Rapture Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour
Max Blumenthal’s latest takes us on a shocking and at times bizarre tour of right-wing Pastor John Hagee’s annual Washington-Israel Summit, blowing the cover off the Christian Zionist movement in the process. Starring Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, Pastor John Hagee, Ambassador Dore Gold and a host of rapture-ready evangelicals praying for Armaggedon.
“The Bible says in Psalm 111:10 — ‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.’ And it’s not that there aren’t a million other things to learn about God, but He says you’ve got to start with the fear of the Lord.”
What is church?
Who is it for?
Is it broken?
Can it be better?
“If I only had this as my guide … if all I had was the Bible … and I was to read this book and then start a church, what would it look like? Would it look like the thing that we’ve built here and all refer to as church? Or would it look radically different?”
Trends come and go in our culture and the church seems to follow.
BASIC is a seven-part series of short films that challenges us to reclaim the church as Scripture describes it to be.
This series speaks to those who have questions about the church and to those who may have lost interest in the church.
What is church?
You are church.
I am church.
We are church.
Is church a specific place where individuals gather once a week to sing a few songs and listen to someone talk about God, or does church refer to the people themselves, who share a common mission in the world? Maybe if we start to view church the way God designed it, as a family loving each other and living and sharing all of life together, we might show the world a glimpse of who God is, and we might begin to impact the world as God intended us to do.
“We can fool ourselves: ‘You know what? At least we’re doing something, and something is always better than nothing.’
But I would challenge that, because I look in scripture and
there are times when the church was just missing it, and God says:
‘It would be better to not just do anything than to do that.’”
Why was the first Communion an intimate gathering with Jesus’ twelve disciples, instead of the multitudes following Him? Why did early believers go from home to home for the Lord’s Supper? Because biblical church is about true community; it’s an intimate, full-time commitment with fellow believers to fear, follow, be filled, fellowship, teach, pray, and remember. Together. Because we are church. The seventh and final film in the BASICseries.
“…Rick Warren, the big management guru came in and he infiltrated every single evangelical church in this country, just about, and has trained them for outcomes based, purpose driven — in that philosophy — which is ‘school to work’….”
“As C.S. Lewis said, “when we give up on education and we move towards training, civilization dies.”
“I am absolutely devastated by the fact that the conservative movement is equally responsible, if not more — in a way more — because nobody suspected them.
This is what’s the tragedy to me. I’ve spent 40 years now, and I trusted all these people. And they may not all be so bad, but they won’t tell the truth. If you tell the truth you’re on the you-know-what list. And they’re not telling the truth because they want to keep their organizations going, keep funding coming in. And that makes me sick, because it’s our children’s futures.”
“We’re developing people that are totally dependent upon rewards for doing what the government wants.”
Quoting George Orwell: “Once it’s gone. Once we’ve lost this freedom, that’s the end …that’s it … and it won’t come back!”
– Charlotte Isberty
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
Life in America Under Agenda 21 with whistleblower Charlotte Iserbyt 1/4
Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.
Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa.
Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings. http://www.prisonplanet.tv/ http://www.americandeception.com/ http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/index.html http://twitter.com/RealAlexJones