Cutting Edge says...

Last week a Cutting Edge News Alert was forwarded to me with these headlines:

Pastor Rick Warren -- founder of the "Purpose Driven Church" Movement -- revealed that he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)! This revelation means that Rick Warren has admitted to being Illuminati!!

This News Alert quotes Joseph Farah’s November 20th article called "Megapastor Rick Warren's Damascus Road Experience":

"WASHINGTON – Rick Warren, the superstar mega-church pastor and bestselling author of 'The Purpose Driven Life', had a Damascus Road experience last week – and like Saul of Tarsus, one of the after-effects appears to be blindness. Warren went to Syria and could find no persecution of Christians. He could find no persecution of Jews. He could find no evidence of extremism. He could find no evidence of the sponsorship of terrorism ... But that's not the story Warren is telling – at least not in the official press releases he is sending out from Rwanda in response to my confrontations with him last week in which I accused him of betraying his own country in a hostile foreign land and of being a propaganda tool of the Islamo-fascist regime in Damascus."
"In fact, after I called him out last week in my column, Warren e-mailed me claiming to have been misquoted by the official Syrian news agency ... 'Joseph, why didn't you contact me first and discover the fact that I said nothing of the sort?' he pleaded ... 'He let me know he is a close friend of President Bush 'and many, if not most, of the generals at the Pentagon'.''
"He also told me he did not tape anything while in Syria, 'because it was a courtesy call, like I do in every country'. Warren explained that he had also counseled with the National Security Council and the White House, as well as the State Department, before his little courtesy call ... 'In fact', Warren added, 'as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Oxford Analytica, I might know as much about the Middle East as you'.''

Here’s what Cutting Edge goes on to say:

“Did you catch what Rick Warren just revealed about himself? Listen again:
"... as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations ..."
Rick Warren has just admitted to being a member of THE Illuminist institution which controls the American political machine -- from the White House to the Congress to the Supreme Court! Rick Warren is leading his church because he is a member of the CFR, and has been taking orders from them for a very long time, undoubtedly from the very beginning, which is why the "Purpose Driven Church" has simply exploded in wealth and in sheer growth in the past 25 years!”

Cutting Edge has been pointing out for some time that Rick Warren has admitted meeting with Illuminist banker, Peter Drucker, at least once per year. They propose that this is why the PDL movement has so much money…they are funded by the CFR.

They also point out that Rick Warren uses "The Message” Version of Colossians 1:16, which repeats two of the most important New Age/Satanic words…"above and below".

Colossians 1:16 - "For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible ... everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him". -The Message Version

Colossians 1:16 - "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: "-- King James Version

Cutting Edge explains the meaning of this term:

* New Age adherents believe that this means that "the transcendent God beyond the physical universe and the Immanent God within ourselves are one" (Smith, p. 27). Of course, this is Hinduism, a key element in the New World Order.
* Satanists believe this term means several things:
1) That God and the Devil are equal, but opposite, supernatural beings. Satanists further believe that, while God gained a temporary victory in the Garden of Eden, forces of the Illuminati will defeat Jesus at the Battle of Armageddon, and then will storm the gates of Heaven to throw God off His throne.
2) That Illumined Men are to attempt to recreate on earth what already exists in Heaven.

The Cutting Edge article concludes that it should come as no surprise to hear Rick Warren's statement that he is a member of the CFR, as that simply answers so many questions discerning Christians have had for a long time about the "Purpose Driven Church" and it’s fruit.

“You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:16-20)

Cutting Edge Sources:

Outcome-Based Religion: Apostasy, Purpose, and the Paradigm Shift - by Mac Dominick, Cutting Edge Ministries - Chapter 13

Deceived On Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church, by Warren Smith, p. 27



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