THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT
This term we have chosen to represent what has been happening in our "religious" world of today, is really a "misnomer" because it is certainly not new. Actually it started back in the "Garden of Eden" with our original parents Adam and Eve. To truly understand it we need to go back much farther than that to a scene described by the OT prophet named Isaiah, that God chose as one of the men He used to record the scriptures. In (Isa 14:12-23) we read about this account of the archangel Lucifer rebelling against God, and being cast out of heaven. This was the beginning of "sin" coming to our planet and affecting the complete human race. (Rom 5:12). Lucifer, who became Satan, has ever since then been the "enemy of God", and since he cannot touch God he takes out his wrath on us humans.
One of the ways he does this is by trying to bring the whole human race under bondage to him by polluting man's "religions"! Since our Creator God put a desire to worship someone in the hearts of all mankind, what better way to destroy God's plan than to invent lots of "False Religions" for people to follow? So ever since the Garden of Eden, when he deceived Adam and Eve, by causing them to doubt what God had told them. he has been busy creating new ways to deceive God's people today. That is why we read so many warnings in scripture about the danger of being deceived by false prophets and teachers! (Matt 24:4, 5. 11, 24) and (2 Cor 11:12-15) and
(2 Thess 2:1-12) are a few examples of these many warnings.
So check out all false religions, or any of the many cults, and so-called "new revelations" we hear about, very carefully with the Word of God to see if they contain truth or error. (Acts 17:11). And remember that any truth taken out of context and pushed beyond its true meaning, becomes error. A couple of good scriptures to study are (John 8:31-59) and (1 John 4:1-6). Then remember that God can give us discernment, both natural (Heb 5:11-14), and supernatural (1 Cor 12:10). Both of these are necessary for all of us to prevent us from getting mixed up in any so-called "New Age" teaching that is flooding churches today in these "Last of the Last Days!! These are the days that we have been called by God to live in, so He has made available to us all that we need to stay close to Him, but He expects us to make use of them! So beware of all teachings that don't line up with scripture!
Sincerely submitted.
Dave Jamer
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Satan has deceived the whole world until a woman bruises him Gen 3:15 by exposing his lies, she delivers the true word John 1:1 of God Rev 12:5, Rev 12:13 as a witness and then the end will come. Check out the bruising of Satan at http://minigoodtale.blogspot.com .
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