Nothing is but what is not. - C. R. Oliver (popular ebook readers .TXT) 📗

one of them died in the Alamo. They did not shed their blood for someone to come along and try to trash their reputations and "interpret" their reasoning. 

From pulpits we hear "well, that verse doesn't mean what we have always believed; it really means thus and so." We hear from news gatherers, the "real story is this." We listen or view documentaries based on conjecture and lies. Every sitcom has a standard agenda of homosexual inclusion or extra marital sexual expression. Seemingly harmless current television shows like CSI, Blue bloods and Castle are laced with counter agenda's. No longer does entertainment simply entertain, it must declare yet another humanistic reform. 

The church also has become a "harbinger" of half-truths and propaganda, as it too seeks to redefine almost every tenet of revealed Christian doctrine. The early disciples would not recognize their writings as they are practiced in such modern defilement. Paganism and spiritual power do not bed together! Clergy extends to the congregation Fables, commissioned as "stories" rather than true "accounts." Pulpits speak of the "stories of the Bible" as if Aesop had alternative editions. The Bible once was the prime literary resource, but no more. 

By reference, Shakespeare could make his point of "Nothing is but what is not," solely through the church of today. Regardless of the church's advertised magnificence, what is inside is the issue. 

Great literature once used Biblical references to example its thoughts. Only in my lifetime has the Word been expunged from education and study. Once, when reference was made to "John the Baptist" at least a few knew who he was---now, no one has a clue in the average college classroom. (Someone might quickly Google him, but still not know.) 

Scripture warned this day would arrive; little did I realize it would be in My Day!

Urging Timothy to remain in Ephesus, Paul gives these words:

 

1 Tim 1:3-7
Remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 4 nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith. 5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, 6 from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.

 

Further Paul advocates:

 

2 Tim 4:2-5
2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

 

Paul again in Titus cautions:

 

Titus 1:13-14
Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.

 

Paul separates himself from the cunning divisive myths twisted to resemble truth:

 

2 Peter 1:16
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

 

Integrated into all walks of life are "cunningly devised myths (fables)." They bear a semblance of truth, but cannot stand against the scrutiny of "rooted and grounded truth." Somehow, we must cease to subscribe to this kind of diatribe; we must cease to allow ourselves to be plundered. My constant prayer regarding the government and the church is this, "Lord, bring forth the truth! Let every underhanded scheme, every rotten, twisted, manipulated plan be exposed. Lord, throw their ideas and agenda's into disarray. Then Lord, your judgment which must come, will be it in righteousness, so the informed cannot hide from responsibility!"

 

Jeremiah 6:18-19

Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O witnesses, what will happen to them. 
19 Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.

 

Daniel 11:32-35

And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. 

33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 

34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
KJV

 

News Flash:
These are the days when the Elect will be deceived. Kenneth Copeland has evidently jointed Tony Blair and Rick Warren's vision. See below came at the conclusion of my work on this study, but is proof positive of the master deception taking place in the earth. The new Pope is a Jesuit. Those who are familiar with Jesuit practices throughout the world know what this stands for. Not one of the Reformers of past years could believe such writing could come from a Pentecostal leader. Judge it yourself.

 

 

New Pope Viewed as Pro-Unity, Pro-Renewal of the Holy Spirit

 Over the past decade the Rt. Rev. Tony Palmer, a former director of Kenneth Copeland Ministries’ South African office and co-founder of The Ark Community, an international and interdenominational community of Christians based in the United Kingdom, has been extensively involved with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR).

In 2003, Palmer was invited by the Catholic Church to move to Europe and minister to Catholics within the CCR worldwide, as a non-Roman Catholic minister. As a result of this calling, Palmer has traveled to many countries around the world and participated in numerous meetings with leaders within the charismatic renewal.

It was during a mission to Argentina five years ago that Palmer met and soon became close friends with Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis I.

“We had called on him to ask permission to minister in churches within his diocese for renewal,” Palmer recalled recently of that first meeting. “Immediately, Cardinal Bergoglio shared his heart and appreciation for what we were doing, and fully embraced us and the work of the Holy Spirit in and through us—not only to Catholic people, but to all Christian denominations.”

On March 13, Cardinal Bergoglio became the first non-European pope in more than 1,000 years when he was elected to replace the outgoing Pope Benedict XVI, who abdicated on February 28. The 76-year-old Bergoglio, who has now taken on the name Pope Francis, after the humble Catholic friar St. Francis of Assisi, will be installed at the Vatican on March 19.

“It is quite surreal for me to see my friend, spiritual father and prayer partner as the Pope,” Palmer said this past weekend while on a ministry trip to Italy. “We have a good pope who is pro-unity and pro-renewal of the Holy Spirit. He believes that all Christians are one!”

Like the leader whose name he chose to draw from, Pope Francis is himself considered humble and is described as a conservative with “great compassion.”

In a speech he delivered to his cardinals two days after being elected, Pope Francis showed signs of his humility, compassion and his reverence of the Holy Spirit when he told them: “Someone said to me: the Cardinals are the priests of the Holy Father. That community, that friendship, that closeness will do us all good. And our acquaintance and mutual openness have helped us to be docile to the action of the Holy Spirit. He, the Paraclete, is the ultimate source of every initiative and manifestation of faith….The Paraclete creates all the differences among the Churches, almost as if He were an Apostle of Babel. But on the other hand, it is He who creates unity from these differences, not in ‘equality,’ but in harmony….The Paraclete, who gives different charisms to each of us, unites us in this community of the Church, that worships the Father, the Son, and Him, the Holy Spirit.”

From the inception of The Ark Community, KCM has maintained a strong partnership with Palmer through prayer and by supporting his mission work. It was through Palmer’s assistance that Kenneth and Gloria Copeland were able to minister to the Roman Catholic Church in Italy for the first time ever in 2006. They have since returned there to minister.

In light of the historic change taking place in the Catholic Church, we asked Palmer for his insight into the election of the new Pope, and what effect he feels this might have on the Body of Christ overall. Here is some of what he had to say:

 

BVOV: How do you believe this election will affect the Church, the Body of believers?

PALMER: It will greatly influence what’s already happening. Things began to change between 1962 and 1965, when Pope John XXIII opened up the Second Vatican Council by invoking the Holy Spirit and asking God for a “new Pentecost.” He asked that God would: “Renew Your wonders in our time….” God answered, and in 1967 a small group of faithful Catholics met in Pittsburgh, Pa., and called upon their Pentecostal friends to lay hands on them so they (as Roman Catholics) may receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Pope John Paul II watched as this small group grew into a “movement” and expanded across the Atlantic and into many other countries. In 46 years, this group of Catholics has grown to over 180 million spirit-filled, born-again, faithful Catholic Christians. Pope Benedict XVI followed in Pope John Paul’s footsteps and publicly supported and encouraged those involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Now, as evidenced by the choice of his name, Pope Francis wants to honor Saint Francis of Assisi, who was a Charismatic Catholic who founded an order of devout Christians professing to live the Gospel and nothing else! Pope Francis is openly committing himself and the Church to emulate the spirituality of Saint Francis and his followers, which is to follow Jesus wholeheartedly and establish the Kingdom of God through living the Franciscan motto, which Saint Francis is famous for saying: “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary, use words.” This is the central passion that drives Pope Francis. He always tells me that we all need to live like Jesus. It’s all about Jesus! Pope Francis is openly supportive of the work of the Holy Spirit and the Charismatic renewal, and in his choosing of Saint Francis’ name, he promises to continue to support what the Holy Spirit has begun.

 

BVOV: What is uniquely different and meaningful about Pope Francis and his appointment?
PALMER: An important attribute that Pope Francis brings to the Papacy is his honest and sincere openness to the unity of all Christians. He is a man of God who understands the unity of the Church in its diversity. He constantly shows his public fraternal brotherhood toward all Christians. For example, when he was introduced during a large Christian meeting in Buenos Aires where over 5,000 evangelical protestant leaders were in attendance, Pope Francis (then Cardinal Bergoglio) knelt down in front of the evangelical pastors and asked them to lay hands on him and bless him! Every year, as Cardinal, he would join his evangelical brothers (pastors) for their annual weeklong retreat—not as a guest speaker to teach, but as one of them. During our times together, we have spoken about our shared pain of the division of Christians, and together we have shared both tears and prayers for her healing—the one Bride of Christ.

 

BVOV: Why should we, as believers, be excited?
PALMER: I believe there exists enough evidence to cause every open-minded and open-eyed Christian to rejoice in the fact that a good man