#144 What Christians can learn from the Jim Jones / Jonestown Massacre, with Cultish
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 13 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On November 18th, 1978, where over 900 men, women, and children were poisoned in a mass murder/suicide in South America under the prompting of cult leader Jim Jones. Jeremiah Roberts and Andrew Soncrant of the Cultish podcast join me to reveal some facts about Jonestown you may not have heard before, and talk about why Christians need to be aware of cults, and what we can learn from Jonestown.
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| 0:00.0 | He would do meetings that we would hold people up all night and he would threaten about the runaways how they were people trying to |
| 0:05.9 | Stop what was coming what God was trying to do |
| 0:09.5 | all kinds of |
| 0:11.5 | Insane things if you think about it, but people this is all they knew right and even for news outlet |
| 0:18.2 | Jim Jones was their newscaster so he was taking world news that was going around and he was |
| 0:24.0 | reinterpreting it through his worldview and giving it to them to eat right like we know the Bible is the |
| 0:30.5 | The word of life right like Jesus as man cannot live by bread alone |
| 0:34.2 | But what Jim Jones was giving them every single day was not the word of God. It was poison |
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