In order that you, the readers, can draw your own
conclusions here we include the following disclaimer added by the editor
of Blessed Quietness Journal to the
article entitled MIDRASH-The Camel's Nose,
written by Richard Engstrom, soul brother of the author of The Great Dream. You
can read the whole article at: http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/resource/midrash.htm
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Editor-- Blessed Quietness Journal:
Friends: What follows is not a nice way to end an article which
seems to answer many questions regarding the Hebrew Roots Movement, but I
cannot let the thing stand just as I received it. Thus.........
DISCLAIMER!!!!! Richard Engstrom is
the leading guru, along with Dean Flanders who authored "The Great Dream",
and both men are in serious error. Why? They, like Rusous
Rushdoony, will not fellowship with other saints because they claim anyone but
them is apostate. They live on some mountain in Tennessee, where they
appear to be a recluse commune. They call for disciples to come to them,
then they fight with the disciples who do. Strange indeed.
They have a little wine making program,
and they refuse to take counsel on wine bibbing. I find it astounding
that a couple of men who are raging against apostasy are tipping the glass and
exalting it with the old saw of alcohol in biblical wine.
I want you to read the Web page of Messrs.
Engstrom and Flanders at: http://www.apostasynow.com/tgd/index.html
These men have climbed about 75% out of
the Slough of Despond of Charismatic devilment, but they retain tongues
speaking, and Flanders will interpret your dreams as messages from God in the
Daniel model.
Check out our Journal page on "The
Great Dream" to see how Flanders got the gift of tongues and seems to
teach that this gift comes through temporary demon possession and frustration
in the Church.
They told a friend of mine that they go to
a Methodist church sometimes because the dance program is good, and they go to a
Baptist church for some other reason, though they consider both churches
apostate. They send their girls to ballet class, which is an art form
dominated by queers.
Frankly, I have seen this kind of mess a
number of times, and almost every time another doctrine is at work-- The
devilish doctrine of "sinless perfection", in which the groupies
can never sin again, so they hit the holy booze and offend everyone around them
with impunity. Being imperfect yet, not having entirely shucked off the
old man, I feel just a bit resentful at these holiness quacks. Is this not
another doctrine found at the commune up yonder mountain?
Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
So, I have decided to leave the above page
in place. In spite of the dirty tricks of the author, I believe the
content of the above material is useful, but please treat it like the Apocrypha
as to trust.
I have been informed that the Dream Mountain boys have
been getting right in some areas. I would certainly welcome this, and if
I can believe this and hear it from them, I shall remove this disclaimer.
I should be only too pleased to find these guys getting all the way onto
the narrow way.
Editor-- Blessed
Quietness Journal