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Modern Witchcraft Combines Self-Love, Feminism, Self-Help With A Dazzling Array Of Crystals And Spell Casting

Gala Darling looks every bit the Instagram-famous modern witch, with nearly 60,000 followers. Being a professional witch is her full-time job.

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Geoffrey Grider

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Modern witchcraft combines feminism, self-help, and wellness. But is there more to it than pretty crystals, stunning Instagram pictures, and lucrative business opportunities?

“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the past year, I have noticed on my Instagram feed a seeming explosion in women posting pictures promoting topics like “self love”, “wellness”, “be good to yourself”, “praying to the Universe” and “boss babe”. Harmless fun, right? Just motivating women to succeed, right? Wrong. Every one of those things I just mentioned are part and parcel of modern-day witchcraft practiced by modern-day witches. You’ve been pulled into witchcraft and don’t even know it. Or maybe you do.

Gala Darling reveals that her “spiritual awakening” was like the moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy wakes up, miraculously transported from the sepia world of rural Kansas to the technicolor land of Oz.

Darling is standing beside her altar—a round, pink table laid with energy-charged crystals and magic candles—at The Wing, an all-women social club in Manhattan where 60 members and guests have signed up for her “Radical Self-Love Workshop.”

Gala Darling says how witchcraft changed her life:

Think twice the next time you use the #bossbabe hashtag, it comes from the witchcraft world. And in particular, it comes from Gala Darling, resident witch and spell caster.

A 33-year-old writer and self-help guru, she explains how her years-long fog of depression lifted when she discovered “tapping,” an ancient Eastern healing technique that she describes as “a combination of acupuncture and cosmic psychology.”

The audience is rapt because Darling isn’t just a self-help guru but a stylish, sassy witch who swears often and radiates cool-girl vibes. She used to be “really goth and cynical” and thought tapping was “bull****”—until, she says, it worked. Now she casts spells on Donald Trump.

Darling is tall and striking, with alabaster skin and kohl-rimmed green eyes. She wears a rainbow sherbet-colored maxi skirt, a grey tee knotted above her navel, and a silver pentagon ring. Her black hair is dip-dyed a raspberry, purpley pink shade that almost matches her lipstick. All of this makes for a punk rock-meets-My Little Pony aesthetic, complete with bicep sleeve tattoos and glittering fingernails.

Gala Darling looks every bit the Instagram-famous modern witch, with nearly 60,000 followers. Being a professional witch and self-love priestess is her full-time job. (She declined to say how much she earns through her practice.)

At a time when millennial women are embracing wellness fads and are bent on toppling the patriarchy, the contemporary witch is their enlightened, rebellious role model.

She has seen a resurgence in pop culture over the last few years, from the campy and wildly popular 2013 TV series American Horror Story: Coven to Robert Eggers’ 2015 film The Witch. Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop sells tools for female-oriented practical magic like jade and rose quartz “yoni” eggs that purport to do more than just exercise your kegels.

Celebrities like Katy Perry, Victoria Beckham, Cara Delevingne, and Lena Dunham are hooked on crystals’ alleged healing powers and positive vibes (it doesn’t hurt that they’re also pretty). Adele chalked up her lackluster Grammy’s performance last year to misplacing hers.

The ’90s were another heyday of witchiness—of the benign, Hollywood variety—that saw films like Hocus Pocus and The Craft become cult classics, Charmed become a TV smash, while J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked were instant bestsellers (Rowling’s Potter books went on to become the second-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, and a musical adaptation of Wicked was named one of Broadway’s top-grossing shows ever last year).

Today’s witchy sweet spot lies somewhere between the mind-body wellness movement and intersectional feminism. Embracing all things witchy and “magical”—believing that visualization rituals can help you manifest your dreams; that tarot cards can tell you something about your life which your logical brain might otherwise ignore; that wearing a crystal pendant necklace will protect you from negative energy—has become a way for women to feel empowered and trust their instincts.

The Wing is an appropriate setting for a witchy workshop on self-love and empowerment. The club describes itself as a “coven not a sorority,” and many of its 650 members—a politically progressive group of women, most of them in their twenties and thirties—work in creative industries.

Darling kicks off the “Radical Self-Love Workshop” with an exercise in “connecting to our intuitive selves” that requires dabbing her coveted “gratitude oil” on our wrists (“it has tiny crystals inside and smells am-a-zing”) and telling each other what we’re thankful for.

Next she hands out “Witchling Oracle Cards”—a whimsical take on tarot cards—and encourages us to decipher some personal message from cutesie illustrations of Witchlings like “Dreams” and “Abundance.”

Later, we write down what “spirituality” means to us (I’m tempted by Darling’s reassurance that “it’s OK to draw three big question marks!”).

We whip up “happiness recipes,” or lists of feel-good rituals that fall under “mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual” categories. “I’d like everyone to write ‘orgasm’ under the physical category, because sex magic is the best magic,” Darling says to whoops and cheers.

We also make note of things we want to “leave behind,” in the metaphysical sense, post-Summer Solstice—which, per Darling’s instructions, we must “ceremoniously burn” when we get home.

Finally, we break off in groups to create “wishing circles,” an exhausting exercise that involves blowing a wish into your hands, vigorously rubbing them together for several agonizing minutes (the witch’s equivalent of Tracy Anderson’s arm workout), then joining scalding palms with your circle neighbors and, per Darling, blowing your wish “up to the sky like a little baby birdie.”

Admittedly, I expected something called a “Radical Self-Love Workshop” to be ripe for parody: a hipster witch rhapsodizing about the healing powers of crystals to a group of spellbound, modern-day Stevie Nicks impersonators. But Darling’s tactics for cultivating self-love are relatively practical, as these things go, and dispensed with casual humor. (On reliable ways to achieve an orgasm: “While you’re working up to that moment—you know, the moment—visualize yourself beaming it out into the universe because that stuff works! Try it this week and then tag me on Instagram. Don’t make me a video, but tell me what happened because I want to know.”)

She’s not excessively moony or self-serious about the spiritual stuff (“I define spirituality as whatever makes me feel alive, thankful, and connected”). And the witchcraft-lite she weaves into her teachings—feminine power, sexuality, creative enrichment, astrology—is broadly appealing to many young women.

The Babe Collective movement is firmly rooted in witchcraft

My introduction to the occult scene in New York City was in 2015, when I attended a “goddess circle for curating extraordinary confidence” organized by three women in Brooklyn who called themselves the BABE Collective; “BABE” being an acronym for “Badass Beauties Elevating Society.”

It was a workshoppy event similar to Darling’s at The Wing: a description advertised “bringing a heightened awareness to what being confident means in the spiritual, practical and personal sense.”

It was part coven and part 12-step program: Roughly a dozen women gathered in a teepee in Williamsburg and meditated while eating expensive, organic dark chocolate—an “offering to ourselves” and an exercise in “taking time to savor something.” We prayed to Kali, the Hindu goddess who is worshipped as the Mother of the Universe.

“I haven’t focused exclusively on creating a community of witches, though that’s kind of happened indirectly,” said Robin Lee, 28, who has grown the BABE Collective into a global community with $47-a-month membership rates. “Tons of women from all over the world are just awake and curious about understanding themselves on a deeper level. When you get down to the route of witchcraft, magic, alchemy—all these things are about the Wild Feminine and using your own energy and power to change your consciousness at will.”

In a moment when feminism has escaped the academy and captivated the popular imagination, it’s fitting that the witch—a radical and dangerous figure who can’t be controlled by stuffy and uptight men—has been recast as a symbol of resistance.

“The timing makes perfect sense: Spiritual hunger, environmental concerns, and gender politics all combine here,” Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches: Salem, 1692, told The Daily Beast of the witch’s trendy resurgence. “Plus witches are subversive, something which our political times demand. We’ve little vocabulary for female power, or at least few words of which we can be proud. It’s all the more enticing to reclaim imagery and nomenclature that has been used against you for hundreds of years.”

The witch’s taboo appeal is a double-edged sword, and Schiff suggested it could be more empowering for women to identify with real women, or at least a mythological figure who didn’t have such a fraught history.

“In a perfect world it would be lovely if women could reach to more nonfictional role models, as boys are able to. If we’re in the world of myth, why witches rather than Athena? I suppose she’s part of the establishment, and she doesn’t come down to us with a long list of martyred forebears. Plus, we know that Athena is wholly mythical. It seems at least some men are still concerned there might be sorcerers among us.”

Indeed, the witch remains a threatening figure, particularly to the Alex Jones’ and Rush Limbaugh’s of the world. Days before the 2016 election, Jones ran a story on his alt-right website, Infowars, claiming Hillary Clinton “‘regularly’ attended witch’s church,” and citing a “Clinton insider” as his source. After the first presidential debate, Limbaugh called Clinton a “witch with a capital B.”

Right-wingers wielded rhetorical pitchforks at rapper Azealia Banks when she came out of the broom closet in January 2015 (“The truth is I’m a witch”) in one of her infamous Twitter rants.

“The most magical people are the ones who have to deal with oppression, because the non-magical are jealous,” Banks wrote. “That’s why Jews and Blacks have been persecuted over and over again throughout history… all I’m trying to say is that black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS.”

Witches band together to cast a binding spell on President Trump

Last February, Lana Del Ray took to Twitter to promote dates for a series of online “binding spells” to prevent President Trump and his administration from doing harm. Gala Darling was among the self-identifying witches who orchestrated an anti-Trump binding spell on Facebook live, though hers wished harm on the president.

“120,000 people from around the world signed on with pictures of Trump and wrapped them in string while I said an incantation,” she told me, speaking on the phone the day after the workshop. Most of the online participants were women between the ages of 25 and 34, according to Darling (geographically, California, Texas, England, and New York saw the highest volume of participants).

The hex wasn’t as harmful as participants hoped. Indeed, casting spells can seem hokey and ineffective—even to other patriarchy-defying witches.

“People always assume I do that stuff, but I just help women who want to have their witch awakening, which is just an awakening to their feminine energy and the cause of healing Mother Earth,” said Sarah Wilson, 37, who lives in Martha’s Vineyard and organizes online covens.

But for others, channeling their feminine energy in massive online spells offers a sense of community.

“There was some pushback on Facebook from people saying things like, ‘The most effective thing you can do is vote,’” Darling said of her Trump binding spell. “But why not do both? I believe in marrying the physical and the metaphysical. Obviously the spell didn’t work in the sense that he’s still alive. But have you looked at his life right now?” source

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THE BIBLE BELIEVERS SUNDAY SERVICE: The Last Adam

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The First Adam Brought Sin And Death, But The Last Adam Jesus Christ Came From Heaven To Save Every Lost Sinner Who Believes The Gospel

There is perhaps no more chilling indictment of modern Christianity than watching pastors, worship leaders, theologians and Christian entertainers spend decades preaching about Jesus Christ, singing His name and building careers upon His church, only to eventually announce that they no longer believe the Bible, no longer believe in God and no longer consider themselves Christians. Former Pentecostal pastor Timmy Gibson is merely the latest name added to a rapidly growing procession that includes Joshua Harris, Jon Steingard, George Perdikis, Bart Campolo, Audrey Assad and others who once stood before crowds as representatives of the faith they now renounce. But their departures do not diminish Jesus Christ or disprove the word of God—they expose the terrifying difference between religious profession and biblical salvation. A huge difference as you’ll soon see.

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” 1 Corinthians 15:45 (KJB)

You can preach Jesus without knowing Him, sing about the cross without trusting it, build a church without being born again and spend an entire lifetime inside Christianity without ever coming to Christ as a guilty sinner in need of a Saviour. The first Adam made us sinners and brought death upon the human race, but the last Adam—the Lord from Heaven—came to save sinners through His shed blood, death, burial and resurrection. If you came to Jesus for healing, happiness, success, acceptance or religious experience, but never came as a lost sinner trusting His finished work, then you came for the wrong reason. On this Sunday Service, we clear away the clutter and present you Jesus, high and lifted up.

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The Bible Believers Sunday Service: The Last Adam

The Last Adam, Or The Supremacy of Jesus Christ Over Sin, Death, Religion and the Ruin of Adam

Main Text

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” 1 Corinthians 15:45–49 (KJB)

Central Truth

Every person is born naturally in Adam, under sin and sentenced to death. The sinner who believes the gospel is spiritually placed in Jesus Christ, receiving righteousness, eternal life and the promise of a glorified body. This is why you must be born again, your first birth is no good.

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 (KJB)

The first Adam brought the human race down into death. The last Adam raises believing sinners into everlasting life. Jesus Christ is not one religious option among many—He is God’s final, complete and exclusive answer to everything Adam destroyed.

I. The First Adam Was the Beginning of the Natural Creation

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7 (KJB)

Adam was created:

Directly by God.
In the image of God.
Without sin.
With dominion over the earth.
With the ability and responsibility to obey God.
As the representative head of the human race.

Adam was not born into the world; he was created by God. Every other naturally conceived human being descends from him and consequently bears his fallen image.

“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:” Genesis 5:3 (KJB)

Adam was originally created in God’s image, but after the fall he produced children in his own fallen likeness. Humanity inherited more than Adam’s physical characteristics; it inherited his sinful nature and sentence of death.

Application

Our fundamental problem is not our environment, education, economic condition or lack of self-esteem. Our problem is that we are members of Adam’s fallen race.

II. The First Adam Brought Sin and Death Into the World

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Romans 5:12 (KJB)

Adam’s disobedience brought:

Sin into the world.
Death upon mankind.
Condemnation before God.
Separation from God.
Corruption into creation.
A sinful nature upon Adam’s descendants.

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” Romans 5:19 (KJB)

We do not become sinners merely when we commit our first sinful act. We commit sinful acts because we were born with a sinful nature inherited through Adam.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23 (KJB)

Application

Education may refine Adam’s descendants. Religion may restrain them. Government may regulate them. Psychology may analyze them. But none of these things can remove a sinner from Adam and place him into Christ.

The sinner does not need renovation—he needs regeneration.

III. Jesus Christ Is the Second Man and the Last Adam

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.” 1 Corinthians 15:45-48 (KJB)

Jesus is called:

The second man because He is the beginning of a new humanity.
The last Adam because there will never be another representative head or another divine plan of salvation.

There was a first Adam, but there will never be a third Adam. Jesus Christ is God’s last, complete and eternal answer.

The contrast between the two Adams

The First Man Adam	The Last Adam Jesus
Came from the earth	Is the Lord from Heaven
Became a living soul	Became a quickening Spirit
Was tested in a garden	Submitted to God in a garden
Disobeyed concerning a tree	Obeyed unto death upon a tree
Brought sin	Bore our sins
Brought condemnation	Provides justification
Brought death	Gives eternal life
Produced a fallen race	Creates one new man
Returned to the dust	Rose bodily from the dead
Bears the earthly image	Gives believers the heavenly image

Jesus Christ did not come merely to repair Adam’s old creation. He came to become the Head of an entirely new creation.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJB)

IV. The Supremacy of the Last Adam Is Revealed in His Obedience

Adam was given one prohibition and disobeyed. Jesus Christ faced every temptation and remained completely obedient to His Father.

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” Romans 5:19 (KJB)

“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Philippians 2:8 (KJB)

Adam’s disobedience was counted against his race. Christ’s perfect obedience and finished sacrifice are counted for those who believe. We are not saved through our obedience to God. We are saved through faith in what Jesus Christ accomplished through His obedience.

Religion says, ‘Obey so that God may accept you.’

The gospel says, ‘Believe on the One whose obedience has satisfied God completely.’

“Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:5-7 (KJB)

V. The Last Adam Defeated What the First Adam Released

“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 (KJB)

Adam brought death, but Christ conquered death through His resurrection.

“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.” Romans 6:9 (KJB)

Jesus Christ is supreme because:

His blood satisfies God’s judgment against sin.
His cross defeated the power of sin.
His burial demonstrates that He truly died.
His resurrection conquered death.
His righteousness justifies the believer.
His Spirit seals the believer.
His life guarantees our future resurrection.

Application

Christianity does not rest upon religious feelings, alleged healings, visions, tongues or supernatural experiences. It rests upon the historical death, burial and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. If every feeling disappears and every circumstance turns against us, the empty tomb remains empty.

VI. A Sinner Must Change His Position, Not Merely His Behavior

Every person occupies one of two spiritual positions:

In Adam: condemned, spiritually dead and awaiting judgment.
In Christ: justified, spiritually alive and possessing eternal life.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1 (KJB)

A person is not placed into Christ by:

Being raised in church.
Attending Bible college.
Becoming a pastor.
Building a congregation.
Preaching sermons.
Baptizing converts.
Performing supposed healings.
Speaking in tongues.
Feeding the poor.
Living a respectable life.

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 (KJB)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 (KJB)

“Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” John 3:7 (KJB)

A minister can spend decades talking about Jesus without ever trusting Jesus Christ’s finished work as the payment for his own sins. Religious activity can give a person a reputation, an audience and a career. It cannot give him eternal life.

VII. The Only Saving Message Is the Gospel of Christ

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1–4 (KJB)

A sinner must understand:

I have sinned against a holy God.
My sin has earned death and judgment.
I cannot save myself through religion or good works.
Jesus Christ died as the payment for my sins.
He was buried and rose bodily from the dead.
God will save me when I place my faith in Jesus Christ alone.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8–9 (KJB)

Application

A person may originally enter a church because he is lonely, sick, frightened or searching for answers. But unless he eventually recognizes himself as a guilty sinner and trusts Christ’s finished work, he has not believed the saving gospel.

Jesus did not die merely to improve Adam’s children. He died to save them and place them into Himself.

**VIII. When People Come to Jesus for the Wrong Reason**

Many people are invited to “come to Jesus” because He supposedly will:

Heal their bodies.
Restore their relationships.
Guarantee success.
Fulfill their dreams.
Give them an emotional experience.
Solve all their earthly problems.
Make them prosperous and happy.

But those things are not the gospel. Jesus confronted people who followed Him for material benefits rather than because they believed who He was.

“Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.” John 6:26 (KJB)

When the expected healing does not come, the emotional experience fades or life becomes painful, a false convert may conclude that Christianity has failed him. In reality, he may never have trusted the gospel at all. He came for benefits from Jesus without first coming to Jesus as a sinner needing a Saviour.

Teaching Statement

If you came to Jesus only to obtain a better life, but never trusted His shed blood as the payment for your sins, you came for the wrong reason.

IX. Timmy Gibson and the Tragedy of an Empty Pulpit

Timmy Gibson reportedly spent approximately thirty years teaching and preaching, including seventeen years leading a church he founded. He now says he no longer believes the Bible or Christianity and publicly identifies as an atheist. Freedom From Religion Foundation

His story should not cause us to question the supremacy of Christ. It should cause us to question what passes for conversion and ministry inside modern Christianity.

Gibson’s background emphasized supposed healings, tongues, spiritual experiences and personal transformation. But none of those things proves that a person ever trusted Christ’s death, burial and resurrection as the payment for his sins.

“They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.” Titus 1:16 (KJB)

An important rightly divided distinction

We cannot infallibly see Gibson’s heart or declare from his present atheism alone that he was never saved. Biblically, there are two possible conditions:

A lost religious professor: He preached about Jesus but never personally trusted the gospel.
A saved but ruined workman: He once trusted Christ but later abandoned sound doctrine, shipwrecked his testimony and became disqualified for Christian service.

Salvation and service are not identical. A saved man can destroy his ministry, lose his reward and become a castaway without becoming spiritually unborn.

“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” 1 Corinthians 9:27 (KJB)

Here “castaway” concerns being rejected or disapproved for service and reward—not losing eternal salvation.

“If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” 2 Timothy 2:13 (KJB)

Application

Never place your confidence in a preacher’s personality, longevity, church size, education or supernatural claims. Preachers can fall, institutions can collapse and religious experiences can be exposed as counterfeit. Jesus Christ remains exactly who the Bible declares Him to be.

“Let God be true, but every man a liar.” Romans 3:4 (KJB)

X. The Last Adam Must Have the Preeminence

“And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.” Colossians 1:18 (KJB)

Jesus Christ is supreme over:

Adam and the entire human race.
Sin and condemnation.
Satan and spiritual wickedness.
Religion and human philosophy.
Every preacher and religious institution.
Death and the grave.
Heaven and earth.
The present creation and the world to come.

A fallen preacher cannot diminish Christ. An atheist cannot dethrone Him. A skeptic cannot disprove Him. A false church cannot replace Him. The last Adam has conquered death and will reign until every enemy is beneath His feet.

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:” Philippians 2:9 (KJB)

Closing Challenge

The final question is not:

Were you raised in church?
Were you baptized?
Did you have an emotional experience?
Did you speak in tongues?
Did you once answer an altar call?
Did you become a preacher?
Did people believe that God was using you?

The question is:

Have you, as a guilty and helpless sinner, placed your faith in the shed blood, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the complete payment for your sins? The first Adam cannot save you. Religion cannot save you. A pastor cannot save you. Your experiences cannot save you. Your good works cannot save you. Only the last Adam can take a condemned child of Adam and make him a redeemed, justified and eternally secure member of the body of Christ.

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:22 (KJB)

The first Adam brought us into the grave. The last Adam came out of the grave—and everyone who trusts Him will come out as well.

Pastors, Evangelists and Christian Teachers

Person	Former Christian Platform	Public Renunciation
Timmy Gibson	Pentecostal/Evangelical preacher for approximately 30 years; founded and led a church for 17 years	Now identifies as an atheist and says he reached the point where he no longer believed anything he had been preaching from the Bible. Source
Joshua Harris	Bestselling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and former senior pastor of Covenant Life Church	Announced in 2019: “By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian.” He described it biblically as “falling away.” Source
Bart Campolo	Evangelical preacher, author, founder of Mission Year and son of prominent evangelist Tony Campolo	Stopped believing in God and became a secular humanist, later serving as a humanist chaplain. Background
Dan Barker	Ordained minister, missionary, evangelist and writer of Christian songs and musicals	Publicly left Christianity in 1983 and became a leading atheist activist and co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Biography
Jerry DeWitt	Pentecostal evangelist and pastor of two Louisiana churches	Publicly acknowledged his atheism in 2011 and subsequently became an atheist speaker and author. Interview
Teresa MacBain	Southern Baptist background and United Methodist pastor	Announced from the stage of an American Atheists convention in 2012 that she was an atheist while still technically serving as a pastor. NPR profile
Ryan Bell	Seventh-day Adventist pastor and seminary instructor	Conducted a public “year without God” and concluded that he did not believe God existed. NPR interview
Paul Maxwell	Theologian with a Ph.D., author and former contributor to John Piper’s Desiring God ministry	Announced in 2021, “I’m just not a Christian anymore,” saying that leaving Christianity felt good and that he was happy. Source
Mike Aus	Lutheran pastor and church planter in Texas	Publicly declared himself an atheist, left Christianity and founded Houston Oasis as a secular alternative to church. Houston Chronicle
Charles Templeton	International evangelist, contemporary and close associate of Billy Graham	Rejected biblical authority, left evangelism and ultimately identified as an agnostic. His divergence from Billy Graham became one of the most famous apostasies of the twentieth century. Historical account
Gretta Vosper	Ordained United Church of Canada minister and author	Publicly identified as an atheist or “post-theist” while controversially continuing to lead a congregation. Profile

Christian Music Figures

Person	Former Christian Platform	Public Renunciation
Jon Steingard	Lead singer and songwriter for the Christian rock band Hawk Nelson	Announced in 2020 that he no longer believed in God after years of privately doubting the message he was publicly singing. Good Morning America
George Perdikis	Co-founder and original guitarist of the Newsboys	Said that by 2007 he had “renounced Christianity once and for all” and declared himself an atheist. Source
Audrey Assad	Dove-nominated Catholic/Christian singer whose music became prominent in contemporary worship circles	Announced that she was no longer a Christian or practicing Catholic. She continued to believe in an undefined spiritual reality influenced by Taoism and Zen Buddhism. Interview
David Bazan	Frontman of Pedro the Lion, originally known for explicitly Christian indie music	Publicly chronicled his loss of Christian faith and rejection of the beliefs that had shaped his music. Christianity Today interview
Derek Webb	Founding member of Caedmon’s Call and longtime Christian singer-songwriter	Released an album documenting his departure from Christianity and currently describes himself as agnostic, although he does not call himself an atheist and continues engaging Christian ideas. Recent profile

Entertainment and Media Figures

Person	Former Christian Platform	Public Renunciation
Rhett McLaughlin	Member of Rhett & Link; formerly a Cru missionary, worship leader and creator of evangelistic productions	Publicly announced that he was no longer a Christian and has continued producing annual accounts of his deconstruction. 2025 update
Link Neal	Rhett’s longtime partner; also formerly served with Cru as a missionary and worship leader	Announced alongside Rhett that he was no longer a Christian. He has described himself in agnostic terms while occasionally expressing openness or praying during personal difficulty. 2025 update
Seth Andrews	Fundamental Baptist and Christian-radio personality for approximately ten years	Became an atheist and founded The Thinking Atheist, using broadcasting skills developed in Christian radio to advocate against Christianity. Back

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‘Maria’s Hope’ Vegetable Garden At The Glory Fellowship Orphanage In Kenya Is Nearly Ready For Seeds And Seedlings As Workers Install Fencing

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September 4, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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The work on the ‘Maria’s Hope’ vegetable garden at the Glory Fellowship Orphanage in Kenya has been going on every day this week with wonderful progress

This week, the acre-wide property at the Glory Fellowship Orphanage in Kisii, Kenya has seen a flurry of activity as volunteers first cleared the land and removed the brush, cut down trees to uses for fence posts, and then strun barbed wire all around it to keep curious animals out. The only thing left to do is to plant the seeds and seedlings which is scheduled for tomorrow. NTEB is answering the “Macedonian call” by helping them through Operation Africa!, and it’s been a blessing for the giver as well as the reciever. When complete, it will feed all the 84 orphans while supplying a work-based revenue stream when they sell the overflow produce at market. We are not just giving them a fish, we are giving them the abiity to become fishermen themselves.

“And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.” Acts 16:9 (KJB)

When we first recieved the request for Bibles 4 months ago, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that this is what it would become. But God sure did. All He required from us was to show up and be faithful, and He’s been doing the rest. Supplying them first with Bibles, then medicine to treat malaria and typhoid, getting them a well and tank for clean water, mattresses and blankets, emergency food rations, and now ‘Maria’s Hope’ vegetable garden. This is the complete package.

Workers at the Glory Fellowship Orphanage seen here cutting down trees to make fence for ‘Maria’s Hope’ vegetable garden. They have made excellent progress this week, and are almost ready to plant seeds and seedlings. Come help us to help them finish! Click here to donate.… pic.twitter.com/FeTTmhrStK

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: November 22, 1963, Is The Moment When The Deep State Officially Took Control Of America By Taking Out The President

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September 4, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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From JFK To Donald Trump: Six Decades Of Government Secrecy, Warrantless Surveillance, Undeclared Wars And The Rise Of The American Deep State

The American Deep State was institutionally created by the National Security Act of 1947, but it came of age in Dallas on November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy was murdered in broad daylight, Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office beside a bloodstained Jackie Kennedy, and the government quickly erected an official narrative that would be protected by secrecy for generations. The photograph of a smiling Johnson turning toward a winking Albert Thomas remains the chilling image of that transfer of power. The old president suspiciously dead, the excited new president smiling from ear to ear, and the machinery of permanent government moving forward without missing a beat.

“Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?” Isaiah 29:15 (KJB)

What followed was not theory but history: COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, Operation CHAOS, the Gulf of Tonkin deception, Vietnam, Watergate, CIA coups, Iran-Contra, government torture, fabricated certainty about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the Patriot Act and warrantless surveillance of the American people. Presidents changed, parties traded power and congressional hearings occasionally exposed crimes after the damage was done, but the intelligence agencies, military establishment, secret courts, federal law-enforcement apparatus and private defense contractors continued growing. The Deep State is the permanent system beneath the visible government—a machine that survives every election, protects its own secrets and hands every incoming president powers the Constitution never intended him to possess. But those powers come at a very steep price. From Dallas to Vietnam, from Watergate to Iran-Contra, from 9/11 and Iraq to warrantless surveillance, Butler PA and Trump’s expanding wars, the architecture remains firmly standing. Presidents change, slogans change and political parties change, but since November 22, 1963, the machine has never stopped running. On this edition of the Prophecy News Podcast, we show you what the Deep State really is, and why we only have one true political party.

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