Nicole (5 Dec 2011)
"Churches are Dead and
Asleep: Be Careful"
In the USA, I am not sure about everywhere else in
the world, but there was a phenomenon called DIRECT MAIL
donations. And from what I have heard it may have
originated by a man who was trying to help Oral Roberts back in
the 1940's. It seems to me that as Israel was
re-birthed, the devil had to sneak in the prosperity gospel in
the church as an "apple" for people to bite into.
Biting into this prosperity apple kept a lot of people away from
the supernatural and from the right ways of God.
Instead of watching right teaching like Katherine Kulhman,
people were more interested in success and getting that latest
gadget for their home. They began to think
smoking cigarettes was OK and an occasional drink was
OK. You know my family from the 1950's-1980's, you
go into any of their homes and they had a well stocked
bar. It became all about the perfect housewife and
keeping the perfect home and being seen at church instead of
growing up since this was the Fig Tree
generation. Talk about the church being
sidetracked!
Anyways DIRECT MAIL it is a way to ask for money for their
organization by mailing you a letter and asking for
money. The have a form and then you check what box
you would like the money to be donated to such as administrative
costs, evangelizing, missions, etc. And then they
send you a tax form at the end of the year so that you can
deduct it as a charitable cash donation.
Now I gave to one organization when I had a job, but since then
they sold their donation list and it has gone out to everyone
and then some. I gave a cash donation once to one
person at his speaking engagement and now I get several letters
a month.
The thing is that now there are churches coming door to door all
the time, waking me up early in the morning asking me to come to
their church. And if I do not answer the door, they
bang on the door and my dogs go ballistic and I am still in my
pajamas. I don't like opening the door for strangers
and in this day and age with the thefts and rapes, I don't like
opening the door when there are men there unless it is FedEx or
UPS. And the thing is I don't appreciate it,
it is almost a harassment. When the Lord wants me to
go to a church, then I pray about, research it online, ask
around, etc. And I am not talking about once in a
while, I am talking that this happens to me all the
time. I get several letters in the mail a day and I
get people knocking on my door every other day. I am
fed up!
What I have noticed is that all of these churches and
organizations that I have come in contact with are still
thinking in the past....I mean going door to door evangelizing
and also direct mailing, well they are totally
asleep. And I will tell you why.
Every single mailer and flier I have received has the QR code on
it. And these people are so asleep that they don't
even know what it is! It is the precursor to the
mark of the beast. These people are BLINDLY putting these
codes on their fliers, they won't realize that they just put it
on their hand. They will tell themselves, well if I
take it off, then I am not condemned because it is a removable
RFID tag. Next, you ask them about the end
times and the rapture and they are clueless. They
just want to talk about getting saved and then having the best
life ever. They just talk about their huge
Christmas celebration and still are talking about Jesus
birth. Hello! Let's talk about the
lateness of the hour and how we are like the wisemen waiting for
Jesus to return!
Now another thing I am seeing is the latest bandwagon to get you
rich is jumping on the prosperity gospel of Israel.
If you donate to my organization and give to Israel, then God
will bless you with riches. Beware about this, the
Lord never promised us riches. He promised He would
provide for us. We give out of love, not because a
promise we get something for giving something. Give
out of love and because Jesus asked you to give to
someone. Even if you take in a homeless person even
a family member in your home and feed them and give them money,
that is tithing.
Don't feel guilty anymore if you don't give a donation or don't
attend a church that is dead. These are the lukewarm
who are asleep to the times we are living in.
Get to a church and donate to a worthy cause that is proclaiming
the return of the Messiah, holiness and repentance, salvation,
law and grace and preaching that penetrates the
soul. Pray about the donations you make and the
church you attend. No time for silliness
anymore.