(new article tomorrow)
“Paul didn’t go into the mountains and the country; he went where the people were, the population centers. I’ve said for years, one of the greatest tragedies in fundamental evangelical Christianity in America in the 20th Century is, in the middle of the century, the great host of evangelical Bible-preaching ministries fled the cities to the suburbs because it was easier to live in the suburbs than it was to live in the turmoil developing in the cities. ‘The flowery beds of ease,’ as the song says.
"When
fundamentalist Believers fled, they left an absence of truth. For Chicago,
since the latter part of the last century, it has been so tightly under the
grip of Romanism," explains Richard Jordan.
“Where the
people are is where the problems are. Where the problems are, people are going
to solve the problems. If truth leaves, what’s the church? The pillar and
ground of the truth. The problems will be solved with error, but the problems
will get solved because the nature of man is he has to have that order. That’s
the way God structured man and his society to function.
“If you go
back to the 1920s, ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s, Chicago was the citadel of fundamentalism
in America. The pastor of Moody Church in the ‘40s, Harry Ironside was called
the Archbishop of Fundamentalism.
“Pastor
O’Hair of North Shore Church, our ministry, was right there are on the north
shore of Chicago and reached out around the world from there, but it had the
gospel-preaching center.
“One of the
first radio stations in the country preaching the gospel was built in the bell
tower of North Shore Church at Wilson Avenue and Sheridan Road in 1926. Chicago
was a hub for fundamental Bible-preaching Christianity. New York City’s Isaac
Haldeman of First Baptist Church. Philadelphia. These they were great centers
of fundamental, Bible-believing, Scofield dispensationalism; they were
recovering these truths.
“Historically,
missionaries would go to a foreign country and they didn’t go to the cities;
they’d go to the mountains and then get a following. Take pictures and come
back home and show pictures of little babies and people in need and raise
money.
“The first
300 years after Paul were the greatest years of evangelism, outreach, expanding
the Body of Christ in all of church history. We’re going into a culture right
now—our country is falling back into the culture that the world has been in for
2,000 years.
“You’re going
to live to see in the next decade a world in America that is just almost
exactly like the world Paul lived in, but remember what God did in that world
for the Body of Christ because all the distractions were taken away and they
just had truth."
From
November, 2019:
The Roman
Colosseum, owned and operated by the Vatican since the Middle Ages and said to
be the most-visited tourist destination in the world, now has a statue of
Molech, the Canaanite deity heavily associated with child sacrifice, at
its grand entrance!
"The Colosseum was once a place that saw Christians fed to lions, killed
by gladiators, or rolled into pitch and set on fire as torches," reads an
article posted to PulpitandPen.org. "The Vatican has ownership and
authority over the Colosseum and all of its displays, exhibits, and functions.
As Breaking
Israel News writes… 'There is no way that such a thing could be
done without direct permission from the highest levels of the Vatican. The
Colosseum of Rome is owned by the Vatican, and specifically the Diocese of
Rome, also called the Holy See. If anyone wants to do anything there, they must
get permissions from the office of the Diocese of Rome. This exhibition, called
'Cathargo: the immortal myth' could not be held there at all unless permissions
were granted at high levels.' ”
Last month, during closing Mass of its shamanistic Amazon Synod, the Vatican accepted a pagan offering to the “earth goddess” known as Pachamama.
"The
cult of the 'earth goddess' — or demon — is alive and well in the remote
reaches of the rainforest, where animal and even human sacrifice is still
practiced," writes Catholic blogger Steven Mosher. "Infanticide
is still common among the Yanomami and other Amazonian tribes, and
children born handicapped are said to lack a soul and are often sacrificed.
"Much
has been written about the disturbing shamanistic ritual that was carried out
in the Vatican gardens, but a couple of details have been overlooked, including
Pope Francis’s role in the ritual.
"The
ritual was presented as a 'tree-planting ceremony' celebrating St. Francis of
Assisi’s love of nature, but this was just a smokescreen. During the course of
the ritual, Pope Francis received and blessed a Pachamama idol and was given a
pagan necklace, an offering of soil to Pachamama, and a Tucum ring.
"The
Tucum ring is a black wooden ring made from an Amazonian palm tree. It is
often taken
to symbolize a commitment to Liberation Theology, a Marxist distortion
of the Faith that emphasizes liberation from poverty over liberation from sin.
"But in
shamanistic Pachamama rituals, such as the one conducted in the Vatican
gardens, it has a deeper and darker meaning. Here a gourd rattle and occult
spells are used to direct demonic energy to the Tucum, which comes to represent
a spiritual marriage with the 'earth goddess' or demon."
Take a look at this article posted to LifeSiteNews:
CHICAGO,
November 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews)
– Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago defended the use of the
“Pachamama” statues during the Amazon Synod, saying the church has “always
adopted pagan elements in its traditions and especially its liturgical rites”
while quoting from a Vatican document about “inculturation.”
Writing in
the diocesan newspaper Chicago
Catholic on Wednesday, Cardinal Cupich asserted that the “artwork” at
the Vatican depicting Pachamama — a fertility goddess venerated by indigenous
people of South America — was merely “a pregnant woman, a symbol of motherhood
and the sacredness of life, that represents for indigenous peoples the bond
humanity has with our “mother earth,” much as St. Francis of Assisi portrayed
in his Canticle of the Creatures.” Cupich was made a cardinal by Pope Francis
in November 2016.
Catholics
around the world were outraged last month to see a pagan
ceremony take place in the Vatican Gardens before the opening of the
Amazon Synod where people bowed down to the ground and worshiped the Pachamama
idol as Pope Francis and other top-ranking prelates looked on. The October 4
ritual, captured on video, shows Pope Francis blessing
the pagan statue before receiving it as a gift.
*****
When Paul
warns Timothy that "perilous times shall come," the term
"perilous" is the idea of dangerous. Talking about his life, Paul
writes in II Corinthians 11:26, "In journeyings often, in perils of
waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by
the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in
the sea, in perils among false brethren."
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