Sunday, January 27, 2008

A HEAVEN TO WIN


A Heaven to Win


Watch ye therefore, and pray always. Luke 21:36.


The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. . . . {Mar 35.1}



The condition of things in the world shows that troublous times are right upon us. The daily papers are full of indications of a terrible conflict in the near future. Bold robberies are of frequent occurrence. Strikes are common. Thefts and murders are committed on every hand. Men possessed of demons are taking the lives of men, women, and little children. Men have become infatuated with vice, and every species of evil prevails. {Mar 35.2}



Everything in the world is in agitation. The signs of the times are ominous. Coming events cast their shadows before. The Spirit of God is withdrawing from the earth, and calamity follows calamity by sea and by land. There are tempests, earthquakes, fires, floods, murders of every grade. . . . Rapidly are men ranging themselves under the banner they have chosen. Restlessly are they waiting and watching the movements of their leaders. There are those who are waiting and watching and working for our Lord's appearing. Another class are falling into line under the generalship of the first great apostate. Few believe with heart and soul that we have a hell to shun and a heaven to win. {Mar 35.3}



The crisis is stealing gradually upon us. The sun shines in the heavens, passing over its usual round. . . . Men are still eating and drinking, planting and building, marrying, and giving in marriage. Merchants are still buying and selling. Men are jostling one against another, contending for the highest place. Pleasure lovers are still crowding to theaters, horse races, gambling hells. The highest excitement prevails, yet probation's hour is fast closing, and every case is about to be eternally decided. . . . {Mar 35.4}



Solemnly there come to us down through the centuries the warning words of our Lord from the Mount of Olives: "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." {Mar 35.5}



Maranatha, Ellen G. White, p.35.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

ROME'S FOOT SOLDIERS

Photo: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/romans/images/soldiers/army.jpg

Secret Forces of the Church

Rome’s Foot Soldiers

By Pastor Hal Mayer

Dear Friends,

This month we have an amazing revelation to study in light of fulfilling prophecy. How is America becoming the beast that speaks as a dragon? We are going to look at what is going on behind the scenes to lead the United States to become a persecuting nation? Though I attempt to verify all information from publically available sources, for certain aspects of this study I am indebted to my friends at the Eternal Gospel Church in West Palm Beach, FL for their excellent research, some of which is incorporated into this message.

I recently read an interesting article in Zenit, the Vatican’s internet news agency concerning the first visit of President Bush with Pope Benedict XVI on Sabbath, June 9, 2007. Zenit did an interview with Ambassador Rooney, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican prior to the President’s visit. Here is an excerpt from it.

Zenit reported that the Ambassador said that “The United States and the Holy See are going down parallel paths in many important areas…,” Those important areas mean much in light of prophecy. Revelation 13 tells us that there is a parallel path to persecution of God’s people on which the two nations are collaborating.

But before we go any further, let us bow our heads in prayer. Dear Father in Heaven, It is a great privilege to be your people in the last days. But we are so far from what you want us to be. I pray that you will today help us realize the importance of the hour in which we live. As we take a look behind the scenes in world events, I pray that you will help us sense that the end is near. May your Spirit rest on us each one. We pray in Jesus’ name amen.

Let us turn in our bibles once again to Revelation 13. Speaking of the two horned lamb-like beast the scripture says in verse 12, and “he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”

In order for this to happen, there has to be an alignment between the United States and the papacy. This alignment has been a long time in the making, and most of it has been secretly developed and matured in the halls of power where most common citizens do not have access. Most of the efforts of Rome to manipulate the United States into a position of alignment with her have been done without the knowledge or the consent of the American people, or for that matter, the consent of the citizens of any nation where Rome or its agents are at work. Notice too that the United States exercises all the power of the first beast, the same power that Rome had during the dark ages when she was master of Europe. America was established on vastly different principles than Rome. America doesn’t know by nature how to exercise all the same power as the Papacy. But America is in school. She is learning, and learning fast. She is taking very good notes in the lessons that she is getting. And she is putting them into practice.

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, America has been implementing the same principles as were used in the inquisition which gave Rome enormous power and control. The only way that America can exercise the same sort of power that Rome used in the dark ages, is when she implements Rome’s principles in the land of the free. These changes we have documented on many of our sermons over the last few years. But now, we dig a little deeper. These changes could not have happened unless there was a change in the mentality of Americans toward the constitution and toward Rome. How did this happen? What was the cause of the dramatic change in perspective of the American people so that now they are prepared to allow the United States to become the beast power that will soon exercise all the power of Rome? This is dramatic and it is important.

The alignment between Rome and the United States is significant. There is so much alignment that America actually forces all peoples to worship the pope and the papacy. Notice the extent of the alignment at the end of time. Verse 15. “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” America is prophesied to become a persecuting power. It is not difficult to understand in light of recent events in which prisoners – even American citizens – have been subjected to torture in secret prisons without access to attorneys for several years, and without many other constitutional protections that we have come to expect.

In 2006, we got a glimpse of something that opened my eyes to things I did not know could be documented. Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, had been doing very much to undermine the U.S. Constitution, the highest law of the land, and replace it with inquisitional justice for “terrorist suspects.” In May she received an honorary law degree from Boston College, a prestigious Jesuit institution. The symbolic gesture revealed the Jesuit hatred of the U.S. Constitution. This insult to the U.S. Constitution revealed to me that there are many things going on behind the scenes of which we are unaware. Once in a while we can see a small piece of it that pops up on the surface. The hidden agenda of Rome can be seen occasionally if you are paying attention.

What is the hidden agenda of Rome? “The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation,” says the book Great Controversy, page 565. “She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Catholicism is gaining ground upon every side. See the increasing number of her churches and chapels in Protestant countries. Look at the popularity of her colleges and seminaries in America, so widely patronized by Protestants.” This prophetic testimony should be a warning to all of us that Rome’s agenda is to increase her power to the point where she can enforce her canon law on the people of the United States and any nation that is not already a Catholic nation.

The Vatican has become very important to the United States president. In discussing the upcoming meeting between Benedict XVI and President Bush, on June nine of this year, Ambassador Rooney said, “This [visit] is a tangible reflection of how important the Holy See is to the United States and to the president. The most direct and tangible way to show the interest of the president is a presidential visit…” he said. “The president has done many things that relate to the values that the Holy Father and the Holy See support and nurture.”

That is what the ambassador said about the importance of the Vatican to the United States. But note how important the United States is to the Vatican. The president has done much throughout the seven years of his presidency so far to help the Vatican gain much influence and power in the United States.

After the meeting between Benedict XVI and President Bush, we learned from CNN that the president was “awed” by the pope. "I was talking to a very smart, loving man," Bush said of his first talks with Benedict,” said CNN. "After six-and-a-half years of being a president ... I've been to some unusual places and met some interesting people, and I was in awe," Bush told a joint news conference in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. "It was a moving experience for me." Perhaps the ‘love’ that President Bush spoke about helped him to ignore the danger signs that should have beat in his Methodist heart when meeting with the very smart Pope. My guess is that the Vatican gained more from this meeting than did the United States by far. Remember the pope views himself as if he were above the other rulers of the world. For example, Vatican etiquette dictates that the pope wears white (and perhaps some red or scarlet) while all others wear penitent black.

The pope gave President Bush a drawing of St. Peter's Basilica, and an official Vatican gold medal – two symbolic gifts related to the Vatican’s religious and civil nature. President Bush responded by giving the pope a “Moses walking stick” with the 10 commandments carved on them. Imagine that. The 10 commandments, including the 4th commandment carved on the pope’s new walking stick. I wonder if this is a portend of the future conflict over the true Sabbath that is coming between God’s church and the powers involved in this exchange of gifts. It is ironic that the two men desecrated God’s holy Sabbath day by meeting for political business.

We also learned that one of the items that the two men discussed was immigration in the United States. Rome wants more immigrants from Catholic nations to come into the United States as this is in her political interests. CNN reported that President Bush said that “Benedict was watching the U.S. immigration debate intently.”

President Bush has worked hard to establish an immigration law that would provide a “track to citizenship,” as he calls it, for foreigners that come into America illegally. Of course, we must understand that this means a track to Catholic votes. Rome has consistently sent Catholic immigrants into America since its beginning, knowing that this would increase Rome’s power in the United States. Now she is doing it again.

But immigration is only one area of cooperation. The President has opposed gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, and has worked to set up a means of undoing the abortion laws in America. As a rule, he has generally opposed anything that the church does not publically want (with the notable exception of the war in Iraq) and has supported most things that the church endorses. While many of these things are good, such as his opposition to gay marriage and abortion, these are key distinctive issues that Rome champions which are greatly helping to align the Vatican and the United States. The Administration is cooperating very effectively.

The President has also very often appointed Catholics to positions of great responsibility such as when he elevated Alberto Gonzales, whose judicial philosophy is far more inquisitional than it is constitutional, to the position of Attorney General of the country; or when he elevated Roman Catholics John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, which gave the court the first Catholic majority in its history; or when he elevated General Michael Hayden, a Roman Catholic from Pittsburg, to head the CIA, and many others. He regularly meets with officials of the Catholic Church, especially those in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He attends Catholic prayer breakfasts, opposes euthanasia, and the list goes on and on.

What is going on behind the scenes? Why is the Catholic Church gaining such enormous credibility and influence in the halls of power in the USA? Could it be that there are some things going on that we don’t know about, or to which most people aren't paying attention?

The rather revealing statements of Ambassador Rooney, though general in nature, tell us that there is a strong cooperation between the U.S. and the Vatican especially in areas that are important to the Vatican. Revelation 13 tells us that this is inevitable prophetically in order to bring about the fulfillment of the verses that say that “all that dwell upon the earth shall worship” Rome and the dragon, who is behind Rome.

Recently, the U.S. Congress has changed hands from a republican controlled congress to a democratically controlled congress. But there is another changing of hands taking place that most people don’t see. The U.S. Congress is gradually being taken over by the Jesuits. The changeover between political parties took place on January 4, 2007. But the events surrounding it reveal the other, more powerful and very dangerous changeover taking place behind the scenes. The former republican majority leader of the House of Representatives was John Boehner, a Roman Catholic who was trained in Catholic schools and graduated from Jesuit Xavier University in 1977. Xavier University at Cincinnati, OH, according to its website, “provides a liberal arts education in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition. The University is the third-largest independent institution in Ohio, the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation, and one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities nationwide,” said its website. Boehner had been the highest ranking Roman Catholic republican lawmaker in American history during his tenure as the republican majority leader. Rome loved it, and trumpeted the news saying in the National Catholic Register, that “Catholics have suddenly achieved an unprecedented level of ascendancy in Washington.” (Feb 12, 2006).

During the changeover in 2007, John Boehner, with a smile on his face handed the House gavel to Nancy Pelosi, now the democratic Speaker of the House, and a Roman Catholic from San Francisco, CA. Incidentally, she is the first female Speaker of the House in American history.

I should point out before we go further that when speaking of secret societies like the Jesuits, it is important that we document what we say, either by publically known facts for by prophetic inspiration in the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy.

Nancy Pelosi is one of the most influential promoters of the Jesuits in the United States at the moment. Nancy was raised in strongly Catholic Maryland in a strict Roman Catholic home. As a little girl Nancy wanted to be a priest instead of a nun because “there seemed to be a little more power there,” she said years later. Nancy was trained in Roman Catholic schools around the city of Baltimore where her father was the mayor. Then she attended and earned her degree at Trinity College, now known as Trinity University, a Roman Catholic college for women, in Washington, DC. Her husband graduated from Georgetown University, the oldest Jesuit institution in America.

Nancy is no stranger to the Jesuits. She was apparently a close friend of Father Robert Drinan S.J. who served in Congress from Massachusetts for a decade (1971-1981) as the first priest to be a voting member of the U.S. Congress. While in Congress, Drinan served on a number of important committees and most prominently on the House Judiciary Committee. Until he died in January of this year he had been a law professor at Georgetown University for 26 years. Nancy Pelosi delivered the Eulogy at his funeral, and the House of Representatives had a moment of silence in his memory.

On May 10, 2006, almost a year before Drinan’s death, Pelosi, while democratic minority leader; along with Dennis Hastert, the Speaker of the House at that time, presented the Congressional Distinguished Service Award to Jesuit Robert Drinan. Within a year Nancy Pelosi would become the Speaker of the House. It is significant that these powerful people were honoring a Jesuit for distinguished service to the United States of America. Incidentally, the Speaker of the House is third in line to be the president if something should happen to the president and vice-president.

What kind of distinguished service could have been the basis of this award? The Jesuit order was established specifically to work for the “overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy,” according to Great Controversy, pg. 234. That being the case, the distinguished services provided by Robert Drinan would have likely included, along with his well-known humanitarian activities, efforts to overthrow the protestant-inspired Constitution of the United States so that papal principles and papal power can be strengthened and eventually take over. The U.S. Constitution was designed to specifically prevent the rise of Roman Catholic principles in the United States. Dennis Hastert is a “protestant.” But obviously he either doesn’t understand the issues at stake, or he is in cooperation with Rome to accomplish its purposes. Nancy Pelosi is a Roman Catholic who obviously is courting Jesuit influence.

Drinan was forced by Pope John Paul II to not run for office in 1980 for a sixth term in Congress. But hasn’t Robert Drinan opened the way for Catholics to enter into the U.S. political system more effectively? After 10 years of serving in our U.S. legislature; after receiving the highest Congressional Award, after shaping the minds of many current members of Congress during his 26 years at Georgetown University and, after receiving the highest judiciary award – the American Bar Association Gold Medal, and after gaining the respect and admiration from our policy makers at the highest levels of the U.S. government, wouldn’t this greatly reduce any fears in the minds of voters or the lawmakers themselves of voting for, or working with other Catholic legislators. Incidentally, it happens that in the present Congress, 22 out of 54 Jesuit-trained members were trained at Georgetown. That is almost 41% of them. Georgetown has a huge influence on Congress. You don’t need a lot of Jesuit-trained Catholics to leaven the whole Congress, especially when 30% of Congress is already Roman Catholic and who are expected to act consistent with church teaching in formulating the laws of the land.

On January 4, 2007, just a few days before he died, Robert Drinan S.J. said a mass for Nancy Pelosi just before she was sworn in as Speaker of the House. This gesture is significant. Nancy Pelosi asked Drinan to commit her term as Speaker of the House to the church. During that mass he said, “God has great hopes for what this nation will do in the near future. We are here [at the inaugural mass for Nancy Pelosi] to ask for the courage to carry out God’s hopes and aspirations.”

What was he referring to when he said that God has great hopes for what United States will do in the near future? What near future? And how near in the future? Remember this is a Jesuit speaking. Could something very significant for the Roman Catholic Church be about to happen in the near future in relation to the United States of America? What does he know that the rest of the nation doesn’t know? We know that the coming of Jesus is in the near future, and that will be a significant event. Rome will tremble in fear. But I don’t think that is what Robert Drinan was referring to.

Revelation 13 tells us that America will deceive the whole word by miracles. Maybe Robert Drinan was referring to the miracles that America will be able to do in the sight of the beast. Here is the 14th verse. Referring to the second beast or the United States of America, it says that he “deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and did live.”

When did the beast get a wound by the sword? That was in 1798 when French Revolution-inspired Napoleon’s general Berthier entered the Vatican and took the pope captive and sent him into exile. But Rome survived that deadly attempt at its power, and has slowly been rebuilding it all along.

Could Robert Drinan have been referring to the persecution that America will soon impose on God’s people? Here is the 15th verse and onward. “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads: 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.”

Perhaps Robert Drinan knew what is planned for God’s people. Perhaps he was aware of that which hardly anyone, including many in God’s church realizes; that there is coming a Sunday law to force all to worship on Rome’s Sunday instead of God’s holy Sabbath day. It is when the law of the land enforces Sunday observance that Sunday worship becomes the mark of the beast.

Rome changed the Sabbath in the fourth century onward officially, and required all nations, tongues and people in the Holy Roman Empire to worship on her day, or she persecuted them wherever she could. Now tracking alongside Rome, as Rome restores the Holy Roman Empire, the United States is setting up the mirror image of the beast. Little by little, step by step, America is preparing to enforce the dogmas of the church on its citizens through the laws of the land. That is why the separation of church and state is so important to the U.S. Constitution. That is why the removal of the wall of separation of church and state is so important to the Jesuits and Rome. That is why Rome wants to get as many Roman Catholics, especially Jesuit-trained Roman Catholics into the U.S. Congress. That is why Rome is working so hard to remove the principles of liberty in the U.S. that protect freedom of religion, conscience and faith.

Rome is relentless. She keeps up her agenda for generation after generation of lawmakers. Lawmakers come and go, but the papacy continues to press her agenda. Each successive pope and each successive bishop continue to pressure lawmakers to support her principles. Most lawmakers approach congress with their political views the way they are, and they don’t see the larger agenda behind the scenes. But many Catholics and certainly the Jesuits come to it with a more complete understanding of the goal. So they can maintain the trajectory of their plans until eventually they get them passed. Each new congress is co-opted by the Jesuits and the bishops to continue the step by step process of changing America from its protestant principles to Roman Catholic ones. The more Roman Catholics in power, the more effective Rome becomes.

In her eulogy for Drinan’s funeral on February 5, Nancy Pelosi referred to Robert Drinan’s sermon at her swearing in mass a few weeks before and said that “afterwards, he sent me a letter asking that I put his words in the Congressional Record,” reported the California Catholic Daily on February 5. “And I commend his call for ‘peaceful revolution’ to all of you gathered here today.” What is meant by “peaceful revolution?” Could that have something to do with significant developments in the near future that Robert Drinan spoke about? Could that be referring to a revolution that will change the U.S. Constitution so that religious liberty is eliminated, as the Bible predicts?

What does Nancy Pelosi know that the rest of the nation doesn’t know? It is obvious that Pelosi and Drinan were working together to accomplish something. Perhaps that something is in harmony with the purposes of the Jesuits and the Catholic Church. Pelosi’s final sentence in her eulogy for Robert Drinan sounds as if she was speaking to him in heaven. “Father Drinan: your statement has been entered in the Congressional Record, and your message has been heard.” What message? Is this a message with instructions for the future? What are Jesuits advising U.S. elected officials?

Pelosi has another close friend Jesuit in the president of the University of San Francisco, another Jesuit University. He is Father Stephen A. Privett, S. J. She became acquainted with him when she attended his inauguration as president of the university. At the opening of the 110th congress, Nancy Pelosi asked him to deliver the prayer. The prayer is revealing. He said, “We pray that the new leadership of this Congress and all of its members will write into law the story of a country that measures its success by God’s standards,” reported the University of San Francisco News.

Imagine praying a prayer like that in front of the Congress of the United States. What would it mean to make the law of the land “measure its success by God’s standards?” Jesuit Privett was referring to the Ten Commandments, and specifically to the 6th commandment not to kill when he went on to refer to the “weakest and most vulnerable among us.” He was obliquely referring to abortion and was using his prayer as a way to preach to Congress on one of the most important issues to the Roman Catholic Church. Father Privett is the first Catholic priest to pray before the full session of Congress in history.

Nancy Pelosi is certainly pioneering new ground in her love of the Jesuits. This occasion provided an opportunity for her to introduce more members of Congress to the Jesuits and create friendships that will last long beyond her years in Congress. It is another opening for the Jesuits in the U.S. Pelosi is very well connected with the Jesuits and obviously collaborates with them. She continues to work in their interests.

It happens that the two men who were vying to take Nancy’s place as the democratic Majority leader were both Roman Catholics. The winner of the election among the House Democrats was Steny Hoyer. He was also trained in Jesuit schools, in particular at Georgetown University. So, let us think about this for a minute. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the House Majority leader, Steny Hoyer, and the House minority leader John Boehner are all Roman Catholics. Do you think that Rome has taken over the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress? Two of these three were trained in Jesuit Universities and all three graduated from Catholic Institutions where they were no doubt trained in Catholic political thought.

The Senate majority and minority leaders at the moment are Harry Reid (D-NV) who is a member of the Latter Day Saints church, and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who is a Baptist. Perhaps we will one day see the same kind of developments in the Senate as we now see in the House. Time will tell.

It happens that there are quite a number of Jesuit trained members of the 110th Congress. Of the 535 members 54 of them, or more than 10 percent are graduates or alumni of Jesuit colleges and universities. This is an increase of nearly 15 percent compared to the 109th Congress which had 47. Incidentally, 29 of them have been in Congress for more than 10 years. Of them, 8 have been there more than 20 years. As Rome continues to encourage its adherents to run for public office, expect to see more and more Jesuit-trained Roman Catholics in high positions of responsibilities.

The Spirit of Prophecy tells us that the Jesuit order sets for itself the goal of influencing the laws of the land. I quote “Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations.” That is from the book Great Controversy, page 235. Could it be that the United States is now very strongly influenced by the Jesuit order as they have climbed up to be the counselors of kings, presidents and monarchs the world over and especially in the United States, the land of liberty? Could the Jesuits be shaping the policies of the United States in its legislative assemblies as they have wended their way into positions of political power? Could there be those in Congress who were trained as Jesuits and though they aren't working openly for the church, they are silently and secretly working for the purposes of the Jesuit order while posing as regular people?

Listen to this familiar statement from Great Controversy, page 581. “[Rome] is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men. She is piling up her lofty and massive structures in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions will be repeated. Stealthily and unsuspectedly she is strengthening her forces to further her own ends when the time shall come for her to strike. All that she desires is vantage ground, and this is already being given her. We shall soon see and shall feel what the purpose of the Roman element is. Whoever shall believe and obey the word of God will thereby incur reproach and persecution.”

Is Rome silently strengthening her forces? Is she being given vantage ground? Is she stealthily and unsuspectedly exerting her influence in legislative halls? Could the current developments in Congress be largely a result of the work of the Jesuits in the U.S. Congress just as prophecy predicts? I hope you can see that this prophecy is being fulfilled right before our unsuspecting eyes. We can catch a glimpse of it if we are paying attention. But I suspect, based on this statement, that there is much more than meets the eye behind the scenes. Is Rome creating secret recesses where she can conduct her former persecutions? Perhaps one day this will come to light too.

On November 3, 2006 Benedict XVI met with the Jesuits in Rome at the Gregorian University which is the very university that Ignatius Loyola established in 1551 near the very beginning of the Jesuit order. This university is the source and spring of all Jesuit activity. For Protestants to attend and be trained at this university is an amazing denial of their faith. Pope Benedict met with some of the Jesuits that work there in a private meeting and told them that running this particular university is “’one of the greatest services’ the Jesuits perform for the Catholic Church throughout the world,…” and that the church “wants the Gregorian to preserve its Ignatian spirit.”

The pope told the students in a public meeting that “he hoped their education would help them become people who ‘know how to perform services and fulfill offices competently in the church and, especially, to be leaven for the kingdom of God in the temporal sphere.”

These statements make it clear to anyone who understands the history of the Jesuits that the church uses the Jesuits to effect change in the world and in the churches to favor Rome. The word “leaven” is significant because all Jesuits know that one of their key responsibilities is to work in the temporal world to fulfill the objectives of the church and the Society of Jesus; to overthrow all that Protestantism has done. The Jesuits are still dedicated to the work of overcoming all opposition to Rome on every front. They are the foot-soldiers that Rome uses in its war against God’s truth, and against the last generation of God’s people in history.

Are you ready for the final conflict? We can see the marshalling of forces preparing to surprise you with their power. Your life will be in danger if you are faithful to God. Your family, your friends and acquaintances need to know of the things that are coming upon the world. There is a concerted effort to overthrow your faith in the making. You may think that you are strong now. But wait until you are threatened with death. Wait until you are threatened with torture. Then what will you do?

Jesus, the One who died for you says, “I am with you always. Even unto the end.” Matt 28:20. Do you have an experience with Jesus that will help you resist the powers of darkness that are making their assault on this earth? You cannot do it. It is impossible for human beings to overcome the powers that are intending to bear down on your person and your soul. You have two choices. You can walk with Christ now and remain loyal to Him, and He will walk with you through the furnace of affliction; or you can stand on the side of Rome and the devil and live in peace with the world, but be at war with heaven. Which will it be my friends? Which will it be?

I pray that you and your family will remain faithful to Christ. Get under his protection by asking Him to come into your life and give you overcoming power. That is the only way. You cannot survive if you don’t overcome your sins by the faith of Jesus Christ. Now is the time.

Let us remember that we have a friend in the all powerful Jesus. He can and will fulfill His promises to give you a life of victory. He can fulfill His promise to give you an eternal destiny with the angels of God in the city of light, the New Jerusalem.

Let us pray. Our heavenly Father. We see the wicked, satanic forces building up in our world in such a way that there will appear to be no hope for your people. Yet we know that that extremity is your opportunity to show your power. I pray that every person listening to this message will surrender their lives to Jesus now, so that they can prepare for the crisis and the affliction that is coming. I pray that you will open the eyes of the blind, especially among your people, that they may see the signs of the times. In Jesus name, amen.

Source: http://www.ktfministry.org/resources/sermons/KTF_En_200708.htm

JESUS PAID IT ALL

JESUS PAID IT ALL

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Refrain

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim,
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

Refrain

And now complete in Him
My robe His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.

Refrain

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

Refrain

When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

Refrain

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus’ feet.

Refrain

Words:
Elvina M. Hall, 1865.

Music:
John T. Grape (MI­DI, score):

Our church was un­der­go­ing re­pairs, and the cab­i­net or­gan was placed in my care. Thus af­ford­ed a plea­sure not be­fore en­joyed, I de­light­ed my­self in play­ing over some of our Sun­day school hymns. I de­ter­mined to give tan­gi­ble shape to a theme that had been run­ning in my mind for some time, to write, if pos­si­ble, an an­swer to Brad­bu­ry’s beau­ti­ful piece, “Jesus Paid It All.” I made it a matter of pray­er and stu­dy and gave to the pub­lic the mu­sic now known as “All to Christ I Owe.” It was pro­nounced ve­ry poor by my choir and friends, but my dear wife per­sist­ent­ly de­clared that it was a good piece of mu­sic and would live. Time has proved the cor­rect­ness of her jud­gment. Soon af­ter, the Rev. George W. Schreck called on me to se­lect an­y­thing new that I had to of­fer. On hear­ing this piece he ex­pressed his plea­sure with it and stat­ed that Mrs. El­vi­na M. Hall had writ­ten some words that would just suit the mu­sic. I gave him a co­py of it and it was soon sung in sev­er­al church­es here in Bal­ti­more [Mar­y­land] and well re­ceived. At the sug­gest­ion of friends I sent a co­py to Pro­fess­or
The­o­dore Perk­ins and it was pub­lished in Sab­bath Car­ols. Un­der the pro­vi­dence of God it has been go­ing ev­er since. I trust that it has not failed to ac­comp­lish some good to my fel­low-men for the glo­ry of God.

Here’s a story about the song:

On New Year’s night, 1886, some mis­sion­ar­ies were hold­ing open-air serv­ic­es in or­der to att­ract pass­ers­-by to a near-by miss­ion, where meet­ings were to be held later. “All to Christ I owe” was sung, and af­ter a gen­tle­man had giv­en a short ad­dress he hast­ened away to the miss­ion. He soon heard foot­steps close be­hind him and a young wo­man caught up with him and said:

“I heard you ad­dress­ing the open-air meet­ing just now; do you think, sir, that Je­sus could save a sin­ner like me?”

The gen­tle­man re­plied that there was no doubt about that, if she was anx­ious to be saved. She told him that she was a serv­ant girl, and had left her place that morn­ing after a dis­a­gree­ment with her mis­tress. As she had been wan­der­ing about the streets in the dark, won­der­ing where she was to spend the night, the sweet mel­o­dies of this hymn had at­tract­ed her, and she drew near and listened at­tent­ive­ly. As the dif­fer­ent vers­es were be­ing sung, she felt that the words sure­ly had some­thing to do with her. Through the whole serv­ice she seemed to hear what met her op­pressed soul’s need at that mo­ment. God’s Spir­it had showed her what a poor, sin­ful and wretch­ed crea­ture she was, and had led her to ask what she must do. On hear­ing her ex­per­i­ence, the gen­tle­man took her back to the mis­sion and left her with the la­dies in charge. The young, way­ward woman was brought to Christ that night. A si­tu­a­tion was se­cured for her in a min­is­ter’s fam­i­ly. There she be­came ill and had to be tak­en to a hos­pi­tal. She ra­pid­ly failed and it became ev­i­dent that she would not be long on earth. One day the gen­tle­man whom she had met on New Year’s night was vis­it­ing her in the ward. Af­ter quot­ing a few suit­a­ble vers­es of Script­ure, he re­peat­ed her fa­vo­rite hymn, “All to Christ I owe”…and she seemed over­whelmed with the thought of com­ing to glo­ry…Two hours af­ter­ward she passed away.

Sankey, pp. 110-1.

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/p/jpaidall.htm

SIMON PETER'S SECOND EPISTLE

2 Peter 1

1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

17For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 2

1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

2 Peter 3

1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Friday, January 25, 2008

FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD

14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

22Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

James 2:14-26.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

SDA ELECTED TO INTERNATIONAL COURT

Adventist elected judge of international criminal court

Ugandan law professor considered expert on human rights, criminal law reform



Adventist law professor Dr. Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko, right, with Robert E. Kyte, General Counsel for the Adventist Church, during Nsereko's visit to world church headquarters in December. Nsereko and two other nominees recently filled three vacancies on the International Criminal Court's 18-member panel of judges at The Hague, Netherlands. [photo: Robert Nixon/ANN]

A Seventh-day Adventist law professor was sworn in as one of the 18 judges of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands, on January 17.

Dr. Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko, most recently a professor of law at the University of Botswana where he also headed up the Department of Law, was nominated to the ICC by the Ugandan government and endorsed by the African Union last year.

Nsereko and two other nominees were elected by ICC member states from among 10 candidates in early December.

Previously, Nsereko worked as a trial lawyer in Uganda, and was later named an ICC bar counsel, which allowed him to represent clients at The Hague.

The ICC, an independent court established in 2002 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, currently has jurisdiction over citizens of its more than 100 member states.

Nsereko, a prolific writer on international and criminal law and human rights, has taught related subjects at the university level for more than 25 years. In 1996, the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law awarded Nsereko a medal recognizing his contributions to international human rights and criminal law reform. He has also served as visiting scholar to a number of universities and institutes.

Nsereko holds a Doctor of Juridical Science and a Master of Law degrees from New York University School of Law, a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence from the Howard University School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of East Africa, Dar Es Salaam.

Nsereko serves as an elder, Sabbath School teacher and director of Christian Education at the Broadhurst Seventh-day Adventist Church in Gaborone, Botswana.

"Source: Adventist News Network"

Source: http://news.adventist.org/data/2008/1201126389/index.html.en

NEW BISHOP: HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT SIN

New US church leader says


Homosexuality no Sin




Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:30pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.

Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was elected on Sunday as the first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She will formally take office later this year.

Interviewed on CNN, Jefferts Schori was asked if it was a sin to be homosexual. "I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.

"Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender." Jefferts Schori, who was raised a Roman Catholic, supported the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history.


The Eternal Gospel Herald Vol. 4 No. 7 - Html PDF


Source: http://www.eternalgospel.org/


Transgender man allowed to remain as church pastor

Rev. Drew Phoenix

The Rev. Drew Phoenix, pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church and a transgender person, stands outside the church on St. Paul Street. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / October 30, 2007)


The highest judicial body of the United Methodist Church announced yesterday that a transgender man can remain pastor of a congregation in Charles Village.

The ruling by the Judicial Council affirms last spring's decision by Bishop John R. Schol to reappoint the Rev. Drew Phoenix -- formerly the Rev. Ann Gordon -- to St. John's United Methodist Church.

Schol's action had been appealed to the Judicial Council by several local clergy in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, who have raised questions about the proper role of transgender people within the church. ...
Story continues at link below-
.
.
Are these the type of churches and pratices that the Modern-Day Seventh Day Adventist Corporate Church wants to embrace and emulate??? Is this Present Truth? Is this our distinctive mission?
---I'll allow the Spirit of Prophecy texts to address those concerns:
[Rev. 18:1-3, quoted.] While this message is sounding, while the proclamation of truth is doing its separating work, we as faithful sentinels of God are to discern what our real position is. We are not to confederate with worldlings, lest we become imbued with their spirit, lest our spiritual discernment become confused and we view those who have the truth and bear the message of the Lord from the standpoint of the professed Christian churches. At the same time we are not to be like the Pharisees and hold ourselves aloof from them.--EGW'88 1161 (1893). {LDE 84.3}
Standard after standard was left to trail in the dust as company after company from the Lord's army joined the foe and tribe after tribe from the ranks of the enemy united with the commandment-keeping people of God.--8T 41 (1904). {LDE 182.3}
Last Day Events, Ellen G. White, PP. 84, 182.

PASTOR "REBECCA": UNITE W OTHER FAITHS

Church Chat: Brillhart on the church and community action

Sligo Church, Columbia Union College work with other faith groups to bring about change



Rebecca Brillhart, a pastor at Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church, says Adventists can improve lives by uniting with other faith groups to bring about change. [Taashi Rowe/ANN]

Brillhart works with members from the church as well as faculty, staff and students of Adventist-owned Columbia Union College, including Otis Coutsoumpos, campus chaplain. [Taashi Rowe/ANN]

While soup kitchens and clothing drives are hallmarks of community outreach for many churches, Pastor Rebecca Brillhart says teaming up with other faith groups can do more to improve lives.

Brillhart, discipleship pastor for the Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States, also serves as co-chair of Action In Montgomery, a group of 29 interfaith congregations using their united voice to improve the lives of the people in Montgomery County.

The group claims that affordable housing, all-day kindergarten, tax reform of fare policies for taxi drivers, and funding to upgrade community centers are results of its working with government leaders. Action in Montgomery meets quarterly with about 200 congregational representatives. Brillhart and about 30 members of Sligo Church and the nearby Columbia Union College work with 30,000 believers belonging to Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim associations to petition the county's civic leaders.

Sligo, a congregation of more than 2,900 members, joined Action in Montgomery in 2003 and is the only Adventist church in the organization.

Brillhart recently sat down with Adventist News Network to talk about how teaming up with other faith groups to help the community has affected the church's ministry.

The following are excerpts from that conversation:

Adventist News Network: You say Action in Montgomery works for social justice. What does that involve?

Rebecca Brillhart
: When we talk about social justice we talk about going beneath good programs that provide food, shelter and clothing on a temporary basis to address the systemic problems that really plague our citizens.

ANN: What kind of role does Sligo Church play in addressing these problems?

Brillhart
: We talk to our members about what is getting in the way of peace in their homes. Maybe it's where they live, maybe there is an inability to find a place to live, maybe it's the quality of security for their children or maybe there is a lack of recreational things for children to do. We are identifying issues and problems that our own members experience in order to have empathy and passion to use our voices and partner with others and find a solution.

ANN: What is one of the group's biggest victories?

Brillhart: One major concern is a lack of affordable housing. We are holding our county executive and civic leaders accountable because to be a citizen who is firefighter, a nurse or a teacher in the county you cannot afford to live and buy a home in Montgomery County because it too expensive. Frankly we think that's immoral. We would like people who serve the county to be able to live here. These people are driving sometimes out of state to find affordable housing. It causes a lot of problems in people's families when parents are away and taking second jobs. This last fall on October 18 the coalition met with the county executive and he made a historic decision. He said he would support these affordable housing initiatives that we put forward. Historically that would mean to replace one-on-one the housing that is really hemorrhaging from the county as old housing is being destroyed and new housing isn't replaced for workforce and low-income people.

ANN: What are some of the unexpected results of doing this work?

Brillhart: Some people have never thought of using their voices or experiences to do ministry in our community. Communicating with others and partnering with others helps people know that they can have a part in alleviating some of the things that are causing problems in their lives and the lives of others.

ANN: Can the work that you are doing be considered political?

Brillhart: In bringing those concerns to civic leaders we definitely are being political because we are asking civic leaders to re-imagine how they will use the resources that are from taxes ? and perhaps rearrange personnel to address these important needs. But, it is not partisan. It's not an effort to support any particular candidate. The issues involve things that are holding people back from a life that provides basic needs [such as] housing, food, equitable education. These are the things that we have a concern about.

ANN: What are some of the challenges in doing work like this?

Brillhart: The greatest challenge that I see as a pastor and a leader is to keep our focus clear that Christ calls us to meet the needs around us.

ANN: What has been church members' reaction to Sligo's involvement in something that is not wholly Adventist?

Brillhart: Very positive. Since we have been involved we are very well known [among church members]. When we have major actions -- when we are asking leaders to be accountable -- Sligo Church is the church in the coalition that really turns out the numbers -- in the hundreds -- to come and support action.

ANN: Adventist churches are well known for having a system of education, health and community services. Why work outside that system?

Brillhart: One of things I love about being an Adventist is the openness to building bridges of hope. We want to tell people ? that we are a people of hope because we believe in a Savior that is going to make the things that are wrong with our world right but we have a responsibility as Adventists in the here and now. And the only way to build bridges, the only way we are going to be a credible enterprise is if we are doing all we can to partner with people who may know even better than we do how to come together in consensus on things we can agree on and address some of these systemic issues that are plaguing our society.

ANN: How has being involved in an organization like this affected your concept of ministry?

Brillhart: I have been so energized by being with clergy and members and civic leaders who want to lift up Christ's mandate to free the oppressed and to alleviate the concerns of the broken hearted. It has just touched me to my very core and I will never be satisfied in ministry without looking outside of the church as well as inside in terms of ministry.

ANN: Are you saying that Adventists are too internally focused?

Brillhart: I think we are in general. It is truly my desire that more [Adventist] churches in our location will take notice of some of these associations, to be less fearful and know we can play an integral role because of the message that we have, because of the hope that we have. I think it's not just a nice thing to think about but it is a critical thing to do to be credible as Christians in today's society.

ANN: Why don't more Adventists engage in more partnerships like Action in Montgomery?

Brillhart: [One] fear is that we are going to get sucked into something that is decidedly not Adventist. But in a coalition like this you are not asked to support things that you can't support. Power is necessary to make change. But the power that we have is to use our voice to the glory of God and push forward mandates that Christ laid down for His own ministry. We have to be aware of where the hurt is around us and to be available to address it.

ANN: Does theology come up at these meetings?

Brillhart
: It comes up all the time because I'm partnering with clergy from other churches. One of the great delights of this experience is to think and reflect theologically together about why we are doing what we are doing. That I've been asked to lead the group is confirmation that we are needed around some of these tables to do this important work.

ANN: What is the organization's plan for the future?

Brillhart: We will continue to focus on affordable housing and community centers for our youth. Nothing we do is quick; everything we do is long term. Even with the October 18 success for affordable housing we will still be doing follow-ups.

"Source: Adventist News Network"

Source: http://news.adventist.org/data/2008/1200411313/index.html.en

P.S. Bolds and Highlights added for emphasis. Blogman.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

THE UNITY OF SATANIC IMAGINATION!

Volume XXVII Issue I January 2008
Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916
Fax: 920-887-2626 Internet: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/

The Unity of Satanic Imagination!


“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”


Genesis 11:5-8


“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.”


Psalm 2:1-5


“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”


Romans 1:21


“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”


Revelation 13:15


In this issue of the Last Trumpet, we will begin the new year of 2008 by examining a very curious phenomenon that is in progress in our country and the rest of the world. I am referring to the unification of all governments, economies, religions, and military forces into one collective society. This has been the goal of Satan and his forces of antichrist since the days of the tower of Babel. It has been no easy task for the powers of darkness to accomplish this as history clearly reveals. All of the wars, revolutions, insurrections, and even world wars were not enough to make people cry out for peace loudly enough. Even though the United Nations was formed after World War II, one-world government has still not been achieved sixty-two years later.


We know that Almighty God is opposed to one-world government, which is why He confounded the languages at Babel and forced them to stop their project of being one people with one capital city, consisting of a high tower. In the Bible verses above, we see that special mention is made of the imaginations of the people. These imaginations are called vain and would be perpetuated by raging heathen kings of the earth. Indeed, the push is on to somehow unify every institution and endeavor of man for single governance at the very top. We are seeing this dynamic at work in our world presently.


We have an United Nations, an European Union, and a thirteen-member European economic confederacy under a single currency called the Euro. We also clearly see the United States of America being woven with Canada and Mexico into one North American Union with a new super highway joining the three countries together. Here let it be noted that some fundamentalist “Christian” ministers are so deceived that they are calling this NAFTA super highway the highway of holiness, referring to Isaiah 35:8.


We also are witnessing upheaval in economies, which will necessitate a new economy worldwide. We also are seeing the rapid unification of religions based on compromise. It is still no easy task to reconcile so many differences. In fact, it would have been impossible until these last days of electronics, cyber space, designer drugs, and mind control. The only way to unify people is to induce them to think alike. Collective thought dissolves individuality, and it produces a collective society that is made up of people who do not think for themselves.


There was a time in this erstwhile great nation of America when individuality was cherished and valued. Every city or town was unique with a downtown square and shopping area. Businesses and banks were privately owned, and it seemed there were no two restaurants alike. Most of the money stayed within the individual cities, and we had many thousands of units of strong economies, causing local growth and strength. Now, every city or town looks the same. No matter where you go, there is a McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and so on. Giant banks have bought out the small banks. Chain stores like Wal-Mart and others of that ilk have offered the bait of lower prices through massive volume buying and have captivated the economy. Even churches have become mega-churches with televangelists who manifest gluttony for money. Individuality is all but gone in nearly every aspect of life.


In addition to all of the above circumstances and conditions, everything has become so large in scope that it must be managed electronically by a computer system. It is an electronic brain that is inducing people to think and behave in certain ways. It is a beast-controlled system that is manufacturing people into images of the beast, causing them to speak against any people who will not conform. This country has come to tolerate unacceptable and extreme levels of smut, filth, pornography, and homosexuality. Even murder through abortion is accepted because of a collective mindset and thinking.


Truly, these are the very last of the last days before the return of our Saviour. Satan has worked with his human stooges to produce a new kind of tower of Babel with a high-tech computer structure. Very soon, the economies of the world will collapse and give way to a new economy, which will be strictly electronic in operation. This has been a long time in coming, but it can be forced upon the world so quickly that people will be stunned. All of this is foretold in the Word of God, and the good news is that every true Christian will be sustained by the Almighty. You can be in the very hands of the Saviour if you will repent and turn your heart and life over to Him!


The Final Crescendo of Globalism!


As we watch the rising of a new global society, we must remember that there is a spiritual force behind it. Satan knows that in order to weld people together in his cause, he must make that cause to appear to be a noble one. In microcosm, we know that there have been many movements of unity throughout history, especially in the twentieth century. We have seen the ideologies of pan-Germanism with Germany as the Fatherland; pan Slavism with Mother Russia; and in the Far East, the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. All of these were powerful movements of unity and military might. The real strength of any such movement was a gimmick that welded the people together. The Third Reich was a prime example of an ideal that firmly welded a people together into a force of amazing strength. That ideal was the concept of Der Vaterland, or Fatherland. It was a love of country such as the world has rarely seen. As the national anthem, “Deutschland Uber Alles”, was played at the rallies with another song known as the “Horst Wessel Lied”; which began with the words Die fanne Hoh, the people were moved in their souls to absolute commitment.


The German people had been so exploited by the Illuminati bankers and conspirators, and they now saw an opportunity to break free. Indeed, the birthplace of the Illuminati was at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. It was there that Dr. Adam Weishaupt, the son of a Rabbi who had converted to Catholicism, was now teaching canon law at the university in that city. This is the man who was handpicked by the Rothschild bankers to draw up a blueprint for one-world government, and that plan was launched on May 1st, 1776. History is filled with the activities of this secret organization that operates within the high levels of Freemasonry, and so are the current events of our day. In short, Weishaupt and the Rothschilds created a monster to do their bidding. At this point I must note that the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley depicts the entire story of the Illuminati as a monster that was made from body parts of numerous people and electrified to life to do the bidding of the mad Dr. Frankenstein. Amazingly, the setting for the story was the area of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. (1)


Now, in these last days, there is a much more powerful and deceptive worldwide gimmick that is being used to weld people together. It is the cause of Mother Earth. There is now a great call to save what the new age witches call Mother Earth even to the extent that it is becoming a religion. This is a much stronger and more universal cause than that of the Fatherland frenzy of sixty-six years ago. The United Nations is continually calling for regulations to slow down or stop global warming. At this point, I must say that the real problem is not global warming, but global sinning. The new age occultists in high places, however, would have us believe that our planet is a living female entity in trouble because of humans polluting her.


I previously mentioned the novel Frankenstein, and in that story the mad doctor had an assistant named Igor, whom he sent out to steal a brain for the monster. The modern Mother Earth movement doesn’t have a stooge named Igor, but we do have Al Gore, who is stealing the minds of the people and winning prizes for doing it! While there are global changes, it is all blown out of proportion and has become a hoax and a gimmick. I am sad to say that it is working.


On November 24th the London Daily Mail featured a story with the headline: “Meet the women who won’t have babies because they’re not eco friendly.” The story tells of a growing movement to abort babies and become sterilized in the name of Mother Earth. A woman named Toni aborted her baby and was sterilized at age 27, and she had this to say about it: “Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet. Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population…..I didn’t like having a termination, but it would have been immoral to give birth to a child that I felt strongly would only be a burden to the world. I’ve never felt a twinge of guilt about what I did.” (2) Another woman named Sarah had this to say: “I realized then that a baby would pollute the planet – and that never having a child was the most environmentally friendly thing I could do.” (3) What a sad time we are living in when women are committing human sacrifice to save the Mother Earth goddess. Doing this is also referred to as “erasing your carbon footprint.”


On the 13th day of December, the United Nations Climate Conference met at Bali, Indonesia. One of the items on the agenda was a global carbon tax to be levied against wealthy nations like the United States. It was estimated that such a tax would generate up to forty-billion dollars. This would be the first world tax to save Mother Earth. (4)


The United Nations has also been working on the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would confiscate the oceans of the world for the global government. This Law of the Sea Treaty is called Lex Mercatoria. (5) Under this treaty, there would be no more international waters.


The Clenched Fist of the Beast!


On November 6th, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Chicago police tasered an 82-year-old woman. The elderly lady was only five feet and one inch tall and weighed 160 pounds. She suffered from dementia and was waving a hammer in the air. She was then hit by an officer’s electric stun gun. (6) We are hearing more and more of such incidents of extreme force!


On November 18th, 2007, the Associated Press reported that a judge in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, ordered children to be immunized. Three thousand students were in noncompliance when the judge gave the order for parents to bring them to the courthouse for on-the-spot vaccinations. Failure to comply would result in the children being expelled and the parents charged with truancy violations, which could result in a ten-day jail sentence for a first offense. The second offense could have the parents jailed for thirty days. By the time the day was over, there were still 900 in noncompliance. (7) The scene at the Prince George County Courthouse was one of Gestapo proportions. Many hundreds of children were herded into courthouse guarded by armed police officers with attack dogs. The children were forcibly vaccinated, many of them against their will. Even the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) condemned this action in a November 16th press release which stated: “This power play obliterates informed consent and parental rights”, said Kathryn Serkes, director of policy for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), one of the few national physician groups that refuse corporate funding from pharmaceutical companies. (8) This was clearly a case of gunpoint medicine. Who would have believed it could happen here? The AAPS report may be read on line at: http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nr-11-16-07.php.


The symbol of the Illuminati conspiracy has always been the all-seeing eye, and that symbol appears on the back of the U.S. one dollar bill. This eye is also known as the Egyptian eye of Horus or utchat. In the realm of witchcraft, it is commonly taught that the initiated Wiccans have a third eye. The Lord Jesus referred to this in Mark 7:22 as an evil eye. With that in mind, we are now seeing a new high-tech identification technology emerging, which will eventually replace fingerprinting. Iris scans are now being used by 2,100 police departments in twenty-seven states. The technology uses infrared light to examine 235 unique details in the iris of the eye. Scanners have now been developed for the military that are being tested at shopping malls, which can scan a crowd of people all at the same time and store the information on a data base. (9) This is clearly intrusive and a violation of privacy.


Another device that has changed America forever is the cellular phone. The countless thousands of cell towers throughout the United States serve another purpose besides giving phone service to millions of users. These towers allow close surveillance of users and are part of the panopticon of the Beast government. We must also remember that cell towers are sometimes hidden within structures that seem innocuous. On November 28th, 2007, U.S. Cellular agreed to conceal a new cell tower on property owned by The Way of Faith Christian Center in Alton, Missouri. The cell tower is to be concealed inside a 95-foot cross. The company, CIS Communications, which builds the towers, stated that church steeples are also prime choices for tower placement. (10) We truly are living in an ever-expanding panopticon. A panopticon exists when you are being continually watched, but you never know for sure who is watching you.


The Emerging Economy of Antichrist!


On December 3rd, 2007, New York Times writer Paul Krugman, writing about the current financial condition in the United States, had this to say: “I’ve never seen financial insiders this spooked – not even during the Asian crisis of 1997-98, when economic dominoes seemed to be falling all around the world. This time, market players seem truly horrified – because they’ve suddenly realized that they don’t understand the complex financial system they created.” (11) In early November 2007, the markets were shocked to discover that banks are holding over one trillion dollars in toxic debt. (12) The nation of Japan lost two billion dollars on U.S. housing investments. (13) During the month of November 2007, Wisconsin foreclosures soared to an increase of 67%, and it is even worse in twenty-one other states. (14) Indicators now reveal that the crisis of defaults on mortgages is spreading to defaults on automobile loans. (15) On December 25th, 2007, the Associated Press reported that major credit card companies have increased their interest rates, and some have gone as high as 24.24 percent! This is catching people totally off-guard. In some cases, a payment of $200.00 only lowers the principle by $24.00 with $176.00 going to interest. (16)


Is our dollar dying a painful death? The sad fact is that our national debt is growing more than one million dollars per minute. At this time every man, woman, and child in America owes $30,000.00 as their share of the national debt. (17) The whole world knows that the U.S. dollar is dying; everyone, that is, except the American people. The U.S. dollar began to decline in the year 2001, and it never stopped declining on the world market. Red China is swimming in so many U.S. dollars that they see no alternative but to buy American companies outright. (18) Indeed, America has been selling not only its industries, but also its highways, bridges, and seaports. It appears that we are holding a national rummage sale of our infrastructure. We also know that the Federal Reserve has been doing exactly what they did just before the crash and depression of 1929. Even though they keep lowering the interest rates, the market still declines overall.


When the Euro came out, it was worth less than the dollar. In 2001, just after the attack on the World Trade Center, the Euro was worth eighty-three cents. Now it is worth $1.47, an increase of over 56% against the dollar. Is it any wonder that the Euro is becoming the currency of choice as the entire world scraps the U.S. dollar? (19) In James 5:1-3 we read as follows: “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”


Clearly, we are seeing a major upheaval in the making, and it is designed by Illuminati blueprint. The economies of this world will give way to a new system that is strictly electronic. The technology is in place, and when the transition comes, it will happen quickly. There will be no more cash, checks, or plastic cards. Account activation and usage will be facilitated by implanted microchips, and every person will become a human automatic teller machine. Every human being in this system will interface his body electronically with all banking and commerce. No one will buy or sell anything without that mark. This is made exceedingly clear in Revelation 13:16-17 as follows: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 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.” Here let it be noted that the word mark as used in this portion of Scripture is translated from the Greek word charagma, which means to cut or plow into the flesh. Clearly, this would be the implantation of an interfacing microchip!


Biological Warfare on American Society!


Other sure signs of the end are plagues and pestilences, and never has there been a time such as this for such things. A recent report indicated that the number of cases of children with bipolar disorder, which is also called manic-depressive, has increased 40-fold in recent years. In 1994, there were 20,000 cases. In 2003 there were 800,000 cases! (20) Is this condition being induced upon American children? It is a spiritual condition, and children are becoming demonized by misuse of computers and the many electronic role-playing games.


On November 9th, the New York Times reported that an AIDS vaccine produced by Merck Pharmaceuticals actually increased the risk of recipients contracting HIV. The vaccine contained a modified form of a common cold virus known as adenovirus type 5. (21) On November 16th, 2007, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, reported that a mutated adeno common cold virus in mutated form killed ten people. (22) Are immunizations and vaccinations safe? In recent months, a polio outbreak hit Nigeria, and it was sparked by a vaccine which was supposed to prevent it. Sadly, sixty-nine children were left paralyzed from the vaccine! (23)


On October 30, 2007, just before the witches’ high cross-quarter sabat of Samhain, usually known as Halloween, a Kentucky school district closed down twenty-three schools because of a MRSA staph infection. (24) The Associated Press also reported that thousands of Americans have contracted the potentially fatal and drug-resistant staph superbug. (25) Where did this and other viruses and strange forms of bacteria come from? Are these designer bugs manufactured in a laboratory? We must also remember that almost all of these staph infections were picked up in hospitals and other medical facilities.


In another Associated Press story out of Phoenix, Arizona, there is something that sounds like science fiction, but it is true. A brain-eating amoeba, picked up in warm lake waters, killed six young men and boys. The amoeba is called Naegleria fowlen. The microorganism enters the nostrils and goes into the brain where it feeds until the person dies. (26) All things considered, has there ever been a time such as this?


Hell’s Society and Voices of Judgment!


On December 5th, 2007, a young man with a rifle opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska. When the shooting was over, eight people were dead, and the gunman then killed himself. (27) This happened on the same day that President Bush was visiting the city of Omaha. (28) It was eighteen days before the full moon, which waxes full on the night of the witches’ sabat of Yule. I have watched the many public shootings as reported by the news in recent years, and it is amazing when we understand the occult timing of them. They are not just senseless killing events but rather spiritually motivated occult projects. Another example of this timing is the shooting incident which killed two missionaries-in-training at a mission’s school in Arvada, Colorado. (29) This happened thirteen days before the witches’ sabat of Yule.


Obviously, something is very wrong in the United States. It is a startling fact that the United States has more children serving life sentences in jail than any other nation on earth. Currently, there are 2,387 juveniles serving life sentences in America. The only other nation that jails children for life is the Israeli State, which has seven. (30) We must remember that children are products of their preceding generation. Where are the role models?


We have now learned that twenty-eight retired generals and admirals in the United States have sent a letter to the U.S. Congress asking them to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding homosexuals serving in the military. The current law just tells the homosexuals to keep it quiet. The twenty-eight officers want the homosexuals to be front and center and vocal about being a homosexual or lesbian. These twenty-eight retired military leaders of the highest level had this to say: “As is the case in Britain, Israel, and other nations which allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, our service members are professionals who are able to work together effectively despite differences in race, gender, religion, and sexuality.” There are now 65,000 known homosexuals and lesbians in the U.S. military! (31)


In Britain on December 6th, 2007, the British High Court ruled that broadcasters and theaters cannot be prosecuted for blasphemy. The controversy started when the BBC received complaints regarding a Jerry Springer production featuring scenes in hell with “Jesus and Satan as guests on a satirical chat show.” (32) It is as if all the stoppers have been pulled out and Satan is coming in like a flood. Sadly, the people of the earth are drinking in the flood of filth. How long will the Almighty put up with this. Those days are numbered!


The United States is now suffering in so many ways, but when will people get the message and wake up to the reality that the end is near? America is now experiencing one of the worst winters in history, and as of this writing, winter has not even started yet. Massive ice storms have stranded millions of people and left them in the cold and without power. Layers of ice from freezing rain literally paralyzed the midsection of our nation. New England has been hit with amazingly heavy snows and winds. The Pacific Northwest was also battered by heavy rains and hurricane-force winds at the beginning of December 2007. In the states of Oregon and Washington, as much as twelve inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours with winds as high as 129 mph. Flooding and wind damage were extensive. (33)


Every sign that was given to us by the Lord Jesus is being fulfilled before our very eyes. The earthquakes and volcanoes continue to shake and rumble in record numbers and with increasing intensity and frequency. We should be watching for a major earthquake in the Middle East, especially in the Israeli State. It will not be long now, for the earth is trembling under the heavy weight of sin and iniquity.


More great signs in the heavens involve the planets Mars and Venus. In the occult, Mars is believed to be the god of war. The angry red planet will be only 55 million miles from the earth on December 24th, which is two-thirds closer than usual. Astrologers believe this will bring great trouble to the earth, because Mars will also be in opposition to the sun.


The planet Venus, which was always a cloudy planet with an atmosphere of methane and ammonia gases, has now burst into flames. In the occult, Venus is supposed to be the goddess of erotic love, and that planet is now a raging inferno. Scientists have said that Venus is now a “fiery hell.” The surface of the planet is now hot enough to melt steel. (34) It is truly later than you think.


In closing, I urge everyone to seek the Lord with all your heart. The time is at hand. We continue to invite you to send your prayer requests to us. Our prayer teams are waiting to give each one individual attention. I also want to thank all of you who support this endtime prophetic ministry. I pray God will bless you exceedingly. If you have not yet sent in your renewal form to be placed on the 2008 list, please remember to do it soon to avoid missing a single issue. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.


David J. Meyer


Acknowledgements

01. Wikipedia Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ingolstadt, Germany.
02. London Daily Mail, Nov. 21, 2007, by Natasha Courtenay-Smith & Morag Turner, London, UK.
03. Ibid.
04. United Nations, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm.
05. United Nation Document, Lex Mercatoria.
06. Associated Press, Nov. 6, 2007, Chicago, IL.
07. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 18, 2007, by Matthew Barakat, AP, MD.
08. AAPS Official Press Release, Nov. 16, 2007, by Kathryn Serkes.
09. USA Today, Dec. 5, 2007, by Wendy Koch, Gannett News Service.
10. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 28, 2007, by Adam Jadhav, Alton, MO.
11. New York Times, Dec. 3, 2007, by Paul Krugman, New York, NY.
12. The Independent, Nov. 6, 2007, by Sean O’Grady, London, England, UK.
13. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 24, 2007, AP, New York, NY.
14. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 30, 2007, by Avrum D. Lank, Milwaukee, WI.
15. Associated Press, Nov. 20, 2007, by Tom Krisher, Detroit, MI.
16. Associated Press, Dec. 5, 2007, Washington, D.C.
17. Associated Press, Dec. 3, 2007, by Tom Raum, Washington, D.C.
18. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 19, 2007, by John Schmid, Milwaukee, WI.
19. The Japan Times, Dec. 5, 2007, by Gwynne Dyer, London, England, U.K.
20. Associated Press, Sep. 4, 2007, by Lindsey Tanner, Chicago, IL.
21. New York Times, Nov. 9, 2007, by Lawrence K. Altman & Andrew Pollack, New York, NY.
22. Associated Press, Nov. 16, 2007, Atlanta, GA.
23. Traverse City Record-Eagle, Oct. 6, 2007, Traverse City, MI.
24. Associated Press, Oct. 27, 2007, Pikeville, KY.
25. Cox News Service, Oct. 17, 2007, by Lindsey Tanner, AP, Chicago, IL.
26. Associated Press, Sep. 28, 2007, by Chris Kahn, Phoenix, AZ.
27. Associated Press, Dec. 5, 2007, by Oskar Garcia, Omaha, NE.
28. Action 3 News, Dec. 5, 2007, Omaha, NE.
29. New York Times, Dec. 9, 2007, by John Holusha, New York, NY.
30. Los Angeles Times, Nov. 20, 2007, by Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles, CA.
31. Australian Broadcasting Corp., Dec. 1, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
32. Australian Broadcasting Corp., Dec. 6, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
33. Associated Press, Dec. 4, 2007, by Tim Fought, Portland, OR.
34. AFP News, Nov. 28, 2007, New York, NY.

http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org