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I have always seemed to have a heightened sensitivity to deception.  I realize now that it is a gift from God and is one of several promptings that led me to begin this website. 

I had this growing sense of deception everywhere I turned.  I would come home and tell my wife, the deception “out there” is suffocating.  I couldn’t see why others couldn’t see it, I assumed they sensed it the same way I did.  I truly believe it is the tool God used to wake me up. 

Joel does a great job in this pair of video’s in laying out how so many will be deceived and lead astray and what to look out for.  We need to be on guard and knowledgeable in God’s Word during these last days, so we will not fall into “even the elect will be led astray”.

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A great reminder of God’s word on the subject.  During these end times, we must turn back to God and His Word to assure we are grounded on the Rock and not deceived.

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WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, THE VATICAN’S LATEST, PAINFUL PRONOUNCEMENT ON ISRAEL IS WRONG: Paul’s letter to Rome affirms that Jews are the chosen people

A new headline in the Jerusalem Post reads: “Vatican synod calls for end to Israel’s ‘occupation’: At conference on Christians in the Middle East, US Melkite archbishop says: ‘There is no longer a chosen people.’”

The New York Times headline reads: Bishops at Meeting Urge Israel to End Its Occupation of Palestinian Territories.” The Times reported: “In a final communiqué at the end of a two-week-long meeting at the Vatican on the plight of Christians in the Middle East, the bishops also urged Israel not to use the Bible ‘to wrongly justify injustices,’ apparently referring to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. But in a news conference Saturday, the archbishop in charge of the committee that drafted the communiqué, Cyrille Salim Bustros, appeared to go further, saying the Bible did not justify a Jewish presence in Israel. ‘The concept of the promised land cannot be used as a base for the justification of the return of Jews to Israel and the displacement of Palestinians,” he said. “Sacred scripture should not be used to justify the occupation by Israel of Palestine.’”

Here is a link to the official Vatican translation of the “Message to the People of God” that the synod fathers of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops approved on Friday, October 22, 2010.

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What the synod has declared is wrong.  How far we have fallen as a religion.  We need to return to our roots.  The Bible is the Word of God and is infallible.  The Jews are God’s chosen people and he has a covenant with them, but he also has a covenant with the church.  Different covenants, both working to fulfill his word.  We, the church, did not replace the Jews.  Many are being deceived and led astray…

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A Christian Response to Synod Declaration on the Chosen People

Recently a Catholic synod led by Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros declared that the promise made by G-d to Abraham and
Almost 2000 years after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem… behold, the Jewish people are still with us…and have…become a vibrant nation state.
his descendants to give them the land of Israel was abolished by Jesus.  Specifically, Archbishop Bustros declared that “For Christians, one can no longer talk of the land promised to the Jewish people…. There is no longer a favored people, a chosen people; all men and women of every country have become the chosen people,.”  Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, “Catholic Cleric; Jesus Cancelled Biblical ‘Chosen People’, Arutz Sheva, October 24, 2010.

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Deception is all around us.  A wolf in sheep’s clothes, we must remain watchful to make sure we and those we love are not misled…  Christ warned us that in the last days, deception would increase, the church would begin to fall away, and many would follow false christs.  Satan is working overtime to make these come to pass by infiltrating Christian organizations…be watchful.  Stand firm on the Truth, God’s Word, the Bible.

Matthew 24:4-5 (NIV) – “4Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.”

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‘Christian’ media swings left

David Neff is editor-in-chief for Christianity Today. The magazine is still considered to be mainstream and representative of evangelicals. It was founded when Ike was president, and it is amazing how many Christians consider CT to be their friend. In reality, it is center-left and fairly contemptuous of the issues conservative Christians hold dear.

Witness Neff’s recent Facebook post, in which he cites a Wall St. Journal piece about the Ground Zero mosque. Neff said that “all the negative attention” the mosque project has received has in fact helped amass a war chest for the building of the mosque. Again, Neff was citing the WSJ article, but one wonders why he seems to aim a weird web of blame at Americans who find the mosque both offensive and potentially dangerous.

Of course, the editorial staff at CT has a long history of center-left stances.

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Faded Memory…Falling Away…Led Astray…Deceived…

We were warned, we must remain watchful, the bride groom is coming…

Look at all the signs…

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Christianity a ‘Faded Memory’ for Most Young Britons

LONDON – Most young people in Britain consider Christianity irrelevant to their lives but they are not as hostile towards religion as their parents’ generation, researchers in the Church of England have found.

The researchers surveyed 300 young people from Generation Y – those born after 1982 – who had attended a Christian youth or community project. The five-year study looked at their faith in relation to Christianity and the impact of Christian youth and community work on their faith development.

It found that young people were more likely to put their faith in friends, their family or themselves than in God.

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A lot of articles over the last week on the church falling away or being led astray.  We must wake up our neighbors and get people to turn back to God…

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In Holy Land, Christians a community in decline

BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank (Reuters) – In the land where Jesus lived, Christians say their dwindling numbers are turning churches from places of worship into museums.

Tourists visit the site of the Baptism at the holy land of Jordan river May 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Jamal Saidi/Files)

And when Christian pilgrims come from all over the world to visit the places of Christ’s birth, death and resurrection, they find them divided by a concrete wall.

Members of the Abu al-Zulaf family, Palestinian Christians, have left the hills and olive groves of their village near Bethlehem for Sweden and the United States, seeking a better life than that on offer in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Ayman Abu al-Zulaf, 41, moved to France in 1998. But he returned to Beit Sahour, the village where he was born, a year later. “I needed to be here, not in France,” he said. “Without Christians, the Holy Land, the land of Jesus, has no value.”

That’s his message to Christian pilgrims he meets through his work as a tour guide. “Christians have a very major mission here in Palestine. We are the bridge to the West,” he said.

Today, Christians make up just 1 percent of the mainly Muslim population of the Palestinian territories, said Hanna Eissa, who is in charge of Christian affairs in the Palestinian Authority’s religious affairs ministry.

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We must be very careful what we support these days, there is much deception and many ‘false christs'”, just as Jesus Christ predicted.  We need to anchor ourselves in His Word and make sure we are watchful of our church and its proclaimed beliefs.  Those that are not watchful, risk being led astray…

Matthew 24:4-8 (NIV) – “4Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,[a]‘ and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.”

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Interfaith Group Urges U.S. To Press For Middle East Agreement

(RNS) A broad coalition of U.S. Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders has backed the Obama administration’s efforts to broker peace between Israel and Palestinians.

Members of the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East met Wednesday (Sept. 29) with National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The coalition called for “active, fair and firm U.S. leadership for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

“We believe that concerted, sustained U.S. leadership for peace is essential,” the coalition said. “And we know that time is not on the side of peace, that delay is not an option.”

The group has expressed faith in a two-state solution since forming in 2003. Its latest statement was signed by 15 Christian leaders representing Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, evangelical and mainline Protestant denominations; six rabbis and a professor from Judaism’s Reform and Reconstructionist movements; and six Muslims representing the Islamic Society of North America and other groups.

“One of the biggest obstacles to peace in the Middle East is cynicism,” said Bishop Howard Hubbard, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.

“As people of faith, we must remember that with God all things are possible. The human spirit can overcome even the longest and most violent of conflicts.”

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