Friday, April 21, 2006

The 700 Club Exposed by David J. Stewart

From http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/700_club.htm


The 700 Club EXPOSED!

by David J. Stewart April 2006

700 Club Psychics? Clairvoyants for Jesus?

I generally don't care much for religious programs. However, knowing that millions of people are attracted to such programs, I find myself compelled to see exactly what people are being dished out by these so-called "Christians." I've been watching The 700 Club lately, analyzing it, and I see Satan at work. I see them as borderline psychics, who exploit Christianity to make money and con people. On the show, Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen regularly join hands in a prayer segment, which is then followed by a psychic type reading, where they specify details of who is being healed in TV land. It's creepy! Are The 700 Club hosts, Pat Robertson, Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen, psychics? On today's show, Gordon and Terry prayed while holding hands, and then claimed that the following healings had taken place as a result of their prayers on TV ...

Someone with an "abscessed right tooth," has just now been healed.
Someone with "twisted intestines" has just been healed.
Then Terry said there was a person with a "strange condition," a burning in the legs, who has just been healed.
Then Gordon said there's a man with swelling of the sinuses in his right cheek, with much pain behind the right eye, but he is now healed.
Someone with a painful right elbow joint no longer has any pain.

Someone with a problematic right hip, limited mobility from a stroke, is now able to walk.
Terry said she saw someone with severe stiffness in the neck bone, but didn't know the exact ailment--that person is now healed, terry said.

Someone paralyzed on the right side, particularly the right side of the face, has just been healed.
A man with a plate in his skull is having continual problems, and the doctors just don't know what to do. Terry said she saw the bone reforming around the plate and the man's pain was gone, he was now healed.

These are the crazy and absurd claims of these so-called "Christians." As I listened to their bizarre claims, I wrote them down, as listed above. How can they claim to see such healings? Folks, this is CLAIRVOYANCE (i.e., Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses), and is exactly what the Satanic psychics do!!! How in the world would Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen know who is being healed? How can you see someone's bone reforming inside their head? The Word of God never teaches any such demonic practice. I dare you to show me from the Bible, where God said he would give us some mystical power of being able to see or know what is going on in someone else's body. It is extremely dangerous to dabble in familiar spirits. The hosts of The 700 Club are leading the public to believe that they have some special power with God, the ability to see who is being healed. They do not! It is a psychological scam to seduce suffering people into giving The 700 Club more money. And it works! The Christians Broadcasting Network (CBN) took in $160,000,000 in 2005 alone!


Donations rise 21% for Robertson’s TV ministry
Pat Robertson

By STEVEN G. VEGH , The Virginian-Pilot © March 21, 2006
VIRGINIA BEACH — Pat Robertson’s television ministry continues to ride a wave of ever-mounting contributions, which have almost doubled in less than a decade.
Donors gave $160 million to Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, according to tax statements for the year ending in March 2005, an increase of 21 percent from the previous year. Contributions to CBN have increased steadily since 1997, when it received $84 million, filings with the Internal Revenue Service show.
Donations from viewers and supporters account for most of the network’s overall revenue of $236 million.
SOURCE

Pat Robertson Estimated to be Worth $150-200 million!

"Robertson lives on the top of a Virginia mountain, in a huge mansion with a private airstrip. He owns the Ice Capades, a small hotel, diamond mines (in Zaire), a vitamin company (Kalo Vita) involved in a multi-level marketing scheme along the lines of Amway, and until recently, International Family Entertainment, parent company of the Family Channel (see below) -- all estimated to be worth between $150-200 million. How does a televangelist, who is supposedly involved in non-profit work, manage to create such a fortune for himself? One thing is known for sure, Robertson's numerous private business interests have at times pushed their expenses onto the tax-exempt, religious interests of CBN. For example, Robertson was caught using CBN money and equipment to aid his diamond mining operation -- a double good deal for Pat, seeing as he employed people in Zaire for ridiculously low wages, and managed to use CBN's infrastructure to cut costs even more. In looking at Robertson's businesses, one is struck by the constant use of non-profit, donor money to fund his schemes. (For documentation of this and more, see Rob Boston's book entitled The Most Dangerous Man in America?: Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition.)" -SOURCE

Does Prayer Guarantee Healing?

We read in James 5:15 that "the prayer of faith shall save the sick"; BUT, we also read the Apostle Paul's words in 2nd Timothy 4:20, "...but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick." Clearly, whatever "gift" of healing Paul had back in Acts 28:3-6 when he was bitten by a deadly snake was GONE. Paul couldn't heal his friend Trophimus. Also, Paul couldn't heal his co-laborer in the Lord, Timothy, as Paul mentions Timothy's "often infirmities" (1st Timothy 5:23). God does NOT guarantee healing just because we pray; BUT, God does tell us to pray for the sick, and then trust His wisdom, goodness, and judgment. Our responsibility is to pray and wait upon the Lord. It is sinful and unbiblical for ANYONE to claim a "right" to be healed, or to teach others that God always heals the sick. As we clearly see in the Bible, God doesn't always heal the sick.

The Bible states in Isaiah 53:5, "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Some foolish people twist this Scripture around to claim that Jesus died to pay for our physical healing too, and that physical healing as guaranteed by Jesus' blood. However, this interpretation is clearly erroneous in lieu of the Bible verses I've just shared with you. Just because we are Christians does not guarantee us health, wealth, or prosperity in this sinful world. Romans 6:23 proclaims "For the wages of sin is death..." The physical death is inevitable, because our sins bring death. However, we do not have to die the second death in the Lake of Fire because Christ offers us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Him alone. No amount of prayer guarantees physical or mental healing. The only guarantee we have is concerning Heaven, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" -Romans 10:13.

Exploiting the Gospel

So many con artists and false prophets are exploiting the Gospel nowadays. As you will read in the section below, something is very phony about Pat Robertson. It is obvious to the educated Christian, that Satan requires allegiance from those who would become the most successful in this world. This is not surprising as the Bible exposes Satan as the god of this world (i.e., the god of the wicked and unsaved). This is why we see open allegiance to Satan in so much music today, such as the Rolling Stones' blasphemous song, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. This allegiance is also seen in the corporate world. And tragically, it is also seen in the religious world...
Benny Hinn
Jesse Duplantis
Kenneth Copeland


Pat Robertson Displays Satanic 'El Diablo' Sign During 700 Club Show

So-called Christian voice of America also soft-peddles big brother surveillance society

Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson November 18 2005

Pat Robertson, the so-called voice of Christian America, has again been caught 'El Diablo red handed' flashing occult and satanic hand signals during his show.

During Thursday morning's 700 Club program Robertson could clearly be seen displaying the El Diablo hand gesture towards the end of the broadcast.
To fans of UT football El Diablo simply means 'Hook 'em Horns' but it is also used by Satanists as a form of communication.

The gesture represents the horned devil, also known as the sign of Il Cornuto and Diabolicus and was fully embraced by modern day Satanic cults. It is now seen as a trendy thing to do amongst heavy metal and Goth fans. They see it as a sign of rebellion against the establishment, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Headlines were made last year during Bush's inauguration when the President and his family repeatedly flashed the sign. US media brushed aside the matter, saying it was in the context of supporting UT Longhorns. However, Europeans were shocked and interpreted the gesture as a salute to Satan.

Here is a still of Robertson flashing the signal. Click here for a video montage of the show, which includes Roberts' comments on biometric finger scanning to enter schools and the big brother society, an issue we will explore later.

Robertson talks about feeling heat and fire and utters 'Jesus' under his breath moments before he flashes the sign. This is in the context of Robertson trying to relay power from 'his God' to heal his supporters' physical ailments.

First of all it is necessary to remind ourselves of Robertson's previous decidedly un-Christian activities.

In April 2001 Robertson supported China's brutal policy of forced abortion and said that the Communist country was "doing what they have to do" in keeping population numbers down. It is not Christian to advocate even voluntary abortion on the part of the mother, never mind such a tyrannical model of forced abortion as part of a wider eugenics agenda.
Whenever the subject of implantable chips has been raised on the 700 Club, Robertson has whitewashed the issue, saying that it doesn't represent the mark of the beast and that Christians should not be concerned about it. This directly contradicts the Bible and Revelations.
Earlier this year Robertson caused waves when he advocated the assassination of Venezuelan populist president Hugo Chavez. In doing so Robertson is nailing his colors to the wall as a firm minion of the New World Order. Chavez has rallied against the Globalists at every turn, including his recent spat with Vincente Fox and his rejection of the FTAA.

Returning to the El Diablo hand gesture, should it worry us that other Christian preachers have also been photographed flashing the sign? Texe Marrs has been instrumental in bringing this to light and some examples from his book Codex Magica can be seen below.
Signs of Satan!

The gesture was embraced by Satanic cults and the Church of Satan's leader Anton LaVey as seen below.

A collage of other examples of politicians and media personalities flashing the symbol can be found on this page.

We do not claim that every example is evidence that the person worships Satan but there is enough material to indicate that something very disturbing is taking place.
Even if you don't believe in good and evil or God and Satan, the elitists do. Bohemian Grove and Skull and Bones are proof that the elite think that engaging in occult practices enhances their power. We did not set out to connect the occult with the Globalists' overall agenda, it just seems that they converge every time we look at it.

Experts in the occult have come to the conclusion that flashing the El Diablo sign is an attempt on the part of the individual to draw further power from 'their God' because the Globalists are losing their influence over world events and the natural yearning for truth and liberty is stalling their agenda.
Here is another photo of Pat Robertson giving an occult gesture, this time the Masonic Sign of Fellow Craft, or the Devil's Claw, in a front page photo shoot for Time Magazine on February 17th 1986.

We will now move on to discuss Robertson's comments on big brother and the surveillance society.
Even if you disbelieve all the evidence about hand gestures and occultism, Robertson's advocacy of a high tech slave grid should have everyone worried.
Robertson is asked for his response to a mother who is concerned about her child's school instituting biometric finger scanners. Robertson states,
"Like it or not big brother is on your case all the time and we're gonna have our eyes, the iris scanned, all kinds of things these days for identification to make sure you're not some bad guy with a bomb."

"I really don't think that that's terribly intrusive to have somebody have a scan of their finger anymore than it is to ask for fingerprints."
"I don't think you'd have much success in convincing anybody that was too much intrusion."
Since when did we all become criminals, guilty until proven innocent? Since when did children have to scan their finger like felons to enter their school?
How is an action that is associated with criminals not an intrusion?

If Jesus had lived in an age of technology should he have been made to finger scan to kick the money changers out of the temple? It wouldn't have happened because Jesus would have been treated like one of those "bad guys with a bomb."
Robertson's agenda is clear, he is trying to switch off the concerns of mainstream Christian America to the expanding Orwellian surveillance society. Robertson directly contradicts the Bible and every commonly understood Christian value.

Robertson misrepresents the very ethic of what it means to be a Christian. This only succeeds in demonizing Christianity as a whole and turning people away from faith.
Christians should take a long hard considered look at Robertson's penchant for flashing Satanic symbology and support of forced abortion. Non-Christians should be alarmed by his bloodthirsty willingness to kill and his total disregard of the bill of rights, privacy and freedom in America.
We are deeply concerned about the whole gannet of Robertson's actions and will continue to expose him for the fake Pharisee Christian, George Bush New World Order worshipping, arrogant hypocrite that he is.
SOURCE

Secret Societies and The Christian Establishment

by Texe Marrs

In 1996, Time magazine, an Illuminist-puppet publication, arranged for Televangelist Pat Robertson to signal to insiders everywhere his fierce Masonic allegiance and loyalty.
Pat Robertson’s father, Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, a Democrat, was a fabulously wealthy Illuminist insider. The elder Robertson was Chairman of the U. S. Senate’s powerful Committee on Banking and Currency and later served as a "consultant" to the World Bank.

Evangelist/Zionist Author Tim LaHaye has been given large sums of money by occultist Reverend Sun Myung Moon. LaHaye has been a featured speaker at Moon’s conferences. LaHaye is a racist hater of Arabs and a fanatical supporter of Israeli Zionist aggression. He supports the unscriptural heresy of Jewish racial supremacy.
The late J. Peter Grace, head of the North American division of the secretive Catholic Order, the Knights of Malta, was the early mentor of evangelist Pat Robertson. Robertson was sent down to Brazil by the elite to get some seasoning and later was trained for his "role" as a TV evangelist at an Illuminati-sponsored church in New York City.

Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker—When their "PTL" broadcasting empire fell, it turned out that a Jewish Orthodox billionaire in Canada secretly owned all the PTL assets and property. In prison, convict Jim Bakker, ordained by the Assembly of God denomination, reportedly went to a Catholic priest to confess his sins.

The Illuminati elite saw to it that favored "pretty boy," Ralph Reed, was appointed by Pat Robertson to be head of the Christian Coalition. More recently, Reed was given millions by Republicans as a Washington, D.C. political consultant. In 2004, Reed attended the annual conclave of the prestigious Bilderbergers in Stresa, Italy. Time magazine, on its cover, May 15, 1995, anointed Reed with the telling title, "The Right Hand of God."

Paul Crouch, TBN founder, was outed by the Los Angeles Times as a homosexual.
Charismatic "name it and claim it" man Kenneth Copeland, reputed to be a high-level Mason, is shown here in an ad from his magazine.

Henry Luce, Illuminist and Order of Skull & Bones initiate, supervised and helped fund one of Billy Graham’s first crusades in New York City. The Illuminati have long worked behind the scenes to influence and control the Christian establishment. (Right: the U.S. Postal Service honored Luce with his image on a 32¢ stamp.)
CNN founder Ted Turner, shown here with actress Jane Fonda, reportedly helped Pat Robertson with setting up his CBN TV empire. Later, Turner publicly labeled Christians "losers and Bozos."

Ted Turner and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The Crystal Cathedral’s Reverend Robert Schuller, 33rd degree Mason, shares a clearly Masonic handshake with former Soviet Communist Party boss, Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev, an initiate of the Grand Orient Lodge, Paris, France, spoke at Schuller’s church.

Oral Roberts, heretical charismatic faith healer, is a 33rd degree Mason, and a lodge brother of his close friend, Billy Graham.
Masonic bigwig Mikhail Gorbachev, who endorses a United Nations of Religions organization, was Time’s "Man of the Year." Gorby was given tens of thousands of dollars to speak at Oral Roberts University, a school run by his esteemed lodge brother (33rd degree) Oral Roberts.

Arno Froese, dispensationalist prophecy teacher and rabid Zionist who despises Palestinians, was guest speaker at an Israeli fundraiser. Froese’s group solicited millions of dollars from deceived Christians which went to Israeli hospitals, even though that nation’s hospitals perform abortions and are flush with money from Israel’s government-funded socialized medicine system. (Note the medical serpent logo on the podium.)

Jerry Falwell has taken money from Reverend Moon and also was given a "gift" of a multimillion-dollar executive jet aircraft by the Zionist government of Israel. Falwell is one of America’s chief propagandists for Israel and for Zionist imperial ambitions. He is a racist who hates Arabs while promoting Jewish racial supremacy.

After faith healer Benny Hinn was exposed as a fraud by various TV news programs, the Reverend Jerry Falwell came to his rescue. He invited Hinn to Falwell’s Liberty University where Falwell told people he endorsed Hinn. Both Hinn and Falwell are radical pro-Israel supporters. Israel’s Prime Minister rewarded Falwell with a spanking, new executive jet aircraft, paid for with U.S. taxpayer dollars—foreign aid given to Israel by Washington, D.C.!
Christian celebrity Pat Boone, whose heavy metal rock album "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is shown here, was on hand at a 2001 Reverend Moon "interfaith prayer" event.

Billy Graham shared a secret Masonic handshake with fellow 33rd degree Mason, former President Harry Truman.

Assembly of God leader Mike Evans, shown with Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Evans was later forced to flee the nation of Cambodia after mobs threw rocks and tried to kill him at one of his crusades. The Cambodians were invited to see "miracles" of healing, but when they found out Evans was a faker and a hoax, they were outraged.

Super-rich elitist William Randolph Hearst, Catholic Knights of Malta high-up, told his national newspaper chain to "puff" Billy Graham and make him a household name.
The late Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was a popular personality on TV in the 50s. A covert member of the Masonic Lodge, his lodge brother, Reverend Robert Schuller, honored Sheen by erecting a statue of him. The statue stands now at Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral Church in California.

NOTE: Texe Marrs exposes the sinister involvement of famous-name "Christian" leaders in secret societies and Illuminist groups and reveals the horror of the Great Apostasy in his newest video:

Tower of Infamy—The Illuminati, Secret Societies, Reverend Moon, and the Buying and Selling of Televangelists and Other Famous-Name Christian Leaders

Pat Robertson is of the Devil ... Praises Pope John Paul II!
"Pat Robertson Comments on Pope John Paul II's Passing

CBN.com – VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., April 02, 2005 -- I am deeply grieved as a great man passes from this world to his much deserved eternal reward. John Paul II has been the most beloved religious leader of our age – far surpassing in popular admiration the leader of any faith.
He has been a man of great warmth, profound understanding, deep spirituality, and indefatigable vigor. It was my great honor to meet with him at the residence of my good friend, Cardinal O’Connor, in New York, and to sit in the Consistory during the mass he conducted in Central Park. I told him at the time how much the American people loved him, and he merely smiled. That love was shared not only in America but by millions all over the globe.
He has been a steady bridge in the transition of Eastern Europe from communism to freedom. His personal magnetism brought together all Christians in new bonds of understanding.
I pray for the Cardinals of the Catholic Church that they might have God-given wisdom in selecting the successor to this great man. Their task will not be easy, but with God all things are possible." -SOURCE

According to Pat Robertson, the Pope is a man of "deep spirituality." You've got to be kidding Mr. Robertson. And you call yourself a "Christian"? The Pope is the leader of the biggest false religion in the world, Catholicism! For Robertson to speak such gleaming words of praise towards such a Satanic imposter as the Pope, reveals that Robertson is in league with the Devil himself. No born again Christian who loves the Lord would ever praise the Pope, who is leading one billion people straight into Hell. Pat Robertson praises the Pope because he'd be off TV very fast if he criticized the Pope. Satan uses man's love of money to control the world. Pat Robertson has sold out to Satan!

Conclusion

Clearly, Pat Robertson is not what he appears to be. So many false prophets are hiding behind the Gospel nowadays. I looked over http://www.cbn.com/ and couldn't find a Gospel presentation anywhere. Although they give a basic Gospel presentation on their show, they fail to explain what it really means Biblically. Every unsaved Catholic believes the good news (Gospel) that Jesus died, was buried, and rose again three days later. Obviously a person is not saved just because they claim to believe the Gospel. If this were true, then EVERY Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Christian Scientist, Mormon, and Seventh-Day Adventist is saved. The truth is that none of them are saved. The truth is that the Biblical Gospel EXCLUDES all self-righteousness, works, forsaking of sins, commitments, sacraments, church membership, making Jesus your Lord, walking down a church isle, giving your all to Christ, living for God, baptism, etc, etc, etc. The Only way to be saved is by faith ALONE if Jesus Christ. We do good works BECAUSE we are already saved, not to get saved (Romans 3:20; 4:3-5).

Pat Robertson and his The 700 Club are bad news. They are exploiting the Gospel, Christianity, the poor, the ignorant, and suffering people, to get rich ... filthy rich. You'll NEVER hear anyone on the show state that GOOD WORKS are a road to Hell if you rely upon them to save you; BUT, that is the Gospel truth! It's time for God's children to speak aloud against the damnable heresies of our day. It may not be politically correct nowadays to outright criticize false prophets and heretics; BUT, it is Biblical, and pleasing to God (Psalm 94:16; Ephesians 5:11).


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Timothy said...

Yeah, it's a hardhitting blog. Personally, I'm post-trib rapture in my prophecy views.