Showing posts with label National Cathedral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Cathedral. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Is the God of Jesus and of Islam ONE and the Same?

 Moslems bowing to Allah in National Cathedral


By Pamela Rae Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-

Recently the doors of National Cathedral in Washington DC were opened to Moslims to hold a Jummah, or Islamic Friday call to prayer within it's Christian sanctuary. The people of National Cathedral who hosted this event were certain they were doing a wonderful thing to "promote interfaith peace, reconciliation and understanding."
Gary Hall, Dean of National Cathedral

However, the actions of these allegedly Christian leaders  in National Cathedral clearly demonstrated that they have a fatally flawed perception of the reality of people worshipping two different and diametrically opposed spiritual forces leading two separate religious belief systems.

It is clear from the words of Gary Hall, Dean of National Cathedral, that he believes that the God of the Bible and the god of Islam are one and the same. And if this be the case, then the two differing faith systems can somehow then be reconciled to one another.

(In fact, in one former interview Hall admits that he is "non-theistic" and therefore does not even believe in God nor that God sent Jesus Christ! Does such a man belong in any pulpit of a Christian church, including the influential National Cathedral???)

However, does the eternal Word of God contained in the Bible agree? Is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the god of Islam called "Allah," one and the same God?




The clear answer from the Holy Bible is a resounding "NO."  How can we know this for certain? Simply because GOD IS ONE. He is not schizophrenic nor self-contradictory.

Almighty God, the divine Creator of heaven and earth, and the One Who sent His son Jesus Christ to the world, is of one heart and mind, and unchangeable for all eternity. Ultimate perfection never needs changing!

"I AM the Lord, I change not!" This is His holy word as revealed in the Bible.


As we read the Holy Bible and then compare it's teachings and revelations to man, with that written in the Islamic Quran, it becomes clear immediately that the God of the Bible and that of the Quran and not one and the same God. In fact, it becomes clear that the two are diametrically opposed to one another in the most important and major tenets of the Christian faith.

The god of Islam teaches through the Quran that God has no son and never sent Jesus Christ into the world, and that Jesus was merely a prophet instead. But the Holy Bible clearly reveals that God DOES have a Son, sent by God into the world to save mankind from their sins, and  clearly prophesied  by many prophets of the Bible for hundreds of years prior to His miraculous conception and birth.

So whose revelation is correct? Is The God and Father of Jesus Christ, Whose Holy Spirit inspired the Bible, correct...or the god of Islam and Mohammed and the Quran? Clearly, both cannot be correct and yet disagreeing with each other!

 
Christian church being burned by Muslim jihadists in the Middle East

The Quran declares that Christians must be forced to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ and instead convert to Islam, or suffer the consequences as prescribed  in the Quran. The Quran instructs Moslems to crucify and behead Christians who will not renounce their faith to join them. It also teaches that Christians can pay a tax or fine instead, and literally live as second class citizens in countries under Islamic law, or Sharia.

Christians are forbidden to preach the Gospel to Moslems and constantly spied upon, harassed and subject to persecution and false accusations continually in Islamic countries worldwide.

But what does the God of the Bible have to say about this?

 

The Bible is very clear about the command of Jesus Christ to His followers, that they are to proclaim Jesus before men, and to remain faithful unto death in order to retain their eternal salvation.

Jesus furthermore taught that those people who persecute His children and tempt them to deny Him and fall away from the Christian faith, will suffer eternal judgment and damnation from the hands of a just and righteous God Who sent Jesus into this world to save mankind.

Jesus declared that it would be better for a person to have a millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the deepest depths of the ocean, than to offend even one of His little ones who believe in Him.

Jesus Christ Himself will send such people into eternal darkness and damnation when He returns, in fact. He will command them to depart from Him, into the place of torment prepared for the devil and his angels. 

For when His children were hungry and thirsty, when they were in need of clothing and shelter, or sick and in need of consolation, these people did nothing to assist and help His children.

 
Islamic fanatics are infamous for persecuting Christianity worldwide

In fact, such Moslems are guilty of oppressing, attacking, torturing and murdering Christians for centuries throughout the world. The Bible clearly declares the damnation of such people, first because they have rejected salvation through Jesus Christ God's Son, and secondly because they are oppressing His children as well.

And so it becomes clear that there are two different gods behind the inspiration of the Bible and Christianity, and the inspiration of the Quran and Islam. And that the two religious belief systems can never be reconciled, and are found to be diametrically opposed to one another.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ can never be reconciled to the false god or spirit behind the inspiration of Islam and the Quran's teachings. One is the truth, the other is a lie. And as Jesus Christ declared, "Father, Thy Word is truth." 

 That being said, the words of the Quran and Mohammed that contradict God's eternal words must then be found to be A LIE.

But where do such dangerous lies originate from? Jesus Christ teaches that the inspiration for all lies is "the father of lies and liars," Satan himself. Jesus declared that there is no truth in Satan whatsoever. The Bible also teaches that those who are not saved from Satan's influence and sin then remain under the power of Satan's influence.


Clearly Mohammed was not a follower of Jesus Christ and His teachings, and did not believe in Him as sent by God to be the Savior of mankind. Therefore, Mohammed remained under the influence  of sin and Satan's dark power, even as he wrote the words composing the Quran.

You can further judge Islam by the fruits that it bears throughout the world. Jesus Christ declared, "I Am come that they might have LIFE and have it more abundantly." Jesus said that the thief, the devil, comes only to steal, kill and destroy, and that he is a murderer.

Does ISLAM bring life in this world and in the world to come, or death instead to mankind??? 

As one studies the history of Islam, and observes the present actions of Islamic teachings in action in the Middle East, including under ISIS and it's butchery and trail of destruction and devastation it's Islamic jihadists are leaving in countries such as Iraq and Syria and beyond, it becomes clear that ISLAM BRINGS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION to the innocent wherever it wages bloody conquest against "infidels" or non-Moslems.
Christian crucified under Islam, just as the Quran instructs Moslems to do

Christians are suffering horrifically at the hands of ISIS Islamic jihadists at this time. Their churches are being attacked and burned, Christians are being tortured, crucified and beheaded at the hands of Islamic butchers, all in the name of their god "Allah" and the teachings of the Quran.

Hundreds of years of Islamic conquests in the name of Mohammed, Allah and the Quran also testify to the brutal and bloody, murderous  legacy of ISLAM. Certainly, it is NOT a "religion of peace."

Nor is the false god of Mohammed, Islam and the Quran the SAME God as revealed in the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ! In fact, it is Biblically accurate to declare that the spirit behind the inspiration of the Quran and teachings of Mohammed is both demonic and of Satan the liar and deceiver.

Paul the Apostle spoke to Timothy in one epistle, that people would someday depart from the revelation of God's truth through Jesus Christ, and instead give heed to "doctrines of demons".

Paul also spoke in II Thessalonians of people rejecting God's truth, to then be given over to believing in a soul-damning lie instead. He called this "a strong delusion." Moslems who reject the truth of Jesus Christ and His salvation, are in fact tragically fulfilling this prophetic warning of the Apostle Paul.

Such Moslems have no love for the truth of Jesus Christ and God's Word, and are rejecting it to instead embrace the lies of the soul-damning cult of Islam. I find it very tragic that generation after generation of Moslems have perished eternally in hell, separated from the One True God, due to the heresy that Islam teaches.

This is why I pray continually for the eyes of Moslems to be opened to the truth of the Bible, and I am careful to show them the love of Christ and to witness to them whenever God provides an opportunity. It is never God's will for anyone to perish eternally, and that includes the Moslems.

 

This then is where the leadership of National Cathedral made a grave mistake. Their sin was not in opening the doors of a Christian sanctuary to unbelieving Moslems. Jesus wants the sinful and unbelieving people of the world to freely enter into His house of worship, to then listen to His words of repentance and life being preached by His faithful ministers of the Gospel. His house is to be house of prayer for all people!

However, the Moslems invited to worship in National Cathedral last Friday were not invited so that they could then listen to the words of life spoken through Jesus Christ and the Bible, and then repent of their sins and come to God through faith in Jesus Christ, instead of being deceived into hell by a false prophet called Mohammed and the lies of the Quran.

No, these Moslems were invited instead to bring their pagan belief system, their false prophet and their book of heresy with them into a Christian sanctuary dedicated to Jesus Christ.

 
Bowing to a false God in a Christian sanctuary. 
Is this not blasphemy against the Living God?

They were encouraged and enabled to practice their false and pagan beliefs in a Christian church. They were allowed to pray to a false god, Allah (the ancient moon god of the Arabs in fact) and to the spirit that has inspired the brutal persecution and destruction of Christianity worldwide for centuries.

Such people who are one in spirit and teachings with the very Islamic jihadists who are now wreaking havoc throughout the Middle East, and destroying churches and torturing and murdering Christians, were permitted to bring those very beliefs and teachings with them that inspire such persecution of Christians, directly into a Christian church called National Cathedral!

What blasphemy. What an abomination and travesty of justice this was in the sight of God and His Son Jesus Christ. A prominent Christian sanctuary and house of worship was desecrated by the presence of those who hate Christians, who hate Jesus Christ as revealed by the Bible, and whose Islamic brethren are actively murdering Christians and tempting them to deny Jesus Christ.
Gina Campbell, director of worship in National Cathedral
Did YOU call these Moslems to repent and believe in Jesus for salvation?

I say to the leaders of National Cathedral who planned this event, to now try to persuade the Christians suffering under Islamic persecution and horrors throughout the Middle East and beyond, that ISLAM and CHRISTIANITY can somehow be reconciled! 

They will only laugh bitterly and tell you from their first-hand experience that the two CANNOT BE RECONCILED, ever.
Gary Hall, Dean of National Cathedral

And the leaders of National Cathedral are directly to blame in this abomination and insult to Christianity's clear teachings for two thousand years now. Will God hold them accountable in the day of judgment? Yes.

Did these religious leaders of National Cathedral attempt to confess Jesus Christ before these Moslems who sat in this cathedral? 

No. Had they done so, this would have become a noble and scriptural reason for inviting these Moslems into a Christian sanctuary.
Gary, did you preach the Gospel to these Moslems that day???

But what they did was unscriptural and an abomination in the sight of a holy God. These "Christian" leaders invited unbelieving pagans who worship a false god other than the God of the Bible, into a Christian sanctuary to then practice their false religious beliefs and worship another god instead. This is therefore truly blasphemy in the sight of God and Jesus Christ.

Paul the apostle writes clearly that there is no fellowship between light and darkness, and no fellowship with the Living God and idols. The Bible declares that anyone who desires to be a friend of the world at the expense of sacrificing the truth of God's word, cannot also be in fellowship with the Living God.

Therefore, what happened that Friday in National Cathedral cannot be considered an event pleasing to the God of Christianity. A Christian house of worship dedicated to the preaching of the eternal Word of God through the teachings of Jesus Christ, was desecrated and defiled by the worship of a pagan god promoted by a false prophet, whose teachings blatantly contradict the revelations of the Bible.

There is blood on the hands of the Christian planners of this event in National Cathedral. For they did not preach the everlasting Gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ, to these very Moslem sinners that they invited into this Christian house of worship. They failed to confess Jesus Christ before sinners when they had the clear obligation and opportunity before them that day.




Instead, there was only one Christian woman who declared the truth from the Word of God to these lost Moslems. Her name is Christine Weick. Christine did not come from a big name television ministry, nor will you find her name among the alleged "Christian leaders of today" in America.

Christine is not considered famous by the religious biggies of America,  nor does she live in a million dollar mansion as the televangelists of today luxuriate in. In fact, due to personal crisis, she is forced to live in her car at this time.

But this is the woman God chose to nevertheless enter unchallenged into National Cathedral, and to speak the word of salvation and life to the unsaved Moslems who had gathered there for Islamic prayer that Friday. Christine spoke the simple yet eternal words of life to these Moslems, that neither Dean Gary Hall nor his associate Gina Campbell, leader of worship, were willing to speak to these lost souls that they had invited into National Cathedral.

God bless you, Christine, for being a faithful witness to the truth before men that day!

I can speak clear words from the teachings of Jesus Christ, that the leaders of National Cathedral will be held accountable before Almighty God, for failing to call these Moslems to repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. 

Failing to confess Jesus before men brings the judgment of the living God upon those who profess to be Christians."To him who knows how to do good, but does not do it, the same becomes sin unto him."

Jesus declared that the person who confesses Jesus before men, shall also be confessed or acknowledged before His Father God in heaven. But, that the person who denies Jesus Christ before men shall be denied before Almighty God as well.

To not confess Jesus as the only way to the Father, when the clear opportunity was presented to Christian leaders in National Cathedral as they stood before Moslems, is the equivalent of denying Jesus Christ before men. And as Jesus Christ declared, people will be held accountable for every word they utter...or fail to utter...in the Day of Judgment.

In closing, every Biblical Christian can clearly discern that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ can never be the false god of the cult of Islam and it's teachings denying Jesus Christ and authorizing the persecution and murder of innocent Christians.

We must realize that there is no place for "ecumenism" and "reconciliation" between two opposing belief systems that are diametrically opposed to one another. Almighty God cannot be reconciled with Satan. Heresies cannot be reconciled with the Bible's Word of truth. Christianity cannot be reconciled with Islam. Jesus Christ cannot be reconciled nor compared to Mohammed. The Bible cannot be reconciled with the Quran. A pagan and idolatrous mosque cannot share the same status with a Christian church.

A Moslem cannot be made equal to a Christian in the sight of Jesus Christ and Almighty God. This is simply because a Moslem  who rejects eternal salvation through Jesus Christ has no eternal life, has no forgiveness of sins, and has nothing but eternal damnation because of unbelief.

However, the Bible promises that the person who repents of their sins and receives God's messenger of salvation to the world, Jesus Christ, into their life, shall receive ETERNAL LIFE and forgiveness of sins, and in fact can be called a son of God as well. While Christians who believe have this privilege, unbelieving Moslems who choose to reject Jesus Christ do not.

Beware of wolves in sheep's' clothing , who violate the teachings of the Word of God and promote "doctrines of demons" and that form of "ecumenism" that denies that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to God the Father. It is utter heresy to attempt to reconcile two opposing belief systems, one that denies Jesus Christ with the true Christian faith that confesses Jesus.

There can be no fellowship of light with darkness! We as Christians are called forevermore to walk in the light of Jesus Christ and His revealed word of truth to His people. The Bible calls us to earnestly contend for  the faith, and to pay close attention to the doctrines we believe in.

Although we as Christians are also called to pray for such lost people as the Moslems, and to lovingly share Jesus Christ and the Bible with Moslems, and to show forth His love and compassion to them as well, (which I have done many times)we are not to make the mistake of attempting to be reconciled with them in their sinful state of unbelief, nor with their errant teachings.

There is no reconciliation of light with the darkness. Rather, we are called to point out their spiritual darkness to them, and invite them to be reconciled with God at last through turning to Jesus Christ for forgiveness and salvation at last.


This is the Word of God. 

My fellow Christians who love Jesus Christ and the truth, walk boldly in the light of God's eternal word, and be not deceived by false religious leaders and doctrines of demons in these end times. The Bible clearly states that in the end-times, many shall be deceived and fall away from the true faith of Jesus Christ.


Don't YOU be one of them!


-Pamela Rae Schuffert, speaking out for the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ- 



Sunday, November 16, 2014

Woman Thrown out of National Cathedral for Her Christian Testimony During Islamic Prayer Speaks Out

Christine Weick Speaks Up for Jesus
at National Cathedral
GUEST ARTICLE FROM WND
It was supposed to be a shining moment for proponents of the interfaith movement.
The Islamic “jummah,” or Friday call to prayer, would be held on America’s grandest Christian stage – the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
It was a bold move that had never been tried. Leaders of the Episcopal cathedral said sending prayers up to Allah from a Christian church would show the world that two religions at odds with each other for centuries could “approach the same God” as one body of believers.
The stage was set. The prayer rugs were neatly arranged facing Mecca. The lights shone down on the imam for his opening remarks.
Not so fast.
Mosaic and Cross, National Cathedral, Washington DC
Christine Weick, a 50-year-old Michigan woman with flowing blonde hair who lives out of her car, rose from the packed National Cathedral, the hall of halls in terms of religious prominence in America, and moved toward the front of the church.
She pointed to the cross hanging overhead.
That cross seemed to be the one thing nobody wanted to look at, she told WND Saturday in an exclusive interview.
The Muslims had set up their prayer rugs in such a way that their backs were turned on the cross, which they consider an alien religious symbol. Jesus was a prophet but was not the son of God and never died on a Roman cross, according to Muslim teaching. Yet, they found themselves staring at a woman who demanded the cross become the center of attention. She then blurted out the message she had traveled all the way from Tennessee to deliver.
“Jesus Christ died on that cross. It is the reason we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior,” she said. “We have built enough of your mosques in this country. Why don’t you worship in your mosques and leave our churches alone?”
Christine removed for daring to speak the truth for Jesus Christ
She immediately heard voices in the crowd yelling for security.
“Black coat, white scarf, blonde hair!” yelled one. “We need to get her out of here now!” someone else cried out.
“They were yelling for security, and by that point I was already done saying what I came to say,” Weick told WND.
She was promptly escorted out of the sanctuary by two men in suits, who handed her off to a police officer.
She had instantly become a folk hero of sorts for thousands, if not millions, of Christians who read what happened or watched the video that was posted on the Internet.
(Yes, Christine! You are now a hero in MY sight too, and thank GOD for women like YOU in this day of compromise in the Church!-PRS)
Now Weick wants everyone to know that she did not get arrested and she is safely back in her SUV, heading back to Tennessee.
“It was quite an overwhelming day yesterday,” she said.
National Cathedral, Washington DC
And while she was lauded for her bravery, she confided she was “literally scared to death” as she waited for the right moment to stand up and proclaim the gospel message.
“They never said a word to me. Two guys came up and got me. I remember one large man in a suit taking me by the arm, very strongly but he did not hurt me,” she said.
“He just put an arm on me and said, ‘We are walking this way.’ Then comes the police officer, and I’m thinking, ‘OK I’m done.’ I’m still in the sanctuary at this point, so I put out my hands for the officer to arrest me, but he just held my hand and walked me to the back of the church.
DC police at National Cathedral
“He handed me over to a woman officer, who takes me to the front doors of the church. She hands me to another officer, who takes me to another officer in the foyer, who takes me out to the road. Not one of them said a word. I was free to go.”
She said she told the last officer who led her to the road to have a good day, to which he gave no response. She returned to her vehicle and soon afterward drove home.
Except she doesn’t have a home. She said her husband divorced her last year “over a spiritual conflict,” and her family disowned her because she took a stand against same-sex marriage and other “moral issues.”
Weick said she learned of the Muslim prayer service two days before it was scheduled to happen through an article posted on the Drudge Report. The more she thought about it, she felt the Lord was telling her to go to Washington and say something.
Islamic call to prayer in National Cathedral November 14, 2014

“My blood began to boil as I read the comments of how this is to be such a wonderful event and how religious tolerance can, for the first time, be shown in our nation’s capital,” she said.

Still, she had nervous doubts about making the 400-mile trip from Kingsport, Tennessee.
“That article got my attention. And then I Googled the Washington National Cathedral, and I got more information about the service,” she said.
She found out from the cathedral’s website that the event was for “invited guests only.”
“That’s when I knew I had to be creative, and so did God,” she said.
She wasn’t sure what type of creativity would be required or even if she was doing the right thing as she headed out on the road to D.C. In fact, she almost turned around.
A sign of confirmation
“I was driving there on my way from Tennessee, and I’ve got a lot of doubts in my mind: Am I going to make a fool of myself? Am I going to be in jail for the weekend?”
But as she drove down the highway in the right lane, she passed a woman.
“There’s this woman stepping out of her vehicle on the side of the road, clapping and giving me two thumbs up, and I’m like, ‘That was the strangest thing,’” she said. “The first thing that went through my mind was, ‘That’s my confirmation right there.’ That’s all I needed, and from that point on I knew this was something I’m going to do; and that was the catapult that moved me to keep going towards Washington.”
She said she told only four people where she was going and what she planned to do. She asked for prayer.
“I said I need you to pray for me, this is what God has put in my bones to do,” she said. “It didn’t hit me until I got in the cathedral and saw all the people and the cameras sitting on my right, and I’m thinking, ‘This is a big deal. I am going to be put in jail!’”
She credits God for getting her into the massive church, which was guarded like Fort Knox. Everyone had to go through a checkpoint to make sure they weren’t armed or posed a threat.
“It was a God thing how I got past all that security in the beginning. They never ID’d me, and I had brought my ID with me just in case, and I thought that would be my downfall, being from Michigan, that they would say, ‘What is she doing here?” Weick said. “According to reports, this was a heavy security event. They checked every bag and every person that walked in there. I bet some security people are in big trouble today.”
She said she slipped through unnoticed, first by following a security guard and then later by engaging in conversation alongside a woman with press credentials.
“I just followed those security officers when they were going from place to place. I just followed them,” she said. “It was almost like they didn’t see me. Like I was invisible.”
Hiding in the bathroom

Weick got through the security line about 10:15 a.m., more than an hour and a half before the prayer service started. She needed to lie low to avoid detection.
She noticed a janitor’s closet was left open near the bathroom and briefly thought about hiding in it. But a fear of being locked in persuaded her against that option.
She slipped into the bathroom instead.
“When I was in the bathroom hiding out, that’s when it hit me: I think I’m invisible, I really wondered, the way it happened, just strange, just totally strange; and someday I’m going to ask God how that all worked out,” she said.
While hiding in the bathroom and waiting for the service to start, she rehearsed over and over what she would say. She prayed constantly, with emphasis on Psalm 27.
A woman was washing her hands at the sink as Weick left the stall where she was hiding. The woman had a press tag on her blouse.
“I asked her if she knew what time the service was to start and she replied, ‘In a few minutes. Do you know where to go?’ I didn’t.”
“Follow me and I will take you to the front,” the woman said.
“I walked with her into the main foyer up to the security line. We walked right past the guards and into the sanctuary! I was invisible.”
Still, the butterflies fluttered in her stomach.
Bowing to a false god of Islam who cannot save
“As she took her seat she was shocked at what she saw. About a hundred people were sitting in chairs around rugs that were placed on the floor. Muslim women, separated from the men, were seated on the rugs. To her right was the news media with their cameras and recording equipment. In front of her were the prayer rugs.
“Then it hit me… I had such an angst come over me. Seeing these Muslims sitting on their rugs ready to bow to a god, causing such an abomination in the house of the Lord,” she said.
The imam said the call to prayer would begin momentarily and spoke some words in Arabic.
Weick felt her heart thumping in her chest.
Jesus on the Cross, National Cathedral
“I prayed… ‘Lord! Tell me when!’ At that moment I saw a figure of Christ on the cross some distance away. I stood up.
“I was so nervous; you’ll never know how scared I was,” she said. “All I kept thinking was, ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me; that’s my only strength.’ I could not do it through me. But we have an amazing God. He shows his strength in my weakness. That’s my motto.”
She started to speak, firmly and loudly but not out of control. What she said was not the same as what she had rehearsed in the bathroom stall.
“I did not plan on those exact words coming out. I was going to say it differently. I was planning to say, ‘I serve a risen Savior, and Muhammad is dead.’ But I saw the cross and it just popped out of my mouth. I was not going to say it that way. I rehearsed it the other way over and over in the bathroom, because my biggest fear was making a fool of myself; but it didn’t happen that way.”
Even if she had failed and made herself a fool, it could not be more painful than what she has already gone through over the past year, she said.
“I took a very strong stand on something last year. My husband divorced me over it. It broke my heart. I have a lot of heartache back home, a lot of hurt,” she said. “And I felt the Lord telling me, ‘You are going to go from place to place for me.’”
While she lives out of her car, she doesn’t consider herself homeless.
“Don’t be sorry for me. I have a very nice SUV. I go out to eat, I have a bank account,” she told WND. “I am just too Dutch to pay 60 or 70 bucks for a hotel every night when I can spend my nights in my car. And I travel every night from place to place, and that is what I was doing when I saw the story in the Drudge Report.”
Not a hero

WND’s first story on the prayer service drew hundreds of comments from readers. Many lauded the lone, unidentified woman who stood up and rebuked what they saw as a worship service to a false god inside a prominent American church.
Among the comments:
·         “They shielded their eyes from the Christian cross, but could not shield their ears from the truthful words of this one brave woman.”
·        
“We should all pray to have the courage this woman displayed. The world needs it. Our nation desperately needs it. Jesus Christ IS Lord.”
·        
“I would speculate that the brave woman who proclaimed the Gospel was the only Christian present– and they threw her out,” commented a reader who quoted from John 16:2: “They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.”
·         
“Bless this woman! Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation for all that believe. Acts 4:12 automatically comes to mind. Islam and Christianity are opposed to each other, no matter what any Pope, Priest and Cardinal says. You cannot deny the Son and have the Father and Islam denies Jesus is the Son.”
But Weick said she did nothing outside of what God gave her the strength to do, and she doesn’t see herself as any hero of the faith. The weakest of Christians could easily do the same thing, she said.
“That’s why I posted on Facebook this morning. I was like, ‘Come on Christian soldiers we need to fight, and we need to fight using the gospel, the Word of God,’” she said. “There are Muslims everywhere, just walk up to them and say, ‘Jesus Christ is Lord.’ Be brave.
“I’m hearing that many Muslims are getting dreams. Maybe all it takes is one to have a dream after being told Jesus Christ is Lord, I don’t know. That is God’s deal. Let Him work it out. We just need to be bold in the Lord and we don’t need to be burning their mosques down, like they burn our churches. We have the gospel and that is our only weapon we need. Jesus is Lord, and we need to proclaim it, but how many times do we do it?”
But before Weick became bold, she was humbled.
“It was a situation in my life, how God yanked every anchor in my life over the last five years, just everything that would keep a normal woman, a normal mother, at home just got yanked out from under me,” she said. “I have a son and a daughter, and they disowned me. I took a stand against gay marriage and I lost them. That is my heartache. And it hurts me so much. And I wonder what they think now when they see me on the news.”
Weick said she doesn’t know what her next “assignment” will be, but she knows now she can tackle almost anything.
“I told the Lord last night, ‘OK, you can take me now,’ but I don’t know,” she said. “I think He may have other plans for me, per Jeremiah 29: 11.”

Saturday, November 15, 2014

National Cathedral Hosts Islamic Prayer Meeting in Washington DC

National Cathedral, Washington DC

By Pamela Rae Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-


(But WHY This Does Not Surprise Me!)

All across America, especially throughout Christian news websites and organizations, people are commenting furiously on the recent ecumenical event in National Cathedral, wherein a Moslem prayer meeting was hosted by Gary Hall, the religious leader and dean of this sacred national landmark in Washington, DC.

Of special interest is Christine Weick from Tennessee, who (without even possessing that renown pair of male anatomy commonly associated with courage,) nevertheless had the boldness to stand up against this outrageous abomination taking  place in a prominent cathedral in our nation's capitol.
Islamic terrorist seizes church sacraments 
after desecrating Christian church

Even as Muslim fanatics worldwide, inflamed by the heretical teachings of the Qu'ran, are destroying Christian churches and homes and beheading, torturing, raping and murdering our Christian brethren, here in America we are opening our churches to this soul-damning cult and foolishly trying to find "common ground for understanding" between Islam and Christianity.

Just ask the Christians being hunted down and persecuted continually under Islam, how much room there is for "common ground" and mutual understanding between Christians and fanatical Moslems!

I am so proud of Christine Weick for her testimony of Jesus Christ, unashamed and unafraid! Read what she had to say:

Thank God for Christian women like Christine Weick
from Tennessee
(But where were the Christian leaders
of the Washington DC area at this time???)

“Jesus Christ died on that cross over there,” the unidentified woman declared as she stood in the front of the room. “He is the reason why we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior!” 


“We have built, and allowed you here in mosques across this country,” she continued. “Why can’t you worship in your mosque, and leave our churches alone?”

Weick was then interrupted by indignant men who escorted her out. But she said what the Holy Spirit emboldened her to say! Praise God for those people God is raising up to boldly proclaim the truth from His word to a sinful world!

But HOW could this possibly happen to begin with, in a church sanctuary such as the famed National Cathedral that millions of Americans are familiar with??? I have driven past the National Cathedral many times in the past, when I lived in the Northern Virginia area near Washington DC.  I have also visited this church as well.
"Hi! I am 'a Christian' and your new pastor! Lucky you!" 
(Heh-heh-heh...)

Unsurprisingly, the answer is sad and simple. As in many other churches across America today, wolves in sheep's clothing have crept into positions of spiritual leadership in National Cathedral. Because of their unscriptural teachings, they can rightly be called heretics. 

Read this article about the current Dean in National Cathedral, Gary Hall. And be shocked. His close associates are apparently no better, or they would not have been hired and placed there to work with him. Apparently there are those in the National Cathedral who are working for an ecumenical agenda, and to help foster the coming reprobate harlot world church as well.



What place do heretics have in the true Church of Jesus Christ? How can there be true fellowship between light and darkness? And yet, this has sadly happened throughout the churches of America today. Paul the Apostle warned of wolves creeping in amidst the flock of Jesus Christ.

And now such heretics who have departed from the Word of God and the true faith, have opened up Christian churches to idolaters who worship another god!
"IDOLATERS..shall have their part 
in the lake which burneth with fire 
and brimstone, which is 
the second death." 

The words of Jesus Christ 
from Revelation 21:8

Throughout the Bible, God's holy word commands us to never bow down to false gods and idols. This is idolatry. Jesus warns us that all idolaters will have their part in the lake of fire, or eternal damnation. 

Is the "god" of Islam that Moslems worship, also the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? Never! Why? Because God is never schizophrenic. He is always of one mind and one truth. He is never united against Himself or self-contradictory. What the Qu'ran teaches and what the Bible teaches are clearly contradictory and will never agree in doctrine.

The false god of Islam inspired the teachings of the Qu'ran. The Qu'ran clearly teaches that God has no son, therefore Jesus Christ is ONLY a prophet and NOT the true SON of God. 
"Father, Thy Word is truth."~Jesus Christ

Yet, the Bible clearly declares that God HAS a Son, and that without Him NO MAN CAN COME TO GOD THE FATHER.

The Qu'ran teaches and instructs Moslems to persecute and ultimately murder Christians if they will not convert to their cult of Islam. 

Yet, the Bible clearly condemns such actions, and in fact teaches eternal damnation awaits all those who persecute and offend God's Christian children.

As one studies the Bible and the Qu'ran and then compares the teachings of the two, it becomes clear that the spirit that inspired the teachings of the Qu'ran, and the divine Holy Spirit Who inspired the teachings of the Bible about Jesus Christ, are two separate and opposing forces.

But, the God of the Bible is never divided against Himself, nor does He self-contradict His eternal Word. Therefore the holy God of Jesus Christ and Christianity is NOT the same "god" or spirit that inspired the dubious teachings of the Islamic Qu'ran.

And if it was not the divine Spirit of God that inspired the teachings of the Qu'ran, then exactly what kind of spirit was behind such teachings??? The Bible refers to such heretical and false teachings as "doctrines of demons".

Paul the Apostle wrote to Timothy, warning that in these last days, people would turn from the true faith in God through Jesus Christ, and instead listening to deceptive spirits and doctrines of demons. 

This then is the true spiritual origin of the teachings of Islam, which contradict the holy Word of God, the Bible, and contradict the true teachings of Jesus Christ.
"Thou shalt not bow thyself to them, nor serve them..."
Deuteronomy 5:9

Therefore, what an abomination in the sight of a holy living God, to witness unsaved pagan Moslem idolaters bowing down to the false god of Islam, and worshiping this idol in a Christian church dedicated to the worship of the ONE TRUE GOD and His Son, Jesus Christ!!!


What part do idolaters and idols have 
with the temple of the Living God???
NONE!
-From II Corinthians 6:16

And of course, in order to influence Americans nationwide, the enemies of the Gospel simply had to stage this major event in the large and influential National Cathedral of Washington DC just for emphasis. 

Their clear message is, "Sure it's okay to try to mix Christianity with Islam! We can all be friends, even if your Allah advocates murdering Christians! The Christian God doesn't care if idolaters worship a false god in a church dedicated to His truth and worship! We will fill America' churches with pagan idolaters who whose Moslem cohorts murder Christians and destroy churches throughout the world, and it's all okay! This is liberal  ECUMENISM at it's finest, and the future of the church after all. And God HELP the poor Christian do-gooder who dares to disrupt this event and get in our way!"

Sigh. This brave Christian woman who dared to confront this blasphemous event was not only unceremoniously hustled out of the cathedral, but then had to endure the brunt of news media bias in the WASHINGTON POST, as if to add insult to injury.

"WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL'S FIRST MOSLEM PRAYER SERVICE INTERRUPTED BY HECKLER" was the WP's article's biased headline. Was she only "a heckler" or a righteous person standing up for God's truth in this hour of deadly compromise?

Well, fellow Christians in North America, here it comes. This problem of ISLAM IN AMERICA and the compromised "Christian" clergy who want to usher in CHRISLAM simply won't go away. It is here to stay...for now. The challenge has been set before you. In fact, it's already in your back yard, America!

And what are you going to do, Christians of America? Sit back in your cozy recliner as you watch all this on the nightly news, and then do nothing about the dangerous infiltration of cults and CHRISLAM into our Churches across America? 

And it won't stop at our churches. Look at what Islamic fanatics are doing in various regions of North America regarding taking away Christian freedoms and rights, even in getting Christmas celebrations banned in one school. All because they are somehow "offended" by Christianity and Jesus Christ.

Well, let me tell them something. I am offended at how Moslems are burning and destroying churches, and torturing, raping and imprisoning my fellow Christians in every Moslem nation across the globe. 

I am offended at every effort they make to try and diminish my Christian liberties and rights throughout my nation, America, dedicated as a true Christian nation under God by my Pilgrim Christian ancestors beginning in 1620. 

I am offended at Islam's blasphemous teachings against Jesus Christ the Son of God, and their hate literature called the Qu'ran that has led to countless Christians being imprisoned , beheaded and murdered throughout the world to this present day.
Christian priest beheaded by Moslems

My fellow Christians, if you are also concerned about this clear threat to our freedoms and Christianity in America, remember: complaining never changes anything. 

If you are displeased over this recent event taking place in National Cathedral, one of America's most prominent churches, why don't you take the time to fast and pray about all this, and ask God how you can make a difference in our world today? 

Why don't you seek God as to how you can become a part of God's solution to the darkness of the cult of Islam spreading throughout our nation? And how you can stop the spread of spiritual darkness and compromise in the churches of America, beginning with monitoring your own?

If you are not willing to become a part of the solution, then you just might be part of one of America's greatest problems, that of widespread INDIFFERENCE AND APATHY in many of the churches of America today. 

The concept of "church" has become so diluted in many Americans' minds. 
When the term "going to church" is mentioned, most Americans envision people frantically waking up Sunday morning and rushing to get to church on time...singing  few songs (even if you don't know them)...throwing some money in the offering plate as it is passed...listening (often impatiently) to a sermon and glancing nervously at their watch, afraid to miss the "all you can eat lunch buffet" after church, or that upcoming Sunday afternoon football game on TV.

And then, once again it is over for another week. People hurry out of the church building, briefly greeting one another, and then don't even interact with fellow church members until the following brief encounter in church next Sunday. In thousands of churches across America, this scenario is repeated Sunday after Sunday.

In the midst of all this, where is the enduring love and fellowship between believers?Where is taking the time to get to KNOW one another, and to LOVE ONE ANOTHER as Jesus Christ commanded us to do?

We as Christians in the 21st century have lost the true Biblical concept and meaning of "The Body of Christ" and the church of the Living God. We have forgotten our true spiritual roots and what TRUE DISCIPLESHIP CHRISTIANITY is really all about. We need to rediscover the true essence of THE BODY OF CHRIST once again, and what genuine Christian love is really all about.

Biblical love has often been abandoned by many Christians, because the cost of loving others exactly as Jesus has loved each one of us, is simply too hard to achieve and maintain. 

But we must remember that Jesus gave us a new commandment. It is probably the most broken commandment in the New Testament today. And sadly, too few Christians even realize when they are breaking this important commandment.

"A NEW commandment I give unto you, that you love one another even as I have loved you. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, when you have love one to another." From John 13:34 and John 15:12

When is the last time you can remember any fellow Christian seriously taking the time and effort to love you, as Jesus Christ loves you? Or when have you taken the time to love a fellow Christian as Jesus commands us to? (I am not talking about just loving family members, either.) Stop and think about it for a moment.

Where is LOVE in the churches of America today? And just how far does it reach?

Many people have shared with me about how disillusioned they are with the churches in our nation. Some have gone to their local churches in desperate need of Christian love and compassion and fellowship...and have emerged as sad and empty as when they first walked in.

No one talked to them or greeted them. There was no real interactive fellowship. No one took the time to manifest the love commanded by Jesus to be shown to one another. We live in a lonely, hurting world wherein people are starved for genuine Christian LOVE and compassion. 

But sadly, people will not always find it in their local church.

Yet is this the will of God? NEVER! Churches are not only places of worship and praise to Almighty God, but a sanctuary wherein people can find peace, love and compassion from fellow believers in Christ Jesus. How can any place call itself a church, when  holy Biblical LOVE is not a pivotal teaching and a tangible presence therein?

Another serious problem: holiness and sanctification have frequently been thrown out the window by many Christians, while they allow the seductions and temptations of this world to overwhelm their lives. 

Secret cyberporn abounds in many households, as does fornication and adultery and other forms of sin, including lesbianism and homosexuality. And the leaders of the flock are by no means immune to sin either.

I'm sorry to disagree with the liberals, BUT when the eternal Bible states that sexual immorality is SIN, and that the sexually immoral will NOT inherit the kingdom of Heaven, it means exactly what it says. God  will never re-write His holy commandments to please any sinner! 

No one seems surprised today when another televangelist or prominent preacher falls because of seduction or money. Sadly, it has become the norm more and more in our world today.

"Do as I SAY, not as I DO!"
Sigh...

The Bible commands us to boldly declare God's truth to a sinful world around us,and to become willing to suffer persecution for proclaiming His truth. 

Yet how many American Christians remain silent in the workplace when told that they cannot share their Christian faith there? Often they refuse to become willing to partake of the sufferings of Christ, because it might rock the boat and their comfortable little world.
Don't be afraid to speak up for Jesus Christ!

How can we expect to change the world around us for Christ, if we are not even willing to suffer persecution for doing the right thing in His sight???

As an honest and observant Christian of 42 years now, I can tell you that the problem of "Christians compromising with the world" in National Cathedral recently, is simply indicative of the broader tragic state of many of the Christian churches throughout North America today. False teachers and wolves in sheeps' clothing abound therein.

However, as in every generation, God has his "remnant Christians," true disciples of Jesus Christ who are dedicated and sincere, walking in the light of Jesus Christ daily and unafraid to speak up boldly for the truth, and determined to live for Him every single day.

Such committed and steadfast people are the true disciples of Jesus Christ in this generation, and the ones who are destined to OVERCOME THE WORLD and to reign with Him on the earth someday.

In closing, do not compromise His precious and eternal word to become a "men-pleaser". 

Do not become a part of the "harlot church" filled with sin and abominations in the sight of a holy God. Do not participate with false churches who have abandoned the true faith and yielded to "doctrines of demons" as National Cathedral has sadly done throughout recent years. And they are not alone in this.

Choose instead to be a part of Christ's holy and pure Bride and Body, sanctified by His blood, filled with His Holy Spirit, and destined to overcome and "inherit all things." Jesus Christ is returning for a spotless Bride of His chosen and elect, washed in His blood and victorious over sin. The sinful and the compromised will not be a part of this holy Bride of Christ! 

Fellow Christian, if you have fallen into sin, ask yourself this question: do you prefer your sins, over your eternal soul and salvation??? Is eternal damnation preferable to forgiveness and eternal life? No? 

Then come to Jesus Christ TODAY for forgiveness and let His blood wash you from ALL sins! Be restored in your fellowship with God through Jesus' precious blood, and become a part of His Bride and what God is doing in the earth today!

Choose to not be like this world. Choose to stand boldly for Jesus Christ and His teachings, regardless of the persecution you may face for the truth. 

Together we can change the world, and help bring America back
 to the God of our Christian forefathers and founders of this nation, 
who above all knew the eternal truth of 
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord God."
Are YOU willing to be a chosen vessel of the Lord's, to do His will in this world, and to change this world by bringing His Word to America and mankind?

And if not YOU, then WHO?

-Pamela Rae Schuffert-