Hellivision and the Movies
"Ye that love the LORD, hate evil..." -Psalm 97:10
"That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" -2nd Thessalonians 2:12
Read what the witches have to say for themselves at http://www.witchcraft.org/books/KateWest.htm (below is a short paragraph from the above website link).
"Harry Potter, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed. It seems we cant get enough of all things magical or 'witchy' at the moment. The result of all this interest is that Wicca has become the fastest growing religion in the UK. Wicca is a nature-based spiritual path that celebrates the feminine, follows the changing seasons of the year and is rich with magic and enchantment. But is it all spells and hocus pocus?
Kate West's grounded introduction to the Craft separates the Hollywood myth from the everyday reality, with all the practical advice you need to follow the Wiccan way. There are many coffee-table pretenders around, but Kate West is the real thing. Her Witchcraft is about passion, not fashion! She explores the myths that surround Witchcraft, its festivals, beliefs, practices and folklore. She explains the responsibilities of becoming a Witch and provides plenty of magical and herbal spells you can work with - from charms to help you attract your ideal partner to healing potions for natural beauty to affirmations that will help you find empowerment. Witchcraft can help you to become personally fulfilled as it teaches you take control of yourself and your life. Whether you want to join a group or a work alone, this is a great guide to Wicca."
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Few people realize the important part modern movies play in subverting youth away from their homes, their country, and their religion. Many movies show an hour of film in which the criminals and bad men and women do everything that is forbidden by our laws and moral code and devote one minute during which the law catches up with them, or they die because of their sins. Films taken of actual fighting durian the Mexican revolution in 1913 were shown in Galveston, Texas. The sight of seeing men killed in battle, or being dragged from their homes and slaughtered by revolutionaries caused women to scream and faint, and men to vomit. Public opinion caused the showings to be prohibited. To-day these scenes are shown on films advertised as "Children's Special" for Saturday afternoon performances. That is just one illustration of how the general public, and particularly the children, have been systematically hardened to accept the sight of violence and bloody death as normal. (SOURCE: PAWNS IN THE GAME, page 127, by William Guy Carr, 1958).
Micah Mahjoubian, a homosexual activist, understands the battle is being won through television and film:
“Most people aren’t really paying attention to what’s going on in Congress or the Supreme Court, but they do turn on the TV and they see people who are funny and make them laugh, who seem absolutely normal to them and look just like them, and yet they’re gay. That, I think, is much more powerful than anything that goes on in Washington D.C.”
The following words are taken from SATAN'S BID FOR YOUR CHILD, an excellent sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles which every parent needs to read, because the Devil wants your child...
"The truth is, parents do not know what is going on. I am going to be very frank tonight. No punches barred tonight. If I have superintendents of schools and principals and teachers calling me by the thousands tomorrow, it does not matter. I am going to try to save your kids if it makes the whole town mad. Tonight I am going to spend myself to save your kids. I am going to risk your devotion, your love, your fellowship, maybe your friendship, but I am going to do it because, with all my heart I want to save your kids."1
Satan wants your child! Children today are being brainwashed by the heathen school system to believe the lies of Evolution, Communism, feminism, homosexuality, and then they sit for hours in front of the HELLivision when they come home from school, getting more of the same filth. Television today is saturated with sexual perversion, nudity, and immorality. Only an idiot for a parent would allow their child to sit for hours in front of a TV watching Devilvision. Walt Disney programs aimed at teens promote sexual perversion, immodesty, rebellion against parents, lesbianism, New Age, selfishness, and heathen living. Walt Disney's TV shows are provocative, featuring teen girls clothed and filmed in sexually suggestive manners. God hasn't lifted His ban against Disney.
Official Harry Potter Hogwart's School of Witchcraft Logo
Harry Potter Author, J.K. Rowling, says Dumbledore is a homosexual
The Real Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged.
http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/0127.asp
Harry Potter 'occult' warning (News Report from the BBC).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1638000/1638887.stm
School bans Harry Potter. (News Report from the BBC).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_693000/693779.stm
Buffy Draws Children to Witchcraft. (News Report from the
BBC).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_864000/864984.stm
Harry Potter, Sorcery and Fantasy.
http://cana.userworld.com/cana_harrypotter.html
Harry Potter: A Journey to Power.
http://cana.userworld.com/cana_morehpotter1.html
Harry Potter? What Does God Have To Say?
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract7.html
The Harry Potter Books and Christians.
Reachout
Trust - Harry Potter and Christians
Harry Potter -Sorcery and Fantasy
http://www.reachouttrust.org/articles/occult/hpotter3.htm
Harry Potter Books - My Concerns.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/harrypotter.html
Harry Potter. Many articles on Harry Potter.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/hpmain.html
The Darkness of Their
Imaginations
What do professed Christians think about in the darkness of their imaginations? What do they watch on hell-I-vision and unholy-wood (or holly-weird)? What do they listen to when no one is around? Could their fellowship with the world affect their ability to overcome sin? Could it hinder their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ? James 4:4 says, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Are you a friend of the world or of God?
Ezekiel 8:8-10,12 reads, "Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed [or displayed?] upon the wall [or TV?] round about. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what THE ANCIENTS [supposed spiritual leaders] of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth."
God knows what we watch on TV. It's just as bad to watch adultery on TV as it would be for us to be in same room with them. The TV has a desensitizing effect on its viewers. Sin is not shocking anymore but rather becomes commonplace (no big deal). This is why many people have become lackadaisical and acceptant of the wicked sin of sodomy. The following reads like a synopsis of hellivision and unholy-wood:
Romans 1:28-32 -"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:"
Verse 32 is the clincher for the professed Christian that enjoys watching such things--
"Who KNOWING the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO THEM."
Watching/ reading/ listening to these things is having pleasure in them that do them. The bottom line is that when we participate as willing observers we are having pleasure in sinners who are sinning. This is an abomination to the Lord Jesus Christ! Galatians testifies AGAINST the evil works that professed Christians ENJOY on hell-i-vision:
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall NOT inherit the kingdom of God." -Galatians 5:19-21
God is simply saying that these are the sins which condemn sinners to hell. Once we are saved, we should no longer continue in these horrible sins. Truly, we are all sinners on our way to hell if we don't get saved. The ONLY hope is in Christ Jesus. If we will turn to the Lord Jesus Christ in childlike faith for forgiveness of our sins, we may be saved and forgiven of ALL the wrongs we have committed. A murderer is no longer viewed as a murderer in God's eyes once he gets saved. The same is true of an adulterer. His or her sins are washed away by the blood of Christ. However, once we become a Christian, God expects us to grow spiritually and live according to the Word of God (Romans 12:1-2; 1st Peter 2:2). If we continue to live in sin, though we CANNOT lose our salvation, we grieve the Holy Spirit and do not grow in the Lord. Christians who live in sin are held accountable by God at the judgment seat of Christ, but their salvation is safe and sure in the arms of Jesus. As believers, we should avoid the TV if we have a problem with it. It is NOT a sin to own a TV, but it takes great responsibility nowadays to own one. Like anything else, it's a double-edged sword! The technology is a blessing, but the evil hearts of men make it a curse instead.
Television gives you the illusion of connection to other people and to the world. No matter how empty and pathetic your own life might be, you can turn on the television and let the stories and emotions wash over you. Movies and TV programs let you get to know their characters in intimate detail, you seem to share the most important experiences of their lives, as they fall in love, fight wars, cure diseases, defeat alien invaders, and so on. But of course, it's a false intimacy. You don't know these people, the characters and events you're vicariously experiencing probably never existed, and even if they did they're still not part of your life and never will be. Meanwhile, your own life still is empty. You just don't know it for a couple hours, while you watch The Simpsons or Raiders of the Lost Ark. You feel as if you had experiences which were exciting, funny, tragic, meaningful, but really you just spent the afternoon staring into a box.
The Television has indeed become the "Hellivision" and we would be wise to spend our time doing something more constructive.
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