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Apostasy

A Corpse Bride Wedding and a Full Moon

October 13, 2019 By Trumpeter Leave a Comment

Time is running out, the rapture is near

Skeletons at the Banquet Table

I went to a family wedding yesterday that had an unusual theme.  Being that it’s October, the overarching theme was Halloween, but more specifically, many of the decorations were directly from Tim Burton’s animated musical dark fantasy film titled ‘Corpse Bride’.

At the wedding banquet table, there were a pair of lifesize skeletons, dressed as the bride and the groom, saving the newlywed’s seats.

I’m undecided about how transparent I should be in sharing my thoughts and feelings about the significance of the symbolism behind the couple’s choice of theme and decorations.

I’ll just spill it.

First, I’m saddened that the first wedding two of my preteen sons ever attended was decorated like this.

Why?

corpse bride wedding october 2019A wedding is the joining together of one man with one woman, the groom and the bride, both created in the image of Jesus our Creator.  The true significance of a wedding is of Jesus as the groom who is joining with his bride, the Church, for all eternity. It is both a covenant and a celebration of hope, joy, purity, holiness, life, and love.

Truth be told, the symbolism of Halloween and skeletons represent a celebration of evil spirits and death, sadness, loss and grieving, ugliness and that which is ‘filthy’ or ‘unclean’.

The officiant of the ceremony was a friend of the bride and groom. When he finished with his part a guest pastor was called up to deliver an obligatory 30-second prayer to close the ceremony.

No Bible verses. No communion. No cross. No mention of the name of Jesus.

I’m saddened and bothered.  It seems that this couple places more importance on having fun and worldly entertainment than on the sanctity of marriage.

I’m not mad at them, I can’t be.  Also, I don’t believe they intended to make a mockery of what a wedding is supposed to represent.  Yet they freely chose to make the event their own and knew what they didn’t want it to represent.

They may sincerely believe that they are serious about each other and their public commitment to each other, but it’s hard for me to take them seriously.  Their choices are more along the lines of what I would expect from unsupervised children tasked with planning an important event for adults.  For some reason, the book ‘The Lord of the Flies’ comes to mind.

Their farcical wedding is a commentary on the Last Generation.  Choosing death over life.  Choosing the corruption of this world over God and the promises of indescribable goodness that he has waiting in Heaven for those who love him.

They chose themes tied to the Prince of Darkness rather than the Prince of Peace, the Light who came into this world, who darkness flees from.  No doubt, while planning their wedding there was much laughter, hilarity, and a mindset that ‘Life is just a party’.

On our way to the wedding, while driving through the country, the sun was beginning to set.  There were vineyards, orchards, and fields of grain on both sides of the highway.

Half of the grapes in the vineyards had already been harvested.  Fallen apples were covering the ground in the orchards.

Grapes and apples are harvested around the time of Succot, a seven or eight-day Jewish feast that is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, which happens to begin today, October 13th.

In the Bible, grapes represent the non-believers, grain represents the Church, and Sukkot is when the last grain is brought into the barn.

There is a full moon tonight, called a Hunter’s Moon.  The moon is symbolic of the Church. Having no source of light itself, the moon fully reflects the light of the Sun as the Church reflects the light of the Son of God, Jesus/Yeshua.  The full moon, in all of its glory from Christ, reflects the most light in the evening sky, when surrounded by darkness.

There is a time spoken of in Romans 11:25, a time that is quickly approaching when the “fullness of the gentiles comes in”.

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way, all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

What if?  What if the fullness of the gentiles, also known as ‘the Church’, were to coincide with the fullness of the moon on Succot one of these years?  Another name for Succot is the Feast of Ingathering.

This is just a thought, not a prediction.

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,  not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.
– 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2

The time is near.  If you haven’t yet accepted the gift of forgiveness for all of your sins and wrongdoings, an undeserved gift that can only come from the King by believing that Jesus/Yeshua is God, God who came down from Heaven, born as a male child, who lived a sinless life, taking the penalty for your sins upon himself before he died on the cross, and then rose from the dead three days later, conquering Satan and death for once and for all …then you better start believing.  He can come back at any moment now.

There is an hourglass that was turned over a long time ago, and the very last few grains of sand are slipping away.  A couple of thousand years may seem like a long time to us humans, but to God, it is as if only a couple of days have passed.

When time is up, it’ll be too late to join the Bride who God is coming to take away from this fallen world and up to Heaven before his wrath is poured out upon the planet, like never before.

No matter what wrong you’ve done… God is faithful to forgive you and restore you, and welcome you like a loving father into his arms.  He’s waiting.  Jesus/Yeshua said,

“In My Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
– John 14:2

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
– Romans 10:13

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
Matthew 24:36-44

 

Jesus is the Son of Man.  Jesus’ original name in Hebrew is Yeshua. The literal meaning of ‘Yeshua’ is ‘salvation’.
If you want to know Truth, then in your heart, in your mind, call out to him, “Jesus Save Me!” and doors will open.

 

Filed Under: Apostasy, End Times, Featured Posts Tagged With: corpse bride, Feast of Tabernacles, full moon, hunter moon, Jesus, marriage, mockery, Succot, wedding, Yeshua

Apostasy in the Last Days

January 6, 2017 By Trumpeter Leave a Comment

Apostasy, defined within the broader context of embracing an opinion contrary to one’s previous beliefs. I’ve mention some specific people in this article…Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate these people, I just see them as being very wrong and because they are chosen to be in the spot light they are fair game.  It’s just hard to imagine that what they believe today is what they first believed when they became Christians, if they truly are saved.  You’ll be challenged to find any sermons from this group and their like that talk about Jesus let alone sin and redemption, or any mention of Hell and damnation.  Nope, they are more likely to talk about nonsense or topics that make you feel good.

1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons

2 Timothy 3:2
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God–having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

2 Peter 3:3-4
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this `coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

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.

Read about a grand demonic deception in Fatima Portugal, 1917 where thousands of people witnessed strange events in the sky.

Apostasy : Marianism is unbiblical Apostasy : Unbiblical Marianism in Fatima Portugal Apostasy : Our Lady of Fatima demonic deception Apostasy : Marianism is unbiblical

 

Sadly, stating the Biblical Truth that Mary is NOT to be worshipped makes many people angry, but the Truth must be spoken anyhow. Read God’s Word people!!! You do not need someone else to tell you what the Bible says. All of these apparitions of Mary weeping, or statues shedding tears of oil or blood are either human inspired frauds or lies by the Devil. God has warned us that even greater deceptions than these are about to happen, which is why God says to Trust Him and His Word, NOT what you see, hear, or feel. In other words, do NOT trust experience over God’s Word which is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Other examples of False Prophets, Apostasy and Apostates include:

Founders MCC (formerly known as Metropolitan Community Church) ( Gay and Lesbian ) Perversion of the Gospel.

The former Toronto Airport Vineyard Church: “The Toronto Blessing”, a counterfeit revival, people laugh hysterically, growl like lions and bark like dogs.

Rodney Howard-Browne: may have been the originator of the modern day slaying in the spirit and other demonic ‘Signs and Wonders’,  from South Africa.

Randy Clark: brought the ‘anointing’ to America from Rodney Howard-Browne in South Africa. So called ‘Holy Laughter’, ‘Slaying in the spirit’ and other demonic ‘Signs and Wonders’. Encourages being ‘drunk in the spirit’.

Jon & Carol Arnott, formerly of the Toronto Airport Vineyard: slaying in the spirit and other demonic ‘Signs and Wonders’. Encourages being ‘drunk in the spirit’.

Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, California: believes in angel feathers falling from heaven, deep involvement in ‘Signs and Wonders’ and ‘the anointing’. Encourages being ‘drunk in the spirit’.

Mike Bickle: Initially with the Kansas City Prophets and later IHOP (International House of Prayer) : deep involvement in ‘Signs and Wonders’ and ‘the anointing’, encourages being ‘drunk in the spirit’.

Todd Bentley: wrong, just plain wrong. Associates with Bob Jones.

Bob Jones: associates with Todd Bentley …no, just no.

Roman Catholic Church, Vatican City, Italy … yes, the largest Christian sect in the world is a cult if their beliefs are radically divergent from what is actually written Bible.

The highest Roman Catholic authority states:

If anyone says that the sacraments of the New Law [Roman Catholic rituals] are not necessary for salvation but … that without them … men obtain from God through faith alone the grace of justification … let him be anathema. If anyone says that in the mass a true and real sacrifice is not offered to God … let him be anathema.

If anyone says that the sacrifice of the mass is … a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross but not a propitiatory one … and not to be offered for … the dead, for sins … let him be anathema.

But God states very clearly in the Bible that Jesus was sacrificed once for all. That salvation is by Faith alone. Just believe that Jesus died for your sins, ask Him into your heart, turn away from your sin, read God’s Word daily, pray directly to God…He wants you to know Him.

 

March 29, 1994
Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium (ECT).

 

Filed Under: Apostasy Tagged With: apostasy, apostates, deception, delusion, faith, falling away, lady of fatima, Last Days, lies

Deception of an appearance of Mary in Fatima, Portugal 1917

January 6, 2017 By Trumpeter Leave a Comment

An account of the deception of an appearance of Mary in Fatima, Portugal 1917

FATIMA A TRUE STORY

October 13th of 1917
Silence silence, Our Lady is coming,” Lucia cried out as she saw the flash. The rain having ceased, the sun began gradually to appear, and Our Lady came. Her snow white feet rested upon the beautiful flowers and ribbons with which Senhora da Capelinha had adorned the tree. The faces of the three children assumed an unworldly expression, their features becoming more delicate, their color mellow, their eyes intent upon the Lady. They did not hear Lucia’s
mother warning her to look closely so as not to be deceived. ” What do you want of me?” Lucia inquired of the Queen of Heaven. ” I want to tell you that they must build a chapel here in my honor; that I am the Lady of the Rosary; that they continue to say the Rosary every day. The war will end and the soldiers will return to their homes soon,” Our Lady responded.
” I have many favors to ask. Do you wish to grant them or not?”
” Some I will! Others I will not! They must mend their lives, ask forgiveness for their sins.
Offend not Our Lord any more,”
Our Lady continued, her face becoming very grave,

“For He is already much offended.”
Lucia, knowing this was to be the last interview with Our Lady, wanted to make sure that she received all the commands Mary wished to give her. She hoped to spend the rest of her life on earth fulfilling the desires of Our Lady. “Do you want anything else from me?” the girl asked.”I desire nothing else.”As Our Lady took leave of the children, she opened her hands which emitted a flood of light. While she was rising, she pointed towards the sun and the light gleaming from her hands brightened the sun itself.
” There she goes; there she goes!”
shouted Lucia, without for a moment taking her eyes from the beautiful Queen of Heaven…., the countless thousands of people were amazed and over-powered by other miracles in the skies. the sun had taken on an extraordinary color. The words of eye-witnesses best describe these stupendous signs.
” We could look at the sun with ease,”
Ti Marto testified; it did not bother at all. It seemed to be continually fading and
glowing in one fashion, then another. It threw shafts of light one way and another painting everything in different colors, the people, the trees, the earth, even the air. But the greatest proof of the miracle was the fact that the sun did not bother the eyes.”
A man like Ti Marto who spent all of his days in the open fields with his flocks and tended his garden under the sun of the Portuguese hills, marveled at this Fact. ” Every body stood still and quiet, gazing at the sun,” he went on. ” At a certain point, the sun stopped its play of light and then started dancing. It stopped once more and again started dancing until it seemed to loosen itself from the skies and fall upon the people. It was a moment of terrible suspense.”…., ” The sun cast different colors, yellow, blue, and white. It tremble constantly. It looked like a revolving ball of fire falling upon the people.” As the sun hurled itself towards the earth in a mighty zigzag motion, the multitude cried out in terror, ” Ai Jesus, we are all going to die here; Ai Jesus, we are all going to die here.” Some begged for mercy,
“Our Lady save us”
many others made acts of contrition. One Lady was even confessing her sins aloud. At last the sun swerved back to its orbit and rested in the sky. ” Everyone gave a sigh of relief; we were still alive, and the miracle promised by the children had come to pass.”
Many thousands of people in the cova da Iria and in neighboring villages witnessed the overwhelming signs. Their reports are of intense interest. There are slight variations in their descriptions of the events, though all agreed it was the most tremendous, the most awe-inspiring sight they ever witnessed. Some idea can be had of its effect on the people by reading the newspaper accounts of the day.
“At one o’clock, the hour of the sun, the rain stopped, “O Dia” reported.
” The sky had a certain grayish tint of pearl and a strange clearness filled the gloomy landscape, every moment getting gloomier. The sun seemed to be veiled with transparent gauze to enable us to look at it without difficulty. The grayish tint of mother-of-pearl began changing as if into a shining silver disc, that was growing slowly until it broke through the clouds. And the silver sun, still shrouded in the same grayish lightness of gauze, was seen to rotate and wander within the circle of the receded clouds! The people cried out with one voice, the thousands of the creatures of God whom faith raised up to Heaven, fell to their knees upon the muddy ground. ” Then as if it were shining the stained glass windows of a great cathedral, the light became a rare blue, spreading its rays upon the gigantic nave…Slowly the blue faded away and now the light seemed to be filtered through yellow stained glass. Yellow spots were falling now upon the white kerchiefs and the dark poor skirts of coarse wool. They were spots which repeated themselves indefinitely over the lowly holmoaks, the rocks and the hills. All the people were weeping and praying bareheaded, weighed down by the greatness of the miracle expected. These were seconds, moments that seemed hours; they were so fully lived.”
“O Seculo”, another newspaper of Lisbon.
Carried a more detailed account of the extraordinary events.
“From the height of the road where the people parked their carriages and where many hundreds stood, afraid to brave the muddy soil, we saw the immense multitude turn towards the sun at its highest, free of all clouds. The sun called to mind a plate of dull silver. It could be stared at without the least effort. It did not burn or blind. It seemed that an eclipse was taking place. All of a sudden a tremendous shout burst forth, ‘Miracle, miracle! Marvel, marvel! “before the astonished eyes of the people, whose attitude carried us back to biblical times, and who, white with terror, heads uncovered gazed at the blue sky, the sun trembled and made some brusque unheard-of movements beyond all cosmic laws; the sun danced, in the typical expression of the peasants.
“On the running board of the bus from Torres Novas, an old man whose stature and gentle, manly features recall of Paul Deroulede, turned toward the sun and recite the Credo in a loud voice. …I saw him later addressing those about him who still kept their hats on, begging them vehemently to take their hats off before this overwhelming demonstration of the existence of God. Similar scenes were repeated at other places. A Lady, bathed in tears and almost choking with grief, sobbed, ‘How pitiful! There are men who still do not bare their heads before such a stupendous miracle!’
“Immediately afterwards the people asked each other if they saw anything and what they had seen. The greatest number avowed that they saw the sun trembling and dancing; others declared that they saw the smiling face of the Blessed Virgin herself; they swore that the sun turned around on itself as if it were a wheel of fireworks and had fallen almost to the point of burning the earth with its rays. Some said they saw it change colors successively.”
The testimony of another witness, Dr. almeida Garret, professor at the University of Coimbra, is most informative and corroborates the others,
“As I waited”,He said,”with cool and serene expectation, looking upon the place of the apparitions and with curiosity that was fading because the hour was passing away so slowly without anything to arouse my attention, I heard the rustle of thousands of voices. I saw the people stretched out over the large field turn about from the point upon which their desires and anxietes had covered so far to the opposite side and they looked up to the skies. It was almost two o’clock wartime or about noon, sun time. The sun had broken jubilantly through the thick layer of clouds just a few moments before. It was shining clearly and intensely. I turned to this magnet that drawing all eyes. It looked to me as a luminous and brilliant disc, with a bright well-defined rim. It did not hurt the eyes. The comparison (which I heard while still at Fatima) with a disc of dull silver, did not seem right to me. The color was brighter, far more active and richer than dull silver, with the tinted luster of the orient of a pearl. “Nor did it resemble the moon on a clear night. Everyone saw and felt that it was a body with life. It was not spherical like the moon, neither did it have an equal tonality of color. It looked like a small, brightly polished wheel of iridescent mother-of-pearl. It could not be taken for the sun as though seen through fog. There was no fog at that time.(The rain and the fog had stopped.) The sun was not opaque, veiled or diffused. It gave light and heat and was brightly outlined by a beveled rim. The sky was banked with light clouds, patched with blue here and there. Sometimes the sun stood out alone in rifts of clear sky. The clouds scuttled along from west to east without dimming the sun. They gave the impression of passing behind it, while the white puffs gliding sometimes in front of the sun seemed to take on the color of rose or a delicate blue.” It was a wonder that all this time it was possible for us to look at the sun, a blaze of light and burning heat, without any pain to the eyes or blinding of the retina. This phenomenon must have lasted about ten minutes, except for two interruptions when the sun dated forth its more refulgent, lightning-like rays, that forced us to look away. The sun had a eccentricity of movement. It was not the scintillation of a celestial body at its highest power. It was rotating upon itself with exceedingly great speed. Suddenly, the people broke out with a cry of extreme anguish. The sun, still rotating, had unloosened itself from the skies and came hurtling towards the earth. This huge, fiery millstone threatened to crush us with its weight. It was a dreadful sensation. During this solar occurrence, the air took on successively different colors. While looking at the sun, I noticed that everything around me darkened. I looked at what was nearby and cast my eyes away towards the horizon. Everything had color of an amethyst; the sky, the air, everything and everybody. A little oak nearby was casting a heavy purple shade on the ground. Fearing impairment of the retina, which was improbable, because then I would not have seen everything in purple, I turned about , closed my eyes, cupping my hands over them, to cut of all light. With my back turned, I opened my eyes and realized that the landscape and the air retained the purple hue. This did not give the impression of being an eclipse. While still looking at the sun, I noticed that the air had cleared and I heard a peasant nearby say, ‘This Lady looks yellow.’ As a matter of fact, everything far and near had changed now. People seemed to have jaundice. I smiled when saw everybody looking disfigured and ugly. My hand had the same color…”
The testimony of this learned man demonstrates how difficult it is to describe adequately the marvelous signs that occurred in the skies on this day. October the thirteenth, 1917, was a day to remember for all the people who witnessed these events…..There is no possibility of error or illusion when close to a hundred thousand people concur in their testimony. God in Heaven had called the people of the world to join with the heavens in praying honor and glory to his Blessed Mother, Mary.


The Third Secret of Fatima

COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF ORIGINAL TEXT
VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) – Given below is the complete translation of the original Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three shepherd children at Cova da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:

“I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

“After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.”
…/THIRD SECRET/… VIS 000626 (380)

Filed Under: Apostasy Tagged With: 1917, appearance, demonic deception, Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal

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