What Is God saying to this world and to HIS church? It's TIME to break up our follow ground and SEEK HIM! (Hosea 10:12)
Do your "Christian values" run concurrent with the culture? Are they "Christian" at all? God has an exuberant and...
Posted by Harvey Burnett on Sunday, December 27, 2020
At the Dunamis Word JESUS is still the reason for the season! HE is the Lord's greatest gift given to US to save us from sin! May your celebrations of HIM and family gatherings be especially blessed.
Isaiah 9:6 ~ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
According to our Bishop's instructions all local churches are to engage their membership and community in prayer from 2:00PM to 2:45PM. I will lead our virtual prayer service by livestream here. Please feel free to join us from wherever you are at whatever time you are in. Thank you and may the Lord bless you, in JESUS name!
To provide further details on the Solemn Assembly set to be recognized by the Church Of God In Christ for Tuesday December 8th, 2020, I have posted the schedule for the event. May the GLORY of the Lord be upon this event and the repentance of the Saints and fellow Christians everywhere be accepted.
Bishop Charles E Blake, Presiding Bishop Of the Church Of God In Christ has called for a solemn assembly of Saints with fasting & prayer on Tuesday December 8th, 2020 from 6:00Am to 6:00PM in each time zone all over the world.
While this is a good thing, as prayer and fasting is always in order, the LORD spoke to me regarding the condition of the church also, in an open vision, this is what I saw and heard:
With the backdrop of a crowd of ministers and church leaders in my view, I heard the Lord ask:
"WHERE ARE YOU?"
I responded by asking, "Who are you taking about Lord?"
to which he replied:
"MY LEADERS..."
I spoke, "There they are Lord"
He responded, "NO, FOR THEY HAVE HIDDEN THEMSELVES AMONGST THE STUFF!"
Immediately he showed me 2 things within scripture:
1- Adam & Eve hiding themselves from the presence of God among the trees and draping themselves with fig leaves after they had sinned against God. (Genesis 3:8)
2- Saul, who had been called to lead God's people after the people demanded a King, was approximately 6 and a half feet to 7 feet tall (head and shoulders above all men) but on the day of his consecration by Samuel, was hiding himself possibly among the luggage and baggage of the people who had traveled with and on behalf of Samuel to find and anoint their new king. (1 Sam. 10:22)
In both cases, whether because of sin, or out of a sense of some form of warped humility or frivolity, the people, whom were to have an allegiance with God, were in the wrong place, doing the wrong things, hiding themselves, as it were, from the presence of God.
Final
Although I encourage this call and the call of Bishop Blake, and many other pastors who will follow, but I certainly agree with God...THE CHURCH, and her leaders have been absent and missing in action far too long. THEY have been hiding from covid, hiding among the world and its favors and associations and even her sins and whoredoms.
What has been called for as a "day" of fasting, should be a month, should be a quarter to a half year to a full year. For restoration, we need more than an assembly of prayer, but we need an assembly of REPENTANCE and be recommitted to God, HIS work, HIS way, and HIS will.
I part with an old song:
There is a STORM out, on the ocean, and it is moving this way...IF your soul 's not anchored in JESUS, you will surely drift away!
Blessed!
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Ashera (aka: Chemosh) The
"Queen Of Heaven" & Molech
When we read the Old
Testament and narratives of God calling Israel to sanctity and union with
himself, we quickly note that Israel nearly did everything EXCEPT what God
commanded her to do. While I do not believe that polytheism was predominant
among the “common folk” of Israel, I do believe that idolatry existed, was wide
spread and was, many times, endorsed by the State, and was certainly the
primary sin by which Israel experienced its diaspora.
My contention is that the
people, led by their leaders (aka Kings) were
consistently unfaithful and consistently hard hearted and "stiff-necked"
towards HIS commands and instructions, and although the very first commandment
of God was to "Have no other gods" either before his presence, nor
observed in worship (Ex.20:3) Israel soon, within months of their liberation
from Egypt, became like, and in some cases, worse than other nations
around them in adopting idols (Ex. 32:7) and other gods.
The fact is that Israel
was warned not to take up Ashera worship specifically:
Deut. 16:21
~ “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah
beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make. (ESV)
So this worship system,
over generations, had its defenders even against the word of God which was
clear on the subject. People did not care, they saw this system of idolatry
which included libations to false gods and even child murder as an acceptable
part of society and life.
Details Of Molech "The
Child Killer"
Although the bible leads
us to believe that that Molech was an Ammonite pseudo-spiritual deity, language
however displays that Molech (mlkm in Hebrew text translated as
"their king") could have also been a kingly leader's title or epithet
for someone who was fully human, but given divine attribution. (see 2 Sam.
12:26-31) This was not uncommon among ANE leaders as exampled by Egypt, who
held their Pharaohs to be “divine” men with divine powers, invoking fear among
people, even in their deaths.
Although neither the
Moabites, nor the Ammonites were friendly or supportive of Israel nor her
plight (Jg. 10:9, 2nd Chronicles 20, and remember Balaam who was
hired to curse God’s people but could not [Numbers 22-24]) God decreed that
Israel was NOT to destroy them:
God’s Command Concerning
Moab:
Deut 2:9 ~ And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither
contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a
possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession
God’s Command Concerning
Ammon:
Deut. 2: 19
~ And when thou comest nigh over
against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I
will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a
possession.
From the evidence of scripture, God’s people
WERE NOT to destroy and or take for a possession of any of the land of either
Moab nor Ammon. Interestingly, God did not say to vanquish their worship
systems, he merely said to NOT practice their worship not be intermingled in
marriage with them. This is contrasted to the 6 Nations (and the 7th being Amalek) of Canaan that God commanded
Israel to “utterly destroy” which would include destroying and vanquishing
their gods and idols.
Deut. 20:17
~ But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee:
Known as Milik, Muluk,
Milcom, Milkom, Adad, Adadmelek, Adrammelech, Baal-Hadad, Shamash, and even Baal, with a root
word of "sacrifice" and "their king", the deity was
worshipped by either one of 2 ways as argued by modern scholars:
We believe that the scripture is clear. Child
murder was demanded by Molech and possibly even Ashera or Chemosh as well, and
that the murder of children was a way to worship these idols.
In part 3 of this study, I will sum up the discussion as well as expand on the implications made in these articles as it pertains to the world's lust to murder children under the certain confusion of concepts of freedom and women's health, which abortion has nothing in the least bit to do with.
Blessed!
Read:
Other Parts Of This Series:
Molech Renewal Pt. 1: Ableism Drives Protests & Laws For The Right To MURDER Babies
Molech Renewal Pt. 3: A Biblical Historical Look At Molech Worship In Israel
Recently, I was brought
to the edge of my seat reviewing a story of how multiple and sizeable protests
broke out in Warsaw Poland when the Polish Supreme Court ruled against abortion
in case of fetal defects.
Ableism & It's Practical Implications
Ableism ~ DISCRIMINATION in favor of those who are able bodied. It is the discrimination of and social prejudice against people with disabilities based on the belief that typical physical abilities are superior. At its heart, ableism is rooted in the assumption that disabled people require 'fixing' and defines the worth or value of people by their disability
Whether knowingly or
unknowingly, these young people were not only promoting death of innocents, but
also discrimination in the process. I would venture to say that if asked nearly
all of them would disagree with any form of discrimination. I also
venture to say that many of them would also disagree with the killing or murder
of any innocent person, but yet they are victims of their own logical inconsistency
and irrational belief that children with birth defects such as Down Syndrome,
or other physical defects in vitro, are less than human and not deserving of a
right to live or exist. This is not only shocking but appalling! The mass
appeal to kill babies made me shudder.
Certainly this is not
unique to Poland nor the EU. It seems that all around the world, in many
"developed" countries under both Communist and Democratic rule, the
right to kill babies is almost a non-negotiable, and in some cases, required
part of life.
For example, in Georgia, Pastor Rafael Warnock, who we have featured in our article,
"I believe that healthcare is a human right, and I believe that it is something that the richest nation in the world provides for its citizens, and for me reproductive justice is consistent with my commitment to that. I believe unequivocally in a woman's right to choose, and that the decision is something that we don't want government engaged in. That's between her, and her doctor, and her minister..."
In a puzzling statement
that misses the complete picture of the sanctity of life, destroys the biblical
texts and that completely distorts facts, more than 5,000 pastors, calling
themselves "Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden" who also “CLAIM”, to be
against abortion and abortion politics, took time, prior to the election, to
sign their name to their endorsement of Joe Biden.
"AS PRO-LIFE EVANGELICALS, WE DISAGREE WITH
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM ON THE ISSUE OF ABORTION. BUT
WE BELIEVE A BIBLICALLY SHAPED COMMITMENT TO THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE COMPELS
US TO A CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE THAT AFFIRMS THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE FROM
BEGINNING TO END."
In their borderline endorsement of socialism and full rejection of the biblical view of the sanctity of human life, these alleged "ministers" go on to rationalize that since a primary cause of abortion within the United States is associated with "economics" and concerns over financial welfare and wellbeing of the mother, and that since Joe Biden allegedly has a "plan" to address economic security, they felt that their endorsement of him would be well placed, even in disagreement over abortion.
Then there is the State, that seemingly loves the right to kill children. Look at Massachusetts which has consistently tried to expand abortion law unsuccessfully. Although 62% of MA citizens don’t want late term or expanded abortion to be legalized within their state when given the opportunity to respond. However, the majority liberals within MA legislature are bent on making sure that children can be killed all the way up until they are born by recently proposing to add late term abortion services and finances to the State budget through what is called Amendment 759. Supporting Bills have been presented such as Bill S1209 and Bill H3220.
“the patient is beyond 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy and the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or physical or mental health, or in cases of lethal fetal abnormalities, or where the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the uterus.”
“the
bill would enable girls as young as 12 to obtain abortions without any adult,
except the abortionist, knowing about it,” and would “remove life-saving
medical equipment from rooms where abortions are performed, risking the lives
of babies, Massachusetts citizens, who survive the procedure.”
Then there is New Jersey who seeks to do the same using the Affirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, who personally opposes abortion, to the US Supreme Court as an opportunity to make a push to ratify the “Reproductive Freedom Act” which would make abortion at any point through pregnancy and for any reason, a fundamental right within the State.
Governor Phil Murphy recently said:
“As access to health care and the right to choose are under attack at the federal level, we will support, defend, and protect reproductive rights here in New Jersey,”…“The Reproductive Freedom Act will remove barriers to reproductive health, as well as expand access to contraception while reaffirming choice. Together, we stand unwavering in our commitment to work towards reproductive freedom for all New Jerseyans.”
The right to kill babies
and life in-vitro is seemingly a "right of passage" and option that
humanity is not willing to live without.
Licensed To Kill
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Posted by Harvey Burnett on Monday, November 16, 2020
This is a mini teaching recently completed on 1 Samuel 8 and the people's desire to move from God's leadership to the leadership of man and mankind.
Part 1
Pt. 2
In a time so filled with opinion on every side of the issue, Dr. Tony Evans has taken the time to put together a refreshing series of teaching on Kingdom Voting.
We have had some of the most scripturally corrupt narratives emanating from some of the leading Christian organizations, it is good to finally hear someone else who approaches politics and voting from a Kingdom perspective and who promotes a biblical understanding of how the future is shaped through the life of the believer.
Frankly, this election cycle breaks down to 4 areas of importance to me
1- Freedom and its definition
2- Abortion and the right o the unborn to life
3- Israel & America's relationship to her
4- Civil anarchy and dissidence
First, as Dr. Evans points out, there is no freedom without a foundation of biblical morality and values. I don't care what any atheist or materialis says, as I have listened to participated in thousands of hours of debate on the subject, the biblical basis and foundation for freedom is basic and primary to every society in which freedom is the essential or primary value or virtue and materialistic constructs of freedom, justice and equality only borrow from and mimic biblical constructs of these concepts. They, materialistic ideas, cannot and do not stand on their own and there is and remains to be NO materialistic justification for these values. Plain and simple, the Democratic party, and Joe Biden in his FLIP-FLOP, WISHY-WASHY platform in which he lies and changes positions to suit the crowd that is at hand, DOES NOT value or contend to contain the foundation of biblical moral values and certainly accepts homocratic values (values based on the subjective directives of men and mankind) espoused both by the Democratic platform and those of his most radical associates. Further, as stated, Joe has openly proven that he will say and accept anything to make a good sound bite.
Secondly, it is highly inconsistent to hold that life is valued when the lives of the most innocent aren't. Yes, life considerations should be from PRE-BIRTH to grave. The contention that a person (a woman in particular) has power over her body is certainly true, but IT IS NOT TRUE that she or anyone else has the right to indiscriminately kill the unborn. Democratic leaders embrace baby murder, even late-stage partial birth abortion which is simply murder by another name. The bible says that Jesus was a "CHILD" in Mary's womb, (Is. 7:14, Matt.1:23) not a clump of insignificant cells. Further, God has a relationship and identity of the unborn (Jer. 1:5) and EVERY life, no matter the quality of that life, is valuable to God.
Third, for 8 years under President Obama, the United States ran from relationship to Israel, In fact they treated Israel as hostile and an invader of their own land favoring Palestinians (which there has never been a country of Palestine) over Israel and her right to her land. Under Donald Trump America, like never before, acknowledged JERUSALEM as the Capitol City of Israel, against world sentiment and moved its embassy there and due to brokered economic peace, Israel is now the center of peace and expanded relationships with neighbors who previously vowed to harm the state. This is unprecedented, and the news underplays this greatly, but it is a Kingdom principle found in the book of Genesis...
This is probably one of the only presentations on this blog where I don't attempt to provide a spiritual or biblical parallel. Not because there is not one, but because Covid-19 needs to be examined on its face for what it is and more importantly, our collective response needs to be evaluated, as I am sure what we have done because of Covid-19 will be examined forever.
Example, for a disease that was known to kill older individuals with comorbid diseases, we (our political leaders) packed places that housed older individuals with comorbidities with others carrying the disease and have been responsible for what can nearly be called, the mass murder of our elders, while simultaneously claiming "success" in the fight against the disease.
We (our political leaders) issued orders to lock up people, restricting travel, eliminating livelihoods based on communistic models of state and public policy, regardless of whether or not we are a free, democratically controlled State.
Finally, we (OUR LEADERS "potential leaders"), primarily at the State level, are considering and in many cases have implemented mandates that reduce, take away or even eliminate personal freedoms, mimic collectivist (aka: COMMUNIST) societies, and reduce the US Constitution to a flexible "handbook" on public policy, based on falsely, and never approached sero-viral rate of 3%{although the actual rate is .2 to .3% or POINT 2 to POINT 3 percent. {which means that based on the US actual experience out of 1,000 individuals infected with Covid-19, approximately 2 die and 998 recover.
The Science
The science behind Covid-19 is POLITICAL to say the least. I'll go on record to say what many are saying, that if Joe Biden is elected Nov. 2nd, COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns will MYSTERIOUSLY disappear. The alleged doctors, especially many on liberal news media, are anything but scientists and doctors delivering full truth...Look at it, when is the last time ANY of the Board Certified doctors on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, or NBC have reported that a a PCP test with a Cycle Threshold or CT rate of 37 is said to be positive for Covid-19, when EVERYONE knows that Covid-19 cannot survive in an environment with a CT Rate over 33 to 34? This means at least HALF of the positive and so called asymptomatic cases reported are NOT actual cases of Covid-19. Have you heard that conversation? They will not tell you that the myocarditis and other illnesses and issues associated with the aftermath of covid-19 are exceptions and not normative conditions...No they report the most severe things as if they were normal.
Recently on the ZDOGG MD Show Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who is a Stanford physician and economist
Due to covid 19, many abused and potentially abused minors are forced to reside with their predators.While the Dept. Of Justice reports that 34% of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by family members.RAINN reported that based on calls received in March of this year, 67% of callers identified their abuser as a family member and 79% of those individuals said that their perpetrator shared or lived in the same residence. As RAINN began to examine this startling increase, their leadership noted the following:
"As a result of looking at the information that we had from those sessions, it was clear that the abuse was escalating in both frequency and severity,"..."So a lot of the kids that were coming to the hotline were feeling pretty vulnerable and traumatized. And it was a direct result of COVID-19, because they were quarantined with their abuser. The abuser was now abusing them on a daily basis." ~ Camille Cooper VP of Public Policy RAINN [by NPR 8/2020]
What happens when the sexual abuse comes from or is a result of a church leader? Although many of the stay at home orders issued by Governors across the United States, include churches and houses of worship, the predators have not taken time off doing their sinful deeds and making arrangements to perpetuate their sexual sins and crimes. In fact isolation makes it more easy for the perpetrator of sexual crimes to do their filthy deeds because victims or more static or centered in one location.
"In the last twelve years, over 375 leaders and volunteers of Southern Baptist churches have been charged with sexual misconduct. Over 200 of them were convicted or plead guilty. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) refuses to take meaningful steps to end abuse in churches, claiming that each church has individual autonomy."
In short, we believe that God can heal all wounds, and we would like to know YOUR STORY!
NSVRC: Resources For Covid 19 Response
“The jury, having heard evidence that Logan Wesley has been terrorizing andraping children since at least 1981, sentenced him to the maximum amount of prison time for each of the counts for which he was convicted,” Crisp said. “Wesley’s prolific and outrageous criminal behavior entirely justifies the sentence he received. The repeated violations of the criminal laws of the State of Texas caught up with Logan Wesley this week. Thankfully the 12 citizens of Bowie County who made up this jury showed this defendant the same amount of mercy he showed his victims, which was none.”
What adds insult to injury is that Pastor Wesley's wife and even Church Mother is now caught in the web of sin and defilement, because as mandated reporters, they failed to act and tell authorities when knowledge came to them that pastor Wesley was engaging in or potentially engaging in these acts and actions. The Texarkana Gazette reports that the next round of liability lawsuits have begun HERE.
YES, if a person comes to you, and you re in a position of leadership within a church, and you reside in a mandated reporter state, and you fail to report such acts, YOU COULD GO TO JAIL for being complicit in abuse.
So here we have a church completely destroyed, victims that have had their life totally upended, an alleged pastor jailed for life, his family destroyed in the process, and many of you will only yet sing the praises of the church as if, "that was them, this is me"...well, YOU'RE NO BETTER than any of these folk. You're ungodly too, if you don't see the sense of urgency in dealing with and putting this mess and mess like it down for good!
For a considerable amount of time, COGIC has stood behind a "faith mission" concept claiming no direct responsibility for sexiually abusive clergy, while simultaneously demanding payment for annual credential assessment in the name of "National Reports", and no direct obligation to victims of said abuse at the hands of many of these national report holders. Allegedly, checks have been written by the national church to victims and several NDA's have been signed that continue to keep silence and allegiance among the ranks. While these reports may or may not be true, what is still clear, is that there's STILL NO CLEAR PATH TO RESTORATION for those who have suffered victimization, and I still await meetings to discuss plans that this church can implement to reverse all of the negative stigma and ungodly actions surrounding this issue.
As stated, progress has been made in certain areas, such as background checks and sexual harassment training, which are issues prior to Elder DL Foster's COGIC ABUSE WATCH, were not on the horizon to be fixed and or addressed. So thanks for "some "progress, but that is not nearly enough!
NO PROGRESS has been made as to how the church handles those who have been victimized or reintegrates and restores them that have been hurt and suffer this abuse. NO PROGRESS has been made as to how the church immediately removes such pastors or delays pastoral activities until such questions have been given a response. The procedural codes need to be updated, but there is no will to do so in many instances.
Well, as stated above, the victims have filed civil suit for damages and COGIC has been named a party to their suit. For certain COGIC will seek summary dismissal, claiming that they have no direct responsibility for this pastor's actions as I have witnessed in many other instances and been party to in at least one. Who knows how that will go or how that will be interpreted by the court, but the fact is, beyond the courts, the CHURCH SHOULD DO RIGHT and be actively engaged in the RESTORATION of these victims both emotionally and spiritually. Be the LIGHT that we claim that we are. It's really just that simple.
Blessed!
All abuse is devastating. Church related abuse is especially excruciating due to the fact that not only have boundaries been crossed through...
