Thank you, Brad, for the thoughtful clarifications. :good: Agree Brad, Being a news junky, I've read (some) Q posts so I'll know what folks are talking about. Pastor JD didn't vet the websites he was showing or Q posts. We've seen/heard many say "Q said this or that" and it never came from Q. A recent example was when the lockdown started in March, many were saying "Q said children will be rescued from the human traffickers, cleaning out under ground tunnels". Q never said that and it certainly didn't happen. :mail: Very good analogy Brad! :good: Very true Yohanan. And not a fan of "trust the plan" or "we're (white hats-good guys) in control". Arthur, I have or should say had, a dear friend (and her husband) who went the way of dominionists. The change was sudden and dark. When they would come in town before-dominionism & stayed with us, we ate and were merry, enjoying each others company and passing Biblical/political info we'd learned. Stayed close even being several states away. After the conversion; no (my friend) contact with me w/o supervision, the husband was on the cusp of attacking me for merely asking questions about this "new religion". A TOTALLY CHANGED MAN and later...wife, my fear friend. When I had researched their "new religion" (before Gaggle started scrubbing good info), their doctrine had stated (paraphrasing), it was OK to murder those who don't conform, as a last resort of course (like Islam), to further the goal of bringing God's Kingdom to earth. I found that under Bill Hamon's Christian International website (15+ yrs ago), where they also posted his "prophecies" that never came true. What scripture says (apparently) is up to the readers interpretation, super dangerous. I miss her. I am so grieved to heat that, Chondra. It’s a very dangerous movement. You can’t dare question an apostle or call out their false prophecies. I studied up on Dominionism and the New Apostolic reformation a few years ago. It has its roots in the Roman Catholic Religion and it has the same goals. They want to set up their own Millennial Kingdom without Jesus Christ. It will dovetail perfectly with the Antichrist’s new age agenda. Lighthouse Trails is an excellent resource for this. I highly recommend their website. Here is a snippet from an article on Dominionism for others that don’t know about this insidious cult/religion: Dominionism - Dominionism and the Rise of Christian Imperialism "Throughout the 2000 year history of Christianity there has always been a vein of dominionism embedded in the strata of doctrines. This seam has ebbed and flowed for 20 centuries, sometimes submerged, sometimes exposed. Whenever out in the open, it has given rise to horrible abuses done in the name of Christ. In the early 21st century, once again this vein is now showing and active. Keep in mind: Dominionism is always an aberration of true Christian theology.... "A remnant of believers has always opposed it, often suffering a martyr's fate at the hands of intolerant dominionists. Since the latter half of the 1990s the three major dominionists sects have openly converged into an ecumenical force. These three branches of dominionism are linked historically at many levels, and there is solid documentation to support the idea that the current convergence was planned and intentional.... "Dominionism teaches: "Dominionists teach that men can be coerced or compelled to enter the kingdom. They assign to the Church duties and rights that belong scriptural only to Jesus Christ. This includes the esoteric belief that believers can "incarnate" Christ and function as His body on Earth to establish His kingdom rule. An inordinate emphasis is placed on man's efforts; the doctrine of the sovereignty of God is diminished." Click here to read the rest of article, "Dominionism and the Rise of Christian Imperialism" https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/dominionism.htm Arthur, Thank you for the info, very helpful for me and many others too. Wow, Arthur! Don't I feel like an ostrich! I could tell you lots about Loyola and the Jesuits, a similar idea relative to Catholicism / Papism, but never really heard of or looked into dominionism per se. I think there are way more snakes in the woodpile than I ever imagined. And the "New Age" is a lot more extensive, organized, insidious and dangerous, (not deluded harmless dreamers), than I imagined. It gives me an "aha" suspicion about a certain man at church (Lutheran, therefore amillennial) whom I was provided to "assist" me teaching junior high kids, maybe 15 years ago. He hated my overt Rapture declaration to the students, and proclaimed to them and me not one Lutheran in the world believes in the Rapture. I responded, "now that's an astonishing claim! Not even one out of how many millions?!" That day I decided I could never actually be a Lutheran. :negative: The second thing your explanation sparks to me is more clarity about Jesus declaration that there shall be many "christs" coming in His name. That makes a lot more sense to me now, imagining how that will be, since I'm seeing the scale is way much more extensive than Luciferians and Jesuits. And over the years I have also wondered about Matthew 11:12. "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." Less confusing in this more extensive evil context of dominionism and such. Your blurb here is welcome to me, Arthur. Thanks. I'll go there now and learn some more I'm sure. Hey, if I were God I would have pulled the plug on us a long time ago! Too many wack a doodles! TR You are welcome, Dan. The enemy's plan is complex, yeah. Dominionism, New Age, the Jesuits, Mystical Roman Catholicism/Contemplative Spirituality are all wrapped up in one evil bundle. Lighthouse Trails has lots of great articles on the subject. Enjoy!
A Theology That Intermingles with Mysticism But Not the Word of God
"There has been a significant rise of cross-pollination between evangelical dominionists and New Age Theosophists.41 Since the late 1970s there has been a closeted fraternization between dominionists and Theosophists for the purpose of finding common ground for the future. Both groups seek to bring in a "Christ" figure to solve the world's problems. Both groups have grand utopian plans to create "peace" on earth. During the past decade, the two groups began borrowing doctrinal terminologies from one another and working on common theologies. The events of 9/11 gave a new impetus to this effort. Jay Gary, who has been a leader within all three sects of dominionism has had close ties with the Theosophists and is adopting new theologies, including a hybrid of preterism called "transmillenialism." Bob Buford of Leadership Network ... has been working since the mid-1990s to create a youth culture based on "emergent" theologies called the Emergent Church - a mixture of New Age paganism, eastern mysticism and evangelical dominionism. And Patriotic Dominionist leaders have long-standing, close ties with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who has his own messianic kingdom ambitions.
The Gospel of Salvation is achieved by setting up the "Kingdom of God" as a literal and physical kingdom to be "advanced" on Earth in the present age. Some dominionists liken the New Testament Kingdom to the Old Testament Israel in ways that justify taking up the sword, or other methods of punitive judgment, to war against enemies of their kingdom.
