Reparations Deux and the New Four Point Bible
Just a little while ago I wrote about how some people justify a lower tuition rate for illegal immigrants. Basically, the argument is that the parents of the illegals wronged them by bringing them here illegally, so they need to be compensated in some way.
Kinda smacks of the whole reparations controversy, in which the government should give money to the descendants of slaves as reparations for the crime visited upon their ancestors.
Those who pooh pooh the notion should note that, according to David Dreiling, the LORD agrees:
Last Sunday, July 10th, on the day Hurricane Dennis made landfall I asked the L-rd, "What's with all these hurricanes?"
To my amazement He instantly responded to my question. He said, "It's all about Slavery".
"What?" I inquired?
The L-rd simply explained to me that the hurricanes in question all form off the west coast of Africa and wreak havoc only upon those territories that were originally built through the institution of slavery. It became clear to me that all the Caribbean islands and the states of the Deep South -- Florida, Georgia, and the Carolina's were all built on the backs and blood of West African slaves. I had never looked at things that way before.
Repentance for Devastation
I asked the L-rd what He wanted me to do with the information, and he told me to send out a trumpet call for the Church to repent for the devastation and brokenness wrought on African nations through slavery; and to call for our born-again national leaders to consider seriously our debt to the lives and manpower of African Nations and their forced contribution to our prosperity.
I prayed further about these things and asked the L-rd, "Why now?"
This is the same time frame that the G8 leaders were discussing the issue of African poverty in Scotland.
I realize that there has been much interracial repentance and reconciliation. Notwithstanding G-d was highlighting a completely different issue here. It is repentance from our nation to the nations and peoples currently in poverty and distress in Africa. It is owning up to our wrongdoing -- not just to Black people in America but to those who were left behind in Africa with shattered families and devastated communities....
Totem to Temple goes on to ask the next pressing question:
Then I have a sarcastic question to ask. What caused the hurricanes before slavery? The Crusades…
Dreiling's previous prophecy predicts a divided Iraq:
What He said was...
"Baghdad has confounded the nations. Baghdad has confounded the leaders of the world. Baghdad has confounded America, and even confounded my people. Baghdad has confounded the President, but I have judged the Prince of Iraq, and I, the Lord, will divide his country and give it to those more worthy. The Kurds will get a state. They will quickly normalize relations with Israel. This will mark of the first small visible fulfillment of Isaiah 19. The more moderate Arab states will follow in this in a variety of ways, and Israel shall have a short season of increased legitimacy."
The justification for posting this prophecy came from 1 Cor 14:26-30:
I should mention that on any word we've EVER POSTED since 1997, some have thought a given word was from the Lord. Some have felt it was not. This is how it was meant to be. We were never told to "put it to a vote and a majority wins."
Just listen, evaluate, and then decide for yourself if the word may be from God.
If it seems to be from God, save it, and pray it, and believe it. If you feel it is not from God, then you are free to ignore it.
However, another source thinks that words should be proven before being taught:
What should our role as Christians be in regard to acceptance of a new thought, idea or doctrine? We are told to prove all things, not to reject them because they might be strange or new to us. However, we should not receive them either, until we first prove them. How do we prove things? All true Christians are in agreement that our standard is the Word of God, the Bible.
Some people are in the business of finding false prophets. For example:
Tony Campolo is a Change Agent whose vision is to change America’s churches, with radical new ideas that are not based from the Bible or its principles. Some things to know about Campolo associations: Campolo is on Renovaré’s “Board of Reference.” Renovaré is a New Age, ecumenical organization that practices the “meditative” and “contemplative” lifestyle “of early Christianity. There are also many new age influences found in his books. Campolo writes favorably of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and does not let the readers know that Teilhard”s Christ is not the Christ of the Bible but the cosmic christ of New Age spirituality....
Campolo”s most obvious base for errors is the The “kingdom now” theology he upholds and many charismatic hold to. According to his thinking, Campolo places the Bible promises for a future earthly kingdom right now in this world. Campolo challenges Christians to go into the world and to transform society. While this may come from the result of a changed life, to change the surroundings of where one works it is not the mandate for Christians. “The kingdom of God is party” is the title of one of his books and a theme in many of his messages. Campolo refers to the Old Testament Jewish festivals and wrongly applies them to our time, espousing kingdom now dominionsim [sic]....
"In 1985, a group of Evangelical Free Church pastors in Illinois convinced Bill Bright to cancel Campolo's appearance at Youth Congress '85, the first major joint rally by Bright's Campus Crusade and Youth for Christ. Specifically, they were upset that Campolo believed Christ was present in every person, Christian or not. ‘I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us,’ he wrote in A Reasonable Faith, a 1983 book aimed at secularists. ‘I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person.’ They were also upset with two other sentences in the book: ‘Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving,’ and ‘Jesus is God because he is fully human.’ (‘By human I mean a full expression of the image of God,’ he later explained.) The pastors accused him of ‘semantic mysticism’ and ‘spiritual adultery,’ while Campolo said he was a victim of ‘a wave of religious McCarthyism.’"(Ted Olsen Christianity Today. January 21, 2003, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 32 The Positive Prophet posted 12/27/2002)
Then again, Campus Crusade's own "Four Spiritual Laws" have been criticized as un-Biblical:
Basing my judgment upon the plain teaching of the Bible, I regard these "Laws" as a totally inadequate, indeed an emasculated and misleading presentation of the blessed Gospel of the Son of God.
If they had been entitled "Four Pious Principles" instead of "The Four Spiritual Laws," perhaps I should have little to say by way of rebuttal.
But to begin with, the use of the definite article "The" is disturbing. The implication is that the "Laws," as the Crusade presents them, are exclusive, definitive and thoroughly adequate. Having discovered and embraced them, a fortunate seeker is presumably bound for Heaven....
The Crusade's approach is anthropocentric ("man-centered"). It implies that the summum bonum, the pivotal issue, is that an individual may know God's wonderful plan for his life....
The Biblical approach is theocentric ("God-centered")....
May I ask a rather obvious question? Precisely what "wonderful plan" does God have for the unbelieving sinner who steadfastly and persistently rejects Christ Jesus as Saviour? Answer: the "lake that burneth with fire." This is an awesome, rather than a "wonderful," prospect....
In the Crusade's Collegiate Challenge (Vol. 6, No. 2) we read: "Val talked with a girl who wasn't very interested, but as she listened to the Four Spiritual Laws, she decided to invite Christ into her life. Then she told her girl friend who had also received Christ. 'Our week had been so dull, but what a change.' Her friend replied, 'Yeah, now we're in the in-group.'"
Some sentimental, uninstructed soul might breathe a sympathetic sigh and remark, "Isn't that sweet?" But I should like to ask every truly informed reader a pointed question: "Does this sound to you like genuine Biblical conversion on the basis of Christ's atoning work and through the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit of the living God?" Of course it does not. And why should it?...
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