The latest greatest fad is to sign your name to documents. Pledge, vow, promise to not do this and not do that. Pledge, vow, promise to do this and that. But is it just a fad or something more? Are people being conditioned to signing forms to pledge their allegiance to something or another?
In South Africa we have Unashamedly Ethical. A multi-faith movement that wants you to sign a form that you will uphold their prescribed morals and values. Once you have signed your details will be added to their database.
An old article that needs to be highlighted again due to the mention of Solid Rock Church run by Johan van Wyk.
220 Generation run by Ivin Viljoen – A False teacher teaching our youth in South Africa.
I have been meaning to write an article about 220Generation www.220generation.com and Ivin Viljoen for a while, but it’s been a difficult one only because reading his newsletters he sends out regularly are so full of false teaching it’s nauseating to read. But the time has come that I expose this man for what he really is. A False Prophet!
Firstly I want to mention this: Ivin Viljoen takes preaching from pretty much every minister out there; bad and good, mostly bad though. He leads the youth in South Africa astray with mixed messages. One minute he points towards men who preach the gospel and the next minute he points towards blatantly evil men who preach a false gospel. He is a master of disguise.
I first found out about Ivin Viljoen when I found an small book he had written called “Vision for a generation” on Faith of the Martyrs (FOTM) run by Doug Perry (a man who has taken multiple ‘spiritual’ wives over and above his real wife). This book by Ivin explained a vision he had of an Army of God, the youth raising up and taking back the earth for Jesus.
Johannesburg – A Christian church is facing action from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after repeatedly claiming to heal the blind, the lame, and people with HIV Aids or cancer.
This follows a complaint that the Johannesburg church, Solid Rock, is playing on the “desperation, ignorance and gullibility” of those who come to it, gathering large sums of money in the process.
The complaint, lodged in April this year by a member of the public, is not the first against the church.
The ASA has ruled on five previous occasions that Solid Rock has failed to substantiate its claims of people getting healed of diseases and broken bones, and has each time instructed the church to stop making them.
The latest complaint followed a church advertisement in the Northcliff/Melville Times saying:
Back in the day gifts were bestowed on the disciples that they would be able to go out and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ successfully. One of the gifts was the ability to speak in tongues. Many people today who speak in tongues seem to think that tongues is a heavenly language. But this is not true. Genuine tongues is an earthly language. The gift given to the disciples enabled them to communicate with people from other nations who spoke other languages, how else could they spread the gospel.
All genuine Christians believe that the gift of tongues existed as mentioned in Scripture.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 “8To one is given in and through the [Holy] Spirit [the power to speak] a message of wisdom, and to another [the power to express] a word of knowledge and understanding according to the same [Holy] Spirit; 9To another [wonder-working] faith by the same [Holy] Spirit, to another the extraordinary powers of healing by the one Spirit; 10To another the working of miracles, to another prophetic insight (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose); to another the ability to discern and distinguish between [the utterances of true] spirits [and false ones], to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, to another the ability to interpret [such] tongues. 11All these [gifts, achievements, abilities] are inspired and brought to pass by one and the same [Holy] Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually [exactly] as He chooses”.
Visitors to the Israeli cities of Netanya and Eilat take immediate notice of the frequency with which French and English (British) are heard in the streets. In the larger Israeli cities, one hears a variety of different European languages being spoken. Jews are once again fleeing their countries in the wake of the resurgence of anti-Semitism. Europe has apparently ended its moratorium on this foul bigotry. Since the 1980s, incidents have been steadily increasing.
The question that one must ask is whether what is happening is the result of Israeli governmental policies, or are they simply an excuse for the renewal of hatred and violence against Jews. Two millennia of anti-Judaic hatred taught by the Catholic Church cannot be completely reversed in short 45 years – despite the meaningful changes made by the Church following the Second Vatican Council and Nostra Aetate. When one adds to the mix the approximately 52 million European Muslims, with their radical Islamic teaching and violent Koranic verses against Jews, the result has been a growing rejection of any guilt related to the murder of six million Jews perpetrated by European Christians.
Johannesburg – The ANC on Thursday paid tribute to former president Nelson Mandela likening him to Moses, who rescued the Israelites.
“Madiba is like the biblical Moses, who took the children of Israel from the land of bondage to the promised land, the land of milk and honey,” spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said in a statement.
This is an interesting article on Xenophobia in South Africa.
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Xenophobia May Again Flare Up in South Africa
Prof. Johan Malan, Mossel Bay, South Africa (July 2010)
There are many rumours on threatening xenophobia (hatred of foreigners) which are circulating in South Africa. They are not completely unfounded because South Africa is becoming a place of convergence for the whole of Africa. Unemployed people and criminals from all over Africa are streaming into our country because it has a reasonably strong economy and also offers possibilities for crime syndicates to flourish here. There is strong competition among workers in their struggle for survival, and this gives rise to the hatred of foreigners. Illegal immigrants are prepared to work for less money, in some cases only for food, thereby depriving local blacks of their source of income.
It is necessary to consider a number of factors which all play a role in xenophobia, lest one runs the risk of only seeing one of its aspects and over-emphasising that out of proportion:
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Final Preparations to Receive the New Age Christ
Prof. Johan Malan, Middelburg, South Africa (March 12, 2008)
All Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version, unless otherwise stated.
Christianity experiences unprecedented attacks on its foundational truths. These attacks are motivated and coordinated by evil forces that are intent on deceiving all people as a prelude to revealing the Antichrist and physically establishing Satan’s kingdom on earth. Their main obstacle is biblical beliefs in the deity, atoning death, resurrection and second coming of Jesus Christ. As a result, attacks against evangelical Christianity are on the increase, being aimed at discrediting the canonical books of the Bible, and thus also the God and Saviour of the Bible.
When the Lord Jesus was asked about the signs indicating the nearness of His second coming He first and foremost mentioned the widespread occurrence of spiritual deception: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many” (Matt. 24:4-5). The many people who will be deceived by many false teachers refers to the general occurrence of a changed mindset, or new paradigm, in terms of which people will perceive Christ in the end-time. That accounts for the disturbing phenomenon why the entire world will marvel and follow Satan’s false Christ (Rev. 13:3). The Amplified Bible says: “…and the whole earth went after the [Antichrist] in amazement and admiration.” That will be a united, multireligious form of worship.
On 16 May 2010 Dr. Bruce Wilkinson preached at the Moreleta Park Dutch Reformed Church, Pretoria to 7 000 people. He did not preach from the Bible. Instead he exegeted the revival that started in Andrew Murray’s church.
Before coming to Moreleta Park, Dr. Wilkinson prayed that the Lord would set this church free again. He asked Him what is going to happen to this church in the next five years and “I got an immediate sense of an answer. Immediately He said; ”Well, they will be onto their third service in five years. This will fill, this will fill a third time. [Applause] But they must break through in ways that they have not yet broken through.”
When Dr. Wilkinson heard that Moreleta Park had started small groups, he did not believe it, because it goes against the tradition of the Dutch Reformed Church to do something less formal and new. [Note: According to their handbook for group leaders page 15, group membership is a prerequisite for membership of the church.] When he overcame his disbelief, he knew that they were in the midst of a growing revival that they have not yet identified. He explained that it is happening all over the world. Once a church has grown to Moreleta’s size, it bursts open into cell groups. And this is God’s doing it with a strategy in mind. The new model is finally here. This is the global new model of what God is doing. Cell groups are the next global move of God.
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Spiritual Deception, Revival and Angus Buchan
Prof. Johan Malan, South Africa (May 2010)
Spiritual deception and apostatising keep on proliferating as we are moving deeper into the end-time. We know that the Spirit of truth wants to guide us into all the truth of God’s Word – including the correct understanding of end-time prophecies (John 16:13). On the opposite side there is the spirit of error who is intent on deceiving people spiritually with a view to preparing them on the coming of the Antichrist (1 John 4:1-6). More than ever before we need discernment to be able to observe the full counsel of God and to allow the Holy Spirit to teach us and keep us from all forms of deception.
It is not always easy to keep our ways pure in all respects by correct discernment of these two spiritual influences since there is, by the devil’s doing, a grey area between them. Satan has the ability to present himself as an angel of light, thereby also deceiving Christians with noble intentions (2 Cor. 11:13-15; Matt. 24:4-5,24). It is one of his main objectives to confuse believers by inciting them to entertain erroneous views on Christ and the Bible. There are many examples of such satanic influence in the Bible.
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Then WE are looking for YOU, and you have come to the right place to tell us about your miracle.
If you are a pastor who has raised someone from the dead, or someone who died and was raised from the dead due to a pastor’s prayer or laying on of hands, etc. Then please tell us your story.
We have heard that miracles are taking place all over the world, where people are dying and being raised from the dead through the gifts bestowed on pastors to be able to do many signs and wonders.
Please note that I am taking a break and will probably not be online until next month. Feel free to chat amongst yourselves.
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. (Eph 6:23-24)
“When one goes through the kind of restoration Todd has been through over the last year and a half you usually come out stronger in basic Christian disciplines and character than ever. I feel that is certainly the case with Todd. However, I was surprised by the depth, power, and the impartation of the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit that was immediately present when we released Todd into limited local ministry…” Rick Joyner – The ElijahList Email” ”Check Out These Todd Bentley Events” May 15, 2010
According to Rick Joyner, Todd has been restored, forgiven and has returned a genuine Christian.
This is what Todd said back in Lakeland in middle of 2008. It was shocking that he did not want to preach about Jesus:
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You don’t have to give up Buddha, Krisha, Allah, etc., to follow the Cosmic Christ if you listen to John Piper. If you just believe in the Cosmic Christ then you will go to heaven. If you just embrace the Cosmic Christ you will go to heaven. It’s that simple. No need to deny anyone. Just place your little statue right next to the other ones.
I found this little gem of a video by John Piper. I think I am going to transcribe this (for those in poorer countries who can’t afford bandwidth - where paper is still a necessity and the printing press has not evolved yet). I don’t think John Piper would mind us spreading his message in an older format for all the millions of truth seeking Christians around the world.
John Piper says:
“In a pluralistic, multi-cultural, relativistic, shrinking world, like ours, this will be harder and harder, and harder to believe.
Because they’re not just in Africa, and Asia, they’re right next door. Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Jewish people.
Tech enthusiasts and futurists think implantable radio chips, such as those embedded in Amal Graafstra’s hands, could mean safety, security and convenience. But civil libertarians are concerned about privacy. XRay picture of Amal Graafstra hands
Scientists currently tag animals to study their behavior and protect the endangered, but some futurists wonder whether all humans should be tagged too.
Scientists tag animals to monitor their behavior and keep track of endangered species. Now some futurists are asking whether all of mankind should be tagged too. Looking for a loved one? Just Google his microchip.
The chips, called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, emit a simple radio signal akin to a bar code, anywhere, anytime. Futurists say they can be easily implanted under the skin on a person’s arm.
The conference was held at Kerk Sonder Mure in Centurion, which was kindly provided to the organisers free of charge. In itself I believe a charitable gesture and certainly not a cheap one. The venue is state of the art modern church buildings / auditorium with all the expected bells and whistles. Sound systems, lighting, stages, projection systems, CCTV in various areas, large auditorium seating +/-2000, other smaller conference rooms, kitchen areas, gardens, parking lots, guards on duty, foyer with book stalls, etc.
First impressions on arrival were formed by a large GDOP (Global Day of Prayer 2010) banner prominently positioned on the corner outside the building. organisers, participating speakers, presenters and audience members who were gathering within the building, however, presented quite a different picture. Wonderful how God works to enable His Truth to be promoted via all means. The venue certainly had no relevance to the message which issued from it; simply a set of walls enclosing a group of God’s people for a few hours.
You’ve got to be kidding me? Ok, Ingrid… What is this about? Isn’t this the same as Advent? Holy Cross day is part of the Catholic year (Liturgical year). I can’t believe one needs to uphold a day in the year to place emphasis on what Jesus Christ did on the cross for us. What other ‘strange’ days does your church emphasise?
Does the bible not emphasise that one is to come OUT OF the Roman Catholic church totally and utterly?
“Our church has a carillon that can play samples of church bells from around the world. Our call to worship today was unique in that we heard the bells of Kreuzkirche in Dresden to call us to prayer. The church was founded before the Reformation in 1215 when over in England the Magna Carta was being signed by King John at Runnymede. During the Reformation, the first Lutheran service was held there after being rebuilt in 1539.
MacArthur truly believes the Blood of Jesus Christ has no significance what-so-ever except, that it is just liquid.
Romans 1:21 “For although they knew God, they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
THIS IS JOHN MACARTHUR’S BIBLE BEING EXPOSED FOR DENYING THE BLOOD OF JESUS…
THIS IS JOHN MACARTHUR TRYING TO COVER UP HIS DENIAL, BUT DENIES ALL OVER AGAIN…
DTW has decided to remove this article because even though Bob DeWaay is correct in his thinking regarding Emergent error - Bob DeWaay is a Calvinist and DTW will not support this heretical doctrine in any way. It was only after posting this article by B. DeWaay that we found out he was full on Calvinist.
So… Why can’t everyone be right? Because if you are not following the Word of God then you are wrong.
Faith & Reason Conference Gauteng debate took place on Wednesday evening, 12 May 2010 at the University of Pretoria.
TOPIC:“How should we understand the narratives about Jesus’ resurrection?”
Participants:
Prof. William Lane Craig and Prof. Michael Licona (Christians)
Prof. Sakkie Spangenberg and Prof. Hansie Wolmarans (Non-Christians)
We have received this eyewitness account of the debate from GV Swart.
The Americans are learned, and obviously very adept and experienced at this type of debate. They are unphased by inferior arguments, especially when such arguments are completely unsustainable, undefendable and ridiculous. Their knowledge of the Word and the power which it has in Truth, puts them into a different league on the floor, naturally. Praise His Omnipotence.
Seeing as though I have been following the history of Cindy Jacobs for about 3 years now I thought I would do an expose on one of the falsest prophetesses currently roaming the streets today.
On the 23rd May South Africa is hosting the Global Day of Prayerin which Cindy has been invited to speak a long with a whole host of false-christian teachers and preachers.
At the GDOPall the little false christian movements are coming together, to hail the anti-Christ. Pushing theirgod’s plan, and theirgod’s dream of Communism for the World - Where everyone will be equal they say, where everyone will be one they say, and where you will love everyone who agrees with you and love those to death who disagree with you.
1 John 4:1. “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world”
Jackie Alnor from (www.apostasyalert.com) reports from a video, which was aired on Sky Angel TV, USA:
Sorry for the late advertising of this event. I don’t know what I was thinking not too advertise it sooner.
Please go! It will be worth it, I promise!
South African Christians are in for a rare treat this week. AntWoord apologetics ministry is facilitating the Faith and Reason Conference.
Most South Africans are unlikely to be familiar with the name William Lane Craig and so would not recognise how influential this world-renowned American speaker and author is. When it comes to things American, we are mostly over-stimulated by its entertainment culture and sometimes bemused by its political intricacies, but for the most part we are ignorant of great American and Christian thinkers such as Dr. Craig. It would be a momentous oversight, though, especially for Christians who realise the importance of both their intellectual life and their faith, not to take note of Dr. Craig’s upcoming visit to South Africa. You are therefore invited to attend several events as part of the annual Faith & Reason Conference in South Africa. Dr. Craig and others will address audiences and take part in debates in the Western Cape and Gauteng.
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The latest greatest fad is to sign your name to documents. Pledge, vow, promise to not do this and not do that. Pledge, vow, promise to do this and that. But is it just a fad or something more? Are people being conditioned to signing forms to pledge their allegiance to something or another?
Back in the day gifts were bestowed on the disciples that they would be able to go out and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ successfully. One of the gifts was the ability to speak in tongues. Many people today who speak in tongues seem to think that tongues is a heavenly language. But this is not true. Genuine tongues is an earthly language. The gift given to the disciples enabled them to communicate with people from other nations who spoke other languages, how else could they spread the gospel.
Former Roman catholic priest 
On 16 May 2010 
Then WE are looking for YOU, and you have come to the right place to tell us about your miracle.
“When one goes through the kind of restoration Todd has been through over the last year and a half you usually come out stronger in basic Christian disciplines and character than ever. I feel that is certainly the case with Todd. However, I was surprised by the depth, power, and the impartation of the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit that was immediately present when we released Todd into limited local ministry…” Rick Joyner – The ElijahList Email” ”Check Out These Todd Bentley Events” May 15, 2010
By GV Swart – 22 May 2010
MacArthur truly believes the Blood of Jesus Christ has no significance what-so-ever except, that it is just liquid. 
Emergent: Why Can’t Everybody be Right?
Seeing as though I have been following the history of Cindy Jacobs for about 3 years now I thought I would do an expose on one of the falsest prophetesses currently roaming the streets today.
