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Franklin Graham Follows In His Daddy’s Footsteps As Apologist For The Roman Catholic Church

The Bible has a very unique name it uses when referring to the Roman Catholic Church – the Whore of Babylon.

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The Bible has a very unique name it uses when referring to the Roman Catholic Church – the Whore of Babylon.

Franklin Graham, son of the great Catholic compromiser, Billy Graham, said this week that he wants the Roman Catholic Church to “remain unmovable” on biblical teachings. Huh? What on earth does that mean? The Roman Catholic Church has never had biblical teaching. Here is his exact quote in context:

“Tim Kaine is hoping that the Catholic Church will turn its back on God’s Word and accept the sinful political whims of our culture. He says he has “evolved” in his beliefs about same-sex marriage and homosexuality. Well, his thinking, nor society’s deteriorating moral attitudes, change the truth of God’s Holy Word—it never changes or evolves. Romans 1:18-32 is a picture of where we are today—take a couple of minutes to read these verses. I appreciate the Catholic Church remaining very strong on moral issues through the years, and I pray they will be immovable on the teachings of the Bible.” he posted on Facebook recently.

My, my, very slick Frankie, very slick. Reminds me of when Laodicean apostate Rick Warren casually referred to Pope Francis as “our new pope“. Easy now, he is not the pope of any born again Christian, that’s for sure.

So, does the Roman Catholic system, like Franklin Graham just asserted, teach the teachings of the Bible? No, a thousand times no they do not. They teach Roman Catholicism, not biblical Christianity.

“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:3-5 (KJV)

The Bible has a very unique name it uses when referring to the Roman Catholic Church – the Whore of Babylon. To see how that name is used on context, please read all of Revelation 17 and 18 in your King James Bible. Pope Francis says “the Church is a mother and must have that loving and tender maternal feeling and human warmth as otherwise all that remains is rigidity and discipline.” Furthermore, the official colors of the Vatican are purple and scarlet, and they love to use their gaudy golden chalice at every possible opportunity.

Billy Graham since the early 1960’s has been a staunch advocate and evangelist for the Roman system

Billy Graham, though he started with a fiery conviction of the Bible as ultimate truth, made an alliance with the Roman Catholic harlot as he grew in popularity and wealth. His his pro-Catholic statements and proclamations have led untold millions of people into a false salvation.

Billy’s son Franklin Graham has decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and form his own alliance with the Roman Catholic Church, as seen here at his 2014 Three Rivers Festival of Hope in Pittsburgh:

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The Roman Catholic whore has never preached the truth and never will preach the truth. It will be destroyed at the end of the time of Jacob’s trouble, and the host of Heaven will rejoice at its demise.

Shame on you, false teacher Franklin Graham, for working to promote your false unity between Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church.

And Franklin, if you’re reading this, I was in the Roman Catholic system for 30 longs years. I was an altar boy for 3 years and spent 12 years in private Catholic indoctrination from first grade to my Senior year in high school. You may be able to fool lazy, Laodicean Christians but you’re not fooling me one bit. When I got saved back in 1990, I got saved OUT of the Catholic system. Why don’t YOU tell people that? Catholics are not Christians.

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4 (KJV)

 


 

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How Did We Miss This? On February 4th, The United Nations Codified Chrislam With First Annual International Day of Human Fraternity Celebration

On February 4, the United Nations celebrated the first Chrislam International Day of Human Fraternity and World Interfaith Harmony Week.

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The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 4 February as the International Day of Human Fraternity, with resolution 75/200. Welcome to Global Chrislam.

There is so much happening on the front lines of bible prophecy, that it is literally impossible to keep track of all of it. Last month, the United Nations declared February 4th as the first annual International Day Of Human Fraternity, a day to celebrate the One World Religion of Chrislam created by Pope Francis in Abu Dhabi. Now we’re getting somewhere. The seeds planted last century by Billy Graham are finally bearing fruit.

“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” Revelation 13:11,12 (KJB)

From the ‘humble beginnings’ of Roman Catholic apologist Rick Warren who was the first to sow the seeds of Chrislam starting back in 2003, up to the moment he handed the ball off to Pope Francis in 2013, the One World Religion of Chrislam has been growing and expanding with apocalyptic fervor and urgency. Now the United Nations has declared the first International Day of Human Fraternity, the glorification of man outside of Almighty God, and the Chrislam religion of Antichrist, who is just around corner waiting to be revealed.

The seeds of Chrislam and the Declaration of Human Fraternity first took root with the ministry of evangelical sellout Billy Graham. Without Graham priming the pump for the Laodicean Church age, the work of Rick Warren and Pope Francis would not have been possible. For over 60 years, Billy Graham told his followers that the Roman Catholic Church was Christian, and that the Roman pope John Paul II was ‘someone with real authority’, and was a great ‘spiritual and moral leader’. Billy Graham himself stated one more than one occasion that he, Graham, was “more Catholic than Protestant”. And as Billy deceived the world, he set the stage for Chrislam, he prepared the way for Antichrist.

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FROM THE UNITED NATIONS: This year, for the very first time, we are celebrating the International Day of Human Fraternity in the context of World Interfaith Harmony Week, providing an opportunity to highlight the principles and values included in the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and living Together” and explore good practices towards its implementation as a pathway to the future, as we rebuild a better world. The UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to the UN, as well as the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, is organizing an event titled “A Pathway to the Future” to celebrate this international day.

Following the devastation of the Second World War, the United Nations was established to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. One of its purposes is to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems, including by promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.

In 1999, The General-Assembly adopted, by resolution 53/243, the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, which serves as the universal mandate for the international community, particularly the United Nations system, to promote a culture of peace and non-violence that benefits all of humanity, including future generations.

The declaration came about as a result of the long-held and cherished concept — contained within the Constitution of UNESCO — that “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” The Declaration embraces the principle that peace is not merely the absence of conflict, but also requires a positive, dynamic participatory process, in which dialogue is encouraged and conflicts are resolved in a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation.

On 20 October 2010, the General Assembly in resolution A/RES/65/5 pointed out that mutual understanding and interreligious dialogue constitute important dimensions of a culture of peace and established World Interfaith Harmony Week as a way to promote harmony between all people regardless of their faith. It further recognized the imperative need for dialogue among different faiths and religions to enhance mutual understanding, harmony and cooperation among people.

At the core of all the faith systems and traditions is the recognition that we are all in this together and that we need to love and support one another to live in harmony and peace in an environmentally sustainable world. Our world continues to be beset by conflict and intolerance with rising number of refugees and the internally displaced in a hostile and unwelcoming world around them. We are also, unfortunately, witnessing messages of hate spreading discord among people. The need for spiritual guidance has never been greater. It is imperative that we double our efforts to spread the message of good neighborliness based on our common humanity, a message shared by all faith traditions.

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 4 February as the International Day of Human Fraternity, with resolution 75/200. READ MORE

Rick Warren Calls Apostate Roman Catholic Pope Francis “Our Pope”

Rick Warren is seen slyly referring to Pope Francis as “our pope”, and then going on to brag about what a great job he is doing. He wants you to blithely assume that of course Pope Francis is the “spiritual head” over all of Christianity and not simply over the Roman Catholic corporation. He slips it in like that’s what everyone already thinks and believes. This is nothing more than mental conditioning. A bible believing Christian under no circumstances ever would acknowledge that any pope in the Roman system had any sort of rule over them of any kind.

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How Satan Used Billy Graham To Broker A Covenant Between Warring Factions Of Christianity And Usher In The Apostate Laodicean Church Age

How Billy Graham Brokered World Peace Between Evangelism and Social Justice And Created the Lukewarm Laodicean Church In The Lausanne Movement.

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Billy Graham wanted to assess the way political, ideological, and theological world issues affected evangelism, and to bring evangelical leaders to a common vision for both evangelism and social justice.

How Billy Graham started out and how he end up are as far apart from each other as light is from darkness, and it is a cautionary tale to all of us in the ministry here in the 21st century. The Billy Graham of 1947 was an on fire, no holds barred preacher of the gospel of the grace of God, and the Billy Graham of 1974 was seeking to compromise and promote peace at any cost, including the cost of the compromising the of the gospel he claimed to be a minister of.

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:14-16 (KJB)

In 1974, Billy Graham joined forces with social gospel preacher John Stott, at a global meeting they called The Lausanne Movement. But when you see and understand what grew up in its aftermath, it could just have easily and as accurately been called The Laodicean Movement, because that’s exactly what came next. It is impossible to reconcile the Billy Graham of 1947, who said the quote below, with the Billy Graham of just a few decades later who would be the leader of the ecumenical church movement.

 In 1948, Billy Graham was asked: “What do you expect the World Council of Churches (WCC) to do this August when they visit Copenhagen?” He replied: “I believe they are going to nominate the Antichrist!” As early as 1966, however, Graham boasted that he attended the WCC assembly in New Delhi in 1961, and he hoped he would attend the 4th assembly in Uppsala, Sweden in 1968 (which he did). He has attended all but two WCC General Assemblies after that.

As Graham was slowing coming into power over the ecumenical and rapidly apostatizing Christian Church, he was at the same time forming deep connections with the pope and the Vatican that would endure for the rest of his life. Take a look at just a few of the quotes from and about Billy Graham at the time that most people generally associate with him holding massive revivals. I think you can clearly see what type of revivals they really were.

  • March 8, 1979- National Enquirer  Regarding the Pope, Billy Graham said, “He’ll be warmly greeted because he’s such a down-to-earth, fun-loving man who creates friends wherever he goes.  I firmly feel Pope John Paul II will be the most respected pope of the century and he’ll become the moral leader of the world.”
  • Billy Graham’s comment to US News and World Report, Dec. 19, 1988– “World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being.  We’re separated by theology…, but all of that means nothing to me any more.”
  • Rocky Mountain News–  July 25, 1987-  The editor wrote, “Many Roman Catholics walked the aisles during Graham’s 1965 crusade.  In the a987 crusade, which ends tomorrow, Catholics were waiting to help Catholics express their new and renewed faith in their Mother Church.”
  • Letter from Rev. Michael Seed, Ecumenical advisor to Cardinal Hume, London, England, 1989:  “Some 2100 Catholics ‘went forward’ at the Missions evenings in London which was excellent– from nearly all our Parishes in Westminster… Billy Graham has helped our (Roman Catholic) Church greatly and many have ‘renewed’ their faith under his great ministry.”

The article below credits Billy Graham with ‘brokering peace’ between the fading fragments of bible preaching Christianity with the then up-and-coming social justice Christianity movement, but he did no such thing. What Graham created was a bastard hybrid end times church that would become the lukewarm Laodicean Church that Jesus spits out of His mouth. Did people get saved during Billy Graham’s career? Sure they did, but it was in spite of Graham just as much as it was because of him. The question is not how many got saved under Billy Graham’s preaching, the real question is how many souls went to Hell when Graham sent them back to their Roman Catholic churches when they came to his rallies?

If Billy Graham would have been preaching the true gospel of the grace of God, Paul’s gospel for the Church Age, he would not have doubted if Hell was a real place or not

WATCH AND LISTEN AS BILLY GRAHAM IN HIS OWN WORDS SHOWS STEADY SLIDE INTO LAODICEAN APOSTASY

How Billy Graham Brokered World Peace Between Evangelism and Social Justice And Created the Laodicean Lukewarm Church

FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY: In 1974, Billy Graham convened an enormous conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.

“I traveled the whole world meeting such wonderful leaders,” Billy Graham later told Lausanne global executive director Michael Oh. “But I found that they didn’t know each other.”

Graham wanted to assess the way political, ideological, and theological world issues affected evangelism, and to bring evangelical leaders to a common vision for both evangelism and social justice. He invited about 2,400 evangelical leaders from 150 countries.

The meeting turned out to be outrageously important. Not only did the participants make up “possibly the widest-ranging meeting of Christians ever held” and signal the rising strength of conservative Christians worldwide, it also delivered unity on the most divisive issue of the day—whether social justice should be as highly prioritized as evangelism.

And it kicked off the Lausanne Movement.

“No one else did as much to turn evangelicalism into an international movement that could stand alongside—and ultimately challenge—both the Vatican and the liberal World Council of Churches for the mantle of global Christian leadership,” wrote George Washington University professor Melani McAlister for TheAtlantic. Her forthcoming book is The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals.

“He used his status as the most important religious figure of the 20th century to help lead American evangelicals into a more robust engagement with the rest of the world,” she wrote.

In some ways, the first Lausanne conference was the culmination of a meeting 20 years earlier, when Graham was first introduced to British evangelist John Stott at Cambridge University. The two became close friends during a mission at the school.

“The first time I visited Billy at his old log home with Leighton [Ford], the very first thing Billy asked me was ‘How’s John?’” remembered Doug Birdsall, honorary co-chair of the Lausanne Movement. “This should not have surprised me because just a year earlier when I first met John Stott in London on Lausanne-related matters, his first question had been, ‘How’s Billy?’”

Stott was among the small group of leaders Graham gathered in Montreaux, Switzerland, in 1960 to mull over how to unite evangelicals globally. The answer: Gather around evangelism, the only word that would unite them, Graham decided.

Out of the Montreaux meetings grew the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism, which drew 700 participants, including Stott.

And out of the 1966 Congress grew the Lausanne Congress, organized and funded almost entirely by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Graham and Stott both spoke, emphasizing the urgency of evangelism and addressing the argument over whether evangelism should be valued more highly than social justice issues.

They did it: Billy Graham as “the indispensable convener,” and Stott as “the indispensable uniter.” The Lausanne Covenant brokered peace between the two sides (“we affirm that evangelism and socio-political involvement are both part of our Christian duty”) and gave walking orders for future partnerships in evangelism.

The Congress also gave walking orders to a Continuation Committee, which included both Stott and Graham and met in Mexico City in 1975. There, the Lausanne Movement was fleshed out, with Graham’s brother-in-law Leighton Ford elected as chairman in 1976.

At the same time, Billy Graham was supporting a global outlook at the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). READ MORE

How Billy Graham Was Used To Usher In The Lukewarm Laodicean Church Era

Did you know that Billy Graham believed and taught that you could be saved and not know it? That the Body of Christ will include non-Christians from other religions as well as pagans? How about the time he told Larry King on CNN that he feels absolutely comfortable worshipping in a Mormon church? Now before you go and stroke out over what I’m telling you, take a moment to watch the video below and hear all of that and more from Billy’s own lips, at a time when he was still well in possession of all his mental faculties.

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The World Mourns As Friend Of The Roman Catholic Church Pastor Billy Graham Dies In His Home At Age 99

The Rev. Billy Graham, the charismatic North Carolina pastor who took his evangelizing crusades around the country and the globe, died on Wednesday morning, according to officials of his organization. He was 99 years old.

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The Rev. Billy Graham, the charismatic North Carolina pastor who took his evangelizing crusades around the country and the globe, died on Wednesday morning, according to officials of his organization. He was 99 years old.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Billy Graham has died today, and the tributes to him will be seemingly endless as the world rushes to praise him. But we need to remember that his ministry took a severe left turn back in the 1960’s as he formed an alliance with the Vatican and later Pope John Paul II, leading tens of thousands of people astray. Billy Graham started out as a fire-breathing Baptist preacher, leading thousands to salvation in Jesus Christ, but as his fame grew he became a friends with the world, especially the Roman Catholic Church. He is on record as saying he has no problem with Mormon doctrine, Catholic doctrine or even Islam. As good as his revivals were in the early days, in his later years they became a recruiting tool for the Vatican. 

Billy Graham served as a counselor or minister to a dozen U.S. presidents, and he preached to an estimated 215 million people in 185 countries around the world during his life. His message reached millions more as he maintained a near-constant presence on radio, television and the internet.

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4 (KJB)

He also wrote more than two dozen books, including his 1997 memoir,”Just as I Am,” which was a New York Times bestseller. In a tweet, President Donald Trump called Graham the “GREAT Billy Graham” and wrote, “There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man.”

Graham died just before 8 a.m. at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, surrounded by family, according to a spokesman for Samaritan’s Purse, the nondenominational evangelical Christian organization headed by Graham’s son Franklin. source

Christians get mad when you point out that evangelist Billy Graham was really a wolf in sheep’s clothing who spent more than half of his ministry defending and promoting the Pope, and sending the “converts” from his rallies to Catholic churches.

Did you know that Billy Graham believed and taught that you could be saved and not know it? That the Body of Christ will include non-Christians from other religions as well as pagans? How about the time he told Larry King on CNN that he feels absolutely comfortable worshipping in a Mormon church? Now before you go and stroke out over what I’m telling you, take a moment to watch the video below and hear all of that and more from Billy’s own lips, at a time when he was still well in possession of all his mental faculties.

HERE ARE SOME MORE NOTABLE AND HERETICAL STATEMENTS FROM THE “WORLD’S GREATEST EVANGELIST:

  • Billy Denies A Literal, Fiery Hell: “…I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.” The Orlando Sentinel for April 10, 1983
  • Billy Agrees With Infant Baptism: “I do believe that something happens at the baptism of an infant… we cannot fully understand the mysteries of God, but I believe that a miracle can happen in these children so that they are regenerated, that is, MADE CHRISTIAN, THROUGH INFANT BAPTISM.” Interview with the Lutheran Standard in October 1967
  • Billy On His Love For The Vatican: “When I was at the Vatican I spoke at a vesper service at the North American College, which is a seminary for students from North America. I understand I was the first Protestant to speak there. It was a very inspirational and Christocentric service, with much contemporary music.” Christianity Today 1981
  • Billy Identifies More As A Catholic Than Protestant: “I find myself closer to Catholics than the radical Protestants. I think the Roman Catholic Church today is going through a second Reformation” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin 24 May, 1966
  • Billy Says Pope John Paul II His Spiritual Leader: “I think the American people are looking for a leader, a moral and spiritual leader that believes something. And the Pope does. … Thank God, I’ve got somebody to quote now with some real authority.” Phil Donahue Show October 11, 1979
  • Billy Promotes Islam: “I think Islam is misunderstood, too, because Mohammed had a great respect for Jesus. He called Jesus the greatest of the prophets except himself…Islam is much more like Christianity than we think we are”. See video interview above

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:14-16 (KJV)

Laugh along as heretic Benny Hinn declares that the death of Billy Graham will be “the end times sign” of the end:

Please note that all these quotes were uttered 1983 or earlier, at a time when Graham was still good health, physically strong and mentally aware. I gave you 5 random quotes, but easily could have given you 50 more, 100 more, showing his lukewarm, Laodicean theology and manner of compromising preaching. People will get mad and write to me with statements like “How DARE you speak against Billy Graham?? I got SAVED at one of his rallies”. So? You can find a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk without thinking it’s a bank, right? If you found a diamond ring in a trash dumpster, would you call it a jewelry store? No, you would not. Can people get saved with lukewarm preaching? Yes, they can. But without the true gospel, undiluted and powerful, it is nearly impossible for them to grow in a walk with the Lord.

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM A TRANSCRIPT OF AN APPEARANCE BY BILLY GRAHAM ON ROBERT SCHULLER’S “HOUR OF POWER,” PROGRAM #1426 ENTITLED SAY “YES” TO POSSIBILITY THINKING, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST MAY 31, 1997:

SCHULLER: TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY?

GRAHAM: WELL, CHRISTIANITY AND BEING A TRUE BELIEVER–YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE’S THE BODY OF CHRIST. THIS COMES FROM ALL THE CHRISTIAN GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD, OUTSIDE THE CHRISTIAN GROUPS. I THINK EVERYBODY THAT LOVES CHRIST, OR KNOWS CHRIST, WHETHER THEY’RE CONSCIOUS OF IT OR NOT, THEY’RE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND I DON’T THINK THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE A GREAT SWEEPING REVIVAL, THAT WILL TURN THE WHOLE WORLD TO CHRIST AT ANY TIME. I THINK JAMES ANSWERED THAT, THE APOSTLE JAMES IN THE FIRST COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM, WHEN HE SAID THAT GOD’S PURPOSE FOR THIS AGE IS TO CALL OUT A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.

AND THAT’S WHAT GOD IS DOING TODAY, HE’S CALLING PEOPLE OUT OF THE WORLD FOR HIS NAME, WHETHER THEY COME FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD, OR THE BUDDHIST WORLD, OR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD OR THE NON-BELIEVING WORLD, THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN CALLED BY GOD. THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF JESUS BUT THEY KNOW IN THEIR HEARTS THAT THEY NEED SOMETHING THAT THEY DON’T HAVE, AND THEY TURN TO THE ONLY LIGHT THAT THEY HAVE, AND I THINK THAT THEY ARE SAVED, AND THAT THEY’RE GOING TO BE WITH US IN HEAVEN.

SCHULLER: WHAT, WHAT I HEAR YOU SAYING THAT IT’S POSSIBLE FOR JESUS CHRIST TO COME INTO HUMAN HEARTS AND SOUL AND LIFE, EVEN IF THEY’VE BEEN BORN IN DARKNESS AND HAVE NEVER HAD EXPOSURE TO THE BIBLE. IS THAT A CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?

GRAHAM: YES, IT IS, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT. I’VE MET PEOPLE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD IN TRIBAL SITUATIONS, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN A BIBLE OR HEARD ABOUT A BIBLE, AND NEVER HEARD OF JESUS, BUT THEY’VE BELIEVED IN THEIR HEARTS THAT THERE WAS A GOD, AND THEY’VE TRIED TO LIVE A LIFE THAT WAS QUITE APART FROM THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY LIVED.

SCHULLER: I’M SO THRILLED TO HEAR YOU SAY THIS. THERE’S A WIDENESS IN GOD’S MERCY.

GRAHAM: THERE IS.

When I got saved in 1991, on my knees alone in my room at midnight with a King James Bible opened to John 3:16, there was no preaching at all. I had no Christians friends, had never set foot in a non-Catholic church, it was just me and the Lord and I got saved. But without biblical preaching I soon found myself following the perverted teachings of another false teacher, Harold Camping, and I didn’t break free from it until I met some Bible believers a few years later who told me the Truth.

Billy Graham did a lot of good for the Lord early on is his ministry, no one can take that away from him. But he also did a lot of bad, confused a lot of people about the truth of Bible doctrine, was a paid promoter of the NIV, said the pope was his spiritual leader, and the list goes on and on. He did this because he made millions from it, and loved the worldly fame and attention and being able to influence 7 presidents.

If he would have preached against the false doctrine of Mormonism, and against the Whore of Babylon the Vatican like the Bible commands preachers to do, he would never have been as popular as he was. Billy chose fame and fortune over the truth. Today all the world is mourning his passing, but ask yourself this. When is the last time the world mourned the passing of a real preacher of the word of God? You have to go back all the way too DL Moody and Charles Spurgeon in the 19th century.

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