Duck called out

All this talk about Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty and no one gets to the real meat. The "dirty little secret" the media hasn’t caught on to--either through willing ignorance (II Peter 3:5) or just running with their Roman Catholic playbook like Fox News--is that Phil is a Campbellite and that ain’t good.

To give just one definition of the heretical sect, here’s an outtake I found from the blog Ezekiel3 written by Ray McIntire:

“Most every time the Bible says baptism, the Campbellite assumes it is water, and every time the Bible says water, the Campbellite assumes the Scripture means baptism. Water Dogs (Campbellites) act on behalf of hell’s minions to deceive sinners into believing in a works salvation that is eerily similar to the Roman Catholic Church.

One might say that the Church of Christ (the Campbellites are associated with) demonization is ‘catholic lite’. Both cults substitute water for the blood of Jesus Christ for initial salvation, then try to keep their counterfeit Christianity by the mass or ‘mass lite’.

“Strangely enough, both the Campbellites and the current pope of Roman claim to oversee the one and only Christian church. Even though they part company around the claim to be the one true church, these two ominous cults have several heresies in common. Catholics and Campbellites agree on the following departures from scripture:

1.      Both believe a Christian can lose their salvation after Jesus gives it to them. 2 All sinners must be saved by baptism (sprinkling or submersion). 3. No Christian can be sure they are saved and must die to find out for sure. 4. Both believe Jesus will not come back and reign from Jerusalem. 5. Both believe Israel is NEVER going to be restored literally and politically to her own land.

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Just after Thanksgiving, Jordan conducted a one-day conference for a crowd of dispensational grace believers down in Slidell, LA (only a duck’s call from where the Dynasty resides), in which he spoke specifically about water baptism, warning,  “If you commit spiritual larceny and try to steal somebody else’s blessings and  promises, it won’t do you any good. You can’t make God do something He’s not doing.”

This was in the context of how Israel’s program in time past differs dramatically from what Jews and Gentiles are to follow today in the dispensation of grace laid out by the Apostle Paul.

Jordan explained, “To become a priest in Israel, first you had to wash him with the water and then you had to anoint him. First, you had to get the baptism and repentance for the remission of sins and then he had to get the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38, Matt. 3:11)

“You know what God’s going to do with the nation Israel? Ezekiel 36:23: ‘And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.’

“So the Gentiles are going to be able to look at Israel and see God set apart as the God of creation in Israel. They’re going to be His representative nation.

“Verse 25: ‘Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.’

“So the first thing that has to happen is they need to be separated away from all their idolatry, and the way He’s going to do it is He’s going to sprinkle clean water upon them.  Now what do you think that might represent?

“Doesn’t that sort of sound like, ‘I baptize you with water unto repentance’? By the way, did you notice HOW he said he’s going to do it? You ever hear anybody say the word ‘baptize’ means ‘immerse’? You know what that is? That’s a figment of the imagination of denominationally prejudiced dictionaries. I say that without batting an eye or any fear of being contradicted by anybody of any godly reputation.

“You’ve been told things all your life one way and it turns out to be something completely different. In your Bible, some baptisms are done by sprinkling, others by God (with the baptism of the Holy Ghost) pouring His spirit out. You think every baptism in the Bible is by water, but they’re not.

“The reason John the Baptist came baptizing with water is so they could have that remnant of believers identified, then they could be anointed and then they could go be of that kingdom."

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Obviously the Robertson clan’s beliefs in other areas are far astray from biblical truth. But here’s just one aside. Last month it was brought to light that one of the boys was cancelled from a Christian event in Tennessee because the organizers didn’t want to send mixed messages to their youth.

The news was that the famous family had a new business venture: Duck Commander Wines. In conjunction with the winemakers of Trinchero Family Estates in Napa, the Robertsons' had their own line of white and red wines slated to hit stores.

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At the same Slidell conference, Jordan told the story of the tee-totaling Rechabite family in Jeremiah 35:

“There’s a great family in the Bible called the Rechabites; it’s one of my favorite stories in Jeremiah. The Rechabites were a bunch of Gentiles and God told Jerry, ‘Go down and tell the Rechabites you want them to come over and have supper with you and I want you to put some wine out in front of them and watch what they do.’

“So Jerry gives them supper and puts out some nice fine red wine and they said, ‘We don’t drink wine.’ He said, ‘Why not?’ and they said, ‘Our father told us not to drink red wine and we do what our daddy tells us.’

“God says to Jeremiah, ‘You go out and tell Israel there’s a bunch of dumb Gentiles that do what their daddy tells them to do because they love their daddy, and Israel doesn’t love me enough to do what I tell them to do.’

“It’s a great story and a great demonstration of what the problem in Israel was. Israel was to be holy. They were to think and act—He gave them a lot of screwball things to do. They couldn’t eat catfish, crab or shrimp. They couldn’t eat pork. How do you make green beans if you don’t have a little pork fat?!

“When you go back and read what He’s telling them, He’s saying, ‘Don’t go and act like those Gentiles out there. Why? Because I set you apart. You’re to think like I think. You’re to do what I tell you to do.’

“It was because he wanted them to stick out like a sore thumb to be different. There’s nothing immoral about eating that stuff. Those were ceremonial things to make them look different and be separated!”