Los Angeles was once a great center of Christianity and revival. At one time there were several old-time Methodist churches here in downtown L. There were great moves of revival. In people stood for hours on the street in downtown L. This was an echo of the Welsh revival in Britain. Torrey came to downtown Los Angeles and built the great Church of the Open Door, right here on Hope Street, next door to the downtown library, up the street. Even as late as there were so many Christians in L.
What happened? Christians moved out of the city. Evangelism dried up. The churches became cold. Los Angeles died spiritually. The Devil took over. And most young people like you feel it - the aching loneliness of this dying city. Community life is gone. The home is gone. The family unit is divided. Friends disappear after graduation. People don't seem to care about you. You go to a movie. There's a big crowd of people - but you still feel alone.
You go to a mall. You're surrounded by hundreds of people - but you still feel alone. You go to a dance or a "rave. You can't seem to escape the loneliness in the. Isn't that right? Isn't that the way you feel? You know it! But there is a way out! God says, "Come out of Babylon.
Come out of this city. Come out of her, my people. Now, that doesn't mean you should literally leave the city physically. You can't do that. No matter how far away you travel, you really can't escape from L. The tentacles of the city stretch out to suck you in no matter how far away you go. You could move way out to Colorado - but the tentacles of L. Like the tentacles of a monstrous octopus, the tentacles of L. The tentacles of video, and movies, and drugs, and loneliness, and sin, reach far out from Hollywood and Vine - to the ends of the earth.
You can't escape L. When I was a small boy my mother took me away from it to Arizona for a few years. But L. We couldn't escape from the city of the damned, the city of the dead. After we were pulled back here, I dreamed of escaping back to Arizona, or Texas, or some better place than this dirty, dark and lonely Hell-hole of a city. But then I became a Christian. Christ flooded my life with hope and joy. I didn't need to run away from the city.
The city of the dead and the damned became for me the city of God! God meant that I should cut off my allegiance to the world and come inwardly to Christ. That's what He meant when He said, "Come out of her, my people"!
Christ draws us out of the world. He draws us to Himself, away from the city of the damned. We are no longer citizens of Los Angeles. Our citizenship is in Heaven with Christ! But then Christ sends us back - to the city of the damned to rescue others.
Christ said to God,. And that's why we went out to the colleges and malls, and streets and invited you to come to church this morning. Christ sent us out onto the streets of the city of the damned to bring you into the warmth and happiness of this local church. We went out to rescue you from the city of the dead. Christ said to us,. Satanists from around the world gathered in Hollywood for a mass to mark June 6, , or "," and to mock fears over the date known by dark believers as the number of the beast.
The sold-out evening high mass also commemorates the anniversary of the organizing group, the Church of Satan, founded by Anton Szandar La Vey in who was dubbed "the black pope" by the press. The mass, an original three-act dramatic ritual, will be celebrated in a theatre with a telephone prefix of by Bryan Moore and Heather Saenz, married suburbanite Satanic priests and parents.
But Satanists say they actually have no regard for the number. Some believers though have tried to time childbirth with the date, and some of the superstitious have attempted to delay deliveries to avoid it, according to Gilmore's comments posted on the church website. La Vey appeared in the Roman Polanski film "Rosemary's Baby" as Satan himself, but maintained up until his death in that church members were just "iconoclasts and pranksters," and called Satanism a "cosmic joy buzzer.
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The pictures will be changed shortly. Welcome to Los Angeles, the city of angels and, well, apparently a hell of a lot more. Los Angeles, is the devils play ground, as some would put it.
It is crawling with demons, lycans, and even vampires! The only thing stopping them are the few hunters and angels that have the guts to stand up to them.
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