{"id":2880,"date":"2010-01-04T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2025-06-28T04:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T09:14:43","slug":"2009-was-bad-but-2010-will-be-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009-was-bad-but-2010-will-be-worse.html","title":{"rendered":"2009 was bad but 2010 will be worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope everyone had a great holiday season with their family and friends and hope you all will have a joyful new year in Christ. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We have arrived to a new year and a new decade and I know 2009 was bad for many but 2010 will be worse.<\/p>\n

Here are seven things to consider in 2010. They are likely to impact us in one way or another.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. We probably should start in the house of God. How long will God put up with those on TV speaking in his name?\u00a0 Christians have been putting up with the rats in our Christian TV for quite a long time. It is high time to clean out these vermin nests before God does. For decades I have been calling Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) The Blasphemy Network because I think that name is much more fitting. I have not watched TBN for some years but from what I hear it just gets worse and worse.\u00a0 Dr. John MacArthur decided to give TBN a look-over when he was recovering from knee surgery. MacArthur is not one to mince words and he did not in this article he named the Unholy Trinity.<\/a><\/strong> The article has been re-posted all over the Internet so you may have already read it. If not, I suggest that you and all Christians read it and take heed and stop supporting these “Christian” TV heretics. They are giving a false gospel to millions and hindering the work of the Church in these last day.\u00a0 Here are a couple of clips from MacArthur’s article.<\/p>\n

I’m outraged<\/em> at the brazen way so many false teachers twist the message of Scripture in Jesus’ name. And I’m frustrated<\/em> because I’m certain that if these charlatans were not receiving a large proportion of their financial support from sincere believers (and silent acquiescence from Christian leaders who surely know better), they would have no platform for their shenanigans. They would soon lose their core constituency and fade from the scene. Instead, religious quacks are actually multiplying at a frightening pace. One thing I discovered to my immense displeasure is that TBN is by no means the only religious network broadcasting poisonous false doctrine around the clock. The channel lineup I receive includes at least seven other channels whose schedules are filled with false teachers and charlatans. There’s The Church Channel, Daystar, GodTV, World Harvest Television (LeSEA), Total Christian Television, and several others. Some of them feature blocs of family television programing and a few fairly sound teachers who provide moments of escape from the prosperity preachers. But all of them give prominence to enormous amounts of heresy and religious claptrap\u2014enough to make them positively dangerous. And TBN is singularly responsible for kicking that door open so wide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TBN is by far the leading perpetrator of that lie worldwide. <\/strong>Virtually all the network’s main celebrities tell listeners that God will give them healing, wealth, and other material blessings in return for their money. On program after program people are urged to “plant a seed” by sending “the largest bill you have or the biggest check you can write” with the promise that God will miraculously make them rich in return. That same message dominates all of TBN’s major fundraising drives. It’s known as the “seed faith” plan, so-called by Oral Roberts, who set the pattern for most of the charismatic televangelists who have followed the trail he blazed. Paul Crouch, founder, chairman, and commander-in-chief of TBN, is one of the doctrine’s staunchest defenders.<\/p>\n

The only people who actually get rich by this scheme, of course, are the televangelists. Their people who send money get little in return but phony promises\u2014and as a result, many of them turn away from the truth completely.<\/p>\n

If the scheme seems reminiscent of Tetzel, that’s because it is precisely the same doctrine. (Tetzel was a medieval monk whose high-pressure selling of indulgences\u2014phony promises of forgiveness\u2014outraged Martin Luther and touched off the Protestant Reformation.)<\/p>\n

Like Tetzel, TBN preys on the poor and plies them with false promises. Yet what is happening daily on TBN is many times worse<\/em> than the abuses that Luther decried because it is more widespread and more flagrant. The medium is more high-tech and the amounts bilked out of viewers’ pockets are astronomically higher. (By most estimates, TBN is worth more than a billion dollars and rakes in $200 million annually. Those are direct contributions to the network, not counting millions more in donations sent directly to TBN broadcasters.) Like Tetzel on steroids, the Crouches and virtually all the key broadcasters on TBN live in garish opulence, while constantly begging their needy viewers for more money. Elderly, poor, and working-class viewers constitute TBN’s primary demographic. And TBN’s fundraisers all know that. The most desperate people\u2014”unemployed,” “even though I’m in between jobs,” “trying to make it; trying to survive,” “broke”\u2014are baited with false promises to give what they do not even have.<\/a> Jan Crouch addresses viewers as “you little people,” and suggests that they send their grocery money<\/a> to TBN “to assure God’s blessing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not all. Almost no false prophecy, erroneous doctrine, rank superstition, or silly claim is too outlandish to receive airtime on TBN. Jan Crouch tearfully gives a fanciful account of how her pet chicken was miraculously raised from the dead. Benny Hinn trumps that claim with a bizarre prophecy that if TBN viewers will put their dead loved ones’ caskets in front of television set and touch the dead person’s hand to the screen, people will “be raised from the dead . . . by the thousands.”<\/em>
\nIronically, one doesn’t even need to be an orthodox Trinitarian in order to broadcast on the Trinity network. Bishop T. D. Jakes, well known for his rejection of the Nicene creed in favor of oneness Pentecostalism, is a staple on TBN. Benny Hinn has repeatedly attempted to revise the doctrine of the Trinity in novel ways,<\/a> notoriously teaching at one point that there are nine persons in the godhead.<\/p>\n

And yet evangelical church leaders typically show a kind of benign tolerance toward the whole enterprise. <\/strong>Most would never endorse it, of course. They may joke about the gaudiness of the big hair and tawdry set decorations on TBN. Ask them, and they will most likely acknowledge that the prosperity gospel is no gospel at all. Press the issue, and you will probably get them to admit that it is a dangerous form of false doctrine, totally unbiblical, and essentially anti-Christian.<\/p>\n

Why, then, is there no large-scale effort among Bible-believing evangelicals to expose, denounce, refute, and silence these false teachers? After all, that is what Scripture commands church leaders to do when we encounter purveyors of soul-destroying substitutes for the true gospel:<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. I think 2010 will be worse because it will be the year when people realize that there is not going to be a easy fix for the economy. In spite of the hype coming from government and Wall Street there really is no was to avoid a full fledged depression or hyperinflation. I think this article called 2010 will be worse<\/strong><\/a> explains it very well. Here are a few clips.<\/p>\n

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The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression.
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\nOur economic problem is rather simple to describe: There is too much debt relative to income and\/or wealth. Below is a single graph that depicts the condition of our economy. It shows total debt of the U.S. as a percentage of GDP from 1870 forward<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The government has decided that the cure for too much debt is more debt. This solution cannot work, especially when credit is already so overextended. Income and wealth cannot support present debt levels. Credit will adjust back to the mean, regardless of what the government attempts. Whether this is via orderly payment or via default, the reduction in debt is inevitable.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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There are only three possibilities with respect to meeting 2010 funding needs:<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n