Taking Back the Culture!

With assaults upon our culture coming upon us with increased regularity, it's a wonderful sign to see people of integrity banding together to fight the onslaught of anti-Christian bigotry.

I reported on my facebook wall some weeks ago that Comedy Central was preparing an animated series on Jesus Christ. And I stated that we Christians need to band together to push back the anti-Christian, culture-bashing bastions of evildoers that have taken control of our culture.

I have said that Christians have been silent for far too long and have let circumstances (ie, Satan) run roughshod over this nation.

Enter a group of concerned Christians, Jews and Catholics to form the Coalition Against Religious Bigotry (CARB): Brent Bozell (president, Media Research Center), Tony Perkins (president, Family Research Council), Michael Medved (talk radio host), Bill Donohue (president, Catholic League), Rabbi Daniel Lapin (American Alliance of Jews and Christians) and Tim Winter (president, Parents Television Council).

Quoting from the internet article here: Comedy Central's "JC" is currently in development, which means it's still a couple steps away from becoming a Go project. The show is about Jesus trying to live as a regular guy in New York City and wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father." With Comedy Central having recently censored "South Park" for trying to portray the Prophet Muhammad, some Christian leaders see the development of a Jesus cartoon as exhibiting an offensive double standard.

CARB will hold its first press conference on Thursday to urge advertisers not to support the project, should it ever hit the air.

“After we reveal the vile and offensive nature of Comedy Central’s previous characterizations of Jesus Christ and God the Father, we expect these advertisers to agree wholeheartedly to end their advertising on Comedy Central and discontinue their support for unabashed, anti-Christian discrimination," Bozell said in a statement. "Why should they be supporting a business that makes a habit of attacking Christianity and yet has a formal policy to censor anything considered offensive to followers of Islam? This double standard is pure bigotry, one from which advertisers should quickly shy away.”

("Taking Back the Culture!" will regularly feature news items on "taking back the culture.")

America: For Sale?

With every passing day, it seems that this administration is giving away the keys to this once great nation. Sit down and be startled as you hear what the Vice President said in Belgium.

WHY I SPEAK OUT!

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, quote attributed to Edmund Burke.

I want to take this opportunity to explain why I’m so conscious of what’s going on in the nation.

When I speak about the things of the world, and how wrong things are, it’s a matter of waking up, what seems to be, a sleeping church, unconcerned as freedom and righteousness is slowly being taken away from them and evil is tolerated.

It’s not a matter of “loving this present world” – but like God, it’s a matter of loving the people -- "God so loved this world..."! This nation, more so than any other, was founded upon Godly principles. The United States has produced more missionaries for the world, contributed more dollars to charitable organizations than any other, and has been a beacon of light for the world for centuries.

But now, as I see America losing its way, when I see a generation that doesn’t know right from wrong, it’s not love for the world’s system that I voice my opinion, but love for the people. And like Wisdom from Proverbs cries out (I paraphrase), “How long will you tolerate evil and self-destruction?”

There is no guarantee that Jesus is coming within ten years. I wish He does, but He may not come for another hundred.

Yet, in the meantime, is it not incumbent upon us Christians to be the salt and light of the earth? If we see evil or danger approaching, is it not wise to sound the alarm?

In the 1960s, very few Christians spoke out against God being expelled from our schools. Yet, look at what our incriminating silence produced for the nation. You can see a direct correlation between expelling God from school to the national, cultural erosion that began at that time and continues to this day: in sexual promiscuity, intolerance of morals and Christianity, drug use, profanity, and just about every other evil. Today’s generation knows nothing about, and in fact mocks, the moralistic pre-60s culture.

So when Comedy Central wants to malign my Savior, you bet I’m going to say something! It has been our silence that has allowed so much of the evil we presently see.

When I see a government run amuck in debt spending, which my children will inherit and couldn’t possibly pay back, you bet I’m going to say something.

When I see a large part of the church vote for change rather than righteousness, you bet I’m going to sound the alarm – lest we repeat our mistakes in the next election.

When the news media, to support its anti-American mindset, calls certain voices for righteousness racist or homophobic – I'll be there to defend righteousness.

Presently we see an administration turning it’s back on the National Day of Prayer – so why aren't the pastors of this nation speaking out?

While we are ambassadors for a heavenly kingdom, we still live here. If evil reigns, we suffer under it. So let our lights and influence shine, lest we allow evil to be at the helm of this spiraling-downward nation. Let us not be relegated to the back of the bus any longer.

God gave us a voice, let’s use it without apology. If God’s people don’t speak out for righteousness, who will?

CHRISTIANITY UNDER ATTACK!

CHRISTIANITY UNDER ATTACK!

Please be alert to the threats facing us today.

FROM JAY SEKULOW: Efforts are intensifying to criminalize those who speak out against Islam. It's a UN resolution that puts the lives of Christians at risk around the globe. With this ruling, a Christian couldn't say Jesus is Lord.

See Short Video (2 min) here.

Hear Radio Broadcast (30 min) here.

Folks, we need to wake up to the threat of Radical Islam, that wishes to persecute Christians and overturn America's freedoms.

Grouping 57 Muslim states, The Organization of Islamic Conference is one of the largest bodies in the United Nations. The OIC has proposed a binding resolution at the United Nations, called the Defamation of Religions Resolution. It proposes to make illegal, throughout the world, any criticism of Islam -- which, by extension, includes the proclamation and advancement of the Christian gospel over Islam.

Sharia Law is the Islamic Constitution under Allah. Islam wants the whole world engulfed under Sharia Law. And they will carry out their objective in piecemeal fashion, even if it takes decades. So, they will move methodically into every aspect of society and attempt to impose their Sharia Law wherever they go: in schools, workplaces, government.

Go to Europe and see how the social fabric has been irreversibly changed.

And, it's not a coincidence that President Obama, being the head of this nation, has opened the door, spiritually speaking, to allow an encroachment of Radical Islam into our culture.

Pray that that door gets closed in the next election.

PROPHECY: THE NEXT TEN YEARS

Prophet John Paul Jackson, appeared on Sid Roth's IT'S SUPERNATURAL TV program, giving us his prophetic insights for the United States for the next ten years or so.

What's amazing is his prophetic description of President Barack Obama. But -- man! -- do we have to pray throughout this time for America!

You can see the entire interview here:

CONTINUED CONFUSION ABOUT GOD'S WRATH

David Wilkerson, pastor of the NY's Times Square Church, is prophesying destruction for New York and most major U.S. cities -- and it's being reported on the internet by WorldNetDaily.

I'm glad that the media is reporting about what Christian leaders are prophesying about the end times. I'm sure that the media will be reporting more and more about what influential Christian leaders are saying.

But, unfortunately, Wilkerson is stating that we are presently "under God's wrath." He probably just misspoke but that is not so! And, it cannot be so. What he says about fires and riots across the land will probably come to pass at some point in the future. But we are not presently "under God's wrath!"

The Wrath of God cannot occur before the Great Tribuation. These are two separate and distinct prophetic events. Unfortunately, most Christians and endtime teachers do not know these are two separate events.

One teacher who understands the endtimes better than most is Robert Van Kampen. If you're interested in taking a thorough biblical course on endtime events online -- for free! -- then go here.

Take the time to go through this course. Download it and put it on your iPod. And you'll really get a biblically sound, firm foundation on endtime events, so that you'll know what's to come.

CHANGE IS COMING!

Days before the presidential election was over, Prophetic Revivalist Matt Sorger gave a prophetic word at the recent MSM Open Heavens Conference: Releasing the Apostolic and Prophetic. In this prophetic word, Matt says that "change" will come to America -- probably a reference to the election of Barack Obama. But there's more to it than that -- it's God's change that is really coming. Despite the "shaking and trembling" that will take place in the land, there will be a mighty harvest to the Kingdom. I would suggest even during Obama's administration. Check out Matt's word.

BENNY HINN: REMNANT COMING FORTH NOW

I attended the Benny Hinn Fire Conference over the weekend at East Rutherford, New Jersey. Here’s what he had to say about…

EVENTS IN THE CHURCH TODAY

A division has begun in the body of Christ, he says, in which the Remnant of the Church is being removed from those who would call themselves Christian and are not.

There is an increase of “another gospel” coming into the church, in which some noted ministers have pushed out the central core issue of the gospel (the cross) – and when that happens, they open themselves up to demonic influence and a mixture of truth and error emanates from the pulpit.

This mixture, he says, began with the Seeker-Friendly module of watering down the truth to appeal to the masses. That mixture now has become too prevalent in the church, to the point that even noted ministers (some speaking on Larry King’s TV program) deny that Jesus is the only way to God.

God will not bring the greater anointing to those Christians still immersed in the mixture.

[On a related issue, he refers to a survey that showed that among those who call themselves Pentecostals a diminished 43% of them speak in tongues. Meanwhile, in the Baptist camp there has been a rise to 57% of those who speak in tongues.]

THE ARAB THREAT TO THE WEST

He laments that at a time when Islam is losing its grip in the Arab world, due to the rise of underground Christian evangelism and other factors, Islam is gaining in appeal in the West. However, he does say that the “present regime in Iran (headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) will fall due to the strength of the underground conversions.”

AMERICA AND JUDGMENT

Hinn refers to a conversation he had with the late evangelist Bill Bright, in which Bright said that “Judgment will fall on America.”

But during that time, when conditions in the world become worse and worse, the remnant will become prominent in His anointing (Isaiah 60). Though there will be a “falling away” from the truth, the remnant will remain strong.

Therefore, this is no more time for games in our walk as Christians. We’re coming to a time, also prophesied by Matt Sorger, that the church will be able to walk in such power, that all who come for healing will be healed, that all who come for deliverance will be delivered, that the anointing that you carry will be unlike anything we’ve ever carried before. “You will see that in America,” says Hinn.

NEW TERRORIST WARNING -- ANOTHER CAUSE FOR PRAYER!

Fast on the heals of our previous urgent call for prayer comes this appeal from the Elijah List website for prayer against a possible terrorist attack on the United States. As we had expressed in our last post, it seems that there are many key Christian leaders all coalescing together for a strong appeal to pray to divert disaster on many fronts: financially, militarily, politically.

This latest warning, issued by Mary Glazier, Alaska member of the ACPE (Apostolic Counsel of Prophetic Elders), was verified and endorsed by Chuck Pierce, Cindy Jacobs and Steve Shultz.

In essence, Glazier says that she and key intercessors have an "alarming sense that we (the U.S.) are about to, or may experience, a terrorist attack that will launch our nation into a season of deep mourning." She also sensed a "tremendous weight" on her heart and a feeling that "a significant death was possible to happen -- if the body (of Christ) does not pray!"

Significantly, it's important to note that prayer can prevent these disasters from occurring. Once again, we're calling on all believers to pray earnestly.

A VIOLENT CALL TO PRAYER

It's like you're walking down a busy Manhattan street and everywhere you look there are blaring alarms going off. Emergency vehicles pass you by. You don't know where to turn. You don't know what to do. However, your heartbeat races and you sense a grave, uneasy expectation of doom and horror about you.

You look up and see the first terrorist plane that hit the World Trade Center. You're not expecting another, but another comes. You think it's over and it becomes worse. The towers become engulfed in flames. Innocent victims fall to their deaths, attempting to flee the fiery horror. Then the mighty towers fall completely and disintegrate into hot ash and steel heap.

That's a physical way of describing what I sense spiritually is happening. There presently seems to be a convergence of Christian Leaders' voices all shouting alarm! I never sensed such a grave urgency for prayer before us on so many fronts like this. Yet, in prayer tragedy can be averted!

We've already discussed the dire circumstances the U.S. finds itself in, as to which direction this nation will proceed after this presidential season. Prophetic Intercessor Julie Meyer senses a call for the body of Christ to cry out for mercy over this land, to move God's hand in sparing this nation from consequences of our own behavior.

FINANCIAL COLLAPSE?
Greed on Wall Street has brought the financial institution to the brink of collapse, starting earlier this year when speculators gambled away America's interests and pocketed record profits from the meteoric rise in gas and oil prices. And, now the Federal Government has to step in to bail out our financial institutions to the tune of $700 billion.

Prophet Cindy Jacobs says this:

During a January worship service, the Lord spoke to me, ”Cindy, the strongman over America doesn’t live in Washington D.C.—the strongman lives in New York City! Call together my people to pray for the economy.”

The Lord said: ”October 29 was Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crashed, and Satan wants to do it again!”—the economy will crash without effective, fervent intercession.

Shaken to the core at this word from the Lord, I knew that I must call the people of God to converge in New York City the week of October 29 for an emergency prayer rally to cry out against economic collapse in the midst of shaking.

HIBERNATING RUSSIAN BEAR AROUSES
The toppled Soviet Union seems on the verge of resurrection, as Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded nearby Georgia last month seeking its oil pipeline. The United States did nothing, but issue a condemnation. Probably because the United Stated did nothing, Russia is now beginning to flex its muscles in America's backyard by sending warships to Latin America -- for the first time since the Cold War ended.

CBN's Pat Robertson issued this warning:

Russia’s vicious dismemberment of the tiny nation of Georgia is the beginning of an unfolding sequence of Russian aggression. At present, pipelines from Siberia that run through Russia supply the majority of natural gas and oil used by Western Europe and Ukraine. A pipeline from the Caspian Sea has been bringing one million barrels a day of non-Russian oil through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. Russia wants to control all of those vital pipelines.

Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, is only 578 miles from Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Russia has helped neighboring Iran build its two aggressive nuclear facilities. Georgia and Iraq are now sandwiched between the dictatorships of Russia and Iran. The Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, seems to want to dominate Caspian oil and Persian Gulf oil to add to Russia’s own enormous supplies of oil and gas. If he succeeds, Russia will gain a stronghold over the economies of most of the world and can then act to bring America to its knees.

THREAT FROM IRAN
Robertson also warns that with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pronouncing destruction to Israel while building a nuclear arsenal, Israel may very well have to engage in a preemptive military strike against Iran -- probably in the window of opportunity between U.S. Election Day and the inauguration of the new president.

Incidentally, I saw Ahmadinejad haranguing on TV today against the U.S. and Israel. This Hitler-wannabe said that the U.S. was on the verge of collapse and was responsible for all global economic problems. I don't know why we let him set foot on the U.S.

Anyway, I do hope that we can remain prayerfully steadfast against all that the U.S. and the world is presently facing. I believe what Cindy Jacobs believes:

For the Lord says, I am answering your prayers and have begun the cleansing of Wall Street; exposing the wickedness and greed in high places. Pray now, and I will begin to give the leaders of the nation wisdom on how to re-vamp and reverse the debtor system currently in place. This is a course correction. If you do not pray at this time, you will miss your day of visitation and the economy will collapse, causing a ripple effect that will sweep the nations with a major tsunami wave.

This wave will begin to touch the ground, as even the harvests of the world will be affected. Food shortages, hyper-inflation, and other sorrows, especially affecting the poor will take place.
However, the Lord says, if my people respond and fall on their face and cry out at this time with a mighty cry, I will hear them and heal their lands.

Hear, o nations of the earth! Respond with weeping and travail and pray for the stock markets and economic systems. Pray for your leaders as well for the earth is in the throes of a deep shaking at this moment for the systems of the earth must be reformed.

Do not despair and think that I cannot heal—that I will not hear your crying to Me from My throne in heaven. My ear is carefully listening for your sound so I will reverse the curse and bring a blessing upon your lands.