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Patriarchy, Christian Reconstructionsim, and White Supremacy

Posted on March 20, 2013 by thereformedtraveler

TRTR rarely puts out a heads up on what’s new on the sidebar research links, but today is an exception. Under “Now Featuring” and also a permanent link on left sidebar, you will see an excellent research article entitled Patriarchy, Christian Reconstructionsim, and White Supremacy, from the site, Diary of an Autodidact. This topic is extensive, but, be that as it may, a much needed issue that needs addressed. Give yourself plenty of time, much thought and ready for research. These teachings are no longer fringe but mainstream, being endorsed and warmly embraced throughout evangelicalism, with a strong foothold in Reformed circles. The article touches on many aspects of this movement, including the Dabney and Rushdoony connection. Am glad to see Gothardism addressed, being a former Gothardite myself, which can lead, more often than not, into the other systems addressed. As the author of the article states, “For those who care about the issues currently dividing conservative Christianity, I think this information is important. I would urge my readers to follow the links as well. These are ideas that are being flaunted publicly and proudly, not hidden.”

Lord Bless you in your research.

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Internment Camps In “Free” America

Posted on November 12, 2012 by thereformedtraveler

Incremental Steps to Dictatorship

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Quotes from Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens (2007) by Teresa Morris:

     “The Master Arrest Warrant… directs the head of the FBI to: arrest persons whom I [the U.S. Attorney General] deem dangerous to the public peace and safety. These persons are to be detained and confined until further order.’”1

     “[Y]ou could, in the name of stopping terrorism… evoke the military and arrest Americans and put them in detention camps.” (U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez)2

     “Over the past five months, this ‘compound’ has taken shape out in the central Arizona desert, in the middle of nowhere…. It has razor wire all around it, power lines run to it…. It is in an inhospitable and inescapable area of the Sonoran desert. The closest small towns would be about 10 miles away in any direction…” Desert Compound Mystery

     “‘Intelligence Activities, Senate Resolution 21′ exposed the covert agenda… to monitor, infiltrate, arrest and incarcerate a potentially large segment of American society.”3

November 2012

New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows: “The staffing requirement or cadre for FEMA personnel for these camps — which are identified as being located in five (5) distinct regions throughout and within the borders of the USA, with camps located in each and every state — was three to fifteen each. The size of these camps will vary around 5 acres per 1,000 inhabitants, though they will never be less than 3 acres for populations of 500 or fewer inhabitants within the camps’ boundaries.
“This requirement also had a minimum square footage for each inhabitant: …approximately 8 feet on each side. This is slightly less than current Federal Court(s) requirements for housing prisoners…. Perimeter fencing or barricades is required to be six feet high…with security restricting all traffic and access….
“Another anomaly was the requirement that the ‘off limits’ area was to be enclosed before anything else…. Fencing and barricades are required within 36 hours for ‘phased’ setup timeframes, and 72 hours for the rest…”
“To sum up: the solicitation to bid for the staffing of FEMA camps within 72 hours is a curious proposition, since it appears to predict a calamity that will affect the entire nation simultaneously –completely unlike a location-specific natural disaster.
“…what I found most striking was the ‘off limits’ areas within each camp and staffing with ‘displaced persons’… all undefined. As citizens, we need to know the exact purpose of these camps…” See FEMA Camp Footage

Video: Camp FEMA: American Lockdown – FULL MOVIE – 86 min : Recent legislation attempting to legitimize the use of internment camps to detain U.S. citizens in the event of an uprising or civil unrest has many people asking what nation they live in.

       “In a country born out of political dissent, we watch our leaders in Washington slowly pass bills that label ordinary Americans as thought criminals and potential domestic terrorists for simply questioning the actions of their government. We see third party candidates and their impassioned supporters listed in secret government reports that call their allegiance into question and brand them as fanatics and extremists.

       “Senate committee hearings and official FBI documents further illustrate the mindset of our elected officials as they classify homeschoolers, gun rights activists and anti-abortionists as threats against the existing social and political order; by default creating an entire nation of radicals and revolutionaries – where everyone is a suspect equally guilty until proven otherwise.

       “How has our government shown that they will deal with these people? The same way as every other totalitarian regime throughout history – marginalize their activities then lock them up. Prisons are being built; internment camps constructed and laws passed that deal severely with anyone who dares to step out of line or ask too many questions.

       “Who are the potential domestic terrorists that will end up in these camps? Read the documentation for yourself…“

September 2012

Leaked U.S. Army Document Outlines Plan For Re-Education Camps In America: “The document makes it clear that the policies apply ‘within U.S. territory’ and involve, ‘DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, and for designated law enforcement and other activities,’ including ‘man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.’…The manual lists the following roles that are designated to the ‘PSYOP team’.

- Identifies malcontents [who are unhappy about Obama?], trained agitators, and political leaders…

- Develops and executes indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes.

- Identifies political activists….

- Plans and executes a PSYOP program that produces an understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.” See Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens

{ED NOTE: Check site for further updates}

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Will the Evangelical Church Sell Out the Gospel for a Dominionist Political Agenda?

Posted on November 11, 2012 by thereformedtraveler

Although this article is from 2011 – still valuable information for understanding Dominionism-7 Mountains and it’s agenda/goals. Many links contained in article and at end of post for further research.

A Special Report by Understand the Times and Lighthouse Trails

Lighthouse Trails Research

As America is quickly approaching another presidential election year, some interesting things are taking place within evangelical/Protestant Christianity that are connected to next year’s election. Dominionist/Kingdom Now political and religious figures are joining forces with evangelical Christian groups. While having concern for the state of America is more than legitimate, will Christians replace commitment and loyalty to the Gospel for commitment and loyalty to a dominionist agenda? If they do, they will learn the hard way that compromise and a “whatever it takes” attitude will do more harm to the cause of Jesus Christ than good.

This article is not a statement that Christians should not be involved in or concerned about the political state of their countries. Rather, the intention of this article is to exhort believers to use discernment in understanding the times in which we live. It is to show how a present ecumenical, dominionist movement (that is heading toward a one-world religion to “establish the kingdom of God on earth”) is operating and deceiving many Christians. As Christians, we are to be witnesses for Jesus Christ and His Gospel message of salvation to those who believe on Him by faith. But today, many Christians may be on the brink of buying into a plan that will ultimately create a global religion and global government.

The apostle Paul was very clear that we are not to entangle ourselves with those who say they are of the faith but preach “another gospel” (Romans 16:17, Titus 3:10, 2 Corinthians 11: 13-15).

The definition below of dominionism is helpful in understanding the goals of the dominionist movement:

The Gospel of Salvation [according to dominionism] is achieved by setting up the “Kingdom of God” as a literal and physical kingdomto be “advanced” on Earth in the present age. Some dominionists liken the New Testament Kingdom to the Old Testament Israel in ways that justify taking up the sword, or other methods of punitive judgment, to war against enemies of their kingdom. Dominionists teach that men can be coerced or compelled to enter the kingdom. They assign to the Church duties and rights that belong Scripturally only to Jesus Christ.1

Dominionism shares some of the same ideologies as the emerging church, the primary similarity being the belief that a utopian “kingdom of God” will be set up on earth prior to the return of Jesus Christ, and in fact there won’t actually be a bodily physical return of Christ; but rather His presence will become more manifest within us the more the kingdom of God on earth is created. This is totally contrary to Scripture that tells us that Jesus Christ will return physically (where every eye shall see Him), and it will be to a world that has become completely chaotic and reprobate, not utopian and godly.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. (Revelation 1:7)

With that in mind, it is vital to know that a number of dominionist groups are rallying the support of conservative Christians under the guise of “restoring America” back to its “Christian roots.” A look at a couple of these groups is important.

The Seven Mountains of Culture

The Seven Mountains of Culture was founded by Os Hillman who is the founder and executive director of Marketplace Leaders Ministries. Hillman teaches a workshop called The Change Agent Intensive Workshop and has been featured on many major media programs.

The best way to describe The Seven Mountains of Culture is through the following promotional video clip:

An article titled “7 Mountains – Set to Go Viral” by Discernment Ministries examines the goals of this dominionist agenda, expressing “concern that this radical mandate for dominionism, and the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) which birthed it, are becoming part of the political Right and evangelical mainstream.” The article states that the “7 mountains mandateis already becoming a unifying rally point among evangelicals from many diverse theological camps and from some very unexpected quarters.”

The Dominionist/Reclaiming our Culture mind-set is a dangerous path that leads, not to biblical truth, but rather to an ecumenical, Road to Rome, “Army for God” that will attempt to force culture to be “Christian” (something Jesus Christ or the disciples never mandated) and will end up leading all down that Road to Rome and eventually into a one-world religion and one-world government.

The Discernment Ministries article assesses:

Not only does the Kingdom of God have a different King to the kingdoms of the world, but it has different citizens, has a different future and it operates by different principles. One of the principles that makes God’s Kingdom radically different to that of the world is the lust for power as opposed to the willingness to serve.

“Jesus said: ‘Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.’” (Matthew 20:25-28).2

This is not to say that Christians should not try to be a light and the “salt” in a fallen culture (Matthew 5:13). But there is a difference between what Scripture instructs us to do and what the 7 Mountains movers teach; they believe they are “building an actual PHYSICAL kingdom here on earth — structurally through man’s mechanisms. This is the 7 mountains that they want to take over. They believe they can take them over by political, scientific, and psycho-social means.” And like the New Agers, they also want to build the spiritual kingdom within, “which they believe they can perfect themselves here on earth via mysticism” thus “they will begin to ‘manifest’ Christ — become the sons of God.”3

The Call

Lou Engle’s The Call is another dominionist group that is tied in with the 7 Mountain agenda. In a 2008 Lighthouse Trails article, we linked to the advisory board of The Call. The link has been removed from their site but this cache file shows the members at that time. Some of them are contemplative advocate Ron Luce (Teen Mania), Loren Cunningham (founder of YWAM, featured on the 7 Mountain video above), Steve Douglas of Campus Crusade for Christ (which just removed the name Crusade and Christ from their name), Rick Joyner, and C. Peter Wagner – dominionist figures who want to bring the kingdom of God to earth before Christ returns. The following video is from a large youth rally put on by The Call. You will see Lou Engle and Rick Joyner watching thousands of young people jumping up and down to the repetitive beat of drums and hundreds of Shofars being blown.

A Civil War?

In a radio transcript titled “Blues and Grays,” Understand the Times states:

Christianity is about to be purified through a civil war, they say. Is this behavior indicative of a revival as some claim? Or is this exactly what occurred in the past when “enlightened Christians” became the “manifested sons of God”?

[In] an article written by Rick Joyner called the Coming Civil War in the Church. . . . Joyner states he believes a civil war will soon be breaking out within the church. He states: “There is a huge portion of the church which is being held bondage to the same religious spirit that manifested itself to the Pharisees, and it will attack any new movement that arises in the church. The more anointed the new movement is, the more these traditionalists will be threatened by it, and the more vehemently they will attack it.”

Joyner’s solution for removing the people who oppose this “anointed new move” sounds rather militant. Listen to what he says:

“The longer we continue to compromise with such institutions which use manipulation or control for the sake of unity or for any reason the more it will ultimately cost us to remove the cancer from our midst.”

Joyner then went on to describe how the conflict in the church will develop:

“The coming spiritual civil war will be between the Blue’s and the Gray’s. In dreams and visions blue often represents heavenly-mindedness, and gray speaks of those who live by the power of their own minds – which is equivalent to the brain’s gray matter. This will be a conflict between those who may be genuine Christians, but who live mostly according to their natural minds and human wisdom, and those who follow the Holy Spirit.” 4

Jerry Boykin and Rick Joyner

A name that is showing up a lot on the speaking schedules of evangelical gatherings is that of General Jerry Boykin (once a Delta Force member and one time head of the Green Berets). Boykin is a high officer in the “Knights of Malta,* an ecumenical (Orthodox, Evangelical, Catholic and Protestant) order. Boykin holds the title of Grand Chancellor in the Order. According to the Knights of Malta website, the order is sanctioned and “blessed” by the Vatican (see 1 and 2document). In document 1, Pope Benedict XVI “invokes . . . the continued protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Each “Knight,” including Boykin (and Rick Joyner who is a “Supreme Council Member” of the Order), is required to take a vow. In this vow, the Knight pledges himself to “be guided by the ideas of the Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem (started in 1090 and is the predecessor of the Knights of Malta).

Many people may not realize what the term ecumenical actually means, at least to the Catholic church, which describes ecumenism as the absorption of all Christian groups that have “broken away” from the Mother Church back to it.5

Jerry Boykin has spoken at numerous dominionist events such as the 7 Mountains conferences (see May 2010) and a New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) event called Transformation Michigan. In addition, Boykin is on the board of Rick Joyner’s organization called The Oak Initiative. (Joyner is the President; other board members include dominionists Cindy Jacobs and Lance Wallnau).

In Kevin Reeves book, The Other Side of the River, Reeves discusses Rick Joyner. Reeves, a former elder of a Latter Rain/dominionist church, states:

Joyner’s blatant Latter Rain beliefs were assimilated into our congregation on the wings of the mythical end-times revival which would supposedly sweep millions into the kingdom. A super-spiritual elite group of prophets and apostles will be raised up, Joyner states, and will transform the world of these last days, doing greater miracles than even the apostles who walked with our Lord. Whole nations will tremble at the mention of their names.

Interesting. Sounds a lot easier to deal with than Jesus’ prophecy that “[Y]e shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake” (Matthew 24:9).6

In Final Quest, Joyner says he hears from a dead saint (one of the foolish virgins mentioned in Scripture), who has told him the things that are to come. According to researcher and writer Sarah Leslie, “Rick Joyner was one of the ‘Kansas City Prophets’ who now wields considerable influence through his ‘prophecies’ about a coming militant church.”7 Joyner states:

We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline, and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that He uses ten times more than any other in Scripture is “the Lord of hosts,” or “Lord of armies.” There is a martial aspect to His character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.8

We know that the Lord will return with a cloud of witnesses to bring down judgment on the earth, but we don’t believe Rick Joyner or the self-proclaimed apostles and prophets will be leading the way.

Jerry Boykin and Calvary Chapel

It is non-debatable that Jerry Boykin resonates with Rick Joyner – they are in the same Knights of Malta order and work together in The Oak Initiative. Thus, it is troubling to learn that Boykin has been speaking at numerous different Calvary Chapels and sharing platforms at conferences with Chuck Smith and other Calvary Chapel pastors over the last few years (e.g., the 2009 Epicenter conference and Epicenter 2008 with Smith, Boykin, and Joel Rosenberg; Greg Laurie’s Preach the Word Prophecy Conference in 2010, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in 2009, and Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Prophecy Conference in March 2011). Boykin will also be speaking at the Calvary Chapel Honolulu Pastors’ Conference in August 2011, and his materials are sold in the Calvary Chapel store, listed as one of four “Other Authors.”

So here we have a man who is part of an order sanctioned by the papacy (the certificate from the Vatican is on the Knights of Malta website) and part of a dominionist group, speaking to Calvary Chapel groups. Is Calvary Chapel going to be one of those evangelical/Protestant groups that will exchange the solidity of the Gospel for a “whatever it takes” attitude for political purposes and other purposes? Do they not see the error in this? Incidentally, other denominations and Christian groups are doing the same thing. Check out the denomination you belong to – you may be surprised.

Presidential Candidate Rick Perry and His Dominionist Partners

On August 6^th, 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry took part in a rally called The Response. Perry, who announced his bid as a presidential candidate on August 13, 2011, partnered with some interesting figures at The Response, including C. Peter Wagner, Mike Bickle, and Cindy Jacobs, each of whom is in the dominionist camp. Perry also participated in a 2010 rally called Freedom Foundation Summit with Rick Joyner, Cindy Jacobs, Lou Engle, and Lance Wallnau (an “Apostle” promoting the 7 Mountains teaching). If Perry does not share the dominionist persuasion as these others do, should he not distance himself from them rather than mingle with them? Many proclaiming Christians in America are desperate for a godly leader and may follow Perry merely out of that desperation. But if he is truly tied in with Wagner, Joyner, Bickle, and Jacobs, then maybe these desperate Christians should think twice about which candidate they are going to rally behind.

Will the Christian Church Sell Out?

During the years just prior to the last presidential election, an all out effort was made by leaders in the emerging church to help get elected a liberal, far left president. Many of these leaders, such as Rick Warren, said things that made many conservative Christians feel guilty for voting on moral issues such as abortion and homosexuality. Books by emerging “progressive” authors suggested that Christians shouldn’t even become involved in politics (e.g. Shane Claiborne’s book, Jesus for President). And while the older conservatives were being manipulated not to vote, young Christians were being persuaded to vote differently than their “old fashioned parents,” to vote for social justice regardless of biblical standards or lack of them. And, well, no need to say what these emerging efforts did to America.

No single political party can save the world. The Bible says that the closer we draw to the second coming of Christ, the worse the state of the world will be in. Rather than “evolving” into perfection, mankind is disintegrating.9 It’s because of man’s sin and a world that has for the most part rejected the Savior of the world. Revelation 12:9 states that the day will come when Satan will “deceiveth the whole world.” Yet just as Jesus gave the coin to pay the tax to Caesar, so too we as Christians can be responsibly active in our world. But foremost, let us remember that the Bible says we cannot serve both God and man at the same time (Matthew 6:24).The true calling of born again believers is to preach the Gospel, make disciples, and contend for the faith. And we must never compromise by embracing dominionist agendas and interspiritual Peace Plans and joining forces with those whose goals and ambitions are contrary to the Christian commission given to us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We must ask ourselves, is a militant dominionist agenda what we really want to embrace and support? Is it what we want to serve?

In a powerful radio interview, Ingrid Schlueter addressed this dominionist agenda. She stated:

We have a group of leaders who are horrified with the moral collapse in this country. I am horrified with the cultural collapse in this country. We have a problem in identifying and discerning why our culture is collapsing. What we are seeing around us is not fruit of Christians not caring. It’s fruit of Christians abandoning the gospel. And if we’re not going to define the gospel along biblical terms, and we’re going to allow false teachers in among us, and we’re going to link arms with said false teachers, and we’re going to work with them who are preaching another gospel, who are teaching lies, if we’re going to link arms with them to save the culture, we are not only engaged in a futile effort, but God is going to, in turn, judge that conduct. Because judgment, Scripture tells us, begins at the house of God.10

A Herescope article on this issue states:

The sad fact is that great opportunities to present the message of the gospel of salvation are being lost. Precious time is being wasted . . . Those who truly need to hear a message of repentance, salvation and hope aren’t being witnessed to. Discipleship isn’t happening. . . . It is a false gospel that preaches that the culture/nation can be changed rather than focusing on the lost who will perish in hell if they do not repent. . . . And when the lost are truly saved and born again, their lives will change and this is when the miracles begin to happen and when the culture around them begins to be positively impacted by the salt and light of their changed lives.11

Understand The Times and Lighthouse Trails are dedicated to warning the sheep about last days spiritual deception. While it is difficult to have to sound this warning at a time when many are concerned about the state of their countries and the world at large, Jesus made it very clear about how we are to view the world, behave in the world, and reach out to the unsaved. He never told his disciples to form associations with those promoting spiritual deception in order to establish a kingdom on earth. On the contrary, Jesus said:

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (John 15:18-19)

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. (2 Corinthians 6:17)

My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. (John 18:36)

Notes:

“Dominionism and the Rise of Christian Imperialism” by Sarah Leslie: http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/sarah-leslie/dominionism.htm
“Seven Mountains Set to Go Viral by Discernment Ministries”: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/06/seven-mountains.html
Sarah Leslie, Discernment Ministries in an e-mail conversation on 8/15/2011 with Lighthouse Trails.
“Blues and Grays” by Roger Oakland: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/radio%201299%20BLUES%20AND%20GRAYS.doc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_ecumenism
Kevin Reeves, The Other Side of the River, (Eureka, MT: Lighthouse Trails Publishing, 2007), p. 99.
http://www.discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.htm
“TAKING THE LAND—“We Are Establishing Our Eternal Place And Position Here On Earth” by Rick Joyner, 11/29/05, http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=3617
Please watch Roger Oakland’s powerful DVD lecture series on evolution vs creation. It shows the connection between evolution and the current spiritual deception in the world today: Searching for the Truth on Origins.
VCY America interview between Ingrid Schlueter and Sarah Leslie: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=4590
“May Day Prayers: What Repentance?” by Herescope: http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/010/discernment/5-may-day.htm

Other Resources:

SPECIAL REPORT: The Jesuit Agenda and the Evangelical/Protestant Church

CrossTalk on WorldNetDaily Article – Challenge to Dominionist Leaders – The Gospel Should Come First!

Jesus Camp Film Reveals the Mystical and the Militant, Not Biblical Christianity

The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)

The Coalescing Of The Christian Right With Apostolic Dominionism

May Day Prayers – What Repentance?

Gospel More Important Than America

Will the Evangelical Church Help Usher in the “Age of Enlightenment” and the Coming False One?

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Reconstructionism – Dominionism – Kingdom Now – Theonomy and the Twist of the “Dominion Mandate”

Posted on July 16, 2012 by thereformedtraveler

“But today I want to turn our attention to a movement in the Evangelical church
that seeks to return the church to the other obsolete element of the Old Testament
law. These people want to reinstitute the Jewish civil law of the Old Testament.
And not only do they want to reinstitute this law in the church, they also want to
reinstitute this law over the entire world-system. The movement that seeks to do
this is most widely known by the name Christian Reconstructionism. Sometimes
you will also hear it referred to as Dominion Theology, or as Theonomy.” ~ (Paul Elliott, emphasis mine)

From teaching series by Paul M. Elliott, Teaching the Word Ministries Colossians 2: Truth Above All

Beware of Reconstructionism ~ Read in Full Here or Listen to Sermon Audio

“Now I must say to you that as we look at the history of the Christian church, we
find that this changeable nature of such movements is, in itself, a danger signal. It
is a danger signal that is true of all man-made movements within the church. And
for this reason alone, dear friend, apart from any other consideration, I say to you
that you should beware of anyone within the church who tells you that you need to
join a movement. It doesn’t matter what kind of movement it is.”

Christ vs Reconstructionism ~ Read in full Here or Listen to Sermon Audio

Cornelius Van Til, professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia from the 1920s to the 1970s. Van Til‟s philosophy was deeply flawed by the fact that he did not believe that the Bible is the actual Word of God. He taught that the Bible is only an analogy of what is actually in the mind of God.

“We are continuing the message we began on our last broadcast. Our general topic
at this point in our study of the book of Colossians is the evil of legalism. At present
we are dealing with the legalistic movement called Christian Reconstructionism.”

“They speak of “faith in all areas of life.” They twist the
“dominion mandate” of Genesis chapter one, verses 26 to 28. This was God‟s
mandate for mankind to be the custodian of the earth and the lower orders of life in
the creation. But the Christians Reconstructionists twist this into a mandate, not for
mankind in general, but for Christians specifically, to establish what they call
“Biblical law” – which is in fact a euphemism for the reinstitution of the Jewish
civil law code – over all of humanity. They teach that Christian man can establish
theocracy in this world.”

As we look at Christian Reconstructionism in the light of the Word of God, and
in the light of Christ‟s own statements, we find that Christian Reconstructionism is
condemned by four fatal flaws:

First, Christian Reconstructionism is the dangerous reintroduction of legalism into the life and thinking and activities of the Christian individually, and the church as a body.

Second, Christian Reconstructionism is contrary to God‟s plan and purpose for the church, as we find it in the pages of Scripture.

Third, Christian Reconstructionism is contrary to God‟s plan and purpose for this present world, as we find it in His written Word.

And fourth, Christian Reconstructionism is contrary to God‟s revealed plan for the sanctification of the believer in Christ individually, and the sanctification of the church of Christ as a body.

Related Articles:

The Coalescing of the Christian Right with Apostolic Dominionism

Mainstreaming Dominionism

Dominion Theology/Kingdom Now/Reconstructionism “Reconstructionists teach that the mission of the church goes beyond the spiritual transformation of individuals, to a mandate to change society, a “moral patriotism,” if you will, in opposition to secular humanism. For Christ to be pleased with Christians, thereby, they must become political and social activists. We must change the laws of the land, gear up to elect Christians to office, and generally seek to take dominion over our world and bring it under the Law of Moses.”

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Alien Ideas: An Acculturated Version of the Faith

Posted on May 15, 2011 by thereformedtraveler

“I read my Bible and I’m not reading it as some book of rules. I’m not reading it looking for codes, hidden meanings. I’m not reading it with my newspaper in hand trying to find the secret meaning behind current events. I’m not reading it to have my best life now, or to find seven secrets to a better marriage. I’m not reading it so I can work to take over the world or to affirm some kind of romanticized notions I have about the country I live in. I don’t want to read it to defend a political or theological tradition, to construct coherent philosophical systems that I can turn into political and cultural action.

I read it to know God and to be reconciled to Him. To know His ways and His character. I want to know the truth because it is true, because its the way the universe works.

I guess I just get upset because when I see those signs on Churches or when I listen to ‘christian’ radio….

I don’t know what god they’re worshipping. It’s not the one I know from the Bible. I’m not the standard. My experience isn’t the lens by which to look at these things, but when I listen to these christian leaders and how they view the church and the world, I’m left with a dilemma. Maybe I’m lost? I suppose they would say so. I am so antithetical to almost everything they stand for and care about it would seem we’re standing for two different religions.

But I go back to my Bible and I am comforted and I press on. I read history and I am comforted because this has all happened before. For centuries groups of people clung to the Bible. They were imperfect, they did not have all the answers but they were facing the same thing. They faced a Christendom narrative and theology, an acculturated version of the faith, a perversion of doctrine stemming not from Scripture, but from alien ideas, speculation, and arguments driven by necessity from bad cultural-theological foundations.

We are there once again. “

Excerpt from Proto-Protestanism Article by John A. – Entitled: A link and a few comments pertaining to ‘Christian’ news, radio, and commentators

Also: HT To: Flee From Babylon

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Developing Church Campaigns Communist Style (or how Rick Warren did it)

Posted on May 2, 2011 by thereformedtraveler

Communitarianism is Communism - Lite

If you have not yet listened to this particular Worldview Weekend Radio show, I am encouraging you to do so. I hear people say, ‘We know Rick Warren is a false teacher, well let’s just move on.” There are those that do know that Warren is a false teacher, but don’t understand the scope of who he is and where he is taking not only his followers, but we must look at it on a global scale. Rick Warren isn’t ‘just another peddler of the false gospel’. The Lord has allowed him to come on the scene for a purpose and it’s not the purpose that Warren touts. In this show, Brannon Howse gets into the Brain Trust of the Emergent Church, gives us an understanding of just what is it when we hear the terms social gospel or social justice, such as Tim Keller pushes. What is Communitarianism and how Existentialism comes into play. Find out what a New Age Communitarianism Globalist is and what it has to do with you, personally. Much exposing and much to learn on this program. And yes, you do get to hear audio of Rick Warren explaining of how he learned to develop campaigns for his church from the communist.

The following is from Worldview Radio

Brannon Howse: Aired April 26, 2011

Hear the audio of Rick Warren admitting that he learned how to develop campaigns for his church from the communist. Warren and Bob Buford were mentored by Peter Drucker. Brian McLaren says Buford helped to launch the Emergent Church and we see the worldview of Drucker within the Emergent church and the seeker friendly (communitarian) church movement. Drucker praised Soren Kierkegaard and even studied Dutch so he could read Kierkegaard’s yet translated writings. Kierkegaard promoted that there were no absolutes which we see in the postmodernism of the Emergent Church. Drucker also praised Fabian Socialist John Maynard Kenyes. This is important because Business week called Drucker a communitarian. Communitarianism is communism light. A Fabian socialist and a communitarian are very much the same thing by a different name. Warren mentions three Fabian Socialists in his Purpose Driven life book. Drucker was a globalist that promoted pagan spirituality and called for the de-emphasis on theology and for the church to be used to implement social justice and a new world order. Understanding Drucker helps us to see the ideas of Drucker in the work of Rick Warren, Bob Buford, Bill Hybels, and the hundreds of thousands of pastors that follow them. The false church is being built that will assist in building the New World Order. The woman that rides the beast is about to saddle up.
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Seized By Secularism

Posted on April 29, 2011 by thereformedtraveler

“Fusing Christ with a particular civilization is already a gross distortion of the faith.”

”The question is whether the cross is proclaimed in our churches.”

by Michael Horton

Like Europe, the United States has now been “seized by secularism,” Newt Gingrich warned at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday. As evidence of the replacement of Christianity with secularism, the former House Speaker cited the following: replacing Anno Domini (A.D.) with the Common Era (C.E.), banning school prayer, striking out “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, and the court battle over the Mojave Desert Cross that commemorates World War I veterans. Gingrich explained how “secularist fanaticism” encouraged him to join the Church of Rome in 2008. He asked the audience to imagine themselves as the pope, facing a culture that tears down crosses and bans school prayer.

At the same time, Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly was ruffled over the current TIME cover story, reporting the denial of hell by evangelical pastor Rob Bell in his book, Love Wins. O’Reilly said we need hell for the Pol Pots, Lenins, and Hitlers of the world, though he cited official Roman Catholic statements about those who try sincerely to do good as unlikely candidates for hell. So Ghandi is in, but Hitler is out. Ah, so good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell—and, of course, I’m a good person. If this isn’t a secularization of the Christian faith, I don’t know what is.

Also in the last couple days, MSNBC commentator Lawrence O’Donnell took on Rusch Limbaugh for distorting Jesus’s teaching. After a tirade against the Left for using Jesus as a mascot for socialism, Limbaugh used Jesus as a mascot for capitalism. Not “What Would Jesus Do?”, but “What Would Jesus Take?”, is the question to ask. And the answer, of course, is nothing. Jesus was against high taxes. Au contraire, O’Donnell responds, quoting Jesus’s conversation with the rich young ruler and the separation of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25. For his part, O’Donnell invokes Jesus for a progressive income tax structure.

So what do all of these stories have in common? Lots of things come to mind, but I’ll mention two. First, all of these stories point up the remarkable ignorance of Scripture and a consequent inability to do anything more with it than find quotable sound-bites for positions that one would have if Jesus had never lived. Second, they suggest that there is indeed a creeping secularism that is threatening vital Christianity. However, I would suggest that the kind of Christianity that many worried souls have in mind is not really that different from creeping secularism.

In the 1950s, C. S. Lewis was asked by Decision magazine whether he was concerned about the “de-Christianizing” of the West, especially Europe. Lewis replied, “I’m not really qualified to speak to the question of the culture, but there is definitely a de-Christianizing of the church.” It’s one thing for Christian churches to lose their cultural influence. Fusing Christ with a particular civilization is already a gross distortion of the faith. Nevertheless, “Christendom” is over, regardless of whether you think it was a good or bad idea in the first place. Benign prayers to an unkown god in public schools, apart from the Mediator, is already a capitulation to secularism. Who cares whether crosses no longer dominate national memorials where Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, and atheists are buried? The question is whether the cross is proclaimed in our churches.

Maybe “fanatical secularists” who are so nervous about public expressions of faith have something to worry about, when burning Qur’ans and using Jesus for whatever left-wing or right-wing policy become the most familiar presence of religion in public life. Maybe it’s time for us to stop taking God’s name in vain and begin again to be Christians in a pagan culture.

(Emphasis RT’s)

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Abusing the Imprecatory Psalms (Let God Be Your Hitman)

Posted on March 13, 2011 by thereformedtraveler

“….the very thing Dominionists do as they try and teach history and interpret events from a “Christian Worldview.” (Exceprt from article)

“This has become almost a tradition among American Christians who seem to love it when their leaders and politicians wrench Bible verses from context and apply them (often sacrilegiously) to the United States. To take verses that speak of Christ’s redemptive work and apply them to American struggles, the death of soldiers, and the pioneer spirit is blasphemous.” (Excerpt from article)

“What an insult to the majesty of Scripture and what a failure to understand the theme and plot, the typology, and development of God’s glorious history of Redemption. It’s not about calling down curses on Barack Obama. The Bible is from start to finish on every page and in every verse about Christ Jesus the Lord of Glory, our Risen King. Obama is nothing, dust in the wind. He’s there because God wants him there. Be content.” (Exceprt from article)

Abusing the Imprecatory Psalms

By John A. Proto-Protestantism

Ever heard of the Obama Prayer?

The Imprecatory Psalms, those which call down curses or Imprecations on God’s enemies seemed to experience something of a revival in the 1990′s. Theonomic ideology had quietly percolated for a few years and then Bill Clinton became the president of the United States.

I never heard it personally, but I knew some who heard pastors pray for God to strike him dead right in the middle of the Sunday morning service.

I suppose it’s not a surprise that sort of thing is making a comeback.
I remember a book titled War Psalms of the Prince of Peace….I can’t recall who wrote it. I used to have it but can no longer find it. What a pity. I guess I was so impressed with it, I misplaced it.

The basic idea is that just like in the Old Testament, we can call down God’s Judgment and curses on others.

This ignores the fact that the Psalms were written by prophets speaking for God and it’s not too difficult to see that the prophets are often vocalizing the words of the Prophet, Christ Himself, the One who was to come. Christ is calling down curses on God’s enemies….we ought to pause before we rush into exercising either the prophetic office or the prerogatives of the Messiah.

Even more inappropriate is to tit-for-tat apply this to a contemporary situation. The Psalm cited in the article below deals with Judas and ultimately with Satan. Applying it to an American president shows a real lack of Biblical discernment. This has become almost a tradition among American Christians who seem to love it when their leaders and politicians wrench Bible verses from context and apply them (often sacrilegiously) to the United States. To take verses that speak of Christ’s redemptive work and apply them to American struggles, the death of soldiers, and the pioneer spirit is blasphemous.

So how do we understand something like the imprecatory Psalms in light of the New Testament ethic?

Christ is both Redeemer and Judge. The Church proclaims the message of hope and reconciliation, with its demands of repentance and belief….and we warn of the Judgment to come. Christ came first as Redeemer but He will return as Redeemer and Judge. We do not exercise these offices, we proclaim hope while there still is hope.

In the Old Testament, Israel was the type of Christ. Christ’s offices were present in both the structure and worship of Israel but also in its deeds and history. As Redeemer he restores Israel to typological Eden, the land of milk and honey, the land of Canaan…a picture of Heaven.

But Christ-Israel is also Judge and though the Judgment does not come until the End, there were times when it suited His purposes to send that Judgment in a typological figure. These were very real fleshed-out warnings for all mankind. Just like the Tower of Siloam, the response shouldn’t be….look how wicked they were……look how wicked the Canaanites were……..our response should be Repent, else we all likewise perish.

The order of Common Grace, is God’s hand of restraint upon wickedness, which is an act of longsuffering mercy since He is not willing that any should perish. But it is also a means of delay…..a withholding of the Judgment to come, the Judgment already guaranteed by the Cross.

At times, when it served Providence or for the purpose of a warning lesson to mankind, the Hand was taken away….and a pre-figuring of the Judgment to come was unleashed.

Typologically, the conquest of Canaan was nothing less than a prefiguring of the 2nd Coming. Christ-Israel the Judge bringing the vengeance of God upon the wicked….none will be spared in the Day of the Lord. The Hebrews weren’t just a nation invading another nation, like our situations today. They were the Hand of God, Christ the Executor of God’s Wrath, fighting Herem, Holy War. There aren’t any parallels today. If there are, they are spiritual in nature, the Church fighting a spiritual Holy War with non-carnal weapons. We wield the Sword of the Spirit, not the sword which sheds blood.

When the prophets would speak of the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the threat of exile….they were speaking of both that time and space reality, but it was also typological of the Day of the Lord (as they indeed call it) and the exile from the holy….to the realms of punitive fire and wrath. Even the prophetic language blends the two ideas so that at times it’s hard to tell which the prophet speaks of. The answer is not to parse out which is which….it’s comprehensive picture….the two are one. It’s the Day of the Lord.

The same is true in the New Testament when Christ speaks of the destruction of Jerusalem which would come a generation after His death. It was AS IF the world had ended. An epoch certainly had. And in one sense….one must careful in how this is explained….all did end. Everything was accomplished. The world so to speak ended and ALL was finished. He said so. We now live in the Last Days, the time between the times, the era between the 1st and 2nd Advent. All is Already in terms of eternity, but Not Yet in terms of time and space.

Satan’s doom is sealed, Christ has accomplished it. So when he speaks in places like Matthew 24, He’s talking about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, but He’s also talking about the End of the world….but there’s a sense in which that was done at the cross….and another sense in which that has not yet been completely consummated.

Confused? The Bible is both simple and unfathomable profound. There are layers and symbols which overlap and interact. The answer is not to pick apart a chapter like Matthew 24 and try and say these verses apply to AD70 and these apply to the End. It destroys the picture…..the verses apply to both and even more.

Futurists try and push it all forward…it was all written for our day. Preterists try to apply it exclusively to the past. Partial Preterists try to break apart the imagery and apply some to the past and some to the future.

It’s all past and all future…and thus applicable to every age. The same is true in Revelation. Trying to read the Apocalypse in a Preterist (past fulfillment) or Futurist (exclusively future fulfillment) is to misunderstand the Temporal/Eternal, Present/Eschatological mode of Prophetic Scripture.

Everything has been accomplished, we’re not waiting for secret raptures, 7 year tribulations, or a Golden Age of worldwide Christianization. The Two-Age structure speaks of This Age and The Age to Come….we’re not looking for anything but the return of Christ which could be any moment……..soon, just as it has been for almost 2000 years. We live in the time between the times, we live between two worlds. It’s done, we’re already with Christ seated in the Heavenlies….but not yet.

How simplistic to simply pull Psalms from their context and apply them to a leader in the United States. What an insult to the majesty of Scripture and what a failure to understand the theme and plot, the typology, and development of God’s glorious history of Redemption. It’s not about calling down curses on Barack Obama. The Bible is from start to finish on every page and in every verse about Christ Jesus the Lord of Glory, our Risen King. Obama is nothing, dust in the wind. He’s there because God wants him there. Be content.

The theological term for this breaking in of the End, the premature expression of Divine Judgment is Intrusion. Intrusion does not mean that the norm is simply laid aside temporarily….no, it serves a Divine purpose and it is God who determines this for His purposes. It is the Eternal Reality being suddenly and specifically applied to the present. God exercises the Judgment that we all deserve on a group of people or in a situation.

Like Christ said, we’re not to suppose that we are more righteous. Were the Israelites righteous compared to the Canaanites? No….but in Christ and as His Type, and serving that Redemptive-Historical purpose, yes. Though we are the Church, we do not have the ability to interpret Providence that would grant us that kind of clarity and assurance to declare this or that about what God is doing….the very thing Dominionists do as they try and teach history and interpret events from a “Christian Worldview.”

We can surmise at best. If patriotic pride fuels our interpretation sprinkled with Scripture verses…..we can be sure we’re on the wrong track.

What about something like the Holocaust or 9/11? Are these examples of Intrusion? My opinion? Yes and no.

Certainly they are examples of Judgment that we all deserve. All of us deserve to experience an Auschwitz or to die in the Twin Towers. It’s only grace and mercy that keep us from experiencing that. So, as with the Tower of Siloam, we should be humbled (the opposite of the American Christian response) and we should repent of our own deeds. The pronoun ‘our’ refers to the Church, not the United States. Evangelicals mix their pronouns in a dangerous manner.

But in a sense I would hesitate to label these events as Intrusion because they do not represent Redemptive-Historical lessons pointing to Christ as given to us via Special Revelation in our Authority-source, the Word of God. So Yes, but…..I would be very careful to make the distinction. It’s like Intrusion, but I’m not sure we can speak of these matters with the same authority that we could with regard to something like the conquest of Canaan.

The Imprecatory Psalms speak in the voice of Christ, calling down Judgment. They too are an example of Intrusion. Just as we cannot say that we as the Church or even worse as Americans can claim the right to declare ourselves the Agents of God’s Judgment….and justify war, or the slaughtering of a nation or an individual…..likewise we cannot claim the voice of Christ the Judge and call down curses on people made in His Image. We are to bless, not curse. We are to treat everyone as potentially elect. We don’t know God’s secret counsels, we live our lives from His Revealed Will.

Sadly there are many who not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God appeal to these passages to justify war, conquest, and even genocide. These same people wish to employ the imprecatory Psalms and wish for the Sacral state to execute people. They wish to bring the Curse of Judgment in the name of Christ before He has deemed it so. They would cut short His longsuffering and bring the fire. No one has the right to do that. The State will bear the sword as read in Romans, but not as a Holy Agent. The state serves the Providential Rule of God, but its activities are not part of the Holy Realm, they do not build the Kingdom of God through taxes, legislation, war, or building roads. That’s part of the temporary Common Grace realm. We live as Christians in it, the Bible telling us how to do so, and we proclaim the Gospel, but we don’t look for the non-holy state (I did not say un-holy) to fulfill the role of a Kingdom comprised of those born of the Spirit.

Undoubtedly it was part of God’s overall plan that the Iraqi people should suffer at the hands of the United States. Who can dispute that? But in no way does it mean that the United States was right to do it or had God’s blessings in the matter. Assyria was God’s servant in Isaiah 10 bringing Judgment on Israel, and He then punished them for their pride and bloody aspirations. America is not Israel….if anything she’s far more like Assyria. She is a grasshopper in a field a drop in a bucket….part of His Holy Rule, but has no claim to the Holy Realm.

So how can this be? Can you be outside of God’s will? Yes and no. God gives His commands, when you transgress, when you sin, you’re outside of His Will……..but in another sense, all is done according to His will. When you sin, you do it. No one forced you to do so and you are responsible. But somehow, mystery of mysteries, our actions, even our very sins are all part of God’s overall plan for the universe. He being Holy is not the author of sin, but He is the Lord, the Potter and we are the clay. And yet as we read in Romans 9, the clay is responsible.

As with Judas whom the Psalm is about….and ultimately Satan himself….he goes forward as it was written. As God planned before the foundation of the world, that Christ would be betrayed. But woe to that man, it would have been better if he had not been born. The prophecy of Psalm 41 written centuries before Christ’s Incarnation had to be fulfilled. He would be betrayed, that was part of the plan. But God did not force Judas. He did it willingly and woe to him as Christ says in Matthew 26.24.

This is not an image of God that many are comfortable with. The God of Scripture isn’t approached with jokes and casualness….we fall on our faces trembling with fear and joy and we need to submit to His Word. It’s about submitting and accepting what the Scriptures teach, not forming our own understanding, and not trying to use the Word as a means of power.

America like Assyria may fulfill God’s purposes but can still be wicked in its fulfilling of them. We served a Mighty God. We ought to tremble in His presence and I tremble at the thought, the audacity of presuming to call down His Judgment on other people.

Yikes.

As far as this employee in the article below. Whatever. The man is a fool who brings shame to Christ. I care not what his supervisors do. I’m more concerned with what his Church does. I would hope they would sternly admonish him for embracing a theology of Imprecation, but sadly, that’s probably where he got it from.

Here’s the article and the link:

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Special Report Saddleback’s Global Peace Forum: Serious Questions

Posted on March 9, 2011 by thereformedtraveler

Eye-Witness Account: Global Peace Forum at Saddleback with Rick Warren and Tony Blair Raises Serious Questions About Global Peace Plan

A SPECIAL REPORT BY LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH AND ROGER OAKLAND

On March 7, 2011, Roger Oakland, founder of Understand the Times, and two other members from his ministry attended the Peace in a Globalized Society forum at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, which featured Rick Warren and special guest, former UK prime minister Tony Blair. Roger Oakland and his co-workers obtained eye-witness seats at the event that included well over 2000 people in attendance. Although cameras and recorders were not allowed in the main sanctuary where the interview took place, the UTT team took notes.

What Oakland and his team heard caused them much concern – thus the reason for this special report. Warren and Blair spoke about Warren’s PEACE Plan and his “Three Legged Stool Plan.” Tony Blair spoke about his inter-faith Faith Foundation. Both speakers were noticeably excited about what they were doing for the world. According to a 2010 UK Observer report, “Tony Blair is preparing to launch a “faith offensive” across the United States over the next year, after building up relationships with a network of influential religious leaders and faith organisations.” Blair’s foundation is “develop[ing] a US arm that will pursue a host of faith-based projects.” Given the fact that Warren joined the advisory board of Blair’s foundation, it is safe to assume Saddleback will be part of Blair’s US interfaith arm.

At the forum, both Warren and Blair stated that the only way a global peace could happen on planet earth in the future would be for all faiths to work together and do good together. The audience at the forum appeared to be mesmerized and awe-struck as they were wooed with discussion on faith, good works, democracy, and coming together. Beneath the vernacular, however, was another story.

Blair and Warren also mentioned they have been partnering with the President of Rwanda in an effort to develop a Purpose Driven country as an initial step to establishing a Purpose Driven world. In 2005, Rick Warren announced his global P.E.A.C.E. Plan to his congregation and then in 2008 announced that Rwanda would be the first Purpose Driven country. In 2003, he said of New Age sympathizer Ken Blanchard that he had “signed on to help with the Peace Plan, and he’s going to be helping train us in leadership and in how to train others to be leaders all around the world” (35-37 min mark).* Blanchard is just one of many “new” spirituality leaders whom Warren has turned to for assistance in building his Peace Plan globally. While Blanchard’s name is not mentioned much publicly by Rick Warren these days, Warren still sits on Blanchard’s Board of Advisorswith a number of New Agers at Blanchard’s Lead Like Jesus organization. Blanchard has been promoting New Age mystical teachers for many years and even today sits on the Board of the New Age Hoffman Institute. In 2007, Blanchard wrote the foreword to a book that was “inspired by Hindu swami Paramahansa Yogananada. Will this Warren/Blair Peace Plan be one that is driven by mysticism?

It seems apparent that neither Rick Warren nor Tony Blair understand that their Peace Plan goals are fulfilling Bible prophecy, which speaks of a peace that is not from God but will deceive many. By appearances, the majority of the people who were attending the forum last week appeared mesmerized and awe-struck by what was being said. Do they not realize that a three legged stool (the joining together of government, business (or economy), and religion) plan will be a plan by man and not by God (see Faith Undone)?

Rick Warren has also partnered withChuck Colson, the Christian leader who authored the Evangelicals & Catholics Together document in 1994 and the Manhattan Declaration in 2009. Former Catholic priest Richard Bennett documents the embedded Catholic agenda in the Manhattan Declaration as does Chris Pinto of Adullam Films.

At the Global forum last week, two standing ovations were given to Tony Blair for his support of the USA in the war against terrorism. Mention was made that Blair is now involved in trying to broker a peace plan with the nation of Israel with his faith-based program. He thinks he can do this in time. But what will an inter-faith peace plan look like in Israel? What will it look like in the world?

While Rick Warren is a Baptist and Tony Blair is an ex-Anglican, now-Roman Catholic, neither showed any concern about the major doctrinal differences between Evangelicals/Protestants and Catholics. “It’s all about working together to do good,” Warren stated. In a 2005 interview with broadcast host Charlie Rose, Warren stated that there are over 2 billion Christians in the world, and said that this number includes hundreds of millions of Catholics. He said that “minor doctrinal differences” should not keep the two groups separated. “What I am interested in is bringing the church together … we are never going to agree on a lot of things, but I found we do agree on purpose. Of course, there was no mention at the forum last week about the papacy’s plan for a world-wide Eucharistic (Catholic) “Christ”who will come on the scene to be worshiped by the world. Will this inter-faith Purpose Driven peace plan include that eucharistic false christ?

In the Charlie Rose interview in 2005, Warren said that we don’t have to have the same religion or moral beliefs to work with people on poverty, disease, etc. As an example he said he had met with the President of the gay-activist group ACT UP, and asked him, “Eric [Sawyer], how can I help you get your message out?” Sawyer answered, “Use your moral authority” (29-31 min mark). Warren then said to Rose, “I’m working with these guys … I’m looking for a coalition of civility, which means let’s get back to the original meaning of tolerance. Will this Purpose Driven peace plan and new reformation include practicing homosexuals? Warren seems to believe his new Purpose Driven world will be all inclusive. But how can this be called a reformation from God?

Both Blair and Warren have a vision to see churches with like-minded vision planted all over the world. These churches will be ones of any faith and all faith as long as they have some kind of faith in some god. “These churches will be like lights shining in a dark place and bring light to the world,” Warren stated. Warren said the more lights, the brighter the world will be. His view that a “second reformation” is needed and that people of various faiths can be part of it has been documented time and again. Listen to Warren’s description of this new reformation:

Who’s the man of peace in any village – or it might be a woman of peace – who has the most respect, they’re open and they’re influential? They don’t have to be a Christian. In fact, they could be a Muslim, but they’re open and they’re influential and you work with them to attack the five giants. And that’s going to bring the second Reformation. Rick Warren, May 23, 2005, Pew Forum on Religion

When Warren says “second reformation,” he is contrasting with the first reformation when Christians broke away from the Catholic church 500 years ago. How can he say that a reformation from God could include Muslims and those of other religions? And practicing homosexuals? What kind of reformation would that be? Will it be like the one the Bible warns about that will come in the last days when mankind will bow down to one leader – the Antichrist. Many, many centuries ago, man attempted to reach God ( because he considered himself equal to God) through the tower of Babel (Genesis 11). God dispersed man and confounded his plans because they were not plans that gave glory to the Creator of the Universe. Is not an inter-faith plan to unite all faiths together in order to “reach God” and heal planet earth, equally displeasing to God? These tower of Babel plans do not bring glory to God – they attempt to deify man. And in this newest effort by man, has not Jesus Christ been left out? Only through the acceptance and faith in His blood atonement can any man or woman be united with God. All other attempts are attempts to enter in through another door: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber” (John 10:1).

During the time that Roger Oakland and his co-researchers were at the Blair/Warren forum at Saddleback this past week, the team only heard one Bible verse mentioned. It was quoted so quickly it was hard to recognize if it was a verse or a paraphrase of a biblical verse. Clearly the Word of God was not included as a crucial element in this inter-faith plan to save the world.

While the UTT team was in attendance at the forum (they did leave a little early), there was nothing mentioned about Jesus Christ in this global peace plan, although Blair did say the phrase “Our Lord,” on one occasion. The shed blood of Jesus and the finished work of the cross were never mentioned, and there was NO gospel message given.

Although Saddleback is considered to be a “Christian” Church and its pastor considered by many to be America’s foremost and most influential pastor, it was hard to tell if this was really the case at the forum. “It seemed like we were in Babylon,” one member of the UTT team stated as he listened to the inter-faith discussion and looked at the flowing fountain that forms a downhill river provided as a special attraction for those who were lining up to enter the sanctuary. Strict security measures during the forum gave an even more foreboding atmosphere. Roger Oakland was reminded of the heavy security that the pope is protected by with his own secret service in Rome. By the way, many who read this article may not be aware that Tony Blair has special entrance to see the pope of Rome now that he has become a Roman Catholic converted away from the Anglican Church.

Indeed, Tony Blair and Rick Warren are very important players in the coming One World Religion.

As an aside, Rick Warren seems to be getting thinner by the day. People entering the sanctuary were handed an advertisement for the Daniel Diet Plan that has been inspired and created with Rick Warren’s own New Age gurus: Dr. Oz, Dr. Amen, and Dr. Hyman. All three Saddleback health experts are advocates of eastern meditation. According to New Age leaders, meditation is the vehicle through which the masses of people will enter into an Aquarian world where man realizes his divinity and that God dwells in all things (see A Time of Departing). Roger Oakland believes that this one world government and one world religion that Rick Warren and Tony Blair are pushing will come about through such means (read Faith Undone). Warren himself has been promoting contemplative mystical teachers for many years. Will this contemplative mysticism he advocates help to bring about his Purpose Driven world?

As to Warren’s Daniel health plan, this brings up another question: can a Baptist become a Roman Catholic while he or she is on the Daniel weight reduction plan if it is based on New Age methodology? How many Christians really understand what is taking place here? Is mainstream Christianity becoming corrupted for the sake of a PEACE Plan and the formation of the system preparing the way for an antichrist? Is this “new” Christianity an apostate church that will lead the way to deceiving millions? The woman who coined the term New Age, occultist Alice Bailey, (believing that we were on the threshold of a new spiritual awakening) said that this new enlightened age would come, not around the Christian church, but rather through it. She said the outer layers would be initially kept intact (i.e., Christian terminology would still be used) but the changes would take place obscurely from the inside.1 Is this not what we are witnessing happening today through the Purpose Driven, contemplative, emerging, interfaith church?

Rick Warren and Tony Blair share much in common when it comes to plans for the world. One thing they share is their views on the problem with what they term fundamentalism or extremism. Blair states that “religion must be rescued from extremism and irrelevance and used as a force for good at a time of global turmoil.” Rick Warren “predicts that fundamentalism, of all varieties, will be ‘one of the big enemies of the 21st century.’ ‘Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, secular fundamentalism – they’re all motivated by fear. Fear of each other.’” Blair and Warren discussed their views on extremism and fundamentalism at the forum last week. Will Bible-believing Christians be included in their definitions of fundamentalism and extremism in the near days to come? The answer to that is becoming more clear every day.

In a 2008 video statement, Tony Blair described his ambition to help bring about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG). In view of Saddleback’s recent day-long health seminar promoting the Daniel Plan where U.N. Agenda 21 ideas such as “sustainable living” “going green,” and “smart growth” were used, how interesting to note Blair’s appearance just a few weeks later at Saddleback. Is Rick Warren allowing the influence of the United Nations into his church and possibly into tens of thousands of other churches around the world? At the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2008, Rick Warren claimed that he “lead[s] a very small network of about 500,000 churches.” (40 min mark - That’s a potential of well over 200 million people!).

Roger Oakland and his team found the Peace in a Globalized Society Forum utterly troubling, to say the least. “We will have to warn that a judgment is ahead for a “Christianity” that is not Christianity at all,” Oakland stated after the forum. “Judgment is coming and few seem to be ready. Titus 2: 13 tells us that “we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” and we should have an expectancy of Christ’s return, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” It will be glorious for those who are ready; for the others it will be terrifying.

Greg Laurie, Chuck Smith, Rick Warren Harvest Crusade 2009

What is becoming more obvious everyday to some seems amazingly hidden to mainstream Christian leaders. Not one well-known leader has called out Rick Warren and publicly challenged him. On the contrary, there is either silence from these leaders or worse yet a public display of embracing and resonance (e.g.: popular teacher John Piper invited Rick Warren to speak at his Desiring God conference. Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith stood in front of thousands at Greg Laurie’s Harvest crusade and introduced Rick Warren as his friend, allowing him to pray with the crowd). Has there been any outcry by Christian pastors or leaders to these occurrences? No, and the silence is deafening.

The Bible makes it clear there is coming a false peace plan that will be headed up by the antichrist sometime in the future. “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” I Thessalonians 5:3

Some readers may be asking, “Why did Roger Oakland and his co-workers attend this forum?” or “Why did Lighthouse Trails and Roger Oakland write this report?” The answer is simple: Because we love the Gospel and know its message is the only hope for any person. In connecting the dots as this report attempts to do, we believe it is a biblical mandate for believers to contend earnestly for the faith (Jude 1:3) and warn those who are in spiritual danger. For the Bible-believing Christian, there is no alternative, though the cost for taking a stand can be high, resulting in the loss of friends and associates. But is it not a small price to pay in comparison to what our Lord has done for us on the Cross?

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. Ezekiel 33:6

There is a peace plan coming on the earth; but it is not the Lord’s peace plan. There is a false peace, and it will deceive many.

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; Ezekiel 13:10

Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. Ezekiel 7:25

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. II Chronicles 15:5

* For a detailed account of Rick Warren, Ken Blanchard, and Lighthouse Trails, read A “Wonderful” Deception.

Notes:

1. Alice Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy(New York, NY: Lucis Publisihing, 1976), p. 510; from page 123 of A Time of Departing by Ray Yungen, 2nd edition.

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Advancing the Kingdom (Part 5) Building the Kingdom by Ordinary Means

Posted on October 29, 2010 by thereformedtraveler

“We are told that in order to be leaven, salt and light, we must engage in active culture-building and/or political activism. Since the New Testament does not support this definition of salt, light, or leaven, figures from Church history and the Old Testament are often appealed to. Daniel was a statesman, Nehemiah a diplomat, and Jeremiah was a cultural commentator…….” excerpt from Part 5

Christian Life and the Kingdom

by John A. Proto Protestantism

Part 5 of my 4 part series (?) on Advancing the Kingdom.

Thus far I’ve been critical of what I deem to be serious errors in defining the Kingdom and thus building of it. Now, I wish to turn to some of the positive aspects of Kingdom building….

It has been rightly argued that Self-denial is the sum of the Christian life. Only then can we rightly love God and neighbour, only then can we die to sin. Mortification a concept both unfamiliar and unpopular is an essential component of the overall picture of salvation.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8.13)

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3.5)

We are told to examine ourselves, test ourselves whether we be in the faith, and we need to not proceed blindly. A right self-examination exposes sin and corruption in the heart. Legalistic self-examination focuses on conformity to man-made commandments, and rests content when the Christian ‘feels’ in compliance. Rather than self-denial, we find self-pride. And rather than a love rooted in self-denial when it comes to others, we find prideful judgment. Pietism is dangerous because in reality it inverts the means of pursuing godliness (Biblical piety) and instead results in glorification of the flesh. Rather than putting off anger, malice, and wrath, and putting on charity/love, the Pietist judges others by their contrived standards and exhibits the ‘worldly’ heart they hope to avoid by their outward standards which they believe protect them from it.

Sometimes this legalism can take on a more sinister aspect:

1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

6 ¶If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

(1 Timothy 4.1-9)

Paul here was battling a false spirituality, a false piety which rather than focusing on Christ, engaged in speculative cultural-philosophical based argument. These men whom Paul combats taught the Christian life was dependent on rejecting certain physical or material things in order to rightly worship God.

God can issue commands for us to accept certain things or reject others, but the commands of this nature are rooted in symbol or typology. Think for example of the Mosaic laws pertaining to clothing, diet, and sacrifice.

Some moral commandments are intrinsic, rooted in who God is, while others are temporary, picturing something, modeling something, and can thus be temporary. Murder is intrinsically moral, reflecting a violation of God’s character, while burning incense in the temple becomes moral because God commanded it, pointing to Christ. It was temporary, not intrinsic.

These false teachers were teaching that it was Moral to abstain from certain foods, that is was Moral to not marry, or forbid certain members from marriage. At that point, Paul calls it demonic. This type of legalism misunderstands the nature of Creation, the concept of Kingdom and in some cases the very nature and character of God himself.

Coming from the other side….

Wielding guilt as a weapon, the Transformationalist spurs believers into action, convincing them that the normal seemingly mundane aspects of the Christian life are insufficient to please God.

The daily life of prayer, meditation on the Word, worship, and self-mortification, namely the demands of the gospel are decried as not enough. Make sure you catch that when you hear them…the Gospel is not enough. Colson openly says so in those very words. The late Falwell did as well.

Merely living our lives in a fallen world, trusting in Providence to guide our steps is attacked as retreatism.

We are told that in order to be leaven, salt and light, we must engage in active culture-building and/or political activism. Since the New Testament does not support this definition of salt, light, or leaven, figures from Church history and the Old Testament are often appealed to. Daniel was a statesman, Nehemiah a diplomat, and Jeremiah was a cultural commentator.

Yet, when examined closer we realize these interpretations are misguided. Providence may place people in peculiar situations. Daniel and Nehemiah were captives, Jeremiah’s task was special, a holy calling from God, and dealing within the covenant context it is not applicable to the Common Grace culture of today. Its parallel application is within the confines of the Body of Christ. Unless you adopt a Sacralist construct and conflate a nation like America with the Body…then you cannot appeal to Jeremiah as an example. The same would be true for John the Baptist, another Biblical figure they often appeal to. His challenges to Herod were within the confines of Israel. John nor Jesus directly challenged the political power of Rome. Spiritual power? That’s another matter, but it’s a different war and a different means of warfare.

Our challenge to the magistrate and the culture is- Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, or even Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Kline writes about the Sethite altar communities of the antediluvian (pre-Flood) period. Living alongside the Cainites, their very presence, the declaration of the Seed to come, their declaration that they were Pilgrims, citizens of a heavenly city, was sufficient.

Transformationalism has misidentified the nature of the Kingdom and thus has misunderstood the tools. We do all to the glory of God, but it is our love and self-denial put into practice that builds the Kingdom, the physical tasks are incidental. They contribute to the Common order, the restraint, which we also very much want, but they are not eternal. It is entirely legitimate to work as an accountant, carpenter, pilot, or seamstress, but those tasks build the Common order which in the end will be destroyed. The farmer plows in hope, not for this life, but the one to come. This life is one in which we are called to die to self, suffer for Christ, and weep for the sorrows of this fallen world. But though sorrowful we always rejoice because we have hope….hope not grounded in this world.

The tools for building the Kingdom are spiritual. Though tired, frustrated, and burdened by the cares of this life, you sit down and read the Scriptures…you build the Kingdom of God. When in a moment of anger, you stop and turn to prayer, you strike a mighty blow against the dominion of the Dark One.

When you stop and help a lady change the tire on the side of the road, if rightly motivated, you deny self and glorify God by showing the love of Christ. In that sense you build the Kingdom even if the door is not opened to speak of God’s Kingdom. But often enough in those circumstances the door is opened. Rather than proffer cheap grace and try to look for a quick decision, it is often wiser to sow seeds. Whether those seeds bear fruit and blessing, or die and thus end up being a curse to the hearer, an increase in judgment, you are doing God’s work.

Much is said in the Scriptures regarding our words. We are told to use them carefully and wisely, we are to speak the councils and oracles of God. Even in casual exchanges, God may grant wisdom allowing us to drop seeds. We can make small comments, ask the right question, give encouragement, and though we may not see it, it may very well bear rich fruit. Perhaps it won’t be my word alone, but a combination of things, other conversations, things heard and seen. We are but part of God’s mechanism. Sometimes I wonder if there’s not a great deal of arrogance in the minds and hearts of those who insist they are ‘doing’ something. God builds the Kingdom, we need to humble ourselves into the dust, and Providence will make use of us…never fear.

Even when people reject what we say, we’re doing God’s work. Our lives speak very loudly. Returning a phone call, stopping to help a neighbour trying to set up a ladder, being seen spending time with your kids. I’m not saying you go out of your way to be seen as a Pharisee would. I’m saying….live your life to God’s glory. You never know how He will use you. In this day and age, there are some things that are really pretty easy. Just the fact that my young children can sit calmly with self-control in a restaurant… immediately people know there’s something different about us. I’m not trying to call attention to us, we’re just out and about living our lives and people are constantly coming up to us.

More to come…..

***Pics and emphasis added by RT

Advancing the Kingdom of Christ (Part 1) The Error of Pietism

Advancing the Kingdom of Christ (Part 2) The Error of Transformationalism (Dominionism)

Advancing the Kingdom of Christ (Part 3) Cultural Mandate? The Sacralist Hybrid

Advancing the Kingdom (Part 4) The Parsing of American Evangelism: Dispensationalism, Dominionism, Americanism and Chiliasm

Looking to Part 6: Advancing the Kingdom- (Part 6) Winning by Losing Excerpt: “It is my hope that the readers of this weblog grasp and understand the ubiquity of Sacralism in Christian thought, and how its tentacles reach in and affect so many areas of the Christian life. It is the question of the hour. As Dr. Gordon pointed out in the Christianity in Decline? article… the hour is coming when those with a Constantinian vision are likely to turn to the state (or violently against it) to employ force and coercion in order to bring their vision to fruition. The Church will be tested and we need to know where to stand. The time is now, the lines are being drawn. Those of us who will not stand with the Sacralists, will be placed in a very difficult position. Those in Churches will be persecuted. Those already driven out will be increasingly isolated and most likely will face hostility from their own families. For some, it’s already happening….”

Sacralism

often called Constantinianism

The confluence of church and state wherein one is called upon to change the other.

or,

The sanctification of culture. A theological monism viewing Church, State, and Culture as the Kingdom of God on earth.

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