A recent
Pew Research Center survey revealed that over the last ten years support for same sex-marriage among white Evangelicals in
America has more than doubled. In 2007, only 14% of white Evangelicals
supported marriage between homosexuals, but that number has now grown to 34%.
If you were born after 1964, the total rises to 47%.
So,
what could be behind this massive and drastic shift in Evangelicalism?
In 2015, former US House Majority Leader Tom Delay
revealed he and others saw a memo stating that the Justice Department had been
seeking to legalize 12 new perversions such as bestiality and pedophilia. He
also stated that the memo told of strategies the Justice Department was
planning to employ to manipulate the Church. That may sound farfetched to some
reading this, but actually, it's nothing new.
Alice Bailey is one of the most influential people you
may have never heard of. One of the main proponents of the New Age movement,
she and her husband founded Lucifer Publishing Company in 1922, later changing
the name to Lucis Trust. Lucis Trust has been a consultant for the
United Nations for many decades. Additionally, Alice Bailey wrote a 10 point plan
outlining how to replace a society’s Biblical worldview with one that would be
more fitting for the New Age’s christ, or what we Christians would refer to as
the Antichrist.
As
you read the 10 points, ask yourself if you can see the world being shepherded
toward their fulfillment.
1. Take God and prayer out of the education system.
2. Reduce parental authority over the children.
3. Destroy the Judeo-Christian family structure or the traditional Christian family structure.
4. If sex is free, then make abortion legal and make it easy.
5. Make divorce legal and easy, free people from the concept of marriage for life.
6. Make homosexuality an alternative lifestyle.
7. Debase art, make it run mad.
8. Use media to promote and change mindset
9. Create an interfaith movement.
10. Get governments to make all these (points) law and get the Church to endorse these changes.
I
understand that most people don’t like to think about nefarious forces conspiring together to destroy the Church. However, if you think about it
biblically, Satan has been conspiring with his followers against the Lord and
His people for quite a long time. And though we teach our children songs like
This Is My Father’s World, the Scriptures provide us with a spiritual worldview
that’s a bit more complex.
Yes, Psalm 24 does teach us that the earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it because He
created it. On the other hand, three times Jesus refers to Satan as the “ruler
(arche) of this world.”
Pastor and Greg Boyd writes this
about our adversary:
An arche referred to the highest ruling
authority (the “boss”) in any particular region. Satan is also referred as the
“the god of this age” and “the principality and power of the air” (2 Cor. 4:4;
Eph. 2:2). And John goes so far as to claim that, “The whole
world lies under the power
of the evil one” (1 Jn. 5:19). If the whole world is under the power of the
evil one, it hardly seems Satan was exaggerating in claiming all government was
under his power (Lk. 4:5-7).
Not
only this, but Satan is referred to as “the destroyer” who “deceives the
nations” (Rev. 9:11; 20:3, 8 cf. 13:14). All earthly governments are depicted
as belonging to a single Kingdom that is under Satan’s rule but which is now
being delivered over to Jesus (Rev. 11:15). Consistent with this, scholars
agree that “Babylon” in Revelation symbolizes earthly government under Satan’s
authority. Babylon rules “all nations,” all of which are “deceived” by her
“sorcery,” which appears to be the deceptive lure of power.
The early Christians did not shy away from the
topics of Babylon, her deceptive allure, and the Church’s need to come out of
her.
A voice is heard from
heaven, forewarning what is becoming for the servants of God to do, saying,
“Come out of her, my people, that you will not partake of her sins, and that you will not receive her plagues.” He who goes out and departs
does not become a partaker of the guilt; but he will be wounded with the
plagues who is found a companion in the crime. … A blind love of one’s own
property has deceived many; nor could they be prepared for, or at ease in,
departing when their wealth fettered them like a chain. … But how can they
follow Christ, who are held back by the chain of their wealth? Or how can they
seek heaven, and climb to sublime and lofty heights, who are weighed down by
earthly desires? They think that they possess, when they are rather possessed;
as slaves of their profit, and not lords with respect to their own money, but
rather the bond-slaves of their money. These times and these men are indicated
by the apostle, when he says, “But they that will be rich, fall into
temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown
men in destruction and in perdition.” – Cyprian 250CE, ANF Volume 5, p. 769-770 [CD-ROM]
By putting this research together,
we can begin to determine a few key factors that have contributed to the
Church’s compromising position on gay marriage.
First, though
it may be hard to admit, we have been getting played by the State. The Babylon
system has been slowly and cunningly shepherding us to actually choose this
perverse path for ourselves, just like the way many cognitive psychologists often work
their patients.
Second,
the king of the Babylon system has slyly convinced an enormous segment of the
American Church that the King of kings got it wrong on homosexuality. And it’s
no wonder, considering that most of our must-watch TV programs are hell-bent on
promoting homosexuality. All the while, around 60% of American Christians don’t consider
reading the Bible (which from Genesis to Revelation speaks against homosexuality) an essential part of being a Christian.
Finally,
as the Apostle Paul wrote, the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Jesus
said our heart is where our treasure is, and unfortunately, many churches have given
their hearts away to Babylon out of a fear of losing earthly treasure. When Wicca is
said to be the fastest growing religion in the United States, you know the
Church has issues. Unfortunately, many churches have respond to this lack of interest
by seeking to become just like the world. Instead of seeking to be distinct from Babylon, many of us have gone full Nimrod to keep our mini towers of Babel in
operation.
