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FOX 4 News MyFoxKC KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An 8-year-old Kansas boy is causing a national security stir after his name popped up on a no fly list and airlines banned him from flying in fear he might be a terrorist. Bryan Moore's mother said she couldn't believe what she was hearing when her son couldn't fly home from a trip to see his sister, because his name appeared on a terrorist no-fly list. • Video: Eight-Year-Old On No-fly Terrorist List (MyFoxKC) • Video: Eight-Year-Old Was Not Allowed to Board Plane Home (MyFoxKC) Bryan had never flown before, so when he got to the airport in Cortez, Colorado he was a little nervous but no one expected what happened next. "They almost got me scheduled in and then the lady just bowed her head and said, 'We cant get you on this plane, you're a terrorist,'" Bryan said. Bryan's name popped up on a national terrorist watch list, red flagging the soon-to-be third grader as a threat to homeland security. "It meant I couldn't get home, so I had to go the next day and I just really wanted to get home," Bryan said. According to the Transportation Security Administration, no children are on the terrorist watch list. The TSA said if a child's name matches up, it's up the airline to make the necessary changes and let them board the plane. "He's not a security risk, he's not going to blow up that plane and ya know, all he wants to do is get home and see mom. To me there was no human factor in that consideration," Bryan's step-dad Harlen Fletcher said. Paperwork eventually cleared to let Bryan on-board, but the plane already left, making him wait another day to come home. "It's not really fair that I couldn't get home because another man in the world was a terrorist," Bryan said. Great Lake Airlines, who blocked Bryan from flying, did not return our calls. Despite the trouble, Bryan said he can't wait to fly again. |
AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND. *** REVELATION 14:9
Monday, July 16, 2007
8 YEAR OLD BOY ON THE NO-FLY-LIST
660* IS THE BEAST'S LATEST NUMBER
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-18.

*660 Million Dollar settlement for the 500 plus victims of the Roman Catholic (DIOCESE OF L.A.) Church, in Los Angeles, California.
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
HOW TERROR HAS LOST ITS MEANING
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Jul 13, 2007, 00:32
Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years after 9/11? The answer cannot be what George Bush says that it is: it is not the fault of people who hate democracy and freedom.
We know this for a great many reasons. One of the world’s oldest terrorist organizations, the IRA, had no interest in British government and society. It was interested only in being free of their control.
We know Bush is wrong also because the people who genuinely hate democracy and freedom -- the world’s oligarchs, dictators, and strongmen -- are people who hate terror themselves because it threatens their security.
Strong absolute states have no tolerance for terror. The Soviet Union never had a serious problem with terror, neither did East Germany, nor did Hussein’s Iraq.
Absolute states are also frequently supported by, or allied to, the United States, presumably for reasons other than promoting terror. We don’t need to go into the long history of the Cold War to find this. It remains true following 9/11. Contemporary examples include Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt.
Bush is wrong, too, because all evidence, whether from polls or interviews or writing, shows that people living in lands without democracy overwhelmingly would embrace freedom were it available to them.
Of course, all such generalizations are statistical in nature. That is, they are about trends or tendencies that reasonably describe the overwhelming bulk of specific examples. There are always exceptions, extreme examples, what statisticians call outliers, but you cannot talk about any subject sensibly when you talk about only exceptions.
We also know, despite truckloads of publicity saying otherwise, that terror is not by any measure one of the world’s great problems. The number of people killed in the World Trade Center, the largest terrorist attack by far, was less than one month’s carnage on America’s highways. It was the equivalent of about two months of America’s murdering Americans on the nation’s streets.
Terror is intended to frighten and intimidate people, its secrecy and methods calculated to make deaths, even a small number of them, more shocking than everyday deaths. But if we look at societies that have undergone horrors beyond most people’s ability to imagine, horrors greater than any modern terror, we find something very interesting.
Life in London carried on during the Blitz. Germany maintained a huge armaments production despite thousand-plane raids day and night. The people of Leningrad, despite 800,000 deaths from being shelled and starved during the German siege, managed to carry on a kind of society. People in Sarajevo made do through a long and agonizing terror. Even the seemingly-hopeless inmates of death camps often made remarkable efforts to maintain some semblance of normality.
Perhaps the greatest terror experience in modern history was American carpet-bombing in Vietnam. We know from Vietnamese war veterans that these were their most feared events. They were horrific, and the United States left Vietnam having killed something like 3 million people, mostly civilians. But it did leave, and the people it bombed so horribly won a terrible war.
Now all of these experiences, plus many more we could cite, have the elements of randomness for victims and methods that just could not be much more horrible. They all are experiences in terror in the broadest sense. What they tell us is that terror does not work, despite its ability to make people miserable.
I like the anecdote that following the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima, within weeks, wild flowers were spotted growing in the cracks of the pavement. I very much like to think of that as representing the human spirit.
Terror as we traditionally think of it is a method of redress or vengeance for those without great armies or powerful weapons, those at a great disadvantage vis à vis some powerful oppressor or opponent. Generally the grievances behind terrorist acts are reasonable demands that have been ignored or have even been suppressed for long periods of time.
Although sometimes they are unreasonable demands, but in this they are no different from the grievances that often lead to wars or invasions or occupations by powerful states.
Terror generally kills innocent people, something no decent-minded person can accept, but what is always forgotten in the press and government treatment of terror as something alien and unimaginably bad is that war in the contemporary world does precisely the same thing.
We have a powerful trend over the last century shifting the victims of war from armed forces to civilians. In World War I, there were many civilian deaths, but most of what went on at the front was the killing of soldiers. By the time of Vietnam, and even more so Iraq, literally most of the deaths are civilians, overwhelmingly so. The fire-bombing and nuclear-bombing of cities during World War II marked the first great shift, returning military operations effectively to the world Before the Common Era when sacking and raping cities was ordinary.
Why has this happened? The chief reason is increasingly destructive weapons capable of being used from a great distance. Those pressing the buttons not only don’t see what they are doing in any detail, but the damage of which they are capable increases every year. A single plane today can drop enough munitions to utterly destroy a small town. In 1917, a plane could carry enough munitions to destroy a small house, if the pilot were lucky about air currents and other variables.
America makes claims about using ‘smart’ weapons, but these claims are highly deceptive. First, smart weapons are costly, and most bombs dropped are still ‘dumb’ ones. The percentage used in the first Gulf War, a time when there were many press conferences glorifying precision weapons, was on the order of 5 percent smart weapons.
Second, smart weapons require excellent intelligence, something you cannot have under many circumstances. The infamous bomb-shelter event in Baghdad during the first Gulf War, which incinerated four hundred civilians in an instant, happened because American officials thought there were party officials hiding there, but they were wrong.
Third, even with intelligence, decisions are made which are poor ones. The Baghdad bomb shelter is an example here, too. Even if were there some party officials there, killing nearly four hundred others to get them was the kind of savage decision Israel so often makes to its shame.
Fourth, smart weapons do make mistakes with chips or programming or flight controls that are faulty.
Fifth, the better the weapons get, the more the temptation to use them, and the more they will be misused by poor judgment and poor intelligence.
There is no prospect in our lifetime that so-called precision weapons can change the tendency towards killing civilians rather than soldiers.
Terrible weapons are under constant research efforts at ‘improvement.’ The United States has developed gigantic flammable-liquid bombs, the size and weight of trucks. It is busy developing compact nuclear warheads that are, in the view of the kind of people associated with George Bush, both useable and practical.
The problem with modern weapons is not only their great power and complete removal of users from ghastly results, it is their capacity to alter the psychology and morality of those possessing them.
Where great power exists, it tends to be used, sooner or later. This intuitive idea was part of the reason in the eighteenth century for opposing large standing armies. Expert historians have attributed at least part of the cause of World War I to huge standing armies and a ferocious arms race.
It is hard to think of a horrible weapon that has not been used fairly soon after its development: the flame thrower, poison gas, germ warfare, machine guns, landmines, cluster bombs, napalm, and nuclear weapons.
Imagine the psychology of politicians and war planners in Washington, sitting in air-conditioned offices, perhaps just returned from expense-account lunches, discussing developments in, say, Iraq. They don’t see or hear or smell the misery of a people without sanitation or electricity -- these having been deliberately destroyed by the United States in the previous Gulf War and never repaired. These planners, looking at charts on their expensive laptops, only know from certain graphs that they have what they see as a problem and that they have the ability to reduce it or make it go away, almost like wishing away something you don’t like.
The solution comes down to such pragmatic considerations as to whether Tomahawks or B-52s or a wing of fighter-bombers will best meet the ‘need,’ and perhaps the availability of each, and perhaps even comparative benefit-cost ratios (kills per buck), also charted on their laptops.
If this isn’t the banality of evil, I don’t know what is. And when the planners decide which weapon or combination of weapons will best alter the graph, the orders go out, the buttons are pressed, and no one but the poor half-starved people living in dust and squalor have any idea of what actually happens, which people in the neighborhood have their bodies torn apart or incinerated, which houses are destroyed, which children mutilated. The people who carry out these acts see only puffs of distant smoke.
This is modern war as practiced by an advanced society.
On a smaller scale than Iraq, we’ve all read the endless reports of Israeli incursions and assassinations: an entire family wiped out on a beach by distant shelling, an apartment building full of families hit by a missile intended for one resident, pedestrians cut into pieces as a missile hits a targeted car on a crowded street. All of it is put down to stopping terror, all of it is done from a safe distance, all of it kills mainly civilians, and all of it is indistinguishable from terror.
If challenged today for a definition of terror, I doubt anyone could produce a sound one that limits the meaning to the acts of those constantly in our headlines. Rather those acts are now reduced to special cases of something a great deal larger.
Which was the more ghastly act of terror, 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq? Nine-eleven killed about 3,000 people and destroyed a building. The invasion of Iraq killed more than 600,000, destroyed the irreplaceable records and artefacts of an ancient civilization, and left a nation of more than 20 million desperate for work, clean water, and electricity. And it should be stressed that although 9/11 came first, there were no connections between these events, except that the one was used as an excuse for the other.
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CONGRESSIONAL IRAQ DEBATE
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July 14th, 2007
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ENGLISH SWINDLER GETS 20 YEARS
English fraudster gets 20 years for US church scam
British con artist Howard Welsh toured US cities like a modern-day snake oil salesman, targeting Christians with bogus investment plans and scamming his way to some £16m.But his face ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted website and despite crisscrossing continents while on the run, he was today starting a 20-year stretch in a US jail.
Most of the 900-odd victims of Liverpool-born Welsh, 63, had one thing in common: they fell victim to his callous manipulation of their religious faith.
Welsh and his American girlfriend, Lee Hope Thrasher, 53, were based in the resort city of Virginia Beach, in the east coast state of Virginia, but from 1999 took the con on the road, targeting church networks.
They hosted euphoric, deeply religious three-day seminars in hotels while selling "divinely inspired" investments that promised huge returns while helping poor and disabled children abroad. "Do you have enough faith to see this through for a year?" one of Welsh's fliers asked.
Welsh, who styled himself as an "international businessman" and who had earlier tried less successfully to sell a "magical elixir", took inspiration from the infamous 1920s Chicago conman, Charles Ponzi.
Ponzi's signature scam was devastatingly simple. You attract a few investors and then quickly pay out high returns. This creates a buzz, and attracts more investors. Then you disappear.
Welsh and Thrasher - who was today jailed for 15-years alongside him at the district court in Norfolk, Virginia - disappeared from the Virginia area in the summer of 2002. A year later, prosecutors brought the first charges against them.
At some stage, the pair left the US, having wired millions of dollars to 13 destinations, mainly foreign banks in places including Lebanon, Switzerland, Nigeria, China and France. Investigators believe they spent time in Latin America and Africa, as well as Belgium and other continental European countries.
However, the end of the FBI hunt was not quite the stuff of Hollywood thrillers. Welsh and Thrasher were arrested by the Metropolitan police in November 2004 at a train station in the Shropshire market town of Whitchurch, near his elderly mother Doris's retirement home.
The pair appeared to have hidden or lost the money. US investigators have only recovered around £1.25m. Both were ordered today to pay $33, 543,153 (£16,486,990) in restitution.
It emerged this week that Welsh had told lawyers that he gave $31m to a Nigerian man called Femi Coker, who had claimed to work for the Nigerian Central Bank. Welsh said he met the Nigerian in Accra, Ghana, and that the money is still in a government warehouse and he will be able to get it back if he pays a "release tax", the Virginia Pilot newspaper reported.
Investigators soon established nobody of that name worked at the Nigerian Central Bank. The name Femi Coker features in a number of websites warning about Nigerian advance fee cons, the so-called 419 scams. Letters written by a Mr Coker variously describe him as a "director of the ministry of agriculture" or an official at a Nigerian oil firm.
If Welsh did have the tables turned on him by another con artist his many victims might be forgiven for enjoying the irony.
Less than 5% of investors to Welsh's scams - some of whom were Britons - saw returns and a number were left in financial ruins. One elderly woman from Illinois, who has since died, lost around £4m, thinking she was investing in a new bank called Zialogic, which in reality was no more than a UK post office box.
"This was a massive fraud, stunning in both its length and breadth," said US attorney Chuck Rosenburg. "We are very pleased with their convictions."
After their arrest, the pair spent almost two years in UK prisons while fighting extradition but were finally sent to the US in July last year. The same month, in their first court appearance in the US, they insisted they were innocent and wanted to "get the truth out".
But three months into the trial they changed their pleas. Welsh admitted four counts, including conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Thrasher pleaded guilty to three similar counts.
Before they changed their pleas, Paul Chandler, a Met officer, told the trial that the couple had rented a flat in Birmingham, for which Welsh had signed the lease with the name "Holmes Golden". There was evidence of other false identities at the flat, including a "James Bond".
The US Internal Revenue Service told the trial that Welsh had been looking at exploring "something with diamonds" in Ghana.
Thrasher, who previously worked as a victim-witness coordinator, met Welsh in 1997 and her father Harold told the Virginia Pilot that she was under the Briton's control and the family had failed to convince her it was all a scam. But perhaps the best illustration of Welsh's dangerous talent as a conman is the length of time that some of the victims retained faith in him. One investor of £60,000, Greg del Ferro, told the local newspaper, even as the trial was underway last July, that he still did not believe it was a con.
"It was about helping other people. That's what Lee Hope and Howard were stressing. By all means they made mistakes, but they are not the types to deceive or take advantage," he said. Mr Del Ferro wondered whether the pair may have had problems after inviting the "wrong people" to invest.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2126324,00.html
CHRISTRIAN RIGHT DISRUPTS HINDU PRAYER
Christian right disrupts first Hindu prayer in the Senate.
For the first time in history, a Hindu today delivered the Senate’s morning invocation. But three protestors belonging to the Christian Right anti-abortion group Operation Save America loudly interrupted the invocation, stating, “Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer of the wicked, which is an abomination in your sight.” Watch it:
TPM’s Eric Kleefeld spoke with the head of Operation Save America today, who called the Hindu invocation “gross idolatry.” July 12, 2007 5:40 pm
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/12/christian-right-disrupts-first-hindu-prayer-in-the-senate/
Saturday, July 14, 2007
TERRORISM AND THE LAW
Terrorism and the Law: In Washington, a Need to Right Wrongs
Published: July 15, 2007
Congress and President Bush are engaged in a profound debate over what the founding fathers intended when they divided the powers to declare and conduct war between two co-equal branches of government. But on one thing, the Constitution is clear: Congress makes the rules on prisoners.
Editorial: Terrorism and the Law: And in Germany, a Necessary Debate (July 15, 2007) At least that is what it says in Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 11 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to “make rules concerning captures on land and water.” And it is good that Congress seems finally ready to get back on the job. This week, the Senate will consider a bill that would restore to the prisoners of Guantánamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in court.
The Senate and then the House must pass the bill with veto-proof majorities. But that is only a start. The White House and its Republican allies have managed to delay consideration of bills that would finally shut the prison at Guantánamo Bay and begin undoing the damage wrought by the Military Commissions Act of 2006. That national disgrace gave legal cover to secret prisons, kangaroo courts and the indefinite detention of prisoners without charges in a camp outside the United States.
Shutting Guantánamo Bay will not be easy — and it will not be enough. Of about 375 inmates, the administration says only about 80 can be charged under the Military Commissions Act. Along with Guantánamo the entire law needs to be scrapped. Prisoners against whom there is actual evidence of crimes should be tried either in military or federal courts. Mounting an effective prosecution may be hard, since these prisoners were held for years without charges and some were tortured. But it is up to the administration’s lawyers — who helped Mr. Bush create the problem by allowing indefinite detention and torture to begin with — to deal with it.
Human rights groups say there are about 30 inmates who should be released but have legitimate fear of persecution or torture if sent home. The administration reportedly has already sent back some vulnerable prisoners, after obtaining what it must know are worthless assurances of their safety. Congress should require notice of such transfers, real guarantees of protection for released prisoners, and a review of the deal by outside judicial authority.
That leaves around 265 prisoners who have been held for years in violation of American and international law because Mr. Bush decided they were illegal enemy combatants — even though most were captured while fighting the invasion of Afghanistan. Under pressure from the courts, the administration created Combatant Status Review Tribunals to rubber-stamp that designation. These tribunals must be disbanded and their rulings reviewed by courts. Inmates who are not security risks should be released, and the others held under normal articles of war.
President Bush, of course, wants Congress to simply endorse his arrogation of power. The Times reported recently that the White House is seeking support for legislation that would permit the long-term detention of foreigners on American soil without charges or appeal, just on Mr. Bush’s say-so. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said “the biggest challenge is finding a statutory basis for holding prisoners who should never be released and who may or may not be able to be put on trial.”
Challenge? The very idea is anathema to American democracy. Congress did harm enough by tolerating Mr. Bush’s lawless detainee policies, and then by passing the Military Commissions Act. Giving the president a dictator’s power to select people for detention without charges on American soil would be an utter betrayal of their oathto support and defend the Constitution, and of the founders’ vision of America.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/opinion/15sun1.html
L.A. ARCHDIOCESE TO PAY $6OO MILLION
L.A. Archdiocese to settle suits for $600 million
Settlement represents Church’s largest payout in sexual abuse scandal
Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests protest outside Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, seat of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, in September 2006. | |
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Attorneys for the archdiocese and the plaintiffs are expected to announce the deal Monday, the day the first of more than 500 clergy abuse cases was scheduled for jury selection, according to two people with knowledge of the agreement. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the settlement had not been made public.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the payout would be split among the insurers, the archdiocese and several Roman Catholic religious orders. A judge must sign off on the agreement, and final details were being ironed out.
Lead plaintiffs’ attorney Ray Boucher confirmed the sides were working on a deal but he would not discuss specifics. He said negotiations would continue through the weekend and said there were still many unresolved aspects.
Tod Tamberg, archdiocese spokesman, declined to comment on any settlement details.
“The archdiocese will be in court Monday morning,” he said.
Steven Sanchez, 47, was one of the plaintiffs set to go to trial Monday. He was expected to testify in the trial involving the late Rev. Clinton Hagenbach.
Sanchez, a financial adviser, said the past few months have been especially difficult because he had to repeat his story of abuse for depositions with his attorneys and archdiocese attorneys in preparation for trial.
“We’re 48 hours away from starting the trial and I’ve been spending a lot of time getting emotionally prepared to take them on, but I’m glad,” he said. “It’s been a long five years.”
A record settlement
The settlement would be the largest ever by a Roman Catholic archdiocese since the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in Boston in 2002.
Among the largest total payouts was $100 million in 2004 by the Diocese of Orange, Calif., to settle 90 claims. The Archdiocese of Boston agreed in 2003 to pay $84 million for 552 cases, roughly the same figure the Diocese of Covington, Ky., agreed last year to pay to settle about 360 claims. Facing a flood of abuse claims, five dioceses—Tucson, Ariz.; Spokane, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Davenport, Iowa, and San Diego—sought bankruptcy protection.
Last month, the Archdiocese of Portland agreed to pay about $52 million to 175 people, while setting aside another $20 million for anyone who comes forward in the future.
The Diocese of Spokane, Wash., also recently emerged from bankruptcy protection after agreeing to pay $48 million to settle about 150 claims.
The Los Angeles archdiocese, its insurers and various Roman Catholic orders have paid more than $114 million to settle 86 claims so far.
Archdiocese to sell property
The largest of those came in December, when the archdiocese reached a $60 million settlement with 45 people whose claims dated from before the mid-1950s and after 1987 — periods when it had little or no sexual abuse insurance. Several religious orders in California have also reached multimillion dollar settlements in recent months, including the Carmelites, the Franciscans and the Jesuits.
However, more than 500 other lawsuits against the archdiocese had remained unresolved despite years of legal wrangling. Most of the outstanding lawsuits were generated by a 2002 state law that revoked for one year the statute of limitations for reporting sexual abuse.
Cardinal Roger Mahony recently told parishioners in an open letter that the archdiocese was selling its high-rise administrative building and considering the sale of about 50 other nonessential church properties to raise funds for a settlement.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge overseeing the cases recently ruled that Mahony could be called to testify in the second trial on schedule, and attorneys for plaintiffs wanted to call him in many more.
The same judge also cleared the way for four people to seek punitive damages—something that could have opened the church to tens of millions of dollars in payouts if the ruling had been expanded to other cases.
GODLY VS UNGODLY

2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalm 1
PRAYER, FAITH, RELIANCE ON GOD

What is needed in this, our time of danger, is fervent prayer, mingled with earnest faith, a reliance upon God when Satan casts his shadow over God's people. Let everyone bear in mind that God delights to listen to the supplications of His people; for the prevailing iniquity calls for more earnest prayer, and God has promised that He will avenge His own elect, who cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them. {2SM 372.2}
Men are prone to abuse the long-suffering of God, and to presume on His forbearance. But there is a point in human iniquity when it is time for God to interfere; and terrible are the issues. "The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked" (Nahum 1:3). The long-suffering of God is wonderful, because He
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puts constraint on His own attributes; but punishment is nonetheless certain. Every century of profligacy has treasured up wrath against the day of wrath; and when the time comes, and the iniquity is full, then God will do His strange work. It will be found a terrible thing to have worn out the divine patience; for the wrath of God will fall so signally and strongly that it is presented as being unmixed with mercy; and the very earth will be desolated. It is at the time of the national apostasy, when, acting on the policy of Satan, the rulers of the land will rank themselves on the side of the man of sin--it is then the measure of guilt is full; the national apostasy is the signal for national ruin. {2SM 372.3}***
God has thrust His people into the gap, to make up the hedge, to raise up the foundation of many generations. The heavenly intelligences, angels that excel in strength, are waiting, obedient to His command, to unite with human agencies; and the Lord will interpose when matters have come to such a pass that none but a divine power can counteract the satanic agencies at work. When His people shall be in the greatest danger, seemingly unable to stand against the power of Satan, God will work in their behalf. Man's extremity is God's opportunity. {2SM 373.1}
Now is the time when the loyal and true are to arise and shine; for the glory of the Lord is risen upon them. It is no time now to hide our colors, no time to turn traitors when the battle presses sore, no time to lay aside our weapons of warfare. Watchmen on the walls of Zion must be wide awake. {2SM 373.2}
I am so thankful at this time that we can have our minds taken off from the difficulties that surround us, and the oppression that is to come upon the people of God, and can look up to the heaven of light and power. If we place ourselves on the side of God, of Christ and the heavenly intelligences, the broad shield of Omnipotence is over us, the mighty God of Israel is our helper, and we need not fear. Those who touch the people of God, touch the apple of His eye.... {2SM 373.3}
Brethren, will you carry the spirit of Christ with you as
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you return to your homes and churches? Will you put away unbelief and criticism? We are coming to a time when, more than ever before, we shall need to press together, to labor unitedly. In union there is strength. In discord and disunion there is only weakness. God never designed that one man, or four, or twenty, should take an important work into their own hands, and carry it forward independently of other workers in the cause. God wants His people to counsel together, to be a united church, in Christ a perfect whole. The only safety for us is to enter into the counsels of heaven, ever seeking to do the will of God, to become laborers together with Him. No one company is to form a confederacy, and say, "We are going to take this work, and carry it on in our own way; and if it does not go as we want it to, we will not give our influence to have it go at all." This is Satan's voice, not God's. Do not obey such suggestions. {2SM 373.4}
What we want is the spirit of Jesus. When we have this, we shall love one another. Here are the credentials that we are to bear: "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:35).... {2SM 374.1}
Selected Messages, Ellen G.White, Book II, Pages 372-374.
Exceprt of [ADDRESS GIVEN BY ELLEN G. WHITE AT GENERAL CONFERENCE SESSION OF 1891.]
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THE THREEFOLD UNION OF RELIGION
The Threefold Union of Religion
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. Rev. 16:13, 14.
By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation [the United States] will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.
Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience. ..
Papists, Protestants, and worldling will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium.
When our nation [the United States] shall so abjure the principles of its government as to enact a Sunday law, Protestantism will in this act join hands with popery; it will be nothing else than giving life to the tyranny which has long been eagerly watching its opportunity to spring again into active despotism.
MARANATHA, Ellen G. White, Page 190.
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BENEDICT XVI BARES HIS INQUISITION TEETH
Catholic Pope, Benedict XVI, bared his Inquisition Teeth in three shocking ways last week! If the world stands at the brink of the World War III which is planned to produce Antichrist, we should not be too surprised to learn that the future False Prophet (Roman Catholic Pope - NEWS1052) is finally ready to show his true colors to the world.
Let us address these three events which reveal much about the inner heart of the Pontiff and the lateness of the prophetic hour in which the peoples of the world find themselves right now.
A) Pope Benedict XVI declared, not only that the Roman Catholic Church is the only real church, but that all Protestant churches are not really churches at all!
But, the real shock was Benedict's belief that Protestants cannot even have their own churches!
NEWS BRIEF: "Dismay and anger as Pope declares Protestants cannot have churches", by John Hooper in Rome and Stephen Bates, The Guardian (London), July 11, 2007
"Protestant churches yesterday reacted with dismay to a new declaration approved by Pope Benedict XVI insisting they were mere 'ecclesial communities' and their ministers effectively phonies with no right to give communion ... The view that Protestants cannot have churches was first set out by Pope Benedict seven years ago when, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he headed the Vatican 'ministry' for doctrine."
" 'It is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to [Protestant communities], given that they do not accept the theological notion of the Church in the Catholic sense and that they lack elements considered essential to the Catholic Church'."
When the current office holder of the future False Prophet -- the Roman Catholic Pope -- states that Protestant Churches have no right to exist because they "lack elements considered essential", that stand should shock discerning Christians greatly.
You see, right now, the Catholic Pontiff lacks the political power to energize his proclamation so that he could shut down all Protestant churches, but, once Antichrist is on the world scene, and the Pope serves him as his False Prophet (Revelation 13:11-15), he will have the political power at his disposal to shut down Protestant churches all across the globe, and do with its adherents what he wishes!
Remember, Revelation 13:16-18 reveals that the False Prophet is the one who will force the peoples of the world to take the Mark of the Beast, and cause those who refuse to be beheaded! A future Roman Catholic Pope -- serving the Antichrist -- will cause tens of millions of Protestant Christians to be martyred when they refuse his demand to take the Mark of the Beast.
That is the power of the future False Prophet, and that is the spirit of this proclamation!
Since the world seems standing at the cusp of the appearance of Antichrist, it is significant that the Roman Pope would strip away his mask so all people can see his genuine heart. He truly wants all Protestant churches to be shut down.
B) Pope Benedict revived the old "Tridentine Mass" said in Latin. This Mass was originally created in 1560 and was the standard Mass used all during the infamous Inquisition Period, during which over 70 million people were murdered and tortured simply because they would not accept the Catholic's "Salvation by Works", chief of which was the systems of Indulgence and Purgatory.
NEWS BRIEF: "Jewish groups protest Pope's decision to revive old Latin mass", YNET News,
"Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was all but swept away by the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. The decision, a victory for traditional, conservative Roman Catholics, came over the objections of liberal-minded Catholics and angered Jews because the Tridentine Mass contains a prayer for their conversion."
We need to know exactly what the "Tridentine Mass" is, and why its reinstatement now might be important in this prophetic hour in which we live. Checking the Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, we read:
"The Tridentine Mass is the common term used to refer to the Roman Rite Mass of the Catholic Church as contained in the successive editions of the Roman Missal promulgated from 1570 to 1962 .... Its most distinctive feature is that it is celebrated in Latin, and therefore it is also referred to as the 'Latin Mass'."
Two facts are critically important here:
1) The date when the Tridentine Mass was initiated was 1570. Therefore, this Mass was the Mass which the Roman Catholic Church was daily practicing during the time of the horrific Roman Catholic Inquisition, which lasted approximately from 1550-1850. Listen to the Wikipedia description of the Inquisition:
"In the 16th century, in Roman Inquisition, the Pope, Paul III, established a system of tribunals, ruled by the 'Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition', staffed by cardinals and other officials. In 1908 it was changed to 'Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office' by Saint Pope Pius X. In 1965, the 'Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office' was changed again to 'Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith', which persists down to today."
While I was reading the book, "Foxes' Book of the Martyrs", I was struck by the repeated instances in Europe when a large group of Catholic adherents would suddenly become frenzied and start attacking Protestants in very large numbers. These type of attacks occurred repeatedly over a number of centuries and in different parts of Europe.
I explored the possible reasons why Catholic people would turn in an instant from being normal human beings -- many of whom were friends and neighbors to the Protestants -- to being enraged killers. In some of the instances recorded, so many Protestants were murdered so rapidly that their collective blood flowed down the street emergency water drains like rainwater.
After some deliberation and study, I concluded that some form of Mind Control must be at work. But, what kind of Mind Control would be able to simultaneously afflict so many Catholics living in different eras of time and in different geographical locations? What do Roman Catholics do constantly, every week and many every day?
They attend Mass, said in Latin, the Tridentine Mass! Could this Mass possess hidden Mind Control? Further, could a supernatural spirit suddenly trigger a latent Mind Control message which had been implanted time and time again by this Mass?
Former Satanist, Doc Marquis, told me in no uncertain terms that the Mass, said in Latin, possesses very powerful Witchcraft. If the Mass is said in any other language, it loses all its powerful Witchcraft.
But, Doc also told me that hidden Mind Control triggers are contained within the Mass. These triggers could then be activated at the will of the demonic spirit which infuses Roman Catholicism.
Therefore, Pope Benedict XVI has just re-activated the very Mass which was used all during the time of the Inquisition! Whereas the Inquisition killed its tens of millions, the future Inquisition will kill billions. This next story speaks directly to the issue of the Roman Inquisition.
C) The Pope opened the refurbished torture chamber in the Vatican known as the "Pope's Dungeon", a relic from the days of the bloody Inquisition!
NEWS BRIEF: "Papal Dungeon Opens to Visitors", The Guardian (London), July 13, 2007
"ROME (AP) - The dungeon beneath the papal fortress of Castel Sant'Angelo, where popes of old locked up criminals and enemies, will temporarily reopen to the public on Friday after a 10-year closure for restoration work. Through August 26, visitors can take nighttime guided tours of the prison built in the fort's cellars by Pope Alexander VI in 1503, stepping through darkened cells and an infamous courtroom where death sentences were handed down."
Now, why would the Vatican spend 10 years and undoubtedly a lot of money, to resurrect a relic of the infamous Roman Inquisition? During the time of the Inquisition, it was common knowledge amongst the people that "the Popes had the best torturers". Therefore, whenever a prisoner could not be broken by a king's torturer, that king could then request that the Pope send his torturer to break the poor man.
One more fact is important in this story. During the time of the Inquisition, all dungeons and prisons served the requirements of the Inquisition. What was the name of the office of the Inquisition? Noting, above, where we quoted from the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, the names varied, from 'Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition' to the modern title, ''Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith".
Are you aware that Pope Benedict XVI was Cardinal Ratzinger, whom Pope John Paul II appointed as the new director of the 'Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith'? This office of the Inquisition had been closed for over 100 years, but Pope John Paul II reinstated this bloody institution, and appointed Cardinal Ratzinger as its director! (Read NEWS1676, "THE TRUE FACE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INQUISITION -- ROTTEN SPIRITUAL FRUIT FROM THE ABYSS OF HELL")
Therefore, these three stories all have one common factor: they point to the Inquisition, both to the future Inquisition in fulfillment of Revelation 13:11-18, and to the past Inquisition. In the first story, Pope Benedict XVI stated the core reason that the office of the future False Prophet will close Protestant churches and begin killing its adherents, i.e., he recognizes only Catholic Church as a genuine church, and all others are pretenders.
In the past two stories, the past Inquisition is clearly in view. As the world teeters on the brink of the planned World War III which will produce Antichrist, we should not be surprised that the Vatican is steering the Catholic faithful toward the tools of the Inquisition.
Source: http://cuttingedge.org/newsletters/
P.S. The definition (sustained here) of the FALSE PROPHET IS NOT BIBLICAL. Yet, the revealing nature of the message contained in this article is right on target, and on time! Also, the current PREFECT of "the congregation for the doctrine of the faith", is an American: William Levada of San Francisco, California. WOW! American as in North American Union? No wonder!
Friday, July 13, 2007
THE SECRET, YOGA, AND HARRY POTTER

Part Four: What do THE SECRET, YOGA and HARRY POTTER have in common?
The Law of Attraction, root of THE SECRET, requires mastering the mind for power:
- command the Universe for what you want.
- visualize it is already yours in the present, and
- believe you have made it happen right now.
Mastering mental visualization of thoughts and desires, or learning how to “empower” oneself to bring about the like, is the core belief of self deification in eastern mysticism mingled with self adulating humanism. “I am able”. “I am my own master”. “I have power to create my own reality”. “I am able to control the universe”. “Within myself I have power to accomplish whatever I want”. “I can”. “I will”. These arrogant and grandiose imaginations are the echo of vain sentiments once voiced by Lucifer (19) known as the dragon, the serpent of old who is called the Devil and Satan (20) the Father of Lies, and more, who in his pride and arrogance believed himself to be equal to his Creator, the God above all gods. Satan’s narcissism didn’t make him God but his egotism presumed himself to have that status.
A Proverb says, “Through presumption comes nothing but strife” (21) Presumption gives one over to “a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false…” “be judged” for not believing the truth and taking “pleasure in wickedness” (22) Believers in the power of THE SECRET are being seduced by spirits of delusion who are bent on bringing destruction and bondage to their naïve victims.
New Age beliefs suggest we mimic Lucifer’s manipulations in order to gain power. The Harry Potter books encourage Harry, fellow students at Hogwarts occult Boarding school and millions of readers “to concentrate” in order to attain the power of young Harry the witch. (23)
Yoga too, according to its sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, teaches that the goal of life is to free the mind and intellect from complexities and to “focus the mind” on the glory of the Self through the yoga of meditating techniques geared at realizing one’s true god-like nature akin to the essence of Brahman, the impersonal universal energy.
THE SECRET, Yoga and Harry Potter’s central theme is to “concentrate” through mental gymnastics and learn to focus, “tap into”, the so called innate “good” believed to be within the self in order to gain power and achieve what is desired.
Such is the essence of eastern mysticism and foundational to paganism, nature religions and humanism that encourage self deification. The Bible states within self is a “sin nature” prone to perpetuate evil, resulting in guilt and bringing about ultimate spiritual death (the separation of man from God). Only God can bridge the chasm of eternal death remedied by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross: for His death comes eternal life to the believer.
To look to self for power to raise oneself from eternal death and gain immortality is a futile exercise of faith and completely misplaced. Jesus said, “I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die.” (24)
Jesus also said, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”(25) He gives rest from self seeking spirituality as offered in THE SECRET. He gives rest from programs of self transformation, self purification, self attainment of the “Elixir of Life or immortality as offered in Harry Potter (and the “Philosopher’s Stone” in UK or the Sorcerer’s Stone in USA). And, He gives rest from the mind altering spirituality of Yoga designed to further reincarnation.
Endnotes
(19) Isaiah. 14: 12 – 14
(20) Rev.12: 9
(21) Prov. 13:10
(22) 2 Thes. 2:11
(23) DVD Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged. Making Evil Look Innocent
(24) John 11: 25-26
(25) Matt. 11:28
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SABBATH OBSERVANCE
Things to Know about Sabbath ObservanceAnd MANY Bible Facts on the Sabbath Question
There are 6 simple instructions to make the Sabbath a delight:
Rest from Work, Do Not Require Others to Work,
Stay Home, Short Travel, No Shopping, Buying,
or Selling, AND Do Not Kindle Fires.
Remember - James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is
the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. BE EXTRA CAREFUL
NOT TO KINDLE FIRES OF STRIFE ON THE SABBATH, AND IT IS
NEVER WRONG TO DO GOOD, OR TO DO ACTS OF KINDNESS ON
THE SABBATH.
We simply, as a child BY FAITH, according to the more sure Word of God,
which is written in the KJV Holy Bible. There we find mention of the Sabbath
137 times in 116 verses from Gen to Rev. By Faith, we receive the
blessing of the Sabbath presence of the Lord of Sabbath. By faith we believe
that the King of Glory, the Lord of Sabaoth, the Lord of Hosts, the Holy One of
Israel, is knocking at our door Friday evening. We just welcome Him in and by
faith are aware of His Holy presence, and in His presence is FULLNESS of Joy.
Lord Jesus Christ, summarized the 10 commandments with 2, that we love G-d
with all our heart, and love our neighbor as ourselves. The first 4 commandments
tell us how to love God, and the remaining 6 tell us how to love our neighbor.
Is it really true that the church described in the book of Acts met on the first day of
the week and not the Sabbath as the 4th commandment, (not suggestion), instructs?
This tradition of the Pope, is carried on in churches with ignorance, deception,
assumption, thoughtlessness, and pride.
The scriptural and historical truth is that the Pope changed it in the 4th
century to honor the Sun God, Baal, and make the pagans happy. Pagans,
insisted everyone worship on Dies Solis, or Day of the Sun, to honor
Lucifer's sun god, AKA, Baal,
According to bible time reckoning, the day begins at evening. "And
the evening and the morning were the first day." (Gen 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, &
31)
The Sabbath begins at sundown on FRIDAY and ends at sundown on Saturday.
SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH - THE SEVENTH DAY - THE LORD'S DAY.
SUNDAY IS THE FIRST DAY - the Pagan Sun god day - DEIS SOLIS - Day of the sun.
At sundown on Saturday, the First Day of the week begins. Since the time of
the apostles the L-rd's Supper, or Communion was held at or near the end of
the gathering and not at the beginning. The traditional way of ending the
Sabbath gathering of the believers was the Havdalla, or closing of the
Sabbath. This would be followed by the "L-rd's Supper" or Communion.
Therefore, if you asked the disciples when they celebrated the "L-rd's
Supper," since it was after the Havdalla, (close of Sabbath), they would tell
you the beginning of the First Day of the Week, which was right after sundown
on Sabbath. Anything occurring after the Havdalla, was the First Day
of the week, not the Lord's Day. The Lord's days is the seventh day, or Sabbath
day.
In Acts we find the following verses which show when the church, before it
was paganized by the Pope in the 4th century, gathered for worship. Cleary
it was Sabbath when they gathered for worship because everyone worked
at their regular jobs on Sunday or the First day of the week.
and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they
knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every
sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts 13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the
Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next
sabbath.
Acts 13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together
to hear the word of God.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Acts 16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side,
where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women
which resorted thither.
Acts 17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath
days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and
persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the
morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
held upon the FIRST day, and even this was a night meeting. (Acts
20:5-12.
When we study and rightly divide the word of truth, we find in the details
of that one New Testament first day meeting IN FACT to be a profound
and NOT Sunday. Anything after the Havdalah, or closing of the Sabbath, at
dark on Saturday night, is the first day of the week. In the church about which
we read in the book of Acts the communion service was held at the END
of the Sabbath gathering, right after Havdalah. Since communion was
right after Havdalah, at dark on Saturday, anything AFTER Havdalah (on Saturday
night) was the First day of the week. Remember, the day begins at evening,
according to bible time reckoning. Evening and morning the first day. The Saturday
evening communion right after Havdalah, Saturday night, was called the First day.
CAREFULLY observe Acts 20:7 - And upon the first day of the week, when the
disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart
on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
UNDERSTAND that in the first century church gatherings that communion was right
after Havdalah, or closing of the Sabbath on Saturday night, we see that Paul
preached all night Saturday night, which is called the Evening of the First day.
Paul left during the daylight of that SAME First Day at which he began preaching
after Havdalah, after the communion the night before, beginning his preaching
right after communion communion, on Saturday night, which was the evening part
of the First Day - Paul left during the morning part of that SAME first day. Acts 20:11.
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and,
as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood
up for to read.
We see that Paul's (Acts 17:2) custom was the same as Yeshua's custom. They
obeyed the 4th Commandment and went to gather for prayer, fellowship in the
word, and worship on the Sabbath.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect
of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
May I say, Don't let man judge you on this. Do it the way God said. Do it
the way Jesus and the apostles did. Don't let any man judge you on this.
Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to
obey God rather than men.
You will be blessed. The 4th commandment is still the 4th commandment. God
did not change it. Men may try to change it but it is part of the everlasting covenant.
Keep it and do exploits. Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant
shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong,
and do exploits.
The main god in almost all ancient pagan empires was the Sun God, Baal.
Sunday has always been the day that pagans worship the sun god, Baal.
During the 4th century the Sun God, Baal, "mysteriously" vanished, and Roman
"Christianity" began. This Roman "Christianity" was very different from that
practiced and taught by Yeshua, Jesus, and the first century apostles. In
reality it was a polluted, corrupt, "Christianity" which suddenly included
all of the Sun god rituals.
Many scriptures warn against worship and practice of the pagan rituals and
they particularly warned against the Sun God, Baal, worship and rituals.
Yeshua Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, had come and defeated Satan by
personally paying repentant man's death penalty for the transgression of
God's laws. He Himself had established those laws at the time of creation.
And yet in the 4th century, a great deception, brought in the dark ages,
with a blend of the worship of God and the worship of pagan gods,
particularly the Sun God, Baal. The Roman emperor, Constantine, the
Supreme Pontiff, officially proclaimed this mixture of pagan worship
with christian terms applied to be official state "Christianity" in the Roman Empire.
As the gospel spread throughout the nations; and the persecution of true
believers proved to be ineffective. Then Satan, the author of confusion, went back
to his original form of deception in the garden that worked so well with Adam and
Eve. That somehow we will be more like God by disobeying God's commandments?
Also promoting the lie that God does not or will not punish sin. That is Satan's
lie regardless how many preachers preach it and call themselves Christian, it is
still Satan's like. The devil has the copyright on that one.
The truth is that "sin is the transgression of the law" and that the penalty is death.
The celebrations including December 25th in honor of the Sun God, Baal, at the
winter solstice, and Easter, the solar observance of the spring equinox, attempted to
void the 1st commandment in the name of "Christianity". The graven images of pagan
deities were given "Christian" titles, and attempted to void the 2ndcommandment.
To say that "Christians" do not have to obey the commandments of G-d, is to take
the name of G-d in vain and violates the 3rd commandment. The Sunday observance
of "Deis Solis", the day of the sun, attempted to void the 4th commandment.
We say attempted because Messiah had proclaimed "till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law." Yet, God has
always preserved a faithful remnant. And God's truth will emerge to, and
through, that faithful remnant, regardless of the pressure applied to make
the laws of God of no effect by the traditions of men.
The official recognition of sun worship in the Roman Empire began during the
time of Aurelian when he instituted the cult of "Sol invictus". In the year
307 A.D. Emperor Diocletian, a sun worshiper, was responsible for the
burning of scripture which made it possible for later emperors to formulate
their own version of "Christianity." These would always include the
violation of the 4th commandment with observance of "Deis Solis," the day of
the sun, or Sunday.
After Diocletian, Emperor Constantine, while claiming to be a Christian
maintained the title "pontiffus Maximus" the high priest of paganism. It is
interesting that the title "pontiffus Maximus," supreme pontiff, is a title
in a religion calling itself "Christian" today. Constantine's coins were
inscribed with: "SOL INVICTO COMITI", (Committed to the Invincible Sun).
During his reign pagan sun worship was blended with the worship of the
True God, and officially entitled "Christianity." The priests of the sun god,
Baal, were known as "Fathers." Sunday (Deis Solis), the day of the sun, was
considered by sun worshipers a sacred day of rest. December 25th was
celebrated as the birth of the sun, given birth by the "Queen of Heaven" -
"Mother of god." Up until the 4th century, none of these sun god, Baal,
practices and rituals could be found in the Christian faith. In the 4th
century, through confusion and manipulation, rituals of "sun worship" were
pronounced by followers of Satan to be "Christian" in nature.
Constantine ushered in the "Dark Ages," which continued under the iron
fisted rule of the "Supreme pontiff" of Roman "Christianity" until enough
brave men gave their lives that the Holy Bible, the written word of God,
could be translated into the language of the common man, and not just Latin.
The printing press of Gutenberg, printing the Holy Bible, in the language of
the common man, brought an end to the "Dark Ages."
The 4th commandment is found in Ex20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy.
WARNING - one of the most sure ways of witnessing an explosion of a
religious spirit bound churchman is to ask "When did G-d change the 4th
commandment?" Let the Holy Spirit lead in sharing this important truth
that FEW will have ears to hear. It would also be good to have memorized
Matt. 5:11-12. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you
and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My Sake. REJOICE, and be
exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they
the prophets which were before you.
at His word BY FAITH and believe that the King of Glory, the Lord of Sabaoth, the Lord
of Hosts, the Holy One of Israel, is at our door knocking at our door Friday evening.
We just welcome Him in and try to be aware of His presence and in His presence is
FULLNESS of Joy.
Rest from Work, Don't Require Others to Work, Stay Home,
Short Travel, No Shopping, Buying, or Selling, AND Don't Kindle Fires,
the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between
me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that
doth sanctify you.
with His GREAT & Holy Name - ISRAEL - the name of the family of God.
6 simple instructions to make the Sabbath a delight to 1583 religiously enforced RULES,
some even having death penalty, and no one knew all the rules, and they made Sabbath
anything but a delight. Jesus really tore into the Sabbath Cops and Sabbath Sheriffs, with
some of His most strong rebukes. Therefore one job we try to avoid is the Sabbath Cop
job.
SABBATH is special time with You and Yeshua. Part of what is special is that personal fellowship
and working things out between just you and Yeshua is part of what is Special and adds to
the delight of Sabbath.
Buying or Selling, AND Don't Kindle Fires (Extra Effort to avoid any kind of strife - the tongue is a fire).
THE WAY TO GOD
The Way to Godby
Glen Walker
Psalm 77:13 "Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary;" John 14:6 "Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
If God's way of salvation is in the sanctuary and if Jesus is "the way" then we need to go to the sanctuary to see Jesus and know God's way of salvation. In the Sanctuary service we see various offerings all pointing to Jesus. We see the fragrant incense rising with the prayers of God's people. The fragrant incense represented the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The offering of the blood of the lamb represented the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ in my place. By faith I see Him dying the death that I deserve so that I might have the life He deserves. The fragrant smell of the incense, the righteousness of Christ and the bright red blood, representing the substitionary life and death of Jesus Christ, sprinkled in front of the law and over the law make it possible for God to cover His law with the Mercy seat and give us His mercy.
The law speaks death but the blood of Jesus Christ and the righteousness of Jesus Christ speaks life. So bring your prayers to God's mercy seat sprinkled with the bright red drops of the blood of Jesus Christ and the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
The way men have come to God was through the blood and the incense and prayer. Prayer alone was never "good enough" At the sanctuary there were continual blood offering--the blood was sprinkled before the curtain - behind it was the ark of the covenant which had the ten commandments inside. The commandments spoke death to the transgressor, You and me, but the Mercy Seat sprinkled with blood spoke life. Jesus Christ, the lamb of God, died as my substitute. God on His Throne, the Mercy Seat, accepted the prayers that were combined with the blood and the incense, the life and death and righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ bore all the insults at the cross. He was stripped naked. His back was torn open with at least 78 whip lashes, possibly the Jewish number 40 minus one, applied twice. Two times thirty nine equals Seventy-eight stripes. "By His stripes we are healed" Isaiah 53:5.
The whip had strips of leather covered with metal and bone fragments. From his back the blood flowed freely. -- You and I are saved by that precious blood. While people were insulting Jesus and spitting at Jesus and driving 7 inch nails through His hands (or wrists) and feet, He was praying for His persecutors "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Jesus loves you. He is offering you His blood, His forgiveness, His life, His death, His Holy Spirit. Won't you accept God's way and thank Him for His wonderful love today?
The big three cleaning household cleaning agents are bleach, vinegar, and ammonia. Most big name cleaning agents have one of these as their basis. But there is only one thing that will clean you spiritually. There is only one cleansing agent that will take away your guilt, your sin, your soiled past. There is only one cleaning agent that can make a whore a virgin again. There is only one cleaning agent that makes honest men out of dishonest men. That cleaning agent is the precious blood of Jesus. You can have this cleaning agent absolutely free and yet it is priceless-no amount of money or good deeds can buy it. It is offered to you " without money and without price."Isaiah 55:1. It is priceless, no amount of money can buy it. It is the most expensive item in the entire Universe and yet it is offered to you as a free gift. You get it when you ask Him for it and when you meditate on the closing scenes of the Life of Christ. Come to the cross often. Meditate on the blood of Christ flowing from His torn and bleeding back. They whipped and stripped His back of skin and left just bone and muscle and blood flowing down. They jammed and beat the crown of thorns, one to two inch's long, into His head in mockery, laughing as the blood trickled down His face and His beard.
We are saved by that blood! Praise the Lord you and I are saved by his precious blood. What an amazingly loving Saviour! "Were you there when they crucified my Lord..." are the words to a song. You can and you must go there in your mind if you want salvation at last because that is where the only cleansing agent exists that will take out the spots of sin and make you (spiritually) a virgin again, make you a righteous person. In your mind see Jesus taking your place on the cross. That cross was originally designed for a thief and a murderer named Barabbas. Barabbas deserved to die, not Jesus Christ; but the innocent lamb of God, Jesus Christ took His place. He died in place of Barabbas. He died in your place.
We all deserve to die. "The wages of sin is death" "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23 & 6:23. We all deserve to die. But the precious lamb of God, your Saviour, and mine, bled and suffered and died covered in blood and spit and shame and abuse in your place, and in mine. THANK YOU Precious Lamb of God!!!!. THANK YOU Jesus!!!!
The law is wonderful and the law is God's precious law but the law offers no life. The law only offers death to the transgressor and that is why the sinner must approach that divine law with the blood of Jesus Christ and the incense, His righteousness. Won't you invite Jesus Christ into your heart today and won't you invite Him often! Jesus says "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20 Pray for a new vision "without vision the people perish."
Pray with me. "Dear Father we come to your Mercy Seat, your throne, in heaven. I see Your law condemning me inside the Ark of the covenant and I plead the precious blood of Jesus. I have nothing else to offer. I need the incense, I need Christ's perfect life-His righteousness. I thank you for the gifts of Christ's blood and Christ's righteousness. I confess my sins and my sinfulness and ask for your forgiveness and for your Holy Spirit. You have promised "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9. I claim this promise and thank you for forgiving me and cleansing me and giving me Your Righteousness. In Jesus name Amen."
If you prayed that prayer you have just become clean through the blood of the lamb of God. You have made use of the only cleansing agent in the universe that will remove the spots of sins in your life. Jesus promises you that you are now perfectly clean, that you now have His perfect character, His perfect life. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." "For God so loved" you the reader, the one who prayed this prayer "that He gave His only begotten Son, that" you the reader, the one who prayed this prayer, believing "in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Do you believe His promise? Do you believe you have Christ's Righteousness right now? Do you believe God has done what He says He will do? Do you believe that He has exchanged Christ's righteousness for your filthy rags? If you have claimed His promise, if you have claimed Christ's blood and His righteousness then at this moment you have Christ's character of love. Keep coming back to receive again of the precious blood of Jesus, the only cleansing agent for the spots of sin available anywhere in the Universe. Come in prayer and in humility with the blood of Jesus Christ you will never be turned away.
Matthew 11:28 "All you who work hard! All you who carry heavy loads! Come to me! I will give you rest." The heaviest load we carry is the load of sin. God will forgive us. He will give us His rest for our heavy load of sin if we are willing to exchange it with Him.
What will be the result? Jesus says "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." Can you imagine that? You will actually sit with the King of Kings and Lord of lords, the creator of heaven and earth, the creature of the billions of stars, the creator of the entire universe. It is He, the creator, who bled and died in your place!! You will sit down next to Him!!
Look at the word FORGIVE. What does it mean? It is a combination of two words-for and give. This involves two individuals, God and me. I bring God a life of sin, impurity, unholiness and wickedness God takes and exchanges my life of sin, impurity, unholiness and wickedness for the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is a gift that God the Father and Jesus Christ have purchased for me. It was the most expensive purchase anywhere in the entire universe at any time in all of history. It cost God everything! It cost God agony, His blood, His suffering in my place. Jesus offered Himself as the bleeding lamb of God dying in my place. And now He offers Himself daily, hourly and moment by moment working to save you twenty four hours a day. Today He offers to work for you twenty four hours of every day, day and night. See Him by faith, standing in front of the Mercy Seat, the covering of the Ark, above the law. See Him offering His own blood, sprinkling His own blood above the ten commandments exchanging your sins for His life, forgiving and cleansing you!
1 John 1:7,9 "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1 Peter 1:18,19 "For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect."
In the garden of Gethsemane Christ could have, even then, refused to die in place of you and me. It was not yet too late. He could have wiped the great "drops of blood" from His forehead, and left us to die. He could have gone free. He could have said, "Let the guilty sinners receive the penalty of their own sin, and I will go back to My Father." He had that choice. He was innocent. He was sinless. He did not have to die. It was entirely His choice. Aren't you thankful that He chose to take the curse of sin to save the guilty--you and me. He makes His decision. He will save man at any cost to Himself. He accepts his baptism of blood, that through Him millions may gain everlasting life. In submission he trembles and prays: "If this cup may not pass away from Me, except I drink it, Your will be done." He accepts to be baptized in blood and spit and shame and to suffer separation from His Father out of love for you and me. He pleads His blood for you now. Won't you thank Him today?
