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"The most effective way to close down the human
mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of
dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and
repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view.
Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and
humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take
endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing
dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule"
becomes easy." - David Icke
Sacred texts
have been corrupted by
individuals
believing they were clarifying
conceptual
understanding while in fact
such editing, correcting, redacting, combining, re-editing and re-correcting
corrupted the sacred text even further - moving the
sacred text farther and father away from
the original and real
conceptual
understanding of the
original authors.
Many times, even when the
sacred text itself has not been overtly
corrupted, conceptual corruption occurs when a ‘sacred text interpreter' changes the
conceptual structure of the
sacred text - perhaps from that of a
metaphorical allegory to that of a
literal interpretation.
Mankind's
storehouse of knowledge has been looted
repeatedly over time.In
China when a dynasty fell newly empowered officials went back and
rewrote the history of the
past hundred or more years to shine a more
favorable light on those currently in
power.
The
libraries of the
Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Venetians, as well as countless
others have been
destroyed by religious zealots adhering to the
conquering invader's or to the
usurper's religious or poltical doctrine when such writings were at odds
with accepted religious or
poltical dogma
of the invaders or the
religious or poltical dogma of
the usurper's supporters as was the case in
the Roman Empire of 400 AD.
"From the totalitarian point of view
history is something to be
created rather than learned.
A totalitarian state is in effect a
theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to
keep its position, has to be thought of as
infallible. But since, in practice, no one is
infallible, it is frequently necessary to
rearrange past events in order to show that this or that
mistake was not made, or that this or
that imaginary triumph actually happened."
- George Orwell
In the past politics and religion was not neatly partioned into
two
distinct compartments or
catagories but were one and the same -
both deal with the
structure of
human cultural social
systems. The
culture of a fellowship of
men, a social
unit, will continually change over
time regardless of
attempts to the
contrary and even
without an intent to
change there is still
corruption of original
conceptualizations.
Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths all orginally
believed in a single entity
named God. They also
believe that those that adhere to the
popular and commonly held ideology of their particular
brand of religion are the 'chosen ones' and that
individuals, through their
‘leap of faith' and adherance to the
popular and commonly held ideology or dogma of their cult, will attain an
afterlife.
Conceptual
thinking of afterlife defers from cult to cult. One
expectation never differs and that is the
idea that one must make a "leap of
faith" or in
other words, abandon all reason, to be brought into the 'chosen ones' fellowship or 'circle'.
All religious
dogma requires believers to suspend belief in their senses,
their experience and their
understanding of
natural reality.
This is required because no
person in a
natural state of
mind can accept the myths of the religious fellowship as ‘fitting' with their
own understanding of
natural reality which excludes
miraculous
supernatural events.
The myths of the
religious fellowship seem to point to
existence of
miraculous supernatural
experiences - in Christianity labeled an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit.
People
expect natural reality to conform to their current
understanding of
natural reality. Yet people must constantly reevaluate
their understanding of
natural reality as experience and knowledge are gained, both
consciously and
subconsciously.
literalist zealots
To be a literalist you must reject
reason and believe these sacred texts are written
and copied by
men who will not change the facts, the nuance or the
reality as presented by the original author.
In
other words you must deny the reality of CORRUPTION.
"I have a
question for literalists: If the
Bible is the revealed
Word of God, and God is all knowing,
why did God only reveal "facts" that a primitive
people 3,000 years ago thought were the
truths about the universe?
God certainly knew of the existence of North
America, the structure of the solar system, the
laws of physics and other currently well
known facts. Why didn't he reveal Bernoulli's
Principle so the ancients could fly?
The reason that the only things "revealed" in the
Bible were ancient
myths is because the
Bible was written by men, not
God. The fact that the
Bible is a series of
mythical stories does not diminish in any way the
teachings that are in it. We can still
learn a lot from the Bible on how to
live, but let's not get carried away.
God had nothing to do with it." - Paul Goldman
Literalist
zealots can deliver a moving sermon.
Literalist zealots can quote
scripture.
Literalist zealots
concentrate on certain verse of
scripture to justify their
dogma.
Literalist zealots
claim to be guided by a divine
light.
Literalist zealots
speak of the
rapture that is to come.
Literalist zealots
can paint images in your
imagination that may be an extension of
truth and reality.
Literalist zealots
can also paint images in your
mind that are
nothing more than
fantasies designed to confuse and
contradict.
Literalist zealots
fail to
understand that a literal
reading of "sacred text" is meant for children.
Mature adults
understand "sacred text" as
metaphoric allegory.
Literalist
zealots call themselves
fundamentalists but
the term
fundamentalist as applied to
literalist zealots is a misnomer.
If
literalist zealots were truly
fundamentalist they would go to the
fundamental underpinnings
of their
religion as opposed to accepting
myths as an actual account of
reality.
"The whole
Literalist mode of thinking about all
elements of Christianity extends from there out to the
official Western conception of other
religions as well. The more thoroughly and
radically I rejected Literalist Christianity,
the better I was able to think in the Greco-Roman mode." - Michael
Hoffman
"Once we
understand the condition of
the collective consciousness of the
masses, the power of acculturation and
conformism, and the craving for
simple explanations, we must accept that widespread
self-imposed
ignorance in relation to
religious belief is practically an innate aspect of the
human condition.
Such reductive
faith in the exoteric
literal
interpretation of the
New Testament severs it from
its esoteric roots, thus becoming subject to distortion and
politicized misuse. Let us attempt to overcome
this, which, rather than undermining the Truth of Christ, is like clearing centuries of muck off a
great work of art,
revealing its essential
beauty and meaning." -
Lew Paz
Jesus'
return
" I will crush the arrogance of the proud and
humble the pride of the mighty." - Isaiah 13:11
"When He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into
all truth. He will not speak on his own; He will
speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come." - John
16:13
You receive this "reward" when you accept
reality, as presented by
Jesus, of life on
Earth.
No
man can take Jesus and the inner
light of your joy of living in life with God
away from you
if your faith is based in
reality.
Some may attempt to
destroy your peace
of mind but if you truly are
enlightened and
awakened they will be unable to -
always remember: those that demand obedience and attempt to control others are
neither enlightened or
awakened .
If you have been
taught false religious dogma
your beliefs are probably
conflicted.
God, the Father and Creator, is available to each and every man, woman
and child - no one needs an intercessor - simply look within your
own heart.
This is the definition of a personal
God.When we accept the
reality of Jesus living in our
hearts, spirits and souls giving us immediate and thorough access to
the Father, then we can no longer
live to simply fulfill our flesh centered
selfish
desires.
At this point we are
left with only two choices: reject Jesus/Father while burying our heads in the sands
of spiritual corruption or
except Jesus/Father wholeheartedly.
If we accept
Jesus/Father wholeheartedly then we are
commissioned by Jesus/Father to
awaken those who still
sleep and to overturn the
false reality perpetrated on
humankind by the
evil soulless apostate followers of
mammon.
Jesus liberates us from the
soulless apostate followers of
Mammon who have taken the reigns of
power and who attempt to
control our every thought and deed.
Jesus commissions us to overturn the
institutions of the
soulless apostate followers of
Mammon that have
defiled one of God's
creation, the Earth, and to cast them out of
their positions of power as they have abused that
power to destroy the Earth and
God's
children.
Jesus has brought the
sword of knowledge, giving
us the legal right, to use that
sword of knowledge to cast
the soulless apostate followers
of Mammon out of positions of power.
The
soulless apostate followers of
Mammon are to be stripped of their assets,
their money carts (institutions)
overturned and they are to be driven from the temple (positions of power).
How can one simply identify a
false religious teacher - they will ask for
money, they will call for
violence, they will build up a cult following by
con-vincing sycophants that the only way to heaven is through accepting their
interpretation of scripture and how
scripture meshes with reality as the only
"right" one. (Many false religious teacher start out with
a good heart
and the right intentions but fall into the
transcendental temptation as they
gain pride with their new found
power of molding mens minds.)
False religious
teachers always claim to have been given unique "inside man" position to
God.
False religious
teachers always seem to have unique credentials - they have masters degrees
and doctorate degrees in theology or
psychology and hold
religous leadership positions as did the
Pharisees at the time of
Jesus.
False
religious teachers claim to have a much more profound
understanding of
God than the average man - in short
humanity needs them to function as
intercessors to
God.
Send
in a prayer request and your
chosen
intercessor will be happy to get
all of your prayers fulfiled!
Remember how when you pray nothing seems to
happen?
Leave it to a professional
intercessor!
God knows him/her and
hears his/her prayers because is a
chosen one!
False religious teachers concentrate on certain
thoughts, concepts and ideas in a deliberate intent to excite intense
emotional turmoil and confusion.
Due to
the fact that individuals typically seek religious succor to help cope with
life's tragedies they are more malleable and open
to religious suggestion. As they seek
emotional release from the
emotional burden that they carry they are quite
willing to accept spurious theories and
explanations for such things as: the existence of evil
hearted men; natural
phenomena over which men have no
control and what may seem to be the singling
out of self as particularly damned by
God - think Job.
Repent and your soul will be washed
clean!
{The act of true contriteness does wash your
soul clean but this is done by
God
and the religious teacher does not deserve the credit for
God's act.}
False religious teachers play a victim/initiate like a muscian plays his
instrument.
False
religious teachers use psychology, the power
of persuasion, the power of deception,
cold reading techniques,
Forer effect/Barnum statements, the
techniques of shotgunning and
the rainbow ruse.
False religious teachers use unreasoning
terror and fear as control mechanisms - the
evildoers are possessed by demons and you
will be too as you are guilty of not living
up to your potential in God!
False religious teachers will
interpret your dreams for you and commission you to fulfill their
interpretation of your
dreams for them.
False religious teachers will grant you
supernatural power
through anointment in
the Holy Spirit - for example
speaking in tongues or
the performance of miracles such as
healing.
False religious teachers will tell you that if you just pray
hard enough, have enough faith or are
truly just plain righteous
then you can physically alter the material
world of reality with
your prayers,
wishes and
dreams.
False religious
teachers build elaborate theoretical
complexes of symbolic
archetypes from popular
culture tied together with
literalist interpretation of myths and scripture.
False
religious teachers will suggest that murder
is justifiable, the death penalty
is a necessity and that war is a necessary
condition of human social cultural
structures.
False religious teachers will claim
that their closeness to God is exhibited in the
material wealth that God showered upon them while they relentless sell you
the latest installment of their prophetic revelations in the form of
conferences, books, CDs
and DVDs. (Make the check out to me or my closely held
non-profit corporation, please! Religious
non-profit corporations are exempt from
reporting income unlike all other non-profits!)
False
religious teachers reject the reality of
existence by replacing
reality with
supernatural
fanatsy - armies
of demonic beings, lead by Satan,
at war with an army of angelic beings, lead
by Jesus.
Are these false religious teachers truly attempting to
save your
immortal soul?
Or do they
crave power(possibly
supernatural
power), riches,
celibrity and to
live the life of an American
aristocrat?
If you follow the lead of these
spiritually corrupt
deceptive false
religious teachers then you have willfully rejected the
reality of God as
presented by Jesus, the
Apostles, the
Hebrew Prophets and by
Mohammed and agreed to
worship a
corrupt form of the vengeful desert
war god,
Yahweh, of the ancient
Israelite cult of
Yahweh.
"Beware of the
teachers of religion! For they love to wear the robes of the
rich and scholarly, and to have everyone bow to
them as they walk through the markets. They
love to sit in the
best seats in the synagogues,
and at the places of honor at
banquets, but they shamelessly cheat
widows out of their homes and then, to cover up
what they really are, they pretend to be pious
by praying long
prayers in
public. It is hard for those who
trust in riches to believe
in God's words. It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich
man to hear and believe God's
words."
"Beware of
false religious teachers who come. You
can detect them by the way they
act, just as you can identify a
tree by its
fruit. Different kinds of
fruit
trees can quickly be identified by examining
their fruit. A
variety that produces delicious
fruit never produces an inedible
fruit. And a
tree producing an inedible
fruit can't produce what is
good. So the trees having the inedible
fruit are chopped down and thrown
on the fire. The
way to identify a
tree or a
individual is by the
fruit produced. Not all who
sound religious
are. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but still won't get
to heaven, for the decisive
question is whether they
obey God's Law."
Phineas
Parkhurst QuimbyPhineas Parkhurst Quimby - born in Lebanon, New
Hampshire, in 1802 - generally is recognized as the "Father of
New Thought." Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
was a philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist,
healer, and
scientist. New Thought metaphysics denies objective
material reality. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby transmitted his
views to patients Warren Felt Evans, Mary Baker Eddy, and
Julius and Annetta Dresser.
William Essek
Kenyon was another New Thought
proponent, and Kenneth E. Hagin the founder of
word of faith movement used
William Essek Kenyon's
ideas almost verbatim.
Kenneth Copeland and all other
word of faith proponents trace their roots
back to Kenneth E. Hagin and
William Essek Kenyon.
William Essek Kenyon gave his first sermon at a
Methodist Church in Amsterdam, New York. William
Essek Kenyon desired to be an actor and attended the Emerson School of
Oratory in Boston in 1892. In 1931, William Essek
Kenyon became a pioneer in neoevangelic radio
on the Pacific Coast with his show Kenyon's Church of Air, where
William Essek Kenyon earned the moniker
"The Faith Builder."
William Essek
Kenyon's dogma was that of
Pentecostal
Christian Science.
William Essek Kenyon, founder Dudley
Bible Institute", was influenced by
Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science founder).
"The
only thing Christian Science lacks is the Blood of Jesus" -
William Essek Kenyon.
All the religious movements
arising from New Thought preach the
supremacy of the spiritual over
the material claiming the
material reality is a fantastic "Matrix" like construct and that
true reality
exists only in the
spiritual realm.
New Thought preaches the
human spirit creates
physical health; the human
mind through positive mental attitude and
positive confession has the
supernatural power
to create its own reality - health, wealth
and dominion.
By using the precepts
of New Thought's
spiritual forces
can be manipulated by the will of the
individual.
"I
know that I am
healed because
He said that I am
healed and it makes no
difference what the symptoms may be in my body. I
laugh at them, and in the Name of
Jesus I command the author of the disease to
leave my body." - William Essek Kenyon
"When these truths really gain ascendency
in us, they will make us spiritual supermen,
masters of demons and disease. It will be
the end of weakness and failure. There will be no
more struggle for faith, for all things
are ours. There will be no more praying for
supernatural
power. We are coming into the spiritual
redwoods. We are going to see spiritual
giants, supermen. They have the Lord dwelling in
them. They no longer walk as natural men.
They belong to the love class, the
miracle class. They are
in the Jesus class." -
William Essek Kenyon
William Essek Kenyon's
New Thought followers include
Norman Vincent Peale,
Robert H. Schuller,
Kenneth E. Hagin,
Kenneth Copeland and many others including
Bill Hybels of Willow Creek. {Robert H.
Schuller turned over his Crystal Cathedral mega-church non-profit
corporate empire to his son Robert A.
Schuller in 2006. In 2008, due to declining membership
Robert H. Schuller removed Robert A.
Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral mega-church non-profit
corporate leadership.
Robert H. Schuller promised to replace his
son's lectern position on the "Hour Of Power" television show with the
"greatest preachers in the world."
"You have no
business being sick - everyone of you should get well
and get up and go to work, heh? Get up and go to work and earn some
money and help send the gospel out!" -
Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy
was born in 1890 and raised in rural Ingersoll, Canada.
Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy's worldly pursuits had
drawn the consternation of her a
Methodist father,
James Kennedy who brought Aimee to a tent
revival led by a visiting
Pentecostal, Robert
Semple, in an attempt to curb her licentious behavior. Robert Semple introduced
Aimee to
Pentecostalism and
married her.
On one 150-day tour it is estimated that
Aimee Semple McPherson traveled 15,000 miles and
delivered 336 sermons to audiences totaling more than two million people.
Aimee Semple McPherson pioneered the use of
vaudeville and Hollywood theatrics to attract and hold the attention of her
audience.
Aimee Semple McPherson built
Angelus Temple, an enormous flagship church located in Hollywood which provided
hot meals for thousands of hungry people. Aimee
Semple McPherson neoevangelic radio show
reached millions of people over 45 radio stations
during the Great Depression. In February of 1924 radio station KFSG (short for "Kall Four Square
Gospel") went on the air, with live broadcasts of Sunday services at the
temple. KFSG was the third radio station
commissioned in Los Angeles.
"Aimee Semple McPherson called
her religion the Foursquare Gospel, after a
vision she had in Oakland in 1922. Aimee was
preaching on the prophet Ezekiel's vision of
Man, Lion, Ox and Eagle, when suddenly she began to
shake with
emotion. Aimee
saw in the mysterious
symbols 'a complete Gospel for
body, for soul, for spirit
and eternity.' ... Those four
cornerstones - Regeneration, Baptism in the Spirit, Divine
Healing, and the Second
Coming - upheld the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance, which George Jeffreys
founded in Ireland in 1915. George Jeffreys and his brother Stephen were
England's greatest (neo)evangelists after
John Wesley and George
Whitefield, and Aimee had worked with Jeffreys.
The Elim Foursquare Gospel influenced the American Assemblies of God, which
embraced the same four principles
before Aimee had her vision in Oakland in 1922." - Daniel Mark Epstein
{This Merkabah symbol of the ox, man, lion and
eagle are the same symbols used for
British Israel.
[British Israelism spawned the
Identity movement , which was incorporated
in Los Angeles in 1948. Spawned from the Identity movement are the Posse Comitatus,
Aryan Nations, the Christian Patriot movement, the Committee of the States, the
Unorganized Militia and other white supremacy groups. The central
belief in Identity movement dogma is the
existence of two races on Earth: a godly white race descended from Adam and a
satanic race fathered by Satan.(De' dark cuz
de' done been burned in the Fires of Hell).
KKK members Charles Fox
Parham and William
Marrion Branham, taught this dogma as the
"two seed." In the "two seed"
dogma, Jesus
was not a Jew, but an Aryan. The legend claims that Adamic (Aryan) people were
the lost tribes of Israel,
fled to northern Europe and later became the Christian nations. Richard Girnt Butler, a
Lockheed aerospace engineer and neo-fascist, founded Aryan Nations, a movement
built around Identity movement and the "two seed" dogma.]
Merkabah is envisaged as
secret, obscure or
esoteric
knowledge - what men call
esoteric wisdom - the vehicle for the communication to
human consciousness of the
mysteries of the universe.
Merkabah refers to the
Chariot Throne, the four-wheeled vehicle driven by four
"Chayot", each of which has four wings and the four faces of a man, lion, ox,
and eagle which correspond to the four directions the chariot can go - north,
east, south and west. (Note: In this conceptualization the
god's movement is restricted to two
dimensions).
"As the Master said: The king among living creatures is a
lion; the king among domestic beasts is an ox; the king among birds is an
eagle, but man takes his place proudly above them, and the Holy One, blessed be
He, takes His place proudly above them all, and above the whole world in its
entirety." - Babylonian Talmud, Tract Hagiga, Chapter II
"Having mingled
the Vital Spark from two according substances, Mind and Divine Spirit, as a
third to these He added Holy Love, the venerable Charioteer uniting all
things." - The Chaldæan Oracles of Zoroaster,
translated by W. Wynn Westcott
Kabbalahists use the Sephiroth as the Merkabah
for descending through the various realities
enumerated in the Kabbalah.
Several
movements in Talmudic
mysticism, including the Ma'asei Merkavah of
the late Greco-Roman period following the destruction of the Second Temple, and
later, students of the Kabbalah, have
focused on these passages from Ezekiel, seeking underlying meaning and the
secrets of
Creation in what they argued was the
metaphoric language of the verses. Due to the
concern of some Torah scholars that
misunderstanding these passages as literal descriptions
of God's image might lead
to blasphemy and/or
idolatry, there was great opposition to studying
this topic without proper initiation.
Talmudic commentaries emphasize that
the imagery of the Merkaba is not meant to be
taken literally; rather the chariot and its accompanying
angels are analogies for the various ways that
God reveals Himself on Earth. Hasidic
philosophy and
Kabbalah discuss at length what each aspect
of this vision represents.
In Christianity, the man, lion, ox, and eagle are used as
symbols for the four evangelists (or
gospel-writers), appear frequently in church decorations and appear in the
Tarot card "The World". The creatures are called
Zoë (or the Tetramorph), and continuously surround the Chariot Throne, along with the twenty-four angelic rulers,
the Seraphim, the Cherubim, the seven
Archangels, the Ophanim, and countless angels,
spirits, and saints, where they sing praises to the Trinity, and beg
Jesus to have mercy on
humankind.
Seraphim
angels, flashing of
fire by continuously
ascending and descending, function somewhat like pistons in that they
power the movement of the chariot. In the
hierarchy of these angels,
Seraphim are the highest, that is, closest
to God, followed by the Chayot, which are
followed by the Ophanim. The chariot is in a constant state of motion, and the
energy behind this movement runs according to this hierarchy. The movement of
the Ofanim is controlled by the Chayot while
the movement of the Chayot is controlled by the
Seraphim. The movement of all the
angels of the chariot are
controlled by the
Likeness of Man on the Chariot Throne. (The chariot was used for warfare during the
Bronze and Iron Ages. From a warrior people we would expect the symbology
of a warrior god, Yahweh, on a
Chariot Throne.)
(The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests the
"Likeness of Man" is the spirit
Belial, a mighty and powerful king; Belial was
created next after Satan, Belial is of
Satan's order; Belial appeareth in the
form of a beautiful angel sitting in a Chariot of
Fire.)
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control
Belial
The sages Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai and
later Rabbi Akiva were deeply involved in Merkabah exegesis. The Talmudic
interdictions concerning Merkabah speculation are numerous and widely held.
Discussions concerning the Merkabah were limited to only the most worthy sages,
and admonitory legends are preserved about the dangers of overzealous
speculation concerning the Merkabah.
Without the final initiation into
the Merkabah the study of the Kabbalah will
be ever incomplete, and the Merkabah can be taught only in 'darkness, in a
deserted place, and after many and terrific trials.'
Since the death of
Simeon Ben-Iochai this hidden mythology has
remained an inviolate secret.}
Seen at a Aimee Semple
McPherson Healing
revival:
"A little girl
wore a pair of glasses one-half of which was entirely black. I gathered that
she was totally blind in one eye and almost blind in the other. I sat upon the
stage very close to the whole procedure. While prayer was being made for her,
the little girl, who appeared to be about 11 years of age, wept and sobbed and
writhed in her eagerness to secure the help that she had been led to expect.
She left the platform and public claim was made by one of the workers that she
had been healed, and
the little girl verified the claim by a nod of the head given in reply to the
question of the workers. An hour later, when the meeting was out, I noticed a
small cluster of women near the platform. I thought I saw the blind little girl
in their midst, so I asked my wife to go over and investigate and talk to her
if necessary. She found the erstwhile 'cured' girl flat on her face on the
floor, sobbing, with shattered hopes and a breaking heart. Her disappointment
was complete, and so was her disillusionment. The improved sight that she
seemed to have had in the midst of the excitement on the platform had
disappeared, and with it the hope of the little girl." - Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Biographer Daniel Mark Epstein, though extremely sympathetic to
Aimee Semple McPherson, admitted that those
healed were "mostly
diseases of the immune system, or attributed to hysteria."
"Aimee Semple McPherson built her career by
replacing the 'Gospel of Fear, Hellfire, and Damnation' with the 'Gospel of
Reconciliation and Love'" - Daniel Epstein
Aimee Semple McPherson's mother, Mildred (Minnie)
Kennedy, was a partner in her daughter's successful religious empire but left "after receiving a
broken nose during an explosive
argument" with her daughter.
Aimee Semple
McPherson was twice-divorced and known to
have committed adultery with her radio engineer.
Aimee Semple McPherson died of a illegally
obtained barbiturate overdose.
International Church of the Foursquare
Gospel (ICFG)
Angelus Temple, the International Church of the
Foursquare Gospel, a non-profit corporate
institution, has now grown to include
more than 1,834 fellowships in America, and over 29,973 fellowships worldwide.
There are currently more than 3 and a half million members in 123 countries
around the globe. At the end of the reporting year, there were 48,271
Foursquare employees. International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
presently ranks as one of the three or four most recognized branches of
Pentecostalism.
Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel, had been raised in the International Church
of the Foursquare Gospel, although he states he never met Aimee Semple
McPherson.
"My mother sat under Aimee's
ministry, even played in the band, and later on (after Aimee's controversial
death) worked in the central offices there at Angeles Temple. However, to my
knowledge, she never met
Ms McPherson, and neither did my father…" -
Chuck Smith Jr.
William Marrion Branham
reported supernatural visitations at
ages three and seven.
In 1933
William Marrion Branham
preached to three thousand people in a tent
revival in Jeffersonville
Indiana and later built Branham Tabernacle.
William
Marrion Branham helped birth the entire "physical healing"
signs and wonders
movement which television neoevangelists
have capitalized on ever since.
William Marrion Branham,
in the early sixties claimed that he was the end-times "Elijah" - the "Messenger of the Covenant".
William Marrion Branham,
an original Kansas City "prophet",
became a legend to Pentacostal
Charismatic's by filling the
worlds largest auditoriums and stadiums by demonstrating the "gift of discernment" and the "word of knowledge".(Knowing the
secrets of a
individual's
heart = cold reading)
William Marrion Branham
claimed he was guided by an angel who was
scientifically revealed in a photo image as a
tongue of fire.
William Marrion Branham
taught the "two seed" dogma; mentored
Oral Roberts; proclaimed
himself the "angel of revelation"; preached
Manifest Sons
dogma; claimed to have witnessed a
resurrection due to his intercession and helped
cross-pollinate the entire "positive
confession/word of faith movement"
with Manifest Sons
dogma.
When
William Marrion Branham
died in 1965 many of his followers expected him
to be resurrected.
They are still waiting.
"In
Bible Days, there were men of
God who were Prophets and Seers. But in all the Sacred
records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of
William Marrion
Branham." - 1961 Voice, magazine of the Full Gospel Business Men
International
Kenneth E. Hagin mythology, "RHEMA
logos positive confession" borrowed from
William Marrion
Branham's positive confession
teachings. Kenneth E. Hagin, never received
any formal theological training, although he
received an honorary doctorate from
Oral Roberts University, a
non-profit corporate
institution, in the 1970s. (In 2008
debt ridden
Oral Roberts University
was abandoned by Benny
Hinn and Creflo A. Dollar who were board members when
a spending scandal by Richard Roberts,
Oral Roberts son, came to
light.
Benny Hinn and
Creflo A. Dollar were being investigated in 2007 by
Senator Charles E. Grassley for violating tax-exempt status by living lavishly
on the backs of small donors.)
Kenneth E. Hagin founded
RHEMA (utterance)
Bible Training Center.
RHEMA Bible Training Center is not accredited.
You Tube - Brother William Branham: 20th Century
Prophet
(The Lesser Key of Solomon suggest
William Marrion Branham
was channeling the great duke spirit Eligor.
Eligor
discovereth hidden things and knoweth things to come. Eligor causeth the
love of Lords and great
persons.)
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Eligor
"Then the Lord said to me, "The
prophets are
prophesying lies in my name. I have not
sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are
prophesying to you false visions,
divinations, idolatries and the
delusions of their own
minds." - Jeremiah 14:14
Rodney
Howard-Browne attended RHEMA
Bible Training Center, a non-profit
corporate
institution, in South Africa from where
he graduated in 1983.
"One night I was preaching
on hell, and
laughter just hit the whole place.
The more I told people what hell was like, the
more they laughed." -
Rodney
Howard-Browne
"So began the
so-called Laughter
revival in the United States
... this "laughter anointing"
passed down from Rodney
Howard-Browne to Randy
Clark and from Randy
Clark the "anointing" passed
downwards again to John
Arnott, the pastor of the
Toronto Airport
Vineyard." - Dr. Eddy
Cheong
"What shall we say about
Rodney Howard-Browne's
ministry? It is the result of a deceptive scheme of
manipulation and crowd
control, not the genuine work of God.
Jesus said, "You will
know them by their
fruits." Remember:
supernatural
power, signs and
wonders are insufficient to determine someone's
true nature.
Israel was misled and
deceived in their days, and numerous
Christians are misled and
deceived today. Just look deeper than
what meets the eyes." - Yves Brault
Rodney Howard-Browne's
meetings are a good example of a scripted
performance running to a definite plan and using psychological techniques to
manipulate listeners.
Rodney Howard-Browne's
performance is mesmeric - carefully and minutely staged to best effect.
Rodney
Howard-Browne's openly insults anyone who does not
submit to his
methods. Any individual foolhardy
enough to sit still, read the Bible, and
resist the waves of
laughter is publicly branded "a
religious Pharisee" and when that
individual eventually walks out,
Rodney Howard-Browne
mocks them.
YouTube - I'd rather be soaking with
Rodney
Jimmy Swaggart, television neoevangelist and prolific
showman, was baptized by the
Holy Spirit at the age of eight while
attending an Assemblies of God meeting. Attendance at
Jimmy Swaggart's meetings originally were
boosted by his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis. As head of the
Pentecostal
Bible College, a non-profit
corporate
institution,
Jimmy Swaggart conducted a
television neoevangelist ministry of
national prominence on par with
Benny Hinn and
Jim Bakker.
Jimmy Swaggart was caught one day with a
prostitute in a local motel. Then was found to
frequent prostitutes.
Jimmy Swaggart never repented and was defrocked
by the Assemblies of God in April, 1988.
“If I do not return to the
pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.” - Jimmy
Swaggart
YouTube - 1986 Jimmy Swaggart show
promo
Paul
Cain - a Kansas City "prophet"
"Little children are going to
lay their hands on the
sick and
heal multitudes. We are
going to be just like the Lord. They're
going to say, 'Here comes that dreadful, fearful
army of champions. Here comes those with a word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, the working of
miracles, with a
healing ministry, with
the power to
heal the
sick and raise the dead." -
Paul Cain
"In
February 2004, we were made aware
that Paul Cain had become
an alcoholic. In April 2004, we confronted
Paul Cain with evidence
that he had recently been involved in homosexual
activity. Paul Cain
admitted to these sinful practices and was placed
under discipline. However, Paul Cain has resisted this
process and has continued in his sin." -
Rick Joyner, Jack Deere,
Mike Bickle.
Chuck Smith, founder of
Calvary Chapel, was one of Paul Cain's "Healing
revival" campaign
managers.
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
Paul Cain channeleth a
Duke level spirit named Agares who can make the earth quake.
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Agares
Bob Jones - latter day
Kansas City "prophet"
In
1991 Bob Jones was removed from prophetic
practice by Vineyard
proponents following evidence of "sexual
improprieties" involving several female members of the congregation. When
Mike Bickle left
Vineyard becoming
Metro Christian fellowship
Bob Jones was reinstated.
On July 23,
1996 and again on July 23, 1997, Bob Jones was
given visions of a powerful
demonic spirit identified as
Basilisk. In the second
vision given to Bob
Jones in 1997, Basilisk had multiplied
hundreds of times. ( I wonder how
large Basilisk is now?)
Mike Bickle - latter day
Kansas City "prophet"
The harp and bowl prayer model is based around the type of
worship and
intercession as described in Revelation 5:8.
"And when he had taken it,
the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb.
Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which
are the prayers of the saints".
The "harp" used in the scripture
represents praise and worship and the "bowl"
used represents the prayers of the saints rising up before the
Chariot Throne.
Worship around the
Chariot Throne incorporates prayer and
worship - the harp and
the bowl - together to create a new dynamic of
worship often referred
to as intercessory
worship or
corporate prayer led by
prophetic
worship .
This harp and bowl is centered around the "International
House of Prayer (IHOP)", a non-profit corporate
institution, and involves 24-hour
prayer and worship, a
mix of revival
worship led by
musicians, antiphonal chanting of psalms and the "prophetic" singing of
passages of scripture. This continuous prayer and chanting is designed to bring
down the presence of the Holy Spirit in a
new way and create an atmosphere of
revival.
YouTube - Mike Bickle with IHOP on CBN
 . .
An
example of one of the elite, select 'in group' of false religious
teachers is Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson, founder of the imperial Christian Broadcasting Network,
CBN, a non-profit corporate
institution.
Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson claims to be able to directly communicate with 'God' and 'Satan',
speaks in tongues and
perform miracles such as
healing.
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson
popularized the notion that if "one refuses to believe in Satan then one is
possessed by Satan." Belief grants power to that which is believed in.
Satan grows stronger with every new convert to
the belief in Satan's actual existence.
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a
Zionist Christian who worships at the altar of
the Synagogue of
Satan.
In 2002, Marion Gordon
"Pat" Robertson received the State of Israel Friendship Award from
the Zionist Organization of America for his consistent support for a
Greater Israel.
When Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson ran in
the Republican presidential primary
race of 1988 he stated that 'god' had told him
to run for president. (To teach him humility?)
In August 2005
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson
stated, in response to accusations from Hugo Chavez, president of Venzuela,
that Americans were backing plots to
assassinate him, "If he thinks we are trying
to assassinate him, I
think that we really ought to go ahead and do
it."
YouTube - Pat Robertson calls for an Assassination
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, an
elite American
aristocrat and
imperial Christian is obviously not a follower of the
words of Jesus.
Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson preaches that women that do not
submit to the will of
men "leave their husbands,
kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism and become
lesbians".
"I know this is painful for the
ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a
man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the
head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson
One of the stultifying characteristics of
imperial
Christianity is the manner in which women are subjugated. Although
not forced to wear external burkas they are
forced to veil their
emotions with burkas. Women
living under demeaning and
subservient social circumstances
live in a dream of life that is
stultifying in it's rigid adherence to ‘proper' and ‘traditional' manners of
behavior. This mindset is a
direct descendant of a Talmudist worldview and has nothing to do with the
equality of human beings that Jesus taught.
A women's
removal from nature by these
social codes causes her to die inside as see
feels she must crush any
emotion contrary to proper accepted modes of
thinking and
behaving. These dark
emotions must be extinguished as they emanate
from the dark animal side of a
human's soul. By being required to play hostess and having been perched upon a pedestal
as a living breathing
goddess incapable of sinful acts, an
individual women, unfortunately,
can become that which she is ‘seen' as. Impenetrable and unapproachable,
caught in the trap of a dream of
life unfulfilled. (Is that why so many
neoevangelic women fool around?)
On the
other hand she can reject this
spiritually corrupt
dream of life trap
but by doing so she may incur the wrath of imperial
Christianity.
Marion
Gordon "Pat" Robertson turned over control of the
imperial Christian
Broadcasting Network, CBN, a non-profit
corporate
institution, to his son Gordon
Robertson in 2007 who holds a baccalaureate degree from Yale University and a
juris doctor degree from Washington & Lee Law School. The
imperial Christian
Broadcasting Network, CBN employs approximately 2,800 and has
sent out programs in 99 languages to over 225 countries with domestic studios
in Virginia Beach and Nashville, and overseas studios in Manila, Jakarta, New
Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kiev.
John Wimber was the manager
of the Righteous Brothers before becoming "born-again."
John Wimber practiced
intense personal evangelism from 1963 - 1974 as a
Quaker.
John
Wimber left Yorba Linda Friends Church in 1974 to become founding director
of the Department of Church
Growth at the Fuller
Theological Seminary.
Fuller Theological Seminary
was founded in 1947 by Charles E. Fuller, a well-known
radio neoevangelist, Harold Ockenga, pastor of
Park Street Church in Boston, Carl F. H. Henry, Wilbur Moorehead Smith and
Harold Lindsell. Fuller
Theological Seminary was the first academic
institution to be founded by the
neo-evangelical movement. Fuller Theological Seminary
began with the theological
vision of reforming fundamentalism from its
anti-intellectual and socially isolationist
stance of the 1920-40 era. It should be noted that
Fuller Theological
Seminary married the study of religion
with the study of psychology in
the hopes expanding the reach of the neoevangelicalic order.
On May 8,
1977 John Wimber's
Bible study fellowships becomes Calvary
Chapel of Yorba Linda, a non-profit corporate
institution.
Mother's Day,
1980: Lonnie Frisbie says, "Come
Holy Spirit" at Calvary Chapel Yorba
Linda.
John
Wimber, hungry for signs
and wonders, interest in "the miraculous" escalates after
Lonnie Frisbie's exhibitions.
In 1982
John Wimber and
C. Peter Wagner launch
their controversial course, MC510 - "The Miraculous and
Church Growth" at Fuller
Theological Seminary. This course included
hands on "training" in
signs, wonders,
healing, etcetera.
John Wimber's
Charismatic movement teaching
of "truth" based on subjective
experiences was rejected by Chuck Smith of
Calvary Chapel so John
Wimber's fellowship was renamed
the Vineyard.
John Wimber
meets Paul Cain for the
first time.
Paul
Cain predicted his coming to and going from a meeting with
John Wimber would be
confirmed by earthquakes, which did indeed occur. (In California between
1988-1997 earthquakes occured at the rate of 37,283 per year; 3,107 per month;
714 per week and 102 per day.)
John Wimber was
con-vinced.
A very intense
ministry circuit partnership between
John Wimber and the
Kansas City "prophets" culminates in
the Kansas City fellowship becoming
an official Vineyard
Association, a non-profit corporate
institution.
John Wimber publicly calls
for every Vineyard
pastor to be ministered to by the Kansas
City "prophets".
On a trip to Scotland Mike Bickle convinces
John Wimber to change
emphasis of the Vineyard to that of a
prophetic ministry.
Kansas City "prophets"
Latter Rain/Manifest Sons
dogma "cross-pollinates" the
Vineyard.
Vineyard trainers began
to complain that John
Wimber's co-laboring with these "prophets" was changing the core values of the
Vineyard.
John Wimber emphasizes
supernatural
healing,
spiritual warfare, and
prophecies.
John Wimber was
con-vinced that the only way to get
people to believe the
word of God is to startle
them into believing through
healing,
prophecy, and the casting out of
demons which
John Wimber called "supernatural power."
Mike Bickle
submits all
Kansas City "prophets"
fellowships to
Vineyard Association,
non-profit corporate cover.
Mike Bickle parts ways with
John Wimber over
Toronto
revival fall out taking the
Kansas City "prophets" out of the
covering of Vineyard
to become Metro Christian
fellowship, a
non-profit corporate
institution.
The hyper-charismatic
movement within the Vineyard is also known as
"Third Wave," "Signs and Wonders," and "Power " - has grown
to approximately 450 U.S. congregations and 250 more in other countries.
Influences John
Wimber cited in his teachings; Kenneth E.
Hagin "father" of the word of faith
movement, mentor of Kenneth Copeland, and
disciple of William Essek
Kenyon.
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
John Wimber channeleth
the spirit Vine, a great king and earle,
that discoveth things
hidden, witches, and things present, past
and to come.
Vine also probably visited Ebenezer Scrooge as the
ghost of Christmas past, present and future.
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Vine
"Chuck Smith says it actually was a
slightly built, long-haired Jesus freak named
Lonnie Frisbee who
brought the first ragtag fellowship of
seekers to a
Bible study. "The back door opened and
all these kids with long hair and bells on their jeans came in and sat down,"
Chuck Smith says. "I can remember the shocked
expressions on the faces of the other
people." Chuck Smith calls Lonnie Frisbee the first
(neo)evangelist of the Jesus movement." -
Charisma magazine
Lonnie Frisbee, hippie
Pentecostal
Charismatic and self-described
"seeing prophet" and mystic, packed Chuck Smith's
fellowship with so
many hippies that a large circus tent had to be pitched on a 10-acre plot of
land where Calvary Chapel's present facility is located in Costa Mesa.
Chuck Smith was struck by
Lonnie Frisbee's
charisma, "I was not at all prepared for the love
that this young man would radiate."
Lonnie Frisbee sparked
Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel revival.
"When the
Lord called me, I was going into the desert
and I was taking all my clothes off and I was going ‘Lord if You're really real, reveal Yourself to
me!' And one afternoon, the whole atmosphere of this canyon I was in started to
tingle and get light and started to change and I
was going ‘Uh-oh!' I didn't want to be there!" -
Lonnie Frisbee
Lonnie Frisbee's
religious career began with a pilgrimage of
friends to Tahquitz Canyon outside Palm Springs.
"So we drove out to
Tahquitz Falls and we hiked up - he wanted to go to the very top falls. And
once he got there, he opened his back pack and he spread out - and he had
LSD, and he
had marijuana, and he had all of his oil
paints and he had togas, and he told us to put on togas, so we did. And he
proceeded to paint an image of
Jesus on the rocks, a full-sized
image of Jesus
on the rock. Then he pulled out his Bible and he got into a kinda yoga position
and he says ‘We're gonna read the Bible now.' He was reading about John the
Baptist and how John the Baptist baptized and he
baptized us up at Tahquitz Falls." -
Judy Meston
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was
born-again at the age
of fourteen in the Methodist Church of
Concordia, began preaching in the West at the age of fifteen. Kathryn Johanna
Kuhlman was an adulteress, lived a flamboyant
lifestyle - expensive clothes, precious jewels, luxury hotels and first-class
travel - while her Healing
revival employees worked at
starvation wages. Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman had a weekly
television program in the 1960s and 1970s
which aired nationally titled I Believe In Miracles. Kathryn Johanna
Kuhlman introduced "slain in
the spirit."
YouTube -
Lonnie Frisbee interviewed by Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman.
"Lonnie must have fixed
this one particular room up. There were candles lit and everything. The room
filled up with people and we had taken some
LSD and he was
reading the Gospel of John out loud, and we're goin' through the whole gospel.
And we get to the end of it, it's the crucifixion stuff, everybody's crying,
you know, and not one person left the room. And then it was over.
Lonnie was a planner of
experiences." - Connie (Frisbee)
Bremer-Murray
Lonnie Frisbee mentored
neoevangelist Greg Laurie who established Harvest
fellowship.
Lonnie
Frisbee's attachment to the Charismatic
Pentecostal style
caused some disagreement within the Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel congregation
since Lonnie Frisbee
seemed focused more on gaining converts and experiencing "supernatural manifestations" of the
Holy Spirit than on teaching newer
converts Biblical doctrine.
Lonnie
Frisbee sought out some of the stranger elements
of Pentecostalism,
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