"Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let judgment run down as waters,
and righteousness as a mighty stream."
(Amos 5:23-24)
THE UK TODAY
The UK today. A nation so far removed from the fear of God and the upholding of His ways that it kills its unborn children en masse, delights in uniting homosexuals in a mockery of God-ordained marriage and regards perversion as progress. A nation so determinedly self-drenched in sin as to make depravity a cherished right and ideal, that perhaps even Sodom would have shuddered and Gomorrah groaned to gaze upon it. A nation akin to Jerusalem in Jeremiah's day, when through His faithful prophet the Lord God declared: "As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds." (Jer. 6:7). Friends, look around with unblinkered eyes and, if there's but half an ounce of honesty within you, you'd have to agree that this is a nation that surely only Satan and his hench-demons could smile upon with happy satisfaction at its shockingly degenerate state.
Yes, the UK today. A nation where the Church has been Hell-bent - and I use the term advisedly - on NOT being salt and light to it. When all is said and done, how can she be, when the salt has everywhere lost its savour, and the "light" that is supposedly in her is on all fronts actually darkness? "Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness!" warns Luke 11:35, but this urgent plea that echoes down the ages has fallen on deliberately deaf ears. God has been so, so patient, but that patience is fast evaporating like morning mist, and on the heels of unrepentant iniquity and wilful unfaithfulness comes His inevitable righteous judgment.
Once, the banners uncompromisingly proclaimed, 'The wages of sin is death!' / 'After death the judgment!' / 'Prepare to meet thy God!' - but no more. The Church is not interested in preaching pure doctrine and preparing people for what is to come, only in partying in the here and now. She has been laughing, as Toronto demonically taught her to, when she should have been weeping with breast-beating sorrow. In her headlong departure from Truth and her dereliction of duty, the Church cannot stand apart from the world to witness against it and to warn it, because she has become an integral part of it. Have no doubt my friends that she will face the dire consequences of her brazen betrayal of the Bridegroom! Judgment begins at the house of God...
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart,
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow."
(Revelation 18:7)
'THE BLESSING'
Is not the serpent the subtlest of all beasts? Has he not cunningly deceived from the beginning, this silver-tongued salesman of spiritual strychnine who is the father of falsehood? How have we so forgotten this? We sow the wind of such forgetfulness, and we much reap the whirlwind of mindlessness, ending up blessing that which cannot be blessed.
Which brings me to 'The Blessing,' a song that has gone viral on the internet with many millions of views, and "likes" and glowing comments by the thousand, serving only to show how so, so many want only to have their itching ears satisfyingly tickled by what they WANT to hear, not painfully pinched by what they NEED to hear. It's such a heartbreaking case of "Tell us lies, pretty lies, and we'll jump for joy; tell us the Truth, tell us like it really is, and we'll put our hands very firmly over our ears!"
THE SONG IS ALL ABOUT PRONOUNCING GOD'S BLESSING UPON A NATION THAT HAS REMOVED ITSELF FAR FROM IT, FROM THE AVOWED ATHEISTS TO THE TRUTH-TRAMPLING PEW-POLISHERS, WITH EVERY SHADE OF GOD-REJECTING REBELLION IN BETWEEN. BLESSING IS CONDITIONAL UPON BEING IN A RIGHT PLACE WITH THE CREATOR, WHICH ASSUREDLY NEITHER SOCIETY AT LARGE NOR THE PROFESSING CHURCH IS IN!
'The UK Blessing - Churches Sing The Blessing Over The UK' which can be found at https://youtu.be/PUtll3mNj5U, premiered on YouTube on 3 May, and as I write this it has had over two and a half million hits and has been showered with adulation. This sadly speaks volumes for the extent of the Falling Away here in the UK, that such a plethora of professing believers are totally unable to see the wood for the multitude of trees. They take delight in their abject denial of raw reality rather than admit to it, soberly stand on the Word of God and tell the people in no uncertain terms that they are not blessed but hopelessly lost, and things are not going to get better in any real, lasting sense, but only get progressively worse and worse as the end of the age bears down upon us like a runaway train.
The song has been eagerly imported into Britain from the USA, as of course have so many things which have spelt such bad news for the upholding of unadulterated Truth in these Islands. The original video recording, live from Elevation Ballantyne can be found at https://youtu.be/Zp6aygmvzM4 (over twelve and a half million views and still counting), and confirms that the song was written by Steven Furtick, Chris Brown, Kari Jobe and her husband Cody Carnes, and includes the Elevation Worship band in the credits. The significance of this information cannot be understated. Elevation Worship is the musical face of Furtick's Elevation Church, which very much echoes the Bethel Church/Bethel Music/Jesus Culture setup of one of the foremost heretics in the world today, Bill Johnson, and also that of Brian Houston's Australia-based Hillsong church-and-music "prosperity gospel" empire.
I recommend readers to view Justin Peters' warning concerning Bethel Music, Hillsong and Elevation Music here: https://youtu.be/Y0uFSYHVSRk
Let's look a little at said Steven Furtick, the founder and pastor of the Elevation megachurch in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is a man who not only considers Joel Osteen to be a great man of God, but hails T.D. Jakes as being the greatest preacher of our time, and names him his own favourite preacher in the world. Are you starting to get the picture here? No? Well, how about his buddying up to that other great Word of Faith, fleece-wearing wolf Rod Parsley, speaking at his Dominion Camp in both 2017 and 2018? Or perhaps his very close link to Hillsong, repeatedly guesting at their conferences worldwide? Or maybe his partnering with the Bethel circus's ringmasters Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton for their 'Heaven Come' conferences in L.A in 2018 and 2019? If that doesn't clinch it, nothing will! Friends, I'm going to say it as it is: Steven Furtick is about as sound as a plastic pound.
What about the other co-writers of this song? Well, Furtick's long-time musical collaborator Chris Brown is lead songwriter for Elevation Worship; the band tours with the likes of Bethel Music and Hillsong Music, which speaks - or more accurately shouts - of its very comfortable correlation with the apostate Johnson and Houston camps. OK, what about Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes? Well, they are husband-and-wife worship leaders currently based at The Belonging Co, a church in Nashville which they migrated to after first rising to prominence at Robert Morris's Gateway Church in Dallas. Morris is another of those "Tithe, tithe, tithe and more besides," dollar-signs-in-the-eyes millionaire preachers, and unsurprisingly a darling of one of the prosperity gospel's main TV mouthpieces, Daystar. In 2018, online magazine 'The Christian Beat' asked Jobe to name some of her biggest musical influences; of her top three, two were Bethel Music (with whom she has recorded) and Hillsong. COVID-19 permitting, of course, Jobe and Carnes are scheduled to tour this summer with, surprise, surprise, Hillsong Worship. Kari Jobe is also shown to be on the same page as Bethel by her support of last December's (abortive, need I say!) days-long attempt by this sham "church" (and the specially flown in she-wolf Heidi Baker) to raise a little girl from the dead. 'Nuff said?
BETHEL, HILLSONG AND ELEVATION ARE, TO USE AN APPROPRIATELY MUSICAL ANALOGY, THREE COMPLEMENTARY NOTES THAT COMBINE TO FORM A MOST POWERFUL CHORD. WE WOULD DO WELL TO RECALL THAT THE ENEMY OF OUR SOULS WAS CREATED AS A MUSICAL BEING (see Ezek. 28:13), AND KNOWS EXACTLY HOW TO USE MUSIC TO VERY GREAT EFFECT TO STEER US OFF THE NARROW WAY AND ONTO THE BROAD.
NOTE, AND NOTE WELL, 'THE BLESSING' WAS AS SURELY BORN IN THE DOCTRINE-DEBASING, DOLLAR-CHASING WORD OF FAITH CAMP AS IT IS NOW BEING RAISED - AS THE UK VIDEO VERSION SO CLEARLY SHOWS - IN THE ANTICHRIST HOUSEHOLD OF ECUMENISM. IF THIS IS UNDERSTOOD, IT BECOMES THAT MUCH CLEARER HOW IT HAS BEEN MASSIVELY TAKEN UP AS AN ADORED GLOBAL ANTHEM OF APOSTASY.
Throughout this hopelessly misguided song, which countless people are wildly applauding, we hear the mantra, 'He is FOR you, He is FOR you, He is FOR you...' Really? He is FOR a nation as evil as this? He is FOR a Church gone so astray as to call the actual occultism it practices the work of the Holy Spirit, and where fear of the One they call Lord is so conspicuous by its very absence? What does His Word say about those who steadfastly depart from His ways in their unholy fearlessness and unfaithfulness, but the exact opposite? He is not FOR them, but AGAINST them:
"And I will come near to you to JUDGMENT;
and I will be a swift witness AGAINST the sorcerers,
and AGAINST the adulterers, and AGAINST false swearers,
and AGAINST those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow,
and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right,
AND FEAR NOT ME, saith the LORD of hosts."
(Malachi 3:5; my capitalization for emphasis)
TO ALL THE CHURCHES, GROUPINGS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SO WRETCHEDLY PARTICIPATED IN 'THE BLESSING,' PROUDLY PARTNERING IN THIS DESPERATELY SKEWED ECUMENICAL EXTRAVAGANZA, AND ALSO TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE SO LACKING IN SPIRITUAL ACUMEN AS TO HAVE BACKED IT TO THE HILT, I SAY THIS TO YOU:
JUST WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS!!!??? HOW ARE YOU SO FAR REMOVED FROM UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR PRONOUNCING BLESSING OVER A NATION SOLD OUT TO SIN AND STANDING IN OPPOSITION TO GOD, BUT A TIME FOR WARNING LOUDLY AND CLEARLY OF HIS JUDGMENT OVER IT, A TIME FOR SACKCLOTH AND ASHES, NOT SACCHARINE SONGS AND CANDYFLOSS?
WHEN THE ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING SO LOUDLY AS TO THREATEN TO BRING BLOOD FROM YOUR EARDRUMS, YOU STILL REFUSE TO WAKE UP! RISE NOW TO REALITY, AND WHILE IN THE GRACE OF GOD THERE IS YET A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO, URGENTLY GET SOME OIL FOR YOUR EMPTY LAODICEAN LAMPS!
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Some key sources of information used in compiling this account:
http://apprising.org/2009/09/14/steven-furtick-calls-joel-osteen-great-man-of-god-2/
http://apprising.org/2012/01/23/steven-furtick-t-d-jakes-is-my-favorite-preacher-in-the-world/
https://www.thechristianbeat.org/index.php/interviews/4586-tcb-exclusive-kari-jobe-talks-about-miracles-seen-on-tour
https://www.karijobe.com/music
https://youtu.be/GMxuw8eAxmg
