[Editor's Note: This essay is teh perspective of a fundamentalist Christian. I don't agree with every assertion he makes about the Bible or End Times, but it's more important to read the words of genuine Christians who recognize the falsity of the imposter who is curently occupying the White House. ]

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Is GW Bush Born Again?

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Since George W. Bush has made a concentrated effort to convince Christians he is truly born again, we have to examine all the facts. We have severe doubts, plus we have been warned by Jesus Christ that THE Hallmark Characteristic sign of the End of the Age is unparalleled deception.

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The question of whether George W. Bush is genuinely Born Again through Jesus Christ, or is a slick, effective counterfeit Christian, is one of the issues of the hour. Let us read one of the testimonies he has given. We have printed this testimony in full so you could see all he had to say on some pretty important subjects of this day:

From George W. Bush when asked about his religious faith and his decision to begin the campaign for President of the United States:

"Actually, the seeds of my decision had been planted the year before, by the Reverend Billy Graham. He visited my family for a summer weekend in Maine. I saw him preach at the small summer church, St. Ann's by the Sea. We all had lunch on the patio overlooking the ocean. One evening my dad asked Billy to answer questions from a big group of family gathered for the weekend. He sat by the fire and talked. And what he said sparked a change in my heart. I don't remember the exact words. It was more the power of his example. The Lord was so clearly reflected in his gentle and loving demeanor.

"The next day we walked and talked at Walker's Point, and I knew I was in the presence of a great man. He was like a magnet; I felt drawn to seek something different. He didn't lecture or admonish; he shared warmth and concern. Billy Graham didn't make you feel guilty; he made you feel loved.

Over the course of that weekend, Reverend Graham planted a mustard seed in my soul, a seed that grew over the next year. He led me to the path, and I began walking. It was the beginning of a change in my life. I had always been a 'religious' person, had regularly attended church, even taught Sunday School and served as an altar boy. But that weekend my faith took on a new meaning. It was the beginning of a new walk where I would commit my heart to Jesus Christ.

I was humbled to learn that God sent His Son to die for a sinner like me. I was comforted to know that through the Son, I could find God's amazing grace, a grace that crosses every border, every barrier and is open to everyone. Through the love of Christ's life, I could understand the life-changing powers of faith.

When I returned to Midland, I began reading the Bible regularly. Don Evans talked me into joining him and another friend, Don Jones, at a men's community Bible study. The group had first assembled the year before, in Spring of 1984, at the beginning of the downturn in the energy industry.

Midland was hurting. A lot of people were looking for comfort and strength and direction. A couple of men started the Bible study as a support group, and it grew. By the time I began attending, in the fall of 1985, almost 120 men would gather. We met in small discussion groups of ten or twelve, then joined the larger group for full meetings. Don Jones picked me up every week for the meetings. I remember looking forward to them. My interest in reading the Bible grew stronger and stronger, and the words became clearer and more meaningful.

We studied Acts, the story of the Apostles building the Christian Church, and next year, the Gospel of Luke. The preparation for each meeting took several hours, reading the Scripture passages and thinking through responses to discussion questions. I took it seriously, with my usual touch of humor...

Laura and I were active members of the First Methodist Church of Midland, and we participated in many family programs, including James Dobson's Focus on the Family series on raising children. As I studied and learned, Scripture took on greater meaning, and gained confidence and understanding in my faith.

"I read the Bible regularly. Don Evans gave me the "one-year" Bible, a Bible divided into 365 daily readings, each one including a section from the New Testament, the Old Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. I read through that Bible every other year. During the years in between, I pick different chapters to study at different times.

"I have also learned the power of prayer. I pray for guidance. I do not pray for earthly things, but for heavenly things, for wisdom and patience and understanding. My faith gives me focus and perspective. It teaches humility. But I also recognize that faith can be misinterpreted in the political process. Faith is an important part of my life. I believe it is important to live my faith, not flaunt it. America is a great country because of our religious freedoms. It is important for any leader to respect the faith of others.

"That point was driven home when Laura and I visited Israel in 1998. We had traveled to Rome to spend Thanksgiving with our daughter, who was attending a school program there, and spent three days in Israel on the way home. It was an incredible experience. I remember waking up at the Jerusalem Hilton and opening the curtains and seeing the Old City before us, the Jerusalem stone glowing gold. We visited the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. And we went to the Sea of Galilee and stood atop the hill where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

"It was an overwhelming feeling to stand in the spot where the most famous speech in the history of the world was delivered, the spot where Jesus outlined the character and conduct of a believer and gave his disciples and the world the beatitudes, the golden rule, and the Lord's Prayer.

"Our delegation included four gentile governors - one Methodist, two Catholics, and a Mormon, and several Jewish-American friends. Someone suggested we read Scripture. I chose to read "Amazing Grace," my favorite hymn. Later that night we all gathered at a restaurant in Tel Aviv for dinner before we boarded our middle-of-night flight back to America.

"We talked about the wonderful experiences and thanked the guides and government officials who had introduced us to their country. And toward the end of the meal, one of our friends rose to share a story, to tell us how he, a gentile, and his friend, a Jew, had (unbeknownst to the rest of us) walked down to the Sea of Galilee, joined hands underwater, and prayed together, on bended knee. Then out of his mouth came a hymn he had known as a child, a hymn he hadn't thought about in years. He got every word right: Now is the time approaching, by prophets long foretold, when all shall dwell together, One Shepherd and one fold. Now
Jew and gentile, meeting, from many a distant shore, around an altar kneeling, one common Lord adore. Faith changes lives. I know, because faith has changed mine."

"I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that supersedes all human plans. Politics is a fickle business. Polls change. Today's friend is tomorrow's adversary. People lavish praise and attention. Many times it is genuine; sometimes it is not. Yet I build my life on a foundation that will not shift. My faith frees me. Frees me to put the problem of the moment in proper perspective. Frees me to make decisions that others might not like. Frees me to try to do the right thing, even though it may not poll well.

"The death penalty is a difficult issue for supporters as well as its opponents. I have a reverence for life; my faith teaches that life is a gift from our Creator.In a perfect world, life is given by God and only taken by God. I hope someday our society will respect life, the full spectrum of life, from the unborn to the elderly. I hope someday unborn children will be protected by law and welcomed in life. I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives. Some advocates of life will challenge why I oppose abortion yet support the death penalty. To me, it's the difference between innocence and guilt.

"Today, two weeks after Jeb's inauguration, in my church in downtown Austin, Pastor Mark Craig, was telling me that my re-election was the first Governor to win back-to-back, four-year terms in the history of the State of Texas. It was a beginning, not an end... People are starved for faithfulness. He talked of the need for honesty in government. He warned that leaders who cheat on their wives will cheat their country, will cheat their colleagues, will cheat themselves.

"Pastor Craig said that America is starved for honest leaders. He told the story of Moses, asked by God to lead his people to a land of milk and honey. Moses had a lot of reasons to shirk the task. As the Pastor told it, Moses' basic reaction was, 'Sorry, God, I'm busy. I've got a family. I've got sheep to tend. I've got a life. Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt? The people won't believe me, he protested. I'm not a very good speaker. Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person,' Moses pleaded.

"But God did not, and Moses ultimately did His bidding, leading his people through forty years of wilderness and wandering, relying on God for strength and direction and inspiration. "People are starved for leadership," Pastor Craig said, 'starved for leaders who have ethical and moral courage. It is not enough to have an ethical compass to know right from wrong,' he argued. 'America needs leaders who have the moral courage to do what is right for the right reason. It's not always easy or convenient for leaders to step forward,' he acknowledged. 'Remember, even Moses had doubts.' "

" 'He was talking to you,' my mother later said. The pastor was, of course, talking to all of us, challenging each one of us to make the most of our lives, to assume the mantle of leadership and responsibility wherever we find it. He was calling on us to use whatever power we have, in business, in politics, in our communities, and in our families, to do good for the right reason. And his sermon spoke directly to my heart and my life..."

"There was no magic moment of decision. After talking with my family during the Christmas holidays, then hearing this rousing sermon, to make most of every moment, during my inaugural church service, I gradually felt more comfortable with the prospect of a presidential campaign. My family would love me, my faith would sustain me, no matter what.

"During the more than half century of my life, we have seen an unprecedented decay in our American culture, a decay that has eroded the foundations of our collective values and moral standards of conduct. Our sense of personal responsibility has declined dramatically, just as the role and responsibility of the federal government have increased. The changing culture blurred the sharp contrast between right and wrong and created a new standard of conduct: 'If it feels good, do it.' and 'If you've got a problem, blame somebody else'."

" "Individuals are not responsible for their actions,' the new culture has said. 'We are all victims of forces beyond our control.' We have gone from a culture of sacrifice and saving to a culture obsessed with grabbing all the gusto. We went from accepting responsibility to assigning blame.

"As government did more and more, individuals were required to do less and less. The new culture said: if people were poor, the government should feed them. If someone had no house, the government should provide one. If criminals are not responsible for their acts, then the answers are not prisons, but social programs...

"For our culture to change, it must change one heart, one soul, and one conscience at a time. Government can spend money, but it cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives."...

"But government should welcome the active involvement of people who are following a religious imperative to love their neighbors through after-school programs, child care, drug treatment, maternity group homes, and a range of other services. Supporting these men and women - the soldiers in the armies of compassion - is the next bold step of welfare reform, because I know that changing hearts will change our entire society."

"During the opening months of my presidential campaign, I have traveled our country and my heart has been warmed. My experiences have reinvigorated my faith in the greatness of Americans. They have reminded me that societies are renewed from the bottom up, not the top down. Everywhere I go, I see people of love and faith, taking time to help a neighbor in need...

"These people and thousands like them are the heart and soul and greatness of America. And I want to do my part. I am running for President because I believe America must seize this moment, America must lead. We must give our prosperity a greater purpose, a purpose of peace and freedom and hope. We are a great nation of good and loving people.

"And together, we have a charge to keep."

ANALYSIS AND RESERVATIONS

I have to admit that his religious testimony seems genuine, and his values sound. However, I have several reservations:

1. George W. was initiated into Skull & Bones secret society when he was at Yale. When an initiate enters the coffin during their initiation, he is considered to have "died to self and to this world". When the leader of this coven takes the initiate by the hand and pulls him out of the coffin, that initiate is said to have been "Born Again" to the newness of life . It is a slick and counterfeit Christian experience.

2. George W. has Generation Witchcraft in his background, as his Father and Grandfather had both been active Adepts all throughout their adult life. While the power of the Holy Spirit can certainly deliver someone from the grip of Generational Witchcraft, it is incredibly difficult, especially after the person has gone through the initiation ceremony.

3. No one -- I repeat no one -- ever gets to run for high office unless the Illuminati supports him. George W. Bush's campaign gives every evidence of just such a high level of Illuminist support. If a truly Born Again believer wins the nomination of a major party, the Illuminati would have him assassinated.

4. George W. picked Cheney to be his running mate. Cheney is very high level Illuminati, and one of the more influential members of the CFR.

5. I am deeply troubled by Mr. Bush's testimony, beginning with his praise of Billy Graham. We know for certain that former President Bush is actively Illuminist. We saw all during his Presidency that he called for the New World Order , he preached it, pushed for it, and was the first president to begin surrendering American sovereignty to the United Nations. Thus, when George W. says, "my dad asked Billy" to speak to the family, my spiritual antenna begins flashing.

Please take a moment to read http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1082.cfm as this is the report that Mr. Graham was listed on a major Freemasonry site as a Famous Mason. They report the many instances where the BGEA [Billy Graham Evangelistic Association] has, over the past 40 years, led Christian faithful along a path of Ecumenicism, a movement led by the Roman Catholic Church, and designed to establish the One World Religion. For decades, the BGEA sent young, baby Christians to Liberal, Apostate Churches, to the degree that Graham almost single-handedly revived Liberal churches and kept them alive.

Truly, our Lord Jesus Christ was correct when He warned that UNPARALLELED DECEPTION is the hallmark characteristic of the Kingdom of Antichrist [Matthew 24:4, 11, 24]

Today, Graham is openly calling Pope John Paul II one of the greatest spiritual men of the century, even as we all can see this Pope is one of the most openly Pagan of all the Popes of this century, and even as this Pope has acknowledged publicly that he is leading the drive to the New World Order [the Kingdom of Antichrist]. Just read Malachi Martin's, "The Keys To This Blood".

Billy Graham soiled his ministry badly when he went trooping up to the White House in January, 1992, to have prayer with President Bush just before America began the air war over Iraq. Graham knew, like every American, that President Bush had declared the Iraqi war a "New World Order" war in his August, 1991, speech. If we assume Graham was even nominally knowledgeable about the Antichrist nature of the New World Order, he would have naturally refused to lend the credence of his ministry to this war!

In his testimony, above, George W. says that he was accompanied on his trip by four Gentile governors, one Methodist, two Catholic, and one Mormon. Later, one of these men got up to recount how he had prayed with a Jew "on bended knee". This act sounds very pious, but we know God hears no prayer from an unbeliever except a prayer for repentance through Jesus Christ. Once again, my Ecumenicist antenna begins to vibrate, warning me that something is not Kosher.

Then, when George W. says, "Jew and gentile, meeting, from many a distant shore, around an altar kneeling, one common Lord adore", I get really suspicious, as we have no indication that this Jew, or this Gentile, are also Born Again. Yet, we see them here, on bended knee, adoring "one common Lord". Ecumenicism seems the order of the day.

Bush: "I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that supersedes all human plans." Once again, we Christians assume George W. is speaking of God's Divine Plan; however, did you know that the Illuminists believe their Plan to stage Antichrist is "divine"? It was supernaturally revealed by their Guiding Spirits over these past 250 years, making it a "divine plan".

When Mr. Bush describes his experience with the other governors during their trip to the Holy Land, the entire testimony smacks clearly of Ecumenicism, as noted above.

George W. mentions Focus On The Family, a deeply ecumenical organization these days. Ever since Focus published the Promise Keepers book, and has been openly supportive of this apostate organization, I have been very troubled by Dr. Dobson and his direction. You can read the article,
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1171.cfm on the Promise Keepers if you are
not now aware of its true nature.

6. I have twice seen Mr. Bush give his testimony of faith in Jesus Christ, and felt both times that he was not genuine. Call it subjective judgment, but I have learned that this judgment has proven in the past to be very accurate.

7. The REAL Reason I Doubt George W. Bush Is A Genuine Born Again Christian

As all high-level Adepts in the Illuminist Secret Societies, George W. undoughtedly had to take oaths and confirm beliefs that caused him to commit the Unpardonable Sin . If he did commit the Unpardonable Sin while in Skull & Bones, the Holy Spirit would never, ever call him out of his spiritual darkness and into the light of His Saving Grace!

Please allow me to explain.

In the Radio Transcripts section, you will find an article you need to read in its entirety before you read this article further; it is "Secret Societies Originated Unpardonable Sin", http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1078.html In this article, they demonstrate that the key Pharisees and Sadduccees leaders opposed Jesus Christ so vehemently because they were secretly practicing the Oral Tradition of the Traditions of the Fathers ; this Oral Tradition became codified in the centuries after the Temple had been destroyed in 70 A.D, and became known as the Cabala [various different spellings are popular]. From that moment on, all secret societies aiming to establish the Kingdom of their Christ [Antichrist] based their entire plans on this Jewish Cabala! The modern day Illuminati certainly does!

The leadership of the Pharisees and Sadduccees, therefore, were secretly following a Pagan religion that worshipped the "Good God", Lucifer. This historic fact is the reason Jesus was so terribly hard on these leaders, calling them names like "Your are of your father, the Devil" [John 8:44], calling them "liars". Or, when Jesus called them "White-washed Sepulchres full of dead men's bones" [Matthew 23:27-31], and telling them they were definitely going to Hell [Matthew 23:33], calling them serpents, "generation of vipers"!

Jesus never, ever talked this way to any sinner, even the most heinous; yet, He consistently talked to the Pharisees and Sadduccees in the most awful and judgmental manner. Because Jesus was sinless His entire life, we have to understand that He was most correct in His judgment of these religious leaders.

You see, Jesus knew that the Pharisees and Sadduccees were guilty of belonging to a Pagan secret society, which worshiped the Counterfeit, Pagan Redeemer, whom the world is soon going to call "Antichrist". When Jesus began to validate His ministry through the many miracles of healings and casting out demons, the Pharisees were not surprised. There is great power in the practice of the occult, because Satan is truly supernatural. Certain Pharisees had been able to perform some of the feats Jesus was doing, because they were able to access the power of the demons. Therefore, when Jesus performed the miracles which the occultic Pharisees had been able to do, they simply attributed Jesus' power to the occult. When Jesus performed a miracle greater than the Pharisees had been able to perform, they simply attributed these miracles to their belief that Jesus was more of an Adept in the Occult than were they, and that He was possessed of a more powerful demon than they were; they went right to the top of the demonic list, Beelzebub, one of Satan's thirteen Princes of Hell! They knew they weren't possessed by such a powerful demonic entity, and assumed Jesus was. This belief certainly would explain to their minds how Jesus could perform miracles totally out of the realm of possibility.

We pick up this Pharisaic belief in Matthew 12:22-37. Jesus had just cast a demon out of a man, and the Pharisees verbalized their secret society belief, when they are recorded as saying, in verse 24, "This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub , the prince of the devils". Jesus' response was immediate, and two-pronged. First, Jesus asked the obvious question: if He was casting out demons by the power of the occult, then by what power were the Pharisees able to cast out demons? You see, casting out demons had proven to be a very popular and easy way in which to convince the average person that you were genuinely righteous and filled with the Holy Spirit. However, the Pharisees knew their power to cast out demons came from demons.

Jesus uttered the most frightening statement ever uttered in all history, "All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men...neither in this world, neither in the world to come." The revelation that Jesus had created a new sin that was Unforgivable is incredible. Never in the Old Testament had God even hinted at the existence of an unforgivable sin. But Jesus created it here.

The Unforgivable Sin is simply attributing Jesus' power to perform His miracles to Satan or to one of his demons.

When a person says this -- even just once -- he is denying the power and the work of the Holy Spirit. This is the one sin God will never forgive. Further, once a person commits this sin, the Holy Spirit will stop working in his life, trying to convict him of his sin, and trying to bring him to repentance. Thus, Satan has free access to this person's soul, to do with him what he wishes. Satan can begin to harden this person's heart to monstrous levels.

We want to close with the tremendous ramifications this belief of the Pharisees has today. When they uttered their belief that Jesus could only perform His many miracles because He was an Adept in a secret society, Jesus declared they were guilty of an Unpardonable Sin. One would think that this warning would make everyone very cautious about ever making such a claim again, because their own soul would be irretrievably lost. Sadly, this is not the case. Nesta Webster, in the book, "Secret Societies and Subversive Movements ", records, on page 92, that the group, the Carpocratian Gnostics, held this view. Further, he says, this belief runs like a consistent thread "all through the secret societies up to the present day". This means that we should expect that modern Adepts of such secret societies will have uttered this doctrine as part of their participation!

In other words, members of secret societies have been committing the Unpardonable Sin since Jesus' warning as recorded in Matthew 12:24. The list of guilty societies includes such well-known societies as The Brotherhood of Death Societies, Rosicrucians, and Freemasonry. As we have reported earlier, the Brotherhood of Death Society is a loose organization spreading around the globe. There are two very well-known Brotherhood of Death Societies, one in Germany and one in the United States. The society in Germany is called the Thule Society; Adolf Hitler was a member of the Thule Society. If we understand that Hitler committed the Unpardonable Sin when he was being trained as an Adept in this secret society, we can easily understand how he could have perpetrated such monstrous acts of vengeance upon the world during World War II. We can easily understand how his mind could have become so hardened and so saturated with hate for the Jew first and the Christian second. Many of Hitler's governmental officials were also members of the Thule Society, so they were guilty of this Unpardonable Sin. As we stated before, once a person has committed this sin, the Holy Spirit ceases to work in their heart and mind, to convict them of sin, and attempting to move them to repentance. This person ceases to have a conscience. They can easily become so hardened of heart and mind that they can be mightily used of Satan, without feeling the least bit of remorse and guilt.

The Brotherhood of Death Society in the United States is the Skull and Bones Society in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Its belief and worship structure is identical to that of the Thule Society. Therefore, we can conclude that Bones Men affirm this belief about Jesus Christ, thus condemning them to committing the Unpardonable Sin. The list of some of the Families comprising Skull and Bones is frightening, for it immediately shows the extent to which America has been influenced by this Satanic organization. Remember, the men of these families have likely committed the Unpardonable Sin.

Not only did former President George Bush belong to Skull & Bones, but his son, George W. also belongs. In the process of learning all the Luciferic doctrine he needed to know in order to successfully conclude his time in Skull & Bones, George W. Bush would have been forced to state this belief as his own; therefore, he would have automatically committed the Unpardonable Sin ! This fact is real, and it is mightily serious!

Therefore, the Holy Spirit would have left George W. Bush alone from that moment forward, never bringing to his heart a conviction of sin. Since this scenario is likely, we know that George W. could never be saved, because Jesus personally stated, "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him" [John 6:44] The agent of the Father Who "draws" man is the Holy Spirit.

This Scripture means that, once a person commits the Unpardonable Sin, he will never again feel the Holy Spirit calling him, to convict him of sin and to bring him to salvation. No man can will himself to Heaven, he must be called by the Holy Spirit, quickened to new spiritual life, and then repent and ask forgiveness through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

If George W. Bush reiterated the standard Skull & Bones belief that Jesus Christ was able to do the miracles recorded of Him only because He was possessed of a demon spirit, George W. has committed the Unpardonable Sin, and could not be called later in life to Salvation through Jesus Christ. I consider it exceedingly likely that George W. did say these words while actively in Skull & Bones. Certainly, if he did not state this common occult belief, and had been saved later in life as he says happened, he would have publicly denounced Skull & Bones , something he has not done.

Truly, now is the time for spiritual discernment!

However, having said all this, the question remains as to which presidential candidate Christians would feel more supportive. The answer seems clearly George W. Bush. His values are more in tune with the values of Bible-believing Christians. When you read Al Gore's book, "Earth In The Balance", you realize he is a Mother Earth worshipper who is totally in tune with the New Age Movement, and is clearly aligned with the group of Environmentalists who want to completely dismantle this Industrial Civilization and Economy we have today. If you do not believe me, get Gore's book and read it.

George W. Bush is the only candidate actively and publicly supporting Christian values and certainly is the only one claiming Jesus Christ as Savior. If he lives up to his campaign rhetoric, his policies certainly would be more in line with Christian. However, if he is elected, please do not be too surprised if he does little to carry out reforms as he promises. I can never forget the keen disappointment Conservatives generally, and Christians specifically, felt when the 8 years of Ronald Reagan passed, and we were still killing babies by the truckload, even though Reagan passionately spoke out against Abortion; unfortunately, his actions did not match his rhetoric. I fear the same will happen here with George W. Bush.

Please be very careful about accepting George W. Bush as a genuine Born Again believer. I believe he is a very effective counterfeit. In studying the occult for 16 years, and working closely with four former Satanists, I have developed a spiritual antenna I have learned to trust. My spiritual antenna is telling me to be very careful regarding George W.'s confession of faith.

A person whose Mom and Dad are deeply Illuminist -- with whom I am working -- has a mother who is still deeply practicing Black Magick Satanism. While her mother is deeply, deeply Satanic, she nevertheless maintains a very effective veneer of Christianity. She has a "Jesus Loves Me" plaque on her front door, several Christian scenes in her home, makes a show of studying her Bible, and even stands up to pray fervent prayers in church. Satanists can call upon Jesus' name in public, they can give convincing testimonies, and they can even say, "Jesus Is Lord".

What they cannot say is, "Jesus Christ is MY Lord".

Whenever this young lady, now Born Again, confronts her mother, asking her to say, "Jesus Christ is MY Lord", she refuses. He Christian veneer peels right off!

Until I hear George W. Bush publicly say, "Jesus Christ is MY Lord", I will be skeptical.

In fact, all true Christians need to be skeptical these days of everything we hear, see, or read. We need to look to no man with blind faith, nor any ministry; rather, we are to be like the Noble Bereans, who did not take the words of the Apostle Paul at face value, but went back to their homes to "search the Scriptures" to see if what Paul was saying about Jesus fulfilling all the Old Testament prophecies were true.

This time period is the End of the Age, and unparalleled deception is upon us in full force. Furthermore, more "Christian" leaders are tares rather than genuine wheat than ever before. We must be careful, circumspect, and rooted to the Word of God as we make our way through the toughest spiritual mine field anyone before us has encountered.

But, keep looking up, for our Redeemer cometh!

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