http://www.markswatson.com/musings808.pdf
From http://www.shatteringdenial.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=182
I wanted give my readers a rather informal look at some of the issues that I think are worthy of attention.
This particular paper will follow no particular organizational pattern and it is intended primarily for my Christian readers. Those who
know what time it is or are at least willing to listen to those who are commanded by our Lord to tell them.
This past two weeks I have not been doing a whole lot. Reading and relaxing and trying as best as I could to keep my mind of the wickedness of our world and the men who dwell on it. But when I did slide over to my computer to read the news of the day I would always become saddened by the mess Americans have made of America.
Murder is now the primary tool of statecraft. Blackmail and threats are, if one is lucky, its predecessor. Generals, Admirals, hookers, CIA analysts, FBI investigators, Bloggers, News Network Anchormen, bioscientists have all been mortal victims of this most wicked of systems.
The spiritual stronghold of evil is very deeply rooted in our government. When one particular Christian gentleman who has the gravemisfortune of meeting with some top Government officials in the US talks to me they relay to me that they can sense a extremely strong and overbearing presence of evil coming from some of our leaders. It is so powerful it leaves them physically tired. The same thing has been noted by other Christians who are burdened with Government service. When Paul said we were dealing with spiritual wickedness in High Places that is what he meant. In America we have
let some of the most powerful men who are possessed (not just oppressed) of powerful, primordial spiritual beings (demons) into power. Beings who have been given a specific task to perform by the Prince of this world.
Brothers and sisters, there are very great changes coming to our nation and our world that only a few of you are really able to understand. It is one thing to read the 'conspiracy' stuff on the net, quite another to sit down with there folks and have them tell their tales. There is some very weird and very scary stuff going on now in high places and I want to impress upon you just what we as Christians will be facing.
First, we will face a trial in this hour of our faith. However, unlike in much of the rest of the world, I see our test as being against a new rising religion of New-Age occultism that has been working tirelessly to undermine the basic truths of the Bible. Let it be known here that Satan is after your faith in Christ. He intends to shake with all of the deceitful tools in his tool box, phony scientific archaeological discoveries, alien revelations, raw scientific discoveries, threats to ministers, Revelations that pivotal Christian ministers are involved in horrible crimes and sins, imprisonment and yes, death.
Yet we are dealing with a wiley foe, one who is likely to unleash a barrage of anti-Christian propaganda at once to discredit the Gospel of Christ. This will be the final stage of the Falling Away when the enemy will come in like a flood.
Mankind is even now standing at a precipice that even those clued into the secular world are beginning to write about. Can our world be saved? The answer is a resounding NO. Our world is doomed to the evil fate we, as a race, have chosen for it. In our relentless pursuit of pleasure and the expense of responsibility, gain without work, sex without love, information without truth and laws without justice, our planet is and will descend into a chaos of hate, evil and destruction.
Man has convinced himself that he owes no responsibility to others, our planet and certainly not to Christ. Instead, they have chosen to follow the ways of the GREAT DECEIVER who always lulls his victims with the age old cry...' well, everyone one else is doing it.'
Few are willing to take a real stand against the evil norms of our evil times as the seductions of the deceiver are sung so skillfully to us everyday. It is in our ads, our entertainment, our social cliques, our education and just about everywhere that men gather. Men are unwilling to come to terms with the truth about themselves. In short, we are vile. Yet having been made in the image of a most loving God, even our own defilement is not enough to utterly erase that divine reflection in each of us, however dim it may be in some of us.
Can we survive? No as a race we will not, but God has a plan to save those who really, from the depths of their souls, really want to be saved. But it requires us to give up the world, its glories, pomp, pleasures, hate, murders, fornications and love of death.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(1Jn 2:15)
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
(Joh 15:19)
Here we can see why the world hates those of us who love Christ and are born into his kingdom. We are not of this world. There is something utterly different about us and our ways. We bear witness to the evil of those who still love the wickedness of this age. Those of the world have a different father. His name is the devil, though they do not know it, and great efforts are expended to keep this fact from those who are in the infernal kingdom. They are lost and deceived not knowing where they are going. This is the eternal nature of deceit.
Those that are deceived do not know it, if they knew it they would not be deceived. Sadly no one is much interested in hearing the Gospel these days. As church attendance in Europe declines rapidly and Church behavior in the US is more akin to a circus sideshow than a holy people of God, those who call themselves as being of God have laid the Gospel to open shame and contempt by their antics.
Thus mankind, high born and pleb, educated and ignorant, black and white are no longer as open to the gospel message as they once were and even those in the churches are so far removed from the teachings of Christ that those teachings, when showed to them in plain black-and-white, ink on a page bring either alarm or lethargy. It is demonstrated in the 'we only come here for the sake of the kids' mentality. Deep down inside, they do not really believe the gospel but think Church is a good place to raise kids, have swap-meets and meet people.
The Gospel message and Christ's Lordship is an inconvenient 'side show' of many American churches. The truth about the gospel is not really preached with any fire or conviction. It is for this reason that many will soon become angry and disenchanted with the church as the global economic crisis begins to hit home. People will wonder why their churches are seriously in debt and cannot get out. They will wonder why their beautiful church buildings are going up for auction and in some exceptional cases, pastors will go to jail. The church goers not being fully aware of the financial chicanery going on and the utter falseness of the doctrines and dogma being preached from the pulpit. Some will finally come to the realization that they were deceived. Sadly, many will turn on Christ rather than their own lust to hear lies when it suited them when the truth was staring at them in the Church pew in the form of the Bible. By and large they willingly chose that which profited not because it was what they wanted to hear.
This economic crisis is going to take a heavy toll on Churches and their finances. Those multi million dollar mega Churches will, over the next couple of years suffer the most. Many of these are in hoc to the banks, so get ready to see this crisis go where many think it can't.
What should we as Christians do in these times? I know that many times the stories I post and articles I write can be overwhelming and fill folks with a sense of dread. That is not really my intention, though even that can fulfill a purpose. That being mainly to awaken people to the real scope of this crisis before itovercomes them in a sea of debt and poverty. Americans do not know the forces that are against them. They do not know that the death of millions is truly on the agenda of some very powerful people. These are the same people who are
backing Obama and McCain. People will vote for them and not know that they have begun digging their own graves. Debt, genetically modified organisms, poisons going into our drinking water, tainted medicines being sent to predominantly black communities, war, planned food shortages, new concentration camps...
Americans have no clue as to the forces now arrayed against them, nor do they seem to have an inclination to want to hear about it. Well placed insiders have come forth with amazing stories of genocide, mass murder, corporate crime, government theft, killings for hire, blackmail... all directed at the people of the world in order to steal, kill and destroy. Yet Americans are oblivious as to the real threats. Their minds are focused on pleasures and mindless entertainment.
Yet for those who love God and have not fallen asleep in these perilous times we know that things are going to change and change rapidly for the worse for most. We know that the blindness that is part of the lives of others is part of the potion of deceit that the master of lies gives liberally to his children. They have no clue, nor will they get one by and large until the pain is so great that they have to acknowledge the reality they have long ignored.
Yet for those of us who know God, we have a greater assurance.
NOTE: This important message will be continued as part two or as an addition to this missive. Meanwhile please visit: www.markswatson.com
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