Hello All,
I wrote this article some time back for Prophezine's PZ Insider Report. I thought it might be helpful to my blog readers today. My two favorite things from this article are peppermint oil - which I use almost daily sometimes; and pine or evergreen tree resin. I can't tell you how helpful that is for cuts and scrapes - especially anything that is painful. Resin seems to not only heal the wound but stop pain as well. At least, that has been my experience.
I am visiting my mom in Arkansas, so posting is difficult. I will be back home in a little over a week. I hope you are all safe and well.
If you know of something that might be readily available in hard times, or disasters, please post your comments at the end of this article. You never know who it might help out some day.
Barbara
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My mom and dad grew up in the depression. Dad's family moved to
Arizona, then California, then back to Arkansas. They did better
financially than mom's family - who never left the farm. Especially my
mom has said - Good grief! how much easier our lives would have
been if we had know just a little about herbs and plants. And there
was no available doctor. And the only two 'healing ointments' they
had were (I AM telling the truth here) coal oil (kerosene) and
turpentine!
I was the second of six kids. My dad worked and mom stayed home
with the kids. That era was the real beginning of mother's working. Many of my friends had mom's who worked - so they had so much more disposable income than my family. We really did have to live on a very very tight budget. It wasn't fun when we thought about it - but mostly we had a very good life. We never actually went hungry - or were without a home - or a lot of good times. So while no one looks forward to hard times - I don't know that we should fear them.
Looking back - I can say I had a wonderful childhood - even though we really could have been considered 'poor'.
Hardship is often feared, but when lived through, it isn't nearly as bad as the fear of hardship and poverty. So, in facing the uncertain times ahead, Christians just need to live their lives each day. We should not be worrying about the future, or regretting the past. The Bible says, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Hardships can be lessened by recognizing and making use of resources around you. I have some quite a bit of useful information on the web, some of which I have personally tried and love (GSE, evergreen tree resin, and peppermint oil).
These are web sites with some information about nutrition or healing that I have found helpful or interesting.
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Grapefruit seed extract - I use this one all the time for everything. there seems to be a lot of research behind this. you can get it for $10 a bottle at many health food stores - it keeps a long time. It is a germ killer - disinfectant for water to name two.
http://www.nutriteam.com/gse/index2.html
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Pine resin - My mom just makes her own - or uses it straight from the tree. The point of this is that pine trees (or spruce trees - or cedar - or some evergreen) are available most of the time. In a disaster healing slaves might not be readily available. Also - the experience of my family (in using the stuff straight from the tree mostly) has been overwhelming positive.
http://natrhealth.com/skincare.html
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Peppermint oil for headache - joint pain - muscle pain - and it is wonderful! a bottle is really cheap - last a long time - and I don't know of anything bad about it. Also put it on wrists for carpel tunnel pain - or wrist strain from lengthy computer use.
We also have it growing around the yard. We don't use what we grow - we just want it there in case we ever need to use it. Of course you can make tea out of it - which tastes pretty good.
http://www.vitaminstuff.com/herbs-peppermint.html
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The benefits of garlic - everyone who has space should have some growing - even if the don't use it now - just in case they ever need it.
http://www.farmradio.org/english/radio-scripts/51-9script_en.asp
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Herb List - here is a list of herbs that are good to have growing if you have space - even if you don't use them right now.
http://www.realtime.net/anr/herbs.html
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Chicory - Probably everyone knows about chicory as a coffee substitute - I don't think it is hard to grow once you get it started.
http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/coffeesubstitutes/a/chicory.htm
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Pine Needle Tea - This one really sounds bad - but I read about it years ago - how some people trapped in the mountains came through much thinner - but otherwise fine - by just drinking spruce needle tea.
http://www.zetatalk.com/food/tfood07p.htm (pine needle tea)
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Pomegranate - The pomegranate and I are really good friends. the juice has been very helpful to me personally in dealing with joint pain. I think the trees grow in many states. And the fruit keeps well over time - which makes it a good fruit for anyone trying to be self sufficient. I buy the juice in Cost-co for about $10 a gallon. it is in the fruit juice section - not the pharmacy. I believe
it is supposed to lower blood pressure (dropped my top number about 10 points), be good for the heart, circulation, slow prostate cancer - and lots of other stuff.
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/hl/nutr/food/alert06162005.jsp
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Dandelion root - Not that I ever used it personally - but I would try it in very hard times. The thing about it is - you can find it everywhere. It sounds ridiculous that a time would ever come in American that survival would depend on dandelions and pine tree tea - but we really don't know what the future holds.
http://www.alternative-healthzine.com/html/0201_2.html
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I tried to scan these web sites to make sure they were just giving out information - and not passing out 'praise mother earth for her bounty' garbage - but I might have missed something.
I certainly pray that none of us ever have to eat dandelions or drink pine needle tea - but it would be better to know about it than to not know about it in a time of starvation. (You know - I personally hate stuff like turnip greens - but dandelion greens may taste about the same. Maybe a brave soul who reads PZ could try them and give us a 'taste' report.
It currently appears that instead of a food famine - we will face a famine to hear the word of God -because sound Bible teachers are getting harder to find all the time.
Have a good day.
Barbara
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Can You Survive the Great Tribulation?
Great Tribulation? HA! I’ve Had Christmas Dinner with Some Very Difficult People!
By Barbara Henderson
There is a time coming that Bible believers call ‘The Great Tribulation’, or the
‘Time of Jacob’s trouble’, a time of trouble such as the world has never seen.
There have been numerous books written on this time period.
Authors have tried to explain exactly what will happen during this time.
Other authors have gone into the realm of fiction in an attempt to show the awful things the world and its citizens will face during that time.
In fiction:
The heroic realize their folly in rejecting Jesus Christ when they had the chance.
They lament being ‘left behind’.
Then they commit to Jesus Christ and fight the good fight until they are martyred for their faith, or until Jesus returns.
I have read a lot of those books myself.
I don’t have a problem with them.
And I enjoyed most of them.
The thing is this:
Mankind does not have the capacity to understand or explain the utter terror of that seven years.
If you look around you, you will see millions of people who are currently delusional.
They believe things their inflated egos want to believe like:
I am a good person so I will naturally be going to heaven.
I am an enlightened person, so I will not only go to heaven, I will be a god when I get there.
God wouldn’t let anyone go to hell.
There isn’t a hell.
There isn’t even a heaven.
We are all going to the same place anyway.
If I miss heaven this time around, I will get another chance in my next life.
These delusional people currently have the Holy Spirit to speak to their hearts and conscience. The Holy Spirit tells them now:
‘These things are lies of the devil.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.
God is the Authority.
God is merciful if you but ask Him.
Come to God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son.’
And when the prompting of the Holy Spirt is rejected, He tells them again that they must be saved.
Then they reject Him yet again. They see themselves as wiser than the God who created them.
You know, the ‘dead in Christ’ and ‘we that are alive and remain’ are not the only ones who are going to leave the earth when the Lord Himself descends with a trump and shout. The Holy Spirit is going to leave as well.
There will be no human being left to tell the lost person to be saved.
The Holy Spirit will be gone as well.
There will be people who ‘feel’ like they are on the right path.
The government will tell them what to do in the crisis situation.
The government and its charismatic head will call on all people to join the new world order and commit their lives to its leader.
Those who refuse to commit will find themselves persecuted even unto death.
Now where are they going to such courage?
They didn’t even have the courage to buck the world system when it was only going to get them a few stares or frowns for being different.
How could they possibly have the courage to buck the system when it will get them killed?
Something happened a while back that made me begin to consider just how incomprehensible that time of terror will be.
I read that Hamas had legalized crucifixion of those who reject Islam.
I had always had the idea that people in the tribulation would have to stand bravely at a guillotine and refuse the mark. This brave deed would be followed by having their heads chopped off very quickly. Some of the bolder martyrs might even quote from ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, and say something like, ‘It is a far better place that I go to now than I have been before – and a far better rest’ just before their heads roll.
But, the word ‘crucifixion’ put things in an entirely different light.
It brought extreme torture into the picture.
I could see the followers of Lucifer nailing one foot of the dissenter to a cross while they demanded, ‘Take the mark and live’. Then the next foot nailed to the cross. ‘Take the mark and live you fool,’ they might shout, or laugh.
Then one hand; then the other hand.
Then the cross is dropped in the pit.
Then as time slowly runs out, the one hanging on the cross is taunted with, ‘Take the mark. We’ll get you down, and you will be healed.’
And all that is only after the poor living soul has already been through trouble such as the world has never seen.
The human being living during the Biblical tribulations will face two distinct trials.
First, the one talked about most often is the persecution by the anti-christ.
He and his followers will persecute those who refuse to join the ‘save the earth’ crowd relentlessly.
They will take it as a personal insult and criticism when anyone who rejects their god and ideology.
Those who refuse to worship the new leader will find themselves without a single second of peace or real rest.
They will be mentally exhausted in about a week, but they will have seven years to endure.
Second, ‘mother nature’ will show her true colors. The environmental disasters will come, and come, and come again. A simplistic picture would be like surviving Hurricane Katrina, then a few days later the levee breaks, then a few days later there is a great earthquake and a tidal wave, then an asteroid falls in the middle of town causing fire to burn much of what is left. Food and livestock are destroyed. There is no food, no drinking water, no modern conveniences, no medicine, no hot shower or warm soak in a tub with scented bath salts. The entire world of comfort and safety is suddenly gone.
And after all that happens, more disasters happen. And then more disasters happen again.
As disasters intensify, persecution will also intensify because the citizens who have set their course with the anti-christ will blame the dissenters for the problems. The alternative would be to blame their ‘god’.
Of course, it goes without saying that within the natural disasters and political/religious revolution, there will also be a financial disaster. Goods and services will be virtually unavailable to almost everyone. Human life will be of no value at all. Every human being will see others as just someone competing with them for the food that is available. It will be ever man for himself, and that ‘love they neighbor’ stuff will be ancient history.
People will be afraid as in ‘terrified beyond reason’. That means they won’t be able to reason. They will be so afraid they will not be able to think clearly. I have heard it said that after a trauma or tragic loss, it is best for the bereaved to make no major decisions for at least one year, because it takes that long for the mind to recover enough to be able to make a sound decision. The people living in the tribulation won’t have time to recover from anything. Events will be too fast and furious. It will be one trauma after another.
Let’s do a recap.
Society/government will be in the process of becoming totalitarian. Those who oppose will be persecuted to death.
The environment will be in turmoil.
Within these sorrows there will be turmoil in:
Family for those who have any family or loves ones left.
Jobs - with everything that will be going on, there will be a financial collapse.
Society – every rule of civilized society will be thrown away.
The extreme intensity of that time of terror cannot be comprehended.
Yes, there will be some who are saved during this time.
I don’t know who they will be.
I don’t know how they will come by their knowledge of Jesus Christ, their understanding of the way of salvation, and the courage to accept Christ under such terrifying circumstances.
I do know they will be few in number. And of those saved, even fewer will survive to the end of the age.
I know that most of the people who read my articles and blog are already saved.
If you are not saved, then I pray you will go to God according to His instructions.
That is to:
Acknowledge that you are separated from God by your sin.
Your ‘sin’ means you are not perfect.
You are human, so you are not perfect.
The problem is that God Almighty IS perfect.
God WANTS to clean you up so that you can come into His perfect home without polluting it.
That is done through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ.
Don’t ask me to explain how it works, but on the word of God Himself, I can promise you that Jesus made a way for you to enter the kingdom of heaven,
AND to escape the second death – which is separation from God for eternity in a place called hell,
AND to escape the Great Tribulation.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
And since most of my readers ARE already Christians, I am also hoping this article will give you some thoughts about the tribulation, and the horror the lost will suffer then and in eternity. I hope it will encourage you to pray for the lost, and tell them about Jesus.
The song for this article is ‘There’s a Great Day Coming’
God bless you.
Barbara Henderson
‘There’s a Great Day Coming’
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/g/tgreatda.htm
There’s a great day coming, a great day coming;
There’s a great day coming by and by,
When the saints and the sinners shall be parted right and left,
Are you ready for that day to come?
Refrain
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Are you ready for the judgment day?
Are you ready? Are you ready?
For the judgment day?
There’s a bright day coming, a bright day coming;
There’s a bright day coming by and by.
But its brightness shall only come to them that love the Lord.
Are you ready for that day to come?
Refrain
There’s a sad day coming, a sad day coming;
There’s a sad day coming by and by,
When the sinner shall hear his doom: “Depart, I know you not!”
Are you ready for that day to come?
Refrain
By Barbara Henderson
There is a time coming that Bible believers call ‘The Great Tribulation’, or the
‘Time of Jacob’s trouble’, a time of trouble such as the world has never seen.
There have been numerous books written on this time period.
Authors have tried to explain exactly what will happen during this time.
Other authors have gone into the realm of fiction in an attempt to show the awful things the world and its citizens will face during that time.
In fiction:
The heroic realize their folly in rejecting Jesus Christ when they had the chance.
They lament being ‘left behind’.
Then they commit to Jesus Christ and fight the good fight until they are martyred for their faith, or until Jesus returns.
I have read a lot of those books myself.
I don’t have a problem with them.
And I enjoyed most of them.
The thing is this:
Mankind does not have the capacity to understand or explain the utter terror of that seven years.
If you look around you, you will see millions of people who are currently delusional.
They believe things their inflated egos want to believe like:
I am a good person so I will naturally be going to heaven.
I am an enlightened person, so I will not only go to heaven, I will be a god when I get there.
God wouldn’t let anyone go to hell.
There isn’t a hell.
There isn’t even a heaven.
We are all going to the same place anyway.
If I miss heaven this time around, I will get another chance in my next life.
These delusional people currently have the Holy Spirit to speak to their hearts and conscience. The Holy Spirit tells them now:
‘These things are lies of the devil.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.
God is the Authority.
God is merciful if you but ask Him.
Come to God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son.’
And when the prompting of the Holy Spirt is rejected, He tells them again that they must be saved.
Then they reject Him yet again. They see themselves as wiser than the God who created them.
You know, the ‘dead in Christ’ and ‘we that are alive and remain’ are not the only ones who are going to leave the earth when the Lord Himself descends with a trump and shout. The Holy Spirit is going to leave as well.
There will be no human being left to tell the lost person to be saved.
The Holy Spirit will be gone as well.
There will be people who ‘feel’ like they are on the right path.
The government will tell them what to do in the crisis situation.
The government and its charismatic head will call on all people to join the new world order and commit their lives to its leader.
Those who refuse to commit will find themselves persecuted even unto death.
Now where are they going to such courage?
They didn’t even have the courage to buck the world system when it was only going to get them a few stares or frowns for being different.
How could they possibly have the courage to buck the system when it will get them killed?
Something happened a while back that made me begin to consider just how incomprehensible that time of terror will be.
I read that Hamas had legalized crucifixion of those who reject Islam.
I had always had the idea that people in the tribulation would have to stand bravely at a guillotine and refuse the mark. This brave deed would be followed by having their heads chopped off very quickly. Some of the bolder martyrs might even quote from ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, and say something like, ‘It is a far better place that I go to now than I have been before – and a far better rest’ just before their heads roll.
But, the word ‘crucifixion’ put things in an entirely different light.
It brought extreme torture into the picture.
I could see the followers of Lucifer nailing one foot of the dissenter to a cross while they demanded, ‘Take the mark and live’. Then the next foot nailed to the cross. ‘Take the mark and live you fool,’ they might shout, or laugh.
Then one hand; then the other hand.
Then the cross is dropped in the pit.
Then as time slowly runs out, the one hanging on the cross is taunted with, ‘Take the mark. We’ll get you down, and you will be healed.’
And all that is only after the poor living soul has already been through trouble such as the world has never seen.
The human being living during the Biblical tribulations will face two distinct trials.
First, the one talked about most often is the persecution by the anti-christ.
He and his followers will persecute those who refuse to join the ‘save the earth’ crowd relentlessly.
They will take it as a personal insult and criticism when anyone who rejects their god and ideology.
Those who refuse to worship the new leader will find themselves without a single second of peace or real rest.
They will be mentally exhausted in about a week, but they will have seven years to endure.
Second, ‘mother nature’ will show her true colors. The environmental disasters will come, and come, and come again. A simplistic picture would be like surviving Hurricane Katrina, then a few days later the levee breaks, then a few days later there is a great earthquake and a tidal wave, then an asteroid falls in the middle of town causing fire to burn much of what is left. Food and livestock are destroyed. There is no food, no drinking water, no modern conveniences, no medicine, no hot shower or warm soak in a tub with scented bath salts. The entire world of comfort and safety is suddenly gone.
And after all that happens, more disasters happen. And then more disasters happen again.
As disasters intensify, persecution will also intensify because the citizens who have set their course with the anti-christ will blame the dissenters for the problems. The alternative would be to blame their ‘god’.
Of course, it goes without saying that within the natural disasters and political/religious revolution, there will also be a financial disaster. Goods and services will be virtually unavailable to almost everyone. Human life will be of no value at all. Every human being will see others as just someone competing with them for the food that is available. It will be ever man for himself, and that ‘love they neighbor’ stuff will be ancient history.
People will be afraid as in ‘terrified beyond reason’. That means they won’t be able to reason. They will be so afraid they will not be able to think clearly. I have heard it said that after a trauma or tragic loss, it is best for the bereaved to make no major decisions for at least one year, because it takes that long for the mind to recover enough to be able to make a sound decision. The people living in the tribulation won’t have time to recover from anything. Events will be too fast and furious. It will be one trauma after another.
Let’s do a recap.
Society/government will be in the process of becoming totalitarian. Those who oppose will be persecuted to death.
The environment will be in turmoil.
Within these sorrows there will be turmoil in:
Family for those who have any family or loves ones left.
Jobs - with everything that will be going on, there will be a financial collapse.
Society – every rule of civilized society will be thrown away.
The extreme intensity of that time of terror cannot be comprehended.
Yes, there will be some who are saved during this time.
I don’t know who they will be.
I don’t know how they will come by their knowledge of Jesus Christ, their understanding of the way of salvation, and the courage to accept Christ under such terrifying circumstances.
I do know they will be few in number. And of those saved, even fewer will survive to the end of the age.
I know that most of the people who read my articles and blog are already saved.
If you are not saved, then I pray you will go to God according to His instructions.
That is to:
Acknowledge that you are separated from God by your sin.
Your ‘sin’ means you are not perfect.
You are human, so you are not perfect.
The problem is that God Almighty IS perfect.
God WANTS to clean you up so that you can come into His perfect home without polluting it.
That is done through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ.
Don’t ask me to explain how it works, but on the word of God Himself, I can promise you that Jesus made a way for you to enter the kingdom of heaven,
AND to escape the second death – which is separation from God for eternity in a place called hell,
AND to escape the Great Tribulation.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
And since most of my readers ARE already Christians, I am also hoping this article will give you some thoughts about the tribulation, and the horror the lost will suffer then and in eternity. I hope it will encourage you to pray for the lost, and tell them about Jesus.
The song for this article is ‘There’s a Great Day Coming’
God bless you.
Barbara Henderson
‘There’s a Great Day Coming’
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/g/tgreatda.htm
There’s a great day coming, a great day coming;
There’s a great day coming by and by,
When the saints and the sinners shall be parted right and left,
Are you ready for that day to come?
Refrain
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Are you ready for the judgment day?
Are you ready? Are you ready?
For the judgment day?
There’s a bright day coming, a bright day coming;
There’s a bright day coming by and by.
But its brightness shall only come to them that love the Lord.
Are you ready for that day to come?
Refrain
There’s a sad day coming, a sad day coming;
There’s a sad day coming by and by,
When the sinner shall hear his doom: “Depart, I know you not!”
Are you ready for that day to come?
Refrain
Friday, April 24, 2009
Secret Societies Within the Church
This is the transcipt from the second in my series on secret societies produced by Ray Gano for PZ Radio.
Barbara Henderson
Secret societies – part 2
Last time on PZ radio I began a series on secret societies. I presented the idea that it is not a question of IF there are secret societies, but that there MUST be secret societies. This week I want to cover secret societies that are pretty close to home. That is secret societies in the church.
Remember that a secret society usually operates within an open society that has open goals or an open purpose that anyone can know about. The secret sect of an open society often has entirely different goals or purpose than is openly acknowledged. The members of the secret society have main goals that are different than the openly stated goals. The members use their influence to bring about changes that fulfill their goals. They work within the open society as long as it works for their secret agenda. They work to change the actions of the open society in order to make their secret agenda more easily achieved.
The goal of the secret societies in general that we talked about last week is ultimate global control of government, society, and religion. Now, in the process of gaining control of every aspect of life, certain institutions must be torn down. These institutions include family and church.
For this broadcast, I want to talk about secret societies in the church. Churches whose foundation is on Jesus Christ and His word are constant targets for attacks through secret societies. There are secret societies in most if not all churches. These societies are in every stage of development from just beginning grumblers, to small groups of grumblers banded together. When they are strong, they proceed to open rebellion against church leadership and sound theology. The difference in church secret societies and globalist secret societies is they are probably not formally connected to globalist secret societies.
Secret societies in churches are made of members who are already in rebellion against God because of something in their personal lives. They want to find a way to make their own sins acceptable. They feel changing what the church teaches, or at least changing church leadership and preachers will make acceptance of their own secret deviant behavior more likely.
Churches today make it easier for deviant doctrine and scriptural error to creep in. This is because of ideas like age segregation is necessary, that people must be entertained, and that someone is suddenly qualified for a teaching or leadership position just because they have volunteered or fit a particular demographic. After all, those teenage church members need an age appropriate dynamic leader. It doesn’t matter if the leader has any background in sound doctrine or theology - if his or her heart is just in the right place. Wrong thinking says, ‘It will all work out in the end.’ Of course it doesn’t work out for the good of anyone.
The bigger the church, the more impossible it becomes to monitor all these groups, concerning the doctrine and theology that is being taught, and the moral behavior of those in positions of authority.
I recently heard of a mega church that had teachers teaching speaking in tongues as acceptable and even good. Now, whatever you thoughts on that subject, this particular church doctrine did NOT accept tongues as anything except the devils’ confusion. The preacher didn’t even know what was going on. People in the church DID know that speaking in tongues is not acceptable to that denomination and they chose to dismiss it as unimportant, or even cover it up.
Then, there was the church whose praise band was making a little extra money doing gigs in honky tonks. The deacons found out. Instead of bringing it to the attention of the church, they decided to slip out and go to the honky-tonks themselves in order to ‘support’ the praise band’s efforts to make a little money while they were evangelizing to a group that wouldn’t otherwise go to church and hear the Gospel. What a joke. That church split down the middle.
A secret society within a church can be partially defined as a group of people who are dissatisfied with something in the church, who have informally banded together, and prefer to ‘discuss’ the matter among themselves rather than take the problem(s) to the church and try to resolve them.
In John 18:20 Jesus said, ‘ I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. ‘
A church that is without large secret societies at the moment undoubtedly has ‘sleeper cells’. It has members who are dissatisfied with something, and are just waiting for likeminded members to join the church or for current members to become dissatisfied.
These grumblers are apostate in their thinking. They have heard the truth of Jesus Christ, but they want to ‘tweak’ it a little bit, make it more accessible to the masses, and change who is in charge. At some point, they have made a deviation from the narrow way to a path that closely resembles the narrow way at its beginning, but is just a ‘little bit’ broader.
The grumblers probably have a ring leader whose intentions may or may not have been evil from the very beginning. It may be a church member who is nursing hurt feelings about something, or unholy desires, and is just looking for a way to vent his or her frustrations. The grumblers will also include some easily led followers who were also looking for a way out of the narrow way taught by Jesus. They are apostates, having heard the truth, and found it dissatisfying or unacceptable in some way.
The attitudes of apostates you find in church secret societies are:
Disloyalty – they are NOT loyal to the teachings of Jesus Christ above all else.
Insubordinate and defiant – they reject church authority and Biblical authority – preferring instead to do what their shifting loyalties want to do.
Irreverent, flippant about the things of Christ, and even mocking to those who do not agree with them – believing that a worship service should please church members and draw crowds instead of pleasing God. That is where you get hard rock music in a supposed church.
Immoral, dishonest and even completely corrupt – they have turned from God for something they prefer above pleasing God. It may be a little deviation to begin with, but it will become a big deviation from Biblical truth before they are finished. Face it, Even among Jesus disciples there was Judas. He was the sleeper cell member. The other eleven didn’t have a clue.
That is the type people who make up the secret societies in churches. Flatly – they are not easily spotted or rooted out until they just seem to appear out of nowhere and destroy a church. They may not even know exactly where they are going themselves in the beginning. They just know they are in rebellion against something, and they want others to join them in their dissatisfaction.
The antidote for secret societies within the church begins with more knowledge for every believer. Church members who are sincerely working on obtaining a Christian zeal according to knowledge will not be easily led astray by dissatisfied church members looking for people to follow them in their rebellion. It is the lazy Christian who has zeal, but has remained ignorant and without knowledge of what Christ actually teaches, that will become a member of the church secret society led by a type of Judas.
Remember, Your ability to combat the secret societies within the church and the globalist secret societies is through Jesus Christ, the institutions of family and church, and personal Bible study.
In the next PZ radio broadcast I will be speaking on free masonry – and its beginnings and goals.
Barbara Henderson
Secret societies – part 2
Last time on PZ radio I began a series on secret societies. I presented the idea that it is not a question of IF there are secret societies, but that there MUST be secret societies. This week I want to cover secret societies that are pretty close to home. That is secret societies in the church.
Remember that a secret society usually operates within an open society that has open goals or an open purpose that anyone can know about. The secret sect of an open society often has entirely different goals or purpose than is openly acknowledged. The members of the secret society have main goals that are different than the openly stated goals. The members use their influence to bring about changes that fulfill their goals. They work within the open society as long as it works for their secret agenda. They work to change the actions of the open society in order to make their secret agenda more easily achieved.
The goal of the secret societies in general that we talked about last week is ultimate global control of government, society, and religion. Now, in the process of gaining control of every aspect of life, certain institutions must be torn down. These institutions include family and church.
For this broadcast, I want to talk about secret societies in the church. Churches whose foundation is on Jesus Christ and His word are constant targets for attacks through secret societies. There are secret societies in most if not all churches. These societies are in every stage of development from just beginning grumblers, to small groups of grumblers banded together. When they are strong, they proceed to open rebellion against church leadership and sound theology. The difference in church secret societies and globalist secret societies is they are probably not formally connected to globalist secret societies.
Secret societies in churches are made of members who are already in rebellion against God because of something in their personal lives. They want to find a way to make their own sins acceptable. They feel changing what the church teaches, or at least changing church leadership and preachers will make acceptance of their own secret deviant behavior more likely.
Churches today make it easier for deviant doctrine and scriptural error to creep in. This is because of ideas like age segregation is necessary, that people must be entertained, and that someone is suddenly qualified for a teaching or leadership position just because they have volunteered or fit a particular demographic. After all, those teenage church members need an age appropriate dynamic leader. It doesn’t matter if the leader has any background in sound doctrine or theology - if his or her heart is just in the right place. Wrong thinking says, ‘It will all work out in the end.’ Of course it doesn’t work out for the good of anyone.
The bigger the church, the more impossible it becomes to monitor all these groups, concerning the doctrine and theology that is being taught, and the moral behavior of those in positions of authority.
I recently heard of a mega church that had teachers teaching speaking in tongues as acceptable and even good. Now, whatever you thoughts on that subject, this particular church doctrine did NOT accept tongues as anything except the devils’ confusion. The preacher didn’t even know what was going on. People in the church DID know that speaking in tongues is not acceptable to that denomination and they chose to dismiss it as unimportant, or even cover it up.
Then, there was the church whose praise band was making a little extra money doing gigs in honky tonks. The deacons found out. Instead of bringing it to the attention of the church, they decided to slip out and go to the honky-tonks themselves in order to ‘support’ the praise band’s efforts to make a little money while they were evangelizing to a group that wouldn’t otherwise go to church and hear the Gospel. What a joke. That church split down the middle.
A secret society within a church can be partially defined as a group of people who are dissatisfied with something in the church, who have informally banded together, and prefer to ‘discuss’ the matter among themselves rather than take the problem(s) to the church and try to resolve them.
In John 18:20 Jesus said, ‘ I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. ‘
A church that is without large secret societies at the moment undoubtedly has ‘sleeper cells’. It has members who are dissatisfied with something, and are just waiting for likeminded members to join the church or for current members to become dissatisfied.
These grumblers are apostate in their thinking. They have heard the truth of Jesus Christ, but they want to ‘tweak’ it a little bit, make it more accessible to the masses, and change who is in charge. At some point, they have made a deviation from the narrow way to a path that closely resembles the narrow way at its beginning, but is just a ‘little bit’ broader.
The grumblers probably have a ring leader whose intentions may or may not have been evil from the very beginning. It may be a church member who is nursing hurt feelings about something, or unholy desires, and is just looking for a way to vent his or her frustrations. The grumblers will also include some easily led followers who were also looking for a way out of the narrow way taught by Jesus. They are apostates, having heard the truth, and found it dissatisfying or unacceptable in some way.
The attitudes of apostates you find in church secret societies are:
Disloyalty – they are NOT loyal to the teachings of Jesus Christ above all else.
Insubordinate and defiant – they reject church authority and Biblical authority – preferring instead to do what their shifting loyalties want to do.
Irreverent, flippant about the things of Christ, and even mocking to those who do not agree with them – believing that a worship service should please church members and draw crowds instead of pleasing God. That is where you get hard rock music in a supposed church.
Immoral, dishonest and even completely corrupt – they have turned from God for something they prefer above pleasing God. It may be a little deviation to begin with, but it will become a big deviation from Biblical truth before they are finished. Face it, Even among Jesus disciples there was Judas. He was the sleeper cell member. The other eleven didn’t have a clue.
That is the type people who make up the secret societies in churches. Flatly – they are not easily spotted or rooted out until they just seem to appear out of nowhere and destroy a church. They may not even know exactly where they are going themselves in the beginning. They just know they are in rebellion against something, and they want others to join them in their dissatisfaction.
The antidote for secret societies within the church begins with more knowledge for every believer. Church members who are sincerely working on obtaining a Christian zeal according to knowledge will not be easily led astray by dissatisfied church members looking for people to follow them in their rebellion. It is the lazy Christian who has zeal, but has remained ignorant and without knowledge of what Christ actually teaches, that will become a member of the church secret society led by a type of Judas.
Remember, Your ability to combat the secret societies within the church and the globalist secret societies is through Jesus Christ, the institutions of family and church, and personal Bible study.
In the next PZ radio broadcast I will be speaking on free masonry – and its beginnings and goals.
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