Melissa Jayne, owner of Brooklyn-based “metaphysical boutique” Catland,
said she has seen a major uptick in interest in the occult in the past
five years, especially among New Yorkers in their 20s. The store offers
workshops like “Witchcraft 101,” “Astrology 101,” and a “Spirit Seance.”
“Whether it be spell-casting, tarot, astrology, meditation and trance,
or herbalism, these traditions offer tangible ways for people to enact
change in their lives,” she said. “For a generation that grew up in a
world of big industry, environmental destruction, large and oppressive
governments, and toxic social structures, all of which seem too big to
change, this can be incredibly attractive.”
When Coco Layne, a Brooklyn-based producer, meets someone new these days, the first question that comes up in conversation isn’t “Where do you live?” or “What do you do?” but “What’s your sign?”
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3,4 (KJV)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jesus is Revelation 3 tells us that the last professing Christian church will be weak and powerless, focused only on money, prestige and material gain. Jesus Himself locked outside the door, and knocking to be let back in. So is it any wonder that millions of millennials are abandoning this pusillanimous Laodicea and seeking answers in the stars and soothsayers? When Antichrist arrives, millennials will flock to him in droves, lapping up his lies like a Starbucks Frappuccino. What’s worse than believing nothing? Believing everything…but Jesus.
Rainbow Pastor David's Note:Before continuing on in this article that is breaking my heart and should be breaking the hearts of TRUE BELIEVERS and FOLLOWERS of JESUS CHRIST, let me give you another scripture to read. People we are living in the days that are described in so much of end time prophesy. For this article however let me point you to Romans 1:18-32, 2:1-29 (MSG):
Ignoring
God Leads to a Downward Spiral
But God’s angry displeasure erupts
as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to
put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open
your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has
created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see:
eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has
a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when
they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized
themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor
direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were
illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole
world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
So God said, in effect, “If that’s
what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in
a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they
traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of
the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
Worse followed. Refusing to know
God, they soon didn’t know how to be human either—women didn’t know how to be
women, men didn’t know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled
one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love {Let me point out here that this was all done in temple worship of the goddess of Fertility "Aphrodite" for the purpose of being blessed by her to have children. Because the Romans did not yet trust in the GOD they had been preached too about, they continued to practice these temple orgies in worship of a FALSE GOD}. And then they
paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and
loveless wretches.
Since they didn’t bother to
acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all
hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing.
They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and
cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers.
Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of
wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid,
slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They
know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse,
they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!
Those
people are on a dark spiral downward. But if you think that leaves you on the
high ground where you can point your finger at others, think again. Every time
you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one.
Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in
your own crimes and misdemeanors. But God isn’t so easily diverted. He sees
right through all such smoke screens and holds you to what you’ve done.
You’re not getting by with anything. Every refusal and avoidance of God adds fuel to the fire. The day is coming when it’s going to blaze hot and high, God’s fiery and righteous judgment. Make no mistake: In the end you get what’s coming to you—Real Life for those who work on God’s side, but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!
If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you’re from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended. But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up. Being a Jew won’t give you an automatic stamp of approval. God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind.
If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you’re doing, that’s a different story entirely. Merely hearing God’s law is a waste of your time if you don’t do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.
When outsiders who have never heard of God’s law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong. Their response to God’s yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman. The Message from God that I proclaim through Jesus Christ takes into account all these differences.
Religion Can’t Save You
It is my mission as a servant of God and Shepard to HIS flock to let ALL MANKIND know that it is the will of GOD that ALL MANKIND know HE IS GOD and HIS SON JESUS is the ONLY WAY to get into HEAVEN. I want more than anything else in my life to convince people that RELIGION will send you straight to HELL. It is time for TRUE BELIEVERS and FOLLOWERS of JESUS to stand up for GOD, walk out of those RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS that are lulling the Children of GOD to sleep as they piper them straight to hell with messages of "FALSE" hope that YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT and still go to Heaven as long as you go to Church as much as you can and give as much as you can to the Church. THAT IS A LIE PEOPLE. CHURCH ATTENDANCE will NOT get you into HEAVEN. GIVING MONEY to the CHURCH will NOT GET you into HEAVEN. Believing in the SON of GOD, JESUS CHRIST will get you into Heaven - Acts 16:31 and Romans 10:9.
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1 Timothy 2:4-7 (MSG) He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.
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If
you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of
your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s
revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest
doctrines! I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have
it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and
out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights
and confused emotions to God. While you are guiding others, who is going to
guide you? I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to
rob people blind? Who would suspect you? The same with adultery. The same with
idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent
talk about God and his law. The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you Jews
that the outsiders are down on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going
to go away. {This is why you see so many "PASTORS" in the news these days for crimes of passion, crimes against children, and crimes involving MONEY because they have chosen to worship money more than GOD "Matthew 6:24"}
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“So many millennials read their horoscopes every day and believe them,” Layne, who is involved in a number of nonreligious spiritual practices, said. “It is a good reference point to identify and place people in the world.”
Interest in spirituality has been booming in recent years while interest in religion plummets, especially among millennials. The majority of Americans now believe it is not necessary to believe in God to have good morals, a study from Pew Research Center released Wednesday found. The percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 29 who “never doubt existence of God” fell from 81% in 2007 to 67% in 2012.
Let the millennials speak for themselves:
This short video, filmed right here in Saint Augustine, shows what millennials actually believe.Meanwhile, more than half of young adults in the U.S. believe astrology is a science, compared to less than 8% of the Chinese public. The psychic services industry — which includes astrology, aura reading, mediumship, tarot-card reading and palmistry, among other metaphysical services — grew 2% between 2011 and 2016. It is now worth $2 billion annually, according to industry analysis firm IBIS World.
Melissa Jayne, owner of Brooklyn-based “metaphysical boutique” Catland, said she has seen a major uptick in interest in the occult in the past five years, especially among New Yorkers in their 20s. The store offers workshops like “Witchcraft 101,” “Astrology 101,” and a “Spirit Seance.”
“Whether it be spell-casting, tarot, astrology, meditation and trance, or herbalism, these traditions offer tangible ways for people to enact change in their lives,” she said. “For a generation that grew up in a world of big industry, environmental destruction, large and oppressive governments, and toxic social structures, all of which seem too big to change, this can be incredibly attractive.”Like the existence of God, however, there’s no actual scientific proof. Astrology has been debunked by numerous academic studies, but Banu Guler, co-founder of artificial intelligence powered astrology app Co—Star said the lack of structure in the field is exactly what drives young, educated professionals to invest their time and money in the practice.
“It’s very different from the way we usually work and live and date, where everything is hyper-mediated and rational,” she said. “There is a belief vacuum: we go from work to a bar to dinner and a date, with no semblance of meaning. Astrology is a way out of it, a way of putting yourself in the context of thousands of years of history and the universe.”
Case in point: Co—Star’s servers were so overwhelmed by demand after it launched on October 12 that the app crashed three times in its first week.
Astrology isn’t the only spiritual field overwhelmed by demand: Danielle Ayoka, the founder of spiritual subscription service Mystic Lipstick, said her customer base is growing exponentially. The self-described astrologer sells a “mystic box” subscription, which includes crystals, “reiki-infused bath salts,” and incense customized to the unique energy of the current moon cycle for $14.99 a month. She says she’s seen 75% increase in her audience in the past year.“When I started my journey in 2010, I was the weirdo,” she said. “Now it is becoming more and more normalized, and I believe it is because more people are looking to heal. Millennials are much more open-minded.”
With this overwhelming demand comes a rise of products claiming metaphysical benefits, not all of which take the cultural context of the occult into account, notes Layne. Urban Outfitters sells sage, a product that has its roots in indigenous cleansing ceremonies, for $18 a pop and a crystal mobile for $32.
“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Revelation 9:20,21 (KJV)
Actress turned CEO Gwyneth Paltrow sells a variety of spiritual wares on her website, many of which are borrowed or “inspired” by other cultures. A jade egg that costs $66 has its roots in ancient Taoist practice. Her $85 “Goop Medicine Bag” is “inspired by the Shaman’s medicine bag from various indigenous traditions,” and a $59 Tarot card deck features “mystical artwork” that mirrors Native American patterns.
But Layne, whose interest in Eastern medicine is rooted in her Taiwanese heritage, said white women are often able to profit from ancient practices that are not theirs to sell.
“It is really important to give credit to who is doing the work,” Layne said. “There is a whole culture of white women who capitalize off of spirituality, but it all comes from people of color. People need to do their homework: being in touch with your spiritual side is a natural, human thing to do. To be able to connect yourself is essential to healing not only your own wounds, but healing together.” source
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