Resignation

Recently I gave my resignation as an elder of a congregation that I am apart of.  My wife and I also withdrew our membership.  

It wasn’t a total surprise that this decision had to be made.  It also wasn’t a surprise that all of the other elders did not even give so much as an email to why I gave my resignation.  It has been a week.  For they knew why. 

I had not hidden what I believed about the way things were heading in our congregation and in the denomination as a whole.  

There are many ways in which satan was infiltrating the church but the one that I could not let go is the ecumenical Roman Catholic fruit that was consistently rearing its unmistakable head.  Not saying I let the other evil things go.

I was given the opportunity at one of our monthly elder meetings to explain biblically why we could not do ministry with Roman Catholics.  From that meeting I was called divisive.  I was also asked if I could keep my mouth shut in future meetings (Gag Order). The funny thing is that in the meeting I did not speak out of turn but was specifically requested in that meeting to give the presentation about the biblical faith verses Roman Catholic perspective.  

Another outcome from the meeting when I gave my presentation was that one of the other elders resigned because he was in support of doing ministry with Roman Catholics.  My response to him was that if we did ministry with Roman Catholics we would be evil workers.  He then asked me if I was calling him an evil worker.  I responded by saying that if you do ministry with Roman Catholics you would be. 

 A couple things to note, are that this said elder also had many other issues one of them is having a homosexual son, in which has without a doubt caused variance in his thinking and faith. Secondly, after his first wife died he married a second wife who is a supposed ex Roman Catholic from a Roman Catholic family.  It is my belief that she is still very much Roman Catholic.

Other things that brought on my resignation:

-many of the congregations parents sending their children to Roman Catholic schools 

-Marrying Roman Catholic wives (the one above not being the only one)

-This year for the first time -  celebrating Halloween in a so called christian way

-emerging ideas such as contemplative prayer, 

-the church’s present flavor of the week - The Story by Max Lucado

-Billy Graham Association ministries

-Ellel ministries 

-having anglicans come and read scripture in the services and in turn reading it in theirs

-seeker sensitive programs

-etc.

It is my hope that the true believers that are still left in the congregation will be bold enough to continue to stand for Jesus and his word.  But I have a feeling this church is too far down the slippery slope.

I told myself that I would stick it out in this church and say what was needing to be said.  When my wife and I were younger, not that I am old, we were in a church that had people roaring like lions and doing all weird kinds of manifestations.  I was very convicted about what was going on in it but said nothing and just left.  

I did not stay silent in this church.  We had been apart of this congregation for over 10 years.

I hesitantly became an elder 3 years ago knowing that there would be a reckoning and there definitely was.

During this time I was able to address our denominations university and their propensity to involve themselves with Roman Catholics.  Many of their staff have Jesuit educations and Roman Catholic school degrees.

I was able to speak directly to our denominations president about many of the issues I have stated previously.  He was very uncomfortable for the 40 minutes that I spoke with him.  He is in support of Roman Catholics and our denomination coming together and to lend it credibility he dropped Billy Grahams name.  I told him he did not want to go there.

So am I right to have left?  I definitely believe it was the right decision not only for my self but also for my wife and kids.  I believe we are being obedient to God's word.  It is still my hope and prayer that the wolves that have crept into this church will be exposed and that people will be able to see through the Blizzard of Bugs.

Masonic Infiltrators

I opened up the the local paper last week and in the obituaries a picture of man caught my attention.  The man in the picture was a Free Mason that was sporting his full masonic garb.

I read through the summary of his life and found a particular item to be quite interesting.       He was an elder in a Presbyterian Church in the small city that I am from since 1965.  

He also achieved Grand First Principle of the Royal Arch.  Why is this information about him being an elder of a church and also at the same time a Free mason displayed so freely?

Simple. There are not many discerning Christians any more so why hide.  As long as you are influential, have a good personality and can stage a little Christian theatrics, you are in line to become an elder of a church.  What!  Wait a second!  There is no way that this kind of hypocrisy should be tolerated.  But unfortunately it is.

This information however is not surprising.  People that oppose the truth of Gods word are becoming more and more bold about flaunting their unbiblical practices.  Masonry is filled with secrets and according to the website of the Royal arch masons they are supposedly revealed all  the secrets.  Here is what I found on the webpage:  http://www.saskram.ca/welcome/about.html

Why Become a Royal Arch Mason? 

The Royal Arch Degree is the completion of the whole system of Freemasonry! As a Master Mason, you will have received your first three degrees in Masonry in the Craft or Symbolic Lodge. According to Masonic legend, every man raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason received "substitute secrets", as the "true secrets" were lost. It may provide a surprise to the new Master Mason, believing his work is completed, to be told that the secrets pertaining to the ceremony will not be given him! He has, in fact, only received the first half of the Master Mason degree. Becoming a Royal Arch Mason completes the degree series. The veil is lifted and the true secrets rediscovered in the degree of the Holy Royal Arch and in that degree only. Hence, no man actually becomes a complete Master Mason until he is exalted to that holy order. Some would have the newly raised Master Mason believe that he can receive the true secrets in a degree other than the Royal Arch. This is not true, historically or otherwise. The mother Grand Lodge of England was so emphatic regarding the necessity of the Royal Arch degree that, many years ago, it set forth this as Paragraph One (1) of its Laws and Regulations: "By the solemn act of the union between the two Grand Lodges of Freemasons of England in December, 1813, it was declared and pronounced that Pure Ancient Masonry consists of three degrees and no more, viz: those of the Entered Apprentice, the Fellowcraft, and the Master Mason, INCLUDING THE SUPREME ORDER OF THE HOLY ROYAL ARCH" Thus only those who have attained the Royal Arch may be said to have completed their Masonic Work

How can any man who calls himself a Christian have any involvement with the occult?  The only answer for that question is that we cannot.  It is time that God’s word sheds some light on the Blizzard of Bugs!  

We Christians need to dust off our bibles and expose from God’s word these men and women that have infiltrated the church with the lies of the evil one.  It is time that we defend the faith that was once delivered to the saints.  

Think about it.  The Lord Jesus died for us so that we intern could have life.  With much suffering his apostles delivered the gospel so that we could have the knowledge of salvation. Let us not trample on the grace that was freely given to us.  Let us put on the full armor of God and do what we have been called to do.  

The Beginning of Blizzard of Bugs

I am sitting at the optometrist trying to come up with what is going to be my first blog post.  I am not worried about too many people reading the blog in the first place, hence the title of the blog, Blizzard of Bugs.

The name, Blizzard of Bugs, where does it come from within my context?

My wife and I were driving down a gravel road and all of a sudden all that we could see were bugs.  My wife, a little freaked out yells, "Its like a Blizzard of Bugs".  She definitely defined exactly what was transpiring because there were lots and lots of bugs.  We could see nothing else but a moving blackness.  What is it that I am trying to say?  Maybe, You can't see the forest for the trees, who knows?  It is probably anyone's guess.  But I will try to define for you what went through my mind on that gravel road and how the ensuing Blizzard of Bugs analogy transpired.

It started a few years back when my wife and I had a construction company.  We were Christians that went to Bible school and lived what we considered a decent clean living life.  We were becoming successful in the worlds standards, but was this the life that God had intended for us?  I know now that it wasn't and that God had a different plan.

When the Lord had chastised us and mercifully healed and restored my wife and I back to his plan we would soon discover that we were not the only Christians that were far from obeying him and his word.  This is now where the Blizzard of Bugs analogy started to take shape.  In the next few moments after driving through the Blizzard of Bugs, we started to clue into the fact of how closely an analogy can be made in connection to the climate of the Christian church and a Blizzard of Bugs.

Any discerning Christian knows that we are to obey the word of God.  Right!  Right.  This however is not what is typically going on in the church in 2014.  There are liars and deceivers, men and women who just want to do and hear what ever seems good to them at a particular time in their life.  There are impostors, hypocrites, luke warm, etc.   There are men and women that call themselves Christians and declare that the Bible is not interpretable.  They say that the bible is just full of good stories.  Some professing Christians have even gone as far as to say that the crucifixion itself is simply metaphorical and that it is purely a good story to encourage us to live better moral lives. Then there are those who are continuing to fall into the lie of Roman Catholicism, Mormonism and other cults that do not uphold the teaching of the scriptures.

The above paragraph in part sums up why my blog is named Blizzard of Bugs.  It seems that in this time, spiritually speaking,  most churches are being taken over by deception.  The deception is so great it is like a Blizzard of Bugs, a moving blackness that is blinding and suffocating the world, specifically the church."For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places".

Thankfully, The Lord has always had a remnant through out human history.  In Israel's history there were times when they were serving God and then there were times when they would serve their own hearts and do more wickedly than the wicked around them.  God would then send his prophets and watchmen to warn them.  After a certain time of Israel not taking heed to God's warnings he would judge them.  Right now in this time I see many watchmen and prophets declaring to the church to turn back to God and his word.  Of course, many professing  prophets and watchmen are deceivers.  There are however godly Christian men and woman that are declaring with one accord for the church to turn back and follow the right way and obey his voice. The word of God is that voice and the Holy Spirit is the one that illuminates it for us to understand.

Blizzard of Bugs is an experience that I had down a gravel road that caused me to think about how much is written in the scriptures of the deception that is in the church and in the world.  There is a war going on. That war is for our minds and what we believe.  Where there are Countless amounts of junk biding for our attention.  And the light of the word of God is the only vehicle that is able to lead us through the darkness in the power of the Holy Spirit.