Monday, April 09, 2007

THE SURGE


The Surge,

Or what was previously known as Escalation.
Is this an episode of "Cops from Baghdad"?
Baghdad, Baghdad
What you gonna do?
What you gonna do when they come for You?
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Has Iraq become a Police Academy for Urban Warfare training?
Search and seizure, wet fire, hands-on, live-action exercise for preparing young people into modern-day Storm Troopers?
When this "War" is over, what will we do with all these Storm Troopers when they return home? Will we offer them jobs in the Prisons and Jails, or will they patrol the "mean streets" of America? Humh? These are facts for deep concern.
First, Shock and Awe, now The Surge. What's next Kill-o-What?
Will these guys finally win the domestic wars, on Drugs, on Crime, and Poverty?

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER


THE SOWER


18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. .

19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. .

22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.


Matthew 13: 18-23.

THE "TRUE" CHURCH


TWO Churches--- One false, One True


In New Testament prophecy, two (2) Churches are described:
One, the great and powerful and universal church, a part of the world, actually ruling in its politics over many nations, and united with the "Holy Roman Empire," brought to a concrete focus in Rev 17.
The Church is pictured with great pomp, ritual and display, decked in purple, scarlet and gold--- proud, worldly, boastful. She is pictured as a universal DECEIVER--- the whole western world spiritually DRUNK perception so blurred by her paganized teachings and practices they are unable to clearly distinguish TRUTH! she boast she is the true Church, yet she is drunken with the blood of the saints she has caused to be martyred!
But how could she have deceived the whole world, as foretold in God's Word? Surely, the Protestant world isn't deceived!
Oh, But It Is! Notice, verse 5, she is a MOTHER church! Her daughters are the churches who have come out of her, even in protest, calling themselves Protestant--- but they are fundamentally of her family in pagan doctrines and practices! They, too, make up themselves a part of the world, taking active part in its politics--- the very act which made a "whore" out of their MOTHER!
The entire apostate family--- Mother, and more than 500 daughter denominations, all divided against each other and in CONFUSION of doctrines, yet all united in the chief pagan doctrines and festivals--- has a family NAME ! They call themselves "Christian," but God calls them something else! ---"MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT!"

TRUE Church Small -- Scattered


But where is the TRUE Church? Did the true Church of God, of which Jesus Christ is the Living, Directing Head, become perverted--- did it merely apostatize into the system described above?
NO! The gates of hell have never prevailed against the true Church of God, and never will! The true Church has never fallen! It has never ceased!
But the true Church of God, is pictured in prophecy as the "Little Flock!" The New Testament describes this Church as continually persecuted, despised by the large popular churches because it is not OF this world or its politics, but has kept itself unspotted from the world! It has always kept the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. It has kept the festivals of God, not the pagan holidays. It has been empowered with the Spirit of God!
That Church never degenerated into the great popular church at Rome, as the protestant world supposes! That Church always has existed, and it exist today!
Then where did it go? Where was it during the middle ages?
First, remember this Church was never large, never politically powerful, or a world known ORGANIZATION OF MEN. It is a SPIRITUAL ORGANISM, not a political organization. It is composed of all whose hearts and lives have been CHANGED by the Spirit of God, whether visibly together, or individually scattered.
Under the lash of continual persecution and opposition of the organized forces of this world, it is difficult for such a people to remain UNITED and ORGANIZED together.
Daniel prophesied the true people of God would be scattered (Dan 12:7). Ezekiel foretold it (34:5-12). Jeremiah, too, (23:1-2). Jesus foretold it (Mat 26:31). The apostolic church was soon scattered by persecution (Acts 8:1). James addresses his letters to Christians scattered abroad (Jam 1:1).

Ignored by Most Histories


You don't read much of this true Body of Christ in the secular histories of this world! No, the world little notes, not long remembers, the activities of this "LITTLE FLOCK," hated and despised by the world, driven to the wilderness by persecution, always opposed, usually scattered! But there are enough references to it in authentic histories to show that it has continued thru every century to now!
The prophecies bring this Church into concrete focus in the 12th chapter of Revelation. There she is shown spiritually, in the glory and splendor of the Spirit of God, but visibly in the world as a persecuted, Commandment keeping Church driven into the wilderness, for 1260 years, thru the middle ages!
Even in Paul's day, many among those attending at Antioch, at Jerusalem, at Ephesus, at Corinth, and other places, began to apologize and turn away from the truth. Divisions sprang up. Those individuals, unconverted or turned from God's Truth and Way Of Life, were no part of God's true church, though visibly assembling with those who were. The "mystery of iniquity" was already working, INSIDE these visible churches. This apostasy increased! By the year 125 A.D. the majority in most churches, especially those Gentile-born, were continuing in many of their old pagan beliefs and practices, though professing to be Christians! Gradually, a smaller and smaller portion of the VISIBLE churches going by the name "Christian" remained truly yielded to God and His Truth, and led of His Spirit. After Constantine took virtual control of the visible, professing Church in the early fourth century, this visible organization became almost wholly pagan, and began excommunicating and persecuting all who held to the WORD OF GOD! Finally, it became necessary for real Christians who, even as a scattered people, alone composed the TRUE Christian Church, to worship God! Thus, the visible, organized Church which rose to power was the FALSE Church--- the "Great Whore" of Revelation 17.


Sunday, April 08, 2007

PAGAN MORALITY


YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK

'Gay'-rights bill lets court define church's 'purpose

''Most sweeping and culturally devastating law in Oregon history, establishing pagan morality'
Posted: April 7, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski>
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A plan being shoved down a fast track in the Oregon Legislature would give homosexuals a vast range of new state laws they could use to impose their moral perspective on Christians across the state, according to opponents who fear for their speech and religious expression rights.
Senate Bill 2, on its face, is written to enshrine in state law special protections for homosexuals by classifying them as a protected civil rights group. But hundreds of pastors – whose churches include tens of thousands of evangelical Christians – are horrified by what they see advancing virtually without opposition.
"Senate Bill 2, in the Oregon House of Representatives, if passed, will limit your free speech rights and rights of conscience; require public schools to teach that homosexual/lesbian/bisexual behavior is 'okay' and 'moral'; impact your rights as a business owner; and put judges in authority on certain church matters," according to David Crowe, of the Christian ministry called Restore America.


("This bill is arrogantly, defiantly and deceptively crafted to accomplish a lot more than what it is saying," he told WND. "It definitely adds sexual orientation to the list of protected civil rights groups.
"But there is verbiage in the bill and the verbiage has to do with the primary purpose of a church. They're seeking really to gain a foothold for homosexuals into the Christian church with the court's approval," he said.
"It's more than the nose of the camel, they want the whole camel in the tent to ruminate around however they would like," he said. "The word we've gotten from attorneys is that of all the bills around the country this is the worst," Crowe said.
"The bottom line this is a total effort by the left to subvert our morality, our Judeo-Christian morality and impose on us a morality they consider superior. What it is really is challenging everything we as Christians stand for."
The bill would affect churches even though it has a so-called church exemption, he said, because it would require every church operation that isn't directly in support of its primary mission goal to be subject to mandatory homosexual hiring requirements and other restrictions.
And it would leave the determination of what is in support of a church's primary mission to be determined by a secular judge. It is possible, for example, that a lesbian could sue a church if not hired to be a pastor's secretary.
For Christian business owners, it would require them to hire and promote homosexuals irrespective of the religious beliefs the owner might hold -- or whether the employee agrees with the products, in a Christian bookstore for example.
For parents, it means their children in public schools would be subject to the state-sponsored and state-required indoctrination that the homosexual lifestyle choice is moral – even if the parents hold religious beliefs that contradict that.
"The law – and this is onerous – has a clause that talks about developing a program of education to change our attitudes," Crowe said. "To change our attitudes? Is it the government's business to change attitudes? But that's precisely what's in the bill."
"They want to put into law [their] view of morality, and that's a small minority view of morality. They are seeking to impose that on the rest of us," he said.
Nearly 500 Christian pastors from across the state recently gathered with representatives of the Legislature to express their opposition to the proposal, and afterwards issued a statement that the law, if approved, would be "the most sweeping and culturally devastating law in Oregon history, establishing pagan morality under the guise of a 'civil right,' and imposing it upon all Oregonians under the cover of 'law.'"
Crowed noted that of the 14 states that have added "sexual orientation" to their protected classes, all except Senate Bill 2 provide clear protection for churches. "Not one includes wording that allows courts to determine the 'primary purpose' of a church, but SB 2 does," he noted.
"The majority of our legislators have chosen to believe the lie that those who engage in homosexual activity cannot help themselves, and that they are being unjustly and wrongly discriminated against, when in fact, neither is true," Crowe said.
The proposal "clearly opens the door to liberal judges to redefine and decide the 'primary purpose' of a church, and violates the rights of everyone," said Crowe, who recommends people sign a petition to encourage legislators to oppose the plan.
The governor had appointed a commission to study the issue, but included only representatives of liberal or "gay" churches, leaving members of 2,500 Bible-believing and teaching churches unrepresented on the panel, he said.
Individual leaders from Christian organizations already have begun contacting not only their lawmakers, but Gov. Ted Kulongoski too.
A letter from Vernon M. Marks, superintendent of the Oregon Assemblies of God churches, told Kulongoski that the more than 30,000 members of those churches are urging the rejection of the plan.
His letter told the governor the bills will:
Violate the very moral and ethical foundations of our culture.
Restrict the rights of our citizens to make moral distinctions and to speak freely.
Disregard fundamental biblical guidelines for the sanctity of traditional family.
Promote dysfunctional family structures that will rob the next generation.
Ignore the overwhelming vote of Oregonians to preserve traditional marriage.
Discriminate against parents raising mentally and physically challenged adult children.
Provide special rights for a few and ignore the civil rights of the majority of Oregonians.
Discriminate against parental moral values and convictions.
Promote behaviors that clearly violate common sense and social stability.
Will create a huge strain on Oregonians economically.
Will elevate the already taxed judicial system in dealing with lawsuits over these issues.
Infringe on the constitutional protection of the free exercise of religion.
John Fortmeyer, publisher of the Christian News Northwest reported that the Legislature has given the appearance of allowing public input, but it doesn't appear to impact any decisions.
Nick Graham of the Oregon Family Council told him a March hearing on the plan lasted seven hours and had 126 people register to oppose it. Sixty-five supported it.
"We had fantastic testimony in opposition, such as from legal firms and executive pastors," Graham said. "But to no avail, that evening, the bill was passed out of committee and sent to the floor of the Senate ... We were given the appearance of public input, but ultimately it meant nothing."
"Also, PRAY!" said a message from Marks to the church group's pastors. "This is possibly the most dangerous piece of legislation to come from Oregon's legislature."
The Constitution Party said the plan is a "recipe for civil war."
"Everyone should read this legislation. It clearly gives those who choose non-traditional sexual behavior preference over those with traditional moral values," said state Chairman Jack Brown. "This legislation will lock religious people inside their church buildings and let perversion occupy the rest of the landscape!"


WHERE DID EASTER COME FROM?


WHERE DID EASTER COME FROM?




Easter is a time for bunny rabbits, colored eggs, hot cross buns, and springtime apparel. Where did Easter come from? Here is the fascinating story of how it originated. Few people realize that 'Easter' is not the resurrection of Christ; in fact, the only time the word is found in the Bible (in Acts 12:4), it is only 'Easter' by mistranslation. The word in the original Greek is 'Passover.'
Jesus died at the time of the Passover feast. But the Passover is not Easter, and Jesus did not die at Easter time. Here is information you will want to know. It comes from a publication entitled, 'Easter: Where It Came From,' printed many years ago, by Southern Publishing Association. An old man is speaking:
"The children had gathered around the huge, open fireplace. The lights were turned out and the shooting flames of the great wood fire lit their faces. Farther back, in a huge rocker, sat the Wise Man. In the daytime a very prosaic fig­ure known as grandpa. On the special nights, when the children were allowed to 'stay up,' the fire light played on what seemed like the very soul of the old man, his face, and he became a mystic form, infinitely removed and yet very close to them. They called him the Wise Man then.
"This Easter night the children begged for the story of Easter. They did not understand the first part of what he told, but afterward they understood nearly all of it. Here is what they learned.:
"Sunday was held sacred centuries before Sinai. December 25 was highly honored; the time of Easter was religiously observed; and Lent was a time for healing-all thousands of years before the coming of the Babe to Bethlehem!"
After the Flood, the Garden of Eden was no longer on the earth. You remember the Lord had placed angels with flaming swords at its gates. As the people came to the gates to worship God, their faces were toward the west, for the gates were on the east side of the Garden. When Eden was taken up to God's dwelling place, and no one knows just when that was, Satan had so confused some that they worshiped the things that God had made instead of God himself. The next brightest thing men saw was the sun, and they began to worship it. God at creation had given them the Sabbath, to remind them every week that He had made ev­erything, but Satan has always tried to make men forget the Sabbath, so they would forget the true God.
"One of Noah's great grandsons was called Nimrod. Nimrod was a great leader, and was the first empire builder. His wife, history says, was named Semiramis, and she was a very great queen. Satan was working to counterfeit God's plan of salvation; and, when Nimrod died, the people said he was a god. Semiramis told them that he was indeed the sun god, and that his spirit was still living, dwelling, in the sun.
"In order that the people should love her as queen as long as she lived, Semiramis told them that hers was the spirit of the moon; and. when she died, she would dwell in the moon as Nimrod already dwelt in the sun.
"Satan was laying the foundation for every system of falsehood and error the world has ever known. The sun god, under different names, was worshiped in Babylon. Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as conquering nations were conquered by the religion of their captives.
"Every year when the cold season began, the people believed their sun god was leav­ing them. They came to learn that his lowest dip on the horizon, about December 21, was fol­lowed by his gradual return, until in midsummer he was directly overhead at noonday. It was on the 25th of December that they noticed, each year, the coming back, a little, of their god. This day they called the birthday of the sun. It was this belief in the annual journey of their god that Elijah alluded to in his conflict with the priests of Baal, the Syro-Phoenician sun god [1 Kings 15:27].
"After the death of Nimrod, Semiramis never married again —indeed how could the queen of heaven marry an ordinary man?—but some years later she gave birth to a son. His name was Tammuz, and he was born on the 25th day of December! There was wild rejoicing in the nation over which Semiramis was queen. She told the people that the spirit of the sun, her husband Nimrod, was the father of Tammuz, and thus through her sin, Satan persuaded the people of the counterfeit of the birth of Jesus; for Jesus was really born of a virgin.
"Tammuz was hailed as the Son of the Sun, and the first letter of his name became in time the symbol of sun worship. Human sacri­fices to the sun god were offered on this initial letter, made of wood, known as the cross. His birthday, December 25, was honored more and more, and the first day of the week was called the Sun's day, or Sunday. The people forgot God's Sabbath, and honored the day of the sun. To honor Semiramis they set aside a time in honor of the moon. This was the first full moon after the vernal equinox, or the twenty-first of March. The first Sunday after this full moon was indeed a gala day.
"While yet a young man, Tammuz, a hunter like his supposed father, was killed by a wild boar. What weeping there was in the kingdom! And the forty days before the time of the celebra­tion for the moon were set apart as days of weep­ing for Tammuz.
"God's people were constantly being tempted to follow this religion instead of that of the Bible. Often Satan succeeded in his purpose. In the eighth chapter of Ezekiel we read of the women's weeping for Tammuz and the people's turning their backs on the temple of God and worshiping the sun toward the east. They also worshiped the moon goddess, making cakes to the queen of heaven (Jer. 7:19). These were round cakes on which had been cut a cross.
"The great distinguishing mark of the heathen was Sunday and the mark of God's people was the Sabbath (Ezek. 20:12-20J. Side by side through the centuries were God's people worshiping Him, obeying His commandments, keep­ing His Sabbath; and the heathen were worshiping the sun, keeping Sunday, offering their children in the fire as a sacrifice to the sun, or crucifying their human victims to turn away his sup­posed anger.
"One writer in a noted periodical says that 'Sunday was the wild, solar holiday of all pagan times.' It was on this day that the worst features of sun worship were practiced. Too often Israel did these things too, but God constantly sent them messages to obey Him.
"Finally Christ, the Son of God, was born. The exact day of His birth no one knows, but it was probably in October. He was just thirty-three and a half years old when He was crucified, in April, at the time of the Passover. How Jesus loved His people! He loved them so much that He was willing to suffer abuse and mocking, scourging and death. Remember that Tammuz was exalted by Satan to be the great rival of Jesus, and the symbol of the cross was the sign of sun worship. Through all the years it had seemed that the sun god was greater than the true God, for Israel alone followed God, but of­ten even Israel followed the sun god.
"Oh yes, Jesus loved His people! He came into a world that had forgotten Him, its Creator, suffered every insult at its hands, and finally died upon the symbol of sun worship, 'even,' says Paul, 'the death of the cross' (Phil. 2:8).
"What rejoicing then by the demons! The Son of God, delivered by His own people and crucified by the sun-worshiping Romans on the symbol of sun worship! Oh the condescending Jesus! How He must have loved His people!" The old man's face softened, and the children saw tears in his eyes. After a time he went on. His eyes were shining now.
"But God honored that sacrifice! On the third day after His crucifixion, the first day for sun worship, while the spirits of demons were in the wildest orgy of celebration over their vic­tory; for, through many men, Satan's angels all rejoiced in the victory of false worship on that very day set aside and honored by the name of the sun,—God raised His Son from the grave a conqueror! As after Creation He had rested, so after redemption He rested in the tomb on His Sabbath; and now, on the day of the sun, He was raised, eternal victor over the sun worship and all false systems of worship. That was why God raised Him on Sunday. Once more the Sabbath is God's sign between Him and His people. His disciples kept it while they lived.
"But Satan was not yet through with the world. First, he persecuted God's people, and then he tempted them again. The heathen were still keeping Sunday; and, as the Christians were scattered throughout the world, Satan whispered in the ears of God's people that they should try to gain favor by being more like the heathen. Was not Christ born toward the end of the year? The exact date was uncertain. Why not call it the same date as the birth of Tammuz? So December 25 became Christmas.
“Again, Christ was crucified and resur­rected in the spring, near the time of the moon festival. Why not have the same time as the hea­then, and even do as they did, but call it in honor of Christ's resurrection. The cakes to the queen of heaven became the hot cross buns. The forty days of 'weeping for Tammuz' became Lent; and at the close of Lent came Easter Sunday, a coun­terfeit masterpiece.”
The voice was silent for a time. The old man's face darkened as he seemed to see, in the embers of the fire, a sinister event against which he would cry out. Suddenly there rang out in the stillness the trumpet-like tones that had called to the men on the battlefield, when as a drum­mer boy, he had snatched up the colors where a dying bearer had fallen, and rallied a regiment that had nearly broken.
"Oh the cowards! The cowards! They allowed the flag of God, His holy Sabbath, to trail in the dust. They trampled it under their feet; they exalted the sun's day; they broke the com­mand of God, and all in the name of the One who had given His life to save His people from that very thing!
"Oh, how Jesus in heaven must have wept when His so-called followers, to gain influence, set up the mark of rebellion against heaven,­ Sunday. And how He must weep today when people profess to honor His resurrection by trampling on His day and honoring the flag of the defeated foe. God forgive our nation if she ever passes a law to do that, if she ever passes a national Sunday law.”
" 'Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.' 1 Corinthians 10:11-12 . .
"God requires of His people now as great a distinction from the world, in customs, habits, and principles, as He required of Israel anciently. If they faithfully follow the teachings of His Word, this distinction will exist; it cannot be otherwise. The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform to the spirit and customs of the ungodly." -Patriarchs and Prophets, 457-458
CONTINUE EASTER 2


Saturday, April 07, 2007

HEPATITIS "C" FROM INJECTIONS

Hepatitis C from
JET GUN INJECTIONS

Boot Camp, Paris Island 1968


Hepatitis C is a result of receiving immunizations in service by means of a multi-use jet gun injector.CONCLUSION OF LAW Hepatitis C was incurred in service. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1131 (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. § 3.102, 3.303 (2005).ADD TO YOUR CLAIM!
Vaccine WeeklyAugust 03, 2001 by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer -Jet Injectors Capable of Transmitting Blood-Borne Pathogens
Jet injectors may be ideal for mass immunization programs but not until design refinements eliminate their capacity to transmit blood-borne infections, say researchers working in England.The injectors, which are needleless systems that penetrate skin with high-pressure fluid, have potential advantages over needles and syringes, but P.N. Hoffman and associates at the Laboratory of Hospital Infection, London, sought to determine whether they might have a major disadvantage as well.They used a highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect whether small amounts of blood and fluid remained in the jet injector after injecting inert buffer into calves.All four injectors tested - two with reusable heads and direct skin contact, one with single-use injector heads, and one with an injector head that discharged at a distance from the skin - contained at least 10 pl of blood, enough to transmit hepatitis B infection, reported Hoffman and coworkers ("A model to assess the infection potential of jet injectors used in mass immunization," Vaccine, July 2001;19(28-29):4020-4027)."The source of the contamination was consistent with contamination by efflux of injected fluid and blood from the pressurized pocket in tissue that is formed during injection," reported Hoffman and coauthors. "This insight should inform the design of safe jet injectors."For more information about this study contact P.N. Hoffman, Laboratory of Hospital Infection, Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Ave., London NW9 5HT, UK.Key points reported in this study include: * Needleless jet injector systems are potentially beneficial for mass immunization programs, but they may transfer blood-borne viruses * Researchers used a highly sensitive ELISA to evaluate whether small volumes of blood remained in the jet injectors after injecting calves with a buffer solution * All four injector models tested transmitted more than 10 pl of blood, the minimum amount required for hepatitis B transmission, and the quality of the blood was consistent with efflux from the pressurized pocket created by the jet injectorThis article was prepared by Vaccine Weekly editors from staff and other reports.Follow uphttp://cphl.phls.org.uk/divisions/nsi/lhi/highlights.htm (if this link no longer works, click heretransmission of hepatitis c by jet gun injections exists)
The Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) is the national reference centre for medical microbiology in the UK. CPHL provides specialist expertise and advice to the Regional PHLS laboratories, NHS hospital laboratories, consultants in communicable disease control, community and hospital physicians, environmental health officers, government and industry.
Public Health Highlights Interventions LHI in their reflective practitioner role receive many requests for advice on the prevention and control of infection and outbreaks. These cover infection control in hospitals and other, wider aspects of healthcare. One example of this was recently generated in the Infection Control Unit and concerns the transmission of blood borne infectious agents by jet injectors. These injectors use a high-pressure focussed jet of fluid to provide a needleless mechanism for penetrating skin. They have great potential in mass immunisation campaigns in areas of limited resources and allow high immunisation delivery rates. They would eliminate many logistical problems such as the shipping of single-use syringes and needles, accidental contaminated needlestick injuries to immunisation staff, and the burden of safe disposal of sharps clinical waste.
At the request of the World Health Organization, we developed a laboratory model of jet injection safety that could test the capacity of jet injectors to transmit blood between injection recipients. Hepatitis B is thought transmissible in volumes of blood as low as 10 picolitres, so a novel immunoassay (developed in conjunction with Kings College, University of London) was used that could detect these extremely low levels. Results from the use of this model indicated jet injectors can regularly transmit relevant volumes of blood. Use of this model under field conditions in Brazil (in conjunction with WHO and the Brazilian Ministry of Health) confirmed the laboratory model as valid. As a result of this work, WHO and other major users of jet injectors have reconsidered their use. A more positive outcome of this work has been an understanding of previously unsuspected contamination mechanisms, which is enabling design of new generations of jet injector whose safety can be assessed in our model. View Study
Paris Island Air Force inspectionJet injector nozzles were frequently contaminated with blood
click here Vaccines in the Military Department of Defense- Wide review of Vaccine Policies and Procedures Read excerpt- Page 60 in particular says, "Of note is that the AFEB made a site visit to the MTF at Parris Island and directly observed high volume recruit immunization using jet injectors. It was noted that jet injector nozzles were frequently contaminated with blood, yet sterilization practices were frequently inadequate or not followed." View complete report at http://www.ha.osd.mil/afeb/reports/vaccines.pdf
Military discontinues the use of jet guns for mass immunization of military troops U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needle-free injection policy chronology
(1997-11-20) Ped-O-Jet® manufacturer (Keystone Industries, Cherry Hill, NJ) notifies Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) (Defense Logistics Agency) of intent to withdraw as device supplier over liability concern for bloodborne disease transmission from multiple-use-nozzle design.
(1997-12-07) DSCP issues Medical Products Quality Control System (MPQCS) device alert (DSCP 970147) as "cautionary measure", while noting the absence of bloodborne disease transmission case reports over 35 years of military use (followup MMQC-98-1019 dated 1998-Jan-30).
(1998-01-09) Armed Forces Epidemiological Board (AFEB) concurs with withdrawal of Ped-O-Jet® for "routine immunization", but availability for "public health emergency". AFEB recommends use of "newer technology" devices with disposable parts for skin contact.
(1998-04-20) Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery updates via BUMED notice 6230 its Immunization Requirements And Recommendations document (3.6Mb .pdf) prohibiting jet injector use until otherwise directed.
(1998-04-28) AFEB recommends DoD formulate new needle-free injector specifications and support device research and development.
(1998-07-09) Letter from Dr. Sue Bailey, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs, to United States Representative Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV), explaining DoD policy on jet injectors in response to the concerns of a constituent of the Congressman.
(1998-1999) Manufacturer discontinuation of large multi-dose vials for yellow fever, meningococcal, and tetanus-diphtheria vaccines because of military withdrawal of Ped-O-Jets® capable of using them (MMQC-99-1248 dated 1998-Nov-03 and MMQC-99-1251 dated 1999-Aug-12).
Current DoD policies and information available at the Military Immunization Information Source http://www.cdc.gov/nip/dev/jetinject.htm
(((Thanks Roger))))
This reads as a tacit admission, problems existed with the jet injectors. . NOVEMBER 1998 http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/prevmed/epi/BUMED25NOV98.txtSUBJ/MEDICAL JET INJECTOR USE FOR IMMUNIZATIONS, UPDATE//REF/A/DOC/BUMEDNOTE 6230/20APR98//REF/B/MSG/NAVMEDLOGCOM FORT DETRICK MD/081300ZDEC97/NOTAL//
NARR/REF A IS BUMED IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS ANDRECOMMENDATIONS NOTICE. REF B IS NAVMEDLOGCOM DRUG RECALLNUMBER 97-75, DOD-MMQC-97-1169
AUTOMATIC JET HYPODERMIC INJECTION UNITS/WITHDRAWAL (DPSC 970147).//POC/MCBRIDE/CDR,MC,USN/MED-24B/WASHINGTON DC/TEL:COM (202)762-3495/TEL:DSN: 762-3495//
RMKS/1. THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN COORDINATED WITH THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS (CMC). THE COMMANDANT HAS AUTHORIZED TRANSMISSION TO MARINE CORPS ACTIVITIES.2. PURPOSE: UPDATE GUIDANCE IN REFS A AND B ON USING COMMERCIAL JET INJECTORS FOR ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS.3. BACKGROUND: SINCE ISSUING REFS A AND B, SEVERAL ACTIVITIES EXPRESSED INTEREST IN USING A NEW TRANSCUTANEOUS, CO2 POWERED IMMUNIZATION DEVICE MANUFACTURED BY BIOJECT, INC. THIS DEVICE, MARKETED AS "BIOJECTOR 2000 INJECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM", IS THE ONLY FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) LICENSED HYPODERMIC JET INJECTOR. IT AVOIDS RISKS OF BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGEN TRANSMISSION AND NEEDLE-STICK INJURY ASSOCIATED WITH PREVIOUSLY USED JET INJECTOR GUNS.4. GUIDANCE:
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CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that needleless injectors become contaminated during in vitro use and direct contact with contaminated surfaces and that needless injectors carry over the contamination to subsequent sites of release. The replacement of the injector's rubber cap with a new one after initial discharge or the removal of an exposed rubber cap and immersion of the head of the injector in 2% glutaraldehyde followed by a rinse of the head in sterile water, as recommended by one injector manufacturer, can minimize or eliminate the carryover. View
Safety Testing of Needle Free, Jet Injection Devices to Detect Contamination with Blood and Other Tissue Fluids JAMES M. SWEATa,b, et.al
"Five different procedures were used to administer injections to calves and pigs: (1) following compliance protocol (device nozzle is swabbed with alcohol between vaccinates)",.............."It was interesting to note that the amount of backsplash resulting from injection using a disposable plastic nozzle was slightly less than that from the metal type"......"If albumin is detected in test samples (at more than 10 pL/mL), the conclusion is that the device is responsible for transmitting volumes of blood sufficient to contain pathogenic agents." View study
June 2003 excerpts from Federal Laboratory Community online paper
"The challenge was to solve the pathogen transfer problem while retaining the advantages of the needle-free injector system.The technology transfer of a Russian-designed protector cap was the missing link needed to improve the safety found in this needle-free injector system. This protector cap provides three separate challenges to any pathogen transfer between patients. Each cap is packaged in a sterile container and exposed only immediately before injection. The cap is then disposed of after each use in a biohazard bag."http://www.federallabs.org/ContentObjects/News/NewsLink/NewsLinkJune2003.pdf
SHDEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL HOSPITAL & PERSONAL USE DEVICES PANEL
OPEN SESSION
Monday, August 2, 1999
Jet Guns were always cleaned between injections of the Military troops! Quote: It = jet gun injectors MR. HARRINGTON: Not necessarily. It was used by the Army for 35 years and it was always wiped. Never had an issue. Good tracking system. And there's nothing recorded in the world that says that it wasn't wiped. It's in a study that was presented using a method that isn't approved, it was not wiped and it said oh, we can contaminate 31 out of 100...
....What I'm saying to you is we believe that there are situations--the U.S. military for 35 years used the product appropriately. There was never an indicated transmission of hepatitis. Certainly they follow cases of hepatitis in the U.S. military.


PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HEPATITIS B IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES Click here jet gun injectors with a design fault that allowed blood to remain inside the equipment
Cost of tetanus toxoid injection using a jet-injector (Imule) in collective immunization in Senegal: comparison with injection using a syringe and resterilizable needle]
Needle-less jet injectors were developed by the US army after World War II. Their principal use, however, has been in the administration of lyophilized vaccines from multidose vials to at-risk populations in developing countries. In 1983, a hepatitis B epidemic occurred among customers of a beauty clinic in California (USA) following the use of jet-injectors, demonstrating a clear risk of cross-contamination associated with this technique. As a result, the WHO and UNICEF stopped recommending jet-injectors for collective immunizations in developing countries View study
Breaches in safe-injection practices CDC recommendations. How many were not practiced on you?...Fourteen patients reported breaches in safe-injection practices by the practitioner, including 1) failure to practice hand hygiene, 2) failure to prepare the skin with an antiseptic, 3) failure to wipe vials with alcohol before injection, and 4) failure to wear gloves. Of 11 patients who could recall, all reported use of a new needle; however, nine patients reported use of a multidose vial.


VACCINE INFECTION


Child recovering from vaccine infection
2 hours, 23 minutes ago


CHICAGO - A 2-year-old Indiana boy who contracted a rare and life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination is recovering, a hospital spokesman said.


Doctors have relied on some untested measures to save the boy's life, including skin grafts and an experimental drug that has never been used to treat a human patient, officials said. The boy's pox lesions left him with the equivalent of second-degree burns, requiring grafts to let the underlying skin heal.
"Everyone has been a little bit astonished that he has recovered as well as he has," hospital spokesman John Easton said Saturday. The boy should be should be upgraded to serious from critical condition soon, he added.
The boy has been in pediatric intensive care at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital for the past month with a virulent rash over 80 percent of his body. He developed the rash after coming in contact with his father, who had recently been vaccinated for smallpox before he was to be deployed overseas by the Army.
The boy is not suffering from smallpox, but from the related virus which is used to convey immunity to the much deadlier disease.
Health officials say there is no infection risk for the general population because the virus can be spread only through close physical contact.
The child suffered from eczema, which is a known risk factor for such an infection, doctors said.
The military resumed smallpox vaccinations in 2002 because of bioterrorism fears.


THE LAMB THAT DIES

THE LAMB THAT DIES

Basic in the plan of salvation is Christ's sacrifice for sin, which provides both ransom and reunion.



From the day that man fell, God sought to reveal His wonderful plan through the sacrificial system. In this system, He showed that He would accept a substitute in the sinner's place. In His wisdom God gave man an opportunity to exercise both faith and choice by participating in the sacrificial ceremonies. When, through Moses, God instituted the sanctuary service in the wilderness, He more fully revealed the significance of the plan of salvation.



Let us visit the court of the Old Testament sanctuary and observe the worshipers as they enter, longing for freedom from their burden of sin. One man leads a bullock, another has a goat, a third brings a lamb. We watch the man with the lamb approach the altar and place his hand upon its head. Leviticus 4:33 makes the meaning clear. The laying of his hand upon the lamb implies confession—and genuine confession is specific (see Leviticus 5:5). In symbol his sin has thus been transferred from himself to the lamb. And so the lamb must die.



Now let us note the lessons that this ceremony has for you and me. "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins" (Hebrews 10:4). In all ages, man's only hope has been Jesus Christ, the True Sacrifice. Hence, to every sinner the message comes, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). The lamb represents Christ in His role as sacrifice.



In the typical service, when the contrite sinner transferred his sin to the innocent lamb, it became a sin bearer. So concerning Christ the Scriptures state, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24). As the repentant sinner brought a substitute that died in his place, so every penitent person can come to Calvary and, looking at the crucified Son of God, say, He "loved me, and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).



But there is more. The man who sought forgiveness slew the sacrifice. It was not enough that the penitent should confess his sins and transfer them to the substitute. He must raise the lamb's lift bring our sins and lay then His head, v(we) are to linger at Calvary and behold what our sins do to our Substitute. Here we can find true repentance.



When you and I come to Calvary, we see Jesus slain by our deliberate sin. We learn two lessons from this. First, as we see Him die, the just for the unjust, the horrible nature of sin begins to dawn on us. And second, we confront a love so deep that God took our sins upon His innocent soul. No wonder Satan tries to keep us from looking at the cross!



People sin because they want to sin. Something must happen that will cause sin to lose its hold.

As we behold the Lamb of God upon the cross of Calvary, the goodness of God leads us to repentance. In dying for sinners, Christ manifested a love that is incomprehensible; and as the sinner beholds this love, it softens the heart, impresses the mind, and inspires contrition in the soul.



If we will come to Calvary, we will see what sin has done to Christ. When we look at what sin did to Jesus, we see what it will do to us if we hang on to it. It will take us into the darkness of separation from God.



[In the light of the cross we see what sin costs, how its resulting pain, suffering, and death have broken God's heart of love. We understand that the nail wounds didn't kill Jesus. He died of a broken heart, broken under the weight of your sin, my sin—because He loved us.]



If, as you look into the mirror of God's holy law, you see yourself a transgressor, will you not come and put your sins upon the Lamb? God has no other way to separate you from your sins. And no matter how little your sin may seem to you, it murdered the Son of God.



"Just as I am,


Without one plea,


But that Thy bloodWas shed for me,


And that Thou bid'st me Come to Thee,


O Lamb of God,I come."


--Charlotte Elliott


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THE TRUMPET HERALD 3/2007




The Trumpet Herald

Giving the trumpet a certain sound

March 2007

Ten Commandments Commission and NATO

With a lead-in statement that "World leaders have already recognized the power behind the TCC," the sponsors of the Ten Commandments Day on one of their web pages mentioned a meeting with the former president of Spain:
Dr. Wexler and President Aznar agreed on full cooperation on several issues including an agreement to formulate a U.S-European think tank regarding global threats. This is where the Ten Commandments Commission – Watchman On The Wall will play a vital role, as we were founded as an 'Action Alert Commission' and voice to keep cultural, religious, and governmental decision makers apprised of these types of important developments.
Both leaders agreed to meet again in the near future to discuss a proposal regarding the re-structuring of NATO based upon the principles of democracy, tolerance, individual liberties, and the rule of law. ("www.tencommandmentsday.com (Ten CC Commission, Who We Are) on Feb. 14, 2007)
Dr. Wexler is probably referring to moral threats to society. In a news release he mentioned:
"removal of public prayers from our [USA] educational system, the removal of the public display of the Ten Commandments from public facilities, the devaluation of the sanctity of human life and the attempt to remove all reference to the Judeo-Christian faith in all official activities." ("A wake up call before November 7," Ron Wexler, Commentary, www.tencommandmentsday.com, on Feb. 14, 2007)
May 6, 2007 has been chosen by the Ten Commandments Commission as Ten Commandments Day for this year.

Inspired Commentary
The efforts to call for more societal morality have their positive points for Bible believers. However students of Bible prophecy might have a little reluctance to link up with society morality movements because of Bible indications as to where those movements might end up.
The dignitaries of church and state will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected. (The Great Controversy, p. 592)

Canadian Political Scientist on Churches

A Canadian political scientist has written about how to relate to conflicts between religious and state values and church tax exemption:
TORONTO, February 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A political scientist at the University of Toronto has argued that as Canadian "Charter values" and Christian values drift further apart, churches should either adhere to and promote the state ideology, or lose the financial support they enjoy through their tax-free status.
In her article, "Living Better Multiculturally: Whose values should prevail?" published in the Fall 2006 edition of the Literary Review of Canada, Janice Gross Stein equates "Canadian values" with "Charter values," in other words, those formulated and championed by the Liberal party of Canada after Pierre Trudeau's leftist revolution. ... ("Religions Must Conform to Canadian 'Charter Values' or Lose Charitable Status says Influential Prof," LifeSiteNews.com, Feb. 1, 2007)
While the above is but one voice in Canadian society, one writer mentioned in the article that Stein's line of thought was "troubling" and that "this is the first time a public intellectual has openly advocated forcing religious bodies to conform their inner principles to the ideology of the state." (ibid.)

Inspired Commentary
Inspiration predicts that a time will come even in the United States when persecution more severe than losing tax-exempt status will come to those who values are at variance with society:
As the Protestant churches reject the clear, Scriptural arguments in defense of God's law, they will long to silence those whose faith they cannot overthrow by the Bible. Though they blind their own eyes to the fact, they are now adopting a course which will lead to the persecution of those who conscientiously refuse to do what the rest of the Christian world are doing, and acknowledge the claims of the papal sabbath. (The Great Controversy, p. 592)

Bird Flu found in England

The potential flu pandemic has not occurred, but the disease has been spreading in birds nonetheless:
LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165 people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
Officials said the disease had killed 2,600 turkeys on the Bernard Matthews company turkey farm in Suffolk county, northeast of London. All 159,000 turkeys at Bernard Matthews, one of Europe's leading producers, were being slaughtered as a precaution,..." (Bird Flu Detected on Turkey Farm in England," washingtonpost.com, Feb. 4, 2007)
The article also noted:
Health officials around the world have been closely monitoring the potential spread of infected birds, and some have warned of the potential for a deadly pandemic.
Defra officials said the H5N1 strain has been confirmed in birds in at least 45 countries. ...
"I think people understand this is first and foremost a problem for poultry, not for people," he [British Poultry Council spokesman] said. "I am hoping we will not see any particular change in buying habits." (ibid.)

Inspired Commentary
Disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. The time is near when, because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the diseases that curse our earth. (Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 366).

Florida Tornado

A tornado that struck on February 2 at between 3 and 4 a.m. took 20 lives, 14 of them in a two-minute period.
LADY LAKE, Florida (CNN) -- Stunned residents, working in the rain Saturday, poked through debris for pieces of their lives deposited the day before by central Florida storms and a tornado whose winds reached 160-165 mph. ("Floridians staggered by 160-mph wind," cnn.com, Feb. 3, 2007)

Inspired Commentary
The day of test and purification is just upon us. Signs of a most startling character appear, in floods, in hurricanes, in tornadoes, in cloud-bursts, in casualties by land and by sea, that proclaim the approach of the end of all things. (Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, November 8, 1892).

Source: http://projectrestore.com/trumpet/tpt2007_03.htm

NO PLACE FOR THE HOLY PLACE?


The sanctuary system


The sanctuary services represent our plan of Salvation.

They are seen in two parts. Both are essential.


No place for the holy place?


Some argue that Christ went directly into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary when He ascended after the resurrection. They use Hebrews 9:12 to support their idea. ?Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place (or "holy place," NASB, RSV) once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.? (NKJV). The proposed logic follows that Christ's sacrifice on the cross brings us salvation without further appeal. If already redeemed, why pray? Notice that the Hebrew Christians living after the cross as we do were saved only by appeal to their heavenly High Priest: ?But He [Jesus], because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.? (Heb. 7:24, 25), Also 8:1.
The argument eliminates a preadvent period of time for judgment because if already redeemed at the cross, we would have no need for judgment. The sacrifice of Christ is indeed complete. He has paid the full price for our sins, but as in the verses quoted above, we are saved only by personally coming to God in prayer through Him. We must ask for and continually depend on His power to live in righteousness by faith. The argument of Christ?s entering the Most Holy Place directly after the cross is based on the sanctuary system of the Old Testament which describes the complete plan of salvation. But if we deny the Holy Place ministry, we have denied the whole system including Christ?s redemption for us as expressed in Hebrews 9:12.
The two-part ministry in the Holy and Most Holy places is seen in Leviticus. Ordinary priests representing Christ, throughout the year before the Day of Atonement would take the blood of the animal slain by the repentant sinner and sprinkle it in the Holy Place before the veil separating the two rooms. The sinner would then be forgiven by God by trusting the Lamb of God to come. (Lev. 4:27-31; John 1:29). On the Day of Atonement the high priest, also representing Christ, would minister in the Most Holy Place. During this second and final period of time (Lev. 16), the sanctuary was cleansed or vindicated. Notice verse 16: ?thus he [the high priest] shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins [may also be translated ?sin offerings?]; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which abides with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.? (RSV). We can see that the sanctuary was cleansed in recognition of the sacrificial offerings made throughout the year and the repentant people were cleansed (verses 29, 30).
In summary, the two parts of tabernacle ministry represent the year before the Day of Atonement and the one Day of Atonement and the ordinary priests and the high priest. ministry in the Holy Place and in the Most Holy Place, forgiveness and cleansing, and justification and sanctification.
This two-part ministry is also seen in Dan. 7:13. The verse is accurately translated only in the (KJV). ?I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.? A cloud of angels took Jesus to heaven (Acts. 1:9-11). They took Him first to the Holy Place. It is the first room entered going into the tabernacle from the courtyard where the altar of sacrifice was. It represented the sacrifice of Christ. Then they (the cloud) took Him into the closer presence before the Father (Ancient of Days), that is, into the Most Holy Place. Thus He ministered in the first part of the heavenly sanctuary until the end time represented by the Day of Atonement, then in the second part. The first of this two-part ministry cannot be ignored.
A simple understandingChrist did go to heaven after the cross. Do you remember the experience of Mary Magdlene near the tomb? See John 20:17. He was inaugurated in heaven at the time of Pentecost. Then He sent the Holy Spirit as His representative John 14:16. . How do we understand ?having obtained eternal redemption? while there is still opportunity to lose it? The passage is accurately translated. We recognize that, in a special sense, God?s promises are present assurance of a future reality. ?These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.? (1 John 5:13). Many people have died after the apostle?s inspired statement. Their immortality and ours, however, is still future (1 Thess. 4:16, 17; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; Heb. 11:8-10; 39, 40).
To confirm our understanding of divine promises Consider other inspired statements that describe a future fulfillment as if it were a present reality. Here are Jesus'? words: "But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living" (Matt. 22:32). The patriarchs had been literally dead for some 300 years before the Lord originally identified Himself to Moses in these terms. (Ex. 3:15). Jesus was speaking to the Sadducees who denied the resurrection of the dead. Looking forward to the time of the resurrection, Jesus could see these patriarchs raised to life (John 5:26). He would then be God of the living. Jesus? statement expressed a future event as a present reality.
Conclusion: Heb. 9:12 pictures Christ's inauguration after the cross and before His ministry in the Holy Place of the sanctuary of heaven began. The preadvent judgment is still an integral part of our salvation as pictured by the sanctuary services. Praise God!


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Friday, April 06, 2007

LAW AND GRACE




Law And Grace


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Love is the Harmony between Law and Grace.











What does the Savior do to save us from the curse of the law? Does He abolish the law that He may save its transgressors? "The idea that the law is our school-master to bring us to the Savior, that we may be justified by faith, is often urged as proof that the law is abolished. How is the law our school-master to bring us to the Savior? We answer. It shows our guilt and just condemnation, and that we are lost without a Savior. Here the apostle Paul, who was converted since the time when it is said the law was abolished, 'had not known sin but by the law' Roman 7: 7. 'By the law is the knowledge of sin.' Romans 3: 20. Read a full account of Paul's experience in this school, also his deliverance from the carnal mind, which 'is not subject to the law of the Creator' Romans 7: 25; 8: 1-7. The instruction of the law is absolutely necessary, for without it we can never know our guilt in the sight of the Lord. It shows our just condemnation, its penalty hangs over our heads; we find ourselves lost, and fly to the Savior. What does He do to save us from the curse of the law? Does he abolish the law that he may save its transgressors? He assures us that He did 'not come to destroy' it; and we know that the law being 'holy, just, and good, can not be taken back, without destroying the government of Him who gave it. Does the Savior modify its character, and lessen its demands? FAR FROM IT. He testifies that 'one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.' Matthew 5: 18; Luke 16: 17; James 2: 10. And he shows that those who in heart commit any act of iniquity, are transgressors of the law. Matthew 5: 22, 27, 28; 1 John 3: 15. If the Saviour did not abolish or relax the law, How can those who have fled to him 'for refuge' hope for Salvation? What does He do to save the transgressors from the sentence of the Law? He gives up himself to die in their stead. He lays down his own life 'a ransom for many' Matthew 20: 28. "The Creator so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life" John 3: 16. Man though justly condemned, can now be pardoned without dishonoring the Creator, or making void His law. The Lord can be just, and yet the justifier of him which believe in the Saviour YAHU-shua. Romans 3: 25, 26. Had the law been abolished at the death of the Saviour, it could not have been a school-master many years afterward to bring the Galatians to the Saviour. Paul testifies that he 'had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.' But an abolished law could never have convinced him of sin as a transgressor. James 2: 8, 9, Romans 4: 15. We cannot know sin 'but by the law' but if the law was abolished by the death of the Saviour, the world has never known its sinful state, or realized its need of a Saviour. We may state on the highest authority, that the law brings us to faith for justification, and that faith does not make void the law, but establishes it. Galatians 3: 23; Romans 3: 31. The Fact that the law is our school-master to show us the claims of the Creator, and our own just condemnation, is direct evidence that it has not been abolished, hence, though we have been pardoned through the death of the Saviour, and thus rescued from its righteous sentence, we can never violate its precepts without being convinced by it as transgressors"
The argument against the moral law being "added (In the original Greek, Postilemi = ratified) because of transgressions" will apply with equal force against the moral law having "entered that the offense might abound." If we claim that Galatians 3: 19 can not apply to the moral law, then we must claim also that Romans 5: 20 does not apply to that law.



Let's continue. "It would be absurd to suppose that this law was 'added' to itself. It does apply reasonably to another law, brought in because the one previously existing had been 'violated.' A law cannot be transgressed unless it exists; for where no law is, there is not transgression.' " The moral law never led a man to the Saviour and left him. It always stays with him. WE MAY BE DELIVERED FROM ITS CONDEMNATION; BUT ITS SUPREME AUTHORITY MUST BE REGARDED THEN, AS BEFORE. ITS CLAIMS NEVER LEAVE US. The law does not leave the man when he comes to the Saviour, but the man's relation to it is changed.
"There is nothing in that law about the Saviour, not a hint. All the law does, is to condemn those who break it, and justify those who keep it. It is the sense of guilt in the man's conscience, which is acted upon the spirit of the Creator, which makes him to go to the Saviour; not anything in the moral law itself" The great system of justification by faith' was known as soon as sin entered into the world. We read that "by faith Abel offered unto the Creator a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous" Hebrews 11: 4 ; Psalms 32: 1-2; 68: 6, 13; Isaiah 1: 18; 53: 10-11; 55: 6-7; Habakkuk 2: 4. "Two Books On Galatians" E.J.Waggoner 1886.



The Real Problem behind the Controversy is:
As the protestant churches reject the clear, Scriptural argument in defense of the Creator's law, They will long to silence those whose faith they cannot overthrow by the Bible. Though they blind their own eyes to the fact, They are NOW adopting a course which will lead to the persecution of those who conscientiously refuse to do what the rest of the Christian world are doing, and ACKNOWLEDGE THE CLAIMS OF THE PAPAL SABBATH. (Sunday).



"But the Lord will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
"The Great Controversy" Ellen G. White




PAGAN ORIGINS OF EASTER


April 8, 2001


The Pagan Origins of Easter
By Royce Carlson



Easter celebrations were held hundreds of years before Christ was born as festivals of spring honoring Eostre, the great mother goddess of the Saxons. This name was fashioned after the ancient word for spring, Eastre. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg. From this comes our modern tradition of celebrating Easter with eggs and bunnies.
In the Mediterranean region, there was a pre-Christian spring celebration centered around the vernal equinox (March 20 or 21) that honored Cybele, the Phrygian goddess of fertility. Cybele’s consort, Attis, was considered born of a virgin and was believed to have died and been resurrected three days later. Attis derived his mythology from even earlier gods, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus, who also were supposed to have been born of a virgin and suffered death and resurrection as long as 500 years before Christ was born. The death of Attis was commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection was celebrated three days later on Sunday.
There are other Easter traditions that are pagan in origin. The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring. What we now call Easter lilies were revered by the ancients as symbols of fertility and representative of the male genitalia. The ancient Babylonian religions had rituals involving dyed eggs as did the ancient Egyptians.
The Christian version of Easter is celebrated after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Modern day neo-pagans usually have their spring celebrations on the day of the equinox. Either way, these celebrations have gone on every year continuously for over 2500 years. So, next Sunday, if you go to an Easter sunrise service, hunt for colored eggs or eat marshmallow bunnies, remember you are indulging in pagan rituals that celebrate fertility and the advent of springtime!

Source: http://www.zenzibar.com/Articles/easter.asp

THE NEW THEOLOGY


Deceptions of the New Theology



The "New Theology" of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is indeed ancient heresy. The authors trace the origins back through Evangelical Protestantism to Augustinian Catholicism, through Roman and Greek paganism, finally to Babylonian paganism

.Every pillar of the Seventh-day Adventist faith is shown to be in clear contrast. Not one major doctrine is left unaltered. Christ's human nature, the nature of man, the nature of sin - the New Theology changes the very character of these foundations. The sanctuary message, principles of prophetic interpretation, the Spirit of Prophecy, character perfection, and above all, the gospel of salvation - all come under siege by The Deceptions of the New Theology.

Author: Colin D. Standish & Russell R. Standish

Pages: 290

Publisher: Hartland Publications

Cover: paperback

THE ENEMY OF GOD


James 4



1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.