Is the moral decline of America accelerating? Recently we have seen an avalanche of headlines that show how bad the moral collapse of America is getting. Washington D.C. has become an absolute cesspool of corruption, but the rest of the nation is headed straight into the moral toilet as well. But we should not be surprised. This is what happens when a nation rejects God. Everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes, and it is rapidly leading to moral chaos. Let us pray for our fellow Americans and let us show lots of love in the midst of this mess. As evil grows stronger and hearts grow cold, those who let the love of Christ show will shine out like brilliant stars on a very dark night.
The following are 16 examples from just this past week that show how the moral collapse of America is accelerating....
#1) It turns out that the Democrats are engaging in really dirty politics in a final attempt to get the health care "reform" bill passed.
#2) The opening prayer at the opening session of the Virginia General Assembly was delivered by a radical imam.
#3) The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a "no-adults-welcome" panel at the United Nations this past week where Planned Parenthood workers were allowed to distribute a brochure entitled "Healthy, Happy and Hot."
#5) Two members of Congress have introduced new legislation that is designed to dramatically expand President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.
#6) A 10 year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop genetically modified rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded huge fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and "muscular" shoulders.
#7) U.S. health officials announced on Tuesday that approximately 16 percent of all Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes.
#8) The U.S. government budget deficit for the month of February was over 220 billion dollars - which set a new all-time record for one month.
#10) But apparently Eric Massa was involved in some questionable activities as well. Startling new allegations regarding ex-Congressman Massa are starting to come out.
#11) Will the coming 21% cut in Medicare payments force many doctors to start boycotting Medicare patients?
#13) After a student at one community college in California gave a speech in class about his Christian beliefs and values, the instructor refused to give him a grade and instead wrote on his evaluation form, "Ask God what your grade is."
#16) A Mississippi county school board announced on Wednesday that it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.
One "cutting edge" evangelical church in the Seattle area just held a meeting during which people got tatoos in front of the church during the service.
That's right - people getting tatoos up on stage while the service was going on.
Reportedly the church teaches that tatoos are "amoral" - neither right nor wrong.
This is what is going to happen in the last days. People are not going to read the Scriptures and corrupt preachers are going to lead people down paths that they should not go.
The Scriptures are very clear about how God feels about tatoos. In Leviticus 19:28, God told His people exactly how He feels about them:
Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
So has God changed his mind now that we live in "New Testament" times?
No.
God does not change. In fact, God is very clear about his unchanging nature in Malachi 3:6:
For I am the LORD, I do not change
So what they are doing in that Seattle church is in direct contradiction to God's commandments.
But that is what happens when people surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.
To read more about what the Bible has to say about tatoos, we encourage you to check out the recent article we posted about this topic on our new website.....
On a recent broadcast of the Oprah Winfrey show, not one, but two Christian pastors emphatically declared that "being gay is a gift from God."
In fact, in the stunning video footage below you will see one of the Christian ministers tell a gay person that he "is gay by divine right" and that part of being made in the image and likeness of God is to be gay because God made him that way.
Just check out this amazing video footage. You will definitely want to watch it more than once.....
Now Oprah's very strong promotion of gay marriage and the gay agenda has been known for a long time, but she has definitely taken things to a whole new level by having Christian ministers on her show who are openly teaching that being gay is a gift from God.
This is just another indication of the extent to which Oprah Winfrey is willing to go to try to influence spirituality in America.
Earlier this week we published an article on our new blog entitled "Oprah Winfrey: Preparing The Way For The One World Religion?" which went into great detail in explaining how Oprah is attempting to reshape and redefine traditional Christianity. Oprah does not simply have a personal obsession with "spirituality" at this point. Now she is actively attempting to become one of the most influential spiritual leaders of this generation.
As far as the Christian ministers on Oprah's program, perhaps they have never had the chance to read Romans 1:26-27.....
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
The reality is that the vast majority of Americans are now bound up in a variety of sexual sin: adultery, fornication, pornography, lust, orgies, etc. etc.
We should dearly love everyone who is caught up in any type of sin and pray that they will turn to God and be set free.
These are the end times and the reality is that wickedness is going to continue to increase. As sin continues to prosper, may we all dramatically increase our love so that we may shine like lights in the darkness.
Rick Warren's prayer at the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama is already most possibly the most anticipated prayer in American history. His choice has generated tremendous controversy on both sides of the political spectrum, and when he takes the podium to pray there is one word that people will be listening for more than any other: Jesus.
At the swearing in of George W. Bush in 2001, Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell were both severely criticized for using the name of Jesus.
Now liberal activists will be ready to pounce on Warren if he does try to use that name, and conservative Christians will be ready to pounce on Warren if he does not use it.
When Warren was directly asked about this, he simply told the Associated Press this: "I'm a Christian pastor so I will pray the only kind of prayer I know how to pray."
“President-elect Obama has again demonstrated his genuine commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in search of common ground," Warren wrote in a statement that was quoted in Christianity Today.
Bishop Robinson, however, does not feel the same warm feelings for Rick Warren.
Bishop Robinson recently described his feelings this way to The New York Times: “we’re talking about putting someone up front and center at what will be the most watched inauguration in history, and asking his blessing on the nation. And the God that he’s praying to is not the God that I know.”
So will Bishop Robinson use the name of Jesus in his prayer? It does not sound likely.....
"While that is a holy and sacred text to me, it is not for many Americans," Robinson explained to the Concord Monitor. "I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayer. This is a prayer for the whole nation."
It will certainly be a very intriguing inauguration that is for sure.
How ironic is it that at one of the biggest celebrations in American history that some of the most highly anticipated moments are going to be the times of prayer?
Let's wait and see what happens - this is going to be interesting.
There are literally thousands and thousands of Christians across the United States and Canada who are taking "Christian yoga" classes this very day.
In fact, there are websites like www.christianyoga.com that enthusiastically promote a "Christian" form of these ancient practices.
The truth is that over ten million Americans are practicing some form of yoga, but the vast majority of them have absolutely no idea what they are involving themselves in. The reality is that you can't take yoga out of Hinduism and you can't take the Hinduism out of yoga.
For instance, did you know that "yoga" is literally a Sanskrit word that means to yoke with Brahman?
Did you know that many of the mantras that yoga instructors have their followers chant are actually the names of Hindu gods?
Did you know that many of the practices of yoga are specifically designed to call forth Hindu deities?
Did you know that a large percentage of those who get involved with yoga also get involved with Hinduism, New Age religion and the occult?
The truth is that yoga and Christianity are diametrically opposed to each other, and if you are a Christian that is involved with yoga then you really need to watch this short YouTube video:
It's official. Two major surveys are showing that the majority of American Christians believe that accepting Jesus Christ as savior is NOT the only way to eternal life.
USAToday is reporting on an almost unbelievable new survey that has found that 52 percent of American Christians believe that eternal life is not exclusively for those who accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
A different survey that was taken earlier this year by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 57 percent of evangelical Christians in America believe that "many religions can lead to eternal life".
That shocking study revealed what many Christians have known for quite some time - apostasy among "evangelical Christians" is spreading, and it is spreading rapidly.
Evangelical Christians are supposedly those who follow the teachings of the Bible the closest. But this survey shows that even a majority of them do not even believe in the most fundamental precepts of the Christians faith.
For example, John 14:6 says the following:
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
If there was another way for our sins to be forgiven, then why did Jesus need to die on the cross? If there were other ways to salvation, then Jesus could have come down to earth, pointed out a bunch of other ways to get to heaven, and then could have gone back up to heaven without having to deal with the cross.
But the reality is that there was no other way for our sins to be paid for.
And yet these new surveys reveal that a majority of American Christians now believe that there are other ways to heaven.
The Pew survey also revealed that 45% of Americans as a whole say they seldom or never read their religion's holy books.
Perhaps if more Americans were reading the Bible then they would know what is truth and what is error. Instead, Americans have surrounded themselves with preachers and self-help coaches and ministers who tell them what they want to hear, who always make them feel comfortable and who never tell them about sin, holiness or the judgment of God.
The current situation in America reminds us of 2 Timothy 4:3.....
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
Most Americans think that December 25th became a holiday when Catholics decided to make that day the celebration of the birth of Christ. But that is just not true. Before Christmas was ever invented, December 25th was known as "the birthday of the unconquered sun" and it was celebrated as the birthday of pagan gods such as Mithras, Attis, Sol, Dionysus and others.
Most Americans also do not realize that Yule is the name of a major pagan holiday that is celebrated today by thousands upon thousands of people around the world.
Yule was celebrated by the pagans of northern Europe from late December to early January for centuries. When you offer "yuletide" greetings you are acknowledging this celebration. Yule logs were traditionally lit to honor the god "Thor". The holiday would continue until the Yule log burned out, which could take as many as twelve days. Thus this is where we get the "12 days of Christmas". Even an early form of Santa Claus can all be traced back to ancient Yule celebrations.
Another one of the pagan pre-Christian festivals was called Saturnalia.
Saturnalia was a holiday when the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of their god Saturn, which was on the 17th of December and the festival would last for a whole week until the 23rd of December.
Later on, the Romans also started holding a festival on December 25 called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which means "the birthday of the unconquered sun."
In the year 350 A.D., Pope Julius I declared that "Christ’s birth" would be celebrated on December 25th from then on.
Apparently his rationale was that he was trying to make it easier for pagan Romans to convert to Christianity.
But Jesus was not born on December 25th.
It would have been way too cold for shepherds to be out with their sheep at night during that time.
Today there is more pressure than ever on Christian churches to make Christmas "less offensive" and to try to make it "more inclusive" to people of other religions.
Some of the words that have been censored out of traditional carols include "king", "son" and "virgin".
The famous carol "O Come All Ye Faithful" has also been changed. "O come let us adore Him" has been changed in one U.K. church to "O come in adoration", because it was feared that the original version was sexist.
What kind of world will it be when people can't put up decorations anymore? Whatever happened to freedom of expression?
Meanwhile, Anglicans are doing everything they can to include other religions in their holiday displays. Hindu snowmen and a Chinese dragon will be included in two different Christmas displays in an attempt to make Christmas more "inclusive" of other religions. The Hindu snowmen will be dressed in turbans and will have bindi dots on their foreheads.
Wow!
Will Hindus and Muslims start including Jesus Christ in their holiday displays?
I certainly doubt it.
These stories remind us of what Jesus said in Mark 8:38.....
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.
But the truth is that December 25 was a pagan holiday long before the institutional church ever celebrated it as "Christmas". If you do not know about the origins of Christmas, the following video will definitely open your eyes:
In an absolutely stunning new interview, President George W. Bush publicly said that the Bible is "probably not" literally true, that he prays to the same God that other major religions do and that he believes the scientific proof for evolution.
When asked if he believed that the Bible was literally true, President Bush responded this way:
"Probably not. No, I'm not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it."
This interview will come as a disappointment to many evangelical Christians who rabidly supported Bush through two rocky terms as president.
The reality is that George W. Bush's religious beliefs are not compatible with evangelical Christianity.
For example, President George W. Bush has openly said many times that Christians, Muslims and all other religions pray to the same God. In stunning public statements, Bush has admitted that he prays to the God of Islam, that non-Christians and Muslims will go to heaven and that he has "nothing but praise" for Islam.
You don't believe this?
President Bush has been very open about these things.
CHARLES GIBSON:Do we all worship the same God, Christian and Muslim?
PRESIDENT BUSH:I think we do.
CHARLES GIBSON:Does ...
PRESIDENT BUSH:We have different routes of getting to the Almighty.
(Later in the interview.....)
CHARLES GIBSON:Do Christians and non-Christians and Muslims go to heaven in your mind?
PRESIDENT BUSH:Yes, they do. We have different routes of getting there.
But it wasn't just during the Charles Gibson interview that Bush declared himself to be a universalist.....
In a stunning interview with Al Arabiya television, Bush said, "I believe in an almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God."
During that same interview Bush also said, "I believe there is a universal God. I believe the God that the Muslim prays to is the same God that I pray to. After all, we all came from Abraham. I believe in that universality."
Imagine this: You wake up one day and notice that all the big networks are airing a 2 hour documentary in prime time that night starring YOU. You are excited because you think that now you will be world famous, but your excitement turns to horror as you discover that the 2 hour documentary will be revealing all of the most horrible, disgusting and wicked things you ever thought, did and said.
If you are like most people, you would want to run away from society forever and never come back.
Why?
The truth is that ALL of us have done evil. We all have done disgusting and horrible things we would never want the world to know. We like to think of ourselves as "good", but all of us know that if our private thoughts, our private actions and our most wicked deeds were televised around the world it would expose us as we really are.
So no person, religious or otherwise, should ever look down on someone else.
Hopefully the readers of this blog don't think that we are sitting up on our high horse looking down on others.
As we document the increasing wickedness of America, the reality is that it is not because we have it all together either. The Scriptures say that ALL have sinned and that ALL need the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, some people have kind of done the opposite and have made "do not judge" into a rule that says that nobody can ever say anything that anyone does is wrong.
But that is not what being judgmental means.
It is not being judgmental to say what the law is.
It IS being judgmental to determine if someone in particular is breaking that law.
For example, saying "do not commit adultery" is not being judgmental.
But sitting there and thinking that someone is cheating on their spouse when you don't know that for a fact is being judgmental.
Do you see the difference?
The reality is that we will all stand before God someday and He will judge us.
Since all of us have sinned, that puts us in a very bad position.
But the good news is that Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins on the cross.
If we will invite Jesus into our lives, God will forgive our sins and will give us eternal life.
But if we refuse Christ's payment for our sin, then we will have to pay for our own sin.
Those who have received Christ and are saved don't have any reason to look down on others. We have simply reached out for a "life preserver" and we should be thankful for the amazing mercy of God.
Let us all tell the news of the great mercy of God to as many people as we can.
For many religious organizations this time of the year is supposed to be a very holy time. But when we scan recent news headlines what do we find? We find atheists and witches on the march and Catholics in full retreat.
One atheist group has been permitted to post an anti-religion sign next to a Christian nativity scene and a "holiday tree" in a display in the state capitol of the state of Washington. A portion of the atheist message on the sign reads: "There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
Who ever thought we would see a day when messages such as that become part of holiday displays?
Signs such as the one at the top of this article are becoming increasingly common throughout America.
Apparently they are determined to make sure that God does not protect us.
Meanwhile, although the economy is getting worse, business is booming for psychics, astrologers and witches. With times getting tough, more Americans than ever are seeking supernatural help from sources other than God.
So are the major religious organizations fighting back?
Instead of fighting for truth, most of them seem to be in full retreat.
Apparently someone in the Vatican wants to make sure that priests do not make any homosexuals in attendance feel uncomfortable.
Other religious organizations are a big mess as well.
For instance, the split in the Episcopal church is getting worse. It is a disgrace to see the Episcopal church fall apart in front of the whole world.
The truth is that wickedness is advancing on all fronts. Did you know that Barack Obama has selected the head of a well-known abortion activist group to be his White House communications director? Things like this happen so frequently now that they don't even get noticed.
Hopefully this last story will shock you all a bit. A New York City survey has revealed that almost ten percent of men who say they're straight have sex ONLY with other men. The survey also found that 10% of all married men reported same-sex sexual behavior during the past year.
In a stunning memo, Catholic bishops are telling priests not to assume that every person attending their services is a heterosexual. This represents a fundamental change on the part of the Catholic organization.
Catholic priests are also being encouraged to put up posters advertising "support services" for homosexuals, and to do whatever they can to make them feel welcome.
English gay rights activist Peter Tatchell said the following about this memo:
"It's sympathetic, understanding message is a big improvement on the past homophobia of some Catholic pronouncements on homosexuality."
What do you all think about this change by the Catholics? Feel free to leave a comment below.
We are very excited to announce the release of our brand new YouTube video.
If you have watched our YouTube videos in the past, it may surprise you that we have made a video about yoga.
But after we began researching this topic, we discovered that the truth about yoga is more shocking than we ever imagined it would be.
Well over 10 million Americans are now practicing some form of yoga, but the vast majority of these people have absolutely no idea what they are involving themselves in.
The truth is that you can't take yoga out of Hinduism and you can't take the Hinduism out of yoga.
For instance, did you know that "yoga" is literally a Sanskrit word that means to yoke with Brahman?
Did you know that many of the mantras that yoga instructors have their followers chant are actually the names of Hindu gods?
Did you know that many of the practices of yoga are specifically designed to call forth Hindu deities?
Did you know that a large percentage of people who get involved with yoga also get involved with Hinduism, New Age religion and the occult?
The truth is that yoga and Christianity are completely opposed to each other.
If you are a Christian that is involved with yoga then you really need to watch this video:
Did you know that Oprah Winfrey actually claims that her New Age religious beliefs and Christianity are 100 percent compatible?
Did you know that she actually quotes Bible verses in support of her false religion?
As millions of Christians sit in churches each Sunday morning, they are sitting there with a whole lot of confusion in their heads.
Some churches are teaching the truth about the foundations of the Christian faith, but the majority of churches are not. But what makes things worse is the hours upon hours of television these Christians are absorbing each week where they hear negative messages about the traditional Christian faith from celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey.
Oprah Winfrey claims that the New Age principles she is teaching do not contradict Christianity while at the same time she viciously attacks the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith and publicly rips them to pieces:
One of the reasons that the moral fabric of America is coming apart like a 20 dollar suit is that Americans have rejected the authority of the Bible as the Word of God.
There has been a relentless assault on the Bible in America's movies, television, literature and other media. But rather than being able to defend the Bible, we have noticed in our interactions with America's pastors and spiritual leaders that most of them have NO IDEA where the Bible came from.
In particular, we have noticed that there is serious confusion regarding the development of the New Testament.
Even most Christian "leaders" have fallen for the misconception that a bunch of people sat around a big table during some grand "council" (such as the Council of Nicaea) called by Rome and picked out which books would go into the Bible.
First of all, the canon of the New Testament was not even remotely on the agenda at the Council of Nicaea:
But that hasn't stopped Dan Brown, the author of the Davinci Code, and many others from trying to promote the claim that that New Testament books were not decided upon until the 4th century during the Roman Catholic councils.
So does this claim have any merit whatsoever?
Well, for starters, Dan Brown is not a religious expert in the least. In fact, Dan Brown admitted in court that his wife did most of the research for the Davinci Code:
The truth is that the Davinci Code is interesting fiction, but the facts about the New Testament tell us an entirely different story:
Fact #1) Paul's letters were already considered scripture in the mid 1st century. Take a look at how the apostle Peter himself called Paul's letters Scripture:
2 Peter 3:14-16
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Fact #2) The apostle Paul, writing between A.D. 62 and A.D. 65, quoted Luke 10:7 and called it Scripture:
Luke 10:7
Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages.
Now look at how Paul quoted Luke 10:7 as Scripture in 1 Timothy 5:18....
For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages."
This clearly establishes that the apostle Paul himself considered the gospel of Luke to be Scripture in the middle of the 1st century.
Fact #3) Irenaeus, writing about 170 A.D., tells us that the four-fold gospel was already a rock solid fact by then:
But it is not possible that the Gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are. For since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the church has been scattered throughout the world, and since the "pillar and ground" of the church is the Gospel and the spirit of life, it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing incorruption on every side, and vivifying human afresh. From this fact, it is evident that the Logos, the fashioner [demiourgos] of all, he that sits on the cherubim and holds all things together, when he was manifested to humanity, gave us the gospel under four forms but bound together by one spirit. (Against Heresies 3.11.8)
Fact #4) The fact of the four-fold gospel is also reflected in the "Muratorian Fragment" which was written about the same time (around 170 A.D.) that Irenaeus was writing. The Muratorian Fragment lists for us almost the entire New Testament canon. The document may have indeed been a complete list of New Testament books, but we only have a portion of the ancient document. While we do not have the very beginning of the document or the end of the document, the portion of the document that we do have tells us that there are FOUR (and only four) gospels.
Fact #5) We have approximately 50 manuscripts of the New Testament that PRE-DATE the Roman takeover of the established church in the 4th century. So there WAS a New Testament before Rome ever called a "council".
Fact #6) We have more than 32 THOUSAND New Testament quotations from the early church writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. In fact, we could recreate virtually the entire New Testament just from the quotes of the early church writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. We can be QUITE certain that the New Testament we have today has come down to us just as it was from the earliest days, and we can be QUITE certain what the early Christians of the 2nd and 3rd centuries considered to be Scripture.
Yes, the Roman government came along in the 4th century and corrupted and paganized the institutional church. There were many Christians who resisted this, and they were persecuted brutally. However, Christianity and the Bible were doing JUST FINE before Rome ever came on the scene.
Did you realize that the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized? Did you know that it is paid for with American tax dollars? The truth is that the power elite is vigorously promoting a radical eugenics agenda worldwide and is often using American taxpayer dollars to get it done.
Will This Election Radically Change The Direction Of America?
Many conservative Republicans fear that a Barack Obama victory in this election would turn America sharply to the left.
Others are now asking this question: Does the radical left have a "how-to plan" to criminalize true Christianity?
Televangelist Problems
Crystal Cathedral founder Robert Schuller has removed his son as the preacher on his weekly "Hour of Power" television broadcast. It is not known at this time what caused the rift between them.
Long before October 31st was "All Hallows' Eve" (the evening before the "All Saints Day" of Catholicism) it was known as Samhain, and it was the biggest pagan holiday of the year.
It is still the biggest pagan holiday of the year.
At the bottom of this article we have posted the brand new YouTube video about Halloween that we just released. We would encourage you to watch it and learn the stunning truth about this holiday.
Did you realize that Samhain was celebrated on October 31st for centuries before the word "Halloween" was even invented?
Did you realize that Samhain is still celebrated by huge numbers of people today?
Did you realize that many of the "Halloween traditions" of today can trace back to the pagan practices of ancient peoples?
Did you realize that the Lord commanded us not to be involved in the types of activities that take place on Halloween?
Some of you may think Halloween is a harmless holiday, but the reality is that this is the most important day of the year for Wiccans, witches, warlocks, Satanists and most people who are into the occult.
The dark power behind these people is real and there are dark things that happen on Halloween that are very real even though you may not know about them.
It is time to learn the shocking truth about Halloween:
Dave Olson, the director of church planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church, has done some really interesting research into the church attendance patterns of Americans.
Olson's findings contain a ton of bad news. For starters, his research found that the percentage of Americans regularly attending church is only 18.7%.
Olson has put his findings into an eye opening slideshow entitled "Twelve Surprising Facts about the US Church".
The percentage of people who attended a Christian church each week decreased significantly between 1990 and 2000.
Only one state, Hawaii, actually saw an increase in the percentage of the population attending church between 1990 and 2000. Every other state in the entire nation saw a decrease in church attendance.
That is something I always wondered about growing up.
It was not until I started doing some research that I began to learn the truth.
Our old reference books actually told us the truth about these things......
The Britannica Encyclopedia (1934) stated:
"EASTER (es’ter). Ostara, or Eastre, was the goddess of Spring in the religion of the ancient Angles and Saxons. Every April a festival was celebrated in her honor. With the beginnings of Christianity, the old gods were put aside. From then on the festival was celebrated in honor of the resurrection of Christ, but was still known as Easter after the old goddess."
So why do we celebrate "Easter"?
Have you ever heard of "Ishtar" or "Ashtoreth"? - Those are ancient names of the same pagan fertility goddess.
Easter "eggs" and bunny rabbits are pagan fertility symbols that celebrate this pagan fertility goddess, and they have been for centuries and centuries.
Jesus did not die on "Easter".
Do you want to know when Jesus died?
He died during the Passover season.
So why do Christians not celebrate the holiday of Passover?
Passover perfectly foreshadowed the sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah.
Passover was prophetically fulfilled by Jesus the Messiah.
The Last Supper was actually a Passover meal (just look it up in the Scriptures).
During the Last Supper Jesus said to do this meal in memory of Him.
And did you know that we will celebrate the Passover during the 1000 year reign of Christ (see Ezekiel 45-46)?
Did you know that "Easter" was celebrated by ancient civilizations such as the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, and the Philistines? Did you know that ritual pagan sex acts were involved with the celebration of "Easter"?
So why have we forsaken a holiday which predicted the sacrifice of Jesus, which is full of symbolism about Jesus, which is during the precise time when Jesus died and rose again and which God tells us in the Scriptures to remember?
Why have we instead been celebrating a pagan fertility festival that is named after a pagan fertility goddess and is filled with pagan symbols and traditions?
The video below contains even more information on this:
America has turned against God and every day there are more stories in the news that illustrate this sad reality. Thank you for visiting and please help us get the word out about this blog.
