Jesus Calling and A Course in Miracles Come From the Same Source

 The more I think about the book "Jesus Calling" the more amazed I am at how such things fly under the radar in Christian settings.    How did I overlook it the first time I encountered it?   How was it only a vague sense of a red flat the second time?   Why did it take hearing a number of people experienced with such things before I too came to see it as a demonic counterfeit?

Sad to say I think a lot of it is spiritual dullness brought about by a way too casual attitude to sins of various kinds.   Sin dulls the siritual senses.   their sharpness can be regained but it takes some effortt and self-denial for that.  

But I think in many cases it's a problem of Bible illiteracy.  Great numbers of people are drawn to these counterfeits from within the Church.   Maybe many of them aren't savedb but at least they are not likiely to be very knowledgeable about the bible.    How such enormous numbers could fill a whole stadium to listen to a Beth Moore or a Joel Osteen is hard to explain unless most of them really aren't Christians in the sense of being born again.    the same must be true of those enormous numbers who gobble up the false teachings of a Jewsus Calling or the Shack and that sort of thing.

I realized recently that the method of wriing Jesus Calling is the same as that for A Course in Miracles.  It starts out something like "This is a Coure in Miracles, Please take Notes" and it's supposedly dictated by "Jesus."   "Jesus Calling" is compared by the critics to a New Age book called "God Calling" but it's just as much related to "A Course in Miracles" and probably also many other channeled demonic writingsa that may not use the name Jesus.   

But of course the name Jesus would have a  special attractiveness to people with a Christiian identity, a vague and compromised Christian identity anyway.   Those who live a strong Christian life and know the bible are a lot less likely to be attracted to this sort of thing.

Weak preachin has to have a lot to do with this too.

this Church needs rescuing.

"When the Last Elect Person Believes"

That's when the Rapture occurs, when the Church is snatched away.  That's how John MacArthur puts it here"

The Rapture John MacArthur - YouTube

He's stating the position of the Pre=tribulation Rapture as I've heard it from all those who believe in it.

But isn't there a huge gaping problem with this idea?  Supposedly many will be saved during the tribulation that follows the Rapture, both Jews and Gentiles.  If the last elect person came into the Church just before the rapture, who are all those who get saved after?  

Something is wrong here, and this is just one of the problems I've bbeen having with the Pre trib position, although in saying that I'm not saying there's any other end times system that makes any better sense to me.  Most of the others are far less coherent than this one.    Nevertheless there are pro9blems with ti that I can't resolve.   I've mentioned a number of times the problem of the martyrs under the altar in Revelation Six, the fifth Seal.     How can there be martyrs waiting for the fullness of their number when the Rapture has already occurred which presumably would have taken all the martyrs of the Middle Ages?   Why have a separate group of martyrs that doesn't include those?  

Well, I don't have the answer, all I can do is ask the questions.  lThey lead me to wanting to push the Rapture further ahead into the tribulation or after it, but those answers only raise more problems to solve..     But still I keep coming back to this problem of the two different groups, it's still the biggest problem to me.  If the times of the Gentiles end with the Rapture how can there be millions of Gentiles getting saved after that?   They aren't elect?  How can that be?    

Later , about 5 pm:   Also, how can the "times of the gentiles" be ended with the pre-trib Rapture if there is still to come a gentil Antichrist representing the last of the four Gentile empires of the book of daniel, and the antichrist is to desecrate the Jewish temple?      the Church Age would be ended with teh Rapture burt  the Times of the gentiles relate to the Jewish temple, don't they?Of course there won't have been a Jewish temple for about two thousand years at the time of the Pre-Trib Rapture...

Otherwise it's a very satisfying coherent tsystem, bringing in the Seventieth Week of daneil in a specifically Jewish framework etc etc etc.