Man since the beginning of time has always needed someone to turn to when things went wrong with his heart and his life. He would either turn to the witch doctor, a guru, or a priest. He always needed something higher than himself to help him to be all that he envisioned himself to be. He needed someone to make intercession to God. In time there was a level of trust developed between the religious professional and his adherents. In many of the world religions they would use drugs to obtain a mystical experience or a higher level of consciousness in an attempt to reach their deity or to alleviate his emotional pain. Most of these world religions exerted authority over their people by promising to help them with physical ailments, mental anguish, and emotional trauma.

With the discovery of psychology, its therapeutic techniques, and psychotropic drugs, a new religious professional has arrived on the scene claiming to be non-religious and available to every nation, tribe, people, and tongue. Instead of interceding with God, this new professional of psychology becomes the ultimate authority. He promises to help his counselees with their mental anguish, emotional trauma, and even some of their consequential physical ailments. In time a level of trust is developed between the counselee and the new religious professional. Although their patients are never cured, their behavior never changed, many have become addicted to psychotropic drugs, and have gotten worse because of it. Yet they grow ever more dependent on the professional psychologist and all the psychotropic drugs he has to offer.

It is sad to say that many who claim to know God no longer trust Him to change their behavior or heal their heart and so they turn to the new religious professional, who has usurped the authority of God and His spiritual counsel. The Bible says that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our Wonderful Counselor (See Isaiah 9:6). He has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the written Word and the indwelling Spirit (See II Peter 1:3-4). I am so convinced of this that my latest book to be released in August of this year is written to help Christians step by step on how to trust God to cure their heart and stand firm against the enemy. To change counselors, to transfer our trust to another, to take mind-altering psychotropic drugs is paramount in not remaining faithful to Jesus. To stand firm in the last days we must remain faithful to Jesus Christ by trusting in Him alone or suffer the consequences.

Part I of a II Part series that demonstrates that the Church has already begun to enter the Great Tribulation. This is a powerful and moving video that will awaken the spirit in every Christian who wants to know the truth and to be prepared for what lies ahead.

History of the New World Religion (godless Psychology)

Why do people act or think as they do? Why do some people seem to have more problems than others or have difficulty resolving them? These are questions that have plagued mankind from the beginning. World religions and philosophies have attempted to answer these questions and have led millions to follow their creeds and methodologies to deal with life’s problems.

Then there was the rise of psychology with the first psychiatric hospitals and insane asylums being set up by Muslim physicians in Baghdad, Iraq in 750 AD. Then fifty years later psychiatric hospitals were introduced in Cairo, Egypt. And then in 850 AD Ali ibm Sahl Rabban al-Tabari developed the idea of using clinical psychiatry to treat mentally ill patients. In 1270 famous psychiatric hospitals were built in Damascus and Aleppo in Syria. By the Nineteenth Century it had moved to Europe with Soren Kierkegaard writing the first exposition on anxiety and by 1875 William James opened the first experimental psychology laboratory in the United States. Throughout this period experimental psychology research laboratories were opened in such universities as John Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Indiana University, and the University of Chicago. At this point psychology was primarily experimental and dealt specifically with those who suffered from insanity. They had not appeared to be a threat to organized religion.

In the next period psychology took on a whole new meaning introducing group therapy, the study of behavior, ‘Counseling and Psychotherapy’ suggesting that respect and non-judgmental approach to therapy is the foundation for effective treatment of mental health issues. At this point the patient which includes more than just the insane is no longer responsible for his behavior, but is mentally ill or just plain sick. By 1949 the Bolder Conferences outlined scientist-practitioner model of clinical psychology, looking at M.D., versus PHD used by medical providers and researchers, respectively. In 1952 modern psychology produced mental illness classifications, thus attaching labels to certain perceived illnesses and then the following year B.F. Skinner outlined his behavioral therapy. And then by 1968 there was the first Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D) professional degree program in Clinical Psychology. Clearly at this point psychology has passed the line by making them professionals on what causes behavior problems, how to deal with life’s problems, and introducing behavior modification.

In the last period clinical psychology has spread throughout the world and most predominately in the West and specifically in the United States claiming to understand and classify man’s behavior problems. Moreover, they claim that they can actually bring about change to the individual through an array of counseling techniques developed over the past 100 years and the administering of prescription drugs. This has become so widespread in this country almost no one questions their ability to do what they claim. In 1994 Antonio Damasio proposed his somatic-marker hypothesis by which emotional processes can guide (or bias) behavior, particularly decision making. But why do I call this the new world religion? Simply put it makes the same claims as biblical Christianity and in the process has deceived millions from around the world to follow its practices and methods in dealing with life’s issues. Moreover, they have for the most part unknowingly transferred their trust in God to deliver them from their bondage of sin to trusting in this new world religion to solve their problems and give them the ability and guidance in dealing with life’s difficulties.

Yet Centuries ago Jesus Christ carried the same message as His Father in Heaven that sin and separation from God is the only cause of bad behavior and the inability to face life’s most difficult issues. Jesus Christ and His followers preached the only cure for bad behavior and how to deal with life’s problems. His gospel message was that through forgiveness of sin and faith in Jesus Christ we would be made into a new creation where old things would pass away and all things would be new. (See II Cor. 5:17) How new would this life be? The barnacles of the old sin nature fall off and the new life in Christ experiences the love and grace of God as it’s poured into our heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our guide in decision making, no longer controlled by our emotions we experience the joy of being in Christ that permeates our entire nature. Unlike the methodologies of godless psychology, God does the work of changing our behavior and making us into the perfect image of His Son Jesus Christ. The Psalmist said, “Unless the Lord builds the house its builder’s labor in vain.” (Psalm 27:1) Furthermore, as we will explore later, the Bible has given us every thing we need for life and godliness (see II Peter 1:3-4).

Jesus Christ is the Wonderful counselor who has given us His Spirit to work in us to the glory of God. The Apostle Paul said, “But even if we or an angel from heaven preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!” (Ga. 1:8) And dear friends, that is exactly what the doctors’ of psychology are doing; they are preaching a different gospel.

A large part of humanity has rejected God as their Divine Creator. Everywhere you look God’s sovereignty has been exchanged for the fatalism of Mother Nature. The dependence on God has been exchanged for self-help. The sufficiency of God has been exchanged for counseling from the professional psychologist, which is the new world religion in disguise. Faith in God as the Divine Healer has been exchanged for dependence on drugs and the medical practitioner, who sanctions the intervention of psychology. The absolute truth from God has been exchanged for tolerance – a clear agenda for the “Global City of man”. The only way to God has been exchanged for religious pluralism. Dying to self has been exchanged for increasing your self-esteem – a major doctrine of psychology. Obedience to God has been exchanged for lawlessness. A heterosexual relationship has been exchanged for same sex marriage. And God’s structure for the home has been exchanged for social intervention and its perverted teachings of psychology.

When the Church also follows this same path of unchecked rebellion against God she becomes the lukewarm church spoken of in the book of Revelation. Her witness to a dying world will all but cease. No more revivals, no more saw dust trails, and fewer crusades have weakened the church. Watered down preaching and the introduction of secular psychology has lessened the effectiveness of gospel preaching. And as the world slips deeper into the abyss of gross immorality with the church not far behind, the modern day prophets are proclaiming that all is well and the church can expect a secret rapture to deliver them from this evil world.

But what does God say? Will God really deliver the lukewarm church prior to the Great Tribulation or will He allow her to go through the Great Tribulation to strengthen her faith and cleanse her of all unrighteousness? “God uses trials and tribulations in the believer’s life to remove the barnacles of the old sin nature… He uses the powerful storms of life to strengthen your faith and dependence on Him. Only a lukewarm church that has been essentially free from persecution will fabricate the secret rapture to whisk them away in the nick of time to escape the Great Tribulation.” (Final Warning, Daniel W. Blair) Great trials and tribulations have always been the seeds of the church. Why would God expect anything less in the last days? When Christ returns in magnificent glory to punish those who are disturbing you and to rapture His Church at the end of the age, will you be ready?

So what must the church do? She must prepare for the Great Tribulation, but more than that she needs to repent of her unholy exchange. We must believe that God is in control of this world and nothing happens by accident. Mother Nature does not send the storms or the severe weather; God does it with the hope that men would repent and turn back to Him. The church must stop trusting in the world to counsel her people. Let the church return to God’s Word that has given her everything she needs for life and godliness. Let the church return back to trusting in God alone to bring complete healing to man – physical, mental, and spiritual healing. God saves the whole person. Finally, let the church return to the commandments of God and reject the perverted teachings that have been accepted by the modern world. And if she refuses, then true believers must come out of her and form their own fellowships trusting in God to give them godly leaders.