My dear readers,

2. Will our Sons defend the Faith? – II

(Dr SH Tow, message at Hilltop Ministries 2007)

Then Dan IV wrote: "There are increasingly dark dangers of compromise in the ecclesiastical world, especially in evangelical overtures towards Rome, ecumenical evangelism, and widespread departure from sound doctrine. This reprint is also timely as it coincides with the inauguration of the facilities of the Hilltop Christian Ministries in Antipolo, Rizal – the purpose of which is to provide a center for a healthy biblical fundamentalism in this part of the world. – Rev Dan Ebert IV.

I recall how God drew our pathways together to join forces in the common cause of our great God and Saviour. In 1935, Brother Timothy and I came under the fiery ministry of Dr John Sung, "Flame of God in the Far East." Dr Sung’s soul-hot preaching of three 2-hour sermons daily for two weeks each year, over four consecutive years (1935 – 38) was used by the Holy Spirit to literally burn God’s Word into our bones, never to be forgotten through all of life.

Vividly imprinted in my heart are the doctor’s scathing denunciation of liberal preachers such as Emerson Fosdick and Henry Sloan Coffin of Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., which he described as "devil heads with devil brains preaching devil doctrines." Once for all our minds were fully and permanently convinced of the deadly poison of modernist and liberal preachers from western seminaries and institutions. Dr John Sung’s impact remains powerfully imprinted in my mind to this day.

In 1948 Brother Timothy while at Faith Theological Seminary in America, received the challenge of the Twentieth Century Reformation from God’s servant Dr Carl McIntire, calling on God’s people to "earnestly contend for the faith" (Jude 3) and to come out of the Satanic ecumenical movement (2 Cor 6: 4-8) and be separate.

Through the international assemblies of the ICCC (International Council of Christian Churches) and FECC (Far Eastern Council of Christian Churches), my Brother Timothy and I came into the company of Rev Antionio Ormeo, President of the FECC, and through him, we came to know Rev Dan Ebert and family. This was in the 1970s.

What Rev Dan Ebert III warned in his book (1976) came to pass in the course of the next two decades. In 1994 and 1997, by two epochal declarations, Evangelicalism publicly capitulated to the wily craft of the master deceiver, to tell the world that the faith of our fathers, hard won with the blood of the martyrs over five hundred years is no more relevant, but now "Evangelicals and Catholics are Together." By a stroke of the pen the Gospel of Jesus Christ was signed over to the custody of Mother Rome. What ecumenical evangelicalism had practiced for decades was formally and finally acknowledged.

Dr Billy Graham’s universalistic dream of years was telecast May 31, 1997, over television Southern California. He told the world that God was calling people out of various religions, and that all faiths lead to God. This New Christianity will carry the Church into the Third Millennium. The adversary has scored a major victory.

In a January 2, 2007 Fox News interview, Tony Snow asked Billy Graham: "When you get to Heaven, who’s going to speak first, you or God?" Graham replied: "When I get there, I am sure that Jesus is going to say that He will welcome me. But I think that He is going to say: "Well done, good and faithful servant." Or He may say: "You’re in the wrong place." SNOW: "You really worry that you may be told You’re in the wrong place." GRAHAM: "Yes, because I have not – I’m not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don’t belong in my personal life. And they think I am better than I am. Newspapers and television have made me out to be a saint. I’m not. I’m not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much." (Christian News, July 27, 2005).

Reader, wake up! You have the warnings from God’s prophetic Word, and God’s Word being inspired is inerrant and infallible – no surprise: evangelists, world-renowned preachers, will fall away from the faith, indeed, have fallen away from the faith, and brought in damnable heresies, denying the Lord that bought them (2 Pet 2:1). Find them for yourself in the Modern English Bibles.

The thing which surprises us is the extent and magnitude of the apostasy overtaking those who once appeared to stand for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Today we marvel at the denominations and the "big names" which have defected from the faith of the Gospel, the falling away being accelerated by the ecumenical doctrine of "love and togetherness" and the wildly popular "Charismatic Movement" which has all but erased denominational barriers everywhere in the global march to Rome.

Over and above all these, the adversary has compounded the damage done by introducing "Contemporary Worship and Music" and a flood of "Contemporary or Modern English Bibles." The latter is Satan’s master stroke in his strategy of global dominance, a move which has taken Christendom by stealth. Without firing a shot, the Adversary entered and captured the camp. He who holds the Book holds the key.

Today, confusion reigns: the Word of the Gospel is all but obscured in a mass of deception and false teaching, backed by a hundred perverted Modern English Bibles. Only the faithful few still hold to the Book which was once delivered by the Reformation martyrs, at the cost of blood.

Question: Will our sons defend the Bible which stands true to the faith which was once delivered unto the saints?

God bless you dear readers.

Yours faithfully in the Saviour’s Service,

Dr SH Tow, Sr Pastor