I am familiar with leader-protective doomspeak. I had a loved one involved in following a cultic leader. This person briefly considered Hebrew Roots as well. Certain personalities are just attracted to this sort of thing, and the defensive shields do not come down until some sort of personal disillusionment occurs, hopefully sometime before they bring out the “special Kool-Aid.”
In any event, the leader is typically pretty easy to debunk, so the defense mechanism is to run for shelter in the doomspeak, on the premise that attacking the leader is putting you in great spiritual danger. And as there are a number of Biblical stories that can be deployed in support of this (Moses versus Korah, for example), it is an effective defense mechanism, even if the person being defended is undermining Scripture itself.
It is said in the last days of the Jim Jones cult, he was telling his people to use their Bibles for toilet paper. Satan always goes there. He knows where the real threat to his power is. Those who would rescue the ensnared one must hold forth the divine truth of Scripture confidently no matter what doomspeak is thrown at them, knowing we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against invisible creatures of enormous evil, who cast their shadows over human souls and lock them away in darkness, and take no pity on them.
Yet among those prisoners are those whom God means to free by His grace in Jesus, and who knows but what someday a light might shine through and drive away the shadows and the door opened and the dark things, now exposed, will slither away, looking for somewhere else to hide. It is a wonderful thing to see when it happens, and it does happen. God’s arm is not too short to reach and save anyone.
Peace,
SR
Springfield, The cult here is the cult of easy believers.
Rood is the chosen focus of our FR easy believers because he more than any other voice is successful at opening the eyes of the sleepy churchians to the fact that Yeshua has indeed demanded that we keep the commandments that the EBs so despise.
Anyone that reveals the whole of the scriptures as Rood does is subject to similar false accusations, and there are quite a number of them.
Leader-protective balderdash in defense of the EB spokesmen floods the shelves of “Christian” bookstores everywhere. Hundreds of authors have risen to to defense of the Biblically non-existant “pre-trib rapture,” amassing tidy fortunes deceiving those easy marks.
Churchianity is nothing but mega-church personality cults stacked to the stratosphere.
Turn your smooth talk to that pile.
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