Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Patriots’ Day: Waco, Oklahoma City, Columbine, and now Boston


Cara Maresca, @CaraMaresca
7:15 PM on 04/15/2013





Runner John Ounao crying when he finds friends after several explosions rocked the finish of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2013. (Photo by John Mottern/AFP/Getty Images)

“Today is a holiday in Massachusetts: Patriots’ Day,” President Obama said, addressing the nation Monday evening after explosions in Boston killed two and injured 86. “It’s a day that celebrates the free and fiercely independent spirit that this great American city of Boston has reflected from the earliest days of our nation.”

The president was careful not to call Monday’s explosions “terrorist attacks.” But a White House official who spoke with NBC News said “any event with multiple explosive devices—as this appears to be—is clearly an act of terror.”

“A thorough investigation will have to determine whether it was planned and carried out by a terrorist group, foreign or domestic,” the official said.

To Bostonians, Patriots’ Day is synonymous with Marathon Monday.

But to anti-governments extremists, Patriots’ Day means something entirely different.

Patriots’ Day—a public holiday in Massachusetts and Maine held on the third Monday of April—marks the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.

It was Patriots’ Day on April 19, 1993, when the Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, went up in flames, allegedly on the orders of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh. At least 72  people died. At the time of the fire, the group was locked in a stand-off with federal agents.

It was two days after Patriots’ Day–April 19, 1995–when Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb made of fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals outside a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

It was the day after Patriots’ Day–April 20, 1999–when teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School before committing suicide.

And it was on Patriot’s Day today, April 15, 2013, when two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon left two dead and 86 injured.

Officials have told NBC News that the devices detonated were homemade, crudely assembled, and possibly had shrapnel added to them for added harm after the blasts.

Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King of the Senate Intelligence Committee said the reports of improvised explosive devices at such a high-profile national event “bear the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.”

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center tells NBC News that his organization has no evidence that any of the militia groups that SPLC monitors were involved with Boston, though he acknowledges that Patriots’ Day is an important day to militia groups.


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At least 40 dead after magnitude-7.8 earthquake strikes Iran, state TV says




Published April 16, 2013

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April 16, 2013: Office workers stand outside of their buildings following an earthquake tremor in Karachi. An magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Iran on Tuesday with tremors felt across Pakistan among other regions, media reported. (Reuters)

DEVELOPING: At least 40 are dead after a major earthquake struck Tuesday near the Iran-Pakistan border, Iranian State TV says.

An Iranian official told Reuters that hundreds more are feared dead.

The U.S. Geological Survey put the preliminary magnitude of the earthquake at 7.8 and at a depth of nine miles, and Iran's seismological center said it was centered near Saravan, a sparsely populated area about 26 miles from the Pakistani border. Iranian state TV said power and communications systems were down in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.

The quake struck less than a week after a magnitude-6.1 quake hit near Bushehr, on Iran's Persian Gulf coast, killing at least 37 people and raising calls for greater international safety inspections at the country's long energy-producing nuclear reactor.

The Russian company that built the Bushehr plant said the Tuesday earthquake did not damage the facility, Reuters reports.

The quake was also felt over a vast area from New Delhi to Gulf cities that have some of the world's tallest skyscrapers, including the record 2,717 -foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Officials ordered temporary evacuations from some high-rises as a precaution.

Pakistani news channels showed buildings shaking in the southern city of Karachi, where people in panic came out from offices and homes. There was no immediate word on any damage and people were seen standing outside their homes and offices even minutes after the quack rattled various parts of the country.

In 2003, some 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude-6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern Iranian city of Bam.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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Monday, April 15, 2013

Multiple Explosions At Boston Marathon






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Live updates: Chaos erupts at Boston Marathon; 2 dead



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An Associated Press reporter and two witnesses near the twin blasts that rocked the Boston Marathon finish line Monday describe what they heard and saw.


By Los Angeles Times Staff

April 15, 2013, 1:53 p.m.



At least two explosions shattered the festive air at the end of the grueling Boston Marathon on Monday, leaving at least two people dead and injuring as many as 23, officials said.


About three hours into the 117th running of the 26.2-mile race, an explosion went off at the Boylston Street finish line, witnesses said, and that blast was followed by a second explosion just seconds later.

Video images showed bloody spectators looking dazed and chaos erupting as runners quickly shuffled to the side and would-be rescuers surged forward. Ambulances and firefighters poured into the scene, rushing the victims to hospitals.



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Cellphone service crashed, and nearby hotels went into lockdown mode.

“It’s chaos here,” said spectator Samantha Bissonnette, a 22-year-old senior at Tufts University. In texts, she said she was about half a mile away when the explosions went off, and described hearing two claps “as loud as thunder.”

“I thought they were taking the stands down. ... It was so loud, I knew it couldn’t be thunder. ... Not a cloud in the sky. Then slowly they blocked off the runners ... cops ran in packs down the street. The runners seemed confused and slowly panic started to set in ... people used their cheering signs to find their families.

“I saw pictures of the blast on twitter ... everyone was passing phones to runners to contact their families.”

Kayley Pettoruto, 23, a graduate student at Boston University, said she went to the marathon to support former track teammates. She said she was about a mile away when she heard the sirens.

"I was really shocked,” she said. “Freaked out a little. It’s the Boston Marathon; you’d never think this would happen. At first, I thought maybe it was a gas explosion.”

Will Ritter, communications director for Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez, said he was about a block away from the grandstands near the finish line when he heard two loud explosions, followed by billowing white smoke.

Ritter said that when the loud bangs occurred, he had been setting up a news conference with Gomez, a former Navy SEAL who had just finished the marathon about minutes earlier.

The blasts were seconds apart, he said, about an hour after the first male contestants crossed the finish line.

Officials immediately launched an investigation, but racer organizers referred to "bombs" to explain the explosions.

In Washington, President Obama was told of the incident.

“The president has been notified of the incident in Boston. His administration is in contact with state and local authorities. He directed his administration to provide whatever assistance is necessary in the investigation and response,” a White House official said.

Shortly after being notified around 3 p.m. local time, the president got a briefing in the Oval Office from homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco and other members of his senior White House staff, the White House said.

Obama then called Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to express his concern for those who were injured and to make clear that his administration is ready to provide needed support as they respond to the incident, officials said.

Vice President Joe Biden interrupted his remarks on a telephone call with gun control advocates after an aide turned on the television, reports said.

“Apparently there has been a bombing. I don’t know any of the details of what caused it,” he said. “Our prayers are with those people in Boston.”ALSO:

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This story was reported by Jessica Garrison, Maeve Reston, Matt Pearce, Michael Muskal, Christine Mai-Duc, Julie Cart and Rosanna Xia in Los Angeles. Also contributing were Christi Parsons, Matea Gold and Michael A. Memoli in Washington. Alana Semuels contributed from New York.


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The US and the new Pope

Monday, March 25, 2013


In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L''Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets US Vice-President Joe Biden after his installation Mass at the Vatican.


By: Cubargie Joe


By Cubargie Joe
(José Manuel Pallí)
LATINOS R US

I am old enough to remember the hullabaloo in the United States —and also among Catholics in the rest of the Americas— when John F. Kennedy ran for and won the presidency, becoming the first (and still the only) Catholic president of the United States in 1961. A great number of US voters and their Protestant ministers were deeply suspicious of Kennedy’s faith. My mother in Argentina and her sisters in Miami, on the other hand, were joyous with the news of his election.

When in 1974, then Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz —who had to resign in 1976 due to another one of his off—coloured racist jokes—made a joke directed at Pope Paul VI’s opposition to population control (mimicking an Italian accent he told the press corps “If you don’t play-a da game, you don’t make-a da rrules”), he was amply criticized for his insensitivity towards Italian—Americans, not for his disrespect towards the head of the Catholic church.

When I arrived in the United States in the late seventies, Catholicism was still very far from being mainstream —even in Miami, by then already “cubanized”. I recall being handed out religious literature where Catholics were ridiculed and even demonized.

The intensive news coverage of the resignation of a Pope and the enthronization of another one has shown how much the weight and image of Catholicism in the United States has changed since Kennedy’s Camelot days. And this despite the many hits that image has taken lately because of the incidence of pedophilia among Catholic priests, which has taken a heavy toll on the finances and on the moral authority of the Catholic Church.

Over the past few weeks, seldom has a day gone by without national TV newscasts spending close to twenty five per cent of their air time discussing the succession of Pope Benedict XVI. The White House’s salute to the new Argie pope, Francis, was warmer and more enthusiastic than that of many countries in our region firmly imbedded in Catholic tradition (warmer than the Casa Rosada’s reaction to Cardinal Bergoglio’s election), and was perceived by “Latinos” in the US as a sign of a renewed commitment from the government to them and their aspirations, as well as emphasizing the increasing importance of the southern portion of our western hemisphere in the eyes of Washington. Hopefully, this time around we will move beyond mere rhetoric; though, “thinking it better”, yes, you are right, I may be drifting into the same capital sin of wishful thinking I so often criticize.

Much has been said about the significance of electing the first Latin American pope, but from the perspective of a country where the efforts of the Catholic Church in the field of education is ever more appreciated, the fact Francis is a Jesuit may be even more significant.

I am personally gratified by the fact the Pope roots for the same football team I do, San Lorenzo de Almagro, also known as El Ciclón. It would have been unseemly, (and worrisome in terms of the topic mentioned in the last paragraph below) if he had been a fan of the Red Devils from Avellaneda. In any event, this appears to settle who will be playing in the second division next year. A “football-fan pope” is also gratifying for someone who grew up being looked askance by many dear but somewhat snobbish relatives and friends who thought there was something wrong (demeaning?) in devoting Sunday afternoons to football, watching it from the stadium or the rafters to boot. Despite our love of sports in the United States, we still do not fathom the strength of the bond that ties what we call soccer to what some call “the less educated classes” around the world.

As for the many PHDs in wishful thinking who are already at work trying to establish a parallel between the fall of the Berlin Wall and their hopes for the demise of populism in Latin America, seeing in Jorge Bergoglio a later day version of Karol Wojtyla, their best hope seems to be that the Catholic Church will simply bolster its rhetoric about poverty, inequality and other social issues, as it has done in the past, without forcefully seeking any significant change. But watch out guys, this fan of El Ciclón seems to be the real thing, and he may end up blowing strongly in a different direction than the one you wish for.

From a Miami perspective, the only thing that could have made a bigger splash among us would have been that Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino had ended up being the chosen one. Cardinal Ortega has been vilified by many of my Cuban neighbours in Miami mainly for his willingness to sit down with the Cuban government to negotiate for more space for the Church and for freedom for a number of political prisoners. Dialogue with the Castro brothers is still anathema for many US Cubans, not all of them old-timers. But still, I suspect that having a Cuban pope would have had a huge impact on US-Cuba relations, despite the resistance of those who take pride in calling themselves recalcitrant. We do not get to confirm this, but we can always hope —ten more Our Fathers when I go to confession next week, I know— that someone with Francis’s background and track record may also help loosen up the deadlock in what we call US policy towards Cuba —a “policy” that for over fifty years has served only one purpose: to hide the absence of a policy—, getting us to where Pope John Paul II wanted us all to be when he said we should all open ourselves to Cuba.

Another topic frequently covered in the US media lately has been the prophecy that appears to signal that the new Pope will be the last one, in which case we may all want to heed that Juan Luis Guerra song where he urges us to get our papers in order (hay que arreglar los papeles). Another good reason to get rid of all our fears and open up to each other, before it is too late.

José Manuel Pallí is a Cuban-born lawyer, originally trained in Argentina and has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1985.


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Where is the promise of his coming?


2 Peter 3
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1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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17 Million Adventists Still Praying for the End of the World



By Leonardo Blair , CP Contributor

April 14, 2013|12:29 pm


More than 17 million Seventh Day Adventist Christians around the globe are still praying for the end of the world as we know it. And next month, as they celebrate a 150-year-old tradition they hadn't expected to last this long, there are some who are disappointed that Jesus hasn't returned yet.

"I would love for Him to come this second," said Janice Maitland, a member of the Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church in Manhattan, N.Y., who has been a member of the denomination since 1996, to The Christian Post. "That's always our desire because once He returns there will be less suffering. We will be restored back to our perfect way, so that's always our desire. It always has been and always will be," she added.

A recent Religion News Service report noted, however, that as the world's more than 17 million Seventh Day Adventists, of which 1.2 million are in the United States, get ready to commemorate the 150th year of the organization's existence on May 21, there's not a whole lot of cheer to go around. Not even for all the good they have accomplished through their faith across the world while they wait for deliverance.

According to Adventist archives, as of 2012, the church employed more than 230,000 people globally and established nearly 8,000 schools plus catered to more than 16 million medical outpatient visits. They have also donated millions of dollars to charity.

When the Seventh Day Adventist movement was birthed in 1863, the Church's founders attracted members with the message that Jesus would return soon. And even as many have come and gone with that hope, Adventists living today still see the stuff of their lives pointing to a common conclusion – Jesus' return and the end of this old world.

Michael Ryan, a vice president at the church's General Conference, its top governing body, noted to RNS regarding the church's planned May 18 ceremony – ahead of its 150th anniversary – to rededicate itself to its mission, that "in one kind of way it really is a sad event."

"We're a church that by its name believes in the Second Coming of Christ, and we have been hopeful that long ago Christ would have come and taken the righteous to heaven and this world would have ended," said Ryan.

In Maitland's assessment of the wait, however, if Jesus doesn't come anytime soon, she won't mind. "I think it's presumptuous as human beings to tell God when he should return. You know we can only hope that he will come as soon as he can but we can't tell him when to come," she told CP.


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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the New World Order





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The Real Conspiracy Part Two


In part one of the Real Conspiracy we saw how there is an occult agenda to bring the masses of humanity into a one world government. We saw how the Illuminati Card game has clearly outlined the plans of the ruling elite, and we also saw evidence that this secret organization called the Illuminati is merely a puppet organization that is being manipulated by and controlled by the Jesuits of Rome. And in the end we found that both the Civil War and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a proven and documented Jesuit plot. And now we continue where we left off.


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Titanic Conspiracy



This is only one part of a larger picture. For more information, please read Investigating The Titanic Conspiracy and The James Cameron Conspiracy.

Do you still remember the Hollywood block-buster movie film TITANIC with actor Leonardo de Caprio? Well, it is not the real story or perhaps just a part of the story. What you’ll read below is the true story as to what really happened to the famous ship called Titanic. The information you’ll read below is not a conspiracy theory, but rather well-recorded in the books of World History.



The sinking of the Titanic has always been an event surrounded by a great deal of mystery. Elements that led up to the eventual demise of the ‘unsinkable’ vessel have been questioned and analyzed for nearly 100 years. Many believe that fate brought the maiden voyage of the Titanic to an end, others believe that reckless tactics throughout the voyage played the primary role in her sinking, and others still believe that the Titanic tragedy was brought upon by much more sinister events. One of many Titanic conspiracies floating around, many believe that the sinking of the famous vessel was well planned, well executed, and orchestrated shape the world as we know it today. This is the Federal Reserve Titanic conspiracy.

Certain conspiracy theorists believe that there was a force behind the sinking of the Titanic. A Catholic order known as the Jesuits compelled to carry out Jesus’ work. In this instance, theorists believe that the establishment of the U.S. Federal Reserve was ushered into being. Those in belief of the theory speak of a group of Illuminati, enlightened individuals with a plan for a New World Order, in which it will be necessary to establish the Federal Reserve.

Many are unclear on what exactly the Federal Reserve is. Operated outside of the constraints of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve has these responsibilities.

1. Conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing monetary and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.
2. Supervising and regulating banking institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system, and protect the credit rights of consumers.
3. Maintaining stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets.
4. Providing financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions, including playing a major role in operating the nation’s payments system.



Theorists believe that this Jesuit establishment was created so that the order could loan money, shape the world landscape, and become one of the most powerful organizations in the world. Here’s how the Federal Reserve and the Titanic are connected. In 1910, seven men met on Jekyll island just off the coast of Georgia to plan the Federal Reserve Bank. Nelson Aldrich and Frank Vanderclip represented the Rockefeller (Illuminati) financial empire. Henry Davidson, Charles Norton and Benjamin Strong represented J.P. Morgan (Illuminati). Paul Warburg (Illuminati) represented the Rothschilds (Illuminati) Banking dynasty of Europe. The Rothschilds were the banking agents for the Jesuits and hold `the key to the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church.’

Necessary to their plans, the Federal Reserve did have some opposition; those who saw what the future would become if banking was outside of the government’s hands, the rates set by a private company such as the Fed. All the wealthy and powerful men the Jesuits wanted to get rid of were invited to take the cruise. Three of the richest and most important of these were Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador Strauss, the head of Macy’s Department Stores, and John Jacob Astor, probably the wealthiest man in the world. Their total wealth, at that time, using dollar values of their day was more than 500 million dollars. Today that amount of money would be worth nearly eleven billion dollars. These three men were coaxed and encouraged to board the floating palace. They had to be destroyed because the Jesuits knew they would use their wealth and influence to oppose a Federal Reserve Bank as well as the various wars that were being planned.

It can also be mentioned that J.P. Morgan, the individual contracted to build the Titanic was scheduled to be on the maiden voyage, but canceled.

Supporters of the idea that the Titanic shipwreck was orchestrated carefully, a Jesuit tempore co-adjutor was picked to captain the ship, a man that would do anything for the order and God’s will; Captain Edward Smith. Quite possibly the most experienced captain of the time, Smith had navigated the waters of the Atlantic for 26 years, a master of the icy waters that the Titanic would be sailing. He was a Jesuit and worked for J.P. Morgan. As National Geographic stated in their 1986 documentary entitilted ‘The Secrets of the Titanic,’ “Anyone could be a Jesuit and their identity not be known.”

When the ship departed southern England, on board was Father Francis Browne. He was the most powerful Jesuit in all of Ireland and the Jesuit Master of Edward Smith. Here is Jesuit treachery at its finest. The provincial Father Francis Browne boards the Titanic, photographs the victims, most assuredly briefs the Captain concerning his oath as a Jesuit, and the following morning bids him farewell. (Eric J. Phelps, Vatican Assassins Halcon Unified Services).

Theorists believe that the mysteries surrounding the sinking of the Titanic are simply too coincidental not to be premeditated. Smith, being a mater navigator of the Atlantic, allegedly sailed directly into iceberg territory, failing to heed the numerous warnings given by other ships to decrease speed, and tread carefully. The glancing blow to the side of the Titanic is also said to violate basic safety measurements associated with sailing. Danger is meant to be met head on to avoid exactly what happened to the Titanic.

Less well known: the Titanic’s flare guns fired white flares. Red was (and is) the emergency standard. Other colors were used for identification (white = White Star Line). When the Titanic was sinking, her crew fired her flare guns. The Californian and other ships saw the white flares, but didn’t consider them a distress call. At one point, the Californian, commanded by Captain Lord, may have been as close as six miles to the stricken vessel.



According to other websites, the box containing this gun was the box taken off the Titanic by one of the ship’s crew on that fateful April night. The box contained . . . an unused flare gun.

Clearly, the Five Shot, 33 Pinfire Derringer Revolver here does NOT fit this case. What happened to the Titanic’s flare gun contained therein? It was most probably destroyed as part of White Star Line’s cover-up of the failures leading to the disaster. Someone kept the box for decades. Did they keep the flare gun?

All three men, whom were opposed to the Federal Reserve, died during the sinking of the Titanic.

The Federal Reserve is installed as part of the Federal Reserve act in December of 1913, roughly a year and eight months after the Titanic tragedy, and World War I less than a year later. Theorists believe that the Federal Reserve and the Jesuits were responsible for funding the United States, Germany, and Russia in the war.


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And he took away the sodomites out of the land



9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.


1 Kings 15:9-15
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Is Pope Francis Laying The Groundwork For A One World Religion?



By Michael Snyder, on April 14th, 2013



Does Pope Francis intend to help the global elite achieve their goal of uniting all of the religions of the world under a single banner? Will he be instrumental in establishing a single global religion for the glorious “new age” that the global elite believe is coming? After he was elected, the cover of Time Magazine declared Pope Francis to be the “New World Pope“, and since his election Pope Francis has made it abundantly clear that he is going to make ecumenical outreach a top priority. He has spoken of his “determination to continue on the path of ecumenical dialogue“, and he has already held a number of very high profile ecumenical meetings. Not only has he worked hard to reach out to leaders from various Christian traditions, he has also made it a point to try to acknowledge the mutual bonds that he feels with all other religions. For example, in one recent address he made it a point to say that he believes that Muslims worship and pray to the “one God” that he also worships. This “all roads lead to the same God” philosophy is a hallmark of the one world religion that the global elite have been slowly building toward for decades. The global elite know that even with a one world economy and a one world government, humanity will never be truly united until there is a single global religion. Unfortunately, this one world religion that they are seeking to establish is diametrically opposed to the Christianity that we find in the Bible. By throwing out Biblical truth for the sake of “friendship between men and women of different religious traditions“, is Pope Francis fundamentally betraying the faith that he claims to represent?

If there is going to be a one world religion, there will have to be a bond formed between Roman Catholicism and Islam. They are the two largest religious traditions on the planet, and so any truly “global religion” would definitely require the participation of both of them.

That is one reason why what Pope Francis has already had to say about Islam is so noteworthy. The following comes from remarks that he made during his very first ecumenical meeting



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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Attorneys seek religious order files on accused priests, including 1 who served after jail



Published April 14, 2013

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LOS ANGELES – The Rev. John Anthony Salazar served 11 years as a Roman Catholic priest in Texas despite a conviction for child molestation in Los Angeles.

Salazar has been accused of molesting four more teens and young men during his years in the Diocese of Amarillo.

Details of his past are contained in a personnel file made public this year after a legal battle with abuse victims that led to the release of 120 similar files.

But those records tell only part of the story.

On Tuesday, attorneys will argue over the release of records for about 80 priests, like Salazar, who belonged to religious orders that kept their own personnel files on accused clergymen. Plaintiff attorney Ray Boucher says the documents are critical to understanding the clergy abuse scandal.


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Council on Foreign Relations





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Published on Apr 11, 2013


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Today it has about 5,000 members which over its history have included senior serving politicians, more than a dozen Secretaries of State, former national security officers, bankers, lawyers, professors, former CIA members and senior media figures. All corporate executive members have opportunities to hear distinguished speakers, such as overseas presidents and prime ministers, chairmen and CEOs of multinational corporations, and US officials and Congressmen. President and premium members are also entitled to other benefits, including attendance at small, private dinners or receptions with senior American officials and world leaders.

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DC youth salsa dance for immigrant outreach


By Kevin Jones



The Spanish Catholic Center's Música y Sueños benefit was held at the US Chamber of Commerce on March 22, 2013. Courtesy of Catholic Charites of the Archdiocese of Washington.



Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2013 / 04:12 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent Latin-style party in Washington, D.C., drew hundreds of young adults for a night of music, food and salsa dancing that benefited Catholic outreach to low-income immigrants.

“We had so many young people there, so many new people. It was a fun night,” Monsignor John Enzler, president of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, told CNA March 27.

“There was an excitement there that we hadn’t had before,” he said. “Community was built in a very special way on Friday night.”

The Música y Sueños event, which means “Music and Dreams,” featured a sit-down Latin-inspired dinner buffet and salsa dancing at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building March 22.

D.C. salsa dancer Ricardo Loaiza provided dance lessons and a live DJ provided the music.

“People enjoyed themselves. It was not expensive,” Msgr. Enzler said, characterizing the event as an effort to “raise new friendships rather than funds.”

The event benefitted the Catholic Charities-run Spanish Catholic Center, which has been in operation for more than 45 years. With three different locations in the District of Columbia and Maryland, the center served 18,000 clients last year.

The center provides medical and dental clinics, food pantries, employment counseling, legal aid and language instruction. Its social services help provide those in need with food, shelter and clothing.

“It’s our goal and our effort to try to meet their needs where they are and make sure we can assist in whatever way we can,” Msgr. Enzler said.

He noted the growing Latino population in the United States and in the archdiocese. Hispanics make up about 40 percent of the U.S. Catholic population and are expected to reach 50 percent within the decade.

The Spanish Catholic Center, he said, is part of “a huge and important effort for us to make sure that we are meeting the needs of this burgeoning population.”

He explained that clients want “the services and commitment that the Church provides” and also “help to grow in their faith.”

Catholic Charities invited young Latino leaders to the event through social media like Twitter. Msgr. Enzler said about 300 of the 400 attendees were new to Catholic Charities events.

A silent movie played during the event to help partygoers learn more about the center. Spanish Catholic Center staff also mingled with the crowd and spoke about their work.

The archdiocese’s Catholic Charities intends to make Música y Sueños an annual event.

“People were excited and thrilled and felt they were being asked to participate, but also asked to collaborate. And they did,” Msgr. Enzler added.

He noted that the event supports Catholic Charities’ efforts to serve anyone who comes to their doors, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.

“I think we do a great job of making that happen,” he said.


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God's State of the World Address


ThreeAngelsMasterpieceofDeception 1 from Claudia Thompson on Vimeo.




ThreeAngelsMasterpieceofDeception 1
from Claudia Thompson 9 months ago NOT YET RATED

This is Chapter 1 of my Book, Masterpiece of Deception. The name of the chapter is "God's State of the World Address. It is about how New Age Spiritualism has infiltrated Christianity and that God is calling His people out of Babylon to keep His Commandments.
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Venezuela's Maduro bids to be new ‘Christ of the poor’ with help from ‘Hand of God’


Chavez’s chosen heir enlists support of Maradona ahead of tomorrow’s presidential election in Venezuela


ALASDAIR BAVERSTOCK , TIM WALKER



FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2013


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There will be two names on the ballot papers when Venezuelans go to the polls this Sunday, but it is a third that lingers on voters’ lips as they prepare to choose their next president: Hugo Chavez.

The charismatic and controversial socialist leader whose death on 5 March precipitated the bitter emergency election campaign of the past few weeks will cast a long shadow over whichever man succeeds him.

That man is likely to be the country’s acting President and Chavez’s anointed heir, 50-year-old Nicolas Maduro, who, with his bellicose rhetoric and questionable campaign style, is expected to trounce the opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, this weekend. Opinion polls have kept the socialist candidate more than 10 percentage points ahead of his rival throughout the brief campaign, which came to a close on Thursday with a pair of competing rallies.

While Capriles addressed a large crowd in the north-western city of Acarigua, in the capital, Caracas, Maduro was joined onstage yesterday – the last day of campaigning – in front of hundreds of thousands of supporters by the Argentinian former football star Diego Maradona, and by Chavez’s brother, Adan.

“Truly, Chavez was the Christ of the poor”, Maduro declared during his speech, ending 10 intense days of electioneering in each of Venezuela’s 24 states. Maduro has maintained his poll lead in large part by describing himself as “Chavez’s son”, and by clinging relentlessly to the legacy of his late mentor.

The website MaduroDice.com (“Maduro Says”) counts the number of times the socialist candidate has mentioned Chavez since his death from cancer brought an end to his 14-year rule. Averaging over 200 times per day, Maduro’s tally currently stands at over 6,500. Reacting to the statistic on state television, the acting president joked, “When I heard how many times I had said our leader’s name I felt embarrassed; I thought, ‘That’s very little!’”

Maduro has also been at pains to ape his predecessor’s political style in an effort to reassure his inherited Chavista support base of his ability to emulate the charismatic leadership it craves. A bus driver and union leader prior to his political career, Maduro has nonetheless taken to dressing in the late president’s signature military fatigues, which marked out Chavez as a former paratrooper.

Though considered a somewhat lesser orator than Chavez, Maduro has also inherited his populist predecessor’s habit of making lengthy, unpredictable speeches. On the campaign trail, he has mocked his opponent mercilessly, recently leading his supporters in the ‘Capriles Dance’: a jittery, shoulder-wobbling action, comical to the salsa-keen nation.

Over the past six weeks, Venezuela has witnessed the socialist candidate calling his opponents “the heirs of Hitler”, stating that anyone that voted against him would be “cursed”, and openly requesting that US President Barack Obama call off alleged plans “to assassinate my opponent and cause chaos”. Maduro, who has routinely criticised the US during his campaign, even accused the CIA of deliberately causing Chavez’s fatal illness.

“Maduro’s potential victory is entirely inherited from the legacy and endorsement of Chavez”, said Luis Vicente Leon, head of Caracas polling firm Datanalisis, “he’s desperately trying to hide behind the image of the late president”.

Yet the issue for Venezuela now is not so much whom it elects, but what manner of leader Maduro will prove to be once he steps out from beneath the Chavez banner. The acting president has promised to spread his mentor’s vision of “21st century socialism”, but while Chavez may have ensured that his protégé will succeed him, Venezuela’s next premier will not be able to depend solely on the late leader’s legacy. And before Maduro considers taking his predecessor’s place on the world stage, he will have to deal with several pressing domestic issues.

Poverty decreased significantly under Chavez, and the UN recently named Venezuela the most equal nation in Latin America. Thanks to a flood of petrodollars, the government was able to offer the poor free healthcare and improved education programmes. Yet the late President also leaves behind a country with the highest inflation rate in the Americas, an over-valued and restricted currency which discourages international investment, and crime rates that see more annual homicides than the United States and western Europe combined.

Despite boasting the world’s largest oil reserves, the country’s coffers are far from overflowing. Venezuela’s borrowing amounts to 23 per cent of China’s overseas loans ($42.5 billion), entirely collateralized by its oil resources. And as his government bankrolls Cuban socialism, with 100,000 barrels of the country’s petrol going to Cuba annually – and at vastly subsidized rates – the new president may find the lack of funds threatening to his authority.

Whether or not Maduro will continue to be so combative once the election is over remains to be seen. Yet the focus on the prize may be distracting the socialist candidate from the realities of the task ahead of him. “Maduro has to deliver more than what was expected of Chavez in order to calm the storm”, said Mr Leon, whose polling firm has been one of the most accurate in Caracas in recent months, “and he’ll have to prove himself, he can’t play the identity theft card forever”.

In his final speech, meanwhile, Capriles pledged to end official corruption and revive the national economy within a year, though he would also be sure to maintain the popular social programmes that made Chavez so beloved. Capriles is familiar with Venezuela’s bumptious election style: the 40-year-old governor of Miranda state ran for president against an ailing Chavez in October 2012. He is also accustomed to losing: though closer than any previous opposition candidate to beating Chavez at the ballot box, he still failed to come within 10 per centage points of the absent incumbent. Tomorrow he will be running against Chavez’s memory, and he is likely to lose again.


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I Hear the Sunday law Rumblings - Walter Veith



I Hear the Sunday law Rumblings,. 5-16-2011

Evangelical Catholicism: A Review




Michael Sean Winters | Apr. 11, 2013Distinctly Catholic



George Weigel’s newest book, Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church, is not without certain moments of lucidity, but fundamentally the text fails to deliver on what the title promises. Yes, he includes buckets of proposals for reform, but not all have anything to do with the Gospel and many are not exactly deep.

First, the good stuff. Weigel usefully focuses on the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII as beginning an era of reform in the Catholic Church, slowly shedding the accoutrements of the Catholicism we associate with the Counter-Reformation and adopting what Weigel perceives as a more evangelical Catholicism. I am not sure Leo would have used those terms, but many of the most significant achievements of Vatican II, such as the Decree on Religious Liberty and the commitment to social justice found in Gaudium et spes, have their beginnings in the writings of Leo. He was a great and seminal pope.

Second, Weigel rightfully seeks to move past the usual, and stale, left v. right framing of the post-Vatican II debates that have riled the Church in the U.S. and Western Europe. He is correct that the left has wanted more lax rules, and the right has wanted more strict rules, but that the whole point of Vatican II was to focus the Church on something deeper than the rules, namely, the encounter with the Risen Lord and subsequent friendship with Jesus, that is a fine definition of the Church. Kudos too for not being afraid to use the phrase “friendship with Jesus” which may sound a little fundamentalist to RC ears but which is a lovely way of describing the relationship of the believer to the Lord.

Third, Weigel at times keeps the focus on Christ and almost lets himself sound like a Communio theologian. He writes:

The Christ proclaimed by Evangelical Catholicism is no mere moral paragon, no mere teacher of noble truths about righteous living who comes to a sad end because of human wickedness. He is the Son of the Most High God, incarnate in the flesh and in history, for, as C.S. Lewis provocatively suggested, there are only two other possibilities: that Jesus of Nazareth was a madman, or that he was history’s greatest liar. There are no other options.

I agree with every word of that and am not so proud as to deny that I wish I had written those lines.

Fourth, Weigel reminds the reader that Catholicism is a revealed faith, that there are limits to which we can recast the language, still less the doctrine, of the Church in our own image, even though he also admits that the Church needs to present its proposal of faith in language that the audience will comprehend. I think he tends to elide the real tensions between these two poles, always seeking an answer that is clear and courageous, as opposed to “Catholic Lite,” and I agree we should avoid “Catholic Lite,” although in this book, as in his career, Weigel is much better at detecting, and denouncing, those “lite” Catholics whose politics differ from his own.

So, those are some of the strengths of this book. But, they could have been fit into an article, or a blog post. And, these pearls are found in a book that is disappointing at times, ridiculous at others, and often proposes an analysis of the actual history of the Church, or the reality of the Catholic Church in the 21st century, that fits a little too conveniently with his own already conceived ideas.

By way of example, Weigel suggests that Italian need not be the lingua franca of the curia. He thinks the curia should use English “like every other international center of consequence.” Now, it would be fine by me if everyone in the curia spoke and wrote in English. But, I do not consider that if this were to happen it would be a “deep” reform. Also, I have scoured the four Gospels, and I did not find any divine mandate for the use of modern English therein. It may be a good idea. It may be a bad idea. It is not an evangelical idea.

There are deeper problems with this book. One would expect that a book dedicated to the proposition that the Church must become more firmly rooted in the Gospel would actually begin its examination of the topics surveyed with some reference to Scripture. Alas, only one of Weigel’s twelve chapters begins with a quote from the Good Book and, throughout, he mostly uses Scripture as a source of proof texts for his ideas. He denounces those who see the Church in managerial terms, but then employs the language of management theory himself. He speaks of “friendship with Christ,” but almost always employs the third person, producing a text that does not excite the heart. Many of the phrases sound like they were crafted as bumper stickers.

This lack of attention to the heart permeates the book. Weigel states that the two criteria for reform are “truth” and “mission.” He cites the Great Commission to go and make disciples throughout the book. But only a few times does Weigel mention the Great Commandment to love one another as He loved us. This leads Weigel to slur the staff of bishops’ conferences, denouncing their bureaucratization as a problem rather than recognizing a certain amount of bureaucratization as a necessity in an increasingly interdependent and complex world. His constant holding up of Pope John Paul II as the very model of a modern major papacy at times lends itself into a kind of slur against Pope Paul VI. Weigel’s lack of attention to the mandate of charity also leads him to make an outrageously monstrous analogy, writing,

The Catholic Church was wheat and weeds when the Church bowed to royal absolutism; when some churchmen dallied, at least briefly, with fascism, when priests betrayed their vocations by cooperating with communist secret agencies; when postconciliar Catholic intellectuals took their cues from the cultured despisers of religion; when priests abused the young people entrusted to their care, and their bishops accepted the shibboleths of the therapeutic society in responding to such infidelity.

Hmmmm. Which one of those is not quite like the other: Royal absolutism. Fascism. Communism. Child Rape. Intellectual confusion. I think the last does not quite measure up, does it?

On pages 122-123, Weigel sets out his criteria for selecting new bishops. I actually agree with some of the items on the list, although the fact of making a list betrays a certain disposition of mind, putting people into boxes, that is more like the Myers-Briggs tests Weigel denounces than any human interactions found in the Scriptures. Nonetheless, some of his points are fine, such as the need for candidates to become bishops to “manifest a deep personal conversion to friendship with Jesus” and the need for a candidate to “regard the study of Scripture and theology as an essential part of his vocation.” But among the eight items listed, none mentions any demonstrated experience of living amongst the poor, or of loving them with Christ’s love. The poor figure very little in this tome. ‘Nuf said.

I expected Weigel to repeat his understanding of the last half of the twentieth century, as he does. The fifties were a time of bliss. In the post-World War II years, “Catholics experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the culture of the Church and the ambient public culture throughout the regions in which Christianity had long been established” he writes. “Yet in less than a decade after the Council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism.” I would commend Brad Gregory’s book on the Reformation, and how it began the process of secularization, to Mr. Weigel. And, I invite him to think, deeply and evangelically, about the way prosperity and affluence in the post-World War II years might have contributed to the de-Christianization of the ambient public culture. He thinks our affluence may have obscured the emerging hostility of the culture to the Christian creed, but misses the ways that affluence advanced and facilitated that hostility.

The most difficult, if unsurprising, part of this book are those passages when Weigel gets on his highest of high horses and denounces those Catholics he thinks are insufficiently vigorous in seeing the world as he sees it. In his chapter on the reform of the episcopate, he writes:

The “height” on which bishops stand is the truth of the Gospel as conveyed by Scripture and apostolic tradition, which a man solemnly affirms before his ordination to the episcopate. If a bishop does not stand on that height, if he imagines that “faithful dissent” is a problem to be managed rather than a breach in the communion of the Church that must be challenged and corrected in charity, he cannot be a watchman for the New Israel, the Church. And he must be replaced.

This from the man who famously said the final papal encyclical from Benedict XVI should be read with gold and red pens, excising those passages that did not measure up to Weigel’s neo-conservative standards. This from the man who downplayed the call to a conversion of lifestyles among the affluent people of the West in many of John Paul’s writings and talks. This from the man who now condemns the depravity of Fr. Maciel but who was enabling Maciel as long as John Paul II was around protecting him, and who chastises the curia (darned bureaucrats!) for nominating an Archbishop of Warsaw who turned out to have collaborated with the communists, failing to note that the Congregation for Bishops (darned bureaucrats!) could be forgiven for not knowing what questions to ask of a Polish candidate because Weigel’s hero, John Paul II, made all Polish appointments on his own without consulting the Congregation for twenty-six years. Well, it is all a little much.

I agree with Weigel that the Church needs reform. I agree, too, that such reform must be grounded in the Gospel. But, I seem to recall the Master saying his good news was good news for the poor. I seem to remember the Blessed Mother warning the rich that they will be sent away empty when the reign of God commences. In the end, when Weigel writes that “evangelical Catholicism requires X” or that “evangelical Catholicism proposes Y” one has the suspicion that he has replaced a pronoun with the phrase “evangelical Catholicism.” What Weigel is really saying is the he requires X, and he proposes Y. Fortunately, the 115 cardinal electors in the recent conclave took a wider view, a deeper view you might say, of the reforms they desire for the Church and selected a man who has lived among the poor and loved them and, just so, encountered Christ in a way that might actually commend itself to the admittedly somewhat tired Church in the West. Weigel wanted a culture warrior pope, and this book suggests a battle plan. But, instead, the cardinals chose, dare I say it, an evangelical Catholic. I hope Weigel can adjust.

Note to Readers: Today is the last of my three days away from my computer all day. Check out my colleague Jerry Filteau's reports on the Pacem in terris conference. Today, i am off to New York momentarily to give a talk on religious liberty and the media. Tomorrow, I will return to being a human being and providing links and short commentaries throughout the morning in addition to my larger morning post.


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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Pope Francis Advisory Council To Reform Church With Permanent Panel Of 8 Cardinals


By NICOLE WINFIELD 04/13/13 01:33 PM ET EDT





VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect the universal nature of the church in key governing decisions.

The advisory panel includes only one current Vatican official. The rest are cardinals from North, Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia. Many have been outspoken in calling for a shake-up of the Vatican bureaucracy, which was last reformed 25 years ago, while others have tried to clean up the church from sexually abusive priests.

In the run-up to the conclave that elected Francis the first Latin American pope one month ago, many cardinals demanded the Vatican be more responsive to their needs on the ground and said the Holy See bureaucracy itself must be overhauled. Including representatives from each continent in a permanent advisory panel to the pope would seem to go a long way toward answering those calls.

In its announcement Saturday, the Vatican said Francis got the idea to form the advisory body from the pre-conclave meetings where such complaints were aired. "He has formed a group of cardinals to advise him in the governing of the universal church and to study a revision of the apostolic constitution Pastor Bonus on the Roman Curia," the statement said.

Pope John Paul II issued Pastor Bonus in 1988, and it functions effectively as the blueprint for the administration of the Holy See, known as the Roman Curia, and the Vatican City State. The document metes out the work and jurisdictions of the congregations, pontifical councils and other offices that make up the governance of the Catholic Church.

Pastor Bonus itself was a revision of the 1967 document that marked the last major reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, undertaken by Pope Paul VI.

A reform of the Vatican bureaucracy has been demanded for years, given that both John Paul and Benedict XVI essentially neglected in-house administration of the Holy See in favor of other priorities. But the calls for change grew deafening last year after the leaks of papal documents exposed petty turf battles within the Vatican bureaucracy, allegations of corruption in the running of the Vatican city state, and even a purported plot by senior Vatican officials to out a prominent Catholic as gay.

Francis' advisory group will meet in its inaugural session Oct. 1-3, though Francis is already in contact with the group's members, the Vatican said. No other dates were announced, an indication that Francis is in no particular hurry to overhaul things.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, stressed that the cardinals are a consultative body, not a decision-making one, and that they won't take the place of the Vatican bureaucracy. His comments appeared aimed at reassuring Vatican bureaucrats that they weren't being sidelined by a counterweight advisory body that better reflects the geographic distribution of today's church.

The church is growing and counts most of the world's Catholics in the southern hemisphere, while it's shrinking in Europe. Yet the Vatican and the 200-strong College of Cardinals, traditionally the pope's primary advisers, remain heavily European.

Lombardi said the fact that Francis selected cardinals from every continent indicated he wanted to reflect the universal nature of the church in Vatican decision-making.

"The Roman Curia retains all its fundamental functions helping the pope in the daily governance of the universal church," Lombardi told Vatican Radio. "The naming of this group adds to this, in a certain sense integrates it, with a universal point of view and voices from different parts of the world."

The members of the panel include Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Vatican city state administration – a key position that oversees, among other things, the Vatican's profit-making museums. The non-Vatican officials include Cardinals Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, the retired archbishop of Santiago, Chile; Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Mumbai, India; Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany; Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo; Sean Patrick O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston; George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia; and Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, who will serve as coordinator.

Monsignor Marcello Semeraro, bishop of Albano, Italy will be the panel secretary.

O'Malley, a Capuchin friar, has spent his career cleaning up churches from sexually abusive priests. Pell was outspoken in the run-up to the conclave about the need for reform in the bureaucracy. Maradiaga heads the church's Caritas International charity federation and is a rare moderate in the College of Cardinals who hasn't shied from criticizing the failings of the curia.

In theory, all popes have cardinals at their disposal to serve as advisers; advising the pope is a cardinal's main job aside from voting in conclaves. But neither John Paul nor Benedict made frequent use of their cardinal advisers, in part because they were so far away and numbered more than 200.

With such a small group of men hand-picked by the pope to specifically advise him in running the church and reforming the Vatican, it appears Francis wants a more collegial type of governance for his papacy. That also would meld with his reluctance to call himself pope in favor of his other main title, bishop of Rome.

That said, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is on record saying that when it comes time to actually making decisions, he is very much a loner.

"One can ask for advice but, in the end, one must decide alone," he said in the 2010 book "The Jesuit" written by his authorized biographer. Doing so means making mistakes, and Bergoglio acknowledged he had made plenty in his lifetime.

"That's why the important thing is to ask God," he said.

In the run-up to his election, cardinals were very clear that the status quo of the Vatican was untenable. Naming a commission of advisers including those most critical of the status quo indicates major reform could be on the horizon.

Some cardinals said they wanted term limits on Vatican jobs to prevent priests from becoming career bureaucrats. They wanted consolidated financial reports to remove the cloak of secrecy from the Vatican's murky finances. And they wanted regular Cabinet meetings where department heads actually talk to one another to make the Vatican a help to the church's evangelizing mission, not a hindrance.

They also said they wanted the Vatican to serve the bishops in the field, and not the other way around.

"It just doesn't work either very quickly or very efficiently," U.S. Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago, said in an interview soon after Francis was elected. "Take marriage cases: People shouldn't have to be asked to wait three, four, five, six years to get a response" for a request for an annulment.

Aside from Saturday's announcement, Francis has made one Vatican appointment so far, naming a member of his namesake Franciscan order to the important No. 2 spot at the Vatican's congregation for religious orders.

His most eagerly-watched appointment has yet to come: that of the Vatican secretary of state, who runs the day-to-day administration of the Holy See. Currently, the position is held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, a 78-year-old canon lawyer whose administrative shortcomings have been blamed for many of the Vatican's current problems today.

George Weigel, a papal biographer who interviewed Bergoglio last May for his new book "Evangelical Catholicism," said Francis understands well the problems of the curia, saying he "displayed a shrewd, but not cynical, grasp of just what was wrong with the church's central bureaucratic machinery, and why."

"I think we can expect the new pope to lead the church in a purification and renewal of the episcopate, the priesthood, the religious life, and the curia, because he understands that scandal, corruption, and incompetence are impediments" to the mission of spreading the faith, Weigel wrote in a recent essay.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who has become something of the ringleader of the reform group, said he had high hopes that Francis would turn the Holy See into a model of good governance given his background and no nonsense style.

"Sometimes in the past the curia has been an example of what not to do, instead of what to do," Dolan said in an interview after Francis' installation. "We need to look to the Holy See and the Roman Curia as a model of good governance, of honesty, of simplicity, of frugality, of transparency, of candor, of raw Gospel service, of a lack of careerism, of people who are driven by virtue."

Dolan suggested that one crucial area of reform would be imposing term limits on Vatican bureaucrats to prevent them from becoming lifers. He said there was also no reason why more laymen and women couldn't be brought into the Vatican bureaucracy, and that the administration itself could shrink.

Archbishop Claudio Mario Celli, who heads the Vatican's social communications office, wants greater communication within the various Vatican departments, including regularly scheduled meetings of department heads.

"We need a more synergetic activity," Celli said in an interview. "If we want to have a more effective service in the church, we need to have a symphonic approach."

George, the archbishop of Chicago, dismissed speculation that one area of Francis' reforms would involve closing the Vatican bank, the Institute for Works of Religion, which has long been a source of scandal for the Vatican.

Doing so would be financial suicide for the Vatican, since it currently provides the pope with about 50 million euros ($65 million) a year in investment income. The bank invests assets of its account holders, money that would have to be returned if it were to close.

Lombardi has said any speculation about the IOR's possible closure "is purely hypothetical and isn't based on any believable or concrete facts."


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5.8-magnitude earthquake shakes Japan


Published: April 13, 2013 at 1:51 PM



TOKYO, April 13 (UPI) -- Some minor injuries were reported when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook southwest Japan early Saturday, officials said.

The quake struck at 5:33 a.m. about 6 miles from Sumoto on Awaji Island, USA Today reported. It had a depth of 3.3 miles.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said at least eight 3.0-magnitude aftershock tremors were registered within 90 minutes of the initial quake.

At least eight people suffered minor injuries due to the quake but there were no immediate reports of structural damage, RIA Novosti reported.

Air and rail transport in the area of the quake was halted briefly, but has since resumed, officials said.


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Happy Sabbath


If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:  Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 58:13, 14.

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Applause, Hand-waving, Drumming, & Dancing in the Church



APPLAUSE, HAND-WAIVING, DRUMMING, & DANCING IN THE CHURCH

Some Preliminary Reflections on Some Current Issues on Worship
By
© Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, Ph.D.
Director, Public Campus Ministries, Michigan Conference
www.drpipim.org



INTRODUCTION

Questions are being raised today about the legitimacy of applause (clapping), uplifted hands, drumming, and dancing in Seventh-day Adventist worship services. These phenomena have been fueled by several factors. Among them are:

(1) the increasing worldliness in our churches, resulting in the adoption of Hollywood-style entertainment in our church services;
(2) the adoption of the worship and evangelistic styles of popular mega-churches and Charismatic/Pentecostal churches of our day;
(3) the attempt in developing countries to “indiginize” the church by incorporating elements from traditional, local, or non-Christian forms of worship;
(4) a lack of understanding of what the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy says on the subject. 


Often, certain Bible passages are employed by proponents as justification for clapping/applause, drumming, and dancing in the church. This article, which draws on works already done by others, will briefly look at these passages. It will conclude by calling attention to a pertinent statement by Ellen G. White in which she indicates that shortly before the close of probation, Satan will introduce drumming and dancing in the church in order to deceive God’s people.



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The Catholic Infiltration of Adventists



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The Elijah Messenger

  


If you are an Adventist, it's likely that this information might frustrate you. If it does then the reader should pause for a moment and consider Paul's inspired counsel, he said to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good" (I Th. 5:21). Ellen White explains that we should be candid with our investigations, ". .Our brethren should be willing to investigate in a candid way every point of controversy. . .We are all under obligation to God to know what He send us. He has given directions by which we may test every doctrine . .to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. If the light presented meets this test, we are not to refuse to accept it just because it does not agree with our ideas." Councils to Writers and Editors, p. 43,44. The signs of the times are here, pointing us to the second coming of Christ. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1844 was called out to prepare a people of this time. But instead of progressing to the high calling of Jesus Christ, something strange happened, they started to digress back to Babylon. In Hebrews 10:38, Paul writing to the Jews said, "Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him." The saints then and the saints today have every right to feel displeased with any church that has been called by God, to be washed and purified, but instead desire to wallow in the mire of Babylon. Peter put it this way: "For if after they have escaped the pollution's of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.(I Pe. 2:20-22)."


Adventists Giving Tithes & Offerings to Catholics

Some months ago a friend of mine who writes a monthly newsletter called Escape for Thy Life, sent me a copy. On the front page of this newsletter was a clipping from the Trinidad Guardian May 3rd 1996, page. The title of the first page was, Adventist helping Catholics. If you have ever read the Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, as an Adventist this may spark some interest and might even prompt you to speak out against this unholy alliance. This is exactly what Nyron Madina did as he explained the events that preceded the publishing of the article. "What a shocking picture which appeared on the front of the Trinidad Guardian on May 3rd 1996. There is a picture of the Roman Catholic Archbishop Anthony Pantin hugging a Seventh-day Adventist woman, Suduyn Elder, of a local Community Services Director for the South Caribbean conference of the Seventh-day Adventist, while on the left a Roman Catholic nun, Sr. Marina Serette looks on with a smile, and on the right Pastor Clie Dottin looks on smiling approvingly. What was the occasion? The South Caribbean of Seventh-Day Adventists donated TT$20.000.00 as a contribution to the rebuilding of the burnt out dormitories of the St. Dominic's Home."Escape For Thy Life, vol.1, no.1, pp.6-7. Tithes and offering are sacred to God and to His service. So why was it given to the most diabolical institution which will soon give birth to the antichrist. In Revelation 18:3 God revealed to us how rich the Catholic Church really is . . ."nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of For all the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." In spite of God's revelation, we see the Adventist adding to Rome's billions. Nyron Madina also stated, "in the same newspaper the Roman Catholic Church still justifies Sunday Holiness which Adventism by its very nature is against. Ibid. 6. In this present time the General Conference deserves to hear the same rebuke from Hanani the prophet, to Asa "Herein thou hast done foolishly" (II Ch. 16:9).


Adventists and Catholics Unite in Health Care

Adventist are so marinated with the spirit of Catholicism that they decided to unite in health care. This took place in Colorado, where the Porter care Adventist Health system, and the Roman Catholic Sister of Charity Health service sought too, aligned themselves together. The nominal Adventist poses no threat to the Papal system. This is why the Pope feels compelled to add the Adventist to his list of "Martyrology." Adventists will be allied with its supposed opposition in the most ecumenical "Martyrology" unprecedented in history. The Extra Newsweek, issue Winter, 1997 p.16 quotes, "In his most dramatic millennial gesture he has asked all the worlds bishops to compile a list of Christians who in this century were persecuted for their faith. These names which could amount to a million from almost every continent, will be published in a "Martyrology." What makes this list different from those of the early church is this; it will include Christians of every stripe-Protestants and Orthodox, Anglicans and Adventists, not just Catholics." I wonder if the Pope is trying to warn the minority of faithful Protestants, as to say if you don't join the rest in my bandwagon of ecumenism, as the faithful "martyrs" of the past, I will unite you at death in my "Matyrology."


Flirting with Rome

The Adventists flirting with Rome, can be traced back to the inception in 1965, and still continues up to this present day. In 1977, Dr. B.B. Beach, the secretary of the Northern Europe West African Division of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, had a chief part in cross-breeding Adventism with Catholicism. This is equal to spiritual fornication! This is the same path that ancient Israel played: "Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith." Ezekiel 16:29.


B B. Beach calls the Pope Holy Father

Roman Catholics have many titles for the Pope. Here are just some of them, "Vicar of Christ," "Holy Father," "Your Holiness," etc. All these names titles are condemned by the Bible! The Pope himself confirms this, in his recent book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p.6 "Have no fear when people call me the "Vicar of Christ," when they say to me, "Holy Father," or "Your Holiness," or use titles similar to these, which seem even inimical to the Gospel. Christ himself declared: call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven. Do not be called 'Master', you have but one master, the Messiah" (Mt 23:9-10). These expressions, nevertheless, have evolved out of a long tradition, becoming part of common usage. One must not be afraid of these words either." You may think this is horrendous but it keeps getting worse. Consider what C. Mervyn Maxwell, professor of church history at Andrews University in Berrien Springs Michigan has to say about Rome, "the Roman Catholic church was virtually the Christian church in Western Europe for about a thousand years. Because of this early universality, both Protestants and Catholics may regard it as the embodiment of 'our' Christian heritage, for better or for worse." God Cares, vol. 1, p. 127. I do not know what's your opinion is on this, but my Christian heritage did not derive from Rome, this is blasphemy! His apostate father, S. Maxwell, also thinks very highly of Rome according to the monthly newsletter, Watchman's What of the Night,"In a sermon given at the University Church in Loma Linda, Maxwell, father of C. Mervyn. . .suggested "We must rethink our approach to our Roman Catholic friends." Having cited the Popes opening speech of the Council as a picture of the church loving humanity, the separated brethren and people who don't belong and all people of all faiths and religions, "he asked, "How can we reject an outstretched hand and be Christians?" He suggested that the sermons preached in the past revealing the atrocities of Rome and its blasphemous doctrines must now be scrapped (Present Truth, 1968, No.2.) Ibid. 2-3. I ask, why would B B. Beach, S. Maxwell and his son say such things? Mrs. White said, "it is the rejection of the Bible truth which makes men approach to infidelity. It is a backsliding church that lessons the distance between itself and the Papacy." Signs of the Times, Feb. 19th 1894. The god of this world is Satan! The Papacy claims to be the ruler of the world. Therefore, trying to unite with the Papacy is like uniting with the devil, that is why the bible says, "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (Ja. 4:4).


Adventist Ministers Guided by Jesuits

Derek Morris is an Adventist College religion teacher, with a Bachelor of arts degree from Columbia Union College, and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees, from Andrews University (1987). This minister with all the wealth of knowledge of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy turns to the Jesuits for spiritual directions. He wrote a twelve page study called, Spiritual Formation in Ministry, which he was fearful at the beginning to place his spiritual life at the hands of another, but after some encouragement he continued on. In his tract he explained what happened. "I was experiencing a high level of resistance [from within]. I was to learn later that such resistance is common, not only in the context of developing one's relationship with a spiritual friend, but also in the context of developing a relationship with God. In their book, The Practical of Spiritual Direction, Barry and Connoly spend an entire chapter exploring this common response of resistance." Derek Moris Spiritual Formation, pp. 8. The Spirit of God was convicting him of his apostasy, but it was to no avail. Barry and Conoly belongs to the Jesuit order called the Society of Jesus, and his crafty spirituality comes from none other than Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus:

" We [the authors] are both members of the society of Jesus and have, therefore, been strongly influenced by the spirituality of Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises." Practice of Spiritual Direction, pp. 11.

Ignatius of Loyola mind control methods was proven to be most fatal on its subjects because it had a lasting effect. Edmond Paris, a specialist on the Jesuits, in his book, The Secret History of the Jesuits, quotes Mr. Boehmer as saying, "Ignatius understood more clearly than any other leader of men who preceded him that the best way to raise a man to a certain ideal is to become master of his imagination." He goes on further and explains, "we imbue into him spiritual forces more lasting than all the best principles and doctrines; these forces can come up again to the surface, sometimes after years of not even mentioning them, and become so imperative that the will finds itself unable to oppose any obstacle, and has to follow their irresistible impulse (21)." Could you believe this? Derek Morris trains young ministers to enter into the ministry and he seek his spiritual advice from Jesuits and Ignatius of Loyola was the founder. What caused a man of this caliber to seek advice from one of the most ruthless organizations? Weakness, backsliding and knowing not what they believe: " Many are living in spiritual weakness and backsliding. They know not what they believe. Let us read and study the twelfth chapter of Daniel. It is a warning that we shall all need to understand before the time of the end. There are ministers claiming to believe the truth which are not sanctified through the truth." E.G. White, Manuscript Releases, vol. 15. p.228.


One Wicked Step at a Time

The first wicked step led to the Adventist, Evangelical connection in 1956-57 and that lead to the Adventist, Catholic compromise. Their involvement in the World Council of Churches lessons their idea of the prophetic role of the Papacy. This caused them to reject certain former teaching about the Papacy. This led to this astonishing statement by the Adventist Church, "although it is true that here was a period in the life of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church when the denomination took a distinctly anti-Roman Catholic viewpoint, and the term "hierarchy" was used in a pejorative sense to refer to the papal form of church governance, that attitude on the churches' part was nothing more than a manifestation of widespread anti-popery among conservative Protestant denominations in the early part of the last, and which has now been cosigned to the historical trash heap so far as the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is concerned." Excerpts legal Documents, p. 41. Who with a honest heart could pass by such a statement without speaking against it? This is a God given command, "Son of man, prophest against the shepherds of Israel." Ezekiel 34:2.


The Evangelical Connection

There is a group which sprang out of the Philadelphians, which is a new movement, calling themselves Adventist but are not, but belong to the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 3:9 says, "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie." This omega of apostasy hatched in 1956-57, when the elders of the Adventist Church met with a two respected personage of the Evangelical world Walter Martin and Donald Grey Barnhouse. What was the purpose of the meeting? To discuss doctrine! The Evangelicals pose a number of questions, and in response to those questions they published a book called Questions on Doctrine. At a close examination of this book on the key pillars on Adventism, the reader might wonder who wrote this book an Adventist or an Evangelical. On pages 381-83 we find the enigma of the perplexing Evangelical teachings. A comparison with the new theology and the real gospel will show why such a dilemma is present.


The False Teaching of the Sanctuary and The Nature of Christ

The Sanctuary from Questions on Doctrine, p. 381 "Jesus our surety entered the holy places, and appeared in the presence of God for us. But it was not with the hope of obtaining something for us at that time, or at some future time. No! He had already obtained it for us on the cross." Also in the same book, this is how far they drifted in their teachings on the human nature of Christ, "although born in the flesh, He was nevertheless God, and was exempt from the inherited passions and pollution's that corrupts the natural descendents of Adam." Ibid. 383.

It their recent book, Seventh-Day Adventists Believe, p. 315. col. 2. You would find a similar repetition, "the atonement, or reconciliation, was completed on the cross as foreshadowed by the sacrifices, and the penitent believer can trust in this finished work of our Lord." In the same book, they continue, "thus Christ's' humanity was not the Adamic humanity, that is, the humanity of Adam before the fall; nor fallen humanity, that is, in every respect the humanity of Adam after the fall. It was not the Adamic, because it had the innocent infirmities of the fallen. It was not the fallen, because it had never descended into moral impurity. It was, therefore, most literally our humanity, but without sin." Ibid. 47,49 cols.1,2.


The Correct Teaching of the Sanctuary and the Nature of Christ

The book which I am about to quote, was written four years before Question and Doctrine, by a prominent Adventist. Nichols correctly speaking on the "atonement" states as follow, "we believe that Christ's work of atonement was begun rather than completed on Calvary."

Rejecting the atonement is like rejecting Christ death on the cross, "The intercession of Christ in man's behalf in the sanctuary above is as essential to the plan of salvation as was His death upon the cross. By His death He began that work which after His resurrection He ascended to complete in heaven." Ellen G. White, Great Controversy p.489. Romans 8:3 describes the nature of Christ this way: "For 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." Another biblical example is in Philippians 2:7 "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men." In the proceeding quotes, Mrs. White goes on to explain her revelation from God on the Nature of Christ. Her understanding which according to "the law and the testimony" is set fort as follow:

"Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam He accepted the results of the working of the great law of heredity." Desire of Ages, p.49.

"Christ did in reality unite the offending nature of man with his own sinless nature." Review & Herald. July 17, 1900.

The correct teaching of the Sanctuary and the Nature of Christ has been concisely and clearly stated. This should raise some questions in ones mind as too why the false teachings have crept its' way into the Church. When Israel was corrupted in the days of Isaiah, by false doctrines and paganism, he blamed the watchman as did Jeremiah blamed the people:

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Isaiah 56:10.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Jeremiah 5:31.


One of the Anti-Christ Doctrines Defined

The biblical definition of one of the anti-Christ doctrines of the last days, is to deny that Jesus came in the flesh: "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." II John 1:7. These leaders strike at the heart of our theology, the blow was directed at the "Nature of Christ" and the impact was fatal to the Sanctuary; for if Christ did not take our fallen human nature, Jesus could not be the faithful and merciful high priest that the bible claim him to be.

Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Hebrews 2:17.

Therefore, preaching a false doctrine about the human nature of Christ, automatically dampens the sanctuary message. Ellen White was shown that our faith would have nothing to stand on: "In a representation which passed before me, I saw a certain work being done by medical missionary workers. Our ministering brethren were looking on, watching what was being done, but they did not seem to understand. The foundation of our faith, which was established by so much prayer, such earnest searching of the Scriptures, was being taken down, pillar by pillar. Our faith was to have nothing to rest upon--the sanctuary was gone, the atonement was gone. . . ." The Upward Look, p.152.


Adventists Sponsor Billy Graham

There has been a great amount of coziness between the Adventist and Protestants. Billy Graham, the pope of Protestantism who points excatholics who came to the altar after the altar call, he advised them to go back to the Catholic Church. This fact is ducumented by David W. Cloud in his book Flirting with Rome. He quotes the "Calvary Contender as stating:

"According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the archdiocese sent forty trained counselors for the Crusade. After each crusade session, Catholics coming forward were linked up with Catholic counselors and referred to the Catholic Church (Calvary Contender, Jul. 1, 1992). Ibid. 43.

This documentation what I am about to show you is mind boggling, that the Adventist help sponsor a spiritual gangster as Billy Graham on his ecumenical tour to Hungary. Ponder on the information as it reads:

"Graham's visit was sponsored jointly by the Baptist Union and an alliance that included Seventh-Day Adventist, Pentecostal, and Methodist. The meeting were said to be the most ecumenical ones ever held in Hungary (National Christian Council Review, National Christian Council of India, May 1986)." Flirting with Rome, vol.1, p. 37.

To put a cloak of righteousness over their apostasy, they seek to find refuge in quoting Ellen White as saying: "Our ministers should seek to come near to the ministers of other denominations. Pray for and with these men, for whom Christ is interceding. A solemn responsibility is theirs. As Christ's messengers we should manifest a deep, earnest interest in these shepherds of the flock." Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6 p.78. I could understand when Ellen White said, "come near to the ministers of other denominations," but she never said to join or sponsor them in their apostasy. Ellen White gives an inch but the leaders have stretched it to a yard!


Satan's Plan is to Change the Leadership

In the Old Testament, one of Satan's plans for Israel was to change the leadership and it was successful. What was the result? The result was corruption, rejection and finally destruction! Ellen White said that the Adventist Church will change their leaders and the majority would not know.

"Men in positions of responsibility are in danger of changing leaders. This I know, for it has been plainly revealed to me." Series B. no. 2, p. 48.

"But I am now speaking of actual mistakes and errors that those who really love God and the truth sometimes commit. There is manifested on the part of men in responsible positions an unwillingness to confess where they have been in the wrong; and their neglect is working disaster, not only to themselves, but to the churches. . . you will be left to make mistakes of a similar character, you will continue to lack wisdom, and will call sin righteousness and righteousness sin. The multitude of deceptions that will prevail in these last days will encircle you, and you will change leaders, and not know that you have done so." Review & Herald, vol. 2 p. 448-49. Dec.16, 1890.


Where Do We Draw the Line

I can show apostasy after apostasy, but the question remains, where do we draw the line when separation becomes a reality? Consider the abundance of light that the Seventh-Day Adventist Church received from God. The "Third Angels message," the testing message for these last days to the world was theirs to preach. Despite this great honor if the Adventist Church does not live up to this light [which they are presently not doing as you have read in the proceeding pages] they are in danger of never coming out of the depths of their apostasy. A perfect example of this is when Ellen White compared Capernaum to the Adventist Church. She said:

"Of those who boast of their light, and yet fail to walk in it, Christ says, "But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum [Seventh-day Adventists, who have had great light], which art exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege], 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. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee." Review & Herald, vol. 3, 08-01-93.

Let us consider Luke 3:8, when John perceived the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders he said, "begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." We can learn from instance that God is not dependent of any denomination to finish His work. But if He starts revealing His will to a select group of people, and they fail just like the Jews, He would gather out the faithful ministers and choose others. The evidence for this claim is in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy: "If doubts and unbelief are cherished, the faithful ministers will be removed from the people who think they know so much." Testimonies to Ministers, p. 410. This is contrary to what most leaders teach, they teach that the bad are shaken out, Ellen White taught the complete opposite. Consider what is about to be presented before you and weigh the evidence for yourselves

"The Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him. When the Jewish people rejected Christ, the Prince of life, He took from them the kingdom of God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on this principle with every branch of His work. When a church proves unfaithful to the work of the Lord, whatever their position may be, however high and sacred their calling, the Lord can no longer work with them. Others are then chosen to bear important responsibilities. But, if these in turn do not purify their lives from every wrong action, if they do not establish pure and holy principles in all their borders, then the Lord will grievously afflict and humble them and, unless they repent, will remove them from their place and make them a reproach." E.G White, The Upward Look, p. 131.


The Wheat and the Tares

Most Adventists in whom I had discussed some of these issues with, shuffle around Ellen White writing like a deck of cards, and present this statement as the ace of their argument to stay in the church. They quote Ellen White as saying, "we are not to say what constitutes the wheat, and what is the tares. The time of the harvest will fully determine the character of the two classes specified under the figure of the tares and the wheat. The work of separation is given to the Angels of God; and not committed to the hands of any man." Testimonies to Ministers, p.47.

Prsently, Adventist believe that the wheat and the tares would be separated at the time National Sunday Law. Read and see how Ellen White explains herself and correlate this with what you have been taught:

"I then saw the third angel. Said my accompanying angel, "Fearful is his work. Awful is his mission. He is the angel that is to select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly garner." Early Writings, p.118.

"I was shown that the third angel, proclaiming the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, represents the people who receive this message and raise the voice of warning to the world."Testimonies for the Church, vol.1, p.77.

"The [third] angel represented in prophecy as delivering this message, symbolizes a class of faithful men, who, obedient to the promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of his word, proclaim this warning to the inhabitants of earth. This message was not to be committed to the religious leaders of the people." The Spirit of Prophecy, vol.4, 199.

"The work of redemption involves consequences of which it is difficult for man to have any conception. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." 1 Cor. 2:9. As the sinner, drawn by the power of Christ, approaches the uplifted cross, and prostrates himself before it, there is a new creation. A new heart is given him. He becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus. Holiness finds that it has nothing more to require. God Himself is "the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Rom. 3:26. And "whom He justified, them He also glorified." Rom. 8:30. Great as is the shame and degradation through sin, even greater will be the honor and exaltation through redeeming love. To human beings striving for conformity to the divine image there is imparted an outlay of heaven's treasure, an excellency of power, that will place them higher than even the angels who have never fallen." Christ's Object Lessons, p.162-3.

It is worthy at this point to allow a friend of mine, who writes a monthly newsletter Omega Countdown, to express his understanding on the wheat and the tares: "It is the work of sepatating the wheat from the tares that is not committed to the hands of any man, not the separating of the saints from open sinners and apostates, and there is a very distinct difference! Tares are insincere Christians who hide their insincerity quite well. Judas was a tare. Open sinning apostates like Nimri is quite a different story. Was Phinesa judging Nimri a tare when he ran him through with a swork? No! He was separating an open sinner from the camp by death! Can you gainsay this truth?" Ron Beaulieu, Omega Countdown Ministries, February 1993, p.25.

The separation of the tares and the binding of the wheat, has been taking place since the time of Ellen White: "I see perplexities on every side. As character develops man and woman will take their position, for varied circumstances brought to bear upon them will cause them to reveal the spirit which prompts them to action. Every one will reveal the character of the bundle with which he is binding himself. The wheat is being bound up for the heavenly garner. The true people of God are now bound up for the heavenly garner. The true people of God are now pulling apart, and the tares are being bound in bundles ready to burn. Decided positions will be taken. Satan will move upon minds that have been indulged, upon men who have always had their own way, and anything presented to them in counsel or reproof to change their objectionable traits of character is considered faultfinding, binding them, restraining them, that they cannot have liberty to act themselves. The Lord in great mercy has sent messages of warning to them, but they would not listen to reproof. Like the enemy who rebelled in heaven, they do not like to hear, do not correct the wrong they have done but become accusers, declaring themselves misused and unappreciated. E.G. White, 1888 Materials, p.995.

The messengers, which God sends to deliver the messages of warning, is none other than the church triumphant. Which God uses to aid the church in every generation, in its necessity, but most of the time they don't take heed: "The members of the church triumphant,--the church in heaven--will be permitted to draw near to the members of the church militant, to aid them in their necessity." E.G. White, The Southern Watchmen, Sep. 8, 1903. There goes the heresy of Keavin Hayden, who believes that God will have a remnat within the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and by their faithful lives shake and purge the church from their evil. So automatically one belives the church will shift from the church militant to the church triumphant. What a false hope!


The Unpardonable Sin

A perfect example of the unpardonable sin is in Hebrew 6:4-6, "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost. And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Another biblical explanation can be found in James 4:17, "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."

What makes it unpardonable? As stated above, it is because the person or persons know what is right but persist in their wrong doings. Another classic example is what took place in 1844: "I was shown in a vision, and I still believe, there was a shut door in 1844. All who saw the light of the first and second Angel's messages and rejected that light were left in the proclamation of the message form heaven, and who afterward renounced their faith and pronounced their experience a delusion, there by rejected the spirit of God and it no longer pleaded with them." E.G. White, The Early Years, vol.1 p.260. Ron Beaulieu said it right when he expressed this statement: "refusing to receive and obey any of the three angel's messages, one rejects the light from heaven and falls from the favor of God: SHUT DOOR "As the churches refused to receive the first angel's message, they rejected the light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. They trusted to their own strength, and by opposing the first message placed themselves where they could not see the light of the second angel's message. But the beloved of God, who were oppressed, accepted the message, "Babylon is fallen," and left the churches." Early Writings, p.237. Omega Coundown Ministries, February 1996, p.18.

Unlike man, Jesus never changes: "Jesus is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." Hebrews 13:8. My question to you is, if the Adventist church violates any one of the three angel's messages, what would God do to them? Matthew 22:7 has the answer: "But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city."

This frightening ordeal would have its counterpart in Ezekiel 9, with the general destruction of the wicked. The destroying angel, would begin at the santuary, [the professing SDA church] when there is a separation of sin and sinners. This is what the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy teach! What I am about to show should forever settle the separation issue. The Directory Christian Councils, states that the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is full members in the following countries: Hong Kong p.63, Bahamas p.99, Belize p.100, Hungary p.142, Sweden p.158. On page 224, the last page of the Directory Christian Councils has this astonishing to say: "In addition to the relationships and national councils of churches mentioned above, the WCC is in working relationships with many Christian World Communions, including the Anglican Consultative Council, Baptist World alliance, Disciples Ecumenical Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist . . ." "Since 1967 there has been a joint Working Group between the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church." Ibid 244.

Who Created the World Coucil of Churches?

It is important to know who created and founded the World Council of Churches, and where it is leading those who unite in their confederacy. A very well known author, Texe Marrs, who dedicated his life to exposing the evils that exist in world politics and religion, has a lot to say about the World Council of Churches:

"They [the Rockefellers] founded the blasphemous Parliament of the World's Religions, held in Chicago in 1993. Before that epic devilfest, the Rockefellers founded the Marxist-oriented World Council of Churches and National Council of Churches." Circle of Intrigue, p.145.

The Rockefellers are a group of international Bankers, who finance every evil you could ever concieve. Throughout the centuries they worked to further their goal, which is to create a New World Order. Gary H. Kah added another important piece of the puzzlel the Masonic connection: "The false ecumenical-interfaith unity being promoted today by the World Council of Churches. An organization that is strongly influenced by Freemasonry, is nothing new. It has been used for centuries to further the cause of world government." En Route To Global Occupation, p.109.

How much would it take before you will be convinced? For all those who like to be overwhelmed with evidence before they decide that the church has apostasized, I will proceed even further, but remember if you're convicted, Christ said that the knowledge which you have received will be your judge, in the last day: "He that rejected me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. John 12:47.

We must come to the realization that the elders of the church have made the church and many of its members become corrupt. The church in its present state is not a place to improve your spiritual life because it has become spiritually bankrupt!

"We must as a people arouse and cleanse the camp of Israel. Licentiousness, unlawful intimacy,and unholy practices are coming in among us in a large degree . . . We are in daner of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches to become corrupted. And filled with every unclean and hateful bird, and will we not be clear unless we make decided movements to cure the existing evil?" E.G. White, Manuscript Release, No. 449, p. 17,18.


The Regular Lines have Proven to be Unfaithful!

The Regular lines (organization) have become full of irregular practices: "So often the same old difficulties arise and are presented in regard to disturbing the 'regular lines.' But God will work in some way to make His people understand that the regular lines have become full of irregular practices. . . God alone can make men understand that working on regular lines has led to irregular practices. God alone makes men's minds as they should be. The time has come when we should hear less in favor of the regular lines. If we can get away from the regular lines into something which, though irregular working which has led away from bible principle." E.G. White, Manuscript Release, #1450. p. 3,4 (1904). John the Baptist, Jesus, the apostle Paul and many others have been using these irregular lines, which have proven to be more successful than the regular lines. Nobody likes to be hated! That's why it is such a hard saying when duty requires it! "This is a hard saying who can here it? John 6:60.


Corporate Repentance

The leaders also deny the existence of corporate repentance. After reading this tract and seeing the evils that exist in the Church, it is easy for one to say, I am not commiting such sins, so therefore I should be excused from the condemnation that hangs over the heads of the culprits. For those of you that agree with the above, consider for a moment with sincerity and honesty, what Mr. White said:

"The plain, straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of their sins. God holds His people, as a body, responsible for the sins existing in individuals among them." Testimony's vol. 3 p. 269

The Jesuit thinker in Adventism says, "sin with resultant guilt, stems from the exercise of free moral choice and rests upon personal accountability before God" . . . "In a matter of sin, God does not deal with groups of people of with committees. He does not hold a committee as such responsible for the actions that the committee takes. Even though a committee, or a church through its delegated representatives, may have made a wrong decision, in taking notice of their corporate decision God still hods the representative individuals who constituted the committee resposible for the votes they cast." Roy Adams, The Nature of Christ, p.103. Ouoting Arnold Wallendampf, Statement, as published in his book: What Every Adventist Should Know About 1888, p. 53.

The book, The Nature of Christ, was endorsed by leaders in high places. Here are the names, George R. Knight, Professor of Church History of Andrews University, William H. Shea, Associate Director of Biblical Researe Institute, Raoul Dederen, SDA Theological Seminary of Andrews University, and Robert Folkenberg, President of General Conference. Malachi Martin, the author of the book titled, The Key of This Blook is a former Jesuit and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute. All these men mentioned above stand by the Jesuit theory of the denial of Corporate Repentance. This is just another repetition of Corporate Repentance but Jesuit style.

"Let's face it: Even atheists know the Church teaches that sin is, first and only, personnal. It involves the choice of individual will in a man of women who freely and knowingly violates God's revealed Law. In strict theological language, as anybody will tell you, there is no such thing as collective sin; the sin of a group. Much less, than, can a structure whether formed of stones and wook, or a bureaucratic arrangements be said to commit sin, to be sinful, to be in a state of sin."

In conclusion I'd like to say, the information you have just read is writen in Love. At no time do I revel in these above facts, but on the contrary I am saddened to see the state of the church. I will take this opportunity to quote from Ellen White and the Bible concerning these things.

"The Lord commanded one of his ancient servants, "Pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee." The prophet thus describes the sins which had called forth this fearful denunciation: "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" "From the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace." The apostles declare that this state of things will find its counterpart in the last days. Many have a form of godliness, but in their daily life deny the power thereof. They have ceased to be convicted of their sins or alarmed at their state. They say in their hearts, "The church is flourishing. Peace and spiritual prosperity are within her borders." The words of the prophet may well apply to these self-deceivers, "They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them." Review & Herald, vol. 1, 11-07-82.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments: For this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.


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