More Lies from the Weather Channel: These are NOT Contrails


Did your parents ever tell you not to believe everything you read? Below is a perfect example of how we are lied to regarding the weather. The reality is these circles in the sky are geoengineering chemtrails which are used to control/change the weather. Also look up Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) and man-made weather.




Here is the link to the article:
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2018-12-19-air-force-ring-contrails-satellite-imagery-florida-panhandle-gulf

The misleading article says among other things...
"A U.S. Air Force fighter pilot filled the sky with ring contrails near Destin, Florida. The contrails resembled a large figure-eight and were visible on satellite imagery. Ring contrails produced by a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot were spotted over the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. The contrails were so well defined that they could be spotted on GOES-East satellite imagery just before noon Tuesday, as the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Florida, pointed out in a tweet. Air Force making some Contrail Ring Clouds out over Gulf south of Destin, FL. New cloud term! The NWS in Memphis, Tennessee, noted in a tweet that the larger contrail was 10 miles in diameter while the smaller one measured 8 miles across. This part of Florida was ravished by Hurricane Michael in October. Perhaps this U.S. Air Force fighter pilot was trying to spread some joy to local residents, who are still recovering from Michael's catastrophic Category 4 strike."

This last sentence is particularly outrageous since it was the manipulating of the hurricane that created all the horrible devastation through which I am currently living!

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CAN THE CHURCH BUY INTO “THE GLOBAL GOALS?” by Thomas Littleton

GLOBAL GENEROSITY VS. CHRISTIAN MISSION:

CAN THE CHURCH BUY INTO “THE GLOBAL GOALS?”

  
THE WORLD GLOBALIST CHRISTIANS WANT:

ADVENTURES IN SEPARATING CHRISTIANS FROM THEIR MONEY
 

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                                         

12/5/2018
 
It should come as no surprise that today Globalist dreams run headlong into the fulfillment of Psalm 2 on the front lines of secular politics and culture. The Psalmist tells us, speaking by the Spirit of God, that this will be the case for a rebellious world.


“Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”


The real shock for some will be seeing the promotion of “Global Goals” of  The World (They) Want by the Evangelical Church leadership. This includes, in many cases, the horrific and failed efforts to address global health, global poverty, global human rights – especially in the area of harnessing philanthropy to address these issues with the questionable wisdom of the elitists who have driven them.
THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH: DANCE PARTNER WITH GLOBALISM
No one has played a more vital role setting the Evangelical Church on this trajectory than a Texas millionaire named Bob Buford. His Leadership Network training and resourcing of carefully selected innovative pastors has worked for over three decades on the down low helping to build the Megachurch movement, Emergent church movement and fuel the church planting craze. Some of Leadership Network’s key leaders in the Church include Tim Keller and Rick Warren, both of whom are helping to further the global focus with organizations like Keller’s Redeemer City to City and Warren’s PEACE Plan.
Half-Time is Buford’s brainchild to package the Great Society visions of its architect, John Gardner, (who served in the LBJ administration launching the largest progressive expansion of government and the welfare state in history at the time). The idea is taken from Gardner’s concept of “Repotting” oneself at mid-life and finding purpose, not in gaining, but in giving back, i.e. philanthropic social responsibility for individuals who have achieved success. The goal is to consider the greater good and disperse one’s wealth for the benefit of society and the “Common Good.” This mantra is now everywhere in the Church thanks to people like Buford (who was a great admirer of Soviet leader Lenin as “one of the two greatest thinkers of the last century”) and to pastors like Keller and Warren who have helped sell his ideology to the Church.
SHOCKING ADMISSIONS OF GLOBALIST PETER KAROFF: THE WORLD WE WANT  ON BOB BUFORD AND HALFTIME

In Peter Karoff’s book, The World We Want, New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change, Karoff talks about the work of Buford and Half-Time in the chapter “Generosity and Sacred Search: Motivation.” On page 215 Karoff says, “I listened to Bob Buford and I am not alone. Half a million people bought his book Half-Time. Bob defies the stereotype of the evangelical Christian when he preaches about the centrality of community and citizenship. The strategy of singling out the latent energy in American Christianity comes straight out of his success as a cable television entrepreneur. (Buford says) ‘It’s because we have the biggest market share. Among Americans, 85 percent identify themselves as Christians. It just makes sense to go where the Market is.’”
So Karoff tells us of the work of Buford and Half-Time (page 215) and its motivation being to target the latent energy, i. e. the wealth of Christians for the “World We (the Globalists) Want.” He then makes the most revealing statement of all about the time Buford invited the Jewish Karoff to come to attend his evening “Vespers service” at a high end financial planning meeting where Buford was plying his trade among well-endowed Christians. “Peter,” he (Buford) tapped me after my speech, “if I could deliver you legions of very wealthy Christians primed to become big time philanthropists, would you consider converting? Why don’t you come to my service?”
Karoff tells us that Buford, the guy who has discipled and resourced many of Evangelicals’ biggest name leaders and promoted them through media he controlled, like Christianity Today, has openly admitted his work has been to “prime Wealthy believers” to fund the Globalist dreams of those who boast about “The World We Want.”  This would appear to plainly assert that the greater goal of Rick Warren, whose work even included a Pastor of Generosity” on his Saddleback Church staff, and Keller, who is now the lead prophet proclaiming the “Gospel of Generosity” or “Theology of Generosity,” are in fact seducing the Church into funding Global goals in the name of “redeeming culture” and “gospel mission.” Perhaps those big name evangelicals like Keller and Warren and others like them (there are hundreds from the LeadNet stable) can come forward and clarify their means and motivations – before we GIVE.

LOOKING BRIEFLY AT THE WORLD WE WANT MOVEMENT: IN THEIR OWN WORDS
About the Author
“Peter Karoff founded the Philanthropic Initiative (TPI) to help donors increase the impact of their philanthropy and at the same time make ‘giving’ more meaningful in their own lives. President of TPI from 1989 to 2002, he is a senior fellow at the College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. Jane Maddox is an editor and writer at TPI who has worked with public agencies, companies, and nonprofits in communicating their missions, programs, and ideas.
“These were the questions my eclectic group of heroes were asked to consider: What is your vision of a better world? What are the obstacles that need to be overcome to realize it? What parts of the vision are realistic, and what ideas, strategies, and plans, can make it so? How much fun it would be to hear your answers to these tricky questions. It would be a great conversation, and without a doubt there would be material for another chapter or two in another book, perhaps one you will someday write or are even writing right now. The end results are stories from an extraordinary group of practical visionaries. Some are dreamers, others realists, entrepreneurs, activists, spiritualists, secularists, ethicists, critics, cynics, and reluctant seers.
“At the other end of the spectrum is a world where silos are broken down – where all the sectors, Civil Society, government, and the market economy, work together to harness and integrate their resources.
“Of special interest is how to integrate the unlimited capacity of the market economy. What Steve Case, co-founder of AOL calls creating a “new paradigm that bridges business and the social sector.” ix Bill Gates’ speech on Creative Capitalism three weeks ago in Davos builds on that theme.

“They will, for all intents and purposes, fulfill many of the functions of regional associations of grant makers – and community foundations, but few would become one or join one. In fact, many would not even know such entities existed. They may reside in organizations like financial institutions, YPO, Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, churches and temples or come roaring out of the Blog-blue. These hybrids of for-profit and nonprofit endeavors will increasingly look and feel like social movements.”
KELLER FRIEND AND INFLUENCER, JAMES DAVISON HUNTER, SURFACES AGAIN
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tim Keller and Rick Warren have worked closely with some groups influenced by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. The work has included many from the Evangelical circles including the leader of the Lausanne Movement, Doug Birdsall, and the heads of several Christian universities along with the sociology departments of Yale and Princeton on developing a “Theory of Social Change.” This movement also includes the Global Generosity focus.

In previous writings we have looked at the description of Hunter’s organization which is partnering throughout these circles as the key thought leader and coordinator, especially and specifically focused on the Evangelical Church. Until recently, the website for IASC website included mention that its inspiration comes from the origins of Cultural Marxism, The Frankfurt School.
“Our institutional inspiration comes from the close-knit intellectual fellowships of the past (such as the Frankfurt School and the Vienna Circle); our philosophical inspiration comes from a thoughtful re-appropriation of the theologies and classical philosophies which characteristically champion the dignity of the person, the pursuit of the just life, and the flourishing of the human community.”

Very recently, however, the “About IASC” page has been changed and there is no mention of the Frankfurt School.
HUNTER’S IDEOLOGICAL WORK WITH “THE WORLD WE WANT”
The influential work of IASC is included as a resource in “The World We Want” project “Catechism of Philanthropy.” His book, discussed below, echoes the message for world societal change and the use of the social sciences to bring this change about within the Church.

The influential work of IASC is included as a resource in the “World We Want “  project “Catechism of Philanthropy “. His book discussed below echoes the message for world societal change and the use of the social sciences to bring this change about within the church.

“The World We Want xii See Randall Collins’ “Global Theory of Intellectual Change” and James Hunter’s work “To Change the World xiii See the 1974 essay by Stephen Jay Gould: “This View of life:Size and Shape. Nat Hist 1974:83:20-26 xiv Reference to the concept of Appreciative Inquiry that asks unconditional questions with the aim of discovery of what gives life to a living system.
The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the 21st century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive–and provocative–answers to these questions.

Hunter begins with a penetrating appraisal of the most popular models of world-changing among Christians today, highlighting the ways they are inherently flawed and therefore incapable of generating the change to which they aspire. Because change implies power, all Christians eventually embrace strategies of political engagement. Hunter offers a trenchant critique of the political theologies of the Christian Right and Left and the Neo-Anabaptists, taking on many respected leaders, from Charles W. Colson to Jim Wallis and Stanley Hauerwas. Hunter argues that all too often these political theologies worsen the very problems they are designed to solve. What is really needed is a different paradigm of Christian engagement with the world, one that Hunter calls “faithful presence”–an ideal of Christian practice that is not only individual but institutional; a model that plays out not only in all relationships but in our work and all spheres of social life. He offers real life examples, large and small, of what can be accomplished through the practice of “faithful presence.” Such practices will be more fruitful, Hunter argues, more exemplary, and more deeply transfiguring than any more overtly ambitious attempts can ever be.
Q: Why did you write To Change the World?
Hunter: I wrote this book because I saw a disjunction between how Christians talk about changing the world, how they try to change the world, and how worlds –that is culture–change. These disparities needed to be clarified.
Q: How does this build on your previous work?
Hunter: One way it builds on my earlier work is that it provides a bigger picture of the nature of cultural conflict, why Christians seem to be neck deep in it, and why the approaches that they take in cultural conflict are so counterproductive. This is a response to some of the earlier work that I have done on the nature of culture wars and alternatives to them.
Q: Who do you hope reads this book?
Hunter: The audience I had in mind was the diverse communities that make up American Christians and their institutional leaders–those who think about the world we live in today and how best to engage it. Those who think about these matters will find here a useful guide.
Q: What three things do you want readers to take away from reading this book?
Hunter: The primary ways of thinking about the world and how it changes in our society are mainly incorrect. There is an answer to the question of how to change the world, but how it actually changes is different from how most people think.
Most people believe that politics is a large part of the answer to the problems that we face in the world, and so a second insight would be the limitations of politics. Political strategies are not only counter-productive to the ends that faith communities have in mind, but are antithetical to the ends that they seek to achieve.
A third thing that I would like for readers to take away is that there are alternative ways of thinking about the world we live in, and engaging it, that are constructive and draw upon resources within the Christian tradition. In the end, these strategies are not first and foremost about changing the world, but living toward the flourishing of others.

Hunter’s book and work are part of Karoff and the World Changers “Catechism For a Great Foundation”
On February 14, 2008, Peter Karoff gave a presentation for staff of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation entitled “Catechism for a Great Foundation,” drawing on themes from his book, The World We Want: New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change.  In the presentation, Peter discussed the increasing intersection between the social and private sectors as a promising philanthropic model.  He also addressed some of the challenges facing a great foundation, as well as its remarkable potential to transform philanthropy and effect societal change.

The language of the Catechism is totally about the social sector and private sector partnerships to “transform philanthropy and effect societal change.” With the furtherance of Government sign on both national and international levels, the Three-Legged Stool is complete.

THE CATECHISM
The Philanthropic Initiative or TPI is Karoff’s organization which has overseen Billions in global philanthropy over the years. TPI, since at least 2008 has been working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as outlined in the Catechism.
“The World We Want book is about three big things. The first is a vision for better world. The second is doing the work. And the third is what this means – for you, for me, and for the people we love. The book itself is an extension of the TPI experience, and my own 35-year journey into the heart, soul and process of philanthropy, that by the way began at a memorable evening in the early 60’s when the president of the Boston NAAC was so upset at my hubris, he literally threw a chair at me!
Put simply, philanthropy – whether the issue it presumes to address is homelessness, global health, or poverty – cannot do it alone, and in fact that realization has been the guiding principle behind any successful public policy work. While philanthropy’s limited financial resources are a challenge, even more it is the sheer complexity of solving social issues – complex problems can never be solved by any one, single, actor. And that is one message the Gates Foundation has understood from inception.

These were the questions my eclectic group of heroes were asked to consider: What is your vision of a better world? What are the obstacles that need to be overcome to realize it? What parts of the vision are realistic, and what ideas, strategies, and plans, can make it so?
The end results are stories from an extraordinary group of practical visionaries. Some are dreamers, others realists, entrepreneurs, activists, spiritualists, secularists, ethicists, critics, cynics, and reluctant seers
At the other end of the spectrum is a world where silos are broken down – where all the sectors, Civil Society, government, and the market economy, work together to harness and integrate their resources. Perhaps the biggest take-away from the book is the growing impact of what is called the Open Source phenomenon which resonates so totally with the concept of an ‘open society.’
Of special interest is how to integrate the unlimited capacity of the market economy. What Steve Case, co-founder of AOL calls creating a “new paradigm that bridges business and the social sector.” Bill Gates’ speech on Creative Capitalism three weeks ago in Davos builds on that theme.”

A DISTURBING NEW MAINSTREAM SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR THE CHURCH

Since at least 2007 Southern Baptist Rick Warren has been working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on programs like the World Health Organizations Global Health Initiative, Now we see indications of the Gates Foundation and influence spreading among evangelical ministries though organizations like The Gathering which is a clearing house for Christian Philanthropy and which connects donors who give over $200,000 per year to ministries in need of funds.
The 2018 meetings of the Gathering reveal the growing ties between The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Christian Philanthropy and ministries. This is despite huge difference in moral issues like Abortion and human sterilization which are far from Christian conviction of mission. The Gates Foundation and other global partners focus intensely on their shared concerns of population growth and limiting it as they “address global issues.”
Fred Smith, long time president of the Gathering has also served as co-founder and for many years as a board member for Bob Buford’s Leadership Network driving the Evangelical church toward “The World We Want.”
“Fred Smith is a graduate of Denver University and Harvard Divinity School. Fred spent several years as teacher and administrator at Charlotte Christian School in North Carolina and The Stony Brook School in New York before moving to Tyler and joining Bob Buford in founding Leadership Network, where he served as President for 12 years.
Additionally, Fred is the Founder and President of The Gathering, connecting an international community of givers focused on the support of Christian Ministries.”

THE GATHERING STAFF AT GATES FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS IN OCTOBER 2018
Great morning with @johnkeithsage at the @gatesfoundation. #gathseattle
ANOTHER SOUTHERN BAPTIST, RUSSELL MOORE OF ERLC, TIES INTO THE GATES FOUNDATION AND THE GATHERING.

The Gathering's 2018 event included Southern Baptist ERLC President and lead progressive mouthpiece Russell Moore.
Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Later on Facebook, Fred Smith of The Gathering Fred Smith, voiced high praise of Russell Moore.
“He is iraenic and a peacemaker because he is at peace himself.” Fred Smith Dr. Russell Moore #gathkeybiscayne
THE FORGOTTEN TRUTH OF GLOBALIST CHRISTIANITY
We find in the Word of God – in plain view – the glorious truth that the “Globalist” Christians who think that their partnership with the world and global goals are the work of the Gospel, or have any lasting value, is pure modern myth. How foolhardy of evangelical ministers to think these efforts to ally with a system hostile to God can constitute the establishment of His Kingdom, or that working for the betterment of a world under Divine judgment is in keeping with the commandment not to love the world and, for those who use its systems, not to be caught up in them.

Psalm 33

4 For the word of the Lord is right,
And all His work is done in truth. 5 He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together [b]as a heap;
He lays up the deep in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. 9 For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. 11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
13 The Lord looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men. 14 From the place of His dwelling He looks
On all the inhabitants of the earth; 15 He fashions their hearts individually;
He considers all their works.
16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.

Psalm 2 continues and presents to us in no uncertain terms the outlook of God on mankind’s rebellious efforts to save himself and his world – and it directly points out who is the King and how His Kingdom is established.


“He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure: 6 “Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”

The best we hope we have for our herd of globalist Evangelicals and pastors is that the inevitable failure of their plans and seduction of the Church will dawn on them before the house of cards they are helping to build collapses on their heads. Let us pray to that end.
Have Mercy, O Lord, and awaken the sleeping giant of the real global church.


 
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The Joy of Salvation in a Satanic World System by Jeremy James

The Joy of Salvation in a Satanic World System
by Jeremy James

Despite what we may think, we have a choice. We can be miserable in face of the incredible wickedness of the world around us, or we can live daily in the joy of our salvation. Which choice have you made?

After his dreadful sin in the matter of Uriah, David repented with a contrite spirit and cried out to the LORD, “ Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ” (Psalm 51).

David may have been in an even worse situation than Job. He knew he deserved death and that his awful condition was entirely of his own making. Job, on the other hand, suffered grievously, and in ways we find hard to comprehend, but his plight was not of his own making. As we read the account of his condition and what might possibly have caused it, we can detect a golden thread running through his words from start to finish. He knew that God would deal justly with him, that when it was all over he would not find even the smallest reason to believe he was treated unfairly. Naturally, he had no idea how it would all end, but he never came close to doing what his distraught wife had advised from the start: “...curse God, and die.” (Job 2:9) 

David could only find the joy of his salvation – the salvation of the LORD – through heartfelt repentance. Job, on the other hand, found it through the exercise of astonishing patience. Each in his own way had to throw himself upon the LORD and trust in His unfathomable mercy. 

Habakkuk
David was greatly shaken by what he had done, and Job was oppressed by the awful calamities that befell him personally. Habakkuk, however, was deeply troubled for a different reason – the awful condition of the world around him, which he knew was due entirely to the sinfulness of Judah: “...my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself” (Habakkuk 3.16)

This is the condition that we wish to address in this paper. For many sincere souls, the discovery of the New World Order and the wicked cabal who control it is deeply disturbing. So many questions assail us all at once, all begging for immediate answers, that we hardly know where to begin. How could evil like this exist? How could it hide itself for so long? And why would God allow it to continue? This last question is especially troubling in light of the victory that Christ won on Calvary. Surely he triumphed over the works of darkness on Resurrection Sunday and neutralized, if not destroyed, the power that Satan had over mankind?

So it is a challenging issue, both for those who have not yet found Christ and for those who have come to a saving faith in Christ. For the former, it can come as a great shock to realize that evil exists, that it is a real supernatural force, and that a small but highly influential percentage of mankind worship and serve the powers of darkness. And for Christians it is a shock to find that the doctrine of evil being taught in most churches today is pathetically inadequate, that Satan is far more dangerous and far more cunning than they had been led to believe.
We will address this issue from a Biblical perspective only. Unless one understands the magnitude of what Christ achieved for us on Calvary, we simply won’t guess the depth and extent of the Satanic world system.

Did Calvary end Satan’s dominion?
Let’s start with the really big question for most Christians: Why didn’t Calvary put an end to all this? If Satan was truly defeated, then why is he still “the god of this world”, as the Apostle Paul confirmed in 2 Corinthians 4:4? Surely Jesus himself said, on the night before his crucifixion, “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” (John 12:31)?

We must read God’s Word in its totality and not confine our understanding to some parts to the exclusion of others. The Book of Revelation tells us that Satan will not be bound until after the war in heaven (Revelation 12:7), when the rebellious angels are cast down to the earth.  After the Antichrist and the False Prophet are defeated and thrust into the Lake of Fire, the LORD will send an angel to bind Satan and cast him into the bottomless pit:

“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.” (Revelation 20:1-3)

The Enemy will continue to wage his great war of deception until that fateful day!
The victory on Calvary was perfect and complete, but it did not mark the final phase in the LORD’s redemptive plan for mankind. Rather it made possible the completion of that plan. The Church, the Bride of Christ, is still being called out and the Chosen People have yet to go through the judgment that will lead to their redemption. Both of these epic activities, which have continued for nearly two thousand years, are still ongoing.

Satan is as active today as he was in Apostolic times – i.e. after the Resurrection of Christ. Remember how he opposed the Apostle Paul: “Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.” (1 Thessalonians 2:18)

Paul was possibly the greatest of all Christian missionaries, a man filled with the Holy Spirit, but Satan hindered even him.

The Apostle Peter stressed the need for sobriety and vigilance since Satan is as keen to devour us spiritually as a lion is keen to devour us physically: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (1 Peter 5:8)

And for those who forget how dangerous the Adversary can be, consider how he caused the deaths of two professing believers, Ananias and Sapphira: “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?” (Acts 5:3)

Christians are protected
Born-again Christians are blessed with the indwelling protection of the Holy Spirit and have no need to fear Satan. We can pray to have him removed from any situation that affects us. We can also pray to God Almighty to deliver troubled souls from the power of evil demons. Through his work on Calvary, Christ earned these and many other wonderful blessings for his bride.

Contrary to what many are teaching today, mankind will not advance spiritually as the End Time approaches: “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” (2 Timothy 3:13) and “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy....” (2 Timothy 3:2). Christ even asked whether he would find faith on earth when he returned (Luke 18:8).

The Enemy has many lies that are designed to disguise the true spiritual condition of the world. These lies are so effective that a great many professing Christians believe in Dominionism, the false teaching that the church will bring in the Kingdom on behalf of Christ and that our Saviour will return only when that is accomplished.
There is a general failure within the professing church to perceive the true spiritual condition of the world, and this is masking the astonishing depth of evil which fuels the Satanic world system.

A well-documented conspiracy
Let’s consider a simple example of the leap that the professing church has yet to make to arrive at a clear understanding of the wickedness behind the New World Order. Back in 1980, hardly anyone recognized the extent to which the sexual abuse of children was endemic within society. When discerning souls tried to raise the issue for discussion, they were chided for their lack of hard evidence and their obsessive interest in unsavory topics. But they were right.

It came as a great shock to many to realize that the rumors were true and that in many instances the abuse was far, far worse than any had imagined. For Roman Catholics it was especially  traumatic since, not only had many members of their clergy been carrying out this vile abuse for decades, but they were moved from parish to parish by their superiors in order to conceal what was happening. We now know on foot of various reports, like the one published in 2018 on sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, that the Roman Catholic hierarchy – the echelon of bishops and cardinals who control the Roman church – have been following a Vatican-approved policy of denial, of litigious obstruction, of suppression of evidence, and of aiding through silence and complicity the ongoing rape and sexual abuse of teenagers and little children. It defies belief, but it happened and it is still happening.

There are three huge lessons in this:

1. It is possible for wide-scale wickedness to thrive in plain view, involving people of high standing. It is also possible for this wickedness to continue for many years without being detected. Should a small number of individuals try to raise the alarm, their wellfounded concerns are dismissed as nonsense. The public cannot believe it is happening. In fact it cannot believe that anything of the kind could ever happen. 

2. We also see how large organizations control and manipulate governments. For this reason the criminal prosecution of senior figures is virtually impossible to secure. The Vatican has been at the center of a worldwide pedophile network for decades and corroborating evidence of its grotesque activities is overwhelming, yet its top people are untouchable. It takes a perverse attitude, in light of these ongoing revelations, to claim that there is no conspiracy.

3. The true Christian church must take a leap in awareness, similar to the one it was forced to take when organized pedophilia was exposed, if it is to recognize what the New World Order is all about. This leap in awareness must come from ‘ordinary’ believers rather than pastors. The ranks of the latter are so heavily infiltrated by the Enemy that, with few exceptions, there is little likelihood that any of these coy and complacent individuals will ever speak out.

As we noted in a previous paper, we wrote to 124 pastors of Bible-believing churches in Ireland in 2017 and again in 2018, trying to form an organized church movement to speak loudly and visibly for the unborn in Ireland prior to the Referendum on Abortion. We received only 3 replies on both occasions. This is the Laodicean church in the prime of life, faithless, materialistic, and hypocritical to the core. Most of her pastors are well educated, with tongues smoother than butter, but when it comes to taking a stand for Biblical truth, they have a hundred  ways to excuse themselves. Few are remotely concerned that thousands of unborn children will be murdered every year in Ireland, purely for social convenience. They were as quiet as mice in the months leading up to the Referendum and they had virtually nothing to say after it was passed by an overwhelming majority. It would be difficult to match this kind of hypocrisy. Their attitude to the Marriage Referendum in 2015 was equally spineless. The imminent destruction of Christian marriage didn’t seem to bother them in the least.

Discouragement
This brings us full circle to the question of discouragement. We have sincere born-again Christians who are greatly troubled by the wickedness of the world as revealed through the Luciferian agenda of the New World Order. We also have sincere born-again Christians who are greatly troubled by their inability to get fellow Christians to recognize the gravity of what is happening. No doubt many are in both camps.

We are just like Habakkuk who looked at the world around him and “trembled” within himself. Was God watching any of this? he asked. The dejected prophet felt only “rottenness” in his bones. The wicked were seemingly in complete control, overturning everything in a frenzy of apostasy, and set to destroy any remaining vestige of righteousness.

Though he was surely familiar with the verse from Job which held the answer to his question, the troubled prophet needed further assurance:        

“Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?” (Job 20:4-5)

The problem for each of us, of course, is that the “moment” seems far too long!

The LORD refers explicitly to this in Isaiah when He describes the passage of time between the fall and exile of Israel and their eventual redemption when Christ returns and destroys their enemies at the end of the Tribulation: “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” (Isaiah 26:20-21)

The “little moment” is a short span of time relative to the vast depths of eternity. From a human standpoint, however, it is still a trial of endurance, and so the Word of God qualifies it with the phrase “as it were”. The same idea may be found later in Isaiah:   “For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.” (Isaiah 54:7-8)

The LORD is reassuring His people that He is mindful of their predicament, the judgment which they are obliged to endure because of their rebelliousness, but with great tenderness He draws their attention to the boundless joy they will experience when it is all over. He knows that the entire period of their alienation and duress will seem interminable in their own eyes, but He wants them to look beyond it and know that, in the vast scheme of things, it is but “a small moment”.

Our lesson from Lot
This should speak just as vividly and as lovingly to each of us today! While the believer is no longer under condemnation, he must live out his time here on earth under conditions which can be immensely trying. As the End Time draws closer and the tide of wickedness rises higher and higher, where men of reputation publish books that mock and defy the LORD God of the Bible, where every unseemly and salacious form of behavior is acceptable, and where the arrogance, willfulness and pride of the self-anointed Elite is painful to behold, the righteous man is greatly troubled by what he sees and by his inability to do anything about it.

This may be why Peter referred to Lot in his second epistle. Lot was a man whose record in life leaves much to be desired. He gave no evidence of unusual spiritual character. It is hard to read the account in Genesis and not come away asking why Abraham stuck with him for so long. There must have been something about this apparently self-seeking, carnal individual that stood to his credit. But what was it?

The apostle Peter gives us the answer: “And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [i.e. behavior] of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)” (2 Peter 2:7-8)

The Holy Spirit is telling us that Lot was greatly troubled by the wicked condition of the world around him. For all his faults, he was a righteous man.

The LORD knows all about the New World Order. He also knows that all who love Him will be troubled by it. We can see from His Word that this is important in His eyes. Those who love Him hate evil. They don’t choose to do so; it’s our innate spiritual response to the works of all who defy or oppose the righteous will of God.

The Laodicean Church
Christ condemned the lukewarm Laodicean church. It was lukewarm because it was neither hot nor cold. It neither loved the truth nor hated evil. That’s the chief characteristic of the modern church, a complete absence of any ability to be “vexed” or upset by the “filthy” condition of the world around us.
    
We find further confirmation of this in Ezekiel. The LORD shows the prophet a future scene in which all who have rebelled against Him will be struck down. He designates a number of angels to carry out this task. However, He sends another angel before them to mark with his ink-horn the forehead of anyone who was “vexed” (“that sigh and that cry”) by the abominations that he saw around him in Jerusalem: “And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:” (Ezekiel 9:4-5)

Through the various papers on this website we try to expose what the Enemy is doing to undermine and destroy true Biblical Christianity and bring in a New World Order. If, collectively, they seem like a doleful chronicle of things too awful to contemplate, well...that’s what they are. The LORD does not want us to walk blindly through this vale of tears and not see what’s happening around us. Rather, he wants us to see it and be grieved by it. But – and this is important – He wants us also to live each day in the joy of the victory that Christ achieved for us on Calvary!

Is this a contradiction? Grief and joy? 
The author of Hebrews explains what is happening: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” (Hebrews 12:1-3)

The Holy Spirit expressly asks us to consider what Christ went through “for the joy that was set before him” and to “run with patience the race that is set before us”. Unless we do this, the weight of this world will wear us down and cause us to “faint in [our] minds”.

The life of a true Christian is a contradictory blend of grief and joy. From a carnal perspective this makes no sense, but the author of Hebrews resolves this apparent contradiction by showing it from our Redeemer’s perspective. If we walk with patience in the victory that Christ achieved for us on Calvary, the darkness of this world, though it may pain us greatly at times, will never break our spirit or cause our minds to faint.
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Jeremy James Ireland
November 28, 2018

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