Category: Historic Trends of America.

SIGNS OF THE FALSE PROPHET

SIGNS OF THE FALSE PROPHET
In Matthew 12 and 13 we read of the signs of the false prophets who will proclaim a false Christ. The main sign is their showmanship. They will SHOW great success with seeming wonders that will deceive Christendom of the last days. Though the sheep will be numbed by the display of personality cult leaders they will not be deceived at the end. Only for a while will they allow the hireling to rule with cruelty and stop the prayer gatherings that have been so instrumental in the awakening of the lost around them. Only for a season will the sheep sleep from the benumbing, deception of a false gospel and a false Christ.

This will be rife in the last days and John in the book of Revelation describes not only the Church of Laodecia, but also the Church of Sardis. The former is easily recognized by its cold liberalism and rank apostasy, but the latter seems to be rich with success, clothed with the right clichés and old style jargon of the past. It seems to be very successful, at least by its profession of growing conversions. Its numbers swell and the performance cannot be faulted. The smooth, oiled machine of soul winning fervour is a sight to behold. Human faith seems unlimited and there is nothing it cannot accomplish if the believers have the right mind-set.

Amid the flurry of cameraderie and freedom of social interaction coaxed by the jovial, if not flippant pastor, all seems to be a happy place to meet. The intricate parts of its ministry are strictly controlled to prevent breakdown or individualism. For this reason public prayer is limited to selected individuals who have the right credentials of conformity and will be as brief as possible. The 19th C intercessory weekly meeting of free prayer gathering of the saints has been superseded by a Torrey styled Bible Study, to which a short window of prayer is annexed. Sentence prayers for a list of the ailing has replaced free prayer of the brethren for the lost. What was once a concord of all the assembly is now divided separately into T groups for the limited time allowed. Gender restraints prevail at the behest of the pastor unlike the meeting in the Upper Room where gender division was absent, women praying silently in one accord with the brethren’s outpoured fervency as the place shook with the spirit of prayer.

THE SLEEPING SAINTS
In the last days Jesus had predicted that the saints would almost be deceived by the presentation of other gospels by false prophets, pastors, ministers and priests. They would be benumbed by the falsity of smooth words, ear-tickling, self-ingratiating pulpiteers become personality promoters who play the man with their frivolous gift of the gab. Their successful self aggrandizing style comforts the goats and sedates the sheep into sombre sleep.

Jesus had warned that these charlatans would become the false ministers of light who would almost deceive the very elect. The true backwoods’ prophets would alone bring them again to WATCH for the Master’s return as their eyes are again opened to the apostasy of the great falling away around them. These are wolves in sheep’s clothing teaching goats how to don fleecy apparel with a broad smile to cover the emptiness of their vain religion void of grace.

John David
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SIGNS OF THE FALSE PROPHET

U.S. Media Moguls Redefine Treason.

U.S. Media Moguls Redefine Treason
The increasing manipulation of the news to express the opinion of a handful of billionaire media moguls has descended to a dangerous farce. Berlin and Tokyo world news transmissions to America are the only remaining bastions of free and balanced reportage left. NBC, BBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS have all been suborned and politicized by their owners to suppress balanced investigative journalism and instead present unfounded hearsay as fact.

This handful of media owners have accelerated their modus operandi: “a man is presumed guilty until he has been proven innocent.” Open American media slander has reached historic levels in the last twelve months. Randolph Hearst and Marshall McLuhan would not have believed it possible short of open treason.
When world media control rests in the hands of so few and these band together to orchestrate the fall of a legitimate president they become not only a danger to the Oval Office, but also to the good ship of state.

Hearst, who was credited with starting the war with Spain, and keeping the U.S out of WW1 from 8/1914 to 3/1917 with his bellicose isolationism, demonstrated the danger of an unbridled press. Marshall McLuhan warned of its global dangers in his The Medium Has Become the Message.

French philosopher, theologian, legal scholar, and sociologist Jacques Ellul predicted the gross national dangers of orchestrated press Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965/1973).

Scuttling the old battleship USS Democracy and her escort USS Free Speech by their partisanship endangers the very flagship of state: USS Readiness.

The ultra concentration of media power, in the hands of so few, that plays with firing its partisan mega-cannon against Washington’s White House and its Oval Office, is unwittingly ready to start an internal conflagration that is wholly counterproductive to both national and international peace.

In an hitherto unprecedented fashion since the American Civil War, these untouchables risk inciting another unthinkable civil conflagration just to line their pockets already bulging from their uncontrolled preoccupation with character assassination.

These unbridled 21st century media masters, who use liberty for license and drop their incendiary munitions in a relentless blitzkrieg, show the dexterity that better befits them for a pariah sovereign state brainwashing its mindless subjects.

Obviously these armchair dictators of aberrant journalese have learned well how to do it from George Orwell’s novel ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’.

When a nation teeters on the brink of abandoning the Christian Work Ethic and its associated moral values these ‘fat cats’ are now ready to lever it over the precipice for their own short lived gains. The Puritan Work Ethic upon which America was built has been exchanged for the humanist freedom of puritanical hypocrisy, led by the so-called ‘free press’. “And every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Judges 17:6; Judges 21:25

U.S. Media Moguls Redefine Treason.

500 Years Ago Martin Luther Shook the World

500 Years Ago Luther Shook the World

500 Years Ago Martin Luther Shook Germany the centre of the Holy Roman Empire and its Catholic Church control.
From 800 AD for 700 years Rome’s water, wine and wafer rites were used to justify millions from their sins.
This had remained unchallenged since Charlemagne.

Though Luther’s 91 theses had been nailed to the Wittenberg Chapel door, the essence of his protest as harbinger of free Protestantism was ‘the just shall live by faith,’ through the grace of Christ. This echoed the message of Paul the apostle, and the prophets that grace alone brings an unshakeably unique faith. It cannot be compared with the weak and double-minded faith of earthlings.

Men clerics, pastors, and ministers may strut in the confidence of their sectarian doctrines’ supremacy, but the faith of Christ given to the believer at the behest of God the Father alone gives regenerating assurance, joy unspeakable and peace passing all understanding.

With today’s automated human faith that uses affirmation, repeated lip confession and the psychology based gospel salesmanship of fundamentalism humanism has replaced Luther’s focus on “the just shall live by faith” through grace. Faith is now assumed by sacramentalists, orthodox confessionalism, liberals, evangelicals, and fundamentalists. Bible believing saints, alias ‘sheep’ feel like Luther grieved and smitten by rampant apostasy.

Bishops, prelates and pontiffs with their their pastors’ water of rebirth may scorn radical conversion by the grace of Jesus Christ but their automated easy-religion does not gull the sheep of the kingdom who were changed from goats into sheep by the faith of Him who bore their sins upon the tree.

500 Years Ago Martin Luther Shook the World

EVANGELISTS HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG.

EVANGELISTS HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG.
1. They think results depend upon their verbosity
2. They think mastery of the method wins souls
3. They think their own prayers most crucial
4. They think private lay prayers are secondary
5. They think filling a meeting house is success
6. They think the invitee’s own faith is the key catalyst
7. They think responders’ lips make heaven’s doors open
8. They think responders’ physical foot and hand motion is eternal life
9. They think their meetings in His house are the most important
10. They and their pastors have locked out free prayer from His House
11. “My house shall be called the house of prayer! You’ve made it a den of thieves.”
12. You have stolen away any space, place or room for gathered saints to pray.
13. You are bereft of the spirit of prayer which alone ushers in new babes in Christ.
14. With froth and bubble, toil and trouble you’ve relied on your own superiority
15. In your self-centred sowing of seed you have allowed the enemy to sow his own.
16. You want the fire, but you keep hot coals apart to prevent it starting.
17. In your mechanized evangelism and stilted control of the laity you’ve created sterility and still births. You have robbed His House of the spirit of prayer the very agent of new birth and regeneration.

Joel 1:17. “The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.”

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EVANGELISTS HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG.

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CHRISTIAN’S MARITAL CONFLICT

THREE ADJUSTMENTS OF NEWLY MARRIED CHRISTIANS
“if you marry, you have not sinned…nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh…
Remember, that in a mini marital crisis of adjustment Jesus is always available, day or night as Counsellor, and Advocate. Do not wait for a full blown crisis, because by then it may be far more difficult for beneficial remedy. Go over the verses in this short essay and He will consult with you.

It’s never too late or too early to confess faults and sins to the beloved spouse. But do not go fishing for sins that are “buried in the sea of His forgetfulness” that is grievous unbelief and also needs washing in the eternal fount that covers sins’ stains. Not to do so will wound self and the beloved. Accepted or not confess them with little or no comment and matter of fact cadence. Avoid prolonged self deprecation; emotional display of sorrow ; a wounded self-pitiful speech lamenting the offending action to the aggrieved spouse. Efforts begging for acceptance of confession usually are counterproductive and are neither proof of sincerity nor success of the attempt to placate the aggrieved.

Done? Let it rest! “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin,” Recriminatory nostalgia is a form of self pity to be abjured, so do not undermine what the Lord Counsellor has covered, forgiven and buried. Nostalgic self torture by regressing into pedantic self pity is sinning against Him. Better by far to let it go than give the inner accuser of the brethren opportunity to steal the peace of the Spirit. Ponder on Romans 8:1 remembering the words of John the apostle: ‘if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart’. No response should be made to accusation if it is later raised. Remain mute and leave it with God.

Remember that under Mosaic Levitical law a soldier was given a whole year off to adjust to his new bride. Because of the weakness of the woman, the weaker vessel, there is more traumatic adjustment by the man. The conflict between the genders even in the most hallowed of unions is always a present trouble. “You shall have trouble in the flesh,” (1 Corinthians 7).

The older we are the greater the difficulty. If we wind tight the cords of control we only make matters worse for ourselves and give the enemy more opportunity to exploit even the most trivial of differences.

BIBLE THOUGHTS ON GENDER TEMPTATION, AND THE CURSE
1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Eve in her state of innocence (not original righteousness) may have been lonesome. A couple may live together and still be lonely. Being a help-mate means sharing quality time together. The apex of such occurs when two sit together and are comfortable with each other’s silence. When interchange is limited to question and answer; distracting devices to entertain and amuse; and vocal verbosity then quality time has not started. If leisurely enjoyment of each other depends on sound, image, or physical activity, then the two have yet to have a meeting of the minds.

The greatest joys come from the simplest things in life, not the artificial representation of same on the screen of the pc; TV; telephone; camera, etc.
Eve perhaps was neglected, then strayed being drawn of her curiosity to hearsay and religious mysticism. These traits became part of the permanent curse, naturally leading that gender to be more religious than the other.

Adjustment: readiness to cope with gender trauma.
1. …”and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Genesis 3.
2. The unbridled desire to possess and control the partner is an endemic part of original sin, magnified by God’s promised curse. The frustrated desire to control or subjugate the opposite gender can turn very ugly. Resentfulness towards the would-be controller can develop in unpredictable ways. Cain’s violent response to Abel was only the start of the terrible downward spiral of Adam’s descendants. Genetically the XXX chromosome man and the YYY chromosome woman are far more intolerant of others trying to control them. In a religiously enforced environment the judgmental man may be found unbearable. Especially is this so when he is judge, jury and executioner all in one.
3. The curse did not just cause conflict between the woman and the serpent, but also between male and female through conflicting desires to rule over each other. Whether in the open, or under the surface, the desire to be a matriarchal manipulator of the husband will surface trying his patience and tolerance. The higher the predominance of Y chromosomes the more frequent its occurrence. On the other hand the male desire to police, legislate and even punish the angel he married depends upon the amount of X chromosomes in his DNA. While his patriarchal self justification makes him turn a blind eye to his own aberrant desire to control, Paul indicates in Romans 7 that the lust to control others (especially one’s spouse) will be present until the redemption of the body. (Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 15.)

a. Apart from the gender conflict, with which William and Catherine Booth struggled, the saint who has been alone or single has an adjustment challenge. To pretend otherwise is to make marriage fragile indeed. Basically it is apportioning personal time on a new basis.
4. Adjustment: reorientation of self for the other.
a. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 1 Corinthians 11:8-9
b. “But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife” (1 Corinthians 7:32-3)

5. Adjustment: coping with Oneself . All saints must face this third adjustment: the blight within.
a. Our best intentions to restrain our controlling tendencies are fraught with the endemic curse within us: ‘the body of this death’. “ For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7:22-24
b. “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.”
Galatians 5:17

Though the lady is called the weaker vessel, the man is much weaker when he refuses to acknowledge this emotional attribute of one born to be a mother. A husband’s strength becomes his greatest weakness. The attributes of a Christian gentleman are considered weakness by the world, but not by God. When the wife admits her weakness for hearsay, curiosity, and distrust of her partner she becomes a giant for God. When, however, she leans on a cultish charismatic person of the church as surrogate father then marital trust in her spouse can be seriously endangered. Counseling of one spouse apart from the other usually leads to a partisan spirit.

THE GREATEST DANGER.
Having too high expectations of the spouse can become a serious problem. Especially is this so in exclusive assemblies of separated saints. John Darby, C I Schofield and J Frank Norris encountered this cycle.

Where freewill concepts blind the man to his own weaknesses (Romans 7, Galatians 6) puritanical hypocrisy may ensue. This pivots on relentless judgmentalism that inflexibly implements a higher standard in the spouse with catastrophic results. The ensuing alienation is rarely tolerable and separation becomes inevitable. Post marital separational trauma builds an almost irreversible cycle. Jesus warned of censoriousness that sees a splintered speck in the spouse’s eye, but is oblivious of the large foreign body distorting the vision of the beholder.

REACTIONARY NUCLEAR FISSION.
Often the damage is not the judgmental criticism of the spouse, but the reaction of the critic to the inadequate defensive response by the vilified. Thus the accuser in one fell stroke becomes the judge, jury and executioner in a bout of tyranny.
Proverbs 25:28 He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
(COMMENT: the infirmity may be his thorn in the flesh, but once a man’s spirit is wounded there is little equanimity left to sustain him against domestic conflict.)

Proverbs 15:13 … by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

(COMMENT: the cycle of sorrow unabated will break the spirit. This applies to negative reminisces, to purposeful avoidance of contention in the home.

Proverbs 17:22 …a broken spirit dries the bones.
(COMMENT: it is paramount that one monitors the interactional stress which progressively threatens to break the spirit. If unchecked by counter strategies bodily health may suffer.)

RELATED BIBLE REFERENCES.
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed.
(COMMENT: Healing of an ailing soul is not conditional upon the hearer’s acceptance. The emotional response to the confession is not the criterion of God’s cleansing of the confessor.)
Proverbs 28:13
He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
(COMMENT: the hearer’s resentful rebuttal of the confession does not negate God’s mercy.)
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(COMMENT: this spiritual dynamic covers known and unknown transgressions including those of omission and commission. “Cleanse me from secret sins and see if there be any wicked way in me.”)
1 John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
Matthew 18:21-23 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus said unto him, I say not unto you, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Matthew 6:15 But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 18:35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if you from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Mark 11:25 And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

CHRISTIAN’S MARITAL CONFLICT

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES. (1)

The role of freewill faith in the demise of prayer.

Jesus predicted the ‘falling away’, or the apostasy of our day at the ‘beginning of sorrows’ in the last days. The time has truly arrived and prayerlessness is part of it.

The cause is that evangelism today has a rationale the very opposite of the saints during the 14th C to the early 19th C. The changes came with New England Theology’s 19th C evangelism of ‘easy religion’.

The influence of the lapsed Jonathon Edwards (“Freedom of the Will’ 1746) and the new concept of faith by psychologist William James, were the roots of change. Both combined to accelerate the old error of Origen’s freewill faith that was later echoed by Pelagius.

James, the father of American psychology, was a closeted agnostic, but his new ideology spread throughout colleges, seminaries and theological halls of learning. He with Edwards previous New England Theology, successfully destroyed the necessity and credibility of radical conversion from previous centuries.

Dramatic 19th C. Changes.
(1) Among them was a new breed of rough and ready evangelists who emerged with the gift of the gab. They were often uneducated but sensational stage performers, who grabbed the quick admiration of the masses. The attraction was their emotional bombast offering automatic unconditional entry pass to heaven that was irrevocable.

(2) D. Moody, B. Sunday, R. Torrey, and a host of zealous evangels offered a magical new method of faith with a fast track to glory. Billy Sunday’s handshake; walking the sawdust trail; lifting a hand; bending a knee; moving the lips, were all ways of rapidly receiving eternal life. These new methods were ratified by the invitee lisping affirmation by rote repetition of the tutors’ words in a ‘sinners’ prayer’, a travesty of prayer itself.

(3) Ironically these persuasive gospel salesmen called the respondent’s actions repentance and faith.
(4) Thus, the parroted response of the invitees was said to be adequate proof of their unconditional, irrevocable eternal salvation because any lisping lip movement was said to be faith, according to Romans 10:9.
(5) Ultra bibliolatry, using one verse twisted from its context, became the new idolatrous fetish that moved masses into the church.
(6) Heightened altar-mania occurred globally after 1948, commencing with concentrated city campaigns of the Billy Graham Crusades and the further developments of mass media that ensued.
(7) The mass conversions over the last seventy years have been most questionable.

(8) Even separatist critics of Billy Graham’s ecumenism, still use the same ideology based on the erroneous ability of universal innate ‘faith’ using Romans 10:9 &13 as catalysts automatic regeneration of the Spirit.
An admixture of modernized faith, freewill theology, and American salesmanship brought 19th C. easy conversion to the masses. Right wing conservatives, evangelicals, and fundamentalists were gulled and soon captivated by the borrowed cliché, ‘revival’. Unlike the spirit of prayer which had generated previous awakening and conversion it was now unashamedly generated by humanist methodology.

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES. (1)

WITHIN 30 DAYS WORLD WAR BY U.S. ACCIDENT?

WITHIN 30 DAYS WORLD WAR BY U.S. ACCIDENT?
Is history repeating itself? An incident in the Balkans 100 years ago led to the First World War in just 30 days.

On 28th June a Muslim in Bosnia shot to death the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. On 28th July that empire declared war on Russia and Serbia.

Is Donald Trump breaking his promises not to police the internecine Muslim wars of the Far and Middle East?

Has the new president allowed the ever hawkish Pentagon to push the USA into an untenable position, provoking the Russian bear?

Surely 26 years of refereeing Islamic squabbles of Shias against Sunnis in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen cannot continue unabated without starting another world war? Has not Uncle Sam bled enough from its amassed trillions of dollars’ debt to finance its policing of Arab wars in the Islamic eastern nations?

Where has the indomitable and resilient new Commander’s tenacity gone? Is the manipulator being manipulated by emotion of the moment, or is he succumbing to General Mattis, the chief servant of the Pentagon?

Trump had promised to resist the Pentagon’s endemic bullying of the Oval Office! After the President’s peremptory cruise missile attack on a Syrian Air base will he unheedingly allow his own bluster to quickly usher in a World War III? Should the honourable Mr. Trump instead refuse to be bullied by the Pentagon, which has pressured past presidents since 1990 into internecine Muslim wars?

World War 1 was started by a Hapsburg Commander in Chief overreacting to the murders of the Ferdinand couple. However, the USA, and the UK used chemical weapons responding to German attacks by chlorine and mustard gas.

The 20th C Iraq-Iran War led both sides to use chemical weapons against each other. The USA has more chemical weapons stored on its continent than any other nation. Furthermore, its polluting the atmosphere by leakage and fallout from 1,000 atomic test explosions shames its record. Irradiating its own people, on its own soil testing devices above-the-surface (400), and below-the- surface (600), caused massive fallout and affected its own continent and others abroad. Despite the torrent of world protest the USA turned a deaf ear and would not stop until its planned schedule was completed.

Are chemical weapons as bad as nuclear weapons leaving lasting effects upon generations in terminal plagues of cancer?

The USA is the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs against a hostile nation. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities were obliterated in a far worse manner than chemical weapons. The population of those cities included men, women and children of all ages, just as in its continual, needless and repetitive fire-storm bombings of Tokyo and Hamburg. Yet Mr. World-Policeman unashamedly still dares to morally pontificate, even in nations with which it has not yet declared war.

‘One thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history’. The 57 nation Islamic confederacy (Org. Islamic Co-Op) has been very successful since 1991 in draining U.S. coffers by embroiling it in the orchestrated wars Islam creates.

Will Mr. Trump remember his initial spoken response to the latest Syrian chemical attack?

“I am the president of America! I am not the president of the world.”

Can he keep his word, or will he be just as weak as his predecessors and become another pawn of the Pentagon? After the incident on June 28 it took thirty days for World War to be declared in 1914.

Can Trump gamble with such recent daredevil brinkmanship before his words take the world beyond the point of no return?

Unless he controls or closes his Twitter account, and silences his administration’s loose cannon, his risk of starting apocalyptic devastation is high.

Goodbye any investment in renewal of U.S. infrastructure or reduction of $20 trillion debt! Alas, goodbye to your promises dear Donald. The Pentagon’s Defence Budget of over $3 trillion dollars per year is already way too high a % of GDP, let alone your unbearably new 10% increase.

Remember that the Roman Empire’s demise took only a few short decades in the 4th C. World War I ended the British Empire quite quickly and twenty years after Armistice Day the UK was literally broke.

WITHIN 30 DAYS WORLD WAR BY U.S. ACCIDENT?

9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS

9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS
Tea Party’s Continued Sabotage.

The Tea Party has been bull-dogmatic, contrary and capricious. Its handful of Senators and 20+ Representatives continue to delay confirmations, block legislation, and White House administration. It has had over 90 months of prior practice. With this third and more polarized Congress than ever in 2017 the Tea Party movement again holds the balance of power.

Often on House sit-down strikes in the past, its members had refused to vote. It had regularly killed budgets, aggravated the deficit, and all but paralyzed White House administration.

Is it trying to create another revolution? Have its members ever pondered the ramifications of their Oath of Office? Their uncharitable, but pompous belligerence is said to be in the name of freedom and the right to rebel. This is no more democracy than the French Revolution produced in 1798. Is America going backwards into a more primitive stage?

Tea Party hostility and animosity insanely routes any good Speaker and leads to stalemates and lame duck presidents who ineffectively rule by decree. Its dishonesty is manifest in its nine year campaign to block the previous White House.

Its disaffection has chosen another Commander in Chief, but this time a Republican, under which umbrella the Tea Party ironically claims affiliation. The last eight years of uncurbed deficit brought the loss of national credit rating by Moody’s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The same period brought stagnancy of growth and a president ruling by executive order rather than through Congress. A totally frustrated Speaker of the House inevitably made his exit.

A good many Tea Party rebels owe allegiance to the Black Book they often read. Would it not be untimely for them to read again the sobering exhortation of their hero? “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

Is there a place for perpetual malice in the Tea Party’s honorable members as endemic malignity weakens the nation? Its fractiousness feeds media madness to the great consternation of sane American citizenry.

Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives…

9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS

FAITHLESS CHURCH OF THE LAST DAYS

WESTERN CHURCH REJECTS FAITH BY GRACE?
Of the world’s 2,800 denominations (Barratt 1970) there are five main segments in the Christendom’s churches:

1. The sacramental church Christians, captives of tradition;
2. The liberal church Christians serving critical intellectualism;
3. The moral-majority church Christians addicted to a moralizing agenda
4. The conservative church Christians often evangelical and Conservative
5. The separatist fringe-dwelling church Christians claiming sectarian uniqueness

The universal faith of the religious Christian is often misplaced. Freewill faith belongs to humanist voluntarism, espoused by Origen at first, then more radically by Pelagius, his successor.

After 3rd C Origen self-will faith was echoed by Constantine’s 4th C Church of Rome; the Renaissance; the 18th C Enlightenment and finally by 19th C New England Theology evangelicals. The 18th C positivist philosophy which viewed man as basically good, betrayed the New Testament truth of his evil heart, darkened conscience, deceitful motives and wayward will, which is captive to original sin.

Since 1846 the USA evangelicals have rejected the Reformation’s righteousness of faith: a faith given by grace to the wholehearted seeker. Instead they claimed man is able by innate self-faith to access God’s grace under the sound of the Gospel preacher. The preceding saints’ intercessory prayer gatherings that would empower such preaching were overlooked and the evangelist became the chief catalyst. This new concept was built on the false premise that a measure of grace and faith is universally resident in man from the image of God he bears. Thus his assumed ability to understand, and seek the Lord becomes active in the presence of preaching. Yet, hinged alone on the vehicle of preaching the new genre of fundamental evangels unwittingly compromised the New Testament. The prophets and the apostles said that no one naturally understands the preaching of the Word, nor wants to seek Christ . (1 Corinthians 1:21; Romans 3:11; 1 Corinthians 2:13-14.)

Automated, mechanical evangelism soon abandoned the old-time weekly intercessors’ meeting and in its humanistic flurry of extemporary bombast it persuaded men to be converts of the church, but not of Christ.
Ditching original sin and replacing it with an unsullied image of God within man can never do more than sow tares in the harvest field of the world that once received the good seed of the Sower.

The Bible doctrine of faith through grace was inverted so that human self-willed faith became the key to conversion and the phenomenal growth of church empires in the USA. This easy-religion of stage produced sensationalism wowed the American populace as it tried to simulate a third Great Awakening. But it has constantly lacked the spirit of prayer, so essential to any awakening of the lost and the arresting power of the Spirit so paramount before conversion.

Oratorical persuasion of itself is a poor substitute. This new genre featured Billy Sunday, who won converts by a handshake at the end of his tent meetings. Also the likes of 19th C Dwight L Moody and Reuben A Torrey, mechanized automated conversion of the masses and devised modern methods of prayer to GET WHAT WAS DESIRED FROM GOD. The most famous fetish (still in vogue today) was to repeat the rote ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ for immediate salvation based on Romans 10:9 and 10:13 twisted from their context.

FAITHLESS CHURCH OF THE LAST DAYS

HOW SAINTS READ THE BIBLE (3)

1. Devotional reading on the run.
2. Rushed reading to cover a set number of chapters.
3. Pastor’s regimented reading the whole Bible in a year.
4. Allotting a time limit for reading
5. Momentarily glimpsing Bible verses in transit
6. Dipping into a promise box or randomly opening the Word for chance blessing.
7. Reading a daily devotional supplied by the church

REASONS FOR ALL SEVEN ON THE LIST.
1) ‘More haste less speed’ is the old proverb to remember.

2) Most of the listed actions are to save time for other more important priorities like eating, sleeping etc. The Bible says ‘it is vain to sit up late and rise up early.’ An hour before midnight is worth two hours after it. Sitting up late for leisure, work or pleasure will never allow meditation to him who has to rise early for work.

3) Short cuts are made for various reasons, but most are time saving factors for those who put Bible Reading on a low priority. Another reason is the reader himself does not understand much of the Bible except for historical narratives, as he has no indwelling ‘Interpreter’. He relies solely on his own knowledge and appreciation of literature. As such much of Scripture seems a mysterious enigma. As a result he wants to read the least amount possible, hoping that he will still acquire some credits of grace in the process.

4) Some think there is virtue in covering the Bible within one year. Others think that they will increase their faith if they force themselves to keep such a routine. Speedily accomplishing this goal may give comforting reassurance that they are pleasing God, but it is often only token gesture treatment of sacred write which impedes both meditation and intelligent cognizance of context.

5) The saints (sheep) do not need to be lectured, or compelled to follow a forced program of reading. They do not require forced feeding as their insatiable thirst for biblical milk, and hunger for the biblical meat will never cease. Down periods of temporary abstinence can cause dehydration and emaciation, but like the inner fire that burns low at this time “smoking flax he will not quench and a bruised read he will not break.”

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