A Pyramid of Lies   How the Wolf Pack is Attacking and Destroying True Biblical Christianity   by Jeremy James Ireland, March 11, 2013

Heresy, error and false teaching are rampant in the church today, and yet very few
Christians are taking the time to familiarize themselves with this ever-worsening
trend. Much of what is published today as ‘Christian’ literature, or presented
as ‘Christian’ television, is heavily tainted with false doctrine and worldly
values.

This paper
identifies the main heresies and false teachings in the modern church and the
extent to which they have permeated Christian theology. However, we will not
be exploring the entire spectrum of ways in which the plain teaching of God’s
Holy Word is being stretched in every direction to support pagan, occult and
materialistic doctrines. Lies can be multiplied indefinitely, to the point where
no sane person could catalogue them all.

 

There is only one sure defence against
error, heresy and false teaching and that is the Word of God. We must read and
study it every day, and become so familiar with it that, when a false teaching
crosses our path, it jars with our understanding of truth. When this happens
we have either enough scriptural knowledge to refute it or enough discernment
to know that we must explore the matter further and identify where exactly it
conflicts with God’s Holy Word

The Pyramid

Satan has
created a pyramid of lies around which he is constructing his modern counterfeit
church – see chart overleaf. These lies or heresies, eleven in all, are the
infrastructure on which an outer facade of half truths, promises and enticing
doctrines are being attached by a clever team of false prophets, charlatans
and grievous wolves. 

 

This paper
is designed to provide believers with a set of tools that they can use to test
what they are being taught, whether in their local church, their wider denomination,
or through the ‘Christian’ media. As believers we are commanded to “Prove all
things [and to] hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

 

Even if you
do not agree with all aspects of our analysis, it should nevertheless furnish
you with more than enough evidence that a planned deception is under way within
the church, that this deception has been very carefully designed, and that its
primary goal is the creation of a One World model of Christianity that has no
power to save anyone.

 

The Pyramid of Lies Idolatry Dominionism Universalism Spirit-is-Power Non-judgmentalism Interfaith-Ecumenism Replacement Theology Extra-Biblical Revelation Contemplative Spirituality Mysticism – Kabbalah – the Occult           Jeremy James has provided a short definition of today’s most popular heresies in Appendix A.

 

Recognizing a False Teaching

Perhaps the
greatest barrier to recognizing a false teaching is believing that it could
never take root in our local church, and that the sincere and well-meaning
believers who frequent it would never knowingly spread a false teaching. But
that’s the problem! Most people don’t knowingly spread a false teaching.

 

We must distinguish
between the person who originates a false teaching – the wolf or deceiver –
and the person who spreads it to others without checking to see whether it has
any scriptural validity. The wolves already know that what they are teaching
is contrary to Scripture, but their undiscerning listeners do not.

 

A lie that
we hear from our friends – the people we trust – is probably the most dangerous
lie of all. This is why it is vital to be familiar with the anatomy of the lies
discussed in this paper and to know how to detect and refute them, even when
they are spread unknowingly by people we trust and respect.

 

1. The Heresy of Replacement Theology

 

Our first
candidate is Replacement Theology, which teaches that the church has replaced
Israel in all of God’s promises. It states that, since the Jews rejected their
Messiah at his First Coming, God has no further plans for the children of Israel.
Thus all passages in the Bible relating to Israel, having a current or future
application, are deemed to pertain to the church only.

 

This pernicious heresy has done
immense harm to the church and to society in general. It is without doubt the
foundation on which anti-semitism has been built and millions of lives destroyed.
The Roman Catholic Church has been an avid champion of this lie from the earliest
times. For example, she used it to justify the awful carnage of the Crusades
and to foment the visceral anti-semitism across Europe that led to the Holocaust.
And she continues to use it to this day to wrest Jerusalem from the Jewish people. 

 

This five-word
lie – “the church has replaced Israel” – is probably the most dangerous heresy
of all because, in addition to consigning about a quarter of the Bible to allegorical
obscurity, it plays a major role in facilitating many other heresies.

 

By rejecting
Biblical prophecy about the End Time, Replacement Theology undermines the literal
Biblical teaching that Christ will return bodily to earth to establish the Kingdom
and reign in person from Jerusalem as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It also
rejects, whether directly or by implication, many other truths about the End
Time, such as the harpazo (rapture) of the church and the prophesied
adoption by professing Christians worldwide of a false, interfaith-ecumenical
gospel controlled by Rome.

 

The Book
of Revelation makes absolutely no sense if the church has replaced Israel in
God’s promises. Neither does the Book of Zechariah. In fact, over a dozen books
of the Bible have extensive prophetic utterances relating to the End Time. Since
virtually all of these concern the land of Israel, the city of Jerusalem, or
the Jewish people – and frequently all three – there is no conceivable way they
can be applied to the church. They are far too specific and too tightly interconnected
to have application to any group other than the Chosen People.

The deception underlying Replacement Theology is extremely powerful, largely
because it is supernaturally driven. Christ stated in Matthew 23:39 that “Ye
shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord.” Satan is determined to ensure that the Jewish people,
as a nation, never proclaim those earthshaking words – “Baruch haba b’shem Adonai.”
He is therefore bent upon destroying them completely. And to do this he must
turn the rest of the world against them. This corrupt doctrine forms a key part
of his plan since it obliterates the entire foundation on which their hope is
based, namely the prophetic promises of a Covenant God who always keeps His
word.

Replacement theology has an irrational grip on those who espouse it. For
example, both Luther and Calvin continued to teach it even after they had cast
aside many of the perverted doctrines taught by Rome. Despite the subsequent
fulfilment of major Biblical prophecy – the re-establishment of the Jewish homeland
in 1948 and the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967 – the vast majority of professing
Christians today still hold to the gravely mistaken view that Israel has lost
her distinctive role in God’s prophetic plan.

God has not
abandoned His chosen people! And neither has He abandoned His chosen city. Again
and again the Bible asserts that God has chosen Jerusalem from among all the
cities on earth as the capital of His earthly kingdom. All of His promises focus
one way or another on that city and on its distinctive glory as the place where
His Son will reign eternally. Do you think for a moment that Satan will be able
to wrest this city from the Sovereign Lord of all Creation? Do you seriously
believe there is a single thing he can do to thwart the stated intentions of
the Living God? Those who hold to Replacement Theology place more trust in Satan
and his outrageous claims than they do in the plain Word of God.

 

Consider if you will the intimate
terms in which the LORD has referred to Jerusalem, the city He has chosen forever
for His only begotten Son:

 

The City of the LORD of Hosts	Psalm 48:8
Crown of Glory	Isaiah 62:3
Royal Diadem	Isaiah 62:3
The Gate of My People	Micah 1:9
Great among the Nations	Lamentations 1:1
Princess among the Provinces	Lamentations 1:1
My Holy Mountain	Ezekiel 20:40
The Holy Place of the Tabernacles of the Most High	Psalm 46:4
Holy unto the LORD	Jeremiah 31:40
The House of the God of Jacob	Isaiah 2:3
The House of the LORD	Psalm 27:4
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel	Isaiah 60:14

 

A more complete
listing may be found in Appendix B.

These heartfelt titles and descriptions – over four dozen in total – express
with formidable force the irrevocable nature of the promise that the LORD made
to His holy city, “the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.” 

The Book
of Jeremiah actually applies the same name to Christ in verse 23:6 as it applies
to Jerusalem in verse 33:16 – “The LORD Our Righteousness.” An identification
of this kind, between the coming Messiah and his Holy City, is a glorious and
unequivocal proclamation of God’s immutable purpose.

 

2. The Heresy of Evolution

 

While most
Christians reject the pseudo-scientific nonsense known as Darwinian Evolution,
a great many subscribe to an equally nonsensical version known as Intelligent
Design (ID). They are drawn to this heresy because it relieves them of the need
to reconcile the Book of Genesis with the cult of Darwinism. Instead of facing
Darwinism head on and exposing its lies for what they are, they manufacture
a pseudo-scientific fable of their own.

 

According
to the ID model, God has elected to exercise His sovereign power as Creator
only in accordance with the system of blundering steps taught by the Darwinians.
In doing this they reject the plain testimony of Genesis and turn it into an
allegory that cannot be made to conform, even in outline, with the ID model.
In short, Intelligent Design is a confused combination of unscriptural theology
and medieval 


alchemy.

 

If a Christian
cannot believe the account of Creation given in the Word of God, then his commitment
of many other elements of Biblical truth is likely to be equally timid or tinged
with unbelief. Rather than accepting what the LORD has plainly stated, he prefers
instead to allegorize events that sceptics and materialists find offensive.
These include such important elements in the Biblical narrative as the multiplication
of languages at the Tower of Babel, the parting of the Red Sea, the provision
of manna over an unbroken period of forty years, the deliverance of Jonah, the
worldwide Flood, the ascension of Elijah, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

While science
has made many edifying discoveries about the world around us, it has been dominated
from the start by men who despise the God of Genesis and are satisfied only
with ‘explanations’ that studiously exclude Him. Even before the advent of science
as we know it, men have always preferred explanations based on magic and a multiplicity
of gods rather than acknowledge a sovereign, omnipotent Creator.

 

According
to the Darwinians, a new species evolves only through a long series of purely
random processes, even though common sense – and science itself – tells us that
random events always result in decay and loss of information. In reality, the
evolutionists have accorded to ‘random processes’ exactly the same mysterious
power of transmutation that the medieval alchemists ascribed to magic.

 

Here’s a
simple thought experiment to illustrate what we mean. Break an egg, whisk it,
and pour it into a jar. Then seal the jar for a hundred million years. Will
the egg turn into a chicken during that time? The Darwinians insist that it
could since all of the ingredients needed to assemble a chicken are already
present. All that is required is sufficient time for the necessary random processes
to take effect. Alas, this is the kind of lunacy that passes for ‘science’ among
evolutionists.

 

The so-called
Big Bang theory of how the universe came into existence is yet another pseudo-scientific
explanation of Creation, where incredibly complex phenomena are explained by
a sophisticated combination of statistical magic and speculative physics. The
mathematical models on which their conclusions are based have as much in common
with the real world as a child’s television cartoon. Reams of devastating counter-evidence
are simply ignored. For example, if the Big Bang theory is correct, then the
universe should comprise equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, when plainly
this is not the case.

 

Evolution
cannot work on any scale, cosmic or microscopic, without thousands if not millions
of magical moments wherein, in violation of all known scientific laws, everything
fortuitously happens to work out just as it should.

 

Any theory,
no matter how absurd it may be, will acquire a measure of scientific credibility
if enough assumptions are made in its favor. Today the most rudimentary standards
of scientific rigor are being set aside to accommodate theories that refute
the account given in Genesis. If the same standards of scientific integrity
were applied to evolutionary biology as apply, for example, in the field of
electronic engineering, its leading proponents would face long prison sentences
for fraud.

 

Where is the extensive fossil record that is meant to substantiate the work
of evolution? It doesn’t exist. Where are the countless transitional species
that ought to proliferate if evolution is occurring? There are none. Where are
the mechanisms that ensure that only beneficial genetic mutations are transmitted
to later generations? They don’t exist either. Few commentators are prepared
to face the plain reality that evolution is a scientific fraud and many of its
leading proponents are barefaced liars.

 

Satan pushes an evolutionary worldview,
not simply because it mocks the God of Creation, but because a person trapped
in an evolutionary mindset can be made to believe almost anything, no matter
how foolish or illogical.

 

Consider its implications for Biblical
scholarship. If men can be made to believe that the Bible was first conceived
and then written in a particular time and place – and thus a product of cultural
evolution – then the ‘truth’ that it purports to contain must be relative. This
is akin to saying that truth itself is evolving. And this is exactly what Satan
wants, a fluid, non-doctrinal form of Christianity where Biblical truth can
be reinterpreted, redefined, and even amended to fit the ‘needs’ of modern man.

 

Some of the leading branches of apostate Christianity – such as the Emerging
Church, the New Apostolic Reformation, and the Purpose-Driven Church – are already
doing this. They teach a brand of Christianity that is continually evolving
and whose ultimate shape will be determined by the revelations, insights and
convictions of their leaders. Indeed, their stated aim is to completely redefine
Christianity and bring about a Reformation akin to that of Luther and his contemporaries.
The big difference, of course, is that Luther sought to lead men back to the
Bible and away from Rome, while the modern reformers want to lead men away from
the Bible and back to Rome.

3. The Spirit-is-Power Heresy

 

This heresy states that every believer
should be able to manifest the same signs and wonders that the Apostles performed
after Pentecost.

 

All true
believers know that the Living God can perform miraculous signs and wonders
in our world today, but that He does so only in accordance with His sovereign
will and not in accordance with the will of man. He is not a respecter of persons.
So when anyone presumes to instruct God as to how and when He should perform
them, to even the smallest degree, he has crossed a line. In a single step,
he has moved from a state of humility and obedience to one of pride and rebellion.

 

The Spirit-is-Power
heresy has been designed by Satan to lure as many Christians as possible across
that line, to get them to contest to some degree, however small, the sovereignty
of God.

 

In its most popular form, this movement
teaches that true believers receive a special anointing by the Holy Spirit sometime
after they are saved – perhaps months or years later – and that this anointing
imparts certain charismatic gifts, including the gift of tongues, the gift of
healing or the gift of prophecy. It is based on the false assumption that all
believers, when endowed with the Holy Spirit, acquire a ‘power’ similar to that
of the Apostles chosen by Christ. And just as the Apostles could seemingly exercise
these gifts at will, so too should each of these ‘advanced’ believers with their
‘second anointing’.

 

Several times
we are told in the Word of God that “the just shall live by faith” – Habakkuk
2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11 and Hebrews 10:38 – but a great many followers
of the Pentecostal Church and the Charismatic Movement reject this. They argue
– falsely – that if a person has real faith, he will be filled with the
Spirit and will manifest miraculous signs and wonders. And yet the Bible does
not say this! John the Baptist, who was filled with the Holy Spirit from the
womb (Luke 1:15), performed no miracles whatever in his lifetime (John 10:41).
Not one.

 

Leaders of
the modern signs-and-wonders movement would have rebuked him for his deplorable
lack of faith!

 

There is
so much doctrinal confusion within this movement, so much self-deception, emotional
extravagance and downright fraud, that it is often difficult to reason with
someone who follows it. After all, he has chosen to rely mainly on experiences
rather than Scripture to confirm and validate his relationship with Christ.
If he loses those experiences then his ‘faith’ simply drains away and he has
nowhere to stand. So he must continually chase after new experiences and seek
out the companionship and reassuring testimony of other, equally restless, individuals
who share his hunger for signs and wonders.

 

In their perpetual
quest for evidence of the miraculous, they ignore the terrible warning that
Christ gave regarding all such individuals: “A wicked and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign…” (Matthew 16:4). Note that he did not describe them as
mistaken or misguided or badly informed. No, he went much further and described
them as wicked and adulterous. Note also that the wickedness stems, not from
the signs themselves, but from seeking after them.

 

The word
‘adulterous’ in this context means idolatrous. And idolatry is extremely offensive
to God. So when foolish men presume to have the ability to ‘call’ upon the ‘spirit’
and direct it to carry out their bidding, they are no different from shamans,
yogis and New Age gurus.

 

The Spirit-is-Power
heresy treats the Holy Spirit as an energy or a force, just as the Gnostics
did. By using the right techniques, the subject believes he can appropriate
this force and use it for a spiritual purpose. However, the Bible teaches nothing
of the kind. It tells us, rather, that the Holy Spirit is a Person and that
He carries out the will of the Father – and His alone. The spirit that
extreme sign-seekers contact in their trance-like states is another spirit entirely,
an unclean, deceiving spirit that is able to produce convincing counterfeits
of miraculous phenomena.

 

The Signs-and-Wonders
movement deliberately ignores the plain statement in Hebrews that, in addition to the exercise of the gifts of
the Holy Spirit,
all of the signs, wonders and miracles performed by the Apostles and those who heard Christ
personally were subject entirely to the will of God and were intended
only to confirm and bear witness to the truthfulness of the gospel of
salvation which they preached:

 

“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which
at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us
by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs
and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according
to his own will?” (Hebrews 2:3-4)

 

Believers
who are afflicted with a craving for signs and wonders are generally intensely
resistant to the idea that they might be deceived. They assume that, as Christians,
the only spirit they can possibly contact is the Holy Spirit. But they are wrong.
The Word of God warns that we must test the spirit to see if it is from God
(“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” – 1 John 4:1).
This clearly implies that we can be deceived if we are not careful. Alas,
many believers interpret the “results” or manifestations as proof that what
they are doing is scriptural. They forget that Satan and his vast hoard of fallen
angels can convincingly duplicate many of these signs. Tongue-speaking is an
incredibly easy sign for a demonic agency to duplicate – which is why it frequently
occurs in many branches of witchcraft and paganism, including Voodoo, Santeria,
Hinduism and various Animistic religions. 

The gifts
of the Spirit still exist today, but they are just that, gifts – not
entitlements. We can’t demand them. There is no technique that we can use to
induce them. Our heavenly Father gives us what we need and not what we want.
The great tragedy of the Spirit-is-Power movement is that it has turned many
believers into modern versions of Simon Magus (or Simon the Sorceror), who thought
there was something he could do to acquire supernatural power (Acts 8). He offered
silver to the Apostles for this purpose and was severely rebuked by Peter. The
modern Simon Magus may not offer silver but his goal is the same, and he will
often engage in protracted rituals to obtain by ‘devotion’, repetitive prayer
and emotional intensity what Simon tried to obtain with money.

Peter rebukes Simon Magus for trying to obtain the gifts of the Holy Spirit with silver.

 

The ‘second’
anointing – as taught by the Spirit-is-Power movement – is a deception. It denies
the wonderful truth that all who come to Christ are blessed with the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit the moment they are saved. All believers
are priests and all are accountable to the same High Priest, our wonderful savior
Christ Jesus.

 

Consider
Ephesians 3:1: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.”

 

So, how many
spiritual blessings have been withheld from born-again believers? The Word of
God makes it perfectly clear. The answer is none, absolutely none.

 

Oswald Chambers
put his finger on the carnality of sign-seeking by born-again believers when
he said:

“God made
man to have dominion over the life of the sea and air and earth, but God
was to have dominion over man. Adam sinned by taking his claim to his right
to himself [i.e. Adam sinfully claimed dominion over himself]. This
claim to my right to myself works in those who are born again, and it is
called “the carnal mind.” It expresses itself like this – “I want the baptism
of the Holy Ghost; I want to be sanctified; I want to be filled with the
Spirit; I want to be used of God.”
     
“All
that springs from the wrong source, it is not drawing its life from the
right place. When we receive and recognise and rely on the Holy Spirit,
all that stops for ever.” – Oswald Chambers, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect…
(re 1 John 5:8-12)

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The twelve Apostles, along with Paul, received exceptional
gifts as evidence of their Apostleship, of the unique authority and ministry
bestowed on them by Christ. “Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought
among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.” (2
Corinthians 12:12) These “signs of an apostle” must have been unique to the Apostles (and seemingly to a small number
of disciples whom they anointed) since they would otherwise have been a
source of confusion – and God is not the author of confusion. It would have
meant that every believer who manifested these signs had received the same
mandate from Christ as the Apostles, when clearly they had not.

The Twelve
were the very foundation on which the church was built (“And are built upon
the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone” – Ephesians 2:20). And the foundation, once
laid, cannot be laid again. The signs validated their ministry and enabled
sincere believers to verify that the gospel which they taught was the one
given by Christ himself and not one of the many counterfeit versions being
taught by “grievous wolves” (Acts 20:29).

 

The Word
of God marks the truly special stature of the Twelve when, in the Book of
Revelation, it states that the foundations of the wall of the Eternal City,
the New Jerusalem, will be inscribed with the names of the Twelve Apostles:
“And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” (Revelation 21:14)  These twelve
men will for all eternity be honoured in this special way as the foundation
of the church.

 

We know
for certain that the Twelve did not include Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles,
because of two passages in the Gospels. Regarding the appearance by Christ
to the Apostles on Resurrection Sunday, John 20:19-24 states: “Then the
same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were
shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus
and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you…But Thomas,
one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came”, while
Luke 24:33 states “And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem,
and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them…”
Notice that Thomas was absent and yet eleven Apostles were present. This
meant that the replacement for Judas, namely Matthias, must also have been
present and his impending Apostleship confirmed. (See also 1 Corinthians 15:5-8.)

 

 Apart
from the Apostles and Barnabas (Acts 15:12), only two named individuals
performed miracles after Pentecost – the disciples Stephen and Philip. It
would appear that each had received a special anointing for this purpose
from the Apostles. Both were members of a select group of seven disciples
who were mandated to distribute alms to Gentile widows. Apparently the other
five had received a similar anointing since Scripture records the names
of all seven individuals – Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon,
Parmenas, and Nicolas – and states: “Whom they set before the apostles:
and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.”

 

It is
clear that the continuation of a signs-based ministry after the time of
the Apostles was not part of God’s plan – “The just shall live by faith.”
Historical records from the immediate post-apostolic period, when such signs
had diminished considerably, give abundant confirmation of this.

The so-called ‘apostles’ of the New Apostolic Reformation and similar
cults are either shameless frauds or seriously deluded people. The office
of apostle (apostolos) as it related to other individuals in the
New Testament pertained to the assignment we know today as a church-planting
missionary.

 The Gnostic,
spirit-is-power heresy has done real harm to the church. By giving a special
status to signs that Satan can easily duplicate, it has prepared the way
for modern cults like the New Apostolic Reformation and their obsessive
pursuit of the very things that Scripture says will mark the arrival of
the Antichrist, “whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders” (2 Thessalonians 2:9).

 

4. The Heresy of Non-Judgmentalism

 

The first heresy that we examined,
Replacement Theology, has exercised a firm grip over the Bible-believing
church for over 300 years. The second, Evolution, took hold in the decades
following the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859,
while the third, the Spirit-is-Power movement, began to spread rapidly after
1900. The interval between each heresy has been growing shorter.

 

The next, Non-Judgmentalism, came along just 40
years later.

 It began with a broad rejection
of the Biblical principle of separation. This requires, among other things,
that believers make a clear distinction and thus a clear separation, in
all aspects of their lives, between the ways of the world and those of God. 
It is well expressed in the words of James 4:4 – “…know
ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore
will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

 

The practice of seeing the world
in this way was increasingly depicted as a barrier to evangelism. Separation
was condemned as cheerless elitism and a sign of weakness. The ‘new’ Evangelicals
in America argued that effective communication of the Gospel required believers
to cultivate greater contact with the world and its ways. After all, if
Christians are strong in their faith then they should be able to mix with
the world and demonstrate the durability and strength of their spiritual
values.

 

This unscriptural argument held
sway and the principle of Biblical separation was cast aside. Once this
happened, conditions were ripe for the arrival of a new and highly destructive
heresy known as Non-Judgmentalism.

 

This false teaching has been exploited
shamelessly for decades by countless cults and sects in order to silence
anyone who might dare to compare and contrast their beliefs and practices
with the unchanging truths of Scripture. The Emerging Church thrives on
this lie, as does the Interfaith-Ecumenical Movement. Anyone who asks hard
questions is accused of being judgmental or divisive, of failing to allow
others the right to interpret the word of God for themselves.

 

This attitude is reinforced by
practices which convey the impression that the Bible is to some extent culturally
relative. One such practice is the Roman Catholic exercise of lectio
divina, where believers are encouraged to sit together in silence and
repeat a verse of scripture over and over in their minds in order to find
out “what it means to me.”

 

Alas, the subjective interpretation of Scripture
– “what is means to me” – is utterly irrelevant. We are required through
diligent and patient study of the Word of God to come to a clear understanding
of what it actually means, not “what it means to me.” The Bible is
a record of objective truth, not a poetic narrative whose meaning varies in accordance with
the experience, circumstances and sensibility of each person.

 

It is a mark of the wretched state
of Evangelicalism today that a pagan practice like lectio divina
should be adopted for use by true believers. Some advocates of this insidious
practice even recommend that believers pick a single word from Scripture
and repeat it over and over for a considerable period, seemingly with a
view to becoming more ‘centred’ and inwardly silent. This is no different
from mantra chanting, a practice well-known to polytheists, shamans and
yogis. 

 
When believers adopt practices
of this kind, their ability to exercise discernment and sound judgment is
fatally impaired. Anyone who is prepared to sit in silence and mentally
repeat the same word over and over in order to get closer to God may rightly
be compared with the weed-chewing hippies of the 1960s.

 Scripture
commands that we expose and rebuke false teaching of any kind: “Preach
the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all long-suffering and doctrine.” (2 Timothy 4:2) But one cannot reprove
and rebuke without judging others! The Apostle goes on to warn that “the
time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine” (2 Timothy 4:3).
He knew that the latter stages of the Church Age would be characterized
by a sharp increase in the number of nominal Christians who refused to accept
the absolute authority of Scripture but chose instead to manufacture their
own personal version of Christianity (“…but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn
away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2 Timothy
4:3-4)) 

 

Non-judgmentalists have devised
a variety of slogans to conceal the scriptural deficiency of their position.
Chief among these is: ‘In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty;
in all things, charity.’

 

Who should decide which doctrines
are essential and which are not? It is not even Biblical to make a distinction
of this kind. Non-judgmentalists do not accept that everything in the Bible is essential.
Edifying perhaps, but not essential. True Bible-believers,
on the other hand, recognize that, while not all verses are of equal importance,
they are all of some importance and cannot be divided into two groups, essential
and non-essential.

 

The non-judgmentalists maintain
that the only really essential doctrines are those that cannot be rejected
without destroying the very basis of Christianity. These include the Trinity,
the virgin birth, the deity and humanity of Christ, the sinlessness of Christ,
and his atoning death, burial and bodily resurrection. Provided a person
accepts these essentials, they say, he is at liberty to interpret all other
doctrines and teachings in accordance with his particular outlook and experience.

 

But he is not!

 

Christ, the Living Word, directed that we believe and observe
all
that he commanded. Since the Bible is the teaching of Christ in its totality,
every word in the Bible is a red letter word. We are asked to study and
understand, respect and uphold, every verse without exception. We have neither
the authority nor the ability to condense any part of God’s Holy Word or
to break it into two parts, one essential and one non-essential.

 

So, when
our great High Priest asks us to “believe all that the prophets have spoken”
(Luke 24:25), he means exactly what he says. And this means raising our
voices when any part of his Holy Word is cheapened, embellished or neglected.
We must exercise true judgment and speak out with grace and patience, roundly
and repeatedly challenging anyone who professes to be a Christian and yet
devises or promotes doctrines and teachings that conflict with Biblical
truth.

 

5. The Faith-is-Power Heresy

 

The faith-is-power
or word-of-faith heresy teaches that our words and thoughts can shape reality
and that, by choosing the right words and thoughts, and infusing them with
sufficient faith, we can build a better world for ourselves. It teaches
that man is entitled to claim the benefits that come from the correct exercise
of these techniques, that God wants us to be happy and prosperous, and that
Christians are weak only because they fail to claim what is rightfully theirs.

 

Faith-is-Power
draws heavily on visualization, positive thinking, and the use of verbal
formulas to effect changes in the world in accordance with one’s personal
will. In short, it is a system of magic. Most of it grew from the writings
of gnostic and pagan authors of the 19^th century, notably In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine, the Christian Science
works of Mary Baker Eddy, and the New Thought metaphysicians who believed
man’s imagination was the source of all creativity, healing and power. These
in turn were adopted and given a more convincing Christian veneer by E W
Kenyon, who twisted Scripture to fit his magical worldview. Nearly all of
the Word-of-Faith teachers in business today are using concepts and ideas
refined by Kenyon. They have further enriched their product by incorporating
motivational psychology, self-improvement, and elements of the positive-thinking
ideology developed by high-ranking Freemason and pastor, Norman Vincent
Peale.

 

In just
the same way that the Spirit-is-Power movement portrays the Holy Spirit
as a substance that can be moulded and directed by our human will, the Word-of-Faith
movement turns faith into a substance that believers can use to shape a
better life for themselves. Instead of teaching faith in the power of God,
they are teaching that faith itself is a power.

 

Ambiguity,
artifice and evasion are recurring phenomena on the Pyramid of Lies. Faith-is-Power
and similar movements may use the same terminology as Bible-based believers,
but many of their words, especially those associated with key elements of
Christian doctrine, will have a somewhat different meaning. Faith is not
Biblical faith. Grace is not Biblical grace. Sin is not Biblical sin. Sometimes
the differences can be significant.

 

Wolves and deceivers routinely use tricks of this kind to disguise their
lies. They know that most of their listeners will proceed on the basis that,
if something sounds okay, then it must be okay, and even if it isn’t quite
right, it can’t do any harm. Much grief and hardship could be avoided if
Christians would simply examine the way innovative and eccentric leaders
are adapting basic Biblical terms for their own purpose.

 

The ultimate and generally
unspoken lie behind the faith-is-power philosophy is that man is a god.
Consider the following outlandish assertions by Word-of-Faith kingpin,
Kenneth Hagin, from his book, Zoe: The God-Kind of Life (1981):

 

“He [man] was created on
terms of equality with God, and he could
stand in God’s presence without any consciousness of inferiority…. 
That means God has made us as much like Himself as possible. … He made
us the same class of being that He is Himself…

   
“God took something of Himself, which was spirit, the life of God, and put
it into man…He lived on terms of equality with God…. God made man a faith
man, because man belongs to God’s class. A faith man lives in the creative
realm of God. This is the end of the weakness message! …

    
“No wonder Smith Wigglesworth said, “I’m a thousand times bigger on the inside
than I am on the outside.” He was realizing that he was a human-divine being.
And that the divine part was a thousand times bigger than the human part…That’s
who we are; we’re Christ!”

 

Man
is not inferior to God, he brazenly asserts, but the same class of being
as God Himself, exercising power in the creative realm through faith.

 

Notice also his arrogant claim
that “This is the end of the weakness message!”
But we are weak! We continually need God’s
strength and wisdom!

 

This, of course, is the message
of the Gospel, the message that unredeemed man is a fallen creature who
rebelled against his Creator and is now dead in trespasses and sins.
Hagin and his followers reject the “weakness message”, the message of the
Gospel. They believe they have found something better.

 

6. The Heresy of Interfaith-Ecumenism

 

Considerable
pressure is being exerted on Bible-believing Christians to accept Roman
Catholics as fellow Christians rather than unsaved pagans steeped in idolatry
and apostasy. This is being done in a variety of ways, primarily by emphasizing
what Catholics and Evangelicals allegedly have in common. For example, many
contem-porary Evangelical hymns have so little scriptural or doctrinal content
that members of virtually any religion can join in and sing along. It is
also being promoted through countless books, videos, television programs
and interfaith events. Some Evangelical churches are even teaching the Rome-approved
gospel of the Alpha Course. Collectively these various initiatives are designed
to highlight the global resurgence of Christianity that would surely result
if Catholics and Evangelicals would only set aside their differences and
work together in harmony.

 

The claim
that Catholics are Christian would have been viewed as blasphemy by old-time
Evangelicals. The Roman Church persecuted, imprisoned, raped, tortured and
murdered millions of Bible-believing Christians down the centuries. She
teaches so many heresies that it would be impossible to deal adequately
with all of them in this paper. Catholics pray to Mary, call on the dead,
bow before a piece of bread, trust in the sanctifying acts of a holy man
with special powers, re-enact ad nauseum the sacrifice of Christ, ritualistically
eat his flesh and drink his blood, accept extra-Biblical revelation from
a man who calls himself the Vicar of Christ, reject the authority and finality
of Scripture, earn their salvation through good works and participation
in sacramental rites, reject the once-for-all atoning work of Christ on
the cross, and expect to complete their salvation after death in a place
called purgatory.

 

The Roman
Church vowed centuries ago to destroy true Biblical Christianity (which
she usually describes as ‘Protestantism’). To spearhead and co-ordinate
this wicked campaign she created and funded a world-wide militia known as
the Jesuits (Society of Jesus), whose members practise self-flagellation,
involuntary celibacy, devotion to the Virgin, and a form of auto-hypnosis
known as the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. Working in secret under
a vow of strict obedience, these highly-trained individuals have sworn a
blood oath to carry out whatever deception is necessary to lure the “separated
brethren” into the dark heart of the Roman church.

 

All

born-again Bible-believing Christians are
currently under formal condemnation by Rome, being subject to over
one hundred anathemas formulated at the Council of Trent in 1545-1563 and
reaffirmed at the Second Vatican Council 1963-1965. Under Roman Canon Law
an anathema authorizes the Pope to punish offenders in any manner he considers
expedient, including imprisonment, torture and execution.

 

Pope John Paul II celebrates a day of prayer on October 27th 1986 in Assisi, Italy. Representatives of all the major world religions participated at his invitation in this global, we-are-all-one ecumenical event.

 

 When
the Roman Church rules without any civil impediment, as she did in Croatia
in 1941-1944, she implements her anathemas with ruthless vigor. Roman Archbishop
Stepinac oversaw an organized program of slaughter in Croatia during this
period, when 700,000 or more Orthodox Serbs – men, women and children –
were rounded up and butchered by the ruling Catholic militia. Victims were
told they would be spared if they converted to Catholicism, but many of
those who did were also put to death.

 

Virtually the entire Jewish community
and thousands of Muslims were also murdered. The Jasenovac extermination
camp, where many of these atrocities took place, was one of the most brutal
in history and has been compared with Auschwitz by Jewish survivors. It
defies belief, therefore, that Pope John Paul II effectively endorsed the
work of Stepinac by having him officially beatified in October, 1998.

 

Demons
don’t die. The same demonic forces that controlled the Church of Rome –
during the long centuries of rape, torture and murder of the Inquisition,
in her campaign of slaughter during the Thirty Years War, and during her
reign of terror in Croatia – still control her today. So,
when Evangelicals welcome the Roman Catholic Church into their bosom, they
are displaying an ignorance, a naivety, and a blatant disregard for the
Word of God that is truly breathtaking.

 

There is another tragic aspect to all of this. Over a billion souls are
held in spiritual bondage by Rome and her ancient system of idolatry, and
yet thousands of Evangelical churches across America and Europe are refusing
to witness to them. The Roman gospel is a false gospel, a paganised perversion
of God’s holy Word that cannot save anyone.

 

The Christ of Roman Catholicism
is not the Christ of the Bible but a man-made icon, a sentimental counterfeit
assembled from pagan antecedents and false theology. The Roman Jesus is
actually a fragile figure who needs his ‘mother’ to help him save humanity.
Since his death on the cross was inadequate for our salvation (according
to Roman theology), he must be sacrificed again and again in the ‘holy sacrifice’
of the mass in order to produce the grace needed to cover our sins. He is
a ‘god’ whose flesh may be eaten by his followers or kept in a golden receptacle.
Inconstant and remote, he does not always choose to hear the prayers of
his followers but delegates the task to his ‘mother’ instead, whom Rome
declares to be a mediatrix and co-redeemer with the Roman Jesus.

 

Contrast this with the true and
living Christ! The Christ of the Bible is King of Kings and Lord of Lords!
He is no longer nailed to a cross or subject to ongoing sacrifice at the
hands of sinful men, but Risen and Triumphant! He did everything necessary
for our salvation when he died once on the cross. He conquered death on
our behalf and set us free forever from the power of Satan. He is our only
Mediator with the Father, our one and only Redeemer. In him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. He is the Light of the World and the Lord
of Hosts, Son of the Most High God and Savior of all who believe in him.
And he is coming again in awesome power and glory to rule the entire earth
in person from his holy temple in Jerusalem.

 

That,
dear reader, is the Christ that true Christians believe in. If you think
a female figure or the church or the sacraments or good works or personal
suffering can add even one atom to what Christ has achieved for your salvation,
then you have not found Christ. And if you have not found Christ, then you
are lost.

 

The Bible
teaches that, without Christ, all religions are in darkness and have no
truth in them whatsoever. In stark contrast, the Interfaith-Ecumenical movement
teaches that each of the world’s major religions has some of God’s
truth and that it is incumbent on Christians everywhere to identify that
truth and use it as a basis for co-operation, fellowship and shared understanding.
Some even hold to the heresy of Universalism which states that all ‘good’
people, regardless of their religious beliefs, will be saved eventually.

The
Jesuits have done extensive work over the past hundred years or more to
prepare the way for the merger of all ‘Christian’ denominations under the
umbrella of Rome. In their Extreme Oath of Induction they pledge to
infiltrate the pastorate of all Evangelical and Reformation churches and
subtly insinuate their paganised version of Christianity. Published in the
US Congressional Record in 1913 and available on the website of the European
Institute of Protestant Studies (director: Ian Paisley), it contains
an extensive account of their modus operandi, with such disturbing statements
as-  

“It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical
Kings, Governments, or Rulers…among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist;
among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their
confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits…

 

“You have been taught
to plant insidiously the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities,
provinces, states that were at peace, and to incite them to deeds of blood…to
take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit,
who might be engaged on the other side…the end justifies the means.

 

“You
have been taught your duty as a spy…none can command here who has not
consecrated his labours with the blood of the heretic…I [the candidate]
am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of
the Mother Church’s interest…

 

I do further promise and declare that I will
have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatever, even
as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey
each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia
of the Pope…I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity
presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all
heretics…as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the
whole earth…and with the dagger which I now receive I will subscribe my
name written in my blood in testimony thereof.”

 

[Note: The Jesuits deny the
existence of this Oath, but it is regarded as genuine by many Bible scholars
and was confirmed by Dr. Alberto Rivera, who left the Jesuit Order in 1967.]

 

This
form of covert infiltration is far more common than people realize. For
example, it was used extensively for decades in the Cold War between the
Soviet Union and the Western powers. Spies and double-agents were given
years of in-depth training in the art of deception and then placed in lowly
administrative jobs in a target country. From there they
would
advance
gradually
into
positions
of
influence
or
strategic importance. We should hardly be surprised
therefore if the same type of deception is being used by the Master of Deception
in his ongoing war against true Christianity. After all, his future success
and very survival depend on it.

 

Given that the Extreme Oath of the Jesuits actually
stipulates the use of such duplicity, we must assume that, not only
is it happening, but that it has been under way for some time. The Oxford
Movement in Britain in the 1840s is regarded by many as a prime example of
the strategic subversion of the Anglican church by Roman operatives. See,
for example, Walsh (1898):

“At present the Church of England is literally honeycombed with Secret
Societies, all working in the interests of the scheme for the Corporate
Reunion of the Church of England with the Church of Rome.”

 In more
recent times, according to Time and Newsweek, Chuck Colson,
a convicted criminal with political connections at the highest level, passed
himself off as a born-again Christian in order to shorten his prison sentence.
He then went on to co-ordinate a program that led to the agreement and publication
of the infamous document, Evangelicals and Catholics Together, in
1994. There is every reason to believe that the Vatican recruited Colson
for this purpose, to betray the Evangelical church in America and set it
on a path to Ecumenical disintegration.  

 

Subversion gets results. This
is why so many seemingly orthodox Evangelical churches and seminaries can
suddenly and inexplicably jettison their principles and accept serious doctrinal
compromises that perfectly accord with what Rome wants to achieve.

 

For example, a leading Evangelical
theologian or writer may start to endorse Mormonism; another will contend
that the God of the Bible is the same as the god of the Koran; another will
champion contemplation or interfaith spirituality; another will argue that
the Bible was never meant to be read as a literal, inerrant record of God’s
plan for mankind; another will raise doubts about the sinfulness of homosexuality;
and so on.  

In pursuit of her stated goals, the Roman Catholic
Church also promotes works by authors whose teachings just happen to align
with her interfaith-ecumenical agenda. Especially useful in this regard
are books by non-Catholics that sow the seed of Romanism among Evangelicals.
These include, for example, the writings of Richard Foster, a Quaker theologian.
It is impossible to read his outrageously ecumenical book, Celebration
of Discipline, which has sold over a million copies to date and greatly
influenced Evangelicals across America and Europe, and not conclude that
the only thing missing from it is the Imprimatur of a Catholic bishop.

 The
Roman Catholic Church is also working quietly in other ways to draw Evangelicals
into her net. Such behind-the-scenes initiatives include the negotiation
of mutual
recognition
agreements
with
various Protestant denominations on key doctrines of faith. For example, on January
29, 2013 – a dark day in Biblical Christianity – the main Presbyterian denominations
in North America signed such an agreement with Rome in relation to baptism
– “We rejoice at the common faith we share and affirm in this document.”
The Word of God and the blood of the martyrs were simply forgotten. By signing
this agreement, the Presbyterian churches demolished a central pillar of
the Reformation. The fundamental doctrine of salvation by faith alone was
cast aside. Instead they decided – in a most underhand way – that the Reformation
had been a great misunderstanding and that Roman Catholics were really Presbyterians
in disguise.

 

The spread of the Interfaith-Ecumenical
heresy has not been an accident but is the direct result of a co-ordinated,
well-funded campaign by the Vatican to subvert true Christianity and forge
a one-world church controlled by the Papacy. The Bible itself warned that
such a church would form in the End Time to displace Biblical Christianity
and usher in the Antichrist.

 

7. The Heresy of Dominionism

 

Dominionism teaches that Christ cannot return to earth until the church has established its authority
(dominion) over all nations and instituted a form of global theocracy, a
one-world government founded on Biblical principles. In other words, according
to Dominionism, the church brings in the Kingdom for and on behalf
of Christ. [This unscriptural teaching is also known as Kingdom Now
Theology, Reconstructionism, or Restorationism, depending on whether one
views it from a Pentecostal or a Reformed background.]

 

Dominionism
has become very popular in recent years, largely because it exploits the
huge vacuum created by Replacement Theology. If the church has replaced
Israel, the Dominionists reason, then she has appropriated the special role
that Israel was to play in the second coming of Christ. 

Dominionism also suits the ecumenical agenda of the Roman Catholic Church because it accommodates
the Second Coming of Christ, which the Evangelicals expect, but places
before it a monumental step that is not found anywhere in scripture,
namely the Christianization of all nations.

 

The Dominionist
argument goes broadly as follows: Man was given dominion over the earth
in Genesis but lost it through the Fall. The Messiah subsequently regained
it on our behalf and it is now incumbent on believers everywhere, acting
corporately, to exercise their God-given authority and – street by street,
city by city – to reclaim the world from Satan. If this is achieved, they
reason, the unsaved everywhere will be liberated from Satan’s power, which
they believe is exercised mainly through a web of demonic strongholds located
across the planet. Then, upon witnessing the miraculous signs and wonders
that will be performed by Christians in the ‘New Apostolic Age’, non-believers
will turn to Christ in their millions and Christian dominion over all nations
will be established.

 

Alas, this entire scenario conflicts
sharply with Scripture. Consider, for example, the words of Paul:

 

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come… Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving,
and being deceived.” (2 Timothy 3:1,12 & 13)

 

The last
days will be characterized by a progressive collapse in moral standards,
where evil men and their fawning accomplices will exercise ever greater
control over the earth, to the point where all true Christians will be persecuted.
This is the opposite of what the Dominionists are claiming!

 

Consider also the words spoken by Christ in his Olivet discourse:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not
since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Matthew
24:21)

 

So, not
only will the moral condition of the world become progressively worse, but
civil and military turmoil will become so intense that it will surpass anything
mankind has ever seen. Indeed, this period of devastation will be so severe
that “unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved” (Matthew
24:22).

 

Dominionists
are either deluded or deceitful. It is impossible to reconcile these plain
statements about the End Time with the peaceful global theocracy envisaged
by the Dominionists. Indeed, they have to dismiss, allegorize or pervert
a large portion of Scripture in order to sustain their position. Nearly
all of the prophets refer to the terrible judgment that will befall the
whole of mankind in the End Time. In His mercy the LORD repeated many of
these prophetic details in the Book of Revelation and added even more, including
the sequence in which many of the events foretold by the prophets would
unfold. What is more, he has made it abundantly clear that they will all
take place before Christ returns bodily to earth to destroy the Antichrist,
his vast armies, and the Satanic world system.

 

Dominionists
seem to be arguing that the Book of Revelation is describing what would
happen if man delayed for too long before exercising his God-given authority
and establishing a global theocracy. By using this deluded argument they
not only erase the Book of Revelation and a wealth of Biblical prophecy
regarding the End Time, but they imbue their own false message with a sense
of prophetic urgency – Listen to us, act now or face destruction.

 

The strange people behind the
New Apostolic Reformation are eager to convince the world that their leaders
are Apostles and Prophets on a par with – or even greater than – those of
the Bible. Many of them insinuate that anyone who rejects their message
or questions their authority is an unwitting agent of the Antichrist. Indeed,
in his book, The Final Quest, so-called prophet Rick Joyner clearly
implies that at some stage these supposedly demon-possessed people will
have to be eliminated.

 

By undermining the veracity of End Time prophecy, Replacement Theology has
cleared the way for Dominionism. Straightforward Biblical warnings about
the End Time – many of which are stark and terrifying – are simply cast
aside and a blissful utopia postulated in their place. What is more, this
glorious utopia is established entirely by man through the exercise of his
remarkable spiritual talents. Thus only when man has done his wonderful
work can Christ return.

 

What
appalling arrogance! 

 

The Dominionist
doctrine has transferred from Christ to the church the supernatural authority
and power that are needed to bring in the Kingdom. Since Dominionism also
teaches that this authority and power is vested primarily in a gifted cadre
of advanced believers – who in turn are led by even more advanced ‘Apostles’
and ‘Prophets’ – the entire transformation of the planet will, in this prospectus,
be overseen and controlled by a small group of people.    

 

Dominionism
is a cunning Satanic deception – and a very dangerous one. Not only does
it cause backslidden and deceived believers to neglect the primary task
that Christ has given them, namely to preach the gospel to the unsaved of
all nations, but it supports the common goal of the four major political
confederacies in the world today – Freemasonry, Marxism, Islam, and the
Roman Catholic Church. The goal? The creation of an all-powerful world authority
controlled by a small self-appointed elite.

 

The LORD
in His mercy has warned of this global government and it behoves us to take
His warning seriously. The whole of the Book of Revelation is a stunning
description of these future events, while literally hundreds of passages
in the Old Testament refer to the same judgment. We ignore them at our peril.

 

8. The Heresy of Extra-Biblical Revelation

 

The Bible
is the Word of God, therefore in order to modify its teachings one must
undermine its authority in some way or come up with additional revelation.
The Roman Catholic Church does both, firstly by enthroning the Pope as the
Vicar (or earthly representative) of Christ and thereby giving a Scriptural
authority to his pronouncements, and secondly by using ‘Tradition’ as a
way of justifying non-biblical doctrines, such as veneration of the so-called
Queen of Heaven. Rome has also added several books to the Bible, known as
the Apocrypha, which were not given by God but which she exploits as though
they were.

 

Since
the Protestant churches have no Papal figure or ancient tradition that they
can use for this purpose, they are obliged to seek revelation from other
sources. Mystics and prophets are therefore indispensable for the creation
of new doctrine. For example, the cult of Seventh Day Adventism, which is
a counterfeit of true Christianity, is based on the writings of Ellen White,
a 19^th century ‘prophetess’. Her alleged visions of heaven are
taken by her disciples as evidence that her pronouncements constitute additional
revelation from God. In accepting her writings as a divinely inspired source
of fresh truth, her disciples are rejecting the plain command in Scripture
to neither add to nor take from the Word of God.

The New Apostolic Reformation (and similar cults) try to argue that the
two Greek words in the New Testament that denote revelation – namely logos and
rhema – are actually designating two modes of
revelation, one written and one spoken, and that the Biblical prohibition
applies only to the logos or written word of God. On this basis,
the so-called apostles and prophets of today are claiming to receive spoken
(rhema) revelation from God, including instructions regarding the
future direction of the church.

However
the rhema/logos argument is bogus since the words are used interchange-ably
in Scripture and cannot possibly have the bizarre meaning that the NAR and
others allege.

 

They
further try to justify their position by claiming that valid revelation
– the kind they receive – neither contradicts nor modifies the written
Word of God. But this too is deceitful. Simply by making a prophetic declaration
that corresponds exactly with a verse from Scripture, the so-called prophet
is implying that the LORD has approved what he is doing, that his
fresh revelation is proof of his authority, and that anyone who dares
to say otherwise is opposing the will of God.

 

Fresh
revelation, no matter how innocent or benign it may seem, is actually a
cunning form of mind control. Its author is Satan, not the Holy Spirit. 

 

Many
of the counterfeit apostles and prophets in the marketplace today are also
claiming to perform a range of supernatural signs and wonders in the Spirit-is-Power
tradition. Even without objective evidence of any kind to substantiate their
claims (many of which are outrageous), their followers accept them as proof
that the ‘apostle’ or ‘prophet’ in question is a true servant of God and
that his revelations are genuine.

 

In addition
to their ‘revelations’ and their ‘miracles’, many of the so-called prophets
and apostles are also claiming to be the leaders of a Global Reformation
ordained by God to bring in the Kingdom. Thus we have an interweaving of
several lies – extra-biblical revelation, signs-and-wonders, and dominionism
– to form the apostate tapestry known as the New Apostolic Reformation.

 

The fact
that the various Pyramidal lies can link together in this way is highly
significant.

 

 The
table below reveals the extent of this interconnectedness. Our analysis
shows that every lie supports, and is in turn supported by, at least two
other lies. This would suggest that the Pyramid has been very carefully
designed.

Support
within the Pyramid for each Heresy

 

1	Mysticism is supported in particular by	2	3	4	6
2	Universalism is supported in particular by	6	7	8	10
3	Contemplative Spirituality is supported in particular by	1	2	6	9
4	Extra-Biblical Revelation is supported in particular by	1	3	5	9
5	Dominionism is supported in particular by	4	6	9	11
6	Interfaith-Ecumenism is supported in particular by	2	3	8	11
7	Faith-is-Power is supported in particular by	8	9
8	Non-Judgmentalism is supported in particular by	2	6	10
9	Spirit-is-Power is supported in particular by	4	5	7	8
10	Evolution is supported in particular by	1	2	6
11	Replacement Theology is supported in particular by	2	5	6

 

The table
also reveals that two of the lies – Universalism and Interfaith-Ecumenism
– are making a major contribution to the overall structure and integrity
of the Pyramid by supporting in each case at least six other lies. It is
notable that they are virtually identical to the two great lies of Freemasonry,
namely the ‘universal brotherhood of man’ and the ‘universal fatherhood
of god’. Through their determined promotion of these false propositions,
the Masons have long tried to convince the world that all men share a common
destiny and that all religions worship the same god.

 

We should
hardly be surprised that the ‘Light Bearer’ – the god of Freemasonry – is
using the same two lies, albeit in repackaged form, to undermine and destroy
Biblical Christianity.

 

Once
the capstone is set in place and the final lie of Mysticism is fully
operational, the full spectrum of lies will likely function with greater
deceptive power than ever before.

 

The willingness
of supposedly evangelical Christians to study books and other material based
on fresh revelation is truly disturbing. Consider, for example, the massive
sales achieved by the Jesus Calling books, written by Sarah Young.
They could more aptly be entitled Demon Calling. Naïve and undiscerning
Christians are refusing to consider the possibility that one or more of
the countless fallen angels who work for Satan could be the source of these
messages. Mediums and psychics channel such poison on a regular basis.

Many sincere believers
are truly confused over this issue. They believe that God must speak to
us today as He spoke to the prophets of old, but they are mistaken.
They forget that believers are described as priests, not prophets.
It is our task and privilege to propagate and expound the incredible wealth
of truth that has already been revealed. We are not to try to add
to it in any way (if that were possible). Indeed the Bible expressly warns
that anyone who tries to do this will be severely punished (Revelation 22
and Deuteronomy 4).

 

The
Word of God contains everything we need for our edification, sanctification,
and service to God. “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.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Note the words “perfect” and
“all good works.”

 

So who benefits when anything
– anything! – is added to Scripture or treated as fresh revelation? The
answer ought to be obvious – Satan and the countless false prophets who
serve him.

 

Those
who love Him know that God speaks to us today
through His written
Word by
the power of the Holy Spirit.

His Word is as true, alive,
relevant and sufficient in our ‘modern’ world as it was when it was first
recorded. Truth doesn’t change. The Holy Spirit ensures that all believers
benefit in full from this heavenly bounty. Christ promised that this would
be so: “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth” (John 16:13). So when professing Christians turn
to extra-Biblical revelation of any kind, they are rejecting the promise
that Christ made and trusting instead in sweet-sounding words from another
source.

 

9. The Heresy of Contemplative Spirituality

 

The doctrine
of Contemplative Spirituality teaches that man can get closer to God by
using a range of prayer-like techniques – meditative, contemplative, and
imaginative – that will enable him to bypass the limitations of his human
faculties and enter an altered state of consciousness.

 

This
is a fairly new heresy, having grown substantially in popularity only in
the last fifteen years or so. Based on the Catholic monastic tradition,
it employs a range of techniques very similar to those used by the early
monks and mystics to enter a trance-like state and ‘experience’ God. These
techniques were intended to empty the mind and take the practitioner beyond
traditional prayer into a two-way communication with God.

 

Traditional
prayer was seen primarily as a vehicle for praising and worshipping God,
for confessing sin and petitioning our wonderful Creator. Contemplative
prayer, on the other hand, was intended to go further, to be more experiential
and allow the practitioner to actually hear the living whisper of God in
the depths of his soul.

 

To its advocates, contemplative prayer is more real and immediate than traditional
prayer, a kind of silent dialogue with God that transcends the intellect
and admits the practitioner into a realm of spirituality that would otherwise
remain inaccessible.

 

Alas,
contemplative prayer has no Biblical basis whatever. There is not a single
occasion anywhere in Scripture where a righteous person empties his mind
and enters an altered state of consciousness in order to commune with God.

 

One of
the most frequently cited scriptures in support of contemplative prayer
is Psalm 46:10 – “Be still, and know that I am God.” But this claim is mischievous
since Psalm 46 is about the End Time tribulation and the Second Coming of
Christ. It has nothing whatever to do with contemplative prayer. The Psalm
describes the war and desolation, upheaval and trauma, that will fatally
disfigure the earth prior to the momentous return of Christ to reign forever
as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will immediately cause all war and
strife to cease – “Be still, and know that I am God!” Everyone on earth
will bow before him and acknowledge his sovereignty. As the Psalmist says,
“He will be exalted among the heathen; he will be exalted in the earth.”

 

Evangelicals are being lured into
a terrible trap when they embrace contemplative spirituality and try to
follow the path of the Roman Catholic mystics. They are foolishly assuming
that the monks of the first millennium were born-again Christians – rather
than Christianized pagans – and that their methods and experiences were
scriptural and God-ordained. 

 

Their
so-called transcendental encounters and infusions of bliss are portrayed
as genuine expressions of the Holy Spirit, when in reality they are nothing
but a product of the mystical psychology that is common to all religions.
In their essentials they differ little from the “inner experiences” reported
for centuries by the hermits and ascetics, gurus and mystics, yogis and
rishis of the Middle East, India and Asia. In their relentless quest for
enlightenment and ‘god-realization’, they too sank daily into long hours
of formal meditation, mindless introspection and repetitive prayer, vainly
pursuing a goal that no man can ever attain.    

 

When believers turn to contemplative spirituality to
‘rediscover’ true Christianity, they are being exceedingly foolish. Instead
of ancient practices grounded in Biblical truth, they are finding and assimilating
the same Gnostic apostasy and Babylonian magic that have characterized Rome
from the earliest times.

 

Contemplative Spirituality invariably
leads the practitioner into Mysticism. Even though he may have set out initially
to find a ‘deeper’ form of prayer, he is employing methods and techniques
which by their very nature engender a mystical mindset. Evangelicals don’t
seem to understand this. If they took the time to examine the lives of the
most admired Catholic contemplatives, they would see that every one of them,
without exception, fell headlong into mysticism.

 

The popular
magazine, Christianity Today – which pretends to be Evangelical
– consistently promotes Roman Catholic heresies and beliefs. The level of
discernment among mainstream Evangelicals is so abysmal that they fail to
recognize its blatantly interfaith-ecumenical agenda. It has been especially
strong in promoting contemplative spirituality and the Catholic monastic
tradition. Among the many unbiblical authors it has cited with approbation
are Henri Nouwen (a Roman Catholic priest), Brennan Manning (a Roman Catholic
priest), Thomas Merton (Roman Catholic priest), Richard Rohr (Roman Catholic
priest), Ignatius Loyola (Jesuit), Thomas à Kempis
(Roman Catholic cleric), Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic mystic), Teresa
of Avila (Roman Catholic mystic), G K Chesterton (Roman Catholic apologist),
and Richard Foster (a Quaker theologian).

 

The magazine
also gives positive coverage on a regular basis to Emerging Church leaders
who applaud these apostate authors, including Rob Bell, Tony Campolo, Mark
Driscoll, Tony Jones, Dan Kimball, Brian McLaren, Erwin McManus, Beth Moore,
Donald Miller, Doug Pagitt, Robert Schuller, Chuck Swindoll, Dallas Willard,
and William Young.  

 

The strategy
that they are using is really quite clever. Rather than trying to convince
Evangelicals that Catholic contemplative prayer is the best form of prayer,
they have opted instead to convince them that the most spiritually aware
of the early Christians employed it regularly. The argument runs as follows:  

 

Catholics of the first millennium were Christian within
the evangelical meaning of the term. Many of them were monks who lived in
remote places, like the so-called Desert Fathers, or in a monastic environment,
like the Benedictine monks. They developed the practice of Christian prayer
to a high degree, but their knowledge was not widely disseminated. The giants
of the Reformation later lost sight of it entirely. As a result Evangelicals
today are bereft of this essential dimension of true Christian spirituality
and would benefit enormously if they introduced it into their lives.

 

A good
trick indeed, but utterly deceitful!

 

The reality is that these early monks and hermits had already departed from
the clear teaching of the Bible on prayer and worship and had adopted instead
a range of practices that either conflicted with the Word of God or had
no scriptural basis whatever. As we have seen, most of these were drawn from pagan traditions and
included prolonged repetitive prayer,
excessive fasting, harmful asceticism, hymnal chanting, necromancy,
goddess worship, idolatry, prayer walking, vows of celibacy, and sacramental
rites. By promoting self-hypnosis, mental conditioning, and even nervous
exhaustion, these practices took the individual beyond his rational mind
into a state of great sensitivity and exposure to supernatural influences.
They were not much different from the methods employed by Buddhist monks
and Hindu ascetics to induce an altered state of consciousness. When the
Catholic monk Thomas Merton travelled to Thailand in 1968 to meet his Eastern
counterparts, he was delighted to confirm that their experiences were nearly
identical to his own.

 

Walking the Labyrinth:   Yet another pagan practice being promoted by the Roman Catholic Church.

The
tragedy, of course, is that many of these men did succeed in contacting
the supernatural realm, but it was not the realm of the Living God. The
awful truth is that the god of the pagan religions and the god of the Catholic
mystics is the same supernatural being – the angel of light known as Lucifer.

 As
the Bible says, “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light.” (2 Corinthians 11:14) He can exploit this powerful supernatural
ability to beguile his subjects and draw them further into his net. When
he chooses to use it, the brilliance of his light can be overwhelming and
intensely addictive.

 

Alas,
no one by emptying his mind can outwit Satan!

 

Both
for his edification and for his protection, every Christian should fill
his heart and mind at all times with the Word of God – “Thy word have I
hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.” (Psalm 119:11) 

 

Even
a cursory examination of the writings of such leading Catholic mystics as
Thomas Merton, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross will reveal that the
Bible played only a very minor role in their understanding of God’s will
and purpose. One finds scarcely any evidence that their inner lives were
directed by Scripture. On the rare occasions when they did quote from Scripture,
it was usually to bolster a doctrine or a belief that they had already established
from another source. The writings of Thomas Merton have probably had the greatest influence on the modern contemplative movement, yet he exhibits
a far greater interest in, knowledge of, and dependency upon the writings
of other mystics and mystical philosophers than he does on the Bible. In many respects Merton was no nearer
to Christianity than the Buddhist monks whom he greatly admired.

 

To make matters worse (if that
were possible), the undiscerning Evangelicals who imbibe this patently unbiblical
propaganda do not seem to realize that the Catholic mystics were also goddess
worshippers. They prayed in veneration and supplication to the Virgin Mary,
the Queen of Heaven, the All-Holy Mediatrix. The Catholic Catechism contains
copious evidence that Rome regards Mary as a Co-mediator with the Father,
a Co-redeemer with Christ, and a Co-worker with the Holy Spirit. Merton
had a vision of her as a young adult and yearned for years to meet her again.
This craving for ecstatic union with the goddess is very common among contemplatives
of all religions and a disturbing symptom of the dark deception that has
enslaved them.

 

10. The Heresy of Universalism

 

Nearly
all apostate movements in Christianity today are deeply resistant to the
concept of hell, a place of continual fiery judgment where unrepentant sinners
are justly consigned for eternity. The leaders of these movements express
their resistance by ignoring the concept of hell entirely, by rejecting
it outright, or by making it applicable only to the most wicked individuals
but certainly not “ordinary people.”

 

This
heresy is very closely related to the teaching that ‘God is love’, which
in practice is really a shorthand for ‘God is love and love only and would
never condemn anyone to hell.’

 

Universalism
is the reverse side of the ‘no hell’ coin. If there is no hell, then everyone
goes to heaven eventually. And if everyone goes to heaven eventually, then
there is no hell.

 

The champions
of this doctrine believe that the Living God, by some mysterious means not
revealed in the Bible, has provided for the salvation of all souls, with
the possible exception of the most wicked and depraved. They teach that
all who strive to live an ethical life, regardless of whether or not they
have come to a saving faith in Christ, are spiritually connected with him
through their righteous deeds and good intentions.

“They cling to the first part of the following verse but ignore the second:
“The LORD is…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

The Universalist
heresy exploits the fact that, in our fallen state, we find it almost impossible
to understand the depth and purity of God’s holiness. To perceive even a
small part of His holiness is to acknowledge the corresponding wretchedness
of our own spiritual condition and thus the absolute need for repentance.
On the contrary, man is determined to find some good in himself,
even though the Bible clearly teaches that there is none. Even the best
of the best among the masses of humanity are fatally polluted by sin.

 

The Universalist
heresy is closely related to what followers of the New Age call God’s unconditional
love. Selected passages are lifted from Scripture to demonstrate that God
is exclusively a God of love. And since he is a Being of unlimited capacity,
his love must be unconditional. This means it could never have been his
intention, when he created man, to allow even one person to end up in hell.
Perhaps some incorrigible individuals will have to endure a period of temporary
punishment – in a place similar to the Roman Catholic purgatory – but even
they will pay off their sin debt eventually and join the rest of humanity
in heaven.

 

This
is an incredibly powerful deception. It seems to offer a perfect solution
to the problem of sin, not through repentance and faith in the redeeming
blood of Christ, but through a process of progressive sanctification
based on the individual’s good works. But if this is true then the traditional
concept of sin and those who promote it – those irritating born-again Evangelicals
– must be wrong. 

 

The old-time
Bible preachers taught that God hates sin and that only those who are born
again will be saved. To be born again means to undergo a sudden and complete
transformation through heartfelt repentance and genuine faith in the saving
blood of Christ. However, the universalists argue that the old-timers defined
this principle far too narrowly. They greatly over-emphasized God’s condemnation
of sin and paid not nearly enough attention to the unlimited bounty of His
unconditional love.

 

The universalists
contend that the traditional view was not only misconceived but intolerant
and possibly even harmful. God made us to be happy, to live life to the
full, and to rejoice in the great love that He has for us.

 

Some
are even taking this argument a step further and stating that, since everyone
will be saved eventually, then all religions must worship the same God.
How could it be otherwise? And if this is the case then no religion should
claim to be the only source of truth. When Christian Fundamentalists make
such claims they are acting contrary to the message of love that Christ
brought to the world and are even contributing to a climate of bigotry and
intolerance. The real Christians are those who are broad-minded enough to
accept their brothers and sisters in other religions and to co-operate with
them in building a better world for all, just as Christ intended. 

All of this is pure hokum of course, but it carries weight in an age where
so many professing Christians are guided far more by experience than by
Scripture, who are rapidly adopting New Age ideas, and who believe in the
‘modernising’ of traditional Biblical theology in order to meet the needs
of a changing world.

It never
occurs to them that God’s Word is truth, that truth is unchanging, and that
Jesus Christ is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Hebrews 8:13)
The Bible is perfect just as it is, and so are each and every one of the
traditional doctrines of Evangelical Christianity.

 

  The substitutionary atonement of Christ is probably the core doctrine of Christianity. It teaches that Christ died
in our place in order to atone in full for our sins. As leading
evangelical scholars have taught down the centuries, to modify or dilute
this doctrine in any way is to reject true Biblical Christianity. For example,
Rome teaches that Christ did not atone in full for our sins but must
be subjected to death again and again in the Catholic sacrifice of
the mass. She also teaches that man through his good works participates
in his own atonement.

 

Had any
alternative means of salvation been available to the Father He would have
chosen it above the agonising death of his Son. So, when Universalists contend
that men can receive this gift without repentance and without faith, indeed
without even hearing the gospel, they are rejecting the substitutionary
atonement of Christ. They are rejecting the basic truth that salvation is
obtained through grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone. Without this
it is impossible to be born again and to live thereafter in a personal relationship
with Christ. This is why Jesus made the following startling and decisive
statement in his sermon on the mount:

 “Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matthew
7:21-23)

 Is
it possible to hear words more shocking or more painful? – “I never knew
you: depart from me…”

 

To the
Universalist, the voluntary sacrifice by our Savior on the cross is seen
as an exemplary act, a visible expression of the selflessness of Christ
and of the immense love that God has for all mankind. But it is not seen
as a necessary act without which the whole of mankind would
be cast forever into outer darkness.

 

 The
substitutionary atonement of Christ did not simply bring us closer to God
or ameliorate our spiritual condition or teach a sublime truth. Rather,
it saved us from eternal damnation. And if you do not believe
with all your heart that Christ did this for you – that he willingly paid
your entire sin debt for you – and that his sacrifice was absolutely essential
for your salvation, then you are lost.

 

Eternal separation from God is
an alarming reality. It can only be described as a living hell. Thus to
deny the doctrine of hell is to render superfluous the incredible sacrifice
that Christ made for each one of us on the cross.

 

In short, to reject the doctrine
of hell is to reject the Gospel. When one considers the large and ever-growing
proportion of professing Christians who no longer accept the reality of
hell and eternal damnation, it is obvious that a great many churches today
are filled with false converts.

 

11. The Heresy of Mysticism

 

Mysticism is predicated on the
belief that man is a little god (a concept sometimes known by the technical
term anthropotheism) and that God himself permeates everything (a
belief known as panentheism). Together they constitute the two great
pillars of paganism and are Luciferian to the core.

 

Don’t be put off by these fancy
words, anthropotheism and panentheism – the ideas behind them are extremely
simple, like many of Satan’s most successful lies.

 

Panentheism should not be confused
with the better known term, pantheism – the belief that God
is everything. Rather, panentheism states that God fills everything, like a cosmic energy interpenetrating all of
space, matter and time. Followers of the New Age movement describe this
as the Cosmic Intelligence, while practitioners of magic and witchcraft refer to it as The Force. For metaphysical ‘Christians’ like Chuck Missler,
it is the Holographic Universe.

 

These twin heresies, anthropotheism
and panentheism, underpin Christian Mysticism. Since God is said to permeate
everything, then he is substantially and immediately present in each and
every person. Accordingly, since God is already within us, we should be
able to communicate with Him directly – and engage in a living dialogue
with Him – by entering the silent depths of our innermost being. This is
similar to the principle of Contemplative Spirituality, which we have already
discussed, but it goes much further by identifying this interior
journey with salvation itself.

 

To the mystic, the average man
is a little child who has not yet realized his own divinity. He is constantly
distracted by the world of external sensations and has neither the motivation
nor the self-discipline to go within and find God. The mystic, on the other
hand, has fostered an intense devotion to the goal of illumination and,
through the steady application of ancient contemplative techniques, is proceeding
on an inward journey that will one day culminate in a direct existential
encounter with God. 

 

Defenders of this heresy like
to quote Luke 17:20-21 in support of their view that God is within us: “The
kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here!
or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” But they are
guilty of a serious error of interpretation since Jesus, in addressing the
Jews, was not saying God is within you but rather that the kingdom of God is
among you (or in your midst).

 

John the Baptist had already alerted the Jews
to this remarkable fact when he urged them to “Repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 3:2) Jesus himself preached exactly the same
message at the start of his ministry: “From that time Jesus began to preach,
and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17)
When Jesus made the statement about the kingdom
in Luke 17, he – the King – was already in their midst and the kingdom
that he had come to inaugurate was at hand, if only the nation of Israel
would accept it.

 

The advocates of mysticism also
like to point to another statement by Jesus in support of their view that
man is a god:

 

“The Jews answered
him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because
that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it
not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods,
unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say
ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou
blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works
of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe
the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and
I in him.” (John 10:33-38)

 

Many sincere students of the Word
fail to see that Jesus is using irony here. The Pharisees would have known
this since he was referring to two key passages in the Old Testament – from
Psalm 82 and Isaiah 41 – where the LORD used irony to rebuke men for thinking
they were gods. The word for ‘gods’ in these passages was elohim,
which can mean either ‘divinity’ or ‘judges’ and ‘rulers’. The Pharisees
were rulers and judges, representatives of God on earth, but they were certainly
not gods. Had they been righteous rulers and judges, as God requires
of His representatives, they would have understood Scripture, “which cannot
be broken”, and would have known that the claim made by Jesus was well founded. 

 

Psalm 82:5-7 states: “They
know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the
foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods;
and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men,
and fall like one of the princes.” The theme of this Psalm is the correct
administration of justice and men’s failure to rule justly. In their wickedness,
through their exercise of a god-given function – the role of magistrate
– they think they are gods, when in reality they will die like men. It is
significant in this regard that the Father has delegated to Christ the task
of judging the entire earth – “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed
all judgment unto the Son” (John 5:22). Thus only one judge will be divine
and that Judge is Christ.

 

The passage from Isaiah employs a similar tone of irony
in its rebuke:

 

“Let them bring
them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things,
what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
or declare us things for to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter,
that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may
be dismayed, and behold it together. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your
work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.” (Isaiah 41:22-24)

 

If they were gods they would know
the past and the future and would possess all knowledge. But when they are
challenged by the LORD to give evidence of their divine stature, they can’t.
In reality, they are pathetic – “Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work
of nought”!

 

The Bible never teaches
that the kingdom of God is within you. It never teaches that you are God
or any part of God or that you will ever become God or any part of God.
You are not divine in any sense whatever but a created being only, and
will remain forever a created being. The mystics, however, take an entirely
different view. They teach – in line with Hinduism, Buddhism and a host
of cults and sects – that man in his essence is a divine spark and that
his task here on earth is to connect that spark with the Godhead. The mystics
believe they have found a way to complete this task and cite many dazzling
experiences in the ‘light’ as proof of their success.

 

The sad reality is that the mystics
– every one of them, including the Roman Catholic mystics – have been completely
deceived by Satan.

 

Christ taught very plainly that
the Father is utterly inaccessible to man except through him: “All
things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son
is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom
the Son will reveal him.” (Luke 10:22)

 

There is absolutely no mysticism
of any kind among true believers. It is impossible to experience God directly
until Christ returns and establishes the Kingdom, for “in him dwelleth all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9).  

As the prophet proclaimed, the true believer waits
for the Lord: “And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him” (Isaiah 25:9). By the words “in that day” Isaiah
is referring to the second coming of Christ.

 

Consider also the exhortations
in the letters to the Thessalonians:

 

“…and how ye turned
to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his
Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered
us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:9-10).

 

“And we have confidence
in the Lord concerning you, that ye both do and will do the things which
we command you. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.”
(2 Thess. 3:4-5)

 

As we noted in the section on
Contemplative Prayer, the mystics are often ‘rewarded’ for their efforts
with an inner light or a blissful, albeit temporary, state of deep tranquility.
But these are devious enticements to keep them in the game. Satan has the
power to infuse his ‘light’ into the minds of those who are foolish enough
to invite him in. But it is a counterfeit spirituality, a dead ‘light’ having
no goodness whatever. As Christ warned, “If therefore the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:23)

 

Through his ‘light’ persona Satan
is also making himself known to the world at large through the so-called
Marian apparitions, where he appears to children as a beautiful and beguiling
woman. While pretending to be the Virgin Mary, he fills their tender minds
with lies designed to lure the community in which they live into a fatal
fascination with the supernatural. These apparitions are occurring with
greater frequency, not only in so-called Christian countries but in countries
that are not even nominally Christian.

 

This campaign by the fallen angels to lure humanity into
their thrall is gaining momentum and looks certain to play a major role
in the unfolding End Time deception.

 

Since man could never become God,
God became man. By adding a human nature to his divine nature, He made it
possible for men, through faith and repentance, to enter into His presence.
By his sinless sacrifice on the cross, Christ defeated death and repaid
our sin debt for us. In so doing he freed us from the power of Satan.

 

This is a joyful and overwhelming
reality for all who are saved … but not for the mystics. To them, Christ
is not so much the way as a guide along the way, a kind of ascended master.
In their philosophy, it is up to man to experience the way for himself,
to brave the hidden dangers – such as the so-called “dark night of the soul”
– that await all who set out to experience the Godhead and tackle the successive
stages of “ascent” through “the interior castle”. But none of this is scriptural.
None of it is consistent with the Gospel or the positional reality enjoyed
by all who are born again in Christ.

 

It is typical, however,
of the psychological encounters and emotional battles fought by shamans,
yogis, and New Age gurus. Buddhist monks and the so-called masters of Zen
meditation report very similar experiences. And all of them – without exception
– are dead in trespasses and sins, without the salvation that is found only
in Christ. Their experiences, dazzling though they may be, are grounded
wholly in a demonic source.

 

Catholic mystics like Teresa of
Avila, John of the Cross and Thomas Merton gave lip-service to Christ. Their
approach to God was completely unscriptural, a man-made plan of redemption,
and sinful in the extreme. The god of the mystics is not the LORD God of
the Bible but a Satanic counterfeit. They were utterly deceived and anyone
today who adopts their ways will pay a terrible price.

 

Evangelicals who want the perceived
benefits of contemplative prayer, or Christian meditation as it is
sometimes called, and who model their methods on mystics like St Francis
of Assisi or Thomas Merton, really need to ask themselves some very hard
questions. Francis had the stigmata, while Merton had visions of the Virgin
Mary. Remember the words of Christ: “A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” (Matthew 7:18)
So why would any true believer want to eat from a tree that brings forth
evil fruit? Marian apparitions are the work of the Enemy. So too is the
stigmata, the wounds (supernaturally-induced ) in the hands and feet of
certain Catholic mystics that are supposed to enable them to share in the
suffering of Christ. This is appalling blasphemy, but to the mystics, in
their dark delusions, it is a badge of great honor and distinction.  

 

As we have already noted,
contemplative spirituality is a stepping stone to experiential mysticism.
Centering prayer, walking the labyrinth, lectio divina and other
Roman Catholic practices are increasingly being adopted by Evangelicals
in the naïve belief that they will deepen their spirituality. But they are
gravely mistaken.

 

They are designed by the Enemy to sedate one’s mind and
induce a state of mild hypnosis. The more often they are practiced, the
more quickly they produce an altered state of consciousness. When this happens
– and it is very subtle – one’s mind becomes incapable of functioning in
a discerning and sober manner as the Bible requires.

 

What
is more, these practices constitute a tacit admission that the Word of God
is not sufficient for our spiritual needs, that we want something more and
we want it now. They can thus serve as a silent invitation to invisible
forces.

 

Once the practitioner has entered an altered state of consciousness
he is more receptive to irrational or intuitive influences and will absorb
thoughts and impressions from virtually any source. He may even have an
“experience” which he identifies with “God” and will re-double his efforts
in order to have it again. So he spends more and more time in contemplative
prayer and repetitive, mind-numbing monastic practices, trying to regain
his mystical experience.

 

This is
one of the ways demonic deception works. Before long
he has abandoned the Bible entirely (apart from a few favorite verses) and
is guided almost exclusively by the writings of the mystics and their modern
counterparts.  

 

Mysticism
is the crowning capstone on the Pyramid of Lies and a sure road to self-destruction.
If left unchecked, it will eventually turn Christians everywhere into introspective
dreamers and erase all denominational distinctions. Catholicism, ecumenism,
and universalism will merge with New Evangelicalism and the Emerging Church
to form a supernatural supermarket, a mystic bazaar where everyone can find
a brand of spirituality that suits their taste. The stage will then be set
for the arrival of the Antichrist.

 

Your
Two Deadly Weapons

If you are a born-again Christian,
you have two deadly weapons at your disposal, namely prayer and Scripture,
and Satan fears them both. Indeed, they would appear to be the only things
that he fears. Both connect us in a special way with our heavenly Father
and place insuperable barriers in Satan’s path. But we must use them!

 

The Pyramid of Lies is designed
to induce believers to voluntarily set aside their two deadly weapons. Generally
speaking they cannot be taken from us by force, but we can be tricked into
laying them down or accepting ineffectual substitutes.

 

The following table illustrates
how this works.

 

Heresy / Lie	Effect	Target
1. Replacement Theology	Removes large parts of the Bible by converting them into allegory.	Bible
2. Evolution	Makes God so remote and so distant that He is hardly likely to hear our prayers.	Prayer
3. Spirit-is-Power	Makes prayer unnecessary since man is able to manifest supernatural phenomena.	Prayer
4. Non-Judgmentalism	Demeans the Bible by making it subject to human opinion and social acceptance.	Bible
5. Faith-is-Power	Makes prayer unnecessary since man is able to manifest supernatural phenomena.	Prayer
6. Interfaith-Ecumenism	Demeans the Bible by treating it as one of many possible expressions of truth.	Bible
7. Dominionism	Makes prayer unnecessary since man is able of himself to bring in the Kingdom.	Prayer
8. Extra-Biblical Revelation	Demeans the Bible by treating it as an incomplete or dated expression of truth.	Bible
9. Contemplative Spirituality	Replaces Biblical prayer with a manmade counterfeit.	Prayer
10. Universalism	Succeeds in making both the Bible and prayer irrelevant.	Bible and Prayer
11. Mysticism	Makes Bible unnecessary since man is able to receive direct revelation. Makes prayer unnecessary since man has passed the stage where prayer is needed.	Bible and Prayer

 

The Pyramidal lies attack the
Bible in six different ways and Prayer in seven! This shows the strategic
purpose behind the lies and the rationale for their selection. They serve
Satan’s goals extremely well by inducing Christians to lessen their reliance
on the only weapons they have!  

 

The
Pyramid and Satan’s Lies in the Garden

Given that Satan is capable of
generating an almost limitless variety of lies and distortions, it may seem
surprising that the eleven heresies outlined in this paper should play such
a central role in his overall plan. But, as the Preacher says, “The
thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is
that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes
1:9)

 

The chart below gives a dramatic illustration of this.
Each of the eleven Pyramidal lies fits neatly into the template established
by Satan in the Garden:

 

“yea, hath God said?” 

(Genesis 3:1)

“…knowing good and evil” 
(Genesis 3:5)

“ye shall not surely die” 
(Genesis 3:4)

“ye shall be as gods” 

(Genesis 3:5)

 

How Satan’s Four Lies in the Garden relate to the Pyramidal Lies
“yea, hath God said?” (Genesis 3:1)	#1 Replacement Theology	Rejection of what God said.
	#2 Evolution	Rejection of what God said.
“…knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5)	#4 Non-Judgmentalism	Truth is relative to the individual.
	#8 Extra-Biblical Revelation	Adding to the word of God.
“ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4)	#6 Interfaith-Ecumenism	All religions have truth, therefore all are saved.
	#10 Universalism	No damnation and therefore no death.
“ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5)	#3 Spirit-is-Power	The divine power to control the cosmic spirit.
	#5 Faith-is-Power	The divine power to mould one’s universe.
	#7 Dominionism	The divine power to bring in the Kingdom
	#9 Contemplative Spirituality	Sharing in God’s holiness by entering His presence.
	#11 Mysticism	The realization of one’s own divinity.

 

The Word of God records the four
lies in the Garden, the very lies that led to the Fall and destroyed man’s
relationship with his Creator. Thus they must express something truly significant
about the strategy that Satan has been using for the past six thousand years.
The Pyramid is merely an elaboration of that strategy.

 

The lies are deep and widespread…

The Pyramidal
lies have been working their way through the various branches of Christianity
for a very long time. As each takes root, it prepares the ground for the
next one. Thus the pace of acceptance has accelerated. More have been adopted
in the past half century than in the three centuries before that.

 

Now that
Mysticism, the mother of all lies, has appeared on the scene, we can expect
it to add synergy to its predecessors. Apostasy will accelerate and all
who oppose it will be brushed aside.

  The following chart attempts to identify the main denominations
that have accepted, or are demonstrably in sympathy with, each of the lies.
Naturally, the more a church has been infiltrated or infested by heresy,
the less likely it is to preach the fundamentals of the Gospel. While this
may vary from place to place, from church to church and from pastor to pastor,
the chart reveals an overall trend that is deeply disturbing. It would suggest
that within 15-20 years it will be extremely difficult to find a church
anywhere in the world where the pure Word of God is being soundly and consistently
taught.

 

How the
lies are taking root in certain denominations

 

	New Apostolic Reformation	Word of Faith	Purpose Driven	Emerging Church	Charismatic/  Pentecostal (*)	Reformed
Replacement Theology	l	l	l	l	?	l
Evolution/ID	?	?	l	l	?	l
Spirit-is-Power	l	l			l
Non-Judgmentalism	l	l	l	l	l	l
Faith-is-Power	?	l			?
Interfaith-Ecumenism	?	?	l	l	l	l
Dominionism	l		l	l
Extra-Biblical Revelation	l				l
Contemplative Spirituality			l	l	?	l
Universalism				l
Mysticism	?			?

 

      
*       
It can be difficult
to determine exactly what Pentecostals and Charismatics actually believe
since so many of them view Biblical scholarship as a barrier to spirituality.
This in itself is a source of great compromise and confusion.

 

…
and the wolves are ravenous

The standard
of discernment in the church today is so deplorable that some of the wolves
don’t even bother to dress like sheep. A seemingly deranged man, covered
in tattoos, can prance around the stage, kicking old ladies, and be deemed
a prophet by his followers. Then a group of self-anointed ‘apostles’ can
come along and, in a blasphemous public spectacle, anoint him in turn. It
defies belief.

 

As bizarre
as their conduct may be, the wolves in this category are probably not as
dangerous as the ones who, with sweet humility and saintly demeanor, preach
98% of God’s Holy Word. They know that few of their undiscerning listeners
will notice the difference and fewer still will detect the pagan or occult
nature of the doctrines they are teaching, often in the guise of Biblical
scholarship and enlightened exegesis.

 

 Most
‘Christian’ television is a parody of true Christianity, a kind of freak
show. But today’s ‘believers’ are largely indifferent to this kind of thing.
If someone dumped a truck-load of manure on their front lawn, they would
“think positive” and plant roses. They are so keen to see the best in everything
that they ignore the evil which they ought to condemn.

 

“Ye that
love the LORD, hate evil” (Psalm 97:10), but they don’t hate evil. Why?
Because they don’t love the LORD.

 

“The
fear of the LORD is to hate evil” (Proverbs 8:13), but they don’t fear the
LORD.

 

When
men neither love nor fear the LORD, they lose all Biblical discernment –
and the false prophets exploit this with ruthless satisfaction. They will
even work together like wolves in a pack to round up and corral their intended
victims.

 

Once
the capstone of mysticism has been set firmly in place on Satan’s pyramid
of lies, the global company of wolves will enjoy a terrible feast.

 

Principal Conclusions

Given
the evidence examined in this paper, and the baleful trend that we are witnessing
today as the church sinks further into apostasy, the following conclusions
would appear to be warranted:

 

1. The church worldwide is under systematic attack.

2. The attack has been under way for some time.

3. The wolves are increasing in number and skill.

4. The lies being taught are interconnected.

5. The attack is both planned and co-ordinated.

6. The Catholic Church is deeply involved in this attack.

7. Most born-again Christians are largely unaware of the
danger.

8. Many of those who are aware of the danger are
confused.

9. The pace of apostasy is accelerating.

 10. The church will likely break in two in 20-25
years.

 11. The small born-again remnant will be pressed
to convert.

 12. The active persecution of the remnant will
then commence.

APPENDIX  A

  A
Short Definition of the Eleven Heresies

 

Replacement Theology	The belief that the church has appropriated all of the promises that God made to the children of Israel and that Israel has no further distinctive role in God’s plan.
Evolution	The belief that all life evolved over millions of years through purely random chemical and biological processes.
Spirit-is-Power	The belief that every believer should be able to manifest the same signs and wonders that the Apostles performed after Pentecost.
Non-Judgmentalism	The belief that no Christian has the right to judge another, except possibly in relation to doctrines critical to salvation.
Faith-is-Power	The belief that faith is itself a power than the believer can use to improve his life and receive supernatural blessings.
Interfaith-Ecumenism	The belief that all professing Christians are of equal standing in God’s eyes and that denominational distinctions are harming the church.
Dominionism	The belief that the church is empowered and commissioned by God  to bring in the Kingdom for and on behalf of Christ.
Extra-Biblical Revelation	The belief that God still speaks fresh revelation today into the hearts of selected or anointed individuals.
Contemplative Spirituality	The belief that man can have a dialogue with God by finding within himself the great silence where He supposedly dwells.
Universalism	The belief that all who live an ethical life, regardless of whether they have heard or accepted the Gospel, will be saved eventually.
Mysticism	The belief that man has within himself a divine essence that allows him to have direct personal experience of God.

 APPENDIX
B

 

49 Biblical References to Jerusalem
City of David		2 Samuel 5:7	The City of the LORD			Psalm 101:8
Zion”		2 Samuel 5:7	The City of the LORD of Hosts			Psalm 48:8
“The Holy City		Nehemiah 11:1	Crown of Glory			Isaiah 62:3
The City of God		Psalms 46:4	Royal Diadem			Isaiah 62:3
The City of Righteousness		Isaiah 1:26	The Gate of My People			Micah 1:9
City of Truth		Zechariah 8:3	Great among the Nations			Lam. 1:1
The Joy of the Whole Earth		Psalm 48:2	Princess among the Provinces			Lam. 1:1
Ariel (“The Lion of God”)		Isaiah 29:1	My Holy Mountain			Ezekiel 20:40
Joyous City		Isaiah 22:2	Holy unto the LORD			Jeremiah 31:40
Rock of the Plain		Jeremiah 21:13	The House of the God of Jacob			Isaiah 2:3
The City of the Great King		Psalm 48:2	The House of the LORD			Psalm 27:4
Hephzibah (“My delight is in her”)		Isaiah 62:4	The Zion of the Holy One of Israel			Isaiah 60:14
Beulah (“Married”)		Isaiah 62:4	The Mount of the Congregation			Isaiah 14:13
The Holy Mountain		Zechariah 8:3	The Mountain where God desires to Dwell			Psalm 68:16
The Mountain of the LORD of Hosts		Zechariah 8:3	The Perfection of Beauty			Psalm 50:2
The Glorious Holy Mountain		Daniel 11:45	The Beauty of Israel			Lam. 2:1
The Beloved City		Revelation 20:9	O Tower of the Flock			Micah 4:8
The Faithful City		Isaiah 1:26	The Stronghold of the Daughter of Zion			Micah 4:8
The City called by Thy Name		Daniel 9:18	The Throne of the LORD			Jeremiah 3:17
City of Rejoicing		Zephaniah 2:15	Exceedingly Beautiful			Ezekiel 16:13
The City of Judah		2 Chron. 25:28	The LORD Our Righteousness			Jeremiah 33:16 *
A Quiet Habitation		Isaiah 33:20	The Mountain of His Holiness			Psalm 48:1
The City of Our Holy Feasts		Isaiah 33:20	The City of Our God			Psalm 48:1
	The Place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts			Isaiah 18:7
	Holy Place of the Tabernacles of the Most High			Psalm 46:4
	Yahweh Shammah – “The Lord is There”			Ezekiel 48:35

 *
‘The LORD Our Righteousness’ is also given as a name for the Messiah in
Jeremiah 23:6

 

APPENDIX  C

 Authors
whose teachings conflict with Biblical Christianity

 

Note: This list is merely a
sample of the authors whose writings endorse a contemplative, ecumenical,
universalist, psychological, mystical, pagan, or occult interpretation of
Christianity and yet are widely promoted in ‘Christian’ bookstores as literature
consistent with traditional Evangelical beliefs.

 

Che Ahn John Avanzini Teresa of Avila Todd Bentley Rob Bell Mike Bickle Ken Blanchard Reinhard Bonnke Marcus Borg William Branham Rodney Howard Browne Jonathan Cahn Paul Cain Tony Campolo Charles Capps Morris Cerullo David Paul Yonggi Cho Kim Clement Kenneth Copeland Larry Crabb John of the Cross Paul Crouch Finis Jennings Dake Jack Deere Anthony de Mello James Dobson Creflo Dollar Mark Driscoll Jessie Duplantis Meister Eckhart Tilden Edwards Richard Foster Matthew Fox Francis Frangipane Madame Guyon Ted Haggard

Kenneth Hagin Sr Bill Hamon Willis Harman Jack Hayford Marilyn Hickey Benny Hinn Charles & Frances Hunter Bill Hybels Tony Jones Cindy Jacobs T D Jakes Bob Jones Tony Jones Bill Johnson William Johnston S J Rick Joyner Julian of Norwich Thomas Keating Morton Kelsey Thomas à Kempis E W Kenyon Sue Monk Kidd Dan Kimball Brother Lawrence C S Lewis Max Lucado Brennan Manning Brian McLaren Erwin McManus Thomas Merton Joyce Meyer Calvin Miller Donald Miller Beth Moore Myles Munroe Mike Murdock

Bruce & Clyde Narramore Watchman Nee Henri Nouwen John Ortberg Joel Osteen George Otis Jr Doug Pagitt Rod Parsley Earl Paulk Norman Vincent Peale Basil Pennington Eugene Petersen Chuck Pierce Frederick Price Oral Roberts Pat Robertson Richard Rohr John & Paul Sandford Agnes Sanford Robert Schuller William Shannon Dutch Sheets Charles Stanley Perry Stone Lee Strobel Leonard Sweet John Michael Talbot Jeremy Taylor Gary Thomas Jack Van Impe C Peter Wagner Rick Warren Dallas Willard John Wimber Mark Yaconelli Philip Yancey William Paul Young

 

APPENDIX 
D

 

 Works
studied or otherwise consulted in the preparation of this booklet

 Please
note: This is not intended as a list of recommended books
for Christians.

 

 

Ancelet-Hustache,
J                   
Master Eckhart and the Rhineland Mystics, Longmans, London: 1957

Armstrong,
K                               
A History of God, William Heinemann, UK: 1993

          
—-                                                                

Through
the Narrow Gate,
Macmillan: London, 1981

Baer, R                                         
Inside the New Age Nightmare, Huntington House, Louisiana: 1989

Bailey,
A                                      
The Externalization of the Hierarchy, Lucis Publishing: 1957

Baldwin,
M                                  
I Leap Over the Wall, Hamish Hamilton, London: 1949

Bennett,
J G                                 
The Masters of Wisdom, Turnstone Books, UK: 1977

Besant,
A                                     
Esoteric Christianity, Theosophical Publishing House, Illinois: 1901

Blaiklock,
E                                 
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence: 1981

Bro, H H                                       
Edgar Cayce: A Seer Out of Season, Aquarian Press, London: 1990

Brown, R
(tr)                                
The Little Flowers of St Francis, Doubleday, New York: 1958

Bruce, F
F                                     
New Testament History, Doubleday, New York: 1969

Buber, M                                      
I and Thou, T&T Clark, Edinburgh:1970 (1937)

Bucke, R
M                                 
Cosmic Consciousness, Dutton, New York: 1966 (1901)

Butler,
E M                                  
The Myth of the Magus, Cambridge University Press, UK: 1948

Campbell,
J                                  
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Paladin Books, UK: 1988 (1949)

Capra, F                                       
The Tao of Physics, Fontana, UK: 1979 (1975)

Chopra,
D                                    
Quantum Healing, Bantam Books, New York: 1989

Chiniquy,
C                                 
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, London: 1886

Cloud, D                                       
Avoiding the Snare of Seventh Day Adventism, Way of Life, Port Huron:
2008

          
—-                                          
Biblical Separatism and Its Collapse,
Way of Life, Port Huron: 2011

          
—-                                          
New Evangelicalism, Way of Life, Port Huron: 2006

          
—-                                          
What is the Emerging Church?, Way of Life, Port Huron: 2008

Cugno, A                                      
St John of the Cross, Burns and Oates, UK: 1982

Cumbey,
C                                  
The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, Huntington House: 1983

          
—-                                          
A Planned Deception, Pointe Publishers, Michigan: 1985

Cusack,
M F                                
The Black Pope – A History of the Jesuits: 1896

Daniels,
D                                     
Babylon Religion, Chick Publications, Ontario: 2006

David-Neel,
A                              
Initiations and Initiates in Tibet, Rider, London: 1931

          
—-                                                                

Magic and
Mystery in Tibet,
Penguin Books, Baltimore: 1977 (1929)

De Chardin,
T                              
Hymn of the Universe, William Collins, London: 1965

Decker,
Ed & Hunt, D                
The God Makers, Harvest House, Oregon: 1997

Deere, J                                         
Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, Zondervan: 1993

De Rosa,
P                                   
Vicars of Christ, Corgi Books, London: 1989

DeWaay,
B                                  
Redefining Christianity, 21^st Century Press: 2008

Diprose,
R                                    
Israel and the Church, Authentic Media, Georgia: 1998

Eckersley,
G                                 
An Angel at My Shoulder, Rider, London: 1996

Eliade,
M                                      
The Myth of the Eternal Return, Princeton University Press, USA:
1949

Estabrooks,
G H                         
Hypnotism, Museum Press, London: 1959

Evans-Wentz,
W (ed)                 
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Oxford University Press, UK: 1927

          
—-                                          
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, Oxford University Press, UK: 1935

Ferguson,
M                                 
The Aquarian Conspiracy, Putnam, New York: 1980

Foster,
R                                       
Celebration of Discipline, Hodder & Staughton, London: 1989

Frankfort,
H et al                        
Before Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, USA: 1946

Frankl,
V                                      
The Doctor and the Soul, Pelican Books, UK: 1973 (1946)

          
—-                                                                

Man’s Search
for Meaning,
Beacon Press, Boston: 1959 (1946)

Frazer,
J G                                    
The Golden Bough, Chaucer Press, UK: 1978 (1922)

Furlong,
M                                   
Merton: A Biography, William Collins, UK: 1980

Goleman,
D                                 
Meditative Mind, Thorsons, UK: 1996 (1988)

Goswami,
A et al                        
The Self-Aware Universe, Penguin Putnam, New York: 1995

Halifax,
J                                     
Shamanic Voices, Penguin, UK: 1991 (1979)

Hamon, B                                    
Prophets and the Prophetic Movement, Destiny Image Publishers: 1990

Howse, B                                      
Grave Influence, Worldview Weekend Publishing: 2009

          
—-                                          
Religious Trojan Horse, Worldview Weekend Publishing: 2012

Hunt, D                                         
A Cup of Trembling, Harvest House, Oregon: 1995

          
—-                                          
Whatever Happened to Heaven?, Harvest House, Oregon: 1988

Hunt, D
& McMahon, T A        America: The
Sorcerer’s New Apprentice, Harvest House, Oregon: 1998

          
—-                                          
The Seduction of Christianity, Harvest House, Oregon: 1985

Jacobs,
C                                      
The Reformation Manifesto, Bethany House, Minnesota: 2008

James, W                                      
The Varieties of Religious Experience, New York: 1902

Jayakar,
P                                    
J Krishnamurti: A Biography, Penguin Books, India: 1987

Johnson,
A L                               
Faith Misguided, Moody Press: 1988

Jonas, H                                       
The Gnostic Religion, Beacon Press, Boston: 1958

Jung, C G                                      
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Fontana, UK: 1978 (1961)

          
—-                                                                
Psychology and Alchemy,
Princeton University Press, USA: 1980 (1944)

Kaku, M                                       
Hyperspace, Oxford University Press, UK: 1994

Kavanaugh,
K
&
Rodriguez,
O       
The Collected Works of St John of the Cross, ICS Publications: 1979

Keay, F
E                                     
Kabir and His Followers, Indian Books Centre, Delhi: 1996 (1931)

Lhalungpa,
L P (tr)                     
The Life of Milarepa, Paladin Books, London: 1979

Lindsey,
H                                   
The Road to Holocaust, Doubleday, New York: 1989

Long M F                                     
The Secret Science Behind Miracles, DeVorss, California: 1976 (1948)

Marius,
R                                     
Luther, Quartet Books, London: 1975

Martin,
M                                     
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, Secker & Warburg, London:
1982

          
—-                                          
The Jesuits, Simon & Shuster, New York: 1987

Martin,
W                                     
The Kingdom of the Cults, Bethany House, Minneapolis: 1985 (revised)

Masson,
J                                     
My Father’s Guru, Harper Collins, London: 1993

Matrisciana,
C & Oakland, R   The Evolution Conspiracy, Harvest House,
Oregon: 1991

May, R                                         
Cosmic Consciousness Revisited, Element Books UK: 1993

McCaffery,
J                               
The Friar of San Giovanni, Darton Longman and Todd, London: 1978

McConnell,
D R                          
A Different Gospel, Hendrickson: 1988

McLynn,
F                                   
Carl Gustav Jung, St Martin’s Griffin, New York: 1996

Merton,
T                                     
Contemplative Prayer, Darton Longman and Todd, UK: 1973 (1969)

          
—-                                                                

Mystics
and Zen Masters,
Delta Publishing, New York: 1967

          
—-                                                                

Spiritual
Direction and Meditation and What Is Contemplation?
UK: 1975

          
—-                                                                

No Man Is
an Island,
Mariner Books: 1955

          
—-                                          
Seeds of Contemplation, Anthony Clarke Books, UK: 1962

          
—-                                          
The Seven Story Mountain, SPCK Publishing: 1948

Midgley,
M                                  
Beast and Man, Harvester Press, UK: 1979

Mockler,
A                                   
Francis of Assisi: The Wandering Years, Phaidon Press, Oxford: 1976

Moynahan,
B                              
William Tyndale – If God Spare My Life, Abacus, London: 2002

Murray,
I                                      
Evangelicalism Divided, Banner of Truth, Edinburgh: 2000

Noll, R                                           
The Jung Cult, Fontana Press, London: 1996

Oakland,
R                                  
Faith Undone, Lighthouse Trails Publishing, Oregon: 2007

          
—-                                          
Another Jesus?, Lighthouse trails, Oregon: 2007

Ornstein,
R                                   
The Psychology of Consciousness, Jonathan Cape, London: 1975

O’Sullivan,
I (tr)                          
Golden Words: The Sayings of Brother Giles of Assisi, Chicago: 1966

Pagels,
E                                       
The Gnostic Gospels, Pelican, UK: 1982

Paris, E                                          
The Secret History of the Jesuits, Chick Publications, Ontario: 1975

Prasch,
J                                       
The Dilemma of Laodicea, Moriel Ministries: 2010

          
—-                                          
Israel, The Church and the Jews, 21^st Century Press: 2008

Reid, G                                          
Trojan Church, Xulon Press: 2008

Ridley,
M                                     
The Origins of Virtue, Viking, UK: 1996

Robbin,
J                                      
Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Trinity Foundation: 1999

Rose, S                                          
Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determinism, Allen Lane, UK: 1997

Rose, H
& S (eds)                       
Alas Poor Darwin, Jonathan Cape, London: 2000

Sackville-West,
V                       
The Eagle and the Dove, Michael Joseph, London: 1943

Sarfati,
J                                       
Refuting Evolution, Answers in Genesis, Brisbane: 1999

Schaeffer,
F                                 
The Great Evangelical Disaster, Crossway Books, Illinois: 1984

Scovel-Shinn,
F                           
The Game of Life and How to Play It, Fowler, UK: 1995 (1925)

Shah, I                                          
The Sufis, Octagon Press, London: 1964

Singh, S
S                                     
Nanak the Guru, Orient Longmans, India: 1970

Smith, W                                      
A Wonderful Deception, Lighthouse Trails, Oregon: 2009

Springmeier,
F                             
The Watchtower and the Masons, Portland, Oregon: 1993

Storr, A                                         
Feet of Clay, Harper Collins, London: 1996

St Teresa
of Avila                       
The Interior Castle, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1988

          
—-                                          
The Life of St Teresa of Avila), Sheed and Ward, London: 1944

          
—-                                                                

Way of Perfection,
Sheed and Ward, UK: 1946

St Thérèse
of Lisieux                 
The Story of a Soul, Fontana Books, UK: 1960 (1898)

Stevens,
A                                    
On Jung, Penguin Books, UK: 1991

Shushud,
H                                  
Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia, Coombe Springs Press, UK: 1983

Suzuki,
D T                                  
The Zen Doctrine of No Mind, Rider, UK: 1949

Talbot,
M                                     
The Holographic Universe, Harper Collins, London: 1996 (1991)

Tetlow,
J et al                              
Queen of Rome, Queen of Islam, Queen of All, Eternity Productions:
2006

Thiering,
B                                   
Jesus, The Man, Doubleday, London: 1992

Thomas,
K                                   
Religion and the Decline of Magic, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London:
1971

Thorold,
A (tr)                             
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C (tr)                            
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R                                     
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E H (tr)                      
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P                                 
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E S                               
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Yates, F                                        
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—-                                          
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment,
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Yungen,
R                                    
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Webb, J                                         
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Zukav, G                                      
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APPENDIX  F

       
Other relevant papers by the author– available
on the Internet (www.zephaniah.eu) –

 

Title	Date	Pages
Replacement Theology
One of Satan’s Greatest Lies: How Replacement Theology has Rejected and Perverted the LORD’s Prophetic Purpose for Israel	12/2011	37
The Commitment to Israel of the Pre-incarnate Christ	03/2012	21
Proof of the Legal and Moral Right of Israel to Exist as a Sovereign State	06/2010	29
Evolution
The Shameless Fraud known as Darwinian Evolution	03/2012	37
Ecumenism
The Stained Glass Curtain Deception: Why Evangelicals who Partner with the Roman Catholic Church are in Rebellion Againist God	11/2012	20
Evidence that Christianity Today is a Mouthpiece for the Roman Catholic Church	10/2012	28
The Apostles Creed: A Dangerous Ecumenical Distortion of True Biblical Christianity	04/2012	14
Emerging Church
The Cotton-wool Gospel and the Emerging Church Movement	04/2011	6
Beware of Warrenism and the False Theology of the Purpose-Driven Church	05/2010	20
Freemasonry
Freemasonry and the British Monarchy: Why the Queen of England Pretends to be a Christian	05/2012	18
New Age Paganism / Mysticism
Eighteen New Age Lies: An Occult Attack on Christianity	02/2009	19
The New Age Movement is Designed to Destroy True Biblical Christianity	03/2011	13
Paganised Christianity
The Great Pentecostal-Charismatic Error	08/2012	17
Lupus Occultus: The Paganised Christianity of C S Lewis	03/2010	23
Do You Worship the Roman Catholic Jesus or the True Jesus of the Bible?	06/2011	11
Why Christians should Never Pray to the Virgin Mary	05/2009	42

For further information about the ongoing attack on true
Biblical Christianity,

including links to the papers listed in
Appendix F,
visit


www.zephaniah.eu

 

The website includes a paper
on True Salvation and the True Gospel.

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Copyright Jeremy James

Ireland, March 9, 2013