Chris Hunter will be speaking at Eastern Hills Baptist Pentecost Spiritual
Warfare Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio on 6, 7 and 8 June 2014.
Fourteen years ago Chris Hunter contributed to a book revealing the
plans, backed up with photos, documents, and evidence, of the development of
the one-world religion. Then we saw the Episcopalian "priests"
accepted by the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Then the liberal old
mainline denominations started signing RCC agreements.
Nine days ago Chris attended a Sunday morning service at a local Methodist Church, where he saw the pastor dressed as a priest, referring to communion as the "Eucharist, the same at the mass" (his words) and crossing himself and blessing the audience with a cross. Chris didn't realize the Methodists had fallen so far.
I just received this link below from Chris and it's worth your time. The whole video is 46 minutes. If you can’t spend that much time, then watch the elapsed time bar at the bottom and start watching at the 19 minute mark. Anglican Bishop Tony Palmer, in the video, proudly admits "I've served three Popes." Palmer spends much of the first part of his address schmoozing the audience before he slips into words that really ought to be considered, analyzed, and thought through carefully. Both Palmer and the Pope invite Protestants to join the Pope. However, the Pope isn't going to give up his "Apostolic authority," Mary beliefs, indulgences, or the RCC heresies one must accept or be damned by the RCC.
Nine days ago Chris attended a Sunday morning service at a local Methodist Church, where he saw the pastor dressed as a priest, referring to communion as the "Eucharist, the same at the mass" (his words) and crossing himself and blessing the audience with a cross. Chris didn't realize the Methodists had fallen so far.
I just received this link below from Chris and it's worth your time. The whole video is 46 minutes. If you can’t spend that much time, then watch the elapsed time bar at the bottom and start watching at the 19 minute mark. Anglican Bishop Tony Palmer, in the video, proudly admits "I've served three Popes." Palmer spends much of the first part of his address schmoozing the audience before he slips into words that really ought to be considered, analyzed, and thought through carefully. Both Palmer and the Pope invite Protestants to join the Pope. However, the Pope isn't going to give up his "Apostolic authority," Mary beliefs, indulgences, or the RCC heresies one must accept or be damned by the RCC.
Friends, don't forget the
terrible things that happened to Protestants in the past: Huguenots, Luther,
Zwingli, Tyndale, and so many others. The Vatican is awash in the blood
of the saints!
Watch as Copeland's audience accepts these lies, perversions, false assertions and twisted logic. The Lord says my people perish for a lack of knowledge. Can't these sheeple think? Don’t these sheeple know the scripture? Aren't they aware of the coming False Prophet? At one point in the video Copeland refers to the audience as "leaders" and many are wearing some sort of badges. If these are pastors and church leaders it is very sad.
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YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, and consider the future of the church. The Beast and his False Prophet are right around the corner.
Copeland is very popular with some people. His errors in doctrine will
be passed on to other well known,
popular TV ministries. Who among you will adhere to the truth to the end? How
many people even know scripture? We are getting to the point where there is only
a tiny remnant of true Christians remaining.
Friends, consider what you see in the video and don't passively dismiss true doctrine that so many followers of Jesus sacrificed their lives for.
Click
on the link below:
http://standupforthetruth.com/2014/02/pope-to-copeland-catholics-and-charismatics-must-spiritually-unite/
The article below buttresses what Chris was writing about and seeing in lost churches.
Earning a Masters of Divinity degree no sooner designates true Biblical discipleship than learning to make a living guarantees success at making a life. No one drives that point home better than Desiderius Erasmus—the Renaissance Dutch humanist and theologian—who once said, “It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.”
Perhaps
we could apply that idiom to the current U.S. leadership in the Episcopal
Church (TEC), whose Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori,
has applied significant ‘elasticity’ to her interpretation of Holy Scripture
since taking the helm in 2006. So much so, that she has been accused of, among
other things, having “a long record of first establishing theopolitical
positions and then conforming scripture to align with her predetermined purpose”,
by Jeff Walton, the Anglican program director at IRD (the Institute on Religion
& Democracy) during an interview with The
Christian Post.
“Earlier this month at a church event focused on climate change, she outlined her view that those who disagree with her climate activism are denying the image of God in creation, much as the heresy of Arianism denied the unique divinity of Jesus Christ”, Walton continued, "This habit of making political opponents into spiritual enemies is something that the religious right has been accused of—yet Jefferts Schori, a figure on the left, is doing exactly this."
Church conservatives have long been at odds with Bishop Jefferts Schori. In addition to being a staunch supporter of marriage and ordination for gay men and lesbians, she has sought harsh legal actions against dissenting dioceses, whose members typically hold more traditional views. The Episcopal Church has spent millions of dollars under Jefferts Schori’s leadership, in legal battles to retain the church buildings of congregations whose members have voted to leave the Episcopal Church, many of whom have affiliated with more traditionalist organizations due to the denomination's departure from scriptural authority and traditional Anglicanism.
The Presiding Bishop’s controversial comments have ignited a great fireball of anger and disdain from the Christian community, particularly from within constituent dioceses.
According to the IRD, a faith-based alliance of Christians who monitor, comment, and report on issues affecting the church, as presiding bishop-elect in 2006, Jefferts Schori stated, "Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation – and you and I are His children”.
At the Episcopal General Convention in 2009, she condemned "the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God."
"It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus," she told Episcopal delegates. "That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention."
Many in the Christian community were stunned by her statements, concluding that the Presiding Bishop was dismissing the importance of a personal confession of Jesus Christ as Savior.
In May of 2013, Jefferts Schori wrote the following for anglicanink.com: "We live with the continuing tension between holier impulses that encourage us to see the image of God in all human beings and the reality that some of us choose not to see that glimpse of the divine, and instead use other people as means to an end…we're seeing something similar right now in the changing attitudes and laws about same-sex relationships, as many people come to recognize that different is not the same thing as wrong. For many people, it can be difficult to see God at work in the world around us, particularly if God is doing something unexpected."
The Presiding Bishop delivered these remarks at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) church-wide Assembly in Pittsburgh, in response to declining membership in both the Episcopal and ELCA dioceses between 2010 and 2011, stating, "Some have judged our smaller numbers as faithlessness but it may actually be the Spirit's way of pruning for greater fruitfulness”.
Since 1999, TEC and ELCA have had a "full communion" relationship, a type of ecumenical cooperation, allowing for an exchange of clergy, recognition of one another's baptisms and sacrament of communion. The Episcopal Church is one of six churches that they have such an agreement with, which also includes the Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, The Moravian Church, and the United Methodist Church, according to the ELCA's website.
In
the two years from 2010 to 2011, ELCA membership dropped from about 4.2 million
to just over 4 million—signifying a loss of more than 212,000 members.
During the same time period, the Episcopal Church lost about 28,000 members in its domestic dioceses, resulting in a dip below the 2 million mark.
In one of her most blatant distortions of Scripture, the leader of TEC delivered a sermon before the Diocese of Venezuela on the island nation of Curaçao, speaking of the incident described in Acts 16, where the Apostle Paul delivers a slave girl of a demon which had given her some psychic ability, making money for her masters.
Jefferts Schori explained that by driving the demon out of the girl, Paul was "depriving her of her gift of spiritual awareness."
"Paul is annoyed, perhaps for being put in his place, and he responds by depriving her of her gift of spiritual awareness”. The Presiding Bishop continued, “Paul can't abide something he won't see as beautiful or holy, so he tries to destroy it. It gets him thrown in prison. That's pretty much where he's put himself by his own refusal to recognize that she, too, shares in God's nature, just as much as he does – maybe more so!"
What Jefferts Schori neglected to accurately portray in the Scripture passage, is that Paul was able to spiritually discern that the girl’s ability to fortune-tell came from a demon. Paul was thrown into prison, not for curing the girl of the evil spirit, but for causing her master’s lucrative business to cease once the demon was cast out, and the “gift” of fortune telling with it.
Jefferts Schori's distorted message, delivered last week, has garnered many negative online responses, particularly in the comments section of the sermon copy on the Episcopal Digital Network.
Fr. Will McQueen posted, "Paul cast a demon out of the slave girl, an agent of Satan, a force of darkness, and didn't deprive her of some spiritual gift…this sermon is not a Christian sermon”.
"It is terribly stunning to read that the Presiding Bishop elevates the sinful practice of necromancy (communicating with the dead) to the Holy Spirit inspired territory of spiritual gifts. This is eisegesis (interpretation of Scripture using one’s personal view) of a demonic sort," posted Fr. Trent Overman.
A new uproar ensued when the dean of an Anglican seminary, the Nashotah House, recently invited the Presiding Bishop to preach for the first time, causing Bishop Jack Iker of the Diocese of Ft. Worth, Texas to resign as a trustee from the Nashotah House Board after 21 years of service. Iker notified the board that he "could not be associated with an institution that honors her,” referring to lawsuits initiated by Schori against the diocese.
Assisting Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth, William Wantland, notified appropriate church leaders that he "will not take part in any functions at Nashotah" nor will he continue "to give financial support to the House as long as the present administration remains," according to Virtue Online.
Archbishop Robert Duncan of the Anglican Church of North America, who also serves on the seminary’s Board of Trustees, told IRD, "This is a tragic and unwise decision that threatens the future of Nashotah House."
In an official statement Friday, Nashotah House addressed the controversy by stating, "We take no joy that folks who love the House are disturbed by the invitation and it was not issued in any other spirit than that of engaging in mission … The commitment to the Anglo-Catholic vision of the 'faith once delivered to the saints' is not going to go away. The mission of the House, the direction of the House, the theology of the House is not changing. A visit, even one involving a sermon, will not change what has been bought at a price."
As the Presiding Bishop continues to face intense scrutiny over the Biblical accuracy of her teachings and the political bias she rages against those who disagree with her, it may behoove the Episcopal leader to review God’s opinion on matters of “changing attitudes and laws about same-sex relationships, as many people come to recognize that different is not the same thing as wrong.”
God spoke directly through Moses in Leviticus 18:22, saying, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22, NASB) Again, God reiterated in Leviticus 20:13, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood guiltiness is upon them.” (NASB)
Just in case the Presiding Bishop is not yet convinced of how God really feels about homosexual relationships, she may be interested in what the Apostle Paul said to the Romans about rejecting God:
“Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
“For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.”
“And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper…” (Romans 1:24-28, NASB)
Perhaps “the alleged” Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori could benefit by meditating on these words from the Apostle Paul, when he advised Timothy, his fellow servant of the Lord and Pastor of the church at Ephesus, saying, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” (2nd Timothy 2:15, NASB, Italics added by author)
The Presiding Bishop would also do well to be reminded of this instruction to the Church-at-large, spoken by the Apostle Peter when describing God’s word: “…knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2nd Peter 1:20,21, KJV)
And, in preparation for any future speeches or sermons, the Head of the Episcopal Church may wish to contemplate the words of the Lord Himself, spoken through Moses as he reviewed God’s law with the people of Israel: “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” (Deuteronomy 4:2, NASB)
The article below buttresses what Chris was writing about and seeing in lost churches.
Earning a Masters of Divinity degree no sooner designates true Biblical discipleship than learning to make a living guarantees success at making a life. No one drives that point home better than Desiderius Erasmus—the Renaissance Dutch humanist and theologian—who once said, “It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.”
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| The Episcopal False Prophet Katharine Jefferts Schori |
“Earlier this month at a church event focused on climate change, she outlined her view that those who disagree with her climate activism are denying the image of God in creation, much as the heresy of Arianism denied the unique divinity of Jesus Christ”, Walton continued, "This habit of making political opponents into spiritual enemies is something that the religious right has been accused of—yet Jefferts Schori, a figure on the left, is doing exactly this."
Church conservatives have long been at odds with Bishop Jefferts Schori. In addition to being a staunch supporter of marriage and ordination for gay men and lesbians, she has sought harsh legal actions against dissenting dioceses, whose members typically hold more traditional views. The Episcopal Church has spent millions of dollars under Jefferts Schori’s leadership, in legal battles to retain the church buildings of congregations whose members have voted to leave the Episcopal Church, many of whom have affiliated with more traditionalist organizations due to the denomination's departure from scriptural authority and traditional Anglicanism.
The Presiding Bishop’s controversial comments have ignited a great fireball of anger and disdain from the Christian community, particularly from within constituent dioceses.
According to the IRD, a faith-based alliance of Christians who monitor, comment, and report on issues affecting the church, as presiding bishop-elect in 2006, Jefferts Schori stated, "Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation – and you and I are His children”.
At the Episcopal General Convention in 2009, she condemned "the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God."
"It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus," she told Episcopal delegates. "That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention."
Many in the Christian community were stunned by her statements, concluding that the Presiding Bishop was dismissing the importance of a personal confession of Jesus Christ as Savior.
In May of 2013, Jefferts Schori wrote the following for anglicanink.com: "We live with the continuing tension between holier impulses that encourage us to see the image of God in all human beings and the reality that some of us choose not to see that glimpse of the divine, and instead use other people as means to an end…we're seeing something similar right now in the changing attitudes and laws about same-sex relationships, as many people come to recognize that different is not the same thing as wrong. For many people, it can be difficult to see God at work in the world around us, particularly if God is doing something unexpected."
The Presiding Bishop delivered these remarks at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) church-wide Assembly in Pittsburgh, in response to declining membership in both the Episcopal and ELCA dioceses between 2010 and 2011, stating, "Some have judged our smaller numbers as faithlessness but it may actually be the Spirit's way of pruning for greater fruitfulness”.
Since 1999, TEC and ELCA have had a "full communion" relationship, a type of ecumenical cooperation, allowing for an exchange of clergy, recognition of one another's baptisms and sacrament of communion. The Episcopal Church is one of six churches that they have such an agreement with, which also includes the Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, The Moravian Church, and the United Methodist Church, according to the ELCA's website.
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| The proof is in the pudding of membership |
During the same time period, the Episcopal Church lost about 28,000 members in its domestic dioceses, resulting in a dip below the 2 million mark.
In one of her most blatant distortions of Scripture, the leader of TEC delivered a sermon before the Diocese of Venezuela on the island nation of Curaçao, speaking of the incident described in Acts 16, where the Apostle Paul delivers a slave girl of a demon which had given her some psychic ability, making money for her masters.
Jefferts Schori explained that by driving the demon out of the girl, Paul was "depriving her of her gift of spiritual awareness."
"Paul is annoyed, perhaps for being put in his place, and he responds by depriving her of her gift of spiritual awareness”. The Presiding Bishop continued, “Paul can't abide something he won't see as beautiful or holy, so he tries to destroy it. It gets him thrown in prison. That's pretty much where he's put himself by his own refusal to recognize that she, too, shares in God's nature, just as much as he does – maybe more so!"
What Jefferts Schori neglected to accurately portray in the Scripture passage, is that Paul was able to spiritually discern that the girl’s ability to fortune-tell came from a demon. Paul was thrown into prison, not for curing the girl of the evil spirit, but for causing her master’s lucrative business to cease once the demon was cast out, and the “gift” of fortune telling with it.
Jefferts Schori's distorted message, delivered last week, has garnered many negative online responses, particularly in the comments section of the sermon copy on the Episcopal Digital Network.
Fr. Will McQueen posted, "Paul cast a demon out of the slave girl, an agent of Satan, a force of darkness, and didn't deprive her of some spiritual gift…this sermon is not a Christian sermon”.
"It is terribly stunning to read that the Presiding Bishop elevates the sinful practice of necromancy (communicating with the dead) to the Holy Spirit inspired territory of spiritual gifts. This is eisegesis (interpretation of Scripture using one’s personal view) of a demonic sort," posted Fr. Trent Overman.
A new uproar ensued when the dean of an Anglican seminary, the Nashotah House, recently invited the Presiding Bishop to preach for the first time, causing Bishop Jack Iker of the Diocese of Ft. Worth, Texas to resign as a trustee from the Nashotah House Board after 21 years of service. Iker notified the board that he "could not be associated with an institution that honors her,” referring to lawsuits initiated by Schori against the diocese.
Assisting Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth, William Wantland, notified appropriate church leaders that he "will not take part in any functions at Nashotah" nor will he continue "to give financial support to the House as long as the present administration remains," according to Virtue Online.
Archbishop Robert Duncan of the Anglican Church of North America, who also serves on the seminary’s Board of Trustees, told IRD, "This is a tragic and unwise decision that threatens the future of Nashotah House."
In an official statement Friday, Nashotah House addressed the controversy by stating, "We take no joy that folks who love the House are disturbed by the invitation and it was not issued in any other spirit than that of engaging in mission … The commitment to the Anglo-Catholic vision of the 'faith once delivered to the saints' is not going to go away. The mission of the House, the direction of the House, the theology of the House is not changing. A visit, even one involving a sermon, will not change what has been bought at a price."
As the Presiding Bishop continues to face intense scrutiny over the Biblical accuracy of her teachings and the political bias she rages against those who disagree with her, it may behoove the Episcopal leader to review God’s opinion on matters of “changing attitudes and laws about same-sex relationships, as many people come to recognize that different is not the same thing as wrong.”
God spoke directly through Moses in Leviticus 18:22, saying, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22, NASB) Again, God reiterated in Leviticus 20:13, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood guiltiness is upon them.” (NASB)
Just in case the Presiding Bishop is not yet convinced of how God really feels about homosexual relationships, she may be interested in what the Apostle Paul said to the Romans about rejecting God:
“Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
“For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.”
“And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper…” (Romans 1:24-28, NASB)
Perhaps “the alleged” Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori could benefit by meditating on these words from the Apostle Paul, when he advised Timothy, his fellow servant of the Lord and Pastor of the church at Ephesus, saying, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” (2nd Timothy 2:15, NASB, Italics added by author)
The Presiding Bishop would also do well to be reminded of this instruction to the Church-at-large, spoken by the Apostle Peter when describing God’s word: “…knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2nd Peter 1:20,21, KJV)
And, in preparation for any future speeches or sermons, the Head of the Episcopal Church may wish to contemplate the words of the Lord Himself, spoken through Moses as he reviewed God’s law with the people of Israel: “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” (Deuteronomy 4:2, NASB)
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