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“Christian Deconversion”? – Part 3

Deconversion, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction – A deeper look down the rabbit hole :

What is a deconstruction story in Christianity? –
Faith deconstruction, also known as deconstructing faith, evangelical deconstruction, the deconstruction movement, or simply deconstruction, is a Christian phenomenon where people unpack, rethink and examine their belief systems. This may lead to dropping one’s professed faith altogether [deconversion] or may result in a stronger faith [reconstruction].

“What is Christian Deconstruction | Zach Davies | Ep. 29“

@20:29 mins – “When I talk to people, the problem is not with Jesus. The problem often revolves around church … church herds, and things that they misunderstood, or have heard Christians say that doesn’t reconcile for them with who they understand Jesus to be.”….. And so, as long as we are keeping the foundation [the work and person of Jesus Christ], you’re in a good spot.”

Please do not confuse leaving a particular version [or all versions] of the organized “church” systems with departing from a relationship with the person of Jesus Christ … they are two entirely different concepts. This is explained in part in the following article [which I can so relate to, since many aspects of Ken Eckerty’s journey mirrors my own].

“Why I Left the Organized Church – A Personal Testimony”
https://www.pilkingtonandsons.com/art_eckerty_whyileft.pdf

Introduction to Ken Eckerty’s personal testimony :

The word used in the new Testament for “church” is the Greek word ekklesia which literally means a “gathering” or an “assembly” of believers. It is the means and the vehicle that God has chosen to fill all things with the glory and preeminence of His Son. The saints gather together to manifest Christ and encourage and build one another up in Him. Each member manifests a measure of Christ thus bringing fulness to His Body.

Jesus said in Matthew 18:20 that “where two or three are gathered together in His name, He is in their midst”. This could take place anywhere ; in a home, on a boat, in a park, and yes, even in a “church” building. When two or three [or more] saints gather and sing together, or pray together, or exhort one another then they have fulfilled the New Testament meaning of ekklesia. In other words, God’s true Assembly is not a building, or an organization which holds to a particular creed, but a people who have been redeemed by grace through faith in Jesus Christ – and understanding this truth is so very critical to understanding what true Christianity consists of.

Going to a church building is done perhaps a few times a week … being the Church is a daily lifestyle. Many accuse those of “forsaking the assembling of believers” because they do not “go to church” or meet the way they think “church” must be done… they simply have an impaired understanding of what the word ekklesia denotes in scripture. The New Testament does not tell us how to worship, it simply tells us to do it. Just because some elect to not worship the way the majority of professing believers do today, does not mean that they have forsaken the assembly of themselves with fellow believers.

When I refer to the term “organized church”, I’m referring to that system of denominationalism that says “worship must be conducted in a certain manner”, and “sign on to an entire list of doctrinal truth statements [whether you believe in the entire list or not … not simply the primary doctrines concerning salvation] in order to become a “member” of their organization” – which they deem to be the true test of a person’s genuineness… this is how far have we fallen [as a whole] from New Testament Christianity in these last of the last days prior to Christ’s return to the Earth.

The scriptures make it clear that the very moment that a person is born again and indwelt with the Holy Spirit, they become joints heirs with Christ and members of the [universal] Body of Christ [1 Corinthians 12:12-27] … the hard questions one must ask at this point is, “how can such a spiritual blindness/ mind-set exist in a genuine follower of Jesus Christ? and, “why do so many professing Christians have such a hard time comprehending this?”

Perhaps some of you can relate to the following narrative described by Micah Murray :

“when we criticize the church”
When We Criticize the Church – Micah J. Murray

“We were sold a package deal…

Truth and lies, hope and despair, real and fake – all tied up in a neat package with a bow and sold to us with the label of “Christianity”. The men in the suits with all the words told us that what they taught was true. They said it would fill the aching emptiness in our hearts, that it would get us into Heaven. They told us that it was the only way. We believed them because we were children, and because their voices were the only voices we’d ever heard. With piles of Bible verses and mountains of logic and waves of emotion, they constructed a package deal. And we bought it.

Then we grew up.

When we grew up, we stepped outside the doors of the churches where we had been sold “Christianity” and found that the package wasn’t enough. The neat answers and the principles and the trite songs and the out-of-context Bible verses were dissonant and flat in the world we discovered. Many of us have never set foot inside a church since then.

Some of us clung to the right answers, trying to “walk by faith”, trusting that “His ways are higher than our ways”. Ignoring the cognitive dissonance. Ignoring the unanswerable questions. Trying so desperately hard to please God. Trying so desperately hard to convince ourselves that this was “life more abundantly”. Always nagged by the thought that maybe we just weren’t trying hard enough. Nagged by the fear that the whole thing, the whole package deal named “Christianity”, was a lie.

Then somewhere between the aching loneliness and the lurking agnosticism, in the terrifying darkness, we saw a glimmer of hope. The voice of Jesus whispering above all the words we’d heard about Him. His love reaching past all we’d seen done in His name. His hands gently beginning to untie the neat bow that had tied up the package deal so cleanly and kept us so cruelly from freedom.

So we began, unconsciously, the process of deconstructing our “Christianity”. It’s a long and difficult journey, and often it feels like there’s no compass. See, we’d been taught the Bible was the source of all truth, and that whatever was footnoted with a Bible verse was true. We’d been told that there was only one way to interpret it, and that any other way was wrong and dangerous. Then we began to realize that many of those things so neatly footnoted with Bible verses were simply not true. Not because the Bible was not true, but because the hermeneutic was flawed. We realized that you could find a Bible verse to support any view, no matter how broken or twisted. And so the admonition to “just trust the Bible” held little comfort, because we were unable to read the Bible without hearing the words of all those men in suits selling us truth and lies mixed together.

With that package finally torn open and spilled out, we’re now analyzing it piece by piece.”

“Christian Deconversion”? – Part 2

In my prior post I wrote, “In other words, did these people [professing Christian “deconverters”] ever truly believe that it is only “by grace through faith and not of works” that a person can be saved with such admissions? The following video is just one, in the avalanche of testimonial videos, which illustrates this recurring theme :

“Leaving Evangelical Christianity – An Intro”

Starting @6:38 mins. into her videos she says, “I just thought about that because this person was a fine person, they were living their life and they just didn’t seem to need the Christian teaching”. So that kept happening …”they don’t need this Christian stuff, their lives are fine without it. They are playing their part in society, they’re doing well, they’re benefiting by being good people in society.” …

Who am I to tell people in Australia, in a completely different culture than me, who are doing fine following their own versions of life? They are not hurting anybody and they are doing just fine. Who am I to infiltrate their life and say, “hey you need this Jesus stuff, and if you don’t accept it, unfortunately you are going to go to hell?”

So, in a nutshell, she’s declaring that “good people don’t need the salvation that Jesus offers.”

So I ask you, does it appear to you like this woman [“Dee”], or the multitudes of people that share similar testimonies, ever believed that they were sinners in danger of the wrath of God, and in desperate need of His forgiveness? Did they ever actually understand or receive as truth the clear declaration of Ephesians 2:8-9 that clearly states … not of works [not because of any of our “superlative feats of morality” that we perform]?

To further illustrate, in another one of her videos entitled, “Why Christians argue about who ‘Real’ Christians are”, she says [similar to the masses of “deconverters”]…

“The whole saying, a “True Scotsman” applies to Christianity when people like to point at people who used to be Christians and say, ‘they were never true Christians’, or ‘they just didn’t understand’ … it has to do with their theological standpoints though. People who can’t admit that their theology could be wrong, it’s not complicated, it’s just a lot to unpack. If somebody says that to you and they are a fundamentalist type of Christian, it’s because they literally cannot accept your past as being reality, because if they do, that means they will have to admit their theology is wrong. ****They have to go with the Bible is true over what may happen in reality. If they conflict, they automatically support what the bible says, even if it doesn’t match reality”****

****Did you catch that?****… in the end, it’s reality a question of [human] subjective truth [what I feel, what I experience] or [scriptural] objective truth [what God’s Word declares as reality], that is to say, which one ‘trumps’ or ‘takes precedence over’ the other [which does not imply the total elimination of the another] … these “deconverters” have chosen the wrong answer … subjective truth.****

It appears to me that closely related to this issue is the “deconverters” rejection of Biblical reliability. They claim that there really isn’t any solid evidence for the scriptures being inspired by God. Here’s a couple of breathtaking videos that I would highly recommend to those scoffers who make that assertion :

“Evidence of God in Mathematics -Truth Project 37, Full Documentary of Proofs of Bible Reliability”

“URGENT! New Discovery in FIRST and LAST Verses of the King James Bible! [2023]”

Hell will be filled to the brim with “good men”… “moral” men … as well as “religious” men who all have this one thing in common … they have never been born again. Those who have been born again do not boast in their so-called “moral excellence” as the basis or ground for their right-standing [justification] before God; they boast in the cross of Christ alone [Galatians 6:14]. What a man might see in another man as “good”, God sees as one that is “dead” …. dead in trespasses and sins [Ephesians 2:1].

To miss this great truth, is in essence, to miss the central message of the Gospel. So, how does Christianity differ from all other religions? If I had to summarize it in one word, it would be “Grace”. Other religions require people to try really, really hard to be worthy enough to earn acceptance before their deities. Only in Christianity does God himself come to us to make us worthy, not as a reward for our hard work and striving to obey His rules, but as a free gift of grace for those who would trust in Christ’s atoning work rather than their own.

So many stumble right here by choosing to believe that the salvation that God offers[ by grace through faith and not of works] is “too easy” or “too good to be true” [but in truth, they have rejected God’s only appointed road to Heaven, it’s the very heart of the Gospel message]. Others, who claim to have entered through that narrow gate, are yet striving to be accepted by God through their obedience to God’s rules… does that sound like a person who believes that they have been redeemed by Christ’s blood? … “oh yeah”, they say, “I’ve been redeemed by Christ’s blood for now, but I’ve got a little more work to do if I plan on making Heaven my home someday … but I’m not working for my salvation.”

How many people out there do you suppose trust in their good deeds outweighing their bad deeds when those accumulated works are placed on their imaginary, metaphoric, “Great Scale in Heaven” on Judgment day for their admittance into Heaven? Personally, I believe it’s very likely that the majority of mankind has bought into this lie fabricated from the demonic hordes.

Here’s another shocking and frightening aspect to the scenario … there are many out there who consider themselves genuine, born-again, blood-bought children of God, that aren’t in actuality that far apart from that mind-set … the parallel is undeniable.

“This is how the enemy works :

A BELIEVING person goes to God, to the Cross, on the day they
are saved, and they are so thankful that GOD saved them. They
know that day, they are saved and who did it, and they know
they are going to HEAVEN, because of God and Christ and The Cross.

2 Yrs later, they are on a forum teaching …”Here is how you
lose salvation”…..>”here are the commandments you need to keep,
and the works you need to do, to STAY SAVED”…

Yet, the day they were saved, they KNEW why they were going to heaven, as they had the truth then.., and now….= over time they’ve been conned out of it by “theology” deceivers.”

Galatians 1:9-10, “As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

Galatians 6:14, “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”

“Christian Deconversion”? – Part 1

There are many professing Christians that I’ve encountered throughout the years that downplay the vast important of Biblical doctrine. They tell me that “salvation is not a matter of doctrine”. Can a genuine follower of Jesus Christ actually possess such a mindset?

Salvation certainly is a matter of doctrine, especially when we as followers of Christ must, and can only, point to the scriptures to provide the answer to life’s most important question that must be answer by all …”What must I do to be saved?”

Lately I’ve come across many YouTube videos and articles that feature “Christian” deconversion stories. Whether or not these professing Christians where ever genuine followers of Christ is of course an issue intrinsic to the issue of the eternal security of the believer [and can never, in my opinion, be settled on a subjective level since we cannot know with assurance if any person other than ourselves is, or ever was the genuine article].

Instead, the answer can only be found through the objective truths that the scriptures provide to the question, “Will any Holy Spirit regenerated person ever permanently renounce their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior [and/or the faith once delivered to the saints? [ Jude 1:3].

Contained within the many deconversion testimonies I’ve heard over the years, there are two tragic recurring common denominators that I’ve noticed. First, the virtual equating of allegiance to their particular church denomination [or group of people] with allegiance to their God. In other words, to depart from their particular religious organization = departing from their God. [i.e. – a person cannot possibly serve or walk with God apart from being attached to an organized church group].

Secondly, and intricately related to the first point, these “deconverters” make statements providing compelling evidence that they never had a firm grasp at all concerning the question, “what must I do to be saved”? Frequently they say that it was their water baptism that saved them, or their service to the Pastor, church etc., etc.

In other words, did these people ever truly believe that it is only “by grace through faith and not of works” that a person can be saved with such admissions? They often complain about their inability to have confidence in answering that question [when they were “Christians”] since there are so many conflicting opinions. Most say that they
had never even come to the assurance that God had forgiven them of all of their sins [one day they believe they are on the way to Heaven, the next they believe they are on their way to the Lake of Fire … depending on their behavior from day to day … so very sad indeed!].

It appears to me that they have little to no understanding of what Christ’s shed blood accomplished for all those who have placed all their hope, faith, and trust on His finished work … rather than even 1% of their own works for their justified status before God. It appears to me that no regenerated person will ever permanently renounce their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior [and/or the faith once delivered to the saints [Jude 1:3].

To further illustrate my points [although certainly not to provide compelling evidence for my position], consider the following excerpts taken from one of the many Christian deconversion websites entitled, “Graceful Atheist” :

“DECONVERSION FROM CHRISTIANITY”
A VERY COMMON MESSAGE
Atheism, Deconstruction, Deconversion, Humanism

A Deconversion Story [by David] :

These kinds of messages have become cliché, but I find the need to write it anyway. Mostly this is an attempt to communicate to my friends and family as succinctly but thoroughly as possible the what and the why of my deconversion from Christianity. This is also for those of you readers who have had doubts and have struggled to keep
them contained.

What I am

I am no longer a Christian. In the summer of 2015 after it became increasing more difficult to hold my beliefs against surmounting evidence to the contrary I admitted to myself I no longer believed. I was a Christian for approximately 27 years, until the Jenga tower of contradiction between belief and facts came crashing down. I could
no longer sustain the mental effort it required to maintain belief against the overwhelming lack of evidence for that belief.

I am an atheist. Others, wiser than I, have pointed out that this does not tell you very much about me. To say that I am not something is not very descriptive. The list of things I am not is infinite. But I am not afraid of this moniker. I am not a theist. This means I do not believe in God or gods. I do not believe in the supernatural of any kind. The natural is more than sufficient.

Which Faith?

I happened to grow up in the United States in a nominally Christian household. When I became a Christian in my late teens it was within the context of a culture soaked with Christian themes. But what if I had been born in Saudi Arabia? Wouldn’t I have become a Muslim? What about India? A Sikh or a Hindu? How can I honestly say I would
have become a Christian if I had been raised in a different culture. The answer is I can’t.

I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Even within Christianity we have a tremendous amount of disagreement. Catholics and Protestants. Evangelical and Main liners. There are something like 2000 different Christian sects alone. As an evangelical we call many of them cults. But how do we determine what is a cult and what is gospel?

How does one determine whether one faith is more right than another? If your answer is the bible re-read the line about 2000 different sects of Christianity. Most of them use the same Christian bible.

Even within a narrow group like Evangelicals , who or what decides between two contradictory beliefs? Is pre-destination correct or is it human choice? Is baptism submersion or will a sprinkling do? Is it pure grace or good works that saves a person? I had strong opinions on
each of these as do those who would have disagreed with me. But there is no way to determine which is true and which is false.

It comes down to cultural microcosms. If you were raised Baptist, then pre-destination is true. If you were raise Pentecostal then speaking in tongues is true. All the while both groups point to the other with disdain.

It was when I began to look at what my in-group considered to be cults trying to understand why a person would believe these “crazy” things, that it occurred to me that they saw my beliefs as just as crazy. And atheists thought we were all crazy.”

“Is it possible for a Christian to convert to atheism?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV4sWHIIhro&t=16s

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.”

Are you truly secure in Christ?

Have you ever experienced the assurance and security that you have been accepted as righteous in the sight of God, knowing that you will receive a heavenly inheritance? Well, this is precisely what has been offered and promised in the gospel to all who have placed their faith in Christ’s substitutionary atoning work on their behalf.

2 Corinthians 5:21,”For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

The above scripture has been called “The Great Exchange” – God reconciled sinful man to Himself by making His sinless Son the sin bearer and dying in the sinner’s place. Jesus Christ paid the death penalty for the sinner so that God could set the sinner free and declare him righteous in His holy presence. Moreover, He did more than just forgive us our sins; He imputed the perfect righteousness of His Son to us. Justification, in the gospel sense, is God’s free forgiveness of a sinner, accepting him as righteous through the righteousness of Christ received by faith.

Galatians 3:10-13,”For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.” Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree).”

Galatians 2:21,”I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

Hebrews 10:14,” For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”

The sobering question now becomes, “Have you ever truly placed your trust in these paramount gospel truths? All those who have been justified are now in the process of sanctification; and all those who are presently in that process are said to be perfected (positionally) in Christ forever – that is eternally! 1 Corinthians 6:11,”And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

The anxieties of those who are trusting in their own righteousness or good works [to one degree or another] can be mainly [if not entirely] be attributed to their inadequate apprehensions [due to either ignorance or rejection] of the nature, value, and efficacy of the remedy provided for them in Christ’s atonement. Within them there exists a latent feeling that there is still something that remains to be done or suffered by themselves in the way of satisfying the justice, averting the wrath, and propitiating or appeasing the favor of their righteous Judge.

I say “to one degree or another”, because there are some who have erred to such a degree, that they have failed altogether to receive “The Great Exchange.”- they are yet dead in their sins. It simply doesn’t get any more serious than this my friends. One of the vital evidences of a person falling into this category is the absence of ever possessing the assurance that they have been accepted as righteous in God’s sight and will receive a future heavenly inheritance.

This is certainly not to say that those in the other category [those who have actually experienced the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit]will never have doubts or fears, or will possess an unwavering assurance subsequent to their conversion. The critical distinction here is this groups’ initial knowing that their sins have been forgiven, and that they will inherent the heavenly promise.

Here is another very important question to ponder. “Were we simply put in a position of possibly or potentially gaining an entrance into Heaven when we believed on Jesus’ blood sacrifice at the point of our regeneration?.. or was a future entrance into Heaven actualized and realized when we experienced our new birth?”
It is very plain to see that the latter is the gospel truth.. it is truly the Good News that the Creator of the universe legitimately offers to all!”

Will you be a believer tomorrow morning?

Some answer this question by saying, “Yes, of course I’ll still be a believer, “once saved , always saved”. Well, what exactly do they mean by that? There are many who claim that regardless of whether we or anyone else wakes up as a believer tomorrow morning is largely irrelevant to whether we will spend eternity with Christ. The only thing that matters is that at some point we assented to the gospel truth.

In other words, the decisive issue has nothing whatsoever to do with whether we actually persevere in faith, but whether we ever believed [intellectually nodded to] to the gospel message. If we did, we’re in, if we didn’t, we’re out …. even if we were to renounce Jesus as Lord and Savior, or shamelessly return to a lifestyle of sin.

This perspective merely offers a false sense of eternal security, it is indeed a counterfeit view of “OSAS”. And because the one true version of OSAS is often obscured and misrepresented by counterfeit versions, I prefer to call the eternal security of the believer by the acronym “OJAJ” [Once Justified, Always Justified] … it’s also, theologically speaking, much more clear and precise.

Others [of the Arminian variety] insist that there’s simply no guarantee that anyone will wake up as a believer tomorrow morning. Most will, but some likely won’t. Before tomorrow they may very well cross a line of no return. They may sin so grievously as to cut themselves off from the saving grace of God. They very well may turn their back on Jesus and abandon their faith. Therefore, those who do so will wake up tomorrow morning discovering that God has likewise abandoned them [although by that time they won’t care].

The scriptural evidence sides with neither position. The truth always lies at a point somewhere between extremes. All those who were genuinely regenerated by the Holy Spirit in the past [whether days or over decades ago] will most assuredly wake up tomorrow morning still being believers, still justified in the eyes of God; the God in whom they have placed their trust, will preserve them in their faith. They will never renounce Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they will never shamelessly return to a lifestyle of serving self and the sinful cravings of their flesh.

(1) We must persevere in faith to enter heaven (2 Tim. 2:12; Heb.3:14;10:26). Not to persevere is to perish.

(2) God will preserve us in our faith even though at times we may doubt and wander from the path of righteousness. But He will always remain true to his promise by ensuring that none of His children will fall so far as to finally and forever fail. God will preserve us, we will in fact persevere, we will endure in faith.

Jude 1:1-2,”Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:”

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24,” Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.”

God doesn’t simply require holiness; He promises it to all of His sons and daughters. If you know that you are in fact a child of God, then you can rest knowing that you will persevere. As Dr. Kenneth Keathley said, “perseverance should be viewed more as a promise than a requirement.” The necessary conditions/requirements/fruits/works mentioned throughout scripture will be manifested and produced in all true believers by the Holy Spirit. They will exist as the inevitable by-product of the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit and the new nature/heart miraculously delivered at the new birth (John 3:3-8; Titus 3:5).

Titus 3:5,” not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,”

Many have greatly underestimated, and failed to grasp the magnitude of the renewing, regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, and His radical transformational effect upon the believer’s nature. The Apostle Paul regards this change from sin to righteousness, from bondage to freedom, from death to life, as summed up in one definite act of the past; potentially available to all men in Jesus’ sacrificial death and resurrection, and actualized [effectual] in each individual when they place their trust in Christ’s atoning work. It is the definiteness, the absoluteness of this change, considered as a historical crisis, which forms the central idea of St Paul’s teaching, and which the aorist marks.

2 Corinthians 5:17-21,”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

What is the condition of renewal? ‘If any man be in Christ’-how distinctly that implies something more than human in Paul’s conception of Christ. It implies personal union with Him, so that He is the very element or atmosphere in which we live. And that union is brought about by faith in Him.

How does such a state of union with Christ make a man a new creation? It gives a new aim and center for our lives. Then we live not unto ourselves; then everything is different and looks so, for the center is shifted. That union introduces a constant reference to Him and contemplation of His death for us, it leads to self-abnegation.

It puts all life under the influence of a new love. ‘The love of Christ constraineth.’ As is a man’s love, so is his life. The mightiest devolution is to excite a new love, by which old loves and tastes are expelled. ‘A new affection’ has ‘expulsive power,’ as the new sap rising in the springtime pushes off the lingering withered leaves. So union with Him meets the difficulty arising from inclination still hankering after evil. The new love gives a new and mighty motive for obedience.

That union breaks the terrible chain that binds us to the past. ‘All died.’ The past is broken as much as if we were dead. It is broken by the great act of forgiveness. Sin holds men by making them feel as if what has been must be-an awful entail of evil. In Christ we die to former self.

That union brings a new divine power to work in us. ‘I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.’ It sets us in a new world which yet is the old. All things are changed if we are changed. They are the same old things, but seen in a new light, used for new purposes, disclosing new relations and powers. Earth becomes a school and discipline for heaven. The world is different to a blind man when cured, or to a deaf one,-there are new sights for the one, new sounds for the other. All this is true in the measure in which we live in union with Christ.

Ezekiel 36:26-28,”And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”

This wonderful promise to the nation of Israel was cut at Calvary, and the wonderful promise to give His people a new heart and put a new spirit within is fulfilled in the life of (all) who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior of their soul and the Mediator for their sins. < What Does Ezekiel 36:26 Mean? >

Hebrews 8:10,”For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
< Heb 8:10 Cross References (34 Verses) >

Romans 8:30,”Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”

All those who have genuinely been justified through a new birth experience will be glorified [they will receive a Heavenly inheritance].

John 10:26-28,”But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”

Note that Jesus said His [genuine] sheep follow Him, rather than, some will and some won’t follow Him, or that some will start following Him, but some will not continue following Him.

John 6:39,”This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.”

X Marks the Spot : The Great American Solar Eclipse Part 2

“Hindsight is 20/20”, especially as it relates to the sign of The Great American Solar Eclipse … since that epic sign was fulfilled, at least partially, in the year 2020! It’s been well over 3 years now since I posted [Part 1] “X Marks the Spot : The Great American Solar Eclipse” [published on September 19, 2019 ]. < https://raptureboundoutreach.com/2019/09/27/x-marks-the-spot-the-great-american-solar-eclipse/ >

My above linked article was published pre-Plandemic [i.e. – prior to the planned Coronavirus Pandemic/Epidemic] since the Pandemic was officially declared by the WHO on March 11, 2020… the infamous day that was called “The Day Everything Changed” https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975663437/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed

With the passing of time, I discovered, what I believe to be, at least one amazing fulfillment concerning that sign. Keep in mind that oftentimes signs/prophecies are fulfilled on multiple levels; therefore, what I’ve seen may or not be the lone fulfillment of that sign … only time will tell. In other words, it’s quite plausible that there will be yet another significant prophetical event that takes place on or around the time of the second Total Solar Eclipse over the U.S. on April 8, 2024.

The Sign of Total Solar Eclipses over the U.S., Aug.21, 2017 & Apr.8, 2024 :

By calculating the exact midpoint of those two Eclipses, we arrive at the precise date of the first U.S. citizen to receive the deadly Covid vaccine … Dec.14, 2020!! < https://abc7ny.com/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-pfizer-ny/8763858/#:~:text=Sandra%20Lindsay%2C%20RN%2C%20a%20critical,Congratulations%20WORLD!%22 >

Sandra Lindsay, RN, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center got the first COVID-19 vaccine in NY.

About two minutes after Lindsay received the shot, President Trump tweeted “First Vaccine Administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!”

First Vaccine Administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 14, 2020

[“The Snake & The Snake Juice” : https://raptureboundoutreach.com/2023/05/29/the-snake-the-snake-juice/ ].

Keep in mind that those epic total solar eclipses were meant to be signs specifically and exclusively for the United States. What were the odds that the first U.S. citizen to receive the snake juice jabberoony would do so exactly 1211 days counting forwards from the first eclipse, and 1211 days counting backwards the second eclipse?!! “X Marks the spot”!! …. that is, the timing of that intersection marks the spot with pinpoint precision! From my perspective, this anomaly is something that only the God of the Bible[ Elohim], can, and did orchestrate.

December 14, 2020 … X Marks the Spot! :

August 21, 2017 plus 1211 days = December 14, 2020 2020 https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=08&d1=21&y1=2017&type=add&ay=&am=&aw=&ad=1211&rec=

April 8, 2024 minus 1211 days = December 14, 2020

https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=04&d1=08&y1=2024&type=sub&ay=&am=&aw=&ad=1211&rec=

“1211” day counts and Daniel 12:11 :

Daniel 12:11, “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and [***the abomination that maketh desolate set up***], there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”

Interestingly enough, one of the key chapters revealing end times events is located in the book of Daniel. It is there, in Daniel 12:11, that we were warned of the setting up of, that is, the implementation of an abominable event.

[“A Final Warning to Humanity from former Pfizer Chief Scientist Michael Yeadon < https://raptureboundoutreach.com/2023/05/29/a-final-warning-to-humanity-from-former-pfizer-chief-scientist-michael-yeadon/ >].

Most students of Bible prophecy agree that the abominable event spoken of in Daniel 12:11 was fulfilled in 167 BCE, by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV. However, it certainly appears that the words of Daniel were not just about the desolation of Antiochus in the Maccabean era, Jesus foresaw the greater desolation … Matthew 24:15, “when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand).”

The Jewish Feast of Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Temple after it’s defilement under Antiochus IV. Incredibly, December 14, 2020 – the date that the first U.S. citizen received their Covid vaccination, ‘just happened’ to land smack-dab in the middle of the Feast of Hanukkah on the Jewish calendar [Hebcal]! Just as December 14, 2020 was the midpoint date separating the 2 Total Solar Eclipses over the U.S., it was also the precise midpoint date of Hanukkah in the year 2020 …. talk about 20/20 vision!

Hanukkah 2020 began in the evening of Thursday, December 10th,
and ended in the evening of Friday, December 18th …
“X Marks the spot”- December 14, 2020 – Mid-point Hanukkah!!

Revelation 3:3, ” Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.” [NKJV].

John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

“Mr. 666” … Please Sign In

Revelation 13:18, “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

Every time Barack Obama, a.k.a. “Mr. 666″/ “Mr. O” signs his name, he reveals himself as antíchristos, “the son of perdition” spoken of in 2 Thess. 2:3 – “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”

Obama signs the “O” of his last name in the form of a negative phi symbol divided by two. In trigonometry, the solution to the equation negative phi divided by two = sin 666 degrees!! Is this not an incredible anomaly?

phi [ Φ ] = the golden ratio : the golden ratio, also known as the golden section, golden mean, or divine proportion, in mathematics, the irrational number (1 + Square root of√5)/2, often denoted by the Greek letter ϕ or τ, which is approximately equal to 1.618. Unlike pi, which is a transcendental number, phi is the solution to a quadratic equation.

negative phi [ -Φ ] divided by 2 = sin 666 degrees … here’s the math :

-Φ divided by 2 = -1.618 divided by 2 = -0.80902 … [-0.80902 = sin 666 degrees].

In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500, and it is the 21st letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
Lexicon :: Strong’s G500 – ἀντίχριστος antíchristos, an-tee’-khris-tos; from G473 and G5547; an opponent of the Messiah:—antichrist.

“THE ANTICHRIST HIDDEN IN LUKE 10:18” https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=24&v=S-SQ34ahV-A&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianforums.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Mr. 666, H.R. 6666, & The Coronavirus Plandemic

There is a very interesting day count that appears to link Mr. 666 – Obama … with the Corona/Covid-19 Plandemic : https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=4&d1=30&y1=1966&type=add&ay=6&am=66&aw=666&ad=6666&rec=>

April 30, 1966 – Church of Satan officially recognized and established by the U.S. government as a religion.
Plus : 6 years
66 months
666 weeks & 6666 days … Equals : Nov. 4, 2008 – Mr. “666” [Son of Perdition – 2 Thessalonians 2:3] – Obama officially recognized and established by the U.S. government as President!

Revelation 13:18, “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

Revelation 13:16-17, “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: ¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Sigil of Baphomet – official symbol of Leveyan Satanism
Church of Satan – Wikipedia

H.R. 6666 – COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act < https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=3 >

Is the fact that the (above) House Resolution number consists of 4-6’s [6666] really just a coincidence?

Bill Gate’s [The “Gates of Hell’] Microsoft Patent 060606 Body interfaced digital currency? … Patentscope wo/2020/060606 – [world order reset 2020/ 666?!] https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&tab=PCTBIBLIO

“PATENT 060606 – MICROSOFT BODY INTERFACED DIGITAL CURRENCY” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYVcI3bF_8 Is this simply another of the many “coincidences”? … you decide.

The One World Trade Center … Hidden in Plain Sight!

The One World Trade Center represents the One World [New World] Order, and the final “Beast” system [the 4th beast of Daniel chapter 7 corresponding with the beast of Revelation chapter 13] that will reign over all the kings of the Earth in the days just prior to Jesus Christ’s Return.

The Twin Towers needed to be demolished in order for the Beast to make way for the grand symbol of the “Great Reset”, the establishment of their One World Government … The One World Trade Center.

Notice how the hypodermic needle in Obama’s hand [filled with the Covid vaccine] closely and ominously resembles the “Crown” [Corona] of One World Trade Center.

This is going to hurt | Jun 27th 2009 | The Economist

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2009-06-27

The crown of One World Trade Center is a 408-foot spire — consisting of a mast and a communication platform ring. At night, a beacon at the top sends out a horizontal light beam, which can be seen from miles away. Although the term “Corona” was first used in English in the 1500’s, it was borrowed directly from the Latin word for “crown”.

The “408” foot spire or crown is 408 feet in height … “4/08” = the 4th day of the 8th month. Does the sound familiar? … well, that Obama’s birth date [August 8th, 1961]. Keep in mind that [the above pictured] “The Economist” magazine was issued in June of 2009 before dismissing this as “coincidence”. They told us their plans as far back as July 2009 on the cover of that magazine [while laughing at us as shown on the very cover]! Their master plan, their “Great Reset”, has been [and still is for so very many] “hidden in plain sight”. In reality, the “Great Reset” will usher in the “Great Tribulation” [Matthew 24:21].

Call me crazy if you like, but this has all unfolded right in front of our eyes. Barack Obama certainly appears to be the “Great Puppeteer” of his U.S. Puppet … Joe Biden is the Puppet [Obama certainly appears to have many other Puppets]. Let’s do the math shall we? … [O]bama + [Biden] = OBiden … the 46th POTUS.

“Barack Obama on what he misses most about the presidency” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=376069387177630

Former U.S. president Barack Obama told host Matt Galloway that he misses the camaraderie and the “mental exercise of figuring out hard policy problems,” but not the pomp of the presidency.

He adds that he might have enjoyed a third term if someone said “you can sit in your basement in your sweats” just doing the policy work.

In his only Canadian interview, he also spoke about racism in the Donald Trump era and the task facing a Joe Biden presidency. Read more and listen to the full interview here: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5809466

Here’s another clip back in 2014 where Obama fortells of his
concerns over a coming viral Pandemic/Plandemic < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHmXdcdShE&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianforums.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt

“Obama’s Epidemic Warning” – TYT Investigates” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHmXdcdShE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianforums.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt

“Jen Psaki on Biden’s Latest Steps to Mitigate COVID-19 and U.S. Tensions with Russia” – The View” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwliRhiv0w&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianforums.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Listen at 6:23 minutes into video … with a “slip of the tongue” Psaki lets the cat out of the bag [again] by referring to her boss as Obama. A Freudian slip? … you decide.

2 Peter 3:3-4, “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

The Snake & The Snake Juice

Many are hoodwinked into believing that our present Plandemic scenario is one of “good cop [Trump] vs. bad cop [Biden]”… when the reality is they are on the same team … “Team Beast” of Revelation chapter 13. “Team Beast” realized that in order to get a much larger number of those on the right wing political group to take the snake juice “jabberoony” they would need someone that they have put their faith in to endorse it … enter “Mr. Snake” … “Mr. Trump”. It’s very obvious [to those who have been watching the signs from a Biblical perspective] that Trump was one of their key players in the implementation of the Coronavirus Plandemic.

As for those who still are blinded to the reality that the releasing of the Covid jab was nefarious, please consider the words of one of a man who truly understands the truth. [see my article entitled, “A Final Warning to Humanity from former Pfizer Chief Scientist Michael Yeadon” < https://raptureboundoutreach.com/2023/05/29/a-final-warning-to-humanity-from-former-pfizer-chief-scientist-michael-yeadon/ >

For all we know, Trump and Obama may be playing a round of golf together in Florida … sipping on a Pina Colada, laughing about how easy it was to fool the vast majority of the citizens on this planet as to the World Health Organization’s true and ultimate intents concerning the snake juice … the Coronavirus jabberoony.

Trump even came out during one of his political rallies and read a poem entitled, “The Snake” or viper – a poem that was in reality about himself, yet even millions of professing Christians in America continued to virtually worship him as being the hope for the restoration of the nation, while Jesus essentially took a back seat … how tragic … how sad.

“Trump’s Snake Poem Is Really About Him” | NYT Opinion – The New York times] < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izWgDFLuJRE >

“Trump refuses to explain his cryptic ‘calm before the storm’ statement” – ABC News. < https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=mY_cQo0NQPg&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianforums.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjIsMzY4NDI&feature=emb_logo >

Pfizer – Pfizer in Jewish Gematria = 660

“The Storm is Here” = 660 in Jewish Gematria. Didn’t some guy named Trump give us an urgent message “A Storm is Coming?… and then proceeds to leave his parting gift as POTUS – Operation Warp Speed – “Snake Juice for all” :

“Operation WAR SEED 66” < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUz3puPBp4 >

Trump called himself … ‘father of the vaccine’ and claimed that he was the one who deserves credit for coronavirus shots …

“I’m the father of the vaccine because I was the one that pushed it.
To get it done in less than nine months was a miracle.”
— Donald J Trump, April 29th 2021 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-father-vaccine-covid-fox-interview-b1839555.html

Strong’s Concordance H660:

H660 – ‘ep̄ʿê – Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon (KJV)
www.blueletterbible.org › lang › lexicon › lexicon › str..
H660 – אֶפְעֶה ʼephʻeh, ef-eh’; from (in the sense of hissing); an asp or other venomous serpent:—viper.

Does God use Gematria to communicate His Signs? … You Betcha!

The Sign of the Great Pyramid of Giza:

“Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day.” (Jer. 32:20a)

“In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.” (Isa. 19:19-20).

“The Great Pyramid of Giza sets itself apart as one of the greatest marvels of all time. It’s the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. That’s pretty amazing! Gone is the Statue of Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Only the Great Pyramid is still with us.”

“Gematria is the science of finding meaning in the numerical value in words. In the Hebrew language each individual letter has a numerical value. Thus every word has a numerical value of the sum of the value of it’s letters. If one adds up the numerical value of all the Hebrew characters in the Great Pyramid text (Isa. 19:19-20), the value is 5449 …
which is the height in inches of the Great Pyramid!!

The Hebrew of Isaiah 19:19, 20 :

YHWH revealed Himself as the “I AM” in the burning bush. Is the very word ‘gematria’ an anagram for the “Great I AM”??

GEMATRIA
GREATIAM

Many attribute or equate this evidence as “coincidence”, but in the end, it’s up to each and every individual to seek for the truth, to weigh the evidence. God the Holy Spirit will reveal signs such as these as being sent by Elohim only to those who ask and strive to hear from Him.

Proverbs 25:2,”It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”

A Final Warning to Humanity from former Pfizer Chief Scientist Michael Yeadon

Dr. Michael Yeadon is the former Chief Scientist and Vice-President of Pfizer Respiratory & Allergy Research, and has worked for over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry. At great personal cost, he has been sounding the alarm about some of the lies and half-truths coming out of public health agencies during this pandemic. He is deeply troubled by the use of emergency-use-authorized vaccines being given en masse to non high-risk patients, the lack of informed consent for those being given these EUA therapies, the prospect of vaccine passports, and many other public policy responses to this pandemic.

Dr. Yeadon gives a crystal clear, common sense overview concerning the world-wide plandemic. Sadly, the thing about “common sense” is ….. it really isn’t so common after all. When I try to warn professing Christians, the majority of them call me a ‘conspiracy freak’ … “God simply wouldn’t allow something like this” … “and after all, my Pastor says that you are lying”. When I try warning non-professing Christians, they commonly say, “well, all of your so-called sources of information are biased …they come from Christian sources”. But when I present compelling evidence to them from secular sources [such as Micheal Yeadon], they either write them off as being conspiracy nuts, or give me the lame excuse that they don’t have the time to look into that evidence.

Can you see anything wrong with this picture? The sad reality is that most people simply don’t want to know the truth … whether the matter concerns Biblical realities or matters of great worldly importance [such as the Covid Plandemic]. Willful ignorance is bliss … until the tragic consequences arrive [then – not so much] … all men will stand before God to stand in final judgment [there will not be any more opportunity to ‘bury their heads in the sand’ at that time]. Men will give an account for suppressing the truth … period.

“Former VP at Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon, says there is a plan to kill millions, if not billions of people.” https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/139fw0n/former_vp_at_pfizer_dr_mike_yeadon_says_there_is/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_title&embed_host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worthychristianforums.com%2Findex.php

“A FINAL WARNING TO HUMANITY FROM FORMER PFIZER CHIEF SCIENTIST MICHAEL YEADON” https://www.bitchute.com/video/FsTcRK7SZf9H/