I have been so conflicted about writing what you are about to read. I finally went to my daughter to ask permission to write about her traumatic experience in the church.  Yesterday, she gave me permission to tell her story.

Seeker Friendly Church

Back in the early 90’s, we had heard of a church in our area which had a large and very active youth program.  We have 3 kids, and they had even heard about this church and wanted to attend – and so we did.

Our daughter was 12 years old when we first went to the church.  I am not naming the church in this article.  They were made aware of what happened about 3 years ago (when we found out from our daughter).

We noticed immediately in the service that the pastor and praise team were attempting to appear “cool”, and I felt unrest in my spirit. One Sunday they said it was “Crazy Hat Sunday”  and the pastor and praise team wore silly hats.

The next Sunday they did a skit from Seinfeld. The skit was based on the “Soup Nazi” episode.  They laughed – actually the whole church laughed at the mention of the “Nazi” and “No Soup for you!”  I didn’t laugh. Again I had that bad feeling in my spirit. I did call the church during the week, and asked to speak to pastor or an elder.

One of the elders did call me back. I told him that it was offensive to me on so many levels to mention the soup Nazi during service.  He began to lecture me and told me that I was just the kind of Christian who turns off other people to church. He said that I had a “Holier than thou” attitude.

New Age 3rd grade Sunday School teacher

I am very observant of my surroundings. You might say that I am hyper-vigilant. I had noticed a woman who was a Sunday school teacher to kids, and she wore a crystal around her neck. As we were having coffee and snacks, I overhead her speaking to another woman and it was clear that this woman was not only unsaved, but she was into new age practices.

The Meeting

One Sunday a person approached me in church and asked if I would attend a special meeting regarding the church. I had no idea why they asked me, but I saw it as an opportunity to speak about the things that were troubling me.

During the meeting I was asked if I had anything I wanted to contribute. I spoke about being very offended as a Jewish believer at the “Soup Nazi” skit. Then I asked if they had a process when choosing teachers for the kids – an interview of that person to make sure that they were born again believers.  The room went silent.

Our Daughter and the Youth group

At that time our daughter was almost 13 years old. She was active in the youth group. We noticed that she began to dress in all black. One night she pierced her own nose.  She became a different person and I didn’t know what was going on with her. She then showed signs of the desire to kill herself.  We were all devastated. We took her to a psychologist – the first of many.

Our daughter began to run away. We would be sick at heart, not knowing where she was for days on end. She even had to be hospitalized because of wanting to kill herself.

There was a lady who helped out with the youth group. She took a special liking to my daughter.  I had no reason to think that she had anything but good intentions towards my daughter.

One evening when our daughter was on one of her run aways, this woman came to the house.  She wanted to see our daughter’s bedroom. Her behavior was a bit odd, but I thought that it was due to her worrying about my daughter.

Fast Forward to 2014

Through the years our daughter had an aversion to attending any church.  When she was elementary school age, she loved the Lord Jesus with all of her heart. I have kept all of my kid’s artwork through the years. I have large envelopes for each of them, with all of their art from the time they could hold a crayon. My daughter’s envelope was filled with pictures of Jesus – she talked about Him all of the time.

One day in 2014, she came to me and said that she needed to tell me something important.  She began to tell a story which made me sick – physically, emotionally and spiritually.  She asked me if I remembered the lady who liked her from the youth group.  She then told me that this woman had taken her to her apartment and would touch her inappropriately.

When I calmed down, I wrote to the Youth pastor who was a FB friend. I told him about what had happened to my daughter. I asked if this woman was still part of the youth program. This pastor was shocked and saddened by what had happened. He told me that this woman had stopped helping with the youth. He told me that he did know where she lived, and wanted to know if my daughter and I would come with him and the head pastor to confront the woman.

My daughter told me that she could not look at the woman. She said that she just wanted to put this behind her, and that seeing her again would be more harmful to her.

I told the Youth pastor what my daughter said.  He told me that he had been tracing where this woman had been through the years. He said that she had hopped from church to church – helping with the youth. He was absolutely sickened by the whole thing.  He even contacted me again to see if my daughter would change her mind – but she wouldn’t.  I hoped that this pastor would go and speak to this woman anyway.  I hoped that he would call each church where she had been “helping.”

The pastor did tell me that years after we had left their church, they realized that they needed to do back ground checks on prospective helpers in the youth and children’s ministry.  They began to ask for many references and they would interview the person at length to make sure they were truly Christians. It was too late for us, but I was grateful that this was being done to keep other kids safe.

Brethren, I know that this was not an easy article to read. Believe me – it was extremely hard to write.  There are people in this world who do very evil things. They are child predators.  If you have your child in a youth program at your church, please ask if leadership has vetted the volunteer helpers.

I know that we are supposed to think the best about people, but in a world filled with sin, we cannot take a chance; we MUST protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Please pray for our daughter.

MARANATHA

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Macron Declares He Will Govern Like A Roman God

Now before anyone accuses me of playing “Pin the tail on the Antichrist” let me just say that I do believe that students of Bible Prophecy cannot help but take a hard look at the youngest leader of France since Napoleon Bonaparte.

Reuters reports him as saying he desires to reign as a “Jupiterian” president – “a remote, dignified figure, like the Roman god of gods, who weighs his rare pronouncements carefully.”  Lofty words for the new president of France, wouldn’t you say?

From breitbart.com

Emmanuel Bonaparte: Macron Declares He Will Govern Like a Roman God

French president Emmanuel Macron has declared he will govern France like Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, shortly officials told the media his thought process was “too the newly elected president of France – wouldn’t you say? complex” for journalists to understand.

Summoning over 900 politicians from both houses of the French parliament to a rare Congress at the palace of Louis XIV – the ‘Sun King’ – in Versailles.

Such assemblies are usually reserved for times of national crisis, but the former banker used his to threaten to overrule lawmakers with a referendum if they try to frustrate the “reforms” he wishes to impose on the legislature.

his bizarre statement of intent comes just days after Macron scrapped the president’s tradition Bastille Day press conference, with an Elysée Palace official claiming the president’s thoughts are “too complex” for journalists.

The 39-year-old’s “complex thought process lends itself badly to the game of question-and-answer with journalists”, the spokesman explained – prompting much mockery in the French press.

It has been speculated that Macron is keen to cultivate an aloof, almost imperial aura after being derided as a placeman for the unpopular socialist François Hollande, in whose government he served as economy minister, or as a poodle for Angela Markel, the German chancellor widely regarded as the European Union’s driving force.

“You are the heir of François Hollande,” scoffed nationalist rival Marine Le Pen during their head-to-head election debate. “We now call you Baby Hollande; Hollande Junior!”

She added that, whatever the outcome of the election, “France will be led by a woman: either me or Mrs. Merkel.”

Much of the commentary on Macron’s alleged natural submissiveness hints at his relationship with his wife – twenty-five years his senior – with Italy’s larger-than-life former president Silvio Berlusconi teasing that he is “a nice lad with a good-looking mum”.

Efforts by the EU loyalist to strengthen his public standing by picking fights with the governments of Central Europe, who have been resolutely defiant in the face of attempts by Brussels to impose compulsory migrant quotas on them, have been less than successful.

Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán gently dismissed him as “a new boy” who had yet to find his feet.

“Macron’s entrance wasn’t too encouraging, as he thought the best way to show friendship was to immediately kick Central European countries. This isn’t how we do things around here, but he’ll soon get to know his way around,” he added.

Posing as the EU’s champion against President Donald Trump has also backfired, with a pointed, public snub of the U.S. leader in favour of Angela Merkel and other Europeans at a G20 summit ending in embarrassment when the 70-year-old manhandled him with a powerful handshake.

Macron was clearly rattled by the exchange, granting a brief interview with journalists in order to emphasise that another handshake with President Trump – in which the Frenchman clung on for dear life – was a “moment of truth” in which he supposedly demonstrated that he “would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones”. – source

From Orientalreview.org   This is a compelling article which someone is trying desperately to remove from the internet.  I had a friend finally get this as a pdf for this article.  Every time I attempted to access the piece on orientalreview.org, it brought me to a dead end and would not allow me to finish the article.   Here is the text of the pdf:

Is the Geriatric Republic About to Marry Macron?

Something that was originally conceived as a grandiose pageant of poli4cal marke4ng will come to a conclusion next Sunday in France. A young man with an evident Oedipus complex who has never held a single elected office and who was almost unknown just three years ago is now preparing to fill the seat once occupied by Georges Clémenceau and Charles de Gaulle in the Élysée Palace.

Although it went unnoticed by the public, his campaign actually began back in June 2014. That was when Jacques Aliyah the recognized “éminence grise” of the Fifth Republic, first introduced his young protégé, at a Bilderberg Club meeting in Copenhagen. Back then, the latter was serving as the deputy secretary general to the president of France. But given President Hollande’s dismal approval ratings at the time, he was advised to distance himself from his boss, which he did, resigning 10 days after returning from Denmark.

By that August, owing to a government crisis, Macron ended up as the economy minister for a period of 24 months, during which he was best remembered for having underpriced the powerhouse of the French high-tech industry, Alstom, when it was sold to General Electric, as well as for a string of scandals over the misappropriation of government funds and for forcing through an odious law written at Aliyahi’s behest called “Equality of Economic Opportunities” (an innocent-enough sounding name for what was actually a crackdown on clan to emerge over the course of the almost six decades of the Fifth Republic’s existence.

Their first “project” in a top government position was the French prime minister – and later president – Georges Pompidou, who began working for the Rothschilds in 1954. Interestingly, Pompidou was no expert in banking or finance, but this did not stop Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007) from appointing this man to head the Messieurs de Rothschild Frères bank despite his professional background as a high-school literature teacher. In the dramatic month of May 1968, Pompidou was directed by his bosses to issue a challenge to the founder of the Fifth Republic, Charles de Gaulle, in order to win his own entrance into the Élysée Palace the following year. In 1973 Pompidou passed a law that some spiteful tongues dubbed “la loi Pompidou-Giscard- Rothschild,” under which private bankers gained de facto control over the French financial system.

Ironically, it was while Pompidou was in office that the famous writer and rebel Jean-Paul Sartre founded his celebrated leftist newspaper Libération in 1973, so that the French would finally have a periodical that spurned both big banks and advertising. But just over 40 years later, the banker Édouard de Rothschild became the biggest shareholder in the troubled Libéra4on, adding that newspaper to his media empire. As a result, just a glance at this single web page is enough to gain an appreciation for the magnitude of the “Macron-mania” that has been raining down upon the heads of the dispirited French in recent months from the pages of the Rothschild-controlled media.

Naturally Macron is a champion of pop-futurism. He is going to turn the French into the ideal nomads, à la Aliyah – a precariat class that has acquired a few skills and some passable English, but lacks a steady job, a reliable profession, a real salary, and a future. He spins fairy tales for French young people about the “creative class” – the dream of a degenerate civilization – but he fails to mention that the society of the future will have no use for all the slackers who vote for him. He is guided by the neoliberal premise that the main task of a declining state is to give its citizens the chance to ceaselessly change and adapt to the infamous global market, instead of doing anything at all to protect jobs, decent pensions, and the national interests. Therefore, the May 7 victory of yet another mousy little man that is being strenuously programmed by the media may well be the last in the history of the Fifth Republic – and it is certainly no harbinger of the Sixth. France is poised to step into the grave that has already been dug for her.-source

Macron became an investment banker at Rothschild & Cie Banque at the age of 30.  Mentored by the Rothschild family – this man certainly has no issues with self esteem.  As a matter of fact, if a new “Left Behind” movie was to come out, Emmanuel Macron could step into the role as Antichrist and pull it off quite brilliantly.

His first name “Emannuel”  means “God with us.”  With the convergence of events within the last year lining up neatly with Bible prophecy; the entrance of this man onto the world stage is a bit too coincidental for me.

But, we will wait and see….

We are looking for Jesus Christ – our Blessed Hope. Those left behind will experience the wrath of God during the unspeakable horror of the Great Tribulation.

Shalom b’Yeshua,

MARANATHA

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