CHILDREN OF DARKNESS

If you look at all the glittering lights, glamor and gaudiness of modern lifestyles or culture, the untrained eye could be led to think "we sure have come a long way". The world measures progress by all of this and more: that is, who has has the best toys. Another yardstick is - who is more technologically savvy or proficient. 


We have become so advanced in an electronic age that we see companies pushing the envelope to compete with each other. They spend billions of dollars on Super Bowl commercial ads which range from race car driver Danica Patrick, shedding her clothes year and yea, to promote an internet hosting site called Godaddy.com to a large dog seemingly burying a cat and paying off a witness with Doritos chips to say "You didn't see nutthin", supposedly written by the dog. 


This is where the culture is in 2012. We have a so-called sophisticated society simmering in a soup of what Scripture says is "Darkness"! How can it be darkness, when we are so "enlightened" today?! Well, consider this verse "...And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil".... (John 3:19 ESV)


The basic truth of the matter is that the "light" of the world is completely different and opposite to the Light Who came into the world over 2000 years ago! The thirst for knowledge and reason has led many to an age of Enlightenment for centuries now, but the end result of all of that is deception by the angel of light - Satan! The god of this world has so blinded so many it is now critical that we do all we can to rescue this and the next generation from the oblivion they face. This oblivion is an eternity separated from God because our kids and their kids have followed a system of education and "leadership" which turned their hearts from the One True God and Light - Jesus Christ.


Just last May, in a case which stunned America, San Antonio, Texas judge Fred Biery handed down a ruling which banned student-led benediction or invocation from graduation exercises. This is unconstitutional in itself, as the Supreme Court has allowed this freedom, as long as students lead it and not teachers.


Just last week, Cranston High School in Westerly, Rhode Island, one of the few religious towns in Rhode Island, was forced to take down a prayer banner because an atheist named Jessisca Ahlquist and the ACLU forced the matter in liberal courts there. Not just that. now Ahlquist and the ACLU want the school district to pay over $173,000 in court costs due to assuage the "pain" they suffered from having to see that banner!!! If there is any justice in America, a judge will award her no more than $1 in damages!

Men and women love the darkness. They meet in secret to have illicit affairs and trysts. They have their slimy secret societies and groups and exchange secret handshakes with an pagan oaths. Their music is disgusting as we see with Ricky Martin, Lady Gaga and every genre from heavy metal to gangsta rap.


Their TV shows are despicable and would have led to producers getting arrest as recently as 30 years ago. From MTV's Teen Mom and Jersey Shore to the low-life who populate primetime TV on ABCNBCCBSFOX....from some of the cable channels like the MA Rated shows on FX to the not-so-subtle anymore corruption of children on the DISNEY CHANNEL (more on that in the future)....there is nothing safe for families and children anymore in the culture.


Men and women in power love the darkness. They persecute Christians - for now with their words and deeds - while saying we must be tolerant of any weird lifestyle or cult. Yet they trample all over the Gospel of Christ while calling themselves 'good people' who have their own faith.


Men and women in power love the darkness because they have successfully lulled modern parents into submission  to this evil, by raising up the last two generations as mentally and culturally dependent on the state for everything from education, to character-training and even school lunch.....WHEN ALL THREE OF THESE THINGS ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS.


But "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20).

We can list every wrong here...but let's just give it today to the Lord in prayer:

Father in the Name of Jesus we thank You that You are the God of all Truth and You give good things to Your people as James says "All good things come from You, the Father of Lights". Lord I thank You this day for Your Provision, Protection and Permission to approach the Throne of Grace in prayer, praise and supplication.

Lord, we worship Your in the Light of the Beauty of Holiness, Your Holiness because You live surrounded by the Shekinah Glory of God, which the dying world will never see until they stand briefly before You to be judged for their evil deeds.

Lord nothing You have done since creation was done in secret or in the dark, but out in the open where all can see and rejoice since the beginning of Time. Yet men and women today, under the power of satan, have taken that which is pure and good and are now accelerating the slide into oblivion for not just themselves but are taking our children and the future of society down with them.

They have ensnared and corrupted everything from the media to government to school districts to the culture of books, movies, music and entertainment....they have so followed the serpent of old, that everything those people touch has the stench of death and hell in it. 

Lord we lift up our families to you right now, in light of all this madness and mayhem, and ask that You send Your holy angels to come around us and protect our people from this. We pray that those who are saved will not be further caught up in these things, if they are mistakenly following elements of it, thinking Your Grace will cover all their sins. We pray that those of us who are saved will fortify our own families first in the Truth of the Word of God and that Your Spirit will lead us to lead others away from the darkness and into the Marvelous Light Which is only found in Christ Jesus, the King!

Father, enlighten and illumine our paths to those who need to know You so they will not follow the path of darkness and destruction which their parents and forefathers followed. Give us guidance, strength, courage and boldness to share that Truth and Joy and Peace with them, in the only true love which can be found in Your Great Son - the Lord Jesus and it is in His Name I pray, amen and amen!

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THINK IN THESE THINGS - FRIDAY

AMERICAN CULTURE IN ITS TWILIGHT

NEXT UP IN OUR DISCERNMENT SERIES ON HALLOWEEN: 'THE TWILIGHT PHENOM"

It is absolutely shocking that some christian outfits, ministries and even church groups recommend the latest teenage sensation cult book/TV Series "TWILIGHT" as something teenage girls and boys should watch!

Have they no sense of biblical decency and discernment? First, here is what the Bible says we should do: "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret (Ephesians 5:11-12)

No fellowship, means NO FELLOWSHIP! It means, you don't mess with that stuff, hoss! Not just that, but we kick it to the curb! Do we even know who wrote this piece of demonic heresy?

Twilight was first a fast selling book about a 17 year old young woman named Isabella "Bella" Swan, who falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen. Now imagine the following book being not just a New York Times Bestseller book, but on the CHILDREN'S BEST SELLER LIST as well!

Now here is how Publishing magazine critics summarized the entire gist of Twilight: (it is a) "dark romance that seeps into the soul" and reflects "perfectly the teenage feeling of sexual tension and alienation".

YES! This is your wholesome family entertainment which people say a sweet, innocent 13 year old daughter should read! Some mom was on the official Disney blog, doing just that! These people are sick! The comments from the other young moms were just as bad!

Stephanie Meyer, Twilight Author

But, just what is the thinking behind this Twilight? Well, it was written by a  young lady named Stephanie Meyer who said she had a vision on June 2, 2003. This vision made sit down and start writing what became "Twilight". In the vision, she saw, according to her website " One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire". Did you catch that? The beautiful sparkly thing was a Vampire!

Who else disguises himself as an 'angel of light'?  SATAN! 

She then said she had an additional dream after Twilight was finished, when the main Vampire  Edward literally came and visited her to talk about it and he was angry with her. The 'vampire' or angel of light told Stephanie that 'he was real". Stephanie Meyers also said she felt as if this was too terrifyingly real and who she thought was Edward, was going to kill her!

This is demonic activity from the pit, my friends. Again on her website, Meyers said "The apple on the cover of Twilight represents “forbidden fruit.” I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase “the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.”

I will go no further in explaining this garbage except to say, this Twilight author condemns herself by her very words.  She meets and fellowships with the prince of darkness, takes instruction from him and then goes to Genesis chapter 3 to glorify the Fall of man and sin.

Her books have led to movies and a TV series, which has corrupted this current lost generation, many of whom are church going teens. Notice, I did not say born-again christian teens. Some youth pastors are taking their groups to see this garbage and have youth reading these books. 

Woe unto them for allowing this with no discernment, not just what the Scriptures says about this kind of behavior (teenage immorality and witchcraft) but HOW to apply it to real life. There also seems to be no discernment when it comes to not just what HOLY GOD demands, but just the basic decency of humanity.

What kind of parent ....and thousands of modern moms allow this, what kind of parent would not only allow this in their living rooms, but then take their 9, 10, 13 year old kid to see it??!! Then, they see nothing wrong with it!

Lord have mercy! My prayer is all these people, especially so-called christians, who are just really carnal professing cafeteria christians, will one day come to a knowledge of the Truth. May there be repentance and restoration with God, because one day soon, there will be an accounting for this stewardship  here on earth!

How we live now, will determine how the coming Judgment Day will go! Are you ready?!

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