Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Catholics on Parade


This month Catholics are "All over the headlines":



  • Angels and Demons (The Movie)

  • Notre Dame University protests over President Obama's pro-choice views, on the ocassion of his comencement speech and honorary "degree".

  • Daniel Hauser , the Minnesota Boy with Cancer and Mom on the run; She is a member of a "Catholic group" (note not called a SECT) that believes in natural healing methods. They turned themselves in!

  • Last Night: Mel Gibson (RC) on the Tonight show to talk about his latest exploits; including that his "girl-friend" is pregnant.

  • This Morning: Coast to Coast (overnight radio talk show) :
    UFOs & Demonic Activity
    Monday May 25, 2009
    Brother Michael Dimond
    discussed his belief that UFOs/aliens are demonic spiritual entities. UFOs are reported to appear and disappear, change color and shape, and seem like they are alive. These are characteristics of non-material or spiritual... Host: George NooryGuest(s): Brother Michael Dimond, Dannion Brinkley ------http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows ... Bro. Michael Dimond was on Coast to Coast AM radio last night, May 26, for three hours ...http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/....Bro. Michael Dimond of the most holy family monastery...


Another Rice in the Mix


U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group..
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Fanaticism and Tongues Speaking


The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1 Cor. 14:32, 33.


A spirit of fanaticism has ruled a certain class of Sabbathkeepers. . . . They have sipped but lightly at the fountain of truth and are unacquainted with the spirit of the message of the third angel. Nothing can be done for this class until their fanatical views are corrected. . . . {Mar 154.1}


Some of these persons have exercises which they call gifts and say that the Lord has placed them in the church. They have an unmeaning gibberish which they call the unknown tongue, which is unknown not only by man but by the Lord and all heaven. Such gifts are manufactured by men and women, aided by the great deceiver. Fanaticism, false excitement, false talking in tongues, and noisy exercises have been considered gifts which God has placed in the Church. Some have been deceived here. The fruits of all this have not been good. . . . {Mar 154.2}


There are many restless spirits who will not submit to discipline, system, and order. They think that their liberties would be abridged were they to lay aside their own judgment and submit to the judgment of those of experience. The work of God will not progress unless there is a disposition to submit to order and expel the reckless, disorderly spirit of fanaticism from their meetings. Impressions and feelings are no sure evidence that a person is led by the Lord. Satan will, if he is unsuspected, give feelings and impressions. These are not safe guides. All should thoroughly acquaint themselves with the evidences of our faith, and the great study should be how they can adorn their profession and bear fruit to the glory of God. . . . A trifling, joking, reckless spirit should be rebuked. It is no evidence of the grace of God upon the heart for persons to talk and pray with talent in meeting, and then give up to a rough, careless manner of talking and acting when out of meeting. . . . {Mar 154.3}


The truth of God will never degrade, but will elevate the receiver, refine his taste, sanctify his judgment, and perfect him for the company of the pure and holy angels in the kingdom of God. {Mar 154.4}

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Why is the house of God forsaken?


Nehemiah 13


1On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

4And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:

5And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

6But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

7And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

8And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.

9Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.

10And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

11Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

12Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.

13And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

16There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

18Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

19And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

21Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

23In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

30Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Avery Dulles Online Archives




Welcome to the online (unofficial) archive of Cardinal Avery Dulles, the first United States' theologian to be named to the college of Cardinals in the Catholic Church.
Here you will find a compilation of Dulles' articles, addresses, interviews and news we've found to be available online.

Avery Cardinal Dulles passed away at about 6:30 on the morning of December 12th, 2008 -- at Murray-Weigel Hall, the Jesuit infirmary, located at Fordham University, in Bronx, New York.
Funeral Plans have been announced by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus for Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, who died this morning at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. There will be a Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus particularly for Jesuits in New York, and religious and clergy in New York, at Fordham's Chapel on Tuesday at 7:30 PM; a Mass of the Holy Eucharist for the Fordham community of students, faculty and staff on Wednesday at 7:30 PM; and a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday at 2:00 PM, which will (most likely) be celebrated by a representative by the Vatican. -- Source: America Magazine


Obituaries In the News
Avery Dulles, 90; Prominent Catholic Cardinal, Theologian (Obituary) Washington Post December 14, 2008.
Remembering Cardinal Avery Dulles, by Michael Paulson. "Articles of Faith" Boston Globe December 13, 2008.
Cardinal Avery Dulles, Theologian, Is Dead at 90, by Robert D. McFadden. New York Times December 12, 2008.
Fordham Mourns the Death of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Fordham University.


Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., RIP, by John Allen, Jr. National Catholic Reporter
"Having learned with sadness of the death of Cardinal Avery Dulles, I offer you my heartfelt condolences, which I ask you to kindly convey to his family, his confreres in the Society of Jesus and the academic community of Fordham University. I join you in commending the late Cardinal's noble soul to God, the Father of Mercies, with immense gratitude for the deep learning, serene judgment and unfailing love of the Lord and his Church which marked his entire priestly ministry and his long years of teaching and theological research. At the same time I pray that his convincing personal testimony to the harmony of faith and reason will continue to bear fruit for the conversion of minds and hearts and the progress of the gospel for many years to come. To all who mourn him in the hope of the resurrection I cordially impart my apostolic blessing as a pledge of consolation and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ." - Pope Benedict XVI.


Personal Tributes
Pope Benedict XVI Notes Gratitude for Late Cardinal Dulles Zenit News Service. December 14, 2008.
The Very Model Of Lucidity, by George Weigel. Newsweek December 13, 2008.
Avery Cardinal Dulles - Remembrances by Fr. Robert Sirico The Acton Institute
Avery Dulles: Disciple of Jesus, by Drew Christiansen, SJ. America "In All Things" December 13, 2008.
Avery, friend and hero, by James Martin, SJ. America "In All Things" December 12, 2008.
President of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Expresses Sadness over Death of Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. December 12, 2008.

Collected Archives
Contributions to America Magazine.
Contributions to First Things
Avery Dulles: Fordam University's Videos-on-Demand - Including the McGinley Lectures and his creation as a Cardinal in Rome on February 21, 2001.


Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. An internationally known author and lecturer, he was born in Auburn, New York, on August 24, 1918, the son of John Foster Dulles and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. He received his primary school education in New York City, and attended secondary schools in Switzerland and New England. After graduating from Harvard College in 1940, he spent a year and a half in Harvard Law School before serving in the United States Navy, emerging with the rank of lieutenant.

Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Avery Dulles entered the Jesuit Order, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. After a year in Germany, he studied at the Gregorian University in Rome, and was awarded the doctorate in Sacred Theology in 1960. He was created a Cardinal of the Catholic Church in Rome on February 21, 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
Installation of Cardinal Avery Dulles
Cardinal Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974 and that of The Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988. He has been a visiting professor at: The Gregorian University (Rome), Weston School of Theology, Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), Princeton Theological Seminary, Episcopal Seminary (Alexandria, Va.), Lutheran Theological Seminary (Gettysburg, Pa.), Boston College, Campion Hall (Oxford University), the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University at Leuven, Yale University, and St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie.


The author of over 700 articles on theological topics, Cardinal Dulles has published twenty-two books including Models of the Church (1974), Models of Revelation (1983), The Catholicity of the Church (1985), The Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System (1992), The Assurance of Things Hoped For: A Theology of Christian Faith (1994), The Splendor of Faith: The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II (1999), The New World of Faith (2000), and Newman (2002). The fiftieth anniversary edition of his book, A Testimonial to Grace, was republished in 1996 by the original publishers, Sheed and Ward, with an afterword containing his reflections on the past fifty years.
Cardinal Dulles gives farewell speech as Fordham's McGinley professor, by Angelo Stagnaro. Catholic News Service. April 3, 2008.


Pope Benedict XVI pays a personal visit to Cardinal Avery Dulles during his U.S. apostolic visit (America "In All Things" May 16, 2008). The meeting took place in Cardinal Egan's suite in St. Joseph's Seminary, after the Pope's meeting with disabled children. The following account is taken from the New York Jesuits' newsletter, written by Anne Marie Kirmse, O.P., Cardinal


Dulles's longtime assistant:

"The Pope literally bounded into the room with a big smile on his face. He went directly to where Avery was sitting, saying, 'Eminenza, Eminenza, I recall the work you did for the International Theological Committee in the 1990's.' Avery kissed the papal ring and smiled back at the Pope. Then the Pope looked at the people in the room who had accompanied Avery to the Seminary: Fr. Tom Marciniak, who served as Cardinal Dulles's priest-chaplain for the meeting; Sr. Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P.; and Francine Messiah and Oslyn Fergus of the [Jesuit infirmary's] medical staff. After this warm and friendly exchange of greetings, the Pope sat down next to Avery to hear the remarks that Avery had prepared and which were read for him by Fr. Tom Marciniak. During the presentation, Fr. Tom handed the Pope a copy of Avery's latest book, Church and Society: The Laurence J. McGinley Lectures, 1988-2007, which was published earlier this month by Fordham University Press. The Pope expressed great interest in the book, and even interrupted the reading of the remarks to ask again when the book had been published. He eagerly looked through it, and was touched by Avery's inscription to him. Before leaving, the Pope blessed Avery, assuring him of his prayers, and encouraging him in his sufferings. He then said good-bye in turn to each of the four persons who accompanied Avery."
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4th NYC nighttime blast shatters Starbucks windows


By DEEPTI HAJELA – 44 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — An early morning explosion, caused by a small bomb and reminiscent of other mysterious blasts around the city in the last few years, destroyed a sidewalk bench and shattered windows in a Starbucks coffee shop.

No one was injured in the blast, which happened around 3:30 a.m. Monday on Manhattan's Upper East Side near the Guggenheim museum.

Investigators were looking into the similarities between the explosion and three others in the last four years, police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

"They all happened between 3:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., so that's the immediate similarity that we're looking at," Kelly said. "Obviously we're going to analyze the type of explosive that's been used."

The bomb went off around the same time of day as an explosion at the British consulate in May 2005, another at the Mexican consulate in October 2007 and one at the Times Square military recruiting station in March 2008.

In the previous bombings, a bicyclist was seen in the area before the explosions. No witnesses came forward immediately Monday, and police still have to see what, if any, security camera footage is available, Kelly said.

"We don't know the motive. Obviously it is a cause for concern, but we're going to do an in-depth investigation," he said.

Kelly said the explosive appeared to have been placed on the seat of the bench, but he didn't know what kind of container it was in. He said investigators would examine the remains to determine what kind of explosive it was. He said it was possible that it was some kind of firework.

Police also were looking at whether the Starbucks, a few blocks from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, was the target.

The Starbucks Corp. is the world's largest gourmet coffee retailer, with more than 15,000 stores, according to a 2008 profile on its Web site. No one at the company, which is based in Seattle, immediately responded to an e-mail or a telephone message delivered through a press hot line on Monday, Memorial Day.

Gov. David Paterson surveyed the damage at the coffee shop.

"Certainly, it is alarming to have this happen, seemingly not designed to hurt people, but obviously could, and no one really knows what the motive is," Paterson said.

Residents above the coffee shop were ordered to leave their apartments but were allowed to return later in the morning.

One of them, Jordan Kovnot, a 26-year-old law school student, told the Daily News, "I heard a giant noise — a big, giant noise, like a crash — and there was a flash."





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Susan Boyle's 15 months of fame


Now that's a mug!
She hasn't been around for 15 months?
It sure seems like it!
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Will she be on Cheerios boxes, next?
Why all this air-play? Who's paying for all this advertising, and why?
What's the point?
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Enough with the homely pics, already!
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What happened to 15 minutes of fame?
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Arsenio.

Time to wake up America






Time to wake up America the eyes of the world are upon you. Old world entities have envied you since your foundation. They envied your freedoms, your benevolence, and your prosperity. Now finally, they've have gotten their agents to transform your republican ideals into old world type Oligarchy.
Protestant America with her free enterprise (laissez faire), and God given rights has recently been compromised by the current regime and the powers of the President. There is no end in sight to the ambitions of this Administration; For "Power corrupts absolutely". Where will it end in "concentration camps", toll plazas on turnpikes transformed into check points, citizen ID cards, and permission to travel to and fro?
It's almost too late; But, not late enough that you can't speak up like someone did today!



Arsenio.



Note: Originally posted on October, 16, 2006. The down-ward spiral has only progressed!
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?



Romans 8


1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Escape for thy life; look not behind thee..; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.


Genesis 19

1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

3And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

16And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:

19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

20Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

21And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Is It Time Yet To Take Flight and Run??

IS IT TIME YET TO TAKE FLIGHT AND RUN??

A Small Taste of the Very Near Future!
Challenging the Anger of God! Challenging the Elements!

Note: We noticed that we put that upon the passing of the National Sunday Law in the United States, God's people ALL OVER THE GLOBE must flee every highly populated area immediately. It was meant to be only for the United States, and wherever this law is passed in any other country, the same condition applies.

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THE HIDDEN POWER BEHIND THE NEW BIBLE VERSIONS!The most crucial part of the danger of the new bible versions hardly discussed anywhere else! WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO READ BIBLE TRANSLATIONS THAT WERE CREATED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST??
The Horrifying Ignorance of the Adventist People!There is no ignorance as horrifying as suffocating ADVENTIST IGNORANCE!The Horrifying Ignorance of the Adventist People, Part 2!Strange ideas God's people have about the sign to leave and take flight from the cities!Sabbath School Lessons Containing the Political Agenda of the Jesuits in the Seventh-day Adventist Church!Sabbath School lessons push the "new" movements and "worship styles" concepts, and therefore attacks veteran Adventists who oppose them. It then raises doubts about the authority of Ellen White.Defending Ellen G. White from the doubts raised against her even by Adventist officials!Ellen White defended against the doubts raised against her. Anyone who attacks or dilutes or puts to doubt the authority of Ellen White, attacks far more than her and including the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.Highlights into the war between the SDA denomination and the protesting independent ministries!The war between the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and the protesting Independent Ministries more clearly defined.Conclusion about the issue of labels and finding true identity!More indepth study to see the ramifications of not understanding how to tell who people are. Showing how our society is being regressed and destroyed by people all among us, who are not what they claim to be, and who support the opposite agenda from even what they are elected to accomplish.


TAKE THE FOLLOWING VERY SERIOUSLY AND JUST IMAGINE!...




His name was Harry Truman (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/mountsthelens/hary11.shtml). Although amply warned, this man refused to leave his home below Mt. St. Helens when it erupted in 1980.
He was a wealthy man who owned a home and a lodge near Spirit Lake in the area. He generated much media attention as authorities were urging him to leave since an eruption was imminent.

Folks said that he was genuinely afraid of earthquakes and other such disasters. Others said that he didn't want to leave his property, wealth and his 16 cats that were his pets.

Eventually the eruption took his life along with all his possessions. It was rumored that he had a fortune of cash on hand. All that, along with himself, got buried beyond all search.



As a Seventh-day Adventist, you're at work one day in New York City and everything is normal. All of a sudden an important announcement appears on the news on TV saying that the United States government has passed a National Sunday Law: that is, a national day of worship on Sunday for the whole United States. You find out that the news broadcast is credible. What do you do? What are you supposed to do?
Seventh-day Adventists have been given instructions to, upon such a situation, drop everything, and then leave, flee, RUN away from any highly populated place IMMEDIATELY. The instructions regarding this predicted future calamity is clear.
Knowing that, it will still be quite a shock for any Adventist if such a situation should happen even tomorrow. We are all not expecting that any such a law will be passed on the spur of the moment. We expect that the motion will suddenly arise and that there will then be much debate for at least a few weeks, giving everyone time. But if such a law was literally passed by the government of the United States tomorrow, would we obey that instruction, drop everything and leave? Such a situation could be quite a test for the people these messages have been given to. Without any reservation, the divine warning says TO DROP EVERYTHING AND FLEE!
First setting the stage for conditions that will exist in the Last Days:
And at that time [The Last Days] shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. -- Daniel 12:1
We are on the very verge of the time of trouble, and perplexities that are scarcely dreamed of are before us.--Testimonies for the Church Vol. 9, 43 (1909). {LDE 12.4}
We are standing on the threshold of the crisis of the ages. In quick succession the judgments of God will follow one another--fire, and flood, and earthquake, with war and bloodshed.--Prophets and Kings, 278 (c. 1914). {LDE 12.5}
Jesus left a message for His people that had a two-fold application both to His day and also to the very end:
Matt. 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Jesus was here talking about a future calamity. He made special reference to the Temple at Jerusalem right before them telling them it would be destroyed. The whole chapter of Matthew 24 describes tragedies that will come upon the world in the last days, but reference to the temple Jesus was showing them at the beginning of the chapter shows that it has a dual application to an upcoming event in Christ's time. Jesus then shows God's people what to do when the signs of those tragedies appear.
In the first fulfillment of the words of Jesus in Matt. 24, specifically talking about the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the Christians remembered carefully the instructions of the Lord on how to escape. History shows not one Christian dying in the destruction of the temple and city of Jerusalem. More than a million of the Jews at that time died horribly!
At that time God's people thought those were the last days. It is a given among Christians even back then that just before the Lord comes there will be a period of terrible trouble and persecution. Here now is what Jesus tells them to do in preparation for calamity:

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! -- Matt. 24:15-19
What this is saying is that when God's people shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel standing in the holy place, then they are to obey the instructions that follow. Here is represented issues in both church and state. There are principles and policies in both church and state history screams about that no intelligent person or nation is supposed to accept. In our case, history is repeating. Both church and state are presently undergoing revolution, and in that revolution, as a rule of thumb, those pushing it are telling both church and state that they're moving forward when they are actually both adopting disastrous principles that caused much tragedy in history. They are adopting abominations that the divinely established American Constitution was a protest against, actually going backwards. The same thing is happening to all the Protestant Churches. They are viewing abominations creeping into their policies and foundations that ought not be there. The command is that when God's people shall see these things, then they must make flight.
At the time Jesus was referring to in dealing with the Temple and city of Jerusalem, the Roman armies, under the Roman General Cestius, later approached and put Jerusalem under siege. At that time and in our day a literal specific sign is given showing when it is time to drop everything a flee.
Here is what Jesus says about that part of the actual fulfillment.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. -- Luke 21:20-22
A SMALL FORETASTE OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MAJOR CITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD!
The Siege upon Jerusalem, canceled by Cestius was resumed by Titus! The results were much, much different then! PLEASE CONCENTRATE ON THE WORDS SPOKEN AND VISUALIZE THE TRAGEDIES DESCRIBED AS HAPPENING TO MAJOR CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALL OVER THE WORLD IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THE DEPICTIONS HERE PRESENTED ARE NOT EXAGGERATIONS OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE MAJOR CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD: THEY ARE UNDERSTATEMENTS! (Portions taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia)...
Terrible were the calamities that fell upon Jerusalem when the siege was resumed by Titus. The city was invested at the time of the Passover, when millions of Jews were assembled within its walls. Their stores of provision, which if carefully preserved would have supplied the inhabitants for years, had previously been destroyed through the jealousy and revenge of the contending factions, and now all the horrors of starvation were experienced. A measure of wheat was sold for a talent. So fierce were the pangs of hunger that men would gnaw the leather of their belts and sandals and the covering of their shields. Great numbers of the people would steal out at night to gather wild plants growing outside the city walls, though many were seized and put to death with cruel torture, and often those who returned in safety were robbed of what they had gleaned at so great peril. The most inhuman tortures were inflicted by those in power, to force from the want-stricken people the last scanty supplies which they might have concealed. And these cruelties were not infrequently practiced by men who were themselves well fed, and who were merely desirous of laying up a store of provision for the future. -- Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pgs. 30-31
Thousands perished from famine and pestilence. Natural affection seemed to have been destroyed. Husbands robbed their wives, and wives their husbands. Children would be seen snatching the food from the mouths of their aged parents. The question of the prophet, "Can a woman forget her sucking child?" [ISA. 49:15.] received the answer within the walls of that doomed city, "The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people." [LAM. 4:10.] Again was fulfilled the warning prophecy given fourteen centuries before: "The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter; . . . and toward her children which she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates." [DEUT. 28:56, 57.] -- Ibid. pgs. 31, 32.
The Roman leaders endeavored to strike terror to the Jews, and thus cause them to surrender. Those prisoners who resisted when taken, were scourged, tortured, and crucified before the wall of the city. Hundreds were daily put to death in this manner, and the dreadful work continued until, along the valley of Jehoshaphat and at Calvary, crosses were erected in so great numbers that there was scarcely room to move among them. So terribly was visited that awful imprecation uttered before the judgment-seat of Pilate: "His blood be on us, and on our children." [MATT. 27:25.] {GC88 32.2}
Titus would willingly have put an end to the fearful scene, and thus have spared Jerusalem the full measure of her doom. He was filled with horror as he saw the bodies of the dead lying in heaps in the valleys. Like one entranced, he looked from the crest of Olivet upon the magnificent temple, and gave command that not one stone of it be touched. Before attempting to gain possession of this stronghold, he made an earnest appeal to the Jewish leaders not to force him to defile the sacred place with blood. If they would come forth and fight in any other place, no Roman should violate the sanctity of the temple. Josephus himself, in a most eloquent appeal, entreated them to surrender, to save themselves, their city, and their place of worship. But his words were answered with bitter curses. Darts were hurled at him, their last human mediator, as he stood pleading with them. The Jews had rejected the entreaties of the Son of God, and now expostulation and entreaty only made them more determined to resist to the last. In vain were the efforts of Titus to save the temple; One greater than he had declared that not one stone was to be left upon another.
The blind obstinacy of the Jewish leaders, and the detestable crimes perpetrated within the besieged city, excited the horror and indignation of the Romans, and Titus at last decided to take the temple by storm. He determined, however, that if possible it should be saved from destruction. But his commands were disregarded. After he had retired to his tent at night, the Jews, sallying from the temple, attacked the soldiers without. In the struggle, a firebrand was flung by a soldier through an opening in the porch, and immediately the cedar-lined chambers about the holy house were in a blaze. Titus rushed to the place, followed by his generals and legionaries, and commanded the soldiers to quench the flames. His words were unheeded. In their fury the soldiers hurled blazing brands into the chambers adjoining the temple, and then with their swords they slaughtered in great numbers those who had found shelter there. Blood flowed down the temple steps like water. Thousands upon thousands of Jews perished. Above the sound of battle, voices were heard shouting, "Ichabod!"-- the glory is departed.
"Titus found it impossible to check the rage of the soldiery; he entered with his officers, and surveyed the interior of the sacred edifice. The splendor filled them with wonder; and as the flames had not yet penetrated to the holy place, he made a last effort to save it, and springing forth, again exhorted the soldiers to stay the progress of the conflagration. The centurion Liberalis endeavored to enforce obedience with his staff of office; but even respect for the emperor gave way to the furious animosity against the Jews, to the fierce excitement of battle, and to the insatiable hope of plunder. The soldiers saw everything around them radiant with gold, which shone dazzlingly in the wild light of the flames; they supposed that incalculable treasures were laid up in the sanctuary. A soldier, unperceived, thrust a lighted torch between the hinges of the door; the whole building was in flames in an instant. The blinding smoke and fire forced the officers to retreat, and the noble edifice was left to its fate.
"It was an appalling spectacle to the Roman; what was it to the Jew? The whole summit of the hill which commanded the city blazed like a volcano. One after another the buildings fell in, with a tremendous crash, and were swallowed up in the fiery abyss. The roofs of cedar were like sheets of flame; the gilded pinnacles shone like spikes of red light; the gate towers sent up tall columns of flame and smoke. The neighboring hills were lighted up; and dark groups of people were seen watching in horrible anxiety the progress of the destruction; the walls and heights of the upper city were crowded with faces, some pale with the agony of despair, others scowling unavailing vengeance. The shouts of the Roman soldiery as they ran to the fro, and the howlings of the insurgents who were perishing in the flames, mingled with the roaring of the conflagration and the thundering sound of falling timbers. The echoes of the mountains replied or brought back the shrieks of the people on the heights; all along the walls resounded screams and wailings; men who were expiring with famine rallied their remaining strength to utter a cry of anguish and desolation.
"The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from without. Men and women, old and young, insurgents and priests, those who fought and those who entreated mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate carnage. The number of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The legionaries had to clamber over heaps of dead to carry on the work of extermination." {GC88 35.1}
...In the siege and the slaughter that followed, more than a million of the people perished; the survivors were carried away as captives, sold as slaves, dragged to Rome to grace the conqueror's triumph, thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheaters, or scattered as homeless wanderers throughout the earth. -- Ibid. pgs. 32-36.
If a city is besieged and surrounded (compassed) by armies, how can the people inside flee or escape? Who was able to obey that instruction back in 70 A.D. when Jerusalem actually was besieged? Well, God worked everything out according to his providence. The following is taken from the book, The Great Controversy, by Ellen G. White. Parts of this chapter of this book was taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia detailing the events of that time:
Not one Christian perished in the destruction of Jerusalem. Christ had given his disciples warning, and all who believed his words watched for the promised sign. "When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies," said Jesus, "then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out." [LUKE 21:20, 21.] After the Romans under Cestius had surrounded the city, they unexpectedly abandoned the siege when everything seemed favorable for an immediate attack. The besieged, despairing of successful resistance, were on the point of surrender, when the Roman general withdrew his forces, without the least apparent reason. But God's merciful providence was directing events for the good of his own people. The promised sign had been given to the waiting Christians, and now an opportunity was afforded for all who would to obey the Saviour's warning. Events were so overruled that neither Jews nor Romans should hinder the flight of the Christians. Upon the retreat of Cestius, the Jews, sallying from Jerusalem, pursued after his retiring army, and while both forces were thus fully engaged, the Christians had an opportunity to leave the city. At this time the country also had been cleared of enemies who might have endeavored to intercept them. At the time of the siege, the Jews were assembled at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, and thus the Christians throughout the land were able to make their escape unmolested. Without delay they fled to a place of safety,--the city of Pella, in the land of Perea, beyond Jordan. -- Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pgs. 30-31, 1911.
I have to get my sources together that I had read previously in order to update this page. I had a historical source that said Cestius received some bad news about a tragedy in the family, and that this caused him to retreat for no apparent reason. Jesus, detailing the outcome of the tragedy, said:
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. -- Luke 21:20-24
More details expounding upon Matthew 24:15-19 and the command to drop everything and leave immediately comes from this portion of The Great Controversy:
Jesus declared to the listening disciples the judgments that were to fall upon apostate Israel, and especially the retributive vengeance that would come upon them for their rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah. Unmistakable signs would precede the awful climax. The dreaded hour would come suddenly and swiftly. And the Saviour warned his followers: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand), then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains." [MATT. 24:15, 16; LUKE 21:20.] When the idolatrous standards of the Romans should be set up in the holy ground, which extended some furlongs outside the city walls, then the followers of Christ were to find safety in flight. When the warning sign should be seen, those who would escape must make no delay. Throughout the land of Judea, as well as in Jerusalem itself, the signal for flight must be immediately obeyed. He who chanced to be upon the housetop must not go down into his house, even to save his most valued treasures. Those who were working in the fields or vineyards must not take time to return for the outer garment laid aside while they should be toiling in the heat of the day. They must not hesitate a moment, lest they be involved in the general destruction. -- Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pgs. 25, 26.
The problem I'm currently receiving among Seventh-day Adventists and other Christians is rationalizations with intent to disobey these commands, and even claims that they should remain in danger because they believe in God, He loves them and He would protect them.
I found many who even told me that it's ok. They would rather just "go home" to be with the Lord "through the grave." They actually believe that if they disobey the command to leave, they will die peacefully and then meet the Lord in peace in heaven. It is so hard to convince them after their minds are set, that this is SHEER IGNORANCE!
It makes no difference if you're even an elderly Christian and desire death. The problem is not that the Lord told His people to remain in dangerous places and die there in peace in Christ even as an option. The problem is that the Lord told His people TO LEAVE!
In our day, the special sign given to God's people is when the United States shall pass a national Sunday law. Upon this sign, God's people in the United States who happen to be in highly populated areas at the time are to DROP EVERYTHING AND FLEE. The same is true when such laws are passed in most all the other countries.
At that time it is understood that those who would comply already do not live in such places, therefore answering the question, "Where are we going to flee to??" Adventists were warned not to live in very populous cities. They will be doing missionary and evangelism work in these places, but their homestead and possessions would not be there. Leading up to that time, they have already prepared for the dire event depicted as the Children of Israel eating the Passover with their loins girded, with shoes on their feet and staffs in hands, eating it in haste (Exodus 12:11). It is another exodus God's people were warned about. It is not that they are regularly employed in some 9 to 5 job at that time. The financial crisis now looming over the world is bound to interrupt the regular routine as it has already started. It's not like parents will be out at work on regular jobs while the kids are at home.
Some Adventists have even told me, when I warned them that they are to drop everything and flee even if their kids are in the city they are in somewhere and the warning sign catches them while they're away, that I was exaggerating the issue, and that they were still supposed to go and get their kids in the city somewhere. Hopefully their kids would be at home where they live outside the city.
That reminds me always of the example that took place aboard the RMS Titanic, "the unsinkable ship." I don't have the specific documentation at the time, but there was at least one example of a woman that was on board who was urged to go on board one of the scarce lifeboats. At the time she had left her children to see what was going on. Her children had subsequently been moved by others in the commotion. Knowing that her children were not there, she refused to get on. She could not in heart go aboard the lifeboats to safety without knowing for sure that her children were safe. She looked and looked for them until all opportunity to be saved was lost. She died heartbroken, for she never found her children. They were picked up by others and saved.
To secure popularity and patronage, legislators will yield to the demand for a Sunday law....By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. . . . -- Last Day Events, pgs. 132, 133.
When the state shall use its power to enforce the decrees and sustain the institutions of the church--then will Protestant America have formed an image to the papacy, and there will be a national apostasy which will end only in national ruin.--Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, 976 (1910).
The people of the United States have been a favored people, but when they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and "national apostasy" will be registered in the books of heaven.--Review and Herald, May 2, 1893.
Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the care and protection of the state. This national apostasy will speedily be followed by national ruin.--Review and Herald, June 15, 1897.
When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.--Evangelism 235 (1899).
It is at the time of the national apostasy when, acting on the policy of Satan, the rulers of the land will rank themselves on the side of the man of sin. It is then the measure of guilt is full. The national apostasy is the signal for national ruin.--Selected Messages, Vol. 2, 373 (1891).
As the approach of the Roman armies was a sign to the disciples of the impending destruction of Jerusalem, so may this apostasy be a sign to us that the limit of God's forbearance is reached.--Testimonies for the Church Vol. 5, 451 (1885).
The Sabbath question is to be the issue in the great final conflict in which all the world will act a part.--Testimonies for the Church Vol. 6, 352 (1900).
Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States. Though she leads out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people in all parts of the world.--Testimonies for the Church Vol. 6, 395 (1900).
The wickedness of the inhabitants of the world has almost filled up the measure of their iniquity. This earth has almost reached the place where God will permit the destroyer to work his will upon it. --Testimonies for the Church Vol. 7, 141 (1902).

A message to the people of the world who live in highly populated areas:
PLEASE BE MERCIFUL ON THE HEARTS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO WILL BRAVE ENTERING INTO CITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HIT BY CATASTROPHE TO SAVE WHAT REMAINS FROM DISASTER! Some very brave souls having medical and emergency skills will brave entering into highly populated areas after terrible calamities to see if they can help the millions that will be in need. They will know they will have to pass by most of them, for the load will be just too great. Please plan now to avoid heavily populated areas if even just to relieve the future strain on those who will go on a deadly mission of mercy!
There was mention made on the news that America should make a law that when authorities tell residents in the path of a major disastrous hurricane to leave the area, they should be forced to leave. I was normally opposed to such a measure because of the loss of freedom, but then it was brought out that those who decide to stay do not just endanger their own lives: they endanger the lives of emergency personnel who have to scour the disaster areas soon after the worst has hit in order to save desperate survivors. Many have mispredicted the danger and have lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina. They were urged to take heed and remember, but still many remained behind to brave Hurricane Ike and the cost was to themselves, then to emergency personnel and ultimately to the public budget.
I saw an immense ball of fire fall among some beautiful mansions, causing their instant destruction. I heard someone say: "We knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth, but we did not know that they would come so soon." Others, with agonized voices, said: "You knew! Why then did you not tell us? We did not know."--Testimonies for the Church Vol. 9, 28 (1909)
We have to find ways to show the world what is coming. Just living along with them in the 9 to 5 is not going to do it. If we were already prepared with places outside the cities as we were instructed, we would better be able to SHOW the world we mean business and that their lives are threatened.
Recently a volcano became active in a minor Caribbean island called Montserrat (documentary shown in the video box to the right here). In every case of natural disaster or danger the story is the same. There are people who decide to remain in the danger zones. One example in a National Geographic documentary (Not shown here. This is merely an overview of the situation in the video. If I find that example I will replace this.) was a man riding a donkey who lived in the danger zone. He was interviewed and asked why he was remaining in the danger zone. His reply was, "Me believe in God." Some West Indians have said, "Yes. That's Mr. Grenaway." (Can't confirm correct spelling here.)
In natural disasters like a hurricane on a small island, no one seems crazy enough to remain outdoors, but they have no choice but to remain in the area. In the United States however with a land mass big enough to avoid the path of a hurricane, we saw people remaining in the danger zone in Houston, Texas after being warned over and over again to evacuate.
The greatest hurricane disaster was in New Orleans under Hurricane Katrina. Many of the residents didn't listen and refused to evacuate. That decision cost many their lives. Yet still, although many learned their lesson, thousands still yet remained in the Houston area in the path of Hurricane Ike.

Montserrat Copes With an Active Volcano: Soufriere Hills:

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The thing is that Adventists and other Christians are rationalizing and actually believing that they would be doing right by merely remaining and even dying where they are. THE VERY WORDS OF THE LORD TELLS THEM TO LEAVE! They are replying back that it's alright, and that they have no particular desire to even want to live anyway. It is somewhat of a Christian macho attitude where some Christians portray to others that, because they believe in the Lord, they're not afraid of anything. There are major consequences to this attitude that they're not thinking of.
The Lord commanded Lot and His family to leave Sodom and Gomorrah. In His commands were no options to stay. In a more lenient example of what we're talking about here, listen to the very words of the Lord and focus on His commands:
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. -- Genesis 19:12-17.
As we know there was one person who did not exactly obey the commands of the Angels that were there. Lot's wife did a much more innocent act than refusing to leave. She agreed to leave and made the motions. She was in the way of safety, but she looked back. She was instantly turned to a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26). She had rebelled and will not be in heaven. She wasn't rebellious enough to even just merely state that she was staying. She complied, but then she looked back. This is supposed to be a lesson for us!
Why was she so severely dealt with? The very direct presence of the Angels were there warning them of what to do. And yet there is another way where we can see the possible ramifications of not explicitly obeying the command to leave.
Say for example that it was announced over the news that a national Sunday law was passed. You, a mother, instantly start fleeing for your life knowing that some of your children were left well cared for in the area as you did missionary or evangelism work. Your heart yearns for your children wondering what will become of them in all the uncertainty. But then you meet up with another Adventist woman, a mother, going in the exact opposite direction. You ask her where she's going, and she tells you she's going for her children in another place in the city. You warn her not to do it because of the command of the Lord, and she begins to tell you that you're going to extremes and she leaves you going in the opposite direction. The example of that mother takes a toll on the first one who wants to obey the explicit commands of the Lord. It works out where that mother who went back for her children will bear responsibility if by her example the first one rationalizes and then decides that it's best to run back for her children.
The same is true for Christians who, in the face of people who don't know the Lord, become careless and don't properly take cover when major disasters or natural catastrophes take place. In the face of tornadoes, a Christian who does not properly take cover or make preparation, but basically carelessly acts like nothing will happen, bears a baneful influence on others who sees his example. The Lord does not want anyone to conduct business or walk around like normal as if nothing is happening when a tornado or hurricane is very threateningly in the area. The Lord does not want His people to behave as if nothing is happening when a lightning or thunderstorm is in the area.
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. -- Matt. 4:7
A careless attitude may be communicated to many others and even to those who do not know the Lord, and a responsibility for communicating that careless attitude will be shared out at Judgment Day, urging them to do worse than Lot's wife and not obey the explicit commands of the Lord. Here Christian confidence actually becomes presumption.
Here is one major example of true Christianity and Christian faith having confidence in the Lord:
John and Charles Wesley, after being ordained to the ministry, were sent on a mission to America. On board the ship was a company of Moravians. Violent storms were encountered on the passage, and John Wesley, brought face to face with death, felt that he had not the assurance of peace with God. But the Germans, on the contrary, manifested a calmness and trust to which he was a stranger.
"I had long before," he says, "observed the great seriousness of their behavior. Of their humility they had given continual proof, by performing those servile offices for the other passengers which none of the English would undertake; for which they desired and would receive no pay, saying, it was good for their proud hearts, and their loving Saviour had done more for them. And every day had given them occasion of showing a meekness which no injury could move. If they were pushed, struck, or thrown down, they rose again and went away; but no complaint was found in their mouth. There was now an opportunity of trying whether they were delivered from the spirit of fear, as well as from that of pride, anger, and revenge. In the midst of the psalm wherewith their service began, the sea broke over, split the mainsail in pieces, covered the ship, and poured in between the deck as if the great deep had already swallowed us up. A terrible screaming began among the English. The Germans calmly sung on. I asked one of them afterward, 'Were you not afraid?' He answered, 'I thank God, no.' I asked, 'But were not your women and children afraid?' He replied mildly, 'No; our women and children are not afraid to die.'" -- The Great Controversy, pgs. 254, 255.
In the example here was perfect trust in the Lord without any presumption. Although the Moravians were not afraid of the storm and tempest, they were within the deck and didn't venture to be above the deck where the elements were raging. Not only is it not a sin to take cover in natural disasters, it is necessary to do that both for Christians and for those who do not know the Lord. Leave an example that may save lives by making everyone to know that Christianity is not a license to challenge the elements or the bolts of nature unless there is a specific reason to do so under the power of God.
Remaining in dangerous places while natural disasters are dangerously in the area or not obeying the explicit directions of the Lord could make you bear responsibilities you have no real knowledge of. It is best to do exactly as the Lord has commanded!
Last point is that although the Christians were commanded to leave the city as soon as the sign was seen that Jerusalem would be "compassed with armies," although they made flight immediately, the actual resumption of the siege by Titus and the actual destruction they were running from, as I vaguely remembered reading from historical sources, took place ABOUT A YEAR LATER (couldn't find the actual documentation of how long the delay was). Looking back, the natural response for a Christian who fled right away would be, "Hmmmm. I had much more time than I thought!" But no. They still did the right thing by leaving right away. This point will also be a test.
Because of this situation, no one can come to the conclusion and say, "If my dear loved one refuses to come with me, I'm going to even kidnap him or her at gunpoint." The scenario may work out that you do so and yet after doing it, you notice that nothing has happened for a good long while. If that person is then not convinced that you know what you're doing and you then allow that person to go back, he or she would be able to do so freely, but eventually the calamities would hit "suddenly and swiftly." Orders by emergency personnel during these calamities would be to prevent people from leaving once the calamities hit. In actuality the calamities are orchestrated for a deadly purpose.
It's like with the Flood of Noah. Noah and his family were told to enter the Ark. After they entered and the door of the Ark was shut permanently, there was a seven-day delay. It gave the appearance that it was possible even at that time that some outside could have reconsidered and said to themselves that they would beg to enter the Ark say four days after the door was shut. It gave the same appearance for those who entered. It gave that appearance even though the door was shut permanently. Of course, all who were outside never had any temptation to repent and to knock on the door of the Ark to request to be let in during that delay.
The same is true with the disasters to come. When the United States makes a law for the enforcement of Sunday nationally, then they are to flee if they are in any highly populated area RIGHT AWAY even though other places may suffer disaster a good time later. Those who decide not to follow the instructions explicitly, like Lot's wife, will wind up being destroyed. More likely than not, if any of them even wait so much as an hour and then make motions to leave, a spirit of rationalization will fall upon them and they will begin to doubt the specific instructions. They will then go back to their comforts. Remember also, that although the actual destruction took place a good deal after the sign given, circumstances just after the sign was given allowed the Christians to escape without being hindered by the Romans, who were retreating, nor by the Jews who were pursuing the retreating Roman armies. This condition was very temporary. Therefore, although the actual calamity didn't take place right away, many Christians would not have been able to flee so freely had they waited.

Different places will be destroyed at different times. Although the command to leave will signal swift disaster, the disasters will not come at the same time in all places, BUT ALL are commanded to leave when the signal is given. The Last Days will follow as every other time: with a testing delay even of the judgments promised and even after probation is closed.

Source: http://www.theirsecrets.info/AC/AppealChapAdventistIgnorance2.htm

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The fig tree


32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.


Matthew 24:32-36.
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Maitreya – Deliverer?

Maitreya at Nairobi, Kenya in 1988


Maitreya – Who Is it?



Maitreya is the name of a person of religious stature who claims to be the answer to the world’s quest for peace. By embracing all religions as pointing to the same returning Deliverer, Maitreya has taken on the mantle of the Master of Masters.

In India, they have believed in a Buddhist Maitreya for the last 2500 years. They are building a 500-foot bronze statue to become a worship temple for his followers. A Maitreya is one who refuses to enter into nirvana (or totality), because of his compassion to bring others with him. The Indian belief is that he will return in 30,000 years during a period of decline. He will be the future Buddha.

The Chinese people regard him as a folk deity that wanders the country with a third eye in his back. Chinese political leaders have claimed to be Maitreya to retain governmental control. Koreans think of him as the god of fertility. The Japanese have also had a claim to Maitreya by the celebrated teacher Kukai.

Maitreya – What does he teach?
Many purported Maitreya have appeared throughout the centuries claiming to be the one true path to holiness and peace. A more modern day Maitreya has appeared in diverse places since 1973 and has even announced a future interview through a medium.

Maitreya is embraced by the New Age movement. This belief encompasses elements of Hinduism, Buddhism, Kabala, Sufism, Christianity and any other path that endorses a relationship with God. The seal of Maitreya shows the I-Ching, the Star of David, the Cross, a crescent moon, a nine-armed star, another Star of David with a rising sun, and a seventh sign meaning Pure Consciousness that has a swastika symbol in its center. The entire symbol is called the Greatest Sign.

Maitreya – How does it compare with the Bible?
Many of the doctrines used in the Mission of Maitreya are taken out of context from the Hebrew and Christian Bible. They have been adapted to prophesy about Maitreya instead of Jesus Christ. For instance, Maitreya is called “The Lion of the Tribe of Juda” whereas in the Bible, Jesus is “The Lion of the Tribe of Judah.”

The Christian Bible warns of many imposters that will come into the world to deceive people into false religions. This is a diversionary tactic used by Satan to draw us away from the true path to God, which is Jesus Christ.

Maitreyan belief holds that the Christ has to return to the world as a child again in order to bring about universal peace, salvation, and unity with God. Jesus was just another voice pointing a way to God according to their doctrine.

The Bible states that Christ will return in the same way He left. His disciples, who were the witnesses, saw Him taken up into the sky into heaven. The Bible also says to be wary of anyone who says ‘Here is the Christ’ or ‘There is the Christ.’ Jesus will be seen by everyone all over the world at the same time.

The followers of Maitreya are giving him credit for the signs and wonders in the news worldwide. Crosses of light, healing waters, milk-drinking icons, and weeping statues are purportedly from Maitreya. Even crop circles are claimed by him!

Other scholars have considered Maitreya to be another antichrist if not the antichrist that is to come in the end times according to the Christian Bible. Buddhist teachers have not recognized any of the sightings of Maitreya. Their teaching has specific requirements and Maitreya has not met any of those conditions personally. The world needs to be in specific circumstances that have been predicted.

Over the years, cultures have adopted some of the characteristics of the most popular religions and adapted them to suit their needs for their people. They are all looking for a place of perfection, harmony, love, and unity.

Learn More About Religious Pluralism!



Source:http://www.allaboutreligion.org/maitreya.htm


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P.S. From the official "Maitreya" web page:

At this time of great political, economic and social crisis Maitreya will inspire humanity to see itself as one family, and create a civilization based on sharing, economic and social justice, and global cooperation.

He will launch a call to action to save the millions of people who starve to death every year in a world of plenty. Among Maitreya's recommendations will be a shift in social priorities so that adequate food, housing, clothing, education, and medical care become universal rights.


Under Maitreya's inspiration, humanity itself will make the required changes and create a saner and more just world for all.

Source: http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_main.htm

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The Coming Day of Judgment


1Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel 2:1,2.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Will Obama Micro-manage everything?





Will President Obama Micro-manage every aspect of life in the United States of America?
  • Wall street?
  • Insurance Behemoth Companies? (AIG)
  • Banks?
  • Auto Industry?
  • Health Care?
  • Afghanistan-Pakistan? (recent "Surge")
  • Credit Cards?
What's next?
Cereal companies? General Mills and Kellog's? Cheerios is hazardous to your health?
Farming? Beet production, Apple Cider regulations?
Education? Indoctrinate our youth with the Gay Agenda? Don't ask, do tell?
Meanwhile, As Barack Obama continues yapping away, prices at the pump keep rising right in time for the road-trip holly-day; And Corporate America (the last bastion of the Middle-Class) keeps shedding jobs by the hundreds of thousands. The Stammerer in charge focuses on everything, yet, he fails to notice that throwing money at the FED, the Wall Street Robber Barons, and nationalizing industry are not the measures required to remedy the national ills. Appearing at Photo-ops and 'shinning' will never get us out of this quandary.
Barack Obama's height: 6' 1½" (1.87 M); Is this the Big Brother that the book foretold?
He has his hands on everything: Yet, he's steering this nation in an uncertain direction.
Big wheel keep on turning, Proud Mary keeps on burning...Rollin' down the river.....
Which reminds me:
He's got the whole world in His hand.....
Arsenio.