The Original Question:

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I've been a Christian for most of life, but now I find Christianity to be too restricting. I've been looking more towards spirituality than religion. I've been attemping to study Kabbalah,but I want to be open to other things.

I want to know more about Wicca, before I become a committed follower. I was mostly curious about the deities that are in Wicca. I tend to lean towards religions that are monotheistic.I wanted to know about the character of the deities and what the provide.

I also wanted to know the "commandments" of Wiccanism. Such as, are there physical places that are assigned as rewards or punishments in Wicca, such as Heaven and Hell in the Christian.

Oh, and also what role does tarot,numerology,astrology,dream interpretation,etc. play in Wicca.

Our Answer :

Being a Christian is knowing the truth. Let me explain why. Paganism, witchcraft, and vampirism is growing rapidly in every culture. Why? You may ask?

Simple, it is real* People get sucked into what Ouija boards and fortune tellers can say regarding their future. Often times, this is how it gets started. The bible has been tossed aside and thrown away in our culture.

Why?

Many people believe that "religion" is boring. To the most part, many Christians don't work in the gifts of the spirit, and the church itself HAS NOT grabbed a hold of the power Jesus does give us. Jesus said we will do more miracles than himself, yet the church doesn't see miracles. Many Christians are seeing the dead being raised, and people cured of cancer and aids, through the name of Jesus, but sadly the mainline church is more considered with the things of the world, that they don't see miracles. They cannot heal through prayer and fasting, and miracles don't happen for them, because their lives are not cleaned out.

In witchcraft, many people see a great deal of curses or spells happen, and they see it working immediately when they try it, so they get sucked in and involved. Children who follow Harry Potter are given the basic instructions on witchcraft in their books, and find out it works.  Today there is an explosion of tv shows that feature the paranormal realm, so it is no wonder there are so many people who flock towards it.

I want to give you three things to consider why you should run as fast as you can from these things.

1 - Demons Don't Respect The Boundaries God Has Set.

A) If you research men who have had encounters with angels such as Tom Deckard, you will see that #1 they do not give their names, as they do not want to be worshipped. (This is how Satan fell)  If a person steps over any sinful boundaries among Gods angels they leave. For example - A righteous man following after God who is put into a situation of temptation of lust would remove himself from it immediately. Angels of God do the same but to a higher degree. They WILL NOT defile themselves as they are holy. Demonic angels are the opposite. Demonic angels will push the boundaries every single time, looking out for the worst interest in the individual for the very intention of taking them down to the pit of hell.

For Example - Case in Point- The 18 year old Boy who dabbled with the Ouija Board. The demons through the Ouija Board told him what he wanted to hear. They encouraged him and gave him powers over an approximate time he used the board (a year or so)  Eventually it (the demons) asked for control over his voice.   He soon couldn't control himself in public. He wasn't able to talk without speaking out swear words. Could you imagine being paralyzed in your own body. Getting help would mean pain? This is what happens when you get deeply involved in the occult.

You may think to yourself, I am not that deep, it couldn't happen to me.... Sadly, Satan is very smart and convincing. A friend of mine who cannot leave the snare of witchcraft cannot help getting her tea leaves read because she so desperately wants direction in her life. Who do you think is suggesting to her to get her tea leaves read? Satin will pull you right off the cliff as soon as you grab on to the rope the first time. Don't kid yourself.

The Bible says, "And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve" (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

2. Why IS It By Using The Name Yeshua Jesus That Demons Can Be Cast Out?

One of the worst lies out there are these three day long exorcisms. Sadly you see these things by the catholic church which is NOT Christianity. No, holding a cross is not going to scare away a demonic presence. God (YHWH) it very simple for the person WHO WANTS to be free to be SET free EASILY. First it takes the will of the person to WANT to be set free. Simply by saying.... "IN JESUS NAME, I COMMAND all demonic presence, or demons to leave my body,....I don't want you here anymore, leave NOW! I pray to be filled with the holy spirit, Jesus come into my life"

Here is a question to ponder .............Why is it that DEMONS have to come under the authority of Jesus? Why is it that the name of other "Gods" (Buddha ect) don't work when casting out demons? It kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it? Many be because there IS ONLY ONE True God.

Two powerful books I would highly suggest, that I have read personally are

A. Bill Schneobelen's Book -Blood on the Doorposts. He achieved the highest degrees in Witchcraft, Masonry, Mormonism, and drugs. Bill Schnoebelen explains how deep he was in the occult, and how he found his way out in Christ Jesus. He discusses how Jesus was the only way out, as he tried many other things to get free of demons that held him in bondage daily. Here is a man who studied and was deeply involved in the occult and how he DIDN"T Find it fun after time. You can find some of his info on You tube for free as well. His book is excellent.

B. Stripes, Nails, Thorns and The Blood By Bree Keyton. This book is a mini encyclopedia that lists the ranks of demons, and how to identify them. She shows a person how to break strongholds, and how to recognize demonic activity. She gives a person a step-by-step deliverance outline of how to be free of demonic activity and how to maintain your healing & deliverance. Her book is an accredited college course. Here is a woman that has been translated speaking to crowds in south America while driving down the road in America. God uses her around the Globe to do great things. She is showing the power of Christ that we all can have.

3. The Bible Says If You Practice in Witchcraft You Will Cursed and More Importantly Burn in Hell.

Deuteronomy 18:11-12 says that anyone engaged in these practices is "detestable to God."

The first thing you may say to yourself is ....."Well that point doesn't apply to me, because I don't believe in hell" Well, here again, it is NOT WHAT YOU BELIEVE, but what you can PROVE RIGHT?

If I were to say to someone, I think the world is flat, and that someone still shakes their head when someone tries to show me the evidence that it is round, they would honestly be very closed minded and the fool not to listen to the evidence.

 This is what most people are like when it comes to the gospel. I can give someone (and will for you as well) a good 80 pages of point by point evidence that there is remarkable evidence for Jesus and Christianity. When it comes to other religions, most give the basic evidence such as "God can be seen in design" YET, for Christianity, there is very specific evidence that YWHW is the true and only God. So, are you going to be that same person who puts their fingers in their ears to the overwhelming evidence that the earth is round?

Hell exists, and thousands of people can testify to burning in hell as modern medicine has brought them back on the operating table.

You may say, as some use for the excuse - "it is just a cause of the brain miss-firing". No, in fact there is evidence that proves through many patient-cases when the brain is dead, and there is no heart breathing or breathing that people are claiming with accuracy events that took place after they have been clinically dead.

You can see both of our blogs where we list the evidence.

Life After Death Heaven And Hell.com

After Life Answers. Blogspot

If you dabble with Witchcraft you will be cursed. Deuteronomy 28 lists the blessings or curses that "WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND OVERTAKE YOU". Do you want to curse your family line? Do you want to be the person always running into road blocks? Suffering from diseases and health problems? The curses are extensive, but so are the blessings. Where would you rather sit?

Finally, What is the evidence for Jesus?

1. The Bible WAS INSPIRED BY GOD. I would suggest that the King James Version is pretty much identical to the dead sea scrolls, while the modern translations have been corrupted. The bible unlike any other book has a remarkable amount evidence of History ,Science, Mathematics AND Medicine. DO you know of another book that has embedded Numeral Mathematics within the words, as well as THOUSANDS of Bible codes threaded within and throughout it? How can you possibly write a book (of 40 authors) that reads on the surface fluently, and has THOUSANDS of Modern Bible Codes, AND on top of that Multiple places of Mathematics present? I would ask you, does The Koran have this? Does the Satanic Bible have this? Who is the true God?

2. There are 2,000 prophecies that discuss past events which have come to pass (proven correct), future prophecies and 300 prophecies (ALL proven correct and detailed) on the implications about the life, INCLUDING the death, and resurrection of Jesus. No other religion has specific, repeated, and unfailing fulfillment of predictions many years in advance of contingent events over which the predictor had no control.

Buddha didn't rise from the dead, nor did Confucius or Zoroaster. Muhammad didn't fulfill detailed prophecy. Alexander the Great didn't raise the dead or heal the sick. And though there is far less reliable information written about these "religious" leaders, they are believed in and followed by millions.

- The Messiah would have had 456 identifying characteristics. Jesus had them all.
- Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, Peter Stoner, has calculated the probability of one man fulfilling the major prophecies made concerning the Messiah. Twelve different classes representing some 600-university students worked out the estimates. 1 in (10 157POWER) that one man could fulfill even 48 (F O U R T Y - e i g h t ) of these Old Testament prophecies. JUST REMEMBER THAT JESUS FULFILLED OVER 300!- American Scientific Affiliation Journal

3. AN EARTHQUAKE AND An Eclipse Happened while Jesus was dying on the cross. If he was truly God, like he said he was, wouldn't you expect some supernatural miracles if he died? He could Jesus cause earthquakes to happen the moment he died? How could he make the sun not shine its light? You may say, "ah, whatever" Well, 13 Historical Sources from all around the world noted it DID take place. Not only that, but in the holy temple, the Curtain that separated Holy Place where GOD dwelled was torn in half the exact moment Jesus died.   The curtain was 60 feet in height, 30 feet in width and 4 inches thick

A Bonus for ALL JEWS out there.

4. The name of Jesus is embedded in The bible codes in some of the old testament prophecies.

Oh yes! The messiah you are waiting for has come and gone, and is returning. God shows us, it was JESUS! 74 CODES were found in Isaiah 52-53 for just one example listing Jesus, and all of his disciples.

"“When we had Nathan Jacobi, Ph.D., examine each of these ELSs for possible extensions, his findings were highly improbable. While 4.0 extensions, consisting of a total of 16 letters, were expected by chance, Dr. Jacobi found 13 extensions, totaling 75 letters. The odds against finding this many extensions around eight initial ELSs are about one in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or one out of a billion times a trillion."

AND IT DOESN"T END THERE Folks...., The evidence is vast and perplexing.

Luke 11:9"So I say to you, 'Ask, and what you ask for shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.'

Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.

Ask Jesus to show you what you don't know.

You can walk in power, and light and holiness.

Follow the Truth. Jesus would never lie to you. Walk in truth.

"Jesus, forgive me for my sins, ......come into my life, and change me to be the man and woman you want me to become. I thank you for dyeing on the cross and taking the hell for me. Open my eyes, and guide me to live for you" Amen.

ONLY Christianity allows you to go to heaven just by a prayer. God makes it easy for you to have a relationship with him. Every other religion makes you jump hoops to get to heaven, while the bible says if you BELIEVE, and proclaim him, you can have eternal life this moment.

Turn away from all things ungodly, and walk the narrow road my friends

See you in heaven. *Meranda

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We recently ran across a great article on this topic entitled "Evolution: an ancient pagan idea" by Paul James- Griffiths.  In the article he does a great job of showing how the key concepts behind the theory of evolution can be traced all the way back to the pagans of ancient Greece and to ancient Hinduism.  If you have not read his article yet, we strongly encourage you to go read it now.

In addition, if you do not yet understand how fundamentally flawed the theory of evolution is, we strongly suggest that you read our article entitled "The Creation/Evolution Debate" which breakes down many of the massive holes in Darwinism. 

The truth is that when you objectively examine the evidence it points to the fact that there was a Creator.  But many people want to avoid coming to that conclusion no matter what, because if there is a God then we are all accountable to Him.  Many would rather live their lives based on a lie rather than having to deal honestly with a Creator God.  You see, mankind is so addicted to sin that many will do whatever mental gymnastics they need to do so that they can continue to ignore God and enjoy their sin. 

But in the end nobody will be able to ignore God.

None of us will live forever, and we will all stand before God one day.

What will you say when that day arrives?

If you do not know what you will say, then we would recommend that you find out what the Bible has to say about how God is going to judge us.  On our site we have posted an article entitled "What Does The Bible Say About Salvation?" that will explain to you exactly how you can establish a relationship with God.  The truth is that God loves you very much and wants to forgive your sins and give you eternal life.

He is reaching out to you today.

Will you reach out for Him?

The following is a brief account of what happened from Kolenda himself....

Last night after the service, a woman stopped me as we were getting in the car to leave. In her arms she held her dead 3-year-old son. I held the body for just a moment, prayed and then left. Tonight we heard the testimony; as we drove away, the boy came to life and he is now perfectly well. She shared the testimony tonight and the crowd went wild! All of Sapele is rejoicing. Praise the Lord!

Most Christians are amazed when they find out that these types of things are still happening today, but they should not be.  In Mark 16:15-18, Jesus told His disciples this....

"Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."

What follows are eight of the most extraordinary ancient mysteries that relate directly to the Bible....

The Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza remains one of the greatest architectural achievements in the history of mankind to this day. It is thirty times larger than the Empire State Building, and the Great Pyramid's features are so massive that they can be seen from the Moon. The base of the Great Pyramid covers 13.6 acres, which is equal to seven midtown Manhattan city blocks. In fact, a highway lane eight feet wide and four inches thick could be built from San Francisco to New York and put inside the Great Pyramid.

It sounds incredible, but it is true.

The truth is that even our modern technology cannot place 20 ton stones with greater accuracy than those in the Great Pyramid.

So how did ancient humans build such an incredibly advanced structure?

Not only is the Great Pyramid a stunning achievement, but there is also an amazing message actually encoded into the Pyramid itself.

What most people do not realize is that the Great Pyramid contains a prophecy.....a prophecy for exactly when Jesus would die on the cross for our sins.

Check out the information for yourself:

http://www.europa.com/~edge/giza.html

For more information on the Great Pyramid, and the extraordinary information it contains and the amazing mathematical knowledge reflected in the design of the structure, check out these sites:

http://www.gracethrufaith.com/ikvot/the-great-pyramid-of-giza

http://www.europa.com/~edge/pyramid.html

The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone

The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is a huge flat stone on the side of Hidden Mountain, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, approximately 35 miles south of Albuquerque. This massive stone, which predates Christopher Columbus arriving in North America, has the Ten Commandments inscribed on it in ancient paleo-Hebrew script.

How in the world did THAT happen? Modern scholars are at an absolute loss to explain it. You can read more about this amazing stone here:

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/the-los-lunas-decalogue-stone

Chariot Wheels On The Bottom Of The Red Sea

The picture to the left is of a 4-spoked Egyptian chariot wheel that was found on the Red Sea seabed in 1998.

The discovery of Egyptian chariot wheels on the bottom of the Gulf of Aqaba is incredibly strong evidence that the Exodus that the Bible describes really happened.

Below is an article with a lot more pictures of chariot wheels on the bottom of the Red Sea:

http://bibleprobe.com/exodus.htm

For those of you who are too lazy to read the article, just scroll down through the article and look at the pictures.

I wonder what the skeptics are going to say about this?:

"Everyone knows chariots race along the bottom of the Gulf of Aqaba all the time!"

"Christians planted those chariot wheels.....it is part of their grand master plan to rule the world!"

"Those wheels evolved there naturally! They are a result of mutation and natural selection!"

The Cambodian Stegosaurus Engraving

Has amazing evidence that dinosaurs and humans coexisted been found?

Well, the good folks over at Bible.ca have posted a picture of an engraving of what looks like a stegosaurus on an ancient temple in Cambodia.

So how did this engraving get there?

Did the ancient Cambodians know what a stegosaurus looks like?

What other explanation is there?

You can read more about this extraordinary discovery here:

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks-cambodia.htm

The London Artifact

This picture comes to us from http://evolution-facts.org/ and it shows something that Darwinists cannot explain.

The hammer in the picture is called the London Artifact, and it is an iron hammer surrounded by a solid mass of "cretaceous" rock.

So what in the world is a hammer doing in "cretaceous" rock?

According to evolutionists, that would be simply impossible.

The handle of the hammer in the picture was partially PETRIFIED.

A test was done on the metal in the hammer. The hammer contains 96% iron, 2.6% chlorine, and 0.74% sulfur. There are no bubbles in the metal at all. Yes, the hammer is most definitely made of iron. The quality of the iron equals or exceeds the quality of any iron found in today's world.

How in the world is THAT possible?

The Burdick Track

The human footprint in the photo to the left was impressed into allegedly "110 million year old" limestone rock and was discovered in Glen Rose, Texas.

Analysis of the footprint suggests that it is a woman's bare footprint and would correspond to a size 22EEEE men's shoe today.

Scientific analysis after cross sectioning the stone with a diamond saw proves that the print was made by pressure, and therefore it is genuine and was not carved.

So the mystery remains.

Just how did the gigantic footprint of a human woman get into "110 million year old" rock?

Giant Skeletons

One of the most bizarre ancient mysteries involved the bizarre or freakishly deformed human skeletons that have popped up all over the earth.

Growing up we were never taught that giants were actually REAL.

A lot of Christians do not even know that the Bible talks about giants.

But it does.

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."
-Genesis 6:4

So who were these giants and where did they come from?

The following is a great article which discusses this issue.....

http://thereturnofthenephilim.blogspot.com/2008/07/return-of-nephilim-aliens-ufos-annunaki.html

The reality is that bones that have been discovered around the world prove that these giants once lived.

25 pages of pictures and evidence that show giants really did walk among us can be found right here:

http://s8int.com/giants1.html

You can also find a great deal information about giants at this site (take special care to click "giant pics" on the sidebar):

http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/index2.html

More stunning pictures and evidence for giants can be found here:

http://www.bibleprobe.com/nephilim.htm

The Ebla Tablets

Have you ever heard of the Ebla tablets?

The Ebla Tablets were originally discovered in northern Syria by two professors from the University of Rome, Dr. Paolo Matthiae and Dr. Giovanni Petinato. Since 1974, 17,000 priceless tablets have been found from the time of the ancient Ebla Kingdom.

The Ebla tablets appear to have been written during the two last generations of the city, which would mean they come from some time around 2300 B.C.

But the remarkable thing about the Ebla tablets is not how old they are, but rather the similarities to the Scriptures that they contain.

Many Old Testament names that have not been found in other Near Eastern languages have been reported to occur in similar forms in Eblaite (one of the two languages found on the tablets).

Adam, Eve, Abarama/Abraham, Bilhah, Ishmael, Esau, Mika-el, Saul and David are just some of the Biblical names that have been found on the tablets. Not that the tablets are referring to those specific people - just that it shows that those names were commonly used in ancient times.

In addition, a substantial number of ancient Biblical cities are also mentioned in the tablets.

For example Ashtaroth, Sinai, Jerusalem, Hazor, Lachish, Megiddo, Gaza, Joppa, Ur, and Damascus are apparently mentioned in the tablets.

Giovanni Pettinato also found references to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

There was also one key discovery in the tablets that relates to Genesis 14. Skeptics have claimed that the victory of Abraham over Chedorlaomer and the Mesopotamian kings is made up and that the five "cities of the plain" (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar) are legendary.

But as usual the skeptics are wrong.

The Ebla tablets refer to all five of the cities of the plain and on one tablet the cities are listed in the exact same sequence as we find in Genesis 14.

One of the most stunning discoveries of all, however, was when a "creation hymn" was found among the tablets.

Three versions of this Eblaite "creation hymn" were found. The creation hymn was translated by Pettinato as follows:

Lord of heaven and earth:
the earth was not, you created it,
the light of day was not, you created it,
the morning light you had not [yet] made exist.

Even in the midst of such a pagan culture, an ancient hymn about a "Lord of heaven and earth" who created the earth was able to survive.

Absolutely stunning.

Let us pray that even more incredible discoveries will come out of the Middle East, because with each new discovery the accuracy of the Scriptures is further validated.

For occultists, pagans and Satanists, Halloween night is the night when the veil between this world and the world beyond is the thinnest.  To them it is the best night to contact the dead, and by participating in the rituals of this holiday many of these people believe that they can tap into great power. This Satanic night is dedicated to the Celtic Lord of the Dead, also symbolized by the Horned-god and the Stag-god. Most commonly this holiday is known as Halloween today, but to the pagans this is the holiday of Samhain.  It is a very wicked holiday that is deeply rooted in ancient paganism. October 31st was celebrated by the Druids with many human sacrifices honoring their sun god and Samhain, the lord of the dead, who in reality is Satan. The Druids of ancient times celebrated Samhain as a 3-day fire festival, building huge bonfires which were meant to ward off evil spirits.  Human sacrifice was also a key component of many of these ancient celebrations.  Children and animals were often caged in large wicker baskets which were then lowered into the flames.  Posted below you can see a photograph of a modern celebration of Samhain.  Such pagan celebrations as this are becoming increasingly popular.

Bobbing for apples seems like a fun game, but little do people know that people being held for these sacrifices in ancient times were sometimes given the choice that if they could get an apple with their teeth out of a blazing boiling pot of water they could be set free instead of being offered in the fire. It gives an entirely different perspective on the tradition that is still held today at many parties. In fact, once you look into these horrid customs held over 2,000 years ago, they all have terrifying origins.

It was Pope Gregory III who moved festival of October 31st to November 1st and called it All Hallows or All Saints' Day, and then it was Pope Gregory IV who decreed that the day was to be kept by the church. There is nothing Christian about Halloween, as it is in fact an abomination to God and yet so many Christians participate in it.  The Bible says we cannot drink from the cup of the devil and that of God. We must choose one or the other.

Many people claim that Halloween is harmless fun, and that they do not worship the devil but take part only in the fun things of the holiday. Even if you are not "serious" about it, Satan is!

The videos below contain testimonies from people who tried out tarot cards, Ouija boards, or other "harmless" white magic only to discover the dangers of dabbling in spiritualism. It may seem like innocent fun, but is it?

Many people have testified that they were introduced to the occult at a Halloween party. The video testimonies below are from people who have dabbled with the occult only to have found themselves deeply involved in the occult. No Christian should take part in celebrating the occultic holiday of Halloween. How can any Christian participate in a holiday where hundreds of babies are tortured for hours and are brutally murdered?

“Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” 3 John 11

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole Armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole Armour of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the Breastplate of Righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Above all, taking the Shield of Faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the Helmet of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints." Ephesians 6:10 – 18

“Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” James 4:7

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? For what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols?… Therefore, come out from among them and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you" 2 Corinthians 6:14 – 17

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them.” Ephesians 5:11

"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.” Philippians 4:8

“… teach my people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.” Ezekiel 34:23

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priests for Me; because you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.” Hosea 4:6

“That whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone was hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!” Matthew 18: 6 – 7

"You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s Table and of the table of demons." 1 Corinthians 10:21

The truth is that you can be delivered out of the occult by the God of the universe.  He is stronger and more powerful than any entity of darkness.  Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins, and if you ask Him into your life He will forgive your sins and will give you eternal life.  If you would like to make that decision right now, the following is a suggested prayer for asking Jesus into your life: 

"Jesus, I believe that you died on the cross for my sins.  I know without you I am destined for an eternity in hell.  Please come into my life and forgive my sins.  I ask you to take control over my life, and give you complete control over my life to change me into the person I was meant to become.  Open my eyes up to the life I am meant to live.  Please show your love to me.  Thank you Jesus."  

The origins of All Hallows Eve can be found here.

One day in 1990 he was in his office and was appreciating how good his life was.   He was working in the field of artificial intelligence and it was like a game to him, and he thanked God for it. But the Lord challenged him one day: "You want to be paid big money to play games the rest of your life?" "I decided I wanted to invest my life into something that was eternal," he says.  By 1991 over 100 Muslims came to Christ and Hormoz realized that the Lord was calling him into full-time ministry. In 1997 the Lord expanded the ministry when he began a 30-minute local cable show. By 2001, satellites opened up in Iran and they could broadcast in Farsi. "Through many challenges the Lord has moved mightily in this work."

Hormoz never envisioned this for his life, and by the Lords hand they are now on the air nine hours weekly in Iran – one hour of primetime at 10:00 p.m. The response has been tremendous, as the show is now one hour, and airs also in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East.  Hormoz can conservatively say there are 50,000 converts that he knows of.  He tells of the mighty move of God in Iran, and how so many are coming to Christ. When they witness, many are hungry and accept Christ on the spot.

Several viewers said that Jesus appeared to them in visions and they wanted to know what this meant. In a vision, one saw himself in a vast field in the wilderness. He was lost. Suddenly, a tall bright man like an angel appeared to him. When the man said he was lost, the angel pointed toward a direction. The man looked and saw a cross and Jesus was on it. At the foot of the cross, a river of light suddenly fell on him and he felt so much peace. He did not want to wake up because the peace left. "Now would you please tell me what is the interpretation of this dream?" he asked. Hormoz was happy to explain this to him. The big challenge now is to train leaders in the home churches.

The great majority of dreams seem to fall into one of two broad categories. The first could be considered the preparatory dream.  For example like Christ appearing in a white robe, the vision confirms thoughts or conversations one has been having about Christ or the Christian faith.  The second could be called the empowering dream. Here the dream or vision commonly gives the believer strength in the face of persecution.  Short of persecution, it may embolden believers, strengthening the nature of their witness.

An Afghan court may sentence Abdul Rahman to death for converting from Islam to Christianity.

*In Afghanistan, for example, there were only 17 known evangelical Christians in the country before al-Qaeda attacked the United States. Today, there are well over 10,000 Afghan followers of Christ

*Uzbekistan- There were no known Muslim converts to Christ there in 1990.there are more than 30,000 converts to Christ there in 1990.

* In Iraq, there was only a handful of Muslim converts to Christianity back in 1979 when Saddam Hussein took full control of that country. Yet today, there are more than 70,000 Iraqi Muslim background believers in Jesus (MBBs), approximately 50,000 who came to Christ as refugees in Jordan after the first Gulf War in 1990-91, and another 20,000 who have come to Christ since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

*In Kazakhstan, there were only three known evangelical Christian believers before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Today there are more than 15,000 Kazakh Christians, and more than 100,000 Christians of all ethnicities.

* Egypt- More than 1 million Egyptians have trusted Christ over the past decade or so. The Egyptian Bible Society told me they used to sell about 3,000 copies of the Jesus film a year in the early 1990s. But in 2005 they sold 600,000 copies, plus 750,000 copies of the Bible on tape (in Arabic) and about a half million copies of the Arabic New Testament. "Egyptians are increasingly hungry for God's Word," an Egyptian Christian leader told me. Last Christmas, I had the privilege of visiting the largest Christian congregation in the Middle East, which meets in an enormous cave on the outskirts of Cairo. Some 10,000 believers worship there every weekend. A prayer conference the church held in May 2005 drew some 20,000 believers.

* Iran- In 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, there were only about 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity. Today, interviews with two dozen Iranian pastors and church leaders reveals that there are well over 1 million Shia Muslim converts to Christianity.

* Sudan- More than 1 million Sudanese have made decisions to follow Jesus Christ just since 2001. Since the early 1990s, more than 5 million Sudanese have become followers of Jesus. Muslims were turning to Jesus in alarming numbers. "In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity," Al Qataani warned. "Every day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity." Stunned, the interviewer interrupted the cleric. "Hold on! Let me clarify. Do we have six million converting from Islam to Christianity?" Al Qataani repeated his assertion. "Every year," the cleric confirmed, adding, "a tragedy has happened."

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Accounts Multiply Of Muslims Who Have Encountered Christ in Unusual DreamsBy Michael H. Brown - 600 ex-Muslims who now follow Jesus

In Mina's book she tells of the Lord Jesus' miraculous radiant appearance to an elderly Muslim theologian in Iran., and about Jesus telling this man he is not Allah! Jesus then tells this man that He is "the Bread of Life", and words similar to His (Jesus') blood washes sins away. Realizing whom he is dealing with, the man asks Jesus to accept him.

A North African believer found the needed strength to face his
imprisonment from a dream he had while imprisoned for his faith. In it, he saw thousands of believers pouring through the streets of his city, openly proclaiming their faith in his restricted country. While in prison, he was tortured, suspended upside-down naked for hours, beaten with electrified rods and repeatedly threatened with execution. His vision of a day when people of his country would openly proclaim their faith in the streets gave him great strength to persevere.
One Egyptian Muslim was reading the Injil (Gospel), when he came to Luke 3, where the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus in the form of a dove. God said, "This is my son, in whom I am well pleased." As he read those words, a stormy wind broke into his room. A voice spoke to him saying, "I am Jesus Christ, whom you hate. I am the Lord whom you are looking for." He recalls that he "wept and wept, accepting Jesus from that time."

"Dunham organized the baptism service and worship celebration. The celebration marked an outgrowth of her ministry, one of its kind in the Middle East. A few years ago, Dunham established a church in the West Bank city of Jericho. "We have a church that reaches sometimes 600," Dunham said. "And what you'll see is just Muslims lifting their hands to the Lord. And they're not there because I went house to house and invited any of them. They're there because they've had a dream or a vision, or a visitation from the Spirit of the Lord. And so they've come to find out about Jesus." Latifa is one of the people from Jericho who have had a dream about Jesus. She explained, "The dream, when I sleeping -- I see a Man dressed in white and He comes to ask me, 'What is your name?' And I am afraid at first. But He told me, 'Don't be afraid. I am Jesus.'" Others have experienced miracles. "Tuesday, I think there was either two or three who had deaf ears -- one had never spoke before," Dunham said. "Tuesday was just full of miracles. A lot of the people here were at our service Tuesday - they were here, they were talking, they were moving. I've just seen the Lord move. Even we think sometimes that they have to be fasting and they have to be Christians to get healed, but I'm telling you today that God's healing the Muslims." Jan, a helper at the event, said, "People need to know that it's not a bad report all the time. God does good things in spite of what the news shows. People need to know that God is busy, He's at work. He's good." But establishing a church in Jericho was not easy for Dunham. "When I first went to Jericho about four years ago, they talked about me in every mosque," Dunham said. "They wanted to execute me. They were giving us death threats by way of letters -- me and my son -- because we were handing out Gospel tracts. Well, the governor of Jericho called me into his office. He said, "we had a meeting and we feel if you want to give out Bibles and you want to give out those booklets, we don't consider it evangelism any more. Go ahead, Karen." Dunham now tapes a television program out of Jericho. She says the best language to speak in these areas is the language of love. "The biggest lesson I've learned in the West Bank is that Jesus Christ loves everybody," Dunham said. "Jesus loves them all. There's nobody He don't love. And there's not a soul He can't save." "They've heard me when I'm preaching, speaking in their own language," she continued. "You can't sit on a pew or sit at home and say I don't have the language. The Lord said the language is love: 'Just give them the Word, they'll hear you, Karen.' The language is love. There's no reason why we can't reach out to those Arab nations, reach out and show them what the arms of Jesus Christ - how big and how great and how awesome God is."

"I was in a train station in Japan, making a pilgrimage to the head Buddhist temple Daisekiji at the foot of Mount Fuji, when a young man -- in perfect English -- warned: "Beware the winds of Himeiji!" Three and one-half hours later, I was leaning over to put some postcards into my travel bag and heard someone yell a warning in Japanese. The next thing I knew, a sign weighing nearly 200 pounds came crashing down on my back. I was in shock and my
right arm was paralyzed. I couldn't believe this was happening to me!

The railroad authorities didn't want to take responsibility for what had happened. They offered me money as a bribe; they wanted to forget the accident had ever happened. But I refused the offer, after obtaining advice from the U.S. embassy. Had I accepted the money, the embassy told me, that would have relieved the railroad authorities of all obligations and responsibility.

This episode caused me to become very discouraged, and I desperately needed someone to lean on. In a wheelchair and all alone, I decided to seek help from leaders at the Soka Gakkai Buddhist headquarters in Tokyo. But my efforts were in vain. They had no compassion whatsoever for me or my unfortunate turn of events; they simply urged me to continue my pilgrimage, even though I was confined to a wheelchair.

I remember asking myself at the time, "Why? Why don't these Buddhist leaders help me? Don't they see my condition? Don't these Buddhists -- who have been practicing _far longer_ than I -- have any compassion at all?"

After this experience, I had no desire to finish the pilgrimage. All I wanted to do was go home to my loving family. So I flew back to the United States. To say the least, I was beginning to have major doubts in my mind about Buddhism.

Accidents have a way of bringing us face to face with life's precious realities. As a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist, I had for fourteen years invested my energy, prayers, and hopes for a better life in the philosophy of Nichiren Daishonin, a thirteenth-century Japanese monk who claimed to have found the "true Buddhism." In the United States his followers are organized by the Nichiren
Shoshu Academy (NSA), also known as Soka Gakkai. The main goal of NSA is "Kosenrufu," or "world peace through the propagation of Buddhism." And for years, I had enthusiastically sought Kosenrufu.

As I reflect back on those years, it strikes me that my commitment to NSA could be questioned by none. As a young Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist, I became a member of the Brass Band -- a musical group founded specifically for the young men's division of NSA. The band was intended as a training activity for developing character in young men. As a member of this band, I attended a multitude of conventions and was often called to the headquarters for musical performances for overseas dignitaries.

I also helped build the Malibu Training Center and Santa Monica headquarters (both in California). I became a senior leader (or elder) of the young men's division at the Santa Monica headquarters, and was a graduate of the Nichiren Shoshu study department. By this time, my life had become thoroughly and unconditionally committed to Kosenrufu.

It was not long after this that I decided to make a pilgrimage to Japan -- a decision largely motivated by my yearning for truth. I had become deeply involved in my commitment to see Buddhism spread throughout the United States, but I found a tremendous lack of translated material. As a result, I began to search. Little did I know that I would soon uncover some things that would give me a new perspective.

Open forums and meetings with fellow Buddhists began to shed a new (and negative) light on the Buddhist religion for me. During these sessions, like-minded Buddhists began to ask questions like, "Why must we have a picture of sect President Daisaku Ikeda on the wall? Doesn't that make it look like we're worshipping him? Why must we wear white? Why can't men wear beards? Why must men and women sit apart from one another? And where is all the money going in NSA?" We felt that we should have a little more control over what was going on.

During one period, some of the Japanese leadership attended the meetings and were later overheard behind closed doors saying, "these meetings must be stopped." And so, one by one, the meetings were  stopped. This caused me a great deal of disillusionment.

As a senior leader in NSA, I encountered more and more hypocrisy in the upper leadership levels and made sincere attempts to resolve organizational and philosophical deficiencies. However, these attempts were only met by deceit, jealousy, power maneuvers, and even threats against my life. I made a last-ditch effort by talking with top Soka Gakkai leaders, but it only confirmed my need to talk to President Daisaku Ikeda, "master" of the sect, who is praised and glorified by Nichiren Shoshu devotees. (Ikeda's
picture is prominently placed near Nichiren Shoshu altars worldwide.)

I tried to make legitimate appointments with President Ikeda by letter, by phone, and in person -- only to be denied and pushed aside. But -- undaunted -- I was determined to see him. One day he was coming out of the World Culture Center in Santa Monica (which is the North American headquarters for NSA), and was heading for his car behind a wall of Buddhist bodyguards. I rushed across the street to within just a few feet of him and cried out to him. I _know_ that he heard me, but he refused to even look my
way. I was coldly shunned as he got into his limousine and sped away. At that point, I was a spiritually broken man. I felt totally lost.

Even after that incident, I was unwilling to abandon fourteen years of Buddhist practice, and yet I was noticing in myself more and more depravity until I could scarcely identify with a pure conscience anymore. The leaders were not the only hypocrites. I, too, was living a lie. I was painfully lost in a spiritual wasteland and was weighed down with sin. I realized that while
Buddhism had benefited me in many ways, it ultimately led to a spiritual dead end. As a great wise man, King Solomon, once said: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death" (Prov. 16:25).

But God was soon to show me the way to life.  One day a young Christian architect friend of mine, Laurie, who had been sharing with me earlier, came into the blueprint store where I was working. My spiritual hunger prompted me to confide in her that I was seeking spiritual truth. She responded by saying, "I've got a present for you that I'll bring by tomorrow." As she left, she looked back at me behind the counter and said, "I've been praying
for you." I was deeply moved by her concern for me.

The next morning, there was a package waiting for me with a card on top which said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." There were also two books: one by J. Isamu Yamamoto called Beyond Buddhism, and another by Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter.  After reading these books, I wondered, "Could this be the perfect Master I was seeking, but didn't know?"

Soon after this, another Christian friend named Craig saw my spiritual confusion, and challenged me to "go home and get down on my knees and pray and ask God whether I ght in Buddhism. Often top Nichiren Shoshu leaders would mockingly exclaim, "Can you believe a religion that worships a dead man on a cross?" But here in this book was the Living Master -- the One my heart had sought so desperately in men.

I was then introduced by my father to a pastor from a church in Santa Monica who shared the truth of the Living God with me. He read to me the words of Christ: "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." Convicted of my sin against a holy God, I laid down my burden at the Savior's feet and gave my life to Him. That night, my wife -- a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist for 16 years -- also
believed. What grace!

Nichiren, the self-proclaimed Japanese True Buddha that we had followed for so many years, said that if he found a teacher greater than himself he would follow him. In our case, we  were found by a greater Teacher -- the Good Shepherd, the Lord JesusChrist, the eternal God, before whom "every knee shall bow."

Is there true evidence for Heaven and Hell?  Is there evidence that Jesus is the true GOD?  The Answer to these questions is an overwhelmingly yes!  The most trusted research comes from neurosurgeons such as Dr Bruce Greyson, Pim van Lommel, Dr Melvin Morse, Dr Sam Parnia, Dr Peter Fenwick, and Kenneth Ring.  ALL of these doctors have studied the field of NDE, and have narrowed their studies down to qualifying patients who only include cardiac patients who have fit into the category of clinical death.  You can find the whole research here, which proves there is life beyond medical death.  If there wasn't a literal hell, why are so many millions experiencing it? 

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
        -Mark 9:43-48

Bill Wiese was placed in Hell by the Lord Jesus not as a casual observer, but as someone who had the mind of a person who was not saved.  Bill recounts all the horrid details of Hell with detailed descriptions of what he saw and felt. Since this life-changing ordeal, he has spent the last seven years studying the Scriptures to find answers and has listed more than 150 Bible verses referencing hell.

"The one picked me up, and the other one, with his razor-sharp claws; he just shredded my flesh right off. He just tore it off, and had absolutely no care what so ever for this body that God so wonderfully made. It had a hatred that was so intense against me. I wondered, "Why am I alive, why am I living through this? I don't understand why am I not dead." My flesh just hung there in ribbons. And there was no blood, just flesh hanging, because life is in the blood, and there is no life in Hell. And there is no water in Hell......"

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"I was lying on the floor in this cell and I had absolutely no strength in my body. I wondered, "Why can I hardly move, what is wrong with me?" I was just aware of no strength, and I was helplessly lying there. One Demon just grabbed me and picked me up, and threw me into the wall like a glass. He just picked me up like a glass. That was how light I was, or how strong he was. And threw me into the wall, and every bone in my body just broke. And I felt pain! I just began to lie on the floor there, crying out for mercy, but these creatures don't have any mercy at all, absolutely no mercy"

"Then one of the demons grabbed me, and drug me back into the cell and began all these torments again, which I really hate to talk about, because I don't like to have to re-live the torment. They began to crush my skull. One demon grabbed me and tried to crush my head. I was screaming and begging for mercy, but no mercy! About this time they each grabbed an arm and a leg and were about to tear off my legs and my arms. I thought, "I can't endure this, I can't endure this!"

"And they were blaspheming God. The whole time they were cursing God. I wondered, "Why are they cursing God? Why are they hating God so much?" And then they turned their attention to me, and I felt the same hatred they had for God, they had for me also, and again I thought: "Why do they hate me? I haven't done anything to them." But they hated me with a hatred that I have never experienced on earth; way beyond what man has the ability to hate with. They absolutely hated me, and I knew they were assigned to torture me."

"There were things that I am going to say, that I don't know how I knew. In Hell your senses are keener, you are just aware of more than our physical bodies are. I was aware of distances, I was aware of time, and so forth, much more than you are here. I knew these things were assigned to me, to torture me forever in this place."

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Kelley addresses and answers questions such as:

Can demonic spirits remain in a home after the residents have moved out?

What should you do when you move into a new home, or if the home that you live in is haunted?

What kinds of problems can demonic spirits cause in your life?

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What causes division among friends, family, business partners, and people in the church?

Why must you be careful about the words you speak?

Why is it imperative that you deal with bitterness and unforgiveness.

You see, the Scriptures claim that they are the inerrant Word of God.  They claim to have no errors and they claim to tell mankind the way to have eternal life.  These are not claims to be taken lightly.  Indeed, they are deadly serious.

In 2 Timothy 3:16, the apostle Paul tells us that the Scriptures were given by inspiration of God.....

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness"

So if the Scriptures were given by inspiration of God, then they should be accurate in everything that they say, right?

The apostle Peter reinforces this point in 2 Peter 1:20-21.....

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost"

So is that really the case?

Can we trust the Bible?

Well, as we will see, the answer is most definitely yes.....

First of all, the Bible is unique among all the religious books of the world in that it contains very specific predictive prophecy that has come to pass.  In fact, the Scriptures contain amazingly accurate prophecies that were given hundreds, and in some cases even thousands of years in advance.  We simply do not find this in other religions.

Dr. Hugh Ross has done an excellent article about a few of these prophecies that is very much worth reading.  We would highly suggest that you check it out:

Fulfilled Prophecy: Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible

In addition, we have previously posted an article that looks at the amazing prophecies found in Isaiah chapter 53 that you can find here:

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/messianic-prophecies

We also posted an in depth article about the extraordinary prophecy about the crucifixion of Jesus found in Psalm 22 that you can read here:

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/did-you-know-there-was-a-prophecy-of-the-crucifixion-of-jesus-christ-1000-years-ahead-of-time

Should not the real God of the universe be able to tell us what is going to happen ahead of time?

Indeed, in the book of Isaiah God does tell us that this is what sets Him apart from all of the other "false" gods.....

Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.

I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.

God does tell us the end from the beginning in the Bible, and that truly does set the Scriptures apart from other "holy" books.

Well what about archaeology?

Does that give us any clues about whether we can trust the Bible or not?

Indeed it does.

Christian answers has an excellent series of articles that show that the archaeological evidence keeps confirming the Bible over and over and over..... 

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aiia/aiia-arch1.html

In fact, the more discoveries that are made, the more it keeps confirming that the Bible is reliable.  Once again, this fact clearly sets the Bible apart from the other major religious books of the world.

For much more on the archaeological evidence for the Bible, we would encourage you to check out a couple of articles on this topic written by one of the greatest Bible scholars alive today.....

http://www.grantjeffrey.com/article/article7.htm

http://www.grantjeffrey.com/article/rockcry.htm

Okay, but is the Bible scientifically accurate?

Once again, the answer is most definitely yes.

Unfortunately, there is a common misperception that the Bible and science are at odds, but the truth is that total opposite of that.  The truth is that when the Bible speaks about science it is incredibly accurate.....

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencebible.html

But isn't the Bible full of contradictions?  After all, that is what you will hear when you talk to most skeptics and atheists.

Well, no, it isn't.  Of course there are always some Scriptures that skeptics and atheists like to claim contain contradictions, but all of those objections have been convincingly answered by scholars who have studied these questions for decades.  In fact, often the "contradictions" and "objections" are cleared up when new historical or archaeological discoveries are made.  For a great online library of Biblical contradictions that have been answered, we would encourage you to check out this website.....

http://www.carm.org/bible-difficulties/genesis-deuteronomy

The truth is that we could go on and on discussing the reliability of the Bible.  For more evidence for both the Bible and the Christian faith, we would encourage you to read the article below on some of the key evidence that shows why Christianity is true..... 

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/does-god-exist

But unfortunately, the early church leadership in Jerusalem was completely scattered by the destruction of that city in 70 A.D., and from that time forward Christianity started to lose it's Jewish roots.  The Jews who had not accepted Christ as Messiah went their own way, and Christianity began to become increasingly corrupted by pagan influences, especially after the emperor Constantine legalized (and took much control over) official Christianity in the 4th century.

But now in our time, on the verge of the last days, God is raising up a people who now only have the testimony of Yahshua (Jesus) but who also keep the commandments of God.  According to Revelation 12:17 and 14:12, this is what will characterize the "remnant" in the end times.
 
But most Christians react very strongly when you tell them this.

After all, can't we just ignore the commandments of the Old Testament now?
 
Didn't Jesus come to set us free from the curse of the Law?
 
Yes, those who have received Christ are free from "the curse of the Law".
 
So what was the curse of the Law?
 
Was it that God cursed the people of Israel by making them follow the Law?
 
That would be saying that the Law is a curse, which would only contradict about 1000 scriptures.
 
No, the curse of the Law was not that they had to follow it, but rather the curse was that they had this great, wonderful, magnificent Law, but none of them could follow it and therefore it made them all guilty.
 
That is why Christ had to come.
 
To pay the penalty for our sins and to free us from that curse.
 
But Jesus did not do away with the Law - instead He always intended for us to keep God's Laws.
 
You don't believe me?
 
Just read the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:17-19.....
 
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
 
You see, most of the time Yahshua (Jesus) spoke in puzzles and riddles, but there were a few times when He was making a point of such absolute importance that He took the time to very slowly and very clearly explain exactly what He meant.

You will notice above that He makes the exact same point three times in a row. 

In each sentence He very clearly made the point that His followers are to keep the Law.

In fact, that statement by Jesus in verse 19 is so crystal clear that it is amazing that so many of us missed it for so many years.

Is there any other explanation for verse 19 than that we are supposed to keep the Law?
 
How do you read it?
 
Does it not seem very clear?
 
But what about the apostle Paul?
 
Didn't he preach against the Law?
 
No, he preached against those who said we had to follow the Law to be saved.  We are saved through faith in Christ alone, but that doesn't mean we chuck out God's commandments.
 
As we will see, the apostle Paul certainly understood this distinction.
 
In Romans chapter 3, he first tells us that salvation is apart from the Law:
 
Romans 3:21-24
 
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
 
Then later on in Romans chapter 3 he answers the 64,000 dollar question:
 
Romans 3:31
 
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
 
So does our faith in Christ nullify the Law?
 
According to the apostle Paul, the answer is clearly NO! The apostle Paul says that we are to uphold the covenant.
 
In fact, if Paul was against the Law, then why did he keep it even to the last days of his life?
 
Wouldn't that make him a massive hypocrite?
 
The truth is that Paul and all the other early apostles kept the Law.
 
Just check out these scriptures.....
 
Acts 21:20-24
 
When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.
 
Acts 25:8
 
Then Paul made his defense: "I have done nothing wrong against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar."
 
Keep in mind that Jesus observed the Law when He was here the first time and the scriptures say we will be observing it after He returns.
 
Now if Jesus intended to do away with the Biblical festivals, then why is He going to be implementing them when He returns?
 
Zechariah chapter 14 describes the return of Jesus to this earth, and then later in that same chapter it describes how Jesus will REQUIRE the whole earth to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.
 
Zechariah 14:16-19.....
 
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
 
One of the most neglected parts of Scripture is Ezekiel chapters 40-48. Those chapters actually describe what life will be like when Yahshua (Jesus) comes back and reigns from Jerusalem. Did you know that Sabbath, New Moon and Passover will all be celebrated when Yahshua (Jesus) reigns of earth for a thousand years?
 
Just check out these passages.....
 
Ezekiel 46:1-3
 
"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened. The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings. He is to worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening. On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to that gateway."
 
Ezekiel 45:17
 
"It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel."
 
Ezekiel 45:21
 
"In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a feast lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast."
 
In addition, the Bible tells us that Sabbath and the New Moon will be celebrated forever and ever.....
 
Isaiah 66:22-23
 
"As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me," declares the LORD, "so will your name and descendants endure. From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me," says the LORD. "

You see, the reality is that God instituted the Sabbath on the 7th day of creation, and the above Scripture tells us that we will be celebrating the Sabbath forever and ever.  Nowhere in the Bible does God command that the Sabbath is now to be celebrated on Sunday.

For more in depth Biblical analysis of the festivals, please see these articles.....

The Biblical Festivals In The Torah Are Evidence For The Christian Faith:
 
http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/the-biblical-festivals-in-the-torah-are-evidence-for-the-christian-faith
 
Passover or Easter?:
 
http://themoralcollapseofamerica.blogspot.com/2009/04/christian-passover.html
 
Pagans Celebrated Dec. 25th BEFORE Christmas Was Invented:
 
http://themoralcollapseofamerica.blogspot.com/2008/12/pagans-celebrated-dec-25th-before.html

If you are interested in learning more about how God is raising up a people who both have the testimony of Yahshua and who keep the commandments of God in these last days, then we encourage you to visit this site:

www.jewishprophet.com

Now why did God have His people go to Jerusalem every year?  It was because the prophetic fulfillment of each of these festivals was to occur in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas.

First of all, let us take a look at the Festival of Passover.  For centuries and centuries before the coming of the Messiah, God had His people go to Jerusalem and celebrate a festival which involved the sacrifice of a lamb. 

Now, most Christians understand that Christ was our Passover lamb.  But it goes much deeper than that.  You see, during the very first Passover meal, God had His people put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts.

Why the doorposts? 

It was prophetic.

What are most doorposts made out of, even today?

Wood.

And where does wood come from?

From a tree.

So during that very first Passover, God's message to the people of Israel was that the blood of the lamb on the tree covered them from the wrath of God.

Does that sound familiar?

It should.

It is the message of the cross.

The blood of the Lamb on the tree (the cross) covered us from the wrath of God.

And when did Jesus die?

On the eve of Passover, just as the Passover lambs were being slaughtered.

So, each year God had His people go to the exact place where the Messiah would die, at the exact time of the year that the Messiah would die, and He had them celebrate a festival that was an amazing prophetic representation of the sacrifice that the Messiah would make on the cross.

Can you think of any other religion that has something like this?

No, you can't, because there aren't any.

There is only one true God and He given us all the evidence that we would ever need to find Him.

Secondly, let us take a look at the Feast of Pentecost.

Pentecost was the time when the people of Israel commemorated the giving of the Torah.

Once again, the Lord had His people go up to Jerusalem each and every year at a specific time.

Did the Lord do this just to be bothersome?

No.

It was prophetic.

For what happened in Jerusalem on that exact day shortly after the Lord Jesus left this earth?

That was the day we read about in Acts chapter 2 when the Lord poured out the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and they spoke in other tongues.

So, for centuries and centuries, God had His people gather at the exact place where the Holy Spirit would be poured out, on the exact day when the Holy Spirit would be poured out, and He had them celebrate a festival that not only remembered the giving of the Torah, but also looked forward to the giving of the Holy Spirit.

You see, God always does the "big things" on His festival days.

After Jesus died and rose again, many probably wondered if the festival days were still going to have the same significance.

Well, God answered that in a big way.

On the very FIRST festival day after the ascension of Jesus, God chose to pour out His Holy Spirit on the apostles.

That was not by accident. 

By doing this, God sent a very strong message that His festivals still mattered.

Lastly, let us take a look at the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Feast of Tabernacles was the 3rd time each year that God had His people travel up to the city of Jerusalem.  It was an 8 day festival where God had the people of Israel live in humble shelters or "booths" for 8 days.

Now why in the world would God have His people do that?

Once again, it was prophetic.

You see, Jesus was NOT born on December 25th.

In fact, there is nothing special about December 25th in the Scriptures at all.

Rather, most Bible scholars understand that Jesus was almost certainly born during the fall.

In the gospel of Luke there are clues that we can use to calculate the approximate time that Jesus was born.

Starting with calculating the time of the year when John the Baptist's father served in the Temple, we can come up with a Scriptural timeline that ends in the birth of Christ.  The following video will break down all of the specific details for you:

Now, it must be noted that it cannot be proven with 100 percent certainty using the Scriptures that Jesus was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, but that seems to be the most logical conclusion when you consider all of the facts.

You see, as noted earlier, God always does the "big things" on his high holy days.  If Jesus was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles (which is a High Sabbath), then He would have been circumsized on the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles (which is also a High Sabbath).

In addition, it would better explain why there was no room for Mary and Jospeh to stay anywhere.  Bethlehem is only about 5 miles from Jerusalem, so the entire area around Jerusalem would have been absolutely packed with visitors who had come in for the festival.

But perhaps the biggest clue is the festival itself.  You see, during the Feast of Tabernacles, God had His people live in humble temporary shelters which perfectly foreshadowed how His Son would come into the world some day.

In essence, God had His people go up to Jerusalem (which is about five miles from Bethlehem) every year, at the exact time when His Son would be born and He had them live in humble temporary shelters ("manger scenes" if you will) in order to foreshadow the circumstances of the birth of the Messiah.

Are you beginning to grasp the wonderful prophetic details contained in the Biblical festivals of the Torah?

God had His people go up to Jerusalem three times each year because one day He was going to prophetically fulfill each of those three holidays during those exact times in that exact area of the world.

What other God is able to do something like that?

Praise God for the wonderful things that He has given to us in the Scriptures!

As you read the rest of this blog, hopefully you will begin to see that there is overwhelming evidence that Christianity is true.  If you would like to ask Jesus Christ into your life and become a Christian, then we would encourage you to read this other article that we put together about how you can receive Christ into your life today: 

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/how-to-receive-christ

We will all be faced with our own mortality someday.

I want you to consider the two lines below:

I-----------------------------------I

I----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

The first line is a couple of inches long.

The second line, however, does not stop at the end of the page.  The arrow on the end of it signifies that it keeps going.

Imagine that it keeps running off your computer screen and out of the room and down the hall.  Then imagine that it gets in your car and drives to a nearby city.  Then imagine that it gets on a plane and flies over to Japan.  Then imagine it gets on a boat and heads over to Saudi Arabia.  Then imagine that it get on another plane and comes back to your house and back into the room where your computer is.

But the line is still not done.  Then it leaves once again and it circles the world 50 million more times, comes back and tells you that it is done warming up and now it is ready to really get going.

Are you starting to get the picture?

The first line is how most people view life.  They are born, they go to school, they get married, they get a job, they retire and then they die.

The second line is how Christians view life.  When Christians die, they know that eternity lies beyond that.

You see, the Scriptures tell us that God gives eternal life to those who put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  John 3:36 says this:

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him.

For those who have passed on and are not in heaven, what do you think they wish they could have traded from their earthly life in order to have eternal life?

Probably everything.

In Matthew 16:26, Jesus told us this.....

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Would would you give in exchange for eternal life?

But the truth is that eternal life is free.

Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for your sins, and the Scriptures say that if you will receive Him into your life and ask Him to forgive your sins, He will give you eternal life.

Eternal life.

The ultimate happy ending.

And it is absolutely true.

If you have read the rest of this blog, then you are aware of some of the evidence that we have been documenting that shows that Christianity is absolutely true.

Jesus Christ really is the Son of God.

He really did die on the cross to pay the penalty for your sins.

If you ask Him into your life, He really will become your Savior and Lord.

If you would like to ask Jesus into your life, the following is a suggested prayer.  Pray this with all of your heart and Jesus will come into your life and will give you eternal life:

"Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be."

If you have any questions or if you would like more information please leave a comment to this post.  Our hope is that this post and this blog will help as many people as possible find eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Consider these statements by Schaeffer.....

"The right wing propaganda machine and big time American evangelical religion turns stable people into jerks and a few unstable people into into killers."

"Unlike members of al Qaeda, our terrorists aren't part of a conspiracy. It's worse: they are hard-to-stop lone actors energized by right wing media-driven hate and loony evangelical religion."

"They hate America and want a revolution in the name of God, "pro-life" beliefs, anti-gay hate, racism and far right Republican politics."

"Above all it is the "absolutes" of white evangelical America that spawn the hate."

"The worst anti-American propaganda pours from evangelical pulpits in the name of religion and God."

"Let's hope the Secret Service is doing their job. Let's hope the FBI is investigating evangelical groups and their leaders, infiltrating pro-life outfits like Operation Rescue and others from who's ranks more domestic terrorists will come to strike at the heart of our open society."

When you start seeing a respected, New York Times best-selling author make statements like these on one of the largest political websites on the Internet, then you know the rampant persecution of Christians is just around the corner.

Basically Schaeffer stopped just short of advocating rounding up all evangelical Christians and shipping them off to concentration camps.

Talk about hate.

Is there any question that Schaeffer hates Christians?

So what is the appropriate response?

Love.

Christians must love and forgive Schaeffer.  That is the Biblical response.

But we must also explain why such demonization of Christians is very, very, very wrong.

First of all, Schaeffer lumps Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn in with evangelical Christians.

But that is the complete opposite of the truth. 

The truth is that James Von Brunn not only deeply admired Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution, but that he also had a deep, seething hatred for Christians and the Bible.

How can Von Brunn be on the side of the Christians when he hated them with every fiber of his being?

According to WorldNetDaily, the following recently discovered quotes from Von Brunn illustrate how he used Social Darwinism to justify his utter hatred for Christians and Jews.....

"The New Testament was written in Greek. Paul – who believed the World was flat, that Joshua made the sun stand still, and Jehovah spoke from a burning bush – wrote one-third of it, perhaps more. The events described in the 24 Books are often contradictory, fail the time-line, defy both archaeology's and nature's immutable laws, and are suicidal if practiced. Nevertheless, the shamans bought it, taught it, and the illiterate public was coerced, brainwashed, threatened, tortured, murdered, and enthralled. … The Gospels profess that only Christians may enter Yahweh's Kingdom of Heaven. To qualify, among other demands, Christians must LOVE THEIR ENEMIES (Jews); give away their personal belongings; eschew knowledge; judge not, despise nature, abandon earthly pleasures, acknowledge that all YHWH's children are equal; and above all else worship YHWH, the jealous, wrathful, vengeful, unforgiving, genocidal, anthropomorphic tribal god (Jesus' father) created by Hebrews in their image and likeness. Omnipotent, omniscient YHWH promises Hebrews that they alone shall inherit the earth, that it is commendable to steal from Gentiles, better yet — kill them. Whereas Gentiles, if they fail to worship YHWH, are transported straight to Hell. And it is written, 'A little child shall lead them.' These dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, DESTROYED the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years!"

"The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION … CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES."

Schaeffer needs to eat his words.

Von Brunn was not on the side of Christianity. 

Von Brunn considered Christians to be his mortal enemy.

The truth is that whenever Darwinism and atheism triumph, it results in the extreme oppression of Jews and Christians.

Take a moment and think of every major atheist nation of the 20th century - the U.S.S.R., communist China, Cuba, all of communist eastern Europe, North Korea - they all persecuted Jews and Christians with extreme brutality.

Most atheists today like to think of themselves as peaceful.

But look at Schaeffer and Von Brunn.

Both of them HATE Christians and want to do something to them.

The truth is that the ideology of Holocaust Museum shooter Von Brunn most closely resembles the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian "social Darwinism" of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

The Nazis fully embraced the theories of Charles Darwin and sought to apply the implications of that theory to society as a whole.

In fact, there are amazing parallels to be drawn between Nazism and the Christian hating ideologies of Schaeffer and Von Brunn.

The vast majority of people believe that Nazism was a far right political movement, but that assumption is completely and totally wrong.

The official title of the Nazi party under Adolf Hitler was the "National Socialist German Workers’ Party".

Please take special note of the word "Socialist" in that title.

The Nazis were socialists.

Many of you who are reading this article will instantly deny that fact, but it is true.

They were socialists.

That is not right - that is far left.

The Nazis advocated very tight social and economic control by a big, powerful central government.

That is a far left philosophy - not a far right one.

The reality is that a big government that dominates that lives of the citizens is always the desire of leftists.

Well, what about social issues?  Were the Nazis on the right or the left?

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 one of the very first acts of Hitler was to legalize abortion in Germany.

By 1935, there were more than 500,000 abortions being performed in Germany each and every year.

That doesn't sound "far right", now does it?

The reality is that Adolf Hitler was a huge fan of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and she was a big admirer of him.

Just how did Margaret Sanger feel about unborn children?:

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

Whoa!

Talk about sick!

Hitler not only advocated abortion, but he also vigorously advanced the eugenics agenda of Planned Parenthood.

Adolf Hitler wrote this in Mein Kampf: "The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of mankind."
-Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10

Hitler's obsession with eugenics resulted in the involuntary euthanasia of large numbers of disabled people and the compulsory sterilization of thousands of people with mental deficiencies.

Just like the far left of today, Hitler had absolutely no respect for human life.

Well, what about education? Were Hitler and the Nazis on the far right or the far left?

In "The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity", author Bruce Walker describes how the Nazis declared an all out war against Christianity in their public schools.  In his book he documents the following facts about the Nazis....

-Only clergymen were permitted to teach religious classes, and those clergymen were forced to teach according to the anti-Christian instructions of the Nazi Ministry of Education.

-In the city of Wurrtemberg, when clergymen totally refused to follow Nazi teachings on religion, 700 of them were permanently banned from the classroom.

-Christian prayers were totally banned from the public schools and crucifixes and other Christian symbols were physically removed as well.

-By 1935, the passionately anti-Christian leader of the Hitler Youth, Baldur von Shirach, issued a regulation that prohibited any child from belonging simultaneously to a Christian youth group and the Hitler Youth.

-Gradually, membership in the Hitler Youth became almost obligatory, and parents were told that their children would not get good jobs in the civil service unless they belonged to the Hitler Youth and employers were told that they should not hire children who did not belong to the Hitler Youth.

-Christian children who did not belong to the Hitler Youth or its female counterpart were routinely beaten up by young Nazi thugs.

-Boys inducted into the Hitler Youth were required to explicitly reject Christianity by disgusting oaths such as this: "German blood and Christian baptismal water are completely incompatible."

The following is an actual Hitler Youth slogan:

“The Faith fanatics, who still to-day slide down on their knees with faces uplifted to heaven, waste their time in churchgoing and prayers, and have not yet understood that they are living on the earth and that therefore their task is of a thoroughly earthly kind. All we Hitler people can still only look with the greatest contempt on those young people who still run to their silly Evangelical or Catholic Churches in order to vent their quite superstitious religious feelings.”

These are actual quotes from Hitler Youth training manuals:

“Christianity is a religion of slaves and fools.”

“How did Christ die? Whining at the Cross!”

“The Ten Commandments represent the lowest instincts of man.”

“Christianity is merely a cloak for Judaism.”

The Nazi tract "Gott und Volk" was widely distributed in 1941, and it clearly describes how the Nazis envisioned their children being raised: “With parties and gifts the youth will be led painlessly from one faith to the other and will grow up without ever having heard of the Sermon on the Mount or the Golden Rule, to say nothing of the Ten Commandments… The education of the youth is to be confined primarily by the teacher, the officer, and the leaders of the party. The priests will die out. They have estranged the youth from the Volk. Into their places will step the leaders. Not deputies of God. But anyway the best Germans. And how shall we train our children? Thus, as though they had never heard of Christianity!”

Now doesn't this sick philosophy sound way too familiar?

Doesn't it?

Today the ACLU and other far left organizations are rabidly trying to eliminate every shred of Christianity from the public schools of America.

So are Hitler and the Nazis closer to the Left of today or to the Right of today?

It appears that the answer is completely obvious.

But it is not just the radical left that is demonizing Christians.  Now evangelical Christians are being labeled as potential domestic terrorists in official government reports.

For example, on February 20, 2009, the State of Missouri issued a stunning report entitled: "MIAC Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement."

That law enforcement report labeled individuals who supported conservative presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin as "dangerous" and inferred that those individuals are potential terrorists.

The MIAC report also instructed police and other government officials that the following political views are "dangerous" and could signal that someone is a potential terrorist:

*Anyone opposing abortion

*Anyone opposing illegal immigration

*Anyone who believes that the New World Order is a threat

*Anyone who is against the North American Union

*Anyone who has a negative view of the U.N.

It is interesting to note that no left-leaning political ideologies or organizations were identified in the report. Neither were Islamic extremists mentioned in the report at all. Apparently only those who support candidates like Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin are considered to be dangerous.

These are exactly the type of tactics that were used in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia to demonize and crush political opposition. When official government reports start labeling supporters of certain political candidates as "potential terrorists" all Americans should begin to get alarmed.

It doesn't matter how you feel about those candidates either. For example, you may hate what Ron Paul stands for. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that when official government reports openly attack certain political groups, we are all being attacked.

Another example of this disturbing trend towards repression is the recent Department of Homeland Security report on "right wing extremism" that created a firestorm of controversy across America.

Why was there such an extraordinary uproar over this report?

Because it labeled tens of millions of American Christians as "potential domestic terrorists".

Below is a list of 14 characteristics of a "domestic terrorist" that were pulled right out of this report.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, you may be a domestic terrorist if.....

*you are a U.S. military veteran returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan

*you believe in "end times" prophecies

*you believe in state's rights

*you are against abortion

*you are against illegal immigration

*you believe in the 2nd Amendment

*you criticize any of the free trade agreements the U.S. has made

*you are against same-sex marriage

*you believe that an economic collapse is happening

*you think that the U.S. may declare martial law someday

*you believe that the U.S. is creating detention camps

*you stockpile food, ammunition or weapons

*you believe that illegal immigrants are taking away American jobs

*you believe "New World Order" conspiracy theories

Do any of those apply to you?

Has your own government just labeled you a potential domestic terrorist?

When official government reports label pro-life Christians, pro-marriage Christians and Christians who believe we are living in the end times as potential domestic terrorists, it is a clear sign that society is going straight down the toilet.

Persecution is coming.  Let us all meet this coming persecution with love and by praying for those who would persecute us, that we may win some of them over for Christ.

We want to hear from our readers on this.

Do you believe that God is still doing miracles?

Do you think that this question is an argument for or against the Christian faith?

Hopefully we can get a lively debate going.

According to the Scriptures, Jesus said that we should expect that signs, wonders and miracles would accompany the preaching of the gospel.....

Mark 16:15-20

He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well." After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

So, if the Bible is true, extraordinary signs, wonders and miracles should be following the preaching of the Word of God.

So do we find this happening in most churches?

It either is happening or it isn't.

Do you see the power of God demonstrated where you worship?

If not, why not?

Most skeptics have a legitimate point when they ask why God can't heal cancer or AIDS or blind people.

The Bible indicates that God should be able to do those things.

So what do we think.

We will tell you exactly what we think.

First of all, the reality is that you will not find miracles happening in most churches.

In fact, most churches believe that signs, wonders and miracles can't happen today.

But miracles ARE happening.

Below is a link to a video about a man who was raised from the dead by the power of God after being dead for 3 days. It contains testimony from numerous eyewitnesses:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2575536377261580026&q=Raised+from+the+dead&hl=en

On the following website you can see a glory cloud appear during a service conducted by Prophet Tom Deckard.....

http://www.jewishprophet.com/

Prophet Tom Deckardis the controversial prophet who has been stunning the Christian community in the United States with the truly amazing miracles that he has been performing, and he has a prophetic track record that is 100 percent accurate that stretches back over 30 years.

Prophet Deckard has prophesied to presidents, prime ministers, and leaders all over the globe.

These are just a few of the major events that Prophet Deckard has prophesied that have come to pass.....

*He prophesied 9/11 two years in advance.

*He prophesied the end of the Cold War a year before it happened.

*He prophesied the coming of the AIDS epidemic two years before it hit.

*He prophesied both Iraq Wars two years before the first one even began.

*He prophesied the fall of the Berlin Wall in advance.

*He prophesied the Indonesian Tsunami and told the people living there to move from the coast while they still could.

*He prophesied the economic collapse of the United States many years in advance and most people laughed and said that it could never happen. They aren't laughing anymore.

Not only that, but God confirms the message that Prophet Deckard speaks by the signs, wonders and miracles that God works through him.

The Lord God heals the blind, the deaf, the lame and those with terminal cancer through Tom Deckard. Children with autism are completely healed and restored to full health. In one crusade in Africa alone, hundreds of people were healed from AIDS and went back to the doctor and were medically certified as having been healed. He has even seen three people raised from the dead during the course of his ministry.

Come and see.

Prophet Deckard will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 6th and 7th. You can get full details here:

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Come and be a part of the greatest move of God of this generation.

God is getting ready to do something so big that it will shock the world.

God has commissioned Prophet Deckard to gather the ten lost tribes of Israel (Ephraim) and to take them home to the land of Israel.

After the reign of King Solomon, the land of Israel was divided into two kingdoms - the northern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Ephraim) and the southern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Judah). Those two kingdoms existed side by side for several hundred years.

However, the northern kingdom (Ephraim) turned away from the Lord God and he allowed them to be invaded. Over 700 years before Jesus was born, the Assyrian empire invaded the northern kingdom and carried away the people into exile.

The northern kingdom has not been heard from since.

The southern kingdom (Judah) was later invaded by Babylon and also taken into exile, but later they were allowed to return to their land. The Jews (Judah) lived in the land of Israel until 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jews to the four winds.

There was no nation of Israel from 70 A.D. until 1948 when the modern nation of Israel was established and millions of Jews (Judah) starting returning to the land of their ancestors.

But what about the northern kingdom?

What ever happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Did you know that the Scriptures very clearly teach that in the last days the southern kingdom (Judah) and the northern kingdom (Ephraim) will be reunited in the land of Israel once again?

Ezekiel 37:15-23

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, 'Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, 'Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.' Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand. "When your countrymen ask you, 'Won't you tell us what you mean by this?' say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim's hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.' Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

So has this happened yet?

Of course not.

So that means that this prophecy is still yet to be fulfilled.

Either it will happen or God is a liar - and we know that God is not a liar.

Ephraim and Judah will be reunited once again.

Could it be possible that God is calling you to be part of this movement?

Could it be possible that you are part of the ten lost tribes of Israel?

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Why don't even most people in the Church know about these things?

Because the dead churches have never taught them.

But they should be teaching them.

After all, these fulfilled prophecies were absolutely central to the message of the first Christians.

Even Jesus used these prophecies to explain the truth about Himself to others:

Luke 24:27

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

Luke 24:44

He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

John 5:46

"If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me."

In the same manner, the apostles also used these prophecies to persuade people that Jesus was indeed the Messiah:

Acts 3:18

But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.

Acts 17:2-3

As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ" he said.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

This was how the early church did their evangelism - they showed people that what had been written in the Scriptures hundreds or thousands of years ahead of time had been specifically fulfilled by Jesus Christ.  Many thousands quickly became Christians because they realized that the events that they had witnessed with their own eyes were indeed foretold long ago by the prophets of God.

If you do not know about these amazing Messianic prophecies, then we would encourage you to learn.

One of the first prophecies that we usually take people to is found in Isaiah 53.  We did an article about those amazing prophecies right here:

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/messianic-prophecies

In addition, Psalm 22 contains some things that will blow your mind.  We did an article about the prophecies in that portion of Scripture right here:

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/did-you-know-there-was-a-prophecy-of-the-crucifixion-of-jesus-christ-1000-years-ahead-of-time

For more information, we would encourage you to check out this great site that lists 45 of these Messianic prophecies:

http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/messianicprophecies.html

"Neither shalt though bring an abomination into thine house, lest though be a cursed thing like it:but though shalt utterly detest it, for it is a cursed thing" Deut 7:26

Cleaning your Household for an effective Fighting Ground.

Some of the Best Christian Authors have discussed this, Bree Keyton, Bill Schneobelen, and Kirt E Koch

"From there experience in deliverance, they have seen connections between objects in the home and oppression of spirits. ""They have suggested to get rid of all statues, (painting, needlework, and renderings OF) owls, cats, frogs, pigs, ect.  on the grounds that these animals either are associated with Witchcraft, or are unclean in the old testament laws.    We respectfully disagree, unless the owner of the statues is bowing down and worshipping them.  God did make owls cats ect.  They are good and to be received with thanksgiving.  (1 Tim 4:3-4) Of Course there needs to be a balance.  If a woman has a knick-knack shelf with 600 little toad statues on it, you might have to wonder a bit.  We don't think the occasional picture or ceramic statue is going to bring down curses"  Bill Schnoebelen -Blood on the Doorposts

"Though through our experience, in most cases, three dimensional objects are most problematic."  "Most Christians who minister in this area agree that pictures are not nearly as problematic as statues and graven images"BillSchneobelen -Blood on the Doorposts

"Distroy all occult objects like amulets, talismans, fetishes, mascots, letters from heaven, lucky charms, threatening letters, figures of gods and cultic objects belonging to non-christian religions are crystallization points for demonic powers.Occult ABC A comprehensive examination of 71 forms of occult activity, their effect, and deliverance from them.  Kurt E. Koch

"How often missionary wives have told me that from the moment that their husbands hung up a devil's mask in their living room, there was strife and discord in the family.  It is extremely foolish and shows a great lack of experience for missionaries in their collectors zeal to bring home devil's masks and other cultic objects and to keep them in their homes"  Occult ABC A comprehensive examination of 71 forms of occult activity, their effect, and deliverance from them.  Kurt E. Koch

"A ministers wife on Prince Edward Island hadcollected a whole table-full of figures of gods and cultic objects from the mission field.  Today she is in a mental institution"Occult ABC -Page 228- A comprehensive examination of 71 forms of occult activity, their effect, and deliverance from them.  Kurt E. Koch

"I have often been asked if it is advisable to take figures carved in wood home from the mission field as souvenirs.  Objects carved from new wood and those which were not consecrated to any deity are not dangerous. Unfortunately, it is the custom in some areas, like the island of Bali, to consecrate even the newly carved figures to gods to some demon."Page 290- A comprehensive examination of 71 forms of occult activity, their effect, and deliverance from them.  Kurt E. Koch

"In south Africa there are about 1.1 million Indian Immigrants.  These immigrants brought their Hindu gods with them.  I have visited a number of communities where they live.  An evangelist who works among them told me the following story.  A certain Hindu family had a daughter who had been dumb for years.  Since the Hindu gods were unable to help, the parents came one day to the missionary asking for his help and prayers.  Brother N. visited the family and prayer with them,  The first day there was no reaction to be seen in the girl.  She only uttered an inarticulate cry.  Bother N. Wrnt the next day and the day after.  On the third day, the girl suddenly asked a question.  Everyone was filled with joy.  The events of the next days, however showed that the girl was not completely free.  One evening she started to writhe around on the ground like a snake.  The father dent her to bed.  The next morning he called in the missionary again.  Brother N visited the family once more and asked them to bring out all their gods.  The family had some sacred Hindu nails, used to ward off the spirits.  The nails were handed over.  Then the missionary prayed again for the girl.  She still didn't have complete deliverance. "Have you brought out everything?"  the missionary asked the parents"  The parents said they had.  The daughter however interrupted and said:  "Mother, what have you hidden in the bath?'  It was a beautiful idol which the mother was very loath to part with.  Nevertheless she resolved to give up this idol, too.  Then, the girl was freed.  The child's dumbness was not organic, but the effect of a ban resulting from sorcery" Occult ABC:A comprehensive examination of 71 forms of occult activity, their effect, and deliverance from them.  Kurt E. Koch

Taken From Bill Schneobelen's Book -Blood on the Doorposts- Here is a guide and practices that have been found to be an open doorway for Satan to access and attack your home.

A:  Pagan Art Objects

These objects are very beautiful often from Africa, China and India - Countries that paganism flurishes in.

1- Statues of Buddha, Kwan Yin, Fo Hi, Foo dogs and some other Oriental Sculptures

A year ago, Target had a display of Buddha statues, and objects as art for your dressers.  Thousands of people must have picked them up, not knowing what they have brought in their home

2.  Native American Sand paintings- Kachina Dolls, Totem art. 

3.  African Statues: Especially when they are overtly sexual in nature.

4.  African Wands or Staffs :  Often sold as canes, they can be noted by their intricate carvings.

5.  Dragons:  A common symbol in the East, the dragon is venerated and worshipped in the most Oriental faiths.  It is also a symbol of Satan in the Bible. 

This one gentleman I am still standing in prayer for involved himself in witchcraft.  His house was FILLED with dragon Statues.  Along with is occult books, he said he was "drawn to the dragon statues"  He was drawn to all the most ungodly things, Yoga, black arts.  It just shows you that when you get yourself involved in occult items, you find yourself drawn to other cursed items.  We have provided him literature, but he doesn't see the connection.  We are still praying for him

6:  The Tai Chi Symbol:  This is a circle divided in half by an S- Shaped line.  One half is black, the other half white.  It is the sacred symbol of Taoism and is used extensively in the Martial Arts (and also featured on the Korean Flag)

B:  Occult Idols

These objects are more associated with the occult or Witchcraft subculture than a particular culture.  Some have been venerated for centuries as sources of dark power. 

1) Unicorns:  Though marketed today as symbols of fantasy, freedom, and purity, the unicorn is worshipped in the occult as a symbol to invoke sexual lust and is believed by Satanists to be the "white horse" upon which the anti-christ will ride (Rev 6:2) (Dan 8:21-24)

2) Crystals:  Not so much crystals as they appear in nature, but crystals which have been "charged" or "loaded" or prayed over by New Age Practitioners or witches.  This means they have attempted to put spirit power or "life force" (demons) into them.  If you have crystals that you are uncertain about, pray over them and plead the blood of Jesus over them. Then enjoy them as the beautiful creations they are, unless they have been shaped into occult artifacts. 

3.  Hex Signs:  Pennsylvania Dutch.  Also called "painted prayers", these circular and colorful designs seen on farms and barns in Pennsylvania and else where are actually occult talismans.  Their foundational symbols are drawn from occult workbooks.

4:  "Italian Horn" Jewelry:

 This is said to represent a Unicorn Horn and is often worn by men to increase their sexual power.  It is a talisman to prevoke lust, and should not be worn by Christians. 

5: Pegasus: 

The winged Horse.  Like the Unicorn, this is another mythical  beast.  Remember, what we call myths today were the very serious religions Paul denounced among the ancient Greeks and Romans (Acts 17:16-23.  There are not to be trifled with. 

6.  Occult Toys:  Some of these are a bit older or dated, but still popular.  They are to give you an idea of what to look out for:

 A:Dungeons and Dragons- Fantasy Role Playing Games.  (Not only Bill Schnoebelen warns against this game, but many other former occult leaders who have been saved KNOW this game is very dangerous, and opens up the doorway for Satan. 

The materials themselves, in many cases, contain authentic magical rituals.  The Game authors, actually made sure a lot of their material and magic rituals were verified by hardcore satinists where the material was taken from magic grimoires or workbooks.   Their intent is to have the game seem as real as possible. 

http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp

"Toys and games based solely on occult practices include Dungeons and Dragons, Crystlar, Black Star and Power Lords. These toys and games feature characters performing magic, sorcery and other occult practices, as well as having certain 'powers' over others, especially demons. Many of the spells and magic used are described in books of witchcraft" Phillips

B-Masters of the Universe- He-man and She-RA ect- For many children, He-Man has become a God-like figure.  Children see them as omnipotent and omniscient.  The Problem is when these shows add elements of Occult messages into them, the children go forth and act out what they see in play time.  "'by the power of Grayskull, I have the power!' What is this child calling on?  The chief promoter of the occult in the series is Skeletor, also known as Lord of Destruction. "Skeletor, whose face is actually a skull, carries a RAM'S HEAD staff. This staff, which is used in occult practices, often is seen with a dove crushed underneath it. Skeletor also has the power to astroproject himself and to read and control other people's minds. This ability often is practiced by mediums.  Many times, these books such as Harry potter, and She-RA show the children how to participate in actual occult practices that are taken out of Witchcraft books.  What are your children inviting into their lives, and what exists in your home?  No wonder some children have mental problems, or have ADD problems, with violent outbreaks. 

"The entire series is based on occult practices: magic, sorcery, witchcraft, necromancy, etc. The show also blasphemes God by placing a mortal on the same plane as He. He Man is known as the most powerful man in the universe-he is called Master of the Universe. How is this possible when God tells us that He alone is Master of the Universe?" Phillips

c.  Smurfs- A dated toy from the 80's featured in Smurf music, or Smurf video clips. Papa Smurf is the most infamous wizard or sorcerer of our day. “Smurf” means “little devil.” Even if cloaked as a cute cartoon, if it’s “white” magic against “black” magic, the Smurfs are 100 percent occult.

"Many forms of the occult are contained in this cartoon. The most obvious display is through the character of Papa Smurf. Every time the Smurfs have a problem, they go to Papa Smurf who whips up a spell or recites an incantation to help them out. These are very strong images to the child's mind. As Christians, we want children to learn to call on the Lord Jesus to help them through problems. In His Word, god tells us to trust Him, and only Him. He tells us not to rely on practices such as witchcraft to solve our problems. Nevertheless, children will not learn Godly principles if they are constantly saturated with images of characters using witchcraft and other occult practices to solve their problems." Phillips

"The Smurfs cartoons also portray characters who are constantly using occult symbols. In one episode, Gargamel, the evil wizard, drew a pentagram on the floor and lit candles at each point. He then danced within the pentagram while chanting a spell. The pentagram is a five pointed star used in the practice of witchcraft. As Gargamel finished chanting the spell, a magical book opened across the room. A spirit left the book and entered Gargamel's body, giving him power to battle the Smurfs. What Gargamel did in that episode is what witches have done through the centuries. This is an actual witchcraft practice which millions of children watched. In another episode, Papa Smurf used cloves of garlic to counteract a spell that Gargamel had placed on the Smurfs and their friend." Phillips

d. My little Pony Figures- Unicorns, Pegasus ect

"Unicorns and winged horses, also known as a pegasus, are derived from Greek and Roman mythology. Many of the gods are to have owned these mythical creatures (sic). In fact, Pegasus, owned by Bellerophon, was a winged steed, unwearying of flight, which swept through the air as swift as a gale of wind. It was believed by the Greeks that Pegasus sprang from Gorgon's blood after Perseus, another mythological character, killed her. Pegasus received its powers to fly when fitted with a golden bridle. After the death of his master, which Pegasus deliberately caused, Pegasus went to live in Zeus's, god of thunder and lightning, stables (sic). It was Pegasus's job to bring the lightning bolts and thunder to Zeus whenever he needed them."^Philliops

"...The ponies are playing in a pastel world with green pastures and beautiful springs and brooks. Flying dragons coming down from Heaven with demonic-looking riders interrupt the tranquil scene. The rider's mission is to capture four of the ponies and take them back to the castle by midnight. A creature who is half man/half goat (the cartoon makes a special effort to draw your attention to his cloven hooves) greets the four ponies when they arrive. This creature also has horns protruding from the sides of his head and a bag hanging around his head.

"The creature's demonic looking cohort, named Scorepan,...and transforms them into giant dragons" Phillips

"Meanwhile the other ponies in the pasture go to the wizard for help in rescuing their friends. The wizard lives among the mushrooms. (In the drug culture, drug users call a particular hallucinogenic mushroom a 'magic mushroom'.) The wizard gives the ponies a piece of a rainbow, telling them that the power of the rainbow will help. The rainbow is a symbol representing the 'New Age Movement.' Armed with the piece of rainbow, the ponies and a little girl go to the castle, but get caught... the little girl throws the piece of rainbow into the air shouting, 'The power of the rainbow will defeat you.' In response, the half man/half goat creature releases his power of darkness, which forms a black rainbow that overshadows the one released by the little girl... [but] all of a sudden, the little rainbow overpowers the large black one and the spells are broken. The little girl squeals, "You can always depend on the power of the rainbow! Phillips

e.  Carebears-

The occult images found in the Care Bear series are extremely subtle. On the surface, the Care Bears teach the children to express their feelings, especially those of love, to others. At first, these sound like very good ideas, but, they are Humanistic principles, which are in contradiction to God's teachings. Magic and Eastern religious ideals also are prevalent in this series." Phillips

"Throughout the Care Bear series, there is a subtle interweaving of three ingredients: Humanism, magic, and Eastern religions... the Bible tells us that true love is not based solely on feelings but on commitment. The Humanistic element of our society wants children to base their life and actions on their feelings. In reality, the most miserable people I know are those who have based their lives on their feelings instead of the Word of God... Humanism teaches: we are God; there are no absolutes; and we control our own destiny. This movement has its basis in Eastern religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism. In line with this, the bears teach children to use their feelings to control their lives. As Christians, we know this is not true. The life of the believer is controlled by God and His will. Only He can solve our problems. On the other hand, Care Bears play an almost Godlike, or at least an angelic, role when helping out children in trouble and in establishing their own religious order and rituals."Phillips

"Unicorns also are a symbol of the New Age Movement, which also is in direct contradiction to Scripture. New Agers consider the unicorn a symbol of innocence and gentleness personified in the conquering child Horus. The Egyptian solar hero is said to conquer through gentility. The New Age, also known as the Golden Age, is referred to as the Age of Aquarius and the Eon or Horus. Thus, in reality, the unicorn is the symbol of the future conqueror who will bring peace to the earth. The unicorn is a symbol of the anti-Christ, which the prophet Daniel described in his vision as the little horn which rises in the midst of the ten horns."Phillip

 

f: Ouija Boards- Are EXTREMELY Bad

In 1861, Frenchman, Allan Kardac, was describing the Ouija board as instruments with which to open communications with the spirit world. In seven short years, the Ouija board had evolved from a mind-reader to portal of communication with the dead.

Satan and his demons USE the Ouija board to give advice.  This guidance will even seem to be true, and good, and helpful. Satan gives advice on your love life, and things you earnestly want to know, which is the draw to this board.  This is the lie though- Satan and his demons pretend to be caring. It always starts this way. 

The Bible says, "And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve" (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

Satan and his demons will do this in order to get a person even more deeply involved in spiritist practices. Things like the Ouija board appear to be innocent at first, and fun, but testimonies show OVER AND OVER that a person soon finds themselves addicted to the advice from the spirit world.  They soon find themselves giving over control to Satan and he eventually destroys their life.  Read the testimony of a man who started playing only to give a demon contol over his writing and his talking.  He couldn't control what came out of his mouth.  He found freedom in ONLY giving his life over to Christ. 

1 Peter 5:8 warns us, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." The Ouija Board may be advertised as just as game, and that is exactly what Satan wants us to believe.

We hear it over and over, that many people are deceived into believing that Ouija Boards arejust a game. They believe all these games and objects are harmness.  That is Satan's lie.  The truth of the matter is that God views channeling, or consulting spirits or the dead, to be a serious sin.

Deuteronomy 18:11-12 says that anyone engaged in these practices is "detestable to God." According Old Testament Law, the Israelites were supposed to stone (execute) anyone who was a medium or a channeler (Leviticus 20:27).

g) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- The Ninja Elements are not Godly, eastern religious tones

h) Holloween Oriented Objects/ Toys. 

Many people do not know the Horrid History of Halloween, but AGAIN Common----, it is very evident it is the celebration of evil.  Once you do come across the history, and read about it, a person must choose to either follow Satan, or choose to Walk with Jesus.  There is no inbetween.  What disturbs me most is fence sitters.  They choose to participate in all the pagan holidays such as Christmas, and Easter, and then proclaim to be strong Christians. THAT IS FAR from the Truth.  Do you think YHWH will work though you, when you decide you want the best of both worlds- (figurativly speaking)  Nope!  And it sure tells a lot of where you stand with God. 

Holloween is the highest satanic day of the year, did you know?  Several times a year, in satanic circles , and on Halloween, a human sacrifice is performed.  In history, pagan followers who would go door to door, asking for a child to burn as a sacrifice to the "Gods"  They would put them in wicker baskets or cages and hang them above "bone fires".  If you did not give a child to them, an evil spirit was relased in your home with the intention to kill someone in the family by morning.  They would collect the children or people, and then ALLOW them a way out of being killed.  They would have huge containers that have been boiling for hours, and they would put apples in them.  If the people could successfully bob and get an apple on the first try, they would be released, but also scarred for life.  ALL the traditions with Halloween have a story behind them, yet we think it is cute and fun to do.  That is satans lie.  The most saddest part is when Christians participate in this, or whole churches throw Halloween parties, asking the congregation to dress up in Christian charactors.  Holloween is the celebration for the devil, and nothing of it is Godly.  If you are a Christian and keep partipating in this festival, I do pray that you will look up the images, and traditions and line them up with the word of God.  I do pray you will leave this celebration.  

i) Some Video Games.  Nintendo, sega, ect.  SOme have a high occult content, and others do not.  You need to go through your games, and sometimes it will be obvious, and other times not

j: Cabbage Patch Dolls- Many children have been oppressed by these dolls. Troll dolls and Cabbage Patch dolls, from the Orient, have a connection with the occult .  

7.  Heavy Metal Rock Posters or albums (secular or Christian)

Heavy metal Music are either occult, satanic, or associated with the dark world of sado-masochism and perverted sexual dominace and bondage of women. 

8.  Occult Jewelry

a) Pentagrams- 5 Pointed Stars- either inverted (2 points up, the symbol of Satanism, or up right, (one point up- the symbol of "white" witchcraft)  Often times they are shown on buildings, rings. Target now sells metal stars you can hang on your homes.  When the point is upward, it means it is "white magic"  but in reality, the works of darkness are all the same.

b.  Hexagrams- 6 pointed starts, the symbol of the anti-christ in satanism.  Even more evident is the start circumscribed by a circle. 

c. Anku- Crux ansanta or a looped cross- Egyptian symbol of eternal love and lust.  It now common for the symbol of feminism from the strological symbol for the planet Venus. The T part of the cross represented life or wisdom, and the circle or oval stood for eternity

d) SS runes (Nazi and Acient Norse) Looks like twin lighting bolts.  These are disguised initals of the Horned God of Witchcraft. 

The Harry Potter Movie shows the two satanic symbols on the forehead.  We then had tons of parents allowing their children to put this demonic sign between their eyes.  I couldn't have seen something more obvious and demonic. 

e) Skull and Cross bones- Another Symbol of the Horned God of Witchcraft. 

f) Birthstone Jewelry- borderline.  You need to pray about it.  birthstones are rooted in astrology

9. Religious Crucifixes, statues of Mary, and other Catholic Statuary:  All of these three dimensional symbols are of the dead.  Even the "Jesus" on the crucifix is a dead Jesus.  They are used in Catholic piety to direct prayers to dead "saints".  Talking to the dead is strictly forbidden by the bible. Thus, these items constitute idols, just as much as Buddhas. 

10.  Rosaries are also a problem because they are rooted in the Hindu concept of the mantra, and the mala.  Mantra is the continued repetition of certain "sacred" names or prayers.  The Lord forbids it Matthew 6:7  Later the Muslims adopted this form of prayer.  Roseries are prayed to Mary, where you are actually praying to a dead woman, which is actually a demon. 

11.  Mason material

a) Aprons, sashes, jewels of office
b) Rings, and other jewelry
c. Shriner fezzes
d. Books and ritual monitors

12.  Occult or Cultic Books:

a) Magic, New Age, Witchcraft, or astrology books
b) Book of Mormon or other Mormon Books
c) Jehovah's Wintess literature, their "bible", the New World Translation
d) Catholic missals, Bibles, hymnals, prayer books ect
e) Literature from any other cult groups.

Others)Celtic Cross.  - This seems very innocent, doesn;t it?  You often see it around pictures of Jesus's head. The circle is often described as an halo or an eternity symbol. Much has been made of the similarity between the Celtic Cross and pagan sun symbols. There is a mystic tradition among Celtic Christians of interpreting this as a clairvoyant anticipation of the coming Gospel by the pre-Christian Druids.

C. Pornogrpahy

Christians should not have any pornography in their homes.  The oldest idol of worship are the sexual organs.  It opens up the door to demonic forces of lust, and whoredoms. 

D:  Illegal Drugs. 

It is kniown that many natural drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, heroin, hashish, peyote were once worshipped as Gods.  They WILL open up doorways for spiritual attacks from these "gods" which are actually demons.  Even liquor has ancient demonic strongholds that can hold one in bondage. 

E:  Occult Practices

Practicing any occult rituals are open doorways for demonic attacks.

1.  Astrology;  BEWARE!  Some Christian writers actually promote astrology.  Some exampoles are "Four Temperaments"  Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic use them in their counceling of God Given spiritual gifts.  Astrology is a divination in Gods eyes. 

This includes the local newspaper Horoscope, and you often see these little books at the end of the checkout at your local grocery store.

2.  Other Forms of Divination:  These are various ways of for telling the furture.  Among the most common are tarot cards, palmistry (reading palms) tea reading, ouija boards, I Ching, (coin or yarrow stalk method)

 3.  Spiritism- Channeling, Mediumship, following various "channeled entities"

a) J.Z Knight (Ramtha)
b) Jane Roberts (Seth
c) Kevin Ryerson
d) J. Pursell (Lazaris)
e) Penny Torrence (Mafu)
f) Various Marian apparitions - Our lady Medjugorie

4. Visualization- Practices of "Inner Healing" especially when an abuse victim is told to visualize a "Jesus" coming to them in their childhood trauma and conforting them. This is not biblically based
5. Jungian Analysis and dream interpretations Carl Jung's methods are based on mysticism and astrology and alchemy. They are occult and HIGHLY dangerous.

6. Martial Arts- Especially the "internal styles"
a) TaiChi Chuan
b) Hsing I
c) Pa Kua
d)Kung Fu
e) Aikido

7. Yoga. (Hatha, Gnana, Raja, Bhakti, Tantric ect)

8. Alternative Healing or "Holistic healing)

a) Hypnosis
b)Acupuncture/acupressure/ Touch for Health
c)Polarity Therapy
d)Shiatsu and Reflexology
e)Homopathy
f)Bach Flower Remedies
g) Reichian Therapy- Wilhelm Reich - orgone boxes
h)Rolfing

9. Motivation and Self Improvement Cults

a) The Forum- Werner Erhard
b) Kroning
c)Pacific Institute
d) Transcendental Mediation or "The Science of Creative Science"
e) Eastern Meditation Gurus

Siddhi Yoga/ Swami Muktananda/ Sri Chimnoy/ Gopi Krishna / Swami Rama/ Ananda Marga Yoga Society/ Bhagwhan Shree Rajineesh

F) Silva Mind Control
g) Scientology
h) Lifestream
i) Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)
J) Possibility Thinking - Robert Schuller
k) Roy masters- Foundation for Human Understanding

10) Stress Reduction Techniques

a) Emptying the Mind
b) Visualization of "wise persons" or "counselors" to help you in decision making

ALL of these objects or materials need to be removed from your home and burned. If you have practiced any of these things, you need to renounce your involvement

FIRST- If you have dabbled into any occult activity, you first need to get saved. If you are not a saved Christian, you have no weapons to fight of demons.

Pray this prayer, and mean it with all your heart.

Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and unless you save me I am lost forever. I thank you for dying for me at Calvary. I come to you now, Lord the best way I know how, and ask you to save me. I now receive you as my Savior. In Jesus Christ Name, (let it Be).

Second - You need to RENOUNCE YOUR OLD ways.  It has been documented that Christains have problems if they DO not Do this. It is very simple but imperitive.   

You don't need to say these exact words, as God looks at your heart and honors what you intend. 

"In the name of the Lord Jesus, I now repent of my invovement in the use of (witchcraft, using tarot cards...) and ask you Abba Father, to forgive me.  I repent of the sinof (tell the Lord what you did) I only want to follow you.  Please forgive me for all the ways I have gone astray in, knowingly and unknowingly that I have forgotton.  I only want to serve and honor you, Lord.- In Jesus Name.  (Amen-Let it be)  I speak now in the authority of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to all the strongmenand principalities over the occult activities I was involved in AND DECLARE that you have no power over me ANYMORE, FOR I am BOUGHT and Paid for BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS Shed on Calvary.  In the Name of the Lord of Jesus Christ, I bind up the powers of darkness and command them to leave my home, and command you to go where the Lord Jesus tells you to go.  Lord Jesus, please put a hedge of protection around my home.  I love you Jesus.  (Let it be) 

Third and Last, and JUST AS imperitive- You Need to surrond yourself with Christians, Read the Bible, and Pray and Fast