Greetings. I went back to Way of Life Literature looking for pre-presidential articles I read about Obama and came across one on the new age.

I don't know how much of Jesus-is-Lord.com that you have examined, but there is a New Age section. It may not seem to be very important, yet it is. There is a relativism in the new age that pervades people's minds--even though they are not aware of it, and they would never call themselves new agers. It impacts how they hear you. There is a bewitching, a mind control, and hypnosis that makes them VERY sensitive to any trigger words like "only," "sin," etc. There is a latent violence within them awaiting contradiction of their beliefs--even if their beliefs change from day to day.

In the new age, there is much talk of "the Christ" but the Christ for them is a spirit that can, and has, inhabited various men--one of which includes the Lord Jesus Christ. But what they do not know (or refuse to recognize) , is that Jesus is *THE* Christ.

Much of the relativism that we meet with on the street has new age roots. In relativism, words only mean what a person thinks that they mean. They can use words that you know and you may think they mean the same thing you do, but they don't. A religious person can say they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. After you've said, "Praise the Lord," you can find out that they are Catholic, Jehovah Witness, Seventh Day Adventist, or from other some other antichrist sect. When you speak, you can think that the person nodding in affirmation actually understands your words--but he understands them based on his definitions which are false. We must follow the scriptural admonition to "lay hands suddenly on no man," and to "try the spirits whether they be of God." The devil himself quoted scripture to the Lord Jesus Christ. These false ministers do the same.

Francis Schaeffer had an insightful word as to some of the causal factors concerning out current condition (of relativism), but as with many, he couldn't seem to see the whore, she's HIDDEN, even though she's the biggest, oldest, most outrageous, UBIQUITOUS, whore in the world--

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT

One night I was reading out of one of Dr. Schaeffer's volumes. I had a horrible night upon my bed, as I recall. The next morning, I went to the computer and the website came up, "Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way to God," it was ARRESTING! SHOCKING! After reading Francis Schaeffer on today's relativism, looking at that website took me aback and I began to realize, on a small scale, why it has evoked such a violent response from so many. I was first made aware of being on a "hate list" around 1998, but actually it is that THEY HATE ME. But they turn it around to I hate them.

What do hate laws have to do with a preacher of the gospel? Just make sure that you don't go out without your anointing. The false church, and definitely Baptists, will tell you it is everybody's responsibility to go doorknocking and preach. That is a lie that has sent out so many unanointed people into the streets and parking lots that they are without number.

One missionary said that he spent 7 years preparing for the mission field and 40 years on the field. He said that he wished he had spent 40 years preparing and 7 years on the field. Moses was 80 when he went back to lead Israel out of Egypt.

The results of our work without the Lord are small and often ineffectual and dangerous spiritually both to ourselves, and to others. Know your call before you start walking. The false church will put any man in a suit in a pulpit and take any group of volunteers to the Walmart parking lot to pass out tracts and recite, "The Romans Road".

Anointing has always been critical, is it less as we work in the shadow of the beast? The disciples had to tarry at Jerusalem until the Holy Ghost came. Strength and power in the scriptures, understanding, wisdom, and personal consecration are critical for any real preacher of the gospel. Until you have the go ahead from the Lord, wait or you will not achieve what you want--no, more importantly,what God wants--and there will be undesireable results. You may already know this, and if so, then please let me confirm this word. It's been a long time since I've dealt with witches, Catholics, Baptists, sodomites, JWs, SDAs, evolutionists, etc. on a regular basis, but I can tell you that that King James 1611, correctly applied, will dismantle EVERY SINGLE LIE THAT YOU WILL EVER FACE. As I tell Hannah, you have to know the fine points. The niceties. You have to read it over and over again and get it coursing through your veins.

I still feel like I am living off of those early days when I could hardly put the Bible down. I was like a newborn babe desiring the sincere milk of the word. When I got up, I had to read it, at lunchtime I had to read it, and soon as I got in from work I had to read it. I had so many amazing experiences that first year, 1991. I then worked in a church where a mentally handicapped woman identified my teaching gift. Then, in September 1996, Jesus-is-Lord.com began in response to my husband getting the internet above my objections.

Here is an excerpt from an article about the New Age with mention of Barak Obama [notice that the New Age often talks about peace. In Daniel it says that "by PEACE he shall destroy many". The UN is always talking about "peace" I have one of their coloring books for children, peace is mentioned many, many times. "Peacekeeping troops" (then why do they have guns?), peace talks, world peace, peace, peace, peace. You can look up "peace" on the UN website and see how many hits you get.]--

ANOTHER MAJOR TOOL OF NEW AGE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION IS POLITICAL ACTION.

This is occurring on every hand. Marianne Williamson’s Peace Alliance is trying to establish a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence. Claiming that “peace is not a utopian ideal,” the Alliance seeks to bring “the science of peacemaking” to the highest levels of government. Established in 2004, The Peace Alliance is growing in influence. Senate bill HR 800 was created in February 2007 and had 69 co-sponsors as of March 2008. The bill is an attempt to bring United Nations’ objectives to pass in America. It cites the United Nations’ goal of establishing a “Culture of Peace.” It speaks of the “capacity for a higher evolution” and the ability of mankind to “tap the infinite capabilities of humanity to transform consciousness.” The ultimate objective is to make America into “a harbinger of peace that will be “the light of nations” (http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/278/23/).

While Williamson’s outfit is building the United States of World Peace, Neale Walsch and Brad Blanton are building “the United States of Being.” They describe this in their book Honest to God: A Change of Heart that Can Change the World (2002).

“Our objective is to organize a new government for a new nation, to be built first in our imaginations and in cyberspace after we sign up as citizens by signing the new Declaration of Independence. We then intend to grow larger as a political force in the current structure at the same time we model a new one, and then take over increasingly the actual functions of government. We call our new country the United States of Being and we intend to be based on the sovereignty of the individual, rather than the sovereignty of the king, or the sovereignty of representatives” (Walsch and Blanton, Honest to God, p. 212).

Observe that this United States of Being begins in the imagination. It will thus be brought into existence, allegedly, through the power of New Age visualization.

They would like to see New Age high priestess Oprah Winfrey run for president of the United States of Being, so that her “advanced spiritual” thinking can bring about a transformed America and ultimately a new world. Walsch says:

“I’ll tell you one thing, if Oprah didn’t want to run for President I’d suggest Marianne Williamson, because she has the ability to articulate very important ideas very quickly, in a moment, with twenty-five words or less. ... Barbara Marx Hubbard needs to be in that group, too. In the cabinet” (Honest to God, p. 200).

An Oprah presidency is apparently not in the cards, but in late 2007, for the first time in her career, she threw her full weight behind a presidential candidate. His name is Barack Obama, and he is doubtless the New Age candidate of choice.

When Oprah introduced Obama at a political rally on December 11, 2007, in Columbia, South Carolina, she called him “an evolved leader” and said, “We’re here to evolve to a higher plane.” She said he is a “force for peace” who can break down everything that divides, including race and politics and religion (“Messianic Rhetoric Infuses Obama Rallies,” Politico, Dec. 11, 2007). That’s New Age community building taken to the national level.

Obama is running on a vague platform of ill-defined “hope” and “change,” but his candidacy has stirred an inexplicable level of devotion. Speaking in Omaha, Nebraska, Obama said that he and his supporters would “remake the world” (YouTube, Feb. 7, 2008). The Associated Press called him “a metaphysical force in American politics” (AP, Feb. 12, 2008). Christena Weatherspoon said that it was like Obama was “inside her head” and “knows what I want” (Tribune-Chronicle, Youngstown, Ohio, Feb. 19, 2008). Actor George Clooney said, “He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,” and actress Halle Berry said, “I’ll do whatever he says to do. I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear” (Lisa Lehrer, Politico, Feb. 20).

On her Internet blog for February 27, 2008, Marianne Williamson said Obama’s campaign is evidence of a mighty wind that is blowing and reflects the yearning of the 60s hippy generation for a new age of love and peace. She cited the occultic psychoanalyst Carl Jung, plus Bob Dylan, Gloria Steinem, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Every once in a while, a mighty wind blows. The political sentiments now storming America in the form of support for Barack Obama are a mighty wind indeed. ... I'm a boomer, so I know this feeling. We have been here before. We knew what Bob Dylan meant when he sang, ‘Something’s going on here, but you don’t know what it is....Do you, Mr. Jones?’ And something is going on again. What we’re experiencing here is a new conversation. ...

“From Bob Dylan to Gloria Steinem to John Lennon to Martin Luther King, Jr., people who use words to foster new thinking are the ones we see in retrospect to have OPENED DOORS TO A BETTER WORLD. ...

“The ability to inspire new thinking is a more important ability in a leader today, than simply being a ‘problem-solver.’ ... WHAT WE NEED IS SOMEONE WITH A BETTER STATE OF MIND, WHO WILL LEAD US TO A BETTER STATE OF OURS” (http://marianne.iamplify.com/about.jsp).

The reference to John Lennon is very significant. In his hugely popular 1971 song “Imagine” he sang of a New Age world:

“Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try/ No hell below us, above only sky/ Imagine all the people living for today. Imagine there’s no countries; it isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too/ Imagine all the people living in peace. Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can/ No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man/ Imagine all the people sharing all the world./ You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one/ And some day I hope you’ll join us/ And the world will be as one.”

This is precisely the world that New Agers are attempting to create, and the title of the song reminds us of that one of their chief tools is the power of visualization. If they can just IMAGINE specifically enough and energetically enough and long enough, it will come to pass.

Whether Obama wins or loses the Democratic ticket and the White House, U.S. politics will never be the same. The New Age has gained an open level of influence heretofore unthinkable.

The Age of Aquarius is on a roll.

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Even my mother-in-law, who I never met, was influenced by the new age. I can only guess through television. We were given an old Bible of hers. In it were notes [prayers?] with her "saluting the divinity" in different persons. Mephibosheth