the Jews and their historical actions. The bill, known as the “Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023” (H.R. 6090), proposes to adopt a definition of antisemitism that potentially categorizes traditional biblical teachings as discriminatory.
Here’s the pertinent text of the bill and the working definition:
Specifically, texts such as 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15, where the Apostle Paul, himself a Jew, states that the Jews “killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets,” would be illegal. This biblical fact is not rooted in antisemitism but reflects a historical biblical account, which acknowledges that the Jews were responsible for handing Jesus over to the authorities to carry out his crucifixion.
This portrayal is consistent with John 1, which describes Jesus as coming to his own people who did not accept him. If the Senate passes this bill and it is signed into law, articulating such biblical views would technically be illegal under new guidelines meant to combat supposed “antisemitism.”
And here, we have Brent Leatherwood, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying on behalf of Southern Baptists for the passage of this bill. It’s actually rather surreal to watch on of the most influential Southern Baptist leaders in history promote such a thing.
Later today in Congress, the Anti -Semitism Awareness Act is expected to pass the U .S. House. We’re in full support of this legislation and we urge the U .S. Senate to take it up not a place where harassment and intimidation and evil will persist.
And so we stand with our friends from Israel. We stand with Jewish citizens here in America. And we want to make sure that we are constantly being a voice for the vulnerable in these types of situations.
Of course, we believe that Israel has a “right to exist,” but we also have the freedom in the United States to say what we want, no matter how offensive it may be to others. It’s called the First Amendment. We literally have a Southern Baptist leader lobbying for anti-First Amendment legislation that would make quoting Scripture under certain circumstances illegal.
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The United Nations will meet in September for the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, as well as the highly-anticipated “Summit of the Future” where nations will sign the so-called “Pact for the Future”. What does this agreement and its policies mean for the future of individual and national sovereignty?
By the end of September, the United Nations member states may vote to radically alter the UN itself, what some are calling UN 2.0, and the very nature of how nation-states make decisions regarding the future of the planet. The UN will convene for the 79th session of the General Assembly in New York City starting on September 10th in New York City. The high-level general debate will begin on the 24th of September.
Although the UNGA is an annual meeting, this year’s gathering will be unique because of the addition of the Summit o the Future, a UN sponsored event taking place in NYC on the 22nd and 23rd of September. The summit has been in the making since at least 2022. It is the latest attempt by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “rally the troops”, and garner more support for a rapid completion of the Agenda 2030 goals set by the UN in 2015.
In May 2023, Guterres revealed that efforts to complete Agenda 2030, and the corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were failing. Guterrres warned that only 12 percent of the SDGs were on track to be completed. He said progress on 50 percent of the goals is “weak and insufficient”, while 30 percent of the SDGs have “stalled or gone into reverse”. He predicted that if the current trend holds only 30 percent of nations will accomplish SDG1, focused on poverty, by 2030.
Guterres has called for “greater multilateral support for the UN development system and decisive action at the 2024 Summit of the Future”.
“I urge you to study the report and implement its proposals,” Guterres stated. “This will be a moment of truth, and of reckoning. It must also be a moment of hope – when we unite to turn the tide and kickstart a new drive for SDG achievement.”
Our Common Agenda: The Summit for the Future
In June 2020, as the United Nations marked the 75th Anniversary of the creation of the international body, member states released a declaration that included 12 overarching commitments relating to Agenda 2030 and a call for Secretary-General Guterrres to issue his own set of recommendations for achieving the goals. This declaration included statements like “We will leave no one behind” and “We are determined to implement the 2030 Agenda in full and on time. There is no alternative”.
In September 2021, the Secretary-General responded with his report, Our Common Agenda, which called for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs and the commitments contained in the UN75 Declaration. Our Common Agenda also called for a Summit of the Future to “forge a new global consensus on readying ourselves for a future that is rife with risks but also opportunities”. The UNGA agreed to hold the Summit on September 22nd and 23rd of this year.
The Common Agenda report called for a “renewal of trust and solidarity at all levels – between peoples, countries and generations”. The report also called for a “fundamental rethink” of our political, economic and social systems “so that they deliver more fairly and effectively for everyone”. Finally, the report recommended a “renewal of the multilateral system” and stated that the Summit of the Future would be the “defining moment” to set new agreements for these goals.
The UN website dedicated to The Common Agenda states, “Our Common Agenda is an agenda of action, designed to strengthen and accelerate multilateral agreements – particularly the 2030 Agenda – and make a tangible difference in people’s lives.”
Secretary-General Guterres’ Our Common Agenda report was the direct inspiration for the upcoming Summit for the Future. The Summit will continue the push for nations to “reaffirm existing commitments” to the SDGs and the UN Charter. Member states will be expected to build on the outcomes of the 2023 SDG Summit and “breathe new life into the multilateral system” to accomplish the Agenda 2030.
According to the Summit for the Future website, the summit is a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to address gaps in global governance. “Multilateral governance, designed in simpler, slower times, is not adequate to today’s complex, interconnected, rapidly changing world,” the website states.
Additionally, a UN document on the Summit of the Future titled, What Would it Deliver?, discusses the concept of an updated UN, or “UN 2.0”, and what it would be mean for the future.
“‘UN 2.0′ is about upgraded expertise in innovation, data, digital, foresight, and behavioural science to enhance UN System results, help build similar Member State expertise, and accelerate shared progress towards the SDGs.”
The document also calls for “A Global Financial System That Works For All”.
“A transformed international financial architecture is fit for purpose, more inclusive, just, representative, effective, and resilient, responsive to the world today rather than as it looked following the Second World War. This architecture invests up-front in SDGs, climate action, and future generations.”
These calls mirror similar ones made during the “Summit for a New Global Financing Pact” held in Paris, France in June 2023. The Summit, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, welcomed 50 heads of state, representatives of NGOs and civil society organizations to discuss the effort to reset the international financial system as part of the continued push towards the 2030 Agenda and Net Zero goals.
The French government stated that the objective of the gathering was to “build a new contract between [the global] North and South” which will better equip the nations to fight poverty and climate change. The summit was attended by US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In addition to heads of state, the summit was organized with support from the Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.
One of the other stated goals of the 2023 summit was to transform the entire international financial system by adapting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to modern challenges. These goals correspond with recent statements made by Guterres where he called for a “new Bretton Woods moment”, referencing the infamous 1944 international agreement that established the IMF, and adopted rules for governing monetary relations among independent states, including requiring each nation to guarantee convertibility of their currencies into U.S. dollars.
For those reading between the lines and seeing through the buzzwords, the language of these documents rings of globalist-speak intended to override or outlaw national and individual sovereignty in favor of world government. A new monetary system, a renewal of the multilateral system – all of this is designed to sell the public on the idea that the UN (or some new international body) is needed to take humanity safely into the future. In truth, we are likely to see major steps towards the creation of a one-world government at the Summit for the Future.
For example, the Summit of the Future website notes that it will conclude with a “Pact for the Future” which will be endorsed by heads of state at the Summit. The UN says the outcome of the Pact will be “a world – and an international system – that is better prepared to manage the challenges we face now”. The Pact for the Future is likely to be another piece of the shift towards a world governed by unelected internationalist politicians.
The Pact for the Future
The UN says the aim of the Summit for the Future is to “accelerate efforts to meet our existing international commitments” and “take concrete steps to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities”. With these goals in mind, the UN is planning to negotiate and endorse an “action-oriented outcome document” known as the Pact for the Future. The document is already being discussed at UN meetings, with final negotiations and signing of the agreement to take place in September at the Summit.
In January, Germany and Namibia, co-facilitators of the Summit, announced the release of the “zero draft” of the Pact for the Future. The proposals mostly repeat what is found in the UN 75th anniversary document, and the Our Common Agenda report. The document makes it clear that the member states “re-affirm the importance of the multilateral system” with the UN at the center. The zero-draft also reiterates the UN’s 75th anniversary declaration to “leave no one behind”.
“We will act with urgency to realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda, including through the agreements contained in this Pact, a surge in financing for the Sustainable Development Goals, and additional steps to ensure sustainable financing in line with our commitments under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,” the draft of the Pact for the Future reads.
In terms of “reinvigorating the multilateral system”, the draft says the UN will “commit to a vision of a multilateral system” that is “inclusive to allow for a diverse range of actors beyond States”. This statement appears to be a reference to the belief that individual nation-states are no longer capable of tackling international crises, and, thus, the world must adapt to new forms of governance.
The zero-draft also mentions the need for an “Emergency Platform” that would be activated in the event of “such a shock that has an impact on multiple regions of the world” and, according to the UN, requires a “coherent, coordinated and multidimensional response”.
The draft also claims that any Emergency Platform would “not be a standing institution or body”. The UN also claims the “decision to convene an Emergency Platform” would “fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of States”.
The discussion of an emergency platform plays right into calls for the declaration of a planetary emergency.
The Planetary Emergency
Over the last couple years, the phrase “planetary emergency” has become increasingly used by the United Nations and aligned organizations to describe their belief that the planet is passing from various states of crisis to emergencies from which humanity might not return, unless drastic action is taken. We have even seen the release of opinion pieces calling for “a formal declaration of a ‘planetary emergency’ by the UN General Assembly at the Summit of the Future in September and the activation of an ’emergency platform'”.
The calls for declaration of an emergency have also reached the White House. Last week, Bloomberg reported the Biden administration is considering declaring a climate emergency.
“White House officials have renewed discussions about potentially declaring a national climate emergency, an unprecedented step that could unlock federal powers to stifle oil development,” Bloomberg wrote.
White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez told Bloomberg that Biden “has treated the climate crisis as an emergency since day one”.
As Bloomberg notes, if Biden does declare an emergency, he would not be the first US president to do so. In fact, past presidents have declared national emergencies for various reasons. However, calls for a so-called climate-emergency declaration are unprecedented.
In recent years, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has even used the phrase and warned that the world was approaching one or more “tipping points”, or emergencies, which must be addressed by the UN member states. In November 2020, he told the World Forum for Democracy, “Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, we face a triple planetary emergency–a climate crisis, a nature crisis and a pollution crisis.”
“We also confront a planetary emergency – including accelerating climate change, growing pollution and collapsing biodiversity – threatening the environment on which everyone’s future depends. And we are witnessing an alarming spread of hatred and discrimination,” Guterres said in 2021.
The United Nations is not the only organization promoting the idea of declaring a planetary emergency. UN-affiliated organizations like the Climate Governance Commission (CGC) are also getting in on the fun.
In September 2023, during climate week and the UN SDG Summit, the CGC released a statement titled “Charting a Safe Path for a Workable Future”. It states:
“The world faces a deepening planetary emergency-and is on a reckless path toward catastrophic climate change-having already over-stepped six of nine scientifically-identified planetary boundaries. A continued failure to address the underlying causes of this emergency – such as fossil fuel-based economies, resource waste/ overconsumption, and the destruction of nature – will have further devastating effects for all of humanity, triggering potentially irreversible tipping points, with dangerous consequences for planetary stability, both social and ecological. A system-wide approach to solving the climate crisis is required now, ensuring reliable climate and planetary boundary governance for the Earth as a whole.”
The CGC claims it is focused on “developing, proposing, and building partnerships” which promote “feasible, high-impact global governance solutions for urgent and effective climate action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C or less”. The CGC is itself a part of the Global Governance Forum.
The Climate Governance Commission was convened by Maja Groff, a member of the Global Governance Forum, with extensive connections to technocratic, including the Rockefeller Foundation, who have helped finance the work of the CGC. This makes perfect sense when you recall that in 2023 the Rockefeller Foundation made it clear that the climate agenda was their new focus.
The CGC September 2023 statement also continues the call for expanding concepts of global governance. “New perspectives on global governance – deploying new levels of collective wisdom and political courage – are required to tackle current existential planetary risks,” it states.
The statement also includes the usual climate alarmism and doomsday predictions. The CGC says the world may have only six or seven years to change course to avoid disaster.
The Climate Governance Commission followed up this statement with their report, Governing Our Planetary Emergency. The report was released during an online event on November 28, 2023, just before the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28. In this report, the CGC continues their recommendation for updating our ideas on governance.
“A basic premise of the Climate Governance Commission is that new perspectives on global governance– deploying new levels of collective wisdom and political courage–are required to tackle current existential planetary risks,” the report states. “Such efforts should complement and enhance ongoing intergovernmental negotiations. By prioritizing fundamental global collective action innovations, we can protect our common home for present and future generations in a just, equitable, and sustainable manner.”
It is this writer’s belief that the “new levels” of “political courage” needed to implement “new perspectives on global governance” are referring to the fact that empowering the UN (or another international body) will be extremely unpopular with the domestic populations of many of the UN member states, including the United States.
For more evidence that the CGC and some at the UN are interested in moving past national sovereignty, and towards a world governed by global organizations, I refer you to statements made by scientist Johan Rockström, a member of the CGC and advocate of the planetary emergency paradigm, during the November 2023 online event.
“The fact that we are in the anthropocene, actually puts into question the nation-state as the only unit of decision making to solve the problems we have facing us,” Rockström stated.
In the section labeled “Near-Term International Governance Innovations” the CGC again says the UN should declare a planetary emergency.
“We therefore urge the UN General Assembly, at the 2024 Summit of the Future, to declare a planetary emergency, recognizing that the triple planetary crisis poses a grave risk to global stability and security, among others, to be reinforced in similar statements by bodies and agencies of the UN system, regional bodies, and national and local governments.”
They also echo calls for the “Emergency Platform” referenced by the zero draft of the Pact of the Future. The report recommends convening a “Planetary Emergency Platform” to address the rapidly accelerating consequences of climate change.
“Such a defragmentation and acceleration Platform may be necessary to ensure the imperative 50% global emission reductions by 2030,” the CGC report states.
In a section titled “Addressing Individual Responsibility for Environmental Crimes: Including Ecocide as a Crime Under the International Criminal Court”, the document states that “individuals involved in policies and/or activities that cause severe damage to the environment need to be held accountable regardless of whether they undertake these actions as government officials, legislators, military leaders, CEOs of corporations, or in other roles”.
In a section titled “Next Generation Working Proposals” we also see a recommendation to “Establish An International Court for the Environment”.
Is it possible to see the world’s governments sign a document that empowers an international court to punish individuals who are deemed polluters or accused of damaging the environment?
Planetary Boundaries
“The current crossing of planetary boundaries has already caused intense suffering and heightened inequality,” the CGC’s September 2023 statement reads.
The Pact for the Future and the CGC’s report Governing Our Planetary Emergency are both built on the concept of planetary boundaries, first popularized by Johan Rockström, former director for the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He first developed the idea with a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists in 2009.
Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues and led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development. He is also a leading scientist on water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions. Additionally, he is an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum.
Rockström’s concept presents a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. According to this theory, the Earth’s Planetary Boundaries indicate the “maximum human-induced disruption” each environmental area can sustain before the “Earth system becomes unstable, potentially leading to irreversible changes and cascading effects in multiple domains”.
Essentially, Rockström argues that these boundaries should be used as guides to design future governance models, as well as governmental regulation of corporations, industry, and human life in general. It is yet another technocratic program claiming that it can create a utopia by triggering an emergency platform once humanity crosses these alleged boundaries.
As with calls for a planetary emergency, in recent years support for the concept of planetary boundaries has grown among academia, science, and some politicians. Along with the growth of Rockstrom’s concept, we have also witnessed broad support for global governance.
In 2023, an international group of 22 “experts” from a range of fields emphasized the importance of establishing a “planetary commons” in an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The group argued that this step is essential for strengthening global governance to “protect the functions of Earth’s biophysical systems in ways that ensure planetary resilience and justice for present and future generations”.
The article introduces the concept of “planetary commons” as a framework to align global law and governance with the science of the “Earth system”. The so-called experts write that there is “presently no effective governance system in place” to properly deal with the crises facing humanity. The paper laments that nations have developed their own policies for climate change which are “often misaligned with other nations and the global goal of a sustainable Earth”. The report ends by calling for the development of “collective global-scale solutions that transcend national boundaries”.
All Roads Lead to The Club of Rome and Eugenics
We can trace the call for a Planetary Emergency back to the infamous but obscure group, the Club of Rome. The CGC’s November 2023 report even notes that the belief in a “polycrisis”, or multiple, simultaneous crises, is “recognized in the work of the Club of Rome Planetary Emergency Project”. This reference to the Club of Rome reveals yet another reason the public ought to be concerned with the push for a planetary emergency and claims of crossing planetary boundaries
The Club of Rome has been calling for declaring a Planetary Emergency since at least 2019 with the publication of their “Planetary Emergency Plan”. The report would be updated in August 2020, after the beginning of COVID1984. The COR’s Emergency Plan is described as a “roadmap for governments and other stakeholders to to shift our societies and economies to bring back balance between people, planet and prosperity”.
As with the zero-draft of the Pact for the Future and the Climate Governance Commission’s 2023 report, the Club of Rome calls on nations to declare a Planetary Emergency and adopt a Planetary Emergency Plan. They say such a plan should be “founded on the urgent need to at least halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030”.
These extreme calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon, have lead some researchers to conclude that the guiding philosophy of the Club of Rome is actually a belief in eugenics, masked by a faux environmental agenda. An understanding of the organization’s history may provide some clues.
The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 and played a major role in the development of the more well-known World Economic Forum (WEF). On the 50th anniversary of the WEF, the organization looked at their history, and noted that at the 1973 meeting, Aurelio Peccei, the Italian industrialist who co-founded the Club of Rome with Alexander King, presented a speech on his now-infamous book “The Limits to Growth”. Alexander King was also responsible for a follow-up report released in 1991 titled “The First Global Revolution”. This controversial report includes a section called “The Common Enemy of Humanity is Man”, which contains this often-quoted section:
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Some readers have interpreted this statement to mean that the Club of Rome was acknowledging that they would use the fear of pollution, global warming, water shortages, and famine to unite humanity behind the idea that humanity is the problem. The Club of Rome and their supporters claim this passage is taken out of context and simply represents their leadership recognizing geopolitical issues which would soon befall humanity.
Further evidence of the eugenics worldview can be found in the words of Dennis Meadows, a World Economic Forum member and co-architect of the 1972 “Limits to Growth” report. In a February 2022 interview, Meadows detailed his hopes for a “clean” purging of the global population to sustainable levels:
I hope this occurs in a civilized approach. I imply in a non-public approach. A peaceable approach, however, peace does not imply everyone seems to be joyful. But it surely does imply that the street has been resolved by different means, not violence, which is what I imply. So there are 7 billion folks proper now; however, we’re going to have 1 billion folks. We now have to return down. I hope it occurs slowly and evenly.”
Eugenicists like Meadows and his buddies at the Club of Rome hide their anti-human ideology behind calls for population control. Their talk of “fighting climate change” by limiting human movement or controlling our diets and other personal habits often mask their true desire to reduce and control the human population.
It is imperative that people of the world open their eyes and ears to realize the true intentions of the Technocrats who want to rule our lives. As Swedish researcher Jacob Nordangård recently told me in a recent interview, the UN (and their partners in the WEF, Club of Rome, Global Governance Commission, etc.) are working on declaring a “planetary emergency” which will allow them to activate various agreements–the WHO Pandemic Agreement, the Financing Pact of the Future, and the Pact of the Future–and complete their plans for world government.
The only thing standing in the way of the complete takeover of a free humanity are the free hearts and minds of the world who are able to see the truth. We must resist and counter the UN Pact for the Future. We must put our energy into designing our own pacts for the future. Furthermore, we must reject the Sustainable Development Goals and embrace Autonomous Development Goals. Finally, we must ignore “The Great Reset” and build “The People’s Reset”. Only once we put our energy into the creation of parallel systems will we see the creation of a truly free society that will last for the next seven generations and beyond.
There is a danger that has come into the sheepfold; apostates have come in and they probably have always been here. However, with the prevalence of social media, their influence has spread and it is more important than ever before to recognize the marks of an apostate, a person who at one time knew and maybe even taught the truths of the Bible but walked away or a person who consistently teaches false doctrines to the Church. Jude, the Lord’s youngest human brother, points out several signs of an apostate and I want to draw your attention to them.
1 Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are the called, loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ.
2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
3 Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write and exhort you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all. 4 For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.
Right away we begin to see the characteristics of the Apostates that Jude warns about…
1.) Apostates are ungodly (v. 4)
When the New Testament writers say that a person is ungodly, it does not simply mean that the person does not know God, it also means that he does not have a character that is consistent with the revealed Person and Nature of God.
2.) They are morally perverted (v. 4)
In the NIV, promiscuity is translated as “license to commit immorality.” Among other things, these apostates teach that there is no need to struggle to overcome sin. The Greek word rendered as contend, or contend earnestly (NKV, NASB) is agonizomai from which we derive the word agonize. Because our sinful nature will not easily be transformed into Christlikeness, it can seem agonizing, at times to give up that sin in order to be more like Christ.
Many, many apostates teach instead that God will give you all the things you want: health, wealth, possessions, influence, etc and all you have to do is “sow the best offering that you can” without any call to true repentance or humility. Examples of such teachers include but are not limited to Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Jesse Duplantis, Rod Parsley, Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes, Mark Chironna and scads of others. One has even gone so far as to say that anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan. These ignore the command of Jesus to deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him (Matthew 16:24).
In truth, you do not even have to teach grace as a license to sin however you please to turn grace into license, all you have to do is refuse to teach the truth of God’s grace, that it saves you from sin and its power not simply that it saves you from hell. And just in case you were going to object and say that such things are not perverted, the definition of perverse is something that is contrary to the generally accepted standard or practice. Since the Bible is our standard, anything contradicting the Bible or anything taught in the pulpit that does not match Scripture is, by definition, perverted.
3.) Apostates Deny Christ (v. 4)
Ultimately, this leads to a denial of Christ; the Jesus taught and embraced by the apostates simply is not the Jesus of the Bible.
Apostates: Past and Present
5 Now I want to remind you, though you know all these things: The Lord first saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe; 6 and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling. 7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. 8 Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.
4.) They defile the flesh (v.7& 8)
As we are seeing today, apostates defile the flesh in ungodly and unbiblical ways. Some of my evangelical brethren will immediately point to homosexuality but what about other sins: drunkenness, gluttony (I think I have only heard one sermon on gluttony in 25 years), fornication, domestic violence (yes the Bible actually addresses this topic which I have never in my life heard addressed in the pulpit).
Defiling the flesh refers primarily to sexual sin (1 Corinthians 6:18) which is a sin against one’s own body, but this is not exclusive. Remember that Jude’s oldest half-brother, the Lord Jesus Himself, even went so far as to equate contemplating the sin with the actual sin itself (Matthew 5:27-28). When is the last time you heard a sermon about sexual lust (lust of the flesh), greed (lust of the eyes), or counteracting the boastful pride of life by being poor in spirit?
5.)Apostates are Rebellious (v. 8)
By not teaching what the Bible actually says, these apostates live in and encourage rebellion in others. A pastor once told me that 1% out of submission is equal to being 100% in rebellion against God. To deny a doctrine, the reality of hell for example (Rob Bell) and to teach that denial to others is absolute rebellion against God. To refuse to yield to the Authority of Scripture is to refuse to yield to the Author. They go hand in hand; authority entails submission.
6.) Apostates Revile holy angels (v. 8)
This is a mark against Pentecostals if I ever saw one. Growing up Pentecostal, I cannot tell you how many times I have seen pastors “bind” satan or command him to do this or that; both of which are patently absurd. If Michael, the highest angel (archangel means chief angel) dares not to speak against the devil, what in the world possesses a “Christian” to do so? There is no biblical justification to think you can command an angel to do anything. Even fallen angels serve at the pleasure of God Almighty and Him alone. They advance His agenda and they fulfill His sovereign decrees and so, not matter how much your favorite teacher might tell you otherwise, you cannot command them to do anything and it is ridiculous to think the opposite.
7.) Essentially, Apostates are ignorant (v. 8)
The behavior we have discussed so far demonstrates an absolute willful ignorance of both the Things of God and of His Person. To know Him as He is demands that one is to submit to Him. Look to Revelation chapter one and see the reaction of John when he saw just a picture of the Resurrected Christ and you will see what kind of response a true knowledge of God the Son results in.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when he was disputing with the Devil in a debate about Moses’ body, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.
8.) Apostates are continually having vain ideas (vs. 8-10)
Continuing with the idea of ignorance, apostates have vain/foolish ideas. Word of Faith teachers, for example, tell you that you can name and claim your promise from Scripture and activate a response from God based on your faith. This is hubris and is no different than the idea of “binding satan.” I have heard them justify this nonsense by saying all the promises of God are yea and amen. That is only half the truth and is therefore not the truth. All of God’s promises are yea and amen but only in so far as to the person(s) they apply to. I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you is a very true promise but it only applies to the Nation of Israel for that is whom God made the promise to.
It is utter vanity and foolishness to presume anything upon Him Who sits upon the Throne. Do not allow yourself to mistake God’s patience for tolerance. Every person living will have their appointed time before the Throne; the Righteous will see the Bema (the Judgment Seat for rewards) and the wicked and apostates will see the Great White Throne as Heaven’s court dispenses eternal justice.
9.) Apostasy leads to self-destruction (v. 10)
What is the natural end result of apostasy? Self-destruction. God does not have to directly do anything to these, all He has to do is say to them, “thy will be done” and step aside. How many ministries have been damaged and even destroyed by ministers who thought they could get away with this or that? I would list names but that is impractical.
I can say from personal experience, getting your own way can be deadly, to your soul as well as your body. After all, there is a way which seemeth right unto a man and the end thereof is destruction. (Proverbs 14:12 & 16:25)
11 Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
The Apostates’ Doom
12 These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs[e] at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots; 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever! 14 And Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about them: Look! The Lord comes[f] with thousands of His holy ones 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict them[g] of all their ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against Him. 16 These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.
I will deal with all of these together: they are person-centric and reflect the oldest sin in the book, pride. Pride is that sin that caused Lucifer to lose his place in heaven and it will do you the same favor. Pride looks at another, finds his/her deficiency, and then exalts self because you don’t have that particular deficiency. It causes one to puff up and think of oneself more than he/she really is. Pride, the oldest known sin, is the truest and surest mark of the apostate. No matter what other signs you see, the Christian that demonstrates pride is on treacherous ground and in real danger of going where one does not want to be, apostasy.
17 But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 they told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers walking according to their own ungodly desires.”
15.) In a sense, apostates are mockers (v. 18)
2 Peter 3:4, They will say where is the promise of His coming. I would add to that, they will say things like no serious Christian believes in Hell or, no loving, tolerant Christian rejects gays, or they will dismiss the creation account as a myth/a metaphor.
Mark it out, every single apostate has some passage or doctrine that he does not like and by dismissing it, they make a mockery of God…for now.
19 These people create divisions and are unbelievers, not having the Spirit.
16.) Cause division (v. 19) 17.)Worldly-minded 18.) Without the Spirit(v. 19)
Apostates cause division in the church because they are worldly-minded and they are worldly-minded because they do not have the Holy Spirit and they do not have the Holy Spirit because they are worldly-minded.
It’s a vicious cycle once you walk away from the truth of Scripture and only the Holy Spirit can bring you back.
Exhortation and Benediction
20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life. 22 Have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh. 24 Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.
Beloved, you may be reading this and say that you have seen some of these signs in your own life. That is both good and bad news. It is bad in that a propensity toward apostasy may exist but it is good in that the Holy Spirit is doing His work of convicting sin. What should you do if you see signs of apostasy in your life or if you are following a False Teacher? Repent right away. If the Holy Spirit is convicting you, agree with Him immediately and confess that sin. He will restore to communion with Him and you can continue to grow in grace.
Schools across America many times are run by managers who come with baggage from the extreme-left ideologies of higher academia.
Their plans often include spreading those ideals to students – whether or not they or their parents want such indoctrination.
But one such plan, in a school in Minnesota, has been taken down a notch, according to a new report from Mat Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel.
The dispute developed in Osseo, Minnesota, where officials scheduled a “gay pride” indoctrination class for all students, prepared scripts from which teachers were to read word-for-word, under a scenario that required teachers to take part regardless of their religious beliefs and rights, and more.
“And the district went out of their way to make it nearly impossible for parents to review the material or to opt their children out of the indoctrination,” the report said.
The push for the far-left agenda came from “four radical school board members,” Liberty Counsel reported.
“Teachers were not allowed to ‘opt out’ of teaching the ‘LGBTQIA+ History and Culture’ lesson, and the district deliberately made it difficult for parents to review the lesson materials in advance, or opt their children out of the politically charged, nonsensical course.”
Parents, in fact, had to apply for permission to see the materials, had to appear in person at the school, and had to document their identity, the report said.
The actual curriculum conflicted with science and used pop culture to push students to adopt fake pronouns and more.
“The lesson then encouraged students to question their own sexuality, asking the children if they are ‘confused’ about, ‘curious about,’ and ‘questioning’ their sexuality, fitting within at least one of the ‘Q’ categories in its lengthy acronym: ‘LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Questioning, Intersex, & Asexual),'” the report said.
Students were to be told failure to “embrace” the ideology risked having their assignments labeled “incorrect.”
But then Liberty Counsel notified the school district of its need to allow students, parents and teachers to exercise their right to opt out of such ideologies.
The district caved, and, “as a result of our work, more than 1,000 students were allowed to opt out of the indoctrination classes at just one school. At another school, over 400 students opted out. In fact, so many parents opted their children out of the lesson that schools had to open their cafeterias and auditoriums to accommodate the teachers and students who refused indoctrination,” Liberty Counsel’s report said.
“In addition, at least 500 other children did not attend school at all on the day of the instruction.”
Jonathan Cahn is truly appropriately named. He is indeed a con / Cahn man. A revealer of Old Testament mysteries that only he knows. One of the many signs of a false prophet. In Christ, Pastor Steve <><
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It is appropriate that we continue to warn Christians about the dangerous teachings of Jonathan Cahn, who positions himself as a modern-day prophet and decoder of biblical mysteries. Despite numerous bold predictions about economic collapses and national disasters, Cahn has yet to provide a prophecy that has come true, demonstrating the falsehood of his claims.
Cahn predicted that the Shemitah year of 2015 would bring a significant financial “great shaking,” which did not occur. His books, filled with supposed “harbingers” and ominous forecasts following events like 9/11, have also failed to materialize any true prophetic insight. His frequent appearances on Jim Bakker’s show, known for doomsday predictions and survival product sales, further underscore the baselessness of his prophetic claims.
Adding to the evidence of his false teachings, Cahn’s prophetic claims have even reached the ranks of New York Times Best-Sellers, widely disseminating his dubious predictions. Up until the very last minute of the most recent Shemitah cycle, Cahn maintained that a global “shaking” was imminent. This prediction, like his others, proved false when the Shemitah ended without incident, demonstrating his lack of credibility and revealing his prophecies as nothing more than sensationalism.
Fans of Cahn might argue that he is not a prophet but merely an “interpreter” of biblical prophecy. However, Cahn has taken non-prophetic scriptures and misapplied them to current events, claiming divine insights that simply do not hold up under scrutiny.
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In his book, The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Revealed, Cahn suggests that he alone possesses the knowledge to unlock ancient secrets supposedly pointing to modern figures and events, including insinuations that Donald Trump is mentioned in the Bible.
“Could an ancient prophecy and a mysterious ordinance given in a Middle Eastern desert over 3,000 years ago be determining the events of our day?”
Could some of the most famous people of modern history and current events be secretly linked to this mystery—even a modern president of the United States?
Could this ancient revelation pinpoint the events of our times down to the year, month and day of their occurring?
Could a mysterious phenomenon be manifesting on the world stage on an exact timetable determined from ancient times?
Could these manifestations have altered—and now be altering—the course of world events?
The Bible is clear about false prophets: “when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him” (Deuteronomy 18:22). Jonathan Cahn’s consistent inaccuracies and sensationalism are not just errors; they are indicative of a deeper disregard for the true prophetic spirit of the Scriptures.
In defending his failed prophecies, Cahn has even issued legal threats against critics, such as a laughable cease and desist letter, showcasing his unwillingness to face legitimate scrutiny and claiming that he is being falsely accused of being a false prophet. His actions contradict the humble and open-hearted approach that characterizes genuine biblical leadership.
Jonathan Cahn’s teachings, particularly his flawed interpretations and failed prophecies, should serve as a red flag for anyone considering listening to him. They reflect a broader issue within certain circles of Christianity that elevates sensationalism over sound doctrine. Christians are urged to rely on the full counsel of God’s Word, rather than the speculative and sensational interpretations offered by false teachers like Cahn.
Jonathan Cahn has demonstrated a consistent pattern of misleading his audience with predictions that fail to materialize, coupled with a defensive posture against criticism. It is vital for believers to remain vigilant and discerning, grounding themselves in Scripture and rejecting those who distort its truths for personal gain or sensationalism.
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How do you know a nation is under the judgment of God? Romans 1 tells us that God gives them over to a depraved mind, to sexual immorality, to injustice, and to do things that they ought not do. In other words, the surest sign of God’s judgment is rampant sexual immorality, especially that which is funded and promoted by the wicked government that should be upholding justice and defending righteousness against such pervasive evil.
Here, the FBI was captured marching in the West Hollywood pride parade.
I worked for the FBI for 20 years, and I am glad I retired in 1998. It is both mindboggling and surreal to watch our once great nation plummet into oblivion. Now, Christians must endure the month of June, once known for weddings, turning into LGBTQ lunacy. Look out for drought, flooding, a lack of food, hyperinflation, tornadoes, hurricanes, wars we will lose, etc., etc., as the Lord’s “rewards” for our nations’ apostasy. …and make no mistake, many apostate churches and denominations are in lockstep with the Feds. Maranatha, Pastor Steve <><
Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
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The Amen Corner
“Only one life, ’twill soon be past; Only what’s done for Christ will last.” -C. T. Studd
“If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.” -George Muller
“Press forward. Do not stop…do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” -George Whitefield
“Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.” -Adoniram Judson
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” -Morris West
“A sad countenance is a poor testimony for a Christian.” -John R. Rice
“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister
“It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart.” -Fanny Crosby
“No one can be a good Christian who does not, with holy zeal, set out to know, delight in and live by the Word of God!” -John R. Rice
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” -Jonathan Edwards
“There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.” -D. L. Moody
“Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.” -Billy Sunday
“The church suffers most from its misrepresentatives. There are entirely too many ‘Christianettes’ who do not ‘adorn the doctrine of God in all things.’ There is plenty of LOVE in books; what we need above everything else is LOVE in boots.”
“Love is the very essence of God, for ‘God is love.’ No man has ever fully comprehended or even estimated the love of God. It is like a bottomless ocean without shores. Its reaches are as far as the east is from the west.” -William E. Troup
Even Steven 