Shabbat Sabbath

The so-called “inner circle” of disciples consisted of Peter, James, and John–the disciples that Jesus took with him to the Mount of Transfiguration (Mount Hermon), as we see in Matt. 17:1. They are listed in that order, because they form a unique prophecy that is applicable to Church history.

Pope Francis’ recent encyclical, “Brothers All” (Fratelli Tutti), used “love” as a repetitious theme to call for a One-World Order. Due to his position, whatever goals he has must be motivated by the Gospel of Christ…or at least it must appear to be, if he is to save face. Yet, by using love and Jesus as the motivation behind establishing the One-World Order, Francis is unequivocally positioning Christianity at the forefront of launching the Antichrist system.

The pope’s letter begins with a reference to “a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel…that transcends the barriers of geography and distance.” From this syrupy beginning, Francis spends several long paragraphs developing his call for a “fraternal society,” before clarifying that he doesn’t intend to teach on the subject of fraternal love; rather, his purpose is to emphasize its “universal scope.” Then, in a manner predicted by just about every prophecy-watcher on the planet, he mentions that COVID-19 has exposed vulnerabilities in the working relationships each country has with its neighboring nations. He states that simply improving existing communication strategies is equivalent to “denying reality.” Something far more drastic must be done to correct this malady…like a united world (so predictable). Therefore, Francis poetically writes before continuing on to discuss his propositions in more detail, “Let us dream, then, as a single human family, as fellow travelers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home.”

Perhaps the most glaring example is some of the witchcraft and occultism that had global attention during a well-known revival that drew multiple millions of people all over the world in the 1990s and dramatically and permanently changed the landscape of Sunday morning worship practices in the West. Because there was actually some calculable good that came from this revival—and because several of those who perpetuated the more negative aspects of it have since repented of their involvement—we will sensitively refer to this period in time as the “Charisma Revival.” (As a quick disclaimer: These authors have studied the Charisma Revival throughout the years, and we want to be clear that the Lord certainly met many seekers at those altars. The movement was popular enough that readers may recognize which revival we’re writing about. If readers of this book were among those who attended and had a real encounter with God, we are not questioning the authenticity of your experience; we merely want to look at some of the questionable origins and goings-on of the movements that began in the area at that time.)

In 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener[i] advanced the “continental drift” theory, a concept based on the proposition that the land masses on earth were at one time held together in one supercontinent called Pangea, from the Greek word pangaia, which means “all the earth.” According to Wegener, approximately 299 to 272 million years ago, ALL of terra firma was a solid mass, surrounded by one uninterrupted ocean called Panthalassa.

Wegener postulated that the supercontinent began to break apart during the early Jurassic Period, some two hundred million years ago. Over time, the shifting hunks of land masses formed the continents and the oceans that we know today. Modern geology identifies this shifting of the earth’s crust, or lithosphere, as plate tectonics, the theory that explains how the continents of the earth continually grind against each other in subduction zones or fault lines.

If you cut out the continents from a map, each of the pieces seem to pull together into one large land mass. The results are astonishing. With some exceptions, due to erosion and damage, the individual pieces fit together in a single puzzle—Pangea.

Assembling the puzzle pieces of the dismembered supercontinent should cause us to ask questions. What kind of violence was visited upon the earth to separate the supercontinent in this way? And, although Wegener proposed the shifting occurred over millions of years, what if this violence was sudden and complete?

The early part of the Table of the Kings Period covers the reigns of eight kings. The span of their rule lasted a total of 241,200 years from the time the kingship “descended from heaven” to the time when a catastrophic Flood wiped out the earth.

Scholars who adhere to a creation event, specifically the one in Genesis 1:1–2, maintain that the earth was created some ten thousand to six thousand years ago. Without getting into the arguments between evolutionists and creationists, for the Bible-based critical thinker, the fossil record of dinosaurs and other archaeology poses a challenge. But what if the traditional interpretation of Genesis 1:1–2 has greatly limited our understanding? Is there a lifeline in Scripture to connect both the dinosaurs and man being created by God?

As an answer, ten thousand years, six thousand since the Flood, is nothing compared to the 241,200 years prior to the Flood. Yet this also begs the question: If man was only created ten thousand years ago, when were the angels created?

After School Satan Clubs have been steadily increasing in popularity and are not likely to slow as their supporters rack up media attention and legal wins fighting for free speech. 

The clubs, associated with the Satanic Temple and offered only in primary schools, began at the beginning of 2020 and quickly gained attention from parents who wanted an alternative to religious clubs, according to June Everett, campaign director of the After School Satan Club.

“That’s kind of when things started blowing up. And I anticipate that every year moving forward is going to get busier and busier,” Everett told The Hill. 

Last Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the Satanic Temple and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which sued when a Northampton County school district would not allow the club to meet on its grounds. 

Over the past few decades, Christianity has both retreated from the public square and from mass culture and been pushed from them. Its once-venerable pillars in this country have atrophied. Catholics continue to disaffiliate, and many Protestant denominations can barely be distinguished from unbelief. “The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God,” Whittaker Chambers, an early editor at National Review, wrote in Witness in 1952. William F. Buckley Jr. believed that Chambers was susceptible to “Spenglerian gloom.” But, on that score, things since then have undoubtedly gotten worse in the West. It is said that nature abhors a vacuum; man’s soul abhors it even more. Thus, into this spiritual vacuum have poured all manner of pretender faiths. It is impossible to understand the rise of “wokeness,” the totalistic vanguard of the modern Left, otherwise. Then there is “vitalism.”