And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God(Luke 16:14-15)
….that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight
of God.
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.” (Luke 6:26)
Billy Graham was not the world’s
greatest evangelist. He was not a true evangelist at all. He was a
servant of the Roman Antichrist, and his words, sermons, and books massively
promoted the devilish ecumenical movement. But in the days and weeks
ahead, all we will hear, from multitudes of praise singers, will be what a
wonderful preacher he was. The evidence says otherwise. When every
wicked religious and political leader will “speak well of him”, the truth is
obvious: the man was a false teacher. The word of the Lord Jesus Christ
is once again fulfilled: “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
for so did their fathers to the false prophets” (Luke 6:26). It has
always been so, and it always will be. (www.biblebasedministries.co.uk)
Calvinist Preacher exposes Billy Graham’s Rome
connection: Billy Graham: Servant of Rome, Not Servant of Christ
Calvinist Preacher exposes Billy Graham’s Rome connection: Billy Graham: Servant of Rome, Not Servant of Christ
Billy
Graham’s Ecumenism exposed
My
call is not to judge
Jesus
is not the only way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axxlXy6bLH0
Billy Graham- Satan's Best Pastor for One
World Religion (Dr. Gene Kim)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkB6ywxydf8
SCHULLER: Tell me,
what do you think is the future of Christianity?
GRAHAM: Well,
Christianity and being a true believer--you know, I think
there's the Body of Christ. This comes from all the
Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian
groups. I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows
Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're
members of the Body of Christ. And I don't think that we're
going to see a great sweeping revival that will turn the
whole world to Christ at any time. I think James answered
that, the Apostle James in the first council in Jerusalem,
when he said God's purpose for this age is to call out a
people for His name. And that's what God is doing today,
He's calling people out of the world for His name, whether
they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or
the Christian world or the non-believing world, they are
members of the Body of Christ because they've been called by
GOD. They may not even know the name of Jesus but they know
in their hearts they need something that they don't have,
and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think
they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in
heaven.
Billy Graham- Satan's Best Pastor for One
World Religion (Dr. Gene Kim)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkB6ywxydf8
SCHULLER: Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity?
GRAHAM: Well, Christianity and being a true believer--you know, I think there's the Body of Christ. This comes from all the Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian groups. I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're members of the Body of Christ. And I don't think that we're going to see a great sweeping revival that will turn the whole world to Christ at any time. I think James answered that, the Apostle James in the first council in Jerusalem, when he said God's purpose for this age is to call out a people for His name. And that's what God is doing today, He's calling people out of the world for His name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they've been called by GOD. They may not even know the name of Jesus but they know in their hearts they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in heaven.
Deceptions: Graham, Peale &
Schuller
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.ug/2013/12/will-graham-says-that-his-grandfather.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.ug/2013/12/will-graham-says-that-his-grandfather.html
Billy Graham: It's a Sin to Criticize Your Pastor: Oh! Really
FROM SCRIPTURE TO STRIPTURE: PASTOR ROBERT SCHULLER’S AMAZING NEW AGE ‘CHRISTIANITY’
BILLY GRAHAM Offers Help To MORMON MITT ROMNEY Then Removes Section From Website Calling MORMONISM A CULT
Death of Nelson Mandela Proves the truth of God’s word: ….that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Nelson Mendela: A sinner who refused salvation: A sinner whose good works do not lead to heaven: South African Missionary Cautions Against New Film Praising Life of Nelson Mandela:Ignored by the media: Mandela signed one of the most pro-abortion laws ever
When Christian leaders and Christian media said the politically correct thing about Nelson Mandela’s Christian legacy. The Hypocrisy of charisma Magazine, Christian post and Christians today on Madiba’s Christianity .
Pinnacle of deceit: Ridiculous Interfaith prayers for Madiba: Chair of the Maha Sabha Ashwin Trikamjee recited a Hindu prayer: SA Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein compared Mandela to Joseph in the Bible: Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba said: "We say to Madiba, go forth revolutionary soul... In the name of God who created you, suffered with you, and liberated you. Go home Madiba".
Billy Graham: Preacher to millions, adviser to presidents, dies at 99
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Influential-evangelist-Billy-Graham-has-died-at-99/2558-4314362-xyb8lo/index.html
Wednesday February 21 2018
By REUTERS
American evangelist Billy Graham, who was an adviser to a
dozen US presidents and preached to millions across the world from his
native North Carolina to communist North Korea during his 70 years on
the pulpit, died on Wednesday at the age of 99, a spokesman said.
Graham
died at 8am (1300 GMT) at his home in Montreat, North Carolina,
according to Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association.
With his steely features and piercing
blue eyes, Graham was a powerful figure when he preached in his prime,
roaming the stage and hoisting a Bible as he declared Jesus Christ to be
the only solution to humanity’s problems.
According to
his ministry, he preached to more people than anyone else in history,
reaching hundreds of millions of people either in person or via TV and
satellite links.
Graham became the de facto White House
chaplain to several US presidents, most famously Richard Nixon. He also
met with scores of world leaders and was the first noted evangelist to
take his message behind the Iron Curtain.
“He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era,” said William Martin, author of “A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story.” “No more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, came close to what he achieved.”
'God’s Machine Gun'
In
a rare trip away from his home in his later years, Graham had
celebrated his 95th birthday on November 7, 2013, at a hotel in
Asheville, North Carolina, where some 800 guests, including Republican
politician Sarah Palin, business magnates Rupert Murdoch and Donald
Trump and television hostess Kathie Lee Gifford paid tribute.
The
celebration featured a video of a sermon that his son Franklin said was
Graham’s last message to the nation. Graham had been working for a year
on the video, which was aired on Fox News. In it, he said America was
“in great need of a spiritual awakening.”
In his prime
Graham had a thunderous, quick-burst speaking style that earned him the
nickname “God’s Machine Gun.” Through his “Crusades for Christ,” Graham
sowed fields of devotion across the American heartland that would become
fertile ground for the growth of the religious right’s conservative
political movement.
His influence was fuelled by an
organisation that carefully planned his religious campaigns, putting on
international conferences and training seminars for evangelical leaders,
Martin said.
Graham’s mastery of the media was
ground-breaking. In addition to radio and publishing, he used telephone
lines, television and satellites to deliver his message to homes,
churches and theatres around the world.
Some 77 million
saw him preach in person while nearly 215 million more watched his
crusades on television or through satellite link-ups, a Graham
spokeswoman said.
Ties to the White House
Graham
started meeting with presidents during the tenure of Harry Truman. He
played golf with Gerald Ford, skinny-dipped in the White House pool with
Lyndon Johnson, vacationed with George H.W. Bush and spent the night in
the White House on Nixon’s first day in office.
George
W. Bush gave Graham credit for helping him rediscover his faith and in
2010, when it was difficult for Graham to travel, Barack Obama made the
trip to the preacher’s log cabin home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge
Mountains.
Graham’s ties to the White House were
mutually beneficial. His reputation was enhanced as preacher to the
presidents, while the politicians boosted their standing with
religiously inclined voters.
“Their personal lives - some of them - were difficult,” Graham, a registered Democrat, told Time
magazine in 2007 of his political acquaintances. “But I loved them all.
I admired them all. I knew that they had burdens beyond anything I
could ever know or understand.”
Graham’s reputation
took a hit because of Nixon after the release of 1972 White House tapes
in which the two were heard making anti-Semitic comments. Graham later
said he did not remember the conversation and apologised.
In
the early half of his career, Graham often spoke his mind on social and
political issues of the day, including his strong anti-communist
sentiments. He dismissed Vietnam War protesters as attention-seekers
and, while he eventually refused to hold segregated revival meetings, he
did not take an active role in the 1960s civil rights movement.
But
Graham’s politics were not as overt as those of some religious leaders
who came after him, such as Pat Robertson, who ran for president in
1988, and Jerry Falwell, co-founder of the Moral Majority, an
organisation whose purpose was to promote Christian-oriented politics.
As
he grew older, Graham said he felt he had become too involved in some
issues and shifted to a middle-of-the-road position in order to reach
more people.
He did, however, dive into the gay
marriage issue in 2012 when he came out in support of a state amendment
to ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina. He also met with Republican
Mitt Romney in October 2012 and told him he supported Romney’s run for
the presidency.
From farm to pulpit
William
Franklin Graham was born on November 7, 1918, into a Presbyterian
family and was known as Billy Frank while growing up on a farm near
Charlotte, North Carolina. As a teenager, he said he was mostly
preoccupied with baseball and girls until he was moved by God after
hearing a fiery revivalist in Charlotte.
After
attending Bob Jones College, Graham ended up at a Bible school in
Florida, where he would preach at his first revival, and was ordained in
1939 by a church in the Southern Baptist Convention. He received a
scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago, where he met Ruth Bell,
whose parents were missionaries in China. They married in 1943.
Rather
than work from a home church, Graham went on the road, preaching in
tents and building a following. His breakthrough came with a 1949 Los
Angeles tent crusade that was scheduled for three weeks but extended to
eight because of the overflow crowds he attracted.
The
success of the Los Angeles campaign and the fame it brought Graham was
attributed to media magnate William Randolph Hearst, who had liked
Graham’s style and anti-communist stance so much that he ordered his
newspapers to give Graham a boost.
Graham eventually
outgrew tent revivals and would preach at some of the most famous venues
in the world, such as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden in New
York and London’s Wembley Stadium. He delivered sermons around the
globe, including in remote African villages, China, North Korea, the
Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Liberals
accused him of giving credibility to abusive governments while
fundamentalist Christians criticised him for going to godless countries
and promoting peaceful relations with them. Graham said he simply saw
the trips as apolitical opportunities to win souls for Christ.
Graham
concluded his career of religious campaigns in June 2005 in New York
with a three-day stand that attracted more than 230,000 people, his
organisation said.
He turned over his evangelical association to his son Franklin. Graham’s other four children were also evangelists.
Reputation
Graham
managed to maintain his public integrity even as other TV star
evangelists such as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were hit in the 1980s
by financial and sex scandals. To keep his reputation pristine, Graham
had a policy of never being alone with any woman other than Ruth.
Graham’s
closest presidential relationship was with Nixon, who offered him any
government job he wanted - including ambassador to Israel. It turned out
to be a painful relationship for Graham, who said Nixon and his circle
misled him on the Watergate scandal.
Nixon aide H.R.
Haldeman first mentioned Graham’s anti-Semitic remarks in a 1994 book,
which Graham strongly denied. But when audio tapes from the Nixon White
House were released in 2002, Graham could be heard referring to Jews as
pornographers and agreeing with Nixon that the US media was dominated by
liberal Jews and could send the United States “down the drain.”
Graham,
who had a long history of supporting Israel, apologised again after the
tapes’ release and said he had no recollection of the conversation.
“If it wasn’t on tape, I would not have believed it,” Graham told Newsweek.
“I guess I was trying to please. I felt so badly about myself - I
couldn’t believe it. I went to a meeting with Jewish leaders and I told
them I would crawl to them to ask their forgiveness.”
Health problems
The author of more than two dozen books with titles such as “How to Be Born Again,” Graham also ran the weekly “Hour of Decision” radio programme broadcast around the world on Sundays for more than 50 years.
Graham
helped bring religion into the television age. He first put together a
television show, which was eventually syndicated, in 1951 and began live
broadcasts of his revival meetings in 1957 from New York’s Madison
Square Garden.
In a 2011 Fox News interview, Graham was asked what he would do differently in his career.
“I
would study more. I would pray more, travel less, take less speaking
engagements,” he said. “I took too many of them in too many places
around the world. If I had it to do over again I’d spend more time in
meditation and prayer and just telling the Lord how much I love him.”
In
addition to suffering with Parkinson’s disease for many years, Graham’s
health problems in his later years included a broken hip, a broken
pelvis, prostate cancer and installation of a shunt in his brain to
control excess fluid. He was hospitalised in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for
respiratory problems.
Graham and his wife, Ruth, who died June 14, 2007, had two sons and three daughters.