Pope’s Crusade Against Trump & Biblical Christianity :: By Stephen Meehan

Pope Leo’s Holy Crusade Against Trump and Biblical Christianity

In recent days, the papacy has become increasingly more vocal and defiant of the policies and actions of the United States, and, specifically, of the way Donald Trump has been conducting foreign affairs, along with how he is governing in his duties to secure and protect the nation from an influx of illegal criminal elements.

Pope Leo, a globalist – beholden to a different agenda – is bent on allowing mostly an Islamic horde into the nations of Europe and America, in an apparent effort to destabilize the host nations and to sow the seeds for the onset of a centralized world government headquartered in Europe.

The loathing of Trump and his impediment to the system that the papacy wants to establish apparently led to Leo being “elected” by the conclave of Cardinals after the death of Pope Francis in order to quell the influence of Trump and temper his anti-globalist aspirations.

Pope Francis was equally upset with Trump in his first administration and often critiqued his nationalist fervor, but could not sway the president from being a thorn in the side of those who coveted the rise of a strong European-based power. The thinking must have been in the Vatican then that an American pope could influence those beholden to the papacy to vote against him or at least limit the amount of damage he would inflict on the globalist cause.

Needless to say, Trump doesn’t give a rip about Leo or his misguided outspokenness. He is putting America first – as promised – and is not falling in line with the desires of those who want to see a weakened America.

Pope Leo, being a Roman Catholic, is hardly qualified to be a mouthpiece for God. He makes utterances and proclamations that are completely foreign to the truths of Scripture. His lack of biblical knowledge is continually on display when he attempts to justify his actions or thought processes to condemn perceived injustices that oppose the wishes of the Vatican.

For a religion that falsely boasts that they gave us the Bible, one would think that they would adhere to its teachings or at least be cognizant of what the Holy Spirit-inspired scribes recorded in God’s Word. They never exhibit any true knowledge of what is contained within its pages. Their relations concerning Israel bear this out.

Leo has stated that the war against Iran is unjustified, that God would never condone such an action. He has also hinted that the closing of America’s borders to illegals trying to sneak in is not Christ-like. Yet, the Vatican is protected by a wall that precludes entry to those who might try to gain access to its confines.

Is Leo familiar with the biblical account of Moses and the Israelites passing through the Red Sea to safety, and then God trapping Pharoah and his army in the same waters in their pursuit to annihilate the Jews? Was God justified in wiping out the Egyptians who sought to destroy Israel?

How many times in 47 years has Iran threatened “Death to the Jews” and “Death to America” and been close to developing 11 nukes in their attempts to destroy the Land of Israel and the Jewish people? How is it not justified to keep religious fanatical terrorists from acquiring the means to wipe out God’s covenanted people?

Combined with the fact that Roman Catholicism is not familiar with Bible history or God’s protection of the Jews, is their selected amnesia regarding how the papacy operated in times past.

For 600 years, the popes – in their quest to stamp out the Reformation and the rise of Bible-believing Christians who would not bend the knee to the false teachings of the pontiffs – instituted papal Inquisitions to hunt down, torture and kill true Christians and to attempt to keep the Bible out of the hands of ordinary people so that the false doctrines of Romanism could not be exposed.

They falsely boast about giving us the Bible, but the truth is, they wanted it destroyed. Read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs to see how diabolical the popes were in their efforts to eradicate Biblical Christianity.

The papacy was also engaged in the so-called “Holy Crusades,” where they attempted to wrest control of the Holy Land away from the Islamists and to bring that region under the authority of the Roman pontiffs. During those Crusades, thousands of Muslims and Jews were killed by those acting under the authority of the popes. Was that a justified action? Killing a remnant of God’s Chosen People still living in the Land that was eternally covenanted to the Jews by God? Under the direction of the popes? Are you aware of these actions, Leo? Conveniently, they turn a blind eye to their own unjustified pogroms.

In more recent times, Pope Pius XII – who was called “Hitler’s Pope” – signed a concordat or a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He was a nuncio or an ambassador-type figure of Rome to Germany before he became pope. He was familiar with Hitler – a Roman Catholic – and convinced fellow Catholics to vote for him and propel him to power.

It is hard to believe that a Roman Catholic pontiff would be ignorant of what Hitler was up to in his “Final Solution” and their attempt to exterminate all Jews from Europe.

At the end of the war, Pius XII helped organize the Vatican Ratlines to help the Nazis escape justice and flee to South America. Was this a justified action? Would God condone such diabolical activities from a supposed “holy father”? Wasn’t THAT more satanic than Trump and Israel equally involved in thwarting Iran’s ambition to wipe out the Jews with nukes, Leo?

In Roman Catholic parlance, the pontiffs are given the title “Vicar of Christ,” or a stand-in for Jesus, or representing Christ to the World. The Latin term “Vicarius Christi” literally means “in the place of Christ.” Even though these supposed “holy fathers” are intended to be a substitute for the Son of God on Earth, most of the more recent popes have dedicated their entire pontificates to the service of the Roman Catholic version of Mary instead of dedicating themselves to the service of Christ. Why Mary and not Jesus?

Leo, and his immediate predecessors, however, have not been acting on behalf of Christ at all, but are instead operating as if they are Vicars of Antichrist – both as being illegitimate representatives of Jesus on Earth and defiantly opposing the teachings of Jesus and the need to accept Him as the only means of salvation. They serve a different master. They have been obvious stand-ins for the one who will soon arrive to deceive the entire world.

It is interesting how the Vatican deals with the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. They do a complete 180-degree turn from how the Bible wants Christians to relate and regard them.

God’s Word tells us that He is not finished with the Jews and still has plans for them in the near future. His covenants with them are eternal and have yet to be fully realized. The Land of Israel belongs to God, and He has promised the Jews that they are the only people to whom He has given permission to dwell there. Not surprisingly, Rome does not accept that.

Roman Catholicism is fully immersed in the false notion of “Replacement Theology,” that all covenants between God and the Chosen People have been transferred to the Church – and when Rome says and thinks “Church,” it is not all of Christendom, but solely those firmly entrenched within the Roman Catholic religion.

Their rationale is that the Jews forfeited the right to be God’s Chosen People as a result of their rejection of Jesus Christ, and that now the Vatican has assumed that position and those entitlements. Sadly, other Christian groups also have this mentality, even going so far as to proclaim that the Jews of today have no connection to the ancient Jews of Jesus’ time.

In the wake of the Replacement Theology mindset of the papacy, over the centuries, the Jews were regarded by Rome as being “Christ Killers”: that they were solely responsible for the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Never mind the fact that it was Rome that had Christ killed and not the Jews.

The Jews, under the control of Rome at that time, did not have the authority to execute a perceived malefactor. It was by Roman crucifixion, on a Roman wooden cross, by Roman soldiers, under the authority of a Roman Caesar that Jesus was killed. The Jews handed Him over for death, but it was carried out by agents of Rome.

Fast forward to today, and looking back millennia – or about 1,700 years – it is more than ironic that the religion of Rome has been doing the same thing via the twisted logic of their theology.

They believe and practice the ruse of Transubstantiation in each of their masses, where a supposed “consecrated” host or a gluten wafer supernaturally turns into the body of Jesus Christ – both His divinity and humanity – and is present in each wafer after the priest performs his paganistic ritual. They supposedly create their god, sacrifice their god, and then eat their god – something akin to what one might see in an Indiana Jones movie.

So, a Roman Catholic priest, on a Roman Catholic altar, under the authority of a Roman Catholic pontiff, carries on the killing of Christ in this Roman Catholic “sacrifice.”

Can they not see the hypocrisy of labeling the Jews as “Christ Killers” when they are essentially doing the same thing – to their way of thinking – at each and every Mass? Why was it wrong for the Jews to do it, as they contend, but a supposed follower of Jesus can kill his own Savior? It is ludicrous! Are these people not spiritually blinded?

What then is the difference between pagan Rome and Catholic Rome? Absolutely none. Wafers are not the Lamb of God. They are certainly not God in human flesh. But Rome teaches their followers that the religious show business that the priests perform at every Mass is the ongoing sacrifice of Jesus. This is one example of how Catholics have been beguiled by Satan. Don’t trust the real Christ; instead, trust in a substitute Jesus.

To make it even more of a farce, after the priest repeats the rote Latin words to change this wafer into Jesus (so they believe), they bow before it repeatedly, then look up into Heaven and raise it up to God for His approval of this pagan ritual. This religious charade cannot possibly be approved by God, nor is it a biblical teaching. It is anti-Christian to the core.

This is ultimately, or maybe primarily, where Leo and his religion initiate their Crusade against Biblical Christianity: they totally repudiate or flat out reject Christ’s one-time offering of Himself on a wooden cross for the atonement of our sins. Their plan is better.

After experiencing such a horrific and brutal means of paying the full price for all of our sins, and just before His death, Jesus cried out, “IT IS FINISHED.” His sacrifice was complete. The atonement for our sins was paid in full. He fulfilled His mission on Earth.

God the Father approved the death of Jesus on the cross to appease His wrath against the sins of those who accepted Jesus as their Savior and His one-time sacrifice. Christ is shown later in the Book of Acts as being SEATED next to the Father in Heaven, signifying that His work for the redemption of man’s sins was complete and that there would be no more need for additional sacrifices or works to satisfy God.

Rome rejects this. They say or imply that Jesus did not cover the full penalty and that more works or sacrificing is still needed. This is Satan working through the papacy to deceive Catholics. He has his own “holy fathers” dressed up in their religious garb, making unholy proclamations, and performing unbiblical rituals to ensnare duped followers of the popes and their heretical doctrines on a devilish path that leads only to destruction.

The Gates of Hell cannot prevail against the true Church of Christ, so the devil began his own church – complete with a false Christ in the form of a wafer, a false holy father seated in Rome, and a false “Queen of Heaven” who apparently rules and reigns alongside the triune God. Read Jeremiah 7 and 44 to see how much God abhors the diabolical worship of this false pagan deity called the Queen of Heaven. God hates the worship of her; Rome promotes it. What could be more anti-Christ?

The wafer/god hoax continues on in the paganistic, idolatrous, and blasphemous ritual that Rome calls the “Eucharistic Adoration” – where the Catholic faithful look up to a gluten wafer inside a golden monstrance and worship it as if it is the real God. Satan doesn’t miss a trick in his desire to defame, discredit, dishonor Christ and deceive those tuned in to his siren call of deception. You can do these Adoration abomination rituals either in person at a Catholic church or even online live via the internet. The devil makes it easy to defy God.

It is hard to believe that those who consider themselves Christians can fall for these deceptive lies. A total lack of spiritual discernment is at play during these supposed times of worship, along with a complete ignorance of what is contained in God’s Word.

One is more than ripe for an extreme condition of spiritual blindness when all you may think you know of Christianity comes through the immersion and indoctrination of the Roman Catholic system. The devil uses this religion mightily to keep Catholics groping in the dark for any semblance of spiritual truths. They are not even aware that they are being deceived by the enemy; he has them right where he wants them: lost and not knowing it.

Another damning doctrine of Catholicism is the notion of a final purging place for sins called Purgatory. It is the safety net for Roman Catholics. If you don’t clean up your sins completely during this present lifetime on Earth, don’t sweat it! You will have plenty of time after death to purge your leftover sins through the tormenting flames of Purgatory.

The Bible assures us that if anyone passes on into eternity without all their sins atoned for, they will suffer eternal punishment – not temporary. It is another lie from Satan and his popes. The Vatican has gotten extremely wealthy over the centuries via this diabolical hoax in the selling of mass cards and indulgences to supposedly lessen one’s time of suffering in this false scam.

Today, those monies are needed to pay off the never-ending multiple-million-dollar lawsuits created by the rampant “Holy Mother Church” clergy sexual abuse of minors. How can this religion call itself “holy” when they defy God with their unbiblical doctrines, produce a false plan of salvation, and rape their own member’s children? Are these justified actions?

Catholics are taught to believe that Christ’s atonement for our sins was insufficient, and that “Christians” need to spend an undetermined amount of time in torment to clean up one’s sin issue. Obviously, then, in Romanism, God in human flesh came up short in His attempt to save us from our sins, but humans suffering in Purgatory is apparently a more powerful means of making us right before God. This is of the devil, not from God.

How can there be any leftover sins anyway in the cradle to grave coverage that the Roman Catholic system has to offer to those held in the bondage of their plan?

They get baptized as an infant; go to weekly mass to receive Jesus via a wafer; regularly tell their sins to a Roman priest who absolves them; get confirmed into their program around 12 years of age; worship the god wafer in the Eucharistic Adoration rituals; get married in the Roman Catholic Church; maybe become a priest in the sacrament of Holy Orders; always pray to Mary; pray and worship before statues of her; maybe wear a scapular of Mary around your neck to lessen your time in Purgatory; receive last rites by a priest before death; and then finally clean up your sins in a place of torment.

Is that the best a Catholic can hope for? At the end of being a lifetime Catholic, you are still looking at a time of suffering when it is all said and done? Was this God’s plan of salvation before the foundations of the world were laid? Not according to the Bible. This is Rome’s outline for Catholics held in bondage to their false theology. Never having any assurance of being properly saved.

There is no assurance of salvation in Roman Catholicism, nor can there be. One is never sure if they are going to Heaven or not. It is a works-based system, and one never knows if they have enough good works to offset their tally of bad actions. Catholics are indoctrinated to trust in their membership in the Catholic Church and its rituals to save them and not in the finished work of Christ. It is a bankrupt system. A hopeless journey.

Pope Leo’s problem is not with Trump; it is with God. Whether or not he realizes it, he is serving a different master. He has been commissioned for a different set of objectives than to “go and make disciples of all nations,” found in Matthew 28:19. His course of action, through his false religion, leads to a Christ-less eternity and is preparing the way for the soon arrival of the antichrist figure and his system that will engulf the world.

Catholics are already being set up to receive a false Christ who will emerge during the seven-year Tribulation. If they can be duped into believing that a cracker can turn into the real Christ or that a wafer in a monstrance is the true God of the universe, what chance have they got when their pope points to a “man of sin” as being the true “Christ” who will save the world?

How many Catholics have been deceived by the apparitions of “Mary”? Where in the Bible does it say that God will send visions of Christ’s human mother to those seeking salvation? Those manifestations of Satan have beguiled a great many of those who follow the pope’s religion. When you are lost and not knowing it and are ignorant of biblical truths, one is extremely ripe for such demonic deceptions.

Sadly, the spiritual blinders worn by most Catholics to how utterly false the Roman Catholic religion is will only be removed the moment after death. The horror will immediately sink in when they come to realize that the false holy fathers, under the inspiration of the devil, have led them down the road to ruin. They will only then realize how insipid and pervasive the deception has been in every facet of the papacy’s system.

Ignorance is not bliss. There will be a price to be paid for falling in line with those who present a false gospel. God has given us a lifetime to seek Him out and discover the truths found only in His Word and through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Pope Leo is a false prophet. He heads up a false church. He presents a false plan of redemption. He has Catholics worshipping falsely. Wafers are false Christs. The Roman Catholic version of their “Mary” is a false pagan goddess given the name “the Queen of Heaven” – she is far and away the most prominent figure in Roman Catholicism. Rome presents a false gospel of works. Rome invented a false place of purging called Purgatory – the Bible never even hints at such a place.

None of these false attributes is an indicator of a so-called self-described “One True Church.”  This is how the devil plies his trade and creates his own pseudo-Christian “church.” No one gets to Heaven by being a member of his church.

Leo is not serving Jesus Christ. He is actively working to set the table for the antichrist.

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The God Makers: Religious Deception :: By Stephen Meehan

While doing some research on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in preparation to witness to an old acquaintance of mine who has been a lifetime devotee to Mormonism, I discovered a film produced by former Mormons entitled The God Makers. The 58-minute video lays out in detail the history of Joseph Smith, the inspiration for his upstart religion, and the occultic DNA of the Mormon faith. There is also a book by the same name that was put together by one of the producers of the film, along with Dave Hunt, that documents even further the mysterious beliefs and practices of this non-Christian organization.

At its core, the LDS church subscribes to the belief that its adherents can one day become gods or goddesses by following the path laid before them by Joseph Smith and his succeeding prophets of the faith.

It is only those, however, who get married in the Mormon Temple, who go through the religious hoops of the Temple rites and Masonry-like initiations, and who strive for perfection throughout their life before they pass on to eternity that can possibly be selected for godhood. The selection process then consists of a review board by God the Father, Jesus Christ, and Joseph Smith before the candidate is given the green light to join other gods who have achieved deity status through Mormonism.

Once they attain that level, they then go off to a distant planet to populate that new earth with upwards of 20 million or so future gods. It is all very bizarre and unbiblical. Still, there are some who believe that Mormonism is a true Christian church.

It should be apparent that the adversary takes great joy in his number one choice of deception, which has a religious flavor to it, and he is especially fond of holding out the carrot of godhood or of being like God as part of the deceptive hook.

We can read in Scripture of how Lucifer became full of pride, wanted to ascend to a god status, and desired to be worshipped like God that led to his downfall. He even convinced a third of the angelic realm to join up with him in his rebellion against the Sovereign of the Universe. If the ministering spirits can fall prey to his enticements, what chance do humans have who possess no biblical moorings?

In the Garden, Satan’s first ploy used to deceive Adam and Eve was the prospect of becoming like God. Sadly, many have fallen victim to this devilish tactic. There are numerous religions that incorporate some false view of God, or that they can attain godhood, or that there are many gods, or that God indwells all things. The obvious attraction to this false notion has ruined many a soul.

The Hindus believe that there are over 300 million gods. Mormonism, according to former Mormons, believes that there are trillions of gods out there, men or women, who have become gods and parented other gods throughout the cosmos.

Even the Catholic Church, according to their Catechism (CCC 460) teaches that “The Son of God became man so that we might become God.” There are many TV preachers who believe in the error that man can become gods or are little gods.

Satan has been very adept in instilling this false hope in people for eons, ever since he first slithered his way into Eden. “God makers” have taken up his mantle and have carried forth this demonically inspired creed throughout the globe. Hell is full of those who have been bewitched into accepting this false premise. It is only then too late when the deceived discover that there is only one true God.

One of the equally disturbing facets of the Temple rituals that I discovered when reading the God Makers book was that in the Mormon Temple initiations and services they perform while on their trek to supposed godhood — along with being issued Temple garments to wear continually under their normal clothing — they are given green aprons to wear while participating in the Temple. On these green aprons are depictions of sewn fig leaves.

After both Adam and Eve ate the fruit that God had forbade them to eat, but Satan had enticed them into eating, they then sewed fig leaves together to cover up their nakedness and the shame they felt for disobeying God. The Lord would not accept the work of their hands in creating that attire to cover their sin, but instead, He shed the blood of innocent creatures and used their skins to cover them – a sign of the eventual shedding of blood by Christ to atone for our sins.

So, here is Satan again defying God. The Mormons, by their actions in the Temple, are foregoing the blood atonement of Christ and instead are placing an apron of sewn fig leaves on their waist to cover their sins. These new, young initiates getting married and performing these rites have no idea of the significance of what they are doing by wearing those, but the Temple leaders should have an inkling of what the green aprons represent, and of course, their hidden master is all too aware of what it signifies: rejecting the blood atonement of Christ, not accepting the free gift of salvation, but instead are “working” for the possibility of their redemption. A “works” gospel is never accepted by God.

The originator of this faith, Joseph Smith, was a bit of a con artist in his day; nothing more than a “flim-flam” man of his generation and to his community. He used “seer stones” to supposedly attempt to locate hidden treasure on people’s property but was just out to swindle the locals from their money. He also used special spectacles to supposedly decipher divinely sent gold plates to form his new religion by transcribing “angelic” revelations.

He was hardly a chosen vessel of God. All this information is researched and printed out in the God Makers book. Many more details of his true, sordid character are printed out in this expose for the Mormons to see how corrupt this man was and how phony the religion came to be.

At 14, he had his supposed encounter with spiritual beings who told him to begin a new religion. The story, even in Mormon literature, had been revised about nine times. The personages visiting him may have been either the angel Moroni, or Nephi, or Jesus Christ alone, or Jesus with God the Father. Even though the story changed repeatedly, the followers of Mormonism are not swayed from following their supposed prophet and spiritual leader. He could do no wrong in their blind eyes and attempts to discredit him with evidences are continually rebuffed.

Young Joe was told that all Christian denominations had been corrupted; none of them were true. All the Bibles were equally corrupted, and all translations were in grave error. Hence, for over 1,800 years, there was no true version of Christianity on the planet, and he was needed to start the new One True Church.

In either his twenties or early thirties, Joseph Smith also got heavily involved in Free Masonry. He achieved the level of Worshipful Master in a very short time. Eventually, the Temple and temple worship services mirrored many of the Masonic rites, initiations, secret handshakes, blood oaths, secret signs, secret underwear, and all things related to Masonry.

The two religions became intertwined until, eventually, years later, even the Masons wanted to distance themselves from the obvious false beliefs, origins, and practices of the Mormon faith. If even the Masons wanted out, it is telling of how crooked the organization became. Nonetheless, both groups are equally occultic.

Joseph Smith was also a polygamist. According to Mormon researchers and local records, Smith had about 84 “wives.” The locals living in Missouri, where Joe had set up shop, grew tired of his adulterous lifestyle and his penchant for wanting to overthrow the local government, and he was incarcerated in the local hoosegow.

Later, a mob of close to 200 people stormed where he was locked up, and the would-be insurrectionist met his demise. Not a fitting end for a supposed god maker. Maybe the use of his “seer stones’ would have warned him of this ending.

Most Mormons are unaware of his checkered past. He dabbled in the occult, was an adulterer, sought to overthrow the town’s city hall, was a Mason, and a swindler. The locals considered him a liar, a man given to flights of fancy and obsessed with elevating his status and position in life far greater than the average Joe. The devil used him, though, to great effect in formalizing this false religion.

Obviously, “God Makers” do not require people of a stellar background to be used by the enemy to deceive the masses. Just the ability to be conned by their master, be persuaded that all Bibles are translated incorrectly, that all Christian groups are corrupted, and that only the fictional, fabricated Book of Mormon, and all other LDS documents – The Pearl of Great Price, Doctrines and Covenants and other Mormon works – are only without error. It works across the board for other false religious groups, and the number of deceived is probably in the billions.

Christians who may try to witness to Mormons with the true gospel of Christ are viewed as being lost and quoting from Bibles that have been translated incorrectly. That mindset makes it very difficult to reach lost Mormons.

On top of that, if a person does get freed from Mormonism, they are ostracized by family and friends and are completely shunned by those who remain in the LDS. They may suffer divorce and the loss of their children. The “faithful” Mormon spouse does not want to forfeit his or her chance of godhood, so they look to remarry some other person who has had a Temple wedding.

Another aspect of the nearly 3-hour-long Mormon Temple service is that they never discuss Jesus Christ in these proceedings. Jesus Christ plays a very minimal role in the life of a Mormon. They believe he was once a man and then attained Godhood. He was the spirit brother of Satan. They pay lip service to the Son of God. He is included in the name of the church, but that is it.

The Temple service is always about their church, their founders, their prophets, their missionaries, and the requirement to act as proxies in a baptism service for those Mormons who have already passed on but were not Temple participants.

Again, only Temple Mormons can become gods, so, repeatedly during these services, Temple Mormons recite rote words and perform baptisms for the dead. They are also heavily involved in genealogies of these dead Mormons as they want to ensure that all Mormons have the chance to become gods in the afterlife.

But even when a Mormon has passed on, they have no idea how long of a wait is involved once they die before they are selected for godhood by the review board consisting of God the Father, Jesus Christ, and Joseph Smith. They remain in a Roman Catholic-like Purgatory status until it has been confirmed that they have worked out their salvation process and have attained perfection.

Another facet of the LDS religion that screams that it is false is that Joseph Smith wrote of the history of Mormonism, the places where it was set up around the world, and the regions where it spread. But there is not one shred of archeological evidence anywhere that proves that the origins of his faith were established in these various regions. No coins, no relics, no pottery shards, nothing. It simply is not there because the whole charade was fabricated.

Confronted with this information, normal Mormons do not care. They still trust in their church and the founding father. To their way of thinking, he was a true prophet and without error. They don’t question any of the evidence that proves that it is a false system. Fortunately, some do begin to have doubts about the legitimacy of the faith and begin to delve into God’s Word.

Sandra Tanner was one such person. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Brigham Young -the next prophet in line after Joseph Smith – and she came out after reading the Bible and searching throughout all Mormon literature to discover how false it all is. She wrote a very comprehensive book detailing all the phony details regarding that cult. She was in most of those John Ankerberg show videos and really knows her stuff. Her testimony is very compelling.

Many Mormons have escaped the LDS clutches because of her and other former Mormons who have exposed the truth. Many have been set free of their tentacles and have become true born-again believers, all to the glory of God!

Here’s hoping that many more will get freed from that religious deception.

Being deceived is a lousy way to wind up eternally lost. It is bad enough that people wind up in Hell due to either rejecting Jesus Christ knowingly or were just evil throughout their life and never sought redemption. But being tricked into something that Satan designed for that very purpose is just an awful way to be excluded eventually from an eternity in God’s Kingdom and a bright future.

The devil knows how to blind folks from the truth. He incorporates many traps into his religions to keep people lost. Only their religion has the truth; all other Christians are lost; all Bibles are corrupted; only Joseph Smith was a true prophet; you can become a god over your own planet and peoples; your children can become gods; Satan and Jesus were spiritual brothers; polygamy is good.

When one watches the God Makers film or reads the God Makers book, you end up asking yourself, “How can people fall for this?” It seems so obvious that this is all false. Even watching numerous videos on the subject from The John Ankerberg Show – with his former Mormon guests and Christian apologists who confront the teachings of Joseph Smith with the truth of Scripture – it just seems so apparent that the religion is so far out there that nobody should be sucked into it.

Yet, a great many do become ensnared. Satan is a master deceiver. He has been honing his craft for over 6,000 years, and biblically ignorant people are ripe for deception. They do not have the Truth on their side to avert a disastrous choice.

I used to think it was crazy to hear of folks worshipping cows or bowing down to elephant-looking statues or other paganistic practices. Even the Israelites, just after being freed from Egypt by God, started worshipping a golden calf statue in place of the real God. How could “normal” people become so deluded to do that?

But then I realized as a Roman Catholic, I, too, was caught up in religious deception by worshipping a mere man-made wafer as the true Jesus Christ. “Eucharistic Adoration” rites have Catholics bowing down before a wafer in a paganistic sun-burst-looking golden monstrance with a glass window showing a wafer as if it is the true God before them. No biblically illiterate person is immune from the wiles of the devil. All are prone to doctrines of demons. Beware!

Nevertheless, I would hate to know that people are going to wind up in a place of torment just because they were too lazy to look into the history of the founder of their particular religion or the precepts of its aberrant teachings.

I was firmly entrenched in that category as a Roman Catholic until the Lord opened my eyes to their deceptive and lethal false teachings. Most of the planet’s inhabitants are equally entrapped in a false religion, and the gates of Hell await them. They won’t take the time to discover the truth, until there is no end of time.

The Bible is replete with verses that describe God as being one. That there are no other gods besides Him. Mormons and others are blinded from those truths.

It is only the devil that tries to be a God Maker. He beguiles other human beings to believe that they can achieve a level of godhood and to carry out his goal and ambitions to destroy as many as he can who were formed in the image of God.

No man or woman should ever fall for that ruse. We are imperfect, sinful, created beings in need of a Savior, and were never designed to become gods. Even the angelic host can never attain that status. Only one God inhabits the universe.

Still, there are those who seek such a chance and would be willing to forfeit the truth and follow after a phony if it meant that one day they could rule over their own dominion and have people worship them. Our adversary, the devil, is one such being.

He is destined for the Lake of Fire because of his wanting to defy the Creator and become like a god. Even in Hell, he will not rule and reign. He will be in torment eternally, as are those who ignorantly follow him into this final abode.

Don’t wind up there because of a fatal theology. Don’t forfeit a state of bliss in God’s Kingdom because of a duped man who started his own satanically inspired false religion.

Abandon all self-effort in an attempt to perfect yourself or work out your own salvation in a system of works. Don’t open yourself up to religious deception by ignoring God’s true Word or rejecting the free offer of salvation through Jesus Christ.

He is God; we are not. We are incapable of becoming gods, despite the many who proclaim otherwise. They are following a different master by believing in such unbiblical tripe.

Disregard all religions that proclaim that possibility or their repeated pleas for “seed money” from TV preachers who spout that nonsense – that we are little gods or will become gods.

The world is full of such false teachers. Their eternal destiny will prove to them that they were deceived or deceiving others.

Jesus Christ is God, not our spirit brother. He was not a man who became God. He created all things (John 1:1-12). He created you. He, as God, went to the cross to die an agonizing death to cover the cost for all your sins. He saved you. He put His Holy Spirit (God) in you. He is preparing a place for you in Heaven. He is coming back for you to escort you to the Father’s House in Heaven.

He is pleading with you to invite Him into your life right now! (Revelation 3:20). Say Yes! to Him and no to the father of lies – Satan.

Only Jesus saves. The other guy deceives and destroys.

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P.S. For the benefit of those Mormons reading this article, here are videos from the John Ankerberg Show detailing the teachings of Mormonism available on YouTube. Former Mormons attest to these teachings of the LDS. (Hold down “Ctrl” key + click to start the videos.)

What did Joseph Smith say about Christianity? 3:10

Ankerberg Classic: Does the Book of Mormon teach there are many gods? 1:33

Ankerberg Classic: Are the God of Mormonism and the God of Christianity the same God? 1:54

Ankerberg Classic: Did Joseph Smith teach that God was once a man as we are now? 2:02

Ankerberg Classic: Where did the Book of Mormon come from? 4:03

Ankerberg Classic: What must a Mormon do to become a god? 1:41

Ankerberg Classic: What are Mormons told they must do in order to become gods? – YouTube 2:54

Ankerberg Classic: According to Mormonism, is traditional Christianity false and corrupt? 3:47

Ankerberg Classic: Why is a Temple recommend important to a Mormon? – YouTube 2:29

Ankerberg Classic: What is the Mormon plan of salvation? 1:38

Ankerberg Classic: What do Mormons do in the temple? 3:14

What do Mormons mean when they say we are all “spirit children”? 1:42

Ankerberg Classic: What do Mormons mean by the phrase “individual salvation”? 2:06

Ankerberg Classic: What is the purpose of the Temple marriage ceremony in Mormonism? 1:52

Ankerberg Classic: What are the Temple garments? 2:39

Ankerberg Classic: What covenants do Mormons make in the Temple? 1:49

Ankerberg Classic: Can you be a biblical Christian and be a Temple-attending Mormon? 2:48

What is Mormonism? What do Mormons believe? – YouTube 4:23

The God Makers: Mormonism Exposed (Original Classic) 56:13

What Do Mormons Believe? (1982) — The John Ankerberg Show with Sandra Tanner and Marv Cowan – YouTube 1:36:08

Ankerberg Classic: Mormon Officials and Christian Scholars Compare Doctrine – YouTube 1:57:22