by Joy Veinot | Jul 6, 2023 | Aliens, Channeling, Church Universal and Triumphant, Cults and Religions, False Prophet, False Teacher, Heaven's Gate, Independence Day, Jehovah's Witnesses, July/August 1997, MCOI Journal, Mormonism, New Age, Occult, Paradise
(This originally appeared in the July/August 1997 MCOI Journal) The aliens are coming! The earth and its inhabitants are about to be destroyed, “spaded under.” Is this the script of a Hollywood science—fiction movie? No, these are the real—life beliefs...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 18, 2023 | Heaven's Gate, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Marshall Applewhite, Mormon, Mormonism, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
One of the most used and abused verses of scripture among cults and pseudo-Christian groups, in our opinion, is Matthew 7:16, where Jesus said to His disciples, “You will know them by their fruit.” Every cultic group, by ignoring the context, abuses this...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 18, 2021 | Branch Davidians, David Koresh, Heaven's Gate, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Latter-Rain Movement
Forty-three years ago today, November 18, 1978, over nine hundred men, women, and children in “Jonestown,” Guyana, committed suicide or were shot. They were followers of the Reverend Jim Jones and members of his Peoples Temple. The group had moved En masse...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 14, 2019 | Angels, Astrology, Christian Science, Clairvoyance, Demons, Eastern Mysticism, Heaven's Gate, Hinduism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, New Age, Paganism, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
We find angelic communications to humans quite a number of places in Scripture. An angel appeared to Zechariah with the news that he and his wife Elizabeth would have a son (Luke 1:13). Mary, a young Jewish virgin, who was engaged to be married, had a similar...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 17, 2017 | Aum Shinrikyo, David Koresh, Deity of Christ, Heaven's Gate, Herbert W. Armstrong, Jehovah's Witnesses, Living Church of God, Mass Shootings, Mass Suicide, MCOI Journal, Michael Woroniecki, Shoko Ashahara, Spring 2005, Trinity, Volume 11, Waco, Wahabi Islamists, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Worldwide Church of God
(Originally printed in the Spring 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal) It was one of those “What-is-this-world-coming-to?” news days. A man walked into a church with a gun and blasted away, killing seven people, including the pastor of the church and his son, while...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 26, 2017 | Buddhism, False Teacher, Gospel, Heaven's Gate, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Resurrection, Redemption, Resurrection, Sacrifice, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
We just finished celebrating the event which is the highlight of the Christian calendar and indeed central to the Christian faith. The resurrection has special implications in several areas. Where the sacrifice on the cross paid for our sin and gave us peace with God,...
