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Call me any name in the book, but I actually firmly believe a lot of what was discussed at this conference. The author of this article is just as venomous in his hatred for and bias against Christianity, as he claims that the lectures were against everybody else.
The Bible is very clear on many of these issues:
Following the "Rapture" — the supposed moment when Jesus Christ will suddenly appear and all the saved will be "caught up to meet him in the air" — leaving the rest of Earth's billions to plague, pestilence, famine and war, there will be seven years of the "Tribulation."
It's based on Revelation, and other NT books. The imminent return of Jesus Christ will of course be met with skepticism, (veiled fear) by those who hold no stock in it.
How the Christian "God of love" treats those "left behind" makes for lurid reading indeed.
God is also a just, fair God. "Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth." The whole "God is love" thing is only one side. It's the side that mainline denominational churches have been preaching for years in an attempt to make religion 'user friendly' again. Those churches have just chosen to omit the parts about God's judgment against sinners because it would not draw the crowds like a good 'feel good' message would.
To sum up the essence of the three speaker's messages all that long Saturday, I have never heard so much venom and dangerous ignorance spouted before an utterly unquestioning, otherwise normal-looking crowd in my life.
Who's labelling who? Who's biased?
There were stunning statements about humans having been only 6,000 years on Earth and other denials of contemporary geology and biology. And we learned that the Rapture, which could happen any second now, but certainly within the next 40 years, will instantly sweep all the "saved" Americans (perhaps one-half the population) to heaven, leaving the United States as "a Third World country" with the European Union becoming the revived Roman Empire.
I firmly believe this myself, as the Bible, specifically the NT (which has been around for 2000 years) has been telling us about this all along.
Applause greeted these words: "Allah and Jehovah are not the same God ... Islam is a Satanic religion ...We will never be able to understand their (Muslim) mentality ... They're going to attack Israel for certain. ..."
This one is a little harder for the "tolerant" generation. But I firmly do believe that God and Allah are NOT the same God. I also believe that Israel will be involved in a major war against Muslim countries in the not too distant future. Politically it makes some sense, you have to admit.
The idea of peace in the Middle East was denounced — specially any accord granting any land whatever to the Palestinians.
The Bible (again, very old, yet verifiably accurate document) says that in the end times governments all over the world will preach one, unified message - peace. Everybody will be looking for peace. Isn't that exactly what everyone is looking for, even now??? Doesn't it make sense? Middle East, Africa, ???
A terrible, final war in the region is inevitable.
How can you not agree with this statement?
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I have faith in a few things - divinity and grace
But even when I'm on my knees I know the devil preys
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