The Rev. Billy Graham, the charismatic North Carolina pastor who took his evangelizing crusades around the country and the globe, died on Wednesday morning, according to officials of his organization. He was 99 years old.
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." James 4:4 (KJV)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Billy Graham has died today, and the tributes to him will be seemingly endless as the world rushes to praise him. But we need to remember that his ministry took a severe left turn back in the 1960's as he formed an alliance with Pope John Paul II and the Vatican, leading tens of thousands of people astray. Billy Graham started out as a fire-breathing Baptist preacher, leading thousands to salvation in Jesus Christ, but as his fame grew he became a friends with the world, especially the Roman Catholic Church. He is on record as saying he has no problem with Mormon doctrine, Catholic doctrine or even Islam. As good as his revivals were in the early days, in his later years they became a recruiting tool for the Vatican.
Billy Graham served as a counselor or minister to a dozen U.S. presidents, and he preached to an estimated
215 million people in 185 countries around the world during his life. His message reached millions more as he maintained a near-constant presence on radio, television and the internet.
He also wrote more than two dozen books, including his 1997 memoir,"Just as I Am," which was a New York Times bestseller. In a tweet, President Donald Trump called Graham the "GREAT Billy Graham" and wrote, "There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man."
Graham died just before 8 a.m. at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, surrounded by family, according to a spokesman for Samaritan's Purse, the nondenominational evangelical Christian organization headed by Graham's son Franklin.
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Christians get mad when you point out that evangelist Billy Graham was really a wolf in sheep’s clothing who spent more than half of his ministry defending and promoting the Pope, and sending the “converts” from his rallies to Catholic churches.
Did you know that Billy Graham believed and taught that you
could be saved and not know it? That the Body of Christ will include non-Christians from other religions as well as pagans? How about the time he told Larry King on CNN that he feels absolutely comfortable worshipping in a Mormon church? Now before you go and stroke out over what I’m telling you, take a moment to watch the video below and hear all of that and more from Billy’s own lips, at a time when he was still well in possession of all his mental faculties.
HERE ARE SOME MORE NOTABLE AND HERETICAL STATEMENTS FROM THE “WORLD’S GREATEST EVANGELIST:
- Billy Denies A Literal, Fiery Hell: “…I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.” The Orlando Sentinel for April 10, 1983
- Billy Agrees With Infant Baptism: “I do believe that something happens at the baptism of an infant… we cannot fully understand the mysteries of God, but I believe that a miracle can happen in these children so that they are regenerated, that is, MADE CHRISTIAN, THROUGH INFANT BAPTISM.” Interview with the Lutheran Standard in October 1967
- Billy On His Love For The Vatican: “When I was at the Vatican I spoke at a vesper service at the North American College, which is a seminary for students from North America. I understand I was the first Protestant to speak there. It was a very inspirational and Christocentric service, with much contemporary music.” Christianity Today 1981
- Billy Identifies More As A Catholic Than Protestant: “I find myself closer to Catholics than the radical Protestants. I think the Roman Catholic Church today is going through a second Reformation” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin 24 May, 1966
- Billy Says Pope John Paul II His Spiritual Leader: “I think the American people are looking for a leader, a moral and spiritual leader that believes something. And the Pope does. … Thank God, I’ve got somebody to quote now with some real authority.” Phil Donahue Show October 11, 1979
- Billy Promotes Islam: “I think Islam is misunderstood, too, because Mohammed had a great respect for Jesus. He called Jesus the greatest of the prophets except himself…Islam is much more like Christianity than we think we are”. See video interview above
“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:14-16 (KJV)
Please note that all these quotes were uttered 1983 or earlier, at a time when Graham was still good health, physically strong and mentally aware. I gave you 5 random quotes, but easily could have given you 50 more, 100 more, showing his lukewarm, Laodicean theology and manner of compromising preaching. People will get mad and write to me with statements like “How DARE you speak against Billy Graham?? I got SAVED at one of his rallies”. So? You can find a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk without thinking it’s a bank, right? If you found a diamond ring in a trash dumpster, would you call it a jewelry store? No, you would not. Can people get saved with lukewarm preaching? Yes, they can. But without the true gospel, undiluted and powerful, it is nearly impossible for them to grow in a walk with the Lord.
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM A TRANSCRIPT OF AN APPEARANCE BY BILLY GRAHAM ON ROBERT SCHULLER’S “HOUR OF POWER,” PROGRAM #1426 ENTITLED SAY “YES” TO POSSIBILITY THINKING, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST MAY 31, 1997:
SCHULLER: TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY?
GRAHAM: WELL, CHRISTIANITY AND BEING A TRUE BELIEVER–YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE’S THE BODY OF CHRIST. THIS COMES FROM ALL THE CHRISTIAN GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD, OUTSIDE THE CHRISTIAN GROUPS. I THINK EVERYBODY THAT LOVES CHRIST, OR KNOWS CHRIST, WHETHER THEY’RE CONSCIOUS OF IT OR NOT, THEY’RE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND I DON’T THINK THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE A GREAT SWEEPING REVIVAL, THAT WILL TURN THE WHOLE WORLD TO CHRIST AT ANY TIME. I THINK JAMES ANSWERED THAT, THE APOSTLE JAMES IN THE FIRST COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM, WHEN HE SAID THAT GOD’S PURPOSE FOR THIS AGE IS TO CALL OUT A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.
AND THAT’S WHAT GOD IS DOING TODAY, HE’S CALLING PEOPLE OUT OF THE WORLD FOR HIS NAME, WHETHER THEY COME FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD, OR THE BUDDHIST WORLD, OR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD OR THE NON-BELIEVING WORLD, THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN CALLED BY GOD. THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF JESUS BUT THEY KNOW IN THEIR HEARTS THAT THEY NEED SOMETHING THAT THEY DON’T HAVE, AND THEY TURN TO THE ONLY LIGHT THAT THEY HAVE, AND I THINK THAT THEY ARE SAVED, AND THAT THEY’RE GOING TO BE WITH US IN HEAVEN.
SCHULLER: WHAT, WHAT I HEAR YOU SAYING THAT IT’S POSSIBLE FOR JESUS CHRIST TO COME INTO HUMAN HEARTS AND SOUL AND LIFE, EVEN IF THEY’VE BEEN BORN IN DARKNESS AND HAVE NEVER HAD EXPOSURE TO THE BIBLE. IS THAT A CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?
GRAHAM: YES, IT IS, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT. I’VE MET PEOPLE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD IN TRIBAL SITUATIONS, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN A BIBLE OR HEARD ABOUT A BIBLE, AND NEVER HEARD OF JESUS, BUT THEY’VE BELIEVED IN THEIR HEARTS THAT THERE WAS A GOD, AND THEY’VE TRIED TO LIVE A LIFE THAT WAS QUITE APART FROM THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
SCHULLER: I’M SO THRILLED TO HEAR YOU SAY THIS. THERE’S A WIDENESS IN GOD’S MERCY.
GRAHAM: THERE IS.
When I got saved in 1991, on my knees alone in my room at midnight with a King James Bible opened to John 3:16, there was no preaching at all. I had no Christians friends, had never set foot in a non-Catholic church, it was just me and the Lord and I got saved. But without biblical preaching I soon found myself following the perverted teachings of another false teacher, Harold Camping, and I didn’t break free from it until I met some Bible believers a few years later who told me the Truth.
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