JAMES WHITE, "REFORMED" BAPTIST, DECEIVED BY MEMPHIS IMAM YASIR QADHI WHO RAISES MONEY FOR ISLAMIC CHARITY LINKED TO HAMAS & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

MEMPHIS IMAM YASIR QADHI RAISES MONEY 

FOR ISLAMIC CHARITY LINKED TO 

HAMAS & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/memphis-imam-yasir-qadhi-raises-money-islamic-charity-linked-hamas-muslim-brotherhood; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Yasir Qadhi is an imam in Memphis and is Dean of Academic Affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute. He is a hafiz — that is, he has memorized the entire Qur’an. He has also called Jews and Christians “filthy” (in accord with Qur’an 9:28) and said: “The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad….which means if they don’t say la illaha illa Allah, their lives and property are halal” — that is, permitted to be taken by the Muslims. Yet despite this open espousal of jihad violence, he has won the admiration of an evangelical Christian preacher, James White. I wrote here about how White is credulously allowing himself to be fooled by Qadhi, and letting the imam peddle egregious falsehoods about Islam to Christian audiences without challenge. And you can see here Qadhi continuing his slanders against me, with White’s eager endorsement.
White and his followers justify their coddling of Qadhi, and enabling of him to spread soothing lies to Christian organizations, on the basis of the claim that White has in the same context been afforded an opportunity to preach the Gospel to Muslim audiences. They don’t realize that Qadhi is far smarter than they are, and playing them for the purposes of dawah (Islamic proselytizing). Their objective is to lie to the Christians and mislead them about the motivating ideology, nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and they know this will not be difficult, because most Christians are woefully uninformed about Islamic texts and teachings, and the pervasiveness of the jihad ideology in the Muslim world. They don’t care what White says to the Muslim audiences, because the Qur’an itself contains many responses to standard Christian theology; Christians generally don’t find them convincing, but Muslims do, and they act as a kind of inoculation against Muslims taking seriously the statements of an evangelist. Yes, many Muslims do convert to Christianity, but this usually happens as a result of a lengthy process, not due to hearing the word of one speaker at one event. White is allowing himself to be manipulated and played for a fool by Yasir Qadhi, whose allegiances you can see in the article below.

“Memphis Imam Raises Money For Islamic Charity U.S. Congressman Says Has Ties to Muslim Brotherhood,” by Chris Alto, Tennessee Star, September 11, 2017:

Last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced an amendment to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act blocking any U.S. funding to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). Between 2015 and 2016, IRW received $370,000 in federal funding.
DeSantis explained to the Free Beacon that:

U.S. tax dollars cannot go to groups involved in funding terrorism. Any group tied to Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood should be ineligible for funding.  It is a slap in the face of the American taxpayer to allow such groups to receive federal funding.

Founded in 1984, IRW is headquartered in the UK but operates as a franchiser of sixteen charity affiliates comprising the largest Islamic charity in the West with revenues in the hundreds of millions. Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), reputed to be one of the largest affiliate funders of IRW, is also inter-connected to IRW through leadership. For example, IRUSA’s former CEO, Abed Ayoub also served on the governance committee of the IRW.
Between 2012 and 2016, Memphis Imam Yasir Qadhi has been helping IRUSA raise money speaking at a dozen fundraising events. More recently, he undertook an eight-date tour in the UK to raise money for the parent organization IRW. Britain’s Charity Commission which regulates non-profits, questioned IRW’s decision to feature Qadhi, described by  The Times as “a hardline Muslim preacher” who “has been recorded apparently telling students that killing homosexuals and stoning adulterers was part of their religion.”
(FYI, in 2010, Vanderbilt Muslim chaplain Awad Binhazim told students that Islamic law mandates capital punishment for homosexuality and that “as a Muslim he does not have a choice of whether to accept or reject what Islam teaches.”)
DeSantis, has good reason to be concerned. IRW was banned in Israel after a government report determined that the charity provided material support to “HAMAS’ infrastructure.” HAMAS is a U.S. designated terrorist organization. Gatestone Institute documented IRW’s receipt of funds from charities alleged to have ties to al Qaeda and allied terrorist groups. Gatestone also detailed connections between IRW’s leadership, the global Muslim Brotherhood, and other terror groups that have been designated by the U.S. and European governments.
In 2012, Swiss bank UBS closed IRW’s accounts and four years later, HSBC severed its ties to IRW out of concern that funds raised and transferred by IRW were helping to fund terrorism. In 2014, IRW was banned from operating in Israel while the United Arab Emirates blacklisted IRW, the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR also based on ties to terrorism.
Islamist groups including CAIR and IRW affiliate IRUSA launched a campaign opposing DeSantis’ measure which he withdrew on Thursday.
CAIR is a named unindicted co-conspirator in the largest U.S. terrorism financing prosecution related to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development which was the largest Islamic charity in the U.S. until five of its officers were sent to prison for funneling $12 million to HAMAS. CAIR’s efforts to have its unindicted co-conspirator status removed in federal court only served to reaffirm that the evidence in court supported CAIR’s ties to HAMAS:

[t]he Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF [Holy Land Foundation], the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), and with Hamas

IRUSA was embraced by the Obama administration, partnering on relief efforts. In 2010, the CEO of IRUSA was officially advising the US Agency for International Development (USAID), one of the federal agencies passing money to IRUSA.
In 2013, the Clarion Project alleged that at least four IRUSA officials had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood; then president and board chairman Mohamed Amr Attawia is listed in a 1991 phone directory of Muslim Brotherhood leaders that was introduced into evidence during the Holy Land Foundation prosecution. He remains a director of IRUSA. Others in IRUSA’s leadership have ties to Egypt and overthrown President Mohamed Morsi who was elected to bring the Muslim Brotherhood into power….

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SEE ALSO: 
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/christian-minister-james-white-has-kindred-spirit-in-jihadi-imam-yasir-qadhi 
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/imam-yasir-qadhi-claims-robert-spencer-fabricated-myth-of-muslims-having-desires-to-subjugate-non-muslims

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 VIDEOS OF THE "TALK" BETWEEN WHITE & THE IMAM:

 James White Senses "Kindred Spirit" with Jihadi, Anti-Christ Spirit, Imam Yasir Qadhi?

 James White Does Not Refute Islamic Lies About Jesus & Crucifixion From Jihadi Imam

 How James White Undermined the Gospel 

with Yasir Qadhi

 

"THE LEFT IS TRYING TO USE CHARLOTTESVILLE AS ITS 'REICHSTAG FIRE MOMENT'-A CHANCE TO SHUT DOWN ALL DISSENT"

"THE LEFT IS TRYING TO USE CHARLOTTESVILLE 

AS ITS 'REICHSTAG FIRE MOMENT'-

A CHANCE TO SHUT DOWN ALL DISSENT" 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/left-trying-use-charlottesville-reichstag-fire-moment-chance-shut-dissent; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 The freedom of speech is deeply imperiled, and most Americans don’t even
 know this is happening, or why the freedom of speech is so important.

“Stifling free speech, one Pamela Geller-Robert Spencer-Michael Savage at a time,” by Cheryl K. Chumley, Washington Times, September 12, 2017:

Conservatives of the country, take note: Voices are being squelched. Viewpoints are being stifled. Free thinking is being vilified. The First Amendment is being choked.
And it’s all being brought about by a leftist’s favorite tool — controlling in the name of protecting.
The left’s logic goes this way: “Free speech is good, but it has limits.” Or, “We believe in free speech — of course, we believe in the freedom of speech. But some speech is harmful and hateful and hurtful.”
It’s the type of logic that gets Milo Yiannopoulos banned from taxpayer-funded university speaking podiums. It’s also the type of logic that lets thugs masquerade as righteous protesters, and set things on fire, like buildings and police cars, ‘cause their snowflake sensibilities get offended.
It’s spreading.
It’s making massive inroads in the private sector, most noticeably perhaps online, in social media.
“My website and posts have been scrubbed from Google search,” said author, speaker and activist Pamela Geller, explaining in an email how her American Freedom Defense Initiative and Atlas Shrugs sites, aimed at revealing the truths of Islam, were also recently booted from PayPal and Pinterest. Why?
As PayPalexplained [sic] in an email to Geller: “We have recently reviewed your usage of PayPal’s services … [and] due to the nature of your activities, we have chosen to discontinue service to you. … We ask that you please remove all references to PayPal from your website. This includes removing PayPal as a payment option, as well as the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart.”
PayPay [sic], following an outcry from Geller’s readers, reversed its decision.
Small victory.
Geller still faces this: “Google Adsense has banned my account. YouTube demonetized all of my videos. My Twitter account has been shadow-banned,” she wrote in her email.
A shadow-ban is when hashtags only show up in the feeds of existing followers — an occurrence that then restricts the ability of the account holder to grow and expand.
Geller’s not alone on that.
“I’m shadow-banned on Facebook and Twitter,” said Robert Spencer, an author who’s written extensively about Islam and jihad and who serves as director of the online Jihad Watch.
In an email, he said: “In mid-February, my referrals from each one dropped off by 90 percent, and have never recovered. Twitter has flagged several of my tweets as ‘hateful,’ including one in which I said, accurately, that Islam is not a religion of peace.”
Spencer’s facing his own shenanigans from Google.
“Google,” he said, “has altered its search results to give only results favorable to Islam, so while for years one searched for ‘jihad’ and got Jihad Watch as the first result, based on content and size of readership, now it doesn’t even come in on the first page.”
YouTube, meanwhile, has also removed a playlist of “Robert Spencer” videos, he said.
It’s alarming, yes? We’re talking about attacks on free thought here — but we’re also talking about attacks on livelihoods.
Geller and Spencer, in part, earn their livings on social media backs.
“The left is trying to use Charlottesville as its Reichstag Fire moment — a chance to shut down all dissent,” Spencer said. “The Southern Poverty Law Center’s spurious and politically biased ‘hate group’ list became the linchpin of this effort, and that’s when I was banned from PayPal.”
Like Geller‘s, Spencer’s PayPal ban was reversed — but only after supporters raised substantial outcry.
And again: That’s just one small victory.
The onslaught against free speech is growing wider as we speak.
“Twitter Bans Activist Mommy for Tweeting Her Dislike of Teen Vogue’s Anal Sex Guide,” blasted one recent PJ Media headline, in a story about Elizabeth Johnston, “The Activist Mommy,” also known as @activistmommy1 on Twitter, who dared to criticize the digital editorial director of Teen Vogue, for allowing for the publication of a guide on anal sex.
Her tweet wasn’t even that controversial.
“Congrats Phillip!” she tweeted in mid-August, to editor Phillip Picardi. “A sodomite mag just awarded you for teaching kids sodomy. Way to recruit there @TheAdvocateMag!”
YouTube, owned by the same Alphabet company that owns Google, then cut Johnston’s ability to monetize her videos. Geller, Spencer, now Johnston — that’s starting to seem par for the course. But as PJ Media wrote on Johnston’s plight: “This one falls under ‘too stupid to believe,’ but it’s actually true. … While Johnston’s posts and views are controversial to some, none of what she has to say is new. Her views on homosexuality come from the best-selling book in the world — the Bible.”
Note to social media self: No comments critical of Islam. No remarks based on biblical teachings. Got it.
Geller suggests the left, “awash in funding,” is on rampage to kill all dissent. And if they can’t get the government to do it, well then, there’s always the private biz world — at least the private business ventures that are headed by similarly minded leftists.
“They mean to cut off everything from those who are working in defense of the free and the brave,” she said. “The left elites control the cultural apparatus in this country — media, movies, entertainment, academia, etc. There was one place that was free and unfettered — the Internet. Consequently, they blame social media and Internet sites for Trump’s victory and the continuing opposition to jihad and sharia. So, they mean to shut us down. Totalitarianism cloaked in ‘hate speech’ restrictions, and ‘tolerance.’ “…
“The freedom of speech is under strenuous attack,” Geller said. “This is not just about me. If I am silenced, a dangerous precedent will be set that people can be denied access to the means of communications if their views aren’t acceptable to the elites. This would mean the end of a free society in the U.S. Every American should care about this. There is nowhere to flee, nowhere else to go.”…
First comes Geller and Spencer. Then, the Mommy Activist, and Savage. Next? Patriots, beware. We shouldn’t wait for the answer on that. It will mean it’s too late.

SUPREME COURT VOTES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN

 

SUPREME COURT VOTES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/supreme-court-votes-national-security-upholds-trump-travel-ban; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 A win for common sense and national security. Watch, therefore, for the 
howls of rage from the Left and hysteria from the establishment media.

“Supreme Court: Trump admin can keep travel ban on most refugees,” by Ariane de Vogue, CNN, September 12, 2017:

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court granted Tuesday a Trump administration request to continue to bar most refugees under its travel ban.
Without comment, the court blocked a federal appeals court ruling from last week that would have exempted refugees who have a contractual commitment from resettlement organizations from the travel ban while the justices consider its legality. The ruling could impact roughly 24,000 people.
The travel ban bars certain people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the US….

BANDITS TERRORIZING VIRGIN ISLANDS AFTER GOVERNOR SEIZED PRIVATE ARMS

BANDITS TERRORIZING VIRGIN ISLANDS AFTER GOVERNOR SEIZED PRIVATE ARMS

 Defenseless citizens terrified amid violent crime spree

BY DAN LYMAN

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/armed-thieves-terrorizing-virgin-islands-after-governor-issued-order-to-seize-arms/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Reports are emerging from the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) that armed marauders are looting and robbing residents in the chaos following Hurricane Irma, days after USVI Governor Kenneth Mapp ordered the National Guard to ‘seize firearms and weapons’ before the storm.
Mike Laplac, a resident of St. Thomas, relayed the chilling details in an interview with Fox Business on Monday.
“I actually know of eight people that were robbed in broad daylight with machetes for everything they had in their vehicles, including their fuel,” Laplac told Trish Regan, host of The Intelligence Report. “Yesterday we spent about three and a half hours in a line for fuel, and machetes were pulled there as well. We’re getting stories of people being robbed at gunpoint in their house for something as small as a can of tomato sauce.”

“At night right now in my house we have a couple of guys with me, we’re taking four hour shifts and we’re standing out there with the one pistol that we do have, machetes and flashlights to make sure that nobody comes to loot us without us seeing them,” he said, explaining that the local police’s ability to defend law-abiding citizens is “limited.”
On nearby St. John, “people are roaming like zombies,” says local bar owner, Stacey Alvarado. “They don’t know what to do. The island was wiped out. It’s like the walking dead down there.”
St. Johns blogger, Jenn Manes, issued a desperate cry for help in a viral post on the ‘News of St. John’ Facebook page, citing a collapse of security on the island due to criminals.
“We heard this morning that the Customs building in Cruz Bay was broken into and that guns were stolen. We heard that there was at least three robberies at gunpoint on Gifft Hill,” Manes wrote. “We need help. We need the United States government to step up. We need military. We need security.”
On September 4th, as Hurricane Irma’s trajectory became clearer, USVI Governor Kenneth Mapp issued an order to the National Guard to “seize arms,” which many interpreted as a disarming of the citizenry that would effectively render them defenseless against armed lawbreakers.
“The Adjutant General is authorized and directed to seize arms, ammunition, explosives, incendiary material and any other property that may be required by the military forces for the performance of this emergency mission,” he decreed, also adding that the Adjutant General was authorized to, “take whatever actions she considers necessary to carry out the assigned mission.”
The story quickly garnered attention after it was picked up by the Drudge Report, and Fox host, Tucker Carlson, invited Governor Mapp on to his show, where Mapp denied that the order pertained to confiscations from citizens, offering a convoluted explanation of what was intended by the edict.

While Mapp asserted that he was not legally empowered to confiscate legal firearms from private citizens, Carlson reminded him that is exactly what happened in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“No one will be able to be armed,” said New Orleans Police Superintendent, P. Eddie Compass, at the time. “We will take all weapons. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns.”
Law-abiding Americans were subsequently disarmed – at gunpoint, in their own homes.
While the intention of the governor’s order may have been misconstrued, it is clear that the National Guard has been outmatched by roving bands of armed anarchists, and should serve as a wake-up call to those who implicitly place their safety and security in the control of government.
Circumstances on nearby islands owned by the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands are even worse, with reports of prison breaks, ‘civil unrest,’ and hundreds of looters overwhelming military and law enforcement as thousands are evacuated from the mayhem.

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS' COST OF "DACA"'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

 THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS' COST OF "DACA"'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 

BY KELLEIGH NELSON

SEE: https://newswithviews.com/the-american-taxpayers-cost-of-dacas-illegal-immigrants/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 Illegal immigration is a crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. —Timothy Murphy

 Eliminate Illegal Amnesties

As a candidate, Trump pledged to “immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties.”  So, why is our president repeatedly expressing empathy with the participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
Now he is saying to Congress, “Legalize DACA or I will revisit it.”  What? Supporters of Trump have already said they will exit the Trump train if he legalizes illegal aliens who broke the law.  Daily Caller says Trump is allowing Dreamers to stay and even Rush Limbaugh is fine with it.  Excuse me Rush, but this is screw the taxpayer again!
Illegal aliens, who are eligible for DACA needed to have entered the United States illegally before 2007 and be 15 or younger at the time of their arrival. They also had to be younger than 31 years of age when DACA was officially created in June 2012.

Although there are over 1.3 million people who are eligible for Obama’s DACA program, of those who applied, approximately 800,000 individuals have it.
DACA and Fraud

New research has shown that DACA itself is a jumbled mess of fraud and unaccountability.
“There’s a ‘huge’ rate of fraud in the DACA program,” a former insider warns, and many of the people who are in the DACA program have provided false information in order to escape deportation and remain in the U.S.
“As many as half of the approximately 800,000 people who now have work permits under DACA may have lied on their applications to get approved,” said Matt O’Brien, an attorney and until last year a manager in the investigative unit of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
“Based on what I had seen and what I discussed with my colleagues, the fraud rate is 40 to 50 percent. It’s possible that it was higher,” he told LifeZette this week.
So why in hell would we want to give these lawbreakers and liars free citizenship in the United States?  And why doesn’t the Trump administration know this?
DACA and Crime
Many participants, referred to euphemistically as “dreamers,” arrived in the United States as small children and have little recollection of their birth countries. DACA does not give them residency status, but temporarily protects them from deportation and allows them to work legally. The protection can be revoked at any time and some of these illegals have lost their DACA protections after being arrested for vicious crimes, yet many are still not deported.
What about American families who have lost loved ones because Dreamers murdered them?  Is there no sense of protection for American citizens?  Apparently not, because illegals, and I include Islamic refugees, continue to rape, murder, and destroy citizens of this country.

A man charged with multiple murders was erroneously shielded from deportation under DACA, despite gang ties.  And, sympathetic media has scrambled to trot out shiny Dreamers, but forgets all the nightmares, and the nightmare list is very long.  Link
Then there’s the parental program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA, which was blocked by a federal judge in Texas after 26 states sued. Republicans saw it as a “backdoor amnesty” and argued that Obama overstepped his authority by protecting a specific class of immigrants living in the United States illegally.
These illegals need to be deported because they broke the law to get here.  Sound harsh?  Not really, when you realize some of these “children” were teens when they came here.  If they haven’t any relatives in any state who could take them in, then fine, let them stay. However, if they have one family member in another nation, they need to go back and immigrate legally as our ancestors from Europe did when they came through Ellis Island.
Why won’t much deportation happen? Because the Democrats are against it, the Republicans are against it when nobody is looking.  Chicago, California, and New York are against it, a dozen large businesses are very against it, the media are against it, the Loony Tune Left is against it, academia is against it, the Latinos no matter how badly they’re behaving is not enough to deport them, and the Millennials don’t give a damn.
That leaves us, the taxpayers, who should be screaming at the top of our lungs about these illegal alien lawbreakers milking us for decades.  Yet we have a bunch of socialists in Congress who don’t give a rat’s ass about the taxpayers.  Needless to say, it’s why we must be screaming constantly at these rotten “servants” of the people.
Congress Gets Six Months
Why is Trump giving Congress six months to do something?  This was an Executive Order by Obama that should have been undone and the majority of these people deported to their countries of origin. DACA creates an amnesty and the infamous and euphemistic sounding “path to citizenship” for illegals who violated American territory with their illegal invader parents.  It is nothing more than an extension of the anchor baby concept to foreign-born non-citizens.  Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14^th Amendment’s citizenship clause, said its grant of citizenship would not include persons born in the United States who are foreigner or aliens.  So, who changed it?
The anchor baby scam was invented 35 years ago by a liberal zealot, Justice William Brennan, who slipped a footnote into a 1982 Supreme Court opinion announcing that the children born to illegals on U.S. soil are citizens.  Unconstitutional poppycock.
The Conniving Congress
Our President has said the Dreamers have no reason to worry, but American citizens have big reasons to worry since this is now in the hands of Congress and a Republican party who is not capable of governing.
Pelosi and her fellow democrats, led by Luis Gutierrez and his Latin supremacists, filed a discharge petition to begin the trickery that could ultimately lead to a vote on the so-called DREAM Act, and I mean an immediate vote.  Knowing the desire of both the left and right for amnesty and their fake bleeding-heart liberalism, they will easily pass this and send it to lily-livered McConnell, who will not promote the votes to kill it, and it will go to the President’s desk.
Even if the President vetoes the rotten amnesty, these vile Trump hating spineless weasels in our Republican Majority Congress, will spit in his face and override the veto.  That’s what Trump is dealing with.
Michelle Malkin, a former Trump bashing so-called-conservative wrote a fabulous article wherein she states, There is No Such Thing As a Deserving Dreamer!  She is absolutely right, they are all about “I, I, I, me, me, me, gimmie, gimmie, gimmie and deserve, deserve, deserve,” when they deserve nothing!  They are lawbreakers who are bleeding America’s taxpayers dry.
Of course, the Associated Press refers to these illegal aliens as undocumented citizens.  Oh yes, I really want these demanding lawbreakers given free citizenship in the United States, when my ancestors worked hard to get here, and worked hard to make America a great country.
Deportation Costs Less
Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, crunched the numbers and found that the number of illegal immigrants will drain nearly $750 billion from taxpayers over their lifetimes — amounting to six times the deportation costs, and that’s only for 11 million.  We all know it’s up to 50 or 60 million illegals.  Multiply $750 billion by 5.5 more million and see what it’s costing us.
The feds have replaced America’s aborted babies with these illegals, many who never assimilate into society as our European ancestors so willingly did.
“Sometimes people say, look we couldn’t deport everybody because it’s prohibitively expensive,” Mr. Camarota said. “But if your only concern is fiscal cost, it’s pretty clear that letting them stay is a hell of a lot more expensive.”
Deportation in the Past
Eisenhower deported over a million illegal aliens in 1954.   They were loaded onto trains, buses and planes and deposited deep in Mexico’s interior to prevent them from returning.
Back then, prominent U.S. senators were troubled by a government program that allowed some Mexican workers to enter the country legally. Sens. Herbert Lehman, D-N.Y., and Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., the Chicago Tribune reported, “charged that the recruitment program makes it easy for Communists and other subversives to enter the United States.” Lehman estimated the daily flow of troublemakers as “perhaps many hundreds.”
Well, today it is far more, and we have become overrun with illegal aliens and Islamic refugees, the majority of whom are sucking America’s funds dry and have put us in debt that will never be repaid, and that’s not to mention the death and destruction caused by these aliens.
Advisor Kushner Joins with Dems on DACA
“President Donald Trump’s son-in-law set up a secret back channel to help a top Democratic Senator lobby White House officials in favor of the “DACA” amnesty for 800,000 young illegals.  [Link]
Socialist Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democratic Senator, spilled the beans in an interview with Reuters, where he described how he worked with Jared Kushner and liberal Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to promote the DACA amnesty in April and July.
In addition, Durbin said there had been telephone calls between him and Kushner as well as calls and meetings with then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, now chief of staff. They had, and increasingly still have, President Trump surrounded with the globalist mindset.
Sessions apparently wants DACA destroyed, as does Steve Miller, who understands MAGA, but we’ll have to see how long Steve lasts with a McMaster bullseye on his back.
Bleeding American Taxpayers
DACA and DAPA and every other illegal amnesty needs to be destroyed.
A Drexel University professor has openly encouraged people to destroy government property of ICE vehicles in order to stop DACA deportation.  Not only should he be charged with inciting illegal activities, but he should be fired from Drexel.  George Ciccariello-Maher teaches Global studies at Drexel University, and he made headlines last December when he tweeted out that the one thing he wanted for Christmas was “white genocide.”  This bozo is a white boy.
Given the competitiveness of admissions, it is all the more outrageous that the University of Miami is offering Dreamers a full scholarship worth $62,000, as well as lower GPA and SAT standards. [Link]  The Dreamer scholarship is “renewable for up to four academic years or such time as is required to complete the baccalaureate degree.”  So, illegals who have broken the law get a free ride, while again American taxpayers take it in the arse.
To top it off, Janet Napolitano, former Sec. of Homeland Security under Obama, filed a lawsuit  protesting the phase out of DACA by the administration, declaring that it is being done by executive whim. Maybe Trump should have just had his DHS Secretary write a memo. Then they could treat it as if it were a law.
The reality is that DACA is still growing, they’re not sending their best and brightest (never have), it will cost Americans and their government a huge amount of money, it encourages more illegal immigration, it imports crime, it helps democrats, and it is fundamentally illegitimate.  [Link]
It’s up to us!
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ELCA PRESIDING "BISHOP" CLAIMS: "THERE MAY BE A HELL, BUT I THINK IT'S EMPTY"

 

ELCA PRESIDING "BISHOP" CLAIMS: 

"THERE MAY BE A HELL, BUT I THINK IT'S EMPTY"

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2017/09/08/elca-presiding-bishop-claims-there-may-be-a-hell-but-i-think-its-empty/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 CHICAGO, Ill. — The presiding “bishop” of the apostate Evangelical Lutheran 

Church of America (ELCA) opined in an interview this week with the Chicago 

Sun-Times that Hell is empty because God doesn’t give up on those who reject 

Him.

Elizabeth Eaton was interviewed on Wednesday by reporter Robert Herguth during his podcast “Face to Faith.”
Herguth asked Eaton a variety of questions during the 42-minute discussion, from whether she has ever had doubts since becoming a minister, to how she has been received as the ELCA’s first female presiding bishop, to what Jesus will look like when He returns, to what she thinks Heaven is like.
 “Do you think there’s a Hell?” Herguth also asked.

“There may be,” Eaton answered after pausing for a moment, adding, “but I think it’s empty.”
When asked why, she explained it was because Jesus said He would draw all men to Himself and that she doesn’t believe God will give up on people.
“Jesus was clear in John 3 that when He is raised up, He will draw all people to Himself,” Eaton stated. “And if we take a look at salvation history, ever since we got booted out of the garden, it has been God’s relentless pursuit to bring His people to God.”

“Now, people wonder, ‘Well, can you say no?’ I imagine you can say no to God, [but] I don’t think God’s going to give up on us. And if God has eternity, then God can certainly keep working on those folks,” she said. “That might be a little bit of heresy along the lines of origin, but I don’t think God gives up.”
Eaton also outlined during the interview that while she believes that the Bible is inerrant, the ELCA does not view all Scripture as literal.
“How much of the New Testament do you think is literally true, in terms of Christ—how He operated [and] how He lived?” Herguth asked.
“Lutherans—at least our understanding—we’re not biblical literalists, and I would say that no one is a biblical literalist,” Eaton replied, “because Jesus said if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. Well, I’m seeing a lot of people with both eyes and both hands, and you can’t tell me there’s not been some sin going on there.”
“And also, when our Lord said that the mustard seed is the smallest seed, it isn’t,” she continued. “Does that mean He didn’t know what he was talking about? No.”
She said that rather Scripture needs to interpret Scripture and should not be cherry-picked, but that it should be accepted as a whole because it got the gospel right.
“I remember being with congregations after our decision in 2009 [to allow homosexuals to serve as clergy], where they thought, ‘Well, I heard the Bible describing human sexuality this way, and now you’re saying it’s another way.’ And you can see the arc going on (correlating), ‘So, if that’s not true, maybe [we’d think] the resurrection isn’t true.’ However, the entire New Testament was written after the resurrection of Jesus, so it has authority for us because it got that right.”
Listen to the interview in full below.
Jesus warned about Hell numerous times in the Scriptures, outlining in Matthew 25 that the wicked “shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.”
He also explained in Matthew 7:21-23, “Not every one that saith unto Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? And in Thy name have cast out devils? And in Thy name done many wonderful works?’ And then will I profess unto them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.'”
Revelation 20:12-15 likewise warns, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

"SOZO"-CLIMBING UP ANOTHER WAY~IS THERE A SPIRITUAL LADDER TO THE LAP OF "FATHER GOD"?

"SOZO"-http://bethelsozo.com/ 

"HEALING & DELIVERANCE MINISTRY"

 

 CLIMBING UP ANOTHER WAY~

IS THERE A SPIRITUAL LADDER 

TO THE LAP OF "FATHER GOD"?

SEE: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2017/newsletter20170912.htm#1A2; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

LTRP Note: Recently, a caller asked us if we had any information on SOZO. While we have had inquiries about SOZO in the past, we have never posted anything about it. Below is an article from The Berean Call discussing the origins and nature of SOZO. If you know someone who is getting involved with this, please pass this article on to them.
“Climbing Up Another Way – Is There A Spiritual Ladder to the Lap of ‘Father God’?”
By Mark Dinsmore (The Berean Call)
History and Structure of Sozo

“SOZO” is a psycho-spiritual deliverance and inner healing methodology birthed out of Bethel Church in Redding, California. But though the Bethel Sozo website banner says, “[A] Ministry of Bethel Church,” the FAQ section disclaims, “The Sozo staff are independent contractors and are not Bethel Church Staff.” Apparently for legal reasons, no one wants to call this “counseling” or “therapy.” Rather, they simply call it “healing prayer” (and yet, they strongly recommend a suggested donation for receiving “prayer” for which recipients (“Sozoees”) must first sign a waiver.
For background, it is interesting to note that Bethel was once an Assemblies of God (AG) church, and Bill Johnson was an AG pastor; but he led his flock out of AG in 2006 to jump into the NAR/River Revival movement. Johnson is now a self-appointed “apostle,” and his church is now a part of his own “Revival Alliance” network, co-founded with Che Ahn (Harvest Rock Church, Pasadena, CA) and John Arnott (Catch the Fire Toronto; formerly Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship; formerly Toronto Airport Vineyard Church).
Although Sozo got its start at Bethel, other Sozo groups have spun off, such as The Freedom Resource (TFR). Headed by author and executive director Andy Reese, TFR publishes its own manuals and presentations on how to use Sozo. According to TFR’s website, no one individual “owns” or controls the copyright for Sozo concepts and “tools” used in the program: “This particular style or format for ministry has evolved (and continues to evolve) from roots in the Argentine revivals, the understanding and writings of various practitioners of inner healing and deliverance, and from the experience of several churches and individuals including Randy Clark’s ministry and Bethel Church in Redding, California. It is changing and growing as we all learn, grow, and share experiences and tools with each other.” [Note: TFR just announced brand differentiation from Bethel Sozo and will now practice under “Freedom Prayer.”] Click here to continue reading.
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SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST ALSO: HEALING ROOMS
https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/01/randy-clark-bill-johnson.html 

TAIZE WORSHIP-GROWING IN POPULARITY, BUT ROOTS ARE IN MYSTICAL MONASTICISM

 

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS:

https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2015/03/taize-french-catholicprotestant.html 

https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2012/12/contemplative-prayer-taize-worship.html 

https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-silence-sound-by-sorenson-former.html 

TAIZE WORSHIP-GROWING IN POPULARITY, BUT ROOTS ARE IN MYSTICAL MONASTICISM 

SEE: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2017/newsletter20170912.htm#1A2;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

By Chris Lawson
(Author of Taizé: A Community and Worship: Ecumenical Reconciliation or an Interfaith Delusion?)
The worship practiced at Taizé has attracted many people from around the globe and from many different denominations. While many of the words found in Taizé worship music are words found in Scripture or words that do not necessarily contradict Scripture, the Taizé songs and worship services themselves are centered around contemplative, ecumenical, and oftentimes emergent spirituality themes. The emphasis is not on the teaching or exhortation of the Word of God but rather is to help participants “experience” God through sensory-focused music and singing. A church association in the UK describes the Taizé worship style as such:

The contemplative worship practices of the Taizé community are promoted at an annual international conference. Taizé worship is being incorporated in a wide variety of churches, both Protestant and Catholic and its pattern of devotion is emulated in other monastic communities around the world.
A Taizé worship service involves sung and chanted prayers, meditation, a period of silence, liturgical readings, and use of candles. There is no preaching. The style of prayer practiced at Taizé has attracted many worshippers from around the globe and from many different denominations.1

The main focus on the Taizé worship is the chanted prayers, meditations, and songs. However, the Bible warns against such practices:

[W]hen ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. (Matthew 6:7-8)

The Contemplative Network, an online resource for those interested in meditative prayer practices, describes Taizé worship and prayer like this:

For those familiar with Taizé common prayer, but unfamiliar with Centering Prayer practices, they will discover that they grow from the same root of seeking to surrender the mind and heart to the intimate presence of God. They share the same spirit of ancient monastic traditions to open space to let the Word of God reverberate in all its dimensions. Those who have tasted of this open space during the silent period of a Taizé common prayer service may find themselves well disposed to explore related contemplative practices such as Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer.2

The Taizé worship is not based on the objective Word of God but rather offers spiritual experiences that are subjectively appealing to the flesh. In Scripture, we are instructed to build up the inner spiritual man and to resist the carnality of the flesh (Ephesians 3:16, Romans 8:1-16).
Jesus Christ instructed His disciples that they should not use repetitive prayers (chanting) like the heathen (New Agers, pagans, etc.) do. Anytime experience is given higher regard than God’s Word, it puts followers at risk of becoming victim to deception and even dangerous spiritual realms. Mystical and esoteric experiences are subjective, meaning they are not founded on anything solid or concrete. It is the Word of God (the Bible) that is to be our steering mechanism through life. Consider these verses that show the importance of the Word of God. You won’t find any verses giving credence to seeking after mystical experiences:

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. (Psalm 119:9)
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:31-32)

Taizé Worship Influenced by Catholic Prayers

The repetitive Taizé songs are influenced by the Roman Catholic notion that a person needs to say a certain amount of repeated prayers in order for them to be enough (e.g., the Catholic works mentality—which dictates that one must do enough works to reduce the time in Purgatory).
An example in Roman Catholicism would be the Rosary—a droning repetition of the same set of prayers, something like this: six repetitions of Our Father, fifty repetitions of the Hail Marys, and three repetitions of the Glory-be prayers. These repetitive prayers are usually said before or after mid-week Masses.
Jesus said, when asked about how to pray, to only pray to God (not Mary or saints or angels) and to not repeat the same prayers over and over again like the pagans “for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
Six different Psalms tell us to sing a new song unto the Lord, but not one tells us to chant. Now Psalm 136 is unique in that it uses the refrain “his mercy endureth for ever,” but this is not a chant in that each refrain is a response to a different statement. So, unlike the psalms, the Catholic uses endless repetition out of guilt (in doing penance) or to be heard by God or from the sense that the Taizé songs are sung to allow participants to go into mind-altering trance-like states.

Taizé Worship Practices Similar to New Age Meditation

Sadly, many of the spiritual experiences occurring during Taizé worship services are similar to what takes place during New Age meditation. The following quote is from Lacy Clark Ellman, author of the New Age website, A Sacred Journey. Her quote is from “Inside the Taizé Community: An Interview with Brother Emile.” The processes (i.e., techniques) she mentions are reminiscent of many transformative occult practices. Regarding Taizé worship, Ellman explains:

Singing their [Taizé monks] chants left me transported—centering me, bringing me peace, and thus opening me up to the Sacred. I’ve been known to describe it as the perfect combination of the contemplative and charismatic—the words simple and liturgical in nature, with the repetition making space for the Sacred Guide to enter. . . .
Instead of trying to facilitate an experience with bright lights and catchy songs, the [Taizé] brothers invite visitors into their own experience—a rhythmic practice of chants, reading, and [meditative] silence in languages found across the globe. They didn’t explain what was going on or how to participate, apart from a board that displayed which song was to be sung next.3 (emphasis added)

The problem with this explanation is that occultists (shamans, sorcerers, witches, etc.) and New Age practitioners around the globe are receiving similar experiences, in varying forms, through spirit contact via spiritualism, séances, channeling, etc. So too, non-Christians enter varying levels of voluntary and involuntary possession states using this same process.
Instead of encouraging Christian worship settings that provide for a clear understanding of sound biblical preaching and teaching of the Bible, Taizé worship services provide a fast track to spiritual experience via unbiblical forms of prayer, meditation, and silence. In many cases, they bypass the Bible altogether. In settings like this where anything goes—chanting, centering down to enter “the silence,” lengthy repetitive singing, and meditative/altered states—any form of spirit contact can occur.
Considering these things, it is of utmost importance that Christians heed this biblical warning:

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. (1 Timothy 4:1)

When people are not being taught the Bible and warned about the dangers of false doctrine and non-biblical practices, they will inevitably, in mystical Taizé type settings, end up under the influence of deceiving spirits. As the above passage describes, strong delusion will overtake them. This is no small problem as it is running rampant in the church throughout the world.
The true Christian has only one option at this point, and that is to obey Scripture and separate from those who bring teachings contrary to the Word of God.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. (Romans 16:17-18; emphasis added)

(This is an excerpt from Chris Lawson’s book Taizé: A Community and Worship: Ecumenical Reconciliation or an Interfaith Delusion?)
Endnotes:
1. The Cornilo Churches, UK (http://www.cornilochurches.org.uk/taiz.htm).
2. The Contemplative Network, “Prayer With the Songs of Taizé (http://www.contemplative.net/prayer-with-songs-taize-t-1_43.html).
3. “Inside the Taizé Community: An Interview with Brother Emile” (http://www.asacredjourney.net/2013/08/taize).
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 TAIZE PROMOTIONAL

 LAUDATE DOMINUM SUNG AT TAIZE, FRANCE

KIDS AT RISK: AWANA CONTINUING DOWN THE EMERGENT ROAD

KIDS AT RISK: AWANA CONTINUING DOWN THE EMERGENT ROAD 

SEE: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2017/newsletter20170912.htm#1A2;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Dear Lighthouse Trails:
A while back I alerted you to the fact that Awana was joining forces with Josh Griffin who was the youth pastor for Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. Josh Griffin is also associated with Youth Specialties, an organization that promotes occult [contemplative] practices to youth.

Unfortunately, Awana is continuing down the emergent road. Here are some examples:
1. On February 22, 2017, Steve Kozak, the executive director of Awana YM, (Youth Ministries) wrote a blog post encouraging youth leaders to promote Lent. Lent is very popular among those in the emerging church. Wikipedia says “The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, doing penance, mortifying the flesh, repentance of sins, and self-denial.”(1) Kozak in his blog said, “Teach your students to go without, so that they can experience an overflowing of Christ.”(2) Nowhere in the Bible is the practice of Lent mentioned.
2. On April 6, 2017, Awana YM held a youth leaders round table event at Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek Community Church. Participants were Josh Griffin, Sean McDowell, Dr. Larry Acosta, Elizabeth Bjorling Prest, Steve Kozak, (Director of Awana Youth Ministries) and Ryan Guard, (Director of Student Impact at Willow Creek Community Church.)(3)
3. Awana is promoting several books that they feel youth group leaders should be reading. The following books are a compilation from two different blog posts. I am not familiar with all the authors, but I know many of these authors to be troubling.

The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen [recommended by Sean McDowell]
The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George G. Hunter
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
Bloom Where You’re Planted by H.B. London
Purpose Driven Youth Ministry by Doug Fields with a forward by Rick Warren, published by Youth Specialties/Zondervan
Your First Two Years In Youth Ministry By Doug Fields, published by Youth Specialties/Zondervan
Sustainable Youth Ministry by Mark Devries
Sticky Faith by Kara E. Powell, (Who spoke at the Youth Specialties National Convention) and co-authored by Chap Clark
Growing Young by Kara E. Powell, Jake Mulder and Brad Griffin
Leading With a Limp by Dan Allender
St. Augustine’s City of God (St. Augustine is very popular in the Emerging Church Movement)
Christian Origins of the Question of God (4 Volumes by N.T. Wright
The Holy Wild by Mark Buchanan(4)

Sincerely, L.F.
Footnotes:
1. Lent- Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
2. Awana YM Lent: More Than Giving Up by Steve Kozak, February 22,2017 https://awanaym.org/blog/lent-more-than-giving-up
3. Awana YM
https://awanaym.org/events/youth-leaders-round-table-4-6-2017
4. Awana YM
(1)Books Youth Leaders Should Be Reading
April 7,2017; https://awanaym.org/blog/5-books-youth-leaders-should-be-reading
(2)Must Have Books For Every Youth Leader by Steve Kozak July 20,1017
https://awanaym.org/blog/6-must-have-books-for-every-youth-leader
Related Information:
Letter to the Editor: AWANA Now Teaching Children to Hear the Voice of God
A History of AWANA’s Contemplative Track Record and the Implications of Their New CEO
Revisiting Awana’s Move Toward Contemplative – And Another Look at “Perspectives on Children’s Spiritual Formation 
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SEE ALSO:
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/spirituality/lighthousetrails/awana.htm

SOUND THE TRUMPET IN THE MIDST OF APOSTASY-THE ENEMY IS IN THE CAMP

 

SOUND THE TRUMPET IN THE MIDST OF APOSTASY-THE ENEMY IS IN THE CAMP 

BY DAVID DOMBROWSKI

SEE: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2017/newsletter20170912.htm#1A2; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

By David Dombrowski
Lighthouse Trails Editor
Over the past decade and a half, we have watched with a mixture of surprise and sadness at how an apostate church has materialized before our eyes. It all began for us here at Lighthouse Trails when we met Ray Yungen in 2000. Though we were not publishers back then, he shared with us his manuscript for  A Time of Departing, which spoke of a coming apostasy in the form of mystical practices and “spiritual disciplines.” Stirred by the content of that book, we agreed to help him find a publisher. But, at the time, we never imagined how relevant and prophetic that book would be nor how quickly this apostasy would flourish in the mainstream churches. Today, it is even difficult to find a church that has not been compromised by some form of eastern-style mystical practice or emerging church philosophy. Now e-mails and letters pour into our office telling how readers who either just discovered us or were at one time skeptical of our warnings are now shocked to see that these things have entered their churches.
How did all this happen, and how did it happen so quickly? We think this can partly be explained by what we discovered years ago. After meeting with Ray, we felt compelled to help him find a publisher for his book, but after contacting a number of Christian publishing houses, we soon learned that they were only looking for books that could sell well—and that meant books considered non-controversial and by well-known authors. At that point, we prayerfully decided to start our own publishing house. But just the lack of interest that we saw in the publishers was indicative of what was to happen in the church.
Whether we realize it or not, there is tremendous spiritual warfare taking place in our world today. In numerous instances, we are hearing stories of young people going to Christian colleges only to have their spiritual lives shipwrecked. They may have been safer in secular colleges. At the same time, we know of countless numbers of Christians who have no church to go to because the ones that are available have abandoned the simplicity of the Gospel for a universal emerging “spirituality.” These believers are now witnessing the apostasy and are looking to ministries like ours for encouragement and help. In many cases, the only encouragement we can offer these people is to assure them that they are not alone in what they see.
As singer/songwriter Trevor Baker sings in his song The Lonely Road, committed Christians may have to endure much loneliness or isolation in the future for lack of genuine fellowship.
Please remember that while Jesus said we cannot know the day or the hour of His return, He also instructed us to observe the seasons. In saying this, Jesus was sharing a principle that is both profound and very simple:

 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. (Matthew 24: 32-33)

In other words, Jesus was saying that various things must occur before He returns, and when they do occur, we can know that His coming is near. Today, the stage is being set for the fulfillment of these events described in Matthew 24, and in fact, things are moving at a highly accelerated rate. While the church has slept, tares have been sown into God’s wheat field (Matthew 13:25). The apostasy that we see in the church today is the result of Satan sowing these “tares” in the church.
As we have watched events unfold in the apostate church in recent years, it has been very sobering to see how nearly identical its intents and actions are to that of the New Age movement in moving toward a one-world global order. As you are reading this, religious leaders are shaking hands with political figures in bringing about a more highly evolved society. Alice Bailey, who had much to do with the development of the New Age movement, with all its occult practices and mysticism, predicted that this movement rather than having to move around the church would move through it. In fact, she saw the church as helping to propel the world into this higher level of consciousness.1 Sadly, we are hearing almost daily of highly respected Christian leaders with large followings who are now embracing the writings of mystics and contemplative authors. Perhaps they do not realize that the contemplative prayer and mysticism they are now passing on to their followers is no different than the occult practices of Alice Bailey with a new twist. And as long as the name of “Jesus” is used, everything is O.K., they think.
Looking again at the fig tree, we can see that more fruit is developing and getting heavier. Also, as Rick Warren points out (and promotes), we will see a blending of religious, political, and economic forces as future events unfold. Unity will be a key to the future and will be an increasing theme as the world awaits the Antichrist. Considering that we are even now moving toward a one-world order, let us look at our fig tree whose fruit is already there and beginning to get ripe; the events we already see, only to increase, are:

The unifying of the world’s religious thought where eastern-style mystical practice to include yoga, contemplative prayer, and healing practices like Reiki are joining east with west.
The Purpose Driven P.E.A.C.E. Plan where political, economic, and religious forces are being brought together to form a unified effort.
Plans for a global currency paving the way to the use of the “mark.”
The accelerating significance of the United Nations leading toward a confederation of nations.
Increasing interest in the world finding a Christ figure who can solve the world’s economic and political problems and unite the world in peace.
Increasing moral decay throughout the world to include abortion, violence, pandemic divorce, the dissolution of the family unit, homosexuality, and pedophilia.
Increasing hatred toward born-again believers.
The growth of a spirit of Anti-Semitism throughout the world including in much of the organized Christian church today.
Increased natural disasters to include earthquakes, weather phenomena, and possible volcanic activity.
Intensifying of wars and rumors of war and man-made disasters.
Increased skepticism about the Lord’s return to include an abandonment of biblical prophecy.
The appearance of false christs culminating in the appearance of the Antichrist. As a result of mystical practices, to include contemplative prayer, people are already being conditioned to seeing themselves as having a “divine center” where the “Christ” or “I am” resides. Man has become divine.
An increasing curiosity and dependence on signs and wonders rather than the Word of God. Of special significance today are Mary apparitions and Eucharistic wonders, which point people to another Jesus of another gospel. Signs and wonders will be seen in the future as the final proof of truth holding sway over many people. This will make it possible for the Antichrist to lead the whole world in a grand delusion as he will be a master at performing signs and wonders.

Let us pause to look at our fig tree again; I see a couple more figs developing there. One of them is called “the bridgers” and the other is called “the silencers.” Unfortunately, both of these figs are growing on the same branch—and the branch has a name on it – it says, “the church.” This is odd because these two figs look putrefied, yet they are growing on a branch that looks very healthy.
You may remember a number of years ago a radio interview between LT editor Deborah Dombrowski and radio host Ingrid Schlueter. The title of this broadcast was“Beware The Bridgers: Orthodoxy Is More Than A Doctrinal Statement.”    This program talked about the emergence of what one might call a welcoming committee within the church where things God considers foul and unclean are invited in. Oddly enough, it is not the dissenters in the church who are doing this, as would have been the case fifteen or so years ago, but our pastors and Christian leaders—many of whom have had very large followings and been respected as being both conservative and of sound doctrine. But the problem is that these leaders are now gleaning from the writings of New Age, occultic, or mystical authors and quoting them to their followers, oftentimes with a word of recommendation if not persuasion to buy these writings and read them in their entirety. We won’t take time here to discuss God’s view on these things, but if you are curious, you might want to pause to look at Deuteronomy 18:9-14. The question is, why are pastors and respected Christian leaders promoting mystics and occultists? And we use the word “promoting” because this is more than the occasional slip of quoting someone for their clever or witty anecdote. These leaders are both bringing the nail and driving it in. However, in many cases these leaders are obscure as to whether they practice these things themselves; they seem content enough in bringing their followers to the bait, then leaving their followers to fend for themselves. Ingrid Schlueter coined the term “the bridgers” because these leaders in their obscurity seem quite innocent, yet due to their positions of respect and large followings, they are wittingly or unwittingly pulling large numbers of otherwise conservative followers into  a trap that these followers would  not have ventured to on their own accord. In other words, these bridgers are introducing the more conservative flock to what the Bible calls an abomination.
Then there is the other fig called “the silencers” that we looked at a moment ago, and it is getting larger. It too looks putrefied though it is on a healthy looking branch labeled “the church.” This fig represents those in the church who regard themselves as having a special corner, and almost elitist attitude, on discernment. While they proclaim their humility, they also pride themselves as having the educational credentials and biblical know-how to steer the church on a straight course. They speak of the embarrassment other ministries are to the body of Christ who are not deemed worthy to hold the compass. A case in point was brought to our attention when two men stood before an audience and proceeded to praise each other as the purveyors of sound wisdom, discernment, and biblical scholarship. Then, in turn they engaged in a joint attack of verbally punching down those they deemed unworthy of discerning the things of God. This ganged venture began when one of them made reference to “housewives and home-school moms” who have no business interfering in things they know nothing about. One referred to such women as “discernment divas” saying that their “greatest ability for [discernment] is not some rational understanding of doctrinal truths but an ability to use a really sharp tongue.”  Both men on the stage maintained that such things belong to men of wisdom, like themselves. By the way, the one who said this is said to be the “right-hand man” to one of the most popular and looked up to Christian figures today.
After the program, however, this same man, in realizing that he had put his foot in his mouth–figuratively speaking—proceeded to try to remedy the matter lest there be an influx of home-schooling moms and irate husbands knocking at the door. He attempted to remedy the matter by pointing out that he did not mean all home-schooling moms but two in particular—namely Ingrid Schlueter of Crosstalk and Lighthouse Trails Publishing’s Deborah Dombrowski.2 Hoping to put out the spot fires he started, he referred to these women as discernment divas, then proceeded to provide his own derogatory definition of the term.
We must not forget the seriousness or the ramifications of what can happen when someone who is endeavoring to help the Body of Christ is knocked down, verbally or otherwise. Again, we are in a spiritual battle—very real, with its own victories and consequences.
The fact is that the darkness hates the light, and when you bring light where there is darkness it means exposure. We live in a corrupt world where not even the organized church is willing to have the light shine in the dark corners.
But we at Lighthouse Trails were founded on the principle that there is a growing body of believers who have heard God’s heart cry to repentance. It is our belief that repentance is meant to be a part of the Christian life, and as we become aware of our imperfections we endure rather than resist God’s refining process in our lives. When John wrote his letters to the seven churches, he did it with this in mind, but history tells us not all seven of them heeded his letters.
Here at Lighthouse Trails, we have endeavored to blow the trumpet over the years, sounding the call to repentance and to a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. But many have become annoyed with the repeated blasts of the trumpet. All we can say to this is that the time is short, and we remember the words of Jesus when he said, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4). We will continue to sound the trumpet for as long as we can while doors of opportunity are still open.
Some will say that it is better for Christians to be silent and just let God take care of things. But it is through silence that the church in America has lost so much ground. Rather than helping the process, silence accelerates the work of the enemy. It was through silence that a man called Hitler was able to come to power and murder millions of innocent people.
Keep praying and do what you can to help sound the trumpet. The enemy forces are advancing; in fact, they are within our ranks.

I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. (Jeremiah 6:17)
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3:12)

Notes:
1. See A Time of Departing for more information on Alice Bailey’s “revitalization” of the churches.
2. Though Deborah Dombrowski’s name was not mentioned, it was inferred by saying Lighthouse Trails Publishing