When I was a little girl growing up in a Jewish home in Maryland, I was greatly affected by the pictures of corpses of my people from extermination camps. I would break down when I’d see videos of the starving men, women and children, knowing that most of them were not long for this world. They would be gassed and burned in ovens.

And the world looked on…..

I couldn’t think about the Holocaust too much, because the sorrow and horror of it all was more than I could bare. But when I did think about it, I would think that it was just the most horrible thing in the world. To me, Hitler was a monster, not a man, and I prayed that people would never allow anything like the Holocaust to happen again.

I met the Lord Jesus in 1983. He made me see many things so clearly. He opened my eyes to abortion and how it made Him weep. I used to sketch pictures of Jesus holding aborted babies. I even wrote a song and played it on my piano. It was called “Cradles in Heaven.”

I began writing letters to the editor. I wrote a lot about abortion and how wrong it was to kill the unborn. I would get rebuttal letters, saying that these were not babies, but clumps of cells.

I remember writing one of my letters in which I told people that a time would come when they would allow abortion of babies who were further along. They couldn’t use the clump of cells excuse anymore. I wrote that they were murdering these babies, and didn’t care. All I would hear was about the woman’s right to choose. I would ask “But how about the choice of the baby to live?”

As years went by, and millions of babies in America were being murdered, I began to see this atrocity as even worse than the Holocaust. I remember feeling as a child, that nothing could ever be as bad as Nazi Germany. But the killing and discarding of these little ones changed my mind. This was America’s Holocaust, and many Americans were supporting it.

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION

When this barbaric practice was being done at abortion clinics, I wrote letters to the editor and described the procedure – to shock and open the eyes of those with their heads in the sand. The abortionist would deliver the baby, legs and arms first, all but the head. When the head of the child was accessible but still inside the mother, the abortionist would plunge a sharp instrument into the skull; express the brains out so that the head would collapse and come out. They had to make sure that the baby was dead before he came out. I was surprised that our town newspaper would publish my piece. I was glad they did.

WE ARE CALLED FANATICS

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20).

When pro Life proponents speak of the sanctity of life, the pro death camp invariable spout accusations at us, that we are trying to deny women the right to choose. We are trying to save babies, but also to save women from a life of guilt, shame and remorse for aborting their babies.

KERMIT GOSNELL

This story shocked many, but the pro abortion crowd seemed untouched by it. I have never seen such evil in all of my life.

FROM TOOMANYABORTED.COM

“Abortion activists worship abortion. It is sacred to them. Nothing on earth, according to the faithful, should ever desecrate the “holy ground” upon which this ritual is performed over 1,000 times a day. Even if that ground is soaked with the blood of women killed and maimed and babies brutally murdered after being born alive.

That was Philadelphia’s “House of Horrors”, run by millionaire abortionist Kermit Gosnell. For 17 years his unimaginably squalid clinic went uninspected by state officials. Nestled in a community surrounded by churches, colleges and next door to an elementary school, the innocuously named “Women’s Medical Society” was a cesspool of filth, blood-stained equipment, crumbling walls, and body parts in jars, bags and bottles.

Gosnell proudly displayed jars of severed babies’ feet as trophies.

The Philadelphia District Attorney, R. Seth Williams (who is a Democrat), in a nearly 300 page Grand Jury Report details Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” on 3801 Lancaster in Philadelphia. “My comprehension of the English language can’t adequately describe the barbaric nature of Dr. Gosnell,” D.A. Williams said of the unspeakable conditions of the clinic that was inspected by the pro-abortion National Abortion Federation in recent years but never reported to authorities.

And as if murdering babies born alive (by severing their spinal cords with scissors) wasn’t enough, Gosnell, who is black, made sure that his white “patients” were placed in the cleaner rooms while all others were placed in the filthy rooms. This way, according to the Grand Jury Report, it would be less likely that the white women would report the abortionist or the foul clinic.” [1]

PROCUREMENT OF BABY’S BODY PARTS

In the last few days, a story broke about Planned Parenthood and them selling organs and tissue from aborted babies for profit. On the first video, an abortionist doctor said that she wanted a Lamborghini — I can only guess that she was dreaming of how she would profit from selling the baby’s parts. Three videos surfaced, but it was the third that took my breath away, and hopefully some who had fought for abortion, are now seeing the horrors of it.

One of things that shocked me most was that the Planned Parenthood doctors in the videos were all laughing. It gave the video a surrealistic feel – at least to me. In the third video, they are standing around, talking and laughing, and then a steel pan is brought in with parts of aborted babies. One of the employees is separating the parts with a tweezer, to see which parts were good to sell.

DOCTOR JOSEF MENGELE

Mengele was the medical officer at Auschwitz camp in Germany. I shuddered when I would read about the horrifying experiments he did on my people in that camp. He was known as the “Angel of death.” He didn’t see the Jews as people, just like the pro abortion camp does not see the little babies as people.

THE LOVE OF MONEY

The Bible says:

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Timothy 6:10).

The people at Planned Parenthood have had their consciences seared with a hot iron. I believe that these people are spoken of here:

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1: 28-32).

America’s Holocaust is one of the reasons that I believe God has taken away His blessings and His protection from us.

How can a nation like America allow the murder of millions of innocent babies? How can this be?

“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold” (Matthew 24:12).

I pray that our precious Lord Jesus will come soon and take us away from this place that is certainly not our home.

MARANATHA

[1] http://www.toomanyaborted.com/portfolio/3801lancaster/

While writing about one Southern Baptist pastor recently, I went further into the rabbit hole, and what I found is both sad and quite alarming. My research on one pastor, who insists that our God and Allah are one and the same, made me curious as to what other errant teachings might also abound.  Suddenly, I realized that I was seeing only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

It seems that the Emergent Church which teaches Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) has slithered its way into our Southern Baptist churches.  The proper spirituality of the Christian, being Sola Scriptura, is being replaced by spiritual mysticism, which can be traced back to the Roman Catholic Church.

From Apprising Ministries:

“Leaving this aside now the evangelical community is embarking upon a very dangerous spiritual game of Russian roulette embracing highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), such as that taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard. Sadly this is yet another bad by-product of its welcoming in the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, of which that dubious duo were key mentors.

You may know that CSM is merely repackaged Roman Catholic mysticism and was a core doctrine of the EC from its hatching in hell; in addition it plays a critical role as the neo-Gnostic foundation of its new postmodern version of Progressive Christian theology under their spiritual circus “big tent” Emergence Christianity. As spurious CSM now spreads as leaven throughout the entire lump of the church visible it’s become the cause of a growing syncretism; and without a doubt one of the biggest syncretists within evangelicalism is the religious chameleon Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren.” [1]

When preachers lose sight of their need to depend on and teach from the Word of God alone, their lofty and contrived ideas land them on a slippery slope which eventually leads to total apostasy.

Rick Warren, of Saddleback Church and Purpose Driven Life/Church fame, has been on the slippery slope for most of his time as a pastor.  He is not grounded in God’s Word, so he is vulnerable to being deceived and then deceiving others along the way.  The people are loving what he’s selling. He keeps packing them into his “bigtop” and the circus keeps getting crazier.
“Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” (Acts 20:30)

Rick Warren has called the Pope “The Pope of all Christians.”  I am a Christian, and I will tell you right now that the Pope is not my Pope — he is nothing to me in my walk with God. After Rick Warren’s PDL book came out and was on the NY Times best seller list for many months, he automatically assumed that the success of his book was proof that God was blessing his ministry.

Then came the Purpose Driven Church, and I found out that Warren was emailing his propaganda to Southern Baptist pastors across the world on a weekly basis. Discernment is one of the greatest gifts from the Lord. But in order to discern spirits, one must go to the only source that is reliable, and that is God’s Holy Word. When one has the Word in their hearts and minds from reading the Bible, then discernment becomes second nature. But still we are admonished to compare what we hear or read against His holy Word.

God’s Word MUST reign supreme in His followers’ hearts, minds and spirits.

Rick Warren has now jumped on the CSM bandwagon, and in turn has given the green light to his pastor followers. Warrens’ love for the RCC has been spreading as well. The Southern Baptist Convention is, sorry to say, an ineffective corporate entity, which does not get involved in Baptist churches that are shifting away from Baptist doctrine into the New Age of CSM. I spoke with one of the SBC leaders, and he confirmed this to me. I felt like I was speaking to a politician.

When I was saved in 1983, the couple who lead me to Christ belonged to a Charismatic church.  When I left that church (it was far to drive) I sought out a church similar to my first church. What did I know? I came from Judaism into to being a Jewish Christian. I knew virtually nothing about denominations and such.

I did know that the new charismatic church made me very uncomfortable. People stood up on Sunday mornings, and said “I have a word of knowledge” or “Thus saith God.” Sometimes, they would have visions and speak in tongues with no interpreter.  I read my Bible constantly, and something was very wrong — I could feel it. How did I know if these words spoken from people were Words from God? Couldn’t they be from the person?  And in that case, why would I need to know these words?

I wound up in a SBC church. I felt safer there. I believed that the Southern Baptist churches were Biblically sound and trustworthy – well at least the one I was attending. I didn’t have to worry about people standing up and grabbing a microphone, to impart something from God.  I believed that everything I would want to know from the Lord was in the Bible.

“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, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” (2 Timothy 2: 16-17)

No church on this earth is perfect because they are all made up of people. But the Lord wants leadership to be looking to Him in prayer, and His Word for teaching.

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM

What is Contemplative Spirituality?

I took this straight from gotquestions.org:

Question: “What is contemplative spirituality?”

Answer: Contemplative spirituality is an extremely dangerous practice for any person who desires to live a biblical, God-centered life. It is most commonly associated with the emerging church movement, which is riddled with false teachings. It is also used by many different groups that have little, if any, connection with Christianity.

In practice, contemplative spirituality is primarily centered on meditation, although not meditation with a biblical perspective. Passages such as Joshua 1:8 actually exhort us to meditate: “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” Notice what the focus of meditation should be—the Word of God. Contemplative spirituality-driven meditation focuses on nothing, literally. A practitioner is exhorted to completely empty his/her mind, to just “be.” Supposedly, this helps one to open up to a greater spiritual experience. However, we are exhorted in Scripture to transform our minds to that of Christ’s, to have His mind. Emptying our minds is contrary to such active, conscious transformation.

Contemplative spirituality also encourages the pursuit of a mystical experience with God. Mysticism is the belief that knowledge of God, spiritual truth, and ultimate reality can be gained through subjective experience. This emphasis on experiential knowledge erodes the authority of Scripture. We know God according to His Word. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). God’s Word is complete. There is no reason to believe that God adds additional teachings or truths to His Word through mystical experiences. Instead, our faith and what we know about God is based on fact.

The website for the Center for Contemplative Spirituality sums it up well: “We come from a variety of secular and religious backgrounds and we each seek to enrich our journey through spiritual practice and study of the world’s great spiritual traditions. We desire to draw closer to the loving Spirit which pervades all creation and which inspires our compassion for all beings.” There is absolutely nothing biblical about such goals. Studying the world’s “spiritual traditions” is an exercise in futility because any spiritual tradition other than that which exalts Christ is falsehood. The only way to draw closer to God is through the path He has ordained—Jesus Christ and the Word. [2]

In my research of the Baptist pastor who believes that God and Allah are the same, I noticed that he was also bringing “Catholic” practices into his church. He has been talking to his congregation about Lent.  He is also all about ecumenicalism, and seems very willing to unite for unity sake, even seeing that choice diluting the message of Jesus Christ, and blurring the lines between the RCC and Evangelical Christians, and in his case, even Islam! I believe this is his intent.

From Way of Life Ministries:

Everywhere we look “evangelicals” are turning to Roman Catholic styles of contemplative spirituality (which in many cases were borrowed from pagan sources), such as ritualistic rote prayers, chanting, meditation, centering prayer, the use of prayer beads, Stations of the Cross, lectio divina, labyrinths, and “the daily office.”

The cover story for the February 2008 issue of Christianity Today was “The Future Lies in the Past,” and it describes the “lost secrets of the ancient church” that are being rediscovered by evangelicals. The ancient church in question happens to be the Roman Catholic, beginning with the so-called “church fathers” of the early centuries.

The article observes that many young evangelicals dislike both “traditional Christianity” and the seeker sensitive churches. Traditional Christianity is described as too focused on “being right,” too much into “Bible studies” and “apologetics materials.” Instead, the young evangelicals are lusting after “a renewed encounter with a God” that goes beyond “doctrinal definitions.” This, of course, is a perfect definition of mysticism. It refers to experiencing God beyond the boundaries of Scripture.

Christianity Today recommends that evangelicals “stop debating” and just “embody Christianity.” Toward this end they should “embrace symbols and sacraments” and dialogue with “Catholicism and Orthodoxy”; they should “break out the candles and incense” and pray the “lectio divina” and learn the “Catholic ascetic disciplines” from “practicing monks and nuns.”

Christianity Today says that this “search for historic roots” will lead “to a deepening ecumenical conversation, and recognition by evangelicals that the Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are fellow Christians with much to teach us.”

This is a no-holds-barred invitation to Catholic mysticism, and it will not lead to light but to the same darkness that has characterized Rome throughout its history, and it will lead beyond Rome to the paganism from which Rome originally borrowed its “contemplative practices.” [3]

I am not surprised at all by Christianity Today’s remarks. It seems that they have been an apostate outfit for a very long time.

I used to watch Dr. Ed Young on TV when the kids were small. I loved him. It grieves me to tell you that he has bought the Emerging church practices, lock stock and barrel. Satan is tricking these formerly sound teachers of God’s Word.

Brethren, this is just more proof that we must be in the end of the end times.  Who would have ever thought that the Southern Baptist Church would be joyfully receiving these mystical, New Age practices into their sanctuaries? Who would have ever thought that the Evangelical churches would be cozying up to the Roman Catholic Church?

The devil is SO crafty.

MARANATHA!!

[1]http://apprising.org/2011/07/15/houston-we-have-a-problem-at-second-baptist-church/
[2]http://www.gotquestions.org/contemplative-spirituality.html
[3]http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/evangelicals_turning_to_roman_catholic_spirituality.html

“I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:  preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,  and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.  But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry” (2 Timothy 4:1-5 emphasis added).

For about a year, my family and I attended a “seeker friendly” church. I shudder to even write those words now. Sounds good, doesn’t it? They advertise: “Are you turned off by church? Well, we’re not your typical church. We’re different. Come as you are – shorts and flips flops – we won’t judge you!”

It wasn’t so much the lack of appropriate attire. It was the lack of the Word of God! These churches are  so-called Christianity’s way of becoming politically correct; becoming “relevant” in our ever-changing world.

Well, the world may be changing but NEWSFLASH: The Word of God never changes!

These churches grow so quickly. The one we attended is now one of the largest churches in our area with a huge facility which seats thousands. The reason we went there for that year was because it had a large and very active youth ministry. I have asked the Lord for forgiveness; that is no reason to choose a church.

So as churches become more and more politically correct, they shut the door on the Holy Spirit. After all, they need to pack in the people, right?  The Holy Spirit might step on someone’s toes, and they certainly wouldn’t want that. Sin and repentance and salvation are seldom preached.

I wrote an article on Replacement Theology not too long ago. The main proponents of this lie from the pit are the main stream denominations – Presbyterian Church USA, Lutheran, Methodist and some Baptist churches, among others. The Catholic Church has been teaching RT since its inception.

Now the LBGT gang are making demands on churches. The lesbian mayor of Houston, TX tried to get copies of all sermons about homosexuality so she and her cronies could “correct the text.” There was an outcry against this, and for the time being she has pulled back.

We can see the finger prints of Satan in every church who is turning its back on God’s Holy Word. There is a new outcry from the pulpits of the PC crowd.

They yell, “Free Palestine! Israel is occupying land which is not theirs! Israel is an apartheid state! Down with Israel! Boycott products made in Israel!”  They compare Israel with Hitler’s SS. To them, Israel is the oppressor, and are occupiers of their own land.

Oh Satan. You are not even subtle in your demands anymore. You must be so desperate.

Another NEWSFLASH: God Himself is a Zionist.

“For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation. ‘This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy with bread.

Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, and her godly ones will sing aloud for joy. There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth; I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed. His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown shall shine’” (Psalm 132:13-18).

But the new PC churches feel that they are justified in their thinking and preaching (I use that term so loosely).

God says, “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death”  (Proverbs 14:12)

A Jewish author and activist wrote this chilling assessment of what is happening: In her book Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis released in 2006, author Bat Ye’or almost prophetically calls it “Palestinian Marcionism”:

The Christian policy that would eliminate the Jewish source of Christianity by suppressing the link between the Hebrew Bible and the gospels represents an old and lingering trend, always opposed by the church. It was first formulated by Marcion, a second-century Byzantine priest of pagan background who was strongly influenced by Gnosticism. Today, Palestinian Marcionism (Palestinianism) paves the way for the Islamization of the Church as it prepares mentalities for an Islamic replacement theology.

Ye’or’s assessment has tragically been proven true within the last five years. Christian Palestinianism is becoming an effective way to de-judaize Jesus. Along with the persecution of the Jews by the church through the ages, together with this anti-Semitic view of Israel, opens wide the door to rewrite the Scriptures.  Jewish references are then replaced to accommodate  the “Islamization” of the Bible.  Enter: CHRISLAM.

An expert in Christian Palestinianism, Paul Wilkenson from the UK says this:

Christian Palestinianism is an inverted mirror image of Christian Zionism. All the basic elements of a Christian Zionist eschatology are reversed, so that the Bible is seen to be Christian, not Jewish, the land of the Bible is Palestine not Israel, the Son of God is a Palestinian not a Jew, the Holocaust is resented not remembered, 1948 is a catastrophe not a miracle, the Jewish people are illegal occupiers not rightful owners, and Biblical prophecy is a moral manifesto and not a signpost to the Second Coming. Despite enlisting support from the theological community and seeking validation through academia, the overriding thrust of Christian Palestinianism is political, not biblical.

The implications of CP (Christian Palestinianism.) are alarming. The masses seated in their pews have gathered to themselves “teachers” who will gladly tickle their ears and fulfill their desire, just as God’s Word proclaimed would happen.

We know that all of this is happening because our Father has permitted it.  We wonder why so much evil and so much deception abounds. But should we wonder? The Lord told us clearly that these things must happen.

The Man of Lawlessness Will Be Revealed

“Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,  that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4).

Brethren, no matter how bleak the events of this world seem—remember that our safety comes from the Lord God Almighty. Do not be deceived by the words of men.

The only words we should be clinging to, are the Words of God in His Holy Bible!

MARANATHA!

Shalom in Yeshua.