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What are these three sets of sandal prints doing here? The time is just after the crucifixion of Christ in Jerusalem. The center sandal prints and the marks of a shepherd's staff are those of the "Stranger" sharing the Messianic prophecies about Yeshua from the scriptures with Cleopas and an unnamed disciple. The place is the road to Emmaus, in sight of the steep sided Mount of Olives where I was once taken (hair-raisingly) to the top in a jeep set in low drive so that we would be able to make it up. Imagine the scene, as two very discouraged disciples listen to the stranger's wonderful review of God's prophetic, written promises regarding the Messiah, their hearts "burning" within them as their all-but-dead faith in Christ is rekindled by Messianic prophecies that clearly point to Jesus Christ.

THE EMMAUS WALK:

A Messianic School of the Bible


AN OPEN DOOR TO THE BIBLE AND UNDERSTANDING IT

WORLD'S GREATEST BOOK CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IF GIVEN A CHANCE: Beyond question, the greatest book in the world is the Bible, and the greatest Book is about the greatest Person, Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Anointed).

Friend, are you unable to read the Bible, that is, make sense of it? Or do some parts make sense, but others, such as Leviticus or Revelation or Romans seem totally bewildering? Are you desiring to go deeper, or reach a higher ground, spiritually, but your difficulty in comprehending scripture is holding you back? It may well be you need to consider that the Bible is essentially Messianic--that is, it exists to tell you about the Messiah and Savior, and virtually everything in the Bible points to Him. With this understanding, you are on your way to unlocking the scriptures and opening the door to Yeshua--for they are, in truth, a living Person, Jesus (Yeshua), who delights in His Name, the Word (John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

You are most welcome to review the list of the Bible books now. This is vital. In this era, when in the general population and even among Christians there is so little remaining knowledge of the Bible (the knowledge of the Bible has plunged, not "declined"), it can no longer be taken for granted that everyone knows what the Books of the Bible are (most people probably think the Bible is just one book--and the actual books are just "chapters," which is completely mistaken, for each book is unique unto itself, whereas chapters of a book all fit within the same context and carry the same theme, something the Bible books certainly do, but with a much greater purpose and depth than normal chapters are usually intended to convey. To explain this a bit more: No one would publish a book ordinarily, unless it is a survey of literature, with a different author for each chapter--isn't that true? But this is the case with the Bible--most of the books have different authors. But you can also find one author writing more than one book (Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy--the first five books of the Bible. Paul wrote quite a number, and so did John write more than one book. Some can be attributed to no specific author, such as Hebrews, Chronicles I and II, Judges, and so on, though Samuel is thought to be the author of books other than I and II Samuel. This is a interesting topic, you can explore it yourself in your own time! Eerdmans's "New Bible Commentary Revised" is the one I use to learn about the Bible's multiple authors, but there are others which are probably as good or perhaps better.

The Books of the Bible




The history and discovery of the Essene Scrolls is so important for our Christian faith and their role in Christian apologetics is so foundational that we have a whole page devoted to them, and we will be adding new material from time to time:

"Essene Scrolls Center


THE MESSIANIC BIBLE TEXTS--WHAT ARE THEY?

The Bible's Messianic Texts are thus named because they are passages in scripture that point specifically to the Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus in Gentile terminology). Foremost in consideration of these texts, Christ Himself chose it when conducting an informal Bible class with two distraught and troubled disciples who had left Jerusalem just after the crucifixion and were on their way to Emmaus, a village seven miles from the Holy City. This spiritual trek inspired the logo graphic at the top of our home page, and in Judaea in the time of Jesus (see the map) Emmaus is near the bottom, located close by Jerusalem.

"Bible Atlas & Map Center


Vita of Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk:

Vita


"Autobiographical Sketch of a Sparrow," by Ronald Ginther


IS JESUS WALKING BESIDE YOU? HAVE YOU EVER MET GOD?

"Have you ever met God?", a Reply to a Radio Show Host's Question by Ronald Ginther



The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence


AS A CLEAR REBUTTAL TO THE SECULAR HUMANISTS RULING AS OPPRESSORS OVER A ONCE FREE AND TRULY PROGRESSIVE, FORWARD MOVING AMERICA, WHO DENY THE SUPER-ABUNDANT CHRISTIAN HERITAGE WE HAVE AND THE FACT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION AND BLESSED BEYOND ANY NATION ON EARTH AND IN RECORDED HISTORY. THIS FOLLOWING IS AN ACTUAL ACT OF CONGRESS THAT ESTABLISHED THIS RESOLUTION, WHICH COULD NOT BE MORE DAMAGING TO THEIR TISSUE OF LIES MAINTAINING THAT AMERICA IS A GODLESS NATION FOUNDED ON SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: America, the World's Most Powerful Nation Declares the Bible to be the Word of God! This was America's perhaps last affirmation of its Judaeo-Christian heritage and foundation. We ought to have it pinned on our walls at home and in our offices and work places and even in ACLU war rooms, and most of all, as near as possible to Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison's office at the Capitol--reminding us all of the fact.

"CONGRESS DECLARES BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD," Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, Approved October 4, 1982


Crosswalk Bible Website



Course Articles are now listed in the new "Course Articles Center" page:

"Course Articles Center"

Some Bible Resources:

"Bible Resources Center"

Recommended Book List:

"Recommended Book List Center"

Book Reviews Center:

"Book Reviews Center"

Books and Excerpts Center:

"Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem"

Islam for Christ Center:

"Islam Center"

Missions Center:

"Missions Center"

Testimonies of Martyrs Center, with Russian martyr Ivan Moiseyev's account:

"Testimonies of Martyrs Center"

Music Center with original and also added lyrics to famous songs:

"Music Center

THE PERSECUTED CHURCH CENTER GIVES RELATIVELY EASY MEANS TO CONTACT PERSECUTED AND IMPRISONED CHRISTIANS ACROSS THE WORLD AND GIVE THEM ENCOURAGEMENT WITH A SIMPLE NOTE OR BRIEF LETTER IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGES:

"Persecuted Church Center"

CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM CENTER:

CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM (HOW TO SHOVEL A PATH FOR MORALITY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH TO ENTER ONCE AGAIN INTO THE DARK, AUGEAN-LIKE STABLE THAT IS THE PRESENT U.S. CONGRESS AND THE OFFICES OF THE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES):

"Christian Activism Center"

FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE:

"Friendship for Israel Center"

AMERICA'S RE-EDUCATION CENTER:

"America's Re-Education Center

America has experienced by God's mercy and divine intervention two Great Spiritual Awakenings of the Christian churches in the first and second century of its existence, and we are sorely needing a Third Great Awakening of the Christian faith in the hearts and lives of the people in the churches. This can only be brought about by prayer, as was evidenced in the incident of the two sisters who prayed daily for repentance and revival among the wayward young people of their tiny island in the Pacific, part of the New Hebrides island group. Their prayers were answered. The young people, gathered at a local dance and "whooping it up" with their bad example of a teacher, were so convicted, they left the dance hall and returned to the church and to God, surrendering their lives to Christ. We need the same kind of revival here in America, if we are to be saved from destruction and total social and moral collapse. But it will take praying saints, faithful unto death, like the two little old sisters praying in the tiny kitchen of their little farmhouse on a far, Pacific island. It probably looked hopeless to them (and certainly it would look hopeless to us too!)--but God...

"Revival Center"

This is our coming fate, fellow Americans, if we do not repent and turn back to God--a nuclear meltdown with dirty bombs set off by Islamic Jehad terrorists (Hamas, or Hezbollah sleeper cell operatives) in our major cities across the country, SIMULTANEOUSLY! The ridiculously lavish sets of Christian TV programs, targeting the instant-gratification, entitlement-generation with hip hop music tastes and gangsta rap CD collections at home along with the low-cut dresses on the "performing artists" on Christian dance and song videos, will not make the slightest dent in America's warped, pornography-addicted, shallow consciences. Only the Spirit of God can break through the mile-thick foreskins covering the hardened hearts of America! You may not like this crude, below-the-belt biblical language--but the Bible tells it like it is! It speaks of "foreskins" over the heart, not me! Want to escape judgment and destruction? Really, do you? Most Americans could not care less. They cuss at Christianity, give the finger to "Bible thumpers" or evangelists, and laugh the warnings off--it'll never happen to THEM, these silly dolts think. But so they thought in Sodom and Gomorrah, right up to the moment when all hell broke loose on their empty heads. Are we any different in American post-modern society today? Billy Graham has faithfully preached to us for over fifty years, pouring out his life for the sake of the Gospel and the salvation of souls--and we still haven't repented.

Listening to Benny Hinn's prayer and remarks tonight, I heard a number of confirmations, that the reckoning time is coming for America and the world, with total disruption and chaos and destruction in the cities. But we need only to trust God now, and do as He directs us. God will preserve his saints who are faithful now--and people will see that God's favor is on us in a time of world chaos and famine (brought about by world-wide, economic collapse and depression). It will testify that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, when they will be open at last to this message, having ignored and despised us in the past in this secular-humanist society. Secular-humanism will crash and fall on its face in the coming disasters, but we, in Christ's power and with His provision, will stand firm and stand upright when others have fallen into the holes and gutters. It is our choice now. Will we stand with the Lord now, when there is opportunity to do so? Will we give to the spreading of the Gospel now? Will we witness however and wherever we can now? It is our choice! Don't wait for Freudian psych class 101 or grief therapy to take care of the latest mass murder in Virginia at the university--we have Christ! Christ will always be the answer--not modern psychotherapy! Modern psychology has no answers--only emotional Band-aids. We have the Lord who can heal from within---heal every inner wound, every inner loss, every inner heart-ache, every sorrow and grief, in a lasting way. God can heal, and save, and deliver. Modern secular-humanism and psychology cannot ever do those things--it can only apply Band-aids. We have Christ the Savior and Lord of all, not a Band-aid. We have the Answer for all life's problems--not a Band-Aid. We have Jesus--He alone can save this dying world. Let us turn to Him and live like we know Him. I will do the same.

Pat Robertson's 700 Club broadcast has just aired a wonderful feature on the Second Great Awakening, how it started with a praying professor at Yale of all places, who was greatly disturbed by the low state of the students at Yale, and how it spread across New England and westward with the pioneers to all that vast area of the westward expansion of the country. You can access this program by going to the CBN site, and be sure to do so if you missed the program! It was really excellent, giving you wonderful details and pictures of the people involved in the Second Great Awakening started in 1800 by the praying professor at Yale.

To put it pictorally, Pat Robertson also asks Americans to pull their work britches on (quit wearing country club slacks) and get involved in "Reclaiming the Covenant." The 400th year celebration of the the founding of this covenanted nation (the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock covenanted with God in 1607 concerning this new nation and its mission to spread the Gospel) is coming up, and this is a way to sign on (without needing to be a 700 Club member) this list of all those who support reclaiming our covenant with God as a nation and turning back to God as a nation and a people. The names will go on a document that will be put in a Cross memorial on the CBN center. You will also receive literature about the "Reclaiming the Covenant" program. How about doing something to help save your country? It is the only country you have. Why let it destroy itself without lifting a hand to help save it? We will be actually saving our own lives, our loved ones, and neighbors--as the whole country will either be saved, or the whole country will be destroyed. We won't be able to go on with our lives as before after yet another disaster. This nuclear-meltdown of American cities will engulf us all, dear fellow Americans and Christians, to the last man, woman, and child! Your're not going to escape, and neither will I. We have got to get involved in a real way in saving and reclaiming America, or we're all lost. We have come down to that! Let's face it, not try to put it off until we have no chance to affect the outcome in the least way.

Christian Broadcasting Network

What is the urgency to praying for America's churches to be revived? Pastor Hagee of Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, has reported on national and international television that informed sources (and he has been briefed by such as former Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, and others in Israel who are his long-term friends): America's premier cities have cell groups waiting to detonate nuclear suitcase bombs. Among the cities are New York City, Miami, Houston, Washington. This is the mortal, death blow the Islamic Jehadists plan to strike us with, and they have the bombs, it is reported, enough to crush us as a nation, when they detonate them simultaneously. They are, it is reported, just waiting for the call to set them off.

We all saw how ineffectual the U.S. Federal Government is in the midst of a national emergency such as Hurricane Katrina's assault on the coast and its aftermath. The Federal Government was far more efficient at the turn of the century, when San Francisco was destroyed by the great earthquake. Help was there in a matter of hours--not days and weeks! This is what Secular Humanism has done to us--our government is set in a kind of concrete, unable to act when it would be most vital for it to do so!

It was CHRISTIAN ministries and churches, Mayor Nagin of New Orleans, that were first on the site of your destroyed city, pouring out shiploads and truckloads and carloads and helicopter loads of food, water, supplies, even sending rescue operations to pluck people stranded on housetops and at apartments! Did you ever thank any of them for the tremendous help they gave thousands in the city and thousands more outside it? Did you, Mayor Nagin? I never heard you! All I heard out of your lying, thankless mouth was blame, blame, and more blame for President Bush, whom you hated so much you neglected to call him in to help you when your people were in desperate need for you to do something! Just anything would have helped a lot at the time--but you did nothing! We all saw those hundreds of yellow Blue Bird buses setting half under the water in the parking lots. You let them stand there, without even trying to get them going to take the people to safety when you had the time to do it! What a waste! You could have at least saved the buses, by sending them out of the city, even if you didn't care for the lives of the poor people under your care! Are you a lunatic, or what? What is behind that big, lying mouth of yours? It cannot be an honest heart that genuinely cares for people, even though you just got re-elected by the same foolish people you so badly let down.

Now it seems hopeless at first sight, when secular humanists are in so much control of our society that we are made sitting ducks where our enemies are concerned. What can one person do to stop our arch-enemies from destroying us and our country? Our nation is in such disarray, morally, spiritually, and politically. We cannot even unite to fight the terrorists, who are using Iraq as a base of operations. That base will soon shift to our own streets and malls and cities, as we pull out our troops. The terrorists have said so themselves, that they are pleased by the prospect of our giving up and pulling out of Iraq, and we know that they will bring the war right over to us--and then crush us completely with the suitcase bombs! Our secular humanist government, media, and press, and educators as well, do not believe the terrorists mean exactly what they say. Islam means peace, they say. But that is not what Islam is preaching! It is preaching war, war, war in mosque after mosque! The Jehadists are preaching in mosques and medresses in America the same message--and still, since our hands are tied by the current misinterpretation of the First Amendment, we do nothing to stop these revolutionary mouthpieces, and let them raise up a whole generaration of American-born Jehadists on our own soil! How stupid, how suicidal, is that policy? It is the policy of every secular-humanist state, a fact the Jehadists of Islam have figured out and have learned to use as tools to promote their own agenda of the destruction of Western Society and America. Islam and America are not compatible. They never can be. Our values are diametrically opposed and hostile to each other. The Islamics know this fact, though they claim otherwise to mislead us and get us to "tolerate" them and their agenda against America. What we don't know or won't accept about Islam will kill us all ultimately. It is just a matter of a few years breathing space before the noose tightens round all our necks and a Jehadist kicks the stool away under our feet. Will we wake up in time to prevent this terrible end of a Christian-founded, democratic, free and godly and moral America? We must turn back to God now, and reinstate democracy, even in Islamic schools and medresses and mosques. They are not immune--since they arrived here as a hostile state-within-a-state, something no other immigrant group was, even with all their cultural clubs and political organizations. None of them attempted anything like the comprehensive and exclusive society-within-a-national state that Islam routinely promotes. We are faced with an alien ruling state that demands unconditional surrender by the host country--which is us! One country after another in the West is falling under Islamic control, for this very reason. We see the process started and promoted vigorously in America, and it will take a few more years, but once started, it is almost impossible to reverse. Secular humanism itself is a promoter and enhancer of the process of the Islamization of America. Secular Humanism is no friend, really, of democracy and freedom--since it is hostile to the foundations of America, which are unarguably Christian (how else could a U.S. Congress declare that the Bible is the Word of God, if that were not so?). Secular Humanism, in attempting to eradicate Christian foundatons in America, has really an agenda of destroying America, right along with Islam, its strange bedfellow.

We must know that our government and military (and certainly not our Congress) cannot protect us (we have seen it in case after case of national emergency). We must turn to God alone. The only hope we have is God--in this time of peril. It seems impossible, however, to be of any influence. This nation is too big, too divided, for one person to affect. How can we help bring a turn-around in America, in our lives, in our relationship to God, that will bring God's forgiveness and His aid in saving us and our country? It just seems altogether impossible! Impossible! The darkness is too great to penetrate or drive back! Right? Do I strike a chord somewhere in somebody who is concerned about this entire situation? National security is just one aspect--it is all connected to our moral and spiritual, backslidden state as a Christian people and a formerly Christian nation.

Actually, let us think soberly, biblically, about this crisis. One person can be a majority, in God's eyes. He doesn't look at crises the way we do--one person who is so little compared to overwhelming numbers and overwhelmingly great circumstances. He is God--He is the Biggest "Component" in the universal equation. With Him, you, or I, have the winning number, not the other eight million entrants in the lottery. Our number with God making divine arithmetic with us: 1 (God who is Number 1, plus one--you or I). 1 plus 1 is ordinarily just 2 (which will cause no change in this natural world probably), but when the first 1 is God--that is as good as an infinite number on your side! Look at the Bible! It is full of crises where one person, with God as Number 1 in that person's life and prayers, turned entire nations back from destruction and going over the cliff! Deborah, Moses, Gideon, Elijah, David, Daniel...and they weren't considered important, either. They weren't always known, either. Gideon declared he was the least person in a family in a clan that was least in his tribe--but God went to him and called him "mighty champion." If we choose unbelief and distrust of God, we will say, "God you can't save this nation through me--I am too small, too average, too something or other, for You to use!" That is wrong thinking! That will never please God. God delights in using small, average, insignificant people like you and me. Then He gets the glory from what is accomplished through us! He doesn't get much glory through using Nobel Prize Laureates, or Presidents, or big-shots of any kind. He gets tremendous glory, as the Bible states over and over, from using insignificant vessels such as you and me.

In fact, He PREFERS to use people like you and me! Yes, he prefers to use us over the so-called great people of the world. So let us be willing to obey Him--even if it is a small task in our eyes. A small rudder turns a mighty ocean-liner! It is hidden away underwater, but without it the mighty liner would run out of control and dash itself on the rocks and everything would be destroyed. Let us be the little rudder that turns the mighty ocean-liner of America. Though our prayers, examples, witness of Jesus, and our support of what is our Judaeo-Christian heritage in America, we can turn our doomed ship of state away from disaster. Let no one, particularly our fellow Christians, discourage us in the least. We don't answer for their lives and their decisions to give up in overwhelming situations. We answer only for our own lives and decisions. Let us go on--with God--who is the Majority over every other majority--and so we cannot lose! We cannot lose--no matter what it looks like. We simply cannot lose. The Bible is the testimony, of person after person, mostly insignificant and powerless, who won great victories by simply trusting God and turning to him in every situation of life, great and small. Let us turn to him in the small things now, and then He can use in the great issues too.

Faithfulness to Him will be rewarded. He is that kind of God. If we prove ourselves by obedience to Him, He can use us to go and speak to kings and parliaments and congresses and presidents and generals and terrorist leaders--and they will listen and do what we say they should do! We have that potential in us--if only we will obey now in the small things he has given us to do. We can start today, we can start now. Will you? Will I? It is our individual choice.

SLAVERY CENTER:

"All Moslem Slave Holders and Moslem Nations, Let My People Go!" says their God.

"Slavery Center"

SLAVERY IS THE SHAME AND DEGRADATION OF THE WORLD, CREATING AN ALL-DESTROYING BARBARISM IN PLACE OF CIVILIZATION. Slavery in various forms exists in America, from sea to shining sea, as well! It exists in Moslem Pakistan, in work places where Christian women are treated cruelly as the lowest animals and slaves by Moslem business owners (you can read about this in Voice of the Martyrs Magazine). It just isn't so blatant in America or even Pakistan and India as it is in Sudan, though the brazen-faced representatives of the government in Khartoum, dressed in their fine Arab robes and sitting in fancy chairs in fine offices and gilt-decorated lounges, are still denying the fact to the whole world.

Khartoum, listen!--your days are numbered in God's book of judgment! Your names are excommunicated from the book of life--they are in the book of death and hell instead. You cannot do what you have done and not suffer everlasting condemnation and damnation! So repent and change your ways, choose peace and love, or death and destruction for yourselves and your families!

We must use and are justified using the strongest language possible for Khartoum's Moslem Arab bandits operating as government officials. For twenty years the blood-thirsty vampires and jackals of Khartoum's radical Islamic Arab government, have been preying mercilessly upon the defenceless black people in the South, killing two million black Christians primarily with bombs, bullets, knives, swords, and gang rapes and tortures and mutililations and maimings and starvation and working them to death as slaves, and displacing seven million who fled for their lives into the howling deserts to get away from the raiders, ---this has been the war of the government-sponsored and government-equipped Moslem mudjajeen or Moslem raiders and militias. These lying, suave, devil-inhabited wretches installed in the bandit Khartoum government (along with their equally suave, lying apologists, CAIR, in the U.S.) ought to be dragged out into the street, their fine robes torn off, and then everyone come and spit on them until they drown in spittle! That would be mercy, compared to what they will get in eternity from the judging angels of God! All this has gone on with the hypocritical delegates of the United Nations looking loftily the other way, so as not to offend the rich, privileged, heartless, and merciless Moslem Arab rulers of the Sudan. With well-known evangelical Christian ministries deeply involved (Franklin Graham of Good Samaritan's Purse, Rod Parsley and World Harvest Church, and others), the Christian-hating, secularist human rights organizations have been forced to start paying a modicum of attention to the outright genocide going on in South Sudan. These pathetic, hypocritical organizations give out a measely figure like "100,000" killed, but the real figure is 2 million, according to Rod Parsley who has been active in the South Sudan relief work for 20 years! Even the morally defunct, incurably corrupt United Nations was forced to speak a word about the plight of millions in South Sudan, and a peace conference was held in which the North (the Moslem Arab government of Khartoum) agreed to a cease-fire with the insurgents in the South trying to protect that area from the North's slave-raiders and killers and rapists (who were given government helicopters, guns, bombs, anything they needed). The rulers of Sudan need to be arraigned and brought to justice for their crimes of genocide. Until that can be done, the Khartoum killers need to be forced to comply with the agreement they signed. Simon Deng, now a U.S. citizen, formerly enslaved by the Moslem Arabs of the North, represents his South Sudan people still oppressed and suffering from the Moslem Arabs. He said his black skin was the reason the Arabs of the north persecute his people. The Arabs regard the black-skinned southerners as slaves and property simply because of their black color. Because they despise the southern tribes' black color, the educated, rich, hoity-toity yellow-skinned Moslem Arabs of the north think they have the right and reason to do anything they like with them and against them--because slaves have no rights whatsoever in Moslem Arab culture. This is Simon Deng's testimony, which you can access at the Rod Parsley/World Harvest Church, Columbus, Ohio, and website. On the Rod Parsley broadcast there was also a picture of Agor Deng, a young black woman who had been enslaved by the Moslem Arabs and gang-raped repeatedly by her Moslem master and his ghoulish, lusting friends. She was made to say Moslem prayers and deny her Lord and Savior, though she is a Christian. She represents untold thousands of black Christian girls and women who have been enslaved, gang-raped, and made to convert to Islam. This is the same "enlightened" and "peace-loving" Islam that is championed by the mullahs in America--it hasn't yet shown us its true colors and is trying to deceive us until we are under Islamic control. The massacred, enslaved, tortured, starved, displaced black Christians of South Sudan and Darfur know the true nature of Islam. That is why there is such a turning to the Lord Jesus Christ by the black people of Islam--they can see a total difference between Islam and what Jesus Christ is. Why would they want to choose an enslaving, torturing, murdering, lying, raping devil to worship when they can have Jesus Christ, who came to set men free?

For a mere 45 bucks the ministry of Breakthrough will buy the freedom of an slaved man, woman, or child--usually a black Christian since most of the slaves are Christians, I believe--in southern Sudan from Moslem slave holders, and set the person free, along with a month's supply of food. That will hardly be enough to fill an American SUV's gas tank once! Send $45 to Breakthrough and a human being--a daddy, a mommy, a grandmother, or a little girl, a young woman, or a boy, or a young man--can be set free from unspeakable suffering, starvation, work that can kill a horse, and rape and mutilation and torture and horrible fears and loneliness having to sleep with animals or out in the snake-infested, open country where the wild beasts roam at night! Think about your own circumstances, and how $45 will not be missed a few days from now, but will make all the difference in the world to a precious human being just across the world in South Sudan! I don't have any money to throw away, and I did it! IF A BROKEN-DOWN, OLD SECURITY GUARD WITH A 97 YEAR OLD MOTHER CAN DO IT, YOU ALL CAN DO IT. YOU ALL HAVE NO EXCUSE IF YOU PASS THIS BY AND LEAVE IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE. SORRY, BUT THIS HAS TO BE DIRECT, OR YOU WILL JUST PASS BY LIKE THE PEOPLE PASSED BY A MAN ROBBED AND BEATEN AND LEFT BLEEDING ON THE GROUND BY ON THE JERICHO TO JERUSALEM ROAD I HAVE TRAVELLED ON MY VISITS, THE GOOD SAMARITAN STORY JESUS TOLD. RELIGIOUS MEN SAW HIM, AND PASSED BY! IS ONE OF THOSE SELFISH HYPOCRITES WEARING YOUR FACE, FRIEND? ONCE THAT FACE WAS MINE! COLD STATISTICS WITH THEIR FISHY-EYED GLANCE AT US TELL US THE TRUE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIAN GIVING, THAT ONLY A FRACTION OF CHRISTIANS GIVE ANYTHING TO GOD'S WORK, MUCH LESS TITHE! SHOW SOME COMPASSION FOR THE SUFFERING PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD IN A REAL WAY AND STEP OUT OF THE REEKING SLIMEPIT OF THE SELFISH AND SELF-CENTERED. YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR GOOD RIGHT NOW BY GOING TO BREAKTHROUGH MINISTRIES. SOON, YOU AND I CAN GET TOGETHER IN HEAVEN AND CELEBRATE WITH THE ONES WE HELPED SET FREE--WHAT A JOYOUS TIME THAT WILL BE--ALL BECAUSE WE CARED ENOUGH AS CHRISTIANS TO REACH OUT TO THE SUFFERING PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN WHEN WE HAD THE MEANS TO DO SO! DON'T MISS IT! I WOULD SET FREE THOUSANDS IF I COULD, BUT I HAVE STARTED WITH ONE HUMAN BEING--ONE SLAVE WHO NEEDS SOMEONE TO STAND IN THE GAP AND PAY THE MONEY SO FREEDOM CAN COME TO THAT PRECIOUS ONE! WHAT A LIFETIME OF DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES FOR THAT ONE! IMAGINE, IF THAT ONE WAS ME, OR YOU? HOW WOULD I FEEL BEING SET FREE FROM CRUEL SLAVE-HOLDERS AND PERSECUTORS? HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? LET THE BIBLE HAVE THE LAST WORD ON THIS SUBJECT: "BUT WHOEVER HAS THIS WORLD'S GOODS, AND SEES HIS BROTHER IN NEED, AND SHUTS UP HIS HEART FROM HIM, HOW DOES THE LOVE OF GOD ABIDE IN HIM?"--I JOHN 3:17.

Rod Parsley, World Harvest Church and Breakthrough Ministries"

INFANTICIDE IN AMERICA CENTER:

"Infanticide in America Center

What is the price of U.S. infanticide? We are paying a stiff price already in murder and mayhem in all areas of society, fellow Americans! Thirty three or thirty four people just now slaughtered a few hours ago like Arkansas chickens at Virginia Tech by a mentally disturbed gunman! Virginia is no different from any other state. Despite the surface glitz of a upscale socielty, it is a secular-humanist hell-hole. Rush Limbaugh says the mass murder is exceptional, and he is not getting it right on this point, as mass murders all over the country are being prevented outright or limited to a few people killed instead of dozens by the brave actions of armed citizens who are able to stop the killers before the police arrive. We are safe nowhere in America, not because there are so many guns in private hands but thanks to our abortionist practice of infanticide (mass, genocidal murder by butchers in abortion mills--"clinics") of helpless, innocent babies in the womb. The secular humanist culture that is the driving engine for infanticide in America is directly responsible for this latest instance of mass murder. This culture is a culture of denial, refusing all responsibility for the immoral and criminal behavior it stimulates everywhere. This culture is like that of drunks, who refuse to admit they are drunkards and "have a problem." As with alcoholics, this secular humanist culture of America that is presently in charge cannot be cured until it admits its culpability--which it may never do. To smooth over this mass murder with another round of post-modern psychotherapy and "grief management" is the farcical way, the applying of temporarily hygenic Band-Aids, that is the best the secular humanists can come up with. God goes to the root of the nasty thing: it is damning, deep-rooted sin and rebellion against God, according to His holy Word! Sin needs honest confession, and then God will wash it away with His cleansing Blood, America, the moment when you acknowledge that you are sinning grievously against God and His commandments, creating the ideal petri dish conditions that spawn mass murders and every kind of evil and nasty behavior. Why do you continue denying your deep-dyed guilt and evading the true Healer, Jesus Christ, Who died on the Cross so that you can be forgiven, restored, and made whole in body and spirit and your fellowship with God restored?

The school president and chancellor and Board of Regents of Virginia Tech should wake up to their doleful spiritual condition and call in evangelists who can preach the Bible and preach repentance from sin--that will be the best "grief therapy" that can be had in this sin-sick world, including Virginia Tech! Your students, Virginia Tech, have no right to be called after any kind of "Virginia," being lost in shameless debauchery and self-advancement and the world's philosophies; the twenty thousand or so students desperately need the truth--not more post-modernist, secular humanist Band-Aids passed out with the condoms for "safe sex". You have your Greek letter or sorority and fraternity or club or faculty or rave and dirty dancing student "parties," which are really orgies of every kind of sex and drug use, and then go to class or the lab or the office on campus and act as if you are normal, healthy, positive-living human beings all because you support Global Warming and polar bears and gays teaching Boy Scouts how to do it--you hypocrites! Don't think I do not know what you do at Virginia Tech! I was in a college and several universities--as a student--later a teacher. And I was a part of this godless, immoral society of higher education--years before it became exponentially worse than I ever experienced--so worse, in fact, there are not words adequate to describe your moral filthiness and arrogance and pride and rebellion.

Then: To hold a travesty of a "memorial service" that features a flaming, full-blown HIV-secular humanist poetess who rants a single, arrogant, sickening mantra over and over, "We will prevail...we are innocent...we will prevail!"--going one degree of lunacy further by claiming that the mass murder at Virginia Tech is no worse than the killing of a baby elephant in Africa by a poacher!"--this politically correct philosophy of her lunatic society is complete poppycock and nothing but another dirty, used Band-Aid offered in place of real cleansing and healing by the hand of Jesus Christ and His precous blood. How can it be described? Lunacy, uncleanness, unspeakable filth--all promoted as something clean, good, and wholesome! What was the response of her hearers? They rose up and gave her a standing ovation! What complete dupes! What a symbiotic relationship with puppetry and Big Brother! How divorced they are to what constitutes reality and illusion, and what true reasons for grief--proportion, categories, even common sense--with all the rules of reason completely disregarded and the lunatic template of an activist, animal-rights, evolutionist, secular humanism substituted. This is not education, this is not genuine philosophy, or logic--it is neo-barbarism, the Dark Age clamped down on our college campus, with dark and ignorant masses swallowing all sorts of Dark Age drivel and calling it good stuff.

A "Loving God" was mentioned by the President who also attended the memorial service, but who is this "Loving God" if not Jesus Christ, so why not name him, Mr. President? This is a time when the society is desperate to receive a true word--not politically correct expressions of false, generic piety that could mean just about anything. God, give us a President with a backbone, full of conviction and faith who will name the Lord's saving Name again from the highest office in the land--without shame or bowing to other gods and idols! Your Name is above all other names, even that of the atheistic, anti-Christ poetess who equated the death of an animal with the deaths of thirty four people, slain on the Virginia college campus. What she did was promote Evolution and Animal Activism and Johnsonian Great Society and Big Government "compassion," not truth, not genuine healing. She needs to be re-educated with a stay in Saudi Arabia's patriarchal prison of a society (which makes the Mamertine prison in Rome seem a Club Mediterannee), then maybe she will be open to be saved by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and surrender her heart and life to Him and be transformed, instead of spewing out the putrid, worthless philosophies of this dying, sick, old secular humanist Western World.

HERESY AND CORRECTION CENTER:

Mary-worship, or Mariology (also called Mariolatry), has been around Christianity a long, long time! It is nothing new, but it really got going in the past century, with Papal encyclicals, which are often quote today (you will not hear Bible texts being quoted, almost always encyclicals exalting Mary to a semi-divine status or even a divine status, making her co-equal with Christ, or a "Co-Mediatrix." This is utterly unscriptural, of course, to exalt her to the position and seat of Christ. But she is made the "Mother of God," she is made "immaculate," or conceived without sin, and thus she can be prayed to as you would normally pray to God. How anyone can fall for this heresy, I, with my Reformation and "justification by faith alone" background, cannot fathom, but millions do! Hundreds of millions worship the divine Mary or Madonna holding the Christ Child, Jesus "her son," even when he is taken down from the Cross in countless pictures and statues and figurines. She is not her son really, but He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, which makes God the Father His Father--not Mary. She was the mother, indeed, of the human part of his nature--and so deserves to be called blessed for that reason. But to elevate her to the same status as Jesus Christ--that is heresy, pure and simple. Let us imagine that this was the case, that Mary is who she is claimed to be by these Mary-worshipers. Was she co-eternal too? Did she, being God, always exist with God? You would have to hold that too as part of your theology. But you would have to rewrite the Messianic prophecies, which say nothing about her except that she would be a virgin or maiden. And you would have to rewrite the New Testament. The worshipers of Mary get around this difficulty with the Papal encyclicals (or "bulls") published by the Mary-worshipping and Mary-deifying Popes of the last century. They cannot quote scripture to support this divine Mary who they say is equal with Christ and is the "Mother of God."

My relatives who are missionaries in the Catholic domain of South America have contended with widespread, generational Mariolatry for over sixty years now--and they still hold up Jesus the only Way, Truth, and the Life, making this real to the people by preaching the Gospel, teaching the Bible, and living a godly life of honest, sacrificial love in their midst. This combination is irresistable, and many thousands have been converted to Jesus--not another legalistic religion of works and sacraments and worshipping of beings and saints who are less than God and never could be God no matter how good and holy they were or how many miracles they performed. Let us remember the precious people of South America, and pray that God will open their eyes to Jesus the true Savior and turn their eyes away from Mary who cannot save them, no matter how many candles they light at her shrines, or how many prayers they pray or pay a priest to pray for them, or how many masses they attend or pay for, or how many good works they do to gain acceptance and favor with God, or how many pilgrimages they make to the Lady of Guadalupe or Lourdes or any other Mary worship shrine where she was supposed to have appeared and spoke to people. Jesus can purge our souls from dead works, the Bible says. He can purge us from idols and even the unscriptural, ungodly worship of a blessed but conceived in sin, human mother, who was not divine at all but yet a humble recipient of God's grace to be found in Jesus Christ's Atonement for sin by His death of the Cross.

"Heresy and Correction Center"

Bible Greats, as Portrayed by Eben:

"Bible Greats" by Eben

Christian Greats, as Protrayed by Eben:

"Christian Greats Center"

PROPHECY CENTER:

"Prophecy Center"

"Resurrection Center"

THE RESURRECTION IS HISTORICALLY ESTABLISHED FACT, NOT RELIGIOUS WHIMSY OR SOMEBODY'S RELIGIOUS HOAX--"BUNK" AND "PROPAGANDA"--TERMS USED BY ONE FELLOW AMERICAN CALLING IN TO A RADIO PROGRAM WHO HAS A FAMILY HE IS TEACHING HIS STUPIDITY AND ATHEISM TO, WHILE THINKING IT IS GOOD SENSE AND TOLERANCE ON HIS PART. DOES HE KNOW HE IS ROBBING HIS CHILDREN OF ANY REAL HOPE IN LIFE? OR THAT THEY FACE GOING INTO A CHRISTLESS ETERNITY AFTER LIVING A CHRISTLESS LIFE? WHAT POSSIBLE MEANING WILL THEIR LIVES HAVE? THANK GOD FOR THE RESURRECTION: WE HAVE A REAL, LIVING SAVIOR AND LORD, WHO ROSE FROM THE GRAVE, AND WHO LIVES AND REIGNS FOREVER, GIVING OUR LIVES MEANING THAT WILL NEVER FADE AWAY BUT WILL LAST FOREVER AS WE ENJOY ETERNITY WITHIN HIS KINGDOM OF LOVE AND FELLOWSHIP.

Big Bad Business Center:

Businesses that care nothing for morality (attacking traditional morality by supporting radical activist gay rights agendas), that care nothing for America (selling their most sensitive technnology to our enemies, even flouting our laws), that care nothing for America's working people despite the fact their revenues come primarily from America, that exploit overseas poor people by paying them 30 cents a day or a dollar to work like a slave, that close down profitable companies in the U.S. and set them up in countries where they can pollute all they please and pay the lowest wages and without any benefits whatsoever, even without safety provisions for the workers--these businesses are bad business for America--and they abound. How many companies are operating in the way they should? Is there any survey of them, so that we know and can do something about them? Fortunately, we do know something about some of them. Shell Oil Company, for example, a British-Dutch mega-corporation, with its tentacles all over the globe, is not American but does business here too--and it is one of the worst polluters and abusers of mankind imaginable. It has produced much loss of life in West Africa, along with pollution--all for profit, of course. Meanwhile, the shareholders enjoy the zooming profits and the big managers and directors their perks and millionaire's lifestyle of the filthy rich and famous while the poor and oppressed people of West Africa, who scarcely have a thatch roof over their heads and a cup of beans a day to eat, suffer unspeakably because of this big bad business's policies. The company ought to be tried at the Hague International Court of Justice, or at some other court, where they can be exposed for what they are before the whole world.

Even if the world's rulers look away, God sees. Shell Oil and its directors and its shareholders will not escape judgment. Neither will Ford Motor Company, or United, or IBM, or WalMart, or any other company that forgets God and morality and the Golden Rule.

"Big Bad Business Center"

After hundreds of hours of prayer meetings at my local church (where but a handful would show up, with all the others off "doing their own thing" while we worked for them interceeding) I have no illusions about the subject, I realize that this center will be the least visited, if it is visited at all. I know this because this is the pattern that is dooming contemporary, post-modern American society and the church as well (there is virtually no difference between the church now and the worldly society). Popular Christianity is going its own way, without prayer--doing its own thing too, and loving it, while the nation and the youth and the whole society goes to hell in a handbasket, to use an old phrase. Of course, most people don't believe in hell and the Devil and divine judgment for their actions anymore! But I do! And the Bible says these things exist. I choose to believe the Bible, not forty million mules stampeding over the cliff while thinking it is a big, broad highway to happiness. Why pray? Because my own life depends on it. Because my country depends on it. Because the church depends on it. Because everything good depends on it. Because it is as necessary, and even more necessary, than the air we breathe. We shall see how people end up without prayer. I don't care to risk their fate. Prayer has so many wonderful things in store for me, if I continue. I cannot number them all. I thank God for prayer. I could not live, physically and spiritually, without it. Prayer is a wonderful, wonderful thing God has given us, that will bring all sorts of blessings and also help us and gain protection for us on our pilgrimage to heaven. Thank God for prayer! Even if I am the only one left praying--I will gladly pray. It has proved itself countless times to me, how valuable it is.

"Prayer Center"

PRAYER TARGET CENTER:

"Prayer Target Center"

A Mini-Review of McTernan's book:

Ever wondered if there is a connection between our awful bad weather and the many disasters our country has suffered these last ten years or so and the way we are doing things in this country? Well, John P. McTernan draws a direct causal link between the disasters (weather, fires, hurricanes, terroristic, etc) and America's mistreatment of Israel, forcing Israel to give up land for "peace," the most ridiculous thing our State Department and our last three or four presidents have devised and inflicted on this faithful ally and friend of America.

George Bush Sr.'s millionaire's resort house at Kennebunkport, Maine, was virtually destroyed by a hurricane the very day he was forcing Israel to sign the first land for peace agreement at Madrid! After the Madrid conference, he flew back to the U.S. and went to view the shambles of his once beautiful, sea-side villa. What did he think when he was looking at it? Was he asking God why? Why this should happen to him? Was he at all wondering what God may have wanted to be telling him about his present actions? These are some of the questions I have to ask--and wonder why he wasn't asking them? Obviously, he was not asking them, as his son went on to promote the same disastrous policies of the father, forcing Israel to the giving up of more Covenanted land to the terrorists "for peace." I have asked a friend about the elder Bush's failure to connect the destruction of his own resort home and what he had just perpetrated in Madrid. He could not tell me, and he is a supporter of the Bush presidencies. I have voted for both Bushes myself, but I am unable to explain them, except that the elder Bush is apparently a nominal or "within the tradition" type of Christian believer. We have millions os such nominal believers. Their mindsets are worldly, but they have a belief in Christ, which rarely intrudes on their actions, decisions, and views, because it is not a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the only kind of relationship that God really approves, by the way. Take your chances if you choose with an impersonal relationship,l a mental assent as to Jesus being Lord and Savior--I wouldn't! I did at one time--while remaining a reprobate--but that is risky business, spiritually. I would be in a richly deserved hell this very minute if I had stayed a Nicodemus, a believer in God without a personal, born-again experience and person relationship with Jesus day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. The Bushes need prayer--that faith will not be impersonal or traditional or nominal--but one-on-one, with Jesus! The devils believe in Jesus too, but that does not save them. They know God exists. But we must be born-again, and live that way, personally engaged with Jesus, depending on him for everything. That proves we are His true children and not children of the devil and the world.

"Mini-Review" of "As America Has Done to Israel," by John P. McTernan, by Ronald Ginther

IT'S IN THE BIBLE, JOHNNY AND SUZY: Most people may not know that many of the stock phrases they use in everyday conversation come from the Bible. Here are just a few of them: "In the twinkling of an eye" (I Cor. 15:52). "Den of Thieves" (Matt. 21:13) "Keep the faith" (2Tim 4:7) "A stone's throw" (Luke 22:41) "Old wives' tales" (1Tim. 4:7) "Drop in the bucket" ((Isa. 40:15) "Apple of his eye" (Deut. 32:10) "No rest for the wicked" (Isa. 46:22). --Rev. Jerome Porkorny in Catholic Quote

As a Postscript to Rev. Porkonry's quote, I just heard a radio commentator on her show describe the recent passing of a "domestic partners" or same-sex marriage legalization bill in our Washington State legislature as a "thorn in the flesh" for evangelicals, something she delighted in, she made it very clear. Did she know that she was using a Biblical phrase? That is rather ironical, in my view, and shows she doesn't know that a thorn used against others can turn upon the oppressor even more savagely. The piece of stinking garbage, the bill she is so happy about, legalizing what God calls an abomination, will, I can assure her, turn out to be a thorn in HER presently gloating flesh--if she does not give up her snotty attitude about God, morality, and Christians, and repent.

"The Thorn in the Flesh" can piece both ways, as it just has done in the ruling of the Supreme Court upholding Congress's ban of partial birth abortion! Praise be to God for this great victory--though it is a partial one, since mass infanticide still is practiced at tens of thousands of abortion mills across America. On the newscasts the representatives of the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood spoke against the ruling, bemoaning it as a setback to women's rights, when actually it is a setback to their bank accounts and payrolls (the real issue is not reproductive rights so-called or women's rights so-called but MONEY, THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR). Eleanor Smeal, a grandmotherly type, spoke against the ruling on primetime tv news. Her sad, sad eyes told quite a story about her inner desolation brought on by her involvement and promotion of a genocidal business, Planned Parenthood. Please pray for this lost soul if you can take a moment out of you busy life. God loves and wants to save Eleanor Smeal. She has done nothing worse than any of us Christians--she needs the Grace of God to save and transform her.

ENGLISH LITERATURE HERITAGE CENTER:

"English Literature Heritage Center"

"Bible Atlas & Map Center"

"Solid Rock, not Sand," Message Notes by Ronald Ginther, on how to keep it simple and honest with God. We are clay, He is the Potter--not the other way round, as it is preached and promoted in popular Christianity today. Want to "get back on track with God?" Here's how, in a few words:

"Choose Rock, Not Sand," Message Notes by Ronald Ginther


DUNCES OF THE WORLD CORNER:

"Dunces of the World Center"

BIBLE JOKE CENTER

JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt." Concerned, James asked: "What happened to the flea?"--(This was passed to my mother by her granddaughter, my grown niece who has a family.--Ed.)

CARTOON CENTER

"Cartoon Center"

BIBLE QUIZ CENTER

"Bible Quiz Center"

SAINT-BUILDING CENTER, FEATURING THE MESSAGES OF THE INIMITABLE STUART MAXWELL HAWKINS:

"Saint-Building Center"

Please return soon Stuart Maxwell Hawkins's next message, "Forgive Me," when it comes on-line soon.

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IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN GIVE YOU MORE JOY THAN WHEN YOU KNOW YOUR SINS WERE WASHED AWAY? KEEP YOUR BILLIONS, MR. GATES OR MR. TRUMP OR ANY OTHER TILLIONAIRE IN AMERICA--CHRISTIANS WHO KNOW THEIR SINS ARE WASHED AWAY HAVE SOMETHING FAR BETTER AND LONGER LASTING THAN PERISHABLE GREENBACKS TO THEIR NAME! BILLIONS AND TILLIONS CAN BE WIPED OUT IN A NANO-SECOND BY ELECTRONIC ECONOMIC COLLAPSE--AND IT WILL HAPPPEN, YOU CAN BANK ON IT! BUT THE RICHES IN CHRIST THAT ANY OF THE LEAST OF US HAVE IN JESUS--THEY ARE OURS FOREVER, AND NOBODY CAN SCAM US OUT OF THEM, OR ROB US--WE'LL ENJOY THEM FOR ALL ETERNITY. THANK YOU, O LORD!

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