Hello to all who read this introduction,

I joined the forum to try and find like-minded Christians to have fellowship. I have accepted Jesus as my Savior and abide in Him. I live my life in the will of God and enjoy good conversation on a variety of topics. And, I am retired and spend most of my time devoted to spreading the gospel and keeping physically fit.

The second reason to join the forum, is figuring out a way to bring lost Christians back into the fold of God's will and putting into practice a solution without stepping on everybodies toes and creating hate and discontent. I cannot do something like this on my own.

I will post more about this in the appropriate forum when I get all-things-forum, figured out. In the meantime thanks for having me- I look forward to visiting and getting to know you if and when our paths cross.

Im aware he died on the cross for us to have salvation and go to heaven, but he requires us to repent and change our lives to have relationship with him. I know he wants the best for us but if Jesus loves us unconditionally we could do whatever and still go to heaven because the love is unconditional ?

National Rifle Association (NRA) head Wayne LaPierre will resign from the organization at the end of the month, the group announced Friday.

LaPierre’s resignation, first reported by Fox News, comes as the organization defends itself in a New York civil suit alleging he and other executives spent millions of the group’s funds on luxury vacations and other perks.


He's citing health concerns as his reason for stepping down, but part of me suspects that he's looking for an escape hatch as the organization is in some legal trouble, and more and more people have realized that they're getting fleeced by the organization.

They're an organization that's basically outlived any usefulness they may have had decades ago, and when you look at their revenue vs. other much smaller gun rights organizations, and consider the fact that those aforementioned smaller organizations have been the ones to win all of the high profile court cases (which NRA has then tried to piggy back off of and claim the victory as their own), I think it started to become obvious to people that they were paying $500 for a duffel bag and a ballcap.

Last Sunday, on New Years Eve, my S.O. played the piano at church and she is going to become the official organist after our current organist retires and goes back to the Carolinas to be closer to family.

After church we went to the grocery store, and we split up and I was sent to the milk section to look for some oat milk in a tetrapak. There was a woman standing there as I browsed the selection, unable to find any Oatly and debating what to get instead. This small Hispanic woman was looking at me and then she approached me and said "Excuse me, Sir... The Lord sees you and loves you." I was a bit surprised by this but just said "thank you", then picked up a carton of hemp milk and went on my way. It was a very strange occorance, I've only encountered somebody once before talking about religion in a supermarket, and it was never so direct (usually people are looking to invite us to their church).

Hi all!
I’m still here. That may sound wonderful or not, but if someone has chosen not to do away with himself, with a “yet” in parentheses always lingering, then it might be seen as a wonderful thing.

I have felt as betrayed as one might be by one’s Church, by the support and encouragement given to people who support the past regimes and leaders that fought violently against the Church, and have very nearly lost faith altogether. The fat jolly Englishman for whom I constantly experience derision for admiring, who keeps pointing me to Christ, and discourages me from drunkenness and worse, has helped me hold on to the rags of my faith, despite what I have seen in Russia.

I defended Russia for years, most of you know that. And certainly, the American government is fast falling to rival the Soviet government in the evils it now perpetuates. I had to ultimately flee my adopted land before nastiness befell me as one continuing to love both the land of my birth and my adopted land, standing between them with no other option than to fight for peace between them. I now live as a stranger in a strange land, now even an illegal alien, in constant despair at the turn of events that have destroyed my life and left me and my family all but homeless.

I am absolutely not partisan, and would not take the side of the globalist elements in the Greek Church, driving HH Bartholomew to push schism as he has in fact done, the betrayal from the Greek side for the benefit of the globalists, and his attempts to restore the glory of the Patriarchate of Constaninople and the glory of this world. But the Russian Church has not taken the high road in response, but has chosen to support the restoration of bi-or multi-polar conflict, in its support of the secular government of Russia regardless of what the princes of the earth there should choose to do. I know of the imprisonment and even torture of people who have fallen out of favor with the regime, and however wrong Navalny is, his punishment is grossly disproportionate to his alleged crimes. There is enough shame to go around for the true rulers of both nations.

And now a fairly final straw has broken the camel’s back in Russia, the firing and exiling of the last priests who have in any way spoken out against the war, and called for peace with Ukrainian brethren. There are now no voices that dare challenge this marriage of Church and state, to point out that Christ’s Kingdom is not of this world.

this is disastrous from my perspective, and discourages me from any hope of returning to Russia soon. On top of all my other woes.
The daughter of the surviving senior priest, after the death of the arch priest, who let us for so long, lives in our town, and teaches in my school, and we support her as best we can. Her father is next on the chopping block. pray for us.

A discussion with Dr. Tim Spector, a British genetic epidemiologist at King's College, and Dr. Will Will Bulsiewicz, a gastroenterologist, about how the gut microbiome influences inflammation in the body.


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I had fairly severe IBS years ago, I couldn't tolerate fiber but was still having less than optimal results despite a low FODMAP diet, and I followed similar advice from Dr. Angie Sadeghi (also a gastroenterologist) leading to complete remission of symptoms after a few months. Particularly eating alot of fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, and kefir, as well as eating alot more fruit in my diet, then gradually reintroducing offending foods.

Mark McCloskey pitches St. Louis GOP on a plan to catch RINOs​

ST. LOUIS — Mark McCloskey, the gun-waving lawyer turned conservative firebrand, came to the city Republican Party meeting Thursday night to urge members to purge imposters from their ranks.
And he pitched them a controversial new vetting protocol as the way to do it. He called on the city’s GOP central committee to make prospective candidates take a test measuring their knowledge of the party platform, to pore through their tax records, legal records and voting history — and then to prohibit anyone who doesn’t score high enough from running as a Republican.
McCloskey cast it as a straightforward way to ensure a candidate is a “true Republican.”



The small party tent trying to be even smaller.

I have been enlightened by youtubers about the effects of sugar. The FDA gives us our recommended daily allowance (RDA) for macronutrients. What upsets me is that there have been numerous studies about the effect of too much sugar consumption but no change in dietary guidelines. A recent study by Harvard talks about the effects of sugar including added sugar. Processed foods have a lot of added sugar and I imagine if it didn't it'll taste like dirt. Approximately 4.2 grams of carbohydrates equals one teaspoon of sugar does the RDA reflect the science literature (I'm not a math wiz)? With the health epidemic in America, you would assume the government would have a concern, I have my thought and it's about money. I personally feel that a warning label needs to be applied to foods with high sugar. Peace

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Thomas A. Edison
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.
G. Edward Griffin

We live in a day and age here in America where the church at large has become fairly worldly. They are much like the church in Laodicea described for us in Revelation 3:14-22. They are neither all the way cold toward the Lord but they are also not on fire for him, so they are lukewarm. They go through the motions of religious practice, but they are not terribly committed to the Lord and to his service. They appear to be more self-serving since so many are now marketing the church to the ungodly.

But among them are many who are living in self-indulgence and in sexual immorality, who are lovers of intoxication to sin. And they are driving an effort to sidestep and to avoid the commands of the Lord and to teach a gospel message which is absent of genuine repentance and of walks of obedience to the Lord. For they want no moral boundaries, for they are immoral people who are dishonest, unfaithful, and wicked. But they still want their ticket into heaven and forgiveness of all sins.

But not everyone is in that circle. Although few in number by comparison to those who are living wickedly, there are also those who are living godly and holy lives in moral purity, uprightness, honesty, and faithfulness to the Lord. Their lives are committed to the Lord and to his service and to teaching the truth of the gospel, and to refuting the lies of the enemy. They are living separate (unlike, different) from the world because they are being made to be like Christ in true righteousness and holiness, by God’s grace.

So those who are living wickedly, although professing faith in Jesus Christ, are living in ways which are separate from those who are walking in faithful obedience to the Lord. Yet, to appease their own consciences they conjure up another gospel which is an altered and diluted version of the true gospel of Christ. And they exchange the true gospel for the “supplanter,” i.e. for a cheapened form of true grace which does not require of them obedience, righteousness, repentance, and holy living.

And many of them are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who give an appearance of righteousness but who are truly evil, malicious, immoral, conniving, cunning, crafty, and devious. They may be among the Lord’s true sheep, but they are truly outside of true relationship with Jesus Christ. And they are opposed to the true gospel that Jesus and his NT apostles taught, and so they also oppose the Lord’s true servants and messengers who are bringing us the true message of the gospel of our salvation.

And Jesus said that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience to his commands, then we have eternal life. For not everyone who calls Jesus “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING the will of God the Father (Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, if we want our great and heinous sins against our Lord to be white as snow, then we must be crucified with Christ in death to sin and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness (Romans 6:1-23). We must remove all evil deeds from before the eyes of the Lord, cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, and correct oppression, etc. and now walk in holiness and righteousness, willingly obeying the commands of our God.

But if we refuse and rebel, and we go our own way, instead, even if we claim faith in Jesus Christ, we will not inherit eternal life with God. For if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin against our Lord, and we refuse to obey him and his commands, we are not in fellowship with him. We do not know him, he does not know us, we are not born of God, but we are of the devil, regardless of what our lips profess. And so heaven will not be what awaits us after death no matter how much we believe it will be there for us.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-24; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-11; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 10:23-31; 1 Co 10:1-22; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Trust and Obey

Words by John H. Sammis, 1887
Music by Daniel B. Towner, 1887

When we walk with the Lord
in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.

But we never can prove
the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows,
for the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.

Then in fellowship sweet
We will sit at His feet.
Or we’ll walk by His side in the way.
What He says we will do,
Where He sends we will go;
Never fear, only trust and obey.

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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Greetings! I find the big questions fascinating. I have a background in biology and astronomy. I also fenced competitively for my university hence my username. I currently do BJJ. I grew up Christian and was a theistic evolutionist for a long time. I've sort of run the gambit from fundamentalist Christian to fundamentist atheism; I am now more of a skeptical agnostic/atheist, but I like to think I have an open mind. I enjoy talking about everything from politics to science to philosophy. I have strong beliefs but I respect everyone who is sincere even if they disagree with me.

Don't trust the Message Bible. It totally trashes the Bible by changing the meaning of many Bible verses. It is a very inaccurate paraphrase based on the author's ideas of what he wants the Bible to say. It is obvious that he has no knowledge of Biblical languages, and certainly has a lack of understanding what the Gospel of Christ is all about.

A couple of fishermen have had close encounters with crocodiles in north Queensland recently.


A video about half way down the article gives some idea of how difficult they are to see in the water.

Use​

Strong's Concordance provides an index to the Bible. This allows the reader to find words where they appear in the Bible. It also lets the reader directly compare how the same word may be used elsewhere in the Bible.

Strong's numbers​

Each original-language word (Hebrew or Greek) is given an entry number in the dictionary of those original language words listed in the back of the concordance. These have become known as the "Strong's numbers". The main concordance lists each word that appears in the KJV Bible in alphabetical order with each verse in which it appears listed in order of its appearance in the Bible, with a snippet of the surrounding text (including the word in italics). Appearing to the right of the scripture reference is the Strong's number. This allows the user of the concordance to look up the meaning of the original language word in the associated dictionary in the back, thereby showing how the original language word was translated into the English word in the KJV Bible.


Oh really?

For years now, I have been using Strong's numbers to find the most accurate definition of the Hebrew word. The way that I do this is to look at the otiot of the word I'm researching. Then look at all of the various English translations of that word. I choose one definition that most closely conforms to the symbology of the otiot. Then I get the Strong's number for that word. Then I plug the definition that I'm testing into every verse that contains that Strong's number. If that definition doesn't work with every verse that I have tested it against; then I continue to try to understand what that word must mean.

Recently I did a similar study. I have forgotten which word I was researching; but initially I was satisfied with my understanding of the meaning of the word. Maybe a dozen or so verses were connected to that Strong's number. This did seem a bit odd for this word that is commonly found in the Bible. It didn't take long before I stumbled onto the reality that this word is used widely throughout scripture. It didn't take me long before I realized that there were at least three Strong's numbers for this same word. Within days I stumbled onto another word that had multiple numbers assigned to it.

I recently brought this up at a Bible study; and one of the well studied members within our group was as astonished as I was. He asked me what words; but I couldn't remember either of them. I told him that I would look into it; and get back to him next week.

This evening I began to reconstruct my discoveries; when I noticed that those are not rare cases.

The Strong's Deception

I'm now determined to search out every Hebrew word that has multiple Strong's numbers assigned to it.

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On the way home from meeting me tonight, my boyfriend was wrongfully stopped by a police officer who claims that he didn't stop at a stop sign (which isn't true, according to him ) and so now he's going to traffic court to fight it off. We're all going to court over here .

Meanwhile, I've had a headache for the past couple of days due to jury duty throwing my sleep schedule off. I would appreciate prayers for healing. Yes, I know: jury duty, eviction lawsuit, and traffic ticket case all within a few days. I suppose God is trying to tell me something, so prayers for clarity and direction would be appreciated.

Friends - Does this principle apply to believers in the New Covenant - please give Scriptural support for you understanding.

Exodus 34

6 Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and truth; 7 who keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8 And Moses hurried to bow low toward the ground and worship.

All responses appreciated.

The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made​

Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
By Robert Parry ,Published July 15, 2015

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible US mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.”

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders.

To sell this latest neocon-driven “regime change” to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the US-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brown shirts.

In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the chance to poke Putin in the eye by encouraging violent protests to overthrow Russia-friendly President Yanukovych and put in place a new regime hostile to Moscow.

The Text: Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)

Some quotations I have gather from CF and the internet.

• Of course the "water" is amniotic fluid, not plain old H2O. That verse does not include the word "again" so the word "born" can only mean your physical birth. He did not say "baptized in" water either. So you can't say he meant being baptized in a lake or river. Show me a verse where he explicitly said to be born again you must be baptized in water.
• You said, “Natural birth is the plainest interpretation and therefore correct.” “Born of water" is not a straightforward statement of anything, but is by the very words an oblique reference to... something.
• While many scholars and commentators deny, even vehemently, that there was any cultural or Old Testament background among first-century Jews about water referring to physical birth, their denials simply “don’t hold water.”
• Some have taken “born of water” to an absurd level of asserting all bodily fluids such as sperm, serves as a functional equivalent of “born of water.” "Born of bodily fluids" runs into tension with John 1:12-13 concerning regeneration and the new nature: “He gave the right to become children of God….who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

If indeed, “born of water” refers to natural biological birth, it would clearly be a hapax legomenon….a word or phrase which only occurs once in Scripture, and even stranger, this idiom is not found in Hellenistic literature as scholars inform us. It certainly is possible for “born of water” to refer to natural biological birth, but some very strong evidence should be marshaled to overcome the long historic interpretation “born of water” is water either referring to the power of the HS to cleanse us from sin or possibly baptism.

Natural birth isn’t caused by amniotic fluid and isn’t the only factor in natural birth. There are genitals, Fallopian tubes, conception, fluid in the umbilical cord, contractions, etc., of which amniotic fluid is one of the elements…. in a near-last long chain of events. Amniotic fluid or any other bodily fluid fails instrumentally as the cause of natural birth.

People are born from their mothers; they are not born from amniotic fluid. Bodily fluid isn’t what gives birth to them, their mother is. The Scriptures bears this out:

• For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. (I Cor 11:12)
• God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law (Gal. 4:4
• I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; (Luke 7:28)
• Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. (Job 14:1)
• Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. (John 16:21)
• “How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? (Job 25:4)

Jesus was not talking about the difference between natural birth and spiritual birth. Furthermore, if "born of water" does refer to natural childbirth, why does Nicodemus need to be reminded he is already born? Why would anyone who has been naturally born need to be reminded of that fact? Existing is self evident and presupposed. Jesus is not speaking of the doctrine of creation. He is speaking of redemption.

There are only two types of people in the world: those who are born of the Spirit and those who are not. In the end, only those two categories matter (John 3:3). Our earthly lives are extended opportunities for us to respond to God’s call and become born of the Spirit (Hebrews 3:15).

As J.I. Packer wrote: Regeneration is a New Testament concept that grew, it seems, out of a parabolic-picture phrase that Jesus used to show Nicodemus the inwardness and depth of the change that even religious Jews must undergo if they were ever to see and enter the Kingdom of God and so have eternal life (John 3:3-15). Jesus pictured the change as being "born again". The concept is God renovating the heart, the core of a person's being, by implanting a new principle of desire, purpose, and action, a dispositional dynamic that finds expression in positive response to the gospel and its Christ. Jesus phrase, "born of water and the Spirit" (John 3:5) harks back to Ezekiel 36:25-27, where God is pictured as symbolically cleansing persons from sin's pollution (by water) and bestowing a "new heart" by putting His Spirit within them.

I believe that this is more scientific evidence showing how dangerous mRNA vaccines can be.

Jesus said a man should love his wife as Jesus loved the church what does this verse mean ?

Hello to everybody,

I wanted to ask if anyone has a certain moleben service in his/her parish where names of relatives could be included in the prayer service for the required fee.

The moleben was recently introduced in the Russian Orthodox Church (Synod meeting from 13.10.2022) . It is intended for "baptised orthodox but unbelieving"
(which most practicing orthodox laymen have among their relatives) It is also intended for other groups of people, the currently described one is just the one of my current concern.

The moleben's name in Russian is "Молебен о заблудших" (roughly translated as "Moleben for those that are deceived/in delusion as to the Truth")

The Russian churches in Russia offer the possibility to pay online and record names for this moleben, however the EU does not permit bank payments to Russia (due to the war in Ukraine). Having nobody living in Russia who could help is an additional problem.

Does anybody know of an orthodox parish which has this moleben service and where a bank payment for the fee will be accepted from an EU country? (e. g. a Russian parish in the US/EU or elsewhere?)

Thank you all in advance.

Should Debate be an Olympic sport?

Many Colleges and Universities have Debate teams.

Four Types of Judgment, and USA is under all 4!

1) As in the days of Noah. Matt 24, Luke 17. The earth was filled with violence. Gen 6. America is filled with violence. Mass shootings in US have doubled since 2019, being between 610 and 690 a year, while in the 6 years between 2014-2019 there were between 273 and 417. Assaults are commonplace, and society seems obsessed with fighting and violence.
The other thing going on in Noahs day was when the sons of God (Benai HaElohim) took the daughters of men to which giants were born. I don't know what you believe, but I believe wholeheartedly these were fallen angels. Benai Elohim is used in Job 1:6 & 2:1 where it's obvious they are angels, then Job 38:7 when it speaks of the sons of God and morning stars at creation. Some theologians think it means sons of Seth. I reject that theory.
Why is this relevant today? Devils mating with humans produced mutant offspring. Do a quick google search on "alien reproductive experiments" and "alien human hybrids." Or just consider how popular the History channel's "Ancient Aliens" has been since 2009. Google "Otherkin." Its a whole subculture of people who believe they are other than human. Started around 1990. I've known some of these personally.
Otherkin - Wikipedia
On top of all this we have the twisted diabolical LGBTQ movement practically forcing our government to authorise mutation surgeries on children. This is the kind of wickedness that went on before the flood, and brought the judgement of Almighty God upon the entire world!

2) As in the days of Lot and Sodom. Luke 17:28, 2 Peter 2:4-8, Jude 7. We know what the sin of Sodom was. I don't need to speak much on this. We see it everywhere. In one so called "Pride" parade this year they chanted "We're Queer, We're here. We're coming for your children!" This too started in the 90s and they said then "We want your children!"
The sin of Sodomy is abomination according to Leviticus 18, and abusers of themselves with mankind in 1 Corinthians 6 also refers to the sodomite. God hates this sin! This sin is sure to bring destruction on any nation that allows its practice, and what did America do? Legalized Sodomy under the softer term "same sex marriage" in 2015, then the Federal government not satisfied with that, and bowing to the demonic movement of the LGBT crowd codified it as law in 2022.
On top of all this they hijack the covenant rainbow and use it for their flag. God WILL keep his covenant portrayed by the rainbow. He won't destroy the entire world by flood, though He's sent plenty of local floods in recent years. He will burn down all this wicked sin with FIRE though, and abolish these abominations forever!

3) USA has committed the sins of King Manesseh in 2 Kings 21 through 25: massive idolatry, sorcery, and the shedding of innocent blood. There's been somewhere around 64 million abortions in 50 years, and actually MORE abortions since Roe v Wade was overturned, because of the abortion pill mainly.
What stands out in this entire history of Manasseh is that the LORD would not overlook the sin of the nation committed under his watch, despite a national revival under King Josiah. (2 kings 23:26 & 24:3-4) Judgment didnt come in Josiahs day, but later it fell and Judah was defeated, Jerusalems walls and temple destroyed and the people taken captive to Babylon.
The judgment is pronounced in 2 Kings 21:10-12 by the LORDs prophets, and by Huldah the prophetess in 2 Kings 22:14-20. In the latter prophecy it shows judgment would not come in King Josiahs days (22:19-20)
The parallels with what America is doing are obvious. Idolatry and the occult are rampant in US today. 2 Kings 21:3-6 show how the same was going on in ancient Israel under Manasseh. He built altars for all the host of heaven, even in the house of the LORD. He sacrificed his son in the fire, observed times, used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards. America has experienced a massive occult revival since the 1960s, though there was spiritism going on back to the 1800s.
The rock music of the 60s cast a spell on Americas youth, introducing numerous Satanic and occult themes. Today paganism has revived in America while people are leaving churches and churches are closing. Giant Egyptian style pyramids were erected in Memphis Tennessee and Las Vegas in the early 90s. A lot of stuff started in the 90s as we'll see when we cover Romans 1. In 2015 the Hindu goddess Kali was portrayed on the Empire State building. Kali represents death, destruction, and doomsday.
National Geographic statistics show in 2001 only 134,000 Americans practiced some form of paganism, whereas in May 2023 it was over 1.5 million. I can tell you its way higher than that. Even if a person isn't practicing paganism overtly they often do unawares. Millions believe in astrology, actually about 1/3 of Americans; there's millions practicing the old Native American religions, 61% of American adults have seen at least one Harry Potter movie, 44% are avid fans.
I could go on and on about the occult portrayed in movies, TV shows, video games, the internet. American media is literally saturated with it. No cutesy comedy shows like "Bewitched" from the 60s & 70s. Now there's too many to name: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Charmed, Supernatural, Winx Club - all occult.
Sorcery also includes drug abuse, pharmakeia, pharmakeus, in Greek. In 24 states Marijuana is fully legalized now, and only 4 states is it still illegal. All the other states its legal to a certain degree or decriminalized. Some psychedelics like mushrooms are legal in certain states. Drug abuse is rampant, especially methamphetamine and fentenyl, the latter has killed tens of thousands of people in recent years. What started in the 1950s and 60s as a rebellious subculture has become mainstream and accepted. Of Mystery Babylon it is said by her sorceries were all nations deceived.
Just one little note on Babylon because it would take an entire message. I believe Babylon in revelation 17-18 refers to both the religious system & Vatican with any state run churches, and political which includes western Europe AND The US and Canada. That's based on the fact that all the nations that came in and took over the territory of the old Roman empire are the same exact nations that "discovered" and settled the Americas. That makes America an extension of everything mentioned in Daniel and Revelation regarding 7 heads and 10 horns.
As for the innocent blood King Manasseh spilled, 2 Kings 21:16 says he shed it very much, filling Jerusalem from one end to the other, and 24:4 says the judgment came "for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon." 63+ million abortions as well as all the murder. America's the most homicidal nation among affluent countries in the world.

4) Finally, America has gone through all 3 stages of being given up and given over in Romans chapter 1.
Stage 1 started around 1860 - Romans 1:18-25. Darwins On the Origin of Species was published in 1859 and soon became very popular in America. It is the "Bible" of those who believe in evolution by natural selection. Just 18 months after this America found herself in a bloody civil war. Spiritism began to increase, and the late 1800s into the early 1900s saw a rise in immorality, mainly fornication & adultery.
The scripture does say they changed the image of the uncorruptable God into an image made like to corruptable man, to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things (1:23) which is evolution theory in reverse. They say first there were fishes & creeping things, then fourfooted beasts, then birds, then man, in that order. Professing themselves wise they became fools, wherefore God gave them over to uncleanness.

Stage 2 started in the 1950s shortly after WW2. Romans 1:26-27. Here the scripture shows the major sin of this stage after God gives them up the second time is homosexuality, as well as a continuation of the loose morality. The 1950s saw the introduction of rock music, and drugs like LSD were being introduced, even by the CIA in their MK Ultra experiments: Here's from the CIAs own declassified documents:
"Project MKULTRA remains highly classified.E81 Contents � 1 Title and origins � 2 Goals � 3 Budget � 4 Experiments n 4.1 LSD � � 4.2 Other drugs � 4.3 Hypnosis and Magic
LSD Early efforts focused on LSD, which later came to dominate many of MK -ULTRA's programs. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II. � Efforts to "recruit" subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events." PROJECT MK-ULTRA | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)

As a result, by the 1960s rock music and free love became popular along with the drugs and the occult. You see how all 4 of these types of judgments coincide. Everything converges right down to our time. Homosexuality became more and more accepted in the 1960s, but it was the early 90s when it really exploded on the scene and they began demanding rights. Notice how everything started ramping up in that decade of the 90s?
What happens when a nation continues down this dark and slippery slope? God gives them over to a reprobate mind: Romans 1:28-32. I believe we entered this stage starting around 2020. Notice how everything started going to the extreme that year. It was the year of Covid lockdowns, yet there were riots in every city, racial tension not seen since the 60s; blatant, in your face confrontation. The whole LGBTQ+ alphabet crowd became more militant, slithering their wicked tentacles into everything.

God gave them over, and is in the process of giving them over to a reprobate mind to do those things that are not convenient. being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, deceitful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, 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.
All that, everything in that list is being committed in America today, and it coincides with the prophetic 2 Timothy 3:1-5 "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
And consider the condition of the professing church in America. 64% of Americans identify as "Christian" but then so does Ozzy Osborne! Diary of a Madman, Black Sabbath. He sang this back in the 70s "Take a life, it's going cheap, Kill someone, no one will weep. Freedom's yours, just pay your dues. We just want your soul to use." Very Christian, huh?

Truth is about 10% of the professing church is truly born again, and about 10% of that number is truly walking in sanctification and holiness. The new age and occultism has seeped into many churches, "Christian" rock bands sound little different from their worldly (and demonic) counterparts, and some supposedly Christian songs lyrics could as easily be sung to a lover as to God because no doctrinal identifiers are present.
Because churches embrace sin, sin creeps into the camp, and like the sin of Achan the church cannot stand before her enemies because they let an accursed thing in the camp. See Joshua 6.

All kinds of immorality take place, sometimes right IN the church! Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. Or, claiming the power, yet using it to gain riches and a big following at the expense of the congregation. And ordaining homosexuals? MARRYING same sex couples? Blasphemous abomination! the accursed thing is in the camp and if we say something we're labelled as making hate speech, discrimination, bigotry, etc.
The Word of GOD COMMANDS us who are saved and KNOW the truth, and LIVE a life set apart, sanctified to the LORD to warn others of error, of sin, especially sin in the church.
I don't just say this lightly, nor without experience. I was the sinner IN the church. I was the Christian adulterer, and fornicator, and drunkard, and sorcerer - that includes pharmakeia sorcery when I smoked weed and thought it was ok according to scripture. God had to chasten me hard, set me down, endure affliction, so that I can say as Psalm 119 that before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have kept thy word, and, it is good that I've been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes.

You know, David Wilkerson wrote some prophetic books back in the 80s and 90s. A lot of what he wrote has happened in America and she has not repented. I saw a few things back in the early 90s that happened, and again in 2020. America has NOT repented, therefore like Judah under King Manasseh, she WILL be judged severely, more severely than what has already happened with Covid, with storms, whirlwinds, hurricanes, floods, fires, civil unrest, political upheavals. One day nuclear war will become reality and it will be a shock to many but not me. I expect it and believe the scriptures describe it, judgment by fire, which will be both man made and natural, as well as supernatural, fire from heaven.
So the only answer to what we do about all this is REPENT.

"Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness," (2 Peter 3:11)
Thats what we need to do.
I've heard 2 Chronicles 7:14 so many times in messages, but one thing often lacking is the part about Gods people turning from their wicked ways. Mostly I hear "we need to pray for our nation, 2 Chronicles 7:14" then the verse gets rattled off like machine gun fire and the most important element is lost. Prayer is emphasized, which is good, but all the prayer in the world avails nothing if people do not TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS!
Have YOU let sin in? Are your walls broken down, the temple about to be destroyed, are YOU captive in Babylon? Captive by the world, the flesh, the devil?
Whoever defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. You're not your own. You are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.
Amen

Maybe you should.

Luke 21:33 "Heaven & earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away." My question is, if we're in Heaven & it passes away what happens to our souls? Where do they go if there's no Heaven? Am I reading it wrong?

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