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A Monthly Newsletter for Spiritual Protection and Edification Volume 34 - Issue 5 - May 2017

“There is an intimate connection between Digging in the Walls: A month’s worth of news items, republished from evolution and science fiction, which is not Friday Church News Notes. Page 11. surprising since both deal with a world without God. Oh, there might be “a god,” a “force,” but it is definitely not the God of the Bible. The prominent names in science fiction are atheists and many of them were also prominent in the field of Darwinian science.” Page 7.

SOFT SEPARATISM - By David Cloud The following is excerpted from the latest Why Most Independent Baptist Churches Will Be Emerging, available from Way of Life Literature in print and a free eBook edition, www.wayoflife.org.

nother reason why I am convinced that the average fundamental Baptist church will be well down the emerging path within 10-20 years is the prevalence of “soft separatism.”

Soft separatism is separatism that is ineffective to protect the Lord’s people from spiritual dangers. It is characterized direction in order to cut off the leaven of compromise from by professing to believe in separation but doing things that one’s personal life and family and church, and messing make the separation ineffective, such as focusing on with dangerous things such as compromised authors. positive truth and avoiding “negativism and criticism,” avoiding dealing with “personalities,” refusing to distance Soft separatists are more concerned about the danger of oneself properly from those who are headed in a wrong “fragmentation” and are more desirous of “unity” and

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getting along with the brethren than about standing for fundamental Baptist movement. Everything was kept on the truth, if such a stand proves to be divisive. a positive, upbeat note. Dr. Roberson’s official biographer observes: “Soft separatist” Independent Baptist preachers such as the extremely influential Lee Roberson, of recent “Roberson developed a focus that controlled his ministry. 'I kept my mind and ministry settled -- winning people to memory, pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church of Christ, getting people to grow in grace,' he said. 'Stay out Chattanooga, Tennessee, and those today who are leading of controversy in the pulpit--stay out of it and stay on the large segments of the Independent Baptist movement in main line. I think that helped me a lot. I tried to avoid personalities and stay on the main line: preaching the the same soft direction, allow bridges to be built between gospel, emphasis on winning people to Christ, emphasis Independent Baptists and the evangelical, Southern on developing the spiritual life, dying to self, the fullness Baptist, and contemporary Christian music worlds. They of the Spirit, the second coming--kept on the positive side, kept negatives away from the people.’ ... Negativism have a “keep it positive” philosophy whereby they don’t and criticism simply were not a part of Lee Roberson’s typically reprove error plainly or name the names of life” (James Wigton, Lee Roberson--Always about His compromisers. They might name the name of a Billy Father’s Business, pp. 78, 243). Graham or a Robert Schuller or perhaps even a Rick Warren, but they will never name the name of a As a 1970s graduate of Tennessee Temple, I can testify compromising fundamental Baptist leader. They don’t that this is an accurate description of Dr. Roberson’s effectively expose the conservative evangelical bridge ministry. builders such as an Ed Stetzer or a John Piper, and they don’t reprove and disassociate from Independent Baptist It was characterized by soft preaching. Any warnings preachers who are affiliating with the Southern Baptist were given only in generalities. Leading compromisers Convention and evangelicalism at large. such as Jerry Falwell or James Dobson or Bill Bright or Charles Swindoll were not identified by name from the Even if they do disassociate to some extent, they do it pulpit and their error was not detailed and highlighted so “quietly” and no one knows what is happening and the that the people could get a proper grasp of the danger leaven of compromise is not therefore stopped. they represented and where their compromise would lead.

“Later when Billy Graham’s ecumenical cooperation be- Lee Roberson, pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church came a controversial issue among fundamentalists, Lee for 40 years and founder of Tennessee Temple Roberson quietly backed out of such cooperation. ‘Dr. University, was the king of “soft separatism” in the Roberson NEVER SAID A CRITICAL WORD ABOUT IT,’ said Faulkner. ‘If he had anything to say, it was always positive. That was his position on all issues. HE JUST NEVER HAD A CRITICAL WORD ABOUT ANYTHING. ... He won’t talk about the brethren. YOU NEVER HEARD O TIMOTHY Magazine HIM IN THE PULPIT HERE CALL ANYONE NAMES.’ ... Volume 34 Issue 5 Ed Johnson, always loyal to Dr. Roberson said, ‘HE David W. Cloud, Editor AVOIDED CONTROVERSY. We were not exposed to the Subscription information on rise of the neo-evangelicalism in my days at Temple. Doc back page of the magazine stayed away from that controversy.’ ... “When it became common for some Independent Baptists Copyright 2011 by D.W.Cloud to criticize independent Baptist leaders such as Jerry Way of Life Literature Falwell or evangelist Tim Lee for preaching for Southern PO Box 610368, Port Huron, MI Baptists or other non-independent Baptist ministries, 48061 Roberson never wavered in his support of such men. He 866-295-4143 (toll free) felt that men like Falwell and Lee had a heart for the Lord [email protected] and for souls, and that was all that mattered to him” http://www.wayoflife.org (Wigton, Lee Roberson, pp. 240, 241).

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BAPTIST ROCK & ROLL INSTITUTION BEFORE epistles were used among the churches to train preachers GOING DEFUNCT. in that day. Paul’s “criticism” of these men was a matter of public record, which is how it must be. And lack of campaigning for separation is a chief reason why most Independent Baptists will be New Evangelical How can it be reasonable to allow compromisers to contemporary rock & rollers within 10-20 years. influence people without PUBLICLY reproving them? Private reproof doesn’t help those being influenced by In the 1970s and 1980s, Highland Park claimed to be them. fundamentalist and professed not to be New Evangelical, but there was no real campaigning for separatism and Because of Dr. Roberson’s soft separatism, bridges were against compromised evangelicalism. maintained with the Southern Baptist Convention and the broader evangelical world. They “messed around” with They were Independent Baptist and not denominational evangelicalism rather than plainly separating from it. Baptist, but there was no real campaigning against the They invited prominent evangelicals such as Warren Southern Baptist Convention and little or no clear Wiersbe to speak. exposure of the deep compromise there. Further, the bridges to the Convention were not properly burned. “Roberson never fought against Southern Baptists, nor did he openly criticize them” (Wigton, Lee Roberson, pp. Biblical separation requires tearing down bridges rather 227, 228, 232, 242). than maintaining them, but soft separatists are not bridge burners. The soft stance on separatism and the wrong associations and lack of clear teaching and warning about error were As a student at Temple in the 1970s, I learned many good the reason why the church’s deacons were not properly things and I thank the Lord for it. What I learned and prepared to choose a pastor to replace Dr. Roberson. They experienced there has been a tremendous help in my were not properly educated about many important issues Christian life and ministry, but the problem was more in pertaining to the “isms” and schisms of our day, and the what I didn’t learn. This is the heart of New Evangelical association with New Evangelicals and Southern Baptists error. The fundamental problem is not the heresy that is was already established. So it is no surprise that the taught; it is the truth that is neglected. deacons chose an even softer fundamentalist followed by an out-and-out New Evangelical to replace Dr. Roberson. It is not characterized by a complete lack of Biblical stance but by the softness of that stance. When churches and schools “mess around” with evangelicalism, they are in great danger, for the Word of At Highland Park in the 1970s and 1980s it was not God twice repeats the warning that “a little leaven uncommon for pot shots to be taken against real leaveneth the whole lump.” separatists and those men who did issue plain warnings. I witnessed this on a recent preaching trip to the States. “Positivism” is death in the pot of any church or school I preached two Bible conferences in Pennsylvania; and that wants to maintain a biblical position, because the while visiting relatives in other states I attended a couple Bible contains a lot of very “negative” material, and the of Independent Baptist churches, and I was deeply plainest warning against sin, error, and compromise is a disturbed by what I saw. One church was using a book major characteristic of New Testament writings. by Randy Alcorn for Sunday School. Alcorn is a deeply compromised evangelical who glowingly recommended Paul often named names, and he said, “Brethren, be the writings of Mark Driscoll of Seattle, where they had followers together of me, and mark them which walk so champagne dance parties and rock & roll “worship” in a as ye have us for an ensample” (Philippians 3:17). In the darkened building and the usherettes and church members Pastoral Epistles, he named the names of false teachers wore mini-skirts and tights and where Catholic and compromisers many times: Hymenaeus and contemplative mysticism was promoted. This Alexander, Phygellus and Hermogenes, Hymenaeus and Independent Baptist church had books by other Philetus, Alexander the Coppersmith, Demas. These evangelicals for sale in its bookstore with no warning.

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If a Bible-believing church does use materials by that Redd funds and supports is a rock & roll Pentecostal evangelicals, such as those by Answers in Genesis, the congregation filled with the doctrinal errors relating to people must be educated about the compromise that exists the Pentecostal apostolic denomination. His mother is in these ministries. Typically, though, in churches that one of the preachers. Some of “Sister Haji Redd’s” are messing around with evangelicalism, the members sermons are on YouTube. aren’t properly educated, because the pastor himself either is ill-informed or is enamored by what he finds Pastor Chappell’s soft separatism was on display when among “conservative evangelicals” or is afraid of he published a glowing recommendation of a book by offending his congregation. Rick Warren’s associate Lance Witt (Chappell’s blog, November 28, 2012). The book review begins, “If you When a fundamentalist preacher begins to give up on are in Christian ministry and are looking for a refreshing separation, he still claims to believe in it, but he doesn’t (yet convicting and challenging) book--and especially if love it, and the softness of evangelicalism resonates with you are a senior pastor--I suggest Replenish: Leading his own spirit. from a Healthy Soul by Lance Witt. When I read this book on my Kindle recently, I had eighty-two highlights Another way that soft separatism is seen is the way that that filled over eight pages. There were so many truths many pastors and schools use and recommend dangerous the Lord used from it to speak to my soul.” authors. Chappell’s review does not contain even a hint of warning I recall a visit to Northland Baptist College back in the about Witt. I can’t imagine a more dangerous and 1990s, and I was concerned then that the bookstore was spiritually ignorant recommendation for a fundamental filled with the writings of popular evangelicals such as Baptist pastor to publish. Witt is the executive pastor at John Piper. It is no surprise that the school went Southern Saddleback Church, and more dangerous spiritual waters Baptist and then went defunct. do not exist anywhere. Warren is closely and warmly affiliated with New Agers and universalists (e.g., Tony Consider Paul Chappell of Lancaster Baptist Church of Blair, Mehmet Oz, Daniel Amen, Mark Hyman, and Lancaster, California, one of the most prominent and Leonard Sweet) and promotes Catholic contemplative influential Independent Baptist preachers. mysticism. (See the “Rick Warren” section of the Article Library at www.wayoflife.org). Witt personally promotes Pastor Chappell’s “soft separatism” was on display when contemplative mysticism and even recommends Richard he brought in Michael Redd, a Christian NBA player, to Foster and Buddhist-Catholic Thomas Merton in his book speak to a youth rally at Lancaster Baptist Church (“A Enjoying Thoughts in Solitude. It was via the path of Great Weekend of Ministry,” Oct. 11, 2010, Foster and Merton that Sue Monk Kidd traveled from PaulChappell.com). Redd is a rock & roll Pentecostal, being a Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher to a and though we do not doubt his faith in Christ or his goddess worshipper. And yet Paul Chappell has the sincerity in Christian service, he is not someone who audacity to think that Witt is promoting healthy waters should be speaking at a fundamental Baptist church, from which fundamental Baptist pastors should drink. because of his doctrinal errors and the fact that his life (See “From Southern Baptist to Goddess Worship: Sue preaches a rejection of biblical separatism. God forbids Monk Kidd” and “Richard Foster: Evangelical’s Mystical this type of ecumenical joint ministry, because it is a Spark Plug,” and “Thomas Merton: The Catholic compromise of sound doctrine and results in spiritual Buddhist Mystic” under the Contemplative Prayer section confusion and weakness. Redd helped purchase a of the Article Database at www.wayoflife.org). building for the Philadelphia Deliverance Church of Christ in Columbus, Ohio, pastored by his father, and in Chappell’s soft separation is further evident in his an interview he stated that he did so not merely out of Ministry 127 blog’s recommendation of a number of family affection but out of personal conviction that what unsound authors, including John Maxwell and Donald that church is doing is right and important (“NBA Star Whitney. This is a very disturbing and dangerous Says Some Players ‘Church-Hurt,’” The Washington practice. The reviewer of Whitney’s Ten Questions to Post, April 4, 2008). A web search shows that the church Diagnose Your Spiritual Health is Cary Schmidt, who

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until recently was the Associate Pastor at Lancaster allegoricalism and replacement theology which confuses Baptist Church. He writes, “Every page was intensely Israel with the church. Whitney continually quotes the scriptural, very articulate, and powerfully inspiring “Puritans” and recommends meditating on their writings regarding the healthy Christian life.” What Schmidt fails as a devotional practice (“Do You Thirst for God?” 2001, to say is that Donald Whitney, a New Evangelical p. 9), which is a recipe for being captured by the heresy Southern Baptist Calvinist, is a bridge to some extremely of Reformed theology--something that is happening to dangerous things. Whitney has some sound and helpful many students in IFB Bible colleges. Whitney things to say, like any prominent evangelical, but the truth recommends John Piper in the most enthusiastic manner. is mixed with error, and he has no proper boundaries, having rejected “separatism.” Third, Whitney is a bridge to the very dangerous world of New Evangelicalism. He quotes from New Evangelical By this glaring omission and by recommending Whitney writers continually and in the most favorable manner, such so highly, Schmidt and Lancaster Baptist are helping as William Barclay, Elisabeth Elliot, Philip Yancey, and people to cross the bridges that Whitney has built. Jerry Bridges. He even cites Billy Graham, the Prince of Lancaster is doing the same thing with literature that they New Evangelicalism, as an example of true godliness and are doing with music. They are messing around with the the wise practice of spiritual disciplines (Spiritual wrong stuff. It is the same “soft separatism” that Disciplines, p. 191). destroyed Highland Park Baptist Church. In some ways, “conservative evangelicals” like Donald First, Whitney is a bridge to contemplative mysticism, Whitney and Ed Stetzer are more dangerous than the and these are the most spiritually treacherous waters that Richard Fosters and Dallas Willards and Rick Warrens, exist. What Whitney touches on lightly in Ten Questions, because they are considered to be “safer,” yet they are he covers in some detail in Spiritual Disciplines for the bridges to the treacherous spiritual waters represented by Christian Life. Though Whitney emphasizes the the latter names. supremacy and authority of Scripture, he recommends unscriptural mystical practices and favorably and Independent Baptists who are careless about separating repeatedly quotes radical mystics Richard Foster and from “conservative” evangelicals are building bridges to Dallas Willard. Whitney praises Foster for his “great the bridge-builders. contribution” (Spiritual Disciplines, p. 22) and recommends the practices of “the medieval mystics” (p. Another way that soft separatism is evident is in the 65), referring to the Catholic monks who invented widespread habit among Independent Baptists of messing contemplative mysticism in their benighted monasteries. around with shallow, heavy-backbeat, ecumenical It is unconscionable that Whitney doesn’t warn his Southern Gospel groups that influence the church readers that these mystics venerated Mary and were members with their worldliness and carelessness in committed to Rome’s damnable sacramental gospel. associations. Few men have done more to tear down the Whitney promotes the practices of silence, journaling, walls of biblical separation than Bill Gaither, and he has and spiritual direction, and the “silence” recommended spread his unholy ecumenical philosophy through the by Whitney is not merely to get alone with God and His popular Homecoming specials. (See the free eBook Word in a quiet place. It is maintaining silence “inwardly Southern Gospel Music and the free eVideo download on so that God’s voice can be heard more clearly” and “does Southern Gospel at www.wayoflife.org.) not always require words [or] sounds” (p. 184). This is blind and dangerous mysticism. To be alone with God in The fruit of soft separation is now evident for all to see. a quiet place and to meditate on His Word is NOT the same as sitting in silence and trying to hear God’s voice The church Dr. Roberson pastored for 40 years became internally. One is scriptural and profitable; the other is Southern Baptist before going defunct. His funeral was mystical and dangerous. preached by a man who led his college into the Southern Baptist Convention (Paul Dixon, president of Cedarville Second, Whitney is a bridge to Reformed Theology, with University). Roberson’s authorized biography was written its error pertaining to God’s election and its Augustinian by a rock & roll Southern Baptist pastor.

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All of this is the fruit of soft separatism and a weak stance are opposed to the Southern Baptist Convention, but they toward the great spiritual/doctrinal/moral compromise make no serious effort to expose the Convention’s errors within evangelicalism today. and they do not effectively reprove and disassociate from preacher friends who are building unwise bridges. They Highland Park Baptist Church and Tennessee Temple speak highly of men like Lee Roberson who built bridges University were drowned in treacherous spiritual waters, to Southern Baptists and beyond that many have traveled. because the separation that was practiced by the former They mention such men in their lists of heroes and build leader was too soft. He was much more a bridge builder monuments to them. “Criticism” is non-existent and not than a bridge destroyer. even allowed, and those who issue such “criticism” are considered enemies of the truth and fair game for cheap Dr. Roberson has had a massive influence in the mockery. Independent Baptist movement and many preachers are following in his footsteps and committed to his principles. Soft separatism is a clear path to the emerging church.

They are more concerned about avoiding “fragmentation” and building unity and “friendship” among Independent Baptists than standing against error. They will “talk a good talk” about separation privately, but there is no campaigning for it in their public ministries. They aren’t careful enough about their associations. They say they

Why Most Independent Baptist Churches Will be Emerging In Twenty Years This book documents the collapse of separatism among fundamental Baptists and the reasons why: the maligning of warning and reproof, unquestioning loyalty to man, following the crowd, ignorance about important issues, soft separatism, lack of serious discipleship, carelessness about music, and Quick Prayerism. What is happening now among fundamental Baptist churches is exactly what happened in evangelicalism in the 1950s. It is the rejection of “separatism.”

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There is an intimate connection between evolution Consider ROBERT HEINLEIN, called “the dean and science fiction, which is not surprising since both of science fiction writers.” He rejected the Bible and deal with a world without God. Oh, there might be promoted “free sex.” His book “Stranger in a Strange “a god,” a “force,” but it is definitely not the God of Land” is considered “the unofficial bible of the the Bible. The prominent names in science fiction hippie movement.” Heinlein was a nudist and are atheists and many of them were also prominent practiced “polyamory.” He promoted agnosticism in in the field of Darwinian science. his sci-fi books.

Take CARL SAGAN, for example, whose best- Consider ARTHUR CLARKE, author of many selling sci-fi novel Contact was made into a movie. sci-fi works, including 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sagan was one of the high priests of atheistic Clarke promoted evolutionary pantheism. He told a evolution. In his novel he has the main character Sri Lankan newspaper, “I don’t believe in God or an debating two preachers and saying, “There is no afterlife” (“Life Beyond 2001: Exclusive Interview compelling evidence that God exists.” In 1997 Sagan with Arthur C. Clarke,” The Island, Dec. 20, 2000). said, “I share the view of a hero of mine, Albert In the instructions he left for his funeral in March Einstein: ‘I cannot conceive of a god who rewards 2008 he said, “Absolutely no religious rites of any and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind kind, relating to any religious faith, should be that we experience in ourselves.’ Neither can I--nor associated with my funeral.” would I want to--conceive of an individual that survives his physical death. Let feeble souls, from Consider KURT VONNEGUT. He was an atheist, fear or absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts’” and as an honorary president of the American (Parade, March 10, 1997). Humanist Association he subscribed to its code which “does not accept supernatural views of Consider another prominent name in Sci-Fi, ISAAC reality.” ASIMOV. In a 1982 interview he said, “Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the Consider GENE RODDENBERRY, creator of Star evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so Trek. He was an agnostic and humanist who strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste envisioned a world in which “everyone is an atheist my time” (Paul Kurtz, “An Interview with Isaac and better for it” (Brannon Braga, “Every Religion Asimov on Science and the Bible,” Free Inquiry, Has a Mythology,” International Atheist Conference, Spring 1982, p. 9). June 24, 2006).

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Consider H. G. WELLS, author of such science Not surprisingly, he was an early advocate of “free fiction classics as The Time Machine, War of the love” and lived a debauched moral life. He was a Worlds, and The First Man on the Moon. He serial adulterer, even committing adultery with the converted to Darwinism as a college student under daughters of his friends. One of his partners in the influence of Thomas Huxley (“Darwin’s adultery was fellow atheist and eugenist Margaret Bulldog”) and spent the rest of his life preaching Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. atheism and an extreme form of eugenics. He died an “infinitely frustrated” and broken man, Wells’ illegitimate son, Anthony West, said that after with no hope for the future, neither for himself nor studying under Huxley, “Darwinian evolution for the human race. inspired Wells’ writings forever after.” Consider RAY BRADBURY, author of Fahrenheit In The Outline of History, Wells described man’s 451 and the Martian Chronicles. Bradbury grew up suppose rise from the apes, describing Neanderthal in a Baptist home, but he describes himself as as “stooped forward and could not hold his head “delicatessen religionist.” He is particularly erect, as all living men do; he was chinless and enamored with Buddhism and Eastern religion, even perhaps incapable of speech ... he was, indeed, not calling himself a “Zen Buddhist.” He is a pantheist quite of the human species.” This was as mythical as and an evolutionist. He considers Jesus a wise his science fiction writings. prophet, like Buddha and Confucius, a man who became christ through self effort (“Sci-fi Legend Ray Wells embraced the modern culture of death, Bradbury on God,” CNN, August 2, 1010). advocating sterilization, abortion, infanticide, suicide, and euthanasia for the “inferior,” meaning Bradbury claims that when it comes to God, “none the diseased, the deformed, the mentally ill, of us know anything.” He says that man must leave alcoholics, criminals, even the “helpless.” earth for salvation. “We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger Not only was he in favor of killing individuals that of war and politics. We must become astronauts and he considered inferior but entire races, as well. He go out into the universe and discover the God in said, “... there is only one sane and logical thing to ourselves.” be done with a really inferior race and that is to exterminate it” (Diane Paul, Controlling Human Sci-fi arose in the late 19th and early 20th century as Heredity, 1995, p. 75). He said “those swarms of a product of an evolutionary worldview that denies blacks, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow the Almighty Creator. In fact, Darwinian evolution people ... will have to go” (Martin Gardner, Fads and is the pre-eminent science fiction. Fallacies in the Name of Science, 1957, p. xi). The intimate association between evolutionary Wells urged society to have “no pity and less “science” and science fiction was highlighted when benevolence” toward the inferior. He wanted to Nature magazine was awarded the European Science create a master race through Darwinian survival of Fiction Society’s Best Publisher award in 2005 for the fittest. He wasn’t without a conscience, though. the “Future” series of short science fiction articles He advocated administering opiates to those who that Henry Gee instigated in 1999. A collection of were to be killed! In his later years he backed away these was published in Futures from Nature in 2008. from killing the unfit but he continued to call for their sterilization.

Wells called the God of the Bible “absurd.”

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There is a growing movement to interpret the Jewish 2:8-9). In that day Israel will finally stop going about to Feast of Trumpets as pointing to the Rapture of the seek her own righteousness and will put her faith in the church, and dates have been set based on that free righteousness of God through Jesus Christ (Rom. interpretation. In other words, according to this view, the 10:3-4). The Day of Atonement is a day of afflicting the Rapture will occur on the Feast of Trumpets (the Jewish soul (Lev. 23:27), signifying repentance. When Israel is date of Tishri 1, which usually occurs in September). converted, she will mourn and afflict herself (Zec. 12:10- 14). Yom Kippur is followed closely by the Feast of Based on this view, some have claimed that the Rapture Tabernacles, which points to Christ’s millennial kingdom. would occur in September 2011; others claimed it would It looks back to the deliverance of Israel from Pharaoh in occur in 2015. Now some are saying it will occur in 2017. Egypt (Lev. 23:43) and looks ahead to Israel’s deliverance from the Antichrist. The feast of tabernacles will be kept According to vain Jewish tradition, the Feast of in the Millennium (Zec. 14:16). Trumpets, (Lev. 23:23-25), or Rosh HaShanah, is the beginning of 10 Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim) that end Consider some fundamental Bible truths that can protect with Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. During this God’s people from the bogus prophecy ministries that time, God supposedly weighs every man’s work to have proliferated on the Internet: determine who will be written in His books, who will live and die, who will have a good life or a bad life for the Any man that sets a date or even suggests a date, even next year. The judgment is based on one’s works during with a disclaimer -- is wrong (Mat. 24:34, 36, 39, 44, 50; the Days of Awe (e.g., repentance, prayer, obedience, 25:13; Mark 13:32-37). (Many date setters even say that acts of charity). The individual’s fate is then sealed on they aren’t setting dates!) We can see the day of the Lord Yom Kippur. approaching (Hebrews 10:25, e.g., the state of Israel and the preparations for the building of the Third Temple), Of course, the real meaning of these Feasts point to but we cannot know the time. Date setters have a wide Israel’s repentance during the Tribulation and her variety of ways that they justify their actions, but the cleansing by the blood of Jesus the Christ and national bottom line is that every date setter or date suggestioner regeneration by God’s Spirit (Zec. 13:1). The Day of is wrong and should be rejected out of hand. They have Atonement was the day when the high priest brought brought great reproach to the cause of Jesus Christ. blood into the holy of holies and sprinkled it on the mercy William Miller claimed that Christ would return in 1844. seat, signifying the cross of Jesus Christ (Lev. 16:15-19). The Jehovah’s Witnesses announced the end of world in No work is allowed on the Day of Atonement. This is 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1941, 1975, emphasized three times (Lev. 23:28, 30, 31), signifying and 1984. In Future Survival (1978), Chuck Smith “I’m the fact that salvation is entirely of God’s grace (Eph. convinced that the Lord is coming for His Church before

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the end of 1981.” Edgar Whisenant published 88 Reasons 6-18. Once the Antichrist comes on the scene as the great Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 and then 89 Reasons peace man and signs a covenant with Israel, the timing Why the Rapture Will Be in 1989. Rabbi Menachem of Christ’s Second Coming can be counted down year by Schneerson said the Messiah would come in 1991. year. Mission for the Coming Days, a Korean cult, said Christ would come in October 1992. F.M. Riley of The Last The Bible says that “he who now letteth will let, until Call predicted 1994 as The Year of Destiny. Stan Johnson he be taken out of the way” (2 Th. 2:7). The context is of the Prophecy Club claimed a “90 percent” chance for the devil’s mystery of iniquity program to put the the Rapture in September 1997. Marilyn Agee saw The Antichrist on the throne of the world, and the One who End of the Age coming in May 1998. In his video A.D. restrains this program is God the Holy Spirit who came 2000--the End? Jack Van Impe strongly suggested that at Pentecost to empower the Church for world the Lord would return in 2000. Harold Camping set dates evangelization (Acts 1:8). Paul is saying that the Spirit for 1988, 1994, and then for May 21, 2011. Finally in of God will restrain the forces of evil until He is ready March 2012, Camping issued an apology and renounced to allow the final events to proceed to fulfillment. The date setting, but by then he had misled and confused a times are always in God’s hands (Dan. 2:21). 2 lot of people. Thessalonians 2:7 has some wonderful implications. For one, regardless of how brightly the prophetic signs glow, As a foundational rule of Bible interpretation, it is we can never know when the church age will end and unwise to develop doctrine on types and parables. Daniel’s Seventieth Week will begin. Another They illustrate doctrine, but they don’t provide the implication of 2 Thessalonians 2:7 is that God’s people foundation for doctrine. By their very nature, the right need never fret about the times (Psalm 37:1-4). interpretation of types and parables depends on other Scripture. Jesus taught His people to focus on the Great Commission, not on speculative prophecy (Acts 1:6-8). The doctrine of the Rapture must be built directly Christ’s words here don’t mean that the study of from New Testament passages, because it is a mystery, prophecy is without value. In fact, a large part of which refers to truth unknown to Old Testament Scripture consists of prophecy, and it has great value. I prophets but revealed in the New Testament Scripture love to study and teach on prophecy (e.g., my book The (1 Cor. 15:51-54). Future According to the Bible).

We must never confuse Israel with the church (1 Cor. Prophecy is a great light and motivator in the Christian 10:32). There is actually a blowing of trumpets for both life, and I am convinced that the churches should study groups of people. One trumpet is for church-age saints prophecy far more than most of them do. But Acts 1:6-8 (1 Cor. 15:52). The other trumpet is for Israel (Mat. is a warning that constant speculation about the “times 24:30-31; Joel 2:1; Isa. 27:13). and seasons” is the wrong emphasis, at best.

The doctrine of the imminency of the Rapture is a 2 Peter 3:9 tells us plainly why the Lord is waiting. “The foundational Bible truth. This means that the Rapture Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men is always at hand, but its time cannot be known (Mat. count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not 24:42, 44; 25:13; Mk. 13:33; Phil. 4:5; 1 The. 1:9-10; willing that any should perish, but that all should come Tit. 2:13; Jam. 5:8-9; 1 Pet. 4:7). to repentance.” God loves sinners. Christ died to save souls, and the saving of souls requires the preaching of The fact that Christ’s return for church-age saints is the gospel, which is what Christ has commissioned the imminent means that we cannot know the day, the week, churches to do in this present dispensation (Mark 16:15). the month, the year, or even the decade. If we could know any of that, His return would not be imminent. It also These biblical truths have helped me immensely means that the Rapture will occur before the events of through the years. Not only have they enabled me to Daniel’s 70th Week (Dan. 9:24-27), which pertains to reject every date setter but also to avoid being swept up Israel, and which is described in more detail in Revelation in various hysterias, such as Y2K.

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D I G G I N G I N T H E WA L L S “Part One: The Profession of Faith,” published in 1992 with the approval God commanded the prophet Ezekiel to dig in the of Pope John Paul II: “460 The Word walls of Israel's temple and observe the evils being done in secret by apostate religious leaders became flesh to make us ‘partakers of that day. "Then said he unto me, Son of man, of the divine nature’: ‘For this is why dig now in the wall ... And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they the Word became man, and the Son do here. So I went in and saw. ..." (Ezek. 8:7-10). of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion Ezekiel was then instructed to preach against the errors of the leaders and to tell the people the with the Word and thus receiving things he had witnessed. STUDY SHOWS THAT PEOPLE divine sonship, might become a son DON’T WANT TO KNOW of God.’ ‘For the Son of God became "Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. ... Then I spake unto them of the FUTURE NEGATIVE EVENTS man so that we might become God.’ captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed (Friday Church News Notes, March ‘The only-begotten Son of God, me" (Ezek. 11:4,25). 31, 2017, www.wayoflife.org wanting to make us sharers in his The hour in which we live is very similar to that [email protected], 866-295-4143) divinity, assumed our nature, so that of Ezekiel's day. Many of those who profess to be the people of God are apostate. It was prophesied - A study in Germany and Spain has he, made man, might make men in the New Testament Scriptures that such found that 90% of respondents gods.’” would be the case in the closing hours of our age. This will culminate in the brief worldwide rule of wouldn’t want to know about an utterly apostate Harlot "church" (2 Tim. 3-4; forthcoming negative events (“Study: BEWARE OF DARK FANTASY 1 Tim. 4; 2 Pet. 2-3; Jude; Rev. 17). People don’t want their future (Friday Church News Notes, March As in Ezekiel's day much of the apostasy of our revealed,” UPI, Feb. 22, 2017). The 31, 2017, www.wayoflife.org hour is hidden from the view of the average study, published in Psychological [email protected], 866-295-4143) - Christian. We intend by God's grace to "dig in the walls" of modern ecumenism and to expose Review, asked participants if they The heart is the source of one’s ac- and cry out against the things we find. In this would want to know if their marriage tions. God’s Word says, “Keep thy section we also report on secular events which are relevant to Christians. May God give us ears would end in divorce and when and heart with all diligence; for out of it to hear, minds to understand, and hearts to obey. how they would die. Older adults are the issues of life,” and, “For as he Is the truth of God not worthy of defense? were even more likely to decline to thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov- know this. Of course, we can’t know erbs 4:23; 23:7). The corruption of when and how we will die, but we the imagination was one of the first can know where we will go when we steps in the downward slide to idola- die, and refusing to consider death try and moral perversion in man’s and eternity is not wise. The one book early history as we read in Romans 1. on earth that does tell the future with “... when they knew God, they glori- perfect accuracy is the Bible, and fied him not as God, neither were every individual would be wise to thankful; but became vain in their consult its pages. “For the wages of imaginations, and their foolish heart sin is death; but the gift of God is was darkened” (Romans 1:21). The eternal life through Jesus Christ our same thing happens in the lives of Lord” (Romans 6:23). individuals. What the mind dwells on

CATHOLIC CATECHISM SAYS THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN THAT WE MIGHT BECOME GOD (Friday Church News Notes, March 31, 2017, www.wayoflife.org [email protected], 866-295-4143) - The following is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church,

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is what will eventually control the been enflamed through violent mu- “First, there is no knowledge life. If the imagination becomes per- sic, video games, and dark movies. absolutely needful to a man’s verted, the life will reflect this. This salvation, except a knowledge of the is a loud warning in an age when DANGER FOR THOSE WHO DO things which are to be found in the individuals can connect 24/7 in the NOT READ THE BIBLE (Friday Bible. Second, there is no book in most private manner with any aspect Church News Notes, March 31, 2017, existence written in such a manner as of the pop culture, and there are a www.wayoflife.org the Bible. Third, no book in existence great many dark and perverted things [email protected], 866-295-4143) contains such important matter as the with which one can fill the imagina- Bible. Fourth, no book in existence tion. In fact, dark and perverted is an has produced such wonderful effects apt description of much of today’s on mankind at large as the Bible. music, video games, novels, and Fifth, no book in existence can do so movies. Science fiction and the su- much for everyone who reads it perhero genre, for example, have rightly, as the Bible. Sixth, no gift of grown ever darker, stranger, more God to man is so awfully neglected sensual and godless, and many peo- and misused as the Bible. Seventh, the ple are living a dark fantasy world. Bible is the only rule by which all Consider James Holmes, who mur- questions of doctrine or of duty can dered a dozen people and wounded - The following is excerpted from be tried. Eighth, the Bible is His book nearly 60 more in a movie theater J.C. Ryle’s How Readest Thou? - which all true servants of God have where Batman: The Dark Knight Ris- “This tract may fall into the hands of always lived on and loved. Ninth, the es was premiering. Jesus taught that some who can read, but never do read Bible is the only book which can murder is an acting out of the impuls- the Bible at all. Reader, are you one comfort a man in the last hours of his es of man’s sin nature (Mark 7:21- of them? If you are, I have something life.” (For a 12-hour course on this 23), and the fallen nature can be in- to say to you. I cannot comfort you subject see The Effectual Bible flamed. Homes had dyed his hair red in your present state of mind. It Student, available on DVD or as a free and said he was The Joker, the would be mockery and deceit to do eVideo series, clownish, ultra-violent enemy of the so. I cannot speak to you of peace and http://www.wayoflife.org/s3/effectua superhero Batman (“NYC Police heaven, while you treat the Bible as l_bible_student.php). Commissioner Said Alleged Shooter you do. You are in danger of losing Calls Himself The Joker,” Fox News, your soul. You are in danger, because THE NEW APOSTOLIC July 20, 2012). These are vile mov- your neglected Bible is a plain REFORMATION (Friday Church ies. In the 2008 Batman: The Dark evidence that you do not love God. News Notes, March 31, 2017, Night, a man’s face is filleted by a You are in danger, because God will www.wayoflife.org knife, another’s is burned half off, a reckon with you for your neglect of [email protected], 866-295-4143) man’s eye is slammed into a pencil, a the Bible in the day of judgment. You - The following is excerpted from bomb is stitched inside of a man and are in danger, because there is no “King of the Mountain,” Herescope, exploded, a man is bound to a chair degree of error in religion into which Sept. 12, 2011: “Several years ago, on and set afire, a child is threatened by you may not fall. You are in danger, August 20, 2007, C. Peter Wagner a man with a melted face, and clowns because there is not a single sent out a letter to his ‘friends of are shot point-blank in the head. In reasonable excuse you can allege for Global Harvest,’ in which he shared the comic book Batman: The Dark neglecting the Bible.” the emerging structure of his New Night, The Joker murders an entire Apostolic Reformation. His new television audience. Thirteen years WHY READ THE BIBLE? (Friday reformation would be based upon the earlier, not far from where Holmes Church News Notes, March 31, 2017, idea that apostles and prophets must acted out his perverted fantasies, Eric www.wayoflife.org be the cornerstone for achieving Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered [email protected], 866-295-4143) Dominion on earth. These apostles 13 and wounded 21. They, too, were - The following is excerpted from and prophets are said to be endowed acting out demonic fantasies that had J.C. Ryle’s How Readest Thou? - with superior gifts. In Wagner's NAR

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on my heart, but especially those related to wealth and wealth transfer. I am in touch with 17 potential wealth transfer brokers, some of them expecting release momentarily. It is hard to comprehend, but some of them go to multiple millions, billions, and more. My task is to prepare a high integrity infrastructure for paradigm, ‘apostles’ are also said to distributing these funds when they be given new truth, and they are begin to flow. Zion Apostolic convert vitamin A1 to vitamin A2, referred to as ‘spiritual architects’ of Network and The Hamilton Group allowing salmon to see perfectly in a global transformation based upon a are in place as agencies to carry this red and infrared light. Like salmon, series of interlocking networking out. Our motto is ‘Sophisticated humans also need a new way of organizations and cells that Philanthropy for Apostolic seeing when it comes to spiritual superimpose themselves on top of Distribution.’” matters. The eyes we are born with existing governmental and societal just aren’t equipped to see Jesus in a institutions. David Cannistraci, who GOD’S GIFT TO SALMON favorable light. We need eyes of faith formed an early apostolic network and (Friday Church News Notes, March that God alone can provide!” wrote a book detailing this shift, 31, 2017, www.wayoflife.org explained how these networking [email protected], 866-295-4143) ARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFY apostolic groups would work. Clearly - The following is from JERUSALEM WALL he isn't talking about humble, simple CreationMoments.com, July 4, 2016: BREACHED BY ROME IN AD 70 evangelism. He described it in “Creation Moments has aired (Friday Church News Notes, April 7, kingdom-building terms: ‘Like an hundreds of programs over the years 2017, www.wayoflife.org army, this new apostolic company will dealing with gifts God has given to [email protected], 866-295-4143) throw down their nets and rise at the His creatures so they could survive in - The following is excerpted from command of the Lord of Hosts. the environment where He has placed “Uncovering Jerusalem’s Ancient Hearing the call, they will them. But what is a poor animal going Walls,” Israel Today, April 2017: aggressively engage the enemy, taking to do when it begins life in one “[W]orkers were breaking ground for his territory in the greatest campaign environment and then moves to a a new campus of the Bazalel in history: the evangelization of planet totally different environment? Today Academy of Arts and Design ... when Earth before the second coming of the I’m going to tell you about a special they stumbled upon the very spot Lord Jesus...’ Wagner's 2007 letter gift that God has given to salmon. where Roman soldiers breached (‘A Letter from C. Peter Wagner,’ The purpose of this gift will become Jerusalem’s city walls 2,000 years Global Harvest Ministries, August 20, clear to you when you consider that ago. Archaeologists were summoned 2007) launched a ‘Global Apostolic salmon begin their lives in streams to examine the evidence of the Roman Network’ (GAN). In Wagner’s where the light is primarily in the red breach which occurred at the end of writings one can see the formation of and infrared end of the spectrum, and the Second Temple Period. They these interlocking apostolic networks: move to the ocean waters, where the found the remains of a tower jutting ‘We have reorganized in obedience to light is in the blue-green end of the from the city wall and scores of the word that the Lord gave us through spectrum. Scientists have long catapults and huge stones used by the Chuck [Pierce] last December. Now wondered how salmon are able to Romans to sling at the Jewish guards please pray with us as we seek His make the switch so they can see well defending Jerusalem from the top of guidance in putting the nuts and bolts in two entirely different lighting the tower. ... ‘This is a fascinating together for seeing practical results conditions. Scientists have now testimony of the intensive along the road toward taking discovered an enzyme in salmon that bombardment by the Roman army, dominion of God’s creation. ... All actually switches the fish's visual led by Titus, on their way to nine of the components of GAN are systems. What this enzyme does is conquering the city and destroying the

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clear leader in a crowded field of different purpose, especially for social media apps fueled by millennials. For most of this narcissistic posters. ... Social media demographic, social media is a applications have created an powerful tool with the ability to create interesting dynamic. Users, an entirely new persona, void of especially millennials, have reality. The formula is quite simple. seemingly become self-aware of the If you post enough artsy, chic pictures ridiculous reasons they use social of yourself that rack up plenty of media for. Young people will not beat ‘likes,’ then real life accomplishments Second Temple,’ the archaeologists around the bush as to why they use will not matter because the popularity said in a statement. ‘The social media sites like Instagram, of your social media accounts will bombardment was intended to attack Facebook, Snapchat, or Twitter. They determine your status on the social the sentries guarding the wall and use these platforms to boast of their hierarchy.” provide cover for the Roman forces daily tidings, carefully craft their so they could approach the wall with public image, and feed their egos in LONDONISTAN: 423 NEW battering rams and thereby breach the this interconnected digital age. ... MOSQUES, 500 CLOSED city’s defenses.’ The first century LendEDU found that 64 percent of CHURCHES (Friday Church News Jewish-Roman historian Flavius millennials believe Instagram, a Notes, April 7, 2017, Josephus was an eye witness to the mobile photo-sharing application, is www.wayoflife.org Jewish War with Rome and provides the most narcissistic social media [email protected], 866-295-4143) many details about this wall. ... The platform. In fact, Instagram received discovery of this wall which runs all more votes as the most vain social the way up to today’s Russian media app than Facebook (10%), Compound is proof that the Snapchat (15%), and Twitter (11%) boundaries of the ancient Jerusalem combined. Instagram enables users to were well outside what is commonly post pictures and videos, usually of known as the Old City.” themselves, to a direct and constantly updating feed that other users can INSTAGRAM THE MOST scroll through. Users that post on NARCISSISTIC SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram are fueled by one thing: - The following is excerpted from PLATFORM (Friday Church News likes. The world of social media has “Londonistan,” Giulio Meotti, The Notes, April 7, 2017, become so expansive and diverse that Gatestone Institute, Apr. 2, 2017: www.wayoflife.org its original intent has become “‘London is more Islamic than many [email protected], 866-295-4143) convoluted. Most likely, it was for Muslim countries put together’ - The following is excerpted from users to give updates, both positive according to Maulana Syed Raza “Millennials: Instagram the Most and negative, on their lives to friends Rizvi, one of the Islamic preachers Narcissistic,” Lendedu.com, Mar. 29, that have become harder to catch up who now lead ‘Londonistan’ as the 2017: “With just a few filters, a little with as schedules become busier and journalist Melanie Phillips has called saturation, and a clever caption, social distances become further. However, the English capital. ... Londonistan, media can make even the most today’s social media has a much with its new 423 mosques, is built on average Joe look like an esteemed the sad ruins of English Christianity. socialite. Social media applications The Hyatt United Church was bought have become wildly effective tools for by the Egyptian community to be users that seek to enhance their public converted to a mosque. St Peter’s persona, regardless of if that portrayal Church has been converted into the is accurate or not. But, which platform Madina Mosque. The Brick Lane has become the biggest ego-booster? Mosque was built on a former According to new data gathered by Methodist church. Not only buildings LendEDU, Instagram has become the are converted, but also people. The

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number of converts to Islam has found,” Israel Hayom, Apr. 4, 2017: structure that appeared before them doubled; often they embrace radical “The capital of a carefully-adorned after they passed through the gates to Islam, as with Khalid Masood, the column that stood on the Temple the Temple Mount into the plaza that terrorist who struck Westminster. The Mount in the time of the Second surrounded the Temple. The columns Daily Mail published photographs of Temple has been discovered through around the plaza provided shade for a church and a mosque a few meters the Temple Mount Sifting Project. the thousands of visitors that would from each other in the heart of The capital, whose size indicates that be on the mount at once,’ Barkay London. At the Church of San the column had a circumference of said.” Giorgio, designed to accommodate 75 centimeters (30 inches) at its top, 1,230 worshipers, only 12 people is a section of one column that THE PASTORAL SLIDE INTO gathered to celebrate Mass. At the formed part of the double colonnade COMPROMISE (Friday Church Church of Santa Maria, there were 20. that surrounded the Temple Mount News Notes, April 7, 2017, ... ‘In another 20 years there are going plaza. In his book The War of the www.wayoflife.org to be more active Muslims than there Jews, Romano-Jewish historian [email protected], 866-295-4143) are churchgoers,’ said Keith Porteous Josephus describes the columns that Wood, director of the National surrounded the Temple Mount plaza: Secular Society. Since 2001, 500 ‘All the cloisters were double, and London churches of all denominations the pillars belonging to them were 25 have been turned into private homes. cubits in height, and supported the During the same period, British cloisters. ... The natural magnificence mosques have been proliferating. ... and excellent polish and the harmony The Wahhabis control six percent of of the joints in these cloisters mosques in the UK, while the afforded a prospect that was very fundamentalist Deobandi control up remarkable.’ Dr. Gabriel Barkay, the to 45%. ... London is also full of director of the Temple Mount Sifting sharia courts. There are officially 100. Project, said that ‘this is a capital in - Compromise of the truth does not ... The British ambassador in Saudi the Doric style, one of the happen at once. It is incremental. In Arabia, Simon Collis, converted to characteristics of the art in the time the case of a pastor, it can be Islam and completed the pilgrimage of the Hasmonean dynasty. This witnessed in his preaching as he to Mecca, the hajj . He now calls appears to be the capital of a column gradually tones down his reproof of himself Haji Collis.” that formed part of the eastern sin and error. The Bible says the colonnade of the Temple Mount, preacher is to reprove, rebuke, exhort PORTION OF COLUMN FROM which Josephus and even the New (2 Timothy 4:2), to rebuke with all HEROD’S TEMPLE Testament called Solomon’s Porch. authority (Titus 2:15), and to reprove DISCOVERED (Friday Church A column like this is impressive the unfruitful works of darkness News Notes, April 7, 2017, testimony of the immensity of the (Ephesians 5:11). He is to preach the www.wayoflife.org structures on the Temple Mount in whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27). [email protected], 866-295-4143) the Second Temple era, and fits in This requires plain speaking and - The following is excerpted from well with Josephus’ narrative, which warning of sin and error, but the “Section of 2nd-Temple-era column describes what he saw with his own compromising preacher is more eyes.’ Barkay explained that a 25- concerned with not offending man cubit column would have stood 12.5 than being faithful to God, so he meters (41 feet) high. ‘The columns gradually tones down his reproof to were erected in two parallel rows, and suit the sentiments of the people. were topped with cedar rafters that Over the past 20 years we have seen supported the roofing. One can the toning down of reproof pertaining imagine the pilgrims arriving at the to immodest and unisex fashions, Temple Mount for the three major tattoos, carnal music, self-esteem festivals, amazed at the immense psychology, evangelical compromise,

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and a host of other things. Even clear warnings about hell are becoming THE FIG AND THE FIG WASP rare. (Friday Church News Notes, April 7, 2017, www.wayoflife.org HANK HANNEGRAAFF JOINS [email protected], 866-295- THE GREEK ORTHODOX 4143) - The following is from CHURCH (Friday Church News CreationMoments.com, Nov. 7, Notes, April 14, 2017, 2014: “Completely unrelated www.wayoflife.org creatures that depend entirely upon [email protected], 866-295-4143) one another to live and have no - Hank Hannegraaff, president of the way of living without one another lies an incredible story. The fig Christian Research Institute and host pose a very serious challenge to wasp hatches from eggs inside the of The Bible Answer Man radio those who claim that all living male fig, and its purpose in its short broadcast, has left “evangelicalism” things evolved. The relationship is 24-hour life is to lay its eggs inside and joined the Greek Orthodox called reciprocal altruism. One another male fig. The female wasp Church. On Palm Sunday, he was startling example is the relationship emerges from the male fig covered “chrismated” (anointed) at the Saint between the fig wasp and the fig in pollen and is programmed to Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church of tree. Male figs are not for eating; search among the female figs, thus Charlotte, North Carolina (Christian they produce the pollen to pollinate fertilizing them, before laying its Post, Apr. 11, 2017). Greek the sweet, juicy female fig. But the eggs inside a male fig and, thus, Orthodoxy, a split from the Roman flower parts of both the male and starting the cycle again. The fig Catholic Church, is absolutely filled female figs are inside the figs. wasp will only lay its eggs in the with heresy. Salvation is through the There is no chance that the wind male fig while the female fig cannot seven sacraments, beginning with could spread pollen from the male be pollinated by any other method. baptism, which is called the new birth, to the female figs. And there is no Clearly, both the fig wasp and the followed by “holy charismation,” other creature except the fig wasp fig tree were created for this special which is anointing by an Orthodox that can transfer the pollen. Herein relationship.” priest and “makes the baptized person the possessor of the Spirit.” Salvation known and experienced through a bewildering variety of theological is then fed by the “Holy Eucharist,” sacraments, liturgy, icons, incense, compromise, worldliness, and whereby Christ supposedly is candles, bells, rituals, pilgrimages, heresies. Those who use sacrificed anew and the bread and veneration of relics, monasticism. I Contemporary Christian Music build wine becomes the actual body and have visited Orthodox churches and bridges to these waters, and the result blood of Christ. In Orthodoxy, Mary monasteries in many countries and can be spiritual shipwreck. is “venerated” as the “ever virgin” witnessed its gross idolatry. Mother of God, “more honorable than Converted Hindu friends, upon CARY SCHMIDT’S CHRISTIAN the Cherubim and more glorious, entering an Orthodox church, always ROCK CONCERT (Friday Church beyond compare, than the Seraphim,” comment that it “is just like News Notes, April 14, 2017, the “Panagia All-Holy,” who was Hinduism.” The waters of www.wayoflife.org “assumed body and soul into evangelicalism today are occupied by [email protected], 866-295-4143) Heaven.” In Orthodoxy, tradition is - I received the following information equal in authority to Scripture, and from a friend: “Several months ago I prayers are spoken to the dead. All of wrote to you about my sorrow for the this can be found at the website of church I was a member of for many Saint Nektarios Greek Orthodox years. Emmanuel Baptist Church of Church. The emphasis of Greek Newington, Connecticut, was the first Orthodoxy is not faith but sight. “The place I was introduced to your church is an icon of Christ and the ministry. For many years it held Body of Christ.” Christ is supposedly public stands on separation, and

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Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, the Newsboys, Don Moen, Mark Schultz, Sandi Patti, Travis Cottrell (Beth Moore’s worship leader), Steven Curtis Chapman, Steve Green, Dallas Holm, Russ Taff, The Imperials, Don Francisco, First Call, Michael Omartian, Francesca Battistelli, Kari Jobe, Jaci Velasquez, Laura Story, Petra, 4Him, Point of Grace, Carman, and Nicole Mullen. We Are United music was at the forefront of that Come Down,” referring to Promise was the brainchild of Stan Moser, one battle. I told you that Cary Schmidt, Keeper’s goal of breaking down of the fathers of CCM. This is Steve former music director to Paul walls between denominations. Green’s very dangerous crowd. Chappell and Lancaster Baptist Several Catholic priests were present Though he is more doctrinally Church in California, had taken over at that conference, and Ralph Colas, conservative than many of the CCM as the pastor. I have watched from a who attended the event, described it artists, Green’s ecumenical distance as he has systematically in these words: “The big beat, philosophy and his associations are peeled back the dress standards. He contemporary music brought the direct bridges to the treacherous has assaulted the gospel with his ministers to their feet. ... Steve Green waters of evangelicalism and beyond. quick prayerism approach to belted out repeatedly ‘Let the Walls (For more information see The evangelism. They just spent about Come Down.’ The 40,000 clergy Directory of Contemporary Worship $85k on a slick platform renovation shouted, whistled, clapped, and Musicians, available as a free eBook with high tech lighting and cheered as they worked to a higher from www.wayoflife.org.) audio/visual systems among other and higher pitch of emotion” things (removed pews for chairs, new (Calvary Contender, April 15, 1996). AMERICANS AND THEIR carpet, air conditioning units). All of Green’s The Faithful album (1998) BIBLES (Friday Church News that I guess is fine, but I know where features two songs (“The River” and Notes, April 14, 2017, it is headed. But what blew me away “The Great Revival”) that promote www.wayoflife.org yesterday was to see that next Sunday charismatic-ecumenical error. Green [email protected], 866-295-4143) (Resurrection Sunday) they will be sings that the “river” sweeps people - According to the 2017 “State of the having a concert in the evening led away and makes them “out of Bible” survey published by Barna by Steve Green. Again, this is the control,” which is precisely what Research and the American Bible fruit of Paul Chappell’s soft happens to people who participate in Society, 87% of American separatism.” CONCLUSION Pentecostal “revivals.” In 2011, households own a Bible, but only FROM BROTHER CLOUD: The Green joined the Christian Classic 20% claim to be “Bible Engaged.” heart of my longstanding warning Tour with Twila Paris and Michael This means they view the Bible as the about the use of CCM is that it builds Card. In 1996, Card produced an inspired Word of God and they read, bridges to the “broader church” or the album (Brother to Brother) jointly use, or listen to it four times a week “one world church,” which every with John Michael Talbot, a Roman or more. (Or course, that refers to any CCM artist represents. Steve Green Catholic who prays to Mary and type of Bible and even the most is no exception. He has sung at practices yoga. In January 2015, casual of reading or listening habits.) radical ecumenical forums such as Green was one of the headliners of Of those surveyed, another 38% the Religious Broadcasters the “We Will Stand” concert. The describe themselves as Bible Association’s annual convention, theme was unity: “CCM United: one Friendly, meaning they view the Billy Graham crusades, and Promise message, many voices.” The concert Bible as the inspired Word of God Keepers rallies. At the Promise featured “33 of the greatest CCM but use it fewer than four times per Keepers Atlanta Clergy Conference artists in history” (“We Are United,” week; 23% view themselves as Bible in 1996, Green sang, “Let the Walls thefishomaha.com). These included Neutral; 32% describe themselves as

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than others is well known. What is (Revelation 21:8). As for super-agers, new is the idea that “super-agers” no matter how keen their memory might point the way to reverse aging, remains into old age, they experience which is the frenzy of this foolish, the painful edge of aging in other unbelieving generation. Amanda ways. They don’t see as well or hear Cook, the author of the recent study, as well or jump as high or run as fast said, “Super-agers suggest that age- or heal as quickly as they once did. related cognitive decline is not The pains that once came and left, inevitable” (“Brains of ‘super- come and stay. The super-ager Bible Skeptics or Bible Hostile. agers,’” Agence France-Presse, Apr. reminds me of the optimist who fell Those are the statistics across all age 5, 2017). Actually, they suggest no from the Empire State Building. As groups. The percentage of younger such thing, as aging and death are he passed the 50th floor, someone Americans engaging with the Bible universal, and the most “super- heard him say, “So far so good!” For is lower. Among Millennials (born duper” of the “super-agers” dies, the aged in Christ, God has 1985-1999), 17% say they were Bible regardless of how keen his or her unspeakably wonderful promises, Engaged, whereas among Boomers memory is at that event. Some tech such as my godly grandmother’s (born 1947-1965), the percentage is billionaires, including Google favorite: “I have been young, and now 39%. The wise and blessed man is not founder Larry Page and Oracle CEO am old; yet have I not seen the merely “engaged” with or “friendly” Larry Ellison, are funding research to righteous forsaken, nor his seed toward God’s Word; he knows God begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). personally in Jesus Christ and has a most intimate relationship with God’s ISRAELI SUPPORT OF holy Word. “Blessed is the man that WITHDRAWAL FROM walketh not in the counsel of the BIBLICAL HEARTLAND ungodly, nor standeth in the way of PLUMMETS (Friday Church News sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the Notes, April 14, 2017, scornful. But his delight is in the law www.wayoflife.org of the LORD; and in his law doth he [email protected], 866-295-4143) meditate day and night. And he shall end death. Ellison says, “Death - The following is excerpted from be like a tree planted by the rivers of makes me very angry,” so he created “Number of Israelis,” water, that bringeth forth his fruit in the Ellison Foundation to find a way BreakingIsraelNews, Apr. 7, 2017: “A his season; his leaf also shall not to cheat death (“Larry Page Lists 5 new poll commissioned by the wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall Things That Google Will Conquer,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs prosper” (Psalm 1:1-3). Business Insider, May 15, 2014). (JCPA) shows a massive decline in Having achieved remarkable things the Israeli public’s support for a SUPER-AGERS (Friday Church through technology and having withdrawal from Judea and Samaria News Notes, April 14, 2017, exalted the human intellect to the as part of any future peace deal. The www.wayoflife.org place of God, these captains of the survey, conducted by Israeli pollster [email protected], 866-295-4143) tech industry are deluded into Mina Tzemach, was undertaken to - Many studies are being done on thinking that they can cure man’s examine ‘the attitudes of the Jewish “super-agers,” people 80 or older deepest moral and spiritual needs. I who score as high on memory tests use and enjoy modern technology, as those who are decades younger. A but I don’t trust it for salvation. These new study published in the Journal men are willfully ignorant of the fact of the American Medical Association, that death is the wages of sin found that “super-agers” lose less (Romans 6:23). That awful wage brain mass less quickly in the aging includes the physical death and the process compared to normal agers. “second death,” which is eternal The fact that some people age better punishment in the lake of fire

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public in Israel on several issues regarding a peace agreement or other FISH-BACTERIA arrangements with the Palestinians.’ SYMBIOSIS (Friday The results point to a significant Church News Notes, April decline in Israelis’ support for key 7, 2017, conditions the Palestinians are www.wayoflife.org demanding in connection with [email protected], 866- establishing a future Palestinian state. 295-4143) -The flashlight According to the survey, Israelis’ fish depends on colonies of willingness to withdraw from the luminescent bacteria that biblical heartland of Judea and pack its light organs. The bacteria, the fish couldn’t locate its prey in Samaria has dropped from 60 percent of course, are complex a dark tank without its lights. It in 2005 to 36 percent in 2017. The microscopic creatures in their own also uses its lights to communicate vast majority of Israelis, 76 percent, right. “The fishes furnish the with other flashlight fish by means stated a preference for Israel retaining bacteria with food and a stable of signals. It also escapes harm by full security control of Judea and environment, and the bacteria a “blink-and-run” swimming Samaria, with 81 percent of obligingly serve as the fishes’ pattern. It swims with its light on respondents saying Israel should flashlights” (William Agosta, establishing a swimming direction maintain full sovereignty over the Bombardier Beetles and Fever in the mind of an observer, then it Jordan Valley. The poll also shows Trees, p. 127). The fish’s two light blinks the light and at the same that 79 percent of Israelis believe it’s organs are located beneath its time abruptly changes direction, important to maintain a unified eyes. Though the bacteria glow blinking the light again when it is Jerusalem under full Israeli continuously, the fish controls the in a different location, and sovereignty. Eighty-three percent light by means of eyelid-like repeating this behavior. It is said they are against transferring the shutters. It uses the light to see its confusing to a predator and makes Temple Mount to the Palestinians, prey. Laboratory tests proved that the fish difficult to track. and 71 percent said any peace agreement must be based upon Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Niitzuma Lovely xCation (Niitzuma conversations with this artificial Jewish state.” means “new wife”), and for the intelligence bot programmed to rollout of the 2017 edition, a select behave like a 17-year-old girl. The FALLING IN LOVE WITH A number of users will be invited to documentary “Evolving AI: Blessing FANTASY CHARACTER (Friday participate in a virtual reality or Curse?” interviewed a young man Church News Notes, April 21, 2017, wedding with their favorite female who has fallen in love with Xiaoice www.wayoflife.org character, “complete with a real-life because she sang him a song when he [email protected], 866-295-4143) wedding chapel and tuxedo.” was depressed. He spends every - In this age of fantasy multitudes of Another example is Xiaoice possible waking moment talking to people live in a mythical world. Of (pronounced Shao-ice), a Chinese this mythical “person.” These young course, this began in ancient Babel, chatbot created by Microsoft. men are living in a complete fantasy but modern technology has taken Millions of people have full-fledged world. But life is no fantasy. Man is everything to a new level. Consider a very real sinner against a very real the Japanese anime dating simulation Creator God. There is a very real video games that have captivated the heaven and a very real hell. And there hearts of multitudes of young men. is a very real salvation in a very real The fantasy games “allow users to Jesus Christ, the Creator, Lord, and engage with anime characters in Saviour. “For the wages of sin is dating and sexual encounters” death; but the gift of God is eternal (“Japanese video game maker,” UPI, life through Jesus Christ our Lord” Apr. 15, 2017). The most popular is (Romans 6:23).

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finding debunking former Darwinist family in a cave setting, based on claims that Neanderthal was a Boule’s interpretation. They were grunting cave man. In 1907, Ernst stooped, half-clothed, clutching Haeckel, Darwin’s chief disciple in bones, and had very stupid Germany, described Neanderthal as expressions. This was set up as a a pre-human and placed him between permanent display in the Field Pithecanthropus (Java man) and Museum of Natural History in Homo Australis, which he called “the Chicago and was copied in countless lowest race of recent man.” French textbooks, encyclopedias, journals, NEANDERTHAL USED PAIN paleontologist Marcellin Boule added popular magazines and newspapers, MEDICINE (Friday Church News his authority to the evolutionary and museums. This is the view that Notes, April 21, 2017, myth. Boule believed that prevailed for nearly half a century, www.wayoflife.org Neanderthal was a branch of ape-men but it was not science; it was myth- [email protected], 866-295-4143) that became extinct without giving making based on presumption and - The latest research has discovered rise to “modern humans.” He speculation. Since the 1960s, that Neanderthals had expert believed that Neanderthal did not Neanderthal has gradually been knowledge of plants and understood walk erect but walked pigeon-toed humanized. Neanderthal has even their anti-inflammatory and pain- with a bent-knee shuffling gait. Boule been reclassified as Homo sapiens relieving properties. They used said that Neanderthal “must have neanderthalensis, a type of “modern salicylic acid (the main ingredient in possessed only a rudimentary psychic man,” though some evolutionists still aspirin) for pain relief (“Dental nature ... only the most rudimentary hold to the old classification. It is now plaque DNA suggests Neanderthals articulate language” (Fossil Men, admitted that Neanderthals had a treated pain with salicylic acid,” UPI, 1957, p. 251). In 1930, Frederick sophisticated culture (cared for the Mar. 8, 2017). This is the latest Blaschke modeled a Neanderthal sick and elderly, buried their dead,

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