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Televangelist John Hagee sans glasses compares Texas Gov. Rick Perry to Abraham Lincoln, The Response, Reliant Stadium, Houston, August 6, 2011. (Source/http://www.businessinsider.com).
I used to be one of them. One of those evangelized Christians. Coming off of three years as a Hebrew-Israelite, I became a Christian in the spring of ’84, without a church, and without an immediate family member who had any real experience as part of a Christian family or community.
So naturally, when my mother — who still appeared to be a practicing Hebrew-Israelite — would tune our one working stereo radio to the Christian AM stations in the New York City area in the summer that followed my secret conversion, I’d listen. I’d hear everything from Amy Grant’s “Angels Watching Over Me” to folks like Jimmy Swaggert and Kenneth Copeland on those two stations. Plus, there was the 700 Club, Oral Roberts and Frederick K.C. Price on our TV at 10 am Monday-Friday, and Sunday mornings between 8 and 11 am.
With the exception of Price, a good portion of what these televangelists and radio preachers would talk about was the Book of Revelation of St. John. They’d outline in detail everything from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to the gigantic sucking sounds of great death as the Lord opened one seal after another. As a fourteen-year-old and brand-new Christian, it was scary listening to them. So scary that it seemed unlikely that I’d make it to thirty before the entire world was on fire.
When Swaggert or Roberts or Robertson would get to the part of Revelations that talked about “the whore of Babylon,” they’d lament about how America was the “whore” that John of Patmos had described in his letters to the Christian churches in what is now Turkey — 2,000 years ago. But for Swaggert, Roberts, Robertson, et al., it was because of gay rights, or because of Blacks having kids out-of-wedlock while collecting welfare, or because women were on an assembly line to have abortions, or because of out-of-control government spending that America had become the ultimate harlot.
I put much of what they said aside even then, because my life at 616 and in Mount Vernon was scary enough without thinking about the fate of four or five billion humans. But all of this came up again, especially once my mother revealed herself as an evangelical Christian in ’89, in the last days of her marriage to my idiot (ex-) stepfather. In the years that followed, whenever I visited over the holidays or came home to work for the summer, I’d see more of Kenneth Copeland, Oral and Richard Roberts, Pat Robertson than I’d see of regular television.
In particular, a “new” guy, Jack Van Impe, along with his wife, was on. Every week in the summer of ’90, my
mother would make me sit in front of the TV to hear this guy relate things like the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August of that year to the Rapture and the Apocalypse. Somehow, the evil spiritual forces intent on world domination and human corruption were unleashed by Iraq and the US response to Iraq that summer. Van Impe was so worried about the rebuilding of the Roman Empire via the expanding European Union that he looked like he was about to collapse from a brain aneurysm.
My mother once said, “You think they crazy, but when the Rapture comes and you’re stuck here, you won’t.” I didn’t think that they were crazy — I knew they were. But more importantly, what I was really thinking was, why is she watching this, and making me watch this stuff, too? It’s not as if anyone, whether an atheist or a Zen Buddhist, didn’t or doesn’t really know that our world faces a multitude of challenges that could lead to a perfect storm of global crises, causing immense destruction and death. That’s true. Still, I couldn’t see how any of us could make sense of what we face as a planet by using the Book of Revelation as a guide.
So, when Rachel Maddow decided to go after Governor Rick Perry and “The Response” party down in Houston earlier this month on her show, I, unlike most Americans uninvolved in mind-bending forms of Christianity, wasn’t surprised. I didn’t feel shock that there was such a thing as the New Apostolic Reformation, because there isn’t anything new about it. I wasn’t even surprised that the likes of John Hagee would consider Oprah Winfrey the “Whore of Babylon” because of her ability to use verbal voodoo on the millions of people who worship everything she does. And I was unsurprised, unfortunately, that a snake-oil salesman like Perry would fall into their camp.

Oprah Winfrey at her 50th birthday party at Hotel Bel Air 2004. (Source/Alan Light/http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/216012860/). In public domain, cc-by-2.0.
Quite frankly, there are only two things that surprise me. One is that there are millions of people like me who could find more holes in the evangelical apocalyptic paradigm in one nanosecond than Maddow could in one day, yet we’re never called on to refute and inform. The other is that it’s taken this long for mainstream media to really pick up on what has been a four-decade long trend in the meshing of the wackiest of “Christian” ideas with politics that exploit America’s imperial fears. That our days as #1 are at an end.
With Michele Bachmann going into overdrive over the weekend about how the East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene are “Act[s] of God” sending “a message to Washington,” it seems that the Pharisees and the Sadducees are at it again. As long as so many in our nation behave like sheep, it will never end. Or, as someone once said, if you don’t stand for something, you can fall for anything, including Bachmann’s apocalyptic delusions of grandeur.
Jesus Christ is the Son of The Most High.
The wicked will not see.
Take a closer look at your surroundings there are organizatons today that parallel the description of the whore riding
the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns.
The USA fits the description of the whore riding the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns by control of the presidents
through the United Nations (the beast). She makes war for profit and control over the maddening wine of her fornication.
Black gold, the whole world is addicted to oil and it is in America where petroleum was first refined into gasoline.
The woman you saw is that great city that rules over the kings of the earth. Rev 17:18 New York City headquarters of the United Nations land purchased by Rockefeller Jr.
Here is where the largest luciferian goddess statue of the Babylonians stands, Lady Liberty.
There are 5 powerfull permanent members in the security counsil of the United Nations and soon to add a couple more permanent members possibly to make 7 , some demanding a permanent seat like Germany, Brasil, Japan, and India because of the large amounts of money they pitch in to support the many organizations it has created like the WTO, IMF, IAEA just to name a few. The WTO controls the food and has divided the world into 10 regions one is NAFTA their old logo were 10 horns their new logo is an inverted 666 it also looks like claws with a grip around the world. The IMF is a world bank that lends money and makes false promisses to the 3rd world Countries(also the 10 horns) to take over their natural resourses, the list of lies and deception goes on.They are directly responsible for the death of millions of people through out the whole world since their creation.
USA (babylon, eagle with wings ), UK (mother of babylon, the lion), Russia (gog-magog, the bear,
army from the north), China (the dragon paying for the wars) and France the leopard through the United Nations control the 7 continents, seas( “the 7 heads are 7 mountains on which
the woman sits”. Rev 17:9), with peacekeepers that rape and kill and are responsible for using starvation as a weapon of war.” And I saw a beast coming out of the sea.It had 7 heads
and 10 horns with 10 crowns in each horn and each head a blasphemous name”. Rev 13:1
Resolution 666 of the United Nations Security Counsil is just that using starvation as a weapon of war againts Iraq/Kuwat/Babylon. All these permanent countries are strong as IRON.
There are 10 non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly of the United Nations that share the power with the 5 (IRON) permanent members, for 2 years their vote counts.
Non-permanent Countries are weak as CLAY
We know this is just a put on as we saw the Bush administration go into Iraq with only 4 votes and not 9 out of the 15, 5 permanent and 10 non-permanet members. This clearly lets us see who is in control of the UN in other words who rides the United Nations. The fact that there were no weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq and those responsible for killing millions for raging war are not behind bars for the rest of their lives is aggravating and scary. Taking down the World Trade Center is just a little example of what they are willing and capable of doing and getting away with to get the people to accept war much easier just like Pearl Harbor.
But we know that iron and clay do not mix we also know that CORPORATE AMERICA has wiped out large populations in this weak Countries and continues to kill and slotter in the wars it rages and the weak or clay Countries hate CORPORATE AMERICA and its in their hearts to give back double as what she is dishing out to them. “As the toes were partly iron and partly clay so this kingdom (NATIONS) will be partly strong and partly brittel. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay
so the people will be a mixture and will not remain UNITED anymore than iron mixes with clay”. Daniel 2:42
The Roman Catholic Church is responsible for todays false Christianity and religious confussion. Most if not all Christian religions are tentacles of the Roman Catholic Church that have MAKING MONEY at the top of their list in common and will never admit to the fact that they are responsible for the worship of statues, self proclaimed saints, made Mother of Christ into a goddess, stand between you and Christ and many more blasphemies. Some continue to promote war and the slotter continues at a greater scale than ever before “After that, in my vision at night I looked and there before me was a fourth beast terrifying and very powerfull. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left”.It was different from all the former beast, and it had 10 horns.Daniel 7:7
No church will ever tell you any of the above or even want to go there.
This comment is wacko and scary, for it shows precisely the kind of un-Christian Christian thinking that has permeated our society and discourse. It’s as if people have a global death wish. This kind of thinking is what leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy, something I would think God would have no problem disapproving of. It exonerates us from doing everything we can to make this world a better place, and takes responsibility away from those in authority in our society for their policies and actions.