Saturday, January 10, 2009

Eternal Gospel Ministry Florida Camp Meeting


Florida Camp Meeting


When: January 16, 17, 18, 2009


Where: Lake Placid, FL


Speakers: Mike Nicholson, Raphael Perez, Moses Mason, and Dennis Simpson




Who are God's children?


He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. .........John 8:47.

Friday, January 09, 2009

A Sunday Worshiper Explains Sunday Worship


A Sunday Worshiper
Explains Sunday Worship


A Sunday worshiper "explains" to an inquirer why he thinks the day of worship is Sun day. The writer maintains a web site on Bible truth, but unfortunately friend, the explanations given do not support a biblical change of the Sabbath.



Hi S_______,

I think the follow will help you with your question about keeping the Sabbath..

The word sabbath means "rest". God first gave the sabbath as a duty to man in the book of Exodus. It is true that the sabbath originated at the
completion of the creation (Ge. 2:1-3), but that was God's rest, not man's. There is no record in Genesis that God gave the sabbath
to man, and there is no record of men keeping the sabbath before Israel in the wilderness. Neh. 9:13,14 plainly states that the
sabbath was first given to Israel. Seventh-day Adventists and a few others teach that men kept the sabbath from the days of Adam onward, but
this is contrary to the Bible's own record.
Repsonse: Did God get tired when He created this world? Was the rest that God participated in during the seventh day of creation week due to His getting tired, or because He was demonstrating to us what we needed to do? Since the time of creation, we have had a command to observe the Sabbath day since "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it" Genesis 2:3. Notice in the comment above the Sun day promoter says "the sabbath originated at the completion of the creation" but then he says "there is no record of men keeping the sabbath before Israel in the wilderness." It can't be both friend. God did not create the Sabbath during creation week for Himself, it was for man. Notice this text, "The Sabbath was made for man" Mark 2:27. Notice that it does not say it was made for the Jew. God emphasized the Sabbath with the Jews so they could be messengers of truth to the world, like Christians are supposed to be today. God wanted mankind to observe all the Ten Commandments, including His Holy Sabbath Day. Abraham lived hundreds of years before Israel in the wilderness, and yet God said "Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My Commandments, My statutes, and My laws." Genesis 26:5. That shows Abraham was obeying the Sabbath commandment too. Notice also in Exodus 16:28-30, that God was upset with Israel because they were not observing the Sabbath properly BEFORE Moses was given the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone. Israel knew about the Sabbath, but was forced to work seven days in Egypt and could not observe it properly for a long period of time. This next text is further evidence that the Ten Commandments were known to mankind throughout the centuries, beginning with Adam and Eve, "Sin is transgression of the Law" I John 3:4. For there to be sin, there must be a Law known to man of which he disobeys. For men to sin before Mt. Sinai, they must have known about the Ten Commandments which were passed down from generation to generation from the time of Adam and Eve. At Mt. Sinai, God knew the Egyptians were used to seeing laws written on tablets of stone, so He wrote the Ten Commandments on stone to meet the people where they were, and to remind them of His truth.

Exodus. 31:12-18 says the sabbath was a special sign between God and Israel. If mankind in general had been given the sabbath following creation, it could not have been a sign for Israel. The fact is that the sabbath belongs to the nation Israel and not to any
other people. It is also important to note that the sabbath will be an eternal possession of Israel (Ex. 31:16). This sign will never be annulled or transferred to another people.
Response: As we saw above, the Sabbath was given to man, not just the Jews. The Sabbath is a sign between God and His people who are committed to Him in spirit and truth. The Ten Commandments were not for just the Jews. They were for all mankind. Is there a set of Christian Ten Commandments? No. We are to obey the Ten Commandments given to all mankind. Also, to take one of the Ten Commandments out of the ten and say it is not meant for us to obey is simply WRONG. James 2:10 says "For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all." If we break one of the ten, we have broken them all. That is serious folks. The reasoning used by this Sun day promoter is deadly folks. He is attacking ALL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!!!
VERY IMPORTANT - Notice this verse in Galations 3:28,29 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." We are not to strive to be literal Jews, we are to strive to be Christians then we will be a spiritual Jew and a decendant of Abraham. The Israel spoken of in Revelation pertaining to future events is the spiritual Israel or faithful Christians carrying on with the work Jesus began.
Just as ancient Israel was given the Law, we as Christian were too "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them" Hebrews 10:16. By the Holy Spirit living within us, His Law will be written upon our heart and we will obey His Law.
This explains why the prophets foretell that Israel will keep the sabbath even after the

kingdom of Christ is established on earth (Isa. 66:23). It also explains why Jesus Christ mentioned the sabbath in His prophecies of
the Tribulation (Mt. 24:20). Israelites in the land of Palestine still keep the sabbath today.
Response: If you read Isaiah 66:23 you will see that "all flesh" will worship the Lord in the new earth on the Sabbath. It does not say only the Jews. Jesus spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem which would take place 40 years after His death and mentioned the Sabbath still being in effect in those days. He did not say it would be destroyed. Jesus was the founder of Christianity and was speaking of His Sabbath being in effect 40 years after his death.

In their writings to the churches, the Apostles only mentioned the sabbath three times.
Response: A totally false statement. The Sabbath is mentioned many, many times in the writings of the Acts of the Apostles. The apostles were continuing to worship on Saturday the Sabbath throughout the New Testament, many years after Jesus' resurrection. Let's take a look:

Acts 13:14 "But when they [Paul & friends] departed from Perga they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down." Paul then spoke in the church.
Acts 13:42 "And when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath." Paul was going to preach to the Gentiles the next Sabbath, NOT the next day, Sunday!!!! Paul was a seventh-day Sabbath keeper, not a sun day keeper!
Acts 13:44 "And the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God." Wow!!! The whole city, Gentiles, Jews, all came together on the same worship day, the seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment!
Acts 17:2 "Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures." Paul was observing the seventh-day Sabbath like all other Christians. That was his custom.
Acts 18:4 "And he [Paul] reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks." Notice it does not say he persuaded the Jews on the Sabbath, and invited the Greeks to church on Sunday. They all met on the same day, the seventh day Sabbath of the fourth commandment.

Note friend that there is not ONE mention of a Sun day church service, or mention of a change in the law of God and His Sabbath day in the New Testament.


(1) The sabbath is a symbol of salvation rest in Christ in Hebrews 4, and the Book of Hebrews was written to Christian Jews who were still practicing Judaism and not to Gentiles
Response: The writer is attempting to say the Sabbath is only a symbol and is not a responsibility of the Christian. But that is not found in the Bible.


(2) The N.T. believer is not bound to keep the sabbath (Col. 2:9-17).
Response: The ceremonial law, which looked forward to Christ, speaks of temporary sabbaths that were nailed to the cross, but not the Ten Commandment Sabbath:
"Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross....So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ." Colossians 2:14,16,17. The "handwriting" pertains to Moses writing the ceremonial law, such as the Day of Atonement sabbath, Passover, etc. It was "against us" is explained in Deut. 31:26 where the "Book of the law" written by Moses is "against you." The ceremonial law which had its own sabbaths was written on animal skin was "nailed to the cross" or ended at that time, but not the Ten Commandments, they were written by our Creator on stone for eternity. "The shadow of things to come" means it is temporary and points forward to Christ’s sacrifice when it would end. We no longer observe the Day of Atonement or Passover sabbaths because the sacrificial system ended at the cross. In Matt. 24 Jesus spoke of the Ten Commandment Sabbath in His prophecy of the destruction of Israel which took place 40 years after His death. So the true Ten Commandment Sabbath was verified by Jesus to still be in effect long after His death.



(3) The N.T. believer has liberty in the matter of holy days (Rom. 14). Those who teach that the sabbath is binding upon the Christian, are going contrary to what the Apostles taught.
Response: Friends, this reasoning is so shallow, because the writer is confusing the ceremonial sabbaths which looked forward to Christ's sacrifice, with the seventh day Sabbath of the fourth commandment. The ceremonial Sabbaths like the day of Atonement, the Passover, etc., were all done away with, but not the Sabbath of the fourth commandment!

Why, then, did Jesus keep the Sabbath? He kept the sabbath for the same reason He kept all the other Mosaic laws. He also observed the feasts. Jesus did these things because He was born a Jew, born under the law, that He might fulfill it and redeem His people from its penalty and bondage (Gal. 4:4; Rom. 9:5).
Response: The writer is again lumping all the ceremonial Sabbaths, written by Moses on lamb skin, with the Ten Commandments written by God and dealing with the seventh-day Sabbath.

Most Christians today are Gentiles and as the New Testament states over and over, we are not under the Law that God gave to the nation of Israel. We are not a nation of Jews, but assemblies of Gentiles. The promised Kingdom that is to come (not heaven) is a promise to Jews.....yes Christian will be a part of the kingdom, but as the bride of Jesus Christ. Our promise is salvation and to be in a special relationship with Christ the New Testament describes as the bride of Christ.
Response: Christians are to be spiritual Jews (Gal. 3) and should follow the Ten Commandments to which ALL MANKIND are to be held accountable. THE SABBATH IS NOT JEWISH, IT IS CHRISTIAN. There is no "promised kingdom" for the Jews here on earth. A "special relationship with Christ" apparently that writer thinks Christians should not care about the Ten Commandments, that we have a license to ignore them. We are not "UNDER" the law means we are not condemned by it. That does not mean we can ignore the Ten Commandments, to the contrary we will have them written upon our hearts (Heb 10:16) and will be living them. By the Holy Spirit living within us, we CAN obey God's law. That is what He wants. He does not want us ignoring His law. FRIEND, THAT WRITER IS ATTACKING GOD'S TEN COMMANDMENTS!!!

Further SUNDAY is the first day of the week and Christians worship the Lord on this day because of the following Bible facts:

BIBLE EVIDENCE THAT EARLY CHRISTIANS WORSHIPPED ON SUNDAY:
Response: Notice below here friend, there is no command to change the day of worship. The day of Jesus' resurrection was the first day He went back to work. Jesus did not attend a Sun day church. He did not say the Ten Commandments had been changed.

1. On the first day Jesus rose from the dead (Mk. 16:9).

2. On the first day Jesus first appeared to his disciples (Mk. 16:9).

3. On the first day Jesus met with the disciples at different places and repeatedly (Mk. 16:9-11; Mt. 28:8-10; Lk. 24:34; Mk.
16:12-13; Jn. 20:19-23).

4. 4. On the first day Jesus blessed the disciples (Jn. 20:19).

5. On the first day Jesus imparted to the disciples the gift of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 20:22).

6. On the first day Jesus commissioned the disciples to preach the gospel to all the world (Jn. 20:21; with Mk. 16:9-15).

7. On the first day Jesus ascended to Heaven, was seated at the right hand of the Father and was made Head of all (Jn. 20:17;
Ep. 1:20).

8. On the first day many of the dead saints arose from the grave (Mt. 27:52-53).

9. The first day became the day of joy and rejoicing to the disciples (Jn. 20:20; Lk. 24:41).

10. On the first day the gospel of the risen Christ was first preached (Lk. 24:34).

11. On the first day Jesus explained the Scriptures to the disciples (Lk. 24:27,45).

12. On the first day the purchase of our redemption was completed (Ro. 4:25).

13. On the first day the Holy Spirit descended (Ac. 2:1). Pentecost was on the 50th day after the sabbath following the wave offering (Le. 23:15,16). Thus Pentecost was always on a Sunday.
Response: Notice that in the texts above, there was no change in the Sabbath. Jesus just went back to work on the first day of the week. That's all. The writer could not mention ONE text which showed a change in the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath.

14. The Christians met to worship on the first day (Ac. 20:6,7; 1 Co. 16:2). Sunday is "the Lord's Day" (Re. 1:10) (D.M. Canright, Seventh-day Adventism Renounced).
Response: The first text says, "Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight." Acts 20:7,8. The New English Bible indicates a Saturday night meeting. A Saturday Sabbath meeting went into Saturday night which is the beginning of the first day of the week. The breaking of bread, or eating, could take place any day (see Acts 2:46). So this was not a church meeting or any special day to break bread. The next morning, Sun day, Paul traveled to his next city.
"Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come." I Cor. 16:1,2. The original Vulgate refers to a gift for the poor at one’s "own house," not at a church. This was not a church gathering, but a directive to church members on the first work day of the week to set aside a donation at their homes.

Note that there is no church worship mentioned in those texts, and that no command was given to change the Law of God.
Nowhere in scripture is Sun day mentioned as the Lord's Day. That was created by the Roman system, the papacy, the popes. We can follow them, or realize that "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Exodus 20, the fourth commandment.

Since those days, the vast majority of Christians have always met to worship on the Lord's day. They do this in honor of the
resurrection of their Savior. Christ was in the tomb during the sabbath, and rose as the firstborn from the dead on the first day.
The sabbath signifies the last day of the old creation (Ge. 2:2). Sunday is the first day of the new creation.

HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT EARLY CHRISTIANS WORSHIPED ON SUNDAY.
Response: Notice that the writer could not prove the change of the Ten Commandment Sabbath from the Bible, so he chooses to use second century - forward examples, shown below, of apostate Sun day worship. Worship that had become adulterated by that time. The early Roman Emperors had passed laws forcing all men to worship on the pagan day of the sun, or the Sun day. Here is the first Sun day Law decree of a Christian council, given about 16 years after Constantine’s first Sunday Law of A.D. 321: "Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [in the original: ‘sabbato’—shall not be idle on the Sabbath], but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honour, and as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall by shut out [‘anathema,’ excommunicated] from Christ."—Council of Laodicea, c. A.D. 337, Canon 29, quoted in C. J. Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 2, p. 316. The rulers did not want Christians worshiping on Saturday and pagans worshiping on Sun day. They wanted a unified day of worship. It was during this period that the early Christian apostasy began, under the strong arm of the civil government. The Catholic church then carried forward what the Roman rulers had begun, a false Christian day of worship on the day of the sun. To this day the Catholic church brags in their writings that they are behind the change of the day of worship. They say because Jesus was resurrected on Sun day, that we ought to observe that day as the Sabbath. They brag that protestants are following their teachings by worshiping on Sun day. But unfortunately friend, that is not biblical.
The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine states: "Q. Which is the Sabbath day? A. Saturday is the Sabbath day. Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." "Sunday is our mark of authority. The church is above the Bible, and this transference of sabbath observance is proof of that fact." The Catholic Record, London Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923.
Are we going to follow man, or God? That is the question.

The Epistle of Barnabas (about A.D. 100). "Wherefore, also we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead."

The Epistle of Ignatius (about A.D. 107). "Be not deceived with strange doctrines, nor with old fables, which are unprofitable. For if we still live according to the Jewish Law, we acknowledge that we have not received grace ... If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death."

Justin Martyr (about A.D. 140). "And on the day called Sunday all who live in cities or in the country gather together in one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read. ... But Sunday is the day on which we all hold a common assembly, because it is the First day of the week on which God ... made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day
rose from the dead."

Bardesanes, Edessa (A.D. 180). "On one day the first of the week, we assemble ourselves together."

Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 194). "He, in fulfillment of the precept, according to the gospel, keeps the Lord's Day ... glorifying the Lord's resurrection in himself."

Tertullian (A.D. 200). "We solemnize the day after Saturday in contradiction to those who call this day their sabbath."

Irenaeus (about A.D. 155-202). "The Mystery of the Lord's Resurrection may not be celebrated on any other day than the Lord's Day, and on this alone should we observe the breaking off of the Paschal Feast."

Cyprian (A.D. 250). "The eighth day, that is, the first day after the sabbath, and the Lord's Day."

Apostolic Constitutions (A.D. 250). "On the day of the resurrection of the Lord--that is, the Lord's Day--assemble yourselves together without fail, giving thanks to God and praising Him for those mercies God has bestowed upon you through Christ."

Anatolius (A.D. 270). "Our regard for the Lord's resurrection which took place on the Lord's Day will lead us to celebrate it."

Peter, Bishop of Alexandria (A.D. 306). "But the Lord's Day we celebrate as a day of joy, because on it, he rose again."
Response: Notice these examples of quotes regarding the true and false day of worship:
PROTESTANT LEADERS SPEAK:

BAPTIST: "There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament—absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week."—Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author of the Baptist Manual.

Congregationalist: "It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath . . The Sabbath was founded on a specific divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday . . There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday."—Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments, pp. 106-107.

Protestant Episcopal: "The day is now changed from the seventh to the first day . . but as we meet with no Scriptural direction for the change, we may conclude it was done by the authority of the church."—"The Protestant Episcopal Explanation of the Catechism.

Baptist: "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath . . There is no Scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course, any Scriptural obligation."—The Watchman.

Presbyterian: "There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday no Divine Law enters."—Canon Eyton, Ten Commandments.

Anglican: "And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day."—Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism, pp. 334, 336.

Methodist: "It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week. Many believe that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own words, we see that He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesus changed the Sabbath base it only on a supposition."—Amos Binney, Theological Compendium, pp. 180-181.

Episcopalian: "We have made the change from the seventh to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one holy, catholic, apostolic church of Christ."—Bishop Seymour, Why We Keep Sunday.

Southern Baptist: "The sacred name of the seventh day is Sabbath. This fact is too clear to require argument [Exodus 20:10, quoted] . . On this point the plain teaching of the Word has been admitted in all ages . . Not once did the disciples apply the Sabbath law to the first day of the week,—that folly was left for a later age, nor did they pretend that the first day supplanted the seventh."—Joseph Judson Taylor, The Sabbatic Question, pp. 14-17, 41.

American Congregationalist: "The current notion, that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament."—Dr. Lyman Abbot, Christian Union, June 26, 1890.

Christian Church: "Now there is no testimony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath is changed, or that the Lord’s Day came in the room of it."—Alexander Campbell, Reporter, October 8, 1921.

Disciples of Christ: "There is no direct Scriptural authority for designating the first day ‘the Lord’s Day.’ "—Dr. D. H. Lucas, Christian Oracle, January 23, 1890.

Baptist: "To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years’ discussion with His disciples, often conversing upon the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false [Jewish traditional] glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also, no such thing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the rSpirit, which was given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever that He had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired apostles, in preaching the gospel, founding churches, counseling and instructing those founded, discuss or approach the subject.

"Of course I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, then adopted and sanctified by the Papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism."—Dr. E. T. Hiscox, report of his sermon at the Baptist Minister’s Convention, New York Examiner, November 16, 1893.

HISTORIANS SPEAK:

"There is scarcely anything which strikes the mind of the careful student of ancient ecclesiastical history with greater surprise than the comparatively early period at which many of the corruptions of Christianity, which are embodied in the Roman system, took their rise; yet it is not to be supposed that when the first originators of many of these unscriptural notions and practices planted those germs of corruption, they anticipated or even imagined they would ever grow into such a vast and hideous system of superstition and error as is that of popery."—John Dowling, History of Romanism, 13th Edition, p. 65.

Please see www.seventh-day.org/historians.htm for more quotes.



In Conclusion:

The Sabbath, though mentioned in Gen. 2:2-3, was not delivered to man until it was given to Israel in the wilderness (Neh. 9:13-14). The Sabbath was given, not to mankind in general, but to the nation of Israel alone as a special covenant sign between her and God (Ex. 31:13,17).
Response: We have learned that the Sabbath was given to man, and has always been part of God's plan for all mankind, just as we are not to steal or kill we are also to honor God by observing the Sabbath day.

Hope this helps you understand this. Christians are not under the Law that God gave to the Nation of Israel and we have a special relationship with the Lord.
[end of e-mail by Sun day keeper]


Response: Nowhere, nowhere in the Bible is there a command by God to change His sacred Ten Commandments!!! Only men have tried to change them, attack them, or destroy them.

Notice how God's people in the last days will be keeping the Ten Commandments:


"Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:12.

"Blessed are those who do His commandments [here on earth], that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city" [the New Jerusalem in heaven] Revelation 22:14

"And the dragon [Satan] was wroth [angry] with the woman [God's church], and went to make war with the remnant [final part] of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. 12:17


THE QUESTION ARISES, IS SATAN ANGRY OR HAPPY WITH YOUR WORSHIP?

It is unfortunate, but the writer repeatedly attacked the Law of God in an effort to substantiate Sun day worship. He could not prove a change in the Sabbath Commandment, so he decided to throw out the entire Law of God. If God could have changed the Ten Commandments, he would have done so at the Garden of Eden and thus prevented His Son from having to come to earth to live a life of a humble man in order to prove that the Law could be kept.

Notice this text, "To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" Isaiah 8:20. Based upon that statement, we can conclude that the writer who supported Sun day worship did not speak according to the law of God, nor the prophets and did not have true light to share with us.

Is Man to be a Dictator?


Is Man to be a Dictator?

Sanitarium, Cal., May 26, 1908.

To the Officers of the General Conference,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Brethren:--
I have read a very encouraging letter from Prof. P. T. Magan to Prof. E. A. Sutherland regarding the recent council held in Washington. I am very thankful for the good report it brings regarding the council. {SpM 435.1}

I was very thankful to hear of the efforts that are to be made in behalf of the Huntsville and Madison schools. They have long waited for the help they need, and an earnest effort should be made to redeem the time. {SpM 435.2}

When I read the resolutions published in the Review, placing so many restrictions upon those who may be sent out to gather funds for the building up of institutions in needy and destitute fields, I was sorry for the many restrictions. I can but feel sad, for unless the converting grace of God comes into the conferences, a course will be taken that will bring the displeasure of God upon them. We have had, enough of the spirit of forbidding. {SpM 435.3}

This morning I could not sleep after midnight. I awoke bearing this message to our leading men, Break every yoke that would hinder or limit the power of the Third Angel's message. The calls that have been made for large liberality, which have been responded to so nobly by our people, should lead to feelings of confidence and gratitude, rather than to the placing of yokes upon the necks of God's servants. Let your requirements ever be dictated by the Holy Spirit of God. When the officers of the General Conference allow such restrictions to be made, they give evidence that they need clearer spiritual eyesight, that the heavenly anointing is not upon them. {SpM 435.4}

Representations have been made to me of a work that does not bear the divine credentials. The prohibitions that have been bound about the labors of those who would go forth to warn the people in the cities of the soon coming judgments, should every one be removed. None are to be hindered from bearing the message of present truth to the world. Let the workers receive their directions from God. When the Holy Spirit impresses a believer to do a certain work for God, leave the matter to him and the Lord. I am instructed to say to you, Break every yoke that would prevent the message from going forth with power to the cities. This work of proclaiming the truth in the cities will take means, but it will also bring in means. A much greater work would have been done if men had not been so zealous to watch and hinder some who were seeking to obtain means from the people to carry forward the work of the Lord.


-436- {SpM 435.5}

The Lord's mercy and love are misrepresented by a policy that would hinder the message of his grace from going to any part of the world. Is man to be a dictator to his fellow man? Is he to take the responsibility of saying, You shall not go to such a place? Let us rather say to those who desire to labor, It is your privilege to work for souls on every occasion, and to make earnest request of God in their behalf. "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him." Put on charity which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which ye are also called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of God dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and the spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." The Holy Spirit is working upon human minds. Those upon who the spirit lays the burden of labor, and who are of good report in the church, encourage them to enter new fields. Let the work of the Lord go forward with power. Let the people be encouraged to prepare the way of the Lord and to make straight in the desert a highway for our God. {SpM 436.1}

The enemies of truth are working with all their unconsecrated powers to hinder the advance of the message. The churches of the world are being drugged with the opiates of error. The great deceiver is making determined efforts to becloud the understanding of the people. Let not those be discouraged who would go forth to warn a perishing world. The cause of God needs the labors of men who have faith, men who can pray, and who can open the Scriptures in simplicity to the people. It is the simplicity of true godliness that will speak of the love of God for souls ready to perish. {SpM 436.2}

God requires much more of the men at the head of the work than they give him. Some give him long sermons, but this he does not require. Workers are needed just now who will explain the word of God in its simplicity. There is a fearful deception upon human minds. Even those who hold positions of trust are not all faithful. But do not allow yourselves to sleep. The light of truth must go forth as a lamp that burneth. {SpM 436.3}

If our leaders realized the time of night, they could not leave our cities unwarned and be willing to do so little to change the present condition of things in the world. God requires that every soul who believes in Christ shall go forth and bear much fruit. He requires that they be in earnest in doing missionary work, faithful in their home life, in their student life, true to their church duties. Those who have pledged themselves by baptism to follow Christ, who have professed to put on the robe of Christ's righteousness, are to consider the words of the apostle Paul, "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." {SpM 436.4}

Let there be less sermonizing and more humbling of the soul in prayer for the divine presence among us. Our meetings should be seasons of humble seeking after God. O, that we might sense our need of Christ and by living faith claim the promise of his presence!


-437- {SpM 436.5}

There are some of our ministers who are true burden bearers, whose hearts go out in prayer to God, and who weep between the porch and the altar, crying, "Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach." There are a few who are in earnest. But there are many who have but little sense of their great need of the divine blessing. {SpM 437.1}

In visions of the night I was in a company where our ministers were assembled. A few were humbling themselves before God and confessing their sins. They were weeping, and pleading with God to spare his people and to give not his heritage to reproach. But with many there was no special burden to get near to the Lord. I looked for the burden bearers; but there were few who carried any genuine burden for souls. The very ones who needed to seek the Lord most earnestly were not coming to him with broken hearts and contrite spirits. While some of the ministers were brokenly calling upon the Lord, and were weighted down as a cart beneath sheaves, the hearts of many were untouched. What kind of account will those have to give who stand in holy places of trust, and yet have little or no burden for the souls of the perishing! {SpM 437.2}

There is need of a great reformation in our ranks. The ministers who are drawing pay from the conference need to ask themselves the question, Am I a faithful worker? Am I a spiritual help to the church? There are those who demand high wages for their labors, but who bring few souls into the truth to stand steadfast and true to its principles. It is time for our ministers to humble their hearts before the Lord, and bear a straight, convincing testimony to the people. It is time for them to labor earnestly to increase the membership of the churches, leading all to a thorough understanding of the truth, for this time. The Lord wants living members in his church, men and women who will encourage one another in faithful service.


(Signed) Ellen G. White.

Spalding and Magan Collection (1985)
(pp.435-437)

Source:

If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.


For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Matthew 24:24.

Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?


Hebrews 1



1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
4Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
9Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Ravaged by the New Age


Ravaged by the New Age

Wednesday, 09 July 2008 13:13

By: Texe Marrs

Living Truth Publishers, Austin, Texas

272 pages, softcover

The New Age has a Secret Plan to destroy our kids. For over three decades, an unholy New Age leadership has plotted and worked to ravage an entire generation. So far, their evil plan has succeeded. Now, Texe Marrs blows the lid off this dark Satanic conspiracy.

Ravaged by the New Age is a shocking expose of the New Age occultism that is sweeping across America and the globe, snatching up our innocent children in its rotten net. This sobering book is the first to name and unmask the major New Age cults that have targeted our youth. It also reveals the hidden plan of New Age leaders to bring our teenagers into hideous bondage through Satan worship and witchcraft.

Texe Marrs lays bare the cruel designs of New Age educators to seduce and corrupt children's minds in our school classrooms. He thoroughly documents the dangerous, secret messages in kid's TV shows, cartoons, movies, comic books, fantasy games, toys and even colouring books. You'll also discover the demonic designs behind Rock and Roll and the hidden, subliminal messages in Satan's New Age "mood" music.

But God is stronger than all the New Age forces that are coming against our children. Ravaged by the New Age provides an Action Plan with positive steps parents can take to protect their children from assault by the New Age child abusers.


Conspiracy Theory or Fulfillment of Prophecy


Conspiracy Theory or Fulfillment of Prophecy


By: Amazing Discoveries

Today there are many people in the world and in religious bodies
that use the term “Conspiracy Theory.” In fact the word conspiracy
is often followed by the word theory, and they are rarely seen
separated. Many times the phrase is valid.

Today there are many people in the world and in religious bodies
that use the term “Conspiracy Theory.” In fact the word
conspiracy is often followed by the word theory, and they are
rarely seen separated. Many times the phrase is valid. If you type
that phrase in almost any Internet search engine, you will find
things that are very improbable at best, and some items are even
quite comical. These theories are often purported without one iota
of documented evidence. But, does that mean that anytime we
hear something out of the ordinary, we automatically, habitually,
without hesitation loft it into the category of the ominous, dubious,
title of…”Conspiracy Theory?”

Separating Fact from Theory

Webster’s New World Dictionary defines a theory as, A speculative
plan, or a conjecture or guess. So, if you were to substitute the
word theory here it would be a “Conspiracy Guess.” And again,
let me reiterate that there are many “Conspiracy Theories” out
there in the world today. But, what if, there was evidence
supporting a conspiracy? What if the Bible speaks of such a
conspiracy? What if the pen of inspiration declares a conspiracy?
What if official writings from international fraternities and
organizations coincide with inspiration that indeed all the world will
wonder after the beast? Should we abandon such a striking
fulfillment of Prophecy on the altar of a “Conspiracy Theory?”
Today, there are some, who strike hard against anyone who may
be willing in exposing these disturbing facts. I have found an
interesting phenomenon take place with those who have not
studied these matters for themselves, usually put a label on
anything that they have not heard as a “Conspiracy Theory.” And
by so doing their ignorance concerning the fulfillment of prophecy
is seen, while their artificial intellectualism is fed.

Here are some statements from inspiration that show the origin of
this message that is to be given to the world…

Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by
formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome
summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At
this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel,
unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut
off from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of
natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they
knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to
extend its power. (See Appendix.) The gospel of Christ had
enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering,
undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the
banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To
combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a
fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to
oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There
was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base
for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume.
Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim
to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of
Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.

When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of
sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and
the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the
sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under
this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes
were often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order
that the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury,
assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when
they served the interests of the church. 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. They
became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They
established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and
schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant
parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the
outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to
bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the
imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled
and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread
themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed a
revival of popery.

To give them greater power, a bull was issued re-establishing the
inquisition. (See Appendix.) Notwithstanding the general
abhorrence with which it was regarded, even in

Catholic countries, this terrible tribunal was again set up by
popish rulers, and atrocities too terrible to bear the light of day
were repeated in its secret dungeons. In many countries,
thousands upon thousands of the very flower of the nation, the
purest and noblest, the most intellectual and highly educated,
pious and devoted pastors, industrious and patriotic citizens,
brilliant scholars, talented artists, skillful artisans, were slain or
forced to flee to other lands.

Such were the means which Rome had invoked to quench the
light of the Reformation, to withdraw from men the Bible, and to
restore the ignorance and superstition of the Dark Ages. (The
Great Controversy p. 234-235)

And this is the religion which Protestants are beginning to look
upon with so much favor, and which will eventually be united with
Protestantism. This union will not, however, be effected by a
change in Catholicism; for Rome never changes. She claims
infallibility. It is Protestantism that will change. The adoption of
liberal ideas on its part will bring it where it can clasp the hand of
Catholicism. "The Bible, the Bible, is the foundation of our faith,"
was the cry of Protestants in Luther's time, while the Catholics
cried, "The Fathers, custom, tradition." Now many Protestants find
it difficult to prove their doctrines from the Bible, and yet they have
not the moral courage to accept the truth which involves a cross;
therefore they are fast coming to the ground of Catholics, and,
using the best arguments they have to evade the truth, cite the
testimony of the Fathers, and the customs and precepts of men.
Yes, the Protestants of the nineteenth century are fast
approaching the Catholics in their infidelity concerning the
Scriptures. But there is just as wide a gulf today between Rome
and the Protestantism of Luther, Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, and
the noble army of martyrs, as there was when these men made
the protest which gave them the name of Protestants. {RH, June
1, 1886 par. 13}

As we can see there was and is a conspiracy against the
Reformation. “But, we don’t need to know about all these things
right?” “We should not focus on these things, we should preach
the Three Angels’ Messages!” Please notice with me the following
quotation…

In every generation God has sent His servants to rebuke sin, both
in the world and in the church. But the people desire smooth
things spoken to them, and the pure, unvarnished truth is not
acceptable. Many reformers, in entering upon their work,
determined to exercise great prudence in attacking the sins of the
church and the nation. They hoped, by the example of a pure
Christian life, to lead the people back to the doctrines of the Bible.
But the Spirit of God came upon them as it came upon Elijah,
moving him to rebuke the sins of a wicked king and an apostate
people; they could not refrain from preaching the plain utterances
of the Bible-- doctrines which they had been reluctant to present.
They were impelled to zealously declare the truth and the danger
which threatened souls. The words which the Lord gave them they
uttered, fearless of consequences, and the people were
compelled to hear the warning.

(The Great Controversy 606)

Thus the message of the third angel will be proclaimed. As the
time comes for it to be given with greatest power, the Lord will
work through humble instruments, leading the minds of those who
consecrate themselves to His service. The laborers will be
qualified rather by the unction of His Spirit than by the training of
literary institutions. Men of faith and prayer will be constrained to
go forth with holy zeal, declaring the words which God gives them.
The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of
enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the
inroads of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal
power--all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the
people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands will listen who
have never heard words like these. In amazement they hear the
testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors
and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from
heaven. As the people go to their former teachers with the eager
inquiry, Are these things so? the ministers present fables,
prophesy smooth things, to soothe their fears and quiet the
awakened conscience. But since many refuse to be satisfied with
the mere authority of men and demand a plain "Thus saith the
Lord," the popular ministry, like the Pharisees of old, filled with
anger as their authority is questioned, will denounce the message
as of Satan and stir up the sin-loving multitudes to revile and
persecute those who proclaim it.

(The Great Controversy 607)

Wow! Now more than ever, I am excited to be living in these last
hours of our world! Brothers and Sisters, Jesus is coming soon!
It is a privilege to see prophecy being fulfilled. Those who have
objectively, without prejudice, have watched the Total Onslaught
series in its entirety, know for certain, that this is not a theory, but
this is a fulfillment of prophecy. I encourage you dear reader, if
you haven’t taken these issues seriously, and have thrown them
into the “Conspiracy Theory” rubbish bin, that you take a humble
step back and investigate how the papal power has indeed
progressed rapidly through stealth, because soon the whole world
will know. And I hope and pray that some of God’s professed
people, will still not be crying, “Conspiracy Theory!” Let me close
this article with a passage from the book of Acts 5, v. 34-39…

Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named
Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the
people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves
what ye intend to do as touching these men.

36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be
somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined
themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were
scattered, and brought to nought.

37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the
taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished;
and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.

38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them
alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to
nought:

39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be
found even to fight against God.

This is the bottom line. If all this talk about secret societies and
the Jesuits and the role in which they play, if it is all conjecture, if
it is all hogwash, then it will collapse. But, if it is true, it will lead
thousands to the realization that the world is a giant labyrinth of
deception. That was my experience. I was a total atheist; I
thought Christians were narrowed minded bigots who needed
some sort of comfort before their death. But, through the
providential leadings of the Holy Spirit, I learned that, yes there
are secret societies, therefore there is a devil, and therefore there
must be a God. And I was led to the foot of the cross, to Jesus
who even while I was a sinner loved me and gave Himself for me.
Instantly, my lifestyle changed, and I recognized that Jesus Christ
is the only hope for humanity. This is why it saddens my heart
that some are very quick in coloring anyone who uses the term,
Illuminati, New World Order, or the Jesuit Order, as an immediate
candidate for heretic.

In conclusion, there are many “conspiracy theories” blowing in the
wind, with no evidence to support them. There is however a
documented conspiracy taking place against the reformation. Let
us be very careful not to hastily call everything we hear a
“conspiracy theory” without first looking at the claims with the
lenses of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. If it fails the test
then it is a “conspiracy theory” and should be rejected, but if it
passes the test, however unpopular it may be, it is truth for this
time, and a fulfillment of prophecy.

Written by John Triplett




COINTELPRO Deceptions on the Internet-HARTWELL of the CIA


COINTELPRO Deceptions on the Internet-HARTWELL of the CIA

By Pamela Schuffert
http://educate-yourself.org/ps/barbarahartwell31dec08.shtml
December 31, 2008

COINTELPRO Deceptions on the Internet-HARTWELL of the CIA by Pam Schuffert (Dec. 31, 2008)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO "GOOGLE" ?

There is a developing phenomena on the internet today. Many people (Christians included), delighted to find search engines such as GOOGLE, are now spending hours on the internet performing research. A whole new world has opened up to them for research, news and information.

However, what many naive Christians do nor seem to understand is, the government is also using the is also using the internet as an effective tool of COINTELPRO, or deliberate government MISINFORMATION designed to lead the American people to the false conclusions based on lies and deception. This misinformation is designed to lead people into thinking JUST LIKE BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT WANTS THEM TO THINK.

Such MISINFORMATION OPERATIONS to deceive the American people are often called COINTELPRO.

People are paid by agencies such as the FBI and CIA to write MSINFORMATION/COINTELPRO for various corrupt government purposes. Government agents are also paid to infiltrate various organizations, churches and ministries included, to both SPY and to collect information, and to push hidden agendas, to also cause disruption and division, to perform acts of AGENT PROVOCATEURS and more. NO Christian church or ministry is sacrosanct or exempt, as former members of the CIA informed me.THEY are ALL infiltrated to a greater or lesser degree, including positions of even leadership and pastors, etc.

Millions of dollars are spent every year in the nefarious world of COINTELPRO and presenting MISINFORMATION to the America people to deceive them on many levels. Much of this misinformation is being broadcast regularly through tools of government mind control over the American people such as government/CIA censored CNN and other "news" broadcasting networks. Through the tools of NEWS MEDIA BIAS AND BLACKOUT, a very biased version of world events is presented to the America people, repeatedly conditioning them to think just as the government WANTS them to think about many issues.

Part of COINTELPRO actions involve paid government agents who write LIBELOUS AND SLANDEROUS ATTACKS against various individuals involved in INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AND REPORTING, targeted by the government/military because of the truth they are uncovering and exposing regarding government corruption, etc.

This is done with the intent of discrediting legitimate valid researchers and journalists in the minds of their readers, so as to attempt to both halt their funding through donors and to stop people from reading and believing their research as well.

Many well meaning people, including Christians, upon discovering the world of search engines like GOOGLE, are delighted to find a wealth of information seemingly at their fingertips. They do not realize, however, that the government ALSO is delighted, because search engines and internet website provide them with ONE MORE TOOL OF COINTELPRO (literally brainwashing in effect) for the unwary and naive.

An alarming trend that I have seen among so many Americans today, including MANY Christians, is the conditioning to accept EVERYTHING AS TRUTH that they both HEAR on radio and that they SEE on both television news, various publications and the internet.

They FAIL to perform quality BACKGROUND RESEARCH and investigate to see if what they are seeing and hearing is genuine and truthful. And as a tragic result, THEY ARE DECEIVED. And the tools of deception are THE NEWS MEDIA and related information publications.

The government knows this weakness and exploits this weakness in the America people for their own dark purposes continually. How successful are they? To the degree that each and every American is able and willing to be deceived, and fails to perform quality background research, is the degree to which they are successful.

YOUR actions OR INACTION decide how successful government COINTELPRO will be.

-COINTELPRO FINALLY ATTACKS ME-

When I began working in the realm of investigative journalism 13 years ago, I knew that it was inevitable the government cointelpro would come out against me. To think otherwise would be unrealistic. Coming from the Washington DC area, I had a very good idea of just how corrupt the US government could be.

In my thirteen years of performing this work on behalf of the American people, to TELL AMERICA THE TRUTH and especially to wake up the American Christians who are endangered in this hour, I have experienced several attacks by government COINTELPRO.

In my earlier years of research and reporting, I was infiltrated by DOUG MILLAR, a man I learned later was being used by the government to infiltrate people concerned about and exposing the NWO agenda. As soon as I found out, I severed all ties immediately.

Another infiltrator was JIM VASSILOS. All ties with him have been severed as well.

More recently, both the CIA and the FBI have used several people to attempt COINTELPRO against me through writing libelous articles regarding me. One writer is Barbara Hartwell from the CIA. The other is Stew Webb with the FBI. A very sick couple frm MN, Fred and Katy Sasse, have been working with Hartwell and Webb to lie against me and discredit my reporting.


I have met with and performed extensive research on all of the above, and here are my findings.

Barbara Hartwell works for the CIA actively. Her bodyguard in the past has been CIA assassin JEFF SWEDENBURG, well protected by the CIA and very dangerous. Hartwell has been performing COINTELPRO against the Christian/Patriot (NWO RESISTER) community for a long time now. Many excellent articles on the internet from valid researchers have exposed this dark woman.

Hartwell comes from CIA MIND CONTROL VICTIMS family, with both her sister IRENE ADRIAN (of Winston-Salem NC) and herself exposed to horrific CIA mind control programming, satanic rituals and more.

While there are VALID examples of people coming out of such CIA mind control background, such as Cathy O'Brien (Tranceformation of America) and Sue Ford/ Brice Taylor (Thanks for The Memories) and others, there are also now COINTELPRO pretenders, whose purpose is to deceive and then infiltrate valid organizations and movements whose purpose is to EXPOSE the NWO and tell Americans the truth.
Barbara Hartwell has repeatedly proven to be bogus, a true CIA infiltrator into this world of former victims turned exposers.

In the past I have known her personally. I spent much time witnessing to her about Jesus Christ, and interviewing her sister who IS a bona fide CHRISTIAN and delivered from her background. Her sister Irene admitted to me,

"My sister refuses to come to Jesus Christ and is not a Christian. We also were exposed to satanic rituals and abuse...Barbara has let me down again and again........"

When I was visiting the home of my previous webmaster, Ron Garon of TULSA, OK, he was attempting to do the website of Barbara Hartwell. She told him on the phone:

"...I am NOT a Christian and will NEVER BE A CHRISTIAN!"

She further told him, "...AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN EXPOSED TO SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE!"

YET...her own Christian sister, involved in ministries in the past, SAYS THAT HARTWELL WAS INVOLVED IN CIA SATANIC RITUALS.

AND Hartwell openly contends in her writings and blog that SHE IS A CHRISTIAN and has NEVER been exposed to satanic ritual abuse!

At one time when I was attempting to minister to her, before she starting writing CIA COINTELPRO Libel against me for the government, she even admitted at that time that her bodyguard was JEFF SWEDENBURG. Her sister told me, in fact, how she had given thousands of dollars to SWEDENBURG to protect her on one trip.

Jeff Swedenburg has openly bragged to one person in the Christian Patriot community that I am in contact with, even as he was infiltrating them in Denver, Colorado, that "...I do WHACK [assassination] jobs for the CIA..." and he was proud of it!

A former CIA of over 30 years in the Denver area admitted further that "...Swedenburg is well protected by the CIA..." I have spoken to this person in Denver personally on several occasions, in fact.

Barbara Hartwell constantly presents herself to the public as someone who has "come out of the CIA" to join the Christian/Patriot/NWO resister movement in America, and uses this to constantly attempt to infiltrate related groups and organizations.


YET the cold hard facts are in total contradiction of Hartwell's lies!

Her own Christian sister has exposed her as a liar. The reality of Barbara being involved in CIA satanism and rituals was admitted by Irene Adrian, her Christian sister. The reality of Barbara NOT being a BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN was confirmed by her own sister and her former webmaster.

YET HARTWELL CONSTANTLY LIES TO US and MISPORTRAYS HERSELF TO THE PATRIOT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AS A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN! SHE DENIES IN ALL HER WRITINGS THAT SHE WAS EVER INVOLVED IN CIA SATANIC RITUALS!

But in fact she is NOT a Christian "...AND NEVER WILL BE A CHRISTIAN" and WAS involved in satanic rituals in the CIA!

And IF she has come out of the CIA, then WHY OH WHY was her own personal bodyguard CIA ASSASSIN JEFF SWEDENBURG?

And because I know the truth about Hartwell, she has been writing CIA cointelpro libel against me now for many years.

AGAIN, NONE OF THIS COMES AS ANY GREAT SURPRISE TO ME. To coin a secular term, "IT COMES WITH THE TURF:" I expose government corruption and warn my fellowAmericans/Christians of what is to come, and they attack me to attempt to discredit me.

In fact, most people and researchers by now do not take Barbara Hartwell seriously anymore. Many articles have appeared on the internet by quality writers and researchers investigating and exposing her as a fraud.

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/hartwellattacksadachimar05.shtmlhttp://educate-yourself.org/cn/hartwellswebsitegone11aug04.shtmlhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Barbara+Hartwell+liar+gunderson&btnG=Search


However, after receiving several inquiries from my readers who stumbled upon her CIA COINTELPRO libel against me, I have decided to write this long-overdue report exposing this person for the infiltrator/COINTELPRO operator that she has sadly been proven to to be.

More tragically, HARTWELL is a LOST SINNER, she refuses to come to Jesus Christ for salvation and deliverance from CIA satanism and from her dark role she now plays in CIA COINTELPRO, she is being PAID TO LIE, and the WORD OF GOD DECLARES: "AND ALL LIARS SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE OF FIRE..."

Because she is lost, I have been praying for her salvation for a long time now. I have chosen to forgive her repeatedly when her articles appear, attempting to discredit and slander me. But in fact IF she continues in this path of deliberate misinformation and lies, along with other COINTELPRO OPERATORS like STEW WEBB (FBI) and accomplices Fred and Katy Sasse and several others, both SHE and THEY WILL PERISH according to the infallible WORD OF GOD.

In my future reports, I will be exposing STEW WEBB/FBI COINTELPRO OPERATOR and infiltrator in Christian/Patriot communities, and several people working with both Hartwell and Webb (The SASSE's from MN and CLEO from MONTANA) who are not necessary assets of the intelligence community but are working with them in the same agenda.

MANY OF YOU have been my radio listeners/report readers for many years now. You know my credibility and hard labor for the Lord Jesus Christ and my character as a born again Christian for 35 years now, involved in numerous ministries and MUCH sacrifice and suffering for the Gospel and to perform this kind of difficult and dangerous journalism for the Christians in America.

Many people, after hearing me on radio, etc., want MORE of my reports. And so they attempt to find them by "GOOGLING" my name up. But what they do not realize is, they will ALSO encounter libelous CIA/FBI COINTELPRO MISINFORMATION published falsely against me, in the government hopes of discrediting my reporting.

AND MANY AMERICAN ARE NAIVE AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.

And that sadly INCLUDES CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA.

Upon receiving inquiries from Christian sources who read HARTWELL'S and related GOVERNMENT COINTELPRO written against me to deliberately slander and attack my writing and my character, following much prayer, I have decided I will no longer tolerate this kind of attack on my Christian labor and character unchallenged.

For years I have said nothing in rebuttal, trusting God for vindication.

I continue to trust Him for vindication. BUT BECAUSE of the level of frankly immature Christianity in America I find today, with most Christians no longer following Biblical principles of COMING TO ME FIRST with this kind of slander/accusations, to first INQUIRE as to whether it is true or not before repeating it or republishing it, I am forced to publish rebuttals at this point.

SO many Christians FAIL to do their background research to discover the TRUTH. And for SOME, it has become THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GOOGLE, wherein EVERYTHING found on their search engines and the internet is somehow TRUTH! DEAD Wrong.

How many websites are filled with NEW AGE HERESIES, PAGAN TEACHINGS, TEACHINGS THAT DENY JESUS CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR and MORE???

The Bible says to PROVE ALL THINGS.

I work hard as an investigative journalist to uncover the truth that American Christians need to hear in this crucial hour. IT is time for the Body of Christ, and my fellow Americans, to quit falling into well laid government traps to DECEIVE and ultimately DESTROY them in the times to come.

BEWARE OF CIA/FBI CINTELPRO! It is found EVERYWHERE. And it's intent is to deceive and discredit valid journalism/journalists like myself. And to undermine valid Patriotic organizations attempting to tell Americans the truth as well.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS regarding my character, background or work, etc., simply come to me and ASK ME...that's all. It is that simple.

-Pamela Schuffert reporting live from Montana

Let no man deceive you by any means


2 Thessalonians 2

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

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

4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

"So Much In Common" (WCC & SDA)


Note this is an excerpt from an article:


Early Ecumenical Aspirations—Part 1
Is there really anything wrong with ecumenism?
By Neil Livingston


So Much In Common

In 1973, Bert Beverly Beach (later secretary of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty department of the General Confer­ence) coauthored a book with Lukas Vischer, Secretary of the World Council of Churches. The title of the book was, So Much In Com­mon, the subtitle, "Between the World Council of Churches and the Seventh?day Adventist Church.” The book was published by the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, in 1973. The title of the book alone tells the story, "So Much In Common, Between the Seventh?day Adventist Church and the World Council of Churches." What do Seventh?day Adventists have in common with the World Council of Churches? How did Adventists ever come to the place where they thought they had something in common with the great assembly of the churches of Babylon, the harlot daughters of Rome?

In 1977, Bert Beach was President of the Northern Europe?West Africa Division of the Seventh?day Adventist Church. At that time Beach was also serving as Secretary of the World Confessional Families, the theological branch of the World Council of Churches. On May 18, 1977, as Secretary of the World Confessional Families, meeting in Rome, Italy, Beach presented a medallion to Pope Paul VI. (See Religious News Service (RNS), Foreign Service, May 19, 1977; W.D. Eva, Adventist Review, "Book, Medallion Presented to Pope," August 11, 1977, page 23).

Source: http://www.geocities.com/biblerevelations_org/three_angels/Early_Ecumenism_1.htm


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Budget deficit to reach $1.2 trillion


Updated 1/7/2009 12:15 PM
1h 38m ago


By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY


WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit will rise to a record $1.2 trillion this year, and a package of new spending increases and tax cuts planned by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will push that figure higher, the Congressional Budget Office reported today.
In the first official reckoning of the damage caused by the severe recession, the report paints a bleak picture for 2009: a 2.2% drop in the size of the nation's economy, a jump in the jobless rate to 9.2% in early 2010, a 14% drop in home prices and a 1% decline in consumption.

The year-old recession, brought on by the slump in housing and its impact on financial institutions, "will probably be the longest and the deepest since World War II," the CBO said.

The budget deficit also will be the largest since World War II, and deficits will continue to haunt the federal government for the next decade, totaling $3.1 trillion. That's without any action by Obama and Congress to fix the economy, which will cause deficits to rise, the CBO said.

The report predicted that revenue will drop by $166 billion this year, or 6.6%. Spending will increase by more than $400 billion because of the government's takeover of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac housing corporations and the federal bailout of financial institutions.

Even when the recovery kicks in, it will be slow, the report concluded. The economy should increase by only 1.5% in 2010, it said.

"Although financial conditions are expected to improve, the pace of improvement will be restrained because it will take time for financial institutions to recover from losses due to loan defaults," the report said. "As a result, borrowers will continue to find the terms and availability of credit tight, which will increase the cost of capital and hold back the growth of investment and consumption, dampening economic activity for several years."

The report said the supply of vacant homes will slow the rebound in housing construction. "Spending also will be muted as households continue to adjust to the large declines in wealth of the past few years," the report said.

And foreign economies will not provide an offsetting boost in demand due to their own weakened conditions.

The report elicited gloom on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers nonetheless are planning about $800 billion in tax cuts and new spending to jump-start the economy.

"CBO's deficit projections are jaw-dropping," said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. "This is one of the worst budget forecasts I have seen in my lifetime. President-elect Obama is being handed an absolute fiscal disaster."



Cops Search for Baby Discarded in Trash

Kalynn Moore, 26, claims her baby died soon after birth on Dec. 21, 2008, but was not told until several days later that Christ Hospital misplaced the baby and had thrown it out in the trash.(WABC)

Police Are Looking for the Remains of a Baby Hospital Workers Threw in Garbage

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Jan.6 , 2009

Police in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are scouring garbage dumps for the remains of a child who was apparently discarded in the trash at a Jersey City hospital.

Police search garbage dumps after hospital throws out infant's corpse.
Kalynn Moore, 26, claims that her baby died soon after birth Dec. 21, 2008 but that she was not told until several days later that Christ Hospital had misplaced the baby and had apparently thrown it out in the trash.


The hospital says the baby, whom Moore named Bashir, was delivered stillborn and was placed in the hospital morgue. When funeral workers came to claim the body Friday the hospital could not locate the body.

Police later informed Moore that her son's remains had been thrown out with the garbage.

"It was too much," Moore told WABC-TV in New York.

"I just lost my baby [and] now you all are telling me you misplaced his body," she said. "It didn't seem like it was real. It felt like a dream."


Moore's lawyer Michael Anise said Moore is "extremely distraught and wants to be reunited with her son to give him a proper service. This is a tremendous tragedy and the hospital needs to be more forthcoming."


Anise told ABCNews.com that he has asked the hospital to turn over surveillance videos to police but that it has yet to do so.


According to Anise, the baby was alive at birth and doctors and nurses "worked 20 minutes to stabilize him." Soon after, Moore was photographed with the baby wearing a small cap. She said nurses had cleaned the boy and given him to her to hold.



The hospital, however, said in a statement that the baby was a stillborn, a distinction that may ultimately be important because under New Jersey law a stillborn baby is not considered a person.


"The stillborn was delivered on Dec. 21, 2008, and placed in the hospital's morgue. The remains were unable to be located on Jan. 2, 2009 when a local funeral home came to the hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, and we hope to bring this unfortunate situation to a resolution as soon as possible," said hospital spokeswoman Barbara Davey in a statement.


Anise said the hospital had yet to provide a reason why the baby had been removed from the morgue and placed in the trash.

"It doesn't stand to reason that someone would pull the baby out of the morgue and accidentally throw it into the garbage, when it still had a name tag on its ankle. All we want at this point are answers. If there was foul play and the baby is never found, it will be difficult for police to go further in terms of a criminal case against someone," Anise said.

The Hudson County prosecutor referred press inquiries to the Jersey City Police Department, which did not respond to questions.

Across the country,there have been numerous cases of the remains of infants being lost or discarded


In June, a couple in Fort Worth, Texas, sued a hospital when it was revealed that their stillborn baby had been discarded with dirty laundry and crushed.

In January 2008, police in Syracuse, N.Y., launched an investigation after a hospital worker reportedly lost the remains of a stillborn child.


Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6586356&page=1

Republicans urged to abandon socialism, return to 'fiscal responsibility'


Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/7/2009 5:40:00 AM


The vice chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) is sponsoring a proposed resolution that accuses President Bush and GOP members of Congress who supported the recent Wall Street bailout of helping move the country's economy "another dangerous step toward socialism."

The anti-bailout resolution being circulated among members of the RNC is authored by Indiana attorney and RNC vice chairman James Bopp, Jr.

Bopp's resolution, which is likely to be voted on at the RNC winter meeting later this month, argues that "a commitment to fiscal responsibility" -- not a bailout -- was needed to "fix the banking industry." Ninety-one Republicans in the House and 34 in the Senate voted in favor or the $700 billion bank bailout.

Too many of his fellow Republicans, according to Bopp, have abandoned free-market principles.

"What we need to do is reestablish our conservative bona fides -- that we are a conservative party, that we are serious about it, that we oppose the bailout of industries and companies," he contends. "We oppose a nationalization of companies. We oppose Obama's public works projects, and...we are for conservative economic policies that will restore our economic success."

Bopp's RNC resolution also calls on congressional Republicans to fight president-elect Barack Obama's public works program. It reads as follows: "WHEREAS, the Bank Bailout Bill effectively nationalized the Nation's banking system, giving the United States non-voting warrants from participating financial institutions, and moving our free market based economy another dangerous step closer toward socialism; and WHEREAS, what was needed, and is still needed, to fix the banking industry is not a bailout, but rather a commitment to fiscal responsibility."



Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand;...




Isaiah 13



1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

2Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

9Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

14And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

$40 vouchers for DTV conversion in jeopardy


KSBY-TV

updated 2 hours, 56 minutes ago
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Reported by: Bethany Tucker

The federal government has run out of money to help people purchase digital converter boxes for their televisions.


Starting February 17 television stations will switch to a digital signal. Anyone using an antennae will have to get a converter for their TV.

The federal government had been mailing out $40 vouchers to help people pay for the boxes which run between $40 and $80.

But, because so many people have requested the coupons the government has run out of money to cover those vouchers.

Anyone who applied after January 4 will be put on a waiting list until more funds become available.





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China Construction Bank: BofA Stake Cut Normal Market Activity


January 06, 2009: 10:12 PM ET


HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Bank of America Corp.'s (BAC) reduction of its stake in China Construction Bank Corp. (0939.HK) was a "normal market activity" due to its own financial situation, the Chinese bank said in a statement Wednesday.


China Construction Bank acknowledged in the brief statement the sale of 5.6 billion shares by Bank of America and said the U.S. lender had given it notification before the sale.


China Construction Bank said the drop in Bank of America's holding to 16.6% from 19.1% wouldn't affect their strategic partnership and they would continue to cooperate in various areas. It didn't specify the areas.

A person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires that Bank of America raised US$2.8 billion from selling 5.6 billion China Construction Bank shares at HK$3.92 each.


At 0251 GMT, China Construction Bank's Hong Kong shares were 4.5% lower at HK$ 4.25.


-By Amy Or, Dow Jones Newswires; 852-2832 2335; amy.or@dowjones.com



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