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A Word to Calvary Chapels
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
- 2 Timothy 4:1-4
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February 2014
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What is Now on the Horizon in a Church World Without David Wilkerson, Dave Hunt, and Chuck Smith
|  MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - January 27, 2014
In 2008, several months before the sub prime crisis, I publicly shared a teaching called "Everything That Can Be Shaken" which was promptly filmed and recorded in the USA ,and UK and placed in the public domain. I, of course, make no claim to being a prophet and I regard those who do make such claims concerning themselves to be are either false ones or just plain religious crackpots. I was not the only person to issue such a predictive warning and was probably not the first. I was just one voice among various others that I am now aware of (but was not at the time) who believed the Lord was warning us that a financial crash was coming that would impact the church, including major supposedly Evangelical churches.
Being perfectly honest, although most were wrong or missed the signals, I learned after the crash that at least one major secular economist (ironically an Israeli American) predicted the crash by purely intellectual deduction and market analysis, when other popular economists got it wrong in their economic forecasts. Thus, I am hardly setting myself up as a prophetic voice in the classical sense although I did stand by what I believed the Lord revealed to me and to certain others. The warning was soon vindicated by the events that transpired.
However, I also predicted that faithful ministries would not be shaken and some would even in God's grace experience increased financial provision, not as a reward but as a resource to finance the furtherance of the true gospel. In this age of so many false gospels, funds are needed for missionary work and Christian charity at a time when heretic money preachers are prostituting God's Word to build their own religious financial empires instead of His Kingdom. It is those churches and ministries who are built on Christ alone, on the basis of His Word, that will not be shaken because they cannot be.
We had already witnessed the overnight collapse of what had been the world's largest ministry, the PTL Club due to heresy, immorality, and financial corruption. We saw the collapse of the world's largest evangelistic and music ministry of Jimmy Swaggart into a shadow of its former self due not to only immorality, but the religious hypocrisy of publicly hanging other preachers for a sin he himself was into. We saw the counterfeit revivals of Toronto, Pensacola, and Lakeland fizzle into little nothings in a maelstrom of scandals and decline once the religious hype they called "anointing", the entertainment they called "worship", the mysticism they called "spirituality", the clich� based manipulative psychologized babel they called "doctrine", and the kundalini yoga they called "manifestations" were over.
Once the fanfare was gone, the deluded subscribers to such seductions moved on to the next freak show. With the crash of 2008 however, a new phase of decline would be inaugurated. It culminated with the demise of the world's first mega church, positive thinking guru Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral, into 58 million dollars in debt. Other mega churches such as serial divorcee Paula White's 'Church Without Walls' followed, after she was photographed proudly walking down the Via Veneto in Rome holding hands with Benny Hinn.
Meanwhile the growth of Internet TV cut into the satellite monopoly of TBN and Paul Crouch (exposed for paying hush money to a former employee threatening to reveal an alleged homosexual tryst with Crouch which was disclosed in the secular media). More recently, his wife, Jan, was filmed in an inappropriate embrace of a bearded younger married man in the parking lot of their Florida theme park, where he played Jesus at the Holy Land Experience. Their own grand daughter exposed their financial shenanigans publicly. This and other shakings are but the beginning. More are coming.
From Rick Warren's alignment with worshipers of other gods, to his marketing driven agenda copied from unsaved business consultants, such as Peter Drucker, to his public reversal on same sex marriage California Proposition 8 (openly claiming he never supported it when, as is documented, he clearly did) to Emergent church patriarch Brian McLaren performing the same sex marriage for his son to his son's husband (it was McLaren and Warren who forwarded Dan Kimball's book ' The Emergent Church'), the trend continues. We have even witnessed the fundamentalist icon John MacArthur teaching that people can worship the anti-christ, worship the image of the beast, and take the mark of the beast and still get saved and go to heaven, in open and direct defiance of Revelation 14: 9-11. The spiritual, theological, and moral rot has gone even further still, and as Jesus warned in these last days, will continue to do so, which is why the merchants of the rot, such Mark Driscoll and Rick Warren oppose Christians studying eschatology and prophecy, even though Jesus reiterated His command that we remain alert and be watchful in the Olivet Discourse.
As the persecution of Christians in Moslem countries and the mass driving of Christians out of the Middle East gains crueler and crueler momentum, we have seen the unbelievable hypocrisy of Lynne Hybels, Gary Burge, Stephen Sizer, Colin Chapman, Tony Campolo, and Lucy Winkett, attempting to organize Evangelicals against Israel. Israel is the one country in the Middle East actually protecting the rights and safety of Arab Christians. As the genocide of believers in Jesus rages from Syria to Iraq, to Egypt, to Nigeria and beyond, to say nothing of the plight of Christians in Saudi Arabia and Iran, these hypocrites single out Israel for its self defense against the very radical Islam that is murdering Christians internationally, despite Israel having the best human rights record, best women's rights record, and best Christian rights record in the Middle East. This too, is but one more symptom of the final apostasy.
Now however, I believe the Lord is prompting me to make a further statement. Ten years ago I publicly stated that America was in grave danger of going the way of Great Britain, which bequeathed the USA its Evangelical heritage, but was now post-Christian and Neo-pagan (apart from Northern Ireland which is running on the inertia of its Christian past and has been scarred by a generation of sectarian hatred and murder). Church attendance in the UK of all denominations, both believers and non-believers is very low (under 10 percent except in Northern Ireland) and lower still (around 2 percent) in most of Western Europe. Islam, New Age groups and cults are growing whilst religious clowns pushing one spiritually abject and doctrinally bankrupt gimmick after another are flourishing. From Australia's sexual and financial scandal-ridden Hillsong to Steve Chalke's denial of the substitutionary atonement of Christ and endorsement of same sex marriage, false movements are ridiculously trumpeted as paths to revival. The idiotic antics of Wendy and Rory Alec's "God Channel" (better re-christened "the Godless channel") and Howard Condor's Revelation TV, continue to mislead the gullible, scripturally ignorant, and undiscerning.
In Great Britain, after Martin Lloyd Jones, G. Campbell Morgan and FF Bruce went to be with the Lord, there were no more scripturally based leaders in the UK Evangelical church, only theocratic politicians, false teachers and false prophets and other such self aggrandizing religious opportunists and silly old bible distorting promulgators of error, such as the late annihilationist and ecumenical proponent John Stott. The hucksters took over and the unlearned and naive followed. Now faithful Christians in the UK meet either in independent churches or in homes, avoiding mainstream Evangelicalism as it is no longer scripturally Evangelical.
Thus, 10 years ago I stated openly that the USA was on the precipice of the same decline. I saw what happened to Christianity in Britain once Martin Lloyd Jones, G. Campbell Morgan, and FF Bruce departed to be with Jesus. Such men may not have been perfect but they loved Jesus and taught the truth as others, such as Clifford Hill, David Noakes, the late Stephen Gardener, (to a degree David Pawson) and a few more, tried to warn what was happening and what was going to happen as a result. Compromised Ecumenical fads like Alpha courses failed miserably as homosexual and lesbian ordination, same sex marriage, and inter faith religiosity continued to make headway unabated in the Church of England whilst supposed Evangelicals, like John Stott, Sandy Miller, Nicky Gumbel, and George Carey stood by, saying and doing nothing (except when they acted to make matters worse). I advised my fellow American believers what was going to take place once Dave Hunt, David Wilkerson, and Chuck Smith were no longer around, just as it was in the UK when G. Campbell Morgan and Martin Lloyd Jones were no longer around. Well, now Chuck Smith, Dave Wilkerson, and Dave Hunt are no longer around, will good men rise up or will they cower and remain silent forfeiting the battle for America's spiritual future to Satan? If they do that, how good in the eyes of God can they really be?
The author of 'The Shack,' William P. Young, openly denies that Jesus died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for sin. Yet Gayle Erwin, author of 'The Jesus Style,' wrote a cover endorsement for this evil book written by a self confessed rejecter of the gospel. This is sick and perverted. The charlatans are running wild while too many pastors who know better say and do nothing to protect the Lord's sheep from these wolves. Will America now go the way of Britain now that Chuck Smith, Dave Hunt and David Wilkerson have gone home to their reward? In fairness, some like Chuck Smith's brother Paul Smith and a few others like him, are trying to take a stand, but where are the pastors?
One thing is absolutely certain - no place in the New Testament affirms nepotism as a model for church government in Ecclesiastical polity. When someone inherits leadership, donated money, and theocratic power not on the basis of any gifting or calling of God on their lives, but on the basis of who they are married to, the end result will not be good because it cannot be. The spiritual and doctrinal decline will be followed by moral decline and, ultimately, numerical and financial decline ensue. The Crystal Cathedral may have been the first mega church to exist and the first mega church to collapse. But it will not, however, be the last.
The Lord is indeed coming. Will the Son of Man find faith on earth? In fact, He will find at His second coming exactly what He found at His first: a faithful remnant, and that remnant is here now to prepare the way for His return. It is not here to hide in a bunker.
Unedited :: Link to Original Posting
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/what-is-now-on-the-horizon-in-a-church-world-without-david-wilkerson-dave-hunt-and-chuck-smith
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Denominationalism
The Sin of Party Spirit Masquerading as Christian Unity that Ultimately Unites with Apostasy and Unbelief
| MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - January 21, 2014
When we, the Body of Christ, have unity of The Spirit, we only need a fellowship of fellowships for practical cooperation in things like missions, Christian education, and charity, not any hierarchical structure other than the headship of Christ and doctrinal supremacy of scripture devoid of any organized or institutional monolith. One Faith, One Baptism. Once a movement fragments doctrinally it is fragmenting spiritually. Theological fragmentation is symptomatic of spiritual dissolution, and spiritually dissolution will conversely always result in doctrinal disharmony. When this happens it is inevitable that the movement morphs into a denomination that is theocratically held together by a combination of administrative, legal, and financial priorities and considerations. There is an artificial unity that is cohesive only by the glue of temporal factors that displaces and replaces doctrinal and authentic spiritual unity. Shortly after this transpires, those dissenting from centrally orchestrated policies on grounds of doctrinal conviction are mischaracterized as divisive by the pulpit politicians of the theocracy / denominational Sanhedrin who functionally see themselves as managers of non profit (although in reality, very often for profit) corporations even though they are expert at disguising this reality with the ecclesiastical camouflage of pseudo spiritual and doctrinally unsustainable religiosity. Purpose Driven Lies and marketing based programmatics will nullify the sovereignty of God in denominational thinking and scriptural principles for church growth based on evangelism, discipleship, and mission and exegesis will be replaced by eisegetical proof texting often relying upon paraphrased bibles and not the original meaning of the original languages (Nehemiah 8:8). Within a generation or so as with ancient Israel in the Books of Kings & Chronicles, they will deviate further from scriptural orthodoxy. The zeitgeist will permeate their thinking which at the present time in history translates into venturing into theological liberalism, ecumenism, social gospels, political agendas, moral compromise, theological post modernism and ultimately unbelief and debauchery (same sex marriages, homosexual ordination, divorce & remarriage without clear scriptural grounds etc.). Biblical evangelism will be demeaned as extremist, cultic or hyper sectarian and intolerant. Holiness will be denounced as legalism and legalism redefined as holiness. In place of worship there will be entertainment and one of two impostors dispatched from hell will shortly thereafter arrive at the door: Cessationism or Charismania (Neo Montanism). Those choosing the former as a safeguard against the latter are oblivious to the fact that both lies have the same origin. Those denominations subscribing to the humanist philosophy of Calvinism will have no more capacity to comprehend the 'reductio ad absurdum' lunacy which they consume thinking it to be logical anymore than the hyper Pentecostals can discern the true dark nature of their counterfeit spirituality. The most ardently self asserting fundamentalists such will espouse the blatant rejections of the plain teaching of The Word of God such as a God of love who indeed knows the future - creating people with the foreordained intended aim of torturing them forever or that one may worship the antichrist and his image taking the mark of the beast and still be saved in direct contradiction to and rejection of The Word of God (Revelation 14:9-11). Such Calvinistic supposed conservatives have no sense that their heretical pronouncements are as deranged and dangerous as anything ever pronounced by the most apostate of money preaching tele-evangelist. Neither of these twisted factions grasp that they both have redefined Christianity as an abject philosophy of fallen man. They are likewise oblivious to the undeniable fact that Calvinistic denominations have fostered and engendered the worst unbelief and most depraved subversion of the true message of Jesus such a Crystal Cathedral and the theologically liberal Reformed Churches. Neither can they swallow the truth that the false gospel of Calvinism claiming instead of quickening, regeneration precedes faith is as bogus a formula for false conversion as a claimed renewal of the Spirit that does not include repentance and substitutionary propitiation. In the denominations morality will most often be determined on the basis of one's position on social issues such as environmentalism, homosexual & lesbian rights etc. True ministry will be supplanted by activism. Denominations eventually are found as Paul prophetically predicted: "holding the form of religion but denying the power there in" (2 Tim. 3:5). Denominations will witness the prophetic place of Israel & the Jews becoming a divisive factor with the Jew haters nearly always eventually prevailing and the study of eschatology will be suppressed as the Blessed Hope is replaced by a backslidden hope in this present fallen world. Yet the objective truth of God's own eternal Word will become so substituted with a delusional experiential subjectivism rooted in emotional manipulation and ignorance which the deceived imagine to be spiritual that they will be dogmatic only about the perversely manufactured inventions of religious babblers negating even the unambiguous tenets of holy writ. They will then erect a false unity by uniting with first aberrational perversions of Christianity such as Roman Catholicism or Mormonism and then linking around social causes with other religions worshiping false demon gods. Simultaneously, demonic metaphysical New Age influences will infiltrate into their fabric expressed as 'emergence', Neo-Montanism, and a pseudo Judeo-Christian mysticism whose real ontogeny is in the Gnosticism of Eastern religions (Isaiah 2:6). They will then do to the church with 'Psychology' what unbelieving rabbis did to Israel with Caballah and embrace heretical false prophets who are motivated by earning false profits. They invariably become a full-blown recapitulation of Jeremiah chapter 23. This evolved process is ultimately orchestrated by Satan. By this point they are on the train to Babylon The Great controlled by an anti-christ spirit and the true people of God will have no option but to disembark. This is the unavoidable and self-inflicted fate of denominationalism. The institution will be deified and worshiped in place of God as with any other cult or false religious system. What had been the heritage of King David becomes 'Sodom & Egypt where The Lord was also crucified'. What had been the Body of Christ is now transformed into the footstool of the anti-christ. Those who dare to proclaim this reality are then bitterly castigated. This is precisely how denominations begin, and it is precisely how in the final analysis they will end up. Q: What is a denomination? A: A tax-deductible property trust and superannuation retirement fund for career clergy operating under the logo and pretense of a genuine faith; a social & financial institution and community activist organization with a cross on the roof. Nothing more. AoG, Baptist Union, Church of England, United Methodists, Presbyterians - take your pick. Originally posted on the MORIEL website
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/denominationalism
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2014 Bible Study Tours with Jacob Prasch Announcement
|  2014 BIBLE STUDY TOURS WITH JAMES JACOB PRASCH (DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED) PAUL IN GREECE WITH PATMOS AND BOOK OF REVELATION ON SITE FOCUSING ON 'PAROUSIA' THE TIMING OF THE RAPTURE & RESURRECTION TO BE STUDIED IN THESSALONIKA and on PATMOS Plus: PAUL IN PHILIPPE, BEREA, ATHENS, & CORINTH & The Greco Roman Historical background of the First Century Apostolic Church in Greece Combined With: 12 DAY INTENSIVE STUDY TOUR OF ISRAEL (In addition to our essential core study tour of Israel, additional days will be spent in the Shephila Region Studying Samson, Micah, The Maccabee History, and other accounts on location). ---------------- Those joining us have the option of coming with us to either Israel, Greece, or both. http://www.moriel.org/Tours/ |
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