Tuesday, June 03, 2008

HILLARY CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS SAY CLINTON WILL CONCEDE...


Hillary Clinton Campaign Officials Say Clinton Will Concede Delegate Count To Obama

Posted 8 hours ago by Sue D. in Politics

Hot off the wires and listed as "breaking" from Associated Press, Hillary Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.

Reports say that Clinton will stop short of suspending her campaign but her acknowledgment of Barack Obama securing enough delegates to win the nomination will "unofficially/officially" end her bid for presidency.

Unofficially official? I use that term for a reason -- if she is willing to admit that Obama has the delegates to take the nomination, knowing that ends her bid, but refuses to technically suspend her campaign, she is prolonging the agony of defeat for herself. Is she waiting for something huge, like some sort of bombshell against Obama, to step in and save the day for the Democrats?

Why not just concede the whole thing? What will she be waiting for?


The advisers said Clinton has made a strategic decision to not formally end her campaign, giving her leverage to negotiate with Obama on various matters including a possible vice presidential nomination for her. She also wants to press him on issues he should focus on in the fall, such as health care.



In a formal statement the Clinton campaign made it clear that "Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination", but reports are showing that the superdelegates are finally ready to step in and cast their votes for Obama which should cause what they are calling the "domino effect" for other superdelegates to do the same.

Yesterday eight superdelegates announced their choice and two went to Clinton while six went to Obama and since Obama is now 40 delegates short of having the magic number of 2,118, after the primaries tonight, with some remaining uncommitted superdelegates throwing endorsement to Obama, he could reach the magic number by tomorrow morning. Clinton would be willing to concede the delegates count tonight, but not officially hand him the nomination.

So technically she will remain in the race but Obama will have it sewn up.

As everything has been in this campaign, even Clinton's concession will be complicated and confusing so an unofficial, official concession is about on par with the campaign season so far.


Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/255595

Monday, June 02, 2008

THE WICKED ABOMINATIONS...

Ezekiel 8

1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

2Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

4And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

5Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

6He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

7And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

8Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

10So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

11And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

13He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

15Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

16And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

17Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

18Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

A WORLD AT THE OUTER LIMITS OF HOPE


Volume XXVII Issue VI June 2008
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A World at the Outer Limits of Hope!


"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment."


Isaiah 1:4-6

"The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young: and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee."


Deuteronomy 28:49-51

"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."


Ephesians 2:12-13

In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will examine and behold a world that is in so many kinds of trouble that it would take the gift of discernment from the Almighty to begin to understand it. It is a world full of events and catastrophes of such a great magnitude that we are made to fully realize that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled every day. In fact, these signs are overlapping each other. As we listen to the news, it is like reading Matthew, chapter 24; Luke, chapters 17 and 21; and Mark, chapter 13. In addition to that, the book of Revelation is coming alive before our very eyes.


The people of this world, and especially those of the United States, are confused whether they admit it or not. The bank failures, rapidly rising prices of fuel and food, continual disasters, looming wars, and so on demand at least some notice and recognition by even the most apathetic of people. But with unbelief comes disbelief, and the only response of the majority of the people is to somehow lose any reference point with reality. The demand is high for the distractions of entertainment, drugs, gambling, alcohol, and anything else that will keep their eyes off from the truth. Reality may be painful, but final judgment and eternal damnation are far worse and without remedy.


It is true that the great day of the Lord is at hand! As you read this issue of the Last Trumpet, you will realize this truth all the more. If you do not know the Lord Jesus personally or if you are fearful and uncertain, I urge you to take time right now and pray to the Saviour. He will hear you and change your life as you cry out in repentence. Do not put your trust in church membership, because no one has ever been saved by a church. You need a life changing, personal experience with the Lord Jesus, and you need it now, before it is too late.


Days of Trouble and Uncertainty!


Many things are happening behind the scenes as the intrigues of these last days unfold. In the May issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, I mentioned the "closed-door session" and debate by our U.S. House of Representatives. I also mentioned that word had leaked out about discussion concerning the collapse of the U.S. economy by September of this year. Because it was a closed-door session, (1) there is obviously no documentary proof of what was discussed, which is why I stated that only God knows, and time will tell. The point I was trying to stress is that secret sessions are reprehensible, and that there is no purpose for secrecy other than to hide evil. I did not say that the economy would fail in September, but current conditions certainly do raise that possibility. One thing is certain, and that is the fact that our country has been taken over by many and varied sinister forces that all have the same purpose. That purpose is to weaken the United States to the point of complete helplessness and interdependency with the other nations of the world. This will force the issue of a one-world government under the one that the Illuminati conspirators call Lucifer, and who is, in reality, Satan.


In a recent issue of the Washington Times, a large advertisement campaign in Mexico by the Swedish Vodka maker Absolut was reported on. The advertisement prepared for Mexican readers showed a large map of North America with Mexico engulfing over half of the United States. The caption under the ad said, "Drink our product when you invade." (2)


On May 6th, the London Daily Telegraph reported that (Red) China has secretly developed a massive new nuclear submarine base. The article also stated that tensions have now reached a level of cold war status. The submarine base, which is southwest of Hong Kong, houses twenty 094 Jin-class submarines with nuclear weapons. (3) Red China is also planning to put on the largest show of force the world has ever seen at the Olympic games, which are now being referred to as the Paramilitary Olympics. The Red Chinese security staff will consist of 94,000 soldiers to watch over 10,500 athletes. (4) At present Red China seems to have plenty of money, much of which came from the United States. While the bridges and overpasses in the United States are crumbling and collapsing, Red China has just opened one of the world's largest bridges, which is twenty-two miles long. (5) The cost was 1.7 billion dollars. The United States doesn't have money for improvements because we are spending 5,000 dollars per second on our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This extrapolates out to 18 million dollars per hour on foreign wars.


Things do need to change in the United States, and it is an election year. Can any thinking person truly believe that things will get better considering the current candidates for the high office of President of the United States? We have Hillary Clinton, who may soon drop out. The name Hillary means laughable, but she is no joke. This occultic woman is continually giving the satanic salute with her left hand. And now leading the democratic race is Barack Hussein Obama. He also is seen giving the satanic salute with his left hand quite often. (6) (In the occult world, the left, or sinister, hand is the sign of life force and malediction.) The name Barack is sometimes spelled Baraq, and Baraq is the name of the winged horse of Mohammed by which Islam is to fill the world and overcome it. Hussein means handsome one, and when you put those two names together they mean "the handsome one by whom Islam will fill the earth."


Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been running a heated race for the highest office in the land, and something most unusual happened during the recent Kentucky Derby that is most curious. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama visited the stables before the famous and traditional horse race. Barack Obama picked a horse named Big Brown to show, and that is the horse that won the race. Hillary Clinton put her arm around a filly named Eight Belles and picked her as the winner. As both horses approached the finish line, Eight Belles went down and broke two ankles after finishing in second place. This horse, the only female in the race, had to be euthanized right on the track. (7) We must also note that before the race, when Hillary Clinton put her arm around the horse, she said she felt a "sisterhood with Eight Belles." I found this story amazing because I remembered studying maritime law and what is meant by eight bells. According to maritime rules, watches are set up on board a ship that are of four hours duration. A bell is rung every one-half hour starting with one and working up to eight. Before every sounding of eight bells, the captain of the ship must give permission. That law dates back to when eight bells was the signal for mutiny, which is the hostile takeover of the ship. Thus, eight bells mean one of two things: either the end of a watch or a hostile takeover. That is what the name of Hillary's horse meant. Is this some kind of sign? Is our country at the end of a watch? Will there be a hostile takeover? Will there be death at the finish line? Certainly, there are strange spiritual forces at work in this occult-charged year of 2008.


There is much that could be said about John McCain, the Republican candidate for President of the United States. As I write this, I am looking at a picture of John McCain standing at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem. He is placing a prayer in the cracks of the wall. (8) Indeed, there are strange forces of antichrist at work, and looking at this picture caused me to remember that in the Gaelic language, McCain means the son of Cain. Genesis, chapter four, tells us that Cain was the first murderer, and two things were given to him. He was given a curse of the ground not producing for him, and he had a mark put on his body. Thus, Cain became the son of the mark, and the son of the curse. It is John McCain who publicly and brazenly stated that we could be in Iraq for another one hundred years!


Truly, this war has proved to be a curse upon our own nation and the rest of the world as well! Since the initial invasion of Iraq, there have been 1.6 million people killed. Many areas of that country have been poisoned by depleted uranium from our weapons. Three trillion dollars have been wasted, and great strain has been put on our military. In addition to all of that, we brought the American way of life to that troubled nation when shortly after we occupied it, alcohol and prostitution were legalized.


Recent reports also revealed that there has been a twenty percent rise in suicides in the U.S. Army because of the pressures of failed relationships and mental stress. (9) In addition to that, the Associated Press reported on March 15th, 2008, that a full one-third of women in the military reported that they have been sexually harassed, and there were 2,688 direct sexual assaults during 2007. (10)


On April 18th, Washington announced the forthcoming opening of the most elaborate and impressive embassy in the world. It has been constructed in Baghdad and is built on 104 acres with 27 buildings, 619 apartments, and numerous restaurants, including a food court. It also has indoor and outdoor basketball courts, volley ball courts, and an indoor Olympic-size swimming pool. The cost thus far has been $474 million. (11)


We have also learned that California investor Llewellyn Werner is investing millions of dollars to construct a Disneyland on a 50-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Baghdad. The Disney Park will also contain a massive zoo, which will replace the zoo that existed before the American invasion. The former zoo was emptied by starving Iraqis, who ate the animals because invading forces had cut off their food supply. (12) There are so many things that have happened in that land that have not been reported by the American press.


In America, the last remaining vestiges of our erstwhile great nation are rapidly disappearing. During the time of the Pope's recent visit to America, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was also in our country, and he gave a speech at Harvard University's Kennedy Center. In his speech, he called for the repeal of America's Declaration of Independence and demanded that we issue a declaration of interdependence! Brown's aides called it his signature speech. In his speech, he used the word global 69 times, globalization 7 times, and interdependence 13 times. (13) Brown also slammed the concept of national sovereignty continually. Where is the outrage? The Declaration of Independence represents the very roots of our country. It is one of the greatest and most masterful documents ever written. Are we to insult and condemn the fifty-six men who signed it and laid their lives on the line to establish our nation? Are we to forget all of those who gave their lives in true defense of our country? To the best of my knowledge, not one American statesman condemned Brown's speech! Where was President Bush in this matter? He was as quiet as a Texas oyster. Where are Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys now that we really need them? Benedict Arnold was a petty traitor compared to those who are now in charge of our nation! Truly, our nation is on the outer limits of hope! Remember George Orwell's book Animal Farm?


Warning Cries From the Creation!


Since May 1st, 2008, we have been seeing continual catastrophes of such magnitude that it is obvious that the very voice of the creation is crying out that the great day of the Almighty draweth nigh! The earthquakes started thirteen days before May 1st and are happening in various areas that usually do not have them. On April 18th, 2008, the Midwestern United States was shaken by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake, which was felt in several states and rattled the skyscrapers in Chicago. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake started at the Wabash Fault, which is the northern extension of the New Madrid Fault, located six miles north of Mt. Carmel, Illinois. (14) When I saw that, I immediately thought of Elijah the prophet standing on Mount Carmel in I Kings, chapter 18, and rebuking Israel for their Baal worship and other gross idolatry. The Lord is giving us many signs, and we are to watch for them.


On April 26th, 2008, Reno, Nevada, experienced a magnitude 4.7 earthquake with one hundred aftershocks. The quakes knocked everything off from store shelves and dislodged boulders on hillsides. Many buildings were also damaged. More quakes are expected in that area, and people are being told to prepare for them. (15)


Scientists are now puzzled because of the more than six hundred quakes that happened underwater, just off the coast of Grant's Pass, Oregon. The six hundred quakes happened over a period of ten days, ending on April 13th, 2008. Scientists cannot explain the quakes because they happened in the absence of volcanic activity. (16)


The amazing fact is that the earthquakes have been happening with increased intensity and with greater frequency. At the time of this writing, there have been 384 significant earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above in the past 30 days. (17) It is like a woman's labor pains, which reminds me of I Thessalonians 5:2-3, which reads as follows: "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."


In Red China, a country preparing for the occult Olympic Games, a horrifying earthquake occurred on May 12th, 2008. It was a magnitude 7.9 earth-shattering event that devastated an area the size of the state of Maryland. As of the day of this writing, there are 15,000 people confirmed dead, 25,788 buried in collapsed buildings, and 14,051 are missing. (18) As the Kings of the East rise up, there is much trouble with it.


The earth is doing other strange things. In the state of Texas near Daisetta, a giant sink hole has formed. In just two days, the ground opened up, and there is now a hole that is 260 feet deep and the size of three football fields. Geologists are curiously watching the area for further expansion of the massive hole. (19)


Another sign of the Lord's imminent return is the dramatic increase in volcanic activity. The Bible also tells us the very purpose of the many volcanoes that happen just before the Lord's return to judge the world. We read of this in perfect clarity and detail in Isaiah 64:1-3 as follows: "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."


On May 6th, 2008, an enormously powerful volcano erupted in Chile, South America, near the provincial capital of Chaiten. This volcano was an awesome sight, for as it erupted, a massive cloud in the shape of a demon's head emerged with continuous sharp bolts of lighting both in and around the cloud. This is one of the most awesome pictures I have ever seen, and I would be happy to send you one upon request, but please help us with postage if you can. This volcano was so powerful that it shot a powerful stream of volcanic ash twenty miles into the upper stratosphere, and ashes fell over an area from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. Chile and Argentina were kept busy shoveling ashes that were waist-deep! (20) Other volcanoes are waking up all over the world, and on May 13th, 2008, Mount Etna in Sicily roared back to life and is shaking the area around it. (21)


In the United States, the tornadoes continue to rip though various large areas of the country in record numbers. These tornadoes are far too numerous to list in this newsletter, but one recent example is the round of tornadoes that flattened areas of Missouri and Oklahoma on May 11th, 2008. Eighteen people were killed and many were injured. The devastation was so severe that some small towns are completely gone. (22)


On May 2nd, 2008, an enormous cyclone roared through a portion of Burma, also known as Myanmar. The entire region was all but obliterated, and the aftermath of the storm revealed the extent of the vast destruction. There are now over 100,000 people dead, and many more are missing. Filth and disease are everywhere. It is estimated that the death toll will soon reach 150,000. (23) The Payapon River is being called the River of Death as countless numbers of human and animal bodies float sullenly down the morbid stream. (24)


The name of the giant cyclone was Nargis, which is the Urdu word for daffodil. (25) The ancient Greek mythology, upon which is based traditionalist witchcraft, teaches that the daffodil is the flower of death. According to the legend, daffodils grow in the meadows of the underworld and are the sacred flowers of Hades, the ruling god of hell. Daffodil sap contains sharp crystals that prevent animals from eating them. Daffodils are never present at a wedding, because they are said to bring a curse upon the bride. (26) None of this has any effect on the true Christian, but the witches and the masses of people who think like witches do believe it.


We have just now received a report that another powerful storm is headed for that same region of Myanmar. (27) This area of the world is Buddhist, and like other areas in that region of the world, it is grossly immoral beyond description. The Scripture tells us that it is God who sends the whirlwinds, and one of the reasons He sends them is for correction. In Job 37:9, 12-13 we read as follows: "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north…….And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy." As long as people refuse to repent, there will be much more of this, and other judgments will follow, too.


The Rising of Hell's Society!


On April 22nd, 2008, the New York Times featured a story that revealed the deplorable condition of our social and educational environment in the United States. One American child drops out of school every 26 seconds, which is a total of over one million every year. A recent survey among teenagers, which was done by the organization Common Core, revealed that 25% did not know who Adolph Hitler was; 34% did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of religion; and 50% did not know that the American Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900. In addition to that, 12th grade students in America scored near the bottom of all industrialized nations. (28)


What happens when our government kicks God out of the schools and opens the doors to every kind of demon? On May 10th, a school in South Los Angeles had to be locked down when a violent fight broke out, involving 600 students. (29) In Waycross, Georgia, nine students, all approximately nine years of age, plotted to injure their female teacher and brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs, and duct tape to school to do the job. The plot was discovered in time to stop it. These young children planned to handcuff their teacher, put tape over her mouth, hit her over the head with a paperweight, and cut her with the knife. (30)


In South Carolina, a teenage boy was caught plotting to blow up his school with high-powered explosives. The 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger, a straight "A" student, wanted to die in the explosion himself because he said he wanted to go to heaven and kill Jesus. He had planned this for that infamous day of April 19th, a day when so many other murderous events took place in recent years. (31)


These are strange times when anything can happen. Role models are all but gone, and young people are floundering in a nation that has become Satan's amusement park. It is a lot more serious than Hillary belting down a shot glass of whiskey in public while campaigning, or Barack Obama rolling one gutter ball after another during a publicity bowling game. Our nation is in serious trouble because it has turned its back on God. Homosexuals are in high places, and the sodomites are running almost everything. Major corporations are sponsoring this abominable wickedness. Recently, World Net Daily featured a story about the giant McDonalds restaurant chain being listed on the website of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The McDonalds Corporation also placed one of their executives on the board of directors of that queer organization known as NGLCC. In addition to that, McDonalds also gave an undisclosed contribution to that Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The McDonalds executive, Richard Ellis, who joined that sodomite Chamber of Commerce said, "I am thrilled to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work. I share the NGLCC's passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward." (32)


On April 19th, another shocking story regarding a new program being offered at the Boston Children's Hospital made the news. The program is called the Gender Management Service Clinic, and it is managed by pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Norman Spack. In this program, parents bring in their children to receive injections that delay puberty until they are old enough to decide if they want to have a male or female body. Dr. Spack feels that this program makes sex change much easier than if the children wait until they are twenty years old. (33) These certainly are days like unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and the words of Jesus in Luke 17:28-30 have come to pass.


Electronics and the Antichrist!


In another story, released on April 12th, 2008, we learn that the Bush Administration is set to launch a new ultrasophisticated spy program to be used on the American people. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said, "Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved." (34) Chertoff is referring to satellite technology that is interfaced with numerous other electronic systems that will become an all-seeing eye that is able to microscrutinize every American.


There is a sinister and clandestine reason why the invisible government has been pushing the use of cell phones, which have reached the stage of almost universal usage in only a short period of time. Cell towers are almost everywhere, and many are hidden in high buildings and especially in church steeples. In our country there are now 210,000 cell towers, which serve also as a vast spy system that interfaces with satellites. The Federal Communications Commission is now calling for a backup power system of at least eight hours for every cell tower in the event of a power outage. (35) This initiative lines up perfectly with a Wall Street Journal article dated March 28th, 2008, which featured the headline Phones will soon tell where you are. The article goes on to explain that cell phones will tell exactly where you are, right down to the street corner or restaurant or anywhere else you might be! (36) People have become so dependent on cell phones that psychologists have now added a new mental disease to their list of phobias. The new mental disease is called nomophobia, and it is explained as the fear of being out of range of a cell phone tower. Psychologists are saying that having a cell phone and being out of range sends stress levels soaring. (37)


Illuministic electronics are also becoming very personal. Communications devices are being implanted in the human body. When this happens, privacy ceases to exist. We have now learned that Bluetooth wireless technology and the "wi-fi" systems allow for devices, which will immediately alert medical facilities of a heart attack, diabetic shock, or other health problems, to be implanted in people. (38)


In Britain, the 31,000 officers of the Metropolitan Police are to be microchipped, and thus they will have electronic devices implanted in their bodies to pinpoint their exact location at all times. (39)


I must say that I am shocked at how quickly Satan's agenda is moving forward. In a recent article that appeared in the RFID Journal, we find that as of April 28th, 2008, the VeriChip company has gone retail with the implantable microchip. The chip is first being marketed through Hearx Hearing Care Stores. The market of the elderly are being targeted first, but anyone can go into one of these stores and have a passive 134 kHz RFID chip implanted in their body for $149. The inducement is that the chip will be linked to a database with all of the individual's medical records. (40)


There are also strange things going on regarding things in space. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has networked 780 computers together inside room 223 in the physics building. They have named the super-computer Nemo, and they are using it to search for invisible waves that emanate from black holes in space. (41) In room 223 there is said to be a deafening roar, and cooling systems have trouble controlling the heat.


We know that long ago, mankind tried to build a great tower whose top would reach unto heaven. The Tower of Babel was a giant ziggurat for looking into the heavens, and God confounded the language and put a stop to it. This tower symbolizes all idolatry. At the White House on April 16th, 2008, the Pope was presented with a birthday cake, which was in the exact shape of a Babylonian tower, with one candle on the top. (42) Candles on birthday cakes are used in the occult to represent the position of the sun-god in the zodiac on the day of one's birth. It was a symbol of a person's connection with the heavens. Strangely enough, on the 13th day of May, the Vatican announced that it is all right to believe in aliens, according to the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, the "Rev." Jose Gabriel Funes. (43) The very next day, NASA announced the discovery of an object in our galaxy for which they had been hunting for years. They would not say what they had found, but they said the finding was made by using combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations. (44) Quite obviously, strange and clandestine things are going on regarding our government and the Vatican. Soon we will know what all of this means.


In closing, I urge everyone to watch and pray. Time is extremely short. I also sincerely thank all of you who support this end time, prophetic ministry. God bless you! Remember that your prayer requests are always welcomed. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.


David J. Meyer


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PLAN MEXICO TIED TO SPP

May 28, 2008

Plan Mexico Tied to SPP

By Dana Gabriel

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The Merida Initiative is a security aid package to Mexico and parts of Central America that was recently approved. It has been dubbed Plan Mexico and is a three year $1.4 billion “Regional Security Cooperation Initiative.” Some have described it as more of a partnership as oppose to a foreign aid package. Plan Mexico is tied to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the continued integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union.

Much of Plan Mexico is based on the American war on drugs model, which has been costly and ineffective. This model relies primarily on military and law enforcement measures, leading to more surveillance, domestic spying, and further advancing the police state. Plan Mexico will see the transfer of equipment, technological support, and training in an effort to combat Mexico’s growing drug trade. Some believe that this military approach will further escalate drug related violence and human rights's abuses. There is a push for more military cooperation and the future development of a hemispheric police force that would be able to cross borders. This might not be necessary with creation of a North American Union, as our borders are being systematically erased and our sovereignty sacrificed.

Plan Mexico goes well beyond trying to stop the flow of illegal drugs. At a press conference from the third SPP Leader Summit in Montebello, Quebec in August of 2007, President Bush referred to Mexico’s drug trade as a continental problem that demanded continental solutions. Laura Carlsen, the director of the Americas Program at the U.S.-based Center for International Policy, stated that Plan Mexico is intimately linked to the SPP. She said, “It would fundamentally restructure the U.S.-Mexico binational relationship, recast economic and social problems as security issues, and militarize Mexican society. “ She went on to say, “Through the SPP, the Bush administration has sought to push its North American trade partners into a common front that would assume shared responsibility for protecting the United States from terrorist threats, promoting and protecting the free-trade economic model, and bolstering U.S. global control.”

As much as half of Plan Mexico funding will go to the military, with later money allocated to law enforcement and judicial agencies. Drug cartels have managed to infiltrate the judicial system and almost every facet of Mexican law enforcement and military. There has been an undeclared border war for some time, with Mexican drug gangs and cartels vying for control. It has been reported by the mainstream media that some Mexican troops who received U.S. training have now switched sides and joined the cartels. There have also been reports of Mexican rogue military incursions across the border. The national media blackout surrounding the border violence has been lifted, as there are fears the violence could further spillover across on to the U.S. side.

Some might recall Plan Colombia, which was launched by the Clinton administration back in 2000. Since its inception, it has failed to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. and has lead to more violence and corruption. New equipment, training, and strategy was later shifted from targeting drug cartels and used against those who oppose the government. Plan Columbia later morphed into the war on terror. There were up to 800 American trainers, including Special Forces, and up to 600 private contractors in Columbia. There are fears that Plan Mexico will result in more U.S. military involvement. The Merida Initiative threatens Mexican sovereignty, will broaden presidential powers, and promote militarization of the country.

The Plan Mexico strategy is part of the SPP and further integration into a North American Union. It will help in creating a fortress North America while spreading the SPP to other parts of the region. This is in an effort for the U.S. to further extend its foreign policy. There has been much speculation about possible American troop involvement, which both U.S. and Mexican authorities have adamantly denied. The U.S. is further merging its military and law enforcement with Canada and Mexico. Are we on the verge of a North American Union army? There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the U.S.-Canadian military agreement that was signed several months back.

TAKING THEIR FAITH, BUT NOT THEIR POLITICS, TO THE PEOPLE

Taking Their Faith, but Not Their Politics, to the People
Virginia Lee Hunter for The New York Times

Congregants of the Journey, an evangelical church in St. Louis, meet monthly at the Schlafly Bottleworks to discuss larger questions of faith and public policy. By NEELA BANERJEE

Published: June 1, 2008

ST. LOUIS — Southern Baptists, as a rule, do not drink. But once a month, young congregants of the Journey, a Baptist church here, and their friends get together in the back room of a sprawling brew pub called the Schlafly Bottleworks to talk about the big questions: President Bush, faith and war, the meaning of life, and “what’s wrong with religion.”

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“We go where people are because we feel like Jesus went to the people,” said the Rev. Darrin Patrick, founder of the Journey.

“That’s where people are having their conversations about things that matter,” the Rev. Darrin Patrick, senior pastor and founder of the Journey, said about the talks in the bar. “We go where people are because we feel like Jesus went to the people.”

The Journey, a megachurch of mostly younger evangelicals, is representative of a new generation that refuses to put politics at the center of its faith and rejects identification with the religious right.

They say they are tired of the culture wars. They say they do not want the test of their faith to be the fight against gay rights. They say they want to broaden the traditional evangelical anti-abortion agenda to include care for the poor, the environment, immigrants and people with H.I.V., according to experts on younger evangelicals and the young people themselves.

“Evangelicalism is becoming somewhat less coherent as a movement or as an identity,” said Christian Smith, a sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame. “Younger people don’t even want the label anymore. They don’t believe the main goal of the church is to be political.”

About 17 percent of the nation’s 55 million adult evangelicals are between the ages of 18 and 29, and many are troubled by the methods of the religious right and its close ties to the Republican Party.

In a January 2007 survey of 1,000 young people for the book “Unchristian,” one of its authors, David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, which studies Christian trends, found that 47 percent of born-again Christians ages 40 and under believed that “the political efforts of conservative Christians” posed a problem for America.

None of that means younger evangelicals have abandoned the core tenets of their faith, including a belief in the physical resurrection of Jesus and the literal truth of the Bible. They think abortion and homosexuality are sins.

And so far, there is no clear evidence that supporting a broader social agenda has led young evangelicals to defect from the Republican Party in great numbers, as many liberals have predicted.

But shifts in thinking among younger evangelicals may lead to an easing of the polarization that has defined the country’s recent political landscape, many of them said.

“The easy thing is to fight, but the hard thing is to put your gloves down and work together towards a common cause,” said the Rev. Scott Thomas, director of the Acts 29 Network, which helps pastors start churches. “Our generation would like to put our gloves down. We don’t want to be out there picketing. We want to be out there serving.”

On a rainy Tuesday night, six couples from the Journey, all under 35, went to Jim and Megan Beckemeier’s home for a weekly Bible study.

“Did you see my boy Barack today?” Mike Fine, 28, said to Mr. Beckemeier, 31, as they sat down, referring to a speech Senator Barack Obama gave earlier that day. “I thought he did well, really well.”

Some in the Bible study grew up in evangelical homes, others in mainline families, and still others outside the church. Asked if they considered themselves evangelicals, they squirmed.

“I’m comfortable with the word as long as it means a believer of Christ who wants to spread his teaching,” Ryan Witt, 30, said. “But it doesn’t automatically mean that you are against stem cell research or voting for McCain.”

The older generation, the congregants said, had drifted away from Jesus’s example.

“What the church has done wrong is that it has created these ‘holy huddles’ of Christian magazines, music and schools that have set them apart from the world because the world is bad,” said Mr. Beckemeier, who grew up in an evangelical family. “Instead of doing what Christ did, and bring light to the world, they retreat from it.”

Younger evangelicals focus more on “the ethic of Jesus” than on political issues, said Adam Smith, editor of the religion and culture magazine Relevant. They gravitate toward practical social action, Mr. Smith and others said, like working with poor, academically troubled inner-city schools, a priority at the Journey, or against human trafficking. While older evangelicals are also involved in such issues, younger people shy away from their emphasis on political organizing.

“They are very much turned off by the suit-and-tie power brokers of the evangelical right,” said David P. Gushee, professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University in Georgia.

THE PRESIDENT, THE POPE, AND THE PASTOR

The President, the Pope, and the Pastor

The Catholic Connections to Lincoln’s Murder

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Chiniquy


“After twenty years of constant and most difficult research, I come fearlessly today before the American people, to say and prove that the president, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated by the priests and the Jesuits of Rome.”
— Charles Chiniquy,
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
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Pastor Charles Chiniquy (above right), born in 1809, was a noted French Canadian ex-priest who left the Roman confession after a long struggle with the bishop of Chicago over property (among other issues).

His most important book, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome is powerful, part autobiography, part diatribe, and a scathing indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. The grim picture he paints of greedy bishops and lascivious priests sounds so familiar, it proves that in some respects at least the Church is indeed changeless through the ages.

Charles Chiniquy was a famous and respected priest known as “apostle of temperance to Canada” for his work promoting sobriety. Hence the shock of his leaving was that much greater. No taint of scandal clung to him, despite the efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to discredit him after he left the Roman Church. In his book, he claims he was physically assaulted numerous times, even being stoned on occasion, by papist mobs for speaking out. He ultimately became an independent Catholic bishop and a revered founder of the Community Church movement.

Chiniquy may have had an ax to grind but he was no raving lunatic. After all, he was a personal friend of Honest Abe’s and owed him his freedom, if not his life. He even visited him several times at the White House.

The future president had saved him from prison and probable death during his legal battles with the minions of the bishop of Chicago in the late 1850s, and Chiniquy said he told Lincoln at the time that that alone was enough to make him a marked man. The evidence Chiniquy gathered was highly circumstantial but intriguing, nonetheless.

The Conspirators and the Church

In the first place, Booth and the other conspirators, Chiniquy claimed, were devout or at least closet Roman Catholics. Priests frequented Mrs. Surratt’s boardinghouse, which served as the plotters’ rendezvous. Indeed, several priests actually lived there.

Her son, John Surrat, escaped the noose (unlike his devout mother), by fleeing to Canada where priests harbored him. When he was finally discovered and returned for trial in 1867, believe it or not, he was serving in the Pope’s guard at the Vatican.

Chiniquy claimed that the Roman Church, because of its autocratic principles, favored the South, and in any case wanted civil war to weaken America and its support of liberty in general. He claimed that Lincoln was well aware of this, and that the hierarchy had fomented conspiracies against him, but did not make it publicly known, lest it “become a war of extermination on both sides.” The false rumors that Lincoln had been born Catholic, Chiniquy said, were spread by the Jesuits to make it appear that Lincoln was an apostate and renegade, and thus deserving of the ultimate fate the Church saved for heretics — death.

Chiniquy claimed that the South would never have dared attack the North without assurances of covert assistance from the Church. He did make some extreme claims, such as that Beauregard was chosen to fire the opening shot at Ft. Sumter because he was Catholic, that the bishop of New York was responsible for the anti-draft riots and the failure of Meade, a Catholic, to pursue Lee after Gettysburg was due to the direct intercession of a Jesuit.

Even more intriguing is the fact, attested by sworn affidavits, that priests at the monastery near the town of St. Joseph in Minnesota, far beyond the reach of train and telegraph, were talking about the killings of both Lincoln and Seward some four hours before the attacks occurred. Chiniquy claimed that the clergy in Minnesota were “intimate friends” of those lurking at Mrs. Surratt’s nest of spies, though he produced no proof of this.

However, in 1864 Pope Pius IX wrote Jefferson Davis a letter that was made public, addressing him as the President of the Confederacy — in effect becoming the only foreign power to recognize the South. Chiniquy claimed that he told Lincoln that this was “a poisoned arrow thrown by the pope at you personally and it will be more than a miracle if it be not your irrevocable warrant of death.”

Why would the Pope favor the South? The papacy had been humiliated, if not humbled, by Napoleon and the excesses of the French Revolution. Pius, though he ascended to the throne as a liberal, became a bitter reactionary. More than once, the French army had to save him from the Italians rebels seeking to reuinte the peninsula.

During his extremely long reign, the Papal States were forever lost and the pope became a prisoner of the Vatican. But having lost his grip on the state, Pius acted ruthlessly to make sure he had total control over the Church, by convening the First Vatican Council and ramrodding through the doctrine of “papal infallibility.” This new dogma, like that of the Immaculate Conception of Mary which he also promulgated, disgusted many, including some bishops who left to form the “Old Catholics.”

In a similar vein, Pius also promulgated the infamous Syllabus of Errors, which condemned secret societies such as the Masons, along with such radical notions as the separation of church and state, freedom of religion and public schools. After bewailing the state of the Church in Europe, he wrote, “Nor are things any better or circumstances calmer in America, where some regions are so hostile to Catholics that their governments seem to deny by their actions the Catholic faith they claim to profess.”

Pius, despite his liberal beginnings, became a true autocrat. Perhaps that was enough to make him fear the democracy and egalitarianism of the American experiment. There was also the dangerous practice, especially in the United States, of congregations themselves owning the property and assets of the Church. This was seen as an attack on the authority of the bishops and by extension, the papacy, and would ultimately be defined as heretical. Thus Pius had reason to dread the growing power of the United States. His support of the Confederacy would not be as much for its victory as for the Union’s defeat.

The Day of Atonement
The one fact that may be most significant is one that all theorists including Chiniquy seem to have ignored completely: April 14, 1865 was not just any Friday, but Good Friday. Perhaps this oversight was because the president’s life lingered until Saturday. To most historians, who see the assassination largely as a crime of opportunity triggered by the fall of the Confederacy, this means nothing; but even if it was, would Booth and his fellow plotters have seen it that way? Would it not be seen as entirely providential and foreordained that the “bloodthirsty tyrant” be slain the very day Christ was crucified? Would it not have given a fanatic even further impetus?

And how, for that matter, did the fact that Lincoln was shot on Good Friday contribute to his later being deified as the “savior” of the country?

As with that other assassination nearly a century later of a “martyred” Catholic president by a “lone gunman”, the truth will never be known. But considering the equally dubious conspiracy theories in regard to Kennedy that seem less implausible as time goes on, it may not be quite so easy to dismiss the Catholic connection to Lincoln’s murder as it once was.

Source: http://www.weirdload.com/lincoln.html

WHO WAS CHARLES CHINIQUY?

Charles Chiniquy

Charles Chiniquy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles P. Chiniquy (30 July 180916 January 1899) was a Canadian Catholic priest who converted to Presbyterianism and became known for his anti-Catholic writings and sermons. In the period between 1885 and 1899 he was the focus of a great deal of discussion in the United States of America. During the 1880s his conspiracy theories included the claim to have exposed the Jesuits as the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln, and that, if unchecked, the Jesuits could eventually politically rule the United States. [1]

Chiniquy was born in 1809 in the village of Kamouraska, Quebec. He lost his father at an early age and was adopted by his uncle. As a young man, Chiniquy studied to become a Catholic priest at the Petit Seminaire (Little Seminary) in Nicolet, Quebec. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1833. After his ordination, he served his Church in Quebec and later emigrated to Illinois. During the 1840s, he led a very successful campaign throughout Quebec against alcohol and drunkenness.

After twice being suspended by two different bishops he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, joined the Presbyterian Church and converted nearly his entire parish in St. Anne.[citation needed] He then became a dedicated anti-Catholic preacher, attacking what he claimed was its theology. He claimed that the Catholic Church is pagan, that Roman Catholics worship the Virgin Mary, that its theology spoils the Gospel and that its theology is anti-Christian. He also claimed that the Vatican had planned to take over the United States by importing Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Germany and France.

Chiniquy further claimed that he was falsely accused by his superiors (and that Abraham Lincoln had come to his rescue), that the American Civil War was a plot against the United States of America by the Vatican, and that the Vatican was behind the Confederate cause, the death of President Lincoln and that Lincoln's assassins were faithful Roman Catholics serving Pope Pius IX.

Chiniquy earned his living by writing several anti-Catholic books and tracts and making speeches attacking the Roman Catholic Church. His two most influential works are Fifty Years in The Church of Rome and The Priest, The Woman and The Confessional. These two books helped to swell the tide of anti-Catholic resentment in the United States. These books were written at a time when Americans were suspicious of foreign influence, as typified by the Know-Nothing movement.

On January 16, 1899, he died in Montreal.

To this day, some of Chiniquy's works are still promoted among Protestants and Bible-Only believers. One of his most best-known modern-day followers is Jack Chick, who created a comic-form adaptation of 50 Years In The Church of Rome called "The Big Betrayal"[1] and who draws heavily on Chiniquy's claims in his own anti-Catholic tracts.

References

  1. ^ Phelps, Eric Jon (2001). Vatican assassins: wounded in the house of my friends, the diabolical history of the Society of Jesus. Halycon Unified Services. ISBN 978-0970499929. p. 56: "Charles Chiniquy, a French Canadian and “the Martin Luther of America,” who, although having been deceived into joining the Masonic Lodge after his conversion to Christ (believing Satan’s Masonic Craft was the enemy of Satan’s Jesuit Order), boldly exposed the Jesuits as the assassins of President Lincoln during the 1880s. He also warned, that if unchecked, the Jesuits would rule this country."

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COMING EVENTS CLEARLY REVEALED

Coming Events Clearly Revealed

The Lord God does nothing without giving to his servants the prophets knowledge of his plans. Amos 3:7, N.E.B.


The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble, are clearly presented. But multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them unready. {Mar 160.1}

As we near the close of this world's history, the prophecies relating to the last days especially demand our study. The last book of the New Testament scriptures is full of truth that we need to understand. {Mar 160.2}

The solemn messages that have been given in their order in the Revelation are to occupy the first place in the minds of God's people. . . . {Mar 160.3}

Precious time is rapidly passing, and there is danger that many will be robbed of the time which should be given to the proclamation of the messages that God has sent to a fallen world. Satan is pleased to see the diversion of minds that should be engaged in a study of the truths which have to do with eternal realities. {Mar 160.4}

The testimony of Christ, a testimony of the most solemn character, is to be borne to the world. All through the book of Revelation there are the most precious, elevating promises, and there are also warnings of the most fearfully solemn import. Will not those who profess to have a knowledge of the truth read the testimony given to John by Christ? Here is no guesswork, no scientific deception. Here are the truths that concern our present and future welfare. What is the chaff to the wheat? {Mar 160.5}

Only those who have been diligent students of the Scriptures and who have received the love of the truth will be shielded from the powerful delusion that takes the world captive. By the Bible testimony these will detect the deceiver in his disguise. To all the testing time will come. By the sifting of temptation the genuine Christian will be revealed. Are the people of God now so firmly established upon His word that they would not yield to the evidence of their senses? Would they, in such a crisis, cling to the Bible and the Bible only? {Mar 160.6}

Maranatha, E.G. W., p.160.

THE IDENTITY OF MYSTERY BABYLON

The Identity of Mystery Babylon

Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of HarlotsWho is mystery Babylon? Revelation 17:5 reads, “And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Just from analysing scriptures alone from the Book of Revelation a consistent theme can be seen of an Apostate Church that persecuted the Christian Saints through the dark ages for 1260 years. Further analysis reveals that this Apostate Church is the key component of mystery Babylon and changed God’s law in favour of pagan traditions. The ultimate climax seen is God taking justice on this Apostate Church and those that supported her, for her crimes and fornication just before the second coming of Christ, which is also part of what is known as the Battle of Armageddon. Just before this happens the issue of 666 and the Mark of the Beast will be enforced and all will have the choice to bow down to the image made to this Apostate Church or to Worship God only and keep His Commandments. Those who willingly disobey God in favour of bowing down to the commandments of this Church and mystery Babylon, the mother of Harlots, will ultimately receive her Mark and “shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.

Before continuing please allow me to emphasize that this document is not intended to offend any person or their Church. Some of the best missionaries and humanitarians have been part of this Apostate Church and have taken no part in her crimes. What the scripture refers to in these chapters of Revelation are not all the wonderful Christians that have been in this Church, but the system itself, so no offence is intended in any way towards people that belong to this Church or have ever been part of this Apostate Church. Much of this is very distressing and as much as it may hurt to hear these truths, we must teach what the Bible says as God’s true Church is called to do. God does not want mystery Babylon to remain a mystery.

Clues to the identity of Mystery Babylon

In Revelation, the Apostle John tells the tale of TWO WOMEN. One is dressed in pure white, revealing the purity of true faith and doctrine. This pure woman of Revelation 12 is committed to Christ. She’s absolutely loyal to Him and her heart burns with a love for Jesus. Nothing can break her loyalty to the One she loves so much. This woman represents all the faithful believers who have loved Jesus Christ, kept His commandments and been obedient to Him down through the ages. Revelation 17 pictures another woman. Now we have the opposite picture. Who is this woman in scarlet riding on a Beast?

Mystery Babylon is a CHURCH: In the Bible a WOMAN symbolizes a CHURCH. This is an extremely important point that must absolutely not be overlooked as it proves beyond all shadow of a doubt that this “WOMAN” with mystery Babylon written upon Her head and riding a Beast (Kingdom) has to be a “Church.” Below are several scriptures that prove this is undeniable fact. The only question that then remains is which Church? Note that an unfaithful Church commits spiritual adultery.

God also refers to Israel as a “Woman” (HER) as it represents the Old Testament Church that brought forth the Man child (Jesus Christ) in Revelation 12. Do not miss this really important point which is that God called Israel a “Harlot” and a “Whore” when she worshipped other gods and committed spiritual adultery. Which Church deleted the Commandment on idolatry and worshipped the SUN and has many pagan traditions? Which Church changed the Sabbath to SUNday in favour of SUN worship? Which Church has the statue of St Peter in St Peters Cathedral which was originally the statue of the pagan god Jupiter? This statue has had its foot kissed away and replaced several times because of the multitude that have bowed down to this statue and kissed its foot. This is unmistakable idolatry and especially when this was originally a pagan god.

In the following verse you will note that God calls the fourth Commandment “MY” Sabbath.

  • Exodus 31:13Speak you also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily MY Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD that does sanctify you.

Now note the following verse refers to the ceremonial sabbaths and the various feasts days and new moons which were associated with a temporary law that was for Israel only. It is called the Book of the law, Mosaic Law and the ordinances. The term Ceremonial law is also used. Speaking of Israel, note that God calls them HER Sabbaths and HER feast days etc. Israel is all through the Old Testament referred to as a “Woman” (HER) and when she worshipped other gods was called a “Harlot.”

  • Hosea 2:11I will also cause all HER mirth to cease, HER feast days, HER new moons, and HER sabbaths, and all HER solemn feasts.

When the Church apostatized it was compared with a corrupt Woman

  • Jeremiah 3:1-25 “…If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? ...but you have played the HARLOT with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. 2 …you have polluted the land with your WHOREDOMS and with your wickedness. 3 …you hadst a WHORE'S FOREHEAD, you refusedst to be ashamed… 6 The LORD said also unto me… Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the HARLOT… 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed ADULTERY I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the HARLOT also… 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
  • Ezekiel 16:26-32You have also committed FORNICATION with the Egyptians your neighbours, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger… 28 You have played the WHORE also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yes, you have played the HARLOT with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing you doest all these things, the work of an imperious WHORISH WOMAN; 31 In that you buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and have not been as an HARLOT, in that you scornest hire; 32 But as a wife that committeth ADULTERY, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
  • Revelation 17:1-3…Come hither; I will show unto you the judgment of the great WHORE that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed FORNICATION, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her FORNICATION. 3 …I saw a WOMAN sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy… 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON the great, the MOTHER OF HARLOTS and abominations of the earth.

God’s true Church is frequently represented as a Woman

  • Isaiah 54:5-6For your Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the LORD has called you as a WOMAN forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, saith your God.
  • 2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
  • Ephesians 5:31-32For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.

Christ is represented as the Bridegroom and the Church is the bride which of course is a “Woman.”

  • Matthew 9:14-15Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but your disciples fast not? 15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
  • Revelation 19:7-8Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his WIFE has made HERSELF ready. 8 And to HER was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
  • Revelation 12:1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a WOMAN clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

Some have wrongly concluded that this woman is Mary but the following verse demonstrates that this woman represents God’s true Church by the symbolism used. The time period here represents the 1260 years called the dark ages where Church had to flee into the wilderness to survive the persecution. Mary did not live for 1260 years or have eagles wings!

  • Revelation 12:14And to the WOMAN were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Mystery Babylon is a CORRUPT Church: Just as a pure woman represents a pure Church, a corrupt woman represents a corrupt Church. The woman in white is Christ’s bride, the true Church. But Revelation 17:1, 15-16 and 19:2 call this second woman a “WHORE” or “HARLOT”, a fallen Church teaching false doctrines.

Mystery Babylon is a RICH Church: This symbolic wicked woman, this corrupt Church is a rich one with gorgeous display. Revelation 17:4 says she’s “decked with GOLD and PRECIOUS STONES and PEARLS, having a GOLDEN cup in her hand.” Which Church would you say is the richest in the world?

Mystery Babylon is a Church built on SEVEN HILLS or MOUNTAINS: This identification given in Revelation 17:9, is impressive and clear, for ROME is proverbial as “the city built on seven hills.Webster’s large unabridged dictionary says this under the entry “seven-hilled”: “as, the SEVEN-HILLED CITY, that is, ROME, Italy.” Furthermore, Revelation 17:18 tells John, “The woman whom you saw is that GREAT CITY which reigns over the kings of the earth.” John wrote this using the present tense for the word “reigns” and he knew as well as anyone else that “that great city” was ROME.

Mystery Babylon is a LARGE, WORLDWIDE Church: She sits on “many WATERS,” explained as being many “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” Revelation 17:1 and 15. The very word catholic means “universal,” and the Papal Church has the largest, most widespread membership in Christendom.

Mystery Babylon is a Church that revives BABYLON’S pagan teachings:On her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT...” Revelation 17:5. Long before John wrote the Book of Revelation, the ancient city of Babylon had been completely destroyed and never rebuilt. For centuries it lay in ruins and had faded into insignificance. The apostle Peter could not have been referring to literal Babylon when he wrote in 1 Peter 5:13 that: “She who is in Babylon ... greets you.” For there was no Church or any other human institution in the desolate ruins of ancient Babylon. He was referring to ROME as all authorities agree. It is easy to see why early Christians used “Babylon” as a code word or nickname for Rome, for there are many striking parallels between the twin cities of literal Babylon of ancient times and figurative “Babylon” or Rome. Consider just a few: Babylon was the dominant warring power of its day and Rome was the dominant warring power of its own era. Babylon conquered Israel and centuries later, Rome also conquered Israel. Babylon destroyed the first Jerusalem Temple and Rome destroyed the second. Each carried sacred vessels from the Jewish Temple back to Babylon in the east and Rome in the west; each completely destroyed and devastated the city of Jerusalem; each carried away surviving Jews into captivity. Rome was Babylon all over again. As Babylon’s “carbon copy,” Rome provides a perfect example of history repeating itself! But more to the point, this woman who sits on seven hills which is this Church located in Rome, has revived the same pagan teachings that ancient Babylon taught ages ago. She baptizes them, sanctifies them, and brings them into the Christian Church. Ages ago, when presumptuous men tried to build the Tower of Babel at Babylon, God confused their language. Genesis 11:1-9. So here in the last book of the Bible, “Babylon” is a spiritual term referring to confusion, not the confusion of languages in the Old Testament but religious confusion as the Church drifted away from God’s Word.

Mystery Babylon is a RELIGIOUS power dominating the CIVIL powers: Revelation 17:3 and 7 tell us the harlot, or fallen Church, is RIDING the beast. Daniel 7:17 and 23 tell us a beast represent a king or kingdom. When we ride a horse, we direct it and control it, so the picture God gives here is of a Church dominating the civil power. For centuries, the Papacy dictated to kings. When she wanted to punish or execute any who dared to question her teaching, she would often call on the police power of the state. Revelation 17:2 describes this harlot: “with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication.” She has influence over the kings of the earth, great influence over heads of state. Today, unlike other Churches, the Vatican exchanges ambassadors with every major nation on earth. They come to her city on seven mountains, and they bow before her, having “lived luxuriously with her.” Revelation 18:9

The Harlot and NATURAL Immortality: Sincere Catholics often bow down before a statue of a SAINT and devoutly pray, even though the saint is DEAD. But the Roman Church doesn’t teach that they’re dead. Even though the idea that man’s soul is naturally immortal is a PAGAN one. All the ancient pagan religions, without exception had the idea that the soul, or man’s essential being, was immortal. That non-biblical concept, inherited from Babylon was a common thread running through them all. In Egypt for instance, the pyramids were great monuments, great houses for the dead to hold their immortal spirits. But the heathen idea of man’s soul being naturally immortal comes from Egypt and Babylon and Greece, not the Bible whose teaching directly contradicts it. See such verses as 1 Timothy 6:15-16, Ezekiel 18:4, 20, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Psalm 6:5; 13:3; 115:17, John 11:11-14, Ephesians 5:14 etc.

The Harlot and IMAGE Worship: Many false doctrines entered the Church, but let’s focus on just three: IMAGE worship, IMMORTALITY of the soul, and SUN worship. First of all, Babylon was the center of idol worship. Everywhere you turned there were images, idols representing the pagan gods, not just statues of Bel-Marduk, their chief god. King Nebuchadnezzar set up a huge golden idol and commanded all to bow down before it. But God’s Second Commandment in Exodus 20:4-5 FORBIDS using images in religious worship, FORBIDS bowing down before them. Today the Papal Church not only fosters those very things but also has DELETED the Second Commandment from its catechisms (official training manuals).

The Harlot and SUN Worship: The main deity of Babylon and Egypt was the Sun god. Astrology and worship of the heavens originated in Babylon. But God calls it one of the greatest of “abominations” in Ezekiel 8:15-16. Roman Emperor Constantine was a sun worshiper who never gave it up. The Roman Church disregards not only the Second Commandment about image worship but also the Fourth Commandment about the Creator’s Seventh-day Sabbath, substituting the unscriptural SUNDAY.

Mystery Babylon is the Mother of Harlots: This is because SHE has continued to have a massive impact on what truly does matter to God, i.e., His Church. She is the root of many false doctrines, has changed God’s law and shed the blood of millions of Christians etc. When Israel committed spiritual adultery, God called His Old Testament Church a “WHORE”, a “HARLOT” and a “WHORISH WOMAN” and accused her of “FORNICATION” and “ADULTERY.” The Catholic Church is guilty of much worse than Israel. In a recent address to the nations, Pope Benedict caused a major uproar among many Churches as he referred to the Catholic Church as being the “MOTHER” Church and called for all the daughter Churches to come back to HER. They are referred to as daughter Churches because they originally came from the Catholic Church, eg: Martin Luther, who had been a Catholic priest established the Lutheran Church. Sadly, many of the daughter Churches have also ignorantly inherited various false doctrines and this is why SHE is called the “MOTHER OF HARLOTS” as is Mystery Babylon.

The Testimony of History:

  • The Sun was a foremost god with heathendom. ... The sun has worshippers at this hour in Persia and other lands. ... The PAGAN Sunday dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus.— Catholic William Gildea, Doctor of Divinity, wrote in The Catholic World, March, 1894, page 809.
  • Doctor Alexander Hislop, in his classic work, The Two Babylon’s, page 105, says this: “To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals [that’s the Sabbath and Sunday] amalgamated, and ... to get Paganism and Christianity now far sunk in idolatry in this as in so many other things, to shake hands.” He says further: “A glance at the main pillars of the Papal system will sufficiently prove that its doctrine and discipline in all essential respects have been derived from BABYLON.
  • In ancient Babylonia the SUN was WORSHIPPED from immemorial antiquity.— Sir James G. Frazer, an authoritative scholar, makes this statement in his book The Worship of Nature, Volume 1, page 529.
  • The doctrine of natural, as distinguished from Christian, immortality ... crept into the Church, by a BACK DOOR. ... When arguments are offered for the purely natural immortality of the soul, they are rarely, if ever, derived from Scripture. ... The natural immortality of the soul is a doctrine wholly unknown to the Holy Scriptures, and standing on no higher plane than that of ... PHILOSOPHICAL OPINION ... of philosophical speculations DISGUISED as truths of Divine Revelation.— William E. Gladstone, four-time Prime Minister of Great Britain and a theologian in his own right, wrote in Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler, pp. 195-198.
  • The adoration of idols that is in Babylon was succeeded by the adoration of saints.— Henry Thomas Buckle, a world-famous historian, says in his book The History of Civilization, Volume 1, page 188.
  • The book Catholic Belief, by Roman Catholic scholar Father Joseph Faà di Bruno, page 45, states this: “Like two sacred rivers flowing from Paradise, the Bible AND divine Tradition contain the Word of God, the precious gems of revealed truths. Though these two divine streams are in themselves, on account of their divine origin, of EQUAL sacredness, and are both full of revealed truths, still, of the two, Tradition is to us MORE clear and safe.” Are the traditions, customs and practices of man safer than the Bible? Rome baptizes tradition with the word “divine” and dares to hold it above the Bible.
  • Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is IMPOSSIBLE.— Cardinal James Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore and noted writer, said in The Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.
  • One cannot well refer to those cults of Babylon and Egypt and the rest as DEAD religions. For the echo of their ancient thunder is still to be heard reverberating in almost every form of faith existing today. Ancient Babylonian image worship is in the church today. Ancient Babylonian sun worship is there. Ancient Babylonian belief in the immortality of the soul is there. Yes, the echo of that thunder is still heard in the church today!— Lewis Brown says this in The Believing World, page 112.
  • His coins bore on the one side the letters of the name of Christ; on the other, the figure of the SUN GOD, as if he could not bear to relinquish the patronage of the bright luminary.— Historian Arthur P. Stanley in his book, The History of the Eastern Church, page 184, says this about the Roman Emperor Constantine.

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