Somerset, Texas Area Wolf Hunters of the Thirties Bernard Pyron Robert Gaddy Baucom, pastor of the South San Antonio Baptist Church, was a regular at the campfires of the Somerset "Wolf Hunters" back in the thirties. Baucom even had his own dogs which he brought out on Saturday nights to join with the hounds of others. Baucom, or, as the coyote hunters called him "The Preacher," had a Model A truck which was equipped to hold several of his hounds - and he had built along the sides of the back shelves and cupbords like in the old chuck wagons the cowboys of the open range used. Baucom would arrive in the Somerset area on a Saturday night before dark with his rig and park it at our house near town. Then Baucom would walk up Somerset Road to the Will Kenney grocery store where my Father and brother Grorge worked. When my Father Blake Pyron and my older brother George got off from work after dark on a winter night, they would head out to the Quesenberry, the Ballard, or wherever the group was going that night. Baucom dressed in cowboy outfits and wore cowboy boots sometimes when he preached. He was one of the older Southern Baptist Preachers, who was more like George W. Truett than W.A. Crisswell. See: http://www.time.com/…/magazine/article/0,9171,757026,00.html "A wet, grey dawn was breaking over Texas last week when a strapping, six-foot figure in cowhand clothes strode out on the 80,000-acre Storey Ranch near Cotulla. The hard-preaching, hard-riding pastor of South San Antonio's First Baptist Church, Reverend Robert Gaddy Baucom, faced an impressive, tensely quiet assemblage. Lined up in front, 257 eager hounds strained at their leashes. At one side a Master of Hounds and twelve field judges sat their horses. Behind the dogs ranged 150 other mounted Texans, more than 1,000 in automobiles and trucks of every size and shape. Hats went off, heads were bowed as Brother Baucom boomed a prayer. Master of Hounds John Aiken Rowan raised a Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began the 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history." Most likely. the Texas steer horn that was blown was from a longhorn like the ones that my father,uncle and older bother used in the thirties to call in their hounds Bringing out a little of the history and flavor of running hounds after coyotes in the South Texas Brush County almost 80 years ago is interesting to me because of the contrast between that culture of "Wolf Hunting" and present day American culture. The old "Wolf Hunters" of the thirties in South Texas would be seen as rednecks, like the guys with the long beards of Duck Dynasty who interestingly promote duck hunting and their leader Phil Robertson is a preacher - as a long bearded duck hunter. But there was something subtle about the "Wolf Hunters" love of being able to tell what was going on in the chase out in the brush from the barking of the hounds. And its interesting that the 17 year old who kept the journal and was on the hunts himself became a local store owner. He was my brother, but was 13 years older than me. Excerpts From George Pyron's Journal of Wolf Races, 1934-35: "November 30, 1934 - Caught one wolf in south-east part of Ballard pasture. Ran one hour and fifteen minutes. Caught two more in McDonald's pasture, first one in two hours, second one two and a half hours.About 45 dogs. S. Guynes, Ed Pakowitz, Woods, Jasper Newman, McKon brothers. Pep and three others caught in traps. "January 26, 1935 - Went to pasture below Woods and heard wolves howl in Byrom's pasture. Drove up road and Jerry and Dixie jumped hot and Jack and Pep trailed to Ballard and came back to the others. Ran about forty five minutes and house dogs broke up the race. Beulah and Mack jumped another and ran an hour, and Jerry got caught in a trap and broke race up. Beulah and Smut and Mack trailed and jumped another one. About 2: 30 A.M. caught in Ballard." "February 2, 1935 - Went to Ballard and Jack, Beulah, Queen, Pep and Smut jumped and ran for three hours and out of hearing. Finally located them in lower Ballard and turned young dogs loose. Ran back toward Wilson's goat proof fence." I have tried to find where what George calls the Ballard was located. It was probably in northern Atascosa county and probably a large tract of land. But its been a long time since 1934 and 1935. I remember my father, Blake Pyron, Uncle Casey Pyron and George talking about hunting in the Ballard. I might have even been there when I was four or five years old. Several times in the thirties, probably about 1935 and 1936, my Father, and George would be gone almost all night on a Saturday night coyote hunt in the Black Jacks, and then on Sunday Daddy would drive back down there to try to find hounds which had not come to the camp when they were called in by their blowing of the wolf horn. I often went along in the Model A and have a vague memory of one or two lands down there at that time. But I do not remember where these tracts of land were in relation to what was then called the Rossville Road, the Old Box School House or Atascosa Creek. Photos of Somerset Area Wolf Hunting:

 

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: Chairs of His Ward Willits House of 1902
Bernard Pyron

 

In the summer of 1961 I acquired three Ward Willits high back dining
room chairs, a high back with arm rests, a low back chair and the
Willits dining room table. I was selling pottery at an art fair in
Highland Park, Illinois when a lady came up and talked with me about my pottery.
She invited Clay Bailey and I to her house and gave us each one of the
Willits high back chairs. That summer Bailey traded me his high back
for a Willits lounge chair. Mrs Posner said that in the fifties the
owners of the Willits house threw out the Wright designed chairs and
tables and she got them or some of them. The house of Mrs Posner was
also by Wright, a few blocks closer to Lake Michigan than the Willits
house. .

The following quote on a Ward Willits high back chair in the St Louis
Art Museum is from:
http://www.stlouis.art.museum/index.aspx?id=139&obj=27 Decorative
Arts and Design Frank Lloyd Wright , American , 1867 - 1959:

Dining Chair designed c.1903 56 x 17 1/16 x 18 3/16 in. (142.2 x 43.4
x 46.2 cm) oak with replacement synthetic leather upholstery Funds
given by the Decorative Arts Society 239:1977 probably made by John W.
Ayers, American, 1850 - 1914 One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St.
Louis, MO.

 

​I Photographed This Willitts High Back of mine In 1977 On Langdon Street In Madison

In 1977 Lyn Springer of the Museum came from St Louis to Madison to get it from me.

The following on the sale of another identical Ward Willits high back
dining room chair at Christie's to Tomas Monaghan, owner of Domino's
Pizza is from: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/frank_lloyd_
wright/index .html?offset=190&&& CULTURAL DESK | December 15, 1986
1901 Chair by Wright Sold for Record Price: A high-backed oak dining
chair designed in 1901 by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Ward Willits
house in Highland Park, Ill., has been sold at Christie's for a record
price at auction for a 20th-century chair and for any architectural
design object by Wright, ''I've been a Frank Lloyd Wright fanatic
since I was 12 years old,'' Thomas Monaghan said after he bought the
spindle-backed chair for $198,000 on Friday. Mr. Monaghan, chairman
and owner of Domino's Pizza Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich., acquired the
chair, he said, for the National Center for the Study of Frank Lloyd
Wright, which he is building in Ann Arbor. Mr. Monaghan also owns the
Detroit Tigers baseball team. The chair sold for three times the
expected price and well above the previous high for any
architectural fitting or furnishing by Wright.

On Clayton Bailey's web site: http://www.claytonbailey.com/bettydrawflw.htm
"Frank Lloyd Wright designed this chair in 1901 Watercolor on Paper by
Betty G. Bailey 14" x 20." "Clayton and a friend found a dining set of
Frank Llyod Wright furniture from the Ward Willits house in the
basement of another Wright house in Chicago. Our friend bought the set
of 8 chairs and oak table and Clayton was given this chair for helping
the friend move the set from Chicago to Madison, Wisconsin. We enjoyed
living with the chair for 40 years, and recently sold it in a
Christies auction." I wonder who that 'friend" could have been? Betty
Bailey had it partly right. But the first time Bailey and I were at
the Wright designed home of Mrs. Posner she gave each of us a high
back chair. Later in the summer of 1961 Bailey and I were back in the
north Chicago area for another art fair and I bought from Mrs Posner
the Willitts dining room table, another high back chair, that high
back with the arm rests we called the Papa Bear chair, and the low
back chair we called the Jestor's chair.

 

This Is A Photo Clayton Bailey Took And Sent To Me of His ChairThe Willits Lounge Chair I traded To Clayton Bailey For One of the Willits High Back Dining Room Chairs

 Clayton Bailey's Chair At Christie's

​Bailey's Willits lounge chair was sold at auction inDecember of 2001 by Christie's for $110,000 (also shown as $127,000). On page 75 Thomas A.
Heinz in his 1994 book Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiors and Furniture
shows a color photo of a Ward Willitts house living room chair
identical to the one above that Clayton Bailey owned from 1961 until
2001. The photo is by him.

Beth Cathers,of a New York art gallery, told me that the market was off for that December 2001 sale. Maybe it was too close in time to 911.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LotDetailsPrintable.aspx?intObjectID=3828630

CHRISTIE'S
"AN IMPORTANT OAK SPINDLED ARMCHAIR FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, EXECUTED BY
JOHN W. AYERS. CO. FOR THE WARD W. WILLITS HOUSE, HIGHLAND PARK,
ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1901

Price Realized $127,000

PROPERTY BELONGING TO CLAYTON AND BETTY BAILEY Provenance Ward W. Willits
Dr. and Mrs. Poser, owners of Frank Lloyd Wright's Mary Adams house,
Highland Park, Illinois, 1905
Bernard Pyron

 

Christie's has a link to the December 2001 sale of Clayton Bailey's
Ward Willits arm chair, with information on the chair, and a good
photo of the chair. See:

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=3828630

 I  do not know where the Ward Willits original dining room table
went after it was given to Homer Fieldhouse, a Madison landscape
architect. I acquired the table along with the five Willitts House chairs
in the summer of 1961. Homer Fieldhouse of Madison, Wisconsin traded
or gave it to Robert
Graves, a son of Wright's caretakers of Taliesin. Robert Graves sold
the table in the eighties to Scott Eliott of Chicago who soon sold it
to Daniel Wolf of NY. There
the trail of the table grew cold. I had thought Daniel Wolf was a NY
art gallery but apparently the gallery sold only photos.

 

  Two of My Chairs From the Willitts House.  We called the one with the arm rests the "Poppa Bear Chair."

The Chair On the Right Is My High Back Willits Chair With Arm Rests that I Sold To the High Museum In Atlanta in 1979. Beside It Is One of the Three High Backs Without Arm rests.

 These are two Ward Willits chairs that I owned from 1961 until 1978 and 1979. The high back chair without arm rests is one ofthree I had then. I sold the high back chair that had arm rests to the Atlanta Art Museum.

 Remember that I sold one of the three high back chairs without arm rests to the St Louis Art Museum in 1977. A second high back just like it was sold to theMetropolitian Art Museum in 1978. The high back chair with arm restswas sold to the Atlanta Art Museum in 1979. A third high back chair without arm rests was sold to an unknown private collector in 1979.

​ Side View of My Low Back Willitts Chair

​

  Front View of My Low Back Willitts Chair

 

The Willits Low-Back Chair above is Identical to the high backs but
not as tall. It was sold to Beth Cathers in 1985. The New York Art Gallery Beth Cathers was associated with sold the chair to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

 This Willits low back chair was instorage in an apartment building on Madison's near east side and was taken in the summer of 1971 apparently by a renter who left it in theapartment house. Another renter who found it in the apartment sherented took it with her when she moved out. I got it back from her in 1985.

​ My Three High Back Willitts Dining  Room Chairs Outside In 1965 at 525 West Washington, Madison, Wisconsin

​

Me With the Willitts High Back Chairs On Langdon Street In Madison In 1977.

 On the Fulfillment of II Timothy 3: 1-7 In the Counterculture and the
II Timothy Church
Bernard Pyron

The text reads as follows:

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from
such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive
silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

Social scientists and others have tried to describe the selfishness
of the followers of the counterculture that emerged in the sixties. It is
interesting that the 17 personality traits listed in II Timothy 3: 1-7
line up fairly well with many of their descriptions. The 17 traits are
listed below:

l. "Lovers of their own selves." In Verse 2 the Greek word translated
as lovers of their own selves is philautoi.

Social scientists Hendin,
Lasch and Yankelovich said that people in the New Culture show a great
deal of self-peoccupation. They also place much importance on
attaining self-esteem.

Herbert Hendin. The Age of Sensation, 1975.

Christopher Lasch. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life In An Age
of Diminishing Expectations, 1978.

Daniel Yankelovich. New Rules: Searching for Self-Fulfillment In A
World Turned Upside Down, 1981.

2. "Covetous." The three social scientists did not list this trait
for those in the New Culture, but many in that culture are covetous
and money loving.

3. "boasters, proud." In verse 2 alazones, or boasters, and
huperephanoi, or proud, both appear. Then in verse 4 we find
tetuphomenoi appears, meaning puffed up. These words suggest an
emphasis on mere appearance, on appearing to be better than others and
the desire to win out over others. "Lasch, the historian, described
people in the New Culture as worshipping image, and of being obsessed
with "mere packaging of people. Lash also identified the second trait
of pride. This can be stated as the goal of wanting to win over others
in games of social power disguised as love, friendship or business."

4. "Blasphemers." This can mean speaking evil of others or of
God."None of the descriptions of people in the New Culture by the
three social scientists are explicit in noting this trait. But the
tendency to verbally abuse others is common in the New Culture." The
meaning of the Greek word "blaphemoi" which includes blasphemy against
God, is hidden by its translation as "reproachful" in the Moffatt
Translation.

5. "Disobedient To Parents." Being disobedient to parents was
certainly a trait of the rebellious young people of thje Me Generation
of the sixties.

6. "Unthankful." Or ungrateful. Again, although the three social
scientists seem to miss this trait in the Me Generation, it is
present. They were too obsessed with self to be thankful to parents
and others.

7. "Unholy." Being unholy toward the God of the Bible is an essential
trait in the counterculture people, though those who became caught up
in the New Age Occult Movement which more fully on the scene in he
early and mid seventies might be seen as having a "holy" attitude
toward their occult channeling or mystical experiencing or toward Far
Eastern religions.

8. "Without natural affection." Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin found hat
many of the college students he studied of the early seventies showed
a lack of affection to close relatives, lovers and friends.

9. "Trucebreakers." Perhaps "irreconcilable." This trait could
describe people who are not willing to forgive others and to put a
stop of interpersonal strife. A trait in the New Culture people
identified by Lasch and Hendin comes close to this trait - they found
that New Culture people have a war-like approach to life.

10. "False Accusers." "Slanderers." The Greek word here in verse 3 is
"diaboloi," or diabolos , from 1225, to traduce, accuse, Satan, false
accuser, devil, slanderer. The Moffatt translation "slanderers" misses
important strands of the meaning of the Greek "diaboloi." Webster's
New Collegiate Dictionary says "slander" means "a false report,
tending to injure the reputation of another." More generally, many New
Culture people are liars because they have lost Christian and common
morality. Many of these people may also make false accusations about
others.

11. "Incontinent." This characteristic, the lack of self-discipline,
corresponds exactly to a trait of New Culture followers found by
Lasch. The Me People lack the self-control of the many in the older
generations.

12. Fierce." Uncivilized, barbarian or beastly might be which is
being described here. This trait also describes many in the Me
Generation, and the
counterculture.

13. "Despisers of Those That Are Good." Lawlessness and rebellion
against people who follow an older decency might be what is involved
in "aphagathoi," not lovers of good." Many New Culture people despise
Christian morality and try to see how much lawlessness they can get by
with.

14. "Traitors." Or "those who betray others." Me People can become
nasty toward others when they don't get their way, their self-esteem,
they think is threatened, and others are not fulfilling their "needs."

15. "Headlong." Rash behavior can be acting in a too-hasty, reckless
way toward others without consideration of how that action will affect
others. Lack of self control, found by Lasch in the counterculture people
hits this general trait. In addition, the emphasis on
self-assertiveness in the self psychology and women's liberation
movements contributed to rash behavior.

16. "Lovers of Pleasure Rather Than Lovers of God." Hendin found that
his college student subjects of the early seventies sought after
momentary physical sensations of pleasure in sex, touch, taste, taking
drugs, more than in long term fulfillments.

17. "Having A Form of Godliness, But Denying the Power Thereof." This
trait describes many Christians under the spell of a new culture that began to
rise after the early fifties in America.

The Personality Traits, Assumptions and Goals of the new culture:

Very few involved in any of the core movements of the counterculture -
the drug and hippie movements - or of its allied movements like the
New Left, feminism, the New Age Occult movement, self psychology, the
sex lib movement on campus, and the homosexual and lesbian movements
ever realized that all this was not an accident of history. It was
part of what Antonio Gramsci, the "non-violent" Marxist from Italy
called "the long march through the institutions. " The Long March
sought to diminish and eventually destroy the influence of Biblical
Christianity and the Father-Led Family on American and Western
society. The March of Transformational Marxism also invaded the
Christian seminaries and the denomination hierarchical structures of
the churches. In his 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality,
Theodore W. Adorno said that Christianity and the strong family cause
the authoritarian personality and fascism, and therefore must be
destroyed.

There were academic intellectual movements outside of the
counterculture which helped prepare educated people for the change,
the shift in mental paradigms - which had its largest impact on the
Baby Boomer generation, though there were a few people born in the
thirties in the counterculture. The Baby Boomers and their children
became feminized.

And the Hegelian-Marxist dialectic of attitude and belief change,
first developed in small face to face groups by the shrinks,
especially in California, changed the mental paradigm of an entire
generation - from the men being position oriented to being more like
women, who tend to be relationship oriented. If a facilitator in a
small group session can get the majority of the people in a small
group to dialog about their opinions and feelings (which Carl Rogers
taught were more important that knowing), then especially for young
people influenced a little by the counterculture, the facilitator can
move the group away from belief in absolute truths and absolute
morality, which are positions, to a relationship centered mentality in
which positions are sacrificed to maintain relationships (a feminine
thing).

That change in paradigm thinking happened rapidly in the sixties,
leading up to the 1973 Supreme Court decision making abortion legal.
What could be more evil than a doctor deliberately killing an innocent
unborn baby. The loss of absolute morality came very quickly. The old
men of the Supreme Court were not Baby Boomers in 1973, but they had
no absolute morals - however, they could not have gotten by with such
a decision on abortion ten years earlier.

In Transformational Marxism and the counterculture there are at least
four major strands of rebellion against the older culture of absolute
truth and morality, based on the patriarchal authority of God. These
are:

l. An Increase in Selfishness and Self-Preoccupation.

2. The Revolt Against Christianity, Especially Opposing Christian Morality

3. The Reduction of the Human To Desire, Feeling and Conditioning,
that is the "killing" of any development of man's third part, which is
his spirit, developed in him by the Holy Spirit..

4. The Denial of what George Orwell Called Objective Reality. The New
Culture of Transformational Marxism not only allows
for the telling of lies in certain circumstances. As a culture, it
also teaches that there may be no agreed upon reality outside your
individual mind against which your statements can be checked to see if
you are telling lies or not. In the drug movement the idea that one
creates his own reality was taught by Tim Leary, Ken Kesey, Richard
Alpert and other leaders.

So, as Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy
of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be
certified, said "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and
fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et
al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)

Dean Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives Book 2, Affective Domain, on the "Weltanschaaung" or world
view Bloom was following. On
page 166 of this volume Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II
Affective Domain p. 166.

“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950” Benjamin Bloom,
Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.

"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)

Starting in about 1962 with the drug movement and going on through
the sixties and the arrival of the New Age Occult movement in the
early seventies, this New Culture taught many people to focus upon dreams,
fantasy, the occult and
especially on experiencing during LSD trips. All this emphasis moved
reality toward the subjective.

The drug movement taught a few thousand and later millions that you
can create your own reality in your mind. Truth is found in subjective
mystical experience, not in interpreting Scripture.

The create your own subjective reality idea was also taught in
psychology. Psychologist Randie L. Timpe says "Our constructions of
human nature and God are based on a philosophy of constructive
alternativism (Kelly, 1955) where the individual is free to formulate
new and alternative explanations."

Self psychologists Carl Rogers and A.H. Maslow said that the
expression of feelings and fulfillment of desires and "needs" come
first. They ignored intelligence and cognitive abilities, contributing
to the bent in the counterculture to reduce the person to his or her
feelings, desires and conditioning. Emphasis upon feelings rather than
cognitive clarity also made it much easier to see the idea that we
create our own reality, that we are free to construct our own
subjective view of external reality.

In the dialectic process, used to change beliefs and attitudes in
small groups, the thesis is often that which is fixed, or absolute
truth or absolute morality. The anti-thesis is the feelings of
people for their relationships - especially their relationship with
the present group. In the dialectic process moving to consensus and
synthesis, the outcome is a compromise of the absolute truth or
absolute moral. This process is helped along by making feelings,
desires and needs the most important thing for the person, as Rogers
and Maslow did for this new culture from Transformational Marxism.

The II Timothy Church - Having Only the Form of Godliness, and Ever
Learning But Never Arriving At the Truth

Paul in II Timothy 3: 1,5, 7 says "This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come.........Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.........Ever learning,
and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

In the midst of describing the personality traits of people in the
last days when perilous times will come Paul is suddenly talking about
the traits of people in the last days church. They will have a form,
or pretense of godliness, but they deny the spiritual power of God and
of having Christ and the Holy Spirit in them, and they are always
learning but never able to arrive at the truth from scripture.

There is also II Timothy 3: 8, which says "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith."

Now, if Paul's prophecy in II Timothy 3:1-8 is only about the personality traits of people in the world during the last days of perilous times, why is he all of a sudden talking about these people being like Jannes and Jambres, who are of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning the faith? Remember that Paul also says these people in the last days have a form of godliness but the deny the power thereof, and are ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Paul was given this revelation by the risen Christ or by the Holy Spirit, a revelation which included these three verses, II Timothy 3: 5, 3: 7 and 3: 8, which are about Christians, or those who claim to be Christians in the last days. Many, or most, of the personality traits in verses 2 through 4 do agree with those traits of the Me Generation and the counterculture of the sixties and seventies seen by at least three observers, who are social scientists. But - this does not necessarily mean that Paul's prophecy is just about personality traits of people in the worldly culture. Since that worldly culture has invaded the Christian communities since the fifties or sixties and is part of the falling away of II Thessalonians 2: 3, then Paul's prophecy can be seen to be about the personality traits of people both in the worldly culture and in the churches.

I John 2:15-16 says "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."

A major reason why those in the churches in the last days have many of the personality traits described here by Paul is because the churches have incorporated much from the worldly culture surrounding them - and many in the churches are not born again or changed very much. This does not mean, however, that the Christian church after the seventies grew up out of the counterculture, as did the Jesus Freaks, or that the counterculture somehow gave birth to the end time church. Rather, some influences in the worldly culture inspired both the counterculture and the origin of the II Timothy church.

Does not end time Bible prophecy show that there will come a time when
those who claim to be Christians will follow false doctrines?

II Thessalonians 2: 3 says "Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"

Luke 13: 21 on the leavening of the church says "It is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid
in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." The word till
indicates the leavening occurs over time.

Paul in I Corinthians 5:6-7 warns that "Know ye not that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as
ye are unleavened."

He is warning that a little bit of false doctrine will grow and
contaminate the entire loaf, that is, a little bit of false doctrine
will increase over time and make an entire ministry impure in its
teachings.

"And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." Matthew 24: 11

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils;" I Timothy 4: 1

"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and
being deceived." II Timothy 3: 13.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears;" II Timothy 4: 3

Not only will the II Timothy church after the falling away of II
Thessalonians 2: 3-4 and the leavening of Luke 13: 21, till the whole
is leavened, claim that there are "non-essentials" of Biblical
doctrine that they do not have to follow, but they make up some of
their own doctrines, leaning to man's own understanding. When the New
Testament uses the word doctrine, it often means all the doctrines
given by Christ and through his Apostles. And Paul was given
revelation by the risen Christ (Acts 26: 15-18) , which Paul wrote as
several doctrines in his letters.

And the II Timothy church will be like the church at Laodicea in
Revelation 3: 15-16, "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor
hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth."

 

 Several New Testament Scriptures Predict A Fall of the Church Into False Doctrines Bernard Pyron

Several New Testament texts predict that the Christian community will
fall into false doctrines. These are II Thessalonians 2: 3, Luke 13:
21, I Corinthians 5: 6-7, Matthew 24: 11, I Timothy 4: 1, II Timothy
3: 1-8, II Timothy 3: 13, II Timothy 4: 3 and II Timothy 4: 4.

And Matthew 24: 11 is not the only place where it is predicted that
many false prophets will arise. Some other verses that show false
prophets will come are II Peter 2: 1 and I John 4: 1.

Revelation 16: 12-14 says: "And the sixth angel poured out his vial
upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,
that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,
and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather
them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

This is saying that demon spirits are released which operate through
the mouth, or words of the beast and the false prophet. But the beast
and the false prophet are metaphoric constructs, and not single
individuals, which is one of the fables mentioned by Paul in II
Timothy 4: 4. In addition, the battle which these demon spirits,
inspiring the many false prophets, are to gather the world to is not a
literal, military-type battle, often called the battle of Armageddon
(Revelation 16: 16). Rather, this battle is spiritual, and is between
the huge number of false prophets or false teachers and that remnant
which is found in Revelation 12: 17, and those called the Overcomers
in Revelation 2: 7, 17 and Revelation 3: 5, 12 and 21.

And the large number of false teachers which come against the truth of
Jesus Christ is metaphorically called an army in scripture. Jeremiah
51: 51-53 says "We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:
shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD's house. Wherefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and
through all her land the wounded shall groan. Though Babylon should
mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her
strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD."

Babylon is a metaphor for apostate religion - including Christianity - and the corrupt worldly culture surrounding it. The strangers who have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house are the army of false teachers. In the next verse the Lord says he will do judgment upon her graven images, not a judgment limited to Babylon's love of graven images, but to her love of false doctrines and practices as well.

Daniel 8:12 says "And an host was given him against the daily
sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to
the ground; and it practised, and prospered."

The truth is cast to the ground by a host. Host is Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance number 6635. which is said to mean "...a mass
of persons organized for war, an army, by implication a campaign,
company, host, soldiers, warfare."

This is not the only place in scripture where the metraphor of an army
is used to describe a large number of false teachers who "cast down
the truth to the ground."

Satan As the First Facilitator

After listening to Dean Gotcher for a while I realized
that Satan was
the first "psychotherapist" or facilitator of the dialectic and took
over much of man's fleshly nature, which includes self-esteem as
pride, as Gotcher emphasizes, "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life" I John 2: 16.

The first facilitator's work on Eve is recorded in Genesis 3:1-6
where Satan deceived Eve into disobeying God and eating of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. Luke 11:14-27 is almost a verbatim
account of what was said in dialogue between Christ, the Pharisees,
the people gathered there and the woman in verse 27 who said blessed
is the womb and breasts that bore Christ, focusing on the physical or flesh, but also a kind of compromise for the two
factions, Christ and the Pharisees, who he called serpents in other
texts (Matthew 23: 33). This verbal interaction is an example of the
Hegelian dialectic.

The "Facilitator" is a term from the Encounter Group Movement, especially under Carl R

Rogers. 

Preachers can become facilitators of the dialectic since they were
trained in seminaries influenced by Transformational Marxism, or
Stealth Marxism, not seen
by most as a form of Marxism. Preachers into the church growth
movement are especially likely to use the Marxist dialectic.

Most Americans think that the only threat from Marxism is Bolshevism,
which advocated
takeover of governments by violence. Transformational Marxism works
more quietly, gradually taking over all the
institutions of society. To a great extent, Transformational Marxism
has been run by intellectuals in the major American universities. The
counterculture of the sixties and seventies which influenced a whole
generation of Baby Boomers and the leftist political correctness
movement which started at that same time were the initial phases of
the takeover of the institutions by Transformational Marxists. The
media popularized the counterculture and political correctness, which
has been called Cultural Marxism and was Transformational Marxism.

This dialectic procedure for transforming society - the long march
through the institutions advocated by Antonio Gramsci - was first
developed within major American universities within the fields of
psychology and the social sciences.

Theodore W. Adorno, who posed as a personality-social psychologist
doing research on the "authoritarian personality," was lodged in the
University of California at Berkeley. Herbert Marcuse, another
Frankfurter, was first at Brandeis University, and later at
the University of California, San Diego.

The Hegelian and
Marxist dialectic, as developed by the Frankfurt School people posing
as psychologists and by American shrinks like Carl Rogers and Abraham
Maslow, and in the early encounter group, builds up and makes the lust
of the flesh and the pride of life so dominant and valued that Satan
stirred up in Eve in Genesis 3:1-6.

But many who think they are born again because they attend a church do
not have the love of the truth of II Thessalonians 2:10-11, "And with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie:"

Psychology over-emphasizes and makes all important man's flesh, and
follows or supports the Transformational Marxist bent which wants to
overthrow God as the Father figure and wants to diminish the family
because the traditional family has been the foundation of
Christianity, and its patriatrical paradigm, "it is written," "two
plus two is always four and cannot be another number," etc.

Psychology exalts the flesh of man, especially man's pride, calling it
self-esteem and self-actualization (Rogers and Maslow), above man
created as a living soul.
Psychoanalysis from Freud stressed the flesh and advocated a revolt
against the Father authority figure. Behaviorism in psychology, from
Wundt, to Watson and to B.F. Skinner with his Skinner box psychology
all pointed toward a reduced man who is nothing but desires, feelings
and conditioning. Wilhelm Wundt did not deal with classical
and operant conditioning as did John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner.
Wundt did early work on sensory psychology, which was another form of
psychological reductionism.

Dean Gotcher has studied several other psychologists and psychiatrists
who have helped to develop the dialectic which first came from Hegel.
He has lectures on psychiatrist and group therapist Irvin Yalom,
Erick Fromm, Norman O. Brown and Herbert Marcuse, who is more like a
sociologist than a psychologist.

Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist who wrote volumes on
the taxonomies of educational goals. His system has been used in the
certification of all public school and other school teachers for
decades. Bloom was a Transformational Marxist who had great influence
on the American education system - and all this could only happen
because American society is organized in a top-down way, so that the
elites at the top have control over the entire society.

Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy
of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be
certified, said "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and
fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et
al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)

Dean Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives Book 2, Affective Domain, on the "Weltanschaaung" or world
view Bloom was following. On
page 166 of this volume Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II
Affective Domain p. 166. Bloom used the German word Weltanschaaung on this
page of his book to refer to the philosophy underlying Bloom's educational goals.

“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950” Benjamin Bloom,
Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.

"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)

Dean Gotcher says the Mega Church movement cannot
exist without the dialectic church. That is, Psychologized
Transformational Marxism invaded the American church a number of decades
ago. Invading the church was a big part of the "long march through the
American institutions" by "non-violent" or transformational Marxism of
the Frankfurt School as well as from Antonio Gramsci.

Dialectic Argument Against The Facts of Scripture
Bernard Pyron

The dialectic begins when a relationship comes into conflict with an
absolute truth. It could also be an absolute morality that a
relationship comes into conflict with. The relationship is often with a man-made
theology, the church, and one's own denomination, his or her own congregation,
the minister, and friends within that congregation.

The dialectic as an argument then tries to compromise that absolute
truth in some way - in order to preserve the relationship.

The world has, during the period the falling away of II Thessalonians
2: 3-4 has gone on and the leavening of the church has been in
progress (Luke 13: 21), shifted its paradigm. The West of Northern
Europe and North America shifted from a mostly absolute truth to
shades of grey, to opinion, to how do you feel about it, what do you
think?

The church, being part of the world has also shifted its way
of viewing absolute truth, though it has to teach scripture to some
extent to preserve its standing as a religious institution.
The church doesn't support the absolute truth that Paul and Barnabas,
for example, in Acts 15: 2, contended for against the leaven of the
Pharisees. It says there was "no small dissension and disputation
with them," that is, with the Pharisees, some of whom now claimed to
be Christians, but were promoting the leaven of the Pharisees (Luke
12: 1, Mark 8: 15)

The Pharisees of Christ's time had the dialectic mind. In a number
of scriptures
the Pharisees argued with the doctrines taught by Jesus Christ, who is fully
God. Because the Pharisees had a relationship of feelings toward
their position and
the doctrines they had been taught and were teaching to others, what Christ
was teaching threatened them. So, they argued against the Truth,
standing before them.

"If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the
Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation." John 11:
48

The dialogue between Christ and the Pharisees in John 8 is just
one example of their use of the dialectic to argue against Truth. God
could not speak doctrine into their group mind because they did not
have ears to hear it.

In John 8: 31-32 Jesus says "Then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free."

Jesus Christ is speaking truth, or absolute facts here. But the
Pharisees who heard him did not believe he was the Truth and what he
spoke were absolute facts. They answered " We be Abraham's seed, and
were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made
free?......Christ said: "I speak that which I have seen with my
Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. They
answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of
Abraham." John 8: 33, 38,39

In John 8: 41 Jesus said to the Pharisees "Ye do the deeds of your
father." The Pharisees answered him: " We be not born of fornication;
we have one Father, even God."

After the Risen Christ confronted Saul the Pharisee on the road to
Damascus, blinded him and shook him up so bad that he changed quickly
from Saul the Pharisee to Paul the Apostle of Christ, then God could
speak doctrine into his mind, which was no longer a dialectic mind.

The dialectic as an argument, a way of changing the absolute truth
that one's opponent holds to, historically has come out of a system of
thought which teaches that there is no God.. It comes out of Hegel
and Marx. But before Hegel and Marx it came out of the second beast of
Revelation 13: 11, who has two horns like a lamb but speaks as a
dragon, and from the dragon himself whose use of the dialectic was on
Eve in Genesis 3
to fix her obedience to the absolute authority of God over her.

 I Peter 1: 23, On Being Born Again By the Word of God
Bernard Pyron

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” I Peter 1:23.

Being born again, being transformed from living entirely in the flesh
to living in the Spirit, comes about from hearing the word of God.
Being born again is a kind of metaphor for that transformation, and
for that creation of an individual's spirit by the Holy Spirit. One
born again is born from above. This is not a theological change that
cannot be known by the individual or even by others who know the
person.

Since a person is born again from hearing or reading the word of God,
this means he comes to a knowledge of the truth about some particular
scripture, or more likely a group of scriptures. In II Timothy 3: 7-8
Paul writes about those in the last days when perilous times will come
that they are "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge
of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the
faith."

Some might claim that Paul is talking about worldly people here and
not those who claim to be Christians. But in II Timothy 3: 5 he says
"Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such
turn away." He is talking about those who claim to be Christians, but
who do not come to the knowledge of the truth. He is talking about
some important traits of the church in the last days. We can call
this last days church the II Timothy church.

So, we can also say that being born again means we come to the
knowledge of the truth. We come to the knowledge of the truth about a
set of scriptures or a group of New Testament doctrines which changes
us into new creatures (II Corinthians 5: 17). We are transformed by
the renewing of our minds (Romans 12: 2) and we receive a love of the
truth (II Thessalonians 2: 10-12). And - as we go along in time we
can come to the knowledge of other scriptures which we did not
understand before very well. In a sense, then, when we come to the
knowledge of additional important scriptures, or groups of scriptures,
we are again born again in Christ and by the Holy Spirit (John 16:
13). As Peter says in I Peter 1: 23, we are born again, changed, by
the word of God - if we have strong faith in that word as being
absolute truth and fact.

This is why it is so important to not be under the influence of
false teachers. Because some who have already come to the knowledge
of the truth about a set of scriptures can open those scriptures to
us, and in that opening we are born again by the word. But false
teachers close the scriptures to us, and, as said in Obadiah 1: 14,
“Neither should thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of
his that did escape…” Christ said to the Pharisees in Matthew 23: 13,
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up
the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in."