Last Days Occult Revival Astrology: A Biblical World View

 

Welcome to the EndTimeShofar Channel! Today we'll be discussing the Last Days Occult Revival Astrology: A Biblical World View. We'll be looking at Jeremiah 10:2, which states: "Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."

We are living in a time of spiritual decline. We are living in a postmodern Christian age where America is turning more and more every single day into a neo-pagan society.

We have seen McDonald's recently giving out tarot cards with their meals, and the release of the movie Doctor Strange, which is heavily endowed with magic, witchcraft, and demons.

What is Astrology?

Astrology is a type of divination that involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars, the sun, the moon, and the planets. The devotees of astrology believe that understanding the influence of the planets and stars on earthly affairs allows them to predict and affect the destinies of individuals, groups, and nations.

The popularity of New Age Beliefs

According to the Pew Research Center, 6 in 10 Christians and Nuns hold at least one new age belief. These beliefs include psychics, spiritual energy located in physical things, reincarnation, and astrology.

Women are more likely than men to affirm new-age beliefs.

Spiritual Transitions

George Barna, the veteran sociologist who has been studying national religious patterns for more than four decades, pointed out that the reshaping of America's religious landscape began nearly 60 years ago in the 1960s. This counter-cultural revolution was an attempt to turn people back into paganism.

Generation X and Millennials have realigned the nation's religious boundaries even further. Together, they have many beliefs that stand in sharp contrast to Baby Boomers and Builders.

They are substantially more likely to believe horoscopes provide useful guidance, karma is a valuable life principle, the Bible is ambiguous and what it teaches about abortion, human beings have developed over a long period of time from less than advanced life forms, and that the Bible is not accurate and a reliable inerrant word of God.

Social media has had a powerful impact on spiritual beliefs. On Tick Tock, you have Witchtok, Spiritualtock, and Astrologytok.

These are shorthand for a multitude of religions, philosophies, and cultural backgrounds united by the fascination with the unknown.

Kirah Tabourn, an astrologer with more than 25,000 followers on Instagram, has helped find fresh voices in astrology. Many of the people she works with are queer or non-binary and find a true connection with the spiritual side of astrology.

Conclusion

We are coming to a time of spiritual revival. The Christian Church must be prepared to equip and minister in this area and be in power encounters.

We are seeing a tsunami of occult revival that's about ready to hit this country. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn more about Last Days Occult Revival Astrology: A Biblical World View. Watch the video and sign up for our blog and YouTube channel today!

Study: Americans becoming less Christian, more secular

Article Source Yahoo News

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans who don't affiliate with a particular religion has grown to 56 million in recent years, making the faith group researchers call "nones" the second-largest in total numbers behind evangelicals, according to a Pew Research Center study released Tuesday.

Christianity is still the dominant faith by far in the U.S.; 7 in 10 Americans identify with the tradition. However, the ranks of Christians have declined as the segment of people with no religion has grown, the survey says.

Between 2007 and 2014, when Pew conducted two major surveys of U.S. religious life, Americans who described themselves as atheist, agnostic or of no particular faith grew from 16 percent to nearly 23 percent. At the same time, Christians dropped from about 78 percent to just under 71 percent of the population. Protestants now comprise 46.5 percent of what was once a predominantly Protestant country.

Researchers have long debated whether people with no religion should be defined as secular since the category includes those who believe in God or consider themselves "spiritual." But the new Pew study found increasing signs of secularism.

Last year, 31 percent of "nones" said they were atheist or agnostic, compared to 25 percent in 2007, and the percentage who said religion was important to them dropped.

Greg Smith, Pew's associate research director, said the findings "point to substantive changes" among the religiously unaffiliated, not just a shift in how people describe themselves. Secular groups have become increasingly organized to counter bias against them and keep religion out of public life through lawsuits and lobbying lawmakers.

The growth of "nones" has political significance as well. People with no religion tend to vote Democratic, just as white evangelicals tend to vote Republican. The Pew study found a slight drop — about 1 percent — in the evangelical share of the population, which now comprises a quarter of Americans. But the overall number of evangelicals rose to about 62 million people.

Pew researchers said Christian losses were driven by decreases among mainline, or liberal, Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Mainline Protestants declined by about 5 million to 36 million between 2007 and 2014. Pew found 13 percent of U.S. adults are former Catholics. The study put the number of Catholic adults at 51 million, or just over one-fifth of the U.S. population, a drop of about 3 percent over seven years. In 2007, Catholics made up about one-quarter of Americans.

However, Pew researchers acknowledge those conclusions differ from those of some other major studies that found only slight declines or even a slight uptick in the numbers of Catholics in the last couple of years. Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, which tracks American Catholicism, puts the U.S. adult Catholic population at 61 million.

Regarding other religions, Pew found an increase in membership of non-Christian faiths, driven mainly by growing numbers of Muslims and Hindus. Despite the increase, their numbers remain small. Muslims and Hindus each comprise less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. The number of Jews rose slightly over the period, from 1.7 percent to 1.9 percent of Americans.

Overall, religious groups have become more ethnically diverse along with the broader population. Latinos now comprise one-third of U.S. Roman Catholics, although fewer U.S. Latinos identify as Catholic overall. One-quarter of evangelicals and 14 percent of mainline Protestants are racial minorities. Membership in historically black churches has remained relatively stable over the period.

The survey of 35,000 people, titled "America's Changing Religious Landscape," was conducted in English and Spanish from June 4 through Sept. 30 of last year and has a margin of error of plus or minus 0.6 percentage points.