Resuming reports on dark plots that may soon unfold.

I'm back to listening to Scott Johnson, since his new website (Contending for Truth dot com) is now easier to navigate. He was dropped from Sermon Audio a few months ago. A fan had set up an alternative website but it was full of distracting special effects and the teachings were no longer in order by date, or at least I couldn't find them. So I'd given up. Recently I took another look and found it to be much easier to access.

As usual, I have to prescribe a large grain of salt along with my recommendation of his teachings, which are definitely in the Far-Out category of End Times speculations. He draws from some of the most dramatic conspiracy-minded sources on the internet. I'm not going to say they are wrong, I simply don't know in many cases, I'm just saying you need to expect to hear some REALLY strange stuff -- about the New World Order, about intentionally produced diseases, about the mark of the beast, about UFOs, about DNA manipulation, about half-human creatures and more of that sort. For all I know some of it is true enough already, or truly prophetic of scenarios soon to unfold on our poor sick planet, so I'm not discounting any of it out of hand.

I did, however, write against some of it at Faith's Corner a while back, concerning the Skull and Bones Club and the Bohemian Grove, where it seemed to me he went so far overboard finding overtly satanic motivations in the most unlikely people from the flimsiest evidence, I had to object.

But if only a tenth of his information turns out to be based in reality (I suspect it will be more myself), it's a good thing to be up on it.

What he covers isn't ALL Beyond the Fringe, however, but much of it involves news stories we're all familiar with, such as the mosque plans in New York, Obama's programs to undermine America, the suit against Arizona over illegal immigration and the like, and he covers these things by delving into dark possibilities we aren't able to glean from any of the usual news sources, left or right. A Christian should readily recognize that all this is the working of Satan and his minions, and that being the case, there are bound to be dark dimensions that we are only vaguely aware of. Since we can tell without any special powers that things seem to be escalating rapidly into evil these days it only makes sense -- for Christians at least -- to anticipate some truly amazing displays of satanic powers some time in the nearish future, displays that could give Spiritual Warfare unprecedented new meanings, and that's something we NEED to know about.

(Part of his latest talk, by the way, concerns the possibility of a complete shutdown of internet blogs like this one and of course his own teachings and those he draws from).

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A technical note to anyone who wants to listen to these talks: If you merely click on the audio strip presented at the site there's no way to quit a particular teaching and come back to the same point later -- it resets to zero when you stop it. Each talk is roughly an hour, sometimes more, and listening through isn't always possible. If you want to be able to stop and start again later, you need to download it so you can hear it on Windows Media Player.