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Costa Rica Community Update

2009-02-12T17:13:00.001-06:00

It has been a long, long time since we have sent out any community updates because very little was happening.

The task to get an Intentional Community up and running is a daunting one indeed, and it has been about two years since we have really tried to put something together. Our last attempt almost succeeded, but we lost the option on the land we had found just as people were starting to show interest.

But now, with the worldwide economic crisis as well as the fact that food you buy commercially is generally not fit for human consumption, as well as many other problems of modern city "life," the need to get a self sustaining community in place has never been more urgent.

This is a preliminary email to let you know that we are reactivating this project and are going to use one or two new approaches.

One of the problems with getting a community up and running is a people problem. Sad to say, personality conflicts and disagreements have caused many community start up efforts in Costa Rica to blow up over the years.

I believe I have a way to nip this problem in the bud before it develops into a monster that could destroy the project before it comes into being, as has happened several times to my personal knowledge alone, and has surely caused hundreds if not thousands of failures in Costa Rica alone.

What we need to do is get together a core group of like minded people who are interested in working with us to build the community of our dreams. Over the years, various screening processes have been kicked around, most of which appeared quite promising, but none of which have ever worked out.

Yet, as the global situation gets more dire by the day, the urgency to get this project moving forward again has never been greater. If we don't get off of our rear ends and do something soon, the world situation will slam the door shut on such opportunities, at least for some time.

What I propose is very simple. We need a small, dedicated, core group to make this work. People who are committed to this dream and are willing to work with each other to bring it about. This core group will help to shape the character, vision, and, in fact, everything about our new home.

The simple idea I have is to invite those of you who are willing and able to relocate to Costa Rica NOW to do so. I propose that those coming down rent a house or apartment within a short distance of my location, so that we can have dinners, planning sessions, get togethers, and other social functions several times per week.

We need to get to know each other and get used to working with each other NOW, before the community is born, because, if we can't do that before the community is born, we most certainly can't do it once we have our new dream home.

Some people won't like other people, and some won't be able to work with and integrate into our group. That is human nature, but it's better to find this out BEFORE you invest your money in the community than to find out AFTER.

In other words, the situation I am proposing is a low impact way to find out if you are comfortable with the group BEFORE you make any real commitments or time or money. If someone doesn't fit in with the group or doesn't like the way things are going, it will be easy to leave and find a group you are more compatible with.

Further, if you understand the MasterMind principal and the Law of Attraction, you will already know that the larger the group we have working towards the same goal, the faster and easier it will be to obtain that goal. I will be writing more on these matters in the coming week, both on our community page and in my Costa Rica blog.

Once we have a group dynamic and have formed a MasterMind, then the Law of Attraction will see to it that we attain our goals. But we must be a group with common interests all working towards the same goals. That is the only way this is going to work.

Some of you reading this message subscribed to our autoresponder some time ago. You don't have to do anything to receive further updates, since you are already on this list. Others will be reading this on my blog or on a newsgroup or forum posting.

If you want to receive all of the updates, you need to subscribe to our autoresponder by entering your information at the bottom of the Community Page at So Ya Wanna Move to Costa Rica.

The url to this page is:

http://soyawannamove.com/costarica/wanna13.shtml

I will be sending out another announcement over the weekend or early next week once that page has been updated. We will also figure out how we want to "get together" to discuss these things.

I am considering using a Skype conference or chat once or twice a week, but if there is a better idea, please let me know by filling out a Helpdesk Ticket at the above website..

I look forward to getting this project moving forward, building our future in harmony with nature and ourselves.

Sincerely,

John Allen

Does It Matter WHICH DAYS We Observe?

2008-12-10T16:20:00.001-06:00

Does It Matter WHICH DAYS We Observe?

Some brethren need to WAKE UP from their spiritual laxity and
begin to perform what Jesus commanded!

OUR BAPTIZING tours have discovered a dreadful spiritual
condition among some brethren. They have found, for example,
that some have been carelessly neglecting Jesus' passover
command: "DO this in remembrance of Me."
Some admitted they just "forgot" about the passover service.
Others insisted they did not know where to purchase wine!
Brethren! IF, INDEED SOME OF YOU ARE BRETHREN, THIS MUST NOT
BE!
THINK of it! Some of you have supposedly ACCEPTED THE BLOOD
OF JESUS CHRIST -- His PERFECT, Holy, Righteous Self, in YOUR
stead! You have asked your Heavenly Father to apply the
sacrifice of THAT perfect Life to blot out YOUR SINS!
WHAT AN INEXCUSABLE, UNTHINKABLE, HEEDLESS, CARELESS,
UNGRATEFUL ACT -- to IGNORE the command of YOUR SAVIOUR to
observe the commemoration of the SHEDDING of that precious blood!
You who have done such a thing, I sternly REBUKE with the very
indignation of Almighty God, and in the name of the Jesus Christ
you have been FORGETTING!
Don't carelessly say: "I don't see as it makes any difference
whether I observe these days"!

It Does Make a Difference!

Brethren, it does make a difference! YOUR ETERNAL DESTINY
depends on it! You are soon -- very soon -- going to stand
before the judgment bar of Christ. Then you won't carelessly
say: "I do not think it makes much difference"; or, "Here is the
way I look at my situation."
It does not matter how YOU look at it, or what you think. God
says it makes a difference WITH HIM! You can't treat His Son
with disrespect and get away with it! There is a way that seems
right to a man -- to some of YOU but the end result are the ways
of DEATH (Proverbs 14:12).
You will be judged by what God says -- not by what you think!
But neglect of the passover service is not the only cause of
spiritual lack. Many more of you have been neglecting to attend
the Feast of Tabernacles. Some living no more than 250 miles from
the Tabernacle grounds claim "it is too far to go" -- or they
just did not have the money."
These typical excuses are NOT valid reasons. The only reason
some of you do not have sufficient money is that you have failed
to save your second tithe -- you have been disobedient! And as
for distance -- there is no distance too great to keep you from
the feast IF YOU WANT TO COME. Some brethren travel 2500 miles
each way to attend!
The real reason why some of you have not been coming is that
you are ashamed of your spiritual condition -- your smoking
habits you haven't overcome -- your other problems. Brethren,
that is just the reason you NEED the Feast of Tabernacles! You
cannot afford to miss it!
I met one man last year at the feast whom I had not seen for
six years! He confessed to me: "I HAD TO COME. I FOUND MYSELF
DRIFTING -- I knew I could not continue that any longer. So I am
here and will continue to be here henceforth."
Yes, it does make a difference!

A New Testament Command

The Church of God today is a New Testament Church. Its Head,
Jesus Christ, preached the New Testament gospel. Nowhere did
Jesus during His entire New Testament ministry ever observe the
temporary customs of the law of Moses.
Christ never once offered an animal sacrifice. Yet Christ
kept the sabbath and the annual festivals -- and we shall see He
commanded us to do the same.
Jesus kept the feast of Tabernacles (John 7:2, 10, 14, 37).
He set us an example that we should follow His steps! The
apostle John was inspired to write: "He that saith he abideth in
him (Jesus Christ) ought himself also so to walk, even as he
(Christ) walked" (I John 2:6).
Are we walking as Christ walked? Are we doing the things
Christ commanded?
Jesus commanded His apostles to teach their converts "to
observe ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED You" (Matthew
28:20). You have been taught these things. But it seems some
have carelessly neglected to HEED that teaching!
The apostle Paul commanded Christians to follow him as he
followed Christ. What was Paul's example?
Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, not only observed the
sabbath and the annual festivals, BUT COMMANDED HIS CONVERTS TO
DO THE SAME! It is in your New Testament!
So the sabbath and the annual Holy Days were not done away
with after all. Of course! They originated before the law of
Moses -- and they now continue long after the law of Moses ceased
to be binding.
But notice the examples of Scripture. Notice the inspired New
Testament practice of God's Church. Notice why we do these
things today!

The New Testament PROOF

In I Corinthians 5:7-8 we have a New Testament command to a
church predominantly of Gentile origin. Notice Paul's
instruction! "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be
a new lump ..." Why? Why put out leaven, the type of sin?
"For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." Sin has
been paid for. Christ paid for and conquered sin in the flesh!
Therefore let us keep sin from recapturing us. Let us keep sin
out of our lives! How? By what annual reminder? Here is the
apostle's answer:
"THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST, not with old leaven" -- put
away leaven out of your houses each feast -- not only the
physical leaven and leavening agents, but also "the leaven of
malice and wickedness" and keep the feast "with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth."
No Easter here. No Lent here. But instead the New Testament
passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread.
In I Corinthians 11:18-34 the apostle had to explain in detail
how to keep the passover in the local congregation.
To these same Gentile converts at Corinth Paul writes: "For I
will not see you now by the way; but I trust to remain a while
with you, if the Lord permit. But I will remain at Ephesus until
Pentecost" (I Cor. 16:7-8). No Hallowe'en here -- or Christmas
or Whitsunday! But what do we find? The feast of Pentecost --
and in the predominantly Gentile city of Ephesus!
That should not surprise us. Fifty-four days after everything
that was nailed to the cross was abolished the disciples and
apostles were assembled to keep the day of Pentecost! Notice
Acts 2:1, "And when the day of Pentecost" -- one of the annual
festivals God ordained, not some pagan feast -- "... when the day
of Pentecost was being fulfilled, all were together in the one
place" (Panin trans.).
Here again is the New Testament example. What could be
plainer!
Now turn to Acts 20:6. "And we" -- Luke and those with him --
"sailed away from Philippi" -- a Gentile city -- "after the days
of unleavened bread ..." Notice. Luke did not sail after Easter
or some other pagan holiday. They sailed away after they had
marked the days of unleavened bread!

Example of the Colossian Church

Did you know that your New Testament reveals the Gentile
converts at Colosse were keeping the annual sabbaths, were
following God's calendar, and rested each weekly sabbath? It is
there and yet you probably have never noticed it! The very
scripture most often quoted against these days is, in fact, the
strongest proof they were being kept!
These Gentile converts, like the Thessalonians, "became
followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ
Jesus" (I Thess. 2:14). The churches of God in Judaea kept these
days. They followed the example of the Headquarters church in
Jerusalem. And the scattered churches of God in the Gentile
world followed their example!
Notice Paul's commendation of the converts at Colosse. "For
though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your
faith in Christ" (Col. 2:5). Paul had never seen or visited with
these converts. The local church had been raised up by one of
Paul's evangelists. The apostle Paul had received a glowing
report of the church. The Church of God at Colosse was following
Christ -- doing the things He did, keeping the days He kept.
They had ceased their pagan customs. They had quit their heathen
practices. "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in
your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he (Christ) reconciled in
the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable ... if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,
and be nor moved away from the hope of the gospel ..." (Col.
1:21-23).
These Gentile converts, verse 27, had been called out of the
world -- called to separate from the traditions of the world --
but they still lived in a world steeped with pagan superstition
and custom. They were under pressure from their neighbors to
give up their new-found faith. Their Gentile neighbors did not
like them taking up with Biblical practices. They did not want
any "Jewish practices" developing in their community! They wanted
everybody to continue with the traditions and doctrines of the
pagan philosophers, whom the world respected. They weren't about
to have their pagan holidays replaced by God's holy days, or
their sunworship rites superseded by the weekly sabbath, or the
pagan Roman calendar replaced by God's calendar.

Gentile Colossians Were Ascetic

Colosse was a very ascetic community. The people there did
not believe in enjoying pleasure. They believed in a religion of
severity. They believed in rigidly suppressing the body "in
order to purify the soul." They thought that any indulgence of
the senses was wrong. They fasted often, punished themselves,
were vegetarians in part, refused to eat those clean meats God
created for us, and thought drinking wine was terrible!
To keep everybody "in line" they brought social pressure, and
instituted local "blue laws" to keep the preaching of the gospel
from spreading. (See "The Church in the Roman Empire Before A.D.
170," by W. M. Ramsay, Chapter X.) These pagan beliefs were
commonly known to the heathen by the name "philosophy." Paul
used this very word in Colossians 2:8: "Beware lest any man spoil
you through PHILOSOPHY and vain deceit, after the tradition of
men, after the rudiments (or basic concepts) of the world, and
not after Christ."
Philosophy was the doctrine that you could pay for your own
sins by denying yourself the pleasures of the body. It was a
pagan doctrine which denied the need of a Saviour. It was called
philosophy because the pagan PHILOSOPHERS were responsible for
its introduction. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, among others,
taught that the soul was immortal, that the body was a prison
house, that the soul could be released from this prison house of
flesh only if it were purified from any desires of the flesh.
The early Catholic writers used this same expression in their
day to mean asceticism. "It was very common ... to call an
ascetic mode of life 'philosophical,' or 'the life of a
philosopher.' ... The growing sentiment had its roots partly in
the prevailing ideas of CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY, which
instinctively emphasized strongly the dualism of spirit and
matter, and the necessity of subduing the latter to the former,
and partly in the increasing moral corruptness of society." "The
Neo-Platonic philosophy of the times, through its doctrine of the
purification of the soul by its liberation from the body or
sensuous things, taught celibacy and ascetic practices
generally." (From pp. 252 and 546 of "Nicene and Post-Nicene
Fathers of the Christian Church," second series, edited by Schaff
and Wace.)
Those who followed this philosophy were stern ascetics. They
were the opposite of many other Gentiles who loved pleasure and
indulged in the sins of the flesh, whose motto was "Let us eat
and drink, for tomorrow we die."
Not so the Grecian Gentiles at Colosse. They severely judged
their Christian neighbors for the least infraction of ascetic
behavior. They did not like to see the Christians freely eating
meat good for food, or drinking moderately, or keeping the
sabbath and the annual festivals. That is why Paul wrote; "Let
no man therefore judge you for eating or drinking, or in
connection with the observance of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbath days" (Col. 2:16, margin).
Here were Gentile converts, judged by relatives and neighbors,
for doing the things Jesus did, Gentiles being judged for their
part in the celebration of festivals commanded to be observed
forever. Here were Gentiles judged for keeping holy the days God
made holy! And yet this verse has been cleverly quoted by the
churches to make it say the exact opposite of what it does say.
It is time we noticed what this chapter really says. It is time
we see for ourselves the meaning of this scripture, and quit
taking for granted what it nowhere says!

Not Law of Moses

Probably most of us have taken for granted for years that Paul
is writing about the law of Moses in Colossians that the newly
converted Gentiles there were being led into "Judaism." This is
absolutely untrue! There is not one indication that there were
any Jews attempting to lead Christians into Judaism. (See the
plain admission of this in the Introduction to Colossians in the
"International Critical Commentary.")
Paul DOES indeed speak of Judaism in Galatians and Romans, but
not here in the book of Colossians. Notice with your own eyes the
startling proof here revealed -- proof that the converted Gentile
Colossians were being judged by their heathen neighbors FOR
KEEPING THE DAYS GOD MADE HOLY!
Consider verse 8 again. "Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit -- it does NOT say the law of Moses.
It does speak of pagans who adhered to "philosophy."
Continuing: "after the rudiments (fundamental beliefs) OF THE
WORLD, and not after Christ." The evil doctrines Paul is
condemning were OF THE WORLD. The world then was a GENTILE
world. It was a pagan Roman world, filled with foolish and vain
traditions. The Jews prided themselves on being racially
separate from the world. The Jews thought themselves superior to
the sinful Gentile world. So these traditions were Gentile
traditions which Paul warns us to beware of!
Now verses 9 and on: "For in him (Christ) dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily." God dwelt in Christ, not in the
philosophers. "And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of
all principality and power." We are made perfect in Christ, not
through asceticism and human traditions. Christ is the Head over
all. He is the One we must look to, not to the highly vaunted
philosophers.
"In whom (Christ) also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision or Christ" (verse 10).
Paul elsewhere reveals we are to be circumcised in the heart"
(Romans 2:29).
Christ conquered sin in the flesh. If we surrender ourselves
to Christ, He will enter into us through His Holy Spirit and
clean us up, conquer our sins -- circumcise our hearts or minds
spiritually. Physical circumcision involves cutting away a tiny
portion of flesh, but Christ circumcises the WHOLE BODY which is
full of sin. He enables us to completely cut away sin out of our
lives -- enables us to bury all our past sins in the waters of
baptism, as you read in Col. 2:12: "Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also we are risen with him through the faith of the
operation of God" -- faith in God's ability to supply us with the
Holy Spirit and raise us from a dead past to new life just as He
"hath raised him (Christ) from the dead."

Sin, Not Law, Blotted Out

"And you," Paul continues, "being dead in your sins and the
UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH" -- these people were, prior to
conversion, uncircumcised Gentiles -- "hath he (the Father)
quickened together with him (Christ), having forgiven you all
trespasses.
God forgives sin. These Gentile converts had sinned. They
had been following the foul, heathenish practices of the world
about them. They had been trying to pay for their own hurt
consciences by penance, by ascetism. But always they had their
past to live with. No matter what they gave up or denied
themselves, their consciences continued to plague them. They
still weren't forgiven.
NOW things were different. They had really been forgiven.
They were no longer bound to their past sins. They had no longer
the guilt of following human customs, human ordinances, human
decrees and vanity. Their sins had been blotted out; Christ had
taken them away. Every truly converted person knows what a
relief it is to have his sins BLOTTED OUT forever, never to
reappear in the judgment. And it was all accomplished by Christ
who "bare our sins in his own body on the tree" (I Peter 2:24).

What Was Nailed to the Cross?

Notice that CHRIST was nailed to the cross. HE bore our SINS.
When He shed His blood from the cross in our stead, He thereby
blotted out all our sins by paying for them in full with His own
life. It is SIN which was blotted out. Notice Acts 3:19, "that
your SINS may be BLOTTED OUT." "Have mercy upon me, cried David,
"blot out my TRANSGRESSIONS ... Hide thy face from my SINS, and
BLOT OUT all mine INIQUITIES" (Psalm 51:1,9).
Turn now to II Corinthians 5:10: "For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive
the things done in his body, according to that he hath done,
whether it be good or bad." Are your bad deeds covered by the
blood of Christ? Are the SINS WHICH STOOD AGAINST YOU blotted
out?
Next, read Revelation 20:12. Here is what happens in the
final judgment. "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened ... and the dead were
judged out of those things which were WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS,
ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS."
The record of your past sins stands at this moment AGAINST YOU
-- unless Christ's blood covers them, blots them out. Christ
died to blot our the written record of your and my guilty past.
The record of our past sins has been figuratively nailed to the
cross, taken out of the way.
Now we all can better understand Colossians 2:14. Notice this
verse as it stands in the King James Version. "Blotting our the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross."
Haven't you assumed this verse to mean God's law? -- some
assume the ten commandments, others the law of Moses. But look
at the verse again.
What is blotted out? SIN! It does not say "the ten
commandments." It does not read "law of Moses," or "works of the
law." It reads "handwriting of ordinances."
What "ordinances" were these?

Sinful Pagan Customs

Let the Bible answer. Paul tells us in verses 20 to 23 of
this same chapter!
"Wherefore if ye" -- the Gentile converts -- "be dead with
Christ from the rudiments (fundamental principles or ideas) of
the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ORDINANCES" (verse 20). ORDINANCES! Notice it. But which
ordinances? Notice the answer in the next verse: "(Touch not;
taste not; handle not; which are all to perish with the using;)
AFTER THE COMMANDMENTS AND DOCTRINES OF MEN?"
There you are! They were human traditions! Ways of sin!
Continuing:
"Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in WILL WORSHIP" --
pagan asceticism -- "and humility, and neglecting of the body" --
appearing outwardly humble and self-denying, but inwardly
self-righteous -- "BUT ARE OF NO VALUE AGAINST INDULGENCE OF THE
FLESH" (last part from Panin trans.).
Did you catch it? These evil practices were pagan ordinances,
or customs of men -- based on the commandments and doctrines of
pagan speculative philosophy. They were HEATHEN ordinances,
HEATHEN customs forbidding people from touching, tasting and
handling those things God allows. We see the same customs today:
don't dance, don't drink, etc. in pseudo-Christianity today!
Those heathen Gentiles at Colosse did not want THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. They wanted THEIR OWN righteousness.
"Don't eat this! Don't drink that! Don't touch something else."
In other words, a pagan religion of "don'ts!"
So the original inspired Greek for "handwriting of ordinances"
is not even referring to Moses' laws! In fact this is not a
proper translation! The original Greek reads "cheirographon tois
dogmasin." It does not mean a code of laws.
The Greek word for "handwriting" originally referred to "a
note of hand, or writing in which one acknowledges that money has
either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to be
returned at an appointed time." (From Thayer's "Lexicon.")
It came later to refer to any acknowledgment of debt. We all
owe a spiritual debt to God because of sin. We have all sinned
and must pay that penalty or have Christ pay it for us. That is
the meaning of the word "handwriting" here -- all acknowledgment
of debt. But how was it originally incurred? What did the
Colossians do that brought on that debt of sin? The answer is in
verse 13. What was blotted out were TRESPASSES (verse 13, last
part) incurred through following SINFUL ORDINANCES, believing
LYING DOGMAS -- like the doctrine of the immortality of the soul
which was at the root of pagan asceticism!
Nothing is said here about any "law of Moses." Those Gentiles
had never heard of or kept THAT law!
So the written record of SINS which were blotted out involved
the frightful practice of evil pagan ordinances for which Christ
paid the penalty and God forgave us.

How Colossians OBEYED

The Colossians had been taught the gospel. They obeyed it.
They were doing the things Christ did. Christ was living His
life in them as they yielded to Him. They were being knit
together in love (Col. 2:2). Love is the FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW
(Romans 13:10). The Colossians were KEEPING God's law. Like
other Gentiles they had not heard of God's law before it was
preached to them. (See Romans 2:12,13.) They did not know the
way of love. But now they not only knew it, they were practicing
it!
They were no longer ascetics, trying to conquer the flesh by
themselves. They were conquering themselves through the Holy
Spirit. But God gives His Holy Spirit only to those "who OBEY
Him" (Acts 5:32). Because the Colossian Christians were obeying
God, it made their neighbors feel self-condemned and inferior.
Their neighbors began sitting in judgment of them -- condemning
them -- for following the ways of Christ which they had newly
learned. And what were these Christians being judged for?
Notice it! It was not for keeping Christmas and Easter and
Sunday -- pagan holidays, not for abstinence from certain foods
and alcohol! No indeed! But -- notice it:
"Let no man therefore judge you in eating and drinking"
(margin) -- the Colossians were no longer ascetics -- or in
connection with the observance of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbaths."
That is what they were being judged for -- "in connection with
the observance" (as Moffatt translates it) -- of God's festivals,
His calendar measured by the new moon, and the sabbath!
The once-pagan Colossians never kept these days before! They
were heathen prior to conversion. Now that they had learned the
gospel, they were keeping holy the days God made holy. And Paul
is warning them not to return to or be influenced by their old
pagan ways -- the ways of their relatives and neighbors who hated
God's law and His festivals.
For years most of us have taken for granted that these verses
in Colossians were speaking of the law of Moses and rituals and
sacrifices. They are not! There is nothing here about the
ceremonial law -- about animal sacrifices and drink offerings.
The original Greek is "en broosei" and "en posei" and means
"in eating and in drinking." It does not mean meat and drink
offerings. Every competent scholar acknowledges this to be true
-- yet they ASSUME it does not mean eating and drinking but
sacrificial rituals!
No, these verses are speaking of the Christian liberty to
enjoy life! Jesus came eating and drinking (Matthew 11:19 and
Luke 7:34). Jesus set us the example. He was no ascetic! And
neither were the Colossian Christians any longer! They were
daily enjoying the Christian life in temperance and self-control,
and especially in connection with each feast, every new month and
the weekly sabbaths!

What Did They Foreshadow?

Now notice verse 17. "Which are shadows of things to come ..."
Or, better translated, "which foreshadow things to come." Did
these scriptural days foreshadow things to come? Indeed!
Does the weekly sabbath foreshadow good things to come?
Indeed it does! Not only is the weekly sabbath a memorial of
creation -- but it also fore-shadows the seventh 1000-years in
which man shall rest from his labors of sin. In speaking of the
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK, in Hebrews 4:4, the apostle Paul goes
right on to show that that day foreshadows God's thousand year
millennial rest. But does that do away with the weekly sabbath?
Not at all! "There REMAINETH therefore THE KEEPING OF A SABBATH
to the people of God (Hebrews 4:9, margin). Sabbathkeeping is a
TEST OF OBEDIENCE. NO one shall enter into an eternal rest
unless he first, here and now, is willing to enter into the rest
of each sabbath, each seventh day of the week. And that is
exactly what the Colossians were doing -- observing the weekly
sabbaths.
In like manner the annual festivals, instituted as MEMORIALS,
also foreshadow the plan of God. They were given to the Church
in order to keep the Church in the knowledge of that plan.
Only one festival has been entirely fulfilled in type -- the
passover. Yet Jesus said that each year we are to celebrate it
again: "DO THIS in remembrance of Me."
Seventh Day Adventists and other groups claim that Colossians
2:16 refers "to annual feasts, new moons, and annual sabbaths" --
not to the weekly sabbaths.
THIS IS NOT TRUE! Whenever the expression "sabbath days" is
used WITH "holy days" and "new moons," the WEEKLY sabbaths are
ALWAYS meant! There is no exception. Read I Chr. 23:31; II Chr.
2:4; 31:3; Ezra 3:5; Neh. 10:33.
All annual holy days ARE annual sabbaths!
Notice that in all these verses the weekly sabbaths are
referred to IN THE PLURAL just as in Colossians 2:16! Col. 2:16
includes BOTH weekly AND annual sabbaths! If it abolishes one,
it abolishes the other. But as it establishes one, SO IT
ESTABLISHES THE OTHER AS NEW TESTAMENT PRACTICE.

The Body of Christ

"Let no man therefore judge you" in these matters, said Paul,
"but (rather) the body OF Christ" (Col. 2:17, last part).
This verse has troubled many. Yet it should not. Notice that
the word "is" in the King James Version is in italics. It does
not appear in the original. The original Greek says only: "the
body of Christ." What is the body of Christ? How does Paul use
this expression in Colossians?
Turn to chapter 1. In verse 18 we find that Christ "is the
Head of the body, THE CHURCH." And in Col. 2:19: "And not holding
the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands [has]
nourishment ministered ..."
The true Church of God is the body of Christ. Just as the
Spirit of God once dwelled in the earthly body of Jesus Christ,
so now the Holy Spirit dwells in each member of the Church and
together we constitute one body, doing the very work Christ did.
We are therefore Christ's body today! And Christ is the Head as
the Husband is the head of the wife (Ephesians 5:23).
No man is to sit in judgment of our Christian conduct, Paul is
declaring in Colossians 2:16-17. Man does not determine how we
should live. But it is the responsibility of the Church -- the
body of Christ -- to determine these matters! The Church is to
teach how to observe the festivals -- to explain the meaning of
self-control, etc. So these little-understood verses ought to be
translated clearly: "Let no man therefore judge you ... but
(rather) let the body of Christ (determine it). Greek scholars
recognize that the first expression "let no man" demands that
there be a subsequent expression which tells who is to do the
judging of the matter!
How plain these verses are. How clear that the Colossians
were keeping holy the time God made holy!
Since the true meaning of the expression "handwriting of
ordinances" according to the Bible is "acknowledgment of guilt
through (following human) dogmas" -- what about the "law of
commandments in ordinances" mentioned in Ephesians 2:15?

Another Common Assumption

Here again people take for granted the Law of God or the
"ceremonial" law of Moses! But it is neither! Notice hurriedly
verses 11-12 of chapter 2: "Wherefore remember, that ye being in
time past Gentiles in the flesh" -- not Jews, notice, but
Gentiles -- "who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that
time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise" -- having
no knowledge of God's covenants and His laws -- "having no hope,
and without God in the world."
But Christ came to bring those far off near to God. How?
Through the blood of Christ (verse 13). Christ reconciled us to
God -- reconciled the Gentile who was far off and the Jew who was
near. This is explained in verse 16: "And that he might
reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain
the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh." So we now have access to
God by the Holy Spirit and whether Jew or Gentile are part of the
one body -- the body of Christ!
How did God reconcile us to Himself? Through the sacrifice of
Christ! Christ paid for our sins! He condemned sin in the
flesh. He conquered the carnal mind. "The carnal mind is ENMITY
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be" (Romans 8:7). It was because of the enmity -- the
ill-will, the hatred -- of the natural mind in every human being
that Christ had to die. What stood between all humanity and God
was the natural enmity in every human mind. That is what
separated us from God. "But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from
you, that He will not hear" (Isaiah 59:2).
It is not the law of God that has separated us from God. It
is the violation of that law -- sin -- that separated us. That
is the meaning of Ephesians 2:14 -- "and hath broken down the
middle wall of partition" Notice that the words "between us" have
been added and are in italics. Granted that there was a physical
wall in the temple which separated the Jews who were "near" to
God from the Gentiles who were "far off," but merely reconciling
Jew with Gentile would not reconcile us with God. It is our
relationship to God that counts! The only wall referred to in
Scripture is the wall that separates man from God. Notice
Ezekiel 43:8. Because of idolatry -- sin, God says "there was a
wall between Me and them" (margin). That wall of sin -- the
natural ENMITY in the human heart and in society is broken down.
Christ paid for it by sacrificing His own life for ours --
"having abolished in his flesh the ENMITY" -- having paid for sin
and making possible the receipt of the Holy Spirit to conquer the
carnality of man, the carnal opposition of society with its ways.
Jesus said, "I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). Through
the power of the Spirit in our lives, we, too, can overcome the
world, its customs, its false teachings, its heathen dogmas
masquerading in the name of Christ, the dictates of society!
That is what Christ abolished -- "Having abolished in his flesh
the ENMITY, even the law of commandments in ordinances". Notice
it!
The enmity against God is expressed by commands in the form of
"ordinances" -- "dogmasin," in the Greek -- the very commandments
of men, human tradition, heathen customs, the dictates of
society, which Paul condemned in Colossians. That is what Christ
abolished through His sacrifice. The Gentile Ephesians did not
know the law of God -- they never practiced the law of Moses. It
was their frightful sins which separated them from God.
Now they were reconciled to God, forgiven of their past sin.
They had the Spirit of God to overcome themselves and to overcome
the world around them, with its human traditions, its human
dogmas, its human commandments which were in opposition to God
and to His law! There is certainly not one word here about the
law of Moses or the Ten Commandments being annulled.
Yes, it does make a difference to God whether we obey Him. It
does make a difference which days we keep!
But what about Galatians 4:10 and Romans 14:5-6. What are the
days referred to here?

Esteeming One Day Above Another

Let's notice what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 14:5, 6.
"One MAN esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth
every day alike. Let every man be FULLY PERSUADED in his own
mind" (Romans 14:5, 6).
By taking these verses out of their setting, people make Paul
say something altogether different from what he intended. Does
Paul say to observe Christmas, Easter, Lent, Good Friday, Sunday,
or the Festival of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven?
Does he say here that Jesus by His death did away with the
very days He kept during His whole life?
Does Paul say "GOD esteemeth one day above another" and "GOD
esteemeth every day alike?" NO! The Scripture says "one MAN
esteemeth one day above another." This tells us what certain MEN
thought, not what God says!
We are not to be JUDGED by what MEN think, but by the word of
God! John 12:48 reads: "The WORD that I have spoken, THE SAME
shall judge him in the last day." Jesus is not going to judge
you by what any MAN believes, but by the words He spoke!
Next, notice that these saints at Rome, having differing
opinions, were forbidden to JUDGE ONE ANOTHER as unworthy of
Christ. "Who are you that judges another man's servant? to his
own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be helped up: for
GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE HIM STAND" (Rom. 14:4).
Paul is not sanctioning nor condemning any particular periods
of time, but warning the saints not to JUDGE one another and
cause strife for having differing opinions about things THEY DID
NOT YET UNDERSTAND CLEARLY.
The Lord is the Judge of their deeds. "He that regardeth the
day, regardeth it UNTO THE LORD, and he that regardeth not the
day, to the Lord he doth not regard it."
Continuing, "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own
mind."
Does this give license to believe whatever you want? God
commands: "Lean not unto thine own understanding" (Prov. 3:5).
How are you going to be fully assured in your own mind UNTIL YOU
KNOW WHAT GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD? "The holy scriptures ... are
able to make you wise to salvation," wrote Paul (II Tim. 3:15).
By studying the Word of God to prove all things, and by
holding fast that which is good (I Thess. 5:21), YOU BECOME FULLY
PERSUADED IN YOUR OWN MINDS concerning what GOD says.

Converts at Rome Were Weak

The saints at Rome were weak in the faith, not having acquired
perfect knowledge. Paul says: "For I long to see you, that I may
impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you MAY BE
ESTABLISHED" (Rom. 1:11).
It is so plain. Here were new converts at Rome, without a
regular local congregation, still weak in the faith, who were
divided in their regard of certain customs. Paul told them not
to sit in judgment of one another, but to follow peace, because
GOD would judge them, after setting them aright through more
perfect knowledge which Paul was going to preach to them. In the
meantime they were to act in accordance with the best they knew
from GOD'S Word, not MAN'S word.
This did not give them liberty to do as they pleased. They
were to obey what God revealed. It would be sin if they
disobeyed AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH HAD COME. For to him
that KNOWS to do good and doesn't do it, it is sin (James 4:17;
John 9:41).

What Were These Days?

But what days was Paul referring to?
Let's read these verses in Romans 14 in their setting, rather
than take them out of their context. Notice! Paul is writing to
the saints at Rome, both Jew and Gentile. He admonished them to
receive those who are weak in the faith (Rom. 14:1), not to
dispute with them over unimportant matters and sit in judgment on
them. Some of these recently converted Gentiles, being weak in
the faith, refused to eat meats, subsisting on vegetables mainly.
The reason for this is explained in I Corinthians 8. Most
meat that could be bought had been offered to idols. Therefore
some, with conscience of the idol "ate it as a thing offered unto
an idol; and their conscience being WEAK is defiled. But meat
commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the
better; neither, if we eat not are we the worse" (I Cor. 8:7, 8).
There is the simple answer! Some Gentiles at Rome had been
converted and HAD GIVEN UP IDOLATRY. But they still held
superstitious beliefs in their minds, thinking that the idol was
something REAL.
But why did Paul break into his dissertation -- about eating
meat or refraining from eating it -- and mention "days?"
Notice the answer in the Moffatt translation of this passage:
"Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that
man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in
his mind; the man who values a particular day does so to the
Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his
food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God"
(Rom. 14:5, 6).
Did you catch what Paul wrote? Not only were there weak
converts who were afraid of eating meat offered to idols, but
there were others also who customarily ABSTAINED FROM PARTICULAR
FOODS -- THEY SEMI-FASTED -- ON CERTAIN PARTICULAR DAYS. STILL
OTHERS REFUSED TO PRACTICE A SEMI-FAST OR ABSTAIN FROM FOODS BUT
REGARDED EVERY DAY IN THE SAME WAY.
The whole question surrounded the matter of abstention on
particular days. It is not a question of pagan holidays or God's
Holy Days. It is merely a question of the days upon which many
voluntarily abstained from certain foods.
Jesus said that our fasting should be done before God, and not
to be seen or known of men unnecessarily (Matthew 6:16). But
many Jews and Gentiles both practiced semi-fasts on particular
days of each week or month. The Jews customarily fasted "twice
in the week" -- Monday and Thursday (Luke 18:12). They also
fasted during certain months (Zech. 7:4-7). The Jews were
divided on this matter. The Gentiles also had their divisions
over when to abstain from certain foods. See Hasting's
"Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics."
In God's sight it does not matter when one abstains or fasts
-- but it does matter that we do it with a right heart. Paul was
going to Rome to straighten the brethren out on when and how to
abstain, but for the moment he wanted them to live at peace with
one another.
SO THESE DAYS WEREN'T GOD'S DAYS AFTER ALL!
There is nothing here referring to the Sabbath or the holy
days of God which Paul commanded to be observed by the Gentiles.
But what about Paul's warning to the churches in Galatia
against observing "days, months, times and years"? What were
THESE DAYS against which Paul preached? The answer will probably
stun you!

The Letter to the Galatians

Here is what Paul wrote to the Galatians:
"Howbeit then, WHEN YOU KNEW NOT GOD, YOU DID SERVICE TO THEM
WHICH BY NATURE ARE NO GODS. But now, AFTER you have known God,
HOW TURN YOU BACK AGAIN to the weak and beggarly elements
[Gentile traditions] where-unto you desire AGAIN to be in
bondage? YOU OBSERVE DAYS, AND MONTHS, AND TIMES, AND YEARS" --
(Galatians 4:8-11). I am alarmed about you, he concludes!
What is this that Paul is saying?
Read it again!
Did he say, "Ye observe the Sabbath and annual holy days such
as the Passover, Pentecost and Feast of Tabernacles"? No!
Paul said: "Days and months, and times, and years" --
something altogether different!

What Days Were These!

Notice this entire fourth chapter of Galatians. Paul begins
the chapter by addressing the JEWS -- not Gentiles, but Jews --
who had been enslaved to worldly traditions sinful practices
inherited from the Gentiles since the days of Alexander the
Great's conquest of Palestine.
These worldly traditions, which the apostle called "elements
of the world" (Gal. 4:3), came to be known as Judaism. These
were NOT God's laws, but the "traditions of the elders" (Mark
7:9) -- worldly customs the Jews had adopted. Paul addresses
these Jews as "we," because Paul was also a Jew. He says "we" --
THE JEWS -- were redeemed from "under the law"' -- that is,
redeemed from death -- the penalty of breaking God's spiritual
law. The law had a claim over our lives because of our sins --
because of following human, sinful practices (verse 5).
Beginning with verse 6, PAUL CEASES TO SPEAK TO THE JEWS. Now
he is speaking to the Gentile converts. He does not say "we,"
but "you." Notice it! "Howbeit, then, WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD" --
remember, THE JEWS KNEW GOD, but the Gentiles had not known God
before the preaching of the gospel! Jesus said to the Gentile
Samaritan woman: "YE" the Gentiles -- "worship ye know not what:
WE" -- the Jews -- "know what we worship for salvation is of the
JEWS" (John 4:22).
Continuing with Gal. 4:8: "When YE knew not God, ye did
service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after
that ye have known God ... how turn YE again unto the weak and
beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire AGAIN to be in bondage?"
These converts to whom Paul is now writing WERE NOT JEWS!
They were Gentiles by birth. These GENTILE converts in times
past did not know God, were cut off from Him (see Eph. 2:12),
"were slaves to gods which were no gods at all." They had been
serving demons and idols, not the Living God. False teachers
were coming among them, perverting the true gospel, beguiling
them to TURN AGAIN TO THEIR FORMER WAYS. Paul was alarmed. They
were departing from the gospel and RETURNING to WHAT? "Days, and
months, and times and years."
Pagan practices! -- doing penance an Christmas, Easter, New
Year's, Sunday!
They couldn't be returning to God's festivals. They never
kept them before Paul preached about them.

What Are "Times"?

Next, turn to Leviticus 19:26 and Deuteronomy 18:10, 14. Here
Moses, according to the command of God, orders the Israelites NOT
TO OBSERVE "TIMES!" This is ABSOLUTE PROOF that the days Paul is
forbidding are pagan and NOT God-given. To observe TIMES
originally was a HEATHEN practice often attached to the heavenly
bodies, especially in determining the pagan calendar and the
heathen religious seasons.
Some today try to make you believe Paul was condemning Jews
for returning to the Sabbath and holy days of God, which they
claim were in the Law of Moses. But the Law of Moses forbade
observance of "times." Paul was writing to GENTILES who wanted to
return to observing penance on the Gentile "days" associated with
"times" -- pagan "times" or "seasons" -- such as the Easter and
Christmas seasons!
The Catholic Bishop Chrysostom, who lived in the fourth
century, admits that these superstitious TIMES which Paul
forbids, were PAGAN CUSTOMS practiced by "Christians" in his day,
as in the days of old. He says: "Many were superstitiously
addicted to divination ... upon them ... In the celebration of
these TIMES [they] set up lamps in the marketplace, and CROWN
THEIR DOORS WITH GARLANDS" -- as is done at Christmas time today!
(From "Bingham's Antiquities of the Christian Church," pp. 1123,
1124).
Besides TIMES, the Greeks observed special DAYS in honor of
the dead. "The rites took place on the ... unlucky DAYS
accompanied by complete idleness and cessation of business" (From
"Rest Days," p. 79). Today several churches celebrate pagan days
in honor of the dead, such as All Souls' Day and All Saints Day
[CALLED Hallowe'en by the world]. These are the heathen days
Paul forbids Christians to observe!
These Gentile Galatians were returning to the custom of doing
penance on the old pagan days -- days which now masquerade under
Christian sounding names!
"Many of the holy days in the religious calendar of
Christendom were BORROWED, as is well known, FROM THE FESTIVALS
OF ANCIENT PAGANISM" ("Rest Days," p. 306).
Paul denounces this vain and abominable practice. We are NOT
TO LEARN the way of the heathen (Jer. 10).
In connection with the old pagan idolatry, WERE NUMEROUS DAYS
OBSERVED AS IDOLATROUS PENITENTIAL FESTIVALS. These days were
consecrated to deities of the state religious cults and were
"UNLUCKY" because of the supposed influence of the gods!
These religious holidays were set aside as periods of penance
because they were "regarded as unsuitable for many purposes, both
public and private: for battles, levies, sacred rites, journeys
and marriages. We are told that they owed their unlucky quality
to the pronouncement of the Senate and pontiffs." (From "Rest
Days" by Webster, p. 171.)
As many as ONE THIRD OF THE DAYS OF the old Greek and Roman
calendars were marked as "unlawful for judicial and political
business ... and ... on which the state expected the citizens to
abstain, as far as possible, from their private business and
labour!"
No wonder Paul spoke of "days!"
And how many "worldly" as well as religious people still have
similar beliefs today! Such as "unlucky" FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!
Paul was writing to the Galatians to enlighten their minds so
they would GIVE UP this foolish regard of heathen days.

Other Heathen Holidays

Notice that Paul also condemns the pagan custom of observing
"months and years" -- another pagan custom!
Certain MONTHS of the year were considered sacred to the Greek
gods, Apollo (April, October), Zeus (February, June), Artemas
(April), Bacchus (January) and many others which you can read of
in the "Encyclopedia Americana," article "Festival." God never
commanded His people to commemorate months.
But the world today has adopted the heathen months of the
Roman calendar -- and forgotten God's calendar!
Also certain YEARS were set aside quadrennially and biennially
during which were national idolatrous feasts and the celebration
of the Olympic, Ithmaian, Nemean and Pythian games. Every one of
these was connected with idolatrous worship and ceremony.
Paul was forbidding Gentile converts to return to these
heathen practices.
So, many of the present holidays of Christendom were
celebrated in the heathen world WHEN PAUL AND CHRIST WERE ON
EARTH, but they refused to observe them and commanded the true
Church not to observe them!

It Was Prophesied to Happen!

"Why," it is often asked, "did the Bible not warn us that
pagan holidays would be substituted for the holy days?"
The answer is that THE BIBLE DOES WARN US! It was prophesied
in advance -- over 800 years before Paul warned about it in
Galatians 4:10.
Turn to the book of Hosea. The prophet had a message for the
future -- for our day! Notice: "And I" -- God is quoted by the
prophet -- "will punish her" -- our people today -- "for the
FEAST DAYS OF THE BAALS!"
Sunday, Christmas, Easter, Halloween are feast days of Baal!
What could be plainer! Our people "forgot Me, says the Lord"
-- because they have rejected His holy days. "And in that day"
-- the very near future when Christ intervenes in world affairs
-- "I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they
shall be mentioned by name no more" (Hosea 2:13, 17, RSV) .
How clear! Israel today -- our people -- have adopted the
feast days of Baal. The greatest of church holidays -- Easter --
is named after the wife of Baal or Nimrod. God forbids us to
honor Him by celebrating these Babylonish feasts. God warns:
"Take heed ... that thou inquire not ...`How used these nations
to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.' THOU SHALT NOT
DO SO UNTO THE LORD THY GOD. For every abomination which He
hateth, have they done unto their gods" (Deut. 12:30-31).
These pagan abominations are forbidden by the apostle Paul in
Galatians. THAT is New Testament teaching!

Misunderstood Texts in the Old Testament

God chose Israel for a special mission they have failed to
perform. He revealed to them His Sabbath as a sign so they would
never forget that He is the Creator. He also gave Israel annual
holy days, MEMORIALS, to commemorate Israel's deliverance from
Egypt -- A PICTURE FOR HIS CHURCH OF THE PLAN OF GOD IN
DELIVERING THE WORLD FROM SIN.
But Israel did not remain faithful to these God-given
festivals! They invented days of their own!
Several chapters are devoted by the prophet Ezekiel to a
CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL FOR BREAKING THE SABBATHS GOD HAD GIVEN.
Take special note of Ezekiel 20:12-26 and 22:26. The punishment
inflicted upon the House of Israel was for desecrating the
Sabbaths.
What was the extreme evil of Sabbath-breaking? With the
desecration of the Sabbaths, idolatry was a natural consequence,
and Sunday, Christmas and Easter were introduced. THESE pagan
holidays God calls "abominations!"
Some claim there are texts in the Old Testament in which God
says "My" Sabbaths and festivals "I hate." This is not true. God
said: "I hate, I DESPISE your feast days, and ... YOUR solemn
assemblies." Notice it. "YOUR new moons and YOUR appointed
feasts my soul hateth: for they are a trouble unto me" (Amos
5:21; 8:10, Isaiah 1:10-15; Hosea 2:11) .
These were not divine institutions, but MAN-APPOINTED days
observed in Israel. These days God despised.
Ancient Israel did NOT continue to observe the holy days of
God. They refused His judgments and statutes (Ezekiel 20:18).
They copied the heathen idolatrous feasts of surrounding nations.
History proves this fact!
The chronicler of ancient Israel preserved a record of just
such A CHANGE IN THE LAWS of God, WHEN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
SEPARATED FROM JUDAH.
"And JEROBOAM ORDAINED A FEAST in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah,
and he offered upon the altar ... sacrificing unto the calves
that he had made the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in
the month WHICH HE HAD DEVISED OF HIS OWN HEART ..." (I Kings
12:32, 33). This feast is the origin of Hallowe'en!
Thereafter ISRAEL ALTERED THE NEW MOONS AND CHANGED THE SACRED
CALENDAR. They EXCHANGED THE SABBATHS FOR IDOLATROUS DAYS FOR
SUN-WORSHIP -- the rest day was transferred from Saturday to
Sunday. Israel, taking over the feasts of the HEATHEN BAAL --
SUN-WORSHIP turned them into IDOLATROUS rest days according to
the statutes of the kings of Israel (II Kings 17:8).
When the House of Israel is next found in history, as the
nations of Northwestern Europe, they are keeping the day of the
sun! So the Ever-Living God never hated nor abolished His
feasts. But He did hate the different days which Israel
invented!
Now let us continue with the history of the Jews.

Did Judah Remain Faithful?

Consider now what God says about "Jewish" feasts!
Now notice the first chapter of Isaiah. It is addressed in
particular to Judah. Like the ancient people of Sodom and
Gomorrah, the Jews instituted their own appointed feasts and
tampered with the period of the new moon. "YOUR new moons and
YOUR appointed feasts my soul hateth," said the Word of the Lord
(Isaiah 1:14). This was the beginning of what are customarily
called "Jewish feasts." Being instituted BY THE JEWS they were
naturally "Jewish."
But NOTHING is said about the Jews' instituting their own
Sabbath! It is not surprising then, that THE JEWS HAVE PRESERVED
THE RIGHT SABBATH of God to our generation. The house of Israel
(the Democratic nations of the Western World) which did not keep
the seventh day as the Sabbath, has NEVER OBSERVED IT SINCE.
Although the Jews added their own appointed feasts and new
moons, they ALSO RETAINED the Biblical ones -- "THE new moons and
Sabbaths, THE calling of assemblies." These they turned into
abominations and profaned by idolatry and labor. "I cannot
endure iniquity," says God, along with the solemn assembly." No
wonder GOD ABHORRED THE MANNER in which the Jews treated His holy
Sabbath and festivals (Isa. 1:13).
For that sin, especially, they were driven out of Judea and
DEPRIVED OF ONE OF THE MAJOR BLESSINGS OF GOD -- the joy of
keeping His days. They became the property of their enemies and
"the Lord ... caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be
forgotten in Zion" (Lamentations 2:6). Jeremiah does NOT joy
over the abolition of the festivals, but LAMENTS OVER THEIR BEING
FORGOTTEN!
Notice that at the return of Christ -- when He brings "good
tidings" and "announceth peace" -- He also commands His feasts to
BE KEPT ONCE AGAIN (Nahum 1:15 and Zechariah 14:16-19 and Isaiah
56).
It is time we begin to follow Jesus' example and keep holy the
days God made holy, instead of neglecting them!
Let's all be at the Feast of Tabernacles!

2008-08-08T13:43:00.001-06:00

Is World War III Starting Now?

Folks, the news this morning of fighting in Georgia between Russia and Georgia is very disturbing indeed.

It was thought that a provoked war with Iran would start things off, but now it looks like the Evil Elite have decided to start it elsewhere.

It must be remembered that the current Georgian "president" was installed as a result of CIA manipulation and interference, to use Georgia as a front line base for the Evil Elite's future plans against Russia.

To try to expand NATO's borders to Russia on all sides is very provocative and dangerous and they know it, but, they are doing this on purpose as part of their ages old game of manipulation and control.

Russia, if left alone, would mind its own business and not bother anyone. A study of Russian history shows that their only concern is security, but they are in a very insecure area, which has been their curse since the beginning of their nation.

But, the Evil Elite's problem with Putin and the Russians is that Russia refuses to cave in to bribes and pressures to allow the corrupt globalist corporations to loot and pillage Russia's oil and other resources, plus Russia has also committed the additional "sin" of accepting payment for its resources, especially oil, in something besides US dollars.

Also, we must not forget that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Chase Manhattan and other arms of the Bankster's Global Octopus tried to install themselves in Russia to rape and pillage the Russian people the same way they have done in almost every other country in the world.

But, Boris Yeltsin put a stop to this, and threw the banksters out of Russia for good, saying "all you have done is to teach our bankers to steal from the people of Russia. We will not tolerate this."

The other sin was when Russia dislodged the corrupt elements of the gigantic Yukos oil conglomerate and put a stop to the worldwide oil interests' attempt to steal Russian oil.

We must also not forget that in the late '80's, the Soviet economy was destroyed by the machinations of the banksters.

So, as I have said in my landmark series on Bible prophecy, "What's Ahead for our Peoples in Bible Prophecy," the corrupt Evil Elites that are in control of our nations are now making their move to remove the last opposition to their lust and greed for money and power.

But, as I state, this last gasp of the "Elite" is doomed to utter failure. They and their schemes for world domination are about to take a very NASTY FALL, and this lame attempt to start a world war is a transparent diversion from the impending implosion of the entire world economy, which they themselves have caused.

This is an age old technique they have used to put the peoples of this planet into total slavery and subjection. They know that desperate people suffering under abject poverty have great anger, and they are experts at diverting this anger and focusing it on scapegoats foreign and domestic. They do this to both sides in the conflict simultaneously, whipping the slaves on both sides into an emotional and "patriotic" frenzy to go out and kill those on the "other side."

Unfortunately, those on both sides of these "conflicts" fail to recognize that there are those at the top pulling the strings on both sides, and making outrageous profits off of the murder and suffering of millions.

While the blood flows on the battle fields, these elite pigs take in profits by the tanker ship full, making money hand over fist off the backs of the dying on "both sides."

It has happened in almost every war down through human history, and forms the sordid TRUTH behind all of the nationalistic jingoism and "patriotism" fomented on both sides, and the stupid sheeple on "both sides" fall for this ruse each and every time, showing that the "intelligence" of the herd simply does not exist.

THIS is the cycle of violence, death, and oppression that YOUR SAVIOR Jesus Christ came to put a stop to once and for all. And, this is why GOD'S PEOPLE ARE COMMANDED TO COME OUT OF THIS SIN SICK AND EVIL WORLD AND NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS WORLD'S EVIL AND SATANIC WARS.

The Apostle James put it plainly in this way:

Jas 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Jas 4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

[This shows that we, both collectively as a people and individually, would HAVE EVERYTHING WE DESIRE IF WE WOULD ONLY ASK RIGHTLY! In fact, God is the GIVER OF ALL GOOD THINGS, and wants us all to "prosper and be in health" -- BUT we must ASK HIM FOR IT! There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for our human wars against each other, which play on our individual lusts and evil mind sets. If we had the MIND OF GOD, then there would be no wars -- PERIOD! God's people are COMMANDED to inculcate God's ways into their minds NOW and to SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THIS EVIL WORLD AND IT'S SIN SICK AND EVIL SOCIETY AS MUCH AS WE CAN. We are NOT part of this world, it's societies, and it's governments. We are NOT part of this world's evil so called "civilization," which is ruled over by Satan the Devil, who was a murderer and a liar from the beginning, and has inspired HIS WORLD and HIS CIVILIZATION to act in the same wicked and evil ways.]

Jas 4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Jas 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Jas 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
Jas 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
Jas 4:7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Jas 4:9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Jas 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Jas 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
Jas 4:14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
Jas 4:15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
Jas 4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Jas 4:17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

Yes, indeed, this passage cuts to the ROOT of our problems, both individually and as a world. We must ADMIT that WE, OURSELVES, ARE EVIL AND WICKED JUST LIKE THIS SIN SICK AND EVIL WORLD.

Then, we must REPENT of our sins, which means to TURN AROUND THE OTHER WAY AND STOP SINNING! John says in his epistle that "Sin is the transgression of the Law," and of course, God's LAW IS LOVE.

We must "love our neighbor as ourselves." Who is our neighbor? EV3ERY OTHER MAN AND WOMAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH -- that's who! So HOW DARE WE HATE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS? Because Satan and his servants tell us too?

ALL PEOPLE in the world only want to be left alone to live a peaceful life for themselves and their families. It is SATAN, HIS GOVERNMENTS AND HIS SERVANTS who teach mankind the ways of evil, murder, lies, war, and ungodly lusts.

We must COME OUT OF THIS BABYLON of confusion, and LEARN THE WAYS OF PEACE and ally ourselves with THE PRINCE OF PEACE and learn HIS WAYS, and then we ourselves shall have peace, abundance, joy, and love so full that it overflows.

Very soon now, THIS ENTIRE CIVILIZATION IS GOING TO CRASH AND BURN AROUND US!

If we are aligned with it, we will GO DOWN WITH IT, but, if we are aligned with GOD ALMIGHTY, we will have LIFE ETERNAL, and become KINGS AND PRIESTS in the World Tomorrow.

When Christ returns to DESTROY ALL EARTHLY KINGS AND KINGDOMS, and to establish HIS KINGDOM, which shall RULE FOREVER, you, brethren, if you have repented of your sins and have learned to live HIS WAY, will have a chance to be a RULER IN THE WORLD TOMORROW!

If you have LEARNED TO WALK IN GOD'S WAY in this life, then you will get the chance to teach the shell shocked remnants of humanity who will have survived the WORST TIME OF TROUBLE THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN, and to show them the way of life that leads to life, liberty, and abundance for all!

But, you NEED TO ACT FAST and learn of His ways NOW, while the door is still open. The door to God's precious truth will soon be shut while this civilization crashes and burns. God says to "seek the Eternal while He is near," implying that during the dark years of the Tribulation, He will be far away, and unreachable by most of humanity.

Thus, you need to repent now of your sins while there is still time to build God's Holy, Righteous character into your life.

The Restoration website provides a library CHOCK FULL of vital KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU NEED TO STUDY NOW, before it is too late.

In closing, I would like to say that years ago, and several times since then, God has given me a vision that He will put our peoples through a "mini tribulation" in the months and years ahead, to give our people ONE FINAL CHANCE TO REPENT, before the coming of the GREAT TRIBULATION.

As part of this "last chance," He may well see fit to destroy our central governments, breaking our nations into many, ever smaller, pieces. Further, some of the dreams indicate that there will be one of these pieces, the Western Confederacy, which will have MANY WHO WILL TURN TO REPENTANCE, and that God's people will thrive there for a short time.

I have no information on any of the other pieces, only this one, that may indeed have a special place in God's plans. But, if these dreams are true, then God will give our nations one more final chance to repent of their sins, so that they can be spared the Great Tribulation.

From Bible prophecy, it seems that call to national repentance will be largely ignored, even after the horrible events soon to unfold on our peoples in a last ditch attempt to wake them up to repentance so that God will be moved to spare them.

But, of course, GOD PROMISES TO SPARE HIS PEOPLE, IN HIS CHURCH, FROM THE GREAT TRIBULATION IN ANY CASE. YOU can be one of those to escape the "greatest time of trouble" in human history.

I urge you to avail yourselves of the resources in the Restoration Website Library, and become one of God's people now, while there is still time.

Go to:

http://www.rcg.destiny-worldwide.net

Start on the road to salvation, abundance and happiness today! As David was inspired to write in the Psalms:

"A thousand shall fall at your left, and ten thousand at your right, but the plague shall not come near your door."

What a BLESSING IT IS to hide one's self under the sheltering wings of the Eternal God, and to let HIM fight our battles for us!

John

2008-07-31T11:27:00.001-06:00

CHRIST or ANTICHRIST?

Events are plunging toward the eventful climax of Christ's
return. How will you know the REAL CHRIST when he comes?

IS the Pope ignorant of the plain Bible statements that label
HIM "the Antichrist"? What deception will Satan use to keep the
world from realizing the Pope's true identity?
God's Word warns us that this man -- masquerading as a great
"Christian" leader -- will finally declare himself to be GOD! (II
Thes. 2:8.) If he calls HIMSELF "God," whom will he point to as
the ANTICHRIST?

Catholic Interest in Prophecy

God declares that the end-time Pope will be a false PROPHET,
yet the Pope has never declared himself to be a prophet. When
will he deceive the world into thinking that he foresees future
events? What events will he foretell? How will these prophecies
affect YOU? How can you keep from being deceived?
A recently published book reveals a startling Catholic
interest in end-time prophecy. This book, together with
tradition and the writings of some of the "early church Fathers,"
brings to light an eye-opening preview of the false prophecies
that are about to be preached!
Satan knows God's general plan. He has been at work in the
minds of evil and deluded men throughout the ages to lay the
groundwork of the GREAT DELUSION! Though the vials of the wrath
of God are poured out on sinful men, their impenitence remains --
"AND THEY REPENTED NOT" (Rev. 16:9). They will flee from Christ
-- even calling for rocks to fall on them, hiding out in caves --
RUNNING AWAY FROM GOD!
WHY?
Because of "that man of sin ... who opposeth and exalteth
himself above all that is called God, that is worshipped; so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he
IS GOD ... even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
with all power and signs and LYING wonders, and with ALL
DECEIVABLENESS." THAT MAN WILL TELL THE WORLD THE BIGGEST LIE
EVER TOLD! Into the ears of those who do not have a love of the
truth he will pour the LIE that our returning King, JESUS CHRIST,
IS THE ANTICHRIST! And they will believe him because God will
have sent them a "strong delusion that they should believe a
LIE"! (II Thes. 2:3-11).
But upon what will the Pope base this claim?
By its own admission, the Catholic Church bases its definition
of the articles of faith on its OWN interpretation of the
Scriptures AND TRADITIONS as explained in the writings of the
early church "Fathers"! "And then it was approved by all, that
THE TRADITIONS should be received as of equal authority with the
Scriptures" ("History of the Council of Trent," page 145).
Any attempt to dispute their interpretation by use of plain
Scripture is greeted, as it was at the time of this declaration,
with the cry of "HERETIC" and branded as "Anathema"! "... the
holy Scripture CANNOT BE EXPOUNDED AGAINST THE SENSE HELD BY THE
HOLY MOTHER THE CHURCH, nor against the common consent of the
Fathers" ("History of the Council of Trent," page 152).

Catholic Definition of Antichrist

Here now, for the professed prophecies in the Catholic
Church's recently published book, "Prophecy for Today."
"Towards the end of the world Antichrist will overthrow the
Pope and usurp his See"! ("prophecy" of Abbott "Merlin" Joachim,
died 1202; see also "Catholic Encyclopedia," article
"Antichrist.")
Because they will not admit the truth the Church believes the
Antichrist will be the one to unseat the Pope, while every Bible
prophecy commissions the true Christ with that job.
"Antichrist will fight a successful battle at Mageddo
[Armageddon] in Palestine after which ... he will hereafter
become lord of the world" (Ibid; Anna Catarina Emmerick, d.
1824). It is almost impossible to see how they could believe
this! But there it is! And here is more! "The Kings will send
armies to the Holy Land, but the Antichrist will slay them all"!
(Ibid.; "Venerable Maria of Agreda." d. 1665). Compare this with
Revelation 19:19.
But to continue. "Antichrist and his army will conquer Rome,
kill the Pope and take the throne ... The Jews will come from
everywhere, and accept Antichrist as the Messiah." (Ibid.; from a
"prophecy" by Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser, d. 1658).
Just one more quote to illustrate their satanic definition:
"After the destruction of Rome, Antichrist will appear and exalt
himself above pagan deities and the Trinity ... Coming to
Jerusalem, he will succeed through false preaching, miracles,
gifts, terror, aided throughout by the devil. An evil spirit
will come out of the air and descend upon his followers. HE
SHALL FEIGN A RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, cause rain to fall ...
and perform other wonders, all through the power of the devil ...
The Jews will welcome him." (Ibid.; Richard Rolle of Hampole, d.
1349).

Compare With Your Bible

Hippolytus is one of the "early church Fathers" upon which the
Catholic church depends for inspiration and dogma. Get your
Bible, and compare the plain statements of Scripture, the Word
and authority of Almighty God, with the blasphemous prophecies
made by Hippolytus about the year 170 A.D. Satan very cleverly
inspired this early writer to pen these prophecies just a hundred
years after the true Church of God had to flee to Pella. Since
that time there have been scattered prophecies by many important
men and women in the Catholic church on this subject of greatest
importance -- even up to as recently as 100 years ago.
HIPPOLYTUS begins by saying, "Believe NOT the enemy who is to
COME AND BE SEEN, for he is an adversary and corrupter and son of
perdition, and deceives you; and for this reason he will kill
you, and smite them with the sword" ("Ante-Nicene Fathers;"
Hippolytus, section XXIX).
GOD'S Word says, "Behold, he [Jesus Christ] cometh with
clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM ... and all kindreds of the
earth shall wail because of him" (Rev. 1:7).
"And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should SMITE the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of
iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath
of Almighty God" (Rev. 19:15).
Hippolytus goes on to say: "... at that time the whole earth
will bewail the life of anguish, and the sea and air in like
manner will bewail it; and the sun, too, will wail; and the wild
beasts, together with the fowls, will wail; mountains and hills,
and the trees of the plain, will wail on account of the race of
man, because all have turned aside from the Holy God, and obeyed
the deceiver, and received the mark of that abominable one, the
enemy of God, INSTEAD OF THE QUICKENING CROSS OF THE SAVIOR"
(Ibid.; section XXXIII).
God's clear revelation shows that the time when the families
of all the earth are going to bewail for anguish is the time of
Christ's return. "And the merchants of the earth shall weep and
mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise anymore: The
merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones ... fine
flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and
chariots, and SLAVES, and SOULS OF MEN ... The merchants of these
things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the
fear of her torment, WEEPING AND WAILING"! (Rev. 18:11-15.)
Hippolytus: "And in the presence of all he exhibits himself as
taken up into heaven with TRUMPETS and SOUNDS, and the MIGHTY
SHOUTING of those who hail him with INDESCRIBABLE HYMNS; the heir
of darkness himself shining like light, and at one time soaring
to the heavens, and at another descending to the earth with great
glory, and again charging the demons, like angels, to execute his
behests with much fear and trembling. For he will show forth his
demons brilliant like angels, and he will bring in hosts of the
incorporeal without number" (Section XXXIII). .
The Holy Spirit through the revelation of YOUR BIBLE says:
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT,
with the VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, and with the TRUMP OF GOD: and
the DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE first: Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
MEET the Lord in the air"! (I Thes. 4:16-17.)
As for Hippolytus' "demons brilliant like angels," Daniel
tells us that the resurrected and changed saints "shall shine as
the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to
righteousness as the stars [angels] for ever and ever"! (Dan.
12:3.) See also I Cor. 15:50-53.
And the "indescribable hymns" -- "And they sung as it were a
new song before the throne ... and NO MAN COULD LEARN THAT SONG
but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were REDEEMED
from the earth ... the FIRSTFRUITS unto God and to the Lamb"!
(Rev. 14:3-4.)

More From Hippolytus

"Then that abominable one [if this is not blasphemy against
the very God of Heaven, what is?] will send his commands
throughout every government by the hand at once of demons and of
visible men, who shall say, 'A mighty king has arisen upon the
earth; come ye all to WORSHIP him; come ye all to see the
strength of his kingdom: for, behold, he will give you corn; and
he will bestow upon you wine, and great riches, and lofty
honours. For the WHOLE EARTH AND SEA OBEYS HIS COMMAND. Come ye
all to him'" (Ibid., section XXXVII).
Revelation 14:6-7: "And I saw another fly in the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that
dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue
and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to
him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and WORSHIP him that
made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountain of waters
[and therefore the whole EARTH AND SEA OBEYS HIS COMMAND]."
When these false "prophecies" are read from pulpits into the
ears of gullible people and they begin to see God's intervention
come to pass, THEY WILL BELIEVE THE ONLY MEANING THEY HAVE EVER
LEARNED ABOUT THESE SIGNS AND WONDERS ... AND BE CONVINCED THAT
THE GLORIOUS CHRIST RETURNING IN TRIUMPH IS IN TRUTH THE
ANTICHRIST!
A more modern prophetess of the Catholic Church has this to
say about this time of preaching: "Whole nations will join the
Church shortly before the reign of the Antichrist. These
conversions will be amazing. Those who shall survive shall have
to conduct themselves well. There shall be innumerable
conversions of heretics, who will return to the bosom of the
Church" ("Prophecy For Today;" from Anna Maria Taigi d. 1837).
These false doctrines and false prophecies are going to be
preached with ALL DECEIVABLENESS, and are truly going to deceive
ALL THE WORLD. You and I, when we enter God's Kingdom at His
return, are going to have to convince these people of the TRUTH.

Being God's Born Sons Not an Easy Job!

The whole world will be up in arms AGAINST Christ. The chaos
from years of pestilence and plague, the devastation of hydrogen
and nuclear wars of cosmoscide will have to be CLEANED UP.
Complete anarchy will take over in all the countries of the world
as the earthly governments collapse; order will have to be
restored. This CANNOT BE DONE OVERNIGHT.
It will take painstaking effort, even AFTER the complete
cooperation of the population of the earth is gained! Human
nature will resist the Government of God to the bitter end!
It's not going to be easy to convince these hysterically
frightened, demoniacally deceived, pitifully desperate human
beings! This last generation, sinful as it is, will need the
full compassion and mercy you will be able to give as God's Sons.
You will need every ounce of spiritual power and wisdom God will
give you to perform the JOB of rehabilitating millions of crazed,
completely deceived men left on this earth.
They will be gaunt, wild-eyed! They will have seen more
horrible things happen in their lifetime than all the pages of
history have yet recorded.
Driven in stark, raving FEAR AND OPEN TERROR from their homes,
they will seek to hide from the newest and most overawing
manifestation of WORLD-SHAKING POWER that they have yet seen --
the only thought in their tortured minds will be that HERE IS YET
ANOTHER ENEMY IN THIS SICK, HELL-TORN EARTH ... HIDE, HIDE,
HIDE!!!
HIPPOLYTUS agrees with WHAT will happen, but he calls the ONE
WHO CAUSES IT TO HAPPEN the ANTICHRIST and not the TRUE CHRIST!
"Then will he send the cohorts of the demons among MOUNTAINS AND
CAVES AND DENS OF THE EARTH, to track out those who have been
concealed from his eyes, and to bring them forward to worship
him" (Ibid., section XXIX).
The Bible tells us from WHOM men will hide in the rocks, "And
the Kings of the earth and the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and
every free man, hid themselves IN THE DENS AND IN THE ROCKS OF
THE MOUNTAINS; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb" (Rev. 6:15-16).
You, as a born son of God, may have to be one of those who is
sent out to track down these frightened people. You may have to
counsel with them and assure them that the true living God has
returned to the earth and that there will be peace from that time
forward.

Remarkable Prophecy

Here is another false prophecy from Hippolytus.
"And by reason of the SCARCITY OF FOOD, all will go to him and
worship him; and he will put his mark on their right hand and on
their forehead, that no one may put the sign of the HONORABLE
CROSS upon his forehead with his right hand; but his hand is
bound" (Ibid., section XXVIII).
Now turn to the Book of Zechariah in your Bible, and read what
the true, triumphant, returning Christ will do to the nations of
this earth in order to get them to worship Him. "And it shall
come to pass, that every one that is LEFT of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year
to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of
tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso WILL NOT COME UP of all
the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the
Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the
family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there
shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen
that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be
the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of ALL NATIONS THAT
COME NOT UP TO KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES" (Zech. 14:16-19).
The Eternal God, at His return, is going to cause the nations
of this earth to recognize Him as Ruler and to worship Him
through the means of CONTROLLING THE WEATHER, causing drought and
famine -- SCARCITY OF FOOD -- until ALL NATIONS COME UP TO KEEP
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES!

Giant Rehabilitation Program

The "mop-up operation" that will follow the return of Christ,
in which you may be employed, will be the greatest in all
history!
It is difficult to realize the total chaos that will exist!
The truth of your Bible revealed in the pages of Revelation is
not just "apocalyptic writing" -- but these revelations are from
the Almighty God who foresaw this end of civilization and
realized as He told us Himself in Matthew 24:22 that, "Except
those days should be shortened, there should NO FLESH BE SAVED
ALIVE!"
So let your mind dwell for a moment on the REALITY of this.
Let the truth sink in! This will be a time such as the earth has
NEVER FACED BEFORE.
No ships are plying the sea, no forests cover the
mountainsides, no grass clothes the plains, whole islands have
disappeared into the sea, mountain chains have been wrenched out
of shape, peaks have become valleys and valleys have become
plateaus. Even the earth itself is not circling the sun in its
proper orbit, but reeling like a drunken man through the solar
system!
In a situation such as this only those who have God's truth
could be expected to be sane!
"The public service of God shall be extinguished ... at that
time SILVER and GOLD shall be cast out in the streets, and none
shall gather them; but all things shall be an offense" (Ibid.
Hippolytus, section XXXIV).
The "public service," the Catholic Mass, will not be allowed!
Silver and gold won't be worth anything to man, BECAUSE YOU
CANNOT BUY GOD -- only repentance will be worth anything in that
day! "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into
the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory
of his majesty, when he arises to shake terribly the earth. In
that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of
gold, which they made each one for himself to worship to the
moles and to the bats!" (Isa 2:19-20.)
The supreme government on earth is the Government of God.
Christ Himself, with all of the saints born into His Kingdom with
Him, and the multitudes of Israel coming out of captivity are
abiding in peace at Jerusalem. "Behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King
shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice
in the earth. In his days JUDAH SHALL BE SAVED, AND ISRAEL SHALL
DWELL SAFELY: and this is his name whereby he shall be called,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth,
which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of
the house of Israel out of the NORTH COUNTRY, and from ALL
COUNTRIES whither I had driven them; and they shall DWELL IN
THEIR OWN LAND (Jer. 23:5-8).
The first twenty-six verses of Jeremiah 31 repeat again the
establishment of peace and God's rule at Jerusalem over Israel
and over His born-again sons. Read it yourself!
During this same time, "He shall judge among many people, and
rebuke STRONG NATIONS AFAR OFF; and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation
shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more" (Micah 4:3).

Millennial Pioneers

Then, after a period of time -- including the three and
one-half years of the ministry of Jesus Christ which He has yet
to finish as a personal ministry to Israel -- those of us who are
the born sons of God AND the physical seed of Israel will go
forth from Jerusalem to establish government, peace and
prosperity. The laws of God will be taught to all the peoples of
the earth, beginning at Jerusalem. "Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, that I will SOW the house of Israel and the house of
Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast" (Jer.
31:27).
When you come to them and say, "This is THE WAY, WALK YE IN
IT!" (Isa. 30:21), when you begin to explain to them that the
Christianity they have known is FALSE, that the Sabbath is the
seventh day of the week -- even when you are able to read the
thoughts of their minds -- it is STILL GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO
BRING THEM TO THEIR SENSES! They will have been deceived ahead
of time by a clever satanic-inspired prophecy. They will believe
that you will be teaching exactly these things which they have
been told are false! Yes, believe it or not, Satan knows the
Scripture -- he TREMBLES AT GOD'S WORD BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT WILL
COME TO PASS! And he will have tried his best, by his method of
CONFUSING THE FACTS, to so deceive this last generation as to
frustrate the plan of God in setting up His government in the
millennium. Even though Satan himself is restrained at this time
from FURTHER deceiving the nations, HE HAS ALREADY DECEIVED THIS
LAST GENERATION!
Listen to this satanic delusion: "Antichrist will be an
ICONOCLAST [against idols]. Most of the world will adore him.
He will teach that the CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS FALSE, confiscation
of Christian property is legal, SATURDAY IS TO BE OBSERVED
INSTEAD OF SUNDAY, and he will CHANGE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS [that
is, restore them in their ORIGINAL FORM, including the
declaration against idols]. All his wonders could not be written
in a book. They will be more wonderful than the Old and New
Testaments! ... he will READ PEOPLE'S MINDS, RAISE THE DEAD,
REWARD HIS FOLLOWERS AND PUNISH THE REST"! ("Prophecy For
Today;" from Dionysius of Luxemberg, d. 1682.) AND, "... He will
begin by affecting RESPECT FOR THE LAW OF MOSES" (Ibid.; from
Frederick William Faber d. 1863).

The Pope's Prophecy

Here we see in full the prophecies this end-time false prophet
will preach! He will attribute Jesus Christ's intervention in
world affairs to the person and the workings of Antichrist!
Christ is the One who is AGAINST IDOLS! Christ is the One who
will show how perverted this world's "Christianity" has become --
that it is a FALSE RELIGION! CHRIST is the Lord of the Old
Testament whose day of worship is the seventh day, INSTEAD OF
SUNDAY! CHRIST is the One who GAVE the Ten Commandments in their
ORIGINAL FORM, and will restore them. CHRIST IS THE ONE WHO WILL
RAISE THE DEAD AND REWARD HIS FOLLOWERS ... HE IS GOD, AND THERE
IS NONE LIKE HIM!
So we see here the diabolical plot hatched by this professed
"Christian" leader. Here is the age-old attempt of Satan the
Devil to arrogate to himself and to his deceived minions the
OFFICE OF GOD; while he attributes the intervention of the True
Christ in his returning glory to the PERSON AND ACTION OF
ANTICHRIST!
This charges the office and work of the Holy Spirit as having
its origin as a WORK OF THE DEVIL, AND CONSTITUTES UNPARDONABLE
SIN!
These diabolical thoughts, ensconced in the fear-ridden minds
of completely deceived human beings, WILL BE DIFFICULT TO
DISLODGE! You will need all the power God bestows on you as His
born son to do the job He will give you to do.

Peace at Last!

Egypt is an EXAMPLE of all the nations who refuse to come up
to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, to recognize God as the Ruler
of the earth. Then we see the last rebellion put down as those
from the far corners of the earth up in Siberia, and in the
provinces of China -- the farthest spot on earth from Jerusalem
-- will swoop down upon Jerusalem in a vain effort to take away
the great riches that God has bestowed on His peace-loving
people. A thousand years of peace and prosperity, health and
happiness stretch beyond that time that cannot be imagined in
your mind.
And think of it, brethren, YOU have been called to help God
bring His peace to this earth! You are offered a sonship in the
Kingdom of God to teach other people how to become God! By
overcoming yourself daily. By getting close to God in prayer and
Bible study. By learning how to live YOURSELF. By setting a
Christian example in overcoming the petty sins that weight you
down.
As one last illustration of the reality of this fact please
turn to Isaiah 19, and begin reading in verse 16, "In that day
shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear
because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he
shaketh over it ... In that day shall there be a highway out of
Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptian shall serve with the
Assyrian. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and
with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: whom the
Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, BLESSED BE EGYPT MY PEOPLE,
AND ASSYRIA THE WORK OF MY HANDS, AND ISRAEL MY INHERITANCE"!
(Isa. 19:23-25.)
This is real, brethren, and you need to realize it!
THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS NOT ETERNAL RETIREMENT, BUT A
REAL DOWN-TO-EARTH, 24-HOUR-A-DAY JOB ... EMPLOYMENT FOR
ETERNITY, JOYFUL WORK!

For more information on the topics touched upon here, visit the
Restoration Website Library at:

http://rcg.destiny-worldwide.net

And remember, every Thursday at midnight, EDT, we have a very
important and insightful STUDY on Bible Prophecy on The Bible
Study Channel. You can listen to this program either live or from
the archives. To reach the archives or to listen LIVE to the studies,
simply click on the BlogTalkRadio icon at the bottom of our Sermon,
Services, and Bible study page.

Hope to see you there!

John

2007-07-02T09:19:00.003-06:00

I love you. I'm sorry. I forgive you. Thank you.

For those of you who read your email yesterday to the Real Truth list, you may recall the PEERS message I forwarded, inviting you to listen to an interview with Joe Vitale.

Joe has become pretty famous worldwide, both in his internet marketing work and also his more spiritual work, for which he was featured in the famous "The Secret" film.

But what Joe is working on now is way beyond "The Secret." In fact, it is the next logical step, which is taking personal responsibility for everything that happens around us.

That may seem bizarre, but if you think about it, it will ring true to you. I know it always has for me. We are responsible, ultimately, for what happens in our world around us.

I know this sounds rather bizarre, and if you haven't yet watched or listened to The Secret, you really should before you go on to this next level.

Joe's soon coming book, "Zero Limit" will pick up where his earlier works left off.

In the fascinating interview I listened to yesterday, he tells the story of a Dr. Len, who in the 1960's in Hawaii cured an entire ward of the criminally insane that no one else had been able to cure. He did it by taking the patient's files and saying over and over again over the file the phrases above: "I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you."

Miraculously all but 2 of the patients were made well, and amazingly, Dr. Len didn't see or treat any of them. These phrases come from ancient practices in the Hawaiian religion, which I am told is the ONLY religion officially banned by the US government. In fact, according to what a native Hawaiian told me years ago, there are certain books which are banned from leaving Hawaii.

This man claimed to be the son of the Big Kohona, and claimed to be his heir. Apparently, his father was the first to travel to Tibet, and compare the ancient knowledge of both places.

His father was able to teleport himself and had other interesting abilities.

If you recall, years ago Texxe Mars wrote a book in which he dealt with the "Warrior Monks" used and trained by the Black Opps boys of the US military to conduct psychic warfare on others. This was way beyond remote viewing, and I have reason to believe that this person of my acquaintance was one of these.

I have had other strange encounters over the years with this strange type of operative, including 2 years where a high level Mason was attempting to recruit me into the upper levels of that order, skipping all of the lower degrees and just stepping off at his high level.

He tempted me with riches, political power, and other perks, but of course my commitment is to God, and he eventually gave up. This is, of course, indirect vindication of who and what I am, but that is not a topic for discussion at this time.

But I digress.

The point is that Joe Vitale has hit upon something quite real, and quite "unthinkable" for most people. It goes beyond what is said in The Secret, and makes it quite clear that, indeed, "we create reality."

In fact, Christ said the same things in the New Testament, except that His listeners were not able to understand it at that time, and it has been covered up by organized religion. But, this same theme is elsewhere in the Bible as well, if you can dare to look.

In the Psalms, it says "Ye are gods."

And Christ said, "The Kingdom of God is within you," but man has mistranslated it to say "among you."

Furthermore, as Herbert Armstrong discovered years ago, it is God's intent and design for us to, in his words, "Become god as God is god."

Yes, it's all over your Bible if you care to look. In fact, this theme is the FOCAL POINT of the Bible because that is the transcendent purpose in all human life.

God has revealed many things to me in addition to this simple truth, but it's a great place to start. I suggest, if you haven't done so already, that you read Mr. Armstrong's landmark book, "The Incredible Human Potential," which is in our Basic Literature section of our website library.

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/library.htm

As I am learning, though, there is more to this story, and we have as yet only begun to scratch the surface. I will be writing and speaking on these important subjects in the near future.

However, one thing that is still absolutely true is that we need to have the CHARACTER to go with the power that will someday soon be ours. And we can learn that character through a study of God's way of life, which is summed up in His law of love.

But one of our first steps along the way, is to transform and cleanse our lives, and we can start with Joe's phrases.

Think carefully about what each of these means:

"I love you." Christ told us to LOVE our enemies and BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU. It might seem crazy to most, but this is the first step upwards, and can have tremendous impact, as Dr. Len learned first hand.

"I'm sorry." It take REAL HUMILITY to say we are sorry and really mean it, even while we may still think we are in the right.

"I forgive you." Christ instructed us to forgive and forgive and forgive. The disciples were perplexed by this. They even asked Him, "If a brother offends me 7 times, shall I still forgive him?" And Christ's answer was, "70 X 7." In other words our ability and power to forgive should be almost INFINITE.

"Thank you." As I have discussed before, many times we have a problem because we lack an ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE. Today, so many people think they are ENTITLED to this or entitled to that.

And, if you are "entitled" to something, then you often forget to say "thank you."

But saying "thank you" and being truly grateful is one of the first rungs to true success. When we can give honest, sincere, humble THANKS for what we already have, or for what someone else has done for us, then the universe acknowledges that and GIVES US MORE OF THE SAME.

That is one of the fundamental principles of the Bible and of The Secret and other books like "The Science of Getting Rich," etc., etc.

It all has to do with the Law of Attraction, which God set in motion at the begining. And an attitude of gratitude actually attracts MORE of the good into our lives.

We must learn to say "thank you" and be truly grateful for what we have, and then, the universal law of attraction says we can have MORE of it.

And of course, it works the other way around. If we always think about our PROBLEMS, then we will attract more of those problems into our lives.

But of course, the "attitude of gratitude" short circuits this problem, and attracts more abundance into our lives.

I am very thankful that God is opening my eyes on these subjects more and more. As the Apostle Paul so wisely stated, we should think on "whatever things are good, whatever things are pure...." If we do that, then we will attract more of the good into our lives.

Come to think of it, Paul had another word of wisdom that escaped me until just now. He said that whatever state he found himself in, he was "therewith content," and could actually REJOICE in the midst of his adversities.

It seems like Paul knew these truths millenia ago, and only now are we beginning to rediscover them.

Which brings to mind something out of Joe Vitale's story. Joe was not always the wealthy internet marketer and success coach that he is today. At one point in his life, he was flat broke and living out of his car.

Then, he began to discover the Law of Attraction, found things to give thanks for in his dire circumstances, began to think positive instead of negative thoughts, and the rest is history.

As Mr. Armstrong said over and over again, we are to be "teachers in the world tomorrow." He said that teaching is actually the highest calling one can attain to. Especially when we are to teach the right way of life.

But, in order to become teachers THEN, we must be good STUDENTS NOW.

There is no way around it. In order to teach, we must first learn God's way of life ourselves. We can't teach that which we do not know or understand.

So, let's be good students in this life. Let's learn how to be grateful. Let's learn to love. Let's learn to say we are sorry. and let's learn to forgive.

In fact, it might be a good idea to write these phrases down. Memorize them, and inculcate them into your life. And that will be the first step upon the road of learning God's way of GIVE and forsaking this world's evil way of GET.

John

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2007-06-06T10:59:00.000-06:00

There are three levels of "Mind" at work 24/7 in delivering our wishes, desires, and of course all those most UN-wanted things in accordance with our thoughts. To remind ourselves, these levels of Mind are as follows: 1. The Conscious Mind: This is the aspect of our Mind that interacts with the physical world through the five physical senses - our conscious awareness. The conscious Mind is still, in many people, motivated by the demands of the ego and by driven by a desire to collect material things. The survival instinct is also a powerful aspect of the conscious Mind. 2. The Subconscious Mind: This is the aspect of our Mind that is infinitely powerful. Any thought, positive, negative or neutral that is impressed upon the Subconscious Mind will be brought in to our physical experiential reality sooner or later with immutable certainty. The Subconscious Mind never judges a thought - every thought is always automatically deemed to be the desire of the individual and will be processed accordingly. 3. The Universal Mind: The Universal Mind is the Mind of God in which we live and move and have our being, and Who is at once Infinite and Eternal, Perfect, Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent and Who has always existed and always will exist. We, as humans, as with all Creation exist as Thought Forms in the infinite Mind of God. Our Subconscious Mind, when presented with a thought from the conscious Mind, will either act directly on our body if the thought is of that nature, or with the Universal Mind of which we are all inseparable aspects. Moving on to our Wheel we can see how The various levels of Mind fit this metaphor extremely well. If we examine a wooden cart wheel it fundamentally comprises the following: 1. The Hub: Positioned at the centre of the wheel the Hub represents the Universal Mind, The 'First Cause', The Source of All that Is. 2. The Spokes: Radiating out from the Hub, each spoke represents an individual human being, a race, a nation, a Galaxy, Star or Planet - indeed anything in creation. As evolution takes place, vibration increases, an consciousness travels up its own unique spoke until finally the vibration is such that it approaches that of The Hub, The Source. 3. The Rim: The Rim may be regarded as the cycles of life - these are the same cycles of Life for example that the Maya observed, charted, and used as a basis for their calendrical systems, astrology and of course predictions. As a point along each spoke - which we will consider to be a human being in this case - is further and further from the hub, the more the illusion of separation is perpetuated. It is an illusion of course because in reality we all share the same connection at the Hub. Now, as the Wheel of Life begins to slowly revolve, so we experience, and as the wheel connects with the ground, so we bear the weight of that experience. But here is the important thing. Because everything in the Universe is connected by the same Ultimate Wheel of Life, of which all other wheels are simply cogs on the Great Universal Mechanism, each experience is shared by every other wheel, and also transmitted back long the spokes to The Source. The Source therefore receives the benefit of All such experiences as individuated wheels turn, and in so doing The Source Experiences and thereby Expands - and thus the Universe is in a perpetual state of expansion. As mentioned before, as the wheel turns we observe the cycles of life. These cycles can be infinitesimally small, or they can be so large as to be beyond the comprehension of humans. Everything takes place in Cycles at an individual level, rising and setting of the Sun, the passage of the seasons and so on. The Mayan Long Count calendar measured such cycles, observing the fact that a great cycle comes to an end on 21 December 2012 - an event the effects of which extend far beyond Earth itself. The Galaxy in which we live has a centre - The Galactic Centre, around which the wheel revolves, and which exerts a profound influence in accordance with its own Wheel of Life. So there is nothing mysterious about 2012 - it is a wheel that has been turning since the Galaxy was thought into existence by the Universal Mind, and will continue until one day the Galaxy continues its own journey back to The Source. 2012 therefore is not a "prophesy" it is a "prediction" based upon the Galactic Wheel of Life. But we should never fear any Wheel of Life. The Universal Mind knows only Unconditional Love, and would never "harm" anything in Creation. However - humans can harm themselves, and that is why each and every person must understand these things, and look forward to whatever is to come with great joy and expectation, knowing that it is ultimately for the greater good at all levels.

2007-06-05T11:57:00.000-06:00

Some of you may be wondering - what is oil pulling? And how can it help improve my health? "Oil pulling Therapy" is a regimen that not many people have heard about, until recently. You may have heard it pop up in various forums such as "CureZone (and read the many testimonials), and so you may have some inkling on what it is all about but in any case, I wrote this article so you will understand all the details. First off, oil pulling was a regimen developed by Dr. Karach. He wrote a research paper that documented a healing procedure involving cold pressed oils. Using this method, one could heal a lot of chronic illnesses, diseases, preventing the need for surgery or medication (that can cause bad side effects). What did the procedure involve? It involved basically "swishing" cold-pressed oil in your mouth. Doing so would heal the tissues of all your organs at the same time. Harmful toxins are thereby eliminated without destroying any of the beneficial probiotics. Moreover, doing this everyday will greatly prolong your lifespan, according to Dr. Karach. What makes this method so exciting, and innovative is that it is extremely simple. No buying complex products, mixing products like an alchemist, or taking zillions of supplements. No, oil pulling just involves swishing oil inside your mouth. Now, let me get into the specifics of the method. Here is how one would do oil pulling: 1. Every morning, before eating anything, consume 1 tbspoon of cold pressed oil, but DO NOT actually swallow the oil! Slowly swish the oil in your mouth, sipping and sucking it through your teeth for up to 25 mins. Use a lot of saliva, and mix the two together often. Doing this will use your enzymes, which in turn will draw out harmful toxins out of your bloodstream. So make sure the oil isn't swallowed - it will absorb toxins. 2. Continue swishing. As you move the oil, it eventually gets much more thin, and turns white. Spit out a little into the sink and if the color is not white, it means you haven't swished long enough, so continue swishing back and fourth between your teeth until the color of the oil is white. 3. After you're finished spitting out the white substance, clean and disinfect your sink, because it will contain lots of harmful toxins that you just eliminated. People have actually taken small drops of the the expectorated fluid, and viewed it under a microscope, only to find massive amounts of very toxic substances. Oil pulling will generally increase your metabolic rate, and subsequently your health. Another beneficial effect most people have is the curing of bleedy gums, and much cleaner teeth. But of course, the main benefit lies in its restoration of over-all health. I've done oil pulling for over a few months, and at first I didn't really notice any benefits. However, after 2 months I can now attribute my very lively energy, (which was very low previously), and my now healthy digestion to the regular "oil pulling". Here are some tips to keep in mind while oil pulling: 1) Do it the first thing before eating any breakfast. If you have any chronic ailments such as acne, or candida, you should do oil pulling more than once a day, but do it on an empty stomach. 2) Please do not swallow the cold-pressed oil while swishing. The oil will be contaminated with toxins as it draws it out. If you do swallow it, nothing horrible will happen to you - it'll just be eliminated through your bowels, but better not to swallow. 3) The best oils to do this is sunflower and sesame oil. You should experiment which different oils and see which one fits you the best. My Thoughts................ Oil pulling is something we all should try. It is extremely simple, and involves nothing more than buying a bottle of good cold pressed oil, and swishing it every morning. It's just like brushing your teeth. Oil pulling works because it heals our cells, which are damaged every day by toxins. We all hear a lot of commotion about how good antioxidants are. Well, by oil pulling, we are essentially doing what anti-oxidants are doing. By oil pulling, we are ensuring that wellness is the norm for our body, not sickness, and cell damage. Dr. Karach postulates that if we were to do this simple regimen every single day, we could potentially live up to 130-150 years old. This claim is backed by many other scientists. Some of the ailments that many people have successfully treated with oil pulling includes headaches, bleedy gums, leukemia, as well as acne, digestive problems, and kidney disease. For me, oil pulling has visibly given me softer skin, better sleeping habits, and a higher boost of energy throughout the day. Oil pulling therapy is s something I will continue doing if this continues, and I recommend you all try it for a month to see what it does for you! Keratosis oil pilaris pulling.. do some research if you want to know more. ============================================ This article is one of many posted every day to the Real Truth email list. =============================================

2007-02-05T01:01:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

I need to record an audio message soon on the outline of future events in full detail, with scriptureal references, etc., and where we are now in the panarama of world events.

However, that project may take some time to do, and I want to get this out in digest form right now as world events seem just about ready for a major speed up.

We stand right now at a very crucial time. We are on the cusp of earthshaking events that will simply "blow the mind" of the average person away. We are about to enter a time the likes of which this world has never seen before.

But first, let me comment briefly on the Western attitude of mind today.

Our people are complacent as never before, and extremely stubborn. We are self absorbed and materialistic. We also have the mistaken idea "that since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued the same until this present day," as the Apostle Paul warned us about almost 2000 years ago.

This has many aspects, but one of the main ones is that the theory of evolution, with its view that everything just GRADUALLY moves along making changes over millions or billions of years, and that change within one human lifetime is so slow as to be inperceptible.

For some time now -- several thousand years, in fact -- this has by and large been the case. But, in ages past, and in the near future coming, this planet and solar system has had GIGANTIC catastrophes and SUDDEN CHANGES. These are all verified in the fossil record if you have the eyes to see the evidence in front of your face -- but modern so called "science" brushes these "inconvenient truths" under the carpet so that the average person doesn't see it.

After all, as just one example, mamoths have been found frozen in the ice for thousands of years WITH UNDIGESTED TROPICAL VEGETATION IN THEIR STOMACHS. Also, the meat, when thawed, is still good to eat, and has no signs of decay.

What this means is that these animals were standing eating tropical vegetation one minute, and then almost INSTANTLY, they were DEEP FROZEN WHERE THEY STOOD!

No matter how you slice it, this does NOT happen under normal circumstances. In fact, the ONLY circumstance I can think of that would cause this would be a SUDDEN POLE SHIFT coupled with the possibility that MUCH OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE AREA WAS ALSO SUCKED SUDDENLY AWAY, exposing the animal to the cold of outer space for enough time to freeze it SUDDENLY as hard as a rock. After that, since the poles had shifted, the snow started coming down and buried the frozen animals. But it must be remembered that these animals were suddenly FROZEN SOLID on their feet -- tons and tons of animal!

So, what could have CAUSED such a catastrophic event?

Furthermore, it can be demonstrated from TRUE SCIENCE that pole shifts have occurred SUDDENLY on this planet in a regular cycle and that these are NOT isolated events at all. They happen regularly periodically down through our history.

The best explanation I have seen for this is that the rogue "planet" [or whatever it is, but I will use the word "planet" here to avoid confustion]Nibiru is responsible for most of these events on some of its trips into the inner solar system, depending on how close it comes to the earth during a particular passage.

Sometimes, when it comes close, there are gigantic cataclysms, some of which have threatened to destroy our planet. Other passages have been relatively mild when it came into the inner solar system at a great distance from us.

But of course, those are NOT all of the surprises Nibiru has in store for the human race when it arrives very shortly, but I will save that for another time, and I have also recorded an 8 part series on this subject called "The Clouds of Heaven," which will give you a VERY GOOD PICTURE of what the Day of the Lord will be like from historical records of previous passages. That important series is in the Speculative Issues area of our Website library at:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/library.htm

So, since I go into great detail about these events in that series, I will not discuss The Day of the Lord here.

Having said the above, we now have the groundwork for piecing together what may happen in the months and years just ahead.

The "signs" of the approach of Nibiru are all around us, and I also cover that in the Clouds of Heaven series, so I won't belabor that here, except to point out that the weather upsets, increased earthquake and volcanic activity, "global warming," and a whole host of other anomolies that even those people who are the most asleep and unaware are beginning to notice, are the signs of the imminent passage, and things are only going to get WORSE in all of these areas -- much worse. The grand smash climax will be sometime during the Day of the Lord, but there will be some spectacular events unfolding just before this we need to be aware of.

As I point out in the chapters already written of my book in progress "Secret Mysteries of the Ages," the beings that inhabit Nibiru are the "angels" who rebelled eons ago, and in punishment, God imprisoned them there, in the place called in Greek mythology and the Book of Jude Tartarus -- translated as "hell" in the King James Version.

This is also the "bottomless pit" spoken of in Bible prophecy, where about 90% of Satan's minions are restrained. This leaves Satan with a contingent of his demons on this earth of only about 10% of his forces that have been allowed to run around on this planet to assist him in his evil work.

Before the Flood, this was not the case, and apparantly Satan had access to all of his minions, who were able to appear as ordinary human beings whenever they so chose. They taught mankind all kinds of things that God didn't approve of, which was one of the reasons God had to wipe out that wicked world through the Flood.

You can piece this story together from The Book of Jubilees, mythology, and other places.

What is not appreciated by most people is the fact that these "gods" ruled visibly and directly over mankind in ancient times, and that the "wars of the gods" were also the "wars of men," and that humans were used as pawns and cannon fodder in the constant battles between these so called "gods" for supremacy. This is where the human race learned the "art of war." It was these false gods who taught man these perversions, and to act in the dysfunctional way of constant bickering, strife, and warfare.

These "gods" were of various classes, as is hinted at in mythology. The more powerful ones had awesome powers that were truly miraculous. The weakest of them depended on some kind of "technology" to do what they did, including the use of spacecraft and other forms of transportation. The intermediate ones made use of the star gates that connected the earth to Nibiru, while the highest of them were probably able to teleport themselves by thinking just as God Almighty is.

The nature of these beings was ultimately spiritual, but they liked to manifest in physical bodies as much as possible, so that was how they appeared to men in ancient times.

I have a more complete description of this in the book referenced above.

According to the Book of Jubilees, after the Flood, God changed all of that. His original intent was to lock up ALL of Satan's crew, leaving him alone to wander freely on the earth. But, Satan argued with God that he wouldn't be able to fulfill his mission of deceiving the nations if he didn't have help, so God grudgingly allowed 10% of his forces to remain here on the earth with him, while shutting up most of the rest [except for certain ones bound in specific locations on this earth]in the "bottomless pit," which is what became of Nibiru.

In ancient times, it appears that Nibiru was "floating" somewhat above the north pole of earth, and was a large, visible object in the sky. This is what gave rise to the legends of Mt. Olympus, which was the place the "gods came from."

At that time, there was free passage from Nibiru to the earth. At other times, Nibiru was allowed to continue on its orbit, meaning that when it was far away from the earth, it appears to have been "out of range," and the "gods" down here had less "help."

But, after the Flood, all of that changed, and God also took away the power of Satan's demons to manifest themselves in physical form [at least most of the time]. Holy angels still have this power today.

However, there is a peculiarity to this whole thing which I discuss in my book, and has to do with a mistranslation of the word the KJV translates as "chains" in the Book of Jude. According to Bible commentaries this should be more accurately translated as "cave" or "elastic bands."

As I cover in detail in my book, both of these meanings add light to the matter, as it is a PLACE where they are restrained as well as a definite ZONE or boundary beyond which those confined cannot pass.

This explains the METHOD God used to lock up these Fallen Ones in their prison.

However, by piecing together all of the evidence of Bible prophecy and elsehwere, the scenerio for our near future becomes "interesting" to say the least.

Most people who are aware of what Bible prophecy says will realize, if they think only a little bit about it, that the horrors of the Tribulation can only occur because Satan is once more given a free hand to rule on this earth, without the restraints he suffers under today. When the information from the Book of Jubilees is added to certain Bible prophecies, it is not hard to conclude that one of the reasons for this increase in power is because SATAN HS MORE HELP then than he does now -- in other words, many if not ALL of his demons are released from prison to do their dirty work once more on the earth.

But, I think you understand now the MECHANISM by which this will happen.

As Nibiru gets ever closer to our planet, there will come a time when our planet PASSES TO THE INSIDE of the forcefield or bubble universe surrounding that "planet" that bottles its inhabitants there, confining them.

Once we are on the inside of this field, which, as I just mentioned above, is probably a small bubble universe of its own, the inhabitants of Nibiru will then be free to travel back and forth between "home base" and the earth as in the "days of old."

Also, if this is a slightly different miniature universe, that will also mean that slightly different laws apply! Things that "don't work" today, such as large amounts of "magic" and other things that happened in the "old days," such as the Fallen Ones being able to appear as humans, will probably be true once again.

Of course, others of these beings will appear in much more frightful, reptilian forms, up to about 10-15 ft. tall if the historical records are correct.

There will be MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of these beings SUDDENLY able to come down to our small planet once more after thousands of years of confinement.

Nibiru will quickly move to take over blatant control of this planet again, although they may initially disguise it as "help" from "your friendly space brothers" or something else. But, eventually, they will be firmly and overtly in control of this planet again like they were in ancient times, committing horrors and atrocities as they did then, and engaging in their favorite sport using humans as their proxies -- WAR!

The above gives you a broad overview of events, but remember at the same time these events are occuring, massive earth changes and catastrophies of outrageous proportions will occur, culminating with gigantic earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, the sky "turning as dark as sackcloth," etc., etc., with a frightening object coming ever closer in the skies above for all to see.

It will get so bad just before the return of Christ, in fact, that "mens hearts will fail them for dread" of what they see coming at them. And, if it were not for Christ's return, all human life would be erased off the face of this planet -- as that is Satan's ultimate goal.

So, given this broad panarama, what can we expect in the near future, perhaps even the next few months?

After piecing together much evidence, this looks like a possible if not likely scenerio:

The US will make its final, gigantic blunder in the Middle East that will remove it from its place as a world power. This will be a horrible event, and it might even be a stupid invasion attempt against Iran that will backfire in a very spectacular way.

This could cause all of the nations of the world to turn against the US, dumping their dollars, which would cause a sudden implosion of the US economy. If this is coupled with horrendous and sudden natural disasters on a grand scale, then the "world's remaining super power" won't even be a power anymore.

This will leave a power vacuum in the Middle East, and the EU and the Vatican will waste no time in filling it.

For over 20 years now, the Vatican has had a plot with Shimon Peres to have Israel turn part or all of Jerusalem over to Vatican administration.

This plan was set to go into effect many years ago, when Peres was Prime Minister of Israel for a time, but before he could act on this plan, he was removed from power and has been in the wilderness ever since -- until he made his deal with Olmert, making him Vice Prime Minister.

Olmert is presently on a banana peel, with a deafening chorus demanding his resignation. Olmert is George Bush's man, and is the third leg of Bush's support group, Tony Blair being the other leg.

These 3 leaders are all in very deep trouble right now, and Blair is actually in the process of resigning, so Bush has a very short time to try to salvage what is left of his presidency.

All 3 of these men are like cornered rats, and, as you know, cornered rats can get very viscious and irrational, which is exactly what these 3 will try to do.

They all think that just MAYBE starting a war with Iran will salvage them.

But it WON'T. Instead, it will be a HUGE BLUNDER of epic proportions, and will unleash the forces that will ruin all three of them and the countries they are running.

The US and Britain will thus be swept off the world stage as if by massive tidal waves, and Olmert will likewise be out on his ear.

This will leave Shimon Peres as caretaker Prime Minister of Israel at a crucial moment in history.

With the US out of the picture, Israel will, literally, have nowhere in the world to turn for help except the EU and the Vatican!

This will give the Vatican a golden opportunity to get what it has wanted for almost 2000 years now -- CONTROL OF JERUSALEM!

In fact, this is the ONLY way they have of achieving this dream anytime soon, and Pope Rat will no doubt "seize the moment" in coordination with his lackey Peres.

So, with the Middle East imploding and the world in flames, with an economic depression toppling the world economy, the Pope will suddenly propose a "bold peace plan."

At about this same time, expect the Islamic Mahdi to appear, uniting the Islamic World as the King of the South of Bible prophecy.

At the same time, expect fundamentalist Jewish elements in Israel to take over that country -- but not before the Peres - Vatican deal is signed, sealed, and delivered.

Also, at about this time, the political sidekick to the Pope will rise up to "save the EU," who will be the Beast.

The Beast will be very charismatic and he will be a champion of the Vatican's Middle East peace plan.

Somehow, he and the Pope will manage to broker a deal whereby the EU will send in peacekeepers to Israel and Palestine, and the Vatican will administer Jerusalem as a "worldwide city of peace and unity."

As part of this "peace package," the EU will assist the Jews in rebuilding their temple.

This "peace" will probably last about 3 1/2 years or so out of a planned 7 years. But then, something will "go wrong" and the "King of the South shall push at him," and the "King of the North shall come at him like a whirlwind" and destroy the King of the South.

One interesting sidelight here is that the EU will NOT have to invade Israel, because their TROOPS WILL ALREADY BE THERE! It also appears that somehow the Kingdom of Jordan will have not joined the King of the South, and will remain neutral in this conflict that happens at the start of the Tribulation.

I think you can see how events are lining up in such a way now, that this roller coaster, breath taking ride could very well start WITHIN MONTHS if Bush is allowed to go through with his insane war plans against Iran.

Most people don't appreciate this fact, but ONLY Iraq and Iran are controlled by Shia muslims, whom the majority Sunnis consider to be heretics. There is now rising tension between these two sects of Islam, which seems to have been encouraged by the Neocon nutcasts in the White House, who seem to have the idea that they will wipe each other out, leaving the US victorious through a divide and conquer strategy.

I see two possible scenerios here:

1. The US and Israel will attack Iran. Iran will retalliate massively, sinking most of the US navy ships in the Persian Gulf. They will also wipe out the US forces in Iraq and the rest of US forces will be expelled from all of their bases in the Middle East.

After the dust settles, Iran will be wiped out, but so will the US as a global power. With most of its naval power destroyed, and tens of thousands of troops dead and other military equipment destroyed, the US will be crippled militarily.

But, the knockout blow will come when countries around the world dump the US dollar suddenly on the world market in retalliation for this outrageous behavior in the Middle East. The US economy will implode in an instant, never to rise again.

In a matter of a few months, the US will go from super power status to a shrunken, shriveled, dried up husk of its former self. On the home front, the Federal Government will implode. Civil wars on multiple fronts will erupt, and the US will fly apart as when you throw a clay pot on a cement floor. And even the larger pieces will continue to break down into ever smaller and smaller pieces.

This doesn't even take into account multiple massive natural disasters that will strike all at once.

With Iran out of the way, a Muslim messiah or Mahdi will arise and unite the remaining Sunni nations, reestablishing the Caliphate. This will be the King of the South.

2. Scenerio 2 is much like the one above, except that the Mahdi will arise and UNITE Sunni and Shiite Islam.

Internal strife in the Islamic world will cease, and so the power of Iran will be added to the rest to make a formidable foe to face Catholic Europe.

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Anyway, that is a SHORT version of what may happen shortly. It is particularly sobering in light of the fact that this whole thing could start in the next 2-3 months.

John

2006-09-16T19:41:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

By now, I hope that most of you have listened to Dr. Hoeh's sermon in Cyber Services discussing the Feast of Trumpets, but also many other of God's Holy Days and His plan of salvation for mankind, and the role that the Feast of Trumpets plays in that Plan.

For decades, God's church was not and in many respects still is not in full understanding of the meaning of Trumpets, and Dr. Hoeh touches in this message, recorded in 1993, on some of those aspects that we had not understood previously.

I think it is ironic that this message was given in what were the final gasps of the WCG, as the apostasy was growing, but, even then, God revealed to Dr. Hoeh's mind some new information that had not been previously known in the way that he presented it.

Ronald Dart has also commented on some of these "new" meanings for Trumpets, so some of these things have begun to seep into the minds of at least some of God's people.

If you haven't had a chance to listen to this important message, please do so. Even though I have decided to archive this message in the Library at some point, it might be some time before I actually archive it there, so I urge you to listen to this message before Friday of this coming week if you haven't listened to it already.

One of the points Dr. Hoeh brought out, and which has also been brought up from time to time by Ronald Dart and a few others is that the birth of Christ probably happened in the Fall Holy Day season, and that, given the symbology and significance of Trumpets, it is very likely that He could have been born on that very day!

After all, we have understood for decades that Trumpets symbolizes the second coming of Christ, so why wouldn't it also be appropriate that His first coming as a baby in the human flesh would also have occurred on this Holy Day?

Dr. Hoeh also brought out an interesting point I was not aware of previously, and that is the fact that each month began with a New Moon, and there was the blowing of the trumpet to mark the beginning of each month.

But, on the First Day of the Seventh Month, which is what the Feast of Trumpets is, there were in fact SEVEN TRUMPETS BLOWN on that day. One can't escape the symbolism of this, as in the Book of Revelation it talks about SEVEN TRUMPET PLAGUES that shall be blown just prior to the second coming of Christ, and, as the Apostle Paul points out, at the blowing of the LAST TRUMP, which we now understand both from the typology of the blowing of the seven trumpets on the Feast of Trumpets as well as the seven last trumpets in the Book of Revelation, Christ shall descend in the Clouds of Heaven [for a complete understanding of the meaning of the Clouds of Heaven, please listen to my illuminating series by that name in the Speculative Issues section of the website library, as this has much more meaning than you would ever dream possible once you start to study it]at the sounding of that SEVENTH TRUMPET, which would be the LAST TRUMPET BLOWN ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.

It is also at this key juncture in World Affairs that the first resurrection occurs, and the Saints rise to meet the descending Christ in the Clouds of Heaven.

After that momentous meeting in the Clouds, Christ will then continue His descent with the Saints and the Holy Angels with Him, and His feet shall stand that day on the Mount of Olives, during the final battle at the end of this evil age, commonly referred to as the Battle of Armagheddon.

So all of this typology and symbolism, as well as much more, is wrapped up in this momentous Holy Day, which will be celebrated this coming Sabbath. This may well mark a major turning point in world affairs.

Brethren, some new understanding has been lurking around the corner of my mind now for at least the past several years. Even though world events may LOOK like we may be headed straight into the Tribulation very soon now, I have had the inkling that this is but a false start, a dry run, and a WARNING TO THIS WORLD and to GOD'S ELECT AS WELL of what WILL happen soon during that most terrible time of trouble in world history.

It will be a shadow, a fortaste, and, in reality, a COUNTERFEIT of the real thing, because things just are not lined up CORRECTLY at this moment.

And, with a few scriptures that I have recently come across, it appears that this false run up to a false tribulation is in the prophetic record if we just know where to look.

And, after this false start towards a false tribulation is over, I have the feeling that we will enter immediately upon a NEW GOLDEN AGE OF GOD'S WORK, when God will directly take a hand in world affairs and utterly lay waste the plains of evil, vain men to bring about their fake New World Order based on greed and oppression, using MONEY, greed, political power, and INTRIGUE to rule over prostrate humanity, creating one tiny class of masters -- and elite made up of the international banksters, the illuminati, and their ilk -- with the rest of the human race wearing the chains of wage slavery and oppression in a fascist New World Order.

But, as I explain in detail in my "Three Whores and a Virgin" series in the Prophecy section of our website library, this is an ISRAELITISH plot, with its center in the City of London, with the atheist Zionist and other illuminati so called "elite," operating in a counterfeit of the way the Catholic Church rides the Beast from its headquarters in Vatican City.

I explain in the early parts of this series that this Globalist Cabal uses MONEY as a substitutue for SPIRITUAL POWER, and that it uses its Money Power in a simillar way that the Catholic Church has used its Spiritual Power down through millenia, in a perverted counterfeit of the Babylonian model.

It is an atheist, dirty, COUNTERFEIT, using MONEY as a substitute for spiritual power to "ride the beast" of first the British Empire and now the American Empire, in a sick, perverted, weird COUNTERFEIT of the method that the REAL WHORE OF BABYLON has used down through history, and will yet use on the world once more.

These elitist plotters and schemers have deceived themselves that there is no God, and that there also is no Satan the Devil, and that everything is about money and everyone in the world has their price, and by using payoffs and other evil means of materialism and atheism, they can create their corrupt New World Order based on nothing but human greed and corruption.

It has worked really well down through the last few centuries that this plot has been operating on the world scene, but these idiots are utterly blind to the stupidity of their flawed logic. This is because NOT EVERYONE CAN BE BOUGHT, BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE NOT SUSCEPTIBLE TO BRIBES. It is also true, though, that there are others who will either not stay bribed or who will pretend to be bought and paid for, but who, in the end, will say "what have you done for me lately," and turn around and bite the hand that has been feeding them.

So these are two areas in which these dimwitted morons who dare to call themselves an "elite, " and "enlightened ones" are utterly blind and which is their achilles heel and the germ of their final downfall.

Even at this very moment, there is a growing awareness among the world's people that there is something very evil, very wicked, and very WRONG about this fascist New World Order scheme, and the rebellion against it will soon become a tidal wave that will sweep every leader in the world who is cooperating with their agenda out of power.

Unfortunately, our own peoples of national Israel, at the center of this evil, will be the last to wake up, but, once they do, they will also turn on this WHORE and utterly lay her waste in a moment of time, and throw out of power those governments that this WHORE has thrust upon them for greed and exploitation these many centuries.

It now becomes apparant that AFTER the fall of this FIRST WHORE, there will be chaos and Civil War among most of the nations of the world, and especially in the US, UK, and Canada. There is a significant portion of the populations of those countries that have become used to, tolerant of, and also CHEERLEADERS of this evil system with its political correctness, and multiculturalist agenda. But there is also a significant portion of these peoples that are utterly OPPOSED to this globalist fascist agenda of evil, and are having their eyes opened on an almost daily basis to the evil plot that is unfolding before their very eyes.

There is thus about to occur a gigantic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil, which will manifest itself in the form of multiple civil wars throughout the world, including our own nations.

After these civil wars are fought and the forces of the Globalist Elite have been utterly laid waste and eradicated from the face of the earth, it now appears that there will come a short period of world peace and harmony after the extinction of these forces of evil. This will be a time during which the message of God's Church, and God's Church itself, will blossom like a flower and flourish as never before.

It is clear to me that this will unlikely be a Work like no other in human history, and that it will make the Work done by Herbert Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God look like mere shadows in comparison.

This will be a GREAT AND MARVELOUS WORK, a Work so powerful that it will threaten to "turn the world upside down," as God's church did in the first century.

It will be a time of unparallelled spiritual power and an outpouring of God's Holy Spirit, simillar to what occurred on that First Day of Pentacost.

As the prophet Joel said, it will also be a time when our "young men shall dream dreams." It will be a time of prophecy, a time when healings are a daily event in God's Church, and a time of brotherly love such as has never before occurred among God's people, except at the very beginning.

But, the remaining powers in this world left after the collapse of the Globalist Elite will not be amused by this at all. Leaders of all major religions will feel threatened by the Truth shedding light on their lies and hypocrisy, and they shall plot the end of the "holy people."

And so, at some point, the horrible Tribulation will be brought down on this world, as much to suppress the Work of God as anything else.

Keeping God's Sabbath and Holy Days will become a DEATH PENALTY CRIME during this horrible period within the entire area controlled by the Beast Power, and they shall invade and crush the nations of national Israel, whose power shall have been dissipated in their years of civil wars.

But we are on the verge, I believe, of the momentous events surrounding the imminent collapse of the New World order, and the international bankster and Zionist so called "elite." Once that happens, we are in for some very stressful times, at the end of which we will experience a short lived, worldwide "golden age" of "peace among men," which, if you recall, will be a bad sign, as the Beast will be speaking words of "peace" and "flattery" and make a covenant with many for seven years, which agreement he will break after 3 and one half years!

World events are rapidly accelerating now, and the WHORE headquartered in the City of London sees her plots and schemes unwravelling right before her very eyes, which is freaking her out. This is the reason for the increased attacks against freedom around the world and the war mongering claptrap and propaganda She spews forth from Her controlled media / propaganda organs.

But the jig is almost up, as they say. A significant part of the world, and even the US, British, and Canadian populace no longer accepts anything coming out of the mouths of their corrupt politicians as anything but lies and claptrap, and this also applies to the corporate propaganda media organs.

And so, as this REVELATION of the truth about this ABHORRENT EVIL spreads around the world, and people refuse to support their evil globalist agenda, we will see that this vision of evil will quickly fade.

It is coming down, no matter what She does now. The only question is whether the collapse will be peaceful, or soaked with blood because they fight to cling to power. Sadly, I think the next few years will be stained with the blood in the streets of worldwide civil wars, with the elite globalist pigs fighting agains the rest of humanity!

But, after this brief period when She will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West when exposed to water, God's intervention in these matters will cause her to fade away like a vile dream and vision of evil.

And this, my friends, will pave the way and open a brief window in human history during which the very Truth of God will roll down upon this world like cataracts of living, clensing waters, to give us all a chance to repent before the coming of the Tribulation and the Day of the Lord.

May God speed that day and revive His Work in this very end of days!

I urge you to study the material I have mentioned in this important email from our online library, and to listen to this important message by Dr. Hoeh in this week's Cyber Services section.

You may find the Restoration Website at:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/

May God open your mind to His precious Truth!

John

2006-09-09T17:20:00.000-06:00

NOTE: God is inspiring me to begin a study into the prophecies in the latter chapters of the book of Daniel. But, before we begin this study, here is some important background!

The Plain Truth
June, 1960

WHY PROPHECY?

One-third of the Bible is PROPHECY! Why was it written? Why is it so
mysterious? Why
does almost no one understand it? Here are the Bible answers!

by Garner Ted Armstrong

BIBLE prophecy has perplexed millions! Many hundreds of volumes have been
written --
articles, leaflets, tracts printed -- thousands of sermons have been preached
-- all
about Biblical prophecy!
And yet -- look at all the CONFUSION!
Many believe ALL the prophecies have been fulfilled. Others believe the
prophecies
were merely the pronouncements of wild-eyed fanatics carried away with visions
of doom.
Still others believe the prophecies are confined to the Old Testament, and are
all DONE
AWAY.
Still others preach that MOST Biblical prophecy is for OUR DAY -- NOW!
What is the truth?

What Is Prophecy?

The Hebrew word for prophet, "Nabi" means "one who announces or brings a
message
from God." The word "prophet" in the English language means essentially the
same thing
-- "one who speaks by Divine inspiration as the interpreter or spokesman of
God,"
whether it be a message of duty and warning, or a prediction of future events.

A prophet is one who speaks FOR God; hence, the prefix "pro" (from the
Greek
language -- from which our word "prophet" is derived) which means "for" and
"before" so
that a prophet is one who speaks FOR GOD, or one who tells BEFORE -- one who
PREDICTS,
foretells, prophecies!

Common Misconceptions

Many people falsely ASSUME all prophecies are merely dire foretellings of
catastrophic events, of the wrathful vengeance of a harsh God who is about to
descend
with terrible fury upon His hapless subjects here below!
This is FAR from the truth! MANY of the prophecies foretell a time of
peace, of
happiness, of restoration, of joy, of great prosperity and physical wealth for
those who
are serving God.
MANY prophecies merely foretell, in advance, certain events which are to
happen, the
rise and fall of nations, the COURSE of world affairs!
Prophecy IS a chronicle of the great PLAN God is working out here below!
It
describes this plan in DETAIL, showing how God KNEW it would work out,
according to
human nature, together with other SPECIAL INTERVENTIONS of God.
Prophecy is HISTORY WRITTEN IN ADVANCE!

Who Were the Prophets?

The prophets were not a special hierarchy, a guild, or a certain "class"
of men!
Many of them were chosen from various of the tribes, and, unlike those of the
tribe of
Levi, were not BORN into their office.
"... The prophecy came not in old time by the WILL OF MAN, but holy men of
God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Spirit" (II Pet. 1:21).
DANIEL was a Jew, of the tribe of Judah, one of the PRINCES of the nation,
with whom
God began to deal -- revealing the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, and
causing
Daniel to write many prophecies which he, himself DID NOT UNDERSTAND! (Dan.
12:8-9).
JEREMIAH was "of the priests" (Jer. 1:1), who argued he was TOO YOUNG to
become a
prophet of God! HOSEA was apparently of Zebulun, JONAH ran from the call of
God, ISAIAH
claimed he was a man of UNCLEAN LIPS, and didn't want to prophesy, and
ZEPHANIAH was one
of the princes of Judah, possibly of the descendants of Hezekiah.
As the Holy Spirit inspired Peter to write, God CALLED His prophets --
sent them
with a message as divinely commissioned MESSENGERS. On many occasions, they
had to be
MADE WILLING to carry the message of God. These men WERE NOT SEEKING for some
kind of a
"spiritual experience," they were not earnestly DESIRING the office of a
"prophet," they
were CHOSEN of God!
Notice the way God called Amos!
"The words of Amos, who was among the HERDSMEN Tekoa, WHICH HE SAW" (Amos
1:1). Amos
was going about his daily life, AMONG THE HERDSMAN, minding his own business
-- and God
expressly REVEALED a certain message to him. Later, when Amos was approached
by Amaziah,
the priest of Bethel, who told Amos not to prophesy, but to go into another
country,
Amos answered "... I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son, but I was
AN
HERDMAN, and a gatherer of wild figs [margin] and the Eternal took me AS I
FOLLOWED THE
FLOCK, and the Eternal said unto me 'Go, PROPHESY unto My people Israel'"
(Amos
7:14-15).
Amos was HERDING SHEEP -- NOT "looking" for some kind of "religious
experience" --
and God CALLED him!
Who were the prophets? They were princes, sheepherders, farmers,
fishermen, or
priests. They came from many different tribes, and God called them at many
different
times.
Your Bible says that they were "HOLY men of old"! And, ON THESE MEN
together with
the New Testament apostles, is based the very CHURCH OF GOD! "Now therefore ye
are no
more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the
household
of God, and ARE BUILT upon the FOUNDATION of the apostles AND PROPHETS, Jesus
Christ
Himself being the chief cornerstone" (Eph. 2:19-20).

Why Was Prophecy Written?

God selected Jonah as a prophet and, after making him WILLING to carry the
message
of God, commissioned him to go to the great city of Nineveh. Jonah finally
went. Jonah
prophesied, lifting up his voice in loud warning as he traversed the great,
sprawling
city of Nineveh!
Finally, the word came to the king. The king realized the SERIOUSNESS of
the
prophecy, and "... arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and
covered him
with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and
published
through Nineveh by a decree of the king and his nobles saying, 'Let neither
man nor
beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed, nor drink water. But
let man
and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God' ... and God
SAW THEIR
WORKS that they turned from THEIR EVIL WAY, and God repented of the evil, that
He had
said that He would do unto them, and He did it not" (Jonah 3:6-10).
Notice it! Jonah fulfilled HIS COMMISSION! Jonah's job of orally shouting
the
warning was over! Jonah had been made willing, HAD CARRIED THE MESSAGE to
Nineveh, and
Nineveh had actually REPENTED!
Then -- if the prophecy had served its purpose, if the warning had been
heeded, if
Jonah's commission was over, WHY THE NEED OF WRITING THE PROPHECY?
Jonah WROTE the whole thing, and it forms a part of your Bible today!
Again, notice the 36th chapter of Jeremiah.
"And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of
Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Eternal, saying, 'Take thee
a roll of
a book [a scroll], and write therein all the words that I HAVE SPOKEN unto
thee against
ISRAEL, and against Judah, and against all the nations ... it may be that the
house of
Judah will hear of all the evil which I purpose to do unto them, that they may
return
every man from his evil way' ... then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of
Neriah, and
Baruch WROTE from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Eternal, which He
had
spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book!" (Jer. 36:1-4).
After the writing of this dire warning toward Israel and Judah, notice
what
happened! "Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, 'I am shut up, I cannot go into
the house
of the Lord: therefore go thou, and READ in the roll, which thou hast written
from my
mouth, the words of the Eternal in the ears of the people in the Eternal's
house upon
the fasting day ... It may be they will present their supplication before the
Eternal,
and will return every one from his evil way ...' and Baruch the son of Neriah
DID
according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, READING in the book
the words
of the Eternal in the ETERNAL'S house" (v. 5-8).
The people heard it, and also one of the princes who was present. He
carried the
message to other princes, whereupon they sent Jehudi (v. 14) to tell Baruch to
come to
them. He arose, took the scroll in his hand and began to read it to them. They
then TOLD
THE KING (v. 20).
Now notice what happened! "So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and
he took it
out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi READ IT in the ears of the
king, and in
the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. Now the king sat in
the winter
house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before
him. And it
came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves [columns] he cut
it with
the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until ALL THE
ROLL WAS
CONSUMED in the fire that was on the hearth" (v. 21-23). The king then
commanded (v. 26)
that Baruch and Jeremiah be seized. However, they escaped, being hidden of
God.
Stop and think for a moment. God had revealed a message to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah had
caused the message to be WRITTEN. The message had then reached ALL THE PEOPLE.
Then ALL
THE PRINCES heard it. Finally, it reached the KING! On this occasion, unlike
Nineveh,
neither the king, the princes, nor the people repented!
However, the purpose of the prophecy was FULFILLED -- wasn't it? Everyone
had HEARD,
orally, the EXACT WORDS of this amazing prophecy READ IN THEIR OWN EARS!
But -- IF the whole purpose of this prophecy had ALREADY BEEN FULFILLED,
and if
there was not a DUAL application -- if there was not yet a FUTURE fulfillment
of this
prophecy -- THEN WHY DID GOD CAUSE EVERY WORD TO BE WRITTEN THE SECOND TIME?
"Then the word of the Eternal came to Jeremiah, AFTER that the king had
burned the
roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 'Take
thee
again ANOTHER ROLL, and write in it ALL THE FORMER WORDS that were in the
FIRST roll,
which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned'" (Jer. 36:27-28).
Do you see? God caused every single word and other words besides to be
WRITTEN the
second time! He caused Jonah to WRITE the prophecy even though the city
repented. GOD
WANTED THESE WORDS PRESERVED! God wanted them to come right on down to our
time -- NOW!

Written for OUR DAY!

The very PURPOSE for WRITING one single word of prophecy is to PRESERVE
the
prophecies for future generations! God saw to it, even by intervening in a
Divine
miracle, that His sacred words were to be PRESERVED to all generations.
Here's PART of the reason: "Now these things were OUR EXAMPLES, to the
intent we
should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted" (I Cor. 10:6). God
caused these
prophecies to be written for our examples, TODAY! "Now ALL THESE THINGS
happened unto
them for examples, and they are WRITTEN for OUR ADMONITION, upon whom the ends
of the
world are come" (I Cor. 10:11).
God caused the prophecies to be written to SHOW His servants how world
conditions
would work out. "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to
SHOW UNTO
HIS SERVANTS things which must shortly come to pass, and He sent and signified
it by His
angels unto His servant John" (Rev. 1:1).
Why? So His servants in THIS modern age can come to UNDERSTAND the
prophecies,
PREACHING and PUBLISHING them to the modern nations for whom they were
intended! READ
EZEKIEL 33!
God makes an ironclad promise that He will NOT cause any major world
condition to
occur, that He will not intervene in world affairs, unless HIS SERVANTS --
those who are
members of the very body of Jesus Christ -- know about it FIRST! "Surely the
Lord
Eternal WILL DO NOTHING but He REVEALETH His secret unto His servants the
prophets"
(Amos 3:7).
One full third of the Bible is prophecy -- and about 90% of all that
prophecy still
pertains to OUR DAY -- RIGHT NOW!

The Amazing Prophecy of Ezekiel

Notice what happened to Ezekiel! "... I was among the CAPTIVES by the
River of
Chebar ... and I saw visions of God": (Ezek. 1:1). READ the first chapter of
Ezekiel!
Here is a picture of the very throne of the One who later became Jesus Christ!
Ezekiel
saw a great whirlwind (v. 4) in the midst of which were four living creatures
(v. 5),
carrying, over their heads, an expanse of translucent material (v. 22) the
color of
glass, or crystal. On this expanse of beautiful, crystal-like material, was a
throne!
(v. 26).
Seated on the throne was One "as the appearance of a man above upon it,
and I saw as
the color of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the
appearance
of His loins even upward [compare with Rev. 1:13-16] and from the appearance
of His
loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
brightness
round about ... THIS WAS THE APPEARANCE OF THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF THE
LORD!"
(Ezek. 1:26-28).
Ezekiel then heard a voice (chapter 1:28) and the voice said, "Son of man,
stand
upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee ... and He said unto me, 'Son of
man, I send
thee to the children of Israel ... I do send thee unto them, and thou shalt
say unto
them THUS SAITH THE LORD ETERNAL'" (Ezek. 2:1-4).
Ezekiel was being sent with a message by the Eternal, the LORD of the Old
Testament
-- who IS Jesus Christ of the New Testament!
But Ezekiel was IN CAPTIVITY. He was sent to the House of Israel! He was
also given
prophecies against the Ammonites (25:2), against Moab (25:8), against Edom
(25:12),
against the Philistines (25:15), against Tyre (26:2-3). Against Egypt (29:2)
-- and
against other nations, a great distance from his location in Babylon.
But Ezekiel WAS IN CAPTIVITY. The word of the Eternal came to him, giving
him these
messages -- commissioning him to warn these specific nations!
But Ezekiel WAS NEVER RELEASED to GO to these nations!

A Captive Jew

Imagine it! Picture, if you can, a young Jewish lad in a concentration
camp in
Germany, during World War II. Let's suppose Almighty God reveals to him
startling
visions, symbolizing what is to happen to Egypt, Japan, Great Britain and the
United
States! God tells him to "get you unto Egypt, Japan, Britain and the United
States."
Are his German captors going to BELIEVE he has received such a message?
Even if they
DID -- is it feasible they would LET HIM GO, in order to travel all about the
world
during a time of warfare, reaching the leaders of these nations? Even if he
COULD
feasibly travel from place to place, is it possible anyone with such a
message, claiming
to be a prophet sent from God, would be ushered right into the White House of
the
President of the United States, into the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, or to No.
10 Downing
Street in London?
OF COURSE NOT!
EZEKIEL NEVER REACHED THESE NATIONS!
Instead, he WROTE the prophecies!
Do you realize that Ezekiel, a young captive Jew, in a veritable
"concentration
camp" in Babylon, was given prophecies toward ISRAEL over 120 years AFTER
ISRAEL HAD
ALREADY GONE INTO A CAPTIVITY? And that He NEVER REACHED the Israelites with
the
message?
Ezekiel saw visions of impending destruction upon Israel "in the fifth day
of the
month, which was the fifth year of KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY" (Ezek. 1:2-3).

Jehoiachin went into captivity in 596 B.C. The fifth year brings us to about
592 B.C.,
or over 125 years AFTER the removal of the last of the remaining Northern
tribes,
718-721 B.C.!
If you have not yet seen the startling identity of Israel PROVED, write
immediately
for Mr. Armstrong's booklet "The United States and the British Commonwealth in

Prophecy!"
Ezekiel's prophecy NEVER, IN ALL HISTORY until NOW, reached the ears of
the nations,
peoples, or kings for whom the messages were intended!
Rather, Ezekiel WROTE these amazing prophecies! He wrote them -- because
God was
intending to PRESERVE THEM -- for our day!
Prophecy is DUAL! Notice the THEME of duality running throughout the
Bible. There
was the first man Adam, and the second Adam, who was Christ (I Cor. 15:45-47).
There is
the Old Testament, and the New Testament. There was the Old Jerusalem and a
new heavenly
Jerusalem. Study Matthew 24! Here, Jesus answered the questions of the
disciples about
the END OF THE AGE, and His imminent return! Many believe Matthew 24 was
totally
FULFILLED in 70 A.D. at the destruction of Jerusalem. This is entirely
baseless! They
must believe, by this assumption, Jesus was a liar! But Christ DID NOT LIE --
what
happened in part in 70 A.D. was merely a FORERUNNER, a former TYPE of the REAL

FULFILLMENT of ALL the prophecies of Matthew 24!
Ezekiel's prophecies are also DUAL! And the real, LITERAL fulfillment of
the
prophecies of Ezekiel are right ahead of us -- Now!

HOW to Understand Prophecy!

There are definite KEYS to the understanding of Biblical prophecy. Most
have never
understood what those keys are! The keys to prophecy have become lost!
Of GREAT importance is the modern IDENTITY of the nations mentioned in
Bible
prophecy.
Also, in ancient times, when a prophet of God came to a king (such as
Nineveh) the
message was sometimes BELIEVED, and a great REFORM effected. From time to
time, as God
sent judges, and prophets, there were certain REFORMS carried out in Israel.
At least
SOME kings of Israel RECOGNIZED these prophets spoke, NOT according to their
own
cleverly devised human reasoning, but according to the Divinely inspired WORDS
OF GOD!
Notice how totally DIFFERENT we are today!
YOU KNOW national leaders today would look upon preaching the prophecies
of WHAT GOD
SAYS IS GOING TO HAPPEN as mere fanaticism. They would spurn, scorn, ridicule
and scoff
at any MENTION of "Biblical prophecy."
Today, PROPHECY seems to be a weird, fanatical sort of "religious
ax-grinding,"
having no bearing on actual fact or present-day world conditions.
What a SHOCK lies ahead for world leaders!
YOU CAN understand Biblical prophecy. Here's how: God told Daniel the
words which he
had received were CLOSED and SEALED -- but only UNTIL a certain time. Read it!
"And he
said, 'Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and SEALED TILL the
TIME OF THE
END! Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, but the wicked shall
do
wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the WISE SHALL
UNDERSTAND'" (Dan.
12:9-10).
Who are the "wise"? God says "the FEAR OF THE ETERNAL is the BEGINNING of
knowledge"
(Prov. 1:7). Wisdom comes from God! "For the Eternal GIVETH wisdom, out of His
mouth
cometh knowledge and understanding" (Prov. 2:6).
The way to get wisdom -- to come to UNDERSTAND the Bible prophecies -- is
to FEAR
(be in AWE of) Almighty God! "Thus saith the Eternal, The heaven is My throne,
and the
earth is My footstool: where is the house that you build unto Me? and where is
the place
of My rest? For all those things have Mine hand made, and all those things
have been,
saith the Eternal: but to THIS MAN will I look, even to him that is poor and
of a
contrite spirit, and TREMBLETH at My word!" (Isa. 66:1-2 ).
The mere BEGINNING of wisdom is to fear God. Next, one must learn to
RESPECT, to
FEAR, to TREMBLE before the Divinely inspired WORD OF GOD!
Today people say, "Well, I know the Bible says that -- but here's the way
I look at
it!" People do not seem to really FEAR to misapply, to misinterpret, wrest,
distort and
twist the sacred word of God! People do not really RESPECT the Divinely
inspired words
of Almighty God!
That's why people don't understand the Bible! You can come to understand
the Bible,
and Biblical prophecy, ONLY when you begin to really FEAR and RESPECT WHAT THE
BIBLE
SAYS!
The apostle Paul said, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the
spirit of
God, for they are foolishness unto him, NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM, BECAUSE THEY
ARE
SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED" (I Cor. 2:14). The disciples of Jesus Christ couldn't
even
understand the simplest parables which Jesus taught them privately! However,
AFTER they
had been CONVERTED, AFTER they had received the Holy Spirit of God, then they
UNDERSTOOD!
It is only when one has truly come to fear God, to OBEY God, has REPENTED,
and
received God's Holy Spirit, that true UNDERSTANDING of the prophecies of God
can come.

What Prophecy Means to You!

Jesus Christ commissioned His Church to preach the gospel of the kingdom
of God to
all the world as a WITNESS (Matt. 28:18-20; Matt. 24:14). The gospel is
prophetic! It
has to do with present-day world news, and the FUTURE of this whole earth!
The WHOLE MEANING of the gospel is PROPHETIC. Jesus Christ said, "WATCH ye

therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to ESCAPE all
these things
WHICH SHALL COME TO PASS [that are PROPHESIED -- that are to happen in the
FUTURE] and
to stand before the Son of Man!" (Luke 21:36).
You need to come to UNDERSTAND prophecy! Only by understanding the
PROPHECIES of the
Bible can you intelligently WATCH -- and Jesus meant watch WORLD NEWS. When
you KNOW, IN
ADVANCE, what is GOING to happen -- then you can be a real watchman of
Almighty God!
That's WHY God caused the prophecies to be recorded -- to WARN the world Now!
Keep reading the "Plain Truth" magazine! Don't miss a single "World
Tomorrow"
program! Write for EVERY booklet you hear advertised! STUDY YOUR BIBLE -- PRAY
for God
to give you an obedient, humble, submissive mind -- giving you more and more a
deep,
respectful, AWE of the word of God! You can't afford NOT to -- your very LIFE
-- your
FUTURE is at stake!

For more information on these and other topics, visit the Library section of the Restoration Website. Study the material you find there and the Bible will begin to make sense at last!

The Library section may be found at:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/library.htm

2006-07-31T10:38:00.000-06:00

Bible Code Warning!

Note: There is an urgency to get this out, ideally before sunset, July 31st,

Jerusalem time, which is probably imminet now. I had planned to do this

yesterday, but was not able to, so this will have to do.

That said, let me also mention that the Bible Code is highly speculative, but

does seem to have an amazing accuracy sometimes, depending on who is doing

the questions and answers. In other words, a lot depends on who is operating

the software, as they make choices of what to ask, and also make choices as

to what they see.

That said, most of the below appears to bear out what I have believed for

sometme now, and in fact adds material to it.

These comments are off the top of my head. I hope to do a more complete

analysis later, but, due to the urgency of this, this is the best that I can

do as I want to release this within about an hour or less.

If these codes are correct, THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE WORST WEEKS IN WORLD

HISTORY, STARTING TOMORROW, AND COMING TO A CRESECENDOAf ON FRIDAY WITH A

SIGN FROM GOD!

After reading this commentary, I suggest you go to the original source page

and look at all of this yourself:

http://exodus2006.com/3code.htm

I also urge you to read the article on the Endtime Elijah, the King of the

South, and the entire section on "3 Whores and a Virgin," in the Bible

prophecy section of the Restoration Website library at:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/library.htm

You should also listen to my "Clouds of Heaven" series in the Speculative

Issues section of the library, and read the article associated with it. This

material will blow you away, with vivid details of what has happened on this

planet in the past, and what will soon occur again from a long unknown

historical account in addition to the Bible.

Other good material would be "The United States and Britain in Prophecy," and

"The Resstoration of Truth," as well as "Secret Mysteries of the Ages."

Anyway, now that the introduction is complete, here are some comments from

the top of my head. Remember that my memory may be faulty, but there is just

no time left to go back and look these over individually.

1. This is going to be a horrendous week if this code is correct. At first,

I was focussed in on Aug. 3 because of comments made by Dr. Ernest Martin in

his lecture on the "Signs in the Heavens," which you can listen to along with

my commentary from the Webcast page. Remember, for all of our audio

material, you must have the Real Player installed.

That said, the code below shows that OTHER days this week are also

significant. Here they are:

Aug. 1 a holocaust on Israel, day of God's vengence. It is possible that

Assad of Syria may have something to do with this.

Aug. 3 Possible nuclear bomb dropped on Iran, possibly in retalliation for

what happens on the first. There are statements about Iran being destroyed

several times, and this would seem to fit.

At some point also, it looks like Tyre will be devastated, and it is possible

that Jerusalem will also have a small nuclear device detonated there. There

is also a comment about the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, but no

timeframe is given for this or for the nuclear strike on Jerusalem. This may

be part of it and it may not.

The code also talks about the Mahdi and mentions Jihad several times, so,

putting this together, the destruction of Iran could so outrage the Islamic

world that the Mahdi suddenly comes on the scene, and this will cause the

rise of the King of the South, which will lead directly to the destruction of

the United States in time. There is also a mention of a nuclear attack on

the US in 2006, so this may follow on from these events, but not necessarily

right away. it seems this will be a limited attack, as the code predicts the

real serious nuclear exchange in 2010.

Aug. 4. A sign from God. No indication directly of what this might be, but

the code seems to indicate an asteroid or large meteor landing in the

Atlantic ocean in 2006, so, this would seem to fit in with the sequence of

events.

2. Elijah is predicted to be revealed to the world in 2006, and this will,

in my opinion, either happen at about the time of the event on Aug. 4 with

the sign from God, or, it may occur on the Feast of Trumpets, which is

usually sometime in September although I don't have the exact date handy.

This is brought out by the code saying Rosh Hoshana, and then saying twice to

"Sound the shofar." this would be avery opportune time for God's revelation

of His servant, and I have had dreams surrounding the thought that 2 church

groups will end up following God's Endtime Elijah by the Last Great Day of

the Feast in some year. Please read my article on Elijah for more details.

3. let me just comment here that many have had the idea that Iran was going

to be the King of the South, but, for many reasons, I have never thought so.

The code would seem to bear this out, if indeed Iran is destroyed by Israel,

but will instead by the trigger for its rise and tNow he catalyst for the

Mahdi appearing.

Below are some real fast comments from memory. I hope to make a more

detailed analysis later.

Bible Code comments:

End Times

Scriptural

Come here Elijah! - 2006 - the world is the place of burning and God created

the mourning..

This relates to the great droughts that will be under Elijah's control, and

probably also the "sign" that is supposed to happen on the 4th of August.

Elijah will cause the whole earth to mourn, and to hate him because of the

plagues he will unleash on a rebellious national Israel first and later the

world especially the Beast Power. People will be of the attitude that "a

loving God wouldn't do this!" But, indeed, HE WILL! It is also interesting

about the burning as well, as he will be able to call down fire from heaven

to consume his enemies and turn them to ashes, which he will do in a massive

conflict with the USSA Ferral Govmint at some point. They will send troops,

attack helicopters, and fighter jets after him, and, according to visions I

have had, the helicopters and planes will burst into flames and come crashing

down out of the sky. The President will be livid, and will petulantly say

"they were just doing their job. This man is a terrorist serving hostile

aliens." So they will stupidly attack again and the same thing will happen.

God will ultimately demonstate to these infidels WHO IS GOD AND WHO IS IN

CHARGE, as the name Elijah means "who is like God."

Armageddon
Armageddon
Armageddon: Assad Holocaust

This would seem to correspond to the event on Aug. 1st of this year, not to

the Armageddon at the end of this Age. It may indeed turn out to be true

that Syria got some of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and will be so

enraged by the hubris of the USSA and Israel that he will feel he has no

choice but to lash out. This may lead to what appears to be an Israeli

nuclear strike on Iran on the 3rd, which will have long range disasterous

consequeces. By the way, the Challenger sign some years ago seems to

indicate that the USSA will break into several pieces shortly as a result of

its support for Israel's outrageous actions. But the King of the South will

arise as a direct result of all of this.

Let me make a side note that the code relates an undated nuclear attack on

Seol, S. Korea, several Japanese cities, and Hanoi. it is possible that in

the mini WWIII about to unfold, the USSA will also threaten or attack N.

Korea at about the same time Israel attacks Iran, with the result that N.

Korea carries through on its threats to strike back.

I would also expect, now that I am thinking about it, that the idiot now in

the White House will use the US navy in its attacks against its imaginary

"axis of evil" since the Israelis have cooked this all up with the Bush

administration and the Plutocrats, who are seeing their New World Order plots

being exposed and coming apart at the seams. This is therefore a last ditch

desperate attempt to keep this going, but it will backfire in a very

spectacular way, especially when GOD HIMSELF takes a hand in world affairs.

The upshot will be that the USSA navy will be utterly laid waste, and when

the dust settles, it will be a super power no more, as in retaliation for

these outrageous acts of war countries around the world dump the dollar and

cause it to spiral down into oblivion, dragging the USSA and world economy

down the drain.

Simultaneous to this, there is an undated code that predicts 10 HURRICANES IN

AUGUST, although it doesn't say which August, I am guessing this one, as it

fits. In other words, as punishment for this outrageous aggression not only

will the USSA navy be destroyed, but the entire gulf and eastern coast, at

least, will be bombarded by monstrous hurricanes that will bring about utter

devastation.

If this follows on the heels of a huge meteor crashing in the Atlantic on

Aug. 4 as the "sign from God," the destruction from the resultant tsunami on

the East Coast will be utterly devastating, but it will only be the beginning

as the monster hurricanes will finnish the job. There may not even be a

Washington D.C. left after all of this!

Remember, the code does't say WHICH August this will occur in, but that is my

best guess, as the Bible also says "all of her plagues shall come upon her in

a single day," which, in Bible prophecy terms, a day generally equals a year,

and sometimes a thousand years.

Armageddon - Day of the Lord

this is later, at the return of Christ

The Armageddon of His people.

Possibly the events of this August

Armageddon - Time of the Abomination

The Abomination of Desolation will most likely occur only after the 3rd

Temple has been built, which the Dome of the Rock must be destroyed first,

which event may happen this very week. Once the USSA is off the world scene,

Israel will turn to the Beast for protection, and the Beast may indeed even

help with the building of this 3rd Temple, since he will later want to use it

for HIS evil purposes!

Armaggedon
Armageddon is a vision.

God strikes the "peace and security".

This probably refers to the Beast's peace treaty in the Mideast, following

the disaster Bush makes of the whole thing, or, it could also refer to the

"Homeland Security" nonsense in the US, showing that THERE IS NO PEACE AND

SAFETY APART FROM GOD, or it could mean both.

Fire of the Seven Seals. You will shoot an instant.

Probably the Great Comet

Babylon the Great is a city for her.

From the Demon is the iniquity and the Great Whore.

Babylon is for the demon, he is the ruler for the Order of Death.

No doubt a reference to the Illuminati, which has its evil tentacles

everywhere.

Angel of Death.

Fourth beast.

The time of trouble is from God. - To him holocaust of God.

This refers to the Great Tribulation, which is Satan's Wrath upon God's

people, whereas the Day of the Lord is the time of God's wrath on Babylon and

the whore, which immediately follows the Tribulation.

Wrath of the lamb - Day of the Lord

Judged, The Day of The Lord; the Demon's knowledge.

Satan, "Prince of the World" , and "God of the Light": "God of two days".

This may refer to the fact that Satan has been the god of this world for TWO

ages, the "world that then was," before the Flood, and "this present evil

world."

He spared, and the opressed one, ah! A wave in the time, they are your

people, and His time. And in them woe! The Most High judged: The Day of The

Lord, who is the Lamb. And acknowledge the Light and the wonder of the dove.

In the tribulation - All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword that

say " the evil will not overtake nor confront us".

Coming from the Day of Christ
The western world moaned from the Hand of the Lamb

A decay of God is the threshing of the dying Europe - anti-Messiah - for

truth; I am to him a magician

In other words, to the Beast, God does cheap, fake, "magic tricks" like he

himself does through advanced technology like that of satan and his demons,

but in truth it is REAL miracles.

He who is cradle of the Mark. "Ten of ten" is Bush; in him the god who is the

gateway to Sheol.

In other words, the USSA and George Bush came up with the chip that is the

Mark, but the beast will end up using it later. Bush is the gateway to Sheol,

or THE GRAVE, for the USSA and most of its people. HE is responsible for the

disasters about to engulf this nation.

The Altar of Babylon is USA

You BURN things on an altar! And so, the USSA will be burned as a sacrifice

to their evil god.

I find it quite interesting that just this past weekend was the Bohemian

Grove abominations, which has a direct parallel to the Asherah and to human

sacrifice and sex with little girls and boys and the drinking of human blood.

You may get a more complete discussion of the Asherah, as that is the title

of this past week's sermon in our Cyber Services section. Listen to it now,

though, as it will be changed Friday night.

The Third Temple is a horror.

Abomination of desolation
The Abomination that causes Desolation
Nobody knows the day nor the hour…
An enemy for Jesus in 2005
Master will come - 2006?

Nost likely NOT referring to Christ, but to Elijah.

He confounds Jerusalem; out of foolishness. To rule from cloud to the meadow.
23rd May 2006
And, quivering like a leaf; the nations of the world saw the Lamb.

The Chip and the Mark of the Beast
A subcutaneous chip - 666 is it's name.
The chip is a blemish, the Mark of the Beast!
Behold, living creature! A chip is "mark 666", rejoiced sorcery's god; a heap

of ruins in her.
Mondex - Cursed chip. Oh! A calamity in my hand shall come
Microchip - Mark of the Beast
the cursed Mark
Rottenness! Who? A chip in 2006; because, son, it will blister.
Microchip
Their chip, son, expel The Mark!
The Mark of the Beast is a vanity.
Mark of the Beast?
Cursed is the core of the Verichip
The core of the Mark is lithium

Declaration by The Highest! Do not visit Basel; and here, son, the 666 is a

living torment. It is by that it is the Mark of Satan. Buy and do not shine

in the light!

It will be feared; fear for all is an atomic holocaust. A chip with me. Let

it subtracted be! I say ; "You will buy bitterness, son!"

What about God's Will on the 'Year of Glory'?. A signal: "He will plague the

Mark". We will be numerous, so be calm!

Monsanto is for the Beast
He is repeated. He is irradiating. Slipping, DCLXVI (666), he is prepared,

they respond.
Who am I? A mountain will be crumbled avoiding the effect of chip and vapor;

because a market made abomination is his power. He who be cursed: the glory

of an ulcer.

Antichrist

The Antichrist will appoint
The Antichrist
The Antichrist is the ego.
They gave birth to the Anti-Messiah to burn a mark of religion. Appearance of

one super-god, yes, from among prostitutes, was set apart. The crowd

remembered the Devil.

Six hundred and sixty six is a code
Know: the Vatican is the Harlot
Vatican - Behold ! The antichrist !
The dark Vatican inside my religion
The Vatican will be destroyed
Here it is, sheep! The Synagogue of Satan. Come to the Lord!

War

Holocaust, atomic.
You are worn out; bear up, you shall smite! World War - in 2006 - and they

smite you!
You will proceed to an atomic holocaust. Repent! I come, he will destroy.
The fire will come. - In 2006. - People; he will atone. The fire is for him.
I shall curse the war of the End of Time.
World War
World War
World War
World War
World War
World War
And, poor me, shall you give a promise China? In 2006 shall you be still?

Hey! They shot shots!
2006 - The War

Atomic 2010

Iran will be destroyed - holocaust, hand of Bush
Iran will be destroyed: Fire by God
Iran will be destroyed by the hand of Israel
Destruction of Iran

Iran Codes by Charles

Destruction of the US
Destruction of America
Holocaust of America

"Holocaust of the Temple" codes

The people's Temple is threatened. Bitterness for the people of the Lamb of

God.

The atomic holocaust, repent! You will come; he will destroy.
From 2010. Holocaust of America, a desolation!
Atomic Holocaust - Dreadful
Atomic Holocaust
Atomic Holocaust
And he perished, from Lybia, know, a missile against My people
Nuclear - the USA hit

Atomic bomb code

Atomic Destruction of Jerusalem
12 Elul fear - woe for the atomic
In 2004
There will be terror - at the end of days
In 2005...destruction
3rd August 2006

Natural Disasters and Other Events

Earthquakes

In the sea; a shifting of the crust.
Groan of the Earth, but in the depths. - The mound of year 5768 (2008).
Groan of the Earth. - Law of the pole. - Rise in the west.
Reversal of the Pole; the sufficient burden. - From Yah; vast is the

earthquake! - Since it comes from the year of '768 (2008).
Shrieking of the Earth.
Rebelliousness of the sunrise.
New Madrid - earthquake
Comoros

Great Earthquakes

Great Earthquake - 2011 comet
December 2005 - Earthquake
5 Tishri 5766 (8th Oct 2005)
8th Av 5766 (2nd Aug 2006), a fire like a terror.

Comets and Asteroids

Asteroid - A mountain, in the cold, lying in ambush.
Ocean strike
Atlantic Ocean - The repercussion of the impact will make noise.
The Atlantic of glad fire.
In the hill of the Atlantic.
In the Atlantic
Impact into the sea - Year 5766 (2006)

Sign in the sky
Sign in the sky
Sign in the Sky
Burden of the comet.
Cosmic - Please! Year 2010 what? - Comet, enemy from.
Cosmic - Year 2010 from the Son of the Lord. - The jackal; a comet.
Cosmic plan. - Premature death and year 2010.
Cosmic; wretched. - Meager year 2010 - God, year 2012, God.
Cosmic. - In year 2010, to judge. - The one impact and the cloud.
Cosmic - A command and all will happen. - And a rock came.

2006 and 2010 asteroids - India burnt

Comet impact codes by Fab

Comet of the USA
2010 the calamity - an impact of a great rock - an oncoming of a mountain of

rock
2011 - comet impact
2012 - comet impact
2012 - impact - human - extinction
2012 - Day of Judgement

Incoming Asteroids

Asteroid
Planetoid returns

Dark Star

Solar-Flare

Rev 6:12 - 2006 comet - 6th seal

Rev 9:1 - fallen star - 5th trumpet
In 2006, as his bitterness - big stones - they will fall on open fields.
Stones fell down. - The sky! Look! - All the wrath of the time of God will be

there.

A star in 2010 shall light up the water

A bitter rough-edged rock in 2006

Wormwood Project - Learmonth Observatory Australia
Asteroid - Wormwood - Rome obliterated.
Phobos - Red Dragon
Apophis

Volcanic

For the fireplace of Yellowstone. - They were cast into the lake of fire.
Yellowstone
Yellowstone - this place appeared dead, waited for 2010
Incandescent Yellowstone mount
Yellowstone
Yellowstone and Etna 2010 choking darkness
My grandioseness in him, Krakatoa
Mt Rainier - 2011 blast
Saint Helens

Other

Man of heart; curse the embittered 2006 for us, please!
Iyyar 5776 (May 2006)
1 Iyyar 5766 (29 April 2006)
2 Iyyar '766 (30-Apr-06) one candle of his father.
Heart that is like of 5 Iyyar 2006 (3-May-06) laws the 70.
6 Iyyar '766 (4-May-06) - His might dilutes all the blood in me. Drowsyness

in me because of the heavenly might.
6 Iyyar 5766 (4-May-06)
10 Iyyar 5766 (8th May 2006)
Man is for him, and the heart of 25 Iyyar 5766 (23 May 2006). My laws.

1st August 2006 is for the day. - Of Yahweh's vengence.
Aug 3, 2006

A holocaust in 2010, thus!

12th April 2010
And here to, the Lord looked at the nations. The death in 2010; a menace

invaded. They became soft, woe! And a law made blood to the people.

In Me, for the 18th February 2006. He fulfilled My cross.. code found in

advance by Fab

And an instant defrost of Earth; you see all of the Garden.
Arrival of the 6th angel from amongst God
And watchful, trampled, a melting. What should be said "rotation of the

world's axis" with wisdom.

Made a king, a rejection of incitation, and for us, and he spoke of

hospitality. A destruction of the land of Israel, a time of misfortune.
Empty-nation (am-rikah)

Drought in the USA :
A great desolation of My People
Poleshift
End of the World
America 2012-2013

Tsunami

Los Angeles (the angels) destitute
Los Angeles (the angels) terrified
Los Angeles (the angels) bad
Los Angeles (the angels) Oh lament
Else a casket; the city of LA

2006 matrix by Fab
2006 matrix by Andy
2006 matrix - Black Hole version

Great catastrophe in 2010

Other codes about the End of Days

9th September 2005 a melting caused you to shrink. They desired a descending

cold. code found in advance by Juan

6 Heshvan 5766 (8th Nov 2005) a furnace, in him a herald of disorder.

The Ethiopia Exodus

Me, Ethiopia and the year of my death
2006 - The writing on the wall
The End, Ethiopia, in 2006, to her.
The jewel and the stone; thus. In 2006 the proof.

Friday 9th Sept 2005 (5 Elul 5765), committed a crime of blood, for he will

shoot.
8 of Tevet 5766 (8th Jan 2006) - He removed for the terror, day of night for

the UN code found in advance by Fab

The treachery of Iran against the people of God is an impediment. A cold

truth.. - From God, March 5th, 2006.
The 23rd of May 2006, He judged! - It shall be an evil time in that day.
He will bring upon His enemies, 9 of Av 2006, and they heaved.
Violent 3rd August 2006
Aggression, 3rd August 2006, and 50, according to the world. - When

scoundrels mouth piece, and nations to his nation, hear my heart, that is

equal.
4th August 2006 - Day of the sign.

Weather and Earth Events

The August hurricanes will be ten. Let that August be darkened. Living a

signal; surely of God. Let it be applied; a strong desire. Who, lamb, is

demanding payment? It will be.

I confirm. He increases the warming.
Storm Wilma
Destruction of the Storm Wilma. - They will evacuate the living. Day of the

destruction.
He called the storm Rita; God is for her.
New Orleans
Katrina
He sets in ruin: Katrina. I am expecting, and gold, of them, the people. They

came to end expectation.

The coast of USA where God cursed. Yes son, a curse are My Words.
Ophelia is destruction; and they produced a crashing of the joker. Rise up,

you, awaken! My Words are speaking here.
Ophelia - hurricane
in 2005 - Earthquake in Mexico
Earthquake and tsunami in Asia
December 26th, candles of the demon.... waters shall overflow the hiding

place
Tsunami in Asia (on another website)

The August hurricanes will be ten. Let that August be darkened. Living a

signal; surely of God. Let it be applied; a strong desire. Who, lamb, is

demanding payment? It will be.
Hurricane Charley
Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances
Typhoon in Japan
Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Jeanne
Destruction of Albuquerque

Iran Earthquake codes

War and Terror
In this place Lebanon
Nasrallah - and Hamas
The enemy is Nasrallah, the wire.
Hezbollah, they see the death. - Not the house of God.
In her is God, Hezbollah.
My name is a decree of God; "Hizbollah!" but to Him a hope of blood.
Knowledge, renew, you shall know in 2006, the father-in-law was knocked down.

- Suddenly, from them, for us; time of emergency!
2006 - rockets - on Haifa
Terrorist acts - Bombay, who?
Another nazi somwhere; a poisonous Bin Laden.
Where is Bin Laden?

Zarqawi codes
A. Zarqawi will be put to death.
A. Zarqawi; the burnt offering.
The dreadful Zarqawi is dead.
Yah exposed the nest of media which is.
Neyshabour
Neyshabour
A gift: Give Jerusalem the time of the secret.
The invasion of the city.
Invasion of the city.
Invasion of the city.

Pentagon - cheat! - a kind of missile!
The devastation of Nine Eleven; a brotherhood! - Bush is in it, he will do

wrong in it.
They shall be silenced. Highness of Nine Eleven.
Nine Eleven is for the ruler.
September 11 - comes from a conspiracy

The anti-semite will do wrong like he is being informed. - We will shout:

"Grant Satan a world of glory!"
And his arms are now, and 60 he sets, with my candles, slowly, against me. -
Iran in 2006.
For you, M. Ahmadinejad, is a grave.
You departed, Ahmadinejad, they looked to the beast.
I will consume you M. Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad throw the fire.
Light from the mist; Iran is bitter. - Fire from Yah. He tarries.

Syria, 2006: embittered agreement whether you cursed the sea, is calumny!

Search out, listen you, the leader.
Euphrates that is of year 5766 (2006)
False lion is vowing Palestine navy fire.
The death. Terrorist acts.
Terrorist acts, twice! - I will be affronted in Bali.

Hiroshima is coming God. - Bowed is America.
Hiroshima
Devastation, devastation of Hiroshima!
"The Disengagement"
Darkness of the disengagement
The disengagement of all of them.
Not a real peace.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda is the death

World War
World War - the Day of the Lord is at hand
Jerusalem - and the year 5766 (2006)
9 Av 766 (3rd August 2006)
New York buried
Madrid Bombings
Al Qaeda
Fallujah
Attack in a Russian school

Mega Terror in 2005
Time of mega-terror, they will be cooked in an oven.
London will descend - they will die - 7th July.
On 7th July; a mutiny. - They became silent; alert is London.

Military draft USA 2006
New York - Bush to function as a missile. - He guided the hand.
Shihab-3 menaced who?
Shihab-3 missile
The Shihab-3 missile came to curse.
The heart of the terrorist acts is France; to me it was confirmed.
Minutemen (bloody) - they went down to the slaughter - from Bush
Desert Storm of G Bush
Hit, and they rejoiced of Operation Yonatan. Be moved! They were the

mouthpiece; he kneaded the breach.

Elites/groups

The Illuminati stink!
Allah is a pitfall Solana.
Death of Solana; Babel investigated.
The Son cursed Solana. - Death is dreadful.
Who made up the "all-seeing eye of God"?

The beast is the Trilateral Commision.

Bilderberg Group

Power of Bilderberg
I will weed Bilderberg form the lodging.
In the mud is Bilderberg. - And poisonous; a cage, which is his chip.
Illuminati

The Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Bonefire
Club of Rome - Altar of Baal
Club of Rome. - Concerning the 10 horns that were on it's head.
The Babylonians of the Club of Rome

European Union

The religion in the European Union is harsh.
Proud is the European Union
The European Union. - For Satan, fellow of the beast.
The tree is rising. The Babylonians of the Club of Rome.
Brotherhood of Darkness; of the Euro.

Postpone thus! Eurabia! - Fake of a woman, discern!
Opus Dei
The Priory of Sion
Freemasonry is evil; from the evidence. - Daughter of Belial.
Freemasonry
Freemasonry
Brotherhood of Darkness

The fire of God is for the UN
The "religion of the Beast", they stretch out, and where there is a "bird";

those are the 666 people.

Freemasonry - They burnt their children in the fire as sacrifices to

Adrammelech.
Cannabalism is thick, I will vow - to Baal they are sacrificing.
For fearfull bitterness; the Religion of Satan
Here is sheep! Is the Synagogue of Satan? Come to the Lord!
Synagogue of Satan - Bearer of the cult of Bush.
Synagogue of Satan, the religion, Nathan's teacher; a calumny he prepared in

it.
The Holy Grail is the mother of the idol - the witness of Baal

United States

United States
The Dollar will fall. - Desolation of Nod.
God is in the destruction of America.
For God; the United States!
You will bury. - America, He condemned.
Thus; witnesses of Me, for Me, Mark of Me: America listening.
Breakdown; a trap. - From the USA, the anger of the blow.
The End of Days is for Yah - Bush, a surprise, take a half handful of powder.

Entreat the door!
You will transgress in New York. Unclean!
For you, God will destroy the United States. Where? - From USA westward.
Of United States: Let us cause disgrace to who will cause evil.
I shall pierce the USA
USA is Babylon 666
A. B. Culverhouse - mighty mother 666; not like a briefcase.

George Bush

The iniquity of George Bush. You will rise up, this is the "lofty limb".
Threat of George Bush.
He made much devastation of rebellion; George Bush.
The god of the CIA is Bush. The demon!
CIA; there is a man of the UN in you. Finance!
Bush is not a Christian.
Your glory, G. W. Bush, is an "empty of god" heart. The arrival of the 666.
A name was found guilty; he is the vanity, G. Bush is a terrorist.
The word you will fear with Me; the word of G. Bush, a terrorist that we

receive.
High birth of the Horn. G Bush
1290 days - This here is more than a word, a signal; which is; armies and

Bush.
Abject Bush, Prophet 666, God of Panic
Goodness! G Bush is a nazi, an idol!
Bush is the Beast 666
The lofty George W Bush is a priest and he circumcises.
The terror, G Bush and Baal, the mountain with his cold god.
With an overpowering desire, they came; Satan and Bush
Bush is a son of Satan
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Bush is King of Babylon - our death is his fire
Bush Emperor: a perfume of the God of Evil
For a crown, as G W Bush, a heart without God, an arrival 666, a name of poor

ethics.
Bush the Beast
Bush's time of terror; and the chip he circumcised is a demon like a shadow.
He fought! Is here alive! God forbid! G Bush the king!
God of Bush - Windsor
And of hot and dry weather, is their night of G. Bush and Satan, and of a

cult that is numerous. Of an ancient type; it extended a heap of ruins.

Israel

I am totally destroying Jerusalem.
Sharon was stricken with illness. - The brain is dead.
Kadima - His party; he broke. - Sharon; it will be made to touch.
Party of - Sharon
A Sharon - He is hospitalized to confuse.
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon - when comes 666, I am in realisation.
Ariel Sharon - his might is the debt of the nation.
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
Sharon government - Satan runs
Death of Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
The wild son of the mountain jackal.
The Nation, the Eye of God, in him.
Cloud is his shadow. Will disable his Aram and the walls. - My candle, the

mountain of my circumcision in the night, his might will survive.

Moshe Karadi

Shimon Peres lied.
"as a breach ready to fall"
Palestinian
The Third Temple
Destruction of the Al Aqsa mosque

Abu Mazen (Abbas) - head of the PLO - at the end of days
Sharm-el-Sheikh ceasefire agreement
Road Map
Road Map
Road Map
Road Map - code in English text
The Road Map will be set - vain, cold, fraud.
Bitterness of Gaza. One mocking, "I shall change"; and to him the fire.
The Oslo Accords are like nothing for the blindness. Enemy of God
Malice - ruin of Oslo

Disease

H5N1 Flu
Flu - epidemic - became that the bird, a vessel....
For measure; the Bird Flu is raised.
Raze the birds! - Arrival of my poison like a chipping.
Ebola virus - Man, you will repeat three times; hearing!
Cholesterol
AIDS
AIDS
AIDS plague 2010
SARS
Cure for hemophilia; to grow weak as wood.
You inherited the cure of hemophilia.
From you is the cure for hemophilia. From the Sabbath.

People

Cursed is Jacques Chirac, he is against Yah!
Milosevic is dead.
Rise up against Patrick Moore!
Death of Ilan Halimi
Murder of Halimi
Clouds reduced, aha! fresh season, M L King to liberate; negator of woes.
R. Hariri
Rafsanjani came.
J. Bolton
Paul Bremer

Terri Schiavo - exhausted she died code found in advance by Fab. (Found on 20

March - died on 31 March)

A. Schwarzenegger - 2006
A. Schwarzenegger - he shall magnify himself in his heart.
God for the people A. Schwarzenegger is a religion

Tony Blair codes
Rockefeller
Who is D Rockefeller?

G W Bush will be elected in 2004 codes found in advance by Fab (29 August

2004)

Death of G W Bush codes
Future assassination of President Bush
Future assassination of President Bush
A Gonzalez

Dick Cheney codes
L. Bush will die at night.

E. Stoiber is raised up in wonder
Go Stoiber! This is a joker of Satan.
Majesty of the speech. - Stoiber governed. - The ethics of your time.

Mahmoud Abbas is a threat. God is alive!
Saddam Hussein - Ousted, culpable, they will capture.
You will crush the guilty Saddam and the month of Eyar will be restful

Bin Laden and the WTC
Bin Laden is guilty
"Destruction" I will name you, Bin Laden
Saddam
Al Husseini

God of the people: Rav Kaduri
Rav Kaduri
Y. Kaduri
Y. Kaduri; he is?
The Rabbi Kaduri - The Kabbalist
Will become a stranger; the Rabbi Kaduri.

Ratzinger is god to her - the cardinal will come code found in advance by Fab
And from their crown, yes! - And with a signal, Ratzinger, a weaver enough.

code found in advance by Juan
Enmity of the speech - Ratzinger is a deceiver
Ratzinger - Benedict - A nazi depiction: satanic pride, he was stoned to

death.
Ratzinger is evil for the faith
Ratzinger - Black Minister
And Ratzinger is offal; a half done fire. Quality of "Minister for the Chip";

and we mocked.
Ratzinger
Ratzinger

R Nixon a son of the rulership - his seed is for Moloch
Yassin killing 1
Yassin Killing 2
Assassination of Rantissi (2 codes found in advance by Fabrice Bect from

France)

Nizar Rayan
Death of Daniel Perl
Nick Berg's death
Kenneth Bigley beheading
Like a nazi: Y. Arafat
End of the road for Arafat codes found in advance by Fab
Arafat killed
Arafat death canceled
Prince Charles
King Charles
Tsar V Putin

Space
Space Shuttle Columbia
Planet Sedna
Deep Impact, I will quantify. Who destroyed?

Aliens and Unsolved
Iron Vehicle - forged iron, all the work of the computer

Crop Circles
The evil of the crop circles - from the heavens and the army.
Dagon - the Nommo from Sirius
Banishment of the Saurians
Lord of the Codes
Yargans from 61 Cygni
Aliens

Other
De Villepin failed.
Great are the Blessings of the Deep sank down.
Subliminal message.
Sign of the candle, in the video from 70 Buncefield sleepers.
The US electricity blackout
In her, poor were owed, and USA, and China. - So a conflict and a brake, all

becoming a breach.
Euro Police (Europol)
MK ULTRA
Neo-Nazis; bitterness of the wicked ones.

God

Eh Yeh is My Name, I AM
And who, so, is My name "I am"?
Because it will be measured by The Lord: A religious sect is confusion still.
Know, Eh'yeh is My Name of Eternity and Glory.
The Mark of God is: "The Light is My Path".
The giving of "The Light is My Path".

He will empower the mouth - the Holy Spirit
Yahweh. Here's the Lamb of God, the gift of God is a Lamb.
Acknowledge! give! hand of him, in him, to Yah, the all, the saturated

holiness of Him.

The Host watch you all.
Spectator; thee are of God: From The Watchers. We will drive away from the

podium "that which is discarded" and his "core".

[This corresponds to my dream, where I was in the audience, watching Roderick

Meredith speak. God told me that he was self appointed, but God had let him

go on because he was mainly speaking in accordance with God's will. But

then, the microphone was pulled from his hand, and was given to me by God.]

From God, for Paul is an Apostle
The Holy Trinity is the truth.
The "healing of the nations" is for you.
Yah is my mountain. The healing of the nations is in the tree.
He was familiar in his cry to the Spirit. And What? Praise us not. From

Yahweh to "the man of the tree". Not; because he put to death the Pure One.

It is as if (oh, that!) he would give life and reconcile, this one.
In Him is all, and blessed is the Lord of the Universe.
The one placing faith in God; with abundance, is kept alive.
Oh! You will receive which is My Name, Eh'yeh, the Bread of Life.
For whom is the bread of life?
God is for all; the bread of life is a body!
To my Torah: Greek, Ethiopia-like also.
Give! God to give, godless left in foundation, death.

Jesus Christ/Messiah
Alive is the brother of the lamb, the born again; life is within.
Hour of Jesus Christ
And who is the Father?
Jesus is the good shepherd God
There shall be calm; the Lord shall sit as a son of man to serve.
Who is My Messiah? - His name is Jesus, recognise thus!
Jesus is My Messiah, recognize!
Ascribe Jesus for the atonement and religion.
He seized a garment, behold, to make me a covenant of light from Yahweh,

while I made his women guests sick with a delicacy steaming in the shadow.

Judging by blood on a thick beam was horrifying, while Jesus Christ was

baking on a pedestal of travail.

Name of the Messiah
In Me, Yeshua, Son of God
Where should the Son of God be lodged? Jesus shall blossom forth in a manger.
I am ashamed. The revelation of Jesus clothed our Lord. Speech about crushing

Him sprang up. Alas for His tranquility.
The gift was traded; Jesus is my messiah.
Mary, the Son is holy, the Christ is alive, let's go to Him.
The light of Jesus
The resurrection of Jesus
Resurrection of the dead.
Resurrection - Let's go to Jesus!
The infinite day of the resurrection of the dead.

The return of Jesus
To Him, Jesus, is the day of evil's judgment
I drank of the announcement of the heavens. A wise gift of God. Who is coming

back? - Jesus
Jesus came in 2010. Blood on them - because this time it is true
There will be some shouts when Jesus comes in 2010; why, where? And covered,

He descended on fire.
Who is Jesus? Is Adonai: for My mouth is My Name: I AM.
Jesus is the word of God
In the Blood of Jesus, this: He is obvious, the Light who came unto

punishment.
Jesus is the only way!
Confirmed; Jesus is the redeemer
Jesus the messiah
Brother Jesus
Jesus is able.
Jesus is God, is peaceful lion, is tanna.
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus Christ is alive
The man Jesus broke the head.
To follow Jesus: He answers you; Yah.
Only you and me Yeshua!
Yah is the son of God, to her, God came!
Jesus is God
Jesus is not God...to Satan
Jesus is the redeemer Yahweh
The Good Shepherd

The New Testament
He gave the Peshitta to Christianize.
Peshitta for the truth.
In Patmos - Written in the Book is the Word of God
The God of the New Testament
King of the Jews
King of the Jews
The King of the Jews died.
Whitewashed in Jesus: The mountain came returning. - Emigrate, you tired rock

of Jesus.
Guardian of the Messiah

Bible Codes

From God; spell! The codes are true!
He encoded the Torah, and more.
Codes about Torah codes.
The hand of Moses wrote the Torah.
Yah gives the skipping of letter; the truth!
They encoded My Words there for Me. - From God are His codes.

More codes about the Torah
Jump between words; a saying, from thousands, you will construct.
Who encoded My Word? God chiselled the stone with a command of His Mouth.

Woe! A hook are My Words; a fluent litany against those I will put to death.
And God is the key of my obelisk
Son of Mine, the matrix's key is for Me.

Searching for the Lost Tribes in the Bible Codes
Unto me the code to him is RAM; his thickness.
It is written that letter-words speak. Your opinion is unwanted.
Letter-words ban beauty, ornament to dedicate, to leave alone with, not.

Scriptural and Prophecy
Alas! Babylon will be rebuilt.
Babylon will be rebuilt identical.

Who authored the Bible?
He understood from the Gospel of Judas. - A fake of men!
And it lied: Gospel of Judas. - Variety of mixture they kneaded: Satan.

Rosh Hashannah
Sound the Shofar
Sound the Shofar
Urim-Thummim codes

Unedited, the Book of Enoch
Aha! He shall exchange plans with them for the first year. Flight and lift;

they lift up days of him. Woe! Book of Enoch.
Noah's Ark - Is upon the mountains of Ararat

The 24 Elders
The Tree of Knowledge
Leviathan / Behemoth / Jonah / Elijah

Apollyon - Abaddon
The Talmud
Apocrypha
He denied the apocrypha.
Book of Jubilees; for the proud day, I will be upright.
The Flood
Original sin.
Depart, My people of Babylon.
And you shall exalt; vessel to place on the Temple Mount. Outside from No,

you shall come to obtain and lift up priest.

The Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant
Ark of God - here I am - in Cush
Exodus 2006 code
Aksum, Ethiopia - The city of God
Birth pangs
He comes not to end the Earth...

Satan
Satan
From God: Satanism is Yah's enemy.
Satan is the father of lie. Like the Lamb I will be exalted!
Lucifer. Curse! - Son of the dawn. - Angel that destroyed the people.
Lucifer, son of the dawn.

[dawn can also mean the beginning! He was once the light of God, in the

beginning, but now has become corrupted and evil]

Lucifer, son of the dawn, is guilty. The light is in God.
He feels in pain, hell is a fire.
The suffering of hell is awful.

Hell
Hell is everlasting
Dreadfulness of Hell.
Decree: Demons are spirits! - Hinder the Faith.
Demons are spirits - Of Satan the master.
What are demons? A creation!
The demon possessed; he instructs.
Descending of the demon possessed.
He released the demon possessed.
Repeat! The god of this world is it's heart.

Magic from the man of sin. To me the salvation.
Key Keeper

The Lake of Fire

Religions and Associated Topics

Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary - Asheroth
Virgin Mary - enemies from Babylon
Virgin Mary - we burn incense to the Queen of Heaven
Who is Europa? Know! - The Queen of Heaven.
Virgin Mary - let not His mother's sin be erased
Fatima
Know: the Vatican is the Harlot
Sabbath change
Sabbath change
Wonder of Santa. An illustration. - Light of Babylon.
Christmas
Return to give: Christmas season.
Pagan is Easter; why the woe?

Christian
I will survey the arrogance of the Christian.
I am watching the Seven Churches. To Levi the congregation is miserable.
The ecumenism is a vapour.
The god of ecumenism.
The abduction is a sign
Abduction (rapture?) in 2010
The Rapture in me, God, with repercussion, here I come, I return.
The Rapture (ecstasy)

Gnosticism
Decree of Gnosis. God is in them; He will instruct.
Gnostic Christianity
Hand of Gnosticism.

Jehovah's Witnesses
Buying of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Jewish and Israel Codes
On 14th of May 1948
14th of May 1948
The State of Israel
State of Israel
State of Israel - Judah
State of Israel - Judah
And an important thing dwells here. Holocaust of the Holy Land? Did they

cause the heights to be stricken? Impossible!

Various
Like death, is the sin of man.
The Sign to lodge the warm praise, the Seal to be housed by hot praise.
Channelling is from the demon for the knowledge.
The sons of God are an army.
Great! We will not all sleep.
We shall all be changed.
A sign that she is in; my circumcized refused. - Embitterment in her hour, he

is the God of her faith.
I shall sit down for the thanksgiving.
Indeed, flawless one, grant forgiveness necessary in me, from father God.
Hanukkah, as he changes.
Came god Enlil - you are Baal
Babylonian Anu; a god - proper forbidden idols; bitterness of your time.
And lamb, I did not create An.ki for you. God frees for us.
Codes about other religions
The religion of man is fear.
A cult; the Indigo Children.
Nonexistance of the Chakras
The choice of karma.
The enemy of the karma is the ego.
Karma is demonic
The death indeed, alas the karma is wrong!
Wicca religion
Pantheism is despicable; and to us a lamp.
Not in Me! So is the New Age.
Ebionites
Moonies
The Kaballah
The characteristic of The Kybalion is a lie
Atheism
Atheism is a liar.
Theosophy - daughter of Belial
Esotericism
Meditation; negative aspects of it
The psychics/mediums
Mysticism codes
Taoism
"New Age" codes
Rastafari code
Speech of Ras Tafari.
Bitter herb: Marijuana.
The Knights Templars

People
A. Crowley is addictive.
A. Crowley is depraved.
The debauchery, of A. Crowley, is a door, to Yah.
Come close to be warm, Jack the Ripper contributor. - Course of study;

doctor.
The Father will confirm: A villain, is Barbara Bush; from God!
John Hagee clouded over the Lamb - For the terror; the sect from the people.
A pharisee is John Hagee
A. Sodano; tremble
Lustiger
Lustiger
Battista
The Pope
The Pope
Rabbi Schneerson
Ivan Panin. Yah is seven.
The brake of Alfred Kuen. - He summons the world of the pastors, he anoints!
And what is Bongiovanni?
No, I am in him. Weishaupt came to an end.
Ron Wyatt - evil falsehood
Ron Wyatt - provoker
Dalai Lama
Maitreya is exalted. - Man of Baal..
Maitreya
Maitreya
He threatened God! Maitreya!
Fire of E Cayce
Edgar Cayce
Joseph Smith
Not reliable: W. M. Branham
Devastation of W. M. Branham; the sorrow he ate.
W M Branham - 2 codes by Fab
W M Branham - 2 codes by Juan (L0rd Kyr0n)
Benny Hinn - false prophet
Benny Hinn - Satanic for us. Wisdom of the demon. An evil teacher also.
Osteen is pure to him poor.
Jimmy Deyoung
Their head is Billy Graham.
In God's people Sherry Shriner is a dummy.
Sherry Shriner; rebellion is not a nonsense for her.
Joyce Meyer
Haile Selassie
Anton LaVey
Ellen White - The heart embezzeled and kneaded. - False prophet.
J Dixon is bad.
Sylvia Brown
"F. Castro" codes
C Manson
Bob Marley
Dan Brown
A code about King Ahasuerus (Book of Esther)
He subdued the fury of Jacques de Molay.
Ron Hubbard
Ron Hubbard, enemy of the house.
Dianetics
Bill Lloyd
Who is pretuabo?
Strength of A McCracken; he is honest.

Islam
Messengers of evil. - Shadow of Islam
Father of the mark that is Islam; as the god Nu is the father.
Islam
Islam
Allah is the moon-god thus!
Allah God is unlucky.
Allah hates all.
Allah, God of distress.
Mohammed
For God an anti-prophet; Mohammed.
And no, Mohammed, I don't support a prophet for wrath.
It was established; Mohammed as prophet, and with them was an ignorance. For

you a curse spelled i s l a m.
Many are the transgressions of the Mahdi. - A cult in him is the night.
Hand of the pride. - The Satanic Verses, from the climax I will know.

Holocaust
Why the holocaust?
Vengeance of the Covenant. - Germany - Amalekites
The Holocaust
Holocaust denial
Adolf Hitler
King of the Nazis. He will practice witchcraft.
Eichmann
Swastika - memento - Amalek
Crime of Auschwitz.
Crematorium for my sons. - Auschwitz.
In the bitter sea of Auschwitz.

Other
They will cheat: communism!
Harry Potter
Abortion is a crime.
Abortion
The Statue of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Hindenburg
DNA codes
Prehistoric
Anarchism
Homosexuality codes
The Colosseum
Dionysus
Sense is created for him at end of conception.
The Franks
Einstein
Bikini Atoll
Evolution arose in 1845
Artificial Sun
From pad imprint, evicts like discharge, that rationale mystery gas, plasma

energy is set.
Xanadu
Being and Nothingness - Sartre; for the fame
The Shroud of Turin is spititual
The Anunnaki
Subterfuge: the Anunnaki are falling
Arthritis
Reincarnation
Life - Death
Capitalism will complain accusingly against God.
Lia-Fail code searches
Fire, evil fire upon Rabin!

2006-07-24T19:50:00.000-06:00

This past weekend I was reviewing a Bible study on the "Signs in the Heavens" for possible play in our weekly Bible Study.

I had heard this message before, probably last year, and remembered it as really good on this subject.

The Bible study is by the late Dr. Earnest Martin, and I must say that I don't at this time agree with everything he says, but some of what he says is simply brilliant.

This Bible study contains some truly brilliant research and observations, so I decided to listen to it again once more to make sure it was OK to put into our weeky study.

And I was in for a shock, because I had forgotten some of the more interesting points he brought up.

This Bible study was recorded in 1994, just after a gigantic celestial event stunned the whole world!

In that year, a comet broke up into 21 pieces, and in July of that year, the world was treated to a celestial show it has almost never seen the likes of!

As the 21 fragments of this comet smashed into our largest planet, Jupiter, it was like that planet was being struck by multiple hydrogen bombs as each fragment struck. Simply ONE of these fragments striking our earth could have been an extinction level event -- or at least caused such extensive damage that life on earth would have been massively wiped out.

But then, the TIMING of this event is what should really make you take notice.

You see, this momentous "sign in the heavens" occured just a short time after sunset, on the 9th of Ab [or Av, as some renderings have it], Jerusalem time. And, the best place to view the show as in ISRAEL!

Most people don't know that the 9th of Av has great significance for the Jewish people in particular. You see, MOST of the major disasters in their history, and some in ours, have occurred on that date!

Of course, most of the world doesn't know this because this date is figured on the Jewish calendar, which moves each year a little bit in relation to our Roman calendar. This is because it is a lunar calendar instead of a solar one.

Dr. Martin pointed out the awesome number of events that happened on this fateful date: The destruction of BOTH the Temple of Solomon and Herod's Temple, the start of WWI, and most of the disasters in Jewish history occurred on this fateful date of infamy.

So, it seemed to many Jews at the time that this bombardment of Jupiter, JUST AFTER SUNSET JERUSALEM TIME ON THIS FATEFUL DATE MUST HAVE SOME KIND OF SIGNIFICANCE.

Jupiter is the King of the planets, so to speak, and it was bombarded by 21 fragments on this special date. It most certainly seemed to be a sign from God, but just what did it mean?

I think we are just about to find out! I don't like playing around with numbers much, but one doesn't need to be a genius to do this math!

2006 is EXACTLY 12 YEARS FROM THIS EVENT, and 12 is often a very important Biblical number! 12 also stands for the 12 Tribes of Israel!

Is it possible that this event in the heavens 12 years ago could symbolize GOD'S IMPENDING JUDGEMENT UPON ALL OF OUR NATIONS OF NATIONAL ISRAEL? Perhaps a time of MASSIVE destruction coming in maybe 21 different ways?

I wouldn't have thought so much about this even a few short weeks ago, but, with WWIII threatening to erupt in the Mideast at JUST THIS TIME, I am led to believe that something very BIG might happen on this interesting and historical anniversary of disaster and destruction!

Also, Dr. Martin theorized that Christ might return in 2027. We are told not to set dates, but do you realize that if Christ returned in 2027, that would be 21 YEARS FROM TODAY -- THE EXACT NUMBER OF THE FRAGMENTS THAT HIT JUPITER exactly 12 years ago?

But there is much more to this study than that. Dr. Martin quotes from Is. 24, which talks about a time of UTTER DESTRUCTION coming down on this earth from outer space! And the funny thing is that he also mentions from Jewish legend that a "star would appear in the time of the end, which would be attacked by 7 other stars."

And just today, I was lead to another piece in this puzzle. If you have listened to my "Clouds of Heaven" series, in the Speculative Issues section of the website, you will hear the accounts of the Destroyer that will appear in the heavens in our end time just as it has in ages past.

And it seems like a candidate for this destroyer, by its ancient name, is Nibiru.

But, as I was reminded today, NIBIRU HAS 7 MOONS, which would correspond EXACTLY with this Jewish legend!

Dr. Martin did not understand about Nibiru, because it was not then God's time to start putting the pieces together, BUT GOD'S TIME NOW HAS COME!

You won't want to miss this fascinating study, or my insightful, fact filled, introduction to it.

Folks, the pieces are all beginning to fall together now, and YOU CAN UNDERSTAND INDEED THE SECRET MYSTERIES OF THE AGES that have been hidden from public view for thousands of years.

IT IS NOW GOD'S TIME to reveal these SECRET, CLOSELY GUARDED SECRETS FORMERLY KOWN ONLY TO TOP SECRET SECRET SOCIETIES!

In fact, it is now time to unravel these mysteries and SHOUT THEM FROM THE VERY HOUSETOPS!

Our time is VERY SHORT, and it is entirely possible that on or around August 3rd of this year, JERUSALEM TIME, which is the 9th of Ab this year, MOMENTOUS and earthshaking events could occur which will TOTALLY CHANGE, OVERNIGHT, THE POLITICAL AND WORLD SCENE AS NEVER BEFORE!

We may be on the VERGE of a massive blunder by the USSA and Israel that will plunge our nations into utter DESTRUCTION and scuttle the New World Order scheme and plot forever!

This study is SO IMPORTANT and SO URGENT and TIMELY that I am placing it both in our Real Truth program slot and our Bible Study program slot to make sure that visitors to our website will hear this urgent message no matter WHICH of these options they choose!

I suggest you enter the webcast stream from our Webcast page, because you won't want to miss this week's World Tomorrow programs, either, which follow right after the Real Truth program block.

MOMENTOUS events are on the horizon. I urge you to DROP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, AND LISTEN TO THIS IMPORTANT STUDY RIGHT NOW!

You may listen to it from our webcast page, here:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/webcast.htm

I pray that God will inspire you to hear this message so that you can prepare yourself for whatever earthshaking events may be in store in the near future!

John

2006-07-21T10:43:00.000-06:00

Well, well, well, it is QUITE PLAIN that SOMEONE doesn't want this message to go out!

Just as I was proofreading the previous version of this message prior to hitting the "send" button, my computer suddenly and without warning REBOOTED ITSELF, erasing the entire contents of what I had written.

So, I must now reconstruct this message all over again.

Normally, I take the writings of Sorcha Faal with a large lump of salt, but this particular article below seems actually to be within the realm of reality instead of her imagination.

I have predicted for years that the USSA would someday make such a horrible blunder in the Midast, that the world would be on the verge of WWIII.

At the time of this gigantic BLUNDER, the sudden appearance of the long awaited Muslim Maudi, or Messiah would no doubt be sparked by this blunder, and lead to the King of the South arising as a united Islamic Empire.

Also, at about this time, a great Jewish religious figure will come on the scene in Israel, the Beast and the False prophet in Europe will be revealed, and God's End Time Elijah will also come to the fore.

With the collapse of this globalist elite scheme for a "New World Order," orchastrated by the Parasites who call themselves an "elite," headquartered in the City of London now for centuries, their plots and schemes to enslave the whole world, and their history of raping and pillaging the world's people, will be exposed for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE, and the world's people will rise up in red hot ANGER and OUTRAGE and utterly lay waste and destroy this scheme. Unfortunately, the host countries for this Parasite, the USSA and the UK, will also be destroyed.

In fact, the former President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, had already informed the whole world of this evil, when he threw Chase Manhattan and other great banks of this elite out of Russia forever, saying "all you have taught our bankers how to do is to steal from the Russian people!"

Now, just as the Globalists are poised to plunge the world into a WWIII, they will suddenly have victory snatched from their evil claws, and go down to utter destruction!

The collapse of these schemes will destroy the entire world economy, plunging the world into a depression such as it has never before seen.

I have also predicted that the Ferral Govmint of the USSA will be destroyed by multiple Civil Wars on multiple fronts. We may now be on the cusp of seeing these momentous events unfold right before our very eyes.

All of this is way too much to go into in a short email. For full explanations, go to the Prophecy section of our Website Library, and read:

The article on the King of the South

The article on the Endtime Elijah

And listen very careful to all of the presentations in the special subsection called "Three Whores and a Virgin," which will explain in great detail what is going on now in the world scene and WHY!

And, if you haven't already done so, you need to read the book, "The United States and Britain in Prophecy" to get a general background and the KEY that will unlock the doors to Bible Prophecy, so that you will NOT be deceived in this all important time into which this world is now plunging.

Our website library is at:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/library.htm

I urge you to begin your studies RIGHT NOW so that you will be able to watch the horrendous events which are unfolding RIGHT NOW, with UNDERSTANDING, rather than with the lies presented to you by the news media and religions of this evil and dark world!

John
--- captain_nibiru2003 wrote:

> To: Captain_nibiru@yahoogroups.com
> From: "captain_nibiru2003"
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:55:59 -0000
> Subject: [Captain_nibiru] MUST BE WORLD WAR
> THREE???????
>
>
> July 21, 2006
>
> United States Declares War Upon Iran And Syria As
> Turkey Prepares To
> Invade Iraq
>
> By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian
> Subscribers
>
> Kremlin sources are reporting today that the United
> States has
> officially declared that a State of War now exists
> between their nation
> and the Middle Eastern nations of both Iran and
> Syria.
>
> Under American law, as proscribed by the United
> States Constitution
> under Article 1; Section 8, only the United States
> Congress, which is
> comprised of both the US Senate and the US House of
> Representatives, is
> allowed to declare war, with their power to do so
> being left to them
> litary_engagements_authorized_by_Congress> , and
> which in this new
> declaration of war against both Iran and Syria has
> taken the form of a
> US House and Senate Resolution, and which was the
> same legal device used
> to begin the American wars in Afghanistan
> ainst_Terrorists> and Iraq
> nited_States_Armed_Forces_Against_Iraq> .
>
> To this latest American aggression we can read as
> reported by the
> Associated Press News Service in their article
> titled "House
> overwhelmingly backs Israel in vote",
> id=204216> and which says:
>
> "The House, displaying a foreign affairs solidarity
> lacking on issues
> like Iraq , voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support
> Israel in its
> confrontation with Hezbollah guerrillas. House
> Republican leader John
> Boehner cited Israel`s "unique relationship" with
> the United States
> as a reason for his colleagues to swiftly go on
> record supporting Israel
> in the latest flare-up of violence in the Mideast.
> id=204216>
>
> The nonbinding resolution is similar to one the
> Senate passed Tuesday.
> It harshly condemns Israel`s enemies and says Syria
> and Iran should
> be held accountable for providing Hezbollah with
> money and missile
> technology used to attack Israel."
> id=204216>
>
> These reports further state that the use of term
> `non-binding'
> in this Declaration of War was specifically
> requested by the American
> Military Leaders for the purpose of allowing them
> the sole discretion on
> how to wage the military campaigns to achieve their
> hoped for victory,
> including allowing immediate harsh sanctions upon
> both Iran and Syria,
> and allowing the United States Military Forces to
> act in conjunction
> with Israeli Military Forces, and as we can read
> from this American
> Declaration of War document, and which says:
>
> (1) reaffirms its steadfast support for the State of
> Israel;
>
>
> (2) condemns Hamas and Hezbollah for engaging in
> unprovoked and
> reprehensible armed attacks against Israel on
> undisputed Israeli
> territory, for taking hostages, for killing Israeli
> soldiers, and for
> continuing to indiscriminately target Israeli
> civilian populations with
> their rockets and missiles;
>
>
> (3) further condemns Hamas and Hezbollah for
> cynically exploiting
> civilian populations as shields, locating their
> equipment and bases of
> operation, including their rockets and other
> armaments, amidst civilian
> populations, including in homes and mosques;
>
>
> (4) recognizes Israel's longstanding commitment to
> minimizing civilian
> loss and welcomes Israel's continued efforts to
> prevent civilian
> casualties;
>
>
> (5) demands the Governments of Iran and Syria to
> direct Hamas and
> Hezbollah to immediately and unconditionally release
> Israeli soldiers
> which they hold captive;
>
>
> (6) affirms that all governments that have provided
> continued support to
> Hamas or Hezbollah share responsibility for the
> hostage-taking and
> attacks against Israel and, as such, should be held
> accountable for
> their actions;
>
>
> (7) condemns the Governments of Iran and Syria for
> their continued
> support for Hezbollah and Hamas in their armed
> attacks against Israelis
> and their other terrorist activities;
>
>
> (8) supports Israel's right to take appropriate
> action to defend itself,
> including to conduct operations both in Israel and
> in the territory of
> nations which pose a threat to it, which is in
> accordance with
> international law, including Article 51 of the
> United Nations Charter;
>
>
> (9) commends the President of the United States for
> fully supporting
> Israel as it responds to these armed attacks by
> terrorist organizations
> and their state sponsors;
>
>
> (10) urges the President of the United States to
> bring the full force of
> political, diplomatic, and economic sanctions
> available to the
> Government of the United States against the
> Governments of Syria and
> Iran;
>
>
> (11) demands the Government of Lebanon to do
> everything in its power to
> find and free the kidnapped Israeli soldiers being
> held in the territory
> of Lebanon;
>
>
> (12) calls on the United Nations Security Council to
> condemn these
> unprovoked acts and to take action to ensure full
> and immediate
> implementation of United Nations Security Council
> 1559 (2004), which
> requires Hezbollah to be dismantled and the
> departure of all Syrian
> personnel and Iranian Revolutionary Guards from
> Lebanon;
>
>
> (13) expresses its condolences to all families of
> innocent victims of
> recent violence; and
>
>
> (14) declares its continued commitment to working
> with Israel and other
> United States allies in combating terrorism
> worldwide.
>
>
> Russian Military Analysts are reporting that this
> sudden changing of the
> United States Military Leaders position is due to
> Turkey's vowed
> intention to invade the American backed nation of
> Iraq, and which with
> both the United States and Turkey being Members of
> NATO, and whose
> Members are pledged to support one another, and in
> the current mood of
> the European nations who have condemned Israel for
> their invasion and
> destruction of Lebanon, would most certainly leave
> both the United
> States and Israel aligned against the rest of the
> world.
>
> To Turkey's invasion plans we can read as reported
> by the Taipei
> Times News Service in their article titled "Turkey
> prepared to send army
> to Iraq to confront Kurds
>
> ", and which says:
>
> "Turkish officials signaled they were prepared to
> send their army into
> northern Iraq if US and Iraqi forces did not take
> steps to combat
> Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there. Such a move could
> put Turkey on a
> collision course with the US, which has repeatedly
> warned against
> unilateral moves in Iraq. But Turkey is facing
> increasing domestic
> pressure to take some kind of action after 15
> soldiers, police and
> guards were killed in fighting with the guerrillas
> in the past week.
>
>
> "The government is really in a bind," said Seyfi
> Tashan, director of the
> Foreign Policy Institute at Bilkent University in
> Ankara. "On the one
> hand they don't want things to break down with the
> US. On the other
> hand, the public is crying for action."
>
>
> Iran has also joined with Turkey in battling against
> the American and
> Israeli backed Kurdish forces and have massed over
> 500,000 of their
> military forces on the Iraqi border and have begun
> shelling Kurdish
> positions, and as we can read as reported by the
> Reuters News Service in
> their article titled "Kurdish official says Iran
> shells Kurds in Iraq
>
> ", and which
> says:
>
> "A senior Iraqi-Kurdish official accused Iranian
> forces on Thursday of
> shelling Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Othman
> Mahmoud, interior
> minister of the Kurdish regional government in the
> north, said shelling
> was going on along the border about 170 km (105
> miles) north of the city
> of Sulaimaniya.
>
>
> Militants from minority Kurdish groups from Iran and
> Turkey have based
> themselves in northern Iraq. Mahmoud said it was
> still not clear whether
> there were any casualties. "We in the regional
> Kurdish government
> condemn this act which is a violation of
> international law," said
> Mahmoud. There was no immediate comment from
> officials in Iran."
>
>
> Reports from the United States today are showing
> that a full propaganda
> effort has been undertaken by their Military Leaders
> to trumpet the war
> aims of the Israelis and the solidarity the American
> people have with
> Israel, and to which is apparently succeeding as no
> American News
> Reporting Agencies are allowing their people to know
> the full and
> dreadful consequences of this latest war, nor the
> rest of the
> World's strong condemnation of it.
>
> © July 21, 2006 EU and US all rights reserved.
>
> http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index933.htm
>
>
>

2006-07-19T18:38:00.000-06:00

THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD!

As part of our continuing and in depth study on the New Testament, we have added the following blockbuster article that solves an ages old mystery!

We invite you to join us for more of these important background lessons on the New Testament, as we prepare to study it word for word. There is already much there. We give the url for this in depth study section at the end of this article.

Millions of Christians do not know the real story of Jesus! Now the startling history behind Christ's birth and the mysterious Magi is at last revealed.

You probably never heard the true facts BEHIND Christ's birth!

You only hear the overworked "holy family" story, or the "babe in a manger" theme. Nothing wrong with the birth story of Jesus -- as recorded in the Bible -- of course.

But you are not told the surprising facts BEHIND what the Bible says!

Today, you do not hear the story as it happened 2,000 years ago. You are not told the world's greatest empire moved EXACTLY according to God's plan, preparing for the birth of Jesus! You are not told how great rulers and masses of people were electrified by the birth of a world Savior!

These world-shaking events are deliberately left out of the "story" you hear today. Historic proof of those events is too often purposely IGNORED, SUPPRESSED, FORGOTTEN!

Why were you never told before? Why were the facts hidden?

Untold Problems

The truth is an untold story of current events -- as they were 2,000 years ago -- showing how God intervened in history to fulfill prophecies hundreds of years old.

Think of these staggering problems surrounding the greatest event in history -- the birth of the Son of God!

How will God bring Jesus' family to the prophesied
birthplace (Bethlehem) -- AT THE RIGHT TIME? How will He announce the birth? How will He convince people this birth is SPECIAL, different from all others -- that THIS birth is genuine? How will He make kings and rulers know that the King of kings is born? How will He make those rulers responsible, inexcusable -- later on -- for killing the Son of God?

We will answer those questions. But first, go over the story of Christ's nativity again. Think as God does -- THINK BIG! Watch God solve these problems.

You will be astounded at the story!

A Great Story

The Old Testament prophesied many years earlier that Jesus would be A DESCENDANT OF DAVID. God caused Joseph and Mary (both of David's line, both obedient to God's laws, both good child-rearers) to be married. First problem solved.

But now, God faces a huge obstacle. The Old Testament also prophesied the Christ would be born in the City of David: Bethlehem. How will God move Jesus' family from their home in Nazareth to the prophesied birthplace?

The answer has never been understood in its proper light!

"And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus [44 B.C. -- A.D. 15], that all the world should be taxed" (Luke 2:1-2). Who did you say? Augustus Caesar? Why, he is the emperor of a world empire!

You are right!

God moves a whole empire, and the greatest leader of the world sets up a whole new government office (the taxing-census bureau), has senators and nobles roaming throughout the Roman Empire -- just to move Joseph and Mary to the city where Christ must be born.

Notice what the decree causes: "And all went to be taxed every one into HIS OWN CITY" (Luke 2:3-4). A legal requirement of the census was to go to the family's city of origin. So, because Joseph "was of the house and lineage of David," he left Nazareth and went to "the city of David which is called BETHLEHEM." Secondproblem solved.

But wait a minute.

Atheists and Bible critics claim there is no historic proof for Luke's "First taxing under Cyrenius" (see any modern Bible translation). Luke does not date this first taxing, and godless historians falsely claim no source outside the Bible mentions it.

Therefore, critics assume, no census existed. This supposed "error" of Luke of course casts doubt on Jesus' birth! Is there, as is claimed, no proof outside of the Bible?

Far from it! God preserved the proof through archaeology and history!

The Great Story Proved

The proof of history is in the "Chronicle of John Malalas", translated by Matthew Spinka (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1940). John Malalas was a historian of Antioch, Syria (c. 491-578 A.D.). On pages 32-33 he writes: "In the 39th year and the 10th month of his [Augustus'] reign he commanded the taking of a census of all his lands, including all that the Romans held during the consulship of Agrippa II, and of Donatus. And all the earth under the Romans was registered by Eumenes and Attalus, the Roman senators." Using the October to October calendar Malalas used, that dates the issuance of the decree for the census to JULY, 5
B.C.

Suidas -- another reliable authority -- and many others, add information about Augustus' decree, which proves the census in Palestine was conducted the very next year -- 4 B.C., the very time Christ was born!

Abundant evidence from both early Christians AND EARLY PAGANS corroborate this census (see the excellent article in Unger's "Bible Dictionary" under "Chronology").

The Next Problem

How will God announce the birth of His Son? The world must not doubt the FACT of Christ's birth. Suppose Joseph announces the birth of a Holy Child. Imagine Joseph saying "Say, people ... I am the father of the very Son of God!"

Ridiculous! Who would believe him?? Joseph would be considered at best a liar; at worst, a wild-eyed fanatic! No, Joseph won't do.

How about Mary? Suppose Mary says "Say, I am a virgin, but I am also the mother of God!" Preposterous! Can't you hear suspicious, carnal-minded humans chortling sarcastically, "Of all the nerve," "Fallen woman" ... What a mockery that would be! No, neither Joseph nor Mary can announce the birth of Jesus Christ.

God's plan will confound the wisdom of men.

Notice. "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid" (Luke2:8-18).

God sends a humble group of shepherds -- in contrast to the noble Augustus and Cyrenius. Here is the first tiny link in an unbreakable chain of proof for the miraculous birth of Jesus. We need to analyze this oft-repeated but little understood story.

The Truth About the Shepherds

God gives a very startling, but PERSONAL announcement. "For unto YOU is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord" (verse 10). Their interest piqued, the shepherds want to see this Savior who is announced as THEIR Messiah. Now notice how God absolutely convinces the shepherds and the people of Bethlehem.

First, notice the shepherds are "in the same country," but NOT right on the slopes above Bethlehem. We know they are at some distance because of the expression "let us go EVEN ONTO Bethlehem." "Even unto" can be translated "as far as." The distance gives proof of the vision.

How so?

Think a moment. What if the shepherds had been right on the same hill above the manger? They could come down the hill, meet people they know very well, then claim to have an angelic vision.

When they find the child a few feet away, what do people think?

Naturally they think the shepherds are in "cahoots," in collusion with Joseph and Mary! No, shepherds NEARBY wouldn't do. But distance rules out a conspiracy with Joseph and Mary.

Second, the angel says: "And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger" (Luke 2: 12). Notice the angel gives a sign, BUT NO ADDRESS.

Why? So the shepherds will begin to ask everyone they meet: "Where is the newborn Savior?" "Where is the Christ Child?"

Can't you imagine people's reactions? "WHAT Christ Child?"

"In a manger -- are you serious?" "A Savior? ... born in a BARN?"

But that is precisely the point. God wanted the herdsmen to ask, to question, to focus people's attention on His Son's birth.

If God had given them the address of the manger, they would ask no one. The announcement would not be broadcast. This natural way -- God's way -- the announcement is broadcast! Finally, with the help of one or more local citizens, the shepherds actually DO
find the swaddled baby in -- of all places -- a stable! The sign is confirmed! The angel told the truth!

Now analyze what God has done. God has masterfully confirmed the angel's message to THREE parties: The shepherds themselves, the independent townspeople; plus Joseph and family!

Strange as the message first sounded to the SHEPHERDS, they did find a child in a stable after all. Finding the child, as the angel said, adds weight to the angel's announcement that He is "Christ the Lord." The message is confirmed to the independent TOWNSPEOPLE who know that the shepherds were honestly looking,
that they were not "primed," that they sincerely sought a baby they believed to be Christ -- and all this in a strange and unlikely place, a manger. JOSEPH AND FAMILY -- who realized no one knew they were there, who told no one of the birth, also see God's hand, God's proof. Such circumstances cannot be concocted by mere man.

Armed with irrefutable proof, the shepherds boldly announce Christ's birth TO MANY PEOPLE. "They made known ABROAD the saying which was told them concerning this child" (verse 17). The Jewish people were amazed.

The Mysterious Magi

How can God announce Jesus' birth to His own nation -- the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel? How can God witness to the nobles, dignitaries, "higher ups"? The answer has never before been told. The answer is in the mysterious Magi ... the much maligned, much misunderstood Magi! Matthew is the only Gospel writer who records this great story. But scholars cannot agree about what Matthew means. Do you know who the Magi were?

Commonly the Magi are supposed to be either heathen or pagan worshippers of Zoroaster, or maybe practicers of black magic.

The Bible talks of two kinds of Magi or Magians. The earliest mention in all ancient records of the Magi is found in Jeremiah 39:3, 13. The King James says "Rab-mag," left untranslated because the translators did not know the meaning.

"Rab-mag" has correctly been deciphered as "Chief Magi." These were pagan priests, physicians, learned men in the company of the Babylonians. The best authorities -- ancient and modern -- all tell us that "Magi" comes from "mag" or "mog" meaning priest, great one, from the old Persian language called "pahlavi." You may confirm this in any reliable Bible dictionary. From these priests (Magi) descend a long line of evil and perverted priests, sorcerers, etc. -- from Haman the Agagite (Book of Esther) to Bar-jesus or Elymas the sorcerer (Magian) of Acts 13. So the Bible shows that "Magi" sometimes means a priest of paganism.

But that is not all.

Classical history, ancient Greek dictionaries, and the Bible ALL AGREE there is ANOTHER kind of Magian or Magi. Look at Daniel 2:48: "Then the king made Daniel A GREAT MAN, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler of the whole province of Babylon, and CHIEF of the governors OVER ALL THE WISE MEN [Hebrew: Magi] OF BABYLON. One of God's most righteous men is PRESIDENT OF THE BABYLONIAN Magi! Since Daniel remained president for a long time, this Bible example proves there was at least one righteous Magi -- namely Daniel. Daniel also certainly taught, and set the example of, God's way to those he ruled! Through Daniel's teaching the Magi (priests) of the pagan world came into contact with Bible prophecies about Christ, as we shall see proved later.

But this does not answer the question: Who were the Magi of Matthew?

Where Did the Magi Come From?

Let's get the truth straight at last! Commentaries and Bible dictionaries are in CONFUSION on this vital point. Matthew certainly knew where they came from. He tells us they went back to "their OWN country" -- he had to know WHICH country, to know it was their own. Matthew is not trying to hide their identity by saying Magi "from the East" (or "Eastern Magi"), HE IS TELLING US WHERE THEY CAME FROM.

But where is "the East?"

Based on a misunderstanding of such prophecies as Ps. 72:10-11 and Isa. 60:6 (which Matthew did not think were fulfilled by Magi) many commentators think "the East" means ARABIA. But Arabia proper in the Bible is normally called either "Arabia," or "the South."

How about INDIA? Were the Magi really Brahmins? No, the Magi did not come from India. The king of India -- uneasy at the prophecy of a world ruler, and hearing a report of the expedition of the Magi to the West -- sent emissaries in the first year of the Christian era (that is, 1 A.D., Christ's fourth year), to find out whether the predicted royal child had actually appeared
(Sir William Jones, "Asiatic Researches", Vol. 10, p. 27-28).

This report from Indian history proves the Magi were not Indians: the Indians heard ABOUT the Magi. Further, if the Magi were Indian, they would have reported to India. The Indian king would already have known the child was born. Obviously the Magi were not Indians, not Brahmins.

And EGYPT? No, Egypt is never called "the East" in the Bible, Egypt lies to the southwest.

The most common suggestion for the Magi's home is PERSIA.

The pagan Persian Magi were priests of the false savior, Zoroaster. Did Zoroastrians come to see Christ in Matthew 2? The best answer here is found in the "Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics", Hastings, Vol VII, p. 244 which says: "It is noteworthy, therefore, that Matthew 2 ... ISOLATES THE MAGI FROM PERSIAN
RELIGION. This source spends pages proving that pagan
Zoroastrians DID NOT STUDY astronomy. Furthermore, they despised dreams. But the wise men of Matthew are VERY LEARNED in astronomy, and certainly do not despise dreams.

No, the wise men are not Persian, not Zoroastrian Magi.

The Mystery Solved!

Then were the Magi from Babylon, or from east of the Euphrates River, or from Bactria? All these places have been suggested by scholars. In the face of such confusion, you might become confused yourself. Don't be! You need to know just two important facts to dispell confusion.

The Old Testament has two expressions for "the East" -- anything on the east side or eastern is termed "what is BEFORE" (meaning the near east). Anything FAR to the east or distant as the rising of the sun is termed "rising of the sun" (meaning distant east). So also Matthew -- who follows the Hebrew very closely in every way -- has two expressions for areas east of
Palestine. First, Matthew says the Magi are from "eastern parts" (in Greek, "ton anatolon"), or the distant East. Second, Magi see the star IN "the east" ("te anatole" in Greek) -- west of the Magi, but east from Palestine's view, in the "Near East." (See Upham's "Star of the Wise Men".)

Now consider this. One great empire east of the Euphrates -- biblically "the distant east" -- conquered the lands east of the Euphrates area, had Babylon as its capital, and included the areas of Persia, Bactria, etc. It was the Parthian Empire. It ruled this whole area, and was the empire of THE EAST; the land of the MAGI!

Who Were the Parthians?

The Parthians rose to power around 250 B.C. in and around the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. That was the very land into which the House of Israel -- not Judah -- was exiled! The exiles in this land were members of the ten tribes of Israel! The Parthian Empire included none other than the exiled lost ten
tribes of Israel -- many of whom remained in the land of their captivity until about A.D. 226."

Were there Magi in Parthia? Indeed! The geographer Strabo shows the strong influence of Magi in the king's council of Parthia, which "consists of two groups, one that of kinsmen [king's relatives], and the other that of WISE MEN and MAGI, from both of which groups the kings were appointed" (Geography, 11.9.3).

Final Proofs

Contrary to the false story of "Three Kings" who are supposed to be the Magi, eastern writers ALL AGREE there were TWELVE Magi! Thus, the Magi do not represent the three sons of Noah, nor the Trinity or any such idea.

What do the twelve Magi represent? Is it coincidence that there were TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL? And certain of the ancient Magi could claim Abraham as their father! (See McClintock & Strong's "Cyclopedia", article "Magi".)

The Magi of Matthew 2 were following the star, were following the prophecy of Numbers 24:17 -- "There shall come a star out of Jacob [and most of the "lost tribes" of Jacob or Israel in New Testament times were in Parthia], and a scepter shall rise out of Israel." This explains why later tradition connects the apostle Thomas' work with the Magi IN PARTHIA, after the resurrection of Christ. The distant nation of Israel had a witness of Christ at His birth, (not to mention other nations through which this large caravan of Magi traveled)!

Now we clearly understand why Matthew mentions the Magi.

Matthew -- and he alone -- puts in the words of Christ: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Mat.15:24). But we do not read that Christ went to the "lost sheep of Israel." No, He personally did NOT go to preach to the house ofIsrael.

THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL CAME TO CHRIST! Is it mere coincidence that the shepherds (Jews) come first to Christ; the Magi (representing the tribes of Israel in exile) come second; then the Gentiles come third? An amazing story of precision, of fulfilled prophecy!

But there is more. How does God witness to the whole nation?

Let's see.

"When Herod the king had heard these things [the Magi arriving at Jerusalem], HE WAS TROUBLED, and ALL JERUSALEM WITH HIM (Mat. 2:39. This Idumean (not Jewish) king is SHAKEN! Prophecy is being fulfilled! A new king threatens Herod's throne.

"And when he had gathered ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES OF THE PEOPLE together, he demanded of them where (not "whether") the Christ should be born" (verse 4). What meeting is this?

Nothing less than the Supreme Court of the Jewish nation: THE SANHEDRIN.

"And they said unto him, in Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet" (verse 5). Do you realize what Matthew is saying?

The greatest ruling body in the nation -- the Sanhedrin -- pronounces with one voice that Christ is born in Bethlehem. They do not deny the fact! They publicly and officially proclaim the truth of God TO THE KING.

Do you see now how God has reached the king? Do you see how God has witnessed to the rulers and nobles of that age? Do you see how (probably under threat of their lives from Herod) the Sanhedrin pronounces and admits the truth of the Old Testament -- only to deny it a generation later? That very Sanhedrin (with slight changes of personnel) KILLED THE SAME JESUS WHOM THEY
TESTIFIED OF!

This only begins the "great story never told." You need to begin READING YOUR BIBLE! You will see a great story all through-the pages of your New Testament. You will see diametric opposites from what is commonly taught in the name of religion today! The great story of Christ's life -- as the Bible tells it -- is not being published by the professing Christian world
today.

We are beginning a word for word study of the New Testament, of which this article is only a small part of the background.

We already have entire books on the real, historical Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as audio messages that show you the authenticity of the New Testament, and much much, more.

All of this is but BACKGROUND material for our upcoming studies of the New Testament beginning with a Harmony of the Gospels.

You owe it to yourself to get up to speed on what we are about to study in great detail and depth. You may find this material in our In Depth Study of the Bible section of our online library at:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/indepth.htm

We look forward to having you to this great study!

John

Fwd: [Captain_nibiru] Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients

2006-05-24T00:59:00.000-06:00

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> To: Captain_nibiru@yahoogroups.com
> From: "captain_nibiru2003" <dewerly@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 01:23:38 -0000
> Subject: [Captain_nibiru] Seven Indonesian Bird Flu
> Cases Linked to Patients
>
>
> Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients
> Posted By: neo4116
> Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 4:16 p.m.
> This is very scary!
> May 23 (Bloomberg) -- All seven people infected with
> bird flu in a
> cluster of Indonesian cases can be linked to other
> patients, according
> to disease trackers investigating possible
> human-to-human transmission
> of the H5N1 virus.
> A team of international experts has been unable to
> find animals that
> might have infected the people, the World Health
> Organization said in a
> statement today. In one case, a 10-year- old boy who
> caught the virus
> from his aunt may have passed it to his father, the
> first time officials
> have seen evidence of a three-person chain of
> infection, an agency
> spokeswoman said. Six of the seven people have died.
> Read the rest here:
>
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Fwd: [id] Amtrak Fast-tracks passport rules

2006-03-24T14:18:00.000-06:00

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> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:40:14 -0000
> Subject: [id] Amtrak Fast-tracks passport rules
>
> POSTED AT 4:32 PM EST ON 21/03/06
>
> Amtrak Fast-tracks passport rules
> KIMBERLEY NOBLE
>
> From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
>
> New passport rules for Canadians travelling to the
> U.S. seem to have kicked in early at Amtrak. The
> rail service now requires passengers to provide
> passport numbers and expiry dates before buying
> tickets.
>
> The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative -
> legislation setting out rules for U.S. entry -
> officially
> takes effect at the end of this year for sea and air
> travel, and on Dec. 31, 2007 for border
> crossings on land.
>
> But according to Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black, the
> application of existing rules has nonetheless
> been tightened up, so that the future laws are for
> all intents and purposes already in place.
>
> "We do what U.S. Customs and Border Protection tell
> us to," Black said from his office in
> Washington, D.C. "They make the rules." Right now,
> U.S. law requires that Canadians provide both
> proof of citizenship and proof of identity, "and the
> best way to provide those things is with a
> valid passport," Black said.
>
> Today, Canadian travellers without passports are
> required to produce two pieces of identification at
> the U.S. border: A certified birth certificate or
> certificate of citizenship; and a valid piece of
> government-issued photographic identification.
>
> According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
> website, a valid driver's license is an
> acceptable example of the latter, as is a provincial
> health insurance card. But anybody requesting a
> government health card aside from a health care
> professional can be subjected to a hefty fine. In no
> cases, said an official from the Ontario Ministry of
> Health and Long-term Care, should Canadians
> allow their health card number to be scanned or
> recorded, even by U.S. Customs officers.
>
> Meanwhile, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has
> urged Amtrak to start requesting passports, Black
> said. And Amtrak is taking this request seriously,
> to the point that Canadian travellers crossing
> into the States from Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto
> - Amtrak's three Canadian hubs - are required to
> provide passport information before being permitted
> to purchase train tickets.
>
> Black warns that border protection officers have
> been known to delay and even deny entry to
> travellers whose documents do not conform to what
> they understand as the current requirements, which
> means any traveller crossing the border without a
> passport could be turned away if the official at
> the gate doesn't like the look of their I.D.
>
> The bottom line? "If you wish to avoid significant
> delay at the border and potential denial of
> entry, bring a passport," Black says.
>
> Foreign Affairs Canada agrees. Its website
> (www.voyage.gc.ca/main/before/travel_us-en.asp)
> "strongly
> advises" Canadian citizens to obtain and use a
> Canadian passport for all international travel.
>
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2006-02-03T01:33:00.000-06:00

Hello all!

Restoration Ministries, the sponsor of the Restoration
website is proud to announce that at long last our
new, extensive, and in depth study of the WHOLE BIBLE
and related subjects has just been launched.

We are starting off in the beginning, showing proof
that God exists, that the Bible is His word, that
evolution is a lie and a fraud, and who and what God
is.

We expect these preliminary studies to last about a
month, after which we will probably move on to an in
depth discussion of the New Testament, including
background information and proof that the New
Testament is also the Word of God!

We will have both print based material and audio
material in this new section, but the print material
is meant as a support and reference base for the audio
teachings, which make this just like a college level
course on the Bible!

We will be presenting at least one new audio message
[some will be sermons, others Bible studies, and yet
others will be real taped lectures from Ambassador
College or in some cases ABC]. We will announce each
new message to these lists, so buckle your seatbelts
and stay tuned because NOW YOU can have a college
level education on GOD'S OWN TRUTH from His word, the
Bible!

This week's audio presentation is "Proofs of God's
Existence," by Garner Ted Armstrong, and is a
fantastic study which should prove to any open mind
that God does, indeed, exist. This will be followed
next week by another message on the same subject with
even more details and evidence to prove that yes, God
does indeed exist!

You may find this new section in the library portion
of our website. The direct new page is here:

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Check back each and every week for an exciting new
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2006-02-01T10:20:00.000-06:00

The End Times are coming upon us fast, and in this week's webcast stream, we have two fantastic Bible Studies for you to explain different aspects of what is going to happen.

In this week's Real Truth program, we discuss events leading up to the Day of the Lord, including Satan's final attempt to knock God off His throne as described in Rev. 12. We then go on to show how these events lead up to the Tribulation and the Day of the Lord, sometime during which the earth "shall rheel to and fro like a drunkard," and eventually "fall over." This is the Biblical account of the impending pole shift and the horrendous effects this will have on our planet. We also explain how this fits in with the arrival of the Abyss in our neighborhood, about the time of the Jail Break by Satan and his minions before their final attack on God.

This week's Bible study is by Carn Catherwood, and is entitled "The Jews in Prophecy." This exciting and inciteful Bible study explains how the Jews will play their pivotal role in world events leading up to the Tribulation, and you can certainly see that all of this may be starting in the next few months.

In this week's World Tomorrow broadcasts, we have two on Christ's parables. Mr. Armstrong shows that Christ did NOT use parables so that He could make the meaning clear to the people. It was quite the opposite. He used parables to OBSCURE His meaning so that they would NOT understand.

But WHY would a loving God supposedly hide His meaning? Mr. Armstrong shows how all of this is part of God's plan of salvation for mankind.

The second WT broadcast discuses Christ's parable of the tares. You won't want to miss either broadcast, as they bring to light subjects many people have wondered about for millenia, but to which almost no one has had the answer!

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2006-01-16T11:55:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

We have just uploaded a great new resource, with tons of Bible questions and answers!

It's great.

You will probably find that there are some questions here you hadn't even thought of!

Check it out here:

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John

2006-01-02T20:50:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

In this week's Webcast Stream, we have some very important material that will hopefully be of some encouragement.

In today's Real Truth broadcast we discuss an introduction to the Place of Safety, where God will protect many of His people during the Tribulation. We also discuss world affairs somewhat in this week's broadcast, as well as an explanation of some of the main goals of this ministry, and where we are poised to go at this crucial time.

In this week's Bible Study, Carn Catherwood discusses conditions in this world at the End Time, and they sound very much like what is going on around us each and every day. We need to be alert to watch for these things.

In the World Tomorrow broadcasts this week, Mr. Armstrong discusses the REAL DANGER we are all in today, and why. In the second broadcast, he tells in detail what lies ahead for the United States and why. It is unbelievable that these broadcasts were recorded over 20 years ago, becuase they are MORE TRUE TODAY than they were when they were first broadcast.

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2005-12-22T08:20:00.000-06:00

You can find more information on these and related
topics in The Restoration Website Library. Start with
the Basic Literature Section, but don't forget our
Church and Secular History section, which has loads of
material on these topics included in various books.

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A LOOK AT THE DATE AND MEANING OF CHRISTMAS
Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D., Retired Professor of
Church
History and Theology, Andrews University

The term "Christmas" is not found in the Bible. It
derives
from "Christ + Mass," that is, from the Mass Catholics
celebrate in honor of Christ's birth on the night of
December 25. Surprisingly, there is no mention in the
New
Testament of any the celebration of the anniversary of
the
birth of Christ. The Gospels' accounts of Jesus'
birth are
very brief, consisting only of few verses. By
contrast, the
accounts of what is known as "The Passion Week," are
lengthier, taking several chapters.

According to some estimates about one third of each
Gospel
is devoted to the Passion Week. It is evident that
from the
perspective of the Gospel writers, Christ's death is
more
important for our salvation than His birth. The reason
is
that through His atoning death Christ secured our
eternal
salvation. Yet, Christians today tend to celebrate
more the
birth of Christ than His death. Perhaps the reason is
that
the birth of a Child Deliverer captures the
imagination more
than the death of a Savior. Society celebrates births,
not
deaths.

The Early Christians commemorated annually Christ's
death
and resurrection at Passover, but we have no clear
indications of an annual celebration of Christ's
birth. A
major controversy erupted in the latter part of the
second
century over the Passover date, but the date of
Christ's
birth did not become an issue until sometimes in the
fourth
century. At that time the dispute centered primarily
over
two dates for Christ's birth: December 25 promoted by
the
Church of Rome and January 6, known as the Epiphany,
observed by the Eastern churches. "Both these days,"
as
Oscar Cullmann points out, " were pagan festivals
whose
meaning provided a starting point for the specifically
Christian conception of Christmas."1

The Date of Christ's Birth

It is a recognized fact that the adoption of the date
of
December 25th by the Western Church to commemorate
Christ's
birth was influenced by the pagan celebration of the
return
of the sun after the winter solstice. More will be
said
later about the factors which influenced the adoption
of
this date. At this juncture it is important to note
that the
date of December 25 is totally devoid of Biblical
meaning
and is grossly inaccurate as far as the actual time of
Christ's birth. If, as it is generally agreed,
Christ's
ministry began when He was about thirty years of age
(Luke
3:23) and lasted three and one-half years until His
death at
Passover (March/April), then by backtracking we arrive
at
the months of September/October, rather than to
December
25.2 Indirect support for a September/October dating
of
Christ's birth is provided also by the fact that from
November to February shepherds did not watch their
flocks at
night in the fields. They brought them into a
protective
corral called a "sheepfold." Hence, December 25 is a
most
unlikely date for the birth of Christ.3

The most likely date of Christ's birth in the latter
part of
September or the beginning of October. This date
corresponds
to the time of the Feast of Tabernacles, known also as
the
Feast of Booths. This feast was the last and most
important
pilgrimage of the year for the Jews. The overcrowded
conditions at the time of Christ's birth ("there was
no
place for them in the inn"-Luke 2:7) could be related
not
only to the census taken by the Romans at that time,
but
also to the many pilgrims that overrun the area
especially
during the Feast of Tabernacles.

Bethlehem is only four miles from Jerusalem. "The
Romans,"
notes Barney Kasdan, "were known to take their
censuses
according to the prevailing custom of the occupied
territories. Hence, in the case of Israel, they would
opt to
have the people report to their provinces at a time
that
would be convenient for them. There is no apparent
logic to
calling the census in the middle of winter. The more
logical
time of taxation would be after the harvest, in the
fall,"4
when people had in their hands the revenue of their
harvest.

Christ's Birth at the Time of the Feast of Tabernacles

Support for the belief that Christ was born at the
time of
the Feast of Tabernacles, which occurs in late
September or
early October, is provided not only by chronological
considerations of Christ's life mentioned above, but
also by
Messianic themes of the Feast of Tabernacles. Being
the
Feast that celebrated in one sense God's past
tabernacling
or dwelling among His people with the cloud by day and
the
flaming fire by night, it served to foreshadow the day
when
the Son of God would become flesh and tabernacle among
us
(John 1:14).

It is important to remember that the seven annual
Feasts of
ancient Israel were designed to illustrate important
events
of salvation history. Those who are interested to
study in
greater depth how the Feasts of Israel reveal the
unfolding
of the Plan of Salvation, are encouraged to read my
two
volumes GOD'S FESTIVALS IN SCRIPTURE AND HISTORY. The
first
volume on THE SPRING FESTIVALS shows how Passover,
Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost, point to the
redemptive
accomplishment of the first Advent, namely, Christ's
Atoning
death, His resurrection, ascension, inauguration of
His
heavenly ministry, and sending of the Holy Spirit.

The second volume on THE FALL FESTIVALS explain how
the
feasts of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles point
to the
consummation of redemption, namely, the judgment, the
final
disposition of sin, and the Second Advent when Christ
will
come to gather his people and dwell with them in a
restored
world. Christ's First Coming to dwell among us in
human
flesh, serves as a prelude and guarantee of His Second
Coming to dwell among the redeemed in divine glory.
Both
events, as we shall see, are typified by the Feast of
Tabernacles. Adventist eschatology is largely based on
the
typology of the Day of Atonement. THE FALL FESTIVALS
is
designed to broaden the typological basis of Adventist
eschatology by showing the contribution of the other
two
Fall Feasts of Trumpets and Tabernacles to the
unfolding of
the consummation of redemption.

It is noteworthy that important events of the plan
of
salvation are consistently fulfilled on the Holy Days
that
prefigured them. Christ died on the Cross at the time
when
the Passover lamb was sacrificed (John 19:14). Christ
arose
at the time of the waving of the sheaf of barley as
the
first fruits of the coming harvest (1 Cor 15:23). The
outpouring of the first fruits of God's Holy Spirit
took
place "when the day of Passover was fully come" (Acts
2:1,
KJV). By the same token, Christ could well have been
born at
the time of the Feast of Tabernacles, since the feast
typifies God's First Coming to dwell among us through
the
incarnation of His Son and His Second Coming to dwell
with
His people (Rev 21:3) throughout eternity.

Growth in Meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles

The Feast of Tabernacles in the Old and New Testament
grows
in its meaning and function during the course of
redemptive
history. It began in the Old Testament as the Fall
Feast of
the Harvest Ingathering to express thanksgiving to God
for
the bounties of the fruit harvest. It became the Feast
of
Booths to commemorate the way God sheltered the
Israelites
with the "booth" of His presence during their
sojourning in
the wilderness. The celebration of the material
blessings of
the harvest and of the spiritual blessings of the
divine
sheltering during the exodus experience, served to
foreshadow the blessings of the Messianic age when
"there
shall be neither cold nor frost . . . continuous day .
. .
living water, and . . . security (Zech 14:6, 7, 11). A
highlight of the Messianic age would be the annual
gathering
of all the surviving nations "to keep the feast of
booths"
(Zech 14:16) in order to celebrate the establishment
of
God's universal Kingdom.

The rich typology of the Feast of Tabernacles finds in
the
New Testament both a Christological and an
eschatological
fulfillment. Christologically, the feast serves to
reveal
the Incarnation and mission of Christ. Jesus is God's
ultimate tabernacle for in Him God tabernacled among
men
(John 1:14). He is the living water (John 7:37-38)
typified
by the water ceremony of the Feast of Tabernacles. He
is
also the Light of the World (John 8:12) typified by
the
night illumination of the Temple during the feast.
Indeed,
through Christ the blessings typified by the Feast of
Tabernacles have become a reality for every believer.
Eschatologically, the Feast of Tabernacles serves to
represent God's protection of His people through the
trials
and tribulation of this present life until they reach
the
heavenly Promised Land. There God will shelter the
redeemed
with the booth of His protective presence (Rev 7:15)
and
dwell with them for all eternity (Rev 21:3). As the
ancient
Israelites "rejoiced before the Lord" (Lev 23:40) at
the
Feast of Tabernacles by waving palm branches, singing,
playing instruments, and feasting, so the countless
multitude of the redeemed will rejoice before the
throne of
God, by waving palm branches (Rev 7:9), singing
anthems of
praise (Rev 7:10; 14:3; 15:2-4; 19:1-3), playing harps
(Rev
14:2), and participating in the great marriage supper
of the
Lamb (Rev 19:9).

Ideal Time for the Birth of Jesus

The Feast of Tabernacles was the ideal time for the
birth of
Jesus because it was called "the season of our joy."
The
emphasis on the joyfulness of the feast is found in
the
instructions given in Deuteronomy 16:13-14: "You shall
keep
the feast of booths seven days, when you make your
ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine
press.
You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and
your
daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the
Levite,
the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are
within
your towns."

In contrast to the Feasts of Trumpets and Atonement
which
were a time of introspection and repentance, the Feast
of
Booths was a time of rejoicing. The festive atmosphere
reflected the Israelites' thankfulness for both
material and
spiritual blessings. The explicit reason for
rejoicing is
given in Deuteronomy 16:15: "because the Lord your God
will
bless you in all your produce and in all the work of
your
hands, so that you will be altogether joyful." It is
not
surprising that the rabbis called the feast "The
Season of
our Joy" (Zeman Simhatenu).

Ellen White notes that the reason for rejoicing was
more
than just the bounties of the harvest. She writes:
"The
feast was to be preeminently an occasion for
rejoicing. It
occurred just after the great Day of Atonement, when
the
assurance had been given that their iniquity should be
remembered no more. At peace with God, they now came
before
Him to acknowledge His goodness and praise Him for His
mercy. The labor of harvest being ended, and the toils
of
the new year not yet begun, the people were free from
care,
and could give themselves up to the sacred, joyous
influences of the hour."5

The reason for the rejoicing was not only because of
the
material blessings of the harvest gathered in, but
also
because of the spiritual blessing of God's protection
and
abiding presence. The foliage of the booths during
which the
Israelites lived for seven days during the Feast,
reminded
them that God will protect the faithful remnant during
the
time of trouble by sheltering them with the cloud by
day and
the flaming fire by night: "It will be for a shade
[sakkath]
by day from the heat, and for a refuge and shelter
from the
storm and the rain" (Is 4:6). In this context, the
cloud and
fire of God's presence function as a protecting booth
over
His people.

Being the season of rejoicing for the blessings of the
harvest and of God's protective presence, the Feast of
Tabernacles provided the ideal setting for the birth
of
Jesus-the One who came to well among the people in
person.
The themes of rejoicing relate perfectly to the
terminology
used by the angel to announce Christ's birth: "Behold,
I
bring you good news of a great joy which will come to
all
the people" (Luke 2:10). As "the season of our joy,"
the
Feast of Tabernacles provided the ideal settings for
breaking "the good news of a great joy" for all the
people,
since the feast was also a celebration for all the
nations
(Zech 14:16).

A final interesting sideline supporting the
possibility that
Christ was born at the very time of the Feast of
Tabernacles, is the reference to the wise men that
came from
the East to visit Christ (Matt 2:1). The land of the
East is
most likely Babylon, where many Jews still lived at
the time
of Christ's birth. Only a remnant of the Jews returned
from
the Babylonian exile to Palestine during the Persian
period.
The wise men, most likely, were rabbis known in Hebrew
as
chakamin, which means wise men.

We are told that the wise men made their journey from
the
East to Bethlehem because they had seen "the star in
the
East" (Matt 2:1). Watching the stars was associated
especially with the Feast of Tabernacles. In fact, the
roof
of the booth was built with leafy branches carefully
spaced
so that they would screen out the sunlight without
blocking
the visibility of the stars. The people watched for
the
stars at night during the feast because of the
prophecy "a
star shall come out of Jacob" (Num 24:17). It is
possible
that it was during the Feast of Tabernacles, the
special
season of star watching, that the wise men saw the
Messianic
star and "rejoiced exceedingly with great joy" (Matt
2:10).

In the light of the foregoing considerations, most
likely
Christ's birth coincided with the Feast of
Tabernacles.
Being the feast of thanksgiving for God's willingness
to
protect His people with the tabernacle of His presence
during the wilderness sojourning, it could serve
fittingly
to celebrate Christ's willingness to become a human
being
and pitch His tent among us in order to become our
Savior.

The implications of this conclusion are self-evident.
The
Feast of Tabernacles in September/October provides
Christians today with much more accurate Biblical
timing and
typology for celebrating Christ's birth, than the
pagan
dating of December 25th. The latter date not only is
removed
from the actual time of Christ's birth, but is also
derived
from the pagan celebration of the return of the sun
after
the winter solstice. Why celebrate the birth of Jesus
at the
wrong time of December 25th,-a date derived from pagan
sun-worship-when the Bible provides us with a more
appropriate timing and typology for commemorating such
an
important event?

Some Historical Support for Christ's Birth at the
Feast of
Tabernacles

The connection between Christ's birth and the Feast of
Tabernacles proposed above, may at first appear
astonishing,
but it has been proposed not only by modern authors6
but
also by early Christian Fathers. In his classic study
The
Bible and Liturgy, Jean Daniélou discusses the
connection
between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the
Nativity in
the writings of some Church Fathers.7 He notes, for
example,
that in his Sermon on the Nativity, Gregory of
Nazianzus (A.
D. 329-389) connects the Feast of the Nativity of
December
25th with the Feast of Tabernacle: "The subject of
today's
feast (25th December) is the true Feast of
Tabernacles.
Indeed, in this feast, the human tabernacle was built
up by
Him who put on human nature because of us. Our
tabernacles,
which were struck down by death, are raised up again
by Him
Who built our dwelling from the beginning. Therefore,
harmonizing our voices with that of David, let us also
sing
the Psalm: 'Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the
Lord'
[Ps 118:26. This verse was sung during the procession
of the
Feast of Tabernacles]. How does He come? Not in a boat
or in
a chariot. But He comes into human existence by the
immaculate Virgin. It is He, Our Lord, who has
appeared to
make the solemn feast day in thick branches of foliage
up to
the horns of the altar."8

In the last sentence, Gregory alludes to the ancient
Jewish
custom of erecting a canopy over the altar during the
Feast
of Tabernacles by tying branches to the four horns of
the
altar. For Gregory, this ceremony finds its
fulfillment in
the Incarnation. Commenting on this text, Daniélou
writes:
"The coming of Christ, His birth, thus is seen to be
the
inauguration of the true Feast of Tabernacles. Here
appears
a new harmony: the scenai [Greek for 'the tent'], the
human
dwelling at the beginning, have been struck by sin. .
. .
Christ comes to raise them up, to restore human
nature, to
inaugurate the true Feast of Tabernacles prefigured in
Jewish liturgy. And the beginning of this Scenopegia
[Feast
of Tabernacles] is the Incarnation itself in which,
according to St. John, Christ built the tabernacles of
His
own Body (John 1:14). It does indeed seem as if it
were this
term of St. John which makes the connection between
the
feast of the scenai [Tabernacles] and the feast of the
Birth
of Christ."9

What contributed to make the connection between the
birth of
Jesus and the Feast of Tabernacles, was not only
John's
representation of the Incarnation as Christ pitching
His
tent among us, but also the Messianic understanding of
Psalm
118:26-27, a psalm that was sung by the Jews during
the
processions of the Feast of Tabernacles and that was
used by
the Fathers to link the two feasts. The Psalm
announces "He
who comes in the name of the Lord" (Ps 118:26)-a clear
allusion to the coming of the Messiah-in the context
of the
Feast of Tabernacles: "The Lord is God, and he has
given us
light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to
the
horns of the altar!" (Ps 118:27).

Church Fathers saw in these passages a representation
of the
coming of the Messiah through the typology of the
Feast of
Tabernacles. Gregory of Nissa (about A. D. 330-395)
remarks
that "The prophet David tells us that the God of the
universe, the Lord of the world has appeared to us to
constitute the solemn Feast in the thick branches of
foliage."10 "The thick branches of foliage" refer to
the
Feast of Tabernacles which was celebrated in booths
made of
leafy branches. The booths are seen as foreshadowing
the
Incarnation which made it possible for Christ to dwell
among
us.

Daniélou finds that traces of the patristic connection
between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the
Nativity
still survive in the current use of the Messianic
verses 23,
28, 29 of Psalm 118 during "the Gradual of the Second
Mass
of Christmas" celebrated in Catholic Churches. He
concludes:
"It is indeed at Christmas that the eschatological
tabernacle was built for the first time, when the Word
'established His dwelling amongst us' and the unity of
men
and angels was restored when the angels visited the
shepherds."11

Unfortunately, the connection between Christ's birth
and the
Feast of Tabernacles was gradually lost as the pagan
symbology of the sun displaced the Biblical typology
of the
Feast of Tabernacles. The attempt of the Fathers to
connect
the Feast of Tabernacles with Christmas was not
successful
because the two feasts differ in origin, meaning, and
authority. By adopting the date of December 25th,
which was
the pagan feast of the birthday of the Invincible Sun
(dies
natalis Solis Invicti),12 the Christological meaning
of the
Feast of Tabernacles was gradually lost-as indicated
by the
fact that today nobody thinks of Christmas as being
the
antitypical fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles,
when
Christ became flesh and tabernacled with us, in order
to
accomplish His redemptive plan to tabernacle with us
throughout eternity in the world to come.

The Pagan Origin of Date of Christmas

\The adoption of the 25th of December for the
celebration of
Christmas is perhaps the most ex-plicit example of
Sun-worship's influence on the Christian litur-gical
calendar. It is a known fact that the pagan feast of
the
dies natalis Solis Invicti-the birthday of the
Invincible
Sun, was held on that date.13 Do Christian sources
openly
admit the borrowing of the date of such a pagan
festivity?
Generally not. To admit borrowing a pagan festival,
even
after due reinterpretation of its meaning, would be
tantamount to an open betrayal of the faith. This the
Fathers were anxious to avoid.

An exception is the comment of an unknown Syrian
writer who
wrote in the margin of the Expositio in Evangelia of
Bar-salibaeus as follows: "It was a solemn rite among
the
pagans to celebrate the festival of the rising of the
sun on
this very day, December 25th. Furthermore, to augment
the
solemnity of the day, they were accustomed to kindle
fires,
to which rites they were accustomed to invite and
admit even
Christian people. When there-fore the Teachers
observed that
Christians were inclined to this custom, they
contrived a
council and established on this day the festival of
the true
Rising"15

The commemoration of the birth of the Sun-god was not
easily
forgotten by Christians. Augustine and Leo the Great
strongly re-primanded those Christians who at
Christmas
worshiped the Sun rather than the birth of Christ.15
Therefore, it is well to keep in mind that in the
investigation of the influence of the Sun-cults on the
Christian liturgy, the most we can hope to find are
not
direct but indirect indications. This warning applies
not
only for the date of Christmas but for that of Sunday
as
well.

Astronomical/Allegorical Speculations

Few scholars maintain that the date of the 25th of
Decem-ber
was derived from astronomical-allegorical
observations. It
was the opinion of some Fathers that both the
conception and
passion of Christ occurred at the time of the vernal
equinox
on the 25th of March.16 Reckoning from that date the
nine
months of pregnancy of Mary, the date of the birth of
Christ
was computed to be the 25th of December.

0scar Cullmann rightly observes that these
computations "can
scarcely have given the initiative."17 They seem to
represent rather an a posteriori rationale advanced to
justify an already existing date and practice. To the
majority of scholars, as stated by J. A. Jungmann, "It
has
become progressively clear that the real reason for
the
choice of the 25th of December was the pagan feast of
the
dies natalis Solis Invicti which was celebrated in
those
days with great splendor."18

In his dissertation The Cult of Sol Invictus, Gaston
H.
Halsberghe similarly concludes: "The authors whom we
consulted on this point are un-animous in admitting
the
influence of the pagan celebration held in honor of
Deus Sol
Invictus on the 25th of December, the Natalis Jnvicti,
on
the Christian celebration of Christmas. This influence
is
held to be responsible for the shifting to the 25th of
December of the birth of Christ, which had until then
been
held on the day of the Epiphany, the 6th of January.
The
celebration of the birth of the Sun god, which was
ac-companied by a profusion of light and torches and
the
decora-tion of branches and small trees, had
captivated the
followers of the cult to such a degree that even after
they
had been converted to Christianity they continued to
celebrate the feast of the birth of the Sun god."19

Let us note that the Church of Rome (as in the case of
Easter-Sunday so in the question of the celebration of
Christmas) pioneered and promoted the adoption of the
new
date. In fact the first explicit indication that on
the
25th of December Christians celebrated Christ's
birthday, is
found in a Roman document known as Chronograph of 354
(a
calendar attributed to Fuzious Dionysius Philocalus),
where
it says: "VIII Kal. Jan. natus Christus in Betleem
Judaeae-On the eighth calends of January [i.e.,
December
25th] Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea."20

That the Church of Rome introduced and championed this
new
date, is accepted by most scholars. For instance,
Mario
Righetti, a renowned Catholic liturgist who is the
author of
a four volumes set on STORIA LITURGICA (A HISTORY OF
LITURGY), writes: "After the peace the Church of Rome,
to
facilitate the acceptance of the faith by the pagan
masses,
found it convenient to insti-tute the 25th of December
as
the feast of the temporal birth of Christ, to divert
them
from the pagan feast, celebrated on the same day in
honor of
the "Invincible Sun" Mithras, the conqueror of
darkness."21

In the Orient, however, the birth and the baptism of
Jesus
were celebrated respectively on January 5 and 6. B.
Botte,
a Belgian Benedictine scholar, in a significant study
concludes that this date also evolved from an
originally
pagan feast, namely Epiphany, which commemorated the
birth
and growth of light.22 It was not an easy task for the
Church of Rome to get the Eastern churches to accept
the new
date of Decem-ber 25th, since many of them "firmly
adhered
to the practice of observing the festival of Christ's
birth
in its old form as an Epiphany festival on January
5th-6th."81

It would take us beyond our immediate scope to trace
the
process of adoption by the various Christian
communities of
the Roman Christmas date of December 25. It will be
sufficient to notice that the adoption of the date of
December 25th for the celebration of Christ's birth
shows
not only of the influence of the Sun-cult, but also of
the
primacy exerted by the Church of Rome in promoting the
adoption of the pagan holidays of Dies Solis (the Day
of the
Sun) and Natalis Solis Invicti (the birthday of the
Invincible Sun) held on December 25.

Conclusion

The birth of Jesus is of incomparable importance to
the
Christian faith. Without the birth of Christ there
would be
no baptism, death, resurrection, ascension,
outpouring of
the Holy Spirit, Christ's intercession in the heavenly
sanctuary, and Second Advent.

The date of Christ's birth most likely concided with
the
Feast of Tabernacles that falls late in September or
early
in October. Being the feast of thanksgiving for God's
willingness to protect His people with the tabernacle
of His
presence during the wilderness sojourning, it could
serve
fittingly to celebrate Christ's willingness to become
a
human being and pitch His tent among us in order to
become
our Savior.

The time of the Feast of Tabernacles provides
Christians
today with a more accurate Biblical timing and
typology for
celebrating Christ's birth, than the pagan dating of
December 25th. The latter date not only is removed
from the
actual time of Christ's birth, but is also derived
from the
pagan celebration of the birth of the Sun-god. Why
celebrate Christ's birth at the wrong time of the year
because of a pagan tradition, when we can observe it
at the
right season on the basis of sound biblical reasons?

>From a biblical perspective the birth of Jesus is
connected
with three major themes: (1) adoration and worship
(Luke
2:8-12); (2) the giving of gifts to God (Matt 2:1-11);
and
proclamation of peace and goodwill (Luke 2:13-14). May
our
clebration of Christ's birth, at any time of the
year,
incorporate these essential elements: worship, giving,
and
praise.

ENDNOTES

1. Oscar Cullmann, The Early Church (1956), p. 35.
2.. See A. T. Robertson, A Harmony of the Gospels (New
York,
1992), p. 267. 3. See, Adam Clark, Commentary on the
Gospel
of Luke (New York, 1956), vol. 5, p. 370. 4. Barney
Kasdan,
God's Appointed Times (Baltimore, MD, 1993), p. 97. 5.
Ellen
White, Patriarchs and Prophets, P. 540. 6. See, for
example,
Edward Chumney, The Seven Festivals of the Messiah
(Shippensburg, PA, 1994), pp. 178-184; Barney Kasdan,
God's
Appointed Times (Baltimore, MD, 1993), pp. 95-99. 7.
Jean
Daniélou, The Bible and Liturgy (South Bend, IN,
1956), pp.
343-347. 8. Gregory of Nazianzus, Sermon on the
Nativity,
Patrologia Graeca 46, 1129 B-C, translated by Jean
Daniélou
(note 7), p. 345. 9. Jean Daniélou (note 7), p. 345.
10.
Gregory of Nissa, Pychnazomena, Psalm 118:27,
translated by
Jean Daniélou (note 7), p. 344. 11. Jean Daniélou
(note 7),
p. 347. 12. For a study of the influence of
sun-worship on
the Christian adoption of December 25 for the
celebration of
Christ's birth, see my dissertation, From Sabbath to
Sunday.
A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday
Observance
in Early Christianity (Rome, Italy, 1977), pp.
256-261. 13.
In the Philocalian calendar (A.D. 354) the 25th of
December
is designated as "N[atalis] Invicti-The birthday of
the
invincible one" (CIL I, part 2, p. 236); Julian the
Apostate, a nephew of Constantine and a devotee of
Mithra,
says regarding this pagan festival: "Before the
beginning of
the year, at the end of the month which is called
after
Saturn [December], we celebrate in honor of Helios
[the Sun]
the most splendid games, and we dedicate the festival
to the
Invincible Sun. That festival may the ruling gods
grant me
to praise and to celebrate with sacrifice! And above
all the
others may Helios [the Sun] himself, the king of all,
grant
me this" (Julian, The Orations of Julian, Hymn to King
Helios 155, LCL p. 429); Franz Cumont, Astrology and
Religion Among Greeks and Romans, 1960, p. 89: "A very
general observance re-quired that on the 25th of
December
the birth of the 'new Sun' should be celebrated, when
after
the winter solstice the days began to lengthen and the
'invincible' star triumphed again over darkness"; for
texts
on the Mithraic celebration of Dec. 25th see CIL I, p.
140;
Gordon J. Laing, Survivals of Roman Religion, 1931,
pp.
58-65, argues persuasively that many of the customs of
the
ancient Roman Saturnalia (Dec. 17-23) were transferred
to
the Christmas season. 14. J. S. Assemanus, Bibliotheca
orientalis 2, 164, trans. by P. Cotton, From Sabbath
to
Sunday, 1933, pp. 144-145. 15. Augustine, Sermo in
Nativit
ate Domini 7, PL 38, 1007 and 1032, enjoins Christians
to
worship at Christmas not the sun but its Creator; Leo
the
Great rebukes those Christians who at Christmas
cel-ebrated
the birth of the sun rather than that of Christ
(Sermon 27,
In Nativitate Domini, PL 54, 218). 16.L. Duchesne,
Christian
Worship: Its Origin and Evolution, 1919, pp. 260f.,
presents
this hypothesis as a possibility. M. Righetti, Manuale
di
Storia Liturgica, 1955, II, pp. 68-69, explains that
the
date of March 25th "though historically unfounded, was
based
on astronomical-alle-gorical considerations, namely
that on
the day of the vernal equinox the world was created."
According to this theory, on the same date of March 25
creation began and Christ, as Augustine says, was
"con-ceived and crucified" (De trinitate 4, 5, PL 42,
894);
cf. Hippolytus, In Danielem commentarius 4, 23, for a
similar view. 17. 0scar Cullmann, The Early Church,
1956, p.
29. 18. Joseph A. Jungmann, The Early Liturgy to the
Time of
Gregory the Great, 1962, p. 147; L. Duchesne (fn. 74),
p.
26, also recognizes this as a more plausible
explanation: "A
better explanation is that based on the festival of
Natalis
Invicti, which appears in the pagan calendar of the
Philocalian collection under the 25th of December. . .
.One
is inclined to believe that the Roman Catholic Church
made
the choice of the 25th of December in order to enter
into
rivalry with Mithraism"; John Fer-guson, The Religions
of
the Roman Empire, 1970, p. 239, defends the same view;
cf.
Franz Cumont (Franz Cumont, Astrology and Religion
Among
Greeks and Romans, 1960), p. 89: "It appears certain
that
the commemoration of the nativity was placed on
December 25,
because on the winter solstice was celebrated the
rebirth of
the invincible god. By adopting this date ... the
ecclesiastical authorities purified somehow some pagan
customs which they could not suppress." 19. Gaston H.
Halsberghe, The Cult of Sol Invictus, 1972, p. 174.
20. T.
Mommsen, Chronography of Philocalus of the Year 354,
1850,
p. 631; L. Duchesne, Bulletin critique, 1890, p. 41,
has
established that the calendar goes back to 336,
because the
Depositio ma rtyrum is pre-ceded in the Philocalian by
the
Depositium episcoporum of Rome, which lists Sylvester
(d.
A.D. 335) as the last pope. 21, Mario Righetti,
Manuale di
Storia Liturgica, 1955, II, p. 67. 22. B. Botte, "Les
Denominations du dimanche dans la tradition
chrétienne," Le
Dimanche, Lex Orandi 39, 1965, pp. 14ff. 23. 0scar
Cullmann,
The Early Church, 1956, p.32.

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Hello all,

The latest Webcast Stream has just been uploaded, and it has some very interesting material indeed!

The Real Truth program starts out with the incident yesterday of the mentally ill man who was shot dead by Federal Marshalls.

Just what kind of a crazy world is this, anyway, where so many people live in fear on a constant basis?

How did we get to this point of insanity where everyone is trying to rip off or do damage to someone else, it seems, and you have to keep everything locked up or it will be stolen?

Why does everyone lie almost all the time today?

If you take a few steps back, as I do in this broadcast, you will see that this world is truly insane. But, there is a cause for every effect. There are REASONS for this mess, and SOLUTIONS, and I explore them both in this very thoughtful program you won't want to miss!

And, as God's people, we are promised protection and a way of escape from this rat race, which I also discuss.

After the Real Truth, we have parts 5 and 6 of Ron Dart's Origins of Evil series, which is very insightful and thoughtful, especially in light of the above.

And finally, our Bible Study today is part 4 of John Ritenbaugh's excellent series on Satan [unfortunately, there were some tape gaps in this message. The gaps have been removed, but this means that sometimes there will be a skip to a totally different thought at several points. We apologize for this, but this was better than leaving these annoying gaps in].

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John

2005-12-02T17:55:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

With this week, we start Cyber Services again with the Faith and Healing series we started before the Feast.

There is no song service in today's service, but we have two very fine messages.

In place of the sermonette, we have a World Tomorrow broadcast called "Healing and Christ's Garment." This is a very inspirational message that all need to hear.

This is followed by the sermon, presented by Richard Duncan, and is part 1 of his Health and Healing series.

I know that all of you will find these messages very useful. We live in perilous times indeed, and our only hope is to put our hope and trust in God Almighty. And that is a great hope indeed, but we must learn to have the FAITH needed. Once we have the faith, God has promised to ACT to heal us of our afflictions, and, for the future, to protect us from what is soon to come.

Have a very great and wonderful Sabbath day!

You may find the Cyber Service on our Sermon and Bible study page at:

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John

2005-11-27T21:17:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

After being "off the air" for about a month, the Real Truth webcast stream is back! [Cyber Services are scheduled to return by this coming Sabbath].

For various reasons we were not able to do our regular Webcast Stream until now, but today we have a special program on the role of thanksgiving, and of the Godly attitude that results.

Many have not recognized it, but the word "thanksgiving" appears many times in the Bible, and the Bible instructs us to first give God thanks for His many blessings. This will then put us in the right attitude to ask God for what we really need.

If we are giving thanks, we will be in an attitude of joy. It can lead to many of the other gifts of the Holy Spirit too.

If we are thankful, we won't be greedy, or materialistic. But rather, we will have our minds focussed where they are supposed to be -- on the spiritual things.

Our ancestors started this Thanksgiving tradition because they knew how important giving thanks to God is. Our thankless generation needs to turn around now, repent, and recapture this true value!

Once you are in the proper, thankful attitude, that opens up the channel of communication with God, so that He can send more blessings our way! Giving thanks leads to all of the good things God wants to give us. It is when we forget to give thanks for what we have that satan can get his hooks into us and lead us astray.

So, let's make EVERYDAY Thanksgiving Day from now on!

Later in the webcast stream, we have parts 3 and 4 of Ron Dart's Origins of Evil series of Born to Win broadcasts. You won't want to misss a single part of this exciting series!

And, in our Bible Study section, we have part 3 of John Ritenbaugh's series on Satan and his wiles.

To listen to the Real Truth first in the stream, click on the link on our webcast page, which is here;

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John

2005-10-18T00:05:00.000-06:00

Hello all!

Well, we have finally made it to the Feast of Tabernacles, 2005!

This is one of my favorite times of year, as it pictures the time when peace shall reign supreme on the earth during the Millenial rule of Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.

It is also the time when the very nature of animals will be changed, and the lion "shall eat straw like the ox," and the "young child shall play on the hole of the asp," and the lion and the lamb shall lay down together in peace and harmony, and a little child shall lead them.

On this opening day of the Feast, it is fitting that we put our concentration on this wounderful time of peace and happiness and leave the cares of this world behind.

That is why we have prepared a very special Cyber Service for you today!

In continuation of our Tribute to Herbert W. Armstrong, we are taking you back to the Feast of 1984, the last Feast of Tabernacles where Mr. Armstrong spoke.

In place of the sermonette today we are having Mr. Armstrong's 22 minute opening message for the Feast of that year. In this message, Mr. Armstrong gives us the true meaning of this fantastic Holy Day, expounding on its meaning for us today. This message will also remind us what it was like when the work was expanding, and reaching greater heights with each passing year.

Our main message for today is Mr. Armstrong's sermon for that First Day of the Feast. In this message, Mr. Armstrong reminds us how our awesome calling and God's Plan of Salvation fit into this marvelous Feast.

You won't want to miss either message, our fabulous Song Service, or the great Special Music we have lined up for this Cyber Service.

With this Cyber Service, it will almost be like being there in person 21 years ago to hear these vital messages.

May you all have a marvelous Feast!

John

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2005-10-13T00:03:00.000-06:00

Many people do not understand the awesome meaning of the Day of Atonement, which is on October 12th this year.

This day pictures the putting away, or banishment, of man's arch enemy, Satan the devil!

And with his removal from the world scene, he will be chained and locked in the abyss, or bottomless pit, unable to tempt the nations again until the millenium is over!

Rev. 20 pictures a great angel, with the key to the bottomless pit, descending and putting him there.

But what many people don't realize is that the Old Testament ceremonies for this Day also pictured this event way in the future then, but around the corner now.

This is an important step in God's Plan of Salvation, and is the theme of both of our messages in today's Cyber Services. We invite you to visit with us and enjoy the good music and messages we have placed online for you.

Also, today, we have uploaded this week's Webcast stream. Our Bible study is Part 1 of a 5 part, in depth study of Satan and his wiles, and how we can recognize them, and defeat them, and what this evil monster's final fate wil be. This series was given by John Ritenbaugh, and is one of the best I have ever come across.

In our radio broadcast segments, we have part 1 of a World Tomorrow broadcast by Herbert Armstrong on the Feast of Tabernacles, which is going to begin on Tuesday of next week.

We also have part 1 of a Born to Win radio series by Ronald Dart called "Origins of Evil," which sheds even more light on our arch enemy and deceiver.

And finally, today, we present part 2 of our Real Truth series on the history of God's work, it's basic doctrines, and important sound bites from both Herbert W and Garner Ted Armstrong.

You won't wan to miss a single segment of these exciting webcasts and services, so join us today for this information filled feast!

In these dire times of ours, we need to become aware of our enemy's tactics, and how to defeat them, and also learn about the wonderful hope for tomorrow that the Day of Atonement brings.

You may find our Cyber Services and Bible study here:

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None of these items are being archived due to space limitations, so listen to this material soon, as it will disappear when we upload next week's programs!

Enjoy!

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2005-10-04T12:17:00.000-06:00

Hello all!

God's Plan of Salvation is a marvelous plan. It has taken millions, if not billions of years to develop, but we now live in the time when major milestones in that plan are about to be reached.

It has not been without its problems. One of those problems was the rebellion of Satan and his angels, but nothing will stop God from accomplishing His purpose, and He is even now on His way to this earth to establish His Kingdom here.

The return of Jesus Christ, as King of kings and Lord of lords, at the final trumpet blast [the 7th trumpet of the Trumpet Plagues], is forshadowed by the Feast of Trumpets, one of 7 annual Holy Days on God's sacred calendar.

This is a day of "clouds and thick darkness," and I explore that topic in great detail in my Clouds of Heaven series in the speculative issues section of our website library.

But Christ will return to this earth with "the clouds of Heaven," and with His great ARMIES OF ANGELS. When they get to the air above our planet, there will be great darkness because of these clouds, and great peals of lightning and thunder will shoot forth from these great clouds as The Destroyer appears above our earth again.

The saints will be resurrected at this point, and those still alive on the earth, as Paul says to the Thessalonians, will be "changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump."

So, the saints will rise to meet the coming Christ and His armies as He descends to this earth from Heaven, but then they will no longer be mortal, but divine god beings, as Paul said to the Corinthians, we shall see Him because we will be like Him, and our bodies will be like His glorious body [see ICor. 15 for a fuller explanation].

And when He finally has descended, "His feet shall stand that day on the Mount of Olives," and He shall fight against the Beast, and the False Prophet and all of the armies of the nations of man, who will think He is an invader from outer space, and will seek to defeat Him and His armies of angels and saints.

But He shall utterly smite the nations, and they shall go down to utter defeat, along with their god, the god of this present evil world, Satan the Devil.

That is what this wonderful Feast of Trumpets mean to us, and our sermon today covers this subject and the entire plan of God in great details.

Today's sermon is the final sermon given by Herbert W. Armstrong before his death, and it was given 20 years ago to this day.

But that message is even truer today than when he gave it then!

We invite you to visit our Cyber Services, all you have to do is click on the Cyber Services link, and have Real Player installed to listen to this inspiring, uplifting, and informative service.

The service also has a song service with meaningful and inspirational hymns, inspiring special music, a sermonette and introduction, and, of course, our main message.

I am not sure if we are going to put a service up this Sabbath or whether we will leave this service up through the Day of Atonement, so we urge you to listen to this message today, or at least before late Friday evening, when it might be taken down.

We wish all of you around the world a meaningful and enjoyable Feast of Trumpets!

John

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2005-09-23T12:31:00.000-06:00

The Book of Amos is a very important book of prophecy for our peoples today.

The prophet Amos was an herdsman. He was not of the priestly cast, nor was he one of the sons of the prophets. Yet, as is the case many times when God calls someone to a special duty, God often calls the lowliest of men and woman to do His Work.

As the Apostle Paul said, God so often calls the weak of this world, and those that are despised, and the foolish of this world to confound the mighty, and to show them that nothing is possible without the power of God, and that with that power, all things are indeed possible.

So, God called this humble herdsman one day, and Amos objected, and pointed out to God all of the things stated above. He made many excuses, becuase he did not want the job God had called him to, yet, in the end, he had no choice but to heed God's call and give God's word -- His UNWELCOME WORD -- to a sinful and a wicked nation.

Most of the words are a prophecy for our time today, and for our nations of national Israel. They are not "smooth things" that people want to hear. It is not a popular message -- rather it is a message that thunders dire warnings from GOD ALMIGHTY that unless our sinful people repent of our sins, and turn to God, then eventually He will become so angry that He finally says to us: "Prepare to meet your God, oh Israel!"

And we are most certainly NOT prepared to meet Him!

Yet, our people ask "in what way have we sinned?"

Amos counts the ways.

He says that a LION HAS ROARED! And further, he says that GOD ALMIGHTY IS THAT LION, and that He is roaring in anger against our peoples today!

It will become so bad, that fully 90% of our people will die before the return of Christ if we do not repent! That is the message of the Book of Amos to our nations today, and we had better heed that warning!

I am convinced now that it is NO ACCIDENT that Hurricane Katrina laid waste several cities along the Gulf Coast of the United States, striking vital resources and infrastructure. And now, as I write these lines, another horrible hurricane is bearing down on the Texas coast, due to strike in less than 24 hours from now.

So many of us thought that last year's hurrican season was bad -- and it was! But this one could very well be worse!

God punishes in steps. He sends His punishments, and then He generally pauses for a short time to see if there is repentance. And if there is none, then, according to Deuteronomy 28 [which I suggest you read immediately, as it has VITAL PROPHECIES FOR OUR PEOPLES TODAY], God then punishes SEVEN TIMES MORE FOR YOUR SINS!

So, each cycle of ever incrasing punishment is SEVEN TIMES GREATER than the previous round. And eventually, as it says both in that chapter and in the book of Amos, God will eventually have had enough and He will BREAK OUT IN FURY UPON US!

I also find it interesting that in Deut. 28 it says "you have sown the wind, and you shall REAP THE WHIRLWIND!"

And what is a hurricane but a whirlwind?

But Amos also says, as does Paul to Timothy, that our people will tell the prophets NOT TO PROPHECY, and yet, if the prophet will remain true to God, HE MUST!

In today's Real Truth webcast, I cover chapters 2-5 of this pivotal Book of Amos. These chapters show our national sins in explicit detail, tell us to repent NOW, and, if we won't, it tells us that God Almighty will be like a ROARING LION, setting about to devour our sinful nations. In the end, if we won't heed, our cities will be laid desolate, and without inhabitant.

This cycle has started NOW, and we had better listen to God Almighty, or suffer the consequences!

Also in this week's Webcast Stream, we have two more vital World Tomorrow broadcasts. The first is on Jeremiah 23 and the second on Jeremiah 31, and both of these broadcasts reinforce what is said in the book of Amos to our sinful nations today.

And finally, in our Webcast Stream, we have this week's Bible study by Melvin Rhodes, which covers Rev. chapters 14,15, 16, and 17. You won't want to miss this either!

To listen to the stream in this order, go to our webcast page and click on the webcast link:

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These messages are archived on our 3 Whores and a Virgin section of our Bible Prophecy library section here:

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I urge you to listen to these messages and take heed now, while it is still today, so that you have time to repent and come under God's protection. Only HE can save your life, and its about time that you begin to understand this fact!

John

2005-09-20T11:38:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

A funny thing happened over the past couple of days. It was not expected or planned, but just one of those things that "just happens." Of course, I don't believe in coincidences anymore -- I haven't for a long, long time -- in the Work of God.

While I was searching for material on evolution and creation, as I want to start a series at least in our library on these topics, I came across a couple of sermons at the Friends of the Sabbath website archive that I found to be very intriguing.

One was called "A Tribute to Herbert Armstrong," by Ronald Dar. The other was "The Mind of Herbert Armstrong,' by Ralph Helge. And finally, in that same archive, there was a message by Kevin Dean in 1996, when he "came out of the closet" and "told all" about the lies of Joseph Tkach, as well as many other revealing and interesting comments on Mr. Armstrong fro a totally different perspective than most others have.

I listened to all 3 messages last night, and then other messages have come to mind since them, and i believe I know where they are and how to ger them s that they can all be placed together.

Herbert W. Armstrong was, at the same time, easily the greatest promoter of God's Truth in almost 2000 years, but, he was bigger than life for many, and, as often happens with great men, a swirl of controversy surrounds him.

We live in a very cynical time today, as the forces of evil and political correctness have sought to strip our nation of its heroes.

They have spattered mud over the founding fathers, saying uncomplimentary things about such greats as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, among others.

The reason they want to tear dwn our national heroes is becausee they want to REVISE history in their own sick, twisted, and perverted image. They want to bring out new heroes that teach things their way, and throw dirt, trash, and manure over those who espoused and taught philiosophies that they so virulently hate.

Their work of revisionism and recasting history into their image is almost complete in our public schools, which is another reason they had to throw God and the Bible out of the classroom. This is why it is OK with them to teach Islam, Bhuddism, and even WITCHCRAFT in the public schools, but they will suspend your child for daring to even bring a Bible to class! They want to mold the next generation into their atheist, secular, and often times PAGAN and sinful worldview. And to do so, our founding fathers must be ridiculed and relegated to the dustbin of history.

We as humans have the very big problem of wanting to put our heres onto pedastals so that we can worship them. We want to make our human heroes of the past bigger than life, as if they are not human, and do not make mistakes. Unfortunately, this leads to abandonment of these same heroes when it is proved that they were human, and had faults after all!

It is the same with Mr. Armstrong. Most church members had an image BIGGER THAN LIFE of this man. He was put on a very high pedastal, both by the brethren and some in the ministry who may have had other than pure motives at times. He was a figure bigger than life, or so it seemed.

But, in delving into the truth of these matters and the historical record, I know that Mr. Armstrong didn't feel cmfortable on any kind of pedastal. He knew that he was just a man like you or I, and that he did indeed make mistakes.

It is now almost 20 years since the death of Mr. Armstrong. That anniversary will be this coming January.

But, as this Festival season rapidly approaches, we are soon going to be celebrating the Feast of Trumpets, which, according to the Jews, is the beginning of their civil new year. So Trumpets is an end and a beginning, and it is in this season that we would do well to remember and learn from our past. We need to digest what has happened and why, and to learn God's lesson for us in it.

On this Feast of Trumpets upcoming, it will be 20 YEARS SINCE MR. ARMSTRONG GAVE HIS LAST SERMON!

Amazing, isn't it? And, for Trumpets this year, I believe God has inspired me to replay this sermon, and this sermon will also be archived in our website library history section.

But, there is more. God expects us to learn the lessons of our past so that we can move on, and so that we can grow and overcome so that we may qualify to be kings and priests in God's Kingdom.

I was very touched by the messages I heard last night. Touched, moved, saddened...... But I learned something special from Mr. Dart's message that I hadn't heard before until last night.

Mr. Dart talked about the "old days" of Ambassador College and the Worldwide Church of God, and how it was different from the "latter days." I also remember that I did hear a message from Garner Ted Armstrong on this same line, and will attempt to also find that message as well.

Something special was lost in the shuffle after about 1967. Terrible things happened both to the church and to Mr. Armstrong during the '70's that we have never come to grips with either.

And then, starting in 1979, after literally resurrecting Mr. Armstrong from a near death experience, God raised him up to "put God's church back on His track." Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, he was only partially successful.

There is much to this story. After I get finnished making the new uploads to the History section of the Library, and listening to and reviewing the material, I will have some comments, both on the past, and where we as God's people "go from here."

Satan has done a lot of damage to all of us, both individually and collectively.

The Bible says about the "foolish" and "oppressive" shepherds that they don't bind up the wounds, neither do they treat them. They don't care for the sheep by attending to the wounds and scars. Instead, they pretend that they don't exist. They think if they ignore it it will go away.

And, if any of you understand the human mind, you know that suppression not only doesn't work, it often makes the problem worse.

It's about time now, as the 20th anniversary of Mr. Armstrong's death rolls around, that we come to grips with what happened and with what is happening. Only by objectively looking at the facts can we deal with them, and so move on to the perfection that God would have us attain.

I believe that God has put this information under my nose for a reason, and that reason is that His time has come to deal with these issues in a balanced, fair way.

Yes, there were some mistakes and some things were done wrong. Another prolblem with human nature is that we often think that criticism and pointing out error means we "hate" the one we are discussing.

Nothing could be further from the truth. We get this idea from worldly rulers and people, who think that anything but praise means that we hate them. Unfortunately, many of God's people and ministers have this same idea. They have gotten to the point where they will REJECT any criticism of them, and think that anyone who would dare show them where they are wrongis an enemy and "out to get them."

I know, because I have had run ins with many holier than thou folks who think they are beyond criticism, or pointing out their errors. And when you do criticize semething they believe -- even from a firm Biblical foundation -- you become public enemy number 1 and they won't even answer the sincere crticism [Please note that I am NOT referring to mean spirited, personal attacks that are totally unfounded, or the asking of mean spirited, rhetorical questions to belittle or embarass someone else. This approach is the one used by the Pharisees to try and entrap and discredit Jesus, and this is NOT what I am talking about here. I am talking about SINCERE questions, and pointing out in LOVE from the Bible where someone is wrong. That is something totally different all together, and is something GOD HATES!].

The Bible is "hard on its heroes", not because it wants to belittle them, or defile them, or attack them, or because God hates them. No. The Bible just gives us an honest view of its heroe's lives, good and bad alike. This is because God wants us to learn from the lessons He has taught them, in hopes that we won't have to go through the same bad experiences.

It was never, nor is, God's intention to put people on a pedastal. He shows us their good points and their faults, because that is the only way we will learn from them.

But in God's church for a long time now, there have been attempts by some to hide the facts. That is not the right approach. That is the approach of Satan and his world, in order to cast a false image that everything is just fine when it is not. God is open about these things.

We are going to be conducting an in depth search through our own history of the recent path. Not to denigrate anyone. Not to belittle, but to LEARN the lessons God wants us to learn from these things, so that we may press onward towards our great calling, so that the dirty linen may be clean, and so that we will become spotless and blameless and ready to meet Christ at His return.

Watch for the announcements of the uploading of the new material!

John

2005-09-04T17:59:00.000-06:00

Sorcha Faal’s Books Available Now In English!

Picking up the Pieces: Practical Guide for Surviving Economic Crashes, Internal Unrest and Military Suppression By: Sorcha Faal “In the span of less than 3 months gasoline prices will rise 500%. The prices of both food and shelter rise over 300%. (Continued)

September 4, 2005

United States Warships Turn Towards Venezuela As US Military Takes Control of Hurricane Devastated Regions, Chavez vows ‘100 Year War’

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

Russian Military Analysts are reporting today that a ‘significant’ portion of the US Navy Armada that had been heading towards their countries devastated Southern Regions have turned towards South America, and in what these reports state is a planned Invasion of Venezuela to overthrow their President and reassert ‘control’ over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.

The Venezuelan President having been notified of this most troubling development has ordered his Military Forces to be on high alert and has ‘vowed’ a 100 Year War against the Military Leaders of the United States, and as we can read as reported by the Miami Herald News Service in their article titled “Chávez: U.S., NATO planning an attack" and which says:

"Venezuela has uncovered plans for a NATO U.S.-led invasion and is preparing to defend the country against invading forces if necessary, President Hugo Chávez said, ''We discovered through intelligence work a military exercise that NATO has of an invasion against Venezuela, and we are preparing ourselves for that invasion,'' Chávez was quoted as saying late Friday night. He said the military exercise is known as ''Plan Balboa'' and includes rehearsing simultaneous assaults by air, sea and land at a military base in Spain, involving troops from the United States and NATO countries. U.S. officials in the past have said such training is meant to prepare troops for general scenarios but not for a specific military action.''If it occurs to the United States to invade our country -- Fidel Castro said it and I agree -- a war will start here to last 100 years,'' he added. ``Not only this country would be burned up, but a good part of this continent; they shouldn't make any mistake about it; we are preparing to repel an invasion.''

Prior to the cataclysmic Super Storm that hit the Southern Regions of the United States their Military Leaders had been preparing for this invasion by the stationing off the shores of Venezuela one of their feared Carrier Strike Forces, and as we can read as reported by Chinas Xinhua News Service article titled "US aircraft carrier docked nearby poses no threat: Venezuela" and which says, "A US aircraft carrier with 1,500 Marines on board which docked last Friday in the island of Curacao, north of Venezuela, did not pose a threat to the country, Defense Minister Orlando Maniglia said Monday. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez termed the presence in March of a US aircraft carrier in Curacao as an "act of provocation," but Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States William Brownfield later said the tension only was generated by a "lack of communication."

These reports further state that the magnitude of the devastation in the United States is ‘unprecedented’ with over 10 million of their citizens lives directly affected by the wrath of this Super Storm, and as we can read as reported by the United Press International News Service in their article titled "Some 10 million felt Hurricane Katrina" and which says, "Almost 10 million people living in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi experienced hurricane force winds as Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast this week. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the three states hardest hit by the storm, about 4.9 million people -- or about 41 percent of the population -- live in coastal areas. About 3.2 million people lived within the imminent or occurring flood area -- with 1.7 million in southeast Louisiana; 940,000 in southern Mississippi; and 420,000 in southwest Alabama."

Russian Intelligence Analysts further report that the foreign mercenary troops under the command of NORTHCOM have been sent into those areas most affected and that the American citizens and refugees can expect ‘nothing short of brutal’ treatment as these soldiers do not know, nor do they care for the rights or freedoms of these people.

To the many warnings of these events many around the world have tried to shout to these Americans they still do not comprehend the monstrous totality of what lies in store for them, and as we had previously tried to warn them in our August 22nd report titled "United States Positions Tens of Thousands of Foreign Troops Throughout America, Cancels All Military Leaves and Ousts Another Top General", our August 25th report titled "United States Warns Foreign Governments of ‘Impending’ Internal Crises While Massive American Troop Movements Continue" and our August 26th report titled "The Camps of ICE, Americas Road to Fascist Rule Nears Completion as US Government Accelerates Building of Concentration Camps".

Like the German people living under the brutal Nazi Regime of last century, it is incomprehensible for these American people to believe that their government is capable of the barbarity they are currently unleashing upon the entire World, but also like the German people they cannot deny that their once great country has been turned into a Police State, and with the events currently occurring in their country, a Police State under Military Leadership.

To the expansion of the Americans Global War for oil today marks yet another milestone in how far these once mighty people have fallen. Even sadder is that as they continue their descent into ‘hell’ there remains no good citizens left among them able to see through the hypocrisy and lies of their Military Leaders and the propaganda media organs that support them.

Today the Torch of Liberty which once shown bright for the entire world to see is now all but extinguished. Today the Darkness of Fascist Military Rule rolls across the once great land of America, which had never been a Nation alone, but had instead been a ‘vision’ of its founders dedicated to the proposition that all Men should be Free.

Today that vision today lies broken and shattered upon the streets of New Orleans.

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2005-09-03T14:10:00.000-06:00

Costa Rica's Libertarian movement is drawing
international attention! WAY TO GO!

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Controlling 1Libertarians becoming more Popular in
Costa Rica controlling 10% of Congress

September 2nd 2005

Libertarians becoming much more Popular in Costa Rica
Controlling 10% of Congress

Costa Rica

San Juan, Costa Rica—Imagine a US Congress with 10%
Libertarians. The latest news is how they’ve cut
taxes, stamped out incipient terrorism while squashing
proposals to military action, and are moving to fight
corruption in immigration that no one talked about for
years in the other parties. The country’s prestige is
at a new high. New Hampshire has announced it’s
studying legislation to enable governmentless
Libertarian communities because they’re good for
tourism. And even non-Libertarians say they’re doing a
good job, offering intriguing less-government
alternatives and keeping other parties on their toes.
Why, just like Costa Rica, people say.

Oh, and most of the Libertarian leaders are Black or
belong to other minorities.

Compare this to today, where the Libertarians in North
Carolina struggle to keep their party recognized under
that state’s draconian ballot laws. It’s easy to
speculate why the other parties are attempting to
marginalize them.

The major parties may not want another Costa Rica
Libertarian Movement, or Movimiento Libertario
(http://www.libertario.org/en/index.htm ). In that
country, Libertarians have 10% of the legislature, are
moving to more local positions, and are treated as
business as usual. But it may just be a matter of
time.

Libertarians advocate voluntary solutions and
individual rights, and support more tolerance, more
free enterprise and ever-diminishing government. Costa
Rica certainly has a few less government attitudes
that would seem like hopeless idealism to many people
in the US.. It has no military hence no military coups
or budget to worry about, yet plays a strong role in
international affairs through active diplomacy. People
can get many drugs without a prescription after
consultation with their pharmacist. Immigrants are
welcomed with open arms with a system encouraging
economic self-sufficiency that is a marvel of
simplicity compared to US regulations. It has
proportional voting and few ballot requirements,
making it far more democratic in engaging different
political than the US.

While Libertarians in the US wage what looks like a
complex chess game rolling back election laws often
specifically designed to keep them out, Libertarianism
has taken off in the tolerant “Central American
Switzerland” like El Cid riding to the rescue.
Libertarians there control 10 % of the Congress,
occupy influential positions, and over 70% of the
country thinks they’re doing a good job according to
newspaper surveys. When a Libertarian international
group met there some years back, the country’s
President made the welcome speech.

Any political party could probably learn from the
Costa Rican Libertarians, who admit they started off
by learning from the US Libertarian’s mistakes and
less well known but impressive successes.

CLASSICAL ANARCHISTS WITH GANNT CHARTS

Libertarianism, which says people would benefit with
an array of alternatives ranging from devolution to
local government and classical anarchist communities,
is looked at as something of a tough sell in politics.
It has no ready-made constituency except everyone’s
interest in their own individual rights, and in many
ways is more a political technology. So the growth is
all the more fascinating as until a few years ago,
there was only a small Libertarian study group in the
country. Local Libertarians contacted Libertarian
groups such as the International Society for
Individual Liberty and the Libertarian International
Organization (LIO) to get ideas. “We had just finished
a best practices study and basically gave them two
lists,” said Ralph Swanson, and LIO Board member. “We
said do simple boring cheap stuff on list A and don’t
do the tempting glitzy expensive stuff on list B. We
basically had found that US Libertarian groups that
focused on education on uncompromising application of
Libertarian principle and door-to-door legwork and
coalition activism did well, while those that
attempted to dilute their message and imitate the
campaign styles of the Republicans and Democrats shot
themselves in the foot. Next thing we knew they were
doing great, and when we checked up they said, ‘Well,
we followed list A.’ ”

Otto Guevara Guth, a former Costa Rican Congressman
who leads the Costa Rican group, put it more bluntly.
”When I first heard about Libertarianism, I said what
in the world is this? Are these people nuts? Like most
people I assumed that if government wasn’t making
people do it, then it wasn’t being done, and so you
had to accept a lot of regulation. Then here are
Libertarians saying government is actually the
problem, and we should just handle everything by
private groups with just one rule: respect individual
rights. As I saw the possibilities and saw that this
stuff worked, I realized we had a chance for a
movement able to think long term but have plenty of
immediate projects to get public support.”

List A had some unusual conclusions, reflected in the
Movimiento’s approach. It suggested things such as
dividing adherents into speaker, political and other
personality types; developing a radical no-government
message with detailed transition items; and outreach
through personal networks. Training was emphasized,
and a good part of the Costa Rican site deals in
philosophy. Yet as they crusade to dismantle the
government and replace its programs with voluntary
groups and alternatives, they also put a GANNT style
progress chart and emphasize baby-step approaches, and
trumpet the slightest success. They even set a
standard for news stories, patiently following up so
soon they were news resources, then the news, all
instead of ‘reacting to the news’ said Guevara Guth in
a talk with to US Libertarians.

“We expect a new story per 1 million population daily,
and if we’re not being treated fairly we get on the
phone,” he said.” However, by now we’re constant news.
Journalists say, ‘I wonder what the Libertarians are
doing now?’ Because that’s what their readers are
wondering.”

To judge by GOOGLE search results, the Movimiento is
certainly doing media wonders. Enter US Libertarian
Party and you only get 3340 results—somewhat
misleading, as Democrats get 18,000 and the LP is
basically local in the US so dynamic affiliates, such
as Pinellas, Florida, get about 10,000. Yet the
Movimiento turns in over 11.000—astonishing interest
in comparison to even the major US parties. Indeed
there’s such an array of articles, discussions, policy
papers, and fan sites, one might wonder if it’s a
party or a national tourist attraction.

Yet some of the press is wary. The Economist magazine
attracted derision when it did an article touching on
the Movimiento’s effect while failing to mention it
was Libertarian.

OPPOSITION

All of this reflects the aggressive, and ‘integrative’
Costa Rican attitude and a ‘Libertarian management’
approach. While US Libertarians hand out a ten point
political quiz, Costa Ricans have a 40 point one they
use to qualify people and immediately address issues
of agreement and training. They made branding
decisions in an afternoon, with attractive red polo
shirts for adherents and a seagull motif so as ‘not to
be confused with’ anyone. All projects are self-run
and self-funding, and they rely heavily on ‘bottom-up’
action, with supporters constantly handing out
literature to taxi drivers, waiters, and other casual
contacts.

They also made a decision to treat any defeat as an
opportunity and make lemon of lemonade, encouraged by
pep-talks and lengthy e-mails from their international
mentors. As the government realized they were
expanding under Costa Rica’s proportional
representation system, it imposed requirements that
political parties have 5 adherents in almost every
neighborhood, a burden seemingly well beyond a
struggling new group, and at first they thought the
end had come.

In due course, however, they agreed with their mentors
that they were being forced to do what they should do
anyway: get out and organize non-Libertarians around
local issues. At the same time, they were aided by a
government regulation that threatened to put small
lottery sellers out of business, which they exploited
immediately since in Costa Rica, many people sell a
few lottery tickets.

They didn’t look back, and are known for relentlessly
looking at world events from the point of vew of how
people can benefit from their Libertarian ideas. ‘They
simply refuse to react or have a position on other
people’s issues. They promptly turn it all around so
it’s their issue with a specific action proposal in a
very short period of time,” said a local observer.
When 9-11 came and other US State Libertarian parties
agonized over how to best express Libertarian
solutions on foreign policy, the Costa Ricans turned
it into a tax-cut issue, and successfully demanded
the government take no ‘hysterical actions’ that would
damage tourism or raise spending. They also have come
out in favor of the Central American free trade
treaty, unlike their US counterpart, but with far more
detailed line by line criticism—they feel it has
hidden and unfair regulations—so that they’re
controlling discussion and, observers say, are forcing
other parties to react to them.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

The Costa Ricans have also used local cultural
differences, or sometimes a difference of perspective,
to address issues that tax their US counterparts.
While the US has had a national goal of abolishing its
military for years under a little known law, Costa
Rica simply did it long ago, and so Libertarians
warning against military adventures have a ready
audience there.

There was actually an experiment in the 1800’s in
Libertarian communes in Limon province, so when
Libertarians there proposed eventual creation of a
Libertarian non-governmental community on classical
anarchist lines as one option, people hailed it as
restoring lost roots and a potential revenue-building
attraction.

They also used different terminology. They call
privatizations democratizations to better include the
idea of co-operatives. They decided to call their
party a movement—Movimiento Libertario—to express that
they didn’t see their main mission as merely getting
elected but creating a new ‘cultural group’ dedicated
to freedom and rights.

They’ve also found that, as US Libertarians are
discovering, little details argue philosophy. It’s all
very well to call for limited government and
responsive public services, but when Guevara Guth was
elected to Congress and announced he was carrying a
cell phone and would provide quick answers to
constituent’s questions, he created a sensation,
especially in the laid back Latin culture. Opponents
became apoplectic at the Libertarian reputation for
quick service to constituents, and as donations poured
in hinted darkly that the Movimiento was getting money
from the Mafia in New York, or worse, Sweden.

Perhaps their biggest management difference from most
of the US LP is a structure of welcoming general
supporters as members while having a certification
process to develop ‘militant’ Libertarian leaders.
While the US national party technically has the same
policy, under the influence of former Republicans it
tended in the last ten years to emphasize membership
and short-term politics while having no educational or
training program in place, though it has been moving
to change. However, some states parties, such as
Florida and New Hampshire, have farm team methods that
have served them well, being more like Costa Rica,
with both a more radical Libertarian message and more
Libertarians in government positions or as opinion
leaders.

Yet again and again the cultural differences are
intriguing. In the US Libertarianism polls more
favorably with African-Americans and Hispanics than
other cultural groups, but while they’ve done a good
job engaging Hispanics, and Blacks make a large number
of Libertarian registrations—more proportionally than
Greens or Democrats in many areas—bringing them into
the leadership has been haphazard. The Costa Ricans
have no such problems, pointing to international
economist Dr. Rigoberto Stewart, a Black and one of
their founders.

And in the US, while it’s a plus to emphasize a woman
in gender neutral activities, it’s rarely so with men.
Indeed, in some states a man might be investigated for
domestic abuse for arguing with his wife over domestic
affairs or ‘taking too great an interest’ in his
children by, for example, challenging doctor’s
decisions during childbirth. Sometimes taking their
cue from academics who maintain fathers are
irrelevant, US Courts in custody cases have only
recently begun to challenge professionals and accept
that fathers are more than financial contributors to
their children’s welfare. In much of Latin America,
by contrast, a father is expected to take such intense
interest in his children as might, to many in the US
from a Germanic background, seem at best exotic. When
he ran for election, Guevara Guth made a point of
letting people know he was directly involved in his
children’s daily routine, with the implication of
being the ideal Latin father who would examine
government affairs with equal zeal.

ECONOMY COUNTS

All this is important for a small party that can’t
waste effort—and the US Libertarian party is quietly
recognized as far better organized than its opponents,
getting widening influence despite it’s small formal
numbers--Costa Rica has focused on these issues from
the beginning. This has created two startling
statistics: many Costa Ricans vote Libertarian, and if
the US were doing like the Costa Rican Movimiento,
the US party would have proportionally almost 500,000
members—politically impressive when one realizes these
are not passive registered members but active
supporters. ”Economy counts, “ said Guevara Guth in an
earlier interview.

Nonetheless, Costa Rican Libertarians say they have
plenty to learn still, like good Libertarians, and are
always trolling for new ideas. “You have to be careful
generalizing about the American Libertarians, or for
that matter, Americans. Mnay of our people think they
get too self-critical, and simply don’t blow their own
horn enough,” said Mario Vedova, a Movimiento leader,
while on tour in the US. “Yet it’s really a vast
laboratory of 50 parties, and there’s no doubt from
abroad that US Libertarians are making a difference,
and you learn a lot from them. In fact, our co-founder
was once the chair of the Florida LP.”

What’s next? After some debate the Movimiento is
experimenting with running ‘less than 100% Libertarian
candidates’ as long as they advocate and carry out
Libertarian solutions, hoping to ‘bring them along.’
While some worry this may lead to the Movimiento being
seized by conservatives and ‘do-nothing pragmatists’
given to being overly impressed with political
consultants, they point to a tab on ‘philosophy’ at
their website and the division of labor of having
separate non-partisan think tank and activism-outreach
groups there.

The work of the non-political groups is in some ways
even more impressive. Libertarian think tank INLAP
(http://www.inlap.org/) , which proposed the
think-piece Libertarian province proposal now carried
on by a separate group, CELIDE
(http://www.celide.org/), has several initiatives,
and the new outreach Instituto Libertario
(http://www.institutolibertario.org/index.html ) has
in the last few months done seminars at major colleges
and schools across the country, with students checking
out it’s ‘cool website graphics,’ they say, and
links. There’s even a Libertarian consumer union
(http://www.consumidoreslibres.org ) fighting
government utility monopolies they feel raise prices.

Meanwhile, even as members discuss expanding and
cloning Movimiento Libertario parties up and down
Central America, they caution that effective politics
is a matter of repetition. The website shows they
focus on yeoman work: a radio station is up, an
attractive GIF has yet another attack on tax policies,
and an invitation to join the Libertarian youth group
is prominent. They boast of hard-fought legislation
that has cut campaign financing, and urge viewers to
join a new less taxes initiative.

“The biggest mistake the Costa Rican Libertarians can
make is what many businesses and political groups
do—get cocky and change what’s working, “ said
Swanson. “People are listening because they’ve been
listening as well. Real change takes time, and it’s
very encouraging their getting give- and-take from
young people. It’s a matter of consistent effort, a
matter of time. That’s politics.”

By Mike Davis and S. S. Palacheck
International Researchers and Journalists

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Hello all,

This has been a real sad week for us, as we watch the scenes of human suffering unfold on our television screens 24 hours a day, depending on which channel you are watching.

For many, the magnitude of this disaster is only now beginning to set in. Only now are we beginning to understand what some commentators are already calling "The Worst Disaster in History" for the United States.

Never before has an entire large US city been declared "uninhabitable," with perhaps a hundred thousand or more hapless refugees still trapped in squalid conditions in merciless heat, with no sanitary facilities, and with food and drinkable water scarce.

And, just today, they had to temporarily suspend the already SLOW evacuation because of gunshots being fired at rescue helicopters!

All I can say is "unbelievable!"

And there are many smaller cities that hve been wiped off the face of the earth, leaving not one building standing.

And then there is the Gulf coast of Mississippe.... also total devastation from a wall of water that Katrina brought in as a storm surge, destroying buildings, and tossing cars around like toys.

And the blow to the economy will also be unbelievable, and could finally tip the already faltering US economy into the worst depression the world has ever seen.

The insruance claims alone may bankrupt the most important financial services industry in the nation.

Not to mention the escalating fuel costs and shortages and what all of that will bring.

And, just where is GOD in all of this mess?

Is He still with "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?"

I would have to say the answer to THAT is NO, He is sick and tired of our sinful way of life and is finally taking punitive action.

Most of you do not know that there was a planned GAY DEBAUCH FESTIVAL scheduled for New Orleans, where gays would engage in perverted sex acts in public, as they have done in previous years.

But of course, that is only ONE reason God was not with that city this week.

This should serve as a warning and a wake up call to ALL OF US that God's patience is wearing thin if not exhausted, and that if we do not repent of our national sins and turn to Him, then our cities will ALL be laid waste, and without inhabitant!

So, consider this a very serious WARNING ONLY of FAR WORSE TO COME in the very near future unless we as a nation straighten out and straighten out NOW!

This special program is in our Webcast Stream, and so we will not have part 3 in our series about the rising Whore of Babylon, but will continue next week, God willing.

But, the rest of the Webcast Stream continues this series!

We have two World Tomorrow programs that you MUST HEAR and take to heart.

The first one is entitled "Satan's One World Government," and the second is "The United States in Prophecy."

Both of these messages are more timely TODAY than when they were recorded!

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> > I'm reading your article on Rense, well done, this
> pretty well brings all
> > the pieces together that are floating around on
> the net.
> > In response to you with any corroborating
> evidence, I believe I may have
> > some for you. About 3 weeks ago I was surfing some
> of the sites I enjoy posting
> > on, when someone posted in all caps that they had
> just heard from an officer
> > friend in the military that all leaves had been
> cancelled for the month of
> > September. Obviously aware of the false flags our
> government is famous for,
> > this person sounded desperate, asking for help in
> confirming or denying this
> > "rumor" from anyone who had connections in the
> military.
> > I happened to ask a co-worker friend of mine whose
> son in-law is in the Army
> > (82nd) about checking out the "rumor".
> > Well guess what, they've had to move up their
> leave to this coming week to
> > come home because his unit has to be back by
> September 7th. where upon all
> > leaves are cancelled! They have seen a steady
> build up of heavy materials just
> > sitting in storage facilities. He also commented
> that they were rushed
> > through a training course on new weapons systems
> they just rolled out. He thought
> > this very odd and a first.
> > This sent shivers all through me.
> > Not to push any panic buttons I spoke with a dear
> woman with whom I work
> > whose son is in the Army in an artillery unit. She
> is a former Captain, her
> > husband is a former Colonel and Vietnam vet and
> successful attorney here in our
> > area who also happens to be dying from the effects
> of Agent Orange. Lo and
> > behold their son was told all leaves are cancelled
> for September and in December
> > they may get leave, but can travel no further than
> 17 kilometers from their
> > base.
> > My niece is married to a young man in the Army
> stationed on the East Coast
> > he is also 82nd, his leave has also been
> cancelled. Their first baby is due in
> > December.
> > Leland, I'm not prone to fits of paranoia but I
> have to tell you, I have
> > begun stocking water and canned goods. I am ex Air
> Force, I was on three ring
> > standby most of my enlistment and was in a
> constant training mode. I know how
> > this works and it doesn't sound good.
> > The draft board offices are in place with staff
> waiting for the word to go.
> > I read an article from a guy who works in one of
> those offices, he said
> > Homeland Security came in there early last month
> and put up bullet proof glass on
> > the windows and iron bars, they installed blast
> proof glass on the doors, and
> > removed the mail drop box slots on the outside of
> the building. When he
> > asked what was going on they identified themselves
> as Homeland Security and said
> > don't worry about the rest and left.
> > It's coming no doubt about it. Sorry I can't be
> more positive, but this is
> > what I have heard with my own ears
> > from three independent military member sources in
> different parts of the
> > country.
> >
> > TeaParty2Come
> >
> >
>
> > To: the_octopus <the_octopus@yahoogroups.com>,
> tapa-chemtrails@yahoogroups.com,
> Armageddon or New Age
> <armageddon-or-newage@yahoogroups.com>
> From: Misty <misty3@paradise.net.nz>
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:52:56 +1200
> Subject: [tapa-chemtrails] Must read: All US
> military leave cancelled for Sept
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carol s
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:51 AM
> Subject: [prj] please read...
>
>
>
> I received this today from a very reliable source.
> I don't believe I have ever sent anything like this
> but this time I think it is pertinent.
>
> Keep praying, that is what will win all wars.
>
> God bless everyone,
>
> Carol
>
>
>
> Leland,
> I'm reading your article on Rense, well done, this
> pretty well brings all the pieces together that are
> floating around on the net.
> In response to you with any corroborating evidence,
> I believe I may have some for you. About 3 weeks ago
> I was surfing some of the sites I enjoy posting on,
> when someone posted in all caps that they had just
> heard from an officer friend in the military that
> all leaves had been cancelled for the month of
> September. Obviously aware of the false flags our
> government is famous for, this person sounded
> desperate, asking for help in confirming or denying
> this "rumor" from anyone who had connections in the
> military.
> I happened to ask a co-worker friend of mine whose
> son in-law is in the Army (82nd) about checking out
> the "rumor".
> Well guess what, they've had to move up their leave
> to this coming week to come home because his unit
> has to be back by September 7th. where upon all
> leaves are cancelled! They have seen a steady build
> up of heavy materials just sitting in storage
> facilities. He also commented that they were rushed
> through a training course on new weapons systems
> they just rolled out. He thought this very odd and a
> first.
> This sent shivers all through me.
> Not to push any panic buttons I spoke with a dear
> woman with whom I work whose son is in the Army in
> an artillery unit. She is a former Captain, her
> husband is a former Colonel and Vietnam vet and
> successful attorney here in our area who also
> happens to be dying from the effects of Agent
> Orange. Lo and behold their son was told all leaves
> are cancelled for September and in December they may
> get leave, but can travel no further than 17
> kilometers from their base.
> My niece is married to a young man in the Army
> stationed on the East Coast he is also 82nd, his
> leave has also been cancelled. Their first baby is
> due in December.
> Leland, I'm not prone to fits of paranoia but I have
> to tell you, I have begun stocking water and canned
> goods. I am ex Air Force, I was on three ring
> standby most of my enlistment and was in a constant
> training mode. I know how this works and it doesn't
> sound good.
> The draft board offices are in place with staff
> waiting for the word to go. I read an article from a
> guy who works in one of those offices, he said
> Homeland Security came in there early last month and
> put up bullet proof glass on the windows and iron
> bars, they installed blast proof glass on the doors,
> and removed the mail drop box slots on the outside
> of the building. When he asked what was going on
> they identified themselves as Homeland Security and
> said don't worry about the rest and left.
> It's coming no doubt about it. Sorry I can't be more
> positive, but this is what I have heard with my own
> ears
> from three independent military member sources in
> different parts of the country.
>
> TeaParty2Come
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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2005-08-13T16:14:00.000-06:00

Hello all,

These reports are very serious, which is why they seem so outrageous.

But history tells us that these events have happened before, especially when Rome changed from a Republic to an Empire. There was a military coup, and the military pretty much ran the show as Rome became an empire.

If the current Emperor didn't listen and lost the support of the military, he was killed and a more compliant man put in his place -- or at least the one with the greatest following in the military.

For a while, Rome kept the pretence of democratic institutions, including the Senate, but as time went on, they became mere rubber stamps for what the Emperor of the hour wanted, backed up by his troops.

There had also been a rule that Roman legions couldn't come into Rome itself, because they knew the danger this posed to the Republic.

But all of that ended when Julius Ceasar brought his troops into Rome itself.

In the same way, the US military is FORBIDDEN to operate in or meddle in the affairs of state. It appears that restriction is now almost gone.

It is getting out of hand, folks, and the hour is late indeed.

If it is not stopped, the Evil Empire will soon emerge in all of its wickedness!

The original is at this link, and the original has links to its sources in the text, since some of you think Faal is making these things up. Sad to say, that seems to not be the case:

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index799.htm

August 13, 2005

US President Evacuated as American and Saudi F-16’s Target Massive Truck Bomb on Texas, Mexican Border, Russian Satellites Blinded During Attack

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that American and Saudi Arabian F-16 Fighter Jets have attacked and destroyed another massive truck bomb, this one apparently targeting the American President who was evacuated from his Texas Region Compound, and as we can read as reported in this ‘sanitized’ Western news report as reported by the Edmonton Sun News Service in their article titled "Crash like an earthquake" and which says;

"A tanker truck hauling propane collided with a freight train, killing at least two people, injuring at least 44 and reducing parts of a border-town settlement to rubble. Witnesses said they heard two large explosions followed by a series of smaller ones Thursday, with gusts of fire ripping through cement-wall homes and blasting off corrugated metal roofing. "It was terrible. It was like an earthquake," Jorge Batres said. "All is destroyed." The truck, owned by Techno Gas of Monterrey, Mexico, was hauling two tanks of propane when it failed to stop after the train sounded a warning, witnesses said. One tank exploded and the other seeped gas through a puncture, fuelling flames that took Mexican and Texas firefighters hours to extinguish."

As this strange American Coup continues to develop, and as we had previously reported on in our reports "US Military Destroys Bomb Directed Against Chicago as Top Pentagon Doctor Killed In Helicopter Shoot-Down and US Secret Service Member Killed as United States Coup Continues" and "United States Military Forces Begin Coup, Top US General Arrested By Anti-Coup Factions, Russian and Chinese Military Forces Go To High Alert", reports from the United States are showing that their Federal Bureau of Investigation has put out warnings of more of these bombs, and as we can read as reported by the Chicago Sun Times News Service in their article titled "Terror tip leads to cops' warning on fuel tanker trucks" and which says;

"Chicago and State Police on Friday asked people to be particularly mindful of fuel-tanker trucks in the downtown area and contact police if they see any, in the wake of an FBI tip that Chicago might be a target of a terrorist attack. The warning comes after authorities received a warning from the FBI that al-Qaida cells might use fuel trucks to attack major cities including Chicago, Los Angeles and New York."

Russian Intelligence Analysts further report that our monitoring of the United States by our satellites observing Counter Coup Force movements by satellites was damaged by an attack at our Federal Space Agency which cut off the power supply and denied us ‘real time’ observations, and as we can read as reported by the Itar-Tass News Service in their article titled "Power supply cut at federal space agency in Moscow" and which says;

"Power supply is cut at both buildings of the Federal Space Agency in Moscow. “Power supply has been cut at about 15.05 Moscow time at both buildings of the agency for unknown reasons. Power supply resumed for two minutes 15 minutes later, but it was suspended again,” a source in the Federal Space Agency told Itar-Tass. According to the source, computers and communications means do not work at the Federal Space Agency, the recently created central information point where information from all over Russia and from abroad is coming stopped working. “There is no autonomous power supply system in the agency,” he pointed out."

The use of Saudi Arabian F-16 Fighter Jets working with their American counterparts of the US Air Force, and as we had previously reported on, continue to show the unwillingness of the American President to fully trust many of his top Military Commanders who are greatly opposed to attacking Iran but the American President seems determined to do, and as we can read as reported by the Reuters News Service in their article titled "Bush raises option of using force against Iran" and which says;

"U.S. President George W. Bush said on Israeli television he could consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear programme. "All options are on the table," Bush, speaking at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, said in the interview broadcast on Saturday. Asked if that included the use of force, Bush replied: "As I say, all options are on the table. The use of force is the last option for any president and you know, we've used force in the recent past to secure our country."

The suicide bombers driving this massive truck bomb are also reported to be two Egyptians that were being held as terrorists by the Mexican Government but then without clear explanation released, and as we can read as reported by Associated Press News Service in their article titled "Mexico releases two Egyptians detained at Cancun airport" and which says;

"Two Egyptians who were detained at the airport in Cancun, Mexico, have been released. Authorities today announced Mexican officials have found their papers to be in order. Mexican police last week detained the men after one appeared on a U-S travel-restriction list. The U-S Embassy today referred all questions about the men to Mexican authorities, who did not give more information. Officials have long expressed concerns that terrorists might use Mexico or Central America to stage an attack on the United States."

After the destruction of this massive truck bomb, and angry at the US Military Leaders failing to protect their own citizens, the Governor of Americas New Mexico Region declared a State of Emergency, and as we can read as reported by the El Paso Times News Service in their article titled “NM declares emergency at porous border with Mexico" and which says;

"Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday declared a state of emergency for the New Mexico border, saying that the federal government has failed to act while people smugglers and drug runners terrorize the area. New Mexico is the first state to take such a drastic measure because of illegal immigration, Richardson said after the announcement. His executive order unlocks $1.8 million in state funds for border security projects."

In order to protect itself the US Federal Government has begun the process of taking away from their States Regions Governors the power of their own State Militia Forces called the National Guard, and as we can read as reported by the Boston Globe News Service in their article titled “Ruling favors US control of National Guard units" and which says;

"The Pentagon does not need the consent of governors to move Air National Guard units in their states, the Justice Department has concluded, less than two weeks before an independent commission must decide which parts of the Defense Department's base-closing plan to change. Giving governors what would amount to veto power over the Pentagon's plans, at least with respect to National Guard units, would undermine a process created by Congress to reduce the role of politics in deciding which bases to close, the department said in response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Pennsylvania. Illinois has filed a similar lawsuit, arguing that the Pentagon doesn't have the authority to move units without the approval of the governors, who share control with the president over the units' use."

This most troubling of news follows this past weeks earlier reports showing the preparations of the American Military Leadership to put their citizens under Martial Law, and as we can read as reported by the Asian Times in their article titled "Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US" and which says, "According to a report published Monday by the Washington Post, the Pentagon has developed its first ever war plans for operations within the continental United States, in which terrorist attacks would be used as the justification for imposing martial law on cities, regions or the entire country.

The front-page article cites sources working at the headquarters of the military’s Northern Command (Northcom), located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The plans themselves are classified, but “officers who drafted the plans” gave details to Post reporter Bradley Graham, who was recently given a tour of Northcom headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base. The article thus appears to be a deliberate leak conducted for the purpose of accustoming the American population to the prospect of military rule. According to Graham, “the new plans provide for what several senior officers acknowledged is the likelihood that the military will have to take charge in some situations, especially when dealing with mass-casualty attacks that could quickly overwhelm civilian resources.”

The Post account declares, “The war plans represent a historic shift for the Pentagon, which has been reluctant to become involved in domestic operations and is legally constrained from engaging in law enforcement.”

Since the last great Global War of the last century, World War II, many have wondered as to reasons why a country as sophisticated, technologically advanced and educated as Germany could give rise to the Nazis. Today the answer to that question can be found in the United States, which like Germany has shown their citizens to be completely blinded to the Militarization of their once great Nation. Where once these peoples stood for freedom and peace, today their massive armies encircle the globe and their ambitions of Empire and Oil remain unsatisfied, even to the blood of the tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed by their continuing and growing war upon the whole world.

To the final ending of these events we are unknowing, but perhaps we are truly living in the End Times and hope can no longer belong to this world, but should instead be focused upon the next. Even to these thoughts has the Chief Rabbi of the Russia’s turned, and as we can read as reported by the Interfax News Service in their article titled “Russia’s chief rabbi predicts the imminent coming of a Messiah" and which says;

"Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar believes the Earth will soon see the coming a Messiah to reward everyone according to his deserts. ‘We know that he (Messiah - IF) is very near at hand, but he needs not only to be born but also to come. The Messiah may well have been born already, but unless he is ordered by God he cannot reveal himself with God’s help and change the world for the better’, the rabbi said in an interview published by the Gazeta daily on Tuesday.

Lazar explained this assumptions about the imminent coming of a Messiah by the fact that “the world today is in a state described by our sages as ‘hevley mashiah’, that is, labour that precedes the coming of a Messiah’. ‘It is a time’, he explained, ‘when many good things are created in the world and the progress of science and technology has made it possible to solve many human problems, to overcome diseases, famine, etc., on one hand. On the other hand, it is for the first time since God created human beings that humans have taken hold of such means of destruction that the whole of our race and even the globe itself can be destroyed instantly’.

‘We are living on the verge of history; it can be felt everywhere’, Rabbi Lazar is convinced. Recalling the comparison made by philosopher Maimonides who likened the world to scales, Lazar assumed that ‘perhaps God is waiting for only one deed to be put on the good scale to order the Messiah to reveal himself’. Speaking about it, Russia’s chief rabbi called upon everyone ‘to add this good deed as one’s contribution may prove decisive’."

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2005-08-09T13:27:00.000-06:00

Bible prophecy is not an approved subject by the New World Order. In fact, it is a subject that is strictly forbidden in the world of political correctness and hate speech laws, becuase it blows the cover off of so much dirt and so much corruption that it is unbelievable.

Centuries ago, the Prophet Isaiah wrote:

Isa 1:4 Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.

Further down, he predicted of our time today:

Isa 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.
Isa 1:7 Your land is wasted, your cities burned with fire. Strangers devour your land right before your eyes, and it is wasted, as overthrown by strangers.

Later on, Isaiah speaks of our once blessed and glorious land, and the rulers of our people, and what is soon to happen:

Isa 1:21 How has the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.
Isa 1:22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water;
Isa 1:23 your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isa 1:24 And the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel, says, Alas! I will ease Myself of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.

Yes, "everyone loves a bribe" in our nation today! ALL of our political, religious, and business leaders are liars, thieves, murderers, and oppressors!

What a sick, rotten mess we have gotten ourselves into!

We cover this entire chapter of Isaiah in this final installment of the Whore Israel series, and you will not want to miss a single moment of this Real Truth broadcast, which lays the sins of our nation and its leaders before us, tells us what God is going to do to SLAP THESE OPPRESSORS DOWN, and how YOU can be spared, and how our nations, if they will listen, can avoid this terrible fate!

But time is rapidly running out, and you need to get your life in order NOW before it is too late!

Also in this week's Webcast Stream, we have parts 2 and 3 of Mr. Armstrong's series, "What will the True Church be Like?" These are eye opening broadcasts, helping you to see where the true and the false religions are.

And lastly, this week's Bible study is part 1 of Keith Stumps "History of the True Church in America" series.

You won't want to miss a simgle segment of this webcast stream, as it has absolutley VITAL information for your very survival!

To listen to the Real Truth program first go to this page:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/webcast.htm

To listen to the Bible study segment first, click on the Bible study link on this page:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/sermon.htm

And, for those of you who have missed any part of these amazing broadcasts and studies, they are archived in their own section off of our Bible Prophecy page here:

http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/prophecy/whores/whores.htm

You need this information today!

God warns us that unless we are part of the solution, that we are partakers in our leader's sins, and will suffer accordingly.

God is not fooling around anymore. ONLY those who conduct themselves according to HIS WILL, and take their PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE PROBLEMS WILL BE PROTECTED BY HIM, while the rest of our nations, unless they repent, will die most horribly -- AND SOON!

DON'T MISS OUT ON WHAT MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE!

Another scripture says "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." GET THAT KNOWLEDGE TODAY, AND ACT ON IT NOW, SO THAT YOU DO NOT SUFFER THE FATE OF EVERYONE ELSE!

YOU have been WARNED!

John