Occultism: The Latest Stage of Doctrinal Deviation in the Churches

 Jan Markell's most recent Understanding the Times radio show is about a rise in interest in the occult that is becoming popular even in the churches. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCqRDA5LA5A 

This is certainly another sign of our closeness to the end as the religion of the antichrist will certainly be occultic and satanic.   

The scripture that is quoted to concemn this is 

1 Timothy 4:1-3   Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils;  Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their consciences seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats...

I want to point out about this passage that in context it is clearly referring to the Roman Church with its prohibition against marriage for its priests and prohibition of eating meat, at least on one day a week, and this was part of the scriptural basis for identifying the papacy as the Antichrist according to Luther and perhaps other Reformers.   If you leave out the last verse it has a more general application that also seems appropriate but isn't really what the passage is saying.  The "doctinres of demons" in context appears to point to the doctrines of the Roman Church.   The "falling away" or Great Apostasy that is also taken as a sign of the last days was intrpreted by the Reformers to refer to the doctrines of the RC Church.

HOWEVER, there is no doubt that occultic practices are directly connected to demons and their doctrines, and that we are now seeing a spreading of apostasy in the churches.

Although all this does point to the nearness of the Tribulation period, it can also be seen as the ltest phase in a progression of deviations in the churches that have been accumulating over time, from as far back at least as the rise of Liberal theology in the 19th century, and I keep returning to the idea that we could turn back the coming judgment at least for a time if we reversed the trend.  

That would mean seeking God for undertsanding of where to start, and I think that would likely be by requiring women to resume covering our heads in church.  We require men to be bareheaded on the basis of that same passage of scripture and since we read that literally it makes no sense not to read the requirement for women to be covered also literally.  There may be other places to start but I keep coming back to this as a glaring departure that desperately needs to be rectified.   

If we did that I think we could apready start to see improvement in our spiritual vision, because it's deviations and sins that cloud our spiritual vision.   The attack on biblical inerrancy by the Great Bible Hoax of 1881. also needs to be recoghnized and addreswsed.  And another thing I've been forgetting lately that I'd add is that too many churches are soft on divorce and remarriage and I don't think you can just repent of that without doing something about it, but each case would have to be decided separately.

It seems too much to ask but if God convicted us it could be done.

Another First Time Reaction Video

Maybe THIS is how to save the world (young black guy who shed tears over Pavarotti now reacts to Mozart's Requiem)

Mozart - Requiem REACTION - YouTube

How to Save the World Part 2

 Needed to hear Chris Pinto's recent radio show again, titled Bible Skeptics and Progressive Christian Heresy    NOTR - BIBLE SKEPTICS & PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN HERESY - 3.4.21 - Show Downloads - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto

When I manage to have my wits about me, which is iffy these days, I realize that it all comes down to the churches.  We can go on and on about how the nation is being dismantled by evil doctrines, we can document them and lament them but we seem to have no power against them.  We get silenced, our best arguments don't persuade many if any, and i for one think "Oh well, we're doomed, we're under God's judgment, it's all over, the next step is most likely the absolute End Game before Jesus comes back -- the Rapture, the Tribulation, the world rule of the final Antichrist and then the End," .

And that may well be, but as I also say, sometimes i get glimmers of hope that it doesn't have to work out that way... yet.   And that takes me back to the churches which is where it all stands or falls.  We're supposed to be "salt and light" to the world, but if the salt has lost its savor, said Jesus, it is fit only to be trampled under foot.  

Here we have access to the power that runs the universe and we seem to have lost the connection.  We're supposed to be the "Church Militant," (as opposed to the Church Triumphant which is in heaven) but we're more like the Church Impotent, losing ground every day.  We're supposed to be able to do battle with the Principalities and Powers in the heavenlies, we can't even win an argument on earth.  Some of us are personally compromised, but the root problem has to be that the foundations of Christian doctrine and faith are compromised.   Our strength is God's strength and if we've abandoned His word we've lost our "sword of the Spirit."

And the sad thing is that we've abandoned His Word and DON'T KNOW IT.  Chris Pinto gets at this problem very clearly in that radio show.  Just about all the churches have bought into the Great Bible Hoax of 1881, accepted the bogus "scholarship" that identifies two Greek manuscripts as the most ancient ever discovered which has given them an immense authority,  an authority  that has undermined the previous Authoritzed Version, the King James.  As Pinto explains, there is NO evidence whatever for the claim that these manuscripts are so ancient and most authentic.  NONE.    Dean William Burgon protested their elevation in his truly scholarly Revision Revised  but the 1881 revision prevailed.  

Why do lies prevail in the churches?  This is a supernatural thing.  It's the way God's Law works.  If there is already sin in the churches there will be more sin, if there is also doctrinal error in the churches there will be more doctrinal error.  It takes a constant vigilance and constant repentance to overcome these things and we lose the fight by not fighting or not fighting with the right weapons.   In the earlier 19th century the discipline of Textual Criticism had already been compromised and undermined biblical inerrancy, leading to Liberal Christianity.  It was the liberal churches in Germany that capitulated to Hitler.  

The Bible was already in doubt thanks to those earlier trends so that when the Revising Committee that was taken over by Westcott and Hort produced the bogus Greek manuscripts it was taken for legitimate scholarship and we got all the modern Bible translations based on it.  The original objective of the revising committe was to do only the absolutely necessary changes IN THE ENGLISH of the King James Bible to bring it up to date.  Instead W and H introduced these bogus Greek manuscripts and corrupted the whole undertaking to the detriment of the churches ever since.  

I tried to document some of this in my blog on the subject.  Chris Pinto's documentaries on the Bible go into the greatest detail in studying the problem.   The series is "A Lamp in the Dark" and the two that deal with this problem are "Tares Among the Wheat" and "Bridge to Babylon."  

The Greek manuscripts in question are Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus.  In this radio show linked above Pinto says Vaticanus has had the most influence on the modern Bibles through the Critical Text on which they are based.  It is known to have appeared in 1475 and there is no evidence whatever of any earlier existence of it, but Westcott and Hort purely speculatively place it back in the fourth century.  Also Sinaiticus which showed up in 1859 and also has no known previous history but has been given the same history that puts it back in the fourth centur4y.  On the basis of this purely speculative reasoning these manuscripts acquired  an authority that overthrew the Greek rexts that undergird the King James Bible that have documentary proof back to the tenth century and testimony much further back than that.   Erasmus considered Vaticanus to be a forgery.  Pinto talks about all this.

The problem with these manuscripts is that they leave out certain well-known passages.  They leave out the last twelve verses of the book of Mark, they leave out John 8 and they leave out Luke 23.   The absence of these passages is taken to represwent the original authentic Greek manuscript because of Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.  Dean Burgon considered them both to have been tampereed with by early heretics and says the whole Church had known of such tamperings which is why they were rejected.  Westcott and Hort managed to prevail, however, in giving them an undeserved authenticity which now dominates Bible scholarship in the seminaries and is accepted in the churches.

Westcott and Hort made up the theory that the passages left out of Vaticanus and Sinaiticus but present in the Textus Receptus which underlies the King James, were added to the Bible in the early years and are not authentic.  Although this is pure speculation with nothing to support it the idea took hold and now undermines belief in Biblical inerrancy.  Even some who insist on Biblical inerrancy, insist that the Bible is indeed God's Word, such as James White, by accepting that the absense of some passages represents the authentic original Bible, accepts a view that undermines Biblical inerrancy.   And even if they won't admit to this others see how it does and promote it very aggressively.  Chris Pinto starts out his radio show with the teachings of a church in Nashviolle Tennessee which actively says the Bible is not inerrant and is not God's word.  Thanks to Westcott and Hort's bogus manuscripts.

All that needed to be spelled out for the purpose of identifying it as a major way the churches have lost the superntural power we shouild have to be the salt and light in the culture that might be able to put the brakes on the current downslide into complete destruction.  I've noted many times that the churches have not had a genuine revival for many years, and I suspect that the very few places where a revival did occur were churches that had not given up the King James and most likely also where the women covered their heads in church.   I'm guessing but for sure there hasn't been a REAL revival in America probably during the entire last century.  Some pretty odd charismatic "revivals" yes but if you watch some of them on videos I think the lack of genuine Christian doctrine and Chriwstian feeling is clear 

Certainly there are many good pastors and Christians who use one of the revised Bibles who stand by Biblical inerrancy and preach it, but how do they avoid the endless footnotes in those Bibles that cast doubt on those passages not found in the bogus manuscripts which are of coure referred to as the oldest and best?  Althnough they are included in their Bibles for tradition's sake, tradition is all the authenticity they have if Westcott and Hort's theory is believed.

I've argued strenuously for the literal head covering for women based on 2 Corinthians 11, in my blog Hidden Glory and I do think think that itsw abandonment is based on bad Bible exegesis.  Since it is an emblem of God's creation ordinance of the headship of man over woman I don't think this is a trivial thing and that its abandonment is likely one of the doors to other heresies that have undermined the churches over the last century.  

The acceptance of the modern Bibles is another door to heresy.  

So my thesis is that if we want to be restored to the power we should have as God's people these are two major issues we have to reverse and repent of.  

Sure, I'm nobody.  Ask God.

How to Save the World

 I know i'm a broken record to use a dated phrase, I just keep repeating myself.  Into the void too, nobody listening, but even if they were what good would it do?:   Is it too late?:  I think so but then again I get some hope from here and there that it may not be.   America is coming apart, Western Civilzation is being dismantled.  Can it be turned back?  Again I don't think so, judging by all the signs I can see, but again sometimes I hope.  I'm not sure why.  If we're at the very end anyway then the world does have to come apart, that's the prophesied scenario.  Better to get it all over with.  But so many people will be put through such incredible suffering, so many will die, who wants that?   And again, who's listening?  If you reject the Bible as so many do these days what good does it do to talk about 3what the Bible says is going to happen? 

All that's left is hoping it might be of some value WHILE it's all happening to know WHAT is happening.  I write quite a few posts with that in mind.  Family, friends who aren't going to listen now might listen then.  Hard way to do it but better to be beheaded for finally getting the truth than take the mark of the beast and spend an eternity in Hell.

And again there is a way to postpone the inevitable, a way to save America and Western Civilization, but it's not going to happen swo why bother to mention it?   The west abandoned God decades ago.  Our laws have increasingly actually directly embraced what God's Law prohibits.  No society can survive that for long.   Even Christians have had their minds so twisted they think evil is good and good is evil.  

Abortion for instance is aggressively defended as a good and to oppose it is evil, it's supposedly an attack on women, as if killing your baby is a benefit.  They have to deny it's a baby of course.  Or some do.  Some actually say they know it is but it doesn't matter, human lifre is so devalued in this wonderful utopia that is being constructed.

The death penalty even for murder is aggressively opposed as a great evil, even in God's name although scripture itself says it is the just penalty for taken a human life since humanity is made in the image of God. 

Larry Flint died recently and I've heard many people say how he championed a good cause in the name of freedom of speech and that it was truly justice that prevailed in allowing pornopraphy to pollute the culture in the name of that freedom.   That's not what the first amendment was ever for.  Today it's being denied where it should be applied and applied where it should be denied.   Upside down, good for evil and evil for good.

And you'll be denounced as a terrible person if you believe that homosexuality is a sin and gay marriage is a violation of God's Law.   You're a "bigot" and a "hater" for telling the simple truth.   Good for evil and evil for good.

Does anybody even know these days that for a man to dress as a woman or a woman as a man is forbidden in the Bible?  But the society has gone much further than that and is now demanding that we all treat a person according to what sex he or she WANTS to be although there is no way to change the biological facts.   There's some kind of obsession involved that drives such ideas and I don't know where to start to save people from it, but forcing all the rest of society to accept their fantasy is a great evil.

Now we have political leaders justifying stealing and destruction of property as supposedly justice because of past racism.  Racism is certainly a sin in God's eyes as all hatred without a cause is, but the remedy is as much or more of a violation of God's Law than the sin of racism.  The facts when actually recognized belie the whole idea of systemic racism but those facts are suppressed, a dangerous violation of the commandment against lying.  Lying is done every day by the sources of infomration, all in the service of promoting today's favored evil vision for society that they call good.  And nobody is thinking at all about how such violations of God's Law are bringing God's wrath down on the heads of those justifying them and on the society as a whole.  .

Just that short list covers all the Ten Commandments spelled out in the Bible.  Let's see we've got lots of violations of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" which embraces the sexual sins which are rampant in many forms these days.  And there are plenty of violations of "Thou shalt not commit murder" as  Jesus taught murder to include hatred in the heart.  I think many justifications of murder could be found today and all I mentioned was the opposition to the death penalty.   Of course the death penalty itself is called murder, just another case of evil for good, but to oppose it is actually to justify the murders for which it is justice according to God's Law.   Then we've got all this justifying of looting and burning supposedly int he name of justice, violating "Thou shalt not steal" and worse.  Violations of "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has become an everyday practice, and  of "Thou shalt not covet" would hardly be noticed.  

 All that barely begins to describe the enormity of the problem.   All our institutions are undermined by justified violations of God's Law.   How we maintain any social stability at all is the amazing thing.   There are plenty of voices on the right side of these things but the forces of evil have become so powerful it's hard to see how it could be undone.  It's gone on too long, it's become too entrenched.

"Judgment begins at the house of God" is still the place to start.   A radical reformation is needed, and it's needed in the "good" churches no less than the outright heretical and apostate.   Is anyone seeking God to find out where to start?   I could repeat some of my own suppositions but there's really no point.  If the churches got serious about it and prayed about it and sincerely wanted to know all the ways we Christians have offended God anybody's personal guesses aren't necessary.  He'd tell us where we've gone wrong.   

THAT's the solution, the beginning of the solution.  Is that going to happen?

The Poison Brew of the Nineteenth Century Is Choking Us in the 21st.

Many lines of evil are all coming together at once in this fallen world, lines of thought that started over a century ago all coming together to snare the unwary.   The Nineteenth Century brought us a veritable witches' brew of novel theories and ideologies designed to undermine all truth.  And fallen humanity eats it up.  

TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND THE GREAT BIBLE HOAX

Such as the "scholarly" work of Textual Criticism that came out of the Tubingen School in  Germany. That one's huge.  It brought us the lies of Liberal Christianity.  And at the end of the century we got the lies of the promotion of two supposedly recently discovered Greek texts as older and more reliable that became the foundation of a whole slew of new Bibles that have been polluting the churches ever since.  Chris Pinto has a lot to say about it in his documentaries and radio shows.   Here's his most reent radio show on the subject:

 NOTR - BIBLE SKEPTICS & PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN HERESY - 3.4.21 - Noise of Thunder Radio Show - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto  

As is often the case some of the best Christian preachers and teachers have embraced this assault on the Bible as if it were respectable scholarship, and prying anyone loose from that perspective appears to be impossible, at least by human means.   I have a whole blog on the subject, "The Great Bible Hoax of 1881" where I try to collect the best arguments, but Chris Pinto goes into it all in far more historical detail.

So sad to see the proliferation of the modern Bible versions in all the churches, which have created a veritable babel in which simple communication is disrupted while despite all the testimony to the contrary by Christian believers the inerrancy of God's word is thrown into doubt.  Listen to this latest radio show by Pinto.  Westcott and Hort's totally made-up "theory" is destroying the biblical basis of Christian theology and faith.

MARX, ANOTHER INGREDIENT IN THE WITCHES' BREW

Then there was Marx who provided the evil ideology that has enragptured so many people in the last few decades, an ideology specifically aimed at the destruction of America and Western Civilization, maybe most popularly in the form of Neo Marxism or Cultural Marxism.  I recently listened to Glenn Loury interviewing James Lindsay who touched on this as one source of Wokeism.  He gets into the subject of Cultural Marxism starting about 41:  

Wokeism's Postmodern Roots | Glenn Loury & James Lindsay - YouTube

The Anti-Racist stuff comes out of this, and Antifa too, and BLM.   It has made its way into the churches also, carried in by the Jesuit-originated (Luigi Tapparelli) Social Justice idea for instance.  And although there's no direct connection that's easy to find that I know of, I'm sure Feminism, which in its current form derives from Cultural Marxism, is the root of the abandonment of the women's head covering in the churches.   

Undo the undeserved reputation of the bogus Bibles, undo the effects of Social Jutice and Marxism, restore the head covering, and we, God's people, might be able to save the churches, save America, even the world.  I mean it, but then I'm just a cockeyed optimist.   

DARWIN, ANOTHER POISON TOAD IN THE WITCHES' BREW

There was also of  course Darwin's influence and the growth of the bogus science he inspired that has a death grip on today's scientists.  Mostly it's window dresswing since they just CALL everything evolution whether it is or not.  When they are discussing current observations of biological facts, various adaptations of interesting creatures around the world perhaps, or even the variants of the corona virus, calling them "evolved," the term is being misused.  At least it is being aggresively appropriated to Darwinian theory which obscures the main point that the theory of evolution is fundamentally not about variants but the idea that over hundredws of millions of years Species eveolved from Species, human beings evolved from fish etc.  Through apes of course.  And so on and so forth. 

But each creature's genome is designed for variation on its own theme as it were.  You will never get anything but a cat from the cat genome, even when altered by mutations, but you can get a whole lot of very insteresting variations of cats.  I think this is intuitively obvious but I've also argued at length that the processes of evolution (variation) themselves reduce genetic diversity, potentially to complete depletion, which makes further evolution impossible.  

A Creationist Explanation of Global Warming

I posted a link to a talk on climate change in the previous post in which the speaker clearly accepts the idea of an ancient earth and the supposed Time Periods of modern geology that undergird evolutionary theory.   He refers for instance to the Cambrian rocks as supposedly demonstrating an atmosphere high in CO2 all those hundreds of millions of years ago.  He also refers to a plant enzyme he says can be traced back hundreds of millions of years.

I don't know if such notions affect the idea of climate change one way or another but of course I reject them as wrong because I accept the Young Earth of biblical calculations.  That means that the rocks in which the fossils are found were deposited by the worldwide Flood some 4300 years ago, which means that whatever evidence of climate might be found in the rocks would point to the climate before the Flood, not to some era hundreds of millions of years ago.    And if it does, that would be very interesting to know too, but mainstream science isn't going to be looking there.

He does mention that he thinks the current warming of the planet is most likely due to the receding of the Little Ice Age thta came to an end in the early 1800s.   I'd figured the whole warming trend goes back to the Flood itself, which would have brought on a major icea age that took millennia to retreat.  It could have extended and retreated in small increments over all that time too, but it makes sense that it all started with a massive cooling after the Flood.  One argument against such views that I have encountered is that the Flood would have generated a great deal of heat that would have fried Noah and his ark, and especially when I get into arguing that the Flood is what caused the splitting and driffing of the continents, which means they had to have drifted apart at a great rate of speed, at least a few feet per day at the begining..   The earth shoujld be a burnt-out cinder if all that happened.

Well later it occurred to me that the heat would have been rapidly evacuated into space, which would have brought on cooling, even a great ice age, even conceivably a "snowball earth"    I've never followed the arguments of the creationists who say that the biblical account puts a "canopy" over the whole planet, which is what rained down for those forty days and nights at the beginning of the Flood.   It would have been canopy of water vapor then, which is also part of the current ceiling of greenhouse tasses being talked about today as so dangerous.   The original canopy's  dissolution nto rain would have exposed more of the atmosphere of the Earth to cold outer space into which all the heat generated by whatever means, a lot of it in the form of evaporation, would have rapidly dissipated, having a drastic cooling effect.  Since science very credibly accounts for an ice age that penetrated very far south all over the world, this outward radiation of heat would explain it nicely.   Then afterward the "canopy" would have been somewhat restored over time from the accumulation of "greenyhouse gasses"  and water vapor as all forms of life expanaded and spread acrossw the world.   Say it took 4300 years and we're now at the end of the warming that caused the recession oI the ONE ice age.   Perhaps with smaller extensions and retreats but overall just one huge ice age. 

Time Periods in Rocks?

But I also keep coming back to the plain absurdity of the idea of the Time Periods which deludes both modern geology and modern biology    This is the absurdity of the idea that there was a Cambrian period of time that corresponds to a layer of sedimentary rock in which an enormous abundance of fossils are found that are interepreted as having lived during that Time Period.  Same idea for the whole stack of sedimentary rocks that climb in straight layers above it.  Why isn't the absurdity of time being divided into slabs of sedimentary rock recognized?   Why?  Different sedimentary rocks stacked one on top of the eother across most of the planet, each with its own set of fossils.   It's so OBVIOUSLY something that could only have happened on some mechanical or physical principle that makes absolutely no sense in terms of vast periods of time.    Oh but they'll defend it to the death while I hold my head in despair.  

Well, this post wandered a fair bit but I think the theme remains intact.  Our modern world is poisoned by a crazy proliferation of false ideas, some coming to fruition in some pretty scary politics.

And the Fascist Politics Concerning Climate Change

Listening to a talk on climate change that disputes the current views on global warming.   He talks about the necessity of CO2 for the health of the planet,  mentions a document signed by hundreds of scientiests that agree there is no climate emergency, which of course is suppressed by the media and Big Tech, and so on,  I feel I need to listen again some time to understand the science issues better but it looks like a good argument.    

How to Think About Climate Change | William Happer - YouTube

Vaccine and Virus Fascist Politics

A couple of links to recent information about the politics of the Coronavirus.  First a very short clip of a woman in Israel talking about the laws mandating the vacciine that are making life miserable for those who distrust it:   Urgent Message from Llana Rachel in Israel - YouTube

Then there's a recent radio show by Christ Pinto on related events, the arrest of a pastor in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for instance, for his violation of laws supposedly necessary to public health.  He goes on to discuss the role of the Jesuits including the Jesuit influence of Anthony Fauci and Beill and Melinda Gates:   NOTR - JESUITS, CORONAVIRUS & DR. FAUCI - 2.25.21 - Noise of Thunder Radio Show - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto