An Article Examining the Social Media Schtick Surrounding the Solar Eclipse on April 8th, 2024

SO, THE LATEST TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN has passed without extraordinary incident, as I knew it would — as would any sane disciple of Christ know very well. Just another typical eclipse, as happens regularly across the globe. In fact, confident that this eclipse would pass like any other, I wrote this piece on Saturday, well in advance of this time. If you do not believe that, I had a proofreader checking it over the weekend and you can ask them to prove that too.😊

What an embarrassment it has been to see all these “Christian” types making some big conspiratorial deal out of it. They have been out in force, saying it was tied into some event at CERN in Switzerland (which actually took place on Friday 5thApril, not the 8th, as was claimed), that the eclipse was going to pass over several places called Nineveh and would therefore be of prophetic significance in alignment with Jonah, and then eisegetically quoting Bible texts about “signs in the heavens” as if those texts were referring to this very eclipse. This eclipse has even been tied in with the number 666 in a post I saw on Facebook from a biblical prophecy website which specializes in reading conspiracy and fateful signs into absolutely everything. It was also being claimed by these “Christian” types that this is the first eclipse to be the exact same one as took place in 1776, which of course Americans would think to be highly significant. The similarity was supposed to be in the fact that the eclipse in 1776 was only visible in totality in the USA and they were claiming that this current one was too. But even that is nonsense as this latest eclipse was also visible in Canada and Mexico.

I also saw many who complained that their view of the eclipse was wrecked by all the “chemtrails” which they allege were obscuring the Sun. One conspiracy ruining another! Haha! What nonsense it all is. Yes, yes, my dears, I am well aware that geoengineering experiments have taken place here and there, but that has nothing to do with the utterly nutty idea that commercial aircraft are continually spewing out poisonous clouds all over the globe. When you understand meteorology and know about cloud formations and the way that contrails work, you do not fall for the “chemtrails” scam, which was originally started as a controlled-opposition pseudo-conspiracy on the shill Art Bell Show more than twenty-five years ago. I have seen so many similar nutty claims from “Christians” over the last forty years about some doom-laden eschatological phenomena that I take it all in my stride these days. It is de rigueur in the “Christian” scene today. I remember well when Harold Camping’s Family Radio show famously predicted that the Day of Judgment would occur on or about September 6th, 1994. When that didn’t happen he revised the date to September 29th and then to October 2nd. All rubbish, of course. Then, in 2005, he predicted the Second Coming of Christ would happen on May 21, 2011, with the so-called “Rapture” then occurring. There was more as well. Harold Camping was a false prophet. One of many who have come and gone with their outlandish end-of-world scenario claims. Jesus said that the run-up to the end of this age would be characterised by “false christs and false prophets” (Matthew 24:11,23-24). So many “Christian” types have made whacked-out pronouncements which have been shown to be false. Welcome to the pseudo-conspiracy world of today.

Together with the eclipse nonsense all over social media in the last weeks, all this is precisely the kind of “nutjob conspiracy” scenario to which I was referring in my recent article, “Conspiracy, the New Religion or The Conspiracy Cult”, which you can read here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2024/04/02/conspiracy-the-new-religion-or-the-conspiracy-cult/ ].

Christian Nutjobs

I do not have any hesitation in using that word “nutjob”. Not one little bit. If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, then you can bet your bottom dollar that it’s a duck. If it talks like a nutjob, sounds like a nutjob, makes nutjob claims, and behaves like a nutjob, then it IS, to all intents and purposes, a nutjob. All I am doing is identifying a very common ‘species’ of modern human. Apart from many dyed-in-the-wool so-called “Truthers”, that species also includes loads of professing “Christians”, all of them playing fast and loose with Scripture. Christian nutjobs, latching onto any event and loading it with conspiracy features, finding hyper-satanic-significance in everything (such as the trendy fashionable finger-signs of Hollywood luvvies, as if Satan could give a monkey’s about their stupidity, when his real work is elsewhere), even finding significance in the time of day or night when they happen to glance at a clock (e.g. 11:11, eye-roll!). Plus there is the tendency in these nutjobs to label all showbusiness folks as satan-worshipping adrenochrome-guzzling paedophiles, usually on the slimmest of evidence or none at all, and when I ask them for hard evidence I get accused of aiding and abetting the paedos, for these conspiracy nutjobs are far more interested in crass sensation than in hard evidence, yet a biblical mindset demands that we only make such accusations when we have that hard evidence! It is neurotic, manic hysteria, and I’m fed up to the back teeth with it all, because it not only misleads the naïve sort (of which there are very many today) but it also brings the Gospel into disrepute when Christians engage in it.

The Lack of Maturity and Completeness Through the Rejection of Teaching

This is why maturity is so important for those who profess to be disciples of Christ. As James put it: “Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything” (James 1:4). Mature and complete. How does that rarity actually happen? Through attaching oneself to sound pastors and teachers who deal in healthy teaching. Read Ephesians 4:11-14 carefully. We do not have real New Testament Apostles and Prophets today (as I have explained in my book, “Signs, Wonders and Divine Revelation”, downloadable from here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2023/05/13/new-book-signs-wonders-divine-revelation-the-gifts-of-the-spirit-their-abuses-in-todays-churches/ ), but we do have Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers. As the Apostle Paul shows, Pastors and Teachers are there to guide people into that much-needed maturity. The big problem is that very many supposedly recently converted folks refuse to put themselves under the teaching of sound pastors and just feed each other on the internet with what they claim the Holy Spirit has taught them autonomously. They say: “I don’t need any man teaching me. The Holy Spirit teaches me”. Yet, that must be one of the most ignorant statements ever uttered. For the Holy Spirit uses pastors and teachers to enlighten people about the Scriptures rather than information somehow metaphysically being infused into the brain without the use of the mind (for that would be outright mysticism).

Thus, because their belief-system lacks maturity, stability and solidity and is based primarily on subjectivism (whatever feels right), there is a whole raft of ‘loonie-tunes’ which form the backbone of their faith-beliefs, involving the ascribing of conspiratorial elements to ordinary events (the recent solar eclipse being a classic) and the inappropriate setting up of themselves as teachers (especially the women, for whose rebellion there are clear reasons given in Scripture, as I will show in a soon-to-be-published article, entitled “Confronting the Spirit of Jezebel in the Churches Today”).

A Proper Awareness of the Prophetic Timetable

This recent eclipse debacle proves once again that so many today who profess to be “Christians” seem to have no proper awareness of the prophetic timetable in the run-up to the end of this age. This is not the time for major ‘signs in the heavens’, as they aver. Such massive cosmic portents and omens are what will take place immediately after the great tribulation, close to the return of the Lord Jesus (Matthew 24:29). We are not there yet. Even the believers at Thessalonica had to be reprimanded by Paul in his second letter to them because they had been seduced into believing that the Day of the Lord had already come (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2). It seems that some “conspiracy nutjobs” from Paul’s time had been sending counterfeit messages and/or letters to them purporting to be from Paul (therefore apparently forging his signature) claiming that the Day of the Lord (Christ’s return in judgement) had already happened! He informed them that Day could not come until two events had taken place on the prophetic timetable (see 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4). Those two mighty events are 1) A great apostasy (in fact, THE great apostasy) and 2) The revealing of the “Man of Lawlessness” (plainly, the Antichrist). That prophecy still holds good today.

The Nutjob Fiction of the So-Called “Rapture”

Therefore, the so-called “Rapture”, which so many mesmerized professing Christians claim is next on the prophetic timetable, is a complete fiction by which they have been willingly seduced. Christ does not come twice for His people but once, at the end of this age. It’s called the Resurrection. The “Rapture” — as a pretribulational pseudo-resurrection — is a wholly false teaching, a lie, a hideous besmirchment on the true teaching of the Resurrection of believers. [See my article “The Perturbing Pastoral Implications of the Rapture”, https://diakrisis-project.com/2022/03/09/the-perturbing-pastoral-implications-of-the-rapture/ ]. That is precisely why I have to label such people as “nutjobs”. For this belief is nuts and it’s an affront to the faith, initially dredged up by the founder of the Exclusive Brethren sect, John Darby, in the early nineteenth century and then popularized in the heretical Scofield Reference Bible a century later.

But so many phony bandwagons have hypnotized so many professing Christians these days that this alleged pretribulational “Rapture” has captured their minds with its pseudo-sensationalism. That is what turns them into nutjobs because they spend their whole time waiting for this non-existent “Rapture”, putting rear-window stickers on their cars warning drivers behind not to get too close because of their imminent disappearance from the vehicle, going on about it constantly, as so many do, when we should instead be battening down the hatches and preparing for terrible times coming upon this earth (as clearly prophesied in Scripture), the climax of this evil age, which believers will go through, leading to the formation of a satanically-energized global government under the leadership of the similarly-energized Antichrist and the mass execution of those who expose him and follow Christ — all prior of course to the triumphant return of the Lord Jesus who will “slay [the man of lawlessness] with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival” (2 Thessalonians 2:8).

What Apostasy Really Means

The great apostasy is already well under way and has been building-up for some centuries. The idea of apostasy in this context does not merely refer to professing believers falling away from the faith. It also involves a mass rebellion against Divine law and a resultant all-pervasive, unprecedented moral darkness falling across the face of this earth. This is of serious significance in the moral and spiritual life of humanity. It means an abandonment of faithful allegiance to anything decent, or the renunciation of moral principles, or a complete betrayal of benign religious or spiritual affiliation. An alternative expression would be ‘utter rebellion against all that is good and godly’. To apostatize represents a disintegration of moral and spiritual principles into godless betrayal, dissolution, debauchery, degeneracy and licentiousness. This is precisely what is taking place before our eyes across the globe and was also clearly prophesied by the Lord Jesus (Matthew 24:10-12).

Awareness About Conspiracies is of no Spiritual Significance Whatsoever

Disciples of Christ do not need to get bogged down in ascribing conspiratorial or prophetic elements to every event which happens on earth. It used to be always seeing “reds under the bed” when commies were the bogeymen. Now it is about finding “conspiracies under the bed”. That is nutjob behaviour. One sees it so much as they never stop going on about such things as 5G/6G, chemtrails, ‘communitarianism’ (buzz-word), Pizzagate, the great reset, bla-bla-bla. Even if all their ideas were true, continually posting about them on social media is not going to change anything but is merely a combination of virtue-signalling and mental masturbation. I can assure you that the dark powers are not suddenly going to roll back their agenda because of some critical Facebook posts from fringe personalities! If it is part of the build-up to the end, it is all going to happen anyway. All the posts in the world cannot stop that as evil has to come to its climax in order to be ripe for judgement. In any case, awareness about a plethora of possible conspiracies is not of any spiritual significance whatsoever. In fact, concentrating on them displays a level of instability and neurosis about unchangeable issues which is just not fitting for a disciple of Christ. We, of all people, rather than displaying paranoia and obsession, need to display stability and solidity, reliability, levelheadedness, authority and leadership, with a deep love of truth and logic. Behaving like a hysterical nutjob is not a pretty sight and is not the kind of image which disciples of Christ should be projecting.

A List of Whacked-Out Bandwagons & Pseudo-Conspiracies in the Christian Scene

How can we come across as the sanest and most knowledgeable of all people (which is what we should be) — the very opposite of nutjobs — when we are doing the following:

  • Promoting nutty prophetic notions such as the so-called ‘Rapture’. This essentially teaches two comings of Christ for His people — one before the Great Tribulation and one after. But it is a complete fallacy and can easily be refuted from Scripture. For those who have been conned into believing this, the next item on the prophetic agenda is the Rapture. But Scripture makes it clear that the return of Christ cannot happen until after the great apostasy and the revealing of the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:1-3). The second coming of Christ will involve judgement on the world and not some secret “rapture” (2 Thessalonians 1:5-10), and real disciples of Christ do not escape tribulation (John 16:33). Furthermore, when Paul says that “God has not appointed us to suffer wrath” (1 Thessalonians 5:9), that is not an indicator about avoiding the great tribulation on earth but is about being secured from the Divine judgement. [Please see my full article “The Perturbing Pastoral Implications of the Rapture” by clicking here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2022/03/09/the-perturbing-pastoral-implications-of-the-rapture/ ].
  • Espousing Flat Earth doctrine. So many new converts get inveigled by this sect as they do not have a deep understanding of biblical symbolism or, it seems, logic. I do not even debate with such people as they are intractable and quite vitriolic. It really is like a cult and it brings the Gospel into disrepute. That I should even have to mention it as a bandwagon onto which Christians have climbed is an attestation of the level of nutjobness doing the rounds. I never give such deceived folks the opportunity to tout their doctrine on my pages.
  • Giving unconditional support to the utterly corrupt and counterfeit modern nation-state of Israel. I have refuted these new judaisers and all the “Hebrew Roots” schtick in a very thorough little book, entitled “Abraham our Father: Jerusalem our Mother”, which you will find at this link: https://diakrisis-project.com/2022/12/06/new-entirely-updated-120-page-ebook-abraham-our-father-jerusalem-our-mother/ . I cannot recommend this little book enough because pro-Israel indoctrination and “Christian Zionism” have become de rigueur in the professing Christian scene today and they need vigorously refuting.
  • Ignorantly proclaiming that the King James Version of the Bible is THE one and only Word of God (the KJV-Only Sect). This divisive bandwagon has trashed churches and inveigled many who are not well-versed in Greek and Hebrew. To call the KJV “the actual word of God” and label all other versions as “New Age Versions” involves an astonishing level of ignorance which is hard to beat, especially as the KJV itself has many translation errors or words which just do not work today. I am no fan of many Bible translations but they certainly are not “New Age” and most of them do not have issues which seriously affect the Gospel. This lot fight dirty and have no qualms about lying about those who expose them, as I have discovered over the years. The level of hubris among this sect is breathtaking. Any development which is so rabid and dishonest can only be fomented by one source. Do you really need me to spell it out? Yet another distraction from the real business.
  • Making out as if the Covid vaccine (or some other worldly nonsense) is the ‘mark of the beast’. I have seen this claim many times on social media. So many false claims about the identity of the ‘mark of the beast’. Please read my article about this subject here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2021/12/26/identifying-the-mark-of-the-beast-the-number-666/ . It is also developed in full in my commentary on the Book of Revelation, pages 377-409.
  • Proffering QAnon pronouncements as if they have the divine imprimatur. QAnon is a favourite source for nutjob conspiracy Christians and conservatives. But it is plainly an intelligence network psychological operation dealing in many false prophecies and unfounded claims. The ease with which many “Christians” fall for this is quite shocking.
  • Speaking in gibberish (so-called “tongues”) and blasphemously claiming it as a sign of salvation and of being baptized with the Holy Spirit. There was a ‘gift of languages’ in the Bible, a ‘sign gift’ for the time, real identifiable ethnic languages, not the gibberish gobbledegook uttered by so many today, which is a hideous satanic counterfeit derived from pagan religions. To know more, please read my free book, “Signs, Wonders and Divine Revelation: The Gifts of the Spirit and their Abuses in Today’s Churches”, by clicking here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2023/05/13/new-book-signs-wonders-divine-revelation-the-gifts-of-the-spirit-their-abuses-in-todays-churches/ .
  • Advocating continuous full physical healing and unlimited prosperity for all faithful Christians. Have you ever wondered why all these so-called “healers” in the Charismatic Movement never go into hospitals and morgues? It is because the whole show is a mesmeric illusion which can only be practised in a pre-hypnotic environment. Moreover, the “Prosperity Theology” movement in the church is the direct result of New Thought teachings mingled with sympathetic magic. It mirrors the kind of New Age, Law of Attraction teachings (“Manifesting”) popularised in the book and film, “The Secret”, and espoused by such popular personages as Oprah Winfrey, https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a30244004/how-to-manifest-anything/ . I charted the inception of this movement in the churches via the heretical Korean pastor, David Yonggi Cho, in my book, “The Serpent & the Cross” (1994, available on Amazon). To know more about healing and prosperity theology, please also read my free book, “Signs, Wonders and Divine Revelation: The Gifts of the Spirit and their Abuses in the Today’s Churches”, by clicking here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2023/05/13/new-book-signs-wonders-divine-revelation-the-gifts-of-the-spirit-their-abuses-in-todays-churches/ .
  • Declaring Donald Trump as God’s appointed political saviour of the world. Donald Trump is a misguided charlatan trying to make himself appeal to the Bible Belt. But his type of “Christianity” is the prosperity/healing/charismatic nutjob brand which he imbibed as a kid in Norman Vincent Peale’s church in New York and which is taught variously by his spiritual advisors, such as Paula White and Rodney Howard-Browne. You can read my article about this, entitled “The Cult of Trump & the Demise of Veracity”. It is available for download here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2021/01/20/the-cult-of-trump-and-the-demise-of-veracity/ .
  • Promoting “Slain-in-the-Spirit” shenanigans — that ridiculous falling-down swooning trick practised by nutjob “pastors” who imagine they have spiritual powers (when they only have mesmeric hypnotic abilities). To know more, please download my article, “Falling for the Lie: Charismatic Deception”, which you will find here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2022/08/16/falling-for-the-lie-charismatic-deception/ .
  • Displaying Las Vegas Show style “worship” services. The idea of Divine “worship” today has been reduced to using musical tricks to instill an altered state of consciousness in would-be worshippers through endlessly repeating trite choruses and waving one’s arms about in the air with eyes closed with drums and multi-instrumentation. Congregations cannot now discern the difference between an overdose of endorphins and genuine worshipfulness (which should be ever-present, not just on Sunday morning!). I have documented how this came into being in a little book, entitled “O Lord, Open Our Lips: Church Hymnody and Worship in History & Today, Including an Exposé of the Hidden Agenda Behind the New Style of Worship”, which you can find here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2023/11/07/o-lord-open-our-lips-church-hymnody-and-worship-in-history-and-today-including-an-expose-of-the-hidden-agenda-behind-the-new-style-of-worship/ .
  • Having Women as Leaders and Teachers in the churches. This is not some isolated development which has happened in a vacuum. It is all plainly part of the gathering apostasy (apostasia, rebellion) which was prophesied by the Apostle, Paul, and which includes a multitude of other delusional, trendy bandwagons which have hit the church by way of impostorship and counterfeit during the last century and a half and are now considered to be normative (as listed in brief above). I will be dealing with this particular insurrection of woman leaders and teachers in an upcoming article, entitled “Confronting the Jezebel Spirit in Today’s Churches”, in which I will unearth what the New Testament really teaches on the matter — teaching which was plainly not just for that early church era but for all time until the end of the age.

Is the Church on Crack?

There are many other whacked-out bandwagons and conspiracies which are prevalent in the “Christian” scene today. The recent eclipse debacle is just another one of them. This is why I so often ask the question, “Is the church on crack?” With the exceptions of churches being headed up by sane pastor-teachers, the visible church has largely turned into a nutjob network of sectarians, cultists, cranks, loonies and mesmerized morons.When you point this out and show why, what do you think happens? I’ll tell you what happens. They will not be convicted but they will cling onto their nutjobness and turn on you and try to dig some dirt on you and tell lies about you if they cannot find any. (I speak from mucha experiencia 😊). That alone is a red flag revealing that so many who profess to be “Christians” today are nothing of the sort. It is in name only. They have simply made their own sects and cults behind the skirts of the Church with “Jesus” as a trendy add-on feature. And that is what the visible church consists of in the main today. Is that not a thing of utter astonishment? We are indeed in the throes of the great apostasy.

Putting the Latest Solar Eclipse in its True Perspective

So — all nutjobism apart — just to put the latest solar eclipse in its true perspective, during the 21st century, there are 224 solar eclipses of which 77 will be partial, 72 will be annular, 68 will be total and 7 will be hybrids between total and annular eclipses. A total eclipse is not a “rare event” as keeps being pushed on us in social media and even in general media. For there is a total eclipse somewhere in the world every 18 months. The only reasons that people ascribed the recent eclipse as being of some prophetic significance is because America (where the eclipse was most visible in totality) always thinks of itself as being special (🙄😴) and also because there are so many professing Christian nutjobs and growing more each day as ‘nutjobism’ is more prolific than sanity in today’s world of religious development.

Christian “Nutjobs” Are False Teachers and False Prophets

If you object to me describing people who claim to be Christians as “nutjobs” then see if you can get them to stop behaving like nutjobs! For being a nutjob means that one espouses false teaching and false prophecy. These nutjobs with their whacked-out conspiracies and bandwagons are false teachers and false prophets. That is what makes them nutjobs. That is extremely serious. Being a nutjob “Christian” means that one is publicly lying in the name of Christ, spreading falsehoods and worthless speculation, bearing false witness and hysteria. And yet there are people who object to me using the term “nutjob”! When they repent of their nutjobism then I will stop describing them as nutjobs. If we fail to call them out, then the false teaching and false prophecy will only worsen, as it is doing every day, for mostpeople say nothing because the devil has them by the short and curlies and so many are untaught on a profound level.

We are right now in the midst of the total eclipse (pun intended) of common sense and Christian stability. That is the real conspiratorial eclipse. I refuse to stand by and let that happen any longer. Though I also know that nutjobs have usually gone beyond the point of reason and have generally given themselves over to delusion and the substitution of fact for speculation. When one repeatedly hardens one’s heart against truth, one reaches a point of no return, when the heart is so hard that it is confirmed in that condition for the rest of the person’s life on earth. Basically, God gives them over (thus demonstrating that they were never really His). This will particularly be the case as the time of the end of this age draws near and the majority of the world’s population will have gladly received the Antichrist and believed the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12).

Resolve to Know Nothing Except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified

Obviously, we are called to expose the works of darkness when we are absolutely 100% certain about what those works are and how they impinge on matters of faith. This involves being diligent investigators and profound students of truth. But unfortunately, nutjobs are not in the least bit interested in diligence, profundity or truth. That is why they are nutjobs. So instead of getting bogged down in all the dubious/speculative conspiracy nonsense (much of it propagated by Zionists, controlled-opposition shills, satanic distraction, and untaught neophytes), I suggest following Paul’s dictum: “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). The church at Corinth was crazy mixed-up and “all over the place” in so many ways. So Paul just wanted to major on the centrality of the faith, the cross of Christ. That is what we should do too in the midst of the visible church of today which is also “all over the place” in its teaching and practice. That majoring on the centrality of the faith involves stabilizing oneself in a deep knowledge of the greatest conspiracy of all time: The eviction of Satan from his usurped rulership of the world through God ingeniously tricking him into the act of putting to death the Christ, the Son of the living God, because that was the very means by which the old serpent would be overthrown. Now that is what I call a brilliant conspiracy! So soak yourself in that one instead of all the deviant nonsense which is flooding the churches today.

The Four Main Kingpins of Our Faith

For once, let’s get serious about the four main kingpins of our faith: Truth, theology, integrity and objective reality. Do you know why Jesus said that it is only comparatively “few” people who find the narrow gate and follow the afflicted way which leads to life (Matthew 7:14)? Have you ever thought about the significance of that word “few” (Greek: oligos)? For it is a slap in the face of the ludicrous prevalent fantasies about “global revival” and the “Christianizing” of the world which so many imagine to be imminent. It is “few” who find the narrow gate and stick with the afflicted way which lead to life because the vast majority of humans (and even the majority of professing “Christians“) are not remotely interested in those above four faith-kingpins of truth, theology, integrity and objective reality, preferring instead their collective delusions (bandwagons and shibboleths), alleged personal revelations, and very superficial subjective experience as the litmus tests of their faith.

It is that which has brought about the total eclipse of common sense and Christian stability. And that is the real eclipse which one should be concerned about rather than the hyped-up solar one which took place on the 8thApril 2024.

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{Coming next: “Confronting the Spirit of Jezebel in the Churches Today”}

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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2023
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