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Executive Committee of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations says of Hagee…

Posted in Christianity, Israel, Middle East, News, Philosophy & Religion, Political, Political/Christian, Religion, Theology, discernment by livingjourney on February 21st, 2008

I would normally blah, blah, blah about all of this Hagee stuff.  But I just wanted to share a link with you about the ongoing  controversy, here tis…

As Messianic Jews we appreciate the support for Israel and the Jewish community that many Christians have shown in recent years. This remarkable change in Jewish-Christian relations corrects centuries of Christian anti-Semitism and promises to bear much fruit in the coming years. In particular, we recognize the important work that Pastor John Hagee has accomplished in rallying thousands of Christians to this cause. At the same time, we must note serious concerns about some of Pastor Hagee’s doctrinal positions, particularly as expressed in his recent book, In Defense of Israel. These teachings contradict biblical doctrine, undermine thetestimony of Jewish followers of Jesus, and weaken the cause of Christian supporters of the Jewish people. (Read more here)

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The New Apostolic Reformation and its ties with Rome and the Mystics!

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Cults, Dominionism, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Globalism, Gnosticism, New World Order, New-Age, Philosophy & Religion, Political, Political/Christian, Prophecy, RENOVARE, Red Flag Posts, Religion, Spiritual Formation, Theology, discernment, mysticism by livingjourney on February 18th, 2008

This is a Red Flag Post!

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Do you really know what makes an apostle? Do you really know what the bible says about God’s criteria concerning apostles? I found this article today about the “New Apostolic Reformation” and surprisingly — or not, it’s something that the Church has had to deal with for quite some time now. The article uses biblical standards, but also early Church writings to explain what biblical Apostleship really is. Obviously the Roman Catholic Church have carried Apostolic succession so far culminating into Papal authority. But the Roman Catholic Church is not the only one guilty of this.

Peter Wagner says…

[I]n certain segments of the Church the office of apostle has, indeed, been recognized throughout the past two millennia. The Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican or Episcopal Church and many denominations that have actually incorporated “apostolic” into their name would come to mind as examples. However, just as was true of prophetic movements, the emphases of these apostolic movements had not penetrated the mainstream of what I am calling life-giving evangelical churches that are now the cutting edge of the spread of Christianity. This only began to happen in the 1990’s. (read more here)

What are the “New Apostolic Reformers” actually teaching concerning the last days, and where do they get their inspiration? To find out a little more about this we may need to go back to Christian Mystics, one in particular.

Interestingly, there was a woman called Jane Leade, a 17th century Christian mystic. She taught that the seven churches found in Revelation directly related to seven periods of time of Church rule. She was mostly interested in the Church of Philadelphia because Christ found no fault in that particular Church according to the book of Revelation. In fact, her so called prophetic writings predicted that certain sealed prophecies would only be revealed by those who are worthy and who have entered into the Philidelphian Church age…

She was involved in a movement called “The Philadelphian Society,” named after that church. In 1679, the Philadelphian Society and the Theosophists published a document containing a 60-point prophecy by Jane Leade (the document has her name as Lead). The document proposes ideas that resurfaced in 1948 in the Latter Rain movement, and, as we shall see, are still being promoted by a key Apostle-prophet of the New Apostolic Reformation. (read more here)

She spoke a great deal of an elite Church age that would receive the Ark of the Testimony (Point 8) which was in heaven containing new revelations to be opened during a unique Church age, the age of Philadelphia. This unique perfected, virginal Church would give birth to a son (Points 14-24), the son mentioned in Revelation 12:5!

Is this starting to sound a little familiar to you? The Manifest Son’s and Later Rain still use the terminology assigned to this son, that being the many-membered man-child. Is this coincidence or not, one cannot be sure. But there is one thing we can be sure of…there is nothing new under the sun.

The article points out the agenda behind such thinking…

This prophecy of a perfected church (later called the “many-membered man-child”) that will be the incarnation of Christ on the earth while Christ remains in heaven sets the stage for the Latter Rain movement in the 20th Century that would make the same claims. Whether that movement got its ideas from Leade or came up with the same heresy independently I cannot say at this time. But the ideas are identical. The church must be perfected on earth before Christ can return, and this shall be accompanied with miracles and power greater that at any time in church history—including Pentecost.

Key words I have now been made aware of. Words like “The Ark of Testimony” the “many-membered man-child”the “man-child”and”The Ascension gifts”….”The “Ascension gifts” is a reference to the so-called “five fold ministry” of Ephesians 4:11. The idea is that the church will be perfected by the renewal of the ministries of apostles and prophets before Christ returns.”

One adherent to the perfected Church says this… O the immensity of these words! And what is more, Christ is going to remain right where He is at God’s right hand until there shall arise a group of overcomers who shall conquer over all God’s enemies[...]

There is much more written in this article and it is truly mind blowing and scary stuff which explains the dangers of Hyper-Dispensationalism, Restorationists and Kingdom Now teaching.

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Climate Change – hot then cold, then hot… oh, and then cold

Posted in Christianity, Creation/Evolution, Globalism, History, News, Political, Prophecy, Resources, climate change, discernment by livingjourney on February 6th, 2008

God promised us that we will always have seasons and although there may be (as most likely have been in the past) micro-climatic changes occurring on a regularly basis and even larger scale macro-climatic changes over the centuries (as recorded in history, such as the “Little Ice Age”) - there will not be any sort of global change on the scale that the establishment media, educational establishment and political/corporate governing marriage wishes you to believe as long as this current heaven and earth remains.

Gen 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

And because of this promise I really don’t get too hung up about any current populist’s view of global change, whether the globe is getting warmer and perhaps revealing, once again, that Antarctica has not always been under a full cap of ice, and that there may have been ancient civilisations that called Antarctica home!

For example, over the past few years several ancient maps have been discovered that picture Antarctica ice-free at least in part. One such map, drawn by well-known French map-maker Oronteus Finaeus in 1531 is pictured as follows:

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There is no serious question about the authenticity of this map. It pictures the globe from the perspective of the Antarctic South Pole, long before Antarctica was supposedly discovered. It also clearly shows South America, Southern Africa and Madagascar. The coastline of Antarctica is pictured as being ice-free with inlets, bays, rivers and mountain ranges. The map is extraordinarily accurate. In all likelihood, people were living on Antarctica at the time the source-maps for the Finaeus map were drawn. (read more here)

And upon hearing the latest long range weather forecast that says it’s getting colder and the globe is possibly heading into a mini ice age again (just a reminder the book of Job in the bible has been noted (pdf file) to record an ice age see Job 37:9–10, 38:22–23, 29–30), I just remember that the bible says that this earth will continue to be sustained by God, even though it groans and suffers under the curse of sin until all things have been accomplished by God. Only then will this earth will get very, VERY hot and every element of the earth will be burnt up… now that is one long range global weather forecast I don’t want to be around for!!!

For now though, perhaps this winter I should invest in a warm woolen jacket, a pair of gloves and hat to keep the winter chills away…

  • Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age “A year ago, many meteorologists predicted that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would make the year 2007 the hottest in the last decade, but, fortunately, these predictions did not become reality,” Abdusamatov said...He also said that in 2008, global temperatures would drop slightly, rather than rise, due to unprecedentedly low solar radiation in the past 30 years, and would continue decreasing even if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide reach record levels.
  • A cold spell soon to replace global warming Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases…The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate... Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.
  • A First! Snow Falls in Baghdad After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they’d pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new. For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.
  • Ice returns as Greenland temps plummet While the rest of Europe is debating the prospects of global warming during an unseasonably mild winter, a brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous nation of Greenland. On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade.
  • Arab world shivers in unusual cold snap AMMAN, Jordan - The lone de-icing machine at Jordan’s busy international airport worked frantically on Tuesday to clear planes for take off when a freak snowstorm blanketed this small desert country in a cold snap that has the whole region shivering. Temperatures have plunged throughout the Middle East, dusting cities with unfamiliar snowfalls and sending residences scurrying for their blankets and jackets to cope with the near freezing temperatures in many places.

Anyway, you get the picture.

Oh, and by the way… I do believe in the big bang… it just hasn’t happened yet!

2Pe 3:10-13 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

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Dominionism - The seven mountains!

Posted in Christianity, Dominionism, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Globalism, New World Order, New-Age, News, Personal, Philosophy & Religion, Political, Political/Christian, Prophecy, RENOVARE, Red Flag Posts, Religion, Resources, Spiritual Formation, Theology, discernment, mysticism by livingjourney on December 10th, 2007

[Massive hat-tip to... Sola Dei Gloria]

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I was perusing my fave’s and came across ‘Sola Dei Gloria’s post’ - see above link - and I really wanted to share it with you.

Have you heard of the 7 mountains? This is Dominionism at its absolute best. ‘Neo-Calvinism’ and ‘Sphere Sovereignty’ has entered the evangelical world and the re-think conference has a massive agenda to reclaim the 7 mountains to overtake the world and have complete dominion over it. Make no mistakes about it, it is a man made orchestrated plan, here is part of a letter written by Peter Wagner sent to Global Harvest [emphasis mine]…

I have been sharing the development of our obedience to this word with you since April.Craig Davis was the one who pointed the way toward reorganizing under “Global Apostolic Network” ( GAN ), thereby bringing together the bits and pieces we had been serving up to now. I first sent you a chart with 7 components of GAN and later another chart with 9.Then Lance Wallnau came on the scene and brought an integrating template for GAN which we call the 7-M Mandate, based on Lance’s 7 mountains which are the seven molders of culture (religion, family, education, media, arts & entertainment, government, and business).

7m.jpgOne thing that this means is depicted in another chart, which I am sending you. You will see a large mountain representing the Kingdom of God with the 7 mountains at the bottom feeding into it. The 9 components of Global Apostolic Network are grouped under four headings: Government, Wealth, Warfare, and Teaching. The “7-M Coalition” is a new organization being birthed to implement the 7-M Mandate in a practical and effective way for transforming our society.

Isn’t this exciting? We have reorganized in obedience to the word that the Lord gave us through Chuck last December. Now please pray with us as we seek His guidance in putting the nuts and bolts together for seeing practical results along the road toward taking dominion of God’s creation. In fact Chuck Pierce has also told us that the new Jewish year of 5768 which begins in September, the year of Samekh Chet, means, among other things taking dominion. He says, “Dominion will be the key word for this year!

This was a challenging word for me because my new book coming out in January has as its title, Dominion! I’m excited about the way that this book will help change paradigms so that God’s people will be able fully to participate in the new streams that the Lord is initiating in the earth realm. Another thing that excites me is that other respected colleagues are also hearing what the Spirit is saying to the churches about social transformation. We are poised to see no fewer than seven new books on the subject of taking dominion in the next 18 months.

All nine of the components of GAN are on my heart, but especially those related to wealth and wealth transfer. I am in touch with 17 potential wealth transfer brokers, some of them expecting release momentarily. It is hard to comprehend, but some of them go to multiple millions, billions, and more. My task is to prepare a high integrity infrastructure for distributing these funds when they begin to flow. Zion Apostolic Network and The Hamilton Group are in place as agencies to carry this out. Our motto is “Sophisticated Philanthropy for Apostolic Distribution.”

One matter for your prayers is that Rod Neal of the Zion Project will be engaged during the last three weeks of August in high-level scientific experiments with the very innovative technology that he is developing for the kingdom.

What exactly is this high-level scientific experiment? It has something to do with wealth transfer, that much I know…

In a document called ‘C’ Peter Wagner writes…

Zion Apostolic Council. This is a wealth distribution infrastructure similar to The Hamilton Group. However, it is set up to handle the wealth generated by only one enterprise, namely the Zion Project founded by Rod Neal of Cincinnati, Ohio. Rod is very close to releasing some very innovative and disruptive technology which has the potential of making permanent changes in the lifestyle of the human race. He has asked me to form an apostolic council of 48 apostles who will be responsible for distributing the forthcoming wealth and also to serve them as Presiding Apostle.

Right now my head is spinning!!! Firstly what kind of technology can we look forward too that will make a permanent change in the lifestyle of the human race?

But before you watch the following youtube, I will offer you a little bit more information on how the dominionist kingdom will be built…

Our theological bedrock is what has been known as Dominion Theology. This means that our divine mandate is to do whatever is necessary, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to retake the dominion of God’s creation which Adam forfeited to Satan in the Garden of Eden.

This includes the need to govern apolitically, as well as to embrace spiritual warfare techniquesthat neutralize the control of our adversary within the functional and territorial spheres of authority to which we have been assigned. To do this, we know that we must be in communion, we must receive revelation, and we must apostolically and prophetically proclaim that revelation.

Here in America, we have done fairly well in leading the religion mountain, but not the other six. Our mistaken tendency has been to try to pull leaders from the other six mountains over into our religion mountain instead of encouraging them to use their gifts and their energy and their knowledge in the mountain to which God has assigned them. We want all of God’s people actively to do their part to fulfill the “7-M Mandate.”

Note: DayStar International Fellowship have some mp3’s available of one of the adherents of this Dominionist move, called ‘Johnny Enlow’ who is the senior pastor of Daystar International Christian Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia Johnny has written a book on the 7 mountains that will be published in 2008. I haven’t listened to all of them as yet, but you may find them interesting. Considering his relationship to GAN I think that they would be insightful to say the least. A few of the mp3’s are called…