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Dear Friends,
Some of you are wondering if Brannon Howse
has answered my e-mail regarding his recent article and programs in which
he rightly, but hypocritically, took to task evangelicals, including
pastors, who yoked with Mormon Glenn Beck for the "Divine
Destiny" event this past August 27, 2010. The answer is,
not yet. We will send it again and follow up with a hard copy in
the mail. But here is the
link for those of you who may not have read the e-mail of which I just
spoke and the documentation that was with it: http://www.pccmonroe.org/2010/08.28.htm.
The past week has featured, in Christian
print media and on some Christian radio networks, a great spasm of
evangelical--really neo-evangelical--dissimulation in response to the Beck
rally. I have already pointed out in the e-mail I just mentioned that Mr.
Howse--who has soundly rebuked evangelicals, on the air and in print, for
religiously joining with a Mormon--is closely tied to any number of
evangelical leaders and organizations, such as Tim Wildmon and the
American Family Association, who are also grossly ecumenical--not with
Mormons but with Roman Catholics. AFA is one of the affiliates of
Brannon's Worldview Weekend, which has had more than one ecumenically
corrupt speaker. Since August 20, Brannon has devoted hours and hours of programming
on the VCY America network to not only warning and reproving
evangelicals who religiously yoke with Mormons but also to detailing the
ungodly teachings of Mormonism. Yet, unless we are interested in
dying of asphyxiation, we had better not hold our breath waiting for
Brannon--or for other like-minded, high-profile peers--to give popery
at the very least the same no-holds-barred treatment. But in truth,
comparing the Mormon church to the Roman Catholic Church is like comparing
a sparrow to a giant Condor. Common sense, empirical evidence and
Christian obedience to the word of God should dictate a proportionate
response.
Speaking of erratic contenders of the
faith, Dr. Erwin Lutzer has been warning, including on Brannon's program,
of the danger and disobedience of evangelicals compromising the
gospel by uniting with Mormons in a religious, spiritual sense. As I said
earlier, we are witnessing a spasm of evangelical hypocrisy. Dr. Lutzer is
a signer of the Manhattan Declaration. The MD repeatedly declares to the
whole world that Roman Catholics and members of the Orthodox Church are
"Christians" who hold to and preach "the Gospel of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ." Now just yesterday, a large ad in the American
Family Association Journal came before my eyes. It was a
promotion for the National Conference on Christian Apologetics titled
"Defending the Faith and the Family." And whom do we find listed
among those intrepid faith defenders? Well, the grossly ecumenical Chuck
Colson, an author and driving force behind both the Evangelicals and
Catholics Together movement and the Manhattan Declaration. When you think Chuck
Colson, think Jude 1:3-4. Also scheduled to speak are a number of
Evangelical Manhattan Declaration signers, several Roman Catholics, and .
. . Dr. Erwin Lutzer! Below this e-mail, you will find the list of the
National Conference on Christian Apologetics speakers. We have
limited time to research but have at least noted the speakers who we
know for certain are Roman Catholic--there may be others--and also noted
those evangelicals who we know for certain are MD signers.
I might also mention that other
high-profile evangelicals who are ecumenically corrupted with Romanism,
such as Dr. Russell Moore, have also come out to publicly defend
Christ's gospel and church against Glenn Beck and Mormonism. But for now,
I will close with one last thought. I happen to hold to the historical
method of prophecy interpretation. But most of our Futurist brethren, at
least those who are fundamentalists, also agree that Revelation chapter 17
speaks of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. The Glenn Beck
controversy finds many evangelical leaders, talk show hosts, and ministers
rightly warning that the Mormon church is not the true bride of Christ but
a false religion, a spiritual harlot. But they appear to be blind, perhaps
willfully so, to the truth declared in Revelation 17:5 that the
pope's church is not only a harlot church but "THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." ". . . Can the blind lead
the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?" (Luke
6:39).
Sincerely,
Pastor Ralph Ovadal
(See also "What about Rome,
Brannon?" and "Add this one to the
collection!")
National Conference on Christian
Apologetics www.NationalApologeticsConference.com
Josh McDowell MD
signer
Dinesh D'Souza Roman
Catholic and MD signer
William Dembski
Erwin Lutzer MD
signer
Gary Habermas
Chuck Colson MD
signer
Marvin Olasky MD
signer
Alex McFarland MD
signer
Chad Miller
Hugh Ross
Sean McDowell
John Stonestreet MD
signer
Ryan Dobson
Mike Licona
Warren Cole Smith
Frank Turek
William Federer Roman
Catholic and MD signer
Richard Howe
Janet Mefferd
Anthony Bradley
Doug Beaumont
J. T. Bridges
Nora Hale
Barry Leventhal
Jason Reed
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