Thursday, September 03, 2009

America - A Nation Dying in Her Sleep!



Volume XXVIII Issue IX September 2009Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916Fax: 920-887-2626 Internet: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/




America - A Nation Dying in Her Sleep!






"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night."

I Thessalonians 5:3-7


"But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this….."

Matthew 13:25-28


"While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out."

Matthew 25:5-8





In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will use the Word of God, our God-given discernment, and prayer to examine a prevailing condition that is of the severest danger. I have dedicated the past twenty-eight years of my life to the Word of God and prayer, and I have been a watchman of the prophetic signs for the duration of my ministry. It never ceases to amaze me how so many things can be obvious, and yet the masses of people remain in a condition of indifference and abject apathy. I have come to realize that the people of this world, especially those of the United States of America, are in a spiritual slumber. Satan and his powers of antichrist governance have used various devices and methods to induce this spiritual slumber, and it is a deep and deadly sleep that has come upon America.

The above verses warn us of this very condition, and truly it is upon us. So many things happen in the darkness while people sleep. Men like Barack Obama become President, financial bailout bills are passed, climate bills are passed, and governmental health reform is advanced. Designer influenza viruses seem to appear from nowhere, which provide an excuse for inoculating countless millions of unsuspecting people. Never before has the world been in the condition it is now. Peace is constantly touted, yet we are always at war somewhere. Tares or weeds are being sown or planted among the wheat in this great spiritual field of the world, and confusion is everywhere. Religions are a great problem as well, especially those that wave the banner of "Christianity" and do not know the first thing about obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. The lamps of discernment have gone out.

There is a sleep from which some people never awaken. Some people die in their sleep, and this is also true in the spiritual sense. The United States of America is rapidly being destroyed, and people refuse to wake up and rise up to oppose the evil. Souls are being destroyed by mega-churches, televangelists, and religious organizations; and people sleep on while it happens. We must sound the alarm and bring people to the rude awakening of what is happening to them. It is almost over, and eternity is just ahead. The Apostle Paul wrote of this time we are now living in. In Romans 13:11-12 we read as follows: "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."

While our nation and the world sleep on, you can come fully awake right now and call upon the Lord Jesus with a true and sincere repentance. He will hear you and respond with salvation for your soul, and you will receive a great blessing and purpose in your life. Do it now! Time will come to an abrupt end very soon!

The Rise of Marxist Socialism in America!

Is the United States of America in a state of transition into a Marxist-socialist or even a communist country? Could the sleeping masses of people be so deceived and oblivious to what is going on that the unthinkable is happening? Most educated people are familiar with two books written by George Orwell. One is entitled 1984, and the other is entitled Animal Farm. Both books are about a one-world, communistic government that micro-manages every person. Those infamous words "Big Brother is watching you" came from the book 1984. In the book, the entire world becomes a panopticon, which means you are always being watched. But you don't know who's watching you. In the book Animal Farm, we find a microcosm of the world in the form of a happy farm of animals, protected by a firm constitution, which guarantees individual rights for all. Soon, a gradual but persistent takeover began to transform the farmyard into a communist-socialist state, and by the time many of the animals came fully awake it was too late. Here let it be noted that during the week following Obama's 100th day in office, the massive internet marketplace known as Amazon.com pulled these two books by Orwell on their Kindle electronic-book reader device, saying they are not authorized to be sold because of a questionable copyright violation. (1) They also flatly and assertively stated that there is no government conspiracy! Obama, like Adolph Hitler, must have realized that certain books needed to be eliminated so people would not catch on to what is happening to them! (Amazon has since re-added these books, likely due to public outcry.)

On August 6th, 2009, the U.S. Observer reported that Obama and the White House are compiling a list of enemies that oppose the Obama health plan. Obama called upon all Americans to report on each other if they detect opposition to Obama's plan. This includes e-mails and casual conversation. Here let it be noted for the benefit of any bemused doubting Thomas who may be reading this that Texas Senator John Cornyn called attention to this Obama list of enemies and demanded that Obama stop it. (2) I have no doubt that the hit list continues. The official White House blog also offered a website that Americans can use to "flag and report" each other. I will not list the name of that website in this newsletter for obvious reasons.

Every socialist/communist state also needs a propaganda ministry and the complete management of the news media. Even though the news media have been performing like trained seals for Obama, these were not enough. On July 30th, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called for a "White House commission on public media" to be established. (3) This would mean that all news would be controlled by the White House in the name of democracy. This is nothing short of a propaganda ministry. We must remember Nazi Germany and Hitler's propaganda minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, who was given the job of deceiving the German people for their own good. It was Goebbels who said, "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." I have no doubt that if Dr. Goebbels were still alive, Obama would hire him. Here is one more infamous quote from Dr. Joseph Goebbels: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." (4)

Strange things are happening in this government-in-transition. On July 9th, 2009, the United States Department of the Treasury posted a contractor job notice in an attempt to procure comedians to conduct "humor in the workplace programs." These programs are designed to relieve stress in the workplace for the workers in the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD). (5) Considering the sad shape our country is in, is it a time to just laugh it off? When filthy humor is used in the presence of the misfortune of so many others, it is also a reaction to the spirit of antichrist. It is a mocking spirit of satanic laughter.

It also seems that Barack Obama has taken over the automobile industry in America. On July 15th, Obama put a firm stop on any attempts to restore relationships between the dealers of Chrysler and General Motors' products and their manufacturers. (6) Then came the "cash for clunkers" program. Here let it be noted that this program does nothing for the poor, who are driving the old "rust bucket" cars. They cannot afford to buy a new car even with the $4,500 government voucher. It was the middle class people that came running like squealing pigs to stick their snouts into the new government trough. Many hundreds of thousands of cars were turned in to the government, and of all of those, there were an estimated 560,000 that were in good to very good running condition. The government orders required the dealers to destroy these vehicles. They could not be resold. The dealers were ordered by law to pour an additive into the engines of all of these vehicles, which caused these beautiful engines to seize up and become useless blocks of metal. Then the cars were sent to the crushers for scrap. Many of these vehicles were as new as the model year 2001. There are so many people who could have used these vehicles. But Obama wants you to drive his cars. It is a strange spirit, but we know that Adolph Hitler did the same thing when he ordered the development and production of the Volkswagen, the "people's car," in Germany. Meanwhile, Hitler himself rode around in a gas-guzzling Mercedes. We know that Obama rides around in a heavy gas-guzzling car, which he calls "the beast." Would he be willing to send that car to the crusher?

The elitist attitude of the corrupt government officials reveals their complete lack of empathy for the ones that they call the "ordinary Americans." On July 16th, 2009, ABC News reported that a recent conference of executives for the Social Security Administration, held in Phoenix, Arizona, cost $700,000.00, including dancing girls and other entertainment. The event was held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa. (7)

So much has happened since our country was handed over to a man who cannot even prove he is eligible to be President of the United States. Furthermore, there seems to be a general fear to criticize him in any way, which is a guaranteed right of every American. Obama does not understand that because he was not born in America. I applaud the courageous U.S. Army officer, Major Stefan F. Cook, who wanted to go to Afghanistan, but refused to go on orders from Barack Obama. He demanded clarification that Obama was a legitimate Commander in Chief, and he demanded proof that Obama was born in America. The Major also hired an attorney, and suddenly, the U.S. Army rescinded the orders. Major Cook's attorney issued the following statement: "It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate, and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order. (8) This should have been front page news, but only WorldNetDaily featured the story!

What are Obama's long-range plans? Why is the U.S. Army advertising under their Careers & Jobs posting for workers to staff internment and resettlement camps? The military calls these camps confinement/correctional and detention/internment facilities. (9) The Marxist socialists will continue to move forward as long as people refuse to believe it is happening and continue to do nothing about it. I am sometimes told by people that they don't have time to pray. I believe the time is coming when all you have time for is prayer.

Your Health in the Hands of a Dictator!

One of the greatest controversies in America at this time is the Obama Health Care Reform proposal. On July 30th, 2009, Time Magazine reported that the Obama Administration has made great progress, but it is now being violently opposed by many. The article went on to say that Obama is suffering from frustration over the battle, and he considers it to be his most important domestic issue. (10) The many town hall meetings have become sessions of frenzied screaming and intense opposition to the Obama plan. Congressmen have been shouted down vehemently in these meetings throughout the United States. The response of Obama to all of his congressional emissaries that are holding these town hall meetings was, "Punch back twice as hard." (11)

The new health care plan is antichrist and completely evil. I make this bold statement for a number of reasons, and no, I am not worried about being reported to Obama's hit list. I am already on it, and probably in capital letters. One of the problems with this "Government insurance" is that it allows coverage for any and all abortions for whatever reason. This was verified by an Associated Press article dated August 6th, 2009. (12) The article clearly states, "Since abortion is a legal medical procedure, experts on both side say not mentioning it would allow health care plans in the new insurance exchange to provide unrestricted coverage."

Included in Obama's health care plan is a very dangerous provision that would encourage euthanasia of the elderly. A former New York lieutenant governor, Betsy McCaughey, is actively trying to get the word out about this insidious danger of the health care reform act. McCaughey issued the following statement: "The provision requires senior citizens to submit to end-of-life consultations. Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner. The bill expressly says if you get sick somewhere in that five year period, you have to go through that session again - all to do what is in society's best interest, or your family's best interest, and cut your life short." (13) Even former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in reference to this provision, said that Obama's plan is "downright evil." Palin also referred to a "death panel" that would deny care to certain Americans. (14)

When I think of all the nursing homes I have been in to sing and minister the Word of God to the beloved elderly people, I realize how vulnerable these people are. Many of them are so drugged and controlled that they would say yes to anything. Highly trained, smiling, end-of-life counselors could and would easily persuade these people to end their lives. What a great evil is rising up! Who is this strange President, and what will he try to do next? We remember Adolph Hitler and his Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or Nazi party, with its hard-line policies to eliminate what were called "useless eaters." The German people did not know what they were getting into with Der Fuehrer as an answer man. Germany was in financial ruin, and numerous other problems prevailed, just like in the United States at the time Obama stepped in and promised change and hope! The same evil spirits that drove dictators before did not die with those dictators. They moved forward to new human stooges and are somewhere right now. The Bible tells us the ultimate dictator will arise in the last days. How long will it be until people awaken from their spiritual death sleep and realize they are living out the final prophecies of the Bible? They will either come fully awake or die in their sleep. I pray to Almighty God for a great awakening! One good thing that is happening right now is a strong push by certain senators to eliminate the end-of-life provision from the national health care plan. I pray that it is removed!

The Planned Pandemic!

One story seems to predominate the news, and it coincides with Obama's health care reform. I am referring to the "swine flu campaign." When schools reopen nationwide, millions of young people are scheduled to receive immunizations against this designer virus that seemed to appear from nowhere. We know that conspiracy has always been the method of Satan's operation. We find this to be true throughout the Word of God. Things don't just happen to happen; they happen because someone wants them to happen. In the July 16th, 2009, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine on page 225, we find the following words: "The current international pandemic caused by a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus derived from two unrelated swine viruses, one of them a derivative of the 1918 human virus, adds to the complexity surrounding this persistent progenitor virus, its descendants, and its several lineages." (15) Quite obviously, this did not happen by itself, but was manufactured for use in both manipulating and reducing the population of the world. Strangely enough, the flu is not as dangerous as the vaccine that is supposed to prevent it!

One type of anti-flu drug that has been used is known as Tamiflu. On July 31st, 2009, the London Times newspaper featured an article with the following headline: "Tamiflu causes sickness and nightmares in children." The article goes on to tell how a significant number of children who received the anti-flu immunization developed an inability to think clearly. Nightmares and strange behavior followed. (16) We have now also learned that one of the ingredients being used to make the new vaccine for the H1N1 flu vaccine is derived from the kidneys of diseased monkeys, whose kidneys are harvested for that specific purpose. (17) We must also bear in mind that monkeys in Africa were used to host the HIV AIDS virus when it was being developed and thrust upon the world several decades ago. This is all Satan's business and the workings of conspiratorial darkness.

America - Looking Up to See Bottom!

Regardless of what anyone says, it is becoming quite evident that the erstwhile great economic superpower of the world, the United States of America, is in deep trouble. The news media is so reluctant to use the word depression, but that is exactly what we are in. On August 1st, 2009, which happens to be a high cross-quarter witches' sabat, Bloomberg News Service announced that the current "recession" is the worst since the Great Depression. The article also stated that during the past twelve months we saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated. (18) On July 31st, 2009, which is the eve of that same witches' sabat, Federal regulators shut down more banks in five different states, namely Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Illinois. (19) On August 14th, 2009, the giant bank Colonial Bancgroup failed and was taken over by the Federal Government. The assets of this bank exceeded 25 billion dollars, and the bank is now in receivership as a failure. (20) According to an Associated Press article published on July 12th, countless other banks are near the point of collapse and are only delaying their day of reckoning! (21)

While the financial systems of our nation continue to fail, the government is finding their tax revenues shrinking. They are estimating a drop of 18% in Federal tax collected for 2009. (22) While this problem grows continually worse, the government continues to spend money like a drunken sailor. The White House recently awarded the following purchases: $1,191,200.00 for sliced ham, $351,807.00 to replace and upgrade the dumbwaiter, $1,562,568.00 for mozzarella cheese, $5,708,260.00 for process cheese, $16,784,272.00 for canned pork, $1,444,100.00 to repair a door in building 5112, and $541,119.00 to install one traffic signal. (23)

Is there a curse on our U.S. Government with its policies on baby killing, euthanasia, homosexuality, and so on? It seems like everything the government does costs at least three times as much as it should and is only half as efficient. Everything they touch moves toward ruin and demise! Since Obama personally fired the head of General Motors and GM became Government Motors with the Feds controlling 66.666 percent of the company, global sales plummeted 22 percent! (24) Obama promised change, and what have we seen thus far? We have learned that the May-June joblessness rate is up dramatically in 90 percent of American metropolitan areas. (25) The state of Michigan has been hit hard with an unemployment rate of 15.2 percent. (26) In the little state of Rhode Island, 1,200 businesses are currently facing closure because they cannot pay their sales taxes. (27) All of these troubles have brought forth a nation of depressed people, who have run to doctors and druggists for help. In the year 2008 alone, more than 164 million prescriptions have been written for antidepressants. The costs of these drugs were 9.6 billion dollars! (28) New Orleans, Louisiana, is a city that has literally gone mad; insanity rates have doubled in that accursed city. The last mental hospital in New Orleans will be closing on September 1st for lack of funding. (29) New Orleans has long been a stronghold of satanic perversion, witchcraft, voodoo, and every evil of the worst kind. Many thousands are wandering the streets in a mental stupor of madness, reaping only a fraction of the penalties of rebellion against Almighty God!

The economies of the entire world are in transition toward the one-world economy soon to emerge. Even something as basic as water will soon be traded on the just market like oil and other commodities now traded, according to predictions made by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. (30) In fact, water summits are now being held in various places in the world, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the country of Israel, to deal with growing water demands and severe shortages. (31)

We have now learned that Red China is buying vast amounts of metals, primarily copper. Many experts in the field of economics are predicting that copper will be the new standard for the world currency system. (32) I am amazed at this, especially when I consider that we were once on the gold standard, then on silver, and now heading towards copper, I immediately thought of Daniel 2:31-33 which reads as follows: "Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay." The third metal is called brass in the Scripture and was actually bronzed copper. The image in Daniel, chapter two, represented world government, as is clear from the context of the chapter. As we read on in Daniel, chapter two, we will find that when the copper system fails, we will be under the iron fist of the Beast, who will be broken and destroyed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Upheaval in the Creation!

Political leaders from around the world, including Barack Obama, are gearing up for the forthcoming Copenhagen Treaty to halt global warming. One-world government bodies such as the G-8 and the G-20 have already committed their respective nations to cut the use of fossil fuels more than 80 percent. To accomplish this in the United States, it would require the shutting down of virtually all economic activity, meaning no electricity, no transport, and no industry. It is all a scam and a hoax. Even though Al Gore recently compared our war against global warming to battling the Nazis, all computer models and statistics show that the earth is actually cooling. In fact, it has cooled to levels it was at thirty years ago. (33) I have no doubt that the unusually cool weather this summer in the majority of the United States is a statement from the Almighty, just to make monkeys out of these conspirators that are so in need of a gimmick to promote their cause. The whole global warming concept is a gimmick to promote a "save the planet" movement that is to weld people together in an antichrist system. It is interesting to note that in Al Gore's home state of Tennessee, there was such a wave of cooling this summer that previous records were broken. On July 21st during the heat of summer, Nashville, Tennessee, temperatures dropped to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, which broke the low temperature record for that day in 1877 when Rutherford B. Hayes was President. (34)

In the Bible we find no direct predictions by our Saviour for global warming. The real global heat will be felt on Judgment Day when the lake of fire looms largely against the ungodly! We are seeing many other signs happening right now as predicted by our Saviour! NASA astronomers have recently discovered a new monster black hole in space that is sucking up gas, dust, and stars at a rapid rate. (35) Many strange things are happening in space involving major shifts that have never been known to happen before.

One of the great signs that our Saviour told us to watch for at the very end is the number and intensity of earthquakes happening in various areas throughout the world. It is to be like a woman in the travail of giving birth with the labor pains getting closer together and more intense. In the past 30 days, as of August 15th, 2009, there have been 324 earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 4 or greater. Many of these quakes were intense, and they are now happening closer together. (36) The world should have been stunned by a true act of God on July 22nd, 2009, when a massive earthquake moved the nation New Zealand a full foot closer to Australia. (37) We cannot begin to imagine the amount of energy it would take to do that.

On August 3rd, 2009, a strong 6.9 magnitude quake struck Baja California, and it rattled buildings as far away as San Diego. (38) On August 10th, 2009, a powerful 6.6 earthquake shook the Tokyo area of Japan. This quake came from a depth of 12 miles. (39) On that same day of August 10th, 2009, another powerful quake struck near India in the region of the Andaman Islands. The magnitude was 7.6. (40) These are major upheavals, and they are intensifying. On August 13th, 2009, the third of three major quakes in what can be called rapid succession struck Tokyo, Japan. There is now great fear that the giant quake is about to happen, which would decimate Tokyo, the world's largest city. (41)

Truly, these are the last days, and another great sign has happened. On July 14th, 2009, the Assyrian International News reported that the great river Euphrates is drying up and is reduced to a trickle in some areas. (42) We understood this in the spiritual sense, but it is literally about dried up in Iraq. The drying up of this great and ancient river, dating back to the Garden of Eden, has caused a plague of swarms of poisonous snakes to enter into populated areas, and people are fleeing in terror. (43) In Revelation 16:12 we are told of this great sign!

In closing, I once again send my sincerest thanks to all of you who support this end time prophetic ministry. Your prayer requests are always given individual attention by our prayer teams. Please remember us in your prayers, and remember that God loves you and so do we. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

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31. Ibid.
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42. Assyrian International News Agency, Jul, 14, 2009, Jubaish, Iraq.
43. London Independent, Jun 15, 2009, by Patrick Cockburn, London, England, U.K.

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The Right is Too Far Left



September 1, 2009



The real problem with the right, in this country, is that it is too far left. Most people live within the paradigm that the political choices we have in our society is between the right and left, the conservative and the liberal, the Republicans and the Democrats. But while we are looking at those two options on the political map, let us try, in a Google-like fashion, zooming out on the landscape. When we do this we discover on the right side of the map another landmark called the Constitutional Republic appears. what dawns on us then is that what we call the “right” is really left of the constitution, it is just that the “left” is a little bit farther left of the constitution than what we call the “right”.

When the founders came up with the American constitutional experiment it was out of a very careful study of the history of national politics. One thing was clear to the founders, “democracy” was anathema. “Democracy”, Benjamin Franklin said “is like two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch”. Democracy, or majority rule, always ends up in an oligarchy where the majority takes power, the leaders of that majority take that power to themselves and the populace is forced to submit.

The founders with the American constitution, created a very unique nation where law is the rule not the majority. This assures that the sheep does not become lunch for the wolves. This form of government is called a Republic. This is what the Roman Empire was until they transformed through the stages of democracy which then quickly slipped into the ruling class headed by the Caesars.

This is why the word “democracy” is not found in the constitution nor is it found in any of the state constitutions. But have you noticed how much we hear it all the time from politicians on both Democratic and Republican sides. Everything is about “democracy.” It sounds so virtuous and fair, but it leads to tyranny. Democracy opens the way for the wolves to have their way and eat the sheep for lunch. Both the “left” and the “right” in our country are so far left of the Constitutional Republic that they do not see the danger of a democracy and how important it is that we get back to the principles of the republic that our founders invisioned.
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Fathima Rifqa Bary: Judge keeps girl in Florida, seals investigative findings

After sealing findings of a state investigation into Fathima Rifqa Bary, Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson on Thursday decided to keep the 17-year-old girl in Florida while putting the case into mediation


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Amy L. Edwards and Rene Stutzman

Sentinel Staff Writers

7:22 p.m. EDT, September 3, 2009

For now, Fathima Rifqa Bary is staying in Florida.

That was just one of the decisions to come from an Orange County juvenile courtroom Thursday afternoon, where lawyers argued about everything from public records to whom is allowed to visit Rifqa.

Rifqa, 17, ran away from her Ohio home in mid-July and fled to Orlando out of fear that her Muslim family would harm or kill her.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was tasked with investigating the alleged threats, but what the state agency found will remain under a court-ordered seal.

But a brief courtroom statement from Roger Weeden, the lawyer representing Rifqa's mother, gives some insight. He said there was "a favorable report from FDLE" that says there's no threat to Rifqa, should she be returned to her home.

Before he could finish, however, Weeden was cut off by Rifqa's appointed Guardian Ad Litem, Krista Bartholomew, who reminded the court that the document was under seal.

Bartholomew said Rifqa was questioned recently by FDLE investigators with no attorneys present.

"We did get frantic phone calls that evening from the child," she said. "We have some ongoing concerns."

A tape of Rifqa's FDLE interview is also to be sealed for at least 10 days, Dawson said.

Mohamed Bary has denied making any threats against his daughter, and Ohio authorities have already concluded it is safe for her to return.

Rifqa's parents, each represented by a local attorney, phoned in to today's hearing. Rifqa said little during the proceedings.

The scene outside the courthouse was chaotic before and after the hearing, with supporters on both sides of the sensitive issue shouting at one another.

More than a half-dozen local and national news crews were joined by a gaggle of amateur videographers. Two small courtrooms (one was reserved for overflow and had a live TV feed of the proceedings) were full of reporters and spectators.

During the proceedings, Circuit Court Judge Daniel Dawson also put a gag order on attorneys involved in the case.

Bartholomew, the Guardian Ad Litem, and the Department of Children and Families requested the gag, which prevents the lawyers from talking about the case. Bartholomew said Rifqa has been distraught over things that have been reported in the media.

Shayan Elahi, a local attorney representing Rifqa's father, said the gag order was only requested after attacks have been made against Rifqa's parents. He said it will have a "chilling effect" on the First Amendment rights of people.

Elahi told Dawson if he grants the gag request, the judge would be saying, "It's OK for people to use the media to their benefit and after that, the other party basically cannot have their story told."

Bary ran away from home in mid-July, hopping a Greyhound bus from Columbus, Ohio, bound for Orlando and the home of pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz.

Rifqa stayed with the Lorenzes for more than two weeks before police and DCF got involved in her case. Since Aug. 10, Rifqa has been staying with a foster family, fighting for the right to stay here and away from Ohio.

Dawson told the lawyers they needed to enter mediation.

After the hearing, John K. Cooper, director of the Central Region for DCF, said that mediation will allow the parties to look at several issues. There are "very complicated issues at hand," he said.

"It's going to take a lot of work to get this family back together," he said.

The lawyers also discussed who is allowed to visit Rifqa. Dawson said he will allow the three young adult children of Blake and Beverly Lorenz to visit with Rifqa.

Elahi protested. He said Mohamed Bary has a say about who visits his daughter.

"That's my client's child," he said. "Let common sense prevail."

Blake and Beverly Lorenz, who have served in the ministry in Central Florida for more than 25 years, allowed Rifqa to live with them for more than two weeks. They now pastor Global Revolution Church, but spent more than 15 years at Pine Castle United Methodist Church.

On Aug. 7, an Orlando police officer, responding to a request from Ohio authorities, was dispatched to the Lorenz's home. He picked Rifqa up, and she was eventually placed in DCF custody. The state agency placed Rifqa in a foster home, where she's remained since.

On Aug. 21, an Orange County judge ordered the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the alleged threats against Rifqa.

In Columbus, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron O'Brien wrote a letter Wednesday, saying law enforcement officials there are capable of protecting children and will take action to protect Rifqa, if necessary.

This afternoon, Dawson said the next hearing date in Rifqa's case for Sept. 29.


Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-fathima-rifqa-bary-update-090309,0,4434694.story


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The Declaration of Independence



IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America



When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

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Sundaykeeping Adventist Churches


PART OF THE LIBERAL PLAN FOR OUR DENOMINATION--

Sundaykeeping Adventist Churches


--ARE YOU READY TO GO ALONG WITH IT?


In the 1960s, our people were shocked to read, in the latest issue of the National Geographic, that our churches in Tonga (earlier called the Friendly Islands) were keeping the Bible Sabbath on Sunday.

"Tongans are scrupulous observers of the Wesleyan Sabbath, and it is possible to be arrested for fishing on Sunday. Even the Seventh-day Adventists, who elsewhere take Saturday as their Sabbath, here observe the Sabbath on Sunday. The local Adventist pastor explained his church's stand to me.

" 'When God made the world, He made the day go from west to east,' he said. 'On the map, the so-called Date Line actually makes a jog to the east here. We maintain that what is called Sunday in Tonga is actually Saturday, since we are really on the eastern side of the Date Line [if it ran in a straight line]."--Luis Mrden, "The Friendly Isles of Tonga, National Geographic, March 1968, p. 358.

Obviously, this is a rationalization, since the magazine article mentions that those who work on Sunday (and catching fish is about the only work available) will be arrested by the Methodist-controlled government. So, amid a population of nearly 80,000 people on 35 inhabited islands, our Tongan Adventists work six days a week and rest on the Methodist holy day.

That is very convenient till the National Sunday Law arrives. And it will be very convenient afterward.

We have other church members who wish they lived that close to the International Dateline, so they too, could become Adventist Sunday keepers.


OUR SPECIAL SEPARATING WALL


How do liberal Adventists differ from other Protestants in America? Not much, and each year the differences lessen still further.

They both eat meat, drink coffee, and are saved by grace apart from obedience to the law of God. They play golf, eat the same junk food, watch movies and the same sporting events. Many of them drink wine and eat at restaurants on Sabbath.

But there is still that one barrier dividing the two, --and it is a wall which many of our liberals would like to tear down. Part of that wall (the necessity of obedience to the law of God) is now gone, but part still remains (the Sabbath church service).

It was God's plan that His holy commandments were to be a "wall of protection" around us (1 BC 1105).

The Sabbath is a "separating wall between the true Israel of God and unbelievers" (EW 33). The church is God's vineyard, "hedged about by the precepts of His law. Obedience to these principles was to be their protection" (COL 287). Sabbath worship would not bar evangelism, but would keep His people from assimilating to the world.

The liberals among us are trying to break down that wall. Although they have personally discarded obedience to the Ten Commandments as of any consequence, they are still saddled with Sabbath church services. If there was but some way that one remaining hurdle could be overcome, they would be welcomed by Evangelicals and the unchurched would find our church services more inviting.

Think not that this problem is being ignored. Not only our liberals, but also some of our church leaders wish they could figure out ways to bring in non-Adventists in droves into our congregations.

The Celebration churches, with their lack of standards, were started in the late 1980s to increase attendance. Standards had been another hindrance to baptisms. In the mid - 1990s, the church-planting project began with the same objective in mind: Devise a worship meeting format, which worldlings would want to attend; that was the challenge.


SEARCHING FOR A WAY TO INCREASE ATTENDANCE


In the back of one of Samuel Bacchiocchi's books, he mentions that the Roman Catholic Church, also concerned about how to increase attendance at weekend mass, was tinkering with the idea of Saturday evening services. An increasing number of Catholics were using Sunday as a holiday to watch football games or go somewhere. So why not get the faithful to attend Saturday night mass?

In order to bring in extra money, the Vatican was willing to hold weekend worship services on the night it thought was the sixth day of the week (although it is actually the beginning of the first). Rome was willing to sacrifice attendance on Sunday, if it could increase the inflow of donations into church coffers. Money and popularity are powerful incentives, not only to politicians but also to many religious organizations.

It was obvious to some of our leaders that the biggest hurdle was our Sabbath morning church services. Worldlings want to attend jazzed-up, exciting meetings; and they do not want them on Saturday morning. Church-going Protestants want worship services on Sunday; and non-churchgoers want the meetings at night or late in the afternoon, before they head off for the evenings frolic.

Roman politicians learned that lesson centuries ago. Give the people bread and circuses at a convenient time, and they will come.


OUR LAS VEGAS SUNDAY CHURCH


"Adventist Sunday Church" was the name emblazoned on the headline of the February 2000 issue of the PacificUnion Recorder. The lead article was all about a new Adventist congregation in Las Vegas, Nevada. Church leaders were proud of their accomplishment and wanted the more than 200,000 Adventists in the Union to know about it.

Was this Pacific Union Recorder article talking about a church service or an evangelistic effort? The article said it was merely an evangelistic effort. But five facts loudly declared it to be a new type of Sunday morning worship service:

· First, in the bold title, the Recorder called it an "Adventist Sunday Church."

· Second, the subtitle stated, "Reaching the Unchurched in Las Vegas;" that is, providing a church for the unchurched.

· Third, the name of the congregation (which is still in operation) had a churchy name: "Higher Ground CommunityChurch;"--so prospective visitors would think it was a non-denominational community church. When they walked in the door-- that is what they were given--a church service, but more exciting than most.

· Fourth, the advertising flyers, mailed out by the thousands, referred to it as a church. "Is this your idea of church?" "It's for people who have given up on the traditional church."

· Fifth, it was an ongoing church service, Sunday morning after Sunday morning, month after month. It did not just continue for a few weeks, as evangelistic efforts do. Those Sunday worship services continue to be held today.

The Recorder article said that Adventists are inviting non-Adventists to attend their "Sunday services." Amazing! Do our leaders really think it is possible to use Sunday worship services to teach the necessity of Sabbath worship services?

Our largest Union paper had published an article on it, praising the activity and recommending it to other local congregations in Pacific Union Conference territory (seven conferences in five states, plus several western Pacific islands) as something good for them to also begin doing.

Like so many other of our "new-modeled churches," this Sundaykeeping congregation had repudiated the name, "Seventh-day Adventist." Their church sign said they are the "Higher Ground Community Church." Our leaders will suefaithful believers who put "Seventh-day Adventist Church" on their meetinghouses while they themselves are ashamed to use the name.

But the Recorder article told us more:

· In its flyers, this new congregation declared that attending regular church services is like "a sentence to prison."

· The Sunday worship service has a song service with drums and mike-amplified guitars, followed by a sermon.

· This strange "Adventist Sunday Church" is another sampler of the "church planting program," which our North American Division is urging our people to conduct in every conference in America.

The credo of these "planting programs" is "anything goes," as long as it brings outsiders into our churches. We live at a time when far too much is going: our standards, beliefs, and even the Bible Sabbath. (See our book, The Truth about Church Planting, 44 pp. 8 1/2 x 11, $3.50 + $2.50.) We are no longer on the Scripture standard; we are now on the gold standard. In exchange, those who are coming are non-Adventists who never wanted our standards or teachings to begin with. They come for the coffee, rolls, and loud electrified music.

The Recorder article also mentioned that, at that time, Andrews University was also using a Sunday morning worship service to train our young ministers, so they can hold Sunday worship services when they go out into the field.

The Recorder article was obviously printed to get our members, throughout part of the nation, comfortable with the idea of Adventist Sunday church services.

Our members in Las Vegas will be ready when the National Sunday Law is enforced. They are already worshiping on Sunday.



THE RIVERSIDE SUNDAY CHURCH


Our Riverside, California, Church was searching for a way to increase its membership. Located near Loma Linda and La Sierra, the area does not lack for Seventh-day Adventists. But attendance at the Riverside Church had been dropping for several years, until it had gotten down to eighty members.

So last fall, Tami McGrew, senior pastor of the Riverside Church, drove down the street to the Southeastern Conference Office (which is also in Riverside) and asked for a grant of money to "try new things as an experiment." It was agreed that most anything could be done that would bring non-Adventists through the doors.

With a sizeable part of the money, Tami (a woman) bought all the band instruments, guitars, drum sets, electronic devices, and powerful amplification equipment needed for rip-roaring church services.

Next, she changed the name of the church. What was needed was a nice, groovy name that would appeal to the unbeats. It is now called the Riverside Community Church.

At this juncture, Tami had herself all the trappings for a wayout meetinghouse. But there was still that Saturday morning hangup.

So Tami came up with the idea of two church services, one on Sabbath morning at the usual time, for the old-time deadbeats in the church, and a second at 5 p.m. each afternoon. This, of course, would mean that part of each year, the second church service would be held on Sunday.

Now, please understand: No attempt has been made to call this second service "an evangelistic effort," as Las Vegas tried to do. This is a full-blown Seventh-day Adventist weekly worship service held late on every Saturday afternoon. In winter, it is a Sunday service.

Tami's church will be ready when the National Sunday Law comes. Just close down the morning service or switch it to Sunday morning. She is ready; and, we will learn below, she fearlessly defends her decision.

A friend in Central California Conference, who attended one of her 5 o'clock services, said Tami walked onto the stage and up to the pulpit wearing jeans. When asked why, Tami said they helped the audience feel comfortable. The organ had been closed down, the band was in full sway, and coffee and doughnuts were among the treats.

My friend up north also spoke of a woman who, after attending one time, said she would never return. When asked why, she said she was unexpectedly hit in the side of her head with a beach ball! She said they were throwing them around the church, as a way "to loosen up the audience." Welcome to the new Adventism!


A SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY


Yes, Sunday worship services are all right; at least that is what our liberals are deciding. And, in order to convince staid church members, they are developing a logical set of beliefs to defend their position.

I call it "desperation theology." It is the same kind of mixed-up thinking you will find in the books written by our liberals, defending "women's rights" to be pastors and church leaders. Although called "Biblical theology," it is nothing but a stack of flimsy excuses.

These people are desperately in search of reasons to defend what they want to do. I am sure you are well-acquainted with the vacuous excuses offered by Protestant pastors, in defense of Sundaykeeping. Well, our liberals are also using similar twisted arguments.

If you speak with Tami, she will be quite willing to explain to you, as she has to others, why she holds Adventist worship services on Sunday.

· Tami considers it "legalistic" to limit the hours within which the weekly worship service can be performed to a certain time, or a certain day, of the week. Tami says church services should be held when the maximum amount of people will come, whenever that may be. The day of the week, she says, on which the church service is held on is not important. If there are primarily Muslims living in the area, hold it on Friday. If the objective is to reach Protestants, hold it on Sunday.

· She says the fourth commandment does not specify the hour or day on which the church service should be held, so it can be held at any time on any day of the week. (In reply, as with the other commandments, the fourth commandment only provides a very brief statement. Additional details are given elsewhere in the Bible.)

· As Tami sees it, the Israelites in the wilderness did not go to the tabernacle for church services. Instead, they stayed home in their tents and rested on that day. Attending church service has nothing to do with "keeping the Sabbath day holy." (But we are presented with clear-cut examples of Sabbath church attendance in the life of Christ and in the book of Acts).

· In Tami's thinking, the Sabbath symbolizes a rest from "works." Resting in bed or sitting under a tree is Sabbath keeping. But going to church, singing, and going through the other motions involved in church attendance is not.

· The Sabbath truth should not be mentioned in the church services, only in evangelistic meetings. Therefore Tami says she never mentions the Sabbath at her 5 p.m. meetings for non-Adventists. (In this way, non-believers have absolutely no idea she is an Adventist minister or they have entered an Adventist church! The sign in front merely calls it a "community church." Historically, the only reason for our people to hold special Sunday meetings, to which all are invited, was when evangelistic meetings were conducted. Yet Tami says it would be wrong for her to mention doctrines in her Sunday church services--so they are clearly not evangelistic meetings!

Two important points:

First, Tami's radical views about the Sabbath must surely be accepted by the conference office (The Riverside Church is the "conference church"; for it is in the same town as the conference office). The self-proclaimed "theologians" at Loma Linda and La Sierra must fully agree. --Otherwise, she would quickly be brought into line or fired. It must be that her views are solidly supported by church leaders.

Second, we have here a much more involved philosophy of thinking than I believe Tami McGrew was able to develop by herself! I see her ideas as part of a carefully thought-out theological defense, devised by theologians at Loma Linda and La Sierra, in support of a plan which many of our liberals are going to try to put into action as soon as it is feasible. They want to gradually move our churches in North America over to Sunday worship services.

Why is there such a frenzied determination to increase church attendance, even though it costs us our doctrinal beliefs? Unfortunately, the answer is money.

I assure you that if Tami's project meets with success, Sunday worship services will be started in other areas, first in the Southeastern California Conference and then elsewhere. The ultimate objective is for Seventh-day Adventist pastors to be able to switch over, whenever they desire, to full-blown Sunday worship services.

You thought you were getting ready for the National Sunday Law? Our liberals are getting ready for it too!

If they succeed, Sabbath keeping will die out from among us. This is because the church service is the heart of the weekly cycle for believers. Change it to Sunday, and we have become Sunday keepers!

Tami said that both Adventists and non-Adventists are now attending her afternoon service. She is meeting with some success.

Her father, Ted Tessner, former liberal pastor of the Claremont Church in San Diego, has come up to strengthen her efforts. He is now associate pastor at Riverside and also enjoys the full support of the conference office.

Perhaps he helps her scrounge through the toy stores, searching for new gimmicks with which to enchant the folk who come to the 5 o'clock worship services. Perhaps they will start buying magician's stage tricks next, start a lending library in Harry Potter books, and install video game machines and Coke dispensers in the foyer. The sky is the limit, because the conference fully backs her project. Anything goes, if it pertains to standards and doctrines. Anything can be brought in, if it excites worldlings or is approved by Sunday keepers.

What identifies a church as being part of the "Babylon" mentioned by the third angel of Revelation 14?

"After the warning against the worship of the beast and his image, the prophecy declares: "Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Since those who keep God's commandments are thus placed in contrast with those that worship the beast and his image and receive his mark, it follows that the keeping of God's law, on the one hand, and its violation, on the other, will make the distinction between the worshipers of God and the worshipers of the beast."--Great Controversy, 445-446.

It is true that both Sundaykeeping and the natural immortality of the soul are two special teachings of Babylon. But the Sabbath/Sunday issue will be the special test in the Final Crisis, separating those who receive the mark from those who receive the seal.

What does it mean "to keep Sunday?" It means Sunday church service worship (even though Tami coyly says that church services do not constitute an act of worship)! We must not let it happen!

The Spirit of Prophecy has said that, when the Sunday Law crisis hits, we can evangelize on Sunday or quietly stay in our homes on that day. But we cannot participate in Sunday worship meetings! To do so would be to bow to the image on the plains of Dura.--And Tami wants to do more than attend Sunday services, she wants to pastor them!

When the Sunday Law crisis hits, willingness to attend Sunday worship services will be the point on which large numbers of our people will go out from among us and be lost.


Here are several Spirit of Prophecy passages to look up. Each one deals with Sunday observance:

It is a virtual recognition of the fundamental principles of Romanism (5T 712). The papacy will receive honor in the homage paid in doing it (GC 579).

It will be the worship of the beast and his image (GC 449; TM 133) and will fulfill Revelation 13:11-16 (GC 578-579), because it is the mark of the authority of Rome (Ev 234) and honors the pope above God (GC 449). It is the mark of the beast (7 BC, 976-980; Ev 234-235; GC 449; 8T 117; TM 133).

It is a plain contradiction of God's law, for those who do it after light has come (6T 193), because it is a homage paid to Rome (GC 449). For those who do so, knowing they should not do so, it is idolatry (FE 287). It is recognition of the cornerstone principles of Romanism (5T 712), an act of homage to the papacy (SR 383), and allegiance to a power opposed to God (GC 605).

Its enforcement [by a Sunday Law] will be a sign that the end is near and that God's forbearance has been reached (5T 451). Men in responsible positions will urge it upon the people (ChS 155).




Source: http://www.geocities.com/biblerevelations_org/Adventist_beliefs/sundaykeeping_adventist.htm
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Cookout This Sunday!

July 9, 2009 by Tim
Our monthly Second Sunday Super Supper will be held at the Manis Farm and is looking to be a blast! The Riverside softball team will be our special guests and we will have a ton of food. 1/3lb hamburgers, 1/4 hot dogs, cole slaw, seasoned fries, drinks, and some great barbecue all provided by the Outdoor Festival team. If you’re attending all we need is beans, salads, and desserts.

Please make sure to come out to this event and get some tasty food and meet a lot of new people!
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So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth



Psalm 48



1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

8As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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999 cube of stars tele-transmission (FYI)


Date: September 9th, 2009 (phone-in or skype)
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Time: 10AM Hawaiian Time1PM Pacific 2PM Mountain 3PM Central 4PM Eastern
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As part of your registration you will receive an access link good for 30 days where you can listen to a streaming MP3 recording of this Tele-Transmission along with links to additional pertinent information after the event concludes. The MP3 recording will NOT be made available through any other means. You will also receive a hi-resolution 999 meditation mandala like the one on my poster
shown below for this event.


On September 9th, 2009 we will pass through the last 999 time gate within the old paradigm reality of the Earth! Each 999 time gate is a centennial event occurring only once every 100 years. The sequence of 999 time gates was originally activated as a harmonic series by the Illumined Ones in 12391 B.C. using our current calendar as a reference. As of September 9th, 2009 we will have thus passed through 144 of these 999 time gates since their inception spanning 14,400 years of Earth time.

The 999 time gates are micro-bursts of higher dimensional cosmic energy that have been slowly but surely preparing us for total inversion of the 666 harmonics into the 999 harmonics as a collective consciousness. The 666 is what Thoth calls the "Ptah Threshold." It is the vibration of Solar Law held within our star-sun's indigenous Program of Light. It is the "lesser" or more limited Solar Logos of our solar system that has provided stability and gotten us this far.

The 999 is what Thoth has called the "Cube of Stars." This is the next ordering of Solar Law which is held within the second or higher dimensional Solar Logos of our star-sun. This second higher Solar Logos in our system is a holographic projection from the Blue Star Rigel in Orion and represents our collective future in the New Earth Star.

I am being strongly guided to celebrate and facilitate the movement of our planetary consciousness through this last 999 time gate with a powerful tele-transmission event.

My poster for this event is on seen the left and can be downloaded in hi-res for free and used however you wish provided that it remains unaltered and in its original form. All registered participants will receive a hi-res version of the Meditation Mandala that is NOT posterized for use in the Tele-Transmission meditation process for going beyond the 666 Solar Threshold.

This last 999 micro-burst of cosmic energy will not be just the next ordering and level of 999 harmonics, it will also have all the final codes of liberation from the older Ptah Threshold embedded within its frequency matrix to complete the entire 999 time gate harmonic series.

I will offer my own unique process for proper alignment with and access of the 999 encodings in the upcoming tele-transmission on 09/09/09. Those who are able to access these codes correctly will quicken their DNA into the 999 frequency matrix for all of humanity as "harmonic openers of the way" on the final leg of our collective journey beyond 09/09/09.

Together we will form a heart-centered group merkabah to celebrate and facilitate this momentous time on our beloved Terra by embodying to the highest degree possible the final 999 codes of liberation from the limitations of the 666 old paradigm Solar Laws. A new Solar Lion will roar in our collective heart after we pass through this final 999 time gate.
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Note: I don't subscribe to these beliefs; Having found this information, I thought it needed to be shared with the brethren.
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Are you ready for 999?


Next Wednesday it will be September 9, 2009 or 9/9/09; On that day, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress (The House of Representatives and The Senate) for the first time in his tenure, and only the second time since September 11, 2001. This will be a prime time opportunity for another of Mr. Obama's 'this is how I see things' speeches.

In case you hadn't noticed 999 is 666 inverted. What a peculiar date to give a record setting speech? What will he discuss? More Healthcare rhetoric? Why such an obsession? Numerologists will have a field day explaining what all this means to them. Meanwhile, most people will just accept whatever is said as An Inconvenient Truth; And yet, the rest of us will wonder: why more of the same on that date?
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The President claims Abraham Lincoln as his role-model; However, this 999 speech will certainly not be anything resembling the Gettysburg Address.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment


20Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:

21Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

22But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.

23And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

24But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.


Matthew 11:20-24 (King James Version)


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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Ben & Jerry's ice cream honors same-sex 'marriage'

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 9/1/2009 12:40:00 PM



An ice cream company is celebrating homosexual "marriage" in Vermont (see related article).

Same-gender marriage is now legal in The Green Mountain State, and Ben & Jerry's has announced that it will temporarily change its "Chubby Hubby" ice cream to "Hubby Hubby" in honor of homosexual marriage. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth aboutHomosexuality tells OneNewsNow that companies like Ben & Jerry's neglect to talk about the dangers of the lifestyle.

"Besides the health aspects, there's also the fact that homosexual behavior is opposed by God, and that's something that we should take seriously," he contends. "All homosexual behavior is sinful, and regardless of what liberals say or what Ben & Jerry's puts on a tub of ice cream, that remains the case."

The public can react by not buying the ice cream products, LaBarbera suggests -- but adds that Ben & Jerry's is probably impervious to conservative criticism at this point.

"The left is really making a fool of itself when it comes to homosexuality. They talk about transparency, but they don't want to tell anybody about the health risks of homosexual behavior," he points out. "They claim to follow God and to be Christian, and yet they celebrate all the things that God opposes...abortion, homosexuality. This is just par for the course."


Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=661990

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Korean Airlines flight shot down by soviet union




September 1, 1983


Korean Airlines flight shot down by Soviet Union


Soviet jet fighters intercept a Korean Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace and shoot the plane down, killing 269 passengers and crewmembers. The incident dramatically increased tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States.

On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines (KAL) flight 007 was on the last leg of a flight from New York City to Seoul, with a stopover in Anchorage, Alaska. As it approached its final destination, the plane began to veer far off its normal course. In just a short time, the plane flew into Russian airspace and crossed over the Kamchatka Peninsula, where some top-secret Soviet military installations were known to be located. The Soviets sent two fighters to intercept the plane. According to tapes of the conversations between the fighter pilots and Soviet ground control, the fighters quickly located the KAL flight and tried to make contact with the passenger jet. Failing to receive a response, one of the fighters fired a heat-seeking missile. KAL 007 was hit and plummeted into the Sea of Japan. All 269 people on board were killed.

This was not the first time a South Korean flight had run into trouble over Russia. In 1978, the Soviets forced a passenger jet down over Murmansk; two passengers were killed during the emergency landing. In its first public statement concerning the September 1983 incident, the Soviet government merely noted that an unidentified aircraft had been shot down flying over Russian territory. The United States government reacted with horror to the disaster. The Department of State suggested that the Soviets knew the plane was an unarmed civilian passenger aircraft. President Ronald Reagan called the incident a "massacre" and issued a statement in which he declared that the Soviets had turned "against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere." Five days after the incident, the Soviets admitted that the plane had indeed been a passenger jet, but that Russian pilots had no way of knowing this. A high ranking Soviet military official stated that the KAL flight had been involved in espionage activities. The Reagan administration responded by suspending all Soviet passenger air service to the United States, and dropped several agreements being negotiated with the Soviets.

Despite the heated public rhetoric, many Soviets and American officials and analysts privately agreed that the incident was simply a tragic misunderstanding. The KAL flight had veered into a course that was close to one being simultaneously flown by a U.S. spy plane; perhaps Soviet radar operators mistook the two. In the Soviet Union, several of the military officials responsible for air defense in the Far East were fired or demoted. It has never been determined how the KAL flight ended up nearly 200 miles off course.


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People Said to Believe in Aliens and Ghosts More Than God


Strange News
People Said to Believe in Aliens and Ghosts More Than God


By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Director
posted: 24 November 2008 09:06 am ET

What people are talking about in the world of science and beyond. [Water Cooler Archive]

More people believe in aliens and ghosts than in God, a new survey finds, according to a British newspaper.


The survey, however, was done by a marketing firm in conjunction with the release of an X-Files DVD, and details of how the poll was conducted were not reported in the Daily Mail. Survey questions, depending on how they are written, can greatly skew results, along with how subjects are sampled.


That said, the poll of 3,000 people found that 58 percent believe in the supernatural, including paranormal encounters, while 54 percent believe God exists. Women were more likely than men to believe in the supernatural and were also more likely to visit a medium.


Indeed, humans are prone to believing in things they can neither see nor find logical evidence for.


A survey of U.S. college students done in 2006 found 23 percent of freshmen had a general belief in paranormal concepts — from astrology to communicating with the dead. Interestingly, the number jumped to 31 percent among seniors and 34 percent among graduate students.
Researchers who have compared various human belief systems say our tendency to believe is deeply rooted.


"While it is difficult to know for certain, the tendency to believe in the paranormal appears to be there from the beginning," said Christopher Bader, a Baylor University sociologist. "What changes is the content of the paranormal. For example, very few people believe in faeries and elves these days. But as belief in faeries faded, other beliefs, such as belief in UFOs, emerged to take their place."


Religion and belief in the paranormal are not linked as one might imagine. A handful of surveys show just the opposite, in fact.


"Paranormal beliefs are very strongly negatively related to religious belief," said Rod Stark, another Baylor researcher. Some scientists think this is so because religions tend to discourage paranormal beliefs, and indeed most devout practitioners of a religion have been shown to be the least likely to believe in Bigfoot, ghosts or aliens.



This article is from the LiveScience Water Cooler: What people are talking about in the world of science and beyond.
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