The Harlot Babylon

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And on her forehead a name was written
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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A religous system is being raised up that the Bible calls, "The Harlot Babylon".
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The devil is raising up a worldwide religious system of toleration. That's what is happening right now.
It's being set up right now.
The big religions of the world are coming together on the basis of no absolutes.
Everybody is right. Toleration is the rule of the day.
Everyone is happy. There are no standards.
There is no judgement. This is a complete falsehood but
that is how religious unity will happen first.
We can see the signs of that very clear right now
Many leaders in the church and in the world are moving in this direction on a global level.
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"You know there is no real difference between Judiasm and Islam and Christianity and all the other religions.
They all are different ways to the same God.
They all lead to salvation."
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That is an absolute decpeption.
They do not all lead to salvation.
One leads to salvation the others lead to the lake of fire.
Still, many leaders in the body of Christ are leaning in this direction and many leaders in the world are proposing this with great joy.
Satan knows it is too big of a step to get a compromising Christian, a compromising Jew, a compromising Muslem to go from compromise straight to satan worship.
That is too big of a step, so he is going to have them join a tolerant, all embracing movement that will cause them to turn their back from their religious tradition.
They will step away from their religious tradition. They will step away from the absolutes and the ideals they were brought up with and they will join the new peace religion where all the religions are right. The new justice movement that has no absolutes will look and feel great.
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That's the first step, but that is not the end of Satan's plan. After he has defiled their conscience and they get comfortable, a few years will go by and then the antichrist will pull his mask off and say, "Guess what? This everyone is right religion thing is no longer going to work. You have to worship me or die."
Then after their consciences have been defiled, some will say, "we have already left Christianity, we already left the religion we grew up in, we might as well go the next step, it seems like the right thing."
They take the next step and begin to worship the anti-christ.
This anti-christ worship movement will have no toleration.
There will be zero toleration. You worship satan or you get killed.
This will be a shock to many who have embraced the Harlot Babylon religion.
This will be a new idea. They won't see it coming.
In the beginning,none of them believe that this will happen but it will.
They won't realize that they are being decieved.
Many in the church are moving toward this toleration harlot system even now.
They don't know where it is going.
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God is raising up faithful witnesses to expose even the early stirrings of people moving in this direction.
In the last ten years the amount of men and women of God moving in this direction is staggering.
This direction of toleration, this false justice system
this humanitarian movement that's doing good, but on man's terms with no allegiance to Jesus
They have no idea that this will bring them to satan worship at the end of the day.
This is the deception of the Harlot Babylon.
The only people who know and understand what is happening are Bible believing people who believe with understanding what the Bible has to say about this deceptive harlot.
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Based on Onething 08 notes.

You Want To Know This

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The 2008 Onething Conference gets better each year. By better I mean it's impact on the hearts of believers is more critically overwhelming and mind wrenching combined with relative wisdom and revelation that crunches your body, soul and spirit causing a rending of hearts that sets fire to the urgency of the days we are living in.
In other words . . . I can't quite express it.
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This years focus was the book of Revelation and the return of Jesus.
When God created the heavens and the earth,
that was a big deal.
When God made a covenant with Abraham,
that was a big deal.
When Moses delivered God's people out of Egypt,
that was a big deal.
When John the Baptist said, "Prepare the way",
that was a big deal.
When Jesus was born, when Jesus shed His blood for our sins, when Jesus was resurrected,
that was a big, big deal.
When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost,
that was a big deal.
When Jesus comes again to remove sin from the earth and rule and reign forever with his bride,
Oh, my goodness . . . I can't quite express it.
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This is That . . .
You can watch the archives of the conference here.
Onething Conference
You Want To Know This Stuff!
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People Get Ready by Misty Edwards

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He's Coming.
Awake, Awake.
People get ready, Jesus is coming.
Awake, awake, oh sleeper.
He's coming. He's alive.
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of David.
He was born to be a King.
He's alive. A Jewish man. He is coming.
People get ready.
He is not a man that he should lie.
He said he would come again and he will come again.
Who is this King of glory?
He's alive.
He's coming.

The Light Of The World

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Between 15 and 25 years ago, my wife Gari and I were involved with the Methodist children's choirs and directed more than a few children's musicals. I played Psalty a couple of times. He was a big blue song book. Gari played Grace in Amazing Grace. Tarah played Charity Church Mouse in I can't think of the name of it, the boys were sheep, camels, mice, shepherds, etc., there was 365 Days of Christmas, Mary Had A Little Lamb, and some other ones I don't remember.
At the heart of each musical was the good news of the gospel. Our goal was always to impact each child with the love of Jesus.
We directed together. Gari was great at costumes and I was good at sound and lights.
Sound-wise, we wanted every child to have a speaking part, and a microphone in the hand of everyone who spoke. We used tape recorded accompaniment with "Gari choreographed" actions and dance.
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Light-wise, we had this homemade light board with off/on switches and dimmers, a lot of extension cords, and rigged up lights with a multitude of colored flood lights in cans on tall poles.
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My son Taylor informed me this week that his church was having a Christmas program and that he was going to provide the lighting. He dug out the old homemade lightboard and started looking in boxes for all the old flood lights. He found them, and amazingly, after twenty years, ALL of the flood lights still worked.
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As time goes on, many things change,
but The Light is still shining brightly.
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Merry Christmas!
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Stand Up For Jesus

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My mom says, "I think I'll get them some "theAter" tickets for Christmas"
I say, "TheAter tickets, or theater tickets?"
She says, "Tickets to the show".
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Sometimes it's hard for us to say what we really think, because we don't want to offend anyone.
Twenty years ago, I remember asking a Sunday School Class what they thought about abortion.
Almost to the person, their answer was, "I don't think it is right for me, but I don't think I should decide for someone else."
That is a safe answer.
Do you believe Jesus is the only way to God?
Do you believe in that speaking in tongues stuff?
Is a homosexual lifestyle sinful?
Do you believe a loving God would really send someone to hell?
Are muslims lost?
I could go on, but enough already.
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Our answers might be one thing at church and another thing on the street.
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When all around, people are bowing down to Bale . . .
will I stand for Jesus?
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Thinking you know where you are going is quite different from knowing where you are going.
If you just think you know where you are going, but you really don't then when you try to get where you are going, you won't get there.
You'll be lost.
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I know a couple who were considering adoption on one evening and had twin girls 24 hours later.
My daughter Tarah and a mission team of twenty or so are in KC this evening.
Tomorrow evening, they will be in Hong Kong.
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Isaiah 61

A Transformed Mind

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After you have been sitting for two or three years or longer, running, jogging or walking two miles is a formidable task.
I don't know what that word means, but going two miles certainly feels formidable to me.
The first time wasn't that bad, my body hadn't realized what was going on yet.
Day two was horrible.
Today was much better.
Tomorrow? We'll see.
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Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Easier said than done.
I have my face turned toward God, but I fear my mind has only been partially transformed by his word. A very small partially.
I have never been one to use foul language, but sometimes a curse word will just pop into my head. I hate when that happens.
Though it is my least desire, thoughts come around that I really pray would not.
Help me Holy Spirit to keep my mind on Jesus and what the Bible says.
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Faith is believing God's promises for now.
Hope is believing God's promises for the future.
Wisdom is knowing the difference and believing those things we cannot see.
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Don't doze off.