End-Time Events Part
III
Conditioning to Accept
New Age Christ’s
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“Ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil.”
– Satan to Eve, Genesis 3:5.
“Take heed that
no man deceive you. For many shall
come in My name, saying, I am Christ,
and shall deceive many.” Matthew
24: 4,5.
“Strait is the
Gate, and Narrow is the Way Which
Leadeth Unto Life, and Few There
Be That Find It.” Matthew
7:14.
Transformed By His
Presence
Unless we spend much
time with the Lord, unless we tarry
long in His presence, unless we learn
to wrestle with Him in communion and
prayer, we will never know
Him.
The Teachings, and the
Cultural Effects
One of the greatest
dangers of the pantheistic, New Age
Christ, (and other false
christ’s as well), is not only
the teachings of pantheism, but the
diffuse, and sometimes not so subtle,
culture, and the church.
How the Cultural
Effect Works
For instance, if a New
Ager were to directly teach what
pantheism is, namely, that god is in
everything, many of the older folk,
nursed and brought up in a
Protestant, Christian culture and
church, would instantly reject the
teaching. However, what happens is,
the entire culture around us, the
church, gives away to the effect
of this teaching in the environment
that surrounds them, and before long,
New Age Bibles, such as The
Message, appear on the
bookshelves of the ABC or university
bookstore, The Message Bible
is purchased, and then read.
Among the youth, for
example – they go to a Structure
camp meeting, and there, in the youth
pavilion, is a rap band, or a rock
band, with a youth leader telling
them that everyone in the
congregation will be saved. That is
universalism. They go to college, and
the signs for youth programs trumpet
Teihardin, pantheistic Jesuit
slogans, such as “fusion,”
“integrate” (meaning
integrate, that is submerge yourself
in the group), to them as they walk
down the sidewalks that are chalked
with astrological drawings, as they
pass one after another student
dressed in the clothing that exhibits
the results of acceptance of
pantheistic tenets in their personal
orientation - midriff gaps, ear rings
on fellows, and one after another
with earphones pumping rap music into
their souls.
The Language
of Pantheism
The youth become
inured to the language of
pantheism with Genesis 2K, right out
of the Jesuit Teilhard de
Chardin’s pantheistic concepts
(“Genesis” means minds
coming together in pantheistic
fusion, or noogeneis), for
example, while the older folk, back
at home, reading their new The
Message Bible purchased at the
ABC, read the primary slogan of
pantheism, used for 4,000 years,
right out of the ancient,
spiritualistic Egypt from the Emerald
Tablet, imbedded in the heart of the
Lord’s Prayer.
At the same time the
clothing of a pantheistic culture is
sold in the stores, the slogans of
the pantheistic New World Order
appear in church journals –
think globally, act locally –
and the articles on the political
correctness appear in the Review.
Pantheism
Stifles Integrity, Discipleship,
Individuality, and Destroys
Personality
Pantheism, in its
cultural and church effects,
works to utterly stifle integrity,
true discipleship and the
individuality produced by true
discipleship, courage, moral
independence, critical thinking, and
the perception of people as individuals.
Instead, collectivism takes hold,
and the person, instead of viewing
himself as an individual whose
first and foremost union is with the
Biblical Christ, views himself as a
part of the sea of humanity. Since
pantheism views god as a Force
pervading nature, the concept of the
personality of the transcendent
Creator God is destroyed, and thus
personality is destroyed in the
pantheist.
So serious a problem
was the destruction of personality
due to pantheism during the Hippie
Movement, that Dr. Francis Schaeffer,
an American pastor, went over to the
Alps, where he established a center,
called L’Abri, French for The
Shelter, in the Alpine mountains to
help people whose lives had been
destroyed because of the concepts of
the Creator God had been destroyed by
pantheism. His first work was to get
them to believe in an infinite
Creator God Who has infinite
personality.
Pantheism’s
Effect on Conviction and Moral
Independence
Pantheism affects all
vital concepts. Conviction, for
example, is damped down, and
fashioned to “fit in” with
“the church.” No longer is
conviction wedded to true moral
independence, which demands action
and separation to maintain
integrity, freedom, holiness, and
purity. No, under the impact
of pantheism, conviction itself is
subverted out of its orientation to
God, faith, and the Word alone,
and made to serve the purposes of
social, group, and church cohesion,
or integration of the conscience in
submission to the group, or church.
Pantheism Perverts
Judgment
The forces of
pantheism pervert judgment, for with
the pantheistic goal of christogenesis,
or the fusion of all minds in the
church and the world as one, judgment
must then submit to the group, and no
longer stand independent of the
group, under God alone.
Furthermore, pantheism destroys
discrimination, the power to
discriminate based on the
understanding of the great
controversy between Christ and Satan.
Pantheism Ultimately
Seeks The Extermination of Those Who
Remain Separate
Then, as submission of
the conscious to the group becomes
almost universal and is believed to
be mandatory for the salvation of the
human, race (“it is
expedient for us that one Man should
die for the people, and that the
whole nation perish not.” John
11:50; GC 615), those 3who stand
apart from the pantheistic Oneness
are perceived to be a threat to
humanity’s salvation from
destruction. It happened to Elijah,
and to Jesus, and it will happen all
over again, on a cosmic, antitypical
scale to the remnant that hold to the
worship of the Creator and His
Sabbath.
“And he had power
to give life unto the image
(likeness) of the wild beast
(monster), that the image (likeness)
of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not
worship the image of the beast should
be killed.” Revelation 13:15.
The Faithful are
Headed in the Opposite Direction From
Pantheism
“I asked the
angel if there were none left. He
bade me look in an opposite
direction, and I saw a little company
traveling a narrow pathway. All
seemed to be firmly united, bound
together by the truth, in bundles, or
companies, said the angel, “The
third angel is binding, or sealing,
them in bundles for the heavenly
garner.” EW 88, 89. The faithful
will have a completely different
orientation than the pantheistic
Oneness of the world and the churches
that accept the premises of
pantheism. The Father’s name has
been engraved upon their foreheads.
(Revelation 14:1). They follow the
Lamb whithersoever He goeth.
(Revelation 14:4.) They have not
stained themselves with
“women” – the false
churches, they have been purchased
from the earth, and in their mouth is
no guile. (Revelation 14:4,5).
God Influences
Alone
There is only one way
to know Him. And that is by turning
aside to meet God alone, with His
influences alone determining,
guiding, and directing the judgment,
through true and faithful
self-surrender to Him, and an
accurate understanding of Who He is
from the Word – the true Word of
God – the Biblical text in
Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, or an
accurate translation of that Word,
such as the King James Bible.
The New Age
Versions Sweep Christianity Into the
Net of New Age Pantheism
In this article, you
will see how serious a matter the New
Age Bible versions and translations
are, for a man who was deeply into
New Age, declares that if it had
not been for him and his wife reading
the King James Bible they in all
probability would never have been
delivered out of following the false,
New Age Christ. This man declares
that if The Message Bible had been
placed in his hand instead of the
King James Bible, in all probability
he never would have been delivered
from New Age, for The Message
would have reinforced the New Age
Christ that he was following. The New
Age Versions of the Bible are
sweeping virtually all of
Christianity into the net of New Age
pantheism.
Soon the
Entire World Will Have to Decide Who
the True Christ Is
Soon, very soon, the
entire world will have to decide who
the true Christ is. Satan will
manifest himself as Christ in the
form of the description of Christ in
Revelation chapter one.
It becomes of the
utmost necessity to determine whether
we are serving the true Christ of
Bible prophecy, the true Christ of
the Bible, or whether we are serving
a false Christ.
Every False
Christ Wars Against the True Christ
Every false Christ
wars against the true Christ. That is
the source of division among those
who profess Christianity and who
profess to be the Remnant.
The False Christ of
Placing Human Fellowship Above the
Person of the Biblical Christ
Jesus warned that many
false christs would come in His name.
Many who profess to follow the Master
in reality are following the false
christ of placing human fellowship
above christ, following the false
christ who seeks the honor of men
rather than the honor that comes from
God only.
Many Make a Christ of
“The Church,” Placing the
Church Above the Biblical Christ
Multitudes follow the
christ of placing “the
church” above the Biblical
Christ, as Rome does, for Rome serves
a different christ than the Christ of
the Bible.
The Jews, With Christ
Standing Before Them, Chose the
“Church” Above the Messiah,
Accepting the False Christ that the
Structure Gave Them
The issue of finding
the True Christ is far more difficult
than is commonly perceived, for the
Jews, with Jesus standing before
them, felt that He was doing the
opposite work of what their Structure
had led them to believe that He would
do:
“Though He was
the Prince of Peace, His coming must
be as the unsheathing of a sword. The
kingdom He had come to establish was
the opposite of that which the Jews
desired. He who was the foundation of
the ritual and economy of Israel
would be looked upon as its enemy and
destroyer. He who had proclaimed the
law upon Sinai would be condemned as
a transgressor. He who had come to
break the power of Satan would be
denounced as Beelzebub. No one upon
earth had understood Him, and during
His ministry, He must still walk
alone. Throughout His life His mother
and His brothers did not comprehend
His mission. Even His disciples did
not understand Him. He had dwelt in
eternal light, as one with God, but
His life on earth must be spent in
solitude.” DA 111.
Almost Everyone Turned
Against Christ Because Of Their
Conditioning by “the
Church”
The people of the
Jewish nation in Jesus’ day had
been thoroughly conditioned to accept
the church structure as the lord of
their life, instead of accepting the
Lord of heaven, the unseen God, Who
must be known by faith alone, as
their God.
Jesus said, “Yet
ye have not known Him,” speaking
to the Jews about knowing the Father.
Though they believed themselves sure
of salvation because of their
standing as children of Abraham who
did everything the Structure told
them to – and the Structure had
a global evangelism program of
compassing sea and land to make one
convert (Matthew 23:15) – their
real father was the devil: “Ye
are of your father the devil.”
John 8:44.
The Masses,
Conditioned to Believe in Another
“Christ,” Rejected the True
Christ
And even the masses
that followed Him by the thousands
towards the end of His life, before
the cross, when they found out the
true nature of His kingdom, rejected
Him, - it was just, too, well, too
mysterious, too ethereal:
“The test was too
great. The enthusiasm of those who
had sought to take Him by force and
make Him king grew cold. This
discourse in the synagogue, they
declared, had opened their eyes. Now
they were undeceived. In their minds,
His words were a direct confession
that He was not the Messiah, and that
no earthly rewards were to be
realized from connection with Him.
They had welcomed His miracle-working
power; they were eager to be freed
from disease and suffering; but they
would not come into sympathy with His
self-sacrificing life. They
cared not for the mysterious
spiritual kingdom of which He spoke.
The insincere, the selfish, who had
sought Him, no longer desired Him. If
He would not devote His power and
influence to obtaining their freedom
from the Romans, they would have
nothing to do with Him.” DA 391.
Multitudes Today
Reject Christ on the Same Grounds As
the Jews – Placing “the
Church” Above the Person of the
Christ
Likewise the
multitudes today, when they find out
that Jesus will not advance their
standing in the Structure or even
their local “historic”
church, reject the True Biblical
Christ, and accept the false christs
that the Structure or the local
church has to offer them.
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