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  • Hello folks. This is Pastor Mike Hoggard

  • coming to you from Studio 2012 with another Watchman Video Broadcast.

  • Well, I used to really love to read these things. Comic books,

  • I had quite a collection of them when I was a young man.

  • Ah, this was actually part of my collection, "Son of Satan".

  • I went to church and read things like this.

  • I remember there was an ad,

  • oh let's see here. The X-ray spectacles, I always wanted a pair of those.

  • Ah, the, ah, I wanted to have the Charles

  • Atlas body. But there was one particular ad in

  • comic books that I had, a full page ad, it was called

  • the "Magic Power of Witchcraft".

  • And for, I don't remember how much it was, maybe a dollar, you could

  • send in and get this book. The advertisement read,

  • "So simple, a child could do it.", and I am going, that is me!

  • I can do witchcraft. I can make magic spells and make things

  • happen and things like that. Two problems.

  • Two problems into this at a young age. Now remember, I am going to church

  • when I want to order this book. Ah, two problems. Number one,

  • I never really had a dollar. They were kind of hard to come by.

  • Ah, and number two, I never could think of a way

  • to order the thing and have it mailed to my house

  • without my mom finding out about it.

  • She had gotten saved and got us kids

  • in church and we were going to this church, actually, a good

  • fundamental, Bible-preaching church and

  • I knew that Mom would not, if she saw that, there

  • was no way in the world she was going to let me have that book because

  • I grew up, that witchcraft and the church

  • doesn't mix. They are not supposed to go together. You are not supposed

  • to practice witchcraft or be a witch or have

  • a spirit of witchcraft in your Bible-believing church.

  • That is the way I used to think. I still think that way,

  • now. So I quit reading Son of Satan comic books

  • and watching a lot of movies and things like that. I quit doing

  • that, ah, I haven't read, and picked up "The Lord of the Rings"

  • since I was in high school. A lot of things that I have walked away from and said

  • you know, they are not really, I can't really reconcile this

  • with the scriptures and I can't, I can't as a pastor

  • condone witchcraft or witchcraft

  • style practices or ideas or beliefs or pinciples.

  • I cannot incorporate that into the scriptures.

  • Ah, and so it amazes me, it shocks me,

  • as I am putting this together, it just is amazing

  • me, how much witchcraft and I mean like

  • the real witchcraft, not just kid stuff out of a magazine,

  • I mean the real witchcraft. You say, I don't believe in that. That is like TV shows and kid shows and stuff like that.

  • Well, you should, you should believe in it

  • because the Bible expressly forbids

  • witchcraft and it evens mentions it in Paul's letters.

  • Let me show you Galatians, chapter 3, verse 1. "O foolish Galatians,

  • who hath bewitched you,

  • that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ

  • hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"

  • Paul used this phrase, "bewitched you" like somebody

  • in that congregation had cast a spell,

  • had a witchcraft influence over those people in that church.

  • If you don't know really what the whole book of Galatians is all about,

  • the Book of Galatians was about people in the church teaching

  • other people in the church that you are really not

  • totally saved by just grace, alone.

  • You have to perform things. You have to do things. You have to have rituals

  • done on you, like circumcision and you have to keep the law

  • in order to really, really, really be saved. I mean, you might say, yeah Jesus

  • come out of my heart. That might be okay down here

  • but if you really want to get to the upper levels with God,

  • then you have to perform rituals and have things done

  • and you have to do things in order to really be saved. And Paul said

  • that is witchcraft and these people have

  • bewitched you and now you are mingling witchcraft

  • into your church services, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,

  • that you should not obey the truth". You see Paul is saying that it

  • starts contradiction. I will just use my little comic book here.

  • I always like to contrast things. Here is the truth of the Word of God.

  • The King James Bible. Here is witchcraft

  • and Paul said you believe this (indicating comic book),

  • instead of believing this (indicating King James Bible) and they don't belong together.

  • Witchcraft does not belong in the church and

  • so for years, I have had a fascination, and I will be honest with you,

  • partly due to a desire to want to practice witchcraft,

  • or wizardry or sorcery of some kind or

  • when I saw the kids playing Dungeons and Dragons, I'm going, I'd like to play Dungeons and Dragons.

  • God kept me out of a lot of that stuff because

  • he knew what was in me and I don't

  • want that...I don't want that to take part of my life and so I

  • have studied witchcraft over the years, studied sorcery, studied magic

  • studied how it works, how it is designed, what it is based on

  • and so I have a foundation of knowledge. I don't need to go and

  • read 4,000 books on witchcraft in order to really understand

  • it. I get it. I know what it is and now

  • that I know what the truth is, I know from the scriptures,

  • what the source of witchcraft is, what spirit is behind it.

  • I am actually, I am actually going to get into this. I am going to read

  • to you, something you will find easily on the internet,

  • the 13 principles of witchcraft. Now I found out that actually army chaplains have

  • this in their manual. So it is like, this is something that they agreed on,

  • that this is how the....it is interesting to me, that in Wicca,

  • that is what the name of it is called. Wicca, the word "wicca",

  • the word "wicca" and the word "wizard", they all,

  • they are based upon the same word which is "wist" or "wise".

  • The word "wizard" or "wicca" is derived from this

  • word wisdom, which means that these people have, supposedly, they have

  • a secret knowledge and their eyes have been enlightened to this

  • secret power that is in the universe. And we will get into that.

  • But I am actually going to look at a little bit later on, some of the 13 principles

  • that wiccans all agree to, yeah, that is us, that is

  • kind of how we are and what we do. It is interesting that

  • Wiccans, really, when they went to formulate these 13 principles they

  • kind of had a problem with that because Wiccans

  • by their, I am talking about the real wiccans, the real witches,

  • its not the kids dressed up in Halloween, kind of witches,

  • They really have a problem with

  • ah, their religion or principles of their religion, being written down,

  • anywhere. In fact, one of the...it is like the unwritten rule of witchcraft

  • is, we don't follow rules.

  • We don't follow written guidelines. We don't follow

  • things that are written on pages that say this is what we are. We

  • like to be free and that is interesting because this is

  • really what we are seeing in a lot of churches, today. People don't want to follow

  • what has been written down and Christianity has turned more into the

  • esoteric, which means a secret thing,

  • rather than following the written word of God. They

  • seem to be following their emotions and feelings and power

  • and things like that, that don't come from nor originate

  • from the written Word of God. And anytime you don't have....

  • this is what Paul warned against, he said, you foolish Galatians, you followed

  • something that is not written down, witchcraft

  • and you have rejected what is written down. You have rejected the truth.

  • So we are going to look at some of the principles that they grudgingly agree

  • to and we are going to see just how much witchcraft

  • is in the church. I mentioned earlier that now that I know the scriptures,

  • I know what spirit this is. Remember the

  • thirteen principles. In the Book of Revelation, chapter 17,

  • there is a spirit, all throughout, you see her

  • all throughout the scriptures, she is called by various names

  • in the Bible and I will tell you one of those names she is called by in a minute, but in the Book of Revelation,

  • it says, here is the mystery. I love the fact that God's

  • Word always reveals mysteries. If there is a

  • mystery somewhere, it is going to tell you what it is.

  • Witchcraft is like a mystery religion because they don't write all their formulas, they don't write

  • everything down, but I want to know what that mystery is so I can

  • read it from the scriptures. John says, I am going to give you the mystery

  • here, the woman, that is sitting, riding on top of the scarlet colored

  • beast. Her name is MYSTERY,

  • MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS

  • AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Now if you count in your King James Bible,

  • you look at that verse, it just stands out because it is in all capital letters,

  • you'll find 13 words there. That number 13

  • means something. The number 13 in the scriptures, it is not always

  • a bad number, when you have 12, I don't have 12 fingers,

  • when you have 12 disciples, and you have Jesus with them, that is 13.

  • When you have the 12 tribes, camped around the Tabernacle,

  • and God's presence is there, in the form of the cloud,

  • that is 13, that is what you have, the number 13.

  • Think of the charity chapter in the Bible, 1 Corinthians, chapter 13.

  • The phrase, "love of God",

  • occurs 13 times in the Bible, so I kind of think that the number 13

  • on God's side represents the pure love of God and you know

  • how the Bible defines (I love this) "love"?

  • Giving. For God so loved the world that he gave.

  • Pure love just gives without expecting anything

  • in return. That is pure love. Harlot love,

  • you see, she is the opposite of that.

  • Harlots don't give love for free.

  • They expect something back

  • and so think of a salvation now, that is based upon God's pure love,

  • that is offered to you free, with nothing in return.

  • That is the pure gospel and the pure love of God and the pure

  • salvation of God. The Harlot has slipped in our churchs.

  • Turn that around a little bit

  • and so now the pure love of God has been turned into a Harlot love

  • and she teaches a gospel that says, yes God will love you and yes God will do

  • things for you, but you have to do something for him and that is why

  • Paul called it bewitching them. That is why he called it witchcraft.

  • There is a woman in the Bible who epitomizes the spirit of

  • MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS. She epitomizes

  • the spirit of witchcraft. Her name is Jezebel.

  • Now this is interesting because I like to break down words and it is

  • interesting that the name Baal or Bel,

  • is in her name. That is like her God and where she came from.

  • In 2 Kings, chapter 9, verse 22, here is an interesting

  • description of what spirit Jezebel

  • represents. "And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu

  • that he said, is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace,

  • so long as" (number one) "the whoredoms

  • of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts

  • are so many?" And so the Bible is telling you

  • here that Jezebel or you know, MYSTERY BABALON, she

  • embodies two ideas or two identities and a lot of time you will see them

  • mixed together. Number one, she represents whoredom, harlotry,

  • fornication, adultery, all things of sort of sexual

  • uncleanness, all rolled into one. That is

  • MYSTERY BABYLON, that is Jezebel and number two, she is the practitioner of

  • witchcraft. In fact, she epitomizes and embodies

  • witchcraft and it is something interesting, something that God reveals

  • to us in the scriptures, concerning what Jezebel really

  • is all about. So number one, we know that she is going to use harlotry. We know that she is

  • going to use witchcraft. Let's see how she gets it

  • done and let's see what it is that she is doing. We go to 1 Kings, chapter 21,

  • there is a story. I am not going to recount the whole story, you read it. But it is

  • essentially this. A man by the name of Naboth had a vineyard.

  • Think of a vineyard. Think of Jesus said I am the vine,

  • you are the branches. Well that would be the vineyard. That would be

  • Christ in his church, his people, okay. So the

  • vineyard is an inheritance, by the way. You see this land that Naboth had.

  • He didn't buy it. He didn't get it off Ebay. He didn't go to a government auction,

  • a foreclosure. He inherited it from his father, who inherited

  • it from his father, who got it from his father, and from his father, who eventually

  • they...it goes all the way back to the time when Joshua and the Israelites

  • went into the Promised Land and God says, here is your land. I am going to give it to you.

  • Don't sell it. Don't give it away. Pass it down

  • to your offspring. And so Naboth was one of

  • those who received this inheritance, this

  • wonderful gift, Naboth received. And Ahab wanted it.

  • It was a vineyard, right next to the palace of Ahab and Ahab is looking at that.

  • See, it is covetousness. He is looking at that, saying, boy, I want that piece of land.

  • It looks nice. I am going to do this...I am going to put some landscaping there. I am going to make it real nice.

  • And he wants it, so he asked Naboth, he said how about

  • trading me. I have some real nice land

  • over yonder, I will let you have, if you let me have this vineyard. Or, or...

  • I will give you some money for it. Think of harlots,

  • what do they get out of it. BUt anyway, I'll give you some money for it.

  • And Naboth said, Ahab, you know the law. I can't sell

  • my vineyard. One of these days I am going to have a son and I am going to pass that down to him

  • and it is going to be his. So I am going to work it and I am going to live off of it.

  • And I am going to give it to my son so he will have the same thing that I had.

  • Maybe he will make it better. Naboth pouted and he cried.

  • Oh, I can't have that! Jezebel comes in.

  • By the way, I want you to listen to this now. Jezebel hates, she hates the law.

  • She hates what God said. She despises it.

  • So Jezebel comes in and wants to know what is wrong with Ahab. Ahab says, He won't give me

  • the vineyard. Look at what Jezebel said.

  • 1 Kings, chapter 21, verse 7,

  • 1 Kings, chapter 21, verse 7, "And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread,

  • and let thine heart be merry: I

  • will give thee the vineyard of Naboth

  • the Jezreelite." I want you to...let's put on our conspiracy

  • glasses for a minute. Isaiah, chapter 14, Lucifer says

  • (verse 13) "I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,"

  • Ruling over the congregation of God,

  • the devil, the devil, now! Being in charge of

  • the churches! He wants that! He wants

  • the vineyard. How is he going to get it?

  • Jezebel. She is going to use her whoredoms.

  • She is going to use her witchcraft.

  • And there is going to be a transfer of authority, of the church,

  • from here (indicating King James Bible)

  • to here. (indicating comic book)

  • That is who she is. That is what

  • she is going to...that is what she is doing,

  • right now and so it is no marvel to me

  • when I see a void

  • of the scriptures, and I mean the true, incorruptible

  • scriptures, when I see a void of this, in the church,

  • I know who is fixing to be

  • in charge and I know how it is working and I know who is doing it.

  • So let's begin with some things. To me

  • are obvious. Now, I would not

  • be caught dead when I was a child,

  • sitting at home, I don't think my mom, she knew I had comics. I don't think she knew about this one.

  • I wouldn't be caught dead, sitting there in my home, reading

  • "The Son of Satan", in my home. My mom was,

  • you get that out of here. Thats...thats...you're not having that.

  • So anyways, a long time ago you

  • just couldn't say, there is witchcraft in the church. But now there is.

  • Some things to me are obvious.

  • For some reason, well, I know the reason, but something is going

  • on and now churches, it is like they are crazy.

  • They are crazy because they are actually using the

  • occult to teach Jesus.

  • Now remember, this guy here, "The Son of Satan", he is not just a comic

  • book character. He is called the child of the devil

  • In Acts, chapter 13, son of Belial, son of perdition, is what he is called.

  • He is a real character out of the Bible. He really

  • exists. He is really going to try to take over and reign on planet Earth.

  • Okay, and um, and so

  • they are using the themes of occult to teach about

  • another Jesus. That is who this is here. (indicating comic book)

  • Ah, we have things like the Harry Potter

  • bible study. Enjoying God through the fnal

  • four Harry Potter movies. Well here

  • are the final four Harry Potter movies. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Let's stop right here. You know what the Phoenix

  • is? It is a mythical bird, like a spirit, that

  • rises up out of the flames of hell and is reborn. You know

  • what that is? According to the Bible, that is the anti-christ. They are going to say, we're going to tell you who God is...

  • by the order of the Phoenix, the half-blood prince. You know what Harry Potter is?

  • He is hybrid. His father was from a genetic

  • line of wizards. You know who that is. That is gods. And his mother was a human.

  • He is a hybrid. He is the half-blood prince. "Deathly Hallows", they are going to try

  • to tell you that Harry Potter can show you the way

  • to Jesus Christ. I promise you. It won't be this one.

  • It will be this one right here. Here is another one, "The Gospel According to

  • Harry Potter". Now also remember this now,

  • Harry Potter is the guy who has a

  • lightening bolt marked on his forehead. That is not the

  • real Jesus, by the way. That is this guy (indicating comic book),

  • right here. Ah, Tyndale, Tyndale House Publishers,

  • Tyndale, okay, that great

  • repository of Christian literature, published

  • a book, "Looking for God in Harry Potter".

  • Then it moves on down to something, and I've never read

  • any of the Harry Potter books. These I have read, so I know what I am talking about here,

  • when we get into the Hobbit. That was the first one I read.

  • And because a cartoon came out in the late 70's,

  • I can't remember who made it, I think Rankin Bass or something like that and

  • I am going, wow, and I read the book. And I was fascinated by

  • this book and this ring that makes you disappear and

  • all kinds of weird things are floating through my head, well, I'd like to have that ring. And then I read

  • the "Lord of the Rings". I found out what the ring was part of and

  • then I found out that Tolkein, J.R.R. Tolkien

  • actually got all of these ideas for the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit"

  • from myth, from actual European, Scandanavian,

  • Nordic, Greek, Roman, he got them from mythology and

  • mythology is all about the son of Satan,

  • a child of the gods. So that is where he got it from. So we have

  • a character called, Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf

  • the Grey is a wizard. Now here it is, the gospel

  • according to Tolkien and here is another one here, "Finding God

  • In the Lord of the Rings".

  • See it is not the right God. It is not the God of the Bible.

  • And I will show you why I say that here in a little bit.

  • It is going to be this one right here (indicating comic book). They are going to lead you astray. Jezebel

  • is going to transfer the authority of the vineyard over to Ahab, over to the

  • devil. How is she going to do it? Through, "The Gospel, According to Tolkien", through "Finding God

  • in the Lord of the Rings". See Gandalf the Grey is a wizard. Wait till you hear

  • what Harry Potter is, okay. And Gandalf the Grey fights

  • a battle and he is thrust into the underworld and he dies

  • but he is resurrected and now he is no longer

  • Gandalf the Grey, he is Gandalf the White, wizard.

  • And he rides a white horse and I think of a shadowfax

  • and ah, he is the conquering hero now and everybody says, ooh, ah,

  • Jesus. It is not really Jesus.

  • You even have books called, "The Gospel According to

  • Twilight; Women, Sex and God".

  • There is an apple, with a bite out of it. You know

  • That just stinks of Genesis, chapter 3. Here is another one,

  • Parables from Twilight; a Bible Study.

  • You know what Twilight is, don't you? It is warewolves, people

  • who are transformed into a beast.

  • Vampires, people that are dead,

  • that is what vampires are. And they do what God said not to do

  • and that is, drink blood. You are not supposed to do that, but they do.

  • And there is a love affair, ah, it is romantic and teenage girls

  • are going, oh, she loves him so much.

  • God said not to have anything to do with it. Leviticus, chapter 19, verse 31

  • "Regard not them that have

  • familiar spirits, neither seek after

  • wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." God said that this

  • stuff is not going to lead you to the real Jesus, it is actually going to

  • defile you. Think of defiling and think of whoredoms. They kind of go

  • together, okay. Leviticus, 20, verse 6, "And the soul that turneth after

  • such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go" (Look at

  • this...to go a whoring after them..Stop right here.

  • Did you see that? God actually again, puts

  • wizardry, witch...Wizardy and Wicca, remember they are from the same root word,

  • "wist" or "wise". Wizardry and whoring

  • together in the same, God said you go after wizards

  • to go a whoring after wizards. Look what God said,

  • "I will (even) set my face

  • against that soul and will cut him off from

  • among his people. Listen, it is going to work.

  • It is going to work. God says, when my people start chasing

  • after Harry and

  • Gandalf and Twilight and vampire

  • empires and warewolves, when my people go seeking after them,

  • (Warewolves have familiar spirits, by the way.) When my people go seeking after

  • I will cut them off. They are not my

  • church, anymore. And so Jezebel says

  • don't worry Ahab, I will get them for you. And Ahab now conquers

  • and rules over the people because of their own iniquity,

  • that God cut off. See, it works, doesn't it?

  • Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 11, here is what God said, don't do. You don't follow after

  • a charmer. Think of

  • charmed, we are going to get to that in a minute. A charmer or a consulter with

  • familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. You know what a necromancer

  • is? Okay. One that has contact with the dead. What are vampires?

  • They are dead. Verse 13, "For all that do these things are

  • an abomination unto the LORD:" See, that doesn't sound like Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound, does it?

  • "All these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD

  • thy God doth drive them out from before thee."

  • thy God doth drive them out from before thee." God said the land

  • that you are going into is full of charmers and wizards

  • and familiar spirits and necromancers and God said I am going to kick them out

  • and I am going to put them in your place. So don't

  • do what they did, or I will kick you out too!

  • That is what God said. So you have to understand and realize that the

  • studies, based upon things that are of the occult world, those

  • studies and those ideas and those principles being brought into

  • vacation Bible schools and Sunday school rooms and Bible studies and

  • even coming out of the pulpits, coming out of

  • so-called Christian musicians, who put on their website, yeah, my favorite book, man,

  • was like "Charmed". My favorite book was "Twilight".

  • My favorite movie was "Lord of the Rings". They are bringing that into the church.

  • And God said, you know what, if you follow after that stuff,

  • I can't help you. And Jazabel is moving in and she is

  • causing people, no one, listen, no one is being forced,

  • to worship the dragon. No one is.

  • They are making a choice and Jezebel is the agent

  • of that choice. That verse mentions that you are not supposed to follow

  • charmers. There is a TV show called, "Charmed".

  • It has three witches in it and their symbol is

  • the triquetra. That is a magic symbol.

  • It is not a Christian symbol. God said, there is not, oh yeah it is like a symbol,

  • for a....let me see if I have my new King James version....No,

  • it is over there. Ah, they

  • say it is a symbol of the trinity. But God said in the Book of Acts that we are not

  • to think that the Godhead can be graven with art and man's

  • devise. God said no.

  • God said, is there a symbol for the trinity. God said no. The book publisher said, oh yeah,

  • it is the symbol for the trinity, but it is not. It is witchcraft.

  • That spirit there, you see the New King James version of the Bible, same symbol.

  • By the way, same symbol, I mean you wouldn't actually

  • pick up a Bible, would you? Maybe, maybe you would.

  • We are getting into this. Maybe you wouldn't pick up a Bible that had like a

  • big giant pentagram, with candles and a goat head on it.

  • Would you? And yet,

  • religious leaders, big money people on TV

  • ministries hold up their New King James Version of the Bible with the

  • triquetra, with the witchcraft symbol on it, the charmed symbol.

  • They are leading you, not toward Christ. They are leading you to

  • Ahab, who wants that vineyard and Jezebel

  • is helping him get there. So, I mean, that is just like the

  • basics, here. So when we look at churches that are doing Harry Potter,

  • Lord of the Rings, Charmed, Twilight, you name it,

  • when they have theme parties, based upon this stuff, when we see that, we go, you know

  • that is not right. That is easy. That is the easy part right there, or it should be.

  • Anybody with a brain should look at that and say, you know what, we're...

  • pastor, we can't do that. That is not right. It is not

  • right. You know what is a shame. It is the pastors,

  • who are not just standing back and allowing it to happen,

  • They are the ones promoting it. What does

  • that say about the pastors? What does that say

  • about them? Let's do...let's change here, because we know that

  • witchcraft is part of the occult, so we should stay away from the movies,

  • the books, all that stuff. Stay away from things that are occult.

  • Keep it out of your church. Keep it out of your home. Keep it out of your family.

  • Just keep it out, okay. The next thing we get into

  • ah, let me read a verse

  • out of my Bible. I love my Bible. This actually

  • is an old Bible that I have. I have a piece of scotch tape, holding

  • this page together here, because it is precious to me and I don't want to lose

  • especially this part of my Bible. This is Ephesians, chapter 2

  • verse 8. Let me tell you the real gospel. And there is only one.

  • One way to the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Only one. "For by grace are ye saved

  • through faith; and that not of

  • yourselves: it is the gift of God:"

  • Not of works! Now, I want you to repeat these words after me.

  • And it is not a ritual we are doing. I just want to get it in your head.

  • Not of works. Got it? Why? Lest any man

  • should boast. God knows the wicked nature of man

  • in that, if he actually had a system,

  • where people could perform things in front of people,

  • and people go, ooh, ah, wow, look at that!

  • Wow, they are holy because they are doing that.

  • You see, if God actually had a system that employed the use

  • of works, actions, rituals,

  • for people to be saved,

  • then God knows the wicked nature of men. Man wouldn't go, yes

  • we are the holy men of God because look at what we are doing.

  • See, God doesn't let any...he specifically designed

  • salvation to be based upon

  • his grace and not by your

  • doings, as Paul said in Galatians, not by your

  • ritual of circumcision, not by keeping the law, because

  • you have it and you never have, you are not now and you never will keep

  • the law. Not by your rituals, either!

  • So what is that we know about witches and what they do?

  • Witches do rituals.

  • And so when I see, now when I see

  • rituals inside of a house that they call a church,

  • and by these rituals they are saying now we must perform these rituals, we must do

  • this, everybody do this and stand here and I will hold my hands like this and

  • we'll do all this stuff and when we do this stuff, then God

  • will come down and he will give us blessing. When I see that

  • it makes me sad, but it makes me angry because

  • they are saying that if we.....yeah, I get it, Jesus saves,

  • See, we are saying it, but really, unless you

  • do this, you cannot be saved, you cannot go to heaven unless you perform

  • what we tell you to perform. That is most obvious in the Roman

  • Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church is all about

  • rituals. No priests

  • no Roman Catholic Priests has ever told anybody

  • that they are saved, without performing a ritual of some

  • kind. The sacraments, the seven sacraments, oh the sacraments of the mass,

  • the sacraments of confession, the sacraments of penance, the sacraments of holy marriage,

  • the sacraments of the holy orders, like becoming a priest or a monk or a nun,

  • They say that you cannot ever, ever, ever

  • go to Heaven, without having water splashed on your

  • face, without eating the cookie, without drinking the cup, which by the way,

  • here we are going to get into it, okay. Roman Catholic ritual states that

  • the priest, once her performs, he has this

  • this little cookie in a box, it is called a

  • monstrance, or whatever. You know, you see them holding the monstrance, big sun image,

  • with the cookie in it, the wafer and he takes the wafer and

  • once he says, listen to this now, think about witchcraft,

  • once he says the right words and see, these priests actually have a book

  • with all these words written in it that they have to recite. Priests can't just

  • make it up as they go. They recite the words

  • and when they recite the words and perform the

  • ritual, then the wafer

  • turns into God. It is called the Doctrine of Substantiation.

  • They teach this right here. If you ever watch a Roman Catholic priest,

  • once they turn that cookie into God, they are like,

  • ooh, we have to be careful. We can't get crumbs on the floor.

  • You watch them. That is what they are doing. They have performed a magic

  • spell using incantations and ritual performances

  • that has turned this wafer, this piece of dough,

  • into God. And they say now,

  • whoever, anybody here want to be saved, you want to go to Heaven,

  • you have to eat this. If you don't eat it,

  • then you are not going to Heaven. Ah, it is

  • idolatry. I am going to read you a verse. I am going to read you a verse. Galatians,

  • chapter 5, verse 20, Paul here again, says the word, "witchcraft"...

  • and he says "idolatry" right next to it. You see, I want you to look at this picture

  • here. You know what idolatry is? It is bowing down

  • to a thing, something. Okay.

  • Ah, I was reading a little bit of history today and I was reading about

  • I think it was Cortez, went into Mexico, Montezuma,

  • and Cortez brought some missionaries with him and they went in there and

  • they said, you know what. We want to follow your religion and so they said, yeah, get rid of all your idols.

  • Get rid of that idol over there and Quetzalcoatl and get rid of that idol over there and stamp them down to the ground.

  • They did exactly what Cortez told them to do and then Cortez

  • had the priests set up a statue of Mary and said, this is your real god.

  • Your real god right here, and you bow to that.

  • The Catholic Priest turns the wafer into

  • god. He sits it there and then he

  • bows before it. See, witchcraft

  • and idolatry, they always go

  • hand-in-hand. So it is very subtle. The devil

  • is very, very subtle. You have to know how to spot him. Let me just tell

  • you, I can just read this verse again and you should get it. "For by grace are you saved through faith and

  • you, I can just read this verse again and you should get it. "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."

  • So, you understand that you can be saved

  • by simply just believing God. That is not a work, by the way, that is a thought.

  • It is a belief. I believe the scriptures. I believe the Bible. I believe Jesus

  • died on the cross for my sins. I believe I am a sinner and I am going to hell

  • and I believe God can save me. See that is it, that is through faith.

  • Grace through faith. You believe the Bible, okay.

  • And all of a sudden, you are saved. Whosoever

  • shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. But there are people,

  • Roman Catholic mythologism is full of it. It is full of witchcraft,

  • through rituals. Those rituals now

  • are moving in to the churches, evangelical protestant, main line,

  • whatever you want to call them, the Baptists, the Nazarene, the Penetecostal, the

  • Charismatic, the Presbyterian, you name it, this witchcraft

  • is moving in, though ritualism. Um, Perry Stone,

  • Perry Stone, big name guy on television. He's got this

  • manifest TV program. He is the prophecy guy.

  • He gets all of his stuff from the dreams and visions that he operates in.

  • And he said, God told me, he actually wrote a book called

  • "The Meal that Heals". Guess what it is? You watch his TV program

  • and you hear him talk about "The Meal That Heals', he actually tells you now, if you

  • would just take communion, take the eucharist everyday, God will heal your

  • body and God will give you money and God will bless your life,

  • and your marriage will be better and you will have influence over people.

  • You will be in happy la la land if you will,

  • IF, you will eat this and drink

  • this every day. I do. I take this every

  • day and it has healed me. It has done great...

  • That is a ritual. That is works-based salvation.

  • Witches are all about, they have to draw a circle,

  • I want you to remember that. Witches have to draw a circle and they have to light candles

  • and they have to face in a certain direction and they have to do this and they have to do that

  • in order for the forces, the elements...I will teach you that in a minute...

  • the elements of witchcraft, to work. They have to do that,

  • People like Perry Stone and others.

  • Here it is, Jentezen Franklin, writes a book called,

  • "Fasting". Look at this. Opening the door to a deeper, more intimate, more powerful

  • relationship with God. Here is another one called, "Fasting to Regain

  • Your Edge". It basically says if you perform

  • either by eating this or not of eating this, by abstaining from me,

  • if you perform these functions, then God is going to

  • pour out something in your life. That is

  • the witchcraft that Paul warned the Galatians about, because they were telling everybody

  • now listen, if you get circumcised, then you are really

  • saved. It is witchcraft.

  • You....listen....you are probably going, I am not going to watch this guy anymore.

  • Here me out. You are not

  • saved by Grace and then kept by works.

  • You are saved by Grace and kept

  • by Grace and NOT works.

  • It is as simple as that. God will not let you boast on

  • what you have done and he won't bless your books and your videos

  • and your seminars and your performances of rituals. He will

  • not bless them and grace them with the presence of his spirit.

  • He will not do it, by you performing works.

  • Here is another one. If you don't like me now, you are fixing to not like me, right here.

  • Okay.

  • You see these evangelists running around everywhere,

  • bopping all the bunnies on the head, hey, would you like

  • the Holy Ghost? Would you like to be healed? Then you have to come up here. I have to

  • do this, in order for that to happen. That is what they say.

  • You want the real healing? You have to go to Benny Hinn. You gotta go..he is..

  • He's got to touch you. Or he's got to wave his coat at you

  • and the air from it will touch you or he's just got to blow on you. You've see it.

  • Okay. You have to do that because God

  • won't heal you unless you do that. That's

  • ritualistic works-based boasting.

  • Witchcraft. Or how about

  • this one, okay. All you see the evangelists,

  • they look real spiritual because they have a nice suit on and hair slicked back

  • and oh, they are squinting their eyes. They do this,

  • they squint their eyes really hard. Listen, it is all a show,

  • it is all a big production, is what it is. And they show up

  • all these prayer cloths people send in, all their stuff and the evangelist is going to

  • go like that and say things real loud

  • and maybe even in a tongue, Oh Shambalababa!

  • And the more production, the bigger the eye candy it is,

  • the more powerful the spirit is, right?

  • Ah here is, (ha ha) I found this one, ah, Richard

  • Roberts, when he is not drinking,

  • he will lay hands on your cloth. A new point of contact

  • for the healing of cancer, incurable diseases and impossible situations,

  • signed Richard Roberts.

  • He personally has anointed this and he's prayed over it and he has

  • sent it to you in the mail and if you want, if you want the release,

  • of financial blessings in your life, then hold this and

  • put your hand on it and close your eyes and squint real tight and pray these words,

  • ...

  • That is witchcraft. When Richard

  • Roberts is not being pulled over for drunk driving, he is busy laying hands on

  • cloths so that if you touch the cloth, you then

  • will be activated. If you perform this function,

  • you will get healing, you will get money, you will get salvation.

  • You will get divine blessing in your life. It is witchcraft, people.

  • And by the way, okay, this laying on the hands thing,

  • you got a problem with. You go to a church where people get

  • impartations of the spirit, people fall backward, that is how

  • it is done. I mean, I tried to get the Holy Ghost one time and it

  • did this and that and it didn't work.

  • Ah, let me tell you about a friend of mine, who in his salvation experienced...

  • went to a church, he didn't know anything. He went down to the altar and

  • they said, what are you here for. He said, I want to get saved. I want to get

  • saved, I am tired of living this way. I am a drunk. I am a drug abuser. I am a fornicator. I am everything.

  • I want to get saved. I don't want to die and go to hell, so he asked

  • Jesus in his heart. And then they said, okay, now stand up. So he stood up. He didn't know what...

  • They said now, raise your hands. So he was doing this. And a bunch of people

  • gathered around him and they said now, you have to speak in tongues or you are not saved.

  • Oh. And they said now, say, Hallelujah.

  • And he said it, And they said now, say it again, Hallelujah. And they said, say it again real fast.

  • And repeat it over and over and over. So he is going (indecipherable).

  • And they said, it worked! Praise Jesus! The Holy Ghost came on him

  • and gave him a gift! It is not a gift,

  • if you generate it, if you work for it. They were performing a

  • witchcraft ritual on him, to give him evidence of the Holy Ghost in his life.

  • How....you say....well, I thought that's how...I was told....

  • that, that is how you receive the Holy Ghost is to be hit on the head and

  • slain in the spirit in a ritual. Let's go back to the whole witchcraft

  • thing in Galatians, chapter 3,

  • O foolish Galatians, O foolish church member, you should

  • have just believed the Bible. It is easier.

  • "who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth,

  • "who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,

  • crucified among you?" This, now, listen to this ow. Paul is going to tell you how

  • you really receive the Holy Ghost. Not by a ritual.

  • "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit

  • by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"

  • Which is it?

  • And if you read all of Galatians, you will say, well it can't be by the works of the law.

  • It must be, then, by

  • the hearing of faith.

  • You have heard the Bible, you believe the Bible. Now,

  • you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit without

  • any man laying hand, without you going to a church, without you performing a ritual,

  • it is done.

  • You know what I am trying to do in this? I am trying to make you free,

  • free from witchcraft, free from bondage, free from the hierarchies of religion,

  • who are lording over you, telling you, if you don't do it their way,

  • you are not going to Heaven.

  • Ah, even teachings that tell you if you worship in a certain way

  • or enough times, think about now, how many

  • sermons have you listened to? How many sermons have you sat under? How many teachings

  • have you heard on the radio, where they are placing a strong

  • emphasis on "worship". Worship. Worship is

  • what releases God's anointing. Worship is what brings

  • you an intimacy with God. You know what they are saying?

  • They are saying, if you will perform this ritual of worship, then God is going to

  • act on your behalf, because you have done this. That is

  • another gospel and it is witchcraft.

  • I believe in worship. I believe in falling down on your face before God and saying, God,

  • you are the one. You are the only one. I believe in singing the old hymns.

  • I believe in doing that and doing it in spirit and truth but I am not

  • worshipping God to get something out of him. You see, pure love

  • means that you give it without getting anything back and I love God enough to

  • where I will sing his praises and he doesn't have to do a thing for me.

  • That is what real worship is all about.

  • Works-based grace is what it is. You will see books like,

  • "The Unquenchable Worshipper; Coming Back to the Heart of Worship:",

  • to books and most churches now have

  • redesigned their entire service to include, to emphasize

  • at the very beginning, what..

  • Worship....and the Worship Leader

  • will not stand for you, just sitting there not doing

  • anything because when he says stand up, he

  • means everybody has to stand up or you are not spiritual.

  • Have you ever felt that way? You sat in the church and

  • Everybody stand up! Come on, put your hands in the air! And you just sit there because that is really not

  • your thing. And you are just going, (waving hands and clapping),

  • these people are going...and you know what you did? You stood up, just so

  • that people wouldn't think that you are unspiritual. Let me tell you something.

  • You don't have to. You don't have to stand up. You don't have to

  • squint your eyes. You don't have to roll your head back. You don't have to stick your hands in the air. You

  • don't have to cry. You don't have to sway. You don't have to do anything.

  • And I am telling you, it is witchcraft,

  • very subtly, moving into the church. I am going to tell you

  • what got me started on this. I saw Zondervan,

  • remember Tyndale House and the whole Harry Potter thing and

  • you know, "Find the Gospel Through Lord of the Rings", Zondervan,

  • promoting a new book that they have written, called "The Circle Maker",

  • and the author, Mark Batterson, he pastored one

  • of these Hip-Hop, cool, Air Gel churches in

  • Washington, D.C. and see he got the idea, he wasn't...

  • he didn't go into fasting and praying and read the scriptures and think, I think God wants me to...

  • draw a circle. He was actually looking at Jewish

  • mythology, Jewish tradition, but a story

  • about a guy named Honi, Honi the Circle Maker, they called him.

  • I guess if you are a Jew, you know more about it than I do. But supposedly

  • this guy, during the intertestamental period, stood out there and it hadn't rained

  • all winter long and they were fixing to plant crops and they needed rain so

  • Honi, the Circle Maker, went out there and drew a circle in the dirt and

  • stood in it and said, God, I am not moving until you

  • make it rain. That is like performing a little

  • witchcraft ritual. Can I, I want to show you

  • this graphic here, because there is something I do know about witchcraft, okay.

  • It is that, they don't say a chant,

  • they don't perform a ritual, they don't take their clothes off,

  • which a lot of them do, they don't do anything

  • unless they make a circle

  • first. All of their magic has to be done in a circle

  • and you know what that is. Everything that I have read about this, tells me that the

  • circle is supposed to indicate the sun and the sun god, Osiris.

  • That is who that represents. That is why the magic

  • has to be done in a circle. Now I am going to ask you a simple question.

  • Can you think of anything in the Bible, anyplace in the Bible that tells

  • you that in order to really get the power of God down in your life that you have to get inside

  • of a circle or that you have to join in a prayer circle?

  • That you have to do that, in order for it to work. Have you ever

  • seen it? Have you ever seen the prayer circle? Everybody, come on, we are going to get in a prayer circle now.

  • And you feel like you have to, even though you really don't want to hold this lady's hand.

  • You have to get in that circle or you are not

  • spiritual. Or it is like the prayer won't work if we are not all joined together.

  • That is witchcraft, okay. But Zondervan is

  • promoting this, "The Circle Maker". You see if, you watch,

  • the You Tube promotional thing. They have

  • teams, walking in circles around buildings and praying in circles. Oh you have to

  • walk these circles now, pray this, and if you do this, God is going to release these

  • great things in your life, if you'll just draw a big circle and get in and pray.

  • That is witchcraft.

  • Here is one of the rituals that they do. When they get in the circle, okay,

  • this is from "Wicca for Dummies". I do happen to have that book.

  • Okay, "Wicca for Dummies", which is kind of funny to me,

  • because if you are doing Wicca, that is what you are.

  • "Wicca for Dummies", so they get in a circle

  • and all the gods show up, and then here is a part,

  • I am only doing part of this. Here is part of the ritual.

  • I say this. I am only giving you part of it, because witchcraft

  • actually requires that if you leave something out, it is not going to work.

  • You remember the show, "Bewitched".

  • Remember that show? There was, you know,

  • the witch had to say the words right, had to cast a spell.

  • There was a character on there by the name of Aunt Clara. Aunt Clara was...

  • she was always getting the magic done

  • wrong. You know why? She wasn't

  • saying it right. She wasn't

  • in incantation. She wasn't giving the recitation right.

  • She wasn't reading the right words. Remember the priest, the Catholic priest, who must

  • read the words that are on the page, in order to turn

  • the wafer into God and if they don't perform....

  • they don't perform that ritual, that wafer is still

  • just a wafer and if you eat it, it is not going to do anything so we have to

  • perform the ritual. And Aunt Clara always had to get all the words right.

  • That is what witchcraft is. It is telling you. That is what Paul was getting

  • at, who had bewitched you. Anybody that tells you, the work faith

  • Charismatic Movement is full of, if you didn't say it right, if you didn't do it right,

  • then God is not releasing his Grace to you.

  • That is witchcraft. Here is part of a witchcraft ritual.

  • It says, first consecrate your elements. Ah, you

  • and the elements. Let me tell you what these elements are, without going into all this stuff.

  • They have a circle. There is always a circle involved, okay, and the elements

  • are earth, air, fire and water. Now I

  • have done several teachings on this. I am not going to get that much into it.

  • But, earth and air are

  • opposites and if you look at their symbols, they are

  • opposite symbols. Fire and water are opposites and when you look at their symbols

  • they are opposite one another. The fusion of

  • opposites, fusion of polarity, male and female, yen and yang.

  • The square and compass, in freemasonry, that is what the

  • elements are all about and there are four of them. And witchcraft says that they

  • are merely tapping into the elementals, the elements that are all around

  • us, because these elements have a force.

  • When you listen to Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn

  • and Joyce Meyer and all of these others, they will teach you that faith is a force

  • that when tapped into and if you say the words with the right positive energy

  • then God will release these things in your life. That is

  • witchcraft. It is witchcraft.

  • But these elements, see I know about these things. When these elements, when the

  • four elements combine together, they form what is called a fifth element. And that element is

  • ether, or spirit. Actually, you see,

  • when you make the four elements come together it releases a spirit on you.

  • I just want you to understand that, okay.

  • Because this theme of elements and elementals

  • has moved into the church ideology, in the church marketing.

  • Here is elements, kids worship, that is from the

  • denomination I used to belong to. This is their publishing company. I don't belong to

  • them anymore. This is their publishing company, publishing

  • elements, kids worship. You say,

  • well, maybe it means like something else. Well,

  • they say if you go to the Bible you will find the word, "elements". They will all be burned

  • up with a fervent heat, by the way. Element, but it is from elemental magic.

  • Here is a church, "Elements Church", and

  • notice this church, "Welcome to Element".

  • Notice, notice now, that they have a logo

  • of earth, air,

  • fire and water. This is a church.

  • Jezebel

  • is giving the vineyard over to Ahab.

  • This is a church. Here is part of something that they were (holding booklet)

  • promoting, called "The Missing Element". Oh lookit there! Lookit there!

  • "The Missing Element of Worship".

  • It is acts, performance, ritual-based,

  • getting something of God that if you don't do this with us you are not

  • going to get anything from God, like we are.

  • That is so unscriptural and ungodly.

  • It makes me angry and why am I making this video? Because it is putting

  • people in bondage. And I see, I have counseled with people,

  • who have been under the bondage that they didn't perform

  • right for God and they don't think that they are saved

  • because they didn't perform right for God. A pastor's wife, I counseled one time on this issue,

  • that she wasn't performing right for God and so God

  • had rejected her. Folks, that is a bondage.

  • It is a bondage that I carried for a while. I don't carry

  • those burdens anymore. I am free.

  • Because I don't think that I have to perform anything for God to

  • really love me. I don't think I have to.

  • Do I do things for God? Yeah. Why? Because

  • he has done it for me; he has already done it for me!

  • And I love him enough that I want to do it for him and I don't care

  • if he pays me or not. I will do it for free. That is love.

  • And, ah, they...oh, look at this..okay, here we go.

  • Ah, the law of attraction,

  • okay. You know where the first time I heard the law of attraction? And somebody had given me a book on

  • witchcraft. It was an older book, from the 60's and 70's.

  • And the first chapter was called, "The Law of Attraction".

  • It was one of the foundational principles of witchcraft. The law of attraction simply says

  • this, the law of attraction, you see the graphic up on the screen

  • that it is like the key to unlocking the universe. Now

  • when I look in Revelation, chapter 9, I see a key that

  • unlocks something. It is the bottomless pit and then the Phoenix rises

  • up out of it. You get it, right, okay. Harry Potter thing and all this stuff.

  • But the law of attraction actually this, law of attraction says

  • that if you want a million dollars,

  • all you have to do is start thinking

  • about a million dollars and just start saying, a million dollars, like

  • you already have it and then it will attract

  • a million dollars to you. You will have it. If you think

  • it, and then you say it, you will attract it.

  • You see it is the law....I like, I like it, because witchcraft is based

  • upon keeping of the law, which you can't do. It is not the Grace

  • of attraction, it is the law of attraction and it is witchcraft.

  • Here is a book, this was actually written by a Wiccan.

  • The law of attraction, 36 oracle cards to guide you to wealth and

  • prosperity. That could have been written by

  • Joel Osteen. It was, actually. I will show you in a minute.

  • Now here is another one. The Law of Attraction, let your thoughts determine your destiny.

  • The law of attraction, use the law of attraction

  • to create the life you desire. Thoughts become things.

  • And so the law of attraction says if you think it, then you

  • say it, (that is witchcraft, because it is all about spells and incantations and

  • saying the right words, with a positive energy), if you think it,

  • and say it, then you will have it. Ah, this

  • was made popular, this is not just in the realm of

  • these Wiccans who go to Salem, Massachusetts every year for a convention, this is actually,

  • this is big business. This is big money.

  • "The Secret", the book, the video, "The Secret", ah

  • it is all the law of attraction is what it is. It is telling you...and it

  • interviews all these successful people in life, that have gained their

  • success by use of, "I thought it, I said it, I acted on it",

  • "and it came to me". They are all using witchcraft, is

  • what they are doing. This shows up in the writings of

  • people like Norman Vincent Peale, "The Power of

  • Positive Thinking", and he is touted as the greatest inspirational

  • best-seller of our time. I remember

  • when I was

  • in Amway and pastoring

  • a little church, I thought that if I read, "The Power of Positive Thinking", it would

  • make a better pastor out of me, make a better husband out of me, make a better

  • salesman out of me and I could sell more. I could be a better preacher and I could

  • sell the gospel to people and close the deal at the altar.

  • That is what I used to think, so the "Power of Positive Thinking", basically

  • says that if you imagine it first, you see

  • in Amway, they used to take you out to do what was called, "Dream

  • Building". See, I know what that is now. They'd say

  • If you had a million dollars, what would you guys buy? And then they'd take

  • us out, if it was an RV, they would take you to an RV place and show these nice RV's,

  • if it was a new home, they would take you to wher the nice homes were and show you a new home and say, man, can you imagine yourself

  • in that house? See, salesmen do that all the time. Can you imagine yourself being in this car?

  • Touch this thing. Touch it. They are getting you to covet after it. It all starts here.

  • And then they say, you turn this thought that you have

  • into reality, by selling more soap, by signing people

  • up in the business (Amway). That is what it was. It was witchcraft, at work.

  • It was using covetousness and lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes to

  • generate what it was, that we wanted. It never dawned on me

  • that maybe God didn't want me to have an RV

  • and if he did, maybe all I had to do was ask him.

  • Ask in faith, nothing wavering. That is what the Bible

  • says. You see witchcraft says, oh no, you can't just

  • ask, you can't just say God....if you want...I actually, "The Spirit-Filled Life Bible",

  • "The Spirit-Filled Life Application Bible",

  • has notes in it that says, don't ever pray in

  • your prayers, "If it be thy will, O God". That is the most faith-

  • killing prayer that you can pray. You are not going to get anything out of God when you say

  • that! Witchcraft, I am telling you, it is witchcraft.

  • Robert Schuller, "If you can dream, you can do it".

  • "Power Thoughts", "achieve your true potential through power thinking".

  • Joyce Meyer, "12 Strategies to Win the Battle of the Mind".

  • Power Thoughts, she is all about,

  • and then it will come to you, that is witchcraft. It is the law of attraction. Here is her book,

  • Joyce Meyer, me and my big mouth, the answer is right under your

  • nose. You know what she is saying? That the key to curing cancer, the key to

  • having a million dollars, the key to having a bettr husband, even if it is not

  • the one you are with now, the key to having everything good in life,

  • is to think it and then to say it. But we have to train you in how to think it

  • right. You have to be trained in order to do this. That is witchcraft.

  • It is not scripture. It is witchcraft.

  • "Battlefield of the mind", winning the battle of your mind. In other words, if your mind

  • is all messed up. If you don't have the right thoughts, then you will

  • not say the right words and you won't get anything. The secret power of speaking God's words

  • from Joyce Meyer. Here is Joel Osteen, your best life now,

  • here is what Joel Osteen said in his book, and I

  • actually have an old

  • college friend,

  • who pastors a church. Somebody sent me the sermon notes

  • and they didn't know that I knew him. They said, we went visiting

  • a church and the pastor was such and such and I said, I know this guy.

  • They sent me the sermon notes and said it just didn't sound right

  • to us. And it contained these words, as part of his

  • sermon outline, "if you will transform your mind, God will transform your life".

  • "Our thoughts contain tremendous power. Not only,

  • not only did this pastor not get his sermon from studying the Bible,

  • he didn't even come up with it on his own. He copied right out of Osteen's

  • book to preach the message. And you know what he was thinking...

  • he was teaching his people, he was teaching them witchcraft,

  • thinking the positive thoughts, the faith filled,

  • oh they say, "faith filled". The faith filled thoughts

  • and then putting it out in the "faith filled" words and then if you say the words

  • it will happen. Here is another book that Osteen wrote, "Become a Better You;

  • The Seven Keys" (think about that) "to Improving

  • Your Life Everyday". Here is what he says in there.

  • One of the best ways that we can improve our self image is with our

  • words. Our words. Words are like seeds, they have

  • creative power. See, that is witchcraft.

  • "It says in Isaiah that we will eat the fruit of our words. That is"...(by the way

  • he is not quoting King James). "That is amazing when you stop to consider the truth. Our

  • words tend to produce what we are saying. Every day we should make positive

  • declarations over our lives. We should say things such as,

  • I am blessed. I am prosperous. I am healthy. I am talented. I am creative. I am wise.

  • When we do this" (Listen to this now, I want you to listen to words.)

  • "When we do do this then God will do

  • this." That is witchcraft. When we do that

  • we are building up our self image

  • (hmm) "As those words permeate your heart and mind and especially your subconscious

  • mind." (Think about where the devil wants to get into.)

  • "eventually they will begin to change in the way that you see your

  • self." He is writing, let's see, become a better...

  • Now Joel Osteen's book does not have a pentagram

  • and a black cat and a woman dressed in like a

  • black robe with a dagger in her hand, drinking blood.

  • It doesn't have that, it has

  • Joel. Okay. And it says, "become a

  • better you because everybody wants to become a better me."

  • And he is teaching them how to do it

  • through witchcraft.

  • You must perform and you must think

  • and you must say the right, the magic words

  • and you say this over your life and it will happen. And if you don't

  • ha ha, this is why, this is why your church only has

  • 30 people in it, because you are not saying the right words.

  • I mentioned earlier, and you can look this up on the web,

  • ah, the 13 principles of Wicca. I was going to

  • deal with just one that I remembered from an earlier

  • study of mine and God reminded me

  • about an hour and a half ago, Mike look at some of the others. I am going to show you some things

  • there and when I saw them, I put them in my notes and I came right up here.

  • I am not going to go through all 13. You can look them up and you'll say

  • yeah, I see that. Because I started seeing things in the church, too much for me to deal with.

  • But I am going to deal with some of them. Here is one of the principles of Wicca. We

  • "We conceive of the Creative Power" (Notice they put that in capital letters. That means they

  • ...that is like their God. "We conceive of the Creative Power in the Universe"

  • "as manifesting through polarity-" (Yin and yang, male and female)

  • "as masculine and feminine" (there it is, right there) "- and that this"

  • "same creative Power lives in all people, and functions through the interaction of the masculine and feminine."

  • I am going to stop right here.

  • Do you know what she means by the interaction of the masculine and the feminine?

  • You know what she means.

  • "We value neither above the other knowing each to be supportive"

  • "We value sexuality as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment"

  • "of Life." (Here we go, listen to this now.) "and as one of the sources"

  • "energies used in magickal practice and religious worship."

  • So they are saying, number one: Our god, our

  • "Creative Power" is

  • male and female, both of them together.

  • We know who that is, don't we? That is Baphomet.

  • That is, they are just telling you who their god is.

  • That is Baphomet, who's the androgenous god, he has both male and female

  • parts in his body, okay. Now,

  • that is this, this god,

  • is not male and female.

  • Oh, Pastor...oh, no, no, no, let's see now if we can find

  • witchcraft....see if we can find this form of witchcraft

  • in the church. Rick Warren...

  • In a tweet that he made this year, it says

  • "it is neither sinful nor shameful for a man to have feminine qualities or a woman to have

  • to have masculine ones. You have some of both." Then he tweets,

  • "In his own image, God created them both male and female."

  • Rick Warren is telling you that the god he believes in

  • is both male and female and that he created man in that image.

  • Man, originally was both male and female.

  • The Bible doesn't say that. No it doesn't. Go look at it,

  • in the King James. In his own image, God created them both

  • male and female. Rick Warren is teaching, this is why he

  • is saying if you are a guy and you are like a little,

  • you know....it is okay, God made you that way. And if you are a woman and you are really...you know...

  • It is okay, God made you that way.

  • Because, God is that way.

  • Witchcraft.

  • By the way, in the "Purpose Driven Life", where is that book? I have it around here. In the "Purpose Driven Life"

  • book, Rick Warren quotes out of the Message Bible. Here is how the Message Bible

  • renders this verse in Genesis, chapter 1. God created human beings

  • he created Godlike, reflecting God's nature, he created them

  • male and female. God's nature...

  • male and female. The god of the Message Bible and the god of

  • That is from witchcraft

  • That is from witchcraft. Kenneth Copeland..."People have even

  • argued about whether God is male or female, but the Bible itself tells us that he is both.

  • That's right, in the Hebrew language all words have gender. They are either

  • male or female. The Hebrew word, 'Jehovah' is both masculine and feminine."

  • He goes on to say, "Originally, mankind was that way too. When God first"

  • made 'man', he was as much female as he was male. Then God separated the female part out"

  • and made 'wo-man' or,

  • the man with the womb. After that, man and woman,

  • had to come together to be perfectly whole." And that is from

  • Kenneth Copeland. Now Kenneth Copeland also teaches that if you don't

  • say the faith filled words right, if you don't say the words right in the right way like Aunt Clara,

  • like the witches do, if you don't do it like that then God will not

  • and cannot release anything to you. That is witchcraft and

  • it doesn't...it is no amazement that the god

  • of Kenneth Copeland is a he/she. It is a guy in drag,

  • a transvestite or a transsexual or whatever you want

  • to...that is the god of these people. That is witchcraft.

  • Let me go back to this other, 13th, this same principle here.

  • And so they believed that the god, their god is male and female

  • and that is really the only way that it works is for the yen and yang to

  • come together, the positive and the negative and

  • the air and earth, and the fire and the water,

  • have to be joined together. And they said, of course, you know

  • that would be like, you know, male and female coming together.

  • Let me just, what little I know....I have never been to a witch thing, don't want

  • to go...but one of the things I know they do

  • witches in the ritual have a, it is called the great rite,

  • ritual. They get in a circle, okay, and

  • there is a woman and she has no clothes on. Now

  • some of them do it differently, they have what is called a cup or chalice,

  • and a blade, okay. The blade represents

  • the guy and the cup...

  • at the end of the ceremony, the blade goes into the cup, okay.

  • Now some covens just do it that way. Now some of the

  • hard-core ones, there is a gal

  • lays down, she is naked, the high priest comes in...

  • okay, that is their ritual and they say

  • this is where we get our power from. This is where we get our

  • energy from. This is what our magic is based upon,

  • fornication between man and a woman.

  • So, have you seen all these churches

  • that are promoting sex?

  • I mean Ed Young, I mean, he started out...I mean, listen to this now, because in this

  • principle, it says, we value sex as pleasure,

  • and as the symbol embodiment of life and as one of the sources of energy used in

  • magical practice and religious worship. So they are saying that sex is worship. Ed Young,

  • and i have this on a video. Um, I am trying to think of

  • what it is called. Ah, "The New Age Rick Warren and the Great Falling Away", I think or maybe

  • "The Emerging Church", I think it is "The Emerging Church Video". I have a

  • video clip of Ed Young, with a bed on the stage. The first time

  • he did this, and he is teaching, he actually says

  • "Sex is worship".

  • Remember Jezebel, she is a harlot, okay, and

  • so here, Ed Young does a little "sexperiment".

  • If you perform seven days, now, and here is what he is telling you,

  • if you perform, the union of man and woman,

  • in different places in your home, for seven days,

  • then God is going to release blessings into your marriage. And you see

  • sermons...all over the place, preachers talking about great sex, God's way, putting up

  • billboards, "God loves sex", "God loves

  • sex". Here is another one. A preacher, standing there, look at this, it looks spiritual

  • doesn't it? Standing there with a Bible in his hand, a minister, talking about

  • God, with, in the background,

  • showing, two feet, or four feet,

  • sticking out from underneath the covers, in a bed.

  • Here is another one, a four-week, sermon series,

  • by a church, by a church...

  • featuring a naked man and a woman in an embrace.

  • There is witchcraft in

  • the church. Okay. I hope you believe me.

  • There is witchcraft in the church. Here is another principle of Wicca.

  • "We believe in the affirmation and fulfilment of life and the continuation"

  • "of evolution." You know what evolution is?

  • We have a video on this. Evolution basically says we came from a lower state.

  • We're going to be gods one of these days, okay.

  • We're going to be gods one of these days, okay.

  • Ray Kurzweil is talking about that. A lot of these other scientists are talking about merging

  • humans with technology and changing man's,

  • altering man's DNA so we are immortal. I mean, all this stuff is happening right

  • before our very eyes. It is witchcraft. It is at the core of the principles of witchcraft.

  • "The continuation of evolution and development of consciousness, "

  • " that gives meaning to the Universe we know and to our personal role within it." So two things. Number one, evolution,

  • and number two, the development of consciousness. In other words, our mind

  • is all messed up right now and needs to be alive and awakened. So here we go, here we have

  • an evolved church, notice the symbol, a small....

  • See this symbol here. It is actually a swastika, okay,

  • which is an old pagan symbol, witchcraft and it talks about

  • the evolution of humanity. That's why, that's why Hitler used it.

  • He was all about a superior race, the continuation of evolution.

  • That is witchcraft, Evolution Church. Here we have

  • Shift Church, The Shift Church, Paradigm Shift Ministries.

  • Rick Warren, Rick Warren writes on his blog, he is talking to

  • pastors and he says, we just kind of changed the words a little bit. You know I used to talk about repentant,

  • but I don't say that anymore. I use the word Paradigm Shift.

  • Paradigm shift is just a change in a way of thinking. It

  • is going to give them a higher consciousness. So you see all these churches and

  • these programs called, Shift, Paradigm Shift. Here is a

  • Shift 2010, suddenly Heaven invades, forcing

  • transformation. See, it all goes together. When you get the evolution,

  • you are going to get the awakening in your consciousness.

  • That is witchcraft and that is what is prevading

  • every denomination and every religious

  • movement in the world and this is why we are seeing it.

  • And then here is this one. This is the last one I am going to deal with.

  • The 13 principles of Wicca, this is number six. "We do not"

  • "recognize any authoritarian hierarchy".

  • In other words, nobody tells

  • me what to do. I am my own god, or excuse me,

  • I am my own goddess. I do whatever I want to do.

  • I make up my own rules. I live...yeah, I am married to a guy

  • he's not my boss. He doesn't tell me what to do.

  • In every realm of life, people, we ought to know this, that God

  • ordains earthly authorities. There are kings, there are rulers, there

  • are governors, there are pincipalities, there are princes and I am talking about

  • earthly realm. There are sheriffs, there are deputies,

  • there are mayors over towns, there are police offices, who have a right, have a right

  • to pull you over and take money from you for speeding or

  • whatever. They have that right. They have that authority over you. The constitution is in

  • authority over us. Wicca says

  • don't tell me what to do. I'll do whatever I want to do.

  • Ah, the Bible is an authority over churches. Husbands

  • are in authority over wives. I am just telling you what the Bible says.

  • Witchcraft, now I want you to listen to this now. You are amening me,

  • because I am going after all these liberal churches now. But let me talk to some of you women.

  • When you are in rebellion

  • against your husband and you are trying to dominate over him that is witchcraft.

  • Pure and simple, it is witchcraft.

  • You do not. And you say, my husband is lost. I do not have to listen to him.

  • You are in rebellion and you are trying to

  • spiritualize your rebellion, but that is exactly what you are doing.

  • You wouldn't put up with your children doing that, would you? You kids listen to your dad.

  • See how it works. You just don't like anybody

  • being the boss over you because you have a rebellious nature inside of you and you want

  • to spiritualize it.

  • I've talked to people like you and I have dealt with people like you and I know

  • the spirit you are of and it is not a holy spirit.

  • Wives submit yourselves to your husbands. You just go with scripture,

  • and God will bless you, okay. Let me tell you...let's talk about

  • this authority thing and remember Jezebel hates the law.

  • Nabal said I cannot sell my vineyard. Jezebel says

  • that doesn't mean anything to me. That means absolutely nothing to me.

  • So she recognizes no authority over her.

  • She does as she pleases and nobody can tell her what to do. She is

  • the goddess. That is witchcraft and so wherever

  • you watch this now, wherever you see this Bible,

  • abased and put down and something being

  • in authority over the scriptures, that is the essence of witchcraft.

  • You don't believe me? Let's go to the scriptures then.

  • 1 Samuel, chapter 15, verse 22, "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,"

  • "as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice ,"

  • "and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion"

  • "is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness"

  • "is as iniquity and idolatry." Here it is again,

  • isn't it amazing that witchcraft and idolatry and whoredoms all just kind of go together, don't they?

  • "rebellion is as the sin"

  • "of witchcraft," and that just...

  • The first time I read this principle, "we do not recognize

  • any authoritarian hierarchy", I am going, that is rebellion,

  • it is witchcraft. See it is in their own writings.

  • ....

  • I don't mean to offend. I don't want you mad at me.

  • You have to understand that by and large we are probably so far behind as far as

  • what God wants for our life and God's best for our life and I understand that.

  • This issue of Biblical authority is wrestled

  • with in just about any area that Christianity is trying to

  • thrive. People who are hungry for serving the Lord, they are going to be dealing with

  • the issues of rebellion. I promise you they are.

  • I have. My wife has. My children have. Our church

  • has. I am just telling you, we are just like everybody else, okay. So I understand

  • but to obey

  • is better than sacrifice and rebellion

  • is witchcraft. We have rebellion in our

  • church. There are people rebelling against pastoral authority or Biblical authority,

  • pastors rebelling against Biblical authority.

  • The Bible being the authority over them instead of them saying now your Bible

  • is incorrect there. Let me change that for you.

  • That is witchcraft.

  • Or, that is not bound by the Bible. We can experience

  • God through contemplative prayer or through signs of wonder

  • or God gives dreams and visions,

  • that is rebellion. That is denying the authority of scripture, the only

  • sole authority. By the way, you are not married to two husbands. Why?

  • If you don't like one guy telling you what to do, you definitely don't want two of them.

  • There is never two presidents of the United States. There is never

  • two kings, there is never two mayors, there is never two governors.

  • There is never two pastors, there is always one.

  • Always.

  • If we have to...if we are under...see authority is protection.

  • Let me get where I am going here.

  • By and large, the religion of Wicca,

  • is matriarchal and that means based upon

  • the female and not the male. So that ought to clue you in right there.

  • You go to some of these churches, okay. Go to

  • some of these word faith, wacky churches and boy you will see the women

  • cutting loose, okay. That ought to tell you that

  • is...they are running the show, okay. Listen, I

  • am not against women. God has a beautiful, God has a

  • more beautiful role for you than the man does, okay.

  • And I know men are just as wicked and evil

  • but somebody has got to be in authority and God has chosen. I am just going to read scripture, okay.

  • Don't get mad at me. You get mad at that

  • and if you are angry over what I am saying,

  • Jezebel has more influence over you than what you think.

  • Bypassing the scriptures to get God,

  • if you do contemplative prayer and religious practices, say now

  • if you do this, then you are going to reach God, somehow, someway.

  • Contemplative prayer, intuitiveness, I've heard preachers talk about, we are going to intuit God. That is matriarchal.

  • because the women, have you ever heard of women's intuition? It is the female

  • that is more intuitive or more feeling about things than the male.

  • And so when I hear, when I hear pastors talking about experiences or

  • feelings or intuitiveness or things like that, I know

  • what spirit is involved there. It is her. It is Jezebel.

  • She is going after the vineyard, to give it to Ahab.

  • I understand that. Imagination. Imagination

  • based meditation...we put out a video a few weeks ago called,

  • "The Biblical Case Against Rick Warren" and Rick Warren is actually promoting a

  • way to meditate on the Bible. Just imagine...close your eyes and imagine you being

  • in the Bible and that is the word becoming flesh.

  • That is the matriarchal based, female

  • based, female, harlot spirit, witchcraft doctrine.

  • Now, ah, we have

  • people like Paul White and Beth Moore

  • and Joyce Meyer. Now what is your problem with these?

  • Well, a lot of it has to do with what they say and what they are teaching.

  • Ah, Paula White and Joyce Meyer are both word faith teachers. They teach,

  • actively teach witchcraft. In fact, I don't know if you are aware of this,

  • The Post Dispatch, the local paper in the Saint Louis area, which we're

  • from put out an article, several years ago, on Joyce Meyer.

  • And it talked about her history. Did you know that her origins

  • in religion are with astrology and witchcraft?

  • I thought I would tell you that. She says when she got saved

  • she didn't go to an altar and repent of her sins. She said she saw a vision and God called her.

  • Anyway, Beth Moore,

  • she is Southern Baptist, she is not that ...., she is Southern Baptist.

  • Beth Moore shows up in the video,

  • "Be Still and Know", promoting contemplative prayer. She is promoting

  • an outside experience outside of the authority of the Word of God, saying that

  • you can bypass, you don't need this...just go into a trance and

  • you'll meet God there, okay. There is a reason why all these women are

  • out on the forefront. And these women are showing up and doing the conferences and going to the churches

  • and standing in front of churches and teaching.

  • What is wrong with that? We have female pastors,

  • women pastors, it used to be just in the liberal churches.

  • Of course all the liberal, female pastors we found out were actually lesbian.

  • Then you have all these female pastors in the Pentecostal churches and

  • in the Charasmatic Churches and now they are moving into the Baptist Churches and all

  • all the other churches. It's the women pastors, I said Pastor Mike,

  • would you get out of the 19th century. Come on! God is using

  • them just as much as he is using anybody else. No, he is not. No he is not.

  • No he is not. See, this is how much

  • influence Jezebel has had on you and your thinking.

  • Let me just quote scripture. Let's deal with the idea

  • of, can a woman be a pastor of a church. Okay, let's just deal with it.

  • Deal with that one. Let's go to the authority.

  • Titus, chapter 1, verse 6, "if any be blameless", he is giving the qualifications now for

  • a Bishop, a Pastor. "If any be blameless, the husband" (look, right

  • there, the bishop,

  • is a husband. You see, that is

  • not what we call the woman in a marriage, is it? Unless it is a gay marriage...

  • The man is the husband. The husband of...ah, lookit there, "one wife"

  • "having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly."

  • See unruly. You see the pastor himself must recognize authority.

  • Authority and rules and regulations and guidelines, the Pastor must.

  • And he has got to be a "he" because in order

  • to qualify to be a Bishop, according to our rule of faith and practice,

  • he has to be the husband. You don't believe that?

  • Here is 1 Timothy, chapter 3, "This is a true saying, If a man", ahem,

  • ahem, "a man desire the office of a bishop,"

  • "he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the"

  • "husband", He must be the husband, he can't be the wife.

  • Even where you see churches,

  • Word faith, living life, Water Springs Center,

  • Pastors Doug and Michelle,

  • it is unscriptural, it is not to be allowed. he is to be

  • "vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality," all these things,

  • "One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;"

  • "(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"

  • Did you know that embedded in here is also the idea that the man

  • is supposed to be in charge.

  • Not the woman. That is Jezebel. That is witchcraft.

  • No authoritarian hierarchy...a woman sits there and says

  • that man is not going to tell me what to do. That man is...I am not going to listen to him...I am going to get up and do it

  • myself, okay. What about all these women

  • teachers going around, the Beth Moores. What about all these people

  • coming to your church and doing that, Pastor? It shouldn't, ought to be allowed.

  • 1, Corinthians, chapter 14, "34 Let your women keep silence"

  • " for it is not permitted unto them to speak;"

  • "but they are commanded to be under obedience,"

  • " as also saith the law. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask"

  • " let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."

  • They are not to speak in church.

  • They are not to teach. 1, Timothy, chapter 2, verse 11, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection."

  • She is not to be the teacher. She is to be the learner.

  • "12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp"

  • "authority over the man," Now let me stop right here and let me help you out. Can women teach Sunday

  • school, like for children? Absolutely. Okay.

  • The New Testament talks about the ancient women and how they are to teach the younger

  • women and the older men, how to teach the younger men. I believe in that.

  • I don't have a problem with that and I don't think the Bible does, either.

  • But when they get up there,

  • it is not permitted for a woman to teach or usurp authority over the man.

  • That is what it says, but to be in

  • silence and here is why. Here is why. God

  • has a reason for everything. For Adam was not deceived, but the woman

  • being deceived was in the transgression. You see, God knows.

  • Because He designed women to be

  • the weaker vessel.

  • He designed them to be that way for a greater purpose, by the way.

  • Remember it is out of the weakness of this world, that God is using, to confound the

  • things that are strong. But he still says

  • for them not to teach. Because who did the devil go after? Who did he go after in the Garden of Eden?

  • He didn't go after Adam. He went after Eve.

  • And God said, for that reason, because I have made them weaker,

  • you are not to have them...they are not to be Bishops and they are not to teach

  • the men in the church. It is as simple as that.

  • The only other

  • time in the Bible, Jezebel was mentioned, interesting, in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 20,

  • when Jesus was dealing with the seven churches, there is actually

  • he calls this woman a Jezebel. I mean that is like, you know you could get

  • slapped for that. But Jesus says, he said I have

  • something, I have a few things against thee. Because thou sufferest, you allowed

  • that woman, notwithstanding I have a few things

  • against thee, because thou sufferest, you allowed

  • that woman, Jezebel. Here it is,

  • " which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce"

  • "my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols."

  • "To eat things sacrificed unto idols", that is like the Catholic Mass.

  • These women

  • preachers, God did not call them. He does not violate his own word. You say that...(music playing in background)

  • I was told that that was like for then, but it is not for now. You were told wrong. (music playing)

  • It is witchcraft. (music playing)

  • It is the spirit of Jezebel, when you have the self-called, self-ordained (music playing)

  • women teachers. They will (music playing)

  • bring in false doctrines into the church. (music playing)

  • I love you. But I love the (music playing)

  • truth more. You can hate me, but it will not change God's Word. (music playing)

  • Witchcraft has moved in and (music playing)

  • Jezebel is going after the vineyard. We need (music playing)

  • some Naboth's who will stand, even at risk of their own life. (music playing)

  • and say, not while I am standing. You cannot (music playing)

  • have my vineyard. Pray about what I said. (music playing)

  • Pray about what the scriptures say. This is Pastor Mike. I love you. (music playing)

  • God bless you. Bye bye. (music playing) (video end)

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教會中的巫術。牧師Michael Hoggard [CC Deaf] (Witchcraft in the Church: Pastor Michael Hoggard [CC Deaf])

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