The Discerning Times

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But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, "Let God be exalted!" (Psalm 70:4)

A Mother's Love

A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away . . .
It is patient and forgiving
when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
even though the heart is breaking . . .
It believes beyond believing
when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
of the rarest, brightest gems . . .
It is far beyond defining,
it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
like the mysteries of creation . . .
A many splendored miracle
man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God's tender guiding hand.

                              --by Helen Steiner Rice


How sad it is when mothers do not love. How sad when they use and abuse their children...when they condone inappropriate or even criminal behavior.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. (1 Corinthians 13:6)

 

More Tears and Hissy Fits

“I want my own way and if I don't get it I throw a hissy fit.” – Athena Dean, 2005

This is one reason why it was a real pleasure to read The Sociopath Next Door. It explained so much of what Athena Dean put us all through.

Of course, as the author wrote, most people do not find out that they’re being used and abused until their livelihoods are gone. As many have noticed, Athena Dean sure can turn the tears on and off to fit her desires. Why she could likely win an Oscar!


“Since the scaffolding of a life without a conscience is deception and illusion, intelligent sociopaths often become proficient at acting, and even at some of the particular techniques employed by professional actors.

Crocodile tears at will are a sociopathic trademark ...Crocodile tears from the remorseless are especially likely when a conscience-bound person gets a little too close to confronting a sociopath with the truth. A sociopath who is about to be cornered by another person will turn suddenly into a piteous weeping figure whom no one, in good conscience, could continue to pressure.”

                         -- The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, PH.D.

 

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. (Isaiah 5:20)

 

Buckets of Tears

America witnessed an emotional appeal from the president right before the election. Some claim this was just a ploy to gain more votes. In any case, he won. 

Actually, some individuals and families are known to cry buckets of tears – all to manipulate for their own selfish gain.

Buckets of tears around town.

Buckets of tears in front of police.

Buckets of tears on TV.

And so it goes...

Buckets of tears – turned on and off – at just the right time...and the money, the support and the manipulated sympathy roll in all to sell a game of hatred.

Just cry, cry and cry some more – if you want the money to pour in.

Athena Dean is an expert at crying as she plays on the emotions of others for money, for support and to sway opinions. We, who suffered under her manipulations for years, finally ignored it. 

True to her pattern, our friendship was used and abused by Athena Dean too many times to count. After all, she herself admits so.

“It became easy for me to use and abuse my relationships in the church to get where I wanted to go.” – Athena Dean, 1996

But know this: difficult times will come in the last days. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power. Avoid these people! For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions, always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7)

 

The New Leper & the Idiot

“Who would need to be notified? What would the parents of young children say if they knew? Would there be a mass migration out of the congregation? Might it even cost a pastor his job? In almost every scenario, the quickest and easiest thing to say is, ‘Thank you for coming by, but I think you’d be happier at the church on the other end of town.’

“But when church leaders pick and choose which sinners are welcome and which aren’t, they may be unknowingly making statements about their beliefs and their communities. “God can forgive my sin, but not yours.” – Modern-Day Lepers, Ministry Today Magazine Summer 2010 Issue

Just like the self-centered, self-righteous Pharisee who boasted of his own “righteousness,” there are some who refuse to repent of their own sins and thus offer forgiveness to others. This baffles me!

The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: 'God, I thank You that I'm not like other people--greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. (Luke 18:11)

From comparing Timothy Williams to Hitler to now calling him an idiot, Athena Dean and family just can’t seem to stop their pattern of abuse.

Apparently, according to Athena Dean and gang, Timothy Williams is now an idiot for offering repentance to sinners. Of course the lepers of today are sex offenders, that is why Athena Dean, who worked as a “counselor” in this area, knows precisely how to frame this lie and form a lynch mob to further her own agenda.

This is exactly what takes place among so-called believers according to Ministry Today. Modern-Day Lepers details what happens when repentant sex offenders want to join a congregation. Here’s an excerpt from the Ministry Today, Summer 2010 article by Sylvia Peterson of Yelm, Washington:

“...Statistics regarding sex offender recidivism don’t necessarily warrant the degree of fear often found in local communities. Citizens are usually surprised to hear that the rearrest rates for nonviolent drug and property crimes are twice those for sexual crimes...

...Not all sex offenders reoffend, and those who are the least likely to do so are those who have experienced the accountability, love and support of a Christian community. Although integrating them into the church can feel initially risky, there may be greater risks in turning them away.

The gospel is clear in its mandate. At no time does Jesus ever suggest that any are beyond His Father’s love, grace and redemptive powers. Throughout the New Testament, even notorious sinners are given the opportunity to walk the holy path of regeneration and healing.”

Only a self-righteous church, which clearly needs some repentance would suggest anything else -- let alone attack someone for first bringing an offender out into the Light to work healing for everyone. To state otherwise is to blaspheme against Jesus Christ and why He died on the cross!

According to Athena and Ailen Dean, Jesus was an idiot for forgiving the thief on the cross (Luke 23:42-43). No wonder God said not to associate with such individuals!

Paul was no idiot when he preached “Be reconciled to God” in 2 Corinthians 5:20. How dare someone calling themselves a Christian today say, “Be reconciled to God, but not here at our church because we are not like that.”

And, just for the record, Timothy Williams would NEVER harbor a sex offender. Athena and Ailen Dean know this full well, thus use other people to market such lies. Likewise, the Dean family is quite aware that Timothy Williams lives the following verse:

Follow justice and justice alone, (Deuteronomy 16:20a)

In fact, this is exactly why they now attack in ways so unloving. It only reveals what fruit they produce.

Looking forward to the near future when true justice is served!

What Others Want to Hear

People speak what they think others want to hear, and Athena Dean has set out to market such lies. This is exactly what she has always done from her days in Scientology to her charity trash bag fraud.

Athena Dean attempts to use the press for her own selfish gain. At least that is what Athena Dean writes and speaks of what she likes to do.

“My besetting sins that need to be watched for are (as everyone well knows!):

1) selfish ambition, desiring recognition...seeking honor for myself rather than giving glory to God." -- Athena Dean, 2005

Unscrupulousness individuals "research" for any information that they can spin for their own personal gain, while the professional determines who the real sociopath is and who the unprofessional journalist is.

“Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice." (John 18:37)

Watch this video !

Lies to Promote

People lie to promote themselves. As Athena Dean states, she is an expert at lying and loves to do so.

This is why Athena Dean had to leave WinePress. She grew tired of others putting a stop to her unethical selling. Goodness, there is only so many times that a company can tolerate lawsuit threats because Athena Dean refused to be honest. After all, being honest requires hard work.

“I have made promises over and over again that have ended up costing WinePress money.” –Athena Dean, 2005

Watch this video !

Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." (1 Corinthians 15:33)

Mob of Hatred

"My besetting sins that need to be watched for are (as everyone well knows!):  ...pushiness, salesmanship (ugh!)...dripping until I get my way and making my agenda sound like a good one!" 
– Athena Dean, 2005

For months, Athena Dean has attempted to create a mob of hatred toward Sound Doctrine Church, and this video shows why she thought inflaming crimes against others would work.

This is why God warns against following the crowd and doing wrong.

Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." (1 Corinthians 15:33)

Athena Dean drove around town for months attempting to stir up crowds. Not content to stop there, she continues to viciously slander the innocent on the internet in order to ruin many individuals. All because her self-confessed, sociopath, crocodile-tear crying, "Give me money!" can only be gained by abusing others.

This is why Jesus said, “Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice." (John 18:37)

Watch the video !

Use, Abuse, Manipulate and Lie

“It became easy for me to use and abuse my relationships in the church to get where I wanted to go.” – Athena Dean, 1996

“Without becoming a high-pressure, arm-twisting kind of salesperson, you can subtly get your customer doing what you want him to do. These gimmicks are nothing less than manipulation and witchcraft.” – Athena Dean, 1996

"The truth is, I've destroyed every close relationship I've ever had in my life because I'm a bully, a manipulator, a liar, a user, and completely arrogant. No wonder I've always gravitated to business and excelled there, because I never have to get close enough to people for them to see the real me. ...I am truly, no better than a man who calls himself a Christian and is well respected by all, who secretly beats his wife and kids at home behind close doors." – Athena Dean, 2011

Because Athena Dean was so loved at Sound Doctrine Church she must now attack with a foaming, rabid mouth. Athena Dean knows – and I can testify – that Sound Doctrine Church experiences some of the deepest aspects of love given by the Holy Spirit. But how could it be otherwise when those who pick up their cross in truth are filled with God's love?

Then He said to them all, "If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.  (Luke 9:23)

Because the words of Jesus are naturally offensive to your sin, Athena Dean is more than happy to let the offense of the cross create a lynch-mob mentality – a classic witch hunt.

 

Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.  (Galatians 5:11)

But for those who are willing to think – and not become Athena Dean's gullible pawns in her wicked game – below is a link to an excerpt of Hating for Jesus.

Hating for Jesus remains a book that will change your life forever – if you let it. In no way, shape or form does it promote a hatred of others, but rather is completely about loving God and others.

It shows us how to love as it gently points us to God, the source of perfect, holy love that we might become people who love Him, our children and our neighbor as ourselves that we might all be brothers – if we allow God to pour His love through us. In doing so, the deeper our love for God and each other will grow.

Hating for Jesus is not a matter of going up to someone and slapping him in the face. Hating for Jesus is not the worldly kind of hate in which you seek to destroy someone else. It is about loving as Jesus loves the church.

There is no better way to love than to love with God’s love – indeed, a river of love wells up. Hating for Jesus reminds us that we must rely on God’s love rather than our own ability and wisdom to love others and to make room for God to fill us with Himself and His pure love – and that’s in the Bible:

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.  (1 John 4:16 NIV)

You see, we cannot see His love or show love apart from God. Through Him we might come to really love one another according to God’s will and be filled with the fruit of God’s love – in short, be given the power to love. Even Paul said that nothing good lived in him.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.  (Romans 7:18)

Taking all Scriptures into account, Hating for Jesus, simply directs us to God so that only His love and life remain in us.

As you can see, you have been lied to on a massive scale by Athena Dean and her hate-filled lynch mob that she uses to help market her lies. Do not be taken in by her betrayal and hatred.

Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.  (Matthew 24:10)

  

Download an excerpt from Hating for Jesus, available here.