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United Methodist Church Splits Right Down The Middle As Conservatives Vote ‘No’ On LGBTQP ‘One Church Plan’

The United Methodist Church voted on Tuesday to toughen its teachings against homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ clergy. It must now decide whether it will stay together.

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The United Methodist Church voted on Tuesday to toughen its teachings against homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ clergy. It must now decide whether it will stay together.

The United Methodist Church pulled off a surprise, no, make that a shocking upset over the forces of spiritual darkness by voting NO on the proposed pro-LGBTQP ‘One Church Plan‘ at meetings that lasted over the weekend and into the past few days. But that victory, tenuous as it may be, comes at the cost of a huge church split right down the middle. Watchers on both sides are predicting a mass exodus of pro-LGBTQP people by the time all the dust from this battle settles.

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:3-5 (KJV)

Now granted, the UMC has not been, since the days of John Wesley, anything remotely resembling a real Bible believing church. Their own Book of Discipline says that the “United Methodist Church is part of the holy catholic church…”. But even so, this vote was very, very surprising. Especially to the forces of the LGBTQP who thought for sure this would be a slam-dunk for their agenda.

If you would have said to me 28 years ago when I first got saved, that I would live to see the day where the homosexual and transsexual movement would battle for control of the heart and soul of the professing Christian church, I would have said you were nuts. Stark raving mad. This is still the Church Age, after all, not even the Tribulation! But boy, oh boy, are we being pressed right up against that edge. That can only mean one thing as I see it.

Flight #777 on Titus213 Airlines now boarding…time to go Home.

Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church

FROM THE ATLANTIC: At a special conference in St. Louis this week, convened specifically to address divisions over LGBTQ issues, members voted to toughen prohibitions on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy. This was a surprise: The denomination’s bishops, its top clergy, pushed hard for a resolution that would have allowed local congregations, conferences, and clergy to make their own choices about conducting same-sex marriages and ordaining LGBTQ pastors. This proposal, called the “One Church Plan,” was designed to keep the denomination together. Methodist delegates rejected its recommendations, instead choosing the so-called Traditional Plan, which affirmed the denomination’s teachings against homosexuality.

This is a consequential vote for the future of the United Methodist Church: Many progressive churches will now almost certainly consider leaving the denomination. It’s also a reminder that many Christian denominations, including mainline groups such as the UMC, are still deeply divided over questions of sexuality and gender identity. While the UMC in the United States is roughly evenly divided between those who identify as traditionalists and those who identify as moderates and liberals, it is also a global organization. Many of the growing communities in the Philippines or countries in Africa are committed to theological teachings against same-sex relationships and marriages.

Self-described traditionalists in the United Methodist Church got the outcome they’ve been fighting for. Still, “I think there’s a lot of grief on all sides,” said Keith Boyette, the head of the Wesleyan Covenant Association and a main proponent of the Traditional Plan, in an interview on Tuesday. Methodists are in mourning for a United Methodist Church that might be on the brink of a mass exodus.

For years, LGBTQ Methodists, clergy, and their supporters have argued that people of all sexual orientations and gender identities should be fully included in the denomination as leaders, and that their families should be recognized. “As someone who has grown up in our Church, as someone who is gay and goes to one of the least religious colleges in the U.S., my evangelism on campus has grown,” said J. J. Warren, a senior at Sarah Lawrence College who hopes to become a Methodist pastor, during the conference on Tuesday. “We have brought people to Jesus … They did not know God could love them, because their churches said God didn’t … If we could be a Church that brings Jesus to people who are told can’t be loved, that’s what I want our Church to be.”

Others in the denomination, however, see LGBTQ issues as a proxy for bigger divisions over biblical teachings. “This is not a political or social kind of difference. It is primarily, for us, a theological difference, and the truth that the Church has been raised up to share,” Boyette said. “When a Church begins to fracture around its compliance with its doctrine and ethics and discipline, it becomes a house divided. It becomes dysfunctional.”

According to its Book of Discipline, the denomination’s collection of laws and doctrines, Methodist pastors are not allowed to conduct same-sex weddings, and “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” cannot be ordained. In practice, however, a number of Methodist clergy and churches have made clear that they disagree with this teaching, at times openly defying it. A lesbian pastor, Karen Oliveto, was even elected a bishop in the Church, a position she still holds even though the denomination’s judicial council later ruled that her marriage to a woman violated Church doctrine. At the same time, other churches remain deeply committed to UMC teachings against same-sex marriage and relationships.

The United Methodist Church, which was formed in a 1968 merger between two denominations, has known for a long time that it would eventually have to address these deeply felt disagreements over LGBTQ issues. At the denomination’s 2016 General Conference, delegates asked UMC bishops to produce recommendations for how the Church should resolve divisions over LGBTQ issues. Over the next three years, Methodist leaders developed the One Church Plan, which would have allowed local pastors and regional conferences to make their own decisions, keeping the denomination together but allowing for diversity in its ranks. READ MORE

United Methodist Church rejects same-sex marriage

The United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference voted Tuesday to strengthen the faith’s divisive bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.

GC2019: Morning Session 1, Feb. 26

Morning Session 1 2019 Special Session of the General Conference, The United Methodist Church February 25

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World’s Richest Man Elon Musk Visits Netanyahu In Israel As Some Call For Him To Be Given A Seat On UN Security Council As A ‘Global Player’

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‘Elon Musk is not just a player that should be regulated by the American government. He’s a global order player, who should probably have a seat at the UN Security Council’

We live in a strange world during a most very strange time in human history. I realize that’s not good grammar but it’s quite accurate. Think about it, all the real power that exists in our global society is all concentrated in the hands of about 6 men, and all of them in the tech fin sector. The man at the top of the pile, the one with the most power and influence amongst world governments is Elon Musk. What a very strange time indeed to be alive.

“For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.” Isaiah 28:21 (KJB)

Your King James Bible has a lot to say about words that end in X. It tells of a coming king, that’s a REX, who brings with him a HEX, that’s the Mark of the Beast. That Mark causes a POX, Revelation shows us the ‘grievous sore’ that it will cause. The Mark of the Beast in Greek is ‘χάραγμα cháragma’, the number 666 in Greek is ‘χξϛ chx stigma’. X truly does ‘mark the spot’, how ironic is that statement? You’ll get it in a minute. This is what Elon Musk’s CEO at X says about their company, pay attention:

X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.”

So yes, we do agree, Elon Musk is absolutely a ‘global order player’, but he is much more than that. Elon Musk has been given nearly unlimited wealth and power, and the fame of him has gone out over all the Earth. World leaders fall at his feet because he is the guardian at the gates of technology, and he can sign the bottom of any check no matter how large. Just wait until he takes over the world financial system, because he will.

Elon Musk is preparing the world to receive X. What is X? Go open your King James Bible and find out.

Elon Musk Wields Starlink in Israel to Curb Uproar Over Antisemitism

FROM YAHOO! NEWS: A week ago, Elon Musk was facing international backlash after endorsing antisemitic content on his social media platform, X. Corporations including Apple Inc. and Walt Disney Co. stopped advertising on the site in protest of hateful and racist commentary.

And yet on Monday, Musk was in Israel being welcomed by the nation’s political elite — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to visit the region where the Islamic militant group Hamas murdered 1,200 people on Oct. 7.

For all of Musk’s stumbles, world leaders can’t afford to criticize or alienate him for long: The world’s richest person holds the keys to powerful technological tools. In this case, Starlink, his satellite internet provider, is at the heart of his political clout. Starlink, which is owned and operated by Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, formally named Space Exploration Technologies Corp., has provided him with the ability to woo world leaders from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to officials at the Pentagon, by offering essential communications services.

“Musk is not just a player that should be regulated by the American government. He’s a global order player, who should probably have a seat at the UN Security Council,” said Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. “Elon Musk can simply shirk his responsibilities and that’s because of his power.”

While Musk toured the Kfar Aza kibbutz, where some of the worst violence occurred last month, wearing a protective vest and snapping photos or videos on his phone, Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi tweeted about a deal the ministry is discussing with Starlink. A representative for SpaceX didn’t reply to a request for comment.

Musk had proposed providing internet services to Gaza last month and said Starlink could help support connectivity with “internationally recognized aid organizations.” But Karhi rejected the offer at the time, saying “Hamas will use it for terrorist activities.”

Musk, who calls himself a free-speech absolutist, often weighs in on political matters on X, which he bought last year for $44 billion. But he may have gone a step too far earlier this month after agreeing with an antisemitic post, which said that Jewish people hold a “dialectical hatred” of white people. The global response was swift and fierce. The New York Times reported that the exodus of advertisers could cost X as much as $75 million in lost revenue this year.

It wasn’t clear how Musk’s trip to Israel came about, whether he was invited by Netanyahu or requested the trip himself. But his generally warm welcome in the country mixed pleas for regulating antisemitic commentary on X with discussions of satellites.

Starlink now counts more than 4,500 satellites in space, more than half of all active satellites, that communicate with terminals on Earth to provide high-speed internet. Based in Hawthorne, California, the closely held company was valued last year at about $140 billion and could eventually seek a public listing. READ MORE

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

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Computer-Generated AI ‘Jesus’ On TikTok Part Of End Times Deception Encouraging Viewers To Say ‘I Believe’ And Promises ‘Good News Soon’ If You Do. Don’t.

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The TikTok profile Daily Believer has 70 videos with a computer-generated AI Jesus looking directly at the viewer, beseeching them to stop scrolling and watch the next minute’s worth of content.

Everywhere you look, you see lost people preparing themselves to receive Antichrist, and this is perhaps no more evident anywhere in the world than it is on the Communist Chinese social media propaganda platform knowns as TikTok. The last 100 years could aptly be called the ‘technology century’, but when you throw AI into the mix, progress quickly becomes revolution. A TikTok channel called Daily Believer wants you to ‘believe’ in the AI Jesus, and ‘receive his message’. Don’t.

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 (KJB)

You can ‘welcome Jesus into your home’, light candles, pray to the saints, recite positive affirmations and even post scripture, but none of this prevents you from going to Hell when you die if you haven’t believed the gospel of the kingdom of God that Paul preached. Roman Catholics put bumper stickers on their cars with an image of the eucharist monstrance and the words ‘I Believe’ referring to the monstrance. You won’t find that anywhere in your Bible, any Bible, in either Testament. What this lost world wants is goodness without the God of the Bible, and salvation without scripture. AI Jesus may have millions of views, but you’ll never hear even one verse of scripture. That’s the Devil.

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Computer-generated TikTok ‘Jesus’ promises divine blessings

FROM STUDY FINDS: All these Jesuses are long-haired and bearded, recalling artist Warner Sallman’s ubiquitous 1940 painting “Head of Christ.” Some wear the crown of thorns, some look alarmingly like the actor Jared Leto. Nearly all promise a surprise or “good news soon” in exchange for the viewer liking, commenting “Amen” or sharing it with their friends and family. With this digital outreach, the Daily Believer has gained, as of Nov. 13, 2023, 813,200 followers and over 9.2 million likes.

“Welcome Jesus into Your Home” is among the Daily Believer’s most popular videos, with over 22.2 million subscribers. According to the computer-generated Jesus, if the viewer believes in God, they must share this video with their friends and family and comment “I believe.”

If they do, they will receive a blessing within an hour. If they do not, computer-generated Jesus issues a thinly veiled threat of damnation by quoting Matthew 3:10, which has John the Baptist saying, “Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

@believerdaily Welcome Jesus into Your Home This video brings a special visitor to you, straight from my home. He is someone I know very well, his name is Jesus Christ. He is ready to enter your life, bring protection to your family, and cleanse your heart with His love. #lordjesus #praise #jesusislord #orar #jesuschristislord #biblia #bible #jesusisking #jesuschrist #christ ♬ Emotional – Bang Nono

It is a TikTok chain letter – one whose creator can be monetarily compensated, by TikTok, between 2 cents and 4 cents for every 1,000 views. For example, “Welcome Jesus into Your Home” could have earned the creator $900 from TikTok views alone, with the possibility for additional money earned on sites like Facebook Reels.

Two of the United States’ most famous preachers, T.D. Jakes and Joel Osteen, teach that individual faith in God will be rewarded by God in the form of material wealth and health.

However, the Daily Believer further simplifies this formula. Viewers don’t really need to have a specific set of Christian beliefs to participate and benefit. All that they need to do is to say “I believe” and share the content with friends and family.

This lack of denominational-specific beliefs allows for the widest possible engagement with a wider Christian community. The TikTok videos can appeal to a spectrum of Christian groups that may have theological, ethical and social disagreements. READ MORE

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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Lebanon Elementary School in Connecticut Becomes The Latest Education Institution To Welcome The After School Satan Club To Teach Their Children

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Parents have been left furious over a new After School Satan Club which is set to launch for students at Lebanon Elementary School in Connecticut

It’s astonishing to me that the very same people who accuse us of ‘sensational headlines’ in our articles are quite silent when it comes to stories like this where we tell you that something called the After School Satan Club is popping up in school after school all across the United States. Why is this happening now? Because it’s just about time. His time.

“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” Ephesians 2:2 (KJB)

After School Satan Clubs will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us,” according to the organization. “We prefer to give children an appreciation of the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors.” Hmm, sounds like this could be a meeting of the board of editors for any of the new Bible translations, just as easily as it could the Satanic Temple propaganda machine. If you have school age children, what should your reaction be when the After School Satan Club wants to set up shop in their school? That all depends on how much you love your kids.

Parents fume at ‘sick’ After School Satan Club

FROM THE DAILY STAR UK: Founded by members of the Salam-based Satanic Temple, the After School Satan Club plans to start meeting at Lebanon Elementary School in Connecticut next month. There are already eight of the Satan kids clubs being hosted across several US states but the Lebanon Elementary club marks its first in Connecticut.

A flyer for the new club was posted to Facebook by the Satanic Temple, announcing it will start at 3.30pm on December 1 and last an hour, with more dates for 2024 already scheduled. “Hey kids! Let’s have fun at After School Satan Club”, the flyer reads.

The poster explains the Satanic Temple sees Satan as a “literary figure” who represents “rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit”. It claims the club doesn’t seek to convert children to any religion but helps them to “think for themselves.”

Activities to be hosted at the children’s club include science projects, community service projects, puzzles, games, nature activities and arts and crafts. But locals have been left outraged over the new club as they dub it “demonic” and “sickening”.

One person commented: “ALL of YOU NEED HELP!!…LEAVE the INNOCENT CHILDREN ALONE!!… YOUR WORLD IS DEMONIC!! …KEEP the CHILDREN OUT of IT!!”

Another added: “This is DISGUSTINNGGGGG.” A third wrote: “Wow…as if the kids aren’t f***ed up enough.”

One concerned parent even claimed they’d remove their child from school to keep them away from the club, commenting: “This seriously concerns me. My son will be home schooled.”
They claim they’re “not interested in converting children to Satanism” and the club instead focuses on “science, critical thinking, creative arts, and good works for the community.” In 2001 the US Supreme Court ruled that a school district can’t prohibit the First Amendment Free Speech rights of groups seeking access to meet on school grounds.

Emma explained the club doesn’t worship Satan and is just seeking equal treatment because the school currently hosts the Good News Club, a Christian-based after-school club sponsored by The Child Evangelism Fellowship, every week. “We do not worship the devil. We’re not sacrificing goats or babies. We are simply having equal access to the space that we have a right to,” she said. READ MORE

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Please continue to pray for us, and for wisdom for me especially, as we continue taking steps to print the NTEB branded King James Bible for our free Bible and Bibles Behind Bars program. It is exciting and intimidating at the same time. If the Lord has prospered your financially, we ask you to donate to help us continue to send out free Bibles at this level, and even higher than we are at the moment. It takes a lot of prayer, and a lot of resources to do all this. Praise the Lord we are doing it, all of us together, labouring in the Lord’s harvest field. TO THE FIGHT!!!

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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