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MM Outreach
News and Views in the World of the Cults
Oct.- Dec. 2007
From Lorri’s Desk
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!
We have survived the hottest month on record in our area, along with smoke from forest fires, and the noise of all the helicopters and water bombers--but thankfully we are cooling and quieting!
We are hearing increasing accounts of harsh treatment against long-time church members who don’t want their churches to go “purpose-driven”. The PD Church even holds seminars to teach prospective PD churches how to act. Apprising Ministries sent this report: “During a session titled “Dealing with Opposition”, Mr. Clyde recommended that the pastor speak to critical members, then help them leave if they don’t stop objecting. Then when those congregants join a new church, Mr. Clyde instructed, pastors should call their new minister and suggest that the congregants be barred from any leadership role”. How mean-spirited is that!! They actually do this.
This major leader in Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Movement has since been arrested for felony theft from The Fellowship at Forest Creek in Round Rock, Texas. Donald “Roddy” Clyde admitted to using the church’s bank account and credit card to buy land, horses, vacations, and other property. Jim Ratley, president of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners said, “If he’s saying $500,000, in my experience, I would look for a lot more because when perpetrators do estimate, it’s always grossly underestimated”. We speculate that Rick Warren and his purpose-driven group are in major damage-control mode!
The Watchtower Society continues its campaign against members using the internet. The July 2007 “Canadian Our Kingdom Ministry” instructed followers not to access any critical web sites as these could be an “active apostate”. Unbelievably they went on to say, “Reportedly, may pedophiles use such Web sites to find their victims...others have included sexually provocative pictures of themselves, suggestive nicknames, or links to sexually explicit music videos in their computer profile”. Will they stop at nothing to prevent their folks from accessing biblically-sound web sites exposing WT errors?!
Rev. Susan Johnson is the new national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. She has also been an adviser to The Lutheran World Federation Council since 1998. (NDN 06/29/07).
Pope Benedict XV1 “reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation”. We knew those trying to bring about unity for the past several years were wasting their time. The “unity” Rome wants is for Protestants to join the Catholic faith. Period.
C/FAR, a Christian outreach to the cults in five continents, including the Ukraine reports that they have been able to counteract the efforts of the cults by a series of programs on the radio. We partnered with C/FAR to provide Ukrainian-language DVD’s that will be sent to Pastors across the Ukraine. Glory to God!
What
has happened to Christmas?
MacLean’s
Magazine of Jan. 1/07 had a comment by Feschuk we found telling.
“Christmas,
once a sacred tradition for members of a religion known as “Christianity”,
has evolved into a wonderful secular e
vent
in which members of all cultures can share... alternately described
as “the holidays” or “the season”....this
joyous time of year is now celebrated as a truly global Festival of
Retail Merriment”. The
article went on to show how even Charlie Brown refers to the newborn
Jesus as the “Holiday
Baby”.
Stories on Santa abound as Christmas is further dunned down.
How sad. We offer a great little book called “The
Case for Christmas” which features, of course, Jesus Christ!
Do you know someone who needs to hear the real message of
Christmas? If so, it’s a great gift!
Watch out for those web sites! Jesse Duplantis wrote a book called “Heaven, Close Encounters of the God Kind” where he claimed he was taken to heaven in the flesh and met God the Father, Abraham, Jesus Christ, King David, the Apostle Paul, Jonah, and others. He claimed he also got a preview of his heavenly mansion. Whether or not you believe this professing Christian’s book is genuine, the Mormons love it and offer it on their web site. Often “revelations” of word-faith types match up with Mormonism. Both teach that heaven is a planet, both teach that Adam was a God, both teach the Deity of Man (i.e that men are gods), etc. etc. For more information www.discernment.org is good.
Since 2005 the elders in Canada have been following the Watchtower’s newest confidential instructions regarding judicial matters and child abuse reports. The congregation now keeps one copy in their confidential file, and sends one copy in a special blue envelope to WT headquarters. I’m sure the postman is carrying a lot of “blue” these days! The Society is scrambling to try and keep their current members with threats, dire warnings, and fear.
We, at MM Outreach, continue to expose error, using the Bible as our guide and come under attack a lot these days for our uncompromising stand. We ask for your prayers at this time, especially for our partners, Richard and Cheryl, who need to sell their Edmonton home, and also have some health concerns.
Thank you for standing with us. Until next time,
Lifting the Veil of Polygamy
Nestled
in a nearby mountain valley, Bountiful, B.C., our local
polygamous Mormon commune lives in isolation for the most
part. The 
commune
is presently divided between loyalty to the captured Warren Jeffs and
loyalty to the local prophet (once viewed as a successor to Jeffs).
Winston Blackmore, is now disfellowshipped by Jeff’s
group in Colorado. He has 26 wives and many children. We
sometimes deal with members looking for a way out.
Not too far away is Mary Mackert, a former polygamist wife, the sixth of seven such wives from a similar group, who is a contact on the road to freedom. We all do what we can to help those escaping the cruel clutches of Fundamentalist Mormonism. Mary is featured on the DVD “Lifting the Veil of Polygamy”. She’s been there!
Because
of the secretive nature of the various polygamous groups (each
believing they alone are God’s people on the earth), an exact
count of polygamists is hard to arrive at. Some live in
ordinary neighborhoods and even those next door do not 
realize
polygamists are in residence. However, a good guess is 50,000
to 100,000 believers in Joseph Smith are involved, carrying out
his instructions on the lifestyle in order to attain salvation and
exaltation to godhood.
Folks, this is real Mormonism. These Fundamentalist Mormons remain true to the Prophet Joseph Smith and his revelations. Joseph Smith already had plural wives when he made public the 1843 revelation that polygamy was the requirement for his followers to become gods and goddesses, and attain exaltation.
In the promised exaltation, each “god” would take his earthly plural goddess wives to his own planet. There he would be God the Father, and through celestial sex with his many wives he would populate his own earth. The spirit children born in heaven would be sent to earth to get a fleshly body and work out their own salvation by living the “principle”--the teachings of Joseph Smith. Mormons today all believe that that is exactly how we all came to be on earth--we are the spirit children of “heavenly father” and we are here to work out our own salvation by finding out the “truth” and “plan” of Joseph Smith.
In fact, all divisions of Mormonism, and there are over 100 of them, all believe in polygamy and exaltation as Joseph Smith taught. The Salt Lake City Mormons, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints do not practice polygamy on earth, but look forward to practising it in heaven! They agreed that they would not practice it in Utah, on earth, to preserve their statehood, but it still forms a major part of their belief system. After all, their accepted scriptures, Doctrine & Covenants 132:52 teaches that they cannot attain exaltation and godhood unless they are polygamists.
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Joseph Smith, ever-changing his doctrines, overrode his previous revelation from 1835 that one man should have only one wife. In 1843 the church removed this portion from D & C and replaced it with the current one advocating polygamy.
After
all, Joseph practised what he preached. Historians list 33
wives besides Emma (his 
original
wife). Ten were teenagers from 15 and up, and many were women
with living husbands. Emma, who was not too thrilled with
Joseph, was commanded by “divine revelation” to receive
these women her husband had, and she complied.
After Joseph Smith, the next seven Presidents of the Salt Lake City-headquartered Mormons, all practised Polygamy, even after the 1890 Manifesto, when they promised the government they wouldn’t. Joseph Smith set the example by breaking the law of his time, so they no doubt felt justified also.
The belief in Polygamy/Exaltation was so strong that Joseph Smith ended up losing his life over this issue. The local paper had exposed his lifestyle, so he and some cohorts destroyed the printing press, and were arrested and sent to jail. Joseph died in a blazing gun battle, when a mob attacked the armed Mormons and a gun battle ensued. Joseph did not die a “martyr” as some believe, but was a participant.
Mainline Mormons are now trying desperately to “blend in” with mainline Christians. The current President Hinckley roundly condemned polygamy on the Larry King Live Show. The Mormons do not want polygamy coming to the fore with two presidential candidates in the news. They never mention the fact that they are really believers in polygamy and can hardly wait to start indulging in the practice, but in heaven!
Interestingly, if Joseph Smith is right, then President Hinckley cannot be exalted as a god to heaven since he has not practised polygamy, which is the requirement, nor can any other mainline Mormons. If Joseph Smith is wrong (and he is), then they are following a false prophet to their doom. Either way they lose.
This revealing DVD rips the cover-up off the practice of polygamy and exposes what it is really like. For once we can get a firsthand understanding of what goes on in the world of plural wives. From firsthand experience, both men and women share from their hearts what life was like in these various secretive groups.
The various women share how fear held them in the daily grip of living as plural wives. In the pictures they are all smiling with their arms around their “sister-wives” as their husband stands in the middle and their many children fill out the picture. Should they be questioned they declare that they are happy and satisfied. The reality is “anything but”!
In real life these women share how lonely they were. On the surface they had to appear peaceful and accepting. After all, their only hope for a resurrection from the dead was if their husband chose to raise them. Otherwise they went to hell if they displeased him. Under the surface, all kinds of emotions were seething. There was constant competition for their husband’s attention, even in the smallest way. If another wife was paid some small attention, or got some extra time, or attention for her sons (daughters seldom merited playtime with their fathers), the other wives found ways to get even.
All
were unhappy when their husband began looking for a fresh
wife,
yet they had to take part in the marriage ceremony and swallow their
bitter resentment. Sometimes they lived in multi-bedroom houses
which were anything but soundproof and intimate moments were heard by
all, but never spoken about. Loneliness was the common feeling
among all the wives.
Sometimes the fathers initiated their own daughters into sex, justifying this by “preparing them for plural marriage”. The lot of women is not a pleasant one in fundamentalist Mormonism.
Even some of the men suffered as they, too, were under the control of the local prophet. Some of the young men are regularly sent away from the various communes to make their own way, as there are not enough women for them to have wives, with the elders using up the available supply. They are called “the lost boys” and have a very difficult time after being expelled.
Some select younger men are allowed to be married. One man on the DVD, formerly part of Prophet Roy Johnson’s group, told how he received one day’s notice to present himself for marriage. The girl in question had one week to sew a wedding dress and present herself. They knew of each other but were not acquainted at all. Reluctantly, they obeyed. It was such a mismatch that after four months her new husband sent her back to the Prophet to be remarried to someone else and he had to leave the commune.
Hear the heartbreaking accounts of those who escaped and tried to live another way. Most are so guilt-stricken and feel so unworthy of God’s approval for no longer living the “principle” that, sadly, many do return.
Those featured on the DVD share their rescue at the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ in a powerful way. Those of us who have been under the oppression of a controlling cult, deceived into manmade religion, can share their joy at their deliverance in special way!
Don’t miss this compelling DVD--it will touch your heart.
Letters from our Readers
Every day we get letters from our readers, following are a sample of those that came in recently.
“I would like to know the hidden facts on Jehovah’s Witnesses..” (AL).
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“This
is all so compelling. I just finished watching your “Women
in Ministry, Silenced or Set Free?” DVD’s, with tears
rolling down my face. I grew up with the Assemblies of God’s
standards for women, but I also observed continual rebellion of women
elders against pastors there. In m
y
search for a better example, I wound up in a shepherding/
discipleship group. They offered what seemed to be a more
balanced view about spiritual gifts and healing, as well as an
alternative to the rebellious example of the few women in my memory.
I am so broken to realize that so many of the truths that you point
out were truths I used to know and defend. My desire to find
better role models and my disappointments in poor examples led me
into error. How grieved and broken I am over my falling away
and years wasted in deception and how full of joy and gratitude
I am in having many of these truths restored to me anew...we are all
vulnerable to these subtle deceptions when the timing and
circumstances get the better of us. Thank you, thank you, thank
you, Cheryl”. (e-mail).
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“I am impressed by, and have very much enjoyed reading much of your website’s content. Especially the JW sections. Did you know that the Jehovah’s Witnesses (as well as many other so called “Christian cults”) are actually a sign of the times..of Christ’s impending return. In Matt. 24:5, Jesus Himself said, “For many will come in My name saying, “I am the Christ” and will mislead many”....we should try and lead as many as possible to the truth...Hopefully we can rescue some of the deceived along the way. Keep up the good work! I am sure I will visit your website again. I am a Pastor”. (e-mail).
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“I am sorry you have bean wrongly informed of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. As a deacon in the church I can assure you that we are not a cult. The reason we must hide our name in most of our revivals is because people like you have given many people the misinformation that we are a cult. Also, we do not hide our identity for very long. I also disagree with some of your thoughts on my brothers, and sisters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Although we may differ in our approach and spiritual doctrines we all have one common goal, and that goal is to win as many souls as we can for Jesus Christ. In some of you responses I read of a woman who said that we hide our teachings behind “bible studies”. The reason for this may be because our teachings are STRAIT FROM THE BIBLE. Many of our members are disowned by there families because of the misconceptions that run wild on your website. By the grace of God we have a merciful saviour who is with us when all others abandon us out of pure ignorance. Sincerely, Faithful Christian”. (e-mail).
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“...Cheryl, There is something ‘special’ about what you are doing (you and your team). The attitude in which you present your teaching is that of Christ. Sadly
I have found that this is all too rare a case with many of those teaching in the area of women in ministry. Thank you for the grace and humility and integrity with which you present your DVD’s and also your blog..My hubby has been struck by the differences in attitude that Mr. MacArthur and some of the CBMW guys present compared to your attitude... I look forward to learning more on this journey towards truth. Be encouraged--you and your team are making a difference for the kingdom”.(e-mail).
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“...All
these organizations you criticize have only broug
ht
forth good works to the earth...I am shooting a film on expanding
human consciousness and showing world religions so we can have some
tolerance and understanding and transcend some of our
ignorance...Eternal Progression is the name of the game. In the
bible, did Christ ever say this religion or belief is wrong?
No...I find a personal revelation from God is as powerful as
the Word of God for it is his word personally to us. Peace and
love.” (e-mail).
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“A mall store says on the door “No soliciting”. They might mean me also with my gospel tracts, but I’ll keep on until I’m caught. The only other tracts laying around besides mine, are the Watchtower tracts.... I also put booklets in some of my relatives christmas cards. Wow! How else are they going to know? I hope I don’t get told off by them!...” (IN).
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“Regarding your Women DVD, I was already an egalitarian and was looking for additional insights into interpreting 1 Timothy 2, and I believe God led me to your DVD series. There is certainly a lot to digest. Thank you for your faithfulness. I especially liked your gentle spirit. I was totally in shock about the details of what some gender hierarchicalists teach. I did not realize they went so far. I also appreciated where you agreed with them where possible. Keep up the good work in our Lord Jesus”. (email).
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“Just letting you know that your two-DVD set on Christian Counterfeiters is the most awesome DVD I have ever seen! Way to go!” (CA).
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“I’m a born again Christian. I’ve been reading your website for the last several days, and have learned so much. I particularly enjoyed the verses you put together to prove Jesus’ Deity, and also the verses about salvation by grace alone. I have a quick question for you...is the Greek text used by JW’s bogus like their English side, or have they mistranslated a valid Greek manuscript. Thank you for your website and your help”. (CO)
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“You
might want to take another look at the Philadelphia Church of God.
In his sermon posted 6/22/07 he preached that the antichrist
(or 6th head of the beast) is here now, and from his timetable that
would mean the 
return
of Christ will be in 2 years from the time the beast arrived...I
really feel this group are close to the “koolaide” and
ex-members are stating that he is making plans for all members to
leave the US for the last hours. This guy is scary...I live in
the same county with the PCOG...they have been here since ‘89.
Most of the people here have never heard of the church and they
are not listed in any phone book. Just wanted to make you
aware. They seem to think it’s close to the end. I
fear mainly for all the children which are in our school system here”.
(OK).
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“...We have enjoyed the regular and thrilling updates on your ministry for several years. We are sure that your tireless (!!) actions have brought many from the darkness of the cults into the light of the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have often given thanks to God for the multitude of variable testimonies we have read in your magazine. Your investigative articles on pseudo Christian groups, which obviously require a lot of research, and great care in presentation, have also been an enlightenment to us. We first heard Lorri’s testimony over 25 years ago from an audio cassette tape through a lending library. Once again, thank you so very much--and we will keep you and your work in our prayers”. (Australia).
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“Dear Cheryl, Thank you for answering my question so promptly. I really enjoy reading your posts and can see that you are definitely an apologist! However, I am even more impressed by your humble attitude as you present your findings. To be quite frank, I have been “put off” by many who espouse Egalitarianism, to the point that, while I find myself largely agreeing with the view of Scripture, I have no desire to be identified with them anymore than I desire to be identified with Complementarians. You are definitely an exception to my experience, and I am grateful to have been exposed to your interpretations, arguments, and humility. May the Lord continue to humble others that they might learn what you are teaching”. (e-mail).
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“I was comforted and encouraged by your web site. I am not old, but a new creature in Jesus Christ. Through your web site you update me and help me and the lives of others. Would you please drop me a note personally?” (e-mail).
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“Your partnership with at CFAR in the Ukraine is a very special blessing!” (CA).
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“Rush me the information on the DVD’s sold by MM Outreach, especially the one about demons, “Dilemma Over Demons” and the one about Seventh-day Adventism.” (IN).
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“Thank
you so much for catching me up on my missed issues of “News
& Views”. I forgot to subscribe for some time, so
this time I am renewing for two years. Incidentally, the
envelope you sent me had been opened and then resealed with tape.
I know you have had trouble with cult employees at the post
office, but nothing was missing--just lettin
g
you know. Blessings.” (SK).
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“I have been witnessing to JW’s at my home every week. On the internet I was searching for tips at effective witnessing and found on your website that you would be willing to sent materials to them...A woman comes to my house each week and brings someone different each time... She is a wonderful women and when she left my home last week, she said, “Maybe you will end up converting me!”. Please, please, if you have a heart for Jehovah’s Witnesses, pray for her, okay? Here is her address:...” (NJ).
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“Cheryl, by the way, I received an “A” on my paper (on the women’s issue.) You have been an inspiration to many of us men whose testosterone has not clouded our thought processes. The God of Jacob shield and guide you always”. (e-mail).
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“I have been following the news stories on a website called religion news blog. This website says that the Branch Davidian Adventists are planning to rebuild the site at Waco, Texas. This is not good news...Kenneth Copeland has a ministry in the Dallas Ft. Worth area of Texas, meaning he resides in the same state where the 1993 Waco incident occurred. Mr. Copeland crisscrosses the nation holding “Believers Conventions” and claims to have prophetic messages for Christians nationwide, yet is silent on the Waco tragedy. Curious, isn’t it?...Instead of flying all over the place, Mr.Copeland should settle down and tend to the lost souls living in his own home state, wouldn’t you think?” (e-mail).
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“I know its been so long since I’ve written to you. I admire your strength and courage in dealing with the passing of your dear mother, breaking your arm and your knee at the same time, and then getting a third-degree burn on that same foot! All the best to you and Keith...I am going to be checking out a church in our area that requires open confession and re-baptism every time you sin! I’ll send you the facts after I investigate. Your partner in Christ, -----------------”. (MB).
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“I got your address from the DVD, “Battling Over the Children”. Please let me know the cost of any info to help me get my daughter our of the Watchtower cult. Thank you.” (CA).
“Please
send me “Dilemma Over Demons” DVD. 
My
cheque is enclosed. I love your outreach. I studied for
over 15 years with JW’s, but was never baptized with them. My
husband did not like them. I loved them. I believed them.
I quit studying when my son joined the Army. Your
outreach has been wonderful for me. I still love the JW’s,
but get messed up trying to sort out religion. God bless you”.
(TN).
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“Thank you so much for the trouble you take in your replies to my e-mails. May I disturb you with one more question that is on my mind. Having been made more aware of how JW’s interpret things differently, what do JW’s say if you ask them what their idea of “faith” is? I’m thinking particularly of Ephesians 2:8. I was wowed out listening to Lorri’s testimony. Amazing God! Blessings!” (e-mail).
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“Hey Cheryl, So kind of you to reply!...I am honored. It’s not often that one gets to hear from Christian women who’ll buck the trend of centuries and speak out against tradition. Most will just go quietly and not rock the boat so to speak. Fear of being branded a troublemaker, of offending the established order (alpha male), or worse, of being burned at the stake (in effigy), have all put the damper on otherwise courageous women in the body of Christ. Yours is what the late John F. Kennedy would declare a profile in courage. Men of my persuasion are intercalations, we are few in number but we stand and applaud you! Blessings on you and yours”. (e-mail).
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“I started talking to JW’s about 30 years ago and have used the “Lorri MacGregor” material, which has been such a help. It’s amazing to find other people who recognize the name. I didn’t see much of JW’s when we were involved with a Christian campsite as the witnesses wouldn’t visit much. We have now moved and two neighbors have joined the organization...one is prepared to stay with the altered John 1:1 even if the interlinear says different. She doesn’t even have their interlinear, so I am praying and will seek another approach...I do upset them! Do you have a source of your supplies in Australia? If not, we’ll order off the internet...I would indeed like to get some regular news from you now I’m back in the front lines! I look forward to hearing from you”. (Australia).
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(Cheryl was criticized by a Pastor on her Greek grammar in 1 Timothy 3:1 on Youtube on her video clip. She gently showed him that there was no Greek grammar rule that made the “anyone” (as in “anyone” who desires to be an overseer) means only men.) He replied, “I see your point. You are correct on the Greek and I have made a grammatical error. I was confusing the article and the subject. No pride here. Please accept my apology”. (e-mail).
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“I have been studying apologetics for many years, and was asked by my Pastor to teach a class on the subject of Jehovah’s Witnesses this summer. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. I want to focus mainly on some essential and fundamental doctrines: 1) Who Jesus Really Is. 2) What it takes to be saved. 3) the Trinity. 4) How Eternity will be spent. I want to present what the various cults teach vs. what the Bible teaches...this will be the main focus of my class, but I also plan on teaching some of the history behind the cults...”. (TX).
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“I find our Mormon friend’s childish faith to be so amusing...as if they are true examples of what holy people do. The Mormon stories are such an idealistic fantasyland...it’s too obvious that it’s nothing more than empty winds of drama...But here our LDS friends think it’s all so totally interesting and entertaining and real! Wow! You really need the imagination of a child to trust those LDS stories, but I know, I know, to suggest any of that insults our Mormon friends... Christian to Christian, we see this, and so does a lot of the secular and religious world...(The suggestion) that maybe Mormonism was penned by men who were not God’s prophets---extreme heat and anger! They believe it!” (e-mail).
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“We
thank you from the bottom of ou
r
hearts for the 10 books of wonderful materials you graciously sent
for our jail and prison ministry. This is the kind of materials
our inmates are asking for daily. What an AWESOME gift!
They are much appreciated and will be much used. We are
excited to be able to share these wonderful materials with the
inmates”. (AZ).
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“I want to warn your readers about Irvin Baxter of the United Pentecostal Church since he is making headway in getting airtime on radio and some churches are giving him an ear. In reality he is an anti-Trinitarian who denies the eternal Sonship of Christ. Baxter states that Trinitarians, who believe in the Trinity, and are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, should leave their churches. He states that people who embrace the Trinity are all going to be swept into the one world church, led by the false prophet. The churches are identified as “daughters of the harlot” of Revelation 17. Salvation, Baxter style, involves being baptized in the name of Jesus only, and that baptism saves you! BEWARE!”
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“Your
reasoning on the Women in Ministry DVD is cogent and well supported.
Your two years of diligent inquiry has yielded much that
will
edify the body of Christ..”. (e-mail).
Another excellent DVD
from Living Hope Ministries, exposing what Polygamy is like from insiders who devoutly followed this lifestyle.
You will be moved as you listen to the women and men who truly followed the ‘Prophet’ Joseph Smith, who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). This DVD is about the Fundamentalist Mormons who most closely adhere to their Founder’s “principle” and polygamous lifestyle, much more so than the Salt Lake City group, who sidestep Joseph Smith’s more bizzare doctrines, including polygamy. You won’t believe your eyes or your ears that such things go on in our modern society, but they do!
Tragic accounts--yes. However, the clear salvation message given as these lost souls find their way to Christ will move you to tears. Don’t miss this one! Please see order form in the middle of the magazine.
Giant Audio Tape Clearance!! Out they go!!
Here’s the deal-- order any audio tape on our list for $1 plus postage. For every one you choose, we will give you a bonus one of our choice! (That works out to 50 cents each for you bargain hunters!)
Enjoy them while they last. Don’t miss out on all these great teachings and messages! Order lots, PLEASE, and help us clear our shelves to make room for other great items! Please see order form in the middle of the magazine.
Last Call on Video Remnants!
Thanks
to all of you who took advantage of our big video clearance.
All we 
are
left with are a few oddball titles, but still a pretty good supply of
the video “Christian Counterfeiters”. (We did overstock!)
Anyone (like me) who still plays video tapes can pick up this excellent video “Christian Counterfeiters” for only $3.00 plus postage. It exposes, not only the cult groups, but shows how their teachings have infiltrated the church through many of the TV ministries and doctrinally-challenged churches who prefer “felt” to “telt”, and have let their Bibles gather dust! Great footage of some of the best known “performers” on TV. Last chance! $3 plus postage.
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Help My Dad
“..Be it by accident or be it divine, I just happened to come across your web page. Thank you very much for all this wonderful work you are doing, but I wonder if I could ask you for some help.
My dad is 49 and I am 26 now. My parents got divorced when I was 11. After the divorce Dad became something of a loner and distanced himself from us. When his dogs weren’t enough company, you guessed it--JW’s would knock on his door. Now, the old dad would have chased them away, but being lonely, he let them in, just to hear the voice of another person, and would listen to their stories. Slowly but surely he started to believe what they told him, as they can be very convincing in their own way...Now he’s stuck in that lie and I don’t know how to get him out of it.
---It’s like talking to a brick wall--I give him verses out of your web site, and he shows me “proof” to discredit my proof. We are actually close to losing the relationship we have tried so hard to mend. What should I do? Leave it, and keep my dad, or try my best to get him on the right path but risk losing the relationship? I know a lot is to do with faith and prayer, but I feel so powerless. It saddens me to see my dad fall for a cult, and he is so closed off, I feel I can do nothing to help at this point.
He entertains his JW guests every Saturday and has even invited me to join in...I’m afraid I don’t know enough and will be confused...I want to help my dad, but I don’t want to lose my faith as well. This could probably be due to my lack of wisdom and knowledge of Jesus...God bless--and “God” includes Jesus Christ, the anointed One.” (contributed).
Beth Shan,
the OTHER Watchtower Mansion
“Most
people who have studied the Watchtower Society’s history are
well aware of the fact that, in 
1929,
they constructed a Spanish-style mansion in San Diego, California,
and named it Beth-Sarim:
House of the Princes. This mansion was built, according
to the accounts written at the time, to house such faithful Old
Testament characters as listed in Hebrews 11:1-40 who, it was
believed, would be resurrected back to earth to rule as princes and
oversee the world-wide work of the Watchtower Society. When
this resurrection failed to occur, the Society doggedly clung to its
claims for almost twenty years until, in 1947, they finally sold
Beth-Sarim. By so doing, another extremely embarrassing false
prophecy was quietly swept into the background. Not
surprisingly, recent Watchtower publications have conveniently
glossed over these bizarre events by rewriting their history and
inventing another, novel purpose behind the building of Beth Sarim.
However, as farcical as the claims and events surrounding Beth-Sarim may be, there is a far less known, well kept secret, from that same period in the Watchtower’s history. Recent research has established that the WT Society prepared TWO mansions in California to house the Old Testament characters they expected to be resurrected at that time. In 1939, the Society secretly purchased another property which they named Beth-Shan; House of Security. This property remained in their possession until the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Beth-Shan, a 75 acre property located next to Beth-Sarim, vaunted a mansion that dwarfed Beth-Sarim. It had several out-houses, a 16,000 litre tank of diesel, 7 acres of cultivated land, a well, plus a 40,000 litre water-storage tank. It also had two secret underground bomb-shelters with storage shelves and one-meter thick concrete ceilings. Access to Beth-Shan was by a dirt track--at the end of which was a gate guarded by Watchtower Society personnel. Like Beth-Sarim the title to Beth-Shan was held: “in trust for the use and benefit of the following named persons, whose names appear in the Bible at the book of Hebrews, chapter eleven, verses one to forty, to wit: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sara, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jeptha, David, Samuel”.
Beth-Shan was such a secret that it was mentioned only once in Watchtower literature-- in the magazine Consolation (1942, 05/27,p.9) The context was a dispute over the burial of the deceased “Judge” Joseph Rutherford (second President of the WT Society). The Society had requested permission from local authorities to place Rutherford’s body in a crypt that had been constructed within the grounds of Beth-Sarim. The local authorities, however, rejected the Society’s request and so, as reported in Consolation, permission was sought to place his body in the grounds of Beth-Shan--a request that was also turned down. Apart from this one, incidental reference to Beth-Shan, there is nothing else recorded in any of the WT Society’s annals.
What
was the real reason behind the Watchtower Society’s purchase
and development of this second property adjoining Beth-Sarim, named
Beth-Shan? Al
though,
according to the deed, the property had been acquired to accommodate
those faithful Old Testament characters listed in Hebrews 11:1-40,
there is strong evidence to suggest that there had been another (more
sinister) motivation behind the Society’s purchase of
Beth-Shan.
By examining the WT leaders’ expectations and predictions during this period of their history, it appears that there were more self-seeking motives on the part of the WT leaders of that time--which may also well account for the secrecy surrounding Beth-Shan.
In the June 2, 1926 issue of The Golden Age magazine the Society predicted that: “The next war will be...an annihilation! There will be poison and explosion everywhere, beneath the canopy of the heavens” (p.55). In a 1935 booklet entitled Universal War Near, a reference was made to: “the few remaining months until the breaking of that universal cataclysm” (p.27). Another booklet, Face the Facts, some three years later, predicted that the : “totalitarian combine is going to get control of England and America” (p.20,21,27).
The WT leaders of the time (not the least being “Judge” Rutherford) proclaimed, in print and by radio broadcasts, that these cataclysmic events would all culminate in the great Battle of Armageddon. But, just how close were these events in their minds? So close, that WT leaders counselled the rank and file witnesses to forgo marriage and having children!
The Society’s predictions of a fascist “totalitarian combine” shed light on the need for secret, underground bomb-shelters and their storage shelves at Beth-Shan. This is reinforced by an “opinion” expressed in 1941 by the Society: “In passing, the opinion is here expressed for the information of those who have hearing ears, that a great famine is certain to afflict the many nations of the earth in the very near future. The United States is also in line for much suffering”. (WT ll/15/41 p. 143).
Earlier, in that same year, on page 288 of the Sept. 15th issue of the Watchtower, the Society had made reference to “the remaining months before Armageddon”. So now, with these catastrophic events being predicted as just “months away”, is it any wonder that the WT leaders had prepared, ahead of time, by purchase of a property with such a well-hidden, secret bomb-shelter that was adequately equipped with shelves for storing imperishable food throughout the coming, predicted “great famine” and period of “much suffering”? However, in 1945 with the end of the war, the WT Society had once again been exposed as having spoken as a false prophet. Events did not transpire as predicted--there was no Nazi/Facist take-over and the “remaining months before Armageddon” rolled on, and have continued to roll on, to years, even decades! Little wonder that the Society has been so silent about Beth-Shan!
Nevertheless, that which has been hidden has now been exposed for all to see. The leaders within the WT Society may manage to keep this knowledge from the rank and file JW’s, but only for a time. Because, as the Apostle Paul reminds us, there is a day coming “...when God will judge the secrets of men”. (Romans 2:16). So, if not before, then on that day the secretive schemes and lies of the WT Society will be laid bare for all to see...”. (reprinted from Free in Christ Ministries, #5, Issue 2).
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Update
from Lorri:
Keith and I visited both Beth-Sarim and Beth-Shan in the
1980’s. Although we could not enter the buildings we had
a good look around. The properties did once adjoin as the
article says, but no
w
a road runs through the canyon and the two properties are separated
by it. We were also taken to a site on the original Beth-Sarim
property, where, hidden in the shrubs, was a grave-size concrete
slab, unmarked. Rumour has it that Rutherford may have been
buried there without county permission as this was the WT’s
intent, but it is speculation admittedly. Truly the WT leaders
were looking after themselves in case of trouble, abandoning the
faithful to save their own hides, should the need arrive!
Some years ago a woman came to talk to me at a conference and told me she was one of the children virtually abandoned by her Mother who was Rutherford’s cook and housekeeper at Beth Sarim. She could not believe that her Mother thought she was serving Jehovah by farming her kids out to other JW families so she could go and serve Rutherford. All of her children suffered because of this and their resentment ran deep and they all had problems emotionally. It’s all so sad!
I’m Leaving
Seventh-Day
Adventism
“I am in the process of quitting the Adventist Church. As soon as I realized that Ellen White was a false prophet I began to remember all the Freemason terms she had used. I had noticed some of these before and actually went and got a Freemason book out of the local library and noticed that they were building a thought temple above each lodge identical actually to the Heavenly Jerusalem. I made photocopies of many pages of that book. Anyway, the long and the short of it is, I compiled several pages of comparisons of her terminology with Freemasons and the occult. It is very conclusive.
I am not a very highly educated person and I am not able to express myself that well on paper. I hope to send you this researched material when I and my friends have looked it over together, to see if it stands up to strong scrutiny...Most of it is simply Ellen White’s quotes and then a Freemason quote.
As we have been deceived so terribly I suspect that the material we have unearthed is going to call down the wrath of those who are in this deception, and who are not in connection with Jesus. I noticed some of this already when I shared it with someone who does not believe in the investigative judgement, but who came back to the church because of the Sabbath...He thinks himself clever enough to read Ellen White and dissect what is good and what is not, and enjoy what is good!..I discovered a link between the Freemasons who set up in the USA who wanted to found it on two principles, the law of the scriptures and the law of nature. Ellen White is the only one and the only church who has built on this dual law. She says that transgressing this law of nature is just as sinful as trespassing the law of scriptures. I am using her terms...She uses the Freemason terms...We are up against something terribly big here. This is not just plagiarism. This church may well be fulfilling the role of the false prophet of Revelation 13!”. (contributed).
JW Ministerial Servant on
America’s Most Wanted!
“...Cops
say that Frederick “Rick” McLean was described as a loner
by those who knew him...McLean lived and worked in the San Diego and
Riverside counties of So
uthern
California. According to US Marshals, McLean was a ministerial
servant in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and was utilizing his
position of trust to commit sexual crimes against young girls--some
no more than five years old. As one victim’s parents told
AMW, they had no clue that an alleged sexual predator was amongst
them--even though church elders had prior knowledge of complaints
against McLean from another congregation...Authorities say that
McLean was confronted a number of times over the years by those he
molested, but Jehovah’s Witnesses judicial committees require
two witnesses to an event of molestation before taking any kind of
disciplinary action. Detectives believe that by moving from one
Kingdom Hall congregation to another, McLean was able to keep his
crimes mostly hidden for 25 to 30 years before finally being “outed”
to the general public and “disfellowshipped” or expelled
from the religion”. (amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=35566).
Never too Young!
“At
my grandson’s birthday party I met a dear little girl whose
understanding seemed beyond her eight years... Something casually
came up about heaven and she told me her mother had ladies coming to
the house with Bibles. “Oh”, I asked, “a
nd
would they be Jehovah’s Witnesses?” She said they
were. She then proceeded to give me an articulate run down of
the paradise on earth and other JW rhetoric. I carefully told
her about Jesus and how the JW’s don’t even think that he’s
God, but that the 10 commandments say we must only worship God.
The Bible says that when Jesus comes back to the world (Heb.
1:7), that all the angels of God will worship Him! I told her
that when Thomas just could not believe Jesus had risen from the
dead, that Jesus showed him the nail marks on his hands.... Thomas
called Jesus, “My Lord and my God!” So, you see,
little girl, the Bible really does say He is God, but the JW’s
don’t. I felt the Holy Spirit prompt me and so I also
witnessed to this little girl about how Jesus was my best friend and
that I could pray to Him any time I wanted--how He cared for me and
helped me...how I had asked Him to come into my heart and to forgive
my sins. I told her that now I know I’m going to heaven
to be with Him when I die. She smiled as she listened with real
interest. Then I asked her if she would take a little note from
me to her mother. In it I invited her to call me as I had
studied with JW’s before and had info and would like to talk to
her about it. When she was heartily tying into the birthday
cake I said, “You know what? Jehovah’s Witnesses
don’t even believe in birthdays. That’s a no-fun
church!” She smiled and agreed. I can’t
remember the last time I witnessed to a child, but I know how I loved
the stories of Jesus when I was her age. May God help her
family escape this destructive involvement!” (contributed).
Did the “Faithful Slave”
Pass the Test?
Jehovah’s
Witnesses believe that they alone are “The
Faithful Slave” an
d
everyone else is, by default “that
evil slave”.
The Watchtower
of
March 1, 2004 claimed that they had “passed
the test of being God’s faithful slave”.
How did they pass this “test”, pray tell?
Well they began with missing the 1914 prediction where they prophesied that Christ would come and take them all home to be with him. Armageddon was to happen and the nations would be destroyed. This article actually says “They were correct”.(!!!) It goes on to say that “The appointed times of the nations did end in 1914”. All of this suddenly became conveniently “invisible”, and took place mainly in the heavens. Talk about “egg on face!”. They reinvented themselves on this one!
JW’s also claimed without one speck of visible evidence that in 1918 Jehovah came to cleanse God’s congregation. Says who? Another invention of JW’s--applying obscure bible verses dealing with Israel to themselves! Not much “cleansing happened” if we review the record!
This “faithful slave” also set a wrong date for the destruction of Jerusalem. No scholar will endorse 607 BCE, so with a wrong starting date, all other dates were wrong, including 1914. Then this “slave” goes on to identify Jesus Christ as Michael the Archangel (not!) throwing Satan from heaven in 1914 to mislead the entire inhabited earth. I propose that it is the JW’s who are mislead, along with the rest of the world! Absolutely no one but they, themselves would say that they are the “Faithful Slave” or that they “Passed the Test”. The collective egos of the false prophets heading up the organization in Brooklyn, New York boggles the imagination. I give them a big zero on their test!
New Apostles
and Spiritual Abuse
“...a
new church moved to my neighborhood as a missions plant...They
claimed they were here to evangelize and serve the city, but it never
happened. My mother had been attending and asked me to join
her. At first the teachings seemed normal enough, and I became
active in 3 ministries. I noticed that outreaches were not
about exalting the name of Christ, but about advertising for the
church. I began to notice unusual teachings about submission,
authority, being joined to the pastor, never questioning him, being
cursed if you left, not being minis
tered
to unless you gave a full tithe plus offerings, making the pastor
your spiritual father, and never leaving him or the church because “God
hates divorce”. I began to pray for the pastor, not
knowing how bad things really were. A sister mentioned that she
had made a covenant with him, similar to one she made with her
husband. Others began to say the same thing. I prayed
harder. After three years...and seeing no fruit, I believe I
heard the Holy Spirit tell me to flee. I spoke honestly with my
mother and she agreed.
I explained to the Pastor that the Lord had called me to another church, and that I was thankful for my time spent with him. He cursed me, spoke harshly to me, and declared that I had always been a thorn in his flesh...I had not been “confirmed” by him, so I was “out from under his covering and better watch out”.
The next Sunday he lied about me to the congregation, saying I used foul language and attacked him, questioned his finances and refused to tithe. Although I am disabled, I gave over 14% of my income to the church, not even taking a vacation so that I could give my vacation money to the new building fund. He ordered the congregation to ignore me if they saw me on the street, and to hang up on me if I called. Praise God that some older Christians heard this, came to me to hear my side of the story, and then left the church as well. I have been shunned for many months now. Church members share a hallway and stoop with me where I live, but won’t speak to me.
These churches, called “The Rock”, teach that believers are baptized into their Pastors, that anyone who leaves their church was a tare sown among the wheat, that a spiritual father is to make his spiritual children into his own image through the impartation of spiritual semen...a church apostle’s teachings are equal to the bible. You are to obey your Pastor even if he’s wrong, because disobeying him is the same as disobeying God, and any ministry without a spiritual father is “illegitimate and drinking stolen waters out of dirty vessels”. Likewise, any believer without a spiritual father is a bastard and cannot enter the congregation of the Lord.
God has been healing my heart of being lied about and disfellowshipped by people who once claimed to be my “family”. I am moving out of my home to a smaller and more expensive studio apartment, not because I want to, but because I can’t bear how they laugh and curse at me and walk past me as if I am dead. Hundreds have begun to come out of the Rock Churches...but the emotional toll on us is huge.
Thank you for confronting heresies. I ask you to please pray for all of us who have broken free. I know of many that have stopped going to church altogether”. (contributed).
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