In July 2010, Pastor Don Stuva from Van Wert, Iowa, sent the following article. It fits directly in with the other articles concerning "deceit" that we have been posting.
To Know The Time We Are In, by Pastor Don Stuva
We are in the Age of deceit and it is time to sound the alarm. I believe it is the most serious time in history. As we look around us we can see what is happening. Our land is in a famine of God's Word. As we can see in:
AMOS 8: 11 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a FAMINE IN THE LAND, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:” As our government and many of our leaders are outlawing even the mention of the name of Jesus. Wherever there is a vacancy it will be filled either with the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ or it will be filled with other satanic spirits. I would like to point out some of the ways this is happening in our day. As a church and the Lords people and spokesmen for Him we are obligated to speak forth and sound the alarm. I would like to quote some of the things that are happening today.
Reported through News Max on 7/21/2010: This pertains to the upcoming election.
The nest few weeks will determine whether Harry Reid is defeated or re-elected and, most likely, whether or not the Republican Party can win a Senate majority. Right after the primary earlier in June, Reid put a vicious negative ad on the air saying that Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee, wanted to “Phase out” Social Security and Medicare. He used her own voice saying those words in his ad. Sharron really had said that we need to “phase out” the method of funding Social Security and Medicare so that the Congress, led by Reid, cannot raid the funds to pay for their deficit spending as happens now. But Reid edited the clip to give a false impression. And then Reid spent $1 million pushing this false charge on Nevada TV. {The average Nevadan saw the Reid attack ad about 25 times!!!}.
As Churchill said, “A lie makes it halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on in the morning.” Scripture has some things to say re: this type of operation.
John 8:44: Ye are of YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
We can also see this same thing happening right here in Iowa. The lies and negative ads being placed in the run for Governor. It is time to sound the Alarm and expose what is happening that Christians will not be deceived in our time. The most alarming thing is found in the last four verses of Romans in the 1st Chapter. It states that those that practice abominations before God will be judged and also those that support those that do abominations will also be judged. This is where Christians will be deceived if we are not very vigilant. Quoting scripture below is what the Lord sees.
Isaiah 59:3,4: 3 “ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken LIES, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak LIES; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”
WARNINGS: Today the warnings must sound and we must be ready to stand in the gap.
If nothing more Christians can contact their leaders by letters and phone calls. Today we see our government going basically Socialistic. Socialism will exercise complete control over the people.
Today we see the fairness doctrine coming back to life, this would silence all who speak out for the Lord in righteousness.
The gains regarding abortion have been reversed and now partial birth abortion could be revived again. US tax money is now promised to many nations of the world to promote abortion with clinics that operates receiving our money to operate on.
It has been reported in the Des Moines register that our president has reversed a bill that President bush had signed which gave Doctors the right to refuse to do such as abortions that were against their morals.
Galatians 5: 24,25: Crucified the flesh.
“Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” To walk in the spirit is to be involved. To keep our focus on Jesus wherever we work at is to allow Him to bring a mighty victory.
There is more than simply attending meetings. I have seen in the past where many were going all over the nation wherever there was a large spiritual meeting. If they couldn’t drive they flew. This is not wrong in itself but there is a time when we need to stop searching and trying to learn and begin to work. {Walk in His path}
2nd Timothy 3:7: teaches that there are those that are constantly searching:
“Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Our answer is in Jesus in coming into the knowledge of the truth. Salvation is first and then as we learn we put our knowledge to work for good.