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Ephesians 5:11 & Mark 4:22

 

 

Billy Graham Association Says No More Crusades

 

A. P. Charlotte, N.C., - Though long-assumed, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has given its first official word that the ailing evangelist would no longer hold crusades.

 

The association said in a news release that Graham is enjoying quiet time at his home in Montreat, where he turned 87 on Monday. His most recent crusade was in New York in June.

 

"Ruth and I have enjoyed our time together these last few months, and we both feel at peace about the decision to have the New York meetings be our last," Graham said in the release. "We know that God can still use us to reach people with the Gospel message in other ways, and we look forward to seeing how he will do so."

 

The association said that while the crusade phase of his evangelistic ministry may be over, Graham still finds plenty to do.

 

He participated in the recent groundbreaking and dedication ceremonies at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters in his hometown of Charlotte and still serves as a chairman of the association's board, attending meetings as his health permits.

 

The Grahams offered their old home as a shelter to a family from New Orleans who was left homeless after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.

 

Graham also has been working on a book and "determining the best use of his remaining years," the release said.

 

Graham suffers from fluid on the brain, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease. He uses a walker due to a pelvic fracture and is largely confined to his home.

 

His wife, Ruth Bell Graham, 85, was hospitalized several times in 2002 for health problems, including pneumonia, and remains in ill health.

But Graham Is Still A Crook 

 

If you check out the latest form 990 - 2002  for Billy Graham Evangelist Organization available from Guide Star http://www.guidestar.org/search/  you will see that Billy Graham is just as much of a crook as ever. At 87 years of age he is still receiving a hundred percent salary  of $ 189, 385 and $ 233,979 for other allowances and is working less than ten percent of the time! The same with Clifford B. Barrows who is receiving $ 164,442. They both should have been put out to pasture a long time ago and should have stopped taken a salary that they have not earned!

 

And yes Billy used his organization to support financially his children including $ 600,000 to Franklin Graham, $ 210,000 to Ned Graham and $ 300,000 to Ann. Ned Graham who was originally slated to take over Billy Graham Evangelist Organization instead of Franklin received less money because he is the black sheep of the family. What gave Billy Graham the right to take money donated to preach the gospel to give to the support of his family especially Ned Graham? Nothing!

 

Graham didn't intend to endorse Clinton

 

Evangelist's praise for senator at crusade just that, son says

 

Rest easy, conservative Christians. That was no endorsement Billy Graham gave Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at his New York crusade last weekend.

 

Graham provoked more than 100 e-mails and calls of protest to the ministry with his praise for Clinton that some interpreted as an endorsement of her possible presidential run. When Bill and Hillary Clinton joined Graham on stage Saturday night, the elderly evangelist told the crowd of 80,000: "They're a great couple. I told an audience that I felt when he left the presidency he should be an evangelist because he has all the gifts and he could leave his wife to run the country."

 

Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, responded to concerned e-mailers and letter-writers with a statement saying, "My father, of course, was joking."

 

"For a long time," Franklin Graham wrote, "my father has refrained from endorsing political candidates and he certainly did not intend for his comments to be an endorsement for Senator Hillary Clinton. While his political views, as well as mine, are quite different than the Clintons, they remain good friends."

 

Franklin Graham also wrote that while Bill Clinton has the charisma, personality and communication skills to preach, "... an evangelist has to have the call of God, which President Clinton obviously does not have, and my father understands that."

 

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/12030058.htm

 

That not to say that politicians, or other high profile public figures, never say sorry. The US evangelist, Rev Billy Graham, really had no choice when 30-year-old tape recordings of his White House conversations with Richard Nixon were released last year and revealed blatant anti-semitism. He complained that Jews had a "stranglehold" on America and said that a second Nixon administration "might be able to do something" about it. He soon apologised, saying that "racial prejudice, anti-semitism or hatred of anyone with different beliefs" had no place in the human mind or heart. (Guardian Unlimited Monday September 29, 2003)

 

 

 

Whopper of the Century: Billy Graham

The reverend elaborates on his admiration of the Jewish people.

 

"I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms."

 

—Rev. Billy Graham, in a May 1994 statement denying H.R. Haldeman's claim in his published diaries that Graham carried on about "satanic Jews" in Nixon's presence. Quoted by David Firestone in the March 17 New York Times.

 

"I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all—I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances."

 

—Rev. Billy Graham, in a transcript of an Oval Office conversation with Richard Nixon from 1972 recently made public by the National Archives. Quoted in Firestone's March 17 story and elsewhere. (Click here to read Graham's apology, and here to read Slate's David Greenberg on Graham's remarks.)

 

Billy Graham Hypocrisy And Satanic Jews

Barbara Webb, Administrative Services. Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization in response to the reporting of Billy Graham's Hypocrisy And Satanic Jews on May 23, 2003 stated:

Subject: Mr. Graham

Dear Friend:

Mr. Graham apologized in regard to the Nixon tapes which were recently broadcast. Although Mr. Graham had no memory of what he had said, he felt it was appropriate at this time to give an apology. He does not actually feel about Jewish people in the way the words were said. Mr. Graham has made many friends over the years among the Jewish leaders and rabbis and has a great respect for them.

Please pray for Mr. Graham and our Association--that we will be truly faithful and obedient to our Lord. May God bless you.

Sincerely,

A response was sent to Barbara Webb on May 23,2003 which stated:

Dear Barbara,

Thank you for your reply concerning Billy Graham's memory lapse!

I have an important question to which I would like to have an answer does Dr. Billy Graham at 84 years of age still take a 100 percent salary as a employee and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization and work less than 25 percent of time?

The sad part about Billy Graham's refusal to accept real responsibility is his use of the phrase "Although I have no memory of the occasion, I deeply regret comments I apparently made in an Oval Office conversation with President Nixon ... some 30 years ago." You will appreciate Bill Clinton the former President of United States and a great liar also used a similar phrase to avoid answering questions asked of him during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and would state " I don't recall." But God has a perfect memory and he recalls all things and so do others.

Graham's two faced hypocrisy also came out in a 1989 when a Graham memo to Nixon was made public. It took the form of a secret letter from Graham, dated April 15, 1969, drafted after Graham met in Bangkok with missionaries from Vietnam. These men of God said that if the peace talks in Paris were to fail, Nixon should step up the war and bomb the dikes. Such an act, Graham wrote excitedly, "could overnight destroy the economy of North Vietnam".

Graham lent his imprimatur to this recommendation. Thus the preacher was advocating a policy to the US Commander in Chief that on Nixon's own estimate would have killed a million people.

This disclosure of Graham as an aspirant war criminal did not excite any commotion when it became public in 1989, twenty years after it was written.

Billy Graham has raised up two sons Ned and Franklin who are as deceitful as their father. Ned Graham, the son of Billy Graham, Southern Baptist minister, president East Gates International, a group that distributes Bibles in China told Christianity Today in an interview that he had abused alcohol and spent an "inappropriate amount of time" with two women on his staff.

Grace Community Church, Southern Baptist Convention, in Auburn, Washington--which counted Ned Graham, his wife, and their two sons as members established the fact that Ned Graham was an adulterer, alcoholic, wife abuser, and drug user and revoked Graham's ministerial credentials. It directed Graham to stop using the title reverend.

Yet in a style reminiscent of Jimmy Swaggart, who refused to be defrocked by the Assembly of God denomination, Ned Graham left that congregation for another church.

Most of the staff and board members of East Gates International resigned amid controversies. East Gates, in Sumner, Wash., withdrew its membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability after Ned replaced the board members with his sister Ruth Graham McIntyre, brother-in-law Stephan Tchividjian, and business leader Peter Lowe.

Graham's sister Gigi Tchividjian has joined the office staff and Ned Graham continues as East Gates president. The ECFA the self-policing organization Billy Graham helped start requires that a majority of board members not be related by blood or marriage, which is no longer the case for East Gates. Nepotism is alive and well in Evangelical ministries?

A December East Gates fund-raising letter included a note from his father saying that "Ruth and I are proud of and grateful to God for our son Ned." East Gates has distributed 2 million Bibles to Christians in China, Billy Graham said, encouraging Christians to "back this unique and effective ministry."

It is interesting to see the most famous "evangelist" (some say) not being able to educate his children, especially Ned. At the same time, having a bunch of so-called Christians following the leadership of such wreckless person. Franklin Graham wears jeans, boots, denim shirt, and leather jacket. He was a teen rebel who drank, smoked, fought, and led police on high-speed chases. He was kicked out of LeTourneau College. He used to be a rebel and a 'bum' got religion and become more sophisticated and formed "the Samaritan's Purse' so that he can fly around the country and charge things to his non-profit corporation. As a result his ministry, Samaritan's Purse, had a run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. The ECFA suspended Samaritan's Purse while it looked into Franklin's (Graham) compensation and use of the company plane.

Although Billy Graham encourages religious leaders to be open about their salaries and publish their finances none of the Grahams reveal their total compensation nor release their personal income tax as President Bush does and former President Clinton has done. It's the law of the land that all non profit chairman of corporations must reveal their total salary and that Billy, Ned and Franklin do not to their donors speak volumes of their hypocrisy?

Yes, Jesus told us to beware of hypocrites like Dr. Billy Graham.

Editor’s Note - Barbara Webb nor Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization did not reply about Billy Graham's salary nor other matters stated.

 

 

Billy Graham and Bishop Pike And False Prophets

By Wally Duncaster

 

In his 1959 San Francisco Crusade, Graham honored the notorious liberal Bishop James A. Pike by having him lead in prayer. Graham had attended Pike's consecration at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on May 15, 1958 (William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, The Death and Life of Bishop Pike, p. 306). Pike would also have been involved in Graham's 1957 New York Crusade, as he was the dean of the extremely modernistic Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York from 1952 to 1958. Yet, Pike was a rank, unbelieving Modernist, a drunkard, an adulterer. He denied the Trinity and refused to state the traditional benediction, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen!" He abbreviated this to "In the name of God, Amen!"

 

Three times Pike was brought up on heresy charges in the Episcopal Church. In an article in Look magazine Pike stated that he did not believe the fundamentals of the faith. In a pastoral letter that was to be read in all the Episcopal Churches of his diocese, Pike stated that "religious myth is one of the avenues of faith and has an important place in the communication of the Gospel." He spoke of the "myth of the Garden of Eden." He said, "The virgin birth... is a myth which churchmen should be free to accept or reject."  In an article in Christian Century, Dec. 21, 1960, Pike declared that he no longer believed the doctrines stated in the Apostles' Creed. The same month that article appeared Graham again joined Pike at his Grace Cathedral for a Christian Men's Assembly sponsored by the National Council of Churches.

 

Three times Pike was picked up by San Francisco police while he was wandering around in a drunken, confused state late at night. He spent four years in intensive psychoanalysis. Pike was twice divorced, thrice married, and had at least three mistresses. One of his mistresses committed suicide; one of his daughters attempted suicide. His eldest son committed suicide in 1966 at age 20 (associated with his homosexuality), and Pike got deeply involved in the occult in an attempt to communicate with the deceased. Three years later Pike died from a 70-foot fall in a remote canyon in the Israeli desert near the Dead Sea. His maggot infested body was found five days later. The 56-year-old theologian had gotten lost in the desert while on an extended honeymoon with his 31-year-old third wife. A biography about Pike noted that "never before in the history of the Episcopal Church had a Solemn Requiem Mass been offered for a bishop in the presence of three surviving wives" (The Death and Life of Bishop Pike, p. 202).

http://cnview.com/on_line_resources/billy_grahams_disobedience.htm

 

JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY is Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Luton, England, and Director of its Human Rights Centre. He annually conducts the University's International Seminar in Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

 

Professor Montgomery holds eight earned degrees besides, the LL.B.: the A.B. with distinction in Philosophy (Cornell University; Phi Beta Kappa), B.L.S. and M.A. (University of California at Berkeley), B.D. and S.T.M. (Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio), M. Phil. in Law (University of Essex, England), Ph.D. (University of Chicago), and the Doctorat d'Universite from Strasbourg, France. Before moving to the United Kingdom, he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago and was Chairman of the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

 

Dr. Montgomery is author of over one hundred scholarly journal articles and more than forty books in English, French, Spanish and German. He is internationally regarded both as a theologian (his debates with the late Bishop James Pike, death-of-God advocate Thomas Altizer, and situation-ethicist Joseph Fletcher are historic) and as a lawyer (barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, England; member of the California, Virginia, Washington State, and District of Columbia Bars and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States). He is one of only six persons to have received the Diploma of the International Institute of Human Rights cum laude, and was the Institute's Director of Studies from 1979 to 1981.

http://www.id.ucsb.edu/FSCF/LIBRARY/MONTGOMERY/bio.html

 

NOW COMPARE HOW JOHN W MONTGOMERY HANDLED A FALSE PROPHET SUCH AS BISHOP PIKE VERSUS BILLY GRAHAM.

 

John W. Montgomery actions with Bishop Pike were different as seen from the book " The Strader Affair."

 

Chapter 21

"For False Christ's And False Prophets Will Rise

"For false Christ's and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24:24)

 

            In the early Seventies, during the "God is dead" movement, Dr. John W. Montgomery came into prominence. He was and is a renowned Biblical scholar with numerous degrees and an obvious brilliant mind, and a "who's who"  in America at that time. He was invited to openly debate Bishop Pike, on a Chicago University Campus, which was televised. He literally tore the Bishop's theology apart.

 

Ironically, later on Bishop Pike died on a trip to a desert where he actually got lost. Amazing! Dr. Montgomery, a brilliant Christian man of unusual intelligence and knowledge of the Bible, matched by few in our lifetime, was vicious and even to the point of cruel, when he debated Bishop Pike in an open forum. Later, Montgomery was credited with founding Noah's ark in Turkey and wrote a book about his exploits.

 

His critics were upset and protested at how he destroyed Bishop Pike during the debate. Even though God's word states that they should be destroyed:

 

He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,  And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. Isaiah 11:4

 

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 Peter 2:1

 

I was to have the privilege of meeting Dr. John Montgomery when he came to our university for a week of Evangelism. It was sponsored by the university's Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship club where I was on the executive committee. I personally  asked John the following question, "As a Christian how could you do what you did to Bishop Pike?" He answered, "Easily, and I would gladly do it again to anyone who was a false prophet and had hurt and deceived so many people."

 

Well, these are my sentiments exactly about deceived Jim Bakker, Henry J. Lyons  and Billy Graham  who called themselves--a Man of God. A real Man of God doesn't lie, steal, is not cowardly or fearful, because he is truthful, bold and full of courage. These things are done by those who belong to the other family and not to God's family.

 

Those who walk in the flesh will demonstrate the works of the flesh  adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like. Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God even if their name is Ned Graham.

 

Modernists and apostates with whom Billy Graham has fellowshipped, and used in his crusades:

 

Henry Van Dusen Union Theological Seminary

Bishop James Pike, episcopal bishop

John Sutherland Bonnell

Robert McCracken, Minister of Riverside Church, New York

Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury

Dr. Fred Townley Lord, British Methodist

Dr. Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Southwark

Dr. E.A. Payne, General Secretary of British Baptist Union

Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Methodist

Dr. Jesse Baird

Dr. Stanley E. Jones

Dr. Martin Luther King, Modernist in theology.

 

The Lord Jesus said, 'If ye love Me, keep My commandments'. (John 14:15). God has said, 'To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them'. (Isa 8:20). We ask every reader to study the following Scriptures and then compare their commands to the practices of Dr. Billy Graham.

 

Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

 

Corinthians 6:14-18

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

 

2 John 1:9-11

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

 

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

 

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

 

2 Peter 2:1-2

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

 

1 Timothy 6:3-5

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

 

Romans 16:17

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

 

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

 

Matthew 7:15-16

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

 

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

 

THESE ARE THE COMMANDS OF GOD!

 

“My health is excellent!''

 

Rev Billy Graham hosted a 4 day crusade in St. Louis, MO from Oct 14-17, 1999. During his stay, he gave numerous interviews. When asked about the state of his health, he replied, "My health is excellent. I have a few age-related problems such as Parkinson's Disease, prostate problems, high blood pressure and various problems that come with age. My wife, on the other hand, has a serious health problem since she broke her hip."

 

Everyone is pleased to hear of Rev. Graham's "excellent health." I suspect his claim to "excellent health" was a show of personal courage. Unfortunately he misled the public in its perception of Parkinson's Disease portraying it as a benign disease of the elderly. Hasn't he heard of Michael J. Fox and the fact that there are significant numbers of people who are diagnosed with Parkinson's before age 50? While no one would expect him to turn his interview into a Parkinson's fund raiser, he could have asked the audience/congregation to pray for those who suffer from devastating, incurable diseases. It was a missed opportunity to encourage christians to be aware of the needs of the sick in their communities and to support funding of medical research.

 

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