The Big Lie Of Tithing 10%

1st Corinthians 16:1-2, “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

It bothers me immensely how 99% of pastors pressure their congregation to "give until it hurts." I'll never forget when I attended the shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2013 to 2014. I was sitting in church one Sunday morning. They invited a guest speaker from the Philippines. A major typhoon had just decimated the Philippine islands. The guest preacher said that 1,900 churches were about ready to close their doors forever in the Philippines. He said, "I know the people of Harvest have given generously in the past, but we need for you to give until it hurts today to help keep the doors of these 1,900 churches open." As he spoke I looked down to my right and saw a church bulletin. I was sickened when I read inside that a few dozen church members were taking a lucrative vacation to Israel the next week. No doubt that trip cost well over $100,000, not including all the goodies they bought while in Israel. I'd dare say that the whole thing cost them $200,000. If 1,900 churches were literally about to go under and close their doors forever, then why couldn't they cancel their trip to Israel? I am not against taking a trip to Israel (although I'd rather go to Honolulu, Hawaii...lol), but it just shows the utter hypocrisy of these money hungry pastors today. They horribly browbeat and pressure their congregations to "give until it hurts," but then they are guilty of living large at the same time. You can't drive a fancy car, live in a luxurious home, take dozens of trips to Israel and then beg your people to sacrificially give until it hurts. They should fire the pastor!

Having said all that, not one verse in the Bible commands saints to tithe 10%. But 99% of pastors will go to task with you, ready to fight to the death in defense of the BIG LIE that God's demands you to tithe 10%, or else God will kill your children, burn down your house, take away your wife and let Satan strip away everything you own and love. I've heard pastors galore threaten their congregation with the wrath of God if they don't tithe 10% ,and then give above and beyond. I heard a pastor teach that you haven't given God anything unless you give above and beyond the 10% tithe. The Bible says in 𝟏𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝟏𝟔:𝟐, "𝑼𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆." The Bible teaches to give "as God hath prospered him."

Sadly, 99% of preachers teach the exact opposite. They teach to give first and then God will prosper you (aka, Give to get). If God has not prospered you, then you shouldn't give more than what you can reasonably afford.

In the Old Testament, under the Mosaic law, God require the other 11 tribes of Israel to tithe 10% to support the priestly tribe of Levi. This was a closed culture only for Old Testament Jews living under Mosaic law, not a precedent to pattern local churches after. Preachers have been arguing over tithing for millenniums! Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) taught that a believer could donate their tithes to parachurch ministries like the Sword of the Lord. However, Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) taught that it is wrong to support parachurch ministries with your 10% tithe. Dr. Rice believe in Storehouse Tithing (i.e., letting money build up in the bank account), but Dr. Hyles didn't. My point is that even preachers cannot agree on how to handle money.

The following Scripture indicts pastors! Isaiah 56:11, “Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.” The prophet Isaiah was scolding the clergy, the priests! My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

I know a dear Christian woman who has been hoodwinked by the 10% tithing lie. She is an elderly woman, only works a part-time job due to her age and health. She is low income, receiving government subsidized housing and Food Stamps because she cannot take care of herself. Yet, all her life pastors have instilled the BIG LIE in her head that she is robbing God if she doesn't tithe 10% of her income. So, she does tithe, faithfully, even though she unethically needs to borrow money from people all the time to survive. That is just plain WRONG!!! It is wrong when you cannot afford to pay your own bills, and you need to ask other people to help you financially, while you are tithing 10% and then giving above and beyond in addition. That is unethical and stupid. Even worse, the church pastor's bills are all paid. He drives a nice guy, lives in a luxurious parsonage and has all his material needs met—all compliments of the church.

I have really come to hate the BIG LIE of a 10% tithe. Nothing disgusts me more than money hungry pastors. One of my pet peeves is pastors who are living large financially, but then expect low income people to tithe 10%. No Sir, that is very wrong! The Bible says to give "as God hath prospered" you. If you are surviving on a shoestring, then you may only be able to give a dollar.

Having said all that, I do firmly believe that saints should ALWAYS give something. I heard a guest preacher at Hyles-Anderson College teach us students in chapel 35 years ago, to never let an offering plate pass in front of us empty. You should always give something, even if just a nickel or a dime (unless you truly have nothing to give). Little children should also give something, even if just a penny. Everyone should stay in the habit of giving.

Also, some people whom God has prospered could and should give 50 to 90% to God's work. Dr. Russell Anderson (co-founder of Hyles-Anderson College) gave at least 50% of his hard-earned $100,000,000 to the Lord's work.

It sickens me to see ungodly clowns like Oprah Winfrey have a net worth of $2,500,000,000 and yet Christian missionaries suffer on the foreign field, lacking enough money and resources. But God is able. The Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills. 𝑷𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝟓𝟎:𝟏𝟎, "𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔." Thank you for reading.

The Idolatry Of Professional Sports

Exodus 20:1-3, “And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

Professional sports are the modern-day version of the golden calf in the Old Testament. You have these players that look like they belong in a circus, who probably wouldn’t do a thing productively were it not for the tens of millions of dollars they make to throw a ball and run up and down a field. I think it is a shame to pay some guy tens of millions of dollars to kick a piece of pigskin sewed together through some plumbing assembled at the end of a grassy field. They call the game “football.”

I have always thought it unethical and wrong to pay athletes five to ten times what society pays doctors and surgeons. The average surgeon earns between $350,000 to $525,000 annually, whereas the average NFL player gets paid $2,700,000 a year. That is sickening. Surgeons save lives, sports player don't. I just checked and the average fireman salary in 2024 is about $50,000 per year. Fireman risk their lives on the job every day to save your life! Yet we pay them feeble salaries compared to entertainers and company CEO's. There's something very wrong with that. The average pastor's salary today is over $80,000 a year. That is sickening in my humble opinion.

Professional sports are a form of idolatry. No wonder so many children and adults today have no interest in church or anything spiritual. Yet, they will watch and absorb this mindless folly and devote their entire lives to it. Personally, I hate professional sports. The contracts are getting more lucrative and ridiculous each year, swelling to amounts nearing one billion dollars for a 10-year contract. Shohei Ohtani just signed a 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $700,000,000. Wow! The guy doesn't even speak English...lol. We are living in a strange world today folks!

If you love watching professional sports, I am not trying to rain on your parade. However, I think we spend way too much time and money as a culture on these things. I'm a fan of Little League sports in local communities. We've lost so much of our rich heritage in the United States. I loved growing up in the 1970's. There were no credit cards back then. There were no microwaves. There were no front-wheel drive cars. There were no computers, mobile phones or social media. Life was simple back then. I loved the music of the 1970's. I don't think we'll ever see any big bands again. Music has changed for the worse. The pretty Country music of the 1970's is gone. Today's country is garbage.

I am glad that I don't watch professional sports. Some people live for sports, but have little time or place for God in their life. That ought not be.

The Old World Order Must Be Destroyed

Revelation 17:10-12, “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.”

The New World Order is now forming dear reader. This is the Beast system of the coming Antichrist, the Man of Sin. 2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

For their Luciferian New World Order to succeed, they must first destroy the old world order. Tucker Carlson in February of 2024 took a trip to Moscow to interview Russian president Vladimir Putin. While visiting Moscow tucker said that when he saw how clean, homeless free, drug free and nice the city of Moscow is, he realized that the problems in the United States are deliberate. All of the homelessness, open drug abuse, illegal immigration, filthy neighborhoods, skyrocketing crime and Black Lives Matter riots are on purpose. I fully agree with Tucker Carlson.

NYC Is Finished

Multi-billionaire Warren Buffet has been funding much of the civil unrest and insanity in the United States. These are hellbound wicked people with an agenda to build a New World Order. Warren Buffet gave $50 billion to the Bill Gates Foundation. Beware of false information from the mainstream media. For example: You cannot trust anything that fake websites like Popular Mechanics tell you! They blatantly lied about 911. Crime is exploding across the country. On average, there are about 600 mass-shootings each year now in the United States. Smash and Grab theft is out of control.

Entire NYC Mall Closes Because Of Crime

Businesses across the country in major cities are closing down due to crime. Walmart, Target, In and Out burger and Taco Bell are just a few companies who are closing sites. In many cities the police have actually been defunded. You couldn't make this stuff up!

Our federal government is now $33,000,000,000,000 in massive debt! Personal credit card debt for Americans is now at a staggering $1,300,000,000,000. And 6% of Americans have defaulted on making their monthly required minimum payment. People are financially hurting. Inflation is out of control. Food prices have soared in recent years. Due to COVID-19 and the lack of new car manufacturing for a couple years, automobile prices have soared. Used car prices have soared. Homelessness is now at unprecedented levels since The Great Depression of the 1930's. Bad economic and moral times are ahead for America!

We've gone insane in the United States! I believe this is all be design, intended to destroy society as we have known it. Senator Ted Cruz' father (Rafael) grew up in communist Cuba. Rafael warns Americans about the socialist agenda at work now in the United States. He warns that the homosexual agenda has nothing to do with “rights,” it is really about CONTROL over people; it is about destroying the family. So far their Luciferian socialist agenda is working!

This month the governor of New York has called out the National Guard, armed with machine guns to patrol NYC subways due to out of control violent crimes in recent years. Video after video online show criminals pushing people onto the train tracks.

In this horrific scene, a woman dropped her cellphone onto the train tracks. She jumped down to get her phone, and then tried to get to a ladder to climb back up to the platform, but a speeding train killed her before she could get to the ladder. Some evil people standing on the platform actually took photos of her severed body parts all over the train tracks and uploaded them to the internet. What monsters! Those people didn't offer to help her. Someone could have gave her a hand and pulled her up, but they did nothing. What evil.

The world has always been a wicked place (1st John 5:19), but today we are seeing evil times not existent since before the flood of Noah's day (Matthew 24:37-39). Jesus foretold in Matthew 24:12 that because of unpunished evil (iniquity, lawlessness) the love of MANY would wax cold, and it sure has. Lawlessness in American society, and the transgendered insanity being forced upon our children, rampant legalized theft by the Federal Reserve Ponzi Scheme, and every form of debauchery and sinister corruption imaginable today is undermining our nation. A nation cannot survive treason from within!

I have never seen things so bad as they are today. It is becoming very hard to find a good church to attend. Most Baptist churches today are preaching another gospel (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4) that requires you to surrender all, turn from your sinful bad habits, and trade your selfish desires in exchange to get to Heaven. That is not the Gospel of free grace! The churches today are full of Satan's corruptible seed (a great sermon by Dr. Jack Hyles). Beware of neo-evangelical churches!!! Also, beware of pseudo (fake) churches, like Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). They also preach a counterfeit gospel. You'd be shocked to find out how many pastors today are preaching a partial faith in Christ PLUS being willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to be saved, crap. PCC is guilty! Bob Jones University is guilty!

The open gross wickedness in society, blatant disregard for justice in our country, spiritual corruption of the churches, failing economy, incompetent government leaders, wasted trillions of dollars and foolishness will only get worse, because it was all designed to happen that way from the inception of the United States, even before 1776 when she was founded.

These are the “perilous times” as foretold in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7. But dear saint of God (I hope you are saved, if not, please do it now), Jesus comforted us with these precious inspired words from John 16:33, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Because Jesus triumphed over sin and death, and is physically risen from the dead, we have the glorious hope of eternal life. As Pastor Jack Hyles rightly said: “We don't hope we have eternal life; We have the hope of eternal life.” Titus 1:2, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;” And what a precious hope it is!!!

Donald Trump Won't Make America Great Again

Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”

Isaiah 1:4-6, “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more?  ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”

I am concerned that the vast majority of evangelical Christians today idolize Donald Trump. Mr. Trump is 100% a Zionist in favor of Israel, at all cost. When former President, Mr. Trump passed an order banning college students nationwide from expressing any opposing opinions to Israeli policy. Any politician who bans freedom of speech worries me!

That is socialist tyranny, taking away our freedom of speech. Sam Melia is rotting in prison right now for two years in Europe, for nothing more than posting some suggested bumper sticker messages online that oppose illegal immigrants flooding into Europe. The government has prosecuted him to make an example of him, to scare everyone else from speaking out against government tranny, removing his freedom of speech. Everybody in Europe should be outraged and also speak up!!! This is communist tyranny like in the hellhole of North Korea today!!!

Trump has also called for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. Clearly, Donald Trump is not a moral man! He made his billions from gambling casinos, strip joints and booze. I like his leadership strength, hard headed businessman intelligence, decisiveness, and that he speaks his mind without hesitation or apology. Our country needs a strong leader like that! I like Mr. Trump, sincerely. Albeit, neither he or anybody else is going to fix the country with more wickedness! Legalizing same-sex marriage brings the curse and judgment of almighty God (Romans 1:32; Colossians 3:5-6).

I long for the day when Jesus Christ returns at His Second Coming and sets up His Millennial Kingdom upon earth. For now, the Bible tells us that Satan is the god of this world. That is, this is his domain where he influences and controls world leaders (Ephesians 6:12). Yet, the Bible tells us that God ultimately is still in control. Psalms 47:8, "God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness." My father used to say that God will only allow mankind to go so far before He steps in to take control. There cannot be a nuclear holocaust unless God first sign off on it. Everything must pass the approval desk of God.

People needlessly worry about world famine, an asteroid hitting the earth, an all out nuclear holocaust, et cetera. But we know that God is still in control and won't allow mankind or the earth to be destroyed. Genesis 8:22 promises that there will always be seasons on earth. I believe that Revelation chapter 18 describes the future nuclear annihilation of the United States by fire in just one hour. What else could do that type of damage so quickly, besides a nuclear strike? Our wicked nation certainly deserves God's wrath and judgment! We deserve God's judgment—63 million abortions, forcing transgendered perversion on children, Federal Reserve financial fraud since 1913, public nudity wherever there is water, a $50 billion a year divorce racket, the evils of feminism, homosexual marriage, false religion, corrupt Bibles, Hollywood, Sin City, and a plethora more of wickednesses, et cetera. Americans are long overdue for God's judgment!

I was thinking this week about something disturbing I heard in the news. Senator Dick Durbin in Illinois has submitted a new law that would allow illegal aliens to enroll into the U.S. military (and ultimately become U.S. citizens). Perhaps the Luciferian elite of the elite planned it that way! Officially there have been at least 7,200,000 million illegals who've flood into the country since 2020. We have no idea who they are or where they came from. What a perfect way to sneak terrorist mercenaries into the country! Now our government will militarily train and give them machine guns! Will they be used to police Americans when law and order break down, when our economy implodes, and there are riots in the streets?

Our government WILL disarm the American people, it's just a matter of time. Canada has already banned the sale, purchase and trade of guns since October of 2023. I humbly think Mr. Trump will be re-elected in 2024. If so, he will finish the southern border wall as he promised. But now that the illegals are all here in the United States, it's like closing the barn doors after the horses are all gone! What's the point of finishing the stupid wall now? I think that the wall may be used instead TO KEEP AMERICANS FROM ESCAPING the coming tyrannical police state! Instead of John Carpenter's 1981 classic movie, "Escape From New York," we will be living in a real life horror movie: "Escape From The United States"!!!

President Trump may ban guns too! The churches almost worship Trump! I'm thinking Nikki Haley may run with him as his Vice President. It wouldn't surprise me. I have a feeling that Trump will take the U.S. to war. The churches will unquestioningly follow him to hell and back! With that kind of power of influence, I'm thinking that the Luciferian elite won't pass this opportunity up to use President Trump to exploit the stupidity of evangelical Zionist Christians.

Mr. Trump scares me, because he banned freedom of speech for college students. That is really bad! Everyone has a right to speak their mind, including criticizing Israel. Trump has also called for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. Clearly, Donald Trump is not a moral man! He made much of his billions from gambling casinos, strip joints and booze. Granted, I do like his leadership strength and that he speaks his mind. I like Donald Trump. Albeit, neither he or anybody else is going to fix the country with more wickedness! Mr. Trump won't Make America Great Again (MAGA). The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom! Mr. Trump does not fear God. If he did then he wouldn't try to make homosexuality legal. Homosexuality is a shameful sin which ought not be promoted, sanctioned and encouraged in society.

Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982) said it best in his sermon titled, "The Titanic." He said, "America was 'great' when she was good, and she was good when she had great churches." The answer is in church pulpits across America, not in the White House. Sadly, 99% of church pulpits today are totally DEAD. This is primarily the blame of today's money hungry DEAD Bible colleges and preachers seminaries (cemeteries). Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is among the worst offenders, with their counterfeit plan of salvation, cold hearted leaders who lack compassion, and their arrogant spoiled brat attitudes. Bob Jones University (BJU) is even worse! These corrupt dangerous religious institutions are corrupting the churches with their incompetent graduates. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

As much as I like Donald Trump, I KNOW for a fact that neither him or anybody else will fix our country, let aloe making it great again. I know that because without the fear of God nothing will improve. The escalating violent crime seen in subways, smash & grab robbery of retail stores, an epidemic of college shootings, domestic violence and police brutality nationwide are merely symptoms of a spiritually broken society.

We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight. To remedy this nightmare we would need just one generation of putting the inspired King James Bible back into the schools, a return to people attending old-fashioned Bible preaching churches, getting rid of Satanic Hollywood, getting rid of evil Sin City Las Vegas, getting rid of the fraudulent Federal Reserve Banks, getting rid of the Satanic music video industry, getting rid of greedy lying television preachers, getting rid of the lying manipulative news media, and getting rid of Freemasons controlling the government. These things will NEVER happen, which is why America will never be great again. Occultists and Satanists have run the country into the ground, and we let them do it by not fighting against them (Ephesians 6:12).

Mr. Trump may do some helpful things to improve our nation, but he won't make us great again. The greatness of any country is the sum total measurement of the moral character of all its citizens. Everywhere we turn today we see wickedness, greed and lawsuits, unkindness and hatred, angry people, substance abuse and homelessness, whores and whoremongers, adultery and divorce, fornication and abortion, sodomites and weirdoes, covetousness and debt, false teachers and arrogant pastors, et cetera. This nightmare is just beginning!!!

The greatest and most adept U.S. President couldn't make America great again; not as long as we are enamored with our sin. God always honors repentance! We have not repented (i.e., changed our mind). Americans spit in God's face! Taylor Swift's raunchy music videos receive upwards of one billion views each, while Bible preachers are fortunate if one of their sermon videos receive 100 views in three years.

The vast majority of American people are spoiled entitled little brats. I meet rude people everywhere I go. I simply waved at a young black woman walking down the street the other day, as I was driving by. She yelled obscenities at me, cursing as I drove away. Clearly she was not in her right mind. The Bible foretells in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7 that "perilous times" will come, and they are here in 2024 in the United States!

If our nation is to ever be great again, people must start attending churches again. But it must be the right kind of church! You should only attend a church that uses the inspired King James Bible. You should only attend a church that preaches a free grace Gospel (not that turn from your sins crap, aka, Lordship Salvation). A church with a scheduled time for members to go soulwinning weekly is great! I love a church that has a Bus Ministry. I just described less than 1% of churches today. Apart from an independent fundamental Baptist church, you likely won't find a church like I just described.

The answer to MAGA is in church pulpits, nowhere else. We need to get back to fearing God in this nation. We need to get back to old-fashioned courtship before marriage, and reject the wicked culture of fornication and abortion. We need to reject the world's tattoos, booze, illegal drugs, cigarettes, vaping, ridiculous plastic surgery, Botox injections and other vices that corrupt the healthy body which God gave us. We need to reject the Devil's new modern Bible revisions, because they are ALL corrupt! We need to reject Hollywood, Sin City, Gay Day, Pride Fest, Walt Disney, Broadway, Mardi Gras and everything else that is unholy and evil.

Until our nation turns back to faith in God, and obedience to His Word, we will never be great again in America!

Canada Is Now A Godless Totalitarian Police State!

Ecclesiastes 5:8, “If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.”

Canada is fast becoming like communist North Korea. What is happening in Canada is frightening. The United States is following soon behind fascist Canadian government policies and totalitarian abuse of power. The Canadian government is now authoritarian! Freedom is gone in Canada! As of October 2023 it is now illegal in Canada to buy, sell or trade guns. Canadians were forced to take the COVID-19 vaccination. The following video by Tucker Carlson is disturbing.

The Trudeau Regime Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

Freedom is not free!!! The Canadian media is state controlled. So effectively there is no freedom of media in Canada. Evil men triumph when good men do nothing!

Manmade Disasters Are No Accident And Neither Is A Deadly Counterfeit Gospel

As I watched a documentary yesterday about the following horrifying maritime disaster in 2014 in South Korea, which killed 304 people (250 of which were teenagers all from the same high school), I related it to bad churches today which are incompetent with the Gospel.

Weaponized Negligence │ 5 HORRORS on the Waves

The reason why this ferry cargo ship capsized was because nobody paid attention to the safety guidelines. The ship was massively overloaded with cargo. Although the ferry's captain reported 657 tons of cargo, prosecutors said that the real amount exceeded 2,140 tons! That's 2,966,000 extra pounds of weight!!! None of the cargo was secured as it was supposed to be. This caused the loose cargo to shuffle from side to side, as the ship moved through the ocean. The new owners of the ship in 2012 made illegal renovations to it, adding an additional 500,000 pounds of weight. All this extra weight made the vessel very top heavy, and a disaster waiting to happen.

To make matters even worse, when the captain went to sleep he left a rookie ferryman in charge who steered the ship too sharp to the right, which caused the vessel to turn onto its side; a few hours later the ship turned completely upside down as it filled with water. The Korean Coast Guard dillydallied for several hours and were so inept that they largely contributed to the high number of deaths. In the aftermath of the disaster the Korean government disbanded the Coast Guard's leadership, giving control over to the police instead. This tragedy could have easily been avoided had anyone cared. Like all manmade disasters, there was a slow process of incompetence, foolish decisions and ignored warnings which led to catastrophe.

Likewise, tens of thousands of churches across America are not paying attention to the rules of God's inspired Word. They are following their own manmade traditions instead of the commandments of God. They are overloading the Gospel with a bunch of extra cargo which God does not require. They are modifying God's simple plan of salvation, making the Gospel top heavy and a disaster waiting to happen. Church captains (pastors) have been repeatedly warned that they are messing with the Lord's cargo ship.

Tragically, 95% of churches today (and this includes independent fundamental Baptist churches) are accidents waiting to happen. That is, their members are eventually going to plunge into darkness when the ship they are on capsizes into the Lake of Fire. Those passengers trusted their captain and the safety of the cargo ship they were all riding aboard. They put their full trust in what their captain had told them! But their captain lied to them, just as 95% of church pastors are lying to their congregations today!

Tragically, 304 people were murdered because of corruption, which is wickedness! When corrupt people break laws, violate regulations, accept bribes and look the other way instead of doing the right thing, that is more than incompetence and irresponsibility, it is wickedness!!! The ferry's ungodly captain was sentenced to 36 years in prison. That captain is fortunate he didn't get the death penalty, which is what the victim's families wanted from the court. Had the captain refused to allow the ship to be overloaded with an additional 3 million pounds of cargo, the disaster wouldn't have happened.

Likewise, if these ungodly pastors today wouldn't add things to God's simple plan of salvation, then people by the droves wouldn't be going to Hell. A counterfeit gospel cannot produce the new birth.

The Wickedness of Pensacola Christian College

Pensacola Christian College's lying pastors have much blood on their hands for corrupting the Gospel. According to PCC's Campus Church booklet titled: "John & Romans," on page 60, it heretically reads:

"Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins.”

This is damnable heresy! It is another gospel, not the Gospel of free grace. In fact, biblically you do NOT have to decide to follow and obey God's will instead of your own self serving sins to be saved. You simply need to admit that you are unable to save yourself and trust Jesus Christ.

In his helpful book titled, "I NEVER KNEW YOU," on page 116 Michael P. Bowen writes:

"When a pastor says that in order to be saved we must first repent of our sins and then ask Christ into our heart, I want to stand up and quote verses from Christ’s own words that refute such satanic-inspired flaws because Christ never, never, never said to quit sinning or to ask Him into your heart. The bible says the OPPOSITE of what 95 percent of these pastors tell us, today. First of all, the bible never tells anyone to stop sinning in order to be saved, nor does it tell us to be willing to stop sinning in order to be saved. That is a LIE because God never said to stop sinning. The phrase 'repent of sin' is not even in the Bible, nor is it ever implied when it comes to salvation through faith in Christ. These are clever lies of Satan designed to provide people with a heavenly way to go to the eternal lake of fire with him and his fallen angels."

Amen and amen!

On page 116 of "I NEVER KNEW YOU" Michael P. Bowen writes:

According to many verses in the bible, especially those warnings God gave to us through Paul in the book of Galatians, you should never listen to anyone’s message that runs counter to the message given to us by Christ, and you should never attend a church where the pastor tells the flock that they must add works of discipleship to faith in Christ’s “finished work” as the way to enter heaven. That’s exactly the reason why I no longer attend any of the local churches in my current hometown.

Sadly, I am running into the same problem in Pensacola, the city where I live. It is tragic!

The first church I attended when I moved from Guam to Pensacola in 2021 was Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I was deeply offended and hurt on July 21, 2021 when at their Wednesday evening Bible study (after watching a stupid Ken Ham video in church), associate pastor Timothy Zechariah told thousands of church members that faith is not enough to get to Heaven. He said that you must repent of your sins, having such a deeply profound hatred for sin that it results in a change of behavior. But don't take my word for it, here is an actual still frame (a screenshot I grabbed from YouTube) which was displayed to the church at that evening's service. This image is taken from their official Foundation's Class for all new cult members...

Blatant Damnable Heresy Preached At PCC's Campus Church

PCC's Campus Church has it very wrong! Behavior modification has nothing to do with receiving God's gift of eternal life. A changed life is the “fruit” produced by the indwelling Holy Spirit of God (Galatians 5:22-25). But such fruit is conditional upon a born-again believer's choice to Walk in the Spirit. The Apostle Paul in the following Scripture passages makes it clear that walking in the Spirit is not automatic for a saint of God, it is a choice...

Galatians 5:16, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” 

Galatians 5:25, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

To “live in the Spirit” simply means that you are indwelt with the Holy Spirit of God; but this doesn't mean you will automatically “walk in the Spirit.” Many believers do not walk in the Spirit, but they still live (or are alive, quickened) in the Holy Spirit. This is what Paul meant in Galatians 3:2, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” By the phrase “received ye the Spirit” Paul was simply asking them how they became indwelt with the Holy Spirit. That is, how did they get saved?

Ninety-Five Percent Of Baptist Churches Have The Gospel Wrong

I had attended the First Baptist Church of Pensacola for a while when I first moved to Pensacola. Their historic church has a rich heritage, going back to 1848 when they were founded. So, I attended their Discovery Class to learn more about the church and their beliefs. I was happy after attending the class because the associate pastor who led the class said the church believes that salvation comes through faith alone in Jesus Christ. I was delighted and ready to join the church. But then later on I attended both their Sunday morning Contemporary and Traditional services back to back soon thereafter.

In the Traditional service, senior pastor Dave Snyder (who became their new pastor in 2018) said in his sermon that to get to Heaven you must become a Christ follower, turn away from a lifestyle of sinning and make Jesus the “Lord” of your life. I felt numb in my soul. I was heartbroken! I was so hurt, and still am years later. I had lost another potential church family.

I have attended numerous churches in Pensacola, and I'm still visiting new ones. I still haven't found a single Baptist church that is Kosher on the Gospel. They love to use the unbiblical phrase, “repent of your sins,” which is not even found in the Holy Bible. I want to quote from page 116 again, from Michael Bowen's excellent book, "I NEVER KNEW YOU":

"When a pastor says that in order to be saved we must first repent of our sins and then ask Christ into our heart, I want to stand up and quote verses from Christ’s own words that refute such satanic-inspired flaws because Christ never, never, never said to quit sinning or to ask Him into your heart. The bible says the OPPOSITE of what 95 percent of these pastors tell us, today. First of all, the bible never tells anyone to stop sinning in order to be saved, nor does it tell us to be willing to stop sinning in order to be saved. That is a LIE because God never said to stop sinning. The phrase 'repent of sin' is not even in the Bible, nor is it ever implied when it comes to salvation through faith in Christ. These are clever lies of Satan designed to provide people with a heavenly way to go to the eternal lake of fire with him and his fallen angels."

I couldn't have said it any better dear reader. The Bible never tells anyone to stop sinning in order to be saved, nor does it tell us to “be willing” to stop sinning in order to be saved. God never said to stop sinning in exchange for receiving His free gift of eternal life. The phrase “repent of sin” is not even found in the Bible, nor is it ever implied when it comes to salvation through faith alone in Christ. These are clever lies of Satan, all designed to provide people with a heavenly way to go to the eternal lake of fire with him and his fallen angels. I like what Brother Bowen wrote—a heavenly way to go to the eternal Lake of Fire!

"A man can slip into Hell with his hand on the door-knob of Heaven." —Billy Sunday

Dear reader, there is a major disaster in the works, which will result in millions of lost sinners plunging into the fires of Hell forever. But instead of a ferry cargo ship in South Korea being recklessly overloaded with cargo and illegal modifications, the Gospel of free grace is being frontloaded and modified with embellishments which are not found in the Bible.

The country of South Korea will never forget the killing of 250 of their high school students (304 deaths total)—when a foolish and wicked captain, and a reckless company who owned the cargo ship, and others involved in the corruption—all contributed in some way to the catastrophe which happened in 2014. The manmade disaster was not an accident, it was a heinous crime that was caused by gross negligence, arrogance, blatant disregard for safety rules and corporate greed.

In similar fashion, 95% of today's ungodly pastors arrogantly dismiss repeated warnings about their false gospel preaching. They are guilty of overloading God's simple plan of salvation with too much things to do to be saved. Dr. Jack Hyles said it exactly right...

“More people will die and burn in Hell because they're trusting too much!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

Here is the Gospel: God says that we are sinners and no amount of good works or behavioral modification on our part could ever make us holy enough to enter into Heaven. God sent His only begotten Son to pay for all of our sins. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on the cross for everyone. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus physically resurrected from the dead. The instant you believe these facts, God knows it and He saves you. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.” The free gift (Romans 5:18) is based solely upon your trust in what Jesus did for you through Calvary's cross. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with what you do for Him. Salvation is received, not achieved. It is a gift for the guilty, and not a reward for the righteous. Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

To be saved you simply need to admit to God that you cannot save yourself. Just receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried in a tomb, but three days later Jesus bodily raised up. This is “the Gospel” (i.e., the “Good News”) by which all who BELIEVE IT are immediately, irrevocably and forever saved (Romans 1:16; 1st Corinthians 15:1-4). You simply need to BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you!

Go Woke, Go Broke!

Isaiah 1:4-5, “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

Most Americans are tired of the leftist, communist, wacky, liberal Woke garbage being forced on them. In 2020 many big businesses decided to jump on the stupid Woke bandwagon, but it has cost them billions of dollars in lawsuits, lost production, loss of customers and angry shareholders. They have voiced their criticisms by taking their business and money elsewhere. The following interesting article from the Washington Examiner shows just how much Americans are sick and tired of the Woke trash being forced on us. “DEI” stands for “Diversity, Equality, Inequality”...

Get woke, go broke — companies are laying off useless DEI workers

By Christopher Tremoglie
February 18, 2023

A new report this month revealed that recent layoffs in Big Tech have left many in the diversity, equity, and inclusion fields looking for new jobs. Sad!

Yes, DEI positions have reportedly been among the hardest hit. It’s just another sign of how useless such positions always were.

With a stagnant Biden economy and rising interest rates hitting corporations’ finances, companies have reevaluated their commitment to left-wing indoctrination. Since July 2022, company layoffs of those with DEI jobs have been much higher compared to those in non-DEI roles, according to data from Revelio Labs. The attrition rate for DEI jobs is 33%, compared to 21% for non-DEI jobs. As purse strings tighten, companies are starting to realize they don’t need to waste profits on jobs that exist solely because of left-wing political pandering.

“All the virtue signaling in the world cannot forestall the economic realities of a slowing economy,” said Andrew Crapuchettes, CEO of RedBalloon. “In a time when bloated Big Tech companies must make budget decisions, it’s no surprise that divisive and polarizing DEI programs are under scrutiny.”

According to a press release from RedBalloon, companies in the country spent over $9 billion on DEI initiatives last year. Much of this resulted from the societal overreaction following the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. Left-wing executives throughout the nation used this chaos to implement radical agenda-driven corporate programs to reshape the culture and indoctrinate employees. Even more absurd, this total was expected to increase to $15.4 billion, according to the consulting firm StrategyR.

“Amazon, Twitter, and Nike have shed between 5 and 16 DEI professionals each, and Twitter’s infamous diversity team layoffs are not far behind,” according to Revelio Labs. “Bearing in mind the typically small size of DEI teams — the median DEI team size in this set of companies is 3 — these outflows likely amount to the exodus of entire diversity teams.”

None of this should be shocking, as no DEI position is ever needed for a company to function. DEI is a field predicated on left-wing propaganda and does not produce anything of value. No special skills or talents are required to work in DEI.

Hopefully, this is a sign that corporate America has come to its senses and will stop caving to the Left’s cultural hijacking. DEI is toxic and useless and should stay in the ash heap of history where it belongs, along with so many other left-wing disasters. 

SOURCE: Get woke, go broke — companies are laying off useless DEI workers

Companies should hire people for their skills and abilities, and not because of their gender, sex or race. The Woke movement is destined to utterly fail. At the end of the day companies are going to do what makes them the most money. Reverse discrimination is a big problem today in the United States. What's really disturbing if the FAA's new push is for companies (including the airlines) to hire more people with “Severe Intellectual” and “Psychiatric” disabilities. Let me know how that works out. I'll be off the plain on the ground!

The Woke insanity being shoved down our throats today is seriously hurting our society and ultimately will lead to our ruin as a nation.