2Samuel 1:19 ..how are the mighty fallen!
More on this may be read at https://randalrauser.com/2020/09/the-ravi-zacharias-sex-scandal-a-new-personal-statement/
Christianity
Nothing should surprise us in this day! So, it is not a total surprise that there are those who ‘…are working to “collapse America from within.” It is a “political warfare document.” “Know your enemy.” “Globalists letting Marxists and Islamists off the leash.” “Prepare!”
Those are the words of Brannon Howse who takes apart for us the document published in August by the Transition Integrity Project which includes a group of players working to surround this year’s presidential election in chaos and crisis.
And, if you are looking forward to a return to normalcy beginning on November 4th, forget it.
Howse believes that the globalists, Marxists and Islamists actually want a Trump victory (why else pick such a weak candidate as the senile Biden) surrounded by confusion, violence and chaos so over the next 4 years they can change America forever as part of the great global “reset.”
He posits that through this “color revolution” our lives will be so turned upside down within those 4 years that we will beg for normalcy (ha! the new normalcy, that is) while blaming Trump for our unhappy state.
It is way too much for me to summarize so please take one hour to watch Brannon Howse explain the game plan he believes is the globalist plan for the destruction of America.’https://fraudscrookscriminals.com/2020/09/29/transition-integrity-project-lays-out-strategy-for-destroying-america-as-we-know-it/
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 1Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour
Are there those preachers who are purposefully grooming and sexually abusing underage girls? Now, before I get any further, no, I have not called the men mentioned in the following but if someone reads this knows them, have them email me at aussiedubbo@yahoo.com.
‘The man who hired a pastor who was facing charges of sexual abuse of a teenage student at a Baltimore-area church school in 2007 was under investigation himself for clandestinely videotaping women undressing in his office, the I-TEAM has learned.
Investigators told News4Jax that video released by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office in 2011 shows Greg Neal, a pastor at Berean Baptist Church, handling the camera used to record the women. According to an arrest report, Neal was accused of hiding the camcorder in his office in Fleming Island in the spring of 2011 and videotaping while two women changed clothes.
An investigation into the allegations found a crime occurred, but Neal, who was uncooperative, was never prosecuted.
“The evidence of his crimes of voyeurism in 2001 is overwhelming,” an assistant state attorney said in 2011. “Unfortunately, the statute of limitations has expired.”
Neal is now working at Immanuel Baptist on Jacksonville’s Westside, where he hired Cameron Giovanelli , who was under investigation by Baltimore police at the time for allegations he sexually abused a 17-year-old member of a Baltimore church where he worked in 2007.
The senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Baltimore said he warned Neal not to hire Giovanelli.
News4Jax went to Neal’s home and his church Friday but didn’t get to speak with him.
We also went to Giovanelli’s Orange Park home after learning he was let out of jail on his own recognizance, but there was no answer at the door.’https://www.news4jax.com/news/2019/08/10/man-who-hired-pastor-accused-of-sexual-abuse-was-investigated-for-video-voyeurism/
Would you plead guilty to something you were not guilty of? ‘The former pastor of a Dundalk church pleaded guilty Wednesday to a sex offense against a student when she was 17, in what Baltimore County prosecutors described as a coercive relationship more than a decade ago.
Baltimore County prosecutors said Cameron Giovanelli, now 42, used his position of authority at Calvary Baptist Church to pressure the girl — who babysat for his family and attended the church school — into sexual activity in 2007. She reported the incidents to police last year, when she was in her late 20s.
As part of a plea agreement, Giovanelli pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault, both misdemeanors.’https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-dundalk-pastor-plea-20191204-u2kkzndzjnh55alihjhh67tgi4-story.html
This is a portion of the victim’s impact statement.
‘Your Honor, Thank you so much for allowing me a chance to speak. What this man did to me, was a something that has affected me over the years in so many ways that I didn’t even fully understand for a long time. For 13 years I have tried to live with something that no one should have to live with. I feel its important to know who I was before all of this happened to me.
I was raised in an extremely sheltered and religious atmosphere. I had never taken a sex ed class, didn’t know the differences between male and female bodies, touched or had been touched up until this point. I had no idea how a sexual relationship worked. I was a very naïve child who was completely in the dark regarding anything sexual. I was being taught all of those things were to be kept pure and sacred until marriage and up until this point, that was my dream of doing.
In the beginning of the 2006 school year, Cameron started what I now know to be called grooming me little by little.’https://letterstofreedom921133037.wordpress.com/
If the above have any truth at all, which it seems that it does, these men should not be serving in any form of church leadership. God’s Word is plain as to a pastor in 1Timothy 3:1-7 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Did Jerry Jr. really believe he would get a free pass when it came to business and pleasure? ‘A key reason for Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s departure from Liberty University was an Instagram photo showing Falwell with his pants unbuttoned, on a luxury yacht.
According to Politico, the yacht is owned by billionaire NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick. Falwell’s family has been using the yacht for family vacations since Liberty University committed to a lucrative sponsorship deal with Hendrick Motorsports.
Though coverage of Falwell’s suspension and ultimate resignation from Liberty focused on his personal behavior, the board of trustees said it will launch an independent audit of Falwell’s tenure that will include financial dealings, including the NASCAR sponsorship.
Liberty has sponsored a car with Hendrick Motorsports since 2018. Neither Liberty University nor Hendrick Motorsports has announced the size of the sponsorship, but an annual sponsorship typically costs millions of dollars. Occasionally the public gets a peek at the cost of these sponsorships. For example, court filings about the contract later obtained by ESPN indicate Farmers Insurance paid Hendrick Motorsports $8 million for a similar NASCAR team sponsorship. According to Politico, “a Liberty employee familiar with the university’s contract with Hendrick Motorsports said the sponsorship payment varies slightly by year but amounts to roughly $6 million annually.”
If Falwell and his family made personal use of Hendrick’s yacht as a result of or as a condition for the sponsorship, the relationship raises a number of ethical and potentially legal problems, including the possibility of what the tax code calls “private inurement,” which occurs when an officer of a non-profit receives an excessive, undue, or disproportionate share of benefits from a transaction. Such transactions could be illegal outright if they can be proven to be bribes, or they could – at a minimum – be subject to taxation by the recipient as income.
Rick Hendrick has a net worth estimated to be about $1-billion. He made most of his money as the owner of car dealerships. He also has had a long relationship with Liberty University. He has spoken at the school’s commencement, and his company helpedstart an auto dealership management program at its business school.
Hendrick has also had previous run-ins with the law regarding under-the-table deals. When Honda cars were in demand, in the 1980s and 90s, Hendrick gave hundreds of thousands of dollars, automobiles, and houses to American Honda Motor Company executives in exchange for preferred treatment, including increased automobile allocations for his dealerships. Hendrick pled guilty to mail fraud charges and was sentenced in December 1997 to a $250,000 fine and 12 months’ home confinement. He avoided prison time because at the time he had leukemia. During his trial, he told the court he “may only have a couple of years to live.”
Soon after his home confinement period ended, he announced that his leukemia was in full remission, and has remained so ever since. Despite the fact that the district attorney prosecuting Hendrick called his wrong-doing a “serious crime,” Hendrick was granted a pardon by Bill Clinton in 2000, weeks before Clinton left office.
Hendrick’s yacht is known for its opulence. Called “Wheels,” it is 164 feet long and has a list price of $35-million. It also has, according to a promotional video for the vessel, six bedrooms for guests, marble bathrooms, three wet bars and three separate sun decks.” According to Politico, “It carries jet skis, 15 drop-down televisions, and a 19th century dining table made out of North Carolina walnut in its formal dining room, according to a promotional video and brochure for chartering the yacht.” It rents for $200,000 per week.
A Hendrick Motorsports spokesperson told POLITICO that use of the yacht is not part of Hendrick Motorsports’ agreement with Liberty University. According to Politico, “A Liberty spokesperson declined to answer questions about whether use of the yacht was in any way related to the sponsorship agreement.”’https://ministrywatch.com/falwells-use-of-nascar-owners-yacht-comes-under-scrutiny/
Strange things are happening. ‘The meltdown of the left over the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was immediate and predictable. Viral videos circulating on Twitter show young women in hysterics, shrieking at their phones — one girl screamed that she hates those who are trying to stop abortions, and that she wished she’d been aborted herself. Another woman, who howled F-bombs with impressive lung power, berated the Notorious RBG for not hanging on just a little bit longer. The sheer force of emotion was slightly unnerving.
The reaction is ongoing, and it is getting sicker and stranger. Take, for example, Jamie Smith, a “40-something attorney and mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood with a yard and a garage full of scooters and soccer balls.” Smith is a normal person, she says: “I often walk with my children to get ice cream and spend weekends hiking through a national park.” But despite all that, the death of Ruth Bader Ginbsurg rocked Smith to her core and, she writes in the Huffington Post, “pushed me to join the Satanic Temple.”
“I am not the type of person who would normally consider becoming a Satanist, but these are not normal times,” Smith writes. “Our democracy has become so fragile that the loss of one of the last guardians of common sense … has put our civil and reproductive rights in danger like never before. And, so, I have turned to Satanism.”
I realize that this sounds like the sort of thing the Babylon Bee would write about abortion-supporters (perhaps to parody how Christians see abortion activists sometimes), but it helps to remember that the Satanic Temple has been fighting for abortion for some years now (they recently raffled a free abortion and declared abortion a “religious ritual”). It’s almost as strange as the effort to have witches curse President Trump, reported by the Los Angeles Times.
According to Smith, the Satanic Temple is one of the last lines of defense against “theocracy” and the pro-life movement:
Members of the Satanic Temple do not believe in the supernatural or superstition. In the same way that some Unitarians and some Jews do not believe in God, Satanic Temple members do not worship Satan and most are atheists. They are not affiliated in any way with the Church of Satan. Instead, the Satanic Temple uses the devil as a symbol of rebellion.
Just like other faiths, the Satanic Temple has a code that their members believe in deeply and use to guide their lives. These Seven Fundamental Tenets include that “one should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason,” that “the struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions,” and that “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
Reading through the Seven Tenets, I was struck by how closely they aligned with the unwritten code I had used to try to guide my own life for several years. I realized, happily, that these were my people and that I had been a Satanist for several years without even knowing it. When Justice Ginsburg’s death suddenly made combating the threats to reproductive rights and a government free from religious interference more urgent, I knew it was time to join them and support their conceptual and legal battles.
In fact, it is the Satanic Temple’s attempts to defend the abortion industry that really appealed to Smith:
By pointing out instances where the government has favored Christian rhetoric ― and filing legal challenges to stop it ― the Satanic Temple has transformed belief into action and has demonstrated what freedom fighting truly looks like. The Satanic Temple hopes to appear before the Supreme Court in a case challenging a Missouri abortion law that requires those seeking to terminate their pregnancy to first receive materials asserting that their abortion would end the life of a separate, unique person. The temple argues that these materials violate the deeply held religious beliefs of one of its members regarding bodily autonomy and scientifically reasonable personal choice. The argument the Satanic Temple is using is the same one the Supreme Court effectively endorsed in the Hobby Lobby birth control case, for which Justice Ginsburg wrote the dissent ― that no one should have to follow a law that violates their deeply held religious beliefs. If a Christian should not have to do so based on their religion, a Satanist should not have to either. This is what equality under the law means on a fundamental level.
In short, Smith writes, she joined the Satanic Temple for her young daughters. She now fears that their “right” to get an abortion is under threat, and the Satanists are fighting like Hell to ensure that abortion remains legal for her and for them. “I believe that the Satanic Temple — and its members’ dedication to fighting for true freedom — represents our best, last defense against anti-choice lawmakers[.]”
As the American republic tears itself apart over the right to kill children in the womb, the masks are coming off. A pro-abortion mother is now willing to ally with the Satanic Temple because their willingness to defend feticide represents “true freedom” — and write a long article in the Huffington Post explaining why. She has realized that she was a Satanist for years now but just never knew it — because the Satanic Temple perfectly encapsulates her pro-abortion worldview.
A few years ago, pro-lifers would have been mocked for claiming that there is any connection between the Satanic Temple and the abortion industry. Not anymore — now abortion activism is one of Satanism’s hottest selling points.’https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-spurs-pro-abortion-mom-to-join-satanic-temple
At Kroger’s ‘…workers who allegedly declined to wear apron — and didn’t mention religious accommodations — were not terminated’ but those who refused due to their religious beliefs were terminated. https://www.theblaze.com/news/kroger-workers-fired-lgbtq-apron?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202020-09-24&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM%20-%20last%20270%20days
This sort of discrimination is occurring all over the Western world. For the Christian that’s why the blessed Hope of Titus 2:13 is such a comfort. Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
‘Climate change alarmists – those who unquestioningly accept the pseudo-science that suggests human beings are causing a disaster by releasing too much carbon dioxide – have an influence beyond their community, even causing comments in otherwise sound scientific research. And remember, the term they prefer these days is climate change rather than global warming, as the former phrase gets them off the hook if temperatures are seen to decrease.
A recent piece of excellent research from Columbia University looked at the existence of megadroughts in the southwest of the United States over 2,000 years, which suddenly ceased about the year 1600. Such droughts might last a couple of years each. The negative effect on the research is that the authors felt obliged to comment that megadroughts could return to the area because of climate change, by which they meant anthropogenic global warming. The positive side of the research is that, probably for the first time, modern climate scientists are looking at reasons and effects of what is known as the Medieval Warm Period, which would have been at its peak from about 950 AD through 1250 AD. In much recent climate change research, this period was ignored; especially, the MWP did not appear on the infamous “hockey-stick” graph of alleged global warming. It is good to see the MWP acknowledged, as its cause could have had nothing to do with modern industrial issues. Climates constantly change, but God’s hand on climate conditions never ceases.’https://creationmoments.com/sermons/climate-change-and-megadroughts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-change-and-megadroughts&mc_cid=3fae890d30&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
‘A church elder was shot as his daughters were kidnapped in northwest Nigeria on Friday (Sept. 18), days after a pastor and three other Christians in a north-central state were killed earlier this month.
Morning Star News reports that Hassana and Hussaina Garba, teenaged Christian twin sisters, were kidnapped from their home beside their Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) worship building in Kwakware village, Kankara County in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, sources said. The kidnappers shot their father, ECWA elder Ibrahim Garba, in the stomach in the 10:30 p.m. assault, and sources said he was receiving hospital treatment.
Kidnappings by various criminal elements have become rampant in Katsina state the past few years, with the high number committed by predominantly Muslim Fulanis prompting Gov. Aminu Masari to warn last year that the tribe risks being targeted by vigilantes.
Kwakware area resident Charles Yahaya said kidnapping has long been a problem in Katsina state but has intensified.
“Testimonies and exhibits at the crime scene show that the kidnappers were very organized, very informed on their target and heavily armed,” Yahaya told Morning Star News by text message. “This is one incident among many. It is the sustained and targeted kidnapping of Christian girls in northern Nigeria, after which they are forcefully converted to Islam and married off, thereby becoming sex slaves. Something is going on in our country that needs to be addressed systematically and collectively by all well-meaning citizens.”
Area resident Saminu Adamu called for prayer for the rescue of the sisters.’https://mychristiandaily.com/pastor-and-three-christians-killed-in-nigeria-twin-sisters-kidnapped/
As Antifa and BLM burn churches and Bibles in the USA in Pakistan ‘According to the prosecution record, the Sera-i-Saleh police had arrested Ch Mohammad Ayaz, a resident of Baldhair village, on the complaint of his wife on Sept 13, 2015.
The complainant had told the police that she was living in a rented house with her husband and three children. On Sept 13, she said after heated arguments with her over some family matter, he, in a fit of anger, took out a copy of the Holy Quran from the cupboard and defiled it.
The police recovered the desecrated copy of the holy book and registered a criminal case against the accused under section 295-B of the blasphemy law. After a five-year trial, the court of additional sessions judge-III, Shah Wali Khan, convicted Ayaz and sentenced him to life (25 years).’https://www.dawn.com/news/1580058
Genesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. “
‘It is said that the tongue-twister “she sells sea shells on the seashore” refers to Mary Anning (1799-1847). However, Anning was not selling sea shells at Lyme Regis, but rather fossils that she had discovered on the beach. It is interesting that, while this pioneer paleontologist was not selling shells on the beach, there have been found fossil sea shells on mountains and well inland. When I was a youth, my family often traveled to the Peak District National Park, which is about as far away from the coast as you can get on the island of Great Britain, being about a three hours drive from the nearest sea. Yet, walking over the hills, we would always find fossil clams and the like. It is estimated that perhaps 95% of the fossils you will find are marine invertebrates. Evolutionary geologists think that there may have been periods when continents sunk lower than sea level, but the rock of which continents are formed is less dense than that of the ocean floor. So how do Christians explain this fact?
The onset of the Worldwide Flood would not have been a gentle affair. The breaking open of the fountains of the deep would cause new crustal material to push continental mountains higher. And tsunamis would have washed marine life onto land in a series of encroachments and ever-decreasing retreats of the ocean. The existence of millions of such fossils is fully consistent with the biblical account of the Flood.’https://creationmoments.com/sermons/sea-shells-on-a-mountain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sea-shells-on-a-mountain&mc_cid=c68801f72b&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
