Precipice

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A Militant Evangelical Youth Movement grips millions, fusing Rap Culture, Tattoos, and Fundamentalism…Elders in the Structure Say, “I Can’t Recognize My Church Any More… Master the Fundamentals of Core Discipleship…A Generation Going Over the precipice.

 

“A Rubicon has been crossed…”

-Morris Berman, Dark Ages America. 302.

 

49 B.C. Bitter night in the Apennine Mountains. Julius Caesar’s battle – and weather-hardened 13^th Legion stands massed in the dark before a narrow swollen stream-the Rubicon.  Finally, Caesar gives the order to cross-then there was no turning back…

 

“These are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.” Revelation 14:4. In these last days only true, deep, loyal, faithful discipleship of Jesus Christ will prevail against the demonic forces unleashed upon the earth by the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. Revelation 16:13. 

 

True, unadulterated discipleship of Christ is the only answer to the demonic forces which have been unleashed upon the earth. The conditions of discipleship, laid down by Christ, contain within themselves the protection necessary to protect the soul from destruction by devils. When the soul comes to Christ, hating even the closest competing loyalties, which would threaten Christ’s absolute kingship over the soul, then, and only then, can we protect the souls from devils.

 

Infinite Power of Christ and the Power of Culture

 

Culture: enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training. – Pocket Mirriam-Webster Thesaurus, Langenscheidt

 

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26. Jesus, by specifically mentioning the very closest ties of influence known to man, even man’s own psyche, or self, or life, by that very fact includes all other hierarchies, other personalities, and ideology as the very influences that must be hated for Christ’s sake, so that Christ alone might hold sway, supreme influence in the soul, far, far, above all culture, ideology, hierarchy, or philosophy. 

 

Culture subtly, powerfully and subconsciously effects people’s perception of God, of truth, of reality, of interpersonal relationships, of music, of family, church, or even how one acquires knowledge. Culture can be a great power for good, or evil. Demonic culture can subtly inculcate concepts of pantheism, Marxism, and the theology of the beast-things that the person may know nothing about. A good culture can reinforce the concepts of the Bible and the gospel.

 

But the power of true discipleship is that the disciple is united with infinite power of will in Christ. Thus he is filled with all that is good, and true discipleship demands as the condition of acceptance with the Father the fulfillment of our baptismal vow to be utterly separate from all evil:

 

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:17,18.

 

Furthermore, Christ gives us His Word, and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to alert us to any evil, and give us infinite power to identify, reject, and hate all evil. He is the Spirit of Truth, the Third Person of the Godhead, who fills the believer with infinite power to overcome all evil.

 

Heavenly Culture

 

In the kingdom of heaven, heaven has a culture all its own. It is the culture of self-sacrificing, self-renouncing, self-abnegating love-the love revealed on Calvary’s cross. Culture is a most powerful, life shaping force. Every life, every home, every marriage, every church, must have a core, a center, a treasury at its heart of its existence from which it draws its culture, character, wealth, power, direction, strength, courage, daring, bravery, love, hope, faith, peace, and happiness. For the Christian, that Center is Christ. This is what true kingdom culture is all about. We want the heavenly culture. Of Christ it is written: “Heavenly beings were His attendants, and the culture of the holy thoughts and communings was His. From the first dawning of intelligence He was constantly growing in spiritual grace and knowledge of truth.” AG 282, DA 70.

 

Soul Culture

 

“That which will make the character lovely in the home is that which will make it lovely in the heavenly mansions…. You need to seek constantly the highest culture of mind and soul.” ML, 102. “We need heavenly culture and refinement.” RH 4-12-92. “We should be careful in regard to soul-culture. If we use all the provisions made for us by heavenly agencies, we shall be co-laborers with God.” 18MR 84.

 

The Highest Culture

 

Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abebnego had a far higher culture than the greatest men of the world:

 

“At the court of Babylon were gathered representatives from all lands, men of the choicest talents, men the most richly endowed with natural gifts and possessed of the highest culture this world could bestow: yet amid them all the Hebrew captives were without a peer.  In physical strength and beauty, in mental vigor and literary attainments, and in spiritual power and insight they stood unrivaled.” 6T 220.

 

Happy is that people who have the Living God at the heart of their life. “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” John 17:3.

 

The Core of All True Life

 

That core of all life is God. Our perception of God, of His character, His personality, and the way He relates to His creatures, taught by the Holy Spirit Himself, is what makes a person who he is.

 

The Flow of Culture in America

 

Early American Culture

 

Early America had a biblical, Protestant Culture, shaped by Christ, the Bible, its concepts, principles and truths. Justification by Faith, Salvation by grace through faith as the gift of God, Sanctification, Freedom in Christ, Bible morality, obedience to the Ten Commandments, all were truths that mightily shaped early American culture. They were everywhere. They were its Protestant culture.

 

The Culture of the Enlightenment Joins the Culture of Protestantism

 

By the time of the American Revolution, the culture of Enlightenment, albeit an Enlightenment rooted in Christian concepts such as creation and the Creator, merged with Biblical Protestantism to give us the American Revolution and the United Stated Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.

 

The Huguenots, Puritans, Jesuitism, and Masonic Culture Were All At Work 

 

On April 29, 1532, and again June 25, 1564, the French Protestant Huguenots sought to establish a colony in Florida. In 1565 a force of 2,646 Catholic Spaniards set forth to annihilate the Protestants in Florida. On September 4, 1565 the Spaniards arrived, under Menendez, including Jesuits and Franciscans, to destroy the Huguenots. With terrible treachery the Spanish Catholics massacred the French Protestants, saving but a few for the galleys.

 

French Dominique de Gourgues avenged the French national honor, sailing in 1567 to defeat and destroy the Spanish in Florida for the massacre. And so North America became a place of struggle for who would triumph, Protestantism or Catholicism, or Masonry.

 

From the inception of the nation, the forces of Jesuitism, and Masonic culture were at work. Jesuitism had already claimed North America before the pilgrims came in 1620. Masonic power sought to establish itself at Jamestown in 1607. Jesuit missionaries traveled far through the West, seeking to convert the Indians, trying to establish a Northern Communist Paraguay, on the model of their South American Paraguay. 

 

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