Posted on 05/25/2023 1:12:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Rev. Franklin Graham gave a chilling warning during the keynote Monday night at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Orlando, Florida. He warned church members of “the coming storm” headed for churches and ministries.
There’s a storm coming, and we’ve all got to be prepared.”
Franklin Graham serves as president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and head of Samaritan’s Purse.
Rev. Graham also said that “every demon from hell” has been “turned loose” in our culture today.
“The world has deteriorated so quickly. We cannot be deceived, and we can’t be fooled. We need to get ready and be prepared.”
The Cancel Culture Graham said believers in the United States are “living in a cancel culture that wants to destroy Christian organizations,” adding that “we cannot back up, we can’t retreat, don’t apologize for the Gospel — just declare it, just preach it.”
“They want us to shut our mouths; they don’t want to hear from us. If you’re not going to preach the Gospel, you don’t have anything to worry about,” he said.
“We’re living in a cancel culture, and [big corporations] want to destroy Christian organizations,” he continued.
Graham urged Christian organizations to prepare to defend themselves against the growing cancel culture in business, insurance, banking, and technology and challenged them to continue sharing the hope of Jesus Christ in the face of increasingly difficult circumstances.
“If you’re going to try to proclaim the gospel, they’re going to try to shut you up.”
Noting that if one “doesn’t talk about sin” or “preach the gospel,” then that person doesn’t have anything to worry about in society, he added, “But if you’re going to try to proclaim the gospel, they’re going to try to shut you up.”
Confusion and Lies from Hell The Rev. Franklin Graham has told Liberty University graduates that the nation is being dominated by a “culture of confusion and lies,” which come “from Hell.”
During his remarks, he told graduates that he prayed that “this class will stand for truth,” noting that “our world is changing.”
“It has changed so much, just in the time since you set foot on this campus a few years ago,” said Graham. “Think how much it has changed. The increase in violence, the moral decline.”
“I can’t help but think that the heart of God is grieved as He looks at our world today. Our country. Oh, I love our country, but it’s in a downward spiral morally, spiritually, economically, politically.”
Graham went on to say that he believed the nation was “in a freefall” because the country had “turned our back on God and His truth,” urging the graduates to be a “beacon of light,” “standing on the Word of God” while living in “a culture of confusion and lies.”
Rev. Graham declared that “the Bible doesn’t contain truth, it is the truth,” adding that “every Word of God is true” and that “truth is not what you say it is, truth is what God says it is.”
Graham quoted John 14:6, “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,’” explaining to those gathered that “Jesus is not a way to God, He is the way to God.”
The Culture Lies from Hell “Many churches today have compromised on the authority and truth of God’s holy word. Many of our politicians and leaders have bought into the lies of culture and the woke ideology,” Graham warned.
“The world wants you to believe that we are more than just male and female, that we can be transgender, whatever we choose to identify as. That’s a lie. It’s just a lie from Hell.”
“The world wants you to believe that abortion is OK; that it’s a woman’s choice. It’s a lie…It’s a choice, but it’s murder. It’s a sin.”
“Where does all this come from? It comes from Hell. It comes from Satan. He’s the author, and he’s the father of lies. You see, the world wants you to sit down and shut up. No, don’t you do that? I want you to stand up, to shout out, to lift up your voice, to lift up the truth.
Pastor Grant talks about communism, the ideology from the pits of Hell:
VIDEO AT LINK.........
Spirits, evil spirits are different than demonic possession. BOTH ARE REAL. I saw it in Colombia , the further into the Amazon, the more witchcraft shops, the more young boys missing and found with their hearts cut out.
Evil demonic spirits never go away. They are like dust in the wind. The spirit of Jezebeel, spirit of fear, spirit of greed……only your Faith and God’s mercy and grace will give you “ discernment “, and protection. Before you can defeat these forces, you must acknowledge and accept they are real, then realize God will extend his protection.
Recently we saw the Spirit of Fear descend on huge populations during the Covid debacle, today we are witnessing the Spirit of War descend with this Ukrainian conflict.
Pray daily for Discernment, give Thanks, Praise and Worship- daily.
Satan is not in Hell yet.
Have faith! The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard! Happy Shavout!
Oh boy...another calculation of the years....
With 2 years to go, we’d better see some 100 pound hailstones or something...
Oh I believe those sorts or predictions will happen...but by what calculation or reasoning are you assuming we are 5 years into revelation?
The “seven year tribulation” is one of the eschatologies that is overcome by events. The only sure sign is the Revelation 12:1-2 Great Sign in the Heavens on September 23-24, 2017. That was over five years ago. Total Eclipse that put the first stroke of a X over the USA in August 2017. The final stroke comes in April 2024.
Correction:
The “seven year tribulation” is one of the eschatologies that is overcome by events. The only sure sign is the Revelation 12:1-2 Great Sign in the Heavens on September 23-24, 2017. That was over five years ago. Total Eclipse that put the first stroke of a X over the USA in August 2017. The final stroke comes in April 2027. That is almost a ten year separation.
I think the first you were correct, “knowing good and evil”;
compared to your second, “know good from evil”. They already knew and experienced good but they did not know or experience evil.
Ping
Ezekiel 22 NKJV
Sins of Jerusalem
1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! 3 Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The city sheds blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult.
amen!
I traveled over 300 miles to be in the place of maximum totality time in 2017.
It was AWESOME!
If not demonic, they are possessed.
Mainstream religion is being redefined, via the Overton window, to being Ultra Maga hatespeach.
The democrats are alienating us from god, and the vacuum left will be filled...
I suspect child porn and pedophile behavior is the next to be “normed”.
The sign you are talking about happens one evry 12 years as Jupiter has a 12 year orbit and the same “signs” happen once every twelve years or so. They were talking about this in 2002 and 1990. John was speaking of something different; something truly visionary and symbolic yet spiritually grounded and real at the same time; but not planetary conjunctions and motions. Jupiter takes 12 years to go through all 12 astronomical houses and enters Virgo once every 12 years.
Of course you can ignore the signs. It is up to you to choose.
The sign of the coming of Son of Man which causes the nations to mourn will be something that I would consider a “sign”. Great Signs in the heavens and the earth which are so immediately noticeable and not to be ignored are what I considered noticeable and to be humbled and even warned and chastened by.
Jupiter shows retrograde motion once every twelve years as well. The Saturn thing is supposed to be what...the planet symbolizes Satan chasing the woman with a crown of 12 stars and that is Satan waiting to be thrown down to Earth with his angels after the earth helps the woman and the woman is fleeing into the wilderness for 3.5 years?
Too close to astrology for me. The 3.5 years should have occured or should have been occuring per your timing as the last of the 7 years of tribulation if the planets had any significance.. It wasn’t some 10 year deal but part of the original 7 years tribulation(time, times and a half time) with Israel suffering the last 3.5 years minus by what ever the Lord cuts the time back to...(lest there be no life on Earth saved...God sees that as very important that some humans and other life are left alive)
Still I’ll keep a bit of open mind...there is no fixed time in Revelation in relation to what John saw, if presumably the 2017 conjunctions, of when the big heavenly battle occurs and Satan and his rebelling angels are locked up on this Earth, save for the Angel’s warnings of “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth for Satan is thrown down from the Earth and he is wroth for he knows his time is short”. The planetary conjunction might be a sign that the end is very close but still the events have yet to be set in motion just yet. It is a sign after all, a warning, not the actual event. We do know that when the Dragon chases the woman, there will be 3.5 years before Christ forcefully intervenes on earth.
Israel’s formation was a sign in 1948 that we on Earth have entered into the final times of the gentiles and God’s rule on earth thru Christ and his children, yet many a pastor or calculator have tried to figure out the “dates and times” based on Israel’s founding but have failed. I do think the snowball that started rolling downhill is growing bigger and moving faster now.
That is about how far I’ll go with the planetary/ Revelation sign hypothesis. Prophecies have to be backed up 100 per cent and so will signs when they truly are of God. Fortunately there are other signs that point toward the end being sooner than we think, other than just this one sign of John’s. Even if the 2017 event was what John saw, you can’t plug in any fixed dates or stretches of years to it just yet.
You obviously know a lot about the End Times. If you are here for the 42 month Reign of the Beast, just don’t take his mark or worship his image.
I figured this comment would raise a few hackles....
Fortunately, you are free to believe in and have faith in whatever you choose to.
I am free to believe in, or not believe in, whatever I choose to, or not to .
Ain’t faith wonderful!
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