Brethren,
I do not wish to sow strife. That is an abomination to the Lord. He hates it and I love Him
and you.
I have taken into account your comments and do repent of taking matters into my own hands.
I apologize for hurting anyone...or giving you cause to not examine the warnings presented.
My heart is to help you but I guess God can do that! I do believe there IS dangerous error...so that's not a personal attack- but a WARNING. Do not let my actions keep you from considering the scriptures presented. Regardless of whether or not I did this "right' or whether or not you know my name...there is a message here...and the purpose is to glorify God and to help you.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
REPOST: Please pray about it!
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel (Galatians 1:6)
This blog is created to warn you to FLEE DECEPTION and to point you to Jesus Christ. If you are partaking of that bread- which is indeed leavened, you are in great spiritual danger, not to mention idolatry. This deception has literally killed people.
Any spirit, dream, vision or word that does not agree with the spirit, motive, fruit and goal of the Word- is to be rejected.
This warning is sent in love...love of God, love for my friends who are under this deception, and a love of Jesus Christ.
You have been programmed to refuse many warnings, both from the Holy Spirit, and from other people who have been set free. I hope to help you see the idolatry that has opened the door to this lying spirit...and point you to the Word- by which you may test ALL THINGS.
And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. (Matthew 4: 4-5)
“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.“Behold, I have told you in advance. “So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. (Matthew 24: 23-26)
Mind Control Tool Box
Copyright © Cultwatch 1996 - 2001. Written by Mark Vrankovich
Important Note
Remember, all together these form Mind Control. Separately they are undesirable but they are not Mind Control.
Deception
A cult will use deception. The cult will not normally tell people exactly what they believe, their origins, what they practice, and what life is really like in the cult, because if people knew they would not join. This information is taught to the new recruit slowly and in pieces - a "frog in the pot" tactic.
Deception is a key pre-requsite to Mind Control. The cult must be willing to deceive people. The Bible teaches that Christians are not to use deception. Many cults know this and yet practice deception.
Deception is a very effective tool in the Mind Control Tool Box.
Exclusivism
A mind control cult will promote an "Us verses Them" environment. They will teach their members that their church is the only true church, the only church in which you can be saved. If you leave the cult then it is said you have "fallen away from God." This is done to instill fear in the members which can be expressed like this: If you ever think of leaving this body of true Christians or do something which forces us to expel you from this body then you will be losing your salvation and God will hate you. There is nowhere else you can go and still be a Christian. This is a powerful control mechanism.
Exclusivism is fear based control mechanism, the Bible tells us that we have no reason to fear except for a healthy fear of God. Exclusivism imposes false criteria on salvation - "If you do not join us and/or if you are not doing what we are doing you are not saved." This of course is a serious doctrinal error ingrained in the practice of the group. Remember, just because a group does not teach it officially does not mean they do not practice it.
Fear and Intimidation
Leadership is feared. To disagree with leadership is to disagree with God. If the leaders tell you to do something, you had better do it. Often intense breaking sessions are employed to destroy any supposed rebellion or threat to the leadership. These sessions can involve many people at once attacking the character and motives of the target.
The Bible tells Christians not to "lord it over people," but rather to be one another's servants. Jesus attacked the Pharisees who placed themselves between God and the people. It does not take much to realize that fear and intimidation is not the biblical model for Christian leadership. (Fear and Intimidation is very different from having respect for Christian leaders.)
Love Bombing
A mind control cult practices love bombing or false love. When you first join the cult you will gain instant friends, you'll be hugged and everyone will want to talk to you. For someone who is lonely or comes from out of town this is especially wonderful. However, after a while this "love" becomes conditional on your performance and/or you measuring up to the cult's unpublished standards. If you ever leave the cult then you know you will lose all of your new friends just as quickly as you gained them. Like an unhealthy marriage relationship, love is switched on and off to control. Of all of them, this is probably the most effective implement in the mind control tool box.
We are relational beings with the ultimate aim of regaining a relationship with the God who created us. It only requires common sense to see the power this "love bombing" tool could have on someone. We have all seen it at work in the cults, at work in manipulative relationships and at work as peer pressure in schools and society in general. This false love is a distortion of true love which is defined in 1 Corinthians 13.
Information Control
Those who control the information control the person. In a mind control cult any information from outside the cult is considered evil, especially if it is opposing the cult. Members are told not to read it or believe it. Only the cult-supplied information is true.
This technique is really a partner to deception. Common sense tells us that a person who does not consider all information may make an unbalanced decision. Filtering the information available or trying to discredit it not of the basis of how true it is, but rather on the basis of how it supports the party line, is a common control method used throughout history. A Christian should have nothing to fear from any source of information - after all "Falsehood runs from truth, but truth stands solid against falsehood."
Reporting Structure
In a mind control cult like in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia you must be careful of what you say or do; "The walls have ears." Everyone is encouraged to watch out for "struggling" brothers and report what they see to the leadership. Often information given in deepest confidence will find its way to leadership. Cult members are sometimes shocked to find their problems preached about in the cult meetings. People comment that while in a Mind Control cult they were acting, always being worried about people watching.
This is opposite to the biblical model. The Reporting Structure is an important fear producing method in the Mind Control Tool Box.
Loaded Language
The cult will have their own language and terms. These prevent people outside the group being able to engage in "dangerous" conversations with members and it gives the members a sense of belonging. It also allows a phenomenon known as thought stopping where a simple word can stop any thoughts in the member's mind which are against the cult.
Harmless by itself, "loaded language" is used in all areas of life from the computer industry to orthodox Christianity. Every group or specialist field develops its own words or meanings for words, and this is often called "jargon." However, when mixed in with the other Mind Control tools, "loaded language" can take on a threatening attribute which is unbiblical. For example, in the International Church of Christ cult "loaded language" is used throughout the world - a typical conversation might go like this...
"The Bible says that we are saved by grace, not by works. You are telling me that I must get people baptised or I'm not a real Christian," says the Disciple.
"I am more spiritually mature than you and you are questioning what I am saying. You are PRIDEFUL and REBELLIOUS, you need to get RADICAL about your SIN," replied his Discipler.
Prideful & rebellious = You are the problem, not the ICC teaching.
Radical = Plunge into obeying the ICC teaching.
Sin = Thinking or acting outside the ICC rules, often including disobeying your discipler.
Time Control
Mind control cults keep their members so busy with meetings and activities that they become too busy and too tired to think about their involvement.
Again, common sense allows us to see that this would be an effective tool for controlling people. The flip side to this is that if a person can get out of the cult's "time control" schedule then after a few weeks, in our experience, they can begin to contrast "normal" life with the controlled cult environment and often this results in them leaving. The ICC, in New Zealand at least, has preached that it is best to not have a holiday at Christmas because that is when most people fall away from God (leave the ICC).
Relationship Control
A mind control cult will seek to maneuver your life so as to maximise your contact with cult members and minimise your contact with people outside the group, especially those who oppose your involvement. Cult members will be moved into cult communities or cult flats where they can be watched more closely and immersed in the cult environment. The cult must cut off any contact through which information or reminders of your past life will come. You cannot marry or date anyone outside of the cult and often your spouse will be chosen.
Controlling relationships is a powerful Mind Control method. Friends and family are important influences on our lives. By controlling those who we associate with and those who we respect, a Mind Control cult can influence a person towards becoming like those people who are "good" to be around. The Bible tells us that those we associate with do effect us. Every parent knows that the peers their child associates with affects the child, moving them towards what the peers have as a norm. All people are affected by society and the groups to which they belong. By defining who is "good" and who is "bad" the Mind Control cult is attempting to move the subject towards the "group norm" that their group has. Often intense pressure is put on people to stay away from the "bad" people which are often friends, parents and their old church.
Personal Identity Replacement
Three stages are involved; breaking, indoctrination and finally refreezing.
Fear and intimidation are used to break a person. Often the cult calls into question a person's salvation, and in some cults a person is not truly broken until they are crying uncontrollably.
Next the cult indoctrinates the person by pumping them full of cult doctrine and systematically destroying anything which does not agree with the party line. If a person objects to anything, their sincerity, character and motives are questioned.
Finally the person is frozen into the cult member mold. They become like all the other cult members to a certain degree. Friends and family will complain that the cult member has become a different person. Often in the early stages the cult member will float between their true identity and their cult identity, but as their cult involvement continues their true identity becomes more and more repressed.
This is a well established method of changing how people act and think, to mold them into a team member like everyone else. The Armed Forces use this method in basic training and throughout the career of their soldier. The difference is, that unlike in a Mind Control cult, the Armed Forces recruits know what is going on; it is expected. The Mind Control cult recruit goes through this process covertly. The cult recruit does not lose his true personality but rather represses it. They realise that by conforming there is more acceptance and less pressure to change. This is why people in a Mind Control cult will often seem to think, act and sound the same, whereas in a normal church group individual personalities are more evident.
Summary
Mind Control is not what many secular authors have tried to portray it as - a magic method of controlling its targets against their will making them only victims. Neither is it what those in opposition to the secular Mind Control model have defined it as, in their reaction they let the pendulum swing to the other side saying that Mind Control does not exist and is a fable invented by anti-Christian secularists.
Cultwatch says that Mind Control is a suite of practices Mind Control groups use to influence their members and potential recruits, a real attempt to control their minds. There is an enormous amount of evidence that certain groups are employing the Mind Control methods.
Mind Control will fail or succeed to a certain degree depending on the many factors of its target. The target of Mind Control is always able to choose to stop allowing it to influence them.
Mind Control is a morally wrong, unbiblical and unethical practice for any group. All Christians and non-Christians should strongly oppose its use. Counter-cult groups should oppose its use, labeling correctly any group which has been proven to use it as a Mind Control cult.
http://www.cultwatch.com/mctb.html
Important Note
Remember, all together these form Mind Control. Separately they are undesirable but they are not Mind Control.
Deception
A cult will use deception. The cult will not normally tell people exactly what they believe, their origins, what they practice, and what life is really like in the cult, because if people knew they would not join. This information is taught to the new recruit slowly and in pieces - a "frog in the pot" tactic.
Deception is a key pre-requsite to Mind Control. The cult must be willing to deceive people. The Bible teaches that Christians are not to use deception. Many cults know this and yet practice deception.
Deception is a very effective tool in the Mind Control Tool Box.
Exclusivism
A mind control cult will promote an "Us verses Them" environment. They will teach their members that their church is the only true church, the only church in which you can be saved. If you leave the cult then it is said you have "fallen away from God." This is done to instill fear in the members which can be expressed like this: If you ever think of leaving this body of true Christians or do something which forces us to expel you from this body then you will be losing your salvation and God will hate you. There is nowhere else you can go and still be a Christian. This is a powerful control mechanism.
Exclusivism is fear based control mechanism, the Bible tells us that we have no reason to fear except for a healthy fear of God. Exclusivism imposes false criteria on salvation - "If you do not join us and/or if you are not doing what we are doing you are not saved." This of course is a serious doctrinal error ingrained in the practice of the group. Remember, just because a group does not teach it officially does not mean they do not practice it.
Fear and Intimidation
Leadership is feared. To disagree with leadership is to disagree with God. If the leaders tell you to do something, you had better do it. Often intense breaking sessions are employed to destroy any supposed rebellion or threat to the leadership. These sessions can involve many people at once attacking the character and motives of the target.
The Bible tells Christians not to "lord it over people," but rather to be one another's servants. Jesus attacked the Pharisees who placed themselves between God and the people. It does not take much to realize that fear and intimidation is not the biblical model for Christian leadership. (Fear and Intimidation is very different from having respect for Christian leaders.)
Love Bombing
A mind control cult practices love bombing or false love. When you first join the cult you will gain instant friends, you'll be hugged and everyone will want to talk to you. For someone who is lonely or comes from out of town this is especially wonderful. However, after a while this "love" becomes conditional on your performance and/or you measuring up to the cult's unpublished standards. If you ever leave the cult then you know you will lose all of your new friends just as quickly as you gained them. Like an unhealthy marriage relationship, love is switched on and off to control. Of all of them, this is probably the most effective implement in the mind control tool box.
We are relational beings with the ultimate aim of regaining a relationship with the God who created us. It only requires common sense to see the power this "love bombing" tool could have on someone. We have all seen it at work in the cults, at work in manipulative relationships and at work as peer pressure in schools and society in general. This false love is a distortion of true love which is defined in 1 Corinthians 13.
Information Control
Those who control the information control the person. In a mind control cult any information from outside the cult is considered evil, especially if it is opposing the cult. Members are told not to read it or believe it. Only the cult-supplied information is true.
This technique is really a partner to deception. Common sense tells us that a person who does not consider all information may make an unbalanced decision. Filtering the information available or trying to discredit it not of the basis of how true it is, but rather on the basis of how it supports the party line, is a common control method used throughout history. A Christian should have nothing to fear from any source of information - after all "Falsehood runs from truth, but truth stands solid against falsehood."
Reporting Structure
In a mind control cult like in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia you must be careful of what you say or do; "The walls have ears." Everyone is encouraged to watch out for "struggling" brothers and report what they see to the leadership. Often information given in deepest confidence will find its way to leadership. Cult members are sometimes shocked to find their problems preached about in the cult meetings. People comment that while in a Mind Control cult they were acting, always being worried about people watching.
This is opposite to the biblical model. The Reporting Structure is an important fear producing method in the Mind Control Tool Box.
Loaded Language
The cult will have their own language and terms. These prevent people outside the group being able to engage in "dangerous" conversations with members and it gives the members a sense of belonging. It also allows a phenomenon known as thought stopping where a simple word can stop any thoughts in the member's mind which are against the cult.
Harmless by itself, "loaded language" is used in all areas of life from the computer industry to orthodox Christianity. Every group or specialist field develops its own words or meanings for words, and this is often called "jargon." However, when mixed in with the other Mind Control tools, "loaded language" can take on a threatening attribute which is unbiblical. For example, in the International Church of Christ cult "loaded language" is used throughout the world - a typical conversation might go like this...
"The Bible says that we are saved by grace, not by works. You are telling me that I must get people baptised or I'm not a real Christian," says the Disciple.
"I am more spiritually mature than you and you are questioning what I am saying. You are PRIDEFUL and REBELLIOUS, you need to get RADICAL about your SIN," replied his Discipler.
Prideful & rebellious = You are the problem, not the ICC teaching.
Radical = Plunge into obeying the ICC teaching.
Sin = Thinking or acting outside the ICC rules, often including disobeying your discipler.
Time Control
Mind control cults keep their members so busy with meetings and activities that they become too busy and too tired to think about their involvement.
Again, common sense allows us to see that this would be an effective tool for controlling people. The flip side to this is that if a person can get out of the cult's "time control" schedule then after a few weeks, in our experience, they can begin to contrast "normal" life with the controlled cult environment and often this results in them leaving. The ICC, in New Zealand at least, has preached that it is best to not have a holiday at Christmas because that is when most people fall away from God (leave the ICC).
Relationship Control
A mind control cult will seek to maneuver your life so as to maximise your contact with cult members and minimise your contact with people outside the group, especially those who oppose your involvement. Cult members will be moved into cult communities or cult flats where they can be watched more closely and immersed in the cult environment. The cult must cut off any contact through which information or reminders of your past life will come. You cannot marry or date anyone outside of the cult and often your spouse will be chosen.
Controlling relationships is a powerful Mind Control method. Friends and family are important influences on our lives. By controlling those who we associate with and those who we respect, a Mind Control cult can influence a person towards becoming like those people who are "good" to be around. The Bible tells us that those we associate with do effect us. Every parent knows that the peers their child associates with affects the child, moving them towards what the peers have as a norm. All people are affected by society and the groups to which they belong. By defining who is "good" and who is "bad" the Mind Control cult is attempting to move the subject towards the "group norm" that their group has. Often intense pressure is put on people to stay away from the "bad" people which are often friends, parents and their old church.
Personal Identity Replacement
Three stages are involved; breaking, indoctrination and finally refreezing.
Fear and intimidation are used to break a person. Often the cult calls into question a person's salvation, and in some cults a person is not truly broken until they are crying uncontrollably.
Next the cult indoctrinates the person by pumping them full of cult doctrine and systematically destroying anything which does not agree with the party line. If a person objects to anything, their sincerity, character and motives are questioned.
Finally the person is frozen into the cult member mold. They become like all the other cult members to a certain degree. Friends and family will complain that the cult member has become a different person. Often in the early stages the cult member will float between their true identity and their cult identity, but as their cult involvement continues their true identity becomes more and more repressed.
This is a well established method of changing how people act and think, to mold them into a team member like everyone else. The Armed Forces use this method in basic training and throughout the career of their soldier. The difference is, that unlike in a Mind Control cult, the Armed Forces recruits know what is going on; it is expected. The Mind Control cult recruit goes through this process covertly. The cult recruit does not lose his true personality but rather represses it. They realise that by conforming there is more acceptance and less pressure to change. This is why people in a Mind Control cult will often seem to think, act and sound the same, whereas in a normal church group individual personalities are more evident.
Summary
Mind Control is not what many secular authors have tried to portray it as - a magic method of controlling its targets against their will making them only victims. Neither is it what those in opposition to the secular Mind Control model have defined it as, in their reaction they let the pendulum swing to the other side saying that Mind Control does not exist and is a fable invented by anti-Christian secularists.
Cultwatch says that Mind Control is a suite of practices Mind Control groups use to influence their members and potential recruits, a real attempt to control their minds. There is an enormous amount of evidence that certain groups are employing the Mind Control methods.
Mind Control will fail or succeed to a certain degree depending on the many factors of its target. The target of Mind Control is always able to choose to stop allowing it to influence them.
Mind Control is a morally wrong, unbiblical and unethical practice for any group. All Christians and non-Christians should strongly oppose its use. Counter-cult groups should oppose its use, labeling correctly any group which has been proven to use it as a Mind Control cult.
http://www.cultwatch.com/mctb.html
Monday, September 19, 2011
10 signs of a spiritually unsafe group or leader
Rick Ross
Ten warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader.
- Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
- No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
- No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement.
- Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.
- There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.
- Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.
- There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader.
- Followers feel they can never be "good enough".
- The group/leader is always right.
- The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.
Ten warning signs regarding people involved in/with a potentially unsafe group/leader.
- Extreme obsessiveness regarding the group/leader resulting in the exclusion of almost every practical consideration.
- Individual identity, the group, the leader and/or God as distinct and separate categories of existence become increasingly blurred. Instead, in the follower's mind these identities become substantially and increasingly fused--as that person's involvement with the group/leader continues and deepens.
- Whenever the group/leader is criticized or questioned it is characterized as "persecution".
- Uncharacteristically stilted and seemingly programmed conversation and mannerisms, cloning of the group/leader in personal behavior.
- Dependency upon the group/leader for problem solving, solutions, and definitions without meaningful reflective thought. A seeming inability to think independently or analyze situations without group/leader involvement.
- Hyperactivity centered on the group/leader agenda, which seems to supercede any personal goals or individual interests.
- A dramatic loss of spontaneity and sense of humor.
- Increasing isolation from family and old friends unless they demonstrate an interest in the group/leader.
- Anything the group/leader does can be justified no matter how harsh or harmful.
- Former followers are at best considered negative or worse evil and under bad influences. They can not be trusted and personal contact is avoided.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Mt 11: 28-30)
When someone once warned me - I replied "They called Jesus a cult leader too." Please forgive me Lord!
Was Jesus "factious"?
He separated people away from religious bondage unto himself. (LEGAL: We can warn people away from error unto Jesus)
He revealed the hidden sins of their heart- as shown to Him by the Holy Spirit.
He was not told this by a dream...or a religious spirit...but by a word of knowledge from a Holy God.
But listen to the response of the religious leaders:
-They attempted to shame him.
-They attempted to silence him.
-They brought his past sins against him.
Sound familiar?
He revealed the hidden sins of their heart- as shown to Him by the Holy Spirit.
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” (John 7: 19-20)He was right...they did have nurder in their heart.
He was not told this by a dream...or a religious spirit...but by a word of knowledge from a Holy God.
But listen to the response of the religious leaders:
-They attempted to shame him.
-They attempted to silence him.
-They brought his past sins against him.
They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out. (John 9:34) His testimony.... I was blind- but now I see.
Sound familiar?
Grief and sorrow in the spirit
Save your people Lord!!
Have mercy Lord!
Remove every veil that may worship you in spirit and in truth
Without your grace and your help we cannot stand.
Give them eyes to see!
They are very proud and judge others.
Deliver your people from hypocrisy, finger pointing, false humility and spiritual pride!!
2 Peter 2
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned...
Please saints...intercede for your brethren.
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet,
Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,
And her salvation like a torch that is burning. (Isa 62:1)
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet,
Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,
And her salvation like a torch that is burning. (Isa 62:1)
Our God reigns! Worship Him!
Jesus Christ is Lord and His Word shall go forth!
The gates of hell shall not prevail over His church!
Our God reigns here!
More of you and less of me
The gates of hell shall not prevail over His church!
Our God reigns here!
More of you and less of me
Time for some joy in the Lord!
My Help Comes from the Lord
A Song of Ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
Eve wanted forbidden knowledge and power...what lured you in?
All idolatry has some lure...or benefit to our flesh. We want, like, or lust something in addition to Jesus Christ.
For many UBMers it was loneliness and the normal desire to fellowship with likeminded believers. It is a lonely, misunderstood road, separating yourself from an apostate church system. Church goers see you as rebellious and worldly people can't relate either.
Some were snagged by spiritual pride. The glorious revelations, dreams, and hearing from God...puffed us up. How could we be wrong....when we had learned so much.
Many had struggles with legalism and had not yet entered into a revelation of grace.
Some enjoyed the feeling of being in an elite spiritual group. " Most of the church is the harlot...but we have come out. We are the remnent...the first fruits...the manchild who is to LEAD the rest of the church."
Many came in through the door of paranoia, fear of the end times, and a desire for a refuge.
Others prayed...Lord show me the truth....and "God led them to UBM." However, if we are praying to God with an idol in our heart...he will answer us according to that idol.
We had idols in our hearts when we prayed that prayer...we still wanted to be in a church, even as we left the church buildings, the ideas and structure were still in us. We were used to sitting under a man we admired spiritually.
God's people- it's time to repent!
Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (Col 2:18)
For many UBMers it was loneliness and the normal desire to fellowship with likeminded believers. It is a lonely, misunderstood road, separating yourself from an apostate church system. Church goers see you as rebellious and worldly people can't relate either.
Some were snagged by spiritual pride. The glorious revelations, dreams, and hearing from God...puffed us up. How could we be wrong....when we had learned so much.
Many had struggles with legalism and had not yet entered into a revelation of grace.
Some enjoyed the feeling of being in an elite spiritual group. " Most of the church is the harlot...but we have come out. We are the remnent...the first fruits...the manchild who is to LEAD the rest of the church."
Many came in through the door of paranoia, fear of the end times, and a desire for a refuge.
Others prayed...Lord show me the truth....and "God led them to UBM." However, if we are praying to God with an idol in our heart...he will answer us according to that idol.
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the Lord will answer him myself. And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. (Ezekiel 14: 6-9)
We had idols in our hearts when we prayed that prayer...we still wanted to be in a church, even as we left the church buildings, the ideas and structure were still in us. We were used to sitting under a man we admired spiritually.
God's people- it's time to repent!
Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (Col 2:18)
The Nicolaitan Error
Who corrects your head pastor or teacher?
Who does he confess sin to?
Have you ever heard or seen him repent...of anything?
Does he have spiritually mature people in this life that he receives from?
Is he correctable? Will he repent if sin is exposed or revealed by two or three witnesses?
Are there spiritually mature people around him, that he will submit to?
Will he submit to Matthew 18 situations, when sin is witnessed by eyewitnesses...or does he do this to others,
yet refuse to humble himself to the same?
These are indications that are in a NICOLAITAN assembly and the Holy Spirit is not leading your group.
How can He- if your leader is never wrong...
Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. (2 Cor. 6:17)
Who does he confess sin to?
Have you ever heard or seen him repent...of anything?
Does he have spiritually mature people in this life that he receives from?
Is he correctable? Will he repent if sin is exposed or revealed by two or three witnesses?
Are there spiritually mature people around him, that he will submit to?
Will he submit to Matthew 18 situations, when sin is witnessed by eyewitnesses...or does he do this to others,
yet refuse to humble himself to the same?
These are indications that are in a NICOLAITAN assembly and the Holy Spirit is not leading your group.
How can He- if your leader is never wrong...
Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. (2 Cor. 6:17)
Who is your head?
If Jesus Christ is our head- we are in His body.
If a man, a ministry, or "another Jesus" is our head...we are in grave danger.
I recommend this chapter of The Crucified Ones by Charles Elliot Newbold Jr. for a good description of what that would look like:
You can read the whole chapter here.
If a man, a ministry, or "another Jesus" is our head...we are in grave danger.
I recommend this chapter of The Crucified Ones by Charles Elliot Newbold Jr. for a good description of what that would look like:
Nevertheless, the crucified ones are submitted one to another, especially to those others who are sensitive to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. Having come through the cross as it were, they are humble, broken before the Lord, and eager to examine themselves to see if there is any evil within. They voluntarily and willfully present themselves accountable one to another.
They have no ambition for self but see themselves as servants. They are willing to do their service before God in secret, making no acclaim for themselves. They do not seek for themselves "a city, and a tower, ...and a name" (Gen. 11:4). They are without ambition to increase themselves in power, position, or riches. They are not interested in building churches and memberships for themselves, devising programs, or gaining reputation and titles. They have no agenda of their own. They only want and pursue what God wants.While they are genuinely submitted one to the other in the Spirit, they are not motivated by the fear of man but by their reverence for God Almighty. Jesus is absolute Lord in their lives. They have renounced all forms of idolatry.
You can read the whole chapter here.
Protection from Deception by Derek Prince
Protection from Deception- Navigating the Minefield of signs and wonders
What is a lying sign or wonder?
How could Satan deceive Spirit filled Christians...who even cast out demons or even have the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits?
Can someone who works miracles, is used for healing, and casts out demons....be fallen away?
Jesus says "yes"!
What is a lying sign or wonder?
How could Satan deceive Spirit filled Christians...who even cast out demons or even have the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits?
Can someone who works miracles, is used for healing, and casts out demons....be fallen away?
Jesus says "yes"!
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matthew 7: 21-23)
We love you UBMers and Brother David.
Please test the spirit that is leading you.
Prophetic warning
Flee and repent
In the spirit I see thick flesh being torn (from what seems to be a heel).
Then I hear: "Rend your hearts not your garments."
Next I see in the spirit A picture of fire from heaven coming down in judgment in the middle of a desert and think of Numbers 16, the people separating from those in rebellion (to God).
I hear RUN forward, RUN away and RUN away quickly from Unleavened Bread Ministries.
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, "Separate yourselves from amongthis congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?" And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins." (Numbers 16:20-26)
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil. (Joel 2:13)
Some who are "not choosing sides" on the fridges, could get pulled in to this judgment. There must be a spiritual separation from all unclean spirits and true repentance.
A false anointing...is also another definition of a "false Christ."
A false anointing...is also another definition of a "false Christ."
Urgent Warning
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel (Galatians 1:6)
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; (Mt 18:17a)
This blog is created to warn you to FLEE FROM DECEPTION and to point you to Jesus Christ. If you are partaking of that bread- which is indeed leavened, you are in great spiritual danger, not to mention idolatry. This deception has literally killed people.
Any spirit, dream, vision or word that does not agree with the spirit, motive, fruit and goal of the Word- is to be rejected.
This warning is sent in love...love of God, love for my friends who are under this deception, and a love of Jesus Christ.
You have been programmed to refuse many warning, both from the Holy Spirit, and from other people who have been set free. I hope to help you see the idolatry that has opened the door to this lying spirit...and point you to the Word- by which you may test ALL THINGS.
Ministry friends: We love you and are praying for you! Some of you will indeed be set free, by the mercy and grace of God.
And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. (Matthew 4: 4-5)
“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.“Behold, I have told you in advance. “So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. (Matthew 24: 23-26)
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; (Mt 18:17a)
This blog is created to warn you to FLEE FROM DECEPTION and to point you to Jesus Christ. If you are partaking of that bread- which is indeed leavened, you are in great spiritual danger, not to mention idolatry. This deception has literally killed people.
Any spirit, dream, vision or word that does not agree with the spirit, motive, fruit and goal of the Word- is to be rejected.
This warning is sent in love...love of God, love for my friends who are under this deception, and a love of Jesus Christ.
You have been programmed to refuse many warning, both from the Holy Spirit, and from other people who have been set free. I hope to help you see the idolatry that has opened the door to this lying spirit...and point you to the Word- by which you may test ALL THINGS.
Ministry friends: We love you and are praying for you! Some of you will indeed be set free, by the mercy and grace of God.
And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. (Matthew 4: 4-5)
“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.“Behold, I have told you in advance. “So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. (Matthew 24: 23-26)
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