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and make it really hot! Get the best meat;
go down to the kosher butcher and get the
best stuff and throw it in.
The Contrast to Elisha’s Pot
In the days of Elisha there was the toxic
stew, there was poison in the pot (2 Ki.
4:38-41). Elisha was able to throw grain
into the poison stew. He was able to put
grain into the poison pot and the grain was
able to absorb the toxins. Right doctrine
will clean up false doctrine. Grain can be
put into the poison stew—right doctrine
will correct wrong doctrine.
In Pentecostalism, the Azusa Street Revival
went off the rails at a very, very early
point, but another generation of Pentecostals
came around and began bringing in
right doctrine and straightening it out, from
which we got the Assemblies of God and
such. (Not the way they are now, but the
way they were at one time.) People began
putting grain into the poison stew. Unfortunately
this never happened in the Charismatic
Movement; there was very little right
doctrine put into it and that is why it has
never brought a revival. The poison can be
cleaned up with the grain; the toxins can be
removed from the stew with the grain. But
now it is a situation where it is not the content
of the pot that is poisoned, it is the pot itself.
We have a remedy for the poison in the pot,
but there is no remedy for a corroded pot.
Modern Examples
One example is the Assemblies of God
in which people tried in recent history to set
things right. There were people like Opal
Redding, Larry Thomas and even David
Wilkerson who were trying to warn the Assemblies
of God 25-30 years ago that there
was poison in the pot and that they needed to
get right doctrine in there. We are way past
that today. Since the Pensacola garbage, the
pot is poisoned; now it is unsalvageable. No
amount of good is going to remedy it. God
says, “Put in the choice meat, the best meat
you can get, but it is still going to come out
poisoned.” There is no amount of “good”
that can be put into an utterly backslidden
movement or denomination or church that
is going to change it. On the contrary, they
come under the judgment of God. When
they chronically refuse to repent, God turns
up the heat and makes it worse; He makes
them even more depraved.
Today it is not just liberal Protestants
compromising on same-sex marriage, we
have Tony Campolo and others compromising
on the homosexual issue; now we
have Evangelicals doing it! This is but one
example. Abortion will be next. “What
about the good things?” No amount of good
is going to change it anymore. No amount
of good is going to save the Assemblies of
God. This is but one example.
My fear is that when Chuck Smith is not
around anymore, Calvary Chapel is going
to go the same way. We do not see it
so much because Chuck is here, but there
are Calvary Chapels going away from the
original teachings of Chuck Smith and
company and it is getting weird already.
It is like what John Wesley said to the
Methodists: “If this is what they are doing
when I’m alive, what are they going to do
when I’m dead?” They are going the same
way. They have divorced and remarried
men in the ministry and all sorts of stuff.
It gets to the point where God says, “Turn
up the heat!” There is nothing we are going
to be able to do because it becomes
unsalvageable; no amount of good is going
to change it anymore. In Great Britain,
the Evangelical Alliance cannot be saved.
But it is not only like that, but God makes
it like that; He gives it over to it. According
to 2 Thessalonians, He makes it more like
that (2 Th. 2:11-12). He says, “Go ahead;
try to put good stuff into it and see what
comes out.” It does not matter how good
the meat is, even if it is the best of the best,
it is coming out contaminated.
No Amount of Good Will Help
“Oh, but what about all the people being
saved?” Being saved into what? A lunatic
asylum? Jesus said to make disciples, not
converts (Mt. 28:19). No good is going to
come out of it. We can put good into it, but
it is not going to come out good. What does
Jesus say in Matthew 23? They go to the
ends of the earth to make one convert and
he becomes twice as much a son of hell as
he used to be (Mt. 23:15). He might have
been alright when he went in, but he is no
good when he comes out.
No amount of good is ever going to
change a cult. It does not matter how much
good, how much truth, one tries to put into
it anymore. Anybody and anything that
goes in good is going to come out bad because
the pot itself is corroded; the pot itself
will poison the meat. It is no longer the
content of the pot that is poisoned, it is the
pot, and it reaches a point where God says,
“Turn up the heat! I’ll make it ever worse!
You didn’t want to clean this stuff up? I told
you to clean this stuff up!”
God always warns them. Israel had multiple
prophets before Ezekiel. Up north
there was Amos and Hosea, down south
there was Micah, Isaiah, Joel and Jeremiah—there
were many before Ezekiel. God
warned them.
I can go back and show warnings which
were written in the 1950s, 60s and 70s by
people like Martin Lloyd Jones in England,
Francis Schaffer in the United States, and
A. W. Tozer, all giving warnings in decades
previous that would have seemed impossible—unthinkable—at
the time when they
wrote it, but it happened. Over a hundred
years ago, Charles Spurgeon warned what
would happen to the Baptist Union in Britain.
Over a hundred years ago, J. C. Ryle
warned what would happen to the evangelical
branch of the Church of England. It is
documented. These organizations do not
want to sell these men’s books anymore;
they are right and they are proven right,
the same as Micah was proven right, the
same as Isaiah was proven right, the same
as Joel was proven right. They were proven
right, but the people still chose to follow
liars. That is what happened in the last days
of Judah and that is what happens again in
the Last Days: the situation becomes unredeemable.
They go beyond the point of no
return and God says, “Turn up the heat!”
That has happened to the Assemblies
of God; that has happened to every major
denomination in the United Kingdom. And
if something does not happen quickly, it
is only a matter of time before it happens
to Calvary Chapel. Even though there are
good people and good pastors in it, the
movement as a whole is going away from
their heritage and what they were taught.
The Inevitability
“I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming
and I will act…
It does not matter if we believe it or not.
Look at what they say today as they psychologize
the Church: “That is negative, I
don’t receive it.” It is like witnessing to an
unsaved person. We can tell them the Gospel,
tell them about judgment, and they say, “I
don’t believe it.” It does not matter whether
they believe it or not; its being true does not
depend on whether or not they believe it.
A medical doctor tells someone, “You’ve
got to quit smoking.” “I don’t believe it.”
“Here is the x-ray showing bilateral plural
carcinoma.” “I don’t believe it.” It does not
matter whether they believe it or not, it is
irrelevant. If an alcoholic is so addicted to
booze they get sclerosis, it does not matter
whether they believe it or not. They are
going to reject the truth because God has
given them over to the error.
“…I will not relent, and I will not pity
and I will not be sorry; according
to your ways and according to your
deeds I will judge you,” declares the
Lord GOD.’ ” (Eze. 24:14)
Remember, it is always in accordance
with their deeds. If someone wants false
prophets, God will send them false prophets.
Until now we have been speaking about
what is happening in the evangelical move-
Moriel Quarterly • June 2012