Friday, February 4, 2011

Jehovah's Witness a false prophet

    What do David Koresh of the Brach Davidians, Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, Wayne Bent of the Lord our Righteousness Church and Charles Taze Russell of the Jehovah's Witness have in common? All are false prophets. In the book of Deuteronomy 18:21,22 it speaks of the people concerned about those who say that they hear from God and how to test them, well it was made quite clear that if these "prophets" made a claim and it did not come to pass then then the Lord has not spoken. In 1891 Charles Taze Russell wrote that the world would see "the full establishment of the Kingdom of God in the earth at A.D. 1914, the terminus of the time of the gentiles." These predictions failed. They say now that they meant that His kingdom would be fully established in heaven, okay whatever. More credibility would have been given if they would have just said they were wrong, but rather they choose to continue the lie.The scripture is very clear on this prophesy concerning the Lords return and the end times, in the book of Mark 13:32 it says "But of the day and hour NO ONE KNOWS, neither the angels in Heaven nor the Son, but only the Father." Any honest seeker of God would recognize this as a definite truth, and if ever you "felt" you had some time line in your head you could instantly identify this as deception. Renounce it and get about the business of serving God in the capacity in which you have been instructed. The Bible tells us also in Mark 13:6 "For many will come in my Name, saying 'I am He,' and will deceive many and warns us in verse 21 if any one tells you "here is the Christ or He is there" do not believe it. In Matthew 24 it is made very clear that during Christs' return you will not need someone to point it out to you, all will see. As Christians we are to be proclaiming His truth not the ideas about which we think it should be and manipulating the scriptures to fit our theology. A good friend told me of a analogy about a drunk leaning on a lamp post, the post is not there to keep the drunk from falling to the ground it is there to illuminate the way in which we are to travel. In the same way the Bible is not here to uphold our thoughts but rather to bring us into an understanding of His truth.  The Jehovah witness cult differs from Bibical Christianity on multiple important doctrines including eternal judgement, the Trinty and salvation.The Bible tells us that " My people perish from a lack of knowledge," we must know what it is we believe and why we believe it or be subject to confusion when these people show up at our front door with a smile and a copy of Watch Tower magazine. Let us help them to understand that they to can know truth and be saved instead of spreading a false doctrine that leads to death.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Exposing Jehovahs Witness

   The official name is The Watch tower Bible and tract society. They believe themselves to be the only true witness of Gods truth and Jehovah is one of many names used for God,so hench the name Jehovahs' witness. The name Jehovah is a hybrid of the names Adonai and Yahweh created from medieval Christian Hebrew scholars,Jews never used the name in reference to God. In 1879 Charles Taze Russel from outside Pittsburgh ,Pennsylvania founded the Zion's Watchtower magazine and the religion has grown ever since and now has millions of followers. If your knowledge of the scripture is lacking they can confuse you with their translation of the Bible called The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.This translation was introduced as N.W.T of the Christian Greek scripture Aug.2 1950, and in 1961 was given the above name when it was published as a single volume to include the entire Bible.The translation is less than honest in its translation from Greek to English, they claim it to be a literal translation word for word. Dr. William Barclay a leading Greek scholar said,"It is abundantly clear that a sect that can translate the New Testament like that is intellectually dishonest."  Dr.Bruce M. Metzger Prof. of  the New Testament at Princeton University calls the N.W.T. " a frightful mistranslation,erroneous and reprehensible" and again Dr. Julius Mantey author of  A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament calls it "a shocking mistranslation..." This "translation" has undergone a number of revisions in its history at the hands of their own leadership the latest being in 1984. The Holy Trinity is not easily understood to say that I have my head completely wrapped around it would be a lie but I can read what the scripture says and accept it or not, but I don't have the rite to change it. Jesus said, "I am the way,  the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me." What we believe about Jesus has eternal consequence.  When you have a religion who claims to offer the truth about God and His word but change it to make it fit what they think it should say,  you end up with a cult.  Whether they do this knowingly or not is not important,  however the truth about Jesus is. One scripture I would point out is  John 1:1 which reads " In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God." In the New World Translation it reads  " and the word was A god" they deliberately change this to carry out their mission to deny the Deity of Jesus making Him less than what the disciple Thomas eventually confessed in John 20:28, "my Lord and my God." The fact that Jesus did not rebuke him is important, if Jesus was not God He would have corrected Thomas but He did not.Their are many scriptures that point to this all important fact and I will continue to show these in future post. Next week we will look at Mormons and why they are not in line with Bibical Christianity.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Egypt on Fire

What we are seeing in Egypt is not as scary as it seems to most people, of course watching it on the news network of your choice will create some angst. But what does it mean in the big picture of things? I cant say for sure but I am convinced of this, it is part of the plan. Fighting in the middle east is as common as a peace treaty.All things point to that part of the world for the outcome that is prophesied in the bible,it started there and it will end there. The concern for most is that the now unstable country will be taken over by a radical faction of Islam.If the radicals are a small number and most just want to live in peace with all peoples,why are they able to take over and over-throw so many places in the region.It is time we have the honest debate about the agenda of those who want the destruction of places with a western democratic system of government.Iran,Syria,Lebanon and many others don't like us and they are not gonna until we adopt there ways. Hezbollah was voted in by the masses in Palestine and have made it clear they want to destroy Israel. The rhetoric has been calmed after being coached by those who get how it works,act nice say what you need to say to act like a victim and then sneak in and do your thing.Honest people recognize this but are told that they are bigots and haters by those who form public opinion for the masses.You have to look at these things from an informed posture,not a sound byte from a Hollywood activist.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Lord Jesus Christ

Matthew 10:34
 Jesus said, "Do not suppose that I came to bring peace to the earth, I did not come to bring peace,
but a sword." 

Something about that name, something that brings delight, fear,anger and  many other emotions to so many people. Why ? Let's look at it simply for now. His name is Jesus, most don't have a problem with that, Christ is who He is, you lose some here and Lord is His title, here we lose a bunch. Many try to separate the name from the title, you cannot, not in this case. Not that people don't do it all the time, saying I like this about Jesus or that about Him, but Lord? The above scripture refers to a sword of division as to who He is, not a sword of war.You can be lord of the manner or lord of your house but to be Lord of all,that's a lofty claim. That is what Jesus is, Lord of all creation. Me believing that doesn't make it true but nor does your unbelief make it untrue. So we must all make that decision for ourselves. In order to do that we must have relevant information to help us find out if there is one we call Lord or if there is a "Lord" at all we can no longer pretend both are legitimate options. My hope is that here in this forum we can explore truth, whatever you believe that to be, and come to an eternal decision. Who is Jesus ?

Monday, January 17, 2011

The Dividing Line

This blog will no doubt create some division, its just inevitable with the subject matter that will be coming forth in the days to follow. The tension has always existed around the subject of religion and this will be no different. I do not relish it nor do I have any problem with the reaction , Its just something that comes with the territory . I do not plan to bring anything new, just a refreshing of an existing truth. To de-frag if you will, reestablish a dividing line, its not a line that cannot be crossed just one that has realities attached to it that can't be sullied by me or anyone else. I welcome all comers with joy and look forward to the conversation.