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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 359
(The Church in Eclipse), author Les Amis de Christ-Roi writes:
Alice Bailey, Foundress of the Lucifer Trust, the Theosophical and
Satanist organization which lies behind UNESCO, predicted in 1919 the
appearance of “a Universal Church” of which “the definitive outline will appear
toward the end of the century” and which shall keep “the outward appearance
amid the mission to strike out at the many vehicles of colloquial ecclesiastical
(conventional religious) usage.”... [She writes:]
“There will not be any dissociation between the Universal Church, the
Sacred Lodge of all true Masons and the inner circles of the esoteric societies... In
this way, the goals and work of the United Nations shall be solidified and a new
Church of God, led by all the religions and by all of the spiritual groups, shall put
an end to the great heresy of separateness.”
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In “The True Basis of Christian Unity,” Charles Reitzel provides a hypothetical situation
for the reader to consider and relates it to the question of Christian unity. He starts with Jesus’
command for the disciples to remain in Jerusalem and wait for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
which occurred on the day of Pentecost. He says, what if some of the disciples felt that Jesus’
command need not be taken literally and wanted to wait in Jericho instead. What would be the
responsibility of those who took Jesus’ command to wait in Jerusalem literally? Should they stay
in Jerusalem as Jesus commanded or go to Jericho for the sake of unity? Reitzel concludes:
If some will refuse to meet on a basis “according to Christ Jesus,” that in
no sense constitutes a license for the rest of us to compromise for the sake of
peace and meet at Jericho and thus cause all to be out of the way. If we can not
have all where God wants them to be, then in His name and for His sake, let us
have some right, rather than for the sake of peace to have all wrong.
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Reitzel was making this point in regards to Christian unity or ecumenicalism today.
Christians cannot compromise the gospel or any other part of God’s truth as revealed in the Bible
for the sake of unity. When Christians compromise the gospel message given to us by Jesus
Christ, when they forsake the truth that we can only be saved through the grace of Jesus Christ,
they cease to be Christians! This is what is happening today!
The Beginnings of the Ecumenical Movement
The modern day ecumenical movement can be credited to the United States with the
formation of the Federal Council of Churches in 1908, which later became known as the
National Council of Churches (NCC) in 1950. In 1948 the leadership of the Federal/National
Council of Churches was responsible for the formation of the World Council of Churches
(WCC) in Amsterdam, Holland. We’ll look at this organization later, which is striving for a one-
world religion.
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The advancement of ecumenical unity took a leap forward during the 1980’s with the
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