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Billy Graham Letter Warns of Impending Judgment

Famed evangelist Billy Graham’s letter calling America and its “deceived people” to repentance is one in a series of escalating warnings that the nation is in growing danger of God’s judgment, prominent faith leaders told Charisma News.

“This may be our last chance to call the nation to pray,” says Anne Gimenez, national chairperson of America for Jesus—America for Jesus—The Awakening, which expects hundreds of thousands of people to gather at Independence Mall in Philadelphia Sept. 28-29 to pray and intercede for the United States.

“We believe it possibly could be the last time we have this opportunity. Nineveh is a great example. All the wickedness of that city, and yet when they did what God said they should do and repented, God healed their land. That’s right where America is today. We’re on the brink of America being destroyed as we know it, but I believe God is giving America a chance at this hour.”

In his letter, “My Heart Aches for America,” the 93-year-old Graham wrote that he recalled how his late wife, Ruth, once expressed concerns about the nation’s “terrible downward spiral”—exclaiming, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

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  • blackhawk

    Obama IS the anti-christ. Wait until next year and you will see. He has 49 months before he introduces his evil intentions completely.Almost 43 are already gone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661932942 Linda Falke

      Blackhawk, I am no supporter of Obama. I despise his policies and I do not buy into his statements that he is a follower of God, given the things that he has said and the things that he supports. But right now, only God knows for certain who the Antichrist is. It is up to us to share the gospel with others; to be aware of the signs of the times; and to be prepared so that when the Antichrist is revealed, we will know for certain who he is. Pray that we will not be deceived.

      • Wesley

        obama is an anti-Christ as found in John's first and second letters for he denies what the creeds say about Christ. as for all you dispensationalist the anti-Chirst that you are looking for can and will never exist. the beast of Revelation was the Roman Emperors from Nero to Titus. for the beast was the seat of power. Nero die and was replaced by the year of four Roman Emperors to Titus's own father. Titus marched on Jerusalem and destroyed the Jewish Temple and brought back all the gold and silver and any not destroyed valuable articles of the temple.

      • mallen11

        Believers in this age will not be here when The Anti-Christ reveals himself. It may be hundreds of years from now; we do not know when we will meet the Lord in the air so in the meantime we have mandates to follow…
        II Peter 3:8… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
        Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.

        • dragonfire777

          How do you know? "I will come like a thief in the night when no one suspects." No one but the Father knows the time."

          • mallen11

            Please re-read my post — I did not give a time and no one knows. What I am saying is that so many people are so hung up about so called "signs" of the return of Christ that they forget to continue to grow spiritually through the study of the rest of the Bible for everyday living. I look forward to my Lord's return at the Rapture but in the meantime I need to continue to learn and follow the mandates given for all believers in the Church Age.

          • dragonfire777

            I did and yes you are right, we must continually grow. Peace to you.

          • Me_in_Canada_eh

            Scripture says to watch. No man may know the day or the hour but you can watch 'the seasons'. Right now, Iran is preparing for war against Israel. The ayatollahs, the supreme rulers of Iran, had what was referred to as a 'final war council' on the matter and they said they will be at war 'within weeks'. Why's this important? Iran's biggest ally is Russia. On one side, Israel, the US and most free-world nations. On the other, Iran, Russia and probably China. WW3, anyone? One-third of the world will be destroyed by fire. What kind of fire do you think would do that?

          • mallen11

            There is nothing wrong with expecting the Lord to return at any moment. What I am trying to say is that too many get so caught up in "watching" for His return and forget to keep learning how to live the Christian way of life and serving Him as ambassadors in the royal family of God. People thought Hitler was the Anti-Christ along with other evil rulers; even -0. Therefore, if one wants to sit around and watch, that's fine but again we have other responsibilties as believers to learn God's plan for our lives here on earth and as long as we are believers we will be taken up to meet Him in the air; there is no preparation for that moment. There are no prophecies for the rapture; only historical trends and we are seeing plenty at this time and the focus should be on the middle east. Since I believe in dispensationalism I don't believe any major destruction of the population will take place until after the rapture but during the tribulation. America may be in for some more discipline to get us to turn back to focusing on the Lord Jesus Christ in our daily lives and people may think we are close to His return because of this. I have studied many years under a number of great Bible theologians and am very comfortable in my beliefs and learning more each day.
            BTW, where does it say to watch for His return at the rapture?

          • Evermyrtle

            Read Matthew 24, mark 13, Luke 17 and 21, II Tim 3:1-7. HIS W

            The WORD tells us that we do not know the day nor the hour but HE gives us the scriptures to know when the time of HIS return is near at hand.

            All Christians will continue to study HIS WORD and learn of all HIS PROMISES and trust of their fulfillment..

          • Wesley

            if you would keep reading ii timothy 3 for verse 9 Paul tells Timothy that everyone will see how big a fool the people are describe in the first 7 verses of the chapter.

        • Mex Seiko

          I agree with you about the revelation of Anti-Christ after Rapture, but given the imminent fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 at such closeness as days or months, I doubt your 100 year assessment.

          • mallen11

            I agree and hope it is sooner. The only emphasis I was trying to make was that too many Christians zero in on the coming of our Lord and forget about continuing learning the rest of the Word of God and growing spiritually.

          • Jeff Dixon

            Jesus will not return before you die.

          • Mex Seiko

            Actually, the Rapture occurs within a lifetime of the reconstitution of Israel. I'm 58. I may still be around. Otherwise, I'll meet my bodies half way in the air.

          • Jeff Dixon

            Neither of those events will ever take place.

      • dragonfire777

        If you do not think Obama is of the anti-christ ways, them you have been deceived. There have been many anti-christs. Will there be an ultimate one? Perhaps, but we will be attacked with others all along the way. The definition of anti-christ is those who oppose God and lead others to idol worship, unrightousness, sinful acts and abominations. Obama qualifies…

        • Mex Seiko

          Antichrist will declare himself god inside the Jewish Temple. After this election or even the next four years he'll be irrelevant unless the Constitution is cancelled. Do you see that happening?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Papich/100000029359454 Michael Papich

      The ant-Christ is a theologian, NOT a politician.

      • Bighoss

        NO, "the Antichrist" is a figment of dispensational premillennialist fantasy!

        • Wesley

          the only way their Antichrist can exist is in science fiction novels. the beast in Revelation was caesar and injured head was Nero specifically. antichrist and the beast are two distinct entities. antichrist is all theological while the beast is pure political.

      • tbone

        The AntiChrist will be a political leader make no mistake about it. To believe otherwise is to dispute what the Word of God has to say about him.

    • Winston

      Although Obama is NOT "the anti-Christ", he does have a anti-Christ spirit, just as Tony Blair, Hitler, and other world leaders have had in bringing chaos and tragedy upon various peoples. THE anti-Christ has not been revealed as yet

      • dragonfire777

        Yes Obama is an anti-christ. An anti-christ spirit and yet not an anti-christ? You are like all those people who try to separate the man from his actions and words. A man's is what acts he does and the words he says, reguardless of the false face. One CANNOT separate the two!

    • Myrtle

      Blackhawk, every person who is against JESUS CHRIST is an anti-CHRIST BUT there is a super anti-Christ who will try to rule the world and the more I see out of Obama and hear out of him the more I think he is could be THE ANTI-CHRIST.

      • tbone

        People forget too soon the policies that Bush enacted that were very much "anti-christian" And to call himself a christian to deceive those who truly are, is an abomination. Neither Republican nor Democrat will save this country. There is no difference. Read the good fruits vs. bad fruits of the Bush presidency here:http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/nz1086.htm

      • dragonfire777

        Well said!

      • Emy

        I totally agree!

    • Bighoss

      Let's see–that makes about the 368th positive identification of "the Antichrist" from the realm of deluded dispensationalis.

      • mallen11

        Sorry, Bighoss but those of us who are Biblical dispensationlist do not claim anyone is the anti-Christ since he won't be revealed until after the Rapture (and I know you don't believer that either). It is the religious people who want to escape physical death or any trials or tribulations because they are not trusting the Lord to sustain them. It isn't easy to do so if one does not know God's Word and apply it to one's life.

        If we don’t use God’s plan for our life, we think our
        problems are greater than what God can provide.

        Dt 31:6 Be strong and
        courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or
        forsake you.”

        Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing,
        but in everything by prayer and
        supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

        Dt 31:6 Be strong and
        courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or
        forsake you.”

        Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing,
        but in everything by prayer and
        supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

        • tbone

          you know your bible well mallen

          • Bighoss

            mallen knows how to use his/her Bible to array unrelated scriptures into a crazy quilt "end times" fiction. It is a "talent" shared by many of the Darbyite-Scofieldian persuasion.

          • Mary Wood

            Howdy little pony: I am curious. Please tell me, if you will be so kind, what is the Darbyite-Scofieldian persuasion? End-times fiction? I am enthralled by this interpretation. Thank you.

          • Bighoss

            Mary, you are competent enough to go on line and research for yourself the theologically disordered dispensational premillennialist theories of Messrs. Darby and Scofield. Just type "dispensational premilliennialism" into any search engine and you will find all you need. Be advised that your Mormon church embraces much of this nonsensical end-times mythology.

          • Despeville

            Indeed Hoss. Wacko dispensationalism imported here from UK just over a 100 years ago is a great vacuum for a reason and sound exegesis of the Scripture. Effects are visible here and all over the place in the land of evan-jelly-calism. Did they spotted any new red heifer Hoss? ;0)

        • Bighoss

          You certainly are not speaking in behalf of many dispensationalists within my acquaintance, who have no reluctance to identify "the Antichrist" whenever some corrupt but powerful political figure emerges on the world scene.

          • mallen11

            I have grown up around people who believe in dispensationalism and not one has tried to say someone is the anti-Christ. As I have said before, he is not identified until after the Rapture. I have no idea who Darbyite is and our pastor does not use Schofield as a reference since he did not have the privilege of knowing the original languages of the Bible to completely understand what it teaches. One must compare scripture with scripture to get full understanding. If believer understood dispensationalism they would understand how God works with all believers through the ages.

            Romans 16:25
            1 Corinthians 2:6
            1 Corinthians 2:8
            1 Corinthians 3:18
            Ephesians 1:21
            Colossians 1:26
            Titus 2:12
            Hebrews 6:5

            Romans 11:25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be
            uninformed of this mystery–so that you will not be wise in your own
            estimation–that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness
            of the Gentiles has come in;

            Luke 21:24
            and they will fall by the edge of
            the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be
            trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are
            fulfilled.

          • Wesley

            in the 1920s they claimed that Benito Mussolini and in the 1930s and 1940s Adolf Hitler. some even claimed JFK and Ronald Reagan were the anti-christ as well. and now they are claiming obama is the anti-christ. start reading the Bible in context instead of making verses say what you want them to say.

          • mallen11

            There are so many uninformed people such as yourself regarding the Bible. I have no idea who "they" are who claimed those people were the anti-Christ. In all the teaching and association that I have had regarding the anti-Christ does not reveal who it is since he is not known until after the Rapture. I not only read the Bible but study the Bible from my Pastor-teacher who studies and teaches from the original languages and proves everything he teaches in detail and I am positive he knows far more than you do. Also, I doubt that you read or study the Bible through the power of the Holy Spirit but only academically and therefore cannot understand its truths. There is no way you should accuse me of my beliefs as I don't yours even if I do disagree with you. I state my beliefs and comments on this site not to argue or to get someone to believe my way and you or anyone else will get me to change the way I believe. I have been epistemologically rehabilitated
            for 40 years (since 1972) and I am very happy with my relationship with Jesus Christ. Wesley, I hope you will come to know the truth of the Word of God.

          • Wesley

            i have for i used to be a dispy like yourself until I truly started studying scripture including the historical background reading it for all it's worth. it was not written to us for we are not Timothy, Titus, Corinthian church, etc. it was written for our benefit just like all history so we can learn to not make the same mistakes. like I have mentioned before you can make verses mean anything you want them to mean. the original text was not divided into chapters, verses or had section titles. the chapters and verses are to help us navigate the books. as for the section title they are someone interpretation of the passage which it usually another dispy.

          • Mary Wood

            Thanks Wesley

    • James C. Harrison

      According to the Meyon Calender (spelled wrong, no doubt), it will all be over before Christmas. Not to worry. Every year brings an influx of new end-time alarmists. Sadly, many of them originate in Christian circles, sapping the energy, time, and hope. Building God's kingdom requires patience and perseverance, not the jollies of sensationalism.

      • tbone

        We are not here to build God's kingdom on earth. This earth will be destroyed. We are here to tell others of the saving grace of Jesus Christ and how they can obtain salvation. We are strangers in this land. Sojourners awaiting our redemption from on high.

        • Wesley

          so what does that make the church?

    • dragonfire777

      The definition of anti-crhist are all those that go against God. Yes Obama and his entire administration are in support of being anti-christ with the most profane Obama as their leader. You are exactly right. Pray and be prepared.

      • Mex Seiko

        There's the spirit of anti-Christ and then there's the anti-Christ person, who I believe is the 12 Imam, the Muslim Mahdi. The one Ahmadinejad believes he's ushering in to the world. That's why I think there's a connection with Ezekiel 38, 39 and the rebuilding of the Temple. God will come to the defense of Israel and will make possible to take down the Dome of the Rock.

    • Michael G.

      There has to be a certain sequence of events before the Anti-Christ is revealed.
      1) There must be a "falling away."
      2) The Church will be taken out.
      3) Then the Anti-Christ will be revealed.
      I'm not saying that Obama isn't an anti-christ. He is the counterfeit of the real thing.
      And you don't wanna' see the 'Real Thing!'

    • Mex Seiko

      Antichrist will not be reveled before the Rapture. Besides, Antichrist is not Ameican, Kenyan, or Hawaiian for that matter. Mahdi is the Antichrist and he will be Turkish, real Muslim in any case.

  • AntiFederalist

    Billy Graham has had the nation's ear for half a century and has refused to call for a return to God's law in Exodus 20-23. The thrust of his message has been personal, pietistic salvation with no concern about how the law of God applies to the nation — economics, government, law, etc. Until we return to the whole law — including the judicial case law — our prayers are less than useless. "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be an abomination (Pr. 28:9).

    • Myrtle

      That is very true, but people, today do not want to hear the truth. and our nation is paying dearly because of it. That is why homosexuality and baby murder is legal, that is why our citizens are thrown into jail for having prayer meetings in our homes, that is why we have an anti-CHRIST for the president of the country, that is why the majority of our politicians are liberal, we elected ant put in there.

    • Bighoss

      You are evidently a proponent of dominionism and thus an enemy of the Constitution of this republic. The suggestion that this nation use Exodus 20-23 as the foundation of its legal system is patently absurd from both political and theological standpoints.

    • James C. Harrison

      Wow! That's good stuff!! the Father is making the earth His Son's footstool. Why should the Son return to set up another throne on His footstool? When He DOES appear the second time without sin unto salvation, it will be Judgement Day. Meanwhile Christians must occupy. It is God's law or chaos. It is the crown rights of King Jesus or tyranny! The church wimpitent must become the church militant and call America (and all nations) to repentance!

      • dragonfire777

        God makes the Son's enemies his foot stool, not the earth.

    • tbone

      The law brings death, only grace can save a person and turn their hearts toward the truth. Ephesians 2:8,9

    • dragonfire777

      The law means nothing without first turning our faces to God. The letter of the law is death to people, it is the spirit of the law that allows life.

  • Casmige

    This is really Funny!!,

    Re: "..Billy Graham’s letter calling America and its “deceived people” to repentance…"

    Most of you people still think SUN-day is the "Sabbath" when SUN-day is the first day of the week, not the 7th.

    You guys can't even get THAT right.

    Oh I know, you observe SUN-day in "TRADITIONAL" commemoration of the resurrection…anyone up for Matthew 15:9???

    Oh, But I'm the "Judaiser" right??.

    Sorry, last time I checked the NT??..Even Messiach stated that he came not to do away with the law but to fulfill it.

    But you guys seem to read it different with a private interpretation…something like "I came not to do away with the law but to do away with the law" (As if "Fulfilling" the law some-how set it aside or did away with it).

    Unbelievable. but I'm just straining a gnat….right??.

    • Myrtle

      How does Sunday, Saturday, Sabbath compare with the real problems of the world, homosexuality, abortion, and legalizing the same. shoving JESUS CHRIST out of the door, making it a crime to say HIS name in public, throwing people in jail for having prayer meeting their homes and on, and on…………….. JESUS healed on the Sabbath in Luke 13:10-16 you will find where JESUS taught and healed on the Sabbath .

      • Casmige

        If you can't even get the "Simple" things of Holy Scripture right….it all starts with the deed that layeth closest at hand.

        Healing starts at Home with ones OWN Self with the little things…..

        I'd recommend Isaiah 30:15 Perhaps??

        Nothing wrong with teaching or healing on Shabbot, else Messiach would not have done so.

        Just at least get the right day of worship right…..SUN-day isn't anything but the pagan satanic day of worshiping the creation in lieu of the Creator (Daniel 7:25).

        It's sort like buttoning a shirt up…if you don't get the FIRST button "Right"??? None of the other buttons will line up aright & the entire shirt will be on "Wrong".

        Can't get dressed correctly unless the shirt is buttoned up correctly….& when a shirt is buttoned up incorrectly, you have to Unbutton it all the way back down & start correctly.

        Churchianity has buttoned the shirt completely incorrectly…..& needs to be unbuttoned all the way back to the beginning & THEN buttoned up aright.

        THEN perhaps the iglesia can do what the world needs as far as a true witness…without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing….

        • Bighoss

          You say, "
          Nothing wrong with teaching or healing on Shabbot, else Messiach would not have done so."

          That is proof of nothing. Jesus lived under the Law of Moses, but He took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross. Read the book of Hebrews and get your Judaizing self educated.

          • Casmige

            2 laws there Mister:

            Law of Moses: Yes…which was the sacrificial system.

            The Law of G*D??…Nope, Not so much.

            Do away with the Law of Sin & Death ("Sin" requires the Sacrifice, not G*D…).
            Is an entirely different thing than supposed doing away with the Law of G*D.

            That is what satan wants to do…to make null & void the Law of G*D.

            Guess you're in "That" Camp, N'est pas??

          • tbone

            You need to repent and get saved.

          • Bighoss

            I have no quarrel with the concept of law as it applies to Christians. The New Testament provides a "perfect law of liberty" (James 1:26). I also have no problem with spelling the name of the Deity without interposing a silly asterisk.

          • Casmige

            You're right….The Perfect Law of Liberty allows a "Christian" to Sin & Repent Ad Nauseum because the power of G*D Unto Salvation FROM sin is really only just as strong or equal to the power of sin & the weakness of the flesh….it's a mere wishing & hoping for change sentiment. (That's Catholic doctrine BTW).

            "SIN" and Flesh is simply on equal par with the enabling Grace of G*D. "Grace" is simply a book full of Cheques that present day churchianity uses to "cover" or pay for their continual sinning & participation in sin.

            I get it…the devil made me do it & will KEEP making me do it until the devil is taken out of the way….a great victomology routine that excuses responsibility from the human agent to compliance with G*Ds law of life & liberty.

            I guess Protestantism got it all wrong against such catholic beliefs….?

            Messiach may well have paid the price in sacrifice to sin, however his LIFE was one of showcasing what being a slave to G*Ds Law would and can produce in fallen sinful flesh (Hence the inheritance of Messiach lineage is noted)….& it neither excuses the present day adherent to the gospel from evidence of this enabling power (grace) exampled by obedience & fruit.

            But then again, even the demons believe in G*D, name & claim Messiach as the Son-Of-G*D, Pray to G*D, & certainly know prophetically what their end will be…James 2:19

            How is the present day "Name-It & Claim-It" Profession of a belief in G*D throughout the realm of Churchianity any different, tho??.

            There has to be a determining factor or line of demarcation between what one says, believes or accents to & commensurate "Actions". (James 2:18)

            Philippians 2:12-13 The Word "Work-Out" means to "Demonstrate" salvation.

            If there were no "Law of G*D" any longer in effect as a Plumb-Line, there would be no judgement either.

            Wretched is the condition of the frailties of the human intention & endeavour.

            Thankfully, The power/grace of G*D is greater…..or it is not.

            THAT is the great controversy & question.

            Light is equal to & as powerful as Darkness or it is not.

            Oh, & the silly Asterisk is a hold-over from a respectful omitting
            of the Full spelling of the Holy-Name of G*D (****), sorry about that. The Holy Name of G*D was not taken lightly to utter in print or in speech in reverential deposition to err on the side of mercy rather than presumption of careless utterances.

            But then again…I'm nothing but a judiaser anyways……n'est pas???. lol.

        • tbone

          I like celebrating the Sabbath on Sunday. Sorry bout that. lol.

          • Casmige

            I like that: You make up your own laws & determine which day is the Sabbath…..Nice, Nice…That's like the Israelites deciding they wanted to do in worshiping their own golden calf…….It was not what G*D instructed that was important to be observed & considered, but what "They" thought was right & proper in their own estimations….oh, IDK, but 29:13 comes to mind….throw hermeneutical interpretation completely out the window, though?? Nice, Nice.

    • Skip_Goose

      Nope, you got it right … The same would apply for holidays. Once “man” has involved himself in whatever religion, that belief is no longer from God. Ask three pastors from three different denominations better yet, ask three pastors from the same denomination (you choose) the very same question, word for word, and you will receive three completely different answers. Once man has involved “his/her” interpretation you might as well set the BOOK down and walk away. Reading, understanding, and following what the Bible has to offer, for some, is a non feel good attitude, and listen to those false prophets inside those buildings on Sunday. God tells us what day and what holidays to keep holy however, man has different ideas. So forget about being a gnat!!

      • Casmige

        Great Point: Can't "reason" with the un-reasonable.

        Cheers for the clarification….you're right.

        I'm going back to straining my gnats… =)P~~

    • dragonfire777

      Sunday was the day of resurrection. What is the sabbath? A day set aside for God. Does the day matter or the spirit of remembering and worshipping our Lord, reguardless of the day?

      • Casmige

        It doesn't matter to you….but apparently it does to the Creator else he would not have said anything about it.

        oh well, you'll probably cite Colossians 2:16 as a stand-alone but no other…which still, as a NT reference must be respectfully interpreted hermeneutically line-upon-line & upon historical precedence.

        The only "Law" that Messiach did away with was the "Law of Sin & Death"….because THAT (Not the law of G*D) is what is AGAINST us. where there is no Sin, there is no need of sacrifice either…however all this does NOT preclude & disavow "Obedience" since 1 Samuel 15:22 Obedience to a life protecting/life-giving G*D & law (Which is a law designed to constrain both thought & behviour towards right-living [righteousness] & AWAY from Wrong-doing) gives WAY to a life of Liberty…not to do what one wants to, but liberty from sin, & it's wages or "Fruit": Death or estrangement from G*D.

        Isaiah 1:1-11 actually comes to mind also.

        But then I would commend Roman Catholic Samuele Bacchiocchi, From Sabbath to Sunday, pp 350-51 as positing the actual truth in verity.

        2 Timothy 4:3 "For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine;
        but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves
        teachers, having itching ears:"

        [Paul's description of people having "itching ears" is picturesque. The Greek word, knethomai,
        literally means "to itch, rub, scratch, or tickle." This figure of
        speech implies that they have an itch that must be scratched, or as
        William Barclay puts it, "they have ears which have to be continually
        titillated with novelties" (The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon,
        p. 202). Such people open their ears to any teacher who will relieve
        their particular "itch" regardless of how it measures against the truth.

        Read more: http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/1853/Itching-Ears.htm#ixzz22c2KoruG

        Unfortunately, Billy Graham was of the ilk who did not endure nor
        disseminate sound hermeneutically derived & expounded upon bible
        line-upon-line doctrine....

        Isaiah 8:20

        In returning and rest [Shabbat] you shall be saved,

        in quietness and trust shall be your strength.

        (ISAIAH 30:16)

        • paleocon44

          Casmige: You're treading on ground which is very dangerous. Besides your arrogance, baiting the Body of Christ into your sinful manners and spitting out of your mouth your hatred of a portion of God's Word… You also alienate yourself in this arrogance from the Living Christ so great is your spite against Christ's Body.

          As for the Sunday thing: Each man of Christ must be convinced in his own mind to follow the Spirit of the Sanctified and Risen Lord…the Christ.

          You with your anger and contempt for those who are different in their mind is NOT of the Spirit.

          And, neither are you.

          • Casmige

            SO, Let me get this Straight & perhaps epitomised with a parable:

            I fall in Love & get married.

            However, instead of Celebrating the date of our marriage or anniversary on that actual date, I decide to arbitrarily pick some OTHER day that is more convenient or "Socially" acceptable. I also do the same with my Wifey's Birthday, picking a day or even combining it on a day of convenience.

            My Wifey's Brother comes to me to tell me that I'm incorrect but I turn around & tell him that it's none of his business, that he's arrogant & that he is merely baiting me into sinful matters with his postulations & that he's simply being a hater & so full of spite that it's contemptible.

            I choose to celebrate a different day or season for not only my wifey's marriage to me but also her birthday.

            Heck I lump my birthday & her Birthday & those of the kids all on the same arbitrary day, say the winter solstice….but I still "Love" my Wifey & our marriage???.

            Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
            longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:

            Love has action & that action is based upon a plain thus saith the Lord.

            IDK, reminds me of the "Broken Window" Theorem on Crime & urban decay & devolving into chaos:

            "The broken windows theory was first introduced by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which appeared in the March 1982 edition of The Atlantic Monthly.[1] The title comes from the following example:

            Consider a building with a few broken windows. If
            the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few
            more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if
            it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or
            consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter
            accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from
            take-out restaurants there or breaking into cars.

            The article received a great deal of attention and was very widely cited. A 1996 criminology and urban sociology book, Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling
            and a co-author Catharine Coles, is based on the article but develops
            the argument in greater detail. It discusses the theory in relation to crime and strategies to contain or eliminate crime from urban neighborhoods.[2]

            A successful strategy for preventing vandalism, say the book's
            authors, is to fix the problems when they are small. Repair the broken
            windows within a short time, say, a day or a week, and the tendency is
            that vandals are much less likely to break more windows or do further
            damage. Clean up the sidewalk every day, and the tendency is for litter
            not to accumulate (or for the rate of littering to be much less).
            Problems do not escalate and thus respectable residents do not flee a
            neighborhood.

            The theory thus makes two major claims: that further petty crime and
            low-level anti-social behavior will be deterred, and that major crime
            will, as a result, be prevented."
            I'd say let's fix the broken windows of theology in our own homes & houses of worship FIRST…& the rest will take care of itself.

            That starts with Little incontrovertible doctrinal truths that serve up a line of demarcation from worldy beliefs & pursuits.

            But what do I know??…I'm the "Hater" apparently merely pointing out the broken windows as needing diligent review & repair…

            GaaaaaaacccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkK!

          • paleocon44

            "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him" (Proverbs 26:4).

          • Casmige

            "SING A LITTLE LOUDER" by Penny Lea

            (Or in your Case: Quote some really clever scripture).

            Consider the "Whole" here:
            http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/A-010-Holocaust-Memorial-Day-Stover.html

  • John Daniels

    America is facing judgement! If anyone doubts this read, 'THE COMING: A TRUE STORY OF HORROR' @ amazon.

    • Myrtle

      Read Matt, 24, Martk 13, Luke 17 and 21 II Tim3:1-7; I Peter 2;
      gives many signs og the near coming of Jesus Christ.

      • Jeff Dixon

        And yet, nothing of the sort will actually occur.

        • Michael G.

          "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
          Read it and weep!

          • Jeff Dixon

            It can make one cry to realize how many people embrace the god delusion.

          • Evermyrtle

            Dear Deluded ones, this is what will happen:
            Matt. 25:32-34
            32. And before HIM shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
            33. And HE shall set the sheep on HIS right hand, but the goats on the left.
            34. Then shall the KING say unto them on His right hand, Come, you blessed of my FATHER, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

            If you will read the rest of the chapter, it explains it further.

          • Mary Wood

            Myrtle, surely you don't think that applies to our Jeff?

          • Evermyrtle

            You are right and all the little, as well as the master anti-CHRIST does that every day.

          • Mary Wood

            What do you think this means, Michael G.?

        • Evermyrtle

          You can depend with100% perfection that it will not come until the time is right and nobody will know the time but GOD AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. You may think "That is not fair?" you might say, but what we forget is that it all belong to THEM to do as they please 100%

        • redrover

          Just wait Mr Dixon until something brings you to your kness; then you will know the truth! It already is occuring all around us…how the weather has changed, how the Middle East is ramping up, how abominations of homorsexuality being "okay" when it is vial, trashing our children's education with rubbish, the loss of jobs and companies going out of business, fires, floods, people are rioting and killing all over….this is just the tip of a very big rupture in everything and it will progressively get worse!! Pray, find the Lord and search your heart for God because the end will come one way or the other ….9ll was a trumpet sounding first warning……

  • Myrtle

    John 5:28-30
    28. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming,in the which all that are in the graves shall hear HIS voice;
    29. And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
    30. I can of mine own self do nothing: as i hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.

    Acts 3:19-20
    19. Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the LORD;
    20. And HE shall send JESUS CHRIST, which before was preached unto you.

  • Bighoss

    Apostle Ellis Smith
    Apostle Ellis Smith
    313-585-0070313-585-0070

    • James C. Harrison

      "Unconstitutional" is not the word that describes "heresy" Try "unbiblical." And even then, be careful how you apply it.

      • Bighoss

        I have news for you; it is possible to be BOTH heretical and unconstitutional at the same time. The New Apostolic Reformation has that achieved dubious distinction in its prescription for a governmental system that is profoundly unscriptural and inconsistent with the constitution, and I am being duly careful in asserting this OBVIOUS fact.

  • mallen11

    Why wait until September 28-29 to pray in a group when we should be praying without ceasing (means on a consistent or continuous basis) for our country and our leaders. We are on a downward spiral in this country and unless we all put God first we will not survive as we know our country as founded on Christian/Judeao principles.

  • Dennis

    I got news for you.Its been happening already and if you cant see that your either naive or spiritually blinded.YHWH has been judgeing us for a while and its going to get worse.To think we are being blessed and its not happened yet is insane.YHWH will not be mocked it is only his love and mercy that hes holding back his ultimate judgements.

  • Richard

    Read the excellent book The Harbingers if you want a picture of what has happened and will still happen to America unless the people return

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-B-Severy/557985964 David B Severy

    Every day people drop off the earth's radar screen in to hell, or are received into heaven. The next minute is not guaranteed anyone. Pray for God's grace of salvation to everlasting life in Jesus Name NOW.
    John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
    Hebrews 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

  • actsman1

    Without a book of Acts Holy Ghost revival, America is in danger. Politics won't help. The Lord will have the last Word!

  • tinman jones

    My sentiments exactly, those of Ruth Graham. And the (??) proverb that says "it takes a village to raise a child" is the biggest false creed there is. When America became the melting pot it became in last quarter of the 20th century, the innocence lost from the civil rights movement gradually snowballed into the current situation where men are fathering babies and leaving mommas home alone with child, and others are born as surrogates to citizenship for moms and dads, and we have a land of confusion where kids don't know how to act and have no interest in education because they only want to work like mom/dad or live off of government handouts. Then we have kids and ADULTS who all feel like they are entitled to act like brats because they don't have the backbone nor the proper upbringing to do the right thing. So we have what we have now, where instead, it takes a village to raise an idiot. All of the crime, lawlessness, lack of moral principles, etc. is not to be marvelled at because we have set this current state of social discordance up ourselves by shaking our fists at God, and, as Dan Cathy stated, "We think we know better than God." Well, just like Sodom and Gomorrah and Ninevah, our collective / corporate national state of sin deserves judgment. Pray and seek God's Grace for all so that a Ninevah experience can occur in the 21st century. Thank you, Dr. Graham, for making the call on this. Romans 12:12

  • Walt

    Its pretty simple really Gods people need to Humble themselfs and pray.
    2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

    • jude

      Don't forget that many of these people who call themselves Christians sit in our churches on Sundays. I know I have talked to several I know in my church and it seems they don't get it. They think the democratic party supports the poor. I don't get their thinking process because I am a conservative and am a good giver and my choice can't go along with the totally unbiblical liberals. These ?Christians? are voting DEMONCRAT!

      • LibertysSon

        Be sure to ask them about the poor helpless unborn chidren the Democrats have declared a war on.

  • dragonfire777

    Current events have been set in motion that are critical and impending for this country and her peoples. Obama is an anti-christ and deceiver. Many ,many people I talk to are selling out and buying in to the moral destruction that keeps this nations blessings. Now sin and the breaking of the law is condoned. There is no right or wrong. The moral code is being turned upside down. This leaves many in confusion and the result has been overwhelming violence and murder. I speak of Obama and hid souless administration who will lie, twist and deceive about anything and anyone to stay in power. He circumvents the federal and state laws and no one tries to stop him. His and his minions actions are so unbelievable and yet the people will not wake up to the fact that if this dictorial enity gets away with this and the people still by in, there is no act too profane taht he will not be able to do. This is the true and dangerous force we face right now. If this foul deceiver is reelected, our nation will suffer greatly from God. To my fellow servants, prepare and be ready for the end times. Hold tight yo our God, families and friends. The great deception has begun and the majority of people are turning to the wicked ways. The signs of the end are here. Be watchful and peace be unto you.

  • librtyship

    As usual Billy Graham is absolutely right! Our poor treatment of Israel under the Obama regime might be our first big step down the path to destruction. The Bible is very specific about punishment being inflicted on nations that harm Israel. If Obama gets a second term we are indeed in very real danger!

  • far2right

    This warning coming, from all people, a pretend christian and false preacher.

    Billy Graham is the icon of false, self-righteous, works-based, man-centered pseudo christendom.

    Not only has he led multitudes in false professions of faith.

    He and his false preaching is the very reason why God has brought this once great country to its knees.

    God will not be mocked. He is not standing idly by as men like Graham denigrate the absolute saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

    Why should any man have any measure of respect for a supposed god who claims to love everyone, but throws his very children in the fire simply because he is not wise enough to get them to make a decision for their christ and save them?

    The most menial atheist sees the fallacy of such a supposed infinitely omnipotent, omniscient god who is not smart enough to out fox finite men.

    America is not in need of converting more of the irreligious and immoral to Mr. Graham's false gospel.

    America is in need of the conversion of all free-will religion (Catholic, Southern Baptist, General Baptist, Independent Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist, Mormon, etc, etc) to the Gospel of Christ which is according to the Scriptures.

    The end of Mr. Graham's life is at hand.

    Perhaps God will peradventure grant him repentance unto the acknowledging of the truth.

    • Ruth

      I rebuke you in "Jesus Name" for saying such untruths about Rev. Billy Graham ! I am 60 years old and there has NEVER , NOR WILL there EVER be another servant of the LIVING GOD, that has given his WHOLE life and WON so many souls to Jesus Christ, and NEVER ask for a penny in doing so !!! There will be 5 different kind of crowns given in Heaven by God according to our works for HIM… Billy Graham WILL most certainly be GETTING the "Soul Winners Crown" ! He has Always Preached the true scriptures just as Dr. Jack Van Impe, and NEVER sugar coated them as to NOT offend soooo many as Joel Osteen does…. Osteen isn't even a for real ordained minister…. So if you want to critisize someone for worthless teaching, critisize Osteen for perfectly wasting people's time and NOT WINNING SOULS to the Lord, when he has the perfect venue to do so….

      • far2right

        Billy Graham has preached another gospel all his preaching life.

        He had an opportunity to consider the Gospel of the Scriptures in his brief relationship with Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones. But he rejected it in favor of the gospel of self-righteousness.

        The difference between the false free-will gospel being peddled today and the Gospel of Christ is infinite. In the first men save themselves by their supposed "free will". This is Graham's message. In the latter Christ alone saved all His people from their sins. And He accomplished that upon His obedience unto death.

        Christ did not come into the world to try to save as Graham derogatorily declares.

        Christ actually saved every last soul whom He represented as the Last Adam.

        That means He came for and died only for His elect whom the Father chose before the world was created. This is the clear and plain Gospel the apostle Paul preached in his letter to the Romans. It is undeniable by anyone born of the Spirit.

        Graham perverts the glorious finished work of Christ and attempts to heap that glory on man.

        For what difference is there between you and the drunkard who refused to "receive" Jesus? In Graham's scheme God does everything He possibly can to get the sinner to receive Jesus, but for some reason He is not wise or powerful enough to get the drunkard to make the right decision.

        The difference between you and the drunkard is that there is some thing in you that is inherently better than him.

        That is the essence of the religion of self-righteousness and it is a smoke in the nostril of holy God.

        If you do not repent of Graham's false free-will religion you only exhibit that you are on the broad religious road that leads to destruction.

        My prayer for you is that if you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ in the great Covenant of Grace that God the Spirit would grant repentance unto the acknowledging of the truth and turn to the Christ of the Scriptures who saved every last elect soul at His cross.

        Remitted, redeemed, reconciled, justified and sanctified – all accomplished and settled forever at His cross.

        This is why God is sending judgment to America.

        Because men like Graham have perverted the finished work of Christ.

        And multitudes prefer to follow after this form of perversion instead of Christ.

        America deserves its downfall.

        Would to God He would instead bring true revival and turn the hearts of Americans to the true Gospel of Christ which alone honors the Son.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=753909946 Cynthia Dobson Lanpher

    I read these comments about how "liberals" don't get it. As a conservative, I can tell you for a fact, we don't get it either. We are believing the big lie as it is fed to us by the Republican branch of of the globalists. That evil controls both party – ours as well as the democrats. They feed us different issues to fight over, but they are run by the same evil. We value life or so we say and the democrats do not. But do we really? Here is what I know for sure. We value unborn life. But we do not value the lives of innocent men and women in the middle east. We don't value the lives of our men and women who are sent over there to die and they don't even know what for. We feel good and patriotic because we stick a yellow ribbon and claim we support our troops – aren't we good? And yet we know our government is spiraling out of control. We are apathetic. Most of us know nothing of false flag operations and what the wars are really about. We don't know how our government manipulation has gone back many many decades in the middle east. A good born again, "christian" lady told me the other day that war was a necessary evil. These innocent children that are being blown to bits by us literally every day over there are collateral damage that can't be avoided. Besides, she said. Those people blow up their own children. I've heard that justification so many times I want to throw up. Those mouthing those words do not know anything other than what the TV tells them is so. They don't know anything of history. They don't know the truth of what is behind these wars nor do they want to. It feels better and more soothing to their egos to believe that America is always in the right. But we are not. We are ignorant of a whole history of American tyranny and it just simply the true matter of record for anyone who wants to know. Christians. The truth is Muslims don't "blow up" their children any more than the "Christians" in this nation murder abortion doctors, homosexuals, or aggressively protest our fallen soldier's funerals. Every group – every religion has it's fringe. God watches us Christians and he sees our hate against people. He sees us apathetic and too easily deceived by the corrupt leaders we keep voting into office. There will be wrath from God. But it is because of the behavior of the ones who think they are good Christian people. We should know better. We better wake up my Christian friends. We better wake up and educate ourselves about the evil we are allowing and supporting in our own names because we will have to answer for it before God. It's our job as Christians and as Americans. I pray that we all do this.

  • Beth Jones

    2nd Chronicles 7:14 Must become reality in the USA Repentence begins at the House of God. Even now it is too late to avoid much more judgment. I site the book The Harbinger by New York pastor
    Johathan Cohen, I think I have his name right. Judgment is coming but God can and will protect His own who truly trust and obey Him. It is Corrective Judgement as the late David Wilkerson said.

  • Luzmark1

    I believe God's judgement has already started. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold my anger and my fury will be poured out on this place-on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched. Jeremiah 7:20. Sounds like that global warming explanation to me.

    • Evermyrtle

      I sincerely believe that you are right. GOD I believe is fed up with the deliberate breaking of HIS commandments, the denying of HIS existence, the legalizing of what are HIS abominations. We will reap what we sow, if we don't repent.

  • Luzmark1

    Forgot, free prayer and fasting event in Charlotte the Sunday before the DNC. Check out >Charlotte714.com< ,Kids activities /care, Verizon Wireless grounds 2pm to whenever. Based on the spirit of ll Chronicles 7:14.

  • redrover

    Profoundly true on Ruth Graham's part…..We are in for it folks and it is on our heads and hearts for He blessed us above all and we failed him…turned from Him and now we will see the judgement of it all. We will suffer the fighting of socialism of America and under communism until the end. God forgive us and make our way clear…..take us to be with you Lord before the worst happens. We trust your promises. Mercy unto us for the foolish and the willful ways we have sinned, deserving only your judgements, but pray for your mercy! Forgive America for our stupidity to trust a government that has lied to us for a very long time from both sides and show us what we are to do…….wake us up and show us the way home.

  • redrover

    May I offer to all who have commented here, that we are all within the right to speculate and exchange thoughts, but let's find a way when further comments are made to respect the fact that none of us have the answer totally and can learn from each other. In that I mean that to share, to teach, to offer is to be as the Lord wishes. We can speculate all day and night but the truth of the Lord, His Father and the Holy Spirit within us is that honestly there will be things that will surprise each one of us about all the truths. So please let's trust Him and find the peace that does pass all understanding and let's use our time to share with each other and new people who do not know God, the Bible. Let's trust that our efforts will be to the good of the truth. We are going to witness some awful things ahead that will test the strongest Christian….remember the way is narrow and many will not get to go home. So in the time we have let's read the Bible, get to studying, go to church and talk with others as you would your family, because we already are family in Christ.. Let's not try to shut out those that do not know yet but try to help them see that we are friends and have something to share with them….yes Dixon that is you and some others. If we want mercy, we must show mercy and tell the truth so it can be understood. God please show us each the way for this is going to be hard…you never said it would not be though. When the Lord was on the earth it was not easy for him either thus it will not be for us! To put it all in blunt terms…if it comes to it and you are looking down the barrel of a gun etc. and you are asked if you are a Christian…what will you say? If it meant your death right then and there what would be your answer? That is how serious it is to decide what you believe and where you are at in your walk…..! We are not alone in all of this…He is with us always even until the end of the age…..without faith I would be terified of what is ahead but with God all things are possible….just not always fun or nice, so let's mature and be ready. I mean this for me too guys….lots of work to do!

  • LouiseCA

    Only a Holy Ghost, on-fire-for-God, complete and total revival and turnaround will save this country.

    There has to be a Rapture. Only God knows when it will be. We're told to watch and pray.

  • Martin Rudd

    As much as I respect the Grahams, I want you to know that God doesn't have to apologize to anybody for anything. He is a righteous and Holy God and to say He has to do something is quite contrary to the very Will of an All knowing omniscience and knowing God.

  • Mary

    I know this is an old post but can anyone answer my question: if we are at the end times than why did Jesus say he would return WITHIN the apostles' lifetime? It is clear both from what Jesus said and from what Paul said that they believed that the end was imminent.

    "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky,
    and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of
    Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they
    will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great
    glory. And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will
    gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
    "Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts
    leaves, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see all these
    things, know that he is near, at the gates. Amen, I say to you, this
    generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven
    and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. (Matthew
    24:29-35 NAB)"

    "Truly I say to you, there are
    some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of
    God." (Luke 9:27 NAB)

    Matthew 10:23 also has Jesus telling his disciples that the second coming will
    occur before the disciples finish preaching in Israel: "When they persecute
    you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the
    towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes." (Matthew 10:23 NAB)]

    John says that the antichrist was already present at the time 1 John was
    written. 1 John 4:3

    John quotes Jesus (1900
    years ago) as saying he will come “quickly.” Revelations 3:11, 22:7, 12 &
    20

    Paul believes he is living in the “last days.” Hebrews 1:2

    In 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 Paul stated: “For the Lord himself shall descend from
    heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
    And the dead Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall
    be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: And
    so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

    1 Peter 4:7

    New International Version (NIV)

    "The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray."

    What is scary is how willing most of you are to crucify innocent people and see antichrists everywhere based on a failed prophecy. It should be quite clear to all that Obama is not a Muslim. If he were would he have killed Bin Laden? Frankly this is just racist and disgusting.

    Tell me, in the last four years has anything ever happened even remotely close to your your crazy fantasies?

    If these are the kind of people who are listening to then no wonder you are all up in arms:

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/this-is-the-most-important-election-of-all-time-again

    Call me crazy, but I believe that you don't put someone on trial for things he's never done.

    Your lynch mob mentality is truly disgusting.

    • Mary

      By the way, call me a Muslim if it makes you feel any better. It is not true but hey whatever eases your conscience.

  • Guest

    Billy Graham..Is A Saint By This Man. A Man Of GOD. What Has America Become'? Abortion,Illegal Aliens, Amnesty For Votes,Wars Not Voted On By Congress,Food Stamps,Housing For The Lazy Who Won't Work,Homo-Sexuality As a 'Norm', Affirmative Action,Etc.