Wow connect the dots, the scoffers in this text are just like the evolutionists of our time…they atempt to messure the age of the earth by saying that all things remain the same…then Peter mentions Noah’s Flood, what a slam dunk, God interupts mans wisdom with supernatural powers. Don’t be deceived, Jesus will return.
2 Peter 3:3-13
3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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A Word of Warning to Uniformitarian Scoffers – John MacArthur
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010The Call Sacamento….Lou Engle “Dominion Theology”
Monday, July 26th, 2010In this vid clip you will here Lou Engle from IHOP (International house of Prayer) the founder of the call.
The Call is coming to Sacramento September 3rd and 4th 2010
This movement’s motivation comes from an eschatological view called Dominion Theology. In all my studies of the Bible I’ve never seen the call to over take the government for Christ. Share the Gospel yes, vote for good moral leaders, yes, the great commission is very clear about our mission. Here is a quick definition from John MacArthur
“What is Dominion Theology?”
Answer
Have you heard about that? Dominion Theology, that’s a new label, for a new kind of theology, and there are always new theologies. Dominion Theology comes in a lot of forms, but I think what you are probably talking about is John Wimber, who is now advocating a new kind of Dominion. Let me give you this very simply, ok?
Dominion Theology, espoused primarily by John Wimber, who is networked through a group of churches called “The Vineyard Churches,” basically is saying, “That as believers, we are to take power over Satan and demons, we are to exercise dominion over them.” There is another kind of theology, that is existing today, that is called “Liberation Theology.” It is a form of theology that says, “That the Church is to take dominion over the institutions of the world.” That’s another form of Dominion Theology, or Kingdom Theology.
And what it basically says is that the Church’s mandate is to take over the institutions of the world, that’s the Liberation Theology side. What Dominion Theology says is that we are to take over the Powers of Darkness; we are to take over the demons; and we are to take over the spirits; and we are to dominate Satan. We are to take dominion, and that’s why they talk about “Power Evangelism” and “Power Healing.” In other words, he trains people, supposedly, to invade the Satanic World and take dominion over demons.
That we as Christians, by living in the natural world, and by just moving around in the visible world, have failed to exercise the power that we have, to literally take over the Satanic World. You hear them talk about, “Binding Satan,” have you heard that? “Binding demons; Pleading the Blood on demons; Pleading the Blood on Satan; Taking dominion over, not only demons, but all of the institutions of the world, that are infiltrated and influenced by demons.
And they believe that whatever people’s problems are, tend to be demon induced. And it gets extreme, no matter what it is, it’s a demon, and you have to take dominion over these demons. And that is why they talk about Power Evangelism. They say that you cannot evangelize without signs and wonders. You have to overpower the demonic world, and demonstrate your divine power to the lost, in order for them to be saved. Power Healing, break the bondage of demons and so forth.
It is unbiblical. We are never told, never told, to take dominion over demons. We are told by James, “Resist the devil and he will” what? “Flee from you.” We are never told to bind Satan. We are never told to bind demons. We are never told to plead the Blood on Satan and demons. Listen to Jude 9, “Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you.’” Even Michael, who is “superangel,” did not dare rebuke Satan. But rather said, “Lord, you take care of him.” And if Michael, as a holy angel, does not take to himself the exercise of authority over fallen angels, where would we find a mandate to do that?
The Bible simply tells us, that if you want to deal with the enemy, you put on the whole armor of God, right? You put on the whole armor of God, and you’ll be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. We are not called to take dominion over the institutions of this world. We are not called to take dominion over demons and over the devil. We are called to get on our spiritual armor, to resist that demonic world and trust in the power of God, who does take care of them.
“John MacArthur’s Questions and Answers”
So Stay the course found in scripture, Love God Love your neighbor….
Mark Driscoll-The Need for Male Leadership
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Wow, Think, this makes sinse, and Mark Discoll’s Church is the proof…Look at the word of God do you notice that it does speak to men first and formost? If you see this as the way to grow the church, join me at Lake Tahoe Community College on Wedesndays from noon to two to do some one on one wittnessing.
Bristol Palin: Abstain only if you are poor?
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
This is a big problem with conservatism, we see the value of making points that support the conservative view, but stop short of showing from scripture God’s Authority. This is why Politics don’t work, to change behavior. In a secular world we try to soft sell truth with logic. Sure it makes logical sense, but is it the most loving message? The love message from God is to Obey him, because…….He’s God! Todd Friel makes a good point in this vid. Our behavior is to honor God, not to seek the most pleasure based on the fact we can afford to sin… Its a sin Bristol, no matter how much money you have. The Palin’s claim to be Christians, if they are, ask for forgivness, don’t justify your sin, then teach others its OK…Whoa that is really a NO NO according to Christ. Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Do you want to Learn or do you want to Criticise?
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Yea I’m guilty of showing up on Sunday Morning ready to lay low the Pastor for every little imperfect thing out of his mouth. Boy Oh Boy! am I better then that Bozo, I think some of this attitude comes from being a kind of teenage Christian, you know that time in your life that you knew everything? The beautiful thing about growing in our faith is that God is so big that now I hardly anything, so instead of looking to bring down the Pastor, I now humbly show up to learn what he knows to help me to know the Lord better, of course if he demands I drink Kool Aid, I’ll politely ask where that is in scripture…like the Bereans
Understanding the times…
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
What have you heard about December 21, 2012 and the “End of the World”?
Perhaps you’ve seen the November 2009 blockbuster “2012”, or watched the History Channel offering: “Doomsday 2012: The End Of Days”. You may have even watched some of the older movies like the 1998 movie, “Armageddon” with Bruce Willis as Harry Stamper, Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman, Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost, and Liv Tyler as Grace Stamper, A. J.’s fiancé. Or perhaps in 2004 you enjoyed “The Day After Tomorrow” with Dennis Quaid as Jack Hall, Jake Gyllenhaal as Sam Hall, and Emmy Rossum as Laura Chapman!
Without a doubt, you have questions about the future and want some solid answers. A series of classes entitled: “Understanding the Times” will be meeting the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, starting March 27, 2010 at 6PM at Tahoe Community Church http://www.tahoecommunitychurch.org.
Tahoe Community Church is located a short drive up Kingsbury Grade (Hwy 207) at 145 Daggett Way.
Topics for discussion include but are not necessarily limited to:
The United States in Prophecy
The World in Prophecy
Israel in Prophecy
Prophecy in Progress
The Antichrist
December 21, 2012 — Predicting The Future
The Tribulation Timeline
The Rapture
Jesus is coming. Get busy proclaiming the good news to the lost……yer bags packed?
Atheistic Worship…Hey who are they worshiping?
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Humans love to worship, we are created for God’s pleasure, for his enjoyment:
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Psa 102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
I’ve seen this many times from atheists, they, like all of us long to worship, God created us for his glory and pleasure. Our natural response to him is praise. God’s created purpose is so strong that even those who deny his existence, then prove his exists by illogically praising “Random Chance”. In other words if we just came into existence with out an intelligent being to marvel at, what are these atheists so impressed with? How can they even say anything is beautiful? Is random chance beautiful? Is the universe capable of receiving praise? Who are these atheist’s singing (saying) praise to?
“Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” (Ps. 100:2-3, New King James Version)
Further more, if that isn’t enough to make you stop and think, what about the fact that God tells us very clearly that those who exchange God’s testimony about creation for the lie of evolution will worship the creation not the creator.
Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
In no way can you deny what this is clearly saying, man will worship and serve created things…now look around you what do you see? Idolatry!
Replacement Theology
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010I’ve studied this off and on for the past few years, I think that God would never Change his focus from Israel to the Church like many think, Read this and decide for yourself what you think of the doctrine of replacement theology. Replacement Theology creeps into the Church through American Holidays, when we lift the church and or America up higher then Israel. If we replace Israel and insert the Church instead, our Christian world view shifts in a way that puts contradictions into the rest of our theology. Most people simply just mis-apply some Scriptures intended for Israel alone, and then insert the church and or America in its place. This Interpretation’s biggest supporter is Hank Hanegraaff from “the Bible Answer man” radio program. 
Across America people even among our own ranks here at Tahoe Community Church have mixed these Ideas into what they believe. I’d like to take this opportunity to point out from God’s word that he hasn’t changed, his mind about Israel. Please read this article that clearly shows how God’s word contradicts Replacement Theology.
Replacement Theology
by Anonymous, 1989
There is a powerful movement afoot called Replacement Theology
which states that the church is Israel and the promises given to
Israel were primarily for the church. This movement is
incurring the wrath of God, as it increasingly condemns the
nation of Israel as illegitimate, which is natural for folks who
believe the church has replaced Israel. Even among those who
still hold to Israel to one degree or another, there seems to be
a propensity for yanking Old Testament promises out of the Bible
– and, I might add, out of context — and indiscriminately
applying them to modern church situations. The tendency is to
select those promises which fit church theology (like healing,
prosperity, victory) and ignore those which do not (like
punishment for rebellion, keeping of feasts, sacrifices). To
set the record straight: the church did not yet exist when
those promises were given, and they were not given to Israel as
a “type” of the church until the church should inherit them.
The Old Testament promises were given to Israel, and they apply
to Israel. Many of them ALSO apply to the church in a general
way, and many of them apply to all nations in a general way, and
many of them apply only to Israel. We have got to quit assuming
that just because some teacher of the Word says the Bible says
something is ours, that it is. We must understand the situation
and context in which the promises were given — promises of
blessing and/or cursing, of redemption, et-cetera — before we
can understand the promises themselves.
Let’s take as an example 2 Chronicles 7:14. Most people today
are familiar with that verse, but unfortunately the vast
majority of the church in America seems to have gotten the idea
somewhere — not from God — that the promise is to America. It
most assuredly is not. Let us read the passage in its context
(2 Chronicles 7:11-20):
Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the
king’s palace, and successfully completed all that
he had planned on doing in the house of the Lord and
in his palace. Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at
night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer,
and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of
sacrifice. If I shut up the heavens so that there
is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the
land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and
My people who are called by My Name [over whom My
Name is called] humble themselves and pray, and seek
My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will
hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and
will heal their land. Now My eyes shall be open and
My ears attentive the prayer of this place. For now
I have chosen and consecrated this house that My
Name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart
will be there perpetually.”
The context here is the completion and dedication of the temple
in Israel. Note God’s promise concerning “this house”.
Speaking to Israel, the Lord promised to forgive the nation and
heal the land if the nation would repent. The entire nation is
called “My people”. Israel is called by God’s Name. This
promise was NOT given to Japan, Albania, or the United States,
none of which is a nation “called by My Name”. Unfortunately,
we in western society have twisted the meaning for our own
supposed benefit to allegedly say, “If My people which are
called by My Name (the Christians within the country) …” But
it does not say that. Now the promise CAN apply to a nation
other than Israel in a general way: certainly if any nation
(America included) will repent, God will restore the nation and
forgive the sin and heal the land. The key is the distinction
between who is Israel and who is not. If the church is Israel,
then one can truly say, “If the believers will repent and pray,
I’ll restore their land.” But believers have already repented,
or else they wouldn’t be believers! The confusion comes from
erroneously assuming the church is modern “spiritual Israel”,
having replaced national Israel. It does not say “If the
Christians will pray and intercede and repent”. Repent of what?
The believers are already the righteousness of God in Jesus, and
it’s not for the righteousness of the believing 1% that America
will be judged, but for the sin of the wicked 99% who refuse to
repent. The promise concerns a NATION repenting, not God’s
people WITHIN A NATION repenting and praying. We are the temple
of the Holy Spirit, it is true, but our repentance does not
nullify the justice and righteousness of God. He cannot leave
America unjudged and remain a righteous judge!
Elsewhere in the Bible we find the answer to how God deals with
a wicked nation where a few people are righteous. This is one
of those passages the modern Word of Faith and Kingdom Now
people like to avoid, because it pretty well debunks their
misinterpretation of 2 Chronicles 7:14. This is found in
Ezekiel 14:13-20, and it is one of those places which speaks of
all nations in general (starting with verse 21 — not quoted
here — the Lord starts to apply it directly to Israel):
“Son of man, if a country sins against Me by
committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand
against it, destroy its supply of bread, send famine
against it, and cut off from it both man and beast,
even though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job
were in its midst, by their own righteousness they
could only deliver themselves,” declares the Lord
God. “If I were to cause wild beasts to pass
through the land, and they bereave of children, and
it became desolate so that no one would pass through
it because of the beasts, though these three men
were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord
God, “they could not deliver either their sons or
their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but
the country would be desolate. Or if I should bring
a sword on that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass
through the country and cut off man and beast from
it,’ even though these three men were in its midst,
as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not
deliver either their sons or their daughters, but
they alone would be delivered. Or if I should send
a plague against that country and pour out My wrath
in blood on it, to cut off man and beast from it,
even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst,
as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not
deliver either their son or their daughter. They
would deliver only themselves by their
righteousness.”
Can our righteousness deliver America? What does God say about
it? The only people who will be delivered are the righteous,
and we’ve got to quit praying out of God’s will and asking Him
to deliver the wicked, because He is a righteous and just God
and He will judge sin. The smart thing is to get your sin
judged on the cross so you’re free of it and you don’t get
judged yourself. We need to pray for people to get saved, and
for wisdom for our leaders, and whatever else the Word tells us
to do. But know this: God is about to judge this nation. It
is His will to do so, indeed, He MUST do so. It is NOT His will
that any perish, but that all be saved. Nevertheless, Scripture
is clear that God hates sin, and He will destroy the nation that
continues to sin. He will also leave a righteous remnant.
The next time you hear someone quoting 2 Chronicles 7:14 over
America and admonishing you to pray for restoration of America,
just remember God isn’t going to restore America. God is
restoring Israel now, and human government is coming to an end,
because the Messiah is about to return as King of kings and Lord
of lords; and soon the Word will be fulfilled which says, “The
kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and
He shall reign forever and ever.” Why should God put off
Messiah’s return so Americans could enjoy a few more years of
materialism and debauchery? We need to get in on what God is
doing, not try to make Him conform to American Christianity and
an American Jesus.
Thomas Jefferson declares war on Islam
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Revisionist History: Thomas Jefferson’s Koran was not a book of inspiration for him. Watch the truth about why Thomas Jefferson even owned a Koran. I wonder what Jefferson would think about the revisionist historical twist (lies) told about him and Islam. America’s first Muslim Congressman Democrat Keith Ellison is sworn in on the Koran Jefferson got to read, so he could better understand the Muslim faith that declared war against America.
Justin Peters a call for decernment
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
A Fair Biblical Critique of the Word of Faith Prosperity gospel. This video is a fair, comprehensive, biblical critique of the modern Word of Faith movement. Word of Faith theology (WoF) dominates Christian satellite and cable television and is making alarming inroads into our churches. This seminar contains dozens of audio and video clips (primarily the latter) of various WoF leaders such as Benny Hinn, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Jessie Duplantis, Creflo Dollar, etc. incorporated into a PowerPoint format. This format allows people to see and hear for themselves what these individuals are actually teaching. Everything then is, in turn, balanced with Scripture.