Christians and the Spirit of Antichrist

In his first epistle, the apostle John speaks about the spirit of the antichrist that is already in the world. Normally, we speak of that presence and the manifestations of it in terms of evil and wickedness perpetrated by unbelievers.

In this post, I want to identify a much more deadly and heartbreaking manifestation of the spirit of antichrist in the world today – in the publically displayed attitudes and social posts of Christians. I see it especially in the people who consider themselves watchmen. Biblically speaking we should expect it to increase in unbelievers as we draw closer to the return of Christ. But, it is disheartening when Yahweh’s people become entrapped in this behavior.

Where has the practice of contending with one another in grace gone? The apostle Peter reminds us that we should deal with unbelievers with respect and gentleness.

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; 1 Peter 3:15

That being the case, aren’t we to relate to our brethren even more so? How is it that we have allowed ourselves to be driven by the spirit of antichrist to a place where those we might disagree with over eschatological matters we now label as cultists?

How are we honoring Yahweh by demeaning the brethren on matters that you or I have no definitive answer on? A case in point is the rapture. Pre, Mid, Pre-wrath, Post, or no rapture views are held in today’s ecclesia. Which view is right? My understanding of the Scriptures is that a couple of views are possible and a couple of views are not very likely. How do I argue for my view? I argue for my view with grace, respect, and gentleness toward others who hold a different view. I am not fortifying my view by vehemently attacking other people and their views nor am I honoring my brethren when I refer to them as being in the “cult of (you fill in the blank).”

Cults are cults because they deny Jesus Christ and some aspect of His divine nature, not because they hold a different view on eschatological matters than you do. Cultists practice abhorrent, God-dishonoring things, and seek to draw people into their self-aggrandizing web of deceit.

I see many of those who fancy themselves lights of truth and biblical revelation as practicing the very things they accuse the brethren of doing. What is that accusation? The accusation most prevalent is that those who hold a different eschatology are somehow “wolves” and “deceivers” and “leading God’s people into error,” “blind guides of the blind,” and so forth.

There is no shortage of diatribes aimed at other believers today. However, have those same people who issue these scathing invectives toward the brethren considered that they are guilty of doing the very things they accuse others of? Are they so certain that they are correct that they are willing to destroy the ministries, the reputations, and the unity of the body of Christ? Paul gives a clear warning to people of that persuasion.

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. Romans 2:1

We can allow ourselves to be driven by the spirit of the age, which is the spirit of the antichrist, or we can yield ourselves to the leading of the Spirit of Yahweh and seek unity within the ecclesia that Jesus desires to see.

I am captivated by His love for Me and His commands that I love my brothers and sisters. Paul captured that succinctly in his second letter to the Thessalonians when he wrote:

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; 2 Thessalonians 2:3

My encouragement to you friends is that you refuse to give heed to people whose “ministry” results in the dividing of the body of Christ through endless arguments, posts, supporting videos, and alliances with others who behave in the same manner. It is clear to me that their mission is not the unity of the body, it is not the building up of the body, it is not edification and equipping of believers that they seek. Developing unity within the body of Christ only comes when we approach one another in humility, seeking the best for others as a first priority.

The Psalmist said it well.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron’s beard,
Coming down upon the edge of his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the Lord commanded the blessing—life forever. Psalm 133:1-3

The ecclesia is one body and we must function together for the end-time harvest. Remember, Jesus lamented that the laborers for the end-time harvest were few. I wonder if He made that statement because He knew the laborers would be distracted by arguing with one another instead of entering into the field of the world with the Gospel that is the power of God for salvation to all who will believe?

Let’s be sure we have the right mission assignments in view. I guarantee you this – Jesus is coming back when the Father sends Him and it may or may not line up with your eschatological thinking.

Please share this with your friends and be about the Father’s business of building up the body.

Pastor Mike

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Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat With Host Pastor Mike Spaulding On Soaring Eagle Radio

Friends, please visit Messiah of Israel Ministries page to see what our Father is doing through Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat in the land of Israel. Please join me in praying for Rabbi Zev and the work the Father has him doing their among the Jewish people.

Link to show – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKe7Z82FwXk 

 

LGBT Thought Police Are Here – Rob Pue

I have just gone through quite a week, to say the least…. and more is coming my way.  It seems when you speak the truth in our modern world, you become the hated of all men (and women).  Case in point:  my recent commentary here, entitled “Earnestly Contending for the Faith” received quite a bit of feedback.  Mostly positive from people who understand what I was talking about… the need to EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH, breaking out of our “Churchianity” mindset and doing MORE than just attending church and feeling you have rendered your full and complete “Reasonable Service” to God.

I CONTENDED that “Contending for the Faith” involves WORK.  And the work, as those of you who DO IT know, is not easy.  I quoted from the book of Jude where we read, “…it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.  For there are certain men crept in unawares… ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.” 

Jude goes on to use as an example the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah:  “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.  Likewise, also, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion and speak evil of dignities.”

Sounds like our day, doesn’t it? Evil men (and women) have crept in, unawares, and now invade every single nook and cranny of our society and culture, including our professing Christian Churches, where, I pointed out in my last message, that 67% of professing believers in Christ now ALSO BELIEVE that sodomite marriage is perfectly alright.

So I heard from some of the listeners after my last program. As I said, most listeners on VCY understand the situation of real spiritual warfare we are dealing with. Real DEMONIC influences, creeping in and twisting God’s Word, defiling and deceiving our people — young and old alike, but Satan especially targets our children. If he is unable to kill God’s image-bearers in the womb before they are born, then he will twist their minds into a hideous abomination.

What’s more, the parents are now encouraging this depraved mindset.  Many today are raising their kids in absolutely GODLESS homes, with no Bible study whatsoever, no information about God AT ALL — unless it is a false god…  And so today, anything goes, as long as it is depraved.  Bring the POWER of the name of JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR into the mix, and you will be hated of all men.

We’re in a spiritual battle of good vs. evil, the Godly ones who KNOW the truth versus the evil ones who have crept in unawares.  I have said before, and I will repeat it again here:  MOST of the professing Christian “churches” in this country are absolutely over-run with carnality and cowardice.  Carnality from the preachers and pew-sitters alike, and cowardice to face the TRUTH of what God’s Word truly says.  The people are DESTROYED for lack of knowledge because so very FEW church-goers even know what the Bible SAYS.  Biblical illiteracy is epidemic.  Our pastors refuse to speak on more than just a few easy passages, lest someone get offended.  Meanwhile, the people perish.

Ask yourself:  what has changed in most modern churches in the last ten years?  I dare say nothing.  Even though our culture most certainly has.  The demonically-influenced Obama — who many heralded as the “new Messiah” — saw to that.  He not only expanded and heavily funded everything evil and abhorrent to the Lord, he also brought in the false god of Islam, and fundamentally transformed the thinking of an entire nation.  Under his watch, we went from being a Constitutional Republic to a country of “Democratic Socialism,” better described as “Mobocracy.”

He refused to prosecute crime, yet he personally committed countless treasonous crimes against our country, God and nature every single day he sat in the Oval Office.  Talk about the OBOMINATION that brought desolation!  And lest you think his days are over, let me remind you, he is now working just two miles from the White House, and it is my belief that he is one of the main operatives behind the scenes working to bring all-out civil war to this nation, using his “community organizing” skills, honed through study of his hero, Saul Alinsky — who, I might remind you, dedicated his book, “Rules for Radicals” to Lucifer.

But again, while our society and culture has changed drastically in the last ten years, virtually NOTHING in our churches has changed.  Maybe the “worship team” changed drummers….  maybe you got new carpeting or padded the pews.  Maybe the church got a new, younger “pastor,” more “in tune” with the times.  Likely the doors have been opened to all manner of worldliness, while “repentance” is a word never spoken.  When was the last time YOU heard a sermon on repentance?!

And NONE of the SERIOUS, major cultural and social issues that are plaguing this land can EVER be mentioned — MOST “pastors” “CENSOR” such things from the pulpits…  They will simply say we must “love everyone” and just pray for them.   Let me tell you something though:  God does NOT love everyone.  That may sound like a radical statement.  But clearly, we know from GOD’S HOLY WORD, which DOES NOT CHANGE — that He HATES all workers of iniquity.

Today, workers of iniquity abound.  A few weeks ago, Maxine Waters encouraged people to physically attack all Trump supporters.  Since that time, there have been more than 200 attacks around the country on Trump supporters.  Physical, BLOODY attacks.  Our college campuses are no longer places of higher learning — they are outposts of radical socialism and fascism.

Truth has fallen in the streets, truly.  Truth is no longer an acceptable thing.  Today, it is abhorrent to the people.  TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE HATE, TO THOSE WHO HATE THE TRUTH.  Hedonism rules the day.  And if you think for a moment that the sodomite agenda is not real and flourishing, think again, because I have seen it.  I have personally FACED it, up close and personal.  SO IF YOU HAVE NOT, then please, save the emails:  don’t try to tell me how “loving” the militant sodomites are.  I know better… if you have not seen them in action for yourself, then you know NOTHING — other than what they WANT you to believe.

Those marching in these sickening “pride parades” are some of the most depraved, mean-spirited and hateful people you will ever come across….  and let me again remind you, they do not march alone anymore.  They are now joined by countless so-called Christian “churches,” pastors and clergy.   The TRUTH of God’s Word, His natural design and order for marriage, family and parenting is simply NOT ALLOWED.  It is now deemed HATEFUL and BIGOTED and the lying Left must SILENCE all dissent, because they know they have no moral or righteous leg to stand on.  We literally, now, have some in our pulpits calling the Word of God “hate speech!”  How much more reprehensible can you get?

Let me tell you what else happened this week.  Our Vimeo account was abruptly shut down — DELETED without warning.  Vimeo is an internet video-hosting and archival service.  If you want to post videos to your website, which we DO at Wisconsin Christian News, you need a server or a host site to post the videos to first — unless you have the money and resources to purchase and maintain your own equipment to do that.  And the equipment to do that is prohibitively expensive for most, especially ministries like ours.

At the start of the year, we purchased a video-hosting plan from Vimeo to the tune of $1,000.00 so that we could include video content to our website.  Since January, we have posted countless videos there, with never a single problem or issue.  However, early last week, we began hosting David Arthur’s new program on our Vimeo account, as a way to help out his new ministry.  He does not have the resources and cannot afford to do this on his own, so we wanted to help.

David Arthur, in case you don’t know, is a former “transgender prostitute,” who was radically saved by the grace of God.  He has come out of that lifestyle and now has a ministry to help others do the same.  He is not “mean spirited,” “hateful,” or “bigoted.”  He simply speaks the truth from God’s Word and he gives encouragement and hope to those trapped in the demonic sin of perverted sex by giving his own, powerful, personal testimony of salvation.

Well, we ran ONE — you heard me right — ONE of David’s TV programs on our Vimeo page, and then our Vimeo page was IMMEDIATELY DELETED by the Vimeo “Thought Police.”  Mind you, we PAID for this service:  DEARLY!  Users of Vimeo post all kinds of materials.   ANYTHING GOES on Vimeo — EXCEPT, (and listen closely now), EXCEPT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY, TRANSGENDERISM AND SEXUAL PERVERSION.  You do THAT, and you are DONE!

But it is worse than the money we spent to pay for their video hosting service.  When they delete your account, you also LOSE all your content.  Meaning that all the time, money and effort involved in professional video production is just stolen from our ministry.  Why?  Because THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH being spoken of, therefore, we are silenced.

What did Vimeo say?  Here’s their statement:  “Any commentary that makes derogatory or inflammatory statements about individuals or groups of people will be a violation.  Homophobic statements that call gay individuals ‘unnatural’ are not permitted under the Terms of our Service.”

I have to wonder:  how many videos do they allow that make derogatory or inflammatory statements about Donald Trump?  Are THOSE taken down and accounts deleted?  No, in fact, Vimeo is PACKED with such things.  How many videos do they allow that make derogatory or inflammatory statements about Christianity or those who believe in natural male/female marriage?  And I hope you caught the part of the message where they stated to me, “Homophobic statements that call gay individuals ‘unnatural’ are not permitted.”

Friends, there is NOTHING “Natural” about sodomy.  (They HATE that word too, by the way, because it DESCRIBES the ACTIVITY that homosexuals engage in).  No, friends, make no mistake:  homosexuality is not about “love.”  It is about unbridled LUST and depravity.  THERE IS NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT SODOMY.  So for us to state in our video content that homosexual activity is “unnatural,” is NOT “homophobic.”  I have no “phobia” about homosexuals.  They are simply lost, confused people, caught up in a demonic perversion that is, INDEED about as UNNATURAL as you can get!  Yet the THOUGHT POLICE at Vimeo have silenced us — at least on their service.

It’s no different from the college campuses that experience riots, burning, and physical attacks if a conservative speaker tries to make a speech there.  It’s no different from those in the “pride” parades physically attacking Christians who go there to try to snatch these lost souls from the claws of Satan’s grasp…. while the police look on in amusement.

We live in a world where truth, indeed, has fallen in the street.  TRUTH, now, sounds like HATE, because so many now HATE THE TRUTH.  They cannot TOLERATE it.  They WILL NOT tolerate it.

What can you do about it?  Number one:  NEVER BE AFRAID TO SPEAK THE TRUTH.  Never buckle under the intimidation they try to throw at you.  Stand up for Jesus and God’s Word — EVERY CHANCE YOU GET!  And number two:  If you are so inclined, you might like to contact Vimeo and politely, but firmly express your thoughts as to their censorship of truth.    You can reach them at:  Vimeo Inc., Attention Legal Department, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York, 10011.  Email them at legal@Vimeo.com

Finally, please keep ME in your prayers, as well as our ministry, because we are under attack and wearing a target on our backs every single day.  We have, as God’s Word warned, become a prey to the ungodly.  Isaiah 59:  “Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.  So truth fails, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.”

 

Audio CDs and transcripts of this message are available when you call me at Wisconsin Christian News, (715) 486-8066.   Ask for message number 228.

© 2018 Rob Pue – All Rights Reserved. Jul 22, 2018.

E-Mail Rob Pue: Rob@WisconsinChristianNews.com

 

“Occupy 2018” April 20-22, 2018 Registration

Join us in Canton to hear updates from Joe and Doug Hagmann, Jon Robberson, LA Marzulli, Russ Dizdar,  Pastor Paul Begley, Pastor Mike Spaulding, Mark Trump, Bill Federer and Coach Dave.

Many events provide meaningful data on world events and biblical implications, but most of the time, event attendees leave all pumped up but find themselves all alone when they return home and are not able to further their personal growth with like-minded people.  Occupy 2018 is an event  that will encourage attendees to stay plugged into various processes (prayer groups, online training, podcasts, etc) to continue their walk in Christ.

The goal of the Occupy Til I Come Conference is to inform, guide, and connect like minded Remnant members and prepare them for the current and future spiritual battles ahead as time draws nearer to Christ’s return. (Luke 19:13)

What You Can Expect:

The Conference speaker topics will focus on standing and holding ground as Christians wherever you are.

Registrants will learn the calls to action to find training, websites, and material resources that will strengthen attendees in their personal walk and growth in truth.

The Conference Team will share with attendees tools to stay connected, access to weekly events (prayer teams, bible groups, online fellowship, podcasts, video streaming and physical fellowship)

Our aim is to connect attendees to multiple opportunities to take the fight to the enemy in areas all across the country.

Conference Dates:  April 20-22, 2018
Location: Courtyard Canton Hotel, 4375 Metro Circle NW, Canton, OH (Block Rate- $89 plus tax- Click Here)
Reservations can also be made by calling 1-800-971-4768. Ask for Pass the Salt Ministries group rate.
Block rate available through March 21, 2018.

Local Area information:

  • Canton – home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame . . . approx 5 miles away
  • The hotel has a shuttle for airport guests
  • Onsite restaurant
  • Many restaurants of all levels within minutes of the hotel, easy access for lunch and dinner breaks

Airports:  Akron-Canton Airport ( 5 minutes from Hotel), or Cleveland airport (30 miles- rental cars available)

Weekend Schedule: (Under Development)
Friday Start Time: 6 P.M.
Sunday Wrap-Up: 2 P.M.

CLICK ON THE “OCCUPY 2018” LOGO ABOVE TO REGISTER.

Do As I Say and Not As I Do: The Tragedy of the James White Interfaith Dialogue and the Pragmatic Defense Offered by Phil Johnson

The current firestorm related to James White’s decision to facilitate an interfaith dialogue with Imam Yasir Qahdi is puzzling in the least and has become a stumbling block for many who do not understand how White cannot understand that he is “dancing with the devil” as the saying goes.  Mr. White’s response to those critical of his decision has been the polar opposite of remorse and he has in fact dug his heels in and maintained that his actions were right and consistent with what Christians should be doing. Is that true? What bridges can be built to people who teach that Christians who do not submit or convert to Islam should be murdered? What madness is this that has gripped Christians today such that they believe the lie that building bridges to nowhere constitute evangelism? I won’t rehash all of Mr. White’s actions related to this in detail. You can read about that here – http://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/facts-reveal-james-white-islamic-dupe-clueless-evangelicals-are-desperate-save-his

What I wish to address is the support Mr. White has received. Surprisingly a couple of people with very different perspectives, one might say two people with theological beliefs very much at odds with one another, have stepped into the fray to defend Mr. White’s error. I am speaking of Phil Johnson and Michael Brown. This has added a layer of intrigue to the entire situation but has also served to obfuscate the truth of what critics of White’s decision to promote an interfaith dialogue have been saying. By engaging in what appear to be damage control activities on behalf of Mr. White, Johnson seems to have exposed himself as a hypocrite of the highest order. You can be the judge of whether or not that is true based on the information contained in this article. His previous statements seem to be completely contradictory to his stated position concerning James White’s ecumenicalism, or to use the new and improved phrase, interfaith dialogue.

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