Daily Deprogramming

The following article  was written July 27, 2008. It is a rebuttal of that days Daily Devotional by Ardith Keef. Today her DD is more of the same old twisted, controlling, cult tactics about “setting your face like flint.”  Cult  tactics that are canned, dried up and stale. The rebuttal holds true today! ……………….

“For behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. As an adament HARDER THAN FLINT have I made thy forehead:  fear them not neither be dismayed by their looks, though they be a rebellious house.” Ezekiel 3:8,9 KJV

God’s people have often been a stubborn and stiff-necked people. Back in Ezekiel’s day God sent Ezekiel the prophet to them , and they rebelled against God and reviled him for telling them the Truth.  Nothing has changed.  Today in abusive churches and cults who claim to belong to Him, authoritative leaders still tell their followers to “set your face like flint”  , as they practice their false worship, abusing and controlling His people , and bringing God’s hand of chastisement upon themselves.

Today , true to  obvious cultish maneuvers , Ardith changes her methods to suit her message, and chides people for “trying to make it so complicated.” ”The deeper the more simple” she says today.  Usually her writings are rife with do’s and do not’s to the point of exhaustion!

When I left the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1981 and had to face a board of hard-nosed  elders alone , and certain disfellowshipping for standing up for the Truth , at a moment when my knees were trembling at the thought, the Lord gave me the following verses:   ”Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.  Like emery, harder than flint have I made your forehead.  FEAR THEM NOT, nor be dismayed by their looks, for they are a REBELLIOUS HOUSE!”  Ezekiel 3:8,9 Amplified   I trusted Him then and I trust Him now! He has never let me down. Never.

God told Ezekiel not to fear their faces. I can understand what He was saying. The faces of Anchor leaders, and even some followers now look to be hard like flint, sharp, rude, arrogant looking , and even a bit frightening as they resemble the enemy in cruelty and anger, both in their faces and in their actions.  They certainly look nothing like Jesus , humble, kind and loving!  Their looks alone can be alarming, and intimidating! 

Attorney Ardith Keef and Pastor Bill Keef are taking our family to court for speaking out against them, but we have the Truth, and they have the lie.  Who will we fear or dread?  Certainly not man or woman.  We fear God, or else we would not be doing this.  We have great respect for our court system, and whatever the outcome , our faith in God and our trust in Him does not rest on the results of any court case. 

We here at Anchorabuse.org are in the best of company as we are held falsely accountable by devious, self-serving religious leaders, who have long ago left the Truth and the Faith , and are following the enemy.   We  gratefully tread in the footsteps of those who have been ostracised for exposing false teachers and leaders who abuse and corrupt ”churches.”  We count it a privilege to be deemed worthy to stand with the long line of people who have even given their lives to fearlessly confront spiritual abuse and wickedness.

God spoke to Ezekiel , and His  words hold  true today as we (only one tiny family of thousands) speak out against the abuses, the false , hurtful,  destructive , and elitist teachings of the counterfeit and deceitful leaders of so-called churches.  These leaders are pretenders and hypocrites, wolves in sheep’s clothing, who lead the people of God astray for their own glory and advancement!  The Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church is only one of many,  but it’s warped and twisted teachings have caused great harm to the people of God, even to His little children!

Moral:  If you “set your face like flint” be sure you are humbly on the side of Truth and Righteousness!  Be sure you are looking toward and serving the True God.  Your face tells the  whole story, if you look hard, rigid, harsh, stern, mean, rude, and arrogant you’re going in the wrong direction!  Your face is a reflection of the one you are looking at and serving!