End-Time Events Part
III
Conditioning to Accept
New Age Christ’s
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This is all radical
pantheism.
Walsch has now
declared that God has a 5-step
“Peace Plan” to ultimately
save the world by establishing a
“New Spirituality.” This
plan involves abandoning the belief
in Jesus Christ as the exclusive Lord
and Savior.
“Meant to
Be”
Satan’s
“Providence”
With this background,
Smith began reading The
Purpose-Driven Life. Smith, with
his New Age background was very
familiar with a favorite technique
used by New Age leaders to convince
Christians to accept New Age
thinking. Here is how Smith describes
it:
“A
well-orchestrated and exquisitely
times series of supernatural
synchronistic experiences had
convinced me that my involvement in
alternative spirituality was ‘meant
to be.’” – Warren
Smith, The Light that was Dark: A
Spiritual Journey (Chicago: Moody
Press: Northfield Publishing, 1992),
p. 144, quoted in Smith, Deceived
on Purpose, p. 20.
“Meant to
Be”
Smith writes, “It is important for the
reader to understand that when I was
involved in the New Age movement I
had been greatly misled by a number
of seemingly “meant to be’
types of experiences. I would later
find out that many of these
experiences had been cleverly
orchestrated by a deceptive spirit
world to make me think that what was
happening in my life was coming from
God – a seemingly chance
encounter, a supernatural occurrence,
something as simple as a book being
innocently placed in my hands by a
trusted friend. I had been told that
‘everything happens for a
reason.’ ‘Nothing by
chance.’ ‘There are no
accidents.’ ‘It is all part
of God’s plan.’ ‘It
was meant to be.’
New Age Text: A course
in Miracles
“A teaching from
my former New Age text, A Course
in Miracles, typifies this kind
of ‘meant to be’
thinking that is so prevalent in the
New Age:
“Remember that no
one is where he is by accident, and
chance plays no part in God’s
plan.’ [Foundation for Inner
Peace: A Course in Miracles: Combined
Volume (Text, Workbook for Students,
manual for Teachers) (Glen Ellen,
California; foundation for Inner
Peace, 1975, 11992), (manual for
Teachers), p. 26.]…
How Satan Uses
His “Providence” To Guide
People Into New Age
“This idea that
‘there are no accidents’
and that ‘everything happens for
a reason’ provided the spiritual
justification for much of what I
entered into in the New Age. If it
was ‘meant to be’ then I
assumed that it had to be from God.
It was ‘meant to be’
because He loved me, and cared about
me, and was reaching out to me in all
of these life circumstances. He was
leading me onwards and ever upwards
on my spiritual journey. What other
explanation could there be for all of
these seemingly positive, spiritually
uplifting, ‘synchronistic’
events that were happening in my
life?
Assuming That
Everything Comes From God
“However, I had
not read the Bible. I had no clue
that I had a spiritual Adversary and
that he was active in my life. I just
followed the signs and kept moving
along my seemingly destined spiritual
path. I never questioned the origin
of what was before me. I just
assumed that everything was coming
from God. In fact, almost all of my
involvement in the New Age was
initiated and sustained by a
continuous series of these
‘meant to be’
happenings.’” –Warren Smith, Deceived
on Purpose, 18-20. (Emphasis
mine)
Satan is using his own
“Providence” to deceive
people into accepting the New Age
Christ. His own string of
“Providential workings” is
used to lure and then sustain people
in the New Age movement. If we do not
follow the Word of God from the
ground up, we will be deceived.
Everything has
to be Tested by Scripture
Warren Smith writes,
“As a believer, I came to
understand that I could not just
attribute everything that was
happening in my life to God and
‘destiny.’ I realized that
seemingly ‘meant to be’
experiences can also be the deceptive
work of our spiritual Adversary. I
learned that everything has to be
tested by Scripture and prayer.
In the past, so many of my
‘meant to be’ experiences
had led me deeper and deeper into the
teachings of the New Age…. I
learned the hard way that ‘meant
to be’ experiences don’t
always come from God.” Smith,
Deceived, 20. (Emphasis mine)
The Dedication Page of
The Purpose-Driven Life
Imagine Warren
Smith’s shock when he read on
the dedication page of Rick
Warren’s The purpose-Driven
Life:
“This book is
dedicated to you. Before you were
born, God planned this moment in your
life. It is no accident that you are
holding this book.”
Immediately
Warren’s Smith’s tentacles
went up. He knew this kind of
language. It had deceived him before.
Obviously, God has His
Providence. However, Satan also has
his. It did not take long to find
out.
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