New Age redaction of the trials of Job

In his book “Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church” Warren B. Smith demonstrates how passages from the Bible have been hijacked to promote a near New Age message. Mr. Smith quotes the following from Rick Warren’s book “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? “ Both Job and Isaiah are used as an examples of “The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.”

“Rick Warren wrote: Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. In the Bible, many different people expressed this hopelessness. Isaiah complained, “I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing.” Job said, “My life drags by—day after hopeless day” and “I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.” The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.”

Smith, Warren B. (2011-06-21). Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church (p. 49). BookMasters. Kindle Edition.

To be certain that Mr. Smith quoted Mr. Warren correctly I read the same passage in this best-seller. Ref: Warren, Rick. The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Kindle Locations 430-435). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

Years ago The Purpose Driven Life became a runaway bestseller. Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church is an evangelical Christian megachurch located in Lake Forest, CA. Mr. Warren has become a celebrity and facilitated one of the presidential debates in 2008. He is currently involved with Pope Francis in creating one huge body of Christianity. Pope Francis is courting the Eastern Orthodox Church trying to bring them under the umbrella of the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Warren is promoting something called Chrislam, can you say the coming One World Religion?

Mr. Warren quoted numerous Bibles in his bestseller and often uses “The Message” by Eugene Peterson. This redacted version of biblical truth has been criticized. A quick Google Search provided this article. "What kind of message is

THE MESSAGE?”

http://www.crossroad.to/Bible_studies/Message.html

What both Mr. Peterson and Mr. Warren fail to point out is that Isaiah was rather frustrated as he was finding the prophetic role that God had assigned to him was being ignored by the very people he was trying to warn. This I can identify with!

As for Job, his despair was due to great loss of family, wealth and health which were temporary. Job never lost either his commitment or devotion to God. Job gives the believer one of the greatest testament in the Bible, Job 19:25, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:” (KJV)

The same verse in The Message goes, “Still, I know that God lives—the One who gives me back my life—and eventually he’ll take his stand on earth.” So Mr. Pearson has exchanged the concept of my Redeemer for God and the latter-day for eventually. 

Christ at the Checkpoint, the Trifecta of the Scorners, the Fools and the Simple

2 Timothy 3:15-17, "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."

Today, an increasing number of people and/or organizations are questioning these very biblical verses/principles. The organization, Christ at the Checkpoint, is certainly no exception and is likely part of what’s being called the emergent church.

Proverbs 1:22, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?"

Jan Markell is a frequent contributor to the Rapture Ready website. Her article on the organization, Christ at the Checkpoint is a very good read.

'"Jesus Isn't Coming Back to "Occupied Territory"'

http://www.raptureready.com/featured/markell/37.html

Ms. Markell says it best, "Here we go again. Another Christ at the Checkpoint (CATC) conference is set to launch March 10-14. It's another tragic event that tells half-truths and hardly the entire story. The theme is "Christ at the Checkpoint III: Your Kingdom Come." It's based on the Lord's Prayer and how Christ would approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today."

CM commented concerning scorners, "To make a mouth" and referenced to Proverbs 14:6, "A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth." Jesus' brother James has more to say about wisdom, James 1:5, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” By promoting replacement theology, those aligned with CATC are most assuredly mocking God’s wisdom and pronouncements in His unconditional Land Covenant.

Proverbs 21:24, "Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath." Add to that Proverbs 19:29, "Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools." No one can say that they were not warned.

More for the fool, Proverbs 15:2, "The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness." And even more, Proverbs 15:14, "The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness."

As for the Simple, he is one who lacks discernment and is receptive to most everything. Here, another first by James is applicable. James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."

Satan,fallen man, the church and the Holocaust

So just who was responsible for the Holocaust? Was at the culmination of the thousands of years of plotting and scheming by Satan that started in the garden? Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

Was it “The Everlasting Hatred” of the Edomite’s and Ishmaelite’s? As an aside, the Edomite’s were the descendants of Esau and often battled the Jewish nation and/ or often allied themselves with whoever was fighting Israel, The Book of Obadiah is a one chapter book that really shows the anger of God. Jeremiah 49 predicted utter destruction of Edom as did the Book of Obadiah. Amos 1 also told of their destruction. Eventually the Edomite’s became absorbed in desert tribes, “a people whose name and language had perished. Obadiah’s prophecy had been fulfilled.” Origen (3rd century A.D.) Surprisingly enough, during the Great Tribulation the remnant of Israel will seek refuge in Edom/ Petra and will be supernaturally protected there.

Was it the Roman Catholic Church and who was/is responsible at least in part for the heresy of Replacement Theology? Was it the Reformers who never completed the Reformation and also allowed Replacement Theology to creep into the Protestant churches?

What of the concordats between the Roman Catholic Church and Adolf Hitler and Mussolini? By these agreements the church was not to interfere with the state and vice a versa. Pius XII earned the less than desirable title of “Hitler’s Pope.” The Roman Catholic Church has attempted to redact history, however, there are many, many pictures available demonstrating a very cozy relationship.

Was it the Christian church that failed to speak up? What of the ordinary people who claimed to have no knowledge of the ongoing Holocaust?

What of the United States and other countries that turned away Jewish refugees attempting to unload from ships?

Was it due to the adherence by most to the theory of evolution whereby man is only an animal? The theory of evolution has reduced God's creation, man, to the status of an animal. There is little value placed on the unborn and millions are slaughtered in the womb every year.

Currently, anti-Semitism is spreading throughout the planet like an out of control plague. So what made the Holocaust possible; fallen man.

Global Warming/ Climate Change, the Stuff of Political Hacks

Can the left get any more out of step with reality? Last “Wednesday at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafar to be special representative to Muslim communities, Secretary of State John Kerry said it was the United States' Biblical ‘responsibility’ to ‘confront climate change,’ including to protect ‘vulnerable Muslim majority counties."’ Here is the video link in which Kerry twists the Word to fit the left’s agenda.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/09/03/Kerry-The-Bible-Commands-America-Protects-The-Planet-For-Muslim-Countries

The show “The Five” on FOXNEWS is one of the few shows I watch on a regular basis. Bob Beckel usually is the lone lib on the panel of five. He made a statement that is, IMO, even beyond far left thinking. “Climate change is so much more consequential than ISIS ever was it’s like putting the United States military up against the boy scouts,” He went on to say “I have people that I think scientifically have a good argument other people say they have a good argument, we disagree with it,” And added, “But the idea suggesting that ISIS is more important than climate change is just absurd, as far as I’m concerned.”

And then there’s Al Gore. From a 2010 article, “How inconvenient is this news? Former vice president Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, bought a gated $8,875,000 ocean-view villa in Montecito, Calif., where Oprah Winfrey also owns a mansion, the Los Angeles Times reports.” The ice cap that was supposed to have melted away by now is still there much to the chagrin of Al Gore; I thought the oceans were going to rise, enough said.

Recently Bill Nye “the Science Guy” debated Ken Ham “Creation Museum” on "whether creation is a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era." Bill Nye seems to equate being a creationism and/ or the denial of Climate Change (formally known as Global Warming) with being technologically inept. 
  
Talk about one side only. “Climate Change Denial, Creationism, and Other Bad Science Don’t Deserve Equal Consideration in Science Journalism.”

http://www.themarysue.com/how-we-report-on-science/

In my opinion, these in the left worship at the altar of global warming/ climate change as they do at the altar of abortion on demand and the altar of evolution. I get the definite impression that the Libs consider Christians to be against science. Perhaps if they would peruse CM’s “Beyond” commentaries…

So much for the political hacks/ celebs who use climate change/ global warming as a soapbox and/ or as a moneymaker.

An interesting and balanced article dating more than 10 years ago is “Facts disprove warnings about global warming” by William Robert Johnston

http://www.sitewave.net/news/s49p1354.htm

"Global warming data FAKED by government to fit climate change fictions" by Mike Adams is just one of many articles exposing the falsification of data to make a case for global warming.

http://www.naturalnews.com/045695_global_warming_fabricated_data_scientific_fraud.html

So what do I believe about global warming? I definitely believe that someday there will be major global warming, however, it will be at God’s timing and direction. The weather has been rather out of control in the last several years; that is out of man’s influence via carbon footprints rather under the control of God.

Against the Assyrians God declared, Isaiah 30:30, "And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones."

Luke 21:11, “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”

Acts 2:19, "And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:"

A picture is worth a thousand words: 
<img src="http://conservativetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-09-Ice-Cap.jpg"

Good Video, "If Hamas were caught building an Auschwitz...."

Ezra asks an interesting question, If Hamas were caught building an Auschwitz....

http://www.mideasttruth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11642

Gossip compared to lame-stream reporting on Israel

A favorite broadcaster of mine was the late Paul Hardy with his "And that is the rest of the story." He would often take a half-truth of the day and dissect it and provide his listeners with the rest of the story. Today we have gossips (lame-stream media) who spread dissension often with half-truths or half of the story and/or bias reporting.

I will admit that I am equating the most painful sin of gossip with the extreme bias reporting so prevalent in the last month. 10 years and approximately 10,000 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza. The people of Gaza elected/ tolerate/ support Hamas and are now reaping a horrific reward. Hamas locates missile launching sites in areas that are very repugnant to anyone who values human life. Children and families are used as human shields even though Israel has distributed flyers saying to evacuate areas that support a nest of terrorists. So who does the world condemns? Israel was condemned for excessive response to being fired upon by missiles. Also some idiot in the UN suggested that the iron dome technology should be shared with Hamas.

While there has been limited condemnation against Hamas for using human shields, the preponderance of criticism has been aimed at Israel. Currently there is a tenuous cease-fire in effect, however, Hamas today was making threats that they’re ready to go back to war if their unrealistic demands are not met.
Bias in the media serves to spread the marginalizing of Israel as well as anti-Israel sentiment. Anti-Semitism is a cancer that has spread across the globe. This is not unexpected as in the last days Israel will stand alone.

Hamas Nearly 30 Years Later, Nothing has Changed!